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Historical Notes

The Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Conference began with its inaugural year in 1984 with its purpose to spotlight and celebrate the accomplishments and work of undergraduate mathematicians.


Previous and Future Conference Dates

• 1st (1984) • 2nd (1985) • 3rd (1986) • 4th (1987) • 5th (1988)
• 6th (1989) • 7th (1990) • 8th (1991) • 9th (1992) • 10th (1993)
• 11th (1994) • 12th (1995) • 13th (1996) • 14th (1997) • 15th (1998)
• 16th (1999) • 17th (2000) • 18th (2001) • 19th (2002) • 20th (2003)
• 21st (2004) • 22nd (2005) • 23rd (2006) • 24th (2007) • 25th (2008)
• 26th (2009) • 27th (2010) • 28th (2011) • 29th (2012) • 30th (2013)
• 31st (2014) • 32nd (2015) • 33rd (2016) • 34th (2017) • 35th (2018)
• 36th (2019) • 37th (2021) • 38th (2023)



38th Conference (2023)       » web site «
Dates: April 21st and 22nd, 2023
Organizers: Megan Heyman, Joe Eichholz, Josh Holden, McCabe Olsen
Speakers and Talks: TBD
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37th Conference (2021)       » web site «
Dates: April 23rd and 24th, 2021
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

36th Conference (2019)       » web site «
Dates: April 19th and 20th, 2019
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

35th Conference (2018)       » web site «
Dates: April 20th and 21st, 2018
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!

34th Conference (2017)       » web site «
Dates: April 21st and 22nd, 2017
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

33nd Conference (2016)       » web site «
Dates: April 22nd and 23rd, 2016
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

32nd Conference (2015)       » web site «
Dates: April 24th and 25th, 2015
Organizers: Eric Reyes and Diane Evans
Speakers and Talks: Nick Lockwood
TBA

Amanda Cox
TBA

31st Conference (2014)       » web site «
Dates: April 11th and 12th, 2014
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

30th Conference (2013)       » web site «
Dates: April 19th and 20th, 2013
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

29th Conference (2012)       » web site «
Dates: April 13th and 14th, 2012
Organizers: Leanne Holder and Diane Evans
Speakers and Talks: Judy Holdener
Why math is fun: convergence, connections and the great unknown and
Perfect and Abundant Numbers – a Perfect and Abundant Source for Undergraduate Research Projects

Andy Milluzzi
LEGO: The Intersection of Art and Engineering

28th Conference (2011)       » web site «
Dates: March 25th and 26th, 2011
Organizers: Mike Devasher and Leanne Holder
Speakers and Talks: Bryan Shader
Communication Complexity and
Up with determinants

Travis Kowalski
Sineseeing: a sightseeing voyage with sine

27th Conference (2010)       » web site «
Dates: March 26th and 27th, 2010
Organizers: Steve Carlson and Leanne Holder
Speakers and Talks: Sarah Greenwald
Good News Everyone! Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons and Futurama and
Rubik's Cube Games on Spheres: Geometry of Spherical Orbifolds

Robert E. Bradley
From Differentials to Limits: Fleeting Flirtations and Lingering Loyalties

26th Conference (2009)       » web site «
Dates: March 27th and 28th, 2009
Organizers: Kurt Bryan and Steve Galinaitis
Speakers and Talks: T. Christine Stevens
Ham Sandwiches and Hairy Coconuts - an Algebraic Topologist's Feast and
Mathematical Ways and Congressional Means

Kelly Black
Hey, You Kids! Turn Up That Noise

25th Conference (2008)       » web site «
Dates: April 11 and April 12, 2008
Organizers: Bill Butske and Yosi Shibberu
Speakers and Talks: John F. Hamilton, Jr.
Industrial Mathematics and
Digital Imaging and Mathematics

Dan Isaksen
Quaternions, Octonions, and Beyond

24th Conference (2007)       » web site «
Dates: March 9 and March 10, 2007
Organizers: Allen Broughton and Ken McMurdy
Speakers and Talks: Jerry L. Bona
Big Waves on Deep Water - Tsunamis and Rogue Waves and
Mathematics and Beach Protection

Jennifer Quinn
Determinants Via Determined Ants

23rd Conference (2006)       » web site «
Dates: March 31 and April 1, 2006
Organizers: Joshua Holden and David Rader
Speakers and Talks: Michael Rosen
The Zeta Function for Beginners and
Irreducible Polynomials Modulo p

Allen Holder
Optimal Oncology

22nd Conference (2005)       » web site «
Dates: March 18 and 19, 2005
Organizers: Diane Evans and Mark Inlow
Speakers and Talks: John Casti
Would-Be Worlds: Toward a Theory of Complex Systems and
THE BORDERLINE: On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge

Chris Pincock
When does a mathematical question become a philosophical question?

21st Conference (2004)       » web site «
Dates: March 19 and 20, 2004
Organizers: Jeff Leader and Diane Evans
Speakers and Talks: V. F. Rickey
The Archimedes Palimpsest, and
Carl Friedrich Gauss: Classic Hard Figurer

William Dunham
Much Ado About Everything: The Mathematics of Leonhard Euler

20th Conference (2003)       » web site «
Dates: March 21 and 22, 2003
Organizers: Steve Carlson and Tom Langley
Speakers and Talks: De Witt L. Sumners
Calculating the Secrets of Life: Mathematics in Biology, and
Medicine and DNA Topology

Aparna Higgins
Demonic Graphs and Undergraduate Research

19th Conference (2002)       » web site «
Dates: March 15 and 16, 2002
Organizers: Roger Lautzenheiser and Jerry Muir
Speakers and Talks: Harold Boas
Reflections on the Arbelos, and
What Can One Say Absolutely about Power Series?

Liz Jessup
Matrices, Vector Spaces, and Information Retrieval

18th Conference (2001)       » web site «
Dates: March 16 and 17, 2001
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

17th Conference (2000)       » web site «
Dates: March 17 and 18, 2000
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

16th Conference (1999)       » web site «
Dates: March 19 and 20, 1999
Organizers: Allen Broughton and David Rader
Speakers and Talks: Colm Mulcahy
Wavelets - a new tool for imaging, graphics and Hollywood, and
The curves and surfaces of the digital age

Michael Trick
Adventures in Sports Scheduling

15th Conference (1998)       » web site «
Dates: March 13 and 14, 1998
Organizers: Kurt Bryan and Yosi Shibberu
Speakers and Talks: Ed Packel
Symbolic Dynamics: A Mathmatica(l) Window to Chaos, and
Puzzles and Paradoxes in Game Theory

Charles Groetsch
A Tale of Slow Projectiles, Tartaglia's Wager and Halley's Comment

14th Conference (1997)       » web site «
Dates: March 21 and 22, 1997
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

13th Conference (1996)       » web site «
Dates: March 15 and 16, 1996
Organizer: Nacer Abrouk
Speakers and Talks: Richard Brualdi
Rooks on Boards, Permanents and Determinants and a Computationally Intractable Problem, and
Majorization (Averaging) and Doubly Stochastic Matrices

Steve Lallo
The Mathematics of Card Shuffling

12th Conference (1995)
Dates: March 10 and 11, 1995
Organizer: John Rickert
Speakers and Talks: Marty Isaacs
You Can Count on Groups, and
Dirty Children, Unfaithful Husbands, and Similar Problems

Roger Lautzenheiser
What Does it All Mean?

11th Conference (1994)
Dates: March 25 and 26, 1994
Organizer: Lynn Kiaer
Speaker and Talks: Gene Berg
Mathematics of the CD Player , and
Mathematics of Digital Modems
10th Conference (1993)
Dates: March 19 and 20, 1993
Organizers: Steve Carlson and Bart Goddard
Speakers and Talks: Carla Savage
Generating Combinatorial Structures, and
Hamilton Cycles in Symmetric Graphs

Gary Sherman
Introducing...Cwatsets

9th Conference (1992)
Dates: March 13 and 14, 1992
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

8th Conference (1991)
Dates: March 15 and 16, 1991
Organizer: 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

7th Conference (1990)
Dates: April 6 and 7, 1990
Organizer: George Berzsenyi
Speakers and Talks: Bruce Reznick
Fun with Generating Functions, and
The Stern Sequence

Gary Sherman
Problems, Problems Everywhere

6th Conference (1989)
Dates: April 7 and 8, 1989
Organizer: Roger Lautzenheiser
Speakers and Talks: Fred Roberts
The One-Way Street Problem, and
From Garbage to Rainbows
5th Conference (1988)
Dates: April 8 and 9, 1988
Organizer: Robert Lopez
Speakers and Talks: Underwood Dudley
Mathematical Cranks

Paul Zorn
Calculus in its Fourth Century

4th Conference (1987)
Dates: April 3 and 4, 1987
Organizer: Brian Winkel
Speakers and Talks: H. T. Banks
Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Physical and Biological Sciences: A General View, and
Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Physical and Biological Sciences: Specific Case Studies

Underwood Dudely
The Calculus Book

3rd Conference (1986)
Dates: April 4 and 5, 1986
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

2nd Conference (1985)
Dates: April 19 and 20, 1985
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

1st Conference (1984)
Dates: April 13, 1984
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

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