The 21st Annual Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2004
| 10:00- 2:00 |
Registration - Hadley Hall |
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| 12:00 Noon |
Buffet Lunch -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union |
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| 1:15-1:30 |
Welcome and Opening Statement by Dr. Art Western Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Room E-104, Moench Hall |
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| 1:35-2:30 |
Much Ado About Everything: The Mathematics of Leonhard Euler William Dunham, Muhlenberg College Room E-104, Moench Hall |
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Contributed Papers
| Room G-219, Crapo Hall |
Room G-221, Crapo Hall |
Room G-222, Crapo Hall |
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| 2:40-3:00 |
Bobbi Todd St. Mary-of-the-Woods College The Michaelis-Menten Equation |
Amanda Stephens Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Gene Duplication: Mathematical Assumptions and Biological Implications |
Mark Walters Miami University Arc Length and Surface Area - Are we on the same page? |
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| 3:05-3:25 |
Rachelle Barr Siena Heights University Illogical Wonderland |
Nic Trainor Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Fast Recontruction of Cracks Using Thermal Imaging |
Lucas Wiman University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignNotes on Frankl's Conjecture |
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| 3:30-3:50 |
Jo Dee Biddle St. Mary-of-the-Woods College Widmark's Equation and Blood Alcohol Content: An Interactive Model |
Noah Prince University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Complete Graph Minors |
Dan Abretske Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology An Algorithm for Auto Focusing a Camera from Image Data |
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| 3:50-4:05 |
Coffee Break Room G-220, Crapo Hall |
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| 4:05-4:25 |
Brad Heller Eastern Illinois University Teaching Polynomials and Continuous Fractions with Maple |
Mike Husband/Mike Yates Siena Heights University S.O.S – Help I’m lost! |
Brian Barker Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Maximal Covering Groups and Perfect Cwatsets |
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| 4:30-4:50 |
Elizabeth Blankenship, Benedictine University Zero Knowledge Proofs and Data Authentication |
Josh Nissley Cedarville University The AIDS Epidemic and Other Epidemic Models |
Bryan Kay Siena Heights University Who Is The Greatest Hitter Of All Time? |
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| 4:55-5:15 |
Jessica Murray Eastern Illinois University Teaching Linear Algebra with Maple |
Ben Lundell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Knot Invariants |
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| 5:30-6:45 |
Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union |
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| 7:00 - 8:00 |
The Archimedes Palimpsest V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy Room E-104, Moench Hall |
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8:30 Faculty
and Student Parties
The 21st Annual Rose-Hulman
Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2004
| Coffee, Juice, and Donuts |
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Common Room, Moench Hall |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss: Classic Hard Figurer V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy Room E-104, Moench Hall |
Contributed Papers
| Room G-219, Crapo Hall |
Room G-221, Crapo Hall |
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| 10:10-10:30 |
Graeme Mason Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Transparent Grid Termination in Electromagnetic Simulation |
Ben Harwood Northern Kentucky University Extensions and Enlargements of Groups |
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| 10:35-10:55 |
Kris Reyes Purdue University An Analysis of Shanks' Square Form Factorization Algorithm |
Tyler Smith University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign A Connection between Algebra and Topology: From Galois to Zariski. |
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| 10:55- 11:10 |
Coffee Break Room G-220, Crapo Hall |
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| 11:10-11:30 |
Jesse Pratt Northern Kentucky University Symmetry Analysis of a Generalized Korteweg-de Vries Equation |
Ellen Miles University of Evansville Conjectures for the Triple Bubble, an Exploration in Minimal Surfaces |
| 11:35-11:55 |
Jessica O’Riley Benedictine University Transposition Ciphers |
John O'Connell Purdue University Calumet Bordered Klein Surfaces With Maximal Automorphism Groups |
| 12:00 |
LUNCH CLOSING CEREMONY BOOK GIVE AWAY The Worx, Hulman Memorial Union (Lower Level) |
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