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Seaway Section of the MAA


SEAWAY SECTION

MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

Fall Meeting at Siena College

November 7-8, 1997
Siena College
Loudonville, New York

PROGRAM

Friday Afternoon, Marcelle Athletic Center

3:00 - 6:00
Meeting of the Executive Committee Sarazen Room, Marcelle Athletic Center

Friday Evening, Serra Hall, West Room

6:00 - 7:00
Social Hour
7:00 - 8:30
Dinner
8:30 - 9:20
Innovative Experiments in Mathematics and Beyond ...and how I survived them
Edward B. Burger, Williams College
Saturday Morning, Roger Bacon Science Center, Second Floor Lobby

8:00 - 11:00
Registration and Refreshments
Saturday Morning, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 204

8:00 - 11:00
Technology Drop-in Room (featuring TI-92's)
Saturday Morning, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 202

8:40 - 8:45
Welcome
Dr. Lawrence Woolbright
Dean of the Science Division
8:45 - 9:35
Rethinking Rigor in Calculus: The Role of the Mean Value Theorem
Tom Tucker, Colgate University
9:45 - 10:35
70 years of Mathematics Magazine
Paul Zorn, St. Olaf's College,
10:35 - 11:00
Business Meeting
11:10 - 12:00
John F. Randolph Lecture
Math for Poets: Finding Math Lovers Among Humanities Students
Harriet Pollatsek, Mt. Holyoke College
12:00 - 1:30
Saturday Lunch
Serra Hall, Sub Shop/Lower Level
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 202

1:30 - 2:20
A Conversation with the Commissioner
Richard Mills, Commissioner of Education
State of New York
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 128

1:30 - 4:00
Workshop "Calculus: An Active Approach with Projects"
Diane Driscoll Schwartz, Ithaca College
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 204

2:30 - 4:00
Technology Drop-in Room (featuring TI-92's)
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 208

2:30 - 2:55
Olympia Nicodemi, SUNY Geneseo
Abel with Hyperlinks
3:00 - 3:25
James Kavarnos, Binghamton University
Developmental and Pre-Calculus Mathematics: Preparing our Students
3:30 - 3:55
Andrzej Kedzierawski, SUNY Geneseo
Image Reconstruction: A Modern Application Utilizing Undergraudate Mathematics
4:00 - 4:25
Caroline Haddad, SUNY Geneseo
An Inroduction to Angles: Visualizing Correlation and Randomness in Linear Algebra
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 210

2:30 - 2:55
Mark McKinzie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eighteenth Century Technology in the Twentieth Century Classroom
3:00 - 3:25
Larry Knop, Hamilton College
The Slave Trade in Puerto Rico During the 1830's: A Numerical Puzzle
3:30 - 3:55
Robert D. Larsson, Niskayuna, NY
Relating Linear and Nonlinear Differential Equations
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 302

2:30 - 2:55
Elizabeth Laun, Binghamton University
Splicing Systems and DNA
3:00 - 3:25
Heather Ames Lewis, Nazareth College
Homotopy and Graphs
3:30 - 3:55
Nat Friedman, SUNY Albany
Hyperspace, Hyperseeing, Hypersculptures, and Knots
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 304

2:30 - 2:55
Richard Escobales,Canisius College, and
Robert Rogers, SUNY Fredonia
New York State's Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science and Technology
3:00 - 3:25
Eric Robinson and Margaret Robinson, Ithaca College
What's Happening to Straight Lines in Pre-College Mathematics?
3:30 - 3:55
Stan Seltzer, Ithaca College
A Breadth-First Introduction to Mathematics
4:00 - 4:25
Leah Bridges, Hamilton College
Rational Approximations of Quadratic Surds Using Integer Matrices, or How I Spent My Summer
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Hall, Room 306

1:30 - 2:25
Student Problem Solving Session
2:30 - 2.55
Brian Shay, College at Potsdam, SUNY
Planar Double Bubbles on Flat Walls
3:00 - 3:25
Scott Steiger and Heather Carielli, College at Oswego, SUNY
Convergence Tests: Characterization of All Monotonic Decreasing Series by Use of an Amazingly Simple Equation
3:30 - 3:55
Erin Scott, College at Fredonia, SUNY
Low Discrepancy 2-Dimensional Sequences
4:00 - 4:25
James Belk, Binghamton University
Geodesic, Kaleidoscopic Tilings Which Split at a Mirror
Saturday Afternoon, Roger Bacon Science Center, Second Floor Lobby

4:30
Refreshments


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