Florida Section Newsletter
January 1996
Volume 17, Issue 2
Contents:
President
Leonard Lipkin
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, FL 32224
(904) 646-2467 FAX: (904) 646-2563
llipkin@unf1vm.bitnet
President-Elect
Don Hill
Department of Mathematics
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL 32307
(904) 599-3595
SunCom: 286-3595
Vice-President for Programs
Moana Karsteter
Tallahassee Community College
Tallahassee, FL 32304
(904) 922-8229 FAX (904) 921-1261
SunCom: 292-8229
mkarst@math.fsu.edu
Vice-President-Elect for Programs
Joe Mott
Department of Mathematics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Vice-President for Site Selection
Gerald Junevicus
Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
(813) 864-8432 FAX (813) 864-8382
junevigj@eckerd.edu
Vice-President-Elect for Site Selection
David Kerr
Department of Mathematics
Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
(813) 864-8432 FAX (813) 864-8382
kerr@eckerd.edu
Secretary-Treasurer
Ernest Ross/June White
12229 69th Terrace, North
Seminole, FL 34642
(813) 391-7159
FAX (813) 791-2542 (White)
(813) 791-2601 (Ross)
whitej@email.spjc.cc.fl.us
errossjr@aol.com
Newsletter Editor
Mark Anderson
Rollins College
Winter Park, FL 32789
FAX (407) 646-2479
manderso@rollins.edu
Section Governor
Frederick Hoffman
Department of Mathematics
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(407) 367-3345
hoffman@acc.fau.edu
1996 Nominations
The Nominating Committee is happy to submit the following
slate of nominees for the 1996 election:
President-Elect Shiv Aggarwal,
Embry-Riddle
Vice President-Elect Charles Lindsey,
for Program Florida Gulf Coast University
Vice President-Elect Janice Campbell,
for Site St. Petersburg Junior College
Nominating Committee:
Marilyn Repsher, Chair, Jacksonville University
Gloria Child, Rollins College
Maurice Nott, St. Petersburg Junior College
Rama Rao, University of North Florida
Kermit Sigmon, University of Florida
We have an exciting meeting planned for March 1 and 2 in St. Petersburg. The
meeting is co-sponsored by St. Petersburg Junior College and Florida Power
Company. When I announced this collaboration at the national MAA Section Chairs
Meeting in January, the reaction was enthusiastic. People there thought this was
the first collaboration of its kind. I recently spoke with Margaret Wright, the
president of SIAM, and she actively supports educational cooperation among
industry, MAA, and SIAM. It appears that we are about to break new, fertile
ground that will benefit the mathematical community and our students. We owe
thanks to Ernie Ross, June White, and the rest of the gang at St. Petersburg
Junior College for this opportunity.
In my last message, I requested input from the membership about several
items. I'm sorry to say that I did not get much response. So, I'll ask again.
- Please let me know if you would be willing to serve on an MAA/Florida
Committee. The hours are short, the value is great, and the personal return is
satisfying. The officers want very much to get new people involved in the
organization as committee members and as officers.
- Please let me know if you (that is, your department and school) would be
willing to host our annual meeting. This is a wonderful chance for a
department to receive positive publicity and to do a great service for the
mathematical community.
- Please let me know your opinion of the process of election of officers:
single or multiple-candidate slates; mail ballot or election at meetings, etc.
I look forward to your response to these items. My address is
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Florida, 4567 St.
Johns Bluff Road, Jacksonville, FL 32224; phone (904) 646-2468; fax (904)
646-2540; email llipkin@unf1vm.unf.edu
And, I look forward to a huge turnout in St. Petersburg! See you there.
Len Lipkin
Conference Announcements
The Ohio State University College Short Course Program
organized by Bert Waits and Frank Demana is offering week-long courses at many
colleges throughout the United States. Each short course participant will learn
hands-on how to use the new TI-92 hand-held symbolic algebra computer and/or the
TI-82 graphing calculator to enhance the teaching and learning of college and
university mathematics. Mathematics reform materials consistent with the
calculus reform movement, MAA recommendations, and the AMATYC Crossroads in
Mathematics will be the focus of appropriate short courses. Applications,
problem solving, group learning, pedagogy, implementation issues and testing
issues will be featured in all short courses. The Calculator-Based Laboratory
(CBL) system may be used to gather real data and connect mathematics with
science.
Courses Offered
| DEV |
Mathematics in the foundation area using the TI-82 and CBL
(This includes pre-algebra, beginning algebra, intermediate algebra and
data analysis.) July 15 - 19 Jacksonville University, Florida Your host,
Debbie Adams, may be reached at (904) 745-7300. |
| ALGT |
College algebra, trigonometry, and data analysis using the
TI-82 and CBL with an introduction to the TI-92 July 15 - 19 Jacksonville
University, Florida Your host, Debbie Adams, may be reached at (904)
745-7300. |
| PCALC |
Precalculus and calculus topics using the TI-82 or TI-85 and
CBL with an introduction to the TI-92 |
| CAS-CALC |
Calculus enhanced with computer symbolic algebra using the
TI-92 and CBL July 3 - 7 Rollins College, Florida Your host, Mark
Anderson, may be reached at (407) 646-2323. |
For information on dates and locations of all college sites please contact
Bert Waits and Frank Demana at Ohio State c/o Ed Laughbaum at (614) 292-7223, or
, or Room 342 Math Tower, The Ohio State
University, 231 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210.
The conference will take place at Technische
Universität Graz From July 14 to July 19, 1996 and will be sponsored jointly by
the Fibonacci Association and Technische Universität Graz.
Papers on all branches of mathematics and science related to the Fibonacci
numbers and generalized Fibonacci numbers as well as papers related to
recurrences and their generalizations are welcome. Abstracts are to be submitted
by February 1, 1996. Manuscripts will be due by May 30, 1996. Questions about
the conference as well as abstracts and manuscripts, which should be sent in
duplicate following the guidelines for submission of articles found on the
inside front cover of any recent issue of The Fibonacci Quarterly, should be
sent to:
|
Professor Gerald E. Bergum
The Fibonacci Quarterly
Computer Science
Department
Box 2201
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD
57007-1596 |
or |
Professor F. T. Howard
Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science
Box
7388
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7388 |
The Mathematics Department voted
last year to move to Little Hall so that the entire department could be
together. Currently, we are split between Little Hall and beautiful Walker Hall.
The Mathematics Department began this historic move in December and the move is
still in process in January. During the fall semester, we had a great time
redesigning and renovating the third floor of Little. A new reception area was
added and a new 800 square foot atrium was created which should accommodate 70
to 80 people for colloquia and meetings. All of the administrative staff and
faculty from the second floor of Walker Hall have now moved to Little, leaving
Mathematics faculty on the first and third floors of Walker. They will be moving
to Little later in the Spring. Part of the challenge of the move comes from the
redesign of the computer system, and this challenge is being met by system
administrator Urvashi Shah.
In the third year of the State University System's Teaching Improvement
Program (TIP),seven Mathematics faculty were recognized this fall for excellent
teaching and received $5,000 raises: James Brooks, Frank Garvan, Jonathan King,
Bernard Mair, Murali Rao, Christopher Stark and Andrew Vince. Over the past
three years, the outstanding teaching of 22 Mathematics faculty has been
recognized by this program.
We are pleased to welcome three new faculty members to our department this
fall: Jan Cheah, Alexander Dranishnikov and Irene Hueter.
On April 13, 1996 the South
Campus Math Faculty of Manatee Community College and the Sarasota County
Teachers of Mathematics will jointly host the Third Annual Southwest Florida
Drive-In Math Conference. The morning sessions will include workshops on
Converge, Derive, Geometer's Sketchpad, Gyrographics, MINITAB and the TI-92
Graphing Calculator.
The presentations in the afternoon will include numerous items of interest to
Elementary, Middle and High School teachers, and Community College instructors.
The cost is $5.00 and the deadline date for registration is Friday, March 29.
All interested attendees may contact: Marjorie Thrall, Manatee Community
College, 8000 South Tamiami Trail, Venice, FL 34293. Telephone: (941) 493-3504,
ext. 2639.
This year, we have two new tenure-track
faculty: Drs. Kevin Charlwood and Nikolaos Kodogianidis. They both received
their Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the summer of
'94. Kevin teaches math only, and Nikolaos teaches math and physics. Maria Soto
retired last spring, but has rejoined us to teach precalculus this spring. We
look forward to meeting many of you in March!
Bill Rice was a
well-respected member of the Mathematics Department from 1958 to 1991. Bill died
on December 27, 1995. He was chairman of the Mathematics Department from 1960 -
1976 and division director of the Science-Math division from 1976 - 1978. He was
a leader in local and state mathematics organizations and served one year as
president of the Florida Section of the Mathematics Association of America, the
first community college faculty member to serve in that office.
The Math Department had an
interesting fall semester. Students and faculty participated in many activities
and won some honors. Fr. Pedro Suarez, the chair has been asked to serve on the
Center for Excellence Advisory Board of the Museum of Science in Miami. Dr.
Eduardo Luna attended the IX Inter-American conference on Mathematics Education
from July 31 - August 4 at Santiago, Chile and addressed the Plenary Session.
Professor Carol Marinas participated in the Education Day at Barry University on
November 14, attended the meeting of the Florida Council of Teachers of
Mathematics in West Palm Beach on Oct. 12-14 presented a talk f(g)
Scholar: a New Advancement at the Florida Educational Technology
conference in Ft. Lauderdale in November, organized a workshop of Dade County
teachers to learn how to use Pagemaker for their business cards and a Christmas
newsletter and also conducted a workshop on January 4 and 6, on learning the
Freenet for the Broward County library system. Professor Carlos Segami along
with Professors F. Gomez and R. Hull co-authored the paper Automated
Acquisition of Knowledge from Encyclopedic Tests which was published in
the IEEE International Journal of Artificial intelligence Tools. He also
co-authored and presented the paper Automated Database Design from Natural
Language with F. Gomez in the 1995 Goddard Conference on Space
Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Information Technologies
held in Maryland in May. Most of the faculty also attended the joint MAA/AMS
meetings at Orlando.
The Barry University programming team consisting of the Computer Science
majors, Daniel Bulli, Nelson Fonseca and Stefan Mueller obtained third place in
the 1995 ACM division II Southeast Regional Programming competition. Several
members of the MAA student chapter attended the joint meeting in Orlando in
January.
Therlene Boyett became acting
chair of the West Campus Mathematics department on January 3. A permanent chair
will be appointed on July 1.
The FSU Mathematics Department
has two new faculty members this year. Professor M. Yousuff Hussaini, Eminent
Scholar Chair in High Performance Computing, comes to us from ICASE (Institute
for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering) where he was formerly the
director. Professor Yousuff will direct an interdisciplinary program in
Computational Science and Engineering. Professor Mika Seppala, formerly of the
Academy of Finland, will direct our newly established program in symbolic
computation. Also, visiting for the year are Loris Renggli, visiting assistant
professor, from the Universite de Montpellier, France, and Ben Fusaro, visiting
professor, from Salisbury State University, Maryland. Spring semester visitors
are Paul-Jean Cahen, visiting professor, from Universite d'Aix-Marseille III,
Philip Hall, visiting professor, from the University of Manchester, U.K., and
Wolfgang Metzler, visiting professor, from J.W. Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany.
Paolo Aluffi, John Bryant, Bettye Anne Case, Chris Hunter, Washington Mio,
Warren Nichols and Dan Oberlin won TIP awards.
De Witt Sumners was a featured speaker at the SIAM annual meeting in
Charlotte, N.C. in October. (His picture graces the front page of the December
issue of SIAM News.)
The course Theory of Life Contingencies, MAP 4175, has been added to
the actuarial mathematics program at FSU. The content of this course is basic
for the 6th examination in the series of the Society of Actuaries (or 4a of the
Casualty Actuarial Society). At FSU we now support preparation for the first six
examinations. Inquiries are invited.
Retired Professor Dwight Goodner passed away last September at the age of 82.
Dwight served as one of the first Florida Section Governor. Several years ago,
Dwight and his wife Mildred, established the Goodner teaching awards for TA's.
This cash award is presented annually to male and female teaching assistants for
excellence in teaching.
Dr. Richard Austin was a
member of the program committee for the MCTM meeting in Knoxville and presented
a session on using Superitems in Assessment. At the Florida Council of Teachers
of Mathematics meeting in Palm Beach Gardens, he presented a session on informal
geometry projects for teachers. He is also the current president of the Florida
Association of Mathematics Educators.
Dr. Michaele F. Chappell presented Developing Algebraic Reasoning with
Algebra Tiles at the Southern Regional meeting of the National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics in Knoxville, TN, October 5-7.
Roberta Fuller has joined the mathematics education faculty at USF. She is
completing her Ph.D. in mathematics education from Illinois State University.
Her dissertation, Assessing Teacher Change in Beliefs, Knowledge and
Practice, is being chaired by Dr. Cheryl Lubinsky. We welcome her to the
faculty.
Dr. Betty Lichtenberg has been granted status as Professor Emeritus and was
honored at the Honors Convocation last fall.
Dr. Denisse R. Thompson presented Hands-on Algebra Activities for
Elementary Students at the NCTM meeting in Knoxville and Using
TI's Calculator-Based Laboratory (with Dr. Fred Prince) at the FCTM
meeting. She published The METRO Achievement Program: Helping Inner-City
Girls Excel in Equity in Mathematics Education: Influences of
Feminism and Culture, edited by Pat Rogers and Gabriele Kaiser and
Making Connections with Transformations in Grades K-8 with Rheta
N. Rubenstein in the 1995 NCTM yearbook. She has also co-authored two articles
in the Mathematics Teacher, one in the November 95 issue and one in the February
96 issue.
Dr. Andria Troutman has rejoined the mathematics education department after a
tenure in the Instructional Technology department. We welcome her back. The
fifth edition of Mathematics: A Good Beginning -- Strategies for Teaching
Children, written with Betty Lichtenberg, was published in 1995.
9:00 - 10:45
Workshop
TI-92 Calculator: Interactive Geometry & Advanced Graphing
Marcelle Bessman
11:00 - 12:45
Workshop
Introduction to Calculus on the TI-92 Calculator
Marsha Finkel-Babadi
|
9:00 - 11:00
Workshop
Programming on the TI-82 Graphing Calculator
Michael Keller
11:00 - 12:45
Workshop
The New Casio Calculator
Marcelle Bessman
|
9:00 - 12:00
SUS Chairs Meeting |
9:00 - 10:15
FTYCMA
Business Meeting
10:30 - 12:00
Community College Forum
|
12:20 - 1:00
Regional Meeting Reports |
1:15 - 1:30
Welcome Session
Leonard Lipkin, UNF
MAA-Florida Section President |
1:30 - 2:30
Plenary Address
Heiz-Otto Peitgen
Author of books and articles on Chaos and Fractals
A Role Model for Complexity: Paper Folding |
2:45 - 5:15
Workshop
Environmental Mathematics
Ben Fusaro |
2:45 - 5:15
Special Session
Using the CBL (Calculator Based Laboratory) in the Mathematics Classroom |
2:45 - 5:15
Contributed Papers |
2:45 - 5:15
Special Session
Mathematics Education & Reform |
2:45 - 3:30
FAME Meeting (FL Association of Mathematics Educators)
3:40 - 4:20
Meeting for those interested in student organizations & activities
4:30 - 5:00
MAA-FL Section WEB home page discussion |
5:45 - 6:45
Evening Social |
Saturday, March 2
7:30 - 8:30
Governor's Breakfast
Fred Hoffman, FAU
MAA-Florida Section Governor |
9:00 - 10:00
Plenary Address
Lin Dearing, Clemson University
Two Student Project Experiences in Industry |
10:10 - 11:20
Panel Discussion: What Industry Wants from Mathematics
Joe Mott with panelists from industry |
10:10 - 11:20
Special Session on History of Mathematics |
10:10 - 11:20
Special Session on Applications |
10:10 - 11:20
Contributed Papers |
10:10 - 11:20
Student Papers Session |
11:30 - 12:30
Plenary Address
Marcia Sward
Executive Director of MAA |
12:45 - 2:00
Luncheon and Annual Business Meeting |
Directions to Florida Power Corporation
From I-275 In South St. Petersburg
 | Take the exit for 22nd Avenue South (Not north)
 | Exit 5 traveling north |
| Exit 6 traveling south |
|
| Go west on 22nd Avenue for 1 block on 34th Street |
| Turn left (south) on 34th Street |
| Florida Power is about 8 blocks on the right
| 3201 34th Street South |
|
Motel Accommodations
When making reservations, mention the MAA meeting hosted by Florida Power
Corporation and St. Petersburg Junior College. Rooms being held until
February 1 -- on available basis after that.
Nearby Motels
Howard Johnson Executive Inn
3600 34th Street, South
St. Petersburg, Florida
(813) 867-6070
$56 + tax includes deluxe continental breakfast - up to 4 per room
Ramada Inn
3601 34th Street South
St. Petersburg, Florida
(813) 867-1377
$58 + tax includes deluxe continental breakfast - up to 4 per room
Holiday Inn
4601 34th Street South
St. Petersburg, Florida
(813) 867-3131
$59 + tax for king-sized room
Beach Motel
Best Western Sirata Beach Motel
5390 Gulf Boulevard
St. Petersburg Beach, Florida
(813) 367-2771
$139 + tax for efficiency for up to 4 persons
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1996 Annual Meeting
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Make check out to "Florida Section-MAA." and mail to:
Ernest R. Ross, Treasurer
Florida Section MAA
12229 69th Terrace N
Seminole, FL 34642