\olumc D, :\umhcr 5 The Newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America Odohcr 1993 CINCINNATI AMS-MM JOINT MEETINGS CINCINNATI, OHIO

Cincinnati's Taft Museum houses one of the finest pri• JANUARY 12-15, 1994 vate art collections in the nation. Built in the early 1820's, the museum is one of the manyhistoric homes in a city known for its landmarks.

he weather may be cool, but the welcome is sure to be warm at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Janu• T ary 12-15, 1994, the 77th Annual Meeting of the MAA and the l00th Annual Meeting of the AMS. The AMS-MAA invited address, by Kenneth Ribet, Berkeley,California, on the recent solution of Fermat's Last Theorem is sure to be a highlight, as are the other three joint addresses, which all deal with the history or development of mathematics: Georgia M. Benkart, Madison, Wisconsin, will speak on A Tale ofTwo Groups; Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Chi• cago, will talk about Some Propositions from Newton s Principia; and Laszlo Lovasz, from Eorvos Lorand, will give a talk titled Random Walks and Volume. The ever-popular social for first-time attendees will once again take place, this year including a 20-to 30-minute magic show by MAA Governor-at• Large, Brent Morris. And, for graduate student attendees, there willbe Mathchats, an evening of informal conversation with a number of well-known mathematicians.The TheMississippiQueen Riverboat cruises past evening includes a trolley tour of Cincinnati and a buffet supper. her homeport ofCincinnati,and itsRiverfront Stadium. Please see Cincinnati on page 15 FOCUS October 1993 Table ofContents FOCUS is published by The Mathemati• cal Association of America, 1529 Features Eighteenth Street Northwest, Washing• ton, DC 20036-1385, six times a year: February, April, June, August, October, and December. FOCUS on SECTIONS 5 Editor: Keith J. Devlin, Saint Mary's College of California Associate Editor: Donald J. Albers, Distinguished Teachers Revisited 8 MAA Associate Executive Director, and Director of Publications and Programs Chair of the MAA Newsletter Edito• The New Job Diary 12 rial Committee: Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota at Duluth Managing Editor: Harry Waldman, MAA Video Conference to Production Specialist: Amy E. Stephenson, MAA Stimulate Mathematical Education Reform 14 Subscribers should address letters to the editor: Keith Devlin, Saint Mary's Col• lege of California, P.O. Box 3517 Moraga, CA 94575.E-mail: devlin@ CINCINNATI Meetings Information 15 stmarys-ca.edu The FOCUS subscription price to indi• vidual members of the Association is $6.00, included in the annual dues. (An• Departments nual dues for regular members, exclusive of annual subscription prices for MAA journals, are $68.00. Student and unem• Networks in FOCUS 4 ployed members receive a 66 percent discount; emeritus members receive a 50 percent discount; new members receive a 40 percent discount for the first two Editorial 10 membership years.) Copyright © 1993 by The Mathematical Association of America (Incorporated). Personal Opinion 11 Educational institutions may reproduce articles for their own use, but not for sale, provided that the following citation is used: "Reprinted with permission of Employment Opportunities 46 FOCUS, the Newsletter of The Math• ematical Association of America (Incorporated), 1993." Fermat's Last Theorem Second-class postage paid at Washing• In the lastissueof FOCUS,the articleby Gouvea,Granville,and myselfon theproof ton, DC and additional mailing offices. of Fermat's LastTheoremwasaccompaniedbya promiseofa follow-uppiecegiving Postmaster: Send address changes to the some details of the proof.At my request,FernandoGouvea wrote such a piece.The Membership and Subscriptions Depart• result exceeded my wildest dreams, making it far too substantialfor publicationin ment, The Mathematical Association of FOCUS, which is, afterall, a newsletter, not ajournal.John Ewing kindlyofferedto America, 1529 Eighteenth Street North• publishthe articlein theAmericanMathematicalMonthly, whichhe edits. Look out west, Washington, DC 20036-1385. for Gouvea's account in a forthcomingissue. ISSN: 0731-2040 - Printed in the United States of America. Printed on recycled paper October 1993 FOCUS USA Team Wins Six Medals in Meeting the International Mathematical Olympiad Challenge: Calculus Renewal-A Live Competing against teams representing a The Mathematical Olympiad activities are record 72 countries, a team of sixAmerican sponsored by eight national associations in high school students placed seventh in the the mathematical sciences with arrange• Video Workshop 34thInternational Mathematical Olympiad ments made by The Mathematical For undergraduates, calculus is the gateway (IMO), held from July 13-24 in Istanbul. Association of America. Financial support to careers in mathematics, science, and en• All six students won medals: two gold, two isprovided byMicrosoftCorporation,IBM, gineering. How can calculus instruction be silver, and two bronze. the Army Research Office, the Office of restructured and reformed? Answers to that R. The top ten teams were China, Germany, Naval Research, and the Matilda Wilson question be offered place in a live video Bulgaria, Russia, Taiwan, Iran, USA, Hun• Fund. workshop, sponsored by the National Sci• gary, Viet Nam, and the Czech Republic, IMO team members: ence Foundation, on Wednesday, October respectively. Andrew Dittmer of Vienna, 13, 1993. 1. VA, and Lenhard Ng of Chapel Hill, NC, Jeremy Bern, Ithaca High School, Ithaca,NY The workshop will offer practical insights received gold medals. Ng also won a gold into alternative curricular approaches and medal at last year's competition. Wei-Hwa 2.TimChklovski,TheBlakeSchool,Min• strategies for implementation. Participants Huang ofNorth Potomac, MD, andStephen neapolis,MN in this workshop will hear from faculty Wangof St. Charles, IL, won silver medals. members developing innovative instruc• Jeremy Bem of Ithaca, NY, and Tim 3.AndrewDittmer,JeffersonHigh School tional materials at colleges and universities Chklovski of Minneapolis, MN, were for Science and Technology, Alexan• including Duke, Harvard, New Mexico awarded bronze medals. dria, VA State, Oregon State, and Seattle Commu• 4. Wei-HwaHuang, MontgomeryBlair Prior to the competition, the U.S. students nityCollege.Thesecurriculumprojectshave participated in a month long training ses• High School,North Potomac,MD been supported by grants from the National sion held at the U.S. Military Academy at 5. LenhardNg, ChapelHill HighSchool, Science Foundation. Listen to the reactions WestPoint, NY,directed by Professor Cecil ChapelHill, NC of students and mathematics and science Rousseau of Memphis State University. faculty to these approaches. 6. StephenWang,St. Charles,IL Accompanying the team to Istanbul were How can your institution participate in this Professor Rousseau, Walter E. Mientka, video workshop? All you need is access to Executive Director of the American Math• a C-band or Ku-Band satellitedown link on ematics Competitions and also of the American Mathematics Competitions are thedayoftheprogram.Inaddition,youmust University of Nebraska, Anne Hudson of sponsored by: have a room with a video monitor or projec• Armstrong State College in Savannah, GA TheAmericanMathematicalAssociationof torand atelephone.The telephonewillallow and TituAndreoscu, a mathematics teacher Two-Year Colleges, The American Math• you to ask questions of the participants in at the Illinois Mathematics and Science ematical Society, The American Statistical the video workshop via an 800 telephone Academy. Association, The Casualty Actuarial Soci• number.Youare encouraged to invite other ety, The Mathematical Association of The U.S. team was chosen on the basis of concerned organizations and schools from America, Mu Alpha Theta, The National performance in the Twenty-second Annual your area to join in viewing and participat• Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and United States of America Mathematical ing in the workshop. Olympiad (USAMO), held in April. The Society of Actuaries. The registration fee is $50. Upon receipt of yourregistration form and fee, your sitewill Nominations for Distinguished Service be sent: A facilitator's guide with technical information ondown linking, camera-ready Awards Welcome copy for local advertising, and a "master's" viewers guide (to copy for all participants), Each year a member of the Association is given the Yueh-GinGung & Dr. Charles Y.Hu which includes an agenda, instructional ob• Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics for outstanding service to mathematics. jectives, presenter biographies, background The period of service may be long or short, and the award may be made on the basis of one notes, department-based audit of under• of several activities. The contribution should be such as to influence significantly the field graduate instruction; and publisher's of mathematics or mathematical education on a national scale. The winners of this award information for ordering any of the curricu• for 1990-1993 were Leon Henkin, Shirley Hill, Lynn Arthur Steen, and Henry O. Pollak. lum materials. The 1994 award will be announced at the January meeting in Cincinnati. Nominations for the 1995award should be sent to thecommittee chair by December I, 1993.The committee For registration forms, please call, or fax, members in 1993are: Lida K.Barrett,R.Creighton Buck, Leon Henkin, Mary Ellen Rudin, FrancisP.Collea at(310)985-2826, or(310) and Kenneth A. Ross (chair). 985-2829 (FAX). FOCUS October 1993 Networks in FOCUS E-Mail Systems on Campus The Key to Unencumbered Communications

The ideal academic messaging system is ware. "Decide who will offer the best prod• looked at e-mail as a way ofcommunicating capable of managing intra-campus commu• ucts, service, and support, and stick with with students. Adding it as an administra• nications and data transfer. them. The number one thing is planning," tive tool was secondary. This is the reverse says Ricchetti. ofmany other campuses, where the faculty As computers have changed the face of or department uses e-mail as a way to build American colleges, so has electronic mail Rosemary Barrett, analyst and programmer, a better memo. Also, as a medical school, changed the way students, faculty, and ad• InformationResource Center, Universityof the University of Mississippi mandates that ministrators interact. New Mexico, Albuquerque, recommends students purchase a computer in order to making sure there is adequate training. "We Computers have been a part ofcampus life attend the college, something that the aver• produce one-page 'cheat sheets' which list since well before the PC revolution. Initially, age publicly supported institution cannot all the essential commands," says Barrett. though, they were generally large, complex require. "You need to break this down to a simple mainframes that required specialized skills format, so users don't have to look things Some schools have taken e-mail to the limit, to operate. Today,most students and faculty up. And you must have ongoing support in offering classes by computer and access to are learning to harness the power of the the form of personnel. We don't feel that a large databases. This method enables stu• personal computer. For many, that's where department is serious about incorporating dents and teachers to "attend classes" and electronic mail comes in. E-mail, loosely e-mail unless they assign one person as a receive credit without leaving the house. If defined, refers to any digitally based mes• full-time network administrator." this seems impersonal and isolating, con• saging system accessed by several users in sider thate-mail exchangebetweena teacher a single workgroup. This ranges from a pas• In fact, the benefits of e-mail are legion. "It and a student represents one-on-one com• sive pay-per-use service, like MCI, to a speeds uptheprocess ofgetting thingsdone," munication, something which doesn't complicated document managementsystem, says George Kelso, acting director of com• happen in a large classroom. such as Lotus Notes. The ideal academic puting services for Montgomery College in system is somewhere in between,managing Rockville, Md. "Before e-mail, the usual "More so than any other technological pro• all aspects of intra-campuscommunications paper shuffling between our campusescould cess, e-mail has revolutionized how people and data-transfer needs. As an e-mail sys• take two or three days." work,"Scott says. "Extendedconversations tem helps to move information around take place, but it's not required that anyone Says Greg Scott, computing services man• campus, it must also connect to a variety of actually be on the other end. Faculty mem• ager for the College of Business at Oregon on-line databases and information sources. bers can collaborate on books and research State University in Eugene, ..E-mail tends papers with colleagues, and with the nature As e-mail becomes an increasingly impor• to flatten out the organizational hierarchy of this communication all scheduling con• tant part of campus life, it must blend into a and strip away the status associated with flicts disappear. Students can pose questions variety of existing environments. This goes rank." when they are fresh, and get a direct answer beyond the typical "how people work" struc• A good e-mail system does more than for• from the professor." ture to which every goode-mailsystem must ward messages and return receipts. Ithas the adapt. Most colleges have been less than ability to transmit formatted documents, Adding E-mail to an Existing cohesive in the acquisition of computing proprietary files, and graphics. Furthermore, Environment equipment, resulting in acomputing"Tower it should cut down on paperwork and allow of Babel." the distributionof electronic forms and other Barrettestimates that hooking up aPC to the listen to the Experts-The Us• administrative details. Says Steve Relyea, network costs about $700 per station. In fact, budgeting for computer equipment and e• ers vice chancellor for business affairs for the University of California, San Diego, "We mail systems adds one more dimension to the process every department head loves to Robin Ricchetti, network administrator, have entire projects where the only piece of hate. Mississippi State University College of paper involved isthefmalreport."The people Veterinary Medicine, suggests that you need at UC San Diego, however, may be slightly "There are a lot of different de-facto stan• to stay consistent within one group of soft- ahead of the times. Says Barrett: "There are dards of mail out there, and some of them still a lot of people who need to hold that are proprietary," says Jeff Webb, network This articlefirst appeared in the Higher Educa• memo, that piece of paper, in their hands." tion Product Companion, and is reprinted with permission from Syllabus Press. Ricchetti says that his departmentoriginally Please seeE-mail onpage 45 €l?------October 1993 FOCUS

newly-designed finance committee. The Section has created two levels of participa• FOCUS ON tion of Institutional Sponsors. INDIANA The fall meeting was held at Indiana University East in Richmond, IN, and featured speakers on control charts, earliest sunrises, discrete mathematics and SECTIONS geometry. The spring meeting was the Tri• section meeting, described as a great opportunity to have very interesting speak• This summaryofthe activities in the Sections in thepast year has ers and many student activities. A speakers beengleanedfrom theAnnualReportsandNewsletters oftheSec• list for student chapters is maintained by the Section. tions. It not only amply illustrates the myriad ofactivities in the INTERMOUNTAI N The annual spring Sections, but also gives some ideasfor your own Section. We urge meeting was held on April 9-10 at the Uni• you to shareinformation by havingyour secretary include it in the versity of Utah. The featured speakers were AnnualReport. P6lya Lecturer Patricia Rogers, Associate Secretary Kenneth Ross, and Lida Barrett. -John D. Neff, Interim Chair, Committee on Sections A short course,"Classical Geometry for Editor, FOCUS on Sections Undergraduates," was given by James Carlson. The meeting also featured a panel TRISECTION Special mention should be EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND discussion on the success ofthe "Lean and given to the joint meeting of the Indiana, DElAWAREThe fall meeting was held on Lively" calculus courses in the Section. Illinois and Michigansections, held onApril November 16 at Muhlenberg College and IOWAThe annual meeting was held April 23-24 at Saint Mary's College in Notre the spring meeting was held on April 3 at 16-17 at Luther College in Decorah, lA, in Dame, Indiana. This repeated the first joint Villanova University. The fall meeting fea• collaboration with the Iowa Mathematics meeting ofthe three sections in the spring of tured invited speakers President Donald L. Association ofTwo-YearColleges. The fea• 1943 at the University of Notre Dame. This Kreider, William Dunham, and John Horton tured speaker was FOCUS Editor Keith first joint meeting report was rediscovered Conway of Princeton University, as well as Devlin, who gave two talks.There werethree during research into the history of the Indi• a Student Paper Session and a panel discus• faculty paper sections as well as a student ana Section, and the three sections agreed to sion on "Encouraging ParticipationAmong paper section. Florence Fasanelli held a repeat the alliance on the fiftieth anniver• Underrepresented Groups." Two summer workshop on materials developed by sary. Professors Ivan Niven, P.M. Pepper, short courses were offered in June. The pro• SUMMA. A new feature this year was a RobertThrallandW.R. Utzwereatthe 1943 ceeds of a"blind" auctionofbooks displayed student mini-modeling competition, which meeting and were among the honored guests at the meeting were given to the section to provided arecord studentattendance, as well at the 1993 meeting. The 1993 featured help defray meeting expenses. as an increase in the number of faculty at• speakers were MAA Executive Director tending the meeting. There was a sharing Marcia Sward, Hugh Montgomery, Bruce FLORIDA The section had four regional session called "The State of Technology in Reznick and Robin Wilson of The Open meetings in addition to the annual spring the Iowa Section". University,England.Seethethreeindividual meeting at the University ofCentral Florida in Orlando. The annual meeting featured sections for further details. KANSAS The meeting was held on March invited speakers Secretary Gerald 12-13 at Emporia State University, in col• ALLEGHENYMOUNTAINTheannual Alexanderson, Joan Hutchinson, Peter laboration with the Kansas Association of meeting was held on April 16-17 at The Hilton and Jean Pederson, as well as Mark Two-Year Colleges and the Kansas Asso• Behrend College, Pennsylvania State Uni• Johnson and Huseyin Kocak from within ciation of Teachers of Mathematics. The versity in Erie. The invited speakers were Florida. The meetings of at least three other featured speakers were Ronald Graham of President Deborah T.Haimo, P6lya Lecturer organizations coincided with this annual AT&T Bell Labs, who gave two talks, and John Ewing of Indiana University, and meeting. Students are given a stipend from Melvin C. Thornton. Workshops and con• Crispin Nash-Williams. The banquetspeak• the Section to encourage them to attend the tributed paper sessions were also on the ers were Richard McDerrnot and Frank national meetings. program. Two student awards were given, Demana, who also conducted a minicourse one for the best undergraduate paper pre• on the use of calculators. There were four ILLINOISThe50thanniversary Trisection sented and one for the best graduate paper. sections of contributed faculty papers and meeting on April 23-24 was described as a Lunch and registration for the first 20 regis• three on contributed student papers. The tremendous success and the concept should tered students was free of charge. ninth annual Section SummerShort Course be explored further by other geographically contiguous sections.The Section hasa strong was conducted on June 21-25 at Allegheny KENTUCKYThe annual meeting was held secondary school lectureship program. Sec• College by Ralph Grimaldi ofRose- Hulman onApril 16-17atCentre College inDanville. tion governance has been improved with a Institute. The featured speakers were P6lya FOCUS October 1993

Lecturer John Ewing and Laszlo Babai of Don R. Lick ofEastern Michigan Univer• NORTH CENTRAL The fall meeting the University of Chicago. A short course sity and the Section DistinguishedTeaching was held on October 23-24 at Moorhead on Operations Research was presented, and Award was given to Douglas W. Nance of State University. The featured speakerwas a panel discussion on recent grants for im• Central Michigan University. The Section John Holte ofGustavus Adolphus College provement of undergraduate mathematics efforts resulted in a proclamation ofMath• and a workshop on student research instruction in Kentucky was held.There was ematics Awareness Week by the Governor projects was conducted by Douglas Kurtz increased student and two-year college fac• ofMichigan. The Section has a very active of New Mexico State University. The ulty participation. High School Visiting Lecture Program. The spring joint meeting with MinnMATYC dues structure includes a "Contributing was held in Monticello, MN on April 30• LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI The annual Member" category as well as "Institution May 1.The speakers at the general sessions meeting was held on March 5-6 at the Grand Member." were President Donald L. Kreider, Joseph Hotel Biloxi in Biloxi. The featured speaker Gallian, M.B. Rao, and Gail Nelson. This was President DonaldL. Kreider, who gave MISSOURI The annual spring meeting meeting at a resort/conference center fea• two addresses. The program included 20 was held on April 2-3 at Westminster Col• tured multiple presentations at each time contributed faculty papers and 14 student lege in Fulton. The invited speakers were slot and gave time for the exchangeofideas papers. Two short courses were offered on Secretary Gerald L.Alexanderson, two talks and materials. The Section SummerSemi• Friday morning, one called "Introduction by Robert McKelvey of the University of nar in July 1994 will feature Carl onWaveletTheory and ItsApplications"and Montana, and Tony Starfield of the Univer• Pomerance of the University of Georgia. the other called "Use of the Graphing Cal• sity of Minnesota. The program included culator." Mississippi State University won two sessions for contributed papers, two NORTHEASTERN The Section had two first place in the Student Competition, and panel discussions, a workshop on the TI-81 meetings this year.The fall meeting at Trin• four prizes were awarded in the Student calculator, and a Friday evening banquet, as ity College in Hartford featured speakers Papers judging. There were three panel dis• well as a breakfast for Department Chairs James Leitzel,Peter Hilton,andB.A. Fusaro, cussions on the program, including a student and MAA representatives. The Missouri and a spring meeting at the University of career panel. Mathematics Association for the Advance• Massachusetts-Dartmouth featured P61ya ment of Teacher Training «MAT)2 ) MARYLAND-DISTRICT OFCOLUM• LecturerJohnEwing,Thomas Banchoff,and conductedabusiness meeting and presented H.S.M.Coxeter.A minicourse,"Great'Theo• The fall meeting was held BIA-VIRGINIA a speaker. Invited speakers were co-spon• rems from Mathematical Analysis: at Coppin State College in Baltimore on sored by a private foundation, the hosting 1689-1881" was given by William Dunham November 13-14andthe spring meeting was college and the Section. A student reception of Muhlenberg College. Following the pre• held on April 16-17 at ChristopherNewport was co-sponsored by the Westminster Col• vious year's success, three more regional College in Newport News. At the spring lege chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon. dinner meetings were held, consisting of a meeting, the featured speakers were Peter dinner, discussion, and a mathematical talk. Hilton of the State University of New York NEBRASKA-SOUTHEAST SOUTH A Calculus Reform Workshop was held in at Binghamton and S. Brent Morris of the DAKOTA The annual meeting was held at June at the University of Maine, co-spon• National Security Agency, who claims to be the University ofSouth Dakota inVermillion sored by the University, the Section, and the only person in the world with a Ph.D. in on April 16-17. The featured speaker was NSF.The Section will sponsor aMathemati• card shuffling. Dr. Hilton spoke at the Fri• James Leitzel ofthe University of Nebraska. cal Sciences Career Conference at Bentley day evening banquet and Dr. Morris at the The programincluded apanel discussionon College in October, 1993. Saturday luncheon. Both meal functions "Calculators in the Classroom," as well as were prepared "by a real French chefat very the contributed faculty papers. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA The an• modest prices." There were six contributed nual meeting was held on February 20 at NEW JERSEY The fall meeting was held paper sessions and a mathematical model• the University of California at Berkeley. on Saturday, November 14, at Drew Uni• ing contest. The meeting format of having only invited versity. The featured speakers were Fern Y. speakers has worked very well for this METROPOLITAN NEW YORK The Hunt, Fan R.K. Chung, Doris Schatt• Section. This year's speakers were Irving fifty-second annual meeting was held on schneider, Cathleen S. Morawetz, and Thea Kaplansky, Vaughan Jones, Paul Halmos, May 1, at York College in Jamaica. There Pignataro. The spring joint meeting of the Jane Sangwine-Yager and Roland were sessions for contributedfaculty papers Section and MATYCNJ was held at Lamberson. The Section Distinguished and student papers on the program. The Middlesex County College on Saturday Teaching Award was presented to G.D. Section collaborates in the sponsorship of March 20. The program's featured speakers Chakerian of the University of California the Metropolitan New YorkMath Fair, to be wereP61yaLecturerPatriciaK. Rogers, Paul at Davis. The Section noted the passing of held on March 7 and March 21,1994. Halmos, Henry Pollak, Joseph Gallian, John one of its founders, Harold M. Bacon of L. Baldan, and Luz 1.Pinzon. Each meeting MICHIGAN The annual meeting was Stanford University. was followed by a dinner. There has been part of the Trisection meeting discussed increased attendance by students, thanks in OHIOThe fall meeting was held at Xavier earlier. This jointmeeting worked very well part to an Exxon grant. Financial support to University in Cincinnati on October 30-31 and other sections are encouraged to con• authors bytheirpublishers hasalsoincreased and featured talks by David S. Moore of sider such a venture. The Section attendance. Purdue University and Jim Albert of Bowl• Distinguished ServiceAward was given to ingGreenStateUniversity, as well as apanel October 1993 FOCUS discussion "The Course for Prospective at Binghamton on April 23-24. The invited pers in the afternoon and a banquet in the Elementary School Teachers." The spring speakers were Peter Hilton, Frank Giordano evening, honoring the Section's first News• meeting was held on April 16-17 at Kent and P6lya Lecturer John Ewing. The Harry letter Editor, Edward Gaughan, and the State University, with an address by outgo• M. Gehman Lecture was given by Douglas winner ofthe Section'sDistinguishedTeach• ing Section president Al Stickney and an Ravenel ofthe University ofRochester. Both ing Award, David Pengelley. On Saturday, invited talk by Treasurer Gerald Porter, as meetings had sessions for contributed pa• more papers were presented and David well as a student microcourse/workshop pers by faculty and by students. The Invited Lovelock presented a workshop "Enhanc• "Fractals" and a panel discussion "Profes• Lecture in Mathematics Education will be ing Mathematics Education Using sional Recognition and Rewards." renamed the John F. Randolph Lecture, Technology." The meeting location in honoring a colleague who spent more than Socorrowas describedas a real treat: a beau• OKLAHOMA-ARKANSAS The annual 40 years in the Section until his death in tiful university in a historic setting. meeting was held March 26-27 at Oral Rob• 1988. erts University in Tulsa. There were 66 TEXAS The annual meeting was held on contributedtalks, afaculty workshop"Tech• SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The fall April 1-3 at Abilene Christian University in nology in the Classroom," led by Jerry meetingwas held on November7 attheUni• Abilene. The meeting attracted 274 partici• Johnson and Benny Evans of Oklahoma versity ofSouthemCalifornia,LosAngeles, pants, including 97 students, and featured a State University, and a student workshop in conjunction with a meeting ofthe Ameri• shortcourse byJameaC, Bradford and David "IntroductiontoCryptology," led byTommy can MathematicalSociety.The program was K. Hughes, "MAPLE,AComputerAlgebra LeavelleofMississippiCollege. The invited invited addresses only, with the MAA in• System";fourinvited addresses, 29 contrib• speakers were MAA Executive Director vited addresses given by FOCUS Editor uted papers, 22 student papers and a student Marcia P. Sward and P61ya Lecturer John Keith Devlin, WA.1. Luxemburg, Jerrold workshop on MAPLE. The invited addresses Ewing, who was also designated the N.A. E. Marsden, and Harris S. Shultz, the were given by Executive Director Marcia Court Lecturer. There was a Friday evening Section's 1992Distinguished TeacherAward Sward, Section Distinguished Teaching banquet and two Saturday luncheons, one winner. The spring meeting was held on Award winner (1992) Robert S. Doran, Ed for DepartmentHeads and the otherfor Stu• March 6 at California State University, San Dubinsky and LindaJ.S. Allen. In addition, dent Chapters and Faculty Sponsors. Marcos. The program included invited ad• department heads, institutional representa• dresses by P6lya Lecturer Patricia Rogers, tives,two-yearcollegefacultymembersand PACIFIC NORTHWEST The annual Dan Kalman, Richard Wilson, and also two MAA student chapter advisors met in spe• meeting was held on March 6 at the Univer• panel discussions. This spring meeting at cial sessions. The initial fear that conflicting sityofPugetSound. Ben Fusaroof Salisbury San Marcos marked the first meeting of a activities in a short time frame would hurt State University discussed the history and scholarly organization on the campus ofthe participation was unfounded and, in fact, development of the Annual Mathematical first new university in the State University the more activities, the betterthe chances of Conteston Modeling. The luncheonspeaker System in 25 years. enticing attendees. wasFrank Morgan ofWilliams College.Two workshops called"TheGeometry ofMulti• SOUTHEASTERN The annual meeting WISCONSIN The annual meeting was variable Calculus" will be given in June at was held at the University of South Caro• held onApril 16-17 at the UniversityofWis• Spokane and in September at Seattle. The lina, Coastal Carolina College, Conway, on consin Center-Fox Valley at Menasha. The Section has had increasing success involv• April 2-3. The three invited speakers were Section DistinguishedTeaching Award was ing students in the annual meetings. The FOCUS Editor Keith Devlin, and the given to Phillip D. Straffin, Jr., and the Sec• Section paid the expenses ofthe University Section's Distinguished Teaching Award tion Meritorious Service Award went to of Alaska's winning modeling team who winners Anne Hudson (1992) and Robert Norbert1. KuenzI. The banquetspeakerwas discussed their experiences. The size (area) Bryant (1993). Three short courses "HP-48 Mathematics Magazine Editor Martha 1. of the Section is the topic ofrecent discus• withApplicationstoCalculus Topics," "Pre• Siegel of Towson State University. Other sions at the meetings. paring a Successful Grant Proposal," and invited addresses were given by Lowell "Number Theory" by newly-named P6lya Beineke, Joel W Robbin, and Richard A. ROCKY MOUNTAINThe annual meet• LecturerCarl Pomerance, were offered.Two Brualdi. The program included 42 contrib• ingwas held at the Colorado School ofMines popular events for students and advisors uted papers and apanel discussion on current in Golden on April 2-3. John Kenelly of were a pizza lunch, and the ever-popular calculus reform projects. Clemson University was thebanquet speaker "T.A. Rush," where students could obtain on Friday and also gave the keynote address information about graduate schools.There Get ready, on Saturday. There was a special session were two joint NAM-MAA panel discus• honoring Section Governor John Hodges. sions on Minority Participation and on MATH HORIZONS SEAWAY The fall meeting was held on Women and Mathematics. IS November 13-14 at Cornell University. The SOUTHWESTERN The annual meeting Invited Lecture in Mathematics Education was held at New MexicoInstitute of Mining was given by WiliamE. Boyce ofRensselaer and Technology in Socorro on April 16-17. COMING. Polytechnic Institute. The spring meeting The Friday program included a SUMMA was held at the State UniversityofNew York workshop in the morning, contributed pa- See page 11. FOCUS October 1993 1993 Section Winners for Distil

George E. Andrews James R. Boone Robert Brigham Robert Bryant Pennsylvania State University Texas A&M University University ofCentral Florida Duke University Allegheny Mountain Section Texas Section Florida Section Southeastern Section

Kay William Dundas Paul R. Halmos * I. Martin Isaacs Genevieve Knight Hutchinson Community College Santa Clara University University ofWisconsin Coppin State University Kansas Section Northern California Section Wisconsin Section Maryland-DC-Virginia Section

Eileen L Poiani J. J. Price * Jack M. Robertson David Sprows St. Peter's College Purdue University Washington State University Villanova University New Jersey Section Indiana Section Pacific Northwest Section Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Section The highlight of most section meetings this and make presentations at theAnnual Meet• We are so proud spring was the presentation oftheir Awards ing in January 1994 in Cincinnati. For the for Distinguished College or University names ofthe recipients of the first national of our outstanding Teaching ofMathematics. awards, together with their pictures, please see the April 1993 FOCUS, pp. 6-7. During the national meeting in Vancouver, teachers that we the MAA Board ofGovernors approved the On September 25, 1993, Section Sec• nomination ofPaul R. Halmos, Santa Clara retaries were sent information on the are running their University; Justin 1. Price, Purdue Univer• nominations for the third (1994) Sec• sity; and Alan Tucker, SUNY-Stony Brook tion Awards. The guidelines are pictures again! as the 1993 national awardees (indicated essentially the same as for the 1993 by*). These three awardees will be honored Awards. The nomination form is un- ~ October 1993 FOCUS ~uished Mathematics Teaching

James N. Cannon Allan Cochran David Cohen Gerald Dia: Brigham Young University University ofArkansas University ofCalifornia-Los Angeles United States Air Force Academy Intermountain Section Oklahoma-Arkansas Section Southern California Section Rocky Mountain Section

Thomas Moore Dale Mugler Doug Nance David Pengelley Bridgewater State College University ofAkron Central Michigan University New Mexico State University Northeastern Section Ohio Section Michigan Section Southwestern Section

Mel Thornton Alan Tucker * Martha Watson Stephen West University ofNebraska SUNY - Stony Brook Georgetown College SUNY - Geneseo Nebraska Section Metropolitan New York Section Kentucky Section Seaway Section changed.Watchfordetailsin yoursec• Marchurging any memberofthe sec• recipient of the award, remember that the tion newsletter. tion to "send a one page letter in nomination by itself is a distinct honor and Some sections have been concerned supportofanoutstandingteacherand also that the candidate can be nominated again if not selected the first time. that, while the candidates who were the Section Committee will ask the nominated were outstanding, the candidate'sdepartmentchairtocom• The more outstanding candidates that are number of nominations has been plete the nomination form." nominated, the easier it will be to maintain the high quality ofthe awards, which was so smaller than they would have liked. The national committee urges all members successfully establishedby the first two sets They therefore have devised strate• ofthe Association to think ofworthy candi• of winners. gies to increase the number of dates for these awards and nominatethem to nominations.Forexample,the North• the appropriate section committee. Even if Be sure to send nominations to your section eastern Section sent out a flyer in your candidate should not be selected as a secretaries! ! FOCUS October 1993 Editorial

TheresolutionpassedbytheMAA'sBoard debate and the final decisionto move, had either way, the Association would be the of Governors at the January Joint Meet• the potential to provoke an acrimonious loser. ings in SanAntonio, to move the January exchange, but this did not occur. FOCUS has received six letters protest• 1995 Joint Meetings from Denver, Colo• The views expressed at the joint session ing the decision. The three published in rado, to San Francisco, California, was indicatedaclearsentimentin favorofmov• this issue are representative of the views bound to be controversial. ing the meetings, andthe final votes were expressed in those letters. (One writer As reported in the February FOCUS, the verydecisive. Butthere were voicesraised asked that his letter be published without decisionwasnot lightlyarrivedat; indeed, against moving, and it was clear that his name.ThisI cannotdo.) It is the nature for the first time ever, the MAA gover• among the memberships at large, not ev• ofsuch situations that only the protesting nors andtheAMSCouncilmettogetherin eryone would agree with the final side takes pen to paper, so the letters I a joint session to debate the matter. That outcome. Some mightfeel thatthe MAA, received cannot be assumed to indicate a debate was long, thoughtful, and well in• as an organizationofmathematicians,has majority view. Indeed, to go by the Gov• formed, and both governing bodies no business even debating the matter, let ernors' January vote, they express a deserve immense credit for the respon• alonecomingto the decisionit did. But, as minority view. Butit is a view that, I feel, sible manner in which they took on such was expressedduring the jointdiscussion deserves to be heard. a difficult issue. The electoral decision in in San Antonio, once the Colorado elec• Colorado to remove certain statutory re• tors had cast their votes the way they did, The above are the opinions ofthe FOCUS strictions on discrimination against not to have such a debate would alsohave editor, and do not necessarily represent the homosexuals, which is what led to the been unacceptable to many members; so official view ofthe MM. Opinion

To the Editor,

I am writing to express my disappointment number of individuals withinthemathemati• Dear Professor Devlin, with a resolution passed by the governing cal community. Politicization of the AMS boards ofthe AMS and the MAA regarding and the MAA should be avoided at all costs a possible change in venue for the 1995 if the two organizations are to keep their I was disappointed to learn in the June issue annual meetings. First, let me say that after focus on their true mathematical missions. ofFOCUS that the Joint Meetings Commit• discussing the issue with Michael Artin, tee succumbed to"political correctness"and Marcia P. Sward, and others at the San An• moved the 1995meeting scheduled for Den• tonio meetings, I understand the decision to Although it may be too late to change the ver. I was looking forward to being once try to move the meetings, and I am not op• wording of this resolution, I hope that any again inthebeautifulstateofColorado.Don't posed to such a change. other public statements by the organizations look for me in San Francisco, I won't be regarding this issue can be made in a politi• My disappointmentin the matter stems from there. This will be my way ofstating to the cally neutral manner. I also hope that in the the wording of the resolution. The resolu• MAA that we should be in the "mathemat• future, more care will be taken regarding tion states that the actions taken by the voters icsbusiness," and notget distracted by issues such issues. in Colorado were "wrong." Whether or not which, although important intheirown right, we agree with this statement, the AMS and are not the business ofthe MAA. the MAA have no business taking a political Sincerely, stand inanon-mathematical issue,especially Sincerely, an issue as volatile as this one. In my opin• Bryan Dawson ion, this resolution clearly steps outside the AssistantProfessor ofMathematics john Watson bounds of propriety. Such a political state• ment is unnecessary; the meetings can be Emporia State University Arkansas Tech University moved without taking an official stand that has the potential to alienate a significant October 1993 FOCUS Opinion

Dear Dr.Devlin, I am writing in response to the two articles which generate police reports. For this rea• profession? After all, the purpose of the as• in FOCUS that deal with the MANAMS son the MAA had no business making any sociation is to benefit its members. There vote to move the Winter 1995 meeting out statements against the state of Colorado. seems no real reason for meddling in politi• of Denver, Colorado. cal or social issues when such meddling Another point to be considered is whether cannot help the association and the benefits The decision to move the joint MANAMS the citizens of Colorado actually hate ho• to the association are so nebulous. This ac• meeting from Denver to, subsequently, San mosexuals. I think not for several reasons. tion by the Board ofGovernors will neither Francisco, was made because the voters of One reason is the lack of anti-sodomy laws help the MAA nor will the members receive the state ofColorado allegedly chose to dis• in the state. Anotherreason is that the voters professional benefits. criminate against homosexuals in the in Coloradohave aclearidea ofexactly what passage oftheir Amendment2. I believe the the phrase "homosexualrights"means. This I believe that the action taken by the MAA action by the MAABoardofGovernors was understanding came out in a poll released Board of Governors against the state of both hastily done and totally inappropriate. January 8,1993, by the Denver Post which Colorado by moving the 1995 meeting out showed that fifty-four percent (54%) ofthe of Denverwas wrong. It was wrong because If homosexuals were suddenly denied their respondents agreed with the statement, it was ill-conceived. It was wrong becauseit civil rights by the passage ofAmendment 2, "When homosexuals talk about gay rights lacked proper investigation. It was wrong then the MAA's action might have been what they are really saying is that they want because it says that all membersofthe MAA appropriate. This question was asked of special treatment." The actions of homo• are for "homosexual rights". It was wrong Ignacio Rodrigues, a former member ofthe sexual groups as reported in various news because it defamed the credibility ofmath• Colorado Civil Rights Commission. His accounts certainly gives credence to this ematics and mathematicians. It was wrong answer, which must be credible, is as fol• viewpoint. So, if the phrase "homosexual because it made mathematicians appear as lows, "The United States Constitution rights" reallymeans "special treatment," then busy-bodies with nothing better to do than guaranteed civil rightstoallcitizens.Amend• the action of the MAA means that it is offi• interfere with other people's lives. It was ment 2 in no way compromises that." So, if cial MAA policy to support and promote wrong because it made mathematicians ap• civil rights accorded to all citizens is still "special treatment" for an individual who pearto be uninterested in the things that are guaranteed for homosexuals, then the ques• happens to be a homosexual. If so, then a essential to the profession: good mathemat• tion ofthe sudden increaseofdiscrimination direct policy statement saying so should ics and good teaching. is untrue. For this reason the MAA has no come from the Board ofGovernors. Ifnot, ground for making any statement against I think the MAA is now standing with egg then the MAA had no basis making any state• the state of Colorado. on its face, and should be ashamed of the ment against the state ofColorado. actions ofits BoardofGovernors. I think the Many ofthe national wire services reported I have now dealt with the haste in which the MAAoughtto apologizeto the voters ofthe a dramatic increase in crimes againsthomo• MAA has acted, now I will give reasons state ofColoradofor its actions, and do what sexuals after passage of Amendment 2. If why the action was inappropriate. First of is necessary to regain their goodwill. the number ofcrimes against homosexuals all, I believe the decision on meeting sites is actually did increase then the MAA might well within the purview of the Board of have been justifiedin making a public state• Governors to decide. However, I do not Sincerely, mentofsome type. However, as pointedout believe it is within the jurisdiction of the intheRockyMountainNews,Denver'slarg• Stephen Hennagin Board of Governors to set policy on social est newspaper and a strong opponent of issues without consulting the membership. Arkadelphia, Arkansas Amendment 2, "the reported incidents [of This is what the Boardhas done. The MAA increased crimes against homosexuals] are has acrediblerecord in its attemptsto recruit not by a disinterested outside agency or or• women into mathematics, and this latter ganization, but rather by gay leaders, and Get set, decision was not made by an ivory tower their sense of besiegement does not corre• elite, but by consultation from its members. spond with the impressions of other close MATH HORIZONS But now the Board ofGovernors has taken observers such as the police and the Denver upon itselfto be the conscienceofthe MAA, mayor's office." This quote simply states will be sent to and that is just wrong. that the reports of increased crimes against your department free. homosexuals were generated by the homo• Second, what does a professional associa• sexuals themselves and not by actual events tion have to do with matters outside the See page 45. FOCUS October 1993

mentthat I was justgoing to try to be myself The New Job Diary anddo the bestjobpossible, and if theydon't like me here, then I'll get another position EdwardAboufadel somewhereelse. (Ifyoureadmy Job Search Diary, you realize what a cocky statement Those ofyou whofollowedhisregular "Job that is.) However,I havebeenself-conscious Search Diary" last year, written as Ed about how I relate to other faculty in my struggled to find his first academic posi• department. "AmI getting on herbadside?" tion after completing his PhD at Rutgers, "How many of these committees should I will know that he finally managed to se• volunteer for?" cure a tenure-track position at Southern Connecticut State University. Soon after As far as committees go, I have volunteered he took up his new appointment, FOCUS for the DepartmentCurriculumCommittee, that account to get it to feel like my familiar asked Ed ifhe would keep another diary, for the Department Student Affairs Com• Rutgers account. I still haven't got a good recording his experiences andimpressions mittee, and for a subcommittee ofthe DCC idea, though,aboutprintingfiles aroundhere. during hisfirstyearas an assistantprofes• which is designing a new, interdisciplinary TheVAX andthe UNIXhaveseparateprint• sor of mathematics. The result makes major. I also almostendedup on the Depart• ers' and neither of them are in the building fascinating reading, as you will discover ment Sabbatical Committee after I tied for that my office is in. fourth in the election for that committee. for yourself over the coming months, as I also continue to learn that a lot ofteaching FOCUSpublishes his diary in serialform. 3. When am I going to do research? I have involves counseling and psychology. Some -Keith Devlin, FOCUS editor found it hard so far to do anything even re• of my students suffer from a real lack of lated to research. I spent one morning at the confidence about their mathematical abil• October 6, 1992: The first installment libraries at Yale, but I have been busy be• ity. In my first six weeks here, I think halfof of my "Job Search Diary" was published tween teaching and buying (i.e., charging) the time that I've spent in office hours with last week in FOCUS. A number of people things for my apartment. I have yet to find a students involved hand-holding and thought that it would be a good idea if I good role model at Southern in this regard. cheerleading rather than going over an ob• begin a second diary, my "New Faculty Many faculty here are not active research• scurepointin the text. Is Mathematics some Diary", to relate to the world my experi• ers. Some are, however. Do they do their sort of Rorschach test, bringing students' ences in my new position. I only wish that I research during the summer? emotions into sharp relief? or someone else had thought ofthis sooner. 4. Am I teaching my courses at the right October 16, 1992:An academic posi• I have been working at Southern Connecti• level? Lastyearat Rutgers, I taught Honors tion is supposed to be a quietone, so why do cut State University sinceAugust24. These Calculus in the fall and NumericalAnalysis I have to keep dealing with salesmen?In the first six weeks have been rather trying, as I in the spring. This fall I am teaching two past two weeks, I have had four or five text• have gotten accustomed to my new apart• sections ofCalculus II and a section ofPre• booksalespeopleknockon my doorwanting ment, to New Haven, and to my job. Here calculus. So far, the results on examinations to talk for a while. Each one is interested in are some ofthe issues that I have had to deal have been mediocre. I wonder if the exams which courses I am teaching in the spring with in my job so far: are too hard, the studentsaren'tthat good, or and whetheror not I have decided on which 1. What should I wear every day? It may ifIjusthaven't been teaching well. My col• books I want to use. (Here at Southern, we seem strange to start with this, but the first leagues have described my exams as "a bit don't have a textbook committee.) on the hard side". Maybe I should look at three weeks here it really bothered me. I Amazingly, they send me free ofcharge any this Fall Semester as an opportunity to es• noticed that some ofthe male professors in book that I want. my departmentweara suit and tie everyday, tablish a reputation as a Difficult Professor, some weara tie but no jacket, andeveryone and then mellow out. I wonder what background you need to be a textbooksalesperson. Itis clearthata knowl• seems to wear a dress shirt, although per• 5. Computers have been a big issue for me. edgeofmathematics is not necessary. Many haps not impeccably pressed. I started off During my last two years at Rutgers, I got ofthese people have somewhatofa script to wearing a dress shirt, nice pants (ones that closely attached to my computer account, read from, and they struggle with many of need to be dry cleaned), and a tie. However, using it to write my dissertation, to write the the terms ofour profession. when you teach twelve hours a week, you JobSearchDiary, to sendand receivee-mail, get a lot ofchalk on you. I soon abandoned andfor otheramusementssuch as the Usenet Given the concern about the cost of text• the nice pants for less expensive ones (but Bulletin Board. It was a UNIX system. I books, I've started asking how much their not jeans), purchased some sportier ties (on arrived here and got a VAX account. There products cost students. The salespeople credit, ofcourse, sinceit tooka while before are also a number ofPCs in the department seemed surprised by my question. One per• I was paid), and tried to go for the flashy and it appears that word processing is done son, somewhat defensively, I thought, said young professor look. So far, so good. on them. I wanted my UNIX back. AndI got at first thatit didn'tmattersinceall the books 2. Worrying about tenure. Tenure is on a lot it. TheComputerScienceDepartmenthada on this subject (Finite Mathematics) cost ofpeople'sminds. Thefirst weekhere, I told UNIX lab that I was able to get an account about the same. She then admitted that the a memberofthe ComputerScience Depart- on. It then took a couple days to customize textwouldcosta student$40. I was shocked @------October 1993 FOCUS to learn that the student's version ofDerive dealing with the complaints of one of my primarily what is wanted from Southern costs $50. Perhaps I was shocked that the students, which has also been troubling me. faculty, and, from all appearances, this is price didn't seem to bother the salesperson I had a similar experience when I taught a what my colleagues in the mathematics de• at all. section ofIntermediateAlgebra at Rutgers. partment do with their time. They are on So, what do I do with all these sample texts The students did not do impressive work, university-widecommittees,they are experi• I receive? Well, there have been textbook and I felt responsible. While at Rutgers, I menting with computers and graphing buyers soliciting me too, and they are more learnedto adjustmy expectations ofmyself. calculatorsin their classrooms, and they like aggressivethan the textbooksellers. The first I think I am starting over here at Southern. to talk about these things. Ifsomeone in the week I was here, the first of these buyers departmentis applyingfor an NSFgrantthis I guess one thing that also weighs on me is started studying my bookshelf and offered fall, I don't know about it. If someone is when I am evaluatedby the evaluationcom• me $15 for Munkres' Topology.I said, "No, about to have a paper published in, say, the mittee next semester. I want the committee thank you." Last week three textbook buy• Bulletin of the AMS, then I don't know to approve of the work I am doing in the ers knocked on my door. These buyers buy about that either. classroom. I am feeling alittle insecureabout booksto sell to bookstoreswholesaleas used that work right now. This connectsto anotherreasonmy research books. is stagnant: motivation. As a graduate stu• On the other hand, a member ofmy depart• I'vehad a few discussions with faculty here dent, I had a cleargoal: earn that Ph.D., and ment last week asked me how my classes about theethics ofthis situation. For instance, certain people (particularly my thesis advi• were going. He asked me if anyone had I couldconceivably ask eachofthe textbook sor) were there to assist me and to push me dropped out ofany ofmy courses yet. I told sellers to send me three or four books, and towards that goal. Now things are not so him that some people had, and that some then tum around and sell these books to a clear. IfI want to stay at Southern and get others that remained were going to get a textbookbuyer. I could makea lot ofmoney tenure, it is not necessary for me to have an midterm grade of"F'. He told me that that this way !But itdoesn'tseemright. At South• impressiveresearchrecordas long as I dem• was good - ifno one was dropping any of em, manyofthe professors, ifthey sell some onstrate creative research activity in some my courses, then they'd start wondering ofthese desk copy books, put the money in other way (e.g. redesign a course). about the job I was doing. a department fund that helps pay for a stu• Nor is my environment particularly suited dent picnic. I can feel good about that. November 1: The ever-present tension for doing research. The Southern library is between research and teaching has been on I'm still waiting for the salesperson from not a research library, while the Yale library my mind lately. Texas Instruments to come back. She lent is not as convenientas I would like. I am not me a nice graphing calculator and said she First, a confession: I haven't done any re• satisfied with the computer support here, would return in three weeks to get it back. search since I finished my dissertation five either. That was in August. months ago. I did spend a little time this Nor have I even come close to deciding summerworking on a paperin mathematics October 26, 1992:An interesting re• whether I want to stay at Southern. education with Gerald Goldin of Rutgers sponsibility of mine at Southern is to give University, but that's it. I spent the rest of the Ideally, three years or so from now, I'llmake midtermgrades to my students. Thesegrades summerworkingforaYoung Scholar'sPro• that decision. Developing my research cre• are not official, but they do give students a gram, travelling, and movingtoConnecticut. dentials is VERY importantif!wantto have clear sense of how they are doing in their any choices in a few years (while hoping for courses. I had to comeup with gradesfor my Nor have I found any time to do research a better job market). It would be wise if I students before October 23. during my first two months at Southern. I follow Dr. Goldin's advice to "set up a cer• have spenta little time looking at a few jour• As a result, I believe that every professor at tain time to do research and make that time nals, studying their criteria for submitted Southerngaveeitheran examinationor quiz inviolate. Don'teven come into the office." papers, but currently my research program last week just as I did, which meant that is in limbo. Underlying all of this, though, is the ques• other than examining my students, I did not tion: "Do I want to do research?" Certainly get too much accomplished in my class this I think there are a lot ofreasons for this. For I stated that I did on all my applicationletters week. one, it has taken me a little time to adjust to last winter. The perfectionist in me says that my new surroundings. Not only is this a new Since my position is primarily a teaching if I cannot answer that question with an job for me, it is a new life. position, and since I was hired in part be• unconditional "Yes!" then the answer must cause of my experience at Rutgers, I have Being a faculty memberrequires a different be "No." (Much like "Do I love you?") spent a lot oftime involvedwith my courses focus than being a graduate student. A ma• Despite the anxiety, I enjoyed working on and have investeda lot ofemotions in teach• jorpart ofthat focus, at least at Southern, is my dissertation, and I really believe that I ing. This week was a bit depressing for me. teaching and curriculum. I am beginning to would enjoy doing more research. In my two sections ofCalculus, the students recognize now the questions asked of me did not do very well on a quiz I gave which during my interview here in April have led I remember once in a psychology course a covered integration techniques. My Precal• me to devote mostofmy time and energy to lecture about extrinsic motivation versus culus sectiondid a good jobon the examthat the classroom and to committee work. It is intrinsic motivation. As a person matures, I gave, but I have been having a problem my understanding that this sort of work is Please see Job Diary on page 14 FOCUS October 1993

The mathematics departments and the edu• Video Conference to Stimulate Math• cation departments need to collaborate. Faculty from both departments must become ematical Education Reform aware of the new standards for teaching and prepare their students appropriately. They Creating a Climate for Change - Math effective in meeting the NCTM Standards; should incorporate the latest research in Leads the Way is a six-hour interactive and specific training for participants to be• mathematics and learning into their teach• videoconference to be held on October 2, come "change agents" in their own ing. 1993 at 150 sites across the nation. Devel• communitiesby conducting workshops and oped by Math Connection in collaboration giving presentations. The I90 representativesfrom the MAAwho with the Mathematical Sciences Education have been selected to attend the The participating organizations agree that Board, WQED (a Pittsburgh PBS station), videoconference have an important role to education cannot progress without change and the Public Agenda Foundation, it seeks play in these reform efforts in mathematics and that resistance to change must be dealt to promote change in mathematics educa• education. At the Joint Meetings in January with by those who have the power to make tion in local communities through the use of 1994,they willhold a workshoptotrainother change happen at the policy level and in the live presentations, on-site group work, panel MAAmembershow to workeffectively with classroom. MAAmembershave that power. discussions, and question-and-answer ses• their communities to create change in their sions. Selected community and business As the educational reform of mathematics schools. leaders willjoinrepresentatives ofthe Math takes hold in the K-12 classrooms, future The Math Connection is a partnership of the Connectionas participants in the video con• students of mathematics entering higher following organizations: The American ference. education will have different expectations Association of Colleges for Teachers of from students today. They will be experi• This day-long video conference is intended Education; The American Association of encing working in small groups, applying to provide participants with training which School Administrators; The Mathematical mathematics to real life problems, using will enable them to help others in their re• Association of America; The National As• manipulatives and the latest technology as spective schools and communities to get sociation ofElementary School Principals; tools, and connecting mathematics to other involvedin local educationreform. The pro• The National Association of Secondary disciplines. Higher education classes in gram will include: a discussion about School Principals; The National Associa• mathematics must change to meet the needs reforming both classroom practice and atti• tion of State Boards of Education; The of those students, providing them with the tudes about mathematics; a presentation of National Council of Teachers ofMathemat• interactive environment to which they have successful reform efforts by local schools ics; and The National School Boards grown accustomed. and a university which trains teachers to be Association.

cational Testing Service in Princeton. They Job Diary from page 13 ofrenewal (or not) from the President ofthe are experimenting with putting open-ended university, is to be completed by the begin• he or she is influenced less by others and questions on the SAT,and they hired me and ning ofMarch. more by what is within himself or herself. a few dozen other people to help grade a I have two concerns that I want to address in Perhaps, when it comes to doing research, sample of exams given to students this year. this process. One is what seems to me to be that is what I am struggling with right now. It was very interesting, and ETS would be the large numberof students who have with• happy if I didn't say anything else. November 17: so, after analyzing my• drawn from my courses thisfall.At this point, self at the beginning of the month, I got to November 22: Myfirst semester as a I have maybe two students who are failing. work. I am beginning to prepare a manu• new professor is almost over, so, ofcourse, The other strugglers have disappeared. script based on the first chapter of my it is time for a review of new faculty to de• My second concern is my research work so dissertation. Ialso had a meeting with Gerald termine which ones willbe rehired next year. Goldin in New Jersey concerning our paper far. I have already written extensively about on math education. I hope that I have some• Now, as I am in a tenure-track position, I this in this diary, but a recent conversation thing substantial by the end ofthe semester, believe that my contract will be renewed. that I had with a colleague is insightful: A which is coming up quick. After all, I am not a troublemaker. However, memo was sent out from the Dean soliciting thisexercise inbureaucracyneeds tobe taken applications for "reassigned time for re• Also coming up soon is the review offirst• seriously. search." Basically, if approved, a faculty year faculty. I have to put together a folder membercan teach 9 credits next fall instead based on my work here so far,and my classes The Department Evaluation Committee (DEC) will be observing my classes in De• of 12, and the extra time is for research. I will be visited by a department committee. asked this colleague, "Is this appropriate for cember,and again inFebruary.(Interestingly, Note to new faculty: your first day on the a new faculty member?" My thinking was although I'vebeen teaching forthree months, job, start a folder and/orcomputerfile called that with the emphasis on teaching at South• I have not been monitored.) Also, I need to "Accomplishments." Keep track ofcommit• ern, to apply for reassigned time might be organize a portfolio ofstudent evaluations, tee work, professional meetings you attend, sending the wrong message. He didn't see a old tests, supporting letters and documents, and letters of appreciation that you receive. problemwith it.However, he didn'tstrongly and an essay. There will also be an inter• encourage me to apply, either. Also, I spent this past weekend at the Edu- view.The whole process, climaxing inaletter To be continued... @------October 1993 FOCUS

Cincinnatifrom page 1 • StephenMonk, University ofWashington, "Whatdoes it mean to understand a math• MEETINGS PROGRAM Also ofinteresttostudents isanAMS-MAA• ematicalconcept? Itdependson your point SIAM-sponsored panel discussion, "Effec• GUIDE of view." tive job seeking in today's market." Schedule of Events 16 • Brad G. Osgood, Stanford University, Highlights ofthe MAA portion ofthe joint "Circlepacking and conformal mappings." The Scientific Program 20 meetingsaretheawardsofthevariousMAA prizes, and the retiring presidential address Among the 17minicourses listed are one on Important Deadlines 20 of Past President Deborah Tepper Haimo, "The mathematics of the perfect shuffle," 77th Annual Meeting of the MAA 21 who has entitled her address "Experimenta• by S. BrentMorris, NSA, and anothertitled tion and conjecture are not enough." "Interactivecomputergraphics laboratories MAA Minicourse Descriptions 21 for introductory differential equations," The presenters at the SUMMA Workshop Contributed Paper Sessions 24 given by Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown. on Intervention Projects for Minority MAA Teaching Awards PrecollegeStudents, organized by SUMMA Attendees interestedin learning about inter• Presentations 26 Director William Hawkins, are Joaquin active mathematics texts can drop in at the Bustoz, Arizona State; Roger Contreras, poster session organizedby ElizabethTeles, Advance Registration & Texas at Brownsville; and Robert NSF and Montgomery College, and spon• Hotel Accommodations 31 Megginson, Michigan. sored by the Committee on Computers in How to Obtain Hotel Mathematics Education, and go to the talk The MAA Invited Addresses are: Accommodations 34 The promise of interactive texts, given by • Deane Arganbright, Whitworth College, James E.White, InstituteforAdvancedTech• Advance Registration Form 36 "Mathematics and the ubiquitous spread• nology. MAA Minicourse sheet: visualization, conceptualization,and All this and much more. Ofcourse, you will Registration Form 38 applications." be able to read the report ofthe meeting in Employment Register 39 •William W.Dunham,MuhlenbergCollege, the February issue of FOCUS. But it would "Euler's extraordinary sums." be far better to brave the cold and the snow Map of Downtown Cincinnati 44 and see for yourself. See you there! FOCUS October 1993

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR CINCINNATI 11:10-12:00 AMS-MAA Invited Address: A tale oftwo groups, Georgia M. Benkart, University ofWis• Tuesday, January 11 consin 8:30-4:00 Board ofGovernors' Meeting 7:00-8:00pmPanel Discussion: Life after Retirement, moder- Wednesday, January 12, Afternoon ated by Andrew Sterrett, Denison University, 2:15-3:05 MAA Invited Address: Mathematics and the MAAAssistant Director of Programs ubiquitous spreadsheet: visualization, conceptualization and applications, Deane Wednesday, January 12, Morning Arganbright, Whitworth College 8:00-9:20 Panel Discussion: Changing the culture-mak• 2:15-6:00 AMS-MAA Special Session: Mathematics and ing your department inviting to women, Education Reform, Naomi D. Fisher, Harvey B. moderated by Carole B. LaCampagne, U.S. De• Keynes, Kenneth C. Millett, Hugo Rossi and partment ofEducation, chair of the Committee Philip D. Wagreich, Mathematicians and Educa• on the Participation ofWomen in Mathematics tion Reform Network (MER) 8:00-10:55 AMS-MAA Special Session: Mathematics and 2:15-6:00 Contributed Paper Session: Applied geometry, Education Reform, Naomi D. Fisher, Harvey B. Walter Meyer, Adelphi University Keynes, Kenneth C. Millett, Hugo Rossi and 2:15-6:00 Contributed Paper Session: Restructuring Philip D. Wagreich, Mathematicians and Educa• teaching and learning in linear algebra, Donald tion Reform Network (MER) R. LaTorre, Clemson University; Steven J. Leon, 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: Environmental University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth; mathematics, Ben Fusaro, Salisbury State Uni• Charles R. Johnson, College ofWilliam and Mary versity 2:15-4:15 Minicourse SA: Unifying themes for discrete 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: Favorite non-tra• mathematics, by Ralph Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman ditional calculus assignments or projects, Duane Institute ofTechnology Blumberg, University of Southwestern Louisiana 2:15-4:15 Minicourse 6A: The mathematics ofthe perfect 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: Teaching math• shuffle, by Brent Morris, National Security Agency ematics with a spreadsheet, Robert S. Smith, 2:15-4:15 Minicourse 7A: Theorist, by Donald Hartig, Miami University, Ohio California Polytechnic State University 8:00-10:00 Minicourse lA: Organizing an undergraduate 2:15-6:00 MAA Poster Session: Interactive research program, by Robby Robson, Oregon MathematicsTexts: using technology for active State University, and Joe Gallian, University of learning, organized by Elizabeth J. Teles, NSF Minnesota, Duluth and Montgomery College, and sponsored by 8:00-10:00 Minicourse 2A: Inverse problems in the under• CCIME, the Committee on Computers in Math• graduate classroom, by C. W. Groetsch, ematics Education, L. Carl Leinbach, Gettysburg University of Cincinnati, and Zuhair Nashed, College, chair. University ofDelaware 3:20-4: 10 MAA Invited Address: Circle packing and con• 8:00-10:00 Minicourse 3A: The Joy ofMathematica: a formal mapping, Brad G. Osgood, Stanford University point-and-click way to use and learn 4:25-5: 15 AMS-MAA Invited Address: Mathematica, by Alan Shuchat and Fred Shultz, Overview and up• Wellesley College date on Fermat's last theorem, Kenneth A. Ribet, University ofCalifornia 8:00-10:00 Minicourse 4A: How to make effective use ofin• 4:30-6:30 Section Officers' Meeting expensive pocket computers to develop the 4:30-6:30 Minicourse IB: Organizing an undergraduate concepts and techniques ofcalculus, by Franklin research program, by Robby Robson, Oregon Demana and Bert K. Waits, Ohio State Univer• State University, and Joe Gallian, University of sity Minnesota, Duluth 9:30-10:55 Panel Discussion: Revising the AP Calculus Syl• 4:30-6:30 Minicourse 2B: Inverse problems in the under• labus, Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University graduate classroom, by C. W. Groetsch, 9:30-10:55 Panel Discussion: Responding to reform in engi• University of Cincinnati, and Zuhair Nashed, neering curricula, Co-moderated by Jane M. University ofDelaware Day, San Jose State University, and Wade Ellis, 4:30-6:30 Minicourse 3B: The Joy ofMathematica: a Jr., West Valley College. Sponsored by CUPM point-and-click way to use and learn Subcommittee on Service Courses (Barbara A. Mathematica, by Alan Shuchat and Fred Shultz, Jur, Macomb County Community College, Wellesley College chair). 6:00-7 :00 First Time Attendees Social, including magic show by Brent Morris October 1993 FOCUS

Thursday, January 13, Morning sessment, Bernard L. Madison, University ofAr• 7:00-8:00 Breakfast for Student ChapterAdvisors and kansas, chair Section Coordinators: Sponsored by the Com• 2:15-4:10 Panel Discussion: Creating a Climate for mittee on Student Chapters Change-Math Leads the Way, organized by 8:00-9:20 AMATYC-MAA-NCTM Panel Discussion: In Martha J. Siegel, Towson State University the year2000: Who will your students be and 2:15-4:10 AMS-MAA Special Session: Mathematics and what will they know about mathematics? orga• Education Reform, Naomi D. Fisher, Harvey B. nized by Susan L. Forman, Mathematical Keynes, Kenneth C. Millett, Hugo Rossi, and Sciences Education Board, Donald L. Kreider, Philip D. Wagreich, Mathematicians and Educa• Dartmouth College, and Marcia P. Sward, MAA, tion Reform Network (MER) and sponsored by the Coordinating Board for 2:15-4:10 Contributed Paper Session: Actuarial math• AMATYC, MAA and NCTM ematics education and research, James W. 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: Applied geometry, Daniel, University ofTexas. Sponsored by the Walter Meyer, Adelphi University Actuarial Faculty Forum. 8:00-10:55 Second Annual MAA Student Chapters Spe• 2:15-4:10 Contributed Paper Session: Environmental cial Paper Session: organized by Karen mathematics, Ben Fusaro, Salisbury State Uni• Schroeder, Bentley College, and sponsored by the versity Committee on Student Chapters (Apama W. 2:15-4:10 Contributed Paper Session: Favorite non-tradi• Higgins, University ofDayton, chair) tional calculus assignments or projects, Duane 8:00-9:50 SUMMA Workshop: Intervention projectsfor Blumberg, University of Southwestern Louisiana minority pre-college students, organized by 2:15-4:10 Contributed Paper Session: Teaching math• William A. Hawkins, Director of the SUMMA ematics with a spreadsheet, Robert S. Smith, program of the MAA Miami University, Ohio 8:00-10:00 Minicourse8A: Introduction to research in the 2:15-4:15 Minicourse 4B: How to make effective use ofin• teaching and learning ofundergraduate math• expensive pocket computers to develop the ematics: examples in calculus, by Joan concepts and techniques ofcalculus, by Franklin Ferrini-Mundy, University of New Hampshire, Demana and Bert K. Waits, Ohio State Univer• and Kathleen Heid, Pennsylvania State University sity 8:00-10:00 Minicourse 9A: The Math Modeling/PreCalculus 2:15-4:15 Minicourse 5B: Unifying themes for discrete Reform Project: using discrete mathematical mathematics, by Ralph Grimaldi, Rose- Hulman models to motivate mathematics, Sheldon Gor• Institute ofTechnology don, Suffolk Community College, and B. A. 2:15-4:15 Minicourse 6B: The mathematics ofthe perfect Fusaro, Salisbury State University shujJle, by S. Brent Morris, National Security 9:00-9:50 Special Presentation: The promise ofinteractive Agency texts, James E. White, Institute for Advanced 2:15-4:15 Minicourse 7B: Theorist, by Donald Hartig, Technology. Organized by Eugene A. Herman, California Polytechnic State University Grinnell College, and sponsored by CCIME, the 2:15-4:10 MAA Poster Session: Research by Undergradu• Committee on Computers in Mathematics Educa• ate Students, sponsored by CUPM Subcommittee tion, L. Carl Leinbach, Gettysburg College, chair. on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, 9:00-9:50 AWM Noether Lecture: Analysis in gauge John Greever, Harvey Mudd College, chair, and theory, Lesley M. Sibner, Polytechnic University the Committee on Student Chapters,Apama W. 10:05-10:55 MAA Invited Address: What does it mean to un• Higgins, University of Dayton, chair derstand a mathematical concept? It depends on 4:25-6:00 Joint AMS-MAA Prize Session yourpoint ofview. Stephen Monk, University of 5:30-7:00 Two-Year College Reception Washington 7:00-8:15 Calculus Reform Workshop Reunion: Orga• 11:10-12:00 AMS-MAAInvitedAddress: Random walks nized by Donald B. Small, United States Military and volume, Laszlo Lovasz, Eotvos Lorand Academy Tudomanyegyetem, Budapest, Hungary 7:15-8:15 Informal Gathering: Humanistic Math Network 12:15-12:45 MAA Business Meeting organized by Alvin M. White, Harvey Mudd Col• lege 7:30-10:00 Contributed Paper Session: Restructuring 2:15-4:10 Open Forum: Guidelinesfor an Effective Assess• teaching and learning in linear algebra, Donald ment Program for the Undergraduate Major, R. LaTorre, Clemson University; Steven 1. Leon, sponsored by the CUPM Subcommittee on As- University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth; Charles R. Johnson, College ofWilliam and Mary FOCUS October 1993

Friday, January 14, Morning Friday, January 14, Afternoon 8:00-9:20 Panel Discussion: Issues in implementing the 1:00-6:00 Contributed Paper Session: Research in under• MAA/AMATYC Guidelines, organized by James graduate mathematics education, Warren Page, R. C. Leitzel, University of Nebraska, and NYC Technical College, SUNY. Sponsored by Marilyn E. Mays, North Lake College the Joint AMS-MAA Committee on Research in 8:00-9:20 Panel Discussion: Writing in mathematics Undergraduate Mathematics Education. courses: A maturing discipline, organized by 1:00-6:00 Contributed Paper Session: Restructuring Thomas W. Rishel, Cornell University teaching and learning in linear algebra, Donald 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: Mathematics and R. LaTorre, Clemson University; Steven J. Leon, music, Robert Lewand, Goucher College University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth; 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: New methodsfor Charles R. Johnson, College of William and teaching elementary differential equations, T. Mary Gilmer Proctor, Clemson University, and Robert 1:00-3:00 Minicourse l4A: Interactive computer graphics Borrelli, Harvey Mudd College laboratories for introductory differential geom• 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: Reassessing dis• etry, by Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University crete mathematics in the first two years, Susanna 1:00-3:00 Minicourse l5A: Designing question-based S. Epp, DePaul University mathematics courses, by Larry Copes and Su 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: Restructuring the Doree, Augsburg College mathematical preparation ofteachers, Bettye M. 1:00-6:00 MAA Poster Session: Laboratory approaches in Clark, Clark Atlanta University; Marjorie undergraduate mathematics, organized by Enneking, Portland State University; and Phillip Arnold M. Ostebee, St. Olaf College, as part of Wagreich, University ofIllinois-Chicago the MAA project, Priming the Pump for Curricu• 8:00-10:00 Minicourse lOA: q-dimensional dynamical sys• lar Reform, funded by the NSF tems and chaos, Mario Martelli, California State 2:15-3:05 MAA Retiring Presidential Address: Experi• University, Fullerton mentation and Conjecture are not Enough, 8:00-10:00 Minicourse llA: HP 48 learning environments Deborah Tepper Haimo, University of Missouri for experienced users, by Lynn E. Gamer, at St. Louis Brigham Young University 3:15-5:15 Minicourse l6A: Calculus: an active approach 8:00-10:00 Minicourse l2A: Creating order out ofchaos in with projects, by Stephen Hilbert, John Maceli, freshman mathematics, Wade Ellis, Jr., West Val• Diane Schwartz, Stanley Seltzer, and Eric ley College Robinson, Ithaca College 8:00-10:00 Minicourse 13A: "Workshop" mathematics: us• 3:15-5:15 Minicourse l7A: Teaching applied math via ing new pedagogy and technology in Maple, by Robert J. Lopez, Rose-Hulman Insti• introductory mathematics courses, by Nancy tute of Technology Baxter and Allan Rossman, Dickinson College 3:20-5:00 MAA Teaching Awards Presentations by Paul 8:00-10:55 MAA Poster Session: Calculus Projects Matur• R. Halmos, Santa Clara University, Justin 1. ing-a chance to see what is emerging, Price, Purdue University, and Alan C. Tucker, sponsored by CRAFTY, the CUPM Subcommit• SUNY at Stony Brook tee on Calculus Reform and the First Two Years 5:30-6:30 Presentation: NSF Calculus Institute Using (A. Wayne Roberts, Macalester College, chair) CAS, Darrell H. Abney, Maysville Community and the Calculus Reform Study Group (Marcelle College, and Larry Gilligan, University of Cin• Bessman, Frostburg State University, chair) cinnati 9:30-10:55 Panel Discussion: Hearing on the Project on 6:30-7:20 Poetry Reading: organized by Joanne S. Standards for Two-Year College and Lower Divi• Growney, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylva• sion Mathematics Below the Level ofCalculus, nia, and Alvin M. White, Harvey Mudd College organized by Marilyn E. Mays, Project Director 7:00-8:30 Open Meeting: Sponsored by the Calculus Re• (sponsored by AMATYC with representation form Study Group, (Marcelle Bessman, from AMS, MAA, NADE and NCTM) Frostburg State University, chair) 9:30-10:55 Panel Discussion: Aspects ofhumanistic math• 7:30-8:20 Student Lecture: Magic tricks, card shuffling, ematics, organized and moderated by Alvin M. and dynamic computer memories, S. Brent White, Harvey Mudd College Morris, National Security Agency 11:10-12:00 AMS-MAA Invited Address: Some proposi• 8:15-10:00 Micro-inequities Skits-the Second Genera• tionsfrom Newton's Principia, S. Chandrasekhar, tion: Sponsored by the Committee on the University of Chicago Participation of Women in Mathematics, Carole October 1993 FOCUS

B. Lacampagne, U.S. Department of Education, 1:00-3:00 Student Workshop: Calculated deceptions, S. chair Brent Morris, National Security Agency 8:45-9:30 A Play: Gauss, Eisenstein, and the "third" proof 1:00-3:00 Minicourse lOB: q-dimensional dynamical sys• ofthe quadratic reciprocity theorem: Ein kleines tems and chaos, Mario Martelli, California State Schauspiel, Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and University, Fullerton David J. Pengelley ofNew Mexico State Univer• 1:00-3:00 Minicourse 11B: HP 48 learning environments sity. Sponsored jointly by the AMS and MAA. for experienced users, by Lynn E. Garner, Brigham Young University Saturday, January 15, Morning 1:00-3:00 Minicourse 12B: Creating order out ofchaos in 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: The bridge to cal• freshman mathematics, Wade Ellis, Jr., West Val• culus, Marilyn Mays, North Lake College, and ley College Linda H. Boyd, DeKalb College. Sponsored by 1:00-3:00 Minicourse 13B: "Workshop" mathematics: us• the Committee on Two-Year Colleges ing new pedagogy and technology in 8:00-10:55 Contributed Paper Session: Research in under• introductory mathematics courses, by Nancy graduate mathematics education, Warren Page, Baxter and Allan Rossman, Dickinson College NYC Technical College, SUNY. Sponsored by 2:10-4:00 Panel Discussion: What Happens After Calculus the Joint AMS-MAA Committee on Research in Reform?, organized by Sheldon P. Gordon, Suf• Undergraduate Mathematics Education folk Community College 8:00-10:00 Minicourse 8B: Introduction to research in the 2:15-6:00 Special Session: Curriculum projects in under• teaching and learning ofundergraduate math• graduate mathematics, organized by James R. C. ematics: examples in calculus, by Joan Leitzel, University of Nebraska, as part ofthe Ferrini-Mundy, University of New Hampshire, MAA project, Priming the Pump for Curricular and Kathleen Heid, Pennsylvania State Univer• Reform, funded by NSF sity 2:45-4:00 Open Meeting: Quantitative literacy, organized 8:00-10:00 Minicourse 9B: The Math Modeling/ by Linda R. Sons, chair of the CUPM Subcom• PreCalculus Reform Project: using discrete mittee on Quantitative Literacy mathematical models to motivate mathematics, 3:15-4:45 Panel Discussion: Mathematical life outside Sheldon Gordon, Suffolk Community College, academia----inputfrom the real world, moderated and B. A. Fusaro, Salisbury State University by S. Brent Morris, National Security Agency, 10:05-10:55 MAA Invited Address: Euler's extraordinary and sponsored by the Committee on Mathemati• sums, William W. Dunham, Muhlenberg College cians Outside Academia (Patrick Dale McCray, chair) Saturday, January 15, Afternoon 3:15-5:15 Minicourse 14B: Interactive computer graphics 1:00-2:00 Panel Discussion: A report to the community: laboratories for introductory differential geom• Assessing calculus reform efforts, organized by etry, by Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University James R. C. Leitzel, University ofNebraska 3:15-5:15 Minicourse 15B: Designing question-based 1:00-5:30 Contributed Paper Session: The bridge to cal• mathematics courses, by Larry Copes and Su culus, Marilyn Mays, North Lake College, and Doree, Augsburg College Linda H. Boyd, DeKalb College. Sponsored by 3:15-5:15 Minicourse 16B: Calculus: an active approach the Committee on Two-Year Colleges. with projects, by Stephen Hilbert, John Maceli, 1:00-5:30 Contributed Paper Session: Mathematics and Diane Schwartz, Stanley Seltzer, and Eric music, Robert Lewand, Goucher College Robinson, Ithaca College 1:00-5:30 Contributed Paper Session: New methodsfor 3:15-5:15 Minicourse 17B: Teaching applied math via teaching elementary differential equations, T. Maple, by Robert J.Lopez, Rose-Hulman Insti• Gilmer Proctor, Clemson University, and Robert tute of Technology Borrelli, Harvey Mudd College 1:00-5:30 Contributed Paper Session: Reassessing dis• crete mathematics in the first two years, Susanna S. Epp, DePaul University 1:00-5:30 Contributed Paper Session: Restructuring the mathematical preparation ofteachers, Bettye M. Clark, Clark Atlanta University; Marjorie Enneking, Portland State University; and Phillip Wagreich, University ofIllinois-Chicago FOCUS October 1993

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The Scientific Program themes from recent MER workshops. This year's theme is The January 1994 Joint Mathematics Meetings, including Mathematics Departments and Education Reform. the 77th Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association of Effective Job Seeking in Today's Market: This panel America, the 100th Annual Meeting ofthe AMS, and the 1994 discussion sponsored by the AMS-MAA-SIAM Commit• annual meetings ofthe Associationfor Womenin Mathematics tee on Employment Oportunities (JCEO) and moderated by and the National Association for Mathematicians, will be held Stanley J. Benkoski, Wagner Associates and chair of the January 12-15 (Wednesday-Saturday), 1994, in Cincinnati, JCEO, will take place in the Employment Register area on Ohio. Sessions will be held in the Cincinnati Convention Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. All graduate students and Center (Ccq, the Clarion Hotel Cincinnati, and the Hyatt mathematicians seeking employment are encouraged to at• Regency Cincinnati. tend. Four informational presentations are intended to advise job seekers of the realities of the current market and the best methods for determining what they should seek and how AMS-MAA Invited Addresses to carry out various steps in the employment process most Four speakers will address the AMS and MAA on the history effectively. A question-and-answer period will follow brief or development of mathematics: presentations. Panelists include Annalisa Cranell, Franklin Georgia M. Benkart, University ofWisconsin, Madison, and Marshall College (recent Ph.D. recipient); Ronald Davis, A tale oftwo groups, 11:10 a.m., Wednesday; Anoka-Ramsey Community College (on the two-year college Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, University ofChicago, experience); Frank R. Demeyer, Colorado State University Some propositions from Newton's Principia, 11:10 a.m., (Ph.D.-granting department); S. Brent Morris, National Se• Friday; curity Agency (on government employment); and Leon H. Lliszl6 Lovasz, Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem, Ran• Seitelman, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft (on industrial employ• dom walks and volume, 11:10 a.m., Thursday; and ment). Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California, Berkeley, What Can Be Done About Employment ofMathemati• Overview and update on Fermat's Last Theorem, 4:25 p.m., cians in the 90sand Beyond?: This panel discussion on the Wednesday. employment situation scheduled for Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. is cosponsored by the JCEO and the Young Math• ematicians Network (YMN). The panel will be moderated Other AMS-MAA Sessions by Stanley J. Benkoski. Panelists will focus on aspects of Mathematics and Education Reform: This jointly spon• the current job market for mathematicians, addressing such sored Special Session has been organized by Naomi Fisher questions as whether departments are producing too many and Philip D. Wagreich, University of Illinois at Chicago; mathematicians, whether mathematicians are receiving the Harvey B. Keynes, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; wrong training in graduate school, and what responsibility the Kenneth C. Millett, University of California at Santa Bar• mathematics community has in addressing these issues. bara; and Hugo Rossi, University of Utah, on Wednesday at Attendees are invited to an informal reception hosted by 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., and Thursday at 2:15 p.m. This ses• the AMS and the MAA after the conclusion of the panel in sion is also cosponsored by the Mathematicians and Education order to become better acquainted with panel members, the Reform (MER) Network. This session will feature presenta• JCEO, and the YMN. tions to highlight the range of education reform projects in which mathematicians are engaged and systemic issues which relate to pursuing educational reform within the mathematics Other AMS-MAA Events community. As in the past part of the session will highlight Mathchats and Graduate Student Reception: On Tues• r ------.~_.._----_._------.--J day evening well-known mathematicians representing a wide ! IMPORTANT DEADLINES range of disciplines (Tom Banchoff, Fan Chung, Ingrid Daubechies, Bob Devaney, Keith Devlin, John Ewing, Flo• I MAA Abstracts of Contributed Papers Expired rence Fasanelli, Genevieve Knight, Jeff Lagarias, Jim Light• i EARLY Meetings Advance Registration and I Housing (Room Lottery) October 29 bourne, Eileen Poiani, Fred Rickey, Ken Ross, Martha Siegel, ! ORDINARY Meetings Advance and others) will join interested graduate students for informal ; RegistrationIHousinglTickets November 12 chats and all graduate students are invited. Departure is at 6:00 MAA Minicourse Advance Registration November 12 p.m. on Tuesday from the CCC for a short tour of Cincinnati Employment Register Advance Registration November 12 by trolley, then on to SkyLine Chili for a buffet supper. Return Hotel Changes and CanceUations with MMSB December 10 will be about 9:00 p.m. FINAL Employment Register with no NOTE: This event is for students only. There is no cost. Winter Lists listings December 13 FINAL Meetings Advance Registration (no However, interested students must sign up on their advance housing or tickets) December 13 registration forms. CanceUations Cor aUBanquets (50% refund) December 30 Social for First-time Attendees: The AMS Committee Advance Registration CanceUations (50% refund) January 9 on Membership (Hugo Rossi, chair) and the MAA Committee on Membership (Shirley Huffman, chair) are again cospon- October 1993 FOCUS

Meetings soring a social hour on Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 funding and negotiating with administrators, following up on p.m. If this is your first national meeting, you are especially a program, and evaluating a program. We will consider encouraged to come and meet some old-timers and pick up a programs of all sizes, summer programs, and programs run few tips on how to survive the environment ofa large meeting. during the academic years. Participants will spend a portion The program will include a 20- to 30-minute magic show put of the time in smaller interest groups discussing sample on by S. Brent Morris, MAA governor-at-Iarge represent• undergraduate research projects. ing Mathematicians Outside Academia. Refreshments will be Minicourse #2: Inverse problems in the undergraduate served. classroom, Charles W. Groetsch, University of Cincinnati, JointPrize Session and Reception: In orderto showcase and Zubair Nashed, University of Delaware. Part A: 8:00 the achievements ofthe recipients ofvarious prizes, AMS and a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, and Part B: 4:30 p.m, to MAA are cosponsoring this event at 4:25 p.m. on Thursday. 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Enrollment is limited to 30. A cash bar reception will immediately follow. All participants Inverse problems may be loosely defined as problems of are invited to attend. AMS will announce the recipients ofthe finding a cause ofa given effector offinding a model ofa given Bocher Prize and AMS Citations for Public Service. cause-effect relationship. Such problems are vitally important The MAA Prizes to be awarded include the Distinguished in modern technology and can be used to great effect in Teaching Awards, the Chauvenet Prize, the Beckenback Book engaging student interest. The course will identify examples, Prize, the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for models, and topics in inverse problems suitable for various Distinguished Serviceto Mathematics, and severalCertificates undergraduate courses and student projects. Prerequisites are of Meritorious Service. elementary differential equations and linear algebra. It is DramaticPresentation: The play Gauss, Eisenstein, and recommended that participants bring a graphics calculator. the "third" proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem: Ein kleines Schauspiel will be performed from 8:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday by Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and David J. PengeUey, New Mexico State University. The setting is an imaginary dialogue between Gauss and Eisenstein taking place in the year 1844.

77th Annual Meeting of the MAA January 12-15, 1994

Invited Addresses Retiring Presidential Address: Past President Deborah Tepper Raimo, University ofMissouri at St. Louis, will give her Retiring Presidential Address titled Experimentation and conjecture are not enough at 2:15 p.m. on Friday. Deane Arganbright, Whitworth College, Mathematics and the ubiquitous spreadsheet: visualization, conceptualiza• tions, and applications, Wednesday, 2:15 p.m.; William W. Dunham, Muhlenberg College, Euler's ex• traordinary sums, Saturday, 10:05 a.m.; Stephen Monk, University of Washington, What does it mean to understand a mathematical concept? It depends on your point ofview, Thursday, 10:05 a.m.; and Deborah Tepper Haimo, MAA Retiring Presidential Address Brad G. Osgood, Stanford University, Circle packing and conformal mapping, Wednesday, 3:20 p.m. Minicourse #3: The Joy of Mathematica: a point-and• click way to use and learn Mathematica, Alan R. Shuchat Minicourses and Frederic W. Shultz, Wellesley College. Part A: 8:00 a.m. Minicourse #1: Organizing an undergraduate research pro• to 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, and Part B: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 gram, Robert O. Robson, Oregon State University, and p.m. on Wednesday. Enrollment is limited to 30. Joseph A. Gallian, University ofMinnesota, Duluth. Part A: Hands-on introduction to the The Joy of Mathematica, 8:00 a.m, to 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, and Part B: 4:30 p.m. software for the Macintosh that makes Mathematica useable to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Enrollment is limited to 40. "right out of the box". Joy runs concurrently with Mathe• This workshop will focus on the practical aspects of matica, giving the option of substituting menus and dialog starting and running a successful undergraduate research boxes for typing commands. Participants will learn to use Joy program. Topics will include designing or choosing projects, while exploring topics in calculus and linear algebra. They reasonable goals for a program, organizational hints, obtaining will see how Joy can enhance both traditional and "reformed" €I? FOCUS October 1993

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courses, with students and faculty knowing only the most Theorist is the first commercially available computer al• basic Macintosh techniques. gebra system for the Macintosh, taking advantage ofintuitive Minicourse #4: How to make effective use ofinexpensive features built into Apple's operating system (see Raymond pocket computers to develop the concepts and techniques of Smith's review in the Notices, Volume 38, Number 10). After calculus, FranklinD. Demana and Bert K. Waits, Ohio State acquiring a working knowledge of the system, participants, University. Part A: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, working in pairs on a Macintosh computer, will have the and Part B: 2:15 p.m. to 4: 15 p.m. on Thursday. Enrollment is opportunity to learn how Theorist can be used effectively in limited to 40. their classrooms. Sample electronic notebooks, lab assign• Inexpensive ($100 or less) pocket computers are dra• ments, and demonstrations suitable for courses in calculus, matically changing the way we teach and the way students differential equations, and linear algebra will be distributed. learn calculus. Participants will use the latest "state-of-the• Bring a blank diskette. art" Texas Instruments pocket computers, powerful tools that Minicourse #8: Introduction to research in the teaching permit the user to make and test generalizations by looking and learning of undergraduate mathematics: examples in at a large number of examples quickly. This makes solving calculus, Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of New Hamp• graphically and numerically a realistic and powerful problem• shire, and Kathleen Heid, The Pennsylvania State University, solving technique and makes noncontrived examples routine University Park. Part A: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, for all students. Topics include limits, continuity, differen• and Part B: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Enrollment tiation, integration, optimization, sequences, series, vectors, is limited to 30. matrices, and motion simulation. Can better understanding ofhow students learn and ofhow Minicourse #5: Unifying themesfor discrete mathematics, teaching affects learning lead to more effective undergraduate Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. mathematics experiences? We will encourage the formation Part A: 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, and Part B: 2:15 of working groups interested in pursuing this question. By p.m. to 4:15 p.m, on Thursday. Enrollment is limited to 80. viewing data from research studies of learning and teaching As discrete mathematics courses impact the college cur• calculus and other areas, and by conducting clinical interviews ricula, some students express concern about the apparent with undergraduate students, participants will gain first-hand fragmented nature of the concepts. To dispel this feeling of introductory experience with qualitative research methods. An fragmentation certain unifying themes can serve to interrelate overview ofliterature and resources helpful to those interested different concepts. Among such themes are in "getting started" in research ofthis nature will be provided. (i) the function-with its role in enumeration, the analysis "Homework" between sessions is planned. of algorithms, finite state machines, and the preservation of Minicourse #9: The math modeling/precalculus reform discrete structures. project: using discrete mathematical models to motivate (ii) enumeration-as it reinforces the study of partial mathematics, Sheldon P. Gordon, Suffolk Community Col• orders, equivalence relations, graph theory, and summation lege, and B. A. Fusaro, Salisbury State University. Part A: formulas. 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, Part B: 8:00 a.m. to Minicourse #6: The mathematics ofthe perfect shuffle, 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Enrollment is limited to 80. S. BrentMorris. PartA: 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Undersupportfrom the NSFthe Math Modeling/Precalculus and Part B: 2:15 p.m. to 4: 15 p.m. on Thursday. Enrollment is Reform Project is developing an alternative to precalculus limited to 80. courses which emphasizes the broad applicability of mathe• This minicourse examines the mathematics of the perfect matics using mathematical modeling based on methods such shuffle, a permutation often used by mathematicians, magi• as difference equations, data analysis, probability, and matrix cians, and computer scientists for seemingly different ends. algebra. The ideas and skill needed for calculus are developed The perfect shuffle has broad appeal because ofits interesting in the context of solving interesting and important problems. mathematics and surprising applications to magic tricks and The minicourse will provide an overview of the project and computer design. Most ofthe mathematics should be accessi• its goals as well as illustrations and hands-on experience with ble to those having some knowledge of discrete mathematics. some specific models based on difference equations, data The basic shuffle and several generalizations will be intro• analysis for fitting nonlinear curves to data, and probability duced, and the group structure generated by perfect shuffles simulations that have been developed for the course. Copies will be explored. Participants will be taught several card of the project materials will be provided to all participants. tricks using different properties of the perfect shuffle. The Minicourse #10: q-dimensional dynamical systems and minicourse will conclude with a study of computer circuits chaos, Mario U. Martelli, California State University, Fuller• using the perfect shuffle interconnection. Each participant ton. Part A: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, and Part B: should bring a new deck of cards. 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Enrollment is limited to Minicourse #7: Theorist, Donald Hartig, California Poly• 40. technic State University. Part A: 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on This minicourse will provide detailed information on a Wednesday, and Part B: 2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Thursday. course designed for undergraduates. A team project is an inte• Enrollment is limited to 30. gral partofthe course. Emphasis is on the long-range behavior @} October 1993 FOCUS

Meetings oforbits and on the theoretical and computational devices for Interactive electronic book technology makes it possible detecting chaos. Graphical and numerical techniques are in• for students to investigate phenomena in the geometry and cluded in the minicourse. Samples ofcompleted projects will calculus of surfaces by participating in computer graphics be available to the participants. Mathematica on a Macintosh laboratories. The purpose ofthis minicourse is to examine the is used in the presentation, but everything can be adapted to potential ofthis medium for enhancing the visualization capa• other machines and different symbolic manipulators. bility of undergraduates in mathematics and its applications. Minicourse #11: HP 48 learning environments for expe• The laboratory modules we will be studying have been written rienced users, Lynn E. Garner, Brigham Young University. in a language developed by the presenter and his students at Part A: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, and Part B: 1:00 Brown University, and it is designed to run on any computer p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Enrollment is limited to 80. with X-windows capability. No previous computer experience This minicourse discusses "environments" for using the is necessary to use this software. HP 48 as a "learning tool". In addition to built-in special• Minicourse #15: Designing question-based mathematics purpose environments such as graphics and matrix manipu• courses, Lawrence E. Copes and Su Doree, Augsburg lation, we discuss several "homemade" environments useful College. Part A: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, and Part B: in calculus, linear algebra, and numerical analysis that let 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Saturday. Enrollment is limited to students transform the HP 48 into a "doing tool" as they learn. 80. Participants are expected to bring their own HP 48s. Do you find yourself frustrated when your students Minicourse #12: Creating order out ofchaos in freshman ask, "Why is this important?" Do your colleagues in other mathematics, Wade Ellis, Jr., West Valley College. Part A: disciplines complain that your former students don't sa-m 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, and Part B: 1:00 p.m, to .to understand the ideas you taught them? Perhaps you are 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Enrollment is limited to 40. answering questions that students haven't asked, questions to Members ofthe MAA Committee on Testing will present which they aren't ready to hear answers. In this minicourse an overview of the task of designing and implementing a you will learn to design class sessions and courses in which mathematics placement program. Topics covered will include students ask questions before they learn answers. The result reasonable expectations of a placement program, selection or will be more meaningful learning. creation of placement tests, tests available through the MAA Minicourse #16: Calculus: an active approach with Placement Test Program (PTP), statistical analysis oftests and projects, Stephen R. Hilbert, John C. Maceli, Diane D. test items, establishing cutoff scores, and administration and Schwartz, Stanley E. Seltzer, and Eric E. Robinson, Ithaca validation ofa placement program. Several placement models College. Part A: 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Friday, and Part B: will be presented. 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Saturday. Enrollment is limited to Minicourse #13: "Workshop" mathematics: using new 80. pedagogyand technology in introductorymathematics courses, This minicourse will address issues relating to the use of NancyHoodBaxter and Allan Rossman, Dickinson College. group projects and in-class activities in calculus, including Part A: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, and Part B: 1:00 an overview, examples of projects and activities, hands-on p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Enrollment is limited to 30. experience working in a group on projects and activities, Participants in this minicourse will receive an in-depth and the impact on the curriculum. The organizers, who have look at the "workshop" pedagogical approach and its un• been teaching calculus using group projects and in-class derlying research activities. The major component of the activities since spring 1989, have found that open-ended minicourse will be participants' hands-on experience working projects challenge students to develop problem-solving skills in small groups with sample workshop materials taken from beyond looking for a similar problem solved in the text or courses in quantitative reasoning, statistics with applications, class notes. They use in-class activities to help the students to and calculus with applications I and n. Participants will use becomeactive learners and to develop the skills to successfully a variety of software packages. Issues concerning designing complete the projects. workshop materials and implementing the approach will be Minicourse #17: Teaching applied math via Maple, discussed. In the workshop approach, lectures are replaced by Robert J. Lopez, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. interactive teaching where students learn by doing and then Part A: 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Friday, and Part B: 3:15 reflect on what they have done. Students are first introduced to p.m. to 5:15 p.m, on Saturday. Enrollment is limited to 30. fundamental concepts in an informal and intuitive way; then Computer algebra systems support a new approach to they work collaboratively on various activities. Complete sets teaching classical applied mathematics, one that uses a "just• ofinstructional materials for the courses mentioned above will in-time" delivery ofinformation and skills. This perspective is be available. No previous computer experience is necessary. presented via examples taken from the list: Laplace transforms Minicourse #14: Interactive computer graphics labora• interactively, resonance by example, Fourier approximation tories for introductory differential geometry, Thomas F. to oscillators, Bessel and Legendre equations, fractionating Banchoft', Brown University. Part A: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. columns, vector calculus, linear systems of ODEs, series on Friday, and Part B: 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Saturday. solution of an ODE at an irregular singular point, the calculus Enrollment is limited to 80. ofvariations, and car-following models. FOCUS October 1993

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Participants interested in attending any of the MAA Reassessing discrete mathematics in the first two years, Minicourses should complete the MAA Minicourse Advance Susanna S. Epp, DePaul University; 8:00 a.m. on Friday, and Registration Form found at the back of this issue and send it 1:00 p.m. Saturday. directly to the MAA office at the address given on the form Research in undergraduate mathematics education, War• so as to arrive prior to the November 12 deadline. To check on ren Page, NYC Technical College, CUNY; 1:00 p.m. on availability for on-site registration after the deadline, potential Friday, and 8:00 a.m. on Saturday. Sponsored by the AMS• participants are encouraged to call the MAA headquarters at MAA Committee on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics 800-331-1622. Education. Please note that prepayment is required. Payment can be Restructuring the mathematical preparation of teachers, made by check, payable to MAA (Canadian checks must be Bettye M. Clark, Clark Atlanta University; Marjorie En• marked "in U.S. funds") or Visa or MasterCard. neking, Portland State University; and Philip D. Wagreich, The registration fee for each of the MAA Minicourses is University of lllinois, Chicago; 8:00 a.m. on Friday, and 1:00 $45 with exception ofthe computer minicourses (#3, 7, 13, & p.m. on Saturday. 17) which are $65. Restructuring teaching and learning in linear algebra, The MAA Minicourses are open only to persons who Donald R. LaTorre, Clemson University; Steven J. Leon register for the Joint Meetings and pay the Joint Meetings (for the ATLAST project), University of Massachusetts at registration fee. H the only reason for registering for the Dartmouth; and Charles R. Johnson (for the LACSG), Joint Meetings is to gain admission to a MAA Minicourse, College of William and Mary; 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 7:30 thisshouldbe indicatedby checkingtheappropriate box on p.m. on Thursday, and 1:00 p.m. on Friday. the MAA Minicourse Advance Registration Form. Then, if the minicourse is fully subscribed, a full refund can be made Teaching mathematics with a spreadsheet, Robert S. of the Joint Meetings advance registration fee. Otherwise, Smith, Miami University, Oxford; 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, the Joint Meetings preregistration will be processed and then and 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. be subject to the 50% refund rule. Participants should take Details on submission procedures were published in the care when cancelling minicourse advance registration to make July/August issue of the Notices and the May/June issue of clear their intention as to their Joint Meetings preregistration, Focus. Authors should have supplied summaries of their talks since if no instruction is given, the Joint Meetings registration to the organizers by September 3, 1993. will also be cancelled. Advance Registration Forms for the Joint Meetings should be mailed to the Providence office Other MAA Sessions prior to the deadline ofNovember 12. Changing the Culture-Making Your Department Inviting to Women: This panel discussion is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 9:20 a.m. on Wednesday and is sponsored by the Committee on Participation of Women in Mathematics. The Contributed Paper Sessions committee chair, Carole B. Lacampagne, U. S. Department Actuarial mathematics education and research, James W. ofEducation, will be the moderator. Daniel, University of Texas, Austin; 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. Revising the AP Calculus Syllabus: This panel discus• Sponsored by Actuarial Faculty Forum. sion, scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 10:55 a.m. on Wednesday, Applied geometry, Walter J. Meyer, Adelphi University; will be organized and moderated by Thomas W. Tucker, Col• 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, and 8:00 a.m. on Thursday. gate University. The Advanced Placement Calculus Program The bridge to calculus, Marilyn E. Mays, North Lake is expecting to undertake a revision in the course syllabus in College, and Linda H. Boyd, DeKalb College; 8:00 a.m. order to address various issues raised by the ongoing reform and 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Sponsored by the Committee on of calculus instruction taking place at the college level. This Two-Year Colleges. panel will discuss some of those issues and invites partic• Environmental mathematics, B. A. Fusaro, Salisbury ipation of the mathematical community in determining the State University, Salisbury; 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday and 2:15 future direction and shape of the AP Calculus Program. The p.m. on Thursday. panelists include Wade Curry, College Board; Thomas P. Dick, Oregon State University; Deborah Hughes Hallett, Favorite nontraditional calculus assignments or projects, Harvard University; Daniel Kennedy, The Baylor School and Duane D. Blumberg, University of Southwestern Louisiana, chair of the AP Calculus Committee for College Board; and Lafayette; 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, and 2:15 p.m. on Thurs• Anita E. Solow, Grinnell College; and the moderator. day. Reform in Engineering Curricula: This panel discus• Mathematics and music, Robert Lewand, Goucher Col• sion is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 10:55 a.m. on Wednesday lege; 8:00 a.m. on Friday, and 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. and will be co-moderated by Jane M. Day, San Jose State New methods for teaching elementary differential equa• University, and Wade Ellis, Jr., West Valley College. It is tions, T. Gilmer Proctor, Clemson University, and Robert sponsored by the CUPM Subcommittee on Service Courses Borrelli, Harvey Mudd College; 8:00 a.m. on Friday, and (Barbara A. Jur, chair). The panelists include Donald W. 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Bushaw, Washington State University; Jeff Froyd, Rose- ~ October 1993 FOCUS

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Hulman Institute ofTechnology (department of electrical and in mathematics. Members ofthe subcommittee will be present computer engineering); and Keith E. Schwingendorf, Purdue to answer questions and receive advice for preparing the final University North Central, Westville. report. Interactive Mathematics Texts: Using Technology for Creating a Climate for Change-Math Leads the Way: Active Learning: The Interactive Mathematics Text Project This panel discussion is scheduled from 2:15 p.m. to 4:10 will hold an electronic poster session, organized by Elizabeth p.m. on Thursday and will be organized and moderated by J. Teles, NSF and Montgomery College, in which selected Martha J. Seigel, Towson State University. On October 2, developers of interactive texts will demonstrate work in 1993, The Math Connection, an MSEB-coordinated alliance progress. Participants will include William J. Davis, Ohio of professional and educational organizations, and WQED in State University, and David R. Hill, Temple University. The Pittsburgh (funded by the Annenberg Foundation) sponsored session will be open Wednesday from 2:15 p.m. to 6:00 "Creating a Climate for Change ... Math Leads the Way", p.m. The sponsoring committee is CCIME, the Committee a national teleconference. Representatives of the MAA and on Computers in Mathematics Education (L. Carl Leinbach, other Math Connection organizations, business, and parent chair). This committee is also sponsoring a special fifty• leaders gathered at 150 local sites linked in the day-long minute presentation on The promise ofinteractive texts, given interactive workshop. The program, which was designed by James E. White, Institute for Advanced Technology, at to help communities get involved in education reform by 9:00 a.m. on Thursday. using mathematics as a model, featured live and video In the Year 2000: Who Will Your Students Be and presentations, on-site group work, panel discussions, and What Will They Know about Mathematics? This panel question-and-answer periods. The panelists, who were among discussion, cosponsored by the American Mathematical As• local MAA representatives who participated, will share some sociation of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), the MAA, and video highlights and will discuss the issues raised and the the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) strategies explored from the collegiate viewpoint. Panelists is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 9:20 a.m. on Thursday. Or• will be Jerry L. Bona, Pennsylvania State University, State ganizers include Susan L. Forman, Mathematical Sciences College; MarjorieEnneking, Portland State University; Joan Education Board; Donald L. Kreider, Dartmouth College; Ferrini-Mundy, University of New Hampshire; Genevieve and Marcia P. Sward, MAA. Panelists include Gail F. M. Knight, Coppin State College; Kenneth C. Millett, Burrill, Whitnall High School, Hales Corner, Wisconsin; University ofSanta Barbara; and the moderator. Carolyn R. Mahoney, California State University, San Mar• Research by Undergraduate Students: This poster ses• cos; Stephen Rodi, Austin Community College; and Zalman sion on Thursday from 2:15 p.m, to 4:10 p.m. is sponsored P. Usiskin, University of Chicago. How will college students by the CUPM Subcommittee on Undergraduate Research in whose school mathematics programs were built on the NCTM Mathematics, the Mathematical and Computer Science Divi• Standards differ from today's students in the mathematical sion of the Council on Undergraduate Research (John Greever, topics they have mastered, their problem-solving abilities, chair) and the Committee on Student Chapters (Aparna W. and their attitudes toward mathematics and its uses? How Higgins, chair). Posters are invited which either describe will collegiate faculty have to adapt curricula and teaching mathematical research projects of individual undergraduate methods to accommodate these students? The panelists will students or which describe the way in which undergraduate explore these critical issues from their various perspectives. research is organized and encouraged at a given institution. SUMMA Workshop: This workshop on Intervention Prospective exhibitors should contact John Greever, Harvey projects for minority precollege students is scheduled from Mudd College. 8:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. on Thursday. It will be orga• Calculus Reform Workshop Reunion: This session is nized and directed by William A. Hawkins, Director of for participants oflast summer's and this summer's workshops SUMMA (Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathe• but is open to all. It will take place 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. on matics Achievement). The presenters will be Joaquin Bustoz, Thursday and is being organized by Donald B. Small, United Arizona State University; Roger Contreras, University of States Military Academy. Texas at Brownsville; and Robert E. Megginson, University Life After Retirement: This panel discussion scheduled of Michigan. , on Thursday from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. is organized by Open Forum on Assessment: An open forum on a draft! Andrew Sterrett, Jr; MAA. of Guidelines for an effective assessment program for the Humanistic Math Network Informal Gathering: Inter• undergraduate major will take place Thursday from 2:15 p.m. ested people will meet informally from 7:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. It is sponsored by the CUPM Subcommittee on on Thursday to discuss future plans, programs, and structure Assessment (Bernard L. Madison, chair). A draft of these ofthe network. guidelines will be distributed to all departments during the Writing in Mathematics Courses: a Maturing Disci• fall of 1993. This draft was prepared by the Subcommittee on pline: This panel discussion, scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to Assessment with assistance from representatives of MSEB and 9:20 a.m. on Friday, is organized by Thomas W. Rishel, NCTM. The intent ofthe guidelines is to provide departments Cornell University. The panelists will include Thomas H. with critical guidance for the process ofestablishing a program Barr, Rhodes College; John E. Meier, Lafayette College; of assessment of student learning in the undergraduate major Richard G. Montgomery, Southern Oregon State College; ~ FOCUS October 1993

Meetings and the organizer. Many people have now tried writing as• Laboratory ImprovementlLeadership Projects in Laboratory signments in their mathematics courses, and they know they Development. work. Panelists will discuss how these assignments are being used in various courses and schools. Issues in Implementing the MAA/AMATYC Guide• MAA Teaching Awards Presentations: The three win• lines: This panel discussion is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. ners ofthe second series ofMAA Awards for Distinguished to 9:20 a.m. on Friday. The presenters will be John D. Fulton, College or University Teaching ofMathematics are Paul R. University of Missouri, Rolla; Philip A. DeMarois, William Halmos, Santa Clara University; Justin J. Price, Purdue Rainey HarperCollege; and four chairs of mathematics depart• University; and Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stony Brook. ments representing diverse institutions in higher education. The awards will be presented at the Joint Prize Session on To achieve the quality programs described in the guidelines, Thursday afternoon. Each winner will make a presentation departments must begin to change traditional practice. This on "the secrets of their success" at a special session on audience-interactive session will discuss some of the issues Friday from 3:20 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. pertinent to implementing the MAA/AMATYC Guidelines in mathematics departments. The organizers are James R. C. NSF Calculus Institute Using CAS: This session, scheduled Leitzel, University ofNebraska, and Marilyn E. Mays, North from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Friday, will report on the insti• Lake College. tute held at Northern Kentucky University during the summer Calculus Projects Maturing-a Chance to See What of 1993. Emphasis will be on classroom demonstrations and Is Emerging: This poster session is scheduled Friday 8:00 lab projects developed by the participants. The software pack• a.m. to 10:55 a.m. and is sponsored by CRAFTY, the CUPM ages used are Derive and Converge. The presentations will be Subcommittee on Calculus Reformand the First Two Years (A. made by DarreU H. Abney, Maysville Community College, Wayne Roberts, chair) and the Calculus Reform Study Group and Larry Gilligan, University of Cincinnati. (Marcelle Bessman, chair). Persons interested in participating Poetry Reading: This is scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to 7:20 should contact A. Wayne Roberts, Macalester College at p.m. on Friday and is open to all interested persons-readers robertsw

100 Years ofAnnual Meetings On Saturday the Society will celebrate 100 years of Annual Other MAA Events Meetings. A tentative list of activities scheduled for this special Two-Year College Reception: The Committee on Two-Year day appears throughout this announcement. All participants Colleges is sponsoring an informal reception for two-year are invited to join in the activities planned to mark this college faculty and their friends from 5:45 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. unique occasion. Plans are also being made for the taking on Thursday. of group photographs of Cincinnati participants. Since it will ------@ FOCUS October 1993

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not be possible to photograph the entire attendance at once, 3:15 p.m. on Saturday. (Part of the 100th Annual Meeting several photo sessions (probably by geographic area) will be Celebration.) necessary. A schedule of these sessions will be announced in Singular boundary value problems, Paul W. Eloe, Uni• the program. versity of Dayton, 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. Invited Addresses Operator theory, nonself adjoint operator algebras and Sixty-seventh Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture: The 1994 control theory, Arthur E. Frazho, Purdue University, and Gibbs Lecture titled Necessity and chance: deterministic Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati, 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 chaos in ecology and evolution will be presented at 8:30 p.m. p.m. on Wednesday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. on Wednesday by Robert M. May, University of Oxford. Representation theory and harmonic analysis, Kenneth Colloquium Lectures: A series of three Colloquium I. Gross, University of Vermont; Donald St. P. Richards, Lectures on Harmonic analysis and nonlinear evolution University of Virginia; and Paul J. Sally, University of equations will be given by Jean Bourgain, IHES and Chicago, 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, and 8:00 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The lectures will a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. be given at 1:00 p.m. daily, Wednesday through Friday. C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras, Herbert Hal• Retiring Presidential Address: Michael Artin, MIT, pern, Victor Kaftal, and Shuang Zhang, University of will deliver his Retiring Presidential Address, Noncommu• Cincinnati, 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Friday, and 8:00 a.m. tative projective geometry, at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Artin and 2:15 p.m. on Saturday. was president of the Society from 1991 to 1992. Ronald Quasiconformal mappings in analysis, David A. Herron, L. Graham, AT&T Bell Labs and current AMS president, University of Cincinnati, and Susan G. Staples, College of will introduce Artin and comment about traditional lecture Staten Island, CUNY, 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Friday, and series at AMS meetings. (Part of the 100th Annual Meeting 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Saturday. Celebration.) Geometry and topology of moduli spaces, Jacques C. Jacques C. Hurtubise, McGill University, Particle con• Hurtubise, 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 figurations, instantons, and holomorphic maps, Wednesday, p.m. on Thursday. 10:05 a.m.; Geometric applications of operator algebras and index James M. Hyman, Los Alamos National Lab, The fun• theory, Jerome Kaminker, Indiana University-Purdue Uni• damental role of solitons in nonlinear dispersive PDEs, versity at Indianapolis, 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, 3:20 p.m.; Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia, Carmichael and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. numbers, Friday, 9:00 a.m.; Modern methods in continuum theory, Krystyna M. Gilbert Strang, MIT, Wavelets,filters, and unitary matri• Kuperberg and Piotr Mine, Auburn University, 8:00 a.m. ces, Friday, 10:05 a.m.; and and 1:00 p.m. on Friday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Ruth J. Williams, University of California, San Diego, Saturday. Reflecting Brownian motions, Thursday, 2:15 p.m. Quadratic forms and division algebras, David B. Leep, University of Kentucky; Daniel B. Shapiro, Ohio State University; and Tara L. Smith, University of Cincinnati, 8:00 Special Sessions and Contributed Papers a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 (See also the AMS-MAA Special Session.) p.m. on Thursday. Topology of high dimensional manifolds, Fredric D. Advances infunction theoretic methods, Peter A. McCoy, Ancel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 8:00 a.m. and U. S. Naval Academy, 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 1:00 p.m. on Friday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Saturday. and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. History' ofmathematics, W. Thomas Archibald, Acadia University, and Victor J. Katz, University of the District of Stochastic analysis, Philip E. Protter, Purdue University, Columbia, 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Friday, and 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Friday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 on Saturday. p.m. on Saturday. Algebraic topology and dynamical systems, Robert Scientific computing, Seenith Sivasundaram, Embry• Brown, University of California, Los Angeles; Christo• Riddle Aeronautical University, 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on pher K. McCord, University of Cincinnati; and Konstantin Friday, and 8:00 a.m. on Saturday. Mischaikow, Georgia Tech, 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Wavelets and their applications, Gilbert Strang, MIT, Wednesday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, and 8:00 a.m. and Undergraduate research in mathematics, David C. Caro• 2:15 p.m. on Thursday. thers, Hope College, and GerardA. Venema, Calvin College, Nonlinear partial differential equations and applications, 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Friday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 Hong-Ming Yin, Notre Dame University, 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. p.m. on Friday, and 8:00 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Saturday. Meetings ofmathematicians, Bettye Anne Case, Florida Abstracts for consideration for presentation in one of these -eState University, 1:00 p.m. on Friday, and 9:00 a.m. and sessions should have been submitted by September 9, 1993. October 1993 FOCUS

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AMS Short Course on Complex Dynamics: the funding for travel, subsistence, and registration fees for Mathematics behind the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets ten women graduate students and ten women postdocs to This two-day Short Course will be held on Monday and attend the workshop and the Joint Meetings. (Funding is Tuesday, January 10 and 11, 1994. The program is under the provided by the National Science Foundation and the Office direction ofRobert L. Devaney, Boston University. of Naval Research.) The workshop will provide opportunities Over the past decade alluring computer graphics images to present and discuss research and to meet with other women of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets have become common• mathematicians at all stages of their careers. The workshop place in mathematics. Few people realize, however, that the will also include a panel discussion on issues of career mathematics behind these images is equally beautiful. In this development at a luncheon and a dinner. Short Course several of the leaders in the field of complex All mathematicians (female and male) are invited to dynamics will give an overview of the mathematical ideas attend the entire program even though only twenty women behind these images. Topics to be discussed include the theory are funded. Departments are urged to help graduate students of external rays for quadratic polynomials, the geometry of and postdoctoral fellows obtain some institutional support to the Mandelbrot set, the chaotic dynamics on Julia sets, and attend the workshop and the Joint Meetings that follow. the computer algorithms used to generate these images. Other All applications must be postmarked by October 8, 1993, talks will center around recent developments in the study and sent to the Association for Women in Mathematics, of cubic polynomials, rational maps, entire functions, and 4114 Computer and Space Sciences Building, University functions arising in Newton's method. Speakers and titles of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2461. For application are Robert L. Devaney, Overview' of quadratic dynamics procedures or additional information contact VIrginia Reinhart and Dynamics of entire functions; Linda Keen, Herbert H. at (301) 405-7852 or e-mail: awm(Omath. umd. edu, Lehman College, CUNY, Julia sets; Adrien Douady, Uni• There will be an AWM Dinner following the workshop. versite de Paris, Sud, The parabolic implosion; John H. Please see details in the Social Events section. Hubbard, Cornell University, The spider algorithm; Bodil An Open Reception is planned for 9:30 p.m. on Wednes• Branner, Technical University of Denmark, The dynamics day. See the Social Events section for details. of complex cubic polynomials with disconnected Julia sets; A public policy address cosponsored by the Joint Policy and Paul R. Blanchard, Boston University, The dynamics of Board for Mathematics (JPBM), the AMS Committee on Newton's method. Science Policy, the MAA Science Policy Committee, and the Other AMS Events SIAM Science Policy Committee is scheduled on Thursday Mathematical Reviews Reception: There will be a reception evening at 7:00 p.m. It is anticipated that the speaker will be for reviewers (past and present) for Mathematical Reviews the new director ofthe National Science Foundation. (MR), on Friday, January 14, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The JPBM Committee on Professional Recognition All reviewers are encouraged to come to the reception, and and Rewards (Calvin C. Moore, chair) will present a panel others who are interested in MR are also invited. Members discussion on Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. of the MR Editorial Committee and the MR staff will make Highlights of their final report on the findings resulting from some brief comments, and there will be an opportunity their study ofthe rewards system in the mathematical sciences, for reviewers to ask questions and make comments and together with their recommendations, will be presented. The suggestions. Refreshments will be provided. committee intends this meeting to provide an opportunity for Councll Meeting: The Council of the Society will meet dialog with the mathematical community and questions from at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday. the floor will be encouraged. Business Meeting: The Business Meeting of the Society The National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) will take place 12:10 p.m. on Friday. will present the William W. S. Claytor Lecture at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. James C. 'Iurner, Jn, Ohio State University and Activities ofOther Organizations Central State University, will speak on A novel approach to The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is turbulent modeling. pleased to present its fifteenth annual Emmy Noether Lec• Etta Z. Falconer, Spelman College, will give the Cox• ture. This year's lecturer will be Lesley M. Sibner, Polytech• Talbot Address titled Challenges and opportunities for mi• nic University, who will speak on Analysis in gauge theory at norities in science and mathematics at the NAM Banquet 9:00 a.m. on Thursday. (A dinner in her honor is described in Friday evening. Please see more detailed information about the Social Events section ofthis program.) the banquet in the Social Events section ofthis announcment. AWM Panel Discussion: This will take place at 3:20 At 3:15 p.m, on Friday NAM will have a session of Pre• p.m. on Wednesday and will be followed by the Prize Session sentations by recent doctoral recipients, moderated by John and the Business Meeting at 4:20 p.m. W. Alexander, Jr., University ofthe District of Columbia. AWM Workshop: The AWM will conduct a workshop A panel discussion on NAM's undergraduate MATHFest; for women graduate students and postdoctorate fellows in one approach to the pipeline issue will take place from 10:00 mathematics on Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. similar a.m. to 10:55 a.m. a.m. on Saturday. The moderator is Johnny to the ones held at other Joint Meetings. There will be L. Houston, Elizabeth City State University. FOCUS October 1993

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The NAM Business Meeting will take place from 2:15 Social Events p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Itis strongly recommended that tickets for these events be The National Science Foundation (NSF) is sponsoring purchased through advance registration since only a very an address from 5:05 p.m. to 5:55 p.m. on Wednesday. limited number of tickets, ifany, will be available for sale on The NSF invites participants at the Joint Mathematics site. To get a 50% refund returned tickets must be received Meetings to meet informally with staff members from noon by the Mathematics Meetings Service Bureau by December to 1:00 p.m. daily, Wednesday through Saturday. 30. After that date no refunds can be made. Special meals are The NSF will also be represented at a booth in the available at all banquets upon advance request, but this must exhibit area. NSF staff members will be available to provide be indicated on the Advance RegistrationIHousing Form. counsel and information on NSF programs of interest to AWM Workshop Dinner: The Association for Women mathematicians. The booth is open the same days and hours in Mathematics will host a dinner after the conclusion of their as the exhibits. Times that staff will be available will be posted workshop on Tuesday. There will be a cash bar reception at at the booth. 5:15 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:15 p.m. All participants are invited to attend the dinner whether or not they attended The Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium the workshop. The menu includes mixed greens, julienne of (RMMC) Board of Directors will meet on Friday from 2:15 seasonal vegetables, and tangy black peppercorn and mustard p.m. to 4:10 p.m. dressing; sliced london broil; chef's choice of vegetables and potato, rice, pasta, or sauteed barley; rolls and butter; apple strudel with vanilla sauce; and coffee and tea. Tickets are Other Events of Interest $27.50 each including taxes and gratuity. AMS Information Booth: All meeting participants are in• AWM Reception: There is an open reception on Wednes• vited to visit the AMS Information Booth during the meetings. day evening at 9:30p.m. This has been a popular, well-attended Complimentary coffee and tea will be served. A special gift event in the past, and musical entertainment is anticipated. will be available for participants, compliments of the AMS. All participants are invited to a dinner to honor AWM's The membership manager of the Society will be at the booth Noether Lecturer, Leslie M. Sibner, on Wednesday. A sign• to answer questions about membership in the Society. up sheet for those interested will be located at the AWM table Book Sales: Books published by the AMS and MAA in the exhibit area and also at the AWM panel discussion. will be sold at discounted prices somewhat below the cost MER Banquet: The Mathematicians and Education Re• for the same books purchased by mail. These discounts form (MER) Network welcomes all mathematicians who are will be available only to registered participants wearing interested in issues in precollege and undergraduate mathe• the official meetings badge. Visa and MasterCard will be matics education to attend the MER Banquet on Wednesday accepted for book sale purchases at the meeting. The book at 6:30 p.m. This is an opportunity to make or renew ties sales will be open the same days and hours as the exhibits. with other mathematicians who are involved in educational A special publications exhibit in the AMS booth will projects. There will be a presentation highlighting the current showcase books on the history of mathematics. (Part of the activities and future plans of the MER Network. There will be AMS l00th Annual Meeting Celebration.) a cash bar beginning at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7:00 Exhibits: The book, educational media, and software p.m. and includes a salad with Boston bibb lettuce, romaine, exhibits will be open 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, tomato, and lemon with 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and 9:00 mustard vinaigrette; broiled salmon with tomato fennel sauce; a.m. to noon on Saturday. All participants are encouraged to fresh seasonal vegetables;parslied new potatoes; rolls and visit the exhibits during the meeting. Participants visiting butter; and coffee and tea. Dessert will be ftourless chocolate the exhibits will be asked display their meeting badge to torte with vanilla sauce. Tickets are $36 each including tax or acknowledgment of advance registration from the and gratuity. Mathematics Meetings Service Bureau in order to enter the exhibit area. NAM Banquet: The National Association of Mathemati• There will be a special display of photographs and cians will host a banquet on Friday evening. A cash bar mementos of AMS meetings past. (Part of. the AMS l00th reception will be held at 5:30 p.m., and dinner will be served Annual Meeting Celebration.) at 6:00 p.m. The menu includes mixed greens with tomato, Joint Books, Journals, and Promotional Materials cucumber, julienne of carrot, and gourmet dressing; roasted Exhibit: This exhibit will be open the same hours as the breast of chicken with hazelnut cream sauce; sweet potatoes other exhibits and affords participants the opportunity to dauphinois; fresh seasonal vegetables; dessert; rolls and but• order publications from various commercial publishers not ter; and coffee and tea. Tickets are $25 including tax and represented at the meeting. gratuity. Mathematical Sciences Employment Register: Those AMS Banquet: As a fitting culmination to the day's wishing to participate in the Cincinnati Employment Register l00th Annual Meeting celebration this banquet provides an should read carefully the important article about the Register excellent opportunity to socialize with fellow participants in which follows this meeting announcement. a relaxed atmosphere. The attendee(s) who has(have) been a ~ October 1993 FOCUS

Meetings member of the Society for the greatest number of years will Joint Meetings cashier. If a registrant should arrive too late be recognized and receive a special award. The banquet will in the day to pick up his/her badge, he/she may show the be held on Saturday with a cash bar reception at 6:15 p.m. acknowledgment of advance registration received from the and dinner at 7:15 p.m, Special door prizes will be four travel MMSB as proofofregistration. gift certificates ranging in value from $250 to $1,000. Each Registration forms received well before the deadline attendee will receive a memento of the occasion. (Part of the of November 12 which are not accompanied by correct AMS l00th Annual Meeting Celebration.) payment will be returned to the participant with a request for The menu includes a salad of Boston bibb lettuce, radic• resubmission with full payment. This will, of course, delay chio, walnuts, sliced mushrooms with Balsamic vinaigrette the processing of any housing request. Iftime will not allow dressing; boneless breast of chicken with tarragon mushroom return ofthe form, a $5 charge will be imposed for all invoices sauce; mixed rice with chutney; fresh seasonal vegetables; prepared when advance registration forms are submitted with strawberries with creme anglaise; rolls and butter; and coffee insufficient payment. We are sorry, but it is not possible for and tea. Tickets are $25 each including tax and gratuity. the MMSB to refund amounts less than $2. Participants should check with their tax preparers for Registering in Advance applicable deductions for education expenses as they pertain and Hotel Accommodations to this meeting. There is no extra charge for members of the families of How to Register in Advance registered participants, except that all professional mathemati• The importance of advance registration cannot be overem• cians who wish to attend sessions must register independently. phasized. Advance registration fees are considerably lower Please indicate names for guest badges on the Advance than the fees that will be charged for registration at the RegistrationIHousing Form located in the back ofthis issue. meeting. Participants who register by the ordinary deadline All full-time students currently working toward a degree of November 12 may use the housing services offered by or diploma qualify for the student registration fees regardless the Mathematics Meetings Service Bureau (MMSB) and may of income. Students are asked to determine whether their elect to receive their programs, badges, and tickets for social status can be described as graduate (working toward a degree events (if purchased) through the mail before the meeting. beyond the bachelor's), undergraduate (working toward a bachelor's degree), or high school (working toward a high Joint Mathematics Meetings school diploma) and make the appropriate indication on the Member ofAMS, Canadian Advance RegistrationIHousing Form. Mathematical Society, MAA $125 The librarian registration category refers to any librarian Emeritus Member ofAMS, MAA; who is not a professional mathematician. Students; Unemployed; Librarians; The unemployed status refers to any person currently High School Teachers 35 unemployed, actively seeking employment, and not a student. Nonmember 194 It is not intended to include any person who has voluntarily High School Students 2 resigned orretired from his or her latest position. Persons who qualify for emeritus membership in either Employment Register the Society or the Association may register at the emeritus Employer $150 member rate. The emeritus status refers to any person who Additional Interviewer (each) 75 has been a member of the AMS or MAA for twenty years Applicant 35 or more and is retired because of age or long-term disability Employer Posting Fee 50 from his or her latest position. Nonmembers who register in advance or register at the AMS Short Course meeting and pay the nonmember fee will receive mailings StudentslUnemployed 30 $ from AMS and MAA after the meeting is over containing Emeritus Members of AMS, MAA 30 information about a special membership offer. All Other Participants 70 Advance Registration Deadlines: There are three sepa• MAAMinicourses rate advance registration deadlines, each with its own advan• Minicourses #1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, tages and benefits. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 $ 45 EARLY advance registration Minicourses #3, 7, 13, 17 65 (housing and room lottery) October 29 Advance registration and on-site registration fees only par• ORDINARY advance registration tially cover expenses ofholding meetings. All mathematicians (housing but no lottery) November 12 who wish to attend sessions are expected to register and should FINAL advance registration be prepared to show their badge if so requested. Badges are (no housing, tickets, or inclusion in the required to enter the exhibit area, to obtain discounts at the Winter Lists for the AMS and MAA Book Sales, and to cash a check with the Employment Register) December 13 ~ FOCUS October 1993

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Early Advance Registration: Those who register by the numbers appears on the back of the AMS and MAA abstract EARLY deadline of October 29 will be included in a drawing forms.) to select randomly winners of complimentary hotel rooms in Cincinnati. Multiple occupancy is permissible. The location of rooms to be used in this lottery will be based on the Miscellaneous Information number of complimentary rooms available in the various Audio-Visual Equipment: Standard equipment in all session hotels. Therefore, the free room-may not necessarily be in the rooms is one overhead projector and screen. (Invited 50• winner's first choice hotel. The winners will be notified by minute speakers are automatically provided with two overhead mail prior to December 31. So register early! (See the list of projectors.) Blackboards are not available. Participants who the winners in San Antonio in the hotel pages.) require audio-visual assistance should come to the Registration Desk. Ordinary Advance Registration: Those who register af• MAA speakers requiring additional equipment may make ter October 29 and by the ORDINARY deadline ofNovember written requests for one additional overhead projector/screen, 12 may use the housing services offered by the MMSB but 35mm carousel slide projector, or VHS video cassette recorder are not eligible for the room lottery. with one color monitor. Such requests should be addressed to Final Advance Registration: Those who register after the MAA associate secretary (Kenneth A. Ross, Department November 12 and by the FINAL deadline of December 13 of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403). must pick up their badges, programs, and tickets for social These requests should be received by November 9, 1993. events (if purchased) at the meetings. Unfortunately, it is not All other speakers requiring additional equipment should possible to provide FINAL advance registrants with housing, contact the audio-visual coordinator for the meetings at the nor will applicant or employer forms be reproduced in the AMS office in Providence at 401-455-4140, or electronic mail Winter Lists for the Employment Register. Please note that wsd

Meetings forwarded after the meetings to the mailing address given on 800-334-8644 between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. EST or call the participant's registration record. any licensed travel agent and refer to gold file #16950015. Petition Table: At the request of the AMS Committee For Amtrak information call 1-800-872-7245. on Human Rights of Mathematicians, a table will be made Weather: January weather in Cincinnati is generally cool available in the exhibit area at which petitions on behalf to cold. Normal daily maximum and minimum temperatures of named individual mathematicians suffering from human are 37°F (3°C) and 20°F (-7°C). Average precipitation for rights violations may be displayed and signed by meetings January is 2.5" which includes an average of 9" of snow in participants acting in their individual capacities. January. Signs of moderate size may be displayed at the table but must not represent that the case of the individual in question AMS-MAA Joint Program Committee Richard A. Askey, Thomas F. Banchoff, H. W. Lenstra (chair), is backed by the Committee on Human Rights unless it has, in fact, so voted. Volunteers may be present at the table and Peter M. Winkler. to provide information on individual cases, but notice must be sent at least seven days in advance of the meetings to AMS Program Committee for National Meetings the director of meetings in the Providence office, telephone: Hermann Flaschka, Robert M. Fossum (ex officio), Jerrold E. 401-455-4137. Since space is limited it may also be necessary Marsden, Dusa McDuff, H. W. Lenstra, Nancy K. Stanton to limit the number of volunteers present at the table at any (chair), and Mary F. Wheeler. one time. The Committee on Human Rights may delegate a person to be present at the table at any or all times, taking MAA Program Committee for the Cincinnati Meeting precedence over other volunteers. Sheldon Axler, David W. Ballew (ex officio), Francis W. Any material which is not a petition (e.g., advertisements, Carroll, Ed Dubinsky, Joseph Ferrer, Apama W. Higgins, resumes) will be removed by the staff. At the end of Albert C. Lewis, Hugh Montgomery, Robert Osserman, Bruce registration on Saturday any material on the table will P. Palka, Janet B. Roll, and Robert S. Smith (chair). be discarded, so individuals placing petitions on the table should be sure to remove them prior to the close of Local Arrangements Committee registration. Franklin W. Briese, Joseph K. Casey, Milton D. Cox, Robert Telephone Messages: These may be left at the Meetings Daverman (ex officio), Edward P. Merkes, William H. Jaco Registration Desk from from January 11 through 15 during (ex officio), Melinda Michael, Kenneth A. Ross (ex officio), the hours that the Desk is open and will be posted on the David Styer (chair), Marcia Sward (ex officio), and Janice B. Math Meetings Message Board. Once the Registration Desk Walker. has closed for the day there, is no mechanism for contacting participants other than calling them directly at their hotel. The telephone number at the Desk is 513-784-6011. Travel: In January Cincinnati is on Eastern StandardTime. The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is located 12 miles (15 minutes) from downtown Cincinnati, across the Ohio River in northern Kentucky. Jetport Express shuttle vans depart the airport for downtown every half hour between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. The cost is $10 one way and $13 round trip ifyou tell them you are attending a convention center event. Taxi fare from the airport to downtown is approximately $21. DELTA and USAIR have been selected as the official airlines for this meeting. The following benefits are available exclusively to mathematicians and their families attending the meetings: On DELTA a savings of up to 10% off any published domestic fare (includes U.S., Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), subject to applicable fare restrictions, is available. Seats are limited. Call 1-800• 241-6760 between 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m, EST to contact Delta directly or call any licensed travel agent. Instruct the ticket agent to refer to file M0456 in order to qualify for the applicable discount. On USAIR you may receive 10% off any published domestic fare with a seven-day advance purchase. Call usAir's Meetings and Convention Reservation Office at 1- ~ How to Obtain Hotel Accommodations ~ C""l The following participants received complimentary hotel rooms during the San Antonio meetings. They qualified for these rooms, which can be occupied by as many as four persons, by submitting their Advance Registration/Hotel (ARB) Form (located at the end of this issue) by the EARLY deadline. Participants wishing to qualify for the Cincinnati room lottery are urged to register by the EARLY ~ deadline of October 29. San Antonio Room Lottery Winners: HOLIDAY INN - Edward Merks TRAVELODGE - Peter Williams HILTON - Misao Nagayama CROCKETT - Robert McKelvey Rogers Newman Yuri Latushkin R. Lee VandeWetering Michael Neumann Rosalyn Lee Tom Brown Bernard Sohmer Marta Pecuch-Herrero MENGER - Daniel Bettendorf EMILY MORGAN - Daniel Flath HYATT - Conduff Childress Theodore Hatcher Ollie Nanyes Hung The Dinh Michael Hutchings Gail Earles Arthur Guetter The AMS-MAA Joint Meetings Committee always endeavors to obtain the lowest possible sleeping room rates for participants at annual meetings. The committee is also responsible for maintaining a sound fiscal position for these meetings. As the meetings have grown in scope and complexity over the years, it has been necessary to find larger facilities with many more session rooms. Unfortunately, the cost of these facilities is higher than can be covered by the registration fees, and the committee has arranged for all of the hotels to collect an extra $3 per room per night from participants, which will be used to offset the rental cost of the Cincinnati Convention Center (CCC). Rates quoted below include this charge. Participants must register in advance in order to obtain hotel accommodations through the Mathematics Meetings Service Bureau (MMSB). Be sure to complete the Housing section of the ARB Form completely, listing all hotels in order of preference, to insure accurate hotel assignments. Reservations must be made through the MMSB to receive the convention rates listed below. The MMSB encourages participants to feel free to call them at 401-455-4143 or 401-455-4145 for more detailed descriptions of the hotels, if necessary. Rates: • listed below by descending order Deadlines:. reservations thru MMSB - November 12 Guarantee • subject to a 10% sales/occupancy tax • hotel will not accept direct reservations Requirements: • $50 (or more) by check • parking rates are per day rates • changes/cancellations thru MMSB - December 10 • credit card - VISA, MC, AE • only certified students or unemployed • changes /cancellations thru hotels - after December 22 mathematicians qualify for listed student rates • reservations thru hotels - after December 22 (convention rates based on availability only) Room Payments: • all major credit cards Special Services: • all hotels in or working towards being in compliance Hotel Info: • limited nonsmoking rooms available • personal checks with personal id and/or with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) • checkin time - 3p.m. (all hotels) credit card backup • special needs should be clearly indicated on ARB Form • checkout time - Lp.m, (Terrace Hilton, Westin) 11a.m. (Clarion) noon (rest of hotels) • hotels with some rooms with windows that open - Terrace Hilton, Quality, and the Holiday Inns

Hotel Name Location Description Single Double Double Ttiple Triple Quad Quad Suites Distance from CCC 1 bed 2 beds 2 beds 2 beds w/cot 2 beds 2 beds w/cot (starting rates)

Hyatt Regency Cincinnati 151 West Fifth Street Restaurants, Lounge, Indoor Pool (Headquarters) Cincinnati, OH 45202 Parking $12.50 valet (In/Out), Health Club .06 miles 513-579-1234 Children 18 yrs. and younger free

REGULAR $ 83 s 83 s 83 $ 93 s 113 s 93 s 113 $360+ STUDENT 73 73 73 73 93 73 93 N/A

The Westin At Fountain Square Restaurants, Lounge, Indoor Pool, Fitness Ctr .20 miles Cincinnati, OH 45202 Parking $8 self (In/Out), $12.95 valet 513-621-7700 Children 18 yrs. and younger free C REGULAR 82 82 82 82 97 82 97 135+ !":> is STUDENT 70 70 70 70 85 70 85 N/A ~ "-' (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE) \Q ~ How to Obtain Hotel Accommodations (continued)

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Terrace Hilton 15 West Sixth Street Restaurant, Lounge, Health Club .15 miles Cincinnati, OH 45202 Parking sn self (In/Out) 513-381-4000 Children 18 yrs. and younger free

REGULAR $ 80 $ 80 $ 80 $ 90 sno $ 90 $ llO $140

STUDENT 70 70 70 70 90 70 90 N/A

Clarion 141 West Sixth Street Restaurants, Lounge, Heated Outdoor Pool .06 miles (Directly Cincinnati, OH 45202 Parking sn valet (In/Out), Health Club Connected to Center) 513-352-2100 Children 17 yrs. and younger free

REGULAR 79 79 79 89 109 89 109 176+

STUDENT 69 69 69 ·69 89 69 89 N/A

Omni Netherland Plaza 35 West Fifth Street Restaurants, Lounge, Indoor Lap Pool .15 miles Cincinnati, OH 45202 Parking $12.50 valet (In/Out), Health Club 513-421-9100 Children 18 yrs. and younger free

REGULAR 63 63 83 93 N/A 103 N/A 205+

STUDENT 49 49 83 93 N/A 103 N/A N/A

Holiday Inn Queensgate· 800 West Eighth Street Restaurant, Lounge, Outdoor Pool' (Downtown) Cincinnati, OH 45203 Free Parking 1 mile 513-241-8660 Children under 18 yrs. free

REGULAR 59 59 59 64 64 69 69 175+

STUDENT 49 49 49 54 54 59 59 N/A

Quality Hotel Riverview" 666 Fifth Street Restaurants, Lounge, Indoor Pool 1 mile Covington, KY 410ll Free Parking, Health Club 606-491-1200 Children under 17 yrs, free

REGULAR 55 55 55 55 65 55 65 140+

STUDENT 45 45 45 45 55 45 55 N/A

Holiday Inn Riverfront" 600 West Third Street Restaurant, Lounge, Outdoor Pool 1 mile Covington, KY 41Gll Free Parking, Health Club (off premise) 606-291-4300 Children under 18 yrs, free

REGULAR 51 51 51 51 61 51 61 N/A

STUDENT 41 41 41 41 51 41 51 N/A

~ • The Holiday Inn Queensgate, Quality Hotel Riverview, and Holiday Inn Riverfront are not within walking distance. Complimentary shuttle service will be provided to and from these properties, ~ ~ FOCUS October 1993 Joint Mathematics Meetings Advance Registration/Housing Form, Cincinnati, Ohio January 12-15, 1994 Please complete this form and return it with your payment to: Mathematics Meetings Service Bureau (MMSB), P.O. Box 6887, Providence, Rhode Island 02940; Telephone: (401) 455-4143; Telex: 797192

DEADLINES: AMS Short Course, Hotel Reservations (includes Room Lottery Qualification), Joint Meetings (JM) & Employment Register (ER) October 29, 1993 AMS Short Course, Hotel Reservations, JM & ER (includes Tickets, Registration Material Mailed In December, and Inclusion in Winter Lists) November 12, 1993 Housing Changes/Cancellations through MMSB December 10, 1993 AMS Short Course, Final JM & ER Registration with no Housing, Tickets, Inclusion in Winter Lists, or Material Mailed December 13, 1993 50% Refund on Tickets December 30, 1993 (no refunds after this date) 50% Refund Advance Registration/Employment Register/AMS Short Course January 9, 1994 (no refunds after this date) (N.B.: A separate form appears in this issue for advance registration for MAA Minicourses.)

ADVANCE REGISTRATION SECTION: Please complete this section and the appropriate sections on the reverse.

1) Telephone: _ (Please print) Surname First Middle 2) (Mailing address)

(Mailing address continued) (e-mail address) I do not wish my badge, tickets, program, and/or Employment R~ister material to be mailed; however, the mailing address for my acknowledgment and room confirmation is given above. U 3) Badge information: Affiliation _ Names for Guest Badges: _

4) Students: Grad 0 Undergrad 0 High School 0 5) Emeritus member 0 High School Teacher 0 Librarian 0 Unemployed 0 6) Member of: AMS 0 CMS 0 MAA 0 Nonmember 0 AWM 0 NAM 0 MR Classification # ------7) Joint Meetings fee $ 8) AMS Short Course fee $ 9) Employer fee(s) $ 10) Co-Interviewer fee(s) $ _ 11) Applicant fee $ 12) Posting fee $ 13) Hotel deposit $ (necessary ONLY if paying deposit by check) 14) Tickets: __ AMS 25-Year Banquet @$25each = $ __ Veg. meal 0 __ MER Banquet @$36 each =$ Veg. meal 0 --NAM Banquet @$25 each = $ Veg. meal 0 __ AWM Workshop Dinner @$27.50 eachee $ __ Veg. meal 0 Students, please check here if you will be attending the MathChats on Tuesday, 1/11/94. 0 15) TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED FOR 7 through 14 $ NOTE: May be paid by check payable to AMS (Canadian checks must be marked "U.S. Funds"), or VISA or MasterCard credit cards. 0 original institutional purchase order attached Credit card type: Card number: Expiration date: _ If this is your credit card, please print your name as it appears on the credit card on the line below as well as sign your name. If this is not your credit card, please print card holder's name as it appears on the credit card on the line below, and have the card holder sign.

(Printed name) (Signature)

REGISTRATION FEES JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETINGS Member of AMS, CMS, MAA $ 125 * Emeritus Member of AMS or MAA 35 Nonmember 194 * Students: High School 2 Graduate or Undergraduate 35 * High School Teachers/Librarians/Unemployed Mathematicians 35 AMS SHORT COURSE Member/Nonmember 70 * Student, Unemployed, or Emeritus 30 EMPLOYMENT REGISTER Employer (1st Interviewer) 150 Employer (2nd/3rd Interviewer) 75 Applicant 35 Posting for job descriptions for noninterviewing employers 50 * See section on "How to Register in Advance" in the Notices or Focus for definitions of various registration categories. For office use only: Codes Options Hotel Room type

Dates Hotel Deposit Total Amount Paid

Special Remarks HOUSING SECTION: ADVANCE REGISTRATION/HOUSING FORM, Cincinnati, Ohio January 12-15, 1994 ~ S o I will not require housing. 0 I am making my own arrangements. 0 I am staying privately in the local area. 0 I am requesting a hotel reservation below. ~ Please rank hotels in order of preference by writing 1, 2, 3, etc., in the spaces at the left on the form and by circling the requested room type and rate. If the rate or hotel requested is no longer .... available, you will be assigned a room at a ranked or unranked hotel at a comparative rate. Rates listed below are subject to 10%sales/occupancy tax. GUARANTEE REQUIREMENTS: ~ $50 by check OR a credit card guarantee with VISA, MasterCard, or American Express. Please supply this information on the reverse. ~

Order of Distance Single Double Double Triple Triple Quad Quad Suites" choice from Conv. Ctr. 1 bed 2 beds 2 beds 2 beds w/cot 2 beds 2 beds w/cot (starting rates)

Hyatt Regency Cincinnati (Headquarters) .06 miles

Regular 16 83 16 83 16 83 16 93 16113 16 93 16113 16360+ Student·· 73 73 73 73 93 73 93 N/A Westin .20 miles Regular 82 82 82 82 97 82 91 135+ Student" 70 70 70 70 85 70 85 N/A Terrace Hilton .15 miles Regular 80 80 80 90 no 90 no 140 Student·· 70 70 70 70 90 70 90 N/A Clarion .06 miles Regular 79 79 79 89 109 89 109 176+ Student·· 69 69 69 69 89 69 89 N/A Omni Netherland Plaza .15 miles Regular 63 63 83 93 NjA 103 NjA 205+ Student·· 49 49 83 93 N/A 103 N/A N/A Holiday Inn Queensgate (downtown)***T 1 mile Regular 59 59 59 64 64 69 69 175+ Student·· 49 49 49 54 54 59 59 N/A Quality Hotel Riverview T 1 mile Regular 55 55 55 55 65 55 65 140+ Student·· 45 45 45 45 55 45 55 N/A Holiday Inn Riverfront***T 1 mile Regular 51 51 51 51 61 51 61 N/A Student·· 41 41 41 41 51 41 51 N/A * Reservations for suites must be made directly with the Service Bureau. The hotei can supply general information only. •* Participant must be a certified student or unemployed (as described in the "How to Register in Advance" section of Notices or Focus) to qualify for these rates. *** Room types available are king sofa and double-doubie. Please indicate your preference below. tThe Holiday Inn Queensgate, Quality Hotel Riverview, and Holiday Inn Riverfront are not within walking distance. Complimentary shuttle service will be provided to and from these properties.

Special housing requests:

If you are physically challenged and have special needs, please indicate your needs above. If necessary, a staff member will call you for further information to insure that you are placed in a property that is complying with ADA rules and that your stay in Cincinnati is comfortable. Phone number where you can be reached:

I will arrive on (date) at a.m.yp.m., and depart on (date) at a.m./p.m. Please list other room occupants, indicating their full name, arrival, departure date, and ages of children, and check here if one of the occupants is your spouse 0 ~ ~ S5 FOCUS October 1993

MAA Minicourse Advance Registration Form, Cincinnati, Ohio January 12-15, 1994

NOTE: This is NOT the AMS Short Course Form. Please use the Joint Meetings Advance Registration/Housing Form to register in advance for the AMS Short Course. To register for MAA Minicourse(s), please complete THIS FORM or a PHOTOCOPY OF THIS FORM and return it with your payment to: Minicourse Coordinator Mathematical Association of America 1529 Eighteenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 Telephone: 202-387-5200

Telephone: _ (Please print) Surname First Middle

Street address City State Zip

• Deadline for MAA Minicourse advance registration: November 12, 1993 (After this date, potential participants are encouraged to call the MAA headquarters at 800-331-1622 for availability of Minicourses.). • Deadline for cancellation in order to receive a 50% refund: December 30, 1993. • Each participant must fill out a separate Minicourse Advance Registration Form. • Enrollment is limited to two Minicourses, subject to availability. • Please complete the following and send both form and payment to the Minicourse Coordinator at the above address: I would like to attend 0 1 Minicourse 0 2 Minicourses Please enroll me in MAA Minicourse(s): # __ and # __ In order of preference, my alternatives are: # __ and # __

• PAYMENT Check enclosed: $ Credit card type: 0 MasterCard 0 Visa Credit card # Expiration date: _

Your Employing Institution Signature (as it appears on credit card)

Minicourse Number and Name Organized by Fee 1. Organizing an undergraduate research program Robert O. Robson & Joseph A. Gallian $45 2. Inverse problems in the undergraduate classroom Charles W. Groetsch & Zuhair Nashed $45 3. The joy of Mathematica: a point-and-click way to use and learn Mathematica Alan H. Shuchat & Frederic W. Shultz $65 4. How to make effective use of inexpensive pocket computers to develop the Franklin D. Demana & Bert K. Waits $45 concepts and techniques of calculus 5. Unifying themes for discrete mathematics Ralph P. Grimaldi $45 6. The mathematics of the perfect shuffle S. Brent Morris $45 7. Theorist Donald Hartig $65 8. Introduction to research in the teaching and learning of undergraduate Joan Ferrini-Mundy & Kathleen Heid $45 mathematics: examples in calculus 9. The math modeling/precalculus reform project: using discrete mathematical Sheldon P. Gordon & B. A. Fusaro $45 models to motivate mathematics 10. q-dimensional dynamical systems and chaos Mario U. Martelli $45 11. HP48 learning environments for experienced users Lynn E. Garner $45 12. Creating order out of chaos in freshman mathematics W8.de Ellis, Jr. $45 13. "Workshop" mathematics: using new pedagogy and technology in Nancy Hood Baxter & Allan Rossman $65 introductory mathematics courses 14. Interactive computer graphics laboratories for introductory differential Thomas F. Banchoff $45 geometry 15. Designing question-based mathematics courses Larry Copes & Su Doree $45 16. Calculus: an active approach with projects Stephen R. Hilbert, John C. Maceli, Diane D. Schwartz, $45 Stanley E. Seltzer, & Eric E. Robinson 17. Teaching applied math via Maple Robert J. Lopez $65

o I plan on registering in advance for the Cincinnati, Ohio meetings ONLY in order to attend the MAA Minicourse(s) indicated above. It is my understanding that should the course(s) of my choice be filled a full refund of the Cincinnati meetings advance registration fee will be made. October 1993 FOCUS

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Mathematical Sciences Employment Register Cincinnati Convention Center January 12, 13, & 14, 1994

Overview of the Employment Register The Mathematical Sciences Employment Register, held annu• ally at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January, provides All interviewing employers and applicants MUST appear opportunities for mathematical scientists seeking professional at the Employment Register desk to submit their re• employment to meet employers who have positions to be quest/availability sheets by 4:00 p.m, Wednesday, January filled. Job announcements and brief resumes, prepared by 12, 1994, regardless ofwhether they have registered in ad• employers and applicants respectively, are assigned code vance. Those who will not be able to appear on Wednesday numbers and circulated to participants in advance and at afternoon should not plan to participate. Should unexpected the meetings so that members of each group may deter• delays occurwhile travelling, contactthe EmploymentReg• mine which members of the other group they would like to ister desk at the Cincinnati Convention Centerby telephone have an opportunity to interview. Requests for interviews are at 513-784-6010 before 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday. submitted on forms that are turned in at the Employment Register desk by all participants the day before interviewing begins. The algorithm used in the interview scheduling Advance Registration Procedures for Applicants program selects interviews solely from among the requests Advance registration is an important step in Employment submitted by employers and applicants. Since it does NOT Register participation that offers several advantages: compare an applicant's brief risume with an employer's • Advance registration fees for applicants are $35, plus Joint job announcement, participants should be aware that in• Meetings registration fee, vs. $70 on-site registration fee, terviews between poorly matched participants may occur, plus Joint Meetings registration fee. if requested. All participants are strongly advised to choose • Each typed Applicant's Resume Form will be reproduced interview requests carefully to maximize the effectiveness of in a booklet, the Winter List ofApplicants, and distributed the Employment Register system. to all registered employers, Applicant Resume Forms The improvedalgorithmfor scheduling employer-applicant received after November 12, 1993, cannot be included interviews performed well at the 1993 Employment Register. in the booklet. The booklet allows employers to examine Priority is now given to certain classes of employer and ap• each candidate's qualifications in advance, which may be plicant requests. Specifically, mutual requests (requests where advantageous to those applicants. Of the 100 applicants an applicant and employer have each asked to interview the who were most requested by the employers at the 1993 other) are virtually assured of being scheduled. Employer Employment Register, 95 had registered in time to get requests are also given priority, as are the requests by ap• their Resume Forms printed in the booklet. plicants that applicants designate "high priority". Under this • Applicants registered in advance will receive their badges, scheduling system employers in 1993 interviewed 100% of programs, and Employment Register materials two to the applicants they requested (who were actually present at the three weeks in advance of the meeting, unless they Employment Register). The new system is based on computer indicate otherwise. The package will include the complete code developed by J.P. Jarvis, D.R. Shier, and M. Myers ofthe job announcements received from employers registered department of mathematical sciences, Clemson University, by November 12. under a contract with the AMS sponsored jointly by the AMS Applicants may register in advance by submitting the Joint and the Mathematical Association of America. Meetings Advance Registration/Housing Form and Applicant The Mathematical Sciences Employment Register is spon• Resume Form (all found in the back ofthis issue) to the Math• sored by the American Mathematical Society, the Mathemati• ematics Meetings Service Bureau by November 12. These cal Association ofAmerica, and the Society for Industrial and forms must be accompanied by payment of the appropriate Applied Mathematics; it is operated by members of the AMS fees. Applicant Resume Forms received by the November 12 staff under the general supervision of the AMS-MAA-SIAM deadline will be included in the Winter List. Advance regis• Committee on Employment Opportunities. tration for the Employment Register will continue until the Final Registration deadline of December 13, 1993, however, the Resume Form will NOT be included in the Winter List but will be posted on site at the Employment Register. Those who do not register by December 13 must register on site at the Joint Meetings Registration Desk and pay the higher fees. ------@ FOCUS October 1993

Meetings

Advice to Applicants To register in advance employers should submit the Applicants should be aware of some objective information Employer Form and the Joint Meetings Advance Registra• concerning recent Employment Registers: tionIHousing Form (both found in the back of this issue), • At the 1993 Employment Register in San Antonio the ratio along with payment of the appropriate fees, to the Mathemat• of applicants to interviewers was close to seven applicants ics Meetings Service Bureau by November 12. to one interviewer. One Employer Form should be submitted for each position • The employers who responded to the 1993 follow-up or set ofpositions for which interviews will be conducted. All survey (78%) reported giving 94 invitations for on-campus co-interviewers should register at the same time. Each inter• interviews to Employment Register applicants, and they viewer listed on an Employer Form will be charged separate reported making 44 job offers to applicants. Joint Meetings and Employment Register fees; however, the • In San Antonio the average total number of interviews for "additional interviewers" listed on the form will be charged each applicant was between five and six. a lower Employment Register fee. Interviewers may work • Most jobs listed required a doctorate. concurrently or may register as only one person and work in • Most jobslisted have been academic positions at bachelor's• shifts. Ifindividuals from an institution want to interview sep• granting institutions. arately for different positions, they will be assigned a separate • Over 50% of the employers interviewing at the Employ• code number and table and will each pay "first interviewer" ment Register in San Antonio indicated that they were fees. restricted by their institution or company to hiring only It is the policy of some institutions to pay directly for U.S. citizens or permanent residents. employer fees. If a payment of this type is made separately Applicants should obtain their materials in time to ex• from the submission of the advance registration materials, it amine all job listings carefully and make interview requests is important that the institution's fiscal department include the appropriately. They are likewise encouraged to complete the name of the department and interviewer with their payment Applicant Resume Form carefully to ensure that employers so that proper credit can be made in the Providence office. are aware of any geographical or other restrictions they may have. Those with schedule conflicts during the Joint Meetings Advice to Employers should indicate that they are unavailable for one or more Employers should know about several flexible options for half-day sessions. participation in the Employment Register: Applicants should keep in mind that interviews arranged • Participants may register for any subset of the four half-day by the Employment Register represent only an initial contact sessions. with the employers and that hiring decisions are not ordinar• • The new schedule allows slightly longer interviews, with ily made during or immediately following such interviews. five minutes between for note taking. Applicants are advised to bring a number of copies of their • One or more interviewers may interview separately, to• vita or resume so that they may leave them with prospective gether, or in shifts. employers; or applicants may wish to mail materials several • Employers may elect to receive a booklet containing weeks in advance directly to participating employers in which hundreds of Applicant Resumes Forms two to three they are particularly interested. weeks in advance. ALL interview request forms must be submitted on Wednesday, then on Thursday and Friday employers will interview almost all of the applicants Advance Registration Procedures for Employers they requested. Most employers report that they met with Representatives of mathematical sciences departments and excellent candidates among the group of applicants who private or governmental organizations who plan to contact job had requested interviews with them. seekers at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Cincinnati are Employers should bring school catalogs or corporate encouraged to register one or more interviewers in advance reports to the Employment Register desk for perusal by for the Employment Register. applicants prior to interviews. • The fee for employers to register in advance is $150 for the first interviewer and $75 for each additional interviewer. On-site registration fees are $200 for the first interviewer Registration on Site and $100 for each additional interviewer. Employers must Applicants and employers who do not register for the Joint also register for the Joint Meetings and pay the appropriate Mathematics Meetings and the Employment Register by Joint Meetings fee. December 13 may register on site in Cincinnati at the Joint • Employer Forms submitted by November 12 will be Meetings Registration desk. They must bring their receipt to photographically reproduced in a booklet which will be the Employment Register desk between 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 distributed to all applicants. Employers may elect to p.m. on Wednesday, January 12 to receive their materials. receive their badges, programs, and Employment Register Every effort should be made to type the Applicant Resume material in advance, including the Winter ListofApplicants or Employer Form (found in the back of this issue) and containing all the Resume Forms of applicants registered bring it to the Register. Participants should keep in mind that by November 12. on-site registration should be done as early on Wednesday ~ October 1993 FOCUS

.._-_ _.._------_ _ _-_ _.._-.---_ - _.. _.•_ _ _._.._ _.. ------_Meetings as possible to allow a longer time for their Resume Form and those not attending will be included provided they are or job listing to be viewed by other participants and also to received before the November 12 deadline. No changes may allow time to examine materials before making their own be made after the form is submitted. interview requests. There will be no on-site registration Copies of the booklet will be available for sale at the for the Employment Register after 4:00 p.m, Wednesday, AMS Exhibit and Book Sale at the meeting for $10. Any January 12. copies remaining after the meeting will be available from the Providence office of the Society for $17 each. Please note that the booklet will no longer be distributed as part of the ElMS 1994 Employment Register Schedule subscription. Wednesday, January 12 • 7:30 a.m. Distribution of Employment Register mate• Applicants Not Planning to Attend rial for on-site registrants and participants registered in Applicants seeking professional positions in the mathematical advance who did not receive materials by mail. sciences who do not plan to attend the meeting in Cincinnati • 9:00 a.m. Short (optional) orientation session. also may submit the Applicant Resume Form at the back of • 9:30 a.m.-4:oo p.m. Submission of all interview request this issue for publication in the Winter List of Applicants. forms for both Thursday and Friday interviews. This Please indicate you are not attending the meeting and observe applies to both advance and on-site registrants. Those who the deadline of November 12. There is no charge for this do not submit interview request sheets by 4:00 p.m. will service. be unable to participate in the Employment Register on Winter List ofEmployers Thursday and Friday. The Winter List ofEmployers consists of the position listings • 2:00 p.m.-3:15p.m. Panel discussion, Effectivejob seeking submitted by employers who submitted job descriptions in today's market. by November 12. It will be distributed to the applicants • N.B. No interviews are held on Wednesday. participating in the Register. Others may purchase the Winter Thursday, January 13 List ofEmployers at the AMS Exhibit and Book Sale at the • 7:00 a.m. Distribution of interview schedules for both meeting for $10 each. Any copies remaining after the meeting Thursday and Friday. will be available from the Providence office of the Society for • 8:15 a.m.-4:40 p.m. Interviews. $17 each. Friday, January 14 Employers Not Planning to Interview • 8:15 a.m.-4:40 p.m. Interviews. Employers who do not plan to participate in the Employment All participants in the 1994 Employment Register Register may display a job description. This description must must submit their Interview Request/Availability Forms be submitted on the Employer Form which appears in the back between 9:30 a.m. and4:00 p.m, on Wednesday, orthey will of this issue, with the appropriate box checked indicating that not be included when the interview scheduling program no interviews will take place. A fee of $50 is charged for this runs Wednesday night. This applies to all employers and service. Ifthe form is received in the Providence office (with applicants, whether advance or on-site registrants. Forms payment) by the November 12 deadline, it will appear in submitted with advance registration do not automatically the Winter List ofEmployers. Forms received with payment include the participants in the interviewing process. in the Providence office after that deadline will be displayed Interviews now occur at twenty-minute intervals with at the meeting. For on-site postings the fee of $50 must first five minutes between successive interviews. The interviews be paid at the Joint Mathematics Meetings Registration Desk. are scheduled in half-day sessions: Thursday morning and Participants should inform the cashier that they would like afternoon, and Friday morning and afternoon, amounting to post a job description but are not planning to interview to four half-day sessions for interviews. Participants may and should obtain the proper receipt. Additional forms are choose to indicate unavailability for one or more sessions available at the Employment Register desk. when they submit interview request forms. However, once scheduled, participants need to make a good faith effort to For Funher Infonnation meet each appointment. Employers or applicants who must Questions about the Employment Register should be addressed cancel an interview should fill out a cancellation form at the to the Employment Register Coordinator at the AMS, 401• Employment Register Desk well in advance. 455-4142, or bye-mail: cak(Qmath. ams.org, The telephone number at the Register in Cincinnati is 513-784-6010. This Winter List ofApplicants number will be in service only during the hours the Register is The Winter List ofApplicants, formerly the December issue open in Cincinnati. Participants should note that this number of Employment Information in the Mathematical Sciences is to be used for contacting the Employment Register Desk (ElMS), contains resumes of persons seeking professional and is not for contacting participants nor for taking messages. positions in the mathematical sciences and is distributed to all Those who wish to leave messages should call the message employers interviewing at the Employment Register. Resume center telephone number, 513-784-6011, during the hours that Forms of applicants taking part in the Employment Register the Meetings Registration Desk is open. ------~ FOCUS October 1993

APPLICANT REsuME FORM

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES EMPLOYMENT REGISTER JANUARY 12-14, 1994 CINCINNATI,OmO 1. Form must be typed. (please see instmctions on facing page. No other format will be accepted. Use of codes is optional.) 2. This form CANNOT be submitted by electronic mail. 3. Hand lettered forms will be returned. Do not type beyond the box. 4. Please check ifAdvance RegistrationIHousing Form previously sent. 0 5. Return form with payment with your Advance RegistrationIHousing Form by November 12 to AMS, P.O. Box 6887, Providence, RI 02940, in order to be included in the Winter List of Applicants.

APPLICANT Name------CODE: Mailing Address (include zip code)--- _

E-mail address _ ® Specialties Career objectives and accomplishments: ACADEMIC: 0 Research D University Teaching College Teaching: D 4-year 0 2-year Would you be interested in nonacademic employment? Dyes D no Significant achievements, research, or teaching interests ------

Paper to be presented at this meeting, or recent publication _

Degree Year (expected) Institution

Number of refereed papers accepted/published _ PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Employer Position @Experience Years 1. _ --to-- 2. _ __to __ 3. _ __to__ DESIRED POSITION: ©Duties Available mo. __ /yr. __ Significant requirements (or restrictions) which would limit your availability for employment _

References (Name and Institution)

Citizenship: (check one) Du. S. Citizen D Non-U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident o Non-U.S. Citizen, Temporary Resident

AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS: Session 1 0 Session 2 D Session3 0 Session 4 D Thurs. AM 8:15--11:40 Thurs. PM 1:00-4:40 Fri. AM 8:15--11:40 Fri. PM 1:00-4:40

I do not plan to attend the Cincinnati meetings. D October1993 FOCUS

EMPLOYER FORM

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES EMPLOYMENT REGISTER JANUARY 12-14, 1994 CINCINNATI, OHIO

1. Form must be typed. (please see instructions on page facing Applicant Form. No other format will be accepted. Use ofcodes is optional.) 2. This form CANNOT be submitted by electronic mail. 3. Hand lettered forms will be returned. Do not type beyond this box. 4. Please check ifAdvance RegistrationIHousing Form previously sent. a 5. Return form with payment with your Advance RegistrationIHousing Form by November 12 to AMS, P.O. Box 6887, Providence, RI 02940, in order to be included in the Winter Listof Employers.

EMPLOYER CODE: Institution _ Department _

City, State, Zip _ E-mail address _

Name(s) ofInterviewer(s) 1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _ ® Specialties Sought _ Title(s)ofPosition(s) -;- _

Number of Positions _

Starting Date _----..= -;;--_ Term of Appointment --,=,--_ Month Year Years Renewal Tenure Track Position a Possible a Impossible a Yes a No Teaching Hours per Week _ Degree Preferred _ Degree Accepted _ ® Duties _ © ExperiencePreferred _

Significant other requirements, needs, or restrictions which will influence hiring decisions. _

Able to hire for this position: a U.S. Citizen a Non-U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident (checkall that apply) a Non-U.S. Citizen, Temporary Resident Available for Interviews a Session 1 (Thurs. AM, 8:15-11:40) a Session 2 (Thurs. PM, 1:()()..4:40) a Session 3 (Fri. AM, 8:15-11:40) a Session 4 (Fri. PM, 1:()()..4:40) Number of Session 1: __ Interviewers Session 2: Interviewers Interviewers Session 3: __ Interviewers Session 4: Interviewers a Not Interviewing FOCUS October 1993

Instructions for Applicant and Employer Forms

Applicant forms submitted for the Employment Register by the November 12 deadline will be photographically reproduced in a booklet titled Winter List ofApplicants. Employer forms submitted by the November 12 deadline will be photographically reproduced for the Winter List of Employers. Employers are encouraged to provide more than one interviewer when they are able to do so, in order to increase the number of interviews which may be scheduled. Please take care to indicate the number of interviewers for whom simultaneous interviews may be scheduled. Please refer to the Employment Register text for specific instructions. The forms must be carefully typed using a fresh black ribbon. It is important that the keys be clean and make a sharp, clear impression. Do not erase-it causes smudges which reproduce when photographed. Use a correcting typewriter, or correction tape or fluid if necessary. Submit the original typed version only. Copies will not reproduce properly and are not acceptable. Hand lettered forms will be returned. Do not type outside the box. AUforms must be received by the Society by November 12, 1993, in order to appear in the Winter Lists and, if attending the meeting, must be accompanied by the Advance RegistrationIHousing Form printed in the issue.

o Specialties AL = Algebra EC = Economics MO = Modelling AN = Analysis ED = Mathematics Education MP = Mathematical Physics BI = Biomathematics FA = Functional Analysis MS = Management Science BS = Biostatistics PI = Financial Mathematics NA = Numerical Analysis CB = Combinatorics FL = Fluid Mechanics NT = Number Theory CN = Control GE = Geometry OR = Operations Research CM = Communication HM = History of Mathematics PR = Probability CS = Computer Science LO = Logic SA = Systems Analysis CT = Circuits MB = Mathematical biology ST = Statistics DE = Differential Equations ME = Mechanics TO = Topology ® © Duties and Experience T=Teaching U = Undergraduate IND = Industry R= Research G = Graduate GOV = Government S = Supervision A = Administration DP = Data Processing C = Consulting

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It's not out of the cess that aids students, faculty, and whether people use the system or not. question for avendor tosupplyseveralevalu• administrators in getting the point across. ation copies if the potential to sell copies to The best start for a collegiate e-mail system "You need to make it ahabit for people," she a whole university is there. In order to get will be a fresh start, where the network ad• says. "As soon as they get into the office full cooperation from that software vendor, ministrator can acquire the hardware and every morning they should automatically the university's representatives should con• softwarethatbestfitsthedepartment's needs. log on and check their mail. It won't work vey that possibility. any other way." Afresh start, however, will be the exception Relyea says that much resistance to e-mail rather than the rule. Most colleges will be Barrett trains all users in small groups, re• comes from people who "havea bad taste in forced to build computing systems on what cruiting those who have used computers their mouths from the previous use of an has come before. Still, the quality of adapt• before as team teachers. With the proper inferiorsystem." These bad old days may be able software has improved. There are many training and support, she estimates that the gone. With perennial campus favorite the choices available,and acareful selection will average computer-phobicuser will get up to Apple Macintosh, and programs supporting give users a system that meets their infor• speed in about a week. Microsoft Windows, among them cc:Mail mational needs at a price they can afford. When it comes to selecting e-mail software, and Microsoft Mail, the interface has be• come the most important factor. both service and the reputation for service are important qualifiers. Two of the e-mail Mail isinteractive and easy to use. Itlets you Seeking leaders are cc:Mail and Microsoft Mail, know immediately when you have a mes• available respectively from software giants sage. Says Relyea, "You shouldn't have to Nominations for Lotus Development and Microsoft Corp. log on to find out if there is anything wait• Both come from acquisitions, where the ing. That would be like having to make a product was already on the market when telephone call to find out if you had any Associate Lotus and Microsoftboughtthe companies. calls. A good system will let you know right away when a message has arrived, and al• Secretary This is to the benefit ofthe user. Both Scott andRelyea, respective users oftheMicrosoft low you to incorporate that message into The MAA issoliciting your environment." and Lotus products since before the buyouts, nominations for the position say the service improved after the larger Future Shock ofAssociate Secretary. The companies bought the products. As electronic mail demonstrates its worth duties involve arrangements Things to Consider Before Pur• on some campuses, schools without a strong for national meetings. chasing ASystem e-mail structure will be working at a clear disadvantage. A strong computing infra• Nominations should include Webb thinks that the underlying protocol is structure will eventually becomea deciding experience and qualifica• the most important aspect of a product. A factor in a school's ability to deal in infor• tions for the position. Please package that is part ofa larger "strategy"• mation and, subsequently, its academic or a suite of connectedapplications--canbe reputation. send names of nominees to a hindrance. "Microsoft Mail and cc:Mail G. L. Alexanderson, Depart• While electronic mail has aclear place inthe incorporate aproprietary mail system, which ment of Mathematics, Santa can make it hard for other systems to inter• future, technological changes will incorpo• act," Relyea says. rate its use even more. With the emergence Clara University, Santa of integrated telephony-the integration of Clara, CA 95053. "Try before you buy" is another important telephone technology with personal com• maxim. Relyea suggests that a network ad• puters--comes the capability to do many ministrator test several different packages things. Among the benefits of integrated with different workgroups; for instance, telephony is that users will be able to inte• MATH equipping some people with cc:Mail and grate voice mail with other forms of some others with Microsoft Mail. communicationsuch as faxes and electronic HORIZONS • • Ifthis process seems to increase the distance mail. IS commq. between two points-purchase and use• Departments and colleges must look to the consider the negative implications of future when setting up new e-mail systems. See page 48. FOCUS October 1993

computer science department in a liberal arts Three Year Lecturer Positions DARTMOUTH COLLEGE environment. They should also arrange for Department of Mathematics John Wesley Young Research three letters of reference to be sent to Wayne University of Arizona Instructorship in Mathematics Roberts at the address above. Evaluation of Tucson, Arizona The John Wesley Young Research Instructor• applications will begin on November 1 and will ship is a two year post-doctoral appointment continue until the position is filled. Macalester The Department of Mathematics at the Uni• for promising new or recent PhD's whose re• is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity versity of Arizona plans to offer three year, search interests overlap a department employer. non-tenure track appointments to the rank of member's. Current departmental interests lecturer, starting in the Fall of 1994. We are include areas in algebra, analysis, combina• looking for individuals with records of effec• University of St. Thomas torics, computer science, differentialgeometry, tive and innovative undergraduate teaching. logic and set theory, number theory, probabil• Dept. of Mathematics, St. Paul, MN Documentation of such accomplishments will ity and topology. Teaching duties of four Assistant Professor of Mathematics be the primary consideration used in offering ten-week courses spread over two or three Applications are sought for a non-tenure track these lectureships. A graduate degree in quarters typically include at least one course position in mathematics. Applicants must have Mathematics or Mathematics Education is in the instructor's speciality and include el• completed a Ph.D. in an area of discrete math• required. Teaching duties include the follow• ementary, advanced and (at instructor's ematics, be recognized for quality ingcourses: college algebra, precalculus, finite option) graduate courses. Nine-month salary undergraduate teaching, have a well-defined mathematics, and calculus. These positions of $34,000 supplemented by summer (resi• research agenda, and share a commitment to offer excellent opportunities for individuals to dent) research stipend of $7,556 (two-ninths). liberal arts education. Candidates should also work with other faculty members in an innova• Send letter of application, resume, graduate consider their role in contributing to the mis• tive learning environment. Lecturers enjoy all transcript, thesis abstract, description of other sion of the University. The University of St. the benefits and privileges that are available research activities and interests if appropriate, Thomas, located in the heart of the attractive to other University employees. and 3 or preferably 4 letters of recommenda• Twin Cities metropolitan area, has, for over a The deadline for applications is November 15, tion (at least one should discuss teaching) to century, provided a strong program of liberal 1993. Early submission of application mate• Phyllis A. Bellmore, Mathematics and Com• arts education in the Catholic tradition. The rial is strongly encouraged. Women and puter Science, 6188 Bradley Hall, Hanover, Department of Mathematics offers a compre• minority applicants are especially welcome. NH 03755-3551. Applications received by Jan. hensive undergraduate program. Application Correspondence regarding job descriptions, 15 receive first consideration; applications will materials, including a letter of interest, a CV, qualifications, and application procedures be accepted until position is filled. Dartmouth and three letters of recommendation (includ• should be sent to: College is committed to affirmative action and ing comments of the applicant's experience strongly encourages applications from minori• and promise inthe areas ofteaching and schol• Entry Level Teaching Positions ties and women. arship) must be received by December 1,1993. Alan C. Newell, Head Applications should be sent to Suzanne Department of Mathematics Lechtman, Department of Mathematics, Uni• University of Arizona versity of St. Thomas. St. Paul, MN 55105. Tucson, Arizona, 85721 USA MACALESTER COLLEGE The University of St. Thomas is an equal op• The University of Arizona in an Affirmative MATHEMATICS/ portunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. COMPUTER SCIENCE women and persons of color are particularly 1600 GRAND AVENUE encouraged to apply. ST. PAUL, MN 55105 Pomona College Applications are invited for a position at the Davidson College Claremont, California rank of either associate professor or full pro• Department of Mathematics Pomona College seeks applications for a ten• fessor in Mathematics to begin in the fall of P.o. Box 1719, Davidson, NC 28036 ure track position, at the assistant professor 1994.Candidates must have experience in level. The strongest candidates will have post• teaching a broad assortment of undergradu• E-mail: [email protected] doctoral experience and be excited about ate courses, a solid and ongoing scholarly Applications are invited for an entry level ten• teaching our culturally and intellectually di• record, familarity with the integration of com• ure track position in the Mathematics verse student body, of which about a third of puting into mathematics, and a commitment Department beginning August 1994. Comple• the mathematics majors are women. They to teaching and research in an undergraduate tion or near completion of PhD is required. A should also be committed to continuing a liberal arts college. While applications in all candidate must be committed to outstanding strong research program. fields will be considered, our department has teaching and continuinq scholarly activity. a special need for someone in the areas of Computer science background is desirable. Send application materials to: The Search dynamic systems or a branch of geometry. The teaching load will be 5 courses per year. Committee, Department of Mathematics, Davidson is a liberal arts college with a Pres• Pomona College, Claremont, CA91711-6348. Located in a pleasant residential neighbor• byterian heritage. Include a curriculum vitae and 3 letters of rec• hood of the culturally rich twin cities of St. Paul ommendation (which include evaluations of and Minneapolis, Macalester has a student A completed application consists of a state• teaching), graduate school transcripts, and a body of 1800, 9% of whom are international ment of professional aspirations and goals, description, written for the non-specialist, of and 13% of whom are American minorities. resume, graduate and undergraduate tran• research accomplishments and plans. Let us Part of a vigorous science division on campus, scripts, and 3 letters of reference (at least one know if you will be at the January AMS meet• the Math and Computer Science Department about teaching). These should be sent to the ing. We especially encourage applicants from has traditionally attracted strong students. attention of Prof. L. R. King, Chair, at the ad• traditionally under-represented groups. dress above. Applications completed by Pomona College is an AAlEO employer. Applicants should send a resume and a state• November 27,1993 will receive first consider• ment detailing their ideas for curricular and ation. Davidson College is an Equal scholarly leadership in a combined math and Opportunity Employer; women and minorities are encouraged to apply. October 1993 FOCUS

Mathematics Chair Search Wanted: Writers for a biographical statistics, including scholarship and consult• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is a reference work on 20th-century scientists, ing, and doctorate required. school of 1350 strong (mean SAT scores • mathematicians, and engineers. Fees to av• Please have a vita and three letters of recom• 680 math, 540 verbal) science, engineering, erage $175. Suitable candidates will possess mendation on teaching and statistics sent to and mathematics students. excellent writing skills and the ability to ex• Statistics Hiring Committee. Evaluation of plain scientific concepts to a general audience. applications will begin November 15 and con• The Department of Mathematics consists of Send resume and writing samples to: Emily 17 faculty who take teaching seriously. Fac• tinue until the position is filled. As an EEO/AA McMurray,Gale Research Inc.,835 Penobscot employer, Williams especially welcomes ap• ulty are active in regional and national Bldg., Detroit, MI 49226-4094. professional organizations and are leaders in plications from women and minority candidates. curriculum efforts to use computers in instruc• Williams College tion and to teach innovative curriculum Department of Mathematics combining science, engineering, and math• Southern Illinois University of Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267 ematics. Edwardsville We seek a Chair to begin in Fall 1994. Anticipated visiting position for the 1994-95 SlUE, a state university 20 miles from down• year, probably at the rank of assistant profes• town S1. Louis, MO, a major cultural and Send request for more information, inquiries, sor; in exceptional cases, however, more educational center, invites applications for one and applications to: ChairSearch Committee, advanced appointments may be considered. or possibly two anticipated tenure track posi• Department of Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Excellence in teaching and research and doc• tions in Statistics, Operations Research or Institute ofTechnology, Terre Haute, IN 47803, torate are expected. Please have a vita and Computational Mathematics with rank open, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. two letters of recommendation on teaching beginning August, 1994.Applicants who have Phone (812) 877-8391. and research sent to Visitor Hiring Commit• a doctorate, or equivalent experience, or will A complete application includes a vita, a state• tee. Evaluation of applications will begin complete Ph.D. requirements byAugust 1994, ment of mathematical, pedagogical, and November 15, and continue until the position will be considered. We seek applicants with a administrative philosophy, and three letters of is filled. As an EEO/AA employer, Williams strong commitment to teaching and excellent recommendation. Evaluation of applications especially welcomes applications from women research accomplishments/potential. Indus• begins December 15, 1993. and minority candidates. trial or consulting experience is desirable. Salary is competitive and based on qualifica• Williams College tions and experience. Send applications COLBY Department of Mathematics including CV,transcripts, 2 letters of reference (at least one of the letters should address Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267 candidate'steaching ability) to Computational Anticipated tenure-eligible position in statis• Math Search Committee, Department of Math• tics, beginning Fall, 1994, probably atthe rank ematics and Statistics, SlUE, Edwardsville, IL of assistant professor; in exceptional cases, 62026-1653. Closing date for applications is however, more advanced appointments may November 1, 1993, or until positions are filled. o be considered. Excellence in teaching and Carter Professor of Women/minorities urged to apply. AAlEOE. Mathematics and ComputerScience and Teaching Calculus Laboratories Using the Chairofthe Department DERIVE Symbolic Computation System Colby invites nominations and applica• A weekend minicourse at IMTP Laboratory, tions for Carter Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science and Chair of the University of Michigan-Dearborn Department, effective September 1, 1994. Ph.D. in mathematics or computer sci• November 19-20, 1993 ence required. Desirable qua1ifications include: a distinguished record as teacher Presented by & scholar; demonstrated departmental & collegial leadership, including a clear Marvin Brubaker, Messiah College vision of the futureof the department in both mathematics and computer science Carl Leinbach, Gettysburg College and the ability to nurture faculty develop• ment & research programs; commitment This course gives participants hands-on experience with a symbolic computation to liberal arts & undergraduate mathe• matics and computer science education. system. Participants use this system in an actual laboratory setting working on Colby is a highly selective college of 1700 laboratory projects developed by the presenters. students and 165 faculty. Its Department of Mathematics and ComputerScience The Friday evening and Saturday morning sessions of the course will be devoted to has 9 full-time and 2 part-time faculty members who are active researchers and learning to use DERIVE and exploring some mini projects that can be developed into teach courses in mathematics, computer more extensive laboratory projects. Saturday afternoon will be spent working on an science, and statistics. Department chairs normally serve 3-year terms, renewable extended lab or an out of class project that begins with an exploration of the connection one time. Colby is an AA/EO employer of a differentiable function and its derivative, and culminates in a demonstration of the and encourages applications from women and minorities. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Send nominations or applications to Dale Skrien, Chair, Department of Register by sending a letter of intent along with a $25.00 registration fee to: Mathematics and Computer Science, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901; Lisa Johnson, MAA Minicourse Coordinator, 1529 Eighteenth St., NW, ([email protected]). Review of applica• tions will begin on November 15, 1993,and Washington, DC 20036, 1-800-331-1622, e-mail: [email protected] will continue until the-position is filled. Calendar

National MAA Meetings NEWJERSEY,November 13,1993,Union County College, Eliza• beth, NJ January 12-15, 1994 Seventy-seventhAnnual Meeting, Cincinnati NORTH CENTRAL, October 22-23, 1993, University of North (Board of Governors, January 11, 1994) Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, andApriI22-23, 1994, Winona State August 15-17, 1994 Sixty-ninth Annual Joint Summer Meeting, University, Winona, MN Minneapolis NORTHEASTERN, November 5-6, 1993, Westfield State Col• January 4-7, 1995 Seventy-eight Annual Meeting, San Francisco lege, Westfield, MA (Board of Governors, January 3, 1995) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, February 12, 1994, San Jose City College Sectional MAA Meetings OHIO, October 22-23, 1993, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH, and April 8-9, 1994, Miami University, Oxford, OH ALLEGHENY MUUNTAIN,April g-9, 1994, West Virginia Uni• versity, Morgantown OKLAHOMA-ARKANSAS, March 25-26, 1994, Harding Uni• versity, Searcy, AR EASTERN PA & DELAWARE, Nov. 13, 1993, Cedar Crest Col• lege, Allentown PACIFIC NORTHWEST, June 16-18, 1994, University of Or• egon, Eugene FLORIDA, Feb 25-26, 1994, Daytona Beach Comm College, Daytona Beach ROCKY MOUNTAIN,ApriI15-16, 1994, South Dakota School of Mines & Tech., Rapid City, SD ILLINOIS, ApriI22-23, 1994, Parkland College, Champaign SEAWAY, Nov. 5-6, 1993, Onondaga Community College, Syra• INDIANA, Oct 15-16, 1993, Indiana Univ-Kokomo, Kokomo, IN, cuse, NY, and April 22-23, 1994, SUNY at Albany and March 19, 1994, DePauw University, Greencastle SOUTHEASTERN, April 8-9, 1994, Carson Newman College, INTERMOUNTAIN, April 8-9, 1994, Westminster College, Salt Jefferson City, TN Lake City SOUTHWESTERN, April 8-9, 1994, Glendale Community Col• IOWA, ApriI15-16, 1994, Grinnell College, Grinnell lege, Glendale, AZ KANSAS, March 11-12, 1994, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS SOUTHERNCALIFORNIA,November6, 1993,The Claremont KENTUCKY, April 8-9, 1994, Morehead State University, Colleges, Claremont, CA, and March 5, 1994,Loyola Marymount Morehead University, Los Angeles LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI,March 4-5, 1994,Nicholls State Uni• TEXAS, April 7-9, 1994, Texas A&M, College Station, TX versity, Thibodaux, LA WISCONSIN, April 22-23, 1994, University of Wisconsin-Eau MD-DC-VA,November 12-13, 1993,MontgomeryCollege,Takoma Claire, Eau Claire, WI Park,MD METROPOLITAN NEW YORK, May 1, 1994, Merchant Ma• Other Meetings rine Academy, Kings Point MICHIGAN, April 29-30, 1994, Alma College, Alma, MI Apri113-16, 1994 Seventy-second Annual National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Meeting, Indianapolis. For more infor• MISSOURI, Apri11994, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, mation, contact: NCTM, 1906 Association Drive, Reston, VA MO 22091-1593. NEBRASKA, April 22-23, 1994, Nebraska Wesleyan University, December 1993 MATH HORIZONS arrives in your mailbox. See Lincoln page 7 for more details.

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