PME Student Presentations

Heather Akerson
Minnesota Delta
College of Saint Benedict
RNA Secondary Structure - A Statistical Analysis

Samuel Behrend
Ohio Iota
Denison University
Determining Intrinsic Triple Linking in Straight-Edge Embeddings of K_9

Alica Brinkman
Wisconsin Delta
Saint Norbert College
How We Roll: The Theory and Construction of the Square Wheel Bicycle

Ashley Burt
California Xi
Pepperdine University
A Somewhat Linear Fixed Point Problem: Introduction and Theory

Shawn Case
Massachusetts Eta
Fitchburg State College
Dynamical Systems: Sink or Source

William B. Cousins
California Xi
Pepperdine University
A Somewhat Linear Fixed Point Problem: Some Results and Numeric Issues

Kristin Creech
Texas Iota
University of Texas at Arlington
Dual Dilation of Two-Interval Wavelet Sets

Erica Cross
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
Regression Statistics with Data Subjected to Type II Censoring

Jennifer Crounse
Massachusetts Eta
Fitchburg Stae College
Pascal's Triangle in Secondary Education

Abdulmajed Dakkak
Ohio Gamma
University of Toledo
Towards Proving the Erdos-Faber-Lovascz Conjecture

Tyler Drombosky
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
An Introduction to the Hodgkin-Huxley Model

Krista Foster
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
Thermal Nondestructive Evaluation in Composite Materials with Porosity

Iordan Ganev
Ohio Epsilon
Miami University
Order Dimension of Subgroups

Yair Goldberg
North Carolina Epsilon
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
On the Method of Calculating Zeros of the Derivatives of the Riemann Zeta Function

Brent Hancock
California Xi
Pepperdine University
A Somewhat Linear Fixed Point Problem: Further Results and Numeric Issues

Damon Haught
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
An Introduction to Degree Theory in R^n

Lisa Hickok
Illinois Alpha
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Finite Hexagonal Arrays Produced by Pascal's Algorithm

John Hoffman
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
What Do We Know About Symmetries of Polynomials?

Adam Hughes
Illinois Alpha
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An Elementary Classification of Symmetric, Additive 2-cocycles

Sara Jensen
Wisconsin Epsilon
Carthage College
An Alternative Proof of the Anti-Pasch Conjecture

Bill Kay
South Carolina Alpha
University of South Carolina
On the Seymour Second Neighborhood Conjecture

Brendan Kelly
New Jersey Theta
The College of New Jersey
How to Obtain Algebraic Information from Zero-Divsor Graphs

Kevin Kreighbaum
Ohio Omicron
Mount Union College
Can Your Spare a Square?

Arielle Leitner
California Omicron
California State University, Chico
Universal Cycles of Classes of Sequences

Daniel Lithio
Michigan Delta
Hope College
Modeling Dynamics of a Volleyball Serve: Choosing the Optimal Trajectory

W. Ryan Livingston
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
Can 2008 be the first digits of 2^n?

Jim Manning
South Carolina Alpha
The University of South Carolina
Tilings of a Finite Rectangular Region with Rectangular Tiles

Vincent Martinez
New Jersey Theta
The College of New Jersey
Plant-Pathogen Dynamics

Cheyne Miller
New York Psi
Iona College
Algebraic Properties of h-Vectors Associated to Certain Simple Convex Polytopes

Kathleen Miller
Wisconsin Delta
Saint Norbert College
Genetic Modeling of the White Buffalo

Daniel Monfre
Wisconsin Epsilon
Carthage College
Fibonacci and Base-2 Pseudoprimes: Can Two Wrongs Make a Right?

David Nassar
Ohio Nu
The University of Akron
Mathematical Model and Experimental Results of Biofilm Growth

Peter Olszewski
Connecticut Gamma
Fairfield University
Group Presentations, Cayley Graphs, and Markov Processes

Ryan Pavlek
Wisconsin Delta
Saint Norbert College
Introduction to Sudoku for the Algorithmically-Minded

Jared Ruiz
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
A Surprisingly Sum of Arctangents

Diana Saly
New Hampshire Alpha
University of New Hampshire
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Stability Tracking of Treadmill Running

Stephanie Schauer
Wisconsin Delta
Saint Norbert College
Rolling Smoothly on a Saw-Tooth Road: The Theory for a Wheel

Douglas R. Smith
Ohio Delta
Miami University
A Method for Determining Rows of Pascal's Triangle Modulo 3

Nathan St. John
Ohio Delta
Miami University
A Lower Bound on the Barycentric Davenport Constant

Shira Stav
North Carolina Theta
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Poisson's PDE with Nonhomogeneous BC's

Samuel Taylor
New Jersey Theta
The College of New Jersey
Using Tangent and Normal Vectors to Investigate Knots

Kristal Temple
Oregon Delta
Western Oregon University
What I Did with My Summer

Jeremy Thompson
Colorado Gamma
United States Airforce Academy
Numerical Semigroups and Wilf's Conjecture

Corey Vorland
Wisconsin Delta
Saint Norbert College
Modeling Diatom Growth in Trout Lake

Doug Wajda
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
Partial Differential Equation Model of Traffic Flow

Seena Vali
New York Alpha Nu
Fordham University
Ordering and Factorization of Sparse Matrices of GF(2)

Alison Wiland
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
Fibonacci Numbers in Architecture

Moriah Wright
Ohio Xi
Youngstown State University
Cauchy's Condensation Test