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2002 Spring Western Section Meeting
Portland, OR, June 20-22, 2002
Meeting #978

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu
Thursday June 20, 2002
Friday June 21, 2002
Saturday June 22, 2002

Thursday June 20, 2002
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Meeting Registration
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Minicourse
Using Geometer's Sketchpad (version 4) in undergraduate mathematics courses.
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Minicourse
Senior capstones: Meaningful closure to the undergraduate experience.
9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Matroid Theory, I
11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Invited Address
Richard W. Montgomery
New solutions for the $N$-body problem.
12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m. AMS Invited Address
Edriss S. Titi
The Navier--Stokes and Other Related Equations.
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, I
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Mathematical Biology, I
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory, I
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Association Schemes and Distance-Regular Graphs, I
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse
What to teach and how not to teach it.
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse
Visualization in Mathematics: Using proofs without words in your classrooms.
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Reception
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Friday June 21, 2002
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Meeting Registration
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, I
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, II
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Mathematical Biology, II
8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, I
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Session on Innovations in Teaching Undergraduates
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Session on Undergraduate Research: Programs That Work
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Special Presentation
Mathematically inspired, computer-generated poster art.
11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. MAA Invited Address
Tina H. Straley
The MAA's role in the future of undergraduate mathematics.
1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m. AMS-MAA Invited Address
Kenneth A. Ribet
Modular curves and their twisted analogues.
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, III
2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, II
2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on The Quintic Equation: Algebra and Geometry, I
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Mathematical Biology, III
2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m. AMS Special Session on Matroid Theory, II
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, II
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Association Schemes and Distance-Regular Graphs, II
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Session on Mathematics Education Research
3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. AMS Session for Contributed Papers
7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. MAA Banquet and Invited Address
Edward B. Burger
Innovative Experiments$\ldots$and how I survived them.
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Saturday June 22, 2002
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, III
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, IV
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Matroid Theory, III
8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m. AMS Special Session on Flat Structures, Moduli Spaces, and Minimal Surfaces, I
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, III
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory, II
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Session on the Use of Technology in Community College Mathematics Courses
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Session by Junior Faculty on their Research
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. PNW-MAA Teaching Award Winner
11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Invited Address
Michael Wolf
Techmuller theory and minimal surfaces in space.
1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA Invited Address
Jim H. Valerio
Improving pc graphics.
2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, IV
2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on The Quintic Equation: Algebra and Geometry, II
2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Flat Structures, Moduli Spaces, and Minimal Surfaces, II
2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m. AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, IV
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Special Presentation
Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics: Why and how you should integrate assessment of student learning in your instructional programs.
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