Registration | Lodging | FSC and Framingham | Section NExT | Program | Meeting Schedule  Friday  Saturday | Parking
Call for Student Papers | Call for Graduate Student Papers | Call for Contributed Papers | Call for New Colleagues Talks

This page provides information about the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (NES/MAA) Fall 2007 Meeting at Framingham State University and links to information about the Meeting. This page will be updated as additional information about the Meeting becomes available.

On-line registration will not be available for this meeting. If you would like to pre-register, you may print out the pre-registration form for the meeting. The registration fee and meal cost information is on the form as well as mailing and contact information. The pre-registration form is available in PDF-format as well as in a MS Word file that you may download and edit; if you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here.

Lodging for the meeting will available at hotels in Framingham (Best Western, Econo Lodge, Residence Inn by Marriott, and Sheraton) and in Natick (Courtyard by Marriott, Crowne Plaza, Hampton Inn, and Travelodge).  Each hotel is offering a special meeting rate for those who call and make reservations; to get the special meeting rate, please use the indicated code and make reservations by the cut-off date. To view basic information, addresses, and rates for area hotels offering special rates for the meeting, click here; this is a PDF-file for which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Please use these hyperlinks to access driving directions to and a campus map for Framingham State University (the driving instructions, the campus map, and the on-campus parking map are available in PDF-format as well), information about the College, and the weather, community information, local news, and area information for Framingham, Massachusetts. For your convenience, a hyperlink is provided for the campus directory. For more information about on-campus parking, please left-click here. Please feel free to visit the site for the McAuliffe Challenger Center and to learn more about technology use at Framingham State University.

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Section NExT
 Please note that the locations for presentations and meals have changed.  Additional updates will be made.

Section NeXT, a program for new and relatively new colleagues, is held during the Fall and Spring meetings. Untenured full time faculty, those who have and have not been National NExT fellows, are welcome to participate in talks and workshops designed to assist new faculty in their transition from graduate school to professional academic life.

This year's Northeastern Section NExT program will be held on Friday, November 16, 2007. Dr. Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota-Duluth, President of the Mathematical Association of America, recipient of the 1992 North Central Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics and the  1993 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University of Mathematics, will be this year's featured speaker.  Dr. Gallian will speak on Communicating Mathematics.

Those who would like to participate may pre-register using the pre-registration form that is available in PDF-format and MS Word format. Lunch will begin at 12 PM in the Dining Commons on the second floor of the D. Justin McCarthy College Center, and the Dr. Gallian's presentation will begin at 1 PM in McCarthy's on the second Floor of the D. Justin McCarthy College Center.

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Meeting Program

The abstracts for the invited addresses may be accessed by clicking the title of the speaker's presentation; biographical information is available for each of the invited presenters.

The theme for the meeting is Master Teachers:  Reaching Students and Teaching Faculty, and each of the speakers is the winner of the Award for Distinguished Teaching of College or University Teaching of Mathematics for one of the Sections of the Mathematical Association of America and/or the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University of Mathematics of the Mathematical Association of America.  These distinguished teacher-researchers will share their insights in mathematics and the teaching of mathematics.

There will be four workshops during the meeting. Enrollment for the workshops is limited, in general, to 25 participants. There is no additional fee for participating in these workshops but pre-registration is required since space is limited. To pre-register for any of the workshops, please contact Sarah Mabrouk by phone, (508)626-4785, or by email, smabrouk@frc.mass.edu.

On-campus registration will take place in the Lobby of the D. Justin McCarthy College Center that is in the center of campus, 2:30 PM - 6 PM on Friday, November 16, 2007 and 8 AM - 12 PM on Saturday, November 17, 2007. To preregister for the meeting, complete the registration form,  PDF format or MS Word format, and send it with your check payable to NES/MAA to the address listed on the form; if you register on campus during the meeting, please bring your completed registration form with your payment to the registration desk in the Lobby of the D. Justin McCarthy College Center.

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Meeting Schedule
 Please note that the locations for presentations and meals have changed.  Additional updates will be made.

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

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Call For Student Papers
Undergraduate students from the Northeastern Section are invited to present talks at the fall meeting on topics in mathematics, statistics, or computer science. The presentations should be 10 minutes in length, on expository work, research projects, employment experiences, or problems from mathematical periodicals. The registration fee and cost of meals will be waived for one student presenter per paper. Interested students should submit the title of the presentation with an abstract of no more than 80 words together with full name, email address, mailing address, college/university affiliation, indication of desire to attend the Friday Banquet, the Saturday lunch or both, and the name and email address of a faculty sponsor to Karen Stanish, kstanish@keene.edu,  or Raimundo Kovac, rkovac@ric.edu.  The deadline for submission is November 2, 2007.

Call For Graduate Student Papers
Graduate students, full-time and part-time, are invited to present papers on topics in mathematics, statistics, or computer science. Graduate students at any stage of their graduate work are welcome to give a presentation during the session. The presentations, approximately fifteen (15) minutes in length, can be given on expository work, research projects, variations on intriguing proofs, interesting problems in mathematics, work derived from periodicals, employment experiences, summer/independent research experiences, or parts of or work related to Master’s or Doctoral research projects. The registration fee and the cost for Saturday lunch will be waived for one graduate student presenter per paper. Interested graduate students should submit the title of the presentation with an abstract of no more than 100 words together with full name, college/university affiliation, contact information (phone number, fax number, and email address), audio-visual/technology needs for the presentation, the name of a faculty sponsor, and full contact information and affiliation for the faculty sponsor to Sarah Mabrouk, smabrouk@frc.mass.edu;  please use “NES/MAA Graduate Student Paper Session - Submission” for the subject line. The deadline for submission is Friday, November 2, 2007.

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Call For Contributed Papers
Participants at the Fall and Spring Meetings of the section are invited to submit contributed papers. We are particularly interested in papers which will appeal to a variety of participants. If you are planning to speak about results of your research, keep in mind that the audience most likely will not be familiar with your specialty, so you will want to give some motivation and context for your work. Your presentation should be approximately 15 minutes in length.

Please send an abstract and your mailing address together with a list of any special equipment you may need to Rob Poodiack at rpoodiac@norwich.edu.  E-mail submissions are preferred, but you may also send a typed submission to

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the Fall 2007 Meeting is Friday, November 2, 2007.

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Call For New Colleagues Talks
New faculty participating the Northeastern Section Fall MAA meeting are invited to submit papers for the New Faculty session. The purpose of these talks is to introduce you to the section. These talks should focus on either your research or pedagogical activities. If you are giving a talk on your research, please remember that there will be people in the audience that are unfamiliar with your research area so it might be helpful to give some background and motivation. Your presentations should be approximately 15 minutes in length. Overhead projectors and computers with projection capabilities will be available.

Please send a 25 word or less abstract, any special equipment needs you may have and your mailing address to Phil Hotchkiss at photchkiss@wsc.ma.edu or Chris Aubuchon at aubuchoc@badger.jsc.vsc.edu.  Email submissions are preferred, but you may also send a typed submission to

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, November 2, 2007.

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Parking for the meeting will be available in the Maple Street Lot and in the Maynard Street Lot; left-click here to view the on-campus parking map. To park on-campus, you will need a parking permit. When your registration is received, a parking permit and an on-campus parking map will be sent to you in the mail; this parking permit is valid only for parking in the Maple Street and Maynard Street lots. A shuttle bus will be pick up people from the Maple Street Lot and take them to the center of Campus in front of May Hall approximately every 10 to 15 minutes. Since Framingham State University is on a hill, there is an incline on the walk from each parking lot to the center of campus. The walk from the Maynard Street Lot to campus is steeper than the walk from the Maple Street Lot to campus. Special needs/circumstance parking will be available for those who must park closer to campus. Please contact Sarah Mabrouk to make arrangements for special needs/circumstance parking.

Program Chair
Sarah L. Mabrouk

Local Arrangements Coordinator
Sarah L. Mabrouk

Speaker Abstracts and Biographical Information | Northeastern Section NeXT | NES/MAA Home Page | MAA Home Page | S. L. Mabrouk's Home Page

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