The Fifteenth Annual Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1998
10:00- 4:00 Registration - Main Entrance, Hadley Hall
12:00 Noon Buffet Lunch -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
1:25-1:35 
Welcome by Allen Broughton
Head, Department of Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
GM Room, Moench Hall
1:35-2:25 
A Tale of Slow Projectiles: Tartaglia's Wager and Halley's Comment
Charles Groetsch, University of Cincinnati
GM Room, Moench Hall
Contributed Papers
2:30-3:00
Coffee and Cookies
G-220, Crapo Hall
Coffee and Cookies
G-220, Crapo Hall
Room G-219, Crapo Hall Room G-221, Crapo Hall
3:00-3:20  Deborah Chute 
John Carroll University 
Pythagorean Triples
Anders Floor 
Illinois Wesleyan University 
The Calculus on Measure Chains 
3:30-3:50  Michael Buck 
John Carroll University 
Fibonacci Alterations
Jean Cadet 
Rutgers University 
Some Capacity Theory
4:00-4:20 Surat Intasang 
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 
An Introduction to Diophantine Equations
Robert Dirks 
Wabash College 
Hi Ho Cherry-O!, Markov Chains, and Mathematica
 
5:30-6:45 Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
7:00 - 8:00
Puzzles and Paradoxes in Game Theory 
Ed Packel, Volwiler Professor of Mathematics, Lake Forest College
Room E-104 in Moench Hall
8:30 Faculty and Student Parties (Directions will be given)
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1998
8:30-9:30
Coffee, Juice, and Donuts
Book Display
Faculty Lounge E-204
9:30-10:30
Symbolic Dynamics: A Mathematica(l) Window to Chaos 
 Ed Packel, Volwiler Professor of Mathematics, Lake Forest College
Room E-104 in Moench Hall
Contributed Papers
Room G-219, Crapo Hall Room G-221, Crapo Hall
10:40-11:00 Matt Lepinski 
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 
Cwatsets: Examples and Conjectures: Part I
Christopher Tartaglia 
Illinois Wesleyan University 
Bernstein-Bezier Polynomials and Vertex Splines
11:05-11:25 Stuart Light 
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 
Cwatsets: Examples and Conjectures: Part II
Courtney Lewis 
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 
Automation of the Hanging Resonant Chain Experiment
11:30-11:50 Michael Danielewicz 
Wabash College 
Variability Due to Initial Match-Ups in 4-Team Double Elimination Tournaments
 Jim Meyer, Fred Franzwa, Jonathan Matthews
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
A Skewed Perspective
 
 
12:00 Noon 
LUNCH
CLOSING CEREMONY
BIG BOOK GIVE AWAY!
Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union