Pi Mu Epsilon Student Presentation Awards
2011 MathFest - Lexington, KY

Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to the students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony Friday evening, were:

• Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society and the American Statistical Association for excellence in student exposition and research (in alphabetical order) to:
  • Joseph Ferrara, Florida Eta at the University of North Florida, Exterior Algebra and the Maxwell-Boltzmann Equations, advisor: Professor Sami Hamid
  • Katie Heaps, Pennsylvania Upsilon at Duquesne University, Variational Image Denoising and Decomposition Using Duality, advisor: Professor Stacey Levine
  • Kady Hossner, Oregon Delta at Western Oregon University, Cayley-Sudoku Tables and Loop Theory, advisor: Professor Michael B. Ward
  • Rachel Levanger, Florida Eta at the University of North Florida, Imagining the Banach-Tarski Paradox, advisor: Professor Scott Hochwald
  • Katherine Moore, Ohio Pi at Kenyon College, Abundancy Index Outlaws, advisor: Professor Judy Holdener
  • Brian Pietsch, Wisconsin Delta at St. Norbert College, Parameterizing the Koch Curve, advisor: Professors John Frohliger and Kevin Murphy
  • Christopher Schafhauser, Wisconsin Eta at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Alpha-Regular Stick Unknots, advisor: Professor Christopher Frayer
  • Mario Sracic, Ohio Xi at Youngstown State University, Cryptology and Quantum Computing
  • Hongying Zhao, Minnesota Delta at Saint Johns University and the College of Saint Benedict, Nonabelian Groups With Perfect Order Subsets, advisor: Professor Thomas Sibley.

• Council on Undergraduate Research award for outstanding student research and exposition to:
• Kelsey Larson, Minnesota Delta at the College of Saint Benedict, Art Meets Algebra: Exploring Colored Graphs of Groups, advisor: Professor Thomas Sibley
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards for outstanding student exposition and research in applied mathematics to:
• Anthony DeCino, California Alpha at the University of California – Los Angeles, Learning About Collective Memory from Query Bursts, advisor: Professor David A. Meyer
• MAA Special Interest Group – Mathematical Biology: The Janet L. Anderson Award for outstanding exposition and research  in Mathematical or Computational Biology to:
• Sepideh Kharvari, Ohio Xi at Youngstown State University, Theoretical Framework and Analysis of Time-to-Peak Response in Biological Systems, advisors: Professors David Pollack and George Yates