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2014 Section Meeting Report
The 2014 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA was held on
the campus of the University of Wyoming March 28-29 in Laramie, Wyoming.
The meeting was held in a wonderful new conference center on campus and
special thanks goes to all the students, faculty, and staff that helped
with this event. Below is a listing of the contributed talks available
at the meeting website.
Contributed Papers - 2014 Section MeetingMathematical BiologyGrant Bowman , University of Wyoming Using Mathematical Models to Design Enzyme Micro-Compartments for Bioengineering Applications Michael Dillon , University of Wyoming Spatiotemporal Distributions of Migratory Birds: Patch Models with Delay Martha Garlick , South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Connecting the Local Movement of Mule Deer with Regional Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease Rongson Liu , University of Wyoming Spatiotemporal Distributions of Migratory Birds: Patchy Models with Delay part 2 Mathematics History IDonald Teets , South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Comet ISON and Why Didn't Newton Use Newton's Method George Heine , Math and Maps How Euler Solved a Problem Whose Solution Was Obvious (or was it?) – A Partial Prehistory of the Calculus of Variations Mike Siddoway , Colorado College A Generalization of Gauss' Lemma to Arbitrary Domains Olalekam Idowu , University of Wyoming African Contributions to Mathematics Street MathematicsRoger Johnson , South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Victory in the Card Game 'War' Myron Allen , University of Wyoming The Case for Dimensional Analysis Mary Worthley, Gene Gloeckner, and Katherine Gloeckner , Colorado State University The Calculus Tapes Ken Gerow , Universtiy of Wyoming What should be your response to a positive medical (e.g. cancer) test result? Calculus TeachingGerry Harnett , StMA Log Revamp Ricardo Diaz , University of Northern Colorado DNA's Shadow: The Geometry of X-Ray Diffraction of Curves and Surfaces Christopher Cody , South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Jet-Determinacy of Solutions to a Mixed Composition Equation: A Taylor Series Approach Travis Kowalski , South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Assessment as Learning: An Experiment with Abilities-Based Grading Beth Schaubroeck , United States Air Force Academy College Algebra – Stand alone or Integrated into Calculus? Michelle Ghrist , United States Air Force Academy Creating Projects that Help Students Apply and Synthesize Mathematics Kyle Riley , South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Redesign of Calculus II Mathematics History IIJeff V. Berg , Arapahoe Community College A Stroll Down Memory Lane-MAA RMS the Last Thirty Years Bruce N. Lundberg , Colorado State University - Pueblo Learning from Late Antique Academy in Alexandria Janet Barnett , Colorado State University - Pueblo What so Natural about 1/x? A Brief History of Logarithms for the Classroom Shahar Boneh , Metropolitan State University of Denver Probability Person of the Week Dan Swenson , Black Hills State University An Introduction to Church's Lambda Calculus Mike Siddoway , Colorado College A Wind Erosion Equation Graduate Student SessionErica Daniels , South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Survival Analysis of the Hunger Games Philip DeOrsey , University of Colorado Denver When Worlds Collide: Another Battle of Algebra versus Geometry Melody Dodd , Colorado State University Real-time Electrical Impedance Tomography Imaging with a Fast D-Bar Algorithm Soofia Malik , University of Wyoming Exploration and Assessment of Middle Eastern Students' Mathematics Anxiety: A Mixed Methods MatricesColin Garnett , Black Hills State University Integrally, Normalizable Matrices and Zero-nonzero Patterns John Ethier , Metropolitan State University of Denver New Forms of Orthogonality for Latin Hypercubes Gulden Karakok , University of Northern Colorado Student Difficulties in Introductory Linear Algebra Course LearningShashidhar Belbase, Wandee Kasemsukpipat , University of Wyoming One Dollar: A Million Dollar Mathematics Gerald Greivel , Colorado School of Mines Active Learning Strategies to Improve Student Attitudes and Outcomes in Statistics: The Studio Model at the Colorado School of Mines Megan Candelaria , , University of Wyoming Helping Students Understand Transformations: Motivating the Need for Reference Information Lee Roberson , University of Northern Colorado Sharing Our Mathematics Culture Jamalee Stone and Jill Trimble , Black Hills State University Connecting Undergraduate Mathematics to Middle and Secondary Mathematics Teaching |
