MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Maryland-District of Columbia-Virginia Section



MAA Student Chapters Conference
April 9-10 1999 James Madison University
Program

Friday Evening

5:30 - 6:00 Refreshments & Registration Warren Hall 4th Floor Lounge
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner Warren Hall 4th Floor Lounge
7:15 - 8:15 Keynote Speaker: Joseph Gallian Touring a Torus
Warren Hall 4th Floor Lounge
8:30 - 10:00 p.m. Make-Your-Own-Sundae Party Taylor Hall 304 & 306
Including Mathematical Games, Puzzles, Challenges & Conundrums.

Saturday

8:00 - 10:00 Registration & Refreshments Miller 101

8:20 - 8:40 Welcome Room B31

8:45 - 9:20 Student Paper Session 1

All speakers are requested to stay in the room where they are speaking for the entire 35 minute session. Thank-you.

9:30 - 10:15 Panel Discussions:
Panel 1: Careers in the Mathematical Sciences Room B31
(or what can I do with a Math Major?)
Panel 2: Graduate Programs in Mathematics Room B34
(Should I go? What will it be like? How should I prepare? Will I get in?)

10:20 - 10:55 Student Paper Session 2 and
Meritorious Mathematical Contest in Modeling Presentations

All speakers are requested to stay in the room where they are speaking for the entire 35 minute session. Thank-you.

11:00 - 11:50 Invited Lecture Miller 101
Mathematical Vignettes from Cambridge University
by James Tattersall, Providence College

12:00 - 1:20 Lunch

1:25 - 2:00 Meritorious Mathematical Contest in Modeling Presentations
and
Student Poster Session

2:00 - 2:45 Panel Discussion (repeat)
Panel 1: Careers in the Mathematical Sciences Room B31
(or what can I do with a Math Major?)
Panel 2: Graduate Programs in Mathematics Room B34
(Should I go? What will it be like? How should I prepare? Will I get in?)

2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:15 Awards for best Student Papers B44
and Meritorious Mathematical Contest in Modeling Teams