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| Department of Mathematics |
| 8:30- 9:20 |
Check-in, Refreshments, Exhibits | ||||
| ROOMS | DEV 223E | DEV 225E | DEV 207E | DEV 209E | DEV 213E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30- 9:45 |
Mathematics Majors in Engineering
Wendy Kooiman |
Professional Masters Degrees Charles R. MacCluer Michigan State University |
Knotted
Spheres in Four Dimensions (Part 1) John Engbers |
An
Inter- disciplinary Course for Biology and Mathematics Majors Henry Gould and Mike Ross Hope College |
Fermat’s
Last Theorem: Advances in the 19th Century William Green |
| 9:50- 10:05 |
Mathematical
Careers in Operations Research
Jim Bradley Calvin Collegeand the US State Department |
The
Graduate Program in Biostatistics University of Michigan |
Knotted Spheres in Four Dimensions (Part 2) Jon Dent |
An Analysis of Linear Recurrence Relations Audrey Maness |
The TRUE Permutations of the Bells Aileen Murphy Kalamazoo College |
| 10:05- 10:20 |
Break,Exhibits | ||||
| ROOMS | DEV 223E | DEV 225E | DEV 207E | DEV 209E | DEV 213E |
| 10:25- 10:40 |
Introducing Actuarial
Mathematics Christian R. Veenstra Watkins, Ross & Co. |
The Graduate Program in Mathematics at Purdue University Johnny E. Brown |
The
Generalized Area Principle Kristina Lund Grand Valley State University |
Take Me Out to/of the Ball Game Brandon Alleman and Michael Cortez Hope College |
Classifying Semigroups of Star Graphs Amanda Geiser Susquehanna University |
| 10:45- 11:00 |
Mathematics in Banking: a Changing Industry Larry D'Haem Fifth Third Bank |
The University of Notre Dame Ph.D Program Jacob Heidenreich and Liviu Nicolaescu University of Notre Dame |
Separable Preferences and Admissible Characters Micah TerHaar |
The Irredundant Number of Star Graphs Mindy Bradford Central Michigan University |
The
Singular Value Decompo- sition of a Composition Operator Michael Dabkowski University of Michigan- |
| 11:00- 11:15 |
Break, Exhibits | ||||
| 11:20- 12:30 |
Welcome and Keynote Address | ||||
| 12:30- 1:15 |
Lunch | ||||
| ROOMS | DEV 223E | DEV 225E | DEV 207E | DEV 209E | DEV 213E |
| 1:20- 1:35 |
Central Michigan University:
Opportunities for Graduate and Under- graduate Students Lisa DeMeyer |
The
Graduate Program at Michigan Tech |
Comparing
Systems of Gambling Aaron Dull and Remington Steed Calvin College |
Existence of
(8,8,8,1) Relative Difference Sets Nicholas Bauer Central Michigan University |
Using
Group Theory to Examine the Art of Change Ringing
Rana Mikkelson Kalamazoo College |
| 1:40- 1:55 |
The
Grand Valley State University REU Ed Aboufadel, Will Dickinson, Steve Schlicker, Jody Sorensen GVSU |
Overview
of Oakland University's Graduate Program Ray Kleinberg |
k-Alternating
Knots Philip Hackney Central Michigan University |
Geometry,
Algebra, and Hilbert Series
Yumi Watanabe |
Counting Quadratic Forms of Rank 1 and 2 Andrew Wells Hope College Nina Miller Valparaiso University |
| 1:55- 2:05 |
Break,
Exhibits | ||||
| ROOMS | DEV 223E | DEV 225E | DEV 207E | DEV 209E | DEV 213E |
| 2:10- 2:25 |
Employment
Opportunities in Mathematics Ralph Svetic Michigan State University |
The
Graduate Program in Mathematics at the University of Kentucky Russell Brown University of Kentucky |
Distribution of Power in |
How Big Can a
Polynomial Be? Ben Vugteveen |
Centralizers
of Straight- Line Functions Giovanni Dimatteo |
| 2:10- 2:25 |
Note that there is an additional sixth talk in this concurrent session from 2:10-2:25; the talk is on the first floor in room DEV 113E just down the hall from Loosemore Auditorium. |
DEV 113E | |||
| 2:30- 2:45 |
Calculating Equivariant Homotopy Groups Bree Koehler |
When Matrices Go Bad
James Boerkoel |
Two
Families of Randomly Decomposable Graphs
Erin Militzer |
Local
Maximums at Infinity and the Generalized Maximum Principle Kyle Glashower Calvin College |
Symmetry
Detection in Boolean Functions Dan Steffy Oakland University |
| 2:30- 2:45 |
Note that there is an additional sixth talk in this concurrent session from 2:30-2:45; the talk is on the first floor in room DEV 113E just down the hall from Loosemore Auditorium. |
DEV 113E | |||
| 2:45- 3:00 |
Break,
Exhibits | ||||
| 3:00- 4:00 |
Closing Session | ||||