{"id":19,"date":"2019-06-12T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthur-benjamin.104.42.120.246.xip.io\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-05-28T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:48:01","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/math.hmc.edu\/benjamin\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>B.S. with highest honors from Carnegie-Mellon University, Applied Mathematics, 1983.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.S.E., Johns Hopkins University, Mathematical Sciences, 1985.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Mathematical Sciences, 1989.&nbsp;<br>Dissertation: &#8220;Turnpike Structures for Optimal Maneuvers,&#8221; Advisor: Alan J. Goldman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Honors and Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rufus P. Isaacs Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1984.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1985-88.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.informs.org\/Recognizing-Excellence\/INFORMS-Prizes\/George-Nicholson-Student-Paper-Competition\" target=\"_blank\">George E. Nicholson Prize,<\/a>&nbsp;for the paper &#8220;Graphs, Maneuvers and Turnpikes,&#8221; awarded by the Operations Research Society of America, 1988.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mayfield High School (Ohio) Alumni Hall of Fame, 1996.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First Place,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagopoint.com\/abt1997.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Backgammon Tour, 1997.<\/a>&nbsp;Number 13 on&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagopoint.com\/abtalltime.html\" target=\"_blank\">All-time list.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distinguished Teaching Award, Southern California Section of MAA, 1999.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, 2000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Teaching Award,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/Awards\/Haimo_Recipients.html\" target=\"_blank\">(Haimo Prize)&nbsp;<\/a>, awarded by MAA, 2000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CHOICE Award,Outstanding Academic Title, for&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/press\/ebooks\/proofs-that-really-count\" target=\"_blank\">Proofs that Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof&nbsp;<\/a> from the American Library Association, 2004.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Designated&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/math.hmc.edu\/benjamin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/digest_sized_down.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;America&#8217;s Best Math Whiz&#8221;&nbsp;<\/a>by Reader&#8217;s Digest Magazine,&nbsp;<em>Best of America issue<\/em>, May 2005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/ams\/press\/mudd-05.html\" target=\"_blank\">AMS Award for Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department<\/a>&nbsp;(awarded to HMC Mathematics Department). We were the first recipients of this award, 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/programs\/maa-awards\/writing-awards\/beckenbach-book-prize\" target=\"_blank\">Beckenbach Book Prize<\/a>, for&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/press\/ebooks\/proofs-that-really-count\" target=\"_blank\">Proofs that Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof&nbsp;<\/a>from the Mathematical Association of America, 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/programs\/maa-awards\/lecture-awards\/polya-lecturers\" target=\"_blank\">MAA Polya Lecturer&nbsp;<\/a>, 2006-2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TED speaker 2005, 2009, and 2013 (Among the top 20 most viewed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/arthur_benjamin_does_mathemagic\">TED talks<\/a>. Over 50 million views.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Selected by Princeton Review as one of&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/uploadedFiles\/Sitemap\/Home_Page\/Rankings\/Best_Professors\/BestProfessors_Name.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Best 300 Professors<\/a><\/em>, 2012<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Endowed Chair: Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>Bestseller in Education (top 10):&nbsp;<em>The Magic of Math: Solving for&nbsp;<strong>x<\/strong>&nbsp;and Figuring Out Wh<strong>y<\/strong>,&nbsp;<\/em>2015 and 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CHOICE Award, Outstanding Academic Title, for&nbsp;<em>The Fascinating World of Graph Theory&nbsp;<\/em>from the American Library Association, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 Communications Award, by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, (awarded to people who, on a sustained basis, share the beauty and value of mathematics to a broad audience), 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 Henry T. Mudd Prize, for outstanding service contributions to Harvey Mudd College.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 Winner of American Backgammon Tour Online Tournament Series. Number 1 on <a href=\"https:\/\/usbgf.org\/results\/ratings\/abt-online-points\/\">All-time list<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 Elected to American Backgammon Hall of Fame.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Work Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2015 to present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Chair, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2020 to present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2000 to present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chair,&nbsp;Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2002 to 2004.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Chair, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2001 to 2002.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extended Graduate Faculty, Claremont Graduate University, 1999 to present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 1995 to 2000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 1989 to 1995.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mathematician, Institute for Defense Analyses, Princeton, NJ, Summer 1989.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discreet Mathematician, National Security Agency, Washington, D.C., Summer 1987.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Staff Member, Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics program, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, Summer 1986.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mathematician, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD, Summer 1985.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Assistant, IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, Summer 1982.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1980-83.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Sabbatical appointments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Caltech, 1995-1996.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, Fall 2004.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Spring 2005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Oxford University, 2012-2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting Professor for Public Outreach, The National Museum of Mathematics, New York, NY, 2025-2026. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Papers <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Includes 92 research papers, 15 expository papers, 11 book reviews and letters, 6  bestselling video courses, and 8 books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/math.hmc.edu\/benjamin\/research-papers\/\">A list of my papers, preprints, and books.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Talks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Includes 314 talks (3 TED talks) and counting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/math.hmc.edu\/benjamin\/research-talks\/\">A list of my research talks.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><em data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Teach Your Child Math<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>(with Michael B. Shermer)<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>McGraw Hill, New York, 177 pages, 1991. (Out of Print.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000\"><em>Mathemagics: How to Look like a Genius Without Really Trying<\/em><\/span><\/strong><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>(with Michael B. Shermer)<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>McGraw Hill (Book-of-the-Month-Club Selection), New York, 218 pages, 1993, 1998. (Out of Print. Updated as\u00a0<em>Secrets of Mental Math.<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>(with Jennifer J. Quinn)<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>Mathematical Association of America, Dolciani Series, Washington DC, 208 pages, 2003. Now published by Amercian Mathematical Society, MAA Press.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.ams.org\/dol-27\/\"><br \/>(Order here!)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><em>Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician&#8217;s Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>(with Michael B. Shermer; translated into more than 10 languages!)\u00a0<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>Random House, New York, 279 pages, 2006. (This is an updated version of\u00a0<em>Mathemagics<\/em>.) Over 300,000 copies sold!\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em>B<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">iscuits of Number Theory<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>(co-edited with Ezra B. Brown)<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>Mathematical Association of America, Dolciani Series, Washington DC, 311 pages, 2009. Now published by the American Mathematical Society, MAA Press.<a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.ams.org\/dol-34\/\"><br \/>(Order here!)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><em>The Art of Mental Calculation: Addition &amp; Subtraction<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>(with Natalya St. Clair)<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>self-published with createspace.com, 60 pages, 2014.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Mental-Calculation-addition-subtraction\/dp\/1495219968\"><br \/>(Order here!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><em>The Fascinating World of Graph Theory<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>(with Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang)<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 322 pages, 2015.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10314.html\"><br \/>(Order here!)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><em>The Magic of Math: Solving for\u00a0x\u00a0and Figuring Out Why<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>Basic Books, New York, NY, 336 pages, 2015. (A\u00a0New York Times Bestseller!)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Magic-Math-Solving-Figuring-Out\/dp\/0465096212\">(Order here!)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video Courses (from&nbsp;<em>The Great Courses<\/em>):<\/h2>\n\n\n<ol>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #008800\"><i>The Joy of Mathematics.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><br \/>The Great Courses, Chantilly, VA (24 thirty minute lectures), 2007.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/joy-of-mathematics.html\"><br \/>(Order here!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><i>Discrete Mathematics.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><br \/>The Great Courses, Chantilly, VA (24 thirty minute lectures), 2009.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/discrete-mathematics.html\"><br \/>(Order here!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #008800\"><i>The Secrets of Mental Math<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><br \/>The Great Courses, Chantilly, VA (12 thirty minute lectures), 2011.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/secrets-of-mental-math.html\"><br \/>(Order here!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ee\"><em><strong>The Mathematics of Games and Puzzles: From Cards to Sudoku\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>The Great Courses, Chantilly, VA (12 forty-five minute lectures), 2013.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/the-mathematics-of-games-and-puzzles-from-cards-to-sudoku.html\"><br \/>(Order here!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ee\"><em><strong>Math and Magic<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>The Great Courses, Chantilly, VA (12 thirty minute lectures), 2018.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/math-and-magic.html\"><br \/>(Order here!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><i>Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio<\/i><\/span><\/b><br \/>The Great Courses, Chantilly, VA (12 thirty minute lectures), 2025.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/fibonacci-numbers-and-the-golden-ratio\"><br \/>(Order here!)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Conferences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I organized the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/past-mathematics-conferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Eighth Annual HMC Mathematics Conference<\/a>&nbsp;in 2006. The topic was Enumerative Combinatorics and our speakers were George Andrews (Pennyslvania State), Igor Pak (MIT), Carla Savage (North Carolina State), and Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I organized the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibonacciassociation.org\/21st-international-fibonacci-conference\">21st International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers<\/a> and Their applications, held at Harvey Mudd College, July 8-12, 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><em>Mathemagics&nbsp;<\/em>Presentations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthurbenjamin.info\/past-upcoming-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">A list of my recent performances.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Senior Theses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jeremy Billones, Optimal Strategies in Pai-Gow Poker, 1991.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eric Huggins, Optimal Blackjack Strategies with Lucky Bucks, 1991.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roderick Lee, Chance and Determinism: What Happens When You Add a Coin to a Nim-Like Game?, 1991.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greg Levin, A Comparison of Negative Cycle Detection Methods, 1992.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Vogel, A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Matroids, 1992.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michael Buksas, Juggling by the Numbers: A Mathematical Model of Juggling, 1993.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cliff McCarthy, Determinants of the Tournaments, 1994.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mike Munson, Winning Backgammon, 1994.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tim Kokesh, Mathematics of Baseball, 1995.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andrew Ross, Optimal Racing in Backgammon, 1996.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jessica Sidman, Splitting Numbers, 1997.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kan Yasuda, Squares of Magic Squares, 1997.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aaron Archer, Coloring Theorems, 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andrew Hutchings, Applications of Semi-Definite Programming, 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew Fluet, Searching for Optimal Strategies in Knock &#8216;m Down, 1999.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Rudel, Solving x^2 + y^2 = z^n, 1999.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helen Monroe, N-Person Coalitional Games: The Power of More Than One, 2000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kylie Bryant, Genetic Algorithms and the Travelling Salesman Problem, 2001.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greg Preston, A Combinatorial Approach to Harmonic Numbers, 2001<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeremy Rouse, Combinatorial Proofs of Congruences, 2003.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alexander Eustis, The Negs and Regs of Continued Fractions, 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jonathan Azose, A Tiling Interpretation of q-Binomial Coefficients, 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daniel Walton, A Tiling Approach to Chebyshev Polynomials, 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sean Plott, Functions of the Binomial Coefficient, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bob Chen, Combinatorial Proofs Using Complex Weights, 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elizabeth Reiland, Combinatorial Proofs of Fibonomial Identities, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curtis Heberle, A Combinatorial Approach to r-Fibonacci Numbers, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kym Louie, Flatterland: The Play, 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eric Stucky, Kastelyn&#8217;s Solution of the Dimer Model, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robert Bennett, Fibonomial Tilings and other Up-Down Tilings, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Natchanon Suaysom, Iterative Matrix Factorization Method for Social Media Data Location Prediction, 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ricky Shapley, An Exploration of Combinatorial Interpretations for Fibonomial Coefficients, 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daniela Elizondo, Counting on the Hosoya Triangle, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John Lentfer, Tiling Representations of Zeckendorf Decompositions, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delaney Cohn, Padovan Numbers are Cool: Combinatorial Exploration of the Padovan Numbers, 2024. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Editorial Boards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The College Mathematics Journal, 2014 to 2018, 2022 to present.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Math Horizons,&nbsp;<strong>co-Editor,<\/strong>&nbsp;2004 to 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mathematics Magazine, 1996 to 2005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The UMAP Journal, The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and its Applications, 1990 to present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Involve, A Journal of Mathematics, 2006 to present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library, Mathematical Association of America, 2000 to 2003.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spectrum Book Series, Mathematical Association of America, 1995 to 2000 (<strong>Editor&nbsp;<\/strong>from 1996 to 2000).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Fibonacci Quarterly, 2024 to Present. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Service to the Profession<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Treasurer, The Fibonacci Association, 2024 to present. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>President,<\/strong> The Fibonacci Association, 2018 to 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secretary,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>The Fibonacci Association, 2010 to 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member at Large,&nbsp;<strong>AMS Governing Council,&nbsp;<\/strong>2012 to 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>past-Chair,&nbsp;<\/strong>MAA Carriage House Committee, Washington, DC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MAA Program Committee for Joint Meetings, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>past-Chair,&nbsp;<\/strong>Carriage House Advisory Board Subcommittee for Opening Ceremony, MAA, Washington, DC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advisory Network for Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advisory Panel for Mathematics Department, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Committee, Joint Meetings of AMS\/MAA, Washington, DC 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chair, Southern California-Nevada Section of MAA (2009-2010).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vice Chair, Southern California-Nevada Section of MAA (2008 to 2009).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Governor,&nbsp;<\/strong>Southern California-Nevada Section of MAA (2004 to 2007).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secretary-Treasurer, Southern California-Nevada Section of MAA (1999 to 2004).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MAA Program Chair, Joint Meetings of AMS\/MAA, San Diego, CA 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MAA Program Chair, MAA MathFest, Boulder, CO 2003<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Memberships<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>American Mathematical Society (AMS)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Fibonacci Association (Board of Directors and&nbsp;Secretary, <strong>President<\/strong>, and Treasurer)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mathematical Association of America (MAA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Magic Castle (since 1990)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>US Backgammon Federation (<strong>Board of Directors<\/strong>, 2012-2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Referee for these journals and book series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>American Mathematical Monthly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annals of Combinatorics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library (MAA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ars Combinatoria<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications of Fibonacci Numbers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The College Mathematics Journal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discrete Mathematics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discrete Applied Mathematics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electronic Journal of Combinatorics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>European Journal of Combinatorics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Fibonacci Quarterly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>INTEGERS: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Involve: The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The International Journal of Combinatorics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journal of Applied Probability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series 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