SEAWAY SECTION
MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION
OF AMERICA
2007 SPRING MEETING
April 27-28, 2007
SUNY Oneonta
PROGRAM
Friday Afternoon, Seaway NExT Workshop
12:30-1:30 Lunch and Registration
1:30-2:45 Session I - Getting your scholarship off to a
good start Panel - Joel Foisy, Dawn Jones and others
2:45-3:15 Break
3:15-4:30 Session II - On the Mathematical
Preparation of Teachers: A Discussion, Joe Straight
4:30-4:45 Wrap up and future topic discussion
(Details of the workshop program are available on the
Seaway NExT web site, accessible from
http://www.math.binghamton.edu/maa_seaway/)
Friday afternoon, 201 Fitzelle Hall
3:00 – 6:00 Meeting of the Executive Committee
Friday Evening, Holiday Inn Ballroom
6:00 – 7:00 Social Hour (cash bar)
7:00 – 8:30 Banquet, and Presentation of
Distinguished Teaching Award.
8:30 – 9:30 Getting MAD in Class
Robin Lock, St. Lawrence University
Saturday Sessions in
Intructional Resources Center (IRC)
Saturday Morning, IRC Lobby
08:40 – 08:45
Welcome Dr. Alan B. Donovan,
President, SUNY at Oneonta
08:45 – 09:35
John F. Hamilton, Eastman Kodak
09:45 – 10:35
James Matthews, Sienna College
10:35 – 11:00
Business Meeting
11:10 – 12:00
Harry M. Gehman Lecture
Generalization to Infinite Graphs of a Theorem of W. T.
Tutte, Mark E. Watkins, Syracuse University
Lunch: HUNT College Union Ballroom
Saturday Afternoon, IRC 1
1:30 – 1:55 (2) Leah Bridgers, SUNY Oneonta
High School Calculus Teachers’ Conceptions of
Continuity
2:00 – 2:25 (14) Dr. Ryan Gantner, Saint John Fisher
College, Attracting mathematicians in high school:
What can be taught after the AP calculus test?
2:30 – 2:35 (30) Deborah Moore-Russo, SUNY at
Buffalo, Mathematics Teachers’ Visualization in 3Space
3:00 – 3:25 (29) Tom Pfaff
Integrating Sustainability into Calculus: Enhancing
Calculus while Meeting Joint Science Academies and
United Nation Goals on Education in Sustainability
Saturday Afternoon, IRC 2
1:30 – 1:55 (21) Mark McKinzie, St John Fisher
College, The early history of series convergence
2:00 – 2:25 (23) Dawn M. Jones, SUNY College at
Brockport, Why Every Teacher Should know Ptolemy’s
Theorem
2:30 – 3:30 A Presentation of Teachers’, Masters’, and
Honors Projects in School Mathematics
Keary Howard (Organizer), SUNY Fredonia
(4) You Take Calculus to Learn Algebra: Algebra
Proficiency and Calculus Performance. Jennifer
Edwards, Graduate teaching Assistant, SUNY Fredonia
(5) Mental Math Magic: Middle School and College
Student Solution Strategies to Mental Arithmetic
Problems, Christopher Oaks, Graduate Teaching
Assistant, SUNY Fredonia
(6) Calculator Use and Abuse: Middle School Math
Fact Recall Results with and without a Calculator,
Mary Brill, Graduate Teaching Assistant, SUNY
Fredonia
(7) Utilizing New York State's Content Strand
Performance Indicators. Hannah Jenson, Lake Shore
High School
Saturday Afternoon, IRC 6
1:30 – 1:55 (1) Yozo Mikata, Ph.D., Lockheed Martin
Two Approaches to a CNT Self-Folding Problem
2:00 – 2:25 (13) Godfred Yamoah, Clarkson
University, The Groundwater Flow Problem and the
Adaptive Hydrology Model
2:30 – 2:55 (12) Naveen Vaidya, York University
Deformation of Biological Membranes and Influenza
Virus Infection: A Mathematical Model
3:00 – 3:25 (8) Yolande Tra, Rochester Institute of
Technology, Statistical Analysis of [Psi+] Prion
affected yeast microarray data
3:30 – 3:55 (24) Brian Snepenger, Nazareth College,
Diffusion of Innovations
Saturday Afternoon, IRC 7
1:30 – 1:55 (27) Mark Elmer, SUNY Oswego,
Principal Value Mean (Part 1)
2:00 – 2:25 (28) Magdalena Mosbo, SUNY Oswego
Principal Value Mean (Part 2)
2:30 – 2:55 (3) James Marengo, Rochester Institute of
Technology, Order Statistics, System Lifetimes, and the
Memoryless Property
3:00 – 3:25 (15) Manuel Lopez, Rochester Institute of
Technology, Extending to Three-Dimensional Blocks
the Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem
3:30 – 3:55 (16) Nathan Reff, Rochester Institute of
Technology, Applications for the Generalization of the
Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem
Saturday Afternoon, IRC 8
1:30 – 1:55 (26) Hossein Behforooz, Utica College
The Gallery of my Own Magic Squares
2:00 – 2:25 (11) Joseph Petrillo, Alfred University
Goursat’s (Other) Theorem
2:30 – 2:55 (9) Nikolai A. Krylov, Siena College, The
relative mapping class group of the tangent disk bundle
over the standard n-sphere.
3:00 – 3:25 (31) James Parks, SUNY-Potsdam,
Certain Subgroups of the isometry Group of the Plane
3:30 – 3:55 (17) Sandeep Bhargava, York University
Generalized Intersection Matrix Algebras and Finite
Root Systems
Saturday Afternoon, IRC 9
1:30 – 1:55 (22) Peter Mercer, Buffalo State College, A
Refinement of the Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality
2:00 – 2:25 (19) Sam Northshield, SUNY Plattsburgh
Rational points and continued fractions on the
Sierpinski gasket
2:30 – 2:55 (18) Abbas Alhakim, Clarkson University
de Bruijn Graphs Homomorphisms and Construction of
de Bruijn Cycles
3:00 – 3:25 (20) Jie Sun, Clarkson University
Combination and Separation in Graphs and Their
Application in Network Compression
3:30 – 3:55 (10) Margaret Sherman and Robin Sanders
Colorability of Circulant Graphs
Saturday Afternoon, IRC 4 Student Program
Student Program: Organizer: Jeff Johannes, SUNY
Geneseo. Any student wishing to contribute a talk
should send the title and brief abstract to
johannes@geneseo.edu.
Registration, Meals, and Refreshments
Registration will take place in the Holiday Inn Ballroom
on Friday evening during the social hour from 6:00 to
7:00, and on Saturday morning from 8:00 until 11:00 in
the Intructional Resources Center (IRC). Refreshments
and the book display will also be in IRC on Saturday
morning. Lunch will be served in the HUNT College
Union Ballroom
Directions to SUNY Oneonta
Driving directions to SUNY Oneonta from all directions
and printable maps can be found on the conference
website http://www.oneonta.edu/seaways07/. The
following directions can be followed once you are on
Route 88 heading East. Take Exit 15 off of I-88. Make
a Left onto Foster/Lettis Highway. It will cross Main
Street at its first major intersection, then it becomes
Maple Street. At the first light on Maple Street, make a
left onto Center Street. At the end of Center Street,
make a right onto West Street. Turn right at the SUNY
College at Oneonta sign onto Ravine Parkway and into
the campus.
Accommodations
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at three hotels.
Please see the meeting website for details.
Meeting Website
Driving directions, maps, an online registration form,
information about hotels, and the latest program details
may be found at the meeting website:
http://www.oneonta.edu/seaways07/.
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NEXT MEETING:
2007 FALL MEETING
October 19-20, 2007
Monroe Community College