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Mathematical Association of America Seaway Section April 23 – 24, 2004 Program (As of February 25, rev. 3/10 and 4/22)    Friday Afternoon Corey Union, 206 - 209     Seaway NExT/PFF Program     12:00 - 1:15 Registration and Lunch     1:15 - 2:00 Navigating Through the Tenure Process, Gary Towsley, SUNY Geneseo     2:00 - 2:30 Refreshment Break     2:30 - 4:00 Job-Hunting Strategies, Tom Rishel Master's Degrees and Careers for Math Majors, William Hooper     4:15 - 4:45 Good Teaching, Olympia Nicodemi, SUNY Geneseo     4:45 - 5:15 Wrap-up Session     Friday Afternoon Corey Union, 304     3:00 - 6:00 Meeting of the Executive Committee     Friday Evening Corey Union, Function Room   6:00 - 7:00 Social Hour (Cash Bar)   7:00 - 8:30 Dinner   8:30 - 8:45 Presentation of the Seaway Section Clarence F. Stephens Distinguished Teaching Award   8:45 - 9:30 Reasoning About Dimensions You Cannot See Tom Rishel Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar     Saturday Morning Sperry Center     8:00 - 11:00 Registration     Saturday Morning Sperry Room 120     8:40 - 8:45 Welcome Dr. Erik Bitterbaum President, SUNY Cortland     8:45 - 9:35 Recently Uncovered Flaws in Standards-Based Mathematics Tests Alan Tucker Stony Brook University     9:45 - 10:35 How to Always Win at Limbo Ed Burger Williams College     10:35 - 11:00 Business Meeting     11:10 - 12:00 Harry M. Gehman Lecture: MicrobeSoft Computing: Writing on Molecules in Fluid Memory Tom Head Binghamton University     Saturday Afternoon Neubig Dining Hall     12:00 - 1:30 Lunch     Saturday Afternoon Sperry 311     1:30 - 1:55 Good Questions Maria Terrell Cornell University   2:00 - 2:25 Teaching a Writing Intensive Math Course – Really! Tim Biehler Finger Lakes Community College   2:30 - 2:55 Writing and the Mathematical Process Collin Bleak Binghamton University   3:00 - 3:25 A Geometric Approach to Teaching Linear Algebra Magdalena Mosbo SUNY Oswego   3:30 - 3:55 Calculators in Developmental Mathematics Denise Yull Binghamton University   Saturday Afternoon Sperry 313     1:30 - 1:55 A Polynomial Test for n by n Matrices Daniel Birmajer Nazareth College   2:00 - 2:25 Error Detection and Correction Codes Nicholas Koban Binghamton University   2:30 - 2:55 Abstract Algebra for the High School Teacher Olympia Nicodemi SUNY Geneseo   3:00 - 3:25 Is There Any Order in Groups? Joshua Palmatier Binghamton University   3:30 - 3:55 A Curious Relationship Between Bessel Functions and Fibonacci Numbers Osman Yurekli Ithaca College   Saturday Afternoon Sperry 315     1:30 - 1:55 Balanced Versions of the Harmonic Series James Marengo Rochester Institute of Technology   2:00 - 2:25 The Dual of a Simplicial Complex Risto Atanasov Binghamton University   2:30 - 2:55 Applications of the Logarithmic Mean Peter R. Mercer SUNY Buffalo   3:00 - 3:25 Dynamics of Transcendental Entire Functions David A. Brown Ithaca College   3:30 - 3:55 A Cohomology Two Form Canonically Associated with Certain Flows on 3-Manifolds Rich Escobales Canisius College   Saturday Afternoon Sperry 317     1:30 - 3:55 Circles, Logs, Sines, Area, Sketchpad, and More: A Presentation of Teachers' Masters and Honors Projects in School Mathematics, Keary Howard, SUNY Fredonia, Moderator Tenth Grade Students' Conceptions and Misconceptions of Area and Perimeter, Lisa Wollaber, SUNY Fredonia The Effect of Geometer's Sketchpad in a Non-Regents Applied Mathematics Course, Jeff Martin, Gowanda Central School The Globetrotter's Magic Circle Revisited: Students' Understanding and Application of Circle Theorems, Kristen Klingensmith, SUNY Fredonia Skiing on Lake Erie? Students' Understanding and Application of the Law of Sines and Cosines, Jennifer Roe, SUNY Fredonia Financing a New Pontiac: Precalculus Students' Exploration of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions, Dana Tecroney, SUNY Fredonia   Saturday Afternoon Sperry 114     1:30 - 1:55 Word Representations of n by m Proper Arrays Associated with Non-Crossing Trees on n+2 Vertices Jocelyn Quaintance SUNY Fredonia   2:00 - 2:25 Newton's Method for 2 by 2 Matrices Sam Northshield SUNY Plattsburgh   2:30 - 2:55 A Freshman Seminar for Math Majors Carol Bell, Chris Hanford, Karla Helstrom, and Bruce Mattingly SUNY Cortland   3:00 - 3:25 Some Common Probability Misconceptions Lynn Carlson SUNY Oswego   3:30 - 3:55 Intrinsic Knotting in Graphs Garry Bowlin Binghamton University   Saturday Afternoon Sperry 126     1:30 - 1:55 ESL and Nontraditional Students at the Learning Assistance Center Gabriela Mendoza Binghamton University     2:00 - 2:25 Teaching a Junior-Level Geometry Course Using Technology Isa Jubran SUNY Cortland   2:30 - 2:55 The Collage Theorem Adam Weisblatt SUNY Cortland   3:00 - 3:25 A Parity Analysis of the Tridrafters Matthew E. Coppenbarger Rochester Institute of Technology   3:30 - 3:55 Wavelets and Image Compression Malinda Wesley SUNY Geneseo   top of page