Updated!! Contributed Paper Session at the Joint Math Meetings on Undergraduate Mathematical Biology
On the morning and afternoon of Tuesday during the Joint Meetings, the BIOSIGMAA will sponsor contributed paper sessions on undergraduate mathematical biology. All members of the BIOSIGMAA are encouraged to submit an abstract for the session and share what they are doing with undergraduates in mathematical biology.
Reports including BIO 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists (National Research Council, 2003) and Math and BIO 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines (L. A. Steen, ed., MAA, 2005) emphasize that aspects of biological research are becoming more quantitative and that life science students should be introduced to a greater array of mathematical and computational techniques and to the integration of mathematics andbiological content at the undergraduate level. Since these reports, many successful programs and materials have been designed to address these issues. This session is designed to highlight available and successful, print, electronic, or online materials which are available for implementation in the classroom. This session would also like to highlight programs and workshops which have helped train faculty in the pedagogy of undergraduate mathematical biology. The session is particularly interested in presenters who have created materials after participating in workshops offered by the MAA or other professional organizations. We encourage presenters to provide handouts or electronic copies of materials that can readily be used in the classroom. This session is sponsored by the BIO SIGMAA. (Organized by Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University, Raina Robeva, Sweet Briar College, and Eric S. Marland, Appalachian State University.)
Update: The talks in this session have been selected. They are: Tuyesday, 6 January. (Washington Room 5, Lower Level, Marriott)
- 8:00 a.m. Modeling Logistic Growth and Extinction. Sheldon P. Gordon*, Farmingdale State College
- 8:25 a.m. BioCalculus: First Steps at a Small Liberal Arts College. Margaret M Sullivan*, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
- 8:55 a.m. Activities Designed to Prepare Undergraduates for Research in Mathematical Biology. Timothy D Comar*, Benedictine University
- 9:20 a.m. Translating the principles of BIO2010 into practice. Kelly E Matthews*, University of Queensland; Merrilyn Goos, University of Queensland Peter Adams, University of Queensland
- 9:45 a.m. Active Learning in the Symbiosis Project. Jeff R Knisley*, East Tennessee State University
- 10:10 a.m. UBM-Research and Education Program in Biology and Ecology. S. Koksal*, Florida Institute of Technology
- 10:35 a.m. Training Undergraduates in Mathematical Biology Using Research With Faculty. E Miller Jason*, Truman State University
- 11:00 a.m. The Standard Genetic Code and Equivalence Classes. Brian Hopkins*, Saint Peter's College
- 11:25 a.m. Bioinformatics on the Cheap. Jennifer R. Galovich*, St. John's University/College of St. Benedict
- 1:00 p.m. Sensitivity Analysis and Parameter Identification in Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling. Steven M Deckelman*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
- 1:25 p.m. Materials for Analyzing Sensitivity using the Partial Rank Correlation Coefficient. J K Denny*, Mercer University
- 1:55 p.m. Secret Diffusion Lessons of the Sea Monkeys and Other Math Bio Projects for Undergraduates. Brynja R. Kohler*, Utah State University; Rebecca J. Atkins, Utah State University; James Haefner, Utah State University; James Powell, Utah State University
- 2:20 p.m. What's Math have to do with History: A Biological Application to Matrices and Difference Equations. Robert E. Burks Jr.*, United States Military Academy