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We are so glad you are joining in the fun... and it truly will be a memorable and mathemazing four days! The Centennial Planning Committee, led by Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy, began its work over ten years ago and have produced an amazing program with a lot of mathematical heart. The days will be filled with enticing mathematics, and the evenings will showcase mathematical culture with performances by MAA members. Do browse the program, but I can point out a few highlights.
As you’ve noted, we expanded the program by an extra day to honor our centennial. There are six Centennial Lectures given by a slate of outstanding speakers (Erik Demaine, Jennifer Chayes, Ingrid Daubechies, Carlos Castillo- Chavez, Karen Parshall, and Manjul Bhargava) in a diversity of fields. And of course there are the named lectures to look forward to: Leitzel, Falconer, TABLE OF CONTENTS Frame, Blackwell Lectures and the AMS-MAA Joint Invited Address, as well as the Hedrick Lectures, which will be given by Karen Smith. 11 INVITED ADDRESSES
Sample the rich variety of invited paper sessions–many with a historical 15 INVITED SESSIONS perspective of the last 100 years–including: “Gems of the Monthly”, “Presidential Reminiscences”, “Triangle Geometry” (by John Conway 18 THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSIONS and Richard Guy), a session honoring Abdulalim A. Shabazz (who is credited for mentoring over half of all African-Americans with a Ph.D. in 27 GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSIONS mathematics), and a session in which NSA mathematicians open up about what they do! And check out the awesome collection of mini-courses, 28 PANEL SESSIONS including a reprise of some of our most popular mini-courses of the past. 32 POSTER SESSIONS Students will find a plethora of events to whet their mathematical appetites, including the newer competition Estimathon! and the Chan Stanek Lecture for 33 MINICOURSES Students, given by Joe Gallian. There will be a sneak peek of an upcoming movie The Man Who Knew Infinity about the life of Ramanujan. And 36 WORKSHOPS graduate students who signed up in advance can get feedback on potential job talks and practice presenting them in a special workshop. 37 OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSIONS 38/84 ALDER AWARD SESSION The entertainment each evening will surpass any other math conference you’ve attended in its variety and scope! Wednesday’s Centennial Reception 40 GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITIES will feature a Mathematical Carnival, with performances by MAA members who are jugglers, magicians, and artists. This will be followed by Cirque de 42 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITIES Mathematiques featuring drama, magic, mime and dance! On Thursday, the connection between mathematics and music will be explored in a concert 45 K-12 ACTIVITIES by musical mathematicians. On Friday, the MAA Community Players led by Steve Abbott will perform Albert’s Bridge, a mathematical tragicomedy by 46 COMMITTEE MEETINGS Tom Stoppard. And on Saturday, the Closing Banquet will feature the singing troupe of MAA Players led by Annalisa Crannell. 49 SIGMAA ACTIVITIES
MathFest has always been known as a welcoming place where you 50 SILVER AND GOLD MEMBERS can celebrate your love for mathematics, and passion for teaching and communicating it well, with a friendly and vibrant community in the more 53 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS 2014 relaxed atmosphere of summer. So amid the fun, we also hope you’ll take AND 2015 TO DATE some time to make new friends here at MathFest! Introduce yourself to someone who looks like they might be here for the first time, and help them 56 SOCIAL EVENTS get connected to others with similar interests! On social media–share what you are learning or enjoying with others using the hashtag #MAA100. 59 CHRONOLOGICAL SCHEDULE
Our community, inclusivity, and shared values is what makes MAA strong, 95 SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS and you are a big part of holding that banner high. Even amidst the fast- moving changes in our lives wrought by technology, the need for community 95 COMMERCIAL PRESENTATIONS and excellence in mathematical communication will not wane. As we celebrate the strengths that have brought us this far, I’m confident they will 97 MARRIOTT FLOOR PLANS carry us with strength into the next 100 years. SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Francis Edward Su MAA President 2 Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 #MAAthFest June 22, 2015
On behalf of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), congratulations to the Mathematical Association of America on your Centennial! For 100 years, MAA has been a leader in advancing the mathematical sciences. having a huge impact on both teachers and students. The national meetings that are held and the publications that have been created by the MAA have been key to keeping educators abreast with the latest research. The MAA’s Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM), has guided undergraduate curriculum in mathematics for many years. The association recognizes that curricular changes will occur and be impacted by the adoption of the Common Core State Standards by many U.S. states. The common core will significantly change the preparation of incoming college students and will necessitate changes in the preparation of pre- service teachers.
AMATYC and the MAA have partnered on numerous occasions, through both MAA’s own Committee on Two-Year Colleges and its Committee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years (CRAFTY). These committees have provided guidance over the years on the mathematics of the first two years as well as on developmental courses in the mathematics. AMATYC is pleased to offer its congratulations to the MAA for successfully reaching an important milestone.
Nancy J. Sattler, President AMATYC
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Frances Su, President Mathematical Association of America 1529 18th St. NW Washington D.C. 20036-1358
Dear Dr. Su,
On behalf of the Board of Directors and the membership of the American Statistical Association, I congratulate the Mathematical Association of America on its 100th anniversary. What is most praiseworthy about the MAA is not that it is 100 years old – and that is an excellent accomplishment – but that it is thriving and positioned to support the mathematical sciences community for the next century.
The MAA is renowned for improving the instruction of mathematics at all levels, fostering growth in mathematical professionals, developing the next generation of mathematicians, reaching out to the public to increase awareness of and appreciation for mathematics. Further, MathFest and the Joint Mathematics Meetings are the premier mathematics meetings in the world, and the association is an important publisher of books and articles that advance the field and make it more accessible.
The ASA is proud to be a partner with the MAA in the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, collaborating on Math Awareness Month, the JPBM Communication Award, and other projects to support the mathematical sciences. We share with the MAA a committee of mathematicians and statisticians dedicated to improving undergraduate statistics. We have much common cause with the MAA, and the strength of the association and its bright future are important to the ASA and to the entire mathematical sciences community.
So we wish you a very happy anniversary! While you are enjoying your 100th anniversary celebration here in our nation’s capital, we’ll be on the west coast hosting the Joint Statistical Meetings. Nonetheless, we’ll take a moment at our JSM meeting of the ASA Board to acknowledge the MAA anniversary and celebration.
Very best wishes for your next 100 years,
David Morganstein, President
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Congratulates
MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
On the auspicious occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) wishes to offer its sincerest congratulations to a valued sister society. The MAA provides many important programs and services to vital segments of the math community. SIAM appreciates the cooperation and collaboration enjoyed with the MAA for many years and looks forward to another 100 years of service to our community.
L. Pamela Cook James M. Crowley President Executive Director
August 5, 2015
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Invited Addresses
EARLE RAYMOND HEDRICK LECTURE SERIES MAA100 CENTENNIAL LECTURE 1 Algebra Over Finite Fields Replicators, Transformers, and Robot Swarms: Science Fiction through Geometric Algorithms Karen Smith, University of Michigan Wednesday, August 5, 8:20 AM – 9:20 AM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Hedrick Lecture 1 Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Wednesday, August 5, 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM Institute of Technology Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Science fiction is a great inspiration for Starting with a little trick I learned in science. How can we build reconfigurable third grade to check my multiplication robots like Transformers or Terminator homework, I’ll share my fascination 2? How can we build Star Trek-style with algebra as it grew through middle school, high school, replicators that duplicate or mass- college and eventually led to research in characteristic p rings. produce a given shape at the nano scale? Along the way, I’ll point out the importance of many mentors How can we orchestrate the motion of and teachers who led me to eventually pursue my career in a large swarm of robots? Recently we’ve been exploring possible mathematics. answers to these questions through computational geometry, in the settings of reconfigurable robots (both modular and folding robots Hedrick Lecture 2 that can become any possible shape), robot swarms (which may be so small and simple that they have no identity), and self-assembly Friday, August 7, 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM (building computers and replicators out of DNA tiles). Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 In the second talk, I will explain how doing algebra over finite MAA100 CENTENNIAL LECTURE 2 fields can deepen our understanding of geometry. Specifically, I’ll discuss how understanding solutions to polynomials Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics over finite fields can help understand the geometry of algebraic varieties defined by real or complex polynomials. Wednesday, August 5, 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM Miraculously, rings of characteristic p have some very special Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 properties that can be powerful tools in analyzing them, often Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research replacing tools like integration for real manifolds. Everywhere we turn these days, we find that networks can be used to describe Hedrick Lecture 3 relevant interactions. In the high tech Saturday, August 8, 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM world, we see the Internet, the World Wide Web, mobile phone networks, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 and a variety of online social networks. In the third talk, I will explain some of these recent tools in In economics, we are increasingly “characteristic p” algebra–specifically Frobenius splitting and experiencing both the positive and related tools–which have made an impact on different areas negative effects of a global networked of math, including the minimal model program for complex economy. In epidemiology, we find disease spreading over our ever- algebraic varieties and cluster algebras in combinatorics/ growing social networks, complicated by mutation of the disease representation theory. Some of this work is joint work with my agents. In biomedical research, we are beginning to understand PhD students and post-docs. the structure of gene regulatory networks, with the prospect of using this understanding to manage many human diseases. In this talk, I look quite generally at some of the models we are using to describe these networks, processes we are studying on the networks, algorithms we have devised for the networks, and finally, methods we are developing to indirectly infer network structure from measured data. I’ll discuss in some detail particular applications to cancer genomics, applying network algorithms to suggest possible drug targets for certain kinds of cancer.
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MAA100 CENTENNIAL LECTURE 3 collaborative efforts of molecular biologists — the heirs to Dr. Watson and Dr. Crick —and mathematicians who specialize in Mathematics for Art Investigation complex systems — the heirs to Fermi, Pasta and Ulam.” Thursday, August 6, 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM In this lecture, I will highlight (1) the role that interdisciplinary Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 research challenges has played in shaping the training and mentorship of students from high school to the postdoctoral Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University level and (2) the impact that has had on my own research Mathematical tools for image analysis program. The discussion will be centered on questions that arise increasingly play a role in helping art in the study of disease dynamics (Ebola and Influenza) across historians and art conservators assess levels of organization and over multiple spatiotemporal scales. the state of conservation of paintings, The examples used are the result of the research carried out and probe into the secrets of their with a myriad of collaborators (undergraduate, graduate, history. The talk will review several postdoctoral students and colleagues) over the past three case studies, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Van decades. Eyck among others.
MAA100 CENTENNIAL LECTURE 4 MAA100 CENTENNIAL LECTURE 5 CSHPM KENNETH O. MAY LECTURE The Role and Function of Mathematical Models in Interdisciplinary Mentorship through Research: “We Are Evidently on the Verge of Important Lessons from the World of Epidemics Steps Forward”: The American Mathematical Community, 1915-1950 Thursday, August 6, 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Friday, August 7, 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University Karen Parshall, University of Virginia We live in an interconnected world in The American mathematical which seeking solutions to societal community experienced remarkable problems no longer makes sense changes over the course of the thirty- within the confines of single-discipline five years from the founding of the organized institutions. The nation’s Mathematical Association of America ability to train 21st century scientists (MAA) in 1915 to the establishment depends on systems of learning and of the National Science Foundation in thinking that are naturally embedded within interdisciplinary 1950. The first fifteen years witnessed educational research/mentorship models. The use of multiple not only the evolution of the MAA modes of doing science including the systematic use of with its emphasis on the promotion of mathematics teaching computer experiments and data science (Big Data) must be at but also the “corporatization” and “capitalization” of the the heart of a modern 21st Century STEM education. American Mathematical Society as mathematicians worked As Steve Strogatz observes “… cancer will not be cured by to raise money in support of research-level mathematics. The biologists working alone. Its solution will require a melding next decade, one characterized by the stock market crash of both great discoveries of 1953 [Fermi-Pasta-Ulam and Depression, almost paradoxically saw the building of introduction of the computer experiment and Watson & Creek mathematics departments nationwide and the absorption discovery of the chemical structure of DNA]. Many cancers, into those departments of European mathematical refugees. perhaps most of them, involve the derangement of biochemical Finally, the 1940s witnessed the mobilization of America’s networks that choreograph the activity of thousands of genes mathematicians in the war effort and their subsequent efforts and proteins. As Fermi and his colleagues taught us, a complex to insure that mathematics was supported as the Federal system like this can’t be understood merely by cataloging government began to open its coffers in the war’s immediate its parts and the rules governing their interactions. The aftermath. This talk will explore this period of optimism in nonlinear logic of cancer will be fathomed only through the which the American mathematical community sensed, as Roland Richardson put it, “we are evidently on the verge of important steps forward.”
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Invited Addresses
MAA100 CENTENNIAL LECTURE 6 MAA JAMES R. C. LEITZEL LECTURE Recent Results Toward the Birch and Swinnerton- Calculus at Crisis Dyer Conjecture Saturday, August 8, 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Saturday, August 8, 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 David Bressoud, Macalester Manjul Bhargava, Princeton College University The predominance of calculus in high Over the past half-century, the Birch school, recognition of the importance and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture has of modeling dynamical systems— become one of the most notoriously especially in the biosciences, and difficult unsolved problems in existence of sophisticated online mathematics, and has been listed resources have changed what students as one of the seven million-dollar need from college calculus. Despite “Millennium Prize Problems” of recent insights into what it means to understand calculus the Clay Mathematics Institute. In this talk, we describe the and how students achieve this knowledge, failure rates are problem in elementary terms, and the surprising and beautiful unacceptably high, and passing is no guarantee of ability ways in which it is related to several well-known open to use the ideas of calculus. Together, these forces confront problems in number theory. Despite the difficulties in solving it, departments with a series of decision points around what to there is actually quite a bit known now towards the conjecture. teach and how to teach it. We will give a survey of what is known – including several recent advances – and, finally, what remains to be done! AWM-MAA ETTA Z. FALCONER LECTURE
AMS-MAA JOINT INVITED ADDRESS “A Multiplicity All At Once”: Mathematics for Everyone, Everywhere The Arithmetic of the Spheres Friday, August 7, 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Thursday, August 6, 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Erica Walker, Columbia University Jeffrey Lagarias , University of What does it mean to learn Michigan mathematics? What does it mean Beginning with historical remarks on to say that some people are “math the harmony of the spheres, this talk people”? In this talk, I draw upon tours two topics at the interface of 20 years of research and teaching number theory and dynamical systems. to describe multiple contexts The first concerns the Farey tree, Ford for mathematics learning and circles and the Minkowski question- socialization across the lifespan. I mark function. The second concerns share findings from studies with elementary students, high Farey fractions, radix expansions and the Riemann zeta school youth, teachers, and mathematicians to describe how function. they engage in mathematical practice, develop mathematics identities, and craft meaningful spaces for rich mathematics learning. I discuss implications of this work for reframing teaching and learning, both within and outside of schools, to better foster people’s success, interest, and creativity in mathematics.
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MAA CHAN STANEK LECTURE FOR STUDENTS NAM DAVID HAROLD BLACKWELL LECTURE Seventy-Five Years of MAA Mathematics Mathematics, Mathematicians, Mathematics Competitions Education and Equity: Challenges and Opportunities Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Friday, August 7, 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM Joseph Gallian, University of Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Minnesota Duluth Terrence Blackman, The University of Denver In this talk we provide facts, statistics, oddities, curiosities, videos, and trivia African Americans have a long questions about the mathematics and honorable tradition of doing competitions that the MAA has Mathematics and Mathematics sponsored for 75 years. Education in the African American community. In this talk, from a perspective of excellence and equity, I will address the critical necessity of PI MU EPSILON J. SUTHERLAND FRAME LECTURE engagement in Mathematics Education, by all mathematicians and in particular, African American mathematicians. In so G-sharp, A-flat, and the Euclidean Algorithm doing, I will describe some of the challenges and opportunities Friday, August 7, 8:00 PM – 8:50 PM for undergraduates considering careers in the mathematical Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 sciences. Noam Elkies, Harvard University Why does Western music almost universally use the same repeating pattern of 7+5 notes seen in the piano’s white and black keys, and why does each of these notes (especially the black ones, like G-sharp / A-flat) get more than one name? Using a piano, the audience’s voices, and more traditional lecture materials, I’ll outline how music, physics, and mathematics converged to produce this structure, including an overlap between one thread of music history and the first few steps of the Euclidean algorithm applied to the logarithms of 2 and 3.
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MAA100 INVITED PAPER SESSION MAA INVITED PAPER SESSION Generations of Monthly Gems The Non-Traditional “Traditional NSA Mathematician” Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 3:50 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 3:45 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware B The session is designed to help celebrate the MAA’s Centennial. With thousands of papers to draw on, six speakers The National Security Agency’s (NSA) mathematicians will give 25-minute talks on papers chosen from throughout create breakthroughs in cryptography and communications the Monthly’s history. Speakers will highlight the significance of security. It is common to associate number theory and discrete these papers and remark on their impact on mathematics and mathematics with cryptography. However, problems tackled science in general. by NSA mathematicians actually draw upon a much broader Scott Chapman, Sam Houston State University variety of fields including statistics, geometry, analysis, topology, graph theory, neuroscience, big data analytics, Dan Velleman, Amherst College theoretical computer science, and computational linguistics. Bruce Palka, National Science Foundation As a result, the research community at NSA includes experts in Roger Horn, University of Utah a wide range of mathematics and math-related subjects. John Ewing, Math for America The purpose of this session is to highlight both usual and unusual problems applied to national security, with all talks Speakers being at the general non-expert level. NSA mathematicians 1894 – 1919 have produced fascinating and significant results over the Karen Parshall, University of Virginia years, however much of the work is not published. This session is a great opportunity for the MAA community to be exposed 1920 – 1939 to some of NSA’s leading mathematicians and learn about the John Stillwell, University of San Francisco important role mathematics plays in a variety of problems. Carla D. Martin, National Security Agency 1940 – 1959 Ron Graham, University of California at San Diego Speakers David Perry, National Security Agency 1960 – 1979 Ben Benoy, National Security Agency Bob Devaney, Boston University Steve Knox, National Security Agency 1980 – 1999 Christine Edwards, National Security Agency Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College
2000 – 2015 Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University
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MAA INVITED PAPER SESSION MAA INVITED PAPER SESSION Improving Access to Mathematical Modeling Algebraic Structures Motivated by Knot Theory Research Friday, August 7, 9:00 AM – 11:20 AM and 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 4:20 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware B The area of knot theory has been developing rapidly in recent Recently with documents such as the Common Core State years. Most recent advances rely on the connections between Standards, there has been an increasing push for mathematical algebra, homological algebra and knot theory. Examples modeling in every classroom. But the picture of mathematical include the Jones polynomial, topological quantum field modeling that applied mathematics researchers have is very theories, skein modules of links in 3-manifolds, Khovanov link different from the word problems provided in textbooks for and Heegard-Floer homologies, homology of distributive teachers. This session is dedicated to closing the gap between structures (i.e. quandles, racks, distributive lattices) and applied mathematics research, mathematics education Yang-Baxter operators, as well as categorifications of knot research, and what goes on in classrooms around the United polynomials and other appropriate combinatorial structures. States. With an eye to creating environment(s) that support These new developments relate knot theory to other branches students and teachers in mathematical modeling throughout of mathematics including number theory, Lie theory, statistical the United States, at all mathematical and economic levels: physics, etc, and employ tools far beyond the traditional ones How can we improve teacher’s and students understanding of from algebraic topology. These ideas mark the beginning modeling research, and improve access to the experience of of a new era in knot theory that includes relationships with mathematical modeling research to populations that do not four-dimensional problems and the creation of new forms of typically receive graduate training in the field? algebraic topology relevant to knot theory. Moreover, knot Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University theory has numerous results and open problems requiring only knowledge of linear algebra, and are therefore accessible to Carlos Castillo-Garsow, Eastern Washington University undergraduates. We propose to bring together students and Speakers faculty active in these areas to share them with the broader Sara Del Valle, Los Alamos National Laboratory mathematical community and encourage future collaboration and investigation. Sherry Towers, Arizona State University Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University Patrick W. Thompson, Arizona State University Speakers Kathleen R. Fowler, Clarkson University Lou Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago Carlos Castillo-Garsow, Eastern Washington University Heather Russell, Washington College Richard Tapia, Rice University Erica Flapan, Pomona College Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
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MAA INVITED PAPER SESSION MAA100 SPECIAL INVITED SESSION Concrete Computations in Algebra and The Geometry of Triangles Algebraic Geometry Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 2:50 PM Friday, August 7, 1:00 PM – 3:20 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware B Richard Guy and John Conway will share their latest ideas This session will bring together researchers in computational about the geometry of Euclidean triangles. or combinatorial algebra and algebraic geometry whose A Triangle Has Eight Vertices (But Only One Center) research is concrete and accessible. Richard Guy, University of Calgary Sarah Mayes-Tang, Quest University New Ideas about the Geometry of Triangles Karen Smith, University of Michigan John Conway, Princeton University Speakers Robert Walker, University of Michigan SPECIAL SESSION Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College “Notes of a Native Son”: The Legacy of Dr. Mike Janssen, Dordt College Abdulalim A. Shabazz (1927-2014) Timothy Clark, Loyola University Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 4:50 PM Will Traves, United States Naval Academy Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware B Dr. Abdulalim A. Shabazz was a distinguished mathematician AMS-MAA INVITED PAPER SESSION who is credited for mentoring over half of all African- Americans with a doctorate in Mathematics. “Notes of a The Arithmetic of the Spheres Native Son” is a title of a collection of essays by James Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 3:50 PM Baldwin. This title is fitting for a session honoring the life Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A of Dr. Shabazz for three reasons. First, Dr. Shabazz is native to Washington, DC as he spent many years of his This session deals with topics in number theory, geometry life there. Second, this session will feature various speakers and dynamics related to Farey fractions, circle packings, and whose careers were directly transformed by Dr. Shabazz’s dynamical systems where mode locking appears. mentorship. Third, this session will also include Dr. Shabazz’s William Abram, Hillsdale College peers who will discuss his active role in the mathematical Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University community. Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan Monica Jackson, American University Speakers Talitha M. Washington, Howard University Katherine Stange, University of Colorado Boulder Speakers Lionel Levine, Cornell University Monica Jackson, American University Dan Romik, University of California Davis Erica Walker, Teachers College, Columbia University Elena Fuchs, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University Steve Butler, Iowa State University Gwendolyn Irby, Lockheed Martin Kei Nakamura, University of California Davis Shree Taylor, Delta Decisions of DC Brett Sims, Borough of Manhattan Community College Gelonia Dent, Medgar Evers College Talitha M. Washington, Howard University
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TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy TCPS#3: Math Circle Problems in Honor of the of Mathematics MAA’s 100th Anniversary Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, mornings and afternoons Friday morning This session welcomes contributions from all areas related to A mathematics circle is an enrichment activity for K-12 history and philosophy of mathematics. This includes reports students or their teachers, which brings them into direct on research, survey talks, and issues related to the use of contact with mathematics professionals, fostering a passion history and philosophy of mathematics in the classroom. The and excitement for deep mathematics in the participants. It session will also include special sessions on mathematical is usually a weekly or monthly activity, but it can also be an communities and on the philosophy of mathematics. There intensive summer experience. Circles provide rich open-ended will also be a group of talks in honor of Karen Parshall (one of problems that enable students or their teachers to strengthen the MAA Centennial lecturers) and also in memory of Jackie their problem-solving skills and deepen their appreciation Stedall (a well known historian of mathematics who passed for and excitement about mathematics. In honor of the MAA’s away in the early fall). 100th anniversary, we especially encourage talks that address a problem or topic involving the number 100 that was Maria Zack, Point Loma Nazarene University Thomas Drucker, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater successful at your math circle. Robin Wilson, Open University and Oxford University Katherine Morrison, University of Northern Colorado June Barrow-Green, Open University Philip Yasskin, Texas A&M University Jean-Pierre Marquis, University of Montreal Paul Zeitz, University of San Francisco Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University Sponsored by SIGMAA MCST Sponsored by HOM SIGMAA, POM SIGMAA, CSHPM, and BSHM TCPS#4: Undergraduate Research Activities in Mathematical and Computational Biology TCPS#2: The Contributions of Women to Mathematics: 100 Years and Counting Friday afternoon Friday and Saturday afternoons This session is dedicated to aspects of undergraduate research in mathematical and computational biology. First and In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the MAA, the foremost, this session would like to highlight research results AWM sponsors this session to acknowledge and recognize of projects that either were conducted by undergraduates the contributions, achievements, and progress of women or were collaborations between undergraduates and their mathematicians over the past 100 years. This century has faculty mentors. Of particular interest are those collaborations seen great mathematical achievements by women, the most that involve students and faculty from both mathematics recent and most public being Maryan Mirzakhani winning the and biology. Secondly, as many institutions have started Fields Medal. To honor this and other advances in mathematics undergraduate research programs in this area, frequently with by women, this session welcomes talks about mathematics the help of initial external funding, the session is interested in done by women and historical or biographical presentations the process and logistics of starting a program and maintaining celebrating women in mathematics. a program even after the initial funding expires. Important Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University issues include faculty development and interdisciplinary Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, Lamar University collaboration, student preparation and selection, the structure Maura Mast, University of Massachusetts Boston of research programs, the acquisition of resources to support Sponsored by The Association for Women in the program, and the subsequent achievements of students who Mathematics (AWM) participate in undergraduate research in mathematical and computational biology. Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University Sponsored by BIO SIGMAA
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TCPS#5: Recreational Mathematics: New Problems TCPS#7: Financial Mathematics and New Solutions Wednesday afternoon Friday and Saturday afternoons Financial Mathematics encompasses all the mathematical and As with all mathematics, recreational mathematics continues statistical tools, theories and techniques involved in the applied to expand through the solution of new problems and the areas usually described as Quantitative Finance, Computational development of novel solutions to old problems. For the purposes Finance, and Financial Engineering. Research in these areas of of this session, the definition of recreational mathematics will be a financial market modeling include derivatives pricing, risk- broad one. The primary guideline used to determine the suitability and-portfolio management and the theory of interest. Such of a paper will be the understandability of the mathematics. works have resulted in Nobel Prizes in 1990 and 1997. This Papers submitted to this session should be accessible to session welcomes presentations on any aspect of Financial undergraduate students. Novel applications as well as new Mathematics, including the history of this topic, the teaching of approaches to old problems are welcome. Examples of use of the this topic, new applications or items of purely academic interest. material in the undergraduate classroom are encouraged. Richard Stephens, Columbus State University Paul R. Coe, Dominican University Alin Stancu, Columbus State University Sara Quinn, Dominican University Kristen Schemmerhorn, Concordia University Chicago TCPS#8: Mathematics in Video Games TCPS#6: Mathematics and Art Saturday afternoon Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning Video games are a part of popular culture and they show up everywhere and in different forms: computer or console, online Mathematics and art have a long historical relationship or offline, on phones or other mobile devices. There are many throughout the centuries. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks applications of mathematics in the gameplay and creation of incorporated several mathematical relationships into their lives games that are popular today. This session seeks presentations and art. In this session we encourage talks and presentations that share some of the mathematical applications that appear that connect mathematics and art. We would like to see a in recent games. Presenters are encouraged to show college- broad range of art: visual art, decorative art and performing level mathematics that might appear in a range of courses. This art. The emphasis will be on college level mathematics that session will be of interest to gamers and instructors looking for connects math and art in problems and projects that can enrich innovative examples to use in their classes. mathematics teaching. Puzzles, games and other activities that relate math and art are also encouraged. Heidi Hulsizer, Hampden-Sydney College
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TCPS#9: What Can a Mathematician Do with a 3D TCPS#10: The Scholarship of Teaching and Printer? Learning in Collegiate Mathematics Saturday afternoon Wednesday afternoon This session is dedicated to the intersection of 3D printing In the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), faculty and mathematics: the creation of objects through the bring disciplinary knowledge to bear on questions of application of college-level mathematics or research-level teaching and learning and systematically gather evidence to mathematics, or the incorporation of 3D printing into the support their conclusions. Scholarly work in this area includes teaching of mathematics. In terms of the creation of objects investigations of the effectiveness of pedagogical methods, on a 3D printer, of particular interest are those works that assignments, or technology, as well as probes of student answer the question, “What can a mathematician do with a understanding. The goals of this session are to: (1) feature 3D printer?” This may include fractal images, knots, smooth scholarly work focused on the teaching of postsecondary manifolds, polyhedra, and demonstrations of theoretic or mathematics, (2) provide a venue for teaching mathematicians historical constructs. For teaching, of particular interest is the to make public their scholarly investigations into teaching/ incorporation of 3D printing into college-level courses like learning and (3) highlight evidence-based arguments for the geometry, topology, or multivariable calculus. value of teaching innovations or in support of new insights into student learning. Appropriate for this session are Edward Aboufadel, Grand Valley State University Laura Taalman, James Madison University preliminary or final reports of post-secondary classroom- based investigations of teaching methods, student learning difficulties, curricular assessment, or insights into student (mis-) understandings. Abstract submissions should have a clearly stated question that was (or is) under investigation and should give some indication of the type of evidence that has been (or is being) gathered and will be presented. For example, papers might reference the following types of evidence: student work, participation or retention data, pre/post-tests, interviews, surveys, think-alouds, etc. Russell E. Goodman, Central College Jessie Hamm, Winthrop University Jackie Dewar, Loyola Marymount University Curt Bennett, Loyola Marymount University
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TCPS#11: Cultivating Critical Thinking through David Taylor, Roanoke College Active Learning in Mathematics Robert Allen, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Lorena Bociu, North Carolina State University Thursday morning and afternoon Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self- TCPS#12: Improving Undergraduate Math Writing monitored, and self-corrective thinking. It entails effective communication and problem solving abilities. “We think Wednesday afternoon critically when we have at least one problem to solve. One From the simplest modeling equations to the most complex proofs, is not doing good critical thinking, therefore, if one is not students often lack the writing abilities to properly communicate solving any problems.” (Richard Paul, Think Magazine, 1992). their solutions. In order to help students achieve coherent Mathematics is solving problems. The session will focus on arguments that are both logical and sequential, math-writing the role of active learning in mathematics, and how a teacher skills need to be developed. Students in introductory math classes can use it to cultivate critical thinking. We invite instructors must be able to find the solution to a problem by writing down to share their experiences and provide useful tips and tricks all the necessary steps and reasons for each step leading up to on implementing active learning strategies and overcoming the answer. Students in advanced math classes must be able to obstacles to active learning in general. Examples and ideas delineate hypothesis from conclusion in proving statements and can come from any type of course, from undergraduate non- be able to use the definitions, assumptions, and related results major service courses and early-major mathematics courses accurately in justifying their proofs. In this session, we invite to late-major and even graduate-level classes. Speakers are participants to share useful approaches to teaching students not encouraged to include assessment data on the effectiveness only how to reason critically, but also to communicate in writing of their active learning strategies or empirical feedback from in a way that fully demonstrates conceptual understanding. We students and/or faculty about their strategies. encourage instructors that actively practice mathematical writing
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Themed Contributed Paper Sessions across all levels of the curriculum to share best practices for TCPS#15: Democratizing Access to Authentic student writing objectives. We are interested in hearing about Mathematical Activity specific problems and/or projects, as well as the assessment Friday afternoon tools for these projects, which have been used to address the issue of writing mathematics. Essential to the learning of mathematics is that students engage in “authentic” mathematical activity, or what mathematicians Kerry M. Luse, Trinity Washington University would recognize as “doing math.” However, too often deficit Sita Ramamurti, Trinity Washington University explanations (i.e., students’ lack of background knowledge, lack of math ability, lack of motivation) have been used to TCPS#13: Successful STEM Programs for deny students access to authentic experiences. This session Elementary Education Majors is a vehicle to promote a more equitable orientation to the learning of mathematics for all students in a range of learning Thursday afternoon situations (not just the “top” kids in ideal situations). We invite As President Obama stated regarding STEM, “We need to talks illustrating viable, evidence-based strategies that promote make this a priority to train an army of new teachers in these access to authentic mathematical activity through inquiry that subject areas.” In response to this need, many institutions have honors the diversity of students’ mathematical knowledge. developed programs that provide STEM certification or other Topics may include 1) innovative, equity- and inquiry-oriented credentialing for pre-service elementary education majors. methods of teaching and learning in remedial, developmental, or This session solicits presentations regarding programs that introductory courses and courses for non-majors; 2) lessons that have been developed to provide this type of credentialing. As allow students to use mathematics to address important equity mathematics plays a significant role in these programs, the and social justice issues in their communities; and 3) programs mathematical aspects of these programs should be highlighted. that provide students with opportunities to engage in the kinds Presentations about programs under development are also of authentic mathematical activities and research projects that encouraged. embrace the knowledge and experiences they bring to school. Timothy W. Flood, Pittsburg State University Catherine Buell, Fitchburg State University Karla Childs, Pittsburg State University Steven Greenstein, Montclair State University Aaron Flood, Missouri University of Science and Technology Zahava Wilstein, Berry College
TCPS#14: Projects, Applications and
Demonstrations to Enhance a Numerical Analysis or Computational Mathematics Course
Saturday afternoon
Computational mathematics is an important subject that is either an independent course or a component across multiple courses.
This session seeks to gather ideas and further the scholarly discussion regarding the delivery of a course in: numerical analysis, numerical methods, modeling, and the use of Computer Algebra Systems to solve problems. All applicable ideas are welcome, but we would like to encourage presentations in areas like: • New techniques for presenting numerical methods to an undergraduate audience • New resources or tools that can be incorporated into a course • Applications that illustrate the power of computational mathematics • Contemporary research that is accessible to undergraduate students • Assessment tools that could be used in this type of course
Kyle Riley, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
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TCPS#16: Curriculum Development to Support First TCPS#18: Using Modeling for Teaching Differential Year General Education Mathematics Students Equations: Before, During, After Wednesday afternoon Saturday afternoon A common focus of university administration is student Often modeling is associated with differential equations retention and graduation. First year mathematics courses- courses as a motivator for learning and as a way of showing remedial and general education- have relatively high drop/ how mathematics is applied in other disciplines such as fail/withdraw rates, which place them under scrutiny by physics, biology, and economics. Modeling can be used (1) as a way of leading up to the mathematics being taught, (2) administration. In this session, we would like to hear what during the instruction on the mathematics and techniques, you have been doing to improve pass rates and student and/or (3) after the mathematics has been taught. These three persistence in first year courses with traditionally high DFW times—before, during, or after—for using modeling have the rates. We hope to focus on department efforts (rather than potential to support students and motivate their learning. We specific classroom approaches) to support students in these invite colleagues who use modeling, especially with real data, first year Mathematics courses. Presentations could include to share their experiences with special attention paid to the complete multi-section redesign, restructure of curriculum, timing of the modeling activities with respect to associated efforts to standardize. We would like to hear about successful, differential equations concepts and techniques. This session in progress, and unsuccessful efforts. Presentations with a is sponsored by SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling description of the initiative along with data supporting the Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations success or failure are encouraged. and presenters will be invited to submit their modeling scenarios for peer-reviewed publication at www.simiode.org. Donna Flint, South Dakota State University Charles Bingen, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Brian Winkel, United States Military Academy Karen Bliss, Quinnipiac University Jessica Libertini, Virginia Military Institute TCPS#17: Curriculum and Course Development to Nakeya Williams, United States Military Academy Support First Year STEM Students Friday afternoon TCPS#19: Innovative Approaches in the Calculus Poor retention in the STEM fields is often tied to students’ initial Sequence difficulties and/or lack of motivation in mathematics courses Friday and Saturday afternoons early in their academic career. In this session, we would like There has been a significant amount of investigation into to hear about efforts to help struggling students in first year the flaws of traditional calculus courses and possible mathematics courses for STEM students or to help motivate improvements, from the Calculus Reform movement beginning students in these courses. We are particularly interested in in the late 1980s to the recent MAA study finding significant departmental efforts, rather than specific classroom teaching attrition during the calculus sequence. This session shines activities. We would like to hear about successful, in progress, a spotlight on recent efforts from instructors to make a and unsuccessful efforts. Presentations with a description of productive change. In this session, we ask instructors to share the initiative along with data supporting the success or failure creative ideas for instruction from the calculus sequence. are encouraged. We are interested in general approaches and/or specific Donna Flint, South Dakota State University activities that a) help students engage in the mathematics of Dan Kemp, South Dakota State University calculus in innovative ways and/or b) promote group work Charles Bingen, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and conversation about the mathematical content. Submitted abstracts should include a description of the approach/ activity, how it meets these objectives, and observed strengths and weaknesses compared with the traditional approach. We encourage presentations in which the audience can experience the innovative teaching and learning.
Aaron Wangberg, Winona State University
Brian Fisher, Lubbock Christian University
Jason Samuels, City University of New York
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TCPS#20: Evidence Based Approaches to the TCPS#21: Show Me Geometry: Geometry Mathematical Preparation of Secondary Teachers Software and Tablet Demonstrations Wednesday afternoon Wednesday afternoon The mathematical preparation of secondary teachers This session invites presenters to share demonstrations, using has received substantial attention by mathematicians and geometry software or tablet applications, which help students mathematics teacher educators for many years, but how do to understand aspects of undergraduate geometry. These university instructors and program coordinators know their demonstrations should be suitable for Euclidean and non- efforts are making a difference? While the program evaluation Euclidean geometry courses as well as for courses frequently process, which can include accreditation reports (e.g., CAEP) referred to as “modern” or “higher” geometry but not those and teacher candidate surveys, encourages faculty to seriously related to differential geometry or (low-level) graduate courses. consider this question, it is tempting to focus program evaluation Presenters must perform the full demonstration (or a key portion on outcomes such as: graduation rates, teacher placement rates, of it) and discuss the aspects of the demonstration that help and scores on teacher licensure exams or performance-based students to understand an associated theorem. Information teacher assessments (e.g., edTPA). In this session, we invite regarding prerequisite topics and related areas with which mathematics content and methods instructors and program students have difficulty should be discussed as should problems, coordinators to share ways they gather and analyze data if any, experienced in using the software or tablet application. for the purpose of making decisions about their programs. Presenters are invited to discuss how they have modified the Presentations should focus on one or two program goals directly demonstration over time as well as to share information about linked to the mathematical preparation of secondary teachers. software or tablet explorations performed with students that have Examples include: How do you know that teachers can promote helped students understand the associated theorem. Abstracts mathematical thinking and learning in ways consistent with should include the name of the software or application, the the Common Core Standards for Mathematics (NGA Center platform (computer or tablet), and the associated theorem as & CCSSO, 2010)? How is your program addressing the well as a brief description of the demonstration. Presenters must recommendations in the Mathematical Education of Teachers provide their own laptop or tablet. II document (CBMS, 2012)? How does your program work Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State University with mentor teachers to develop candidates’ use of formative assessment? Laurie O. Cavey, Boise State University Scott A. Courtney, Kent State University
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General Contributed Paper Sessions Organized by: Aliza Steurer, Dominican University Holly Zullo, Westminster College
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings and afternoons The general sessions accept abstracts of papers in all areas of mathematics, pedagogy, and the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Talks in the general sessions are organized in the following categories:
Algebra and Linear Algebra Mentoring and Outreach
Analysis and Other Number Theory and Logic or Foundations
Applied Mathematics Probability or Statistics
Geometry Teaching or Learning Advanced Mathematics
Graph Theory Teaching or Learning Calculus
History or Philosophy of Mathematics Teaching or Learning Developmental Mathematics and Assessment Interdisciplinary Topics in Mathematics and Modeling or Applications Teaching or Learning Introductory Mathematics
Mathematics and Technology Other than the above
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Panel Sessions
Panel 1. A Common Vision for the Undergraduate Panel 3. Beyond the Post-Doc: Fellowship Mathematics Program in 2025 Opportunities for Mathematics Faculty Friday, August 7, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM Friday, August 7, 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is partnering The availability of high-quality fellowship programs provides with other professional associations in the mathematical exciting opportunities for mathematics professionals at various sciences – AMATYC, AMS, ASA, and SIAM – to consider stages of their careers. Panelists in this session will describe how we might modernize our programs to better prepare fellowships they recently participated in, including Fulbright and students for the demands of the 21st century workplace. AAAS Science & Technology Policy fellowships. They will offer We aim to catalyze widespread adoption of curricula and details and insights from the application process forward. After pedagogies that are (1) geared toward developing a broad opening remarks, the session will become an open dialogue base of intellectual skills and competencies to better prepare during which speakers enter into active dialogues with session students for the workforce and (2) simultaneously endorsed by attendees to provide additional details and information. a broad cross-section of the mathematical sciences community. Organizer: Funded by the NSF, “A Common Vision for the Undergraduate Linda McGuire, Muhlenberg College Mathematics Program in 2025” will take stock of the curricular guides endorsed by the various associations, identify and Panelists: articulate common themes, and lay a foundation for future Beth Burroughs, Montana State University Karen Saxe work. Panelists will update the community on the project. , Macalester College Katherine Socha, The Park School of Baltimore Organizers: Karen Saxe, Macalester College Panel 4. A Discussion of the MAA/NCTM Joint Linda Braddy, MAA Position Statement on Calculus Panelists: Karen Saxe, Macalester College Wednesday, August 5, 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM David Kung, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A In 2012, members of the MAA and NCTM released a joint Panel 2. Applying for and Obtaining Grants position statement on calculus. The goal of the statement is to provide a clear vision of how calculus instruction should Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM occur given that is the course most students planning to enter Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 mathematically intensive careers take as they exit secondary Grants have always played a vital role in supporting faculty school and/or again as they enter college. The increase in in a wide variety of activities. Now with decreased funding students taking calculus in secondary schools across the US opportunities at many universities, there seems to be even has had several unwanted effects including students with an more interest in procuring grants. In this session, panelists will inadequate foundation in algebra, geometry and trigonometry provide suggestions on how to find and successfully apply and enrolling in calculus multiple times (secondary school and for appropriate funding for projects involving undergraduate college), basically repeating the course. Although calculus can research, faculty scholarship, education reform, and the vast play an important role in secondary school, the ultimate goal of array of activities which faculty need financial resources to the K–12 mathematics curriculum should not be to get students implement. Panelists have backgrounds in applying for a variety into and through a course in calculus by twelfth grade but to of federal grants as well as local grants. In addition, the panel have established the mathematical foundation that will enable has representation from funding agencies and can provide students to pursue whatever course of study interests them when insight on what they look for when reviewing applications. they get to college. The college curriculum should offer students Organizer: an experience that is new and engaging, broadening their Julie Barnes, Western Carolina University understanding of the world of mathematics while strengthening their mastery of tools that they will need if they choose to pursue Panelists: a mathematically intensive discipline. Representatives from the Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University MAA and NCTM will discuss the statement, the background for Jessica Libertini, Virginia Military Institute developing the statement and recommendations for the design of Jennifer Pearl, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Charles Toll, NSA Mathematical Sciences Program calculus programs at the post-secondary level recognizing the Lee Zia, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education different backgrounds and goals of potential students. Sponsor: Organizer: Committee on Professional Development Jessica Deshler, West Virginia University Panelists: David Bressoud, Macalester College Michael Boardman, Pacific University 28 Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 #MAAthFest MAA MATHFEST 2015
Panel Sessions
Gail Burrill, Michigan State University Panel 7. Implementing the 2015 CUPM Curriculum Dan Teague, NC School of Science and Mathematics Guide Sponsor: Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM Committee on Professional Development Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Panel 5. Big Data in the Undergraduate CUPM will present practical advice on how to succeed in Mathematics Curriculum curriculum assessment, renewal, and reform. Panelists will discuss necessary considerations and steps in the process of (re)designing Saturday, August 8, 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM a mathematical sciences major or major track The resulting Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A curriculum should implement the recommendations of the 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide to Majors in the Mathematical Sciences. Big Data is a popular buzzword, but it is also a reality in many new jobs. How can we prepare students in data science, Organizer: within existing courses and in new ones? How can faculty Martha Siegel, Towson University retrain to handle these courses? How does the material fit Panelists: into the mathematics curriculum, rather than strictly computer Beth Burroughs, Montana State University science, statistics or other fields? What efforts are underway Joel Cunningham, Sewanee, The University of the South to answer these questions? On this panel, mathematics faculty Stephen deBacker, University of Michigan with experience creating and delivering instruction in data Jill Dietz, St. Olaf College science will share their experiences. Panel 8. What Mathematics Do Engineering Organizers: Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College, SIAM VP for Education Students Need to Know in the First Two Years? Kathleen Fowler, Clarkson University (And What If It Doesn’t Start with Calculus?) Panelists: Thursday, August 6, 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Chad Higdon-Topaz, Macalester College Sherry Towers, Arizona State University Mathematics is an essential component of the education of Peter Turner, Clarkson University future engineers, but what mathematics do engineers need to know, when should they learn it, how will they learn it best, and Sponsor: what role does mathematics play in attracting and retaining SIAM Education Committee students in engineering? A recent longitudinal (10-year) study on the success of Wright State University’s innovative Panel 6. The Updated AP Calculus AB/BC courses: engineering curriculum, which (gasp!) does not start with the What Does This Mean For You? standard calculus sequence, offers an innovative example of Wednesday, August 5, 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM how we might re-imagine a modern mathematics/engineering Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A curriculum partnership. Panelists will discuss the Wright State model and other trends in engineering education that might In November 2014, College Board announced that AP affect mathematics curricula and will highlight what we Calculus was the latest subject to go through the redesign learned about the mathematical needs of engineering students process, and the updated courses will launch in the 2016- from the MAA’s Curriculum Foundations Project. Given the 2017 academic year. This session will provide details on how engineering community’s influence on the calculus curriculum, the AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC courses have changed we all have a vested interest in this conversation – whether both in terms of course content and student expectations. The or not we teach future engineers. Department chairs and panel will include representatives from College Board and academic leaders are especially encouraged to attend. ETS, as well as some of the authors of the new AP Calculus Curriculum Framework. There will be time in the session for the Organizers: panelists to answer questions from the audience. Wade Ellis, West Valley Community College Suzanne Dorée, Augsburg College Organizer: Benjamin Hedrick, College Board Panelists: Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University Panelists: Susan Ganter, East Carolina University Stephen Kokoska, Bloomsburg University Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University Stephen Davis, Davidson College Gail Burrill, Michigan State University Sponsors: James Sellers, Penn State University Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years Craig Wright, Educational Testing Service (CRAFTY) Committee Benjamin Hedrick, College Board Mathematics Across the Disciplines (MAD) Committee
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Panel 9. Quantitative Literacy and Democracy Panel 11. Congratulations on Getting Tenure! Now What? Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Wednesday, August 5, 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM For decades, mathematics educators such as Lynn Steen (ed., Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 6 Mathematics and Democracy) and Robert Moses (The Algebra This session is designed for faculty who have recently received Project) have argued that quantitative literacy is necessary for tenure and are thinking about what lies ahead. For those a citizen’s full participation in contemporary society. As we planning a sabbatical, transitioning to a new research area, meet in our nation’s capital, we invite panelists to reflect on how taking on a major service obligation, or making a change in quantitative literacy supports and contributes to democracy. their academic priorities, our panelists will provide guidance Questions may include: How does quantitative literacy enable and expertise for developing a new set of goals. participation in high quality debate over public issues? How The discussion panel topics will be: can quantitative literacy support social advocacy? How do quantitative arguments affect legal proceedings? What • Writing your first textbook or expository article should a citizen understand about the mathematics of voting, • Adapting a new area of research apportionment, gerrymandering, and other political issues? • Taking on a new leadership role Organizers: Gary Franchy, Southwestern Michigan College Organizers: Gizem Karaali, Pomona College Allison Henrich, Seattle University Andrew J Miller, Belmont University Patrick X. Rault, SUNY Geneseo Aaron Montgomery, Central Washington University Panelists: Victor Piercey, Ferris State University Colin Adams, Williams College Panelists: Shannon Overbay, Gonzaga University Lily Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount University Inga Johnson, Willamette University Maura Mast, Fordham University Sponsor: Rob Root, Lafayette College Project NExT (Red 08 Dots) Sponsor: SIGMAA QL Panel 12. Finding Your New Niche: Staying Fresh
Panel 10. Nonacademic Career Paths for Thursday, August 6, 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM Mathematicians Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 6 This panel of early Project NExT participants will explore the Friday, August 7, 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM wide range of roles we have taken on in our careers, offering Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 insight in how to stay engaged and enthusiastic in our work. You’re about to earn a degree in mathematics, now what? You may Topics will include mentoring new faculty, authoring textbooks, be surprised to know that teaching isn’t your only option; in the serving as an academic administrator, working outside “real world” mathematical knowledge is a valued commodity and academia, and leadership in mathematics organizations. there are many interesting job opportunities for mathematicians in Organizers: nonacademic settings. So, whether you are a mathematics student Gertrud L. Kraut, Southern Virginia University looking for a job once you graduate or an advisor looking for Emily Puckette, University of the South advice to give to future job-seeking students, this session will help you gain new perspectives on nonacademic career experiences Panelists: Doug Ensley and what employers value in their employees. Panelists will share , Shippensburg University Jenny McNulty, University of Montana their paths to their current positions and offer advice to others Tim Ray, NSA looking for employment in similar venues. Elsa Schaefer, Marymount University Organizers: Sponsor: Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg University Project NExT (Red dots) Dora Ahmadi, Morehead State University Sponsor: MAA Committee on Undergraduate Student Activities and Chapters
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Poster Sessions
PosterFest 2015: A Poster Session of Scholarship Classroom Activities and Projects within the by Early Career Mathematicians and Graduate Context of Environmental Sustainability Students Thursday, August 6, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Friday, August 7, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Marriot Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A Marriott Wardman Park , Exhibit Hall A Humanity continually faces the task of how to balance human This poster session will allow early career mathematicians, needs against the world’s resources, while operating within including untenured faculty and graduate students, to present the constraints imposed by the laws of nature. Mathematics and discuss their scholarly activities with other attendees in an helps us better understand these complex issues that span informal atmosphere. Examples of scholarly activities suitable disciplines: from measuring energy and other resources, to for this poster session include expository work, preliminary understanding variability in air and water quality, to modeling reports, scholarship of teaching and learning, and research climate change. Moreover, these and other real world driven reports. Presenters should have their materials prepared in sustainability topics have the potential for motivating students advance and will be provided with a self-standing, trifold to pursue STEM courses and fields of study more deeply. This tabletop poster approximately 48 in wide by 36 in high. poster session will highlight sustainability-focused projects Organizers: and activities that have been developed for use in mathematics Doug Ensley, Shippensburg University courses; a number of which have been developed recently at Jenny McNulty, University of Montana NSF and MAA PREP supported Undergraduate Sustainability Experiences in Mathematics (USE Math) workshops. The Sponsors: format of the session will provide presenters and attendees MAA Committee on Early Career Mathematicians the opportunity to discuss effective strategies for introducing Project NExT sustainability themes in the classroom. Information about Young Mathematicians Network presenters and their projects will appear on the SIGMAA EM website. Highlights from AWM Student Chapters Organizers: Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg University Wednesday, August 5, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Corrine Taylor, Wellesley College Marriott Wardman Park, Marriott Foyer (outside Salon 1, upper level) Sponsor: This poster session will highlight achievements by AWM SIGMAA EM Student Chapters in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the formation of the first chapters. This program has expanded to fifty chapters and has impacted thousands of undergraduate and graduate women across the country. AWM Student Chapters sponsor and host a range of activities including invited speakers, Pi Day Celebrations, field trips, outreach programs to local schools, Sonia Kovalesky Days, and career panels. In this poster session, AWM Student Chapters are invited to share their stories, ideas, and successes with other AWM Student Chapters and with the mathematical community. Organizers: Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, Lamar University Maura Mast, University of Massachusetts, Boston Sponsor: Association for Women in Mathematics
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Minicourses
All MAA MathFest Minicourses will take place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, (2500 Calvert St, NW, one block up from the Marriott Wardman Park). MAA Minicourses are partially supported by the William Lucas Fund.
1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics The Game Plan: Part A: Great Expectations and Winning Wagers Optimal Blackjack Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM and Simple Card Counting Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room Scams and Hustles Zero Sum Games and Practical Poker Part B: Probabilities Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM All material in the course will be accessible to undergraduates. Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room The instructor takes no responsibility for any get-rich-quick A guided tour of some little known attractions of elementary schemes that students learn from this class. mathematics, all closely related to and easily accessible Arthur Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College from freshman-sophomore college mathematics. In the midst of these seemingly mundane surroundings lurk wonders to surprise, delight, and intrigue the mathematical eye. Some may make great enrichment topics for the participants’ students, 3. Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of but the course’s primary motivations are the edification and Spherical Trigonometry enjoyment of the participants themselves. Part A: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics answers questions like Wednesday, August 5, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM these: What simple method reveals the sum of the reciprocals Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room of a polynomial’s roots? What does the quadratic formula Part B: have to do with the functions max(x,y) and min(x,y)? What Friday, August 7, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM is the point of reversing a polynomial and its derivative, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room and then dividing one into the other? What are palindromic Trigonometry came into being at the birth of science itself, polynomials, and how can they be solved up to degree 9? merging Greek geometric models of the motions of celestial Participants are encouraged to bring a calculator (or mobile bodies with the desire to predict where the planets will go. device/laptop with basic computing functionality). With the sky as the arena, spherical trigonometry was the “big Dan Kalman, American University brother” to the ordinary plane trigonometry our children learn Bruce Torrence, Randolph-Macon College in school. We shall explore the surprisingly elegant theory that emerges, as well as its appropriation into mathematical geography motivated by the needs of Muslim religious 2. The Mathematics of Games and Gambling ritual. The beautiful modern theory of spherical trigonometry (including the pentagramma mirificum), developed by John Part A: Napier along with his logarithms, leads eventually to an Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM astonishing alternate path to the subject using stereographic Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room projection discovered only in the early 20th century. We Part B: conclude with a consideration of some of the ingenious Friday, August 7, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM techniques developed by navigators in the 19th century to find Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room their locations, using as data only a couple of observations of stellar altitudes. In this course, you will learn about the mathematics that underlies many of the great games that people enjoy today. Glen Van Brummelen, Quest University Learn the optimal basic strategy for playing blackjack, Joel Silverberg, Roger Williams University along with some simple card counting techniques. Learn the mathematics needed to play great poker and other games. Since you’re a mathematician, most people assume that you’re already good at these things. This course will teach you those skills and you’ll learn some fun mathematics along the way.
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4. Recruiting Students to Take More Mathematics 6. Creating Flipped Learning Experiences in the Courses and to be Mathematics Majors College Mathematics Classroom
Part A: Part A: Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room Part B: Part B: Friday, August 7, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room We will discuss some principles and specific activities In the “flipped learning” approach to teaching, sometimes we have used to increase the number of students taking called the flipped classroom, direct instruction is moved mathematics courses and becoming math majors. Principles outside the class meeting space, and the resulting freedup time include creating a culture of “Math is cool!”, exposing students in class is used for group explorations of the most challenging to careers and opportunities available to those who study ideas. In this minicourse, participants will work together to mathematics, and being proactive in your efforts. Specific learn about the core ideas of the flipped classroom and create activities include a “Careers in Mathematics” seminar, a materials for flipped learning in college mathematics. We will freshman/sophomore class titled “Intro to being a math major,” also discuss related issues such as formative and summative the creation of a student advisory council, a big screen HDTV assessment, getting student buyin, technical questions display with a PowerPoint presentation about mathematics, a about content creation, and making the flipped classroom a set of math t-shirts, and the “We Use Math” website. sustainable professional practice. Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University Robert Talbert, Grand Valley State University
5. Using Videos of Students Developing Proofs to 7. Teaching Mathematics with Bead Crochet Guide Teaching and Learning Part A: Part A: Wednesday, August 5, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Thursday, August 6, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room Part B: Part B: Friday, August 7, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Saturday, August 8, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room We are all on the lookout for ways to entice people into This minicourse will be of interest to anyone engaged in the mathematical discovery, especially those who might otherwise teaching of proof- writing. Participants will develop a deeper be intimidated by math. Bead crochet offers an entrée into understanding of students’ struggles as they view and discuss many fields of mathematics, including geometry, topology, and short videos of students constructing proofs for problems abstract algebra. In this course, participants will learn ways used in introduction-to-proof courses. The emphasis of the to motivate deep ideas in math for their students through bead minicourse will be on identifying and implementing teaching crochet models and the design and practice of bead crochet. In strategies that help students overcome their difficulties the first session, everyone will learn the basics of bead crochet and help them develop more effective proof-writing skills. needed to make their own mathematical models. In the second Participants will be provided ongoing access to a library of session, we will discuss how to use bead crochet models and edited student videos, developed by the organizers, which can puzzles in the classroom. be used as a classroom tool. Susan Goldstine, St. Mary’s College of Maryland James Sandefur, Georgetown University Ellie Baker, Freelance Connie Campbell, Millsaps College Kay Somers, Moravian College
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8. Getting Started in the Scholarship of Teaching WILLIAM F. LUCAS and Learning William F. Lucas (1933-2010), a native of Detroit, completed Part A: a PhD at the University of Michigan in 1963. His long Thursday, August 6, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM career was spent primarily at Cornell University (1970- Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room 84) and the Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Part B: Graduate University, 1984 until retirement), with a variety Saturday, August 8, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM of visiting and short-term positions, including two years at Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room Princeton University (1963-65) working with the Office of This course will introduce participants to the scholarship of Naval Research and Mathematica, Inc., before spending a teaching and learning (SoTL) in mathematics and help them year as a Fulbright Professor at the Middle East Technical begin projects of their own. We describe a taxonomy of SoTL University in Ankara, Turkey. Prof. Lucas also held consulting questions, provide examples of SoTL projects in mathematics, or visiting positions at the Rand Corporation, the University and discuss methods for investigation. Participants will learn of Wisconsin, Washington State University, and the Institute about collecting and analyzing different types of evidence, for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of dealing with human subjects requirements, and selecting Minnesota. Prof. Lucas wrote and spoke widely on topics venues for presenting or publishing their work. With the in discrete mathematics, game theory, and operations presenters’ guidance, participants interactively select and research, including his own research as well as expository transform a teaching problem of their own into a question for and educational materials that reflected his wish to develop scholarly investigation and identify several types of evidence interest and capacity in these fields. to gather. Prof. Lucas served in a variety of editorial capacities on more Jackie Dewar, Loyola Marymount University than 15 journals, including a three-year term as Associate Curtis Bennett, Loyola Marymount University Editor of the American Mathematical Monthly (1974-77). He was instrumental in the early years of the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP), where he served as Vice President and Clerk of the Board of Trustees (1981-1992). His long list of professional activities, to many organizations, demonstrated his commitment to advancing our profession. As a long-time member of MAA, Prof. Lucas served on a variety of committees, including the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, which he chaired for two years (1976-78). He also served on the MAA Committee on Continuing Education from 1978-80, and over many years organized and led sessions at a variety of national and regional professional meetings, including minicourses at MAA meetings. To honor his long-standing interest in such programs, in 2005 friends, family, and colleagues joined together to establish the William F. Lucas Fund to provide ongoing support of MAA professional development programs. This fund now provides support for minicourses at MAA MathFest, and in particular allows MAA to offer reduced registration fees for students and high school teachers.
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Workshops
What’s the Story? A Graduate Student Workshop projects into their classroom. Prior to MathFest, classroom- on Formulating a Research Presentation for a ready materials will be made available on the SIGMAA-EM General Audience Web site, and the Mathematics/QR Disciplinary page on Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM the Sustainability Improves Student Learning (SISL) website Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C (http://serc.carleton.edu/sisl/sustain_in_math.html). Presenting our research to undergraduate students can be Organizers: both fun and rewarding. It can also be difficult, however, since Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg University Corrine Taylor, Wellesley College the gory details of our results often require a great deal of specific jargon and background. Nonetheless, the big ideas Sponsor: can almost always be presented at a variety of levels, and SIGMAA EM this workshop is designed to interactively help participants develop the skills needed to formulate a presentation on their MAA 100 Beauty of Three Dimensional Polyhedra research that is appropriate for an audience of undergraduate Workshop (in Celebration of the MAA’s students. Since many colleges and universities require giving Centennial) such a talk as part of a job interview, almost any graduate student will have the opportunity to do so, and the ability Friday, August 7, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM to communicate complex mathematical ideas to students is Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C a valued trait in a candidate. This workshop will consist of I have long been fascinated by the Platonic and Archimedean hands-on activities and audience interaction aimed toward solids and their mathematical beauty. In this workshop I will developing and improving the necessary skills for creating an demonstrate, and we will work with, a variety of materials engaging and accessible presentation for undergraduates. I’ve come across over the years for building polyhedra. For Participants should be prepared to discuss in groups a example, we’ll build with coffee stirrers (really cheap, less potential presentation on their research or other related topic. than 10¢ for the icosahedron), origami (about 25¢ for the Organizers: Buckyball), and retail manipulatives (a few dollars for the Rachel Schwell, Central Connecticut State University truncated tetrahedron). We will also look at some online tools May Mei, Denison University for exploring (and enjoying) the Platonic and Archimedean Sponsors: solids and their mathematical relationships and properties. Committee on Graduate Students and Young These dynamic tools are useful is seeing how, for example, the Mathematicians Network snub icosidodecahedron is formed. (Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop or device to the workshop.) Included will be USE Math: Undergraduate Sustainability how the icosahedron (this is the MAA!) can be built using three Experiences in the Mathematics Classroom golden rectangles. Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM Organizer: James R. Olsen, Western Illinois University Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C Undergraduate Sustainability Experiences in Mathematics (USE Math) projects are sustainability-focused, technology- enabled, single class-period projects, each offering students authentic experiences within the context of sustainability in applying various topics encountered in mathematics courses. For the past two years, with NSF and MAA PREP support, numerous USE Math projects have been developed and are now being used in classrooms at institutions across the country. This hands-on workshop will give participants the opportunity to work through a complete USE Math activity that has been successfully integrated into a general education mathematics course. Upon completion of the activity, workshop participants will discuss strategies for incorporating additional USE Math
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Other Mathematical Sessions
PROJECT NExT LECTURE improving the STEM skills of all graduates. Panelists will also Reducing Stereotype Threat in the Mathematics discuss concrete ways to get involved in policy matters at the Classroom local, state, and national levels. Linda Braddy Wednesday, August 5, 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM , MAA Karen Saxe, Macalester College Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Panelists: Research has shown that stereotype threat can negatively James Gates, University of Maryland affect student performance in the classroom. What exactly David Manderscheid, Ohio State University is it? What causes it? How can we mitigate its effects in the Rush Holt, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for classroom? In this presentation, we will examine research on the Advancement of Science, and Executive Publisher, Science stereotype threat as well as interventions to reduce its effects Family of Journals on our students. This presentation is intended for all audiences. Sponsor: Catherine Good, Baruch College, City University of Committee on Science Policy New York MAA Prize Session MAA Section Officers Meeting Thursday, August 6, 11:35 AM – 12:20 PM Wednesday, August 5, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A/B/C The session is organized by Barbara Faires, Westminster This session is moderated by Elizabeth Mayfield, Hood College, MAA Secretary, and is moderated by Francis Su, College, Chair of the MAA Committee on Sections. It is open Harvey Mudd College, MAA President. to all section officers and their guests. Our discussion will focus on outreach efforts in the Sections – to high school MAA 100 The Man Who Knew Infinity: Sneak Peek students and teachers, to community college faculty, and and Expert Panel others. Thursday, August 6, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Special Panel Session on Science Policy The Man Who Knew Infinity film will be released in late Wednesday, August 5, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM 2015. The film, which stars Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel, is Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 based on the New York Times Best Selling biography of Science and policy interact in many ways. Mathematical Srinivasa Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel. An expert panel scientists – including mathematicians, applied mathematicians, will discuss Ramanujan, his life, and the film. The panel will statisticians, computer scientists, and mathematical sciences include: Matthew Brown (Director of the film), Manjul Bhargava educators – can contribute to initiatives to advance national (Mathematician), Robert Kanigel (biographer), Ken Ono priorities that are in the best interests of all citizens. A (Mathematician). A sneak peek of the film will be screened. key aspect of this interaction centers on education in the Ken Ono, Emory University mathematical sciences, currently in the national spotlight due to the role it plays in economic mobility as well as its prominence in recent reports such as “Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics” (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2012) and “The Mathematical Sciences in 2025” (National Research Council, 2013). This panel will focus on the role that mathematicians and mathematics educators can play in addressing national priorities such as increasing college completion rates and
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Alder Award Session MAA 100 Presidential Reminiscences Friday, August 7, 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM Thursday, August 6, 3:00 PM – 4:45 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Presentations by the Alder Award recipients. The session will Past presidents of the MAA will share memories of their time in be moderated by Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College, MAA office and offer their thoughts on the future of the Association. President. Francis Su, current president of the MAA, will introduce the session. Reality Shifting: Building Mathematical Victor Katz, University of the District of Columbia Confidence Jim Tattersall, Providence College Speakers: 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM Henry O. Pollack, Teachers College, Columbia University; Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College MAA President 1975-1976 Lida K. Barrett, West Point (retired); MAA President 1989- 1990 A Taste of Research Kenneth Ross, University of Oregon (professor emeritus); MAA President 1995-1996 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University; MAA President 1999-2000 Patrick X. Rault, SUNY Geneseo Friday, August 7, 3:45 PM – 6:00 PM Be Inspirable! Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Past presidents of the MAA will share memories of their time in office and offer their thoughts on the future of the Association. Allison K. Henrich, Seattle University Francis Su, current president of the MAA, will introduce the session. Victor Katz, University of the District of Columbia Estimathon! Jim Tattersall, Providence College Friday, August 7, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Speakers: Ann E. Watkins Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C , California State University Northridge; MAA President 2001-2002 They’re called Fermi problems... Ronald L. Graham, University of California, San Diego; MAA President 2003-2004 How many stop signs are in New York City? Carl C. Cowen, Indiana University - Purdue; MAA President How heavy is the Empire State Building? 2005-2006 Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth; MAA How many primes have distinct digits? President 2007-2008 David M. Bressoud, Macalester College; MAA President If you’re looking for a mindbending mixture of math and trivia, 2009-2010 look no further! Jane Street Capital presents The Estimathon Paul M. Zorn, St. Olaf College; MAA President 2011-2012 contest: attempt 13 Fermi problems in 30 minutes, ranging Robert L. Devaney, Boston University; MAA President from totally trivial to positively Putnamesque. Work in teams 2013-2014 to come up with the best set of confidence intervals. The top teams will receive prizes! Andy Niedermaier, Jane Street Capital
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Special Presentation for High School Students, James Freeman, Cornell College Parents, and Teachers Rachel Schwell, Central Connecticut State University Aliza Steurer, Dominican University Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2 Sponsor: MAA Committee on Graduate Students A Dozen Proofs that 1=2: An Accessible and Quirky Overview of Mathematics for K-12 Teachers and Their Students Math Circle Demonstration James Tanton, The Saint Mark’s Mathematics Institute and Saturday, August 8, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM MAA Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1647), a patron and friend A math circle is an enrichment experience that brings of Galileo Galilei, believed he had witnessed the creation of mathematics professionals in direct contact with pre-college something out of nothing when he established mathematically students and/or their teachers. Circles foster passion and that zero equals one. He thereby thought he had proven the excitement for deep mathematics. This demonstration session existence of God! James Tanton doesn’t claim to be so bold, but offers the opportunity for conference attendees to observe he is willing to prove instead that one equals two. And, moreover, and then discuss a math circle experience designed for local just to convince you that he is right, he will do so a dozen students. While students are engaged in a mathematical times over, drawing upon a wide spectrum of mathematical investigation, mathematicians will have a discussion focused techniques: school algebra and arithmetic, probability and on appreciating and better understanding the organic and mechanics, pure thought and physical action! Will you be able to creative process of learning that circles offer, and on the find fault with any of his “proofs?” This will be a math talk of the logistics and dynamics of running an effective circle. like you’ve never seen before. All are welcome! Katherine Morrison, University of Northern Colorado Sponsor: Japheth Wood, New York Math Circle MAA Council on Outreach Sponsor: SIGMAA MCST
Great Talks for a General Audience: Coached Presentations by Graduate Students Math Wrangle Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Saturday, August 8, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Math Wrangle will pit teams of students against each other, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C the clock, and a slate of great math problems. The format of a Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Math Wrangle is designed to engage students in mathematical Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Balcony A problem solving, promote effective teamwork, provide a venue for oral presentations, and develop critical listening skills. Presenters in this session must be graduate students. While A Math Wrangle incorporates elements of team sports and many graduate students will be asked to give a lecture to a debate, with a dose of strategy tossed in for good measure. general audience, which includes undergraduates and non- The intention of the Math Wrangle demonstration at MathFest mathematicians as part of a job interview, most students do is to show how teachers, schools, circles, and clubs can get not have experience talking to a non-research audience. This students started in this exciting combination of mathematical session gives graduate students the opportunity to give a problem solving with careful argumentation via public 20-minute talk aimed at an undergraduate audience, which has speaking, strategy and rebuttal. been exposed to calculus and some linear algebra. Both the talks and abstracts should be designed to excite a wide range Mark Saul, MAA American Mathematics Competitions Ed Keppelmann, University of Nevada of undergraduates about mathematics. All participants in this session will receive private feedback on their presentations Sponsor: from an established faculty member and an undergraduate SIGMAA MCST student. Time permitting, a discussion of effective techniques for delivering great general-audience talks will occur at the end of the session.
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Graduate Student Activities
WORKSHOP Graduate Student Q&A PANEL SESSION What’s the Story? A Graduate Thursday, August 6, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Nonacademic Career Paths for Student Workshop on Formulating Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8224 Mathematicians a Research Presentation for a General Audience This session is only for graduate Friday, August 7, 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM students intending to present in the Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM session “Great Talks for a General You’re about to earn a degree in Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C Audience: Coached Presentations mathematics, now what? You may Presenting our research to by Graduate Students” on Saturday, be surprised to know that teaching undergraduate students can be both August 8th. This will be an informal isn’t your only option; in the “real fun and rewarding. It can also be Q&A session with the organizers world” mathematical knowledge is difficult, however, since the gory of “Great Talks” and the workshop a valued commodity and there are details of our results often require “What’s the Story? A Graduate Student many interesting job opportunities a great deal of specific jargon and Workshop on Formulating a Research for mathematicians in nonacademic background. Nonetheless, the big Presentation for a General Audience,” settings. So, whether you are a ideas can almost always be presented where presenters can drop in at any mathematics student looking for a at a variety of levels, and this time to get individual feedback on their job once you graduate or an advisor workshop is designed to interactively presentations. looking for advice to give to future help participants develop the skills Organizer: job-seeking students, this session needed to formulate a presentation Rachel Schwell, Central Connecticut will help you gain new perspectives on their research that is appropriate State University on nonacademic career experiences for an audience of undergraduate and what employers value in their students. Since many colleges and employees. Panelists will share their SOCIAL EVENT universities require giving such a talk paths to their current positions and as part of a job interview, almost Graduate Student Reception offer advice to others looking for any graduate student will have the employment in similar venues. opportunity to do so, and the ability to Thursday, August 6, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Marriot Wardman Park, The Chef’s Table at communicate complex mathematical POSTER SESSION ideas to students is a valued trait in a Stone’s Throw PosterFest 2015: A Poster Session candidate. This workshop will consist Graduate students are invited for some of Scholarship by Early Career of hands-on activities and audience refreshments and to meet several of the Mathematicians and Graduate interaction aimed toward developing invited speakers. Students and improving the necessary skills for Organizers: Friday, August 7, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM creating an engaging and accessible Estela A. Gavosto, University of Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A presentation for undergraduates. Kansas This poster session will allow early Participants should be prepared James Freeman, Cornell College to discuss in groups a potential career mathematicians, including untenured faculty and graduate presentation on their research or other Graduate Student Q&A related topic. students, to present and discuss Friday, August 7, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM their scholarly activities with other Organizers: Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8224 attendees in an informal atmosphere. Rachel Schwell, Central Connecticut Examples of scholarly activities State University suitable for this poster session include May Mei, Denison University expository work, preliminary reports, Sponsor: scholarship of teaching and learning, Committee on Graduate Students and research reports. Presenters and Young Mathematicians should have their materials prepared in Network advance and will be provided with a self-standing, trifold tabletop poster approximately 48 in wide by 36 in high.
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Organizers: Part B – Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM about mathematics. All participants Doug Ensley, Shippensburg College Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C in this session will receive private Jenny McNulty, University of Part C – Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM feedback on their presentations from Montana Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Balcony A an established faculty member and an undergraduate student. Time permitting, Sponsors: Presenters in this session must be a discussion of effective techniques for MAA Committee on Early Career graduate students. While many delivering great general-audience talks Mathematicians graduate students will be asked to will occur at the end of the session. Project NExT give a lecture to a general audience, which includes undergraduates and Young Mathematicians Network non-mathematicians as part of a Organizers: job interview, most students do not Great Talks for a General James Freeman, Cornell College have experience talking to a non- Audience: Coached Presentations Rachel Schwell, Central Connecticut by Graduate Students research audience. This session gives State University graduate students the opportunity Aliza Steurer, Dominican University to give a 20-minute talk aimed at Sponsor: Sponsor: an undergraduate audience, which MAA Committe on MAA Committee on Graduate has been exposed to calculus and Graduate Students Students some linear algebra. Both the talks Part A – Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM and abstracts should be designed to Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C excite a wide range of undergraduates
Join Us in Celebrating the Release of I, Mathematician
Thursday, August 6 3:00-4:00 p.m. MAA Pavilion in the Exhibit Hall
Plan to join us and some of the contributors from I, Mathematician for a wine and cheese reception in the MAA Pavilion. You can meet and speak with the contributors of this volume. Some who plan to attend are: Hyman Bass, Roger Cook, Underwood Dudley, Sol Garfunkel, Steve Krantz, and Randi Ruden. Bring your copy of the book and have it signed.
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Undergraduate Student Activities
INVITED ADDRESS Student Hospitality Center MAA Student Paper Session #6 MAA Chan Stanek Lecture Thursday, August 6, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Thursday, August 6, 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM for Students Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C Seventy-Five Years of MAA Mathematics Competitions Friday, August 7, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM MAA Student Paper Session #7 Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall Wednesday, August 5, 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM Thursday, August 6, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM Saturday, August 8, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall Organizer: MAA Student Paper Session #8 The Student Hospitality Center (SHC) Joseph Gallian, University of provides a place for students and Thursday, August 6, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM Minnesota Duluth other MathFest attendees to meet for Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B In this talk we provide facts, statistics, informal conversation, refreshments, MAA Student Paper Session #9 oddities, curiosities, videos, and trivia and mathematical diversions. Programs Thursday, August 6, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM questions about the mathematics for the MAA and Pi Mu Epsilon student Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C competitions that the MAA has paper sessions, packets for the MAA sponsored for 75 years. student presenters, and information MAA Student Paper Session #10 on MathFest activities of interest to Thursday, August 6, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM Radical Dash students are available in the SHC. Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A Wednesday, August 5, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Organizers: MAA Student Paper Session #11 Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Richard and Araceli Neal, The Radical Dash, a daily scavenger American Society for the Thursday, August 6, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM hunt filled with math challenges and Communication of Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A creativity for teams of undergraduates. Sponsor: MAA Student Paper Session #12 Every day up to five clues will be Committee on Undergraduate released via Instagram including a code Student Activities and Chapters Thursday, August 6, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM to break, a mathematical brainteaser, (CUSAC) and Pearson Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B a number of Instagram targets to find MAA Student Paper Session #13 throughout the meeting, creative math MAA Student Paper Sessions artwork to fashion, and math to find Thursday, August 6, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM Theron J. Hitchman, University of in everyday objects. So, how quick Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Northern Iowa are you on your feet at solving math MAA Student Paper Session #14 problems? Can you picstitch? Would Jiehua Zhu, Georgia Southern University Thursday, August 6, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM you like to create a sculpture with Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A George Hart? How about your brain MAA Student Paper Session #1 being puzzled by Joe Gallian? If any Thursday, August 6, 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM MAA Student Paper Session #15 of this sounds like fun to you, join us at Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Friday, August 7, 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM MAA MathFest 2015 for the Radical Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Dash. Individuals are welcome and MAA Student Paper Session #2 encouraged to participate; they will be Thursday, August 6, 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM MAA Student Paper Session #16 formed into teams on site. Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B Friday, August 7, 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM Organizers: MAA Student Paper Session #3 Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B Jennifer Bergner, Salisbury Thursday, August 6, 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM MAA Student Paper Session #17 University Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Lisa Marano, West Chester Friday, August 7, 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM University MAA Student Paper Session #4 Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Sponsor: Thursday, August 6, 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM MAA Student Paper Session #18 MAA Committee on Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A Friday, August 7, 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM Undergraduate Student Activities Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A and Chapters MAA Student Paper Session #5 Maryland/DC/Virginia Section Thursday, August 6, 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B
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MAA Student Paper Session #19 PME Student Paper Session #4 PANEL SESSION Friday, August 7, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM Thursday, August 6, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM Nonacademic Career Paths for Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C Mathematicians
MAA Student Paper Session #20 PME Student Paper Session #5 Friday, August 7, 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Friday, August 7, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM Friday, August 7, 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B You’re about to earn a degree in mathematics, now what? You may PME Student Paper Session #6 MAA Student Paper Session #21 be surprised to know that teaching Friday, August 7, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM Friday, August 7, 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM isn’t your only option; in the “real Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C world” mathematical knowledge is a valued commodity and there are MAA Student Paper Session #22 PME Student Paper Session #7 many interesting job opportunities Friday, August 7, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM Friday, August 7, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM for mathematicians in nonacademic Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A settings. So, whether you are a mathematics student looking for a MAA Student Paper Session #23 PME Student Paper Session #8 job once you graduate or an advisor Friday, August 7, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM Friday, August 7, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM looking for advice to give to future Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A job-seeking students, this session MAA Student Paper Session #24 PME Student Paper Session #9 will help you gain new perspectives on nonacademic career experiences Friday, August 7, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Friday, August 7, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM and what employers value in their Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B employees. Panelists will share their MAA Student Paper Session #25 PME Student Paper Session #10 paths to their current positions and offer advice to others looking for Friday, August 7, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Friday, August 7, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM employment in similar venues. Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C Organizers: MAA Student Paper Session #26 Secrets of Mental Math Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg Friday, August 7, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM University Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Dora Ahmadi, Morehead State University Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Organizer: Sessions Arthur Benjamin, Harvey Sponsor: MAA Committee on Organizer: Mudd College Undergraduate Student Activities Dr. Arthur Benjamin is a mathematician Darci Kracht, Kent State University and Chapters and a magician. In his entertaining PME Student Paper Session #1 and fast-paced performance, he will OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION Thursday, August 6, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM demonstrate and explain how to Estimathon! Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B mentally add and multiply numbers faster than a calculator, how to figure Friday, August 7, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM PME Student Paper Session #2 out the day of the week of any date Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C Thursday, August 6, 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM in history, and other amazing feats of They’re called Fermi problems... Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C mind. He has presented his mixture of math and magic to audiences all over How many stop signs are in PME Student Paper Session #3 the world. New York City? Thursday, August 6, 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM How heavy is the Empire State Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B Building? How many primes have distinct digits?
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If you’re looking for a mindbending basketball, etc. Teams have four days Great Talks for a General mixture of math and trivia, look no to deal with the MCM challenge and Audience: Coached Presentations by Graduate Students further! Jane Street Capital presents may use or access any inanimate The Estimathon contest: attempt 13 source – computers, libraries, the Web, Part A – Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Fermi problems in 30 minutes, ranging etc. MAA judges choose a winner for Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C from totally trivial to positively each problem. The two MAA winning Putnamesque. Work in teams to come teams of students will present their Part B – Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM up with the best set of confidence results of the MCM four-day challenge. Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C intervals. The top teams will receive Organizer: Part C – Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM prizes! Ben Fusaro, Florida State University Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Balcony A Organizer: Presenters in this session must be Andy Niedermaier, Jane Street MAA Ice Cream Social and graduate students. While many Capital Undergraduate Awards Ceremony graduate students will be asked to give a lecture to a general audience, Saturday, August 8, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Pi Mu Epsilon Student Banquet which includes undergraduates and Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 3 non-mathematicians as part of a Friday, August 7, 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM Students who gave the best talks in the job interview, most students do not Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A/B/C MAA Student Paper Sessions will be have experience talking to a non- All PME members and their supporters recognized and awarded prizes. All research audience. This session gives are welcome. See the registration desk undergraduate students are invited to graduate students the opportunity for more information on this ticketed attend. to give a 20-minute talk aimed at event. an undergraduate audience, which Student Problem Solving has been exposed to calculus and Pi Mu Epsilon J. Sutherland Frame Competition some linear algebra. Both the talks Lecture Saturday, August 8, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM and abstracts should be designed to G-sharp, A-flat, and the Euclidean Algorithm Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B excite a wide range of undergraduates about mathematics. All participants Friday, August 7, 8:00 PM – 8:50 PM This event is the finals of the Problem in this session will receive private Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Solving Competition. Universities feedback on their presentations from Noam Elkies, Harvard University and colleges that participate monthly an established faculty member and an on their own campuses by holding Description: see page 14 undergraduate student. Time permitting, problem solving contests are invited a discussion of effective techniques for to send a contestant. Each contestant MAA Mathematical Competition in delivering great general-audience talks will be required to solve a series of Modeling (MCM) Winners will occur at the end of the session. . mathematical problems. Based on Saturday, August 8, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM the outcome, a champion along with Organizers: Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 2nd through 6th place winners will be James Freeman, Cornell College About 400 American teams, each named. Rachel Schwell, Central Connecticut consisting of three undergraduates, Organizer: State University entered the 2014 Mathematical Aliza Steurer, Dominican University Richard Neal, American Society for Contest in Modeling in February. Teams the Communication of Mathematics Sponsor: choose one of two real(istic) problems. MAA Committe on The first problem requires a model Graduate Students for analyzing the performance of the Keep-Right-Except-To-Pass rule for drivers. The second requires a model for choosing the best 20th century coach for a sport such as football,
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K-12 Activities
Industrial Math Research in the PIC The MAA strives to ensure that sessions at MathFest present Math Program mathematics in a way that is accessible to a broad audience. Saturday, August 8, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM As a result, K-12 teachers will find all the expository sessions Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B at MathFest to be informative and enriching. In addition, the During the spring 2015 semester, following sessions are directed specifically at the professional mathematics undergraduate students at interests of K-12 teachers. 30 U.S. universities and colleges were Register for the AMC 8 or AMC 10/12 Contest(s), and you’re enrolled in a PIC Math (Preparation automatically enrolled as a K-12 Teacher Member. Invite your for Industrial Careers in Mathematical students to attend MAA MathFest 2015. The High School Sciences) research course. Each student Student rate is only $49. team worked on its own research Secrets of Mental Math problem, which came directly from industry, and submitted a written report Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM and video solution to the problem. Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Several students with exemplary Art Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College solutions will discuss their problem and solution during this session. In addition, Dr. Arthur Benjamin is a mathematician and a magician. In his other students will give poster entertaining and fast-paced performance, he will demonstrate presentations of their work. Finally, and explain how to mentally add and multiply numbers faster a few industrial mathematicians will than a calculator, how to figure out the day of the week of make presentations about math in BIG any date in history, and other amazing feats of mind. He has (business, industry, and government). presented his mixture of math and magic to audiences all over the world. PIC Math is a program of the MAA Special Presentation for High School Students, and SIAM supported by NSF funding Parents, and Teachers (DMS-1345499). See www.maa.org/ A Dozen Proofs that 1=2: An Accessible and picmath. Quirky Overview of Mathematics for K-12 Organizers: Teachers and Their Students Linda Braddy, MAA Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM Michael Dorff, Brigham Young Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2 University James Tanton, The Saint Mark’s Mathematics Institute and Suzanne Weekes, Worcester MAA Polytechnic Institute Reza Malek-Madani, United States Guidobaldo del Monte (1545-1647), a patron and friend Naval Academy of Galileo Galilei, believed he had witnessed the creation of something out of nothing when he established mathematically that zero equals one. He thereby thought he had proven the existence of God! James Tanton doesn’t claim to be so bold, but he is willing to prove instead that one equals two. And, moreover, just to convince you that he is right, he will do so a dozen times over, drawing upon a wide spectrum of mathematical techniques: school algebra and arithmetic, probability and mechanics, pure thought and physical action! Will you be able to find fault with any of his “proofs?” This will be a math talk of the like you’ve never seen before. All are welcome!
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K-12 Activities (continued) Committee Meetings
Math Circle Demonstration Wednesday, August 5 Saturday, August 8, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Committee on Sections Meeting Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8222 Katherine Morrison, University of Northern Colorado Japheth Wood, New York Math Circle Committee on Undergraduate Student Activities and Chapters (CUSAC) Meeting A math circle is an enrichment experience that brings 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8222 mathematics professionals in direct contact with pre-college students and/or their teachers. Circles foster passion and excitement for deep mathematics. This demonstration session Thursday, August 6 offers the opportunity for conference attendees to observe Task Force on Minority Participation in AMC and then discuss a math circle experience designed for local Contests students. While students are engaged in a mathematical 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8222 investigation, mathematicians will have a discussion focused on appreciating and better understanding the organic and Committee on Minicourses creative process of learning that circles offer, and on the 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8223 logistics and dynamics of running an effective circle. Committee on the Undergraduate Program Sponsor: in Mathematics (CUPM) and CUPM Steering SIGMAA MCST Committee Meeting Math Wrangle 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8222 Saturday, August 8, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A Friday, August 7 Mark Saul, MAA American Mathematics Competitions Council on Outreach Programs Ed Keppelmann, University of Nevada 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8222
Math Wrangle will pit teams of students against each other, Council on the Profession the clock, and a slate of great math problems. The format of a 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8222 Math Wrangle is designed to engage students in mathematical problem solving, promote effective teamwork, provide a MAA Committee on Departmental Liaisons venue for oral presentations, and develop critical listening Meeting skills. A Math Wrangle incorporates elements of team sports 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8222 and debate, with a dose of strategy tossed in for good measure. The intention of the Math Wrangle demonstration at Second Century Campaign Steering Committee the Math Fest is to show how teachers, schools, circles, and Meeting clubs can get students started in this exciting combination of 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8223 mathematical problem solving with careful argumentation via public speaking, strategy and rebuttal. Sponsor: SIGMAA MCST Undergraduate Student Activities
There are also a number of activities planned for undergraduate students and many of them will be of interest to K-12 teachers. See page 42.
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illuminating science MAGAZINE An editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation MAA MATHFEST 2015 COME FOR THE MATH. SIGMAA Activities The following is a list of activities at MathFest 2015 that are sponsored by SIGMAAs. STAY FOR THE Full descriptions of the sessions may be found elsewhere in the program or online at http://www.maa.org/meetings/mathfest/program-details/2015/sigmaa-activities STORIES. BIO SIGMAA: the SIGMAA on Mathematical and POM SIGMAA: the SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Computational Biology Mathematics Contributed Paper Session on Undergraduate POM SIGMAA GUEST LECTURE Research Activities in Mathematical and What are Mathematical Objects, and Who Cares? Computational Biology Thursday, August 6, 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM Friday afternoon, August 7 Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 SIGMAA EM: the SIGMAA on Environmental Contributed Paper Session on the History and Mathematics Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop on USE Math: Undergraduate Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, mornings and afternoons Sustainability Experiences in the Mathematics Classroom SIGMAA QL: the SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Thursday, August 6, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM Panel Session on Quantitative Literacy and Marriott Wardman Park, Balcony A Democracy Poster Session on Classroom Activities and Projects Saturday, August 8, 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM within the Context of Environmental Sustainabilityn Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Thursday, August 6, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Web SIGMAA: The SIGMAA on Mathematics HOM SIGMAA: the SIGMAA on the History of Instruction Using the WEB Mathematics WEB SIGMAA GUEST LECTURE MAA 100 Contributed Paper Session on the History MYMathApps: Lessons Learned and To-Be Learned and Philosophy of Mathematics Friday, August 7, 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, mornings and afternoons Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5
SIGMAA MCST: The SIGMAA on Math Circles for Web SIGMAA Business Meeting Students and Teachers Friday, August 7, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM Contributed Paper Session on Math Circle Problems Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5 in Honor of the MAA’s 100th Anniversary Friday afternoon, August 7 Math Circle Demonstration Saturday, August 8, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A Math Wrangle Saturday, August 8, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A
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#MAAthFest Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 49 Congratulations
to our MAA members celebrating 25 or more years of membership. Please stop by the MAA Pavilion to pick up your recognition sticker.
25 Years Olympia Nicodemi Nora Strasser 31 Years Martha Abell Harold Parks Uri Treisman Arthur Benjamin Janet Beery Jennifer Quinn Debra Borkovitz Jennifer Beineke Kyle Riley 29 Years John Cade Philip Cobb Dipa Sarkar-Dey William Abrams Benjamin Collins Paul Coe Robert Vallin Paul Boisvert Rosalie Dance Adam Coffman Virginia Watson Dennis Collins Aparna Higgins Sarah Greenwald Pam Crawford Michael Pearson George Heine 27 Years Ronald Czochor Russell Petricka Ockle Johnson Ronald Calinger Michael Eisenberg Theresa Rahikka Gertrud Kraut Annalisa Crannell Frank Farris Lynn Reed Ed Lamagna Pablo Echeverria Erica Flapan Therese Shelton Glen Lobo Solomon Garfunkel Deanna Haunsperger T. Christine Stevens Abraham Mantell Namyong Lee Gary Raduns Daniel Ullman Nancy Matthews Colm Mulcahy Sharon Robbert Glen Van Brummelen Elizabeth Mauch James Olsen Mark Saul Elizabeth Yanik Jennifer McNulty Tommy Ratliff Leon Seitelman Nieves McNulty James Sellers Daniel Teague 32 Years Michael Molinsky Hortensia Soto-Johnson Colleen Vachuska Christopher Baltus Bruce Palka Linda Van Niewaal Bruce Wahl Douglas Ensley Joan Reinthaler Maria Zack Susan Wildstrom Alan Levine Richard Stephens Joe Yanik David Roberts Gary Towsley 28 Years Jay Schiffman Edward Aboufadel 30 Years Dirck Uptegrove 26 Years Jenna Carpenter Colin Adams Peter Vachuska Julie Barnes Sharon Emerson- Michael Beals John Wilson Janet Barnett Stonnell Linda Becerra Roman Wong Manjul Bhargava Patrick Headley Eileen Donoghue Connie Campbell Cynthia Huffman William Fenton 33 Years Timothy Comar Michael Jones Matthew Haines Richard Cleary Michael Dorff Charles Lindsey Russell Hendel Lawrence D’Antonio Chris Frenzen Sarah Mabrouk Edward C. Keppelmann Stephen Davis Sidney Graham Bhamini Nayar Suzanne Larson Wade Ellis David Manderscheid James Reid John Mayer Richard Gillman Phoebe McLaughlin Margaret Robinson Karen Saxe Margaret Morrow Steven Schlicker Robert Styer (continued)
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50 Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 #MAAthFest Fernando Gouvêa 37 Years Joseph Gallian 44 Years Leon Hall Andrew Bennett James Henle William Adams Allen Hibbard Jeffrey Clark James Langan Robert Blumenthal William Higgins Susan Jane Colley Thomas Sibley Raymond Boute George Jennings William Emerson Daniel Velleman Amy Cohen V. Lee Turner William Hackborn Gerard Venema Milton Eisner Kathryn Weld Luise-Charlotte Kappe Jonathan Kane Michael Woltermann Larry Penn 41 Years William Lewis Robert Root Dorothee Blum Rochelle Meyer 34 Years Lawrence Washington Ronald Brzenk Christine Shannon Suzanne Dorée Ann Watkins David Carothers Edward White Jim Freeman Daniel Curtin Michael Hvidsten 38 Years Jacqueline Dewar 45 Years Nan Jackson James Carlson John Fink Thomas Banchoff John Kavanagh James Daniel Douglas Girvan Joel Cohen Emelie Kenney Lucy Dechene Judy Green Francis Ford Kathleen Lopez Thomas Drucker Donald McClure JoAnne Growney Joseph McDonough Barbara Faires Norman Richert Roger Ray Michael Scanlon Dan Kalman Douglas Shier Peter Ross Carol Schumacher Andy Matchett Kay Somers Doris Schattschneider Robert Sefton Smith Walter Meyer Alexia Sontag Calvin Van Niewaal Barry Spieler Daniel Otero Michael Starbird Philip Yasskin Tina Straley David Shannon William Velez Bette Warren Paul Zorn 46 Years 35 Years Joseph Auslander Rotraut Cahill 39 Years 42 Years Nickolas Backscheider Dan Callon John Best Stephen Andrilli Joel Cunningham Robert Devaney Sylvia Bozeman William Barker Robert Fontenot Saeed Ghahramani David Bressoud Donna Beers Samuel Graff Kenneth Gittelson Carolyn Connell Joanne Dombrowski Richard Guy Bonnie Gold Richard Kaste Lloyd Douglas Judith Meckley David Hecker Allan Kroopnick Susan Forman Harriet Pollatsek Thomas Hill Philip Mahler Herbert Kasube Jon Scott Robert Megginson Elizabeth Mayfield Joseph Straight Martha Siegel Frank Morgan Charles Toll Jonathan Sondow 36 Years James Sandefur Philip Straffin Gregory Call Ronald Umble 43 Years Philippe Tondeur Douglas Dunham J. Paul Vicknair Jean Bee Chan Ruth Favro John Watkins James Fagan 47 Years Paul Flasch William Feldman Curtis Herink Joel Haack 40 Years Sue Geller Victor Katz Stephen Kokoska Philip Benjamin Dan Kennedy Albert Lewis Robert Rogers Jimmy Buchanan Bruce Murrie David Stone Edward Scheinerman Penelope Dunham David Sklar Roger Waggoner William Dunham (continued)
#MAAthFest Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 51 48 Years 51 Years Joanne Peeples 58 Years Hyman Bass Donald Albers John Selden Ronald Graham Theodore Eisenberg Morton Goldberg Henry Pollak Michael Fisher Jerrold Grossman 54 Years Jennifer Galovich Scott Harrod Lowell Beineke 59 Years Jeffrey Lagarias Daniel Kemp Afton Cayford Lida K Barrett David Manes Steven Krantz Bert Fristedt Underwood Dudley Patrick McCray Ronald Rosier Genevieve M. Knight Eileen Poiani Paul Stockmeyer Joan Leitzel 60 Years Karl Schaffer Walter Stromquist Stephen Meskin Kenneth Ross James Tattersall Marvin Schaefer 49 Years David Zitarelli 61 Years James Fey 52 Years Bernard Fusaro Frances Gulick Ron Barnes 55 Years Thomas Hern Donald Cohn Catherine Murphy Virginia Jones Murray Eisenberg Henry Ricardo Please join your Carl Leinbach John Mack colleagues at the Daniel Maki 56 Years Closing Banquet on 50 Years Hugh Montgomery Hudson Kronk Saturday, August 8 Ethan Bolker Donald Quiring Ellen Lehner at 6pm. Members Carl Cowen David Smith Gerald Porter celebrating 25 or 50 David Flesner Donovan Van Osdol George Rosenstein years will receive Alexander Kleiner a special pin. Stop Theresa Michnowicz 53 Years 57 Years by the Registration Rick Poss Virginia Knight Denny Gulick Desk for ticket Brian Winkel Warren Page Barbara Osofsky information. Annie Selden
Teaching Quantitative Learning An MAA Press Session Ethan Bolker Author of Common Sense Mathematics
Friday, August 7 3:00 p.m.—4:30 p.m. Room 8222 | Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
What do you want your Quantitative Learning students to remember ten years from now? Ethan Bolker and Maura Mast want theirs to approach numbers in life and in the news with confidence, common sense, common knowledge and appropriate mathematical tools. They’ve designed a course and co-authored Common Sense Mathematics hoping to change how QL is taught, learned and remembered.
Professor Bolker will lead a ninety-minute workshop on their common sense approach to QL with just-in-time mathematics. If you are wondering how to help your students achieve quantitative literacy, please come join the conversation.
Mathematical Association of America | maa.org/press Honor Roll of Donors 2014—2015* We thank the following individuals, corporations, foundations, societies, and organizations for their contributions of $500 or more to the Mathematical Association of America.
Individuals Robert L. and Kathleen Devaney Dan Kennedy Edward Aboufadel Gregory M. Dotseth Lyle David King Donald J. Albers David N. Dudley Ellen E. Kirkman Gerald L. Alexanderson Douglas J. Dunham Maria Klawe and Nick Pippenger Gary and Gayle Alweiss William and Penelope Dunham Steven and Stephanie Lee Etienne Archinard Helmut P. and Susanna S. Epp Tom Leighton and Bonnie Berger Leighton Walter O. Augenstein Prasad and Sharmishta Erabelli William J. Lewis Robert Balles Barbara T. Faires Guojin Liang Thomas and Kathleen Banchoff Frank A. Farris Andrew C. F. Liu Lynne Baur William E. Fenton Shuangqiu Liu and Krishna Patil Arthur and Deena Benjamin Barry Field and Julie Farr Po-Shen Loh Adam Berk Patricia and James Fink Carl J. Lovett Manuel P. Berriozabal Gregory and Jolinda Foley Carolyn D. Lucas Nancy Blachman and David J. desJardins John D. Fulton Wenhua Ma Stewart E. Boden Joseph and Charlene Gallian Patrick Maher Peter B Bjorklund Richard L. Gantos Andrew J. and Nancy V. Matchett Linda Braddy Charles Ray Garner, Jr. Donald E. McClure Warren and Kathleen Brakensiek Richard A. Gillman Marie T. McKellar David M. and Janice A. Bressoud John W. Goppelt Chester W. Mills Jo and Bud Brown J. H. Graham Colm Mulcahy and Victoria Ann Powers William J. Browning Jerrold Grossman Andy and Laurie Okun Robert L. Bryant and Reymundo A. Garcia Steven Gunby and Margaret Pearson Arnold Ostebee and Kay E. Smith C. Allen Butler Estate of Virginia Halmos Kenneth Pacholke Karl E. Byleen Deanna B. Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy Michael and Ellen Pearson Susan L. Callahan John P. Helm Laurence Penn and Jill Oberlander Antony Chang Aparna W. Higgins William G. Pertusi Richard Cleary and Ann Trenk Kevin and Suzanne Huang Nancy Ruth Phillips Amy Cohen Benedict A. Itri Gerald J. and Judith R. Porter Carl Cowen and Janice Wheater-Cowen Glenn K. Jacobs Jennifer J. Quinn Joel L. and Trudy B. Cunningham Radha Jagadeesan Corrado D. Quintiliani James W. Daniel Barbara J. Janson Harriet and George Rosenstein Jean E. De Valpine Jeff and Carol Jessee Ronald C. Rosier Herbert E. Kasube Ken and Ruth Ross
*To date, as of June 8, 2015.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5 THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 MAA 100 Albert’s Bridge: A Tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, Graduate Student Reception Featuring the MAA Community MAA 100 Centennial Reception Players 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A Marriott Wardman Park Chef’s Table at Stone’s Throw Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Join us for the MAA MathFest Centennial Graduate students are invited for some A host of your favorite MAA Reception to celebrate the beginning of personalities come together for a the conference and the opening of the refreshments and to meet several of the invited speakers. spirited performance of an early comedy Exhibit Hall. Enjoy light hors d’oeuvres, written for radio by Tom Stoppard. a cash bar, and a chance to meet fellow Estela A. Gavosto, University of Kansas Stoppard’s richly mathematical play attendees and all of our sponsors and James Freeman, Cornell College Arcadia, first produced in 1993, has exhibitors. This event is complimentary been heralded as one of the best plays for all registered attendees and guests. of the 20th century. Albert’s Bridge was written 25 years before Arcadia, when MAA 100 Mathematicians by Day, Stoppard was a struggling journalist, Musicians by Night MAA 100 Mathematical Carnival at but it still exhibits the playwright’s the Centennial Reception 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM propensity for running roughshod over Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 the fabricated boundaries between 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM mathematics and good storytelling. In Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A The deep connection between the performance, elementary algebra, Mathematical presenters to include: mathematics and music comes to life philosophy, and even some physics as mathematicians take the stage as at the play’s conclusion are weaved Dominic Klyve: Juggling and Math performers. Musicians will include pianist together into a comic commentary on the Noam Elkies (a three-time Putnam Fellow), Susan Goldstine: Flexagons inevitable tragedy of life. tenor Frank Farris (former Mathematics Colm Mulcahy: Mathematical Card Magazine editor), a trio playing Brahms, Steve Abbott, Middlebury College Tricks a quintet playing Mozart, and a choir Jason Rosenhouse: Monty Hall of mathematician-singers. Expect to Interactive Game be delighted by wonderful music - SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 and amazed at the versatility of the Karl Schaffer: String Polyhedra performers, all of whom work day jobs MAA Ice Cream Social and Tim Chartier, Davidson College as mathematicians. Emceed by Paul Zorn, Undergraduate Awards Ceremony St. Olaf College, Past MAA President. Dave Kung, St. Mary’s College of 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM MAA 100 Cirque de Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 3 Mathematiques Maryland, Project NExT Director Students who gave the best talks in the 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 MAA Student Paper Sessions will be Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 recognized and awarded prizes. All undergraduate students are invited to Come enjoy an evening of mathematical Pi Mu Epsilon Student Banquet delights! Be amazed, tickled and touched attend. by drama, magic, mime and dance. James 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM DC Math Walk Tanton will emcee an evening featuring Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A/B/C performances by Colin Adams, Art All PME members and their supporters 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Benjamin, Tanya and Tim Chartier, and are welcome. See the registration desk Departs from Marriott Wardman Park Lobby Karl Schaffer. for more information on this ticketed There are ample places to find Tim Chartier, Davidson College event. mathematics in Washington, DC with the Centennial MAA MathFest. Want to find math in the nation’s capital itself? Come and enjoy a math trail designed by Ivars Peterson. From fire hydrants to friezes adorning buildings to various art work, find math as you enjoy the overall beauty throughout the city.
56 Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 #MAAthFest Social Events (continued) Closing Banquet Sprechen Sie 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Celebrate the success of another MAA MathFest by joining us for the Closing MATLAB? Banquet. Back by popular demand, the MAA Players are proud to bring you Over one million people around the MAA: The Musical! They’ll tell the history world speak MATLAB. Engineers and of the MAA in song and dance with their scientists in every field from aerospace award-winning cast. (Okay, so they didn’t win awards for singing or dancing, but and semiconductors to biotech, surely good mathematical exposition financial services, and earth and ocean counts for something, right?) Come join sciences use it to express their ideas. in the fun with Art Benjamin, Bud Brown, Annalisa Crannell, Alissa Crans, Joyati Do you speak MATLAB?
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Tuesday, August 4
Registration 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Registration 1/2
Wednesday, August 5
Registration THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Registration 1/2 TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Mathematics Part B – History of Mathematics INVITED ADDRESS 10:30 AM – 11:55 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5 MAA Centennial Lecture 1 Replicators, Transformers, and Robot Swarms: Science Eisenhower, the Binomial Theorem, and the Fiction through Geometric Algorithms $64,000 Question 8:20 AM – 9:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cathleen O’Neil, Johnson County Community College
INVITED ADDRESS John Horton Conway: Certainly a Piece of Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecture Series History 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM Hedrick Lecture 1 Siobhan Roberts, Freelance Writer, Math & Science 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Journalist, Biographer Karen Smith, University of Michigan A Pair of Early MAA Presidents = A Pair of INVITED ADDRESS Mathematics Historians: Florian Cajori and David MAA Centennial Lecture 2 Eugene Smith Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer 11:30 AM – 11:55 AM Genomics Eileen Donoghue, City University of New York/CSI 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION Project NExT Lecture THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Reducing Stereotype Threat in the Mathematics TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Classroom Mathematics Part A – History of Mathematics 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 10:30 AM – 11:55 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 Catherine Good, Baruch College, City University of New York
Ellipsographs: Drawing Ellipses and the Devices in INVITED ADDRESS the Smithsonian Collections MAA Chan Stanek Lecture for Students 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM Seventy-Five Years of MAA Mathematics Amy Shell-Gellasch, Montgomery College Competitions 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth Culture of American Mathematics 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Peggy A. Kidwell, Smithsonian Institution TCPS#20: Evidence-Based Approaches to the Mathematical Preparation of Secondary Teachers History of Mathematics in Washington, DC 1:00 PM – 1:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 1 11:30 AM – 11:55 AM Florence Fasanelli, MAA Lesson Study: A Capstone Experience to Address the Recommendations of the MET II Document 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Connie Yarema, Abilene Christian University David Hendricks, Abilene Christian University
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Focusing on Mathematical Arguments GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Teaching or Learning Introductory Mathematics AnnaMarie Conner, University of Georgia Part A Laura Singletary, Lee University 1:00 PM – 2:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B
Investing the Preparation of Teachers of Exploring Probability Using The Settlers of Catan Mathematics: The Influence of Content Knowledge on Novice Teaching 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Jathan Austin, Salisbury University Allyson Hallman-Thrasher, Ohio University Susanna Molitoris Miller, Kennesaw State University Jeff Connor, Ohio University Estimating the Number of Extraterrestrial Derek J. Sturgill, Ohio University Civilizations in a Statistics Class
PANEL SESSION 1:15 PM – 1:25 PM Panel 7. Implementing the 2015 CUPM Curriculum Alexander G. Atwood, Suffolk County Community Guide College 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Elementary Statistics using Facebook 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM WORKSHOP Krishna Kaphle, University of Maine at Fort Kent What’s the Story? A Graduate Student Workshop on Formulating a Research Presentation for a Experiences and Experiments in Implementing General Audience a Flipped Classroom Design in an Introductory 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C Statistics Course 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION William J. Heuett, Marymount University TCPS#7: Financial Mathematics Integrating Worked Examples into a Flipped 1:00 PM – 2:35 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 6 College Algebra Classroom 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM Remaining Questions on Approximating Tyrone Washington, Millersville University The Rate of Interest For an Annuity 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Collins Math Magic Number Blocks and the Wobble- Richard Stephens, Columbus State University Square Method of Multiplication 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM Insurance and Financial Investment Strategy under Dennis G. Collins, UPR-Mayaguez a Stochastic Process Model Glenn H. Collins 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Wanwan Huang, Roosevelt University Promoting Student Understanding of Properties of Logarithms Social Security Benefit: Now or Later? 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Erin R. Moss, Millersville University of Pennsylvania Amanda Mummert, Washington & Jefferson College Katie Linthicum, Washington & Jefferson College Applications of R to Introductory and Intermediate Kadie Clancy, Washington & Jefferson College Statistics 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM An Undergraduate Research Experience in Financial Leon Kaganovskiy, Touro College Brooklyn Campus Mathematics 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Jeong-Mi Yoon, UH-Downtown
Actuarial Present Value: Calculations for Two Parametric Models 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Veera Holdai, Salisbury University Barbara Wainwright, Salisbury University
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THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Using A Dynamic Software Program to Develop TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Mathematics Geometric Constructions Part C – History and Philosophy of Mathematics 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Laura Singletary 1:00 PM – 2:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 , Lee University MINICOURSE Doing Arithmetic in Medieval Europe 2. The Mathematics of Games and Gambling (Part A) 1:00 PM – 1:25 PM Chuck Lindsey, Florida Gulf Coast University 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room
Imagination and Reading the Third Dimension in MINICOURSE Early Modern Geometry 4. Recruiting Students to Take More Mathematics 1:30 PM – 1:55 PM Courses and to be Mathematics Majors (Part A) Travis D. Williams, University of Rhode Island 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room
The Arc Rampant in 1673: An Early Episode in the THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION History of Projective Geometry TCPS#16: Curriculum Development to Support First 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM Year General Education Mathematics Students Christopher Baltus, SUNY Oswego 1:00 PM – 3:35 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 3 William Brouncker’s Rectification of the Semi- Cubical Parabola Redesigning a Liberal Arts Math Course for Student Performance 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Andrew Leahy, Knox College Crystal Lorch, Ball State University THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION John Lorch, Ball State University TCPS#21: Show Me Geometry: Geometry Software and Tablet Demonstrations Design and Implementation of a Quantitative Literacy Course at a Large Research Institution 1:00 PM – 2:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Vince Melfi, Michigan State University Investigation of Geometric Theorems Using Dave Bramer, Michigan State University Geometer’s Sketchpad Jeff Craig, Michigan State University 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Richard A. Edwards, Michigan State University Nora Strasser, Friends University Andrew Krause, Michigan State University Active Exploration of Desargues’ Theorem and Amanda Lorenz, Michigan State University Projective Geometry 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Just Enough Algebra – Or How Teaching Interesting, Useful Algebra in Applied Contexts Incorporating Michael Hvidsten, Gustavus Adolphus College Active Learning Led to Higher Student Engagement and Success The Poincaré Disk Model in GeoGebra 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Suzanne I. Dorée, Augsburg College Martha Byrne, Earlham College System-wide Co-requisite Pedagogical GeoGebra and Hyperbolic Geometry Approaches for Learning Support Mathematics 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Students Violeta Vasilevska, Utah Valley University 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Minsu Kim, University of North Georgia Math on a Sphere: an Interactive Programming System for Spherical Geometry Eliminating Pre-Foundational and Comprehensively 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Redesigning First Year General Education Michael Eisenberg, University of Colorado Mathematics Courses at Trinity Washington University Hilary Peddicord, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Administration Kent Kraft, Trinity Washington University Sherry Hsi, Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley
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Reorganization and Innovation in First Year General Polynomials, Discriminants, and Root Counting in Education Mathematics Courses Number Fields 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM Grace E. Cook, Bloomfield College Chad Awtrey, Elon University Michael Schiro, Bloomfield College Kevin Kline, Bloomfield College Can this Polynomial be Factored? 3:15 PM – 3:25 PM Alternative Pathway for General Education Gary Brookfield, California State University, Los Angeles Mathematics Students 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Valuation Derived from Graded Ring and Module Rachel M. Bates, Redlands Community College and Krull Dimension Properties 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM Building Learning Communities for Students and Mohammad Hassan Anjom Shoa, University of Birjand Instructors in Introductory and Intermediate Mohammad Hossein Hosseinie, University of Birjand Algebra 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM INVITED SESSION Janet Nichols, Colorado State University - Pueblo MAA Invited Paper Session: The Non-Traditional “Traditional NSA Mathematician” GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Algebra and Linear Algebra 1:00 PM – 3:45 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware B 1:00 PM – 3:40 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B The Coming of Enigma 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Linear Algebra and Forensics David Perry, National Security Agency 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM Donna Beers, Simmons College Public Key Cryptography: From Abelian Groups to Catherine Crawford, Elmhurst College Yellow Padlocks in 30 Minutes Flat 1:45 PM – 2:15 PM New Algorithms for Solving a System of Linear Ben Benoy, National Security Agency Equations 1:15 PM – 1:25 PM Extending Pairwise Element Similarity to Set Michael F. Zimmer, Teradata, Inc Similarity Efficiently 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM New Canonical Forms for Matrices Over a Principal Steve Knox, National Security Agency Ideal Domain 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM Teaching Computers to See Peter M. Joyce, CCBC 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Christine Edwards, National Security Agency On the Structure of Generalized Symmetric Spaces of the Special Linear and General Linear Groups of Degree 2 Over Finite Fields 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM Jennifer Schaefer, Dickinson College
The Index of a Numerical Semigroup in Four Generators 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM Bernadette Boyle, Sacred Heart University
The Space of Biorders on Some Solvable Groups 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM Kelli Karcher, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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INVITED SESSION Rope Geometry of Ancient India in the Classroom MAA Invited Paper Session: Generations of 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM Monthly Gems Cynthia J. Huffman, Pittsburg State University 1:00 PM – 3:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Scott V. Thuong, Pittsburg State University
1894 – 1919 Getting to the Root of the Problem 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM Karen Parshall, University of Virginia Steven J. Tedford, Misericordia University
1920 – 1939 Reenactment of the Calculus Controversy: Newton vs Leibniz 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM John Stillwell, University of San Francisco 3:30 PM – 3:55 PM Abraham Ayebo, North Dakota State University 1940 – 1959 THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM TCPS#6: Mathematics and Art Part A Ron Graham, University of California at San Diego 1:00 PM – 4:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A 1960 – 1979 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM A Kaleidoscopic Journey Bob Devaney, Boston University 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Jeff Johannes, SUNY Geneseo 1980 – 1999 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Artistic Patterns on Triply Periodic Polyhedra Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Douglas Dunham, University of Minnesota - Duluth 2000 – 2015 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM Maps of Strange Worlds: Beyond the Four-Color Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University Theorem 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Susan Goldstine, St. Mary’s College of Maryland TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Mathematics Part D – History and Philosophy of Virtual Bumblebees Mathematics 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM James P. Howard, University of Maryland University 1:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5 College A Mathematical Look at Mersenne’s Water Jet Experiment Surprises from Iterating Discontinuous Functions 1:00 PM – 1:25 PM 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Charles Groetsch, The Citadel Brian Heinold, Mount St. Mary’s University
Inspiration for Elementary Mathematics The Many Lessons in Fractals Descriptions from a “Heritage” Reading (in the 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM sense of Grattan-Guinness) of On the Nonexistent Lisa A. Oberbroeckling, Loyola University Maryland by Gorgias 1:30 PM – 1:55 PM Parametric Equations at the Circus: Trochoids and Ann L. von Mehren, Arcadia University and University of Poi Flowers Houston 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Eleanor Farrington, Massachusetts Maritime Academy Going to the Source 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM Modeling the Mathematical: Man Ray, Equational Thomas Q. Sibley, St. John’s University, College of St. Mimesis, and Kinesthetic Learning Benedict 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM Steve Zides, Wofford College
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Pythagoras to Secor: Generalized Keyboards and Product and Process: Writing Portfolios and the Miracle Temperament Feedback in Introduction to Proof Techniques 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Anil Venkatesh, Ferris State University May Mei, Denison University
Mathematics and Poetry: The Sweetest Noise Revised Writing Across the Math Major 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM Randall E. Cone, Salisbury University Jacqueline Anderson, Bridgewater State University
Differential Equations in Music, Dance, and the Typesetting Homework in LaTeX: Best Practices that Visual Arts Support Teaching and Learning in Post-Calculus 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Lorelei Koss, Dickinson College James Quinlan, University of New England
Counting with Your Toes! Revising for Clarity 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Julian Chan, Weber State Jeffrey Clark, Elon University
THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Why Induction Is Like Ice Cream: Writing About TCPS#12: Improving Undergraduate Math Writing Analogies in Discrete Mathematics Courses 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM 1:00 PM – 5:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Joshua Holden, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Creating and Assessing Writing Prompts in Calculus and Below Emphasizing Mathematical Writing in On-line Courses 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM Garry Johns, Saginaw Valley State University Byungik Kahng, University of North Texas at Dallas I Need Some Focus! Helping Calculus Students Navigate Mathematical Writing Teaching Mathematical Proof Writing Skills in a General Education Course: Graph Theory 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Algorithms and Color-Coding David Clark, Grand Valley State University 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM Robin L. Blankenship, Morehead State University Student Engagement and Learning through Reading and Writing in Differential Equations THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM TCPS#10: The Scholarship of Teaching and Michael C. Barg, Niagara University Learning in Collegiate Mathematics Using Writing in Introductory Statistics to Enhance 1:00 PM – 5:35 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 2 Understanding 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Comparing Oral and Traditional Assessments in Tonya Adkins, Johnson & Wales University Math Content Courses for Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Writing with Critical Thinking and Values for 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Effective Problem Solving Daniel Visscher, University of Michigan 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Nina White, University of Michigan Jacci White, Saint Leo University Monika Kiss, Saint Leo University Assessing the Effects of Interactive Technology on Concept Retention in Precalculus Brian Camp, Saint Leo University 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Definitions as Proof Blueprints Doug Ensley, Shippensburg University 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Lea Adams, Shippensburg University Andrew Cooper, North Carolina State University Barbara Kaskosz, University of Rhode Island
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Curing the High DFW Rate in First Year Calculus Student Beliefs on Math Ability and Sense of 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Belonging to a Math Community Adam Childers, Roanoke College 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM Jan Minton, Roanoke College Frank Hassebrock, Denison University Hannah Robbins, Roanoke College Lewis Ludwig, Denison University Kristin Emrich, Roanoke College David Taylor, Roanoke College Assessing the Cognitive Levels of Exam Problems in Mathematics: A Comparison Across Years Increasing Student Success in the Calculus Sequence 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Sandra M. Merchant, University of British Columbia Mary Shepherd, Northwest Missouri State University Wesley Maciejewski, University of Auckland
Investigating Student Learning Gains from Content Development of Students’ Bayesian Reasoning Skill Videos in a Flipped Calculus I Course 5:20 PM – 5:35 PM 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Frank Wang, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY John (Zig) Siegfried, James Madison University OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION Cassie Williams, James Madison University Special Panel Session on Science Policy Does Calculus Help with Algebra? 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Cory Johnson, California State University, San Bernardino PANEL SESSION Panel 6. The Updated AP Calculus AB/BC courses: Introducing Technology to a Vector Calculus Course What Does This Mean For You? 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Tyler Kloefkorn, University of Arizona OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION Engaged Learning Through Writing: A Faculty MAA Section Officers Meeting Development Project 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A/B/C Mary E. Pilgrim, Colorado State University THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Sue Doe, Colorado State University TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Hilary Freeman, Colorado State University Mathematics Part E – The Mathematics of Euler Kate Kiefer, Colorado State University 3:00 PM – 5:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 From Scratch to Proof: Preliminary Report Euler’s Dissertation on Logic 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM Margaret L. Morrow, SUNY Plattsburgh Sylvio R. Bistafa, University of São Paulo
SoTLE: Assessing the Effectiveness of Moodle Euler and Phonetics: The Untold Story of the Glossaries Mathematics of Language 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM 3:30 PM – 3:55 PM Jill E. Thomley, Appalachian State University Dominic Klyve, Central Washington University Sarah J. Greenwald, Appalachian State University Olivia Hirschey, Central Washington University
The Emporium Teaching Model and Its Effect Leonhard Euler: The Final Decade 1773 to October on Students’ Conceptions of Mathematics, 1783 Metacognitive Awareness and Course Performance 4:00 PM – 4:25 PM 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM Ronald S. Calinger, Catholic University of America Yevgeniya Rivers, University of New Haven Joshua Goss, University of New Haven Euler’s Method for Computing the Movement of a Mortar Bomb 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM William W. Hackborn, University of Alberta
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Euler on L’Hôpital’s Analyse PANEL SESSION 5:00 PM – 5:25 PM Panel 11. Congratulations on Getting Tenure! Now Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University What? 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 6 Euler’s OTHER Constant 5:30 PM – 5:55 PM UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Jonathan Martin, Purdue University Radical Dash Andy Martin, Kentucky State University 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 POSTER SESSION SOCIAL EVENT Highlights from AWM Chapters Centennial Reception 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Marriott Foyer 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A MINICOURSE SOCIAL EVENT 3. Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Mathematical Carnival at the Centennial Reception Spherical Trigonometry (Part A) 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room SOCIAL EVENT MINICOURSE Cirque de Mathematiques 7. Teaching Mathematics with Bead Crochet (Part A) 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room
PANEL SESSION Panel 4. A Discussion of the MAA/NCTM Joint Position Statement on Calculus 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A
Thursday, August 6
Registration MAA Paper Session #4 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Convention Registration 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A
INVITED ADDRESS MAA Paper Session #5 MAA Centennial Lecture 3 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B Mathematics for Art Investigation 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 MAA Paper Session #6 Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY MAA Student Paper Session #1 THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Mathematics Part F – Special Session in Memory of Jackie Stedall MAA Student Paper Session #2 8:30 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B Sylvester’s Amphigenous Surface MAA Student Paper Session #3 8:30 AM – 8:55 AM 8:30 AM – 10:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C June Barrow-Green, The Open University
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RAMScholars: Increasing Student Engagement in Jackie Stedall and the Mathematics of Thomas Learning Calculus Through PBL, Oral Assessments, Harriot and Writing 9:00 AM – 9:25 AM 9:50 AM – 10:05 AM Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands Jessica Gehrtz, Colorado State University Mary E. Pilgrim, Colorado State University The Construction of Map Projections in the Works of Lambert and Euler Beginning an Emerging Scholar’s Program in 9:30 AM – 9:55 AM Calculus II Rosanna Cretney, The Open University 10:10 AM – 10:25 AM Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, Lamar University Soviet Views of Early (English) Algebra 10:00 AM – 10:25 AM Wonders of 11 Stars: Mathematical Cultivations Christopher Hollings, University of Oxford through Paper Folding 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Bolzano’s Measurable Numbers: Are They Real? Duk-Hyung Lee, Asbury University 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM Steve Russ, University of Warwick Teaching Validity and Soundness of Arguments Katerina Trlifajova, Centre for Theoretical Studies, Using the Board Game ‘The Resistance’ Prague 10:50 AM – 11:05 AM Derek Thompson, Taylor University The BSHM, 1971-2015 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM Puzzles + Games = Mathematical Thinking Robin J. Wilson, Oxford University, UK 11:10 AM – 11:25 AM Edmund A. Lamagna, University of Rhode Island THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#11: Cultivating Critical Thinking through Active Learning in Mathematics Part A GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Graph Theory 8:30 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 1 8:30 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 3 Teaching Elements of Effective Thinking Through Mathematics Social Implications of the Königsberg Bridge 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM Problem Michael Starbird, The University of Texas at Austin 8:30 AM – 8:40 AM Paul J. Janiczek, Virginia Military Institute Fostering Critical Thinking in a Liberal Arts Mathematics Course through Graph Theory Coprime and Prime Labelings of Graphs 8:50 AM – 9:05 AM 8:45 AM – 8:55 AM Elizabeth S. Wolf, Saint Mary’s College Jonelle Hook, Mount St. Mary’s University Propagation Time on Directed Graphs Creative, Critical and Correct: Achieving Common Objectives in an Introductory Proofs Course 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM 9:10 AM – 9:25 AM Nathan Warnberg, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Kayla B. Dwelle, Ouachita Baptist University Counting Loops and Paths: The Monoid of a Directed Graph Active Learning in Linear Algebra Through Preview 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM and In-class Activities James Hamblin, Shippensburg University 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM Lance Bryant, Shippensburg University Feryal Alayont, Grand Valley State University Steven Schlicker, Grand Valley State University The Isoperimetric Constant of a Paley Graph 9:30 AM – 9:40 AM Anthony Shaheen, CSU Los Angeles
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Two Intersection Sets and Paley Graphs Expanding Your Horizons at James Madison 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM University: Math and Science Outreach to Middle Liz Lane-Harvard, University of Central Oklahoma and High School Girls 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM Generating Combinatorial Identities via Walk Elizabeth Arnold, James Madison University Counting Katie S. Quertermous, James Madison University 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM Nathan Moyer, Whitworth Univesity Rural STEM Model 9:30 AM – 9:40 AM Book Thickness of Zero-Divisor Graphs of Elizabeth Mauch, Bloomsburg University Commutative Rings 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM How to Hook Pre-Service Teachers on Professional Shannon Overbay, Gonzaga University Development 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM DI-Pathological Conjectures and Results Pari Ford, University of Nebraska at Kearney 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM Amy Nebesniak, University of Nebraska at Kearney John Asplund, Dalton State College Joe Chaffee Impact of 2015 National Math Festival on James Hammer, Ceder Crest College Undergraduate Mathematics Students 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM On Decomposing Regular Graphs and Multigraphs Alice E. Petillo, Marymount University into Forests Nicole Ferree, Marymount University 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM Saad El-Zanati, Illinois State University Increasing Diversity in the Classrooms: A Path Sabrina Allen, Illinois State University towards Inclusion in Mathematics Maggie Kopp, Illinois State University 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM Mike Plantholt, Illinois State University Li-Sheng Tseng, University of California, Irvine Shailesh Tipnis, Illinois State University Alessandra Pantano, University of California, Irvine
On the Number of Hills Among Generalized Dyck Native American-based Mathematics Materials for Paths Undergraduate Courses 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM Jiillian McLeod, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Charles P. Funkhouser, California State University Fullerton Naiomi Cameron, Lewis & Clark College Miles R. Pfahl, Turtle Mountain Community College GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Harriet Edwards, California State University Fullerton Mentoring and Outreach Creating a Meaningful Undergraduate Research 8:30 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B Project 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM Upper Elementary Outreach Mobius Bands and Brandon Samples, Georgia College & State University Polyhedra 8:30 AM – 8:40 AM Supporting the Success of Women Faculty through Beth Schaubroeck, United States Air Force Academy an NSF ADVANCE Grant: Looking Back, Moving Forward “Energizing” Students 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM 8:45 AM – 8:55 AM Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University Elizabeth Yanik, Emporia State University D. P. O’Neal, Louisiana Tech University
Girls in Science: Over 15 Years of STEM Outreach What’s It Like to Be Editor-in-Chief of the Notices of for Middle School Girls the American Mathematical Society? 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM Susan Kelly, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Frank Morgan, Williams College
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THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#6: Mathematics and Art Part B History or Philosophy of Mathematics 8:50 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A 9:15 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1, Balcony A
Geometry in Paintings: Where Two Dimensional More of 1915: Why is Mathematics Continually Becomes Three Dimensional Deemed So Essential to Science? 8:50 AM – 9:05 AM 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM Blair Lewis, Weber State University G. Arthur Mihram, Princeton, NJ Danielle Mihram, University of Southern California Geometric Islamic Star Patterns of Carved Mamluk Domes The Derivative Productions of Classical Heat 9:10 AM – 9:25 AM Analyses Lynn Bodner, Monmouth University 9:30 AM – 9:40 AM Shigeru Masuda, Kyoto University Geometry in 18th Century Japan: Exploring and Creating Sangaku Romance in Many Dimensions 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM David Clark, Randolph-Macon College Tereza Bartlova, Charles University in Prague
Randomness and Structure in Computer-generated An Animation of the Maya Tzolkin Calendar Art and Design 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM 9:50 AM – 10:05 AM Megan R. Rehm, Millersville University of Pennsylvania Vincent J. Matsko, University of San Francisco Cynthia E. Taylor, Millersville University of Pennsylvania Ximena Catepillan, Millersville University of “iFlakes”: Interactive Line Designs for iOS Pennsylvania 10:10 AM – 10:25 AM James E. Mihalisin, JedMDesigns On Mathematical Reasoning and the Decision Problem Ten Years of Student Art in a Math Class 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Linda Becerra, University of Houston-Downtown Bryan Clair, Saint Louis University Ron Barnes, University of Houston-Downtown
Art of Teaching Mathematics The Sources Jeremiah Day Used in his 1823 10:50 AM – 11:05 AM Algebra Book Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM Andrew Cooper, North Carolina State University Lokendra Paudel, New Mexico State University
Math = Art (or: How to Enhance Threaded History of Mathematics - The Illinois Connection Discussions) 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM 11:10 AM – 11:25 AM Herbert Kasube, Bradley University Debra M. Kean, DeVry University Mathematics, Baseball and Shakespeare: What Do MAA MathFest 2015 Exhibit Hall They Have in Common? 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall Charlie Smith, Park University UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Student Hospitality Center 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall
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GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION INVITED ADDRESS Teaching or Learning Calculus AMS-MAA Joint Invited Address 9:15 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1, Balcony B The Arithmetic of the Spheres 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Warmup Problems: How to Help Students Learn, Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan Avoid Grading Homework, and Make All Your Dreams Come True INVITED ADDRESS 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM MAA Centennial Lecture 4 Ryan Higginbottom, Washington & Jefferson College The Role and Function of Mathematical Models in Interdisciplinary Mentorship through Research: The New Mathways Project’s STEM Prep Curriculum: Lessons from the World of Epidemics Learning Outcomes & Example Lessons 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 9:30 AM – 9:40 AM Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University Frank Savina, Charles A Dana Center, University of Texas, Austin OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION Stuart Boersma, Central Washington University MAA Prize Session 11:35 AM – 12:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 High Impact Practices at UHD: Calculus I Teaching Circle 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Sergiy Koshkin, UH-Downtown Secrets of Mental Math Ronald Barnes, UH-Downtown Jeong-Mi Yoon, UH-Downtown 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Ryan Pepper, UH-Downtown Arthur Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College Plamen Simeonov, UH-Downtown PANEL SESSION Timothy Redl, UH-Downtown Panel 2. Applying for and Obtaining Grants Volodymyr Hrynkiv, UH-Downtown Arati Pati, UH-Downtown 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1
A Surprisingly Simple Integral WORKSHOP 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM USE Math: Undergraduate Sustainability Alan Levine, Franklin and Marshall College Experiences in the Mathematics Classroom 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C Integration By the Wrong Parts 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION William Kronholm, Whittier College TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Mathematics Part G – History and Philosophy of Integrating Ideas: A Calculus II Project Mathematics 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 Jonathan Hulgan, Oxford College of Emory University Robert Patterson: American ‘Revolutionary’ Reflections on Using Mastery-Based Testing in a Mathematician Calculus II Course 1:00 PM – 1:25 PM 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM Richard DeCesare, Southern Connecticut State University Alyssa Armstrong, Wittenberg University Lisbon: Mathematics, Engineering and Planning in The Effects of Assignment Timing on Student Learning the Eighteenth Century 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM 1:30 PM – 1:55 PM Emma Smith Zbarsky, Wentworth Institute of Technology Maria Zack, Point Loma Nazarene University
Integrating First-year Physics and Mathematics Vera on the Foundations of Mathematics through Project-based Learning 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM Alejandro R. Garciadiego, UNAM Randall Crist, Creighton University Gintaras Duda, Creighton University
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TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Graduate Certificate in STEM Education Mathematics Part H – History and Philosophy of 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Mathematics Cynthia Orona, University of Arkansas 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5 An Overview of a Successful Mathematics Minor Yoshikatsu Sugiura: A Good Japanese Friend of in Elementary Math Teaching at PUC Paul Dirac 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM 1:00 PM – 1:25 PM Diana Underwood, Purdue University Calumet Michiyo Nakane, Nihon University Research Institute of Catherine Murphy, Purdue University Calumet Science and Technology The Pennsylvania Math Initiative: The First Ramanujan, Robin, Highly Composite Numbers, and Three Years the Riemann Hypothesis 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM 1:30 PM – 1:55 PM Andrew Baxter, Penn State University, University Park Jonathan Sondow, Independent Scholar Fran Arbaugh, Penn State University, University Park Jean-Louis Nicolas, University of Lyon, France George Andrews, Penn State University, University Park
A Visit to the Vatican Library Reflections on Twenty Years of Wheelock 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM College’s Math/Science Majors for Prospective Matthew Haines, Augsburg College Elementary Teachers 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM MINICOURSE Debra K. Borkovitz, Wheelock College 1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics (Part A) INVITED SESSION 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room AMS-MAA Invited Paper Session: The Arithmetic of MINICOURSE the Spheres 6. Creating Flipped Learning Experiences in the 1:00 PM – 3:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A College Mathematics Classroom (Part A) The Apollonian Structure of Imaginary Quadratic 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room Fields THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM TCPS#13: Successful STEM Programs for Katherine Stange, University of Colorado Boulder Elementary Education Majors Circles in the Sand 1:00 PM – 3:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 2 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM Lionel Levine, Cornell University Lecturing Left on the Cutting Room Floor: A Video Project for Pre-service Teachers Pythagoras Meets Euclid: A Euclidean Algorithm for 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Pythagorean Triples Matthew D. Zawodniak, University of Georgia 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM Dan Romik, University of California Davis Examining the Features and Outcomes of a STEM- Focused Elementary Teacher Preparation Program Dynamics of Apollonian Circle Packings 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM Temple A. Walkowiak, North Carolina State University Elena Fuchs, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Valerie N. Faulkner, North Carolina State University Paola Sztajn, North Carolina State University Variations on Apollonian Circle Packing Rules 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Calculus for Pre-Service Elementary Teachers Steve Butler, Iowa State University 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Alina N. Duca, North Carolina State University Geometry and Number Theory of Integral Sphere Karen Keene, North Carolina State University Packings 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM Kei Nakamura, University of California Davis
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INVITED SESSION Perfect Heptagons and 13-Sided Triskaidecagons MAA Invited Paper Session: Improving Access to 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM Mathematical Modeling Research Genghmun Eng 1:00 PM – 4:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware B How to Add Guards to an Art Gallery Global Disease Monitoring and Forecasting with 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM Wikipedia T. S. Michael, United States Naval Academy 1:00 PM – 1:25 PM Val Pinciu, United States Naval Academy Sara Del Valle, Los Alamos National Laboratory New Perspectives on Polygonal Area Engaging students in applied mathematics via 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM experiential learning through research Owen D. Byer, Eastern Mennonite University 1:30 PM – 1:55 PM Sherry Towers, Arizona State University Area Bounds of Covers of Unit Arcs 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM Overcoming Epistemic Obstacles to Teaching Libin Mou, Bradley University Mathematical Modeling in Calculus 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM What Isn’t an Ellipse? Patrick Thompson, Arizona State University 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM Alex Meadows, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Mathematical Modeling Experiences in Secondary Casey Douglas, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Schools 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM The Bounding Problem for Infra-Solvmanifolds Kathleen R. Fowler, Clarkson University 3:00 PM – 3:10 PM Scott V. Thuong, Pittsburg State University Mathematics Education Commentary: At the Interface Between Applied Mathematics and Mathematics Education Nested Sequences of Triangles in Non-Euclidean Spaces 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM 3:15 PM – 3:25 PM Carlos Castillo-Garsow, Eastern Washington University Andrew Lazowski, Sacred Heart University Applied Mathematics Commentary: Math at Top Speed: The Role of Mathematical Modeling in Excursions in Combinatorial Taxicab Geometry Science and in My Personal Life 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM 3:30 PM – 4:20 PM John Best, Summit University of Pennsylvania Richard Tapia, Rice University Inequalities in Spherical Geometry: Ancient and GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Modern Geometry 3:45 PM – 3:55 PM Marshall Whittlesey, California State University 1:00 PM – 4:40 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1, Balcony B San Marcos
Exploring Mathematical Ideas through Origami Angle-of-Parallelism Spectra in Non-Homogeneous 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM Geometries Arsalan Wares, Valdosta State University 4:00 PM – 4:10 PM J. Mealy, Austin College The Right Pascal’s Triangle Malin Pappas, Austin College 1:15 PM – 1:25 PM Yaping Liu, Pittsburg State University A New Theorem Concerning Isopivotal Cubics, Could it be the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of Geometry? Generalizing the Law of Cosines 4:15 PM – 4:25 PM 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM Ivan Zelich, Anglican Church Grammar School Lee N. Collins, County College of Morris Tom Osler, Rowan University
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Plane Geometry Construction of Gravity Field Teaching Strategies for Summer Math Courses Mechanical Energy Curves 3:00 PM – 3:10 PM 4:30 PM – 4:40 PM Jeremiah Bartz, Francis Marion University Alexander L. Garron, Sand Box Geometry LLC A Collaborative Partnership to Teach Mathematical GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Reasoning Using Computer Programming (CPR2) Teaching or Learning Introductory Mathematics 3:15 PM – 3:25 PM Part B Cynthia L. Stenger, University of North Alabama 1:00 PM – 4:40 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B James A. Jerkins, University of North Alabama
“Reverse Engineering” to Strengthen Critical Critical Thinking and Mathematical Habits of Mind Thinking for Pre-Service Teachers 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM Marshall Gordon, Park School of Baltimore J. Lyn Miller, Slippery Rock University Developing Mathematical Authenticity, Maturity, An Algebra Course for Pre-Service Middle Level and Aesthetic Experience in Pre-Calculus and Teachers Earlier Learners 1:15 PM – 1:25 PM 3:45 PM – 3:55 PM Dorothee J. Blum, Millersville University Deborah W. Devlin, Frostburg State University G. Gerard Wojnar, Frostburg State University Designing a General Education Mathematics Course in Linear Algebra Pedagogical Strategies for Quantitative Reasoning, 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM Literacy, and Writing for Non-Science Majors David Hecker, St. Joseph’s University 4:00 PM – 4:10 PM Stephen Andrilli, La Salle University Mike LeVan, Transylvania University
Fractals, Linear Algebra, Python, and Sage: A Experiencing a ‘GREAT’ Project in a Liberal Arts Linear Algebra Course for Computer Science Majors Mathematics Course 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM 4:15 PM – 4:25 PM Vincent J. Matsko, University of San Francisco Mary B. Walkins, The Community College of Baltimore County Project-Based Learning in First Year General Education Mathematics Courses Teaching Focused at a Research University: Temple 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM University Mathematics Zeynep Teymuroglu, Rollins College 4:30 PM – 4:40 PM Ellen Panofsky, Temple University Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair: Filling Maria Lorenz, Temple University in the Gaps in Online Homework 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Sara Malec, Hood College Applied Mathematics 1:00 PM – 4:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 3 Reflection Paper, Poster, and Presentation: A Unique Final Examination Experience for a Liberal A New Directed Interval Arithmetic Arts Mathematics Course 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM Sijie Liu, University of Alabama Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State University An Alternative Way of Calculating Area of Closed Math and Civil Rights: An Interdisciplinary Reading Regions in Parabolas Course 1:15 PM – 1:25 PM 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM Yavuz Sidal, Isiklar, Air Force High School Rachel Weir, Allegheny College
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Iteratively Regularized Gauss-Newton Method for Identification Problem for Klein-Gordon Equation Applied Inverse Problems 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM Qinghua Luo, Marian University Leslie Meadows, GSU - Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics Reduced Basis Method for Solving the Hyperspectral Diffuse Optical Tomography Model On the Equilibrium Configurations of Flexible Fibers 3:45 PM – 3:55 PM in a Flow Rachel Grotheer, Clemson University 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM Thilo Strauss, Clemson University Bogdan Nita, Montclair State University Taufiquar Khan, Clemson University
Master Stability Functions for Synchronized Where Is the Hypergeometric Distribution Used Identical Systems with Linear Delay-Coupling (Besides Card Games)? 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM 4:00 PM – 4:10 PM Stanley R. Huddy, Fairleigh Dickinson University Luis F. Moreno, SUNY Broome Community College
Initial Condition and Stability of Differential Temporal Network Dynamics Equations 4:15 PM – 4:25 PM 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM Haley A. Yaple, Carthage College Hassan K. Mansour, El Centro College Mike Panahi, El Centro College A New Way to Measure Competitive Balance Dale Pearson, El Centro College Across Sports Leagues 4:30 PM – 4:40 PM A Seventh Order Block Integrator for Solving Stiff Jake Lehman, Cornell College Systems Brian Cristion, Cornell College 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM Jordan Wolfe, Cornell College Blessing I. Akinnukawe, University of Lagos, Lagos, Tyler Skorczewski, Cornell College Nigeria Solomon A. Okunuga, University of Lagos, Lagos, Counting Mutations and Anti-Chains in Binary Trees Nigeria and Motzkin Trees 4:45 PM – 4:55 PM Mathematical Modeling of Continuous and Lifoma Salaam, Howard University Intermittent Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM TCPS#11: Cultivating Critical Thinking through Alacia M. Voth, Sam Houston State University Active Learning in Mathematics Part B John G. Alford, Sam Houston State University Edward W. Swim, Sam Houston State University 1:00 PM – 5:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 1
Development and Implementation of a Using Projects to Enrich and Expand in the Classroom Pharmacokinetic Model as the Target Equation for a 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM PID Control System Meghan De Witt, St Thomas Aquinas College 3:00 PM – 3:10 PM George W. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University Using Learning Logs to Cultivate Critical Thinking Skills E. A. Sherer, Louisiana Tech University 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM D. P. O’Neal, Louisiana Tech University Roger Wolbert, University at Buffalo I. B. Magana, Louisiana Tech University Linked Math and English in an Active Learning P. Adhikari, Louisiana Tech University Classroom Holly Grigsby, Louisiana Tech University 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
A Numerical Solution to Boundary Value Problems Active Learning through Formative Assessments and Volterra Integrals 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM 3:15 PM – 3:25 PM Maggie McHugh, La Crosse School District Hamid Semiyari, James Madison University Jennifer Kosiak, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Making Problem ~Asking the Students to Make Up Problem~ MAA Student Paper Session #7 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Noriko Tanaka, Toyota-nishi High School (Japan) MAA Student Paper Session #8 Teaching with Your Mouth Shut - Inquiry Based Learning in Upper Level Mathematics Courses 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Shay Fuchs, University of Toronto Mississauga MAA Student Paper Session #9 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Student Centered Learning of Number Theory for Reluctant Mathematics Majors 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM MAA Student Paper Session #10 Daniel R. Shifflet, Clarion University of Pennsylvania 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A
Putting the “Real” Back in Real Analysis UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM PME Student Paper Session #1 Justin Wright, Plymouth State University 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B Discussing Mathematical Creativity at the Undergraduate Level PME Student Paper Session #2 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C Houssein El Turkey, University of New Haven Gulden Karakok, University of Northern Colorado THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Milos Savic, University of Oklahoma TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Gail Tang, University of La Verne Mathematics Part J – History and Philosophy of Mathematics Emilie Naccarato, University of Northern Colorado 2:30 PM – 4:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 Mathematics Applied Through Programming, Modeling, and Games Mathematical Structuralism and Mathematical 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Applicability Leslie Jones, University of Tampa 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM Britney Hopkins, University of Central Oklahoma Elaine Landry, University of California, Davis
Blended Delivery and Asynchronous Active- Designing Mathematics: the Role of Axioms Learning Strategies in Developmental Math: a Case 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM Study Jean-Pierre Marquis, Université de Montréal 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM Filippo Posta, Grand Canyon University Does the Indispensability Argument Leave Open the Question of the Causal Nature of Mathematical Achieving a Successful Active Learning Environment Entities? in an Online Math/Stat Undergraduate Course 3:30 PM – 3:55 PM 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM Alexandru Manafu, IHPST Paris Christy S. Langley, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Julie Roy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette How Does the Mind Construct/Discover Mathematical Propositions? Synchronous Active Learning in Online and Hybrid 4:00 PM – 4:25 PM Environments Carl Behrens, Alexandria, VA 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM Carolyn Johns, The Ohio State University What is an Adequate Epistemology for Mathematics? GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM Graduate Student Q&A Jeff Buechner, Rutgers University-Newark 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8224
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PANEL SESSION Panel 8. What Mathematics Do Engineering MAA Student Paper Session #14 Students Need to Know in the First Two Years? (And What If It Doesn’t Start With Calculus?) 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY PME Student Paper Session #3 SPECIAL MAA CENTENNIAL EVENT Presidential Reminiscences 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B 3:00 PM – 4:45 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 PME Student Paper Session #4
POSTER SESSION 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C Classroom Activities and Projects within the Context of Environmental Sustainability PANEL SESSION Panel 12. Finding Your New Niche: Staying Fresh 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriot Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 6 MINICOURSE 5. Using Videos of Students Developing Proofs to SIGMAA ACTIVITY Guide Teaching and Learning (Part A) POM SIGMAA Guest Lecture What are mathematical objects, and who cares? 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 MINICOURSE 8. Getting Started in the Scholarship of Teaching OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION and Learning (Part A) The Man Who Knew Infinity: Sneak Peek and Expert Panel 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Ken Ono, Emory University MAA Student Paper Session #11 SOCIAL EVENT 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Graduate Student Reception
MAA Student Paper Session #12 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Marriot Wardman Park, Chef’s Table at Stone’s Throw 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B SOCIAL EVENT Mathematicians by Day, Musicians by Night MAA Student Paper Session #13 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C
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Registration An American Postulate Theorist: Edward V. Huntington 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Convention Registration 8:30 AM – 8:55 AM THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Janet H. Barnett, Colorado State University - Pueblo TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Mathematics Part K – Special Session on Combatting the “Legion of Half-Wits”: the Mathematical Communities Contentious Mathematicians of the Paris Academy of Sciences 8:00 AM – 10:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 9:00 AM – 9:25 AM Lawrence D’Antonio, Ramapo College A Partial History of Math Circles 8:00 AM – 8:25 AM Diana White, University of Colorado Denver Brandy Wiegers, University of Central Washington
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The Mathematics in ‘Mathematical Instruments’: The The Cell Phone Dropping Problem Case of the Royal Geographical Society, London, in 10:10 AM – 10:25 AM the Mid to Late Nineteenth Century Japheth Wood, Bard College 9:30 AM – 9:55 AM Philip B. Yasskin, Texas A&M University Jane Wess, Edinburgh University/Royal Geographical Society-IBG From 100s in a Number to 100 Squares on a 10x10 Checker Board (Or Are There More?) Did American Professors Form a Mathematical 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Community in the Early 19th Century? Victoria Kofman, Quality Engineering Education, Inc. 10:00 AM – 10:25 AM Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, University of Maryland Spinout, The Brain, Gray Code, and 100 University College 10:50 AM – 11:05 AM George McNulty, University of South Carolina INVITED ADDRESS AWM-MAA Etta Z. Falconer Lecture Nieves McNulty, Columbia College Douglas B. Meade, University of South Carolina “A Multiplicity All At Once”: Mathematics for Everyone, Everywhere GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Analysis and Other Erica Walker, Columbia University 8:30 AM – 11:10 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1, Balcony B THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#3: Math Circle Problems in Honor of the Green’s Functions for Right Focal Boundary Value MAA’s 100th Anniversary Problems in Nabla Fractional Calculus 8:30 AM – 8:40 AM 8:30 AM – 11:05 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 6 Julia St. Goar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Coordinating a State-Wide Math Contest Periodic Behavior of Nonlinear 2nd Order Discrete 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM Dynamical Systems Abraham S. Mantell, Nassau Community College 8:45 AM – 8:55 AM Dan Maroncelli, Concordia University St. Paul Abbot and Costello Numbers Jesus Rodriguez, North Carolina State University 8:50 AM – 9:05 AM Mary Garner, Gateway Community Math Center The Existence of Positive Solutions to an Even Order Virginia Watson, Gateway Community Math Center Differential Equation with Right Focal Boundary Conditions Exploring the 100 (and 1) Spaces of Prime Climb in 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM a Math Teachers’ Circle Britney Hopkins, University of Central Oklahoma 9:10 AM – 9:25 AM Kristi Karber, University of Central Oklahoma Jialing Dai, University of the Pacific Christopher Goff, University of the Pacific Algebra, Analysis, and Geometry in the Solution of Sara Malec, Hood College the Basel Problem Dennis Parker, University of the Pacific 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM C. L. Frenzen, Naval Postgraduate School Growing Math Circles for the Next 100 Years 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM Elementary Approach to End Compactifications Brandy Wiegers, Central Washington University/ 9:30 AM – 9:40 AM National Association of Math Circles Malgorzata A. Marciniak, CUNY Diana White, University of Colorado, Denver/National Association of Math Circles Composition of Formal Laurent Series 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM 100 Problems Involving the Number 100 Xiao-Xiong Gan, Morgan State University 9:50 AM – 10:05 AM James Tanton, MAA
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An Example for Green’s Theorem with Discontinuous INVITED SESSION Partial Derivatives MAA Invited Paper Session: Algebraic Structures 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM Motivated by Knot Theory Adam Coffman , Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne 9:00 AM – 11:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Yuan Zhang, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Knots and Knot Theory Equivalence of Some Picard-type Iterations for 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM a General Class of Operators in Normed Linear Spaces Lou Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM Knot Coloring: A Diagrammatic Approach to Hudson Akewe, University of Lagos Algebraic Invariants 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM Operator Diagonalizations of Multiplier Sequences Heather Russell, Washington College 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM Robert Bates, University of Hawaii at Manoa Topological Symmetries of Molecules 10:40 AM – 11:20 AM Non-Linear Operators Satisfying Orthogonality Properties Erica Flapan, Pomona College 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM William Feldman, University of Arkansas MAA MathFest 2015 Exhibit Hall 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A Survey of Best Monotone Theorems in Graph Theory UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM Student Hospitality Center Douglas Bauer, Stevens Institute of Technology 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall Hajo J. Broersma, University of Twente Nathan Kahl, Seton Hall University GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Aori Nevo, Stevens Institute of Technology Probability or Statistics Edward Schmeichel, San Jose State University 9:15 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B Douglas R. Woodall, University of Nottingham Michael Yatauro, Penn State Brandywine An Exploration into Grouped Current Status Data UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM MAA Student Paper Session #15 Lucia C. Petito, UC Berkeley Nicholas P. Jewell, UC Berkeley 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A Using the Mathematical Sciences to Protect Data MAA Student Paper Session #16 9:30 AM – 9:40 AM 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B Paul Massell, U.S. Census Bureau
MAA Student Paper Session #17 Stability - A New Way to Compare Statistical Measures: Theory and Applications for Assessing 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Learner Achievement and Teaching Effectiveness 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM MAA Student Paper Session #18 David DiMarco, Neumann University Ryan Savitz, Neumann University 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A Fred Savitz, Neumann University UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY PME Student Paper Session #5 Lefty-Righty Experiment: A Group Project for An Individual Grade 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM Tuyetdong Phan-Yamada, Glendale Community College PME Student Paper Session #6 Walter M. Yamada, III, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 8:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C
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Statistics and Japan: Bringing Themes into What Should be the Content of a Developmental Elementary Statistics Courses Algebra Class? 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM Pat Kiihne, Illinois College Carlos Nicolas, Ferrum College
Analyzing Distributions by Visualization in a A Critical Reflection on the Development and Probability and Statistics Class Promotion of Constructivist-Learning Environment 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM in Mathematics at the Intermediate Phase in South Jason Molitierno, Sacred Heart University Africa 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM Inverting an Introductory Statistics Course Lateef N. Najeem, University of South Africa 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM Gertrud L. Kraut, Southern Virginia University One Student’s Journey on the Road to Sense- Making in Algebra Probability and Possibilities: A Promising 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM Pedagogy Janet St. Clair, Alabama State University 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM Deborah J. Gougeon, University of Scranton The University of Illinois Math Placement Program: A Retrospection on 8 Years and 75,000+ Students Using Conway’s Napkin Problem in an Introductory 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM Probability Class Alison Reddy, Univeristy of Illinois 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM Shenglan Yuan, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY An Assessment of Student-Centered Learning Across Multi-Sections of ‘Large’ College Algebra Classrooms: An On-Going Study GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Teaching or Learning Developmental Mathematics 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM and Assessment Perry Y.C. Lee, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Padraig McLoughlin, Kutztown University of 9:15 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1, Balcony A Pennsylvania
Conceptual Learning in Mathematics Upper INVITED ADDRESS Secondary Education: The International Earl Raymond Hedrick Lecture Series Baccalaureate 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM Hedrick Lecture 2 Neil Hendry, International Baccalaureate 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Karen Smith, University of Michigan Developmental Mathematics Remediation through an Online Summer Bridge Program GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY 9:30 AM – 9:40 AM Graduate Student Q&A James Sobota, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Park Tower 8224 Jennifer Kosiak, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Maggie McHugh, La Crosse School District INVITED ADDRESS Robert Hoar, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse MAA Centennial Lecture 5 Robert Allen, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse CSHPM Kenneth O. May Lecture “We Are Evidently on the Verge of Important Steps For Developmental Students, a Different Way of Forward”: The American Mathematical Community, Working with Fractions, Solving Linear Equations, 1915-1950 Obtaining the Equation of a Straight Line and 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Rigorously Defining Real Numbers Karen Parshall, University of Virginia 9:45 AM – 9:55 AM Maria T. Alzugaray, Suffolk County Community College INVITED ADDRESS NAM David Harold Blackwell Lecture Dividing Process in Base-10 Number System: Mathematics, Mathematicians, Mathematics Education Reversed Dividing Process for 1/X and Equity: Challenges and Opportunities 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Nick H. Huang, Howard Consulting Terrence Blackman, The University of Denver
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PANEL SESSION MINICOURSE Panel 1. A Common Vision for the Undergraduate 2. The Mathematics of Games and Gambling (Part B) Mathematics Program in 2025 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 MINICOURSE WORKSHOP 4. Recruiting Students to Take More Mathematics Beauty of Three Dimensional Polyhedra Workshop Courses and to be Mathematics Majors (Part B) (in Celebration of the MAA’s Centennial) 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Teaching or Learning Advanced Mathematics THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 1:00 PM – 3:10, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1, Balcony B TCPS#17: Curriculum and Course Development to Support First Year STEM Students Teaching Quantifiers via Map Coloring 1:00 PM – 2:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 3 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM John McSweeney, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Supporting Students in Health Sciences 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Teaching Linear Independence with Process Magdalena Luca, MCPHS University Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) 1:15 PM – 1:25 PM A Watershed Year in STEM Education at Sonoma Kseniya Fuhrman, Milwaukee School of Engineering State University Cynthia Farthing, University of Iowa 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Martha Shott, Sonoma State University Four Stages in Teaching Linear Algebra: From Diagnosis, Connection, Deepening to Application FastTrack: A Collaborative Effort to Support STEM 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM Students Wen-Haw Chen, Department of Applied Mathematics, 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Tunghai University Jennifer Kosiak, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse James Sobota, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Visualizing the Actions of Abelian Groups Robert Hoar, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM Maggie McHugh, La Crosse School District Jennifer F. Vasquez, The University of Scranton
Summer Curriculum for Selected Incoming Freshmen Where Can We Use Abstract Algebra? and Transfer STEM Students 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Fariba Nowrouzi-Kashan, Kentucky Sytate University Amanda L. Hattaway, Wentworth Institute of Technology Kathleen Grace Kennedy, Wentworth Institute of Exterior Algebra in the Undergraduate Curriculum Technology 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM Emma Smith Zbarsky, Wentworth Institute of Technology Boyd Coan, Norfolk State University
Implementing Learning Labs as Instructional Writing Projects in Combinatorics and Graph Theory Support for Freshman Calculus 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Mahmud Akelbek, Weber State University K. Grace Kennedy, Wentworth Institute of Technology Emma Smith Zbarsky, Wentworth Institute of Technology Empowering Undergraduate Students through Amanda Hattaway, Wentworth Institute of Technology Project-Oriented Independent Studies Joan Giblin, Wentworth Institute of Technology 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM Zhewei Dai, Alma College Thinking On Your Feet Does No Harm 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Rekindling Critical Thinking: Heeding Major Errors Paul N. Runnion, Missouri S&T in Typical “Transition to Proof” Textbooks 3:00 PM – 3:10 PM Raymond T. Boute, Ghent University
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INVITED SESSION Exploring Multivariable Calculus Concepts in MAA Invited Paper Session: Concrete Context through Physical Surfaces Computations in Algebra and Algebraic Geometry 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Dale Buske 1:00 PM – 3:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware B , St. Cloud State University
Continued Fractions Can Resolve Singularities?! Inquiry Based Instructional Supplement (IBIS) for Calculus Sequence 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Robert Walker, University of Michigan Karmen T. Yu, Montclair State University The Search for Indecomposable Modules Justin Seventko, Montclair State University 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM Trina Wooten, Montclair State University Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College An Instructor’s Perspective of Flipping Calculus: The Pros and Cons The Importance of α 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM Caleb Adams Mike Janssen, Dordt College , Radford University THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Pictures of Syzygies TCPS#2: The Contributions of Women to 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM Mathematics: 100 Years and Counting Part A Timothy Clark, Loyola University 1:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 2 When Do 10 Points Lie on a Cubic Curve? 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM One of the Most Significant Woman in Matrix Will Traves, United States Naval Academy Theory - Olga Taussky-Todd 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Sandra Fital-Akelbek, Weber State University TCPS#19: Innovative Approaches in the Calculus Sequence Part A Pie Charts, Pearson, and the Prussian Army: Celebrating Florence Nightingale and FN David 1:00 PM – 3:35 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 6 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Samuel Luke Tunstall, Appalachian State University Calculus for Life Sciences: A Two-Semester Calculus Sequence for Biology and Health Science Majors American Women Mathematics PhDs of the 1940s 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM and 1950s Anthony DeLegge, Benedictine University 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Margaret Murray, University of Iowa Resequencing Calculus I & II 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM African American Women Mathematicians Charlotte Knotts-Zides, Wofford College 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Darlene Butler, Arkansas State University-Beebe Rethinking the Sequence of the Content of Calculus I for Deeper Conceptual Understanding Making Her Mark on a Century of Turmoil and 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Triumph: A Tribute to Polish and Polish-American Jose A. Jimenez, Penn State Hazleton Women in Mathematics 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Multivariable Calculus Reordered and Rethought Emelie Kenney, Siena College 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Robert Sachs, George Mason University A Well-Kept Secret: Women in Mathematics Education An Innovative, Three-Dimensional Approach to 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Multivariable Calculus Instruction Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Jason Samuels, City University of New York Interesting Women in the Missouri MAA Section Aaron Wangberg, Winona State University 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Brian Fisher, Lubbock Christian University Leon Hall, Missouri S&T
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Life and Research of Vasanti Bhat-Nayak A Model for Soil-Plant-Surface Water Relationships 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM in Arid Flat Environments Pallavi Jayawant, Bates College 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM Bonni Dichone, Gonzaga University Iran and Women in Mathematics David Wollkind, Washington State University 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Richard Cangelosi, Gonzaga University Sahar M. Kashan, DuPont Manual High School Fariba Nowrouzi-Kashan, Kentucky State University Pattern Formation in the Developing Visual Cortex - The Joint Development of CO Blobs and Ocular GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Dominance Stripes Interdisciplinary Topics in Mathematics and 3:00 PM – 3:10 PM Modeling or Applications Andrew M. Oster, Eastern Washington University Paul C. Bressloff, University of Utah 1:00 PM – 4:25 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B A Mathematical Model with Asymptomatic Experiences Teaching an Honors Seminar on Sports Individuals for Malaria in the Amazon Region Analytics 3:15 PM – 3:25 PM 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM Ana L. Vivas-Barber, Norfolk State University, VA, USA Russell E. Goodman, Central College Eun Chang, Norfolk State University, VA, USA Tapestries In the Teaching Of Mathematics Sunmi Lee, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea 1:15 PM – 1:25 PM Bifurcations, Chaos and Fractal Dimensions in Hari N. Upadhyaya, Scholars Home Academy Population Models 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM The Importance of “Navigating Ambiguity through Context” for Students in Quantitative Sciences Tarini K. Dutta, Gauhati University 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM Tomographic Image Processing Aminul Huq, University of Minnesota Rochester 3:45 PM – 3:55 PM Marcia D. Nichols, University of Minnesota Rochester Shylee Ezroni, Wentworth Institute Of Technology Bijaya Aryal, University of Minnesota Rochester Ely Biggs, Wentworth Institute Of Technology Unique Algebraic Structure to Connect Nanoscale Jack Reff, Wentworth Institute Of Technology Instance from Mesoscale Material Behavior 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM Understanding the Role of Voltage Dependent Electrical Coupling in a Neuronal Network Vikash Mishra, University of Arkansas 4:00 PM – 4:10 PM Craig Mclean, University of Arkansas Christina L. Mouser, William Paterson University Counting Melodies with Fibonacci Polynomials Amitabha Bose, New Jersey Institute of Technology 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM Farzan Nadim, New Jersey Institute of Technology Kurt Ludwick, Salisbury University Timing of Action Potential in Auditory Neuron System Roots of Polynomials with Generalized Fibonacci Coefficients 4:15 PM – 4:25 PM 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM Anh T. Vo, Creighton University Ron Taylor, Berry College THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION Eric McDowell, Berry College TCPS#5: Recreational Mathematics: New Problems Jill Cochran, Berry College and New Solutions Part A
The Use of Mathematics in Ecology, Evolution and 1:00 PM – 4:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 1 Behavior 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM Pablo Duran, The University of Texas at Austin
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Elvis Lives: An Exploration of Greedy and Global A New Approach to Chinese Chess Knight’s Tour Path Optimization in a Game of Fetch Using Gauss’ Area Formula 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM Steve J. Bacinski, Davenport University Matthew Mak, ACS Independent Mark J. Panaggio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Suling Lee, ACS Independent Timothy J. Pennings, Davenport University INVITED SESSION Logarithms are Hot Stuff and a New Rating Scale MAA Invited Paper Session: Algebraic Structures for Chili Peppers Motivated by Knot Theory 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A Eric Landquist, Kutztown University An Introduction to Quandles Turning Infinity Inside Out: A Seamstress’s 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM Conundrum Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Ellie Baker, Freelance Enhancements of Counting Invariants 1:50 PM – 2:30 PM Geometric Modeling of Hexagonal Joints: Carving Mathematics Out of Wood Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM An Introduction to Quandle Cohomology James S. Sochacki, James Madison University 2:40 PM – 3:20 PM Anthony Tongen, James Madison University J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama A Trouble-some Simulation What is Categorification? 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM 3:30 PM – 4:10 PM Geoffrey Dietz, Gannon University Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University An Analyzable (Though Seldom Winnable) Card Solitaire From Jones to Chebyshev: Adventures in Categorification 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM 4:20 PM – 5:00 PM Leon Harkleroad, Bates College Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University Penney’s Game and Roulette THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM TCPS#15: Democratizing Access to Authentic Robert W. Vallin, Lamar University Mathematical Activity
Multi-Opponent James Functions 1:20 PM – 3:35 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM Christopher N. B. Hammond, Connecticut College Mathematics and Social Justice: Perspectives and Resources for the College Classroom Warren P. Johnson, Connecticut College 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Sylver Coinage - An Algebraist’s Investigation Gizem Karaali, Pomona College 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Lily Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles Jeremy Thompson, USAF Academy Opening a Gateway to Mathematical Inquiry Winning Moves in Fibonacci Nim 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Brian Katz, Augustana College Cody Allen, San Diego State University Seeding Mathematical Interest in Inner-City Latino Vadim Ponomarenko, San Diego State University Students 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM The n-Queens Problem with Forbidden Placements Alessandra Pantano, University of California, Irvine 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM Li-Sheng Tseng, University of California, Irvine Doug Chatham, Morehead State University Andres Forero, University of California, Irvine
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Documenting Instantaneous and Cumulative Change Leaf Hydraulic Conductance: Modeling Geometry 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Monelle Joline Gomez, The Ohio State University Frank Lynch, EWU Azita Manouchehri, The Ohio State University Xiangquan Yao, The Ohio State University Cancer Classification of Gene Expression Data by Top Scoring Pairs, Consensus Clustering and What Evidence Do You Have? Data-Based Support Vector Machines Investigations into Contemporary Race Relations in 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM a General Education Math Class Andrea E. Ekey, Howard University 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Louise A. Raphael, Howard University Victor Piercey, Ferris State University Ahmed Tadde, Howard University Mathematical Modeling for Elementary Integrating Mathematics and Biology Through Mathematics Teachers Mathematical Modeling 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Elizabeth A. Burroughs, Montana State University Debra Mimbs, Lee University
Undergraduate Research, Outreach and Student Classification: A Fundamental Tool in Biology and Activities for a “Fair” Mathematical Experience Mathematics 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Emek Kose, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Atabong T. Agendia, Madonna University Nigeria
THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION TCPS#4: Undergraduate Research Activities in Alder Award Session Mathematical and Computational Biology 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 1:20 PM – 4:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5 Reality Shifting: Building Mathematical Confidence Building a Math-Bio Research Program at a 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM Primarily Undergraduate Institution Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Zachary Abernathy, Winthrop University A Taste of Research 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM Ten Years of Math/Bio Research Collaboration with Patrick X. Rault, SUNY Geneseo Undergraduates 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Be Inspirable! Jeffrey L. Poet, Missouri Western State University 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Laurie J. Heyer, Davidson College Allison K. Henrich, Seattle University Todd T. Eckdahl, Missouri Western State University A. M. Campbell, Davidson College UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY MAA Student Paper Session #19 Modeling Delay in Axon Circuit 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Mikhail Shvartsman, University of St Thomas MAA Student Paper Session #20 Pavel Bêlík, Augsburg College 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B The Dynamics of Pulse Vaccination Models 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM MAA Student Paper Session #21 Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Simulating and Animating the Spatial Dynamics of Interacting Species Living on a Torus-shaped MAA Student Paper Session #22 Universe 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Boyan Kostadinov, City Tech, CUNY
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY POSTER SESSION PME Student Paper Session #7 PosterFest 2015: A Poster Session of Scholarship by Early Career Mathematicians and Graduate 2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B Students PME Student Paper Session #8 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall A
2:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION Estimathon! THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C Mathematics Part M – Special Session in Honor of Karen Parshall MINICOURSE 7. Teaching Mathematics with Bead Crochet (Part B) 2:00 PM – 4:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room Leonard Dickson’s Other Doctoral Student from 1928 MINICOURSE 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM 3. Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Della Dumbaugh, University of Richmond Spherical Trigonometry (Part B) 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room Spreading the Wealth: The Ford Foundation and Eugene Northrop’s Advancement of Mathematics SPECIAL MAA CENTENNIAL EVENT and Science at Home and Abroad Presidential Reminiscences 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM Patti W. Hunter, Westmont College 3:45 PM – 6:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3
The Annals of Mathematics: From the Fringes of UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Civilization to the University of Virginia, MAA Student Paper Session #23 1873-1883 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM Deborah Kent, Drake University MAA Student Paper Session #24 Karen Parshall and a Course on the History of 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B Mathematics in America 3:30 PM – 3:55 PM MAA Student Paper Session #25 David Zitarelli, Temple University 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Fuzzy Logic and Contemporary American Mathematics: A Cautionary Tale MAA Student Paper Session #26 4:00 PM – 4:25 PM 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson A Joseph W. Dauben, City University of New York UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY American Mathematicians Beyond the Iron Curtain: PME Student Paper Session #9 The US-Soviet Interacademy Exchange Program 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson B 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM Brittany Shields, University of Pennsylvania PME Student Paper Session #10 PANEL SESSION 4:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Wilson C Panel 10. Nonacademic Career Paths for Mathematicians PANEL SESSION 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Panel 3. Beyond the Post-Doc: Fellowship Opportunities for Mathematics Faculty 4:10 PM – 5:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1
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SIGMAA ACTIVITY INVITED ADDRESS Web SIGMAA Guest Lecture Pi Mu Epsilon J. Sutherland Frame Lecture MYMathApps: Lessons Learned and To-Be G-sharp, A-flat, and the Euclidean Algorithm Learned 8:00 PM – 8:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 5:00 PM – 5:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5 Noam Elkies, Harvard University
SIGMAA ACTIVITY SOCIAL EVENT Web SIGMAA Business Meeting Albert’s Bridge: A Tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5 Featuring the MAA Community Players 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 SOCIAL ACTIVITY Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A/B/C
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Registration Approaches to Computation in Third Millennium Mesopotamia 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Registration 1/2 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM INVITED ADDRESS Duncan J. Melville, St. Lawrence University MAA James R. C. Leitzel Lecture Famous Mathematicians from Iran but Whom You Calculus at Crisis May Not Know 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM David Bressoud, Macalester College Samaneh Gholizadeh Hamidi, Brigham Young University THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION The Quest for Digital Preservation: Will Part of TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Math History Be Gone Forever? Mathematics Part N – History and Philosophy of 11:30 AM – 11:55 AM Mathematics Steve DiDomenico, Northwestern University Library 8:30 AM – 11:55 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4 Linda Newman, University of Cincinnati Libraries
Some Original Sources for Modern Tales of Thales THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 8:30 AM – 8:55 AM TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Michael Molinsky, University of Maine at Farmington Mathematics Part P – History and Philosophy of Mathematics A Prehistory of Arithmetic 8:30 AM – 11:55 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5 9:00 AM – 9:25 AM Patricia Baggett, New Mexico State University Finding the Roots of a Non-Linear Equation: History Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, University of Colorado and Reliability 8:30 AM – 8:55 AM Adelard’s Euclid and the Arabic Transmission Roger Godard, RMC Attributed to al-Hajj . aj 9:30 AM – 9:55 AM J. D. Forbes and the Development of Curve Plotting Gregg De Young, The American University in Cairo 9:00 AM – 9:25 AM Isobel Falconer, University of St Andrews Al-Khwarizmi, Anselm, and the Algebra of Atonement “Remarkable Similarities”: A Dialogue Between De 10:00 AM – 10:25 AM Morgan & Boole Valerie J. Allen, John Jay College, CUNY 9:30 AM – 9:55 AM Gavin Hitchcock, University of Stellenbosch
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Clifford and Sylvester on the Development of Maplets for Calculus, Rating, Grading and Peirce’s Matrix Formulation of the Algebra of Evaluation Relations 1870-1882 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM 10:00 AM – 10:25 AM Philip B. Yasskin, Texas A&M University Francine F. Abeles, Kean University Douglas B. Meade, University of South Carolina
Polygonal Numbers from Fermat to Cauchy Enhancing Student Learning Experience through 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM Maple Susan Martin, Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM Marcela Chiorescu, Georgia College Orson Pratt: A Self Taught Mathematician on the Darin Mohr, Georgia College American Western Frontier Brandon Samples, Georgia College 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM Troy Goodsell, Brigham Young University-Idaho Updating the WeBWorK Open Problem Library 10:45 AM – 10:55 AM Five Families Around a Well: A New Look at an John W. Jones, Arizona State University Ancient Problem Jeff Holt, University of Virginia 11:30 AM – 11:55 AM Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech Online Homework Can Provide Desirable Difficulties for Learning Mathematics GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM Mathematics and Technology Dick Lane, University of Montana 8:45 AM – 11:25 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1, Balcony A Improving Students’ Learning by Integrating Introducing the Pi-Base: An Interactive Effective Learning and Teaching Strategies and Encyclopedia of Topological Spaces Instructional Learning Management Systems 8:45 AM – 8:55 AM 11:15 AM – 11:25 AM Austin Mohr, Nebraska Wesleyan University Jack Narayan, SUNY Oswego and WebAssign
Cutting Edge Information Technology Applied to the UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions MAA Mathematical Competition in Modeling 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM (MCM) Winners 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Bonita V. Saunders, National Institute of Standards and Technology MAA MathFest 2015 Exhibit Hall Audio, Documents, and Screens, Oh My! Free and Easy Online Collaboration 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall 9:15 AM – 9:25 AM Tamara Eyster, Kaplan University UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Lea Rosenberry, Kaplan University Student Hospitality Center 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall Exploration of Best “Flipped” Practices 9:30 AM – 9:40 AM INVITED ADDRESS Emilie Naccarato, University of Northern Colorado Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecture Series Gulden Karakok, University of Northern Colorado Hedrick Lecture 3 Spencer Bagley, University of Northern Colorado 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Karen Smith, University of Michigan Increase Student Engagement by Using Clickers and Smart Phones INVITED ADDRESS 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM MAA Centennial Lecture 6 Myungchul Kim, Suffolk County Community College Recent Results Toward the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3 Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY INVITED SESSION Student Problem Solving Competition Special Invited Session: The Geometry of Triangles 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B 1:00 PM – 2:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY MAA Ice Cream Social and Undergraduate A Triangle Has Eight Vertices (But Only One Center) Awards Ceremony 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 3 Richard Guy, University of Calgary
OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION New Ideas about the Geometry of Triangles Special Presentation for High School Students, 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM Parents, and Teachers John Conway, Princeton University A Dozen Proofs that 1=2: An Accessible and Quirky Overview of Mathematics for K-12 Teachers and Their MINICOURSE Students 1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics Part B 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room James Tanton, The Saint Mark’s Mathematics Institute and MAA MINICOURSE 6. Creating Flipped Learning Experiences in the PANEL SESSION College Mathematics Classroom Part B Panel 9. Quantitative Literacy and Democracy 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#2: The Contributions of Women to TCPS#14: Projects, Applications and Mathematics: 100 Years and Counting Part B Demonstrations to Enhance a Numerical Analysis or Computational Mathematics Course 1:00 PM – 3:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 2 1:00 PM – 2:35 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 3 Teaching Students about Women and Mathematics: A Dialogue between Two Course Designers The Everyday Examples in Engineering (E3) Program 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM in a Scientific Computing Course Sarah J. Greenwald, Appalachian State University 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University Mike Nicholas, Colorado School of Mines Gender and the Pursuit of Mathematics: An Project-Based Numerical Mathematics and Examination of the Participation Gap in Math Computation Course at Augsburg College Careers 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM v Pavel Bêlík, Augsburg College Kevin T. Maritato, Suffolk County Community College
A Project-Based Numerical Analysis Course Positive Female Role Models in Mathematics: 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM The Importance, Influence, and Impact of Their G. Daniel Callon, Franklin College Contributions in Attracting Females to Mathematics 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM A Novel Newton’s Method Project Joan E. DeBello, St. John’s University 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM James Sochacki, James Madison University The Daughters of Hypatia: A Mathematical Dance Concert Celebrating Women Mathematicians Assessing Student Motivation in a Numerical 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Methods Class Karl Schaffer, De Anza College 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Kyle Riley, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
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Application of Knot Theory: Using Knots to Unravel Exploring Two Fascinating Integer Sequences Biochemistry Mysteries 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Jay L. Schiffman, Rowan University Candice Renee Price, United States Military Academy, West Point THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Dessin D’Enfants and Shabat Polynomials Mathematics Part Q – Special Session in Memory 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM of Ivor Grattan-Guinness Alejandra Alvarado, Eastern Illinois University 1:00 PM – 3:25 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4
An Introduction to Interval Exchange Ivor Grattan-Guinness (1941-2014) and his Transformations Contributions to the History of Analysis, Set Theory, 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM and Applied Mathematics Kelly B. Yancey, University of Maryland 1:00 PM – 1:25 PM Joseph W. Dauben, City University of New York THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#5: Recreational Mathematics: New Problems Grattan-Guiness’s Work on Classical Mechanics and New Solutions Part B 1:30 PM – 1:55 PM 1:00 PM – 3:15 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 1 Roger Cooke, University of Vermont
Cracking the SafeCracker 40 Puzzle Ivor Grattan-Guinness’s Legacy to History and 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Philosophy of Logic Brittany Shelton, Albright College 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM Tyler VanBlargan, Albright College John W. Dawson, Penn State York
Nonclassical Logic Puzzles “Another Big Book”: I Grattan-Guinness as Editor 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM and Organizer Jason Rosenhouse, James Madison University 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM Albert C. Lewis, Educational Advancement Foundation The Mathematics of Triphos, A World without Subtraction “Same Time Next Week?”: Ivor Grattan-Guinness 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM as a Ph.D. Advisor Brian Hollenbeck, Emporia State University 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College Counting with Fractals and the Mysterious Triangles of Behrends and Humble THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM TCPS#19: Innovative Approaches in the Calculus Michael A. Jones, Mathematical Reviews Sequence Part B Lon Mitchell, Mathematical Reviews 1:00 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 6 Brittany Shelton, Albright College Teaching Calculus Using Movies and Television ‘Cover the Spot’ and Homothetic Covering of Shows Convex Bodies 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Elana Reiser, St. Joseph’s College Muhammad A. Khan, University of Calgary Beyond Computation: A Team-Based Learning Dissecting and Coloring Polygons Using Power Approach to the Limit Definition of the Derivative Series 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Carly J. A. Briggs, University at Albany Alison G. Schuetz, Hood College Gwyneth R. Whieldon, Hood College
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Elements of the Successful Calculus Computer Lab Using Real Data to Study the Heat Equation Assignment 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM Kimberly Spayd, Gettysburg College Stepan Paul, California Polytechnic State University Using Differential Equations to Analyze the Creating Online Problems that Develop Energy Future Mathematical Strategies and Reduce Student 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Frustration James Case, SIAM 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Geoffrey Cox, Virginia Military Institute Validating Groundwater Flow Models 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Where is the Differential in Differential Calculus? Michael A. Karls, Ball State University 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Eugene Boman, Penn State, Harrisburg Campus Predator-Prey Modeling Robert Rogers, SUNY, Fredonia 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Hubert Noussi Kamdem, Roger Williams University Five Things The Calculus Texts Leave Out and What We Can Do About It Modeling Duck-Gull-Human Interactions in 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM California Meighan Dillon, Kennesaw State University 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Christopher Brown, California Lutheran University A Small Adjustment to the Definition of the Limit of a Function Two Differential Equations Projects to Help Students 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Apply and Synthesize Mathematics Andy Martin, Kentucky State University 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM Michelle Ghrist, United States Air Force Academy Finite Topological Spaces as a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Concepts in Calculus Inquiry-Based Learning in ODE Classes: Stable or 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM Unstable? Daniel C. Cheshire, Texas State University 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Randall E. Cone, Salisbury University Students’ Perceptions of and Expectations for Videos in a Flipped Calculus Course Modeling in an Inquiry-Oriented Differential 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Equations Course Fei Xue, University of Hartford 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Larissa Schroeder, University of Hartford Karen A. Keene, North Carolina State University Jean McGivney-Burelle, University of Hartford William H. Hall, North Carolina State University
Day One Modeling Discussions THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM TCPS#18: Using Modeling for Teaching Differential Benjamin Galluzzo, Shippensburg University Equations: Before, During, After 1:00 PM – 4:35 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A INVITED SESSION Special Session: “Notes of a Native Son”: The Modeling from Calculus to Numerical Analysis (and Legacy of Dr. Abdulalim A. Shabazz (1927-2014) Everything in Between) 1:00 PM – 4:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware B 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Meagan C. Herald, Virginia Military Institute Dr. Abdulalim A. Shabazz—Statistically Significant! 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM Coloring Inside the Lines: My Experiences Adding Monica Jackson, American University Modeling to an Existing DE Curriculum Without Sacrificing Content 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Jessica M. Libertini, Virginia Military Institute
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“In a Beautiful Way”: Lessons for Mathematics Teaching Mathematical Art: Coordinating Design Education from Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz and 3D Printing 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM Erica Walker, Teachers College, Columbia University Christopher R. H. Hanusa, Queens College, CUNY
“The Teacher and the Mentor: A Combination that Exploring Visualizations: An Overview of a Instills Mathematical Greatness” Seminar in 3D Modeling and Printing 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University Nicholas J. Owad, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
More than Equations How You Too Can Join the 3D Printing Craze! 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Gwendolyn Irby, Lockheed Martin Lewis Ludwig, Denison University
The Impact of Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz on the Cy: A 3D-Printed Robot for Calculus Teaching Business Community 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Jason H. Cantarella, University of Georgia Shree Taylor, Delta Decisions of DC A Voluminous Vessel Dr. Abdulalim A. Shabazz: An Example of a Living 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Topological Isomorphism Brenda Edmonds, Johnson County Community College 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM Cathleen O’Neil, Johnson County Community College Brett Sims, Borough of Manhattan Community College Rob Grondahl, Johnson County Community College To STEM or Not STEM Goblet Design in Calculus II 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Gelonia Dent, Medgar Evers College Scott Dunn, University of South Carolina Sharing the Impacts of Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz Douglas B. Meade, University of South Carolina 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM Philip B. Yasskin, Texas A&M University Talitha M. Washington, Howard University Topology, Calculus and 3D Visualization THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM TCPS#9: What Can a Mathematician Do with a Elizabeth Denne, Washington & Lee University 3D Printer? 3D Printing Projects for Multivariate Calculus and 1:00 PM – 4:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia B College Geometry 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM 3D Printed Catalan Wireframes: Designing with Edward Aboufadel, Grand Valley State University Mathematica, MeshLab, and TopMod 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Laura Taalman, James Madison University GENERAL CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION I Can Touch the Math! Number Theory and Logic or Foundations 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM Lila F. Roberts, Clayton State University 1:00 PM – 4:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Balcony B
3-D Printing and Triply-Periodic Minimal Surfaces Bijections between Hyper m-ary Partitions 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM Rebekah Durig, Southern Illinois University Timothy B. Flowers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Oneal Summers, Southern Illinois University Shannon R. Lockard, Bridgewater State University Gregory Budzban, Southern Illinois University The Graphic Nature of Gaussian Periods Printing Fractals: Experiences with Julia Sets and 1:15 PM – 1:25 PM Diffusion-Limited Aggregates Stephan R. Garcia, Pomona College 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Mark J. Stock, Independent Artist
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The Composite Two-Step Near-Isosceles Pythagorean Triples 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM 4:30 PM – 4:40 PM Ryan Stuffelbeam, Transylvania University Frederick Chichester
The Periods of Fibonacci Sequences mod m Using Strong Notions of Reducibility to Distinguish 1:45 PM – 1:55 PM Complete Sets Marc Renault, Shippensburg University 4:45 PM – 4:55 PM Brooke Andersen, Assumption College 10,000 Ways to Count a Truncated Tetrahedron 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Jeremy Newton, Lee University Great Talks for a General Audience: Coached Debra Mimbs, Lee University Presentations by Graduate Students Part A 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia C Jacobsthal Sequence in Ternary Represented Modified Collatz Sequences GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY 2:15 PM – 2:25 PM Great Talks for a General Audience: Coached Ji Young Choi, Shippensburg University of PA Presentations by Graduate Students Part B 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland C Schinzel’s Hypothesis H 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM GRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Elijah M. Allen Great Talks for a General Audience: Coached Presentations by Graduate Students Part C Infinitude of Primes 2:45 PM – 2:55 PM 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1, Balcony A Sam Northshield, SUNY Plattsburgh UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACTIVITY Industrial Research in the PIC Math Program Using Binomial Coefficients to Prove Oppermann’s Conjecture 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland B 3:00 PM – 3:10 PM William R. Oscarson, Cornell OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION Math Circle Demonstration Topics in tau (n) -Number Theory 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A 3:15 PM – 3:25 PM Reyes M. Ortiz-Albino, University of Puerto Rico- PANEL SESSION Mayaguez Panel 5. Big Data in the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum The Digital Binomial Theorem 2:35 PM – 3:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Delaware A 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM Hieu D. Nguyen, Rowan University THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#8: Mathematics in Video Games A Bad But Fruitful Way To Count N Choose K 3:45 PM – 3:55 PM 3:00 PM – 4:55 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 3 Steven Edwards, Kennesaw State University William Griffiths, Kennesaw State University Using Turn Based Games to Introduce Modeling and Optimization Number of solutions to ax + by = cz 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM 4:00 PM – 4:10 PM Glenn Berman, Dakota State University Reese Scott Robert Styer, Villanova University Mathematics of Ingress Beal’s Conjecture vs. “Positive Zero”, Fight 3:20 PM – 3:35 PM 4:15 PM – 4:25 PM Kimberly Anne Roth, Juniata College Angela Moore, Yale University Erika Ward, Jacksonville University
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Quaternions in Action SOCIAL EVENT 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM DC Math Walk Susan H. Marshall, Monmouth University 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Departs from Marriott Wardman Park Lobby
Mathematics of Fez OTHER MATHEMATICAL SESSION 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Math Wrangle Raena King, Christian Brothers University 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Maryland A A Math Course for Game Programming Majors SOCIAL EVENT 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM Closing Banquet Scott Stevens, Champlain College 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 1 Extracting Mathematical Pedagogy from Video Games 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM Aaron M. Montgomery, Baldwin Wallace University
THEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSION TCPS#1: The History and Philosophy of Mathematics Part R – History of Mathematics 3:30 PM vq 5:25 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4
Humanistic Reflections on Mathematics Magazine Problem 1951 and a Solution 3:30 PM – 3:55 PM Joel Haack, University of Northern Iowa Timothy Hall, PGI Consulting
The Interplay of “Hard” and “Soft” Analysis in the History of Summabiliy Theory: Preliminary Report 4:00 PM – 4:25 PM Alexander F. Kleiner, Drake University
The Life and Letters of William Burnside 4:30 PM – 4:55 PM Howard Emmens, BSHM
Prehistory of the Outer Automorphism of S6 5:00 PM – 5:25 PM James Parson, Hood College
MINICOURSE 5. Using Videos of Students Developing Proofs to Guide Teaching and Learning (Part B) 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Calvert Room
MINICOURSE 8. Getting Started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Part B) 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Room
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The following exhibits will be located in The following Special Interests Groups of the Exhibit Hall. the MAA will be represented: ARTS MAA Centennial History Display BIG
The Mathematical Association of BIO America, a substantial organization HOM from its founding in 1915, is today the MCST largest professional society devoted to undergraduate mathematics as well as a POM publisher of expository mathematics, host QL of student competitions, and provider STAT-ED of professional development programs. The MAA comprises 29 sections, an TAHSM Executive Council and 7 area councils, WEB and dozens of committees. Many stories - some big, some small; some enduring, Tessellations some temporary - lie behind the MAA’s first 100 years of growth. This exhibit The Bridges Exhibition of Mathematical samples those stories by presenting a Art will be on display in the exhibit few of the items, housed in the American hall. Drawn from the 2015 Bridges Archives of Mathematics and elsewhere, Conference, the exhibition will feature that document the organization’s over 100 artworks by artists and development. mathematicians around the world and across the U.S. A wide variety of artistic MAA Pavilion media are included in the exhibition, including 2D and 3D digital prints, Books painting, beadwork, ceramics, wood, Membership metal, and paper folding. The artists drew inspiration from the mathematics of Competitions fractals, polyhedra, non-Euclidean and WeBWorK - Online Homework Source four-dimensional geometry, tiling, knot Merchandise theory, number theory, and more.
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Wednesday, August 5 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM Earle Raymond Centennial Lecture Chan-Stanek Centennial Lecture 1 Hedrick Lecture 1 Special Panel Session on Science Salon 2/3 2 (Chayes) Lecture for Cirque de Mathematiques (Chartier) (Demaine) (Smith) Policy Marriott Wardman Park 10:30 AM - 11:20 Students (Gallian) 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM 8:20 AM - 9:20 AM 9:30 AM - 10:20 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM AM 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM AM Wilson A/B/C MAA Section Officers Meeting Marriott Wardman Park 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Panel 6 - The Updated AP Calculus Panel 4 - A Discussion of the Panel 7 - Implementing the Delaware A AB/BC Courses: What Does This MAA/NCTM Joint Position 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide Marriott Wardman Park Mean For You? Statement on Calculus 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM 2:35 PM - 3:55 PM 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM Delaware B IPS - The Non-Traditional "Traditional NSA Mathematician" Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:45 PM
TCPS 20 - Evidence- Based Approaches to Washington 1 the Mathematical Marriott Wardman Park Preparation of Secondary Teachers 1:00 PM - 1:55 PM
Washington 2 TCPS 10 - The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Collegiate Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 5:35 PM TCPS 16 - Curriculum Development to Support First Year Washington 3 General Education Mathematics Students Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:35 PM TCPS 1C - History and Philosophy of Washington 4 TCPS 1A - History of Mathematics TCPS 1E - The Mathematics of Euler Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 10:30 AM - 11:55 AM 3:00 PM - 5:55 PM 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM
Washington 5 TCPS 1B - History of Mathematics TCPS 1D - History and Philosophy of Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 10:30 AM - 11:55 AM 1:30 PM - 3:55 PM
Panel 11 - Congratulations on Washington 6 TCPS 7 - Financial Mathematics Getting Tenure! Now What? Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 2:35 PM 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Project NExT Salon 1 Lecture IPS - Generations of Monthly Gems Radical Dash Marriott Wardman Park 11:00 AM - 11:50 1:00 PM - 3:50 PM 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM AM Convention Registration Registration Marriott Wardman Park 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Centennial Reception / Mathematical Carnival / Exhibit Hall Exhibit and Student Hospitality Opening Marriott Wardman Park 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Maryland A TCPS 6A - Mathematics and Art Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 4:55 PM GCPS - Teaching or Learning Introductory Maryland B Mathematics, Part A Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM Workshop - What’s the Story? A Graduate Student Workshop on Maryland C Formulating a Research Marriott Wardman Park Presentation for a General Audience 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM Virginia A TCPS 12 - Improving Undergraduate Math Writing Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 5:15 PM Virginia B GCPS - Algebra and Linear Algebra Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:40 PM TCPS 21 - Show Me Geometry: Geometry Virginia C Software and Tablet Demonstrations Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM Poster Session - Highlights from Marriott Foyer AWM Student Chapters Poster Marriott Wardman Park Session Alissa Crans/Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin/Maura Mast 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Minicourse 4A - Recruiting Students to Take Minicourse 7A - Teaching Mathematics with Calvert More Mathematics Courses and to Be Bead Crochet Omni Shoreham Mathematics Majors 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Minicourse 2A - The Mathematics of Games Minicourse 3A - Heavenly Mathematics: The Hampton and Gambling Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry Omni Shoreham 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 #MAAthFest #MAAthFest Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 Schedule At A Glance Thursday, August 6
Thursday, August 6 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM AMS-MAA Joint MAA Centennial Lecture The Man Who Knew Centennial Lecture Invited Address Undergraduate Presidential Reminiscences (Su/Pollak, Mathematicians by Day, Musicians by Night Salon 2/3 4 (Castillo-Chavez) MAA Prize Session Infinity: Sneak Peek 3 (Daubechies) (Lagarias) Student Activity Barrett, Ross, Banchoff) (Kung) Marriott Wardman Park 10:30 AM - 11:20 11:35 PM - 12:20 PM and Expert Panel (Ono) 8:30 AM - 9:20 AM 9:30 AM - 10:20 (Benjamin) 3:00 PM - 4:45 PM 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM AM 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM AM 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Delaware A IPS - The Arithmetic of the Spheres (Abram, Kontorovich, Lagarias) Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:50 PM
IPS - Improving Access to Mathematical Modeling Research (Castillo- Delaware B PME SPS #11 Chavez, Castillo-Garsow) Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 10:25 AM 1:00 PM - 3:55 PM TCPS 11A - Cultivating Critical Thinking through Active Learning in Washington 1 TCPS 11B - Cultivating Critical Thinking through Active Learning in Mathematics Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 5:15 PM 8:30 AM - 11:25 AM TCPS 13 - Successful STEM Programs for Elementary Washington 2 Education Majors Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:15 PM Washington 3 GCPS - Graph Theory GCPS - Applied Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:25 AM 1:00 PM - 4:55 PM TCPS 1G - History and Philosophy Washington 4 TCPS 1F - Special Session in Memory of Jackie Stedall TCPS 1J - History and Philosophy of Mathematics of Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:25 AM 2:30 PM - 4:55 PM 1:00 PM - 2:25 PM TCPS 1H - History and Philosophy Washington 5 of Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 2:25 PM Panel 12 - Finding Your New Washington 6 Niche: Staying Fresh Marriott Wardman Park 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM Salon 1 Balcony A GCPS - History or Philosophy of Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 9:15 AM - 11:25 AM Salon 1 Balcony B GCPS - Teaching or Learning Calculus GCPS - Geometry Marriott Wardman Park 9:15 AM - 11:25 AM 1:00 PM - 4:40 PM Panel 8 - What Mathematics do Engineering Students Need to Panel 2 - Applying for and Salon 1 Know in the First Two Years? (And Obtaining Grants Marriott Wardman Park What if it Doesn’t Start with 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM Calculus?) 2:35 PM - 3:55 PM Convention Registration Registration 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Marriott Wardman Park Exhibit Hall and Student Hospitality Center 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Exhibit Hall Poster Session - Classroom Marriott Wardman Park Activities and Projects within the Context of Environmental Sustainability Poster Session (Galluzzo/Taylor) 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Maryland A TCPS 6B - Mathematics and Art Marriott Wardman Park 8:50 AM - 11:25 AM Maryland B GCPS - Mentoring and Outreach GCPS - Teaching or Learning Introductory Mathematics, Part B Marriott Wardman Park 8:15 AM - 11:10 AM 1:00 PM - 4:40 PM Workshop - USE Math: Undergraduate Sustainability Maryland C Experiences in the Marriott Wardman Park Mathematics Classroom (Galluzo/Taylor) 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM Virginia A MAA SPS #1 MAA SPS #7 MAA SPS #11 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 10:25 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Virginia B MAA SPS #2 MAA SPS #8 MAA SPS #12 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 10:25 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Virginia C MAA SPS #3 MAA SPS #9 MAA SPS #13 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 10:25 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Wilson A MAA SPS #4 MAA SPS #10 MAA SPS #14 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 10:25 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Wilson B MAA SPS #5 PME SPS #1 PME SPS #3 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 10:25 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Wilson C MAA SPS #6 PME SPS #2 PME SPS #4 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 10:25 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Minicourse 6A - Creating Flipped Learning Minicourse 5A - Using Videos of Students Calvert Experiences in the College Mathematics Developing Proofs to Guide Teaching and Omni Shoreham Classroom Learning 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Minicourse 1A - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Minicourse 8A - Getting Started in the Hampton Mathematics Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Omni Shoreham 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 #MAAthFest #MAAthFest Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 Schedule At A Glance Friday, August 7
Friday, August 7 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM Centennial Lecture Albert’s Bridge: A Earle Raymond AWM-MAA Etta Z. 5/CSHPM Kenneth NAM David Harold Tragicomedy by Tom Hedrick Lecture 2 Presidential Reminiscences (Watkins, Graham, Cowen, Gallian, Salon 2/3 Falconer Lecture May Lecture Blackwell Lecture Alder Award Session Stoppard, Featuring the (Smith) Bressoud, Zorn, Devaney) Marriott Wardman Park (Walker) (Parshall) (Blackman) 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM MAA Community 9:30 AM - 10:20 3:45 PM - 6:00 PM 8:30 AM - 9:20 AM 10:30 AM - 11:20 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Players (Abbott) AM AM 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Pi Mu Epsilon J. IPS - Algebraic Structures Motivated by Knot Theory Delaware A IPS - Algebraic Structures Motivated by Knot Theory Part II Sutherland Frame Part I Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Lecture (Elkies) 9:00 AM - 11:20 AM 8:00 PM - 8:50 PM IPS - Concrete Computations in Algebra and Algebraic Delaware B PME SPS #12 Geometry Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Washington 1 TCPS 5A - Recreational Mathematics: New Problems and New Solutions Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 4:55 PM TCPS 2A - The Contributions of Women to Mathematics: 100 Years and Washington 2 Counting Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:55 PM TCPS 17 - Curriculum and Course Washington 3 Development to Support First Year STEM Marriott Wardman Park Students 1:00 PM - 2:55 PM
Washington 4 TCPS 1K - Special Session on Mathematical Communities TCPS 1M - Special Session in Honor of Karen Parshall Marriott Wardman Park 8:00 AM - 10:25 AM 2:00 PM - 4:55 PM
TCPS 4 - Undergraduate Research Activities in Mathematical and Washington 5 Computational Biology Marriott Wardman Park 1:20 PM - 4:15 PM TCPS 3 - Math Circle Problems Involving the Number 100 in Washington 6 TCPS 19A - Innovative Approaches in the Calculus Sequence Honor of the MAA’s 100th Anniversary Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:35 PM 8:30 AM - 11:05 AM GCPS - Teaching or Learning Developmental Salon 1 Balcony A Mathematics and Assessment Marriott Wardman Park 9:15 AM - 11:25 AM GCPS - Teaching or Learning Advanced Salon 1 Balcony B GCPS - Analysis and Other Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:10 AM 1:00 PM - 3:10 PM Panel 1 - A Common Vision for Panel 3 - Beyond the Post- Panel 10 - Nonacademic Career the Undergraduate Doc: Fellowship Opportunities Salon 1 Paths for Mathematicians Mathematics Program in 2025 for Mathematics Faculty Marriott Wardman Park (Galluzzo/Ahmadi) (Saxe/Braddy) (McGuire) 2:35 PM - 3:55 PM 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM Convention Registration Registration 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Marriott Wardman Park Exhibit Hall and Student Hospitality Center 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Exhibit Hall PosterFest 2015 - A Poster Session Marriott Wardman Park of Scholarship by Early Career Mathematicians and Graduate Students (Ensley/McNulty) 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM TCPS 15 - Democratizing Access to Authentic Maryland A Mathematical Activity Marriott Wardman Park 1:20 PM - 3:35 PM Maryland B GCPS - Probability or Statistics GCPS - Interdisciplinary Topics in Mathematics & Modeling or Applications Marriott Wardman Park 9:15 AM - 11:25 AM 1:00 PM - 4:25 AM
Workshop - Beauty of Three Dimensional Polyhedra Maryland C Estimathon! Workshop (in Celebration of the Marriott Wardman Park 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM MAA’s Centennial) (Olsen) 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Virginia A MAA SPS #15 MAA SPS #19 MAA SPS #23 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Virginia B MAA SPS #16 MAA SPS #20 MAA SPS #24 Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM Virginia C MAA SPS #17 MAA SPS #21 MAA SPS #25 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Wilson A MAA SPS #18 MAA SPS #22 MAA SPS #26 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Wilson B PME SPS #5 PME SPS #7 PME SPS #9 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Wilson C PME SPS #6 PME SPS #8 PME SPS #10 Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:45 AM 2:00 PM - 3:55 PM 4:00 PM - 6:15 PM Minicourse 4B - Recruiting Students to Take Minicourse 7B - Teaching Mathematics with Calvert More Mathematics Courses and to Be Bead Crochet Omni Shoreham Mathematics Majors 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Minicourse 2B - The Mathematics of Games Minicourse 3B - Heavenly Mathematics: The Hampton and Gambling Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry Omni Shoreham 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 #MAAthFest #MAAthFest Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 Schedule At A Glance Saturday, August 8
Saturday, August 8 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM Earle Raymond MAA James C. Centennial Lecture Hedrick Lecture 3 Salon 2/3 Leitzel Lecture 6 (Bhargava) (Smith) Marriott Wardman Park (Bressoud) 10:30 AM - 11:20 9:30 AM - 10:20 8:30 AM - 9:20 AM AM AM
A Dozen Proofs that 1=2: An Accessible and Quirky Overview of Salon 2 Mathematics for Marriott Wardman Park K-12 Teachers and Their Students (Tanton) 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
MAA Undergraduate Ice Cream Salon 3 Social Marriott Wardman Park 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Panel 9 - Quantitative Literacy Panel 5 - Big Data in the Delaware A and Democracy Undergraduate Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park (Franchy/Miller) Curriculum (Levy) 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM 2:35 PM - 3:55 PM Special Session: “Notes of a Native Son”: The Legacy of Dr. Abdulalim A. Shabazz (1927- Delaware B 2014) (Jackson, Washington) Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 4:50 PM TCPS 5B - Recreational Mathematics: New Problems Washington 1 and New Solutions Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:15 PM TCPS 2B - The Contributions of Women to Washington 2 Mathematics: 100 Years and Counting Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 3:15 PM TCPS 14 - Projects, Applications and Demonstrations to Enhance a Washington 3 TCPS 8 - Mathematics in Video Games Numerical Analysis or Computational Marriott Wardman Park 3:00 PM - 4:55 PM Mathematics Course 1:00 PM - 2:35 PM TCPS 1Q - Special Session in Memory of Ivor Grattan- Washington 4 TCPS 1N - History and Philosophy of Mathematics TCPS 1R - History of Mathematics Guinness Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM 3:30 PM - 5:25 PM 1:00 PM - 3:25 PM Washington 5 TCPS 1P - History and Philosophy of Mathematics Marriott Wardman Park 8:30 AM - 11:55 AM Washington 6 TCPS 19B - Innovative Approaches in the Calculus Sequence Marriott Wardman Park 1:20 PM - 3:55 PM Salon 1 Balcony A GCPS - Mathematics and Technology Great Talks for a General Audience: Coached Presentations by Graduate Students, Part C Marriott Wardman Park 8:45 AM - 11:25 AM 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Salon 1 Balcony B GCPS - Number Theory and Logic or Foundations Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 4:55 PM
MAA Mathematical Competition Special Session: The Geometry of Triangles Salon 1 Closing Banquet featuring the Centennial Players in Modeling (MCM) Winners (Guy, Conway) Marriott Wardman Park 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Convention Registration Registration 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM Marriott Wardman Park Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall and Student Hospitality Center Marriott Wardman Park 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Maryland A Math Circle Demonstration Math Wrangle Marriott Wardman Park 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Student Problem Solving Maryland B Industrial Math Research in the PIC Math Program Competition Marriott Wardman Park 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Maryland C Great Talks for a General Audience: Coached Presentations by Graduate Students, Part B Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Virginia A TCPS 18 - Using Modeling for Teaching Differential Equations: Before, During, After Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 4:35 PM Virginia B TCPS 9 - What Can a Mathematician Do with a 3D Printer? Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 4:55 PM Virginia C Great Talks for a General Audience: Coached Presentations by Graduate Students, Part A Marriott Wardman Park 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Minicourse 6B - Creating Flipped Learning Minicourse 5B - Using Videos of Students Calvert Experiences in the College Mathematics Developing Proofs to Guide Teaching and Omni Shoreham Classroom Learning 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Minicourse 1B - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Minicourse 8B - Getting Started in the Hampton Mathematics Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Omni Shoreham 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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