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2016 Student Presentation Award Winners

Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony on Friday, August 5, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio

Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research
  •  Shirya Nagpal, Trinity College, “On the Domination Number of Generalized Hierarchical Products”
Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Student Exposition or Research
  • Corey Afton, The College of William and Mary, “Routing Permutations on n-dimensional Hypercubes”
  • Monica Busser, Youngstown State University, “Combinatorial Number Theory ”
  • Brian Darrow Jr., Southern Connecticut State University, “On Mathematics Course Placement and Overall Academic Success in College: A Longitudinal Cohort Study at a Four-Year Public University n=1,237”
  • Niyousha Davachi, University of Texas at Arlington, “Standard and Non-Standard Lagranigans”
  • Mitchell Eithun, Ripon College, “Using Sampling to Predict Pairwise Correlation in Neural Data”
  • Michael Gableman, Ripon College, “Bertrand’s Ballot Theorem with Three Candidates”
  • Nicholas Heiner, Hendrix College, “A Modified Amazing Array”
  • Peter Jakes, Elon University, “Degree Six Polynomials and Their Solvability by Radicals”
  • Tong Luo, Wake Forest University, “Traffic Flow Modeling for Multi-Lane Situations with Heterogeneous Driver Behavior”
  • Grace McCourt, Ashland University, “The Dishonest Salesperson Problem”
  • Ahmad Nazeri, Randolph-Macon College, “DeepYellowJ: Using Mathematics to Develop Chess AI”
  • Sabin Pradhan, St. Peter’s University, “Characterizing Cycle Partitions in 2-Row Bulgarian Solitaire”
  • Kelsey Scott, Grand Valley State University, “Congruences for Two-Rowed Arrays”
  • Travis Spillum, St. John’s University, “Exploring the Odds of Generating a Group”
  • Vasily Zadorozhnyy, Grand Valley State University, “A Group Theory Version of the Lights Out Game”
Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology presented by BioSIGMAA
  • Allison VanderStoep, Hope College, “One Bird, Two Bird? Red Bird, Blue Bird? Analyzing Bird Songs Using Wavelets, Image Processing, and Neural Networks Part 1”
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Applied Mathematics
  • Gabbie Van Scoy, Youngstown State University, “Making Muscles: Math Models of Muscle Formation
MAA Special Interest Group Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Environmental Mathematics
  • Marjorie Jones, Pepperdine University, “A Discrete Mathematical Model of Newt Population Dynamics in Santa Monica Mountain Streams During a Period of Drought”