Northeastern Section of the MAA (NES/MAA)
Fall 2003 MEETING
November 21-22, 2003
Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA




This page contains the meeting program for the NES/MAA Fall 2003 Meeting at Wellesley College, along with other information (or links) about the meeting.  If any updates about the meeting are received, they will be put up on this site.

A new talk on the TI- Navigator has been added on Friday afternoon at 4:00pm.  Also, schedules and abstracts for the Student Paper Sessions, the New Colleague Sessions, and the Contributed Paper Sessions are now online.

The Northeastern Section is continuing a Section NExT program for new and relatively new colleagues at this year’s fall Section meeting. By providing talks and workshops on issues of interest, opportunities to meet and share ideas with other new colleagues, and an introduction into Section activities, we hope to assist new faculty in their transition from graduate school to professional academic life.

Pre-registration form (with costs) is available, but only for printing and mailing.  Online registration is not available.  Meals cannot be guaranteed  unless reservations were received by THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2003.

Wellesley College Mathematics Department
Campus map;
Travel directions to Wellesley College by car, train, etc.;
Parking information;
Lodging- hotel information.If you are still looking for a place to stay, theTravel Lodge extended their deadline until November 15th.  The deadline for NES/MAA reservations at the Best Western and Red Roof Inn was October 31.  They also may still have rooms available but not at the originally quoted rate.
 

Program:

All talks will take place in the Science Center.  

Abstracts and biographies for invited speakers are available in Fall 2003 Meeting Abstracts; alternatively, you can click on a speaker's name to go to that specific abstract.  Schedules and abstracts for the Student Paper Sessions, the New Colleague Sessions, and the Contributed Paper Sessions are now online; click on the appropriate session to go to the schedule and abstracts.  There are five sessions of Student Papers on Friday afternoon, three sessions of New Colleague Presentations on Saturday morning, and two sessions of Contributed Papers on Saturday afternoon.

Representatives from the following companies will have book displays during the Meeting, located in Sage Lounge on the second floor of the Science Center:  Addison Wesley, A.K. Peters, and the MAA.
 
 

Schedule

Friday, November 21, 2003
 
 
2:00 – 6:00 p.m. Registration in Sage Lounge (2nd floor of Science Center)
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting (Science Center 273)
2:00 – 5:50 p.m. Exploring four-dimensional geometry with Zometool
Mira Bernstein, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
(Participants may come and go.  They will collaborate in building 3-dimensional projections of 4-dimensional objects.)
3:00 – 3:50 p.m. All You ever wanted to know about patterns in Baseball statistics 
Steve Krevisky, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT
4:00 – 4:50 p.m. How has this teacher failed?  Let me count the ways...
Emma Previato, Boston University, Boston, MA
4:00 – 4:50 p.m. TI-Navigator in the Calculus Classroom -- Demonstration and Discussion
Nancy Schick of Texas Instruments 
Mary Sullivan of Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
5:00 – 6:10 p.m. Student Papers
6:15 – 6:40 p.m. Reception at the Wellesley College Club
6:40 – 8:00 p.m. Banquet at the Wellesley College Club.
Including greetings from Diana Chapman Walsh, the President of Wellesley College. 
8:10 – 9:10 p.m. Geometry, Topology, and the Entanglement Phase Transition
Greg Buck, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH

 

Saturday,  November 22, 2003
 
 
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast (no charge) Sage Lounge (2nd floor of Sci. Center)
8:00 – Noon Registration in Sage Lounge (2nd floor of Science Center)
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. New Colleagues Presentations
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Fractal Dynamics in Health:  Changes with Disease and Aging
Ary L. Goldberger, MD, Director, Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine, Beth Israel  Deaconess Medical Center, Professor at Harvard Medical School and Program Director of the  NIH/NCRR Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Christie Lecture: Exploring Uncharted Territory in Forced ODE's: Strange and Counterintuitive Periodic Solutions
Lisa Humphreys, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
11:30 – 12:00 p.m. Business Meeting
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.  Lunch - at the Wellesley College Club
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. New Perspectives on the Mathematics of Voting and Elections
Stephen Brams, New York University, New York City, NY
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. A Tintinnabulous Introduction to Group Theory: The British Sport of Change Ringing
Lucy Dechéne, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Contributed Papers

 

Program Committee:

Local Arrangements:
Ann Trenk, Wellesley College
Stanley Chang, Wellesley College
Megan Kerr, Wellesley College


Return to NES/MAA Home page.
Return to NES/MAA Section Meetings Page.
 


 E-mail: gingrichr1@southernct.edu
URL: http:www.southernct.edu/organizations/nesmaa/fall2003meeting.html
Revised:  November 18, 2003

 "The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author and have not been reviewed or approved by Southern Connecticut State University."