GSUMC
2006
Saturday, April 8, 2006 , 8:30am-4:30pm
Thanks to all who made the conference a success.
Contest Results
GSUMC 2006 Program
On-Line Registration for Team Competition
On-Line Registration for Faculty Advisors and Students (all students on team must register)
Deadline for registering: Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Keynote
Speaker:
Robert Devaney,
GSUMC 2005
was a
big success with over 80 students participating!
Thanks to all
for
coming!
GSUMC 2007 will be held at Rowan University in
April 2007
See you
there next year! (check this
Web page for updates)
The third Garden State Undergraduate Math Conference
(GSUMC) is a one-day student conference to be held jointly with the spring
meeting of the New Jersey Section of the Mathematical Association of
America (MAA-NJ) on
GSUMC is free and open to all students, including high school, undergraduate, and graduate. There will be many activities for students to participate in: NJ Undergraduate Math Competition, student talks and poster sessions, workshops, and of course lunch (free for undergraduate students who register in advance!). Online registration is now available. All participants are strongly encouraged to register in advance. More details about the conference are given below.
Note: Faculty and professionals attending GSUMC will be asked to pay normal MAA-NJ registration and lunch fees (those sponsoring a full team for the New Jersey Undergraduate Math Competition will have these fees waived-- see below for details).
II.
Conference Activities
1.
New
Jersey Undergraduate Math Competition
Schools are invited to send three-person student teams to participate in this three-hour morning event. There will be both a group problem session where team members are allowed to collaborate as well as an individual session where students must work by themselves. The nature of the problems is modeled upon the Indiana Friendly Math Competition and is more accessible than the Putnam Exam. Students can expect the level of the problems will be roughly at or below that of the Friendly Mathematics Competition (whose problems are published by the MAA in "A Friendly Mathematics Competition" by Rick Gillman). The questions on the test will involve material from HS mathematics, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and the introductory courses that a math major would take. Contest problems from 2005 and solutions. The emphasis of the competition will be on having fun with interesting problems that stress problem solving. Here are preliminary competition rules:
- Students participating must be undergraduates
- Teams are allowed a maximum of three students. Note: Teams with 1-2 students are allowed but are obviously at a disadvantage.
- Each team must have a faculty sponsor
Awards will be presented to winning teams from both four-year and two-year institutions and to the highest scoring students in the individual session. Each team is required to have a faculty sponsor and should register in advance. If you are a student interested in participating but don’t have a faculty sponsor, then don’t hesitate to ask your school’s math department. They’ll be more than happy to sponsor you. There is also an entry fee of $20 per team (your math department should be more than happy to pay this fee, so ask the math chairperson!). A faculty member who sponsors a full team of three students receives free lunch and registration. Online team registration for faculty sponsors is now available. Faculty sponsors and student team members must also register individually for the conference, online individual registration. Questions about the competition can be sent to the contest organizer, Christopher Simons, at simons@rowan.edu.
2. Keynote Speaker: Robert Devaney,
3.
Student Talks and Poster Session
There will be a special contributed session for
students to
give 15-20 minute talks of their mathematical work. There will also be a
space
for students to present posters. Student presentations may be
based on original
research or be expository in nature.
To register to give a student talk or
poster,
send a title and a brief abstract of the talk or poster with contact
information to the session organizer, John T. Saccoman,
4. Career Workshops in Mathematics:
Three workshops will be held immediately after lunch to help students learn about careers in mathematics:
5.
Awards and door prizes
Awards will be presented to winners of the NJ
Undergraduate
Math Competition. Moreover,
we anticipate giving away as door prizes many popular math books donated
by
various publishers: MAA, Princeton University Press,
III. Program Schedule for GSUMC (held jointly with MAA-NJ Section Meeting):
Students are invited to
attend
both GSUMC and MAA-NJ events.
Registration and coffee in the Casino. 8:30 10:00 Registration and
Breakfast,
the Casino 8:30 9:00 Check-in for NJ
Undergraduate Math Competition, the Casino 9:00 12:00 (9:00
10:00) (10:00
12:00) NJ Undergraduate Math
Competition
Individual
Session Team
Session Headquarters: Arts and Sciences Building, Little
Theater 12:00 1:00 Lunch, the
Casino 1:00 1:45 Career Workshops (concurrent): All workshops are in the Arts and Sciences
Building Topics and presenters will be announced in a separate flier in
your
folder Workshop 1: A&S
207 Workshop 2: A&S
220 Workshop 3: A&S
165 1:50 3:05 Presentations by Students:
Talks and Poster Session Arts and Sciences Building Student Session
1: A&S 207 Student Session
2: A&S 220 (note:
this session starts at 2:10) Student Poster
Session: Front entrance 3:05 3:25 Refreshments,
the
Casino 3:25 4:20 Chaos Games and Fractal
Images,
Robert L. Devaney, Boston University, in the Casino Presider: Mark Korlie, Montclair State
University 4:20 4:30 Contest Results,
Awards, and Prizes, the Casino 4:30 End of
Conference
The closest lot to
the Casino is Lot A (Handicapped parking is in Lot B).
Mathematical Association of America
New Jersey
Section
50th Anniversary (Spring
2006)
Meeting Program
All sessions except the
concurrent sessions at 1:30 p.m. will take place in the Casino
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8:30 9:15 |
Registration and Coffee, the Casino |
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8:30 1:30 |
Book Exhibits, the Casino |
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9:15 9:30 |
Welcome by Dr. Joseph
Gower, Provost, Georgian Court University |
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9:30 10:25 |
Eulerian Numbers and
Worpitskys Identity, Roger Pinkham, Stevens Institute of
Technology Presider: Eileen Poiani, St. Peters College, section governor 1976-79 |
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10:25 10:35 |
Presentation of Distinguished Service Award and Distinguished Teaching Award |
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10:35 10:45 |
Chairs and Governors Reports, and recognition of 25- and 50-year members |
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10:45 11:05 |
Intermission, the Casino |
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11:05 12:00 |
Why Historical Truth Matters to Mathematicians: Dispelling Myths
while Promoting Maths Judith Grabiner,
Pitzer
College Presider: Amy Cohen, Rutgers University, section governor 2000-2003 |
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12:00 1:30 |
Lunch, Raymond Hall, North
Dining Room (Book exhibits end at 1:30.) |
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1:30 3:05 |
MAA-NJ Contributed paper sessions (concurrent): All sessions are in the Arts and Sciences
Building History of Mathematics: A&S Little Theater General Contributed Paper Session I: A&S 103 General Contributed Paper Session II: A&S 104 |
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3:05 3:25 |
Intermission and refreshments, the Casino (Silent Auction bidding ends at 3:25) |
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3:25 4:20 |
Chaos Games and Fractal
Images,
Robert L. Devaney, Boston University Presider: Mark Korlie, Montclair State University, current section chair |
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4:20 4:30 |
Contest Results, Awards, Drawing of door prizes, Silent Auction Winners announcement (must be present to win) |
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5:00 |
Dinner honoring Award Winners, Invited Speakers and Workshop Leaders |
All participants are required to register below in order to attend the MAA-NJ/GSUMC Joint Conference Meeting, including students and faculty advisors who wish to participate in the NJ Undergraduate Math Competition (each person must register individually). In addition, faculty advisors must separately register their team for the Competition here
All participants should register in advance. Students register for free. Faculty and professionals must pay the following: MAA members: $12 (or $15 at the door), Non-members - $15 (or $18 at the door). Undergraduate students who register in advance will receive a free lunch. The luncheon cost is $12 for faculty and professionals.
Save time and money.
Register
online! Deadline for
online
registration is
IV. Directions and Maps for
- Directions
- Campus
Map (PDF)
For more information about GSUMC, please contact:
Lawrence D’Antonio (conference director), Ramapo College of New Jersey, ldant@ramapo.edu or (201) 684-7714.
Local
Organizers
If you would like to be a local organizer for your institution, please contact Lawrence D’Antonio at ldant@ramapo.edu or (201) 684-7714.
The
New Jersey Institute of Technology (Roy
Goodman)
Seton Hall (Catherine Beneteau)
William Paterson (Melkamu Zeleke)
Organizing
Committee
John T. Saccoman,
Karen Clark, The College of New Jersey, NJ (advertising and program editor)
Christopher
Simons,
Theresa
Michnowicz,
Lawrence D’Antonio, Ramapo College of New Jersey (conference director)
Advisory
Board
Hieu Nguyen,
Cathy Liebars, The
Reginald Luke,
Links:
MAA NSF-RUMC sponsored undergraduate math conferences
V.
Archive for GSUMC
GSUMC 2004
Contest
Results from NJ Undergraduate Mathematics Competition
2004!
Program for GSUMC 2004 (PDF)
Announcement
Flyer (PDF)
See list of participating schools