Texas Section

Mathematical Association of America

 

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE

Friday Morning, April 13, 2007

Mathematics and General Classrooms Building (MAGC)

 

 

 

Undergraduate Student Session I                    MAGC 1.410

8:00 - 8:15         Candace Andrews, University of Texas at Tyler

Finite C-Groups


8:20 - 8:35         Andrew Beck, St. Edwards University

Much Ado about Nothing - Zeroes of Nth Partial Sums of the Complex Exponential Series


8:40 - 8:55         Heather Bruch, St. Edward's University

Bringing the Symmetries of String Theory to Live:  The Geometric Action of Courant and Kac-Moody Algebras

 
9:00 - 9:15         Betsy Childs, Stephen F. Austin State University

Circular Logic on Triangles

 

9:20 - 9:35         Jason Michel Dolloff, Southwestern University

Fourier Analysis and Baroque Counterpoint: Modeling a Bach Fugue

9:40 - 9:55         James Doughman, Sam Houston State University

Simulating One-Day-International Cricket Scores


10:00 -10:15     Angie Forgas, Lamar University

Granites of Central Texas


10:20 - 10:35     Tiffany L. Gatchel, Sam Houston State University

In the Blink of an Eye

 
10:40 - 10:55         Steven Ayala, St. Edwards University

Nice Polynomials



 

Undergraduate Student Session II                  MAGC 1.414

                      
8:00 - 8:15         Bobby Grizzard, St. Edward's University

What Does Sperner's Lemma Tell Us About Positive Matrices?


8:20 - 8:35         Sarah Hall, Lamar University

Checkmate in Infinity: Variations on the Angel Problem


8:40 - 8:55         Luke Harrison, Sam Houston State University

How Not To Be Like Cortez


9:00 - 9:15        Amalia M. Hunter, Our Lady of the Lake University

Investigating the Quartic

 
9:20 - 9:35         William Jaramillo, Saint EdwardÕs University

RSA Cryptography

 
9:40 - 9:55         Justin Jander, Stephen F. Austin State University

Predicting Salaries of  Athletes using Regression Models

 
10:00 - 10:15     Daliah Maurer, St. EdwardÕs University

Mathematical Analysis of HIV

 
10:20 - 10:35     Blake Mitchell, Lamar University

The Crossing Probability Knot Energy


10:40 - 10:55     Stefanie Meyer, Sam Houston State University

A Complex History

 

 


Undergraduate Student Session III                       MAGC 1.422

8:00 - 8:15         Christopher A. Sams, Lamar University

Gender and Race in actuarial career


8:20 - 8:35        Amanda Seitz, Sam Houston State University

Bunnies, Bees, and Pineapples - Oh, my!  An exploration of the Fibonacci Sequence

 
8:40 - 8:55        Hilari Celeste Tiedeman, Southwestern University

A Note on Weighted Identric and Logarithmic Means


9:00 - 9:15         Ashley Weatherwax, University of Texas at Dallas

A Game of Wymsical Mathematics

 
9:20 - 9:35         Daniel Wennersten, University of Texas at Arlington

Engage, Discover, Formalize, Apply:  A Coherent Teaching Method that Integrates Successful Teaching Strategies

 
9:40 - 9:55        Dana G. Wheaton, Sam Houston State University

RackÕem


10:00 - 10:15      Catherine Whitehead, Lamar University

The Improbable Dream


10:20 - 10:35     Shaun Williams, University of Texas at Tyler

n-Colorings of Twist Knots


10:40 - 10:55         Catherine Whitehead, Lamar University

The relationship between student's background characteristics and their academic Library use



Graduate Student Session I                           MAGC 1.320

8:00 - 8:15       Arnab Bose, The University of Texas - Pan American

The Radon Transform and its Applications to Medical Imaging

 

8:20 - 8:35       Jason La Corte, Texas State University - San Marcos

Brouwer's fixed point theorem for R^n


8:40 - 8:55       Gustavo Cruz, University of Texas-Pan American

Wave Propagation Phenomenon and Differential Equations with Periodic Coefficient

 

9:00 - 9:15       Reid M. Etheridge, University of Texas - Pan American

Generalized Gronwall Inequality with Nonintegrable Singular Kernel

 
9:20 - 9:35       Aditi Ghosh, The University of Texas Pan American

Mathematical modeling of electrospinning   

 
9:40 - 9:55       Garrett Hicks, Tarleton State University

Statistical Analysis of Heart Rate Variability   

 
10:00 - 10:15    Mark Lane, Sam Houston State University

Algebraic Combinatorics and Magic n-Circles



 

Graduate Student Session II                   MAGC 1.324

                                    
8:00 - 8:15     Aditi Ghosh, The University of Texas - Pan American

A Characterization of Compact Metric Spaces via the Closed Graph Theorem

 
8:20 - 8:35     Carl H Price Jr., Stephen F. Austin State University

Sober Topological Spaces


8:40 - 8:55      Darrel A. Silva, Sam Houston State University

Order Dimension of the Joining of Special Classes of Poset


9:00 - 9:15      Patrick Sugrue, Stephen F. Austin State University

Harmonic mappings in the plane


9:20 - 9:35      Min Sun, Sam Houston State University

Comparing Two Imputation Methods for Continuous Data

9:40 - 9:55       Charles Obare, University of Texas - Pan American

                                             Buoyant flow around growing protein crystal

 

10:00 Ð 10:15    Keith English, Stephen F. Austin State University

                                             Pythagoras' Fifths