Program of the Sessions

Phoenix, Arizona, January 7–10, 2004

Monday, January 5 Tuesday, January 6 MAA Board of Governors

8:30 AM –4:00PM AMS Short Course on Trends in Optimization AMS Short Course on Trends in Optimization 8:00 AM –5:00PM 9:00 AM –5:00PM Organizers: Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University Organizers: Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State Rekha Thomas, University of University Washington Rekha Thomas, University of Washington 8:00AM Registration (Hyatt Regency BallroomFoyer). 9:00AM Nonlinear and semidefinite programming. 10:45AM Graphs and combinatorial optimization. (6) Steve Wright, University of Wisconsin (1) Gerard Cornuejols, Carnegie Mellon University 10:45AM Approximation algorithms. 2:00PM Polyhedral method in optimization. (7) David Shmoys, Cornell University (2) Alper Atamturk, University of California at Berkeley 2:00PM Lattice basis reduction in optimization. 3:45PM Integer-programming duality. (8) Karen Aardal, Georgia Institute of Technology (3) Jean-Bernard Lasserre, LAAS-CNRS 3:45PM Algebraic methods in optimization. (9) Bernd Sturmfels, University of California at Berkeley

MAA Short Course on the History of Mathematical MAA Short Course on the History of Mathematical Technologies: Exploring the Material Culture of Technologies: Exploring the Material Culture of Mathematics Mathematics 9:00 AM –5:00PM 8:00 AM –4:00PM Organizers: Amy Shell-Gellasch,SIAM-Germany Organizers: Amy Shell-Gellasch,SIAM-Germany Glenn Van Brummelen, Bennington Glenn Van Brummelen, Bennington College College 9:00AM What linkages have to do with mathematics. 8:00AM Registration (Hyatt Regency BallroomFoyer). (10) Daina Tainima, Cornell University 9:15AM Instruments of the ancient astronomers: 10:15AM Hands on demonstration with models. (4) Mathematics and history. 11:00AM Early computing devices. Lennart Berggren*, Simon Fraser University, and (11) David Weil, Computer Museum of America James Evans*, University of Puget Sound 12:30PM Hands on demonstration with models. 12:30PM Hands on demonstration of models. 2:30PM Mathematical instruments at the fairs. 2:30PM What linkages have to do with mathematics. (12) Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, National Museumof (5) Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University American History 3:45PM Hands on demonstration of models. 4:15PM Panel Discussion/Question and Answer period.

The time limit for each AMS contributed paper in the sessions is ten Papers flagged with a solid triangle (
) have been designated by the minutes. The time limit for each MAA contributed paper varies. In the author as being of possible interest to undergraduate students. Special Sessions the time limit varies from session to session and within Abstracts of papers presented in the sessions at this meeting will be sessions. To maintain the schedule, time limits will be strictly enforced. found in Volume 25, Issue 1 of Abstracts of papers presented to the For papers with more than one author, an asterisk follows the name of American Mathematical Society, ordered according to the numbers in the author who plans to present the paper at the meeting. parentheses following the listings.

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 105 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Tuesday, January 6 (cont’d.)

4:45PM Closing statements. 10:40AM Using JavaSketchpad to Create Interactive Geometry
(22) Webpages. AMS Council Catherine A. Gorini, Maharishi University of Management (993-C1-349) 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Joint Meetings Registration AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, I 3:00 PM –7:00PM 8:00 AM –10:20AM Organizers: William H. Barker, Bowdoin College Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Wednesday, January 7 Chicago Naomi Fisher, University of Illinois at Joint Meetings Registration Chicago Kenneth C. Millett, University of 7:30 AM –4:00PM California Santa Barbara Bonnie Saunders, University of Illinois Employment Center at Chicago 8:00AM An overview of strategies for utilizing CUPM Guide 7:30 AM –5:00PM
(23) 2004, and a closer look at two. Harriet Pollatsek, Mount Holyoke College MAA Session on Uses of the WWW that Enrich and (993-97-1356) Promote Learning, I 8:30AM Using the Illustrative Resources, I. (24) David M Bressoud, Macalester College 7:40 AM –10:55AM (993-97-1299) Organizers: Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville 9:00AM Using the Illustrative Resources, II. University (25) William E Haver, Virginia Commonwealth Marcia P. Birken, Rochester Institute University (993-97-1316) of Technology 9:30AM Making Mathematics Intellectually Enlivening. Mary L. Platt, SalemState College (26) Michael Starbird, The University of Texas at Austin (993-97-1396) Brian E. Smith, McGill University 10:00AM Panel Discussion on Improving Undergraduate 7:40AM Appropriate Use of Web Materials in Math Classes.
(27) Mathematics Programs: Utilizing the CUPM
(13) Preliminary report. Curriculum Guide 2004. Ping Wang*andMichael Gallis, Penn State William Barker*, Bowdoin College, David University (993-C1-297) Bressoud, Macalester College, William Haver, 8:00AM Student Use of and Benefit From an Online Virginia Commonwealth University, Harriet
(14) Preparation Website For a Qualifying Exams. Pollatsek, Mt. Holyoke College, and Michael Jeff A Suzuki, Bard College (993-C1-256) Starbird, University of Texas at Austin 8:20AM Web-based Graphing Tutorial. Preliminary report. (993-97-1653) (15) Evelyn C Bailey and Fang Chen*, Oxford College of Emory University (993-C1-556) 8:40AM Loading the Bases: Teaching a Statistics Course AMS-ASL Special Session on Infinite Combinatorics
(16) With the WWW, the Smart Board, and Baseball. and Inner Model Theory, I Michael R Huber*andGabriel Costa, United States Military Academy (993-C1-222) 8:00 AM –10:50AM 9:00AM Online Interactive Workshops: Communications Organizers: Matthew D. Foreman, University of (17) Software and MathDL Resources. California Irvine Lawrence C. Moore*, Duke University, David A. Smith, Durham, NC, and Frank Wattenberg,US Martin Zeman, University of California Military Academy (993-C1-159) Irvine 9:20AM Using the World Wide Web to Disseminate Focused, 8:00AM The Proper Forcing Axiom implies all gammes in
(18) Compressed Video Tutorials. Preliminary report. (28) L(R) are determined. Preliminary report. Brian H. Felkel*, Richard E. Klima, William C. John R Steel, University of California, Berkeley Bauldry, Eric S. Marland and Mary Beth Searcy, (993-03-1282) Appalachian State University (993-C1-180) 9:00AM Forcing, combinatorics and inner models. 9:40AM Web-based exploration of discrete mathematics (29) William J. Mitchell, University of Florida
(19) concepts. Preliminary report. (993-03-1698) Doug Ensley*andCarolyn Dahl, Shippensburg 9:30AM The Canonical Function Game. University (993-C1-166)
(30) Paul B. Larson, Miami University (993-03-1040) 10:00AM Improving Calculus and Linear Algebra Pedagogy 10:00AM Almost isometric embeddings of metric spaces in
(20) using Multiple Web Based Computer Tools. (31) the set theoretic lense. Preliminary report. Menachem Kojman, Ben Gurion Unviersitry of the Thomas R. Hagedorn*andKaren Clark,The Negev (993-03-1107) College of New Jersey (993-C1-580) 10:30AM More on non-tame mice from CH and an ω1-dense 10:20AM A web-based tool for creating practice calculus (32) ideal on ω1. Preliminary report.
(21) exams. Preliminary report. Richard O Ketchersid, University of North Texas Mark R. Woodard, Furman University (993-C1-298) (993-03-1431)

106 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 1 Phoenix, AZ, Wednesday, January 7 – Program of the Sessions

AMS Special Session on Celestial Mechanics, I Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island 8:00 AM –10:50AM James A. Yorke, University of Organizers: Samuel R. Kaplan, University of North Maryland, College Park Carolina at Asheville 8:00AM Positivity and persistence in spatially structured
Gareth E. Roberts, College of the Holy (44) populations. Cross Alan Hastings*andLouis W Botsford, University of California, Davis (993-92-1193) 8:00AM Bifurcations out of the eight. (33) Richard Montgomery, University of California 8:30AM Multiple Attractors in Age-Structured Population
Santa CRuz (993-70-764) (45) Models. Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University 9:00AM Connecting orbits and invariant manifolds in the (993-92-308) (34) spatial three-body problem. Shane D. Ross, Caltech (993-37-1680) 9:00AM Equilibrium and nonequilibrium attractors for a (46) discrete, selection-migration model. Preliminary 9:30AM Rethinking central configurations. report.
(35) Donald G. Saari, University of California, Irvine James F Selgrade*, North Carolina State University, (993-70-1493) and James H Roberds,USDAForestService 10:00AM Some Counterexamples to a Generalized Saari’s (993-92-1326) (36) Conjecture. Preliminary report. 9:30AM Some new oscillation results for a class of a neutral Gareth E Roberts, College of the Holy Cross
(47) difference equations. (993-70-1586) S. Elizabeth, Peryiar University, John R. Graef*, 10:30AM Characterization of Instabilities in the Tidal University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, P.
(37) Deformation of a Planetary Body. Sundaram, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, and E. Sarah E. Frey, University of Arizona (993-74-1144) Thandapani, Peryiar University (993-39-625) 10:00AM Anatomy of a chaotic attractor: subtle
AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Natural (48) model-predicted patterns revealed in biological Resource Modeling, I population data. Aaron A. King*, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, R. F. Costantino,Ecology 8:00 AM –10:50AM & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, S. M. Organizers: Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Henson, Andrews University, J. M. Cushing, Holy Cross University of Arizona, R. A. Desharnais, California Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of State University, Los Angeles, and Brian Dennis, Tennessee University of Idaho (993-92-611) 8:00AM Chaos in ecosystem dynamics: the role of the strong 10:30AM Difference equations from discretization of (38) Allee effect. (49) continuous epidemic models with immigration of Andrew Y Morozov*, University of California, infectives. Riverside, Sergei V Petrovskii, Russian Academy of Sophia R.-J. Jang*, University of Louisiana at Sciences, and Bai-Lian Li, University of California, Lafayette, and Saber Elaydi, Trinity University Riverside (993-35-896) (993-39-527) 8:30AM Competition in Two-Dimensional Heterogeneous (39) Environments. Daniel L Kern*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, AMS Special Session on Time Scales and Applications, and Aurelia Minut, Rochester Institute of Technology (993-35-1248) I

9:00AM Spatial Control of Harvesting on a Metapopulation 8:00 AM –10:50AM
(40) Model. Rene A. Salinas*, Suzanne Lenhart and Louis J. Organizers: Martin J. Bohner, University of Gross, University of Tennessee (993-92-696) Missouri at Rolla 9:30AM Risk Averse Approaches to Resource Exploration Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern
(41) Modeling. University Ben G Fitzpatrick, Loyola Marymount University Allan C. Peterson, University of (993-91-1095) Nebraska 10:00AM Optimal Harvesting of a Fish Population modeling 8:00AM Boundedness and uniqueness of solutions to (42) by a Parabolic PDE.
(50) dynamic equations on time scales. Hem Raj Joshi*, Xavier University, Suzanne Allan C. Peterson*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lenhart, University of Tennessee, and Mike G. and Chris C. Tisdell, The University of New South Neubert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Wales (993-39-191) (993-49-915) 8:30AM Even-order delta nabla boundary value problems. 10:30AM Sensitivity Analysis by Plackett-Burman Method. (51) Preliminary report.
(43) Diane L Beres, Ripon College (993-92-1109) Douglas R. Anderson, Concordia College (993-34-105) AMS Special Session on Discrete Dynamics and 9:00AM From Wound Healing to the West Nile Virus: Time Difference Equations, I (52) Scale Applications. Diana M Thomas, Montclair State University 8:00 AM –10:50AM (993-37-1042) 9:30AM Maximum principles for a family of nonlocal Organizers: Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University (53) boundary value problems. Jim M. Cushing, University of Arizona Paul W Eloe, University of Dayton (993-34-951)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 107 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Wednesday, January 7 (cont’d.)

10:00AM High Gain Adaptive Stabilization for Linear Dynamic 8:30AM Free Triangle Orders, Comparability Invariants, (54) Systems on Time Scales. Preliminary report. (64) and Graph Theoretic Questions. John M Davis, Baylor University (993-93-1376) Barry A Balof*, Whitman College, and Kenneth P. 10:30AM Stability for Time Varying Linear Dynamic Systems Bogart, Dartmouth College (993-06-1028) (55) on Time Scales. Preliminary report. 9:00AM The Perkins semigroup has co-NP-complete Jeffrey J. DaCunha, Baylor University (65) term-equivalence problem. (993-39-1277) Steven W Seif, University of Kentucky (993-06-1353) 9:30AM Branch Products. AMS Special Session on Theory and Applications of (66) David K Milovich, Massachusetts Institute of Orthogonal Polynomials, I Technology (993-06-1690) 10:00AM Geometry of Data Tables. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:40AM
(67) Tim B. Kaiser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Organizers: Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of Germany, and Stefan E. Schmidt*, Phoenix South Florida Mathematical Systems Modeling, Inc. (993-06-1350) Barry Simon, California Institute of 10:30AM Finding Lattices in Responses to Public Opinion Technology
(68) Surveys: Theory, Method, and Examples. Preliminary report. 8:00AM Tridiagonal pairs and finite dimensional (56)
James A Wiley, San Francisco State University Uq(sl2)-modules. (993-06-1395) Paul M Terwilliger*, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Tatsuro Ito, Kanazawa University (993-33-1538) AMS Special Session on Coding and Design-Theoretic 9:00AM Three q-Hermite polynomials. Preliminary report. Applications of Polynomials, I (57) Dennis W Stanton, University of Minnesota (993-33-1378) 8:00 AM –10:40AM 10:00AM Generating functions for moments of orthogonal (58) polynomials. Preliminary report. Organizers: Donald D. Mills, Southern Illinois Ira M. Gessel*, Brandeis University, and Jiang University, Carbondale Zeng, University of Lyon, I (993-33-902) Patrick S. Mitchell, Midwestern State University Kent M. Neuerburg, Southeastern AMS Special Session on Topological Dynamics and Louisiana University Ergodic Theory, I 8:00AM Irreducible Polynomials Over GF(2) Which Divide No
(69) Trinomials. 8:00 AM –10:20AM Solomon W. Golomb, University of Southern Organizers: Alica Miller, University of Illinois at California (993-12-1018) Urbana-Champaign 9:00AM The Covering Radius of BCH Codes — a Polynomial Joseph Rosenblatt, University of (70) Method. Preliminary report. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ralf Franken*andStephen D Cohen, University of Glasgow, Scotland (993-12-133) 8:00AM Some recent links of topological transformation (59) groups with geometric functional analysis and 9:30AM Value sets of polynomials and permutation Ramsey theory. (71) polynomials over finite fields. Vladimir Pestov, University of Ottawa (993-37-601) Pinaki Das, Penn State Altoona (993-11-575) 9:00AM Polynomial Averages Converge to the Product of 10:00AM Mutual Irreducibility of Certain Polynomials over (60) Integrals. (72) Finite Fields. Nikos Frantzikinakis*andBryna Kra, Penn State Daniel Panario*andMichael Dewar,Carleton University (993-37-1031) University (993-12-1139) 9:30AM Almost everywhere convergence of series in Ergodic (61) Theory. Ciprian Demeter, University of Illinois AMS Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics, (993-37-1333) I 10:00AM Proximality, regional proximality, and a (62) combination. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Joseph Auslander, University of Maryland Organizers: Michael J. Falk,NorthernArizona (993-37-842) University Eva-Maria Feichtner, ETH Zurich AMS Special Session on The Many Lives of Lattice Dmitry N. Kozlov, Bern University Theory and the Theory of Ordered Sets, with 8:00AM Lower bounds in enumerative real algebraic Connections to Combinatorics, I (73) geometry from sign-imbalanced posets. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Frank Sottile*, University of Massachusettts/ MSRI, and Evgenia Soprunova, University of Organizers: Jonathan D. Farley, Massachusetts Massachusetts (993-14-1402) Institute of Technology 8:30AM From nice ideals to nice initial complexes. Stefan E. Schmidt,NewMexicoState (74) Preliminary report. University Aldo Conca, University of Genoa, Serkan Hosten*, 8:00AM Tamari lattices in types A, B,andD. San Francisco State University, and Rekha R. (63) Hugh R. Thomas, Fields Institute (993-06-1446) Thomas, University of Washington (993-13-1540)

108 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 1 Phoenix, AZ, Wednesday, January 7 – Program of the Sessions

9:00AM The Combinatorics of Rigid Molecules: the Molecular 9:45AM Monogenic Hopf Algebras in Low Ramification.
(75) Conjecture and Protein Rigidity. (90) Preliminary report. Walter J. Whiteley, York University (993-52-691) Alan Koch, Agnes Scott College (993-11-430) 9:30AM Quotients of spheres by tori. 10:00AM On a certain cohomological invariant for quadratic (76) Edward Swartz, Cornell University (993-57-1229) (91) fields. 10:00AM A Discrete Homotopy Theory for Graphs: New Seok-Min Lee, Johns Hopkins University (77) Results. Preliminary report. (993-11-1223) Shelly Smith, Arizona State University (993-05-124) 10:15AM Blowing-up to Calculate a Basis for the Ring of 10:30AM Tropical Convexity. (92) Integers in a Number Field. (78) Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics, Sarah Hutcheson Jahn, University of Illinois at and Bernd Sturmfels*, University of California at Chicago (993-11-1334) Berkeley (993-05-261) 10:30AM Inverting the Satake Isomorphism. Preliminary
(93) report. Nathan C Ryan, Dartmouth College (993-11-779) AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential 10:45AM Divisibility properties of class numbers of Equations and Conformal Geometry, I (94) composite irreducibles in Fq[T ]. Joseph Palen*, W. Andrew Pruett and Delilah 8:00 AM –10:50AM Whittington, Millsaps College (993-11-1569) Organizers: Jie Qing, University of California Santa Cruz AMS Session on Ordinary and Partial Differential Yu Yuan, University of Washington, Equations Seattle 8:00 AM –10:10AM 8:30AM Combinatorial curvature flow methods and PDE. (79) Preliminary report. 8:00AM On asymptotic representation of solutions of the David A Glickenstein, University of Arizona (95) fourth Painlev´e equation. (993-51-1364) Youmin Lu, Bloomsburg University, and Zhoude 9:00AM Existence of Solutions of Dirichlet problems of the Shao*, Millersville University (993-34-134) (80) Prescribed Mean Curvature Equation on Unbounded 8:15AM Solutions to Polynomial System of Differential Domains.
(96) Equations. Zhiren Jin, Wichita State University (993-35-836) David C. Carothers*, G. Edgar Parker, James S. 9:30AM The decomposition of Riemannian invariants that Sochacki, Debra A. Warne and Paul G. Warne, (81) are conformally invariant under integration. James Madison University (993-34-913) Spyros Alexakis, Princeton University 8:30AM An Explicit A-Priori Error Bound for the Taylor (993-51-1070)
(97) Polynomial Approximation to the Solution of 10:00AM Bernstein type results for special Lagrangian Ordinary Differential Equations. Preliminary report. (82) equations. Dave C Carothers, GEdgarParker, James S Yu Yuan, University of Washington (993-58-1676) Sochacki, Debra A Warne and Paul G Warne*, James Madison University (993-34-677) 10:30AM Singularities in Conformal Geometry: from PDE to (83) Topology. 8:45AM An Existence Theorem for Hamiltonian Systems Maria del Mar Gonzalez, Princeton University
(98) Derived from Optimal Controls. (993-53-1033) Lianwen Wang, Central Missouri State University (993-34-637) 9:00AM Hybrid Combat models. AMS Session on Number Theory and General Algebra
(99) Seenith Sivasundaram, Embry-Riddle (993-34-912) 9:15AM On the Solvability for Parabolic Equations in 8:00 AM –10:55AM (100) Anisotropic Spaces. Preliminary report. 8:00AM Sperner theory in a difference of Boolean lattices. Mart´in Lopez Morales, Monterrey Institute of
(84) Mark J Logan, University of Minnesota, Morris Technology (993-35-880) (993-06-805) 9:30AM Break. 8:15AM Break 9:45AM Best approximation of a γ-monogenic function in 8:30AM Unranked Posets Extending the Lattices of (101) certain Sobolev spaces. (85) Partitions of n. Preliminary report. Dejenie A Lakew, University of Arkansas at Pine Michael E Detlefsen, Slippery Rock University Bluff (993-35-100) (993-06-1298) 10:00AM Spectral properties of the polyharmonic operator 8:45AM Finitely Based Varieties of Directed Graph Algebras. (102) with a limit-periodic potential in two dimensions. (86) Brian L Walter, The Evergreen State College Preliminary report. (993-08-1661) Yulia Karpeshina and Young-Ran Lee*, University of Alabama at Birmingham (993-35-1578) 9:00AM Going Down Results for Ci Fields. Preliminary (87) report. Anthony J Bevelacqua, University of North Dakota, AMS Session on Real and Complex Analysis and Mark J Motley*, Pikeville College (993-12-718) 8:00 AM –10:40AM 9:15AM Polynomial Sequences with Convergent Mahler
(88) Measure. Preliminary report. 8:00AM Functions having intermediate value property. Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University
(103) Preliminary report. (993-11-1170) K Muthuvel, UW-Oshkosh (993-26-1362) 9:30AM Identities Arising from Gauss Sums for Finite 8:15AM Conditions Which Imply Continuity. (89) Classical Groups. (104) Zbigniew Piotrowski, Youngstown State University, Hi-joon Chae, Hongik University, and Dae San and Robert W Vallin*, Slippery Rock University Kim*, Sogang University (993-11-703) (993-26-550)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 109 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Wednesday, January 7 (cont’d.)

8:30AM Haar Functions and Sampling Expansions. 9:45AM Reflection Groups and Semigroup Algebras in (105) Preliminary report. (120) Multiplicative Invariant Theory. Nasser Dastrange, Buena Vista University Mohammed S Tesemma, Temple University (993-26-954) (993-13-1189) 8:45AM Opial type inequalities involving fractional 10:00AM Some Commutativity Theorems for Subweakly (106) derivatives of two functions and applications. (121) Periodic Rings. Preliminary report. Amber Rosin, Cal Poly Pomona (993-16-1504) George A Anastassiou, University of Memphis 10:15AM Presentations of monomial algebras and uniserial (993-26-39) (122) modules. 9:00AM A Dini Condition. Preliminary report. Ahmad Mojiri, Wilfrid Laurier University (107) J Namazi, Fairleigh Dickinson University (993-16-1711) (993-28-74) 10:30AM Using orbits and Young Tableaux to compute type A 9:15AM Applying Concentration Theory to Composition
(123) fusion rules. (108) Operators. Preliminary report. Omar D Saldarriaga, Binghamton University Brian P Kelly, U. of Louisiana at Monroe (993-16-978) (993-30-95) 10:45AM On some non-noetherian algebras of finite 9:30AM Some Generalizations involving the Polar Derivative (124) Gelfand-Kirillov dimension.
(109) for an Inequality of Paul Turan.´ Melanie BButler , Temple University (993-16-1045) G. N. McTume*, Ferris State University, and N. K. Govil, Auburn University (993-30-623) SIAM Minisymposium on Applications of Nonlinear 9:45AM The best possible quadratic refinement of Sendov’s Dynamical Systems (110) conjecture. Michael J Miller, Le Moyne College (993-30-522) 8:00 AM –10:50AM 10:00AM An area and length condition that holds at almost Organizer: Eric J. Kostelich,ArizonaState (111) every boundary point of a Jordan domain having a University quasiconformal boundary. Preliminary report. 8:00AM Reconstruction of shared dynamics. John T Marafino, James Madison University (125) Timothy Sauer, George Mason University (993-30-536) (993-37-1496) 10:15AM The generalized Noor integral operator and a class 8:35AM The dynamics of an interesting model from (112) of analytic functions. (126) economics. Yi Ling*andFengshan Liu, Delaware State Judy Kennedy, University of Delaware University (993-30-640) (993-37-1495) 10:30AM Constructions of Multiplicative Periodic Functions 9:10AM Degenerate KAM Theory via a Nash-Moser Implicit
\ (113) on C 0. Preliminary report. (127) Function Theorem. Ioana Mihaila, Cal Poly Pomona (993-30-1271) John Vano, University of Wisconsin (993-37-1490) 9:45AM Reliable Lyapunov Exponents from Embeddings.
(128) Preliminary report. Eric J. Kostelich*, Arizona State University, AMS Session on Algebra, I and James A Yorke, University of Maryland (993-37-1488) 8:00 AM –10:55AM 10:20AM Inverse limits and an implicitly defined difference (129) equation from economics. Preliminary report. 8:00AM The role of valuation theory in algebraic geometry: Judy A Kennedy*, David R Stockman, University of (114) local uniformization theorems. Delaware, and James A Yorke, University of Laura Ghezzi, University of Missouri-Columbia Maryland (993-37-613) (993-13-306) 8:15AM GCD of Ideals and Modules. (115) Majid M Ali, Sultan Qaboos University, and David J MAA Session on Teaching a History of Mathematics Smith*, University of Auckland (993-13-117) Course

8:30AM Some computational work on bounding 8:00 AM –10:55AM (116) multiplicities. Preliminary report. Christopher A. Francisco, Cornell University Organizers: Joel K. Haack, University of Northern (993-13-671) Iowa 8:45AM Finite representation type and direct-sum Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, United States (117) cancellation. Military Academy Ryan Karr, Florida Atlantic University (993-13-723) 8:00AM Writing Assignments for the History of 9:00AM A new class of finite commutative rings. Preliminary
(130) Mathematics. (118) report. Alexander F Kleiner, Drake University Thomas Craven, University of Hawaii, and Monika (993-A1-1014) Vo*, Saint Leo University (993-13-773) 8:15AM It’s A Math Course After All. Preliminary report. 9:15AM Break.
(131) Robert G Stein, California State U, San Bernardino (993-A1-387) 9:30AM Classification of Tor-algebras Associated with
(119) Gorenstein Resolutions of Length Four. Preliminary 8:30AM A Problem Solving Approach to the History of report.
(132) Mathematics. Carrie E Finch*, Sara Gabrielli, Andrew R. Kustin, Art Gittleman, California State University University of South Carolina, Mary Ellen Kustin, (993-A1-37) Frank Sanacory, William H. Streyer, Adela Vraciu, 8:45AM Mathematics in a Global Context: A Liberal Arts Brooks Willet and Jim Work, University of South
(133) Course. Preliminary report. Carolina (993-13-1159) Ze’ev Barel, Hendrix College (993-A1-816)

110 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 1 Phoenix, AZ, Wednesday, January 7 – Program of the Sessions

9:00AM Engaging Students in the Lives and Work of Famous MAA Session on Mathematical Experiences for
(134) Mathematicians. Preliminary report. Students Outside the Classroom, I Cheri L Boyd, Nazareth College (993-A1-1595) 9:20AM History of Mathematics for Future Secondary School 8:00 AM –10:55AM
(135) Teachers. Organizers: Laura L. Kelleher, Massachusetts Barnabas B Hughes, California State University, Maritime Academy Northridge (993-A1-24) Mary S. Hawkins, Prairie View A&M 9:40AM Maximum History with Minimum Mathematics.
(136) Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community University College, City University o (993-A1-128) 8:00AM DSU Student Chapter of MAA Promotes Mathematics
(152) Awareness. 10:00AM History of mathematics through the evolving
(137) community of mathematicians. Preliminary report. Daniel P Wisniewski, DeSales University Thomas Drucker, University of (993-D1-112) Wisconsin–Whitewater (993-A1-499) 8:20AM Field trips in Our Nation’s Capital.
(153) Betty Mayfield, Hood College (993-D1-433) 10:15AM History of Mathematics: Development of a Course
(138) for Secondary Teachers. 8:40AM A First Timer’s Experience with an Independent Elizabeth C. Rogers, Piedmont College
(154) Study. Preliminary report. (993-A1-659) Greg Cicconetti, Muhlenberg College (993-D1-175) 10:30AM A Seminar Approach to the History of Mathematics. 9:00AM Enticing, Engaging and Enlightening Examples of
(139) Herbert E. Kasube, Bradley University (993-A1-850)
(155) Mathematical Activities. 10:45AM Getting to Know You. Thomas Q Sibley, St. John’s University
(140) Agnes M. Kalemaris, SUNY Farmingdale (993-D1-170) (993-A1-1677) 9:20AM Obtaining Student Research Sponsors and
(156) Showcasing Student Research at the United States MAA Session on Teaching Operations Research in the Military Academy. Michael J. Johnson*andEdgar K. Rugenstein, Undergraduate Classroom United States Military Academy (993-D1-183)

8:00 AM –10:40AM 9:40AM A Mentoring Program for Math, Engineering, and (157) Computer Science Majors. Preliminary report. Organizers: Dipa Choudhury, Loyola College Holly S. Zullo, Carroll College (993-D1-643) Steven M. Hetzler, Salisbury State 10:00AM Student-Centered Department Events. University
(158) Cheryl L Olsen, Shippensburg University 8:00AM First Couple of Weeks in an Operations Research (993-D1-449)
(141) Class. Preliminary report. 10:20AM A Competition for Future Mathematics Teachers. Dipa Choudhury, Loyola College in Maryland
(159) Preliminary report. (993-B1-680) Vince Schielack, Texas A&M University 8:15AM Objectives and evaluation in a Linear Programming (993-D1-513)
(142) course. Preliminary report. 10:40AM From Problem Solving Group to Summer Research: Dale C Peterson,USAirForceAcademy
(160) k-sets of Magic Squares. (993-B1-1577) Dave Feil*andAndrew Shulman, Carroll College 8:30AM Teaching Strategies in Operations Research in the (993-D1-866)
(143) undergraduate classroom. Preliminary report. Prabha Petkar, V.J.T.I., Mumbai (993-B1-1650) 8:45AM FCA+PBL=behavior modification in learning MAA Session on Getting Students to Discuss and (144) operations research. Innokenti V. Semoushin, Ulyanovsk State Write about Mathematics, I University (993-B1-941) 8:00 AM –10:55AM 9:00AM A Modeling Based Operations Research Service (145) Course for Business Majors. Organizer: Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State Mark Parker, Carroll College (993-B1-616) College 9:15AM Challenges and Suggestions for Teaching 8:00AM A calculus course writing assignment based on
(146) Operations Research in the Undergraduate
(161) Tolstoy’s integration metaphor in War and Peace. Classroom. Preliminary report. Stephen T Ahearn, Macalester College Ann E Moskol, Rhode Island College (993-B1-541) (993-F1-1256) 9:30AM An Undergraduate Nonlinear Optimization Course. 8:15AM Developing Fluency in Mathematics. Preliminary
(147) William P Fox, Francis Marion University
(162) report. (993-B1-448) Mary T Treanor, Valparaiso University (993-F1-473) 9:45AM A New Way to Teach Queueing Without Equilibrium 8:30AM Teaching a Liberal Arts Math Course Using a
(148) Assumption. Preliminary report.
(163) Communications-Centered Strategy. Preliminary Michael L. Green*, Alan C. Krinik, Carrie A report. Mortensen and Jennifer M. Switkes, California Anand Pardhanani*andCameron Sawyer, State Polytechnic University, Pomona (993-B1-402) Southwestern University (993-F1-1308) 10:00AM Using Legos to Teach Linear Programming. 8:45AM Deepening understanding of mathematics through
(149) Christopher J Lacke, Rowan University (164) communication of mathematics. Preliminary report. (993-B1-391) Bin Lu, California State University at Sacramento 10:15AM Student Projects in Operations Research. (993-F1-967)
(150) Kay B. Somers, Moravian College (993-B1-385) 9:00AM Discussion, Writing, and Problem Solving. 10:30AM Examples of Team Projects That Work. (165) Davida Fischman, California State University, San
(151) Robert C. Williams, Alfred University (993-B1-65) Bernardino (993-F1-1559)

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9:15AM ”Writing to Convince: Uncovering Reasoning in the 9:30AM Numbers Which Are Simultaneous Of The Type (166) Mathematics Classroom”. Preliminary report.
(178) x3 + y3 and a2 + b2. Tracie McLemore Salinas, University of Tennessee, Sanja D Zivanovic, Barry University (993-Z1-1060) Knoxville (993-F1-924) 9:45AM Florence Nightingale’s Use of Statistical Diagrams. 9:30AM Seeing and Remembering Mathematical
(179) Preliminary report.
(167) Connections: Growth of Mathematical S. Kilic-Bahi, Colby-Sawyer College (993-Z1-1061) Understanding. 10:00AM Sample Sizes That Are Almost Sufficient. Mercedes A McGowen, WilliamRainey Harper
(180) Preliminary report. College (993-F1-1645) Richard L Stephens, University of Alaska Southeast 9:45AM Assessment of Student Understanding Through (993-Z1-284) (168) Written Reports and Oral Presentations in Upper 10:15AM Coin Tossing, Confidence Intervals and Theology. Division Math Courses.
(181) C. Bryan Dawson, Union University (993-Z1-286) Carl Lienert, Fort Lewis College, and Stan Yoshinobu*, Cal State Dominguez Hills 10:30AM What will it take to convince you? Preliminary
(993-F1-243) (182) report. Mary M. Sullivan, Rhode Island College 10:00AM Piece-wise Projects. Preliminary report. (993-Z1-464)
(169) Alex J Heidenberg*, Elizabeth Schott and John Wasko, United States Military Academy 10:45AM Futurama πk - Mathematics in the Year 3000.
(993-F1-1307) (183) Preliminary report. Tom Georgoulias, Austin, TX, Sarah J Greenwald*, 10:15AM Math Camp: A Language Immersion Class.
Appalachian State University, and Marc Wichterich, (170) Preliminary report. RWTH Aachen University, Germany (993-Z1-681) Meredith L. Greer, Bates College (993-F1-540) 10:30AM Developing Skills, Confidence and Community in
(171) Freshman Mathematics Majors. AMS Special Session on Probability and Its Jacqueline M. Dewar*andCurtis D. Bennett, Applications in Combinatorics and Algorithms, I Loyola Marymount University (993-F1-1020) 9:00 AM –10:50AM 10:45AM Taking on a developed writing class in
(172) mathematics. Preliminary report. Organizers: Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University Curtis D. Bennett*, Loyola Marymount University, Yuval Peres, University of California and Jacqueline M. Dewar, Loyola Maryomount Berkeley University (993-F1-1021) 9:00AM The Simplest Game in the World. Preliminary report.
(184) Yuliy Baryshnikov and Peter Winkler*, Bell Labs MAA General Contributed Paper Session, I (993-05-1337) AM 8:00 AM –10:55AM 10:00 Asymptotic Enumeration of Spanning Trees. (185) Russell D Lyons, Indiana University (993-05-1185) Organizers: Laura J. Wallace, California State 10:30AM Mixing time for the biased card shuffling and the University, San Bernardino (186) assymetric exclusion process. Jacqueline A. Jensen,SamHouston Noam Berger*, Caltech, Elchanan Mossel, U.C. State University Berkeley, Christopher E. Hoffman, University of Gary W. Towsley, SUNY at Geneseo Washington, and Itai Benjamini, The Weizmann Institute (993-60-1713) Michael A. Jones, Montclair State University Shawnee L. McMurran, California MAA Minicourse #12: Part A State University at San Bernardino 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM 8:00AM Topologies on the plane supporting continuous open
(173) projections. Preliminary report. Incorporating discrete mathematics in the Robert Kantrowitz*, Hamilton College, and John A preparation of K–12 mathematics teachers. Lindberg, Jr., Syracuse University (993-Z1-386) Organizer: Lolina Alvarez,NewMexicoState 8:15AM Finding the minumum number k such that all the University
(174) values of the function F(n)=k ∗ 2n +1 are composite for any positive n. MAA Minicourse #1: Part A Anton S Akhpolau, Barry University, Miami, Florida (993-Z1-1084) 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM 8:30AM Modeling Correlation Structure in Resource (175) Selection Studies using Generlized Linear Mixed Designing and evaluating assessments for Models. introductory statistics. Ashraf F. Elhoubi*, University of Wyoming Organizers: Beth L. Chance, California Polytech Department of Statistics, and Richard State University, San Luis Obispo Anderson-Sprecher, prof. University of Wyoming Robert C. Delmas, University of Dept. of Statistics (993-Z1-1622) Minnesota 8:45AM Shift and Scale Invariant Estimators For Heavy Tail Allan J. Rossman, California Polytech (176) Index Alpha. Preliminary report. State University, San Luis Obispo KristenLynnBianchi*andMark M Meerschaert, University of Nevada (993-Z1-928) MAA Minicourse #7: Part A 9:00AM Break. 9:15AM Escaping to Infinity: Iteration involving several 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
(177) polynomials. David A. Boyd, Washington State University Origami in undergraduate mathematics courses. (993-Z1-1387) Organizer: Thomas C. Hull, Merrimack College

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MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture 1 Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion 1:00 PM –2:00PM 9:00 AM –10:20AM (191) Conformal invariants and partial differential Open discussion on beginning level courses. equations. Part I. Organizer: Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy Sun-Yang Alice Chang, Princeton University (993-53-08) Moderator: Jack Bookman, Duke University Panelists: Norma M. Agras, Miami-Dade MAA Invited Address Community College Bob Mayes, West Virginia University 2:15 PM –3:05PM (192) The on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences, or, MAA Session on Courses Below Calculus: A New confessions of a sequence addict. Focus, I Neil J. A. Sloane, AT & T Shannon Labs (993-A0-12)

10:00 AM –10:35AM AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Organizers: Mary Robinson, University of New Education Reform, II Mexico, Valencia Campus 2:15 PM –6:05PM Florence S. Gordon,NewYork Institute of Technology Organizers: William H. Barker, Bowdoin College Arlene H. Kleinstein,SUNYat Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Farmingdale Chicago Norma M. Agras,MiamiDade Naomi Fisher, University of Illinois at Community College Chicago Laurette B. Foster, Prairie View A&M Kenneth C. Millett, University of University California Santa Barbara Linda Martin, Albuquerque T-VI Bonnie Saunders, University of Illinois 10:00AM Innovations in College Algebra at Kent State: Part 1. at Chicago
(187) Preliminary report. 2:15PM Progress Reports on Implementing the Ed Dubinsky*andOlaf Stackelberg, Kent State (193) Recommendations in the MET Report—A Faculty University (993-E1-759) View. 10:20AM Innovations in College Algebra at Kent State: Part 2. Ginger Warfield, University of Washington, and
(188) Preliminary report. Dale R Oliver*, Humboldt State University Beverly M. Reed*andMary Beth Rollick,Kent (993-97-932) State University (993-E1-763) 2:45PM Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers. (194) Bernard L Madison, University of Arkansas (993-97-614) AMS Invited Address 3:15PM What mathematicians should know about teaching (195) math for elementary teachers. 10:05 AM –10:55AM Sybilla Beckmann, University of Georgia (993-97-581) (189) The status of the classification of the finite simple groups. 3:45PM Elementary Mathematics for Teachers. A Michael Aschbacher, California Institute of
(196) mathematician’s course for prospective elementary Technology (993-20-06) teachers. Scott J Baldridge*, Indiana University, and Thomas HParker, Michigan State University (993-97-876) AMS-MAA Invited Address 4:15PM The Mathematical Education of Elementary School
(197) Teachers: A Mathematics - Mathematics Education 11:10 AM – NOON Partnership at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Preliminary report. (190) Title to be announced. James Lewis*andRuth Heaton, University of Stephen Wolfram, WolframResearch, Inc. Nebraska - Lincoln (993-97-1050) 4:45PM A capstone course for prospective high school math Exhibits and Book Sales
(198) teachers. Preliminary report. Richard O. Hill*andSharon L. Senk, Michigan NOON –5:30PM State University (993-97-1321) 5:15PM Fractals in the Classroom: Yale Teacher Workshops (199) (and Course MA 190). Mathematical Art Exhibit Benoit B Mandelbrot, Yale University (993-97-453) 5:45PM Question period and discussion. NOON –5:30PM Organizers: Robert Fathauer, Tessellations AMS-ASL Special Session on Infinite Combinatorics Company, Phoenix, Arizona and Inner Model Theory, II Nat Friedman, ISAMA, University at Albany, NY 2:15 PM –6:05PM Reza Sarhangi, Bridges Conference, Organizers: Matthew D. Foreman, University of Towson University California Irvine

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Martin Zeman, University of California 2:45PM Open Access and Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon Irvine (215) in North America. 2:15PM Cofinalities and approachable ordinals below ℵω+1. Jon M. Conrad, Cornell University (993-34-518) (200) M. C. Stanley, San Jose State (993-03-1327) 3:15PM A Mathematical Theory of Ecological Traps. 3:15PM Partitioning Metric Spaces and Bernstein Sets. (216) Roland H Lamberson, Humboldt State University (201) Preliminary report. (993-92-644) William Weiss, University of Toronto (993-03-1715) 3:45PM Diurnal Spatial Dynamics of Marine Birds and
3:45PM The Consistency Strength of Some Consequences of (217) Mammals. (202) SRP(ω2). Shandelle M Henson*andJames L Hayward, Stuart Zoble, Boise State University (993-03-1400) Andrews University (993-92-817) 4:15PM On specialisations of the Jonsson property and 4:15PM The role of dispersal in the replacement of (203) sequences of mutually stationary sets.
(218) Golden-winged Warblers by Blue-winged Warblers. Philip David Welch, University of Bristol Alexander E. Koonce, University of Redlands (993-03-1250) (993-92-983) 4:45PM Set Mapping Reflection. 4:45PM A structured population model for adult male snow (204) Justin Tatch Moore, Boise State University
(219) crab, Chionoecetes opilio, in the southern Gulf of St. (993-03-1004) Lawrence. Preliminary report. JApaloo*, St. Francis Xavier University, E Wade, T 5:15PM Diamond principles on large cardinals. Preliminary (205) report. Surette and MMoriyasu, Dept. of Fisheries and Mirna Dzamonja*, University of East Anglia, and Oceans (993-92-646) Joel David Hamkins, CUNY (993-03-1235) 5:15PM Periodic environments and periodic harvesting.
(220) Fred Brauer, University of British Columbia, and 5:45PM Diamond and antichains. (206) James Cummings and Ernest Schimmerling*, David A S´anchez*, Texas A & M University Carnegie Mellon University (993-03-1074) (993-92-171) 5:45PM Optimal Discounting in Control Problems That Span AMS Special Session on Celestial Mechanics, II (221) Multiple Generations. Frank Caliendo, Northern Arizona University, 2:15 PM –6:05PM and Kenneth S Lyon*, Utah State University (993-49-521) Organizers: Samuel R. Kaplan, University of North 6:15PM Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Carolina at Asheville
(222) Biogeography. Gareth E. Roberts, College of the Holy Karl Albert Beres, Ripon College (993-92-1689) Cross 2:15PM A variational construction of transit orbits for the (207) three-body problem. AMS Special Session on Probability and Its Richard B. Moeckel, University of Minnesota Applications in Combinatorics and Algorithms, II (993-70-1311) 2:15 PM –5:55PM 3:15PM Symbolic dynamics for the symmetric collinear (208) 4-body problem. Organizers: Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University Ernesto A. Lacomba*andMario Medina, University Yuval Peres, University of California Autonoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa (993-70-997) Berkeley PM 3:45 The Equation of Motion for a Gravitational Filament 2:15PM Monte Carlo tests of conformal invariance and SLE (209) and the N-Body Problem. (223) predictions for the two-dimensional self-avoiding Greg Buck, Saint AnselmCollege (993-70-1704) walk. 4:15PM Bifurcation of collinear relative equilibria for Tom G Kennedy, University of Arizona (210) 3-body like molecules. (993-60-1172) Cristina Stoica, University of Surrey, UK 3:15PM Level sets and flow lines of the Gaussian free field. (993-70-1264) (224) Scott Sheffield*andOded Schramm,Microsoft 4:45PM Capture and exchange in the parabolic and Research (993-60-1662)
(211) hyperbolic restricted 3 body problem. 4:15PM Asymptotics of random discrete interfaces. Joaquin Delgado*, UAM–Iztapalapa, and Martha (225) Richard Kenyon, Universit´e Paris-Sud Alvarez, UAM-Iztapalapa (993-34-1405) (993-60-1542) 5:15PM Shepherding Moons - Estimates and Solutions. 5:15PM Random walk and random aggregation without (212) Joyce Macabea, Boston University (993-70-1411)
(226) randomness. Preliminary report. 5:45PM Co-orbital limiting problems and ring systems. Alexander E. Holroyd, University of British (213) Preliminary report. Columbia, Lionel Levine,U.C.Berkeley,andJames Glen R Hall, Boston University (993-70-1166) G. Propp*, U. Wisconsin - Madison (993-60-1071) AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Natural Resource Modeling, II AMS Special Session on Discrete Dynamics and Difference Equations, II 2:15 PM –6:35PM 2:15 PM –6:05PM Organizers: Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross Organizers: Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Jim M. Cushing, University of Arizona Tennessee Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode 2:15PM Natural resource modeling within the confines of Island (214) legal and regulatory processes. James A. Yorke, University of Charles R. Hadlock, Bentley College (993-92-810) Maryland, College Park

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2:15PM Multiple Attractors in a Discrete Model of Two 5:45PM Population Dynamics on a Time Scale. Preliminary
(227) Competing Species. Preliminary report. (242) report. Jeff Edmunds, Mary Washington College Bonita A. Lawrence*, Marshall University, and (993-37-422) Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern University 2:45PM On the Two-Parameter Absolute Difference (993-34-1388) (228) Equation. Preliminary report. 6:15PM Some ideas about the implications of time scale Candace M. Kent*andHassan Sedaghat, Virginia
(243) usage in determining several concepts in Commonwealth University (993-37-116) cardiology. Preliminary report. 3:15PM On the asymptotic behavior of xn+1 = anxn/xn−1. Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern University
(229) Preliminary report. (993-34-1617) Richard DeVault*, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, and Raghib Abu-Saris, University of Sharjah (993-39-200) AMS Special Session on Theory and Applications of α+γxn−1 Orthogonal Polynomials, II 3:45PM On the trichotomy character of xn+1 = . A+BXn+xn−2 (230) E Chatterjee, Edward A Grove*, Y Kostrov and G 2:15 PM –6:00PM Ladas, University of Rhode Island (993-39-93) Organizers: Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of 4:15PM On A System of Rational Difference Equations. South Florida (231) C.A. Clark*, Univ. of Rhode Island/NUWC, and M.R.S. Kulenovic, Univ. of Rhode Island (993-39-67) Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology 4:45PM Global Character of Some Rational Equations with (232) Period-two Coefficients. 2:15PM Matrix valued orthogonal polynomials and Carol BOverdeep *,WesternOregonUniversity,
(244) differential equations. Carol H Gibbons, Salve Regina University, Mustafa F. Alberto Grunbaum, UC Berkeley (993-33-1301) R.S. Kulenovic and Gerasimos Ladas, University of 3:15PM Applications of a complete expansion for the Rhode Island (993-39-61) (245) partition function of random matrix theory. γxn−1+δxn−2 NErcolani, University of Arizona, and Kenneth D. 5:15PM On the trichotomy character of xn+1 = A+Bxn+Dxn−2 T-R McLaughlin
(233) *, University of North Carolina Preliminary report. (993-60-1623) E. A. Grove, G. Ladas, University of Rhode Island, 4:15PM Determinants With Orthogonal Polynomial Entries. and M. Predescu*, Bentley College (993-39-72) (246) Mourad E.H. Ismail, University of Central Florida 5:45PM Open Problems and Conjectures. Preliminary report. (993-33-1589)
(234) Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island (993-39-331) 5:15PM Orthogonal and extremal polynomials on discrete (247) sets. Steven Benjamin Damelin, Georgia Southern AMS Special Session on Time Scales and Applications, University (993-33-173) II

2:15 PM –6:35PM AMS Special Session on The Many Lives of Lattice Organizers: Martin J. Bohner, University of Theory and the Theory of Ordered Sets, with Missouri at Rolla Connections to Combinatorics, II Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern 2:15 PM –6:05PM University Allan C. Peterson, University of Organizers: Jonathan D. Farley, Massachusetts Nebraska Institute of Technology 2:15PM Some Oscillation Criteria for First Order Delay Stefan E. Schmidt,NewMexicoState
(235) Dynamic Equations. Preliminary report. University Martin Bohner, University of Missouri-Rolla 2:15PM The Width of the Lattice of Antichains and (993-39-1099)
(248) Role-Based Access Control. Preliminary report. 2:45PM Nonlinear Three Point Boundary Value Problems on JCrampton*, Information Security Group, Royal (236) Time Scales. Holloway, University of London, T I Fenner and G Ferhan Atici*, Western Kentucky University, and Loizou, School of Computer Science and Serap Topal, Ege University (993-39-1130) Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of 3:15PM Nontrivial solutions to a nonlinear boundary value London (993-06-1283) (237) problem on a time scale. 2:45PM Partial orders for physics and probability. Johnny Henderson, Baylor University (993-39-182) (249) Bob Coecke, Oxford University (993-06-1322) 3:45PM Multipoint boundary value problems on time scales. 3:15PM Injective Spaces. (238) Basant K Karna, Baylor University (993-39-815) (250) Dana S. Scott, Carnegie Mellon University, 4:15PM Application of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales to Department of Computer Science (993-06-1640) (239) Modelling the West-Nile Virus. Preliminary report. 3:45PM Topologie Uber¨ Alles, or, Applications and Open Jo Hoffacker, University of Georgia (993-34-676)
(251) Problems for Comonoids. Preliminary report. 4:45PM Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems on Time Scales. Vaughan R Pratt, Stanford University (240) Johnny L Henderson, Baylor University, and (993-06-1673) Christopher C Tisdell*, The University of New 4:15PM Lattices and random tilings. South Wales (993-39-1106)
(252) James G. Propp, University of Wisconsin - Madison 5:15PM Asymptotic behavior of perturbed dynamic (993-06-1220) (241) equations on time scales revisited. Preliminary 4:45PM Order Theory in Reflexive Control. Preliminary report.
(253) report. Sigrun Bodine*, University of Puget Sound, and Xenia H. Kramer*andStefan E. Schmidt, Phoenix D.A. Lutz, San Diego State University (993-39-1280) Mathematical Systems Modeling, Inc. (993-91-1203)

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5:15PM Linear Codes on Partially Ordered Sets. Preliminary 4:45PM The Markov Width of a Graph.
(254) report. (267) Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics, Marcus Greferath, San Diego State University and Seth Sullivant*, University of California, (993-94-1329) Berkeley (993-05-1276) 5:45PM Poset codes and their applications. Preliminary 5:15PM A Tutte polynomial for matrices. (255) report. (268) Joseph P. S. Kung, University of North Texas Michael J. Adams, Truman State University (993-05-483) (993-06-631) 5:45PM The Kadison-Singer problem as a combinatorial
(269) question. AMS Special Session on Coding and Design-Theoretic Nik Weaver, Washington University (993-05-151) Applications of Polynomials, II AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential 2:15 PM –6:00PM Equations and Conformal Geometry, II

Organizers: Donald D. Mills, Southern Illinois 2:15 PM –5:35PM University, Carbondale Patrick S. Mitchell, Midwestern State Organizers: Jie Qing, University of California Santa University Cruz Kent M. Neuerburg, Southeastern Yu Yuan, University of Washington, Louisiana University Seattle 2:15PM On some fully nonlinear elliptic equations in 2:15PM Grobner bases and fibre structures.
(256) Shuhong Gao, Clemson University (993-13-653) (270) conformal geometry. Preliminary report. Pengfei Guan*, McMaster University, and Guofang 3:15PM Generalized Grobner¨ Bases and Coding Theory. Wang, Max-Planck Institute (993-58-635) (257) Edward C Mosteig, Loyola Marymount University (993-13-361) 2:45PM On the Mass of Asymptotically Hyperbolic (271) Manifolds. Preliminary report. 3:45PM Order domains and generalized Goppa codes. Lars Andersson, Mingliang Cai*andGreg (258) John BLittle , College of the Holy Cross (993-94-52) Galloway, University of Miami (993-53-702) PM 4:15 Minimal distance of an evaluation code on a 3:15PM The stability of Riemannian manifolds with a (259) zero-dimensional complete intersection. Preliminary (272) parallel spinor. report. Xiaodong Wang, MIT (993-53-1215) Leah H. Gold*,TexasA&MUniversity,John B. Little, College of The Holy Cross, and Hal Schenck, 3:45PM The Sobolev inequality for Paneitz operator on TexasmA & M University (993-14-252) (273) three manifolds. Fengbo Hang*andPaul Yang, Princeton University 4:45PM A minimum weight basis for the Reed-Muller code (993-53-990) (260) without computations. Preliminary report. Horacio Tapia-Recillas*andJose Gutierrez, 4:15PM An Analog to the Positive Mass Theorem on Spheres. (274) Jean Steiner, Courant Institute of Mathematical UAM-I, Mexico (993-12-733) Sciences (993-58-751) 5:15PM Asymptotically optimal towers defined recursively 4:45PM Timelike Surfaces of Constant Mean Curvature (261) by polynomials. (275) |H| =1in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) 3-Space and Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Penn State University Integrable Systems. Preliminary report. (993-11-250) Sungwook Lee, University of Southern Mississippi (993-53-132) AMS Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics, 5:15PM Global Existence of Lorentz Wave Maps Between II
(276) Manifolds With Symmetries. Preliminary report. Tadg H Woods, Gonzaga University (993-35-1198) 2:15 PM –6:05PM Organizers: Michael J. Falk,NorthernArizona AMS Special Session on Nonstandard Methods, I University 2:15 PM –5:05PM Eva-Maria Feichtner, ETH Zurich Dmitry N. Kozlov, Bern University Organizers: Matt Insall, University of Missouri at Rolla 2:15PM Symmetric and alternating groups as monodromy (262) groups. Peter A. Loeb, University of Illinois at Robert Guralnick, University of Southern Urbana-Champaign California, and John Shareshian*, Washington David A. Ross, University of Hawaii University (993-05-1035) 2:15PM On continuous modifications of Skorokhod integral 2:45PM Schubert polynomials and chains in the Bruhat (277) processes in abstract Wiener space. (263) order of the symmetric group. Horst Osswald, Mathematisches Institut Richard P. Stanley, M.I.T. (993-05-307) Universitaet Muenchen (993-60-152) 3:15PM Graph homomorphisms and chromatic number. 2:45PM Non-Linear Theory of Generalized Functions in (264) Eric Babson*, University of Washington, and (278) Non-Standard Setting. Dmitry N. Kozlov, Royal Institute of Technology Todor D. Todorov, California Polytechnic State Stockholm(993-05-1694) University (993-46-429) 3:45PM Some new methods in the theory of 3:15PM The Microscopic Behavior of Measurable Functions. (265) m-Quasi-Invariants of Sn.
(279) Peter A. Loeb, University of Illinois, A. M. Garsia*andN. Wallach, U C S D (993-05-720) Champaign-Urbana (993-28-651) 4:15PM On face numbers of manifolds with symmetry. 3:45PM Some hyperdiscrete analysis. (266) Isabella Novik, University of Washington
(280) Chris Impens, University of Ghent (Belgium) (993-05-724) (993-26-833)

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4:15PM On infinitesimally optimal paths. Preliminary report. 4:00PM Bounds for the Number of Large Digits in the (281) AGKusraev, Institute for Mathematics and (290) Positive Integers not Exceeding n. Informatics, and S S Kutateladze*, Sobolev Curtis N Cooper, Central Missouri State University Institute of Mathematics (993-49-972) (993-11-964) 4:45PM Exact law of large numbers and stationarity for 4:15PM Break (282) dynamical systems with independent random 4:30PM Asymptotic subset-sum ranks of integer geometric mutations, matchings and type changing.
(291) series. Preliminary report. Darrell Duffie, Stanford University, and Yeneng David Petrie Moulton, Center for Communications Sun*, National University of Singapore Research (993-11-1191) (993-60-1072) 4:45PM Counting rational linear spaces on hypersurfaces. (292) Preliminary report. MAA Minicourse #13: Part A Scott T. Parsell, Penn State University (993-11-1611) 2:15 PM –4:15PM 5:00PM The best partition of the integers. (Almost.).
The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers. (293) Sam Vandervelde, University of Chicago (993-11-1343) Organizer: Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 5:15PM Multiplicative magic squares of order four.
(294) Preliminary report. Carl A Libis, University of Rhode Island MAA Minicourse #2: Part A (993-11-1412) 5:30PM Almost all palindromes are composite. 2:15 PM –4:15PM
(295) Mayumi Sakata, University of Missouri, Columbia Hands-on discrete math with technology. (993-11-1566) Organizers: Douglas E. Ensley, Shippensburg 5:45PM The chirality of Fibonacci triples. University
(296) Christopher S Simons*andMarcus Wright,Rowan Kate McGiveny, Shippensburg University (993-11-101) University 6:00PM Rational valued series of a rational function.
(297) J Marshall Ash*andStefan Catoiu,DePaul University (993-11-1531) MAA Minicourse #8: Part A

2:15 PM –4:15PM AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations Some mathematics of Leonhard Euler. Organizers: William W. Dunham, Muhlenberg 2:15 PM –5:55PM College 2:15PM The Density of States in a Quasi-Gap. Edward C. Sandifer,Western (298) Jeffrey L Selden, University of Arizona Connecticut State University (993-35-1205) 2:30PM Dimension of p-harmonic measure. Preliminary AMS Session on Number Theory (299) report. Bjo¨rn Bennewitz, University of Kentucky 2:15 PM –6:10PM (993-35-1227) 2:40PM Break 2:15PM Elliptic curves and the abc conjecture. Preliminary (283) report. 3:00PM On Prescibing the Curvature of Level Curves. Lily S. Khadjavi*, Loyola Marymount University, (300) Preliminary report. and Victor Scharaschkin, University of Queensland David L. Finn, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (993-11-1365) (993-35-813) 2:30PM Cohomological conditions for the abc conjecture. 3:15PM Results on the Lagrangian averaged Navier-Stokes (284) Preliminary report. (301) Equations. Lily S. Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount University, and James P Peirce, University of California, Davis Victor Scharaschkin*, University of Queensland (993-35-742) (993-11-1368) 3:30PM Nonclassical symmetries of partial differential 2:45PM Fourier Series and Hecke Operators on GL(3, R). (302) equations and compatibility. (285) Umesh P. Nagarkatte, Medgar Evers College, CUNY Daniel J. Arrigo*, University of Central Arkansas, (993-11-748) and Jon R. Beckham, University of Delaware 3:00PM Moments of the Riemann zeta function and (993-35-921) (286) Eisenstein series. 3:45PM Positive Solutions for Large Elliptic Systems of Jennifer E Beineke*, Western New England College, (303) Interacting Species Groups by Cone Index Methods. and Daniel W Bump, Stanford University Anthony W Leung, University of Cincinnati (993-11-1240) (993-35-996) 3:15PM Differential equations of Eisenstein series on Γ0(2). 4:00PM Break (287) Heekyoung Hahn, University of Illinois at 4:15PM A Hierarchy of Nonlinear integrable PDEs and Its Urbana-Champaign (993-11-1295) (304) Exact Solution. 3:30PM Certain powers of η : some formulas and related Zhijun Qiao, Los Alamos National Laboratory (288) congruences. Preliminary report. (993-35-1382) Adrian D Stanger, BrighamYoung University 4:30PM Nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations with (993-11-1573) (305) singular lower order term. 3:45PM Automorphic forms on orthogonal groups. Ismail Kombe*, University of Missouri, and Jerome (289) Eitan S Sayag, Ohio State University (993-11-1427) AGoldstein, University of Memphis (993-35-1025)

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4:45PM An Equation For The Limit State Of A 5:00PM Representations of Generalized Heisenberg (306) Superconductor With Pinning Sites. (321) Algebras and of Quantum Weyl Algebras. Patricia Bauman and Jianzhong Sun*, Purdue M Chakrabarti, DePaul University (993-17-1506) University (993-35-1182) 5:15PM Bimodules for Lie and anti-Lie triple systems. 5:00PM Vortices and current in the thin film (322) Nora C. Hopkins, Indiana State University (307) Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity. (993-17-1544) Preliminary report. 5:30PM The coquecigrue of a Leibniz algebra. Patricia Bauman and Dmitry Glotov*, Purdue (323) Michael K Kinyon, Indiana University South Bend University (993-35-1601) (993-17-1686) 5:15PM The Phase Transition between Chiral Nematic and 5:45PM The Zero-Divisor Graph of a (not necessarily (308) Smectic C* Liauid Crystals.
(324) commutative) Semigroup. Preliminary report. Sookyung Joo*andDaniel Phillips,Purdue Neal O. Smith, University of Tennessee, Knoxville University (993-35-1707) (993-13-863) 5:30PM Quenching of Solutions for a Degenerate Semilinear (309) Parabolic Problem with Second Boundary Conditions. C. Y. Chan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and N. E. Dyakevich*, California State University at San AMS Session on Algebraic and General Topology Bernardino (993-35-1484) 5:45PM Exponential Stability of a Connected System of 2:15 PM –6:10PM (310) Wave Equations in Bounded Regions. r M Najafi, Kent State University Ashtabula 2:15PM On the immersion problem for 2 -torsion lens (993-93-1655) (325) spaces. Jesus´ Gonz´alez,CINVESTAV-IPN,andThomas A Shimkus*, DeSales University (993-55-826) AMS Session on Algebra, II 2:30PM The number of summands in v1-periodic homotopy (326) groups of SU(n). 2:15 PM –5:55PM Katarzyna Potocka, Lehigh University (993-55-898) 2:15PM The dimension of the Hibert scheme of special 2:45PM Parametrized Fixed Point Theory. (311) threefolds. (327) Vesta Coufal, University of Notre Dame Gian Mario Besana*, DePaul University CTI, and (993-54-925) Maria Lucia Fania, Universita degli Studi di L’Aquila 3:00PM Also on Systems of Interlocking Exact Sequences. (993-14-135) (328) C. Joanna Su, Providence College (993-55-88) 2:30PM Ample sequences and Frobenius amplitude. (312) Preliminary report. 3:15PM On the degree 2 map for a sphere. Dennis S. Keeler, Miami University (993-14-582) (329) Fred R. Cohen and Inga A Johnson*, University of Rochester (993-55-1583) 2:45PM Cycle groups of curves over global fields of positive (313) characteristic. Preliminary report. 3:30PM The Universal Vassiliev Invariant for the Lie | Reza Akhtar, Miami University (993-14-1665) (330) Superalgebra osp(1 2). Preliminary report. Hyunju Oh, Uuniversity of South Carolina, 3:00PM An elementary note on asymptotic properties of Salkehatchie (993-55-1318) (314) Toeplitz and multilevel Toeplitz matrices. William F. Trench, Trinity University (993-15-655) 3:45PM Collapsing a Simplex to a Non-collapsible Complex.
(331) Preliminary report. 3:15PM The Spectral Radius of Submatrices of the Laplacian Katherine Dutton Crowley*, Abi Ebin, Paul
(315) Matrix for a Tree. Preliminary report. Reyfman, John White, Mark Xue and Howie Kahn, Jason J Molitierno, Sacred Heart University Columbia University (993-54-1668) (993-15-837) 4:00PM Characteristic twisting decomposition of knots in 3:30PM Ranks of Strongly Regular Graphs. (332) 3 (316) Charles R. Garner, Jr., Rand Afrikaan University, S . George J. Davis*, Gayla S. Domke,GeorgiaState Mohamed Ait Nouh, Santa Barbara, California University, and Elizabeth Jonck, Rand Afrikaan (993-54-1059) University (993-15-821) 4:15PM Break 3:45PM On GW Rootsystems of Low Ranks. Preliminary 4:30PM Pauling-Pasteur-Mobius Theorem. Preliminary (317) report.
(333) report. Mohammad Q Hailat, Jordan University of Science Okan Gurel*, IBM, and Demet Gurel, Touro College & Technology (993-17-517) (993-54-985) 4:00PM Break 4:45PM Making group topologies with, and without, 4:15PM Computing a “nice basis” for the local symmetric (334) convergent sequences.
(318) space p . W. W. Comfort*, Wesleyan University, S. U. Jennifer R Fowler*, Lamar University, and Aloysius Raczkowski and F. J. Trigos-Arrieta, California GHelminck, North Carolina State University State University, Bakersfield (993-54-1597) (993-17-670) 5:00PM Some Non-homeomorphism Results for Bohr 4:30PM Dynamical Quantum Groups and Self-Duality. (335) Topologies. (319) Bharath R Narayanan, University of Arizona Berit Nilsen Givens, California State Polytechnic (993-17-865) University, Pomona (993-54-1401) 4:45PM On certain vertex algebras and their modules 5:15PM The Compactification of a net and open-filter (320) assoicated with vertex algebroids (Preliminary (336) process and the stone-cech, wallman report). Preliminary report. compactifications. Haisheng Li, Rutgers University, Camden, and Hueytzen J. Wu*, Texas A&M-Kingsville, and Gaywalee Yamskulna*, SUNY at Binghamton Wan-Hong Wu, UT-Health Sciences Center at San (993-17-867) Antonio (993-54-25)

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5:30PM Cut Points in Abcohesive, Aposyndetic, and MAA Session on Courses Below Calculus: A New (337) Semi-Locally Connected Spaces. Focus, II Shing S So*, Central Missouri State University, and David A John, Missouri Western State College 2:15 PM –6:10PM (993-54-965) 5:45PM Topological Invariants of Translation Actions. Organizers: Mary Robinson, University of New (338) Nicholas A. Koban, SUNY at Binghamton Mexico, Valencia Campus (993-54-991) Florence S. Gordon,NewYork 6:00PM Lindelof-type cardinal invariants in symmetrizable Institute of Technology (339) spaces. Sheldon W. Davis and Dimitrina Ninova Arlene H. Kleinstein,SUNYat Stavrova*, Miami University (993-54-1065) Farmingdale Norma M. Agras,MiamiDade Community College SIAM Minisymposium on Applied and Computational Laurette B. Foster, Prairie View A&M Mathematics: Research For and By Undergraduates University Linda Martin, Albuquerque T-VI 2:15 PM –6:00PM 2:15PM College Algebra and Brief Calculus - A Organizers: William L. Briggs, University of
(349) Problem-Solving and Technology-Based Approach Colorado at Denver for Associate of Arts Students. Terry L. Herdman, Virginia Polytechnic Robert L Kimball, Wake Technical Community Institute and State University College (993-E1-666) 2:15PM Student projects in biologically inspired electronic 2:35PM A Small Department’s Approach to Rethinking (340) circuits.
(350) Introductory Courses. Preliminary report. Frank Hoppensteadt, Arizona State University George W. Moss, University of Virginia’s College at 2:45PM Projects for enhancing communication skills of the Wise (993-E1-465) (341) undergraduate. 2:55PM Diary of a New ”College Algebra” Program. Don Miller, St. Mary’s College (351) Carl Lienert*andCarol Smith, Fort Lewis College 3:05PM An experience with early undergraduate research (993-E1-296) (342) in modeling and computational mathematics. Kathleen Fowler, Clarkson University 3:15PM Using Modeling and Real Data Applications in a
(352) ”College Algebra in Context” Course. 3:35PM The high-order accuracy algebraic-Maclaurin-Pade Ronald J. Harshbarger*, U. S. Carolina Beaufort, (343) numerical method with applications to singular and Lisa S. Yocco, Georgia Southern Univ. differential equations from nonlinear mechanics. (993-E1-618) Debra Warne*andPaul Warne*, James Madison University 3:35PM The Ideas of Algebra. Preliminary report.
(353) William G McCallum, University of Arizona 4:05PM Undergraduate research in linear algebra. (993-E1-945) (344) Gil Strang,MIT 4:35PM Panel Discussion: The Applied Master’s Degree: 3:55PM A New Vision for Mathematics for Management An Employment-Focused Alternative to the Ph.D.,
(354) Students. Preliminary report. moderated by Lee Seitelman and Ben Fusaro. Kris H Green*andAllen Emerson,St.JohnFisher College (993-E1-700)

4:15PM Building a House: A Quadratic Model. MAA Session on Mathematical Experiences for
(355) Scott R. Herriott, Maharishi University of Students Outside the Classroom, II Management (993-E1-710) 4:35PM Interactive Instruction Utilizing Computer 2:15 PM –3:30PM
(356) Generated Materials. Preliminary report. Wayne Mackey*andWilliam A Feldman, Organizers: Laura L. Kelleher, Massachusetts University of Arkansas (993-E1-874) Maritime Academy 4:55PM A New Approach to Teaching Comparison and Mary S. Hawkins, Prairie View A&M
University (357) Proportional Reasoning. Arlene Kleinstein, Farmingdale State University of 2:15PM A First Experience Advising Undergraduate New York (993-E1-749)
(345) Research. Lisa DeMeyer, Central Michigan University 5:15PM Intermediate Algebra with Function as an (993-D1-199)
(358) Underlying Theme. Edward D Laughbaum, The Ohio State University 2:35PM Student Construction Projects for Mathematics
(346) Awareness Week and Related Mathematics (993-E1-738) Problems. 5:35PM A Different Type of Freshmen Level Mathematics Aaron K Trautwein, Carthage College (359) Curriculum Without all the Algebra. (993-D1-728) Erick Brian Hofacker, University of Wisconsin River 2:55PM Summer Math Enrichment Camp Experience. Falls (993-E1-853) (347) Lynn C. McGrath*, Jane Friedman and Perla 5:55PM Understanding and Using Algebra: a concrete, Myers, University of San Diego (993-D1-900)
(360) applications-rich, modeling-based ”Applied Algebra” 3:15PM The South Alabama Math Circles. alternative to intermediate algebra. Preliminary
(348) Vasiliy Prokhorov, the University of South report. Alabama, and Natalya Prokhorova*, ASMS and the Suzanne I. Doree, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, University of South Alabama (993-D1-905) MN (993-E1-510)

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MAA Session on Getting Students to Discuss and MAA Session on The Effective Use of Computer Write about Mathematics, II Algebra Systems in the Teaching of Mathematics, I

2:15 PM –6:10PM 2:15 PM –5:40PM Organizers: L. Carl Leinbach, Gettysburg College Organizer: Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State College Edward A. Connors, University of Massachusetts 2:15PM Writing a Fractal Story. 2:15PM Differential Equations and Friction—Where’s the
(361) Virginia R Jones, Central CT State Univ.
(377) Rub? (993-F1-939) Richard J Marchand, Slippery Rock University 2:30PM To Play or Not to Play? A writing project that (993-G1-394)
(362) enhances students’ learning of the basic concepts 2:30PM CAS, Visualization Software or Both? of counting.
(378) Jean Marie McDill*, California Polytechnic State Deborah Lurie, Saint Joseph’s Universiy University, and Agnes Rash, St. Joseph’s University (993-F1-238) (993-G1-395) 2:45PM A Comprehensive Mathematics Curriculum with 2:45PM A Probability Class Report. Preliminary report.

(363) Jose Almer T. Sanqui, Appalachian State University (379) Mathematica. (993-F1-958) Joanne Mason, The Harker School (993-G1-1047) 3:00PM A Comprehensive Use of CAS In the Mathematics 3:00PM Papers and Peer Review in Advanced Statistics.
(380) Major. (364) Kelly S Cline, Carroll College (993-F1-927) Mark Parker, Carroll College (993-G1-1055) 3:15PM Using Group Presentations in Lower Division Math 3:15PM Presentation of An Issue - Teaching Mathematics
(365) Courses to Illustrate Real Life Uses of Mathematics.
(381) with CAS: A RIPA Song. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Raymond Rozen, RMIT University (993-G1-1048) Edwin Prine Herman, University of Wisconsin, 3:30PM Using PC and TI-92 in teaching Binomial and Stevens Point (993-F1-940) (382) Normal Distribution in the final Grades of Austrian Grammar Schools. 3:30PM Reading, Writing and Assessing in a Problem
(366) Solving Course for K-8 Pre-service Teachers. Otto Wurnig, University of Graz (993-G1-1049) Maria G. Fung*, Western Oregon University, and 3:45PM Introducing Students to Mathematica within a Leon Roland, Western Oregon University
(383) Context. (993-F1-382) Tom Linton and Mark A Mills*, Central College (993-G1-210) 3:45PM Kramerica Industries: How to Turn a Rectangle Into 4:00PM Visualizing Eigenvectors with Computer Algebra
(367) aCircle.
(384) Software Maple: A Linear Algebra Classroom John C Tynan, Marietta College (993-F1-914) Capsule. 4:00PM Using Student-Selected Projects in Second Semester Suda Kunyosying, Shepherd College (993-G1-292) (368) Calculus. Preliminary report. 4:15PM Break Christopher D Goff, University of the Pacific 4:30PM Internet-Based Instruction of Applied Calculus (993-F1-438)
(385) Course. 4:15PM Short Writing Assignments for Gaining Bakhodirzhon M. Siddikov, Ferris State University (369) Understanding in Differential Equations. (993-G1-31) Preliminary report. 4:45PM An Electronic Calculus Book in Maple. Michael A Brilleslyper,U.S.AirForceAcademy (386) Mylan Redfern*and David Betounes*, University (993-F1-177) of Southern Mississippi (993-G1-1052)

4:30PM The Mathematics Term Paper Survival Guide 5:00PM Seeing the Flow and Watching the Wave. Preliminary
(370) (Instructor’s Edition).
(387) report. Janet C Woodland, University of Arkansas Elton Graves, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (993-F1-466) (993-G1-482) 5:15PM Using Maple Labs to Flavor an Introduction to 4:45PM Algebra Out Loud: Students Read and Write to
(388) Higher Mathematics.
(371) Learn and Communicate Mathematics. Paul E. Becker, Penn State - Erie (993-G1-1053) Pat A. Mower, Washburn University (993-F1-606) 5:30PM Mathematica: A Tale of Two Versions. 5:00PM Online Small Group Discussions in Geometry.
(389) Danny W. Turner*andThomas W. Polaski,
(372) Matthew J Haines, Augsburg College (993-F1-512) Winthrop University (993-G1-335) 5:15PM Papers on Abstract Algebra. Preliminary report.
(373) Heakyung Lee, Winthrop University (993-F1-333) MAA General Contributed Paper Session, II 5:30PM Is Aunt Frieda FUNCTIONally Literate? 2:15 PM –6:10PM
(374) Janet M McShane, Northern Arizona University (993-F1-1161) Organizers: Laura J. Wallace, California State University, San Bernardino 5:45PM Writing Proofs: How do we teach students what is
(375) second nature to us? Preliminary report. Jacqueline A. Jensen,SamHouston James Sandefur, Georgetown University State University (993-F1-938) Gary W. Towsley, SUNY at Geneseo

6:00PM Using Guided Learning and E-Learning Tools to Get Michael A. Jones, Montclair State
(376) Students to Discuss and Write About Mathematics. University Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham State College Shawnee L. McMurran, California (993-F1-1489) State University at San Bernardino

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2:15PM The Missing Chapter in Elementary Statistics Lida McDowell, University of Southern
(390) Textbooks: A Prescription for Transition into Mississippi Statistical Inference. Preliminary report. Gerald Y Agbegha, Johnson C. Smith University MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Quantitative Literacy (993-Z1-313) Requirements Panel Discussion 2:30PM A Geometry Course for High School Mathematics
(391) Teachers. Preliminary report. 2:15 PM –3:35PM Brenda C. Strassfeld,NewYork University/University of Plymouth (993-Z1-187) Quantitative literacy across the curriculum. Organizers: Rick Gillman, Valparaiso University 2:45PM Don’t Just Stand There - Do Something (In Your
(392) Stats Class)! Preliminary report. Kim Rheinlander, Dartmouth Kelly Molkenthin Fuller, Nazareth College University (993-Z1-704) Emily Decker Larder, Evergreen State 3:00PM Teaching a Summer Elementary Statistics Course University
(393) Online. Gillie Malnarich, Evergreen State Hasan N Hamdan, James Madison University University (993-Z1-1565) 3:15PM Alef Efes- Students Of Education Create and Publish MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal (394) a Mathematical Quarterly and an Interactive Site. Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion Ziva Z Deutsch*andAkiva Kadari, Jerusalem College (993-Z1-1232) 2:15 PM –3:35PM 3:30PM Break. The impact of laptop computers on classroom 3:45PM The Vanishing Remainders Paradoxes And Other instruction.
(395) Overlooked Paradoxes of Infinity. Organizer: Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy Michael Hugh Knowles, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Moderator: Joseph D. Myers, U.S. Military (993-Z1-441) Academy 4:00PM A Question of Limits. Panelists: Panama Geer, Bryn Mawr College
(396) Paul H Schuette, Meredith College (993-Z1-443) Michael Huber, U.S. Military Academy 4:15PM Haven’t I Heard That Before? Preliminary report.
(397) Joanne V Peeples, El Paso Community College Jim Rolfe, U.S. Air Force Academy (993-Z1-1009) Math on the Web 4:30PM Reflections on a small-group discovery method
(398) experience: the Real Analysis class. 2:15 PM –5:00PM Constantin Dorin Dumitras¸cu, Dartmouth College (993-Z1-343) Go to the Math on the Web Pavilion for the complete 4:45PM Teaching a multilevel History of Mathematics schedule of presentations.
(399) course. Joel K. Haack, University of Northern Iowa MAA Project NExT Panel Discussion (993-Z1-355) 4:55PM Break. 2:30 PM –4:00PM 5:15PM Discussing and Writing About Mathematics: Writing textbooks in mathematics.
(400) Highlights and Pitfalls. Organizer: Revathi Narasimhan, Kean University Michael L. Berry, West Virginia Wesleyan College (993-Z1-35) Panelists: Lynn Cox, Houghton-Mifflin J. Douglas Faires, Youngstown State 5:30PM Investigating the ”Unknown” to Motivate
(401) Mathematics Discussion. University Eileen Fernandez, Montclair State University William Hoffman, Addison-Wesley (993-Z1-1374) Dan Kalman, American University 5:45PM Creative Reading and Writing in a Proofs Course.
(402) Preliminary report. MAA Section Officers Heather A. Lewis, Nazareth College (993-Z1-1287) 2:30 PM –5:00PM 6:00PM There’s no Writing in Math Class?
(403) Karen D Ivy, Montclair State University (993-Z2-1292) MAA Invited Address

3:20 PM –4:10PM MAA Panel Discussion (404) Selections from the calculus museum. 2:15 PM –3:35PM William W. Dunham, Muhlenberg College (993-A0-16) Service learning in mathematics: They wrote the book. AWM Panel Discussion Organizer: Jerry F. Dwyer, Texas Tech University Panelists: Josh Sabloff, Haverford College 3:20 PM –4:35PM Richard A. Zang, University of New Supporting the diverse personal lives of Hampshire at Manchester mathematicians. Perla L. Myers, University of San Diego Organizers: Carolyn S. Gordon, Dartmouth College Dana S. Craig, University of Central Marianne Korten, Kansas State Oklahoma University

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Helen Moore, American Institute of Florence S. Gordon,NewYork Mathematics Institute of Technology Christina Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY AWM Business Meeting Panelists: Beth Bradley, University of Louisville 4:35 PM –5:00PM Robert L. Bryant, Duke University Jerome Dancis, University of Maryland Graduate Student Reception Dawn A. Lott, New Jersey Institute of Technology 5:00 PM –6:00PM Cleopatria Martinez, Phoenix College Elizabeth Stanhope, Willamette Special Presentation University 5:00 PM –7:00PM MAA Special Presentation A tutorial on computer experiments based on A New Kind of Science. 3:45 PM –5:30PM Presenter: Stephen Wolfram, WolframResearch, CINEMATH: Mathematics on the silver screen. Inc. Organizer: Charlie L. Smith, Park University Mathematical Institutes Open House MAA Committee on the Mathematics Education of 5:30 PM –8:00PM Teachers-NCTM Panel Discussion

3:45 PM –5:15PM First Timers Reception

National Council for Accreditation of Teacher 6:00 PM –7:00PM Education (NCATE) and the mathematics community Organizers: Judith L. Covington, Louisiana State Young Mathematicians Network Town Meeting University-Shreveport Marilyn L. Hala,NCTM 7:15 PM –8:15PM

MAA Minicourse #14: Part A AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture

4:30 PM –6:30PM 8:30 PM –9:30PM Introduction to mathematical card tricks. (405) Biology as information. Organizers: Colm K. Mulcahy, Spelman College Eric Lander, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (993-92-33) Jeffrey A. Ehme, Spelman College AWM Reception MAA Minicourse #3: Part A 9:30 PM – 11:00 PM 4:30 PM –6:30PM Computation and discovery in the number theory classroom. Organizer: Clifford A. Reiter, Lafayette College Thursday, January 8

MAA Minicourse #9: Part A Elsevier Science 5K Fun Run/Walk and Breakfast

7:00 AM –8:00AM 4:30 PM –6:30PM PMET: Preparing mathematicians to educate Employment Center teachers, grades 7–12. Organizers: Holly Hirst, Appalachian State 7:00 AM –7:00PM University Jack Y. Narayan, SUNY College at Joint Meetings Registration Oswego 7:30 AM –4:00PM MAA Panel Discussion AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics 4:30 PM –6:00PM 7:45 AM – 11:55 AM A fresh start for collegiate mathematics. Organizers: Nancy Baxter Hastings, Dickinson 7:45AM Taylor Series Solution of Lane-Emden Type College (406) Equations. Asai Asaithambi, Saint Louis University Sheldon P. Gordon, Farmingdale State (993-65-129) University of New York 8:00AM Spectral Analysis of Low-Dispersion Interpolation Moderator: Jack Y. Narayan,SUNYatOswego
(407) Schemes. Preliminary report. Panelists: Nancy Baxter Hastings Jim Ferry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Sheldon P. Gordon (993-65-1015)

122 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 1 Phoenix, AZ, Thursday, January 8 – Program of the Sessions

8:15AM Computing Dominant Eigenvalues of the Linearized AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in (408) Navier-Stokes Equations. Preliminary report. Mathematics by Undergraduates, I Beau B Grande, Colorado State University (993-65-1576) 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

8:30AM A Numerical Method for Solving a Organizers: Tamara A. Burton, Rochester Institute (409) Dual-Phase-Lagging Heat Transport Equation in a of Technology Three Dimensional Micro Sphere. Michael J. Fisher, California State Lixin Shen*, Weizhong Dai, Louisiana Tech University, Fresno University, and Teng Zhu, Grambling State Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of University (993-65-1340) Technology 8:45AM Comparing Algorithmic Approaches to List the Darren A. Narayan,Rochester
(410) Minimal Hitting Sets of a Hypergraph. Preliminary Institute of Technology report. 8:00AM Solving the Dirichlet problem with rational data. Ken Takata, University of Illinois at Chicago
(422) Tim Ferguson, University of Richmond (993-30-59) (993-68-1471) 8:30AM Polynomial factorization. 9:00AM Pattern Formation in a CICR Reaction. Preliminary
(423) Radoslaw Lucjan Stefanski, University of (411) report. Richmond (993-30-60) Maya Mincheva, Wilfrid Laurier University 9:00AM Minimum Rank of Positive Semi-Definite Matrices (993-35-1393)
(424) with a Prescribed Graph. Wendy Wang Kelly 9:15AM A Mathematical Model for *, Duke University, and (412) Thermohydrodynamic(THD) Analysis of Titled Pad Steinmetz, Truman State University (993-05-118) Slider Bearing with Heat Conduction to the Pad and 9:30AM Minimum Rank of Positive Semi-Definite Matrices Slider.
(425) with a Prescribed Graph. Preliminary report. Prawal Sinha, Indian Institute of Technology Kelly J. Steinmetz*, Truman State University, and Kanpur (993-76-86) Wendy Wang, Duke University (993-15-123) 10:00AM Subgraph Summability Number of a Graph. 9:30AM Approximate solutions to the porous medium
(426) Preliminary report.
(413) equation. Preliminary report. Josh R Whitney, Arizona State University Aleksey S Telyakovskiy, University of Nevada, (993-00-131) Reno (993-76-818) 10:30AM Randomly Decomposable Graphs in KmPe. 9:45AM On Amplitude-Frequency Dependences for Standing
(427) Preliminary report. (414) Waves in Fluids of Various Configurations. Erin Rita Militzer, Central Michigan University Inna Konstantinovna Shingareva*andCarlos (993-00-145) Liz´arraga Celaya, University of Sonora, Mexico 11:00AM Classifying semigroups where Γ (S) is the refinement (993-76-819)
(428) of a star graph. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Break Amanda J. Geiser, Susquehanna University (993-00-157) 10:15AM Economics of Optimal Water Allocation on
11:30AM Completely solving equations by iteration. (415) Agriculture in the Lower Chattahoochee River
(429) Preliminary report. Basin. Preliminary report. John Matthew Mahoney, California State Krishna P Paudel*, Louisina State University, Jim University,Long Beach (993-37-1710) Cruise, Ashutosh Limaye, University of Alabama Huntsville, and Upton Hatch, Auburn University (993-90-1262) AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, III 10:30AM Decomposition and Dynamic Cut Generation in (416) Integer Programming. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Matthew V Galati*andTed K Ralphs, Lehigh University (993-90-1303) Organizers: William H. Barker, Bowdoin College Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at 10:45AM The gravitational field of a rotating dust cylinder. Chicago (417) MDIftime, UMass (993-83-716) Naomi Fisher, University of Illinois at 11:00AM Progress and Challenges in Modeling Plant Chicago
(418) Competition For Light. Preliminary report. Kenneth C. Millett, University of Andrew L Nevai*andRichard R Vance, University California Santa Barbara of California, Los Angeles (993-92-1683) Bonnie Saunders, University of Illinois 11:15AM Mathematical Modeling of Isothermal Frontal at Chicago (419) Polymerization. 8:00AM Confronting Diverse Student Interests: Divya E Devadoss*andVladimir A Volpert, (430) Departmental Efforts in Reforming Undergraduate Northwestern University (993-92-767) Mathematics. Preliminary report. Naomi Fisher*, University of Illinois at Chicago 11:30AM Population Persistence and Extinction in a chicago, Jerry Bona, University of Illinois at
(420) Discrete-Time, Stage-Structured Epidemic Model. Chicago, Kenneth Millett, University of California Preliminary report. Santa Barbara, Samuel Rankin,American Keith E Emmert*andLinda J.S. Allen,TexasTech Mathematical Society, and Bonnie Saunders, University (993-92-982) University of Illinois at Chicago (993-97-934) 11:45AM Computing the probability of cycles in a random 8:30AM The Computational Mathematical Sciences Program
(421) election. Preliminary report.
(431) at Arizona State University. Bruce W. Atkinson, Samford University Eric J. Kostelich, Arizona State University (993-91-1418) (993-97-1373)

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9:00AM More effective mathematical education for AMS-ASL Special Session on Infinite Combinatorics
(432) teachers. Preliminary report. and Inner Model Theory, III Amy Cohen, Rutgers University (993-97-1005) 9:30AM Evolution of the Undergradute Curriculum at the 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM (433) University of South Carolina. Organizers: Matthew D. Foreman, University of Douglas BMeade , University of South Carolina California Irvine (993-97-1424) Martin Zeman, University of California 10:00AM Reforming the mathematics core for engineers and Irvine
(434) everyone else. Jeffrey K Lawson, Trinity University (993-97-645) 8:00AM The determinacy of real games. (445) W. Hugh Woodin, University of California, Berkeley 10:30AM Making Mathematics Relevant: College Algebra (993-03-1367) (435) Reform at Trinity College. Preliminary report. Laurie Johnson, Trinity College (993-97-987) 9:00AM Club guessing sequences and filters. (446) Tetsuya Ishiu, University of Kansas (993-03-952) 11:00AM Implementing Mathematics Reform in College
(436) Devlopmental Mathematics. Preliminary report. 9:30AM More Coloring Theorems. Andy Carter*andSteve Cohen, Roosevelt (447) E. Todd Eisworth, University of Northern Iowa University (993-97-1024) (993-03-1115) 10:00AM Additivity of measure and maximal functions. 11:30AM Question period and discussion. (448) Juris Steprans, York University (993-03-1104) 10:30AM On the existence of Hausdorff ultrafilters. AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematical Modeling (449) Preliminary report. Tomek Bartoszynski*, Boise State University, and in Neuroscience, Biomedicine, Genetics, and Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University and Rutgers Epidemiology, I University (993-03-1392) 11:00AM Club guessing applied to universality problems. 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM
(450) Preliminary report. Organizers: Steven M. Baer,ArizonaState Katherine A Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University University (993-03-1354) Ivo D. Dinov, University of California 11:30AM Mutual stationarity, fine structure and pcf. Los Angeles (451) Preliminary report. Frank C. Hoppensteadt,ArizonaState James Cummings, Carnegie Mellon University University (993-03-1010) Hal L. Smith, Arizona State University 8:00AM How Far is One Kinetic Time Activity Curve from AMS Special Session on Discrete Dynamics and
(437) Another: Measure the physiological Similarity Difference Equations, III between Voxels over Brain PET Data. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Hongbin Guo*, Rosemary A Renaut,ArizonaState University, and Kewei Chen, Good Samaritan Organizers: Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University Regional Medical Center (993-92-1699) Jim M. Cushing, University of Arizona 8:30AM FFTs for the Life Sciences. Preliminary report. Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode (438) Peter Kostelec*andDaniel N Rockmore, Island Dartmouth College (993-42-1571) James A. Yorke, University of 9:00AM Image segmentation models using curve evolution Maryland, College Park (439) and functional minimization, with applications to 8:00AM Chaos in the solar system. Preliminary report. medical imaging. Preliminary report.
(452) Mario Umberto Martelli, Claremont McKenna Jason T. Chung and Luminita A. Vese*, UCLA College (993-37-268) (993-35-1502) 8:30AM Convergence, Periodicity and Bifurcations in a 9:30AM Towards Mathematical Modeling of Local (453) 2-parameter, Second-order Absolute Difference (440) Information Processing in Vertebrate Brain. Equation. Preliminary report. H Sedaghat, Virginia Commonwealth University Amir H Assadi*, Miroslav Backonja, P. Charles (993-39-577) Garell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Nik 9:00AM Shooting Methods For Numerical Solution Of Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology (454) Stochastic Boundary-Value Problems. (993-92-1034) Armando Arciniega*, St. Mary’s University, and 10:00AM Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Edward J Allen, Texas Tech University (993-65-44) (441) SMPizer, Univ of North Carolina (993-92-890) 9:30AM On Fraenkel’s N-Heap Wythoff’s Conjecture. 10:30AM Membrane protein structure from NMR
(455) Xinyu Sun*, Temple University, and Doron
(442) orientational constraints. Preliminary report. Zeilberger, Rutgers University (993-39-130) JRQuine*, S Achuthan and PSrinivasan,Florida 10:00AM Noise Sensitivity for Natural Measures of Chaotic State University (993-92-889) (456) Attractors. 11:00AM Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Timothy D. Sauer, George Mason University
(443) Brain Mapping. (993-37-571) Paul M. Thompson*andArthur W. Toga,UCLA 10:30AM Shadowing in Higher Dimensional Discrete School of Medicine (993-92-886) (457) Dynamical Systems. Preliminary report. 11:30AM Modelling Spreading Cortical Depression in the Judy A Kennedy*, University of Delaware, James A.
(444) Brain-Cell Microenvironment. Preliminary report. Yorke, University of Maryland, Carmen Young, Robert M. Miura, New Jersey Institute of Fields Institute, and Wayne B. Hayes, University of Technology (993-92-1641) Maryland (993-37-663)

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11:00AM TheSameTransmissionDynamicsDrivetheFast 8:00AM Some recurrence formulas for Two variable
(458) Gay and the Slow African HIV Epidemics. (468) orthogonal polynomials on the Unit circle. James A Yorke, University of Maryland, Frederick Preliminary report. Suppe, Texas Tech University, and Brandy L Jeffrey S Geronimo, Georgia Institute of Rapatski*, University of Maryland (993-00-549) Technology (993-41-1716) 11:30AM A New Class of Maps in the Plane: the Movie. 9:00AM Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle.
(459) James A Yorke*andJames T Halbert, University (469) Barry Simon, Caltech (993-33-1712) of Maryland (993-37-471) 10:00AM The Christoffel-Uvarov formula and averages of (470) random characteristic polynomials. EStrahov, Caltech (993-60-1141) AMS Special Session on Partial Differential Equations 11:00AM Generalised Chebyshev Polynomials under and Applications, I (471) Polynomial Mappings. YChen, JCGriffin*, Imperial College, and M 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Ismail, University of South Florida (993-33-1520) Organizers: Xin Lu, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Yan-Wei Qi, University of California AMS Special Session on Topological Dynamics and Santa Barbara Ergodic Theory, II Weiqing Xie, California State Polytech University 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University Organizers: Alica Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8:00AM Optimal Control of Obstacles in Variational (460) Inequalities. Joseph Rosenblatt, University of Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (993-35-740) 8:00AM Generalized polynomials: from Weyl 8:30AM Existence and nonexistence of Positive Radial (472) equidistribution theorem to translations on (461) Solutions for quasilinear elliptic Systems. nilmanifolds. Haiyan Wang, Arizona State University West Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University (993-35-621) (993-37-1216) 9:00AM Existence of Solutions for a Nonlinear System. 9:00AM Syndetically Hypercyclic Operators. (462) Preliminary report. (473) Luis E. Saldivia*, Educational Testing Service, and Ping Wang*, Penn State University, and Chaochun Alfredo Peris, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Val`encia Qu, Yunnan University (993-35-287) (993-37-526) 9:30AM Local Regularity Theorems for the Stationary 9:30AM Optimal weights for moving averages in Lp spaces, ≤ ≤∞ (463) Thermistor Problem. (474) 1 p . Preliminary report. Xiangsheng Xu, Mississippi State University Parthena Avramidou, Ohio State University (993-35-919) (993-37-1553) 10:00AM Stability, Periodicity, and Numerical Solutions in 10:00AM Critical rates in nonconventional ergodic averaging. (464) Reaction-diffusion Systems with time delays. (475) Anthony Quas*andM´at´eWierdl, University of Wei Feng*, University of North Carolina at Memphis (993-37-1420) Wilmington, and Xin Lu, University Of North 10:30AM Orbit-equivalence of compact minimal R -flows. Carolina at Wilmington (993-35-1336) (476) Preliminary report. 10:30AM A Weighted Strichartz Inequality on the Einstein Alica Miller*andJoseph Rosenblatt, University of (465) Universe For the Global Existence of Solutions to Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (993-37-1548) Nonlinear Wave Equations. 11:00AM Ergodicity of Weyl cocycles. Nimet Alpay, Michigan State University (477) Mahesh G Nerurkar, Rutgers University (993-35-107) (993-28-1527) 11:00AM Higher-order Cahn-Hilliard models for faceting of a 11:30AM On almost automorphic lattice dynamics.
(466) growing crystal surface. (478) Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology Tatiana Savin*, A.A. Golovin, S.H. Davis, (993-37-904) Northwestern University, A.A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion-IIT, and P.W. Voorhees,Northwestern University (993-35-1006) 11:30AM On A Phase-Change Problem Arising from Inductive AMS Special Session on The Many Lives of Lattice (467) Heating. Preliminary report. Theory and the Theory of Ordered Sets, with Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University Connections to Combinatorics, III (993-35-665) 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Organizers: Jonathan D. Farley, Massachusetts AMS Special Session on Theory and Applications of Institute of Technology Orthogonal Polynomials, III Stefan E. Schmidt,NewMexicoState 8:00 AM – 11:40 AM University 8:00AM Determining Properties of a Multipartite Organizers: Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of (479) Tournament from its Lattice of Convex Subsets. South Florida Atif Abueida, Wiebke S Diestelkamp, Stephanie P Barry Simon, California Institute of Edwards and Darren BParker *, University of Technology Dayton (993-05-38)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 125 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Thursday, January 8 (cont’d.)

8:30AM Visualizations of weighted lattices for Formal David M. Strong, Pepperdine (480) Concept Analysis. Preliminary report. University Alex Pogel, Physical Science Labratory, Tim Hannan, New Mexico State University, and Lance AMS Session on Dynamical Systems and Difference Miller*, University of Connecticut (993-06-1290) Equations 9:00AM Enumeration of Totally Positive Grassmann Cells. (481) Lauren Kiyomi Williams,MIT,Berkeley 8:00 AM – 11:40 AM (993-06-479) 8:00AM Linear Transformations on Polynomial Models of 9:30AM Differential Posets and Down-Up Algebras. (482) Tom Roby, California State University, Hayward (493) Time Series. (993-06-1695) Aihua Li, Loyola University, and Chuang Peng*, Morehouse College (993-37-1561) 10:00AM A discrete homotopy theory for order complexes of 8:15AM m x n Proper Arrays: Geometric Construction and (483) lattices. Preliminary report.
Helene Barcelo, Arizona State University (494) the Associated Linear Cellular Automata. (993-05-1404) Jocelyn A Quaintance, SUNY Fredonia (993-37-42) 8:30AM Lipschitz Flow-box Theorem. 10:30AM Linear Extensions of Ranked Posets, Enumerated by

(484) Descents: A Problem of Richard P. Stanley from the (495) Craig J. Calcaterra*andAxel Boldt, Metropolitan 1981 Banff Conference on Ordered Sets. State University (993-37-232) Jonathan David Farley, Massachusetts Institute of 8:45AM Solitons and Random Cauchy Matrices. Preliminary Technology (993-06-1651)
(496) report. Kevin Hughes and Hieu D Nguyen*, Rowan 11:00AM Lattice Theory and Enumeration. (485) Joseph E. Bonin*, The George Washington University (993-37-989) University, Anna de Mier, University of Oxford, and 9:00AM Recurrent Points in Fuzzy Dynamical Systems of the Marc Noy, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (497) First Type. Preliminary report. (993-06-1190) Mark Burgin, UCLA (993-37-1670) 11:30AM A Glimpse of Dowling Lattices. 9:15AM Band Structure in Bose-Einstein Condensates in (486) Thomas A. Dowling, Ohio State University
(498) Periodic Lattices. (993-06-1706) Mason Alexander Porter*andPredrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology (993-37-1038) AMS Special Session on Coding and Design-Theoretic 9:30AM Nonlinear analysis of a coupled mechanism for
Applications of Polynomials, III (499) enhancing amplification in auditory hair cells. K A Montgomery*, M Silber and S A Solla, 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Northwestern University (993-37-1403) 9:45AM Toward Establishing a Connection between the Organizers: Donald D. Mills, Southern Illinois
(500) Poincare Functional Equation and Linear University, Carbondale Embedding. Patrick S. Mitchell, Midwestern State Tara Marie Michels, East Tennessee State University University (993-37-1140) Kent M. Neuerburg, Southeastern 9:55AM Break Louisiana University 10:30AM Global Stability of Difference Equations. Preliminary 8:00AM Regularity in Codes and Designs. (501) report. (487) A. R. Calderbank, Princeton University Zhivko S. Athanassov, Institute of Mathematics, (993-05-165) Bulgarian Academy of Sci (993-39-103) 9:00AM Polynomial arithmetic behind the IEEE 802.12 xn−1 10:45AM On the Behavior of Solutions of x = p + . (488) standard for 100Mbit/s data transmission. n+1
(502) xn Preliminary report. Jeffrey J Feuer, Coastal Carolina University James A. Davis*, University of Richmond, Simon (993-39-215) Crouch,Bristol,UK,andJonathan Jedwab,Simon 11:00AM Dynamic Consistency and Discrete Models for the Fraser University (993-05-71)
(503) Harmonic Oscillator. Preliminary report. 9:30AM A reduction of polynomial factorization over Fp to Sandra A Rucker*andRonald E Mickens,Clark (489) factoring polynomials which split. Atlanta University (993-39-213) Greg Stein, Claremont McKenna College 11:15AM Dynamics of the Discrete Model of West-Nile like (993-11-1102)
(504) Epidemics. 10:00AM Piecewise Quadratic Bent Functions. V. L. Kocic*andT. Darensburg, Xavier University (490) Joseph L Yucas, Southern Illinois University of Louisiana (993-39-1129) (993-12-686) 11:30AM On a Max Type Recurrence Relation with Periodic 10:30AM Highly degenerate quadratic forms over finite fields (505) Coefficients. (491) of characteristic 2. WTPatula, Southern Illinois University, and HD Robert W. Fitzgerald, Southern Illinois University Voulov*, University of Missouri - Kansas City (993-11-163) (993-39-1627) 11:00AM Weight Enumerators and Self-Dual Codes. (492) Judy L Walker, University of Nebraska MAA Session on Courses Below Calculus: A New (993-94-1608) Focus, III

MAA Minicourse #4: Part A 8:00 AM – 12:05 PM

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Organizers: Mary Robinson, University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus Java applets in teaching mathematics. Florence S. Gordon,NewYork Organizers: Joe Yanik, Emporia State University Institute of Technology

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Arlene H. Kleinstein,SUNYat 9:00AM The Effective Use of Computer Algebra Systems in Farmingdale
(520) Teaching An Introductory Course in Mathematical Norma M. Agras,MiamiDade Modeling using MAPLE. Community College William P Fox, Francis Marion University (993-G1-1056) Laurette B. Foster, Prairie View A&M University 9:15AM Using a CAS to Investigate List Scheduling in a
(521) First-Year Mathematics Course. Linda Martin, Albuquerque T-VI Bruce Torrence, Randolph Macon College 8:00AM Modeling and Data Analysis as the Core of (993-G1-1057) (506) Precalculus. 9:30AM Use of a CAS in a Discrete Mathematics Course. Daniel J Teague, NC School of Science and
Mathematics (993-E1-746) (522) Ed Conjura, The College of New Jersey (993-G1-1054) 8:25AM A focus on mathematical modeling in courses below
9:45AM Using Inherent Errors of CAS to Teach Mathematical (507) calculus: What are the implications for prerequisite
courses? (523) Concepts. Preliminary report. Mercedes A McGowen, WilliamRainey Harper Michael J. Bosse*, Morgan State University, and N. College (993-E1-804) R. Nandakumar, Delaware State University (993-G1-322) 8:50AM What Does Conceptual Understanding Mean?
(508) Preliminary report. 10:00AM A Comparativie Study in College Algebra using a Florence S. Gordon, New York Institute of (524) CAS. Technology (993-E1-722) Eric Hofacker, University of Wisconsin - River Falls (993-G1-1051) 9:15AM Lab Projects in Courses Below Calculus. Preliminary
(509) report. 10:15AM Using the TI-89 in Math Education— Does it Improve Elias H Toubassi*, University of Arizona, and Jerry (525) the Students’ Performance? Morris, Sonoma State University (993-E1-768) Karsten Schmidt*, University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden, and Wolfgang Moldenhauer, 9:40AM Some Political and Practical Issues on Implementing ThILLM (993-G1-55) (510) Reform. Robert E. Megginson, Mathematical Sciences 10:30AM Using the Automated CAS Process of Simplification
Research Institute (993-E1-747) (526) to Teach an Often Seemingly Mysterious Mathematical Concept. Preliminary report. 10:05AM MAA/AMATYC Guidelines: Implementation Michael J. Bosse*, Morgan State University, and N. (511) Strategies. R. Nandakumar, Delaware State University Norma M Agras, Miami-Dade College (993-E1-894) (993-G1-321) 10:30AM College Algebra Alternatives: One Size Doesn’t Fit
10:45AM Using Discovery and The Computer Algebra System (512) All (and how it works). (527) to Help Promote Student Understanding. Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University (993-E1-699) Thomas Fox, University of Houston Clear Lake 10:55AM Elementary Math Modeling: A Dynamic Approach. (993-G1-591)
(513) James T Sandefur, Georgetown University 11:00AM How Does a Computer Algebra System Integrate? (993-E1-300) (528) Preliminary report. 11:20AM Modeling before calculus. Kevin E. Charlwood, Washburn University
(514) Benny D Evans, Oklahoma State University (993-G1-439) (993-E1-843) 11:15AM Visualizing Linear Combination and Span. 11:45AM Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving.
(529) John F. Putz, Alma College (993-G1-320)
(515) Richard D West*andWilliam P Fox, Francis Marion University (993-E1-470) MAA Session on Placement Strategies MAA Session on The Effective Use of Computer Algebra Systems in the Teaching of Mathematics, II 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Organizers: Janet P. Ray, Seattle Central 8:00 AM – 11:25 AM Community College Organizers: L. Carl Leinbach, Gettysburg College Susan L. Forman, Bronx Community Edward A. Connors, University of College (CUNY) Massachusetts Patricia R. Wilkinson, Borough of 8:00AM Effective Use of Derive in Modeling with Difference Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
(516) Equations and Matrices. 8:00AM The Development and Implementation of a Mazen Shahin, Delaware State University (530) Mathematics Placement Program. (993-G1-494) James P. Marshall, Illinois College (993-H1-674) 8:15AM Using a Computer Algebra System to Explore 8:20AM Placement Strategies at Western New England
(517) Geometry and Matrix Groups in a Linear Algebra (531) College: An Approach that Emphasizes Individual Course. Attention. Preliminary report. Timothy D Comar, Benedictine University Josephine Sears Rodriguez, Western New England (993-G1-417) College (993-H1-424) 8:30AM Stopping Vibrations with a Hammer Strike. 8:35AM The Placement Nightmare Continues. Preliminary
(518) Leonard J Lipkin, University of North Florida (532) report. (993-G1-240) William P Fox, Francis Marion University 8:45AM Visualization of 2D to 3D Transformations - (993-H1-1132) (519) Exploration Thru Technology. 8:50AM Getting started right for engineering at UMR. Mark Gorak*, BGabriel Costa and Barbara S
(533) Preliminary report. Melendez, United States Military Academy Mary Ellen Kirgan, University of Missouri-Rolla (993-G1-1058) (993-H1-809)

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9:05AM Accuplacer at Bloomsburg University. Preliminary 9:30AM When Lines Go Bad: Understanding the Hausdorff
(534) report.
(551) Metric. Lisa A Lister*andJames Pomfret, Bloomsburg Steven Schlicker, Grand Valley State University University (993-H1-454) (993-I1-973) 9:20AM Central College Mathematics Placement. Preliminary 9:45AM On the dynamics of a generalized 3x +1function. (535) report.
(552) Jeffrey P Dumont,NH,andClifford A Reiter*, Mark A Mills, Central College (993-H1-739) Lafayette College (993-I1-263) 9:35AM The Process of Math Placement: Evaluation, 10:00AM Julia Sets that are Full of Holes.
(536) Assessment, and Change.
(553) Kimberly A. Roth, Wheeling Jesuit University Frances B. Lichtman, Alma College (993-H1-1041) (993-I1-420) 9:50AM A Dynamic Multi-criteria Multi-Stage Approach to 10:15AM Using Picard’s Method to Analyze Chaotic Systems.
(537) Placement. Preliminary report.
(554) James S Sochacki, James Madison University Evelyn C. Bailey*andFang Chen, Oxford College (993-I1-553) of Emory University (993-H1-57) 10:30AM Manufacturing Systems, Invariant Measures, and 10:05AM Placement, Prerequisites, and Student Success.
(555) Undergraduates.
(538) Barbara A. Jur, Macomb Community College James Andrew Walsh, Oberlin College (993-I1-58) (993-H1-278) 10:45AM Describing Points in some simple Fractals. 10:20AM Rethinking Placement in Undergraduate
(556) Sandra Fillebrown*andVincent Russo, Saint
(539) Mathematics. Joseph’s University (993-I1-214) Sheldon P. Gordon, Farmingdale State University of 11:00AM The Evolution of Interesting Limit Sets. Preliminary New York (993-H1-721)
(557) report. 10:40AM Case Study: Developing College Mathematics Anne M. Burns, Long Island University (993-I1-206) (540) Placement Tests. Preliminary report. 11:15AM Multifractal Cartoons of the Variation of Financial Gloria S Dion, ETS (993-H1-708)
(558) Prices. 10:55AM Web-based Calculus Placement. Preliminary report. Benoit B Mandelbrot, Yale University (993-I1-1238)
(541) Leah Wrenn Berman, Ursinus College (993-H1-743) 11:30AM Fractals in the Financial Markets. 11:15AM First Year Advising at Illinois Wesleyan University.
(559) Marilyn B. Durkin, Bentley College (993-I1-285) (542) Melvyn Jeter*andPaul Kapitza*, Illinois Wesleyan 11:45AM Chaotic Dynamics in a Capstone Seminar Course. University (993-H1-752)
(560) Douglas E. Norton, Villanova University 11:30AM An Online Placement Testing System. Preliminary (993-I1-1023) (543) report. NOON Polygons and Chaos. David J Dwyer and Mark E Gruenwald*, University
(561) Jay M. Kappraff*, New Jersey Institute of of Evansville (993-H1-452) Technology, and Gary W. Adamson,SanDiego,CA 11:45AM An Online Mathematics Readiness Testing Program. (993-I1-962)
(544) Preliminary report. Jerry Johnson*, Inmaculada Aban and Jeff Mortensen, University of Nevada (993-H1-660) MAA Session on Truth in Using the History of Mathematics in Teaching Mathematics MAA Session on Chaotic Dynamics and Fractal Geometry 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Organizers: Victor J. Katz, University of the District 8:00 AM – 12:10 PM of Columbia Organizers: Denny Gulick, University of Maryland Eisso J. Atzema, University of Maine Jon Scott, Montgomery College 8:00AM The Role of ”History”: Student Motivation in the
8:00AM Numerics and Chaotic Dynamics: Can you trust (562) Mathematics Classroom.
(545) your computer? Jeffery T. McLean, University of St. Thomas H. Kocak*, B. Coomes and B.Rosenberg, (993-J1-923) University of Miami (993-I1-1221) 8:20AM The truth hurts: Using ancient astronomical models
8:15AM Iterated Function Systems in the Classroom. (563) in the mathematics classroom.
(546) Preliminary report. Matthew M Pascal, American University Charles Waiveris, Central Connecticut State (993-J1-981) University (993-I1-389) 8:40AM Benjamin Banneker’s Life and Mathematics: Web of
8:30AM Java Programs for Box Fractals. (564) Truth? Preliminary report.
(547) Shawn E Roering, St. Cloud State University, MN Florence D Fasanelli, American Association for the (993-I1-693) Advancement of Science (993-J1-1116) 8:45AM Fractal Dimension and Iterated Automorphism 9:00AM Tell the Truth, Tell Nothing But the Truth, But

(548) Systems. Preliminary report. (565) Whatever You Do, Don’t Tell the Whole Truth. Michael J Bardzell, Salisbury University Preliminary report. (993-I1-416) V. Frederick Rickey, West Point (993-J1-1012) 9:00AM The Convergence of Difference Boxes. 9:20AM Accounting for the Phenomena: Newton’s Laws
(549) Antonio Behn, Universidad de Chile, Christopher
(566) Come of Age. Preliminary report. Kribs-Zaleta, University of Texas at Arlington, and Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University (993-J1-1567) Vadim Ponomarenko*, Trinity University 9:40AM Who really created the ”Pascal’s” Triangle? (993-I1-114)
(567) Preliminary report. 9:15AM Undergrads CANDo Research in Dynamical Mohammad Moazzam, Salisbury University
(550) Systems! (993-J1-562) Jody Sorensen, Grand Valley State University 10:00AM Dispelling Myths while Promoting Math. (993-I1-143)
(568) Judith V Grabiner, Pitzer College (993-J1-1036)

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10:20AM Who discovered Green’s Theorem? Preliminary 10:40AM A Technology Enriched Secondary Teacher
(569) report. (582) Preparation Program. Stacy G. Langton, University of San Diego Virginia M Horak, The University of Arizona (993-J1-594) (993-X1-400) 10:40AM The Flatland myth. Preliminary report. 11:00AM Using Technology to Enhance Elementary
(570) W. F. Lindgren*, Slippery Rock University, and T. F.
(583) Pre-Service Students’ Mathematical Understanding. Banchoff, Brown University (993-J1-255) Preliminary report. 11:00AM Truth and Justification in the Use of History of Erica L Johnson, St. John Fisher College
(571) Mathematics in the Mathematics Classroom. (993-X1-586) Preliminary report. 11:20AM Using Technology to Enhance Depth and Complexity Thomas Drucker, University of
(584) in Mathematics Instruction for Preservice Teachers. Wisconsin–Whitewater (993-J1-1348) Jane F. Schielack, Texas A&M University 11:20AM The Effects of the NonEuclidean Revolution on the (993-X1-508)
(572) Notion of Truth in the Sciences and Culture. 11:40AM Technology’s Role in Preparing Second-Career Preliminary report. (585) Individuals for Teaching Middle Grades Michael J. Bosse, Morgan State University Mathematics. (993-J1-293) Judy S O’Neal, North GA College & State University 11:40AM In Search of the Real Juan Diez Freyle. Preliminary (993-X1-64)
(573) report. Bruce S. Burdick, Roger Williams University (993-J1-1111) MAA General Contributed Paper Session, III

8:00 AM – 11:55 AM MAA Session on Technology in Mathematics Teacher Preparation Courses, I Organizers: Laura J. Wallace, California State University, San Bernardino

8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Jacqueline A. Jensen,SamHouston State University Organizers: Mary Ann Connors, Westfield State Gary W. Towsley, SUNY at Geneseo College Michael A. Jones, Montclair State Christine Browning, Michigan University University, Kalamazoo Shawnee L. McMurran, California 8:00AM Using Graphing Calculator Technology to Facilitate State University at San Bernardino
(574) Geometric Insights in Teaching Problem Solving Skills to Pre-service Teachers. 8:00AM Building Academic Bridges Between Senior High Reginald Luke, Middlesex County College (586) School Students and Universities. (993-X1-271) Faiz BAl-Rubaee , University of North Florida (993-Z1-447) 8:20AM The Impact of Technology on a Patterns and
(575) Functions Course for Prospective Elementary 8:15AM Solving problems in elementary mathematics using
Teachers. Preliminary report. (587) concepts from Mechanics. David E. Boliver, Univ. of Central Oklahoma Mysore S Jagadish, Barry University (993-Z1-463) (993-X1-612) 8:30AM Mathematics for Biology Students. Preliminary
8:40AM What do Preservice Mathematics Teachers Need to (588) report.
(576) Know About Computer Algebra Systems? Patti Frazer Lock, St. Lawrence University Preliminary report. (993-Z1-501) Thomas Fox, University of Houston-Clear Lake 8:45AM No lectures, no tests, no tears! (993-X1-593) (589) Jennifer R Galovich, College of St. Benedict/St. 9:00AM Technology Integration in Mathematics for John’s University (993-Z1-457)
(577) Prospective Elementary Teachers. 9:00AM Using the Irrationality of Pi to Introduce the Barbara Boschmans, Plymouth State University
(590) Mathematics Major. (993-X1-603) John R. Stoughton, Hope College (993-Z1-685) 9:20AM Math Tools, New Help for Teacher Educators and 9:30AM The Deadly Calc-ulations of Dr. Malevolence.
(578) Teachers. Preliminary report.
(591) Stephen M Walk, St. Cloud State University Gene Klotz, Math Forum/Swarthmore College (993-Z1-224) (993-X1-602) 9:45AM What Does it Take to Increase the Diversity of Ph.D. 9:40AM An overview of three, 1-hour courses designed to
(592) Mathematicians?
(579) prepare secondary mathematics teachers to use Abbe H Herzig, University at Albany, State technology in the classroom. Preliminary report. University of New York (993-Z1-412) Timothy W Flood*andElwyn H Davis, Pittsburg 10:00AM Integrating writing and technology into State University (993-X1-600)
(593) mathematical learning-a study of its effect on high 10:00AM Technology Throughout the Secondary Mathematics school students’ understanding of mathematics and (580) Teacher Preparation Curriculum. their attitude toward mathematics. Preliminary Teresa D. Magnus*, A. Darien Lauten and William report. Bonnice, Rivier College (993-X1-442) Yuan Yuan, National Hualien Teachers College in 10:20AM The Impact of Students’ Conceptualizations of Taiwan (993-Z1-260)
(581) Mathematics on a Computers in Teaching and 10:15AM Changing Students’ Attitudes Towards Mathematics Learning Matheamtics Course.
(594) Through Direct Experience. Jason Silverman, Vanderbilt University David B. Streid*andM. Anne Dow, Maharishi (993-X1-604) University of Management (993-Z1-1692)

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10:30AM Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes about 9:00AM Stability of solitary waves on lattices at low energy.
(595) Mathematics: A Look at Lyndon State College (608) Gero Friesecke, University of Warwick, and Robert First-Year Students. Preliminary report. LPego*, University of Maryland College Park Julie M Theoret, Lyndon State College (993-70-1269) (993-Z1-1062) 9:30AM Bifurcations of travelling breathers in the discrete 10:45AM MERLOT as a forum to disseminate high-quality
(609) NLS equations. Preliminary report.
(596) public domain or low cost learning materials. Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University Preliminary report. (993-39-1302) Bernd S. W. Schroeder, Louisiana Tech University 10:00AM Localized Waves in Elastic Rods: Existence and (993-Z1-70) (610) Stability. 11:00AM How to Turn Math Duds into Math Studs. Stephane Lafortune*andJoceline Lega, University
(597) Linda Braddy*, Mickle Duggan, Anne Fine, of Arizona (993-35-1320) Elizabeth Keiffer and Rebecca Lyle, East Central 10:30AM Dynamics of coherent structures in oscillatory University (993-Z1-689) (611) media. 11:15AM The Keystone Project: Teaching Study Skills in a Bjorn Sandstede*, Ohio State University, and Arnd
(598) Mathematics Classroom. Scheel, University of Minnesota (993-35-1137) Vali Siadat*, Richard J. Daley College, and Paul M Musial, Chicago State University (993-Z1-1389) AWM Emmy Noether Lecture 11:30AM A Successful Program to Prepare Graduate Students (599) to Teach Undergraduate Mathematics. 9:00 AM –9:50AM Phoebe B. Rouse, Louisiana State University (993-Z1-714) (612) Symbolic dynamics for geodesic flows. Svetlana R. Katok, The Pennsylvania State 11:45AM High School Excel at the University of Portland- University (993-37-07)
(600) Building Partnerships with Local Schools by Using University Students in High School and Middle School Math Classrooms. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Probability and Its Carmen J Schabel, University of Portland Applications in Combinatorics and Algorithms, III (993-Z1-305) 9:00 AM – 11:50 AM AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Organizers: Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University Equations and Conformal Geometry, III Yuval Peres, University of California Berkeley 8:30 AM – 11:20 AM 9:00AM A Tractable Stochastic Model of Complex Networks. Organizers: Jie Qing, University of California Santa (613) David J Aldous, U.C. Berkeley (993-60-1136) Cruz 10:00AM A Stable Marriage of Poisson and Lebesgue. Yu Yuan, University of Washington, (614) Chris Hoffman, University of Washington, Seattle Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia, 8:30AM On the Conformal Paneitz Equation on Compact, and Yuval Peres*, University of California, Berkeley (601) Riemannian Manifolds without Boundary. (993-60-1609) David Timothy Raske, UCSC (993-35-1414) 10:30AM How independent are the branches of a search
9:00AM Analytic torsion and generalized Hodge metrics on (615) tree? Preliminary report. (602) Calabi-Yau moduli. Cristopher Moore, University of New Mexico Hao Fang, New York University (993-53-827) (993-60-1491) 9:30AM On asymptotic rank of the Weil-Petersson metric on 11:00AM The mixing time for simple exclusion. (603) Teichmuller space. Preliminary report. (616) Ben J Morris, Indiana University (993-60-1691) Zheng Huang, University of Oklahoma 11:30AM Combinatorial evaluations of the Tutte polynomial (993-53-662)
(617) and T-tetromino tilings. 10:00AM A Fully Nonlinear Version of the Yamabe Problem. Michael Korn and Igor Pak*, MIT (993-05-1413) (604) Aobing Li, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (993-35-963) AMS Special Session on Nonstandard Methods, II 10:30AM The geometry of nonlinear elliptic and hyperbolic (605) equations. Preliminary report. 9:00 AM – 11:20 AM Magdalena D Toda, Texas Tech University Organizers: Matt Insall, University of Missouri at (993-54-156) Rolla 11:00AM Real-analytic hypersurfaces with stability groups Peter A. Loeb, University of Illinois at (606) determined by high-order jets. Preliminary report. Urbana-Champaign R. Travis Kowalski, Colorado College (993-32-1214) David A. Ross, University of Hawaii 9:00AM Theorems Proved Using Nonstandard Methods Can (618) Lead to New Standard Concepts. SIAM Minisymposium on the Dynamics and Stability Matt Insall, University of Missouri - Rolla of Coherent Structures (993-03-1213)

8:30 AM –10:55AM 9:30AM Topological and nonstandard extensions. (619) Mauro M Di Nasso*andMarco Forti, University of Organizer: Joceline C. Lega, University of Arizona Pisa (993-03-1260) 8:30AM Inverse scattering and the linear stability of 10:00AM Quantum brownian motion as the standard part of (607) solitons. Preliminary report. (620) an infinitesimal quantum random walk. Todd Kapitula, University of New Mexico Manfred P.H. Wolff, Universitaet Tuebingen (993-35-1351) (993-03-1278)

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10:30AM Nonstandard vector-vector integrals. Preliminary John Bradley, NSF Division of (621) report. Elementary, Secondary, and Informal G. Beate Zimmer, Texas A&M University - Corpus Education Christi (993-46-1079) James H. Lightbourne, NSF Division of 11:00AM Applications of S-measurability. Preliminary report. Graduate Education (622) David A. Ross, University of Hawaii (993-28-1209) Lloyd E. Douglas, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences MAA Minicourse #10: Part A MAA Committee on Minority Participation Panel 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Discussion Teaching linear algebra with applications. Organizer: Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts 9:00 AM –10:20AM Institute of Technology Strengthening Underrespresented Minority Mathematics Participation (SUMMA). MAA Minicourse #15: Part A Organizer: William A. Hawkins, Jr.,MAAandthe University of the District of Columbia 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Moderator: William A. Hawkins, Jr.,MAAandthe Fair enough? Mathematics of equity. University of the District of Columbia Organizers: John C. Maceli, Ithaca College Panelists: Jong Pil Lee, SUNY College at Old Stanley E. Seltzer, Ithaca College Westbury Thomas Martin, California State MAA Project NExT Panel Discussion University at Chico

9:00 AM –10:30AM Exhibits and Book Sales Mentoring new faculty. 10:00 AM –6:00PM Organizers: T. Christine Stevens, St. Louis University Joseph A. Gallian, University of Mathematical Art Exhibit Minnesota Duluth 10:00 AM –6:00PM Aparna W. Higgins, University of Dayton Organizers: Robert Fathauer, Tessellations Panelists: Emily Ann Hynds, Samford University Company, Phoenix, Arizona Jim Lewis, University of Nebraska, Nat Friedman,ISAMA,SUNYatAlbany Lincoln Reza Sarhangi, Bridges Conference, Catherine M. Murphy,Purdue Towson University University Calumet Thomas Q. Sibley, Saint John’s Math on the Web University 10:00 AM –3:30PM MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal Go to the Math on the Web Pavilion for the complete Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion schedule of presentations.

9:00 AM –10:20AM MAA Invited Address The impact of technology in calculus courses on long-term student performance and employment. 10:05 AM –10:55AM Organizers: Susan L. Ganter, Clemson University (623) The representations of integers by quadratic forms. Jack Bookman, Duke University Manjul Bhargava, Harvard University (993-A0-14) Panelists: Betsy Darken, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga MAA Minicourse #5: Part A Elton Graves, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Glen Ledder, University of Nebraska Visual linear algebra. Howard L. Penn, U.S. Naval Academy Organizers: Eugene A. Herman, Grinnell College Michael D. Pepe, Seattle Central MAA Special Presentation Community College Eric P. Schulz, Walla Walla Community 9:00 AM –10:20AM College National Science Foundation programs supporting learning and teaching in the mathematical sciences. AMS Session on Analysis, I Organizers: Elizabeth J. Teles, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education 10:15 AM – 11:55 AM

Calvin L. Williams, NSF Division of 10:15AM Extensions of a Result of Erdos˝ about the Arc Undergraduate Education (624) Length of a Trigonometric Polynomial. Lee L. Zia, NSF Division of Mohammed A. Qazi*, Tuskegee University, and Q. Undergraduate Education I. Rahman, Universite de Montreal (993-41-369)

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10:30AM Comparing the Uniform Norms of Exponential Bruce C. Crauder, Oklahoma State (625) Polynomials on T × T with Measurable Subsets of University T × T. Preliminary report. Natacha Camara Fontes, Kent State University SIAM Invited Address (993-41-729) 10:45AM Some Convergence Properties of Szego¨ Polynomials 11:10 AM – NOON (626) with respect to Weakly Convergent Densities. (631) Coupled cell systems: A potpourri of theory and Michael J Arciero, United States Military Academy examples. (993-41-1598) Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston 11:00AM Radial parts of invariant differential operators on (627) Grassmannians. AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II Olga S. Kurgalina, Tufts University (993-43-648) k 1:00 PM –2:00PM 11:15AM The Radon Transform on Zn. (628) Michelle R. DeDeo*, Univ. of North Florida, and (632) Conformal invariants and partial differential Elionor Velasquez , San Francisco State U. equations. Part II. (993-44-393) Sun-Yang Alice Chang, Princeton University 11:30AM The Numerical Solution of the Exterior Dirichlet (993-53-09) (629) Problem for the Radiocity Equation. Preliminary report. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Yajni M Warnapala-Yehiya, Roger Williams Mathematics by Undergraduates, II University (993-45-121) 11:45AM A study of the Lippmann-Schwinger Equation and 1:00 PM –3:50PM (630) Spectra for Some Unbounded Quantum Potentials. Christopher J Winfield, Western Kentucky Organizers: Tamara A. Burton, Rochester Institute University (993-45-1555) of Technology Michael J. Fisher, California State University, Fresno MAA Project NExT-Young Mathematicians’ Network Panel Discussion Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology 10:45 AM – 12:05 PM Darren A. Narayan,Rochester Institute of Technology Finding your next job. 1:00PM Embeddings of Six Stick Loops. Organizers: Chawne M. Kimber, Lafayette College
(633) Tom Bachmann*, Freddie Hayes, Ben Hummon David T. Kung, St. Mary’s College of and Heather Johnston, Vassar College Maryland (993-57-1643) 1:30PM On Formal Fibers of Integral Domains. Preliminary
MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in (634) report. A Dundon, Pomona College, DJensen*, S. Mathematics Panel Discussion Loepp, Williams College, John Robert Provine, Harvard University, and JRodu, Williams College 10:45 AM – 12:05 PM (993-13-181) Undergraduate programs and courses in the 2:00PM Double Bubbles in Other Universes. mathematical sciences: A CUPM Curriculum Guide.
(635) Neil R Hoffman*, Williams Colllege, J. Corneli, Organizers: Harriet S. Pollatsek, Mount Holyoke University of Texas - Austin, G. Lee,Harvard,N. College Leger, University of Texas - Austin, S. Moseley, P Susan L. Ganter, Clemson University Holt and E Scheonfeld, Williams College (993-51-309) Panelists: William H. Barker, Bowdoin College 2:30PM Properties of Eccentric Sequences. Preliminary David M. Bressoud, Macalester
(636) report. College Laurel Evans*, Swarthmore College, and Eden Susanna Epp, DePaul University Hochbaum, Brown University (993-05-374) Susan L. Ganter, Virginia 3:00PM Random Kneser Pairs. Preliminary report. Commonwealth University
(637) Alexa Mater*, Reed College, and Deanna Turk, Bill Haver, Virginia Commonwealth University of Northern Colorado (993-05-375) University 3:30PM The number of ascending patterns in random
(638) permutations. Preliminary report. Carol Henley*, Trevecca Nazarene University, MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal Daphne Williams, Clark Atlanta University, and Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion Laurel Evans, Swarthmore College (993-05-785)

10:45 AM – 12:05 PM AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Assessment in a refocused college algebra program. Education Reform, IV Organizer: Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy 1:00 PM –3:20PM Moderator: Norma Agrass, Miami-Dade Community College Organizers: William H. Barker, Bowdoin College Panelists: Paul Dirks, Miami-Dade Community Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at College Chicago Laurette B. Foster, Prairie View A & M Naomi Fisher, University of Illinois at University Chicago

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Kenneth C. Millett, University of 1:00PM Measure rigidity for higher rank hyperbolic actions. California Santa Barbara (649) Manfred L Einsiedler*, University of Washington, Bonnie Saunders, University of Illinois Anatole Katok, Penn State University, and Elon at Chicago Lindenstrauss, Clay Mathematics Institute (993-37-358) 1:00PM Joaquin Bustoz and the SUMS program at Arizona
(639) State University. 1:30PM Dynamics on homogeneous spaces and badly Andrew Bremner, Arizona State University (650) approximable vectors on fractals. (993-01-999) Dmitry Y Kleinbock*, Brandeis University, and Barak Weiss, Ben Gurion University (993-37-533) 1:30PM Dr. Bustoz and the SUMS Institute at Arizona State (640) University. 2:00PM Distribution results for lattices in SL(2, Qp). Katherine Sisulak, SUMS/ASU (993-97-1148) (651) Franc¸ois Ledrappier*, University of Notre Dame, and Mark Pollicott, Manchester University 2:00PM The Far-Reaching Impact of Professor Joaquin
(641) Bustoz and the Math-Science Honors Program: A (993-37-672) Personal Testimony and Tribute. 3:00PM Invariant Radon measures for horocycle flows on Trachette L Jackson, University of Michigan (652) Abelian covers. (993-97-1128) Omri Sarig, Penn State University (993-37-654) 2:30PM Personal Account and Impact of Educational 3:30PM Immersed Non-Flat Strip on a Surface with No (642) Programs Initiated by Dr. Joaquin Bustoz. (653) Conjugate Points. Preliminary report. Brian Alvarado, SUMS Institute/ASU (993-97-1142) Marlies Gerber, Indiana University (993-53-478) 3:00PM Perspectives on the career of Joaquin Bustoz and
(643) the SUMS program. John N Mc Donald, Arizona State University AMS Special Session on Probability and Its (993-97-1076) Applications in Combinatorics and Algorithms, IV

AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematical Modeling 1:00 PM –3:40PM in Neuroscience, Biomedicine, Genetics, and Organizers: Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University Epidemiology, II Yuval Peres, University of California Berkeley 1:00 PM –3:50PM 1:00PM Discussion. Organizers: Steven M. Baer,ArizonaState 1:30PM Non-monotonic outcomes in elections. University
(654) Anthony Quas, University of Memphis Ivo D. Dinov, University of California (993-60-1417) Los Angeles 2:00PM On Random Points in the Unit Disk. Preliminary Frank C. Hoppensteadt,ArizonaState
(655) report. University Catherine H Yan*, Texas A&M University, Xingde Hal L. Smith, Arizona State University Jia, Southwest Texas State University, and Robert Ellis, Texas A&M University (993-05-137) 1:00PM Dynamics of a Neuronal Network with Inhibitory (644) and Electrical Coupling. 2:30PM Nonuniqueness of Gibbs Measures for transition David H. Terman, Ohio State University (656) functions. (993-92-1296) Christopher Hoffman, Universtiy of Washington (993-60-1328) 1:30PM Analysis of Pulse Sequences in solid-state Nuclear (645) Magnetic Resonance. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Zeros of i.i.d. Gaussian power series. Parthasarathy Srinivasan*, Florida State (657) Balint Virag, University of Toronto (993-60-1618) University, Zhehong Gan, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and J. R. Quine,FloridaState University (993-92-1263) AMS Special Session on Discrete Dynamics and 2:00PM Modeling and noise-sensitivity. Difference Equations, IV (646) Rachel Kuske*, University of British Columbia, Steve Baer, Arizona State University, and 1:00 PM –3:50PM Malgorzata Klosek, NIH (993-60-1000) Organizers: Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University 2:30PM Discussion. Jim M. Cushing, University of Arizona 3:00PM Short-term synaptic depression promotes phase (647) maintenance in rhythmic neuronal networks. Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Victoria Booth, New Jersey Institute of Technology Island (993-92-847) James A. Yorke, University of 3:30PM Modeling Activity-Dependent Synapse Maryland, College Park (648) Restructuring. 1:00PM Towards a theory of periodic difference equations. Diana W. Verzi, San Diego State University-Imperial
(658) Saber N Elaydi*, Trinity University, and Robert J Valley Campus (993-92-490) Sacker, University of Southern California (993-39-248) AMS-AWM Special Session on Coding, Geometry, and 1:30PM Periodic Difference Equations, Population Biology Hyperbolic Dynamics, I (659) and the Cushing-Henson Conjectures. Saber Elaydi, Trinity University, and Robert J 1:00 PM –3:50PM Sacker*, University of Southern California (993-37-469) Organizers: Svetlana R. Katok, The Pennsylvania 2:00PM Discrete Dynamical Systems Arising from State University (660) Clustering and Associative Memory. Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University Jianhong Wu, York University (993-39-1272)

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2:30PM Dynamic Consistency: A Fundamental Principle for 2:30PM The Inverse Scattering Problem for the Wave (661) Constructing Discrete Models of Continuous (673) Equation in an Anisotropic Time-Independent Systems. Medium in 2-D at Fixed Energy. Ronald E. Mickens, Clark Atlanta University Borislava Gutarts, UCLA (993-35-162) (993-39-174) 3:00PM H s Solutions for Nonlinear Schrodinger¨ Equations 3:00PM Mandelbrot Sets for Matrix Rings: Tales of Binary (674) with Potentials Superquadratic at Infinity.
(662) and Ternary Number Systems. Preliminary report. Guoping Zhang*andFengshan Liu, Delaware Paul E Fishback*, Grand Valley State University, and State University (993-35-189) Matthew D Horton, UC-San Diego (993-37-139) 3:30PM Mathematical analysis for a problem from stress 3:30PM Sierpinski Curve Julia Sets. (675) driven diffusion. Preliminary report. (663) Robert L. Devaney, Boston University (993-37-244) W. Xie, California State Polytecnic University (993-35-1624) AMS Special Session on Time Scales and Applications, III AMS Special Session on Theory and Applications of Orthogonal Polynomials, IV 1:00 PM –3:50PM 1:00 PM –3:40PM Organizers: Martin J. Bohner, University of Missouri at Rolla Organizers: Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of Billur Kaymakcalan, Georgia Southern South Florida University Barry Simon, California Institute of Allan C. Peterson, University of Technology Nebraska 1:00PM The Ten Martini Problem. (676) Joaquim Puig, Universitat de Barcelona 1:00PM Comparison and Oscillation Results for Linear (664) Dynamic Equations. Preliminary report. (993-37-1105) Lynn H Erbe, University of Nebraska (993-39-1186) 2:00PM Jacobi matrices with unbounded coefficients at (677) critical coupling. Preliminary report. 1:30PM Some Dynamic Inequalities. Preliminary report.
(665) Elvan Akin-Bohner, University of Missouri-Rolla David Damanik*, California Institute of (993-39-1098) Technology, and Serguei Naboko, St. Petersburg University (993-47-1087) 2:00PM Askey-Wilson Divided Operators and Basic (666) Exponential Functions. 3:00PM Zero Distribution of Orthogonal Polynomials over Andreas L. Ruffing, Munich University of (678) Regions and Curves. Preliminary report. Technology (993-39-1032) Edward B. Saff*andErwin Mina, Vanderbilt University (993-41-1717) 2:30PM Hybrid Fuzzy Systems on Time Scale. (667) M Sambandham, Morehouse College (993-39-1167) AMS Special Session on The Many Lives of Lattice Theory and the Theory of Ordered Sets, with 3:00PM When are the ∆ and ∇ derivatives adjoints of one (668) another? Preliminary report. Connections to Combinatorics, IV Kirsten R Messer*, Washington, DC, and David R Pitts, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (993-39-1415) 1:00 PM –3:50PM 3:30PM Uniqueness Implies Existence for Three-Point Organizers: Jonathan D. Farley, Massachusetts (669) Boundary Value Problems for Second Order Institute of Technology Dynamic Equations. Stefan E. Schmidt,NewMexicoState Johnny Henderson, Baylor University, Christopher University C. Tisdell, The University of New South Wales, and 1:00PM Sequential Classification on Partially Ordered Sets. William K.C. Yin*, LaGrange College (993-39-1145) (679) Curtis Tatsuoka*, George Washington University, and Thomas Ferguson, UCLA (993-06-1408) AMS Special Session on Partial Differential Equations 1:30PM B.F. Skinner’s Box: Lattice Theory and the and Applications, II (680) Psychology of Animals. Vladimir Lefebvre, School of Social Sciences, 1:00 PM –3:50PM University of California at Irvine (993-06-1647) Organizers: Xin Lu, University of North Carolina at 2:00PM A Combinatorial Model of Ethnic Identity Change. Wilmington (681) Preliminary report. Kanchan Chandra*andCilanne Boulet, M.I.T. Yan-Wei Qi, University of California (993-05-1637) Santa Barbara 2:30PM A Minimax Procedure for Negotiating Multilateral Weiqing Xie, California State Polytech
(682) Treaties. University Steven J. Brams, New York University, D. Marc Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State Kilgour*, Wilfrid Laurier University, and M. Remzi University Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University (993-06-1217) 1:00PM Nonlinear evolution of an unstable fluid interface. 3:00PM Forming Stable Coalitions from Preferences over
(670) S. I. Abarzhi, Center for Turbulence Research,
(683) Coalition Partners. Stanford Universit (993-76-115) Steven J Brams, New York University, Michael A 1:30PM Elliptic boundary problems on curvilinear polygons. Jones*, Montclair State University, and D. Marc (671) Irina Mitrea, Cornell University (993-45-1097) Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University (993-06-1092) 2:00PM Focusing Solutions of Porous Medium Equations 3:30PM Separable Discrete Preferences. (672) with Reaction. Preliminary report. (684) Jonathan K. Hodge*, Grand Valley State University, Yuanwei Qi, University of Central Florida W. James Bradley, Calvin College, and D. Marc (993-35-993) Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University (993-06-753)

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AMS Special Session on Geometry and Combinatorics, AMS Special Session on Nonstandard Methods, III III 1:00 PM –3:20PM 1:00 PM –3:50PM Organizers: Matt Insall, University of Missouri at Organizers: Michael J. Falk,NorthernArizona Rolla University Peter A. Loeb, University of Illinois at Eva-Maria Feichtner, ETH Zurich Urbana-Champaign David A. Ross, University of Hawaii Dmitry N. Kozlov, Bern University 1:30PM Why were infinitesimals removed from the calculus 1:00PM On the Edelman-Reiner conjecture.
(697) curriculum? Preliminary report. (685) Hiroaki Terao, Tokyo Metropolitan University Mark McKinzie, Monroe Community College, SUNY (993-32-906) (993-01-1581) 1:30PM The Coxeter Complex for Shephard Groups. 2:00PM On representation of dynamical systems on (686) Preliminary report. (698) Lebesgue spaces by hyperfinite dynamical systems. Anne V Shepler, University of North Texas Yevgeniy I Gordon*, Eastern Illinois University, C (993-05-1163) Ward Henson and Peter A Loeb, University of 2:00PM Salvetti complexes as homotopy colimits. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (993-28-1063) (687) Preliminary report. 2:30PM Skolem and Go¨del: Missed Connections. Emanuele Delucchi,ETHZu¨rich (993-52-1522) (699) Martin D Davis, Visitor, University of California, 2:30PM Resonance in positive characteristic and Berkeley (993-03-1017)
(688) characteristic varieties of arrangements. 3:00PM Fully Relativized Internal Set Theory. Michael J Falk, Northern Arizona University (700) Karel Hrbacek, City College of CUNY (993-03-998) (993-13-1275) 3:00PM The fundamental group and cohomology ring of the MAA Minicourse #10: Part B (689) boundary of a line arrangement. Daniel C. Cohen*, Louisiana State University, and 1:00 PM –3:00PM Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University (993-57-1305) Teaching linear algebra with applications. Organizer: Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts 3:30PM On the decomposability of the holonomy Lie algebra Institute of Technology (690) of an arrangement. Stefan Papadima, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, and Alexander I. Suciu*, MAA Minicourse #11: Part A Northeastern University (993-52-1642) 1:00 PM –3:00PM Developing your department’s assessment plan. Organizers: William G. Marion,Valparaiso University Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University AMS Special Session on Fixed Points: Theory and Application, I MAA Minicourse #16: Part A

1:00 PM –3:50PM 1:00 PM –3:00PM Organizers: Robert F. Brown, University of Getting students involved in undergraduate California Los Angeles research. Mark S. Burgin, University of Organizers: Aparna W. Higgins, University of California Los Angeles Dayton 1:00PM Bifurcation without compactness and applications. Joseph A. Gallian, University of (691) Preliminary report. Minnesota, Duluth Mario Umberto Martelli, Claremont McKenna College (993-37-176) AMS Session on Group Theory 1:30PM Metric Fixed Point Theory in Geodesic Spaces. (692) W. A. Kirk, University of Iowa (993-51-207) 1:00 PM –4:10PM

2:00PM Fuzzy Fixed Points in Banach Spaces. Preliminary 1:00PM On Commutators in p-groups.
(693) report. (701) Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, SUNY at Binghamton, Mark Burgin, UCLA (993-46-216) and Robert F Morse, University of Evansville 2:30PM Extremal approximately convex functions and fixed (993-20-862)
(694) points. 1:15PM Capability of some nilpotent products of cyclic Stephen J Dilworth*, Ralph Howard and James W (702) p-groups. Preliminary report. Roberts, University of South Carolina (993-26-235) Arturo Magidin, University of Montana (993-20-69) 3:00PM A Mann iteration sequence for approximating fixed 1:30PM Irreducible symplectic and orthogonal modules with (695) points of continuous operators that are solutions of (703) finitely many orbits on totally isotropic subspaces. Variational Inequalities. Preliminary report. W. Ethan Duckworth, Rutgers University Jinlu Li, Shawnee State University (993-47-484) (993-20-1089) 3:30PM Minimal Numerical Radius Extensions of Operators. 1:45PM Almost Disjoint Central Sets. Preliminary report. (696) Asuman G Aksoy*, Claremont McKenna (704) Timothy J. Carlson, Ohio State University, Neil College, and Bruce Chalmers, University of Hindman*, Howard University, and Dona Strauss, California-Riverside (993-42-754) University of Hull (993-20-735)

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2:00PM Aspects of computation with matrix groups. 3:15PM Baer Ordered Jordan Algebras. Preliminary report.
(705) Preliminary report. (723) Alexander A Katz, St. John’s University, NY Peter A Brooksbank, The Ohio State University (993-46-1406) (993-20-980) 2:15PM A Characterization of Permutable Subgroups of (706) Direct Products. Joseph Evan, King’s College (993-20-1153) AMS Session on Analysis, II 2:30PM Lie groups which cannot act like non-elementary 1:00 PM –3:10PM (707) convergence groups, A preliminary report. Preliminary report. 1:00PM The question of equivalence for generalized Blake J Boursaw, University of Minnesota (724) Hausdorff matrices. (993-22-1638) B.E.Rhoades, Indiana University (993-40-196) 2:45PM Centralizers in Graph Products of Groups. 1:15PM Generalizations of Lambert’s series. (708) Donald A. Barkauskas, Pacific University (725) Thomas J. Osler, Rowan University (993-40-878) (993-20-1206) 1:30PM Infinite Series for Logarithms using Cyclotomic 3:00PM Constructing Minimal Length Representatives for
(726) Polynomials and Generalized Gaussian-Mersenne
(709) Certain Elements in Thompson’s Group. Preliminary Primes. Preliminary report. report. Marc Chamberland, Grinnell College Micah Israel Miller, Bowdoin College (993-40-1267) (993-20-1426) 1:45PM A Multivariate Analogue of Hardy’s Inequality for 3:15PM Constructing Basic Algebras. Preliminary report.
(727) Hausdorff Means. Preliminary report. (710) Thomas Rune Hoffman, University of Arizona Constantine Georgakis, DePaul University (993-20-1505) (993-40-1605) 3:30PM Topologically pure projectives. Preliminary report. 2:00PM The Cesaro` submethod as an +-+ summability (711) Peter Loth, Sacred Heart University (993-22-253) (728) matrix. Preliminary report. 3:45PM Weakened Lie groups in which the arc component of Jeffrey A. Osikiewicz, Kent State University, (712) the identity is dense. Preliminary report. Tuscarawas Campus (993-40-1667) Jon W. Short, SamHouston State University 2:15PM On Estimates of Some Determinants and Rational (993-22-1579) (729) Approximation. 4:00PM Pro-x Groups. Vasiliy Prokhorov, University of South Alabama (713) Julie C Jones, SamHouston State University (993-41-1225) (993-22-1591) 2:30PM A class of non-negative sums of exponential and
(730) trigonometric functions. Preliminary report. Valerio De Angelis, Xavier University of Louisiana AMS Session on Functional Analysis (993-41-1379)

1:00 PM –3:25PM 2:45PM Burmann-Series Distributions and Approximation (731) Operators. 1:00PM Banach-Stone theorems for Banach bundles. Jerry P. King, Lehigh University (993-41-304) (714) Terje Hoim, Florida Atlantic University, and DA 3:00PM Asymptotic analysis of the Krawtchouk polynomials Robbins*, Trinity College (993-46-276)
(732) by the WKB method. 1:15PM Monotonically complemented subspaces of C[a, b]. Diego Dominici, SUNY New Paltz (993-41-563) (715) M. P. Prophet*andD. Mupasiri, University of Northern Iowa (993-46-1300) 1:30PM Shift Operator on Spave of Continuous Functions on (716) Compact Extremally Disconnected Spaces. AMS Session on Calculus of Variations Preliminary report. Minakshisundaram Rajagopalan, Tennessee State 1:00 PM –2:10PM University (993-46-1563) 1:00PM Generalized variational principle of Herglotz for 1:45PM Tensor Products and Dunford-Pettis Sets. (733) several independent variables. First Noether-type (717) Ioana Ghenciu*andPaul W Lewis, University of theorem. North Texas (993-46-1409) Bogdana A. Georgieva*, Pacific University, Ronald 2:00PM The uncomplemented spaces W (X,Y) and K(X,Y). BGuenther , Oregon State University, and Theodore (718) Paul Lewis, University of North Texas G. Bodurov, Eugene, Oregon (993-49-1165) (993-46-1154) 1:15PM General convergence analysis for two-step 2:15PM Strong Additivity in the Strong Operator Topology (734) projection methods and applications to variational (719) and in Banach Lattices. problems. Kimberly O. Muller*andPaul W. Lewis, University Ram U. Verma, Toledo, OH (993-49-1521) of North Texas (993-46-1546) 1:30PM Nonlinear Pseudococoercive Variational Problems 2:30PM Determining Subspaces for Bounded Linear (735) and Projection Methods. Preliminary report. (720) Operators. Preliminary report. Ram N Mohapatra*, University of Central Florida, Elizabeth M Bator*andRhonda Huettenmueller, and Ram U. Verma, International Publications University of North Texas (993-46-1556) (993-49-1696) 2:45PM Independence of Translates of a Multivariable 1:45PM Tangent Cones of Epigraphs, Hypographs, and (721) Refinable Function. (736) Graphs. Denise A Jacobs, United States Military Academy Doug E. Ward, Miami University (993-49-1202) (993-46-1568) 2:00PM Pattern search methods for linearly constrained 3:00PM On the cohomology of operator algebras.
(737) minimization in the presence of degeneracy. (722) Ali-Amir Husain, Texas A&M University Olga A. Brezhneva*, IMA, University of Minnesota, (993-46-1410) and J. E. Dennis Jr., Rice University (993-49-1702)

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SIAM Minisymposium on Nonlinear Elasticity: Theory 3:45PM Induction proofs with Flash. Preliminary report. and Applications
(752) J. Winston Crawley*, Shippensburg University, and Douglas E. Ensley, Shippensburg University 1:00 PM –3:50PM (993-K1-432) Organizers: Alain Goriely, University of Arizona MAA Session on Initiating and Sustaining Michael Tabor, University of Arizona Undergraduate Research Projects and Programs 1:00PM Global continuation and bifurcation in nonlinear (738) elasticity. 1:00 PM –3:50PM Timothy J. Healey, Department of Theoretical Applied Mechanics, Cornell University Organizers: James A. Davis, University of Richmond 1:45PM Theory of polymorphism in bacterial flagella. (739) Thomas R. Powers, Department of Engineering, Joel S. Foisy, State University of New Brown University York 2:30PM Sequence-dependent elastic models of DNA. 1:00PM Undergraduate Research at Mount Holyoke College.
(740) Oscar Gonzalez, University of Texas (753) Harriet Pollatsek*andMargaret M. Robinson, Mount Holyoke College (993-L1-1344) 3:15PM Growth-induced instability in exact elasticity. (741) Alain Goriely, University of Arizona 1:30PM Starting an Undergraduate Research Program. (754) Julie C Jones*andJacqueline A Jensen,Sam Houston State University (993-L1-340) 2:00PM Undergraduate Research Courses at Ithaca College.
(755) Preliminary report. MAA Session on Innovations in Teaching Discrete David A Brown*andOsman Yurekli,Ithaca Mathematics College (993-L1-314) 2:30PM The Towson University Applied Mathematics 1:00 PM –3:55PM
(756) Laboratory. Mike O’Leary, Towson University (993-L1-312) Organizers: William E. Fenton, Bellarmine University 3:00PM Fostering Student Research in Mathematical (757) Biology. Nancy L. Hagelgans, Ursinus College Thomas Q Sibley, St. John’s University 1:00PM Discrete Dynamical Systems. (993-L1-172)
(742) James Andrew Walsh, Oberlin College (993-K1-56) 3:30PM Deepening Understanding Mathematics Through 1:15PM Mathematical Modeling with Discrete Dynamical (758) Project-based Study. Preliminary report.
(743) Systems. Bin Lu, California State University (993-L1-1629) Richard D West*andWilliam P Fox, Francis Marion University (993-K1-459) MAA Session on Mathlets for Teaching and Learning 1:30PM Teaching Discrete Mathematics via Primary Mathematics
(744) Historical Sources. Jerry M Lodder, New Mexico State University 1:00 PM –4:15PM (993-K1-875) 1:45PM Student Engagement in Discrete Mathematics. Organizers: David M. Strong, Pepperdine
(745) Preliminary report. University Karrolyne E. Fogel, California Lutheran University Thomas E. Leathrum, Jacksonville (993-K1-468) State University 2:00PM Going Beyond the Basics: Creating and Inspiring Joe Yanik, Emporia State University
(746) Problem Solvers. Preliminary report. 1:00PM Group Explorer - Visualization Software in the Alex J Heidenberg*andJohn Wasko, United States
(759) Abstract Algebra Classroom. Military Academy (993-K1-1274) Nathan C. Carter*, Indiana University, and Brad A. 2:15PM Community-Based Projects in a Discrete Emmons, Utica College (993-M1-538)
(747) Mathematics Course. Preliminary report. 1:20PM A Greater Tantalizer. Linda McGuire, Muhlenberg College (993-K1-251)
(760) Andrew J Simoson, King College (993-M1-43) 2:30PM Linking Discrete Mathematics with Computer & 1:40PM Building Bridges and Digging Ditches. Preliminary
(748) Information Technology.
(761) report. Morteza Shafii-Mousavi*, Indiana University South Thomas W Mattman, Cal. State Univ., Chico, and Bend, and Paul Kochanowski, Indiana Univercity Neil Portnoy*, SUNY, Stony Brook (993-M1-68) South Bend (993-K1-203) 2:00PM Using Term Rewriting Systems in Algebra. 2:45PM Discussion
(762) Jeffrey W Clark, Elon University (993-M1-211) 3:00PM Discrete Mathematics TI-89 Calculator Projects. 2:20PM zMap: Exploring Complex Functions. (749) Jean M Horn*, Northern Virginia Community
(763) Bert Wachsmuth*andRobert Moore,SetonHall College - Woodbridge, Paul K Horn, University of University (993-M1-440) Wisconsin - Madison, and Toni T Robertson, 2:40PM Java applets for the chaos game. Woodbridge, Virginia (993-K1-218)
(764) Robert L. Devaney, Boston University (993-M1-233) 3:15PM Maple Activities for the Discrete Math Course. 3:00PM Some Observations on Internationalizing Mathlets.
(750) Kate G. McGivney, Shippensburg University (765) Thomas E Leathrum, Jacksonville State Univ. (993-K1-456) (993-M1-608) 3:30PM Incorporating technology in the teaching of Discrete 3:20PM A Modular Approach to Writing ASP/JavaScript
(751) Mathematics. Preliminary report.
(766) Mathlets. Preliminary report. Richard M. Grassl, University of Northern Colorado Mark E Gruenwald, University of Evansville (993-K1-760) (993-M1-435)

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3:40PM Calculus Applets with Online Exercises. 1:45PM Improving Student Attitudes, Achievement, and
(767) Charles E Oelsner, Manlius Pebble Hill School
(780) Retention in First-Year Calculus. (993-M1-212) Joy Moore, University of Cincinnati (993-Y1-326) 4:00PM Teaching 3-Dimensional High School Geometry With 2:00PM A Seminar for Starting Math Majors on the Right
(768) Animation.
(781) Foot. Preliminary report. Kevin C Dietzler*andStephen Cooper, Saint Gail P Greene and Melvin G Royer*, Indiana Joseph’s University (993-M1-149) Wesleyan University (993-Y1-572) 2:15PM Achieving a Department Climate that Attracts MAA Session on Math and the Arts, I
(782) Majors. Preliminary report. Teri J Murphy, University of Oklahoma 1:00 PM –3:55PM (993-Y1-409) Organizers: Ann Robertson, Connecticut College 2:30PM Are we Losing the Best and Keeping the Rest? A
(783) Discussion of Advanced Undergraduates’ John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Mathematical Abilities, Attitudes, and Urbana Understanding of Research Mathematics. Reza Sarhangi, Towson University Timothy P Fukawa-Connelly, University of Nathaniel A. Friedman, State Maryland, College Park (993-Y1-1285) University of New York, Albany 1:00PM Sculptural Variations of an Annular Region.
(769) Preliminary report. Nathaniel A. Friedman, Univ. at Albany MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IV (993-O1-870) 1:00 PM –3:40PM 1:20PM Computer Sculpture Without Computers: Artificial
(770) Life Algorithms In Creating Modular Form. Organizers: Laura J. Wallace, California State Stephen J Luecking, DePaul University University, San Bernardino (993-O1-357) Jacqueline A. Jensen,SamHouston 1:40PM The Topology of Celtic Knot Designs. Preliminary State University
(771) report. Gary W. Towsley, SUNY at Geneseo Gwen Fisher, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, and Blake Mellor*, Loyola Marymount Michael A. Jones, Montclair State University (993-O1-344) University 2:00PM Pattern and Symmetry in the Basketry of Botswana. Shawnee L. McMurran, California
(772) Douglas E. Norton, Villanova University State University at San Bernardino (993-O1-1019) 1:00PM Using Web-Based Activities in a Quantitative
2:20PM The Geometrical Structure of Portal and Window (784) Literacy Course.
(773) Grilles of La Mezquita. Cathleen Zucco-Teveloff, Trinity College B.L.Bodner, Monmouth University (993-O1-197) (993-Z1-20) 2:35PM Break 1:15PM It’s a Web of Design...It’s WebAssign.
(785) Mary Joyce Plott*andKaren O’Hara, High Point 3:00PM Polynomiography: Visualization of Polynomials.
(774) Bahman Kalantari, Rutgers University University (993-Z1-1604) (993-O1-1118) 1:30PM Interactive Modules for Precalculus and College
(786) Algebra. 3:20PM CountingoftheArtofJamesMai.Preliminary
(775) report. Paul A Sundheim, University of Wisconsin Daylene Zielinski, Bellarmine University (993-Z1-1602) (993-O1-367) 1:45PM Interdisciplinary Labs in College Precalculus. 3:40PM Mathematical Paintings: Clark Richert. Preliminary (787) Sofia Agrest*andDebby Jeter, College of
(776) report. Charleston (993-Z1-1599) Carla E Farsi, University of Colorado (993-O1-780) 2:00PM Enhancing Student Learning through Online
(788) Surveys of Pre-Reading. MAA Session on Strategies that Work to Positively Cynthia J. Wyels, California Lutheran University (993-Z1-1358) Change Student Attitudes Toward Mathematics, I 2:15PM Incorporating On-line Testing and Tutorials in the
1:00 PM –2:40PM (789) Calculus Curriculum: Helping Students Become More Self Directed Learners. Preliminary report. Organizers: Caren L. Diefenderfer, Hollins Nathan Smith*, Lesa Beverly, University of Texas University at Tyler, and Cameron Sawyer,Southwestern Janet L. Anderson, Hope College University (993-Z1-1312) Elizabeth G. Yanik, Emporia State 2:30PM Dispelling the Myth that Mathematics is Easier University
(790) Online. Preliminary report. Denise J LeGrand 1:00PM College Algebra Done Discretely. , UALR (993-Z1-629)
(777) Warren P. Koepp, Univ. of Texas–Permian Basin 2:45PM Interactive Course Syllabi. (993-Y1-534)
(791) Ronald W DeGray, Saint Joseph College 1:15PM Assignments that count: a short project strategy to (993-Z1-539)
(778) encourage mathematical discussion and thought. 3:00PM Supplementing a Mathematics Course with an Preliminary report.
(792) Online Homework System. Preliminary report. R. Travis Kowalski, Colorado College (993-Y1-403) Michael BScott , Kansas State University 1:30PM Keeping the Doors Open: Service Learning in Linear (993-Z1-477)
(779) Algebra. 3:15PM An Innovative Computational Science Curriculum. John B. Fink, Kalamazoo College (993-Y1-273)
(793) Ignatios E Vakalis, Capital University (993-Z1-346)

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3:30PM Persistent Patterns and Decay of Variance in Fluid Robert J. Lopez, Rose-Hulman Institute (794) Mixing. of Technology and Waterloo Maple Weijiu Liu*andGeorge Haller, MIT (993-Z1-47) Olympia E. Nicodemi, State University of New York, Geneseo MAA Invited Paper Session on WeBWorK, a Web-Based Kathleen G. Snook, Consortiumfor Homework System, I Mathematics and its Applications

1:00 PM –3:50PM MAA Panel Discussion Organizers: Michael E. Gage, University of Rochester 1:00 PM –2:20PM Arnold K. Pizer, University of Successful activities for a Math Club. Rochester Organizers: Jennifer M. McNulty, University of Vicki Roth, University of Rochester Montana Jeffrey J. Holt, University of Virginia Janet C. Woodland, University of John W. Jones,ArizonaState Arkansas University Panelists: Jean Bee Chan, Sonoma State 1:00PM WeBWorK2: Playing nicely with others. University (795) Michael E Gage*andSam Hathaway, University of J. Douglas Faires, Youngstown State Rochester (993-Z2-920) University 1:30PM Adaptation of WeBWorK to College Algebra at Donna L. Flint, South Dakota State (796) Radford University. University Coreen L Mett*andNeil Sigmon,Radford Philip K. Hotchkiss, Westfield State University (993-Z2-864) College 2:00PM AiM, a CAS based homework system. Preliminary Timothy R. Ray, Southeast Missouri (797) report. State University Michael Fraboni, Moravian College (993-Z2-858) Robert S. Smith, Miami University 2:30PM Successes and failures in setting up webwork
(798) courses. Preliminary report. MAA Minicourse #6: Part A Richard E. Bayne, Howard University (993-Z2-1151) 3:00PM Statistical Assessment of WeBWorK for College 1:30 PM –3:30PM
(799) Algebra Classes. Angelo Segalla*andAlan Safer, California State Using interactive labs to explore abstract algebra University, Long Beach (993-Z2-1587) topics. 3:30PM Assessing Student Responses to WeBWorK: The Organizers: Allen C. Hibbard, Central College (800) Connection between Answer Patterns and Course Kenneth M. Levasseur, University of Performance. Preliminary report. Massachusetts at Lowell Vicki J. Roth, University of Rochester (993-Z2-783) MAA Project NExT-Young Mathematicians Network MAA Panel Discussion Poster Session

1:00 PM –2:20PM 2:00 PM –4:00PM Mathematics education in a research intensive Organizers: Kevin E. Charlwood, Washburn department: What makes it work? University Organizers: David A. Gay, University of Arizona Kenneth A. Ross, University of Oregon Deborah Hughes Hallett, University of Arizona Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) William G. McCallum, University of Arizona 2:00 PM –4:00PM Fred Stevenson, University of Arizona Organizer: Murli Gupta, George Washington Panelists: Marilyn P. Carlson,ArizonaState University University Jim Lewis, University of AMS Invited Address Nebraska-Lincoln Joan R. Leitzel,MSEB 2:15 PM –3:05PM William G. McCallum, University of (801) Network games and approximation algorithms. Arizona Eva Tardos, Cornell University (993-05-18) Fred Stevenson, University of Arizona MAA SIGMAA on Statistics Education Panel Discussion MAA Project NExT Panel Discussion 2:40 PM –4:00PM 1:00 PM –2:30PM The undergraduate mathematical statistics Technology and the mathematics major. sequence. Organizer: Ioana Mihaila, California State Organizer: Carolyn K. Cuff, Westminster College Polytechnic University at Pomona Moderator: Allan J. Rossman, California Panelists: Bernard W. Banks, California State Polytechnic State University at San Luis Polytechnic University at Pomona Obispo

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Panelists: Matthew J. Hassett,ASA,AdvancePCS Lehigh University Reception for Friends and Elliot A. Tanis, Hope College Graduates Douglas A. Wolfe, The Ohio State 5:45 PM –7:00PM University Deborah Nolan, University of California Berkeley MAA Two-Year College Reception

5:45 PM –7:00PM MAA SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Panel Discussion Alumni Reception for the University of Chicago’s Mathematics Department 2:40 PM –4:00PM The history of applications in teaching 6:00 PM –7:00PM undergraduate mathematics: 1950–2000. Organizers: Joseph Malkevitch, York College, Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and CUNY Transgendered Mathematicians Reception Walter Meyer, Adelphi University 6:00 PM –8:00PM Jack Winn, SUNY at Farmingdale Panelists: Peter D. Lax, Courant Institute MER Banquet Donald W. Bushaw, University of Washington at Pullman 6:30 PM –9:30PM Chandler Davis, University of Toronto Andrew M. Gleason,Harvard Knitting Circle University Daniel P. Maki, Indiana University 8:15 PM –9:45PM

AMS Retiring Presidential Address

3:20 PM –4:10PM Friday, January 9 (802) Mathematics, mathematicians, and mathematics Joint PME and MAA Student Chapter Advisors’ education. Hyman Bass, University of Michigan (993-97-17) Breakfast

7:00 AM –8:00AM Joint Prize Session and Reception Employment Center 4:25 PM –6:30PM 7:00 AM –7:30PM SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics Business Meeting and Invited Address Joint Meetings Registration

5:45 PM –6:45PM 7:30 AM –4:00PM Organizer: Ben Fusaro, Florida State University AMS Session on Combinatorics, I

SIGMAA on Statistics Education 7:30 AM –10:55AM

5:45 PM –6:45PM 7:30AM Extension of multi-restricted numbers. Preliminary
(803) report. 2004 business meeting and swap session. Ji Young Choi*, Shippensburg University of Organizer: Carolyn K. Cuff, Westminster College Pennsylvania, and Jonathan D. H. Smith, Iowa State University (993-05-1635) 7:45AM A Transform Approach to Constacyclic and MAA Video Presentations
(804) Quasi-twisted Codes. Preliminary report. Tom Blackford, Western Illinois University 5:45 PM –7:00PM (993-05-1304) “Only Four Colors” and “An Introduction to 8:00AM The m-quasiinvariants of Sn. Preliminary report. Topology”. (805) Jason Bandlow and Gregg Musiker*, University of Organizer: Robin Wilson, The Open University California, San Diego (993-05-1386) 8:15AM Rook Theory and Cycle-Counting Permutation Web SIGMAA Panel Discussion and Inaugural Business (806) Statistics. Frederick Michael Butler, University of Meeting. Pennsylvania (993-05-824)

5:45 PM –7:45PM 8:30AM Morphism Families for δ-Matchings.
(807) Anna Maltseva, University of Michigan Organizers: Kirby A. Baker,UCLA (993-05-1697) Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville 8:45AM Packing densities of patterns. University
(808) Reid W Barton, MIT (993-05-1613)

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9:00AM Wilf classes of pairs of permutations of length four. AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematical
(809) Preliminary report. Techniques in Musical Analysis, I Ian T Le, Harvard College (993-05-1545) 9:15AM Improved bounds on the minimum length of 8:00 AM –9:50AM
(810) maximal abelian square-free words. Organizers: Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois Evan M Bullock, Rice University (993-05-1347) at Chicago 9:30AM Break Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State 9:45AM Maximal covering groups and perfect cwatsets. University
(811) Preliminary report. 8:00AM Polya’s Enumeration Theorem in Music Theory (Or, Thomas M Langley*andBrian Barker,
(822) Why Are There 29 Tetrachords?). Preliminary Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (993-05-1218) report. 10:00AM A Technique for Creating Non-Simplicial Polytopes. Julian L Hook, Indiana University (993-05-551)
(812) Preliminary report. 8:30AM A Non-Acoustical Application of the Discrete Fourier Matthew M Menzel, The University of Kentucky
(823) Transform to Music Theory. Preliminary report. (993-05-636) Ian Quinn, University of Oregon (993-42-1486) 10:15AM Rook Numbers and the Normal Ordering Problem. 9:00AM On Some Musically Interesting Properties of
(813) Anna Varvak, Brandeis University (993-05-1196) (824) Multi-aggregate Compound Interval Cycles. 10:30AM Forming Configurations from Nondegenerate E Gollin, Williams College (993-20-1338)
(814) Quadratic Forms over Finite Fields. 9:30AM Counting Potential Intervals in Infinite (and Smaller) Sharon L. Sullivan, Catawba College (993-05-971)
(825) Spaces. 10:45AM Characterizations of t-Split Interval Orders. Michael H. Buchler, Florida State University (815) Preliminary report. (993-05-574) Trisha Moller, Lehigh University (993-05-690) AMS-SIAM Special Session on Classical and Nonlinear Special Functions, I

8:00 AM –10:50AM AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Organizers: Peter A. Clarkson, University of Kent Mathematics by Undergraduates, III Francisco Marcellan, Universidad Carlos III 8:00 AM –10:50AM Peter A. McCoy, U. S. Naval Academy Organizers: Tamara A. Burton, Rochester Institute 8:00AM Deconvolution and Sampling on Non-Commensurate of Technology (826) Lattices via Complex Interpolation. Michael J. Fisher, California State Stephen D. Casey, American University University, Fresno (993-33-1306) Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of 8:30AM A Note on the Equivalence of Kramer’s and Technology (827) Shannon’s Sampling Theorems. Preliminary report. Ahmed I Zayed*, DePaul University, and Darren A. Narayan,Rochester Amin Boumenir, University of West Georgia Institute of Technology (993-41-1003) 8:00AM A New Axiomatic Geometry: Cylindrical (or Periodic) 9:00AM Lam´e polynomials, the Hermite–Krichever Ansatz,
(816) Geometry. (828) and hyperelliptic reduction. Elizabeth Ehret*andMike Westmoreland, Robert S. Maier, University of Arizona Denison University (993-51-554) (993-33-1693) 8:30AM k-Alternating Knots. Preliminary report.
9:30AM Differential Equations for Dyson Processes. (817) Philip Hackney*, Central Michigan University, (829) Craig A Tracy*, UC Davis, and Harold Widom,UC Nathan Walters, Drake University, and Leonard Santa Cruz (993-60-1131) Van Wyk, James Madison University (993-57-462) 10:00AM First Integrals of a Generalized Darboux-Halphen 9:00AM Pade’ approximates for torsion of a compressible (830) System.
(818) nonlinearly elastic cylinder: modeling, computation, RGHalburd, Loughborough University and visualization. Preliminary report. (993-34-1517) Danielle K Miller*, James Madison University, Jennifer K Salyer, East Tennessee State University, 10:30AM Chazy and Darboux-Halphen Systems. MJAblowitz Debra A Warne and Paul G. Warne,JamesMadison (831) , University of Colorado, Boulder University (993-34-569) (993-34-948) 9:30AM Integer Construction by Induction.
(819) Anthony Fressola*andJoan Krone, Denison AMS-AWM Special Session on Coding, Geometry, and University (993-03-607) Hyperbolic Dynamics, II 10:00AM Pretzel Knots and Colorability. Preliminary report.
(820) Kathryn Brownell*, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Kaitlyn 8:00 AM –10:50AM O’Neil, Merrimack College, and Laura A. Taalman, James Madison University (993-00-831) Organizers: Svetlana R. Katok, The Pennsylvania State University 10:30AM An Illumination of the Aristarchus of Samos’
(821) treatise On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University the Moon. 8:00AM Gauss Maps for Quadratic Imaginary Fields. Katherine E Northrup, Ursinus College (832) Preliminary report. (993-85-1279) David Fried, Boston University (993-37-782)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 141 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Friday, January 9 (cont’d.)

8:30AM Geometric coding on the modular surface and 9:30AM Analysis of numerical techniques for multiscale (833) countable Markov chains. (845) stochastic dynamical systems. Ilie Ugarcovici*andSvetlana Katok,The Weinan E, Princeton University, Di Liu*andEric Pennsylvania State University (993-37-1081) Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute (993-65-1536) 9:00AM What is the arithmetic code for SL(n, Z),n≥ 3? 10:00AM Multiscale Modeling of Fluids. Preliminary report. (834) Preliminary report. (846) Weinan E and Weiqing Ren*, Princeton University Anatole Katok, The Pennsylvania State University (993-76-778) (993-37-585) 10:30AM Heterogeneous Multiscale Methods for Stiff ODEs. 10:00AM Substitution tiling spaces, interval exchange (847) Richard Tsai*andBjorn Engquist, Princeton (835) transformations and pseudo-Anosov flows. University (993-65-1114) Marcy Barge, Montana State University - Bozeman, Charles Holton and Brian F Martensen*, The University of Texas at Austin (993-37-414) AMS Special Session on Partial Differential Equations 10:30AM Convex dynamics and applications. and Applications, III
(836) Roy L Adler, IBM, Emeritus (993-37-169) 8:00 AM –10:50AM AMS Special Session on Competitive and Adaptative Organizers: Xin Lu, University of North Carolina at Dynamics in Ecology, I Wilmington Yan-Wei Qi, University of California 8:00 AM –10:50AM Santa Barbara Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Los Alamos Weiqing Xie, California State Polytech National Laboratory University Yang Kuang, Arizona State University Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State Bai-Lian Li, University of California University Riverside 8:00AM On a class of nonlinear nonclassical parabolic HorstR.Thieme,ArizonaState (848) equations. University John R. Cannon and Mohamed Salman*, University of Central Florida (993-35-565) 8:00AM Competitive coexistence in patchy environments:
(837) the interplay between spatial heterogeneity and 8:30AM Maximal nonnegative constraint-preserving density-dependent dispersal. (849) boundary conditions for the linearized Einstein Priyanga Amarasekare, University of Chicago equations. (993-00-1265) Nicolae Tarfulea, University of Minnesota (993-83-669) 8:30AM Perfect aggregation and integrability in ecological
(838) dynamical systems. Preliminary report. 9:00AM The weak asymptotics method. Interaction of Alain Franc*, INRA, Paris, France, and Vadim (850) shocks in gases. Kuznetsov, University of Leeds (993-92-598) Ruben F. Espinoza, Martin G. Garcia and Georgii A. Omel’yanov*, Universidad de Sonora,Mexico 9:00AM Competition and Coexistence of Strains: The Impact (993-35-879) (839) of Vaccination. Preliminary report. n Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida, Mimmo 9:30AM L2(S ) error estimates for Galerkin method for Iannelli, University of Trento, Italy, and Xue-Zhi Li, (851) elliptic PDEs on spheres. Preliminary report. Xinyang Teachers College (993-92-351) Quoc Le Gia, Texas A&M University (993-35-1138) AM 9:30AM Mathematical models of HIV; How robust are they 10:00 Uniform regularity estimate for the linear elasticity
(840) and what are the limitations of their conclusions. (852) system in convex polygonal domains. Patrick W Nelson*, Stanca Ciupe, University of Bacuta Constantin*, Penn State University, and Michigan, and Benjamin Lovegren de Bivort, James H. Bramble, Texas A&M University, Cornell Harvard University (993-92-931) University (993-65-1394) AM 10:00AM Effects of Non-random Mixing and of Stochasticity 10:30 Understanding the transition between quasi-static
(841) on Optimal Disease Intervention. (853) and fully dynamic interfaces through James Koopman and Carl P Simon*, The University Renormalization. of Michigan (993-92-1628) Huseyin Merdan*andGunduz Caginalp, University of Pittsburgh (993-82-1580) 10:30AM The adaptive dynamics of resource use.
(842) Sebastian J. Schreiber*, College of Williamand Mary, and Glory Tobiason, Western Washington AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, I University (993-92-1371) 8:00 AM –10:50AM AMS Special Session on Multiscale and Oscillatory Organizers: James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College Phenomena: Modeling, Numerical Techniques, and Applications, I Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College 8:00AM ASurveyonq-Continued Fractions in Ramanujan’s 8:00 AM –10:50AM (854) Lost Notebook. Bruce C. Berndt, University of Illinois at Organizers: Richard Tsai, Princeton University Urbana-Champaign (993-11-1119) Luminita A. Vese, University of 9:00AM A Moment Problem and a Family of Integral California Los Angeles (855) Evaluations. 8:00AM Computational Multiscale Methods. Mourad E.H. Ismail, University of Central Florida
(843) Bjorn Engquist, Princeton University (993-65-1352) (993-33-1575) 9:00AM Numerical microlocal analysis of harmonic 9:30AM Simultaneous diophantine approximation in the (844) wavefields.
(856) vector space Q + Qα. Olof Runborg, NADA, KTH (993-65-543) Edward BBurger , Williams College (993-11-755)

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10:00AM Systems of orthogonal polynomials arising from the 10:30AM Ruin Probabilities and Stationary Distributions. (857) modular j-function.
(869) Preliminary report. Stephanie Basha, Santa Clara University, Jayce Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic, University Robert Getz*, Harvard, Harris Nover, California (993-60-558) Institue of Technology, and Emma Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (993-11-777) 10:30AM A Two-Dimensional Minkowski Question Mark AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential
(858) Function. Equations and Variational Problems, I Olga R. Beaver and Thomas Garrity*, Williams (993-11-1075) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Organizers: David A. Hartenstine, University of Utah AMS Special Session on Topological Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, III Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State University 8:00 AM –10:50AM John M. Neuberger,NorthernArizona State University Organizers: Alica Miller, University of Illinois at John W. Neuberger, University of Urbana-Champaign North Texas Joseph Rosenblatt, University of 8:00AM On a Class of Resonant Schrodinger Equations. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (870) David G Costa, University of Nevada Las Vegas 8:00AM Generic behavior in positive entropy. (993-35-881) (859) Daniel J Rudolph, University of Maryland 8:30AM Fully Nonlinear Equations with Time-measurable (993-37-1200) (871) Coefficients. 9:00AM Absolutely rhythmic and IP recurrent sequences. Jay J Kovats, Florida Institute of Technology
(860) Preliminary report. (993-35-861) Randall G McCutcheon, University of Memphis 9:00AM Symmetry and related problems for elliptic and (993-37-1659) (872) parabolic pde. Preliminary report. 9:30AM Simple spectrum, finite rank, and rotations in Zd. John L Lewis, University of Kentucky (993-35-712) (861) Preliminary report. 9:30AM Remarks On Sobolev Gradients. E. Arthur Robinson, Jr., George Washington (873) Nicholas D Alikakos, University of North Texas University, and Ayse A. Sahin*, DePaul University (993-35-1574) (993-37-1570) 10:00AM Nonlinear Elliptic Difference Equations on Graphs. 10:00AM Variation inequalities and convergence of
(874) Preliminary report. (862) non-standard ergodic averages. Preliminary report. John M. Neuberger, Northern Arizona University Roger L Jones, DePaul University (993-37-854) (993-35-1648) 10:30AM Collapsed indecomposable continua in area 10:30AM Surfaces of Continua for Quasilinear Elliptic (863) preserving two dimensional dynamical systems.
(875) Equations. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Jon Jacobsen, Harvey Mudd College (993-35-1361) Judy A Kennedy, University of Delaware (993-37-1251) AMS Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I

AMS Special Session on Fixed Points: Theory and 8:00 AM –10:50AM Application, II Organizer: Tim D. Cochran, Rice University 8:00 AM –10:50AM 8:00AM Deformation of homotopy into isotopy in oriented (876) 3-manifolds. Preliminary report. Organizers: Robert F. Brown, University of Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University (993-57-1179) California Los Angeles 8:30AM Non-universality of topological symmetry groups. Mark S. Burgin, University of (877) Preliminary report. California Los Angeles Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College, Ramin Naimi, 8:00AM Axiomatizing the regular words. Preliminary report. Occidental College, James Pommersheim, Pomona (864) Stephen L Bloom*, Stevens Institute of Technology, College, and Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University and Zolt´an ´Esik, University of Szeged (993-68-337) (993-57-956) 8:30AM Equational properties of fixed points. 9:00AM Mahler measure of Alexander polynomials and (865) Zoltan Esik, Dept. of Computer Science, University (878) Lehmer’s question. Preliminary report. of Szeged (993-68-692) Daniel S Silver*andSusan G Williams, University 9:00AM Fixed-Point Theory in the Semantics of Logic of South Alabama (993-57-1284) (866) Programming. 9:30AM Uniform 1-Cochains and Genuine Laminations. Anthony K. Seda, University College Cork (879) Baris Coskunuzer, Princeton University (993-54-732) (993-57-299) 9:30AM Computational Complexity and Optimal Algorithms 10:00AM Knot complements covered by great circle link (867) for Fixed Points. (880) complements. Christopher Sikorski, School of Computing, Genevieve Walsh, University of Texas at Austin University of Utah (993-68-701) (993-57-1204) 10:00AM Fixed Points in Fuzzy Dynamical Systems. 10:30AM Essential surfaces in 3-manifolds which fiber over (868) Mark Burgin*, UCLA, and Juan Nieto, Universidad (881) the circle. de Santiago de Compostela (993-37-570) Liz Klodginski, UC Davis (993-57-1207)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 143 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Friday, January 9 (cont’d.)

AMS Session on Operator Theory 9:30AM Comparing Two Methods of Handling Tied Event
(897) Times. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:10AM Mouchumi Bhattacharyya, University of the Pacific (993-62-1669) 8:00AM Bellman functions - what are they, and how do we (882) use them? 9:45AM Simulation Study of the Small Sample Properties of Janine Wittwer, Williams College (993-47-122) (898) Maximum Likelihood Estimators in an Accelerated Failure Time Model with Censored Observations. 8:15AM A criterion for weak k-hyponormality. Preliminary Mahmoud A Yousef*, Central Missouri State (883) report. University, and Raja Nassar, LA Tech University George R. Exner*, Bucknell University, Il Bong Jung (993-62-1363) and Sang Soo Park, Kyungpook University (993-47-650) 8:30AM Targeted Frames and Decomposition of Positive (884) Operators. Keri Kornelson*andDavid Larson,TexasA&M MAA Session on Statistics Education Discourse on University (993-47-937) Inference 8:45AM Circular Symmetry of Spectra of Composition (885) Operators. 8:00 AM –10:55AM Sivaram K Narayan, Central Michigan University, and Dawn E. Sadir*, Albion College (993-47-144) Organizers: John D. McKenzie, Jr., Babson College 9:00AM On the Existence of solutions of Variational Carolyn K. Cuff, Westminster College (886) Inequalities in Banach Spaces. Preliminary report. 8:00AM Why Do We Check Assumptions for Inference? Jinlu Li, Shawnee State University (993-47-475)
(899) Allan J. Rossman*andBeth L. Chance,CalPoly- 9:15AM About some generalizations of hyperbolic San Luis Obispo (993-N1-407) (887) A-properness. 8:15AM Developing an Understanding of Confidence Dan D. Pascali, Courant Institute, New York (900) Intervals for Proportions. University (993-47-1149) Daniel J Teague, NC School of Science and 9:30AM The geometric mean in Banach *-algebras. Mathematics (993-N1-744)
(888) Preliminary report. 8:30AM Order Statistics, Uniform Distributions, and Bao Qi Feng, Kent State University, Tuscarawas
(901) Confidence Intervals. Campus (993-47-769) Michael I Ratliff, Northern Arizona University ∗ 9:45AM C -algebra of The Z2-tree. (993-N1-560) (889) Menassie Ephrem*, Coastal Carolina University, 8:45AM Question based presentation of inferential methods. and Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University
(902) Michael D Landrigan, Idaho State University (993-47-926) (993-N1-548) 10:00AM Minimal Bratteli diagrams and dimension groups of 9:00AM What does a P-value mean? (890) AF C∗-algebras. (903) Patricia BHumphrey , Georgia Southern University Ryan J. Zerr, University of North Dakota (993-N1-544) (993-47-757) 9:15AM Hands-on experiments in inferential statistics.
(904) Preliminary report. Mohammad Salmassi, Framingham State College AMS Session on Statistics (993-N1-491) 9:30AM Using Simulations to Teach the Meaning of the 8:00 AM –9:55AM
(905) P-Value. 8:00AM Assessing Occupational Exposure Via the One-way Murray H. Siegel, SamHouston State University (891) Random Effects Model. (993-N1-28) Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy and Huizhen Guo*, 9:45AM Using Visual Tools in the Teaching of Hypothesis University of Louisiana at Lafayette (993-62-383) (906) Testing. 8:15AM Detection of Changes in the arrival rates of a Christopher J. Lacke, Rowan University (892) Poisson Process. (993-N1-392) Marlo Kay Brown, SUNY Binghamton (993-62-976) 10:00AM Using Simulations, Permutations and 8:30AM Estimating linear functionals of indirectly observed
(907) Randomizations to Help Students Understand (893) input functions. Preliminary report. P-values. Preliminary report. C Klaassen, University of Amsterdam, Eun-Joo Robin H Lock, St. Lawrence University (993-N1-502) Lee*andFrits H Ruymgaart, Texas Tech University 10:15AM Teaching Statistical Inference to In-service Middle (993-62-950)
(908) School Teachers : Methodologies, Activities, and 8:45AM On the Chernoff bound for efficiency of quantum Projects. Preliminary report. (894) hypothesis testing. Barbara A Wainwright, Salisbury University Vladislav Karguine, Cornerstone Research (993-N1-559) (993-62-373) 10:30AM An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Statistics 9:00AM On Some Selection Problems with Applications to
(909) to Undergraduate Life Science Majors Provides
(895) Lifetime Data. Numerous Opportunities for Data Analysis Projects Thomas T. John*, Syracuse University, and Involving Inference. Pinyuen Chen, Department of Mathematics, Deborah Lurie*, James Watrous, Saint Joseph’s Syracuse University (993-62-1550) University, and DeniseMarie Ratterman, Saint 9:15AM Estimating the Conditional Distribution Function. Joseph’s University (993-N1-266) (896) Rod Freed, California State University at 10:45AM Hypothesis Test Selection: A Practical Method. Dominguez Hills, and Senem Alkan*, Bucconi
(910) Preliminary report. University (993-62-1096) Sue BSchou , Idaho State University (993-N1-32)

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MAA Session on Math and the Arts, II 9:30AM Mapping a 1-to-1 Correspondence Between Nand Q
(925) Using Imbedded Loops, Conditionals, and Arrays. 8:00 AM –10:55AM Preliminary report. N. R. Nandakumar*, Delaware State University, and Organizers: Ann Robertson, Connecticut College Michael J. Bosse, Morgan State University John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, (993-P1-324) Urbana 9:45AM One Time Pad Encryption. Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
(926) Robert P. Webber, Longwood University Nathaniel A. Friedman, State (993-P1-91) University of New York, Albany 10:00AM A Programming Pearl.
8:00AM Visualizing Mathematics through Digital (927) Arnold Lebow, Yeshiva University (993-P1-786)
(911) Photography. Preliminary report. 10:15AM ”Magic Numbers” Approach to Introducing Binary Marcia Birken, Rochester institute of Technology
(928) Number Representation in Introductory Computer (993-O1-481) Science Courses. 8:20AM Vectors, Computer Art and Toy Story. Gerald W. Kruse, Juniata College (993-P1-667)
(912) Timothy P. Chartier, Davidson College 10:30AM Understanding the Magic: Teaching Cryptography (993-O1-929)
(929) with Just the Right Amount of Mathematics. 8:40AM Computational Aesthetics: Mathematical Methods Joshua Holden, Rose-Hulman Institute of
(913) for Evaluating Art. Technology (993-P1-247) Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond 10:45AM The Perfect Shuffle: Mathematical Apologetics. (993-O1-840)
(930) Preliminary report. 8:55AM Break David J Hunter, Westmont College (993-P1-806) 9:20AM Recursion in Nature, Mathematics and Art.
(914) Preliminary report. Anne M. Burns, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus (993-O1-657) MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in Business, Industry, and Government 9:40AM Dahlia Flowers in Art, Nature, and Mathematics.
(915) Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:35AM Gwen Laura Fisher, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo (993-O1-274) Organizers: Philip E. Gustafson, Mesa State 10:00AM Tilings & Quilts. College
(916) Mary Candace Williams, Pima Community College Michael G. Monticino, University of (993-O1-848) North Texas 10:20AM Myriad of Mosaics. 8:10AM Mathematics and Materials-Stretching Hooke’s Law.
(917) Maria K Robinson, Seattle University
(931) Stanley J Russell*, Motorola (Retired), and Frank J (993-O1-1385) Attanucci, Scottsdale Community College 10:40AM Discovery or Creation?: Mathematical Platonism (993-Q1-21)
(918) and the Visual Arts. 8:25AM Mathematicial Models in Transportation Planning Mark D. Schlatter, Centenary College of Louisiana
(932) and Traffic Operations. (993-O1-368) Donald A. Sokol, Lisle. Illinois (993-Q1-136) 8:40AM Developing and Validating a Metric for the Hiring of
(933) Fee Based Practitioners for the United States Military Entrance Processing Command. Preliminary MAA Session on Applications of Mathematics in report. Computer Science Randy E White*andEdgar K Rugenstein, United States Military Academy (993-Q1-241) 8:00 AM –10:55AM 8:55AM Designing a Robust Range Imaging System. Organizer: William A. Marion,Valparaiso (934) Nathan D Cahill*, Lawrence A Ray and Joseph F University Revelli, Eastman Kodak Company (993-Q1-1592) 8:00AM An Application of Binomial Trees for Pricing a Stock 9:10AM PSL Preservers and Barker Codes of Odd Length.
(919) Option.
(935) Gregory Emmett Coxson, Lockheed Martin Naval Daniel Birmajer, Nazareth College (993-P1-736) Electronic and Surveillance (993-Q1-30) 8:15AM Programming to Complete Magic Squares. 9:25AM A Leg in Both Worlds: Consulting in Academics.
(920) Preliminary report.
(936) Michael G Monticino, University of North Texas N. R. Nandakumar*, Delaware State University, and (993-Q1-1313) Michael J. Bosse, Morgan State University 9:40AM Industry Problems That Require Concepts Rather (993-P1-323)
(937) Than Technical Detail. Preliminary report. 8:30AM Check Digits and Error Correction. Preliminary Richard J Cleary, Bentley College (993-Q1-336)
(921) report. 9:55AM Development of a Mathematics Course for Lew Ludwig, Denison University (993-P1-291)
(938) Biotechnology through an Industrial Externship. 8:45AM From Cyclic Sums to Projective Planes. Kenneth M. Levasseur, UMass Lowell (993-Q1-98)
(922) Roger E. Zarnowski, Angelo State University 10:10AM Mathematics in the Hedge Funds Arena. (993-P1-808)
(939) Ranjan Bhaduri, Northwater Capital Management 9:00AM A Catalan Project in Discrete Mathematics. Inc. (993-Q1-1113)
(923) Brian Hopkins, Saint Peter’s College (993-P1-869) 10:25AM The Life and Death of a Silicon Valley Startup 9:15AM An Analytic Approach to a Tic-Tac-Toe Program.
(940) Company. Preliminary report.
(924) Preliminary report. Mark Stamp, San Jose State University John Gately, Roosevelt University (993-P1-979) (993-Q1-1660)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 145 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Friday, January 9 (cont’d.)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, V 9:30AM Is the English Version of the Theory of
(953) Incommensurability Commensurable with Its 8:00 AM –10:40AM Chinese Translation? Yibao Xu, CUNY, Graduate Center & BMCC Organizers: Laura J. Wallace, California State (993-01-694) University, San Bernardino 10:00AM Science in Translation: The Transmission of Jacqueline A. Jensen,SamHouston (954) Probability Theory into late Imperial Chinese State University Mathematical Culture (1880-1911). Gary W. Towsley, SUNY at Geneseo Andrea Eberhard-Bre´ard,CUNYGraduateCenter Michael A. Jones, Montclair State (New York) / CNRS (Paris) (993-01-583) University 10:30AM “Everybody makes errors”: The intersection of De Shawnee L. McMurran, California
(955) Morgan’s logic and probability, 1837-1847. State University at San Bernardino Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College (993-01-205) 8:00AM Encouraging Artistic Expression via Mathematical
(941) Exploration in the Core Curriculum. AMS Invited Address John C Nardo, Oglethorpe University (993-Z1-445) 8:15AM Linking Art, Geometry, and Calculus. 9:00 AM –9:50AM
(942) Ruth G. Favro*andDavid E. Bindschadler, Lawrence Technological University (993-Z1-1319) (956) Almost every observation, a mathematical theory of measurement. 8:30AM The Effects of Using Notebook Computers (MS Excel) James A. Yorke, University of Maryland (993-37-05)
(943) in an Undergraduate Business Calculus Course. Preliminary report. Stephanie P. Edwards*andClarre Johnston, ASL Invited Address University of Dayton (993-Z1-379) 9:00 AM –9:50AM 8:45AM Finding and Using Pre-Calculus Learning Objects. (944) Preliminary report. (957) The proof-theoretic strength of some combinatorial Robert H Hoar and Jeff S. Baggett*, University of principles. Wisconsin – La Crosse (993-Z1-1631) Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin 9:00AM Modeling in Elementary Calculus. Preliminary
(945) report. Thomas C Craven, University of Hawaii MAA Minicourse #12: Part B (993-Z1-474) 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM 9:15AM Circular Inversion with Geometer’s Sketchpad.
(946) Preliminary report. Incorporating discrete mathematics in the Colin L Starr, Willamette University (993-Z1-219) preparation of K–12 mathematics teachers 9:30AM Break. Organizer: Lolina Alvarez,NewMexicoState 9:45AM Tracking student success in an integrated University (947) calculus/precalculus course. Laura A Taalman, James Madison University MAA Minicourse #1: Part B (993-Z1-451) 10:00AM An Upper-Division Geometry Course Designed 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
(948) around the NCTM Standards. Preliminary report. Robert Talbert, Franklin College (993-Z1-339) Designing and evaluating assessments for introductory statistics. 10:15AM Making Geometry Come Alive with The Geometer’s
(949) Sketchpad. Organizers: Beth L. Chance, California Polytech Dawn R Slavens, Midwestern State University State University, San Luis Obispo (993-Z1-595) Robert C. Delmas, University of Minnesota 10:30AM DIP-Based Projects for Linear Algebra.
(950) Mohamed Allali, Chapman University (993-Z1-398) Allan J. Rossman, California Polytech State University, San Luis Obispo

PME Council MAA Minicourse #7: Part B

AM AM 8:00 – 11:00 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Origami in undergraduate mathematics courses. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I Organizer: Thomas C. Hull, Merrimack College

8:30 AM –10:50AM MAA Special Presentation Organizers: Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College (CUNY) 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Karen V. H. Parshall, University of Mathematics for business decisions (repeated from Virginia 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., David E. Zitarelli, Temple University Friday). 8:30AM Analytic Geometry: Descartes versus Fermat. Organizers: Richard B. Thompson, University of
(951) Maria Sol de Mora, ICREA, Barcelona (993-01-310) Arizona 9:00AM The Brachistochrone Problem and its Sequels. Christopher Lamoureux, University of (952) Ru¨diger Thiele, University of Leipzig (993-01-627) Arizona

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MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by the NSF ASL Invited Address

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM 10:00 AM –10:50AM Assessment of student learning in undergraduate (958) On theories of modules of fields with mathematics: Works in progress. endomorphisms. Organizers: William E. Haver, Virginia Francoise M. Point, University of Mons-Hainaut Commonwealth University Bernard L. Madison, University of AMS Special Presentation Arkansas 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Who wants to be a mathematician? MAA Project NExT Panel Discussion Organizers: Michael A. Breen,AMS 9:00 AM –10:30AM Annette W. Emerson,AMS William T. Butterworth, Barat College Writing expository mathematics. of DePaul University Organizers: Jed Herman, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Math on the Web Jennifer Hontz, Meredith College George W. Moss, University of 10:00 AM –5:30PM Virginia’s College at Wise Go to the Math on the Web Pavilion for the complete Panelists: Lowell W. Beineke, Indiana schedule of presentations. University-Purdue Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech AMS Invited Address Frank A. Farris, Santa Clara University Underwood Dudley,DePauw 10:05 AM –10:55AM University (959) Random planar curves and conformal invariance. Keith J. Devlin , Stanford University Gregory F. Lawler, Cornell University (993-60-11)

MAA Special Presentation AMS-MAA Invited Address

9:00 AM –10:20AM 11:10 AM – NOON Proposal writing workshop for grant applications to (960) Mathematical challenges in molecular biology. the NSF division of undergraduate education. Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Organizers: Elizabeth J. Teles, NSF Division of Technology (993-92-03) Undergraduate Education Calvin L. Williams, NSF Division of AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III Undergraduate Education 1:00 PM –2:00PM Lee L. Zia, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (961) Conformal invariants and partial differential equations. Part III. Sun-Yang Alice Chang, Princeton University MAA Panel Discussion (993-53-10)

9:00 AM –10:20AM ASL Invited Address Preparing mathematicians to educate teachers. Organizers: Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stoney Brook 1:00 PM –1:50PM Bernard L. Madison, University of (962) Cofinal types of topological directed orders. Arkansas at Fayetteville Slawomir Solecki, University of Illinois Urbana Panelists: Ed Dubinsky, Cincinnati, Ohio Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stoney Brook MAA Student Lecture

1:00 PM –1:50PM Exhibits and Book Sales
(963) Fractal Calculus Project. 9:30 AM –5:30PM Mark M Meerschaert, University of Nevada (993-A0-532)

Mathematical Art Exhibit AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, II 9:30 AM –5:30PM Organizers: Robert Fathauer, Tessellations 1:00 PM –5:50PM Company, Phoenix, Arizona Organizers: Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois Nat Friedman,ISAMA,SUNYatAlbany at Chicago Reza Sarhangi, Bridges Conference, Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State Towson University University

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 147 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Friday, January 9 (cont’d.)

1:00PM Filtered Point Symmetry and Dynamical AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematical Modeling
(964) Voice-Leading. Preliminary report. in Neuroscience, Biomedicine, Genetics, and Jack Douthett*, TVI Community College, Epidemiology, III and Richard Plotkin, University of Chicago (993-37-632) 1:00 PM –5:50PM 1:30PM Spirlz. Preliminary report.
(965) Stephen Soderberg, Library of Congress Organizers: Steven M. Baer,ArizonaState (993-00-1310) University 2:00PM Classification Schemes of Global Musical (966) Compositions and Grothendieck Topoi. Ivo D. Dinov, University of California Guerino B. Mazzola, CS Department, University of Los Angeles Zurich (993-18-85) Frank C. Hoppensteadt,ArizonaState 2:30PM A computer-aided exploration of the University (967) transformational process in Xenakis’ Nomos Alpha. Hal L. Smith, Arizona State University Moreno Andreatta, Ircam-Cnrs (993-20-1108) 3:00PM Tone System and Mental Process. Preliminary 1:00PM Modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of nuclear (968) report.
(979) proteins. Preliminary report. Thomas Noll, Technical University of Berlin Gerda de Vries, University of Alberta (993-92-1666) (993-51-1485) 1:30PM A double epidemic model for the SARS propagation. 3:30PM Pitch-Class Isometries. Preliminary report.
(980) Tuen Wai Ng*, The University of Hong Kong,
(969) Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State University Gabriel Turinici, Inria Rocquencourt Domaine de (993-55-899) Voluceau, Rocquencou, and Antoine Danchin, 4:00PM Pitch combinatoriality in gapped spaces. Ge´ne´tique des Ge´nomes Bacte´riens, Institut Pasteur
(970) Jon Wild, Harvard University (993-00-1397) (993-92-542)

4:30PM Statistical Aspects of John Cage’s Etudes Australes. 2:00PM Global Kinetic Imaging for Fluoro-Deoxy-Glucose
(971) Preliminary report. (981) with Positron Emission Tomography. Murray Bremner*andMik Bickis, University of Cristina Negoita*andRosemary A Renaut, Saskatchewan (993-62-236) Arizona State University (993-92-1067) 5:00PM A Mathematical Model describing the Metricity of
(972) Musical Pieces. 2:30PM Improving the Accuracy of Segmentation
(982) Algorithms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Anja Volk, DJE Department of Industrial and Rick Archibald*, The Center for SystemScience Systems Engineering (993-92-1590) and Engineering Rese, Kewei Chen, Arizona Center 5:30PM Discussion. for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Anne Gelb and Rosemary Renaut, Arizona State University (993-65-480)

AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, 3:00PM Feature Selection as a Precursor to Modeling in II (983) High-Dimensional Scientific Discovery. David A Peterson*, Charles W Anderson, Michael 1:00 PM –3:50PM JKirbyand Michael H Thaut, Colorado State University (993-68-1341) Organizers: Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College (CUNY) 3:30PM Modeling mixed microbial growth: Connecting
(984) theory and experiment. Preliminary report. Karen V. H. Parshall, University of Sergei S Pilyugin*, University of Florida, Gregory T Virginia Reeves, Princeton University, and Atul Narang, David E. Zitarelli, Temple University University of Florida (993-92-1162) 1:00PM Conceptions of General Analysis in
(973) Nineteenth-Century Mathematics. Preliminary 4:00PM Dynamic Behavior of a Delay-Differential Equation report. (985) Model for the Hormonal Regulation of the Menstrual Craig G Fraser, University of Toronto (993-01-226) Cycle. Leona Harris Clark*, US Environmental Protection 1:30PM Creating a Mathematical Area: The Case of Arthur Agency, Paul M Schlosser, CIIT Centers for Health
(974) Cayley, J. J. Sylvester, and Invariant Theory. Research, and James F Selgrade, North Carolina Karen V. H. Parshall, University of Virginia State University (993-92-974) (993-01-734) 4:30PM Sports-related concussion: An application of 2:00PM On Weierstrass’ theory of analytic functions.
(975) Umberto Bottazzini, Universita` di Palermo, Italy (986) functional magnetic resonance imaging. (993-01-615) William Eddy, Carnegie Mellon University (993-92-887) 2:30PM Jules Tannery and the Mathematical Research
(976) Community in France , 1870–1914. Preliminary 5:00PM Two-dimensional finite element analysis to assess report. (987) flow characteristics of an in vitro aneurysm model. W Thomas Archibald, Acadia University Dawn A Lott*, Michael Siegel, Hans R Chaudhry, (993-01-221) New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Charles J 3:00PM ”Some unsolved problems of theoretical dynamics”. Prestigiacomo, New Jersey Medical School (977) An unpublished paper by George Birkhoff. (993-76-624) Preliminary report. 5:30PM Singular Vectors and Protein Motifs in Mathematical June E Barrow-Green,OpenUniversity,UK (988) Phylogeny. (993-01-597) Jeffery J. Leader*, Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech., 3:30PM Who invented Steiner triple systems – and why? and Gary W. Stuart, Indiana State University
(978) Robin J. Wilson, Open University, UK (993-01-352) (993-92-1421)

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AMS-SIAM Special Session on Classical and Nonlinear 3:00PM Typicality of recurrence for (aperiodic) Lorentz Special Functions, II (1003) gases. Preliminary report. Marco Lenci, Stevens Institute of Technology 1:00 PM –5:50PM (993-37-584) Organizers: Peter A. Clarkson, University of Kent 3:30PM Modeling a Gas of Hard Non-Spheres.
(1004) John D Cowan, Tufts University (993-37-406) Francisco Marcellan, Universidad Carlos III 4:00PM A topological model for a perturbed quadratic (1005) family. Preliminary report. Peter A. McCoy, U. S. Naval Academy Robert L Devaney, Boston University, Monica´ 1:00PM The Painlev´e property: a Riemann-Hilbert approach. Moreno Rocha*, Tufts University, and Stefan (989) Percy A Deift, Courant Institute, NYU Siegmund, Boston University (993-37-1002) (993-34-1175) 4:30PM Dimension product structure of hyperbolic sets. 1:30PM Sequence of distribution functions involving
(1006) Boris Hasselblatt*, Tufts University, and Jo¨rg (990) Painleve II. Schmeling, Lund Institute of Technology Jinho Baik, University of Michigan (993-60-829) (993-37-626) 2:00PM Rational Solutions of the Painlev´e Equations and 5:00PM Smoothness of Linearization Near a Hyperbolic
(991) Associated Special Polynomials. (1007) Fixed Point. Peter A Clarkson, University of Kent (993-34-596) Misha Guysinsky, Pennsylvania State University, 2:30PM Painlev´e Transcendents and Random matrices. Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University, and Victoria (992) Alexander R Its, Indiana University Purdue Rayskin*, UCLA (993-37-66) University Indianapolis (993-33-856) 5:30PM Hyperbolicity, Homogeneity, and Labor-Managed 3:00PM Justification of the Existence of a Group of (1008) Oligopolies. (993) Asymptotics of the General Fifth Painlev´e Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona, and Weiye Transcendent. Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory (993-34-1066) Youmin Lu*, Bloomsburg University, and Zhoude Shao, Millersville University (993-34-1249) 3:30PM Accurate calculation of Mathieu functions with an AMS Special Session on Current Events (994) application to acoustic radiation from elliptic cylinders. 1:00 PM –5:10PM Arnie Lee Van Buren*andJeffrey E Boisvert, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (993-33-668) Organizer: David Eisenbud, Mathematical 4:00PM Digital Library of Mathematical Functions: A Project Sciences Research Institute and (995) Report. University of California Berkeley Daniel W Lozier, National Institute of Standards 1:00PM The Interior-Point Revolution in Optimization: and Technology (993-33-1146) (1009) History, Recent Developments, and Lasting 4:30PM The Ince equation. Consequences. (996) Hans W Volkmer, University of Margaret H. Wright, Computer Science Wisconsin-Milwaukee (993-33-715) Department, Courant Institute of Mathematical 5:00PM A New Asymptotic Series for the Gamma Function Sciences (993-49-1022) (997) and Improved Stirling Formula Estimates. 2:00PM What is motivic integration? Xiquan Shi*andFengshan Liu, Delaware State (1010) Thomas C Hales, University of Pittsburgh University (993-33-279) (993-14-1309) 5:30PM The Role of Orthogonal Polynomials in the Analysis 3:00PM It is easy to determine whether or not a given (998) of Laser Propagation. Preliminary report.
(1011) integer is prime. Reza Malek-Madani and Peter A. McCoy*, U.S. Andrew Granville, Universite´deMontre´al Naval Academy (993-33-986) (993-11-695) 4:00PM Break AMS-AWM Special Session on Coding, Geometry, and 4:30PM Perelman’s recent work on the classification of Hyperbolic Dynamics, III (1012) 3-manifolds. Preliminary report. John W Morgan, Columbia University (993-57-161) 1:00 PM –5:50PM Organizers: Svetlana R. Katok, The Pennsylvania State University AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, II Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University 1:00PM A proof of the Pugh-Shub theorem. 1:00 PM –5:50PM (999) Keith Burns*andAmie Wilkinson,Northwestern University (993-37-45) Organizers: James G. McLaughlin, Trinity College 1:30PM Stability of mixing for hyperbolic flows. Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College (1000) Michael Field*, University of Houston, Ian 1:00PM Analytic Theory and Application of Continued Melbourne, University of Surrey, and Andrew
(1013) Fractions, A Survey. Torok, University of Houston (993-37-411) William B. Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder 2:00PM Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures for (993-30-1195) (1001) Non-Uniformly Expanding Maps. Preliminary report. 2:00PM Transcendence of continued fractions with bounded Huyi Hu*, Michigan State University, and Sandro (1014) partial quotients. Preliminary report. Vaienti,CentredePhysiqueTh´eorique, CNRS J. Leslie Davison, Laurentian University (993-37-460) (993-11-930) 2:30PM Equilibrium States for Maps of the Interval. 2:30PM Truncated rational moment problems and (1002) Samuel Senti*, IUPUI, and Yakov Pesin,The (1015) quadratures. Preliminary report. Pennsylvania State University (993-37-436) Xin Li, University of Central Florida (993-41-1335)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 149 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Friday, January 9 (cont’d.)

3:00PM Simultaneous diophantine approximation to AMS Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems (1016) successive powers of a real algebraic integer. and Applications, I Doug Hensley, Texas A&M University (993-11-1164) 1:00 PM –5:50PM 3:30PM Continued Fractions Associated with Solution of a Organizers: Qiu-dong Wang, University of Arizona (1017) Wave Equation. Preliminary report. Brian A. Hagler, University of Texas of the Permian Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Basin (993-33-849) Arizona 4:00PM An Euler-Minding theorem for G-continued 1:00PM Transition to chaos in random dynamical systems.

(1018) fractions. (1030) Ying-Cheng Lai, Arizona State University Geumlan Choi*, University of Illinois, and Douglas (993-37-49) Bowman, Northern Illinois University (993-11-1026) 1:30PM The Central Limit Theorem for Non-Gibbsian 4:30PM On a class of classical polynomials, uniformly (1031) measures. (1019) approximating the checkmark function. Nicolai T A Haydn, University of Southern PDDragnev*, DALeggand D W Townsend, California (993-37-1425) Indiana-Purdue University (993-41-1073) 2:00PM Asymptotic behavior of continuity statistic for time 5:00PM The Many Vistas of Continued Fractions. (1032) series analysis. (1020) Richard A Mollin, University of Calgary Takashi Nishikawa*, Southern Methodist (993-11-756) University, Ying-Cheng Lai,ArizonaState University, and Louis M. Pecora, Naval Research 5:30PM Applications of Brooks’s Continued Fraction Laboratory (993-37-766) (1021) Parameter to Riemann Surfaces and QC Maps. G Brock Williams, Texas Tech University 2:30PM Hyperbolic reguler polynomial endomorphisms of (993-30-111) (1033) C2: topology of Julia sets. Preliminary report. Malgorzata S. Stawiska, Purdue University (993-32-812) 3:00PM Tube-log Riemann Surfaces. AMS Special Session on Modern Function Theory, I (1034) Ricardo Perez Marco, UCLA (993-37-1239)

1:00 PM –5:50PM 3:30PM Spectrum and Geometric Realization of Pisot Tiling (1035) Spaces (preliminary report). Preliminary report. Organizers: Beth Schaubroeck,U.S.AirForce Jaroslaw M Kwapisz, Montana State University Academy (993-37-1201) Peter L. Duren, University of Michigan, 4:00PM Non-contractible isolating blocks. Ann Arbor (1036) George A Kozlowski, Krystyna M Kuperberg*, John A. Pfaltzgraff, University of Auburn University, and Klaudiusz Wojcik, North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jagiellonian University (993-58-1135) 1:00PM Trajectories of quadratic differentials on algebraic 4:30PM Long time asymptotics in averaging. (1022) Riemann surfaces and Hermite-Pade approximants. (1037) Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland Alexander I. Aptekarev, Keldysh Institute of (993-37-784) Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia (993-30-775) 5:00PM Remarkable Dynamics of an Overcompensatory 2:00PM Strong asymptotics for Jacobi polynomials with (1038) Leslie Population Model. Preliminary report. (1023) varying nonstandard parameters. Howard Weiss*andIlie Ugarcovici, Penn State A.B.J. Kuijlaars, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and University (993-37-949) A. Mart´ınez-Finkelshtein*, University of Almer´ıa 5:30PM Singularity confinement and algebraic integrability. (993-33-832) (1039) Stephane Lafortune*andAlain Goriely, University 3:00PM Semiclassical Asymptotics for General Orthogonal of Arizona (993-39-566) (1024) Polynomials with Discrete Weights. Jinho Baik, University of Michigan, Thomas Kriecherbauer, Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum, AMS Special Session on Arithmetical Algebraic Kenneth McLaughlin, University of North Carolina, Geometry, I and Peter Miller*, University of Michigan (993-41-1533) 1:00 PM –5:50PM 3:30PM Random growth models and Riemann-Hilbert Organizers: Kirti Joshi, University of Arizona (1025) problems. Jinho Baik, University of Michigan (993-60-943) Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona 4:00PM Asymptotic analysis of Random Matrices and Adrian Vasiu, University of Arizona (1026) Riemann-Hilbert problems. 1:00PM Slopes of the Up operator acting on overconvergent Kenneth Dean T-R McLaughlin, University of North (1040) modular forms. Carolina at Chapel Hill (993-60-1615) L J Kilford, California Institute of Technology 4:30PM Construction of weighted biharmonic Green (993-11-726) (1027) functions. 1:30PM Crystalline cohomology and homotopy theory. Rachel J Weir, University of Virginia (993-30-801) (1041) Martin Olsson, MIT (993-11-684) 5:00PM Sampling and Interpolation on Riemann Surfaces. 2:00PM Vanishing Cycles in Rigid Cohomology. Preliminary (1028) Alexander P Schuster*, San Francisco State (1042) report. University, and Dror Varolin, University of Illinois Richard M. Crew, University of Florida (993-30-1324) (993-14-1187) 5:30PM Finite unions of interpolating sequences. 2:30PM Overconvergence and the de Rham-Witt complex. (1029) Preliminary report. (1043) Preliminary report. Daniel H Luecking, University of Arkansas James M Borger, University of Chicago (993-30-1194) (993-14-725)

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3:00PM Drinfel’d-Ihara relations for p-adic multi-zeta Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State (1044) values. University Sinan Unver, University of Chicago (993-14-891) John M. Neuberger,NorthernArizona 3:30PM The de Rham-Witt complex in mixed characteristic. State University (1045) Lars Hesselholt, Massachusetts Institute of John W. Neuberger, University of Technology (993-14-1529) North Texas 4:00PM Tate classes on a product of modular surfaces. 1:00PM Integrability of Blow-up solutions to some non-linear (1046) Preliminary report. (1059) differential equations. Preliminary report. Andrew H Knightly, University of Rochester Michael A. Karls*andAhmed Mohammed,Ball (993-11-1247) State University (993-34-568) 4:30PM Pseudo-differential equations connected with 1:30PM Harnack Type Inequalities for some Semilinear (1047) p−adic forms and Igusa’s local zeta functions. (1060) Elliptic Equations with Critical Sobolev Exponent. Preliminary report. Lei Zhang, Texas A&M (993-35-811) W. A. Zuniga, Barry U. (993-14-772) 2:00PM The IVP for the nonlinear heat equation in weighted 5:00PM A Geometric Jacquet-Langlands Correspondence. (1048) David F Helm, Harvard University (993-11-1252) (1061) Sobolev spaces. Victor L Shapiro, University of California at 5:30PM p-adic Lafforgue: a road map. Preliminary report. Riverside (993-35-53) (1049) Kiran S Kedlaya, MIT (993-11-353) 2:30PM Some multiplicity results for asymptotically linear (1062) RN AMS Special Session on Fixed Points: Theory and problems in . Application, III Francois A van Heerden, Utah State University (993-35-1268) 1:00 PM –5:20PM 3:00PM Positive Solutions For A Class Of Elliptic Boundary (1063) Value Problems. Preliminary report. Organizers: Robert F. Brown, University of Stephen B. Robinson*andAndrew Arndt,Wake California Los Angeles Forest University (993-35-1519) Mark S. Burgin, University of 3:30PM Upper estimates for solutions to superlinear California Los Angeles (1064) nonsymmetric elliptic boundary value problems. 1:00PM Groupoids and fibered addition and product Preliminary report. (1050) formulae for Nielsen Numbers. Preliminary report. Alfonso Castro*, Harvey Mudd College, and Philip R. Heath, Memorial University of Monica Clapp, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Newfoundland (993-55-546) Mexico (993-35-1370) 1:30PM Lefschetz and Nielsen numbers in Control Theory. 4:00PM Area-minimizing surfaces in 3D polytopes in R4, (1051) Peter Saveliev, Marshall University (993-55-186)
(1065) and invariant minimizers in Rn. 2:00PM Homotopy Minimal Periods on Solvmanifolds. Frank Morgan, Williams College (993-49-154) (1052) Edward C Keppelmann*, University of Nevada 4:30PM Continuous Newton’s Method and a Nash-Moser Reno, and Waclaw Marzantowicz, A. Mickiewicz U (1066) Inverse Function Theorem. of Poznan (993-57-140) JWNeuberger, University of North Texas 2:30PM Characterizing Fixed Point Sets in a Given (993-35-641) (1053) Homotopy Class. 5:00PM Models for Josephson junctions. Christina L Soderlund, UCLA (993-55-106) (1067) Jacob Rubinstein, Indiana University (993-35-830) 3:00PM The Lefschetz-Hopf Theorem and Axioms for the 5:30PM Some recent results concerning ∞-harmonic (1054) Lefschetz Number. (1068) functions. Martin Arkowitz*, Dartmouth College, and Robert Tilak Bhattacharya, Bishop’s University FBrown, University of California, Los Angeles (993-35-579) (993-55-90) 3:30PM Transfers and Jiang’s Nielsen theory for periodic (1055) points. Preliminary report. Daniel Henry Gottlieb, Purdue (993-55-36) 4:00PM A Type of Nonlinear Vector and Matrix Equations AMS Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II (1056) and Their Corresponding Sequences. Xiquan Shi and Fengshan Liu*, Delaware State 1:00 PM –5:50PM University (993-15-193) − 4:30PM On the preimage f 1(a) of a point. Preliminary Organizer: Tim D. Cochran, Rice University (1057) report. 1:00PM Distance calculations in the curve complex. Peter N Wong*, Bates College, and Daciberg L (1069) John Hempel, Rice University (993-57-1359) Goncalves, University of Sao Paulo (993-55-1558) 1:30PM Orderability of certain 3-manifold groups. 5:00PM Iteratively Regularized Gauss-Newton-type (1070) Preliminary report. (1058) Algorithm with Simultaneous Updates of Inverse Sergio Fenley, Florida State University, Rachel Derivative. Dedwydd Roberts*, John Shareshian, Washington Alexandra Smirnova, Georgia State University University in St Louis, and Melanie Stein, Trinity (993-65-1625) College (993-57-1297) 2:00PM Higher-Order Linking Forms for 3-Manifolds. AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential (1071) Preliminary report. Equations and Variational Problems, II Constance Leidy, Rice University (993-57-988)

1:00 PM –5:50PM 2:30PM Singular symplectic forms on 4-manifolds. (1072) Robion C. Kirby*, University of California, Berkeley, Organizers: David A. Hartenstine, University of and T. David Gay, University of Quebec at Montreal Utah (993-57-396)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 151 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Friday, January 9 (cont’d.)

3:00PM On the Homotopy Classification of 2-Complexes. 2:00PM A Fine Classification of Closed Planar Sets (1073) Preliminary report. (1083) According to Their Non-Convexity. Jens Harlander, Western Kentucky University, and Ziva Deutsch*, JerusalemCollege, Israel, and Jacqueline A Jensen*, SamHouston State Micha A. Perles, Hebrew University (993-52-234) University (993-55-933) 2:15PM An Integral Formula On Seifert Bundles. 3:30PM Generalizations of quandle cocycle invariants and (1084) A Fawaz, The University of Texas of the Permian (1074) Alexander modules from quandle modules. Basin (993-53-1325) Masahico Saito, University of South Florida 2:30PM Lie groups of automorphisms of para-f -manifolds. (993-57-851) (1085) Preliminary report. 4:00PM The topology of 4-manifolds which admit a A. Bucki, Oklahoma City, OK (993-53-1407) (1075) symplectic form and a circle action. Preliminary 2:45PM One-Dimensional Metric Foliations on Compact report. (1086) Semisimple Lie Groups. Preliminary report. Scott J Baldridge, Indiana University (993-57-619) Marius I Munteanu, SUNY-Oneonta (993-53-1619) 4:30PM On a characterization of nugatory crossings. 3:00PM A Notion of Rectifiability for Hypersurfaces in (1076) Xiao-Song Lin, University of California, Riverside (1087) Carnot Groups. (993-57-1289) Daniel R Cole, Dartmouth College (993-53-1652) 5:00PM A topological IHX relation in three and four 3:15PM Break (1077) dimensions. 3:30PM Ehresmann Connection Related to Orbit James Conant*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, (1088) Stratification in Compact Semi Simple Lie Algebras. Rob Schneiderman, Courant Institute, and Peter Preliminary report. Teichner, UC San Diego (993-57-204) Roxana Costinescu*, Millersville University of 5:30PM Finite Abelian Group Actions on Orientable Pennsylvania, and Serge Preston, Portland State
(1078) S1-Bundles Over Orientable Surfaces. Preliminary University (993-53-1671) report. 3:45PM Total Gauss curvature of complete minimal Caroline Maher Boulis, Florida State University (1089) submanifolds. Preliminary report. (993-55-841) Tracy Bowers, Moravian College (993-53-1685) 4:00PM The minimal marked length spectrum of MAA Minicourse #13: Part B (1090) Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds. Ruth Gornet, University of Texas at Arlington, and 1:00 PM –3:00PM Maura BMast *, University of Massachusetts Boston (993-53-1687) The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers. 4:15PM Special PL manifolds as PL shape o-fibrators. Organizer: Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman (1091) Preliminary report. Institute of Technology Violeta Vasilevska, The University of Tennessee (993-57-1037) MAA Minicourse #2: Part B 4:30PM A Morse Theory Approach to studying (1092) Graph-Configuration Spaces. 1:00 PM –3:00PM David G.C. Handron, Carnegie Mellon University (993-57-1314) Hands-on discrete math with technology. 4:45PM Diagrammatic Reducibility and Labeled Oriented Organizers: Douglas E. Ensley, Shippensburg (1093) Tree Complexes. Preliminary report. University Travis R Kelm, St. Edward’s University Kate McGiveny, Shippensburg (993-57-1612) University 5:00PM On m-sectorial Schrodinger¨ operators with singular (1094) potentials on manifolds of bounded geometry. MAA Minicourse #8: Part B Ognjen BMilatovic , University of Toledo (993-58-458) 1:00 PM –3:00PM 5:15PM A New Homotopy Invariant for Distinguishing (1095) [G, 2]-Complexes. Preliminary report. Some mathematics of Leonhard Euler. Katherine S. Byler, California State University, Organizers: William W. Dunham, Muhlenberg Fresno (993-57-1088) College Edward C. Sandifer,Western Connecticut State University AMS Session on Probability and Stochastics

1:00 PM –4:10PM AMS Session on Geometry 1:00PM An improved site percolation threshold universal
1:00 PM –5:25PM (1096) formula for two-dimensional matching lattices. Preliminary report. 1:00PM A new solution for Hilbert’s third problem. John C. Wierman, Johns Hopkins University
(1079) David Benko, Texas A and M University (993-51-92) (993-60-277) 1:15PM A Euclidean Area Theorem via Laguerre Geometry. 1:15PM Random Harmonic series. Preliminary report.
(1080) Robert D. Knight, University of Guam
(1097) David Baker, University of California, Santa Barbara (993-51-1241) (993-60-1158) 1:30PM Fuzzy Geometry of Space. 1:30PM Break (1081) Reza R Ahangar, Kansas Wesleyan University 1:45PM Decompositions of Exponential Distributions on (993-51-1701)
(1098) Semigroups. Preliminary report. 1:45PM Even Astral Configurations. Kyle Siegrist*andBoris Kunin, University of
(1082) Leah Wrenn Berman, Ursinus College (993-52-209) Alabama in Huntsville (993-60-1572)

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2:00PM Transient Solution to the Time-Dependent 2:30PM Bounds on the run length of Hamiltonian cycles in
(1099) Multi-server Poisson Queue. Preliminary report.
(1113) grid graphs. Barbara Haas Margolius, Cleveland State Margaret Isabelle Doig, University of Notre Dame University (993-60-127) (993-05-1103) 2:15PM An Invariance Principle for Semimartingale 2:45PM Some topics on circular colorings. Preliminary (1100) Reflecting Brownian Motions in Piecewise Smooth
(1114) report. Domains. Che Zhongyuan, Penn State Beaver (993-05-1082) WKang*andR J Williams, UCSD (993-60-113) 3:00PM Unit bar-visibility representations of triangulated 2:30PM Break (1115) polygons. Preliminary report. Alice M Dean*, Skidmore College, Ellen Gethner, 2:45PM Malliavin calculus applications to hypoelliptic heat (1101) kernel inequalities. University of Colorado at Denver, and Joan P Tai Melcher, University of California, San Diego Hutchinson, Macalester College (993-05-1077) (993-60-1703) 3:15PM Flexibility of Toroidal Embeddings.
(1116) Neil Robertson, Ohio State University, Xiaoya 3:00PM Ergodic Type Theorems for Actions of Semi-groups (1102) with Finite Number of Generators on von Neumann Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University, and Yue Algebras. Zhao, University of Central Florida (993-05-871) Genady Ya. Grabarnik*, IBM Thomas J. Watson 3:30PM The Structure of Uniformly 2-Connected Graphs. Research Center, Alexander A Katz, St. John’s
(1117) Donald A Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University, and Laura Shwartz,UNISA University (993-05-800) (993-60-1112) 3:45PM Break 3:15PM Kendall distribution functions. 4:00PM Pebbling Diameter Three Graphs. Preliminary (1103) Roger B. Nelsen*, Lewis & Clark College, Jos´eJuan
(1118) report. Quesada Molina, Universidad de Granada, Jos´e Boris Bukh, University of California, Berkeley Antonio Rodr´ıguez Lallena and Manuel Ubeda´ (993-05-781) Flores, Universidad de Almer´ıa (993-60-872) 4:15PM Domination iDot Critical Graphs. Preliminary 3:30PM On Convergence of Choquet Capacity Functionals.
(1119) report. (1104) Preliminary report. Tamara A Burton*andMelissa M Matthews, Ding Feng*andTonghui Wang,NewMexicoState Rochester Institute of Technology (993-05-259) University (993-60-622) 4:30PM Ordered Colorings in Graphs. Preliminary report. 3:45PM Limits of Finite State Markov Chains. Preliminary
(1120) Darren A Narayan*andVictor Kostyuk,Rochester
(1105) report. Institute of Technology (993-05-257) Michael L Green, Cal Poly Pomona (993-60-828) 4:45PM Break 4:00PM Conditional integral transforms and convolution 5:00PM Cages of degree k are k-edge-connected. (1106) products. Preliminary report.
(1121) Michael H. Moriarty, Worcester, Massachusetts, Bong Jin Kim, Daejin University, Byoung Soo Kim, and Peter R. Christopher*, Worcester Polytechnic Yonsei University, and David L. Skoug*, University Institute (993-05-1192) of Nebraska-Lincoln (993-60-1257) 5:15PM The incidence coloring conjecture for
(1122) graphs of maximum degree 3. Maksim I Maydanskiy, UC Berkeley (993-05-588) 5:30PM Radio-Chromatic Numbers for Powers of Paths. AMS Session on Graph Theory
(1123) Preliminary report. Allen J Schwenk, Western Michigan University 1:00 PM –6:25PM (993-05-1366) 5:45PM The linear complexity of the adjacency matrix of a 1:00PM Homogeneous Embeddings and Stratified Graphs.
(1124) graph. Preliminary report. (1107) Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University, David L. Neel, Seattle University, and Michael E. Donald W VanderJagt, Grand Valley State Orrison*, Harvey Mudd College (993-05-1551) University, and Ping Zhang*, Western Michigan University (993-05-589) 6:00PM On the subword complexity of finite words.
(1125) Irina Gheorghiciuc, University of Pennsylvania 1:15PM Graph powers and k-ordered Hamiltonicity. (993-05-146)
(1108) Preliminary report. 6:15PM Independent Sets In Triangle-Free Cubic Planar Denis Chebikin, MIT (993-05-1606)
(1126) Graphs. 1:30PM γ-labelings of graphs. Christopher Carl Heckman*, Arizona State (1109) Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University, University, and Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of David Erwin*, Trinity College, Donald W Technology (993-05-514) VanderJagt, Grand Valley State University, and Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University (993-05-1600) 1:45PM Multidesigns of the multipartite graph. MAA Session on Math and the Arts, III
(1110) Atif Abueida*, University of Dayton, and Mike Daven, Mount Saint Mary College (993-05-1588) 1:00 PM –4:55PM 2:00PM New Bounds on Isoperimetric Numbers of Platonic Organizers: Ann Robertson, Connecticut College (1111) Graphs. John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Dominic Lanphier, Kansas State University, and Urbana Jason Rosenhouse*, James Madison University (993-05-1514) Reza Sarhangi, Towson University 2:15PM The Elimination Procedure for the Competition Nathaniel A. Friedman, State
(1112) Number is Not Optimal. Preliminary report. University of New York, Albany Stephen G. Hartke, Rutgers University 1:00PM The Art of Star Polygons. Preliminary report. (993-05-1127)
(1127) Reza Sarhangi, Towson University (993-O1-1626)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 153 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Friday, January 9 (cont’d.)

1:20PM Visualizing the tightening of knots. Preliminary 3:30PM An Examination of the Knowledge Base for Teaching
(1128) report.
(1142) and Instructional Practice of Two Undergraduate Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia, Michael Mathematics Faulty Teaching Calculus. Piatek and Eric Rawdon, Duquesne University Kimberly B. Santucci*, Thomas C. DeFranco and (993-O1-1419) Jean McGivney-Burelle, University of Connecticut 1:40PM Geometric Representations of nth Hulls of Knotted (993-R1-421)
(1129) Curves. Preliminary report. John W. Foreman, University of Georgia MAA Session on My Favorite Demo: Innovative (993-O1-1422) Strategies for Mathematics Instructors, I 2:00PM What’s the Best Way to Make Polyhedral Models?
(1130) Helmer Aslaksen, National University of Singapore 1:00 PM –3:55PM (993-O1-1219) Organizers: David R. Hill, Temple University 2:15PM Break Lila F. Roberts, Georgia Southern 2:40PM Mathematics for poets (and drummers): The University
(1131) mathematics of rhythm. 1:00PM Demonstrating Linear Transformations with Rachel W Hall, Saint Joseph’s University
(1143) Morphing. (993-O1-505) John F. Putz, Alma College (993-S1-220) 3:00PM A Mathematical Measure of Preference in African 1:15PM Computer Visualizations for Calculus.
(1132) Rhythm. Preliminary report.
(1144) Lew Ludwig*, Denison University, and Keith Godfried T. Toussaint, School of Computer Howard, Kenyon College (993-S1-418) Science, McGill University (993-O1-845) 1:30PM Exploring Distributions and Random Samples with 3:20PM Triangular Music.
(1145) Sampler(TM).
(1133) Jonathan L Merzel*andMichael D Golden,Soka Clifford H. Wagner, Pennsylvania State University University of America (993-O1-301) at Harrisburg (993-S1-428) PM 3:40 Teaching Basic Music Theory from a Mathematical 1:45PM Motivating the Dihedral Group Through Quilting
(1134) Perspective. (1146) Squares. Timothy A Johnson, Ithaca College (993-O1-942) James E Hamblin, Shippensburg University 3:55PM Break (993-S1-531) 4:20PM Art, Mathematics, and Visualization. 2:00PM Visualizing Mathematical Models via Spreadsheets:
(1135) Pamela Davis Kivelson, Stanford University, and
(1147) Part I - Population Models. Katherine Socha*, Michigan State University Deane E. Arganbright*, University of Tennessee at (993-O1-397) Martin, and Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna 4:40PM Art and Mathematics: A Liberal Arts Mathematics (993-S1-223) (1136) course. 2:30PM Visualizing Mathematical Models via Spreadsheets: David Hartz, College of St Benedict (993-O1-1543)
(1148) Part II—Retirement Financing. Erich Neuwirth*, University of Vienna, and Deane MAA Session on Teaching and Learning of E. Arganbright, University of Tennessee at Martin (993-S1-225) Undergraduate Mathematics, I 3:00PM Maple Demos for Multivariable Calculus.
1:00 PM –3:55PM (1149) Karl J Havlak, Angelo State University (993-S1-188) 3:15PM Cross-sections and contours using Play-Doh. Organizers: Anne E. Brown, Indiana University
(1150) Pallavi Jayawant, University of Arizona South Bend (993-S1-500) Marilyn P. Carlson,ArizonaState 3:30PM From the Unit Circle to the Trigonometric Functions. University
(1151) Sarah L Mabrouk, Framingham State College Draga D. Vidakovic,GeorgiaState (993-S1-557) University 3:45PM Discovering the Five Platonic Solids. 1:00PM Following the path of evolution: Student
(1152) Jackie A Hall, Longwood University (993-S1-487)
(1137) constructions of the concept of solution to a differential equation. MAA Session on Mathematical Models of the Debasree Raychaudhuri, California State Environment University at Los Angeles (993-R1-1383) 1:30PM Lizzie and subgroups: A case study report on the 1:00 PM –3:55PM
(1138) role of affect. Preliminary report. Jennifer A Bergner, Salisbury University Organizers: Karen D. Bolinger, Clarion University (993-R1-365) William D. Stone, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology 2:00PM A Theoretical Model for Describing and Assessing
(1139) Students’ Understanding of the Function Concept. Ahlam E. Tannouri, Morgan State Brian R O’Callaghan, Southeastern Louisiana University University (993-R1-275) 1:00PM Applied Graph Theory in the Classroom.
2:30PM Undergraduates’ understanding of distance and (1153) Kimberly Jordan Burch, Montclair State University
(1140) angle as they explore Euclidean,spherical, and (993-T1-1532) taxicab geometries. Preliminary report. 1:15PM Mathematical Models in “The Iowa Environment”. Stephen D Blair, Portland State University
(1154) Daniel Alexander, Drake University (993-T1-1534) (993-R1-750) 1:30PM A Stochastic Model of Wind Velocities at the 3:00PM Exploring the Culture of a Non-Traditional
(1155) Kennedy Space Center.
(1141) Mathematics Classroom. Brian E. Smith*, McGill University, and Francis J. Carol E. Seaman*andJennifer Earles Szydlik, Merceret, National Aeronautics and Space University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (993-R1-160) Administration (993-T1-270)

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1:45PM Modeling the Color Changes in Tree Foliage: A 1:00PM Incorporating Technology and Multidisciplinary
(1156) Differential Equations Group Project. (1173) Applications in a Team-Taught Lecture-Laboratory Michael R. Huber*andBrian J. Lunday, United Calculus Course. States Military Academy (993-T1-179) Shea D Burns, North Carolina A&T State University 2:00PM Modeling Population Genetics. 1:00PM Teacher Preparation, Mathematics and Technology:
(1157) William P. Fox*, Jeffrey Camper and Richard D. (1174) A National Dialogue. West, Francis Marion University (993-T1-1535) Ruth Collins, Delaware Technical and Community 2:20PM An Air Pollution Transport Model. College
(1158) James A. Walsh, Oberlin College (993-T1-62) 1:00PM Lexington Collaborative for Reform and 2:40PM Remote Sensing Techniques. (1175) Improvement of Middle Mathematics.
(1159) Elyn Rykken, Muhlenberg College (993-T1-227) Lillie Crowley*, Lexington Community College, and 3:00PM Modeling the Spread of a Carrier Dependent Carl Lee, University of Kentucky (1160) Infectious Disease: Effect of Migration from 1:00PM Improving Mathematical Skill and Attitudes of Environmentally Degraded Habitat. (1176) Under-prepared College Freshmen. Prawal Sinha, Indian Institute of Technology Rosalie Dance*andLudence A Romney, University Kanpur (993-T1-84) of the Virgin Islands 3:20PM Population Growth Mathematical Models. 1:00PM Promoting Active Learning and Collaboration in
(1161) S. Narasimha Murthy, Addis Ababa University (1177) Calculus with the Investigative Classroom. (993-T1-23) Meighan I Dillon, Southern Polytechnic State 3:40PM Polynomial Models for Real World Applications. University
Michael J. Bosse N. (1162) *, Morgan State University, and 1:00PM Community College Mathematics Integration R. Nandakumar, Delaware State University (1178) Project. (993-T1-317) Stephen Drake*, Northwestern Michigan College, and Carolyn Drake, Dennos MuseumCenter

1:00PM Bridging the Vector Calculus Gap: Episode II. (1179) Tevian Dray*andCorinne A Manogue,Oregon MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by the NSF State University Division of Undergraduate Education. 1:00PM Interactive Modular Mathematics Education. (1180) William Feldman*andWayne Mackey, University 1:00 PM –3:00PM of Arkansas Organizer: Jon W. Scott, Montgomery College 1:00PM Motivating Geometry through Computation and 1:00PM Development of Interactive Material for the (1181) Visualization. (1163) Constructivist Teaching of Mathematical Proof to David Finn, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Future Teachers. 1:00PM Discovery-based Science and Mathematics in an Doug Ensley and Winston Crawley*, Shippensburg (1182) Environmental Context. University Stephanie Fitchett*, Florida Atlantic University, and 1:00PM Demos with Positive Impact. Blake Mellor, Loyola Marymount University (1164) David R Hill*, Temple University, and Lila F 1:00PM Enhancing the Mathematical Understanding of Roberts, Georgia College and State University (1183) Students in Chemistry. 1:00PM Collaborative Research: A Problem Based Calculus Shahriar Shahriari*andErica Flapan, Pomona (1165) Sequence. College Charles Allen Carol Browning *and , Drury 1:00PM A Problem and Reasoning Based Curriculum for University (1184) Preservice Elementary Educators: Understanding 1:00PM Collaborative Research: A Problem Based Calculus Mathematics Deeply for Teaching. (1166) Sequence. Judith Flowers, University of Michigan-Dearborn Ted Mahavier*andDale Daniel, Lamar University 1:00PM Using Both the ALEKS Learning and Assessment 1:00PM Collaborative Research: A Problem Based Calculus (1185) Computer Program and Conceptual Activities in a (1167) Sequence. College Developmental Mathematics Course. Shing So, Central Missouri State University Richard Goldthwait, Youngstown State University

1:00PM The PascGalois Project: Visualizing Abstract 1:00PM Collaborative Research: Adaptation and (1168) Algebra. (1186) Implementation of Activity and Web-Based Materials Michael Bardzell*andKathleen Shannon, into Post-Calculus Introductory Probability and Salisbury University Statistics Courses. 1:00PM Seeing the Connections: Promoting Profound Tracy Goodson-Espy, University of Alabama in (1169) Understanding of Secondary Mathematics. Huntsville Steve Benson*, Education Development Center, 1:00PM Collaborative Research: Adaptation and Karen Graham, University of New Hampshire, Neil (1187) Implementation of Activity and Web-Based Materials Portnoy, Stony Brook University, and Al Cuoco, into Post-Calculus Introductory Probability and Education Development Center Statistics Courses. 1:00PM Teaching Introductory Combinatorics by Guided M. Leigh Lunsford, University of Alabama in (1170) Group Discovery. Huntsville Kenneth Bogart, Dartmouth College 1:00PM Collaborative Research: Adaptation and 1:00PM Mathematics On Demand. (1188) Implementation of Activity and Web-Based Materials (1171) Linda Braddy*, Anne E Fine and Mickle Duggan, into Post-Calculus Introductory Probability and East Central University Statistics Courses. 1:00PM Quantitative Methods for Public Policy. Ginger Holmes Rowell, Middle Tennessee State (1172) David Bressoud, Macalester College University

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1:00PM Establishing the National Curve Bank. 1:00PM Applying Advanced Distributed Teaching and (1189) Shirley BGray *, Stewart Venit and Randolf (1209) Learning to Pre-Calculus Mathematics. Cooper, California State University Los Angles Hal Schlais, University of Wisconsin System, Robert 1:00PM WeBWorK in the Mathematics Curriculum. Hoar*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and Paul (1190) Jeffrey J Holt, University of Virginia Sundheim, University of Wisconsin Colleges 1:00PM The Probability/Statistics Object Library. 1:00PM Training Environmental Statisticians - Tomorrow’s (1191) Problem Solvers. (1210) Kyle Siegrist, University of Alabama in Huntsville William F Hunt*, Kimberly Weems and William 1:00PM Improving Calculus: Developing Concepts Through Swallow, North Carolina State University (1211) Good Questions. Maria Terrell, Cornell University 1:00PM Enhancing Student Preparation for Calculus via a (1192) Web-Based Homework System. 1:00PM Stem and Tendril: Vertically Integrated Statistics Michael D Hvidsten*andCharles Pastor, (1212) Laboratories. Gustavus Adolphus College John Verzani*, Andrew Poje and Deborah S. Franzblau, The College of Staten Island 1:00PM Exploring Geometry: Integrated Textbook and (1193) Software for College Geometry. 1:00PM Project WELCOME. Michael D Hvidsten, Gustavus Adolphus College (1213) James E White*, The Mathwright Library, Dan Kalman, American University, and William 1:00PM A Sophomore-Level Transition Course. Hawkins, University of the District of Columbia (1194) Michael A Jones*andArup Mukherjee, Montclair State University 1:00PM A Versatile, Technology-Intensive EarthMath. (1214) Nancy Zumoff*, Kennesaw State University, 1:00PM Development of an Undergraduate Diffraction Christopher Schaufele, retired, Paul Latiolais, (1195) Course. Portland State University, and Philippe Laval, David Kammler, Southern Illinois University, Kennesaw State University Carbondale 1:00PM Pathways through Algebra. 1:00PM Phaser: A Universal Simulator for Dynamical (1215) Wade Ellis*, West Valley College, and Terrie (1196) Systems Built on Java Technology. Teegarden, San Diego Mesa College Huseyin Kocak*andBrian Coomes, University of Miami 1:00PM Web-Based Math Homework. (1216) John W Jones, Arizona State University 1:00PM Core Mathematics. (1197) Gary Krahn*andDon Small, U.S. Military Academy 1:00PM Adapting Innovative Projects for Student (1217) Improvement. 1:00PM Teaching Discrete Mathematics via Primary Mary Kay Abbey*andJon Scott, Montgomery (1198) Historical Sources. College Jerry Lodder, New Mexico State University 1:00PM Improving Preservice Mathematics Teachers’ (1199) Understanding of Fundamental Concepts in the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum. John Lorch*, Elizabeth Bremigan and Ralph MAA Special Presentation Bremigan, Ball State University 1:00PM Reform College Algebra in a Tribal College Setting. 1:00 PM –3:00PM (1200) Russell Lundgren, Chief Dull Knife College Mathematics for business decisions (repeated from 1:00PM Mathematics for Future Secondary Teachers. 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Friday). (1201) James J Madden, Louisiana State University & Agricultural and Mechanical College Organizers: Richard B. Thompson, University of Arizona 1:00PM Knot Theory for Preservice and Practicing (1202) Secondary Mathematics Teachers. Christopher Lamoureux, University of Neil Portnoy, Stony Brook University, and Thomas Arizona Mattman*, California State University, Chico 1:00PM Implementation of WeBWorK Delivering (1203) Internet-Based Homework In College Algebra Classes. Coreen Mett*andNeil Sigmon, Radford University MAA Panel Discussion 1:00PM Broadening the Scope of Statistical Education 1:00 PM –2:20PM (1204) through Technology. Deborah Nolan*andTerence Speed, University of Voices of the partner disciplines: Building on the California Berkeley MAA curriculum foundations project. 1:00PM A Course in Scientific Simulation. Organizers: Tevian Dray, Oregon State University (1205) Mike O’Leary, Towson University Deborah Hughes Hallett, University of 1:00PM WeBWorK - a Web-Based Homework System. Arizona (1206) Arnold K Pizer*, Michael E Gage and Vicki Roth, Matthias Kawski,ArizonaState University of Rochester University 1:00PM A Computer Activity Approach to College Geometry. William G. McCallum, University of (1207) Barbara E Reynolds*, Cardinal Stritch University, Arizona and William E Fenton, Bellarmine University Panelists: Corinne A. Manogue, Oregon State 1:00PM Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum. University (1208) Raina Robeva*, Robin Davies, James Kirkwood, Sweet Briar College, Michael Johnson, Boris Ron Roedel, Arizona State University Kovatchev and Marty Straume, University of Michael Zeilik, University of New Virginia Mexico

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MAA Panel Discussion NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the 1:00 PM –2:20PM Mathematical Sciences Session for chairs: The chair’s role in teaching 2:15 PM –4:00PM teachers. Organizers: Catherine M. Murphy,Purdue University Calumet RMMC Board of Directors Daniel P. Maki, Indiana University 2:15 PM –4:10PM Panelists: Jim Lewis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Alan C. Tucker, SUNY at Stony Brook MAA Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients

2:30 PM –4:00PM ASL Invited Address (1228) Functions for the world. Thomas A. Garrity, Williams College 2:00 PM –2:50PM (1229) Clueless. Olympia Nicodemi, SUNY at Geneseo (1218) Vaught’s Conjecture. R.W. Knight,Oxford,UK (1230) A S.N.A.P. Math Fair. Andrew C.-F. Liu, University of Alberta

MAA Invited Paper Session on Assessment of Student MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics 2:00 PM –6:30PM 2:30 PM –6:25PM Organizers: Roger A. Simons, Rhode Island Bernard L. Madison College Organizers: , University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Satish C. Bhatnagar, University of William E. Haver, Virginia Nevada, Las Vegas Commonwealth University 2:00PM Philosophy of Mathematics: What, Who, Where, How 2:30PM Assessment of a New American Program in the
(1219) and Why.
(1231) Middle East. Charles R. Hampton, The College of Wooster Thomas W Rishel, Weill Cornell Medical College (993-U1-528) (993-Z3-46) 2:25PM On The Nature of Mathematical Thought and 2:50PM An assessment of the contribution of two general
(1220) Inquiry: A Prelusive Suggestion.
(1232) education mathematics courses in the quantitative Padraig M McLoughlin, Morehouse College reasoning skills of students. (993-U1-1331) Aimee J Ellington, Virginia Commonwealth 2:50PM The Interpretation of Probability is Perhaps an University (993-Z3-63)
(1221) Ill-Posed Question. 3:10PM Core Assessment- Past, Present, Future. Preliminary Paolo Rocchi, IBM (993-U1-185)
(1233) report. 3:10PM Minireception sponsored by the SIGMAA on the Melissa A Hardeman*andTracy A Watson, Philosphy of Mathematics. University of Arkansas at Little Rock (993-Z3-267) 3:40PM When is a proof a proof? 3:30PM Involving the Entire Department in Assessment. (1222) Joseph Auslander, University of Maryland College (1234) Preliminary report. Park (993-U1-1266) Dick Jardine, Keene State College (993-Z3-605) 4:05PM The Poetic View of Mathematics. 3:50PM Assessing the Mathematics Major with a Bottom-Up
(1223) Jerry P. King, Lehigh University (993-U1-1080)
(1235) Approach. Preliminary report. 4:30PM “You cannot solder an Abyss with Air”— the Role of Sarah V. Cook, Washburn University (993-Z3-520)
(1224) Metaphor in Mathematics. Preliminary report. 4:10PM Assessment–To Make It Work, Keep It Simple. Lawrence D’Antonio, Ramapo College of New
(1236) Thomas C. McMillan*andJim Fulmer, University Jersey (993-U1-376) of Arkansas at Little Rock (993-Z3-246) 4:50PM Minireception sponsored by the SIGMAA on the 4:30PM An online mathematics assessment, placement and Philosphy of Mathematics.
(1237) exit testing project. Preliminary report. 5:20PM The NonEuclidean Revolution Makes Relativism Jerry A Johnson*, Inmaculada Aban and Jeff
(1225) Available to the Rest of the World. Preliminary Mortensen, University of Nevada, Reno (993-Z3-89) report. 4:50PM Undergraduate Program Assessment at a Research Michael J. Bosse, Morgan State University
(1238) IUniversity.Preliminary report. (993-U1-294) Katherine J. Mawhinney*, Appalachian State 5:45PM The tension and the balance between mathematical University, and Jeffrey S. Scroggs, North Carolina
(1226) concepts and student constructions of it. State University (993-Z3-519) Debasree Raychaudhuri, California State 5:10PM Lessons Learned: Assessment Results at a Two-Year University at Los Angeles (993-U1-1564)
(1239) College. Preliminary report. 6:10PM On Godel’s Proof and the Relation Between Larry A Burgess*andRichard P Vaughn, Paradise
(1227) Mathematics and the Physical World. Preliminary Valley Community College (993-Z3-303) report. 5:30PM Assessing the Mathematics Major: A Triangulated G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, N.J., and Danielle (1240) Approach. Preliminary report. Mihram, University of Southern California Katherine Safford Ramus*andBrian P. Hopkins, (993-U1-408) Saint Peter’s College (993-Z3-638)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 157 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Friday, January 9 (cont’d.)

5:50PM Developing an Appropriate and Effective MAA Minicourse #3: Part B
(1241) Culminating Experience for Your Mathematics Majors. Preliminary report. 3:15 PM –5:15PM M Paul Latiolais*, Joyce O’Halloran and Karen Marrongelle, Portland State University (993-Z3-877) Computation and discovery in the number theory classroom. 6:10PM Using Portfolios for Departmental Assessment. (1242) Scott A Smith*andLaurie BHopkins , Columbia Organizer: Clifford A. Reiter, Lafayette College College (993-Z3-922) MAA Minicourse #9: Part B MAA Invited Paper Session on the Use of Hand-Held Technology in College and University Developmental 3:15 PM –5:15PM Algebra Classrooms PMET: Preparing mathematicians to educate teachers, grades 7–12. 2:30 PM –5:30PM Organizers: Holly Hirst, Appalachian State Organizers: Wade Ellis, Jr., West Valley College University Edward D. Laughbaum, The Ohio Jack Y. Narayan, SUNY College at State University Oswego 2:30PM Using Technology to Connect Developmental
(1243) Mathematics to College Algebra. ASL Invited Address Selina Vasquez, Southwest Texas State University (993-Z4-99) 3:30 PM –4:20PM 3:00PM Using Hand Held Technology to Address Math (1249) The type-definable group configuration under the
(1244) Anxiety in the Developmental Mathematics generalized type-amalgamation. Classroom. Byunghan Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Peg Greene, Florida Community College at Technology Jacksonville (993-Z4-73) 3:30PM Intermediate Algebra for the Visual Learner: Using London Mathematical Society
(1245) a Graphing Calculator to ”See” Characteristics of Quadratic Functions. 3:30 PM –5:00PM Katherine R Struve, Columbus State Community College (993-Z4-476) This session includes a Society meeting and an 4:00PM Using Handheld Software Applications (Apps) to Invited Address by Gerard van der Geer. (1246) Visualize Geometric Behaviors of Functions and their Relation to Real-World Data. MAA Committee on Undergraduate Student Activities Margo L. Mankus, Texas Instruments (993-Z4-325) and Chapters Undergraduate Poster Session 4:30PM Impact of hand-held technology on student learning
(1247) and curriculum dynamics. 4:00 PM –6:30PM Mercedes A McGowen, WilliamRainey Harper College (993-Z4-803) Organizer: Mario U. Martelli, Claremont McKenna College 5:00PM Developmental Algebra with Function as an (1248) Underlying Theme. Edward D Laughbaum, The Ohio State University MAA Invited Paper Session on WeBWorK, a Web-Based (993-Z4-48) Homework System, II

AMS Committee on Science Policy-AMS Committee on 4:10 PM –7:00PM the Profession Panel Discussion Organizers: Michael E. Gage, University of Rochester 2:30 PM –4:00PM Arnold K. Pizer, University of A walk through the math pipeline from end to end. Rochester Moderator: Jane Hawkins, University of North Vicki Roth, University of Rochester Carolina at Chapel Hill Jeffrey J. Holt, University of Virginia Panelists: James Sethian, University of California John W. Jones,ArizonaState Berkeley University Olga R. Beaver, Williams College 4:10PM WeBWorK Effectiveness in Rutgers Calculus. Jessica S. Sidman, Mount Holyoke
(1250) Charles A Weibel*andLew Hirsch,Rutgers College University (993-Z2-1243) James Bonn,CNACorporation 4:40PM Using WeBWorK at the Secondary School Level. Timothy W. Lant,ArizonaState (1251) Mark W Schmitt, Detroit Country Day School University (993-Z2-1381) Angela Herro, Arizona State University 5:10PM Responding to Webwork.
(1252) Jeff Achter, Colorado State University (993-Z2-897) MAA Minicourse #14: Part B 5:40PM WeBWorK Developments at Union College: New
(1253) Problems, Answer Checkers and Graders for 3:15 PM –5:15PM Multivariable Calculus. Davide P Cervone, Union College (993-Z2-1210) Introduction to mathematical card tricks. 6:10PM Running a Large WeBWorK Operation (Part 1). Organizers: Colm K. Mulcahy, Spelman College (1254) William K Ziemer, California State University Long Jeffrey A. Ehme, Spelman College Beach (993-Z2-1011)

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6:40PM Running a Large WeBWorK Operation (Part 2). MAA Panel Discussion
(1255) Preliminary report. John W Jones*, Arizona State University, and 5:45 PM –7:00PM Jeffrey J Holt, University of Virginia (993-Z2-994) Environmental mathematics. Organizer: Patricia Clark Kenschaft, Montclair AMS-MAA Government Speaker State University

4:20 PM –5:10PM Panelists: Mohammed Moazzam, Salisbury State University (1256) Title to be announced. Barry Schiller, Rhode Island College Michael S. Turner, National Science Foundation William Stone, New Mexico Institute of (993-00-1741) Mining and Technology

ASL Session for Contributed Papers, I Mathematical Reviews Reception

4:30 PM –5:15PM 6:00 PM –7:00PM 0 4:30PM A substructure of the lattice of Pi1 classes. (1257) Rebecca Weber, University of Notre Dame SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Annual 4:55PM Dynamical topological logic of Cantor space. Meeting and Inaugural Annual Address (1258) Grigori Mints*andTing Zhang, Stanford University 6:00 PM –8:30PM SIGMAA on Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Organizer: Amy Shell-Gellasch,SIAM-Germany Education MAA Authors’ Reception 4:30 PM –6:30PM 6:00 PM –7:30PM Business meeting and invited address by Chris Rasmussen. MAA Musical Presentation Organizer: Anne E. Brown, Indiana University South Bend 7:00 PM –8:30PM The mathematics of acoustic paradoxes. MAA Special Presentation Presenter: Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna 5:00 PM –7:00PM MAA Project NExT Reception Mathematics for business decisions. Organizers: Richard B. Thompson, University of 8:30 PM –10:30PM Arizona Christopher Lamoureux, University of Arizona Saturday, January 10 MAA Business, Industry and Government Welcoming Reception Joint Meetings Registration

7:30 AM –2:00PM 5:00 PM –6:00PM AMS Session on Combinatorics, II University of Michigan Reception 7:45 AM –10:40AM 5:00 PM –7:00PM 7:45AM Probabilistic Analysis of the Random Dynamic
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1259) Assignment Problem. Michael Z Spivey, Samford University (993-05-208) Department of Mathematics Reception 8:00AM Guessing Secrets. Preliminary report.
5:15 PM –7:15PM (1260) Eden Hochbaum*, Brown University, and Boris Bukh, University of California, Berkeley (993-05-1120) NAM Reception, Banquet, and Cox-Talbot Address 8:15AM A Multiplicity Problem Related to Schur Numbers.
(1261) Daniel Schaal*, South Dakota State University, and 5:30 PM –9:00PM Hunter Snevily, University of Idaho (993-05-1654) 8:30AM A Multiplicity Problem for a Linear Inequality. New Mexico State University Mathematics Association
(1262) Wojciech Kosek*, Colorado College, Daniel Schaal, Reception South Dakota State University, and Dusty Sabo, Southern Oregon University (993-05-1664) PM PM 5:30 –7:00 8:45AM How many Squares are there, Mr. Franklin?:
(1263) Constructing and Enumerating Franklin Squares. University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Maya Mohsin Ahmed, UC Davis (993-05-835) Mathematics Reception 9:00AM Three-Color Rado Numbers for an Inequality.
(1264) Brenda J Johnson*andDaniel Schaal,South 5:30 PM –7:00PM Dakota State University (993-05-944)

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 159 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Saturday, January 10 (cont’d.)

9:15AM Totally Magic Labelings of Graphs. 8:30AM Effects of stoichiometry on growth and
(1265) Bill Calhoun*, Kevin Ferland, Lisa Lister and John (1277) reproduction of individual organisms and on Polhill, Bloomsburg University (993-05-1349) population dynamics. Preliminary report. 9:30AM Break Roger M Nisbet*, UCSB, and Edward McCauley, University of Calgary (993-92-1093) 9:45AM On the Number of Binary Necklaces of Length n
(1266) where 0’s and 1’s are Interchangeable . Preliminary 9:00AM Competition and biological stoichiometry: linking report. (1278) rRNA:protein ratio in cells to species competition in William L Crowley, United States Military Academy, food webs via N:P ratios. West Point (993-05-1672) Irakli Loladze*, Simon A. Levin, Princeton University, Yang Kuang, James J. Elser,Arizona 10:00AM Coloring metric spaces. (1267) Jeong-Hyun Kang*andZoltan Furedi, University State University, BoDeng, University of Nebraska, of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (993-05-1678) Lincoln, and William F. Fagan, University of Maryland, College Park (993-92-1083) 10:15AM Hadamard’s 0-1 determinant problem. Preliminary
9:30AM Interpretation of the May-Leonard Model of Three (1268) report.
Radoslav M. Dimitric, Texas A&M University (1279) Species Competition as a Food Web in a Chemostat. (993-05-249) Gail S.K. Wolkowicz, McMaster University (993-92-1027) 10:30AM Regular Difference Triangle Sets and Monotonic (1269) Directed Designs. 10:00AM Discrete May-Leonard Competition Model—the Wensong Chu*, Charles J Colbourn,ArizonaState (1280) Ricker Type. Preliminary report. University, and Solomon W Golomb, University of Lih-Ing Wu Roeger, Texas Tech University Southern California (993-05-1094) (993-39-524) 10:30AM Investigating the Mechanisms of AMS Special Session on Nonassociative Algebra, I
(1281) Androgen-Independent Relapse Associated with Human Prostate Cancer. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Trachette Jackson, University of Michigan (993-92-762) Organizers: Murray R. Bremner, University of Saskatchewan Irvin R. Hentzel, Iowa State University AMS Special Session on Multiscale and Oscillatory Luiz A. Peresi, University of Sao Paulo Phenomena: Modeling, Numerical Techniques, and 8:00AM Iterated loop algebras. Preliminary report. Applications, II (1270) Bruce N. Allison, University of Alberta (993-17-1188) 8:00 AM –10:50AM 8:30AM Gradings on Simple Nonassociative Algebras. Organizers: Richard Tsai, Princeton University (1271) Yuri Bahturin, Memorial University of Luminita A. Vese, University of Newfoundland (993-17-901) California Los Angeles AM 9:00 Cohomology of Frobenius kernels. 8:00AM Computing Multivalued Solutions to Hyperbolic (1272) Christopher P Bendel*, University of (1282) Equations and Applications to Geometric Optics and Wisconsin-Stout, Daniel K Nakano, University of Schrodinger Equations. Georgia, and Cornelius Pillen, University of South Stanley J Osher, Level Set Systems, Inc Alabama (993-20-977) (993-65-758) 9:30AM Intermediate Wakimoto modules for Affine sl (n +1). 9:00AM Coupled Continuum and Atomistic Modeling of (1273) Ben L Cox*, College of Charleston, and Vyacheslav (1283) Solids. Futorny, University of Sydney (993-17-1133) Xiantao Li, Princeton University (993-74-153) 10:00AM Hopf duals, algebraic groups, and Jordan pairs. 9:30AM ENO Wavelet-ELLAM Schemes for Linear Transport (1274) Preliminary report. (1284) Equations with Piecewise Smooth Data. Preliminary John R. Faulkner, University of Virginia report. (993-17-269) Jiangguo Liu*, Bojan Popov,TexasA&M 10:30AM An estimate of the number of parameters defining University, Hong Wang, University of South (1275) the varieties of n-dimesional alternative and Jordan Carolina, and Richard E. Ewing,TexasA&M algebras. University (993-65-96) Iryna Kashuba, University of Sao Paulo 10:00AM Curvelets and Linear Hyperbolic Equations. (993-17-1101) (1285) Emmanuel J Candes and Laurent Demanet*, California Institute of Technology (993-35-1714) AMS Special Session on Competitive and Adaptative 10:30AM Analysis of a discontinous Galerkin and eddy Dynamics in Ecology, II (1286) viscosity method for Navier-Stokes. SKaya*andBeatrice Riviere, University of 8:00 AM –10:50AM Pittsburgh (993-76-745) Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Los Alamos National Laboratory Yang Kuang, Arizona State University AMS Special Session on Modern Function Theory, II

Bai-Lian Li, University of California 8:00 AM –10:50AM Riverside HorstR.Thieme,ArizonaState Organizers: Beth Schaubroeck,U.S.AirForce University Academy 8:00AM Periodic coexistence of four species on three Peter L. Duren, University of Michigan, (1276) essential resources. Ann Arbor Bingtuan Li*, University of Louisville, and Hal L John A. Pfaltzgraff, University of Smith, Arizona State University (993-92-1085) North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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8:00AM Holomorphic mappings of circular domains onto 8:30AM New symplectic 4–manifolds with b+=1. Preliminary (1287) convex domains in n dimensional space. Preliminary (1297) report. report. Scott J Baldridge, Indiana University (993-53-620) Ted J Suffridge, University of Kentucky 9:00AM On the geometric structures necessary for Nahm (993-32-630) (1298) transform. Preliminary report. 8:30AM Construction of convex mappings of p-balls in C2. Marcos Jardim, University of Massachusetts at (1288) Preliminary report. Amherst (993-53-228) Jerry R. Muir, Jr.*, Rose-Hulman Institute of 9:30AM Calabi-Yau Connections with Torsion on Toric Technology, and Ted J. Suffridge, University of (1299) Bundles. Kentucky (993-32-955) Yat Sun Poon*, UC Riverside, Gueo Grantcharov, 9:00AM Regularity properties of Loewner chains in several Florida International University, and Dimitar (1289) variables. Grantcharov, University of Alberta (993-53-1152) Ian Graham*, University of Toronto, Gabriela Kohr 10:00AM Geometric Quantization of the Geodesic Flow of the and Mirela Kohr, Babes-Bolyai University (1300) Compact Rank-One Symmetric Spaces. Preliminary (993-32-893) report. 9:30AM On Hyerbolically Convex Functions. Preliminary Dimitar V Grantcharov, University of Alberta
(1290) report. (993-51-1068) Roger W Barnard*, Texas Tech University, G Lenny 10:30AM Geometric Inequalities for Submanifolds in Ornas, McNeese State University, Kent Pearce and (1301) Sasakian Manifolds. Preliminary report. G Brock Williams, Texas Tech University Ion Mihai, Bucharest University (993-53-119) (993-30-656) 10:00AM Maximizing A Class of Functionals over AMS Special Session on Arithmetical Algebraic (1291) Hyperbolically Convex Functions. Geometry, II Gerard L Ornas*, Roger W Barnard and Kent Pearce, Texas Tech University (993-30-142) 8:00 AM –10:50AM 10:30AM Convexity properties of the hyperbolic density. (1292) Preliminary report. Organizers: Kirti Joshi, University of Arizona William Ma*, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona and David Minda, University of Cincinnati Adrian Vasiu, University of Arizona (993-30-138) 8:00AM p-adic Periods of Modular Elliptic Curves. (1302) Shuzo Takahashi, University of Arizona (993-11-1091) AMS Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems 8:30AM The Motivic DGA. and Applications, II (1303) Roy Joshua, Institute for Advanced Study/Ohio State University (993-14-873) 8:00 AM –10:40AM 9:00AM Gaussian Hypergeometric Functions, and Traces of Organizers: Qiu-dong Wang, University of Arizona (1304) Hecke Operators. Sharon M Frechette*, College of the Holy Cross, Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Arizona Matthew Papanikolas, Texas A&M University 8:00AM Generic hydrodynamic instability via contact (993-11-141) (1293) homology. 9:30AM On the p-order of the Shafarevich-Tate groups of Robert Ghrist*, University of Illinois, (1305) elliptic curves via Kolyvagin’s method. Urbana-Champaign, and John Etnyre, University of Byungchul Cha, Johns Hopkins University Pennsylvania (993-37-1528) (993-11-1286) 9:00AM Diophantine approximation and self-conformal 10:00AM The number of extensions of a number field with (1294) measures. Preliminary report. (1306) fixed degree and bounded discriminant. Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas Jordan S Ellenberg*, Princeton University, and (993-37-231) Akshay Venkatesh, Massachusetts Institute of 10:00AM Actions of lattices on low-dimensional manifolds. Technology (993-11-903) (1295) John Franks*, Northwestern University, and 10:30AM The rank of the Mordell-Weil groups of elliptic Michael Handel, Lehman College CUNY (1307) curves over large fields. (993-37-1177) Bo-Hae Im, Indiana University, Bloomington (993-11-814)

AMS Special Session on Geometric Structures on AMS Special Session on Value Distribution Theory in Manifolds, I Classical and p-Adic Function Theory, I

8:00 AM –10:50AM 8:00 AM –10:50AM Organizers: Tedi C. Draghici, Florida International Organizers: Alain Escassut, Universit´e Blaise University Pascal Gueo V. Grantcharov,Florida Ilpo Laine, University of Joensuu International University Chung-Chun Yang, Hong Kong Philipe Rukimbura,Florida University of Science and Technology International University 8:00AM Interplay of coefficient behavior and solution 8:00AM Timelike minimal surfaces via loop groups. (1308) behavior for complex differential equations in the (1296) Magdalena D Toda*, Texas Tech University, and unit disk, Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Junichi Inoguchi, Utsunomyia University, Japan Linda R. Sons, Northern Illinois University (993-53-155) (993-30-1369)

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8:30AM Linear differential equations and logarithmic AMS Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, III (1309) derivative estimates. Igor Chyzhykov, Lviv National University, Gary G 8:00 AM –10:50AM Gundersen*, University of New Orleans, and Janne Heittokangas, University of Joensuu (993-30-995) Organizer: Tim D. Cochran, Rice University 8:00AM Filtrations of Classical Knots. 9:00AM Growth estimates for analytic solutions of complex (1320) Tim D Cochran, Rice University (993-57-1168) (1310) linear differential equations. Preliminary report. Janne Heittokangas, University of Illinois 8:30AM New obstructions to doubly slicing knots. at Urbana-Champaign, Risto Korhonen*, (1321) Taehee Kim, Rice University (993-57-1184) Loughborough University, and Jouni Rattya, 9:00AM Concordance of boundary links. University of Joensuu (993-34-776) (1322) Jerome P Levine, Brandeis University (993-57-975) 9:30AM On solutions of linear differential equations with 9:30AM The Doubled-Delta Move on Ordered Links.
(1311) bounded Nevanlinna characteristic. Preliminary (1323) Preliminary report. report. Carol Gwosdz Gee, Rice University (993-57-1180) Janne Heittokangas*, University of Illinois at 10:00AM The H3(PSL(2,C),Z) class and Chern-Simons Urbana-Champaign, Risto Korhonen, (1324) invariant of a hyperbolic 3-manifold. Loughborough University, and Jouni Ra¨ttya¨, Walter D Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University of Joensuu (993-30-590) University (993-57-911) 10:00AM Random iteration of analytic maps. 10:30AM Spin Bordism Invariants of the Mapping Class (1312) Tuen Wai Ng*, The University of Hong Kong, Alan (1325) Group. F. Beardon, T. K. Carne, University of Cambridge, Aaron Heap, Rice University (993-55-707) and David Minda, University of Cincinnati (993-30-970) AMS Session on History, Foundation and Mathematics 10:30AM Ultrametric Gelfand Transforms. (1313) Nicolas Mainetti, LLAIC - Universite d’Auvergne Education (993-13-1233) 8:00 AM –9:55AM

8:00AM If People Were Papers and Papers Were People.
(1326) Preliminary report. Jerrold W. Grossman, Oakland University AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential (993-01-639) Equations and Variational Problems, III 8:15AM Undecidable Lattices of Finite Dimensional Steinitz (1327) Exchange Systems. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Lisa R Galminas*, Northwestern State University of Organizers: David A. Hartenstine, University of LA, and John W Rosenthal, Ithaca College Utah (993-03-1644) Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State 8:30AM Embedding modular lattices as principal filters in University (1328) the lattice of Computably Enumerable Vector Spaces. Preliminary report. John M. Neuberger,NorthernArizona Rumen D Dimitrov, Western Illinois University State University (993-03-1674) John W. Neuberger, University of 8:45AM Geometric Reasoning. North Texas
(1329) Tevian Dray*andCorinne A. Manogue,Oregon 8:00AM A Variational Approach to Solving the State University (993-97-1594) (1314) Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Equations in 9:00AM The number sense of preservice elementary school Three Space Dimensions. Preliminary report.
(1330) teachers. Preliminary report. Patricia E Bauman*, Hala Jadallah and Daniel Yea-ling Tsao, Overseas Chinese Institute of Phillips, Purdue University (993-35-1549) Technology (993-97-280) AM 8:30 On Generalized and Viscosity Solutions of Nonlinear 9:15AM Getting Students to Discuss Linear Algebra via
(1315) Elliptic Equations.
(1331) Email. David Hartenstine*andKlaus Schmitt, University Matt Insall, University of Missouri- Rolla of Utah (993-35-839) (993-97-576) 9:00AM Domain geometry and the Pohozaev Identity. 9:30AM Mathematical Connections: For Example, ”How To (1316) Jeff S McGough*, Gregg T Stubbendieck,South
(1332) Teach Radicals In Less Than 5 Minutes” (Grades Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and 6-16). Preliminary report. Jeff Mortensen, University of Nevada Reno Juli D’Ann Ratheal, West Texas A & M University (993-35-634) (993-97-1147) 9:30AM Solvability of parabolic variational inequalities in 9:45AM Teacher Reflection and Collaboration in the Form of (1317) Banach spaces.
(1333) Lesson Study: The Effects on Student Achievement Matthew Rudd, University of Texas at Austin in Mathematics. (993-35-1150) Diane Barrett*andLaurie Riggs, Cal Poly, Pomona 10:00AM Young measure minimizers in nonlinear membrane (993-97-1585) (1318) theory. Marian Bocea, Carnegie Mellon University (993-49-120) MAA Session on Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, II 10:30AM Existence and Asymptotic Boundary Behavior of (1319) Blow-up Solutions to Weighted Quasilinear 8:00 AM –10:55AM Equations. Preliminary report. Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State University Organizers: Anne E. Brown, Indiana University (993-35-1211) South Bend

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Marilyn P. Carlson,ArizonaState 9:00AM Tablet PC and Mathematics: A Match Made in University
(1347) Heaven. Draga D. Vidakovic,GeorgiaState Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall University University (993-S1-437) 8:00AM Mathematics Anxiety and Learned Helplessness. 9:15AM Pulling Ropes and Plumbing Lines: Introducing

(1334) Preliminary report. (1348) Geometry with a Neolithic Tool Kit. Joseph Franke Kolacinski, University of Miami Stephen J Luecking, DePaul University (993-R1-498) (993-S1-282) 9:30AM The Curved Cube. Preliminary report. 8:20AM Strange Attractors and Chaos as a Theoretical

(1335) Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of (1349) Roland Minton*, Roanoke College, and Gregory Student Attitudes toward Mathematics. Minton, SalemHigh School (993-S1-302) Zaur Berkaliev, California State University 9:45AM Taylor Series : The Movie. (993-R1-347)
(1350) Rachel W Hall, Saint Joseph’s University (993-S1-507) 8:40AM Improving student performance and sense-making
(1336) in Liberal Arts Mathematics. 10:00AM Using technology to illustrate level curves. Shandy Hauk*, Robert A. Powers, April D. Judd
(1351) Jeffry L. Hirst*andHolly P. Hirst, Appalachian and Jenq-Jong Tsay, U. of Northern Colorado State University (993-S1-427) (993-R1-1399) 10:15AM Visual aids for volumes of revolution and 3D 9:00AM Using Web Based Technology to enhance College (1352) functions in Calculus. Preliminary report.
(1337) Algebra. Tamara BVeenstra , University of Redlands Gary Hagerty, Black Hills State University (993-S1-363) (993-R1-264) 10:30AM Voronoi Diagrams and the Geometric Notion of
9:20AM When We Need The Sage On The Stage. (1353) Proximity.
(1338) Patricia L Hale, Cal Poly Pomona (993-R1-195) Bruno Guerrieri, Florida A&M University (993-S1-345) 9:40AM Student use of software to verify geometrical (1339) statements. Preliminary report. 10:45AM Discovering Derivative Rules. Jeff Connor*, Barbara Grover and Laura Moss, (1354) Sharon Sue Emerson-Stonnell, Longwood Ohio University (993-R1-1317) University (993-S1-545) 10:00AM A Transformation of Pre-service Mathematics
(1340) Teachers’ Definitions of Mathematics. MAA Session on Focus on Integrating Graphic Carmen Marie Latterell, University of Minnesota Handhelds into Collegiate Mathematics Duluth (993-R1-19) 10:20AM Characteristics of Prospective Teachers’ Posed 8:00 AM –10:55AM
(1341) Problems. Todd A. Grundmeier, California Polytechnic State Organizers: Charles E. Hofmann, LaSalle University University, San Luis (993-R1-283) Joseph R. Fiedler, California State University, Bakersfield 10:40AM Undergraduate Mathematical Knowledge for High
(1342) School Teaching. Preliminary report. 8:00AM About the experiences how to integrate computers Bradford R Findell*andR Judith Reed, University
(1355) or CAS-calculators in Mathematical Education in of Georgia (993-R1-1416) Austria. Otto Wurnig, Institute of Mathematics (993-V1-364) 8:15AM New Ways of Assessment in CAS-oriented
(1356) mathematical Education - New Experiences, First MAA Session on My Favorite Demo: Innovative results. Strategies for Mathematics Instructors, II Otto Wurnig, Institute of Mathematics (993-V1-362) 8:30AM Integrating algebra-capable calculators into a 8:00 AM –10:55AM
(1357) number theory with cryptography course. David BGove , California State University, Organizers: David R. Hill, Temple University Bakersfield (993-V1-765) Lila F. Roberts, Georgia Southern 8:45AM Palm Pilot Mathematics & Programming. University
(1358) Preliminary report. 8:00AM The Utility of Catenaries to Electric Utilities. Olga Yiparaki, IBM (993-V1-405)
(1343) Sharon M. Barrs, James P. Braselton, Lorraine M. 9:00AM Using a TI-83 to Motivate Theorems and Reinforce Braselton, Georgia Southern University, and Lila F.
(1359) Concepts in Precalculus Classes. Roberts*, Georgia College & State University James A. Nickerson, Gallaudet University (993-S1-377) (993-V1-378) 8:15AM Seeing is believing: Visuals on Demand. Preliminary 9:15AM Impact of Graphing Calculator Use on Precalculus
(1344) report. (1360) Students’ Understanding of Polynomial, Rational, Jennifer A Bergner*, Salisbury University, and and Exponential Functions: Results and Reflections. Donald Spickler, Salisbury Universtiy (993-S1-388) Becky Krakowski, University of Dayton 8:30AM Our Favorite Level Curves and Linear Regression (993-V1-419)
(1345) Demos. 9:30AM Discovering Derivatives of Familiar Functions Using Agnes M. Rash*, Saint Joseph’s University, and
(1361) a Graphing Calculator. Jean Marie McDill, California Polytechnic State U. Murray H. Siegel, SamHouston State University (993-S1-401) (993-V1-29) 8:45AM Using a POP quiz to Introduce Statistics to the 9:45AM Enhancing University Students’ Mathematical
(1346) Weary. Preliminary report.
(1362) Understanding Through the Use of Handheld Data Jane M Wilburne, Shippensburg University Collection Devices. Preliminary report. (993-S1-390) Jorgen J Berglund, CSU, Chico (993-V1-328)

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10:00AM Modeling Heat Flow in a Thermos. Shawnee L. McMurran, California
(1363) Michael A. Karls*andJames E. Scherschel,Ball State University at San Bernardino State University (993-V1-289) 8:00AM Counting Handshakes to Sums of Powers of 10:15AM Meaningful Contexts and Calculator Exploration
(1376) Integers.
(1364) Increase Students’ Mathematical Understanding. Thomas J Pfaff, Ithaca College (993-Z1-237) James Sandefur, Georgetown University 8:15AM Leg-slope generation of Pythagorean triples. (993-V1-537)
(1377) Preliminary report. 10:30AM Using Handheld Technology In The Classroom: Daniel Drucker*, Wayne State University, and Fat C
(1365) Lessons From Novices. Lam, Gallaudet University (993-Z1-1013) Gregory N Hartman*, University of Arizona, and 8:30AM Partitions and Groups. Preliminary report. Russel O Carlson, University of Arizona
(1378) Michael J. Grady, Southern Utah University (993-V1-486) (993-Z1-97) 10:45AM Constructing Geometric Understandings for 8:45AM Catenary or Parabola? (1366) Prospective Elementary Teachers through Dynamic (1379) Curtis J. Feist, Southern Oregon University Visualization on the TI 83+. (993-Z1-1346) Barbara Johnson Pence, San Jose State Univ 9:00AM A Demonstration of Teaching and Applying Baye’s (993-V1-1030)
(1380) Formula. Paul Kochanowski*andMorteza Shafii-Mousavi, MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, I Indiana University South Bend (993-Z1-202) 9:15AM Safety Deposit: what it really costs us. Preliminary 8:00 AM –10:55AM (1381) report. Organizers: Sean L. Forman, Saint Joseph’s Youngna Choi*, Montclair State University, and University Yeomin Yoon, Seton Hall University (993-Z1-415) Douglas Drinen, University of the 9:30AM Temperature Models for Two Room Systems. South
(1382) J K Denny*andCAYackel, Mercer University 8:00AM The Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball. (993-Z1-239)
(1367) Michael A Jones and Linda A Tappin*, Montclair 9:45AM Will the Real Most Valuable Player Please Stand Up? State University (993-W1-796)
(1383) Preliminary report. 8:20AM Run Production in Baseball: a Markov Chain Model. Joseph Evan*andDaniel J. Ghezzi, King’s College
(1368) Thomas W. Polaski, Winthrop University (993-Z1-1143) (993-W1-332) 10:00AM Teaching Combinatorics Using Guided Discovery. 8:40AM Whether You Win or Lose, It’s How the Overtime is (1384) Mark A Miller, Marietta College (993-Z1-984)
(1369) Played: A Markov Chain Analysis of the National 10:15AM Computer Science Majors Coding Graph Algorithms Football League’s Overtime Rules.
(1385) and Simulating Automata. Michael A Jones, Montclair State University Edward Aboufadel, Grand Valley State University (993-W1-372) (993-Z1-194) 9:00AM Moral Hazard on the Mound: the Economics of 10:30AM On general convergence and polynomiography in
(1370) Plunking.
(1386) computing roots of unity. Doug Drinen, University of the South (993-W1-947) Yi Jin*, Rutgers University, and Bahman Kalantari, 9:20AM May the Best Team Win: The Mathematics of Rutgers University (993-Z1-1156)
(1371) Scoring a Cross-Country Running Race. Stephen Szydlik, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (993-W1-201) AWM Workshop 9:40AM The Tournament-Ranking Family of Four. 8:20 AM –5:00PM
(1372) Charles Redmond, Mercyhurst College (993-W1-838) This session consists of several parts listed 10:00AM Sabermetrics: Giving College Credit for Studying separately throughout this program. All meeting
(1373) Baseball. participants are invited to attend all presentations. Michael R Huber*andGabriel Costa, United States Organizers: Catherine A. Roberts, The College of Military Academy (993-W1-190) the Holy Cross 10:20AM The New Football Coach’s Dilemma: Overtime. Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern
(1374) Vince Schielack, Texas A&M University Colorado (993-W1-504) 10:40AM ”Real” Data Comparisons, Game Theory, and
(1375) Operations Research in the Game of Baseball. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, Robert V Stack and Monty G Fickel*, Chadron III State College (993-W1-1117) 8:30 AM –10:50AM MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VI Organizers: Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College (CUNY) 8:00 AM –10:40AM David E. Zitarelli, Temple University Organizers: Laura J. Wallace, California State 8:30AM Thomas Harriot’s Treatise on Figurate Numbers University, San Bernardino (1387) and Finite Differences. Preliminary report. Jacqueline A. Jensen,SamHouston Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands State University (993-01-1078) Gary W. Towsley, SUNY at Geneseo 9:00AM Humanizing mathematical biographies. Preliminary Michael A. Jones, Montclair State
(1388) report. University John W Dawson, Penn State York (993-01-217)

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9:30AM Mathematician as Artist: Marston Morse David M. Strong, Pepperdine
(1389) (1892-1977). Preliminary report. University Joanne E. Snow*andColleen M. Hoover, Saint Mary’s College (993-01-288) MAA Panel Discussion 10:00AM Learning some of the basics of historical research
(1390) through the movies. Preliminary report. 9:00 AM –10:20AM Alejandro R Garciadiego, UNAM, Mexico (993-01-647) Mathematicians and mathematics teacher 10:30AM Mathematics and Opera: The mathematical work of educators working together to improve K–12
(1391) the opera singer Jerome Hines. Preliminary report. mathematics education. T. Christine Stevens, Saint Louis University Organizer: Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern (993-01-675) Colorado Panelists: Jack Price, National Council of AWM Workshop: Presentations by Recent Women Teachers of Mathematics Ph.D.s and Graduate Students, I Judith E. Jacobs,NCTMandAMTE Randall J. Swift, Calfornia State 8:30 AM –10:20AM Polytech University Pomona 8:30AM Finite-to-One Mappings on βN − N. Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern (1392) Katherine J. Mawhinney, Appalachian State Colorado University 9:00AM Real and Topological Stable Rank. (1393) Marian K. Hukle, University of Kansas MAA Panel Discussion 9:30AM Measurably dominating randomness: some 9:00 AM –10:20AM (1394) measurable similarities between set theory and recursion theory regarding dominating functions. Doctorates in mathematics education: Where do Natasha Dobrinen*andStephen G. Simpson,The they go? What do they do? How can mathematics Pennsylvania State University departments contribute? 10:00AM Inequalities for geometric lattice invariants. Organizer: Robert E. Reys, University of (1395) Kathryn Nyman, Texas A&M University Missouri-Columbia Panelists: Douglas B. Aichele, Oklahoma State AMS Committee on Education Panel Discussion University Rick Billstein, University of Montana 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Ira J. Papick, University of Missouri The evaluation of state mathematics standards: How can mathematicians contribute? AMS-MAA Committee on Teaching Assistants and Moderator: Roger E. Howe, Yale University Part-Time Instructors Panel Discussion Panelists: Johnny W. Lott, NCTM and University of Montana 9:00 AM –10:20AM Laura McGiffert, Achieve, Inc. Nonpermanent instructors: implications and issues. R. James Milgram, Stanford University Organizers: Teri J. Murphy, University of Oklahoma MAA Invited Address Natasha M. Speer, Michigan State 9:00 AM –9:50AM University (1396) When topology meets chemistry. Erica L. Flapan, Pomona College (993-A0-15) NAM Panel Discussion

ASL Invited Address 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

9:00 AM –9:50AM Exhibits and Book Sales (1397) Computable classification. Julia Knight, University of Notre Dame 9:00 AM – NOON

MAA Minicourse #15: Part B Mathematical Art Exhibit

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM 9:00 AM – NOON Fair enough? Mathematics of equity. Organizers: Robert Fathauer, Tessellations Organizers: John C. Maceli, Ithaca College Company, Phoenix, Arizona Stanley E. Seltzer, Ithaca College Nat Friedman,ISAMA,SUNYatAlbany Reza Sarhangi, Bridges Conference, MAA Minicourse #4: Part B Towson University

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Employment Center Java applets in teaching mathematics. Organizers: Joe Yanik, Emporia State University 9:00 AM – NOON

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Math on the Web MAA Business Meeting

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM 11:10 AM – 11:40 AM Go to the Math on the Web Pavilion for the complete schedule of presentations. AMS Business Meeting

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM ASL Invited Address NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture 10:00 AM –10:50AM 1:00 PM –1:50PM (1398) Supercompactness measures. Steve Jackson, University of North Texas ASL Invited Address

NAM Business Meeting 1:00 PM –1:50PM

10:00 AM –10:50AM (1412) Torsion-free groups in some o-minimal structures. Kobi Peterzil, Haifa, Israel

MAA Retiring Presidential Address AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, III 10:05 AM –10:50AM (1399) Fallacies in elementary statistics. 1:00 PM –5:50PM Ann E. Watkins, California State University, Organizers: Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois Northridge (993-A0-13) at Chicago Robert W. Peck, Louisiana State AWM Workshop: Poster Session by Women Graduate University Students 1:00PM Cardinality Equals Variety for Chords, with a Note (1413) on the Twin Primes Conjecture. 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM David L. Clampitt, Yale University (993-11-1178) 10:30AM On the Complexity of the Endomorphism Problem 1:30PM Well-formed Scales and the Stern Brocot Tree. (1400) for Free Groups. (1414) Norman A Carey, Eastman School of Music Laura Ciobanu, Rutgers University (993-11-1046) 10:30AM Lie 2-algebras. 2:00PM Winding modes around the circle of fifths. (1401) Alissa S. Crans, University of California, Riverside (1415) Vittorio Cafagna*andDomenico Vicinanza,DMI- University of Salerno (993-05-935) 10:30AM Characterizing Multivariable Low-Pass Filters. (1402) Eva Curry, Rutgers University 2:30PM TheRoleofMathematicsintheConstructionof
(1416) Musical Scales. Preliminary report. 10:30AM Singularities in Conformal Geometry: from PDE to (1403) Topology. Richard J Krantz, Metropolitan State College of Maria del Mar Gonzalez, Princeton University Denver (993-00-737) 3:00PM Aspects of Saturation and Ordering in Twelve-Tone 10:30AM Convergence of a Spacetime Discontinuous Galerkin
(1404) Method to a weak solution of Temple Systems. (1417) Music. Preliminary report. Katarina Jegdic, University of Illinois at Ciro G Scotto*andRobert D Morris, Eastman Urbana-Champaign School of Music (993-20-1663) 3:30PM A Topological Model of Motivic Analysis of Music: 10:30AM Radial parts of invariant differential operators on
(1405) Grassmann manifolds. (1418) Theory and Implementation. Chantal Buteau Olga Kurgalina, Tufts University , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (993-54-1237) 10:30AM r -matrices on Lie Superalgebras. 4:00PM A geometric model of continuous musical spaces. (1406) Gizem Karaali, University of California, Berkeley
(1419) Clifton D Callender, Florida State University 10:30AM Density of Closed Geodesics in Compact (993-51-1212) (1407) Nilmanifolds Defined by Compact Semisimple 4:30PM Knots, Braids and Chord Diagrams, As New Musical g -modules. (1420) Structures. Rachelle DeCoste, University of North Carolina, Franck J. Jedrzejewski, Atomic Energy Commission Chapel Hill (CEA-INSTN) (993-54-315) 10:30AM Alternating Quadrisecants of Knots. 5:00PM Coincident histories or historical coincidence? (1408) Elizabeth Denne, University of Illinois at
(1421) Concurrent developments in nineteenth-century Urbana-Champaign group theory and music theory. 10:30AM Application of the Generalized Singular Value Nora A Engebretsen, Bowling Green State (1409) Decomposition to Face Recognition. University (993-01-1646) Peg Howland, University of Minnesota, Department 5:30PM Discussion. of Computer Science and Engineering 10:30AM Generalized Foulkes’ Conjecture and Tableaux AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, (1410) Construction. IV Rebecca Vessenes, California Institute of Technology 1:00 PM –3:50PM 10:30AM A Blowing Up Algorithm for Calculating Rings of (1411) Integers. Organizers: Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College Sarah Hutcheson Jahn, University of Illinois at (CUNY) Chicago David E. Zitarelli, Temple University

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1:00PM Contributions of Ferdinand Hassler to Early AMS Special Session on Competitive and Adaptative
(1422) American Science. Preliminary report. Dynamics in Ecology, III V. Frederick Rickey, West Point (993-01-1007) 1:30PM Edward V. Huntington and the Apportionment 1:00 PM –5:50PM
(1423) Debate of 1920–1940. Preliminary report. Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Los Alamos (993-01-329) National Laboratory 2:00PM The Texas–Polish Connection in Topology: Yang Kuang, Arizona State University
(1424) Competition and Cooperation. Albert C. Lewis, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Bai-Lian Li, University of California Indianapolis (993-01-356) Riverside 2:30PM From Vienna to New York: Abraham Wald’s Horst R. Thieme,ArizonaState
(1425) Converging Communities. University Patti W. Hunter, Westmont College (993-01-713) 1:00PM Exactly Solvable Models of Nonlinear Population 3:00PM A (very) brief history of the problem of resolution of (1438) Dynamics Related to Biological Invasions.
(1426) singularities of algebraic surfaces. Preliminary Sergei V. Petrovskii*, Shirshov Institute of report. Oceanology, Bai-Lian Li, Department of Botany and Chris Christensen, Northern Kentucky University Plant Sciences, and Horst Malchow, Institute of (993-01-102) Environmental Systems Research (993-92-969) 3:30PM Algebraic topology chez Bourbaki. Preliminary
(1427) report. 1:30PM Modeling agricultural ecosystem dynamics under Bt John McCleary, Vassar College (993-01-664)
(1439) resistant pest invasion. Alexander BMedvinsky *, Institute for Theoretical & Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Andrew Y Morozov, Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Vassili V Velkov, Institute of Biochemistry & Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of AMS Special Session on Nonassociative Algebra, II Sciences, Bai-Lian Li, Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Mikhail S 1:00 PM –5:50PM Sokolov, Research Center for Toxicology and Hygienic Regulation of Biopreparations, and Horst Organizers: Murray R. Bremner, University of Malchow, Institute of Environmental Systems Saskatchewan Research, University of Osnabrueck (993-92-907) Irvin R. Hentzel, Iowa State University 2:00PM Localized interactions and biological diversity. Luiz A. Peresi, University of Sao Paulo
(1440) Preliminary report. 1:00PM Relatively free coalgebras. Frederick R Adler*, University of Utah, and Helene (1428) Mikhail V. Kochetov, Carleton University C Muller-Landau, NCEAS (993-92-822) (993-17-1390) 2:30PM Coexistence in a metapopulation model with explicit 1:30PM Matrices over octonions and orbits of exceptional (1441) local competition dynamics. Preliminary report. (1429) groups. Zhilan Feng*, Rob Swihart, Purdue University, Sergei Krutelevich, University of Ottawa Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology, and (993-17-966) Huaiping Zhu, York University (993-34-610) PM 2:00 Representations of rank 3 algebras. 3:00PM On the impossibility of coexistence of infinitely (1430) Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin, and (1442) many strategies. Alicia Labra*, Universidad de Chile (993-17-455) Mats Gyllenberg, University of Turku (993-92-727) 2:30PM One-sided Modules and unital bimodules over (1431) Jordan superalgebras. 3:30PM Climate and competition: the effect of moving Consuelo Mart´inez, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain (1443) range boundaries on habitat invasibility. (993-17-802) A. B. Potapov*andM. A. Lewis, University of Alberta (993-92-698) 3:00PM Identities in Jordan Algebras. (1432) Kevin M McCrimmon, University of Virginia 4:00PM The Dynamics of Two Viral Infections in a Single (993-17-525) (1444) Host Population with Applications to Hantavirus. Linda J. S. Allen*, Texas Tech University, Michel 3:30PM Reciprocity between some bi-linear and tri-lininear Langlais, University de Bordeaux, and Carleton J. (1433) algebras. Phillips, Texas Tech University (993-92-555) S. Okubo, University of Rochester (993-17-628) 4:00PM Octonions and Exceptional Superalgebras. 4:30PM Competition of pathogen strains against the (1434) Michel L. Racine, University of Ottawa (1445) background of host immune response. (993-17-1323) A. Pugliese, University of Trento (993-92-1246) 4:30PM Imbedding of Lie Triple Systems into Lie Algebras. 5:00PM Dynamics of the Nonautonomous Beddington (1435) Preliminary report. (1446) -DeAngelis Predator-Prey System. Oleg Smirnov, College of Charleston (993-17-1375) Meng Fan*, Northeast Normal University, and Yang 5:00PM Octonion Multiplication Theorems. Kuang, Arizona State University (993-34-1090) (1436) John H Conway, Princeton University, and Derek A 5:30PM An Age-structured Epidemic Model in a Patchy Smith*, Lafayette College (993-17-1614) (1447) Environment. Preliminary report. 5:30PM Structurable tori. Wendi Wang, Southwest Normal University, and (1437) Yoji Yoshii, University of Saskatchewan Xiaoqiang Zhao*, Memorial University of (993-17-961) Newfoundland (993-34-761)

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AMS Special Session on Multiscale and Oscillatory 2:30PM Hardy spaces, spaces of Dirichlet type, and Phenomena: Modeling, Numerical Techniques, and (1458) univalent functions. Applications, III Albert Baernstein II*, Washington University, Daniel Girela and Jose Angel pelaez, Universidad 1:00 PM –5:50PM de Malaga (993-30-1332) 3:00PM Landau’s Theorem for Planar Harmonic Mappings. Organizers: Richard Tsai, Princeton University (1459) Michael Dorff*, BrighamYoung University, and Luminita A. Vese, University of Maria Nowak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University California Los Angeles (993-30-705) 1:00PM A multiscale image representation using 3:30PM Univalent harmonic mappings and extremal length. (1448) hierarchical (BV,L2) decompositions. (1460) Preliminary report. Eitan Tadmor*, University of Maryland, Suzanne Allen Weitsman, Purdue University (993-30-957) Nezzar and Luminita Vese, University of California 4:00PM Harmonic Maps onto Star Shaped Domains. Los Angeles (993-41-719) (1461) Preliminary report. 2:00PM Functional minimization models for image Jane McDougall*, Colorado College, Peter Duren, (1449) decomposition and texture modeling. Preliminary University of Michigan, and Beth Schaubroeck,U. report. S. Air Force Academy (993-30-1657) Luminita A. Vese, UCLA (993-49-888) 4:30PM Symmetries of extremal functions for inequalities in 2:30PM Wavelet based schemes for image decomposition by (1462) univalent function theory. (1450) variational functionals. Eric D Schippers, University of Michigan, Ann Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University, and Gerd Arbor (993-30-104) Teschke*, University of Bremen (993-49-1524) 5:00PM Geometric and subordination properties of (1463) solutions of a differential equation: A preliminary 3:00PM Image Decomposition Via the Combination of (1451) Sparse Representations and a Variational report. Preliminary report. Approach. Preliminary report. Stacey A Mueller, University of Kentucky J.-L. Starck, CEA-Saclay, DAPNIA/SEDI-SAP, Service (993-30-523) d’Astrophysiq, M. Elad*, Computer Science 5:30PM Duals and Envelopes of Some Hardy-Lorentz spaces. Department, Technion Israel Insti, and D. Donoho, (1464) Marc R Lengfield, Florida State University Department of Statistics, Stanford University (993-46-770) (993-49-1231) 3:30PM Solving a variational image restoration model ∞ AMS Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems (1452) which involves L constraints. Preliminary report. Stephane Lintner,Caltech,and Francois and Applications, III Malgouyres*, Universite Paris 13 (993-49-774) 1:00 PM –4:50PM 4:00PM Restoration of wavelet coefficients by minimizing a (1453) specially designed objective function. Preliminary Organizers: Qiu-dong Wang, University of Arizona report. Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Sylvain Durand and Mila Nikolova*, CMLA Arizona (CNRS-UMR 8536) (993-49-910) 1:00PM Application of Smooth Schur Factorizations in the 4:30PM Adaptive multivariate approximation: Comparing
(1465) Continuation of Separatrices. Preliminary report. (1454) Wavelets and piecewise polynomials. Jorge L. Rebaza, Southwest Missouri State Shai Dekel*, RealTimeImage, and Dany Leviatan, Universisty (993-65-823) Tel-Aviv University (993-41-731) 1:30PM The Brin quadrilateral argument for skew products 5:00PM Efficient algorithms for multiscale data processing. (1466) over basic sets. Preliminary report. (1455) Anna C Gilbert, AT&T Labs-Research (993-68-158) Keith Burns*, Northwestern University, and 5:30PM Discussion. Matthew Nicol, University of Surrey (993-37-1339) 2:00PM Strange Adding Machines. Preliminary report. (1467) Louis Block, James Keesling, University of Florida, and Michal Misiurewicz*, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (993-37-687) AMS Special Session on Modern Function Theory, III 2:30PM Double bracket equations, Volterra system and (1468) topology of the manifold of zero-diagonal Jacobi 1:00 PM –5:50PM matrices with fixed spectrum. Alexei V. Penskoi,CentredeRecherches Organizers: Beth Schaubroeck,U.S.AirForce Mathematiques, Universite de (993-37-771) Academy 3:00PM The zero curvature equation and the reducibility Peter L. Duren, University of Michigan,
(1469) problem for fiberwise linear dynamical systems. Ann Arbor Ruben Flores Espinoza, Universidad de Sonora John A. Pfaltzgraff, University of (993-34-1171) North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3:30PM From local to global ergodicity: An algebraic 1:00PM Schwarz-Christoffel maps to surfaces in space.
(1470) approach. (1456) Tobin A Driscoll*, University of Delaware, Charles Nandor Simanyi, The University of Alabama at R Collins and Ken Stephenson, University of Birmingham (993-37-485) Tennessee (993-30-1174) 4:00PM Billiards with slow mixing rates. Preliminary report. 2:00PM Convergence of the Zipper Algorithm for Conformal (1471) Nikolai I Chernov, University of Alabama at (1457) Mapping. Preliminary report. Birmingham (993-37-535) Donald E. Marshall*, University of Washington, and 4:30PM Strange Attractors in Periodically-kicked Limit Steffen Rohde, University of Washington (1472) cycles and Hopf Bifurcations. (993-30-1515) Qiudong Wang, University of Arizona (993-37-960)

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AMS Special Session on Geometric Structures on 3:00PM Explicit local fundamental classes and Manifolds, II (1485) Riemann-Roch via formal power series. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –5:50PM Henri A Gillet, University of Illinois at Chicago (993-14-1391) Organizers: Tedi C. Draghici, Florida International 3:30PM Bloch’s conductor formula and Milnor numbers of University (1486) isolated singularities. Gueo V. Grantcharov,Florida Fabrice Orgogozo, Princeton University International University (993-14-1261) Philipe Rukimbura,Florida 4:00PM Mahler measure and Coxeter links. International University (1487) Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University 1:00PM The Yamabe problem for almost Hermitian (993-11-509) (1473) manifolds. 4:30PM Hilbert’s Tenth Problem for function fields of Heberto del Rio*, CIMAT, and Santiago R. (1488) surfaces over C. Simanca, IMS Stony Brook (993-58-1357) Kirsten Eisentraeger, Institute for Advanced Study 1:30PM Isotropic Kahler¨ Hyperbolic Twistor Spaces. (993-11-1069) (1474) Preliminary report. 5:00PM Real aspects of the Kontsevich’s moduli space of D. E. Blair*, Michigan State University, J. T. Davidov (1489) stable maps of genus zero curves. and O. K. Muskarov, Bulgarian Academy of Seongchun Kwon, MSRI (993-14-51) Sciences (993-53-167) 5:30PM Shimura’s conjecture over function fields. 2:00PM Contact manifolds and Dirac structures. Preliminary (1490) W. Dale Brownawell, Penn State University, and (1475) report. Matthew A. Papanikolas*, Texas A&M University Aissa Wade, Penn State University, University Park (993-11-1016) (993-53-592)

2:30PM Examples of non dω-exact locally conformal (1476) symplectic forms. AMS Special Session on Value Distribution Theory in Augustin Banyaga, The Pennsylvania State Classical and p-Adic Function Theory, II University, University Park PA 16802 (993-53-242) 3:00PM The Einstein equations and G-structures. 1:00 PM –5:50PM (1477) Richard Cleyton, UC Riverside (993-53-1639) Organizers: Alain Escassut, Universit´e Blaise 3:30PM Einstein Metrics on Spheres. Pascal (1478) Charles P Boyer*, Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico, and J´anos Koll´ar, Princeton University Ilpo Laine, University of Joensuu (993-53-1044) Chung-Chun Yang, Hong Kong 4:00PM Low-Dimensional Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds. University of Science and Technology (1479) Christoph Boehm, Universitaet Kiel, and Megan M 1:00PM The Functional Equation P(f )=Q(g) in a p-adic Kerr*, Wellesley College (993-53-1254) (1491) field. 4:30PM Classification of conformally-Einstein Kahler¨ Alain P. Escassut*, Universite´ Blaise Pascal, France, (1480) metrics. and Chung C Yang, University of Science and Gideon Maschler*, University of Toronto, and Technology of Hong Kong (993-11-1236) Andrzej Derdzinski, Ohio State University 1:30PM Non-archimedean analogues of the Ahlfors Islands (993-53-968) (1492) Theorem: holomorphic and meromorphic cases. 5:00PM On the classification of weakly Bochner flat Kahler¨ Robert L. Benedetto, Amherst College (1481) metrics on compact six-manifolds. Preliminary (993-11-1086) report. 2:00PM Logarithmic forms and rigid analytic Picard Christina Wiis Tonnesen-Friedman, Union College (1493) theorems. (993-53-678) William Cherry*, University of North Texas, and Min Ru, University of Houston (993-32-573) 5:30PM Kahler¨ reduction of metrics with holonomy G2. (1482) Vestsilav D Apostolov, Universit´eduQu´ebec `a 2:30PM Entire solutions of certain partial differential Montr´eal (993-53-1377) (1494) equations. Bao Qin Li, Florida International University (993-32-807) 3:00PM Hardy spaces on Hopf manifolds. Preliminary (1495) report. AMS Special Session on Arithmetical Algebraic John Ryan*, University of Arkansas, and Geometry, III R. S. Krausshar, Ghent University, belgium (993-58-1124) 1:00 PM –5:50PM 3:30PM On Spectral Theory for Non-Self-Adjoint Periodic Organizers: Kirti Joshi, University of Arizona (1496) Schrodinger¨ Operators. Kwang C Shin, University of Missouri-Columbia Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona (993-34-908) Adrian Vasiu, University of Arizona 4:00PM cos πρ type theorems for meromorphic functions. 1:00PM New perspectives in Arakelov geometry. (1497) John Rossi*, Virginia Tech, and PCFenton, (1483) Caterina Consani*, University of Toronto, and University of Otago (993-30-547) Matilde Marcolli, MPI-Bonn (Germany) (993-14-992) 4:30PM A note on frequency of the zeros of solutions to 2:00PM Around Mordell-Lang and Manin-Mumford. (1498) linear differential equations with polynomial (1484) Preliminary report. coefficients. Preliminary report. A Pillay, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Enid M Steinbart, Georgia Institute of Technology (993-11-857) (993-34-1294)

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5:00PM On the location of the zeros of Bessel functions and 1:30PM Khovanov homology of links in I-bundles over (1499) complex oscillation theory. (1512) surfaces. Preliminary report. Yik Man Chiang, Hong Kong University of Science Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University, & Technology (993-30-1039) Marta M. Asaeda, University of Iowa, and Adam S. 5:30PM Growth of Painlev´e transcendents. Sikora, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo and IAS (993-57-895)
(1500) Aimo Hinkkanen, University of Illinois at 2:00PM A splitting formula for spectral flow on closed Urbana-Champaign, and Ilpo Laine*, University of (1513) 3-manifolds. Joensuu, Finland (993-30-1228) Benjamin Himpel, Indiana University, Bloomington (993-58-1199) AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential 2:30PM Perturbative and Integral Structures of TQFT’s. Equations and Variational Problems, IV (1514) Preliminary report. Thomas Kerler, The Ohio State University (993-57-1100) 1:00 PM –5:50PM 3:00PM Knot Concordance. Preliminary report. Organizers: David A. Hartenstine, University of (1515) Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno and Utah Indiana University (993-57-642) Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State 3:30PM Type one invariants for knotted graphs, and University (1516) criteria for graph planarity. Preliminary report. John M. Neuberger,NorthernArizona Ted Stanford, New Mexico State University State University (993-57-1242) John W. Neuberger, University of 4:00PM A classification of isometry groups of a Seifert North Texas (1517) fibered space N which is double covered by a lens 1:00PM Necksizes of singular Yamabe metrics on punctured space L. Preliminary report. (1501) spheres. Preliminary report. Ryo Ohashi, Saint Louis University (993-57-467) Rob Kusner, U. Mass. Amherst, and Jesse 4:30PM The Links-Gould invariant from the Kontsevich Ratzkin*, U. Utah (993-53-1155) (1518) integral. 1:30PM Sobolev gradients: application to phase separation Nathan C Geer, University of Oregon (993-54-953) (1502) and shape memory materials. 5:00PM Energy minimization problems and other relations Sultan Sial, London, Ontario (993-82-633) (1519) arising from electrodynamics on subdomains of S3. 2:00PM On indefinite Schrodinger equations. Preliminary report. (1503) Hossein T Tehrani*, David Costa,UNLV,and RJasonParsley, University of Pennsylvania Miguel Ramos, University of Lisbon (993-35-1197) (993-54-148) 2:30PM Diffusion in Poro-Plastic Media. (1504) R. E. Showalter*, Oregon State University, and U. Stefanelli, Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche – CNR (993-35-673) MAA Minicourse #11: Part B 3:00PM Bubble clusters. Preliminary report. (1505) Pablo Padilla*, University of Mexico, and HClara 1:00 PM –3:00PM Garza, IIMAS (993-35-683) Developing your department’s assessment plan. 3:30PM Spreading of electrically charged microdroplets.
(1506) Santiago I Betelu*, University of North Texas, and Organizers: William G. Marion,Valparaiso Marco Fontelos, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos University (993-76-230) Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University 4:00PM A Variable Metric Descent Method for Curve and (1507) Surface Fairing. Robert J Renka, University of North Texas (993-65-661) MAA Minicourse #16: Part B 4:30PM The Weyl Problem With Nonnegative Gaussian (1508) Curvature. 1:00 PM –3:00PM Marcus A. Khuri, Stanford University (993-53-1523) Getting students involved in undergraduate 5:00PM A variational method for the inverse groundwater research. (1509) problem. Aparna W. Higgins Ian W. Knowles*andAimin Yan, University of Organizers: , University of Alabama at Birmingham (993-35-1342) Dayton Joseph A. Gallian, University of 5:30PM Existence result for periodic solutions of a class of (1510) Hamiltonian systems with super quadratic Minnesota, Duluth potential. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yokohama National University, Japan (993-37-348) MAA Minicourse #5: Part B

AMS Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV 1:00 PM –3:00PM

1:00 PM –5:20PM Visual linear algebra. Organizer: Tim D. Cochran, Rice University Organizers: Eugene A. Herman, Grinnell College 1:00PM Knots and generalized Arf invariants. Preliminary Michael D. Pepe, Seattle Central (1511) report. Community College Kent E Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Eric P. Schulz, Walla Walla Community Tim D Cochran, Rice University (993-57-1675) College

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AMS Session on Combinatorics, III 1:40PM Using Web-based materials featuring rich
(1532) immersive settings, customizable actors and both 1:00 PM –3:40PM Java- and Shock Wave-based Lite Applets in Mathematics and Science. 1:00PM Optimal Pebbling (Part I). Preliminary report. Frank Wattenberg, United States Military Academy
(1520) Tracii Friedman*, Mesa State College, and (993-C1-192) Cynthia J. Wyels, California Lutheran University 2:00PM Heli-Math: A Web-based Student Engagement with (993-05-1547)
(1533) Mathematical Sciences and a Helicopter. 1:15PM Optimal Pebbling (Part II). Preliminary report. John A. Picciuto*andMike Phillips, United States
(1521) Cynthia J Wyels*, California Lutheran University, Military Academy (993-C1-178) and Tracii Friedman, Mesa State College 2:20PM Project REALMS—Rich Immersive and (993-05-1552)
(1534) Interdisciplinary 3-D Settings to Grab and Hold Our 1:30PM Graph Pegging and the Pegging Number. Students. Preliminary report.
(1522) Geir T Helleloid*, Stanford University, Philip Thomas Lainis*, Frank Wattenberg, Eileen Matchett, Cambridge University, David Moulton, Kowalski and William Jones, US Military Academy Princeton, New Jersey, and Madeeha Khalid, (993-C1-444) University of Warrick (993-05-561) 2:40PM Delivering Internet-Based Homework in 1:45PM Graph Pegging: Powers and Products.
(1535) Mathematics Classes at Radford University with
(1523) Melanie Wood, University of Cambridge WeBWorK. Preliminary report. (993-05-578) Neil P Sigmon*andCoreen Mett,Radford 2:00PM Degree conditions for cross-intersecting set University (993-Z1-198) (1524) systems. 3:00PM Wisconsin’s Networking Project for Improvement of Zs. Szaniszlo*, Valparaiso University, and Zs. Tuza,
(1536) Mathematics Education. Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Linda G. Thompson, Carroll College (993-C1-265) Academy of Sciences (993-05-431) 2:15PM Ramsey Numbers of Stars Versus Wheels of Similar MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, II
(1525) Sizes. Aleksandra Korolova, MIT (993-05-1230) 1:00 PM –3:15PM 2:30PM Break Organizers: Sean L. Forman, Saint Joseph’s 2:45PM Coupon Collecting with Quotas. University
(1526) Russell J. May, Morehead State University Douglas Drinen, University of the (993-05-1183) South 3:00PM Topics in fractional domination of graphs. 1:00PM Factors Affecting Win-Loss Probability Of Baseball
(1527) Robert R Rubalcaba*, Auburn University, Matthew
(1537) Games And The Accuracy Of Setting Odds. P Walsh, Indiana-Purdue University, and Peter D Philip BRiley , James Madison University Johnson, Auburn University (993-05-1616) (993-W1-1253) 3:15PM The Failure of Greedy-Type Algorithms. Preliminary 1:20PM HORSEing Around with Mathematics.
(1528) report.
(1538) Paul R Coe*, Dominican University, and William T Gareth L Bendall*, University of Kentucky, and Butterworth, Barat College of DePaul University Francois Margot, Carnegie Mellon University (993-W1-1503) (993-05-530) 1:40PM Using Sport to Teach Mathematics and Statistics.
3:30PM The R´enyi-Ulam pathological liar game. Preliminary (1539) Preliminary report.
(1529) report. Reza Noubary, Bloomsburg University Robert B. Ellis*, Texas A&M University, Vadim (993-W1-1562) Ponomarenko, Trinity University, and Catherine H. 2:00PM Modeling Spectator Movement In the Stadium. Yan, Texas A&M University (993-05-1345)
(1540) Preliminary report. Michael J. Bosse*, Morgan State University, and N. R. Nandakumar, Delaware State University (993-W1-316) 2:20PM The Use of Sports Data in an Introductory, Applied MAA Session on Uses of the WWW that Enrich and
(1541) Statistics Course. Promote Learning, II John D. McKenzie, Jr., Babson College (993-W1-489) 1:00 PM –3:15PM 2:40PM Productivity in the Game of Baseball. Preliminary
(1542) report. Organizers: Marcelle Bessman, Jacksonville CTZahn, San Diego, California (993-W1-709) University 3:00PM Monte Carlo Simulation of Baseball Seasons and Marcia P. Birken, Rochester Institute
(1543) NCAA Basketball Tourneys. Preliminary report. of Technology Sean L Forman, Saint Joseph’s University Mary L. Platt, SalemState College (993-W1-846) Brian E. Smith, McGill University MAA Session on Technology in Mathematics Teacher 1:00PM A Comprehensive Graphing System on the Web: Preparation Courses, II
(1530) Bringing Graphs to Life. Barry Cherkas, Hunter College & Ph.D. Programin 1:00 PM –5:15PM Urban Education (993-C1-360) 1:20PM Using Blackboard to Motivate Students to Look for Organizers: Mary Ann Connors, Westfield State
(1531) Mathematics. Preliminary report. College Erica L Johnson, St. John Fisher College Christine Browning, Michigan (993-C1-1208) University, Kalamazoo

JANUARY 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 171 Program of the Sessions – Phoenix, AZ, Saturday, January 10 (cont’d.)

1:00PM Effective Introduction to the Use of Geometer’s 1:15PM Creating Mathematics Ambassadors. Preliminary
(1544) Sketchpad For Pre-service Elementary Teachers.
(1558) report. Preliminary report. Dora Cardenas Ahmadi, Morehead State University Kimberly McGinley Vincent, Washington State (993-Y1-564) University (993-X1-492) 1:30PM Games and Hands-On Activities to Enhance 1:20PM A Sketchpad Project for Future Elementary School (1559) Learning of Mathematics for Non-science Majors.
(1545) Teachers. Annela R Kelly, University of Louisiana at Monroe Timothy D Comar, Benedictine University (993-Y1-1539) (993-X1-434) 1:45PM Encouraging Students to Read Mathematics. 1:40PM Explorations with Geometer’s Sketchpad.
(1560) Mary D Shepherd, Northwest Missouri State
(1546) Preliminary report. University (993-Y1-1582) Pallavi Jayawant, University of Arizona (993-X1-503) 2:00PM Negative Attitudes Towards Mathematics—How to
(1561) Break the Vicious Cycle. Preliminary report. 2:00PM Discovering geometry in collaborative groups using Margaret L Gruenwald, University of Southern
(1547) Geometer’s Sketchpad. Preliminary report. Indiana (993-Y1-617) Vesna Kilibarda, Indiana University Northwest (993-X1-245) 2:15PM Changing the Focus from the Teacher to the
2:20PM Technology in the Geometry Course for Prospective (1562) Learner. Preliminary report. (1548) Elementary Teachers. Janet Andersen, Hope College (993-Y1-1380) Barbara J Pence, San Jose State University 2:30PM Changing Students’ Perception of Mathematics (993-X1-1029)
(1563) through An Integrated, Collaborative, Field-Based 2:40PM Integrated math and technology courses for Approach To Teaching and Learning Mathematics.
(1549) prospective and practicing teachers. Preliminary report. Patricia Baggett*, New Mexico State University, and Hamide Dogan-Dunlap, University of Texas at El Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, University of Colorado Paso (993-Y1-1636) (993-X1-254) 2:45PM Math and Basketball: A Skill-Building Paradigm. 3:00PM Teacher Preparation in the Use of Computer (1564) Keri A. Kornelson, Texas A&M University
(1550) Algebra Systems. Preliminary report. (993-Y1-936) Michael J. Bosse*, Morgan State University, and N. 3:00PM Encouraging Young Women to Persist in R. Nandakumar, Delaware State University
(1565) Mathematics. (993-X1-319) Carol G. Williams, Abilene Christian University 3:20PM Using Problem Solving to Develop a Game Winning (993-Y1-50)
(1551) Strategy. Dennis M Kern, Texas A&M University-Texarkana 3:15PM Improving Student’s Attitudes Using Motivational (993-X1-342) (1566) Theory as a Basis for Classroom Management and Assessment. 3:40PM Comparing Experimental and Theoretical Theresa A Laurent, St Louis College of Pharmacy
(1552) Probabilities: The Coin Flip Game. Preliminary (993-Y1-327) report. Trisha A. Bergthold, San Jose State University 3:30PM Constructing Puzzles To Promote Mathematical (993-X1-587)
(1567) Thinking. Preliminary report. M. Munakata, Montclair State University 4:00PM A Monte Carlo Simulation : Geometric Probability (993-Y1-341)
(1553) and the Law of Large Numbers. Rose Elaine Carbone, Clarion University 3:45PM Math Anxiety as a Resource: Strategies for the First (993-X1-371)
(1568) Days of Class. 4:20PM Are we getting what we pay for? Preliminary report. Debra K Borkovitz, Wheelock College (993-Y1-380)
(1554) Queen Wiggs, The North Carolina School of Science 4:00PM Math is a journey, not a destination. and Mathematics (993-X1-599)
(1569) L. Christine Kinsey, Canisius College, and Teresa 4:40PM Virtual Manipulatives in the Mathematics for E. Moore*, Ithaca College (993-Y1-384) (1555) Elementary School Teachers Course. 4:15PM Invert the Stereotypical Classroom and Multiply the A. Susan Gay, University of Kansas (993-X1-488)
(1570) Interest in Math. 5:00PM Preparing Teachers to Use Technology and Effective Teresa D. Magnus, Rivier College, Nashua NH
(1556) Pedagogy in a Mathematics Content Course. (993-Y1-446) Rajee Amarasinghe, California State University, 4:30PM Teaching the ”Neglected Constituency”: A Fresno (993-X1-330)
(1571) Mathematics Course for Preservice Elementary School Teachers (with Lessons for Other Courses). MAA Session on Strategies that Work to Positively David G. Poole, Trent University (993-Y1-552) Change Student Attitudes Toward Mathematics, II 4:45PM Opening Students’ Hearts and Minds to (1572) Mathematics. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –5:25PM Fang Chen, Oxford College of Emory University Organizers: Caren L. Diefenderfer, Hollins (993-Y1-1679) University 5:00PM Problem-based Inquiry Seminar Courses. Janet L. Anderson, Hope College
(1573) Preliminary report. Elizabeth G. Yanik, Emporia State John Koker, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh University (993-Y1-184) 1:00PM ”If at First You Don’t Succeed ...”: Building 5:15PM Using group work and journals to enhance
(1557) Mathematical Confidence with Problem-Solving
(1574) students’ perceptions of their abilities to do Portfolios. mathematics in a ”Math for Liberal Arts” course. Penelope H Dunham, Muhlenberg College Therese L Bennett, Southern Connecticut State (993-Y1-529) University (993-Y1-426)

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MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VII 1:00PM The Topology of DNA-Protein Interactions.
(1587) Dorothy Buck, Brown University (993-Z5-1043) 1:00 PM –4:20PM 1:30PM Knotted Polygons in R3. Preliminary report.
Organizers: Laura J. Wallace, California State (1588) Jorge Alberto Calvo, North Dakota State University University, San Bernardino (993-Z5-1255) Jacqueline A. Jensen,SamHouston 2:00PM Minimum Lengths for Flat Knotted Bands of a Given State University
(1589) Width. Preliminary report. Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago Gary W. Towsley, SUNY at Geneseo (993-Z5-1487) Michael A. Jones, Montclair State University 2:30PM Knots in Dynamical Systems.
(1590) Steve Kennedy, Carleton College (993-Z5-1603) Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University at San Bernardino 3:00PM Detecting Topological and Geometric Information (1591) from a Discrete Set of Points in Euclidean Space. 1:00PM Calculator Detective: Preservice elementary
David Letscher, Saint Louis University (1575) teachers compare calculators and discover that (993-Z5-1584) machines do not replace thinking. Preliminary report. 3:30PM Braids and the Yang-Baxter Equation: An
Susan L Addington, California State University San (1592) Application of Knot Theory to Physics. Bernardino (993-Z1-515) Alissa S. Crans, University of California, Riverside (993-Z5-1649) 1:15PM Diffy. Preliminary report.
(1576) Tracy Dawn Hamilton, California State University Sacramento (993-Z1-472) 1:30PM Text Supplements that Help Instructors Teach: MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal
(1577) Experience and Vision. Larry Copes*, ISEM, St. Paul, MN, and Joan Lewis, Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion Key CurriculumPress (993-Z1-1224) 1:00 PM –2:20PM 1:45PM Instructional Supplements for College Algebra and
(1578) Below. What are colleges doing with students with AP Beth A. Osikiewicz, Kent State University – placement? Tuscarawas (993-Z1-1176) Organizer: Martin E. Flashman, Humboldt State 2:00PM Experience Teaching Elementary Algebra with University
(1579) DevMap. Panelists: Shahriar Shahriari, Pomona College M. Anne Dow, Maharishi University of Management (993-Z1-1610) Morton Brown, University of Michigan 2:15PM Reforming College Algebra. Wade Ellis, Jr., West Valley College
(1580) Elizabeth J. Kreston, University of the Incarnate Susan Kornstein, The College Board Word (993-Z1-461) 2:25PM Break 2:45PM Student Preparedness for Calculus. Preliminary
(1581) report. MAA Special Presentation R. N. Mohapatra, University of Central Florida (993-Z1-1700) 1:00 PM –2:20PM 3:00PM An Activities Based Topics Course in Mathematics Oral presentations: Let’s talk about it!
(1582) for Liberal Arts Majors. Preliminary report. Organizers: Tom J. Linton, Central College Jay A Malmstrom, Oklahoma City Community College (993-Z1-1355) Suzanne Doree, Augsburg College 3:15PM Definitions: Now and Then. Preliminary report. Nancy L. Hagelgans, Ursinus College
(1583) Greisy W Winicki - Landman, California State Richard J. Jardine, Keene State Polytechnic University, Pomona (993-Z1-868) University 3:30PM An analysis of undergraduate mathematics
(1584) textbooks and courses for prospective elementary teachers. Preliminary report. Raven M. Wallace*, Michigan State University, MAA-Young Mathematicians Network Panel Helen Siedel and Andreas Stylianides, University Discussion of Michigan (993-Z1-359) 3:45PM Integrated Mathematics - A Function Approach 1:00 PM –2:20PM
(1585) (IMFA). What can you do with a degree in mathematics? James L. Smith, McCurdy School (993-Z1-892) Organizers: John A. Vano, University of Wisconsin 4:00PM Problem-Driven Courses in the Middle School and
(1586) Secondary Mathematics Preservice Curricula. Madison Kathleen D. Lopez*andVictor P. Schneider, Kim Roth, Wheeling Jesuit University University of Louisiana at Lafayette (993-Z1-688) Panelists: Andrew Sterrett, Jr., Denison University MAA Invited Paper Session on Applications of Patrick D. McCray, Pfizer and Illinois Topology to Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Institute of Technology David E. Hammett, Oakwood School, 1:00 PM –3:50PM Burbank, California Organizers: Erica L. Flapan, Pomona College Robert L. Wilson, University of Dorothy Buck, Brown University Wisconsin, Madison

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AWM Workshop Panel Discussion MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years 1:00 PM –2:25PM 2:45 PM –4:05PM Shaping a career in mathematics. Moderator: Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern How to implement curriculum change. Colorado Organizer: Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy Panelists: Tracy Fischer, Motorola Moderator: Gary W. Krahn, U.S. Military Academy Joan P. Hutchinson, Macalester Panelists: Mike Moody, Olin University College Stephen B. Maurer,Swarthmore Barbara L. Keyfitz, University of College Houston Jeff Floyd, Texas A & M University Rachel A. Kuske, University of British Columbia MAA Minicourse #6: Part B Janet M. McShane,NorthernArizona University 3:15 PM –5:15PM Anne V. Shepler, University of North Using interactive labs to explore abstract algebra Texas topics. Organizers: Allen C. Hibbard, Central College ASL Invited Address Kenneth M. Levasseur, University of Massachusetts at Lowell 2:00 PM –2:50PM (1593) Canonical Structure in the Universe of Set Theory. ASL Invited Address Matthew Foreman, University of California, Irvine (993-03-1270) 3:30 PM –4:20PM (1598) Quantum algorithms and group representation AWM Workshop: Presentations by Recent Women theory. Ph.D.s and Graduate Students, II Leonard Schulman, California Institute of Technology 2:30 PM –4:40PM MAA Session on Applications of Mathematics in 2:30PM Comparison of Histograms for Use in Cloud Computer Science, II (1594) Modeling. Lisa Bloomer, Middle Tennessee State University 3:30 PM –4:25PM 3:00PM Combinatorial Results Motivated by Computational (1595) Biology. Organizer: William A. Marion,Valparaiso Christine E. Heitsch, University of Wisconsin, University Madison 3:30PM Applications of Algebras in Computer Science.
3:30PM Implicitization via Syzygies. (1599) John W. Davenport, East Central University (1596) Haohao Wang, Southeast Missouri State University (993-P1-706) PM 4:00PM A combinatorial approach to finding root 3:45 An alternative representation of finite fields. (1597) multiplicities in some indefinite type Kac-Moody (1600) Ronald Mullin and Ayan Mahalanobis*, Florida algebras. Atlantic University (993-P1-825) Vicky Williams, Appalachian State University 4:00PM Examples of the Application of Statistics and
4:30PM Closing remarks. (1601) Probability to Computer Science. Preliminary report. Juana Sanchez*andYan He,UCLADeptof Statistics (993-P1-852) MAA Panel Discussion 4:15PM Numeric Methods, Modeling and Computer Science (1602) Majors. 2:30 PM –3:30PM Paul J Kapitza, Illinois Wesleyan University Revisiting crossroads: Continuing the dialogue on (993-P1-1001) two-year college mathematics. Organizer: Susan S. Wood,J.SargeantReynolds MAA Session on Focus on Integrating Graphic Community College Handhelds into Collegiate Mathematics, II Panelists: Judy E. Ackerman, Montgomery 3:30 PM –4:25PM College Susan S. Wood,J.SargeantReynolds Organizers: Charles E. Hofmann, LaSalle University Community College Joseph R. Fiedler, California State University, Bakersfield MAA Special Presentation 3:30PM They know, we know, that they don’t know:
(1603) Integrating Technology into Teaching and 2:45 PM –4:45PM Assessment. Preliminary report. Alex J Heidenberg*, John Wasko and Elizabeth Informal session on actuarial education. Schott, United States Military Academy Organizers: Krzysztof Ostaszewski, Illinois State (993-V1-1330) University 3:45PM Exploring Families of Functions. Curtis Huntongton, University of
(1604) Charles E Hofmann, LaSalle University Michigan (993-V1-496)

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4:00PM Teaching Composition of Functions. AMS Banquet
(1605) Roseanne S Hofmann, Montgomery County Community College (993-V1-497) 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM 4:15PM Integrating algebra-capable calculators into (1606) ”Geometric Linear Algebra,” a course for High Michel L. Lapidus James J. Tattersall School Teachers. AMS Associate Secretary MAA Associate Secretary Joseph R Fiedler, CSU Bakersfield (993-V1-404) Riverside, California Providence, Rhode Island

MAA Special Presentation

3:45 PM –4:45PM Math Horizons, a magazine for students. Organizers: Arthur T. Benjamin,HarveyMudd College Jennifer J. Quinn, Occidental College

MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion

4:15 PM –5:35PM How to assess problem solving. Organizer: Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy Moderator: Kathleen G. Snook, Consortiumfor Mathematics and Its Applications Panelists: Jack Bookman, Duke University Alex J. Heidenberg, U.S. Military Academy William J. Haver, Virginia Commonwealth University Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University

ASL Session for Contributed Papers, II

4:30 PM –6:05PM

4:30PM Comparing classes of Finite Structures. (1607) Sara Miller*, Wesley Calvert, D. Cummins and J.F. Knight, University of Notre Dame 4:55PM The isomorphism problem for classes of (1608) computable structures. Wesley Calvert, University of Notre Dame ∆0 5:20PM n-categorical structures need not be relatively (1609) ∆0 n +1-categorical. John Chisholm, Western Illinois University 5:45PM Minima of initial segments of sequences of reals. (1610) Jeffry L. Hirst, Appalachian State University

ASL Session for Contributed Papers, III

4:30 PM –6:05PM

4:30PM Ergodic theorems in subsystems of second order (1611) arithmetic. Ksenija Simic, Carnegie Mellon University 4:55PM The probabilistic method and Ramsey theory in (1612) bounded arithmetic. Kerry Ojakian, Carnegie Mellon University Phone: none 5:20PM Compatibility in logical varieties. (1613) Mark Burgin,UCLA 5:45PM On automorphism groups of countable (1614) arithmetically saturated models of Peano arithmetic. Ermek S. Nurkhaidarov, University of Connecticut

AMS Banquet Reception

6:30 PM –7:30PM

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