This page contains the meeting program for the NES/MAA Spring 2004 Meeting at Roger Williams University, along with other information about the meeting (or links to that information). The meeting program is posted below, As any updates about the meeting are received, they will be put up on this site.
The Northeastern Section is continuing a Section NExT program for new and relatively new colleagues at this years Spring Section 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, we hope to assist new faculty in their transition from graduate school to professional academic life. The Section NExT program will be on June 4..
On Thursday, June 3, the day before the Spring Meeting begins, the Northeastern Section will host a minicourse on "Creative Problem Solving", also at Roger Williams University. The presenter will be Mikhail Chkhenkeli, Western New England College. A minicourse announcement is posted.
About Roger Williams University
Local arrangements information, including links to a
Registration Form, travel directions, a campus map, lodging information, etc.
Abstracts and biographies for invited speakers are available
in
Spring 2004 Meeting Abstracts;
alternatively, you can click on a speaker's name to go to that specific
abstract.
Registration will be in the lobby of the Marine and Natural
Sciences Building (MNS), which is number 22 on the
Campus Map of the Bristol Campus. The registration table will be
"by the polar bears".
Schedule
Friday, June 4
| 2:00 6:00 p.m. | Registration -- Lobby of the Marine and Natural Sciences Building (MNS) / #22 on the Campus Map |
| 2:00 3:00 p.m. | Executive Committee Meeting |
| 3:00 3:50 p.m.
. |
William Barker, Bowdoin
College |
| 4:00 4:50 p.m. |
Donna Beers,
Simmons College,
"Guidelines, Timelines, and Tools for Self-Assessment: Students Get Set for a Mathematics Conference" |
| 5:00 5:50 p.m. | Student Papers |
| 6:00 8:00 p.m. | Dinner and Opening Remarks -- at the Conference Center on the Portsmouth Campus. A shuttle will be running for people who want to leave their cars on the Bristol campus. |
| 8:10 9:00 p.m. | Battles
Lecture: Frank Farris , Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA "Forbidden Symmetry--Relaxing the Crystallographic Restriction". |
Saturday, June 5
| 8:00-noon | Registration -- Lobby of MNS |
| 9:00 9:50 a.m. |
Rick Cleary, Bentley
College "An Overview of Benford's Law with Applications to Auditing" |
| 10:00 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 11:20 a.m. |
Robert Bradley, Adelphi
University "The Curious Case of the Bird's Beak" |
| 11:30 12:00 p.m. | Business Meeting |
| 12:15 1:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 2:20 p.m. |
David Abrahamson and Rebecca Sparks,
Rhode Island College "A Linear Programming Approach to Predicting Award Winners (or, Who needs baseball writers when we know how they'll vote?) |
| 2:30 3:20 p.m. |
Robert Benedetto,
Amherst College "The Uniform Boundedness Conjecture for Dynamics over Number Fields" |
| 3:30 4:20 p.m. |
William Barker, Bowdoin
College "The CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004 and the Curriculum Foundations Project" Note: There will be a limit of 25 for this workshop. If you are interested, you should check that you want to attend on your registration form. |
| 3:30 4:20 p.m. | Contributed Papers |
Program Committee:
Local Arrangements:Julie Levandosky, co-chair (Framingham State College)
Jason Molitierno, co-chair (Sacred Heart University)
Hema Gopalakrishnan (Sacred Heart University)
Ed Sandifer (Western Connecticut State University)
Bruce Burdick (Roger Williams University)
Joel Silverberg (Roger Williams University)
Frank Ford (Providence College)