2012 UT Undergraduate Math Conference  Saturday 4/21/12

9:00 - 9:45            Registration and Refreshments

9:45 - 9:50           Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:50 – 10:50       Invited Address         

                               Michael Dorff   (Brigham Young University):   Shortest paths,
                                soap  films, and mathematics

11:00 – 12:00     Student Talks

11:00 - 11:15       John Collins   (University of Tennessee):  Pricing variable annuities 

11:25 – 11:40      Alice Curtis  (Belmont University):   Colossal corn

11:45 – 12:00      Ashleigh Jones  (University of Montevallo):   Multivariate statistics 
                                 and mathematical modeling

12:00 – 1:00        Lunch

1:00 – 2:40          Student Talks

1:00 – 1:15          Angela Gaetano and Alina Lepkowski (Belmont University):   
                                Exploring artistic and creative interests of students

1:20 – 1:35          Heather Hardeman   (University of Montevallo):    Cluster analytics

1:45 – 2:00          Kayla Von Hagel  (Kennesaw State University):   Access control logic   

2:05 – 2:20          Ryan Carroll   (Rhodes College):   Generalizing the Euler-Satake 
                                characteristic of closed 3-orbibolds

2:25 – 2:40          Jordan Palmer   (University of Montevallo) :  RSA encryption 

2:40 – 3:15          Posters and refreshments 

                           Shannon Bryce   (Kennesaw State University):    L2-error of adaptive  
                           interpolation of hyperbolic functions by linear splines:  gobal estimate 

                            Teagan Bryce   (Kennesaw State University):    L2-error of adaptive 
                            interpolation of hyperbolic functions by linear splines:  local estimate

                            Duke DeLoache  (Davidson College):   Optimizing gene split-sites for 
                            bacterial computing
                            Josh Lipsmeyer   (University of Arkansas):   The strength of the 
                           Henstock-Kurzweil integral in terms of the measure of singularity sets

                           Megan McElmurray   (Belmont University):   The High School  
                           Student:   What will she grow up to do? 

                           Brad Weaver   (Belmont University):    A regression analysis of the 
                           American frown       


3:15 – 4:35          Student Talks

3:15 – 3:30          Stefanie Erdman  (Kennesaw State University):   The Intermediate 
                                Value Theorem and its applications

3:35 – 3:50          Ryan Anderson  (Kennesaw State University):   Computing the 
                                minimum-norm least-squares solution of Ax = b with Gauss-Jordan 
                                elimination

4:00 – 4:15          Garrett Rose  (Tennessee Wesleyan College):   Predator/Prey: 
                                herbivores versus plankton  

4:20 – 4:35          Zachery Lindsey  (University of Tennessee):   Simulation of SLE
    
4:40                       Closing  Remarks