Northeastern Section of the MAA

Spring Meeting: June 2-3, 2006

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

web: math.bu.edu/MAA_meeting

email: maa_meeting@math.bu.edu

For directions, etc.

see the bottom of this page

Friday, June 2, 2006: NES/MAA Project NExT Program (all full-time untenured faculty are welcome)

Room 135, 111 Cummington St

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch and Group Discussion

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Using Graphs for Scheduling

Laura Kelleher, Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Friday, June 2, 2006: NES/MAA Spring Meeting

2:00 – 6:00 p.m. Registration

2nd floor, Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary's St

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting

Room 180, 111 Cummington St

3:00 – 3:50 p.m. Blogging by Numb3rs

Mark Bridger, Northeastern University

Room 206, Photonics Center

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Break

4:30 – 5:20 p.m. Serendipity and Partitions with Initial Repetitions

George Andrews, Penn State University

Room 206, Photonics Center

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Undergraduate Student Paper Session

2nd floor, Photonics Center

6:30 – 6:50 p.m. Reception

6:50 – 7:50 p.m. Buffet Dinner and Opening Remarks

Faculty/Staff Dining Room

5th floor, George Sherman Union

8:00 – 8:50 p.m. Battles Lecture: An equation runs through it: River running on

the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon---history, current practice, and the role of a mathematician

Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross

George Sherman Union Auditorium

2nd floor, George Sherman Union

Saturday, June 3, 2006

8:00 – 11:30 a.m. Registration

2nd floor, Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary's St

8:00 – 9:00 a. m. Graduate Student Paper Session

Room 211, Photonics Center

8:00 – 9:00 a. m. Contributed Paper Session

2nd floor, Photonics Center

9:00 – 9:50 a. m. Standards in the Teaching of Mathematics in the First Two Years

Philip Mahler, Middlesex Community College

Room 206, Photonics Center

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 – 11:20 a.m. Teaching Statistics by Example (powerpoint slides)

Lisa M Sullivan, Boston University

Room 206, Photonics Center

11:30 – Noon Business Meeting

Room 206, Photonics Center

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Barbecue

1:15 – 2:05 p.m. When Numerical Methods Fail but Undergraduates Succeed

Gareth Roberts, College of the Holy Cross

Room 206, Photonics Center

2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 – 3:20 p.m. Canonical forms: A mathematician's view of musical canons

Noam D. Elkies, Harvard University

Room 206, Photonics Center

Program Committee

Bob Devaney, Chair, Boston University

Lois Martin, Massasoit Community College

C. Eugene Wayne, Boston University

Paul Blanchard, Boston University

Local Arrangements

Paul Blanchard, Chair, Boston University

Emma Previato, Boston University

C. Eugene Wayne, Boston University

Pre-registration has ended.  On-site registration only. The pre-registration form is still available simply to give you an idea of the registration fees.

Directions

Buildings and Conference Map

Parking

Information for those participants staying on campus

Housing (old)

Meals (old)