Schedule of Events & Talks

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Schedule of Events & Talks

All conference events will take place in St. Roberts Hall, located on LMU's main campus. Click here to see a campus map. All parking will be in the Drollinger lot. Participants should enter campus from Lincoln Blvd., where there is an information booth for questions and signs for the conference will be posted.

Time	Event	Location
8:15-9:00	Registration	St. Roberts Hall
9:00-10:15	Opening, Discussion about Undergraduate Research, MAA, Pi Mu Epsilon and Math Club Activities	St. Roberts Auditorium
10:20-11:40	Student Talks, Session I	Various Classrooms
11:45-12:30	Panel Discussion on Career Opportunities in Mathematics	St. Roberts Auditorium
12:30-1:15	Lunch	St. Roberts Lawn
1:20-2:35	Student Talks, Session II	Various Classrooms
2:30-2:45	Cookie Break	St. Roberts Hall
2:45-3:35	Keynote Address by Joe Gallian	St. Roberts Auditorium
3:35-4:00	Prize Session	St. Roberts Auditorium

 

Schedule of Student Talks

last updated 04/03/2008 2:47 PM

Room	Time	Speaker	Institution	Title
Morning Session I
233	10:20-10:35	Kathleen A. Lewis & Michael Nava	California State University Channel Islands	Mathematical Modeling for Structured Textures
	10:40-10:55	Lucila Orozco	Loyola Marymount University	A Mathematical Model of Political Affiliation
		Jennifer Jones
	11:00-11:15	Melissa Bilbao	Cal Poly Pomona	Modeling the Genetics of Autism
	11:20-11:35	Amy Stockman	Concordia University Irvine	How to become "Set for Life"
		Miracle Okoye
	Moderator: Min-Lin Lo
234	10:20-10:35	Kenji Kozai	Harvey Mudd College	Intrinsically Even-Linked Graphs
	10:40-10:55	Viviana Medina	CSU Stanislaus	Financial Aid Incentives for Math Teacher Candidates and Math CSET Options
	11:00-11:15	Michael Zawoiski	The City College of New York	Mathematical Models of Reptile Populations Using Delay Differential Equations
		Cinthia Vega	Loyola Marymont University
	11:20-11:35	Mutiara Sondjaja	Harvey Mudd College	Understanding Kakutani's Fixed Point Theorem
	Moderator: John Rock
237	10:20-10:35	Brent Hancock	Pepperdine University	A Comparison of Preseason Collegiate Football Polls with Corresponding End-of-The-Year Rankings
	10:40-10:55	Parousia Rockstroh	Harvey Mudd College	Angular-Asymmetric Binary Branching Trees
	11:00-11:15	Parousia Rockstroh	Harvey Mudd College	Dewetting of a fluid between parallel plane surface with nonconstant forcing
	11:20-11:35	Stephanie Kuelbs	Loyola Marymount University	Mathematical Modeling of the Transcriptional Network Controlling the Cold Shock Response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
	Moderator: Lisa Hernandez
239	10:20-10:35	Christina Byrnes	Olympic College	Applications of MATLAB: Putting the LAB in MATLAB
	10:40-10:55	Chuck Taylor	Olympic College	A Combinatorical Look at Sudoku
	11:00-11:15	Ashley Burt	Pepperdine University	A Somewhat Linear Fixed Point Problem: Introduction and Theory
		Kristen Anderson
	11:20-11:35	Will Cousins	Pepperdine University	A somewhat linear fixed point problem: results and numerical issues
	Moderator: Carol Adjemian
Afternoon Session II
233	1:20-1:40	Aditya Damani	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India	Surgical Wait List
	1:45-2:05	Swastik	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India	On Weak Variational and Ultra-Weak Variational formulations of Finite Element Method
	2:10-2:25	Alaena Alilin	UC Merced	Model of Japan's Population Distribution
	Moderator: Allen Killpatrick
234	1:20-1:40	Homer Strong	Reed College	Introduction to Sandpile Groups
		Tian Jiang
	1:45-2:05	Jonathon Chen	UC Merced	History of Partial Differential Equations
	2:10-2:25	Vincent Zimmern	University of Virginia	Boundary Value Problems on Polygonal Domains
	Moderator: Jon Jacobsen
237	1:20-1:40	Parousia Rockstroh	Harvey Mudd College	The Golomb Topology and Fibonacci numbers under various Integer moduli
	1:45-2:05	Joseph Rower	California Lutheran University	When does a product of group elements equal its reverse?
	2:10-2:25	Amanda Grummon	University of California, Irvine	The Mathematical Modeling of Language Acquisition from Inconsistent Input
	Moderator: TBA
239	1:20-1:40	Brendan Foley	University of San Francisco	Evolutionary Games on Graphs
	1:45-2:05	Brian Rice	Harvey Mudd College	Rigid Divisibility Sequences
	2:10-2:25	George Tucker	Harvey Mudd College	Domain Relaxation in Langmuir Films with Dipole-Dipole Repulsion
	Moderator: Stephen Devlin
242	1:20-1:40	Kathryne Kistler	California Baptist University	Brunian Links and Tricolorability
	1:45-2:05	Kyle Kinneberg	Claremont McKenna College	A Combinatorial LSB Theorem on the $d$-Cube
	2:10-2:30	Micah Martin	Pepperdine University	A Binomial Identity and it's Gaussian Counterpart
	Moderator: Melinda Schulteis