IMSSRS 2023 

The first International Mathematics and Statistics Research Symposium took place virtually on Saturday, April 15, 2023. The conference attracted more than 240 participants from over 30 countries (from Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and North America). During the symposium, more than 75 students, including high school, undergraduate and graduate students, presented their research covering a wide variety of topics, including ODEs and PDEs, fixed point theorems, cryptography, coding theory, graph theory, and financial mathematics. The symposium was organized by Feryal Alayont (GVSU), Cuixian Chen (UNCW), Kumer Pial Das (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Hyunju Oh (University of Guam), Jan Rychtar (VCU), and Dewey Taylor (VCU). Dr. Michael Dorff (BYU), past president of the MAA, together with Dr. Nouzha El Yacoubi (Mohammed V University, Morocco), the first woman to serve as president of the African Mathematical Union, opened the conference and presented the welcoming remarks. Dr. Gretchen Matthews (VT) gave a plenary talk titled "The Power of Polynomials". In celebration of Leonard Euler's birthday, Dr. Dominic Klyve (Central Washington University) gave a plenary talk titled "The Life, Legacy, and Lost Library Books of Leonhard Euler". 

Best presentation award winners:

• Edward Ju, "Use of Finite Field to Develop an Error Correcting Magic Trick"

• Sidhartha Basu, "Understanding the Battleground of Identity Fraud"

• Arnav Gupta and Luke Ni, "Utilizing Entropy and Volatility for Machine Aided Classification of Atrial Fibrillation"

• Alex Leon Guerrero, John Christian Sual, Shangrong Jiang, and Elijah Vargas, "Enhancing Elliptic Curve Cryptography via Curve Swapping"

• Robert Bowden, "Sheaf-Based Opinion Dynamics"

• Tomás Alcalde López, "Uniform Spanning Trees: Towards Infinity"

• Anežka Švandová, "Simulations of Groundwater Flow in Fractured Porous Media"

• A.M.P. Chandrasiri, "A Two-Sex Age-Structured Population Dynamics Model for Thalassemia Transmission"

• Metin Turgay, "Bivariate Sampling Type Operators in Weighted Spaces of functions"

• Siham Boukarabila, "Fractional Parabolic System: Existence and Optimality"

• Reetika Sarkar, "Data Mining for Safety Signal Detection in Clinical Trials"