Pi Mu Epsilon Student Presentation Awards
2009 MathFest - Portland, Oregon

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:
• Matt Alexander from the Ohio Xi Chapter at Youngstown State University for Application of the Riemann Zeta Function.   Matt’s advisor for this research was Angela Spalsbury.
• Niel Biegalle from the Michigan Iota Chapter at Grand Valley State University for The Extremality of Bernstein Polynomials. Neil’s advisor for this research was Matt Boelkins.
• Adam  Boseman from the North Carolina Epsilon Chapter at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for Zeros of Riemann's Zeta Function.  Adam’s advisor for this research was Sebastion Pauli.
• Lisa Curll from the Ohio Iota Chapter at Youngstown State University for Bacterial Resistance: When Selenite is your Kryptonite.  Lisa’s advisor for this research was Angela Spalsbury.
• Thomas Eliot from the Oregon Zeta Chapter at Willamette University for Negative Voting. Thomas’s advisor for this research was Josh Laison.
• Harold L. Gomes from the New York Alpha Alpha Chapter at the City University of New York – Queens college for The Brain and Mathematical Modeling.  Harold’s advisor for this research was Joshua Brumberg.
• Masaki Ikeda from the Oregon Zeta Chapter at Western Oregon University for Random Juggling.  Masaki’s advisor for this research was Mike Ward.
• Jennifer Jordan from the Maryland Theta Chapter at Goucher College for Follow the Food Feeding Function.  Jennifer’s advisor for this research was Gretchen Koch.
• Jason Lutz from the Minnesota Delta Chapter at St. John’s University for An Analog for a Basis in Finite Groups.  Jason’ advisor for this research was Bret Benesh.
• Sean Watson from the Texas Pi Chapter at Southwestern University for Series in Banach spaces.  Sean’s advisor for this research was Fumiko Futamura.
• Moriah Wright from the Ohio Xi Chapter at Youngstown State University for Mathematically Modeling Cardiac Myocytes.   Moriah’s advisor for this research was Angela Spalsbury.
• Council on Undergraduate Research award for outstanding student research and exposition to:
•  Tarah Jensen from the Michigan Iota Chapter at Grand Valley State University for Extreme Curvature.  Tarah’s advisor for this research was Stephanie Edwards.
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards for outstanding student exposition and research in applied mathematics to:
• Josh Koslosky from the Pennsylvania Upsilon Chapter at Duquesne University for Feature-Based Image Denoising.  Josh’s advisor for this research was Stacey Levine.
• Henry Schreiner from the Texas Zeta Chapter at Angelo State University for Edge Effects in Wavelet Image Processing.  Henry’s advisor for this research was Roger Zarnowski.
• MAA Special Interest Group -- Environmental Mathematics award for outstanding exposition and research  in  environmental mathematics to:
• Michael O'Connor from the Colorado Gamma Chapter at the United States Air Force Academy for Solar Flux and Atmospheric Density. Michael’s advisor for this research was Scott Dahlke.
• MAA Special Interest Group – Mathematical Biology: The Janet L. Anderson Award for outstanding exposition and research  in Mathematical or Computational Biology to:
• Yasmeen Hussain from the Utah Alpha Chapter at the University of Utah for The Fifth Factor.  Yasmeen’s advisor for this research was Aaron Fogelson.