Talks

2013 Talks

• Committee on Barriers and Opportunities in Completing 2- and 4-year STEM Degrees, NAS, Washington, DC, November 12

  • Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus

• University of Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, November 2

  • Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus

• Winona State University, Winona, MN, October 8–9

  • Episodes from the History of Trigonometry

  • The Death of Proof

• WisMATYC, WCTC, Pewaukee, WI, Septmber 28

  • Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus

  • Four Mathematicians Who Shaped our Understanding of Calculus

• MathPath, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, July 16–27. Series of talks on the History of Calculus

  • Finding areas and volumes

  • Archimedes' derivation of the volume of a sphere

  • Al-Haytham's volume of the dome of a mosque

  • Area under graph of polynomial

  • Stirling numbers

  • Values of the sine function

  • Galileo

  • Napier and Newton

• President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Washington, DC, July 18

  • Meeting the Challenges of Improved Post-Secondary Education in the Sciences

• Foundation Workshop on Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM, Washington, DC, June 17–19

  • Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus (Poster)

• McDougal Lecture, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, May 21

  • Four mathematicians who shaped our understanding of Calculus

• North Central Section of the MAA, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, April 27

  • Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus: Preliminary Findings

• North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, MN

  • Four mathematicians who shaped our understanding of Calculus

• NCTM, Denver, CO, April 19

  • ICME-12 Report on Second-Language Learners

• Loyola University, Chicago, IL, April 4

  • Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus: Preliminary Findings

• Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, March 7

  • Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus: Preliminary Findings

• College Board, New York, NY, March 2

  • Selected Results from the MAA Calculus Study

• Ohio State, Columbus, OH, January 17

  • Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus: Preliminary Findings

• Joint Math Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 8–12

  • Selected Results from the MAA Calculus Study (report to the College Board/MAA Committee on Mutual Concerns)

  • Reflections on Modeling Based on the MAA National Survey of Calculus (SIAM Minisymposium on Modeling Across the Curriculum)

  • The Transition from HS to College Math: MAA Calculus Study (MAA Session for Chairs)

  • Selected Results from the MAA Calculus Study (MAA Session on Transition from High School to College)