NES/MAA REGIONAL DINNER MEETINGS - Spring 2002

The Northeastern Section Regional Dinner Meeting series has proven to be both popular and stimulating. Therefore, once again, the NES/MAA offers you the opportunity to spend an interesting and enjoyable evening with others involved in mathematics and mathematics education. Information about currently scheduled dinner meetings is below; you can scroll through the entire list or click on the meeting of interest to you..  If any additional dinner meetings are scheduled, that information will be posted as it becomes available. Feel free to attend as many of the dinner meetings as you wish.  Please send a separate
reservation form for each person attending and for each dinner meeting that you wish to attend.
Reservations must be made in writing by the respective deadlines since exact numbers must be
given in advance.  The registration forms are available on-line.  However, the form must be mailed to the appropriate coordinator.  On-line registration and e-mail registration are not available.

Please contact Lucy Kimball, Mathematical Sciences Department, Bentley College, Waltham, MA 02154, (781) 891-2467, lkimball@bentley.edu , Coordinator of the Regional Dinner Meetings, for information regarding hosting a dinner meeting for your region in Spring 2002 or Spring 2003 or for more information about the dinner meetings.
 

Boston Area - Tuesday, March 26, 2002

Speaker:  Dr. Richard Cleary, Bentley College
                 Models For the Qualification Process

Do you believe that you are safer riding with someone who passed their driver's test on the first try than on the seventh try?  Our society puts a great deal of faith in a variety of qualifying mechanisms (examinations or elections) to establish competence or acknowledge excellence.  Examinations include  the driver's license example and attorneys seeking certification by passing the bar exam.  Election examples include selection to many honorary societies and baseball's Hall of Fame.  We consider the mathematical, statistical and societal implications of a few basic models for these processes.
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
Bentley College,  Waltham, Massachusetts

When:  6:00 p.m.
Where:  La Cava Campus Center 300AB,  Bentley College

Choice of entree:  Chicken or Fish   (Please indicate your choice when you send your check.)
Cost: $15.00
Registration Deadline:  March 18, 2002

Registration form (to be mailed in)

Organizer:  Lucy Kimball, Bentley College
                    lkimball@bentley.edu
                     (781) 891-2467

Directionsto Bentley College
Virtual Campus Map (The La Cava Campus Center is A on the print-friendly campus map.)

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 Massachusetts Region - Thursday, April 18, 2002

The Ninth Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture:
Dennis DeTurck, University of Pennsylvania
"Coiling and writhing in geometry, biology and physics"

Thursday, April 18, 2002
College of the Holy Cross,  Worcester, Massachusetts

Schedule:
        5:30 pm    Social with cash bar, Hogan Campus Center, Suite B
        6:15 pm    Dinner, Hogan Campus Center, Suite B
        8:00 pm    Presentation in Hogan Campus Center, Room 519

Choice of Entree:      Broiled Boston Scrod or Chicken Marsala.   (Please indicate your choice when you send your check.)
Cost:   $15.00

Registration form (to be mailed in)

Contact: Thomas Cecil (cecil@mathcs.holycross.edu)
                  (508) 793-2719

Registration Deadline: April 8, 2002

Directions to Holy Cross
Campus Map  (Hogan Campus Center is #7 on the map.)

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New Hampshire Region - Wednesday, May 8, 2002

Speaker: Dr. Leonard Gillman of the University of Texas at Austin, and Past President of the Mathematical Association of America.
"Comprehensive Solutions"
This talk presents a counterintuitive solution to the famous 12-coin weighing problem. The method of deriving it is also unexpected.
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire

Schedule:
     All activities in the Upper Dining Room, St. Paul's School.
     6:00   Social with Hors d'Oeuvres
     6:30   Dinner
     7:30   Presentation:  "Comprehensive Solutions"

Choice of Entree:

Roast Prime Rib of Beef - au jus OR  (Vegetarian) Composite Pasta Alfredo
Both served with:
                        Groups of Cubed, Roasted Potatoes
                        3 Bean Salad on a Field of Lettuce
                        7 Grain Bread - Butter Squares
                        Pineapple Rings
                        Pi
                        Coffee, Tea


Cost:  $16.25.  Be sure to indicate whether PRIME or COMPOSITE.

Contact: Larry Braden (lbraden@sps.edu)
Deadline: May 1, 2002

Registration form (to be mailed in)
Directions to St. Paul's

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Rhode Island Region - Monday, April 8, 2002

 Speaker:Dr. Frederick Greenleaf, New York University
"Promoting Quantitative Literacy"
Fred Greenleaf, a leader in the field of quantitative literacy education, is the author of the text "Quantitative Reasoning: Understanding the Mathematical Patterns in Nature." He has developed workshop courses in quantitative literacy that are part of the core curriculum at NYU.   He will be discussing what QL is, why it is important, and what educators can do to promote it.

The talk, at 7pm, is open to the public free of charge.


Monday, April 8, 2002
Rhode Island College,  Providence, Rhode Island

Time:  6:00 pm for the dinner
Where:  Faculty Center

Dinner:   Lemon chicken with rice, broccoli, pasta, coffee and dessert
Cost:  $15.00
Registration Deadline:  Monday, April 1 (no fooling)

Organizer:  Barry Schiller, Bschiller@ric.edu

Registration form

Directions to Rhode Island College
Campus map  (The Faculty Center is #20 on the campus map.)

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