Updates
Please keep checking here to catch any last program updates before and during MAA MathFest 2017!
Invited Paper Session
Big Ideas About Big (and Less Than Big) Data
Thursday, July 27, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Continental Ballroom B
Finding and Telling Data Stories
4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.
Dash Davidson Scott Teal, Tableau Software
Panel Session
Math for Computing? Computing for Math? A Discussion of Interdependencies
Thursday, July 27, 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m., Salon A-5
Panelist Daniel Kaplan, Macalester College, will no longer be presenting at this session
Undergraduate Student Paper Session
Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Sessions
All talks scheduled for Conference Room 4K have been moved to Conference Room 4A
Canceled Events
Contributed Paper Session with Themes
Encouraging Effective Teaching Innovation, Part B
Friday, July 28, 8:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., Salon C-4
Using Points-Free Grading to Promote Perseverance (CANCELED)
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Austin Mohr, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Contributed Paper Session with Themes
My Favorite Math Circle Problem, Part A
Thursday, July 27, 1:00 p.m. - 3:55 p.m., Salon C-1 & C-2
Math News Snapshots for Senior High School Students (CANCELED)
3:20 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
Nitsa B. Movshovitz-Hadar, Technion - Israel Inst. of Technology
Contributed Paper Session with Themes
Undergraduate Research Activities in Mathematical and Computational Biology
Friday, July 28, 1:00 p.m. - 3:35 p.m., Salon A-4
My Mathematical Mice - Modeling Neuroblastoma Tumor Growth in Mice using a System of Ordinary Differential Equations (CANCELED)
2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Yixuan He, Dartmouth College
Dorothy I. Wallace, Dartmouth College
Anita Kodali, Dartmouth College
General Contributed Paper Session
Applied Mathematics
Thursday, July 27, 1:00 p.m. - 3:55 p.m., Salon C-7
Extending Difference of Votes Rules (CANCELED)
1:30 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.
Sarah S. King, University of Louisville
General Contributed Paper Session
Outreach, Mentoring, and Assessment
Thursday, July 27, 1:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m., Salon C-8
What I Learned Running the Oakland Math Circle (CANCELED)
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Jamylle L. Carter, Diablo Valley College
General Contributed Paper Session
Number Theory
Friday, July 28, 8:30 a.m. - 10:55 a.m., Salon C-8
Olinde Rodrigues' Contribution to Catalan Numbers (CANCELED)
10:45 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.
Johannes C. Familton, Borough of Manhattan Community College
General Contributed Paper Session
Modeling or Applications
Friday, July 28, 1:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m., Salon C-7
A Planetary Orbital Model Based on Gravity Simulation (CANCELED)
2:15 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.
Morgyn Church, Radford University
Machine Learning Approach for the Prediction of Dissolved Oxygen Concentration (CANCELED)
3:30 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
Cassia Smith, University of the Virgin Islands
Robert Stolz, University of the Virgin Islands
Jonathan Jossart, University of the Virgin Islands
Mathematical Modelling of the Outer Hair Cell (CANCELED)
4:15 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
Austin E. Marstaller, The University of Texas at Dallas
General Contributed Paper Session
Probability and Statistics
Saturday, July 29, 8:30 a.m. - 10:40 a.m., Salon C-7
Convexity of Ruin Probabilities in Insurance Risk Models (CANCELED)
10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
David Landriault, University of Waterloo
Bin Li, University of Waterloo
Gordon E. Willmot, University of Waterloo
Di Xu, University of Nebraska Lincoln
General Contributed Paper Session
Teaching and Learning Introductory Mathematics
Saturday, July 29, 1:00 p.m. - 4:10 p.m., Salon C-7
Student Academic Background and Their Success Rate in College Algebra (CANCELED)
2:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
Seongchun Kwon, Missouri State University -West Plains