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Schedule of Events
Thursday April 9th, 2015
3-7pm: Registration
Pre-Function Area 7th Floor
4-6pm: Executive Committee Meeting
Bolero 2
6:30-7:00pm: Calculus Bowl Pizza
Tango Ballroom
7:00-9:00pm: Calculus Bowl
Sponsored by Pearson Education
Tango Ballroom
7:00-9:00pm: Short Course
Rumba 1
Brian Beavers, Steven F Austin State University
Mining Math History for Fun and Profit
Sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)
Friday April 10th, 2015
7:30-11:00am: Registration
Pre-Function Area 7th Floor
8:00-10:30am: Undergraduate Student Contributed Paper Sessions
Session 1: Education, Statistics
Tango 1
Session 2: Geometry
Tango 2
Session 3: Differential Equations
Tango 3
Session 4: Education, Differential Equations Tango 4
Session 5: Algebra, Knot Theory
Rumba 1
Session 6: Game Theory, Probability
Rumba 2
Session 7: Topology, Analysis
Bolero 1
8:00am-1:00pm: Texas NExT meeting
Bolero 2
9:00am-1:00pm: TAAAMS Forum
Fiesta
10:30-11:00am: Break
11:00am-12:00pm: Student Forum
Tango Ballroom
Colin Adams & Thomas Garrity, Williams College
Derivative vs. Integral: The Final Smackdown
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch Break
1:00-1:15pm: Official Welcome
Tango Ballroom
1:15:-2:15pm: Plenary Opening Address
Sommer Gentry, US Naval Academy
Faster, Safer, Healthier: Adventures in Operations Research
Sponsored by the St. Mary’s University Mathematics Department
2:15-3:00: Break
2:30-4:55: Graduate Student and Faculty Contributed Paper Sessions
Session 1: Algebra, Analysis
Tango 1
Session 2: Differential Equations
Tango 2
Session 3: Differential Equations, Misc.
Tango 3
Session 4: Education
Tango 4
Session 5: Education
Rumba 1
Session 6: Education, Probability
Rumba 2
Session 7: Statistics
Bolero 1
5:00-6:00: Texas AMATYC meeting
Fiesta
6:30-8:30: Banquet
Tango Ballroom
Saturday April 11th, 2015
7:00-8:00: Departmental Liaisons’ Breakfast
Fiesta
8:00-8:30: Business Meeting
Tango Ballroom
8:30-9:30: Invited Address
Tango Ballroom
Thomas Garrity, Williams College
On Expressing Numbers
Sponsored by the School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, University of the Incarnate Word
9:30-10:00: Invited Address
Tango Ballroom
Susan Staples, Texas Christian University
2014 Distinguished College and University Teaching of Mathematics Award Winner
Series Shenanigans
10:00-11:00: Invited Address
Tango Ballroom
Colin Adams, Williams College
Zombies & Calculus: A Survival Guide
Sponsored by the Trinity University Mathematics Department
11:00-11:15: Conference Resolution
John Sieben, Texas Lutheran University
Tango Ballroom
Undergraduate Contributed Paper Sessions
Room
8:008:20
am
8:258:45
am
Tango 1
Tango 2
Tango 3
Tango 4
Rumba 1
Rumba 2
Bolero 1
Education,
Statistics
Geometry
Differential
Equations
Differential
Equations
Algebra, Knot
Theory
Game Theory,
Probability
Topology/Analysis
Teaching Calculus I
through Applications
and Puzzles
Foucault Pendulum:
The Geometric Theory
& Experimental
Results
Let’s knock down
some classroom walls
and play to learn
Using Educreation and
SMART* Pens to Assist
Student Learning
Agreement Proportion
in Box Societies
Hanan Kuzat
Texas A&M University
Commerce
**Faculty
Pamela Webster
Texas A&M University
Commerce
**Faculty
Abigail Edgar
St. Edward’s
University
Game Theory in Sports
Pinochle Families: An
Application of
Combinations of
Multisets with Finite
Multiplicities
Aubrey Rhoden
Texas A&M University
Commerce
**Faculty
Chasing Cultural
Identities: A statistical
analysis of The Chase
from the United
Kingdom and the
United States
Katie Lelinski
Southwestern
University
8:509:10
am
9:159:35
am
Seoul Olympics: Hard
Work or Doping?
Melissa Johnson
Texas Lutheran
University
Applying Gronwall's
Inequality to a System
of Integral Equations
Bradford Garcia,
Christopher Johnston
Texas A&M University
Commerce
Behavior of Soliton
Solutions to the
Korteweg de Vries
Equation
Improvements upon
Euler 's Method : An
optimization
Approach
David Offner, Seth
Schuler
Hardin Simmons
University
Erica Johnson
University of the
Incarnate Word
Koryn Pitts
El Centro College
Constructions of
Möbius
Transformations
Utilizing Regional
Growth Rates to
Model Mammalian
Species Distributions
Formative Assessment
and Mindsets in
CLEAR Calculus
Leslie King
St. Edwards
Geometry of the
Perfect Basketball
Shot
Tess Macapinlac,
Ashley Tessnow
Trinity University
Jennifer Patterson,
Rebecca Dibbs
Texas A&M University
Commerce
Simulation of
Planetary Formation
using Python
How to visualize the
damping factor in
undergraduate
Differential equations
Colby Hartfield
Hardin-Simmons
University
James Bufkin
Angelo State
University
The Platonic Solids
Linear Analysis of
Competing Species
Models
Alicia Finn
Hardin-Simmons
University
Erin Ray
Hardin-Simmons
University
Soufiane Abbadi,
BrandonChristy
Richland College, El
Centro College
A Computer
Simulation of the
Asian Long Horned
Beetle
Ramiro Ramierz
Our Lady of the Lake
University
Representing Finite
Fields Using
Fibonnacci Cycles
Modulo p
Jeremy Porche,
Jackson Rebrovich
Angelo State
University
The Mathematics of
the Rubik's Cube
Marcos Rodriguez
Sul Ross State
University
Permutations as
Music
Julia Sykora, Jade
Garza
Southwestern
University
Cameron Lowman
Hardin-Simmons
University
Monumental Diceision Making in Roll
Through the Ages
Mary Huerta,
Heather McCain,
Nathan Wood, Kaitlyn
Goertz, Johnathan
Moore
Schreiner University
The approximation of
the nth prime
Colin Harrington,
Soufiane Abbadi
Richland College
Jordan Miller
Abilene Christian
University
A Physical Application
of the Gaussian
Hypergeometric
Function
Eric Oden
Southwestern
University
Discrete Dynamics of
Folds
Nicholas Hyde
St. Edwards
Room
9:4010:00
am
10:0510:25
am
Tango 1
Tango 2
Tango 3
Tango 4
Rumba 1
Rumba 2
Bolero 1
Statistics
Geometry
Differential Equations
Differential Equations
Algebra, Knot Theory
Game Theory,
Probability
Topology/Analysis
How to Solve "Lights
Out!"
Modeling the
Dynamics of
Competition and
Antibiotic Resistance
in Gonorrhea
It's Dicey:
Developments in Roll
Through the Ages
Classification of
Multidimensional
Data Sets Using Radial
Basis Functions
The Magic Number:
How many times
should you shuffle a
deck of cards?
Christian Lovins
Abilene Christian
University
Larissa Murray
Angelo State
University
This is a Man’s World:
The Standing of
Women ֞ The
Security of the State
Bonnie Daniel
Southwestern
University
Pool Table Geometry
Johnathan Wood
Sul Ross State
University
Anthony Thomas
University of the
Incarnate Word
Measles: from data to
simulation
Charles Payne,
Danielle King
Southwestern
University
Analysis of allelopathy
in a chemostat
resource
Conservation of Zoo
Species: Addax
Brody Benavides,
Jonathan Gutierrez,
Gerardo Salgado
St. Mary’s University
Ian Coleman
Tarleton State
University
Snowflakes, Gaskets,
and other Fractals
Bryce Johnson
Hardin-Simmons
University
Towards a
Counterexample to a
conjecture by
Ramanujan
Brian Diaz
St. Mary’s University
Heather McCain
Schreiner University
Investigation on
Electric Monthly Bills
Jin Xuan
Hardin-Simmons
University
Jason Hatton
Lamar University
Calculus on
Topological Fields
Daniel Ketterer
Schreiner University
Graduate Students and Faculty Contributed Paper Sessions
Room
2:302:50
pm
Tango 1
Tango 2
Algebra, Analysis
Differential Equations
A Survey on
Combinatorial
Interpretations of the
q-Analogues of Special
Numbers
Ayoub Al-Amin
Texas A&M University
Commerce
Carnival Bears
2:553:15
pm
ArB Owen
Texas A&M
University Commerce
Properties of
Bernstein polynomials
and their usage
Dambaru Bhatta,
Mostafa Jani
University of Texas
Pan American
A nonstandard
numerical scheme for
solving productivedestructive systems
Daniel Wood
University of Texas at
Arlington
Tango 3
Differential
Equations, Misc.
EEG Source
Reconstruction of Rat
Head using FEM
Method
Hongguang Xi
University of Texas at
Arlington
A Derivation of The
Fundamental
Equation For The Twobodied Problem
John Jablonski
Lamar University
Tango 4
Rumba 1
Rumba 2
Bolero 1
Education
Education
Education, Probability
Topology/Analysis
“JumpStart” Summer
Mathematics Bridge
Program at St. Mary’s
University: A New
Beginning from the
Start
Mike Lecocke
St. Mary’s University
Incorporating
Undergraduate
Research as a
Capstone Project
Christy Graves
University of Texas at
Tyler
A Framework for
Teaching Alternating
Series in Calculus II
Betseygail Rand
Texas Lutheran
University
A Study of
Interpersonal Violence
in the State of Texas
Using Linear
Regression
E.L. Perry
Faulkner University
How to make and use
Base Five Blocks for
elementary teacher
preparation
Assessment of
Attitude toward
Statistics: College
Student Perspective
Craig McCarron
University of the
Incarnate Word
Jerry Obiekwe
University of Akron
Wayne College
Product Spaces and
the Semiregularization
Process
Charles Dorsett
Texas A&M University
Commerce
Half the Max
Jose Islas
University of North
Texas
Room
3:203:40
pm
3:454:05
pm
Tango 1
Tango 2
Algebra, Analysis
Differential Equations
A New Combinatorial
Interpretation of
Multiple Binomial
Coefficients
Rachel Landers
Texas A&M
University Commerce
Congruence Principle
for Brouwer Degree of
Equivariant Maps
between Solvable
Group
Representations
Sphere
Farzan Jafeh
UT Dallas
4:104:30
pm
4:354:55
pm
Mycielski-Regular
Measures
Jeremiah Bass
Tarleton State
University
When are balls
convex?
Jennifer Anderson
Texas A&M University
Optimal Control
Approach to Image
Registration
Stephen Salako
Our Lady of the Lake
University
Explicit Forms of
Solutions for the
Temperature Field in a
Bioflow Reactor
Model
Douglas Johnson, D.
Palaniappan
Texas A&M University
Corpus Christi
Host switching vs.
host sharing in
overlapping sylvatic
Trypanosoma cruzi
transmission cycles
Christopher Mitchell
University of Texas at
Arlington
A Hilbert Space
Approach to Complex
Matter
Erik Harwell, Reza
Ahangar
Texas A&M University
Kingsville
Tango 3
Differential
Equations, Misc.
Mathematical Model
of Inflammatory
Responses to
Biodegradable
Implant
Sarah Langford
University of Texas at
Arlington
Smallest Graphs with
Given Generalized
Quaternion
Automorphism Group
Lindsey Kay
Lauderdale
University of Texas at
Tyler
Patterns in Pascal's
Triangle in Alternative
Number Bases
Richard Harvel
Tarleton State
University
On Gronwall's
Inequality
Tingxiu Wang
Texas A&M University
Commerce
Tango 4
Rumba 1
Rumba 2
Bolero 1
Education
Education
Education, Probability
Topology/Analysis
Using Dynamic
Visualization Software
to Teach: Experience
Three of the Big
Players
Chutes, Ladders, and
Markov Chains
Limits and
Composition of
Functions in Calculus
The Relationship in
Career Choices
Between Academic
Math taken and Selfefficacy in the Field
Ping-Jung Tintera,
Timothy Nelson
Texas A&M Corpus
Christi
Tangent to Two
Parabolas: The
Thinking of Pre-service
Secondary
Mathematics
Teachers
Connie Yarema, David
Hendricks
Abilene Christian
University
A Partial Emerging
Scholar’s Experience
for Calculus II
Students
Jacqueline JensenVallin
Lamar University
Differential
Participation In
Formative Assessment
And Achievement In
Introductory Calculus:
A Growth Model
Rebecca Dibbs
Texas A&M University
Commerce
Julie Sutton
University of Texas at
Arlington
Is it a Proportional or
Linear Relationship?
Lymeda Lingleton
Texas A&M University
Commerce
Jason Callahan
St. Edward’s
University
Wilcoxon Sum Rank
for Confidence
Interval Matched Pairs
Data Using SAS
Program
Shalima Zalsha
Sam Houston State
University
Departmental
Experiences with
Exam Wrappers as
part of a Faculty
Learning Community
Use regular
expressions in R to
convert unstructured
customer data to a
standard format
Ryan Dunning, Jason
Shaw, Mary WagnerKranke
St. Mary’s University
Chris Mienie de Kock,
Damon Thron
Texas A&M University
Central Texas
Co-Requisite College
math courses
Current State of
Statistics Instruction:
Role of Technology
Alfredo Vaquiax,
Maria Linan
Our Lady of the Lake
University
Reza Abbasian, John
Sieben
Texas Lutheran
University
Gary Richter
Southwestern
University
Mathemagics: part
deux
Joshua Petterson
Texas A&M University
Commerce
A Mini Study Abroad
Opportunity via
History of Math
Meri Hughes
University of Mary
Hardin Baylor
Penney’s Game and
Roulette
Robert Vallin
Lamar University