9:00 a.m. An Introduction to the Valuation Theory of Financial Options: From the Black-Scholes Formula to Trading Implied Volatility Surfaces Marco Avellaneda*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Quantitative Methods for Portfolio Management Steven Shreve*, Carnegie Mellon University
1:30 p.m. Modeling the Term Structure of Interest Rates David Heath*, Cornell University
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Estimation of Continuous-Time Models in Finance from Discretely Observed Data Yacine Ait-Sahalia*, The University of Chicago
8:00 a.m. Down the Slippery Slope - Getting Involved in Pre-college Education Philip Wagreich*,
(918-96-663)
8:30 a.m. The Math Circle Ellen F Kaplan, Commonwealth School
Robert L. Kaplan*, Harvard University
(918-97-598)
9:00 a.m. Mathematics and Education Reform Improving the Quality of Mathematics Education in California The California Mathematics Project Nicholas A. Branca*, San Diego State University
(918-98-621)
9:30 a.m. Involving the Lay Community in Their Children's Mathematics Education: A Fifteen-Year Perspective Virginia Helen Thompson*, University of California at Berkeley
(918-96-675)
10:00 a.m. A Course on Using Technology to Teach Geometry Heidi Burgiel*, The Geometry Center
(918-98-192)
10:30 a.m. How Geometry Course Can Be Improved By New Information Technology Moisey Guysinsky, Penn State University
Svetlana Katok, Penn State University
Serge Khanvin, Moscow State University
Anatoli Kouchnirenko*, Penn State University
(918-98-1318)
8:00 a.m. Error Distribution for the Euler Method in SDEs. Philip E. Protter*, Purdue University
Jean Jacod, University of Paris VI
(918-60-1011)
8:45 a.m. Asymptotic equivalence of statistical experiments for stochastic PDE's. Marianne Huebner*, Michigan State University
(918-60-534)
9:40 a.m. Particle representations for measure-valued models in population genetics Peter Donnelly, Oxford University
Thomas G. Kurtz*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
(918-60-1136)
10:35 a.m. Filtering from observations with L\'{e}vy noise Hyungsok Ahn*, University of California Santa Barabara
Raisa E Feldman, University of California Santa Barbara
(918-60-1030)
8:00 a.m. Canonical Ramsey Numbers Paul R Komarek*, Western Washington University
(918-05-662)
8:30 a.m. The Sum of All Distances in a Random Graph Robert R. Schneck*, Duke University
Jessica Soon-Hae Sidman, Scripps College
Ian G. Taylor, Carleton College
(918-05-114)
9:00 a.m. Properties of Regular Strictly Bi--Transitive Graphs Karen S Potanka*, Virginia Tech
(918-05-756)
9:30 a.m. Symmetry breaking in circulant graphs. Moon Duchin*, Harvard University
Robert R. Schneck, Duke University
(918-05-116)
10:00 a.m. The Characteristic Polynomial for Some Classes of Antimatroids Elizabeth W. McMahon, Lafayette College
Beth A. Olszewski*, University of Scranton
Jessica A. Wolfson, Lafayette College
(918-05-993)
10:30 a.m. Orlik-Solomon Algebras and Tutte Polynomials Carrie J. Eschenbrenner*, Elmhurst College
(918-05-504)
8:00 a.m. On modeling nonlinear dispersive long waves Theodore Y. Wu*, California Inst. of Technology
(918-76-1175)
9:00 a.m. The forced KdV equation: passage through resonance and sediment resuspension Larry G. Redekopp*,
(918-35-814)
9:30 a.m. Reflected waves in an inhomogeneous nerve axon John Rinzel*, Math Research
Bard Ermentrout,
(918-35-535)
10:00 a.m. Critical Dispersive Phenomena in Nonlinear Particle Chains Anne-Marie Filip, Duke University
Stephanos Venakides*, Duke University
(918-70-947)
10:30 a.m. Renormalization of the Toda $\tau$-Function and The Toda Shock Problem Michael A McDonald*, Occidental College
Stephanos Venakides, Duke University
(918-35-581)
8:00 a.m. On Dyadically Generated Curves Frank D. Lesley*,
(918-30-153)
8:30 a.m. New results on domains with non-compact automorphism group Steven G. Krantz*, Washington University
(918-32-300)
9:00 a.m. Verification of D.A. Brannan's conjecture for the seventh coefficient Roger W. Barnard*, Texas Tech University
Kent Pearce, Texas Tech University
William Wheeler, Texas Tech University
(918-30-287)
9:30 a.m. The Disc Theorem John Erik Fornaess*, University of Michigan
(918-32-417)
10:00 a.m. The size of the set on which a univalent function is large. Albert Baernstein, II*, Washington University, St.Louis, MO 63130
(918-30-257)
10:30 a.m. Embeddability for three dimensional CR manifolds John S Bland*, University of Toronto
(918-32-342)
8:00 a.m. On the decomposition of graphs into cliques Gregory F. Bachelis*, Wayne State University
Xiang-Ying Su, University of Southern Mississippi
(918-05-1184)
8:15 a.m. Maximizing the number of 3-cycles in oriented graphs Lowell Beineke*, Indiana University-Purdue University
Frank Harary, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
(918-05-707)
8:30 a.m. A Lower Bound on the Number of Functions Satisfying the Strict Avalanche Criterion Daniel K. Biss*, Harvard University
(918-05-885)
8:45 a.m. A note on the growth rate of planar graphs Neal Brand*, University of North Texas
Margaret Morton, University of Auckland
(918-05-965)
9:00 a.m. Planetary Domination Numbers of Graphs Gary Chartrand*, Western Michigan University
Michael A Henning, University of Natal
Kelly Schultz, Western Michigan University
(918-05-1033)
9:15 a.m. On Rectangle Visibility Graphs I. $k$-Trees and Caterpillar Forests Prosenjit Bose,
Alice M Dean*,
Joan P Hutchinson,
Thomas Shermer,
(918-05-990)
9:30 a.m. Bounds on Degrees of Freedom of Graphs via Ear Decomposition D. S. Franzblau*, CUNY/Coll. of Staten Island
(918-05-1350)
9:45 a.m. Near-Automorphisms of Graphs Heather Gavlas*, Grand Valley State University
(918-05-394)
10:00 a.m. On enumerating one-factors of the $n$-cube. John C. George*, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
(918-05-998)
10:15 a.m. Competition Graphs of Hamiltonian Digraphs David R. Guichard*, Whitman College
(918-05-611)
10:30 a.m. All-Sums Sets in (0,1] -- Category and Measure. Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University
Neil Hindman*, Howard University
Benjamin Weiss, Hebrew University
(918-05-651)
10:45 a.m. Arithmetic Properties of Generalized Euler Numbers Bruce E Sagan, Michigan State University
Ping Zhang*, Western Michigan University
(918-05-1031)
8:00 a.m. The n-dimensional H\"older inequality and minimal projections Bruce L. Chalmers*, University of Claifornia, Riverside
(918-46-1519)
8:15 a.m. Projections, multicriteria optimization and best approximation Alexis Bacopoulos*, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
(918-46-1517)
8:30 a.m. Orbits and spectral properties of linear operators Elias Flytzanis*, Economic University of Athens, Greece
(918-46-1516)
8:45 a.m. Reciprocal Dunford-Pettis sets in Banach spaces Elizabeth M. Bator*, University of North Texas, Denton
Paul W. Lewis, University of North Texas, Denton
(918-46-1145)
9:00 a.m. Relating Strictly Singular and Strictly Cosingular Operators to the Condition $X Theresa L. Friedman*, Lehigh University
(918-46-1359)
9:15 a.m. Hall's transform for infinite dimensional groups Maria Gordina*, Cornell University
(918-46-1426)
9:30 a.m. Differentiating Vector Measures G. Beate Zimmer*, College of William and Mary
(918-46-962)
9:45 a.m. Concerning the Bourgain $\bf{\ell_1}$ index of a Banach space. Robert P Judd*, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Edward Odell, Univ. of Texas at Austin
(918-46-1159)
10:00 a.m. Crossed Products by Dual Coactions of Groups and Homogeneous Spaces Siegfried Echterhoff, Universit\"at-Gesamthochschule Paderborn
S. Kaliszewski*, University of Newcastle
Iain Raeburn, University of Newcastle
(918-46-236)
10:15 a.m. s-Numbers of diagonal operators and Bernstein's "Lethargy" theorem Asuman Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College
Grzegorz Lewicki*, Jagiellonian University
(918-46-930)
10:30 a.m. The Range of a Representing Measure Paul Lewis*, University of North Texas
James Ochoa, University of Montevallo
(918-46-1064)
10:45 a.m. Derivation Pairs of Operators on Algebras of Analytic Functions. N. R. Nandakumar*, Delaware State University
A. K. Gaur, Duquesne University
(918-46-1489)
8:00 a.m. Boundary Surfaces of Implicitly Defined Solids: Part II-- Graphical Output. Frederick Addison Adkins, IV*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705
(918-65-1486)
8:15 a.m. Implicit, Continuously Differentiable Runge-Kutta Formulas of Order Four and Five Saeed M Dubas*, UW - Milwaukee
(918-65-1067)
8:30 a.m. Particle Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Bubbles in Water Mark S Korlie*, Montclair State Univ.
Donald Greenspan, University of Texas at Arlington
(918-65-882)
8:45 a.m. On the approximation of strongly nonlinear boundary problems on undounded domains Michael D. Marcozzi*, U.S.Military Academy
C. Ara Pehlivanian, U.S.Military Academy
(918-65-472)
9:00 a.m. On the convergence in solving complex equations Yixun Shi*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
(918-65-465)
9:15 a.m. The problem of steady, incompressible, viscous flow between two infinite cylinders Nihal J. Siriwardana*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
(918-65-1109)
9:30 a.m. An Obrechkoff Numerical Integration Scheme For Linear ODEs Whose Functions Have Known Derivative. David P Stapleton*, University of Central Oklahoma
(918-65-1234)
9:45 a.m. Error estimates for solenoidal approximations to the non-stationary Stokes equations using the cell discretization algorithm. Howard S. Swann*, San Jose State University
(918-65-724)
10:00 a.m. On Halley Iteration Qingchuan Yao*, Michigan State University
(918-65-696)
10:15 a.m. Numerical methods for systems of two balance laws in one space dimension. Kamel M Al-Khaled, Jordan University of Science and Technology
Thomas S Shores*, University of Nebraska
(918-65-1388)
8:00 a.m. Continuity of the Kasparov Product and Quasidiagonality Claude L. Schochet*, Wayne State University
(918-19-456)
8:15 a.m. Using an Algorithm by Xia to Tackle Decision and Enumeration Problems Michelle A. Donalies, Hampton University
Bernd S. W. Schr\"oder*, Hampton University
(918-06-111)
8:30 a.m. Finite, Lattice Ordered Effect Algebras of Height Three Scott R. Sykes*, Amherst College
(918-06-729)
8:45 a.m. Learnability in the lattice of atomic formulas. Irene Tsapara*, University Of Illinois
Gyorgy Turan, Univ. of Illinois
(918-06-822)
9:00 a.m. On finitely-generated partial Boolean algebras Derek Alan Smith*, Princeton University
(918-08-1106)
9:15 a.m. Bases of Differentially Homogeneous Differential Polynomials. Georg M Reinhart*, Wellesley College
(918-12-1053)
9:30 a.m. Witt Rings of *-Fields Michele R McDonough*, University of Cincinnati
(918-12-161)
9:45 a.m. Fractal transfer matrices of N-dimensional Sierpinski Gaskets Hyun Suk Kim, Wonkwang University
Jin Bai Kim*, West Virginia University
(918-15-1534)
8:00 a.m. Critical Speed for the Avoindance of Blow-up in a Reactive-Diffusive Medium W. Edward Olmstead*, Northwestern University
(918-80-927)
8:15 a.m. Explosion in a Diffusive Strip Due to a Source with Local and Nonlocal Features Catherine A. Roberts*, Northern Arizona University
W. E. Olmstead, Northwestern University
(918-80-343)
8:30 a.m. Flow Fields For A Pumping Well With A Ring Source Dan Van Peursem*, Mathematics and Statistics Department, UNL
Glenn Ledder, Mathematics and Statistics Department, UNL
Vitaly Zlotnik, Geology Department, UNL
(918-86-596)
8:45 a.m. Perfect Competition in the Continuous Assignment Model Neil E Gretsky*, University of California, Riverside
Joseph M. Ostroy, Economics Department, University of California, Los Angeles
William R. Zame, Economics Department, University of California, Los Angeles
(918-90-1111)
9:00 a.m. Perron-Fr\"obenius Theory and the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Michael A. Jones*, USMA - West Point
(918-90-1019)
9:30 a.m. Colors and covers. Monique L. Pavel*, University of Paris
(918-68-10)
8:00 a.m. On Vinogradov's Constant in Goldbach's Ternary Problem Dmitrii Zinoviev*, Ohio State University
(918-11-1205)
8:15 a.m. A Complete Vinogradov 3-Primes Theorem Under the Riemann Hypothesis J.-M. DeSouillers,
G. Effinger*, Skidmore College
H. te Riele,
D. Zinoviev,
(918-11-1182)
8:30 a.m. Ducci processes of five tuples Anne Ludington Young*, Loyola College in Maryland
(918-11-207)
8:45 a.m. Characterizing Siegel Modular Forms Tamara B Veenstra*, Dartmouth College
(918-11-1013)
9:00 a.m. Euclidean Systems Stefan G Treatman*, Wabash College
(918-11-1107)
9:15 a.m. Function digraphs of quadratic maps modulo p. Christie L Gilbert,
Joseph D Kolesar,
Clifford A Reiter,
John D Storey*,
(918-11-468)
9:30 a.m. Some computations for Witt groups of hyperelliptic curves. Jonathan Shick*, Loyola University
(918-11-1397)
9:45 a.m. Classifying Pairs of Quadratic Forms over Arbitrary Fields David Leep, University of Kentucky
Laura Mann Schueller*, Whitman College
(918-11-1323)
10:00 a.m. Quadratic Forms Representing All Natural Numbers John H Conway, Princeton University
William A Schneeberger*, Princeton University
(918-11-640)
10:15 a.m. The Galois Number Thomas Palfrey*, Xavier University of Louisiana
(918-11-1130)
10:30 a.m. Class numbers of cyclotomic function fields: calculations and conjectures Joseph J. Palen*,
(918-11-380)
10:45 a.m. Trajectories of zeros of Epstein zeta functions Daniel J O'Leary*, Picker International, Inc.
(918-11-911)
8:00 a.m. Toric Calabi Yau Hypersurfaces and their Moduli Spaces Paula A Gunter*, Howard University
(918-14-1183)
8:15 a.m. Quadruple Covers of Algebraic Varieties David W. Hahn*, Hope College
(918-14-212)
8:30 a.m. On the Tangent Space at a $k$-point of {\rm Hilb}${}^n_X$ for an Algebraic Surface $X$. Mark E. Huibregtse*, Skidmore College
(918-14-1110)
8:45 a.m. Chern classes of Complex threefolds Hoil Kim*, TGRC Kyungpook Univ.
Mei-chu Chang, Univ. of California, Riverside
(918-14-370)
9:00 a.m. Commutative Algebras of Differential Operators with Matrix Coefficients Masato Kimura*, College of William and Mary
Motohico Mulase, UC Davis
(918-14-1017)
9:15 a.m. Infinitely near base conditions and integer polytopes James J Madden*, Louisiana State University
(918-14-900)
9:30 a.m. Degenerating Variations of Mixed Hodge Structure Christine Schwarz*, University of Massachusetts
(918-14-1355)
9:45 a.m. Testing Torsion Divisors for Symbolic Integration Emil Volcheck*, National Security Agency
(918-14-868)
10:00 a.m. The Gaussian-Wahl map for tetragonal curves James N. Brawner*, St. John's University
(918-14-1441)
10:15 a.m. Surfaces with a numerically degenerate higher secant variety. Michael Catalano-Johnson*, Swarthmore College
(918-14-266)
10:30 a.m. The Moduli of Flat G Connections over Riemann Surfaces Eugene Z. Xia*, University of Maryland at College Park
(918-14-1529)
8:05 a.m. Begin at the Beginning: Combining Euclid in Translation With a Conventional Text Mark S. Foskey*, Jacksonville University
(918-A1-602)
8:25 a.m. Back to the academic year 1851-2. Etienne Archinard*, College de Saussure, Geneva, Switzerland
(918-A1-432)
8:45 a.m. The use of Historical Numeration Systems in the South Dakota Native Americans Mathematics Enhancement Program A. S. Elkhader*, Northern State University
(918-A1-1421)
9:05 a.m. Using History to Provide Context Janet H. Barnett*,
(918-A1-665)
9:25 a.m. Euler's Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for n=3. Peter R. Flusser*, Kansas Wesleyan University
Charles B. Pierre, Clark Atlanta University
(918-A1-304)
9:45 a.m. Cauchy's Proof of the Power Rule: A Project for Real Analysis. Maureen T. Carroll*,
(918-A1-1102)
10:05 a.m. Using Original Sources to Teach the Logistic Equation: A Module Bonnie J. Shulman*, Bates College
(918-A1-326)
10:25 a.m. A non-traditional course in the history of mathematics Elizabeth Mayfield*, Hood College
(918-A1-474)
10:45 a.m. Pascal and the Problem of the Points Ruth Rebekka Struik*, University of Colorado, Boulder
(918-A1-968)
8:00 a.m. C++ Classes for Group Theoretical Computations Jeffrey W. Clark*, Elon College
(918-H1-599)
8:20 a.m. Finite Matrix Groups using MATLAB George B Mackiw*, Loyola College in Maryland
(918-H1-373)
8:40 a.m. Visualizing Games and Their Groups Using Interactive Texts John Pais*,
Richard Singer,
(918-H1-210)
9:00 a.m. On Driving Students to Abstraction Paul Fjelstad*,
(918-H1-213)
9:15 a.m. A Comparison of Student Attitudes Toward Abstract Algebra Julie M. Clark*, Emory & Henry College
Clare Hemenway, University of Wisconsin Marathon Center
Dennis St. John, Central Michigan University
Georgia Tolias, Purdue University Calumet
Roozbeh Vakil, Benedict College
(918-H1-294)
9:30 a.m. Ringing a Peal - an Aural Permutation Group Lucy Dechene*, Fitchburg State College
(918-H1-738)
9:45 a.m. A Classroom Activity on Permutations Matthew J. Haines*,
(918-H1-869)
10:00 a.m. Teaching Abstract Algebra with {\it ISETL}: An Instructor's View Robert S. Smith*, Miami University
(918-H1-505)
10:15 a.m. Student Explorations in Algebra Mysore Jagadish*, Barry University
(918-H1-1351)
10:30 a.m. Using Group Activities to Build a Foundation Steve Morics*, University of Redlands
(918-H1-1034)
10:45 a.m. Teaching Abstract Algebra Today Saunders Mac Lane*, The University of Chicago
(918-H1-1065)
2:15 p.m. Michigan Calculus: What we've done and where we go next Mort Brown*, University of Michigan
(918-I1-1277)
2:45 p.m. The Evaluation Process for Duke University's Project CALC Jack Bookman*, Duke University
(918-98-913)
3:15 p.m. The Role of Mathematical Knowledge in Teaching: What Do We Know And What Do We Need To Learn? Deborah Loewenberg Ball*, University of Michigan
(918-96-902)
3:45 p.m. Making Research in Mathematics Education relevant to Research Mathematicians David O Tall*, University of Warwick UK
(918-98-951)
4:15 p.m. School Mathematics in the United States: Report from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study. William H. Schmidt*, Michigan State University
(918-97-1488)
4:45 p.m. Viewing Eighth Graders' Opportunity to Learn: Results from U.S. TIMSS Population 2 John A. Dossey*,
(918-96-467)
5:15 p.m. Opportunities to Learn in 8th Grade Mathematics Classrooms in the Japan, Germany, and the United States: Content Comparisons Based on Videotaped Lessons. Alfred B. Manaster*, University of California, San Diego
(918-97-1273)
5:45 p.m. TIMSS: Policy, Practice, and K-12 Articulation Implications Daniel L. Goroff*,
Joan Ferrini-Mundy,
(918-97-1084)
2:15 p.m. Symmetry and Antisymmetry in Bracket Polynomials Neil L. White*, University of Florida
(918-13-725)
2:45 p.m. Preorders and Computational Semi-algebraic Geometry Victoria Powers*, Emory University
Claus Scheiderer, Universit\"at Regensburg
(918-14-558)
3:15 p.m. Hilbert's 16th Problem and a Combinatorial Construction of Viro Frederick J. Wicklin*, The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
Jesus A De Loera, the Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
(918-14-1410)
3:45 p.m. Computing Gr\"obner bases in Parallel Alyson A. Reeves*, Center for Computing Sciences/Institute for Defense Analyses
(918-14-156)
4:15 p.m. Calculating Galois Groups of Completely Reducible Differential Operators Elie Compoint,
Michael F. Singer*,
(918-12-521)
4:45 p.m. Homological methods in the theory of splines Henry Koewing Schenck*, Cornell University
Michael Stillman, Cornell University
(918-14-1551)
5:15 p.m. Enumerative geometry for real varieties Frank Sottile*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and The University of Toronto (on leave)
(918-14-330)
5:45 p.m. The group relaxation in integer programming and initial ideals of lattice ideals Serkan Hosten*,
Rekha R Thomas,
(918-52-880)
6:15 p.m. Grobner Bases, Rewrite Rules, and Matrix Expressions John J Wavrik*, University of California at San Diego
(918-68-585)
2:15 p.m. Waves in synaptically coupled neurons Bard Ermentrout*, University of Pittsburgh
(918-93-733)
2:45 p.m. Image Segmentation by Oscillator Networks DeLiang Wang*, The Ohio State University
David Terman, The Ohio State University
(918-92-142)
3:15 p.m. Partial synchronization in a network of neural oscillators David H. Terman*, Ohio State University
Euiwoo Lee, Soongsil University
(918-92-318)
3:45 p.m. The dynamics of fast spiking neurons with mutual inhibition Carson C Chow*,
(918-92-617)
4:15 p.m. A model of the crab gastric mill rhythm: the interaction between a slow and a fast oscillatory neuronal network Farzan Nadim*, Brandeis University
(918-92-1122)
2:15 p.m. Statistical models for financial volatility. Robert F Engle*, UCSD
(918-90-1331)
3:00 p.m. Options Pricing in Incomplete Markets: An Asymptotic Approach Per A. Mykland*, The University of Chicago
(918-60-903)
3:55 p.m. Filtering derivative security valuations from market prices. Robert J. Elliott*, University of Alberta
(918-90-834)
4:55 p.m. Finite Element and Difference Approximation of Some Parabolic and Elliptic Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Edward J. Allen*, Texas Tech University
Steven J. Novosel, Western Geophysical
Zhimin Zhang, Texas Tech University
(918-65-272)
5:05 p.m. A random field aquifer model Timothy R Ray*, Southeast Missouri State University
(918-60-1314)
5:15 p.m. BMO estimates of random polynomial chaos Niandi Xiang*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(918-60-165)
5:35 p.m. Tails in Harnesses Andre Toom*, University of the Incarnate Word
(918-60-338)
5:45 p.m. Implementation of a Two-Stage Stochastic Model for Carcinogenesis Thomas W. Polaski*, Winthrop University
Gary A. Tucker, Averett College
Julia S. Kimbell, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
(918-60-308)
5:55 p.m. A stochastic model of carcinogenesis and asymptotic distribution of tumor size at detection Leonid G. Hanin*, Wayne State University
(918-60-327)
2:15 p.m. An Elementary Approach to the Fine Structure of L. Sy D. Friedman*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(918-04-154)
2:45 p.m. Automatic continuity of group operations Slawomir Solecki*, University of California-Los Angeles
(918-04-850)
3:15 p.m. Two applications of model theory to the study of topological groups Greg Hjorth*, University of California, Los Angeles
(918-04-155)
3:45 p.m. Some combinatorial consequences of projective absoluteness. Joan Bagaria*, Universitat de Barcelona
(918-04-314)
4:15 p.m. Partition relations for triple James E Baumgartner*, Dartmouth College
(918-03-252)
4:45 p.m. Forcing closed unbounded subsets of $\omega_{2}$ Mack Stanley*, San Jose State
(918-04-1027)
5:15 p.m. A classification of small simply definable posets Jindrich Zapletal*, California Institute of Technology
(918-03-1057)
5:45 p.m. Cardinal sequences for superatomic Boolean algebras. Juan Carlos Mart\'{\i}nez*, Facultat de Matem\`atiques, Universitat de Barcelona
(918-04-734)
6:15 p.m. Applications of set theory to a question in dynamical systems A.R.D. Mathias*, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
(918-04-728)
2:15 p.m. On Voronoi Bases and minimal bases Jade P. Vinson*, Washington University in St. Louis
Shelly L. Harvey, California Polytechnic University
(918-52-516)
2:45 p.m. Train tracks and zipping sequences for pseudo-Anosov braids Robert D. Kleinberg*, Cornell University
(918-57-441)
3:15 p.m. Presentations of subgroups of Artin groups Jennifer Lynn Becker, Dickinson College
Matthew Eugene Horak, Northern Arizona University
Leonard Arthur VanWyk*, Hope College
(918-20-109)
3:45 p.m. Reflection Groups, Matroids, and Signed Graphs Lori Jean Fern, Eastern Nazarene College
Gary Peter Gordon, Lafayette College
Jason Paige Leasure*, SUNY Binghamton
Sharon Nichole Pronchik, Lafayette College
(918-20-285)
4:15 p.m. Computation of an upper bound for the diameter of the Cayley graph for R(2,5) Todd D. Mateer*, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University
(918-20-328)
4:45 p.m. Automatic Groups and Polygonal Amalgams Sean Spencer Grettum*, University of Redlands
Jennifer Jane Mandelson, Lafayette College
Philippa Mignon Rhodes, North Carolina A\&T State University
(918-20-251)
5:15 p.m. Distribution of Commutators Over the Derived Group Brian S Fisher*, Pomona College
(918-20-860)
5:45 p.m. Is Thompson's Group $F$ Amenable? Robert D. Kleinberg, Cornell University
Jeremy L. Bem*, Cornell University
(918-20-1112)
2:15 p.m. Algebraic and strong splittings of extensions of Banach algebras W. G. Bade*, University of California, Berkeley
H. G. Dales, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Z. A. Lykova, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
(918-46-241)
2:45 p.m. Finite-dimensional extensions of Banach algebras W. G. Bade, University of California, Berkeley
H. G. Dales*, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Z. A. Lykova, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
(918-46-242)
3:15 p.m. On global (homological) dimension of commutative Banach algebras. F. Ghahramani*, University of Manitoba
Yu V. Selivanov, Russian State University of Aviation Technology, Russia
(918-46-136)
3:45 p.m. On the dual Banach algebras of certain C*-submalgebras of VN(G). Anthony To-Ming Lau*, University of Alberta
(918-43-135)
4:15 p.m. Topological centres and weak sequential completeness. J. P. McClure*, University of Manitoba
(918-46-137)
4:45 p.m. Amenability and semisimplicity for second duals of quotients of the Fourier algebra A(G). Edmond E. Granirer*, University of British Columbia
(918-43-168)
5:15 p.m. An amenable, radical Banach algebra Volker Runde*, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany
(918-46-634)
5:45 p.m. Hermitian group algebras Theodore W. Palmer*, University of Oregon
(918-46-396)
2:15 p.m. Homoclinic Orbits via Lyapanov-Schmidt Methods for Near Integrable PDEs David W. McLaughlin*, New York University
Jalal Shatah, New York University
(918-35-1243)
3:15 p.m. Long internal waves of finite amplitude in two fluid systems Roberto Camassa*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wooyoung Choi, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(918-76-1173)
3:45 p.m. Forced evolution equations, bifurcation and stability Samuel S. Shen*, University of Alberta
(918-35-551)
4:15 p.m. Forced Lattice Vibrations Percy Deift, Courant Institute
Thomas Kriecherbauer*, Mathematisches Institut
Stephanos Venakides, Duke University
(918-70-1451)
4:45 p.m. Nonlinear instability of solitary waves of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation in three dimenstions. Yue Liu*, University of Texas at Austin
Jerry L Bona, University of Texas at Austin
(918-35-379)
5:15 p.m. Time decay for an Airy operator with potential Judith R. Miller*,
(918-35-1192)
2:15 p.m. Harmonic mappings related to Scherk's saddle-tower minimal surfaces Peter Duren*, Univ. of Michigan
William R. Thygerson,
(918-30-270)
2:45 p.m. Fatou-Bieberbach Domains Berit Stensones*, University of Michigan
(918-32-297)
3:15 p.m. In and out radii Paul M. Gauthier*, Universite de Montreal
(918-30-298)
3:45 p.m. A mass-density condition for the Bernstein-Markov inequality Thomas Bloom*, University of Toronto
(918-32-324)
4:15 p.m. The Density Property for Complex Manifolds Dror Varolin*, University of Wisconsin
(918-32-457)
4:45 p.m. Some results on sets of sampling and interpolation in Bergman spaces Alexander P. Schuster*, University of Michigan
(918-30-94)
5:15 p.m. On the dynamics of some diffeomorphisms of ${\Bbb C}^2$ near$\;$parabolic fixed points Dan Coman*, The University of Michigan
Marius Dabija, The University of Michigan
(918-32-250)
5:45 p.m. Distortion theorems for Bloch functions with branch points Ian Graham*, University of Toronto
David Minda, University of Cincinnati
(918-30-280)
2:15 p.m. Intermediate rings between a local domain and its completion William Heinzer*, Purdue University
Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska
(918-13-348)
2:45 p.m. The number of generators for an ideal and its dual in a numerical semigroup Kurt D. Herzinger*, West Texas A\&M University
(918-13-392)
3:15 p.m. A ``linear'' property of the integral closure of ideals and modules. Donatella Delfino*, University of Michigan
(918-13-961)
3:45 p.m. On the structure of complexes acyclic in grade 1 Alexandre B. Tchernev*,
(918-13-1108)
4:15 p.m. A Generalization of the Auslander-Nagata Purity Theorem Miriam Ruth Kantorovitz*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(918-13-503)
4:45 p.m. Vanishing of Tor over Gorenstein rings David A Jorgensen*, University of Texas
(918-13-752)
5:15 p.m. On the Cohen-Macaulayness of Blow-up Algebras Claudia Polini*, Michigan State University
(918-13-839)
5:40 p.m. One-dimensional semilocal rings with residue domains of prescribed cardinalities Chandni Shah*, Colgate University
(918-13-591)
2:15 p.m. A method to find conjugate $p$-harmonic tensors Shusen Ding*, University of Minnesota, Duluth
(918-30-238)
2:30 p.m. The Inner Mapping Radius of Harmonic Mappings of the Unit Disk Michael J. Dorff*, University of Kentucky
Ted Suffridge, University of Kentucky
(918-30-723)
2:45 p.m. Composition operators on Cauchy-Stieltjes transforms. Rita A. Hibschweiler*, University of New Hampshire
(918-30-43)
3:00 p.m. Twist points of a Jordan domain John Marafino*, James Madison University
(918-30-996)
3:15 p.m. Some maximal polynomials must be nonreal Michael J. Miller*, Le\,Moyne College
(918-30-453)
3:30 p.m. The Dirichlet problem on an annulus. Thomas Misseldine*, Idaho State University
(918-30-243)
3:45 p.m. Quasiconformally homogeneous compacta in the complex plane Paul MacManus, University of Edinburgh
Raimo Nakki, University of Jyvaskyla
Bruce Palka*, University of Texas at Austin
(918-30-384)
4:00 p.m. Prime Mappings Under the Hadamard Product John Randall Prather*, University of Kentucky
(918-30-760)
4:15 p.m. Some extremal Jacobians Jack Quine*, The Florida State Universtiy
Peter Liang Zhang,
(918-30-61)
4:30 p.m. Differentials and Periods on Supercurves Jeffrey M. Rabin*, U.C.S.D.
(918-30-613)
4:45 p.m. On representation of F(z) in multiply-connected domains (in the complex z-plane). David S. Tselnik*, Fargo, North Dakota
(918-30-162)
5:00 p.m. Existence and Uniqueness of Rectilinear Slit Maps Frederick Weening*, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
(918-30-494)
5:15 p.m. Distribution and multiplicity of values of functions of small growth Faruk Fouad Abi-Khuzam*, American University of Beirut
(918-30-907)
2:15 p.m. Wavelet sampling associated with fractional partial differential operators Peter A. McCoy*, U. S. Naval Academy
(918-35-199)
2:30 p.m. Fr\'echet domain derivatives and applications to inverse scattering problems Thomas S. Angell*, University of Delaware
Frank Hettlich, Universit\"at Erlangen-N\"urnberg
(918-35-1226)
2:45 p.m. Generalized Quasilinearization For Reaction-Diffusion Equations With fixed Moments of Impulse Zahia Drici*, Illinois Wesleyan University
(918-35-1254)
3:00 p.m. A semilinear wave equation with derivative of nonlinearity containing multiple eigenvalues of infinite multiplicity. Alfonso Castro*,
Jose F. Caicedo,
(918-35-815)
3:15 p.m. A nonlinar Fabes-Stroock result Ping-kan Ken Fok*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(918-35-309)
3:30 p.m. Weakly Nonlinear Instabilities of Exothermic Interfaces Laura K. Gross*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Victor Roytburd,
(918-35-1223)
3:45 p.m. A Report on Numerical Methods for an Inverse Boundary Value Problem Fred Gylys-Colwell*,
(918-35-1357)
4:00 p.m. Zeros of Solutions of $\Delta(u)+f(u)=0$ in the Supercritical Case. Michael A Karls*, Ball State University
(918-35-1356)
4:15 p.m. Nonzero solutions of a nonlinear elliptic system at resonance. Mario Zuluaga*, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota
(918-35-187)
4:30 p.m. Stokes flow around a bend Suheel A Khuri*, University of Houston-Downtown
(918-35-1328)
4:45 p.m. D'Alembert formulae and scattering theory for abstract higher order factored Cauchy problems Nikos Kodogianidis*, Saint Leo College
(918-35-637)
5:00 p.m. Riemann solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in several space dimensions James Glimm, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Herbert C. Kranzer*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
John Pinezich, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dechun Tan, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Folkert M. Tangerman, State University of New York at Stony Brook
(918-35-938)
5:15 p.m. The second Stekloff eigenvalue and energy dissipation inequaliteis for functionals with surface energy Robert Lipton*, Worcester Polytechnic Inst
(918-35-917)
5:30 p.m. Does Quenching For Degenerate Semilinear Parabolic Equations Occur At The Boundaries? Hon-hung Terence Liu*, Southeastern Louisiana University
C. Y. Chan, University of Southwestern Louisiana
(918-35-355)
5:45 p.m. Variational Characterization of Solutions to Elliptic Dirichlet Problems. John M Neuberger*, Mississippi State University
(918-35-1471)
2:15 p.m. (V)-subsets of injective tensor dual spaces. Paul W. Lewis, University of North TExas
James P. Ochoa*, University of Montevallo
(918-46-1010)
2:30 p.m. The Bernstein Operator From a Shape-Preserving Approach Michael P Prophet*, Murray State University
(918-46-739)
2:45 p.m. Shift operator K. Sundaresan, Cleveland State University
M. Rajagopalan*, Tennessee State University
(918-46-1432)
3:00 p.m. BSE Banach modules and bundles of Banach spaces D. A. Robbins*, Trinity College
(918-46-779)
3:15 p.m. Vector-valued generalizations of the Hahn-Banach Theorem Eric Schechter*, Vanderbilt University
(918-46-523)
2:15 p.m. A combinatorial problem involving monomial ideals. Todd G Will*, Davidson College
Heather Hulett,
(918-05-1370)
2:30 p.m. Orientable $k$-Step Twin Domination of Graphs Lisa M Holley*, Western Michigan University
(918-05-592)
2:45 p.m. On majority domination in graphs. Tara S Holm*,
(918-05-405)
3:00 p.m. Urn Sampling and a Majorization Inequality Kiran S Kedlaya*, Princeton University
(918-05-1349)
3:15 p.m. Small G-designs of all Indices Kimberly S Kirkpatrick*, Auburn University
Dean G Hoffman, Auburn University
(918-05-1073)
3:30 p.m. The edge-deleted center of a graph John Koker*, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Kevin McDougal, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Steven J. Winers, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
(918-05-196)
3:45 p.m. Symplectic structures on matroids using Pfaffian identities Joseph P. Kung*, University of North Texas
(918-05-301)
4:00 p.m. The edge-added eccentricity of vertices in a graph Kevin Mc Dougal*, Univesity of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
(918-05-974)
4:15 p.m. When does a set of orthogonal frequency hypercubes give an affine geometry? Ilene H. Morgan*, University of Missouri-Rolla
(918-05-1296)
4:30 p.m. Designs on Graphs Cheryl L Olsen*, University of Nebraska
(918-05-1322)
4:45 p.m. On the connectivity of graphs embedded in surfaces Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
Xiaoya Zha, Vanderbilt University
(918-05-1418)
5:00 p.m. A new proof of a formula of Richard Stanley James G. Propp*, MIT
(918-05-310)
5:15 p.m. Embedding Results for Partial Extended Triple Systems Michael E Raines*, Auburn University
(918-05-1074)
5:30 p.m. Some Results on Stratified Graphs Dionysios Kountanis, Western Michigan University
Yung-Ling Lai, Western Michigan University
Reza Rashidi, Western Michigan University
Farrokh Saba*, Western Michigan University
(918-05-1263)
5:45 p.m. Lower Bounds on the Independence Ratio of Some Simple Graphs with Forbidden Induced Complete Subgraphs Peter L Sandberg*, University of South Carolina
(918-05-706)
6:00 p.m. Molien series for complex reflection groups Scott Crass*,
Anne Shepler,
(918-05-63)
6:15 p.m. A Characterization of Ternary Oriented Matroids Jon Lee,
Matthew W Scobee*,
(918-05-991)
6:30 p.m. The boundaries of squeezed 3-balls and 4-balls are Hamiltonian Robert L. Hebble*, University of Kentucky
(918-05-1571)
2:15 p.m. The appolonius contact problem: Gergonne's construction. Jay P. Fillmore*, University of California, San Diego
Marco Paluszny, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
(918-51-89)
2:30 p.m. Venn Said it couldn't be done Peter Hamburger*, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
(918-51-170)
2:45 p.m. Ceva's and Steiner-Lehmus Theorem. Rahim G Karimpour*, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
(918-51-670)
3:00 p.m. Computer Animations of Conformal Embeddings of Riemann Surfaces into $R^3$ Paul R McCreary*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(918-51-1333)
3:15 p.m. Trace Equivalence in $SU(2,1)$ Hanna M Sandler*, American University
(918-51-1444)
3:30 p.m. Combinatorial Algebraic Methods for Symmetric Embedding of Triangulated Tori Heidi L Burgiel*, The Geometry Center
Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota
(918-52-715)
3:45 p.m. A Note on the Poincar\'e Polynomial of a Hyperplane Arrangement Stephen D. Szydlik*, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
(918-52-435)
4:00 p.m. Composition Operators with Multivalent Symbol Rebecca G. Wahl*, Purdue University
(918-47-978)
2:15 p.m. Relation between the representations of a monoid of Lie type and those of its unit group. Rixin Yan*,
(918-20-667)
2:30 p.m. Hyperbolic reflection groups, the Monster and the Bimonster Christopher S. Simons*, Princeton University
(918-20-336)
2:45 p.m. Commuting Operators and Class Functions Edgar N Reyes*, Southeastern Louisiana University
(918-20-864)
3:00 p.m. On Engelizers of Group Elements Patrick M. Ratchford*, Binghamton University
(918-20-550)
3:15 p.m. On an isomorphism problem for endomorphism near-rings Gary L Peterson*, James Madison University
(918-20-493)
3:30 p.m. The equivalence of virtual descending and ascending chain conditions for virtually solvable groups. Robin Brooks, Bates College
Charles Odenthal*, University of Toledo
(918-20-847)
3:45 p.m. On the conjugacy problem Seymour Lipschutz*, Temple University
Wujie Shi, Southwest Normaal University
(918-20-244)
4:00 p.m. Injectives in Categories of B-sheaves Thomas L LaFramboise*, Marietta College
(918-20-653)
4:15 p.m. Subgroups with the Character Restriction Property and Normal Complements Suzanne I Doree*, Augsburg College
(918-20-746)
4:30 p.m. The Semigroup of Binary Relations and Quasi Regularity Robert L Brandon*,
Darel W Hardy,
(918-20-382)
4:45 p.m. Exceptional Group Ring Automorphisms Peter Floodstrand Blanchard*, University of Alberta
(918-20-1213)
5:00 p.m. Parametric characterizations of toroidal maps and modular quotient groups Jean H Bevis*, AMS
(918-20-487)
5:15 p.m. Ulm Invariants and Normal $p$--subgroups of the Automorphism Group of an Abelian $p$--group Ross Peder Abraham*, University of Houston
(918-20-828)
5:30 p.m. On the near Frattini subgrops of residually finite amalgamated free products. II Mohammad K. Azarian*, University of Evansville
(918-20-144)
5:45 p.m. Hall Polynomials for Classical Groups F. Miller Maley*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
(918-20-22)
2:15 p.m. ATLAST Lesson Plans for Visualizing and Discovering Linear Algebra Steven J Leon*, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
(918-F1-1316)
2:35 p.m. Using MATLAB to Promote Visualization and Discovery of the Concepts of Span and Subspace Mary E Scherer*, University of Redlands
David P Nasby, Orange Coast College
Jeff W Neslen, Ursinus College
Paul R Patten, North Georgia College
Marcus J Saegrove, Viterbo College
(918-F1-1100)
2:55 p.m. A geometric introduction to the SVD Dan Kalman*, The Mathematical Association of America
(918-F1-1364)
3:15 p.m. The Magnification Factor, Geometrically David R. Hill*, Temple University
(918-F1-372)
3:35 p.m. Singular Value Decomposition as a Last Lecture for Linear Algebra Classes Richard H. Elderkin*, Pomona College
Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College
John F. Rossi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
(918-F1-1094)
3:55 p.m. The Inclusion of Writing Assignments and Technology in a Linear Algebra Course Jennifer M McNulty*, The University of Montana
(918-F1-1196)
4:15 p.m. A project of Geometric Visualization in Linear Algebra EnBing Lin*, University of Toledo
(918-F1-1081)
4:30 p.m. Using The Joy of Mathematica in Linear Algebra Alan Shuchat*, Wellesley College
Fred Shultz, Wellesley College
(918-F1-654)
4:45 p.m. Eigenshows using Mathematica Tilak A de Alwis*, Southeastern Louisiana University
(918-F1-867)
5:00 p.m. Matrix inverses and linear independence - making the mysterious obvious Patrick A. Rossi*,
(918-F1-1464)
5:15 p.m. When can (or should) we teach least squares? Richard N Barshinger, Penn State-Scranton
Caroline Haddad*, SUNY-Geneseo
(918-F1-944)
5:30 p.m. ``Tech'' Lesson Plans: Least Squares and the Normal Equations William C. Calhoun*, Kalamazoo College
(918-F1-813)
5:45 p.m. Least Squares Problems and Developing the Concept of Projection in Linear Algebra Course Mikhail M. Bouniaev*, Southern Utah University
(918-F1-520)
2:15 p.m. The Benefits of ``Out-of-Class" Testing and Retesting in Precalculus Mathematics Dianna Zook*, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Marilyn Reba, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
(918-N1-1367)
2:30 p.m. Making mathematics user friendly using graphing technology and real-world projects. Jane T. Upshaw*, University of South Carolina Beaufort
(918-N1-1134)
2:45 p.m. "Is this going to be on the test?" Assessing Students' Abilities to Solve In-Depth Problems Trisha A Bergthold*,
(918-N1-344)
3:00 p.m. Assessment and Student-Centered Active Learning G. Daniel Callon*,
(918-N1-1048)
3:15 p.m. Written Student Course Portfolios to Assess and Promote Student Learning P. Gavin LaRose*, Nebraska Wesleyan Univ.
(918-N1-1115)
3:30 p.m. Group Tests with Cooperative Learning. Nancy L. Hagelgans*, Ursinus College
(918-N1-1219)
3:45 p.m. Integrating writing into assessment: Projects, Portfolios, \& essays. Richard D. West*,
(918-N1-764)
4:00 p.m. Discussion
4:15 p.m. Creativity and Technology in Student Projects Vesna Kilibarda*, University of Alaska Southeast
(918-N1-660)
4:30 p.m. Student Management in the Calculus Classroom David O. Lomen*, University of Arizona
(918-N1-528)
4:45 p.m. New Directions in Student Assessment Virginia E. Stallings, American University
Carol A. Tascione*, Bellevue University
(918-N1-444)
5:00 p.m. A Professional Evaluation Model for Assessment Alan P. Knoerr*, Occidental College
(918-N1-1149)
5:15 p.m. Journals and a Reflective Portfolio Michael A McDonald*, Occidental College
(918-N1-525)
5:30 p.m. Creative Computer Based Assessment Methods Scott E. Inch*, Bloomsburg University
Helmut R. Doll, Bloomsburg University
(918-N1-1233)
7:30 a.m. Using Generic Initial Ideals to bound the degrees of surfaces not of general type in ${\bf P}^4$. Michele Cook*, Pomona College
(918-14-34)
8:00 a.m. Pencils of curves and $K(\pi,1)$ arrangements. Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
(918-57-395)
8:30 a.m. Picard lattices of families of K3 surfaces Sarah-Marie Belcastro*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(918-14-488)
9:00 a.m. Computing dimensions of complete linear systems in the plane. Rick Miranda*, Colorado State University
(918-14-730)
9:30 a.m. Elimination methods and torsion of symmetric algebras David Eisenbud*, Brandeis University
(918-14-939)
10:00 a.m. Trivializing Algebraic Vector Bundles over Affine Toric Varieties Reinhard C. Laubenbacher, New Mexico State University
Cynthia J. Woodburn*, Pittsburg State University
(918-14-112)
10:30 a.m. Applications of Computational Algebraic Geometry to Image Understanding and Machine Vision Peter F. Stiller*, Texas A&M University
(918-14-434)
11:00 a.m. Residues and Resultants Eduardo Cattani*, University of Massachusetts
Alicia Dickenstein, U. de Buenos Aires
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California
(918-14-997)
11:30 a.m. Completing the Cube Bruce Reznick*, University of Illinois
(918-14-827)
8:00 a.m. Redesigning the Calculus Sequence at a Research University Harvey Keynes*, University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
(918-98-1015)
8:30 a.m. Education issues discussed where they are most needed; the MER conference. Doris Y Chiang*, University of Minnesota
Robert J Hesse, University of Minnesota
(918-98-1463)
9:00 a.m. Conclusions and recommendations from the MER graduate student conference Michael S Keynes*, University of Washington
Michael S Ira, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
(918-98-1007)
9:30 a.m. Lessons from Project PROMPT about our role as Educators of Teachers Phyllis Z. Chinn*, Humboldt State Universtiy
Dale R. Oliver, Humboldt State University
(918-96-518)
10:00 a.m. Standards-based Curricula: Implications for Teacher Education Programs. Elizabeth A Phillips*, Michigan State University
(918-97-538)
10:30 a.m. To teach real mathematics, you had better know some Paul J. Sally, Jr.*, University of Chicago
(918-96-1399)
11:00 a.m. Establishing priorities in Mathematics programs for prospective elementary school teachers - agreements and differences of opinion emerging from collaborative relationships Rosamond Welchman*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
(918-96-963)
11:30 a.m. Building an Inclusive Advanced Placement Program Efraim P. Armendariz*, University of Texas at Austin
(918-97-430)
8:00 a.m. Supplementary methods for assessing student performance on a standardized test in elementary algebra. Barry M. Cherkas*, Hunter College (City University of New York)
Alvin Baranchik, Hunter College (City University of New York)
(918-98-643)
8:20 a.m. Student Difficulties in Introductory Statistics Melissa Mellissinos*, San Diego State University
(918-98-1246)
8:40 a.m. General Logic Actions And Development of Mathematical Thinking Mikhail M. Bouniaev*, Southern Utah University
(918-98-748)
9:00 a.m. The impact of computer-integration in a first-year calculus sequence James F. Hurley*, University of Connecticut
Uwe Koehn, University of Connecticut
(918-98-872)
9:20 a.m. History of One School's Study of the Impact of Changes in the Calculus Curriculum Barbara J. Pence, San Jose State Univ
Bem Cayco*, San Jose State Univ
(918-98-984)
9:40 a.m. A Study of Two Calculus Reform Projects and the Traditional Calculus Class Hortensia Soto-Johnson*, University of Southern Colorado
(918-98-1068)
10:00 a.m. Evaluating the effects of reform on student attitudes Richard D. West*, U.S. Military Academy
(918-98-767)
10:20 a.m. University Calculus Students' Conceptual Understanding of the Limit of a Function Jennifer Earles Szydlik*, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
(918-98-836)
10:40 a.m. Improving the Quality of Instruction in Calculus with Peer Learning Assistants Susan L Ganter*, National Science Foundation and Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(918-98-475)
11:00 a.m. A Compass Instrument for Mathematics Education Reform Brian A. Keller*, Iowa State University
(918-98-454)
11:20 a.m. Research on Teaching Calculus I: The Role of Writing and Cooperative Group Learning in Developing Conceptual Understanding Leslie Aspinwall*, Middle Tennessee State University
L Diane Miller, Middle Tennessee State University
(918-98-574)
11:40 a.m. Findings from a Research-Based Course Development Albert D. Otto*, Illinois State University
Cheryl A. Lubinski, Illinois State University
(918-98-683)
8:00 a.m. Silent but heterogeneous neurons when gap-junction coupled can oscillate collectively John Rinzel*, Math Research, NIH
Yair Manor,
Yosef Yarom,
Idan Segev,
(918-34-513)
8:30 a.m. Noise-enhanced dynamics in networks of neurons James J. Collins*,
Carson C Chow,
Thomas T Imhoff,
(918-92-679)
9:00 a.m. Interspike interval attractors and stochastic resonance in aperiodically driven neurons. Andr\'e Longtin*, Physics Department, University of Ottawa
(918-94-981)
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. A Kinetic Model of Synaptic Transmitter Release and Facilitation Richard Bertram*, Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College
(918-92-383)
11:00 a.m. Delayed Activation of Plateau Potentials in Bistable Motoneurons Victoria Booth*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(918-92-425)
11:30 a.m. A-current Modulation of Neuronal Excitability Maureen E Rush*,
(918-00-1076)
8:00 a.m. Scales in $L(\vec E, R)$ John R. Steel*, Department of Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley
(918-04-477)
8:30 a.m. The weak Dodd-Jensen property Itay Neeman*, Harvard University
John R Steel, University of California at Berkeley
(918-04-271)
9:00 a.m. Determinacy and sequences of sharp functions Derrick Albert DuBose*, University of Nevada
(918-04-1436)
9:30 a.m. Cardinal Invariants of Euclidean Space Juris Stepr\={a}ns*, York University
(918-03-490)
10:00 a.m. Cardinal Invariants of the Continuum Tomek Bartoszynski*, Boise State University and Freie Universitat
(918-04-716)
10:30 a.m. Non-saturation of the non-stationary ideal on $\cal P_{\kappa}\lambda$ Douglas R. Burke*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Yo Matsubara, Nagoya University
(918-04-1101)
11:00 a.m. Some pcf ideas applied to $P_\kappa\lambda$. Mirna D\v zamonja*, University of Wisconsin
(918-04-1420)
11:30 a.m. Weaksquareology James W. Cummings*,
(918-03-121)
12:00 p.m. Weak Box Principles and Reflection of Stationary Sets Menachem Magidor*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
(918-04-858)
8:00 a.m. Mauldin-Williams Graphs with Unique Dimension Johanna L. Miller*, Duke University
C. Ryan Vinroot, North Carolina State University
John Richard Stoughton, Hope College
(918-20-189)
8:30 a.m. Splitting numbers Jonathan Pillow*, University of Arizona
Jessica Soon-Hae Sidman, Scripps College
(918-60-115)
9:00 a.m. The Algebra and Geometry of Exceptional Lines Thomas M Wieand*, Boston University
Craig A. Grabowski, Canisius College
Thomas C. Cecil, University of Notre Dame
Kaj M. Gartz, Yale University
Albert Chau, Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.)
(918-14-216)
9:30 a.m. Permutations, Derangements, and Scrambling Numbers Barry A Balof*, The Colorado College
(918-05-1172)
10:00 a.m. Experimental Results on Weight Distributions of Certain Generalized Codes Laura L Johnson*, University of Virginia
Martin C Olsson, Harvard College
(918-11-1283)
10:30 a.m. In Search of Stability: Stable Matchings and Linear Inequalities Brian Aldershof, Lafayette College
Olivia M. Carducci, Lafayette College
David Christian Lorenc*, Lafayette College
(918-90-945)
11:00 a.m. Finding examples of the dynamical behavior of low-degree rational functions Joshua D. Levy*, Hope College
(918-30-600)
11:30 a.m. Solving the Dirichlet Problem with Rational Functions Ronald A. Walker*,
(918-43-416)
8:00 a.m. Banach algebras generated by $N$ idempotents and applications Albrecht B\"ottcher, TU Chemnitz-Zwickau
Israel Gohberg, Tel Aviv University
Yuri Ivanovich Karlovich, TU Chemnitz-Zwickau
Naum Krupnik, Bar-Ilan University
Steffen Roch, Universit\"at Leipzig
Bernd Silbermann, TU Chemnitz-Zwickau
Ilya Matvey Spitkovsky*, The College of William and Mary
(918-47-233)
8:30 a.m. Closed ideals in Zygmund algebras. Leonid Hanin*, Wayne State University
(918-46-167)
9:00 a.m. Almost multiplicative functionals Krzysztof Jarosz*, Southern Illinois State University, Edwardsville
(918-46-1045)
9:30 a.m. Convergence factors in weighted convolution algebras on R+. Fereidoun Ghahramani, University of Manitoba
Sandy Grabiner*, Pomona College
(918-43-227)
10:00 a.m. Endomorphisms of Banach algebras of infinitely differentiable functions Herbert Kamowitz*, University of Massachusetts
(918-46-239)
10:30 a.m. Multipliers which are also Riesz operators K. B. Laursen*, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
(918-46-628)
11:00 a.m. Automatic continuity for Banach algebras of vector-valued functions Michael M. Neumann, Mississippi State University
M. Victoria Velasco*, Universidad e Granada
(918-46-633)
11:30 a.m. Derivations on a radical Banach algebra with identity adjoined. Marc P. Thomas*, California State University
(918-46-202)
8:00 a.m. The Long-Time Asymptotic Analysis for Integrable Nonlinear Wave Equations Alexander Its*, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.
(918-35-1072)
8:30 a.m. Analysis of Soliton Cellular Automata Junkichi Satsuma*, Univ. of Tokyo
(918-35-1405)
9:00 a.m. On the solutions of singularly perturbed K-dV equations Shu-Ming Sun*,
(918-76-618)
9:30 a.m. Wave Interactions in Self-Similar Two-Dimensional Flows Suncica Canic*, Iowa State University
Barbara Keyfitz,
(918-35-731)
10:00 a.m. Controllability of a beam in an incompressible inuiscid fluid Scott Hansen*, Iowa State University
Andrei Lyashenko, University of Illinois-Chicago
(918-93-775)
10:30 a.m. Non-classical shock waves in an elastodynamics model Brian T Hayes*, Duke University
Philippe G LeFloch, Ecole Polytechnique
(918-35-758)
11:00 a.m. Four-wave mixing in Wavelength-division multiplexed soliton systems Mark J Ablowitz, University of Colorado
Gino Biondini*, University of Colorado
(918-35-1496)
11:30 a.m. Type-insensitive Solutions of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic Equations and Their Applications to Nonlinear Problems C. K. Chu*, Columbia University
(918-35-1232)
8:00 a.m. Two-point distortion theorems for strongly close-to-convex functions William M. Ma*, Integrated Studies Division, Penn College of Technology
David Minda, University of Cincinnati
(918-30-317)
8:30 a.m. Finitely generated submodules of the Hardy Space Timothy L. Lance, SUNY at Albany
Michael I. Stessin*, SUNY at Albany
(918-30-288)
9:00 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Distortion of Locally Biholomorphic Maps of the n-Ball John A Pfaltzgraff*, University of North Carolina
(918-32-127)
10:30 a.m. Linear invariance, order and convex maps in $\bf C^n$. John A. Pfaltzgraff, University of North Carolina
Ted J. Suffridge*, University of Kentucky
(918-32-151)
11:00 a.m. On The Behaviour of Holomorphic Curves in Fano and Calabi-Yau Manifolds Steven Shin-Yi Lu*, University of Waterloo
Gregery T Buzzard, Indiana University
(918-32-410)
11:30 a.m. The Schwarzian derivative in several variables Sheng Gong*, Academia Sinica
(918-32-713)
8:00 a.m. Invariants of the additive group in positive characteristic Robert M Fossum*, Institute for Algebraic Meditation
(918-20-976)
8:30 a.m. Cohomological Degrees of Graded Modules Tor Gunston*, Rutgers University
(918-13-201)
9:00 a.m. Small cofinite irreducibles Leif Melkersson*, University of Lund
(918-13-421)
9:30 a.m. Local to Global Similarity for Homomorphisms. Kim Schneider*, Colorado State University
Frank De Meyer, Colorado State University
Rick Miranda, Colorado State University
(918-13-53)
10:00 a.m. On the number of generators of the torsion module of differentials. Ruth I Michler*, University of North Texas
(918-13-524)
10:30 a.m. Hilbert's Theorem 90 BaoPing Jia*, Maryville University of Saint Louis
(918-13-1046)
11:00 a.m. Value functions, Skolem properties, and divisorial ideals Paul-Jean Cahen, Faculte des Sciences de Saint Jerome
Jean-Luc Chabert, 76 Rue Charlotte, Paris, France
Evan G. Houston*, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Thomas G. Lucas, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
(918-13-1174)
11:30 a.m. Pr\"ufer v-multiplication rings and the ring of finite fractions Thomas C. Lucas*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(918-13-949)
12:00 p.m. On Finite Conductor Rings. Sarah Glaz*, The University of Connecticut
(918-13-1305)
8:00 a.m. Numerical pricing of exotic FX options with stochastic interest rates Michael D. Marcozzi, U. S.Military Academy
C. Ara Pehlivanian*, U. S. Military Academy
(918-90-471)
8:30 a.m. Modular Multiplication and Reduction: Four Methods In Theory And Practice Marcia B Black*, Department of Defense
(918-11-1119)
9:00 a.m. An Example of Mathematics in Industry: Hybrid Systems at Sagent Corporation Dan W. Singer*, Sagent Corporation
(918-00-149)
9:30 a.m. Monte Carlo Time Francis Sullivan*, IDA/Center for Computing Sciences
(918-60-427)
10:00 a.m. An illustration of hyperelliptic real multiplication Harvey Cohn*, Center for Computing Sciences,
(918-11-635)
10:30 a.m. Information security, Key Management, Anopublic Key Cryptography Jerome A. Solinas*, National Security Agency
(918-11-1387)
11:00 a.m. Mathematical Techniques in Cryptanalysis Matt Robshaw*, RSA Laboratories
(918-99-1353)
11:30 a.m. The La Jolla Covering Repository Daniel M. Gordon*, IDA Center for Communications Research
(918-05-172)
8:00 a.m. $C^*$ Algebras and Positive Scalar Curvature Paul Baum*, The Pennsylvania State University
(918-58-1272)
8:30 a.m. Homology of pseudodifferential operators I. Manifolds with boundary Richard B. Melrose, MIT
Victor Nistor*, Pennsylvania State University
(918-58-365)
9:00 a.m. Operations on cyclic homology, the X complex, and a conjecture of Deligne Masoud Khalkhali*, University of Western Ontario, London ON
(918-19-1482)
9:30 a.m. On the cohomology ring of an algebra Boris L. Tsygan*, Penn State University
(918-51-1458)
10:00 a.m. Fredholm index theory for certain Toeplitz algebras Xinhui Jiang*, The Fields Institute
(918-46-1456)
10:30 a.m. More about noncommutative surfaces Toshikazu Natsume*, Ritsumeikan University
Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen
(918-46-1398)
11:00 a.m. $E$-Theory, Quantization and Elliptic Operators Erik Guentner*, Dartmouth College
(918-58-1474)
8:00 a.m. Unified control system on time scale Seenith Siva sundaram*, Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ
G. Rosa, J-S Rayon,Tashkent, Russia
(918-34-931)
8:15 a.m. Equiasymptotic stability for functional differential equations Zhivko S. Athanassov*, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
(918-34-1520)
8:30 a.m. Uniform Bifurcation of Multiple Pulse Traveling Waves Daryl C. Bell*, University of Nebraska in Lincoln
(918-34-720)
8:45 a.m. Turbulent boundary layer, an analytical solution of the non linear differential equation for the flat plate Leonard D'Attore*, Dana Point, California
(918-34-1483)
9:00 a.m. Oscillatory Theorems of Higher Order Neutral Type Differential and Difference Equations R.S. Dahiya*, Iowa State University
(918-34-375)
9:15 a.m. Positive Solution of a Class of Higher Order Ordinary Differential Equations Fengchun Fang*,
(918-34-1461)
9:30 a.m. Computer assisted investigation of Wiener's differential equation. Elizandro Flores, Univ. of Texas-Pan American
Eric J Garcia*, Univ. of Texas-Pan American
Juan Ibarra, Univ. of Texas-Pan American
(918-34-783)
9:45 a.m. Positive Solutions of Boundary Value Problems for Ordinary Differential Equations with Impulse Johnny L. Henderson*, Auburn University
(918-34-118)
10:00 a.m. Asymptotic diagonalization of a linear ordinary system Po-Fang Hsieh*, Western Michigan University
Feipeng Xie, Blue Cross and Blue Shield
(918-34-198)
10:15 a.m. Localized Solutions of a Semilinear Equation in ${\Bbb R}^{N}.$ Joseph A. Iaia*, Univ. of North Texas
(918-34-276)
10:30 a.m. Nonlinear Analysis of Yellowstone's Plume Geyser Julie Knowles Raye*, University of New Hampshire
Kevin M. Short, University of New Hampshire
(918-34-55)
8:00 a.m. Convective linear stability of solitary waves for Boussinesq equations Robert L Pego*,
Michael I Weinstein,
(918-35-676)
8:15 a.m. Inverse Scattering by an Elastic Inclusion George Pelekanos*, University of Delaware
(918-35-1237)
8:30 a.m. The Dirichlet Problem for m-Harmonic Funcions on the Annulus Dorin Ghisa*, York University, Canada
(918-35-80)
8:45 a.m. An Inverse Boundary Value Problem in Linear Elasticity Robert L. Robertson*, Texas A&M International University
(918-35-685)
9:00 a.m. Invariant Boundary Conditions for Generalized Burgers Equations Sanjay Rai, Texas A&M International University
Chelluri C.A. Sastri*, Dalhousie University
(918-35-1497)
9:15 a.m. Persistence of Invariant Manifolds for Nonlinear PDEs Steve Shkoller*, UCSD, IGPP-SIO
(918-35-809)
9:30 a.m. Detection and Location Problems for Elastic Inhomogeneities John Tolle*, Carnegie Mellon University
(918-35-364)
9:45 a.m. Singularity formation in systems of non-strictly hyperbolic equations Vaidyanath Vinod*, Xavier University of Louisiana
(918-35-1481)
10:00 a.m. A Mathematical Model in Electrochemistry Rikki Bryanna Wagstrom*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(918-35-647)
10:15 a.m. Encapsulated Vortex Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equations: Stability Henry A. Warchall*, University of North Texas
Robert L. Pego, University of Maryland
(918-35-821)
10:30 a.m. Effects of Viscous Terms on Riemann Problem Solutions Jane H. Wenstrom*, Mississippi University for Women
(918-35-788)
10:45 a.m. Impulsive Effects On Global Existence of Solutions For Degenerate Semilinear Parabolic Equations Shuk-Yan I Yuen*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
C. Y. Chan, University of Southwestern Louisiana
(918-35-353)
11:00 a.m. A partial differential equation alternately of retarded and advanced type. Joseph Wiener, Mathematics Department
William H Heller*, Mathematics Department
(918-35-75)
11:15 a.m. Solitary and Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Nonintegrable Equations Natalia G. Berloff*, Florida State University
Louis N. Howard, Florida State University
(918-35-429)
8:00 a.m. Duality in biconvergence groups. Jamuna P. Ambasht*, Benedict College
(918-54-1274)
8:15 a.m. Probabilistic Metric Spaces and Sequential Convergence. Paul Brock*, San Diego State University
(918-54-1476)
8:30 a.m. Probabilistic convergence spaces and approach spaces Paul Brock, San Diego State University
D. C. Kent*, Washington State University
(918-54-1167)
8:45 a.m. Copies of $I = \cap {\hbox{cl}}_{\beta{\Bbb N}}({\Bbb N}2^n)$ in $\beta{\Bbb N}$. Dennis E. Davenport*, Miami University
(918-54-1290)
9:00 a.m. On G-Souslin diagonals and $S_\delta$-diagonals. G. R. Hiremath*, Talladega College
(918-54-138)
9:15 a.m. Incompressible Surfaces in Three Manifolds Hugh Nelson Howards*, UC San Diego
(918-54-1022)
9:30 a.m. Chain recurrence and proper criticality related to topological constructions. Margaret M. LaSalle*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
(918-54-96)
9:45 a.m. Boundary-Representable Solids in Space Chung N Lee*, Pohang University of Sci & Tech
(918-54-901)
10:00 a.m. A Brief History of {\rm monotone-light} Factorizations. Harriet M Lord*, Calif. State Polytechnic University, Pomona
(918-54-445)
10:15 a.m. Special dense subsets of ordered spaces David J. Lutzer*, College of William and Mary
(918-54-299)
10:30 a.m. Each p-Adic Solenoid Is Continuously Ray Extendible Clarke W Proctor*, Stephen F. Austin State Univ
(918-54-552)
10:45 a.m. Real compactifications and rings of continuous functions Lothar H. Redlin*,
(918-54-1202)
11:00 a.m. Structure spaces for rings of continuous functions Saleem Watson*, California State Univ.,Long Beach
(918-54-1135)
8:00 a.m. The Disjoint Disk Property for Manifold Stratified Spaces Aaron C Beshears*, Vanderbilt Univ
(918-57-1231)
8:15 a.m. Limits of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds Timothy D Comar*, St. Louis University
(918-57-291)
8:30 a.m. Injectivity Radius Bounds in Hyperbolic Convex Cores Carol E. Fan*, University of Michigan
(918-57-403)
8:45 a.m. The Double Conjecture Allan Edmonds, Indiana University at Bloomington
Lydia C Hadden*, Hope College
(918-57-1168)
9:00 a.m. A Relative Identity Property for a Pair of 2-Complexes Michael P Hitchman*, University of Oregon
(918-57-1190)
9:15 a.m. Finite-volume 4-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds that share a fundamental polyhedron Dubravko Ivan\v si\' c*, University of Oklahoma
(918-57-895)
9:30 a.m. Construction of Higher Dimensional Orbifolds. Robert Alphonse Johnson, Jr.*,
(918-57-546)
9:45 a.m. On Small Geometric Invariants of Three Manifolds. Paul J. Kapitza*, University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, Il. 61801
(918-57-1320)
10:00 a.m. Lower and Upper Bounds for Edge Number and Crossing Number for Piecewise-Linear Knots Monica A Meissen*,
(918-57-1040)
10:15 a.m. Crumpled Laminations and Manifolds of Nonfinite Type Robert J Daverman,
Frederick C Tinsley*,
(918-57-1259)
10:30 a.m. A Characterization of Higher Order Sobolev Spaces on Manifolds Chad H. Scott*,
Leonard R. Budney,
(918-58-57)
10:45 a.m. Thickness of Polygonal Knots Eric J. Rawdon*, University of Iowa
(918-57-1530)
8:00 a.m. Bose-Fermi algebras and White noise analysis David Betounes*, University of S. Mississippi
(918-60-972)
8:15 a.m. The TRAP Algorithm for Self-avoiding Polygons R. E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
Thomas J. Bannon, Adelphi University
(918-60-1270)
8:30 a.m. Every ``lower psi-mixing" Markov chain is ``interlaced rho-mixing" Richard C. Bradley*, Indiana University
(918-60-590)
8:45 a.m. On Poisson Approximations for Success Runs in Bernoulli Trials Thad G. Dankel, Jr.*,
Ron Gatlin,
(918-60-502)
9:00 a.m. The Strong Law of Large Numbers for a Class of U-statistics Anda H Gadidov*, Gannon University
(918-60-658)
9:15 a.m. Estimation of fractional moments of the random parameter of some exchangeable stochastic processes Constantine Georgakis*, DePaul University
(918-60-1044)
9:30 a.m. A Brennan-Doob Inequality for a Class of V-Quasimartingales Michael L Green*, Baylor University
(918-60-171)
9:45 a.m. Qualitative properties of Stochastic iterative processes under random structural perturbations Byron L. Griffin*, Ambassador University
G. S. Ladde, University of Texas, Arlington
(918-60-1238)
10:00 a.m. A Sharp Inequality for Submartingales William D Hammack*,
(918-60-601)
10:15 a.m. Composition of random Mobius transformation and their applications Satyajit Karmakar*, Saint Paul's College
(918-60-1207)
10:30 a.m. Consistent Aggregation of Scale Families of Selection Probabilities J\'anos D. Acz\'el*, University of Waterloo
Gyula Maksa, L. Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary
Anthony A. J. Marley, McGill University
(918-60-126)
10:45 a.m. Asymptotics for the Euclidean Minimal Matching Kuntal P. McElroy*, Lehigh University
(918-60-1312)
11:00 a.m. Asymptotics for the $k$-nearest neighbor and $k$-median problems. Katherine G McGivney*, Lehigh University
Joseph E Yukich, Lehigh University
(918-60-575)
11:15 a.m. Asymptotic Measures for a Skew Product of Two Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems Chuanshu Ji,
Donna Molinek*,
(918-60-1155)
11:30 a.m. Sequential Barycenter Arrays and Random Probability Distributions Theodore Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Monticino*, University of North Texas
(918-60-811)
11:45 a.m. Heisenberg Model, Bethe {\rm Ansatz}, and Random Walks. Lenhard L. Ng*, M.I.T.
(918-60-1423)
8:00 a.m. The Neighborhood-closure of a Graph Aniket Majumdar*,
Erich Prisner,
(918-05-1071)
8:15 a.m. Integrity of Digraphs Robert C. Vandell*,
Lowell Beineke,
(918-05-865)
8:30 a.m. Off-Diagonal Generalized Schur Numbers Daniel Schaal*, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Michelle Knight, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
(918-05-1257)
8:45 a.m. Matching Graphs Michelle Schultz*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Linda Eroh, Western Michigan University
(918-05-485)
9:00 a.m. On the Hamiltonicity of Acyclic Orientation Graphs Scott R. Sheffield*, Harvard University
(918-05-1258)
9:15 a.m. Phylogeny Numbers Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Li Sheng*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
(918-05-736)
9:30 a.m. An Algorithm About Three Cell Partitions. Dan Tang*, Howard University
(918-05-649)
9:45 a.m. Defective list colorings of bipartite graphs. Thomas C. Hull*, University of Rhode Island
(918-05-1546)
10:00 a.m. $IP^*$ Sets in Weak Left Rings. Elaine Terry*, Howard University
(918-05-650)
10:15 a.m. Probability Polynomials and the Imbeddings of Closed-End Ladders Esther Hunt Tesar*, Drew University
(918-05-659)
10:30 a.m. Winding vectors of closed paths in products of cycles Charles Vanden Eynden*, Illinois State University
Saad El-Zanati, Illinois State University
(918-05-449)
10:45 a.m. Permutations without Long Ascending Subsequences and Lattice Walks Jonathan L Weinstein*, Harvard University
Herbert Wilf, University of Pennsylvania
(918-05-1118)
11:00 a.m. A bound guaranteeing three distinct circuit lengths in a primitive digraph Cynthia J. Wyels*,
(918-05-743)
11:15 a.m. On $\chi$-bounded and vertex Ramsey classes of graphs. Yingxian Zhu*, Arizona State University
Hal Sa Kierstead, Arizona State University
(918-05-1037)
11:30 a.m. $n$-distinguishability of the Symmetric Group Julianna S Tymoczko*, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
(918-05-1511)
8:00 a.m. Discrete Trigonometric Matrix Functions Douglas R. Anderson*,
(918-39-414)
8:15 a.m. On a fuzzy logistic difference equation. Elias Y. Deeba*, University of Houston-Downtown
Eusebio L. Koh, University of Regina
Andre de Korvin, University of Houston-Downtown
(918-39-816)
8:30 a.m. Quasi-Homogeneous Associative Functions Bruce R. Ebanks*,
(918-39-744)
8:45 a.m. Global Behavior of Solutions of $x_{n+1}=f(x_{n},x_{n-1})$ Vlajko L Kocic*, Xavier University of Louisiana
(918-39-1132)
9:00 a.m. A General Reduction of Order Theorem Allan Peterson*, Univ. of NE-Lincoln
Calvin Ahlbrandt, Univ. of MO-Columbia
(918-39-810)
9:15 a.m. Asymptotic Behavior of nonnegatve solutions of Second order Rational Recurrence Equations. Parviz Khalili*, Christopher Newport University
(918-40-253)
9:30 a.m. Summability of Unbounded Series Alexander F Kleiner*, Drake University
(918-40-390)
9:45 a.m. An equivalent reformulation of summability by weighted mean methods Ferenc Moricz, Bolyai Institute, Hungary
B. E. Rhoades*, Indiana University
(918-40-778)
10:00 a.m. Rate of convergence of some neural network operators to the unit-univariate case Geroge A. Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
(918-41-916)
10:15 a.m. Surface Orientation and Lighting Structure Mihaela - Rodica V Cornea*, University of South Carolina, Department of Mathematics
(918-41-1334)
10:30 a.m. Generalized multiresolution schemes Peter R Massopust*,
(918-41-224)
10:45 a.m. Quasi-interpolation with trigonometric splines Per Erik Koch,
Tom Lyche, University of Oslo
Larry L. Schumaker, Vanderbilt University
Sonya S. Stanley*, Samford University
(918-41-819)
11:00 a.m. On the Moments of Fractal Functions and Dirichlet Spline Functions Peter R. Massopust, Sam Houston State University
Patrick J. Van Fleet*, Sam Houston State University
(918-41-1228)
11:15 a.m. Asymptotics of multidimensional Laplace-type integrals via iterated Mellin-Barnes integrals David O Kaminski*,
(918-41-1129)
8:00 a.m. Using Gauss' Algorithm to solve some Number Theory Problems Patrick S Mitchell*, Southeastern Louisiana University
(918-11-698)
8:15 a.m. Properties of Certain Integer-valued Analogues of Dedekind Sums Jeffrey L. Meyer*, University of Illinois
(918-11-573)
8:30 a.m. Nonsingular zeros of quartic forms over finite fields David B Leep*, University of Kentucky
Charles C. Yeomans, University of Kentucky
(918-11-1023)
8:45 a.m. On the Large Digits of Powers Robert E. Kennedy*, Central Missouri State University
(918-11-1142)
9:00 a.m. Asymptotic prime-power divisibility and a multifractal spectrum of generalized multinomial coefficients John M. Holte*, Gustavus Adolphus College
(918-11-616)
9:15 a.m. On Continued Fractions Associated to Hecke Groups Hitoshi Nakada*, Keio University, Japan
(918-11-455)
9:30 a.m. Decomposition of Spaces of Half-Integral Weight Cuspforms Sharon M Frechette*, Dartmouth College
(918-11-818)
9:45 a.m. Some constraints on Carmichael's conjecture. Walid Amin Ramadan-Jradi*, Mathematical and Computing Sciences
(918-11-129)
10:00 a.m. On Certain Sums of Functions of Base b Expansions Curtis Cooper*, Central Missouri State University
(918-11-1144)
10:15 a.m. $S$-units attached to genus~3 hyperelliptic curves Jane Arledge*,
(918-11-989)
10:30 a.m. Universal binary Hermitian forms Khosravani Azar*, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
(918-11-1016)
10:45 a.m. Galois Numbers and Scaled Trace Forms Pat Beaulieu*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Robert Perlis, Louisiana State University
(918-11-1332)
11:00 a.m. Special Values of Certain Triple Product L-Functions Jennifer E. Beineke*, UCLA
(918-11-1077)
11:15 a.m. The Core-Plus Mathematics Project Curriculum: Implementing the Crossroads Standards via an NCTM Standards-Based High School Curriculum Eric W. Hart*, Western Michigan University
(918-I1-1383)
11:30 a.m. Graphs and number theory Brian Heck*, Louisiana State University
(918-11-1535)
8:00 a.m. Requiring Graphing Calculators in Large General Education Classes William E. Bonnice*, University of New Hampshire
(918-L1-1509)
8:20 a.m. Lying Calculators, Dancing Sine Curves, Or Will The Real Sine Curve Please Stand Up! Tom Guglielmo*, Mercy College
(918-L1-431)
8:40 a.m. The TI -92 in Calculus with a Lab Component Mary Ann Connors*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst U
(918-L1-362)
9:00 a.m. Graphing calculators and College Algebra Kay Gura, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Gabriella Wepner*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
(918-L1-1020)
9:20 a.m. Teaching developmental algebra using manipulatives and the TI-92 Amelia S. Kinard*, Columbia College
(918-L1-205)
9:40 a.m. Should Recursion be Taught in Basic Mathematics Courses? Antonio R. Quesada*, The University of Akron
(918-L1-964)
10:00 a.m. Discussion
10:20 a.m. Handheld Technology in Multivariable Calculus William G McCallum*, University of Arizona
Deborah Hughes Hallett, Harvard University
(918-L1-341)
10:40 a.m. The Classroom of the Future: Computers AND Graphing Calculators AND a Document Camera John C Hennessey*, Loyola College
(918-L1-361)
11:00 a.m. A Blind Man's Description of the Elephant Darlene Whitkanack*, Indiana University
(918-L1-1570)
11:20 a.m. Are they the same? Joan Hosdowich McCarter*, Arizona State University
(918-L1-1572)
11:40 a.m. Phase Portraits in Introductory Differential Equations on the HP-48G/GX David N Dudley*, Phoenix College
(918-L1-1340)
8:05 a.m. Out of the Mouths of Babes: Student Questions and Comments in Reform C-ourses Sheldon P Gordon*, Suffolk Community College
(918-M1-846)
8:20 a.m. Successful Assessment Techniques: Group Work, Journals, and Projects Regina Baron Brunner*, Cedar Crest College
(918-M1-782)
8:35 a.m. Assessment Using a Capstone Course Charles F Peltier*, Saint Mary's College
(918-M1-1078)
8:50 a.m. Assessing Student Attitudes and Learning Gains: Some Useful Tools Nancy B Hastings*, Dickinson College
(918-M1-1460)
9:05 a.m. Assessing Computational Skills When a Computer Algebra System Is Available in Calculus Classes Nancy L. Hagelgans*, Ursinus College
(918-M1-980)
9:20 a.m. Informal Classroom Assessment John W Emert*, Ball State University
(918-M1-1417)
9:35 a.m. Extensions of the One-Minute Paper Terrence G.L. Tong*, California Lutheran University
Cynthia J. Wyels, California Lutheran University
(918-M1-1105)
9:50 a.m. Using Pre- and Post-Testing in a Liberal Arts Mathematics Course to Improve Teaching and Learning Mark Michael, Ph.D.*, King's College
(918-M1-595)
10:05 a.m. Assessment in one Learning Theory Based Approach to Teaching Ed Dubinsky*, Georgia State University
(918-M1-1177)
10:20 a.m. Break
10:35 a.m. Assessing Mathematical Processes and Lifetime Learning Skills G. Daniel Callon*,
(918-00-1003)
10:50 a.m. Portfolio and Student Self-Assessment Virginia E. Stallings*,
Carol A. Tascione,
(918-M1-446)
11:05 a.m. Portfolio Assessment Through Written Project Investigations: The Generation of Original Mathematics by K-8 Teacher Candidates. David Dennis*, U. of Texas at El Paso
(918-M1-481)
11:20 a.m. Student Portfolios in Calculus David O. Lomen*, University of Arizona
(918-M1-529)
11:35 a.m. The Use of Concept Mapping in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics Joseph Meyinsse*, Southern University
(918-98-1343)
11:50 a.m. Assessing College Algebra. George D Tintera*, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
(918-M1-1301)
2:15 p.m. Isometries and Jordan-isomorphisms onto C*-algebras Angel Rodriguez Palacios*, Universidad de Granada, Spain
(918-47-631)
2:45 p.m. Square roots of invertible elements in Banach algebras Robert Kantrowitz*, Hamilton College
John A. Lindberg, Jr., Syracuse University
(918-46-629)
3:15 p.m. Linear and holomorphic functions on domains in Banach algebras Lawrence A Harris*, University of Kentucky
(918-46-377)
3:45 p.m. Characters and Point Evaluations. Thomas Ransford*, Laval University
(918-46-166)
2:15 p.m. Local biholomorphisms between real hypersurfaces in $ {\bf C}^N$. M. Salah Baouendi, UCSD
Peter Ebenfelt, Royal Institute
Linda P. Rothschild*, UCSD
(918-32-673)
2:45 p.m. The group of local biholomorphisms of a real submanifold in $ {\bf C}^N$. ] M. Salah Baouendi*, UCSD
Peter Ebenfelt, Royal Institute
Linda P. Rothschild, UCSD
(918-32-672)
3:15 p.m. Bergman and Kahler geometry for bounded domains in ${\bf C}^n$ Siqi M. Fu*,
(918-32-256)
3:45 p.m. Coefficient Bounds for Holomorphic Convex Mappings in Several Variables Carl H. FitzGerald*, Univ of California, San Diego
(918-32-1012)
2:15 p.m. The Uses of Mathematics in Telecommunications Networking Patricia E. Wirth*, AT&T Labs
(918-90-413)
2:45 p.m. Mathematical Sciences at IBM Claude A Greengard*, IBM Research Division
(918-00-1245)
3:15 p.m. Applying the WDL Composition Theory to Analyze Security Architectures Lee A Benzinger*, Lockheed Martin Western Development Laboratories
(918-93-612)
3:45 p.m. Mathematics of mixed continuous and batch processes in production of industrial materials. Peter E. Castro*, Eastman Kodak Company
(918-99-922)
2:15 p.m. Multiwavelets and Operator algebras Marc A Rieffel*,
(918-46-722)
2:45 p.m. Discussion
3:15 p.m. AH algebras with the ideal property Cornel Pasnicu*, University of Puerto Rico
(918-46-988)
3:45 p.m. Defining Metric Spaces via Operators from Unital $C^*$-Algebras Branka Pavlovi\'{c}*, University of Victoria and Institute of Mathematics, Belgrade
(918-47-1472)
2:15 p.m. Stability of systems of functional differential equations under Markovian structural perturbations G. S. Ladde*, University of Texas, Arlington
(918-34-1403)
2:30 p.m. A note on asymptotic analysis at the interior layer on laminar flow in a porous channel Chunqing Lu*, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
(918-34-923)
2:45 p.m. Stability of functional differential equations involving abstract Volterra operators Zephyrinus Okonkwo*, Alabama State University
(918-34-1138)
3:00 p.m. Eigenvalue Asymptotics for 4th order ODE's with Discontinuous coefficients. Albert W Schueller*, Whitman College
(918-34-678)
3:15 p.m. Existence results for semipositone problems involving the P-Laplacian Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
(918-34-368)
3:30 p.m. (An Attempt at) Quantifying Chaos in Dynamical Systems with Lyapunov Exponents Timothy J. Pennings, Hope College
Michael Van Opstall*, Hope College
(918-34-790)
3:45 p.m. Singular (k;n-k) boundary value problems between conjugate and right focal Johnny L. Henderson, Auburn University
William K.C. Yin*, LaGrange College
(918-34-1304)
4:00 p.m. Bounded and periodic solutions of finite delay evolution equations. James H. Liu*, James Madison Univ
(918-34-40)
2:15 p.m. Generalized two-parameter stochastic integrals and Green's theorem Mylan Redfern*, University of Southern Mississippi
(918-60-639)
2:30 p.m. Relationships among the first variation, the convolution product, and the Fourier-Feynman transform Chull Park, Miami University
David Skoug*, University of Nebraska
David Storvick, University of Minnesota
(918-60-195)
2:45 p.m. Dependency measure for sets of random elements Jordan Stoyanov*, Northern Kentucky University
(918-60-1492)
3:00 p.m. The Boundary Distribution in Crofton's Theorem Rosemary Sullivan*, Muhlenberg College
(918-60-1264)
3:15 p.m. Markov-achievable payoff functions for finite-horizon decision models Victor C. Pestien, University of Miami
Xiaobo Wang*, Jostens Learning Corp.
(918-60-1244)
3:30 p.m. Almost Periodic Contractive Harmonizable Processes Randall J. Swift*, Western Kentucky University
(918-60-58)
3:45 p.m. A Product Representation of Markov Random Fields Bruce W. Atkinson*, Samford University
(918-60-589)
4:00 p.m. A Finite-Difference Method for the Falkner-Skan Equation N. S. Asaithambi*, Lincoln University
(918-65-1533)
4:15 p.m. Teaching statistics using sports data Reza D. Noubary*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
(918-62-1402)
2:15 p.m. Lie Groups Acting on the Mobius Strip Ilie Barza, Lulea University, Sweden
Dorin Ghisa*, York University, Canada
(918-22-81)
2:30 p.m. Right Groups in a Compact Projective System Yue-Chan P. Ho*, Central Missouri State University
(918-22-1141)
2:45 p.m. On Compact Convergence Semigroups and their Maximal Subgroups Shing S. So*, Central Missouri State University
(918-22-1140)
3:00 p.m. Totally disconnected topological groups and their tidy subgroups. Edwin Prine Herman*, University of Oregon
(918-22-1255)
3:15 p.m. Supercuspidal Representations of $GL(n)$ Distinguished by Unitary Subgroups Jeffrey L. Hakim*, American University
(918-22-1449)
3:30 p.m. Complex analytic subgroups of affine algebraic groups Patrick B. Chen*, John Carroll University
Ta-Sun Wu, Case Western Reserve University
(918-22-1262)
3:45 p.m. Intervals of Totally Bounded Group Topologies W. W. Comfort*, Wesleyan University
Dieter Remus, Universit\"{a}t Hannover, Germany
(918-22-323)
2:15 p.m. Coordinate Functions and Maps L. Andrew Campbell*, The Aerospace Corporation
(918-26-1095)
2:30 p.m. A comparison of the sine and cosine functions of trigonometry with the even and odd subsets of Walsh functions Nasser Dastrange*, Buena Vista University
(918-26-926)
2:45 p.m. On Ratios of Polynomials with all Real Zeros Alan L Horwitz*, Penn State University
(918-26-1348)
3:00 p.m. Nonmetrizable spaces in which the weak Blumberg property holds Shiojenn Tseng*, TamKang University
(918-26-856)
3:15 p.m. Uniformly antisymmetric functions Kandasamy Muthuvel*, University of Wisconsin
(918-26-932)
3:30 p.m. Conservative exact $n$-to-1 endomorphisms Julia A. Barnes*, Western Carolina University
(918-28-763)
3:45 p.m. Sums of Cantor Sets Carlos A. Cabrelli, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Kathryn E. Hare, University of Waterloo
Ursula M. Molter*, Universidad de Buenos Aires
(918-28-44)
2:15 p.m. Minimum energy interpretation of Robin capacity. Peter Duren, University of Michigan
John Pfaltzgraff, University of North Carolina
Robert E. Thurman*, The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
(918-31-105)
2:30 p.m. Basins of attraction for automorphisms of $\bf C^2$ tangent to Id. Brendan J. Weickert*, University of Michigan
(918-32-215)
2:45 p.m. On factorization and complex dynamics in $C^n$ Chung-Chun Yang*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(918-32-973)
3:00 p.m. Orthogonality of sieved random walk polynomials from a non sieved analogue Blaise Desesa*, rowan College of New Jersey
(918-33-1178)
3:15 p.m. Constructing New Orthogonal Polynomials From Existing Orthogonal Polynomials Shikang Li*, Southeastern Louisiana University
(918-33-357)
3:30 p.m. The $L_2$ versus the $L_\infty$ Norm on Polynomials Carl A Libis*, The University of West Alabama
Robert Huotari, King Fahd University
(918-33-684)
2:15 p.m. In search of a classical motion for the radiating relativistic electron Dan Endres*, University of Central Oklahoma
(918-70-1251)
2:30 p.m. On the elastic spherical pendulum Arthur Springer*, San Diego State University
Michael Springer,
(918-70-1085)
2:45 p.m. The Toda Lattice and Finite Radon Transforms. Elinor Velasquez*, University of California, Berkeley
(918-70-906)
3:00 p.m. On the dynamic behavior of a thermoviscoelastic body in frictional contact with a rigid obstacle. Kevin T Andrews*,
Kenneth L Kuttler,
Meir Shillor,
(918-73-255)
3:15 p.m. Shear Band Formation Due to a Thermal Flux Inhomogeneity James A DiLellio*, Northwestern University
W Edward Olmstead, Northwestern University
(918-73-307)
3:30 p.m. Instability of a Rigid Body with a Fluid Filled Cavity Andrei A. Lyashenko*, University of Illinois at Chicago
Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois at Chicago
(918-76-466)
3:45 p.m. Exact solutions for some simple flows of an Oldroyd-B fluid K. R. Rajagopal, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
R. K. Bhatnagar*, Univesity of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
(918-76-1513)
2:15 p.m. Technology in Intermediate Algebra Darrell H. Abney*, Maysville Community College
Lillie R. F. Crowley, Lexington Community College
(918-I1-1478)
2:30 p.m. The Precalculus Reform Project Based at Harvard Philip Cheifetz*, Nassau Community College
(918-I1-1384)
2:45 p.m. Quantitative reasoning: A new course for the core requirement in mathematics for an associate degree Gary L Britton*, University of Wisconsin Center-Washington County
Neil Stahl, University of Wisconsin Center-Fox Valley
(918-I1-1406)
3:00 p.m. Technology, Hands-on Modeling, Cooperative Learning: Activities for early mathematics experiences in the college classroom Rosalie A. Dance*, Georgetown University
(918-I1-1271)
3:15 p.m. Problem Solving, Modeling and Data Analysis Labs in College Algebra and Precalculus Wendy Metzger*, Palomar College
(918-I1-1382)
3:30 p.m. Implementing the Standards in Intermediate Algebra Dennis Ebersole*, Northampton Community College
(918-98-1378)
3:45 p.m. Modeling Periodic Phenomena at the Precalculus Level: Future Scientists or Future Surveyors? Florence S Gordon*, N.Y. Institute of Technology
(918-I1-853)
4:00 p.m. Maricopa Mathematics Consortium Alan Jacobs*, Scottsdale Community College
(918-I1-1377)
2:15 p.m. Assessment: A Learning Experience Morteza Shafii-Mousavi*, Indiana University South Bend
(918-N1-443)
2:30 p.m. Group Application Projects in Student Assessment Michael J. Dorff*, University of Kentucky
(918-N1-479)
2:45 p.m. The Use of Alternative Assessment Techniques: Mathematics for Liberal Arts Majors Jay Malmstrom*, Oklahoma City Community College
(918-N1-1366)
3:00 p.m. Student Assessment through Peer Teaching and Reflective Paper Adele M Rothan, CSJ*, College of St. Catherine
(918-N1-603)
3:15 p.m. Extended Use of Gateway Tests Lars J. Kjeseth, Occidental College
Emily E. Puckette*, Occidental College
(918-N1-855)
3:30 p.m. Some Assessment Techniques for Alternative Assignments Deborah A Frantz*, Kutztown University
(918-N1-727)
3:45 p.m. Student Presentation of Projects Mary Ann Connors*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(918-N1-451)
Thursday January 9, 1997, 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m. JPBM Presentation
What's new(s!) in mathematics.
Organizers:
Richard H. Herman, JPBM
Kathleen Holmay, JPBM
Moderators:
Steven Weintraub, Louisiana State University
Panelists:
K. C. Cole, {\it Los Angeles Times}
Leigh Fenly, {\it San Diego Union Tribune}
Ivars Peterson, {\it Science News}
Donald Saari, Northwestern University
7:00 p.m. The role of History and Context in shaping Scholarship and Education in Mathematics Alphonse Buccino*, Contemporary Communications, Inc.
(918-A1-526)
7:20 p.m. Project-Based Investigations with Portfolio Assessment in a History of Mathematics Course for Teachers. David Dennis*, University of Texas at El Paso
(918-A1-480)
7:40 p.m. Preparing Elementary Mathematics Educators Using the History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education. Nkechi M Agwu*, BMCC, CUNY
(918-A1-787)
8:00 p.m. Writing Assignments in a History of Mathematics Course Leon M. Cohen*, Hampden-Sydney College
(918-A1-469)
8:20 p.m. Which came first, the Airy equation or the Airy function? David J Barsky*,
(918-A1-1137)
8:40 p.m. An Historical Approach to the Central Limit Theorem Amy L. Rocha*, San Jose State University
(918-A1-852)
9:00 p.m. History and Problem Solving Agnes Tuska*,
(918-A1-656)
9:20 p.m. Using Original Sources in Discrete Mathematics Herbert E. Kasube*, Bradley University
(918-A1-436)
9:40 p.m. Using Original Sources to Enhance the Introductory Real Analysis Course Phillip E Johnson*, UNC Charlotte
(918-A1-486)
7:00 p.m. Strategies for teaching subspaces and spanning sets David C. Lay*,
(918-F1-1210)
7:20 p.m. The impact of students' ways of thinking on their ways of understanding basic linear algebra concepts Guershon Harel*, Purdue University
(918-F1-1104)
7:45 p.m. Innovations in Teaching Linear Algebra Gilbert Strang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(918-F1-1248)
8:10 p.m. Orthogonal triangularization and symmetric diagonalization Charles R Johnson*,
(918-F1-1462)
8:30 p.m. Using quantifiers and set-builder notation in elementary linear algebra David Carlson*, San Diego State University
(918-F1-1407)
8:45 p.m. Student work groups in linear algebra classes. A. Duane Porter*, University of Wyoming
(918-F1-1375)
9:00 p.m. Visualization: pictures or algebra? John Hannah*, University of Canterbury
(918-F1-264)
9:15 p.m. Computation and Conceptualization: The Case of the Dot Product Michelle A Manes*,
(918-F1-1176)
9:30 p.m. Change of Basis Made Simple. Geza Schay*, University of Massachusetts at Boston
(918-F1-607)
9:45 p.m. On the Real Jordan Form for a Real Matrix Nicholas J. Rose*, North Carolina State University
(918-F1-699)
8:00 a.m. Mental Constructions Used in Understanding the Chain Rule Concept Julie M Clark, Emory & Henry College
Francisco Cordero, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Jim Cottrill, Georgia State University
Bronislaw Czarnocha, Hostos Community College, CUNY
David J DeVries, Georgia College & State University
Denny St. John, Central Michigan University
Georgia Tolias*, Purdue University Calumet
Draga Vidakovic, North Carolina State University
(918-98-841)
8:20 a.m. Students' Construction of the Sequence Concept David M Mathews, Central Michigan University
Michael A McDonald, Occidental College
Kevin Strobel*, Pacific University
(918-98-557)
8:40 a.m. Students' Understanding of Quantified Statements in Natural Language and in Mathematics Ed Dubinsky, Georgia State University
Olga Yiparaki*, Agnes Scott College & University of Arizona
(918-98-691)
9:00 a.m. The Development of Students' Understanding of Permutations and Symmetries Mark Asiala, Georgia State University
Anne Brown, Indiana University South Bend
Jennifer Kleiman, Georgia State University
David Mathews*, Central Michigan University
(918-98-652)
9:20 a.m. Students' Understanding of Cosets, Normality and Quotient Groups Steve Morics*, University of Redlands
Mark Asiala, Georgia State University
Ed Dubinsky, Georgia State University
David Mathews, Central Michigan University
Asuman Oktac, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
(918-98-1042)
9:40 a.m. On learning binary operations, groups, and subgroups Anne E Brown*, Indiana University South Bend
David J DeVries, Georgia College
Ed Dubinsky, Georgia State University
Karen Thomas, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
(918-98-669)
10:00 a.m. On the Relationship Between Students' Proof Schemes and the Formation of Their Conception of Basic Linear Algebra Ideas. Guershon Harel, Purdue University
Sonia P Hristovitch*, Purdue University
Larry Sowder, San Diego State University
(918-98-831)
10:20 a.m. Students' Understanding of Mathematical Definitions in Real Analysis Barbara S Edwards*, Penn State University
(918-98-482)
10:40 a.m. Mathematicians' Views of Mathematics John Selden, MERC
Annie Selden*, Tennessee Tech. Univ.
(918-98-648)
8:00 a.m. Economics and Mathematics; Prizes, People, Problems, Pedagogy John Morrill*, DePauw University
(918-90-751)
8:30 a.m. Nash Equilibria in Dynamic Price Competition James Case*, Consultant
(918-90-755)
9:00 a.m. Multi-Unit Auctions Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans*, University of Illinoic at Urbana-Champaign
Charles M. Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(918-90-1185)
9:30 a.m. A Note on Correlated Equilibria for Bimatrix Games (Joint work with Fe Evangelista) T.E.S. Raghavan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Fe S. Evangelista*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(918-90-1524)
10:00 a.m. Cores, Large Cores, and Convex Covers John M. Rulnick*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lloyd S. Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles
(918-90-1055)
10:30 a.m. Weak potential, pairwise consistency and the least square values Irinel Dragan*, University of Texas, Arlington
(918-90-636)
8:00 a.m. Risk-Sensitive Stochastic Control and Relationship with Stochastic Differential Games Tamer Ba\c{s}ar*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(918-93-832)
8:40 a.m. Option Pricing with Constraints H. Mete Soner*, Carnegie Mellon University
(918-90-1001)
9:30 a.m. Random walks on groups: A strong stationary time approach. Igor Pak*, Harvard University
(918-60-204)
9:40 a.m. Discussion
9:45 a.m. Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities for Free Loop Groups Trevor R. Carson*,
(918-60-369)
10:00 a.m. Coherence of an inference is equivalent to existence of a countably additive prior Yuri Y. Boykov*, Carnegie Mellon University
(918-62-1361)
10:15 a.m. The geometry of random images and mapping the human brain Keith J. Worsley*, McGill University
(918-62-1419)
10:30 a.m. Diamond Lattice Model of Semicrystalline Polyethylene Zhong-Hui Duan*, Florida State University
Louis Howard, Florida State University
(918-92-1494)
8:00 a.m. Is the Nile Outflow Fractal ? Hurst's Analysis Revisited Harold M Hastings*, Hofstra University
Robert Kissell, Hofstra University
(918-92-587)
8:15 a.m. A Comprehensive Mathematical Model of Respiratory Dynamics and Oxygen Transport J. Derrick Head*, Univ. of Minnesota, Morris
Philip S. Crooke, Vanderbilt University
John J. Marini,
John R. Hotchkiss,
Tomas D. Valdivia,
(918-92-1326)
8:30 a.m. A Nonlinear mathematical model of Pressure Preset Ventilation for a Single Compartment System Sanjukta Hota*,
(918-92-823)
8:45 a.m. Autoregulation in a Compartmental Model of the Intracranial System Zsuzsanna M. Kadas*, St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT
(918-92-1287)
9:00 a.m. A two-sex STD model with activity levels and recruitment Christopher M. Kribs*, University of Wisconsin
(918-92-576)
9:15 a.m. A 2- Backbone polymer Model for Interphase Chromosome Geometry Bing Liu*, College of St. Scholastica
Rainer K Sachs, University of California, Berkeley
(918-92-259)
9:30 a.m. A Mathematical Model of Capillary Growth in the Retina Sophia A. Maggelakis*, Rochester Institute of Technology
Andreas E. Savakis, University of Rochester Medical Center
(918-92-1360)
9:45 a.m. On the Global Stability of Solutions of a Nonlinear FDE Sanjay Rai*, Texas A&M International University
Dennis Brewer, University of Arkansas
(918-92-732)
10:00 a.m. A Mathematical Model for Skin Cancer Initiation Mei Zhu*, Lafayettte College
Stephen A. Kunec, Lafayettte College
(918-92-1311)
10:15 a.m. Stochastic Simulation of Multistage Model of Carcinogenesis Mutation. Reza R. Ahangar*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(918-92-1573)
8:00 a.m. The missing link between problem solving and mathematics education Helmut Doll*, Bloomsburg University of PA
Scott Inch,
(918-97-687)
8:15 a.m. Encountering mathematical patterns everywhere Anne Hughes*, St. John's University
(918-97-924)
8:30 a.m. Computing Galois Groups of Order Four Linear Differential Equations Sabrina A Hessinger*, North Carolina State University
(918-99-1477)
8:45 a.m. A basic inequality of sobolev type for quasiperiodic functions of fixed frequencies Luping Zhang*, University of Claifornia, Irvine
(918-99-1506)
8:00 a.m. Hands-on Activities for Probability and Mathematical Statistics Courses Anne D. Sevin*, Framingham State College
(918-B1-1103)
8:15 a.m. {\it Maple\/} and the Sample Mean from the Cauchy Distribution Elliot A Tanis*, Hope College
John J Krueger, Hope College
(918-B1-604)
8:30 a.m. Using writing in statistics courses Robert E Buck*, Slippery Rock University
(918-B1-759)
8:45 a.m. Using the Computer Algebra System Maple in Applied Statistics Amy L. Rocha*, San Jose State University
(918-B1-837)
9:00 a.m. Correlation, Regression, and Moments of Inertia Roger B. Nelsen*, Lewis & Clark College
(918-B1-359)
9:15 a.m. Using Mathematica in Statistics Courses for Mathematics Majors Jenny Baglivo*, Boston College
(918-B1-674)
9:30 a.m. Half-Course Offerings in Statistics John D. McKenzie, Jr.*, Babson College
(918-B1-1116)
9:45 a.m. Enhancing Statistics Using an Industrial Simulation Bruce McLean*, Georgia Southern University
(918-B1-347)
10:00 a.m. Time Series Analysis: An Introduction to Applied Statistics for Math Majors? Robin H Lock*, St. Lawrence University
(918-B1-1217)
10:15 a.m. Simulation to the Rescue in ANOVA Donald E Miller*, Saint Mary's College
(918-B1-817)
10:30 a.m. An in-depth case studies approach to statistics Deborah Nolan*, University of California, Berkeley
Terence P Speed, University of California, Berkeley
(918-B1-1485)
10:45 a.m. Improving Statistics Education Through Academe/Industry Collaboration Roxy L Peck*, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
(918-B1-838)
8:10 a.m. Needed Connections Among Students, Cooperating Teachers, and Mathematics Professors for the Preparation of Mathematics Teachers 7-12 Lucy C. Snead*, Columbia College
(918-E1-1096)
8:25 a.m. Connections: Before, During, and After Student Teaching Jon L Johnson*, Elmhurst College
(918-E1-700)
8:40 a.m. Connecting technology, mathematics, and teachers Leonard J Lipkin*, Univ. of North Florida
(918-E1-967)
8:55 a.m. Partnership for Excellence Joanne V Peeples*, El Paso Community College
(918-E1-1123)
9:10 a.m. Connecting Preservice Teachers to the Real World of the Classroom Susan Gay*, University of Kansas
(918-E1-1021)
9:25 a.m. A Collaborative Approach to Course Restructuring for Preservice Teachers Mark L Klespis*, Sam Houston State University
(918-E1-717)
9:40 a.m. Supporting New Teachers: A Role for Mathematicians John T. Kemper*, University of St. Thomas
(918-E1-358)
9:55 a.m. Establishing Connections: Using Technology in Elementary School Mathematics and Science Michael B Fiske, Dr.*, St. Cloud State Univ.
Mark A Minger, St. Cloud State Univ.
(918-E1-559)
10:10 a.m. Connecting Technology, Problem Based Instruction, and Cooperative Learning in the Training of Teachers Ronald J Harshbarger*, University of South Carolina-Beaufort
(918-E1-1414)
10:25 a.m. Westmont-San Jose State University Technology Collaborative. Barbara J. Pence, San Jose State Univ
Joanne Rossi Becker*, San Jose State Univ
(918-E1-1041)
10:40 a.m. Curriculum-Based Teacher Preparation using the Core-Plus Mathematics Project Curriculum Eric W. Hart*, Western Michigan University
(918-E1-1376)
8:00 a.m. Undergraduate Mathematics Research: A Budget of Resources Emelie A Kenney*, Siena College
(918-G1-1059)
8:20 a.m. The CPR of Undergraduate Research in Mathematics: Challenges, Pitfalls and Rewards Mario U Martelli*, Cal State Univ. Fullerton
(918-G1-363)
8:40 a.m. Nurturing Undergraduate Student Researchers in Fractal/Chaos Linda Bailey Hayden, Elizabeth City State U
Dipendra C. Sengupta*, Elizabeth City State U
(918-G1-1091)
9:00 a.m. Soap Bubbles, Fluid Clusters, and Undergraduate Research Frank Morgan*,
(918-G1-439)
9:20 a.m. Undergraduate Research: Opening Doors to the Beauty of Mathematics Hugh N. Howards*, UC San Diego
(918-97-399)
9:40 a.m. Starting an Undergraduate Research Program at a Four Year Institution Daniel Schaal*, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
(918-G1-737)
10:00 a.m. Undergraduate research and faculty research: a symbiotic relationship Anant P. Godbole*, Michigan Tech University
(918-G1-335)
10:20 a.m. Undergraduate Research--A Personal Perspective Langdon D White*, Siena College
(918-G1-1051)
8:00 a.m. Applied Algebra at Augsburg College: What Makes it Work? Suzanne I. Doree*, Augsburg College
(918-J1-740)
8:20 a.m. Geometry: A Problem Solving Approach Rose M. Dubec*, Purdue University Calumet
Marcia K. Wallace, South Suburban College
(918-J1-1278)
8:40 a.m. Empowering graduate student instructors and students in their developmental classes: providing opportunities for teacher development in response to different styles of student learning. Elena Anne Marchisotto*, California State University, Northridge
(918-J1-689)
9:00 a.m. Intermediate Algebra: Learning Concepts via Technology Edward A. Gallo*, Indiana University East
(918-J1-655)
9:20 a.m. Marilyn Reba and Dianna Zook
9:20 a.m. The Silent Treatment: An Attempt to Bridge the Distance Between "At-Risk" Students and Mathematics Teri J Murphy*, University of Oklahoma
(918-J1-339)
9:40 a.m. The NKATE Reform Algebra Project Lillie F Crowley*, Lexington Community College
Darrell H Abney, Maysville Community College
(918-J1-735)
10:05 a.m. Developmental Research as the Basis for Instructional Development Erna Yackel*, Purdue University Calumet
Diana Underwood Gregg, Purdue University Calumet
(918-J1-879)
10:30 a.m. Changing the Unwritten Social Contract: What Happens when youRenegotiate It? Mercedes Anne McGowen*,
(918-J1-1346)
9:30 a.m. Curvature and Torsion Tensors of Almost r-Paracontact Connections Andrew J. Bucki*, Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
(918-53-225)
9:45 a.m. Isometry Groups of Compact Hyper-lorentz Manifolds. Brett A Sovereign*, University of Maryland
(918-53-229)
10:00 a.m. Global differential geometry of $C^{\infty}$ non-immersive closed curves in the Euclidean plane Yu Chen*, University of South Carolina
(918-53-702)
10:15 a.m. Asymptotic curvature of $\Theta$-metrics Matthew B. Stenzel*, Ohio State University, Newark Campus
(918-53-812)
10:30 a.m. Elastic Curves in Hyperbolic 2-Space of Rotation Index One Daniel Howard Steinberg*, John Carroll University
(918-53-910)
10:45 a.m. Homogeneous Einstein Spaces Megan M Kerr*, Dartmouth College
(918-53-1038)
Friday January 10, 1997, 9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. JPBM Presentation
Math Awareness Week (MAW) 1997---Mathematics and the Internet.
Organizers:
Richard H. Herman, JPBM
Kathleen Holmay, JPBM
Moderators:
Robert M. Fossum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Presenters:
Earl D. Fife, Calvin College
James P. Fink, Gettysburg College
Fernando Gouv\^ea, Colby College
Patrick D. F. Ion, {\it Mathematical Reviews}
Gene Klotz, Swarthmore College
Janis M. Oldham, North Carolina A\&T State University
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas
1:00 p.m. The Nash-Moser Theorem in PDE Richard Hamilton*, University of California, San Diego
(918-35-1536)
2:00 p.m. On Nash's Implicit Function Theorem and Applications to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Sergiu KLainerman*, Princeton University
(918-35-500)
3:00 p.m. Ideas from Nash's paper "Continuity of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Equations" Eugene B Fabes*, University of Minnesota
(918-35-260)
4:00 p.m. Heat Equations in Carnot-Caratheodory Spaces: Local Regularity Nicola Garofalo*, Purdue University
(918-35-548)
5:00 p.m. PDE Methods for Differential Games Lawrence Craig Evans*, University of California at Berkeley
(918-35-545)
1:00 p.m. The spectral geometry of Riemannian submersions Peter B. Gilkey*, University of Oregon
John V. Leahy, University of Oregon
JeongHyeong Park, Honam University
(918-58-17)
1:40 p.m. Spectral Asymptotics of Toeplitz Operators on Manifolds V. Guillemin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kate Okikiolu*, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
(918-35-1369)
2:20 p.m. Bounded and $L^2$ Harmonic Forms on Universal Covers K. D. Elworthy, University of Warwick
Xue-Mei Li, University of Connecticut
Steven Rosenberg*, Boston University
(918-58-1279)
3:00 p.m. The eta invariant, connective K-theory, and manifolds of positive scalar curvature Egidio Barrera-Yanez*, University of Oregon
(918-58-1540)
1:00 p.m. Spectral properties of flows under stepfunctions over irrational rotations A. Hof*, Caltech
(918-46-1427)
1:30 p.m. Representations of Direct limit groups Loki Natarajan*, Tufts University
(918-22-340)
2:00 p.m. Cohomology of polynomials under an irrational rotation Lawrence W Baggett, University of Colorado, Boulder
Herbert A Medina*, Loyola Marymount University
Kathy D Merrill, The Colorado College
(918-26-1079)
2:30 p.m. The Pascal Adic Transformation and Binomial-Coefficient Multiples of Irrationals Terrence M Adams*, The Ohio State University
Karl E Petersen, University of North Carolina
(918-28-329)
3:00 p.m. Lebesgue ergodic parameters of quadratic rational maps of the sphere Jane M. Hawkins*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(918-28-719)
3:30 p.m. Substitution minimal systems and stationary Bratteli diagrams. Christian F Skau*, University of Trondheim
(918-28-955)
4:00 p.m. Rosen continued fractions, I Robert M Burton, Oregon State University
Cornelis Kraaikamp, TU Delft
Thomas A Schmidt*, Oregon State University
(918-11-1117)
4:30 p.m. Rosen Continued Fractions II Robert M Burton*,
Cornelis Kraaikamp,
Thomas A Schmidt,
(918-11-1121)
1:00 p.m. Edgelets and Wedgelets David L Donoho*, Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley
(918-41-952)
1:30 p.m. Multidimensional Wavelets Thomas W Colthurst*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(918-42-452)
2:00 p.m. A construction of single function wavelets in $R^n$ Xingde Dai, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
David Larson, Texas A & M University
Darrin M. Speegle*, Texas A & M University
(918-42-231)
2:30 p.m. Perturbations of the two--dimensional Haar wavelet. Richard A. Zalik*, Auburn University
(918-42-1409)
3:00 p.m. Extensions of no-go theorems to many signal systems Radu V. Balan*,
(918-42-65)
3:30 p.m. Every FIR wavelet filter bank can be decomposed into lifting steps Ingrid C Daubechies*, Princeton University
Wim Sweldens, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
(918-41-1289)
4:00 p.m. Multiresolution Reduction of Elliptic Operators and Eigenvalue Problems Gregory Beylkin,
Nicholas A Coult*,
(918-65-1324)
4:30 p.m. A Multiresolution Strategy for Homogenization of Nonlinear ODEs A. C. Gilbert*, Princeton University
G. Beylkin, University of Colorado at Boulder
M. E. Brewster, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
(918-41-106)
5:00 p.m. Weighted composition operators, symbolic dynamics, and wavelets analysis. Mark C Ho*, Purdue University
(918-43-67)
5:30 p.m. Accuracy of Lattice Translates of Multidimensional Refinable Functions Carlos Cabrelli*, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Christopher Heil, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ursula Molter, Universidad de Buenos Aires
(918-41-1297)
6:00 p.m. B-spline wavelets and orthonormal sets in the Paley-Wiener space Ahmed I. Zayed*, University of Central Florida
(918-43-912)
1:00 p.m. Some examples of locally rank-symmetric posets Richard P. Stanley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(918-05-806)
1:30 p.m. New infinite families of exact sums of squares formulas, Jacobi elliptic functions, continued fractions, and Schur functions. Stephen C. Milne*, The Ohio State University
(918-11-73)
2:00 p.m. Reflexive Compositions and the Sears-Bailey Lemma George E Andrews*, The Pennsylvania State University
(918-05-1276)
2:30 p.m. The antiprism fan of a convex polytope Anders Bj\"orner*, Royal Institute of Technology
(918-05-688)
3:00 p.m. Geometrically constructed homology bases for real hyperplaneintersection lattices Michelle L. Wachs*, University of Miami
(918-05-1284)
1:00 p.m. Operator analogues of nuclear locally convex spaces Edward G. Effros*, UCLA
(918-47-1408)
1:30 p.m. Irreducible representations of inner quasidiagonal C*-algebras. Bruce Blackadar*, University of Nevada, Reno
Eberhard Kirchberg, Humboldt University
(918-46-571)
2:00 p.m. Quasidiagonal C*-algebras Marius D Dadarlat*, Purdue University
(918-46-641)
2:30 p.m. Matrix-Valued Interpolation and Hyperconvex Sets Vern Ival Paulsen*, University of Houston
(918-46-1052)
3:00 p.m. Self dual C*-modules and operator spaces. David P. Blecher*, The University of Houston
(918-46-1050)
3:30 p.m. On the $C^*$-algebras associated with hyperbolic dynamics (joint workwith Ian Putnam). Jack Spielberg*, Arizona State University
Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
(918-46-657)
4:00 p.m. C*-algebras of directed graphs and group actions Alex Kumjian*, University of Nevada, Reno
David Pask, University of Newcastle
(918-46-1553)
4:30 p.m. Homomorphisms from Commutative C*-algebras to Simple C*-algebras of real rank zero Liangqing Li*, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
(918-46-830)
5:00 p.m. A non-commutative Legendre-Fenchel transform Soren Winkler*, University College of Swansea, United Kingdom
(918-46-1282)
1:00 p.m. Differential operators in ordinary differential equations Prem Bajaj*, Wichita State University
(918-98-1018)
1:15 p.m. A Model for Change: Planning and Implementing Calculus Reform in a Mid-sized Department Russell D. Blyth*, Saint Louis University
Michael K. May, S.J., Saint Louis University
T. Christine Stevens, Saint Louis University
(918-98-110)
1:30 p.m. A Writing Intensive Approach to Statistics Jan Orton Case*, Samford University
(918-98-1204)
1:45 p.m. Teaching Math to Teachers -- A Case Study in Curriculum Reform Baine B. Alexander, University of Wisconsin--Madison
Sue M. Daffinrud, University of Wisconsin--Madison
Heather A. Lewis*, University of Wisconsin--Madison
(918-98-1036)
2:00 p.m. A Teaching Option for a Master of Science in Mathematics Sue Geller*, Texas A\&M University
(918-98-78)
2:15 p.m. Quantitative Reasoning Across the Disciplines: History & Development of the Program at Richard Stockton College (NJ) Charles W. Herlands*, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Frank A. Cerreto, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
John M. Quinn, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
(918-98-346)
2:30 p.m. Quantitative Reasoning Across the Disciplines: Program Information and Faculty Development Frank A. Cerreto*, Richad Stockton College of New Jersey
Charles W. Herlands, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
John M. Quinn, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
(918-98-367)
2:45 p.m. Continuous Newton's Method in Calculus Courses Steven M. Hetzler*,
(918-98-1216)
3:00 p.m. Special Cooperative Learning Projects for Elementary Statistics Mary H. Hudson*, Samford University
(918-98-791)
3:30 p.m. The history of mathematics and the calculus reform Miguel Paredes*, University of Texas
Joseph Wiener, University of Texas
(918-98-936)
3:45 p.m. Successful components of reform: changing the attitudes of education majors. Marta B. Pecuch-Herrero*, Arizona State University West
(918-98-88)
4:00 p.m. Using Systems Dynamics Software in Calculus Robert S. Cole, The Evergreen State College
Robert M. Tardiff*, Salisbury State University
(918-98-536)
4:15 p.m. Visual Symmetry Projects in Abstract Algebra Raymond F Tennant*, Eastern Kentucky University
(918-98-1070)
4:30 p.m. Ethnomathematics and Complex Analysis Winifred Wikkeling*, University of California, Berkeley
(918-98-1374)
4:45 p.m. Some distance geometry in $L^p(n)$ Daniel Cass,
Gerald Wildenberg*,
(918-98-1189)
5:00 p.m. Controlling the Chaotic Logistic Map, An Undergraduate Project Erik M. Bollt*, United States Military Academy at West Point, NY
(918-98-1552)
5:15 p.m. The Core-Plus Mathematics Project Curriculum: Integrating Hand-held Technology into a New 4-Year High School Curriculum Eric W. Hart*, Western Michigan University
(918-98-1379)
5:30 p.m. Mathematical Ethics Robert P. Webber*, Longwood College
(918-98-203)
1:00 p.m. Some improved results on B-rings Amir Ludington Rahimi, M.*,
(918-13-226)
1:15 p.m. Images of multilinear mappings, I. Simon J Bernau, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Piotr J. Wojciechowski*, The University of Texas at El Paso
(918-15-680)
1:30 p.m. Images of multilinear mappings, II. Simon J. Bernau*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Piotr J. Wojciechowski, The University of Texas at El Paso
(918-15-682)
1:45 p.m. Monotonicity of permanents of doubly stochastic matrices with zero main diagonal John Brian Burghduff*, Kingwood College
(918-15-638)
2:00 p.m. A Student's Probability of Finding a Basis C. Bryan Dawson*,
(918-15-701)
2:15 p.m. Simple algebras of Hermitian Operators Xiaorong Shen*,
Jonathan D.H. Smith,
(918-15-411)
2:30 p.m. An explicit criterion for the convexity of quaternionic numerical range Wasin So*, Sam Houston State University
(918-15-93)
2:45 p.m. Matrices, Geometry, and Mathematica. Visualizing the Symmetric Value Decomposition. Todd G. Will*, Davidson College
(918-15-780)
3:15 p.m. Ideals in the enveloping algebra $U(sl_2(K))$ Stefan Catoiu*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(918-16-1429)
3:30 p.m. Logarithmic Forms Associated to the Intersection Lattice of an Arrangement Scott K Imig*, University of Oregon
(918-16-1200)
3:45 p.m. DACC Modules Heakyung Lee*, Winthrop University
(918-16-774)
4:00 p.m. Generalized unitary units in integral group rings Yuanlin Li*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
(918-16-290)
4:15 p.m. Lie Isomorphisms of Prime Rings with Involution of the Second Kind Philip S. Blau*, Boston University
(918-17-476)
4:30 p.m. Primeness and Semiprimeness of Enveloping Algebras of Color Lie superalgebras Kenneth L Price*, University of Wisconsin - Milwuakee
(918-17-1487)
4:45 p.m. The rank of the derivative of the quotient map for $\theta$-groups Craig C Tingey*, University of Oregon
(918-17-1239)
5:00 p.m. Functorial Models and Generic Limit Functors Cyrus Nourani*, UCSB
(918-18-1508)
5:15 p.m. B*-semi-norms A. K. Gaur*, Duquesne University
(918-46-1006)
5:30 p.m. Modulation Equations for Generalized Korteweg-de Vries Equation with Fractional Powers A. Bathi Kasturiarachi*, Kent State University
(918-35-1329)
1:00 p.m. Local Rigidity and Group Cohomology Victor Brunsden*, Vassar College
(918-58-42)
1:15 p.m. Hypergeometric series and the Mandelbrot set. Dante M. Giarrusso*, St. Lawrence University
(918-58-946)
1:30 p.m. A Topological Invariant for the Dynamics on Chaotic Julia Sets Marian Gidea*, SUNY at Buffalo
(918-58-1191)
1:45 p.m. Hamiltonian multivectors and higher co-degree momentum observables in affine multisymplectic geometry Jeffrey K. Lawson*, Wake Forest University
(918-58-1222)
2:00 p.m. Chaotic attractors with symmetries in space Clifford A. Reiter*, Lafayette College
(918-58-206)
2:15 p.m. Wave-Trace Asymptotics For Operators of Dirac-type Mary R Sandoval*, The University of Michigan
(918-58-1188)
2:30 p.m. Secondary Characteristic Currents John W Zweck*, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712
(918-58-1009)
2:45 p.m. Dynamical Properties of One Dimensional Threshold Cellular Automata Diana M Thomas*, US Military Academy
(918-58-1026)
3:00 p.m. Towards a construction of the $A$-cellular approximation of a space. Michele Intermont*, Mesa State College
Wojceich Chacholski, Fields Institute
(918-55-141)
3:15 p.m. Homotopy Rinehart cohomology, Homotopy Lie-Rinehart pairs and the BRST charge Lars J. Kjeseth*,
(918-55-66)
1:00 p.m. A coefficient problem for bounded nonvanishing functions. Andrzej K\c edzierawski*, SUNY at Geneseo
(918-93-1459)
1:15 p.m. Stochastic impulsive control problems for reflected diffusions with a small parameter. Kandethody M. Ramachandran*, University of South Florida
(918-93-100)
1:30 p.m. Recent results in classification of finite dimensionalestimation algebras for n=2 Amid Rasoulian*,
(918-93-1347)
1:45 p.m. Non-binary Gray Codes Gurdial Arora*, Xavier University of Louisiana
(918-94-1352)
1:00 p.m. Laboratory Experiences in Group Theory: A Discovery Approach using Exploring Small Groups Ellen M Parker*,
(918-H1-1193)
1:20 p.m. FGB: A windows environment for beginning group theory Edward C Keppelmann*, University of Nevada Reno
Bayard S Webb, University of Nevada Reno
(918-H1-1338)
1:40 p.m. Exploring Abstract Algebra with ISETL. Ruth I. Berger*, Luther College
(918-H1-1000)
2:00 p.m. Presentations of Groups and Rings Using Mathematica William H. Paulsen*, Arkansas State University
(918-H1-388)
2:20 p.m. Labs for Group Theory: {\it Exploring Abstract Algebra with Mathematica} Allen C. Hibbard*, Central College
(918-H1-646)
2:40 p.m. A modified discovery approach to teaching and learning abstract algebra. Steven R. Benson*, University of New Hampshire
(918-H1-1240)
3:00 p.m. Teaching Algebra Through Investigations Larry Copes*, Augsburg College
(918-H1-312)
3:20 p.m. Enabling and Empowering: Small Group Learning in Abstract Algebra Mary T Treanor*, Valparaiso University
(918-H1-1180)
3:40 p.m. Use of Team Presentations in Abstract Algebra Courses Robert C Mers*, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
(918-H1-726)
1:05 p.m. Departmental and Administration Cooperation at UC Berkeley Calvin C. Moore*, University of California, Berkeley
(918-O1-979)
1:25 p.m. Equipment Purchases - Advice on getting funding Lida K. Barrett*, U.S.M.A.,West Point
(918-O1-840)
1:45 p.m. Five Principles of Dealing with Administrators Elwyn H. Davis*, Pittsburg State University
(918-O1-245)
2:05 p.m. Departmental Initiatives - Institutional Responsibility Ernest J. Manfred*, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
William Sanders, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
(918-01-263)
2:25 p.m. My life with the Dean John B. Conway*, University of Tennessee
(918-O1-1434)
2:45 p.m. Curriculum Reform Efforts in the University of Maryland Math Department Ronald L. Lipsman*, University of Maryland
(918-O1-281)
3:05 p.m. How administrators might help in the effective teaching of math Or, The Watch on the Reform Saunders Mac Lane*, University of Chicago
(918-10-246)
3:25 p.m. The AMS Task Force on Excellence in Mathematics Scholarship: A Road to Success Morton Lowengrub*,
(918-O1-1039)
4:00 p.m. Using Handheld Technology to Teach More Mathematics to More Students Benjamin N. Levy*,
(918-L1-160)
4:15 p.m. A New Kind of Regression Analysis Method. Jongsook Han*, Edward Waters College
(918-L1-1139)
4:30 p.m. Calculus Reform in the Precalculus Class Robert A Hollister*, Jacksonville University
(918-L1-458)
4:45 p.m. Knowing When to Punch Cathy W Carter*, Christian Brothers University
(918-L1-1300)
5:00 p.m. A Student Project in a Business Mathematics Course David K. Ruch*, Sam Houston State University
(918-L1-645)
5:15 p.m. Discovery Learning in Calculus with the TI-92 Barbara K. D'Ambrosia, John Carroll University
Carl R. Spitznagel*, John Carroll University
(918-L1-459)
3:45 p.m. The Hausdorff and packing dimension of sets of continued fractions. Dan Mauldin*, Univ. of North Texas
(918-28-322)
4:15 p.m. Harmonic analysis of fractal measures Palle E.T. Jorgensen*, The University of Iowa
Steen Pedersen, Wright State University
(918-42-228)
4:45 p.m. Multifractal Formalism for Sofic Measures and its Application to Self-Affine Sets Satoshi Takahashi*, Osaka University
(918-28-530)
5:15 p.m. Iteration Function Systems With Overlaps Ka-Sing Lau*, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sze-Man Ngai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
(918-28-644)
5:45 p.m. Fractal measures and statistical sampling John A. Holbrook*, University of Guelph
(918-62-54)
4:05 p.m. Exploring Numerical Linear Algebra via a Spreadsheet Deane E. Arganbright*, University of Papua New Guinea
(918-F1-1371)
4:20 p.m. An ATLAST Lesson Plan on Linear Transformations William J. Higgins*, Wittenberg University
(918-F1-1250)
4:35 p.m. Directing Student Application Projects in Mathematica John R Wicks*, North Park College
(918-F1-1206)
4:50 p.m. Visualization of Parametric Representations of Lines Donald L Muench*, St. John Fisher College
(918-F1-703)
5:05 p.m. Successful strategies and projects for teaching linear algebra Marta B. Pecuch-Herrero*, Arizona State University West
(918-F1-311)
5:20 p.m. Linear Algebra in Context Thomas D. Morley*, Georgia Tech
(918-F1-994)
5:35 p.m. Intersecting (Affine) Subspaces: A Way To Measure The Realtive Size Of Subspaces. John W. Davenport*, Georgia Southern University
(918-F1-1354)
5:50 p.m. Turning Lights Out with Linear Algebra Marlow Anderson*, The Colorado College
Todd Feil, Denison University
(918-F1-438)
7:00 p.m. Using Short Focused Projects to Get Students Working with Data Patti Frazer Lock*, St. Lawrence University
(918-B1-1358)
7:15 p.m. Using newspaper statistics to help motivate business statistics students Ann E. Moskol*, Rhode Island College
(918-B1-1120)
7:30 p.m. Teaching Statistics in a Developing Country Vincent Malaibe*, University of Papua New Guinea
Deane E. Arganbright, University of Papua New Guinea
(918-B1-597)
7:45 p.m. Who's the Winner?: An Exercise in Measuring Deviations. Kathleen M. Shannon, Salsibury State University
William S. Weber, Jr.*, Eastern Arizona College
(918-B1-609)
8:00 p.m. Alternative Assessment: An Effective Framework for Teaching Statistics. Nkechi M Agwu*, BMCC, CUNY
(918-B1-805)
8:30 p.m. Choosing the Best: A Decision-Making Activity Allan J Rossman*, Dickinson College
(918-B1-211)
8:45 p.m. Visualizing Probabilities Alan C. Krinik*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
(918-B1-509)
Friday January 10, 1997, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. AMS Presentation
A tribute to Paul Erd\H os.
Organizers:
Joel H. Spencer, NYU-Courant Institute
Presenters:
Ronald L. Graham, AT\&T Research
Richard K. Guy, University of Calgary
Andras Hajnal, Math Institute (Budapest) and Rutgers University
Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia
Vera T. Sos, Math Institute (Budapest)
Joel H. Spencer, NYU-Courant Institute
7:30 p.m. Some funny factorial functions Manjul Bhargava*, Harvard University
Friday January 10, 1997, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. MAA Presentation
A chair's survival guide.
Organizers:
Frances Rosamond, National University, San Diego
Richard D. Carmichael, Wake Foreat University
Panelists:
Carol Congleton, Mira Costa College
Larry Copes, Augsberg College
Paul Duvall, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Robert Olin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
8:00 a.m. Scattering theory and deformations of hyperbolic manifolds David Borthwick*, University of California, Berkeley
(918-58-498)
8:40 a.m. Short geodesics and large eigenvalues on hyperbolic surfaces. Christopher M Judge*, Indiana University
(918-53-843)
9:20 a.m. The Weyl upper bound on the discrete spectrum and the trace class conjecture for arithmetic subgroups Lizhen Ji*, University of Michigan
(918-22-191)
10:00 a.m. Thom isomorphism via Hodge-Witten theory. Igor P. Prokhorenkov*, Rice University
(918-58-45)
10:30 a.m. The Heat Kernel Weighted Hodge Laplacian on Noncompact Manifolds Edward L Bueler*, Cornell University
(918-58-60)
8:00 a.m. Heat kernel estimates for diffusion processes on finitely ramified fractals Takashi Kumagai*, Nagaya University
(918-60-292)
8:30 a.m. Spectrum of the Laplacian on symmetric fractals. Leonid Malozemov,
Alexander Teplyaev*,
(918-47-1230)
9:00 a.m. Hitting distributions for Brownian motion on the Sierpinski carpet Richard F Bass*, University of Washington
Martin T Barlow, University of British Columbia
(918-60-274)
9:30 a.m. Distributions of Localized Eigenvalues for Laplacians on p.c.f. self-similar sets Jun Kigami*,
(918-31-531)
10:00 a.m. Fractal differential equations on the Sierpinski Gasket Kyallee Dalrymple, University of Colorado, Boulder
Robert S. Strichartz*, Cornell University
Jade Vinson, Washington University
(918-35-1170)
10:30 a.m. Existence and uniqueness of diffusions on fractals. Christophe Sabot*, CNRS
(918-60-533)
8:00 a.m. Combinatorial aspects of sorting networks generated by genetic algorithms experiments Stanley Gill Williamson*, University of California, San Diego
(918-05-447)
8:30 a.m. Entropy and Sorting Jeong Han Kim*,
(918-06-1267)
9:00 a.m. Database Security and Concentrating Sums of Vectors Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina
(918-05-920)
9:30 a.m. Partially ordered sets with symmetric chain decompositions Rodica Simion*, The George Washington University
(918-05-1541)
10:00 a.m. Extension Theorems for Order-Preserving Maps into $\Bbb Z$: Problems of Ern\'e, Daykin and Daykin Jonathan David Farley*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Vanderbilt University
(918-06-1089)
10:30 a.m. Homomorphisms into General Order Relations Fred S. Roberts*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
(918-06-969)
8:00 a.m. Multiwavelet Interpolation and Approximate Solutions of Partial Differential Equations EnBing Lin*, University of Toledo
(918-41-331)
8:30 a.m. Wavelets and Nonlinear Transformations Emil-Adrian I Cornea*, University of South Carolina
Bj\"orn Jawerth, University of South Carolina
(918-41-217)
9:00 a.m. Non-uniform multiresolution analyses and spectral pairs J. P. Gabardo,
M. Z Nashed, Z.*,
(918-31-1269)
9:30 a.m. Positive Estimation with Wavelets Gilbert G. Walter*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(918-42-398)
10:00 a.m. Sampling multipliers and frame decompositions John J. Benedetto*, University of Maryland at College Park
Georg Zimmermann, University of Vienna
(918-42-412)
10:30 a.m. Adapted Wavelet Bases for Fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Dennis M. Healy, Jr.*, Dartmouth College
(918-93-1179)
8:00 a.m. New Bases for the Decomposition of the Regular Representation of Wreath Products of $S_n$. Edward E. Allen*, Wake Forest University
(918-05-1280)
8:30 a.m. Iwahori-Hecke algebras, bitraces and symmetric functions Tom Halverson, Macalester College
Robert Leduc, University of North Dakota
Arun Ram*, Princeton University
(918-20-418)
9:00 a.m. Macdonald polynomials and the Hilbert scheme Mark D Haiman*, U. C. San Diego
(918-05-848)
9:30 a.m. Nilpotent orbit closures and the atomic decomposition of the $q$-Kostka polynomials William Brockman*, University of California San Diego
(918-05-76)
10:00 a.m. Vector Bundles over the Hilbert Scheme and the n! Conjecture Carol H. Chang*, University of California, San Diego
(918-05-705)
10:30 a.m. Kostant Polynomials and the Cohomology Ring for $G/B$ Sara C. Billey*, M.I.T.
(918-05-491)
8:00 a.m. Weak Convergences in the von Neumann Algebras of Non-amenable Groups Ching Chou, State University of New York at Buffalo
Guangwu Xu*, University of Alberta
(918-46-517)
8:30 a.m. Bilinear completely bounded maps and injectivity Roger R Smith*, Texas A&M University
Allan M Sinclair, Univ. of Edinburgh
(918-46-507)
9:00 a.m. Embedding continuous fields of C*-algebras in ${\cal O}_2.$ N. Christopher Phillips*, University of Oregon
(918-46-1261)
9:30 a.m. Perforation in the positive cone of $K_0$ of a simple $C*$-algebra. George A. Elliott*, University of Toronto and University of Copenhagen
(918-46-1220)
10:00 a.m. Perturbing Results about Noncommutative CW complexes Terry A Loring*, University of New Mexico
Soren Eilers, University of Copenhagen
Gert K Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
(918-46-437)
10:30 a.m. On a projectionless simple C$^*$-algebra Hongbing Su*, The Fields Institute
Xinhui Jiang, The Fields Institute
(918-47-496)
8:00 a.m. On Selecting the Best Treatment in an Unbalanced Two-Way Additive Model Mansour M Abughalous*,
Naveen K Bansal,
(918-62-1294)
8:15 a.m. Connecting classical game theory results and rules for selecting forecasts Lei Chen*, Michigan State University
(918-62-1164)
8:30 a.m. Models for Selection Bias in Meta-Analysis Richard J. Cleary*, Saint Michael's College
(918-62-1227)
8:45 a.m. Pattern Analysis of Long-term Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Illness Progression Graphs Lucy Dechene*, Fitchburg State College
Marjorie J. McKenzie, II, East Hartford, Conn.
Robert Fontanetta, Floral Park, N.Y.
Fred Friedberg, SUNY Stony Brook
(918-62-754)
9:00 a.m. Was My Opponent (Too) Lucky? Chris T Edwards*, Univ. of Wis.-Oshkosh
(918-62-948)
9:15 a.m. Convergence Rates of Symmetrized Product Measures Zhihui Liu*, Stat Dept, MSU
James Hannan, Stat Dept, MSU
(918-62-282)
9:30 a.m. Assessing Seasonal Variation Having Small Amplitude Osvaldo Marrero*, Villanova University
(918-62-123)
9:45 a.m. An integrated selection rule on choosing among several experimental treatments and a control: The common and unknown variance case Jun-lue Zhang*, Indiana Univesity of Pennsylvania
Pinyuen Chen, Syracuse University
(918-62-1544)
10:00 a.m. Ridge regression with a large number of almost identical predictors Lawrence J. Crone*, The American University
David S. Crosby, The American University
(918-62-925)
8:00 a.m. A Preprocessing Technique for Multiwavelets David W Roach*,
(918-42-1281)
8:15 a.m. Scaling Vector Support and Two-Scale SimilarityTransformations David K. Ruch*, Sam Houston State University
(918-42-630)
8:30 a.m. Uniqueness for spherically convergent multiple trigonometric series, part I Gang Wang*, DePaul University
J. Marshall Ash, DePaul University
(918-42-799)
8:45 a.m. Uniqueness for spherically convergent multiple trigonometric series, part II J. Marshall Ash*, DePaul University
Gang Wang, DePaul University
(918-42-793)
9:00 a.m. The ergodic Hilbert transform on the weighted spaces $L_p(G,w)$. Phyllis Panman*, California State University
(918-43-1413)
9:15 a.m. Signed Hypergroups Adam W Parr*, University of Oregon
(918-43-1225)
9:30 a.m. Eigenvalue Ratios and Eigenvalue Gaps of Sturm-Liouville Operators Chun-Kong Law*, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Yu-Ling Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
(918-34-337)
9:45 a.m. On the new associated pairs Joyati Debnath*, Winona State University
(918-44-1166)
10:00 a.m. Tauberian Type Theorems and Wavelet Transforms of Distributions George K. Yang*, Southern Illinois University
(918-44-378)
10:15 a.m. Blow-up solutions to certain nonlinear Volterra integral equations Kelly M Fuller*, St. Lawrence University
(918-45-374)
10:30 a.m. On Sobolev Spaces of Fractional Order and $\epsilon$-Families of Operators on Spaces of Homogeneous Type A. Eduardo Gatto*, DePaul University
(918-26-1550)
8:00 a.m. Construction of Liapunov functionals to study stability of delay differential equations Jabbar A. Al-Sarraj, Al-Rafidain University
Sadia M. Makky*, Yarmouk University
(918-00-1528)
8:15 a.m. Planar face sequence realizations of 6-valent graphs Theodore C. Enns*, San Diego Mesa College
(918-00-928)
8:30 a.m. An interpretation of the n-Leech cohomology group Bryce Hanlon*, Tulane University
(918-00-1491)
8:45 a.m. A version of Density Theorem for Prime Rings Containing a Left Ideal with Some Finiteness Conditions Hossain Khabazian*, Isfahan University of Technology
(918-00-393)
9:00 a.m. The Developmental Mathematics Courses: An Active Learning Approach Raquel Mesa*, Xavier University of Louisiana
(918-00-1291)
9:15 a.m. Stratified graphs and distance graphs Sarah Spence*, University of Richmond
(918-00-953)
9:30 a.m. Special Programs to Encourage Female Students in Mathematics Elizabeth G. Yanik*, Emporia State University
(918-00-957)
9:45 a.m. On rings with a condition on zero divisors Hazar Abu-Khuzam, American University of Beirut
Adil Yaqub*, University of California, Santa Barbara
(918-00-933)
10:15 a.m. When Whitney numbers of a chain-product are equal Xiaoya Zha*, Vanderbilt University
(918-05-1538)
8:00 a.m. Integrating Technology in the Introductory Statistics Course Leona L. Mirza*, North Park College
(918-B1-1161)
8:15 a.m. Integrating Activities and Computer Technology into an Elementary Statistics Course Yvonne M. Zubovic*, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne
(918-B1-971)
8:30 a.m. Incorporating a Laboratory Component into Statistics Courses Beth L Chance*,
(918-B1-511)
8:45 a.m. A Variety of Components for Effective Teaching Cathy W Carter*, Christian Brothers University
(918-B1-1295)
9:00 a.m. Integration of Statistical Concepts into Courses before Introductory Statistics Norean Radke Sharpe*, Babson College
(918-B1-1505)
9:15 a.m. How do Naperville residents do in recycling? Linda Q. Gao*, North Central College
(918-B1-1515)
9:30 a.m. Hypothesis Testing Logic in Introductory Statistics Pavel A Bosin*, NSU
(918-B1-404)
9:45 a.m. More Problem Solving Power: Exploiting Prediction Models and Statistical Software in a One-Semester Course Joe H. Ward, Jr.*, Health Careers High School
Robert L. Fountain,
(918-B1-1126)
10:00 a.m. Brains, Elasticities, and Slime: An Activity for Teaching Transformations George W. Cobb*, Mount Holyoke College
(918-B1-1209)
10:15 a.m. Beach Balls, Cards and Graphing Calculators Yajun Yang*, State University of New York, Farmindale, New York
(918-B1-440)
10:30 a.m. Constructive Technology for Teaching Statistical Concepts Richard L Scheaffer*, University of Florida
(918-B1-315)
10:45 a.m. Using the World Wide Web for Teaching Statistics K.L.D. Gunawardena*, UW Oshkosh
(918-B1-1293)
8:00 a.m. Using technology to provide motivation for undergraduate research Horia C. Pop*, University of Iowa
(918-G1-402)
8:20 a.m. Efforts to Integrate Undergraduate Research into the Mathematics Curriculum: Prospects and Limitations Ignatios E Vakalis*,
(918-G1-987)
8:40 a.m. The Richard A. Henson School of Science and Technology Undergraduate research Symposium: Six Years of Success. Kathleen M Shannon*, Salisbury State University
(918-G1-1098)
9:00 a.m. School Mathematics Conference: Students Doing What Professional Mathematicians Do James R Matthews*, Siena College
(918-G1-1093)
9:20 a.m. The Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference David C Vella*,
(918-G1-772)
9:40 a.m. Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills with Summer Undergraduate Research Rhonda M Eller-Meshreki*, Randolph-Macon College
(918-G1-1058)
10:00 a.m. Interfacing Sonar To A Rug Warrior Microcontroller Board Daniel Werner*, Randolph-Macon College
(918-G1-1069)
8:30 a.m. Sophus Lie, transformation groups, and geodesics T. Christine Stevens*, Saint Louis University
(918-01-625)
9:00 a.m. American Women Mathematics PhDs of the Forties and Fifties Margaret A.M. Murray*, Virginia Tech
(918-01-302)
9:30 a.m. The ``Error'' in the Indian ``Taylor Series Approximation'' to the Sine. Kim Plofker*, Brown University
(918-01-835)
10:00 a.m. The beginnings of computational group theory: The characters of the symmetric group Charles W. Curtis*, University of Oregon
(918-01-626)
10:30 a.m. The early history of the London Mathematical Society Robin J. Wilson*, The Open University, England
Adrian C. Rice, Middlesex University, England
(918-01-909)
8:30 a.m. Number-Theory Zeta Functions and Dynamical Zeta Functions Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T Labs-Research
(918-11-1400)
9:00 a.m. Ordered dynamics and the distribution of sequences Alan H Forrest*,
(918-40-1480)
9:30 a.m. The Bost-Connes phase transition: a semigroup dynamical system approach. Marcelo E Laca*,
(918-46-861)
10:00 a.m. On Heisenberg Groups and Low-dimensional Cohomology Michael C Berg*, Loyola Marymount University
(918-28-1218)
10:30 a.m. On the cohomology equivalence classes for nonsingular mappings. Isaac Kornfeld*, North Dakota State University
Andrei Krygin, North Dakota State University
(918-28-275)
8:50 a.m. Opening remarks: {\bf Ruth M. Charney}, {\bf Carolyn S. Gordon}, and {\bf Catherine Roberts}
9:00 a.m. Random walks on the finite torus. Perla L. Myers*, University of California, Santa Cruz
9:30 a.m. General theory of hierarchical model behavior. Beth L. Chance*, University of the Pacific
10:00 a.m. Algorithms for polycyclic groups. Gretchen Ostheimer*, Tufts University
10:30 a.m. A decomposition theorem for the Monster Lie algebra. Elizabeth G. Jurisich*, The University of Chicago
11:00 a.m. {\bf Poster Session}.
11:00 a.m. Mirroring Families of K3 Surfaces Sarah-Marie Belcastro*, University of Michigan
11:00 a.m. Injectivity radius bounds in hyperbolic convex cores. Carol E. Fan*, University of Michigan
11:00 a.m. Fat points ideals and blow-ups of the projective plane. Stephanie A. Fitchett*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
11:00 a.m. Computing the galois group of an order four linear differential equation. Sabrina A. Hessinger*, North Carolina State University
11:00 a.m. Vector-valued measures. Annela Rammer Kelly*, University of Missouri, Columbia
11:00 a.m. Symplectic packings of the cotangent bundle of the torus. Jean Beth Mastrangeli*, Bryn Mawr College
11:00 a.m. A parameter recovery problem on the real line. Jennifer L. Mueller*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
11:00 a.m. Spectral asymptotics and spectral asymmetry for systems of differential operators. Mary R. Sandoval*, University of Michigan
11:00 a.m. A generalization of the Bolloba's Inequality. Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; University of South Dakota
11:00 a.m. Siegel modular forms: Results on Satake parameters. Tamara B. Veenstra*, Dartmouth College
11:00 a.m. Composition operators with multivalent symbol. Rebecca G. Wahl*, Purdue University
11:00 a.m. A two-dimensional degenerate parabolic equation with oblique, evolutionary boundary conditions. Michelle Diann Homp*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
12:00 p.m. Lunch break
1:00 p.m. Boundary value problems for differential forms on domains with rough boundaries. Dorina I. Mitrea*, University of Missouri, Columbia
1:30 p.m. The stable 4-dimensional geometry of the real Grassmann manifolds. Weiqing Gu*, Harvey Mudd College
2:00 p.m. Minimal surfaces and conformal mappings in singular spaces. Chikako Mese*, University of Southern California
2:30 p.m. Invariant submanifolds for geodesic flows for manifolds with nonpositive curvature. Tracy Lin Payne*, Washington University in St. Louis
3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion on {\it Launching a Career in Mathematics}.
4:30 p.m. Poster Session (same posters as from 11:00 a.m. to noon)
1:00 p.m. Analytic Torsion and Topology of Diffeomorphism Groups John W Lott*, University of Michigan
(918-58-152)
1:40 p.m. Relative $L_2$-torsion for manifolds with boundary. Dan Burghelea*, Ohio State University
Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona
Thomas Kappeler, Ohio State University
(918-58-1008)
2:20 p.m. Appoximating Von Neumann invariants of covering spaces. Varghese Mathai*, University of Adelaide
(918-58-128)
3:00 p.m. The cohomology of the remote fiber of a real polynomial map. Maxim Braverman*, Ohio State University
Alexander Braverman, Tel-Aviv University
(918-58-833)
3:40 p.m. Multiplicative Index Theorem Jerome Kaminker*, IUPUI
(918-58-1313)
1:00 p.m. Complex oriented cohomology theories and the language of stacks Michael J Hopkins*,
(918-55-749)
1:50 p.m. Periodic complex oriented homology of groups from cohomology J.P.C. Greenlees, Sheffield University
H. Sadofsky*, University of Oregon
(918-55-262)
2:20 p.m. The Adams $E_{2}$-term, up to $F$-isomorphism John H. Palmieri*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(918-55-190)
2:50 p.m. Localization of Model Categories Philip S. Hirschhorn*, Wellesley College
(918-55-237)
3:20 p.m. Phantom maps and a generalized Milnor sequence J. Daniel Christensen*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(918-55-232)
3:50 p.m. Cobordism of Real manifolds Po Hu*, The University of Michigan
(918-55-522)
4:20 p.m. Modules over -1 connected homology theories. Wojciech Chacholski*, The University of Michigan
(918-55-544)
1:00 p.m. On an Eigenvalue Problem for $-\frac {d^2}{dx^2}$ on $[0,1]$from a Fractal Point of View Tadashi Shima*, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University
(918-34-527)
1:30 p.m. The LaPlace Equation and Diffusion Limited Aggregation Benoit B. Mandelbrot*, Yale University
(918-60-1493)
2:00 p.m. Generalized Minkowski content, spectrum of fractal drums, fractal strings and the Riemann Zeta-function Christina Q. He*, University of California, Riverside
Michel Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
(918-35-1211)
2:30 p.m. Complex dimensions of fractal strings and oscillatory phenomena Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
Machiel van Frankenhuysen, IHES, France
(918-35-537)
3:00 p.m. Zeta-functions and explicit formulas for the geometry and the spectrum of fractal strings Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
Machiel van Frankenhuysen*, IHES, France
(918-35-539)
3:30 p.m. Sharp Estimates for Dirichlet Eigenfunctions in Nonsmooth Domains Rodrigo Ba\~nuelos*, Purdue University
(918-35-1208)
4:00 p.m. Snowflake Harmonics and Computer Graphics: Numerical computation of spectra on fractal drums Michel L Lapidus,
John W Neuberger,
Robert J Renka,
Cheryl A Griffith*,
(918-35-1133)
4:30 p.m. Limit Sets of Hyperbolic Branching Brownian Motion Steven P Lalley*, Purdue University
Thomas Sellke,
(918-60-1247)
5:00 p.m. Sharp bounds for ground state eigenfunctions on domains with horns and cusps Arthur J. Lindeman, II, Purdue University
Michael M.H. Pang*, University of Missouri
Zhongxin Zhao, University of Missouri
(918-47-258)
5:30 p.m. Quantum Fractals in Boxes Michael V. Berry*, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
(918-81-1587)
1:00 p.m. Wavelets, Multiwavelets, and their Applications Gilbert Strang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(918-41-1002)
1:30 p.m. Compactly supported, biorthogonal multiwavelets. Douglas P Hardin*,
Jeffrey A Marasovich,
(918-41-1032)
2:00 p.m. Inductive limit Riesz bases and oblique multiwavelets Akram Aldroubi*, National Institutes of Health
(918-41-802)
2:30 p.m. Accuracy of Lattice Translates of Multiple Multidimensional Refinable Distributions Carlos Cabrelli, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Christopher Heil*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ursula Moler, Universidad de Buenos Aires
(918-41-21)
3:00 p.m. Stability of Scaling Vectors Gerlind B Plonka*, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universit\"at Rostock
(918-42-194)
3:30 p.m. Biorthogonal Multiwavelets Vasily V Strela*, University of South Carolina
(918-41-397)
4:00 p.m. Vector-valued wavelets and multiwavelets Xiang-Gen Xia*, University Delaware
(918-41-624)
4:30 p.m. Multiwavelet Construction via the Lifting Scheme Geoffrey M. Davis*, Dartmouth College
Wim Sweldens,
(918-41-1156)
5:00 p.m. On Linearly Independent Property of Scaling Vectors Jianzhong Wang*, Sam Houston State University
(918-41-188)
1:00 p.m. Plethystic Formulas and positivity for $q,t$-Kotka Coefficients Adriano Garsia*, University of California, San Diego
(918-05-693)
1:30 p.m. Plethystically Parameterized Macdonald Polynomials Glenn P Tesler*, University of Calif., San Diego
(918-05-863)
2:00 p.m. Inverting the Frobenius map Sergey Fomin*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jean-Yves Thibon, Universit\'e de Marne-la-Vall\'ee
(918-05-1198)
2:30 p.m. A cyclage poset structure on Littlewood-Richardson tableaux Mark M Shimozono*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anatol N Kirillov, CRM, Universite de Montreal
(918-05-492)
3:00 p.m. Modular representations of Hecke algebras and solvable lattice models. Omar Foda, The University of Melbourne
Bernard Leclerc, Universit\'e de Caen
Masato Okado, Osaka University
Jean-Yves Thibon*, Universit\'e de Marne-la-Vall\'ee
Trevor A. Welsh, The University of Melbourne
(918-05-1428)
3:30 p.m. Rational function identities, characters, and posets Curtis Greene*, Haverford College
(918-05-1342)
4:00 p.m. The Enumeration of Fully Commutative Elements of Coxeter Groups John R Stembridge*, University of Michigan
(918-05-495)
4:30 p.m. Two extensions of Eulerian numbers. Ira M. Gessel*, Brandeis University
(918-05-588)
5:00 p.m. A Pieri Rule for Shifted Schur Functions. Alexander I. Molev, Centre for Math. and its Appl., School of Mathematical Sciences
Bruce E. Sagan*, Michigan State University
(918-05-1468)
1:00 p.m. A new invariant in the K-theory of C*-algebras Lawrence G. Brown*, Purdue University
Gert K. Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
(918-46-1242)
1:30 p.m. Non-stable $K$--Theory and Extremally Rich $C^*$--Algebras. Lawrence G. Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Gert K. Pedersen*, University of Copenhagen
(918-46-247)
2:00 p.m. On the Classification of certain C*-algebras Guihua Gong*, University of Puerto Rico
(918-46-825)
2:30 p.m. Semigroup crossed products and number theory Jane Arledge, Arizona State University
Marcelo Laca, University of Newcastle, Australia
Iain Raeburn*, University of Newcastle, Australia
(918-46-681)
3:00 p.m. Separative cancellation for projections in C*-algebras of real rank zero. K. R. Goodearl*, University of California at Santa Barbara
(918-46-222)
3:30 p.m. Certain C*-algebras related to free product groups Wojciech Szymanski*, The University of Newcastle
Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati
(918-46-349)
4:00 p.m. Poisson transforms on some $C^*$-algebras generated by isometries Gelu F. Popescu*, University of Texas at San Antonio
(918-46-718)
4:30 p.m. Low-dimensional matrix analysis John A. Holbrook*, University of Guelph
(918-47-56)
5:00 p.m. Analytic Structure of Certain Transformation Group C*-algebras Qing Lin*, University of Victoria and Chinese Academy of Science
(918-47-1473)
1:00 p.m. The Maximal Ideal Space of the Semicrossed Product of the Disk Algebra Dale R. Buske*, Iowa State University
(918-47-849)
1:15 p.m. The Resolvents of Operators Dependent on Parameters Min MH He*, Kent State University-Trumbull Campus
(918-47-450)
1:30 p.m. Representations of $H^\infty ({\Bbb D}^N)$ George R. Exner,
Young Soo Jo,
Il Bong Jung*,
(918-47-223)
1:45 p.m. Approximation theorems and fixed point theorem for condensing composite of multifunctions Tzu-Chu Lin*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Sehie Park, Seoul National University
(918-47-935)
2:00 p.m. A generalization of hypercyclicity Vivien G Miller*, Mississippi State University
(918-47-461)
2:15 p.m. On the invariant subspace problem for hyponormal operators Vasile Lauric*, Texas A \& M University
(918-47-854)
2:30 p.m. Quantitative Simultaneous Representation Formulas For $(C_0)$ Operator Semigroups. Mi Zhou*, University of Memphis
(918-47-908)
2:45 p.m. Isometric equivalence of composition operators James E. Jamison*, University of Memphis
William Horner, University of Southern Mississippi
(918-47-1181)
3:00 p.m. Pseudospectral Legendre-based optimal solution of nonlinear variational problems Gamal N. Elnagar*, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg
(918-49-1501)
3:15 p.m. Finding almost common fixed points of measurable families of operators Dan Butnariu*, University of Texas, Arlington
(918-49-918)
3:30 p.m. General constrained calculus of variations problems involving PDEs John Gregory*, Southern Illinois University
Kathleen Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University
(918-49-919)
3:45 p.m. Fluid Cluster Regularity Frank Morgan*, Williams College
(918-49-401)
4:00 p.m. Characterization of "principle of convergence of energy" of integral functionals by means of their integrands. Young measure approach. Mikhail Andreevich Sychev*, SISSA, Italy
(918-49-406)
4:15 p.m. $H^{\infty}$ boundary control of parabolic systems with sampled state information Mingqing Xiao*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tamer Ba\c{s}ar, University of Illinois
(918-49-1028)
1:00 p.m. From Euler's hidden lemmas to Stokes's infinitely slow convergence Mark McKinzie*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(918-01-1114)
1:15 p.m. The History of a Mathematics Department at an American Liberal Arts College Peter D Schumer*,
(918-01-293)
1:30 p.m. Cauchy and partial differential equations John A. Synowiec*, Indiana University, Northwest
(918-01-921)
1:45 p.m. A Brief History of the Sadlierian Chair James J. Tattersall*, Providence College
(918-01-510)
2:00 p.m. The Blossoming of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1900-1996: A Genealogy Project. Steve Butcher,
Harry B. Coonce*,
(918-01-69)
2:15 p.m. Arithmetization of algebra Ahlam El-Hage Tannouri*, Morgan State University
Al- Karaji, Morgan State University
Al- Samawal, Morgan State University
(918-01-1479)
2:30 p.m. The History of Mathematics in Colombia Sanchez Clara Helena*, Universidad Nacional - Colombia
(918-01-273)
1:00 p.m. Quantitative Reasoning Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Courses John M Quinn*,
Frank A Cerreto,
Charles W Herlands,
(918-C1-560)
1:15 p.m. Mathematics in a Learning Community Scott A. Smith*, Columbia College (SC)
(918-C1-954)
1:30 p.m. Music, Mathematics, and Cryptology Craig M. Johnson*, Marywood College
(918-C1-519)
1:45 p.m. Mathematics and Models in Music Alexandra Kurepa*, North Carolina A&T State University
Rodney A Waschka, North Carolina State University
(918-C1-1146)
2:00 p.m. A Business Calculus and Principles of Accounting I Learning Community Joanne D. Kossegi*, SUNY at Oswego
Joan Carroll, SUNY at Oswego
(918-C1-470)
2:15 p.m. Integrating Mathematical Statistics Into The Occupational Therapy Curriculum Laurie J Sawyer, Ph.D.*,
William R Croninger, OTR/L,
(918-C1-400)
2:30 p.m. Teaching Undergraduates to Consult in Applied Mathematics Philip E. Luft*, Salisbury State University
(918-C1-332)
2:45 p.m. Mathematical Models in Chemistry - An Interdisciplinary Approach Agnes M. Rash*, St. Joseph's University
(918-C1-776)
3:00 p.m. Mathematics and Biology: An Interdisciplinary GER Course Sandra Fillebrown*, St. Joseph's University
(918-C1-267)
3:15 p.m. Life Sciences Laboratories for Calculus and Differential Equations James L. Cornette*, Iowa State Universtiy
(918-C1-366)
3:30 p.m. An Integrated Mathematics/Biology Course for a Freshman Honors Class David R Stone*, Georgia Southern University
William S Irby, Georgia Southern University
(918-C1-1195)
3:45 p.m. A Coordinated Introduction to Mechanics and Calculus Laurie Fathe, Occidental College
Michael A McDonald, Occidental College
Jennifer J Quinn*, Occidental College
George Schmiedeshoff, Occidental College
(918-C1-556)
4:00 p.m. A course integrating calculus and physics Martin A Jackson*,
(918-C1-1080)
4:15 p.m. Interdisciplinary Course in Fourier Optics James S. Walker*, UW-Eau Claire
(918-C1-506)
4:30 p.m. An Integrated Pre-Engineering Curriculum Phillip L. Zenor*, Auburn University
Jack W. Rogers, Jr., Auburn University
(918-C1-1224)
4:45 p.m. Ground Spill Diffusion and Convection: An Interdisciplinary Lively Applications Project Linking Math and Engineering Joseph D. Myers*, United States Military Academy
Eric B. Zimmerman, United States Military Academy
(918-C1-289)
5:00 p.m. Multidisciplinary Course in Nonlinear Dynamics Neil Fleishon,
Jean Marie McDill*, Calif. Polytechnic State Univ.
Kent Morrison,
Rod Schoonover,
John P. Sharpe,
Nilgun Sungar,
(918-C1-904)
1:00 p.m. Implementing Change at your Pace James T. Sandefur*, Georgetown University
(918-J1-1162)
1:20 p.m. Distance Learning: Perceptions of Algebra I Teachers Connie H. Yarema*, Northeast Louisiana University
(918-J1-433)
1:40 p.m. Helping Students Who Have Not Succeeded in Mathematics Overcome Their Difficulties in Learning Mathematics Leona L. Mirza*, North Park College
(918-J1-1160)
2:00 p.m. A More Personal Approach to Developmental Mathematics Cathleen Maria Zucco*, University of North Florida
(918-J1-798)
2:20 p.m. Promoting Excellence in College Algebra through Workshops based on Collaborative Learning. A. Bathi Kasturiarachi*, Kent State University
(918-J1-1090)
2:40 p.m. Using manipulatives in developmental algebra Amelia S. Kinard*, Columbia College
(918-J1-956)
1:00 p.m. Evaluation of mathematics teaching for short-term improvement Vincent P. Schielack*, Texas A\&M Univesity
(918-M1-1430)
1:15 p.m. The Air Force Academy Teacher Observation Program--An Evolution Spanning 30 Years Daniel W Litwhiler*, USAF Academy, CO
Steven M Hadfield, USAF Academy, CO
Keith Bergeron, USAF Academy, CO
(918-M1-1029)
1:30 p.m. Continuous Assessment Jack Bookman*, Duke University
David A Smith, Duke University
(918-M1-1199)
1:45 p.m. Quality Tools in the Classroom Ellen Clay*, Stockton State College
(918-M1-1339)
2:00 p.m. Alternative Assessment for Student and Teacher Empowerment. Nkechi M Agwu*, BMCC, CUNY
(918-M1-796)
2:15 p.m. Assessing Teaching and Learning with Portfolios Deborah A. Crocker*, Appalachian State University
(918-M1-820)
2:30 p.m. Using Student Writings and Cognitive Maps for Assessment of Understandings in Intuitive Geometry for Pre-Service Elementary School Teachers Barbara J. Pence*, San Jose State Univ
(918-M1-983)
2:45 p.m. Journal Writing: An Assessment for Learning and Teaching. Cathy Liebars*, College of New Jersey
(918-M1-1457)
3:05 p.m. NSA's Mathematics Education Partnership Program: Connecting Teachers with Reform John R Pettit, National Security Agency
Bradley E Garner*, National Security Agency
(918-E1-360)
3:20 p.m. A Model for Working with Secondary Teachers to Reform Mathematics Instruction William O. Martin*, North Dakota State University
(918-E1-1337)
3:35 p.m. A Fellowship of Future Mathematics and Science Teachers Vincent P. Schielack*, Texas A\&M Univesity
(918-E1-1431)
3:50 p.m. A School/University Partnership: A New Program Connecting the Initial Preparation and Continued Professional Development of K-8 Teachers Patricia M. Baggett*, New Mexico State University
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, University of Colorado
Karin Matray, Las Cruces Teachers' Center
(918-E1-1510)
4:05 p.m. Connecting a community college and a university in the preparation of elementary teachers Karen T. Sharp*, Mott Community College
(918-E1-1086)
4:20 p.m. The Elementary Teacher in the University Classroom: A direct approach to the examining the relevance of the mathematics preparation of elementary teachers Andy R Magid*, University of Oklahoma
Cecilia Cumby, Norman Public Schools
(918-E1-549)
4:35 p.m. Inquiry-based learning in Calculus Heather A. Hulett*,
(918-E1-940)
4:50 p.m. Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators Unite to Prepare Students for Secondary Teaching at UCLA. Susie W. Hakansson*, University of California, Los Angeles
(918-E1-661)
5:05 p.m. Collaborating to Encourage Teaching as a Profession Howard Sherwood*, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
Joby M Anthony, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
Douglas K Brumbaugh, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
(918-E1-899)
3:00 p.m. Approximating the Sine and Cosine Functions Sheldon P Gordon*, Suffolk Community College
(918-I1-851)
3:15 p.m. Algebra, Trigonometry, and Mathematica Barry Brunson*, Western Kentucky University
(918-I1-1469)
3:30 p.m. Using CBL Systems and the Web in Introductory College Courses Linda H Boyd*, DeKalb College
(918-I1-1380)
3:45 p.m. Increasing Student Understanding By Writing Analogies Stephen Brown*, Olivet Nazarene University
(918-I1-1385)
4:00 p.m. Technology, Explorations, and Modeling in Elementary Algebra Elaine Hubbard*, Kennesaw State University
(918-I1-1386)
4:15 p.m. General Mathematics: Problem Solving Strategies Thomas J. Klein*, Morehead State University
(918-I1-1467)
4:30 p.m. Reform-Based College Algebra Tena L. Golding*, Southeastern Louisiana University
(918-I1-1389)
4:45 p.m. Applications Anchor Mathematics John C. Peterson*, Chattanooga State Technical Community College
William J. Wagner,
(918-I1-1404)
5:00 p.m. Teaching College Algebra with the TI-83: Students Asking For More Challenges in Class Zacchaeus K. Oguntebi*, DeKalb College
(918-I1-1466)
5:15 p.m. Using Systems Dynamics to Integrate the Principal MathematicalTopics in an Intermediate Algebra Course Scott R. Herriott*, Maharishi University of Management
(918-I1-1391)
5:30 p.m. Lessons From a Precalculus Project Carl Swenson*, Seattle University
(918-I1-1392)
Saturday January 11, 1997, 4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. MAA Presentation
Report on ICME-8.
Organizers:
Jerry P. Becker, Southern Illinois University
Jerry P. Becker, Southern Illinois University
Presenters:
Joanne Rossi Becker, San Jose State University
Victor J. Katz, University of the District of Columbia
Lynnell S. Matthews, Howard Community College
Mark Saul, Bronxville Schools