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Friday Afternoon, MacVittie College Union, Rooms 322 and 323

3:00 - 6:00    
Meeting of the Executive Committtee

Friday Evening, MacVittie College Union, Ballroom

6:00 - 7:00     
Registration and Social Hour (cash bar)
7:00 - 8:30
Dinner
8:30 - 9:20 Eine Kleine Nachtmagie
Colm Mulcahy
Spelman College

Saturday Morning, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 202

8:00 - 11:00
Registration
8:00 - 1:30
Displays and book vendors
8:40 - 8:45
Welcome
David Gordon
Associate Provost
SUNY Geneseo
8:45 - 9:35
Overcoming the effects of the Logarithmic Distribution of Numbers: 
  Gradual and Tapered Overflow and Underflow
Peter Turner
Clarkson University
9:45 - 10:35
Episodes in the Early History of the Lucasian Chair
James Tattersall
Providence College
10:35 - 11:00
Business Meeting
11:10 - 12:00
John F. Randolph Lecture
Everybody Wins:  
  Why Mathematics Courses for Elementary School Teachers Matter
  and How They Can Benefit All Students of Mathematics

David Poole
Trent University


Saturday Afternoon, Mary Jemison Dining Hall

12:00 - 1:20
Buffet Lunch

Saturday Afternoon, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 201

1:30 - 1:55
Wavelets Made Easy
Colm Mulcahy
Spelman College

2:00 - 2:25
A Hybrid SLI System with Taylor Approximation
Xunyang Shen and Peter Turner
Clarkson University

2:30 - 2:55
Experimental Mathematics and Writing for First Year Math Students
David Brown
Ithaca College

3:00 - 3:25
A Mathematical Tour of St. Petersburg
Donald Muench
St. John Fisher College

3:30 - 3:55
How a writing assignment transformed a writing intensive mathematics
course for business students

Allen Emerson and Kris Green
St. John Fisher College


Saturday Afternoon, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 202

2:00 - 2:25
Lattices and Groups
Joseph Smith
SUNY Binghamton
2:30 - 2:55 Pooling Designs for DNA Code Validation
Neils Hanson, Matthias Youngs, Anthony Macula**
SUNY Geneseo
3:00 - 3:55
Discussion of Undergraduate Biomathematics
Anthony Macula, Facilitator
SUNY Geneseo

Saturday Afternoon, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 203

1:30 - 1:55
Proof:  A  process strand for in-service teachers
 and an activity for pre-service teachers

Christina Bacuta
SUNY Cortland
2:00 - 2:25
Sand, Water, Chocolate Chips:
 Infusion of mathematics in an early childhood curriculum.

Karen Wells
Monroe Community College
2:30 - 2:55
Right Question, Wrong Answer, or Wrong Question, Right Answer?
Teacher Evaluation of Constructed Response Test Items.
Jamar Pickreign and Bob Rogers
SUNY Fredonia
3:00 - 3:25
Matter and mindest in the pre-service classroom
Morris Orzech
Queen's University

3:30 - 3:55
What's New?  The Entire State Math Curriculum!
Barbara Stewart
SUNY Geneseo

Saturday Afternoon, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 206

2:40 - 2:55 
Photography and Numerical Interpolation 
Jeremy Entner
SUNY Brockport

3:00 - 3:15
Applications of covering maps to spectral theory of graphs
Diane Lunman
Nazareth College
3:20 - 3:35
Finding the Perfect Set
Ryan Grover
SUNY Geneseo

Saturday Afternoon, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 209

1:30 - 2:55
Panel Discussion:  Whither the Textbook?
Olympia Nicodemi, moderator
SUNY Geneseo
3:00 - 3:25
Music as a Mathematical Subject:  the Backstory
Julia Wilson
SUNY Fredonia
3:30 - 3:55
Fairness, the Talmud and Pascal
John Maceli
Ithaca College

Saturday Afternoon, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 212

1:30 - 1:55
What we talk about when we talk about Calculus
Gabriel Prajitura
SUNY Brockport

2:00 - 2:25
Counting Subgroups of a Direct Sum of Cyclic Groups
Joseph Petrillo
Alfred University
2:30 - 2:55
Some Ruminations on Wedderburn's Theorem
Howard Bell
Brock University
3:00 - 3:25
Radices and Matrix Rings
Jennifer Roche
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
3:30 - 3:55
The standard identities and the Quantum planes
Daniel Birmajer
Nazareth College


Saturday Afternoon, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 213

2:00 - 2:25
Summing across Pascal's triangle and its continuous analog
Sam Northshield
SUNY Plattsburgh
2:30 - 2:55
Coefficients of Flow Polynomial of Kn
Hossein Shahmohamad
Rochester Institute of Technology
3:00 - 3:25
Walks on the Dihedral Group
Joseph McCollum
SUNY Albany
3:30 - 3:55
The Noiseless Coding Theorem
James Marengo
RIT

Saturday Afternoon, Newton Lecture Hall, Room 214

1:30 - 1:40
Mathematical Teaching Soundtrack
Jeff Johannes
SUNY Geneseo
1:45 - 2:35
Student Workshop:  Mathematical Designs -
Pretty Pictures Produced Painlessly

Megan Cullen, Tim Ellis and Laura Jenkins
SUNY Geneseo
2:40 - 2:55
Covers, Laplacians, and Kesten's Theorem
Tricia Profic
Canisius College

3:00 - 3:15
Properties of zigzag products of graphs
Brian Meagher
SUNY at Buffalo

3:20 - 3:35
Generalizing Kirk-Livingston Type 1 Link
Invariants
Matthias L. Youngs
SUNY Geneseo

3:40 - 3:55
Mathematical Methods in Modeling Landslides
Sandra Anita Lacea
SUNY Brockport

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