Seaway Section of the MAA: fall Meetingt
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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