The Second Annual Smoky Mountain Undergraduate Research Conference on the History of Mathematics (SMURCHOM II)

22 April 2006

Registration & Refreshments

9:00-9:30                                                                             210 McKee

Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:45-10:00                                                                           214  McKee

Keynote Speaker:

10:00-11:00                                                                          214 McKee

                            Mathematics: A Question of History                                 Dr. Della Fenster, University of Richmond

Undergraduate Contributed Paper Session I

11:00-12:00                                                                          214 McKee

11:00                    The Origins of Pi                                                       Bridgette Boley and Chelsea Gilliam,  Western Carolina University                                                             

11:20   Reading Between the Circles: The Old Tangent Made New                 Jess E. Walls, University of North Carolina, Asheville               

11:40   Integers Incognito:  Unusual Representations of Integers                    Peter Allison and Jordan Hauser,  Davidson College      
Derived from Cardano's Solution of the Cubic Equation                                                  

Lunch

12:00-2:00                                                                               East LaPorte Park                                                                

Poster Presentations

2:00-3:00                                                                                  220 McKee

Undergraduate Contributed Paper Session II

3:00-3:40                                                             214 McKee

3:00   A Proof of His Last Theorem? Fermat's Method of Infinite Descent       Constance Markley,  Western Carolina University                         

3:20                      Zero-Phobia                                                                                          Polly Rudoff,  Western Carolina University                               

Afternoon Refreshments

3:40-4:00                                            210 McKee

Undergraduate Contributed Paper Session III

4:00– 4:40                                                           214 McKee

4:00        Defining a Genius--Walking Through The Discoveries of Euler        Christopher Ferguson,   High Point University                           

4:20         Lotka, Volterra, and Modeling Predator-Prey Interactions in a Fishery   Jill Stupiansky, Birmingham-Southern College                         

Closing Remarks

4:40– 5:00                                                                           214 McKee

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