Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (NES/MAA) Fall 2002 Meeting November 22-23, 2002 Framingham State University, Framingham, MA

This page provides information about the NES/MAA Fall 2002 Meeting at Framingham State University and links to information about the Meeting. This page will be updated as additional information about the Meeting becomes available.

On-line registration will not be available for this meeting. If you would like to pre-register, you may print out the pre-registration form for the meeting. The registration fee and meal cost information is on the form as well as mailing and contact information. The pre-registration form is available in PDF-format as well as in a MS Word 2000 file that you may download and edit; if you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here.

Lodging for the Meeting is available at hotels in Framingham (Best Western, Econo Lodge, and Sheraton) and in Natick (Courtyard By Marriott, Crowne Plaza, and Hampton Inn). Each hotel is offering a special meeting rate for those who call and make reservations; to get the special meeting rate, please use the code NES/MAA. To view basic information, addresses, and rates for area hotels offering special rates for the meeting, click here; this is a PDF-file for which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Please use these hyperlinks to access driving directions to and a campus map for Framingham State University (the driving instructions, the campus map, and the on-campus parking map are available in PDF-format as well), information about the College, and the weather, community information, local news, and area information for Framingham, Massachusetts. For your convenience, a hyperlink is provided for the campus directory. For more information about on-campus parking, please left-click here. Please feel free to visit the site for the McAuliffe Challenger Center and the Center for Academic Technology to learn more about the College's Wireless Laptop Project.

Inaugural Northeastern Section NeXT

The Northeastern Section is inaugurating a Section NeXT program for new and relatively new colleagues during the Fall meeting. Untenured full time faculty, those who have and have not been National NeXT fellows, are welcome to participate in talks and workshops designed to assist new faculty in their transition from graduate school to professional academic life.

This year's Northeastern Section NeXT program will be held on Friday, November 22, 2002. Charles Vinsonhaler, University of Connecticut, the 1999 recipient of the NES/MAA Distinguished Teaching Award, and Mary Sullivan, Rhode Island College, Chair of SIGMAA in Statistics Education, will be this year's featured speakers. Dr. Vinsonhaler will discuss some Calculus projects that did and did not work, sharing how we learn more from our failures than from our successes. Dr. Sulivan will demonstrate hands-on activities activities that can be used in a first course in Statistics; participants are encouraged to bring a TI-83+. The Northeastern Section NeXT program is available in PDF-format; click here to get Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Those who would like to participate may pre-register using the pre-registration form that is available in PDF-format and MS Word 2000 format. On-campus registration will begin at 10 am in the Fireplace Lounge in the D. Justin McCarthy College Center, and the first presentation begins at 10:30 am.

Meeting Program

The abstracts for the invited addresses may be accessed by clicking the title of the speaker's presentation. Biographical information is available for each of the invited presenters; the speaker information and biographical information is also available in PDF-format. Hyperlinks to web sites for invited speakers and the speaker's affiliation are provided. The PDF file for the Meeting program is available; to download Acrobat Reader, please click here.

The theme, The Changing Face of Mathematics: A Mathematics Sampler, was chosen as a way in which to explore changes in teaching and learning Mathematics. The research and teaching interests of the speakers include Analysis, Algebraic Coding Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Dynamical Systems, Graph Theory, Lie Groups, Mathematics of Computation, Mathematics Education, Number Theory, Partial Differential Equations, Calculus Reform, and the use of technology in teaching mathematics.

There will be four technology workshops and an assessment workshop during the meeting. Enrollment for the technology workshops is limited, in general, to 25 participants. There is no additional fee for participating in these workshops but pre-registration is required since space is limited. To pre-register for any of the technology workshops, please contact Sarah Mabrouk by phone, (508)626-4785, or by email, smabrouk@frc.mass.edu.

The workshops during the meeting will allow you to learn about technology, using MS Excel to create interactive tools, using the TI-89/TI-92/Voyage 200 in teaching Calculus, using the TI-83 Plus in teaching Statistics, using Geometer's SketchPad 4.0, and to learn about student assessment techniques.

• In the Using The Power Of JMP To Teach Statistics workshop, Michelle Hopkins Capozzoli, Framingham State University, will provide an introduction to the use of SAS-JMP and illustrate how JMP can be used to advance the teaching and learning of Statistics.
  
• In the Promoting Visual Cues With 'EXCEL'lent Tools workshop, Jeff Libby and Bart Stewart, both from the United States Military Academy, will provide instruction on how to use MS Excel to create interactive tools that rival some popular Java Applets. To view samples, visit http://www.dean.usma.edu/math/people/stewart/interactive_tools.htm.
  
• In the Calculus With The TI-89/TI-92 Plus/Voyage 200 workshop, Mary Ann Connors, Westfield State College, will provide examples that illustrate how the use of a handheld computer algebra system can enrich the teaching and learning of Calculus.
  
• In the Statistics With The TI-83 Plus (TI-83 Plus Silver Edition) workshop, Mary Ann Connors, Westfield State College, will present examples that illustrate how the use of the TI-83 Plus can enhance the teaching and learning of Statistics.
  
• In The Geometer's SketchPad (GSP4): A Tool For Exploration, Conjecture and Experiment in High School Geometry workshop, John Lutts, University of Massachusetts - Boston, will introduce the basics of GSP4 and outline several explorations for students.
  
• In the Maple In The Academic Environment: A Practical Introduction To Mathematical Technology workshop, Tom Lee, Vice President of Waterloo Maple, Inc. will introduce the basics of Maple 8 as well as present Maple resources and discuss the pedagogy of the Maple-based curriculum.
  
• During the Assessment Of Student Learning In Undergraduate Mathematics workshop, Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University, will introduce the SAUM project, provide an overview of assessment, share some assessment activities, and answer questions about assessment.

The 2002 Christie Lecture will be given by Carl Pomerance, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories and Laura Kelleher, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, the winner of the 2002 Award for Distinguished Teaching for the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America will give the address Discrete Mathematics In The Schools.

On-campus registration will take place in the Lobby of the Athletic and Recretion Center that is next to Dwight Hall on 2:30 - 6:00 pm on Friday, November 22, 2002 and 8:00 am - 12 pm on Saturday, November 23, 2002. Please remember that you can pre-register for the meeting: simply download the PDF file or the MS Word 2000 file containing the registration form, print out and then fill in the form, and mail it to the address on the pre-registration form.

Meeting Schedule
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Friday, November 22, 2002

Saturday, November 23, 2002

Call For Student Papers
Students (and recent graduates) are invited to present 10 to 15 minute on expository work, research projects, employment experiences, or problems from mathematical periodicals and topics in mathematics, statistics, or computer science. The registration fee and cost of meals will be waived for one student presenter per paper. To submit a student paper, please send the abstract, including current address, phone number, e-mail address, and name of a faculty sponsor to Michael Cullinane, mcullina@keene.edu, or Lisa Humphreys, lhumphreys@ric.edu. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, November 2, 2002.

Call For Contributed Papers
Participants are invited to submit contributed papers that will appeal to a variety of participants. Those planning to make a presentation about their research should keep in mind that since the audience may not be familiar with the results presented, providing motivation and context for the work will make the presentation more accessible and more comprehensible for those in attendance. The deadline for submitting abstracts for contributed papers, presentations of approximately 15 minutes in length, for the Fall Meeting is November 1, 2002. To submit an abstract for a contributed paper, please send the abstract, your mailing address, and a list of any special equipment that needed to Tommy Ratliff at tratliff@wheatonma.edu; while email submissions are preferred, typed contributed paper submissions may also be sent to

Call For New Colleagues Talks
New faculty are invited to submit papers for the New Colleagues Talks. The purpose of these talks is to introduce new colleagues to the Section. The talks should focus on either research or pedagogical activities. For research presentations, it will be helpful to provide some background and motivaiton for the presentation since the audience members may be unfamiliar with the research area. New Colleagues Talks should be 15 minutes in length. Please submit an abstract of 25 words or less, information about any special equipment needed, and contact information including address, telephone number, and email address to Philip Hotchkiss at photchkiss@wisdom.wsc.ma.edu or Chris Aubuchon at aubuchoc@badger.jsc.vsc.edu. While email submissions are preferred, typed submissions may be sent to

The deadline for submission of abstracts for New Colleagues Talks is Friday, November 2, 2002.

Parking for the meeting will be available in the Maple Street Lot and in the Maynard Street Lot; left-click here to view the on-campus parking map. To park on-campus, you will need a parking permit. When your registration is received, a parking permit and an on-campus parking map will be sent to you in the mail; this parking permit is valid only for parking in the Maple Street and Maynard Street lots. A shuttle bus will be pick up people from the Maple Street Lot and take them to the center of Campus in front of May Hall approximately every 10 to 15 minutes. Since Framingham State University is on a hill, there is an incline on the walk from each parking lot to the center of campus. The walk from the Maynard Street Lot to campus is steeper than the walk from the Maple Street Lot to campus. Special needs/circumstance parking will be available for those who must park closer to campus. Please contact Sarah Mabrouk to make arrangements for special needs/circumstance parking.

Program Chair
Sarah L. Mabrouk

Local Arrangements Coordinator
Sarah L. Mabrouk

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