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