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David M. Bressoud

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2009

• AMATYC Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, November 13
  • Lessons from the History of Mathematics
• US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, October 29
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
  • Issues of the Transition to College Mathematics
• National School Board Association, webinar, October 8
  • From STEM to Root
• Iowa State Center for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education, Ames, Iowa, September 28
  • Perspectives on the Transition to College Mathematics
• Congressional Briefing, Washington, DC, September 22
  • Undergraduate Mathematics: Promising Recruitment and Retention Strategies to Ensure Diversity in the STEM Pipeline
• MAA MathFest, Portland Oregon, August 8
  • Issues of Common Concern between MAA and NCTM
• Legacy of R. L. Moore Conference, Austin, TX, July 16–18
  • Teaching the Art of Guessing
• USAMO Breakfast & Reception, Washington, DC, June 8
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
• ACMS Conference, Wheaton, IL, May 27–30
  • Calculus as a High School Course
  • Stories from the Development of Real Analysis
• Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, May 11–13
  • Challenges for Undergraduate Mathematics
• NCTM, Washington, DC, April 22–25
  • Lessons from the History of Mathematics
• Oklahoma/Arkansas Section Meeting, Weatherford, OK, March 26–28.
  • Engaging Students through the History of Mathematics
  • Implications of Calculus as a High School Course
• Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 19–20
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
  • Implications of Calculus as a High School Course
• Southeastern Section Meeting, Nashville, TN, March 12–14
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
  • Educational Challenges for the MAA
• Louisiana/Mississippi Section Meeting, Clinton, MS, March 6
  • Implications of Calculus as a High School Course
• Northern California, Nevada, and Hawaii Section Meeting, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, February 28
  • Exploiting Symmetries: Tales of Alternating Sign Matrices
• Moravian College and Moravian Student Mathematics Conference, Bethelehem, PA, February 20–21
  • A Story from the Development of Real Analysis
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
• George Washington University, Washington, DC, February 19
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan: A Self-Taught Genius
• DePaul University, February 13
  • Challenges Facing Undergraduate Mathematics
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
• Macalester Capstone Seminar, January 30
  • Technical Writing for Mathematics and Computer Science
• College Board-MAA Committee on Mutual Concerns, Washington, DC, January 4
  • AP and the Transition to College Mathematics

2008

• Northeastern Section Meeting, Bentley College, Waltham, MA, November 22
  • Calculus as a High School Course
• Towson University, Baltimore, MD, October 30
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
• Ohio Section Meeting, Columbus, OH October 24–25
  • Engaging Students through the History of Mathematics
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
  • Calculus as a High School Course
• Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Dearborn, MI, October 18
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture,
• University of Colorado, Boulder, October 16
  • Exploiting Symmetries: Alternating Sign Matrices and the Weyl Character Formulas
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
• QuIRK PKal Workshop, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, October 11:
  • Quantitative Thinking at Macalester College
• The Future of High School Mathematics Conference, Washington, DC, September 26:
  • A College Perspective on High School Mathematics
• Carleton College, Northfield, June 2:
  • Exploiting Symmetries,
• Transitions To, Through, and Beyond Calculus, Conference at Univerity of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 25–27.
  • Calculus as a High School Course
• Allegheny Section, MAA, University of Pittsburgh, April 12,
  • Calculus in High School
• Loyola University, Chicago, April 4,
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
• Kentucky Section, MAA, Western Kentucky University, March 28:
  • The Truth of Proofs
• University of Kentucky, March 28:
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan: A Self-Taught Genius
• Tulane University, January 17:
  • Exploiting Symmetries: Alternating Sign Matrices and the Weyl Character Formulas
• Joint Math Meetings, San Diego, January 5–9
  • Report to Collge Board-MAA Committee on Mutual Concerns
  • Calculus in High School: The Numbers

2007

• Denison University, October 25–26
  • Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
  • Stories from the Development of Real Analysis
• Randolph Lecture, MAA Seaway Section, Rochester, NY, October 20, Calculus in High School
• Pi Mu Epsilon talk, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, October 4: Explorations of the Foundations of Calculus
• MAA Distinguished Lecture Series, Washington, DC, September 19: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
• MathFest, San Jose, CA, August 2–5
  • Project NExT: Increasing the Number of Majors
  • SIGMAA TAHSM: Calculus in High School
  • Minicourse:
    • Limits,
    • Sunday homework,
    • Elliptic functions and Newton's Principia,
    • harmonic series problems,
    • more problems on harmonic series
• MathPath, Colorado College, July 24–26
  • Introduction to Recursions
  • Sums of Powers
  • Counting Alternating Sign Matrices
  • Plane Partitions and the Six Vertex Model
• Davidson Young Scholars, St. Paul, MN, June 21–22
  • The Art of Counting, ages 4–11
  • The Art of Counting, ages 10–16
• AP Reading, Louisville, KY, June 15
  • Has Calculus Become a High School Course?
• CBMS, Washington, DC, May 4
  • Challenges for the Undergraduate Curriculum
• Visualizing the Future of Mathematics, LA, April 13
  • Challenges for the Undergraduate Curriculum
• Joint Math Meetings, New Orleans, January 4–8
  • Transition to Proof
  • Using history to understand how to teach Real Analysis
  • Report on Calculus at Macalester College

2006

• Project NExT-Wisconsin, Workshop in Menomonie, October 5–7
• MathFest, Knoxville, TN, Aug 12
  • Stories from the History of Mathematics
• Bellingham, WA talks, May 19–20
  • The Changing Face of Calculus
  • The Amusement Park Problem
• Bay Area talks, April 11–12
  • The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture, Santa Clara University
  • Exploiting Symmetries: Alternating Sign Matrices and the Weyl Character Formulas, Stanford
  • The Art of Counting, Bay Area Math Adventures
  • "A Little Algebra" a supplement to The Art of Counting
• AP Calculus: Friend or Foe? San Antonio. Jan 14. PowerPoint presentation.
• Calculus for Those Who have Taken Calculus. San Antonio. Jan 15. PowerPoint presentation.

2005

• Teaching Combinatorics in a Discrete Math Class, MAA MathFest, Albuquerque, August 5, PowerPoint presentation; Pólya Project for class.
• Meet the Committee, PowerPoint presentation for AP National Conference, Houston, Texas, July 17.
• The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, PowerPoint presentation for AP National Conference, Houston, Texas, July 17.
• Growth of AP Calculus, Excel spreadsheet of AP data, AP Calculus Reading, Fort Collins, CO, June 7.
• CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004, pdf file with notes,
  • Atlanta, January 5–8
  • MAA Florida Section meeting, Sarasota, FL, February 25–26, 2005.
  • MAA New Jersey Section meeting, West Long Branch, NJ, November 6, 2005
• The Changing Face of Calculus, pdf file with notes, Atlanta, January 5–8
• Proofs and Confirmations: the Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
  • MAA Florida Section meeting, Sarasota, FL, February 25–26, 2005.
  • MAA New Jersey Section meeting, West Long Branch, NJ, November 6, 2005

2004

• Exploiting Symmetries: Alternating Sign Matrices and the Weyl Character Formulas, University of Florida, October 29, 2004.
• Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and New Policies on Sign Charts, MAA MathFest, August 12–14, 2004
• AP National Conference, Orlando, FL, July 17–18, 2004
  • student worksheet developing formula for Formulas for Sums of Powers.
  • References for the talk on the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  • A Brief History of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  • Riemann's example of an integral that is not differentiable
  • Volterra's example of a derivative that is not integrable
• Presentation on the CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004
  • MAA Southwest section meeting, Flagstaff, AZ, April 2–3, 2004
  • MAA Metro New York section meeting, Garden City, NY, May 2, 2004
  • MAA Pacific Northweest section meeting, Anchorage, AK, June 26, 2004
  • MAA MathFest, August 12–14, 2004
  • MAA Northeastern section meeting, Worcester, MA, November 20, 2004
• Proofs and Confirmations: the Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
  • MAA Southwest section meeting, Flagstaff, AZ, April 2–3, 2004
  • MAA Metro New York section meeting, Garden City, NY, May 2, 2004
  • MAA Northeastern section meeting, Worcester, MA, November 20, 2004
• Proofs and Confirmations, the Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5
  • Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, April 29–30, 2004
• Immigration in America: Understanding the Numbers, Macalester College, June 21–25, 2004
  • Rates
• Joint Math Meetings, Phoenix, January 6–10, 2004, Project NExT session on Projects and Activities in
  Upper Level Courses
  • pdf file of slides
  • Rearranging the alternating harmonic series: part 1, parts 2 & 3
  • A collection of projects from a variety of sources, including Kaczor and Nowak, Problems in Mathematical Analysis, vols I, II, and III (see AMS Bookstore).

2003

• Allegheny College, October 22–24, 2003
  • Discovering the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  • Wrestling with the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  • Using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
• AP National Conference, Los Angeles, CA, July 17, 2003. List of pdf files.