41st Annual Mathematics Symposium

at Western Kentucky University

February 25, 2022 (FRIDAY 3:00PM - 9:15PM)

Invited address: Dr. Chris Bemis

Co-founder of X Cubed Capital Management and

SIAM Visiting Lecturer

Title: The Incorporation of Constraints as Views in Mean-Variance Optimization

Send your abstracts to ozkan.ozer@wku.edu by Friday, February 16th, 2022

Congratulate the best three presenters of the

SIAM Student Chapter-Sponsored session

“Applied Mathematics and Computer Programming”

  • ($100) Matthew Poynter (Undergraduate) (Advisor: Dr. Ozkan Ozer)

    • Title: Wolfram Demonstration Projects to Simulate the Control of Vibrations on a Three-layer Beam

  • ($60-shared) Nikhil Akula, Anish Penmecha (Gatton Academy)

    • Title: Using Mathematica to Create an Uno Card Game

  • ($40) Allen Lin (Gatton Academy) (Advisor: Sarah Tamnen)

    • Title: Properties of Pólya’s Circular Symmetrization

On behalf of Organizing Committee and our sponsors, thank you to all who attended the symposium on Feb 25 at Western Kentucky University. We hope attendees learned something new in math and made some fruitful connections throughout the day.

Satisfaction Survey for the 41st Annual Math Symposium

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS (updated)

FULL SCHEDULE OF TALKS (updated)

  • Registration (free) starts at 3:00 PM on the 1st floor of Ogden College Hall foyer. There will be free refreshments.

Welcome (3:45-4:00 PM, Ogden Hall Auditorium)

Dr. Kanita DuCloux, Interim Chair of the Department of Mathematics

Dr. David Brown, Dean of Ogden College of Science & Engineering

Plenary talk by Dr. Chris Bemis (4:00-5:05 PM, Ogden Hall Auditorium)

Sessions (5:15-9:15 PM, Snell Hall and Ogden College Hall)

Pizza (free) is served on the 1st floor of Snell Hall from 6:40-7:10 PM.

For more information:

Please contact the Mathematics Department Office at (270) 745-3651, or

Dr. Ahmet Ozkan Ozer (Ozz) at (985) 30-OZKAN or ozkan.ozer@wku.edu

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