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2001 JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETINGS NEW ORLEANS MARRIOTT AND SHERATON HOTELS NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA JANUARY 10-13,2001 • 2001 Joint Mathematics Meeting

Welcome to New Orleans!

Welcome to the Joint Mathematics Meetings, in New Orleans, January 10-13. Join our colleagues to learn from the past, and discover the future of mathematics at the largest professional mathematics gathering of the year.

At this meeting, you will be in the difficult position of choosing from a variety of distinguished speakers and topics. Special Sessions, Invited Addresses, Contributed Paper Sessions, and Mincourses will vie for your attention. Take time to visit the Exhibit Hall, which will feature leading companies, associations, and organizations in the mathematics community. In between these events, you will have plenty of opportunity to meet and greet your colleagues at various social events.

Register early for discounted rates. Use the enclosed registration form, or register online at www.ams.org. We look forward to seeing you in the New Orleans! o JOINT Meritorious Service. The AMS will announce the winners JointMAA-AMS of the Levi L. Conant Prize, the Ruth Lyle Satter Prize in MAA-AMS Mathematics, the Leroy P Steele Prizes, the Oswald Invited Addresses Veblen Prize in Geometry. and the Albert Leon Whiteman ADDRESSES Bany Mazur, Memorial Prize. The AWM will present the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to , and AND Deformations, perturbations and the Alice I Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics near-misses in geometry, physics, by an Undergraduate Woman. This session also will be SESSIONS and the venue for the announcement of the Joint Policy Friday, 11:10 AM Board for Mathematics Communication Award and the Leonard M. and Eleanor 8. Blumenthal Award for the Jeffrey R Weeks, Canton, N.Y. Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics. Measuring the universe Teaching Math and the World Wide Web Wednesday, 11:10 AM Friday, 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM organized by Andrew G. Bennett, Kansas State University, and Judith Baxter, Joint Special Sessions University of Illinois, Chicago. There has been an explosion of interest in using the History of Mathematics (MAA-AMS) World Wide Web to support or enhance the teaching of Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia, and mathematics among both and adminis• David E. Zitarelli, Temple University trators. Different faculty are using the web to provide Friday and Saturday mornings and afternoons textural information, live animations, automated online homework systems, real world problems, interactive chat rooms, and many other resources. Many interesting pro• Mathematics and Education Reform jects are going on, but most are developing indepen• (MAA-AMS-MER) dently. There is no central site or journal where mathematicians can go to find out what other people are Naomi Fisher, University of Illinois at Chicago, trying, what works, what doesn't, and how to effectively William H. Barker, Bowdoin College, Jeny L Bona, integrate new web-based technologies into instruction. University of at Austin, and Kenneth C. Millett, This session would provide a forum for faculty to share University of California, Santa Barbara their experiences and to learn from each other. Wednesday and Thursday mornings and afternoons Panelists include Judith Lee Baxter (moderator), University of Illinois at Chicago; Andrew G. Bennett. Kansas State University; Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown Other Joint Sessions University; Susan Holmes, Stanford University; and Gene Klotz, Swarthmore College. Sponsored by the The NSF National Science, Mathematics, MAAand AMS. Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library Program: A Report on Philosophy of Mathematics: Current Activities and Projects That Which is of Interest to Thursday, 2:45 PM-4:15 PM Mathematicians organized by Lee L Zia and James H. Lightboume, Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM NSF Division of Undergraduate Education. organized by Joseph Auslander, University of Maryland, and Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University. In this panel discussion presenters will describe the current portfolio of projects being supported by the The 20th century diversion of philosophy of mathemat• Program. Representatives of selected projects will report ics into questions of foundations and the nature of on their progress to date and general issues for course numbers resulted in many mathematicians losing inter• and curriculum content developers will be addressed. est in the subject. However, there are many philosophi• Funding opportunities will also be discussed. cal questions which the mathematical community appears to care about, such as the relationship between Panelists include Lang Moore, Duke University; mathematics and the (physical) world, the role of aes• Gene Klotz, Swarthmore College and mathforum.com; thetic considerations in the development of new mathe• and Robby Robson, Oregon State University. matics, the value of experimental mathematics, and how Sponsored by the MAA and AMS. central proof is for mathematics. Evidence of this inter• 2001 est is the regular review in AMS and MAA publications Prize Session and Reception of books on the philosophy of mathematics. This panel JOINT In order to showcase the achievements of the recipients attempts to begin a dialogue between mathematicians MATHEMATICS of various prizes, the AMS and MAA are cosponsoring interested in philosophical questions and philosophers this event at 4:25 PM on Thursday. A cash bar reception of mathematics. MEETINGS will immediately follow. All participants are invited to at• NEW ORLEANS tend. The MAA prizes include the Deborah and Franklin Panelists include Chandler Davis, University of Toronto; Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or , University of New Mexico; MARRIOTT AND , ; and SHERATON HOTELS University Teaching of Mathematics, the , the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Kenneth Manders, University of Pittsburgh. NEW ORLEANS, Distinguished Service to Mathematics, and Certificates of Sponsored by the MAA and AMS. LOUISIANA JANUARY 10-13,2001 o freely available system that comes with an extensive 84th Annual library of problems. WeBWorK won the 19991CTCM MAA Award for Excellence and Innovation with the Use of MINICOURSES Meeting of the MAA Technology in Collegiate Mathematics. Supported by a grant from NSF, WeBWorK has already been adopted by a number of universities. Participants will actively MAA InvitedAddresses participate in using WeBWorK and writing WeBWorK problems. Readers can learn more about WeBWorK by Robert F. Almgren, University of Toronto connecting to http://www.math.rochester.edu/webwork Financial derivatives and PDEs, Enrollment limit is 30; cost is $85. Friday, 2:15 PM MINICOURSE #3: and Deborah Ball, University of Teachin~ contemporary statistics Michigan, Ann Arbor with actIve learning Title to be announced Part A: Thursday, 10:15 AM-12:15 PM Wednesday, 3:20 PM Part B: Saturday, 3:15 PM-5:15 PM Ralph Keeney, University of Southern California organized by Allan J. Rossman, Dickinson College; Building and using mathematical models Beth L Chance, California Polytechnic State University, to guide decision making San Luis Obispo; Robin H. Lock, Sl Lawrence University; and Mary R. Parker, Austin Friday 7:30 PM-8:20 PM (Student Lecturer) Community College. Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute, In keeping with the recommendations of the ASNMM Title to be announced Committee on Undergraduate Statistics, this minicourse Thursday, 10:05 AM will help instructors to teach statistical thinking with more data and concepts, less theory and fewer recipes. lvars Peterson, Science News Participants will engage in hands-on investigations Akaleidoscope of mathematics and art that can be adopted for immediate use with students. Saturday, 10:05 AM These activities concern such topics as data collection, exploratory data analysis, randomness, and statistical Eleanor Robson, University of Oxford inference. Other issues considered include student Neither Sherlock Holmes nor Babylon: projects, authentic assessment, and resources for A reassessment of Plimpton 322 teaching statistics. Enrollment limit is 30; cost is $85. Minicourses are Wednesday, 2:15 PM open only to persons MINICOURSE #4: who register for the Peter Winkler, AT&T Bell Laboratories The Global Classroom: Using the Web as an Collision and percolation interactive learning environment. Joint Meetings and Saturday, 9:00 AM Part A: Thursday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM pay the Joint Meetings Part B: Saturday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM registration fee in MAA Minicourses organized by Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville Univer• addition to the appro• sity and Douglas A Quinney, Keele University, UK MINICOURSE #1: priate minicourse fee. The Global Classroom is a seamless learning environ• Creating materials using 'real-world' data ment that supports live audio-visual interaction and If the only reason Part A: Wednesday, 8:00 AM-10:00 AM collaboration on commonly used mathematical or other for registering for the Part B: Friday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM software between students in a class in one location and organized by Janet L Andersen, Todd M. Swanson, visitor(s) and/or students at another. It is a medium for Joint Meetings is to and Elliot A Tanis, Hope College. distance learning, virtual office hours, participation in re• gain admission to a mote seminars and colloquia, and collaborative research. We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Minicourse participants will have the opportunity to ex• minicourse, please using materials based on 'real data', give examples, talk perience the Global Classroom as both visiting instructor make a notation on about the process of developing such materials, and and recipient student. Enrollment limit is 30; cost is $85. give participants an opportunity to create their own ma• your registration fonn. terials. Participants will be provided with resource mate• MINICOURSE #5: If the minicourse is rials, access to electronic databases, and samples of Creating and exporting computer materials we have created. The focus will be on creating animations to the Web fully subscribed or problem sets for lower-level courses (general education cancelled, a full refund courses, precalculus, calculus, multivariable calculus, Part A: Thursday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM and statistics). Enrollment limit is 30; cost is $85. Part B: Saturday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM will be made of the organized by William D. Emerson, Louis A Talman, and Joint Meetings MINICOURSE #2: Bradford Kline, Metropolitan State College of Denver. WeBWorK, an Internet-based system for advance registration Minicourse participants will use Mathematica to fee (otherwise subject generating and delivering homework develop animations that illustrate concepts from the problems to students undergraduate curriculum and will learn to export to the 50% rule). Part A: Wednesday, 2:15 PM-4:15 PM these animations to the Web via Quicklime. A modest Part B: Friday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM familiarity with Mathematica or other computer The MAA reserves the systems is assumed. We will conduct this organized by Arnold K. Pizer, Michael E. Gage and right to cancel any minicourse in a computer laboratory, but participants Vicki Roth, University of Rochester are welcome to supply their own laptops equipped with minicourse that is This minicourse introduces participants to WeBWorK, a Mathematica (;?:3.0). Enrollment limit is 30; cost is $85. o undersubscribed. IMINICOURSE #6: MINICOURSE #8: This course will address the question of what mathemat• Computation and Teaching graduate students how to teach ical skills are needed by beginning undergraduates in discovery in the number business and management programs, and show how using case studies those needs can be met through the case study method. theory classroom Part A: Wednesday, 2:15 PM-4:15 PM We will present four case studies, covering material from Part A: Part B: Friday 1:00 PM-3:00 PM probability and calculus through decisions on loan fore• Wednesday, 4:30 PM-6:30 PM organized by Solomon Friedberg, Boston College, and closure, pricing stock options, bidding on oil leases, and Part B: Deborah Hughes Hallett and William G. McCallum, pricing disk drives. Each presentation will include busi• Friday, 3:15 PM-5:15 PM University of Arizona. ness background, mathematical and computer tools organized by Clifford A. Reiter, needed, and pedagogical issues. Enrollment limit is 50: Many graduate programs are considering the problem of cost is $55. Lafayette College how to best prepare their graduate students for the work While proofs remain central to force, not solely in research or applications of mathe• MINICOURSE #12 number theory, technology offers matics but also in teaching mathematics. The case study Contemporary college algebra: opportunities for discovering method gets teaching assistants to think about their theorems and investigating con• teaching by presenting realistic scenarios that engender A reform program jectures in the number theory lively discussion of important classroom issues. The case Part A: Wednesday, 8:00 AM-10:00 AM classroom. The instructor has de• studies used in this minicourse were developed by the Part B: Friday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM veloped several J-based computer Boston College Mathematics Case Studies Project. organized by Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy; classroom laboratories which will Enrollment is limit 50: cost is $55. and Dorothy Hunter, Huston-Tillotson College. be shared with participants. No experience with J is expected. MINICOURSE #9: This minicourse will take participants on a typical journey Sample lab topics include the sieve Making liberal arts mathematics the most through a college algebra refonn program. The trip will of Eratothenese and twin primes, important course students take to learn include small group project presentations, graphing cal• discovering quadratic reciprocity effective thinking culator required assignments, writing assignments and and public key codes. Participants assessment techniques. Participants will receive a collec• Part A: Thursday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM are expected to share their ideas, tion of existing small group projects and will create at Part B: Saturday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM reactions and experiences. least one new small group project during the minicourse. Enrollment limit is 30; cost is $85. organized by Edward B. Burger, Williams College, and Some familiarity with a graphing calculator will be helpful Michael Starbird, University of Texas at Austin but not a prerequisite. Enrollment limit is 50: cost is $55. MINICOURSE #7: Mathematics contains great ideas and employs powerful MINICOURSE #13 Cwatsets: methods of analysis that transcend mathematics. Topics A research experience such as infinity, the fourth dimension, probability, and Getting students involved in for undergraduates chaos spark everyone's imagination. These ideas are undergraduate research comparable to masterpieces of art, literature, or philoso• Part A: Wednesday, 2:15 PM-4:15 PM Part A: phy. Our challenge is to convey the genuine ideas of Part B: Friday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM Wednesday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM classical and new mathematics and the important organized by Aparna W. Higgins, University of Dayton; Part B: strategies of analYSis. This minicourse allows participants Thursday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota, Duluth; and to discover and experience hands-on methods for bring• Stephen G. Hartke, organized by Gary J. Shennan, ing deep mathematical results and techniques to life. Rose-Hulman Institute Enrollment limit is 60; cost is $55. This course will cover many aspects of facilitating of Technology research by undergraduates, such as finding MINICOURSE #10 appropriate problems, deciding how much help to Cwatsets are group-like subsets provide, and presenting and publishing the results. of binary n-space with surprising Developing your department's Examples will be presented of research in summer algebraic and combinatorial assessment plan programs and research that can be conducted during properties whose applications Part A: Friday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM the academic year. Although the examples used will range from statistics to graph Part B: Saturday, 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM be primarily in the area of discrete mathematics, the theory. We will survey the organized by William G. Marion, Valparaiso University, strategies discussed can be applied to any area of undergraduate-driven theory and Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University mathematics. Enrollment limit is 40: cost is $55. of cwatsets, discuss cwatsets Most universities, and thus individual departments, are as a capstone topic for a MINICOURSE #ll. discrete mathematics or under pressure from accrediting agencies to develop abstract algebra course, and and implement assessment plans to assess student Discrete dynamical systems, mathematics, present an extensive inventory learning. During this minicourse, pairs (or larger groups) methods, and models of research questions suitable of members of a mathematical sciences department will Part A: Thursday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM for undergraduates and their develop, in workshop format, a proposed departmental Part B: Saturday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM teachers. Participants will receive mission statement and the skeleton of its individualized organized by Frank R Giordano CO MAP; a packet of technical reports, assessment plan. Sample assessment programs will be David C. Arney, U.S. Military Academy; papers, examples, and questions. discussed and participants will share ideas with groups John S. Robertson, Georgia College & State University; See http://www.cwatsets.org for from similar departments to develop their own program. and Maurice D. Weir, Naval Postgraduate School more details. Enrollment limit is 50: Enrollment limit is 45: cost is $55. cost is $55. The workshop treats linear and nonlinear difference MINICOURSE #11: equations, matrix algebra, and systems of difference The mathematics of decision making equations and their mathematical models at the intro• ductory freshman level. Ideas for organizing courses at Part A: Thursday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM the freshman and scholastic levels will be discussed, as Part B: Saturday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM well as a transition to a calculus course. Ideas for incor• organized by Deborah Hughes Hallett, porating projects and technology will be presented. William G. McCallum, and Richard B. Thompson, Modeling applications include a wide range of disci• University of Arizona. plines. Handouts of transparencies and projects will be provided. Enrollment limit is 50: cost is $55. o Computer Algebra Systems in MAA MAA Contributed Paper Upper-Division Mathematics Courses Sessions Kent M. Neuerburg, Southeastern Louisiana University, CONTRIBUTED and Andrew Stuart Lang, Oral Roberts University PAPER Great Theorems of Mathematics Friday morning Cheryl L Olsen and Douglas E. Ensley, SESSIONS Shippensburg University Implementation of National Projects Wednesday and Thursday mornings. on Local Campuses Stuart Boersma, Alfred University, and Chaotic Dynamics and Fractal Geometry Constant J. Goutziers, SUNY at Oneonta Denny Gulick. University of Maryland, College Park. and Saturday morning. Jon W. Scott, Montgomery College Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Classroom Demonstrations and Course Projects that Make a Difference Innovative Uses of the World Wide Web David R. Hili, Temple University; Samh L Mabrouk, in Teaching Mathematics Boston University; and Lila F. Roberts, Georgia Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville University, and Southern University Brian E. Smith, McGill University Friday morning. Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Putting the "Service" Back Redefining What a Modern "College into Service Courses Algebra" Experience Means Thomas L Moore, Grinnell College, and Sheldon P. Gordon, SUNY at Farmingdale; Ahmed I. Zayed, University of Central Florida Florence S. Gordon, New York Institute of Technology; Saturday morning Arlene H. Kleinstein, SUNY at Farmingdale; Mary Robinson, University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus; Unda H. Boyd, Georgia Perimeter College; and College Mathematics in Depth with Barbam A. Jur, Macomb Community College Dynamic Mathematics Software Wednesday and Thursday mornings. E. Paul Goldenberg, Education Development Center, Newton, MA; Jean-Marie Laborde, Laboratoire Innovative Practices in Statistics Education Leibnitz, Grenoble, France; and Barbam Pence, San Jose State University Mary M. Sullivan, Rhode Island College; Carolyn K. Cuff, Westminster College; and Saturday morning Mary T. Parker, Austin Community College Friday and Saturday mornings. Topics in Teaching, Learning, and Exploring Proof Courses and Programs that Illustrate Connie M. Campbell, Millsaps College; Recommendations of the Mathematical Dmga D. Vidakovic, Georgia State College; and Education of Teachers Document G. Joseph Wimbish, Huntingdon College Judith L Covington, Louisiana Southern University• Wednesday afternoon. Shreveport Wednesday and Thursday mornings Mathematics in the Age of Euler V. Frederick Rickey, United'States Military Academy, Integrating Mathematics and William W. Dunham, Muhlenberg College and Other Disciplines Thursday afternoon William G. McCallum, University of Arizona; Debomh Hughes Hallett, University of Arizona; and Outreach Programs for Women and Girls Yajung Yang, SUNY, Farmingdale Kathleen A. Sullivan, Seattle University, and Friday and Saturday mornings Elizabeth G. Yanik, Emporia State University Friday morning Serving the Needs of Developmental See the complete Students: Who Are They, Where Do They ARUME Session descriptions and Come From, Where Do They Go? Julie M. Clark. Emory & Henry College instructions on how to Suzanne Doree, Augsburg College, and Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University participate in these Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. General Contributed Paper Session sessions beginning Howard L Penn, United States Naval Academy on page 16 in the The Undergraduate Seminar in Mathematics Wednesday and Thursday afternoons May/June issue of Barry J. Amow and George A. Avimppattu, FOCUS or at http:// Kean University of New Jersey www.sms.orgIamsmtgsl Wednesday afternoon. •202S-,naacaILhtml. school mathematics. Panelists will discuss the recom• OTHER Other MAA Sessions mendations of the report and possible next steps. MAA Panelists include W. James Lewis, University of The Muse of History: Nebraska; Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stony Brook; SESSIONS Writing Biographies of Mathematicians Roger E. Howe, Yale University; and Carole B. Wednesday, 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM Lacampagne, U.S. Department of Education. organized by Ronald Calinger, the Catholic University of America Redefining "College Algebra" Courses Can we get at history as it actually happened, and how Wednesday, 2:15 PM-3:45 PM closely can a biographer hope to capture the essence of organized by Sheldon P. Gordon, SUNY at Farmingdale a mathematical scientist? Is there objective biography, The MAA recently launched a major initiative to redefine and can historians be independent of preconceptions? what is meant by courses in college algebra. In this What is the character of mathematics that sets it apart session, the panelists will discuss various aspects of this from other kinds of historical and biographical writing? initiative, including the background and reasons for the Is there an optimal way to avoid confusing past and pre• initiative, the status of those courses that are identified sent categories? In examining the richness and limita• as college algebra, the different populations of students tions of primary sources and secondary works, what are who take these courses and for what reasons, some the most fruitful analytical techniques? How much tech• new visions for college algebra courses, and some of the nical detail and information about personal life should problems as well as their solutions when a department appear in a clear, successful biography? Through refer• moves to implement alternatives to traditional college ring to studies of Euler, de Morgan, Cantor, Robinson, algebra courses. and others, this session will explore the rapid changes occurring in preparing biographies of mathematicians. Panelists include Thomas A Berger, Colby College; Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy; Arlene The panel will include Joseph Dauben, City University Kleinstein, Farmingdale; Alexander H. Fluellen, Clark of New York; Joan Richards, Brown University; and Atlanta University; and Bruce C. Crauder, Oklahoma Ronald Calinger, Manfred Kronfellner, Technical State University. The session is jointly sponsored by the University, Vienna will be a commentator. MAA Task Force on College Algebra (Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics), CRAFTY On Line Assessment (Calculus Reform At the First Two Years), Committee on Wednesday, 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM Two Year Colleges, Committee on Service Courses, and organized by Earl D. Fife, Calvin College, and the Committee on Quantitative Literacy. Lawrence S. Husch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Many mathematics courses at colleges and universities Increasing Minority Representation in have a World Wide Web component. In addition, Mathematics Through GAANN many faculty are encouraged and enticed to develop Wednesday, 2:15 PM-3:45 PM completely on line courses. The problems with assess• organized by Lawrence S. Husch, University of Ten• ment in web-based mathematics courses involve those nessee; Robert Rogers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute encountered in all disciplines as well as difficulties and State University, and Krishan M. Agrawal, Virginia unique to mathematics. These include the rendering of State University mathematical notation, how students enter mathemati• cal notation, the determination of whether an answer is Various departments in the country are receiving correct, etc. The panelists invited for this session will financial support to increase under-represented groups discuss some of these problems, their solutions and in mathematics through the Graduate Assistance in the results. There will be ample time for questions and Areas of National Need (GAANN) Program funded by interchange with the panelists. the USDOE. The panel members will describe their programs and will also discuss ways they are trying The panelists include John Orr, University of Oklahoma; to increase minority representation in the field of Gerardo A Mendoza, Temple University; and mathematiCS. Audience participation will be solicited. Robby Robson, Oregon State University. The session is sponsored by the MAA Committee on Computers Panelists include Robert F. Olin, University of Alabama; in Mathematics Education (CCIME). Robert C. Rogers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University; Timothy L Lance, SUNY at Albany; CBMS Report on the Mathematics Krishan M. Agrawal, Virginia State University; Alan C. Education of Teachers Tucker, SUNY at Stony Brook; Alexandra Kurepa, Wednesday, 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM North Carolina A&T State University; and David C. organized by Ronald C. Rosier, Conference Board of Manderscheid, University of Iowa, Iowa City. The panel 2001 the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) is sponsored jointly by the Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics. There will be a poster JOINT CBMS recently published a report on the Mathematical presentation by various students exhibiting work in their Education of Teachers which encourages mathematical MATHEMATICS respective programs, Wednesday, 5:15 PM-7:15 PM. sciences departments in U.S. colleges and universities to MEETINGS make teacher education a more central part of their mis• NEW ORLEANS sion. The report calls for a rethinking of the mathemati• MARRIOTT AND cal education of teachers and offers principles to assist SHERATON HOTELS departments in this process, along with specific sugges• tions about teaching courses in the foundations of NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA JANUARY 10-13, 2001 o YMN Project Panel on from the US Department of Education to increase Doctoral Programs in minority representation in the area. This poster session Mathematics Education Keeping Active in Research will share the results of some of the participants in Wednesday, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM these programs. Thursday, 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM organized by J. Lyn Miller, Western Kentucky University, organized by Robert E. Reys, and Sharon M. Frechette, . Eine Kleine (Mathematische) Nachtmusik University of Missouri, Columbia Many young mathematicians, both in academia and Wednesday, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM This session reports results from industry, struggle to make a place for continued organized by Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna a recent national conference on research activity in their lives during the first few years doctoral programs in mathematics out of graduate school. Those lucky enough to have a The mathematical principles of musical tuning systems education and builds on that dis• position at a large, heavily research-oriented university will be demonstrated, beginning with simple frequency cussion. The nature and evolution or company have a lot of support in this endeavor from ratios for musical interval known to the Greeks. of doctoral programs in mathemat• their immediate colleagues. However, if their career path Pythagorean, Mean Tone, and Well Tempered scales will ics education will be highlighted. leads to a school or company with different priorities, be constructed with accompanying melodies and chords Results from a survey of doctoral it can be much harder to stay active and interested in on the piano. A few different pieces will be performed by programs and information from research and scholarly activity. well known composers to show the connection between recent graduates with doctorates the mathematical and physical aspects of the problem. in mathematics education will be Panelists will share their advice and experiences in This will also demonstrate how much the musical reported. Discussion of core areas, balancing research requirements and desires with expression of a piece of music changes when played such as mathematics content, and the professional (and personal) issues that confront in different tunings. the role mathematics departments us at the beginning of our careers. They will represent assume in the preparation of doc• a broad cross section of the profession, including Faculty Isolated by Discipline torates in mathematics education young faculty at private and public institutions (of Thursday, 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM will be discussed. various sizes), and mathematicians in geographically organized by John D. Fulton, Virginia Polytechnic isolated locations, and those in companies with greater Institute and State University Panelists include Joan Ferrini• emphasis on involvement in management and other Mundy, Michigan State University; nonresearch-oriented activities. A faculty member is isolated by discipline if s/he is the James T. Fey, University of only faculty member with expertise in that discipline Maryland, College Park; The British Open University: 30 Years On within a department More than one faculty member Bob Glasgow, Southwest Baptist Wednesday, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM could be isolated by discipline if they are nontenured University; and Jeremy Kilpatrick, organized by Robin J. Wilson and John Fauvel, and are the only faculty members with expertise in that University of Georgia. British Open University discipline within a department The panelists will focus on differences in what faculty members do when they College and University The Open University presented its first distance-learning have expertise in different mathematical sciences disci• Quantitative Literacy courses in 1971, with a student population of 16,000 and plines, on the special issues and experiences of faculty a single mathematics course. It now has a student popu• isolated by discipline, and on what they have done and Programs Across the lation of 160,000 (25,000 outside the UK) and a wide what should be done to improve the working conditions Nation Poster Session range of mathematics and computing courses from pre• of such faculty. Thursday, 9:00 AM- 11 :00 AM calculus up to MSc courses. In this talk we summarize organized by John G. Harvey, the expansion of mathematics at the Open University The panelists include Donald L Bentley, Pomona University of Wisconsin over the past 30 years, illustrate some of the multi-media College; John B. Fink, Kalamazoo College; teaching methods (BBC television programs, audiovision, Annie Selden, Tennessee Technological University; Participants in this poster session software, etc.) that we use in our mathematics courses, Henry M. Walker, Grinnell College; and will be faculty whose institutions and describe future plans in the Internet Bemard L Madison, University of Arkansas, who have or are establishing quantita• will act as moderator. The panel is sponsored by the tive literacy (QL) programs. The MAA Committee on the Profession, the Association for participants will share with the The Job Market Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education audience at this poster sessions Wednesday, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM SIGMAA, and the ASA-MAA Committee on Statistics. the ways in which they have organized by Thomas W. Rishel, MAA developed or are developing their We will discuss all aspects of the job market, including How To Attract More Students Into programs including the courses how to write resumes and cover letters, what goes on at Advanced Mathematics Classes that have been developed, the students who are required or the employment center, and how it feels to actually have Thursday, 9:00 AM-10:30 AM expected to participate in them, an academic position. We will also consider jobs outside organized by T. Christine Stevens, St Louis University; the texts and locally developed academia, and we will finish with a chair's view of the Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota, Duluth; and materials that are used, and the hiring process. Apama W. Higgins, University of Dayton pitfalls encountered in developing Panelists include Debm L Boutin, Hamilton College; Despite extraordinary job opportunities and starting the program. This session will give Richard J. Cleary, Cornell University; salaries for college graduates with advanced mathemati• those attending an opportunity Dennis M. Luciano, Western New England College; cal training, the number of students taking advanced to (a) discuss programs and Carla Martin, Cornell University; and mathematics courses has dramatically declined over the (b) exchange ideas and ways of Thomas W. Rishel. The panel is sponsored by past ten years. The members of this panel are from instituting and maintaining the Joint Committee on Employment Opportunities. departments that have been able to sustain large these programs. Send proposals enrollments in advanced mathematics courses as well by December 10, 2000 to GAANN Poster Session on Sharing of as a flourishing major in mathematics. They will describe John G. Harvey, Department of Results by Future Mathematicians from what their faculty and their departments do to achieve Mathematics, University of Under-represented Areas th is success. Wisconsin, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-1388, Wednesday, 5:15 PM-7:15 PM Panelists include Mary D. Shepherd, SUNY-College [email protected]. organized by Robert F. Olin, Virginia Polytechnic at Potsdam; Paul Zom, St Olaf College; and The session is sponsored by Institute and State University Kirby A. Baker, University of California at Los Angeles. the Subcommittee on Several mathematics departments are receiving GAANN The session is sponsored by MAA's Project NExT. Quantitative Literacy. (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) funds o Growing an Oak Tree Funding Opportunities in the NSF Division How to Facilitate Change? from an Acorn: Extending of Undergraduate Education Thursday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM a New Program from a Thursday, 10:45 AM-12:15 PM organized by Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy Few Innovators to the organized by NSF. James H. Lightbourne, Our society is changing at an increasing rate. Globaliza• Whole Department Harriet G. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Teles, and Lee L Zia, tion and the information age, developments in learning Thursday, 10:45 AM-12:15 PM NSF Division of Undergraduate Education, will describe theory, and changing needs of partner disciplines are organized by Bonnie Gold, the various programs and funding opportunities for un• challenging mathematics departments to reform curricu• Monmouth University, dergraduate education projects. A question and answer lums. Although there are many faculty involved in devel• and Richard Jardin, period will follow. oping innovative curriculums, moving these beyond a Keene State College few experimental sections is a major hurdle for imple• Curriculum Foundations Project I: Reports menting change. This panel will discuss the need for Many teaching innovations are creating an environment conducive to change and offer tried, and quite a few appear to from the Client Discipline Workshops suggestions for encouraging and implementing change. be successes at first; however, Thursday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM unless others in the department organized by William H. Barker, Bowdoin College; Panelists include David C. Arney, U.S. Military are persuaded of the value of the Jack Bookman, Duke University; and Susanna S. Epp, Academy; Jim Lewis, University of Nebraska; innovation, the effect is generally DePaul University Scott Hunt, Champion Paper Company; and temporary. This panel will give Scott Snook, Harvard Business School and CRAFTY organized a series of workshops, each focused examples of places where more U.S. Military Academy. The panel will be moderated on a particular client discipline, where mathematicians systematic change occurred, and by Kathleen Snook, U.S. Military Academy. met with representatives from the discipline to discuss what was involved in causing this what mathematical experiences they wanted their stu• wider change. Project NExT and Young 's dents to have during the first two years of college. In this Panelists include , panel a participant from each of the workshops will Network Poster Session , Ann Arbor; summarize the discussions by addressing three ques• Thursday, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM Jim Lewis, University of Nebraska; tions: (1) What underlying philosophical concerns of the organized by Kenneth A Ross, University of Oregon, Bernard L Madison, University of client discipline were expressed that would affect the and Kevin E. Chartwood, Washburn University Arkansas; and David C. Arney, nature of students' mathematical preparation? For ex• The session will include exhibits from 30 or so new or U.S. Military Academy. The panel is ample, what role should technology play in their mathe• recent Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences, or from sponsored by the MAA Committee matical education, and what are the relative emphases those still pursuing graduate study. Applications should on the Teaching of Undergraduate that should be placed on developing computational skill, be submitted to Ken Ross, [email protected], Mathematics. problem solving ability, and deductive reasoning? and Kevin Charlwood, [email protected] by (2) What are the critical mathematical ideas students December 10, 2000. Beyond the Writing of in the discipline need to learn? (3) Were there issues Principles and Standards about which the participants in the workshop were not able to reach consensus, and, if so, what were they? A Statistics and Mathematical Modeling: for School Mathematics representative (either a mathematician or a member of Lively Applications for the Classroom Thursday, 10:45 AM-12:15 PM the client discipline) will report on each of the following Thursday, 2:45 PM-4:15 PM, organized by Gary Martin, curriculum foundation workshops: Physics, Computer organized by G. Elton Graves, Rose-Hulman Institute of National Council of Teachers Sciences, Biological Sciences, Quantitative Social Technology; Francis E. Su, Harvey Mudd College; and of Mathematics Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics Education. Catherine M. Murphy, Purdue University-Calumet The release of the Principles and There will be two panelists: one to address statistics, the Standards for School Mathematics Mathematics in Industry other mathematical modeling. Each will present recom• marked only a milestone in the Thursday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM mendations for content and pedagogical strategies, continuing work to improve organized by Philip E. Gustafson, Mesa State College lessons learned from their own teaching, and resources mathematics education for all This panel will provide a forum for the mathematics for faculty designing/teaching such courses. Organizers students. NCTM's efforts of dis• community to better understand how mathematics is will follow-up with prepared questions. A question-and• semination, implementation, and conducted outside academia. Panelists will share typical answer session will complete the panel. research should involve continued workday experiences in industry and how they use discussion with the broader math• Panelists include , Pomona College, ematical community. The Associa• mathematics on the job. This will be especially informa• and Allan J. Rossman, Dickinson College. tive for mathematicians interested in learning more tion Review Groups (ARGs) played about industry, how to better understand and interact a vital role in helping the writers New Directions in with mathematicians in industry, and how to provide conceptualize the document training for students interested in working in industry. Moore Method Teaching Should the ARGs be continued Thursday, 2:45 PM-4:15 PM or reconstituted? Are there other, Panelists include Michael G. Monticino (moderator), organized by James P. Ochoa, Hardin-Simmons Uni• more effective ways to work University of North Texas; Tony Cabal, Eastman Kodak versity, and W. Ted Mahavier, Nicholls State University together? What would be the Company; Tami Carpenter, Telcordia Technologies; purpose of the continued collabo• James C. Cavendish, General Motors Corporation; This will be a panel session about new directions in the ration? The session will provide Alan Lewis, Envision Financial Systems; Laura Mather, use of the Moore method. Panelists will address ways an update of NCTM's plans and La Jolla Research Laboratories; and Michael E. Moody, they have adapted the Moore method in undergraduate an open discussion of the role Harvey Mudd College. The session is sponsored by the mathematics education. Innovations such as textbooks of ARGs. MAA Committee on Industrial and Government inspired by the Moore method, cooperative learning in Mathematicians. calculus courses, web based courses, and distance Panelists include Lee V. Stiff, learning will be discussed. This session will be a sequel North Carolina State University; to the MAA panel session "Discovery based teaching of Glenda Lappan, Michigan State undergraduate mathematics courses" at the 1999 Joint University; Mary Lindquist, Mathematics Meeting, which featured panelists who are Columbus State University; familiar with the traditional Moore method. Gary Martin; and John A Thorpe, NCTM. o Panelists include Carol Jean Browning, Drury projects. Materials from these courses, from quantitative A Report on the ASA University; Chartes A Coppin, University of Dallas; literacy courses, and from other related courses will be Dale Daniel, lamar University; Joseph W. Eyles, displayed. Submit proposals to Don Small, Department Undergraduate Statistics University of the Inca mate Word; and of Mathematical Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, West Education Initiative (USEI) Carol S. Schumacher, Kenyon College. Point NY 10996, don-smal/@usma.edu.Submission and Curriculum Guidelines deadline is December 10, 2000. Friday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM The Mathematics of Lewis Carroll organized by Thursday, 7:00 PM-8:15 PM LiveMath Maker-The Future of Dexter C. Whittinghill, Rowan organized by Robin J. Wilson, Mathematics on the Internet University, and John P. Holcomb, Youngstown State University The British Open University Friday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM The mission of the workshop This dramatic presentation by Robin Wilson and friends organized by Joan Bookbinder, Theorist Interactive held in April 2000 was to develop will contain episodes from the life of Lewis Carroll, with Come learn to create with LiveMath Maker. LiveMath curriculum guidelines for formal particular reference to his mathematics (both serious Maker is a revolutionary new computer algebra system study of statistics by undergradu• and otherwise) gleaned from his texts, mathematical (CAS) used to produce LiveMath "notebooks". These ates. This consisted of program puzzles, the 'Alice' books, and University pamphlets. symbolically correct notebooks may be shared with the requirements for both formal In particular, material relating to his views on algebra, world via the World-Wide-Web using the free LiveMath degrees in statistics and recom• logic, geometry, and his attitudes to teaching will Plug-In. The math you create is LIVE, not static. Similar mendations for courses or tracks be presented. to a spreadsheet in the way a change in one value will in statistical science in conjunction ripple throughout the calculations, LiveMath allows you with a degree in another discipline. Curriculum Foundations Project II: to perform algebraic, numerical, and graphical experi• Toward these goals, the workshop Implications for the Mathematics mentation with its dynamic recalculation feature. The participants discussed issues such CommUllity notebooks do not just "do the math" but can be set up as prioritizing topics, requiring non• to show the steps and procedures of mathematics. statistics courses, and determining Friday, 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM Change one value and the notebook updates to reflect the number of theory and applica• organized by William H. Barker, Bowdoin College, the change. Post it to the web and anyone with the tion courses, to name a few. The Jack Bookman, Duke University, Susanna S. Epp, free plug-in can interact with the notebook through a panel discussants will present the DePaul University browser allowing exploration of key mathematical topics. consensuses that emerged from In the panel Curriculum Foundations Project I, reports this workshop. were made by attendees of the Curriculum Foundations Evolving Interdisciplinary Panelists include G. Rex Bryce, Project client discipline workshops. In this panel, each Core Curriculum Brigham Young University; panelist will analyze and synthesize the various views Friday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, Robert V. Hogg, University of Iowa, expressed by the representatives of the client disciplines organized by Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy Iowa City; and Dick Scheaffer, and propose a curricular outline for the first two years of University of Florida. college mathematics. Panelists will address such issues Core programs (2-4 semesters) are challenged to as (1) When is it appropriate to offer multiple tracks for address: (1) content preparation for downstream Assimilation of the same mathematical subject (e.g. business calculus)? courses; (2) student growth needs; and (3) societal (2) Should students in all client disciplines be exposed needs. Major changes occurred in core programs Adjunct Faculty to some common core content and, if so, what should during the early 1990s. Other major changes are Friday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM it be? (3) Were any common philosophical concerns underway. The panelists will address the role of a organized by Bettye Anne Case, expressed by all the client disciplines, and, if so, what core program and how it is evolving. Florida State University; Kevin Chartwood, Washburn are the implications of these concerns for the mathe• E. University; and Stephen B. Radi, matics curriculum? (4) Is there any content that should Panelists include Michael E. Moody, Harvey Mudd Austin Community College be de emphasized, and, if so, what is it? College; Joseph D. Myers, U.S. Military Academy; Richard Plumb, SUNY at Binghamton; and This panel will discuss issues rele• Proposal Writing Workshops for John L Scharf, Carroll College. The panel will be vant to the departmental life and NSF Projects in the Division of moderated by Gary W. Krahn, U.S. Military Academy. status of nontenure-accruing faculty (adjunct part-time or temporary) Undergraduate Education Research in Undergraduate Mathematics who today handle an increasingly Friday, 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM Education (RUME): Field of Study, or a large share of mathematics depart• organized by James H. Ughtboume, NSF Figment of Our Imagination? ment teaching. Successful orienta• Staff from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Friday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM tion, supervision, and assimilation of these faculty often determine the Education (DUE), including James H. Ughtboume, organized by Joan Ferrini-Mundy, effectiveness of a lower division Harriet G. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Teles, and Lee L lia, Michigan State University mathematics program. The panel will lead a workshop on preparing proposals for For the past several years the community of individuals will be both pragmatic and reflective, DUE projects. Features of successful projects will be dealing with nitty-gritty details of discussed and pending attendance a mock review of a in the mathematical professional societies with profes• sional interest in questions of the teaching and learning the routine daily functioning of such proposal will be conducted. The session will conclude faculty as well as with their broader with a general question and answer period. of undergraduate mathematics education has grown and become more visible. Yet many mathematicians role in student advising, curriculum contend that there is no "field" of RUME. Panelists will development and departmental de• College Algebra Reform Poster Session present arguments about what constitutes an academic cisions and philosophy. Friday, 9:00 AM-11 :00 AM field of study; what are qualities of research and re• The panel will be moderated by organized by Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy, search communities generally, and in mathematics Bettye Anne Case, and includes and Dorothy Hunter Huston and Kamalvand Huston, education; what standards of evidence and reporting Kevin E. Chartwood, Tillotson College are typical in educational research; what challenges do Stephen B. Radi, and Scott Interest in reforming college algebra has grown rapidly "RUMErs" face within the mathematical community. Herriott, Maharishi University over the past three years. Several new courses have Panelists will each use one or two research papers as of Management The panel is been developed based on data analysis, functions, and central examples in framing their remarks. A list of sponsored by the Joint MM-AMS modeling with strong emphasis on use of technology, the papers will be available from the organizer prior Committee on Teaching Assistants developing communication skills, and small group to the meeting. o and Part-Time Instructors. SUMMA Panel Discussion NSF Division of Undergraduate Education SIGMAA on Statistics Education Reception Friday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM Projects in the Course Poster Session and Business Meeting organized by William A. Hawkins (Curriculum and Laboratory Friday, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM Jr., director of the SUMMA Improvement Program) organized by Dexter C. Whittinghill, Rowan University (Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Friday, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM This group will meet in order to discuss an agenda of Achievement) program organized by Jon W. Scott, Montgomery College topics related to the teaching of undergraduate statis• NSF Principal Investigators (PIs) of NSF Division of tics. There will be a welcoming address, business meet• Presentations will be given on ing, and election of officers, followed by a reception. intervention programs for minority Undergraduate Education (DUE) projects will present precollege students and faculty. poster displays describing their projects and current progress and outcomes. Pis will be available to talk with Writing and the Mathematics Classroom Panelists will be John H. Harris, interested parties about adapting and/or implementing Saturday, 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM Lemoyne-Owen College; project materials and approaches. organized by John E. Meier, Lafayette College, and Cartos G. Spaht, Louisiana State Thomas W. Rishel, MM University, Shreveport; and Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients Writing has emerged as a useful tool for teaching and Viji K. Sundar, California State Friday, 3:30 PM-5:00 PM learning mathematics. In this session, the panelists will University Stanislaus. Ample time add to the growing list of writing projects that have will be available for questions. Winners of the Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics will give presenta• proven to be effective in the teaching of mathematics. tions on the secrets of their success. They will also address practical and theoretical concerns Mathematical Experiences such as assignment design; evaluation of student re• for Students Outside MAA-YMN Panel on sponses; the effect of writing in the classroom; and how the Classroom Balancing Career and Family writing assignments impact student performance on tra• ditional graded events, such as homework and exams. Friday, 1:00 PM-3:20 PM Friday, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM organized by Richard L Poss, organized by Heather Ames Lewis, Nazareth College, Panelists include Annalisa Crannell, Franklin and St Norbert College, and and John A. Kuchenbrod, Emory and Henry College Marshall College; Julian F. Fleron, Westfield State Thomas E. Kelley, Metropolitan College; Philip R. Hotchkiss; Westfield State College; State College of Denver The challenge that mathematicians face in maintaining John E. Meier; Morris Orzech, Queen's University; both their academic and nonacademic lives will be and Thomas W. Rishel, MM Mathematics "happens" outside addressed. Panelists will represent a wide variety of the classroom and, in fact many "families," from significant others and families of two math majors are drawn to the sub• to those including older children. The Pedagogical Potential of Computer ject through an event sponsored Symbolic Algebra in the Teaching of by a Student Chapter or Math Precalculus and Calculus Club. This session seeks presenta• Informal Session on Actuarial Education Saturday, 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM tions by academic, industrial, busi• Friday, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM organized by Bernhard Kutzler, University of Linz, and ness, or student mathematicians. organized by James W. Daniel, University of Texas Helmut Heugl, Technical University of Vienna Descriptions of non classroom ac• This informal session sponsored by the Actuarial Faculty tivities could include, but are not Forum provides an opportunity for those involved in A two-level framework for understanding, categorizing, limited to, special lectures, work• actuarial education, interested in it or curious about it and planning the use of technology in teaching and shops for students, Math Days, to get together to discuss common concerns such as learning mathematics is presented. At the first level we Math Fair, research projects for the major changes in the actuarial exam systems that distinguish between the two basic uses of "automation" students, Career Days, recreational will have just taken place. and "compensation". At the second level we discuss the mathematics, problem solving ac• four applications as pedagogical tools for "trivialization", tivities, and student consultants. Association for Research on Undergraduate "experimentation", "visualization", and "concentration". Applications should be submitted Based on this framework we develop the "scaffolding to Rick Poss at possr/@mail.snc.edu Mathematics Education SIGMAA Reception method" as a pedagogically justified sequence of using by December 1, 2000. The applica• and Business Meeting and not using technology to achieve a given teaching tion should include name, address, Friday, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM goal. The method is demonstrated with examples. The phone number, email address, title organized by Julie M. Clark, Emory and Henry College implication of technology to assessment is discussed. of presentation, and a one page description of the activity. ARUME is a group formed for mathematics educators Restructuring the Mathematics Presentation time is limited and and professional mathematicians interested in research there is no guarantee that all sub• on undergraduate mathematics education. There will Bachelor Degree missions can be accepted. be a welcoming address, business meeting, election of Saturday, 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM Applicants will be notified by officers, an invited address exemplifying research on organized by Usa Townsley Kulich, December 15, whether or not their undergraduate mathematics, followed by a reception. Benedictine University proposal has been accepted. This Environmental Mathematics The onset of the 21 st century is an appropriate time for session is sponsored by the MM mathematics departments to evaluate and renew their Committee on Student Chapters. Friday, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM undergraduate major. Adjustments in the mathematics organized by Ben A. Fusaro, Florida State University, major program may arise from external demands for and directed by Lothar A. Dohse, University of North mathematicians with industrial training, internal develop• Carolina at Asheville ment of interdisciplinary studies, education or research emphases, or technological innovations. Panelists at This dramatic presentation will consist of three skits, this discussion, sponsored by CUPM, will expound on acted by your colleagues. Humor will be used to carry revisions of the mathematics major at their particular the message that unlike oversize lawns, gas guzzlers institution. The revisions are at various stages of and developers, mathematics can be helpful in solving completion, from initial grass-roots agents of change environmental problems. The session is sponsored by to implementation to long-term evaluation of the the Committee for Mathematics in the Environment. changes. The progress of the CU PM study of the major will also be presented. Panelists include Patricia Rogers, York University; Panelists include Della D. Bell, Texas Southern Richard A. Gillman, Valparaiso University; University, and Sarah Bush, Wiley College. MAASTUDENT David C. Arney, U.S. Military Academy; ACTIVITIES Donald W. Vander Jagt. Grand Valley State University; Mathematics and the and Thomas R. Berger, Colby College and CUPM. Mathematical Sciences in 2010: Professors for the Future What Should Graduates Know? Saturday, 2:45 PM-4:15 PM Programs in Mathematics organized by Thomas R. Berger, Colby College Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM organized by Thomas W. Rishel, MAA The third millennium confronts us with the need to pre• pare our students for new challenges. Identifying these Professors for the Future Programs have proven to be challenges will guide mathematics departments in set• highly successful in preparing graduate students for life ting, addressing, and meeting goals. A broad look at the in academe. In this panel, faculty and graduate students undergraduate curriculum is particularly timely after over will describe the impact their programs have had on a decade of innovation and debate about content and themselves and their current and future employers. pedagogy in specific courses. The MAA Committee on Panelists include Amy Cohen-Corwin, Rutgers the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) just University; Luise Chartotte Kappe, Binghamton announced a series of papers about the undergraduate majors. Now the Committee is soliciting experiences and University; Matthias Kawski, Arizona State University; Kathryn L Nyman, Cornell University; ideas from the profession. We invite you to participate in Eileen T. Shugart, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and this discussion of the undergraduate majors. State University; and Virginia M. Warfield, University of Washington. The session is sponsored by the Joint Teaching to Attract Potential Teachers Committee on Professors for the Future. Saturday, 3:45 PM-5:15 PM organized by Mary Robinson, University of New Articulation: Is the Transition to College Mexico-Valencia Campus; Janet P. Ray, Seattle Central Mathematics As Smooth As We Think It Is? Community College; and Gary L Britton, University of Wisconsin Washington County Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM organized by Sheldon P. Gordon, SUNY at Farmingdale There is a growing national awareness of the need to and Bernard L Madison, University of Arkansas recruit and prepare mathematically capable students for the teaching profession at all levels. Faculty and The MAA has launched a major initiative on articulation institutions are considering a wide variety of strategies in response to a call from the Secretary of Education to to accomplish this goal, from developing new teacher ease the mathematical transitions between high school preparation initiatives, to exploring how existing general and college, between two-year institutions and four-year education and elective mathematics courses can stimu• colleges and universities, and between different col• late interest in mathematics teaching. Panelists will leges. The secondary curriculum has been changing discuss programs that have been successful and ideas dramatically in response to the NCTM Standards. for the future. College curricula have changed because of efforts to re• invigorate calculus and other courses. Placement tests The panel, moderated by Jay A. Malmstrom, Oklahoma are often still based on very traditional courses and City Community College, includes Joanne Peeples, EI learning experiences that growing numbers of students Paso Community College; Patricia Stone, Tomball have not been through. This panel session will address College; Susan D. Parsons, Cerritos College; and Infonnation on the all of these issues, including the role of the College Arnold M. Ostebee, St Olaf College. The session is special Student Lecture Board, and what may emerge as a result of the MAA ini• sponsored by the MAA Committee on Two Year Colleges. tiative and the efforts of the Task Force on Articulation. on Friday evening is included in the MAA The panels will be moderated by Unda Boyd, Georgia Perimeter College. Panelists include MAA Student Activities Invited Address section. Bernard L Madison, University of Arkansas; Lee Jones, Executive Director of AP program at the Undergraduate Student Poster Session College Board; Susan L Forman, Bronx Community Friday, 5:00 PM-7:30 PM College; and Daniel Kennedy, Baylor School. The panel organized by Mario U. Martelli, Please see the listing is sponsored by the MAA Task Force on Articulation. Claremont McKenna College under Mathematical Send title and one-page abstract including authors' ExperIences for Open Discussion on name, address, phone number, email and the Reforming College Algebra name of the faculty advisor to Mario Martelli at Students OutsIde the Saturday, 2:45 PM-4:15 PM [email protected], or Mathematics CIaaroom, on Friday, organized by Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy Department, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, 1:00 PM-3:20 PM, in the CA 91711 by December 10,2000. Notification of accep• Interest in reforming college algebra has grown rapidly tance will be emailed two weeks after the abstract has Other MAA Sessions over the past three years. Several new courses have been received. Apply early! Space is limited. The session section. been developed based on data analysis, functions, and is reserved to undergraduates. First-year graduate modeling with strong emphasis on use of technology, students may submit posters about work done while Student submissions developing communication skills, and small group pro• undergraduates. Posters' content cannot be purely jects. Comments on these courses, on state legislative expository. The best posters will be awarded a monetary are invited. programs related to college algebra, on college algebra prize with funds provided by the MM AMS, and CUR. as a "life skills" course, and on the need for algebraic Tri-fold self-standing 48" x 36" table-top posterboard Other student skills are among the topics that will be discussed. The will be provided. Additional material or equipment is the opportunities under the session is open to everyone. responsibility of each presenter. Social Events section. MAASHORT MAA Short Course COURSE Knots in Science Monday and Tuesday, January 8 and 9 organized by De Witt L Sumners, Florida OTHERMAA State University. EVENTS theory has recently evolved from an area in "pure" mathematics to include scientific applications in biology, chemistry, fluid mechanics and physics. This develop• ment is not surprising when one realizes that knots are Knot theory one-dimensional strings that explore the entanglement complexity possible in three-dimensional space. Many has recently evolved physical objects are string-like; macromolecules such as polyethylene and DNA exhibit knotting, and the from an area in DNA knots are diagnostic of cellular metabolic function. Vortices that form in fluid motion can be long string-like "pure" mathematics objects, and vortex entanglement has physical ramifica• tions. This short course will introduce knots, and present introductions to many fascinating scientific applications to include for knots. scientific applications in Speakers and their talks include Colin C. Adams, Williams College, Introduction to knots; biology, chemistry, Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, Knots in physics; Renzo L Ricca, University College, London, Vortex and magnetic knots in fluid systems; fluid mechanics Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Physical knots; Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne, and physics. Ideal knots; De Witt L Sumners, Knots in DNA; Stuart G. Whittington, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Knots in Polymers. Please note that there is a separate registration fee for this Short Course. To register in advance, please use the Advance Registration/Housing form found at the back of this issue or see http://www.ams.org!amsmtgs/2025..JntrohtmlAdvance registration fees are $125/member; $175/nonmember; and $50/student, unemployed, emeritus. On-site registration fees are $140/member; $190/nonmember; and $60/student, unemployed, emeritus.

Other MAA Events Board of Governors Tuesday, 8:30 AM-4:00 PM

Section Officers Wednesday, 4:30 PM-6:30 PM

Business Meeting Saturday, 11:10 AM-11 :40 AM 2001 See the listings for various receptions in the JOINT Social Events section MATHEMATICS MEETINGS NEW ORLEANS MARRIOTT AND SHERATON HOTELS NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA JAN UARY 10-13, 2001 107th Annual Braid Groups and Configuration Spaces AMS INVITED Daniel C. Cohen and Neal W. Stoltzfus, Meeting of the AMS Louisiana State University ADDRESSES Wednesday morning, and Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. AMS AMS Invited Addresses Commutative Rings and Monoids Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scott T. Chapman, Trinity University, and SPECIAL Evan G. , University of North Carolina Title to be announced at Charlotte SESSIONS Thursday, 2:15 PM Wednesday morning, and Ingrid Daubechies, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Analog-to-dig!tal conversion: A case study Computational for of interaction between mathematicians and Curves and Surfaces electrical engineers Mika K. Seppala, Florida State University, and Saturday, 2:15 PM Emil J. Volcheck, National Security Agency Igor B. Frenkel, Yale University Friday and Saturday mornings, and Friday afternoon. Title to be announced Friday, 9:00 AM Discovery Learning: The Moore Method Ronald L Graham, University of California San Diego in American Mathematics John W. Neuberger, University of North Texas, and Title to be announced Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture) Wednesday morning Wednesday, 8:30 PM

Mark L Green, University of California Los Angeles New perspectives on algebraic cycles Andras Bezdek, Auburn University Thursday, 3:20 PM Friday and Saturday afternoons, and Saturday morning.

Michael J. Hopkins, MIT Function Theo~ Differential Equations Title to be announced and Functional hquations Wednesday, 10:05 AM Gary G. Gundersen, University of New Orleans, llpo Laine, University of Joensuu, and J6n05 KoI16r, Princeton University Enid M. Steinbart, University of New Orleans Title to be announced Wednesday and Thursday mornings, (AMS Colloquium Lectures) and Thursday afternoon. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1:00 PM Geometric Stephen G. Brick and Igor Mineyev, University of South Alabama, and Jon M. Corson, University AMS Special Sessions of Alabama Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, Analysis on Infinite Dimensional Spaces and Thursday morning. (in honor of Leonard Gross) Hui-Hsiung Kuo and Ambar N. Sengupta, Geometry and Topology of Low Louisiana State University Dimensional Mariifolds Friday and Saturday mornings, and Saturday afternoon. Slawomir Kwasik and Teny Lawson, Tulane University Analytic Number Theory Friday and Saturday mornings, and Friday afternoon. Dorian Goldfeld, Graduate and Postdoctoral Education Friday and Saturday mornings and afternoons. in Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry: The Arizona Wmter School Applications of Mathematics to Douglas L Ulmer and William G. McCallum, Kuman Physiology and Medicine University of Arizona James Cassatt, National Institutes of Health, and Wednesday morning, and Michael C. Reed, Duke University Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Friday and Saturday mornings and afternoons. Group Cohomology and Applications ~ptotic Behavior of Difference to Homotopy Theory and Equations with Applications Representation Theory Vlajko L Kocic, Xavier University, Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Howard University, and Gerasimos Ladas, University and Jon F. Cartson, University of Georgia of Rhode Island Friday and Saturday mornings, and Friday afternoon. Wednesday and Thursday mornings, and Wednesday afternoon. AMS Integral Transforms Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University, AMS Contributed Papers SPECIAL Gunter Lumer, University of Mons-Hainaut and There will be sessions for contributed papers of ten Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University minutes' duration. Contributed papers will be grouped SESSIONS by related Mathematical Subject Classifications int~ Friday and Saturday mornings and afternoons sessions insofar as possible. The author(s) and their CONTINUED affiliation(s) and the title of each paper accepted will Integrals and Series be listed in the program along with the date and time throughout Mathematics of presentation. Abstracts will be published in Abstracts Victor H. Moll, Tulane University, and Presented to the American Mathematical Society and should be submitted electronically. AMS George Boros, University of New Orleans Wednesday and Thursday mornings, and Send a blank message to abs-submit@ ams.org and CONTRIBUTED type help as the subject to see your electronic options. Wednesday afternoon PAPERS See the beginning of this announcement for Interaction of Inverse Problems pertinent deadlines. and Image Analysis OTHERAMS M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Delaware, and Otmar Scherzer, Ludwig-Maximilians• Other AMS Sessions SESSIONS Universitiit Munchen Committee on the Friday morning, and Friday and Saturday afternoons Profession Panel Discussion OTHERAMS Model Theory Wednesday, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM EVENTS Steven A. Buechler and Sergei Starchenko, Committee on University of Notre Dame Science Policy Panel Discussion Thursday morning and afternoon Friday, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM AMSSHORT Nonlinear Evolution Equations Committee on COURSE and Applications Science Policy Government Speaker Ralph A. Saxton, University of New Orleans, Friday, 4:20 PM-5:10 PM David H. Wagner, University of Houston, and Katarzyna Saxton, Loyola University Committee on Education Panel Discussion Wednesday and Thursday mornings, and Saturday, 8:30 AM- 10:00 AM Thursday afternoon Operator Theory on Function Spaces Other AMS Events Zhijian Wu, University of Alabama, and Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University Council Meeting Wednesday and Thursday mornings, Tuesday, 1:00 PM-10:00 PM and Wednesday afternoon PDE Models in Population Biology Business Meeting and Epidemiology Saturday, 11:45AM-12:15 PM J. M. Cushing, University of Arizona, Eric T. Funasaki, Georgia Southern University, Shandelle M. Henson, College of William and Mary, AMS Short Course and Anna Maria Spagnuolo, Texas A&M University Mathematical Biology Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, Monday and Tuesday, January 8 and 9 and Thursday morning organized by James Sneyd, Massey University, New Zealand. Partial Differential Equations and The goal of this short course is to present a selected Geometric Implications number of topics in mathematical biology to a mathe• Vladimir E. Shklover, Northwestern University matical audience. It will show how research in the field is Friday and Saturday afternoons, and Saturday morning done, what kind of mathematics is used, how one might best enter the field, what the outstanding questions are, 2001 Representation Theory of Finite as well as a brief historical survey of each topic so as to and Algebraic Groups put current research into perspective. JOINT Zongzhu Un, Kansas State University, Speakers include James P. Keener, ; MATHEMATICS Daniel K. Nakano, Utah State University, and Kenneth L Lange, University of California Los Angeles; Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama Alan S. Perelson, Santa Fe Institute, Los Alamos MEETINGS Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, National Laboratory; David Terman, Ohio State NEW ORLEANS and Thursday morning University; and Daniel A. Tranchina, Courant Institute, MARRIOTT AND New York University. SHERATON HOTELS Stochastic Analysis and Applications There is a separate registration fee for this short course. NEW ORLEANS, Padmanabhan Sundar and Guillermo S. Ferreyra, Advance fees are $80 ($35 for student/unemployed/ LOUISIANA Louisiana State University emeritus); on-site fees are $95 ($45 for student/ JAN UARY 10-13, 2001 Friday morning, and Friday and Saturday afternoons. unemployed/emeritus). Activities of Other Workshop ACTIVITIES OF Saturday, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Organizations With funding from the Office of Naval Research and the OTHER National Science Foundation (pending final funding ap• ORGANIZATIONS Several organizations or special groups are having proval), AWM will conduct its workshop for women receptions or other social events. Please see the graduate students and women who have received the Social Events section of this announcement for details. Ph.D. within the last five years. Twenty women mathematicians have been selected in ASSOCIATION advance of this workshop to present their research. FOR Association for Symbolic The selected graduate students will present posters, and the recent Ph.D:s will give 20-minute talks. Travel SYMBOLIC Logic (ASL) funds are provided to the the twenty selected presenters. This two-day program on Friday and Saturday The workshop will also include a panel discussion on LOGIC (ASL) will include Invited Address and Sessions of issues of career development and a luncheon. Contributed Papers. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with other women mathematicians at all stages of their ASSOCIATION Invited Addresses careers. All mathematicians (female and male) are invited to attend the entire program. Departments are (days, times and titles to be announced): FOR urged to help graduate students and recent Ph.D:s Peter A. Cholak, Notre Dame University; who do not receive funding to obtain some institutional WOMEN IN Tamara J. Hummel, Allegheny College; support to attend the workshop and the associated Alexander S. Kechris, California Institute of meetings. The deadline for applications for presenting MATHEMATICS Technology; Paul Larson, University of Toronto; and funding has expired. Inquiries regarding future Thomas W. Scanlon, University of California Berkeley; workshops may be made to AWM by telephone: (AWM) and Lou P. van den Dries, University of Illinois, 301-405-7892, bye-mail: [email protected], or Urbana-Champaign. visit http://www.awm-math.org. AWM seeks volunteers to lead discussion groups and to NATIONAL act as mentors for workshop participants. If you are in• Association for Women in terested in volunteering, please contact the AWM office. ASSOCIATION Mathematics (AWM) OF MATHE• Reception Twenty-Second Annual Wednesday, 9:30 PM-11 :00 PM MATICIANS Emmy See the listing in the Social Events section of (NAM) Thursday, 9:00 AM-9:50 AM this announcement Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Princeton University and University of California Los Angeles NationalAssociation Of Nonlinear Equations in Conformal Geometry Mathematicians (NAM) A dinner in honor of the lecturer will be held on Granville-Brown Session of Presentations Wednesday evening. See the Social Events section for by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the details on how to participate. Mathematical Sciences AWM and K-8 Education: Friday, 2:15 PM-5:00 PM What Should We Do? Wednesday, 2:45 PM-4:05 PM Cox-Talbot Address Friday after the banquet. organized by . University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and , Rutgers University Panel Discussion Panelists include Shirley Malcom, American Associa• Saturday, 9:00 AM-9:50 AM tion for the Advancement of Science; , University of Kansas; Erica D. Voolich, Solomon Schechter Day School; Virginia M. Warfield, University Business Meeting of Washington; and one other to be announced. Saturday, 10:00 AM-1 0:50 AM At the conclusion of the panel discussion, AWM will recognize the Alice I Schafer Prize winner, runner-up, William W. S. Claytor Lecture and honorable mention honorees. Note that formal prize Saturday, 1:00 PM winner announcements are made at the Joint Prize Session on Thursday afternoon (see the AWM inclusion See details about the banquet on Friday in the in the Joint Sessions section at the beginning of this Social Events section. announcement) Business Meeting Wednesday, 4:05 PM-4:25 PM National Science Foundation (NSF) for complete course description, registration and PIMU hotel information. Inquiries can be directed to The NSF will be represented at a booth in the exhibit leamstat@amstatorg. EPSILON area. NSF staff members will be available to provide (PME) counsel and information on NSF programs of interest to mathematicians. Social Events The booth is open the same days and hours as the exhibits. Times that staff will be available will be It is strongly recommended that for any event requiring a ROCKY posted at the booth. ticket, tickets should be purchased through advance registration. Only a very limited number of tickets, if any, MOUNTAIN will be available for sale on site. If you must cancel your participation in a ticketed event, you may request a 50% MATHEMATICS PiMuEpsiIon (PME) refund by returning your ticket(s) to the Mathematics Meetings Service Bureau (MMSB) by December 29. CONSORTIUM Council Meeting After that date no refunds can be made. Special meals (RMMC) Friday, 8:00 AM-11 :00 AM are available at banquets upon advance request, but this must be indicated on the Advance Registration/ Housing Form. YOUNG Rocky Mountain Student Hospitality Center Mathematics Consortium Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, and MATHE• Saturday, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM MATICIANS (RMMC) organized by Richard Neal, University of Oklahoma NETWORK Board of Directors Meeting Graduate Student Reception (YMN) Friday, 2:15 PM-4:10 PM Wednesday, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM Mathematicians representing a wide range of disciplines Young Mathematicians will join interested graduate students at an informal re• ANCILLARY ception. Complimentary food and beverages will be Network (YMN) served. NOTE: This event is only for students who sign CONFERENCE up on the Advance Registration/Housing (ARH) form. Concerns of Young Mathematicians: A Town Meeting Reception for First-Time Participants SOCIAL Wednesday, 7:15 PM-8:15 PM The MAA Committee on Membership and the AMS organized by Kevin E. Chartwood, Washburn University are co-sponsoring a social hour on EVENTS Wednesday from 6:00 PM-7:00 PM. This panel discussion will focus on the current primary concerns for young mathematicians, with emphasis on All participants (especially first-timers) are encouraged audience participation. to come and meet some old-timers and pick up a few tips on how to survive the environment of a large Also see details about the poster session meeting. Refreshments will be served. (Thursday afternoon) and panel discussion (Wednesday afternoon) cosponsored by YMN under Mathematical Sciences Institutes Reception the Other MM Sessions listings. Wednesday, 5:30 PM-7:30 PM

CRM, DIMACS, the Fields Institute,lMA,lPAM, MSRI, Ancillary Conference and PIMS invite you to a reception where you can talk to their representatives, and learn about their current and American Statistical Association (ASA): future programs and activities (or reminisce about their Course for statistics instructors at univer• past ones). The participating institutes are Centre de sities, junior colleges, and high schools! Recherches Mathematiques (Montreal), the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Mathematicians and others who teach courses in Science (New Jersey), the Fields Institute (Toronto), the introductory statistics will be pleased to know that the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications course "Teaching Statistics with Active Learning" will (Minneapolis), the Institute for Pure and Applied again be offered on January 8 and 9 preceding the Mathematics at UCLA (Los Angeles), the Mathematical Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans. 2001 Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley), and the Pacific Presenters for this two-day LearnSTAT course are Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (Vancouver). JOINT Beth L Chance, California Polytechnic State University, All participants are invited to a dinner to honor AWM's MATHEMATICS and Allan J. Rossman, Dickinson College. The course Noether Lecturer on Wednesday. A sign-up sheet for is designed for instructors from universities, colleges, those interested will be located at the AWM table in the MEETINGS junior colleges and high schools. It will actively involve exhibit area and also at the AWM panel discussion. NEW ORLEANS participants with hands-on investigations that can be MARRIOTT AND adopted for use with students. The course is of AWM Reception particular value to those who teach statistics but have SHERATON HOTELS little training in the discipline. There is an open reception on Wednesday at 9:30 PM NEW ORLEANS, after the AMS Gibbs Lecture. This has been a popular, LOUISIANA Cost is $225 for both days. Visit the LearnSTAT site at well-attended event in the past. http://www.amstatorg/education/leamstathtml JANUARY 10-13,2001 MAA Two-Year College Reception OTHER EVE_TS Thursday, 5:45 PM-7:00 PM Other Events ofIn te res t sponsored by Addison Wesley Longman AMS Information Booth OF ._TEBER MER Banquet All meeting participants are invited to visit the AMS Information Booth during the meeting. There will be a cash bar beginning at 6:30 PM Dinner will be served at 7:30 PM Complimentary coffee and tea will be served. A special gift will be available for participants, compliments of the The Mathematicians and Education Reform (MER) AMS. The membership manager of the Society will be at Network welcomes all mathematicians who are the booth to answer questions about membership. interested in precollege, undergraduate, and/or graduate educational reform to attend the MER banquet on Thursday evening. This is an opportunity to make or Book Sales and Exhibits renew contacts with other mathematicians who are All participants are encouraged to visit the book, involved in education projects and to engage in lively education media, and software exhibits from conversation about educational issues. The after-dinner noon to 5:30 PM on Wednesday, discussion is an open forum for participants to voice 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Thursday and Friday, and their impressions, observations, and analyses of the 9:00 AM to noon on Saturday. current education scene. Tickets are $46 each, including tax and gratuity. Books published by the MAA and AMS will be sold at discounted prices somewhat below the cost for the Joint Pi Mu Epsilon and MAA Student same books purchased by mail. These discounts will be available only to registered participants wearing the Chapter Advisors' Breakfast official Meetings badge. Most major credit cards will be Friday, 7:00 AM-8:00 AM accepted for book sale purchases at the Meetings. Also, contact: Richard Jarvinen AMS electronic products and e-MATH will be demon• [email protected]. strated. Participants visiting the exhibits will be asked to display their Meetings badge or acknowledgment of Purdue University Department of advance registration from the Mathematics Meetings Mathematics Reception Service Bureau in order to enter the exhibit area. Friday 5:00 PM-7:00 PM All alumni, friends, and staff are welcome. Mathematical Sciences Employment Center Those wishing to participate in the Mathematical NAMBanquet Sciences Employment Center should read carefully Friday, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM the important article about the Center beginning on page 33 in this issue of FOCUS or at The National Association of Mathematicians will host a http://www.ams.org/emp-reg/' banquet on Friday evening. A cash bar reception will be held at 5:30 PM and dinner will be served at 6:00 PM Tickets are $43 each, including tax and gratuity. AMSBanquet The banquet will be held on Saturday with a cash bar reception at 6:30 PM and dinner at 7:30 PM.

As a fitting culmination to the meetings, the AMS banquet provides an excellent opportunity to socialize with fellow participants in a relaxed atmosphere. The participant who has been a member of the Society for the greatest number of years will be recognized and will receive a special award. Tickets are $44, including tax and gratuity. REGISTaATIO. EMAIL ADVANCE REGISTRATION: Registering This service is available for advance registration and I.FORMATIO. inA.dvance and housing arrangements by requesting the forms via email from [email protected], or see HotelAccommodations http://www.ams.orglamsmtgsl2025Jegistration.htmlor http://www.ams.org/amsmtgsl2025_intro.htmland look HOW TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE: for "Registration". VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and The importance of advance registration cannot be American Express are the only methods of payment overemphasized. Advance registration fees are which can be accepted for email advance registration, considerably lower than the fees that will be charged for and charges to credit cards will be made in U.S. funds. registration at the meeting. Participants registering by Completed email forms should be sent to November 14 will receive their badges, programs, and [email protected]. All advance registrants tickets purchased in advance by mail approximately will receive acknowledgment of payment prior to three weeks before the Meetings, unless they check the Meetings. the appropriate box to the contrary on the Advance Registration/Housing Form. INTERNET ADVANCE REGISTRATION: Because of delays that occur in U.S. mail to Canada, This service is available for advance registration it is strongly suggested that advance registrants from and housing arrangements at Canada choose to pick up their materials at the http://www.ams.org/amsmtgsl2025Jegistration. Meetings. Because of delays that occur in U.S. mail to html. VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express overseas, materials are never mailed overseas. There will are the only methods of payment which are accepted for be a special Registration Assistance Desk at the Joint Internet advance registration, and charges to credit Meetings to assist individuals who either do not receive cards will be made in U.S. funds. All Internet advance this mailing or who have a problem with their registra• registrants will receive acknowledgment of payment tion. Please note that a $5 replacement fee will be upon submission of this form. charged for programs and badges that are mailed but not taken to New Orleans. CANCELLATION POLICY: Those who cancel their advance registration for the Acknowledgments of registrations will be sent by Meetings, MM Minicourses, or Short Courses by email to the email addresses given on the Advance January 5 (the deadline for refunds for banquet tickets Registration/Housing Form. If you do not wish your is December 29) will receive a 50% refund of fees paid. registration acknowledged by email, please mark the No refunds will be issued after this date. appropriate box on the form.

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BY DEC 15 AT MEETING Member of MM AMS, ASL, Canadian Mathematical Society ...... $175 $228 Temporarily Employed ...... 135 153 Emeritus Member of MM AMS; Graduate Student; Unemployed; Librarian; High School Teacher; Developing Countries Special Rate ...... 35 45 Undergraduate Student ...... 20 26 Nonmember ...... 271 353 High School Student ...... 2 5 One Day Member of MM, AMS, CMS ...... n/a 125 One Day Nonmember ...... n/a 194 Nonmathematician Guest ...... 5 5 EmpIoJment Center Employer (first table) ...... $200 $250 Employer (each additional table) ...... 50 75 Applicants (all services) ...... 40 75 Applicants (Winter List & message center only) ...... 20 20 Employer Posting Fee ...... 50 N/A 2001 AMS Short Course StudenVUnemployed/Emeritus ...... $35 $45 JOINT All other participants ...... 80 95 MATHEMATICS MMMlnlcou..... MEETINGS Minicourses #7-14 ...... $55 $55' NEW ORLEANS Minicourses #1-6 ...... 85 85' MARRIOTT AND •if space is available SHERATON HOTELS MM Short Course NEW ORLEANS, MM Member ...... $125 $140 LOUISIANA Nonmember ...... 175 190 JANUARY 10-13, 2001 StudenVUnemployed/Emeritus ...... 50 60 FULL-TIME STUDENTS: If you wish to be included in a list of individuals sorted ADVANCE Those currently working toward a degree or diploma. by mathematical interest, please provide the one Students are asked to determine whether their status mathematical subject classification number of your REGISTRATION can be described as graduate (working toward a degree major area of interest on the Advance Registration/ beyond the bachelor's), undergraduate (working toward Housing Form. DEADLINES a bachelor's degree), or high school (working toward (A list of these numbers is available by sending an a high school diploma) and to mark the Advance empty email message to [email protected]; include Registration/Housing Form accordingly. the number 962 as the subject of the message.) EMERITUS: Copies of this list will be available for your perusal in Persons who qualify for emeritus membership in either the Networking Center. the Society or the Association. The emeritus status If you do not wish to be included in any mailing list refers to any person who has been a member of the used for promotional purposes, please indicate this MAA or AMS for twenty years or more and who retired in the appropriate box on the Advance Registration/ because of age or long-term disability from his or her Housing Form. latest position. LIBRARIAN: Advance Registration Any librarian who is not a professional mathematician. Deadlines UNEMPLOYED: There are three separate advance registration deadlines, Any person currently unemployed, actively seeking em• each with its own advantages and benefits. ployment, and not a student It is not intended to include any person who has voluntarily resigned or retired from EARLY advance registration November 1 ,- his or her latest position. (room lottery, inclusion in the Winter lists for the Employment Center) DEVELOPING COUNTRY PARTICIPANT: ...I ORDINARY advance registration November 14 Any person employed in developing countries where (hotel reservations, materials mailed) salary levels are radically noncommensurate with those in the U.S. FINAL advance registration December 15 (advance registration, Short Courses, TEMPORARILY EMPLOYED: Employment Center, MAA Minicourses, Any person currently employed but who will become un• Banquets) employed by June 1, 2001, and who is actively seeking = employment EARLY ADVANCE REGISTRATION: NON MATHEMATICIAN GUEST: Those who register by the earty deadline of November 1 will be included in a random drawing to select winners C Any family member or friend who is not a mathematician of complimentary hotel rooms in New Orleans. Multiple and who is accompanied by a participant of the occupancy is permissible. The location of rooms to be Meetings. These official guests will receive a badge used in this lottery will be based on the number of com• and may attend all sessions and the exhibits. 161 plimentary rooms available in the various hotels. Participants who are not members of the MAA and! Therefore, the free room may not necessarily be in the or the AMS will receive mailings after the Meetings are winner'S first-choice hotel. The winners will be notified over with a special membership offer from MAA and AMS. by mail prior to December 25. So register early! (See the list of the winners in Washington, D.C. on the hotel Advance registration and on-site registration fees page.) Also, applicant and employer forms must be re• only partially cover the expenses of holding meetings. ceived by November 1 in order to be reproduced in the All mathematicians who wish to attend sessions are Winter lists for the Employment Center. = expected to register and should be prepared to show their badges if so requested. Badges are required to ORDINARY ADVANCE REGISTRATION: enter the exhibit area, to obtain discounts at the MAA Those who register after November 1 and by the and AMS Book Sales, and to cash a check with the ordinary deadline of November 14 may use the housing Joint Meetings cashier. If a registrant should arrive too services offered by the MMSB but are not eligible for late in the day to pick up his/her badge, he/she may the room lottery. You may also elect to receive your show the acknowledgment of advance registration badge and program by mail in advance of the meetings. received from the MMSB as proof of registration. Advance registration forms accompanied by insufficient FINAL ADVANCE REGISTRATION: payment will either be returned, thereby delaying the Those who register after November 14 and by the final processing of any housing request, or a $5 charge will deadline of December 15 must pick up their badges, be assessed if an invoice must be prepared to collect programs, and any tickets for social events at the the delinquent amount Overpayments of less than $5 meetings. Unfortunately, it is not possible to provide will not be refunded. final advance registrants with housing. Please note that the December 15 deadline is firm; any forms received For each invalid check or credit card transaction that re• after that date will be returned and full refunds issued. sults in an insufficient payment for registration or hous• Please come to the Registration Desk in the Marriott ing, a $5 charge will be assessed. Participants should Hotel to register on site. check with their tax preparers for applicable deductions for education expenses as they pertain to these Meetings. please contact the audio-visual coordinator directly. All HOTEL Hotel Reservations requests should be received by November 4. REGISTRATION Participants should be aware that the MAA and AMS Equipment requests made at the Meetings most likely only contract with facilities who are working toward will not be granted because of budgetary restrictions. being in compliance with the pubic accommodations Unfortunately no audio-visual equipment can be requirements of the ADA. provided for committee meetings or other meetings MISCELLANEOUS or gatherings not on the scientific program. Participants requiring hotel reservations should read the INFORMATION instructions on the following hotel pages. Participants CHILD CARE: who did not reserve a room during advance registration and would like to obtain a room at one of the hotels The Marriott and Sheraton hotels will provide recom• listed on the following pages should call the hotels mendations for in-room child care for guests through directly after December 25. However, after that date their concierge desks. Call 504-581-1000 (Marriott) or the MMSB can no longer guarantee availability of 504-525-2500 (Sheraton) at least one day in advance. rooms or special convention rates. Participants should Arrangements represent a contractual agreement be aware that most hotels are starting to charge a between each individual and the child care provider. penalty fee to guests for departure changes made after The Joint Meetings assumes no responsibility for the guests have checked into their rooms. Participants services rendered. should inquire about this at check-in and make their EMAIL SERVICES: final plans accordingly. The AMS and MAA are pleased to announce that Participants should also be aware that it is general Wolfram Research, Inc., makers of Mathematica, hotel practice in most cities to hold a nonguaranteed will once again sponsor email access for all Joint reservation until 6:00 p.m. only. When one guarantees a Meeting participants. The hours of operation will be reservation by paying a deposit or submitting a credit published in the program. The MAA and AMS thank card number as a guarantee in advance, however, the Wolfram Research for its generosity in providing this hotel usually will honor this reservation up until check• valuable service. out time the following day. If the individual holding the reservation has not checked in by that time, the room is then released for sale, and the hotel retains the deposit WOLFRAM or applies one night's room charge to the credit card RESEARCH number submitted. Nil.; w () I ! I (1111 «() III If you hold a guaranteed reservation at a hotel but are informed upon arrival that there is no room for you, there are certain things you can request the hotel do. First, they should provide for a room at another hotel in INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION: town for that evening at no charge. (You already paid for the first night when you made your deposit) They should Tables are set up in the exhibit area for dissemination of pay for taxi fares to the other hotel that evening and general information of possible interest to the members back to the Meetings the following morning. They and for the dissemination of information of a mathemati• should also pay for one telephone toll call so that you cal nature not promoting a product or program for sale. can let people know you are not at the hotel you ex• If a person or group wishes to display information of a pected. They should make every effort to find a room for mathematical nature promoting a product or program you in their hotel the following day and, if successful, for sale, they may do so in the exhibit area at the Joint pay your taxi fares to and from the second hotel so that Books, Journals, and Promotional Materials exhibit for you can pick up your baggage and bring it to the first a fee of $50 per item. Please contact the exhibits hotel. Not all hotels in all cities follow this practice, so manager, MMSB, P.O. Box 6887, Providence, RI 02940, your request for these services may bring mixed results for further details. or none at all. If a person or group would like to display material in the exhibit area separate from the Joint Books table, the Miscellaneous proponent must reimburse the MAA and AMS for any extra furnishings requested (tables, chairs, easels, etc.) Information in addition to payment of the $50 per item fee. (This latter display is also subject to space availability.) AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT: The administration of these tables is in the hands of the Standard equipment in all session rooms is one over• head projector and screen. Onvited 50-minute speakers MAA-AMS Joint Meetings Committee, as are all 2001 are automatically provided with two overhead projec• arrangements for Joint Mathematics Meetings. tors.) Blackboards are not available. Organizers of ses• LOCAL INFORMATION: JOlin sions that by their nature demand additional equipment MATHEMATICS (e.g., VCR and monitor or projection panel) and where See http://www.experienceneworleans.com/ the majority of speakers in the session require this for information about the city. MEm.os equipment should contact the audio-visual coordinator NEW ORLEANS for the meetings at the AMS office in Providence at MARRIOTT AND 401-455-4140 or by email at [email protected], to obtain the SHERATON HOTELS necessary approvals. Individual speakers must consult NEW ORLEANS, with the session organizer(s) if additional equipment or services are needed. If your session has no organizer, LOUISIANA JANUARY 10-13,2001 PETITION TABLE: However, we strongly urge participants to make use of TRAVEL At the request of the AMS Committee on Human Rights this special deal if at all possible, since the MAA and of Mathematicians, a table will be made available in AMS can earn complimentary tickets on US Airways. the exhibit area at which petitions on behalf of named These tickets are used to send meetings' staff (not individual mathematicians suffering from human rights officers or other staff) to the Joint Mathematics Meet• violations may be displayed and signed by meetings ings, thereby keeping the costs of the meetings (and participants acting in their individual capacities. For registration fees) down. details contact the director of meetings in the The following specially negotiated rates are available only Providence office at 401-455-4137 or by email at for these meetings and exclusively to mathematicians [email protected]. and their families for the period January 7-16,2001. Signs of moderate size may be displayed at the table but Other restrictions/discounts may apply and must not represent that the case of the individual in seats are limited. question is backed by the Committee on Human Rights unless it has, in fact so voted. Volunteers may be pre• • 5% discount off First or Envoy Class and any pub• sent at the table to provide information on individual lished US Airways promotional round-trip fare. By pur• cases, but notice must be sent at least seven days in chasing your ticket 60 days or more prior to departure, advance of the Meetings to the director of meetings you can receive an additional 5% bonus discount in the Providence office. 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What are "proofs without words?" Many would argue that they are not really "proofs" (nor, for that matter, are many "without words," on account of equations which often accompany them). Like its predecessor Proofs without Words, published by the MAA in 1993, this book is a collection of pictures or diagrams that help the reader see why a particular mathematical statement may be true, and also to see how one might begin to go about proving it true. The emphasis is on providing visual clues to the observer to stimulate mathematical thought.

Proofs without words have been around for a long time. In this volume you find modern renditions of proofs without words from ancient China, tenth century Arabia, and Renaissance Italy. While the majority of the proofs without words in this book originally appeared in journals published by the MAA, others first appeared in journals published by other organizations in the US and abroad, and on the World Wide Web.

CiJtiJlog Code: PWl/JR The proofs in this collection are arranged by topic into five chapters. Although the proofs without words 142 pp., PiJperbound, 2000 are presented primarily for the enjoyment of the reader, teachers will want to use them with students at IS8n 088385-721-9 many levels---in precalculus courses in high school, in college courses in calculus, number theory and list: 524.00 combinatorics, and in pre-service and in-service classes for teachers. mnn member: 518.95

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While there are many textbooks presenting a pure or theoretical approach to geometry and many monographs investigating a single aspect of applied geometry, it is difficult to find a wide-angle view of applied geometry. The purpose of this collection is to give as broad a picture as possible of the applications of geometry. At the same time, since the papers in this collection have been written by pioneers and leading experts in each of the fields represented, the reader is assured of seeing the creativity, depth, and rigor that is an essential part of any successful application of mathematical knowledge.

This collection will be a rich resource for the geometry instructor, whether as a supplement to standard textbook material, reference material for student reports and projects, or as the starting point for a research program. The papers vary in difficulty, but are accessible to anyone having a college-level acquaintance with geometry. It is hoped that this volume will open many new worlds for all lovers of geometry.

Contents: 1. Art and Architecture. Spirals and the Rosette in Architectural Ornament; Sun, Disk, Moon Disk; Fa~ade Measurement by Trigonometry; A Secret of Ancient Geometry. 2: Vedic Civilization. Square CiJtiJlog Code: nTE-53/JR Roots in the Sulba Sultras: Applied Geometry in the Sulba Sultras. 3. The Classroom. 217 pp., PiJperbound, 2000 Ethnomathematics for the Geometry Curriculum; Education with Fascination: Teaching Descriptive ISBn 088385-164-4 Geometry with Applications. 4. Engineering. Making Measurements on Curved Surfaces; Mathematics to the Aid of Surgeons; The Geometry of Frameworks: Rigidity, Mechanisms and CAD; Geometry and list: S25.95 Geographical Information Systems; On the Other Hand: Geometric Ideas in Robotics. Decision Making mnn member: S19.50 Processes. Decisions through Triangles; Geometry in Learning. 6. Mathematics and Science. The Geometry of Numbers; Statistical Symmetry; Three-Dimensional Topology and Quantum Physics; Bridges between Geometry and Graph Theory; Polytopes in Combinatorial Optimization.

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II Undergraduate Mathematics iiJED 1:00 PM-3:00 PM MM Minicourse '41'13: Part B Education SIGMM Business Meeting Getting students involved in and Reception undergraduate research 5:00 PM-7:00 PM MM-Young Mathematicians Network Panel Discussion 1:00 PM-3:00 PM MM Minicourse '*2: Part B WeBWorK; an Intemet-based system Balancing career and family ...I for generating and delivering homework 5:00 PM-7:30 PM MM Undergraduate Student problems to students Poster Session 1:00 PM-3:00 PM MM Minicourse '*8: Part B 5:00 PM-7:00 PM Purdue University Department of Teaching graduate students how to Mathematics Reception teach using case studies 5:30 PM-8:00 PM NAM Reception, Banquet. and 1:00 PM-2:30 PM MM Special Presentation Cox-Talbot Address UveMath Maker - ]he future of = 6:30 PM-8:Q0 PM MM Special Presentation mathematics on the Intemet Bwironmenmlmathematics 1:00 PM-2:30 PM MM Panel Discussion 7:00 PM-9:00 PM SIGMM on Statistics Education Assimilation of adjunct faculty Business Meeting and Reception 1:00 PM-2:30 PM MM Panel Discussion 7:30 PM-8:20 PM MM Student Lecture Research in Undergraduate = Ralph Keeney Mathematics Education (RUME): Building and using mathematical Field of study or figment of w.I a models to guide decision making our imagination? 1:00 PM-3:00 PM MM Poster Session SATURDAY NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Projects in the Course JANUARY 13,2001 (cuniculum and laboratory 7:30 AM-2:00 PM Joint Meetings Registration z: improvement program) 8:00 AM-II :00 AM MM-AMS Special Session on 1:00 PM-3:20 PM MM Special Presentation History of Mathematics, III Mathematical experiences for 8:00 AM-II :00 AM AMS Special Session on students outside the classroom Computational Algebraic Geometry for U 1:00 PM-2:30 PM MM Panel Discussion Curves and Surfaces, III EvoMng interdisciplinary core cuniculum 8:00 AM-I 0:50 AM AMS Special Session on Applications 1:00 PM-2:30 PM SUMMA Panel Discussion of Mathematics to Human Physiology 1:00 PM-2:30 PM MM Panel Discussion and Medicine,lIl fn A report on the ASA Undergraduate 8:00 AM-II :00 AM AMS Special Session on 5mtistics Education Initiative (USEO Group Cohomology and Applications and cuniculum guidelines to Homotopy Theory and 1:00 PM-5:55 PM AMS Sessions for Contributed Papers Representation Theory, III 2:15 PM-3:05 PM MM Invited Address 8:00 AM-II :00 AM AMS Special Session on Geometry Robert F. Almgren and Topology of low Dimensional Rnancial derivatives and PDEs Manifolds, III 2:15 PM-5:00 PM NAM Granville-Brown Session of 8:00 AM-II :00 AM AMS Special Session on Analysis Presentations by Recent Doctoral on Infinite Dimensional Spaces Recipients in the Mathematical On honor of Leonard Gross), II Sciences 8:00 AM-II :00 AM AMS Special Session on 2:15 PM-4:10 PM RMMC Board of Directors Analytic Number Theory, III 2:30 PM-4:00 PM AMS Committee on Science Policy 8:00 AM-II :00 AM AMS Special Session on Panel Discussion Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Implications, II 3:15 PM-5:15 PM MM Minicourse '*6: Part B Compumtion and discovery in the 8:00 AM-II :00 AM AMS Special Session on number theory classroom Integral Transfonns, III 3:30 PM-4:40 PM Blumenthal session 8:00 AM-II :00 AM AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry, II 3:30 PM-5:00 PM MM Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients 8:00 AM-I 0:00 AM MM Minicourse '*10: Part B Developing your department's assessment plan " 8:00 AM-10:0rr AM MAA Minicourse '#4: Part B 1:00 PM-5:30 PM AMS Special Session on SCHEDULE OF The Global Classroom: Using the Web Analytic Number Theory, IV EVENTS as an interactive learning environment 1:00 PM-5:30 PM AMS Special Session on 8:00 AM-1 0:00 AM MAA Minicourse '#9: Part B Partial Differential Equations and Making liberal arts mathematics the Geometric Implications,lIl most important course students take 1:00 PM-5:30 PM AMS Special Session on Stochastic iilED to leam effective thinking Analysis and Applications, III 8:00 AM-1 0:55 AM MAA Session on Innovative Practices 1:00 PM-5:30 PM AMS Special Session on in Statistics Education, II Integral Transforms, IV 8:00 AM-1 0:55 AM MAA Session on Integrating 1:00 PM-5:30 PM AMS Special Session on ....I Mathematics and Other Disciplines, II Discrete Geometry, III 8:00 AM-1 0:55 AM MAA Session on Implementation of 1:00 PM-5:30 PM AMS Special Session on National Projects on Local Campuses Interaction of Inverse Problems and 8:00 AM-1 0:55 AM MAA Session on Putting the Image Analysis,lIl "Service" Back into Service Courses 1:00 PM-3:00 PM MAA Minicourse '#11: Part B 8:00 AM-1 0:55 AM MAA Session on The mathematics of decision making College Mathematics in Depth with 1:00 PM-3:00 PM MAA Minicourse '#14: Part B = Dynamic Mathematics Software Discrete dynamical systems, 8:00 AM-1 0:55 AM AMS Sessions for Contributed Papers mathematics, methods, and models 8:30 AM-5:00 PM AWM Workshop 1:00 PM-3:00 PM MAA Minicourse '#5: Part B 8:30 AM-1 0:00 AM AMS Committee on Education Creating and exporting computer = Panel Discussion animations to the Web 9:00 AM-9:50 AM MAA Invited Address 1:00 PM-2:30 PM MAA Task Force on Articulation III Peter M. Winkler Panel Discussion Collision and percolation Articulation: Is the transition to college mathematics as smooth as 9:00 AM-10:30 AM MAA Panel Discussion we think it is? Restructuring the mathematics bachelor degree 1:00 PM-2:30 PM MAA Panel Discussion Z Professor for the Future programs 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM MAA Special Presentation in mathematics The pedagogical potential of computer symbolic algebra in the teaching of 1:00 PM-2:30 PM MAA-AMS Joint Panel Discussion precalculus and calculus Philosophy of mathematics: That which is of interest to mathematicians 9:00 AM-1 0:30 AM MAA Panel Discussion U 1:00 PM-5:55 PM AMS Sessions for Contributed Papers Writing and the mathematics classroom 2:15 PM-3:05 PM AMS Invited Address 9:00 AM-9:50 AM NAM Panel Discussion Ingrid Daubechies Title to be announced Analog-to-digital conversion: fn A case study of interaction 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Association for Symbolic Logic Invited between mathematicians and Addresses and Contributed Papers electrical engineers 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Book Sales and Exhibits 2:45 PM-4:15 PM MAA Open Discussion on 9:00 AM-1:00 PM Employment Center Reforming College Algebra Interview center 2:45 PM-4:15 PM MAA Panel Discussion 10:00 AM-1 0:40 AM NAM Business Meeting Mathematics and the mathematical sciences in 2070: 10:05 AM-1 0:55 AM MAA Invited Address What should graduates know? Ivars Peterson A kaleidoscope of mathematics and art 3:15 PM-5:15 PM MAA Minicourse '#3: Part B Teaching contemporary statistics 11:10 AM-ll:40 AM MAA Business Meeting with active leaming 11:45 AM-12:15 PM AMS Business Meeting 2001 3:45 PM-5:15 PM MAA Committee on JOINT 1:00 PM-2:00 PM NAM Invited Address Two-Year Colleges 1:00 PM-5:30 PM MAA-AMS Special Session on Panel Discussion MATHEMATICS History of Mathematics, IV Teaching to attract potential teachers MEETINGS 1:00 PM-5:00 PM AMS Special Session on Applications 6:30 PM-10:00 PM AMS Banquet NEW ORLEANS of Mathematics to Human Physiology MARRIOn AND and Medicine, IV SHERATON HOTELS 1:00 PM-5:30 PM AMS Special Session on Analysis on NEW ORLEANS, Infinite Dimensional Spaces LOUISIANA On honor of Leonard Gross), III JANUARY 10-13, 2001 G The Mathematical Sciences Employment Center is Mathematical Sciences sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, the American Mathematical Society, and the Society for Employment Center Industrial and Applied Mathematics; it is managed by members of the AMS staff, with the general guidance of OVERVIEW OF THE the MM-AMS-SIAM Committee on Employment EMPLOYMENT CENTER Opportunities. The Employment Center (formerly the Employment Register) serves as a meeting place and information THE EMPLOYMENT REGISTER center for employers and Ph.D. -level jobseekers attend• COMPUTER-SCHEDULING SYSTEM ing the Joint Mathematics Meetings. Most applicants Employers register in advance by the November 7 dead• and employers began the search process in the fall, and line, and their job listings r'Employer Forms'1 are printed are looking for an opportunity to meet in person with and distributed in late December to applicants. those with whom they've already had communication. Employers receive the book of brief, numbered applicant Some, however, use the Employment Center as a way to resumes in late December. Participants decide on make some initial contacts, gather information, and dis• Wednesday, January 10, which of the eight sessions (of tribute their own information. This is a less effective, but five interviews each) they will participate in and submit common, use of the program. The Employment Center their Availability/Interview Request Forms by 4:00 PM allows everyone to choose a comfortable level of partici• Wednesday. Employers can reserve time for other Joint pation, by seeking interviews for any of the open hours, Meetings events by marking "unavailable" for one or or by limiting schedules to certain days or hours. more of the eight sessions. Employers can request ten The Employment Center is a three-day program which speCific applicants per day, assuming they are available takes place on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and for all four sessions that day. Usually those requests will Saturday (moming only) of the Joint Meetings. Most be filled by the scheduling algorithm, provided the appli• participants register in advance (by the November 7 cants are present, except in the case of the few most-re• deadline) and their brief resume or job description is quested applicants. The rest of their interviews will be printed in a booklet which is mailed to participants in with applicants who ask to see them. Employers should be specific about their requirements on the Employer advance. Form to avoid interviews with inappropriate candidates. The Employment Center houses two services: the com• puter-scheduled interview tables (the Scheduled Schedules are distributed for all Thursday and Friday Employment Register), and the employer-scheduled in• interviews on Thursday moming. The schedule allows terview tables (the Interview Center). Use of the Center 15-minute interviews, with 5 minutes between for note overall by employers has gone up in recent years. At the taking. One or more interviewers for the same position(s) 2000 Employment Center, 390 candidates and 152 em• may interview at the table separately, together, or in ployers participated, giving an overall applicant-to-em• shifts. For follow-up interviews, the scheduled tables will ployer ratio of 2.5:1 (compared with 355 applicants and also be available for use until 7:30 PM on Thursday and 104 employers in 1999, a ratio of 3.4:1). Each applicant Friday and on Saturday moming from 9:00 AM-l :00 PM. ends up with roughly 5 to 12 interviews of various types. Participation in the scheduling program has become Those with the most interviews are those requested optional for applicants, so employers will notice some most by employers, usually a result of a careful applica• applicant resumes in the IMnter List of Applicants with tion process during the months before the Employment no applicant number. An employer can arrange to inter• Center takes place. view such an applicant outside of the scheduled inter• At the January 2001 Employment Center, job candidates view sessions-for instance, between 4:40 PM and will be able to choose how to participate. Two forms of 7:30 PM Thursday or Friday, or on Saturday moming- participation will be available: or during sessions which they left unscheduled. All Employment Center services (computer• Employers who are interviewing for two distinct positions scheduling system, form posted in IMnter List may wish to pay for two tables. See the instructions of Applicants, IMnter List of Employers received under "How to Register". Employers should bring school by mail, use of Employment Message Center, avail• catalogs, corporate reports, or more lengthy job descrip• ability for employer-scheduled Interview Center). tions to the Employment Centrer early on Wednesday for perusal by applicants prior to interviews. Message Center and Winter Lists only (form posted in IMnter List of Applicants, IMnter List of Employers THE EMPLOYER-SCHEDULED received by mail, use of Employment Message INTERVIEW CENTER Center, availability for employer-scheduled The Interview Center allows any employer to reserve a Interview Center, BUT NOT use of the computer• table in an area adjacent to the Employment Center. scheduling system). Employers will arrange their own schedule of interviews, 2001 either in advance or on site, by using the Employment No matter which option is chosen, advance registration JOINT works best so that the Applicant Form (received by Message Center. Employers who have never used the Employment Center before might want to try conducting November 7, 2000) can be printed in the IMnter List MATHEMATICS which will be distributed to employers. interviews at this convenient location. Since they will be setting their own schedules, employers will have com• MEETINGS Employer forms submitted by registered employers have plete control over whom they'll see, for how long, and NEW ORLEANS no connection with the AMS on-line job ads (ElMS). when they'll be interviewing. This allows employers to MARRIOTT AND Submitted forms are not available for browsing on the pursue other activities at the Joint Meetings. Web. They are reproduced in the IMnter List booklet for SHERATON HOTELS use by Employment Center participants. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA o JANUARY 10-13,2001 MATHEMATICAL The Center will be open only during the following hours: EMPLOYERS: HOW TO REGISTER Wednesday, January 10, 2001 • 9:30 AM-6:00 PM The interviewer should register and pay for the Joint SCIENCES Thursday, January 11, 2001 • 8:00 AM-7:30 PM Mathematics Meetings by: EMPLOYMENT Friday, January 12, 2001 • 8:00 AM-7:30 PM Indicating on the Joint Meetings registration form Saturday, January 13, 2001 • 9:00 AM-1:00 PM (available electronically at www.ams.org/ CENTER The fee for use of this area is the same as the normal amsmtgsl2025_intro.html, or in the back of the employer fee. It is requested that all employers fill out October issue of the Notices) that you are also an Employer Form for inclusion in the Winter List. This paying the Employment Center employer fee. should clarify to Employment Center applicants what Indicate your choice of tables. Mark all that apply. type of position is being filled. If an employer is unable Submitting an Employer uob listing) Form electron• 2001 EMPLOYMENT to accept new applicants because the deadline has icallyat www.ams.org/emp-regl, or using the print CENTER SCHEDULE passed, that should be stated on the form. version in the back of this issue. Be sure the form WEDNESDAY, JMUARY 10 The Winter List of Applicants, containing information indicates which type or types of tables will be used. about the candidates present at the Employment This form will be printed in the Winter List of 7:30 AM-4:00 PM Employers. Registration and materials pick-up Center, will be mailed to all employers in advance of the meeting. It's important to register by the November 7 deadline, in 9:00 AM-9:30 AM order for your form to be included in the Winter List of Short (optional) orientation session Employers scheduling interviews in advance should tell applicants to find the table with the institution's name in Employers. However, registration will be accepted up to 9:30 AM-4:00 PM the Interview Center (not the numbered-table area). December 15 for the normal fees or on site in New Submission of Scheduled Employ• Employers can schedule any time during the open hours Orleans at the on-site rates. Call 800-321-4267, ext. 4105, ment Register interview request listed above. To schedule interviews after arriving in with any questions or deadline problems. forms for both Thursday and Friday New Orleans, leave messages for Employment Center Any number of interviewers can sit at a table together or interviews. No request forms can be applicants in the Employment Message Center. Paper in shifts, and their names should be listed on the accepted after 4:00 PM Wednesday. forms will be provided to help speed the invitation Employer Form as a reference point for the applicants. process. Each employer will be provided with a box in 9:30AM-&PM However, Employment Center fees should be paid only the Message Center where applicants can leave items. Interview Center open for each table required. Employers should have at most two interviewers No Scheduled Employment Register In a few unusual cases an institution will be conducting per table at any time due to space limitations. There interviews are held on Wednesday. interviews in the Employment Center for two or more will be no outlets or electricity available at the distinct positions and will not want to conduct these THURSDAY, JMUARY 11 interviewing tables. interviews at one table. In that case two or more Employer Forms should be submitted, and separate 7:00 AM-8:15 AM INFORMATION BOOTH TABLES tables and employer numbers will be provided. Distribution of interview schedules FOR INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS for both Thursday and Friday, for Applicants will then be able to request interviews for These tables will not be available this year due to space those participating in the Scheduled the appropriate job by employer number. First and constraints. However, an employer needing a walk-up Employment Register. second table fees should be paid. table for a few hours can request a space at the 8:15 AM-4:40 PM Employment Center registration desk. The fee for all employers to register in advance is $200 Scheduled Employment Register for the first table and $50 for each additional table. On• interviews in 4 sessions: ABOUT THE site registration fees (any registrations after 12115/00) Session 1: 8:15 AM-9:50 AM WINTER LIST OF APPLICANTS are $250 for the first table and $75 for each additional Session 2. 10:00 AM-ll :35 AM This booklet contains hundreds of resumes of applicants table. Employers must also register for the Joint Session 3: 1:00 PM-2:35 PM registered by November 7 for the Employment Center. It Meetings and pay the appropriate Joint Meetings fee. Session 4: 3:00 PM-4:35 PM will be mailed to all employers who register by EMPLOYERS: REGISTRATION ON SITE November 7 who indicate on their Joint Meetings regis• 8:00 AM-7:30 PM Employers who do not register for the Joint Mathematics tration form that they would like their materials mailed. Interview Center open Meetings and the Employment Center by December 15 Employers should be aware that there will be hundreds may register on site in New Orleans at the Joint Meet• of brief resumes to look through and should be sure to FRIDAY, JMUARY 12 ings Registration Desk. They must bring their obtain the Winter List of Applicants as early as possible. 8:15 AM-4:40 PM receipt to the Employment Center desk between Scheduled Employment Register EMPLOYERS 7:30 AM and 4:00 PM on Wednesday, January 10, to interviews in 4 sessions: NOT PLANNING TO INTERVIEW receive their materials. A typed copy of the Employer Session 5: 8:15 AM-9:50 AM Form (found in the back of this issue) can be brought Employers who do not plan to participate in the Session 6: 10:00 AM-ll :35 AM to the Employment Center for posting on site (or the Employment Center at all may display a job description. Session 7: 1:00 PM-2:35 PM form can be handwritten on site). If registering for the This description must be submitted on the Employer Session 8: 3:00 PM-4:35 PM employer-scheduled Interview Center only, registration Form, which appears in the back of this issue, with the on Thursday is possible. 8:00 AM-7:30 PM appropriate box checked indicating that no interviews In 2001, applicants will be given flexibility in deciding Interview Center open will take place. A fee of $50 is charged for this service how to participate in the Employment Center. There are (doors open at 7:30 AM; (paid through the Joint Meetings registration form). The two options: do not schedule before 8:00 AM) form must be received in the Providence office (with payment or purchase order) by the November 7 dead• All Employment Center services (computer• SATURDAY, JMUARY 13 line, to appear in the Winter List of Employers. Forms scheduling system, form posted in Winter List of 9:00 AM-1:00 PM received in the Providence office after that deadline Applicants, Winter List of Employers received will be displayed at the meeting. Those wishing to bring by mail, use of Employment Message Center, avail• a one-page job description to the Employment Center ability for employer-scheduled Interview Center). desk for display during the Meetings may do so at no charge. Message Center and Winter Lists only (form posted in Winter List of Applicants, Winter List of Employers received by mail, use of Employment Message Center, availability for The Winter list of Applicants is mailed to all employers in advance, so it is vital employer-scheduled Interview Center, BUT NOT use of the computer• that the Joint Meetings registration form, applicant resume form, and payments scheduling system). This option is available at a slightly lower price. be received by the November 7 deadline so the Applicant Form can be printed in the book. This greatly increases an applicant's chances of being invited to Applicants who participate in the 2001 Employment Center will find themselves the Interview Center. talking with employers in two different settings: Applicants should keep in mind that interviews arranged by the Employment 1. A computer-scheduling program sets 15-minute interviews in the Center represent only an initial contact with the employers and that hiring deci• Employment Register numbered tables. This is the choice that has now sions are not ordinarily made during or immediately following such interviews. become optional for applicants. Applicants do not have to hand in a computer-scheduling form at all. APPLICANTS: 2. There is also an Interview Center, where employers set their own ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS IMPORTANT schedules. These employers do not participate in the scheduling program, Applicants will be registered when they have completed the following steps: so applicants have no automatic access to interviews with them. They determine their own schedules and make their own appointments Register and pay for the Joint Mathematics Meetings (see form in the privately, either in advance or on site using the Employment Message back of the October issue of the Notices or the electronic information at Center. These interviews have always been "optional" for applicants since www.ams.org/amsmtgsl2025_intro.htmO. they may turn down any written invitation they receive. Applicants are Mark one of the two "Employment Center Applicant fee" boxes on reminded to respond to all invitations promptly. the Joint Meetings registration form and pay the appropriate fee. If you choose "Message Center and Winter list only", you will not THE SCHEDULE receive, or turn in, an Interview Request/Availability Form. For applicants using all services, there is a certain scheduling burden placed on them to juggle these simultaneous services. However, computer-scheduled Submit the Applicant Form (a brief resume form) electronically at sessions are in small blocks, for a total of eight sessions over the two days of www.ams.org/emp-regl. Each Applicant Form will be reproduced in a interviews (Thursday and Friday). This allows applicants, once they receive booklet. the Winter list of Applicants, and distributed to all registered invitations to interview in the Interview Center, to accept. knowing that when employers. Applicant Forms received after November 7, 2000, cannot they submit the computer schedule request on Wednesday, they can mark be included in the booklet The booklet allows employers more time that they are unavailable for one or more of these sessions without seriously to examine each candidate's qualifications in advance. jeopardizing their chances of obtaining scheduled interviews. Likewise, Advance registration fees for applicants using the full Employment Center applicants who are scheduled to give a talk can avoid interviews for that time. services are $40 plus Joint Meetings registration fee, vs. $75 on-site registration Applicants are encouraged to schedule their time in advance in this manner fee plus Joint Meetings registration fee. The applicant "Message Center and and not wait for the computer schedule to be distributed Thursday morning. Winter list only' registration is $20 in advance or on site. INTERVIEWS Advance registration for the Employment Center will continue after the Applicants should understand that the Employment Center provides no guar• November 7 deadline until the final registration deadline of December 15, 2000. antees of interviews or jobs. It is simply a convenient meeting place for candi• However, the Applicant Form will NOT be included in the Winter list but will be dates and employers who are attending the Joint Meetings. Those who have posted on site at the Employment Center (a serious disadvantage). Those who not yet begun their job search efforts may go unnoticed at the Employment do not register by December 15 must register on site at the Joint Meetings Center (although applicants will likely receive a minimum of between one and Registration Desk and pay the higher fees. three interviews in the scheduled program). Attention generally goes to candi• It is worthwhile to submit the Applicant Form even if you miss the November 7 dates who already have applied for open positions or to those who are well deadline. An unexpected delay in publication may allow your late form to get suited for teaching positions at liberal arts colleges. into the book. At the very least. your printed-out form will be brought to the Data from recent Employment Centers show that women represent about half Meetings by staff and displayed there (after all the fees have been paid). of the most sought-after applicants, although they make up less than half of Applicants registered by November 7 will receive their Employment Center ma• the total Employment Center applicant pool. Those without permanent autho• terials two to three weeks in advance of the meeting, unless they request oth• rization to work in the United States will find themselves far less requested erwise. The package will include the complete job announcements received than U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Newer Ph.D:s tend to be invited for from employers registered by November Z more interviews than those who have been working longer. Most jobs listed require a doctorate. Don't forget. all participants in the scheduled section of the 200t Employment Center must submit their Interview Request/Availability Forms in person PREPARATIONS between 9:30 AM and 4:00 PM on Wednesday, January 10, 2001, or they will Candidates just beginning a job search should realize that employers have no not be included when the interview-scheduling program runs Wednesday method to judge their credentials other than the brief resume form, and they night Should unexpected delays occur while travelling, contact the Employ• should make an effort to make it distinct and interesting. ment Center by telephone at 4Ot-455-41 07 (or 800-321-4267, ext. 4107) before 4:00 PM EST on Wednesday, January 10. Applicants who register in advance will receive the Winter list of Employers in late December. If time permits, they should apply for suitable open positions APPLICANTS: REGISTERING ON SITE they notice in the Winter list of Employers after they receive it Applicants are Feel free to enter the Employment Center area first to consult staff about the advised to bring a number of copies of their vita or resume so that they may decision to register on site and to check on which employers are participating. leave them with prospective employers. It is a good idea in the fall for appli• Full registration on site early Wednesday is allowed for a higher fee but is cants to alert any employer to whom applications are made that they plan to severely discouraged. Most employers will not notice an Applicant Form which be present at the Joint Meetings. Also, they should bring enough materials arrives on Wednesday. Therefore, these individuals will receive only a couple with them to accompany requests for interviews they may want to leave in the of computer-scheduled interviews. Registration on site is advisable only for Message Center boxes of the Interview Center employers. those who know they will be interviewed in the Interview Center and would Applicants are also encouraged to leave some extra copies of their resumes in like a Message Center folder for employers to leave messages in. This year their own message folders, so that interested employers may find them there. registering on site for a mailbox only is possible, at the $20 rate, on Wednesday Photocopying costs at a convention are high, so applicants should come and Thursday. prepared with a reasonably large number of copies. A brightly colored form in each folder gives applicants an opportunity to present some information about their availability during the Meetings, for public perusal. S \ P P I S

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