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On Friday, concurrent sessions will be held from 2:00 p.m. until 5:10 p.m. at NRCC, followed by the banquet at the Lion’s Club at 6:30 p.m. The Lion’s Club is located on Bagging Plant Road between Hudson Drive and Dunlap Road in Dublin. After dinner, our keynote speaker will be Dr. Bud Brown Alumni Distinguished Professor of Mathematics of VA Tech. Dr. Brown is a native of New Orleans, completed his PhD at LSU in 1969 and came to VA Tech the same year. He has received numerous teaching awards in his time at VT. Most of his research has been in Number Theory and he particularly enjoys Graph Theory. He is a highly respected teacher and mentor as well as being an accomplished musician and the father of two boys.
On Saturday morning, a complementary continental breakfast will be available at the Holiday Inn Express or the Hampton Inn, followed by the VMATYC business meeting at NRCC at 8:30 a.m. After concurrent sessions from 9:50 until 1:00 p.m., the conference will conclude with an optional boxed lunch ($8 or $7) and special door prizes. On the registration form you are offered several lunch choices: ham, turkey breast, roast beef, chicken salad, or cheese. You may choose to eat your boxed lunch with colleagues at the college or take it with you to enjoy on your trip home. For those who would like to extend their stay in the Dublin area, a list of attractions and current events will be provided at the conference.The
conference hotels are the
Holiday Inn Express,
4428 Cleburne Blvd. and the Hampton
Inn,
4420 Cleburne Blvd., beautiful facilities located near Interstate 81.
When calling either hotel to make your reservation (HIE 540-674-1600
or HI 540-674-5700), state that you are with the VMATYC Conference
and state the name of your college. You will also need to guarantee
your reservation with a credit card. The conference rates are $88.00
per night (excluding tax). Reservations must be made by Thursday,
March 5th. Cancellations must also be made by March 5th.
If a cancellation is needed after that date, the hotel will waive
charges only if the hotel can book the room. Each guest who does not
cancel by March 5th,
should expect to be charged the full amount.
The
VMATYC Conference will again serve as the Mathematics and Computer
Science Peer Group Meeting, which is a professional development
initiative of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). The VCCS
reimburses VMATYC for a portion of the conference expenses for
VCCS faculty only.
(If you are not sure
whether your college is one of the twenty-three colleges in the
system, please see the list of VCCS Colleges on the “College
Locator” at http://www.vccs.edu.) For example, the VCCS pays half of the room
cost, plus tax, for
Friday night for VCCS faculty, full-time and adjunct. If you are a
VCCS faculty member rooming with another VCCS faculty member, the
whole cost of the room will be paid, provided you BOTH
complete the paperwork to formally check into the room. If you are
traveling at least 200 miles to the conference and wish to arrive on
Thursday evening, half of your room on Thursday night will also be
covered. Unfortunately, VMATYC does not have funds to offer this
benefit to our members who are not VCCS faculty. This doesn’t
mean we value you any less; we just don’t get reimbursed for
you. When you arrive at the registration table, you will be asked to
sign in on either the “VCCS sheet” or the
“non-VCCS
sheet.”
Even
if you cannot attend this year’s conference, please take this
opportunity to renew your VMATYC membership on the registration
application.
Useful
websites:
VMATYC
website: www.virginia.matyc.org.
Holiday
Inn website: http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/home
Hampton
Inn website: http://hamptoninn1.hilton.com/en_US/hp/index.do
New
River Virginia Community College: www.nr.edu
Town
of Dublin: http://www.dublintown.org
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