MAA  Mathematical Association of America

Seaway Section

Thomas Zaslavsky was born in the Autonomous Republic of Brooklyn, attended the City College of New York, flunked out of graduate school but retreated to the then best place on earth, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he got a Ph.D. after his advisor Curtis Greene told him about hyperplane arrangements. This led to one thing and another, which led to the 700-page "A mathematical bibliography of signed and gain graphs and allied areas", Electronic J. Combinatorics, Dynamic Surveys No. DS8.

Steve Butler is an award-winning teacher. He has given talks at numerous venues ranging from the AMS-MAA address at Mathfest 2021 to the Iowa State Fair and almost everything in between. Steve particularly enjoys working with young researchers. He regularly participates in the Iowa State REU and maintains a listing of REU sites for students (mathreuprograms.org); he is also a lead organizer of the Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics (GRWC). Steve's mathematics was heavily influenced by his mentors, Fan Chung and Ron Graham. His mathematical research includes spectral graph theory, shuffling, juggling, origami, tiling, Apollonian circle packings, parking functions, and more. In 2015, he became the 512th mathematician to have an Erd?s number of 1. Steve Butler has been at Iowa State University since 2011 where he is a Morrill Professor and the Barbara J Janson Professor of Mathematics. More information about him can be found online (stevebutler.org).

Dr. Abayomi is the Head of Science for Gumbel Demand Acceleration - a Software as a Service (SaaS) company for digital media. Dr. Abayomi was the first and founding SVP of Data Science at Warner Music Group (WMG). He has also served as a Professor of Industrial Engineering, Probability, and Statistics & Environmental Science at Georgia Tech, Universidad de Cuenca, and Binghamton University. He holds a Ph.D. in Probability and Statistics from Columbia University and Post-Doctorates from Duke and Stanford Universities. Dr. Abayomi serves on the Data Science Advisory Council at Seton Hall University, where he holds an appointment in the Mathematics & Computer Science Department. He serves on the Advisory Council at the Ivan Allen College at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Faculty Council at Barnes & Noble Education, the advisory council for Modal Education, and he is a chapter advisor for AI 2030.