Second Announcement and Call for Talks
ORCA Math Conference for
Teachers & Undergraduates
July 28, 2008
CSU, Chico, California
This is a second announcement for a conference to be held in
Chico on July 28, 2008.
Invited Speaker: Lisa
Berger of Stony Brook University
Title: Shelving Books
Abstract: Your new apartment has built-in bookshelves, and you want
to know whether or not your mathematical tomes will fit. Is it enough to know the length and
number of the shelves and the total thickness of your books? This is the shelf-packing problem, a
special example of the partition problem.
We'll discuss additional applications of this problem, partial results,
and open questions.
Call for Contributed Talks (Deadline: July 18,
2008)
We invite undergraduates and teachers to present their
research in mathematics and related fields. To contribute a 20-minute talk, just send a title and
abstract by e-mail to Thomas (TMattman@CSUChico.edu)
by the deadline.
The conference will be held in Holt Hall on the campus of
CSU, Chico. Click here to get
information about travel and
accommodations including maps of campus.
Funding: The conference is supported by the Chico State math department and by a NSF RUMC grant administered through the MAA (see http://www.maa.org/rumc/). There is some travel funding available to students and teachers from the region. Please contact the organizers to apply for this support.
For further information, please contact one of the
organizers: Ben Levitt (BLevitt@CSUChico.edu),
Thomas Mattman (TMattman@CSUChico.edu),
or Aaron Wootton (wootton@up.edu).