Friday, April 1

7:45 - 8:00 Check-in and packet pick up for PNW Section NExT

Viking Union (VU) 565

8:00 - 1:00 PNW Section NExT meeting

Viking Union (VU) 565

For Section NExT members and invited guests only

2:30 - 5:00 Check-in and packet pick up

Second floor of Bond Hall (BH), outside room 202

3:00 - 5:30 Minicourses

Minicourse 1: Cryptology 

Bond Hall (BH) 201

Cheryl Beaver, Western Oregon University, and Stuart Boersma, Central Washington University

Minicourse 2: Teaching Machines to do Knot Theory 

Haggard Hall (HH) 233

Mark Hughes, Brigham Young University

5:30 - 7:30 Section NExT dinner and discussion

Location TBD

6:00 - 7:00 Information session for prospective graduate students

Viking Union (VU) 565

7:00 - 7:30 Check-in and packet pick up, light refreshments

Lobby of Communication Facility (CF)

7:30 - 8:30 Plenary talk I

Communications Facility (CF) 115 

Jennifer Quinn, UW Tacoma, and President of the MAA

Digraphs and determinants

Saturday, April 2

7:30 - 8:30 Executive committee meeting

Old Main Solarium (OM 590)

8:00 - 9:00 Check-in and packet pickup

Lobby of Communication Facility (CF)

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary talk II

Communication Facility (CF) 115

Emilie Purvine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Mathematics for cybersecurity

10:00 - 12:00 Special Session I

10:00 - 10:15  Laurie Cavey, Boise State University

Student reasoning evidence as a tool for mathematical learning

10:20 - 10:35  Blake Peterson, Brigham Young University

Finding the mathematical point in student mathematics

10:40 - 10:55  Adaline De Chenne and Elise Lockwood, Oregon State University

Pre-service teachers reasoning about computational representations of counting problems

11:00 - 11:15  Ksenija Simic-Muller, Pacific Lutheran University

Assignments to help prepare culturally responsive teachers

11:20 - 11:35  Jessica Cohen, Western Washington University

Collaborative professional development for preservice teachers and their cooperating teachers

11:40 - 11:55  Brandy Wiegers, Central Washington University

Finding mathematical joy again with math friends

 

10:00 - 10:15  Kate Kearney, Gonzaga University

Knots Related by Knotoids

10:20 - 10:35  Mark Hughes, Brigham Young University

Nonorientable immersed surfaces in knot complements

10:40 - 10:55  Christopher Cericola, Seattle University

A new unknotting operation: the arc crossing change

11:00 - 11:15  Justus Curry and Mitchell Rask, Seattle University

The arc crossing change game

11:20 - 11:35  Marion Campisi, San Jose State University

Vertex distortion of lattice knots

11:40 - 11:55  Thomas Mattman, California State University, Chico

There are too many knotted graphs!

10:00 - 10:15  Brandy Wiegers, Central Washington University

Math circles and physical distancing: how do we get started again?

10:20 - 10:35  Tom Edgar, Pacific Lutheran University

Starting a math YouTube channel

10:40 - 10:55  Tatiana Tomanek, Seattle University

How the pandemic changed collaboration within education

11:00 - 11:15  Jenn Crump, Tom Edgar, Ander Erickson, Michael Hale, Duong "Rita" Than, Keshreeyaji Osal, Jenny Quinn, UW Tacoma

#TacomaMath: a community collaboration

10:00 - 10:15  Lila Goldman, Southern Oregon University

Chutes and ladders as a Markov process

10:20 - 10:35  Ben Coté and Leanne Merrill, Western Oregon University

The mathematics of crossword puzzles

10:40 - 10:55  Dibyajyoti Deb, Oregon Institute of Technology

The 21 card trick and its generalization

11:00 - 11:15  Randall Paul, Oregon Institute of Technology

Dots and boxes on doughnuts

10:00 - 10:15  Rachel Macaulay, Emily Barrett and Grace Penunuri, University of Portland

A statistical analysis of the change in age distribution of spawning hatchery salmon

10:20 - 10:35  Virag Carlile-Kovacs and Holly Riley, Linfield University

Asteroid mining and global equity

10:40 - 10:55  Brandon Castillo, California State University, San Bernadino

On the classification of belted sum decomposition of nested links

11:00 - 11:15  Kate Lorenzen, Linfield University

Spectral properties of the exponential distance matrix

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch activities

Pick up a boxed lunch in the lobby of the Communications Facility (CF)

12:30 - 1:15 Undergraduate Activity

Bond Hall (BH) 209

Preparing for job interviews and panel discussion with young professionals 

12:45 - 1:30 Business Meeting

Communications Facility (CF) 115

All MAA members are welcome

1:30 - 3:30 Special Session II

1:30 - 1:45  Ksenija Simic-Muller, Pacific Lutheran University

Engagement through rehumanizing students and mathematics

1:50 - 2:05  Kristen Harvey, Walla Walla Community College

Increasing student engagement in developmental math classes

2:10 - 2:25  Asia Matthews, Quest University

Week 1: focus on metacognition

2:30 - 2:45  Tom Dick, Oregon State University

Learning mathematics (and learning to teach mathematics) through problems

2:50 - 3:05  Rick Barnard, Western Washington University

Standards-based grading in a course on differential equations

3:10 - 3:25  Jean Marie Linhart, Central Washington University

Retests and student engagement

1:30 - 1:45  Jason Joseph, Rice University

Bridge numbers and meridional ranks of knotted surfaces and welded knots

1:50 - 2:05  Gary Guth, University of Oregon

Ribbon homology cobordisms and link Floer homology

2:10 - 2:25  Hee Jung Kim, Western Washington University

Knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds by knot surgery and stabilization

2:30 - 2:45  Gabriel Islambouli, University of California, Davis

Bridge 4-sections of surfaces

2:50 - 3:05  Ryan Budney, University of Victoria

Finite type invariants applied to diffeomorphism groups of 4-manifolds

1:30 - 1:45  Emilie Hancock, Brent Hancock, Mark Oursland, Allyson Rogan-Klyve and Jennifer Dechaine-Berkas, Central Washington University

WA-STELLAR: Washington STEM teachers engaging in leadership, learning & research

1:55 - 2:10  Sasha Wang, Boise State University

Using and integrated STEM approach to advance preservice elementary teachers' learning

2:20 - 2:35  Micael Jarry-Shore, Boise State University

Accounting for context in preparing to orchestrate whole-class discussions: an initial effort

2:45 - 3:00  Rob Ely and Annelise Nielsen, University of Idaho

Viable argumentation in 8th-grade mathematics

3:10 - 3:25  Andrew Misseldine, Southern Utah University

Using student authorship, undergraduate research, and open pedagogy in mathematics education

1:35 - 2:00  Dylan Wray, Robert Bowen, Russell Goebel, Spencer Wood and Kimihiro Noguchi, Western Washington University

Model evaluation for forecasting national park visitation using social media

2:05 - 2:30  Koby Robles, Western Washington University

Generating memoryless distributions

2:35 - 3:00  Fiona Cleary, Samuel Burnett and Kimihiro Noguchi, Western Washington University

Why do parametric and nonparametric tests sometimes provide conflicting results on the same data?

3:05 - 3:30  Lili Donovan, Ramadha Piyadi Gamage and Kimihiro Noguchi, Western Washington University

Robustness of the nonparametric bootstrap when used for change point analysis

1:30 - 1:45  Andrew Oster, Eastern Washington University

Prediction of first-time homelessness risk based on utility payment history

1:55 - 2:10  Tevian Dray, Oregon State University

Models of non-Euclidean geometry

2:20 - 2:35  Andrew Oster, Eastern Washington University

Effects of GABA-circuitry maturation on cortical activity during neural development

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:00 Plenary talk III

Communication Facility (CF) 115

Talea Mayo, Emory University

Mathematics applied: the use of computational models to understand climate change impacts to storm surge risk

5:00 - 5:20 Section awards

Communications Facility (CF) 115

Immediately following the third plenary talk.

5:30 - 7:30 Reception

Academic West (AW) atrium