This page contains the meeting program for the NES/MAA Spring 2000 Meeting at St. Paul's School, along with other information (or links) about the meeting.
Directions to St. Paul's and a campus
map
There is a link to a St. Paul's campus map. Because of the detail
on the map, the onscreen resolution is not good, unless you zoom in.
However, if you print the map page, you should get a good readable map.
Abstracts and biographies for invited speakers and speakers in the Contributed
Papers session are available in Spring
2000 Meeting Abstracts; alternatively, you can click on a speaker's
name to go to that specific abstract. Click Student
Talks for the names of student speakers and their respective abstracts.
Schedule
Friday, June 16
| 2:00-6:00 pm | Registration (at the Schoolhouse) |
| 2:00-3:00 pm | Executive Committee Meeting |
| 3:00-3:50 pm | Future Colleagues Talks
Short talks on their professional interests by graduate students at colleges in the Northeastern Section who will be completing their Ph.D.'s during the 2000-2001 academic year. (Note: This session was canceled due to lack of speakers.) |
| 4:00-4:50 pm | "Outside Academia: Sabbaticals in Government and Industry"
Donna Beers, Simmons College Sonja Sandberg, Framingham State College Note: Due to extenuating circumstances, Donna Beers was unable to attend the meeting. |
| 5:00-5:50 pm | "Rigidity theory and some of its applications"
Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 6:00-6:40 pm | Reception |
| 6:45-8:00 pm | Dinner |
| 8:00-8:10 pm | Welcoming Remarks |
| 8:10-9:00 pm | Third Battles Lecture:
"The Mathematics of Identification Numbers" Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota - Duluth |
Saturday, June 17
| 8:00-10:30 am | Registration (at the Schoolhouse) |
| 8:00-8:50 am | Student Talks - Short talks by undergraduates |
| 9:00-10:20 am | Student
Workshop: "Symmetric Tensegrities"
Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 9:00-9:50 am | "The Ordinary Differential Equations Course at Boston University"
Paul Blanchard, Boston University |
| 9:00 am - 2:00 pm | Book Exhibits |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30-11:20 am | "Mathematics and Good Will Hunting"
Dan J. Kleitman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 11:30-12:00 pm | Business Meeting |
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:50 pm | "A Dynamical System for Plant Pattern Formation"
Christophe Gole, Smith College |
| 2:00-2:50 pm | "Teaching Calculus with an Outcomes Based Approach"
John Goulet, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 3:00-3:50 pm | Contributed Papers:
Zsuzsanna M. Kadas, St. Michael's College, "Pressure Regulation in the Brain: Compartmental Models" Mike Cullinane, Keene State College, "Various Notions of Distance" Bill Hillery, Keene State College, "Wanted: Synonyms for "Not Quite"" |
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