2014 Student Presentation Awards

Prizes for Outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon Student Talks, presented at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony Friday Evening

Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research

Marcus Elia, SUNY Geneseo, “The Collatz Conjecture”

Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Student Exposition or Research

  • Marissa Hartzheim, St. Norbert College, “A Particular Polarity, Part I”
  • Taylor Miller, St. Norbert College, “A Particular Polarity, Part II”
  • Crystal Mackey, Youngstown State University, “Factorization Theory of Numerical Monoids”
  • Jonathan Marino, Roanoke College, “Integer Compositions Applied to the Probability Analysis of Blackjack and Infinite Deck Assumption”
  • Robert Lehr, Southwestern University, “An Irrational Decomposition of Generalized Fibonacci Numbers”
  • Samantha Parsons, Roanoke College, “Protecting Confidentiality and Scientific Integrity through Synthetic Data and Mediator Servers”
  • Max Goering, Kansas State University, “Modulus of families of walks on graphs”
  • Heather Gronewald, Southwestern University, “Computing Cophylogenetic Invariants
  • Eric Shehadi, Youngstown State University, “Safeguard Fair Voting: Mathematically Diagnosing Gerrymanders”
  • Eric Lai, University of California – Irvine, “The Distance between Finite Groups”
  • Elizabeth Greco, Kenyon College, “Brownian Motion in the Complex Plane”
  • Andre Bunton, University of Alaska Southeast, “Simultaneous Generation of a Simple Basis B and a Corresponding B-CZDS”

Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA

•   Dayna Mann, Pepperdine University, “An Individual-Based Model of Chaparral Vegetation Response to Frequent Wildfires”

 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Applied Mathematics

  • Daniel Miller, Texas A&M University, “Data-Driven Forecasting of Available and Required Energy for a Solar Water Heating System”

 MAA Special Interest Group Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Environmental Mathematics

  • Matthew Buhr, University of South Dakota, “The Flour Beetle: A Discrete Mathematical Model”