The 21st Annual Rose-Hulman

Conference on Undergraduate Mathematics

SCHEDULE OF TALKS

FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2004

10:00- 2:00

Registration - Hadley Hall

12:00 Noon

Buffet Lunch  --  Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union

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

1:35-2:30

Much Ado About Everything: The Mathematics of Leonhard Euler

William Dunham, Muhlenberg College

Room E-104, Moench Hall

 

Contributed Papers

 

Room G-219, Crapo Hall

Room G-221,  Crapo Hall

Room G-222,  Crapo Hall

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?

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

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

3:50-4:05

Coffee Break

Room G-220, Crapo Hall

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

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?

4:55-5:15

Jessica Murray

Eastern Illinois University

Teaching Linear Algebra with Maple

Ben Lundell

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Knot Invariants

 

5:30-6:45

Dinner -- Kahn Room, Hulman Memorial Union

7:00 - 8:00

The Archimedes Palimpsest

V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy

Room E-104, Moench Hall

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

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

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

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.

10:55- 11:10

Coffee Break

Room G-220, Crapo Hall

 

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)