The Role of On-Line Technology Courses for Teachers of Preservice Mathematics Teachers, Thursday
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., organized by Judy O'Neal, North Georgia College & State University, and Franklin D. Demana, Ohio State University.

Assessment of Learning in the Mathematics Major, Thursday, 2:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., organized by Bernard L. Madison, University of Arkansas, and William E. Haver, Virginia Commonwealth University. The papers in this session will be descriptions of assessment programs aimed at learning in the major. The invitees will be teams of faculty who are currently participants in an MAA PREP/SAUM workshop that assists faculty in these programs. The workshop began in March 2004 and will conclude just before the 2006 Joint Mathematics Meetings. The session is part of the MAA-NSF Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics (SAUM) project.

Environmental Modeling, Thursday, 2:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., organized by Ben A. Fusaro, Florida State University. This session provides a spectrum of environmental modeling. It begins with a modification of the classical predator-prey equations and then moves on to factors associated with the likelihood of extinction of a species. The third presentation looks at the challenge of managing a natural resource. The last talk deals with algorithms for models of flows in porous media and the numerical solutions of these models. Speakers include Michael Olinick, Middlebury College, Modeling the predator-prey relationship; Roland H. Lamberson, Humboldt State University, A mathematical look at extinction; Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross, White water rafting in the Grand Canyon; and Shuyu Sun and Mary Wheeler, Institute for Computational Engineering & Science, University of Texas at Austin, Algorithms for modeling flow and reactive transport in porous media. The session is sponsored by the MAA SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics.