MUMC 2008 Program
Abstracts of all accepted talks.
Morning Sessions
| 8:00-8:55am | Registration,
Refreshments, Exhibits
CASL Building Atrium |
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| 8:55-9:15am | Welcome,
Katie Anderson-Levitt, Dean of CASL
1030 CASL Building |
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| 1045 CB | 1047 CB | 1041 CB | 1043 CB | |
| 9:30-9:45am | Carolyn Hochstadt Stability of Nonlinear Differential Equations
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Celeste Thornburg, Joshua Harvey, Stephen Bennett Linear Cyclic and Costacyclic Codes over Fq[u]/(ut)
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Daniel Choi
Applications of Financial Derivatives |
The Professional Science Master (PSM) in Industrial Mathematics at Michigan State University |
| 9:50-10:05am |
Matt Schanz Generalizations of Marden's Theorem
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Steve Bennett On Distances and Self-dual Codes Over Fq[u]/(ut)
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Xumei Ye
Some Remarks on Diophantine Triples |
The Professional Science Master (PSM) in Industrial Mathematics at Michigan State University |
| 10:05-10:20am | Break, Exhibits | |||
| 10:25-10:40am | Tim Ferdinands A Beckman-Quarles Type Theorem in the Dual Plane
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Richard Geyer and Jon Camardese A Raindrop in the Swimming Pool: The 2008 Contest in Modeling
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The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics |
| 10:45-11:00am |
Sara Bratek The Brain Puzzle: A Mathematical Approach
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Nicholas Baran Numerical Simulations of Turbulant Flow
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The University of Michigan Department of Statistics | Michigan Technological University Graduate Program |
| 11:05-11:20am | Zachary Mitchell Turning Out the Lights
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Brian McLellan A Linear Trend Test for Including Duplicate Genotype Data in a Genetic Test for Association
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The University of Michigan Department of Statistics | The University of Kentucky Graduate Program |
| 11:20-11:30am | Break, Exhibits | |||
| 11:30-12:30pm | Keynote
Address: 1030 CB
Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture David Bressoud |
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| 1:00-2:00pm | Lunch: CASL Atrium | |||
Afternoon Sessions
| 1045 CB | 1047 CB | 1043 CB | |
| 2:10-2:25pm | Ben Dekker, Nate De Jong, Greg Clark Rigid Structures in Two Dimensions
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Bryan Barhorst
Farkle Examined
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Oakland University Graduate Programs |
| 2:30-2:45pm |
Sarah Yeakel An Introduction to Galois Theory: An Honors Thesis Presentation
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Jennifer Wolfe, Rachael Tomasino, Sara Rimer
Frames: Surgeries, Dilation, and Robustness |
Ed Aboufadel. Akalu Tefera, Jonathan Hodge, Shelly Smith The Mathematics REU Program at Grand Valley State University
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| 2:50-3:50pm | Closing Session, Doorprizes | ||
Thanks to our sponsors:
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Professional Science Master in Industrial Mathematics
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Graduate Program in Statistics
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