Undergraduate Math Conference
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Schedule of Events for 2013 will be similar to the 2012 schedule below
of the Carolyn P. Brown University Center
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Registration and Refreshments Juice, coffee, pastries, fruit |
| 9:45 - 9:50 | Welcome and opening remarks |
| 9:50 - 0:50 | Invited address: Dr. 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: Box lunches for all registrants (Rooms 223 & 224) *Note: The University Center Bookstore (located 1 floor down) is open until 5:00 p.m. |
| 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-orbifolds |
| 2:25 - 2:40 | Jordan Palmer (University of Montevallo) : RSA encryption |
| 2:40 - 3:15 | Posters and Refreshments Shannon Bryce (Kennesaw State University): L^2-error of adaptive interpolation of hyperbolic functions by linear splines: gobal estimate Teagan Bryce (Kennesaw State University): L^2-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 |
Parking: Please park in the 11th Street Parking Garage (G-10 Parking Garage), which is open to the public on Saturday, April 16. It is located on the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 11th Street, across from the old Worlds Fair site; see campus map for details. It may be entered from either 11th Street or White Avenue. The annual spring Orange and White football game is this Saturday, but it should cause no problem since kick-off is at 2:30.
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This conference is sponsored by the
University of Tennessee Mathematics Department and
the National Science Foundation.
last updated: 4/2012