The Fifteenth Annual Rose-Hulman Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics SCHEDULE OF TALKS FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1998

10:00- 4:00	Registration - Main Entrance, Hadley Hall
12:00 Noon	Buffet Lunch -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
1:25-1:35	Welcome by Allen Broughton Head, Department of Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology GM Room, Moench Hall
1:35-2:25	A Tale of Slow Projectiles: Tartaglia's Wager and Halley's Comment Charles Groetsch, University of Cincinnati GM Room, Moench Hall

Contributed Papers

2:30-3:00	Coffee and Cookies G-220, Crapo Hall	Coffee and Cookies G-220, Crapo Hall
	Room G-219, Crapo Hall	Room G-221, Crapo Hall
3:00-3:20	Deborah Chute  John Carroll University  Pythagorean Triples	Anders Floor  Illinois Wesleyan University  The Calculus on Measure Chains
3:30-3:50	Michael Buck  John Carroll University  Fibonacci Alterations	Jean Cadet  Rutgers University  Some Capacity Theory
4:00-4:20	Surat Intasang  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology  An Introduction to Diophantine Equations	Robert Dirks  Wabash College  Hi Ho Cherry-O!, Markov Chains, and Mathematica

 

5:30-6:45	Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
7:00 - 8:00	Puzzles and Paradoxes in Game Theory  Ed Packel, Volwiler Professor of Mathematics, Lake Forest College Room E-104 in Moench Hall
8:30	Faculty and Student Parties (Directions will be given)

SCHEDULE OF TALKS SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1998

8:30-9:30	Coffee, Juice, and Donuts Book Display Faculty Lounge E-204
9:30-10:30	Symbolic Dynamics: A Mathematica(l) Window to Chaos   Ed Packel, Volwiler Professor of Mathematics, Lake Forest College Room E-104 in Moench Hall

Contributed Papers

	Room G-219, Crapo Hall	Room G-221, Crapo Hall
10:40-11:00	Matt Lepinski  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology  Cwatsets: Examples and Conjectures: Part I	Christopher Tartaglia  Illinois Wesleyan University  Bernstein-Bezier Polynomials and Vertex Splines
11:05-11:25	Stuart Light  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology  Cwatsets: Examples and Conjectures: Part II	Courtney Lewis  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology  Automation of the Hanging Resonant Chain Experiment
11:30-11:50	Michael Danielewicz  Wabash College  Variability Due to Initial Match-Ups in 4-Team Double Elimination Tournaments	Jim Meyer, Fred Franzwa, Jonathan Matthews Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology A Skewed Perspective

 

12:00 Noon

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