Program for the 2004 Annual Meeting

Murray State University, Murray

April 2 - 3, 2004

Note: All times are CST and F= Faculty, G = Graduate Student, U = Undergraduate Student.

There is an MSWord version of the program available at: 2004 Meeting Progam.
There is an MSWord version of the Abstracts for these talks at: 2004 Meeting Abstracts.

Friday, April 2

2:00 – 5:30	Registration Martha Layne Collins Industry & Technology Center
2:00 – 5:30	Book Exhibit Collins Center Lounge
2:00 – 5:00	Refreshments Collins Center Lounge
3:00 – 3:20	Contributed Papers Quaternions: The Perfect Key for Gimbal Locks by Craig Collins (u) of Murray State University in Collins Center 229 Geometrizing Link Complements by Dubravko Ivanšic (f) of Murray State University in Collins Center 237 A Plane Polygonal Law by James Barksdale (f) of Western Kentucky University in Collins Center 242
3:30 – 3:50	Contributed Papers Exploring a Mathematical Olympiad Problem by Josh Smith (u) of Centre College in Collins Center 229 Limits, Continuity, and Differentiability for Functions of Several Variables by Mark Robinson (f) of Western Kentucky University in Collins Center 237 CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004 by Dora Ahmadi (f) of Morehead State University in Collins Center 242
4:00 – 6:00	Short Course Collins Center Room 241 Mathematics for Business Decisions Tina Deemer and Pallavi Jayawant, University of Arizona The two course sequence, including probability, simulation, calculus, and optimization, is designed to replace the traditional combination of finite mathematics and brief calculus. We will demonstrate the new materials, discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching the program, and allow plenty of time for hands-on computer experimentation with the texts. All participants in the workshop will receive examination copies of the e-texts and a Guided Tour CD, with video and a narrated interactive PowerPoint introduction to the program.
4:00 – 4:20	Contributed Papers Immunotherapy: A Mathematical Control Theory Approach by Jennifer Hughes (u) of Murray State University in Collins Center 229 Projects in a Quantitative Literacy Course by Kathy Lewis and Dora Ahmadi (f) of Morehead State University in Collins Center 237 Web-based Homework System: Friend or Foe? by Jessica Cunningham (g) of University of Kentucky in Collins Center 242
4:30 – 4:50	Contributed Papers Putting Your Math Where The Rat's Mouth Is by Carl Najdek (u) of Murray State University in Collins Center 229 Some Statistical Aspects of Powerball by Christopher Mecklin (f) of Murray State University in Collins Center 237 Optimal Control Applied to Cell-Kill Strategies by Renee Fister (f) of Murray State University in Collins Center 242
5:00 – 5:20	Contributed Papers Mathematical Model for Antibiotic Effectiveness by Brandon Hale (u) of Murray State University in Collins Center 229 An Introduction to Mathematics Education by David Gibson (f) of Murray State University in Collins Center 237 Estimating the Length of a Knot with a Computer Program by Claus Ernst (f) of Western Kentucky University in Collins Center 242
5:30 – 5:50	Contributed Papers Discussion of Math Modeling Contest, organized by Dora Ahmadi (f) of Morehead State University in Collins Center 229 The Physical Properties of Drums by Maeve McCarthy (f) of Murray State University in Collins Center 237 The CORDIC Method: How do calculator's compute the values of sin(x) and cos(x)? by David Roach (f) of Murray State University in Collins Center 242
6:00 – 7:30	Banquet in the Banquet Room on the 3rd floor of the Curris Center All meal reservations must be made and paid by March 17th.
7:30 – 8:30	Invited Address: in the Curd Auditorium, Collins Center 231 Can You Parallel Park Your Car with Lie Brackets? Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee This talk gives an introduction to the idea of controllability for systems of ordinary differential equations. The connection of Lie brackets with controllability will be given. The relationship between "parallel parking" actions and "noncommunicativity of operators" will be discussed. In addition to her faculty position, Professor Lenhart is a part-time research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
8:30 - ???	Aftermath in the Lounge on the 2nd floor of the Curtis Center

Saturday, April 3

7:45 – 10:00	Registration Collins Center
7:45 – 11:00	Refreshments Collins Center Lounge
8:00 – 11:20	Book Exhibits Collins Center Lounge
8:00 – 8:20	Contributed Papers An Alternative Schedule for Double Elimination Tournaments by Elaine Moss (u) of Murray State University in Collins Center 229 Maps on Doughnuts by Christopher Schroeder (f) of Morehead State University in Collins Center 237 Mathematical Modeling with Excel by Deane Arganbright (f) of University of Tennessee at Martin in Collins Center 242 Fun with Rabies: modeling of an epidemic, or an epidemic of modeling? by Andy Long (f) of Northern Kentucky University in Collins Centre 231 Curd Auditorium
8:30 – 8:50	Contributed Papers The Physics of the Liberty, a Basic Cheerleading Stunt by Sherri Koehnemann (u) of Morehead State University in Collins Center 229 Use of Energy Dependent Logistic Equations in Lotka-Volterra (L-V) Systems Considers Biologic Mechanisms by Robert Fulton (f) of University of Louisville School of Medicine in Collins Center 237 Locating Obnoxious Facilities: Where to Put Out the Garbage? by Michael Ackerman (f) of Bellarmine University in Collins Center 242 Descartes' Criticism of Fermat's Approach to Tangent Lines by Dan Curtin (f) of Northern Kentucky University in Collins Centre 231 Curd Auditorium
9:00 – 9:45	2003 Distinguished Teaching Award Address Collins Center 231, Curd Auditorium Geometric Properties of a Family of Polynomials Ted Suffridge, University of Kentucky Polynomials are in one sense the simplest kind of complex valued functions and yet their properties can be very complicated. In this talk, we define a family of polynomials that have a surprising geometric property that simplifies the analysis and leads to some unexpected applications. Professor Suffridge has been on the faculty at UK for the last 36 years. He has directed 10 Ph.D. students and has two more who will receive their degrees later this year.
9:45 – 10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:00	Panel Discussion: Career Questions and Potential Options Organized by Renee Fister and Maeve McCarthy of Murray State University Panelists: Dora Ahmadi (Morehead), Kirsten Fleming (NKU), and Christine Shannon (Centre) in Collins Center 231 Curd Auditorium
10:15 – 10:35	Contributed Papers The Ishtankapanchavimshatika: A Classical Indian Recreational Mathematics Text by Homer White (f) of Georgetown College in Collins Center 229 Solution of the Uniform Circular Motion Problem in Non-Euclidean Geometry by Robert Lamphere (f) of Elizabethtown Community College in Collins Center 237 The other two R's: Reading and Writing in Mathematics Courses by Alex McAllister (f) of Centre College in Collins Center 242
10:45 – 11:05	Contributed Papers A Plethora of Biographies of Mathematical Scientists by Dick Davitt (f) of University of Louisville in Collins Center 229 Constructions of Exponentially Growing Solutions of First Order Systems with Nonlocal Potentials by Michael Dobranski (f) of Morehead State University in Collins Center 237 Calculus and Cartography by Shane Redmond (f) of Eastern Kentucky University in Collins Center 242
11:20 – 12:20	Invited Address Collins Center 231 Curd Auditorium Six Easy Pieces -- or How I Came to Be an Applier of Mathematics, with Half a Dozen Short Short Stories Ed Spitznagel, Washington University We tell our students that mathematics is good for so many different things. I firmly believe that this assertion is not just a pious fiction, and I will illustrate with six vignettes from my own career as a mathematician with a taste for applied problems. Professor Ed Spitznagel is an award-winning teacher and he has authored two books and 187 papers in physics, group theory, mathematical modeling, statistics, and medicine.
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch in the Banquet Room on the 3rd floor of the Curris Center
1:30 – 2:15	Business Meeting in the Banquet Room on the 3rd floor of the Curris Center
2:30 – 3:30	KYMAA Executive Committee Meeting