NORTHEASTERN SECTION OF THE MAA (NES/MAA)
Fall 1999 MEETING
November 19-20, 1999
Bradford College,  Haverhill Massachusetts

This page contains the  meeting program for the NES/MAA Fall 1999 Meeting at Bradford College.

Meeting Theme: Applications of Mathematics in Biology and Environmental Science

Most of the abstracts for invited speakers are available in Fall 1999 Meeting Abstracts; alternatively, you can click on a speaker's name to go to that specific abstract.  We are trying to get webpage URL's for as many of the speakers as possible.   As we get the URL's, we will add them to the abstracts; one exception is the Stella/Star Logo workship, which has a direct link in the program to the related webpage.

The abstracts for the speakers in the New Faculty Session and the Contributed Papers Sessions can be accessed by the session or the speaker.  The abstracts for the student papers are available in Student Papers -- Schedule and Abstracts.

Schedule

Friday,  November 19
 
2:00-6:00 pm  Registration (In the reception lobby of Academy Hall)
2:00-3:00 pm Executive Committee Meeting 
3:00-3:50 pm Student Papers - Sessions schedule and abstracts
4:00-4:50 pm  Lucy Kimball,  Bentley College 
"Contingency Constrained Optimal Power Flow for Deregulated Electricity Markets"
5:00-5:50 pm John R. Jungck, Beloit College
 "Ten Equations that Changed Biology and that Should Change Biology Education"
6:00-6:40 pm Reception (Laura Knott Gallery)
6:45-8:00 pm Banquet   (Academy Hall)
8:00-8:10 pm  Welcoming Remarks (Conover Hall)
8:10-9:00 pm  Paula Russo, Trinity College
"The Challenges and Benefits for Mathematics in Interdisciplinary Courses and Programs"

 Saturday, November 20
 
8:00-10:30 am Registration (In the reception lobby of Academy Hall)
8:00-8:50 am  New Faculty Talks -- Talks by faculty new to the Northeastern Section. 
David Mazur, Western New England College, Polyhedral Combinatorics
Len Brin, Western New England College, The Fractal Nature of Three Classic Analysis Counterexamples in Analysis
9:00-9:50 am Stella/StarLogo Workshop 
Linda Grisham, Lesley College 
9:00-9:50 am Contributed Papers: 
James Tanton, Merrimack College, Layered Tilings
Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University, Euler and the Zeta Function
Ann Moskol, Rhode Island College, The Mathematically Gifted: Are we doing enough to teach the very best?
Michael Bradley, Merrimack College, "Bites of Pi"
9:00 am - 2:00 pm Book Exhibit 
10:00-10:30 am Break 
10:30-11:20 am CHRISTIE LECTURE:
Charles Hadlock, Bentley College
 "Looking at Classical Mathematics Through Smoke and Haze"
11:30-12:00 pm Business Meeting 
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch   (Academy Hall)
1:00-1:50 pm NES/MAA TEACHING AWARD LECTURE:
Charles Vinsonhaler, University of Connecticut
"Are Mathematicians Good Problem Solvers?"
2:00-2:50 pm David Meeker, University of New Hampshire  
"Mathematics  and an Ice Core Time Machine"
3:15-4:30 pm Power Plant Tour:  Charles Hadlock 

 

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