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Michigan MAA & MichMATYC

2006 Annual Meeting

Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
May 5-6, 2006

Venue

The 2006 Section Meeting will be hosted by the Mathematics and Statistics Department of Calvin College. All events except for the Friday dinner will be held in the Prince Conference Center on Calvin's East Campus.

Lodging

The conference center includes a hotel, and we have reserved a block of rooms for the nights of the conference. Rooms include

Either two queen size beds or one king size bed
Complimentary deluxe continental breakfast
High speed and dial-up internet access
Onsite fitness center, as well as access to the fitness facilities at Calvin College

To get the special rate of $70 (+tax) per room per night (up to 4 people in a room), mention "Michigan MAA" when you make a reservation by phone (866-526-7200 or 616-526-7200). Follow the links to the conference center to get more information about this facility.

Friday Dinner

This year's dinner is being underwritten by Prentice Hall and will be held in the Hauenstein and Pfeiffer Rooms at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, located 3 miles north of the Calvin campus along the East Beltline.

Program

The program for the meeting is now available as a pdf in two versions

4-page outline [121K] designed to be printed two-sided on a single 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper.
full program booklet [833K] full 24-page (12 1-sided 8.5 x 11 sheets) program including all abstracts, maps, driving directions, etc. This is the best version for online viewing of the abstracts.
full program booklet (folio order) [833K] full 24-page (6 2-sided 8.5 x 11 sheets) program including all abstracts, maps, driving directions, etc. This version can be printed 2-sided and center stapled to form a booklet.

Invited Speakers

We have the following confirmed speakers for this year's meeting. Details, including titles and abstracts will be posted as they become available.

Plenary Speakers

Speaker	Institution	Session
Dan Mulligan	Project SEED	Friday Luncheon.
Joan Birman	Barnard College	Friday afternoon plenary session.
Michael Moody	Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	Friday Dinner.
~~Trachette Jackson~~ David Bortz	University of Michigan	Saturday morning plenary session.
Carl Cowen	IUPUI	Saturday Luncheon.

Titles and abstracts are available here.

Other Invited Speakers

In addition to the talks above, we will have a five invited sessions presented by colleagues from within Michigan. These will be shorter than the plenary sessions, but longer than contributed talks.

This year's speakers are Jon Hodge (Grand Valley State University), Melinda Koelling (Western Michigan University), Kristen Moore (University of Michigan), Nathalie Sinclair (Michigan State University), and Jennifer Zhao (University of Michigan--Deerborn)

Titles and abstracts are available here.

Contributed Sessions

Abstracts for contributed sessions will be submitted via an online form this year. The deadline for sumbissions was February 28, 2006. Late submissions may be included if there is room in the schedule. In particular, students who want to present are encouraged to submit an abstract even though the deadline has passed. Decisions regarding the scheduling of late submissions will be made approximately one week prior to the meeting.

Important information for speakers:

Sessions will be 15 minutes long. Please time your presentation accordingly.
LCD projectors, standard overheads projectors, and "visualizers" (projectors that project digitial images of plain paper "overheads") will be available. We can arrange for laptops to connect to the projectors if necessary.
Please specify any technology needs on the abstract submission form.

Michigan NExT Symposium

The seventh annual Michigan NExT Symposium will take place on Thrusday, May 4, from 3:00 until 6:30 with dinner to follow. For details visit the Symposium web page.

Contact Us

Local Arrangments

Local arrangements are being made by the following committee of Calvin folks: Gerard Venema (chair), Sharon Gould (administrative assistant), Michael Bolt, Earl Fife, Thomas Jager, Randall Pruim, and George VanZwalenberg.

If you have questions regarding local arrangements, contact Gerard Venema.

Program Committee

In November of 2005, the Michigan MAA lost one of its prized members and major contributors. Janet Andersen, the 4 Year College Vice-Chair of the Section and Professor of Mathematics at Hope College, died in an automobile accident. She was 47. Janet's loss will be deeply felt by all of the professional colleagues who enjoyed the privilege of working with her.

At the time of her death, Janet was leading the program committee in the development and organization of the schedule of speakers for the 2006 Section Meeting. The remaining members are Matthew Boelkins (GVSU), Randall Pruim (Calvin), and Mark Naber (Monroe Community College).

For questions regarding the program contact Matt Boelkins or Randall Pruim.