Joint Mathematics Meetings Full Program

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2002
Meeting #973

Friday January 4, 2002

• Friday January 4, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  AMS Short Course on Symbolic Dynamics
  Organizers:
  Susan G. Williams, University of South Alabama
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Registration
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics.
    Susan Williams*, University of South Alabama
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Combining Modulation Codes and Error-Correction Codes.
    Brian Marcus*, IBM Almaden Research Center
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Complex Dynamics and Symbolic Dynamics.
    Robert L. Devaney*, Boston University
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Discussion
• Friday January 4, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
  MAA Short Course on A Sampler of Applications of Graph Theory
  Organizers:
  Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Registration.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A sampler of applications of Graph Theory.
    Fred S. Roberts*, Rutgers University
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Applications to statistical physics.
    Peter Winkler*, Bell Labs
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Applications of graph theory to molecular biology.
    R. Ravi*, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Graphs in the theory of location of facilities.
    K. Brooks Reid*, California State University, San Marcos

Saturday January 5, 2002

• Saturday January 5, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#1: Part A
  Using interactive labs to explore abstract algebra topics.
  Organizers:
  Allen C. Hibbard, Central College
  Kenneth M. Levasseur, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Saturday January 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  MAA Board of Governors
• Saturday January 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
  AMS Short Course on Symbolic Dynamics
  Organizers:
  Susan G. Williams, University of South Alabama
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multi-Dimensional Symbolic Dynamics.
    Douglas L. Lind*, University of Washington
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Symbolic Dynamics and Tilings of $R^d$.
    E. Arthur Robinson*, George Washington University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Strong shift Equivalence and Positive Algebraic K-Theory.
    J. B. Wagoner*, University of California, Berkeley
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday January 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-3:15 p.m.
  MAA Short Course on A Sampler of Applications of Graph Theory
  Organizers:
  Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Graph structure on the World Wide Web.
    Sridhar Rajagopalan*, IBM Almaden
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Applications to network visualization.
    Nathaniel Dean*, Rice University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Graph theory and social networks.
    Fred S. Roberts*, Rutgers University
• Saturday January 5, 2002, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#2: Part A
  Mathematical algorithms, models, and graphic representations using spreadsheets.
  Organizers:
  Robert S. Smith, Miami University
  Deane E. Arganbright, University of Tennessee at Martin
  Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna
• Saturday January 5, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#1: Part B
  Using interactive labs to explore abstract algebra topics.
  Organizers:
  Allen C. Hibbard, Central College
  Kenneth M. Levasseur, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Saturday January 5, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  AMS Council
• Saturday January 5, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Saturday January 5, 2002, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#2: Part B
  Mathematical algorithms, models, and graphic representations using spreadsheets.
  Organizers:
  Robert S. Smith, Miami University
  Deane E. Arganbright, University of Tennessee at Martin
  Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna

Sunday January 6, 2002

• Sunday January 6, 2002, 7:00 a.m.-7:45 a.m.
  Ecumenical Christian Worship Service
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Registration, orientation, and interview center (see article for specific hours.
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, I
  Organizers:
  William H. Barker, Bowdoin College
  Jerry L. Bona, University of Texas at Austin
  Naomi D. Fisher, University of Illinois at Chicago ndfisher@uic.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    International Aspects of Mathematics Education.
    Deborah Hughes Hallett*, University of Arizona
    (973-97-983)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Japanese High Schools.
    Kazuko I West*, Teachers College, Columbia University
    (973-97-1106)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Cross-National Comparison of Curriculum Variables in School Mathematics Achievement.
    Curtis C McKnight*, University of Oklahoma
    (973-97-1032)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematics Education Around the World: Bridging Policy and Practice.
    Gail Burrill*, Michigan State University
    Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Michigan State University
    (973-97-1293)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Classification Problems, I
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some new results concerning forcing with measure algebras.
    James Hirschorn*, University of Helsinki
    (973-03-777)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Borel and Dual Borel Conjecture.
    Tomek Bartoszynski*, Boise State University
    (973-03-722)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Strength of the Continuum Hypothesis in Topology.
    Todd Eisworth*, University of Northern Iowa
    (973-03-651)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bounding by canonical functions, with CH.
    Paul B Larson*, Univerity of Toronto
    Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
    (973-03-775)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Large Creatures.
    Andrzej Roslanowski*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Saharon Shelah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (973-03-782)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, I
  Organizers:
  Aimee S. A. Johnson, Swarthmore College aimee@swarthmore.edu
  Kathleen M. Madden, Drew University kmadden@drew.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some open problems in exponential symbolic dynamics.
    Robert L Devaney*, Boston University
    (973-37-278)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Entropy of skew products with commuting group automorphisms.
    Douglas Lind*, University of Washington
    Manfred Einsiedler, Pennsylvania State University
    (973-37-987)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Automorphisms of ordered shifts.
    William Geller*, IUPUI
    Michal Misiurewicz, IUPUI
    (973-37-1443)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cantor Sets which are Minimal Sets.
    Bill Basener*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (973-37-719)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetries of Shifts of Finite Type.
    Daniel S Silver, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams*, University of South Alabama
    (973-37-1369)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Organizers:
  Paul C. Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Remarks on bounding local cohomology of Frobenius powers of ideals.
    Ian M Aberbach*, University of Missouri
    (973-13-1342)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Frobenius action on local cohomology modules.
    Florian Enescu*, University of Utah
    (973-13-1119)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tight closure and linkage classes in Gorenstein rings.
    Adela N Vraciu*, University of Kansas
    (973-13-690)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Limit Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicities.
    Claudia Miller*, University of Toronto
    Anurag K Singh, University of Utah
    (973-13-1356)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Computability Theory with Applications, I
  Organizers:
  Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida cenzer@math.ufl.edu
  Jeffrey B. Remmel, University of California San Diego jremmel@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Invariance and Noninvariance in the Lattice of $\Pi_1^0$ Classes.
    Peter A Cholak, University of Notre Dame
    Rod G Downey*, Victoria University, NZ
    (973-03-945)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Decision Procedure for the $AE$-theory of the Lattice of $\Pi^0_1$ Classes.
    Linda Lawton*, Western Illinois University
    (973-03-1208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Definability and structural properties for the lattice of $Pi^0_1$--classes.
    Andr\'e Nies*, University of Chicago
    (973-03-1385)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Lattice of $\Pi^0_1$ Classes.
    Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
    Farzan Riazati*, Savannah College of Art and Design
    (973-03-742)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Medevev degrees of $\Pi^0_1$ classes are dense.
    Douglas A Cenzer, University of Florida
    Peter G Hinman*, University of Michigan
    (973-03-821)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computability of the Common Derivation in Locally Determined Logic Programs.
    Amy K. C. S. Vanderbilt*, Xavier University
    (973-03-929)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Applications: A Jubilee of Benoit Mandelbrot, I
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuysen, Rutgers University machiel@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The wavelet formalism for multifractal analysis.
    Jes\'us Ur{\'\i}as*, IICO--UASLP
    Salom\'e J Murgu{\'\i}a, IICO--UASLP
    (973-37-1154)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multifractal products of poissonian random weights.
    Julien Barral*, I.N.R.I.A.
    (973-60-1480)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Directional entropy and complexity in lattice dynamical systems.
    Valentin S Afraimovich*, IICO-UASLP
    (973-37-1140)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multifractal Rigidity: More Questions Than Answers.
    Yakov B Pesin*, Pennsylvania State University
    (973-37-1239)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graph Directed Markovian Systems.
    Daniel R Mauldin*, University of North Texas
    Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas
    (973-37-1133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The role of the Mandelbrot set in complex dynamics.
    Mitsuhiro Shishikura*, Kyoto University
    (973-37-1273)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Andre Kundgen, California State University, San Marcos akundgen@csusm.edu
  K. Brooks Reid, California State University, San Marcos breid@csusm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Relaxed Game Chromatic Number of Graphs.
    Charles Dunn, Arizona State University
    H. A Kierstead*, Arizona State University
    (973-05-1194)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Relaxed Game Chromatic Index of $k$-degenerate Graphs.
    Charles L Dunn*, Arizona State University
    (973-05-175)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Splittable colorings.
    Radhika Ramamurthi*, University of California at San Diego
    Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois / Renyi Institute
    Andre Kundgen, California State University at San Marcos
    (973-05-1057)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Anti-Ramsey numbers of graphs.
    Maria Axenovich*, Iowa State University
    (973-05-892)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Constrained Ramsey numbers of graphs.
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University (Ohio)
    (973-05-859)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pattern Ramsey Numbers.
    Robert E Jamison, Clemson University
    Douglas B West*, University of Illinois
    (973-05-1236)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, I
  Organizers:
  Tim D. Cochran, Rice University cochran@rice.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    3-Manifolds, tangles and persistent invariants.
    Jozef H Przytycki, The George Washington University
    Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
    (973-57-94)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Distance $\ge 3$ Heegaard splittings.
    John P Hempel*, Rice University
    (973-57-1366)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Injective Homomorphisms of Mapping Class Groups.
    Elmas Irmak*, Michigan State University
    (973-57-1372)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topological Symmetry Groups of Graphs Embedded in $S^{3}$.
    Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
    (973-57-716)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Seifert Surfaces for Graphs, Planarity, and Associated Links.
    Simrat M Ghuman*, New York City Technical College, CUNY
    (973-57-902)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    One relator 3-orbifolds.
    James D Borkowski*, University of Tennessee
    (973-57-1316)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#13: Part A
  Getting students involved in undergraduate research.
  Organizers:
  Aparna W. Higgins, University of Dayton
  Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota, Duluth
  Stephen G. Hartke, Rutgers University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#9: Part A
  The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers.
  Organizers:
  Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Modeling and Simulation for Thin Films
  Organizers:
  Russel Caflisch, University of California Los Angeles caflisch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Connecting Ab Inito and Kinetic Models: Simulation of the Equilibrium and Growth Kinetics of III-V Semiconductor Surfaces.
    Mark F Gyure, HRL Laboratories
    Frank Grosse*, HRL Laboratories
    (973-82-1486)
  • 8:35 a.m.
    Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations and approximations.
    Tim P Schulze*, University of Tennessee
    (973-82-1474)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Atomistic Theory of Elasticity for Epitaxial Systems.
    Cameron R Connell*, UCLA
    Russel E Caflisch, UCLA
    (973-74-1478)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Morphological stability of strained alloy film growth.
    Brian J Spencer*, University at Buffalo
    (973-74-1476)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Feedback Control of Plasma Etching of Silicon Nitride Thin Films.
    I. G Rosen*, Department of Mathematics/University of Southern California
    Baris Fidan, Department of EE-Systems/University of Southern California
    (973-93-1484)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on History of Mathematics in the Second Millennium, I
  Organizers:
  Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands beery@uor.edu
  C. Edward Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Welcome.
  • 8:05 a.m.
    Euler and the Greatest Homework Ever?
    Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State U
    (973-A1-468)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Quadrature of Lunes, from Hippocrates to Euler.
    Stacy G Langton*, University of San Diego
    (973-A1-551)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Johan Hudde's "Epistola secunda de maximis et minimis": Maxima and minima, including an early version of the quotient rule, before Newton and Leibniz.
    Daniel J Curtin*, Northern Kentucky University
    (973-A1-724)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Three Examples of Mathematical Reasoning from the Printed Works of Mexico in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
    Bruce S. Burdick*, Roger Williams University
    (973-A1-609)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1820-2000.
    Peggy Aldrich Kidwell*, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
    (973-A1-364)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Robert Murphy-Cork, Cambridge, London.
    Patricia R Allaire*, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
    (973-A1-224)
  • 10:35 a.m.
    Views of the real numbers and continuum.
    Joanne E Snow*, Saint Mary's College
    (973-A1-864)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics Courses for Teachers, K--12, I
  Organizers:
  Ira J. Papick, University of Missouri, Columbia mathip@showme.missouri.edu
  Duane Porter, University of Wyoming
  Diane M. Spresser, National Science Foundation
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Improving Mathematical Content Knowledge for the Elementary or Alternatively Certified Middle School Teacher.
    Linda K Griffith*, Univeristy of Central Arkansas
    Jean J McGehee, University of Central Arkansas
    (973-B1-494)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Math ADEPT: A Program for Middle School Inservice Mathematics Teachers.
    Homer W Austin*, Salisbury University
    Harel Barzilai, Salisbury University
    (973-B1-305)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Middle Grades Teachers Revisit Geometry.
    Judy S. O'Neal*, North GA College \& State University
    (973-B1-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Recruiting and Preparing Middle Grades Teachers.
    David C. Carothers*, James Madison University
    Jeanne Fitzgerald, James Madison University
    (973-B1-717)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A Professional Development Program for Strengthening Middle School Teacher Content Knowledge that Utilizes the Mathematics Textbook Series from Singapore.
    Richard Bisk*, Worcester State College
    (973-B1-557)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Geometric Visualization in Problem Solving by Teachers of Grades 4-8: A Middle School/University Joint Project.
    Jeanne Fitzgerald*, James Madison University
    Judy B Kidd, James Madison University
    (973-B1-507)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Teaching Middle School Math in College: The Connected Mathematics Project as a College Curriculum for Teachers.
    Susan L Addington*, University of Texas, El Paso
    David Dennis, University of Texas, El Paso
    (973-B1-620)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Connecting with Mathematics: Content materials for inservice and preservice teachers connecting the mathematics they learn with the mathematics they teach.
    Steve R Benson*, Education Development Center
    (973-B1-527)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Better Preparation in Mathematics Courses for Teaching Standards-based Middle School Mathematics.
    John K Beem*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Ira J Papick, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (973-B1-123)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Integrating Mathematics and Other Disciplines, I
  Organizers:
  William G. McCallum, University of Arizona, Tucson wmc@math.arizona.edu
  Deborah Hughes Hallett, University of Arizona, Tucson
  Yajun Yang, SUNY at Farmingdale
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematics for Health Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Prescription for Student Success.
    Fred Peskoff*, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
    (973-C1-626)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    An Introductory Modeling Course on Sustainability.
    F\"{u}sun Akman*, Coastal Carolina University
    (973-C1-646)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Teaching an Interdisciplinary Math & Biology course.
    Janet L Andersen*, Hope College
    (973-C1-1143)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Biology applications for an applied calculus course.
    Raymond N Greenwell*, Hofstra University
    Nathan P Ritchey, Youngstown State University
    (973-C1-171)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematics and Mendelian Genetics.
    Steven E Blasberg*, West Valley College
    (973-C1-579)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    What should we teach in the course "Discrete Mathematical Stuctures"?
    Niandong Shi*, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
    (973-C1-581)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Developing a Computational Science Curriculum: A progress Report.
    Ignatios E Vakalis*, Capital University
    (973-C1-338)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    ICE - The Integrated Curriculum in Engineering Part I Applications from Physics and Engineering in the Calculus.
    John R Watret*, Embry-Riddle University
    Charles J Martin, Embry-Riddle University
    James Ladesic, Embry-Riddle University
    Robert Brown, Embry-Riddle University
    (973-C1-532)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Connecting Differential Equations to a Freshman and Sophomore Integrated Engineering Curriculum.
    Bernd S.W. Schroeder*, Louisiana Tech University
    (973-C1-97)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Combining Java Programming and Differential Equations.
    Garrett D Heath*, U.S. Military Academy
    (973-C1-1460)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Linear Algebra and Digital Image Processing.
    Mohamed Allali*, Chapman University
    (973-C1-528)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Mathematical Modeling as a Thread.
    Richard D West*, Francis Marion University
    (973-C1-439)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Uses of the World Wide Web in Teaching Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville University mbessma@ju.edu
  Marcia Birken, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Lawrence S. Husch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Brian E. Smith, McGill University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    How a simple website can greatly improve your math courses.
    Jeffrey J Feuer*, Coastal Carolina University
    (973-D1-984)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Math in the News.
    Barry Brunson*, Western Kentucky University
    (973-D1-522)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Developing Effective Course Web Pages for Undergraduate Mathematics Courses For Non-Majors.
    Cathy M Frey*, Norwich University
    Gerard T LaVarnway, Norwich University
    (973-D1-274)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Web-based, problem-solving tutorials as part of a structured study program for calculus.
    Al Shenk*, UCSD
    (973-D1-444)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Writing Mathlets: A Call To Math Professionals.
    Thomas E Leathrum*, Jacksonville State Univ.
    (973-D1-580)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Using JAVA Applets to Teach Probability, Geometry, Function and Number Concepts.
    Holly P Hirst*, Appalachian State University
    (973-D1-402)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integrated and interactive web based modules for multivariable calculus.
    Revathi Narasimhan*, Kean University
    (973-D1-312)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    An Online Multivariable Calculus Textbook.
    Jeff R Knisley*, East Tennessee State University
    (973-D1-451)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Java Applets: A Transformation for Mathematics.
    Garrett D Heath*, United States Military Academy
    (973-D1-572)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on General Contributed Papers, I
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
  Laura Wallace, California State University, San Bernardino
  Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The use of Poster Sessions in Liberal Arts Mathematics (and other) Courses.
    Edwin P Herman*, University of St. Thomas
    (973-T1-587)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Using Journals in a Liberal Arts Mathematics Class.
    Mark A Mills*, Central College
    (973-T1-435)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Dances with NCATE or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rubric.
    David E. Boliver*, University of Central Oklahoma
    (973-T1-475)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Opening the Classroom Door -- Experiences in Distance Learning.
    Mary Ellen Davis, Georgia Perimeter College
    Virginia W Parks*, Georgia Perimeter College
    (973-T1-481)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Integrated Calculus: Combining calculus, precalculus, and algebra in one course to effectively train math and science majors.
    Laura A Taalman*, James Madison University
    (973-T1-277)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Calculus Reform Through Lesson Study: Importance, Development and Implementation.
    Kendra S Killpatrick*, Colorado State University
    Anamaria Dent, Colorado State University
    Julia Walters, Diablo Valley College
    (973-T1-710)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Elliptic Curve Cryptography with Maple and Java (Preliminary Report).
    Richard E Klima*, State University of New York at Oswego
    (973-T1-421)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Reflecting Projectiles: Constructing a "Mirror" for a Bouncing Ball.
    Darryl K Nester*, Bluffton College
    (973-T1-453)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Calculators on Students in Precollege Mathematics Classes.
    Aimee J Ellington*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (973-T1-394)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Chaos, Stability, and Asymptotics in Difference Equations, I
  Organizers:
  Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University selaydi@trinity.edu
  Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island gladas@math.uri.edu
  Donald A. Lutz, San Diego State University lutz@math.sdsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On The Global Character of y[n+1]=(py[n-1]+y[n-2k])/(q + y[n-2k]) where p and q are positive real numbers and k is a non-negative integer.
    Edward A Grove, University of Rhode Island
    Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island
    Mihaela Predescu, University of Rhode Island
    Michael A Radin*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (973-39-184)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the recursive sequence x(n+1)=p+x(n-k)/x(n).
    Witold A Kosmala*, Appalachian State University
    Richard DeVault, Northwestern State University
    Candace M Kent, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (973-39-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of solutions of $x_{n+1} = p + \frac{x_{n-1}}{x_{n}}$.
    Richard DeVault*, Northwestern State University of LA
    Elias Camouzis, American College of Greece
    (973-39-51)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Effects of education or/and vaccination or/and treatment on HIV transmission in homosexuals with genetic heterogeneity.
    Sara Y Del Valle*, MTBI Cornell University
    Arlene Evangelista, MTBI Cornell University
    Maria Cristina Velazco-Narvaez, MTBI Cornell University
    (973-92-1489)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Reduction Principle of Difference Equations.
    Zhivko S Athanassov*, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    (973-39-916)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, I
  Organizers:
  Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro maya@uncg.edu
  Jon T. Jacobsen, Pennsylvania State University jacobsen@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A numerical investigation of bifurcation and nodal structure for an elliptic system with triple well potential.
    John M Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
    Dennis R Rice, Northern Arizona University
    (973-35-1086)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An exact multiplicity result for positive solutions of semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problems.
    Moxun Tang*, Michigan State University
    (973-35-218)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Singular nonlinear PDE and special functions.
    Victor L. Shapiro*, University of California, Riverside
    (973-35-213)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Computation and Information, I
  Organizers:
  Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
  Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
  John Preskill, California Institute of Technology preskill@theory.caltech.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Entanglement of two, three and four qubits.
    Guifre Vidal*, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    (973-81-1271)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quantum Data Hiding.
    David P. DiVincenzo*, IBM
    Debbie Leung, IBM
    Barbara M Terhal, IBM
    (973-81-415)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tentative title: The nonabelian hidden subgroup problem.
    Leonard J Schulman*, Caltech
    (973-68-1445)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Efficient Quantum Algorithms for the Hidden Shift Problem.
    Wim van Dam*, UC Berkeley / MSRI / Hewlett-Packard
    Sean Hallgren, Caltech
    Lawrence Ip, UC Berkeley
    (973-68-1431)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Session on History and Logic
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Kashani's fundamental theorem.
    Mohammad K Azarian*, University of Evansville
    (973-01-86)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The Historical Perspective on Mathematics as Art and/or Science.
    G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, NJ
    Danielle Mihram, University of Southern California
    (973-01-137)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ulughbek- the great mathematician and astronomer of the XIVth century.
    Burkhon I Ochilov*, Samarkand Agricultural Institute
    (973-01-392)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Poincare's Role in the Cration of the Theory of Functions of Several Complex Variables.
    John A Synowiec*, Indiana University Northwest
    (973-01-831)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cyclic Distribution: Voter's Paradox in 3-valued Logic.
    Nathaniel S Hellerstein*, City College of San Francisco
    (973-03-961)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Cardinal arithmetic and embedding subgroups into $\mathbb{Z}^\omega$.
    Moses G Klein*, Lawrence University
    (973-03-985)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:15 a.m.
    More Undecidable Lattices of Steinitz Exchange Systems.
    Lisa R Galminas*, Northewestern State University of LA
    John W Rosenthal, Ithaca College
    (973-03-1414)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Storage Capacity of Fuzzy Bidirectional Associate Memories.
    Zhong L Xu*, University of Texas at Brownsville
    (973-03-976)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Lattice Theory
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Enumeration of Equivalent Lattice Paths.
    Rick Gillman*, Valparaiso University
    (973-06-125)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Commutative Cancellative Residuated Lattices.
    James A Cole*, Vanderbilt University
    (973-06-1453)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Partitioning the Boolean lattice into a minimal number of chains of relatively uniform size.
    Tim Hsu, San Jose State University
    Mark J Logan*, Pomona College
    Shahriar Shahriari, Pomona College
    Christopher Towse, Scripps College
    (973-06-1329)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Lattice Geometry and Linear Code Constructions.
    Marcus Greferath*, San Diego State University
    (973-05-1261)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Posets and totally nonnegative matrices.
    Mark Skandera*, University of Michigan
    (973-06-1169)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    The type-set of a variety is not computable.
    Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University
    Japheth Wood*, University of Louisville
    (973-06-1108)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extension theory for infinite lattices.
    George Gr\"atzer*, University of Manitoba
    Matthew Greenberg, University of Manitoba
    (973-06-687)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Extended Ockham Algebras.
    Jie Fang*, University of Los Andes
    Tom S Blyth, University of St. Andrews
    (973-06-209)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    How small posets and algebras on the web produced uncountably many minimal varieties of residuated lattices.
    Peter Jipsen*, Vanderbilt University
    (973-06-165)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Connections between Formal Concept Analysis and Classification Theory.
    Lance Miller, NMSU
    Alex J Pogel*, NMSU
    Stefan E Schmidt, NMSU
    (973-94-160)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Number Theory, I
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Congruence Restricted Modular Forms.
    Kurt E Ludwick*, Salisbury University
    (973-11-431)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    On the Solitary Galois Extensions of Algebraic Number Fields.
    Leonid Stern*, Towson University
    (973-11-443)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Rank of Apparition of Certain Classifications of Primes in the Fibonacci Sequence.
    John H. Jaroma*, Lake Superior State University
    (973-11-668)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A generalized abc-conjecture over function fields.
    Pei-chu Hu, Shandong University
    Chung-chun Yang*, The Hong Kong Univ. of Sci.&Tech.
    (973-11-788)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On $S_{k,d}$ Sets.
    Megan M Foster*, Alma College
    Aklilu Zeleke, Alma College
    (973-11-873)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Maximum LCM Partitions: Part I.
    Jonathan Bigler*, Shippensburg University
    Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University
    (973-11-919)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maximum LCM Partitions: Part II.
    Tim Ferguson*, Linganore High School
    Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University
    (973-11-934)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Additive and Multiplicative 4x4 Magic Squares.
    Carl A Libis*, Assumption College
    (973-11-964)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Annihilating Theorems in the Witt Ring.
    Thomas C Palfrey*, Xavier University of Louisiana
    (973-11-419)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A new proof of an identity concerning Ramanujan's tau function.
    Neville Robbins*, San Francisco State University
    (973-11-363)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Optimization for Modeling and Simulation: Theory Versus Practice
  Organizers:
  Juan C. Meza, Sandia National Laboratories meza@ca.sandia.gov
  Tammy Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some Optimization Challenges in the Oil and Gas Industry.
    Amr S El-Bakry*, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    (973-49-1193)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Comparison of Interior Point and SQP Methods on Optimal Control Problems.
    Joerg M Gablonsky*, The Boeing Company
    John T Betts, The Boeing Company
    (973-65-1213)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lagrange-Newton-Krylov Methods and Applications to the Optimal Control of Navier-Stokes equations.
    George Biros*, Courant Institute
    Omar Ghattas, Carnegie Mellon University
    (973-49-1158)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimization Techniques in Computational Molecular Biology.
    Leticia Velazquez*, University of Texas at El Paso
    (973-49-467)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Choosing Effective Search Strategies for Parallel Optimization Methods.
    Juan Meza*, Sandia National Laboratories
    Patricia Hough, Sandia National Laboratories
    (973-65-1204)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analysis and Application of Quasilinear Partial Differential Equations, I
  Organizers:
  Sun\v{c}ica \v Cani\' c, University of Houston canic@math.uh.edu
  Eun Heui Kim, California State University, Long Beach ekim4@csulb.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonlocal problems for quasilinear parabolic equations.
    Gary M. Lieberman*, Iowa State University
    (973-35-841)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Transonic Shocks for Steady Potential Flows and Free Boundary Problems I.
    Gui-Qiang G Chen*, Northwestern University
    Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    (973-35-1234)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Transonic shocks for steady potential flows and free boundary problems II.
    Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (973-35-357)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Subsonic solutions for the pressure-gradient equation.
    Kyungwoo Song, Indiana University
    Yuxi Zheng*, Penn State University
    (973-35-1341)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#3: Part A
  Optimal use of technology in teaching geometry at the college-university level.
  Organizers:
  Subhash C. Saxena, Coastal Carolina University
  Nick Jackiw, Key Curriculum Press
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  AP calculus: Bridges and bumps between school and college.
  Organizers:
  Judith E. Broadwin, The College Board
  Susan Kornstein, The College Board
  Panelists:
  Ray Cannon, Baylor University
  Thomas P. Dick, Oregon State University
  Bernard L. Madison, MAA
  Lawrence H. Riddle, Agnes Scott College
  Jane L. Wortman, Beverly Hills High School
  Judith E. Broadwin,
  Susan Kornstein,
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Committee on Two-Year Colleges Panel Discussion
  Teaching at two-year colleges: Rewards, research, resources, and recommendations.
  Organizers:
  Jay A. Malmstrom, Oklahoma City Community College
  Janet P. Ray, Seattle Central Community College
  Panelists:
  Susan S. Wood, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
  Curtis C. McKnight, University of Oklahoma
  Sandy Gokey, Greenfield Community College
  Stephen B. Rodi, Austin Community College
  Moderators:
  Jay A. Malmstrom,
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics Panel Discussion
  A new CUPM curriculum guide.
  Organizers:
  Harriet S. Pollatsek, Mount Holyoke College
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Retiring Presidential Address
  Reflections on the future of mathematics.
  Felix E. Browder*, Rutgers University
  (973-00-09)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Helicity of vector fields in geometry, biology, and plasma physics.
  Dennis DeTurck*, University of Pennsylvania
  Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
  Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
  (973-53-13)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 12:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Book Sales and Exhibits
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I
  Entropy Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Entropy, equilibrium, and irreversibility.
  Lawrence Craig Evans*, University of California Berkeley
  (973-35-03)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Old math, new math: Using polynomials to gain insight into the design of cryptosystems.
  Susan Landau*, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  (973-A0-34)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, II
  Organizers:
  William H. Barker, Bowdoin College
  Jerry L. Bona, University of Texas at Austin
  Naomi D. Fisher, University of Illinois at Chicago ndfisher@uic.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Mathematical content preparation for high school teachers.
    Patrick Callahan*, University of California Office of the President
    (973-97-878)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The surprising mathematical depth in high school problems.
    Dick Stanley*, University of California at Berkeley
    (973-97-880)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    High school mathematics as part of a larger mathematical landscape.
    Al Cuoco*, Center for Mathematics Education, EDC
    (973-97-1107)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Some reflections on career-long professional development for secondary math teachers.
    C Herbert Clemens*, University of Utah
    (973-97-725)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Teaching Mathematics Horizontally and Vertically.
    Paul J Sally*, University of Chicago
    (973-97-1150)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Panel on Interpretations of Deep Understanding of High School Mathematics: Implications for Mathematics Departments.
    Naomi D Fisher*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Duane A Cooper, University of Maryland
    Margaret B Cozzens, Colorado Institute of Technology
    (973-97-979)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Classification Problems, II
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    The Topological Vaught Conjecture.
    Howard S Becker*, University of South Carolina
    (973-03-648)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Classifying structures with large automorphism groups.
    John D Clemens*, Caltech
    (973-03-791)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Countable Borel Equivalence Relations.
    Alexander S Kechris*, California Institute of Technology
    (973-03-424)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The homeomorphism problem for countable topological spaces.
    Su Gao*, University of North Texas
    (973-03-410)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Classification of Measure Preserving Systems.
    Matthew D Foreman*, UC Irvine
    (973-37-689)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Polish subgrous of the reals and connectedness.
    Slawomir Solecki*, University of Illinois
    (973-03-751)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, II
  Organizers:
  Aimee S. A. Johnson, Swarthmore College aimee@swarthmore.edu
  Kathleen M. Madden, Drew University kmadden@drew.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Tilings of 2-dimensional expanding subspaces for non-Pisot hyperbolic matrices.
    Arthur Robinson*, George Washington University
    Maki Furukado, Yokohama National Universiyty, Japan
    Shunji Ito, Tsuda College, Japan
    (973-37-1123)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    When size matters: subshifts and their related tiling spaces.
    Lorenzo A Sadun*, University of Texas at Austin
    (973-37-321)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Symmetry versus density in aperiodic tiling.
    Charles Radin*, University of Texas at Austin
    (973-52-704)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Substitution sequences in $\mathbb Z^d$ with a nonsimple Lebesgue component in the spectrum.
    Natalie Priebe Frank*, Vassar College
    (973-37-1217)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Asymptotic orbits for primitive substitutions.
    Marcy Barge, Montana State University
    Beverly Diamond, College of Charleston
    Charles Holton*, University of California at Berkeley
    (973-05-1455)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Computing Entropy for Two-Dimensional Tiling Systems.
    Larry A. Pierce II*, Oregon State University
    (973-37-772)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Uniform transitivity of multi-dimensional shifts.
    Ethan M Coven*, Wesleyan University
    Natasha Jonoska, University of South Florida
    (973-37-1063)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Organizers:
  Paul C. Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    New resultants and other applications of exterior algebra.
    David Eisenbud*, MSRI / UC Berkeley
    (973-14-1036)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Yoneda Ext algebras and Poincar\'e series of algebras with monomial relations.
    Luchezar L Avramov*, University of Nebraska
    (973-13-1258)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On $SC_r$-modules.
    Jee H Koh*, Indiana University
    (973-13-1148)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Syzygies of Semi-Regular Sequences.
    Keith A Pardue*, Haverford College
    Benjamin Richert, University of Michigan
    (973-13-1291)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Integral cohomology of certain non-compact toric varieties.
    Miriam Ruth Kantorovitz*, University of California, Berkeley
    Eugene M Lerman, University of Illinois
    (973-13-1095)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Stably equivalence problem.
    Jie-Tai Yu*, The University of Hong Kong
    (973-14-170)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analysis and Application of Quasilinear Partial Differential Equations, II
  Organizers:
  Sun\v{c}ica \v Cani\' c, University of Houston canic@math.uh.edu
  Eun Heui Kim, California State University, Long Beach ekim4@csulb.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Inverse Elasticity.
    James V Ralston*, University of California at Los Angeles
    Gregory Eskin, University of California at Los Angeles
    (973-35-1223)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model for the Role of Cell Signaling and Transduction in the Initiation of Angio genesis.
    Howard A. Levine*, Iowa State University
    Anna L Tucker, Iowa State University
    Marit Nilsen-Hamilton, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University
    (973-92-316)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Dynamic contact lines and driven thin liquid films.
    Michael Shearer*, North Carolina State University
    (973-35-937)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Singular shock solutions of pairs of conservation laws which change type.
    Michael Sever*, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    (973-35-348)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Inhomogeneous boundary value problems for the threedimensional evolutionary Navier-Stokes equations.
    A. V Fursikov, Moscow State University
    M. D Gunzburger*, Iowa State University
    L. S Hou, Iowa State University
    (973-35-1116)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Finite dimensionality and regularity of attractors for 2-D semilinear wave equation with non-linear dissipation.
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
    Anastasia A Ruzmaikina*, University of Virginia
    (973-35-728)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Admissibility of of function spaces with respect to higher order differential equations.
    Thanh Lan Nguyen*, Ohio University
    (973-34-784)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Chaos, Stability, and Asymptotics in Difference Equations, II
  Organizers:
  Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University selaydi@trinity.edu
  Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island gladas@math.uri.edu
  Donald A. Lutz, San Diego State University lutz@math.sdsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Open Problems and Conjectures.
    Gerasimos Ladas*, University of Rhode Island
    (973-39-279)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Global Asymptotic Behavior of Third Order Rational Difference Equation.
    M. R.S. Kulenovic*, University of Rhode Island
    Gerry Ladas, University of Rhode Island
    Kenn P Wilkinson, University of Rhode Island
    (973-39-954)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the difference equation $\displaystyle{ y_{n+1} = \frac{ y_{n-( 2k+1 )} + p } { y_{n-( 2k+1 )} + qy_{ n- 2l }} }$.
    Edward A Grove*, University of Rhode Island
    Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island
    Lynn C McGrath, University of Rhode Island
    Hamdi A El-Metwally, Mansoura University
    (973-39-329)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On $\displaystyle{x_{n+1}=\max\left\{\frac{A_{n}}{x_{n}},\frac{B_{n}}{x_{n-1}}\right\}}$ with Arbitrary Periodic Parameters.
    Candace M. Kent*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (973-39-200)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Equivalent of the Painlev\'e property for difference equations and study of their solvability.
    Ovidiu Costin*, Rutgers University
    (973-39-921)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    On a second order rational difference equation.
    Hristo D. Voulov*, Southern Illinois University
    (973-39-108)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Periodic solutions of a difference equation with maximum.
    Dimitar P. Mishev, Southern Illinois University
    William T. Patula*, Southern Illinois University
    Hristo D. Voulov, Southern Illinois University
    (973-39-92)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    An Oscillation Theorem for Discrete Symplectic Systems.
    Martin J Bohner*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Ondrej Dosly, Masaryk University
    Werner Kratz, University Ulm
    (973-39-1220)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Computability Theory with Applications, II
  Organizers:
  Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida cenzer@math.ufl.edu
  Jeffrey B. Remmel, University of California San Diego jremmel@ucsd.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Computable models, invariants and numberings.
    Serguei S Goncharov*, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
    (973-03-960)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Isomorphism problems and computable classification.
    Sergey S Goncharov, Novosibirsk State University
    Julia F Knight*, University of Notre Dame
    (973-03-534)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Complexity of Diagrams of Countable Structures.
    Valentina S Harizanov*, George Washington University
    Julia F Knight, University of Notre Dame
    Andrei S Morozov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
    (973-03-1248)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Computably Categorical Trees of Finite Height I.
    Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Charles McCoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Russell Miller*, Cornell University
    Reed Solomon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (973-03-1257)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Computably Categorical Trees of Finite Height II.
    Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Charles McCoy*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Russell Miller, Cornell University
    Reed Solomon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (973-03-1189)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Computable choice functions for computable linear orderings.
    Manuel Lerman*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    Richard M Watnick, University of Connecticut, Stamford
    (973-03-355)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Degree Spectra of Prime Models.
    Barbara F. Csima*, University of Chicago
    (973-03-1054)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Computability, Differential Geometry, and Model Theory.
    Robert I Soare*, University of Chicago
    Barbara F. Csima, University of Chicago
    (973-03-1300)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Applications: A Jubilee of Benoit Mandelbrot, II
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuysen, Rutgers University machiel@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Fractals and Geometric Measure Theory: Friends and Foes.
    Frank Morgan*, Williams College
    (973-28-761)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Topics in Harmonic Analysis.
    Peter W Jones*, Yale University & Mittag-Leffler Institute
    (973-31-1487)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The dimension of the planar Brownian frontier is 4/3.
    Gregory F Lawler*, Cornell University
    Oded Schramm, Microsoft
    Wendelin Werner, University of Paris, Orsay
    (973-60-1104)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Fractal Geometry of Random Fields.
    Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
    (973-60-1004)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Diffusion processes on fractal fields and their large deviations.
    Takashi Kumagai*, Kyoto University
    (973-60-752)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Quasidistances, scales and Laplacians on self-similar sets.
    Jun Kigami*, Kyoto University
    (973-28-1262)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    On the analysis on Sierpinski gaskets.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, NSF/UC Riverside
    (973-37-1235)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Distances on topological self-similar sets.
    Atsushi Kameyama*, Osaka University
    (973-37-1100)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Organizers:
  Andre Kundgen, California State University, San Marcos akundgen@csusm.edu
  K. Brooks Reid, California State University, San Marcos breid@csusm.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Coloring graphs on nonorientable versus orientable surfaces.
    Joan P Hutchinson*, Macalester College
    Michael O Albertson, Smith College
    (973-05-813)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Graph Color Extensions: When Embedding Helps.
    Michael O Albertson*, Smith College
    Joan P Hutchinson, Macalester College
    (973-05-753)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Graphs minimal with respect to crossing number $k$.
    Bruce Richter*, University of Waterloo
    (973-05-1426)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Algebraic Criterion for imbedding graphs in Projective plane.
    Daniel C Slilaty*, Wright State University
    Lowell Abrams, The George Washington University
    (973-05-1076)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Equitably $k$-Choosable Graphs.
    Michael J Pelsmajer*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexandr V Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Douglas B West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (973-05-1205)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    An Upper Bound for Representations of Graphs Modulo $n$.
    Darren A. Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (973-05-159)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Sum List Coloring Problems.
    Garth T Isaak*, Lehigh University
    (973-05-872)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Colored and chromatic distance in graphs.
    Peter J Slater*, University of Alabama at Huntsville
    (973-05-1182)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, II
  Organizers:
  Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro maya@uncg.edu
  Jon T. Jacobsen, Pennsylvania State University jacobsen@math.psu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Positive Steady States of an Elliptic System from Biomathematics.
    Linghai John Zhang*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    (973-35-1016)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Diffusive Logistic Equation with Constant Yield Harvesting.
    Shobha Oruganti*, Mississippi State University
    Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
    Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State University
    (973-35-1060)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Travelling wave solutions for the sine-Gordon equation.
    Pablo Padilla*, IIMAS-UNAM
    Antonmaria Minzoni, IIMAS, UNAM
    Noel Smyth, University of Edinburgh
    (973-35-1436)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    An Extension of the Regularity Theory for the Monge-Amp\`ere Equation.
    David A Hartenstine*, University of Utah
    Cristian E Gutierrez, Temple University
    (973-35-931)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Existence and Behavior of Singular Solutions to Semilinear Elliptic Equations.
    David L Finn*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (973-35-860)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Sobolev Gradients and Descent Methods for Partial Differential Equations.
    John W Neuberger*, University of North Texas
    (973-35-869)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Computation and Information, II
  Organizers:
  Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
  Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
  John Preskill, California Institute of Technology preskill@theory.caltech.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Quantum Adiabatic Evolution Versus Classical Local Search.
    Edward Farhi*, MIT
    Jeffrey Goldstone, MIT
    Sam Gutmann, Northeastern University
    (973-68-1320)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Topological Quantum Computation.
    Zhenghan Wang*, Indiana University
    (973-57-1482)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Encryption and authentication of quantum information.
    Alain Tapp*, Montreal University
    (973-68-1475)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On Quantum Coin Flipping.
    Dorit Aharonov*, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    (973-68-1477)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Quantum algorithms for structured search problems.
    Markus Hunziker, University of Georgia
    David A Meyer*, University of California/San Diego
    (973-81-1387)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Stabilizer codes for continuous-variable quantum information.
    John Preskill*, Caltech
    Jim Harrington, Caltech
    (973-81-1465)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, II
  Organizers:
  Tim D. Cochran, Rice University cochran@rice.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Infinitely many hyperbolic 3-manifolds which contain no Reebless foliation.
    Rachel Roberts*, Washington University
    John Shareshian, Washington University
    Melanie Stein, Trinity College
    (973-57-384)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    There are no unexpected tunnel number one knots of genus one.
    Martin G Scharlemann*, UC Santa Barbara
    (973-57-675)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Higher-Order Polynomial Invariants of 3-Manifolds Giving Lower Bounds for the Thurston Norm.
    Shelly L Harvey*, Rice University
    (973-57-1197)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The orbifold theorem.
    Daryl Cooper*, UCSB
    Craig D Hodgson, University of Melbourne
    Steve P Kerckhoff, Stanford
    (973-57-369)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Trace fields of hyperbolic knots.
    Jim E Hoste*, Pitzer College
    Patrick D Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
    (973-57-968)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Subgroup Separability of Amalgamated Products of Hyperbolic $3$-Manifolds.
    Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
    (973-57-726)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Abelian Subgroups of the Torelli Group.
    William Vautaw*, Michigan State University
    (973-57-1010)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#10: Part A
  A dynamical systems approach to the differential equations course.
  Organizers:
  Paul A. Blanchard, Boston University
  Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#14: Part A
  Viewing mathematics via interrelations, for undergraduate courses.
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Quint, Stockton College of New Jersey
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#4: Part A
  Environmental mathematics.
  Organizers:
  Ben Fusaro, Florida State University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  AMS Session on Probability and Statistics
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Bounds on bivariate distribution functions with given margins and measures of association.
    Roger B. Nelsen*, Lewis & Clark College
    Jos\'e Juan Quesada Molina, Universidad de Granada
    Jos\'e Antonio Rodr\'iguez Lallena, Universidad de Almer\'ia
    Manuel \'Ubeda Flores, Universidad de Almer\'ia
    (973-60-189)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    An Algorithm for a Maintenance and Replacement Model.
    Nabil Moussa*, American Univ. in Cairo
    (973-60-195)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Optimal stopping rules for correlated random walks with a discount.
    Pieter C. Allaart*, University of North Texas
    (973-60-268)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasi-stationary states of Indy 500 model.
    Anastasia A Ruzmaikina*, University of Virginia
    Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
    Pierluigi Contucci, University of Bologna
    (973-60-597)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Lattices with percolation thresholds and average degrees in the same order.
    John C Wierman*, John Hopkins University
    (973-60-681)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Almost sure central limit theorems for nonlinear functionals of dependent random variables.
    Khurelbaatar Gonchigdanzan*, University of Louisville
    (973-60-684)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Highway Relativity.
    Bryan Dawson*, Union University
    Troy D Riggs, Union University
    (973-60-757)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Global and Local Moduli of Continuity for Brownian Motion.
    Lisa E Marano*, LaSalle University
    (973-60-783)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Integration by parts formulas involving conditional analytic Feynman integrals and transforms.
    Seung J Chang, Dankook University
    David L Skoug*, University of Nebraska
    (973-60-942)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Random Superposition of On-Off Processes with Heavy-Tailed Inter-Renewal Times.
    David A Rolls*, Queen's University at Kingston
    Glen K Takahara, Queen's University at Kingston
    (973-60-1250)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Semiparametric Approach to Hazard Estimation Under the Koziol-Green Model of Random Censorship.
    Ke Wu*, California State University, Fresno
    (973-62-758)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Inferences on the reliability of a series system.
    Alvard Y. Arazyan*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Nabendu Pal, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (973-62-1045)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Randomization techniques in fractional factorial experiments.
    Matthew Koehler*, SUNY-Binghamton
    (973-62-1348)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Biology, Economics, and the Social Sciences
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Actuarial and economic perspective on life insurance backdating.
    James M Carson, Illinois State University
    Krzysztof M Ostaszewski*, Illinois State University
    (973-91-362)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Separable Preferences and The Symmetric Group.
    Jonathan K Hodge*, Western Michigan University
    (973-91-1302)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A moment generating function for open population mark-recapture experiments.
    Patricia B Humphrey*, Georgia Southern University
    (973-92-1312)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hierarchical Competition in Discrete Time Models with Dispersal.
    Janet A Best*, Cornell University
    Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Cornell University
    Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Cornell University/Howard University
    (973-92-1364)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Construction of Phylogenetic Trees using Latent Semantic Analysis.
    Jeffery J Leader*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Gary Stuart, Indiana State University
    (973-92-84)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal Harvesting of the Black Bear Population in the Southern Appalachians.
    Rene A Salinas*, University of Tennessee
    (973-92-1298)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling of the technological processes of mixture separation.
    Burkhon I Ochilov, Samarkand Agricultural Institute
    Avaz Abdulazov*, Tashkent Economics College
    (973-70-1075)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling: Dynamic Changes in the Structure of the Mackinaw Bridge.
    Randall G Suggitt*, Lake Superior State University
    (973-00-1323)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Traveling waves on eggs with small viscosity.
    Mohamed Ben Hadj Rhouma*, University of Missouri, Rolla
    (973-92-663)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Primorials Lurking or Primes' Primorals Jump-Chumps Chump-Change.
    Adolph Smith, ``FUZZYICS'', San Diego, CA
    Edward Siegel*, ``FUZZYICS'', San Diego, CA
    (973-03-128)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Physics' Simple Succinct Proof of Fermat's-Last-Theorem via Noether's-Theorem Translational Invariance Symmetry-Breaking Caused Translational-Current Divergance Non-Conservation.
    E. I. Pi*, ``FUZZYICS'', San Diego, CA
    Edward Siegel, ``FUZZYICS'', San Diego, CA
    (973-03-126)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Digits Statistical-Correlations Logarithmic-Law: INVERSION to Bose-Einstein Quantum-Statistics, EXPANSION to Hyperbolicity Noise Power-Spectrum Quantum-Chaos, Bose-Einstein Condensation: PHYSICS!
    Marvin Antonoff, ``FUZZYICS'', San Diego, CA
    Adolph Smith*, ``FUZZYICS'', San Diego, CA
    Edward Siegel, ``FUZZYICS'', San Diego, CA
    (973-60-124)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Number Theory, II
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    $\epsilon$-constants and Orthogonal Representations.
    Darren B Glass*, University of Pennsylvania
    (973-11-966)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Newman polynomials with prescribed vanishing and integer sets with distinct subset sums.
    Peter Borwein, Simon Fraser University
    Michael J Mossinghoff*, UCLA
    (973-11-974)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    On the Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of a Certain Matrix of Binomial Coefficients.
    Curtis N Cooper*, Central Missouri State University
    (973-11-995)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Explicit Multiplicative Relations Between Gauss Sums.
    Brian J Murray*, Louisiana State University
    (973-11-1014)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    New lower bounds for the prime divisors of odd triperfect numbers.
    Douglas E Iannucci*, University of the Virgin Islands
    (973-11-1015)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The difference between consecutive primes in an arithmetic progression.
    Angel V Kumchev*, University of Toronto
    (973-11-1161)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regular Quadratics in $\mathbb{F}_q[T]$.
    Joseph Palen*, Millsaps College
    (973-11-1266)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Renormalized period integrals on $GL(3)$.
    Jennifer E Beineke*, Western New England College
    Daniel W Bump, Stanford University
    (973-11-1314)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fibinomial identities.
    Jeremy A Rouse*, Harvey Mudd College
    Arthur T Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College
    (973-05-1313)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Applications of Symmetry in Dynamical Systems
  Organizers:
  Debra K. Lewis, University of California Santa Cruz lewis@cats.ucsc.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Spectral Intervals and Stability of Lyapunov Exponents.
    Luca Dieci, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Erik S Van Vleck*, Colorado School of Mines
    (973-37-1420)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Geometric integration: An application in material science.
    Nilima Nigam*, McGill University
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Applications of symmetric spaces and Lie triple systems in numerical analysis.
    Hans Munthe-Kaas*, Universitet Bergen
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Computing Statistics for Hamiltonian Systems: Symmetry-Conserving vs. Step-and-Project Methods.
    Paul Frederick Tupper*, SCCM, Stanford University
    (973-65-1527)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Stability-preserving bifurcations of symmetric relative equilibria.
    Eric T Matsui*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (973-37-1227)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Projects and Programs, I
  Organizers:
  John R. Swallow, Davisdon College joswallow@davidson.edu
  Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee
  Daniel J. Schaal, South Dakota State University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    A One Semester Senior Seminar Experience.
    Robert T Harger*, High Point University
    (973-E1-194)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Capstone Experience for Mathematics Majors.
    Colleen M Hoover*, Saint Mary's College
    Mary K Porter, Saint Mary's College
    (973-E1-285)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Immersion Strategies to Start Undergraduate Research.
    Roger A Simons*, Rhode Island College
    (973-E1-629)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Junior seminar: An undergraduate research incubator.
    Jeffry L Hirst*, Appalachian State University
    (973-E1-483)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    When research is required of every student.
    Todd Lee*, Elon University
    (973-E1-927)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Undergraduate Involvement in Research Opportunities at a Regional State University.
    K. Renee Fister*, Murray State University
    (973-E1-296)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Introduction to Scientific Research: A Research Experience for Undergraduates Course.
    John J Westman*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (973-E1-344)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Networking with Scientists.
    Jean Mastrangeli*, Bryn Mawr College
    (973-E1-711)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Creating Undergraduate Research Projects: A case for collaboration.
    Pam Crawford*, Jacksonville University
    Terrance Quinn, Ohio University Southern
    (973-E1-487)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Learning to Prove in Cooperative Learning and Technology Supported Environments
  Organizers:
  G. Joseph Wimbish, Huntingdon College jwimbish@huntingdon.edu
  Connie M. Campbell, Millsaps College
  Draga D. Vidakovic, Georgia State College
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Don't Forget the Proofs!
    William T Mahavier*, Lamar University
    (973-F1-713)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Proofs in Collaborative Settings: Mathematics is often a team sport and never a spectator sport.
    Mary T Treanor*, Valparaiso University
    (973-F1-624)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Computer Activities for Learning Mathematical Induction.
    William E Fenton*, Bellarmine University
    (973-F1-598)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Low-Tech Revolution in Active, Cooperative Proving.
    Julian F Fleron, Westfield State College
    Philip K Hotchkiss*, Westfield State College
    (973-F1-588)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Dynamic Visualization and Proof.
    Barbara J Pence*, San Jose State Univ
    (973-F1-320)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    From Hanoi's Tower to the Internet: A Sampler of Activities Designed to Help Students Develop Proofwriting Ability.
    Teresa D Magnus*, Rivier College
    (973-F1-569)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A Discovery-Based Course In Number Theory.
    Jeffrey J Holt*, University of Virginia
    John W Jones, Arizona State University
    (973-F1-559)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    (Cooperative) Groups and Geometry in a Lab-based Setting.
    Jeff Connor*, Ohio University
    Barbara Grover, Ohio University
    (973-F1-520)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Proof in Discrete Mathematics.
    Nancy L Hagelgans*, Ursinus College
    (973-F1-480)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Experimenting With Classroom Formats to Encourage Problem Solving.
    Eileen Fernandez*, Montclair State University
    (973-F1-462)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Learning Properties of Relations by Playing Cards.
    Beth E Schaubroeck*, U.S. Air Force Academy
    (973-F1-492)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Induction: It's Only Natural.
    James W Crawley*, Shippensburg University
    (973-F1-432)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Break.
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Learning to prove in a Problem-Based Learning environment.
    Gianmario Besana*, DePaul University
    Vesna Kilibarda, Indiana University Northwest
    (973-F1-180)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Group Exercises for Abstract Algebra.
    David J Hunter*, Westmont College
    (973-F1-96)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Changing Student Views Regarding the Usefulness of Mathematics in Order to Increase the Number of Mathematics Majors
  Organizers:
  Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State College smabrouk@frc.mass.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Creating a Mathematically Rich Environment.
    Melinda W Certain*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (973-G1-1263)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    Recruitment of Mathematics Majors at a Four-Year, Comprehensive University.
    Kevin E Charlwood*, Washburn University
    (973-G1-346)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Retaining Math Majors at King's College.
    Denise M Reboli*, King's College
    (973-G1-221)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    An Integrated Professional Development Program For Mathematics Majors.
    G. Daniel Callon*, Franklin College
    (973-G1-493)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Building a Mathematical Community to Strengthen an Undergraduate Mathematics Program.
    Julian F Fleron*, Westfield State College
    Philip K Hotchkiss, Westfield State College
    (973-G1-594)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Inspiring Mathematics Majors through Personal Experience.
    David B. Streid*, Maharishi University of Management
    (973-G1-589)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Rush Hour and Dijkstra's Algorithm.
    Mark Stamp*, MediaSnap, Inc.
    (973-G1-1470)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Celebrating Mathematics at South Dakota State University.
    Donna L Flint*, South Dakota State University
    (973-G1-473)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Panel Discussion - Creating and Maintaining Programs To Change Student Views Of Mathematics.
    Sarah L Mabrouk*, Framingham State College
    (973-G1-1425)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on Computational Mathematics in Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, I
  Organizers:
  Richard J. Marchand, SUNY at Fredonia marchand@cs.fredonia.edu
  Elias Y. Deeba, University of Houston-Downtown
  Timothy J. McDevitt, Millersville University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    A Model of the Activated-Sludge Process in a Natural Wastewater Treatment System.
    James A Walsh*, Oberlin College
    (973-H1-43)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    Symplectic Integrators for the Undergraduate Classroom.
    Frank Zizza*, University of Arizona, South
    (973-H1-562)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    The Algebraic Connectivity of Two Trees Connected By an Edge of Infinite Weight.
    Jason J Molitierno*, Sacred Heart University
    (973-H1-393)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Learning rules projects in linear algebra.
    Elias y Deeba*, University of Houston-Downtown
    Andre De Korvin, University of Houston-Downtown
    (973-H1-389)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Bifrcation Analysis of a Dynamical System in Linear Algebra and Differential Equations.
    Douglas B Meade*, University of South Carolina
    (973-H1-258)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    A Predator-Prey Model With a Computer Algebra System.
    Mary Ann Connors*, Westfield State College
    Edward A Connors, University of Massachusetts
    (973-H1-429)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Examples of how Symbolic, Hand-held Calculators have Changed the way we Teach Differential Equations.
    Kathleen Pineau*, \'Ecole de technologie sup\'erieure
    Michel Beaudin, \'Ecole de technologie sup\'erieure
    (973-H1-237)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Projects for Numerical Investigation.
    Richard D West*, Francis Marion University
    (973-H1-448)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  MAA Session on General Contributed Papers, II
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
  Laura Wallace, California State University, San Bernardino
  Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State College
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    An Elementary Diversity Index Developed Using Taylor Series and Lagrange Multipliers.
    Donald E Hooley*, Bluffton College
    (973-T1-196)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    A Simple Proof of Rolle's Theorem for Finite Fields.
    Cristina Ballantine*, Dartmouth College
    Joel Roberts, Bowdoin College
    (973-T1-234)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Curved Asymptotes: Connecting Algebra and Calculus.
    Michael J. Boss\' e, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    N. R. Nandakumar*, Delaware State University
    (973-T1-501)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    How is the Koch Curve Like a Well-Written Paper?
    Daylene Zielinski*, Bellarmine University
    (973-T1-322)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    The Interdisciplinary Scholarship of Teaching in IUSB's Connections Program, A Learning Community.
    Janet B Hall*, Indiana University South Bend
    Rebecca Brittenham, Indiana University South Bend
    Richard A Cook, Indiana University South Bend
    Phyllis C Moore-Whitesell, Indiana University South Bend
    Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University South Bend
    Jay Showalter, Indiana University South Bend
    Kenneth A Smith, Indiana University South Bend
    Connie D Ruhl-Smith, Bowling Green State University
    Karen L White, Indiana University South Bend
    (973-T1-66)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    IUSB Connections: Promoting Retention by Addressing the Needs of Students in Developmental Mathematics and English.
    Richard A Cook*, Indiana University South Bend
    Rebecca Brittenham, Indiana University South Bend
    Janet B Hall, Indiana University South Bend
    Phyllis C Moore-Whitesell, Indiana University South Bend
    Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University South Bend
    Jay Showalter, Indiana University South Bend
    Kenneth A Smith, Indiana University South Bend
    Connie D Ruhl-Smith, Bowling Green State University
    Karen L White, Indiana University South Bend
    (973-T1-67)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Online Mathematics Testing for Retention of Engineers.
    Jerry Johnson*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Jeff Mortensen, University of Nevada, Reno
    Sami Fadali, University of Nevada, Reno
    Jeff McGough, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
    (973-T1-207)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    The Introduction to Fuzzy Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum.
    Carlos C Huerta*, United States Military Academy at West Point
    (973-T1-828)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Gender Equity in Oklahoma.
    Dana S Craig*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Charlotte K Simmons, University of Central Oklahoma
    (973-T1-1030)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Joint Presentation
  Highlights from the 2000 CBMS Survey of the Mathematical Sciences.
  Presenters:
  David J. Lutzer, College of William and Mary
  Stephen B. Rodi, Austin Community College
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  MAA-Project NExT Panel Discussion
  Introduction to the hiring process: Preparation, execution, and follow-up.
  Organizers:
  Sarah-Marie Belcastro, University of Northern Iowa and Bowdoin College
  Dusty E. Sabo, Southern Oregon University
  Panelists:
  Tamara B. Veenstra, University of Redlands
  Carolyn Yackel, Mercer University
  Dennis M. Luciano, Western New England College
  Mark J. Nielsen, University of Idaho
  Michael E. Boardman, Pacific University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  NCTM's work to improve mathematics education for all students.
  Organizers:
  Johnny W. Lott, University of Montana
  Eric Hart, Western Michigan University, Maharishi University of Management, and University of Iowa
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Session for chairs.
  Organizers:
  Catherine M. Murphy, Purdue University Calumet
  Gerald L. Alexanderson, Santa Clara University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  A comprehensive department-based program for the preparation and professional development of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in mathematics.
  Panelists:
  Lesa L. Beverly, University of Texas at Tyler
  Organizers:
  Eileen T. Shugart, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Panelists:
  Brian Camp, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Gregory Hartman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Abigail W. Kohler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Dustin P. Potter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Eileen T. Shugart,
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Sophie Germain's grand plan for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
  David J. Pengelley*, New Mexico State University
  (973-A0-35)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 3:20 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  AWM Panel Discussion
  Mathematics after high school: How to promote success for more.
  Organizers:
  Cathy Kessel,
  Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
  Moderators:
  Teri Jo Murphy,
  Bettye Anne Case, Florida State University
  Panelists:
  Rebecca Ambrose, San Diego State University
  Melinda W. Certain, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Cathy Kessel,
  Judy Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Mathematical preparation and support of teachers through rural universities.
  Organizers:
  Warren P. Koepp, Sul Ross State University
  Raymond A. Beaulieu, Sul Ross State University
  Panelists:
  Leslie Garrison, San Diego State University
  Harel Barzilai, Salisbury State University
  Raymond A. Beaulieu,
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Calculus Reform and the First Two Years Panel Discussion
  Modeling in college algebra.
  Organizers:
  Donald B. Small, U. S. Military Academy
  Panelists:
  Benny D. Evans, Oklahoma State University
  Alexander H. Fluellen, Clark Atlanta University
  Florence S. Gordon, New York Institute of Technology
  Scott Herriott, Maharishi University of Management
  Moderators:
  Della D. Bell, Texas Southern University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Welcoming Reception for Undergraduate Students
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 4:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Course portfolios and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
  Organizers:
  Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University
  Panelists:
  Bruce N. Cooperstein, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Curtis D. Bennett, Bowling Green State University
  Anita J. Salem, Rockhurst University
  John P. Holcomb, Cleveland State University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#5: Part A
  Using physical and computerized puzzles as models of permutation groups in teaching abstract algebra.
  Organizers:
  John O. Kiltinen, Northern Michigan University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Committee on the Profession Panel Discussion
  How the world sees mathematicians.
  Organizers:
  Allyn Jackson, AMS
  Panelists:
  Dave Bayer, Barnard College
  K. C. Cole, {\it Los Angeles Times}
  Keith J. Devlin, Stanford University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  MAA Section Officers
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 4:35 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  AWM Membership Meeting
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Graduate Student Reception
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Mathematical Sciences Institutes Reception
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Reception for First-Time Participants
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 7:15 p.m.-8:15 p.m.
  Young Mathematicians Network Town Meeting
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
  AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
  Making light of mathematics.
  Michael V. Berry*, Bristol University
  (973-78-01)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 9:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
  AWM Reception

Monday January 7, 2002

• Monday January 7, 2002, 7:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Distribution of schedules, scheduled interviews, and interview center (see article for specific hours).
• Monday January 7, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, III
  Organizers:
  William H. Barker, Bowdoin College
  Jerry L. Bona, University of Texas at Austin
  Naomi D. Fisher, University of Illinois at Chicago ndfisher@uic.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Contemporary College Algebra, base course for a QL Program.
    Don B Small*, U.S. Military Academy
    (973-97-1378)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Contemporary College Algebra - Inclusion of Collaborative Learning and Technology.
    Laurette B Foster*, Prairie View A&M University
    (973-97-1451)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tracking Students through Algebra, Pre-Calculus and Calculus Courses.
    Steven R Dunbar*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (973-97-1254)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Improving College Algebra by Developing Alternative Courses.
    Bruce C Crauder*, Oklahoma State University
    (973-97-1176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Panel Discussion on Revitalizing College Algebra: Why? And How?
    William Barker*, Bowdoin College
    (973-97-1367)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Organizers:
  Paul C. Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A generalized amplitude inequality.
    Srikanth Iyengar*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Hans-Bj\ orn Foxby, University of Copenhagen
    (973-13-309)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bivariate Hilbert Functions for the Torsion Functor.
    Emanoil Theodorescu*, University of Kansas
    (973-13-799)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Depths of higher Tors.
    Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
    Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (973-13-867)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Domains inside power series rings.
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (973-13-1232)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Syzygy Theorm in Mixed Characteristic.
    Phillip A Griffith*, University of Illinois
    (973-13-399)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Attached Primes of Graded Modules.
    Andrew S. Richardson*, University of Illinois
    (973-13-734)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Limiting Behavior on Restriction of Divisor Classes to Hypersurfaces.
    Sandra M Spiroff*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (973-13-993)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Some conditions for the Gorenstein property.
    Douglas Hanes*, University of Minnesota
    Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
    (973-13-729)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Marcus Grefrath, San Diego State University gref@inaba.math.uni-duisburg.de
  Michael E. O'Sullivan, San Diego State University mosulliv@math.sdsu.edu
  Roxana N. Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Development of Coding Theory over Finite Rings.
    Jay A Wood*, Western Michigan University
    (973-94-1121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Structure of Quaternary Codes with respect to Rosenbloom-Tsfasman Metric.
    Mehmet \" Ozen, Sakarya University
    Irfan Siap*, Ad\i yaman Faculty of Education, Gazianatep University
    Fethi Callialp, Dogus University
    (973-05-1070)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quasi-cyclic codes and codes over rings.
    Patrick France Sole'*, CNRS/I3S
    (973-94-1286)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homogeneous weights and exponential sums.
    Jose' Felipe Voloch, University of Texas
    Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (973-11-1277)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A New Construction Technique for Lattices from Subfields of $Q(\zeta_{pq})$.
    J. Carmelo Interlando*, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP
    Trajano P Nobrega Neto, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP
    Andre L Flores, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP
    (973-11-912)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Representation theory and space-time coding.
    Jonathan I Hall*, Michigan State University
    (973-94-1357)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Space-Time Block Codes and their Decoding.
    Stefan E Schmidt*, New Mexico State University
    Paul E Wright, MeasuRisk
    (973-94-1005)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebras, Forms, and Algebraic Groups, I
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, University of California Los Angeles skip@math.ucla.edu
  David J. Saltman, University of Texas at Austin saltman@math.utexas.edu
  Adrian R. Wadsworth, University of California San Diego arwadsworth@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The trace form of a central simple algebra of degree four.
    Jean-Pierre E Tignol*, Universit\'e catholique de Louvain
    (973-16-962)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Decomposition of Involutions on Inertially Split Division Algebras.
    Patrick J Morandi*, New Mexico State University
    B. A Sethuraman, California State University Northridge
    (973-16-967)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Octonion Algebras Obtained from Associative Algebras with Involution.
    Michel L Racine*, University of Ottawa
    Holger P Petersson, FernUniversitaet Hagen
    (973-17-1064)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Effecive Diagonaliztion Property for *-Fields.
    Douglas W Larmour*, New College of Florida
    (973-16-812)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Trace forms of Galois field extensions in the presence of roots of unity.
    Zinovy Reichstein*, University of British Columbia
    (973-12-764)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the structure of the universal algebra for algebras that become hyperbolic over a given extention.
    Su-chi Wen*, Indiana University
    (973-16-219)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Structure in the Witt ring of a field and powers of the fundamental ideal.
    Richard S Elman*, UCLA
    (973-12-911)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Chaos, Stability, and Asymptotics in Difference Equations, III
  Organizers:
  Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University selaydi@trinity.edu
  Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island gladas@math.uri.edu
  Donald A. Lutz, San Diego State University lutz@math.sdsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Impact Of Dispersal Corridors On The Evolution Of Life-History Dynamics.
    Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Cornell University
    Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*, Cornell University/ Howard University
    (973-92-854)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Complex Dynamics in Ecology: Lattice Effects.
    Shandelle M. Henson*, Andrews University
    R. F. Costantino, University of Rhode Island
    J. M. Cushing, University of Arizona
    Robert A. Desharnais, California State University, Los Angeles
    Brian Dennis, University of Idaho at Moscow
    Aaron King, University of California, Davis
    (973-92-706)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Convergence Theorem for Lattice Maps.
    Jim M Cushing*, University of Arizona
    (973-37-698)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Numerical Studies of the Combustion Equation.
    Ronald E Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (973-39-306)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unbounded orbits of chaotic systems in the real line.
    Mario U Martelli*, Claremont McKenna College
    Marc Chamberland, Grinnel College
    (973-37-818)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bethe Ansatz Equation of XXZ Model and $q$-Sturm-Liouville Problems.
    Mourad E.H. Ismail*, University of South Florida
    Shao-shiung Lin, Taiwan University
    Shi-shyr Roan, Academia Sinica
    (973-39-29)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Cycling Chaos in Coupled Iterated Maps.
    Antonio Palacios*, San Diego State University
    (973-37-135)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On the global stability of hyperbolic and nonhyperbolic fixed points.
    Saber N Elaydi*, Trinity University
    (973-39-807)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Computability Theory with Applications, III
  Organizers:
  Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida cenzer@math.ufl.edu
  Jeffrey B. Remmel, University of California San Diego jremmel@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Logical Aspects of Ramsey's Theorem.
    Theodore A. Slaman*, University of California, Berkeley
    (973-03-1325)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The $\forall\exists$-Theory of $\mathcal{R}(\leq,\vee,\wedge)$ is Undecidable.
    Russell G. Miller, Cornell University
    Andre O. Nies, University of Chicago
    Richard A. Shore*, Cornell University
    (973-03-1115)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A definiable yet non-$\Delta^0_3$ orbit in the computably emunerable sets.
    Peter A Cholak*, University of Notre Dame
    A Harrington, UC-- Berkeley
    (973-03-879)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lattice embeddings in the computably enumerable degrees.
    Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Manuel Lerman, University of Connecticut
    Reed Solomon*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (973-03-1061)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The computational complexity of uncountably categorical models.
    Steffen Lempp*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (973-03-894)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Relative 1-Randomness of Reals.
    Rod G. Downey, School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
    Denis R. Hirschfeldt*, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
    Andr\'e Nies, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
    Frank Stephan, Workgroup Mathematical Logic and Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematical Institute, University of Heidelberg
    (973-03-1383)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A blend of methods of recursion theory and analysis.
    Iraj Kalantari*, Western Illinois University
    (973-03-1111)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Recursive Content of Abstract Functional Analysis.
    Anil Nerode*, Cornell University
    Joe Miller, Cornell University
    (973-03-1052)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Applications: A Jubilee of Benoit Mandelbrot, III
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuysen, Rutgers University machiel@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Spectrum of the Laplacian on the Pentagasket.
    Bryant Adams, Cornell University
    S. Alex Smith*, Cornell University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    Alexander Teplyaev, University of California Riverside
    (973-00-1430)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some connections between Bernoulli convolutions and analytic number theory.
    Titus W Hilberdink*, University of Reading
    (973-11-1278)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some connections between multifractal functions and number theory.
    Stephane P Jaffard*, University Paris 12
    (973-26-1127)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex Dimensions of Self-Similar Fractal Strings.
    Michel L Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Machiel van Frankenhuysen*, Rutgers University
    (973-11-1017)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minkowski measurability and lacunarity of self-similar sets in $\mathbb{R}$.
    Marc Frantz*, Indiana University
    (973-28-267)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fractal Geometry and Number Theory: From Fractal Strings to Fractal Membranes and Beyond.
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
    (973-37-1464)
  • 11:10 a.m.
    Multifractal Products of Stochastic Processes.
    Petteri Mannersalo, VTT Information Technology
    Ilkka Norros, VTT Information Technology
    Rudolf H Riedi*, Rice University
    (973-28-847)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Random multifractals, negative dimensions and infinite moments.
    Benoit B Mandelbrot*, Yale University
    (973-60-1301)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Organizers:
  Andre Kundgen, California State University, San Marcos akundgen@csusm.edu
  K. Brooks Reid, California State University, San Marcos breid@csusm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Green's functions, hitting times, and chip-firing games.
    Fan Chung, University of California at San Diego
    Robert B. Ellis, III*, University of California at San Diego
    (973-05-1212)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Independence Ratios and Matching Ratios.
    Christopher C Heckman*, Arizona State University
    (973-05-140)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some results about integer flows.
    C. Q. Zhang*, West Virginia University
    (973-05-433)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Binary Gray Codes with Long Bit Runs.
    Luis A. Goddyn*, Simon Fraser University
    Pavol Gvozdjak, Simon Fraser University
    (973-05-855)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Split Graphs.
    Russell L Merris*, California State University, Hayward
    (973-05-951)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Intersecting Families with Minimum Volume.
    Jerrold R Griggs*, University of South Carolina
    (973-05-893)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Kneser graphs are Hamiltonian for $n > 2.62 k$.
    Ya-chen Chen*, Arizona State University
    (973-05-1185)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Interval Orders, Graph Coloring, Hamiltonian Paths and $\alpha$-Sequences: Part 2.
    William T Trotter*, Arizona State University
    (973-05-1446)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, III
  Organizers:
  Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro maya@uncg.edu
  Jon T. Jacobsen, Pennsylvania State University jacobsen@math.psu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Free boundary problems for nonlinear wave equations.
    Eun Heui Kim*, California State University at Long Beach
    Suncica Canic, University of Houston
    Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston
    (973-35-1375)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Hamiltonian System with no Convexity Condition on the Nonlinearity.
    Greg S Spradlin*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
    (973-34-1485)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weighted Elliptic Equations With Critical Sobolev Exponents.
    Florin Catrina*, University of Rochester
    (973-35-1051)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Liouville-Gelfand Equation for $k$-Hessian Operators.
    Jon T Jacobsen*, Penn State
    (973-35-1403)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The entire solutions of semilinear elliptic equations.
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (973-35-1441)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some Recent Results in Critical Point Theory.
    Martin Schechter*, University of California, Irvine
    (973-35-817)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, III
  Organizers:
  Tim D. Cochran, Rice University cochran@rice.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Noncommutative Knot Theory.
    Tim D Cochran*, Rice University
    (973-57-1365)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the "Volume" limit of the colored Jones polynomial.
    Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University
    Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
    (973-57-849)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Towers of knots and analytic signatures.
    Tim D Cochran, Rice University
    Kent E Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Peter Teichner, University of California, San Diego
    (973-57-1393)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On knots 2-adjacent to the unknot.
    Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
    (973-57-1401)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-slice knots with vanishing Casson-Gordon invariants.
    Taehee Kim*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (973-57-910)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalizations of Gusarov's groups of knots.
    Ted Stanford*, New Mexico State University
    (973-57-996)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Lie Bialgebra Structure on Graphs and Graph Homology.
    James Conant*, Cornell University
    Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
    (973-57-474)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Torsion in the Kauffman bracket skein module via Hochschild homology.
    Michael S McLendon*, University of Iowa
    (973-57-991)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#11: Part A
  Incorporating discrete mathematics in the preparation of K--12 mathematics teachers.
  Organizers:
  Lolina Alvarez, New Mexico State University
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#15: Part A
  Mathematical finance.
  Organizers:
  Walter R. Stromquist, Berwyn, PA
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#6: Part A
  WeBWorK, an Internet-based system for generating and delivering homework problems to students.
  Organizers:
  Arnold K. Pizer, University of Rochester
  Michael E. Gage, University of Rochester
  Vicki Roth, University of Rochester
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Group Theory
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Amalgams of nilpotent groups of class two.
    Arturo Magidin*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
    (973-20-25)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Finite groups in which every normal subgroups has a proper supplement.
    Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, SUNY-Binghamton
    Joseph Kirtland, Marist College
    (973-20-877)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finite Groups with a Minimal Frattini Subgroup Property.
    Joseph Kirtland*, Marist College
    (973-20-282)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Frattini Duals.
    Homer Bechtell*, University of New Hampshire
    (973-20-843)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Abelian $SP$-Groups.
    Chad Lower*, Shippensburg University
    Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University
    (973-20-936)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Nonabelain Groups With Perfect Order Subsets.
    Carrie E Finch*, University of South Carolina
    Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University
    (973-20-938)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The power structure of powerful $p$-groups.
    L. Wilson*, University of Chicago
    (973-20-1003)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Semidirect Product Decompositions of E-groups.
    Gregory M Boudreaux*, The University of North Carolina at Asheville
    (973-20-1007)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Norms and the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel Invariant.
    Reva S Kasman*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (973-20-1012)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Subgroups that Satisfy the Frattini Argument.
    Joseph Evan*, King's College
    (973-20-1141)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Non-Abelian Tensor Powers of a Group.
    Michael Bacon*, SUNY-Oneonta
    (973-20-1319)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Expressing the Total Character of a Group as a Polynomial, Preliminary Report.
    Stephen M Gagola, Jr.*, Kent State University
    (973-20-1360)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Representations of Infinite Monomial Groups.
    Sabrina A Hessinger*, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    (973-20-1373)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Cayley color graphs of inverse semigroups and groupoids.
    Nandor Sieben*, Northern Arizona University
    (973-20-1461)
  • 11:45 p.m.
    Powers of $SL(n,q)$.
    Kim Gilbert, Shippensburg University
    Darin Kapanjie*, Lynchburg College
    Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University
    (973-20-1241)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Numerical Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Comparison Between the Wavelet-Galerkin and the Sinc-Galerkin Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations.
    Ahmed I. Zayed*, DePaul University
    Mohamed M. El-Gamel, Mansoura University
    (973-35-947)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Existence Theorems for Slow Diffusion Equations.
    Guy Bernard*, University of Central Arkansas
    (973-35-1153)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Numerical solution of exterior Neumann problem for Helmholtz's equation via modified Green's functions approach.
    Yajni Madhu Warnapala-Yehiya*, Roger Williams University
    T.C. Lin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (973-65-85)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Investigation of the nonlinear ODE for a model neuron.
    Stanley R Lenihan*, Del Norte Research & Development
    (973-65-665)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Directions for Computing Multivariate Taylor Series Coefficients.
    Richard D Neidinger*, Davidson College
    (973-65-1160)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A Numerical Method for Approximating the Solution to a Non-Linear Differential Equation with Discontinuities.
    Donna L Flint*, South Dakota State University
    (973-65-1384)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Numerical differentiation for approximating certain series.
    Rick Kreminski*, Texas A&M University - Commerce
    (973-65-1456)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Precise numerical solution of PDE initial value problems.
    Oliver G Aberth*, Texas A & M University
    (973-35-1349)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Atmospheric Refraction.
    Ivie Stein, Jr.*, The University of Toledo
    (973-78-701)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A Mathematical Evolution Model for Phyto-remediation of Metals.
    Diana M Thomas*, Montclair State University
    Lynn Vandemeulebroeke, Montclair State University
    Kenneth Yamaguchi, New Jersey City University
    (973-34-149)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Functional Equations for HIV.
    Terry J Quinn*, Ohio University Southern
    Sanjay Rai, Jacksonville University
    Bob L Robertson, Drury University
    (973-34-901)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Multiple symmetric positive solutions of a class of boundary value problems for higher order ordinary differential equations.
    John R. Graef, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Chuanxi Qian, Mississippi State University
    Bo Yang*, Mississippi State University
    (973-34-1490)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Schr\"odinger's equation with time dependent Hamiltonian and NMR of rotating samples.
    Partha Srinivasan, Florida State University
    Zhehong Gan, NHMFL
    Jack Quine*, Florida State University
    (973-81-1391)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Approximation and Interpolation Employing Divergence-free Matrix-valued Radial Basis Functions.
    Svenja Lowitzsch*, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    (973-41-1180)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Medicine
  Organizers:
  Angela Y. Cheer, University of California Davis cheer@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematics and Internet in Medical Decision Making.
    Iztok Hozo*, Indiana University Northwest
    (973-92-463)
  • 8:35 a.m.
    Modeling the Activation of T Cells and the Internalization of their Receptors.
    Byron Goldstein*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Daniel Coombs, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Carla Wofsy, University of New Mexico
    (973-92-1346)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    The fertilization calcium wave in Xenopus laevis eggs.
    John Wagner*, University of Connecticut Health Center
    Chris Fall, New York University
    Leslie Loew, University of Connecticut Health Center
    Richard Nuccitelli, University of California, Davis
    (973-92-1462)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Moving Overset Grid Methods for Flexible Filaments in an Unsteady Viscous Flow.
    Petri Fast*, Center for Applied Scientific Computing/Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory
    (973-76-1458)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Aortic flow simulations.
    Angela Cheer*, University of California, Davis
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  MAA Session on History of Mathematics in the Second Millennium, II
  Organizers:
  Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands beery@uor.edu
  C. Edward Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Comments on the evolution of the normal curve.
    Saul Stahl*, University of Kansas
    (973-A1-252)
  • 8:25 a.m.
    The Waffle Algorithm for Egyptian Fractions.
    Robert E Bradley*, Adelphi University
    (973-A1-776)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    Acceleration of convergence of fixed-point iterations in medieval Sanskrit mathematics.
    Kim Plofker*, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT
    (973-A1-226)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Gou Gu Ge Yuan Ji-I "Chinese approach" to Trigonometry in 18th Century China.
    Jiang-Ping J Chen*, St. Cloud State University
    Minghui Hu, UCLA
    (973-A1-133)
  • 9:35 a.m.
    Rabbinical Mathematics, its History and Applications.
    Carlos C Huerta*, United States Military Academy at West Point
    (973-A1-814)
  • 9:55 a.m.
    Solving Polynomial equations-Its historical importance in the development of algebra.
    Mysore S Jagadish*, Barry University
    (973-A1-584)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    How Fundamental is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus?
    Lawrence A D'Antonio*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    (973-A1-949)
  • 10:35 a.m.
    Euler on Cevians.
    Homer S White*, Georgetown College
    (973-A1-314)
  • 10:55 a.m.
    Roger Cotes' Measures of Ratios and Angles.
    Robert G Stein*, California State University, San Bernardino
    (973-A1-1164)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Controversy at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey during the Duffield Administration (1894-1897).
    Mark McKinzie*, Monroe Community College
    (973-A1-586)
  • 11:35 a.m.
    The crescents of Hippocrates from the second millennium BCE to the second millennium CE.
    Una Bray*, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12834
    (973-A1-1392)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics Courses for Teachers, K--12, II
  Organizers:
  Ira J. Papick, University of Missouri, Columbia mathip@showme.missouri.edu
  Duane Porter, University of Wyoming
  Diane M. Spresser, National Science Foundation
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Explorations In Algebra: Deepening Understandings of Functions.
    Barbara J Pence*, San Jose State Univ
    (973-B1-319)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Teaching and Learning the Foundations of Geometry.
    Charles P. Funkhouser*, University of Wyoming
    (973-B1-371)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Scissors and String; Conjectures and Theorems.
    Kevin L Hartshorn*, UC Davis
    (973-B1-404)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Methods for the Effective Preparation of Mathematics Educators.
    Yolanda Manzano*, Baylor University - NSF Summer Intern
    Elizabeth J Teles, NSF - Program Director - Division of Undergraduate Education
    (973-B1-63)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A Capstone Course for PreService and Inservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
    Gordon S Woodward, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    David Fowler*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (973-B1-422)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Math Trails: An Educational Tool.
    Charlotte Kaye Simmons*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Jesse William Byrne, University of Central Oklahoma
    (973-B1-606)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Report on Bridging The Gap and other projects.
    Tamas Szabo*, Weber State University
    (973-B1-458)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A Capstone Course for Pre-Service 9-12 Teachers.
    Kimberly M. Childs*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    William D. Clark, Stephen F. Austin State University
    (973-B1-442)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Motivating and facilitating achievement in a technology-rich, WWW-based Geometry for Teachers course.
    David A Thomas*, Ball State University
    (973-B1-232)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Capstone Courses in Analysis, Algebra, and Mathematics and Technology for Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
    Vince Schielack*, Texas A&M University
    (973-B1-617)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Making Mathematical Connections.
    Karen J Graham*, University of New Hampshire
    Neil Portnoy, Calfifornia State University, Chico
    Todd Grundmeier, University of New Hampshire
    (973-B1-635)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Our Profession In Crisis.
    William P Fox*, Francis Marion University
    (973-B1-304)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Integrating Mathematics and Other Disciplines, II
  Organizers:
  William G. McCallum, University of Arizona, Tucson wmc@math.arizona.edu
  Deborah Hughes Hallett, University of Arizona, Tucson
  Yajun Yang, SUNY at Farmingdale
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An Interdisciplinary Quantitative Reasoning Program at Hollins University.
    Caren L. Diefenderfer*, Hollins University
    Patricia W. Hammer, Hollins University
    (973-C1-536)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    An Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar: The Art and Science of Patterns.
    Donna L Beers*, Simmons College
    (973-C1-192)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Teaching Seminar Courses in Mathematics for Undergraduate Social Science Students.
    Daniel King*, Sarah Lawrence College
    (973-C1-592)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Heavenly Mathematics: Highlights of Cultural Astronomy.
    Helmer Aslaksen*, National University of Singapore
    (973-C1-388)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Developing the Interdisciplinary Course: ``Analogy, Mathematics \& Poetry".
    Marcia Birken*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Anne C Coon, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (973-C1-99)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Teaching a College Algebra course to students majoring in Telecommunications Managemant, Electronics Engineering Technology and Computer Information Systems.
    Stefanos Gialamas*, DeVry University
    (973-C1-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Customized Math Lab Projects for Algebra and Precalculus.
    Mako E Haruta*, University of Hartford
    Raymond J McGivney, University of Hartford
    (973-C1-546)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Modeling Historical Data in the Mathematics Classroom.
    Deirdre L Smeltzer*, Eastern Mennonite University
    (973-C1-508)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Why is there a warning on my can of diet soda? The Mathematics and Ethics of Medical Screening Tests.
    Michael A Brilleslyper*, U. S. Air Force Academy
    (973-C1-131)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Using Probability to Understand Calculus.
    Martin E Flashman*, Humboldt State University
    (973-C1-513)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Math with a Purpose-A Dynamic Approach to Modeling.
    James T Sandefur*, Georgetown University
    (973-C1-440)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some Matrix Applications to Logistics of Air Shipping Using MATLAB.
    Alexander Stanoyevitch*, University of Guam
    (973-C1-524)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    An object oriented approach for studying queuing models.
    Leann Karl, University of Massachusetts
    Robert M Tardiff*, Salisbury University
    (973-C1-465)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Multimedia Mathematics Help For Business Majors And Their Teachers.
    Richard B Thompson*, University of Arizona
    (973-C1-380)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Using Project-Based Learning to Integrate Statistics and Business Applications in a First-year Mathematics Course.
    Paul Kochanowski*, Indiana University South Bend
    Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University South Bend
    (973-C1-106)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Uses of the World Wide Web in Teaching Mathematics, II
  Organizers:
  Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville University mbessma@ju.edu
  Marcia Birken, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Lawrence S. Husch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Brian E. Smith, McGill University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    College Algebra on the Web.
    Denise J LeGrand*, UALR
    (973-D1-456)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Teaching Elementary and Intermediate Algebra Using ALEKS and the World Wide Web.
    Jon R Becker*, Indiana University Northwest
    (973-D1-300)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Using both video and text on the web in a linear algebra course.
    Gregory P Dresden*, Washington & Lee University
    (973-D1-460)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Teaching the Art of Conjecture Using Computers and the Web.
    Don E Spickler*, Salisbury University
    (973-D1-313)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Mathematics and MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource in Learning and Online Teaching).
    James J Rutledge*, St. Petersburg College
    (973-D1-262)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A Web Intensive Business Calculus Class and Text.
    Brian H Felkel*, Appalachian State University
    (973-D1-199)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Web Resources for Mathematics of Flight.
    George T Rublein*, College of William and Mary
    (973-D1-564)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Online solutions for math textbook homework problems.
    Charles A Grant*, Hotmath, Inc
    Robert A Bekes, Santa Clara University
    (973-D1-631)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Paving the math way on the web.
    J. J. Uhl*, Univ of Illinois
    Debra Woods, Univ of Illinois
    (973-D1-1165)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    GroupLearn: Electronically simulating a calculus study group.
    Larry Copes*, Institute for Studies in Educational Mathematics
    (973-D1-705)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Web-based Development and Assessment of Fundamental Math Skills (WebFSE).
    Darryl K. Ahner*, United States Military Academy
    Shaw Yoshitani, United States Military Academy
    (973-D1-541)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    The Probability/Statistics Object Library.
    Kyle T Siegrist*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (973-D1-611)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:15 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Topology
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    Join Products and Differentiable Fiber Bundles.
    Duane Randall*, Loyola University New Orleans
    (973-55-1422)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A strengthening of a result by A.H. Stone and its application to infinite products.
    Lewis D Ludwig*, Kenyon College
    (973-54-1096)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Chirality as Topological Invariant and Biomolecular Specificity.
    Okan Gurel*, IBM
    Demet Gurel, Touro College
    (973-54-138)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Alternating Polynomials of Alternating Links.
    Steven J Tedford*, Binghamton University
    (973-54-918)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Maps of Convergence Spaces and Maps of Their Simple Extensions.
    Shing S So*, Central Missouri State University
    (973-54-994)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    \font\bbld=msbm10 \def\ben{\hbox{\bbld N}} Preimages of points in $\beta\ben\times\beta\ben$ under the natural map on $\beta(\ben\times\ben)$.
    Gugu Moche*, Howard University
    (973-54-1137)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Partial sums.
    Jamuna Prasad Ambasht*, Benedict College
    (973-54-1467)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Estimation of the Kervaire Milnor number.
    Yasukuni Furukawa*, Aichi Univ. of Education
    (973-57-774)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On Small Geometric Invariants Of 3-Manifolds.
    Paul J. Kapitza*, Illinois Wesleyan University
    (973-57-1294)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Morse Complex for a Morse Function on a Manifold with Corners.
    David G Handron*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (973-57-1330)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Splitting results for generalized assembly maps.
    David Rosenthal*, SUNY-Binghamton
    (973-57-1337)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Examples of Cayley manifolds in $R^8$.
    Christopher J Pries*, Harvey Mudd College
    Weiqing Gu, Harvey Mudd College
    (973-53-1395)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    A Characterization of Protopological Groups and Its Applications.
    Julie C Jones*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (973-22-70)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Large Sets in Adequate Partial Semigroups.
    Jillian E Mcleod*, Hope College
    (973-22-1209)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Weakened Lie groups with locally isometric completions.
    Jon W Short*, Sam Houston State University
    (973-22-1386)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Computation and Information, III
  Organizers:
  Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
  Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
  John Preskill, California Institute of Technology preskill@theory.caltech.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A quantum algorithm for Pell's equation.
    Sean Hallgren*, Caltech
    (973-68-1463)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Authentication of Quantum Messages.
    Howard Barnum, Los Alamos National Lab
    Claude Crepeau, McGill University
    Daniel Gottesman*, UC Berkeley
    Adam Smith, MIT
    Alain Tapp, McGill University
    (973-81-955)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The quantum reverse Shannon theorem.
    Peter W Shor*, AT&T Labs -- Research
    (973-81-1483)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Classical simulation of noninteracting-fermion quantum circuits.
    Barbara M Terhal*, Caltech
    David P DiVincenzo, IBM Research
    (973-81-413)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Anisotropic Spin Exchange in Pulsed Quantum Gates.
    N E Bonesteel*, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
    D Stepanenko, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
    D P DiVincenzo, IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
    (973-81-1321)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Distributed coding of quantum information.
    Patrick M Hayden*, California Institute of Technology
    Andrew Doherty, California Institute of Technology
    (973-94-1428)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Partial Differential Equations and Applications
  Organizers:
  Oscar P. Bruno, California Institute of Technology bruno@acm.caltech.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The yield set of rigid-plastic polycrystals.
    Guillermo H Goldsztein*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (973-35-714)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    High-Order Accurate Numerical Solution of Conservation Laws.
    Jan S Hesthaven*, Brown University
    Tim Warburton, The University of New Mexico
    (973-65-715)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homogenization of PDE: Microscopic misfits in composites and polycrystals.
    Oscar P Bruno*, Caltech
    (973-35-941)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rigorous multiple scale scattering solver: Analyticity, Asymptotics and Taylor-Fourier Algebra.
    Oscar P Bruno, California Institute of Technology
    Alain Sei*, TRW
    Maria Z Caponi, TRW
    (973-35-802)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
  Computing over the Reals: Where Turing meets Newton.
  Lenore Blum*, Carnegie Mellon University
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, III
  Organizers:
  Aimee S. A. Johnson, Swarthmore College aimee@swarthmore.edu
  Kathleen M. Madden, Drew University kmadden@drew.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Measures of relative maximal entropy.
    Karl Petersen, University of North Carolina
    Anthony N. Quas*, University of Memphis
    Sujin Shin, University of Victoria
    (973-37-325)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bounded orbit equivalence for minimal $Z^d$-actions.
    Nicholas S. Ormes*, University of Connecticut
    Kathleen Madden, Drew University
    (973-37-848)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From homomorphisms to embeddings for ${\mathbb Z}^d$ subshifts: $d\geq 2$.
    Samuel J Lightwood*, University of Wisconsin - Stout
    (973-37-1435)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some topological properties of two-dimensional weakly coupled map lattices.
    Antonio L Morante*, IICO, UASLP
    (973-37-1246)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Modeling ergodic, measure preserving actions on higher dimensional shifts of finite type.
    E. Arthur Robinson, George Washington University
    Ayse A Sahin*, DePaul University
    (973-37-1421)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on General Contributed Papers, III
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
  Laura Wallace, California State University, San Bernardino
  Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State College
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Complexity of Card Games.
    Michael S McClendon*, University of Central Oklahoma
    (973-T1-365)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A Perfect Game of Dominoes - A Graph Theoretical Approach.
    Jay A Malmstrom*, Oklahoma City Community College
    (973-T1-518)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Equitable, Envy-free, and Efficient Cake Cutting for Two People and Its Application to Discrete Goods.
    Michael A Jones*, Montclair State University
    (973-T1-241)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Wallet Paradox Revisited.
    Maureen Carroll, University of Scranton
    Michael A Jones, Montclair State University
    Elyn Rykken*, Muhlenberg College
    (973-T1-549)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Banking on "The Weakest Link".
    Paul R Coe*, Dominican University
    (973-T1-634)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Utility Of CART: Classification And Regression Tress For Improving College and University Retention.
    Gerard T LaVarnway*, Norwich University
    Cathy M Frey, Norwich University
    (973-T1-294)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Integration of Mathematics and Science Through Standards-Based, Enrichment, and Safety- Net Activities.
    Faiz B Al-Rubaee*, University of North Florida
    (973-T1-599)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Our Summer on Mount Olympus: The Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program and International Mathematical Olympiad, Part 1.
    Karen A Marrongelle*, Portland State University
    Steve Benson, Education Development Center, Inc.
    (973-T1-603)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Our Summer on Mount Olympus: The Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program and International Mathematical Olympiad, Part 2.
    Steve R Benson*, Education Development Center, Inc.
    Karen A Marrongelle, Portland State University
    (973-T1-607)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Committee on Mathematics and the Environment Panel Discussion
  The environment: A context for learning.
  Organizers:
  Marcia Sward Doherty, Ocean View, DE
  Ben Fusaro, Florida State University
  Presenters:
  Gerald Lieberman,
  Nancy E. Zumoff, Kennesaw State University
  Lee Seitelman, Pratt \& Whitney and University of Connecticut
  Moderators:
  Patricia Clark Kenschaft, Montclair State University
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  JOMA authors presentation.
  Organizers:
  David A. Smith, Duke University
  Lang Moore, MAA and Duke University
  Presenters:
  David A. Smith,
  Thomas E. Leathrum, Jacksonville State University
  John O. Kiltinen, Northern Michigan University
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Committee on the Mathematical Education of Teachers Panel Discussion
  Changing attitudes in the elementary education mathematics content courses: What works?
  Organizers:
  Bonnie L. Oppenheimer, Mississippi University for Women
  Sigrid E. Wagner, Ohio State University
  Joan S. Morrison, Goucher College
  Panelists:
  Charles E. Lamb, Texas A\&M University
  Robert B. Brown, Ohio State University
  Anne L. Madsen, University of New Mexico
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Opportunities for mathematically motivated youth.
  Organizers:
  Richard D. Sommer, Stanford University
  Panelists:
  Linda Brody, Johns Hopkins University
  Carol Blackburn, Johns Hopkins University
  Rafe A. Mazzeo, Stanford University
  Raymond Ravaglia, Stanford University
  Zvezdelina E. Stankova-Frenkel, Mills College
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Project NExT Panel Discussion
  How to make the most of teaching evaluations.
  Organizers:
  T. Christine Stevens, St. Louis University
  Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota, Duluth
  Aparna W. Higgins, University of Dayton
  Panelists:
  Jeffrey S. Connor, Ohio University
  Carl C. Cowen, Purdue University
  William E. Fenton, Bellarmine University
  Pamela B. Pierce, College of Wooster
• Monday January 7, 2002, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Book Sales and Exhibits
• Monday January 7, 2002, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Probability, combinatorics, and physics in analytic number theory.
  Andrew J. Granville*, University of Georgia
  (973-A0-33)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#7: Part A
  Creating and exporting computer animations to the Web.
  Organizers:
  William D. Emerson, Metropolitan State College of Denver
  Louis A. Talman, Metropolitan State College of Denver
  Bradford Kline, Metropolitan State College of Denver
• Monday January 7, 2002, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  NSF funding opportunities for learning and teaching in the mathematical sciences.
  Organizers:
  Dennis E. Davenport, NSF/Division of Undergraduate Education
  James H. Lightbourne, NSF/Division of Undergraduate Education
  Elizabeth J. Teles, NSF/Division of Undergraduate Education
  Lee L. Zia, NSF/Division of Undergraduate Education
  Panelists:
  John S. Bradley, NSF/Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education
  Diane M. Spresser, NSF/Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education
  Lloyd E. Douglas, NSF/Division of Mathematical Sciences
• Monday January 7, 2002, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  College credit by examination: The Advance Placement (AP\circledR) and College-Level Examination (CLEP\circledR) Programs.
  Organizers:
  Gloria S. Dion, Educational Testing Service
  Panelists:
  Chan Jones, Educational Testing Service
  James R. Choike, Oklahoma State University
  Jane P. Coffee, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Roxy Peck, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  Lawrence H. Riddle, Agnes Scott College
  Moderators:
  Gloria S. Dion,
• Monday January 7, 2002, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Life after a math sciences major: Tracking and using alumni career information.
  Organizers:
  John D. Fulton, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Presenters:
  Andrew Sterrett,
  David J. Lutzer, College of William and Mary
  Laura J. Person, SUNY at Potsdam
  Jean Mastrangeli, Bryn Mawr College
  Moderators:
  Michael G. Monticino, University of North Texas
• Monday January 7, 2002, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  SIAM Invited Address
  Variational PDE models and algorithms in image processing.
  Tony F. Chan*, University of California Los Angeles and Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II
  Entropy Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Entropy and entropy flux pairs.
  Lawrence Craig Evans*, University of California Berkeley
  (973-35-04)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, IV
  Organizers:
  William H. Barker, Bowdoin College
  Jerry L. Bona, University of Texas at Austin
  Naomi D. Fisher, University of Illinois at Chicago ndfisher@uic.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Connecting Mathematics Education Research and Teaching Practice Panel Discussion.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (973-97-1226)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Classification Problems, III
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Lascar group.
    Anand Pillay*, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (973-03-659)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On groups definable in o-minnimal structures.
    Sergei Starchenko*, University of Notre Dame
    (973-03-743)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Algebraic dimension on subgroups of the multiplicative group of algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero.
    Kitty L Holland*, Northern Illinois University
    (973-03-712)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Existential Lefschetz Principles for Power Series Rings and Artin Approximation.
    Hans Schoutens*, Ohio State University
    (973-03-485)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The role of torsors for elimination of imaginaries.
    Deirdre Haskell*, McMaster University
    Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University
    Dugald Macpherson, University of Leeds
    (973-03-535)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The greatest common divisor of two integers cannot be computed in a uniformly bounded number of steps.
    Lou van den Dries*, University of Illinois
    (973-03-423)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, IV
  Organizers:
  Aimee S. A. Johnson, Swarthmore College aimee@swarthmore.edu
  Kathleen M. Madden, Drew University kmadden@drew.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Dimension groups of finite rank and subshifts.
    Mike Boyle*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (973-37-1041)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Limit measures for Linear Cellular Automata II.
    Reem Yassawi*, Trent University
    Marcus Pivato, University of Houston
    (973-28-517)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Branching Cellular Automata.
    Peter van der Wal*, Oregon State University / Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands)
    (973-37-1087)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Positive K-theory for finitary isomorphisms of Markov chains.
    Ricardo Gomez-Aiza*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
    (973-37-1256)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maximal n-circuit directed graphs.
    David Hobby, SUNY New Paltz
    Donald Silberger, SUNY New Paltz
    Sylvia Silberger*, Hofstra University
    (973-05-1181)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A variational principle for AP-dimensions.
    Edgardo Ugalde*, IICO-UASLP
    (973-37-1145)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, I
  Organizers:
  Martin J. Bohner, University of Missouri, Rolla bohner@umr.edu
  Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern University billur@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Nabla Dynamic Equations.
    Allan C Peterson*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Douq Anderson, Concordia College
    John Bulloch, Concordia College
    Lynn Erbe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Tran HoiaNam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (973-39-839)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Double Solutions of Impulsive Dynamic Boundary Value Problems on a Time Scale.
    Johnny Henderson*, Auburn University
    (973-34-22)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic expansions for solutions of dynamic equations on time scales.
    Donald A Lutz*, San Diego State University
    Martin Bohner, Florida Institute of Technology
    (973-39-876)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multiplicity and Global Bifurcations on Measure Chains.
    John M Davis*, Baylor University
    Jon T Jacobsen, Penn State University
    (973-39-924)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Existence of Solutions for Fourth Order Boundary Value Problems on a Time Scale.
    Johnny Henderson, Auburn University
    William Yin*, LaGrange College
    (973-34-347)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Basic Theory of Fuzzy Difference Equations.
    Aghalaya S Vatsala*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (973-34-834)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Organizers:
  Paul C. Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Buchsbaum-Rim Multiplicity and Hilbert-Samuel Multiplicity.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, Purdue University
    Jung-Chen Liu, National Taiwan Normal University
    (973-13-1196)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Intersection Theory for Cohen-Macaulay Schemes.
    Izuru Mori*, Purdue University
    (973-14-696)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On a Conjecture of Kurano and Roberts.
    Sean M Sather-Wagstaff*, University of Illinois
    (973-13-741)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A vanishing criterion for local cohomology modules in characteristic p>0.
    Gennady Lyubeznik*, University of Minnesota
    (973-13-1008)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Modules of Finite Projective Dimension over Complete Intersections.
    Sankar P. Dutta*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (973-13-739)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Remarks on the Cohomology of Chow Varieties.
    E. Javier Elizondo*, Instituto de Matematicas
    Vasudevan Srinivas, TATA institute for fundamental research
    (973-14-928)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Restricting syzygies to linear subspaces.
    David Eisenbud, UC Berkeley and MSRI
    Mark Green, UCLA
    Klaus Hulek, Universitaet Hannover, Germany
    Sorin Popescu*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (973-14-1418)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory, II
  Organizers:
  Marcus Grefrath, San Diego State University gref@inaba.math.uni-duisburg.de
  Michael E. O'Sullivan, San Diego State University mosulliv@math.sdsu.edu
  Roxana N. Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@nd.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    List decoding of Reed-Solomon codes and codes from curves.
    Ralf Koetter*, University of Illinois
    Alexander Vardy, University of California, San Diego
    (973-94-1166)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Gr\"obner bases and interpolation in decoding.
    Eimear Byrne, University College Cork
    Patrick Fitzpatrick*, University College Cork
    Henry O'Keeffe, University College Cork
    (973-94-822)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The minimum distance of some Hermitian codes.
    Gretchen L Matthews*, Clemson University
    (973-94-1350)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Subspace subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes.
    Sarah A Spence*, Cornell University
    (973-94-1034)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Convolutional Codes, an Algebraic Geometric Point of View.
    Joachim Rosenthal*, University of Notre Dame
    (973-94-815)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebras, Forms, and Algebraic Groups, II
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, University of California Los Angeles skip@math.ucla.edu
  David J. Saltman, University of Texas at Austin saltman@math.utexas.edu
  Adrian R. Wadsworth, University of California San Diego arwadsworth@ucsd.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Special Forms of Two Symbols are Division Algebras.
    Bill Jacob*, UCSB
    Roberto Aravire, Universidad Arturo Prat
    (973-16-1067)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Weakly Azumaya Algebras and Frobenius Algebras.
    Darrell E Haile*, Indiana University
    (973-16-1066)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Birational Isomorphisms Between Severi-Brauer Varieties.
    Daniel R Krashen*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (973-16-1053)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stable rationality of the center of the generic division ring.
    Esther Beneish*, Northwestern University and Eastern Washington University
    (973-20-1085)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    $p$-algebras of exponent $p$.
    Uzi Vishne*, Yale University
    (973-16-1427)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Division Algebras with $\operatorname{PSL}(2,q)$-Galois Maximal Subfield.
    Elizabeth S Allman*, University of Southern Maine
    Murray M Schacher, UCLA
    (973-12-52)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Alternate forms and the Brauer group of a field containing the roots of unity.
    Eric S Brussel*, Emory University
    (973-16-1188)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analysis and Application of Quasilinear Partial Differential Equations, III
  Organizers:
  Sun\v{c}ica \v Cani\' c, University of Houston canic@math.uh.edu
  Eun Heui Kim, California State University, Long Beach ekim4@csulb.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On Positive Solutions for Classes of p-Laplacian Semipositone Systems.
    Maya Chhetri*, UNC-Greensboro
    Hai D Dang, Mississippi State University
    Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State University
    (973-35-1343)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Recent progress on a conjecture of de Giorgi.
    Changfeng Gui*, UBC and University of Connecticut
    Nassif Ghoussoub, UBC
    (973-35-1335)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Critical Threshold Phenomena in Euler-Poisson Equations and Related Models.
    Shlomo Engelberg, Jersualem College of Technology, Electronics Department
    Hailiang Liu, UCLA
    Eitan Tadmor*, UCLA
    (973-35-1101)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Source linearization for inhomogeneous conservation laws.
    Smadar Karni*, University of Michigan
    (973-65-1230)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Central-Upwind Schemes for Systems of Balance Laws.
    Alexander Kurganov*, Tulane University
    Doron Levy, Stanford University
    (973-65-856)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Particle Methods for Dispersive Equations.
    Alina Chertock*, UC Berkeley and LBNL
    Doron Levy, Stanford University
    (973-65-806)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Multidimentional Ostrowski Inequalities,Revisited.
    George A Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
    (973-26-240)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Chaos, Stability, and Asymptotics in Difference Equations, IV
  Organizers:
  Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University selaydi@trinity.edu
  Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island gladas@math.uri.edu
  Donald A. Lutz, San Diego State University lutz@math.sdsu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Stability of special class of torus mappings appearing in the theory of resonating cavities.
    Rafael De la Llave, Univ of Texas at Austin
    John A Vano*, Univ of Texas at Austin
    (973-39-1405)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A Dynamical System for Plant Pattern Formation: A Rigorous Analysis.
    Pau Atela, Smith College
    Christophe Gole, Smith College
    Scott Hotton*, Miami University
    (973-37-1126)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Generalized Ducci Sequences.
    Marc A Chamberland*, Grinnell College
    (973-37-548)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of solutions of some linear difference equations with oscillatory decreasing coefficients.
    Alexei V Bourd*, San Diego, California
    (973-39-336)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On The Dynamics Of $\displaystyle{ x_{n+1} = \frac{ \alpha + \beta x_{n-2} } {Ax_{n-1} + Bx_{n-2} } }$.
    Lynn C McGrath*, University of Rhode Island
    Edward A Grove, University of Rhode Island
    Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island
    (973-39-328)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    The stability of one dimensional continuous cellular automata.
    Randall E Rausch*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (973-37-47)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Approximate solution of Beams with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions.
    Mahmoud Najafi*, Kent State University Ashtabula
    (973-93-754)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Applications: A Jubilee of Benoit Mandelbrot, IV
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuysen, Rutgers University machiel@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Fractals and The Dynamical Systems and Technology Project.
    Robert L Devaney*, Boston University
    (973-37-302)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Diffusion reorganized aggregates as attractors in diffusion processes.
    Bernard Sapoval*, Ecole polytechnique
    (973-82-874)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Double Multifractality of the Harmonic Measure near a Simple Conformally Invariant Scaling Curve.
    Bertrand H Duplantier*, Service de Physique , CEA Saclay
    (973-60-971)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fractal lasers.
    Michael Berry*, Bristol University, UK
    (973-78-862)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Variational approaches to various crystal growth problems: results and opportunities.
    Jean E Taylor*, Rutgers University
    (973-49-1410)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    2-microlocal Analysis and Applications.
    Jacques V Levy Vehel*, INRIA
    (973-26-1297)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Nature-Inspired Chemical Reaction Engineering.
    Marc-Olivier Coppens*, Delft University of Technology
    (973-C1-1109)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Wavelets for Undergraduates
  Organizers:
  Edward F. Aboufadel, Grand Valley State University aboufade@gvsu.edu
  Steven J. Schlicker, Grand Valley State University schlicks@gvsu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Brief Introduction to Wavelets and a Report on an REU Project in Wavelets.
    Edward F Aboufadel*, Grand Valley State Univ.
    Steven J Schlicker, Grand Valley State Univ.
    (973-43-735)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Report on an introductory Mathematics course on Wavelets.
    Max Jodeit, Jr.*, University of Minnesota
    (973-97-214)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Programming in an Undergraduate Wavelets Course.
    Patrick J Van Fleet*, University of St. Thomas
    (973-97-583)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Reinforcing Mathematical Concepts Through Wavelets.
    Errol G Rowe, North Carolina A & T State Univ.
    Mingxiang Chen*, North Carolina A & T State Univ.
    (973-41-601)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Access points and test questions in VIGRE/REU research; Part 1: Wavelet theory in the Fourier domain.
    Eric Weber*, Texas A&M University
    David Larson, Texas A&M University
    (973-42-672)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Access Points and Test Questions in Undergraduate Research; Part 2: Wavelet Theory in The Time Domain.
    David R Larson*, Texas A&M University
    Eric Weber, Texas A&M University
    (973-42-673)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    A new proof of a two-parameter square function inequality.
    Robert D. Poodiack*, Norwich University
    (973-42-176)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, IV
  Organizers:
  Tim D. Cochran, Rice University cochran@rice.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Reflection Independence and Rigidity in Coxeter Groups.
    Patrick Bahls*, Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics
    Michael L Mihalik, Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics
    (973-20-1089)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 2:00 p.m.
    An Intrinsic Geometric Characterization of the $\mathfrak{sec}$ Invariant.
    Gregory S Clark*, Rice University
    (973-57-368)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    K-Theory and Fundamental Groups.
    Paul Frank Baum*, Penn State University
    (973-19-1237)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Surgery and involutions on 4-manifolds.
    Vyacheslav S Krushkal*, University of Virginia
    (973-57-1093)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Codimension two PL embeddings of spheres with nonstandard regular neighborhoods.
    Dusan Repovs*, University of Ljubljana
    (973-57-41)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Further Examples of Homotopy Inequivalent 2-Complexes at a Non-Minimal Level.
    Jacqueline A Jensen*, University of Oregon, Eugene
    (973-55-801)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#12: Part A
  Introduction to mathematical card tricks.
  Organizers:
  Colm K. Mulcahy, Spelman College
  Jeffrey A. Ehme, Spelman College
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#8: Part A
  Real-world problem solving using technology and student projects.
  Organizers:
  Bruce Pollack-Johnson, Villanova University
  Audrey Borchardt, Villanova University
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Real and Complex Analysis
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Cantor and a Few Good Numbers.
    Ioana Mihaila*, Coastal Carolina University
    (973-26-350)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    On a paper of Carleson.
    Melkana A Brakalova*, Hotchkiss School
    James A Jenkins, Washington University
    (973-30-1149)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Generalizations of some new inverse type Hilbert integral inequalities.
    Chang-Jian Zhao, University of Texas-Pan American
    Lokenath Debnath*, University of Texas-Pan American
    (973-26-922)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Nowhere Weakly Symmetric Functions.
    Kandasamy Muthuvel*, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
    (973-26-1311)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Convergence rate of averages over balls in Sobolev Spaces.
    Javad Namazi*, Fairleigh Dickinson University
    (973-28-82)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Break.
  • 2:30 p.m.
    $A_r^\lambda$-weighted imbedding inequalities.
    Bing Liu*, Saginaw Valley State University, MI
    (973-28-1214)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Holomorphic motion of a closed subset of a Riemann surface.
    Sudeb Mitra*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (973-32-816)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local Behaviour of Entire Functions of Exponential Type.
    Dimiter P Dryanov, University of Montreal
    Mohammed A Qazi*, Tuskegee University
    Qazi I Rahman, Universite de Montreal
    (973-30-1069)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Construction of Various Sense-Preserving Complex-Valued Harmonic Mappings.
    Christopher J. Morgan*, University of Evansville
    (973-30-1152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Examples of Bieberbach-Eilenberg Functions.
    Dov N Chelst*, Devry College of Technology
    (973-30-1206)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Convex Mappings of the Ball in $\mathbb{C}^n$ With One Infinite Boundary Singularity.
    Jerry R Muir, Jr.*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Ted J Suffridge, University of Kentucky
    (973-32-1018)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, I
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Tiling Rectangles with Trominoes.
    J Marshall Ash*, DePaul University
    Solomon W Golomb, University of Southern California
    (973-05-759)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Multidecompositions of the complete graph.
    Atif Abueida*, University of Dayton
    Mike Daven, Mount Saint Mary College
    (973-05-263)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Multidesigns for graph-pairs of order 4 and 5.
    Atif A Abueida, University of Dayton
    Mike Daven*, Mount Saint Mary College
    (973-05-257)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Independent sums of arithmetic progressions in $K_m$-free graphs.
    Neil Hindman*, Howard University
    Dona Strauss, University of Hull
    (973-05-315)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A lower bound for the domination number of complete grid graphs.
    David R. Guichard*, Whitman College
    David C. Fisher, Denver, Colorado
    (973-05-652)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    $k$-Ordered Hamiltonicity of Iterated Line Graphs.
    Kathleen A Ponto*, University of Notre Dame
    (973-05-653)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Paths as $m$-step competition graphs.
    Geir T Helleloid*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (973-05-680)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Number of Labeled Spanning Trees in a Cycle-Removed Complete Graph.
    Jean-Paul M Kapuya*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (973-00-703)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Bipartite Distance-Regular Graphs and the Taut Condition.
    Mark S MacLean*, University of North Carolina - Asheville
    (973-05-747)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On a Special Case of Hadwiger's Conjecture.
    Michael D Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
    Michael Stiebitz, TU Ilmenau
    Bjarne Toft, University of Southern Denmark
    (973-05-749)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Random Colorings of Graphs and the Dinitz Conjecture.
    Ramin Naimi*, Occidental College
    Roberto Pelayo, Occidental College
    (973-05-254)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Operations on Well-Covered Graphs and the Roller-Coaster Conjecture.
    Philip J Matchett*, Harvard
    (973-05-781)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Session on Many Lives of Lattice Theory and the Theory of Ordered Sets with Connections to Combinatorics
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A symmetric chain decomposition of Young's lattice, $L(5,n)$, when $n$ is odd.
    Derek A Smith*, Lafayette College
    (973-06-90)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Linear inequalities for the flag Whitney numbers of geometric lattices.
    Kathryn L Nyman*, Texas A&M University
    (973-06-766)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Discrete Morse functions and partitions of a multiset.
    Eric K Babson, University of Washington
    Patricia L Hersh*, University of Michigan
    (973-05-914)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Sperner's theorem and its generalizations.
    Matthias Beck*, SUNY Binghamton
    Xueqin Wang, SUNY Binghamton
    Thomas Zaslavsky, SUNY Binghamton
    (973-05-191)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Lattice of Commuting Boolean Subalgebras.
    Catherine H Yan*, Texas A&M University
    (973-06-121)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Order Dimension, Strong Bruhat Order and Lattice Properties for Posets.
    Nathan Reading*, University of Minnesota
    (973-06-117)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Path Independent Choice Theory, LLD lattices and their Construction.
    Mark R Johnson*, Texas Christian University
    Richard A Dean, California Institute of Technology
    (973-06-356)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The automorphism problem for ordered sets.
    Bernd S.W. Schroeder*, Louisiana Tech University
    (973-06-28)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Automorphism Group of the Fibonacci Poset: A ``Not Too Difficult" Problem of Richard P. Stanley from 1988.
    Jonathan D Farley*, University of Oxford
    (973-06-1322)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Representations of Uncertainty in a Lattice Theoretic Framework.
    Amit Agarwal*, Department of Computer Science \& Engineering, Pennsylvania State University - University Park
    Matt Insall, Department of Mathematics \& Statistics, University of Missouri - Rolla
    Donald C Wunsch, Department of Electrical \& Computer Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla
    (973-06-186)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Recent Developments in Noncommutative Lattices.
    Jonathan E Leech*, Westmont College Santa Barbara, CA
    (973-06-146)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Epidemiology: A natural application for order theory.
    David M Ozonoff*, Boston University School of Public Health
    Melvin F Janowitz, DIMACS
    (973-06-1130)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on History of Mathematics in the Second Millennium, III
  Organizers:
  Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands beery@uor.edu
  C. Edward Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Mistakes, Fallacies, and Misconceptions in the History of Mathematics.
    Mark S. Burgin*, UCLA
    (973-A1-837)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Who created the decimal fractions for the first time in the world?
    Mohammad Moazzam*, Salisbury University
    (973-A1-297)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Fundamental Theorem of Calculus --- from Archimedes to Cauchy.
    Po-Hung Liu*, Chinyi Institute of Technology, Taiwan
    (973-A1-251)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cinemath: Mathematics on the Silver Screen.
    Charlie L Smith*, Park University
    (973-A1-80)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    The Continuum Hypothesis: A Look at the History of the Real Numbers in The Second Millennium.
    Martin E Flashman*, Humboldt State University
    (973-A1-512)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Using Architecture to Teach the History of Mathematics.
    Maria R Zack*, Point Loma Nazarene University
    (973-A1-405)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Video Group Projects to Learn about the History of Mathematics of the Second Millennium CE.
    Agnes Tuska*, California State University, Fresno
    (973-A1-509)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Resolving Kemeny's Conjecture: A Peek into the Third Millennium?
    Danielle Mihram, Univ. of Southern California
    G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, NJ
    (973-A1-506)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  MAA Session on Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Projects and Programs, II
  Organizers:
  John R. Swallow, Davisdon College joswallow@davidson.edu
  Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee
  Daniel J. Schaal, South Dakota State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Establishing a Long Term Undergraduate Research Program in Mathematics.
    Michael J. Bardzell*, salisbury university
    (973-E1-525)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Building and Maintaining an Undergraduate Research Program - Undergraduate Training.
    Kelly Black*, University of New Hampshire
    John B Geddes, University of New Hampshire
    (973-E1-91)
  • 1:35 p.m.
    Ideas for Persuading Undergraduates to Become Involved in Mathematical Projects.
    Deborah A Sherman-Denvir*, Marshall University
    (973-E1-333)
  • 1:50 p.m.
    Integrating research in undergraduate courses and studies.
    Aliakbar Montazer-Haghighi*, Benedict College
    (973-E1-118)
  • 2:05 p.m.
    Providing Real Research Opportunities to Undergraduates.
    Catherine A Roberts*, College of the Holy Cross
    (973-E1-188)
  • 2:25 p.m.
    Break.
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Mathematical Biology REU at Jacksonville University.
    Sanjay Rai*, Jacksonville University
    Michael Nancarrow, Jacksonville University
    (973-E1-381)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Problem Solving Groups as Research.
    Dave Feil*, Carroll College
    (973-E1-406)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Experience is a teacher - Some thoughts for the pool.
    Timothy J Pennings*, Hope College
    (973-E1-69)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Experiences with an Undergraduate Research Program Exploring Dynamical Systems with MAPLE.
    Malcolm R Adams*, University of Georgia
    (973-E1-555)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Lessons Learned about Applying for NSF Funding for an REU.
    Daniel J Schaal*, South Dakota State University
    (973-E1-538)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Computational Mathematics in Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, II
  Organizers:
  Richard J. Marchand, SUNY at Fredonia marchand@cs.fredonia.edu
  Elias Y. Deeba, University of Houston-Downtown
  Timothy J. McDevitt, Millersville University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The SVD and QSVD in signals processing and signal separation.
    Douglas R Hundley*, Whitman College
    (973-H1-602)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Matrix Operations and Computer Graphics.
    Thomas W Polaski*, Winthrop University
    (973-H1-377)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Linear Algebra and Technology.
    Dipa Choudhury*, Loyola College in Maryland
    George Mackiw, Loyola College in Maryland
    (973-H1-590)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Finding Unpredictable Behavior in a Simple Ordinary Differential Equation.
    Lisa D Humphreys*, Rhode Island College
    (973-H1-331)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Investigation of fluid resistance to enhance student understanding of parameter variation in ODE's.
    John M McArthur*, University of Southern Colorado
    (973-H1-484)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    New effective and universal method for numerical solving of Mathematical Physics Problems.
    Isom N Dluraev*, Samarkand State University
    (973-H1-930)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Technology and Computational Methods might begin in ODEs.
    William P Fox*, Francis Marion University
    (973-H1-516)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Computational Mathematics in Elementary Partial Differential Equations: Using Current Software to Solve or Analyze Elementary PDE's.
    Carryn Bellomo*, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
    (973-H1-477)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Deep Understanding of School Mathematics Needed by Teachers, I
  Organizers:
  Albert D. Otto, Illinois State University otto@ilstu.edu
  Catherine M. Murphy, Purdue University-Calumet
  Philip Quartararo, Southern University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    What "profound understanding" of mathematical knowledge do preservice elementary teachers need to know?
    Mercedes A McGowen*, William Rainey Harper College
    (973-I1-633)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Geometry in a Calculus Course and Calculus in a Geometry Course.
    David Dennis*, University of Texas El Paso
    (973-I1-623)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    In-Depth Secondary Mathematics.
    Mary-Margaret Shoaf*, Baylor University
    (973-I1-613)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Achieving Deeper Understanding of High School Mathematics Through Extended Analysis of Problems.
    Elena A Marchisotto*, California State University Northridge
    (973-I1-988)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Developing Prospective Elementary Teachers' Ability to "Explain Why".
    Sybilla Beckmann*, University of Georgia
    (973-I1-540)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Professional Development and Curriculum Alignment Promote Deep Understanding of School Mathematics.
    Jean J McGehee*, University of Central Arkansas
    Linda K Griffith, University of Central Arkansas
    (973-I1-428)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Motivating the Group Axioms in an Undergraduate Course in Abstract Algebra.
    Michael J Cullinane*, Keene State College
    (973-I1-235)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Instilling a profound understanding of infinite decimal expansions.
    Anant P Godbole*, East Tennessee State University
    (973-I1-411)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Probability and Combinatorics in Analytic Number Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Andrew J. Granville, University of Georgia andrew@math.uga.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Sums of powers of Kloosterman sums.
    Ron J Evans*, University of California at San Diego
    Timothy Choi, University of California at San Diego
    (973-U1-1062)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Totally real number fields with large class number.
    William Duke*, UCLA
    (973-U1-998)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Some singular measures which have applications to Number Theory.
    Andrew D Pollington*, Brigham Young University
    (973-U1-943)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fixed Points for Discrete Logarithms.
    Mariana Campbell*, University of California, Berkeley
    Carl Pomerance, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
    (973-U1-1105)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A proof of a partition conjecture of Bateman and Erdos.
    Jason Pierre Bell*, University of California, San Diego
    (973-U1-326)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Additive Structure of Prime Numbers.
    Ernie S Croot*, U. C. Berkeley
    Christian Elsholtz, Institut fur Mathematik, TU Clausthal
    (973-U1-1023)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Committee on Teaching Assistants and Part-Time Instructors Panel Discussion
  Research on TAs: Background, beliefs, attitude, and practice.
  Organizers:
  Bruce Reznick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Presentation
  Using the AMSREFS package for LaTeX bibliographies.
  Presenters:
  Michael J. Downes, AMS
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Calculus Reform and the First Two Years-MAA Task Force on the First College Level Mathematics Course Panel Discussion
  Rethinking the preparation for calculus.
  Organizers:
  Sheldon P. Gordon, SUNY at Farmingdale
  Nancy Baxter Hastings, Dickinson College
  Panelists:
  Steven R. Dunbar, University of Nebraska
  Moderators:
  Jack Y. Narayan, SUNY at Oswego
  Panelists:
  Nancy Baxter Hastings,
  Sheldon P. Gordon,
• Monday January 7, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Undergraduate Research Panel Discussion
  Providing and promoting opportunities for undergraduates: A win-win situation.
  Organizers:
  Sandra O. Paur, North Carolina State University
  Presenters:
  Colin C. Adams, Williams College
  Paul D. Humke, Budapest Seminars
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Mathematical Models for Image Analysis and Computer Vision
  Organizers:
  Luminita Aura Vese, University of California Los Angeles lvese@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Navier-Stokes, Fluid Dynamics, and Image and Video Inpainting.
    Andrea L Bertozzi*, Duke University
    (973-76-645)
  • 2:25 p.m.
    Partial Differential Equations on Implicit Surfaces.
    Guillermo R Sapiro*, University of Minnesota
    (973-35-679)
  • 2:50 p.m.
    Break.
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Local Inpainting of Images on Implicit Surfaces.
    Li-Tien Cheng*, UCSD
    (973-65-1022)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Characterization and visualization of unorganized data points using the distance function.
    Hongkai Zhao*, UC Irvine
    (973-65-1099)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Numerical methods for $p-$harmonic flows and applications to image processing.
    Luminita A. Vese*, UCLA
    Stanley J. Osher, UCLA
    (973-35-1200)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  MAA Project NExT and Young Mathematicians Network Poster Session
  Organizers:
  Kenneth A. Ross, University of Oregon
  Kevin E. Charlwood, Washburn University
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) Reunion
  Organizers:
  Murli M. Gupta, George Washington University
  E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., George Washington University
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Putting weirdness to work: Quantum information and quantum computation.
  John Preskill*, California Institute of Technology
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Undergraduate Programs and Research Projects in Applied and Computational Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Terry L. Herdman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University herdman@origin2.icam.vt.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Research Experiences in Applied Math at the University of Tennessee.
    Suzanne Lenhart*, University of Tennessee
    (973-92-539)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences Program at the University of Washington.
    James V. Burke*, University of Washington
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Undergraduate Research Projects Course.
    Charles R MacCluer*, Michigan State University
    (973-97-454)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Preparing Undergraduate Students for Research.
    Kelly J Black*, University of New Hampshire
    John B Geddes, University of New Hampshire
    (973-97-694)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  MAA Project NExT Panel Discussion
  Successful programs that integrate mathematics with other disciplines.
  Organizers:
  Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University
  Michael J. Dorff, Brigham Young University
  Panelists:
  Mary Garner, Kennesaw State University
  Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Michigan State University
  Agnes M. Rash, St. Joseph's University
  John L. Scharf, Carroll College
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Mathematics preparation of doctorates in mathematics education.
  Organizers:
  Robert E. Reys, University of Missouri, Columbia
  Presenters:
  Glenda Lappan, Michigan State University
  Jeremy Kilpatrick, University of Georgia
  Jim Lewis, Univeristy of Nebraska
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Calculus Reform and the First Two Years Panel Discussion
  Integrating statistics/data analysis through the core curriculum.
  Organizers:
  Donald B. Small, U. S. Military Academy
  Panelists:
  George W. Cobb, Mount Holyoke College
  Steve W. Horton, U. S. Military Academy
  Roxy Peck, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
  Alan J. Rossman, Dickinson College
  Moderators:
  Gary H. Krahn, U. S. Military Academy
• Monday January 7, 2002, 2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  SUMMA-MAA Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics Panel Discussion
  Organizers:
  William A. Hawkins, Jr., MAA and the University of the District of Columbia
  Panelists:
  Eda Davis-Butts, Oregon State University
  Daniel J. Madden, University of Arizona at Tucson
  David L. Pagni, California State University at Fullerton
• Monday January 7, 2002, 3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Computational problems in topology: The complexity of unknotting.
  Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT\&T Laboratories Research
  (973-57-08)
• Monday January 7, 2002, 4:25 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Joint Prize Session and Reception
• Monday January 7, 2002, 5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Two-Year College Reception
• Monday January 7, 2002, 5:45 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Annual Reunion of University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Monday January 7, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Purdue Mathematics Department Alumni Reception
• Monday January 7, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  NSA Women in Mathematics Society Reception and Networking Session
  Please go to NSA's exhibit booth 109 for the location of the suite in the Marriott where this will be held.
• Monday January 7, 2002, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Design Science MathPlayer Cocktail Reception
• Monday January 7, 2002, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
  MER Banquet
• Monday January 7, 2002, 8:15 p.m.-9:45 p.m.
  Knitting Network
  Organizers:
  Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Bowdoin College
  Carolyn Yackel, Indiana University

Tuesday January 8, 2002

• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.
  Joint Pi Mu Epsilon and MAA Student Chapter Advisors' Breakfast
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Many Lives of Lattice Theory and the Theory of Ordered Sets, with Connections to Combinatorics, I
  Organizers:
  Jonathan D. Farley, University of Oxford and Vanderbilt University farley@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Stefan E. Schmidt, New Mexico State University
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Ordered sets connected with semigroups.
    Boris M. Schein*, University of Arkansas
    (973-06-132)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Lattice Decompositions of Multivariate Functions.
    Juan K Lin*, Rutgers University, Department of Statistics
    (973-06-157)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Scaled Boolean Algebras.
    Michael J Hardy*, Massachusetts Institue of Technology
    (973-06-113)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Splitting numbers for distributive lattices.
    Dwight Duffus*, Emory University
    Bill Sands, The University of Calgary
    (973-06-223)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Partially Ordered Sets in Chemistry.
    Douglas J. Klein*, Texas A&M University - Galveston
    (973-06-1044)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Markov Processes on Posets and Stochastic Orderings.
    William A Massey*, Princeton University
    (973-06-152)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Scheduled interviews and interview center (see article for specific hours).
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Algorithmic Randomness, Computability, and Reals.
  Rodney G. Downey*, Victoria University (New Zealand)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Thomas Archibald, Acadia University tom.archibald@acadiau.ca
  David E. Zitarelli, Temple University zit@unix.temple.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Charles Hermite and the solution of the quintic.
    Tom Archibald*, Acadia University
    (973-01-738)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An unpublished lecture by G. N. Watson on solving the quintic.
    Bruce C. Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (973-01-748)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the History of Mathematics in Nazi Germany: Wilhelm S\"uss, president of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung from 1937 to 1945.
    Volker R Remmert*, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (MIT)
    (973-01-825)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Different Motivations and Goals in the Historical Development of the Theory of Linear Inequalities: Interactions between mathematical fields, applied mathematics, and society.
    Tinne H Kjeldsen*, Roskilde University (this year: Caltech)
    (973-01-688)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics.
    Jesper Lutzen*, University of Copenhagen.Visiting Prof at Caltech
    (973-01-768)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mario Pieri in the shadow of Peano, von Staudt, and Hilbert.
    Elena A Marchisotto*, California State University Northridge
    (973-01-676)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, II
  Organizers:
  Martin J. Bohner, University of Missouri, Rolla bohner@umr.edu
  Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern University billur@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Variable Change for Sturm-Liouville Differential Expressions on Time Scales.
    Calvin D Ahlbrandt, University of Missouri
    Martin J Bohner*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Tammy Voepel, Southern Illinois University
    (973-39-1211)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Oscillation Criteria for Second Order Linear Equations on a Time Scale.
    Lynn H Erbe*, University of Nebraska
    (973-34-830)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Solution Properties of Second Order Dynamic Equations on Discrete Time Scales.
    Elvan Akin-Bohner*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Joan Hoffacker, University of Georgia
    (973-39-1215)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Oscillation of Second-Order Linear Matrix Dynamic Equations on Measure Chains.
    Michael K Kinyon*, Western Michigan University
    (973-34-1437)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sign Properties of Green's Functions for Disconjugate Dynamic Equations on Time Scales.
    Paul W Eloe*, University of Dayton
    (973-34-40)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Crossed Symmetry and Computations of the Solutions of Second Order Boundary Value Problems on Time Scales.
    Paul W Eloe, University of Dayton
    Qin Sheng*, University of Dayton
    Johnny Henderson, Auburn University
    (973-34-449)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics and the Internet, I
  Organizers:
  Fan Chung Graham, University of California San Diego fan@ucsd.edu
  Van Vu, University of California San Diego
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On a Conjecture Relating Pebbling Numbers and Pebbling Thresholds.
    Andrzej Czygrinow, Arizona State University (on leave at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
    Michelle Wagner*, Department of Defense
    (973-05-1285)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quasirandom Permutations: Theory and Practice.
    Joshua N. Cooper*, University of California, San Diego
    (973-05-1332)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Embedding graphs of bounded degree in sparse pseudorandom graphs.
    Yoshiharu Kohayakawa*, Universidade de S\~ao Paulo
    (973-05-1304)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generating random colourings of a graph with high girth and maximum degree.
    Michael Molloy*, University of Toronto
    (973-05-1265)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Crossing Numbers for Random Graphs.
    Joel H Spencer*, Courant Institute
    (973-05-14)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Soem recent results and questions concerning random regular graphs with high degree.
    Van H Vu*, UCSD
    (973-05-1159)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebras, Forms, and Algebraic Groups, III
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, University of California Los Angeles skip@math.ucla.edu
  David J. Saltman, University of Texas at Austin saltman@math.utexas.edu
  Adrian R. Wadsworth, University of California San Diego arwadsworth@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Invariants of algebraic groups.
    Alexander S Merkurjev*, UCLA
    (973-14-1231)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generic Picard-Vessiot extensions for connected linear algebraic groups.
    Lourdes Juan*, Texas Tech University
    (973-13-156)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generic forms for reductive Lie algebras and fineness of the moduli space of principle $G$-bundles on a smooth projective curve.
    William J Haboush*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (973-14-1216)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Admissible Nilpotent orbits of simple real exceptional Lie Groups.
    Alfred G No\"el*, The University of Massachusetts, Boston
    (973-22-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Skew-hermitian forms over quaternions and algebraic groups of outer type $D_4$.
    Max A Knus*, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
    (973-16-1317)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Analysis and Numerics of Fluid Problems (in memory of Jacques-Louis Lions), I
  Organizers:
  Jie Shen, Pennsylvania State University and University of Central Florida shen@math.psu.edu
  Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
  Xiaoming Wang, Iowa State University wang@math.iastate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Velocity-correction methods for incompressible flows.
    Jie Shen*, University of Central Florida
    (973-65-654)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A subgrid stabilization technique for approximating convection-dominated flow problems.
    Jean-Luc Guermond*, LIMSI-CNRS
    (973-65-699)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Dirichlet Problem for the Stokes Equations in Lipschitz Domains.
    Zhongwei Shen*, University of Kentucky
    (973-35-685)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A construction of robust exponential attractors.
    Alain M Miranville*, Université de Poitiers
    (973-37-638)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Oscillation properties of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (973-35-1195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New scale of regularity spaces for the incompressible Euler equations.
    Eitan Tadmor*, UCLA
    (973-35-1103)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, I
  Organizers:
  Reza Malek-Madani, United States Naval Academy
  Peter A. McCoy, United States Naval Academy pam@nadn.navy.mil
  John W. Neuberger, University of North Texas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Level Set and PDE based methods in inverse problems, image processing, computer vision and graphics.
    Stanley J Osher*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (973-65-691)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Undercompressive Shocks in Driven Film Flow.
    Andrea L Bertozzi*, Duke University
    (973-35-649)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Image Inpainting: Models, Theory, and Applications.
    Guillermo R. Sapiro*, University of Minnesota
    (973-35-640)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computations of Multiphase Flows.
    Smadar Karni*, University of Michigan
    (973-65-997)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Existence Result on Positive Solutions for a Class of Semilinear Elliptic Systems.
    D. D Hai, Mississippi State University
    R. Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
    (973-35-1058)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Theory and Applications of Symmetric Functions, I
  Organizers:
  Adriano Garsia, University of California San Diego agarsia@ucsd.edu
  Jeffrey B. Remmel, University of California San Diego jremmel@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Reduced Words Revisited.
    Adriano M Garsia*, UCSD
    (973-05-1390)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Combinatorics of the Lascoux-Sch\"{u}tzenberger Tree.
    David P Little*, UCSD
    (973-05-1406)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    q-Analogs of symmetric functions.
    Michael A Zabrocki*, York University
    Geanina Tudose, York University
    (973-05-866)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The plethysm of two Schur functions at hook and near-hook shapes.
    Thomas M Langley*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Jeffrey B Remmel, University of California, San Diego
    (973-05-1251)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Trace Cocharacters and the Kronecker products of Schur Functions.
    Joaquin O Carbonara*, Buffalo State College
    Luisa Carini, Universita di Palermo
    Jeffrey Remmel, UCSD
    (973-05-1110)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Counting Tableaux and Subtableaux.
    Herbert S Wilf*, University of Pennsylvania
    (973-05-1242)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topology and Its Applications, I
  Organizers:
  Alexander Arhangelskii, Ohio University
  Melvin Henriksen, Harvey Mudd College
  James E. Keesling, University of Florida
  Ralph D. Kopperman, City College of CUNY topann@att.net
  John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Extremal Pseudocompact Topological Groups.
    W. W. Comfort*, Wesleyan University
    Jorge Galindo, Universitat Jaume I
    (973-22-1000)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tychonoff Expansions.
    Wanjun Hu*, Wesleyan University CT
    (973-54-342)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Dual Group of a Dense Subgroup.
    W. W. Comfort, Wesleyan University
    S. U. Raczkowski*, California State University, Bakersfield
    F. J. Trigos-Arrieta, California State University, Bakersfield
    (973-22-1244)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topologies on the direct sum of topological Abelian groups.
    Xabier E. Domínguez*, Universidade de A Coruña
    María J. Chasco, Universidad de Navarra
    (973-20-973)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sequential modifications of large Cantor cubes.
    Gloria Tashjian*, Worcester, MA
    (973-54-233)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On cardinalities of cliques in Borel non-convex sets.
    Wieslaw Kubi\'s*, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
    (973-03-1270)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#13: Part B
  Getting students involved in undergraduate research.
  Organizers:
  Aparna W. Higgins, University of Dayton
  Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota, Duluth
  Stephen G. Hartke, Rutgers University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#3: Part B
  Optimal use of technology in teaching geometry at the college-university level.
  Organizers:
  Subhash C. Saxena, Coastal Carolina University
  Nick Jackiw, Key Curriculum Press
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#9: Part B
  The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers.
  Organizers:
  Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Algebraic Topology and K-Theory
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Prime Filtration in the Category of Noetherian Unstable Modules and Consequences (preliminary report).
    Mara D Neusel*, University of Notre Dame
    (973-55-45)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The 2-stranded Jones Polynomial and Virtual Knots: Preliminary Report.
    Heather A Dye*, The University of Illinois at Chicago
    (973-55-236)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nielsen numbers as bordism invariants.
    Peter Saveliev*, Allegheny College
    (973-55-576)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Immersing 2-Torsion Lens Spaces.
    Thomas A Shimkus*, Lehigh University
    (973-55-642)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Generalization of the Browning Invariant to Infinite Groups.
    Katherine S Byler*, University of Oregon
    (973-55-907)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The $p$-exponent of $\Phi W_{n,n-k}$.
    Michael J Fisher*, California State University, Fresno
    (973-55-920)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the cohomology of the Steenrod algebra modulo nilpotents. (Preliminary Report).
    Leyla Batakci*, Lehigh University
    (973-55-925)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    The Malcev completion of the fundamental group.
    Alan H Durfee*, Mount Holyoke College % Author's phone number. Maximum length is 25 characters.
    (973-55-1162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Dieudonn\'e Ring for Ordinary Homology.
    Kimberly R Elce*, University of Oregon
    (973-55-1171)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    LOT Complexes and the Whitehead Conjecture.
    Travis R Kelm*, University of Oregon
    (973-55-1264)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Efficiency Considerations in Computations with the Steenrod Algebra.
    Vincent Giambalvo*, University of Connecticut
    (973-55-1282)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    On the Algebraic $K$-Theory of $\Gamma_3$.
    Ivonne Ortiz*, SUNY-Binghamton
    (973-19-1379)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, II
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-Unit examples of $(n,i,f)$ tube orders.
    Barry A Balof*, Dartmouth College
    Kenneth P Bogart, Dartmouth College
    (973-05-871)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Graphs with Cycle Lengths in a Certain Modularity Class for Small Moduli.
    Stephen E Shauger*, Coastal Carolina University
    (973-05-885)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Critical Vertices in Dot-Critical Graphs.
    Tamara A Burton*, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    David Sumner, The University of South Carolina
    (973-05-965)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Break.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bipartite Rainbow Ramsey Numbers.
    Linda L Eroh*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    Ortrud Oellermann, University of Winnipeg
    (973-05-1011)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Rado numbers for the equation $\sum_{i=1}^{m-1}x_{i}+c=x_{m},$ for negative values of $c$.
    Wojciech K Kosek*, South Dakota State University
    Daniel Schaal, South Dakota State University
    (973-05-1013)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Domination parameters and $\alpha$-domination in digraphs and tournaments.
    Larry J Langley*, University of the Pacific
    Sarah K Merz, University of the Pacific
    Dustin Stewart, University of Colorado, Denver
    Coburn Ward, University of the Pacific
    (973-05-1050)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Some Results on $k$-insulated Sets.
    Elena Grigorescu*, Bard College
    (973-05-1080)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tree-Tolerance Representations for Trees.
    Mary Ann Saadi*, Fitchburg State College
    (973-05-1092)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Asymptotic Packing of 2-Set-Disjoint-Vertex Hypergraph using a Branching Process.
    Collin Raymond*, Arizona State University
    (973-05-1120)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pebbling the $n$-path.
    Michael Jablonski*, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
    (973-05-1124)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Gracefulness of random graphs.
    Cody Patterson*, Texas A&M University
    Collin Raymond, Arizona State University
    (973-05-1125)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Best Practices in Undergraduate Statistics Education
  Organizers:
  Mary M. Sullivan, Rhode Island College mmsullivan@ric.edu
  Carolyn M. Cuff, Westminster College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Does the price of chocolate chip cookies affect the quality?
    Ann E Moskol*, Rhode Island College
    (973-J1-387)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Using Census Data to Make Comparisons Between Cities.
    Laura A McSweeney*, Fairfield University
    (973-J1-656)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Inferential Statistics by Example: The Search for the Three Nicked Dice.
    Kenneth D Dutch*, Centre College
    (973-J1-385)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Developing Understanding Among Statistical Representations.
    Mary M Sullivan*, Rhode Island College
    (973-J1-376)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Sliding the Point Home: A Dynamic Software Tool for Illustrating Statistical Ideas.
    Robin H Lock*, St. Lawrence University
    (973-J1-636)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Actvities in Experimental Design.
    Daniel J. Teague*, NC School of Science & Mathematics
    (973-J1-437)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Angle of Repose.
    Stuart F Boersma*, Central Washington University
    Michele Hluchy, Alfred University
    (973-J1-190)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    One-Way ANOVA Designs and Analysis using Legos.
    Scott J Seipel, Middle Tennessee State University
    Ginger Holmes Rowell*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (973-J1-585)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Scenarios for Statistics: some animations of real data analysis with Macromedia Flash 5.
    Susan P Holmes*, Stanford University
    (973-J1-373)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Redefining What a Modern ``College Algebra" Experience Means, I
  Organizers:
  Sheldon P. Gordon, SUNY at Farmingdale gordonsp@farmingdale.edu
  Florence S. Gordon, New York Institute of Technology
  Arlene H. Kleinstein, SUNY at Farmingdale
  Mary Robinson, University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus
  Linda H. Boyd, Georgia Perimeter College
  Caren Diefenderfer, Hollins University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Contextual Definition of Functions for the College Algebra Course.
    Scott R Herriott*, Maharishi University of Management
    (973-K1-427)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Why Can't a Turkey Fly: The Power of Power Functions.
    Florence S Gordon*, New York Institute of Technology
    (973-K1-1117)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    College Algebra Reform Through Interdisciplinary Applications.
    William P Fox*, Francis Marion University
    Richard D West, Francis Marion University
    (973-K1-299)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The effect of an interdisciplinary algebra/science course on students' problem solving skills, critical thinking skills, and attitudes towards mathematics.
    Karla J Oty*, University of Southern Colorado
    Brett M Elliott, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
    (973-K1-390)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A Conservative Approach to Reform College Algebra.
    Ronald J Harshbarger*, Unv. of South Carolina-Beaufort
    Lisa S Yocco, Georgia Southern Univ.
    (973-K1-201)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    College Algebra Reform in a Traditional Department.
    Linda Martin*, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute
    (973-K1-264)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Preparing for Calculus Using Mathematica: A Laboratory Approach.
    Barry Cherkas*, Hunter College (CUNY)
    (973-K1-307)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Using Compound Interest to Motivate the Study of Exponential Functions in College Algebra.
    Michael J Cullinane*, Keene State College
    (973-K1-244)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Probability of Factorable Quadratics: Motivation for Completing the Square and the Quadratic Formula.
    Michael J. Bosse'*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    N. R. Nandakumar, Delaware State University
    (973-K1-500)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Project Enhanced College Algebra at Framingham State College.
    Sarah L Mabrouk*, Framingham State College
    (973-K1-647)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of Students in Mathematics
  Organizers:
  William Yslas Velez, University of Arizona, Tucson velez@math.arizona.edu
  Marjorie Enneking, Portland State University
  William A. Hawkins, SUMMA
  Michael B. Freeman, University of Kentucky
  Robert E. Megginson, University of Michigan
  Wade Ellis, West Valley College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Apache Math Camp - A summer program at the University of Arizona.
    Daniel J Madden*, University of Arizona
    (973-L1-840)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Reflections on Efforts to Increase Female Participation in Mathematics.
    Harvey B Keynes*, University of Minnesota
    Andrea M Olson, University of Minnesota
    (973-L1-662)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Increasing Retention in the Mathematical Sciences through Creation of Communities at the University of the Virgin Islands.
    Camille A McKayle*, University of the Virgin Islands
    (973-L1-630)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Workshops Can Also Increase the Numbers of Women in Mathematics.
    Elizabeth W McMahon*, Lafayette Ccollege
    (973-L1-575)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Multicultural Mathematics.
    Rachel W Hall*, St. Joseph's University
    (973-L1-503)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The Mississippi Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation.
    Charles C Alexander*, University of Mississippi
    (973-L1-488)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pathways to Careers in Mathematics and Computer Science for Urban Minority Students.
    Elaine A Terry, Saint Joseph's University
    Deborah Lurie, Saint Joseph's University
    Stephen Cooper*, Saint Joseph's University
    (973-L1-295)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Successful Approaches for the Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Students in Mathematics.
    Yolanda Manzano*, Baylor University - NSF Summer Intern
    Dennis E Davenport, NSF - Program Director - Division of Undergraduate Education
    (973-L1-64)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Using Examples from Sports to Enhance the Teaching of Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Robert E. Lewand, Goucher College blewand@goucher.edu
  Howard L. Penn, U.S. Naval Academy
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Home Run Hitting.
    Howard L Penn*, United States Naval Academy
    (973-M1-308)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Exceedances in Sports.
    Farzad D Noubary*, Penn State University Schreyer Honors College
    (973-M1-20)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    How Far Does a Marathoner {\it Really} Run?
    Robert N Talbert*, Franklin College
    (973-M1-341)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Michael Jordan Problem: Solving a system of linear inequalities for lattice points.
    Daniel J. Teague*, NC School of Science & Mathematics
    (973-M1-436)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    What the Shortstop Sees.
    Elton Graves*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (973-M1-185)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    An Analysis of Scoring Algorithms in Boxing.
    Robert E Lewand*, Goucher College
    (973-M1-793)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Elementary Modeling and the Olympics.
    Jeffrey W Clark*, Elon University
    (973-M1-228)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Applications of College Algebra in Exercise and Sports Science.
    Scott R Herriott*, Maharishi University of Management
    Ken Daley, Maharishi University of Management
    (973-M1-489)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  SIGMAA on Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Education, I
  Organizers:
  Julie Morrisett Clark, Hollins University jclark@hollins.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A comparative investigation in college algebra of student appeals to authority in written mathematical justification.
    Shandy Hauk*, University of Northern Colorado
    Matthew Isom, Arizona State University
    (973-S1-671)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    The Evolution of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Beliefs in a Reform-Oriented Instructional Environment.
    Jeff D. Farmer*, University of Northern Colorado
    Janet Stapleton, University of Northern Colorado
    (973-S1-709)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Cognitive structures and their role in success in algebra courses.
    Lillie F Crowley*, Lexington Community College
    (973-S1-618)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Mathematical Logic: A Preliminary Report.
    Harel Barzilai*, Salisbury University
    Homer W Austin, Salisbury University
    (973-S1-386)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    The Role of Culture in International Teaching Assistants' Beliefs about Mathematics and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: A Preliminary Report.
    Thomas C DeFranco*, UCONN
    Jean M McGivney-Burelle, UCONN
    (973-S1-472)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    An examination of the knowledge base for teaching among university mathematics faculty.
    Kimberly B Santucci*, University of Connecticut
    Thomas C DeFranco, University of Connecticut
    Jean McGivney-Burelle, University of Connecticut
    (973-S1-426)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Student Take on the Epsilon-Delta Definition of a Limit.
    Eileen Fernandez*, Montclair State University
    (973-S1-561)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Calculus students' views about justification in mathematics: preliminary report.
    Margaret L Morrow*, Plattsburgh State University of New York
    Manya Raman, University of California at Berkeley
    (973-S1-627)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Actual infinity: mental constructions and metaphors.
    Anne Brown*, Indiana University South Bend
    Michael McDonald, Occidental College
    Kirk Weller, Bethel College
    (973-S1-558)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  PME Council
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Field Theory and Linear Algebra
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    Symmetrizing sets and multiaffine polynomials.
    Micah J Smukler*, Harvey Mudd College
    Weiqing Gu, Harvey Mudd College
    (973-15-1432)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A bivariate analogue to the composed product of polynomials.
    Kent M Neuerburg*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    Donald Mills, U.S. Military Academy
    (973-12-88)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Root-Based Compositions of Certain Classes of Multivariate Polynomials.
    Donald D Mills*, U.S. Military Academy
    Kent M Neuerburg, Southeastern La. Univ.
    (973-12-172)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Uncountable Subfields of the Reals.
    Ronald E Rietz*, Gustavus Adolphus College
    (973-12-330)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Twin Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields - Theoretical Results.
    Gove W Effinger*, Skidmore College
    Kenneth H Hicks, Ohio University
    Gary L Mullen, Penn State University
    (973-12-824)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Twin Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields - Numerical Results.
    Gove W Effinger, Skidmore College
    Kenneth H Hicks*, Ohio University
    Gary L Mullen, Penn State University
    (973-12-851)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Galois module structure of $K^{\times}/K^{\times p}$ for $[K:F]=p$.
    J\'an Min\'a\v{c}, University of Western Ontario
    John Swallow*, Davidson College
    (973-12-1091)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Isomorphism Classes of Hyperelliptic Function Fields.
    Mark J Motley*, University of Kentucky
    (973-12-1381)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On Preserving Structured Matrices Using Double Bracket Operators: Tridiagonal and Toeplitz Matrices.
    Kenneth R Driessel, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
    Irvin R Hentzel, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    Wasin So*, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
    (973-15-261)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometrical representation of M and inverse M matrices.
    Yoshimitsu Iwasaki*, Okayama University of Science
    (973-15-823)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    $P_0$ matrices and related completion problems.
    Luz M DeAlba*, Drake University
    (973-15-896)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Computational Topology, I
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey C. Lagarias, AT\&T Research Laboratories jcl@research.att.com
  William H. Jaco, Oklahoma State University jaco@math.okstate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    New bounds for Betti numbers of semi-algebraic sets and algorithms for computing them.
    Saugata Basu*, Georgia Institute of Technology.
    (973-54-1289)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Optimal geometry in topology.
    John M Sullivan*, Univ. of Illinois
    (973-53-1228)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Recognizing String Graphs in NP.
    Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University
    Eric Sedgwick*, DePaul University
    Daniel Stefankovic, University of Chicago
    (973-68-1170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Andrews-Curtis conjecture and Algorithms from Topology.
    Siddhartha Gadgil*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (973-20-868)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A special case of the weak hyperbolization conjecture.
    Murray J Elder*, Texas A&M University
    Jonathon P McCammond, Texas A&M University
    John Meier, Lafayette College
    (973-57-1046)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  The role of rotation numbers in dynamical systems.
  John M. Franks*, Northwestern University
  (973-37-07)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Some applications of inner models.
  Martin Zeman*, University of California Irvine
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  The Global Classroom: Live e-learning over the web.
  Organizers:
  Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville University
  Douglas A. Quinney, Keele University, UK
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  MAA Project NExT Panel Discussion
  Time for your first sabbatical...Now what?
  Organizers:
  Cheri L. Boyd, Nazareth College
  Mark R. Parker, Carroll College
  Panelists:
  David L. Allen, Eastern Oregon University
  Thomas H. Barr, Rhodes College
  Christine L. Kinsey, Canisius College
  William A. Marion, Valparaiso University
  Cynthia J. Woodburn, Pittsburgh State University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Grant-writing workshop for proposals to the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.
  Organizers:
  Dennis E. Davenport, NSF/Division of Undergraduate Education
  James H. Lightbourne, NSF/Division of Undergraduate Education
  Elizabeth J. Teles, NSF/Division of Undergraduate Education
  Lee L. Zia, NSF/Division of Undergraduate Education
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Mathematics in a postmodern age.
  Organizers:
  Russell W. Howell, Westmont College, Santa Barbara
  W. James Bradley, Calvin College
  Panelists:
  W. James Bradley,
  Calvin Jongsma, Dordt College
  Moderators:
  Russell W. Howell,
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA Committee on the Participation of Women-Women and Mathematics Network Special Presentation
  Successful mathematics outreach programs for women and girls.
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth G. Yanik, Emporia State University
  Virginia G. Kasten, General Motors
  Kathleen A. Sullivan, Seattle University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Book Sales and Exhibits
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 9:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Committee on Meetings and Conferences Panel Discussion
  New directions at the NSF.
  Moderators:
  Tony F. Chan, UCLA
  Panelists:
  Douglas N. Arnold, Institute for Mathematics \& Applications
  David Eisenbud, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  Mark L. Green, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
  Michael F. Singer, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  Philippe Tondeur, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Special Presentation
  Who wants to be a mathematician?
  Organizers:
  Michael A. Breen, AMS
  Annette W. Emerson, AMS
  William T. Butterworth, Barat College
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Meromorphic continuation of L-functions.
  Richard Lawrence Taylor*, Harvard University
  (973-11-06)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 10:10 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  ASL Contributed Talks
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Harmonic numbers and the ABC-conjecture.
  Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr.*, University of California Berkeley
  (973-11-16)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III
  Entropy Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Maximum principle methods.
  Lawrence Craig Evans*, University of California Berkeley
  (973-35-05)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Expressing graph and topological connectivity over the reals.
  Leonid Libkin*, University of Toronto
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Organizers:
  Thomas Archibald, Acadia University tom.archibald@acadiau.ca
  David E. Zitarelli, Temple University zit@unix.temple.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Turning the Pages: Tracing the Development of Nineteenth-Century Mathematics in Britain through the Pages of Its Scientific Journals.
    Sloan E Despeaux*, University of Virginia
    (973-01-820)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    ``Spreading the Gospel'': Gertrude M. Cox and the ISI Education Committee.
    Patti W Hunter*, Westmont College
    (973-01-730)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    James Joseph Sylvester at the University of Virginia: More to the Story.
    Karen H Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (973-01-660)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Innovation and Adaption: The Content of the Curriculum in Lower-level 19th Century Mathematics Teaching.
    Eisso J Atzema*, University of Maine
    (973-01-819)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The French Influence on the United States Military Academy.
    Amy E Shell*, United States Military Academy
    (973-01-50)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Oswald Veblen, Elizabeth Wilson and the Mathematics of the First World War.
    David Alan Grier*, George Washington University
    (973-01-75)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The role of manifolds in the history of topology and analysis.
    Erwin O Kreyszig*, Carleton University
    (973-01-733)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, III
  Organizers:
  Martin J. Bohner, University of Missouri, Rolla bohner@umr.edu
  Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern University billur@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Survey of Dynamic Inequalities on Time Scales.
    Billur Kaymakcalan*, Georgia Southern University
    (973-34-1259)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Some function space inequalities and their application to oscillation problems in differential equations.
    Richard Brown, University of Alabama
    Stephen Clark*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    Don Hinton, University of Tennessee
    (973-34-1039)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Existence and Uniqueness Results for Discrete Second Order Periodic Boundary Value Problems.
    Ferhan Atici*, Visiting Assoc. Prof./ Western Kentucky University
    Alberto Cabada, Prof. Dr./ Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    (973-39-970)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Search for solutions to a basic PDE on time scales.
    Jo Hoffacker*, University of Georgia
    (973-35-829)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Integral Equations on a Measure Chain - Part I.
    Eric R Kaufmann*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Nickolai Kosmatov, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    (973-45-77)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Integral Equations on a Measure Chain - Part II.
    Nickolai Kosmatov*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Eric R Kaufmann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    (973-45-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Coupled Solutions and a Quasilinearization Technique for Dynamic Equations on Time Scales.
    Bonita A Lawrence*, Marshall University
    Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern
    (973-34-1284)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Computational Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Arnold, Texas A\&M University barnold@math.tamu.edu
  Amelia Taylor, Rutgers University ataylor@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Common transversals and tangents in ${\mathbb P}^3$.
    Gabor Megyesi, UMIST, Manchester, England
    Frank Sottile*, University of Masssachusetts, Amherst
    Thorsten Theobald, Technical University, Munich
    (973-14-999)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Hilbert function points in $\mathbb{P}^{n_1} \times \cdots \times \mathbb{P}^{n_k}$.
    Adam Van Tuyl*, Lakehead University
    (973-13-1031)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Properties of square-free monomial ideals.
    Sara Faridi*, George Washington University
    (973-13-1287)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Parallel Implementation of Buchberger's Algorithm on USNA's Armada. .
    William N Traves*, U.S. Naval Academy
    (973-13-826)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computing Gröbner bases on Supercomputers.
    Anton Leykin*, University of Minnesota
    (973-14-1155)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Using Valuations of Maximal Rank to Compute Gr\"obner Bases.
    Edward C Mosteig*, Tulane University
    (973-13-1219)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Self intersections of bicubic surfaces.
    Michael Stillman*, Cornell University
    Andre Galligo, University of Nice
    (973-13-1362)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Explicit inversion formulas for a model in diffuse tomography.
    F. Alberto Grunbaum, UC Berkeley
    Laura F Matusevich*, UC Berkeley
    (973-92-677)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Polygon recognition and symmetry detection.
    Mireille Boutin*, Brown University
    (973-53-1122)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Symbolic and numeric implicitization of families of curves, surfaces and hypersurfaces.
    Ilias S. Kotsireas*, Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra
    (973-14-1252)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory, III
  Organizers:
  Marcus Grefrath, San Diego State University gref@inaba.math.uni-duisburg.de
  Michael E. O'Sullivan, San Diego State University mosulliv@math.sdsu.edu
  Roxana N. Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@nd.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Algebraic temptations in the theory of codes on graphs.
    Robert Michael Tanner*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (973-94-827)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Codes, graphs, expanders and girth.
    Ian F. Blake*, University of Toronto
    (973-94-845)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Derivation of LDPC and Turbo Codes from Graphs with Large Girth.
    Pascal O Vontobel*, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Joachim Rosenthal, Notre Dame University
    (973-94-1292)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algebra of Low Density Parity Check Codes.
    Emina Soljanin*, Bell Labs, Lucent
    Elke Offer, Munich University of Technology
    (973-94-1272)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An alternative point-counting algorithm for elliptic curves.
    Kristin E Lauter*, Microsoft Research
    Peter Montgomery, Microsoft Research
    (973-11-1361)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New watermarking schemes from coding theory.
    Nigel Boston*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (973-94-1355)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A class of near optimal polynomial codes.
    Nuh Aydin*, The Ohio State University
    Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, The Ohio State University
    (973-05-227)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Self-dual codes and zeta functions.
    Iwan Duursma*, U of Illinois at U-C
    (973-11-1202)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Computational Topology, II
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey C. Lagarias, AT\&T Research Laboratories jcl@research.att.com
  William H. Jaco, Oklahoma State University jaco@math.okstate.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Complexity of Knot Genus.
    Joel Hass*, University of California, Davis
    Ian Agol, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
    William P Thurston, University of California, Davis
    (973-57-773)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    New algorithms from normal surfaces theory.
    Ben Burton, Oklahoma State University
    William Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
    David Letscher, Oklahoma State University
    J. Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    (973-57-1472)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Normal Surface Theory and Minimal Triangulations.
    Alexander C Barchechat*, UC Davis
    (973-54-765)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Comparing Triangulations of $3$-Manifolds.
    David M Letscher*, Oklahoma State
    (973-57-1132)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tabulation of classical links - the state of the game.
    Morwen B Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
    (973-57-1065)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Polynomial time complexity algorithm for computing coefficients of the Jones-Conway (Homflypt) and Kauffman polynomials of links.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (973-57-1068)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Constraints on Vassiliev invariants and their complexity.
    Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University
    Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
    (973-57-882)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dehn filling on outside torus of 1-bridge knot exterior.
    Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
    (973-57-1157)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Hybrid Systems, I
  Organizers:
  Elena Litsyn, Ben-Gurion University elenal@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il
  A. S. Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette vatsala@louisiana.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Stability Properties of Hybrid Fuzzy Differential Equations.
    M Sambandham*, Morehouse College
    (973-34-401)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A Neurocomputing Approach to Solving Partial Differential Equations.
    Laurene V Fausett*, Georgoia Southern University
    (973-35-397)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Qualitative theory of Hybrid Systems and impulse effects.
    Seenith Sivasundaram*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
    (973-34-678)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Integro-differential Hybrid Systems.
    Sonya A Stephens*, Florida A&M University
    (973-37-797)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Partial Stability and Boundedness of Discontinuous Dynamical Systems.
    Anthony N Michel*, University of Notre Dame
    Alexander P Molchanov, Institute of Control Sciences
    Ye Sun, University of Notre Dame
    (973-93-805)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Universal Contingent Claims and Multiplicative Measures.
    Valery A Kholodnyi*, TXU Energy Trading
    (973-90-992)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hybrid Control via Finsler Spaces and Connections.
    Anil Nerode*, Cornell University
    Wolf Kohn, Hynomics Corporation
    (973-93-1055)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fundamental Theory of Control of Systems Involving a Kronecker Product of Matrices.
    Kanuri N Murty*, Georgia Southern University
    Donald W Fausett, Georgia Southern University
    (973-34-1071)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Variational Lyapunov Method for Difference Equations.
    Satyanarayana Dontha*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (973-00-1151)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Quasilinearization for the Periodic Boundary Value Problem for Hybrid Impulsive Differential Equations.
    Snezhana G. Hristova*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Aghalaya S. Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (973-34-852)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Many Lives of Lattice Theory and the Theory of Ordered Sets, with Connections to Combinatorics, II
  Organizers:
  Jonathan D. Farley, University of Oxford and Vanderbilt University farley@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Stefan E. Schmidt, New Mexico State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A quasiorder representation for set systems and its application to consensus theory.
    Melvin F Janowitz*, DIMACS
    Gary D Crown, Wichita, KS
    (973-06-762)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Database Security and Concentrating Sums of Vectors.
    Jerrold R Griggs*, University of South Carolina
    (973-06-835)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A way to protect complex hierarchical information.
    Marcus Greferath, San Diego State University
    Stefan E Schmidt*, New Mexico State University
    (973-94-115)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Type-I and linear lattices.
    Mark D Haiman*, U.C. Berkeley
    (973-06-770)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    From Interval Orders through Trapezoid Orders and Beyond.
    Kenneth P Bogart*, Dartmouth College
    (973-06-147)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Interval Orders, Graph Coloring, Hamiltonian Paths and $\alpha$-Sequences: Part 1.
    William T Trotter*, Arizona State University
    (973-06-1444)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Linear and Weak Discrepancy of an Ordered Set.
    Peter C Fishburn, AT&T Shannon Laboratory
    Paul J Tanenbaum, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
    Ann N Trenk*, Wellesley College
    (973-06-1408)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lattice Theory in Economics.
    Chris Shannon*, University of California, Berkeley
    (973-06-153)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some Applications of Vector Lattices to Economics and Finance.
    Charalambos D Aliprantis*, Purdue University
    (973-06-418)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Lattice Properties of Equilibrium Solutions in Mathematical Economics.
    Neil E. Gretsky*, University of California, Riverside
    (973-90-790)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, II
  Organizers:
  Reza Malek-Madani, United States Naval Academy
  Peter A. McCoy, United States Naval Academy pam@nadn.navy.mil
  John W. Neuberger, University of North Texas
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Partial Differential Equations for Fluid Flow and Computer Graphics.
    Ronald Fedkiw*, Stanford University
    (973-76-969)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    KdV-type equations and Boussinesq systems.
    Min Chen*, University of Central Florida
    (973-65-865)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Visualization of Multiple Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations.
    Goong Chen*, Texas A\&M Univ.
    (973-35-1019)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerical Calculation of Critical Points of the Ginzburg- Landau Functional.
    John W Neuberger, University of North Texas
    Robert J Renka*, University of North Texas
    (973-35-354)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Global well-posedness for the Camassa-Holm equation in the energy norm.
    Milena O Stanislavova*, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
    Atanas G Stefanov, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
    (973-35-1038)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Optimal design of a functionally graded elastic strip subjected to transient loading.
    Ani P Velo*, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
    George A Gazonas, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
    Michael J Scheidler, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
    (973-35-950)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Digital Inpainting Based on the Mumford-Shah-Euler Image Model.
    Jianhong Shen*, University of Minnesota
    Selim Esedoglu, Inst. Math. Appl. (IMA)
    (973-68-324)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An Asymptotic Finite Deformation Analysis for an Isotropic Compressible Hyperelastic Half-Space Subjected to a Tensile Point Load.
    Debra A Warne*, James Madison University
    Paul G Warne, James Madison University
    (973-74-83)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, I
  Organizers:
  Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology cvlsma@rit.edu
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Shilov Boundary of Operator Spaces.
    Kay L Kirkpatrick*, Montana State University
    (973-47-249)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A Probabilistic Aspect of a Continuous Nowhere-Differentiable Function.
    Jer-Chin L Chuang*, Furman University
    (973-26-217)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Random Graphical Sequences.
    Megan T Smith*, Lawrence University
    Gabe Zimmer, East Tennessee State University
    (973-05-915)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    An exposition of elementary matroid theory.
    Jonah D Blasiak, Princeton University
    Jennifer M Rowe, Belmont University
    Oded Yacobi*, Cornell University
    Lorenzo Traldi, Lafayette College
    (973-05-416)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algebra and Matrix Normed Spaces.
    Seth M Hain*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (973-46-619)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Continuity of the norm of a composition operator.
    David B Pokorny*, UC Berkeley
    Daniel McGinn, Carleton
    Jonathan E Shapiro, Cal Poly
    (973-30-616)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Approximate Statistical Moment Method for Uncertainty Propagation Applied to Aircraft Design Optimization.
    Stephen G Penny*, James Madison University
    (973-49-667)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Common eigenvectors for matrices $X_1,\ldots,X_m$ when $X_iX_j$ is scalar for $i < j$.
    Adam H Berliner*, Carleton College
    (973-15-853)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Convergence of a family of random walks on the $d$-dimensional torus.
    Timothy M Prescott*, Harvey Mudd College
    Francis E Su, Harvey Mudd College
    (973-60-1192)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On two consecutive blocks with equal sums in a $\mathbf{Z}$-coloring of the integers.
    John B Gonzalez*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (973-11-1424)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Stochastic Processes and Functional Analysis (in honor of M. M. Rao), I
  Organizers:
  Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University Pomona randall.swift@wku.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Reflections on M.M. Rao.
    J. J. Uhl*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (973-00-898)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Stochastic analysis and function spaces.
    M.M. Rao*, Univ. of California, Riverside
    (973-60-883)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Nonstationary Stochastic Processes on Amenable Groups.
    Bertram M Schreiber*, Wayne State University
    (973-60-886)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Harmonizable Processes and Fields.
    Randall J Swift*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (973-60-944)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ergodicity and extremality of AMS sources and channels.
    Yuichiro Kakihara*, California State University, San Bernardino
    (973-60-906)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Renormalization, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization and generating functions.
    N. Asai, International Institute for Advanced Studies
    I Kubo, Hiroshima University
    H H Kuo*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    (973-46-903)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Subdifferentiability and the Duality Gap.
    Neil E. Gretsky*, Mathematics Department, University of California, Riverside
    Joseph M. Ostroy, Economics Department, University of California, Los Angeles
    William R. Zame, Economics Department, University of California, Los Angeles
    (973-90-789)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geographic mosaics in coevolving populations with spatially uniform selection regimes.
    Jennifer Switkes*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Michael Moody, Harvey Mudd College
    (973-35-1218)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pulse waves in elastic tubes.
    Radu C Cascaval*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (973-35-897)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Integrated Gaussian processes and their reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.
    Milan N Lukic*, Viterbo University
    (973-60-169)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topology and Its Applications, II
  Organizers:
  Alexander Arhangelskii, Ohio University
  Melvin Henriksen, Harvey Mudd College
  James E. Keesling, University of Florida
  Ralph D. Kopperman, City College of CUNY topann@att.net
  John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Indecomposable continua in dynamics.
    John C Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (973-54-1338)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A Semilinear Model for the Complex Exponential Map.
    Robert L Devaney, Boston University
    M\'onica Moreno Rocha*, Boston University, Boston, MA
    (973-37-674)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Conposants and the Structure of Periodic Orbits for Interval Maps.
    David J Ryden*, Tulane University
    (973-54-1240)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homological Rotation Vectors and Lyapunov Functions.
    John M. Alongi*, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
    (973-37-785)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A generalization of Knaster continua to higher dimensions.
    Vincent A Ssembatya*, University of Florida
    James E Keesling, University of Florida
    (973-54-975)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cardinality Restrictions of O-metrizable and Symmetrizable Spaces.
    Dimitrina N Stavrova*, Miami University
    (973-54-778)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Topological Entropy of Extensions of Adding Machine Maps to Intervals.
    James Keesling*, University of Florida
    Louis Block, University of Florida
    Jianhua Xie, Southwest Jiaotong University
    (973-54-1094)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On asymptotic dimension of groups acting on trees.
    Gregory C Bell*, University of Florida
    Alexander N Dranishnikov, University of Florida
    (973-20-1318)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Isotopic Realization Problem, derived limits, and almost nilpotent quotients of the fundamental group of a link.
    Sergey A Melikhov*, University of Florida
    (973-57-1006)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The $A$ polynomial of twist knots.
    Thomas W Mattman*, CSU, Chico
    Isaiah P Lankham, CSU, Chico
    (973-57-986)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#10: Part B
  A dynamical systems approach to the differential equations course.
  Organizers:
  Paul A. Blanchard, Boston University
  Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#14: Part B
  Viewing mathematics via interrelations, for undergraduate courses.
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Quint, Stockton College of New Jersey
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#4: Part B
  Environmental mathematics.
  Organizers:
  Ben Fusaro, Florida State University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Calculus of Variations
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Solution of Variational Problems via Hybrid of Piecewise Constant and Continuous Orthogonal Functions.
    Mohsen Razzaghi*, Mississippi State University
    (973-49-222)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Optimal Control of an HIV Immunology Model.
    Hem R Joshi*, University of Tennessee
    (973-49-804)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Minimum Surface Problem Solved by Equivalent Problems.
    Donald R. Snow*, Brigham Young University
    (973-49-948)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Optimal Control Solution to Integro-differential Operator Systems Using Dynamic Programming.
    Reza R Ahangar*, University of Central Arkansas
    Stavros Belbas, University of Alabama
    (973-49-1083)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Optimization and modeling of the process of photosynthesis in cotton-plant.
    Fahriddin K Bazarbayev*, "AndUslubPahta" Research-Production Center
    (973-49-1084)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    A New Formulation and Euler Equation for a Strong, Pathwise, Stochastic Calculus of Variations Problem.
    John Gregory*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    Harry R Hughes, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (973-49-1131)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    An Algorithm for Finding Rational Interpolating Functions with Control Constraints.
    Rebecca L Sparks*, Rhode Island College
    (973-49-1156)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Noether-type Theorems for the Generalized Variational Principle of Herglotz with One and Several Independent Variables.
    Bogdana A Georgieva*, Pacific University
    Ronald B Guenther, Oregon State University
    (973-35-760)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Ring Theory and Homological Algebra
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Weakly Prime Ideals.
    Eric E Smith*, University of Northern Iowa
    (973-13-445)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Formal Power Series and Composition.
    Xiao-Xiong Gan*, Morgan State University
    (973-13-693)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Multiplicative Invariants of Subgroups of Reflection Groups.
    Marc S Renault*, Temple University
    (973-13-1090)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cohen Macaulay Rings Of Invariants.
    Jawahar H Pathak*, Temple University
    (973-13-1142)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Power Series and the Preservation of Flat Covers.
    David W. Dempsey*, Jacksonville State University
    (973-13-1310)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Burnside and Kurosh problems.
    Lakhdar Hammoudi*, Miami University
    (973-16-15)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Hopf Algebras Generated by a Coalgebra.
    Charles B. Ragozzine*, SUNY Oneonta
    (973-16-204)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    When is the Universal Enveloping Algebra of a Lie Color Algebra Entire?
    Kenneth L Price*, UW Oshkosh
    (973-16-523)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Semiprime crossed products over copointed Hopf algebras.
    Declan Quinn, Syracuse University
    Serban Raianu*, Syracuse University
    (973-16-780)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Convolution algebras and fractional calculus.
    Jason P Huffman*, Jacksonville State University
    Henry E Heatherly, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (973-16-908)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Two-Sided Ideals of Finite-Dimensional Algebras.
    Leonid Krop*, DePaul University, Chicago
    Stefan Catoiu, DePaul University, Chicago
    William Chin, DePaul University, Chicago
    (973-16-1026)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    the prime spectrum for quantized hyperalgebras at roots of 1.
    William Chin*, DePaul University
    (973-16-1048)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Four-dimensional regular algebras mapping onto the 2-Veronese ring of a 3-dimensional regular algebra with generators of weights (1,1,2).
    Darin R Stephenson*, Hope College
    (973-16-1112)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $(+)$-Admissible Sequences and the Preprojective Component.
    Helene R Tyler*, Syracuse University
    (973-16-1184)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Binomial Rings.
    Jessica K Sklar*, Pacific Lutheran University
    (973-16-1328)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Derived functors of Hom relative to flat covers.
    Stephen T Aldrich*, Saint Mary's University of MN
    Edgar E Enochs, University of Kentucky
    Juan A Lopes Ramos, University of Almeria
    (973-18-1173)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, III
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Search for Group-Invariant Weighing Matrices W(60, 25).
    Paul E Becker*, Penn State University -- Erie
    (973-05-111)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    The Number of Tableaux which Contain a Given Subtableau.
    Aaron D. Jaggard*, University of Pennsylvania
    (973-05-134)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Inequalities for Polytopes.
    Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
    (973-05-470)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    A Stirling Number Identity in a Generalized Context.
    Theresa L Friedman, Willamette University
    Paul Klingsberg*, St. Joseph's University
    (973-05-836)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Tightening Turyn's bound in Hadamard difference sets.
    Ken W Smith*, Central Michigan University
    (973-05-1327)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Least common multiples of cubes.
    Peter Adams, University of Queensland
    Darryn Bryant, University of Queensland
    Saad El-Zanati, Illinois State University
    Barbara Maenhaut, The Open University
    Charles Vanden Eynden*, Illinois State University
    (973-05-1129)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Matroids derived from cycle spaces of graphs and linear transformations.
    Daniel C Slilaty*, Wright State University
    (973-05-1167)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Counting minimal paths in n-dimensional digital space.
    Kwang Ik Kim*, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
    (973-05-1199)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Complementary Graphs and the Chromatic Number.
    Colin L Starr*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    Galen E Turner, Louisiana Tech University
    (973-05-1207)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On Detour-saturated Graphs.
    Lowell W Beineke*, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
    Jean E Dunbar, Converse College
    Marietjie Frick, University of South Africa
    (973-05-1210)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Unit and Proper Tube Orders and Graphs.
    Joshua D Laison*, Kenyon College
    (973-05-1243)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    More Classes of Prime Graphs.
    Kelli R Carlson*, Texas A&M University
    (973-05-1283)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Tree Labelling Problem of Leech.
    William C Calhoun*, Bloomsburg University
    Kevin Ferland, Bloomsburg University
    Lisa Lister, Bloomsburg University
    John Polhill, Bloomsburg University
    (973-05-1303)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Colorings of Graphs Defined by Conditions on Sets of Vertices.
    Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University
    Farrokh Saba*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Ebrahim Salehi, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University
    (973-05-1306)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some New Concepts on Edge Deleted Graphs.
    Hosien S Moghadam*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    (973-05-1359)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Efficient real and integer domination in graphs.
    Jeffrey S. Baggett*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    A. E. Barkauskas, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (973-05-1363)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the Breadth of Lattices of Convex Sets in Multipartite Tournaments.
    Darren B Parker, University of Dayton
    Randy F Westhoff*, Bemidji State University
    Marty J Wolf, Bemidji State University
    (973-06-683)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Bessel Numbers in Combinatorics.
    Ji Young Choi*, Iowa State University
    (973-05-1380)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Deep Understanding of School Mathematics Needed by Teachers, II
  Organizers:
  Albert D. Otto, Illinois State University otto@ilstu.edu
  Catherine M. Murphy, Purdue University-Calumet
  Philip Quartararo, Southern University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Teachers' mathematical understanding and reasoning about the design of calculus courses (preliminary report).
    Dara L Sandow*, Michigan State University
    (973-I1-504)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Algebra and Calculus Concepts for Preservice Middle School Teachers - A Constructivist Approach in Developing a Profound Understanding of School Mathematics.
    Becky J Krakowski*, University of Dayton
    (973-I1-361)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Deepening Understandings of Functions In Grades 5--8 Through Dynamic Visualization.
    Barbara J Pence*, San Jose State Univ
    (973-I1-318)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Rich Mathematical Problems at SUNY Potsdam.
    Victoria Klawitter, SUNY Potsdam
    Blair F Madore*, SUNY Potsdam
    (973-I1-441)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Division of Fractions.
    Brenda C Strassfeld*, New York University
    (973-I1-100)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    The Challenges of Assisting Pre-service Teachers Gain a Deeper Understanding of School Mathematics.
    Albert D. Otto*, Illinois State University
    Catherine Murphy, Purdue University-Calumet
    Phil Quartararo, Southern University
    (973-I1-1186)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
  MAA Session on Classroom Demonstrations and Course Projects That Make a Difference, I
  Organizers:
  David R. Hill, Temple University hill@math.temple.edu
  Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State College
  Lila F. Roberts, Georgia Southern University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Few Good Animated Demonstrations for Multivariable Calculus.
    John F Putz*, Alma College
    (973-N1-327)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Balanced Lines: Mathematics of Microphones.
    Mako E Haruta*, University of Hartford
    Steven Bellamy, McGill University
    (973-N1-550)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Mathematics in the News: A Course Project that Shows Students Mathematics is Alive and Well.
    Catherine A. Gorini*, Maharishi University of Management
    (973-N1-531)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Mathematica, Simple Coding, and Invertible Matrix.
    Heakyung Lee*, Winthrop University
    (973-N1-317)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Project to Teach Parametric Equations Using Star Wars: Episode 1.
    Carl V Lutzer*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (973-N1-610)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    It's Not Fair!: A Coin-Testing Project.
    Troy D Riggs*, Union University
    (973-N1-198)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Using Trigonometric Functions for Temperature Models.
    Cathy M Frey*, Norwich University
    (973-N1-281)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Curvature in the Calculus Curriculum.
    Jerry M Lodder*, New Mexico State University
    (973-N1-286)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Motivational Projects for Multivariable Calculus.
    Carol J Browning*, Drury University
    (973-N1-349)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Environmental Mathematics in the Classroom, I
  Organizers:
  Ben Fusaro, Florida State University fusaro@math.fsu.edu
  Marty E. Walter, University of Colorado
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Optimizing Benefits for Fish and Fishermen.
    Rosalie A Dance*, University of the Virgin Islands
    James T. Sandefur, Georgetown University
    (973-P1-382)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    A statistical F test for the natural attenuation of contaminants in groundwater.
    Aristeo M Pelayo, Wi Dept. of Natural Resources
    Fe S Evangelista*, Univ. of Wisconsin - Whitewater
    (973-P1-1347)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Break.
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Liberal Arts Course -- Environmental Mathematics.
    B. A. Fusaro*, Florida State University
    (973-P1-625)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Web-Based Environmental Projects for Algebra Through Calculus.
    Christopher Schaufele*, Dineh College
    Nancy Zumoff, Kennesaw State University
    (973-P1-409)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Ants Help Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP.
    Bruno Guerrieri*, Florida A&M University
    (973-P1-497)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on General Contributed Papers, IV
  Organizers:
  Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
  Laura Wallace, California State University, San Bernardino
  Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Finding the area of tiles with fractal boundaries.
    Judith A Palagallo*, University of Akron
    (973-T1-276)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Fractal Tilings with Radial Symmetry.
    Thomas E Price*, University of Akron
    Adam E Roberts, Bowling Green State Univ
    (973-T1-461)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On the sum of a series by Euler and an associated integral of Dirichlet.
    T S Nanjundiah, University of Mysore,India, (Retd)
    Mysore S Jagadish*, Barry University
    (973-T1-573)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Using Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) to Visualize Linear Algebra.
    Frederick A Adkins*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (973-D1-628)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Various Notions of Distance.
    Michael J Cullinane*, Keene State College
    (973-T1-245)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Black Holes and Black Loops---Connecting Elementary Arithmetic to Mathematical Research.
    Murray H Siegel*, Sam Houston State University
    (973-T1-181)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Pythagoras, Beyond Sierpinski and the Triplet.
    Donald A. Sokol*, Lisle, IL (Retired)
    (973-T1-272)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  NAM Granville-Browne Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    
    William A. Massey, Lucent Technologies
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics Panel Discussion
  The medium and the message: Practical suggestions on student reading and course efficiency using a structured conversation format.
  Organizers:
  Mary Ellen Foley, Louisiana State University-Shreveport
  Sandra A. Gokey, Greenfield Community College
  Tom J. Linton, Central College
  Kirk E. Weller, Bethel College
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  BIG Math: Projects in business, industry, and government.
  Organizers:
  Philip E. Gustafson, Mesa State College
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Calculus Reform and the First Two Years Panel Discussion
  Discrete mathematics in the first two years.
  Organizers:
  Donald D. Mills, U. S. Military Academy
  Donald B. Small, U. S. Military Academy
  Kathleen Snook, U. S. Military Academy
  Panelists:
  D. Chris Arney, College of Saint Rose
  Diana M. Thomas, Montclair State University
  Marie M. Vanisko, Carroll College
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  The Mathematical Education of Teachers.
  Organizers:
  Ronald C. Rosier, CBMS
  Presenters:
  James Lewis, University of Nebraska
  Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Glenda Lappan, Michigan State University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Poster Session
  Projects supported by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.
  Organizers:
  Jon W. Scott, Montgomery Community College
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Model Theory of Strings and Trees.
  Michael Benedikt*, Lucent Technology/Bell Labs
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  From shuffling cards to the roots of randomness.
  Persi W. Diaconis*, Stanford University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  RMMC Board of Directors
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 3:10 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Classifying Borel Automorphisms.
  John D. Clemens*, California Institute of Technology
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 3:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#5: Part B
  Using physical and computerized puzzles as models of permutation groups in teaching abstract algebra.
  Organizers:
  John O. Kiltinen, Northern Michigan University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 3:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  AMS Special Presentation
  Developing teacher's knowledge for teaching mathematics: How you can help improve elementary school mathematics.
  Organizers:
  Deborah L. Ball, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Heather Hill, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 3:25 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Probability and Combinatorics in Analytic Number Theory, II
  Organizers:
  Andrew J. Granville, University of Georgia andrew@math.uga.edu
  

  • 3:25 p.m.
    Random matrix theory and the distribution of values of the Riemann zeta-function.
    Brian Conrey*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (973-U1-917)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Bateman--Horn Conjecture for Number Fields.
    Keith Conrad*, UC San Diego
    (973-U1-1233)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Moments of Short Divisor Sums and Gaps Between Primes.
    Daniel A Goldston*, San Jose State University
    (973-U1-779)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients
  

• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 4:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session
  Organizers:
  Mario U. Martelli, Claremont McKenna College
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 4:20 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Science Policy-MAA Science Policy Committee Government Speaker
  Mathematics at the National Security Agency.
  James R. Schatz*, National Security Agency
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  ASL Contributed Talks
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 4:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  University of Michigan Alumni Reception
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Association for Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Education SIGMAA Business Meeting,Lecture, and Reception
  Organizers:
  Julie M. Clark, Hollins University
  

• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  MAA Informal Session
  Actuarial education.
  Organizers:
  Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski, Illinois State University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Welcome Reception for Mathematicians in Business, Industry, and Government
  Organizers:
  Philip E. Gustafson, Mesa State College
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Reception for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Mathematicians
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  History of Mathematics SIGMAA
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  University of Illinois Reception
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  CSP Reception
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  MAA-Young Mathematicians Network Panel Discussion
  Closing the deal: The campus interview and beyond.
  Organizers:
  Chawne M. Kimber, Lafayette College
  David T. Kung, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  Panelists:
  Carl C. Cowen, Purdue University
  Gwen Fisher, California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo)
  Thomas J. Pfaff, Ithaca College
  Carol S. Wood, Wesleyan University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Carroll College Project InterMath Workshop reunion.
  Organizers:
  Marie M. Vanisko, Carroll College
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  NAM Reception, Banquet, and Cox-Talbot Address
  The Right Train.
  Gloria C. Hewitt*, University of Montana
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  MAA Project NExT-Young Mathematicians Network Special Presentation
  Planning ahead for the tenure/promotion process.
  Organizers:
  Karrolyne Fogel, California Lutheran University
  J. Lyn Miller, Western Kentucky University
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Statistics Education, 2002 Business Meeting, and Lecture
  Organizers:
  Dexter C. Whittinghill, Rowan University
  Presenters:
  Roxy Peck, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  {\bit Mathematical Reviews} Reception
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 7:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
  MAA Student Lecture
  Finding and fixing systems' weaknesses: The art and science of engineering risk analysis.
  M. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell*, Stanford University
  (973-A0-49)
• Tuesday January 8, 2002, 8:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
  MAA Project NExT Reception
  Organizers:
  T. Christine Stevens, St. Louis University