University of Missouri-Columbia
Department of Mathematics

Mathematical Association of America
Missouri Section Spring Meeting 2006

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Schedule

Thursday, March 30, 2006

7:30-10:00 p.m. Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition (Columns C, Reynolds Alumni Center)

Friday, March 31, 2006

8:30-11:00 a.m. Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition (Columns C, Reynolds Alumni Center)
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration (106 General Classroom Building)
12:45-1:00 p.m. Ted Tarkow (Associate Dean of Arts & Science, University of Missouri-Columbia) Opening Remarks (Allen Auditorium, Arts & Science)
1:00-1:50 p.m. Steven Rudich (MAA Polya Lecturer and Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University) A Bird's Eye View of the P vs. NP Problem. (Allen Auditorium, Arts & Science)
2:00-5:00 p.m. Displays, Exhibits, MAA Book Sale (104 General Classroom Building)
2:15-3:10 p.m. Contributed Papers (General Classroom Building)

2:15-2:30 2:35-2:50 2:55-3:10
GCB 105 Matt Sealy (Truman)
The Lattice of Subvarieties of HSP(S+)*		 Curtis Cooper (CMSU)
The Discovery of the 43rd Mersenne Prime		 Shing So & Al Tinsley (CMSU)
Generalizations of the Pythagorean Theorem in Euclidean Geometry*
GCB 109 Brian Birgen (Wartburg)
Civic Engagement in a Finite Math Course		 Tim Ray (SEMO)
Where Does the Ladder Hit?*		 John Koelzer (Rockhurst)
Anagram Primes: A Work in Progress*
GCB 114 Charlie Smith (Park)
Primality Leads to Perfection in Alexandria and Warrensburg*		 David Failing** (Truman)
Self-generating Sets, Missing Blocks, and Substitutions*		 Mary Shepherd (NWMS)
Have You Read the Textbook You Teach From*
GCB 124 Elias Saab (UMC)
The Missouri Mathonline Test and Evaluation Website
*The talk is accessible to students.
**The speaker is a student.

3:15-3:45 p.m. Leon Hall (UMR) The Early Years of the Missouri Section* (105 General Classroom Building)
4:05-5:00 p.m. Contributed Papers (General Classroom Building)

4:05-4:20 4:25-4:40 4:45-5:00
GCB 105 Robert Roe (UMR)
Learning to Use Moore/Inquiry Method Through Mentoring*		 Shing So & Mahmoud Yousef (CMSU)
Modified Moore Method in a College Trigonometry Class*		 Haohao Wang (SEMO)
Learn to Teach with Modified Moore Method*
GCB 109 Keith Brandt (Rockhurst)
Exploring Schur Numbers*		 Ben Braun** (Washington U)
Oh, What a Change of Basis Can Do!*		 Hang Chen (CMSU)
Construction of some tournaments
GCB 114 W.Y. Chan (SEMO)
Global Existence of Solutions for Degenerate Semilinear Parabolic Equations with a Sink at the Boundary		 Ioana Sirbu (Western Illinois)
Completeness of Spherically Symmetric Correlated Gaussians		 Oksana Bihun** & Carmen Chicone (UMC)
Distortion Minimal Morphing: The Theory for Stretching*
GCB 117 Marina Dombrovskay** (SLU)
Non-discrete Topologies for Abelian Groups*		 Mark Pedigo** (SLU)
Visual Representations of p-adic Numbers*		 Ashley Reynolds** (SLU)
A Calculus Student's Dream: A Generalized Power Rule*
*The talk is accessible to students.
**The speaker is a student.

6:30-8:30 p.m. Banquet. Lisa Sattenspiel (Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia) Why Canadian Fur Trappers Should Stay in Bed When They Have the Flu: Modeling the Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases. (Reynolds Alumni Center)
10:00 p.m.-Midnight Extreme Bowling (Town & Country Lanes)

Saturday, April 1, 2006

6:15-7:00 a.m. 5k Run/Walk (MKT Trail)
7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast meeting of Department Chairs and MAA Laisons (Reynolds Alumni Center)
8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Registration, Displays, Exhibits, MAA Book Sale (104 & 106 General Classroom Building)
8:45-9:40 a.m. Contributed Papers (General Classroom Building)

8:45-9:00 9:05-9:20 9:25-9:40
GCB 105 Jerzy Wojdylo (SEMO)
Public Key Cryptography with TI Voyage 200*		 Dale Bachman (CMSU)
Shank's Algorithm and Elliptic Curve Cryptography I*		 Dale Bachman (CMSU)
Shank's Algorithm and Elliptic Curve Cryptography II*
GCB 109 Amanda Lewis** (UMC)
A Proof of Green's Theorem: Reasoning by Contradiction*		 Bob Robertson (Drury)
An Improper Application of Green's Theorem*		 Paul Deiermann (SEMO)
Solution to Monthly Problem 11159 via Residue Theory*
GCB 114 Haohao Wang (SEMO)
An Application of Syzygies*		 Lianwen Wang (CMSU)
Optimal Control of Nonautonomous Algebraic Differential Inclusions		 Laura Smith** (NWMS)
Strategies and Recommendations for Using Math Textbooks*
GCB 117 James Guffey (Truman)
USCOTS and Involving My Students in Their Introductory Statistics Class*		 George Wang** (Truman)
Computational Modeling of Flight Characteristics for Extant and Fossil Saccate Pollen Grains*		 T. Christine Stevens (SLU) & John W. Short (Sam Houston State)
Making Sequences of Real Numbers Converge to Zero*
*The talk is accessible to students.
**The speaker is a student.

10:00-10:50 a.m. John Kenelly, Treasurer of the MAA, The Mathematics of Testing and Vice Versa. (Allen Auditorium, Arts & Science)
11:00-11:50 a.m. Business Meeting (Allen Auditorium, Arts & Science)