South Texas Mathematics Consortium
                        12^th Annual Meeting  and Student Conference
                                Texas A&M International University
                                       Saturday, February 21, 2004

8:30-1:00	Registration and Coffee	Student Center (SC) Rotunda
9:00-9:15	Welcome and Introduction	SC 236
9:15-10:00	Keynote Address: Stephen Yau Sharp estimate of number of integral points in n-dimensional tetrahedron	SC 236
10:00-10:15	Break

	SC 230	SC 232	SC 236	WHTC 103
	Session Chair:   Marquart	Session Chair:   Kim	Session Chair:  McCarry	Session Chair:   Lin
10:15-10:40	Slavka Bodjanova Changing fuzziness of fuzzy partition.	Charles Bedard Proactive Ethics for Statisticians: Ruminations of a military statistician.	Sandy Norman Some Observations and Questions about a New Class of Plane Curves- The Pseudoconics.	Margolin Lia Solution Of Kinematic Rotation And Symmetrization Problems For the Various Types of Few-Body Systems.
10:45-11:10	David R. Cecil Finding Inverses and Other Applications for a New Graphical Procedure.	Melissa Medina-Razzaque Transformations and Limit Theorems: Order Statistics	Joseph Chance Problems From the Journals.	Dmitry Gokhman Applications of the wavelet transform to differential equations.
11:15-11:40	Alex Sadovski Supplemental data Acquisition Tools for Modeling Environmental Systems	Rohitha Goonatilake A Glimpse of Probabilistic Cryptography	Dwight Goode Implementing Challenging Mathematics Content in PreK-12	Roger Knobel The Anti-eigenvalues of a Matrix
11:45-12:30	Announcements, etc.  (SC 236)
12:00-1:00	Lunch (SC 210)
12:35-1:00	Meeting of the STMC Representatives to Discuss Future Meetngs, etc. (Room TBA)
	Session Chair:  Marquart	Session Chair:    Abe	Session Chair:    Kim	Session Chair:  Oshima
1:00-1:25	Hueytzen J.Wu and Wan-Hong Wu Various Processes of Compactifications on Normal Spaces	Liliana P. Castillo Growth and Decay Applied to Common Life	Miguel Paredes College Math Faculty and Students and the School System.	Antonio G. Carranza Expectation, Moments and Conditional Expectation
1:30-1:55	Patricia D. Valdez  Transformations and Limit Theorems: Limit Theorems	Joe McCarry Back Off.	Ping "Charlene" Tintera The Impact Of Using Graphing Calculator On Math Self-Efficacy In College Algebra	Carlos A. Velazquez and Oscar Raga Area Between Curves and Volumes.
2:00-2:25	Philip S. Morey Jr.  The Vander monde Convolution	Cynthia Sanchez Transformations and Limit Theorems: Functions of Random Variable	Lee N. Von Kuster Reflections From a Life Time of Teaching Mathematics	Fengxin Chen Traveling Waves for Nonlocal Evolution Equations
2:30-2:45	Break
2:45-3:10	Gerardo Limon and Judith Limon Topology, A Brief Look	Jackie Lynn Herrera and Gloria Z. Trevino Magic Tricks	Pablo Tarazaga Euclidean Distance Matrices and Elementary Geometry	---
3:15-4:15	Moderators: Kyumars Ardalani, Nadina Duran-Hutchings. The Mathematical Education of teacher (CBMS Document & CUPM Curriculm Guide) SC 230		Moderators: Darla Kenward, Margolin Lia. Teaching (Classroom usage of technology, Collaborative & motivational learning environments and classroom presentation structure for varied learning styles) SC 231
4:15-4:30	Presentation of Student Awards, Wrap up and Conclusion (SC 236)