Preliminary Schedule
   - last updated March 12, 2002

The Nineteenth Annual Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics
 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS  - FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2002

10:00- 4:00 Registration - Main Entrance, Hadley Hall
12:00 Noon Buffet Lunch -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
1:25-1:35  Welcome to Rose-Hulman
Room E-104 in Moench Hall
1:35-2:25  Invited Address - Professor Liz Jessup
MATRICES,VECTOR SPACES, AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Room E-104 in Moench Hall

Contributed (Student) Papers

2:30-3:00 Coffee and Cookies
G-220, Crapo Hall
  Room G-219, Crapo Hall Room G-222, Crapo Hall
3:00-3:20  Simultaneous s-core and t-core Partitions
David Aukerman
Taylor University
On Knots: An Application to DNA
Meredith Deters
Greenville College
3:30-3:50 A Brief Explanation of the Robinson-Schensted Algorithm
Randy Pistor
University of Michigan
Chord Analysis in the Key of Math and Physics
Jenny Fromme
College of Mount St. Joseph
4:00-4:20 Ion Channels and Spontaneous Oscillations: The Effects of Stochastic Noise on a Subcellular Mathematical Model
David Maduram
University of Illinois at Chicago
An Introduction to Swarms and Swarm Algorithms
Jon Murton
John Carroll University
4:30-4:50 Cut-and-Paste Topology
William Willis
Southern Illinois University
How to Solve a Rubik's Hypercube
Nathanael Berglund
Rose Hulman
5:15-6:45 Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union
7:00 - 8:00 Invited Address - Professor Harold Boas
REFLECTIONS ON THE ARBELOS
Room E-104 in Moench Hall
8:30 Faculty and Student Parties (Directions will be given)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2002

8:30-9:00 Coffee, Juice, and Donuts 
Book Display
Commons Area
9:00-10:00 Invited Address - Professor Harold Boas
WHAT CAN ONE SAY ABSOLUTELY ABOUT POWER SERIES?
Room E-104 in Moench Hall

Contributed Papers

  Room G-219, Crapo Hall Room G-222, Crapo Hall
10:10-10:30 Classifying Alpha-Almost Squares
Bobbe Cooper
Taylor University
Quasi-p or Not Quasi-p? That is the Question.
Ben Harwood
Northern Kentucky University
10:40-11:00 Algebraic Properties of a Number-Theoretic Permutation
Lucas R. Wiman
Illinois State University
Gray Code Labeling of Complete Iterated Graphs
Shawn Alspaugh
Taylor University
11:10-11:30 Airport Security: A Queuing System Model
Maureen McMilin &
Reijiro Matsuo

University of Evansville
The Optimality of Morse Code
Lucas Beverlin
Rose Hulman
11:40-12:00 Graph Colorings with Restrictions
Stephen Young

Rose-Hulman
Finding the Mathematically Optimal 4-Team Double Elimination Tournament
Maroof Khan
Wabash College
12:00 Noon  LUNCH
CLOSING CEREMONY
BIG BOOK GIVE AWAY!
Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union