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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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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

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