2019 PME Speaker Award Winners

Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August 2, 2019, Cincinnati, Ohio

Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research

Maia Wichman, Grand Valley State University, “Doubly Chorded Cycles in Graphs”

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

Eric Leu, Hope College, “Remote Identification of Cloud Forest Landslides: A Machine Learning Approach”

Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards

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

Haley Colgate, Colorado College, “Measuring Gerrymandering: Flaws in Traditional Measures”

Maria Cummings, Randolph-Macon College, “Investigations into the Discrete Arithmetic-Geometric Mean”

Amanda Cusimano, Xavier University, “3-cyclic bandwidth and 3-cyclic bandwidth critical graphs”

Niyousha Davachi, University of Texas at Arlington, “Equations of Mathematical Physics and Lagrangians”

Anthony Dickson, Youngstown State University, “On Inverse Semigroups Associated with Markov Subshifts”

Jonathan Feigert, Youngstown State University, “Presentations of Common Groups”

Martha Hartt, Randolph-Macon College, “A Proof of Bertrand’s Postulate”

Xiaomin Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Almost Beatty Partitions and Optimal Scheduling Problems”

Janelle Nelson, Howard University, “The Statistical Physics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs)”

Marco Pettinato, Lewis University, “Predictive Modeling and Analysis of Softball Using Linear Algebra-based Ranking Systems”

Ryan Wartenberg, Washington College, “Triangulations and Tamari Lattices”

Isaac Weiss, College of Wooster, “Measuring Compactness of Legislative Districts”

Everett Yang, Texas A&M University, “A general algorithm for constrained robot motion planning”

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