Final Announcement
ORCA Math Conference for
Teachers & Undergraduates
July 28, 2008
CSU, Chico, California
This is the final 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.
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.
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/).
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).