Papers Presented at the Spring 2006 MAA/NES Meeting

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Graduate Student Papers Presented at the NES/MAA Spring 2006 Meeting Peter Barendse, Boston University Non-local Cellular Automata over Groups Sebastian M. Marotta, Boston University Evolution of the McMullen Domain for Singularly Perturbed Rational Maps Benjamin Hutz, Brown University Arithmetic Dynamics on a Class of K3 Surfaces Undergraduate Student Papers Presented at the NES/MAA Spring 2006 Meeting Jack Dalton, UMass Dartmouth High Order Approximation of the Soliton Solution of the Traffic Equation Vincent Durante, UMass Dartmouth Radial Basis Function Neural Network Model for Discontinuous Signals Jessica Rosen, UMass Dartmouth Numerical Analysis of Difference Equations from Loop Quantum Cosmology Candace Selneck, Emmanuel College A Scheduling Problem Benjamin Harshfield, Emmanuel College The Came of Go Richard Ryan, University of Rhode Island The Effect of Harvesting on the Peregrine Falcon Population William Day, University of Rhode Island Joshua Sawyer, University of Rhode Island A Java Applet to explain and Demonstrate Markov Chains Jessica Belanger, Fitchburg State College Fiction and Higher Dimensions Ruth Hibbard, Framingham State College Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya(1922-2004) Lucas Roesler, Central Connecticut State University The Importance of Cantor’s Diagonal Argument and Implications for Education Contributed Papers Presented at the NES/MAA Spring 2006 Meeting Barbara Boschmans, Plymouth State University April Hoffmeister, Univesity of Memphis Michelle Iams, Univesity of North Dakota Hortensia Soto-Johnson, University of Northen Colorado Todd Oberg, Illinois College The Impact of KTEM on Preservice Elementary Teachersy Karin Vorwerk, Westfield State College Some Insights into Students’ Minds... Robert Vaden-Goad, Southern Connecticut State University Against the Current: Electing to Study Mathematics Since 1980 (Preliminary Report) Joan Weiss, Fairfield University Trigonometric Identities on a Graphing Calculator Donna Beers, Simmons College Ellen Davidson, Simmons College A Learning Community for Prospective Elementary School Teachers L. J. Balasundarame, Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement Mod(6) Prime Patterns Tom Kalmar, Sterling College The Goddard Prime Number Theorem Revisited (or: On the Harmonic Frequency of Primes)