Friday, October 24, 2014
Iowa Section NExT Atrium Conference Room
Registration and Exhibits Catherine Byrne Hall 205A
Concurrent Session #1 Catherine Byrne Hall 202
| 3:30-3:50 | Using short "lecture challenge questions" in large lecture courses |
| # Stephen Willson, Iowa State University |
| 4:00-4:20 | Planning a Course in Sports Analytics |
| # Russ Goodman, Central College |
| 4:30-4:50 | Patterns and Perspective: Math in Art and Music |
| # Angela Kohlhaas, Loras College |
Concurrent Session #2 Catherine Byrne Hall 205B
| 3:30-3:50 | What did J.S. Bach know about fractals? |
| # ** Jennifer Good, University of Iowa |
| 4:00-4:20 | Business cycles and predator-prey ordinary differential equations |
| # Kenneth Driessel, Iowa State University |
| 4:30-4:50 | Conic Sections in Grid City |
| # Ruth Berger, Luther College |
Concurrent Session #3 Catherine Byrne Hall 116B
| 3:30-3:50 | Mutual Dimension |
| # ** Adam Case, Iowa State University |
| 4:00-4:20 | Khovanov Homology: An undergraduate research project |
| # Robert Todd, University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| 4:30-4:50 | Separation of NP-Completeness Notions |
| # ** Debasis Mandal, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session #4 Catherine Byrne Hall 116A
| 3:30-3:50 | Toward an integrative model of suction feeding using the immersed boundary method |
| # Tyler Skorczewski, Cornell College |
| 4:00-4:20 | Arrowgrams: Tips and Pointers |
| # Kenneth Price, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh |
| 4:30-4:50 | Cops and Robbers on Oriented Graphs |
| # Chris Spicer, Morningside College |
Dinner
Plenary Address #1 Catherine Byrne Hall ALH
| 7:00-8:00 | The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set |
| # Robert Devaney, Boston University |
Reception
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Executive Committe Meeting Atrium Conference Room
Registration and Exhibits Catherine Byrne Hall 205A
Plenary Address #2 Catherine Byrne Hall ALH
| 8:30-9:30 | An Excursion into the Strange World of Singular Geometry |
| # Ruth Charney, Brandeis University |
Concurrent Session #5 Catherine Byrne Hall 202
| 9:40-10:00 | Student Presentations in Calculus II |
| # Debra Czarneski, Simpson College |
| 10:10-10:30 | Toys, Puzzles, and Games: the Importance of Play in the Classroom |
| # Jacob Heidenreich, Loras College |
| 10:40-11:00 | Adding Context to Calculus |
| # Matt Rissler, Loras College |
Concurrent Session #6 Catherine Byrne Hall 205B
| 9:40-10:00 | Generalized Augmented Happy Numbers |
| # Susan Crook, Loras College |
| 10:10-10:30 | How can i be more than Imaginary for Future HIgh School Mathematics Teachers |
| # Olena Ostapyuk, University of Northern Iowa (with Catherine M. Miller) |
| 10:40-11:00 | Visual hypothesis testing - lineups and probability |
| # Christian Roettger, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session #7 Catherine Byrne Hall 116B
| 9:40-10:00 | Fractals: A Basic Introduction |
| # Victor Vega, College of Coastal Georgia |
| 10:10-10:30 | Amplification and damping of an oscillating streamflow signal in a river network |
| # ** Morgan Fonley, University of Iowa |
| 10:40-11:00 | Missing Avalanche Sizes in the 1 dimensional sandpile model |
| # Mike Johnson, Luther College (with Grant Barnes, Cadence Sawyer (collaborators)) |
Concurrent Session #8 Catherine Byrne Hall 116A
| 9:40-10:00 | A "Weird" Limit Representation of Pi |
| # Mu-Ling Chang, University of Wisconsin-Platteville |
| 10:10-10:30 | History of the Iowa Section of the MAA |
| # * Riley Burkart, Central College |
| 10:40-11:00 | Mathemagic: A Centennial Tribute to Martin Gardner |
| # Benjamin V.C. Collins, University of Wisconsin-Platteville (with Quinn Collins (Platteville Middle School)) |
Iowa Section Business Meeting Catherine Byrne Hall ALH
Lunch
Registration and Exhibits Catherine Byrne Hall 205A
Concurrent Session #9 Catherine Byrne Hall 202
| 1:10-1:30 | Inquiry Based Learning |
| # Jason Smith, Graceland University |
| 1:40-2:00 | Constructing the Naturals -- An Inquiry-Based Approach |
| Jonathan White, Coe College |
Concurrent Session #10 Catherine Byrne Hall 205B
| 1:10-1:30 | Teaching Managers to Think Of All Factors When Making Decisions |
| # Charles Ashbacher, Upper Iowa University |
| 1:40-2:00 | complex roots of polynomials and why it pays to talk mathematics |
| # a m fink, none |
Concurrent Session #11 Catherine Byrne Hall 116B
| 1:10-1:30 | An Elementary Solution to a Problem of Ramanujan's Interest |
| # * Brian Diaz, Cornell College |
| 1:40-2:00 | Exact Analytical Solutions of a Chemical Oscillator |
| # ** Titus Klinge, Iowa State University |
Concurrent Session #12 Catherine Byrne Hall 116A
| 1:10-1:30 | Calculus Curiosities |
| # Dave Renfro, #business/industry/government |
| 1:40-2:00 | Interplay between function theory and Hilbert space |
| Jonas Meyer, Loras College |
Plenary Address #3 Catherine Byrne Hall ALH
| 2:10-3:00 | Building Towards Student Ownership |
| # Theron Hitchman, University of Northern Iowa |
# denotes a talk indicated as suitable for undergraduates, * denotes an undergraduate speaker, and ** indicates a graduate student speaker.
