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Friday, October 18, 2013

Registration and Exhibits      Science Center  249

3:00-5:00   

Concurrent Session #1      Science Center  245

3:30-3:50    A tour of the new Iowa section web site
    # Al Hibbard, Central College
4:00-4:20    Math Summer Camp for Professors
    # Mariah Birgen, Wartburg College
4:30-4:50    Student vs. Instructor Expectations: Can we bridge the gap?
    # Joy Becker, Wartburg College

Concurrent Session #2      Science Center  247

3:30-3:50    IBL, Calculus, and Pens
    # Amanda Matson, Clarke University
4:00-4:20    Critical Locations in Infrastructure
    # Debra Czarneski, Simpson College
4:30-4:50    Graph Forcing Games
    # ** Nathan Warnberg, Iowa State University

Dinner       

5:00-7:00   

Plenary Address #1      Science Center  134

7:00-8:00    Fibonacci's Flower Garden
    # Jennifer Quinn, Mathematical Association of America

Reception      Science Center Outside 134

8:00-9:00   

Math Activity      Science Center 244

8:30-9:30    Survivor X
    # Wartburg Students, Wartburg College

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Registration and Exhibits      Science Center  249

8:00-11:00   

Plenary Address #2      Science Center  134

8:30-9:30    Mathematics to DIE for: The Battle Between Counting and Matching
    # Jennifer Quinn, Mathematical Association of America

Concurrent Session #3      Science Center  245

9:40-10:00    TeX in the Classroom
    # Paul Muhly, University of Iowa
10:10-10:30    Calculus Bloopers I Have Made
td>    # Irvin R. Hentzel, Iowa State University
10:40-11:00    Remedial Mathematics at Iowa State University
    # Chris Schultz, Iowa State University (with Wolfgang Kliemann)

Concurrent Session #4      Science Center  247

9:40-10:00    291 decillion ways to tile with Tetirs
    # Steve Butler, Iowa State University
10:10-10:30    Taxicab Geometry
    # Ruth Berger, Luther College
10:40-11:00    Beautiful Strings
    # Ronald Smith, Graceland University

Iowa Section Business Meeting      Science Center  134

11:10-12:10   

Lunch       

12:15-1:40   

Concurrent Session #5      Science Center  245

1:40-2:00    Declining Marginal Utility Is Not Ordinal - an inconsistency in microeconomics.
    # Kenneth Driessel, Iowa State University
2:10-2:30    Are Drug Tests As a Precondition for Welfare Receipt Cost-Effective?
    # Charles Ashbacher, Independent
2:40-3:00    Some Gauss Sums found in Category Theory
    # ** Ryan Johnson, Iowa State University

Concurrent Session #6      Science Center  247

1:40-2:00    Geometric distribution of primes in Z[sqrt(2)]
    # Christian Roettger, Iowa State University
2:10-2:30    Matrix sign patterns that require eventual exponential nonnegativity
    # ** Craig Erickson, Iowa State University
2:40-3:00    The Upper and Lower Limits of a Function and Semicontinuous Functions
    # Dave Renfro, ACT, Inc.

Registration and Exhibits      Science Center  249

1:40-3:00   

# denotes a talk indicated as suitable for undergraduates, * denotes an undergraduate speaker, and ** indicates a graduate student speaker.