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SCHEDULE

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MAA Intermountain Section Meeting
Utah Valley University
March 28-29, 2014

Thursday, March 27   Location
  7:00-8:00 Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College:   UVU Grand Ballroom
  Math & Art: The Good, the Bad and the Pretty  
     
Friday, March 28    
12:00-5:00   Registration   Science Building Atrium
12:45

Welcomes: Kathy Andrist::Utah Valley University

Dan Fairbanks, Dean, UVU College of Science & Health

Derek Hein: MAA Intermountain Section Vice-Chair

SB 134
1:00-2:00 Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College: SB 134
  In the Shadow of Desargues  
2:00-2:15 Break and Afternoon Refreshments SB 267
2:15-5:00 Contributed Talks (Complete Friday Schedule) SB 246 & 263
2:20-5:00 Integration Bee (Rules and Proceedures) SB 260
5:15

Welcome: Bob Palais, Utah Valley University

 
5:15-5:30

MAA Intermountain Section History: Carolyn Connell, Westminster College

UCCU Center: Presidential South
5:30 Banquet  
6:15 Tina Straley, Past MAA Executive Director  
6:25

Teaching Award Presentation: Bob Palais & Kathy Andrist

2014 Recipient: Don Tucker, University of Utah

 
6:30

Invited Address, Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College:

Revisiting Familiar Places: What I Learned at the Magazine 

UCCU Center: Presidential South
     
Saturday, March 29    
8:00-8:30 Registration and Morning Refreshments SB 267
8:30-8:35 Welcome: Violeta Vasilevska, Utah Valley University t             
8:35-9:30 Bob Palais, Utah Valley University, Math in Artificial Intelligence: SB 134
  The Legacy of McCarthy, Minsky, Shannon & Turing.  
9:30-9:45 Break SB 267
9:45-11:20 Contributed Talks (Complete Saturday Schedule) SB 246, 260 & 263
11:30-12:30

Student Workshop: Math and Artificial Intelligence

Bob Palais, UVU

LA006
11:30-12:30

Faculty Workshop: CUPM 2015: Modernizing curricula in the mathematical sciences

Paul Zorn, Past MAA President,

SB 263
  Modernizing Curricula in the Mathematical Sciences  
12:30-1:30 Lunch and MAA Intermountain Section Business Meeting SB 268
1:30-3:30 Excursion: BYU Museum of Art  
     
     

 

 
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