NORTHEASTERN
SECTION OF THE MAA
FALL 1998 MEETING
November 20-21, 1998
Western Connecticut State University,
Danbury CT
This page contains a brief meeting program and links to other information
about the meeting. The brief program, and a link to a more complete
program, follow.
Program
Applied Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum
Click here to go to a full program with
abstracts.
Friday, November 20
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2:00-3:00 pm Executive Committee meeting
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2:00-6:00 pm Registration
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3:00-3:50 pm Using Spreadsheets in a Computer
Classroom
C. Edward Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University
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3:00-3:50 pm College Mathematics Departments'
Need to Respond to State Frameworks and Mastery Testing
Kathy Bavelas, Manchester Community Technical College (CT)
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4:00-4:50 pm Nonlinear Oscillations in
Suspension Bridges
Joseph McKenna, University of Connecticut
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4:00-4:50 pm Who Gets What? -- Apportionment
and Fashion
Theresa Sandifer, Southern Connecticut State University
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5:00-6:00 pm Student
papers sessions
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6:15-6:45 pm Reception
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6:45-7:45 pm Banquet
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7:50-8:00 pm Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Eugene P. Buccini, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Western
Connecticut State University
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8:00-8:45 pm Succeeding in Industry: What
Do We and Our Students Need?
Paul Davis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Saturday, November 21
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7:30-11:30 am Registration
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8:30 am -3:00 pm Book exhibits/Graduate
school information table
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8:00-8:50 am NEW FACULTY PRESENTATIONS:
Talks given by faculty new to the Northeastern Section.
David Hahn, Southern Connecticut State University
Debra Boutin, Trinity College
Steven Wang, Williams College
Val Pinciu, Southern Connecticut State University
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9:00-9:50 am NES/MAA TEACHING AWARD PRESENTATION:
The Crisis in Inner-city Public School Mathematics: What College
Math Departments Can Do.
Robert Case, Northeastern University
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10:00-10:30 am Coffee break
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10:35-11:30 am CHRISTIE LECTURE:
Cosine Transforms and Wavelet Transforms and Applications
Gilbert Strang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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11:30 am-12:00 pm Business meeting
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12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
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1:00-1:50 pm STUDENT WORKSHOP:
Wavelets and Applications
Vasily Strela, Dartmouth College
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1:00-1:50 pm Panel discussion on undergraduate
programs that link students to industrial/applied problems : how
internships and undergraduate research involving industrial/real-world
applied problems can be implemented in the undergraduate curriculum.
Paul Davis (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), moderator.
David Chris Arney (United States Military Academy at West Point) will
discuss the Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs) written
and used by schools in the INTERMATH Consortium, James Hefferon (St.
Michael's College) will discuss the internship program at St. Michaels's,
and Bogdan Vernescu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) will discuss
WPI's Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics (CIMS) and related
student projects.
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2:00-2:50 pm The SLOB in Baseball:
A Mathematical Model for Judging Offensive Value
Helen Salzberg, Rhode Island College, and David Abrahamson, Rhode
Island College
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2:00-2:50 pm Constraint Modeling Issues
for a Restructured Electric Power Industry
Lucy Kimball, Bentley College
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3:00-4:00 pm Contributed papers sessions
Program committee
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