Guest Speaker: Professor John Beam, UW-Oshkosh Previous Lecture: (Probability Does Not Exist!)(Moviemaking Magic and Mishaps) John Beam is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Miami in 2002. His research interests include probability theory and mathematics education. One of John's favorite hobbies is watching movies and learning about how they are made. Beam, J., Betting and fairness, The Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, Eds. Sarah J. Greenwald and Jill E. Thomley, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011. Beam, J., Lotteries, The Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, Eds. Sarah J. Greenwald and Jill E. Thomley, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011. Beam, J., Probabilistic expectations on unstructured spaces, Communicating Mathematics, 11-24, Contemporary Mathematics 479, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2009. Beam, J., Unfair gambles in probability, Statistics and Probability Letters 77 (2007), 681-686. (Available online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167715206003361.) Seaman, C., J. Szydlik, S. Szydlik, and J. Beam, A comparison of pre-service elementary teachers’ beliefs about mathematics and teaching mathematics: 1968 and 1998, School Science and Mathematics, 105 (2005), 197-207. Questions? Contact John Grade at (608) 345-1519.