2017 Michigan MAA Section Annual Meeting   March 31 - April 1, 2017   Ferris State University

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The schedule of talks (as of March 24) is listed below (yellow background = undergraduate speaker; green background = graduate student speaker).
To access the slides from a talk (if they have been provided to us), click the title of the talk in the table below. 
For a printable program with abstracts of all the talks, click here.
For the times at which tours of on-campus museums are scheduled, consult the section of the conference home page labelled "Other Activities".

Friday, March 31, 2017

1:00-6:00	Registration (outside University Center 202 AB)
2:15-3:20	Welcome  Kristi Haik (Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Ferris State University) Opening Plenary JP Cossey (Univ. of Akron) An Algebraist Tries to Do Combinatorics with Undergrads, and Occasionally Doesn't Completely Fail University Center 202 AB

3:30-4:10

Local Invited Lecture Dawn Archey (Univ. of Detroit-Mercy) The Boy Who Cried Wolf and the Mathematicians Who Said Math Was Really Useful University Center 217

Local Invited Lecture David Murphy (Hillsdale) It Takes a Community University Center 203

4:15-4:35	Tanweer Shapla and Khairul Islam (EMU) Communicate Large Sample Concepts in Statistical Education Using Simulation University Center 209	Gerry Cox (Lake Michigan College) Using an Introductory Calculus Text to Teach a Pre-Calculus Algebra/Trig Class University Center 211	Jeff Ford and Leighann McReynolds (Ferris St.) Strategies for Smokestack:  A Statistical Analysis of Card Game Algorithms University Center 213
4:40-5:00	Anil Venkatesh (Ferris St.) Mastery-Based Assessment:  An Implementation with Reflective Writing University Center 209	Arlo Caine (Cal Poly-Pomona) Text Recognition with Computational Topology and Geometry University Center 211	Sara Hayes (CMU) Mathematics of Needlework:  An Introduction to Knit and Crochet University Center 213

5:10-5:40	Business Meeting (University Center 203)
5:30-6:30	Refreshments (University Center 202 AB)
6:30-9:00	Banquet and Plenary Lecture Timothy Chartier (Davidson) MAA Section Visitor Mathematical Celebrity Look-Alikes University Center 202 AB

Saturday, April 1, 2017

8:00-12:00	Registration (outside University Center 202 AB)
8:00-12:00	Continental Breakfast (University Center 202 AB) (served until food is gone or lunch begins)
8:45-9:40	Plenary Lecture Matthew Wyneken (UM-Flint) MI-AMTE President The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) - Celebrating 25 Years University Center 202 AB

9:50-10:10	Jon Wilson (Ferris St.) Entropy of Non-Rectangular LEGO Bricks University Center 209	Khairul Islam (EMU) The Invariance of Chi-Squared Test under Various Probabilistic Models University Center 211	Jon Oaks (Macomb CC) Teaching Vocabulary in the Mathematics Classroom University Center 213	Panel Discussion The Ferris State University Quantitative Reasoning Project:  Student Voices University Center 217
10:15-10:35	Rebecca Robinson (UM-Flint) A Markov Chain Model of the Viral Spread of Internet Memes University Center 209	Huizhen Zhang, Hongli Zhang and Marissa Mizwa (LTU) An Optimized Modern Toll Plaza:  An Application of Queuing Theory and the Poisson Distribution University Center 211	Feryal Alayont (Grand Valley St.) Analyzing Student Work as a Way to Learn the Intricacies of Counting Techniques University Center 213	Continuation of Panel Discussion The Ferris State University Quantitative Reasoning Project:  Student Voices  University Center 217

10:40-11:20

Break (University Center 202 AB)

11:20-11:55

Local Invited Lecture   Katrina Piatek-Jimenez (CMU) College Students' Stereotpyes of Mathematicians University Center 217

Local Invited Lecture Alan Lindsay (Notre Dame) Modeling Diffusion and Capture University Center 203

12:00-12:45

MUMC Pizza Lunch (for undergraduates) University Center 217

Conference Luncheon University Center 202 AB

12:55-1:50

Plenary Lecture Ronnie Pavlov (Univ. of Denver) Nearest-Neighbor Tilings in One and Two Dimensions University Center 202 AB

2:00-2:20	Daniela Goetz (UM-Flint) Mathematical Identity and the Impact of Stereotype Threat University Center 209	Suzy McTaggert (EMU) On Predicting Successful Family Medicine Residents Using the Characteristics of Medical Students Accepted to University of Michigan Family Medicine Residency Program University Center 211	Matthew Wyneken (UM-Flint) An Introduction to General Orthogonal Polynomials University Center 213
2:25-2:45	Talk Cancelled	Ben Savoie (UM-Flint) Mixing Time for the Generalized Rook's Walk University Center 211	P. Gavin LaRose (UM-Ann Arbor) Increasing Student Engagement in a Large-Enrollment Differential Equations Course:  Effect and Effectiveness University Center 213
2:50-3:10	Justin Wisby (UM-Flint) 3D Rendering and Printing Fractals and Lindenmayer Constructions University Center 209	Layla Potts (EMU) The Effects of Gender and Ethnicity on Students' Perceptions of Small-Group Learning in Collegiate Mathematics Courses University Center 211	Alexander Israetel (Davenport Univ.) Statistical Analysis of Select Biometric Life History Variables in Primates University Center 213

3:15-3:35

Alec Ward (Saginaw Valley St.) How can a Parabola be a Source of Difference Equations? University Center 209

Khairul Islam (EMU) Teaching and Research Using Statistical Software R University Center 211

Peter Brown (Lake Michigan College) You Cannot Add Cats and Dogs University Center 213

Stephanie Loewen and Vasily Zadorozhnyy (Grand Valley St.) A New Triangle Generation of Generalized Genocchi Numbers Using Rook Placements on Genocchi Boards University Center 217

3:35-4:00	Break
4:00-5:15	Student Awards Ceremony and Closing Plenary Lecture Chris Rasmussen (Wesleyan Univ.) Solving S-Unit Equations University Center 202 AB