Jeff Rosoff recently gave a talk at the American Mathematical Society meetings in New Orleans on ruled surfaces, and his paper "Effective Divisor Classes on a Ruled Surface" is soon to appear in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics.  Away from work, Jeff continues his interests in woodworking, music (he is in his sixth year studying the piano), and working on his house (he just finished redoing his kitchen).  He also enjoys swimming and hanging out with his son David, who is now fifteen.

Karl Knight is currently on leave at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.  His main interest is in the area of computational commutative algebra, though he is also working on genetic programming, with particular interests in applying that technique to game-playing programs.

Barbara Kaiser is also on leave at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.  She is working on writing a book in the area of discrete mathematics and graph theory, as well as learning about the field of computational commutative algebra.

This past summer Mike Hvidsten taught a summer workshop at Gustavus titled "Integrating Information Technology into the Teaching of Mathematics".  The workshop was attended by middle and high school teachers from Minnesota. Also, this summer Mike released the software program "Geometry Explorer".  This program facilitates the exploration of Euclidean, Non-Euclidean, Transformational, Fractal, and Turtle Geometries.

Max Hailperin traveled to Germany this September to present work he did with John Engebretson, class of 2000.  He presented their results on "Coalescing as an Aid to Interference-Graph Coloring" at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Code Optimisation: Trends, Challenges and Perspectives.

Carolyn Dobler continues her involvement with statistical education. She is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the Section on Statistical Education of the American Statistical Association, having also served on the Executive Committee.  In October, she was invited to attend a MAA workshop at Grinnell College on the role of mathematics in the first two years of the curriculum.  In addition, she has been a site coordinator and project coordinator for the STATS workshops, designed to assist non-statisticians who teach statistics.  Carolyn also volunteers in the classrooms at South Elementary School, assisting teachers with math lessons.  One of the projects, entitled "First-Graders, Flies, and a Frenchman's Fascination (Introducing the Cartesian Coordinate System)" and co-authored with first-grade teacher John Klein, has been submitted (and tentatively accepted) for publication in Teaching Children Mathematics.  She hopes to develop more mathematical activities centered around children's literature.