HRUMC V: Union College, Schenectady, NY

April 18, 1998

The number of participating institutions increased to 82 for HRUMC V. The number of attendees and their breakdown into groups according to gender, status (faculty vs. student), etc. will be reported after the conference. In addition to the invited address, this year's schedule features 39 sessions of talks split into 3 sets of 13 concurrent sessions each. Some of the sessions feature 2 talks but most feature 3 talks, for a total of 104 talks. Of these, the majority (nearly 90%) of the talks will be delivered by undergraduates. 78 of the short talks were advertised as Level I talks (accessible to first- or second-year students & higher), the remaining 26 as Level II (accessible to junior or senior math majors & higher).

HRUMC V participants are invited to:

• Be a Puntestant! (No, this is not a new religion.) In Hale House (where breakfast is served after registration), there will be a place to deposit your puns for the HRUMC V Puntest. The winner is the person who submits the worst math pun. The prize is ..... (left to your imagination...). Must be posted before 11:00 AM!

• Buy a HRUMC '98 T-shirt! This is the first year for HRUMC T-shirts. Click here for a glimpse of the images planted on these phat threads!

  T-shirt images
  Front	Back

  (Thanks to Davide Cervone of Union College for making the image and for technical support.)

• Visit Nott Memorial! This unusual building (shaped like a 16-gon) is at the center of campus, close enough for easy access by HRUMC participants. It will be open early and is spectacular inside (climb two floors and look down). Includes a special museum exhibit on French Children of the Holocaust.

• 8:45-9:50 AM - Registration and Coffee

• 10:00-11:00 - SESSION I (details)
  • Abstract Algebra I
  • Analysis I
  • Applied Mathematics I
  • Computer Science IA
  • Computer Science IB
  • Differential Equations
  • Fractals & Chaos
  • Graph Theory I
  • History of Mathematics
  • Knot Theory I
  • Linear Algebra I
  • Mathematics Education
  • Number Theory I

• 11:15-12:15 - Welcome and Invited Address by Joseph A. Gallian
  Title: Touring a Torus
  Abstract: This talk concerns the problem of traversing an m by n directed grid embedded on a torus so that each vertex is visited exactly once before returning to the starting position. We also consider generalizations and variations on this theme. We conclude with an application to computer graphics.

• 12:30-1:45 - Lunch

• 2:00-3:00 - SESSION II (details)
  • Abstract Algebra II
  • Analysis II
  • Applied Mathematics II
  • Combinatorics I
  • Computer Science II
  • Algebra and Topology
  • Geometry I
  • Graph Theory II
  • Knot Theory II
  • Linear Algebra II
  • Number Theory IIA
  • Number Theory IIB
  • Voting Theory

• 3:00-3:20 - Coffee Break

• 3:30-4:30 - SESSION III (details)
  • Analysis III
  • Analysis and Applied Mathematics
  • Combinatorics II
  • Computer Science III
  • Games and Game Theory
  • Cantor Sets and Cellular Automata
  • Geometry II
  • Knot Theory III
  • Linear Algebra III
  • Mathematics and Music
  • Number Theory III
  • Probability
  • Set Theory and Topology