Schedule of Events

All talks will be held in the Shiloh Room (room 235)
of the University Center

 Parking (see below)
 



9:00-9:55 
Registration and Refreshments

Juice, coffee, pastries, fruit		





10:00-10:50   
Opening Remarks and Invited address:   
Dr. Scott Chapman, Trinity University

"Numerical Monoids are Totally Cool!"		





11:00-12:00   
Student Talks

 11:00-11:15Nicolas Bourbaki:  Origins and Influence
Constance Markley: Western Carolina University
11:25-11:40The Sierpinski Numbers Base b, I
Amy Brunner:  University of Tennesse, Martin
11:45-12:00The Sierpinski Numbers Base b, II
Christopher Lownsdale:  University of Tennessee, Martin
12:00-1:00Lunch:  Box lunches for all registrants (Ballroom)
*Note:  The University Center Bookstore (located 1 floor down) is open until 4:00 p.m.
1:00-2:40 Student Talks




1:00-1:15
Energy Decay Properties for the Dissipative Wave Equation with Separate-variable Space-time Dependent Potential, I
Jessica Kenigson:  University of Tennessee, Knoxville		





1:25-1:40
Energy Decay Properties for the Dissipative Wave Equation with Separate-variable Space-time Dependent Potential, II
Jonathan Kenigson:  University of Tennessee, Knoxville		

1:50-2:05Decay of Exterior Energy for an Equation with a Strong Damping Term with Space and Time Dependent Coefficients, I
Terence Long:  University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2:15-2:30Decay of Exterior Energy for an Equation with a Strong Damping Term with Space and Time Dependent Coefficients, II
Andrew Carter:  University of Tennessee, Knoxville




2:30-3:15

Refreshments and Poster Session
Poster:  Mathematical Modeling:  Past and Present
Michele McCool & Jayson Stephens:  Tennessee Wesleyan College
Poster:  Fermat's Last Theorem, a Combinatorial Approach
Connie Blalock:  East Tennessee State University






3:15-5:00 
Student Talks





3:15-3:30
Having your Cake...and Eating it Too:  Analyzing Nim Values for "Eatcake"
Elizabeth Riesser:  Thomas More College		

3:40-3:55The Balaban Index of Families of Graphs
David Simpson:  East Tennessee State University
4:05-4:20A Study of the Generalized Catenary
Hai Nguyen:  University of Tennessee, Knoxville
4:30-4:45How many n-element subsets of a k-element set can there be if we insist that pairwise intersections contain exactly j elements?
Nick Boatman:  University of Tennessee, Knoxville
4:50-5:00Closing Remarks
  
6:00MAA Dinner - University Center Executive Dining Room
Invited Speaker:  Dr. Glenn Webb
Parking: Free parking is available in the Center Parking Garage (map refers to this building as ("the public Parking Garage and Plaza") located directly behind the University Center. Local faculty and students, please park in lot 9 or your usual parking lot.

last updated: 4/10/07