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MAA MD-DC-VA Section Spring 2007 Meeting, April 13 and 14

Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA

Friday, April 13, 2007: The registration, reception, banquet, and banquet address are in Colket Center, and the workshop is in Colket Center.

Time	Event
4:30 – 6:30	Colket Garrett	Workshop: A bunch of questions I can’t answer about the game of Hex Garikai Campbell, Swarthmore College
5:30 – 7:00	Colket 2^nd floor atrium	Registration and Reception
7:00 – 8:00	Colket Ballroom	Opening Remarks: Dr. Adrienne Bloss, Assistant Dean, Curricular and Faculty Development Banquet Dinner
8:00 – 9:00	Colket Ballroom	Banquet Address: Hat Problems Ezra (Bud) Brown, Virginia Tech

Saturday, April 14, 2007: Registration and all contributed talks are in Miller Hall. Lunch is in Colket Ballroom. The invited addresses and membership meeting are in Massengill Auditorium. All Section NExT events will be in Miller 2^nd floor Reading Room from 8:00 – 9:50 am.

Time	Location	Event
8:00 – noon	Miller 013	Registration, Refreshments, and Book Sale
8:00 – 9:50	Miller 2^nd floor Reading Room	- Introductions & Chat - NExT Panel Discussion on Promotion & Tenure Organizers: Danny Cline, Lynchburg College and Greg Hartman, VMI Panelists: David C. Carothers, James Madison University M. Leigh Lunsford, Longwood University Eve Torrence, Randolph-Macon College - Graduation for 2007 Fellows
12:00 – 1:15	Colket Ballroom	LUNCH

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Fall 2006 Meeting, November 3 and 4

Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University, Farmville, VA

Friday November 3, 2006: Friday’s events are hosted by Hampden-Sydney College.

The registration, reception, banquet, and banquet address are in Settle Hall, and the workshop is in Venable Hall.

Section NExT will meet in Bagby 218.

Time	Location	Event
4:00 – 6:00	Venable Hall, Parents and Friends Lounge	Workshop: Buckyballs and Mathematical Origami Eve Torrence, Randolph Macon College
6:00 – 6:30	Bagby 218	NExT Introductory Session
5:30 – 7:00	Settle Hall, Board Room Lounge	Registration and Reception
7:00 – 8:00	Settle Hall, Board Room	Welcoming Remarks: Dr. David Pelland, Chairman of the Hampden-Sydney Mathematics and Computer Science Department Banquet Dinner
8:00 – 9:00	Settle Hall, Trustees Room	Banquet Address: Origami Math and its Increasing Intersections Thomas Hull, Merrimack College

Saturday, November 4, 2006: Saturday’s events are hosted by Longwood University.

Registration and all contributed talks are in Ruffner Hall. Lunch is in the Dorrill Dining Hall.

The invited addresses and membership meeting are in Hiner 207.

All Section NExT events will be in Ruffner 312.

Time	Location	Event
8:30 – 9:00	Ruffner Hall 312	NExT Panel Discussion: Targeting Your Students Panelists: Bill Abrams, Longwood University Betty Mayfield, Hood College Kathleen Shannon, Salisbury University Deirdre Smeltzer, Eastern Mennonite University
9:00 – 9:25	Ruffner Hall	Individual Choice: Continue discussion OR move to Contributed Papers, Session 2
12:00 – 12:55	Dorrill Dining Hall	LUNCH: Dorrill Dining Hall, downstairs in the Nance Room
1:00 – 1:20	Room in Hiner?	NExT Closing Session

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MAA MD-DC-VA Section

Spring 2006 Meeting, April 7 and 8

Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland

Friday April 7, 2006: The registration, reception, banquet, and banquet address are in the Andrew White Student Center (AWSC).

Time	Room Number	Event
4:00 – 6:00 PM	Sellinger Hall 004	Workshop by Stefan Treatman, Deparment of Defense: Two millennia of cryptography in sixty minutes
5:30 – 7:00 PM	AWSC McGuire Hall East	Registration and Reception
7:00 – 8:00 PM	AWSC McGuire Hall East	Banquet (Welcoming Remarks: Professor James Buckley, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences )
8:00 – 9:00 PM	AWSC McGuire Hall East	Banquet Address: Stefan Treatman, Department of Defense: The Polish attack on the German ENIGMA

Saturday, April 8, 2006: All contributed talks are in Sellinger Hall (SH). Lunch is in McGuire Hall East, and the invited addresses, membership meeting and prize session are in McGuire Hall West. McGuire Hall is located in the Andrew White Student Center (AWSC).

Time	Room Number /Location	Event
8:00 – noon	Sellinger Hall Atrium	Registration and Refreshments
8:10 – 9:15 AM	Sellinger 008	NExT Session “Neat Teaching & Club Ideas” Organizer: Leigh Lunsford Presenters: Props for Teaching, Leigh Lunsford, Longwood University Index Card Essays in Calculus, Sommer Gentry, United States Naval Academy Writing Projects for Finite Math for Business Students, Katharine Gurski, George Washington University Teaching Sequences Early, John Osoinach, Hampden Sydney College Writing Backwards and other Teaching Tricks, Greg Hartman, Virginia Military Institute Section NExT Graduation
11:55 –1:10 PM	McGuire Hall East, AWSC	LUNCH: McGuire Hall East, AWSC

MAA MD-DC-VA Section

Fall 2005 Meeting, November 4 and 5

Montgomery College; Germantown, Maryland

HT: High Technology & Science Center HS: Humanities & Social Sciences

Friday November 4, 2005:

Time	Room	Event
4:00 – 6:00 PM	137 HT	Workshop by Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Bracing of square grids
6:00 – 6:40 PM	304 HT	NExT Opening Session
6:00 – 7:00 PM	216 HT	Registration and Reception
7:00 – 8:00 PM	216 HT	Banquet
8:00 – 9:00 PM	216 HT	Banquet Address: Frank Farris, Santa Clara University Equitability and the Gini index

Saturday, November 5, 2005:

Time	Room	Event
8:00–8:50 AM	304 HT	NExT Session: Talk & Discussion Laura Taalman: Alder Award Recipient "Brainwashing and Great Expectations"— Teaching Dos and Don’t’s
9:00 – 9:50 AM	304 HT	NExT Session: Using Writing to Teach Mathematics Presenters: Brigitte Servatius, WPI; Divya Devadoss, Greg Hartman, VMI; Luca Petrelli, Phillip Poplin, Longwood University; David Shoenthal, Longwood University
11:55 –1:10 PM	HS ground floor	LUNCH: Buffet Style, HS Cafeteria Eat at the NExT tables with your mentor

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Spring 2005 MAA MD-DC-VA Section Meeting

University of Virginia; Charlottesville, Virginia

April 1 and 2, 2005

Friday April 1, 2005:

Time	Location	Event
4:00–6:00 pm	Clark 107	Workshop: James Tanton, St. Mark’s School Accessible – but surprisingly sophisticated – Math Activities for Students, Clubs, and Research
6:00–7:00 pm	Courtyard by Marriott: 1201 W. Main Street	Registration and Cocktails Pick up your registration materials. Make sure to get a yellow dot for your name tag!
7:00–8:00 pm	Courtyard by Marriott: 1201 W. Main Street	Banquet Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Jeffrey Holt, Chair, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia
8:00–9:00 pm	Courtyard by Marriott: 1201 W. Main Street	Invited Talk: James Tanton A Dozen Proofs that 1=2: A Misguided Review of all of Mathematics

Saturday, April 2, 2005:

Events are in Cabell Hall and Wilson Hall (Wilson adjoins Cabell via a 3^rd floor walkway)

All Project NeXT events are in Cabell 338

Time	Location	Event
8:30	Cabell 331	Refreshments & Gather
9 – 10:45 am	Cabell 338	SECTION Project NExT Grant Writing Workshop Organizer: Leigh Lunsford, Longwood University Invited Speakers/Leaders: William Haver, Virginia Commonwealth University Jeffrey Holt, University of Virginia Jon Scott, Montgomery College
Noon – 1:00 pm	Cabell 331	LUNCH with MENTORS: Box lunches distributed in Cabell 331. Bring your lunch to the NExT room in Cabell 338.

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Fall 2004 MAA MD-DC-VA Section Meeting

Morgan State University; Baltimore, MD

November 5–6, 2004

Friday November 5, 2004

Time	Location	Event
3:00–3:50 p.m.	Parkdale Industrial Park	NExT Introductory Session
4:00–6:00 p.m.	Bldg 1, Unit C-7, 3500 Parkdale Avenue	Workshop: Helaman Ferguson *An Ancient Algorithm: 29000 Years Old*
6:40	Lobby Dixon Science Building	Gather in lobby before Banquet Pick up registration materials Meet Section NExT Alumni
7:00–8:00 p.m.	Helen Roberts Room	Banquet
8:00–9:00 p.m.	Dixon Science Building	Invited Talk: Helaman Ferguson, Mathematician & Sculptor, and Claire Ferguson, Writer and Artist Mathematics in Stone and Bronze

Time	Location	Event
3:00–3:50 p.m.	Parkdale Industrial Park	NExT Introductory Session
4:00–6:00 p.m.	Bldg 1, Unit C-7, 3500 Parkdale Avenue	Workshop: Helaman Ferguson *An Ancient Algorithm: 29000 Years Old*
6:40	Lobby Dixon Science Building	Gather in lobby before Banquet Pick up registration materials Meet Section NExT Alumni

Saturday November 6, 2004

Murphy Fine Arts Center, Morgan State University

NExT sessions will be in

Time	Location	Event
8:00–8:20 a.m.	Room 222	Refreshments & Gather
8:30–9:30 a.m.		Panel Discussion: *Targeting your Students: How to Aim Your Teaching To Your Students* Panelists: Bill Abrams, Longwood University; Frances Gulick, University of Maryland College Park; Kathleen Shannon, Salisbury University; Bruce Torrence, Randolph-Macon College.
Noon–1:00 p.m.	222-Hall	LUNCH with NExT mentors: Buffet Style
2:10–2:40 p.m.		NExT Closing Session

MD/DC/VA Section NExT Spring Meeting 2003

Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA

Our meeting will be held alongside the sectional meeting of the MAA at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA on April 11-12. Our schedule allows participants to attend most of the sectional meeting as well as the Project NExT program.

Friday evening, 8:00-9:00
Panel on the Education of and Career Opportunities for Nontraditional Math Majors. (By "Nontraditional" we mean majors that are not planning to teach high school or go to graduate school.)

This session will be in Scott/Dozier Dinning Hall.

Saturday 10:00-10:50 AM
Panel on "Preparing for a Permanent Position". Our three panelists are Dave Carothers (James Madison University), Ann Commito (Frederick Community College) and Eve Torrence (Randolph-Macon College). After each of the panelists share from their experiences concerning professional advancement and/or tenure, we will open the session for your questions. Since this panel is only for the Section Fellows and their mentors, it may not be listed in the regular meeting program.

This session will be in Room 124, Madison Hall.

Saturday at lunch
At lunch, we will have a special area reserved for the Fellows and their mentors.

Our meeting will be held alongside the sectional meeting of the MAA at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD on November 1-2. Our schedule allows participants to attend most of the sectional meeting as well as the Project NExT program.

Friday afternoon, 4:30-6:00
Workshop with Dr. David Lay on teaching linear algebra. Prof. Lay is the author of a best-selling textbook on the subject, and was one of the Section's first winners of our teaching award. The session will be in Mathematics Room 1311, on the first floor of the math building.

Saturday at lunch
Pick up your lunch and then come to Room 1311 to meet with other fellows and mentors. (Soon you will hear from us about the mentors in our project, and who your specific mentor is.)

Saturday 2:00-3:00 PM
Workshop with Dr. James Stith of the American Institute of Physics, on challenging our assumptions in teaching. All national and Section NExT fellows are invited. Room 1311.

Additional Session of Interest
A panel for graduate students entitled "Advice for a Successful Job Search" and hosted by Section NExT. It will be on Saturday morning from 9:45-10:45 in Room 1311.