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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:
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