Student Presentations and Publications

The Mathematics Department encourages and supports Rose students to undertake undergraduate research and project work. In particular, we encourage students to present substantial work they have done in courses or summer programs at off-campus locations or in our  Undergraduate Mathematics Conference or the Rose Math Seminar We further encourage students to publish their work either as in house publications (MSTR Tech Report Series) or in refereed journals or in our Undergraduate Mathematics Journal which started in March 2000.

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Other Presentation and Publication Links

Undergraduate Mathematics Conference | Other Conferences (RHIT-REU page)
Rose Undergrad Math Journal | MSTR Tech Report Series | REU Publications

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Student Presentations

2006

Brandon Borkholder, " Breaking the MD5", Rose Math Seminar and Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Hari A. Ravindran, " Investigating the Shape of a Cookie", Rose Math Seminar and Rose Undergraduate Math Conf, and Indiana MAA meeting at Depauw U..

Ted Lyman (speaking) and Robert Lauer, " Pre-Images of Points in the Numerical Range ", Rose Math Seminar, and Pi Mu Epsilon Conference, Miami University.

Lee McDaniel, "Benford and Winning Streaks”, Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Hari A. Ravindran, " Investigating the Shape of a Cookie", Rose Math Seminar and Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Eric Reyes, " Do Dogs Really Know Calculus? ", Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Thomas Werne," Finding the Centroid of W(A)", Rose Math Seminar.

2005

Justin Droba, “Orthogonality in the Conjugate Gradient Method”, Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Peter Fine, “The Properties of the Graph of Zero Divisors of Z/pqr,
where pqr are distinct primes”.

Jennifer Guerard, “Modeling the Photochemical Transformation of
Dissolved Organic Matter from an Antarctic Lake”, Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Kurtis Katinas, " An Introduction to Constructible Numbers", Rose Math Seminar.

Hari A. Ravindran, " Investigating the Shape of a Cookie", Indiana MAA meeting at Depauw U..

Eric Reyes, " Do Dogs Really Know Calculus? ", Rose Math Seminar and Indiana MAA meeting at Depauw U..

2004

Dan Abretske, "The Banach Fixed Point Theorem and Solvability of Integral Equations", Rose Math Seminar.

Dan Abretske, "An algorithm for Auto Focusing a Camera from Image Data", Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Brian Barker - "Maximal Covering Groups and Perfect Cwatsets". Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Graeme Mason - "Transparent Grid Termination in Electromagnetic Simulation". Rose Undergraduate Math Conf.

Amanda Lynn Stephens, "Probability Models in Genetics", Rose Math Seminar.

Nic Trainor, "Fast Reconstruction of Internal Cracks with Thermal Imaging", MAA Undergraduate Poster Session.

2003

Alla Genkina, "de Casteljau's Algorithm in Hyperbolic Space", Rose Math Seminar.

Jon Mastin, "Guessing Secrets", Rose Math Seminar.

Nic Trainor, "Fast Reconstruction of Internal Cracks with Thermal Imaging", Rose Math Seminar and all-Indiana REU workshop at Indiana U.

Kellan Wampler, "War: the Vicious Cycle". Undergraduate Math Conference held March 21 and 22, 2003.

2002

Nathanael Berglund, "Refinable Functions: What they are and how to produce them", Rose Math Seminar.

_______________, "How to Solve a Rubik’s Hypercube", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Lucas Beverlin, "The Optimality of Morse Code", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Matthew Ford, "Elliptic Curve Cryptography", Rose Math Seminar.

Noor Martin, "Factoring Integers via Lenstra's Elliptic Curve Method", Rose Math Seminar.

Stephen Young, "Graph Colorings with Restrictions", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

2001

Brad Berron. "Improving Solar Car Race Strategy", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Brad Berron, Todd Goldfinger, Mike Ritter, Tom Schneider, Bill Stephen, Jerod Weinman, "Mathematical and Computer Models of Specifications for Complex Systems", Rose Math Seminar.

Timothy Kilbourn "On the Probability that a Monic Integral Polynomial Is Irreducible", Rose Math Seminar.

Janet Trimm, "A New Formula for Computing Frobenius Numbers in Three Variables", Rose Math Seminar.

StephenYoung, "A Faster Way to Split a Donut", Pi Mu Epsilon Annual Student Mathematics Conference, Miami University, Rose Math Seminar.

___________, "Alternative to Factoring", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

2000

Michael Ewing, Peter Nei, Tom Schneider, "Rookies in the Math Modeling Contest", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Matt Lepinski, "Algebraic Numbers and Triangle Iterations", Joint Mathematical Meetings in Washington and Rose Math Seminar.

Dennis Lin, "NP Complete Radio Tower Placement", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

________, (with Gary Sherman), "Cwatsets", Rose Math Seminar.

Stephen Young, "Chaotic Behavior over the Naturals", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

1999

Matt Lepinski, "Algebraic Numbers and Triangle Iterations", MAA Mathfest, Providence, RI and Rose Math Seminar..

__________, "Cwatsets and Groups: Some Parallels", AMS Annual Meetings,  San Antonio.

__________, Jennifer Paulhus, Cary Girod, Joe Mileti, "How Grouplike are Cwatsets", Joint Mathematical Meetings in San Antonio.

Jim Meyer, Jonathan Matthews, Fred Franzwa, "Standing Room Only: MCM Problem B", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Chris Anderson, Jennifer Crone, Jennifer Taylor, "Industrial Optimization: Specialty Plastics and Packaging, Inc.", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Stephen Young, "Algorithmic RSA Number Factorization", Rose Math Seminar.

Evan Graves, "Dynamical Analysis of a Chaotic Electrical Circuit", Rose Math Seminar.

1998

Surat Intasang, "An Introduction to Diophantine Equations", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Matt Lepinski, "Cwatsets:  Examples and Conjectures:  Part I", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

___________, "How group-like are Cwatsets", Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at Miami University and Fall meeting of Indiana MAA, St Mary's College.

Stuart Light, "Cwatsets:  Examples and Conjectures:  Part II", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Courtney Lewis, "Automation of the Hanging Resonant Chain Experiment", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Jim Meyer, Fred Franzwa, Jonathan Matthews, "A Skewed Perspective", (Modeling Competition Presentation), RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

1997

Brad North (with Roger Lautzenheiser), "Visual Linear Algebra", Indiana Fall MAA Conference, Rose-Hulman.

Jamie Kawabata, "The Bijection from Derangements to Perfect Scramblings",  RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Mike Pilcher, "Statistical Analysis of Air Bag Controllers", Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at Miami University.

Jamie Kawabata, "p-adic Integrals", Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at St. Norbert College.

Josh Horstman and Jayme Moore, "Meetings, Bloody Meetings", presented at the National Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at MAA Mathfest, August and at  Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at St. Norbert College.

1996

Craig Cutforth, Randall Johnson, and John Finitzer, "Fuzzy Logic", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Nick Fiala, "Some Rectangular Groups are Nearly Square", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Rick Mohr, "Wondering What Words Weigh in CWATSets", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Ryan Scherle, "Temperal Difference Learning:  Is it the Answer?", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

1995

Mark Lancaster, Chris O'Malley, and James Poylio, "Two Poles are Better Than One:  Bipolar Functions", Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at Miami University.

Rick Mohr, "Finding the Closest Normal Matrix to a Given Matix", Special Session at AMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

Carlton Puryear III, "Analysis of Ring Effect in a Ray Tracing Program from Gaussian Optics", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

John Goodhue, "Investigation of Tile Line Mapping Using Differential Geometry", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Frank Pfeiffer, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears:  An Engineering Approach", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Rick Mohr, "Finding the Cosets Normal Matrix to a Given Matrix", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Surat Intasang, "Looking at Sunflowers:  Surprising Fibonacci Numbers", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

1994

Tony Ragucci, "Determination of a Draining Tank's Discharge Coefficient".

Craig Lorensen, "The Bipolar Coordinate System".

Nick Tallyn, "Scheduling Final Exams".

Jeff Swart and Steve Akers, "AMST Algorithms".

San Han, Rick Mohr, and Tony Ragucci, "Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain".

Justin Gallagher, "Robot Space Coordinate Representation of Objects in the Cartesian Plane".

David Mott, "Rocket Trajectory Tracking Functions (3D Point Calculations)".

Jonathan Atkins, "Balanced Spanning Trees".

Chad Scherrer, "Minimization of Unconstrained Multivariable Functions".

1993

Jonathan Atkins, "Rewritability in Finite Groups", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Todd Eigenschink, "An Application of Probability to Population Growth", Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at  St. Norbert College.

Daniel Engel III, "A Formula for a Single-Valued Measure Environmental Risk", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Mike Galloy, "The Arithmetic of Nilpotency", AMS-MAA National Meeting, San Antonio.

Mike Galloy and Dan Wilson, "Counting Nilpotent Pairs in Finite Groups", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Tony Hinrichs, "Elements of Computational Geometry", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Trevis Litherland, "On a Maximum Principle of a Fourth-Order Differential Equation", Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University and Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at  St. Norbert College.

Trevis Litherland, "From Catastrophe to Chaos", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Trevis Litherland, "Chaotic Behavior of Zeeman Machines", Undergraduate Research Conference, Butler University.

Ben Nicholson, "Matroids are Coming", Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University and Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at  St. Norbert College.

Ben Nicholson, "A Bank Teller and His Coin Problem",  RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Tony Ragucci, Daniel Schuck, and James Thurmond, "Determination of a Draining Tank's Coefficient", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Chad Scherrer, "Interated Exponentials", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Mark Stremler, "Doubly Periodic Functions", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Mark Stremler, "Analysis of Natural Convection in a Rotating Loop", MAA Tri-Section Meeting, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame.

Omar Zaidi, "What will Happen When I Shoot This Dart at that Dart Board?",  RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

1992

Jon Atkins, "Characterizing Finite Groups that are the Union of Few Proper Subgroups",  Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University.

Mike Galloy and Anthony Hinrichs made presentations at the Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University.

Darren Gebler, "The Relative Gain Array, Phi (A) = A o A -T", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Troy Hall and Matt Klotz, "Circular Least Squares", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Tony Hinrichs, "Elements of hyperbolic Geometry", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference and Indiana Spring MAA Section Meeting, University of Indianapolis.

Ben Nicholson, "The Mother of all Chessboard Coloring Solutions", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

John O'Bryan, "Parallelization of a Parameter Identification Problem", Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University.

Kevin O'Bryant, "Cycles, Cyclicizers, and Tidy Groups",  Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University.

Kevin O'Bryant, "All About the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Program", Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University and  Indiana Spring MAA Section Meeting, University of Indianapolis.

Kevin O'Bryant, "Problems in Group Rewriteability", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Omar Zaidi, "Laplace's Equation in Non-conventional Coordinate Systems",  Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University and RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

1991

Jonathan Atkins, "Groups with Few Subgroups", Indiana Spring MAA Section Meeting.

Jonathan Atkins, "Presentation on computational group theory based on findings in 1990 REU", Summer MAA Meeting, Orono, Maine.

Jonathan Atkins, "Presentation on combinatorial studies at the University of Dayton", Summer MAA Meeting.

Jonathan Atkins, "Groups that are the Union of Few Proper Subgroups", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Jeff Dierckam, "The Schwarz-Christoffel Transformation", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Tony Hinrichs, "Mittag-Leffler Expansion Theorem", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Ben Nicholson, "Infinite Products in Complex Variables", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

John O'Bryan, "The Use of Cayley in Group Theoretic Research", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Mark Roseberry, "Fate of a Conjecture", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

Omar Zaidi, "Derivation of a General Orbit for Stellar Objects", RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference.

1990

Joel Atkins and Chris Halioris made presentations at Pi Mu Epsilon Conference at  St. Norbert College.

Gregg Gass, Aaron Wendelin, Joel Atkins, and Mike Wilson, "A Real Snow Job", Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University.

Joel Atkins, "Missing Data",  Pi Mu Epsilon Student Conference at Miami University.

Student Publications

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2003

2004

2003

2002

Stepehen Young, Applications of Graph Theory to Separability, MSTR 02-09. 

2001

Dennis Lin and Ben Goodwin, Classification of Cwatsets Through Order 23, MSTR 00-05

2000

Carolyn M. Girod, Matthew Lepinski, Joseph R. Mileti, Jennifer R. Paulhus, Cwatset Isomorphism and its Consequences, preprint MSTR 00-01.

Dennis Lin, Ben Goodwin, Classification of Cwatsets Through Order 23, MSTR 00-05.

Janet Trimm, Overton M.G. Jenda, Stacie E. McClanahan,  A New Formula for Computing Frobenius Numbers in Three Variables.

1999

Matthew Lepinski, Automorphic Subsets of the n-Dimensional Cube are Translations of Cwatsets, preprint MSTR 99-01.

1998

1997

Jamie Kawabata, Barry Balof, and Eric Farmer, The Link Between Scrambling Numbers and Derangements, preprint MSTR 97-02.

1996

Richard Mohr, CWATSETS:  Weights, Cardinalities and Generalizations, preprint MSTR 96-03.

Richard Mohr, Nearness of Normals, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4.

1995

Nick Fiala Crystal Hanscom, Patrick Keenan, and Tung Tran, Rectangular Groups, priprint MSTR 95-06.

1994

Jonathan Atkins, The Chimeric Clones Problem, abstract arising from summer research project at Sania National Laboratories.

Justin Gallager, Robot Space Coordinate Representation of Objects in Euclidean Space, preprint MSTR 94-04.

1993

1992

Jon Atkins, The Sums of Powers, prepared for the RHIT Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (not presented due to scheduling conflict).

H. Dubose-Schmidt, M.D. Galloy, and D.L. Wilson, Counting Nilpotent Pairs in Finite Groups:  Some Conjectures, MSTR 92-05.

1991

Joel Atkins, A Real Snow Job,  UMAP Journal.

Joel Atkins Regular Polygon Targets, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal

1990

Joel Atkins, The Cross Product in n-Space, Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics.

Joel Atkins, The Chaotic Linear Transformation on a Torus, Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics.

Joel Atkins, Regular Polygon Targets, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal.

Joel Atkins (with Gary Sherman), Journal of Non-Parametric Statistics.

Keith Struss, Exploring the Volume - Surface Area Relationship, The College Mathematics Journal.

John T. O'Bryan, Maximal Order Three-Rewriteable Subgroups of Symmetric Groups, preprint MSTR 90-01.