2107 MathFest PME Student Award Winners

Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony, MathFest, August, 2017, Chicago, IL

Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research

•  Trent DeGiovanni, Gonzaga University, “Most Economical Common Dissection of a Square and Equilateral Triangle”

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Applied Mathematics

• Ngan Tran, Ripon College, “An Analysis of Quantitative Measures for Detecting Gerrymandering”

MAA Special Interest Group Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Environmental Mathematics

• Stephanie Allen, SUNY Genesso, “A Two-Stage Vehicle Routing Algorithm Applied to Disaster Relief Logistics after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake”

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

• Russell Houpt, Hope College, “Name That Bird! Using Neural Networks to Identify Birds”

Pi Mu Epsilon Speaker Awards

• Monica Busser, Youngstown State University, “Induced Representations ”
• Brian Darrow Jr., Southern Connecticut State University, “On Decomposing the Complete Symmetric Digraph into Orientations of K4 – e”
• Donald Fincher, Kent State University, “Approximating Nonlinear Differential Equations using the Adomian Decomposition Method”
• Travis Howk, Hendrix College, “Newton’s Method on Rational Functions in the Complex Plane”
• Robert Krueger, Miami University, “Hamiltonian Cycles in k-partite Graphs”
• Chrisitne Langer, Youngstown State University, “Surprising Nontransitive Games”
• Britney Mazzetta, Ithaca College, “Predicting U.S. Childhood Obesity Through Mathematical Modeling”
• Brandon Payne, Elmira College, “The Iowa Democratic Caucuses: A Mathematical Analysis of the “Vote””
• Kiersten Potter, Marshall University, “Explicit Origami Constructions of Regular Polygons”
• Steven Rollins, Marshall University, “Optimizing Refuse Collection Routes in Huntington, WV”
• Slade Sanderson, Pepperdine University, “Trajectories on Homothety Surfaces”
• Parth Sarin, Texas A&M University, “From Phylogenetics to Statistical Physics: Tensor Wiring Diagrams and the Impact of Tensors on the Sciences”
• Sarah Seckler, Hope College, “What Bird Was That? Feature Extraction of Recorded Bird Songs for Neural Networks”
• Callie Sleep, South Dakota State University, “Extending the Bocher-Grace Theorem to Quadrilaterals and other Polygons”
• Erika Sweet, Santa Clara University, “4C Coding in STEM – Identifying Obstacles to Clear Scientific Writing”
• Vincent Villalobos, University of Texas at Tyler, “Morita Equivalence for Groupoids of Directed Graphs”