by
Soudabeh Valicenti, University of Rhode Island.SPRING 1997
The Spring Meeting of the Northeastern Section was held on June 6-7, 1997 at Merrimack College. There were 87 in attendance, including 17 students.
Workshops
Math/Internet Workshop by Premjit Singh, Johnson & Wales University.
Invited Talks
Mathematics for the 21st Century by Sheldon Gordon, Suffolk Community College.
Challenges and Opportunities for a New Century by James R.C. Leitzel, University of New Hampshire.
Take a Walk on the Boardwalk by Steve Abbott, Middlebury College.
Calculus Reform: Where We've Been, Where We're Going by Steven Benson, University of New Hampshire.
Future Colleague Talks
Young Diagrams and Representation Theory by Upendra Kulkarni, Brandeis University.
Aperiodic Tilings as Windows on Higher Dimensions by Dave Molnar, University of Connecticut.
Independence and Dimension: A Harmonic Analytic Point of View by Jay Caggiano, University of Connecticut.
Mountain Passes and Water Waves by Sharon Hill, University of Connecticut.
Parallel Implementation of the Preconditioned Bi-Conjugate Gradient Method Applied to the Hermite Collocation Disctretization of Partial Differential Equations by Stephen H. Brill, University of Vermont.
The Dynamics of
the Difference Equation:
by
Soudabeh Valicenti, University of Rhode Island.
A Mathematical Stew: Linear Transformations on Vector Spaces of Analytic Functions by Neil Portnoy, University of New Hampshire.
Properties of
Lyness' Equation:
and
Some Extensions by Jeff Feuer, University of Rhode Island.
Student Paper Session
Constructing Ulam's Spiral by Matthew Carreiro, Providence College.
Borromean Rings by Erik Erhardt, Franklin Pierce College.
Height Theory and its Application to Polynomial Dynamics by Dan Golosovker, Amherst College.
Using Heights to Bound the Number of Pre-periodic Points for Cubic Polynomials by Ben Brubaker, Amherst College.
Sidney Product Sequences by Elizabeth Ramos, Providence College.
Contributed Papers
Attitudes Towards Mathematics and Predictors of College Mathematics Grades: Gender Differences in a Four-Year Business College by Patricia Odell and Phyllis Schumaker, Bryant College.
Creative Optimization Projects for General Education Calculus by Sarah L. Mabrouk, Boston University.
A Graphical Approach to the Concepts in Optimization by Sarah L. Mabrouk, Boston University.
How I (Finally) Got Students to Read Their Calculus Books by Tommy Ratliff, Wheaton College.
NCTM 2000 by John Goulet, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Advanced Placement Calculus and Advanced Placement Statistics Curriculum Development Updated by Po Kee Wong and Adam Wong, Systems Research Company.