AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 13, 2010 00:34:10

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc.
Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts, I
Interfaith Room, Wilton Center
Organizers:
Michael J. Field, University of Houston
Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond ggreenfi@richmond.edu
Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
- 8:00 a.m.
  A Mathematician's Guide to Research in Mathematical Music Theory.
  Rachel Wells Hall*, Saint Joseph's University
  (1065-00-213)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Groupoid Model for Voice Leading in Music.
  James R. Hughes*, Elizabethtown College
  (1065-18-142)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mathematical Property-Preserving Shellings of Musical Rhythms.
  Godfried T. Toussaint*, Department of Music, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  (1065-51-35)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Musical Side of Wroński.
  Leon Harkleroad*, Bowdoin College
  (1065-00-39)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Flight of the Relativistic Bumble Bee: Developing a System to Fly the Bee at Light Speeds.
  Tarynn Madysyn Witten*, Virginia Commonwealth University
  (1065-92-252)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts, II
Interfaith Room, Wilton Center
Organizers:
Michael J. Field, University of Houston
Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond ggreenfi@richmond.edu
Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Counting and Illustrating Rep-Tiles.
  Carolyn A. Yackel*, Mercer University
  (1065-00-61)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Compass and Straightedge Constructions and Modularity.
  Reza Sarhangi*, Department of Mathematics, Towson University, Maryland
  (1065-51-34)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Reconstructing Bourgoin's 14-Pointed Star Polygon Designs.
  B Lynn Bodner*, Monmouth University
  (1065-00-30)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Reflections on Spheres.
  Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall College
  (1065-00-17)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Constrained Mosaicking: Less Can Be More.
  Robert Bosch*, Oberlin College
  (1065-90-172)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Hyperbolic Truchet Tilings: First Steps.
  Dunham Douglas*, University of Minnesota Duluth
  (1065-51-176)

Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts, III
Interfaith Room, Wilton Center
Organizers:
Michael J. Field, University of Houston
Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond ggreenfi@richmond.edu
Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Geometry beyond the Euclidean plane for teachers.
  Andrew Bennett, Kansas State University
  Rachel Manspeaker, Kansas State University
  Peter Nguyen, Kansas State University
  Xuan Hien Nguyen*, Kansas State University
  (1065-97-22)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Understanding geometry in the dance studio.
  Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
  Christina Tsoules Soriano, Wake Forest University
  (1065-97-257)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Poetry in the mathematics classroom.
  Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut
  (1065-97-91)
- 9:30 a.m.
  An image is worth a thousand numbers: visual thinking in science.
  Leslie D Hayes*, Saint Joseph's University
  (1065-00-212)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Interactive Art and the Dimensions of Appreciation.
  Thomas F. Banchoff*, Brown University
  (1065-00-87)

Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts, IV
Interfaith Room, Wilton Center
Organizers:
Michael J. Field, University of Houston
Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond ggreenfi@richmond.edu
Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Phase Portraits from Varying Parameters in Families of Systems of Differential Equations.
  Douglas E Norton*, Villanova University
  (1065-34-148)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Confluence of Chaos and Computation in Generative Visual Art.
  Nathan M. Selikoff*, Orlando, FL
  (1065-01-205)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Use of Color in Animating Dynamical Systems.
  Anne Burns*, Long Island University
  (1065-00-80)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Newton Maps for Complex Polynomials with Complex Exponents.
  Robert M Spann*, Washington, DC
  (1065-37-161)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Reaction-diffusion in pattern formation and the fine arts.
  Gary R. Greenfield*, University of Richmond
  (1065-92-67)