AMS Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:13
1994 Minneapolis Mathfest
Minneapolis, MN, August 15-18, 1994
Meeting #894
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Kenneth A Ross, MAA ross@math.uoregon.edu
Monday August 15, 1994
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Monday August 15, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
AMS-MAA Invited Address
Reform in mathematics education: New or simply a variation on an old theme?
Carole B. Lacampagne*, U. S. Department of Education, Washington, DC
(894-00-102) -
Monday August 15, 1994, 9:35 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
MAA Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture I -
Monday August 15, 1994, 10:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
AMS Progress in Mathematics Lecture
On Boltzmann's equation and its applications. Part I.
Pierre Louis Lions*, Universit\'e de Paris IX, France
(894-00-104)
Part II -
Monday August 15, 1994, 12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Pi Mu Epsilon Council -
Monday August 15, 1994, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#1: Part A
Building discrete and continuous ecological models using the SLAM simulation language.
Organizers:
James V. Caristi, Valparaiso University -
Monday August 15, 1994, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#2: Part A
Calculus from graphical, numerical, and symbolic points of view.
Organizers:
Arnold M. Ostebee, Saint Olaf College
Paul Zorn, Saint Olaf College -
Monday August 15, 1994, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#3: Part A
Combinatorics via functional equations.
Organizers:
Donald R. Snow, Brigham Young University -
Monday August 15, 1994, 1:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
AMS Special Session on q-Series, I
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1:30 p.m.
Some values for the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction.
Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Heng Huat Chan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(894-33-25) -
2:10 p.m.
On Ramanujan's cubic continued fraction.
Heng Huat Chan*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(894-11-19) -
2:50 p.m.
Transformations between products and continued fractions.
Douglas Bowman*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(894-33-72) -
3:30 p.m.
Some new observations on the Gollnitz-Gordon and Rogers-Ramanujan identities.
Krishnaswami Alladi*, University of Florida
(894-11-20) -
4:10 p.m.
Irrationality and orthogonality.
Peter Borwein*, Simon Fraser University
(894-33-37)
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1:30 p.m.
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Monday August 15, 1994, 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
AMS Special Session on History of Mathematical Logic and Theoretical Computer Science, I
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1:30 p.m.
Forty years of automated theorem proving.
Ronald W. Fechter, Saint John's University
Ronald Sklar*, Saint John's University
(894-01-58) -
2:10 p.m.
The axiomatic method and Ernst Schroder's algebraic approach to logic.
Volker Peckhaus*, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
(894-01-61) -
2:50 p.m.
Computing collective rational decisions.
Francine F. Abeles*, Kean College of New Jersey
(894-01-59)
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1:30 p.m.
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Monday August 15, 1994, 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Computer Graphics as a Research Tool in Geometry and Topology, I
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1:30 p.m.
Crystalline surface diffusion.
Jean E. Taylor*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(894-49-13) -
2:10 p.m.
The surface evolver.
Kenneth Brakke*, Susquehanna University
(894-49-34) -
2:50 p.m.
Approaches to simulating 4D worlds.
Andrew Hanson*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(894-57-65) -
3:30 p.m.
Using the evolver for geometric optimization problems.
John M. Sullivan*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(894-53-64) -
4:10 p.m.
Untangling unknots, unlinks and untangles with the Mobius energy.
Robert Barnard Kusner*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(894-57-69) -
5:00 p.m.
Surfaces embeddable in R^3 with ergodic geodesic flow.
Victor J. Donnay*, Bryn Mawr College
Keith H. Burns, Northwestern University
(894-58-23)
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1:30 p.m.
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Monday August 15, 1994, 1:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
AMS Session of Contributed Papers, I
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1:30 p.m.
Pseudo-uniform convergence and its nonstandard formulation.
Nader Vakil*, Western Illinois University
(894-03-30) -
1:45 p.m.
Counting arrangements of $1$'s and -$1$'s.
Donald F. Bailey*, Trinity University
(894-05-24) -
2:00 p.m.
Tree singularity.
Brigitte Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
John W. Kennedy, Pace University
Ivan Gutman, University of Kragujevac, Yugoslavia
(894-05-76) -
2:15 p.m.
Recurrences for $2$-colored and $3$-colored F-partitions.
James A. Sellers*, Cedarville College
(894-11-08) -
2:30 p.m.
A note on polynomials of the form x^d + a_ex^e +...+ a_1x +a_o over finite fields.
Javier Gomez-Calderon*, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington Campus
(894-11-22) -
2:45 p.m.
ACF algorithm and infinite series.
Malvina Baica*, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
(894-12-18) -
3:00 p.m.
Efficient generation of the ring of invariants.
Shou-Jen Hu*, Tamkang University, Taiwan, Republic of China
(894-13-27) -
3:15 p.m.
Spectra of modules.
Sylvia C. Lu*, University of Colorado, Denver
(894-13-52) -
3:30 p.m.
The Jacobian problem from the viewpoint of ind-affine varieties.
T. Kambayashi*, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
(894-14-33) -
3:45 p.m.
Minimum permanents of doubly stochastic matrices with zero main diagonal.
John Brian Burghduff*, Kingwood College
(894-15-45) -
4:00 p.m.
Nilpotency of derivations in prime rings.
David W. Jensen*, United States Military Academy
(894-16-32) -
4:15 p.m.
Characterization of spherical transform of functions and Schwartz multipliers on the Heisenberg Group.
Tefera Worku*, State University of New York, Albany
(894-22-53)
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1:30 p.m.
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Monday August 15, 1994, 1:40 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
MAA-Mu Alpha Theta Lecture
Generating enthusiasm while pursuing equity in mathematics.
Pamela J. Drummond*,
(894-00-112) -
Monday August 15, 1994, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
SUMMA Workshop
Intervention projects for minority precollege students.
Organizers:
William A. Hawkins, Director of SUMMA -
Monday August 15, 1994, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
The Geometry Center Poster and Video Session -
Monday August 15, 1994, 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
MAA Session on Recreational Mathematics and Computing, I
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2:20 p.m.
Using graph theory to solve an instant insanity puzzle.
Helen Christensen*, Loyola College
(894-00-221) -
2:40 p.m.
Applied probability on the ``The Price is Right''.
William Butterworth*, Barat College
Paul R. Coe, Rosary College
(894-00-220) -
3:00 p.m.
Optimal stopping in ``The Showcase Showdown''II: The spin-off.
Paul R. Coe*, Rosary College
William Butterworth, Barat College
(894-00-222) -
3:20 p.m.
The return time for a random walk on a regular figure equals the number of vertices in the figure.
Thomas J. O'Reilly*, Saint Joseph's University
(894-00-226) -
3:40 p.m.
How to lose at Tetris.
Heidi Burgiel*, University of Washington
(894-00-219) -
4:00 p.m.
Juggling matrices.
Michael Keith*, Beaverton, Oregon
(894-00-223) -
4:20 p.m.
Computational approaches to the Josephus problem.
Bill Marion, Jr.*, Valparaiso University
(894-00-225) -
4:40 p.m.
Mastermind revisited.
Leonard Smiley*, University of Alaska
(894-00-227) -
5:00 p.m.
Combinatorial properties of Mancala.
Daniel E. Loeb*, Universit\'e de Bordeaux I, France
(894-00-224) -
5:20 p.m.
The computer solution of two unsolved Pentomino problems.
Charles D. Ashbacher*, DecisionMark Corporation
(894-00-218)
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2:20 p.m.
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Monday August 15, 1994, 2:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
MAA Student Papers
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2:45 p.m.
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2:45 p.m.
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Monday August 15, 1994, 2:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
MAA Student Papers
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2:45 p.m.
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2:45 p.m.
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Monday August 15, 1994, 2:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
PME Contributed Paper Session -
Monday August 15, 1994, 2:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
PME Contributed Paper Session -
Monday August 15, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
AWM Panel Discussion
Celebrating women's achievements in algebra, analysis, combinatorics, and geometry: past, present, and future.
Organizers:
Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College
Panelists:
Jane P. Gilman, Rutgers University
Karen Saxe, Macalester College
Doris J. Schattschneider, Moravian College
Marie A. Vitulli, University of Oregon -
Monday August 15, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#4: Part A
Multivariable calculus using the Harvard Calculus Consortium materials.
Organizers:
Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University -
Monday August 15, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#5: Part A
Mathematical models of epidemics.
Organizers:
Sonja Sandberg, Framingham State College -
Monday August 15, 1994, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
MAA Minicourse \#6: Part A
Unifying themes for discrete mathematics.
Organizers:
Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology -
Monday August 15, 1994, 3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
MAA Section Officers' Meeting -
Monday August 15, 1994, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Presentation
Mathematical modeling for instructors.
Speakers:
Donald Drew, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Patrick Hagan, Los Alamos National Laboratory
David Ross, Eastman Kodak
Colin Please, Southampton University, England