The Fourteenth Annual Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1997

10:00- 2:00	Registration - Hadley Hall
12:00 Noon	Buffet Lunch -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
1:15-1:30	Welcome and Opening Statement by Dr. Jess Lucas Vice President for Student Affairs, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Room E-104, Moench Hall
1:35-2:30	An ODE to Toys: Motivating Differential Equations with Physical Models Michael Moody, Harvey Mudd College Room E-104, Moench Hall

Contributed Papers

	Room G-219, Crapo Hall	Room G-220, Crapo Hall	Room G-221, Crapo Hall
2:40-3:00	Margaret Jahnke Siena Heights College Matrix Invertibility: A Graphical Approach with Mathematica	Julianne Garbe Michigan Technological University On a Question of Erdos	Meta Voelker Illinois Wesleyan University Steiner Trees Over Generalized Checkerboards
3:05-3:25	Angela Root Siena Heights College Investigations of Cyclic Quadrilaterals Using the TI 92	Jakub Zielinski Washington University An Introduction to Ramsey Theory	Thayer Morill Miami University Defining Sets of Graphs
3:30-3:50	Maryann Herman Siena Heights College Causes of War	Julie Dotson Valparaiso University On the Computation of the Homomorphism Polynomial	Jeff Prince Miami University Similarities Between Abstract Algebra and Graph Theory
3:50-4:05	Coffee and Cookies G-222, Crapo Hall	Coffee and Cookies G-222, Crapo Hall	Coffee and Cookies G-222, Crapo Hall
4:05-4:25	Dan McWhorter Mount Union College A Presentation of Hyperbolic Geometry Through the Klein-Beltrami and Poincare Disc Models	Wendy Rigterrink Miami University How to Win	Janelle Dieken Illinois Wesleyan University A History of Pi
4:30-4:50	Michael Buck John Carroll University Geoboards		Christopher Green Washington University An Introduction to the RSA Method of Cryptography
4:55-5:15	Dennis Schmidt St. Norbert College Oval Intersections in Tilings on Surfaces		Tricia Stone John Carroll University Exciting New Work on an Old Problem

5:30-6:45	Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
7:00 - 8:00	Mathematics for Fun and Money Herb Bailey, Professor Emeritus, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Room E-104 in Moench Hall
8:30	Faculty and Student Parties

SCHEDULE OF TALKS
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1997

8:30-9:00	Coffee, Juice, and Donuts
9:00-10:00	The Search for a Good Basis Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room E-104 in Moench Hall

Contributed Papers

	Room G-310, Crapo Hall	Room G-310, Crapo Hall
10:10-10:30	Reggie Becker Miami University The Hales-Jewett Theorem	Nathan Mueggenburg Illinois Wesleyan University Modifying Daubechies' Wavelet Iteration Scheme for Biorthogonal Wavelet Functions
10:35-10:55	Pramod Achar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Generalized Conjugacy Classes	Jade Vinson Washington University The Wave Equation on the Sierpinski Gasket
10:55- 11:10	Coffee Break G-308 Crapo Hall	Coffee Break G-308 Crapo Hall
11:10-11:30	Barry Balof Colorado College Permutations, Derangements, and Scrambling Numbers	Mike DeCoster St. Norbert College & Ashwaubenon High School Variations on the Chaos Game
11:35-11:55	Jamie Kawabata Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology The Bijection from Derangements to Perfect Scramblings	Brian Bennet Michigan Technological University The Dynamics of the Space Wheel

12:00

LUNCH CLOSING CEREMONY BOOK GIVE AWAY Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union