Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Day

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Phoenix, AZ, January 7-10, 2004
Meeting #993

Friday January 9, 2004

• Friday January 9, 2004, 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
  Joint PME and MAA Student Chapter Advisors' Breakfast
• Friday January 9, 2004, 7:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Employment Center
• Friday January 9, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Friday January 9, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Combinatorics, I
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Extension of multi-restricted numbers.
    Ji Young Choi*, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
    Jonathan D. H. Smith, Iowa State University
    (993-05-1635)
  • 7:45 a.m.
    A Transform Approach to Constacyclic and Quasi-twisted Codes.
    Tom Blackford*, Western Illinois University
    (993-05-1304)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    The $m$-quasiinvariants of $S_n$.
    Jason Bandlow, University of California, San Diego
    Gregg Musiker*, University of California, San Diego
    (993-05-1386)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Rook Theory and Cycle-Counting Permutation Statistics.
    Frederick Michael Butler*, University of Pennsylvania
    (993-05-824)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Morphism Families for $\delta$-Matchings.
    Anna Maltseva*, University of Michigan
    (993-05-1697)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Packing densities of patterns.
    Reid W Barton*, MIT
    (993-05-1613)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Wilf classes of pairs of permutations of length four.
    Ian T Le*, Harvard College
    (993-05-1545)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Break.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Improved bounds on the minimum length of maximal abelian square-free words.
    Evan M Bullock*, Rice University
    (993-05-1347)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Maximal covering groups and perfect cwatsets.
    Thomas M Langley*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Brian Barker, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (993-05-1218)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Technique for Creating Non-Simplicial Polytopes.
    Matthew M Menzel*, The University of Kentucky
    (993-05-636)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Rook Numbers and the Normal Ordering Problem.
    Anna Varvak*, Brandeis University
    (993-05-1196)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Forming Configurations from Nondegenerate Quadratic Forms over Finite Fields.
    Sharon L. Sullivan*, Catawba College
    (993-05-971)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Characterizations of $t$-Split Interval Orders.
    Trisha Moller*, Lehigh University
    (993-05-690)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, III
  Organizers:
  Tamara A. Burton, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Michael J. Fisher, California State University, Fresno
  Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology narayan@mail.rit.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A New Axiomatic Geometry: Cylindrical (or Periodic) Geometry.
    Elizabeth Ehret*, Denison University
    Mike Westmoreland, Denison University
    (993-51-554)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    k-Alternating Knots.
    Philip Hackney*, Central Michigan University
    Nathan Walters, Drake University
    Leonard Van Wyk, James Madison University
    (993-57-462)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pade' approximates for torsion of a compressible nonlinearly elastic cylinder: modeling, computation, and visualization.
    Danielle K Miller*, James Madison University
    Jennifer K Salyer, East Tennessee State University
    Debra A Warne, James Madison University
    Paul G. Warne, James Madison University
    (993-34-569)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Integer Construction by Induction.
    Anthony Fressola*, Denison University
    Joan Krone, Denison University
    (993-03-607)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pretzel Knots and Colorability.
    Kathryn Brownell*, Lenoir-Rhyne College
    Kaitlyn O'Neil, Merrimack College
    Laura A. Taalman, James Madison University
    (993-00-831)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Illumination of the Aristarchus of Samos' treatise On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon.
    Katherine E Northrup*, Ursinus College
    (993-85-1279)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, I
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Polya's Enumeration Theorem in Music Theory (Or, Why Are There 29 Tetrachords?).
    Julian L Hook*, Indiana University
    (993-05-551)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Non-Acoustical Application of the Discrete Fourier Transform to Music Theory.
    Ian Quinn*, University of Oregon
    (993-42-1486)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Some Musically Interesting Properties of Multi-aggregate Compound Interval Cycles.
    E Gollin*, Williams College
    (993-20-1338)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Counting Potential Intervals in Infinite (and Smaller) Spaces.
    Michael H. Buchler*, Florida State University
    (993-05-574)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-SIAM Special Session on Classical and Nonlinear Special Functions, I
  Organizers:
  Peter A. Clarkson, University of Kent
  Francisco Marcellan, Universidad Carlos III
  Peter A. McCoy, U. S. Naval Academy pam@usna.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Deconvolution and Sampling on Non-Commensurate Lattices via Complex Interpolation.
    Stephen D. Casey*, American University
    (993-33-1306)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Note on the Equivalence of Kramer's and Shannon's Sampling Theorems.
    Ahmed I Zayed*, DePaul University
    Amin Boumenir, University of West Georgia
    (993-41-1003)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lam\'e polynomials, the Hermite--Krichever Ansatz, and hyperelliptic reduction.
    Robert S. Maier*, University of Arizona
    (993-33-1693)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Differential Equations for Dyson Processes.
    Craig A Tracy*, UC Davis
    Harold Widom, UC Santa Cruz
    (993-60-1131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    First Integrals of a Generalized Darboux-Halphen System.
    R G Halburd*, Loughborough University
    (993-34-1517)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Chazy and Darboux-Halphen Systems.
    M J Ablowitz*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (993-34-948)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  GAMM-SIAM Special Session on Coding, Geometry, and Hyperbolic Dynamics, II
  Organizers:
  Svetlana R. Katok, The Pennsylvania State University katok_s@math.psu.edu
  Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Gauss Maps for Quadratic Imaginary Fields.
    David Fried*, Boston University
    (993-37-782)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric coding on the modular surface and countable Markov chains.
    Ilie Ugarcovici*, The Pennsylvania State University
    Svetlana Katok, The Pennsylvania State University
    (993-37-1081)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    What is the arithmetic code for $SL(n,\mathbb Z), \,\,n\geq 3$?
    Anatole Katok*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (993-37-585)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Substitution tiling spaces, interval exchange transformations and pseudo-Anosov flows.
    Marcy Barge, Montana State University - Bozeman
    Charles Holton, The University of Texas at Austin
    Brian F Martensen*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (993-37-414)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convex dynamics and applications.
    Roy L Adler*, IBM, Emeritus
    (993-37-169)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Competitive and Adaptative Dynamics in Ecology, I
  Organizers:
  Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Yang Kuang, Arizona State University
  Bai-Lian Li, University of California Riverside
  Horst R. Thieme, Arizona State University thieme@math.la.asu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Competitive coexistence in patchy environments: the interplay between spatial heterogeneity and density-dependent dispersal.
    Priyanga Amarasekare*, University of Chicago
    (993-00-1265)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Perfect aggregation and integrability in ecological dynamical systems.
    Alain Franc*, INRA, Paris, France
    Vadim Kuznetsov, University of Leeds
    (993-92-598)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Competition and Coexistence of Strains: The Impact of Vaccination.
    Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida
    Mimmo Iannelli, University of Trento, Italy
    Xue-Zhi Li, Xinyang Teachers College
    (993-92-351)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematical models of HIV; How robust are they and what are the limitations of their conclusions.
    Patrick W Nelson*, University of Michigan
    Stanca Ciupe, University of Michigan
    Benjamin Lovegren de Bivort, Harvard University
    (993-92-931)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Effects of Non-random Mixing and of Stochasticity on Optimal Disease Intervention.
    James Koopman, The University of Michigan
    Carl P Simon*, The University of Michigan
    (993-92-1628)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The adaptive dynamics of resource use.
    Sebastian J. Schreiber*, College of William and Mary
    Glory Tobiason, Western Washington University
    (993-92-1371)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Multiscale and Oscillatory Phenomena: Modeling, Numerical Techniques, and Applications, I
  Organizers:
  Richard Tsai, Princeton University
  Luminita A. Vese, University of California Los Angeles lvese@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computational Multiscale Methods.
    Bjorn Engquist*, Princeton University
    (993-65-1352)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical microlocal analysis of harmonic wavefields.
    Olof Runborg*, NADA, KTH
    (993-65-543)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis of numerical techniques for multiscale stochastic dynamical systems.
    Weinan E, Princeton University
    Di Liu*, Courant Institute
    Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute
    (993-65-1536)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multiscale Modeling of Fluids.
    Weinan E, Princeton University
    Weiqing Ren*, Princeton University
    (993-76-778)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Heterogeneous Multiscale Methods for Stiff ODEs.
    Richard Tsai*, Princeton University
    Bjorn Engquist, Princeton University
    (993-65-1114)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Organizers:
  Xin Lu, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
  Yan-Wei Qi, University of California Santa Barbara
  Weiqing Xie, California State Polytech University
  Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On a class of nonlinear nonclassical parabolic equations.
    John R. Cannon, University of Central Florida
    Mohamed Salman*, University of Central Florida
    (993-35-565)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Maximal nonnegative constraint-preserving boundary conditions for the linearized Einstein equations.
    Nicolae Tarfulea*, University of Minnesota
    (993-83-669)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The weak asymptotics method. Interaction of shocks in gases.
    Ruben F. Espinoza, Universidad de Sonora,Mexico
    Martin G. Garcia, Universidad de Sonora,Mexico
    Georgii A. Omel'yanov*, Universidad de Sonora,Mexico
    (993-35-879)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $L_2(S^n)$ error estimates for Galerkin method for elliptic PDEs on spheres.
    Quoc Le Gia*, Texas A&M University
    (993-35-1138)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Uniform regularity estimate for the linear elasticity system in convex polygonal domains.
    Bacuta Constantin*, Penn State University
    James H. Bramble, Texas A\&M University, Cornell University
    (993-65-1394)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, I
  Organizers:
  James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College
  Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College nancy.wyshinski@trincoll.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Survey on $q$-Continued Fractions in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
    Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (993-11-1119)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Moment Problem and a Family of Integral Evaluations.
    Mourad E.H. Ismail*, University of Central Florida
    (993-33-1575)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Simultaneous diophantine approximation in the vector space ${\Bbb Q} +{\Bbb Q}\alpha$.
    Edward B Burger*, Williams College
    (993-11-755)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Systems of orthogonal polynomials arising from the modular $j$-function.
    Stephanie Basha, Santa Clara University
    Jayce Robert Getz*, Harvard
    Harris Nover, California Institue of Technology
    Emma Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (993-11-777)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Two-Dimensional Minkowski Question Mark Function.
    Olga R. Beaver, Williams
    Thomas Garrity*, Williams
    (993-11-1075)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topological Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, III
  Organizers:
  Alica Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign amiller@math.uiuc.edu
  Joseph Rosenblatt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Generic behavior in positive entropy.
    Daniel J Rudolph*, University of Maryland
    (993-37-1200)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Absolutely rhythmic and IP recurrent sequences.
    Randall G McCutcheon*, University of Memphis
    (993-37-1659)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Simple spectrum, finite rank, and rotations in $\mathbb Z^d$.
    E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., George Washington University
    Ayse A. Sahin*, DePaul University
    (993-37-1570)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variation inequalities and convergence of non-standard ergodic averages.
    Roger L Jones*, DePaul University
    (993-37-854)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Collapsed indecomposable continua in area preserving two dimensional dynamical systems.
    Judy A Kennedy*, University of Delaware
    (993-37-1251)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fixed Points: Theory and Application, II
  Organizers:
  Robert F. Brown, University of California Los Angeles
  Mark S. Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Axiomatizing the regular words.
    Stephen L Bloom*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Zolt\'an \'Esik, University of Szeged
    (993-68-337)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equational properties of fixed points.
    Zoltan Esik*, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Szeged
    (993-68-692)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computational Complexity and Optimal Algorithms for Fixed Points.
    Christopher Sikorski*, School of Computing, University of Utah
    (993-68-701)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fixed Points in Fuzzy Dynamical Systems.
    Mark Burgin*, UCLA
    Juan Nieto, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
    (993-37-570)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ruin Probabilities and Stationary Distributions.
    Alan Krinik*, California State Polytechnic, University
    (993-60-558)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Problems, I
  Organizers:
  David A. Hartenstine, University of Utah hartenst@math.utah.edu
  Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State University amohammed@bsu.edu
  John M. Neuberger, Northern Arizona State University
  John W. Neuberger, University of North Texas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On a Class of Resonant Schrodinger Equations.
    David G Costa*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (993-35-881)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fully Nonlinear Equations with Time-measurable Coefficients.
    Jay J Kovats*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (993-35-861)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Symmetry and related problems for elliptic and parabolic pde.
    John L Lewis*, University of Kentucky
    (993-35-712)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Remarks On Sobolev Gradients.
    Nicholas D Alikakos*, University of North Texas
    (993-35-1574)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonlinear Elliptic Difference Equations on Graphs.
    John M. Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
    (993-35-1648)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Surfaces of Continua for Quasilinear Elliptic Equations.
    Jon Jacobsen*, Harvey Mudd College
    (993-35-1361)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
  Organizers:
  Tim D. Cochran, Rice University cochran@rice.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Deformation of homotopy into isotopy in oriented 3-manifolds.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    (993-57-1179)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Non-universality of topological symmetry groups.
    Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
    Ramin Naimi, Occidental College
    James Pommersheim, Pomona College
    Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University
    (993-57-956)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mahler measure of Alexander polynomials and Lehmer's question.
    Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
    (993-57-1284)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Uniform 1-Cochains and Genuine Laminations.
    Baris Coskunuzer*, Princeton University
    (993-57-299)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knot complements covered by great circle link complements.
    Genevieve Walsh*, University of Texas at Austin
    (993-57-1204)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Essential surfaces in 3-manifolds which fiber over the circle.
    Liz Klodginski*, UC Davis
    (993-57-1207)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  AMS Session on Operator Theory
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bellman functions - what are they, and how do we use them?
    Janine Wittwer*, Williams College
    (993-47-122)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    A criterion for weak $k$-hyponormality.
    George R. Exner*, Bucknell University
    Il Bong Jung, Kyungpook University
    Sang Soo Park, Kyungpook University
    (993-47-650)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Targeted Frames and Decomposition of Positive Operators.
    Keri Kornelson*, Texas A&M University
    David Larson, Texas A&M University
    (993-47-937)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Circular Symmetry of Spectra of Composition Operators.
    Sivaram K Narayan, Central Michigan University
    Dawn E. Sadir*, Albion College
    (993-47-144)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Existence of solutions of Variational Inequalities in Banach Spaces.
    Jinlu Li*, Shawnee State University
    (993-47-475)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    About some generalizations of hyperbolic A-properness.
    Dan D. Pascali*, Courant Institute, New York University
    (993-47-1149)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The geometric mean in Banach *-algebras.
    Bao Qi Feng*, Kent State University, Tuscarawas Campus
    (993-47-769)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    $C^*$-algebra of The $\mathbb{Z}^2$-tree.
    Menassie Ephrem*, Coastal Carolina University
    Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University
    (993-47-926)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimal Bratteli diagrams and dimension groups of AF C$^*$-algebras.
    Ryan J. Zerr*, University of North Dakota
    (993-47-757)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Statistics
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Assessing Occupational Exposure Via the One-way Random Effects Model.
    Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Huizhen Guo*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (993-62-383)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Detection of Changes in the arrival rates of a Poisson Process.
    Marlo Kay Brown*, SUNY Binghamton
    (993-62-976)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Estimating linear functionals of indirectly observed input functions.
    C Klaassen, University of Amsterdam
    Eun-Joo Lee*, Texas Tech University
    Frits H Ruymgaart, Texas Tech University
    (993-62-950)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    On the Chernoff bound for efficiency of quantum hypothesis testing.
    Vladislav Karguine*, Cornerstone Research
    (993-62-373)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Some Selection Problems with Applications to Lifetime Data.
    Thomas T. John*, Syracuse University
    Pinyuen Chen, Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University
    (993-62-1550)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Estimating the Conditional Distribution Function.
    Rod Freed, California State University at Dominguez Hills
    Senem Alkan*, Bucconi University
    (993-62-1096)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Comparing Two Methods of Handling Tied Event Times.
    Mouchumi Bhattacharyya*, University of the Pacific
    (993-62-1669)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Simulation Study of the Small Sample Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimators in an Accelerated Failure Time Model with Censored Observations.
    Mahmoud A Yousef*, Central Missouri State University
    Raja Nassar, LA Tech University
    (993-62-1363)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Statistics Education Discourse on Inference
  Organizers:
  John D. McKenzie, Jr., Babson College mckenzie@babson.edu
  Carolyn K. Cuff, Westminster College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Why Do We Check Assumptions for Inference?
    Allan J. Rossman*, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo
    Beth L. Chance, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo
    (993-N1-407)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Developing an Understanding of Confidence Intervals for Proportions.
    Daniel J Teague*, NC School of Science and Mathematics
    (993-N1-744)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Order Statistics, Uniform Distributions, and Confidence Intervals.
    Michael I Ratliff*, Northern Arizona University
    (993-N1-560)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Question based presentation of inferential methods.
    Michael D Landrigan*, Idaho State University
    (993-N1-548)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    What does a P-value mean?
    Patricia B Humphrey*, Georgia Southern University
    (993-N1-544)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Hands-on experiments in inferential statistics.
    Mohammad Salmassi*, Framingham State College
    (993-N1-491)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Using Simulations to Teach the Meaning of the P-Value.
    Murray H. Siegel*, Sam Houston State University
    (993-N1-28)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Using Visual Tools in the Teaching of Hypothesis Testing.
    Christopher J. Lacke*, Rowan University
    (993-N1-392)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using Simulations, Permutations and Randomizations to Help Students Understand P-values.
    Robin H Lock*, St. Lawrence University
    (993-N1-502)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Teaching Statistical Inference to In-service Middle School Teachers : Methodologies, Activities, and Projects.
    Barbara A Wainwright*, Salisbury University
    (993-N1-559)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Statistics to Undergraduate Life Science Majors Provides Numerous Opportunities for Data Analysis Projects Involving Inference.
    Deborah Lurie*, Saint Joseph's University
    James Watrous, Saint Joseph's University
    DeniseMarie Ratterman, Saint Jospeh's University
    (993-N1-266)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Hypothesis Test Selection: A Practical Method.
    Sue B Schou*, Idaho State University
    (993-N1-32)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Math and the Arts, II
  Organizers:
  Ann Robertson, Connecticut College arob@conncoll.edu
  John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana
  Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
  Nathaniel A. Friedman, State University of New York, Albany
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Vectors, Computer Art and Toy Story.
    Timothy P. Chartier*, Davidson College
    (993-O1-929)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Computational Aesthetics: Mathematical Methods for Evaluating Art.
    Gary R. Greenfield*, University of Richmond
    (993-O1-840)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Break
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Recursion in Nature, Mathematics and Art.
    Anne M. Burns*, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
    (993-O1-657)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Dahlia Flowers in Art, Nature, and Mathematics.
    Gwen Laura Fisher*, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
    (993-O1-274)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tilings & Quilts.
    Mary Candace Williams*, Pima Community College
    (993-O1-848)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Myriad of Mosaics.
    Maria K Robinson*, Seattle University
    (993-O1-1385)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Discovery or Creation?: Mathematical Platonism and the Visual Arts.
    Mark D. Schlatter*, Centenary College of Louisiana
    (993-O1-368)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Applications of Mathematics in Computer Science
  Organizers:
  William A. Marion, Valparaiso University bill.marion@valpo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An Application of Binomial Trees for Pricing a Stock Option.
    Daniel Birmajer*, Nazareth College
    (993-P1-736)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Programming to Complete Magic Squares.
    N. R. Nandakumar*, Delaware State University
    Michael J. Bosse, Morgan State University
    (993-P1-323)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Check Digits and Error Correction.
    Lew Ludwig*, Denison University
    (993-P1-291)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    From Cyclic Sums to Projective Planes.
    Roger E. Zarnowski*, Angelo State University
    (993-P1-808)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Catalan Project in Discrete Mathematics.
    Brian Hopkins*, Saint Peter's College
    (993-P1-869)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    An Analytic Approach to a Tic-Tac-Toe Program.
    John Gately*, Roosevelt University
    (993-P1-979)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mapping a 1-to-1 Correspondence Between N and Q Using Imbedded Loops, Conditionals, and Arrays.
    N. R. Nandakumar*, Delaware State University
    Michael J. Bosse, Morgan State University
    (993-P1-324)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    One Time Pad Encryption.
    Robert P. Webber*, Longwood University
    (993-P1-91)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Programming Pearl.
    Arnold Lebow*, Yeshiva University
    (993-P1-786)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    "Magic Numbers" Approach to Introducing Binary Number Representation in Introductory Computer Science Courses.
    Gerald W. Kruse*, Juniata College
    (993-P1-667)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Understanding the Magic: Teaching Cryptography with Just the Right Amount of Mathematics.
    Joshua Holden*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (993-P1-247)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    The Perfect Shuffle: Mathematical Apologetics.
    David J Hunter*, Westmont College
    (993-P1-806)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in Business, Industry, and Government
  Organizers:
  Philip E. Gustafson, Mesa State College pgustafs@mesastate.edu
  Michael G. Monticino, University of North Texas
  

  • 8:10 a.m.
    Mathematics and Materials-Stretching Hooke's Law.
    Stanley J Russell*, Motorola (Retired)
    Frank J Attanucci, Scottsdale Community College
    (993-Q1-21)
  • 8:25 a.m.
    Mathematicial Models in Transportation Planning and Traffic Operations.
    Donald A. Sokol*, Lisle. Illinois
    (993-Q1-136)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Developing and Validating a Metric for the Hiring of Fee Based Practitioners for the United States Military Entrance Processing Command.
    Randy E White*, United States Military Academy
    Edgar K Rugenstein, United States Military Academy
    (993-Q1-241)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Designing a Robust Range Imaging System.
    Nathan D Cahill*, Eastman Kodak Company
    Lawrence A Ray, Eastman Kodak Company
    Joseph F Revelli, Eastman Kodak Company
    (993-Q1-1592)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    PSL Preservers and Barker Codes of Odd Length.
    Gregory Emmett Coxson*, Lockheed Martin Naval Electronic and Surveillance
    (993-Q1-30)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    A Leg in Both Worlds: Consulting in Academics.
    Michael G Monticino*, University of North Texas
    (993-Q1-1313)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Industry Problems That Require Concepts Rather Than Technical Detail.
    Richard J Cleary*, Bentley College
    (993-Q1-336)
  • 9:55 a.m.
    Development of a Mathematics Course for Biotechnology through an Industrial Externship.
    Kenneth M. Levasseur*, UMass Lowell
    (993-Q1-98)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Mathematics in the Hedge Funds Arena.
    Ranjan Bhaduri*, Northwater Capital Management Inc.
    (993-Q1-1113)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    The Life and Death of a Silicon Valley Startup Company.
    Mark Stamp*, San Jose State University
    (993-Q1-1660)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session, V
  Organizers:
  Laura J. Wallace, California State University, San Bernardino wallace@csusb.edu
  Jacqueline A. Jensen, Sam Houston State University
  Gary W. Towsley, SUNY at Geneseo
  Michael A. Jones, Montclair State University
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University at San Bernardino
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Encouraging Artistic Expression via Mathematical Exploration in the Core Curriculum.
    John C Nardo*, Oglethorpe University
    (993-Z1-445)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Linking Art, Geometry, and Calculus.
    Ruth G. Favro*, Lawrence Technological University
    David E. Bindschadler, Lawrence Technological University
    (993-Z1-1319)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Effects of Using Notebook Computers (MS Excel) in an Undergraduate Business Calculus Course.
    Stephanie P. Edwards*, University of Dayton
    Clarre Johnston, University of Dayton
    (993-Z1-379)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Finding and Using Pre-Calculus Learning Objects.
    Robert H Hoar, University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse
    Jeff S. Baggett*, University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse
    (993-Z1-1631)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modeling in Elementary Calculus.
    Thomas C Craven*, University of Hawaii
    (993-Z1-474)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Upper-Division Geometry Course Designed around the NCTM Standards.
    Robert Talbert*, Franklin College
    (993-Z1-339)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Making Geometry Come Alive with The Geometer's Sketchpad.
    Dawn R Slavens*, Midwestern State University
    (993-Z1-595)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    DIP-Based Projects for Linear Algebra.
    Mohamed Allali*, Chapman University
    (993-Z1-398)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    {\it Futurama} $\pi$k - Mathematics in the Year 3000.
    Tom Georgoulias, Austin, TX
    Sarah J Greenwald*, Appalachian State University
    Marc Wichterich, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    (993-Z1-681)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  PME Council
• Friday January 9, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College (CUNY)
  Karen V. H. Parshall, University of Virginia
  David E. Zitarelli, Temple University david.zitarelli@temple.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analytic Geometry: Descartes versus Fermat.
    Maria Sol de Mora*, ICREA, Barcelona
    (993-01-310)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Brachistochrone Problem and its Sequels.
    Rüdiger Thiele*, University of Leipzig
    (993-01-627)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Is the English Version of the Theory of Incommensurability Commensurable with Its Chinese Translation?
    Yibao Xu*, CUNY, Graduate Center & BMCC
    (993-01-694)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Science in Translation: The Transmission of Probability Theory into late Imperial Chinese Mathematical Culture (1880-1911).
    Andrea Eberhard-Bréard*, CUNY Graduate Center (New York) / CNRS (Paris)
    (993-01-583)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    ``Everybody makes errors'': The intersection of De Morgan's logic and probability, 1837-1847.
    Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
    (993-01-205)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Almost every observation, a mathematical theory of measurement.
  James A. Yorke*, University of Maryland
  (993-37-05)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  The proof-theoretic strength of some combinatorial principles.
  Steffen Lempp*, University of Wisconsin
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#12: Part B
  Incorporating discrete mathematics in the preparation of K--12 mathematics teachers
  Organizers:
  Lolina Alvarez, New Mexico State University
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#1: Part B
  Designing and evaluating assessments for introductory statistics.
  Organizers:
  Beth L. Chance, California Polytech State University, San Luis Obispo
  Robert C. Delmas, University of Minnesota
  Allan J. Rossman, California Polytech State University, San Luis Obispo
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#7: Part B
  Origami in undergraduate mathematics courses.
  Organizers:
  Thomas C. Hull, Merrimack College
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Mathematics for business decisions (repeated from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Friday).
  Organizers:
  Richard B. Thompson, University of Arizona
  Christopher Lamoureux, University of Arizona
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by the NSF
  Assessment of student learning in undergraduate mathematics: Works in progress.
  Organizers:
  William E. Haver, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Bernard L. Madison, University of Arkansas
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Project NExT Panel Discussion
  Writing expository mathematics.
  Organizers:
  Jed Herman, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point
  Jennifer Hontz, Meredith College
  George W. Moss, University of Virginia's College at Wise
  Panelists:
  Lowell W. Beineke, Indiana University-Purdue
  Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech
  Frank A. Farris, Santa Clara University
  Underwood Dudley, DePauw University
  Keith J. Devlin, Stanford University
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Proposal writing workshop for grant applications to the NSF division of undergraduate education.
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth J. Teles, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education
  Calvin L. Williams, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education
  Lee L. Zia, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Preparing mathematicians to educate teachers.
  Organizers:
  Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stoney Brook
  Bernard L. Madison, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
  Panelists:
  Ed Dubinsky, Cincinnati, Ohio
  Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stoney Brook
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Mathematical Art Exhibit
  Organizers:
  Robert Fathauer, Tessellations Company, Phoenix, Arizona
  Nat Friedman, ISAMA, SUNY at Albany
  Reza Sarhangi, Bridges Conference, Towson University
• Friday January 9, 2004, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
• Friday January 9, 2004, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  On theories of modules of fields with endomorphisms.
  Francoise M. Point*, University of Mons-Hainaut
• Friday January 9, 2004, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  AMS Special Presentation
  Who wants to be a mathematician.
  Organizers:
  Michael A. Breen, AMS
  Annette W. Emerson, AMS
  William T. Butterworth, Barat College of DePaul University
• Friday January 9, 2004, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Morgan Prize Presentations by the Recipients
  Presenters:
  Melanie Wood, Duke University, "Dessins d'enfants and the Absolute Galois Group"
  Karen Yeats, Boston University, "A multiplicative analogue of Schur's Tauberian theorem"
• Friday January 9, 2004, 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Math on the Web
  Go to the Math on the Web Pavilion for the complete schedule of presentations.
• Friday January 9, 2004, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Random planar curves and conformal invariance.
  Gregory F. Lawler*, Cornell University
  (993-60-11)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Mathematical challenges in molecular biology.
  Bonnie Berger*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (993-92-03)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III
  Conformal invariants and partial differential equations. Part III.
  Sun-Yung Alice Chang*, Princeton University
  (993-53-10)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Cofinal types of topological directed orders.
  Slawomir Solecki*, University of Illinois Urbana
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  MAA Student Lecture
  Fractal Calculus Project.
  Mark M Meerschaert*, University of Nevada
  (993-A0-532)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, II
  Organizers:
  Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
  Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Filtered Point Symmetry and Dynamical Voice-Leading.
    Jack Douthett*, TVI Community College
    Richard Plotkin, University of Chicago
    (993-37-632)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Spirlz.
    Stephen Soderberg*, Library of Congress
    (993-00-1310)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A computer-aided exploration of the transformational process in Xenakis' Nomos Alpha.
    Moreno Andreatta*, Ircam-Cnrs
    (993-20-1108)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tone System and Mental Process.
    Thomas Noll*, Technical University of Berlin
    (993-51-1485)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Pitch-Class Isometries.
    Robert W. Peck*, Louisiana State University
    (993-55-899)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pitch combinatoriality in gapped spaces.
    Jon Wild*, Harvard University
    (993-00-1397)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Statistical Aspects of John Cage's Etudes Australes.
    Murray Bremner*, University of Saskatchewan
    Mik Bickis, University of Saskatchewan
    (993-62-236)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model describing the Metricity of Musical Pieces.
    Anja Volk*, DJE Department of Industrial and Systems Engineeri
    (993-92-1590)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College (CUNY)
  Karen V. H. Parshall, University of Virginia
  David E. Zitarelli, Temple University david.zitarelli@temple.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Conceptions of General Analysis in Nineteenth-Century Mathematics.
    Craig G Fraser*, University of Toronto
    (993-01-226)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Creating a Mathematical Area: The Case of Arthur Cayley, J. J. Sylvester, and Invariant Theory.
    Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (993-01-734)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On Weierstrass' theory of analytic functions.
    Umberto Bottazzini*, Università di Palermo, Italy
    (993-01-615)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Jules Tannery and the Mathematical Research Community in France , 1870--1914.
    W Thomas Archibald*, Acadia University
    (993-01-221)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    "Some unsolved problems of theoretical dynamics". An unpublished paper by George Birkhoff.
    June E Barrow-Green*, The Open University, UK
    (993-01-597)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Who invented Steiner triple systems -- and why?
    Robin J. Wilson*, Open University, UK
    (993-01-352)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Neuroscience, Biomedicine, Genetics, and Epidemiology, III
  Organizers:
  Steven M. Baer, Arizona State University
  Ivo D. Dinov, University of California Los Angeles
  Frank C. Hoppensteadt, Arizona State University
  Hal L. Smith, Arizona State University halsmith@asu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of nuclear proteins.
    Gerda de Vries*, University of Alberta
    (993-92-1666)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A double epidemic model for the SARS propagation.
    Tuen Wai Ng*, The University of Hong Kong
    Gabriel Turinici, Inria Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencou
    Antoine Danchin, Génétique des Génomes Bactériens, Institut Pasteur
    (993-92-542)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Global Kinetic Imaging for Fluoro-Deoxy-Glucose with Positron Emission Tomography.
    Cristina Negoita*, Arizona State University
    Rosemary A Renaut, Arizona State University
    (993-92-1067)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Improving the Accuracy of Segmentation Algorithms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
    Rick Archibald*, The Center for System Science and Engineering Rese
    Kewei Chen, Arizona Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research
    Anne Gelb, Arizona State University
    Rosemary Renaut, Arizona State University
    (993-65-480)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Feature Selection as a Precursor to Modeling in High-Dimensional Scientific Discovery.
    David A Peterson*, Colorado State University
    Charles W Anderson, Colorado State University
    Michael J Kirby, Colorado State University
    Michael H Thaut, Colorado State University
    (993-68-1341)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamic Behavior of a Delay-Differential Equation Model for the Hormonal Regulation of the Menstrual Cycle.
    Leona Harris Clark*, US Environmental Protection Agency
    Paul M Schlosser, CIIT Centers for Health Research
    James F Selgrade, North Carolina State University
    (993-92-974)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sports-related concussion: An application of functional magnetic resonance imaging.
    William Eddy*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (993-92-887)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Two-dimensional finite element analysis to assess flow characteristics of an in vitro aneurysm model.
    Dawn A Lott*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Michael Siegel, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Hans R Chaudhry, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Charles J Prestigiacomo, New Jersey Medical School
    (993-76-624)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Singular Vectors and Protein Motifs in Mathematical Phylogeny.
    Jeffery J. Leader*, Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.
    Gary W. Stuart, Indiana State University
    (993-92-1421)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-SIAM Special Session on Classical and Nonlinear Special Functions, II
  Organizers:
  Peter A. Clarkson, University of Kent
  Francisco Marcellan, Universidad Carlos III
  Peter A. McCoy, U. S. Naval Academy pam@usna.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Painlev\'e property: a Riemann-Hilbert approach.
    Percy A Deift*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (993-34-1175)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Sequence of distribution functions involving Painleve II.
    Jinho Baik*, University of Michigan
    (993-60-829)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Rational Solutions of the Painlev\'e Equations and Associated Special Polynomials.
    Peter A Clarkson*, University of Kent
    (993-34-596)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Painlev\'e Transcendents and Random matrices.
    Alexander R Its*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    (993-33-856)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Justification of the Existence of a Group of Asymptotics of the General Fifth Painlev\'e Transcendent.
    Youmin Lu*, Bloomsburg University
    Zhoude Shao, Millersville University
    (993-34-1249)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Accurate calculation of Mathieu functions with an application to acoustic radiation from elliptic cylinders.
    Arnie Lee Van Buren*, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
    Jeffrey E Boisvert, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
    (993-33-668)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Ince equation.
    Hans W Volkmer*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (993-33-715)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A New Asymptotic Series for the Gamma Function and Improved Stirling Formula Estimates.
    Xiquan Shi*, Delaware State University
    Fengshan Liu, Delaware State University
    (993-33-279)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Role of Orthogonal Polynomials in the Analysis of Laser Propagation.
    Reza Malek-Madani, U.S. Naval Academy
    Peter A. McCoy*, U.S. Naval Academy
    (993-33-986)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  GAMM-SIAM Special Session on Coding, Geometry, and Hyperbolic Dynamics, III
  Organizers:
  Svetlana R. Katok, The Pennsylvania State University katok_s@math.psu.edu
  Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A proof of the Pugh-Shub theorem.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University
    (993-37-45)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Stability of mixing for hyperbolic flows.
    Michael Field*, University of Houston
    Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey
    Andrew Torok, University of Houston
    (993-37-411)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures for Non-Uniformly Expanding Maps.
    Huyi Hu*, Michigan State University
    Sandro Vaienti, Centre de Physique Th\'eorique, CNRS
    (993-37-460)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Equilibrium States for Maps of the Interval.
    Samuel Senti*, IUPUI
    Yakov Pesin, The Pennsylvania State University
    (993-37-436)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Typicality of recurrence for (aperiodic) Lorentz gases.
    Marco Lenci*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (993-37-584)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modeling a Gas of Hard Non-Spheres.
    John D Cowan*, Tufts University
    (993-37-406)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A topological model for a perturbed quadratic family.
    Robert L Devaney, Boston University
    M\'onica Moreno Rocha*, Tufts University
    Stefan Siegmund, Boston University
    (993-37-1002)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dimension product structure of hyperbolic sets.
    Boris Hasselblatt*, Tufts University
    Jörg Schmeling, Lund Institute of Technology
    (993-37-626)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Smoothness of Linearization Near a Hyperbolic Fixed Point.
    Misha Guysinsky, Pennsylvania State University
    Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University
    Victoria Rayskin*, UCLA
    (993-37-66)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Hyperbolicity, Homogeneity, and Labor-Managed Oligopolies.
    Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
    Weiye Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (993-34-1066)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Current Events
  Organizers:
  David Eisenbud, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and University of California Berkeley de@msri.org
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Interior-Point Revolution in Optimization: History, Recent Developments, and Lasting Consequences.
    Margaret H. Wright*, Computer Science Department, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (993-49-1022)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    What is motivic integration?
    Thomas C Hales*, University of Pittsburgh
    (993-14-1309)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    It is easy to determine whether or not a given integer is prime.
    Andrew Granville*, Université de Montréal
    (993-11-695)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Perelman's recent work on the classification of 3-manifolds.
    John W Morgan*, Columbia University
    (993-57-161)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, II
  Organizers:
  James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College
  Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College nancy.wyshinski@trincoll.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Analytic Theory and Application of Continued Fractions, A Survey.
    William B. Jones*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (993-30-1195)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Truncated rational moment problems and quadratures.
    Xin Li*, University of Central Florida
    (993-41-1335)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Simultaneous diophantine approximation to successive powers of a real algebraic integer.
    Doug Hensley*, Texas A&M University
    (993-11-1164)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Continued Fractions Associated with Solution of a Wave Equation.
    Brian A. Hagler*, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
    (993-33-849)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Euler-Minding theorem for $G$-continued fractions.
    Geumlan Choi*, University of Illinois
    Douglas Bowman, Northern Illinois University
    (993-11-1026)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a class of classical polynomials, uniformly approximating the checkmark function.
    P D Dragnev*, Indiana-Purdue University
    D A Legg, Indiana-Purdue University
    D W Townsend, Indiana-Purdue University
    (993-41-1073)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Many Vistas of Continued Fractions.
    Richard A Mollin*, University of Calgary
    (993-11-756)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Applications of Brooks's Continued Fraction Parameter to Riemann Surfaces and QC Maps.
    G Brock Williams*, Texas Tech University
    (993-30-111)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Modern Function Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Beth Schaubroeck, U. S. Air Force Academy beth.schaubroeck@usafa.af.mil
  Peter L. Duren, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  John A. Pfaltzgraff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Trajectories of quadratic differentials on algebraic Riemann surfaces and Hermite-Pade approximants.
    Alexander I. Aptekarev*, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
    (993-30-775)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Strong asymptotics for Jacobi polynomials with varying nonstandard parameters.
    A.B.J. Kuijlaars, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    A. Mart\'{\i}nez-Finkelshtein*, University of Almer\'{\i}a
    (993-33-832)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Semiclassical Asymptotics for General Orthogonal Polynomials with Discrete Weights.
    Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
    Thomas Kriecherbauer, Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum
    Kenneth McLaughlin, University of North Carolina
    Peter Miller*, University of Michigan
    (993-41-1533)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Random growth models and Riemann-Hilbert problems.
    Jinho Baik*, University of Michigan
    (993-60-943)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic analysis of Random Matrices and Riemann-Hilbert problems.
    Kenneth Dean T-R McLaughlin*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (993-60-1615)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Construction of weighted biharmonic Green functions.
    Rachel J Weir*, University of Virginia
    (993-30-801)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sampling and Interpolation on Riemann Surfaces.
    Alexander P Schuster*, San Francisco State University
    Dror Varolin, University of Illinois
    (993-30-1324)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Finite unions of interpolating sequences.
    Daniel H Luecking*, University of Arkansas
    (993-30-1194)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems and Applications, I
  Organizers:
  Qiu-dong Wang, University of Arizona
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Transition to chaos in random dynamical systems.
    Ying-Cheng Lai*, Arizona State University
    (993-37-49)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Central Limit Theorem for Non-Gibbsian measures.
    Nicolai T A Haydn*, University of Southern California
    (993-37-1425)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of continuity statistic for time series analysis.
    Takashi Nishikawa*, Southern Methodist University
    Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University
    Louis M. Pecora, Naval Research Laboratory
    (993-37-766)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hyperbolic reguler polynomial endomorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^2$: topology of Julia sets.
    Malgorzata S. Stawiska*, Purdue University
    (993-32-812)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tube-log Riemann Surfaces.
    Ricardo Perez Marco*, UCLA
    (993-37-1239)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Spectrum and Geometric Realization of Pisot Tiling Spaces (preliminary report).
    Jaroslaw M Kwapisz*, Montana State University
    (993-37-1201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-contractible isolating blocks.
    George A Kozlowski, Auburn University
    Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    Klaudiusz Wojcik, Jagiellonian University
    (993-58-1135)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Long time asymptotics in averaging.
    Dmitry Dolgopyat*, University of Maryland
    (993-37-784)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Remarkable Dynamics of an Overcompensatory Leslie Population Model.
    Howard Weiss*, Penn State University
    Ilie Ugarcovici, Penn State University
    (993-37-949)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Singularity confinement and algebraic integrability.
    Stephane Lafortune*, University of Arizona
    Alain Goriely, University of Arizona
    (993-39-566)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry, I
  Organizers:
  Kirti Joshi, University of Arizona
  Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona kim@math.arizona.edu
  Adrian Vasiu, University of Arizona
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Slopes of the~$U_p$ operator acting on overconvergent modular forms.
    L J Kilford*, California Institute of Technology
    (993-11-726)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Crystalline cohomology and homotopy theory.
    Martin Olsson*, MIT
    (993-11-684)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Vanishing Cycles in Rigid Cohomology.
    Richard M. Crew*, University of Florida
    (993-14-1187)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Overconvergence and the de Rham-Witt complex.
    James M Borger*, University of Chicago
    (993-14-725)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Drinfel'd-Ihara relations for p-adic multi-zeta values.
    Sinan Unver*, University of Chicago
    (993-14-891)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The de Rham-Witt complex in mixed characteristic.
    Lars Hesselholt*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (993-14-1529)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tate classes on a product of modular surfaces.
    Andrew H Knightly*, University of Rochester
    (993-11-1247)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Pseudo-differential equations connected with $p-$adic forms and Igusa's local zeta functions.
    W. A. Zuniga*, Barry U.
    (993-14-772)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Geometric Jacquet-Langlands Correspondence.
    David F Helm*, Harvard University
    (993-11-1252)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    $p$-adic Lafforgue: a road map.
    Kiran S Kedlaya*, MIT
    (993-11-353)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fixed Points: Theory and Application, III
  Organizers:
  Robert F. Brown, University of California Los Angeles
  Mark S. Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Groupoids and fibered addition and product formulae for Nielsen Numbers.
    Philip R. Heath*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (993-55-546)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Lefschetz and Nielsen numbers in Control Theory.
    Peter Saveliev*, Marshall University
    (993-55-186)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Homotopy Minimal Periods on Solvmanifolds.
    Edward C Keppelmann*, University of Nevada Reno
    Waclaw Marzantowicz, A. Mickiewicz U of Poznan
    (993-57-140)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Characterizing Fixed Point Sets in a Given Homotopy Class.
    Christina L Soderlund*, UCLA
    (993-55-106)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Lefschetz-Hopf Theorem and Axioms for the Lefschetz Number.
    Martin Arkowitz*, Dartmouth College
    Robert F Brown, University of California, Los Angeles
    (993-55-90)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Transfers and Jiang's Nielsen theory for periodic points.
    Daniel Henry Gottlieb*, Purdue
    (993-55-36)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Type of Nonlinear Vector and Matrix Equations and Their Corresponding Sequences.
    Xiquan Shi, Delaware State University
    Fengshan Liu*, Delaware State University
    (993-15-193)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the preimage $f^{-1}(a)$ of a point.
    Peter N Wong*, Bates College
    Daciberg L Goncalves, University of Sao Paulo
    (993-55-1558)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Iteratively Regularized Gauss-Newton-type Algorithm with Simultaneous Updates of Inverse Derivative.
    Alexandra Smirnova*, Georgia State University
    (993-65-1625)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Problems, II
  Organizers:
  David A. Hartenstine, University of Utah hartenst@math.utah.edu
  Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State University
  John M. Neuberger, Northern Arizona State University
  John W. Neuberger, University of North Texas
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Integrability of Blow-up solutions to some non-linear differential equations.
    Michael A. Karls*, Ball State University
    Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State University
    (993-34-568)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Harnack Type Inequalities for some Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Critical Sobolev Exponent.
    Lei Zhang*, Texas A&M
    (993-35-811)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The IVP for the nonlinear heat equation in weighted Sobolev spaces.
    Victor L Shapiro*, University of California at Riverside
    (993-35-53)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some multiplicity results for asymptotically linear problems in $\mathbb{R}^N$.
    Francois A van Heerden*, Utah State University
    (993-35-1268)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Positive Solutions For A Class Of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems.
    Stephen B. Robinson*, Wake Forest University
    Andrew Arndt, Wake Forest University
    (993-35-1519)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Upper estimates for solutions to superlinear nonsymmetric elliptic boundary value problems.
    Alfonso Castro*, Harvey Mudd College
    Monica Clapp, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (993-35-1370)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Area-minimizing surfaces in 3D polytopes in $R^4$, and invariant minimizers in $R^n$.
    Frank Morgan*, Williams College
    (993-49-154)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Continuous Newton's Method and a Nash-Moser Inverse Function Theorem.
    J W Neuberger*, University of North Texas
    (993-35-641)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Models for Josephson junctions.
    Jacob Rubinstein*, Indiana University
    (993-35-830)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Some recent results concerning $\infty$-harmonic functions.
    Tilak Bhattacharya*, Bishop's University
    (993-35-579)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
  Organizers:
  Tim D. Cochran, Rice University cochran@rice.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Distance calculations in the curve complex.
    John Hempel*, Rice University
    (993-57-1359)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Orderability of certain 3-manifold groups.
    Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
    Rachel Dedwydd Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
    John Shareshian, Washington University in St Louis
    Melanie Stein, Trinity College
    (993-57-1297)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Higher-Order Linking Forms for 3-Manifolds.
    Constance Leidy*, Rice University
    (993-57-988)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Singular symplectic forms on 4-manifolds.
    Robion C. Kirby*, University of California, Berkeley
    T. David Gay, University of Quebec at Montreal
    (993-57-396)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Homotopy Classification of 2-Complexes.
    Jens Harlander, Western Kentucky University
    Jacqueline A Jensen*, Sam Houston State University
    (993-55-933)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalizations of quandle cocycle invariants and Alexander modules from quandle modules.
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (993-57-851)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The topology of 4-manifolds which admit a symplectic form and a circle action.
    Scott J Baldridge*, Indiana University
    (993-57-619)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a characterization of nugatory crossings.
    Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
    (993-57-1289)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A topological IHX relation in three and four dimensions.
    James Conant*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Rob Schneiderman, Courant Institute
    Peter Teichner, UC San Diego
    (993-57-204)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Finite Abelian Group Actions on Orientable $S^1$-Bundles Over Orientable Surfaces.
    Caroline Maher Boulis*, Florida State University
    (993-55-841)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#13: Part B
  The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers.
  Organizers:
  Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#2: Part B
  Hands-on discrete math with technology.
  Organizers:
  Douglas E. Ensley, Shippensburg University
  Kate McGiveny, Shippensburg University
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#8: Part B
  Some mathematics of Leonhard Euler.
  Organizers:
  William W. Dunham, Muhlenberg College
  Edward C. Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  AMS Session on Geometry
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A new solution for Hilbert's third problem.
    David Benko*, Texas A and M University
    (993-51-92)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    A Euclidean Area Theorem via Laguerre Geometry.
    Robert D. Knight*, University of Guam
    (993-51-1241)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Fuzzy Geometry of Space.
    Reza R Ahangar*, Kansas Wesleyan University
    (993-51-1701)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Even Astral Configurations.
    Leah Wrenn Berman*, Ursinus College
    (993-52-209)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    An Integral Formula On Seifert Bundles.
    A Fawaz*, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
    (993-53-1325)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lie groups of automorphisms of para-$f$-manifolds.
    A. Bucki*, Oklahoma City, OK
    (993-53-1407)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    One-Dimensional Metric Foliations on Compact Semisimple Lie Groups.
    Marius I Munteanu*, SUNY-Oneonta
    (993-53-1619)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Notion of Rectifiability for Hypersurfaces in Carnot Groups.
    Daniel R Cole*, Dartmouth College
    (993-53-1652)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ehresmann Connection Related to Orbit Stratification in Compact Semi Simple Lie Algebras.
    Roxana Costinescu*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    Serge Preston, Portland State University
    (993-53-1671)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Total Gauss curvature of complete minimal submanifolds.
    Tracy Bowers*, Moravian College
    (993-53-1685)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Special PL manifolds as PL shape o-fibrators.
    Violeta Vasilevska*, The University of Tennessee
    (993-57-1037)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Diagrammatic Reducibility and Labeled Oriented Tree Complexes.
    Travis R Kelm*, St. Edward's University
    (993-57-1612)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On $m$-sectorial Schr\"odinger operators with singular potentials on manifolds of bounded geometry.
    Ognjen B Milatovic*, University of Toledo
    (993-58-458)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    A New Homotopy Invariant for Distinguishing $[G,2]$-Complexes.
    Katherine S. Byler*, California State University, Fresno
    (993-57-1088)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Probability and Stochastics
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    An improved site percolation threshold universal formula for two-dimensional matching lattices.
    John C. Wierman*, Johns Hopkins University
    (993-60-277)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Random Harmonic series.
    David Baker*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (993-60-1158)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Break
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Decompositions of Exponential Distributions on Semigroups.
    Kyle Siegrist*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Boris Kunin, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (993-60-1572)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transient Solution to the Time-Dependent Multi-server Poisson Queue.
    Barbara Haas Margolius*, Cleveland State University
    (993-60-127)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    An Invariance Principle for Semimartingale Reflecting Brownian Motions in Piecewise Smooth Domains.
    W Kang*, UCSD
    R J Williams, UCSD
    (993-60-113)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Break
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Malliavin calculus applications to hypoelliptic heat kernel inequalities.
    Tai Melcher*, University of California, San Diego
    (993-60-1703)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ergodic Type Theorems for Actions of Semi-groups with Finite Number of Generators on von Neumann Algebras.
    Genady Ya. Grabarnik*, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
    Alexander A Katz, St. John's University
    Laura Shwartz, UNISA
    (993-60-1112)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Kendall distribution functions.
    Roger B. Nelsen*, Lewis & Clark College
    Jos\'{e} Juan Quesada Molina, Universidad de Granada
    Jos\'{e} Antonio Rodr\'{\i}guez Lallena, Universidad de Almer\'{\i}a
    Manuel \'{U}beda Flores, Universidad de Almer\'{\i}a
    (993-60-872)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Convergence of Choquet Capacity Functionals.
    Ding Feng*, New Mexico State University
    Tonghui Wang, New Mexico State University
    (993-60-622)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Limits of Finite State Markov Chains.
    Michael L Green*, Cal Poly Pomona
    (993-60-828)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Conditional integral transforms and convolution products.
    Bong Jin Kim, Daejin University
    Byoung Soo Kim, Yonsei University
    David L. Skoug*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (993-60-1257)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  AMS Session on Graph Theory
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Homogeneous Embeddings and Stratified Graphs.
    Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University
    Donald W VanderJagt, Grand Valley State University
    Ping Zhang*, Western Michigan University
    (993-05-589)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Graph powers and k-ordered Hamiltonicity.
    Denis Chebikin*, MIT
    (993-05-1606)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    $\gamma$-labelings of graphs.
    Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University
    David Erwin*, Trinity College
    Donald W VanderJagt, Grand Valley State University
    Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University
    (993-05-1600)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Multidesigns of the multipartite graph.
    Atif Abueida*, University of Dayton
    Mike Daven, Mount Saint Mary College
    (993-05-1588)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    New Bounds on Isoperimetric Numbers of Platonic Graphs.
    Dominic Lanphier, Kansas State University
    Jason Rosenhouse*, James Madison University
    (993-05-1514)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    The Elimination Procedure for the Competition Number is Not Optimal.
    Stephen G. Hartke*, Rutgers University
    (993-05-1127)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bounds on the run length of Hamiltonian cycles in grid graphs.
    Margaret Isabelle Doig*, University of Notre Dame
    (993-05-1103)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Some topics on circular colorings.
    Che Zhongyuan*, Penn State Beaver
    (993-05-1082)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Unit bar-visibility representations of triangulated polygons.
    Alice M Dean*, Skidmore College
    Ellen Gethner, University of Colorado at Denver
    Joan P Hutchinson, Macalester College
    (993-05-1077)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Flexibility of Toroidal Embeddings.
    Neil Robertson, Ohio State University
    Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
    (993-05-871)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Structure of Uniformly 2-Connected Graphs.
    Donald A Nelson*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (993-05-800)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pebbling Diameter Three Graphs.
    Boris Bukh*, University of California, Berkeley
    (993-05-781)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Domination $i$Dot Critical Graphs.
    Tamara A Burton*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Melissa M Matthews, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (993-05-259)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Ordered Colorings in Graphs.
    Darren A Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Victor Kostyuk, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (993-05-257)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Break
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cages of degree k are k-edge-connected.
    Michael H. Moriarty, Worcester, Massachusetts
    Peter R. Christopher*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (993-05-1192)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The incidence coloring conjecture for graphs~of~maximum~degree~3.
    Maksim I Maydanskiy*, UC Berkeley
    (993-05-588)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Radio-Chromatic Numbers for Powers of Paths.
    Allen J Schwenk*, Western Michigan University
    (993-05-1366)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    The linear complexity of the adjacency matrix of a graph.
    David L. Neel, Seattle University
    Michael E. Orrison*, Harvey Mudd College
    (993-05-1551)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    On the subword complexity of finite words.
    Irina Gheorghiciuc*, University of Pennsylvania
    (993-05-146)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    Independent Sets In Triangle-Free Cubic Planar Graphs.
    Christopher Carl Heckman*, Arizona State University
    Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (993-05-514)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Math and the Arts, III
  Organizers:
  Ann Robertson, Connecticut College arob@conncoll.edu
  John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana
  Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
  Nathaniel A. Friedman, State University of New York, Albany
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Art of Star Polygons.
    Reza Sarhangi*, Towson University
    (993-O1-1626)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Visualizing the tightening of knots.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Michael Piatek, Duquesne University
    Eric Rawdon, Duquesne University
    (993-O1-1419)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Geometric Representations of nth Hulls of Knotted Curves.
    John W. Foreman*, University of Georgia
    (993-O1-1422)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Break
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Mathematics for poets (and drummers) : the mathematics of rhythm.
    Rachel W Hall*, Saint Joseph's University
    (993-O1-505)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Measure of Preference in African Rhythm.
    Godfried T. Toussaint*, School of Computer Science, McGill University
    (993-O1-845)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Triangular Music.
    Jonathan L Merzel*, Soka University of America
    Michael D Golden, Soka University of America
    (993-O1-301)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Teaching Basic Music Theory from a Mathematical Perspective.
    Timothy A Johnson*, Ithaca College
    (993-O1-942)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Art, Mathematics, and Visualization.
    Pamela Davis Kivelson, Stanford University
    Katherine Socha*, Michigan State University
    (993-O1-397)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Art and Mathematics: A Liberal Arts Mathematics course.
    David Hartz*, College of St Benedict
    (993-O1-1543)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Anne E. Brown, Indiana University South Bend abrown@iusb.edu
  Marilyn P. Carlson, Arizona State University
  Draga D. Vidakovic, Georgia State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Following the path of evolution: Student constructions of the concept of solution to a differential equation.
    Debasree Raychaudhuri*, California State University at Los Angeles
    (993-R1-1383)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Lizzie and subgroups: A case study report on the role of affect.
    Jennifer A Bergner*, Salisbury University
    (993-R1-365)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Theoretical Model for Describing and Assessing Students' Understanding of the Function Concept.
    Brian R O'Callaghan*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    (993-R1-275)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Undergraduates' understanding of distance and angle as they explore Euclidean,spherical, and taxicab geometries.
    Stephen D Blair*, Portland State University
    (993-R1-750)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Exploring the Culture of a Non-Traditional Mathematics Classroom.
    Carol E. Seaman*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    Jennifer Earles Szydlik, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    (993-R1-160)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An Examination of the Knowledge Base for Teaching and Instructional Practice of Two Undergraduate Mathematics Faulty Teaching Calculus.
    Kimberly B. Santucci*, University of Connecticut
    Thomas C. DeFranco, University of Connecticut
    Jean McGivney-Burelle, University of Connecticut
    (993-R1-421)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on My Favorite Demo: Innovative Strategies for Mathematics Instructors, I
  Organizers:
  David R. Hill, Temple University hill@math.temple.edu
  Lila F. Roberts, Georgia Southern University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Demonstrating Linear Transformations with Morphing.
    John F. Putz*, Alma College
    (993-S1-220)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Computer Visualizations for Calculus.
    Lew Ludwig*, Denison University
    Keith Howard, Kenyon College
    (993-S1-418)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Exploring Distributions and Random Samples with Sampler(TM).
    Clifford H. Wagner*, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg
    (993-S1-428)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Motivating the Dihedral Group Through Quilting Squares.
    James E Hamblin*, Shippensburg University
    (993-S1-531)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Visualizing Mathematical Models via Spreadsheets: Part I - Population Models.
    Deane E. Arganbright*, University of Tennessee at Martin
    Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna
    (993-S1-223)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Visualizing Mathematical Models via Spreadsheets: Part II---Retirement Financing.
    Erich Neuwirth*, University of Vienna
    Deane E. Arganbright, University of Tennessee at Martin
    (993-S1-225)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maple Demos for Multivariable Calculus.
    Karl J Havlak*, Angelo State University
    (993-S1-188)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Cross-sections and contours using Play-Doh.
    Pallavi Jayawant*, University of Arizona
    (993-S1-500)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    From the Unit Circle to the Trigonometric Functions.
    Sarah L Mabrouk*, Framingham State College
    (993-S1-557)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Discovering the Five Platonic Solids.
    Jackie A Hall*, Longwood University
    (993-S1-487)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematical Models of the Environment
  Organizers:
  Karen D. Bolinger, Clarion University kbolinge@clarion.edu
  William D. Stone, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
  Ahlam E. Tannouri, Morgan State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Applied Graph Theory in the Classroom.
    Kimberly Jordan Burch*, Montclair State University
    (993-T1-1532)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Mathematical Models in "The Iowa Environment".
    Daniel Alexander*, Drake University
    (993-T1-1534)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A Stochastic Model of Wind Velocities at the Kennedy Space Center.
    Brian E. Smith*, McGill University
    Francis J. Merceret, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    (993-T1-270)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Modeling the Color Changes in Tree Foliage: A Differential Equations Group Project.
    Michael R. Huber*, United States Military Academy
    Brian J. Lunday, United States Military Academy
    (993-T1-179)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling Population Genetics.
    William P. Fox*, Francis Marion University
    Jeffrey Camper, Francis Marion University
    Richard D. West, Francis Marion University
    (993-T1-1535)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    An Air Pollution Transport Model.
    James A. Walsh*, Oberlin College
    (993-T1-62)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Remote Sensing Meets Linear Algebra.
    Elyn Rykken*, Muhlenberg College
    Linda McGuire, Muhlenberg College
    (993-T1-227)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Sread of a Carrier Dependent Infectious Disease: Effect of Migration from Environmentally Degraded Habitat.
    Prawal Sinha*, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    (993-T1-84)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Population Growth Mathematical Models.
    S. Narasimha Murthy*, Addis Ababa University
    (993-T1-23)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Polynomial Models for Real World Applications.
    Michael J. Bosse*, Morgan State University
    N. R. Nandakumar, Delaware State University
    (993-T1-317)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.
  Organizers:
  Jon W. Scott, Montgomery College jscott@maa.org
  

  • 1:00 a.m.
    Development of Interactive Material for the Constructivist Teaching of Mathematical Proof to Future Teachers.
    Doug Ensley, Shippensburg University
    Winston Crawley*, Shippensburg University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    DEMOS with POSITIVE IMPACT.
    David R Hill*, Temple University
    Lila F Roberts, Georgia College and State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: A Problem Based Calculus Sequence.
    Charles Allen*, Drury University
    Carol Browning, Drury University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: A Problem Based Calculus Sequence.
    Ted Mahavier*, Lamar University
    Dale Daniel, Lamar University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: A Problem Based Calculus Sequence.
    Shing So*, Central Missouri State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    The PascGalois Project: Visualizing Abstract Algebra.
    Michael Bardzell*, Salisbury University
    Kathleen Shannon, Salisbury University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Seeing the Connections: Promoting Profound Understanding of Secondary Mathematics.
    Steve Benson*, Education Development Center
    Karen Graham, University of New Hampshire
    Neil Portnoy, Stony Brook University
    Al Cuoco, Education Development Center
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Teaching Introductory Combinatorics by Guided Group Discovery.
    Kenneth Bogart*, Dartmouth College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Mathematics On Demand.
    Linda Braddy*, East Central University
    Anne E Fine, East Central University
    Mickle Duggan, East Central University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Quantitative Methods for Public Policy.
    David Bressoud*, Macalester College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Incorporating Technology and Multidisciplinary Applications in a Team-Taught Lecture-Laboratory Calculus Course.
    Shea D Burns*, North Carolina A&T State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Teacher Preparation, Mathematics and Technology: A National Dialogue.
    Ruth Collins*, Delaware Technical and Community College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Lexington Collaborative for Reform and Improvement of Middle Mathematics.
    Lillie Crowley*, Lexington Community College
    Carl Lee, University of Kentucky
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Improving Mathematical Skill and Attitudes of Under-prepared College Freshmen.
    Rosalie Dance*, University of the Virgin Islands
    Ludence A Romney, University of the Virgin Islands
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Promoting Active Learning and Collaboration in Calculus with the Investigative Classroom.
    Meighan I Dillon*, Southern Polytechnic State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Community College Mathematics Integration Project.
    Stephen Drake*, Northwestern Michigan College
    Carolyn Drake, Dennos Museum Center
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Bridging the Vector Calculus Gap: Episode II.
    Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University
    Corinne A Manogue, Oregon State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Interactive Modular Mathematics Education.
    William Feldman*, University of Arkansas
    Wayne Mackey, University of Arkansas
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Motivating Geometry through Computation and Visualization.
    David Finn*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discovery-based Science and Mathematics in an Environmental Context.
    Stephanie Fitchett*, Florida Atlantic University
    Blake Mellor, Loyola Marymount University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Enhancing the Mathematical Understanding of Students in Chemistry.
    Shahriar Shahriari*, Pomona College
    Erica Flapan, Pomona College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Problem and Reasoning Based Curriculum for Preservice Elementary Educators: Understanding Mathematics Deeply for Teaching.
    Judith Flowers*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Using Both the ALEKS Learning and Assessment Computer Program and Conceptual Activities in a College Developmental Mathematics Course.
    Richard Goldthwait*, Youngstown State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: Adaptation and Implementation of Activity and Web-Based Materials into Post-Calculus Introductory Probability and Statistics Courses.
    Tracy Goodson-Espy*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: Adaptation and Implementation of Activity and Web-Based Materials into Post-Calculus Introductory Probability and Statistics Courses.
    M. Leigh Lunsford*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: Adaptation and Implementation of Activity and Web-Based Materials into Post-Calculus Introductory Probability and Statistics Courses.
    Ginger Holmes Rowell*, Middle Tennessee State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Establishing the National Curve Bank.
    Shirley B Gray*, California State University Los Angeles
    Stewart Venit, California State University Los Angeles
    Randolph Cooper, California State University Los Angeles
  • 1:00 p.m.
    WeBWorK in the Mathematics Curriculum.
    Jeffrey J Holt*, University of Virginia
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Training Environmental Statisticians - Tomorrow's Problem Solvers.
    William F Hunt*, North Carolina State University
    Kimberly Weems, North Carolina State University
    William Swallow, North Carolina State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Enhancing Student Preparation for Calculus via a Web-Based Homework System.
    Michael D Hvidsten*, Gustavus Adolphus College
    Charles Pastor, Gustavus Adolphus College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Exploring Geometry: Integrated Textbook and Software for College Geometry.
    Michael D Hvidsten*, Gustavus Adolphus College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Sophomore-Level Transition Course.
    Michael A Jones*, Montclair State University
    Arup Mukherjee, Montclair State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Development of an Undergraduate Diffraction Course.
    David Kammler*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Phaser: A Universal Simulator for Dynamical Systems Built on Java Technology.
    Huseyin Kocak*, University of Miami
    Brian Coomes, University of Miami
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Core Mathematics.
    Gary Krahn*, U.S. Military Academy
    Don Small, U.S. Military Academy
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Teaching Discrete Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources.
    Jerry Lodder*, New Mexico State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Improving Preservice Mathematics Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Concepts in the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum.
    John Lorch*, Ball State University
    Elizabeth Bremigan, Ball State University
    Ralph Bremigan, Ball State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Reform College Algebra in a Tribal College Setting.
    Russell Lundgren*, Chief Dull Knife College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Mathematics for Future Secondary Teachers.
    James J Madden*, Louisiana State University & Agricultural and Mechanical College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Knot Theory for Preservice and Practicing Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
    Neil Portnoy, Stony Brook University
    Thomas Mattman*, California State University, Chico
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Implementation of WeBWorK Delivering Internet-Based Homework In College Algebra Classes.
    Coreen Mett*, Radford University
    Neil Sigmon, Radford University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Broadening the Scope of Statistical Education through Technology.
    Deborah Nolan*, University of California Berkeley
    Terence Speed, University of California Berkeley
  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Course in Scientific Simulation.
    Mike O'Leary*, Towson University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    WeBWorK - a Web-Based Homework System.
    Arnold K Pizer*, University of Rochester
    Michael E Gage, University of Rochester
    Vicki Roth, University of Rochester
  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Computer Activity Approach to College Geometry.
    Barbara E Reynolds*, Cardinal Stritch University
    William E Fenton, Bellarmine University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum.
    Raina Robeva*, Sweet Briar College
    Robin Davies, Sweet Briar College
    James Kirkwood, Sweet Briar College
    Michael Johnson, University of Virginia
    Boris Kovatchev, University of Virginia
    Marty Straume, University of Virginia
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Applying Advanced Distributed Teaching and Learning to Pre-Calculus Mathematics.
    Hal Schlais, University of Wisconsin System
    Robert Hoar*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    Paul Sundheim, University of Wisconsin Colleges
  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Probability/Statistics Object Library.
    Kyle Siegrist*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Improving Calculus: Developing Concepts Through Good Questions.
    Maria Terrell*, Cornell University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Stem and Tendril: Vertically Integrated Statistics Laboratories.
    John Verzani*, The College of Staten Island
    Andrew Poje, The College of Staten Island
    Deborah S. Franzblau, The College of Staten Island
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Project WELCOME.
    James E White*, The Mathwright Library
    Dan Kalman, American University
    William Hawkins, University of the District of Columbia
  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Versatile, Technology-Intensive EarthMath.
    Nancy Zumoff*, Kennesaw State University
    Christopher Schaufele, retired
    Paul Latiolais, Portland State University
    Philippe Laval, Kennesaw State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Pathways through Algebra.
    Wade Ellis*, West Valley College
    Terrie Teegarden, San Diego Mesa College
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Web-Based Math Homework.
    John W Jones*, Arizona State University
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Adapting Innovative Projects for Student Improvement.
    Mary Kay Abbey*, Montgomery College
    Jon Scott, Montgomery College
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    
    William A. Massey, Princeton University
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Mathematics for business decisions (repeated from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Friday).
  Organizers:
  Richard B. Thompson, University of Arizona
  Christopher Lamoureux, University of Arizona
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Voices of the partner disciplines: Building on the MAA curriculum foundations project.
  Organizers:
  Tevian Dray, Oregon State University
  Deborah Hughes Hallett, University of Arizona
  Matthias Kawski, Arizona State University
  William G. McCallum, University of Arizona
  Panelists:
  Corinne A. Manogue, Oregon State University
  Ron Roedel, Arizona State University
  Michael Zeilik, University of New Mexico
• Friday January 9, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Session for chairs: The chair's role in teaching teachers.
  Organizers:
  Catherine M. Murphy, Purdue University Calumet
  Daniel P. Maki, Indiana University
  Panelists:
  Jim Lewis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stony Brook
• Friday January 9, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Vaught's Conjecture.
  R.W. Knight*, Oxford, UK
• Friday January 9, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Roger A. Simons, Rhode Island College rsimons@ric.edu
  Satish C. Bhatnagar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas bhatnaga@unlv.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Philosophy of Mathematics: What, Who, Where, How and Why.
    Charles R. Hampton*, The College of Wooster
    (993-U1-528)
  • 2:25 p.m.
    On The Nature of Mathematical Thought and Inquiry: A Prelusive Suggestion.
    Padraig M McLoughlin*, Morehouse College
    (993-U1-1331)
  • 2:50 p.m.
    The Interpretation of Probability is Perhaps an Ill-Posed Question.
    Paolo Rocchi*, IBM
    (993-U1-185)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Minireception sponsored by the SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics.
  • 3:40 p.m.
    When is a proof a proof?
    Joseph Auslander*, University of Maryland College Park
    (993-U1-1266)
  • 4:05 p.m.
    The Poetic View of Mathematics.
    Jerry P. King*, Lehigh University
    (993-U1-1080)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    ``You cannot solder an Abyss with Air"--- the Role of Metaphor in Mathematics.
    Lawrence D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    (993-U1-376)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Minireception sponsored by the SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics.
  • 5:20 p.m.
    The NonEuclidean Revolution Makes Relativism Available to the Rest of the World.
    Michael J. Bosse*, Morgan State University
    (993-U1-294)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    The tension and the balance between mathematical concepts and student constructions of it.
    Debasree Raychaudhuri*, California State University at Los Angeles
    (993-U1-1564)
  • 6:10 p.m.
    On Godel's Proof and the Relation Between Mathematics and the Physical World.
    G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, N.J.
    Danielle Mihram, University of Southern California
    (993-U1-408)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Annual Business Meeting of the SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics.
• Friday January 9, 2004, 2:15 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  RMMC Board of Directors
• Friday January 9, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  MAA Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients
  

• Friday January 9, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Bernard L. Madison, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville bmadison@uark.edu
  William E. Haver, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Assessment of a New American Program in the Middle East.
    Thomas W Rishel*, Weill Cornell Medical College
    (993-Z3-46)
  • 2:50 p.m.
    An assessment of the contribution of two general education mathematics courses in the quantitative reasoning skills of students.
    Aimee J Ellington*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (993-Z3-63)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Core Assessment- Past, Present, Future.
    Melissa A Hardeman*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Tracy A Watson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    (993-Z3-267)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Involving the Entire Department in Assessment.
    Dick Jardine*, Keene State College
    (993-Z3-605)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Assessing the Mathematics Major with a Bottom-Up Approach.
    Sarah V. Cook*, Washburn University
    (993-Z3-520)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Assessment--To Make It Work, Keep It Simple.
    Thomas C. McMillan*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Jim Fulmer, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    (993-Z3-246)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An online mathematics assessment, placement and exit testing project.
    Jerry A Johnson*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Inmaculada Aban, University of Nevada, Reno
    Jeff Mortensen, University of Nevada, Reno
    (993-Z3-89)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Undergraduate Program Assessment at a Research I University.
    Katherine J. Mawhinney*, Appalachian State University
    Jeffrey S. Scroggs, North Carolina State University
    (993-Z3-519)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Lessons Learned: Assessment Results at a Two-Year College.
    Larry A Burgess*, Paradise Valley Community College
    Richard P Vaughn, Paradise Valley Community College
    (993-Z3-303)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Assessing the Mathematics Major: A Triangulated Approach.
    Katherine Safford Ramus*, Saint Peter's College
    Brian P. Hopkins, Saint Peter's College
    (993-Z3-638)
  • 5:50 p.m.
    Developing an Appropriate and Effective Culminating Experience for Your Mathematics Majors.
    M Paul Latiolais*, Portland State University
    Joyce O'Halloran, Portland State University
    Karen Marrongelle, Portland State University
    (993-Z3-877)
  • 6:10 p.m.
    Using Portfolios for Departmental Assessment.
    Scott A Smith*, Columbia College
    Laurie B Hopkins, Columbia College
    (993-Z3-922)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on the Use of Hand-Held Technology in College and University Developmental Algebra Classrooms
  Organizers:
  Wade Ellis, Jr., West Valley College wade_ellis@westvalley.edu
  Edward D. Laughbaum, The Ohio State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Using Technology to Connect Developmental Mathematics to College Algebra.
    Selina Vasquez*, Southwest Texas State University
    (993-Z4-99)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Using Hand Held Technology to Address Math Anxiety in the Developmental Mathematics Classroom.
    Peg Greene*, Florida Community College at Jacksonville
    (993-Z4-73)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Intermediate Algebra for the Visual Learner: Using a Graphing Calculator to "See" Characteristics of Quadratic Functions.
    Katherine R Struve*, Columbus State Community College
    (993-Z4-476)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Using Handheld Software Applications (Apps) to Visualize Geometric Behaviors of Functions and their Relation to Real-World Data.
    Margo L. Mankus*, Texas Instruments
    (993-Z4-325)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Impact of hand-held technology on student learning and curriculum dynamics.
    Mercedes A McGowen*, William Rainey Harper College
    (993-Z4-803)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Developmental Algebra with Function as an Underlying Theme.
    Edward D Laughbaum*, The Ohio State University
    (993-Z4-48)
• Friday January 9, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Science Policy-AMS Committee on the Profession Panel Discussion
  A walk through the math pipeline from end to end.
  Moderators:
  Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Panelists:
  James Sethian, University of California Berkeley
  Olga R. Beaver, Williams College
  Jessica S. Sidman