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Pi Mu Epsilon Student Presentation Awards

Pi Mu Epsilon Student Presentation Awards
2013 MathFest – Hartford, CT

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, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for excellence in student exposition and research to:

  • Daniel Persia, Denison University, Ohio Iota, Modeling NBA Player Value from Box Score
    Data
  • Karenna Genzlinger, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania Alpha Alpha, Minimum Sumset
    Size
  • Calvin Cochran, Hendrix College, Arkansas Beta, Shuffle Posets and their Hasse Diagrams
  • Joshua Brakensiek, High School and USAMO Winner, Virginia Iota, Bounds on MSNs
    Accepting Directed Trees
  • Lisa Borum, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia Iota, Pebbling Chessboard and Samurai
    Sudoku Graphs
  • Laura Staver, St Norbert College, Wisconsin Delta, Zero Forcing for Lattices
  • Alex Leitheiser, St. Norbert College, Wisconsin Delta, On the Atomisticity of Superchar-
    acter Lattices of Cyclic Groups
  • Matthew Barry, Texas A and M University, Texas Eta, MathLex: A Web-Based Mathe-
    matical Entry System
  • Sarah Ritchey, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Residue Number System Overflow
    Detection Algorithms for Signed Numbers
  • Eric Shehadi, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Prioritizing Vacant Residential Prop-
    erties for Demolition in Youngstown
  • Camron Bagheri, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Applications of Linear Algebra
    to the Fibonacci Sequence
  • Ashley Orr, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Fourier and Wavelet Analysis: Ex-
    tracting the Business Cycle
  • Kim Do, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Introduction to Combinatorial Game
    Theory and What Lies Underneath
  • Michael Baker, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, A Study of Optical Gain in Three-
    Component Multilayered Films

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards for outstanding student exposition and research in applied mathematics to:

  • Daniel Miller, Texas A&M University, TX Eta, Powering Your Water Heater with Solar Energy

MAA Special Interest Group – Environmental Mathematics:

  • Nicole Gardner, Texas A&M University, TX Eta, Climate Change in the Florida Everglades