2001 Math Awareness Day at

North Carolina A&T State University

Thursday, April 19, 2001

As part of the national observance of Math Awareness Month, the Department of Mathematics at North Carolina A&T State University is pleased to sponsor the following events on Thursday, April 19, 2001 and invites you to join our sixth annual celebration of the beauty of mathematics.

The theme of this year's Mathematics Awareness Month is Mathematics and the Ocean. This year's Mathematics Awareness Month focuses on the contributions of mathematics to our understanding of the ocean.

The ocean is vitally important to all of us -- as a principal driving force of the climate, a source of food and a means of transportation, among many reasons. As a consequence, scientists strive to describe the ocean -- its circulation patterns, currents, and motion -- and then to use that knowledge to predict the behavior of the ocean and assess its effects on our lives. These scientific studies rest on the use of mathematics.

Mathematicians have created the framework that enables us to model the fluid motion and temperature changes of the ocean and, using complex computational codes, to simulate these processes. Statisticians are providing tools that help make sense of the vast amounts of data collected each year by scientists around the world. In other areas, such as dynamical systems theory, mathematicians have developed methods for analyzing the complex modes of fluid transport through currents and other oceanic features.

These are only a few of the many areas of mathematics that are contributing to remarkable advances in our ability to model and to gain insight into complex physical phenomena like the ocean.

The day's activities include undergraduate and graduate students' presentations, lecture,  differentiation and integration contests, and contest awards and recognition ceremony.

This year we have invited graduate students from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Wake Forest University  to join us and to participate in the graduate students' sessions.

We are all very excited about the program, the sense of  "togetherness",  and accomplishment that this event brings to our Department. Every faculty member is involved either in organizing and chairing the sessions, mentoring student presentations, selecting the best student presentation or working on contest problems, administering contests, and arranging contest prizes. Most of our graduate students will give presentations and help with the undergraduate differentiation and integration contests.


Math Awareness Day Program

8:30 -- 9:15 AM: Undergraduate Student Presentations I (118 Marteena Hall)

Chair: R. Mers

8:30-8:45 K. Bynum
NC A&T State Univ.
Comparison of the Roor Test and the Ration Test

8:45-9:00 M. Laws
NC A&T State Univ.
Is 1.000=0.999999...?

9:00-9:15 E. Graves
NC A&T State Univ.
Discrete and Continuous HIV Models
 

9:30 -- 10:45 PM: Graduate Student Presentations II (118 Marteena Hall)

Chair: A. G. Warrack

9:30-9:45   L. Haywood
Wake Forest Univ.
Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems with Multiple Solutions

9:45-10:00   N. Al-Islam
NC A&T State Univ.
Numerical Investigation of Singular Vectors of Single-and-Opposing Pinhole Imagers

10:00-10:15  C. Enloe
Wake Forest Univ.
Global Solutions of Nonlinear Initial Value Problems

10:15-10:30 J. Yun

NC A&T State Univ.
Numerical Solutions of a Parabolic Differential Equation by the Crank Nicolson Method

10:30-10:45  S. Beck
Wake Forest University

Correcting the Wave Front of an Adaptive Optic System Using a System of Hexagonal Segmented Mirrors

11:00 --12:00 PM: Lecture(Marteena Hall 118)

Greg Gibson
NC A&T State Univ.
Multimedia Modules for the Classroom

1:50 -- 3:00 PM: Differentiation and Integration Contests (216 Marteena Hall)

3:00 -- 3:30 PM: Awards Ceremony (216 Marteena Hall)

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