Northeastern Section of the MAA (NES/MAA)
Spring 2000 MEETING
June 16-17, 2000
St. Paul's School, Concord, NH

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.
 


Program:

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""
 

 

Program Committee:

Local Arrangements:


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