SCHEDULE
MTH 599 — 2011/2012


Fall 2011

Week 1
(Sep 28)
Introduction
Tevian Dray
Week 2
(Oct 5)
Lenses on technology in mathematics instruction —
implications for research and development
Tom Dick
Week 3
(Oct 12)
What went right this week?
Tevian Dray
Week 4
(Oct 19)
Topology, Triangles and Toponogov
Mark Walsh
Week 5
(Oct 26)
Geometry, Relativity, and all that
Tevian Dray
Week 6
(Nov 2)
When the center of the course doesn't hold:
The challenges revealed at mid-term
Robin Pappas
Week 7
(Nov 9)
A guided worksheet: Which Way is North?
Tevian Dray
Week 8
(Nov 16)
MTH 111 and the transition to college mathematics
Tevian Dray
Week 9
(Nov 23)
(no meeting this week)
Week 10
(Nov 30)
Mathematical modeling, analysis, and computational
simulations of flow and transport problems
Malgo Peszynska

Winter 2012

Week 1
(Jan 11)
Discussion: Wrapups; Software
Tevian Dray
Week 2
(Jan 18)
The octonions
Tevian Dray
Week 3
(Jan 25)
Teaching Blind Students College Mathematics
Mary Pilgrim
Week 4
(Feb 1)
Research Resources for Math Grad Students
Uta Hussong-Christian
Week 5
(Feb 8)
Properties of solutions to the incompressible fluid equations
Elaine Cozzi
Week 6
(Feb 15)
The Calculus Concept Inventory
Scott Peterson
Week 7
(Feb 22)
Qualitative behavior of solutions of elliptic free boundary problems
Kirk Lancaster
Week 8
(Feb 29)
What can be done with Math 111?
Barbara Edwards
Week 9
(Mar 7)
Planning for next term.
Tevian Dray
Week 10
(Mar 14)
Technology demo in Weniger 212.
Tevian Dray

Spring 2012

Week 1
(Apr 4)
Some aspects of the graduate program in mathematics
David Finch
Week 2
(Apr 11)
Modeling and simulation of microwaves in biological material
Nathan Gibson
Week 3
(Apr 18)
Exploring student use of mathematics in physics
Mary Bridget Kustusch
Week 4
(Apr 25)
Dynamics and Continued Fractions
Tom Schmidt
Week 5
(May 2)
Teaching update: What's working and what isn't.
Tevian Dray
Week 6
(May 9)
The Poincaré Conjecture
Christine Escher
Week 7
(May 16)
Discussion of classroom visits
Tevian Dray
Week 8
(May 23)
Calculus on the moduli space
Ren Guo
Week 9
(May 30)
Discussion of summer teaching
Olivia Keefer
Week 10
(Jun 6)
Cantor Sets in Euclidean Space
Dennis Garity