by
Amy McKenzie, Smith College.FALL 1997
The Fall Meeting of the Northeastern Section was held on November 21-22, 1997 at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. There were 179 in attendance, including 70 students.
Christie Lecture
Mathematics for Future Lawyers, Legislators and Business Leaders by Michael Starbird, The University of Texas at Austin.
NES/MAA Teaching Award Lecture
Real Estate in Hyperbolic Space - Investment Opportunities for the Next Millennium by Mel Slugbate, Real Estate Agent (substituting for his brother-in-law Colin Adams, Williams College).
Faculty Workshop
Discovering Mathematics for the Multitudes by Michael Starbird, The University of Texas at Austin.
Student Workshop
Balloons and Bagels - A Hands-on Exploration of Surfaces by Helen Moore, Bowdoin College.
Invited Presentations
Finite Orbits: The Dynamics of Polynomial Maps and Undergraduate Research by Greg Call, Amherst College.
Mathematics on the Web: Looking Back and Looking Forward by Davide Cervone, Union College.
A Room in Perspective: A Mathematician's Reflections from the President's Office by Neil Grabois, President, Colgate College.
Discovering Minimal Surfaces by Helen Moore, Bowdoin College.
Recent Results in the Mathematics of Political Power by Bill Zwicker, Union College.
Williams Summer Science Program - Not with a Whisper but a Bang by Olga Beaver, Williams College.
Some New Results on p-adic Local Zeta Functions Discovered by Undergraduates by Margaret Robinson, Williams College.
On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever by David Daniels, Longmeadow High School.
Panel Discussion
Implementing the MAA Report on Quantitative Literacy: What Works and What Doesn't chaired by Judith Moran, Trinity College.
New Faculty Presentations
Irrational Numbers, Continued Fractions, and Irrationality Degree by Eileen Lee, Trinity College.
Groups in Geometry by Megan Kerr, Wellesley College.
The Open Box and Field-Along-a-River Problems by Jean McGivney-Burelle, Southern Connecticut State University.
On Edge-Magic Labeling of Graphs by Lisa Hansen, Western New England College.
Contributed Papers
On the Dimension of a Variety Defined by Generalized Fibonacci Polynomials by Jeffrey Hall, University of New Hampshire College.
Curvature and Ahlfors-Schwarz Lemmas by Joe Allen, Rhode Island College.
An Interesting Series from Euler, and a Faulty Proof to Go With It by Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University.
How to Become a Math Activist by Robert Gray, Framingham MA.
Miracles and Mathematical Biology: The Case of the White Buffalo by Julian F. Fleron and Donald Hoagland, Westfield State College.
Mathematics in the News by Domenico Rosa, Teiko Post University.
Getting Mathematics Students to Read a Math Text by Sandra L. Rhoades, Keene State College.
A Virtue of Playing Games by David L. Finn, Merrimack College.
Student Paper Session I: Number Theory
Zeck and Lekk's Excellent Adventure by Kariane Calta, Williams College.
Pictures and the Period of 1/p by Rafe Jones, Amherst College.
Mountains and Parentheses: An Introduction to the Catalan Numbers by Cathy Leigh, Wellesley College.
An Anonymous Group-Member Authentication Scheme by Rob Pelkey, Bates College.
Pythagorean Triples by Juan O. Lopez and James R. Monroe, Western New England College.
Student Paper Session II: Algebraic Number Theory
Bounding the
Number of Rational Pre-Periodic Points of Functions of the Form
by
Amy McKenzie, Smith College.
Preperiodic Points and Heights by Mirela Ciperjani, Smith College.
Counting Lattice Points by Dan Golosovker, Amherst College.
Exploring Heights on Elliptic Curves by Ben Brubaker, Amherst College.
Computing Circle Pairings on Families of Elliptic Curves by Spencer Hamblen, Amherst College.
Student Paper Session III: Geometry
Non-edge-to-edge Uniform Tilings by Margaret Hjalmarson, Mount Holyoke College.
Getting Around in Hyperbolic Geometry by Mariana T. Quina, Wellesley College.
I Was a Boy Scout Knot Fiend by Mark Rothlisberger, Williams College.
An Introduction to the Weird World of Douglas Hofstadler's Euclidual Geometry by Stephen Howard, Bennington College.
Archimedes' Elegant Determination of Circular Area by John Gaspar, Bowdoin College.
Student Paper Session IV: Geometrical Analysis
Immiscible Fluids Like High School Cliques by Sang Park, Williams College.
Complex Numbers and the Mandelbrot Set by Owen Cunningham, Manchester Community College.
A Power Weakly Mixing Infinite Transformation by Earle McCartney, Williams College.
Drawing Snow Flakes with Imaginary Numbers by Kamille Richards, Williams College.
Student Paper Session V: Graph Theory and Combinatorics
When Are Things Nice? A Look at Hamiltonian Cycles in Outerfacial Graph Drawings by Tristan Smith, Williams College.
A Survey of Algorithms for Approximately Solving the Traveling Salesperson Problem by Steven Deitz, Bowdoin College.
Combinatorial Problem Solving by Emily Dryden, Bowdoin College.
Game Theory: The Game of Hex by Alex Boisvert, Bowdoin College.
Student Paper Session VI: Differential Equations
The Clock Maker's Dilemma by Ane Coughlin, Bates College.
Mathematical Models for Harvesting in the Fishing Industry by Robert Gorsey, Framingham State College.
Systems of Non-linear Differential Equations for the First Day of Calculus I by Dan Fox, Hampshire College.
Student Paper Session VII: Applied Mathematics, Teaching and Computer Science
Introduction to Coding Theory by Marina Corman, Keene State College.
Thinking about Teaching Math? Come to this Talk! by Zachery Grossman, Williams College.
The Mathematics of Different Voting Systems by Richard Hanes, Williams College.
A Computer Program that Generates Language Parsers by Luke Barron, Roger Williams College.