INMAA Spring Meeting
University of Indianapolis
March 23-24, 2007
Time
3:00—5:00pm
3:30—3:50pm
4:00—4:30pm
4:30—6:30pm
3:30 ---6:10pm
Event
Registration
ICMC Registration
ICMC Orientation
Contest
Book Sale
Lilly 108
Lilly 110
Lilly 112
Numerical computations
on the Resistor Trimming
problem
Groups Unlimited: A New
Software Program
The Circumferences
of the HighEccentricity Comets
Time
4:15--4:30pm
4:35--4:55
Octavian Nicolio
Nancy Rodgers, Doug
Anewalt, Paul Lee
Ilia Gulkarov
University of Indianapolis
Hanover College
NEIU, IL Chicago
Number Theory and
Complex Dynamics
Purdue University
What Impacts the Success
of Students in Mathematics
General Education Class
for Liberal Arts
Vesna Kilibarda, Stela
Pudar-Hozo, Henry Wyzinski
Indiana University Northwest
A mathematical model of
schistosomiasis with
spatial structure
Innovative Ways to Teach
History & foundations of
Math
Application of
Anthropic Reasoning
to Cosmology
Ruijun Zhao
Purdue University
Gail P. Greene
Indiana Wesleyan University
Brian Murphy
Ivy Tech-Lafayette
Portfolio optimization
with stochastic volatility
and discrete observations
Andrew B. Vizcarra
Purdue University
An Introduction to
Advanced Encryption
Standard
Justin M. Gash
Indiana University
The algebraic notation of
Francois Viete
Creating Interactive
Mathematics Web
Pages
Jeff Oaks
University of Indianapolis
Peter Turbek
Purdue University
Calumet
Graduate Student
Presentations 4:35-6:10
Range of Alpha-Stable
Processes
Sarah Bryant
5:00--5:20
5:25--5:45
5:50--6:10
6:006:20
Friday Banquet
6:30 pm
7:45 pm
Room
217 Lilly Science Hall
227 Lilly Science Hall
227 Lilly Science Hall
Various Rooms
217 Lilly Science Hall
(5:25-5:55)
Rodrigo A Perez
IUPUI
The Mental Plane
Francisco Lara-Dammer
Indiana University
Dinner and Awards- (reservations required)
Schwitzer Student Center
Mathemagics! Featured Speaker Art Benjamin (Harvey Mudd)
210 Lilly Science Hall
Saturday, March 24
7:00 AM
7:45 - 8:30
8:00 - 3:00
8:15 AM
8:20 AM
9:309:50
9:5510:15
Chairs/Liaisons Breakfast (pay at the door) Schwitzer Student Center
Registration217 Lilly Science Hall
MAA Book Sale
217 Lilly Science Hall
Welcome
210 Lilly Science Hall
Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof
Pólya Lecture: Art Benjamin (Harvey Mudd)
210 Lilly Science Hall
Graduate Student
Presentations 9:30-11:30
Lilly 108
Modeling Childhood
Diseases
A Characterization of
Refinable Rational
Functions
Modeling Plumes from
Industrial Smokestacks
Ely M. Spears (student)
Rose-Hulman
Murder at the Mayfair
Mic Jackson
Reinforced Random Walks
on Weighted Graphs
The interplay of isolation
from reproduction with
demography and sexually
transmitted diseases
3-manifolds and knots
Seung-Moon Hong
Indiana University
(until 11:30)
11:3012
noon
'Radical' Numbers - A
History of the Decimal
Number System
A game based on the
Euclidean Algorithm
Daniel Maxin
Purdue University
11:1011:25
Geometry from
Chemistry
S. Allen Broughton
Noah Dean
Purdue University
10:4511:05
Lilly 112
David Gerberry
Purdue University
Jung-Miao Kuo
Indiana University
10:2010:40
Lilly 110
Rose-Hulman
Cindy Faryniak and
Kris Feitshans
(students)
Indiana University
Northwest
Actuarial Science
from the Air
Lary Schiefelbusch
Indiana University
Northwest
Women in mathrelated careers
Mary Porter
St. Mary’s College
Grad School Panel
Designing a Table Both
Swinging and Stable
Greg Frederickson
Purdue University
Afternoon Session
12 noon
12:45—1:15pm
1:15—1:55pm
2:00—3:00pm
Fozia S. Qazi
St. Mary’s College
Earlham College
The values of polynomials
at integral points
Scott Parsell
Butler University
A student asks: What’s
the real deal with
statistical independence?
Susan Jevert (Student)
Taylor University
Modeling hysteresis: A
generic mathematical
model of a common
natural phenomenon.
W. Steve Galinaitis
Rose-Hulman
Lunch
Schwitzer Student Center
ICMC Review
Lilly 227
Business Meeting
Lilly 210
Featured Speaker: Daniel Forger (University of Michigan)
Lilly Science Hall 210