Results of REU Research 2011

Participants

• Mathematical Biology/Ecology/Physiology Mentors: Jay walton, May Boggess, Masami Fujiwara, Xueying Wang.
  • Katie Story, Carlton College: Eradicating Invasive Species Through Sex Reversal, slides.
  • Heather Johnston, Universty of Western Oregon, OR: Oregon Blackberry Invasion Analyzed by Spatial Stochastic Modeling, slides.
  • Cori Wentworth, St. Mary's College, MD: Optimal Harvesting Models for Fishery Populations, slides.
  • Myrielle Allen-Prince, Bennett College, NC: Finger Motion Modeling For Bionic Fingers, slides.
  • Sara Anne Krueger, Bethany Lutheran College, MN: A Reservoir Model of Chagas Disease, slides.
  • Paulo Eusebio, Washburn University, KS: Mathematical Modeling of Circannual Prolactin Cycles,
• Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry Mentor: J. Maurice Rojas.
  • Daniel Smith, UC Berkeley: Bounding the Number of Components of Polynomial Hypersurfaces, slides .
  • Tim Jewell, UCLA: Amoebas and their Tropical Varieties, slides .
  • Caitlin Lownes, MIT: Fraction of Nonnegative Polynomials which are Sums of Squares,
  • Davi DaSilva, University of Chicago: Feasibility of p-adic Polynomials, slides .
  • Jeff Sommars, Wheaton College, IL: Implementing Nilsson and Passare's Coamoeba Algorithm, Islides .
• Matrix Analysis and Wavelet Theory Mentor: David Larson.
  • Suren Jayasuriya, University of Pittsburgh: Uncertainty and Information in Time-Frequency Analysis,
  • Paul Gustafson, Princeton University: Refinability of Multivariate Polynomials.
  • Jacob Brumbaugh-Smith, Pomona College, CA: lambda-permutations of Conditionally Divergent Series I
  • Mamikon Gulian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: lambda-permutations of Conditionally Divergent Series II: Progress on Velleman's Problem,
  • Pedro Perez, Columbus State University, GA: Finite-Dimensional Frame Theory over Arbitrary Fields,

3nd Annual REU/MCTP Undergraduate Student Research Conference
Texas A&M University, Wednesday, July 28th and Thursday, July 29th, 2011.

• REU/MCTP Conference Schedule
• Abstracts

Conference Talks

• SUMS (Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics) Conference, James Madison University, October 2011.
  • Jeff Sommars, Wheaton College, IL; Implementing Nilsson and Passare's Coamoeba Algorithm.
   
• MathFest, August 2011: Lexington, Kentucky.
  • Heather Johnston*, Western Oregon University; Dr. May Boggess, Texas A&M University; Dr. Jay Walton, Texas A&M University; Oregon Blackberry Invasion Analyzed by Spatial Stochastic Modeling,
   
• National Joint Mathematics Meetings Boston, January 2012:
  • Caitlin Lownes*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Fraction of Nonnegative Polynomials that are Sums of Squares. AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, II.
  • Suren Jayasuriya*, University of Pittsburgh; Pedro Perez, Columbus State University: Finite-Dimensional Frame Theory over Arbitrary Fields. AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, II.
  • Heather Johnston*, Western Oregon University; Dr. May Boggess, Texas A&M University; Dr. Jay Walton, Texas A&M University; Oregon Blackberry Invasion Analyzed by Spatial Stochastic Modeling, AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, II
  • Myrielle N Allen-Prince*, Bennett College; Jay Walton, Texas A&M University; Finger Motion Modeling for Bionic Fingers, AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, VI.
  • Sara Anne Krueger*, Bethany Lutheran College; May Boggess, Texas A&M University; Jay Walton, Texas A&M University; A Reservoir Model of Chagas Disease.
  • Katie Storey*, Carleton College; May Boggess, Texas A&M University; Jay Walton, Texas A&M University; Eradicating Invasive Species through Sex Reversal, AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, IV.
  • Corinne Alexandra Wentworth*, St. Mary's College of Maryland; Jay Walton, Texas A&M University; Masami Fujiwara, Texas A&M University; Optimal Harvesting Models for Fishery Populations.