The Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America will take place on the campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. March 23 - 24, 2001.
The program includes a Mini Course by John Sullivan of the Universiy of Illinois, addresses by Georgia Benkart of the University of Wisconsin, Herb Lyon of Black Hawk College, and Theodore Gray of Wolfram Research. Underwood Dudley from DePauw University will give the after dinner talk following the banquet. In addition there will be presentations from your colleagues from around the state. A special Project NExT program will be held in conjunction with the ISMAA meeting.
Changes and additions to the program as mailed about January 24, 2001 will be included here. See the 2001 Annual Meeting Update for a summary of the changes.
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March 22, 2001
Amoung the items on the agenda is the election of a Directory or Private Colleges and three Directors at Large. See the Report of the Nominating Committee for information on the slated candidates.
A schedule of events is also available in Microsoft-Word format.
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A mini course, titled Mathematics in the CAVEs, will be presented by John Sullivan of the University of Illinois.
The CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment provides an immersive virtual- reality experience for small groups. Mathematically, the CAVE is especially useful for visualization of curved geometries like hyperbolic and spherical spaces, and can also be used to present results of numerical simulations. Workshop participants will experience the CAVE for an hour, and will learn a bit about how to program CAVE applications.
Due to size restrictions of the CAVE, there will be two separate sessions of the short course. Please go directly to room 3510 in the Beckman Institute building at the far north end of the campus for your session. The first session will begin at 9:00 a.m. and the second session will begin at 10:30. Each session will last approximately one hour. Each session will be strictly limited to ten participants. Pre-registration is therefore required. Include you e-mail address with your registration so that you can be notified which session you should attend.
The workshop will be run by Professor John M. Sullivan, Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois and currently webmaster for the International Society for the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture. To find out more about Professor Sullivan visit his homepage at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~jms/ or use jms@math.uiuc.edu to request more information about the short course.
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The banquet will be held Friday evening starting at 6:30 in the Colonial Room of the Illini Union Ballroom. Presentation of the annual ISMAA Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished College or University Teaching Award will be made at the banquet. A talk by Underwood Dudley, Calulus Books, will follow the banquet in Altgeld Hall.
The cost of the dinner is $25.00. Banquet tickets must be purchased in advance as seating is limited to 90. The banquet includes choice of entree, salad, bread, walnut vegetable medley, parsley buttered new potatoes, apple crumb pie, and beverage service. Wine is included in the beverage service. Please specify your choice of Chicken Breast Supreme, Swedish Meat Balls, or Vegetarian Lasagna for the entree.
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A number of activities of particular interest to Mathematics Students are scheduled including a mathematics contest Friday afternoon and two sesions of student presentations Saturday morning.
Students are encouraged to attend any of the sessions.
For information on participating in the math contest or presenting a paper, see the Call for Student Participation.
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Coffee etc. during the breaks Friday afternoon and Saturday morning will be on Levis Third Floor Rear and Terrace. Refreshments at a Friday afternoon break will be compliments of Wolfram Research.
Book Exhibits will be in Levis Rooms 405 & 406 between noon and 4:30p.m. Friday afternoon and between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30am Saturday morning.
Champaign and Urbana, Illinois are located in the East Central part of the state at the intersection of Interstate Highways I-57, I-74, and I-72. See the Traveling to the Campus, the Champaign-Urbana Area Map, and the Visitors Guide pages for more information.
The Campus Locator Map page shows the location of the University of Illinois within Champaing-Urbana. This page also contains links to an extensive selection of campus area maps including floor plans of some of the buildings.
The ISMAA sesssions and registration will be held in the Levis Faculty Center. The Levis Faculty Center is located on Illinois Street just east of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
The Friday Banquet will be held in the Colonial Room of the Illini Union Ballroom, and the Prof. Dudley's after dinner talk will be held in Altgeld Hall. The Illini Union is located on Green Street, and Altgeld Hall is just to the west of the Illini Union.
See the Parking on Campus page of the Visitors Guide and the Division of Campus Parking and Transportation pages for information on parking. Maps showing parking lot locations are also available.
A shuttle bus will run continuously between the Red Roof Inn, the Hampton Inn, and our conference site (Levis during the afternoon and early evening, and the Illini Union and Altgeld Hall in the evening) on Friday, March 23, from 11:45 to 12:45, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Getting Around in Illinois from the Illinois Department of Transportation provides a number of links to sources of travel information in Illinois including the following:
Amtrak, Greyhound, and Burlington Trailways provide train and bus service to to Champaign-Urbana. Various airlines fly into the Willard Airport. Bus service within the Champaign-Urbana area is provided by the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District.
The University of Illinois' Visitors Guide pages for considerable local information. The Visitor Center page at the City of Champaign web site has additional local information. You can also call the Champaign-Urbana Convention and Vistors Bureau at (800) 369-6151.
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Participants are responsible for making their own hotel/motel reservations. Athough the hotels are not explicitly shown on the the Map to the University Union, it still may be of some help in showing the location of the hotels relative to the campus.
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the following local hotels:
Use the group code MAA to receive the booking. Rooms must be reserved by March 8, 2001.
Call the Red Roof Inn at 1-800-733-7663 (1-800-RED ROOF) to make reservations. Our block number is B170-000-507. Reservations must be made by February 22, 2001. The Inn is approximately 2 miles from campus.
The rooms reserved are three standard Kings (one bed) for $35.99 (single) and $40.99 (double), six business Kings (one bed), which include a modem connection, for $45.99 (single) and $50.99 (double), and one room with two beds.
The Quality Hotel - University Centre, which is listed in the program that was mailed, has recently announced that it is converting to office space. The block of rooms that had been reserved for our meeting is gone. The Red Roof Inn has been added in its place. If the Hampton Inn or Red Roof is full you may try one of the hotels listed below.
Taxes of approximately 11% will be added to the booking rates. The Hampton-Inn is the closest to the campus. The Travelodge, and Best Western-Lincoln Lodge are somewhat farther away, and the others a considerably farther away near I-74.
A shuttle bus will run continuously between the Red Roof Inn, the Hampton Inn, and our conference site (Levis during the afternoon and early evening, and the Illini Union and Altgeld Hall in the evening) on Friday, March 23, from 11:45 to 12:45, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m.
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The registration fee is $25.00 ($9.00 for student at non-member institutions or retired members). The cost of the Friday morning Minicourse is $20.00, and the cost of the Saturday Grant Writing Workshop is $15.00. The cost of the Friday evening Banquet is $25.00 and there is a choice of Chicken Breast Supreme, Swedish Meat Balls, or Vegetarian Lasagna.
The meeting registration fee may be paid at the meeting; however, advanced registration (with payment) is required for the Friday Mini-Course, the Friday evening banquet, and the Saturday Grant Writing Workshop.
The official registration form is available in Microsoft Word format. There is also an unofficial registration form in html format. Please print out one of these forms and send it along with your check made payable Univerity of Illinois: ISMAA 2001 by March 9, 2001 to
Cashiering Office
University of Illinois
162 Administration Bldg.
506 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
You can also fax the registration form to (217) 333-9561 or get registering information by phone between 8:30 am and 5:00pm by calling (217) 333-2888.
Note: The account number on the registration form in the program that was mailed out is incorrect. The correct number is 1-3-64660-0600. If you use the form from the program that was mailed, please insert the correct account number.
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The schedule is:
You will also be able to observe the Net Math Internet Distance Education Center in operation from 12:00 to 4:00.
You can come and go as you please.
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