Several members of the NDSU Department of Mathematics participated in the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco. About 6,000 mathematicians attended the conference.
Assistant professor Angela M. Hodge helped organize a session titled "Preparing K-12 Teachers to Teach Algebra for the Mathematical Association of America." She also described her research with NDSU mathematics major Ryan Hiltner in an invited talk in the Mathematical Association of America's session titled "Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics."
Assistant professors Marian Bocea and Cristina Popovici organized an American Mathematical Society special session titled "Degenerate and Singular Elliptic Partial Differential Equations." The session featured invited talks by speakers from the U.S. and from abroad (France and Portugal). The session consisted of two parts of three hours each, spread over two days of the conference.
Bocea gave a talk on joint work with Mihai Mihailescu from the University of Craiova, Romania, and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, during the first part of the session.
Popovici gave a talk, titled "The Asymptotic Behavior of Power-law Functionals and Applications" in the society's session, titled "Optimization and Control," and she co-chaired the society's session titled "Optimization and Control."
Assistant professor Sean Sather-Wagstaff helped organized a special session titled "Commutative Algebra for the American Mathematical Society."
Graduate student William Travis Trentham gave a contributed talk in the society's session titled "Fields and Commutative Algebra."
Professor Jim Coykendall attended the meeting as an exhibitor for the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Postdoctorate Jason Boynton and graduate students Bethany Kubik and Stacy Trentham also attended the meeting.