Message from Frank Ford, Newsletter editor of the Northeastern Section

With this issue, we begin our thirtieth year of Northeastern Newsletters. For most of those years, the Newsletter was the way the membership learned about meetings and other happenings in our Section. But now, the full newsletter is mailed to about one and a half percent of our members. The “Lite” version brings news of the next Section meeting and other important events such as elections. Our web site is always there and contains a history of the Section, a record of invited talks, contributed talks, and other papers from all but one of our meetings since 1992. These are only some of the parts of the web site. From that site, you can get to my site with the last 11 newsletters still on it.

I wonder if anybody has all the back issues of the Newsletter. If you do, let me know. Maybe we can scan them all onto our web site.

Undergraduate Student Papers Presented at the NES/MAA Fall 2007 Meeting

The St. Petersburg Paradox – A Mirror of Modern-Day Risk Aversion

Richard Andrews, Western Connecticut State University

Simulation of Pigs for the Ancestors

William Eller, Keene State College

Exploring the Logistic Map using a MATLAB GUI

Chris Bresten, UMass-Dartmouth

Mathematics to the rescue: The Incredible Adventures of Keplwr

Amanda Egan and Jaclyn Haskings, Framingham State College

George David Stokes

Ruth Hibbard, Framingham State College

One Burger with Fries, Hold the Gibbs

Daniel Higgs, UMass-Dartmouth

The Harvard College Mathematics Review

Scott D. Kominers, Harvard University

A Topological Presentation on the Classification of Surfaces

Nathan MacKay, Keene State College

A Model of the Drosophila Heart

Pamela Reitsma, University of Maine

Oscillators Coupled by Piecewise Linear Functions

Joseph Salisbury, Rhode Island College

Two Versions of the Traveling Salesman Problem

Rahul Shah, Williams College

Cheap Ways to Fence your Backyard on Double Tori, Annuli, and Bands

Matthew D. Simonson, Williams College

Graduate Student Papers Presented at the NES/MAA Fall 2007 Meeting

A Group Analogue of Carmichael’s Conjecture

Jonathan Bayless, Dartmouth College

Post’s Problem for Strong Reducibilities

Marcia Groszek, Dartmouth College

Mathematical Models of Sleep, Neurobehavioral Performance and Alertness

Melissa A. St. Hilaire, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Multiple Solutions for Asymmetric Nonlinear Value Problem

Lisa Termine, University of Connecticut

New Colleagues Papers at the NES/MAA Fall 2007 Meeting

Vector Dependence

Shannon R. Lockard, Bridgewater State College

A visually Intuitive Derivation of Faulhaber’s Formula

Patrick Lorenz, Maine Maritime Academy

A function Field Trip

Rebecca Metcalf, Bridgewater State College

The Negative Pell’s Equation’s Evolution

Peter Nordberg, Worcester State College

Using Algebraic Geometry with Error-Correcting Codes

Caleb Shor, Bates College

Collaborative Assessment & Youth Achievement in Mathematics

Karen Terrell, UMass-Boston

Cardano’s Contributions to Cryptography

Marina Vulis, Univesity of New Haven

Don’t Give Up Any Responsibility!

Christine von Renasse, Westfield State College

Rational Curves on Calabi-Yau 3-folds

Bin Wang, Rhode Island College

Contributed Papers Presented at the NES/MAA Fall 2007 Meeting

A Potpourri of Iterated Function Systems

Len Brin, Southern Connecticut State University

Mathematical Problems from the Maine Farmer’s Almanack

Bruce S. Burdick, Roger Williams College

Epidemiological Impact of ART in Burkina Faso, South Africa, and Uganda

Emmanuel Drabo, Bates College

An Assessment Procedure for a First Semester Calculus Course

Eric Johnson and Ernest Manfred, United States Coast Guard Academy

Worksheet Activities in Calculus and Precalculus

Brian Kelly, Bryant University, and Annela Kelly, Roger Williams University

Mathematics Exams in the CLEP Program: How to Make the Exams Relevant to the College Curriculum

Robin O’Callaghan, Senior Director, Mathematics Test Development, The College Board, and Marc Singer, Associate Director, CLEP, The College Board, Ney York

Arithmetical Rules for Rising the Chromatic and Diatonic Scales, the

Musical Circle of the Fifths, and for Rotation in the Basic Chords

Krassimir Tarkalanov, The TJX Companies Inc.