Alabama Association of College Teachers of Mathematics
53rd Annual Meeting -- February 15, 2003
University of Alabama at Huntsville
Program and Schedule

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-9:35 SPEAKER: Jack Brown (Auburn University)
Title: Smooth Interpolation, Holder Continuity, and the Takagi - van der Waerden Function (joint work with George Kozlowski of Auburn University)

9:35-9:55 SPEAKER: Ed Smith (Jacksonville State University)
Title: DANGEROUS EXCURSIONS IN 3 DIMENSIONS

9:55-10:15 SPEAKER: Mike Spivey (Samford University)
Title: The Dynamic Assignment Problem

10:15-10:35 SPEAKER: Hussain Elalaoui-Talibi (Tuskegee University)
Title: On Marczewski-Burstin Characterizations of Some Sigma-Algebras and Ideals

10:35-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 Parker-Lewis Lecture
SPEAKER: Olav Kallenberg (Auburn University)
Title: The Basic Symmetries of Probability Theory

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:20 SPEAKERS: John Mayer (University of Alabama at Birmingham),
Clinton Curry (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Title: Use of Stella and Excel in teaching mathematical modeling

1:20-1:40 SPEAKERS: M. Leigh Lunsford (Athens State University),
Tracy Goodson-Espy (University of Alabama in Huntsville),
Ginger Rowell (Middle Tennessee State University)
Title: Activity and Web-Based Post-Calculus Probability and Statistics

1:40-2:00 SPEAKER: Peter M. Gibson (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Title: On Subspaces Associated with a Matrix

2:00-2:20 SPEAKER: Lei Zeng (Alabama A&M University)
Title: Conditional probability from a relative-frequency point of view and different looks at the same problems

2:20-2:40 SPEAKER: Barbara S. Rice (Alabama A&M University)
Title: Mathematics Education: A Partial Solution in the Elementary Case

2:40-3:00 Break

3:00-3:20 SPEAKER: Kyle Siegrist (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Title: MathML and the Encoding of Mathematics

3:20-3:40 SPEAKER: Zhijian Wu (University of Alabama)
Title: Successes of the introductory level math courses in the Math Technology Learning Center at the University of Alabama

3:40-4:00 SPEAKER: Ken Roblee (Troy State University)
Title: Undergraduate Research--Getting Students Involved Early

4:00-4:20 SPEAKER: Sheena Richards (Troy State University student)
Title: A Generalization of the Eleven Pebble Problem

4:20-4:30 SPEAKER: Thomas Leathrum (Jacksonville State University)
Title: AACTM Website