Preliminary
Schedule
- last updated
March 7th, 2001
The Eighteenth Annual
Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2001
| 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 GM Room in Moench Hall |
| 1:35-2:25 | Invited Address - Professor Linda
Petzold COMPUTATIONALSCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: A CASE STUDY GM Room in Moench Hall |
Contributed (Student) Papers
| 2:30-3:00 | Coffee and Cookies G-220, Crapo Hall |
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| Room G-219, Crapo Hall | Room G-222, Crapo Hall | |
| 3:00-3:20 | Elliptic Curves: The Basics Ben Harwood Northern Kentucky University |
On the Klein Bottle Jessamy Ofcarcik Greenville University |
| 3:30-3:50 | Determining Divisibility Rules with
Permutations Gabe Shaughnessy Southern Illinois University-Carbondale |
MAPLE Simulations of an Analytical Mechanics Problem Robert Clark and Hanna Wagner Ohio Northern University |
| Break | ||
| 4:00-4:20 | Boolean similarity measures -- or how to help lazy programmers Sylvain Hallé Université Laval |
Pythagorean Triples from Generalized Harmonic Sequences Randy Tanner Southern Illinois University |
| 4:30-4:50 | Crayola Meets Matroids Robin DeGracia Dartmouth College |
Tournament Seeding: Is There A Fair Way? John E. Slewitzke College of Mount St. Joseph |
| 5:30-6:45 | Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Invited address - Professor Suzanne
Lenhart CAN YOU PARK YOUR CAR WITH LIE BRACKETS? Room E-104 in Moench Hall |
| 8:30 | Faculty and Student Parties (Directions will be given) |
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2001
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee, Juice, and Donuts Book Display Faculty Lounge E-204 |
| 9:00-10:00 | Invited Address - Professor Suzanne Lenhart APPLICATIONS OF OPTIMAL CONTROL TO VARIOUS POPULATION MODELS Room E-104 in Moench Hall |
Contributed Papers
| Room G-219, Crapo Hall | Room G-222, Crapo Hall | |
| 10:10-10:30 | Cross Product in Finite-Dimensional
Euclidean Spaces Daniar Hussain MIT |
Reducibility of Configurations in the Pancake Problem William Cuckler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 10:40-11:00 | Alternative to Factoring Stephen Young Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
Explorations in Euler's Phi Function David Aukerman Taylor University |
| Break | ||
| 11:10-11:30 | Improving Solar Car Race Strategy Brad Berron Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
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| 11:40-12:00 | Divisibility of
Dedekind Finite Sets David Blair University of Michigan |
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| 12:00 Noon | LUNCH CLOSING CEREMONY BIG BOOK GIVE AWAY! Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union |