Kentucky Section of the Mathematical Association of America
Northern Kentucky University – April 1-2, 2016

Saturday, April 2 – Contributed Talks/Invited Address/Others

7:45 – 11:00 / Registration: Griffin Hall (GH) Lobby
GH 230 / GH 240 / GH 250 / GH 260
8:15 – 8:30 / Mark Robinson
(WKU-f)
Taylor’s Theorem for Functions of One and Several Variables / Joel Kilty, Alex McAllister
(Centre-f)
Mathematical Modeling and Applied Calculus / Andy Martin (KSU-f)
Folding Developmental Mathematics into the Liberal Arts Requirement: One University’s Attempt to Save Student Time and Money while Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates
8:35-8:50 / Ngoc Nguyen
(WKU-f)
Statistical Tests for Related Records Search Results / Chris Christensen
(NKU-f)
What Was the Purple Cipher? / Beverly Dearborn
(KSU-u)
Johann Bernoulli’s Brachistochrone Challenge
9:00 – 10:00 / Invited Address (Digitorium)
Joe Gallian (U Minnesota Duluth)
Using Mathematics to Create Symmetry Patterns
10:10 - 10:20 / Elections
(Digitorium)
GH 230 / GH 240 / GH 250 / GH 260
10:30 –10:45 / Zac Bettersworth
(WKU-g)
Incoherent Nullification of Torus Knots / Lisa Holden, Aimee Krug, Jill Terlau, Kathy Donelan
(NKU, Highlands Middle School-f) The Northern Kentucky Math Teachers’ Circle: Ready, SET, Go! / Jordan Culp
(Murray-g)
On the Uniqueness of the Z_1 Eigenvector of Transition Probability Tensors / Ibukun Amusan
(KSU-f)
Moments for Stochastic Processes
10:50 –11:05 / Hayden Brooks, Donald Price
(WKU-u)
Nullification Number of Minimal Diagram Knots / Steven Wilkinson
(NKU-f)
Visualizing the 4D Mandelbrot Set / Elizabeth Donovan
(Murray-f)
Neighborhood Degree Lists of Graphs / Young Hwan Kim
(Asbury-u)
Bathtub Temperature Model
11:10 – 11:25 / Claus Ernst
(WKU-f)
How is Knotting Affected by a Tight Confinement? / Susan White
(Bellarmine-f)
Engaging Students in a Statistical Literacy Course / David Roach
(Murray-f)
Wavelets and image compression / Andy Martin
(KSU-f)
Discrete Sines: Three Concrete Cases
11:30 - 11:45 / Tom Richmond
(WKU-f)
Transitions of 4-intersection Values / Emily Reed
(Thomas More-u)
The Lagrangian Method-Applications to Portfolio Theory / Ryan Luke
(U Louisville-g)
The “Way-Below” Relation and Residuated Maps
11:50 – 12:05 / Bangteng Xu
(EKU-f)
Bent Functions on Group Actions / Janie Hils
(Thomas More-u)
PDE Constrained Optimization / Robert Powers
(U Louisville-f)
An Axiomatic Characterization of the Center Function
12:15 – 1:00 / Luncheon and Business Meeting
(UC Ballroom)
1:00 - ??? / KYMAA Executive Committee Meeting (UC Ballroom)