Friday, May 2, 2003

8:00–8:50	Registration Groening Commons
8:50–9:00	Welcome Rhea Miller Recital Hall Eric R. Gilbertson President Saginaw Valley State University
9:00–9:50	Plenary Address Rhea Miller Recital Hall Solitons and other Longwave Phenomena Jerry Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:00–10:15	Coffee Break Curtiss Hall, Seminar Rooms D and E Sponsor: Addison-Wesley
10:15–10:35	222 CH Mehrdad Simkani, U of M - Flint The Delian Problem	224 CH John Stoughton, Hope College Using the Irrationality of Pi to Introduce the Mathematics Major
10:40–11:00	222 CH Paul Fishback, GVSU Mandelbrot Sets in Matrix Rings: Tales of Binary and Ternary Number Systems	224 CH Reva Kasman, GVSU Teaching by Example: Case Studies for Mathematics Instructors
11:05–11:25	222 CH Steven Sepanski, SVSU A Metric Not to Fret About	224 CH John Whitaker, Wittenberg University Actuarial Seminar: Preparing Students for the First Actuarial Exam
11:30–11:50	222 CH John O. Kiltinen, NMU Like “15”, but “8-on-a-torus”: Analysis of a Puzzle	224 CH Ada C. Dong, Lawrence Technological University Mathematics in Computing Science—Discrete Structures	223 CH Reza Akbari, SVSU Boundary Problem of the Theory of Analytic Functions
12:00–1:45	Luncheon Curtiss Hall, Banquet Rooms A and B Preparing Teachers for the Mathematical Work of Teaching Deborah Ball, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2:00–2:50	Plenary Address Rhea Miller Recital Hall The State of Dynamical Systems in Ecology Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University
3:00–3:15	Coffee Break Curtiss Hall, Seminar Rooms D and E Sponsor: Prentice Hall
3:15–3:35	222 CH Christina Burden, student, Andrews University Modeling the Dynamics of Seabird Habitat Occupancy	224 CH Garnet Hauger, Spring Arbor University Using Geometer’s Sketchpad to Teach Geometry
3:40–4:00	222 CH Gerry Cox, Lake Michigan College Leibniz’s Proof That the Alternating Odd Harmonic Series Equals Pi/4	224 CH Matt Boelkins, GVSU A Capstone Course on the Nature of Modern Mathematics	STUDENT TALKS 223 CH Rana Mikkelson, Kalamazoo College A Bit of Bifurcation Theory
4:05–4:25	222 CH Hamza Ahmad, SVSU The Quadratic Zariski Birational Cancellation Problem and Pfister Neighbors	224 CH JingLing Wang and Michael Masterson, Lansing CC Reconciling Differences in Calculus and Physics Curricula to Better Prepare Students	223 CH John Skukalek, GVSU Rings of Small Order
4:30–4:50	222 CH Mark Naber, Monroe County CC Multi-time-scale Fractional Sub-diffusion	224 CH Dyana Harrelson, Hope College A Second Course in Statistics for Math Majors
5:00–5:30	Business Meeting Curtiss Hall 222	Special session sponsored by Michigan NExT Curtiss Hall 224 Victor Katz, University of the District of Columbia Implementing Historical Perspectives Across the Curriculum
5:30–6:00	Chairs and Liaisons Meeting Curtiss Hall 222
6:15–7:15	Social Hour Curtiss Hall, Banquet Rooms A and B Sponsored in part by Brooks-Cole
7:15–9:30	Awards Banquet Curtiss Hall, Banquet Rooms A and B What is Algebra and Why Is It So Important - A Historical Survey Victor Katz, University of the District of Columbia

Saturday, May 3, 2003

7:30–8:30	AWM-WAM Breakfast Curtiss Hall, Seminar Room F
8:30–9:00	Registration Groening Commons
9:00–9:50	Plenary Address Rhea Miller Recital Hall Ideals Defining Projective Varieties Peter J. Vermeire, Central Michigan University
10:00–10:15	Coffee Break Curtiss Hall, Seminar Rooms D and E Sponsor: Wolfram
10:15–10:35	222 CH Brian McCartin, Kettering Geometric Structure of the Octatonic Musical Scale	224 CH Richard Hill, MSU On the Transition from High School Mathematics to University Mathematics	STUDENT TALKS 223 CH Jason Mejeur, Hope College Waiting for Communion, A Queuing Theory Project
10:40–11:00	222 CH William C. Dickinson, GVSU Spherical Trilateral Theorems	224 CH Ruth Favro and David Bindschadler, LTU Visualizing Core Mathematical Concepts	223 CH Erin K. De Pree, Hillsdale College The Failure of Sequences
11:05–11:25	222 CH James Angelos, CMU CMET Capstone Scholars Program	BUILDING BRIDGES 224 CH Esther Billings, Matt Boelkins, David Coffey, John Golden, Karen Novotny, Steven Schlicker, Akalu Tefera, and Clark Wells, GVSU Enhancing the Mathematical Core	223 CH Brad Dillon, Steve Holcomb, Roy Jones, LTU Cancer: Bad, Gamma Knife: Good
11:30–11:50	222 CH Radu Teodorescu, WMU Solving Linear Recurrence Relations (II)
12:00–2:00	Luncheon Curtiss Hall, Banquet Rooms A and B The Curvature of Space Jeff Weeks
2:15–4:15	Workshop Mathematics for Business Decisions Curtiss Hall 235 Richard B. Thompson, University of Arizona

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