The Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University is pleased to announce the 2010 Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, to be held in Fort Collins on April 16 and 17, 2010 at the Lory Student Center on the campus of Colorado State University.
Details of the meeting will be posted at http://www.math.colostate.edu/~hulpke/MAA/.
We are inviting mathematics teachers at all levels to contribute and attend, middle school, high school and college, as well as undergraduate and graduate students. There will be a variety of invited talks and sessions catering to all interests.
Registration and submission of talks is available on the web here. For full consideration, talk abstracts must be submitted by April 1, 2010 here.
The meeting will feature three invited speakers: - the 2008 Burton W. Jones Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient, Dr. Richard Grassl, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Northern Colorado. The title of his talk will be: 'The "Ah Ha" moment'. - The MAA National featured speaker will be Dr. David Bressoud, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College and President of the Mathematical Association of America. His talks will be `Calculus as a High School Course' on Friday, and `Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture' on Saturday. - The 2009/10 MAA Polya Lecturer will be Dr. Judy Walker, Professor and Graduate Chair at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The title of her talk will be: `Codes on graphs: Shannon's challenge and beyond'. Speaker biographies and their abstracts are available on the meeting webpages. For any questions or requests, please contact maameeting@math.colostate.edu.