The Mathematical Association of America Maryland-District of Columbia-Virginia Section

Talks Given at Section Meetings, 1997-2006

Section Meeting 158: College of William and Mary, April 18-19, 1997

1. Character Driven Mathematics: The Making of Toy Story
   Brian Rosen, Pixar Corporation
2. Interactive Geometry and Calculus on the Internet
   Thomas Banchoff, Brown University

Teaching Calculus with the TI-92
Craig Bailey, U.S. Naval Academy

1. A Dialectical Approach to the Concept of Number Foundations of Mathematics
   llhan A. Izmirli, Strayer College
2. A Student-Led Seminar in the History of Mathematics
   Betty Mayfield, Hood College
3. Enumerative Combinatorics, Riordan Group and Generating Functions
   Asamoah Kwanta, Morgan State University
4. Symmetry and Beauty in Math and Physics
   George DeRise, Thomas Nelson Community College
5. Abel and Galois - Shared Dreams, Shared Disappointments
   Theresa Francis, Mount St. Mary's College
6. Generalized Repunits and Presumed Primes: An Exploration
   Robert Grafton, National Science Foundation
7. Maximum Determinant of (0,1) Matrices with Certain Constant Row and Column Sums
   Shaun Fallat, College of William and Mary
8. Traveling Wave Solutions to a Modified Lotka-Volterra System for Spatially Stratefied Models for the Spread of Tumors
   Kim Yvette Ward, Old Dominion University
9. Fear of Flying: Interdisciplinary Mathematics for Non-Science Students
   George Rublein, The College of William and Mary
10. Teaching Calculus with the Tl-92 Calculator
    Craig Bailey, U.S. Naval Academy
11. A Rule of Five
    Steven M. Hetzler and Robert M. Tardiff, Salisbury State University
12. Linear Independence in Sets and Sequences
    William Wardlaw, U.S. Naval Academy
13. Ranks of Toeplitz Matrices over Finite Fields
    Geoffrey Price, U.S. Naval Academy
14. Fourier: A Crisis in Analysis
    Lyn Geisler, Randolph-Macon College
15. A Combinatoric Identity with an Algebraic Proof
    Peter Kohn, James Madison University
16. Post-Surgical Passive Response of Local Environment to Primary Tumor Removal
    Carryn Bellomo, Old Dominion University
17. Dances with Agents
    Vojislav Stojkovic, Morgan State University
18. Teaching Mathematics at Kenyatta University
    Dipa Choudhury, Loyola College
19. Introducing a Math Modeling Course: Thoughts from a Newcomer
    Brian Bradie, Christopher Newport University
20. Analytic Functions, Series
    James Coughlin, Towson State University
21. The Notion of Type, as Regards Certain Geometric Limits
    Peter Mercer, St. Mary's College of Maryland
22. Catastrophe-Theoretic Description of Rapid Metastatic Growth
    John A. Adam, Old Dominion University
23. Construction of Haddamard Difference Sets
    Roni Ellington, Morgan State University
24. Mathematical Techniques for Computer Graphics
    Ahlam Tannouri, Morgan State University
25. Toward the Real World: Showing Technology as a Tool
    Brian Bradie, Christopher Newport University Student Presentations
26. Footprint of Field Lines in Single-Null Divertor Tokamah with Dipole Perturbations Using the Method of Maps
    Joni D. Burton, Hampton University
27. Mathematical Modeling of Simple Quantum Mechanical Interactions
    Christopher St. Jean, Randolph-Macon College
28. Why Three Geometric Constructions Cannot be Performed Using Ruler and Compass Methods
    Julie Jones, Randolph-Macon College
29. Magical Turtles and Magic Squares
    Izzy Kyle, Hood College
30. Computer Applications for a MacLaurin-Picard Theorem for PDEs
    Henry D. Herr, James Madison University
31. Modeling Shear in a Magnetically Confined Plasma
    Franklin Jones, Hampton University
32. Hamilton Circuits
    Nikki J. Thompson
33. The Survival of Chesapeake Bay: A Mathematical Study
    Kim Kline and Beth Stockslager, Hood College
34. Exploring Fuzzy Regression Analysis
    Laura J. Jacobsen, Roanoke College
35. Yosemite Expedition: A Calculus Project
    Aba Blankson, Anne Hambrick-Stowe, and Heather Graves, Hood College
36. Implication and Analysis of an Algorithm by Xia
    Michelle Donalies, Hampton University

Section Meeting 159: Mount St. Mary's College, November 21-22, 1997

Visualisation and Modeling in the Differential Equations Course
Robert Borrelli, Harvey Mudd College

1. The Mathematics of the Perfect Shuffling
   Brent Morris, National Security Agency
2. Visualisation and Modeling in the Differential Equations Course
   Robert Borrelli, Harvey Mudd College

1. Data Analysis and Mathematical Modeling in Calculus using the Tl-92
   Jeffrey L.Sielman, Roanoke College
2. Project Next: A national Description and sectional Discussion
   Lester Coyle, Loyola College in Maryland
3. A Maple Representaion of Artinian Braid Groups
   John Armstrong, UMBC/UMCP
4. A Special Combinatorial Decomposition of Chinese Characters
   Michael E. McDaniel, St. Mary's College of Maryland
5. Foundation of Mathematics: Pythagorean Synthesis and Irrational Numbers
   Ilhan A.lzmiri, Strayer College
6. An Exploration of Difficulties in Solving Calculus Word Problems
   Atma R. Sahu, Coppin State College
7. Mathematical Cosmology: How to Spice Up Your Lectures
   George Derise, Thomas Nelson Community College
8. Small Computer Software for Hand Calculations in Elementary Group Theory
   Paul G. Glenn, Catholic University of America
9. A King and Three Wise Men-Multi-Agent Reasoning with Belief Context
   Vojislav Stojkovich, Morgan State University
10. Transmissions in TWDM Communication Network
    Andrew D. Oh, St. Mary's College of Maryland
11. Calculus Project on TI-92
    Roland Minton, Roanoke College
12. Statistical Analysis of Students Evaluations of Faculty
    Thomas Jack, Shepherd College, WV
13. Easily Implemented Binary Burst Error Correcting Codes
    George Mackiw, Loyola College in Maryland
14. The Solution to Hypersingular Integral Equations in Acoustics and Fracture Mechanics
    Richard St.John, Old Dominion University
15. The Mathematics of Rubic Cube
    David Joyner, U.S. Naval Academy
16. Some Changes Nationally in Mathematics Courses for Liberal Arts Majors
    Helen Christensen, RSM, Loyola College in Maryland
17. An Alternative Algebra Course
    Tom Fanney and Denise Wilkinson, Virginia Wesleyan College
18. Integration and the Elliptic Integral
    James Coughlin, Towson State University
19. The Arabian Contribution to the Development of Algebra
    Ahlam El-Hage Tannouri, Morgan State University
20. Individualized Testing in Finite Mathematics
    Francoise Nelles, Shepherd College, WV
21. Sequenceable Groups and Latin Squares
    Michael J. Caufield, Glenville State College, WV
22. Three Models from Baseball with Elementary Mathematical Solutions and a Model Beginning to be Made
    George Edgar Parker, James Madison University
23. Differential Equation Reform: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    Lyn Geisler, Randolph-Macon College Student Presentations
24. Latin Squares
    Sung Hee Cho, Georgetown University
25. Why Do We Need Spanning Trees?
    Devika Cbawala, Georgetown University

Section Meeting 160: Virginia State University, April 17-18, 1998

1. Innovative Expeiments in Mathematics and Beyond…and how I survived them
   Edward Burger, Williams College
2. Juggling Permutations of the Integers
   Ronald Graham, AT&T Labs Research

1. Bifurcational Tournament Square-Root Graphs
   Raymond Pletcher III, Virginia State University
2. Student Self-Assessment and Portfolios in Undergraduate Mathematics Classes
   Lyn Stallings, American University
3. Newton's Arithmatica Universalis
   Rebecca.Berg , Bowie State University
4. A General ODE and PDE Solver Using Picard's Method
   James Money, James Madison University
5. A Set Point Based Dieting Model
   Frank Kozusko, Hampton University
6. Reinforcing Core Curricular Concepts
   Dave Pruett and Cater Lyons, James Madison University
7. New Proofs of Some Classical Inequalities
   Hongwei Chen, Christopher Newport University
8. Solving Cubics and Quartics by Completing the Circulant
   Dan Kalman, American University
9. Small Divisors: Some Number Theory Every Analyst Should Know
   Lyn Geisler II, Randolph-Macon College
10. Matrix Completions over Principal Ideal Domain and Good Matrices
    William P. Wardlaw, U.S. Naval Academy
11. LARGE Complex Mappings from an Evolutionary Viewpoint'
    Stephen D. Casey, American University
12. Interactive Components for Upper Level Math Courses
    Theresa Francis, Mount Saint Mary's College
13. Lattice Paths, Generating Functions and the Fibonacci Numbers
    Asamoah Nkwanta, Morgan State University
14. Trees, Fertility Rate, and Population
    Mohammad Moazzam , Salisbury State University
15. Algebraic Bisections of 3-Regular Graphs
    Fabio Guerinoni, Virginia State University
16. Bounds on the Size of Critical Edge-Chromatic Graphs
    Dawit Haile, Virginia State University
17. Properties of Means of First-Passage Times in Percolation Theory
    John C. Wiemar, John Hopkins University
18. On Some Mathematical Properties of the Pyramid of Cheops
    Ilhan lzrnirli, Strayer College Student Presentations
19. Bicycle Tournament Square-Root Graphs
    Shawn Bruce, Virginia State University
20. A Descriptive Study of Student and Teacher Attitudes Toward Mathematics'
    Belicia Bradley, Hampton lJniversity
21. Linear Algebra and MATLAB
    Henry W Faxon, Bowie University
22. Exploration of Chaos and Heart Rhythms
    Lincoln E. Haughton, Hampton University
23. Some Applications of Iterative Methods
    Kanchan Basnyat, Bowie,State University
24. Partitions of the Edge-Set of a Graph into Trees
    Navin Vembar, The George Washington University
25. Digital SignaJ Processing and Number Theory
    Terrance Moore, American University
26. Useful Strategies in Mathematical Optimization Modeling
    Kendra Taylor, Hampton University
27. Self-Similar Tilings
    Thomas L. Fitzkee, The George Washington University
28. Fun Math Projects for a Rainy Day
    John Kasprzak, St Mary's College of Maryland
29. An Introduction to Fractal Geometry: It's Fractually Everywhere!!
    Rebecca Torrey and Keith McCarron, American University
30. Statistical Analysis of an Industrial Fermentation Reactor
    Erin A. Wilson, Hampton University
31. Two Interesting Topologies on R2
    Eric Moshier, James Madison University
32. Synchronous Fireflies: A Discrete Mathematical Model
    Jesica Lawson, Ronald Walsh, Christian Benjarnin, John Kasprzak and Wendy Utz St. Mary's College of Maryland
33. The Trouble with Easy Teachers
    Modeling Competition in Mathematics Meritorious Award Jonathan Triplett & Daniel Kelly, Loyola College in Maryland
34. DareToLearn™
    Modeling Competition in Mathematics Meritorious Award David Rush, Daniel Showalter, and Bantisossen Ycmane, Eastern Mennonite University
35. ABCDEF: A Solution to Grade Inflation
    Modeling Competition in Mathematics Meritorious Award Kelly Hiltner , Mark Shipley, and Christian Wilson, Mount St. Mary's College
36. ABC's Top List
    Modeling Competition in Mathematics Meritorious Award Aimee B. Cmar and Michael D. Weber, College of William and Mary
37. Modeling Competition in Mathematics Meritorious Award
    Salisbury State University

Section Meeting 161: Towson University, November 13-14, 1998

1. 3-Dimensional Graphics and Geometry on the Desktop
   James White, Mathwright Library
2. Wavelets and Applications
   John Benedetto, University of Maryland
   

Web, Sieves, and Money: Number Theory's Rubber Hits the I-way Road
J. Kevin Colligan, National Security Agency

1. Portfolio and Rubric Assessment in Mathematics Classes
   Lyn Stallings, American University
2. The New Mathright Library
   James White, Mathwright Library

1. Mathematical Sciences During the Byzantine Empire
   Ilhan A. Izmirli, Strayer College
2. The Reversing Symmetry Group in a First Course in Group Theory
   Geoffery R. Goodson, Towson University
3. A Generalization of the Natural Logarithm
   Dan Kalman, American University
4. Computers and the Egyptian Process of Duplation and Mediation
   Ahlam Tanouri, Moragan State University
5. A Pascal-Like Pyramid
   Robert Hanson, James Madison University
6. Tabular Model, Fertility Rate, and Human Population Growth
   Mohammad Moazzam, Salisbury State University
7. Multigrid Methods in Fortran 90
   Paul Dostert, James Madison University
8. Using Computer Graphics to Investigate Group Structure
   Michael J. Bardzell and Kathleen M. Shannon, Salisbury State University
9. Down 4 With a Minute to Play
   G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
10. Visualizing Complex Mappings From an Evolutionary Point of View
    Stephen Casey, Keith McCarron, and Rebecca Torrey; American University
11. Design of a Readings in Mathematics Course
    George Piegari, Virginia Military Institute
12. Fast Calculations of Invariant Factors over a Principal Ideal Domain
    Peter M. Joyce and Nilotpal Ghosh, Catonsville Community College
13. Renewal Models for Genetic Recombination
    John Nolan, American University
14. Introducing Infinite Series Via the St. Petersburg Paradox
    Lester Coyle, Loyola College in Maryland
15. Project NExT: Discussions Via e-mail
    Jacquelin Anderson Hall, Longwood College
16. Super Algebras
    George De Rise, Thomas Nelson Community College
17. Global Behavior of Some Discrete Epidemic Models
    Parviz Khalili, Christopher Newport University

Section Meeting 162: James Madison University, April 9-10, 1999

1. Women in Mathematics: Reality and Myths
   Anita Solow, Randolph-Macon Women's College
2. Mathematical Vignettes from Cambridge University
   James Tattersal, Providence College
3. The Birth of Molecular Computation
   Harel Barzilai, Lynchburg College

Applications for Lower Level College Mathematics
James Sandefur, Georgetown University

1. A Year Sequence in Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling at JMU
   James Sochacki, James Madison University
2. Using Math Forum's Problem of the Week in a General Education Mathematics Course for College Students
   Jeanne Fitzgerald, James Madison University
3. Fixed and Rotating Frames of Reference
   John Marnfino, James Madison University
4. Experiences with a Combined Linear Algebra-Differential Equations Course
   Gary L. Peterson, James Madison University
5. An Exploration of the Musical Pitch Class Group
   Leonard VanWyk, James Madison University
6. On Mathieu's Inequality
   Hongwei Chen, Christopher Newport University
7. A Coherent Survey Course in College Geometry
   Robb T. Koether, Hampden-Sydney College
8. Recognizing and Developing your Students' Mathematical Sophistication
   Gideon Weinstein, American University
9. Sums of Integer Powers: A Combinatorial Approach
   George Mackiw, Loyola College in Maryland
10. Using Mathcad to Determine Quantum Numbers
    Theresa A. Francis, Mount St. Mary's College
11. Mathematical Aspects of Music, Part I
    Ilhan Izmirli, Strayer University
12. A Multi-Type Percolation Model
    John C. Wierman, Johns Hopkins University
13. A Mathematical Exploration of the History of the Human Population
    Lyn Geissler III, Randolph-Macon College
14. Hot Topics Course for High School Students
    George DeRise, Thomas Nelson Community College
15. Minimal Relative Separators for Chordal Graphs
    Dawit Haile, Virginia State University
16. Visualizing Gaussian Elimination
    Daniel F. Symancyk, Anne Arundel Community College
17. 3d Visualization of Mathematical Functions Using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
    Bonita V. Saunders, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
18. The Goldberg Method for Solving Problems in Probability and Statistics
    Lee May. Salisbury State University
19. How Can Schools Meet the NCTM Standards for K-12 Mathematics?
    C. Wayne Patty, Virginia Tech University
20. Pseudo-Conjugacy in Finite Groups
    G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
21. Using Concepts from Logic to Solve Systems of Nonlinear Equations
    Richard Maruszewski, U.S. Naval Academy
22. Abraham De Moivre's "The Doctrine of Chances"
    Christopher E. Barat, Virginia State University
23. The Clairault Equation
    James P. Coughlin, Towson University

• Keynote Speaker
  Touring a Torus
  Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth
  
  
• Student Presentations
  
  
• Poster Session
  
  
• Panel Discussions
  1. Careers in the Mathematical Sciences
     
  2. Graduate Programs in Mathematics
     

Section Meeting 163: Loyola College in Maryland, Fall, 1999

1. Project 2061 and Mathematics Instruction in Middle School and High School
   George Nelson, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2. Combinatorial Aspects of Convex Polytopes
   Rodica Simion, George Washington University
3. Love Letters, M & M's and Circe's Cave
   Bud Brown, Virginia Tech

Complex Mappings From an Evolutionary Viewpoint (A New Way to See Some Classical Mathematics)
Dan K. Bell, Tiffin University
Stephen D. Casey, American University

Section Meeting 164: Bowie State University, April 28-29, 2000

1. The History of Mathematics in Color
   John W. Alexander, Jr., Spelman College
2. Mathematics Magazine Morsels
   Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College
3. The Fractional Parts of n/k
   Melvin R. Currie, National Security Agency

History of Mathematics in Mathematics Courses
Victor Katz, University of the District of Columbia and Rebecca Berg, Bowie State University

1. New Results on Univalent Functions and Their Applications to Complementarity Theory
   Roman Sznajder, Bowie State University
2. Minimal Vertex Separators of Chordal Graphs
   Dawit Haile, Virginia State University
3. An Elementary School Approach to the 16 Puzzle
   William Wardlaw, U.S. Naval Academy
4. An Automorphism Theorem for Bipermutational Tournament Square-root Graphs
   Raymond R. Fletcher Ill, Virginia State University
5. A User Model for Internet Based Intelligent Tutoring System
   Jan Smid, Morgan State University
6. Magic Squares, Finite Geometries and Points of Inflection on Elliptic Curves
   Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech
7. Principle Learning and Theorem Building Process of Integrating Polynomials in Csc x and Cot x
   Atma Sahu, Coppin State College
8. Mathematics of C-spaces
   Ilhan M. lzmirli, Strayer University
9. Fair Cake Cutting After Su
   William Traves, US Naval Academy
10. Using the Washington Post to Teach an Introductory Statistics Course
    Stephanie Cawthorne, Marymount University
11. Is There a "Right" Way to Teach Girls Math? Feminist Pedagogy and Curricular Reform
    Betty Mayfield, Hood College Student Presentations
12. If Pascal Had a Computer - a Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Problem of the Points
    Thaddeus Selden, Randolph-Macon College
13. The Hill Estimator and Heavy Tailed Models
    Bashir M. Dwei, American University
14. Shrewd Shannon-Type Sampling Via Number Theoretic Trickery
    Terrence Moore, American University
15. Interfering with Interference
    Thaddeus Selden and Neil Bridge, Randolph-Macon College
16. Continuous motion of Displaced Coordinate Frames
    Keith McCarron and Becci Torre, American University
17. A Random Regression Model Explored
    Michela Barba, American University
18. An Exploration of a Type-B Tamari Poset
    Nirit Sandman, George Washington University
19. Mathematics on the Web
    Conrad Lotze, American University
20. How Likely is a Fifth Degree Polynomial to be Symmetric about a Point?
    Bradford Abbot and Parviz Khalili, Christopher Newport University
21. Controlling Air Traffic
    Mathematical Contest in Modeling Outstanding Award
    Finale Doshi, Rebecca Lessem, David Mooney; Virginia Governor's School, Richmond

Section Meeting 164: American University, November 17-18, 2000

1. War and the Weather: Notes on the Life and Mathematics of Lewis Fry Richardson
   Brian Hayes, Author and Writer on Mathematics and Related Subjects
2. Double Soap Bubbles
   Frank Morgan, Williams College
3. A Sabbatical Adventure
   Sonja Sandberg, Framingham State College
4. Mathematics in Theoretical Computer Science
   William Gasarch, University of Maryland

Mathwright Workshop
Dan Kalman, American University

1. Encouraging an Enjoyment of Mathematics Through Reading
   Susan Schwartz Wildstrom, Walt Whitman High School, Montgomery County, MD
2. Why The 9-Point Circle Should Be Called The 12-Point Circle
   Fat Lam, Gallaudet University
3. Shapes That Do Well in The Covering Problem
   Tzong-Yow Lee, Maryland, College Park
4. A Math Professor Attends a Physics Conference
   George DeRise, Thomas Nelson Community College
5. Data Transmissions In Wavelength Network
   Andrew D. Oh, St. Mary's College of Maryland
6. An Interesting Binary Operation on p Symbols with an Application to Sequences
   Richard McCoart, Loyola College in Maryland
7. Sequentially functionally compact and sequentially C-compact spaces
   Bhamini M. P. Nayar, Morgan State University
8. Orienting a Scribble
   Gary D. Knott, Civilized Software, Inc.
9. Using Collaborative Learning to Foster Competition
   G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
10. Mathematics and New Technology
    Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
11. Proofs and Their Theorems
    T. Hoy Booker, American University
12. Lowest Terms Revisited
    Carter Lyons, James Madison University, and Larry Robinson, University of Toledo
13. Fractals & Music
    Ilhan M. Izmirli, Strayer University
14. Sampling Theory and the Residue Calculus: What did Cauchy Really Know?
    Stephen Casey, American University
15. Cell Suppression using Linear Programming: A Disclosure Limitation Technique for Data Tables
    Paul B. Massell, Statistical Research Division, U.S. Census Bureau
16. Hit Counting Algorithms for 2-D Cellular Automata
    Brian Guarraci (student) and Michael Bardzell, Salisbury State University
17. Color graphs of complex functions: math, art, both, or neither
    Larry Crone, American University
18. Computer Laboratory Based Calculus Using Excel and Mathematica
    Laura Spielman, Virginia Tech
19. Marden's theorem on the roots of a complex cubic
    Dan Kalman, American University
20. Weaving Paper Polyhedra
    James V. Blowers, US Army Combined Arms Support Command
21. Creating Interactive Java Applets without Knowing Java
    Kevin Peterson, Lynchburg College
22. Home run Hitting and Halley
    Howard L. Penn, U.S. Naval Academy
23. A Carothers Projection of the 3-Body Problem
    Steve Penny, James Madison University
24. What is the rank of a matrix over a commutative ring?
    William P. Wardlaw, U. S. Naval Academy

1. Online Mathematics Tutoring
   Conrad Lotze, American University
2. Singular Points of Polynomial Equations
   Merle D. Zimmermann, Montgomery College (Rockville)
3. Summer Math Camp Growing Pains
   Deborah Lynn Gochenaur, Messiah College

Section Meeting 165: Virginia Military Institute, April 20-21, 2001

1. The Case of the Conjecture Slain by a Deck of Cards (Borsuk's Conjecture)
   Robert Mena, California State University, Long Beach and the National Science Foundation
2. Using Rubrics and Reflection in Mathematics Courses
   Lyn Stallings, American University
3. Comfortably Injecting the Learning of Writing into the Teaching of Mathematics
   Timothy Law Snyder, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University
4. An Overview of Quantum Computation: Concept and Intuition
   Samuel J. Lomonaco, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Grant Writing Workshop

1. Elliptic Curves, Doughnuts, and 49/20
   Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech
2. Undergraduate Computational Science Via Computational Fluid Dynamics
   Dave Pruett, Jim Sochacki, James Madison University
3. Getting The Most Out Of Histograms In Basic Stat
   Alexander White, American University
4. Linear Fractional Transforms With Integer Coefficients
   Gregory Dresden, Washington & Lee University
5. (A) Surprising Sequence(s)
   Gordon Williams, VMI
6. A Stochastic Cellular Automata for Three-Coloring Penrose Tiles
   Mark McClure, UNC at Asheville
7. A Problem of Kaplansky
   William P. Wardlaw, U. S. Naval Academy
8. First Return Limiting Processes: A Little Information Goes A Long Way
   Michael J. Evans, Washington and Lee University
9. Generalizations of the Concept of State
   Andrew Vogt, Georgetown University
10. Three Parabola Problems and Some Historical Notes
    Parviz Khalili, Christopher Newport University
11. From Discrete Least Squares Approximation to Data Smoothing: The Path Less Traveled
    Robert P. Bennell, Virginia Military Institute
12. Merlot: Online Teaching and Learning Resources
    Kevin Peterson, Lynchburg College
13. Orientations of 5-Wheel-Free Graphs To Avoid Having An S3 Minor
    Glenn Berman, Lynchburg College
14. The Mathematics of GPS
    Craig Bailey, U S Naval Academy

1. A Mathematical Model of a Storm Evacuation Plan for the South Carolina Coast
   Jonathan Charlesworth, Finale Doshi, and Joseph Gonzalez, Governor's School, Richmond, VA
   COMAP Outstanding Winner Award
2. EVADE'M: Emergency Ventilation Adaptive Dynamic Evacuation Method
   Robert Knapik, Timothy Myers, and Eugene Kitamura, James Madison University
   COMAP Meritorious Award
3. Hurricane Evacuation Plans for Coastal South Carolina Counties
   Tony Kirilusha, Jonathan Robbins, Adam Weaver, University of Richmond
   COMAP Meritorious Award
4. To Disk Or Not To Disk
   Daniel Robinson, Florin Nedelciuc, Justin Lacy, James Madison University
   COMAP Meritorious Award
5. Winnie the Pooh and Elections Too: A Look at Voting Theory
   Amanda Tracey, Hood College
6. A Coloring Problem
   Adrien Treuille, Georgetown University
7. Meetin' in the City of New Orleans: An Undergraduates View of the 2001 Joint Meetings
   Amanda Tracey, Jennifer Webb, Laura Pugh, Hood College
8. Generating Bandt's Aperiodic Mixed Self-Similar Fractiles and Their Boundaries
   Dominic Braun, UNC at Asheville
9. Modeling Animal Behavior
   Michael Gwinn, Georgetown University
10. Normal Matrices and Polar Decompositions in Indefinite Inner Products
    Patrick Meade, College of William & Mary
11. Using Maple for Solving Fluid Dynamics Models
    Kendrick D. Smith, Hampton University (grad student)
12. CS/Math Project: gtk/OpenGL interactive 1st Order ODE Solver
    Amy Pollard, St. Mary's College of Maryland
13. On A Variation of the Lotka-Volterva Prey-Predator Model
    Danielle Boyd, Morgan State University
14. Multiplicative Generation of Integral Matrices via Elementary Bidiagonal Matrices
    Charles R. Johnson, Dani N. Machado, and Patrick X. Rault, College of William and Mary
15. Can You Follow Our Train of Thought? Analyzing the Effects Of A Railroad Crossing On Traffic Flow
    Nancy Nichols and Tonya Kim, Randolph-Macon College

Section Meeting 167: Virginia Tech, October 19-20, 2001

1. Effective 3D Visualizations for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Project
   Bonita Saunders, NIST
2. Diophantus and Fermat
   Larry Washington, University of Maryland
3. Polynomial Equations and Circulant Matrices
   Dan Kalman, American University

1. A Structure Theory for Central Digraphs with Nontrivial Homomorphic Image
   Ray Fletcher, Virginia State
2. Reviews of Calculus Reform
   Roland Minton, Roanoke College
3. Latitude and Longitude on an Ellipsoidal Earth
   Craig Bailey, U.S. Naval Academy
4. What happens when teachers create activities to improve geometrical visualization skills of middle school students?
   Judy Kidd and Jeanne Fitzgerald, James Madison University
5. FIBER BUNDLES; the MATH, the PHYSICS
   George DeRise, Thomas Nelson Community College
6. Invariance Vectors in Music
   Ilhan M. Izmirli, Strayer University
7. Seven and Seventeen Sided Polygons
   Lincoln E. Bragg
8. The Elliptic Curve Attack on RSA Encryption
   William N. Traves, U.S. Naval Academy
9. A Theorem on Slopes and an Application
   Fat C. Lam, Gallaudet
10. Quantitative Literacy: National and Local Perspectives
    Caren L. Diefenderfer, Hollins University
11. Visual Comprehension Skills of Incoming Calculus and Applied Calculus Students
    Alexander White, American University
12. Factoring Polynomials with Matrices
    William P. Wardlaw, U.S. Naval Academy
13. The Completely Positive and Doubly Nonnegative Completion Problems
    John H. Drew, College of William & Mary
14. Teaching Calculus Using Geometer's Sketchpad
    Kevin Peterson, Lynchburg College
15. Matrix Patterns and Line Sums
    David Stanford, College of William and Mary

1. Calculus on the Heisenberg Group as Applied to the Pompeiu and Morera Problems with Moments
   Wayne M. Eby, University of Maryland, Laguerre
2. The Dimension of the Human Genome
   William Ott, University of Maryland
3. The Center For Nondegenerate Quadratic Jordan Algebras
   Bernard Fulgham, University of Virginia
4. Christopher Hammond, University of Virginia
   Compactness of the Inclusion Map between Bergman Spaces
5. Using Flexible Galerkin Methods to Investigate Error Behavior in Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
   Chris Massey, Virginia Tech
6. Group Product Cellular Automata
   David Ferguson, Virginia Tech
7. The Ring of Fractions of a Quadratic Jordan Algebra
   Jim Bowling, University of Virginia

Section Meeting 168: St. Mary's College of Maryland, April 12-13, 2002

1. On the Teeth of Wheels: A Story about a Clockmaker, a Number Theorist and a Reward of $2.56
   Brian Hayes, American Scientist Magazine
2. Geometrical Puppetshows: Real-time Interactive Computer Animation
   George Francis, University of Illinois

Panel on Quantitative Reasoning (QR)
Organized by Caren Diefenderfer and Trish Hammer of Hollins University, with Christina Salowey, (Classical Studies) and Andre Spies (History) also from Hollins.

1. Extending the Error Correcting Capabilities of the ISBN Code
   Aileen Cuddy and George Mackiw, Loyola College of Maryland
2. Matrix Factorization
   Dipa Choudhury, Loyola College of Maryland
3. Some Issues in Teaching Mathematics to Prospective Elementary and Middle School Teachers
   G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
4. Square Roots from 1;24,51,10 to Dan Shanks
   Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech
5. Factoring Polynomials with Matrices
   William P. Wardlaw, U. S. Naval Academy
6. Problems from the History of Probability
   Karen Z. Benbury, Bowie State University
7. Interactive Web Based Labs for the U.S. Naval Academy — Real World Applications Designed with Java for the 3-semester Calculus Sequence
   Carol G. Crawford and Mark D. Meyerson, U. S. Naval Academy
8. Concerning the Redesign of Baseball's Postseason Playoff Format
   James Case, Consultant
9. Logical Puzzles in Prolog
   Mihaela Malita, St. Mary's College of Maryland
10. Online Math Tutoring
    Conrad Lotze, Towson University
11. Revisiting the History of Mathematics in a Computer Science perspective. A Case Study
    Gheorghe Stefan, St. Mary's College of Maryland
12. Burnside obstraction to the Montesinos-Nakanishi 3-move conjecture
    Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, George Washington University
13. Two Dimensional Arrays of Pitch Classes
    Ilhan M. Izmirli, Strayer University
14. Quantitative Literacy at William and Mary
    George Rublein, William and Mary

1. Asymptotic Analysis of an Inward Point Load Acting on a Half Space: a nonlinearly elastic near-load model
   Mary R. Lee, James Madison University
2. Cwatsets and Two-Dimensional Cell Complexes
   J. Brandon Coates, Hampden-Sydney College
3. Regular Polytopes in Four Dimensions
   Kevin Beanland, St. Mary's College of Maryland
4. The Modified Picard Method for Singular Problems
   Kelly I. Dickson, James Madison University
5. Ceva's Theorem and Its Applications
   Mihaela Guberovic, Virginia Military Institute
6. Multiplicative Generation of Integral Matrices via Elementary Bidiagonal Matrices
   Danilo N. Machado*, Charles R. Johnson, Patrick X. Rault, William and Mary
7. Math Model of Airflow Propagation through Non-Uniform Materials
   Lois Simon, Morgan State University
8. Where's the Scrub? Aye There's the Rub. — Environmental Management of the Florida Scrub Lizard
   (MCM Outstanding Winner) Andrew Carroll, Victoria Chiou, and Jessamyn Liu
9. No Shows, No Seats, No Dice - Airline Overbooking and Future Cost Repercussions
   (MCM Meritorious) Philip O'Brien, Margaret Olson, and Art Vilassakdanont
10. Optimal Airline Booking Strategies Under Various Demand Situations
    (MCM Meritorious) Jonathan Charlesworth, Garrett Urban, and Jeb Ware
11. A Dry Solution - A Study in Fountain Control
    (MCM Outstanding Winner) Lyric Doshi, Philip Kidd, and Joseph Gonzalez

Section Meeting 169: University of Maryland, College Park, November 1-2, 2002

1. Wanna Bet?: Curiosities in Probability
   Dr. Martha Siegel, Towson University, Secretary of the MAA
2. Five Fundamental Facts in Matrix Analysis
   Roger Horn, University of Utah
3. When Close Enough is Close Enough
   Edward Scheinerman, The Johns Hopkins University

Challenging our Assumptions in Teaching
Dr. James Stith, American Institute of Physics

The panel will consist of people who have recently been on the job market or who have recently hired someone and they will discuss ways to have a successful job search.

1. Some Problems on Magic Squares, Difference Triangles and Permutations
   Ilhan M Izmirli, Strayer University
2. Beware the pretend MD state Algebra test
   Jerome Dancis, University of MD College Park
3. Metaphor and Mathematics
   Jennifer Bergner, Salisbury University
4. God's Beautiful Mathematics
   George DeRise, Thomas Nelson Community College
5. Eigenvalue and Jordan Block Pairings Arising From Real and Skew-Symmetric Normal Matrices
   Geoffrey R. Goodson, Towson University
6. Two Algorithms for Solving the Cell Suppression Problem
   Paul B. Massell, U.S. Census Bureau
7. The Mathematics of Golf Drives
   Ronald Minton, Roanoke College
8. The ADEPT Program at Salisbury University
   Homer Austin and Harel Barzilai, Salisbury University
9. Picard Iteration and Polynomial Projection
   G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
10. An informal approach to formal inner products
    Richard Hammack, Randolph-Macon College
11. The Many Names of (7, 3, 1)
    Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech
12. Outwitting the Lying Oracle
    John Osoinach, Hampden-Sydney College
13. Hyperbolic Geometry Calculator
    Roman Sznajder, Bowie State University
14. Projective Polynomial and Analytic Function
    David Carothers, James Madison University
15. Some Thoughts on Teaching a Course on Mathematics of Finance
    Fozia S. Qazi, St. Mary's College of Maryland
16. A Look at Billiards
    John Hanson, James Madison University
17. The Fibonacci Numbers-Exposed
    Dan Kalman, American University
18. Reading and Journals and Websites, Oh My!
    Susan Schwartz Wildstrom, Walt Whitman High School
19. Applying the Modified Picard Method in a Symbolic and Numeric Computing Environment
    James Sochacki, James Madison University
20. Simon Newcomb: Adventures of a nineteenth-century American mathematician in mathematics education
    David Lindsay Roberts, Independent Scholar
21. An expository account of Fermat's Last Theorem for Polynomials, and the abc conjecture
    Ashvin Rajan, Loyola College in Md
22. Fietsen, Dijken, en Wiskunde: A Sabbatical in Netherlands
    Eve Torrence and Bruce Torrence, Randolph-Macon College
23. The Modified Picard-Pade' Approximation Method for Singular Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems
    Paul Warne, James Madison University

1. Successful Techniques for Students with Learning Disabilities
   Brooke Evans, American University
2. Counterexamples to some elementarily formulated conjectures in Knot Theory
   Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, The George Washington University
3. Series Approximation and Carleman's Inequality
   By Salim Alam, Montgomery College, Rockville (Undergraduate talk)
4. Character Theory of Covering Groups
   Amit Trehan, University of MD, College Park
5. Using Symmetry to Improve Percolation Threshold Bounds
   William May, The Johns Hopkins University
6. Slow damping of internal waves in a stably Stratified fluid
   Richard Kollar, University of MD, College Park
7. Dimension Spectra of Attractors and Projection Theory
   William Ott, University of MD, College Park
8. A Hadamard Type Inequality
   Bogdan Gavrea, University of MD, Baltimore County
9. Mixture of Erlang Distributions and Renewal Processes Based on Them
   Bashir M. Dweik, American University,

Section Meeting 170: Norfolk State University, April 11-12, 2003

1. How to Always Win at Limbo: 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 Burger, Williams College
2. Binomial and Other Infinite Series: A Historical Perspective
   Ranjan Roy, Beloit College

Education of and Career Opportunities for Nontraditional Math Majors
Organizers: Elsa Schaefer and Stephanie Cawthorne, Marymount University

1. The Mathematician Who Sold his Soul to the Devil: Gerbert
   Jennifer Webb, Hood College
2. Digital Filters and Uniform Approximation
   Martin Bartelt, Christopher Newport University
3. 3D graphics on the World Wide Web: An Update of Visualizations for NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
   Bonita Saunders, National Institute of Standards and Technology
4. "Monstrous Moonshine" Why is 196,884 approx=196,883?
   George DeRise, Thomas Nelson Community College
5. How to teach the Division Algorithm in Pre-Calculus Mathematics and Beyond
   Boyd Coan, Norfolk State University
6. A Statistical Geometry Approach to the Study of Protein Structure
   Majid Masso, George Mason University
7. Newton's Method as an Initial Value Ordinary Differential Equation with Picard's Method
   James Sochacki, James Madison University
8. Visualizing basins of attractions
   Jonathan Stephenson, Virginia Wesleyan College
9. Star Polygons in Geometry and Art, and the Geometer's Sketchpad
   Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
10. Accumulation Points of the Set of Totient Ratios
    William Wardlaw, U.S. Naval Academy
11. Automorphisms of Finite Groups
    Guy T Hogan and Shadana Yates, Norfolk State University
12. A Priori Error Estimates for Maclaurin Series Approximations to Solutions of Differential Systems
    Paul Warne, James Madison University
13. The Mathematical Development of Prospective Elementary Teachers
    Laura Spielman, Virginia Tech
14. Six ways to solve cubic equations
    Parviz Khalili, Christopher Newport University
15. The Game of Oktagon: Linear Algebra Gone Bad
    Verne Leininger, Bridgewater College
16. Thermodynamics in beginning Multivariate Calculus
    George Rublein, College of William and Mary
17. Isotropic Vectors and Coneigenvalues
    Dipa Choudhury, Loyola College
18. The Fabulous (11, 5, 2) Biplane
    Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech
19. G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
    Power Series as Alternatives to Newton's Method
20. On a Trigonometric Sum- A case study for Undergraduate Research in Math
    Hongwei Chen, Christopher Newport University
21. Pythagonacci Family Reunion
    Dan Kalman, American University

1. Maggie Walker Governor's School, VA, Problem A
2. James Madison University, VA, Problem A Sean Walsh, Andrew Werner, Rick Wiita
3. University of Richmond, VA, Problem B
4. Maggie Walker Governor's School, VA, Problem C
5. University of Virginia, VA, Problem C

Section Meeting 171: Johns Hopkins University, November 7-8, 2003

1. Breaking Drivers' License Codes
   Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth
2. Perception in Artificial and Natural System
   Donald Geman, The Johns Hopkins University
3. What I have learned from Undergraduate Research
   Charles R. Johnson, College of William and Mary

Getting Undergraduates Involved in Research
Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota Duluth

1. Generating "nice" problems for students
   Francoise Nelles, Shepherd College
2. A Particular Cryptoscheme
   Maryam Vulis, Qeensborough Community College
3. On P-properties of linear transformations on Euclidean Jordan Algebras
   Roman Sznajder, Bowie State University
4. Authentic Curriculum for Inservice Math Teachers: Modified Lesson Plans
   Harel Barzilai and Barbara Wainwright, Salisbury University
5. Two Problems Regarding e
   William Wardlaw, U.S. Naval Academy
6. Improving Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs Through Professional Development
   Daniel Seaton, University of Maryland
7. University Mathematics Departments and Middle School Teacher Preparation
   David Carothers, James Madison University
8. Three Connections to Continued Fractions
   Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech
9. Generation of Pythagorean Triples Using Bases and Slopes
   Fat Lam, Gallaudet University
10. CPR for your classes
    Mary Kay Abbey, Montgomery College
11. Some Numerical Approximations to the Arithmeti-Geometric mean
    Ilhan M. Izmirli, American University
12. Discovery Learning in Geometry
    Robert Hanson, James Madison University
13. Student Calculus Labs: Maple Was the "devil"
    Jennifer Bergner, Salisbury University
14. A Singular Function Boundary Integral Method for Elliptic Problems with Boundary Singularities
    Christos Xenophontos, Loyola College
15. A Combinatorial Approach to Dependent Spread Widening of Defaulting Credits in Collateralized Debt Obligations.
    Jeffrey Bernstein, The Johns Hopkins University
16. Complexity Measures in General Algebra
    Zoltan Szekely, Gallaudet University

Section Meeting 172: Salisbury University, April 23-24, 2004

1. Pascal's Rhombus and the Stealth Fractal
   Paul K. Stockmeyer, College of William and Mary
2. Relevance of Classical Analysis in Modern Contexts: Theory and Application of Polynomial Projection
   James S. Sochacki and G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
3. Mathematics, the press, and the Art of Storytelling (or, Why Larry King Won't Return Your Phone Calls)
   Charles Seife, Journalist Science Magazine

Writing to Learn Mathematics — No Grading Required
Mary Kay Abbey and Bette Daudu of Montgomery College,

Mathematics Preparation for Incoming College Students
Denny Gulick, U. MD, College Park,
David Carothers, James Madison University
Jerry Dancis, U. MD, College Park
Gail Kaplan, Key School and Towson University

1. Mystery of the Missing Gasoline
   Philip E. Luft, Salisbury University
2. The Impact of Calculus Reform on Student Performance in Subsequent Courses at USNA
   Howard Penn, USNA
3. The Impact of Participation in an Ancillary Science and Mathematics Program (SEMAA) on Engagement Rates of Middle School Students in Regular Mathematics Classrooms
   Daniel M. Seaton, U. MD, Eastern Shore
4. De-Cyphering Lewis Carroll's Obscure Condensation Method for Computing Determinants
   Eve Torrence and Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
5. Improper Integrals Via Laplace Transform
   Parviz Khalili, Christopher Newport University
6. On a Trigonometric Inequality
   Hongwei Chen, Christopher Newport University
7. Geometric Mean and Apportionment
   Maryam Vulis, Queensborough Community College
8. Do the Math: Easy Test for Teachers Will Hurt Students
   Jerome Dancis, U. MD, College Park
9. Cardinality of GL(n, Z_m) and several of its subgroups
   William Wardlaw, USNA

1. Dimension Theory in Group Cohomology
   Ryan Higginbottom, University of Virginia
2. Rational Points on Elliptic Curves
   Jan Hilmar, St. Mary's College
3. Recursion Formulas on (q+1) Regular Trees
   Gwyneth Whieldon, St. Mary's College
4. A Precalculus Approach to Elliptic Curve
   Ilhan M. Izmirli, American University
5. Comparisons of Estimators in Linear Regression Models with Auto-Correlated Disturbances: When is OLS Efficient
   Samir Safi, American University
6. Analysis of Modified Picard Algorithms
   Clint Morse, James Madison University
7. Fourier Analysis and Convergence of the Fourier Series
   Nikeda Hamilton, Morgan State University
8. Shapley/Owen Analysis of the Electoral College
   Jason Richwine, American University
9. Proofs of Various Forms of the Recursion Theorem
   Shelly-Ann Harper, Morgan State University
10. Creating Knots with Arcs
    William Reith, Hampden-Sydney College
11. The Connectivity of Julia Sets of Cubic Polynomials
    Kristine Roinestead, St. Mary's College

Section Meeting 173: Morgan State University, November 5-6, 2004

1. Mathematics in Stone and Bronze
   Helaman Ferguson, Mathematician and Sculptor, and Claire Ferguson, Writer and Artist
2. A Tick-Borne Disease Model — Spread and Control of Ehrlichiosis
   Holly Gaff, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland Medical School
3. Low-dimensional Approximations to Sparse Noisy Intransitive Relations — Rating College Football Teams
   Kenneth Massey, Hollins University

An Ancient Algorithm: 29,000 Years Old
Helaman Ferguson, Mathematician and Artist

Mathematics Preparation for Incoming College Students
Denny Gulick, University of Maryland—College Park

1. There's more than one way to skin a cat, or, having students present what they don't already know
   Kimber Tysdal, Hood College
2. Hill's Polygraphic Cryptological System
   Robert Lewand, Goucher College
3. Discovering derivative rules in calculus using experimentation and technology
   Susan Schwartz Wildstrom, Walt Whitman High School
4. Chaos, RNA Chains and Selected Topics From Enumerative Combinatorics
   Candice JeanLouis, Student, Morgan State University
5. Perl and Math Vojislav Stojkovic and Grace Steele, Computer Science, Morgan State University
   
6. On Codes Generated by Quadratic Surfaces of PG(3,q)
   Jenny Stovall, Student, University of Mary Washington
7. Two Optical Illusions
   Roland Minton, Roanoke College
8. A Characterization of Paracompactness in terms of Filterbases
   Bhamini M. P. Nayar, Morgan State University
9. The Limit Languages of DNA Splicing Systems
   Elizabeth Goode, Towson University
10. Many Faces of Chaos
    Denny Gulick, University of Maryland, College Park
11. Making faces and other parametric equation art
    Howard L. Penn, United States Naval Academy
12. Analyzing Biological Sequences using Dynamic Programming
    Jamal Theodore and Tari Appah, Students, Morgan State University
13. Using Adaptive Mesh Generation to Capture Key Features of 3D Function Surfaces
    Bonita V. Saunders, National Institute of Standards and Technology
14. Mathematics on the Chessboard
    Maryam Vulis, Queensborough Community College
15. Keeping Dry — The Mathematics of Running in the Rain
    Bruce Torrence, Randolph-Macon College
16. Ultrafilters on the Collection of Finite Subsets of an Infinite Set
    Arthur D. Grainger, Morgan State University
17. Mathematically Correct and Mathematically Incorrect Pattern Recognition
    Jerome Dancis, University of Maryland
18. The Efficiency of OLS in the Precedence of Auto-Correlated Disturbances in the Regression Models
    Samir Safi, James Madison University
19. Two Ellipse Questions
    Dan Kalman, American University
20. On the classification of wallpaper groups
    Marshall M. Cohen, Morgan State University and Cornell University
21. Mathematical Modeling of Frontal Polymerization
    Divya E. Devadoss, Salisbury University

Section Meeting 174: University of Virginia, April 1-2, 2005

1. A Dozen Proofs that 1=2: A Misguided Review of all of Mathematics
   James Tanton, St. Mark's School
2. Everyone Makes Errors: A 19th-Century Mathematical Attempt to Prove the Existence of God
   Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
3. Isaac Newton Harrison Straley IV, Wheaton College, Norton MA, and Sir Isaac Newton, late of Cambridge University
   

1. Accessible — but surprisingly sophisticated — Math Activities for Students, Clubs, and Research
   James Tanton, St. Mark's School
2. WeBWorK Workshop
   Jeffrey Holt, University of Virginia

Weird Multiplication and Weird Ways to Multiply
James Tanton, St. Mark's School

Display of Mathematical Artwork by Artist Judith Townsend

1. Some results on the Hat-Guessing Game
   James V. Blowers, US Army Ret'd
2. Mathematical model for teaching business cycles
   Jiashi Hou, Norfolk State University
3. Statistics Before Your Eyes: Photographs of Statistical Concepts
   Cabell 324 Robert W. Jernigan, American University
4. On some trigonometric powers
   Cabell 330 Hongwei Chen, Christopher Newport University
5. Two-dimensional "Take and Break" Games
   Matthew Burke, St. Mary's College of Maryland
6. Miquel's Theorem, a lovely but overlooked result in Euclidean geometry
   Deborah Denvir, Randolph-Macon Women's College:
7. Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Metric
   Luca Petrelli, Mount St. Mary's University
8. Which Major-League Ball Parks Are Homer-Friendly?
   Howard Penn, United States Naval Academy
9. A Visual Proof of the Alternating Series Test
   Richard Hammack, Randolph-Macon College
10. Rings of Gaussian Integers
    Greg Dresden, Washington & Lee University
11. Title to be announced
    Christopher Marron, Department of Defense
12. Topology in Physics
    George DeRise, Thomas Nelson Community College
13. Peer-led Team Learning (PTL) in Finite Mathematics and in Introduction to Probability and Statistics at Virginia Military Institute
    Vonda K.Walsh, Lee S. Dewald, and L. Jane Randall, VMI
14. Polynomial differential equations and periodic solutions
    James Sochacki, James Madison University
15. Fortunatus's Purse
    Susan Goldstine, St. Mary's College of Maryland
16. Good and Square Matrices are Invertible
    Bill Wardlaw, United States Naval Academy
17. Motivating Calc III by Celestial Mechanics
    Dave Pruett, James Madison University
18. The study of some second-order rational difference equations
    Parviz Khalili, Christopher Newport University
19. k-Alternating Knots
    Leonard Van Wyk, James Madison University
20. Problem Zero: A simple way to encourage students to read mathematics
    Laura Taalman, James Madison University
21. TechnoGenetics: Cloning Ti-83+/84/86 into your computer (OR, how to demonstrate TI calculator usage in classrooms without using view screens!)
    Ram Subedi, Montgomery College—Takoma Park

1. Image Processing with Fourier Series and Wavelets
   Emily Wooge, Roanoke College
2. Audio Compression and Linear Algebra
   Michael Naylor, Hood College
3. Highlights of U.S. Performance in 2003 TIMMS Assessment
   Karen Jones, Hood College
4. Projective Conics and Excess Intersection
   Andrew Bashelor, US Naval Academy
5. Graphical Studies of the Complex Geometric Series f(z)=sum from k to infinity of z^k
   Sarah Gourlie, American University
6. A Two-Player Number Game: Finding the Winning Strategy
   Zachary Kurtz, Eastern Mennonite University

1. Problem A: A Dam Disaster
   Joshua Blake, Justin Creasy, Nicholas Giffen, James Madison University (Meritorious Rating, coached by James Sochacki)
2. Problem C: Petroleum Armageddon
   Jonathan Giuffrida, Palmer Mebane, Maggie Walker Governor's School, Richmond VA (Outstanding Rating, coached by John Barnes):
3. Problem C: The Petrification of Petrochemical Production
   Yuan Rao, Angela Zhu, Maggie Walker Governor's School, Richmond VA (Meritorious Rating, coached by John Barnes):
4. Last Exit before the Toll
   Robin Haskins and Nathaniel Givens, University of Richmond (Meritorious Rating, coached by Kathy Hoke)

Section Meeting 175: Montgomery College, Germantown, November 4-5, 2005

1. Equitability and the Gini index
   Frank Farris, Santa Clara University
2. The Isoperimetric Problem
   Catherine Bénéteau, Seton Hall University
3. Combinatorics catalogs Geometry — Geometry generates Combinatorics
   Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Bracing of square grids
Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

1. A space-filling irregular truncated octahedron
   Bob Hanson, James Madison University
2. Statistics Before Your Eyes: Photographs of Statistical Concepts
   Robert W. Jernigan, American University
3. An elementary proof of the singularity of generalized Lucas matrices
   Ilhan M. Izmirli, American University
4. Toward a general framework for induction and recursion
   Paul Chi, Bowie State University, Bowie MD
5. On the stability of orbits in a two-dimensional model of the cardiac cell
   Irina Popovici, US Naval Academy
6. A non-scatological exposition of cyclic rational area polygons
   Ralph H. Buchholz, DSTO, Fort Meade, MD 20755
7. Maryland 2004 Traffic Safety Facts
   Donald Joseph Gray Chiarella, Maryland Department of Transportation / State Highway Administration
8. How 'non-abelian' are free groups?
   Chiru Bhattacharya, Randolph-Macon College
9. Mathematical Induction—Even a Child Can Do It!
   Susan Schwartz Wildstrom, Walt Whitman High School
10. Title to be announced
    Abolghassem Miamee, Hampton University
11. The Game of Sudoku
    Marina Vulis, Queensborough Community College
12. Archie W. Earl, Sr., Norfolk State University
    A High-Tech In-Service Graduate Math Course
13. Ideals of Ultrafilters on the collection of finite subsets of an infinite set
    Arthur D. Grainger, Morgan State University
14. Chemistry Applications in Beginning Calculus
    George Rublein, College of William and Mary
15. What Factors Predict the Amount of Overlap of Collectors of Herbaria?
    Cathy Furlong, Fairfax County Public Schools/ American University
16. Sudoku Variations
    Laura Taalman, James Madison University
17. Jerome Dancis, University of Maryland
    Guided Discovery Learning for the Product to Powers
18. Amit Trehan, Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus
    Representations of p-adic groups
19. Pricing of Options
    J. Coughlin, Towson University
20. The Infinitely Small: Introduction to Infinitesimals
    A. P. Warth, University of Maryland, College Park
21. Reproving Minkowski's Inequality as a Tool for Student Research
    Karen S. Adams, Morgan State University
22. Remediation for Calculus Students
    Denny Gulick, University of Maryland
23. Groups, rings and group rings — Tools for combinatorial structures
    Ken W. Smith, Central Michigan University/University of Richmond
24. Envelopes, Ladders, and Couches: an old topic gives a new look to an old problem
    Dan Kalman, American University
25. Retired Scientists, Engineers & Technicians (ReSET)
    Bill Mitchell, Retired Scientists, Engineers & Technicians, Springfield VA

Section Meeting 176: Loyola College in Maryland, April 7-8, 2006

1. The Polish attack on the German ENIGMA
   Stefan Treatman, Department of Defense
2. Techniques for visualizing frequency patterns in DNA
   Fern Y. Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology
3. Sudoku Variations and Explorations
   Laura Taalman, James Madison University

Two millennia of cryptography in sixty minutes
Stefan Treatman, Deparment of Defense

1. Evaluation of some variant Euler sums
   Hongwei Chen, Christopher Newport University
2. Which ball parks are homer-friendly, Part 2
   Howard Penn, United States Naval Academy
3. Three transcendental numbers from n!, n^n and F_n
   Greg Dresden, Washington & Lee University
4. Extending the Locker Problem
   Bruce Torrence, Randolph-Macon College
5. Determinants of matrices over the integers modulo m
   Jody Lockhart, United States Naval Academy
6. Fractal geometry of the mammalian bronchial trees
   Ahlam Tannouri, Morgan State University
7. A multistage assessment of No Child Left Behind in the middle school mathematics classroom
   Matthew Pascal, Towson University
8. Origami in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum
   Eve Torrence, Randolph-Macon College
9. Sturm and Bond, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Linear Algebra
   Katherine Socha, St. Mary's College of Maryland
10. Row Rank Equals Column Rank (dedicated to George Mackiw, a good friend and an excellent mathematical expositor)
    Bill Wardlaw, United States Naval Academy
11. On their home turf: K-12 math teachers inform university professional development programs
    Harel Barzilai & Homer Austin, Salisbury University
12. Elements of finite order in the group of formal power series under composition
    Marshall Cohen, Morgan State University
13. Even and odd permutations (a simple proof)
    Peter Joyce, CCBC at Catonsville
14. Is One A Number?
    Samuel S. Kutler, St. John's College
15. Naïve Calculus: Product and Quotient Rules
    Philip Poplin, Longwood University
16. Discrete Mathematics with a Writing-Intensive Component
    Michael J. Tierney, Virginia Military Institute
17. An Extended Mean Value Theorem for Integrals
    Daniel Vasiliu, Christopher Newport University
18. Automorphisms of the Cevian algebra
    Raymond Fletcher, Virginia State University
19. Archimedes in the Fifth Dimension
    Dan Kalman, American University
20. Counting non-contiguous simple sequence repeats in DNA sequences
    Asamoah Nkwanta, Morgan State University
21. Math for people who don't want to take math: The nature of applied mathermatics
    G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
22. Naïve calculus: Chain Rule
    David Shoenthal, Longwood University
23. A Women and Mathematics Poster Series
    Katherine Socha, St. Mary's College of Maryland

1. The Wave Equation and the violin
   David Clewell, St. Mary's College of Maryland
2. Finding patterns in the binary representation of the Fibonacci numbers
   Jeff Dudas, Virginia Military Institute
3. Walking With Proteins
   Chamir Lawson, Morgan State University
4. Automorphisms of the Cevian line algebra
   Jesse Ozbat and John Gichuru, Virginia State University:
5. A brief introduction to hypergraphs
   Beverly Raffa, Hood College
6. Magic Squares and Elliptic Curves
   Lisa Byrne, St. Mary's College of Maryland
7. Ramsey Theory
   Kathryn Linehan, Hood College
8. Resource allocation in presidential elections based on past voting patterns
   Bret Ewing Newton, Hampden-Sydney College
9. Geometric properties of the Cevian box
   William Rankin, Virginia State University
10. Biquadratic identity of the Cevian line subalgebra
    Ron Davis, Virginia State University
11. A study of chaotic models
    Laura MacIntyre, Norfolk State University
12. NFL quarterback ratings
    Kelly Schultz, Hood College
13. The Effect of Using Mathematics Activities on Students' Interests In and Attitudes Toward Mathematics
    Peter Lo, St. Mary's College of Maryland
14. Elizabeth Twentyman, Washington & Lee University
    Factoring Primes and Factoring Factor Rings
15. Problem A: Physical and Digital Optimization of a Constrained Irrigation System
    James Choi, Ram Chivukulu, Kartik Trehan, Johns Hopkins University (COMAP Meritorious Rating, coached by Fred Torasco)

Section Meeting 177: Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University, November 3-4, 2006

1. Origami Math and its Increasing Intersections
   Thomas Hull, Merrimack College
2. Gerbert d'Aurillac and the March of Spain: A Guy in the Right Place at the Right Time
   Betty Mayfield, Hood College
3. Lying Oracles, Biased Coins, and Stanislaw Ulam
   John K. Osoinach, Jr, Millsaps College

Buckyballs and Mathematical Origami
Eve Torrence, Randolph Macon College

1. A Major Difference Between Rabbits and Cows (And the Link Between Them)
   Daniel Joseph, Virginia Military Institute
2. The Tangent Line Problem and its consequences
   Alexander Bathula, Montgomery College
3. Update on the William and Mary QL requirement
   George Rublein, College of William and Mary
4. Investigation of a Min-Max Scheduling Problem
   Ryan Johnson, University of Mary Washington
5. A Closed Form Solution for Determining the Weights of Finite Difference Approximations of Derivatives
   Vincent van Joolen, US Naval Academy
6. Things I Like About 11
   Ezra Brown, Virginia Tech
7. What does a graph fraction look like?
   Richard Hammack, Virginia Commonwealth University
8. A Physics—Math (Bilingual) Dictionary
   George DeRise, Thomas Nelson Community College
9. The Most Marvelous Theorem in Mathematics
   Dan Kalman, American University
10. PascGalois Activities for a Number Theory Class
    Kurt Ludwick, Salisbury University
11. Factoring Hadamard Difference Sets
    Chiru Bhattacharya, Randolph-Macon College
12. Scissors, Paper, Stone, and a Biased Coin
    Robb T. Koether, Hampden-Sydney College
13. The value of entertainment in a mathematics course
    Mark Meyer, American University
14. The Rank of a 2x2x2 Tensor
    Carla D. Martin, James Madison University
15. Who Really Discovered E=mc^2?
    Ilhan M. Izmirli, American University
16. Birthday Problems, Old and New
    Marcus Pendergrass, Hampden-Sydney College
17. Constructing a Syllabus for Constructive Learning
    Laura Taalman, James Madison University
18. Regularization Of Singularity and Periodic Solution with Collisions
    Zhifu Xie, College of William and Mary
19. More on Elvis, the Calculus Dog
    Roland Minton, Roanoke College