There is an MSWord version of:

• the program available at: 2007 Meeting Progam.
• the schedule of contributed talks available at: 2007 Meeting Contributed Talk Schedule.
• the abstracts for these talks at: 2007 Meeting Abstracts.

Friday March 30

8:30–2:45        Meeting of KY NExT

                        9:00-10:00 Opening Address, Alex McAllister

10:30-11:30 Panel – Beyond Teaching

Aparna Higgins, Gail Mackin, Tom Richmond, John Wilson

12:30-1:30 Panel – Finding Your Teaching Style

Dora Ahmadi, Paul Eakin, Austin French, Daylene Zielinski

1:45-2:45 Closing Address, Aparna Higgins

2:30-5:30         Registration   Science Third Floor Lobby

2:30-5:00         Refreshments Science 305

2:30-5:30         Book Exhibits Science 305

3:20-3:35         Contributed Papers

Robert C. Powers, U of L (f)

Nondictatorially Independent Pairs that satisfy Pareto

Science 304

                        Phil McCartney, NKU (f)

Some Nifty Problems Involving Convex Functions

Science 302

Eric McCann, Morehead State (u)

Sleeping Giant, Creating a Bootable Beowulf High Performance Cluster

Science 301

3:40-3:55         Contributed Papers

                        Trisha Edington, Morehead State (u)

Wind Effects on High-Rise Structures

Science 304

Mark Robinson, WKU (f)

The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and Related Integral Theorems

Science 302

Kelly Christensen, David Williams, Jonathan Butcher; Asbury College (u)

Evening the Odds: The Prevention of Gerrymandering

Science 301

4:00-4:15         Contributed Papers

Chris Hatfield, Aaron Iddings, Ben McLaughlin; Asbury College (u)

Aircraft Boarding Strategies

Science 304

Prasanna Sahoo, U of L (f)

On a Functional Equation Associated with the Trapezoidal Rule

Science 302

Kelly Gripshover (u) and Robin Blankenship (f), Morehead State

Book of Queens

Science 301

4:15-4:30         Break

4:30-4:45         Contributed Papers

Chris Schroeder, Rus May, Tim O’Brien, Morehead State (f)

Survivability of Tablet PCs in a Calc III Environment

Science 304

Jennifer Lamb, NKU (u)

Queen Conch Population Modeling with an Emphasis on Conservation

Science 302

Catrinia Druen, Morehead State (u)

Viscosity:  An Exploration into Internal Friction

Science 301

 4:50-5:50        Panel Discussion:  Placement Testing

                        Moderator:      Kirsty Fleming, NKU

                        Panelists:         Ann Bartosh, Kentucky Department of Education

                                                Jane Brantley, WKU

                                                Steve Newman, NKU

                        Science 308

4:50-5:05         Contributed Papers

                        Duk Lee, Asbury College (f)

Cubic Equations and Regular Heptagon Folding

Science 304

                        Di Wu, WKU (f)

Applications of Singular Value Decomposition to Biological Systems

Science 302

4:50-5:05         Contributed Papers

I-Chun Wu, Morehead State (u)

Using Mathematics and Historical Aerial Photographs to Quantify Landscape Changes

Science 301

5:10-5:25         Contributed Papers

Rus May, Morehead State (f)

Solving a Parsing Problem with Generating Functions

Science 304

Stephanie Berkemeyer, Kayla Menkedick, Tim Smith; Asbury College (u)

Using Optimization Theory to Increase Success in Kidney Transplant Pools

Science 302

Kelly Houston, U of L (u)

Configurations of the Form N₃

Science 301

5:30-5:45         Philip Crain and Joe Griggs, Centre College (u)

A Microscopic War, Bacteria vs. Sulfa Drugs

Science 302

Brett D. Whitaker, Morehead State (u)

A Gambler’s Fortune: Analyzing Strategies in Casino Blackjack

Science 301

6:00-7:30         Banquet University Center Ballroom

7:30-8:30         Invited Address        

Aparna Higgins, University of Dayton

Demonic Graphs and Undergraduate Research

University Center, Otto Budig Theatre

8:30                 Aftermath      University Center, Second Floor Lobby

Saturday March 31

7:45-11:00       Registration   Science Third Floor Lobby

7:45-11:00       Refreshments Science 305

8:00-11:20       Book Exhibits Science 305

8:00-8:15         Contributed Papers

Bangteng Xu, EKU (f)

On Maximal Actions and  w-maximal Actions of Finite Hypergroups

Science 304

Michael S. Waters, NKU (f)

The Bi-Fold Closet Door and Beyond

Science 302

Liz Haynes, WKU (g)

The Whitehead Link on the Cubic Lattice

Science 301

8:20-8:35         Omer Yayenie, Murray (f)

Congruence Subgroups of the Modular Group Related to Congruence Restrictions of Modular Forms

Science 304

Joe Harless, Morehead State (u)

Separation in Transit Graphs

Science 302

Claus Ernst, WKU (f)

Unknotting a Knot

Science 301

Bob Riehemann, Thomas More College (f)

Games Among the Honors Students

Science 308

8:40-8:55         Nancy Rodgers (f), Doug Anewalt (u), Paul Lee (u), Hanover College
Groups Unlimited:  A New Software Program

Science 304

Mike Ackerman, Bellarmine University (f)

A Method to Deal with Indifference or Indecision in Voting

Science 302

8:40-8:55         Contributed Papers

Steven Wilkinson, NKU (f)

Self-Curvature Curves

Science 301

Lee R. Gibson, U of L (f)

Windfalls and Pitfalls:  Teaching Mathematics with New Technologies

Science 308

8:55-9:15         Break

9:15-10:00       2006 Distinguished Teaching Award Address

Austin French, Georgetown College

Teaching:  How to Grow Better Instead of Bitter, How to Grow Better Instead of Burned Out

University Center, Otto Budig Theatre

10:00-10:20     Break 

10:20-10:35     Contributed Papers

Yale Madden, WKU (g)

Counting Special Prefix Vectors        

Science 304

Chris Christensen, NKU (f)

Ordering an Addition Table

Science 302

Lan Nguyen, WKU (f)

Generalization of the  Cauchy Integral Formula

Science 301

Lloyd Jaisingh, Morehead State (f)

Using Logistic Regression to Predict Probabilities of Graduating from College

Science 308

10:40-10:55     Don Krug, NKU (f)

Tic-Tac-Tie?

Science 304

                        John Wilson, Centre College (f)

Elliptic Curves Over GF(2ⁿ)

Science 302

10:40-10:55     Contributed Papers

Andy Martin (f), UK, Robert Denomme (u), Ohio State U.

On Convergent Subseries of the Harmonic Series

Science 301

Ted Porter, Murray State (f)

The PLTL Workshop Learning Model in a High School Mathematics Classroom

Science 308

11:00-11:15     Marc Lengfield, WKU (f)

Mappings Of Sequence Spaces Into Hardy-Lorentz Spaces

Science 304

Biswajit Panja, Morehead State (f)

Fault Tolerant Key Recovery in Sensor Networks using Lagrange’s Interpolation

Science 302

Jesse Pratt, UK (g)

Integrals Involving Products of Logarithms

Science 301

Carl Lee, UK (f)

Visualizing Mathematics:  A Course for Undergraduate Not-Necessarily-Mathematics Majors

Science 308

11:30-12:30     Pólya Lecture

Bernd Sturmfels, UCBerkeley

The Joy of Solving Equations

University Center, Otto Budig Theatre

12:30-1:30       Lunch University Center Ballroom

1:15-1:45         Business Meeting University Center Ballroom

2:00                 KYMAA Executive Committee Meeting

 SPECIAL THANKS

 For their support of the meeting, the KYMAA would like to thank

Thomson Brooks/Cole Publishing, Jessica Hartmann

Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing, Jody Howells

Addison, Wesley, Cummings Publishing, Amanda Perdaris

Houghton Mifflin Publishing, Kandace Zinn

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2009  Kentucky State University

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