Spring 2013 Newsletter (pdf) - MAA Sections - Mathematical ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Spring Meeting ScheduleSaturday, April 20, 2013, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, University of San Diego, Old Town, San Diego, CA8:15 – 12:00 Registration – Entrance to Warren Auditorium8:15 – 10:30 Refreshments – Entrance to Warren Auditorium8:15 – 9:00 Graduate Student Resume Review–Entrance to Warren AuditoriumDrop off your c.v. or resume and/or your teaching and researchstatements for same-day faculty review and feedback.Organized by Ivona Grzegorczyk, Cal State Channel Islands8:30 – 2:30 MAA Book Sale – Entrance to Warren AuditoriumOrganized by Michael Hoffman, Richard Katz, Cal State Los Angeles9:00 – 10:00 Invited Address by Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State UniversityWarren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill HallWho Chooses Not to Persist in Calculus and Why?The transition from high school to college mathematics is one of themost critical junctures in the preparation of individuals to meet themathematical demands of the 21st century in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Even while more students aretaking more advanced mathematics in high school than ever before—including over half a million each year who study calculus while inhigh school—the percentage of all college students in 4-yearundergraduate programs who are enrolled in mathematics at the levelof calculus or above has decreased steadily over the past decades.Moreover, a substantial percentage of students who enroll in CalculusI intending to take more Calculus end up deciding not to continue inCalculus. This represents a huge loss to the nation in terms of the needfor more students to pursue a major in one of the STEM disciplines. Inthis presentation I examine the characteristics of STEM-intendingstudents who begin their post-secondary studies with Calculus I andeither persist or switch out of the Calculus sequence, and hence eitherremain in or leave the STEM pipeline. The data used for this analysiscomes from a unique, in-depth national survey aimed at identifyingcharacteristics of successful programs in college Calculus.10:00 – 10:15 Section Business Meeting – Warren AuditoriumPresentation of Section Distinguished Teaching AwardSpring Meeting Schedule continued on page 5 …4
Spring Meeting Schedule, continued from page 410:00 – 10:15 Section Business Meeting – Warren Auditorium§ Presentation of Section Distinguished Teaching Award§ Proposal for Change to Section Bylaws: Should the current twoyearterm for Section Chair (one year each as Section Vice-Chairand Section Chair) be changed to a three-year term (one year eachas Vice-Chair, Chair, and Past-Chair)?10:15 – 11:15 Student Poster Session – Entrance to Warren AuditoriumSee Page 11 to find out how to submit a poster proposal!Organized by Ioana Mihaila, Cal Poly Pomona11:20 – 12:20 Invited Address by Kathryn Leonard, CSUCIWarren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill HallImage Modeling with Industry and UndergraduatesThis talk explores various tiers of research in geometric modeling ofshapes, connecting "high-level" research with projects involvingstudents and industrial/government partners. Shape modeling arisesfrom object recognition problems in the field of computer vision. Weexplore a particular category of shape models, skeletal models, thatrepresent an object as a collection of connected branches of curves andassociated scalar function or functions. We also present a collection ofapplications where skeletal models have proved useful.12:30 – 1:30 Lunch – Pick up box lunches at entrance to Warren Auditorium.1:30 – 2:30 Invited Address by Ravi Vakil, Stanford UniversityWarren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill HallThe Mathematics of DoodlingDoodling has many mathematical aspects: patterns, shapes, numbers,and more. Not surprisingly, there is often some sophisticated and funmathematics buried inside common doodles. I'll begin bydoodling, and see where it takes us. It looks like play, but it reflectswhat mathematics is really about: finding patterns in nature,explaining them, and extending them. By the end, we'll have seensome important notions in geometry, topology, physics, andelsewhere; some fundamental ideas guiding the development ofmathematics over the course of the last century; and ongoing workcontinuing today.2:30 – 3:00 Refreshments – Entrance to Warren Auditorium2:30 – 3:00 Grad Student Resume Retrieval – Entrance to Warren AuditoriumPick up your faculty-reviewed job application materials!Spring Meeting Schedule continued on page 6 …5
Page 1 and 2: Southern California-Nevada SectionM
Page 3: Greetings from Our Section Chair!
Page 7 and 8: Four Dynamic Speakers and Dozens of
Page 9 and 10: Registration for Spring MeetingPart
Page 12 and 13: Students’ Column, continued from
Page 14 and 15: Message from the Governor: JMM and
Page 16 and 17: Governor’s Report, continued from
Page 18 and 19: Southern California-Nevada Conferen
Page 20: Call for Nominations for Section Te

Spring 2013 Newsletter (pdf) - MAA Sections - Mathematical ...

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?