The professor of mathematics presented at the Mathematical Assocation of America's annual mathematics festival in Chicago.

While there he attended a meeting of the MAA’s Section Officers as Chair of the Southeastern Section, attended a meeting of the MAA’s Committee on Minicourses which he will chair as of 2018, monitored a minicourse for the committee, and presented a paper entitled “Rationals, Irrationals, and Commensurate Magnitudes: Euclid and the Real Numbers”.