James Morrow is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington (UW). He is the director of Mathday, an annual one-day festival of mathematics that is held on the campus of the UW and attracts over 1200 high school students and teachers from the Northwest. Since 1988 he has directed a summer undergraduate research program that is funded by the National Science Foundation. Professor Morrow also has an impressive track record of leading teams to win the International Mathematical Contest in Modeling. In recognition of the international reputation of his teaching, in 2005 Professor Morrow won the Education Prize from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at the University of British Columbia and, in 2007, the Mathematical Association of America’s HAIMO Award for Distinguished University Mathematics Teaching.

 Ed Lazowska holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Lazowska is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Director of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Boards for Microsoft Research, Voyager Capital, Ignition, Madrona Venture Group, Impinj, and Conenza, and of the Board of Directors of Data I/O Corporation.

 Louis Fox is the executive director of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications and a research professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. Prior to taking his post at WCET, he was vice provost at the UW, where he was responsible for the Office of UW-Community Partnerships, which expands and makes visible the ways in which the university works with diverse communities, and the Office of Learning Technologies, which develops and supports user-inspired, reliable, and inventive technologies to help UW students, faculty, researchers, and staff achieve their learning, research, and work goals. He has served the UW in many other roles, including special assistant to the president and associate vice provost for undergraduate education. In addition, he was the founding CEO and president of the Digital Learning Commons.

 Bruce Bayly is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona and the Director of the Physics Factory and the Sci-En-Tek-12 Foundation. The SciEnTeK-12 Foundation was formed in 1998 to provide a source of funding and management for the Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair (SARSEF).  Since then, the SciEnTeK-12 Foundation has grown from supporting the science fair in several buildings and small rooms and providing a few hundred dollars in awards, to an organization with a current annual budget around $150,000, and with the Fair and Funfest now being housed at the Tucson Convention Center. They also support programs such as the Math Science and Technology FunFest (MSTFF), Science Olympiad, & the Physics Factory.

 Dieter Armbruster is Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Arizona State University since 2005. He studied Physics at the Universität Tübingen, Germany. He graduated with a Diploma in 1980 where he also received his Ph.D. on bifurcation theory of nonlinear optical systems in 1983. After two years as postdoc at Cornell University and two years as Hochschulassistent in Tübingen he joined the Department of Mathematics at the Arizona State University (ASU) in 1990. In the same year, he wrote his Habilitation Thesis in Mathematical Physics in Tübingen. He was promoted to Full Professor at ASU in 1992. Since then he has been visiting professor at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan, at the University of Potsdam, Germany and at TU/e. His research interests are broad based and range from dynamical systems theory and chaos via applications to lasers, biology and production systems to, most recently, the simulation and control of semiconductor fabs.