Conference List

Conference List


Dr. George DeRise, Professor of Mathematics at Thomas Nelson Community College. Hampton Va.

Here is a list of talks at conferences that I have given over the past 20 years or so.

Date, and LocationDescription of My Talk
Dec. 1990, TNCC; Division of Natural Science and Math. "Chaos and Fractals"
April 1991, TNCC.VMATYC   "Fractals and Chaos"
Feb. 1992, TNCC"The Egyptian Book of the Dead"
Feb. 1992, Appomatax High School "Fascinating Fibonaccis"
Feb. 1993, Thomas Nelson Community College "The Golden Ratio in Nature Art and Architecture"
Oct 9, 1993 TNCC Science Club  "Chaos"
Jan. 1994, TNCC; PCTM Conference"Non Euclidean Geometry and the Universe"
April 1994, Blue Ridge CC; VMATYC "A Math Professor attends a Physics Conference".
Feb. 1995, Thomas Nelson Community College; Pen. Council of Math. "Making Math Connections with Science
April 1995, Thomas Nelson Community College; MAA-VMATYC: Spring Conference "Quarks and Quasars; Quandries for the Math Instructor"
Nov. 1995, TNCC; Engineering and Science Club  "Chaos Lecture"
March 1996, VCTM 20th Annual Conference  "Mathematical Physics for Middle School"
March 1996, Halton College(United Kingdom)  "Chaos in a Differential Equations Classroom"
April 1996, Randolph Macon College; MAA: Spring Conference "Quantum Mechanics as an honors project for Linear Algebra and Diff. Eq. classes."
Oct 5, 1996 TCTM  "Chaos in the classroom"
November 1996, Hood College; MAA Fall Conference  "Non Euclidean Geometry and the Universe"
April 1997, MAA Spring Conference; College of William and Mary  "Symmetry and Beauty in Math and Physics"
Oct 24, 1997 VMATYC at TNCC  "Inventing New Functions-using software-how far can we go?"
November 1997, MAA Fall Conference; Mt. Saint Mary's  "Mathematical Cosmology"
April 1998, Central Va. Community College; VMATYC: 12 Annual "Hyperspace-Superstrings, Beyond Einstein and Hawking"
June 1998, New Horizons Gov. School for Science and Technology "Mathematical Physics for High School students"
October 1998, J. Sargeant Reynolds CC; VMATYC: Eastern Regional Conf. "Quantum Mechanics in a Differential Equations Class"
November 1998, Towson University Maryland; MAA Fall 1998 Conference "Superalgebra" (SUSY)
April 1999, James Madison University; MAA Hot Topics in Mathematics Course
April 1999, Paul D. Camp Community College; VMATYC The Mathematical Character
June 1999, Hampton Va; SOS for the SOL The Mathematical Character
Fall '1999, TCC Norfolk; VMATYCEinstein's Theory of Gravitation
Winter 2000, Washington D.C., Joint AMS-MAA National 4 hr. Minicourse - Modern Physics & the Mathematical World (see below for details)
April 2000, Brandeis Women's Club "An Aspect of Zen"
October 6 2000, Fall Conference VMATYC; J Sargeant Reynolds What the Ancient Egyptians really knew about math...
October 28 2000, PenCTM Math Conference; TNCC Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers (Math and Myth)
November 4 2000, AmerAssoc Physics Teachers; TCC Modern Physics and the Mathematical World, A New Course
November 18 2000, MAA Fall; American University A Math Professor Attends a Physics Conference
February 6 2001, Hampton University (Math Department) Fiber Bundles
March 14 2001, TNCC Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
April 20,21 2001 VMATYC Roanoke Va. What Ancient Babylonians Knew About Math
October 20 2001, Virginia Tech FiberBundles
April 13 2002, NVCC Alexandria, Va. Suprises in Mathematics
Fall 2002, VMATYC Conference; TNCC Logic, Infinity, and Insanity
Fall 2002, PenCTM Math Conference; TNCC Logic, Infinity, and Insanity
November 2002, MAA; University of Maryland God's Beautiful Equations
 Nov 17, 2001. PenCTM at TNCC  Some Mathematical Surprises
 April 12, 2003 MAA, Norfolk State      Monstrous Moonshine
 August 31, 2004. TNCC           Stephen Hawking’s Universe
 October 27, 2004.Hampton University  Monstrous Moonshine
Nov 5, 2004. VMATYC  TCC              Advanced Trigonometry
MAA Spring 2005 Meeting.April 1,2 at UVA Topology in Physics
Oct 12th 2005 Hampton U. Math Dept  Clifford Algebras
VMATYC Fall 2005 Oct 21 Tidewater Cc Sir William Rowan Hamilton "Quaternions"
Spring 2006 20th VMATYC; Germanna CC   Eureka Experience
Oct 14,2006 VMATYC TCC Va. Beach   The absolutely most important application of  Linear Algebra and it's not in the texts
MAA Fall 2006  Nov3,4 Hampden-Sydney and Longwood A Physics-Math (Bilingual) Dictionary; fiber bundle-gauge theory connection
Spring 2007 April 14, 2007 VMATYC Conference at TNCC What's the Problem THE Problem; 'Riemann Conjecture'
April 4,2007; TNCC English 195 Topics in English Mathematical Models as representations of Reality
April 19, 2007 TNCC Philosophy and Religion Club The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
 Fall 2008 VMATYC Monsters and Moonshine
Feb 5, 2008 Hampton University Some Mathematical Aspects of String Theory
April 5 2008 22nd annual VMATYC Piedmont CC Crime, Math and the Law
Oct 24 2008 VMATYC  J. Sargeant Reynolds The Poincare Conjecture
Nov 7,8 2008 MAA Hood College Topology of the Universe
Nov 22, 2008 AMATYC National Annual, Washington D.C. Euler at 301
April 4, 2009 VMATYC; New River C.C. Dublin, VA An Almost 100 Year Old Algebra Text

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April 17, 2009 SIAM Conference at ODU Topology Change, Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture and the Universe
April 18,2009 MAA Regional at Mary Washington University Topology Change, Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture and the Universe