The Mathematical Association of America
New Jersey Section

Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges
of New Jersey

DIMACS – Rutgers University

Saturday, March 28, 1992


All Talks are in CoRe Building

 

8:30

Registration and coffee

8:30-3:30

Publisher’s Exhibits

9:15

Welcome
Fred S. Roberts
Associate Director, DIMACS

9:25

The Collatz Problem
Joseph DeVito, Seton Hall

Presider: Sherwood Washburn, Seton Hall

9:45

Is There a Better Way to Elect the President?
Steven J. Brams, Prof. Of Politics, N.Y.U.

Presider: Jeff Jones, County College of Morris

10:35

Presentation of 1993 MAA-NJ Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics

Recognition of Retiring MAA-NJ and MATYCNJ members

11:05

Multiculturalism and the History of Mathematics
Dirk Struik, Prof. Emeritus, M.I.T.

Presider: Richard Bumby, Rutgers University

11:55

Values for Partition Function Form Games
Stephanie Merki, Eastern Nazarene College

Presider: David Housman, Drew University

12:15

Light Luncheon Buffet, CoRe Building

1:10

General Topology in the 1990s
Mary Ellen Rudin, Prof. Emeritus, Wisconsin University

Presider: Eileen Poiani, St. Peter’s College

2:00

An Implementation of an O(m log n)-time Algorithm for the Maximal Planar Subgraph Problem
Eric Jordan, Princeton University

Presider: Fred Roberts, DIMACS

2:30

Juggling Drops & Descents
Ronald S. Graham, Adjunct Director, Information Science Division, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Presider: Fred Roberts, DIMACS

3:20

Awarding of Door Prizes

3:30

MAA-NJ and MATYCNJ Business Meetings

 

 

MAA-NJ Executive Board

 

MAA-NJ Governor:

Ruth O’Dell, County College of Morris

MAA-NJ OFFICERS

 

Chair:

David Boliver, Trenton State College

Past Chair:

Thomas Marlowe, Seton Hall University

Vice Chair for
   Speakers:
   Innovations:
   Two-Year Colleges:
   High School Contest


Theresa C. Michnowicz, Jersey City State College
Patricia Kenschaft, Montclair State College
Agnes Azzolino, Middlesex County College
Evelyn Weinstock, Glassboro State College

Secretary:

Naomi Shapiro, Georgian Court College

Treasurer:

James Magliano, Union County College

Public Information Officer:

Ann Stehney, Center for Communications, Institute for Defense Analysis

Student Chapter Section Coordinator

Diana Kalish, William Paterson College