Schedule

Updated 10.08.03
 
Friday Afternoon, 08-1300 Gosnell Building
3:00 - 6:00Meeting of the Executive Committee

Friday Afternoon, 08-1305 Gosnell Building
3:00 - 5:30Workshop:
Mathematics for Business Decisions
Richard Thompson
University of Arizona

Friday Evening, RIT Inn
6:00 - 7:00Social Hour (cash bar)
7:00 - 8:30Dinner
8:30 - 9:30Plenary Speaker: Dr. William Thurston
of Cornell University

Saturday Morning, 08-1250 Gosnell Building
8:40 - 8:45Welcome
8:45 - 9:35Pascal Matrices and Enjoying Linear Algebra
Gil Strang
MIT
9:45 - 10:35Helmut Hasse and Wilhelm Blaschke: Nazi Sympathizers?
Sandy Segal
University of Rochester
10:35-11:00Business Meeting
11:10 - NoonJohn F. Randolph Lecture
Making Mathematics Meaningful
Patti Frazer-Lock
St. Lawrence University

Saturday Afternoon, 08-1300 Gosnell Building
1:30 - 1:55A Report From The Trenches: Using Online Quizzes
Jeff Suzuki
Bard College
2:00 - 2:25Head TA: What Is It and Do You Need One?
Joshua Palmatier
SUNY Binghamton
2:30 - 2:55Can Grading Be Made Consistent?
Marlo Brown
SUNY Binghamton
3:00 - 3:25Just In Time Teaching In Calculus
Chris Leary
SUNY Geneseo
3:30 - 3:55Teaching with Technology
Dawn Jones
SUNY Brockport
4:00 - 4:25Dynamic Calclus Tools for Visualizing Multivariate Calculus
Paul Seeberger
Monroe Community College

Saturday Afternoon, 08-1305 Gosnell Building
1:30 - 1:55Square Roots of 2 by 2 Matrices
Sam Northshield
SUNY Plattsburgh
2:00 - 2:25DNA Codes
Anthony Macula
Air Force Research Lab, Rome NY
2:30 - 2:55The Dynamics of Energy Harvesting
Carl Lutzer
RIT
3:00 - 3:25Some Interesting Connections Between Statistics and Differential Geometry
Marvin Gruber
RIT
3:30 - 3:55The N-Jug and Water Problem
Thomas Pfaff
Ithaca College
4:00 - 4:25Real-World Applications of Higher Mathematics
Darren Narayan
RIT

Saturday Afternoon, 08-2300
1:30 - 1:55The Power of Counting
Omar Saldarriaga
SUNY Binghamton
2:00 - 2:25Cut-sets in k-critical Graphs
Margaret Sheman
Buffalo State College
2:30 - 2:55On Periodic Rings and Related Rings
Howard Bell
Brock University
3:00 - 3:25From Matrices to Oriented Matroids
Cristina Ruiz
SUNY Binghamton
3:30 - 3:55Julius Petersen: The Graph and the Man Behind It
Hossein Shahmohamad
RIT
4:00 - 4:25The Extremal Types Theorem
James Marengo
RIT

Saturday Afternoon, 08-2305
Special Session:Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers
Organized by Jack Narayan
SUNY Oswego