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METRO AND SEAWAY SECTIONS
MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION
OF AMERICA
2006 FALL MEETING
October 13-14, 2006
Marist College
PROGRAM
Friday afternoon, Lowell Thomas 125
3:00 - 6:00 Meeting of the Seaway Executive Committee
Friday Evening, Student Center, Rooms 348/348A/349.
6:00 - 7:00 Social Hour (cash bar)
7:00 - 8:30 Banquet
8:30 - 9:20 Some History of the Calculus of the Trigonometric Functions.
V. Frederick Rickey, USMA.
9:25 - 9:55 Business meeting of the Seaway Section.
10:10 - 11:00 Planar Linkages
Nancy Hagelgans, Ursinus College
11:10 - 12:00 Increasing the Numbers of Mathematics Majors
William Y. Velez, The University of Arizona
Note this talk is in Lieu of the Seaway Randolph Lecture
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:15 Student Center, Caberet
Student Center, Nelly Goletti Theater
1:15 - 2:05 The Mathematics of *Not* Voting
William S. Zwicker Union College
Saturday Afternoon, Donnelly Hall, Room 225
2:15 - 3:30 Panel Discussion: New York State's K-12 Mathematics Curriculum and the National Forces That Mold It
3:45 - 4:10 Mathematics in Children's Books
Heather A. Lewis, Nazareth College
4:15 - 4:40 A Musical Exercise Used in a Liberal Arts Mathematics Course
Rehana Patel, St. John's University
Saturday Afternoon, Donnelly Hall, Room 100
James Marengo, Rochester Institute of Technology
Joseph D. Myers, US Military Academy , Westpoint
3:15 - 3:40 Bifurcations in the Lang-Kobayashi system
Tamas Wiandt, RIT, V. Kovanis (USAF)
Danielle Mihram, G. Arthur Mihram, University of Southern California
4:15 - 4:40 Basic Calculator workshop
James Salvadon, Rockland C. College
Saturday Afternoon, Donnelly Hall, Room 104
Yozo Mikata, Lockheed Martin
2:45 - 3:10 Fortunate Primes
Jay L. Schiffman, Rowan University
Sam Northshield, SUNY-Plattsburgh
3:45 - 4:10 Feasible Task Schedules with Minimum Project Cost Solved by a Genetic Algorithm Michael L. Gargano, Pace University, Louis V. Quintas, Pace University
Saturday Afternoon, Donnelly Hall, Room 106
Raymond N. Greenwell and Stanley Kertzner, Hofstra University
2:45 - 3:10 Arithmetic in the Ring of Formal Power Series over the Integers
Daniel Birmajer, from Nazareth College in Rochester
3:15 - 3:40 Uniformly Primary Ideals
Jonathan Cox, SUNY Fredonia
3:45 - 4:10 Groups as Unions of Proper Subgroups
Mira Bhargava, Hofstra University
Abdramane Serme, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Risto Atanasov, SUNY Binghamton
2:45 - 3:10 Interdisciplinary Cross-Talk: Will it make a difference?
Trica M. Miles, United States Military Academy
Robert D. Keever, SUNY Plattsburgh
3:45 - 4:10 Speech across the Curriculum: It’s About Time! Implementing Oral Communication activities in the Math classroom
Orlando B. Alonso and Louis Lucca, LaGuardia Community College
4:15 - 4:40 Using Writing to Understand Functions
George McCormack, LaGuardia Community College
Saturday Afternoon, Donnelly Hall, Room 238
Denise Yull, Broome Community College
Joseph Petrillo, Alfred University
3:15 - 3:40 Calculus for Pre-service Teachers: Faculty members’ and student teachers’ perceptions
Lee Fothergill, Mount Saint Mary College
Nancy King Harrison, Mercy College
4:15 - 4:40 Mathematical Modeling in the Classroom Using Electrical Circuits
MAJ Josh Helms, United States Military Academy
Saturday Afternoon, Donnelly Hall, Room 236
2:15 - 2:40 Some Sequences of Graphs and their Chromatic Polynomials
Hossein Shahmohamad, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tom Klein, Binghamton University
3:15 - 3:40 Fractal distribution networks and the kidney and lung optimal organ form
Walton R. Gutierrez, Touro College
3:45 - 4:10 Envelopes and String Art
Greg Quenell, SUNY Plattsburgh
4:15 - 4:40 The Geometrical Interpretation of Algebraic Equations
Shiyuan Wei, Hostos Community College of CUNY
Saturday Afternoon, Donnelly Hall, Room 240
hristopher Baltus, SUNY College at Oswego
2:45 - 3:10 Oresme, Galileo and the Law of Free Fall
Olympia Nicodemi, SUNY Geneseo
3:15 - 3:40 Breaking the Japanese Navy Codes
Marina Vulis
Gabriela Mendoza, SUNY at Binghamton
4:15 - 4:40 Mathematics Education in Secondary Schools in Malaysia
Normuhainiah M
Ali, SUNY at Binghamton and Norhaniza Sarmin, Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia
Saturday Afternoon, Donnelly Hall, Room 236a
2:15 - 2:40 Big Square Polyominoes and Other Exercises in "Game
Theory"
Carol Callesano, Rochester Institute of
Technology
2:45 - 3:10 A Foray Into Biostatistics
Matthew Healy,
Clarkson University
3:15 - 3:40 A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics of NEO (Near
Earth Objects)
Sandra Anita Lacea, SUNY Brockport
3:45 - 4:10 Local Regularization Approach in the Solution of
Ill-Posed problems
Kourosh Modarresi, Stanford University
4:15 - 4:40 Half Teacher, Half Student
Chris Watts, SUNY
Oswego
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FUTURE MEETINGS:
SEAWAY SECTION:
2007 SPRING MEETING
April 27-28, 2007
SUNY Oneonta
METRO SECTION:
May 6, 2007
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY
Registration, Meals, and Refreshments
Registration will take place in the Student Center, Nelly Goletti Theater on Friday evening during the social hour from 6:00 to 7:00, and on Saturday morning from 8:45 until 12:00 in the Student Center foyer. Lunch will be served in the Student Center.
From Albany, take New York State Thruway Route 87 south to Exit 18 (New Paltz/Poughkeepsie/Route 299 Exit). Make a right onto Route 299 East. At the end of Route 299, go south on Route 9W for a few traffic lights to Route 44-55 and the Mid-Hudson Bridge. Stay right on the bridge and take the first right for Route 9 North. You will actually go south for a moment and then loop around to Route 9 North. Go north for about 1.5 miles and Marist is on your left.
Take Route 17 East to Liberty, NY. In Liberty, take Route 52 East from Route 17. Follow Route 52 to Route 209 North. From Route 209, get on Route 44 East. This will take you to the Mid-Hudson Bridge. Stay right on the bridge and take the first right for Route 9 North. You will actually go south for a moment and then loop around to Route 9 North. Go north for about one mile and Marist is on your left.
Option A: Take Route 87 North to Exit 18 (New Paltz/Poughkeepsie/Route 299 Exit). Make a right onto Route 299 East. At the end of Route 299, go south on Route 9W for a few traffic lights to Route 44-55 and the Mid-Hudson Bridge. Stay right on the bridge and take the first right for Route 9 North. You will actually go south for a moment and then loop around to Route 9 North. Go north for about 1.5 miles and Marist is on your left.
Option B: Take the Taconic Parkway North (go past Route 84) to Route 55 West. You will go through Poughkeepsie and come to Route 9. Take a right and get onto Route 9 North. Go north for about 1.5 miles and Marist is on your left.
Take the Hutchinson River Parkway to 684 North to I-84. Take I-84 West to exit 13 (Route 9). Marist College is located approximately 15 miles north on the left side of Route 9.
From the Whitestone and Throggs Neck Bridges, take the Hutchinson River Parkway North to I-684; continue onto I-84 West to exit 13 (Route 9 North). Marist College is located approximately 15 miles north on the left side of Route 9.
Friday Executive Committee Meeting of the Seaway: Lowell Thomas Parking Lot: This meeting will take place in Lowell Thomas 125. From Route 9, take the Main Entrance into Marist College. As you turn into the college, the Lowell Thomas building will be on your right. After you go past the building, take your first right. You can park in the Lowell Thomas parking lot, which will be the first parking lot on your right. Enter Lowell Thomas from the door facing the parking lot. Go up one flight of stairs and enter the door onto the first floor of Lowell Thomas. Go to the end of the hall, go left and Lowell Thomas 125 is on your right.
Friday Social Hour, Dinner, and Talk by Fred Rickey - park in the Lowell Thomas Parking Lot: This event will take place in the Student Center; follow the signs. From Route 9, take the Main Entrance into Marist College. As you turn into the college, the Lowell Thomas building will be on your right. After you go past the building, take your first right. You can park in the Lowell Thomas parking lot, which will be the first parking lot on your right. The Student Center has a large round granite and glass entrance diagonally across the road (toward the river) from the Lowell Thomas parking lot. The word MARIST is above the entrance.
Saturday: The conference will be held in the Student Center and Donnelly Hall. Registration, the business meeting, and the invited talks will take place in or just outside of the Nelly Goletti Theatre in the Student Center. There are two parking lots that can be used. Donnelly Hall Parking Lot: From Route 9, take the Main Entrance into Marist College. Take your first left and follow the road toward and then around Donnelly Hall, which is a round silver building. The parking lot is just south of Donnelly Hall. The Student Center is directly west of the parking lot toward the river. Gymnasium/McCann Center Parking Lot: From Route 9, take the Main Entrance into Marist College. Take your first right and follow the road toward and then around Donnelly Hall, which is a round silver building. After going around the building, you must turn left. After this turn, the gym/McCann Center parking lot is the first right. The Student Center is north of the parking lot.
Handicapped Parking: Use the Donnelly parking lot.
Accommodations
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at three hotels. Please see the meeting website for details.
Meeting Website
Driving directions, maps, an online registration form, information about hotels, and the latest program details may be found at the meeting website:
www.math.binghamton.edu/maa_seaway/Meetings/index.html#upcoming_meeting
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