Recent Meetings of the Northeastern Section of the MAA
1997-2005

Recent meetings of the Northeastern Section are listed below.  Where the pages are still available, there are links to the pages for the respective meetings.  A listing of all past Section meetings is available at nesmaameetinghistory.html .

• Fall 2005 Meeting -- The Northeastern Section's semicentennial, at the University of New Hampshire, November 18-19, 2005.  UNH also hosted the Section's first meeting in 1955.   Jim Tattersall, Providence College, was the program chair.
   
• Spring 2005 Meeting -- Bates College in Lewiston, ME, June 17-18, 2005.  Bob Dollar and Hema Gopalakrishnan are the co-chairs of the Program Committee.  Peter Wong will be the local arrangements coordinator.  Frank Morgan of Williams College will give the Battles Lecture.
   
• Fall 2004 Meeting:  Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, November 19-20, 2004    
  The Program Chair was Suzanne Weekes.  Brigitte Servatius was the local arrangements coordinator.
   
• Spring 2004 Meeting:  Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, June 4-5, 2004.

The Program Co-Chairs were Jason Molitierno, Sacred Heart University, and Julie Levandosky, Framingham State College.
Bruce Burdick, Joel Silverberg, and Frank Ford were the local arrangements committee.
 
• Fall 2003 Meeting: Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA, November 21-22, 2003.  The Program Chair is Frank Ford , Providence College.  Ann Trenk is the local arrangements coordinator.
   
• Spring 2003 Meeting, Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA, June 13-14, 2003.   The Program Chair was Richard Pelosi,Western New England College.
• Northeastern Section NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) at the Spring 2003 Meeting
   
• Fall 2002 Meeting, Framingham State College, November 22-23, 2002 . The theme for the meeting was The Changing Face of Mathematics: A Mathematics Sampler.  That theme was chosen as a way in which to explore changes in teaching and learning Mathematics.
Program Committee: Sarah Mabrouk, Framingham State College and Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State.
 
• Joint Meeting with Seaway Section: June 21-22, 2002 at Williams College.

Williams College hosted a joint meeting of the Seaway and Northeastern Sections of the MAA, June 21-22, 2002. For complete information about the meeting, click on the link above or here. Some information about the meeting is included below.  Speakers included the following:

Thomas Hales, University of Michigan, solver of the Kepler Conjecture, the oldest problem in discrete geometry;
Sean McLaughlin, who proved the Dodecahedral Conjecture. McLaughlin was an undergraduate student of Hales at Michigan when he proved this and earned the 1999 Morgan Prize for undergraduate research. The proof involves extensive computer algebra calculations, including some 2000 possible types of arrangements, 12 or 18 of which were too difficult for the computer and had to be done by hand. (see Frank Morgan’s Math Chat at http://www.maa.org/features/mathchat/mathchat_2_3_00.html)
Thomas Garrity, Williams College, whose research is in algebraic and differential geometry and in number theory

Chair of the conference was Frank Morgan,  Frank.Morgan@williams.edu.
 

• Fall 2001 Meeting, Bridgewater State College, November 16-17, 2001.  The Program Committee Chair was Karen Schroeder, Bentley College,  and the Local Arrangements Coordinator was Thomas Moore, Bridgewater State College.  The theme of thisyear's meeting was Recreational Mathematics.

 
• Spring 2001 Meeting, Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont , June 8-9, 2001.  The Program Chair was Sarah Mabrouk, Framingham State College, and the Local Arrangements Coordinator was Robert Poodiack, Norwich University.

 
• Fall 2000 Meeting, Providence College, November 17-18, 2000.  The program chairs for this meeting were Frank Ford, Providence College, and Ann Moskol, Rhode Island College.

• Spring 2000 Meeting, St. Paul's School, June 16-17, 2000.  The chair of the program committee was Lynne Durkin, Bentley College.

 
• Fall 1999 Meeting, Bradford College, November 19-20, 1999.  The main theme of the meeting was Applications of Mathematics in Biology and Environmental Science.  The chair of the program committee was William (Will) Stout, Salve Regina University.

• Spring 1999 Meeting, Colby College, June 11-12, 1999 .   The main theme of the meeting was  Mathematics Education.  The co-chairs of the program committee were Philip Blau and Sarah Mabrouk, Boston University.

• Fall 1998 Meeting at Western Connecticut State University, November 20-21, 1998.  The main theme of the meeting was Applied Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum.  The co-chairs of the Program Committee were Terri Bennett and Ross Gingrich, both of Southern Connecticut State University.

• Spring 1998 Meeting at Keene State College, June 5-6, 1998. The main theme of the meeting was The History of Mathematics, and the chair of the Program Committee was Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University.

• Fall 1997 Meeting at Western New England College, November 21-22, 1997.   The theme of the meeting was Discovering Mathematics, and the chair of the Program Committee was Edward Burger, Williams College.

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