Canisius College

Friday Afternoon, Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center, Executive Conference Room, Room 207

3:00 – 6:00 Meeting of the Executive Committee

Friday Evening, Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center, Grupp Fireside Lounge and Regis Rooms, Second Floor

6:00 – 7:00 Registration & Social Hour (cash bar)

7:00 – 8:30 Dinner

8:30 – 9:20
Joseph Liouville & Number Theory

Kenneth S. Williams, PhD.
Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research
Professor
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Saturday Morning, Montante Cultural Center

8:00 – 11:00 Registration

8:00 – 1:30 Displays and book vendors

8:40 – 8:45
Welcome

Paula M. McNutt, PhD.,
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences,
Canisius College

8:45 – 9:35
Encouraging Creativity – Brock’s New Mathematics Program

Bill Ralph, Brock University

9:45 – 10:35
The Zeta Function, Prime Numbers, and the Zeros

Steve Gonek, University of Rochester

10:35 - 11:00 Business Meeting

11:10 – 12:00
John F. Randolph Lecture
High School Mathematics Education:
Gaining Perspectives on a Fragmented System

Eric Robinson, Ithaca College

Saturday Afternoon, Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center, Grupp Fireside Lounge and Regis Rooms, Second Floor

12:00 – 1:20 Buffet Lunch

Note: Participants in the PFF (Preparing Future Faculty) Program take their lunch to the Conference Room, Room 205, Second Floor, Student Center

Saturday Afternoon, Old Main 223

1:30 – 1:55
Using Polya’s Enumeration Formula to Count Amallamorphs of a Graph

Hossein Shahmohamad, RIT

2:00 – 2:25
Do You Want Fries with that Order?

Joshua Palmatier, SUNY Binghamton

2:30 – 2:55
What is a Matroid and What is it For?

Rigoberto Florez, SUNY Binghamton

3:00 – 3:25
The Kolmogorov Three-Series Theorem

James Marengo, RIT

3:30 – 3:55
Fibonacci Polynomials

Harris Kwong, SUNY Fredonia

Saturday Afternoon, Old Main 303

1:30 – 1:55
Error estimates for numerical integration rules

Peter R. Mercer, Buffalo State College

2:00 – 2:25
Snapshots of a rotating water source

Steven L. Siegel, Niagara University

2:30 – 2:55
Bounds and Boundaries: Relationships Between Sobolev and Isoperimetric Inequalities

Melanie Pivarski, Cornell University

3:00 – 3:25
NYSMATYC Survey Results on Comprehensive Assessment

Kimberly Martello, Monroe CC

3:30 – 3:55
Buffon needle problem and its application

Fanhui Kong, SUNY Binghamton

Saturday Afternoon, Old Main 203

1:30 – 1:55
Trees and Associativity

Olga Salazar, SUNY Binghamton

2:00 – 2:25
Autocommutators and the autocommutator subgroup

Denise Yull, SUNY Binghamton

2:30 – 2:55
Eigenvalues and Hammer Juggling

Carl Lutzer, RIT

3:00 – 3:25
Fractal Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry

Marcia Birken & Ann Coon, RIT

3:30 – 3:55
Determinants and Recursive Sequences

Carrie Knoneski & Gabriel Prajitura, SUNY Brockport

Saturday Afternoon, Old Main 403

1:30 – 1:55
The game Lights Out and Generalizations

Margaret Sherman, Buffalo State College

2:00 – 2:25
Statistical Mechanics, Matrices, Sierpinski’s Gasket, Finite Automata, and Enumerative Combinatorics

David Ettestad & Joaquin Carbonara, Buffalo State College

2:30 – 2:55
A Visual Tour of Several Algorithms for Creating Implicit Plots and Contour Plots

Paul Seeburger, Monroe CC

3:00 – 3:25
Statistics Class Projects Using Institutional Data

Thomas J. Pfaff, Ithaca College

3:30 – 3:55
Mathematical Explorations Using Functional Programming

Daniel Birmajer, Nazareth College

Saturday Afternoon, Old Main 414

1:30 – 1:55
Impediments to the Use of Computer Algebra Systems in the Mathematics Curriculum

B. Esham, A. Kedzierawski, and K. Rommel-Esham, SUNY Geneseo; D. Kopyck Kedzierawski , University of Rochester

2:00 – 2:25
A Cohomology (p+1) -Form Canonically Associated with Certain Codimension - q Foliations on a Reimannian Manifold

Richard Escobales, Canisius College

2:30 - 2:55
A “CRAFTY” Mathematics Course for Business and Management

Kris Green & Allen Emerson,
St. John Fisher College

3:00 – 3:25
Student Program - A Brief Introduction to Operator Spaces

David Covert, Canisius College

3:30 – 3:55
Student Program - An Ethnography of Mathematics and Sex

Jillian Veschusio, Canisius College

Saturday Afternoon, Old Main 311 (Panels)

1:30 – 2:25
From Associates to Bachelors: Changing Expectations

Carol Bell, SUNY Cortland

2:30 - 3:25
Academic Integrity and the Undergraduate Classroom

Chris Leary & Melissa Sutherland, SUNY Geneseo

3:30 - 4:25
Teaching Mathematics in an On-Line Environment

Trish Lanz & Mary Beth Orrange, Erie Community College; George Hurlburt, Corning Community College; Ken Mead, Genesee Community College

Saturday Afternoon, Old Main 225, Student Program

1:30 – 1:55
Using a Mirror to Determine Attenuation Coefficients in Two Dimensions

Scott Meckler, SUNY Geneseo

2:00 – 2:25
Reflection on an Arbitrary Pool Table

Ryan Grover, SUNY Geneseo

2:30 – 2:55
A Closed Formula for Some Recursive Sequences

Diane Lunman, Nazareth College

3:00 – 3:25
An Introduction to Line Graphs

Jenelle Kostran, Canisius College

3:30 – 3:55
The Most Pleasing Rectangle?

Chester Millisock, Houghton College

Refreshments will be available starting at 3:30 PM in the central lounge on the third floor of Old Main.