PROGRAM for the Section MAA FALL MEETING 2014 Trine Saturday, October 18, 2014

8:00–8:40 Registration Hallway, Best Hall of Science 8:40-2:30 MAA Book Sale Fawick Hall, Allen School of Engineering and Technology 8:40-8:45 Welcome by Prof. Craig Laker Best Hall Dean of the Jannen School of Arts and Sciences Auditorium 229 8:45-9:45 Timothy Comar, Department of Mathematics Best Hall Benedictine University Auditorium 229 Undergraduate Mathematical Biology: From the Classroom to Research Introduction: John Rickert

Contributed talks Room Fawick Hall 122 Fawick Hall 119 Fawick Hall 117 Moderated by: Moderated by: Moderated by: Bill Barge Feng Tian John Rickert

10:00- Spectral theory of multiple Teaching a Writing-Intensive 10:25 intervals Mathematics Course Feng Tian Tiffany Kolba (25 min) Trine University 10:30- The L2-Gradients & Application From Energy to Entropy to Inverting the Linear Algebra 10:55 to Nonlinear Pseudo-differential Emergy Classroom Equations Dennis G. Collins Melissa Lindsey (25 min) Ramesh Karki University of Puerto Rico, Indiana Wesleyan University East Mayaguez, retired 11:00- Amorous Bugs and Pursuit Biological Systems Can Be Fostering Undergraduate 11:25 Problems Random: How to Deal Research Steven A. Schonefeld Elizabeth Wolf Haseeb A. Kazi (25 min) Trine University Saint Mary's Trine University 11:30– Green's Theorem Revisited Introduction to Stochastic Math Magic Number Blocks and 11:55 Adam Coffman Models in Population the Wobble-square Method of IPFW Dynamics Multiplication (25 min) Lochana Siriwardena Glenn Collins University of

student talks: (*) graduate student; (**) undergraduate student

12:00–12:55 Lunch Whitney Commons Café, Rick L and Vicki L James University Center 12:00–12:55 Executive Committee Meeting Bateman Presidential Dining Room, Rick L and Vicki L James University Center

Indiana Project NExT Panel Session Room Fabiani Theatre, Rick L and Vicki L James University Center

Strategies for Helping Students Transition to Proofs

Jeff Leader 1:15–2:15 Tiffany Kolba (60 min) Katie Merkling

Mary Porter

Moderator: William Lindsey

student talks: (*) graduate student; (**) undergraduate student

ADJOURNMENT—See you March 13-14, 2015 at .