Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August, 2018, Denver, CO
Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
Vladimir Sworski, Cleveland State University, “Problem 21: An Exploration of Dial Rings”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
Allison Gerk, St. Norbert College, “Columnaris Disease and the Population Dynamics of Infected Fish”
Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards
Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Student Exposition or Research
Preston Biro, Texas A&M University, “A Statistical Approach to the Effect of Suspensions in the NFL”
Keller Blackwell, University of South Florida – Tampa, “Structural Properties of Twisted Hermitian Codes and Applications to Cryptography”
Kathleen Buch, Xavier University, “Optimizing Congressional Voting Districts using a Genetic Algorithm”
William Craig, Virginia Tech, “Quiver Hall-Littlewood Functions and Kostka-Shoji Polynomials”
Brian Darrow Jr., Southern Connecticut State University, “On Developing an Early Warning System”
Samuel Delatore, Youngstown State University, “A Not-So-Fair Guessing Game and the Math Behind It”
Anthony Dickson, Youngstown State University, “The Prime Number Theorem: A Historical Look at How Mathematicians Proved It”
Caroline Howell, Troy University, “Mapping Sound Waves in Octave”
Jacob Kirsch, Saint John’s University, “Image Recognition Using Polynomial Regression and Artificial Neural Networks”
Robert Lehr, Southwestern University, “Perspective Drawing: How to Find the Immersion Point”
Katherine Mantych, Elmhurst College, “The Rational-Float Data Type”
Bridget Mueller-Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “New Songs in the Deep: A Passive Acoustic Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Omura’s Whales (Balaenoptera omurai)”
Daniel Plummer, Howard University, “Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology and the Future of Commerce”
Henry Potts-Rubin, College of Wooster, “A Convention for Drawing Knots and Links on the Real Projective Plane”
Victoria Robinson, University of Mississippi, “On a Generalization of the Fibonacci Sequence”
Bao Van, St. Norbert College, “Building Low Rank Matroids”