Northern California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference

April 21, 2007

 

Schedule (tentative)

 

Time

  8:00

 

Registration – Darwin Hall Lobby

 

9:15

 

 

Welcome – Darwin Hall 103

 

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

9:30

Dynamics of Simple Epidemiology Models

 

Andrew Carter, Southern Oregon University

Variations on ConwayÕs Game of Life

 

Josh Abbott, Humboldt State University

 

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

9:50

Khipu: the Code of the String

 

Kristen Roland, Sonoma State University

New Graphs From Star Graphs

 

Allen Stewart, Humboldt State University

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

10:10

Free Groups and Generators and Relations

 

Martini Machado, Southern Oregon University

So, what is Turing Computability?

 

Jason Smith, CSU Sacramento

10:25

10 Minute Break

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

10:35

Improved Linear Algebra Techniques for Photometric Redshift Calculation

 

Miranda Braselton, San Jose State University

Poker Over the Telephone

 

Abe Goldman, Sonoma State University

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

10:55

 

 

The Shape of Water Droplets in the 3-Dimensional Case

 

Esteban Adam Navas, University of California, Riverside

Algorithms for Generating P(n), the Sequence of Partition Numbers

 

Sean MacRae, Sonoma State University

11:10

10 Minute Break

11:20

Career Panel Discussion

Darwin Hall 103

12:05

 

Lunch – Darwin Hall Lobby

 

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

1:00

Quivers É What are They?

 

 

Aaron Donahue, Sonoma State University

Movement of Lattice Knots and DNA

 

Nicholas Normandin, Andrew Herrmann, San Francisco State University

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

1:20

Use of the Gradient Vector in the Construction of a Solar Electric Array

 

Chad Griffith, Santa Rosa Junior College

A Model for DNA Unknotting

 

Juliet Portillo, San Francisco State University

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

1:40

Barycenters, Cevians and the Pythagorean Theorem

 

Nick Dowdall, Sonoma State University

Intrinsic Knotting of Partite Graphs

 

Ryan Hake, CSU Chico

1:55

10 minute break

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

2:05

Drink Up

 

Kathleen Mingoia, Kevin Dowdey, Sarah West, Sonoma State University

 

Uncovering Nuclear Geometry Through Ionizing Radiation Signatures

 

Daniel DeWoskin, University of California, Berkeley

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

2:25

Optimizing Healing in ÒWorld of WarcraftÓ Using Linear Programming

 

Michael Casolary, University of the Pacific

Tic-Tac-Toe and Its Related Games in Higher Dimensional Spaces

 

Tri Nguyen, Evergreen Valley College

 

Darwin Hall 102

Darwin Hall 103

2:45

What if you Build a Machine to Predict Hit Movies?

 

Paul Craciunoiu, San Jose State University

Duplicating the Cube

 

HannaH Fournier, Sonoma State University

3:15

 

Darwin Hall 103 – Keynote Talk

 

Speaker:

Frank Farris, Santa Clara University

Title:

Visual Geometry

 

 

Abstract:

Some geometric objects are easy to visualize; others present more of a challenge.  This talk offers three stories of visualizations: Wallpaper for inhabitants of the hyperbolic plane, graphs of functions of complex variables, and something that doesn't even exist, namely, Euclidean wallpaper with 5-fold symmetry.

 

 

Schedule and Abstracts

 

 

CONFERENCE SUPPORT:  The Northern California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference is partially funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and is administered through the Mathematical Association of America (through DMS-0241090) and by the Associated Students Inc. of Sonoma State University.