2008 CURM Conference & MAA Intermountain Section Meeting

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

9:00-9:30
Garden Court
(WSC)

REGISTRATION

9:30-10:30
(3280/3290 WSC)

Visiting Speaker: Lisette G. dePillis
(Harvey Mudd College)
Mathematically Modeling Immune-Cancer Dynamics

10:30-12:30
(3280 WSC)

Special Session: Research Mathematics I
Co-organizers:
   Todd Fisher (BYU) & Brynja Kohler (Utah State Univ.)

10:30-10:55
Speaker: Anthony Tongen (James Madison University)
Biomechanical Models Applied to the Rice Blast Fungus

11:00-11:25
Speaker:  Natalie Wilde (BYU)
Determining the Quantum Rings of Singularities

11:30-11:55
Speaker:  Jinayi Zhu (Univ. of Utah)
A Markov Chain/PDE Model for Credit Rating Transitions

12:00-12:25
Speaker:  Dave Brown  (Utah State Univ.)
Title Currently Unknown

10:30-11:30
(3290 WSC)

Special Session: Teaching Mathematics I
Co-organizers:
Dave Brown (Utah State U.) & Ben Woodruff (BYU-Idaho)

10:30-10:55
Speaker: Bryan Bornholdt (Utah State Univ.)
Friends in Calculus: How to Stop Students from Falling:
A Project on the Design of Camming
Devices used in Rock Climbing

11:00-11:25
Speaker: Gretchen Rimmasch (BYU)
Undergraduate Research Mentoring

11:00-12:30
(3380 WSC)

CURM Panel discussion:
Studying Mathematics and Graduate School
Panelists:Lisette G. dePillis (Harvey Mudd College)
                 Brynja Kohler (Utah State Univ.)
                 Michael Dorff (BYU)

12:30-2:30

Break for Lunch

1:00-2:00
Brigham’s Square
(outside WSC)

PI Day Celebration: (click for more details)

2:30-3:20
(3280 WSC)

Visiting Speaker: Thomas Garrity (Williams College)
On Writing Numbers

 3:30-5:30
(3820 WSC)

Special Session: Research Mathematics II
Co-organizers: Todd Fisher (BYU)
                      Brynja Kohler (Utah State Univ.)

3:30-3:55
Speaker: Barb Bennie (Univ. of Wisconsin - La Crosse)
Inflatory Patterns in a Stochastic Economy with
Bayesian Learning

4:00-4:25
Speaker: Rebecca Garcia (Sam Houston State Univ.)
Order Dimension of Layered Generalized Crowns

4:30-4:55
Speaker: Aihua Li (Montclair State Univ.)
Discrete Sturm-Liouville Problems with Nonlinear Parameter
in the Boundary Conditions

5:00-5:25
Speaker: Gary Lawlor (BYU)
Zero over Zero Limits in Calculus III:
The Substitution y=x^a Works where y=mx Does Not.

3:30-6:00
(JFSB)

Integration Bee for students (click for more details)
Co-organizers: Denise Halverson (BYU)
                      Ann Marie Harris (BYU-I)
 
*See Integration Bee Handout for Exact Room Assignments

6:30-8:00
Banquet Hall (Hinckley Alumni Center)

MAA Banquet

Speaker: Thomas Garrity (Williams College)
Using Mathematical Maturity to Shape Our Courses,
Our Curriculums and Our Careers.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15

8:30-12:30
(1103 JKB)

Special Session: CURM Undergrad Research I:
Organizer: Michael Dorff (BYU)

8:30-8:45
Speakers: Deena Hannoun, Leslie Hindman (James Madison Univ.)
An Optimal Strategy for Energy Allocation in a Multiple-Resource Environment with Overlapping Generations

8:45-9:00
Speakers: Scott MacHardy, Maggie Guy (James Madison Univ.)
Optimal Energy Allocation Strategies in a Multiple Resource Environment

9:00-9:15
Speakers: Dorothy Tran, Christina Lorenzo (North Central College)
A Mathematical Approach to Characterize Transmission
of Chlamydia Trachomatis (Part I)

9:15-9:30
Speakers: Luke Eichelberger, Christine Muganda (N. Central College)
A Mathematical Approach to Characterize Transmission
of Chlamydia Trachomatis (Part II)

9:30-9:45
Speakers: Brendan Kelly, Vincent Martinez, Mike Stein
(The College of New Jersey)
Plant-Pathogen Dynamics (Part I)

9:45-10:00
Speakers: Brendan Kelly, Vincent Martinez, Mike Stein
(The College of New Jersey)
Plant-Pathogen Dynamics (Part II)

10:00-10:15
Speakers: Jennifer Bonsangue, Michael Nava, Kathleen Lewis
(CSU-Channel Islands)
Mathematical Texture Modeling: The Near-Regular Case

10:15-10:45
BREAK

10:45-11:00
Speakers: Chad Leonhardt, Ange Luedtke
(University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Game Theory in Agriculture

11:00-11:15
Speakers: Amy Stockman, Miracle Okoye (Concordia Univ.-Irvine)
How to Become “Set for Life”

11:15-11:30
Speaker: Michael Wilson (Montclair University)
Tracing Certain N-Dimensional Space Points

11:30-11:45
Speaker: Cihan Karabulut (Montclair University)
Solving Diophantine Equations by Applying a Partial Differential Equation

11:45-12:00
Speaker: Elizabeth Arango (Montclair Univ.)
Positive DS-Divisors of Positive Integers

12:15-12:30
Speaker: Jose Barrios (Montclair University)
Integration Properties of Square Roots of Certain Functions

8:30-12:30
(1105 JKB)

Special Session: CURM Undergrad Research II:
Organizer: Michael Dorff (BYU)

8:30-8:45
Speakers: John Jentzen, Whitney Van Lierop, Janna Baldovin
(St. Martins University)
The Character of Solutions for x(n+1)=[px(n)+x(n-1)]/[qx(n)+x(n-1)] with Periodic Parameters

8:45-9:00
Speaker: Paul McMichael (College of William and Mary)
U(T) for Specialized Trees

9:00-9:15
Speaker: Johnathan Nuckols (College of William and Mary)
Trees and Implicit Construction of Eigenvalue Multiplicities

9:15-9:30
Speakers: Carolyn Troha, Olivia Walch, Aaron Paloski
(College of William and Mary)
Commutant of the Full Tridiagonal Pattern

9:30-9:45
Speakers: Karen Gilje, Philip Gipson (St. Olaf College)
Automorphisms of the Direct Product of Indecomposable Groups

9:45-10:00
Speaker: Dan Kohler (St. Olaf College)
Counting the Automorphisms of Certain Split Metacyclic Groups

10:00-10:15
Speaker: Chantani Newton (Virginia Union University)
The Reflective Property of an Ellopse

10:15-10:45
BREAK

10:45-11:00
Speakers: Stacey Sanders, Stephanie Meyer
(Sam Houston State Univ.)
Algebraic Combinatorics of Franklin Cirlcles (Part I)

11:00-11:15
Speaker: Amanda Seitz (Sam Houston State Univ.)
Algebraic Combinatorics of Franklin Circles (Part II)

11:15-11:30
Speakers: Matthew Vieira, Katrina Luckenbach (Saint Peters College)
Restricted Rado Numbers

11:30-11:45
Speaker: Megan Craven (Saint Peters College)
Proving Integer Sequence Identities with Path on Graphs

11:45-12:00
Speakers: Alys Rodriguez, Andrea DeWitt (Lamar University)
Exploration of G-graphs of Non-Abelian Groups

12:15-12:30
Speakers: Jillian Hamilton, Christa Baur (Lamar University)
Re-inventing the Wheel: Can it be Done?

8:30-12:30
(1102 JKB)

Special Session: BYU Undergrad Research I:
Organizer: Jeff Humpherys (BYU)

8:30-12:30
(? JKB)

Special Session: BYU Undergrad Research II:
Organizer: Jeff Humpherys (BYU)

10:30-12:00
(2009 JKB)

Special Session:
Univ. of Utah Undergrad Research I:
Co-organizers: Frank Lynch (Westminster)
                       Derek Hein (Southern Utah University)

10:30-10:45
Speakers: Adam Gulley, Kenneth Golden (Univ. of Utah)
Electromagnetic and Fluid Transport Properties of Sea Ice

10:45-11:00
Speakers: Megan Morris, Kenneth Golden, Jingyi Zhu (Univ. of Utah)
A Network Model for Fluid Transport through Sea Ice

11:00-11:15
Speakers: Tyler Bardsley, William Carlquist, Parker Childs, Yasmeen Hussain, Amber Smith (Univ. of Utah)
Study Cyanobacteria or We’ll Clean Your Clock—An Exploration
in Circadian Rhythms

11:15-11:30
Speakers: Miles Fore and Dan Margalit (Univ. of Utah)
Counting Crossings in a Knot

11:30-11:45
Speakers: Alex Pruss and Dan Margalit (Univ. of Utah)
Vassiliev Invariants on Knots and Singular Knots

11:45-12:00
Speakers: Brent Hawkes, Gordan Savin (Univ. of Utah)
The Relationship Between Minimal Cycles of Continued Fractions
and Sums of Squares

9:00-12:00
(2004 JKB)

Special Session: Teaching Mathematics II
Co-organizers: Dave Brown (Utah State Univ.)
                        Ben Woodruff (BYU-I)

9:00-9:50
Speaker: Henri Picciotto (The Urban School of S.F.)
Nothing Works! The Art of Teaching Mathematics

10:00-10:25
Speaker: Kady Schneiter (Utah State Univ.)
Capstone Mathematics and Technology:
A course for pre-service Math teachers

10:30-11:00
Speaker: John Stevens (Utah State Univ.)
Challenges in Teaching Statistics to Mathematics Teachers

11:00-11:30
Speaker: Jim Cangelosi (Utah State Univ.)
Assessing and Reporting Students’ Achievement
 in Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Courses

11:30-12:00
Speaker: Dave Brown (Utah State Univ.)
Assessing and Improving Teaching Performance

9:00-11:30
(2002 JKB)

Special Session: Research Mathematics III
Co-organizers: Todd Fisher (BYU)
                     Brynja Kohler (Utah State Univ.)

9:00-9:25
Speaker: Brynja Kohler (Utah State Univ.)
Characterizing T-cell Immune Responses Based on
Antigen Affinity and Avidity

9:30-9:55
Speaker: Bob Palais (Univ. of Utah)
How To Compute a Rotation Matrix (in Any Dimension!)

10:00-10:25
Speaker: Don Robinson (BYU)
Completable Matrices

10:30-10:55
Speaker: Seth Armstrong (Southern Utah Univ.)
Title Currently Unknown

11:00-11:25
Speaker: Jianlong Han (Southern Utah Univ.)
Numerical Analysis for a Non-local Phase-Field System

11:00-11:25
Speaker: Don Tucker (Univ. of Utah)
Title Currently Unknown

11:45-1:15
(2002 JKB)

MAA Business Meeting

Visiting Speaker: Tina Straley (MAA)

12:30-1:30

Break for Lunch

1:30-2:30
(2107 JKB)

Visiting Speaker: Bob Devaney (Boston Univ.)
The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set

4:30 – 6:00
(Limit 70 Persons)

CURM Banquet
Tucanos Brazilian Grill
4801 N University Ave # 790
Provo, UT 84604
(801) 224-4774