Dr. Wiseman is the 2006 Kentucky Professor of the Year and is Chair of the Chemistry department at Georgetown College. The presentation was delivered on February 4, 2008.

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Note: Please disregard the background noise that sounds like little computer bots talking to each other  This was a result of my editing of the sound file to remove excessive static noise and to amplify the volume.

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For those of you who are enjoying the poetry attempts, here is the Faculty Forum description in an alternative way…This is Homer’s masterpiece!

It’s pleasing to unravel
Recondite Sanskrit math,
Though colleagues seldom travel
This quantitative path.

They heard me speak salaciously
In Spring 2004
Of Shiva and fair Parvati –
His “hilly” paramour. (1)

We dwelt also on saying wise
And Sandhi rules complex,
Yet not a few were scandalized
By so much Sanskrit sex!

“We speak with erudition
In what we’re trained up on!
The guy’s a mathematician –
Where have his manners gone?”

To save my reputation
And practice discipline
I name my dissertation:
“Ideas of Mathematical Proof in Classical India:  A reading of the Aryabhatiyabhashya of Nilakantha Somayajin.”

I hasten to assure you
That my prereqs are easy;
If numbers aren’t your purview
You need not get all queasy.

Triangles and trapezia,
And slicing up a square:
It really can’t be easier –
And we’ll review, I swear!

If you must go on thinking still
That math is really dreadful,
I’ll sugar-coat this bitter pill
By offering a headful

Of Vedic ritual mystery,
Astrology and gods,
And hints of Yogic Alchemy
From th’old Upanishads.

(1)     In the humanities they write enviably learned footnotes.  Mathematicians want to get in on this practice whenever possible, so here goes.  “Parvati”  — derived from “parvata” (“knotted”, hence “mountain”) — means “related to a mountain”, but also ”hilly.”  In keeping with the former sense, Parvati is so-called because she is the daughter of the mountain-god Himalaya.  However, she is also, according to classical Indian conventions of female beauty, always depicted in a way that suggests — to the male academic mind perhaps — the latter meaning.

http://www.georgetownprofessor.net/podblog/wp-content/uploads/heather_hunnicutt.mp3

http://www.georgetownprofessor.net/podblog/wp-content/uploads/colegio_bautista.mp3

http://www.georgetownprofessor.net/podblog/wp-content/uploads/faculty_forum_eportfolios.mp3

The following podcast is a recording of the October 2, 2006 Georgetown College Faculty Forum presentation by Jennifer Price and Dr. Scott Tackacs on the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars program. This was the second time I used my new Edirol R-09 recorder. This time, I learned that the 64 Meg memory card that comes with the recorder is only good for about 25 minutes of high quality MP3 recording. I still had the band performance recording stored on the card, so about 5 minutes into the presentation, the recording stopped and showed that the memory card was full. I quickly deleted the band recordings and was able to continue recording a little over half of the presentation before the card was full again. 

Lesson learned…buy a bigger memory card ! This weekend I’ll be getting a 2 Gig card for the recorder. This should allow for a few hours of high quality recording. Now, as long as the batteries will last that long, I should be in business to record my three hour, graduate classes. Technology…you gotta love it !. By the way, I did ask the presenters permission before recording their presentation and posting this podcast…always a good idea when dealing with adults and an absolute necessity (parental permission) before doing this in your classrooms.

http://www.georgetownprofessor.net/podblog/wp-content/uploads/gov_scholars.mp3