Schedule

5:00 pm Welcome

5:05 - 5:55 pm Plenary Talk: 

• Moon Duchin (University of Chicago)

9:00 am Check-in, Coffee, and Snacks

9:30 am  Plenary Talk: 

• Edray Goins (Pomona College)

10:30 - 11:00 am Panel: How do we get outreach started and why? 

11:00 am Coffee Break / Outreach setup

12:00 pm Lunch and Outreach Booths 

2:00 - 2:40 pm Plenary Talk: 

• Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

3:00 pm Coffee Break

3:30 - 3:50 pm Outreach Talk (Illinois)

4:00 - 4:20 pm Outreach Talk (Mason)

4:30 - 5:00 pm Panel: Outreach Design

8:30 am Coffee and Snacks

9:00 - 9:30 am Parallel Panels: 

• Career (Undergraduates) in Room 1

• Career (Graduates) in Room 2

9:30 - 10:30 am Parallel Undergraduate Research Talks Session 1 (See below for more detailed schedule) 

10:30 - 11:00 am Parallel Panels:

• Graduate school applications and surviving grad school in Room 1

• Starting and running an undergraduate research lab in Room 2

11:00 - 12:00 pm Parallel Undergraduate Research Talks Session 2 (See below for more detailed schedule) 

12:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 2:50 pm Plenary Talk: 

• Priyam Patel (University of Utah)

3:00 pm Coffee Break

3:30 - 5:05 pm Parallel Undergraduate Research Talks Session 2 (See below for more detailed schedule)

8:30 am Coffee and Snacks

9:00 - 10:30 am Posters (See below for more details)

• 9:00 - 9:30 am Shift 1

• 9:30 - 10:00 am Shift 2

• 10:00 - 10:30 am Shift 3

10:30 - 12:00 pm Conversation tables, board games, and send off

A standard Schelling model

• Wan Dang (GMU)

Braess Paradox

• Shakeeb Uddin (GMU)

Graphons? 

• Justin Arches (GMU)

Irreducible graph maps with small stretch factors 

• Xinyi Shi (U. Wisc. -Madison)

Neural Network Parametrization for PDE-Constrained Optimization

• Pritam Kayal, Mark Miller, Yifan Yang  (U. Wisc. - Madison)

Continued Fractions in R^(1,1) 

• Guru Rajkumar (Temple)

Explorations in Entanglement Theory 

• Diana Lopez, Mihir Meta, Yuna Shin (UIUC)

Exploring Hyperbolic Geometry through Crochet 

• Pengrui Song (U. Wisc. - Madison)

Geometry of Nearest Integer Continued Fractions 

• Gregory Maleski, Tree Nguyen (GMU)

Critical Exponents of Activated Random Walk in One and Two Dimensions 

• McKinley Quevedo (U. Wash.)

On Eigenvector Preferential Attachment Trees 

• Haoyu Tang, UIUC)

An elementary proof that linking problems are hard 

• Saarah Nazar (UIUC)

Bounds of Cycle Integrals of Modular Forms 

• Daniel Zikel (U. Wisc. - Madison)

Building the Gordian Graph,  Ana Artero Calvo, Krithi Prasad

• Samantha Ward (U. Texas)

Digit Probability of Normal Numbers in the Nearest Integer Continued Fractions 

• Alexis Amspacher, Emily Cudney, John Nguyen, Satjeev Radhakrishnan (GMU) 

Elementary Estimates for the Mertens Function - Survivor/Graph Model and a Multi-Pair Interval Routine 

• Junhao Wu, Tony Zhuang (UIUC)

Game-Theoretic Frameworks for Exploring Cross-Scale Evolutionary Dynamics 

• Naro Panjaitan (UIUC)

GenAI Methods for Applications in Plant Morphology 

• Andrew Kukkapalli (U. Tennessee)

Historical Math Models- 3D Printing for Calculus and Beyond

• John Koultourides (UIUC)

Hierarchical QUBO Decomposition for Portfolio Allocation via Modularity-Based Graph Community Detection​ ​ 

• Esha Sury, Dhruv Upreti (Purdue)

Monte Carlo Approaches to Modeling Trait Fixation in Group-Structured Populations 

• Maven Khanday (UIUC)

Multipliers of Closed Orbit Maps 

• Xiangyi Pan (U. Wisc. -Madison)

Nonsignaling Correlations in Quantum Games 

• Abhinav Angirekula (UIUC)

Taming wild knots with mosaics 

• Sean Kawano (U. Wash.)

The Rules of Quantum Calculus 

• Martin Wang (UIUC)

Voting Paradoxes 

• Chengxun Ren (UIUC)

Certifying Maximal Stretch Ratios for Fuchsian Free Group Representations 

• Joseph Hummel, Kaius Noble (U. Texas)