MAA Local Meeting Program 2011
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The presentations will be held in the New Science Building (Bldg. 4). For directions, please go to the ‘directions’ link.
Conference room contains a laptop capable podium and a LCD projector. We will provide a laptop and so presenters need only to bring a USB drive or a disk. Of course, presenters may opt to use their own laptops.
UWF Student presentations have been given 20 minutes.
Friday, November 18
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration (Building 4, Atrium) |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Welcome address: Dr. Jane Halonen, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences |
| 9:20 a.m.– 9:55 a.m. | Keynote speaker.: Zhoggang Zeng, Northeastern Illinois University, Designing Numerical Algorithms for Algebraic Computations |
| Session A, Room 102 | Chair: Jossy Uvah |
| 9:55 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Sheryl Zavertnik, University of West Florida, Homicide-Suicide in the State of Florida - A Cluster Analysis Using SaTScan |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. | Angelo Christopher Conner, University of West Florida, A Statistical Analysis of “An Historical Approach to Physics Instruction” |
| 10:35 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. | Emilee Schuck, University of West Florida, Minimal Surfaces |
| 10:55 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Christopher Stanley, University of West Florida, A Geospatial Study of Violent Crimes in the USA: The Race Factor |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. | Christopher Li, University of West Florida, Latin Transversals and Completion Numbers for Complete Quin-partite Graphs |
| 11:35 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session B, Room 305 | Chair: Jaromy Kuhl |
| 9:55 a.m. – 10:20 a.m | Megan Schwab, Hawkes Publishing, Mastering Math, Not the System |
| 10:20 a.m. – 10:45 a.m | Katrina Palmer, Appalachian State University, NC, Using SmartPens to Facilitate Math Communication Online |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. | Bill Leonard, Pearson Arts & Sciences, "What's new in MyMathLab? Using Show Work, Assign Questions from other books, Lockdown Browsers, and other new features to enhance your Math courses." |
| 11:10 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. | Jane Caffrey, University of West Florida, Resolving Drivers of Variability in Estuarine Metabolism from Sustained Observations of Water Quality in the SE US |
| 11:35 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session A, Room 102 | Chair: Jia Liu |
| 1:30 p.m. – 1:55 p.m. | Hurdle Adam, Florida A&M University, Molecular Dynamics of Argon |
| 1:55 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Tracy Fister, University of West Florida, A Study of Association Between Violent Crimes and Poverty |
| 2:15 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. | Amy Ramnarine, Florida A&M University, Asymptotic Dynamic of Action |
| 2:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Nicole Mogensen, University of West Florida, The Association Between Violent Crimes and Education |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:25 p.m | Carol St. Dennis, Northwest Florida State College, NWFSC Math Prescription (Rx) Program |
| 3:25 p.m. – 3:35 p.m | Coffee Break |
| Session A Contd, Room 102 | Chair: Madhuri Mulekar |
| 3:35 p.m.. – 4:00 p.m. | Huiqing Zhu, University of Southern Mississippi, |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Martin Klein, US Census Bureau, Statistical Analysis based on Physiologically-based Pharmacokinetic Models. |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Elizabeth Stanwyck, University of Maryland, A Meta-Analytical Approach for Examining the Effect of Ambient Air Pollution on Children's Health |
| Session B, Room 305 | Chair: Michelle Ragle |
| 1:30 p.m. – 1:55 p.m. | Wanwan Huang, Florida State University, Variance Reduction for Monte Carlo Simulation in the Coupled Additive-Multiplicative Noise Model |
| 1:55 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. | Hannah Hinojosa, North West Florida State College, Avoiding Latin Squares Simultaneously |
| 2:20 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. | Marie Byrne, University of South Alabama, Prisoner's Dilemma Applied to the Interaction of Black Flies and their Residents |
| 2:55 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. | Mathew Garvin, Florida A&M University, Using Stereo Vision to Control and calibrate a Robot manipulator |
| 3:20 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session B Contd, Room 305 | Chair: Lucia Bushway |
| 3:35 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Lori Alvin, University of West Florida, Endpoints and Inverse Limit Spaces |
| 4:00 p.m. – 4:25 p.m. | Quesly Daniel, Florida A&M University, Parameterized Knots and Symmetries |
| 4:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Tapiwa Maruni, Florida A&M University, Torque Determination and Simulation of 3-Degree of Freedom Manipulator |
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | 3D Demonstration (Holodeck) in Room 107 |
| 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Dinner Remarks: Jane Halonen, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, University of West Florida. Dinner speaker: Dr. Emmanuel Taylor, Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) National Cancer Institute (NCI), The Uses/ Utility of Mathematics and Biostatistics in Improving Public Health |
 Estimation of the LDG method for One Dimensional Singularly Perturbed Problems
Saturday, November 19
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast (Building 4, Atrium) |
| Session A, Room 305 | Chair: Subash Bagui |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. | Bimal Sinha, University of Maryland, Does-response Modeling with Environmental Applications |
| 9:35 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. | Chenhua Zhang, University of Southern Mississippi, Heavy Tail Distribution with Application in Shot Noise Sequence |
| 9:50 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. | Nabendu Pal, University of Louisiana, Estimating the Sperm Whale Population Density in the Gulf of Mexico to Study the Effect of BP Oil Spill |
| 10:20 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session A Contd, Room 305 | Chair: Florentina Tone |
| 10:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. | Madhuri S. Mulekar, University of South Alabama, Improving Oral Communication Skills of Statistics Students |
| 10:50 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Â David Turner, Faulkner University, An Induction Formula Generator |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. | Jia Liu, University of West Florida, An alternative Hermitian and skew-Hermitian preconditioning technique for the unsteady Oseen problem |