This page will contain the meeting program for the NES/MAA Spring 2005 Meeting at Bates College, along with other information about the meeting (or links to that information). 

About Bates College
About the Mathematics Department at Bates

Local arrangements information, including links to a Registration Form, travel directions, a campus map, lodging information, etc.  The local organizers at Bates College have agreed to extend the deadline for pre-registration for the  meeting until June 10.  The registration form must be received by Bates by June 10.

MAA/NES Spring 2005 Program Schedule

Friday – June 17

2:00-6:00 p.m.  Registration

2:00-3:00 p.m.  Executive Committee Meeting

3:00-3:50 p.m. Ann Trenk, Wellesley College

“How to Pay Your Employees Fairly Using Notions of Weak Discrepancy”

4:00-4:50 p.m.  Diego Benardete, University of Hartford

“Periodic Orbits in the Logistic Differential Equation with Periodic Harvesting”   

5:00-5:50 p.m.  Undergraduate Student Paper Session

6:00-8:00 p.m.  Dinner/Opening Remarks

8:10-9:00 p.m.  Brian Winkel, U.S. Military Academy

"Cipher Busting, Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, and        William F. Friedman"

Saturday – June 18

8:00-noon        Registration

8:00-8:50 a.m.  Graduate Student Paper Session

9:00-9:50 a.m.  Jim Tattersall, Providence College

 “Episodes in the Early History Of the Lucasian

 Chair”  

10:00-10:20 a.m. Break

10:30-11:20 a.m. Battles Lecture: Frank Morgan, Williams College

                 “Double Bubbles and Gauss Space”

11:30-12:00 p.m. Business Meeting

12:15-1:15 p.m.  Lunch

1:30-2:20 p.m.   Brian Winkel, U.S. Military Academy

                 "Your Students as Consultants and Graders"

2:30-3:20 p.m.   Chris White, Castleton State College

 “Some Sine and Cosine Identities Obtained from

 Pascal’s Triangle”

3:30-4:20 p.m.   Workshop: Robert Decker, University of Hartford

                 “Creating Your Own Mathlets”

3:30-4:20 p.m.    Contributed Papers

Program Committee:

Hema Gopalakrishnan, Co-Chair, Sacred Heart University
Bob Dollar, Co-Chair
Jason Molitierno, Sacred Heart University
June Decker, Three Rivers Community College

Peter Wong, Bates College