Friday, April 29, 2005

8:00–8:50	Registration Dow Science Center Lobby
8:50–9:00	Welcome Address Saundra Tracy, President of Alma College Dow L-1
9:00–10:00	Plenary Address Dow L-1 Why Things go Quasi in Higher Dimensions Bruce Palka, University of Texas, Austin
10:05–10:15	Coffee Break Dow Lobby
10:20–10:40	Dow L-1 Chris Gardiner, EMU Calculus with Review			Dow L-4 James Howard, Ferris State University Generalizations of the Twelve Coin Problem
10:45–11:05	Dow L-1 Dan Frohardt, Wayne State University The New CLEP Precalculus Exam			Dow L-4 Akalu Tefera, GVSU On Proofs of Certain Combinatorial Identities
11:10–11:30	Dow L-1 Matt Wyneken, GVSU Concepts of Calculus			Dow L-4 Amy Hlavacek*, SVSU J. P. Huneke, OSU Nine-Vertex Irreducible Graphs for the Torus
11:35–11:55	Dow L-1 Maria Andersen, Muskegon Community College MICHMATYC Round-Table Discussion, Part I: On-Line Math Classes			Dow L-4 Nancy Colwell*, Hamza Ahmed, SVSU Factorization Patterns of Polynomials
12:00–1:45	Luncheon Van Dusen Commons Panel Discussion: Some Consequences of No Child Left Behind Charles Allen, MSU, President of MCTM Rebecca Walker, GVSU Leo Paveglio, Lapeer Public Schools
2:00–2:50	Plenary Address Dow L-1 Richard Tapia, Rice University Math at Top Speed
3:00–3:15	Coffee Break Dow Lobby
3:20–3:40	Dow L-1 Maria Andersen, Muskegon Comm. Coll. MICHMATYC Round-Table Discussion, Part II: Management of Beginning and Intermediate Algebra Classes		Dow L-2 William Dickinson, GVSU San Gaku Problems in Undergraduate Research		SAC 109 Brian McCartin, Kettering University e, The Master of All
3:45–4:05	Dow L-1 Manish Chakrabarti, GVSU An Invitation to Mathematical Induction Through Computer Science		Dow L-2 Lawrence Brenton, Wayne State University Measuring Pi		SAC 109 Jan Hlavacek, SVSU An Asymptotic Formula for the Norms of exp(inh(t))
4:10–4:30	Dow L-1 Arnie Hammel, CMU Introducing Topics from Cryptology in the Discrete Math Course		Dow L-2 Gerard Venema, Calvin College and MSU The Axioms of Elementary Geometry		SAC 109
4:30–4:50	Dow L-1 Matt Boelkins, GVSU When Students Write the Text		Dow L-2 Tom Zerger, SVSU Convergent Points in Polygons		SAC 109
5:00–5:30	Business Meeting Dow L-1
5:30–6:00	Chairs and Liaisons Meeting Dow L-1			Informal MiNExT Session Bruce Palka, Editor, American Mathematical Monthly Publishing in the Monthly: An Informal Conversation with the Editor Dow L-4
6:00–6:15
6:15–7:15	Social Hour Van Dusen Commons
7:15–9:30	Awards Banquet Van Dusen Commons Tales from the Mathematics Genealogy Project Harry B. Coonce, North Dakota State University

Saturday, April 30, 2005

7:30–8:30	AWM-WAM Breakfast Heather Room
8:30–9:00	Registration Dow Lobby
9:00–9:50	Plenary Address Dow L-1 The CUPM Curriculum Guide and Its Illustrative Resources Susanna Epp, DePaul University
10:00–10:30	Coffee Break Dow Lobby
10:35–10:55	Dow L-1 Paul Fishback, GVSU Taylor Series are Limits of Legendre Expansions	Dow L-4 Aklilu Zeleke, Alma College On the Marcienkiewics-Zygmund Law of Large Numbers	SAC 109 Tom Kennedy, GVSU Statistical Models for Baseball
11:00–11:20	Dow L-1 David Lamb, US Army Math and the Art of Motorcycle Modeling	Dow L-4 Ada Dong, ICAE Tiny Numbers	SAC 109 Royden Jones, Lawrence Tech The Possible but Undiscovered
11:25–11:45	Dow L-1 Ziyad Al-Sharawi, CMU The Periodic Logistic Map: A Simple Model with Complicated Dynamics	Dow L-4 Ron Mosier, Daimler (ret.) A Characterization of Finite Discrete Probability Distributions	SAC 109
12:00–2:00	Luncheon Van Dusen Commons Triangular Miracles Marty Isaacs, MAA Polya Lecturer, University of Wisconsin

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