Western Kentucky University

23rd Annual Mathematics Symposium

November 21-22, 2003

Mathematics from Zero to Infinity:

Elementary Topics which Recur in Advanced Settings



Schedule of Events
All times are Central Standard Time

Each title below is linked to its abstract.

All talks will take place in THOMPSON COMPLEX, CENTRAL WING  (TCCW) on the Western Kentucky University campus.  TCCW,  on the northeast corner of campus, is building 56 on the campus map.  Parking is available during conference times in the student lot on Chestnut street behind TCCW.  Directions to WKU may be found at this link, or if you are taking I-65 Exit 22, see the housing information.  There is no conference registration fee.
 
 
 

Friday, November 21, 2003

5:30 TCCW Lobby                     Registration

5:30 - 8:00 TCCW 125 A         Book Exhibits
 
 
TCCW 125 C
TCCW 129
TCCW 116
6:00-6:20
Buddy Lagani

On the Cardinality of a Collection of Topologies

Noah Clemons

From Coarse to Finest Level: An Exploration of Uni/Multi Wavelets

Christopher Winfield

Quantum Scattering and the Lippmann-Schwinger Equation

6:25-6:45
Jonny Groves

Absolutely Flat Idempotents

Bruce Kessler

Undergraduate Mathematics Never Goes Away: A Differentiable, Orthogonal Scaling Vector

Jamie Johnson

Representing Numbers with Continued Radicals

7:00-7:20
Anne Raymond

Prime Numbers, Generalization, and Problem Solving in Mathematics Education

Matt Estes

An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Parsing

Mark Robinson

Taylor's Theorem for Functions of Several Variables

7:25-7:45
Amber De More

Mathematics as a Language Course

Deane Arganbright

Mathematical Modeling with Excel: Creative Models Linking Fundamental Mathematics and Stimulating Applications

Nick Newman

New Harmonious Labelings of Graphs

8:00 TCCW 129         Welcome by Dean Blaine Ferrell

8:05-8:55               Paul Sally, Jr.
TCCW 129           Triangles, Polygons, and Schmuzzles

9:00 TCCW 368         Reception


Saturday, November 22, 2003

8:00    TCCW Lobby                    Coffee and donuts

8:00 - 11:25 TCCW 125 A         Book Exhibits
TCCW 125 C
TCCW 129
TCCW 116
TCCW 137 B
8:30-8:50
Chris Christensen

Blowing-up Points?





 

 Sheena Richards

Strategies For Another Variation of Nim

Jean-Claude Evard

Polynomials whose Roots and Critical Points are Integers

Christopher McMahan

A Collocation Method for a Special Class of Higher Order Differential Equations

8:55-9:15
Jesse Pratt

Symmetry Analysis of a Generalized KdV Equation

 Kathy Cash

Probabilities in the Game of Monopoly

Haslinda Ibrahim

Orthogonal Latin Squares

9:30 - 10:20      Bernd Schröder
TCCW 129       Order from Zero to w + 1
 
 
TCCW 125 C
TCCW 129
TCCW 116
10:30-10:50
Ben Harwood

Extensions and Enlargements of Groups

Mark Walters

Arc Length and Surface Area - Are we on the same page?

Jeffrey Overbey

The Order of GL(d, Z/mZ) and Its Involutory Subset

10:55-11:15
Jason Harrington

Distance in Cantor-Like Sets

Claus Ernst

What Kind of Knot can you tie with a Rope of Fixed Length?

Jerzy Wojdylo

The Density of Invertible Matrices Over Zm

11:25 - 12:15       Paul Sally, Jr.
TCCW 129           Problems in Mathematics from Zero to Infinity


All Abstracts


The Department of Mathematics gratefully acknowledges funds from the MAA NSF-RUMC (NSF Grant DMS-0241090) for support of student speakers.