The Fourteenth Annual Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics

SCHEDULE OF TALKS
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1997
10:00- 2:00 Registration - Hadley Hall
12:00 Noon Buffet Lunch -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
1:15-1:30
Welcome and Opening Statement by Dr. Jess Lucas
Vice President for Student Affairs, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Room E-104, Moench Hall
1:35-2:30
An ODE to Toys: Motivating Differential Equations with Physical Models
Michael Moody, Harvey Mudd College
Room E-104, Moench Hall


Contributed Papers

Room G-219, Crapo Hall Room G-220, Crapo Hall Room G-221, Crapo Hall
2:40-3:00 Margaret Jahnke
Siena Heights College
Matrix Invertibility: A Graphical Approach with Mathematica
Julianne Garbe
Michigan Technological University
On a Question of Erdos
Meta Voelker
Illinois Wesleyan University
Steiner Trees Over Generalized Checkerboards
3:05-3:25 Angela Root
Siena Heights College
Investigations of Cyclic Quadrilaterals Using the TI 92
Jakub Zielinski
Washington University
An Introduction to Ramsey Theory
Thayer Morill
Miami University
Defining Sets of Graphs
3:30-3:50 Maryann Herman
Siena Heights College
Causes of War
Julie Dotson
Valparaiso University
On the Computation of the Homomorphism Polynomial
Jeff Prince
Miami University
Similarities Between Abstract Algebra and Graph Theory
3:50-4:05
Coffee and Cookies
G-222, Crapo Hall
Coffee and Cookies
G-222, Crapo Hall
Coffee and Cookies
G-222, Crapo Hall
4:05-4:25 Dan McWhorter
Mount Union College
A Presentation of Hyperbolic Geometry Through the Klein-Beltrami and Poincare Disc Models
Wendy Rigterrink
Miami University
How to Win
Janelle Dieken
Illinois Wesleyan University
A History of Pi
4:30-4:50 Michael Buck
John Carroll University
Geoboards
Christopher Green
Washington University
An Introduction to the RSA Method of Cryptography
4:55-5:15 Dennis Schmidt
St. Norbert College
Oval Intersections in Tilings on Surfaces
Tricia Stone
John Carroll University
Exciting New Work on an Old Problem
5:30-6:45 Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
7:00 - 8:00
Mathematics for Fun and Money
Herb Bailey, Professor Emeritus, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Room E-104 in Moench Hall
8:30 Faculty and Student Parties

SCHEDULE OF TALKS
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1997

8:30-9:00 Coffee, Juice, and Donuts
9:00-10:00 The Search for a Good Basis
Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room E-104 in Moench Hall

Contributed Papers
Room G-310, Crapo Hall Room G-310, Crapo Hall
10:10-10:30 Reggie Becker
Miami University
The Hales-Jewett Theorem
Nathan Mueggenburg
Illinois Wesleyan University
Modifying Daubechies' Wavelet Iteration Scheme for Biorthogonal Wavelet Functions
10:35-10:55 Pramod Achar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Generalized Conjugacy Classes
Jade Vinson
Washington University
The Wave Equation on the Sierpinski Gasket
10:55- 11:10 Coffee Break
G-308 Crapo Hall
Coffee Break
G-308 Crapo Hall
11:10-11:30 Barry Balof
Colorado College
Permutations, Derangements, and Scrambling Numbers
Mike DeCoster
St. Norbert College & Ashwaubenon High School
Variations on the Chaos Game
11:35-11:55 Jamie Kawabata
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
The Bijection from Derangements to Perfect Scramblings
Brian Bennet
Michigan Technological University
The Dynamics of the Space Wheel
12:00
LUNCH
CLOSING CEREMONY
BOOK GIVE AWAY

Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union