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TROY MathFest 2006: Schedule of Events

 

Time

Event

Event

 

7:30-11:00

Registration: First Floor Lobby: General Academic Building

8:30-8:45

Welcome from Chair and Dean:  Room 105

8:30-6:00

 

Graduate School information: Room 103

 

 

Room 105:  Presentations

 

Room 107:  Presentations

8:45-9:05

 

Euler’s theorem and its proof:

J. Frye

  Why Japanese are good at math:

A. Y. Norris

9:10- 9:30

 

Splitting-contraction as generalization of connection-contraction:

V. Voloshin

 

Calculus, area, and volum:

K. Lurwig

9:35-9:55

 

Coloring problems for mixed geometric hypergraphs:

P. Johnson

 

Alfred Nobel and nitroglycerin:

A. North

10:00-10:20

 

Partial Hamilton decompositions of complete graphs with no 2-factor in the leave:

S. Ozkan

 

Moire fringes and interactive emergences:

R. Wilson

 

10:25-10:55

Break: First Floor Lobby

11:00-12:00

 

Room 107:

Invited Lecture by: Dr. Atif Abueida of The University of Dayton

12:00-1:10

 

Lunch: Room 328

Lunch at Stewart Hall. Also,  door prizes and group picture

1:15-1:35

Two-factorizations of a complete multipartite graph in which each component is a four cycle:

M. Tiemeyer

 

AMSTI 2006:

D. Porter

1:40-2:00

 

The triangle intersect problem for hexagon triple systems:

C. S. Pettis

 

The relationship between music and mathematics in selected examples:

L. Sanders

2:05-2:25

 

Quasigroups and Steiner triple systems:

W. Li

An interrelation between statistics, derivatives, and orthogonal polynomials:

A. De More

 

2:30-2:45

Break:

First Floor Lobby

 

2:50-3:10

Having fun with the witch of Agnesi:

J. Boncek

 

The UAH graduate program in mathematics:

Ken Howell

 

3:15-3:35

 

An Automatic Proof of Euler’s Formula:

J. Zhang

 

Teaching and Learning Mathematics with MERLOT:

S. Belyi

3:40-4:00

Paul Erdos:  The life, the legacy

K. Harris

  Graduate program in mathematics at The University of South Alabama:

C. Pillen
4:05-4:25

Puzzles and Number Tricks:

  Erin Beutjer

Matrix Multiplication: 

Charles Thompson

 

4:30-4:50

 

A Musical Application of Graph Theory:

Pat Rossi

Application of math to land surveying:

  E. Wright

4:00-6:00

Calculus Competition:  Room 214

 

 

 

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