Papers Year Date Place Speaker Topic Attendance Presented 2017 March 10-11 Mercer University, Macon, GA Francis Su, MAA President Voting in Agreeable Societies Chris Raridan, Clayton State University Graph Labelings for Everyone! 2016 March 25-26 University of Alabama at Birmingham 368 Kristen Abernathy, Winthrop University Modeling the Cancer Stem Cell Hypothesis Maurice Hendon, University of Georgia Some of my favorite problems from the UGA Math Tournament Yuliya Babenko, Kennesaw State University A Glimpse into the World of Geometric Modeling Joseph Rusinko, Winthrop University The Tropical Mathematics of Evolution 2015 March 13-14 University of North Carolina Wilmington 140 450 Virginia Watson, Kennesaw State University MAA 100/ MAASE 93 Linda Braddy, MAA The Lion and the Path Fifty Years of Chaos: From Strange Attractors to Complex Systems to Jeff Knisley, East Tennessee State University Big Data Tennessee Technological University, 2014 March 14-15 Ron Taylor, Berry College 136 390 Cookeville, TN Robert Devaney, Boston University (MAA President) The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set Sam Kaplan, UNC Asheville Math Ambassador Hua Wang, Georgia Southern University Colonel Blotto's Winning Ways 2013 March 15-16 Winthrop University 236 508 Hugh Howards, Wake Forest University Forming Borromean Rings from Random Curves Rick Gillman, Valparaiso University Why do Left-handed People Survive? Erik Demaine, MIT Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic Tim Chartier, Davidson College March Mathness 2012 March 9-10 Clayton State University, Morrow, GA 218 558 Barry Spieler, Montgomery College A Teacher's Journey Tom Hoffman, Coastal Carolina University Determinants, Trace and Fred? Doug Ensley, Shippensburg University Invariants Under Group Actions to Amaze you Friends John Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham Divide the Pigs! An Introduction to Fair Division 2011 April 1-2 The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 180 456 Martin Jones, College of Charleston An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics Using WinBUGS and R Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University Weighted Voting Research Arising from a First-Year Seminar Betty Mayfield, Hood College Women and Mathematics in the Time of Euler Ron Gould, Emory University Math and Marriage-Don’t Call a Lawyer Yet 2010 March 26-27 Elon University, Elon, NC 275 552 Patrick Bahls,UNC Asheville The Role of Trust in Teaching and Learning Hugh Howards, Wake Forest University Knots vs. Graphs: An Epic Tale of Survival! Proofs and Confirmations, The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix David Bressoud, McAlester College Conjecture 2009 March 13-14 Belmont University, Nashville, TN 151 390 Chris Rodgers, Auburn University How to Master Scheduling a Series of Dinner Parties Ron Gould, Emory University Never Give a Non-Mathematician an Even Break George Andrews, Penn State University The Lost Notebook of Ramanujan David Sumner, University of South Carolina Jumping at the Chance 2008 March 28-29 The Citadel, Charleston, SC 178 457 Computational Science Coursework and Internships: Applying Angela Shiflet, Wofford College Mathematics and Computer Science to Important Scientific Problems Joe Gallian, University of Minnesota Using Groups and Graphs to Create Symmetry 2007 March 16-17 Georgia Southern, Statesboro, GA 402 John Swallow, Davidson College Circular Irrationalities: From Galois to Kummer and Back Again Mac Priestly, University of the South Surprises Ralph C. Smith, NC State; David Anderson, UT Knoxville; Model Development and Control Design for Nonlinear Smart Material 2006 March 31-April 1 Auburn University, Auburn, AL David Stone, Georgia Southern University; Susanne Brenner, Systems; Can You See a Ring?; Mathematics is Not a Spectator Sport; 398 University of South Carolina C Interior Penalty Methods Frank Farris, Santa Clara University; Bob Frey, Furman Forbidden Symmetry-Relaxing the Crystallographic Restriction; 2005 March 11-12 Meredith College, Raleigh, NC University; Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College; Jeff Mathematics and Endangered Species; The Interplay of Local and 425 Knisley, East TN State University Global Symmetry; Multistate Mathematics Instruction Art Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College; Bruce Palka, UT Austin, Proofs that Really Count-The Art of Combinatorial Proof; Why Things 2004 March 26-27 Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN TX; Jeff Knisley, East TN State University; Sue Goodman, UNC Go Quasi in Higher Dimensions; From Neurons to Neural Networks- 83 300 Chapel Hill And Back Again; Learning by Doing Ron Graham, U of San Diego; John Baxley, Wake Forest; Ron Guessing Secrets; The Adventure of Mathematical Ideas; Risky Clemson University, Clemson, SC (Joint 2003 March 21-22 Harshbarger, USC at Beaufort; Margaret Wright, Courant Business: Investigating the Connections Between Mathematics and Meeting with SE Atlantic SIAM Institute Business Concepts; Optimization is Everywhere Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Robert Bryant, Duke; Johnny Henderson, Auburn; Nigel Kalton, 2002 March 8-10 400 650 (Joint Meeting with SE Regional AMS) James Oxley, Louisiana State University Papers Year Date Place Speaker Topic Attendance Presented Frank Morgan, Williams College; Andrew Granville, U of GA; The Double Bubble Conjecture and Contest; Number Races; Tidbits of 2001 March 30-31 Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL 80 300 Ted Shiffrin, U of GA Geometry Through the Ages Tina Straley, MAA; Ben Klein, Davidson College; Dan Flath, The MAA at the Sunrise of the Century; Reflections on Teaching and 2000 March 11-12 UNC, Charlotte, NC 71 University of South Alabama Learning; Partitions Joel Brawley, Clemson U, SC A Smorgasbord of Mathematical Topics Suzanne Lenhart, UT Knoxville, TN Applications of Optimal Control to Various Population Models 1999 March 12-13 Rhodes College, Memphis, TN Interactive Mathematics on the Internet-Totally Electronic Journals and Tom Banchoff, Brown U. Providence, RI Paperless Classrooms 1998 College of Charleston, Charleston, SC Georgia Tech and Spellman College, Atlanta, 1997 March 13-15 GA J.Ernest Wilkins Jr. Expected Number of Real Zeros of a Random Polynomial University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, 1996 March 12-13 86 AL Sylvia Bozeman, Spellman College Is it a Proof Yet? Carl Pomerance, U of GA Primal Screens 1995 1994 1993 M. A. A. Executive Director, Marcia Sward; Carl Pomerance, 1992 April 10-11 Kennesaw State College, Kennesaw, Georgia University of Georgia; John H. Ewing, Indiana University Shirley Frye, Scottsdale, Arizona; Stephen E. Puckette, 1991 April 5-6 University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 42 202 University of the South; Daphne Smith, University of Georgia Gerald L. Alexanderson, University of Santa Clara; Irl C. 1990 April 6-7 Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina Bivens, Davidson College; Jerald Dauer, University of 77 420 Tennessee-Chattanooga Herbert S. Wilf, University of Pennsylvania; Charles C. Lindner, 1989 April 7-8 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee Auburn University; Harold Reiter, University of North Carolina at 63 361 Charlotte Leonard Gilman, University of Texas-Austin; Stephen Puckette, 1988 April 15-16 Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina University of the South; F. Lee Cook, University of Alabama- 56 333 Huntsville Kenneth A Ross, University of Oregon; Mary F. Neff, Emory 1987 April 3-4 Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia 55 290 University; Henry Frandsen, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Alan C. Tucker, State University of New York at Stony Brook; 1986 April 11-12 Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia; John V. Baxley, Wake 36 246 Forest University Donald F. Kreider, Dartmouth College; Michael F. Barnsley, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North 1985 April 12-13 Georgia Institute of Technology; John W. Kenelly, Clemson 36 326 Carolina University Leonard Gilman, University of Texas-Austin; Carl D. Meyer, Jr., Tennessee Technological University, 1984 April 6-7 North Carolina State University; Garrett Birkhoff, Harvard 38 223 Cookeville, Tennessee University and Georgia Institute of Technology Ivan Niven, University of Oregon; William T. Trotter, Jr., 1983 April 15-16 The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina University of South Carolina; John D. Neff, Georgia Institute of 48 255 Technology Lynn A. Steen, St. Olaf College; C. Ray Wylie, Furman 1982 April 9-10 Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia University; Marshall Hall, Jr., California Institute of Technology 49 294 and Emory University M.A.A. President Richard D. Anderson, Louisiana State University; Daniel D. Warner, Clemson University; B.F. 1981 April 10-11 University of Alabama in Birmingham 35 174 Caviness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Company Appalachian State University, Boone, North Ralph P. Boas, Northwestern University; Bruce C. Berndt, 1980 April 11-12 39 238 Carolina University of Illinois; Billy F. Bryant, Vanderbilt University Trevor Evans, Emory University; M.A.A. First Vice-president University of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, 1979 April 6-7 Peter J. Hitlon, Case Western Reserve University; Leonard J. 30 312 Tennessee Carlitz, Duke University Papers Year Date Place Speaker Topic Attendance Presented M.A.A. President-elect Dorothy L. Bernstein, Goucher College; J. Harvey Carruth, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Harley 1978 March 31-April 1 Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 35 338 Flanders, Tel Aviv University and the Georgia Institute of Technology Section Lecuturer, Lida K. Barrett, University of Tennessee- 1977 April 1-2 University