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Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:30 p.m. Levis 3rd floor Welcome Melvyn Jeter, President ISMAA 7:00 p.m. Board Meeting Altgeld 245 Opening Address Algebras That Go Up and Down Georgia Benkart Friday, March 23, 2001 A partially ordered set has its ups and downs. That is, on any set with a partial order there is an up operator and a down operator. Sometimes these operators behave so nicely that they act like the operators in the Heisenberg uncertainty 9:00 a.m. Mini-course Levis 402-03-04 principle. You can be certain that during this talk will be one of those times. Mathematics in the CAVE John Sullivan 1:45 p.m. Break The CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment provides an immersive virtual- reality experience for small groups. Mathematically, the CAVE is especially 2:00 p.m. useful for visualization of curved geometries like hyperbolic and spherical Section A Levis 3rd floor spaces, and can also be used to present results of numerical simulations. Performance-Based Assessments: Implications for Content Courses Workshop participants will experience the CAVE for an hour, and will learn a Many changes in teacher education have been enacted at the state and national bit about how to program CAVE applications. level. This panel starts an important dialog between teacher educators and those teaching the content courses. The focus will be on how to include Due to size restrictions of the CAVE, there will be two separate sessions of the performance-based assessments in content courses taken by pre-service short course. Please go directly to room 3510 in the Beckman Institute teachers. building at the far north end of the campus for your session. The first session will begin at 9:00 a.m. and the second session will begin at 10:30. Each The group running the discussion will be IMTE, which is the newly formed session will last approximately one hour. Each session will be strictly limited Illinois Mathematics Teacher Educators. to ten participants. Pre-registration is therefore required. Include you e-mail Don Porzio, Moderator address with your registration so that you can be notified which session you Panelists expected to attend: should attend. Susan Beal, IMTE chair, St. Xavier Carol Castellon, IMTE secretary, UIUC The workshop will be run by Professor John M. Sullivan, Associate Professor Art Baroody, UIUC of Mathematics at the University of Illinois and currently webmaster for the Claran Einfeldt, ISBE rep International Society for the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture. To find out Melvin Olson, WIU more about Professor Sullivan visit his homepage at Al Otto, ISU http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~jms/ or use [email protected] to request more information about the short course. Section B Levis 402,403,404 11:30 a.m. Lunch on your own Expository Lecture for Undergraduates Patricia Kiihne Professor Kiihne from Illinois College will discuss factorization of various polynomials over different rings in a lecture designed to be accessible to Friday afternoon undergraduate mathematics majors. Noon-4:30 p.m. Registration in Levis Lobby Coffee & etc. on rear and terrace of Levis 3rd floor Book exhibit Levis 405-406 Section C Levis 407 4:30 p.m. Levis 3rd floor Faculty Talks Business meeting Melvyn Jeter, ISMAA President Tony Bedenikovic, Bradley University Two complexes on the 4-ball Friday evening We will look at a type of 3-complex known as a graph complement cone complex (i.e., a gccc). A gccc consists of known complement in a cube with 6:30 p.m. Colonial Room of the Illini Union Ballroom handles together with the cone over the boundary of the cube with handles. We Banquet and Awards will show that every 2-complex 3-deforms to a gccc and list some Reservations are required as seating is limited to 90. The colonial room opens consequences of this fact. at 6:30 p.m., fifteen minutes before the banquet is served at 6:45. The banquet includes choice of entrée, salad, bread, walnut vegetable medley, parsley Rohan Attele, Chicago State University rd buttered new potatoes, apple crumb pie, and beverage service. Wine is Geometry of the 3 Derivative included in the beverage service. Following the banquet we adjourn to Altgeld Hall, for Professor Underwood 3:00 p.m. Break Dudley’s talk.

3:15 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Altgeld 215 Section D Levis 3rd floor Calculus Books Underwood Dudley Standards for Mathematics Teacher Education James Olsen Calculus books are important. This talk will survey their contents from 1696 to This session continues the discussion begun in session A. James Olsen of the present, say what should and should not be in them, and draw seven Western Illinois University will be moderator important conclusions. (They will be written on transparencies so they cannot be missed, and the last is, “That’s enough about calculus books.”) Section E Levis 402,403,404 The Art of Technical Illustration How is it that the artwork for a new calculus book now costs over $150,000? Saturday, March 24, 2001 Meet George and Brian Morris of Scientific Illustrators and find out. They have supplied textbook publishers with technical illustrations for over three decades. 8:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Registration in Levis Lobby Section F Levis 407 Coffee & etc. Levis 3rd floor rear & terrace Faculty Talks Book exhibit Levis 405 & 406 Philip Goldfeder, Columbia College

Catherine Crawford, Elmhurst, College 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Levis 3rd floor Localization of periodically forced waves Assessment is not a Four Letter Word Professor Herb Lyon Many systems driven far from equilibrium undergo instabilities leading to the formation of patterns in which a periodic or ordered structure emerges. Exactly what are your students learning? Is this what you expect them to 3:15–4:15 Levis Music 2nd floor learn? Can you demonstrate objectively the success of your courses or program? Are you feeling pressures from your Dean to define and measure Student Math Contest student learning outcomes? Does your institution have a North Central visit coming up? Are your students more or less successful than they were five 4:15 p.m. Break years ago? How and why have you changed your curriculum in the past decade? Have the changes been successful? How do you know? Is your copying the materials given to participants, there is a $15.00 fee to participate. institution increasingly adopting a corporate model? Does assessment of However, those participating in the Next program do not have to pay this fee. student learning outcomes threaten your academic freedom and your independence in the classroom? Is this just another passing fad? Can you honestly say that you understand what assessment is all about? Does anyone? Section J Levis 407 Student papers TBA The program is designed to assist academic mathematicians in coming to grips with assessment. The presentation will be followed by a panel who have had 10:45 a.m. Break recent hands-on experience with accreditation visits and with successful programs of assessing student academic achievement. 10:50 a.m. 11:50 a.m. rd Herb Lyon teaches regular and online mathematics courses at Black Hawk Section K Levis 3 floor College. A North Central consultant/evaluator for over a decade, he has also An Insider’s Look at the Society of Actuaries’ Education and served as a team chair. He is currently a member of the North Central Examination System James Miles Accreditation Review Council and he has been trained as an examiner for Several major changes were made in the Society of Actuaries’ E & E system Illinois’ Lincoln Quality Awards. His Ph.D. from the University of Michigan beginning in 2000. This session will cover the current structure, the history is in knot theory, he has worked as a faculty member and administrator in behind the changes and current issues. No presentation related to actuarial several states and countries, and he is past chair of the Illinois Community examinations would be complete without coverage of the Casualty Actuarial College Presidents Council. Society’s E & E structure and this session is no exception. A discussion of the role of colleges and universities in the education of future actuaries will be 9:30 a.m. Break included due to popular demand. The speaker is current SoA Education Chairperson and the SoA liaison to the CAS Syllabus Committee. 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Section H Levis 3rd floor Section L Levis 402-03-04 Assessment Panel Grant Writing Workshop, continued Professor Charles Peltier, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana Section M Levis 407 Judy Marwick, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Student papers TBA Morton Community College, Cicero, Illinois Professor Larry Morley, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois 12:00 Noon Closing Address Levis 3rd floor The Front End of Mathematica Theodore Gray Section I Levis 402-03-04 Theodore Gray has been an architect of the front end of Mathematica for many years, and authored The Beginner’s Guide to Mathematica with Jerry Glynn. Grant Writing Workshop Marj Enneking He will tell us some of the stories behind Mathematica. Pre-registration is required The Mathematical Association of America received a grant to run grant- writing workshops at section meetings. We are privileged to have Marj 1:30-3:30 pm Room to be announced Enneking from Portland State to run our workshop this spring. Marj is a Grant Writing Workshop, conclusion former program officer at the national Science Foundation. The workshop will show how to write successful grant proposals in mathematics.

The workshop will be held Saturday morning and afternoon I two workshop sessions. Each session will be about two hours long. To cover the cost of ISMAA INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS 2000-2001 ISMAA Call for STUDENT CONTRIBUTED Papers ORDINARY for the Annual Meeting of the Illinois Section of the MAA Augustana College March 23-24, 2001 Belleville Area College University of Illinois Bradley University Chicago State University A session of student contributed papers is planned for Saturday, March 24 at the College of DuPage Annual ISMAA Meeting. Any undergraduate mathematics student or group of students may propose a 15-minute presentation on a topic dealing with mathematics or the Columbia College Chicago teaching and learning of mathematics. The paper may represent a class project, a Elmhurst College senior thesis or a research project. Harold Washington College* Illinois Institute of Technology Individuals interested in contributing a paper should forward a short (at most one Illinois Valley Community College* paragraph) summary of the paper with the name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) by March 10, 2001 to: Illinois Wesleyan University Northeastern Illinois University* John Haverhals Richard J. Daley College* Department of Mathematics Rockford College Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625 (309) 677-2499, [email protected] Trinity Christian College Wabonsee Community College ISMAA SUSTAINING Call for CONTRIBUTED Papers for the Northern Illinois University Annual Meeting of the Illinois Section of the MAA Eastern Illinois University Illinois State University March 23-24 Joliet Junior College* University of Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana* Two sessions of contributed papers are planned for Friday, March 23 at the annual ISMAA Meeting. Anyone may propose a 15-minute presentation on a topic dealing BENEFACTOR with mathematics or the teaching and learning of mathematics. Individuals interested in contributing a paper should forward a short (at most one Knox College* paragraph) summary of the paper with the names(s) and address(es) of the author(s) by Western Illinois University March 10, 2001 to: Tom Bengtson *Indicates two year membership Department of Mathematics Augustana College 639 38th St. Rock Island, IL 61201 (309) 794-7406, [email protected]