Friday, April 7, 2006
Registration Carver Second Floor
Exhibits Carver
Concurrent Session 1 Carver 202
| 3:00-3:20 | Arrow's Hypotheses |
| Irvin Hentzel, Iowa State University |
| 3:30-3:50 | Decomposing Voters |
| Mariah Birgen, Wartburg College |
| 4:00-4:20 | Classroom Capsule: Teaching Challenge-Response Arguments |
| Reginald Laursen, Luther College |
Concurrent Session 2 Carver 204
| 3:00-3:20 | Some Hands-on Workshops for Elementary and Intermediate Algebra Courses |
| M. Anne Dow, Maharishi University of Management |
| 3:30-3:50 | Existence of strong solution for a class of nonlinear parabolic systems |
| ** Kunlun Liu, Iowa State University |
| 4:00-4:20 | computing multivalued velocity and electric field of 1D Euler-Poisson equation |
| ** Zhongming WANG, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session 3 Carver 205
| 3:00-3:20 | Godel Disrobes: a naked approach to incompleteness |
| ** Jeremy Alm, Iowa State University |
| 3:30-3:50 | Some Properties of the Smarandache Fitorial and Supplementary Fitorial Functions |
| Charles Ashbacher, Mt. Mercy College |
| 4:00-4:20 | Vertex identifying codes in graphs: definitions, theorems and open problems |
| Ryan Martin, Iowa State University |
Break
Panel Discussion: On getting a job for graduate students Carver 202
Round Table Discussion: Section NExT Carver 204
Dinner See Meals Information Section
Plenary Session 1 Carver 101
| 7:30-7:50 | Episodes in The Early History of The Lucasian Chair |
| Jim Tattersall, Providence College |
Reception Carver Lobby
Saturday, April 8, 2006
Registration Carver Lobby
Plenary Session 2 Carver 101
| 8:30-8:50 | Vignettes in Number Theory |
| Jim Tattersall, Providence College |
Break
Concurrent Session 4 Carver 124
| 9:45-10:05 | Why does 0! = 1? The evolution of the gamma function |
| Steve Bean, Cornell College |
| 10:15-10:35 | The Toeplitz-Silverman Theorem Part II |
| Alexander Kleiner, Drake University |
| 10:45-11:05 | Prolongations on a Riemannian Manifold |
| ** Alfredo Villanueva, University of Iowa |
Concurrent Session 5 Carver 128
| 9:45-10:05 | Model Fitting and Selection for County-Level Depression Hospitalization Rates Using Bayesian Statistical Methods |
| ** Scott Wood, University of Iowa |
| 10:15-10:35 | Teaching Mathematical Probability and Statistics with Internet Applications and R |
| Michael Larsen, Iowa State University |
| 10:45-11:05 | Protein Structure Determination: A Rigid Geometric Build-up Algorithm for Solving a Distance Geometry Problem with Sparse Exact Distance Data |
| ** Di Wu, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session 6 Carver 132
| 9:45-10:05 | "Convergence depth": proof of the nonrotation and nontranslation of galaxies |
| ** Joseph Keller, Iowa State University |
| 10:15-10:35 | The Remarkable Equation tan(x) = x |
| Dave L. Renfro, ACT Inc. |
| 10:45-11:05 | Hey, Kids! Improve Your Theorems! Add Superfluous Hypotheses! |
| ** Jacob Manske, Iowa State University |
Break
Iowa Section Business Meeting Carver 101
Lunch together or on your own
Concurrent Session 7 Carver 124
| 1:40-2:00 | Subgroups of the Rubik's Group |
| Brian Birgen, Wartburg College |
| 2:10-2:30 | Mathematics by Experiment |
| Marc Chamberland, Grinnell College |
Concurrent Session 8 Carver 128
| 1:40-2:00 | Global Dynamics and Chaos |
| Wolfgang Kliemann, Iowa State University |
| 2:10-2:30 | The Polynomial Root Squeezing Theorem |
| * Justin From, Central College |
Concurrent Session 9 Carver 132
| 1:40-2:00 | The stable endomorphism group of non-simple string modules over a very particular finite dimensional algebra. |
| ** Giovanna Llosent, University of Iowa |
| 2:10-2:30 | Primitive prime divisors of Mersenne numbers via Uniform Distribution |
| Christian Roettger, Iowa State University |
Break
Concurrent Session 10 Carver 124
| 2:45-3:05 | Comparison of P-matrix completions with Q-matrix completions. |
| Luz De Alba, Drake University |
| 3:15-3:35 | Visualizing Linear Algebra with Geometer's Sketchpad |
| Catherine Gorini, Maharishi University of Management |
| 3:45-4:05 | Using NASCAR to Illustrate Optimization |
| Mark Mills, Central College |
Concurrent Session 11 Carver 128
| 2:45-3:05 | Reconstructing genomes in the presence of hybridizations |
| Stephen Willson, Iowa State University |
| 3:15-3:35 | Sperm Competition Games |
| Rick Spellerberg, Simpson College |
| 3:45-4:05 | Chemotactic Collapse in Keller-Segel Equation |
| ** WEN ZHOU, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session 12 Carver 132
| 2:45-3:05 | The Dynamics of a Planar Two Link Chain and Some Applications to Human Motion
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| Kenneth Driessel, #non-IA section |
* denotes an undergraduate speaker and ** indicates a graduate student speaker
