Conference Schedule

preliminary schedule; updated March 16, 1999
The Sixteenth Annual Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1999

10:00- 4:00	Registration - Main Entrance, Hadley Hall
12:00 Noon	Buffet Lunch -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
1:25-1:35	Welcome to Rose-Hulman Dr. Sam Hulbert - President Rose-Hulman GM Room in Moench Hall
1:35-2:25	Invited Address - Professor Michael Trick Adventures in Sports Scheduling GM Room in Moench Hall

Contributed Papers

2:30-3:00	Coffee and Cookies G-220, Crapo Hall
	Room G-219, Crapo Hall	Room G-222, Crapo Hall
3:00-3:20	Applying Data Mining Techniques to an Academic Database Lori Walter University of Evansville	Mathematical Simulation of Chemical Reactions Jason Cobb Siena Heights University
3:25-3:45	Industrial Optimization: Specialty Plastics and Packaging, Inc. Chris Anderson, Jennifer Crone, & Jennifer Taylor Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Mathematical Modeling on the Web with ActiveX Matt Hartley & Daryl Davis Siena Heights University
3:45-4:00	Break
4:00-4:20	Applying the Use of Simulation Modeling to Determine How Lines Can Most Effectively Be Set Up in the Newly Remodeled University of Richmond Bookstore Sarah Latshaw University of Richmond	Turning Lights Out with Linear Algebra J. Jacob Tawney Denison University
4:25-4:45	Standing Room Only: MCM Problem B Jim Meyer, Fred Franzwa, & Jonathan Matthews Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	An Elementary Stokes Flow Model Jeffrey Housman & Becky Schram Sonoma State University

5:30-6:45	Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
7:00 - 8:00	Invited address - Professor Colm Mulcahy Wavelets - a New Tool for Imaging, Graphics and Hollywood Room E-104 in Moench Hall
8:30	Faculty and Student Parties (Directions will be given)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1999

8:30-9:00	Coffee, Juice, and Donuts Book Display Faculty Lounge E-204
9:00-10:00	Invited Address - Professor Colm Mulcahy The Curves and Surfaces of the Digital Age Room E-104 in Moench Hall

Contributed Papers

	Room G-219, Crapo Hall	Room G-222, Crapo Hall
10:10-10:30	Another "Accidental" Discovery Brad J. Levy Northern Kentucky University	Measure Chains and Lasalle's Invariance Principle Anders Floor Illinois Weslayan University
10:35-10:55	Musical Geometry Beth Bell Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College	The Quest for Theta: Distinguishing Symmetry Groups from Tiling Groups on Hyperbolic Riemann Surfaces Robert Dirks Wabash College
10:55-11:10	Break
11:10-11:30	The Laplacian Matrix of Some Trees Lon H. Mitchell Central Michigan University	The Summation of Series Daniel Cranston Greenville College
11:35-11:55	Maximally Disjoint Set Covers: A Genetic Approach Matt Lepinski Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Blaise Pascal and Pascal's Triangle Thach Nguyen John Carroll University

12:00 Noon

LUNCH
CLOSING CEREMONY
BIG BOOK GIVE AWAY!
Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union