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Smath 2007 Program

Friday, September 28    
1:30-7:00pm Registration   Burton Forum
2pm Priscilla Bremser Workshop: ``Pictures of Groups''Burton 302
  Marjorie Batchelor Workshop: ``Change-ringing: Theory and Practice on Handbells'' the Forum
3pm Priscilla Bremser Workshop: ``Pictures of Groups''Burton 302
  Michelle Snider Workshop: ``Symmetric Polynomials and Slinkies'' Burton 307
4pm Michelle Snider Workshop: ``Symmetric Polynomials and Slinkies'' Burton 307
  Marjorie Batchelor Workshop: ``Change-ringing: Theory and Practice on Handbells'' the Forum
5:30pm Supper   McConnell Lobby
7pm Welcome   McConnell 103
7+ε pm Ellen Gethner ``Searching for a Thickness-Two 10-Chromatic Graph and Discovering Other Treasures Along the Way'' (abstract)

Saturday (all talks in McConnell 103)  
8:30-9:30am
12:00-1:00pm
5:00-5:45pm		 Registration McConnell Lobby  
9am Debra Boutin ``Using small sets to study graph symmetry''  
9:20 Erika King ``The intriguing task of dominating planar graphs ''  
9:40 Nancy King Harrison ``Giving Students a Wider Perspective on the World of Mathematics in an Elementary Number Theory Course''  
10 Diane Jamrog ``Disease Modeling to Assess Outbreak Detection and Response''  
10:20 Nadia Benbernou ``The Defender/Attacker Game''  
10:40-11 Eva Antonakis ``Justified Knowledge and Common Knowledge: Limited Conservativity''  
11 Mentoring session McConnell 1st floor  
12 lunch McConnell Lobby  
1:50 Mako Haruta ``Problem Writing and Publishing with Gifted Elementary Students''  
2:10 Nancy Mendell ``Biostatistics : Applications of Math to Medicine and the Life sciences''  
2:30 Julie Glass ``Interlocking Linkages''  
2:50 Laura Shulman ``Life after Smith with math, family and remodeling''  
3:10 Anna Lysyanskaya ``How to Be Persuasive While Keeping a Poker Face''  
3:30-4 break    
4 Panel on Mathematics Education, Priscilla Bremser, Jane Coffee, Lisa Hodsdon, and Laura-Jo Webber  
5 Poster session and refreshments, Smith College Club  
6 Banquet, Smith College Club  

Sunday (all talks in McConnell 103)  
       
9 Marjorie Batchelor Workshop: ``Change-ringing: Practice on the bells of the Smith bell tower''  
10 Stephanie Jakus ``Examples of Graduate School Qualifying Examination Questions in Topology''  
10:20 Eleanor Farrington ``Theta Functions''  
10:40 Laurel Miller-Sims ``Analogues of Hilbert 17 in Valued Fields''  
11 Discussion on the Center for Women in Mathematics