Fall 2011 Meeting of the MAA Seaway Section

         

Meeting dates: 

Deadline for hotel registration: 
Deadline for contributed talks: 

Deadline for student talks & posters: 

Deadline for mail-in registration: 

October 14 and 15, 2011                            
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The Mathematical Association of America       

Welcome! The Fall 2011 MAA Seaway Section Meeting was held at St. Bonaventure University on Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15.

 

Now available! Visit our Seaway Section Meeting web page for details, links, and photos from the meeting. Additional photos may be viewed at www.sbu.edu/bonaflickr.  

       St. Bonaventure Mathematics

 

       Meeting Announcement  The Meeting Announcement (provided here as a PDF file) gives the names of the plenary speakers as well as information about the workshop, contributed paper sessions, and the student talks and poster session.
     
   

Abstracts of the Plenary Talks  This page contains the plenary speakers' abstracts and biographies. The featured talks at this meeting are

  • Jonathan Hoyle, Kodak: "Forensic Mathematics and the World Trade Center Project"
  • Ivars Peterson, MAA Director of Publications and Communications: "Pancake Sorting, Prefix Reversals, and DNA Rearrangements"
  • Tom Pfaff, Ithaca College: "Sustain This! Making Math Matter"
  • Dror Bar-Natan, University of Toronto: "The Hardest Math I’ve Ever Really Used".
     
    Abstracts of All the Talks  The link provides the list of abstracts as a PDF file. The list includes the abstracts of the plenary talks, as well as abstracts for the talks by Anurag Agarwal, Marlo Brown, Jonathan Cox, Joel Dreibelbis, Derek Habermas, Charlie Jacobson, Robert Kantrowitz, Martha Kilpack, Chulmin Kim, Joseph Kolacinski, Chris Leary, Olympia Nicodemi, Gabriel Prajitura, Nathan Reff, and Elizabeth Wilcox.
     
    Program  The link provides the program as a PDF file.
     
    Student Talk & Poster ScheduleStudent Talk & Poster Abstracts  The student program is detailed in these PDF files. The program features talks by Ashley Culpepper, Daniel Michev, Lucia Petito, and Michaela Stone & Greg Ferrin; and posters by Dong Ding, Bonnie Gambrel, and Shujing Wang.
     
    Registration Form  On-line registration is not available. A paper registration form is provided here, as a PDF file. Please print this form, fill it out, and mail it, along with your payment, to

 

     Dr. Maureen Cox

     Department of Mathematics

     St. Bonaventure University

     3261 W. State St.

     St. Bonaventure, NY 14778.

 

The pre-conference registration deadline is Wednesday, September 28. Your registration must be received by this date in order to attend the banquet or the Saturday buffet lunch.

     
    Contributed Paper Sessions:  Titles, abstracts, and any special equipment requests should be sent by e-mail to Dr. Raluca Felea, RIT, rxfsma@rit.edu. Please use Microsoft Word. Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, September 20.
     
    Student Talks and Posters:  Dr. Ryan Gantner of St. John Fisher College is organizing the student program, which this fall features student talks, a student poster competition, and a game show competition. A poster can feature original research, mathematics not typically covered in an undergraduate curriculum, or anything else that is of interest to the mathematics community. Contact Dr. Gantner at rgantner@sjfc.edu to submit a title and abstract for a talk or to reserve space at the poster session. The deadline for student submissions is Tuesday, September 20.
     
    Accommodations  Blocks of rooms will be held until Wednesday, September 14. NOTE the early deadline, which is due to constraints imposed by the local hotels. Follow the link for details.
     
   

Directions and Maps  Follow the link for resources to arrive safely at our doorstep.

     
   

Contact Information:  For further information other than program information, please contact the conference organizer, Dr. Maureen Cox, at mcox@sbu.edu or 716-375-2476.

 

The chair of the St. Bonaventure Department of Mathematics is Dr. Doug Cashing, dcashing@sbu.edu, 716-375-2472.

 

The MAA Seaway Section Program Chair is Dr. Charlie Ragozzine, SUNY Oneonta, RagozzC@oneonta.edu, 607-436-2426.

 

This website is maintained by Dr. Chris Hill, chill@sbu.edu, 716-375-2025.