Friday, May 7, 2004

8:00–8:50	Registration Dodge Hall Lobby
8:50–9:00	Welcome Address Dr. Virinder Moudgil Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Oakland University 201 Dodge Hall
9:00–9:50	Plenary Address 201 Dodge Hall Direct Search Methods: The Sound and the Fuss Margaret Wright, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
10:00–10:15	Coffee Break Dodge Hall Lobby Sponsored by Maplesoft
10:15–10:35	200 DH Filiz Dogru, GVSU On Polygonal Dual Billiards in the Hyperbolic Plane	201 DH Mahmoud Al-Khafaji, EMU Incorporating Technical Writing in the Undergraduate Curriculum
10:40–11:00	200 DH Ken Smith, CMU An Undergraduate Course in the Mathematics of Cryptology	201 DH Sherry Duesing, LSSU Developmental Mathematics: A Module Approach
11:05–11:25	200 DH Tom Zerger, SVSU Geometry Can Be Complex	201 DH Brian Snyder, LSSU Art in Mathematics and the Mathematics of Art	203 DH Pat Shure, University of Michigan Stressing the Underlying Structure When Teaching College Algebra
11:30–11:50	200 DH Steven Sepanski, SVSU Some Random Thoughts on Stochastic Music	201 DH John Kiltinen, NMU A Computerized Puzzle-Solving Competition Idea	203 DH Karen Rhea, U of M–Ann Arbor Using ConcepTests in Calculus
12:00–1:45	Luncheon Oakland Center Mathematicians Are from Mars; Mathematics Educators Are from Venus. What Can We Do to Meet on Planet Earth? Charlene Beckmann, Grand Valley State University
2:00–2:50	Plenary Address 201 Dodge Hall Karen Smith, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Rational Algebraic Varieties (or When Can an Algebraic Variety Be Parametrized?)
3:00–3:15	Coffee Break Dodge Hall Lobby Sponsored by Maplesoft
3:15–3:35	200 DH Nancy Colwell, SVSU Integral Roots of Integral Polynomials	201 DH Martha Frank and Meredith Christian, graduate student, CMU Integrating Technology in a Statistics Class for Elementary Teachers	203 DH Ziyad M. Al-Sharawi, graduate student, CMU Linear Stability of a Parabolic System Related to FitzHugh-Nagumo Model
3:40–4:00	200 DH William Dickinson, GVSU The Generalized Area Principle	201 DH Garnet Hauger, Spring Arbor University One Effort to Improve the Teaching of Mathematics at the Elementary Level	203 DH Zsolt Lavicza, graduate assistant, U of M The Assessment of Instructional Technology and the Characterization of CAS
4:05–4:25	200 DH Timothy Sipka, Alma College On Generalizing the Pythagorean Theorem	201 DH Gerry Cox, Lake Michigan College Let’s Modify or Simplify the Calculus Partial Derivatives Chapter
4:30–4:50	200 DH Harold Martin, NMU Simple Games That Illustrate Parrondo’s Paradox	201 DH Bing Liu, SVSU Using Technology in Teaching College Algebra and Trigonometry
5:00–5:30	Business Meeting 200 Dodge Hall
5:30–6:00	Chairs and Liaisons Meeting 200 Dodge Hall
6:15–7:15	Social Hour Meadow Brook Hall Sponsored in partby Brooks/Cole (Thomson Learning) and Prentice-Hall
7:15–9:30	Awards Banquet Meadow Brook Hall The Most Important Course in College?—Why not Math? Michael Starbird, The University of Texas at Austin

Saturday, May 8, 2004

7:30–8:30	AWM-WAM Breakfast Oakland Center
8:30–9:00	Registration Dodge Hall Lobby
9:00–9:50	Plenary Address 201 Dodge Hall MathBC: Advanced Interesting Math before Calculus Jerry Uhl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
10:00–10:15	Coffee Break Dodge Hall Lobby Sponsored by Brooks/Cole (Thomson Learning)
10:15–10:35	200 DH Brian McCartin, Kettering University A Geometric Characterization of Planar Regression	201 DH Presentation Texas Instruments	203 DH Dan Steffy, undergrad. student, Oakland University A Combinatorial Approach to Solve the Exam Scheduling Problem
10:40–11:00	200 DH Ruth Favro, LTU A Mathematical Tourist	201 DH Panel Discussion A Collage of Collaboration Charlene Beckmann (moderator), GVSU Presenters: Charlene Beckmann, Will Dickinson, Azita Manouchehri, Mike McDaniel, Pat Shure, and Ken Smith More information about this session follows the abstracts for the contributed talks.	203 DH Daryl Posnett, undergrad. student, EMU Variations on Fibonacci Pseudoprimes
11:05–11:25	200 DH Hamza Ahmad, SVSU Centralizers in the Matrix Group and the General Linear Group		203 DH Etsuko Nishida, undergrad. student, NMU The Beaury of Ducci Cycles
11:30–11:50	200 DH Cyrus Aryana, SVSU Riemann’s Approach to the Study of Algebraic Functions and Their Integrals		203 DH Adrian Bush and Patrick Machacek, undergrad. students, NMU The Effects of Approximating a Function and its Derivatives
12:00–2:00	Luncheon Oakland Center Euler’s Sums and Euler’s Crumbs William Dunham, Muhlenberg College

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