9:30-Noon 2nd Floor MLK Jr. Student Union, 1895 Room

Pre-Conference Workshop: Origami Geometry Workshop  Tom Hull, Merrimack College

9 am – 5 pm Registration 2nd floor MLK Jr. Student Union

12:50 pm-2:00 pm Plenary Talk—James Tattersall, Providence.  Numbers Numbers Numbers

Grand Ballroom, MLK Jr. Student Union

2:15-3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions

Casey Room 3rd Floor

Greenup Room 3rd Floor

Mattoon Room 3rd Floor

Charleston Room 3rd Floor

Oakland Room 3rd Floor

Effingham Room 3rd Floor

Student Talks

Gregory Galperin

Playing Pool with Pi

Heather Dye

Tie Up a Torus

Tingxiu Wang, David Smith, Gloria Liu, Joe Kotowski, David Rudden & Bob Sompolski

Differences between STEM Students and Non-STEM Students at Community College

Darlene Whitanack

Using TI-Inspire CAS to Explore Algebra

Jerzy Kocik

Apollonian Window

Student Talk

Paul Bruno

Bradley University

Latin Squares

Paul Musial

Using Metaphor to Motivate Concepts in Real Analysis

Duane Broline & William Slough

On the Road with USB TEX and Friends

Student Talk

Debbie Witczak

Benedictine University

The Dynamics of One-Predator, Two-Prey Systems

3:30-4:30 pm Concurrent Sessions

Howard Dwyer

Balls on a Sphere-Polyhedra as Solutions to a Maximization Problem

Joshua Brandon Holden

Braids, Cables, and Cells: An Interesting Intersection of Mathematics, Computer Science and Art

Student Talk

Carla Webb

Western Illinois

Using Principal Component Analysis to Extract Meaning from Text

Student Talk

Breanne Hoffman

Western Illinois

Analysis of the Effects of Origin and Relevant Baseline Medical Conditions on Death or Myocardial Infarction in the PURSUIT Trial

Student Talk

Hunan Chaudhry

Benedictine University

Upper Bounds for Regular Conformations of (2n,2)-Torus Links

Michael Pelsmajer

Crossing Numbers and Graphs with Rotation Systems

Student Talk

Sarah Cane

Western Illinois

Knot Theory and How it Applies to DNA Studies: What has Your DNA in Knots?

Student Talk

Sarah Porod

Benedictine University

The Nine Point Circle Theorem

4:45 Annual Meeting

4:45 pm Student Contest Old Main  2nd Floor West.  Student Pizza Party 6:15 pm Old Main also.

6:00 Bar Opens

6:30 pm Dinner Grand Ballroom 2nd Floor Union, followed by Plenary Talk.  Origami Math and its Increasing Intersections

Tom Hull, Merrimack College

8:30am-11:00 am Registration—2nd Floor MLK Jr. Student Union

8:30 am-9:30 am Plenary Talk Laurie Heyer, Davidson College, NC.   Solving the Hamiltonian Path Problem with Bacterial Computers

9:45-10:45 am Concurrent Sessions

Casey Room

3rd Floor

Greenup Room

3rd Floor

Mattoon Room

3rd Floor

Charleston Room

3rd Floor

Oakland Room

3rd Floor

Effingham Room

3rd Floor

Martinsville Room

3rd Floor

Student Talks

Marvin Johnson

Humor and History ()–Two Aids in Mathematics Teaching

Roger Eggleton,

Consecutive Numbers with the Same Number of Principal Divisors

Edward Boamah

Mathematical Modeling of the Dynamic Exchange of Solutes in a Prototype Hemodialyzer

Todd Oberg

IMTE

(Illinois Mathematics Teacher Educators)

Richard Wilders

Using Maple to Teach Multivariable Calculus

Euguenia Peterson & Vali Siadat

Combination of Formative and Summative Assessment Instruments in Elementary Algebra Classes at the College

Student Talk

Sarah Porod

Benedictine University

The Nine Point Circle Theorem

Student Talk

Amanda Hoekstra

Benedictine University

Morley’s Theorem

Sharon Robbert

Keywords for Calculus

Andrew Thurman 

Parametric and Nonparametric Biased Sampling Corrections in Romalea Microptera

François Blumenfeld-Kouchner

How To Talk About Mathematics With Your Humanities Colleagues

Student Talk

Hunan Chaudhry

Benedictine University

Upper Bounds for Regular Conformations of (2n,2)-Torus Links

10:55 am-11:55 am Concurrent Sessions

Vince Matsko

Conics, Linear Algebra, and Mathematica

Ken Clements

Well Begun, Half Done; Poorly Begun, Half Lost: 17th Century Mathematics in American Colonies

Olcay Akman

Ask Not What Mathematics Can Do For Biology-Ask What Biology Can  Do For Mathematics

David Hovorka

Galois Groups of Quartics with Two Simple Results

Boris Petracovici

The Trace and Critical Function of a Class of Transcendental Numbers

Student Talk

Matt Niemerg

Eastern Illinois

Families of Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields

Student Talk

Devin Burns

Bradley University

Calibration Methods for Achieving Stereoscopic Vision with Cheap Cameras

Ida Ellerton

The Algebra Knowledge of Perspective Middle School Teachers of Mathematics in Illinois

Tim Comar

Laboratory Projects for a Second Semester Biocalculus

Michael Lang (Joint work with Dirk Marple)

Counting Distinguishing Labelings of Graphs

Boris Petracovici

An Exercise in Spatial Visualization

(Activities for Calculus III)

Student Talk

Jed Shumaker

Eastern Illinois

Optimal Solving of Rubik’s Cube

Noon-1 pm Closing Talk Plenary Talk Bruce Berndt, University of Illinois  Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook

1:20-3:20 ISMAA PROJECT NEXT Post-Conference Session Tim Comar, Benedictine University   (Project Next Participants Only)

1895 Room, 2nd Floor MLK Jr. Student Union

Box lunch available at Registration Desk a 1pm for those who placed orders