12th UTK Undergraduate Math Conference
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Schedule of Events
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Location: Min Kao Bldg, Rm 404 (1520 Middle Drive, 37996),
see: map to walk from parking to MinKao Bldg.
The Parking Garage is across White Ave from "Four Points" hotel. For best google maps directions try the hotel address: 1109 White Ave, 37916.
From parking garage, walk across the pedestrian bridge and turn left, enter MinKao. You'll be on 4th floor. Follow corridor at right to its end (turn right, right, left, to Rm 404).
Weather forecast for Saturday: mostly sunny, low 40°F, high 70°F
| 9:00 - 9:35 | Registration and Refreshments coffee, juice, pastries, fruit |
| 9:35 - 9:40 | Welcome and opening remarks |
| 9:40 - 9:50 |
Suzanne Lenhart, UTK and NIMBioS
NIMBioS undergraduate research activities |
| 9:50 - 10:50 |
Invited Address: Jessica Matthews North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies Mathematics in Climate Science |
| 11:00-12:00 | Student Talks (#1 - #3) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
#1. Connor Malin
, U Alabama, Tuscaloosa
On Subsums of Series with Positive Terms (Advisor: David Cruz-Uribe ) |
| 11:20 - 11:35 |
#2. Kyla Linn
, UTK
Impact of Oseltamivir (Advisor: Vitaly Ganusov ) |
| 11:40 - 11:55 |
#3. Viktor Zenkov , Aileen Barry
, UTK
Cell Moving in a Constrained Environment (Advisor: Vasilios Alexiades ) |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch : Box lunches for all registrants |
| 1:00 - 2:40 | Student Talks (#4 - #8) |
| 1:00 - 1:15 |
#4. Jeremiah Smith
, Harding U
The Thousand Year Problem (Advisor: Ronald Smith ) |
| 1:20 - 1:35 |
#5. Andrew Wintenberg
, UTK
Butson Type Hadamard Matrices (Advisor: Remus Nicoara ) |
| 1:40 - 1:55 |
#6. William Reese
, NCSU
Low-rank Spectral Representations for Solutions of Elliptic PDEs with Random Coefficients Functions (Advisor: Alen Alexanderian ) |
| 2:00 - 2:15 |
#7. Alan Gan
, UTK
Python and Parallel Computing (Advisor: Vasilios Alexiades ) |
| 2:20-2:35 |
#8. Emmanuel Hartman
, UNC Asheville
Using Topology to Study Group Theory (Advisor: Gregory Boudreaux ) |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | Refreshments |
| 3:00 - 3:35 | Student Talks (#9 - #10) |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
#9. Alana Cooper , UTK
Spectrum for Multigraph Designs on 4 Vertices and 7 Edges (Advisor: Saad El-Zanati ) |
| 3:20 - 3:35 |
#10. Noah Caldwell and Jordan Brown
, UTK
Image Classification with Neural Networks and Python (Advisor: Vasilios Alexiades ) |
| 3:40 | Closing Remarks |