NES/MAA Fall 2024 Conference at Bridgewater State University

Friday, November 22, 2024 - Saturday, November 23, 2024

Schedule

Friday november 22, 2024

Time Event Location
11:30 am - 6:00 pm Registration, coffee, tea DMF Atrium
11:30 - 1:30 pm Section NExT Luncheon/Presentation DMF 342
1:00 - 2:30 pm Collegiate Math Competition DMF 459, 467
1:30 - 2:30 pm Executive Committee Meeting DMF 342
2:30 - 3:00 pm Refreshments DMF Atrium
3:00 - 4:00 pm Ward Heilman DMF 120
4:00 - 5:00 pm Graduate Student Talks DMF 240, 242
5:00 - 6:00 pm Undergraduate Student Talks DMF 240, 242, 259, 260
6:00 - 7:30 pm Social Hour (Cash Bar) Banquet RSU 201 -Council Chambers
7:30 - 8:30 pm Christie Lecture: Cristina Ballantine RSU 201 - Council Chambers
DMF = Dana Mohler-Faria Science Building
RSU = Rondilieu Student Union

saturday november 23, 2024

Time Event Location
8:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration, Coffee, Tea DMF Atrium
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast Snack DMF Atrium
9:00 - 10:00 am Teaching Hour DMF 120
10:00 - 10:30 am Business Meeting DMF 120
10:30 - 11:00 am Break DMF Atrium
11:00 am - Noon Distinguished Teacher: Karl Crisman
 DMF 120
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch DMF Atrium
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Contributed Talks
 DMF 240, 242, 259, 340
2:00 - 3:00 pm Vignon Oussa       DMF 120

Invited Speakers

Ward Heilman, Bridgewater State University

Ward Heilman started his academic career as a Religion and Philosophy major. After dropping out of college a few times, he finally finished an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College

Karl-Dieter Crisman is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Gordon College in Massachusetts and the recipient of the 2024 Northeastern Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching. His scholarly work is primarily in the mathematics of voting and choice, with a strong current side interest in Marin Mersenne's life and work.

Cristina Ballantine, College of Holy Cross

Cristina Ballantine completed her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Toronto in 1998. Her advisor was James Arthur, and her thesis was entitled Hypergraphs and Automorphic Forms. After graduation, she had one-year teaching positions at the University of Wyoming and Bowdoin College and a two-year position at Dartmouth College as a J. W. Young Research Instructor. Since 2002, she has been in the Math Department at the College of the Holy Cross and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Science.

Vignon Oussa, Bridgewater State University

Vignon Oussa is a Professor of Mathematics at Bridgewater State University, specializing in Harmonic Analysis and Representation Theory. He has been actively engaged in the study of AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and their intersections with mathematics, teaching, and the arts.

 

Program Committee

Vincent Ferlini, Keene State College

Joe Fields, So. Connecticut University

Mahmoud El-Hashash, Bridgewater State University

Karen Duseau, Bridgewater State University

Local Arrangements Committee

Shannon Lockard, Bridgewater State University

Webmaster

James Quinlan, Univ. Southern Maine