2025 PME Student Speaker Awards

Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet on Friday, January 10, 2025 in Seattle, WA

NameInstitutionChapterTitle of Talk
Kendall BeardenSamford UniversityAlabama GammaEnhancement of Biocontrol via Predator Interference and
Additional Food
Tyler BlomSt. Norbert CollegeWisconsin DeltaThe Game of Cycles on Wheel Graphs
Lucas BrandtGonzaga UniversityWashington EpsilonNot Losing the Trees for the Forest: Mathematical Modeling of
Trees Blowing in the Wind
Zachary DuahUniversity of MichiganMichigan ZetaLower Semicontinuity of Integral Operators with respect to
$L^p$ Functions
Valen FeldmannHope CollegeMichigan DeltaOn the Parameter Tuning Challenge of Scalable Spectral
Clustering Methods
Darsh GandhiUniversity of Texas at ArlingtonTexas IotaA SIMPL Model of Phage-Bacteria Interactions
Kira GlasmacherEmmanuel CollegeMassachusetts MuDeciphering Mutation Dynamics
Gabriel GrayUniversity of DaytonOhio ZetaFixed Perimeter Analogues of Classical Partition Identities
Megan HaydukHope CollegeMichigan DeltaDeveloping Intuitive Multiplication Fact Strategies with Young..
Jasmine HiebertWestern Oregon UniversityOregon DeltaOdd Perfects, Multiply Perfects, and Non-Divisors, oh my! An
Exploration of the Odd Perfect Number Problem
Chaucer IhrigMurray State UniversityKentucky GammaStatistical Connections between Graph Structure and Maximum
Independent Sets
Celia KerrWilliam and MaryVirginia LambdaIndex of Lie proset algebras
Nicholas MankowskiOhio Wesleyan UniversityOhio BetaA Microscopic Computational Model for Traffic Jams
Kyle McKeeGrand Valley State UniversityMichigan IotaGuessing games to determine 1 of several secret numbers
Brianna PartykaSt. Norbert CollegeWisconsin DeltaModeling a Seasonal Growth Rate for Aulocoseira in Trout
Lake, WI
Stephen PriceHope CollegeMichigan DeltaElliptic Epicycloids & Hypocycloids (part 2)
Nafisa RaisaFordham UniversityNew York AlphaFrom Parsimony to Divergence in a Stochastic DCJ-Indel Model
Yiting ShenHope CollegeMichigan DeltaOn the Graph Laplacian and its Applications in Machine
Learning
Sydney VitalboSt. Norbert CollegeWisconsin DeltaModeling Algal Population Dynamics in Lacustrine…
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