Wellesley College, Wellesley MA

All meeting activities will be held in the Science Center building, except for the banquet and luncheon which will be held at the Wellesley College Club.

Friday, November 21

2:00 – 6:00 p.m. Registration Sage Lounge (2nd floor of Science Center)

2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting Room 273

2:00 – 5:50 p.m. Exploring four-dimensional geometry with Zometool Room 268

Mira Bernstein, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

(Participants may come and go. They will collaborate in building

3-dimensional projections of 4-dimensional objects.)

3:00 – 3:50 p.m. All You ever wanted to know about patterns in Baseball Room 377

statistics

Steve Krevisky, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT

4:00 – 4:50 p.m. How has this teacher failed? Let me count the ways... Room 377

Emma Previato, Boston University, Boston, MA

TI-Navigator in the Calculus Classroom Room 274

Nancy Schick, Texas Instruments

Mary Sullivan, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI

5:00 – 6:10 p.m. Student Papers Rooms 270, 274, 278, 392, 396

(See pages 8-9 for presentation schedule and pages 10-14 for abstracts.)

6:15 – 6:40 p.m. Reception Wellesley College Club

6:40 – 8:00 p.m. Banquet Wellesley College Club

Including greetings from the President of Wellesley College

Diana Chapman Walsh

8:10 – 9:10 p.m. Geometry, Topology, and the Entanglement Phase Transition Room 377

Greg Buck, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH

Representatives from the following companies will have book displays during the Meeting, located in Sage Lounge on the second floor of the Science Center:

· Addison Wesley · A.K. Peters · MAA

Saturday, November 22

7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast (no charge) Sage Lounge (2nd floor of Sci. Center)

8:00 – Noon Registration Sage Lounge (2nd floor of Science Center)

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. New Colleague Presentations Rooms 270, 274, 278

(See page 15 for details.)

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Fractal Dynamics in Health: Changes with Disease and Room 377

Aging

Ary L. Goldberger, MD, Director, Rey Institute for Nonlinear

Dynamics in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Professor at Harvard Medical School and Program Director of the NIH/NCRR Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break (refreshments in Sage Lounge)

10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Christie Lecture: Exploring Uncharted Territory in Forced Room 377

ODE's: Strange and Counterintuitive Periodic Solutions

Lisa Humphreys, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI

11:30 – 12:00 p.m. Business Meeting Room 377

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Wellesley College Club

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. New Perspectives on the Mathematics of Voting and Elections Room 377

Stephen Brams, New York University, New York City, NY

2:30 – 3:30 p.m. A Tintinnabulous Introduction to Group Theory: The British Room 377

Sport of Change Ringing

Lucy Dechéne, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA

3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Contributed Papers Rooms 270, 274

(See pages 16-17 for details.)

Program Committee:

       Frank Ford, Chair, Providence College

       Kathy Bavelas, Manchester CC                     Acknowledgements:

       Mary Sullivan, Rhode Island College

       Rebecca Sparks, Rhode Island College           Special thanks to Joan McCarthy and

                                                                           Charlotte Henderson

Local Arrangements:

                                                                           We gratefully acknowledge funding from

       Ann Trenk, Chair, Wellesley College             the Mellon Foundation

       Stanley Chang, Wellesley College

       Megan Kerr, Wellesley College