DIMACS Conference on Linking Mathematics and Biology in the High Schools
April 29 - 30, 2005
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers:
- Fred Roberts, DIMACS, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
- Midge Cozzens, Colorado Institute of Technology, mcozzens@coloradoit.org
Workshop Program:
This is a preliminary program.
Friday, April 29, 2005
7:30 - 8:15 Registration, 1st Floor Lobby
Continental Breakfast, DIMACS Lounge, Room 401
8:15 - 8:35 Introductory Remarks
Philip Furmanski, Executive VP for Academic Affairs, Rutgers
Jean Vanski, Deputy Director, Division of Elementary, Secondary,
and Informal Education, National Science Foundation
Margaret Cozzens, Conference Co-Chair and President of
Colorado Institute of Technology
Fred Roberts, Conference Co-Chair and Director of DIMACS
8:35 - 9:15 The Interdisciplinary Scientist of the 21st Century
Keynoter - Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
Director, NIGMS Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
at NIH, and Chair, NIH Biomedical Information Science and
Technology Initiative Consortium
Session a Topics in Mathematics and Computer Science that Could
be Included in High School Biological Sciences Courses and Topics
in Biology that Could be Included in High School Mathematical
Sciences Courses:
9:15 - 10:15 Session a1 Plenary Session
Learning Science/Mathematics by Doing Science/Mathematics:
Genuine Research Projects for High School Students
William Sofer, Genetics, Rutgers University
Biomathematics: Using Graph Models for High School
L. Charles Biehl, Math teacher and administrator, Charter School
of Wilmington, DE
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Keynote Lecture cont.
11:30 - 12:30 Sessions a2.1 and a2.2 Concurrent Sessions for Bio and
for Math Teachers
Bio Session: CoRE A, Room 301, 3rd Floor
Probability and Betweenness of Points: The Genetic Ruler
Kevin DeVizia, Math Teacher, and Mark Nebzydoski, Delaware Valley
High School, Milford, PA
Math!? Why Do I Need That? The Biology Student's Dilemma
with a Problem-based Solution
Tom Fleetwood, Charter School of Wilmingon, DE
Math Session: Seminar Room, Room 431, 4th Floor
Waiting Time and Seed Selection for Homology Search
Gary Benson, Bioinformatics and Biology, Boston University
Co-Evolution
Robert Hochberg, Computer Science, East Carolina University
12:35 - 1:30 Lunch
Session b Materials: Availability and Development
1:30 - 2:30 Session b1 Plenary Session
Using Bioinformatics to Make the Bio-Math Connection
Kathleen Gabric, Biology Teacher, Hinsdale Central High School,
Hinsdale, IL
Mathematics in Service to Biology and Vice Versa
Sol Garfunkel, COMAP
Session b Materials: Availability and Development, continued
2:30 - 3:30 Sessions b2.1 and b2.2 Concurrent Sessions for Bio and Math Teachers
Bio Session: CoRE A, Room 301, 3rd Floor
Publishing Bioinformatics in a Well Established Biology Program
Linda Lundgren, Glencoe McGraw Hill
Interactive Modeling Environments: Sources and Resources for
Quantitative Reasoning in Biology
Robert Panoff, Shodor Education Foundation
Math Session: Seminar Room, Room 431, 4th Floor
Games, Metaphor, and Learning
Mjumbe Poe, Computer Science, Harvey Mudd
Teaching Mathematical Biology in High School
Joseph Malkevich, CUNY
3:35 - 5:05 Session c Teacher Training
The Role of Teacher Training in Overcoming the Inertia of the Status Quo
Bro. Pat Carney, Math teacher, De Paul Catholic High School,
Wayne, NJ
Changing the Culture: Professional Development for the 21st Century Teacher
Valerie DeBellis, Shodor Education Foundation
Cross-Disciplinary High School Teacher Professional Development
Linda Morris, Jefferson County, Colorado School District
5:05 - 5:20 Break
5:20 - 6:20 Discussion Groups: Where to Go from Here?
List of Topics and Facilitators:
Topic 1: Bringing Cutting Edge Math-Bio into Urban Schools
Moderator: Jerry Goldin, Rutgers University
Topic 2: How does Technology Play a Role in the Bio-Math Interface?
Moderator: Kathy Shay, Middlesex County College
Topic 3: What Role Does a Research Experience Play in the
Bio-Math Interface?
Moderator: Jean Vanski, NSF
Topic 4: Implementing BIO2010: Practical Strategies
Moderator: Eric Marland, Mathematical Sciences, Appalachian
State University
Topic 5: Mathematical Manipulative Models: Kinesthetic Learning
in Mathematical Biology
Moderator: John Jungck, Biology, Beloit College
6:20 - 7:00 Posters and Demonstrations: Simultaneous with Wine and Cheese Reception
Demonstrations
Building DNA models with K'NEX
Gary Benson, Bioinformatics and Biology, Boston University
BLAST Your Way into Bioinformatics using Biology Student Workbench
Kathleen Gabric, Biology Teacher, Hinsdale Central High School,
Hinsdale, IL
Posters
Science Informatics at Montclair State University
Katherine G. Herbert and James H. Dyer, Montclair State University
Reaching the Community with Mathematical Biology
Olgamary Rivera-Marrero and Brandilyn Stigler, Virginia Tech
Saturday, April 30, 2005
7:45 - 8:00 Registration, 1st Floor Lobby
Continental Breakfast, DIMACS Lounge, Room 401
8:00 - 9:00 Session d The DIMACS Bio-Math Connect Institute
Organizer: Rochelle Leibowitz, Wheaton College
An overview of the DIMACS program and three presentations by
high school teacher participants to describe how they brought
the bio-math interface into their classrooms.
8:00 - 8:15 Overview, Rochelle Leibowitz, Wheaton College
8:15 - 8:30 Reverso: The Exciting Game of Genetic Inversion.
A Reflection on Teaching a Biomathematics Unit
to High School Students
Kathy Erickson, High School Teacher, Monument Mountain
Regional High School, Great Barrington, MA
8:30 - 8:45 Applications Several Dynamic Programming Techniques
Lou Giglio, High School Teacher, Riverdell Regional
High School, Oradell, NJ
8:45 - 9:00 Researching the Superstring Problem
Charles Mullins, High School Teacher, Arkansas School
for Math, Sciences and Arts, Hot Springs, AR
9:00 - 9:30 Keynote Lecture for Student Session
Randomly Dealing with Biological Strings by Embeddings
S. Muthukrishnan, Computer Science, Rutgers University
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 11:15 Contributed Papers Session III: High School Student
Presentations
9:45 - 10:03 Algorithms for Genetic Inversions
Jess Platt and Riley Baldwin, Monument Mountain Regional
High School, Great Barrington, MA
Under the direction of Kathy Erickson, Monument Mountain
Regional High School, BMCI 2004 Participant
10:03 - 10:21 Comparison of the Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I Gene
in Soldier and Non-soldier Aphids
Christina Sartorio, Seton Catholic High School, Pittston,
PA and Zachary Brady, Wyoming Area High School
Under the direction of Jim Kupetz, Seton Catholic High
School, BMCI 2004 Participant
10:21 - 10:39 Effectiveness of the Greedy Algorithm in DNA Sequencing
Johnson C. Wong, Arkansas School for Math, Sciences
and Arts, Hot Springs, AR
Under the direction of Charles Mullins, Arkansas School
for Math, Sciences and Arts, BMCI 2004 Participant
10:39 - 10:57 Applying Abstract Algebra and Graph Theory to Model Flu
Seasons
Ben Hughes, Galileo Magnet High School
Under the direction of Olgamary Rivera-Marrero, Virginia Tech
Session e What is Happening at the Undergraduate Level
that Could be Adapted to the High School Level? What Changes in the
Undergraduate Curriculum Have Implications for High School Education
in Bio-Math?
11:20 - 12:20 Session e1 Plenary Session
A Biology and Engineering Cooperative Project
James Stevens, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Developing the new Biomedical Mathematics Major at Florida
State University
DeWitt Sumners, Math and Molecular Biophysics, Florida State
12:20 - 1:15 Lunch
Session e What is Happening at the Undergraduate Level that Could
be Adapted to the High School Level? What Changes in the Undergraduate
Curriculum Have Implications for High School Education in Bio-Math?,
continued
1:15 - 2:15 Sessions e2.1 and e2.2 Concurrent Sessions for Bio and Math Teachers
Bio Session: CoRE A, Room 301, 3rd Floor
Quantitative Courses and Training in Mathematical Biology,
particularly ecology
Alan Hastings, UC Davis
Valuing Voronoi Visualization: Patterns in Nature for Art, Biology,
and Mathematics
John Jungck, Biology, Beloit College
Math Session: Seminar Room, Room 431, 4th Floor
Bioinformatics? One Minute and One Hour at a Time
Laurie Heyer, Mathematics, Davidson College
Bridge Courses for Cross-Training between Biology, Computer Science,
and Mathematics
Steve Billups, Center for Computational Biology, University of Colorado
Contributed Papers Session, Conference Room, Room 433, 4th Floor
An Angiogenesis Model using Graph Theory and the
Generalized Ballot Problem
Mike Gargano, Pace University (with Lorraine Lurie,
Lou Quintas, Eric Wahl)
Dynamic Web Tools for Biomathematics: Bringing
Realistic Models to Secondary Education
Michael Martin, Johnson County Community College and
University of Kansas
2:20 - 3:20 Panel 1: Assisting Teachers who Want to Get Involved
Panel Themes: Math Teachers who Have Never Experienced
Interdisciplinary Points of View; Bio Teachers Uncomfortable
with Math; Ways that Bio and Math Teachers can Partner
Moderator: Deborah Cook, NJ Math Science Partnership
Partial List of Participants:
Nkechi Agwu, CUNY
Jerry Goldin, Rutgers University
Consuelo Rogers, NSTA District XVI Director
3:20 - 3:35 Break
3:35 - 4:05 Closing Session: Discussion Groups Present
Recommendations followed by Discussion
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