2026 KY MAA Section meeting
Friday and Saturday, April 10-11, 2026
Thomas More University
Plenary Speakers
Ranthony Clark
Bio: Ranthony A. Clark is a National Science Foundation Ascending Postdoctoral Fellow, Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor, and Computational and Mathematical Science Fellow for the Center for Computational Thinking at Duke University. She earned a PhD in Mathematics in 2018 from the University of Iowa and her research interests include applied algebraic topology, data science, commutative ring theory, math education, and the history of Black mathematicians.
Dhanuja Kasturiratna
Bio: Dhanuja Kasturiratna is an associate professor at Northern Kentucky University and is the 2025 winner of the KY MAA Section Teaching Award. He enjoys teaching probability and statistics courses, as well as doing statistics consulting. While his primary goal is to be an effective statistics teacher, he loves to be involved in scholarly activities. His research is mainly on goodness-of-fit tests and characterization problems in statistics. Another area that he enjoys working in is computational statistics.
Registration + Abstract Submission
Click the button to go to the register form for the Section meeting, where you can also submit an abstract to give a talk. The deadline to register online for the Section meeting is Wednesday, April 1st (you can still register onsite, the day of the conference). If you also want to give a talk, the deadline to fill out the registration form and provide the abstract for your talk is Friday, March 27th. There is also a button to pay for the registration (you can also pay for more than one person using the payment button — you’ll be asked for the names of those you are paying for).
Full two-day registration, including meals, is $85 for nonstudents and $20 for students
Friday-only registration, including a banquet dinner, is $70 for nonstudents and $10 for students.
Guests at the Friday banquet can be included for a fee of $25 per guest.
Saturday-only registration, including lunch, is $60 for nonstudents and $10 for students.
Hotel Information
Cost: $143.20+tax for two queen beds (cutoff date for discount is March 18th)
Address: 10 Hampton Lane Wilder, KY 41076
Hotel Code: CVGWIHX
Group Name: KYMAA2026
Group Code: 509
Group Type: D
Holiday Inn Express and Suites Cincinnati South - Wilder
Cost: $159.00+tax for one king bed (cutoff date for discount is March 10th)
Address: 8 Hampton Lane Wilder, KY 41076
Instructions: Guests can make reservations either by calling the hotel directly at 859-815-8855 and asking for the KYMAA Conference Block or online using the booking link KYMAA Conference.
Holiday Inn Cincinnati Airport
Cost: $109.00+tax for two queen beds (cutoff date for discount is March 25th)
Address: 1717 Airport Exchange Boulevard, Erlanger, KY 41018
Group Code: CLL
Host Institution Information
Thomas More University is a leading Catholic, liberal arts institution in the Midwest. It serves approximately 1,900 full- and part-time students from across the country and around the world on its beautiful campus in Crestview Hills, Kentucky,
