Joint Mathematics Meetings MAA Invited Paper Session

Current as of Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:29:11

Joint Mathematics Meetings
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1077

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Saturday January 7, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Climate Change and Sustainability
  Room 302, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College mlzeeman@bowdoin.edu
  Chris Danforth, University of Vermont
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Toy Climate Laboratory for Chaos and Differential Equations.
    Chris Danforth*, Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont
    (1077-AE-1780)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Teaching with `Weather in a Tank'.
    John Marshall*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1077-AE-1777)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Model Hierarchy for Undergraduate Education in Radiative and Convective Heat Transfer.
    Kerry A Emanuel*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1077-AE-1828)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Exploring Sustainability in a Developmental-Level Mathematics Course.
    Rikki B. Wagstrom*, Metropolitan State University
    (1077-AE-1867)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sustainability in pre-calculus: leveraging biofuels data to write novel conceptual problems on function behavior and other concepts.
    Guadalupe I. Lozano*, The University of Arizona
    (1077-AE-2788)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Environmental Mathematics in a First Year Program.
    John B Little*, College of the Holy Cross
    (1077-AE-1825)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling and Public Policy Decisions Aimed at Mitigating Climate Change.
    Frank Wattenberg*, United States Military Academy
    (1077-AE-1822)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Short Term (Non-Asymptotic) Linear Stability of Ecosystems: The Role of Non-Self-Adjointness in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Agricultural Systems.
    Gidon Eshel*, Bard College
    Andrew Ma, Univ. of Wisconsin
    Olivia Romeo, Bates College
    (1077-AE-703)