skeleton of  schedule; updated March 10, 2000
The Seventeenth Annual Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics
 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS  - FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2000


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
Barry Benedict, Dean of the Faculty, Rose-Hulman
GM Room in Moench Hall
1:35-2:25 
Invited Address - Professor Nigel Boston
CRYPTOGRAPHY AND THE BENEFITS OF IGNORANCE
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  Patrick Kessel and Westley Haggard
Large Primes
Northern Kentucky University
Johnnell Parrish
Parallel Computation of the Polar Decomposition
University of Maryland Eastern Shore 
3:25-3:45  Abu Jalal
Error Bounds Involving Almost-Binomial Approximations
Wabash College
Amar Parmarr
The Irrationality of Pi
Manchester College
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-4:20 Shawn Alsburgh
Farmer Ted Goes 3D
Taylor University
Kendell Dorsey
Patterns of Powers
College of Mount Saint Joseph
4:25-4:45 Steve Young
Chaotic Behavior Over the Naturals
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Mustafa Bashir
Good Sampling Times for Sampled-Data Systems
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
5:30-6:45 Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
7:00 - 8:00
Invited address - Professor Frank Morgan
SOAP BUBBLE CONTEST
Room E-104 in Moench Hall
8:30 Faculty and Student Parties (Directions will be given)

 
 
 
 
 
 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2000



 
 
 
 

8:30-9:00 Coffee, Juice, and Donuts 
Book Display
Faculty Lounge E-204
9:00-10:00
Invited Address - Professor Frank Morgan
DOUBLE BUBBLE CONJECTURE
Room E-104 in Moench Hall

Contributed Papers

  Room G-219, Crapo Hall
Room G-222, Crapo Hall
10:10-10:30 Erin Bergmann
Energizer Fractions; They Keep Going, and Going, and ....
Saint Norbert College
Michael Ewing, Peter Nei, and Tom Schneider 
Rookies in the Math Modeling Contest
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
10:35-10:55 Michelle Budzban
Roots, Roots, and More Roots
Saint Norbert College
Dennis Lin
NP-Complete Radio Tower Placement
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
10:55-11:10 Break
11:10-11:30 Shaun McCance
Bordered Klein Surfaces with Maximal Automorphism Groups
Purdue University Calumet
11:35-11:55 Nancy-Elizabeth Bush
Cwatsets and Graph Isomorphisms
Wheaton College
12:00 Noon 
LUNCH
CLOSING CEREMONY
BIG BOOK GIVE AWAY!
Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union