This page contains the meeting program for the NES/MAA Spring 2003 Meeting at the Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts (MCLA) in North Adams, MA, along with other information (or links) about the meeting.
A preliminary program is posted below. Additional information about the program will be posted as it becomes available.
There will be a program of Northeastern Section NExT activities on Friday preceding the beginning of the regular meeting. By providing talks and workshops on issues of interest, opportunities to meet and share ideas with other new colleagues, and an introduction into Section activities, Northeastern Section Next hopes to assist new faculty in their transition from graduate school to professional academic life. We welcome all untenured full time faculty, both those who have and have not been National NExT fellows. We also welcome all newly hired faculty (those who will begin their appointment in the summer or fall of 2003).
Registration
information
Meals
Lodging
More information
about MCLA
Nearby attractions
and the Berkshires
Directions
to the Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts and an interactive
campus map.
Weather
and MCLA's
Berkshires link.
Abstracts and biographies for invited speakers are available
in Spring 2003 Meeting Abstracts;
alternatively, you can click on a speaker's name to go to that specific
abstract.
Schedule
Friday, June 13
| 2:30 – 6:00 p.m. | Registration -- Main lobby of Bowman Hall (#1 on the interactive campus map) |
| 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Executive Committee Meeting |
| 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
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The
Millennium Prize Problems, Springer VideoMATH
The Math Life, Films for the Humanities and Sciences CBS Special: IMO 2001 – Washington D.C |
| 3:00 – 3:50 p.m. | Carol
Gibbons, Salve Regina University
Equations which Eat Their Young: A Look at Difference Equations |
| 4:00 – 4:50 p.m. | Julian
Fleron, Westfield State College
Model Railroad Train Tracks, Tangles, Dominoes, and Tetris: The Evolution of Deep Mathematical Problems from Children’s Toys |
| 5:00 – 5:50 p.m. | Student Papers |
| 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Reception |
| 6:40-8:00 pm | Dinner -- Centennial Room in the Campus Center. |
| 8:10-8:20 pm | Opening Remarks |
| 8:20 – 9:10 p.m. | Steven
Dunbar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MAA Director for K-12 Programs,
American Mathematics Competitions
The MAA’s American Mathematics Competitions: Easy Problems, Hard Problems, History, and Outcomes |
Saturday, June 14
| 8:00-noon | Registration |
| 8:30 – 9:20 a.m. | Karen
Schroeder and David Carhart, Bentley College
From Chernobyl to Boston’s Big Dig: Interdisciplinary Projects for Freshman Mathematics |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. | Battles
Lecture:
Michael Rosen, Brown University Number Theory with Polynomials |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Business Meeting |
| 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch -- Centennial Room in the Campus Center. |
| 12:40 – 1:30 p.m. | Dawn Alisha
Lott, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Algorithms of an African American Female Mathematician |
| 1:40 – 2:30 p.m. | Lisa
Hansen, Western New England College
Mathematics and Music |
| 2:40 – 3:30 p.m. | Contributed Papers |
Program Committee Chair: Richard Pelosi, Western New England College
Local Arrangements: Freda Bennett, Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts.