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Conference History and Future Dates

1' st  - 1984 2' nd - 1985 3' rd - 1986 4' th - 1987 5' th - 1988
6' th - 1989 7' th - 1990 8' th - 1991 9' th - 1992 10' th - 1993
11' th - 1994 12' th - 1995 13' th - 1996 14' th - 1997 15' th - 1998
16' th - 1999 17' th - 2000 18' th - 2001 19' th - 2002 20' th - 2003
21'st - 2004 22'nd - 2005

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22nd Conference

  • Dates:  March 18 and 19, 2005
  • Organizers: Diane Evans and Mark Inlow
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • not known at this time

21st Conference

  • Dates:  March 19 and 20, 2004
  • Organizers: Jeff Leader and Diane Evans
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • William Dunham: Much Ado About Everything: The Mathematics of Leonhard Euler
    • V. F. Rickey: The Archimedes Palimpsest
    • _________: Carl Friedrich Gauss: Classic Hard Figurer

20th Conference

  • Dates:  March 21 and 22, 2003
  • Organizers: Steve Carlson and Tom Langley
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Aparna Higgins:  Demonic Graphs and Undergraduate Research
    • De Witt L. Sumners: Calculating the Secrets of Life: Mathematics in Biology and Medicine
    • _________: DNA Topology 

19th Conference

  • Dates:  March 15 and 16, 2002
  • Organizers: Roger Lautzenheiser and Jerry Muir
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Harold Boas:  Reflections on the Arbelos
    • _________: What Can One Say Absolutely about Power Series?
    • Liz Jessup: Matrices, Vector Spaces, and Information Retrieval

18'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 16 and 17, 2001
  • Organizers: David Finn and Tanya Leise
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Suzanne Lenhart:  Can you Park your Car with Lie Brackets?
    • _________: Applications of Optimal Control to Various Population Models
    • Linda Petzold: Computational Science and Engineering: A Case Study

17'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 17 and 18, 2000
  • Organizers: Gary Sherman and David Finn
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Frank Morgan:  Soap Bubble Contest
    • _________: The Double Bubble Conjecture
    • Nigel Boston: Cryptography and the Benefits of Ignorance

16'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 19 and 20, 1999
  • Organizers:  Allen Broughton and David Rader
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Colm Mulcahy: Wavelets - a new tool for imaging, graphics and Hollywood
    • _________: The curves and surfaces of the digital age
    • Michael Trick: Adventures in Sports Scheduling  

15'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 13 and 14, 1998
  • Organizers: Kurt Bryan and Yosi Shibberu
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Charles Groetsch: A Tale of Slow Projectiles, Tartaglia's Wager and Halley's Comment
    • Ed Packel: Symbolic Dynamics: A Mathmatica(l) Window to Chaos
    • _________: Puzzles and Paradoxes in Game Theory.  

14'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 21 and 22, 1997
  • Organizers: Elton Graves and Aaron Klebanoff
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Herb Bailey: Mathematics for Fun and Money
    • Michael Moody: An ODE to Toys: Motivating Differential Equations with Physical Models
    • Gilbert Strang: The Search for a Good Basis

13'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 15 and 16, 1996
  • Organizer: Nacer Abrouk
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Richard Brualdi:  Rooks on Boards, Permanents and Determinants and a Computationally Intractable Problem and Majorization (Averaging)
    • _________: Doubly Stochastic Matrices
    • Steve Lallo: The Mathematics of Card Shuffling 

12'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 10 and 11, 1995
  • Organizer: John Rickert
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Marty Isaacs: You Can Count on Groups
    • _________: Dirty Children, Unfaithful Husbands, and Similar Problems.
    • Roger Lautzenheiser: What Does it All Mean? 

11'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 25 and 26, 1994
  • Organizer: Lynn Kiaer
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Gene Berg:  Mathematics of the CD Player
    • _________: Mathematics of Digital Modems

10'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 19 and 20, 1993
  • Organizers:  Steve Carlson and Bart Goddard
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Carla Savage:  Generating Combinatorial Structures and Hamilton Cycles in Symmetric Graphs
    • Gary Sherman:  Introducing...Cwatsets

9'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 13 and 14, 1992
  • Organizers: Steve Carlson and Bart Goddard
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • William Dunham:  Constructing the Regular Heptadecagon: Ingenuity or Just a Lucky Gauss?
    • Joseph Gallian:  Touring a Torus 

8'th Conference

  • Dates:  March 15 and 16, 1991
  • Organizer: George Berzsenyi
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Herb Bailey:  Where Do Problems Come From and Where Do They Go?
    • Clark Kimberling:  Triangle Centers
    • Ira Rosenhaltz:  Tackling the Ticklish Type of Tic-Tac Toe

7'th Conference

  • Dates:  April 6 and 7, 1990
  • Organizer: George Berzsenyi
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Bruce Reznick:  Fun with Generating Functions and The Stern Sequence.
    • Gary Sherman:  Problems, Problems Everywhere. 

6'th Conference

  • Dates:  April 7 and 8, 1989
  • Organizer: Roger Lautzenheiser
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Fred Roberts: The One-Way Street Problem
    • _________: From Garbage to Rainbows. 

5'th Conference

  • Dates:  April 8 and 9, 1988
  • Organizer: Robert Lopez
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Underwood Dudley: Mathematical Cranks
    • Paul Zorn: Calculus in its Fourth Century

4'th Conference

  • Dates:  April 3 and 4, 1987
  • Organizer: Brian Winkel
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • H. T. Banks: Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Physical and Biological Sciences:  A General View
    • _________: Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Physical and Biological Sciences: Specific Case Studies
    • Underwood Dudely:  The Calculus Book

3'rd Conference

  • Dates:  April 4 and 5, 1986
  • Organizers: Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine, and Al Schmidt
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Peter Hilton: Vital Surgery on a Moribund Curriculum
    • Jean Pederson:  From Elementary Geometry to Modern Number Theory 

2'nd Conference

  • Dates:  April 19 and 20, 1985
  • Organizers:  Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine, and Al Schmidt
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Herb Bailey:  Balancing a Yardstick on an Apple
    • Jerry Cline:  Modules in Applied Mathematics

1'st Conference

  • Dates:  April 13, 1984
  • Organizers: Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine and Al Schmidt
  • Speakers and Talks:
    • Bill Rouse:  Monitoring the Physical World with Micros.
    • Maynard Thompson:  A Microcomputer Lab for Post-Calculus Classes
    • Brian Winkel:  Is it Greener on the Other Side?  Emerging Software