Joint Annual Meetings
MAA Florida Section & FTYCMA
Florida Gulf Coast University

Friday, February 13, 2009

9:00 - 9:50 10:00 - 11:20 11:30 - 12:30/12:30 - 1:30	FTYCMA Officers' Meeting FTYCMA Workshop Update on Math in the Sun VI FTYCMA Business Meeting and Luncheon Box Lunches provided by Pearson Publishing Room: Whitaker Hall 101
10:00 – 11:30	MAA Officers' Meeting Room: Lutgert 2210
1:45 – 2:00	Presidential Welcomes Room: ACAD 5 112
Plenary Session 2:00 – 2:50	Using groups and graphs to create symmetry patterns Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth Room: ACAD 5 112

Contributed Paper Sessions
Rooms	Lutgert 1201	Lutgert 1202	Lutgert 1203	Lutgert 1206	Lutgert 2208	Lutgert 2209
3:00-3:45	Undergraduate Student Research and Union Spaces David Rose Florida Southern College	A short proof of the irrationality of the tangent at nonzero rational points Lubomir Markov Barry University	The Road Ahead for Undergraduate Mathematics Don Ransford Edison Community College	Modeling a potential spread of the Avian Flu Influenza (H5N1) for the United States Michael Jones Stetson University Using Hamilton’s Principle to Approximate Soliton Solutions for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Ryan Rogers Stetson University	Non-linear filtering with mobile/fixed Antennas Menaka Navaratna, Florida Gulf Coast University Channa Navaratna, Indiana University of Pennsylvania	Using Technology to Teach Introductory and College Algebra Wendy Perry University of Tampa
4:00-4:45	Math in Sports; or … How to Serve a Volleyball Scott White St. Petersburg College	Some Remarks On Some Classical Combinatorics Problems Shanzhen Gao Florida Atlantic University	What is Elliptic Curve Cryptography? Daniel Dreibelbis University of North Florida	Invariant subspaces and orbits of operators Stephen Rowe Wilkes Honors College, FAU The Leap from Classical Physics to Quantum Mechanics Isaac DeFrain & Justin Owen Wilkes Honors College, FAU	Value Distribution for Differential Polynomials in the Unit Disk Kari Fowler University of Tampa	Student Projects: Quadratics and Birds’ Eggs for the Pre-Calculus and Calculus Students Cathleen Horne, Broward College John Adam, Old Dominion University
Conference Break 4:45-5:30 Please visit the textbook publishers in Lutgert 1204
5:30-6:15	Lifting Algorithms for Wavelet Transformations Catherine Beneteau University of South Florida	Bone Mineral Density, Hip Fractures and Running in Space Ted Andresen St. Petersburg, Florida	Improving Student Performance With Mastery Based Software Jordan Enzor Hawkes Learning Systems	From Textbook to Reality: Was Torricelli Right? Cori Ouellette, William Severa, Wilkes Honors College, FAU Where is the Light? Connecting Shadows and Lights with Dandelin Spheres David Holz, Wilkes Honors College, FAU	Mathematical Amusements Scott Hochwald University of North Florida	Solitons in Microstructured Solids and Biological Transport Models Tom Vogel Stetson University

Banquet 6:30 -8:30

Conference Banquet and Award Ceremony Room: Student Union Ballroom

Saturday, February 14, 2009, Valentine's Day

Plenary Session 9:00 – 9:50	Accidents Will Happen – Estimating Risk in Nuclear Power Plants Meredith Blue, NextEra Energy Room: ACAD 5 112
Contributed Paper Sessions
Rooms	Lutgert 1201	Lutgert 1202	Lutgert 1203	Lutgert 1206	Lutgert 2208	Lutgert 2209
10:00-10:45	Double Triangular Numbers I. A. Sakmar University of South Florida	Just Jing It Joel M. Berman Valencia Community College	Transition Modules in Higher Education: Redesigning the Mathematics Curriculum – Part I-II Jim Condor Manatee Community College	Exit Strategy in the Rain: Walk or Run? Myth Busted! Eugene Belogay Wilkes Honors College, FAU	Using an Interactive Learning Environment in Graduate Mathematics Science Courses Raid Amin, Rohan Hemasinha, Kuiyuan Li, Josaphat Uvah University of West Florida	Environmental Modeling – Part I/II Ben Fusaro Florida State University
11:00-11:45	Heptagonal triangles and their companions Paul Yiu Florida Atlantic University	Student Contests Julie Francavilla Manatee Community College		Closure Properties of Involution Codes Alex Kane, University of North Florida Governor’s Session Scott Hochwald, University of North Florida	A Study of Non-traditional Instruction on Qualitative Reasoning and Problem Solving in General Studies Mathematics Courses Kuiyuan Li, Josaphat Uvah, Raid Amin, Rohan Hemasinha University of West Florida

Plenary Session 12:00 – 12:50	“How Always to Win at Limbo” or “You can sum some of the series some of the time, and some of the series none of the time... but can you sum some of the series ALL of the time?” Edward B. Burger, Williams College Room: ACAD 5 112
Luncheon 1:00-3:00	Conference Luncheon FL-MAA Business Meeting Room: Student Union Ballroom