Meet the Judges: 2007
"Round Two” Judging Panel (l to r): Lee Seitelman, Ben Fusaro, Bob Tardiff, Jim Case, Henry Ricardo, Catherine Ricardo, Harry Suber (a bit blocked), Warren Page, Karen Bollinger, James Crowley. For additonal photos, visit our 2007 Judge Photo Gallery.
"Round two" judges are listed below. Round two juding is for papers that have advanced through the triage round. They are read multiple times to arrive at a tentative rank of the top six plus the honorable mention winners. Round two judging in 2007 took place in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the SIAM headquarters, from March 23-25, 2007.
Bernard A. Fusaro, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
Director of Judges
Ben Fusaro is an adjunct professor of mathematics at Florida State University who has taught college mathematics for over 50 years. Dr. Fusaro is an accomplished lecturer and author. He has helped organize numerous professional workshops and conferences as well as many student activities. He participates in SIAM's Visiting Lecturer Program, and he founded (with early and strong backing from Leon Seitelman) the Mathematical Contest in Modeling for collegians. Dr. Fusaro is also an active member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and SIAM.
Leon H. Seitelman, Consultant
Head Judge
Leon Seitelman worked on a broad spectrum of mathematical problems in computer-aided design, analysis and manufacturing, economic modeling and engineering analysis, and optimization during his 30-year career at United Technologies Corporation. Dr. Seitelman also worked for 20 years with the Wesleyan University-based Project to Improve Mastery of Mathematics and Science (PIMMS), a pioneering K-12 education effort; developed and chaired the SIAM Visiting Lecturer Program; taught at the University of Connecticut, Trinity College, and Rensselaer at Hartford; and was instrumental in the founding of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling for collegians, conceived and developed by Ben Fusaro.
Judge Panel
Karen D. Bolinger, Department of Mathematics, Clarion University
Karen Bolinger earned her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1989, working on viscoelastic thin filament models of fluid flow. While on the faculty at Clarion University she has worked for the College Board's College Level Examination Program and Advanced Placement Calculus. She chaired the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Mathematics Association and helped found the MAA Special Interest Group in Environmental Mathematics. She has judged the Mathematics Contest in Modeling for several years. Karen enjoys working with students on applications and consulting projects in their freshman mathematical modeling course up through their senior capstone research.
Jim Case
Jim Case holds a Ph.D. degree from Michigan 1967, an M.A. degree from Michigan 1963, and a B.A. degree from Rochester 1962, each in mathematics. After teaching math, operations research, and (occasionally) economics for ten years at Wisconsin, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins Universities, he worked in Washington for several years, first at the Federal Trade Commission and later at the American Petroleum Institute. Since then, he has divided his time between writing, consulting, and occasional part-time teaching in the Baltimore/Washington area. Hill & Wang will publish his latest book COMPETITION: The Birth of a New Science in the summer of 2007.
James M. Crowley, Executive Director, SIAM
James Crowley has served as the executive director of SIAM since 1994. He was a tenured associate professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and spent two years each at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Dr. Crowley also served as the assistant chief scientist for the Air Force Systems Command. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University, his M.S. in Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his B.S., Mathematics, from College of the Holy Cross.
Warren Page, New York City College of Technology – CUNY
Warren Page is Professor Emeritus of New York City College of Technology, City University of New York. He is a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a former Vice President of The Mathematical Association of America. He served as editor of The College Mathematics Journal and, for thirteen years, as editor of the journal's Classroom Capsules Column. Dr. Page also served on The United States Commission on Mathematics Instruction, the National Council and Steering Committee of the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP), and the Advisory Board of the Mathematical Competition in Modeling.
Henry Ricardo, Medgar Evers College – CUNY
Henry Ricardo is professor of mathematics at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He has taught college mathematics for over 25 years and spent 14 years at IBM in various technical and financial positions. Dr. Ricardo, who serves as Secretary of the Metropolitan NY Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and SIAM. His book, A Modern Introduction to Differential Equations, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002.
Harry Suber, Northcoast AM
From 1960 to 1969, Dr. Suber attended Clemson University in South Carolina earning a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics, a MS in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He was an Associate Professor with the Department of Mathematics at Salisbury University in Maryland from 1969 to 1990. Dr. Suber is a co-founder of NorthCoast AM and has been the Director of Research since May, 1988. He has primary responsibility for computer-assisted research and programming for NorthCoast's portfolio management models and systems.
Robert Tardiff, Salisbury University
Robert Tardiff currently serves as the Associate Provost at Salisbury
University and has taught mathematics for over 25 years. He received
his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1975.
His interests include probability, statistics, modeling and sonification as a tool for teaching mathematics. Dr. Tardiff is a member of SIAM, AMS, MAA, and ASA.
Data Manager for Final Judging
Catherine Ricardo, Iona CollegeCatherine Ricardo is a professor of computer science at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, where she has taught for 28 years. She is the author of Databases Illuminated (Jones & Bartlett, 2004), Database Systems (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990), and numerous articles in the fields of database systems, educational computing, and program assessment. Dr. Ricardo is an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Information Systems (Academic Press, 2003), a frequent speaker at computer conferences, and has organized several regional conferences in the New York area. She has also served as a reviewer for national and international journals and an evaluator for educational institutions and government agencies. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1983.
