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1996 Seattle Mathfest
Seattle, WA, August 10-12, 1996
Meeting #913

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Donovan H Van Osdol, MAA dv@christa.unh.edu

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Thursday August 8, 1996

• Thursday August 8, 1996, 12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA CRAFTY Workshop on Calculus, I
  The dynamics of change.
  Organizers:
  Wayne Roberts, Macalester College
  Donald B. Small, U. S. Military Academy

Friday August 9, 1996

• Friday August 9, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA CRAFTY Workshop on Calculus, II
  The dynamics of change.
  Organizers:
  Wayne Roberts, Macalester College
  Donald B. Small, U. S. Military Academy
• Friday August 9, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Board of Governors
• Friday August 9, 1996, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Friday August 9, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Council
• Friday August 9, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Preparing Ourselves and our Students for Careers in Mathematics.
  Organizers:
  Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College crannell@thuban.ac.hmc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    AMS Career Resources (information session).
    Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall College
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Experience and advice from recent graduates.
    Margaret Holen*, Lehman Brother
    Francis Edward Su*, Harey Mudd College
    Sandra L. Rhoades*, Smith College
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Preparing for academic careers.
    Anita Solow*, Grinell College
    Ray E. Collings*, DeKalb College
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Preparing for nonacademic careers.
    Jim Schatz*, NSA
    William Browning*, Applied Math.,Inc.
• Friday August 9, 1996, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  MAA-PME Student Reception
• Friday August 9, 1996, 6:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  Opening Banquet/Prizes

Saturday August 10, 1996

• Saturday August 10, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Influences on graph theory from computing and mathematical sciences.
  Alan Tucker*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Student Hospitality Center
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Optional Tour: Seattle City Highlights
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 9:35 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture I
  Some of the history of the binomial theorem and its extensions.
  Richard Askey*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 10:40 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Casting about: About casting.
  Colin C. Adams*, Williams College
  Edward B. Burger*, Williams College
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 11:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
  AMS Business Meeting
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Research Session on Commutative Algebra Special Address
  

  • 12:15 p.m.
    Some open questions in commutative algebra.
    Craig L. Huneke*, Purdue University
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 12:15 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  PME Council
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#1: Part A
  Low cost visualization training for multivariable calculus: Drawing.
  Organizers:
  Caspar R. Curjel, University of Washington
  Rose L. Pugh, Bellevue Community College
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#2: Part A
  Computability and computational complexity: What is this all about?
  Organizers:
  William A. Marion, Valparaiso University
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on A Tour through Applications to the Social Sciences, I
  Organizers:
  Robin Forman, Rice University forman@rice.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Spatial models of voting power and voting outcomes.
    Philip D. Straffin, Jr.*, Beloit College
  • 1:40 p.m.
    On the median procedure for group decision making.
    Fred S. Roberts*, Rutgers University
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Multicandidate voting systems: Design, strategy, and equilibrium.
    Samuel Merrill, III*, Wilkes University
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student Lecture
  

• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Combinatorics, I
  Organizers:
  Andrew J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska ajr@unlinfo.unl.edu
  

• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Organizers:
  Roger A. Wiegand, University of Nebraska http://www.math.unl.edu/~rwiegand
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Test ideals in quotients of $F$-finite regular local rings.
    Janet Cowden*, University of California--Los Angeles
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Valuations of function fields.
    David Fu*, Purdue University
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Tight closure in rings defined by binomial ideals.
    Doug McCulloch*, University of Michigan
  • 2:00 p.m.
    $F$-rationality and $F$-regularity of Veronese subrings.
    Anurag Kumar Singh*, University of Michigan
  • 2:20 p.m.
    On the structure of universal resolutions.
    Alexandre Tchernev*, Purdue University
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Behavior of socle dimensions in $R/(f_{1}^{n}, \ldots, f_{d}^{n})$ for large n.
    Carolyn Yackel*, University of Michigan
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Group Representation Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Benjamin J. Ford, University of Washington ford@math.washington.edu
  George J. McNinch, University of Oregon mcninch@euclid.uoregon.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    $U(3,q)$ and analogues of classical Gauss sums.
    Julianne Rainbolt*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • 1:25 p.m.
    Calculating a modular character table on the example of the sporadic simple group of O'Nan.
    Anne Henke*, University of Heidelberg
  • 1:50 p.m.
    Determining structure constants with domino tableaux.
    Brian Hopkins*, University of Washington
  • 2:15 p.m.
    The rank of the derivative of the quotient map for $\theta$-group actions.
    Craig Tingey*, University of Oregon
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Optimization, I
  Organizers:
  Paul Y. Tseng, University of Washington tseng@math.washington.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Examples of convex programming.
    Jonathan Borwein*, Simon Fraser University
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Finding support in Hilbert space.
    Heinz Bauschke*, Simon Fraser University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Global convergence of collinear scaling algorithms under inexact line searches.
    Negash Begashaw*, Washington State University
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Title to be announced.
    Mark Coodey*, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Teaching in First-Year College Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Howard L. Penn, U. S. Naval Academy hlp@usna.navy.mil
  Aaron I. Stucker, Washburn University of Topeka zzstuc@acc.wuacc.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Problem solving in college algebra.
    Aaron I. Stucker*, Washburn University
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Geometric models, history, and art in a liberal arts mathematics course.
    Kay M. Gura*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Teaching college algebra & trigonometry using cooperative learning groups.
    Emmett C. Dennis*, Southeastern Louisiana University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The system of lessons as an alternative to combined lessons.
    Victor Y. Kutsenok*, St. Francis College
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Using undergraduates to teach remedial courses.
    Mariarosa F. Allodi*, Utica College of Syracuse University
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on Reformed Calculus in Performance: What Works, What to Fix, I
  Organizers:
  Walter Gill Kelley, University of Oklahoma wkelley@uoknor.edu
  Curtis C. McKnight, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Welcome and Introduction
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Calculus and Mathematica in its seventh year: Lessons learned.
    Jerry Uhl*, University of Illinois
    Bill Davis, Ohio State University
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Calculus reform methods in the large classroom.
    Sandy Cooper*, Washington State University
    Tom LoFaro, Washington State University
    Marsha LoFaro, Washington State University
  • 1:50 p.m.
    Identifying difficulties in a comprehensive implementation of reformed calculus.
    Curtis McKnight*, University of Oklahoma
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Which way did they go? Which way did they go? Examinging transcript records of students who took workshop-style calculus.
    Teri J. Murphy*, University of Illinois
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Assessment of appropriate uses of graphing calculators in Calculus I.
    Trisha Bergthold*, University of Oklahoma
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Joint Panel Discussion
  Integrating calculus and physics courses: Three case studies.
  Organizers:
  Phillip L. Zenor, Auburn University zenorpl@mail.auburn.edu
  Presenters:
  Martin A. Jackson, University of Puget Sound martinj@ups.edu
  David B. Johnson, Diablo Valley College johnson@ms.uky.edu
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Meetings and Conferences Discussion
  What makes a good talk?
  Organizers:
  Steven George Krantz, Mathematical Science Research Institute and Washington University
  Jerrold E. Marsden, California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley
  Sylvia M. Wiegand, University of Nebraska
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 3:05 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  MAA-Mu Alpha Theta Lecture
  The role of secondary schools in calculus reform.
  Deborah Hughes Hallett*, Harvard University
  Daniel Kennedy, Baylor School, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#3: Part A
  Technology, modeling, cooperative learning: Putting it all together.
  Organizers:
  James T. Sandefur, Georgetown University
  Rosalie Dance, Georgetown University
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#4: Part A
  How to test mathematics taught using graphing calculators.
  Organizers:
  Jan J. Vandever, South Dakota State University
  Katherine P. Layton, Beverly Hills High School
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Teaching in First-Year College Mathematics, II
  Organizers:
  Howard L. Penn, U. S. Naval Academy hlp@sma.usna.navy.MIL
  Aaron I. Stucker, Washburn University of Topeka
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Military projects for calculus.
    Howard Lewis Penn*, U.S. Naval Academy
  • 4:20 p.m.
    The mathematics of powered flight.
    George T. Rublein*, College of William and Mary
  • 4:40 p.m.
    An efficient alternative to lecturing.
    Jack Bookman*, Duke University
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A jump start for students ill-prepared but needing calculus.
    Michael N. Bleicher*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematicians in the K--8 Classroom, I
  Organizers:
  Una M. Bray, Skidmore College ubray@skikmore.edu
  R. Daniel Hurwitz, Skidmore College hurwitz@skikmore.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    My visits to the K--6 classroom.
    Una Bray*, Skidmore College
  • 4:20 p.m.
    My visits to the junior high: Lessons and experiences.
    Peter Tannenbaum*, CSU at Frescno
  • 4:40 p.m.
    I was a volunteer 6th grade math teacher.
    Susan Addington*, California State University, San Bernardino
  • 5:00 p.m.
    New PhDs in school classrooms:The Cleveland Collaborative's Post-doctoral Fellows.
    Ben Ford*, University of Washington
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Middle school mathematics: An historical approach.
    Arlene Goldblatt*, The Foote School
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Musings of a vagabond mathematics consultant.
    Dan Hurwitz*, Skidmore College
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovations in Mathematics Courses beyond Linear Algebra, I
  Organizers:
  Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands beery@ultrix.uor.edu
  Steven W. Morics, University of Redlands
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Group activities in abstract algebra.
    Steven W. Morics*, University of Redlands
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Groups for proofs: Using small groups to teach students how to write proofs.
    Daniel S. Alexander*, Drake University
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Teaching students to solve geometry problems using the method of auxiliary circles.
    Victor Kutsenok*, St. Francis College
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Using electronic mail for peer review.
    Bryan Smith*, University of Puget Sound
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dynamical systems and chaos at the undergraduate level.
    Mario Martelli*, California State University, Fullerton
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Student attitudes toward abstract algebra: A comparative research study.
    Clare T. Hemenway*, University of Wisconsin-Marathon Center
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cooperatively learning abstract algebra.
    Nancy L. Hagelgans*, Ursinus College
  • 5:45 p.m.
    A unified approach to the study of mathematics.
    Catherine Gorini*, Maharishi University of Management
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Student Papers
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Sessions
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Presentation
  The research mathematician as an educator: How do we use the mathematics that we create to motivate students? Part I.
  Presenters:
  William Yslas Velez, University of Arizona
  James A. Powell, Utah State University
  Nancy Pullman, Logan (Utah) High School
  Joseph C. Watkins, University of Arizona
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Committee on the Participation of Women Panel Discussion
  Women and mathematics: Case studies of intervention programs
  Organizers:
  Virginia E. Knight, Meredith College
  Moderators:
  Carole B. Lacampagne, U. S. Department of Education
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Education Panel Discussion
  How can you defend your graduate program in mathematics?
  Organizers:
  Harvey B. Keynes, University of Minnesota
  Presenters:
  John B. Conway, University of Tennessee
  William H. Jaco, Oklahoma State University
  William Rundell, Texas A & M University
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  MAA Section Officers
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 4:10 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Research Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Organizers:
  Sylvia Margaret Wiegand, University of Nebraska http://www.math.unl.edu/~swiegand
  William J. Heinzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette heinzer@gauss.math.purdue.edu
  

  • 4:10 p.m.
    Every local ring is dominated by a one-dimensional local ring.
    Robert Gilmer*, Florida State University
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Cofiniteness of local cohomology modules.
    Donatella Delfino*, Univ. of Michigan
  • 5:05 p.m.
    Existence of joint reductions in polynomial rings.
    Irena Swanson*, New Mexico State University
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Coprimely packed Noetherian polynomial rings.
    David E. Rush*, University of California, Riverside
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  Luau
• Saturday August 10, 1996, 8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Event
  

• Saturday August 10, 1996, 9:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
  Special Reception

Sunday August 11, 1996

• Sunday August 11, 1996, 7:00 a.m.-8:20 a.m.
  Breakfast for MAA Student Chapter Faculty Advisors, Section Coordinators, and PME Advisors
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Reflections on mathematics reform, mathematics literacy, and citizenship.
  Robert Moses*, The Algebra Project
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Student Hospitality Center
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 9:35 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture II
  Refined counting and a noncommutative version of the binomial theorem.
  Richard Askey*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
  Optional Tour: Cruise the Locks and Seattle Harbor
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 10:40 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Moderators:
  Frank Morgan, Williams College
  Panelists:
  Jenny Kelley, Rutgers University
  Helen E. Moore, Bowdoin College
  Jean E. Taylor, Rutgers University
  The double bubble conjecture.
  Joel Hass*, University of California, Davis
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Research Session on Commutative Algebra Special Address
  

  • 12:15 p.m.
    The Picard group of an affine domain.
    Roger A. Wiegand*, Univ. of Nebraska
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#5: Part A
  Dynamic geometry lab with Sketchpad.
  Organizers:
  James R. King, University of Washington
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#6: Part A
  Projects for precalculus.
  Organizers:
  Janet Lynn Andersen, Hope College
  Todd M. Swanson, Aquinas College
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on A Tour through Applications to the Social Sciences, II
  Organizers:
  Robin Forman, Rice University forman@math.rice.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The price is right: Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem and economic equilibria.
    Michael Olinick*, Middlebury College
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Formal approaches to cooperative games.
    James D. Laing*, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
    (913-M1-215)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Measuring utility: Axioms, representations, and functional equations.
    R. Duncan Luce*, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Combinatorics, II
  Organizers:
  Andrew J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska
  

• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Group Representation Theory, II
  Organizers:
  Benjamin J. Ford, University of Washington ford@washington.edu
  George McNinch, University of Oregon ncnich@euclid.uoregon.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Problems and progress in representation theory of finite groups.
    Charles W. Curtis*, University of Oregon
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Quadratic subspaces of matrices.
    Chris Pappacena*, University of Southern California
  • 2:05 p.m.
    Complete reducibility and dimensions of representations.
    George McNinch*, University of Oregon
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Character correspondences and constituency.
    Christopher Puin*, Ohio University
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Optimization, II
  Organizers:
  Paul Y. Tseng, University of Washington
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On the complexity of an alggorithm for convex minimax optimiztion.
    Peilei Jiang*, Washington State University
  • 1:20 p.m.
    An application of a Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to a parameter-recovery problem on the real line.
    Jennifer Mueller*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Limited memory qusi-Newton methods in a trust-region framework.
    Andreas Wiegmann*, University of Washington
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Algorithms for box constrained optimization problems.
    Song Xu*, University of Washington
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Self-complementary variable metric algorithms.
    Min Zhu*, Washington State University
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Teaching in First-Year College Mathematics, III
  Organizers:
  Howard L. Penn, U. S. Naval Academy hlp@usna.navy.mil
  Aaron I. Stucker, Washburn University of Topeka zzstuc@acc.wuacc.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Calculus for underprepared students: A just-in-time approach in a variety of settings.
    Kay B. Somers*, Moravian College
  • 1:20 p.m.
    A comparison of teaching calculus in USA and China.
    Dali Luo*, Dept. of Math, Cedarville College, Cedarville, Ohio 45314
    Jimin Tian, Math Dept. Richland College, Dallas, TX 75243
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Group projects and a "Poster Session Final Exam" in a 100-level mathematical modeling course.
    Melvin A. Nyman*, Alma College
    John S. Berry, University of Plymouth
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Some methods to find a limit using the graphics calculator TI-85.
    Wenyao Zhang*, Union County College
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Fundamental concepts of calculus on computers.
    Wenzhi Sun*, Salem College
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Session on Teaching and Learning Mathematics as a Laboratory Science, I
  Organizers:
  Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville University mbessma@junix.ju.edu
  David A. Smith, Duke University das@math.duke.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Is it sixteen?
    Herb I. Brown*,
  • 1:10 p.m.
    Stochastic modeling of plant growth and tree-like structures.
    Anne M. Burns*,
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Exploring numerical methods in the computer lab.
    Li Chao*,
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The impact of object-oriented technology on mathematics software.
    Lawrence D'Antonio*,
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Diverse spreadsheet applications in mathematics.
    Robert S. Fisk*,
  • 1:50 p.m.
    An interactive lesson for teaching linear programming.
    K.L.D. Gunawardena*,
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Learning discrete mathematics with a computer algebra system.
    Nancy L. Hagelgans*,
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Classrooms as learning laboratories: Mathematics at the United States Coast Guard Academy.
    Leonard J. Kelly*,
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Centers of triangles of fixed center: Adventures in undergraduate research.
    William Mueller*,
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Calculator-assisted Fourier analysis.
    John D. Neff*,
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Groups for hundreds.
    Al Shenk*,
  • 2:50 p.m.
    A laboratory approach to calculus using interactive features of the World-Wide Web.
    Frederick J. Wicklin*,
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Student Papers
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Sessions
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 1:40 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Organizers:
  Roger A. Wiegand, University of Nebraska http://www.math.unl.edu/~rwiegand
  

  • 1:40 p.m.
    Coefficient modules over a two-dimensional regular local domain.
    Jung-Chen Liu*, Purdue University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    $\delta$-stable ideals and minimal resolutions.
    Todd Deery*, Queen's University
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Generators for fat point ideals on ${\bf P}^2$.
    Stephanie Fitchett*, University of Nebraska
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Submodules of the quotient field of a Pr\"ufer domain.
    Bruce Olberding*, Wesleyan University
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on Mathematics as Performance Art, Part I
  How NOT to excite people about mathematics: A live demonstration.
  Presenters:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College
  Edward B. Burger, Williams College
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 3:05 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  NAM David Blackwell Lecture
  An update on the no-three-in line problem.
  Johnny L. Houston*, Elizabeth City State University
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#1: Part B
  Low cost visualization training for multivariable calculus: Drawing.
  Organizers:
  Caspar R. Curjel, University of Washington
  Rose L. Pugh, Bellevue Community College
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#2: Part B
  Computability and computational complexity: What is this all about?
  Organizers:
  William A. Marion, Valparaiso University
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Research Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Organizers:
  Sylvia Margaret Wiegand, University of Nebraska http://www.math.unl.edu/~swiegand
  William J. Heinzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Birational maps.
    Dale Cutkosky*, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
  • 4:25 p.m.
    Excellent rings with local generic formal fibers.
    Susan R. Loepp*, Univ. of Nebraska and Williams College
  • 4:55 p.m.
    An intersection property of the Henselization.
    Christel Rotthaus*, Michigan State Univ.
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Can lofty ideals shed light on the Jacobian conjecture?
    Eloise Hamann*, San Jose State Univ.
  • 5:50 p.m.
    On the prime spectrum of a Mori domain.
    Evan Houston*, University of North Carolina
    Valentina Barucci, University of Rome
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Teaching in First-Year College Mathematics, IV
  Organizers:
  Howard L. Penn, U. S. Naval Academy hlp@usna.navy.mil
  Aaron I. Stucker, Washburn University of Topeka zzstuc@acc.wuacc.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Course questions and topic leters: Writing projects for liberal arts students.
    Janet Heine Barnett*, University of Southern Colorado
  • 4:20 p.m.
    A liberal arts mathematics course.
    Barbara Trader Faires*, Westminster College
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Math & society: making mathematics meaningful for nonmajors.
    Teresa Engel Moore*, Ithaca College
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A tried and true approach for assigning writing in mathematics.
    Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall
    Tommy Ratliff, St. Olaf College
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Switching from math appreciation to quantitative literacy.
    Judith A. Silver*, Marshall University
    Evelyn Mary Pupplo-Cody, Marshall University
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on Reformed Calculus in Performance: What Works, What to Fix, II
  Organizers:
  Walter Gill Kelley, University of Oklahoma
  Curtis C. McKnight, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Project CALC at Duke---How do we know if it works?
    Jack Bookman*, Duke University
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Teaching calculus with laboratory Activities.
    Aihua Li*, Loyola University, New Orleans
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Calculus reform against all odds.
    Dora Ahmadi*,
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Evaluating student learning in the calculus reform movement:A comparative study.
    Susan L. Ganter*,
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Differences between instructors and students in perception of function representations using multidimensinal scaling.
    Nancy Matthews*,
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovations in Mathematics Courses beyond Linear Algebra, II
  Organizers:
  Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands
  Steven W. Morics, University of Redlands
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    New topics and pedagogy in multivariable calculus.
    Alan Knoerr*, Occidental College
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Student projects in real analysis: One model.
    C. Ara Pehlivanian*, United States Military Academy
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A projects-based course in modeling.
    Alexander Koonce*, University of Redlands
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling projects with Mathematica.
    Allan A. Struthers*, Michigan Technological University
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Graphic display of Newton's interpolation polynomials.
    Wenzhi Sun*, Salem College
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Computer algebra systems and constructive Galois Theory: Ideas for a new second-semester abstract algebra course.
    John Swallow*, Davidson College
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Productive thinking and applications: Computer ccience-oriented graph theory.
    Mingshen Wu*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  • 5:45 p.m.
    A second semester of discrete mathematics based on computer-aided student investigations in Ramsey Theory.
    Daniel Schaal*, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Teaching and Learning Mathematics as a Laboratory Science, II
  Organizers:
  Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville University mbessma@junix.ju.edu
  David A. Smith, Duke University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Teaching a project-based differential equations course.
    Robin A. Pennington*, Wartburg College
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Envelopes.
    Mark Schwartz*,
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Teaching probability as a laboratory course.
    Peter Tannenbaum*,
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Diverse spreadsheet applications in mathematics.
    Robert S. Fisk*,
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Technology throughout the math curriculum.
    Scott Smith*,
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Interactive learning of mathematics and computer in a distributed laboratory.
    Margret Hoft,
    Harmut Hoft,
    Kevin Burke*,
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Problems designed for creating cooperative learning in lab environment.
    Han Jongsook*,
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Using the World Wide Web as a mathematical laboratory tool.
    Thomas LoFaro*,
    Kevin Cooper,
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Student Papers
  

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• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  PME Contributed Paper Sessions
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on Mathematics as Performance Art, Part 2A
  Discovering the performer in you: An improv teaching workshop.
  Presenters:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College
  Edward B. Burger, Williams College
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Presentation
  The research mathematian as an educator: How do we use the mathematics that we create to motivate students? Part II.
  Presenters:
  William Yslas Velez, University of Arizona
  James A. Powell, Utah State University
  Nancy Pullman, Logan (Utah) High School
  Joseph C. Watkins, University of Arizona
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  AMS Presentation
  e-MATH on the World Wide Web.
  Organizers:
  Wendy A. Bucci, American Mathematical Society
  Ralph E. Youngen, American Mathematical Society
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Panel Discussion
  Promoting interdisciplinary activities: Mathematics across the curriculum.
  Organizers:
  Frank R. Giordano, Carroll College
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 5:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on Mathematics as Performance Art, Part 2B
  Discovering the performer in you: An improv teaching workshop.
  Presenters:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College
  Edward B. Burger, Williams College
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 6:30 p.m.-8:15 p.m.
  PME Banquet
• Sunday August 11, 1996, 8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
  PME J. Sutherland Frame Lecture
  Nets, sieves, and money: Number theory's rubber hits the I-way road.
  J. Kevin Colligan*, National Security Agency

Monday August 12, 1996

• Monday August 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Monday August 12, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  New geometrical approaches to comparing discrete summation and integration.
  Sylvain Cappell*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
• Monday August 12, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Optional Tour: Whidbey Island
• Monday August 12, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
• Monday August 12, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Student Hospitality Center
• Monday August 12, 1996, 9:35 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures: Lecture III
  Integral analogues of the binomial theorem, orthogonal polynomials and education.
  Richard Askey*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Monday August 12, 1996, 10:40 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  The many lives of binomial coefficients.
  Gian-Carlo Rota*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Monday August 12, 1996, 11:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
  MAA Business Meeting
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#3: Part B
  Technology, modeling, cooperative learning: Putting it all together.
  Organizers:
  James T. Sandefur, Georgetown University
  Rosalie Dance, Georgetown University
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#4: Part B
  How to test mathematics taught using graphing calculators.
  Organizers:
  Jan J. Vandever, South Dakota State University
  Katherine P. Layton, Beverly Hills High School
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Innovations in Teaching Introductory Logic and Proof, I
  Organizers:
  Douglas E. Ensley, Shippensburg University deensl@ark.ship.edu
  Heather A. Hulett, Miami University hhulett@miavxl.acs.muohio.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Essentials of mathematical reasoning.
    Aparna W. Higgins*, University of Dayton
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A framework for teaching logic and proof.
    Susanna S. Epp*, DePaul University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    What if they gave a theorem, and no proof came?
    Steven George Krantz*, Washington University and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Introducing proof techniques using the logical game Mine Hunter.
    Allan Alexander Struthers*, Michigan Technological University
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Combinatorics, III
  Organizers:
  Andrew J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska
  

• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Organizers:
  Roger A. Wiegand, University of Nebraska http://www.math.unl.edu/~rwiegand
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Lifting chains of primes,
    Steve McAdam*, University of Texas
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Some generalizations of GCD-domains.
    Roy Quintero*, University of Iowa
  • 1:50 p.m.
    Interplay between complexity and the vanishing of tor's.
    Claudia Miller*, University of Illinois
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Multiplicative structures on short resolutions.
    Srikant Iyengar*, Purdue University
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Euler characteristic and finite injective dimension.
    Kewen Yao*, Northwestern University
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Group Representation Theory, III
  Organizers:
  Benjamin J. Ford, University of Washington ford@washington.edu
  George McNinch, University of Oregon ncnich@euclid.uoregon.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Some aspects of the Kazhdan-Lusztig representations of the symmetric group.
    Francis Fung*, Princeton University
  • 1:25 p.m.
    Representation theory of quivers.
    Pete Goetz*, University of Washington
  • 1:50 p.m.
    On the cohomology of finite Chevalley groups.
    Corneliu G. Hoffman*, University of Wouthern California
  • 2:15 p.m.
    The noncommutative geometry of enveloping algebras.
    Walt Pohl*, University of Washington
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Discussion
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-1:35 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Session on Optimization, III
  Organizers:
  Paul Y. Tseng, University of Washington tseng@math.washington.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On optimization problems in signal processing in magnetic recording and digital communications.
    Andrei E. Vityaev*, University of California, San Diego and University of Washington
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Automatic differentiation and the reverse mode algorithm.
    Michael Monogan*, Simon Fraser University
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Teaching in First-Year College Mathematics, V
  Organizers:
  Howard L. Penn, U. S. Naval Academy hlp@usna.navy.mil
  Aaron I. Stucker, Washburn University of Topeka zzstuc@acc.wuacc.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Using the calculator-based laboratory in the undergraduate classroom.
    Joanne C. Caniglia*, Eastern Michigan University
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Implementing the standards in college algebra.
    Dennis C. Ebersole*, Northhampon Community College
  • 1:40 p.m.
    A mastery learning format for precollege mathematics courses at a 4-year college.
    D. James Tooke*, EasternOregon State College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    An interdisciplinary approach to algebra classes involving technology, writing, and collaborative learning.
    Scott A. Smith*, Columbia College
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Projects on first-year mathematics: The Georgia State college experience.
    Paul Houston Schuette*, Georgia College
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Panel Discussion
  Providing mathematics over the Internet: What's been done? What's to do?
  Organizers:
  Gerhard Hans Klotz,
  Patrick D. F. Ion, Mathematical Reviews
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on Mathematics as Performance Art, Part 2C
  Discovering the performer in you: An improv teaching workshop.
  Presenters:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College
  Edward B. Burger, Williams College
• Monday August 12, 1996, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Student Workshop
  Matrices---Windows to information and behavior.
  Presenters:
  David R. Hill, Temple University
• Monday August 12, 1996, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on Mathematics as Performance Art, Part 2D
  Discovering the performer in you: An improv teaching workshop.
  Presenters:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College
  Edward B. Burger, Williams College
• Monday August 12, 1996, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Poster Session
  Providing mathematics over the Internet: What's been done? What's to do?
  Organizers:
  Gerhard Hans Klotz,
  Patrick D.F Ion, Mathematical Reviews
• Monday August 12, 1996, 3:05 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AWM Invited Lecture
  Calculus mod p.
  Karen E. Smith*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  MAA Student Lecture
  The mathematics of card shuffling.
  Kenneth A. Ross*, University of Oregon
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#5: Part B
  Dynamic geometry lab with Sketchpad.
  Organizers:
  James R. King, University of Washington
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#6: Part B
  Projects for precalculus.
  Organizers:
  Janet Lynn Andersen, Hope College
  Todd M. Swanson,
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Research Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Organizers:
  Sylvia Margaret Wiegand, University of Nebraska http://www.math.unl.edu/~swiegand
  William J. Heinzer, Purdue University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    The plus closure in mixed characteristic,
    Ray C. Heitmann*, University of Texas at Austin
  • 4:25 p.m.
    Ideals of reduction number 1 in a two-dimensional regular local ring.
    David Lantz*, Colgate University
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Seminormalization of Rees Rings.
    Marie A. Vitulli*, University of Oregon
  • 5:15 p.m.
    On multiplicities of Gorenstein ideals.
    Hema Srinivasan*, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Direct summands and $p^{n\hbox{TH}}$ root extensions.
    Daniel Katz*, University of Kansas
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on What's the Focus at DIMACS for 1996-97?
  Organizers:
  Fred Stephen Roberts, Rutgers University froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Overview of Session, {\bf Fred S. Roberts}
  • 4:05 p.m.
    On a combinatorial generalization of some models in statistical mechanics.
    Peter W. Winkler*, AT&T Bell Laboratories
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Decentralized trust management.
    Joan Feigenbaum*, AT&T Research
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Error-resilient molecular computation.
    Richard Karp*, University of Washington
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Discussion
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Innovations in Teaching Introductory Logic and Proof, II
  Organizers:
  Douglas E. Ensley, Shippensburg University deens@ark.ship.edu
  Heather A. Hulett, Miami University hhulett@miavxl.acs.muohio.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    On teaching logic and proof.
    Ed Dubinsky*, Purdue University
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Non-traditional texts for a first course in proofs.
    Elena A. Marchisotto*, California State University Northridge
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Activities in logic and their use in discrete math.
    Jose H. Giraldo*, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Counterexamples in teaching proof techniques.
    Douglas E. Ensley*, Shippensburg University
  • 6:00 p.m.
    What I learned at Potsdam: How to go fast slowly.
    Cheri L. Boyd*, Nazareth College
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Teaching in First-Year College Mathematics, VI
  Organizers:
  Howard L. Penn, U. S. Naval Academy hlp@usna.navy.mil
  Aaron I. Stucker, Washburn University of Topeka zzstuc@acc.wuacc.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Intuitive geometry: a first-year liberal arts mathematicscourse.
    Mohammad Salmassi*, Framingham State College
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Mathematical exploration: Match or no match game.
    Jacqueline E. Barab*, California State University, Dominguez Hills
  • 4:40 p.m.
    A cooperative learning-based precalculus course.
    Barney Krinsky*, California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematicians in the K--8 Classroom, II
  Organizers:
  Una M. Bray, Skidmore College ubray@skidmore.edu
  R. Daniel Hurwitz, Skidmore College hurwitz@skikmore.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Connecting with the K--8 classroom: A year-round professional development model.
    Daisy McCoy*, Lyndon State College
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Profession development in statistics for K--6 teachers and data analysis projects in the classroom.
    Dargan Frierson,, Jr.*, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Four courses for middle school mathematics teachers.
    Bob Stutts*, Columbia College
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Teaching and learning mathematics: Working with K--8 teachers and students.
    Richard Bisk*, Fitchburg State College
  • 5:20 p.m.
    An exploration, conjecture, and "proof" course in arithmetic for elementary teachers.
    Donald Hooley*, Bluffton College
  • 5:40 p.m.
    K--8 mathematics with projects, calculators, and the arithmetic of real numbers.
    Patricia Baggett*, New Mexico State University
    Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, University of Colorado
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on Mathematics as Performance Art, Part 2E
  Discovering the performer in you: An improv teaching workshop.
  Presenters:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College
  Edward B. Burger, Williams College
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Panel Discussion and Workshop
  Multivariable calculus and industrial applications.
  Organizers:
  Yves Nievergelt, Eastern Washington University
• Monday August 12, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  SUMMA Special Presentation
  Intervention projects for minority pre-college students
  Organizers:
  William A. Hawkins,
  Presenters:
  Viji K. Sundar, California State University, Stanislaus
  David R. Scott, University of Puget Sound
• Monday August 12, 1996, 5:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on Mathematics as Performance Art, Part 2F
  Discovering the performer in you: An improv teaching workshop.
  Presenters:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College
  Edward B. Burger, Williams College
• Monday August 12, 1996, 5:05 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  American Institute of Mathematics-MAA Invited Address
  The history of the prime number theorem.
  Atle Selberg*, Institute for Advanced Study
• Monday August 12, 1996, 6:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
  MAA Reception and Banquet for 25-Year Members
• Monday August 12, 1996, 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Session on Computations in Commutative Algebra
  Organizers:
  Donal B. O'Shea, Mount Holyoke College doshea@mhc.bitnet
  

Tuesday August 13, 1996

• Tuesday August 13, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Optional Tour: Mount Rainier
• Tuesday August 13, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
  AIM-MAA Symposium On the Riemann Hypothesis, I
  In celebration of the centenary of the prime number theorem.
  Organizers:
  J. Brian Conrey, Oklahoma State University
  Amit Ghosh, Oklahoma State University
  Douglas A. Lind, University of Washington
  Stephen R. Sorenson, American Institute of Mathematics
  Presenters:
  Andrew M. Odlyzko, AT&T Research
  Hugh L. Montgomery, University of Michigan
  Michael Berry, University of Bristol
  Dennis A. Hejhal, University of Minnesota
  James L. Hafner, IBM
  K. Soundararajan, Princeton University
  Daniel Willis Bump, Stanford University

Wednesday August 14, 1996

• Wednesday August 14, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-6:45 p.m.
  AIM-MAA Symposium On the Riemann Hypothesis, II
  In celebration of the centenary of the prime number theorem.
  Organizers:
  J. Brian Conrey, Oklahoma State University
  Amit Ghosh, Oklahoma State University
  Douglas A. Lind, University of Washington
  Stephen R. Sorenson, American Institute of Mathematics
  Presenters:
  William D. Duke, Rutgers University
  Samuel J. Patterson, University of Gottingen
  Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers University
  Alain Connes, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
  J. Keating, Bristol University
  D. Farmer, Bucknell University

Thursday August 15, 1996

• Thursday August 15, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AIM-MAA Symposium On the Riemann Hypothesis, III
  In celebration of the centenary of the prime number theorem.
  Organizers:
  J. Brian Conrey, Oklahoma State University
  Amit Ghosh, Oklahoma State University
  Douglas A. Lind, University of Washington
  Stephen R. Sorenson, American Institute of Mathematics
  Presenters:
  Peter Sarnak, Princeton University
  Nobushige Kurokawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  Dorian Goldfeld, Columbia University
  Roger Heath-Brown, Oxford University

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