MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Maryland-District of Columbia-Virginia Section
MAA Student Chapters Conference
April 9-10 1999 James Madison University

Prizes for Student Papers at the Spring 1999 Meeting

Research papers

1^st place: "Symmetric Simple Map with Low MN-Perturbations"
Tiffany Fisher, Hampton University
(with Arun Verma and Alkesh Punjabi)

2^nd place: "Interactive Web Activities"
Tim Cavanaugh, St. Mary's College

3^rd place (tie): "Bresenham's Circle Generator and the Dda Ellipse Generator as Compared to Kappel's Ellipse Generator"
Raymond Mooring, Morgan State University
and
"Modeling Suspension Bridge Oscillations Using a Picard Iteration Technique"
Paul Dosart, James Madison University

Expository papers

1^st place: "The Weibull Distribution for Reliability Analysis"
Laura Schultz, Hood College

2^nd place (tie): "Measure that Angle"
Henry William Faxon, Bowie State University
and
"Approximation Methods for Integro-differential Equations"
Aren Knutsen, James Madison University

Prizes for student posters

Seniors

1^st place (tie): "A Combinatorial Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem"
Tonya Greene, Mary Baldwin College
and
"Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher"
Kathryn Vanney and Katie Myers, Mary Baldwin College

3^rd place: "Sauntering in the Rain"
Lisa Black and Weiwei Pan, Mary Baldwin College

Juniors

1^st place (tie): "Origami and Conic Sections"
Elizabeth Kiser and Christine McLean, Mary Baldwin College
and
"Hasse Diagrams of Sets of Three and Four Elements"
Dan Winter, Salisbury State University