Friday, October 9, 2009
Registration and Exhibits Schindler Education Center Lobby
Concurrent Session 1 Schindler Education Center 113
| 3:40-4:00 | Proof in Geometry: Euclid and a Class Journal |
| Theron Hitchman, University of Northern Iowa |
| 4:10-4:30 | Using Toilet Paper to Help Students Make Generalizations |
| Martha Ellen Waggoner, Simpson College |
Concurrent Session 2 Schindler Education Center 116
| 3:40-4:40 | Mathematics Courses for Elementary Education Majors |
| Bridgette Stevens, University of Northern Iowa |
Plenary Session 1 Schindler Education Center 252
| 7:30-8:30 | MAA's American Mathematics Competitions: Easy Problems, Hard Problems, History and Outcomes |
| Steven Dunbar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Reception Schindler Education Center Lobby
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Registration and Exhibits Schindler Education Center Lobby
Plenary Session 2 MAA George Polya Lecturer Schindler Education Center 252
| 8:30-9:30 | Introduction to Knot Theory |
| Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Break Schindler Education Center Lobby
Concurrent Session 3 Schindler Education Center 113
| 9:45-10:05 | Calculus for the 21st Century |
| Mariah Birgen, Wartburg College |
| 10:15-10:35 | A Teachers Circle for Middle School Math Teachers |
| Elgin Johnston, Iowa State University |
| 10:45-11:05 | Isometries of a Giant Product Space |
| * Corey Gevaert, University of Northern Iowa |
Concurrent Session 4 Schindler Education Center 129
| 9:45-10:05 | A p-adic Euclidean Algorithm |
| Eric Errthum, Winona State University |
| 10:15-11:15 | The 1/P Pseudo-Random Number Generator |
| * Donald Peterson, Iowa State University |
| 11:25-11:45 | Sequences and their annihilators |
| Christian Roettger, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session 5 Schindler Education Center 116
| 10:15-11:15 | An overview of Mathematics in the Iowa Core Curriculum |
| Catherine Miller and Megan Balong, University of Northern Iowa |
Business Meeting Schindler Education Center 252
Lunch on your own
Concurrent Session 6 Schindler Education Center 113
| 1:35-1:55 | A Survey of MAA Study Tours and the Iowa Section |
| Joel Haack, University of Northern Iowa |
| 2:05-2:25 | Essay Questions on Calculus Exams? |
| Jonathan White, Coe College |
| 2:35-2:55 | Cool combinatorics arising on a cohomology hunt! |
| ** Aba Mbirika, University of Iowa |
Concurrent Session 7 Schindler Education Center 129
| 1:35-1:55 | Hankel Operators and Combinatorial Identities |
| Eugene Herman, Grinnell College |
| 2:05-2:25 | The classification of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras |
| ** Michael Hilgemann, Iowa State University |
| 2:35-2:55 | Classification of Hopf algebras 4p-dimension |
| ** YiLin Cheng, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session 8 Schindler Education Center 116
| 1:35-2:35 | Mathematics Courses for Prospective Secondary Teachers at Small Colleges |
| Mariah Birgen, Wartburg College |
* denotes an undergraduate speaker and ** indicates a graduate student speaker
