1984 was the inagural year of the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Conference with its purpose to spotlight and celebrate the accomplishments and work of undergraduate mathematicians. The conference historically has been held on campus. The COVID pandemic resulted in cancellation of the 2020 and 2022 conferences and the 2021 conference being held completely online.
| Dates: | April 27th, 2024 |
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| Organizers: | William Green, Tyler Billingsley, Josh Holden, McCabe Olsen, Kyle Claassen, Ashka Dalal, Thor Catteau |
| Speakers and Talks: | Robert Bosch Single-Line Drawings via Mathematical Optimization Lucy Muthoni Bringing ‘x’ to Life: The other Side of Mathematics |
| Dates: | April 21st and 22nd, 2023 |
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| Organizers: | Megan Heyman, Joe Eichholz, Josh Holden, McCabe Olsen |
| Speakers and Talks: | Lindsey Dietz Taking a Leap of Faith: Association to Causation Francis Chung How to See Inside Your Hand |
| Dates: | April 23rd and 24th, 2021 |
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| Organizers: | Megan Heyman, Kurt Bryan, Joshua Holden |
| Speakers and Talks: | Carol Schumacher All Tangled Up Erin Wolf Chambers Studying the shape of data through topology and geometry |
| Dates: | April 19th and 20th, 2019 |
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| Organizers: | Kurt Bryan, Sylvia Carlisle, Joe Eichholz, Eric Reyes |
| Speakers and Talks: | Mark Bollman The Mathematics of Blackjack Susan Goldstine When Mathematics Says No: The Aesthetics of Impossibiliy |
| Dates: | April 20th and 21st, 2018 |
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| Organizers: | Kurt Bryan, Sylvia Carlisle, Joe Eichholz, Eric Reyes |
| Speakers and Talks: | Hilary Parker The Statistics Behind a Personalized Look Lawrence D. Stone Bayesian Search for Missing Aircraft, People, and Ships Tanya Leise Clocks in Mice and Flies and Bears, Oh My! |
| Dates: | April 21st and 22nd, 2017 |
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| Organizers: | Sylvia Carlisle, Joe Eichholz, Josh Holden, Eric Reyes |
| Speakers and Talks: | Meg Ehm Use of Human Genetics in Drug Discovery and Development Mark Inlow New Mathematical and Statistical Analyses of Alzheimer's Brain Atrophy |
| Dates: | April 22nd and 23rd, 2016 |
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| Organizers: | Sylvia Carlisle, Joe Eichholz, Josh Holden, Eric Reyes |
| Speakers and Talks: | Karen Smilowitz Doing Good with Good OR: Operations Research for Humanitarian and Non-profit Logistics Lauren Haynes Using Data Science for Social Good |
| Dates: | April 24th and 25th, 2015 |
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| Organizers: | Eric Reyes and Diane Evans |
| Speakers and Talks: | Nick Lockwood Marketing with Big Data: The Power of Analytics Amanda Cox Data Visualization at the New York Times |
| Dates: | April 11th and 12th, 2014 |
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| Organizers: | Kurt Bryan and Joe Eichholz |
| Speakers and Talks: | David Womble The Role of Mathematics and Computer Science in Computational Simulation: A Mathematician in Industry Ralph Smith Uncertainty Quantification for Physical and Biological Models |
| Dates: | April 19th and 20th, 2013 |
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| Organizers: | Allen Holder and Vin Isaia |
| Speakers and Talks: | Thomas Mifflin The Search for the Underwater Wreckage of Air France Flight 447 Tony Nance Interactions Between Mathematics, Biology, and Medicine: Advances All Around Janet Best The Dynamics of Sleep |
| Dates: | April 13th and 14th, 2012 |
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| Organizers: | Leanne Holder and Diane Evans |
| Speakers and Talks: | Judy Holdener Why math is fun: convergence, connections and the great unknown Perfect and Abundant Numbers - a Perfect and Abundant Source for Undergraduate Research Projects Andy Milluzzi LEGO: The Intersection of Art and Engineering |
| Dates: | March 25th and 26th, 2011 |
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| Organizers: | Mike Devasher and Leanne Holder |
| Speakers and Talks: | Bryan Shader Communication Complexity Up with determinants Travis Kowalski Sineseeing: a sightseeing voyage with sine |
| Dates: | March 26th and 27th, 2010 |
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| Organizers: | Steve Carlson and Leanne Holder |
| Speakers and Talks: | Sarah Greenwald Good News Everyone! Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons and Futurama Rubik's Cube Games on Spheres: Geometry of Spherical Orbifolds Robert E. Bradley From Differentials to Limits: Fleeting Flirtations and Lingering Loyalties |
| Dates: | March 27th and 28th, 2009 |
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| Organizers: | Kurt Bryan and Steve Galinaitis |
| Speakers and Talks: | T. Christine Stevens Ham Sandwiches and Hairy Coconuts - an Algebraic Topologist's Feast Mathematical Ways and Congressional Means Kelly Black Hey, You Kids! Turn Up That Noise |
| Dates: | April 11th and April 12th, 2008 |
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| Organizers: | Bill Butske and Yosi Shibberu |
| Speakers and Talks: | John F. Hamilton, Jr. Industrial Mathematics Digital Imaging and Mathematics Dan Isaksen Quaternions, Octonions, and Beyond |
| Dates: | March 9th and March 10th, 2007 |
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| Organizers: | Allen Broughton and Ken McMurdy |
| Speakers and Talks: | Jerry L. Bona Big Waves on Deep Water - Tsunamis and Rogue Waves Mathematics and Beach Protection Jennifer Quinn Determinants Via Determined Ants |
| Dates: | March 31st and April 1st, 2006 |
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| Organizers: | Joshua Holden and David Rader |
| Speakers and Talks: | Michael Rosen The Zeta Function for Beginners Irreducible Polynomials Modulo p Allen Holder Optimal Oncology |
| Dates: | March 18th and 19th, 2005 |
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| Organizers: | Diane Evans and Mark Inlow |
| Speakers and Talks: | John Casti Would-Be Worlds: Toward a Theory of Complex Systems THE BORDERLINE: On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge Chris Pincock When does a mathematical question become a philosophical question? |
| Dates: | March 19th and 20th, 2004 |
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| Organizers: | Jeff Leader and Diane Evans |
| Speakers and Talks: | V. F. Rickey The Archimedes Palimpsest Carl Friedrich Gauss: Classic Hard Figurer William Dunham Much Ado About Everything: The Mathematics of Leonhard Euler |
| Dates: | March 21st and 22nd, 2003 |
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| Organizers: | Steve Carlson and Tom Langley |
| Speakers and Talks: | De Witt L. Sumners Calculating the Secrets of Life: Mathematics in Biology Medicine and DNA Topology Aparna Higgins Demonic Graphs and Undergraduate Research |
| Dates: | March 15th and 16th, 2002 |
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| Organizers: | Roger Lautzenheiser and Jerry Muir |
| Speakers and Talks: | Harold Boas Reflections on the Arbelos What Can One Say Absolutely about Power Series? Liz Jessup Matrices, Vector Spaces, and Information Retrieval |
| Dates: | March 16th and 17th, 2001 |
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| Organizers: | David Finn and Tanya Leise |
| Speakers and Talks: | Suzanne Lenhart Can you Park your Car with Lie Brackets? Linda Petzold Computational Science and Engineering: A Case Study |
| Dates: | March 17th and 18th, 2000 |
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| Organizers: | Gary Sherman and David Finn |
| Speakers and Talks: | Frank Morgan Soap Bubble Contest and The Double Bubble Conjecture Nigel Boston Cryptography and the Benefits of Ignorance |
| Dates: | March 19th and 20th, 1999 |
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| Organizers: | Allen Broughton and David Rader |
| Speakers and Talks: | Colm Mulcahy Wavelets - a new tool for imaging, graphics and Hollywood The curves and surfaces of the digital age Michael Trick Adventures in Sports Scheduling |
| Dates: | March 13th and 14th, 1998 |
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| Organizers: | Kurt Bryan and Yosi Shibberu |
| Speakers and Talks: | Ed Packel Symbolic Dynamics: A Mathmatica(l) Window to Chaos Puzzles and Paradoxes in Game Theory Charles Groetsch A Tale of Slow Projectiles, Tartaglia's Wager and Halley's Comment |
| Dates: | March 21st and 22nd, 1997 |
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| Organizers: | Elton Graves and Aaron Klebanoff |
| Speakers and Talks: | Herb Bailey Mathematics for Fun and Money Michael Moody An ODE to Toys: Motivating Differential Equations with Physical Models Gilbert Strang The Search for a Good Basis |
| Dates: | March 15th and 16th, 1996 |
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| Organizers: | Nacer Abrouk |
| Speakers and Talks: | Richard Brualdi Rooks on Boards, Permanents and Determinants and a Computationally Intractable Problem Majorization (Averaging) and Doubly Stochastic Matrices Steve Lallo The Mathematics of Card Shuffling |
| Dates: | March 10th and 11th, 1995 |
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| Organizers: | John Rickert |
| Speakers and Talks: | Marty Isaacs You Can Count on Groups Dirty Children, Unfaithful Husbands, and Similar Problems Roger Lautzenheiser What Does it All Mean? |
| Dates: | March 25th and 26th, 1994 |
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| Organizers: | Lynn Kiaer |
| Speakers and Talks: | Gene Berg Mathematics of the CD Player Mathematics of Digital Modems |
| Dates: | March 19th and 20th, 1993 |
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| Organizers: | Steve Carlson and Bart Goddard |
| Speakers and Talks: | Carla Savage Generating Combinatorial Structures Hamilton Cycles in Symmetric Graphs Gary Sherman Introducing...Cwatsets |
| Dates: | March 13th and 14th, 1992 |
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| Organizers: | Steve Carlson and Bart Goddard |
| Speakers and Talks: | William Dunham Constructing the Regular Heptadecagon: Ingenuity or Just a Lucky Gauss? Joseph Gallian Touring a Torus |
| Dates: | March 15th and 16th, 1991 |
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| Organizers: | George Berzsenyi |
| Speakers and Talks: | Herb Bailey Where Do Problems Come From and Where Do They Go? Clark Kimberling Triangle Centers Ira Rosenhaltz Tackling the Ticklish Type of Tic-Tac Toe |
| Dates: | April 6th and 7th, 1990 |
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| Organizers: | George Berzsenyi |
| Speakers and Talks: | Bruce Reznick Fun with Generating Functions The Stern Sequence Gary Sherman Problems, Problems Everywhere |
| Dates: | April 7th and 8th, 1989 |
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| Organizers: | Roger Lautzenheiser |
| Speakers and Talks: | Fred Roberts The One-Way Street Problem From Garbage to Rainbows |
| Dates: | April 8th and 9th, 1988 |
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| Organizers: | Robert Lopez |
| Speakers and Talks: | Underwood Dudley Mathematical Cranks Paul Zorn Calculus in its Fourth Century |
| Dates: | April 3rd and 4th, 1987 |
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| Organizers: | Brian Winkel |
| Speakers and Talks: | H. T. Banks Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Physical and Biological Sciences: A General View Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Physical and Biological Sciences: Specific Case Studies Underwood Dudley The Calculus Book |
| Dates: | April 4th and 5th, 1986 |
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| Organizers: | Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine, and Al Schmidt |
| Speakers and Talks: | Peter Hilton Vital Surgery on a Moribund Curriculum Jean Pederson From Elementary Geometry to Modern Number Theory |
| Dates: | April 19th and 20th, 1985 |
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| Organizers: | Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine, and Al Schmidt |
| Speakers and Talks: | Herb Bailey Balancing a Yardstick on an Apple Jerry Cline Modules in Applied Mathematics |
| Dates: | April 13, 1984 |
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| Organizers: | Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine, and Al Schmidt |
| Speakers and Talks: | Bill Rouse Monitoring the Physical World with Micros Maynard Thompson A Microcomputer Lab for Post-Calculus Classes Brian Winkel Is it Greener on the Other Side? Emerging Software |