Eleventh Annual VSU Mathematics Technology Conference

February 24, 2006, Education Center

Time	Session I Room 264 Presiders –  Sudhir Goel and Jaehoon Seol	Session II Room 271 Presiders – Pat Bezona and John Wood	Session III Room 272 Presiders – Sherry Feng and Chunlei Liu
2:30 to 2:55	Workshop: GNU Octave Dan Lipsa Information Technology Armstrong Atlantic State University	Workshop: The Fano Plane leads us to the Fano Tetrahedron and beyond Chris Niemann Valdosta State Univeristy	Workshop: Improving Retention Rates with MyMat Lab by Prentice Hall Scott Smith Prentice Hall
2:55 to 3:15
3:20 to 3:40	Workshop: Making Sense of Primes: A Spreadsheet Simulation of the RSA Cryptosystem Lingguo Bu and Rob Schoen Florida State University	Workshop: Mathematical Modeling of Simple Mechanical Systems Michael D. May and Thomas Reid University of South Carolina Aiken	Application of the Cholesky Decomposition to Monte Carlo Simulation Jin Wang and Chunlei Liu Valdosta State University
3:45 to 4:05
4:10	REFRESHMENTS
4:25 to 4:45	Differential Equations with WinPlot Carlos Almada Columbus State University	Correlation Between Pre-Calculus and Java Programming Success Frank Katz Armstrong Atlantic State University	Computations with Large Numbers Weihu Hong Clayton State University
4:50 to 5:10	Fundamentally Different Software Models of Predator-Prey Problems Hugh Sanders Georgia College and State University	Incorporating Music and Art Jacqueline Spann Georgia Perimeter College	Developing a Cluster for Research with Nanostructures of Cancer Drugs Tom Manning Department of Chemistry Valdosta State University
5:10 to 5:30	Selected Topics from Algebra, Trigonometry and Logic with Maple John A. Ziegler Southern Polytechnic State University	Capturing the Moment: Answering Questions Remotely Peggy Moch Valdosta State University	The Wald Confidence Interval James Issos Florida A&M University
5:30	BREAK
5:45	Invited Address: Multivariate Splines and their Applications Ming-Jun Lai , University of Georgia
7:00	Dinner and a Talk: College Football Ranking and Rating Systems John Seppala, Valdosta State University