Friday, October 22, 2010
Registration and Exhibits Stuart Hall 309
Concurrent Session One Stuart Hall 305
| 3:30-3:50 | Patterns and Structure in M-ary Partitions |
| Theron Hitchman, University of Northern Iowa |
| 4:00-4:20 | Unit-connected pseudo-arithmetic super sets in the Gaussian Integers |
| Peter Blanchard, University of Iowa |
| 4:30-4:50 | Exploring Group Theory with FGB |
| Ruth Berger, Luther College |
Concurrent Session Two Stuart Hall 308
| 4:00-4:20 | Explicit Constructions of Functions whose Graphs are Dense in The Plane |
| * Luke Serafin, Coe College |
| 4:30-4:50 | An Algorithm for the Detection of Transient Neural Oscillations |
| * John Berkowitz, Coe College |
Plenary Address Hickok Hall Kessler Auditorium
| 7:30-8:30 | Everyday Questions, Not-So-Everyday Mathematics |
| Rick Gillman, Valparaiso University |
Reception Hickok Hall Lobby
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Registration and Exhibits Stuart Hall 309
Concurrent Session Three Stuart Hall 305
| 8:30-8:50 | Ideas and Examples for Calculus |
| Irvin Hentzel, Iowa State University |
| 9:00-9:20 | Projects in Calculus Class |
| K Stroyan, University of Iowa |
| 9:30-9:50 | Reals Revisited: NO SUP FOR YOU! |
| ** Samuel Ferguson, University of Iowa |
Concurrent Session Four Stuart Hall 405
| 8:30-8:50 | Recurrences, power series, and ODE |
| Christian Roettger, Iowa State University |
| 9:00-9:20 | Random walks in a sparse ``cookie" environment |
| ** Reza Rastegar, Iowa State University |
| 9:30-9:50 | A New Look at IQ |
| A. M. Fink, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session Five Stuart Hall 308
| 8:30-8:50 | The Iowa Mathematical Modeling Challenge: Modeling in an Experimental Learning Setting |
| ** Darin Mohr, University of Iowa |
| 9:00-9:20 | Starting a Math Colloquium: Experiences from Loras College |
| Matthew Rissler, Loras College |
| 9:30-9:50 | A Survey of Technology Use and District Spending in North Iowa Schools |
| Scott Searcy, Waldorf College |
Break
Concurrent Session Six Stuart Hall 305
| 10:10-10:30 | Linear Algebra: When am I ever going to use this? |
| Martha Ellen Waggoner, Simpson College |
| 10:40-11:00 | Introduction to Mathematical Research through Graph Theory |
| Debra Czarneski, Simpson College |
Concurrent Session Seven Stuart hall 405
| 10:10-10:30 | Retrolife Generation of the Twelve Pentominoes |
| Charles Ashbacher, #none |
| 10:40-11:00 | Multi-Resolution Cellular Automata for Real Computation |
| ** Brian Patterson, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session Eight Stuart Hall 308
| 10:10-10:30 | An Introduction to Logo |
| Daniel Willis, Loras College |
| 10:40-11:00 | SageTeX: Computing inside LaTeX documents |
| Jason Grout, Drake University |
Business Meeting Stuart Hall 405
Concurrent Session Nine Stuart Hall 305
| 1:30-1:50 | Representation Theory |
| Jitka Stehnova, Mt. Mercy College |
| 2:00-2:20 | Monotonicity of mixed Ramsey numbers |
| ** Jihyeok Choi, Iowa State University |
| 2:30-2:50 | Minimum rank, maximum nullity and zero forcing number for selected graph families |
| ** Travis Peters, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session Ten Stuart Hall 405
| 1:30-1:50 | Discrete Observations or Continuous Ramblings: Some Thoughts on Historical Projects in Discrete Mathematics |
| Robert Keller, Loras College |
| 2:00-2:20 | A System to Place Incoming Students in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics |
| Henry Walker, Grinnell College |
| 2:30-2:50 | Continuous Problems Are Easier Than Discrete Ones |
| Kenneth Driessel, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session Eleven Stuart Hall 308
| 1:30-1:50 | Expected Utility Maximization in an Optimal stopping Environment |
| ** Ranojoy Basu, Iowa State University |
| 2:00-2:20 | Stock Loan Subject to Bankruptcy |
| ** Subhra Bhattacharya, Iowa State University |
* denotes an undergraduate speaker and ** indicates a graduate student speaker
