1999 Math Awareness Day at

North Carolina A&T State University

Thursday, April 22, 1999

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 22, 1999 and invites you to join our fourth annual celebration of the beauty of mathematics.

The theme of this year's Mathematics Awareness Month is Mathematics and Biology.

Since Mathematics is an essential element in fields as diverse as medicine, the human genome,      epidemiology, and research analysis, it is yet another example to communicate to a wider audience the power and diversity of mathematics and to promote the importance and versatility of mathematics and its relationship to our daily lives.

The day's activities include graduate students' presentations, invited 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 and from the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech 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

8:00 -- 9:15 AM: Graduate Student Presentations I (120 Marteena Hall)

Chair: E. Rowe
 

8:00-8:15   A. Copeland
North Carolina A&T State University
The Brochystochrone Problem
8:15-8:30   T. Edmond
North Carolina A&T State University
Simplex Algorithm Vs. Karmarkar Algorithm
8:30-8:45   L. Beverly
Virginia Tech
Minimal Surfaces Applied to Crystalline Structures
8:45-9:00  H. Weithers
North Carolina A&T State University
Oscillation of a Singular Differential Equation
9:00-9:15   C. Campbell
Wake Forest University
Knots, Links, and Graphs
9:30 -- 10:30 PM: Graduate Student Presentations II (120 Marteena Hall)
Chair: A. G. Warrack
9:30-9:45   M. Cephas
Virginia Tech.
Solving the Tree Coin Problem Using Geometer's Sketchpad
9:45-10:00   E. Ferry
Wake Forest University
Fatal STD's and the Size of Sexually Active Groups
10:00-10:15  C. Davis
North Carolina A&T State University
The Computation of Probabilities for Success Runs

 
10:15-10:30  R. Houck
Wake Forest University
A Singular Boundary Value Problem


11:00 --12:00 PM: Invited Lecture(Marteena Hall 120)

Margaret Cochran
Lousiana Scholars' College
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, Lousiana

Determining Age Characterstics of Organisams Classified by Size or Stage Using the Lefkovitch Matrix Model

1:45 -- 3:00 PM: Differentiation and Integration Contests (216 Marteena Hall)

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

8:00--3:30 PM: Social Activities (126 Marteena Hall)