Tamara Veenstra
Professor
Math & Computer Science
Education
- Ph.D., Mathematics, Dartmouth College
- A.M., Mathematics, Dartmouth College
- B.S., Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professional Background
Experience
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University of Northern Iowa, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1997-2001
Presentations
- Alan Turing and his Contributions to Cryptology, AMS/MAA National Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2017.
- Cryptology By Discovery: Favorite Inquiry-Based Activities, AMS/MAA National Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, January 2015.
- Investigating the Mathematics of Folding Regular-Polygon-Base Boxes. AMS/MAA National Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, January 2015.
- Paper folding, Orders of Elements, and Binary Representations of Fractions, MAA invited paper session, AMS/MAA National Meetings, San Francisco, CA, January 2010.
- How a Mathematician Looks at Origami and Finds Prime Numbers, invited speaker, AAAS National Conference, Chicago IL, February 2009.
- The Vigenere Cipher: A Historical Cipher with a Modern Day Application, AMS/MAA National Meetings, Washington DC, January 2009.
Areas of Expertise
- Number Theory
- Cryptography and Communications Security
- Mathematical Origami
Publications
"Do the Twist! (on polygon-base boxes)," with s-m belcastro, College Mathematics Journal, November 2016, Vol 47, No 5, pp. 341-345.
"Fujimoto, Number Theory, and a New Folding Technique," Origami4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting of Origami Science, Mathematics, and Education, AK Peters, Natick, MA, 2009, pp. 405-415.
"Constructing Regular n-gonal Twist Boxes, with s-m belcastro," Origami4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting of Origami Science, Mathematics, and Education, AK Peters, Natick, MA, 2009, pp. 41-49.