This page contains the  meeting program for the NES/MAA Fall 2001 Meeting at Bridgewater State College, along with other information (or links) about the meeting.  At the beginning of the
program, there is a link to abstracts for the presentations that will be given at the meeting. As additional information about the meeting is received, it will be put up on this site.

Call for Participation:

• Call for Contributed Papers  -- Abstracts due by November 2.
• Call for Student Papers -- Abstracts due by November 2.
• Call for New Faculty Talks -- Abstracts due by November 2.

New Faculty Talks are short presentations by faculty new to the section on their research or teaching interests.  These talks introduce the new faculty to the section and members of the section to the new faculty.  The coordinators are Phil Hotchkiss of Westfield State College and Chris Aubuchon of Johnson State College.

Lodging

Bridgewater State College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Directions to Bridgewater State College , a campus map, and a campus tour

Meeting Theme: Recreational Mathematics.

Program:

Friday,  November 16, 2001
 

2:00-5:30 pm	Registration	Moakley Lobby
2:00-2:30 pm	Executive Committee Meeting	M300
2:30-3:30 pm	Social Hour	Moakley Lobby
3:30-4:20 pm	“Games played on Hypercubes and their relation to certain graph-theoretic parameters”  Mark Ramras , Northeastern University	Moakley Auditorium
4:30-5:20 pm	“The French and Indian War, Nyctaginaceous  Shrubs, Mathematics and other Triangular Tales” James Tattersall, Providence College	Hart Hall 117
4:30-5:20 pm	“The Use of Animation in the Teaching of  Multivariate Calculus and Differential Equations” Paul Blanchard, Boston University (the NES/MAA Teaching Award Winner)	Moakley Auditorium
5:30-6:15 pm	Reception (a cash bar and hors d’oeuvres)	Campus Center  Ballroom
6:15-7:15 pm	Banquet  Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Adrian Tinsley,  President, Bridgewater State College	Campus Center Ballroom
7:30-8:30 pm	The Class of 1942 (Durgin) Lecture: “The Ageless Fascination of Geometric Dissection”  Greg Frederickson, Purdue University	Campus Center Auditorium
8:30-9:30 pm	Reception for Greg Frederickson	Campus Center Ballroom

 

Saturday, November 17, 2001
 

8:00 am-Noon	Registration	Moakley Lobby
8:00 am - 4:00 pm	Book exhibits and other exhibits	Moakley Lobby/ Hart Hall
7:45-8:45 am	Student Talks (in Hart Hall)	Hart Hall 113, 114,  and 117
9:00-9:50 am	Student Session :  “The Lighthouse Theorem and Morley, but not Malfatti” Richard K. Guy, University of Calgary	Hart Classroom
9:00-9:50 am	“Is Monopoly a Math Game? Developing Puzzles  and Games that are Both Educational and Commercially Successful”  Bill Ritchie, founder and owner of Binary Arts, The Smart Toy Company .	Moakley  Auditorium
10:00-10:25 am	Break	Moakley Lobby
10:30-11:20 am	CHRISTIE LECTURE:  “Math from Fun & Fun from Math” Richard K. Guy, University of Calgary	Moakley Auditorium
11:30-12:00 pm	Business Meeting	Moakley Auditorium
12:15-1:15 pm	Lunch	Campus Center Ballroom
1:30-2:20 pm	“Calculus Books” Underwood Dudley, DePauw University	Moakley Auditorium
2:20-3:20 pm	“Geometric Dissections Now Swing and Twist” Greg Frederickson,   Purdue University	Moakley Auditorium
3:30-4:20 pm	Contributed Papers and new faculty talks	Hart Hall  Classrooms

Program Committee:

 
Karen Schroeder (Chair), Bentley College
Ward Heilman, Bridgewater State College
Thomas Koshy, Framingham State College
Carlos Curley, Stonehill College
Thomas Moore, Bridgewater State College
Joseph Cleary, Massasoit Community College

Thomas Moore, Bridgewater State College