Schedule

Northern California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference

April 16, 2011

Schedule

Time

8:30

9:30

Registration – Biological Science Center (BIO) Lobby

Welcome – BIO 101

9:50

10:10

10:30

BIO 101

Applications of Line Integrals in Classical Mechanics

Maril Soomalan, Daniel Aguilar, California State University, Stanislaus

Outset Coloring

Youa Yang, University of the Pacific

Sharing Secrets with Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Mike Abram, University of the Pacific

BIO 144

Phase Diagram Calculation via Constrained Optimization

Sandra Varela, California State University, Sacramento

Real World Statistics

Haley Vicchio, Traci Ostrom, Jeff De Fazio, Sonoma State University

Minor Minimal Intrinsically Knotted Graphs with 21 Edges

Jamison Barsotti, California State University, Chico

10:50

11:00

12:00

10 Minute Break

Career Panel Discussion

BIO 101

Lunch – BIO South Entrance Lawn

1:00

1:20

1:40

BIO 101

Green's Theorem and Its Applications

Jason Barnett, William Bishop, California State University, Stanislaus

k1,2(NC7) > 1

Yeoil (Steve) Yun, University of the Pacific

Radio, radio, a sound solution

Austin Powell, Sonoma State University

BIO 144

The Minimum Genus of a Closed Surface Constructed Through A (k, n) Hyperbolic Tiling

David Jones, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Multifractal Analysis of a Measure with Atypical Coarse Holder Regularity

Scott Roby, California State University, Stanislaus

Sorting with Input-restricted Stacks

Caleb Goerzen, Simpson University

2:00

2:10

10 minute break

2:30

Galois Theory for Differential Equations

Kyumin Kim, University of the Pacific

Copenhagen Consensus and Operations Research

Lauren Elward, University of the Pacific

The Dynamics of REM Sleep Generation

Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Stanford University

Lower Bounds for the Ropelength of Reduced Conformations

Robert McGuigan, San Jose State University

3:00

Keynote Talk - BIO 101

4:00

Planning meeting for next year

CONFERENCE SUPPORT: The Northern California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference is sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America (through NSF grant DMS-0846477), the College of the Pacific (through a Pacific Fund grant), and Phi Beta Kappa, Chi of California (at University of the Pacific).

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