PNW Project NExT Meeting Schedule University of Puget Sound Wheelock Student Center, Board Room March 31^st & April 1^st, 2005

Thursday March 31^st

7:00 pm Dinner/Soiree

8:00-9:00pm Discussion:

Organizers:

Scot Leavit (Portland Community College)

Ann Sitomer (Portland Community College)

Friday April 1st

8:00am Registration/Coffee

8:15am Greeting and Introduction of New Fellows

8:30am Session 1: Conceptual Hooks and Cool Applied Problems for use in

Undergraduate Courses

John Bardsley (University of Montana)

Mark Kayll (Univerisy of Montana)

Matt Roscoe (University of Montana)

Organizer:

John Bardsley (University of Montana)

9:30am Coffee Social

10:00am Session 2: My Involvement with a MSP Grant and Other Opportunities

for New Faculty

Julie Fredericks (Linfield College)

10:30am Session 3: Using Writing Assignments in Mathematics Courses

Bryan Smith(University of Puget Sound)

John Bean (Seattle University)

Organizer:

Chris Black (Seattle University)

11:30am Lunch

1:00pm Session 4: Panel on Expository Writing

Keith Devlin (Stanford University)

Frank Farris (Santa Clara University)

Jennifer Quinn (Occidental College?)

Organizer:

Nancy Neudauer (Pacific University)

2:00pm Session 5: What's NexT?

Moderator:

Jenny McNulty (The University of Montana)

2:30pm Project NExT Meeting Adjourns, MAA Minicourses begin at 2:45pm

5:30-7pm Dinner at Katie Downs