SPRING 1994

The Spring Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America was held at Salve Regina University in Newport Rhode Island on June 3-4, 1994. There were approximately 125 registrants.

Invited Papers

The Rise, Fall and Possible Transfiguration of Triangle Geometry by Philip J. Davis, Brown University.

ATLAST: Augmenting the Teaching of Linear Algebra Through the Use of Linear Algebra Tools by Steve Leon, UMass-Dartmouth.

Linear Algebra without the fog by David Lay, University of Maryland.

Special Matrices and Random Matrices by Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Student Chapter Presentation

Deranged Solitaire-Is It Crazy to Play? by Rochelle Leibowitz, Wheaton College.

Workshops

Courseware for Elementary Linear Algebra by Homer Bechtell, University of New Hampshire.

Geometry in Linear Algebra with MATLAB by David Hill, Temple University.

Contributed Paper Session

An Alternative Approach to Doing Optimization Problems by Arnold Good, Framingham State College.

Polynomial Interpolation with Links to CAGD by Ned Wolf, Keene State College.

Student Paper Session

Fixing Our Rates by Elizabeth Gates, Bradford College.

Modeling a Shuttle Bus System for an Arts Festival by Vanessa Zalegowski and Sharon Martin, Southern Connecticut State University.

Polygonal Double Wulff Clusters by Scott Greenleaf, Bates College.

A Component of an Interactive Library Navigation System for the Hilton C. Buley Library by Vanessa Zalegowski, Southern Connecticut State University.

Maximizing the Area of a Pentagonal Region Adjacent to a House by Rod Sleith and Trevor LaBarge, Keene State College.