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<strong>Tentative</strong> <strong>Program</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>INMAA</strong> <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>Meeting</strong><br />
<strong>Taylor</strong> University<br />
March 17-18, 2006<br />
Friday, March 17<br />
Time Event Room<br />
3:00—5:00pm Registration Nussbaum<br />
Lecture Hall<br />
Lobby<br />
3:00—3:50pm ICMC Registration Nussbaum 123<br />
3:55—4:05pm ICMC Orientation Nussbaum 123<br />
4:15—6:15pm Contest Various Rooms<br />
4:15-6:15pm Book Sale Nussbaum 205<br />
4:30—5:30pm Faculty Workshop - Actuarial Education<br />
Friday Session<br />
Jack Foley (Ball State University)<br />
Nussbaum 122<br />
Time Event Room<br />
4:00-4:20pm The Culture of Ma<strong>the</strong>matical Power: The Need <strong>for</strong> Math Educators to<br />
Explicitly Teach Students <strong>the</strong> Rules<br />
Angia Macomber (<strong>Taylor</strong> University)<br />
4:25—4:45pm Finite Math Online - It's Not Your Grandfa<strong>the</strong>r's Correspondence<br />
Course!<br />
Dennis Wolf (Indiana University South Bend)<br />
4:50—5:10pm Using technology to enhance calculus learning<br />
Fabio Milner (Purdue University)<br />
5:15—5:35pm Do Pre-service Teachers Understand Pre-college Ma<strong>the</strong>matics?<br />
Ralph Bremigan and Beth Bremigan (Ball State University)<br />
5:40—6:00pm Excel and Brief Calculus<br />
Stela Pudar-Hozo (Indiana University Northwest)<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121
Dinner<br />
Time Event Room<br />
6:15—7:15pm Buffet Dinner Alspaugh Room<br />
Hodson Dining<br />
Commons<br />
7:15—7:20pm Welcome to <strong>Taylor</strong> University<br />
Steve Bedi, Provost of <strong>Taylor</strong> University<br />
Alspaugh Room<br />
Hodson Dining<br />
Commons<br />
7:20—7:30pm Awards Alspaugh Room<br />
Hodson Dining<br />
Commons<br />
7:30-8:30pm Why Things Go Quasi in Higher Dimensions<br />
Bruce Palka (University of Texas at Austin)<br />
Alspaugh Room<br />
Hodson Dining<br />
Commons
Saturday, March 18<br />
Time Event Room<br />
7:15—8:15 Chairs and Liaisons Breakfast Holiday Inn<br />
Express<br />
7:45 - 8:30 Registration Nussbaum<br />
Lecture Hall<br />
Lobby<br />
8:00 - 3:00 MAA Book Sale Nussbaum 205<br />
8:30- 8:35 Welcome<br />
Jeremy Case<br />
8:35 – 9:15 On <strong>the</strong> homeomorphism between polynomials and <strong>the</strong>ir roots<br />
Vania Mascioni (Ball State University)<br />
Parallel Session 1<br />
Nussbaum 123<br />
Nussbaum 123<br />
Time Event Room<br />
9:25—9:40 Is Gender a Predictor of Success in College Ma<strong>the</strong>matics Courses?<br />
Krystina Leganza and Van Nelson (U of Indy and BSU, resp.)<br />
9:45—10:00<br />
Testing <strong>for</strong> Yearly Improvement Using Successive Scores<br />
Dale Umbach (Ball State University)<br />
10:05—10:20 So What Does an Actuary Do?<br />
Genni Knight (Conseco Svcs, LLC)<br />
10:25—10:40 Data Mining and Neural Networks<br />
M. Mahbub Majumder (Ball State University)<br />
10:45—11:00 Examples from Sixteenth Century Cryptography<br />
Ryan Fuoss (<strong>Taylor</strong> University)<br />
11:05—11:20 Is Daylength Sinusoidal?<br />
Andrew Rich (Manchester College)<br />
11:25—11:40 A ma<strong>the</strong>matical bass solo<br />
Joe Essenberg (<strong>Taylor</strong> University)<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121<br />
Nussbaum 121
Parallel Session 2<br />
Time Event Room<br />
9:25—9:40 Complex dynamics, <strong>the</strong> Mandelbrot set, and dynamics of<br />
polynomial semigroups<br />
Richard Stankewitz (Ball State University)<br />
9:45—10:00<br />
Angular Distribution of <strong>the</strong> Zeros of <strong>the</strong> Partial Sums of $e^{z}$<br />
Amos Carpenter (Butler University)<br />
10:05—10:20 Numerical computations <strong>for</strong> approximating <strong>the</strong> vorticity of an<br />
ideal, steady flow<br />
Octavian Nicolio (University of Indianapolis)<br />
10:25—10:40 Modeling Correlation and Sample Size Issues in Resource<br />
Selection Studies<br />
Ashraf El-Houbi (Valparaiso University)<br />
10:45—11:00 Ben<strong>for</strong>d's Law and range of application<br />
Brian Murphy (Ivy Tech Community College-Lafayette)<br />
11:05—11:20 The Basics of Quantum Computing<br />
Jennifer Franko (Indiana University)<br />
11:25—11:40 On <strong>the</strong> Solutions of a Family of Quartic Thue Equations II<br />
Alain Togbe (Purdue North Central)<br />
Parallel Session 3<br />
Nussbaum 122<br />
Nussbaum 122<br />
Nussbaum 122<br />
Nussbaum 122<br />
Nussbaum 122<br />
Nussbaum 122<br />
Nussbaum 122<br />
Time Event Room<br />
9:25—9:40 Geometric Approaches in Operator Optimization<br />
Morteza Seddighin (Indiana University East)<br />
10:05—10:20 Algebra: Sedimentation and Recovery<br />
J.D. Phillips (Wabash College)<br />
10:25—10:40 SET and Combinatorics<br />
Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo (Valparaiso University)<br />
10:45—11:00 Fair Allocation in Four-Player Partition Function Form Games<br />
Rozalia Tadjer (Goshen College)<br />
11:05—11:20 Torus Tic-Tac-Toe and O<strong>the</strong>r Topology Games<br />
Cornelia Van Cott (Indiana University)<br />
11:25—11:40 An Introduction to Linking Pairings<br />
Prudence Heck (Indiana University)<br />
11:45--noon Representing Integers as Sums of Powers<br />
Scott Parsall (Butler University)<br />
Nussbaum 123<br />
Nussbaum 123<br />
Nussbaum 123<br />
Nussbaum 123<br />
Nussbaum 123<br />
Nussbaum 123<br />
Nussbaum 123
Afternoon Session<br />
Time Event Room<br />
noon Lunch Alspaugh Room,<br />
Hodson Dining<br />
Commons<br />
12:45—1:15pm ICMC Review Nussbaum 121<br />
1:15—1:55pm Business <strong>Meeting</strong> Nussbaum 123<br />
2:00—3:00pm Making Beautiful Music in <strong>the</strong> Ma<strong>the</strong>matics Classroom<br />
Matt DeLong (<strong>Taylor</strong> University)<br />
Nussbaum 123
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