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2007 talks

• 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

• 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