Schedule of Events


All conference events will take place either in University Lecture Hall 1000 or in various classrooms in the Engineering 2 Building at the University of California at Riverside. Click here to see a campus map. Signs for the conference will be posted.


In celebration of Pi Day, we are pleased to welcome a representative from Pi Dye who will be selling fun and unique pi items!


Time Event Location
8:00 - 8:50 am Registration and Viewing of "The Great Pi/e Debate" UNLH 1000
9:00 - 9:50 am Opening Address by Aparna Higgins UNLH 1000
10:00 - 11:20 am Student Talks, Session I ENGR2 138, 139, 141, 142, 143
11:30 - 12:30 pm Panel Discussion on Career Opportunities

(NSA, Actuarial Science, Google, Operations Research, High School and Community College Teaching)

UNLH 1000
12:30 - 1:15 pm Lunch & Pi contests TBA
1:20 - 2:35 pm Student Talks, Session II ENGR2 138, 139, 141, 142, 143
2:35 - 2:45 pm Afternoon Break TBA
2:45 - 3:35 pm Keynote Address by Luke Anderson UNLH 1000
3:35 - 4:00 pm Prize Session UNLH 1000

Schedule of Student Talks


Rm* Time Speaker Institution Title
Morning Session
138 10:00 - 10:15 am Jennifer Murguia Pepperdine Silver Birthday
10:20 - 10:35 am Lucy Orozco & Cinthia Vega Loyola Marymount Encouraging Girls in Math
10:40 - 10:55 am Brent Hancock Pepperdine A Sinkhorn-Knopp Algorithm Fixed Point Problem: Results Involving Patterned Matrices
11:00 - 11:15 am Samuel Ivy & Cheryl Outing Morehouse College 4-Covering Maps On Elliptic Curves with Torsion Subgroup Z_2 X Z_8
Moderator: David Strong, Pepperdine University
139 10:00 - 10:15 am Alaena Alilin UC Merced Fick's Law on the Nanoscale
10:20 - 10:35 am Victor La UC Riverside The Ubiquity of Pi
10:40 - 10:55 am Jimmy Urrutia & Rosemary Waithaka CSU San Bernadino Coloring on the real line
11:00 - 11:20 am Jonathon Chen UC Merced Stability Analysis: an introduction to stable and unstable systems
Moderator: Min-Lin Lo, CSU San Bernadino
141 10:00 - 10:15 am Melissa Bilbao Cal Poly Pomona The Effects of Maternal Age on the Prevalence of Autism
10:20 - 10:35 am Monica Prado Cal Poly Pomona The Lambert-W Function
10:40 - 10:55 am Randy Sierra Cal Poly Pomona A Mathematical Approach to Scapholunate Dissociation Healing Process
11:00 - 11:15 am Andrew Masters Pepperdine The First Hundred Numbers
Moderator: Phil Yates, Cal Poly Pomona
142 10:00 - 10:15 am Franque Bains CSU Los Angeles Fixed points of number derivatives modulo n
10:20 - 10:35 am Kristen Anderson Pepperdine Analysis of the Sinkhorn-Knopp Algorithm: Introduction and Theory
10:40 - 11:00 am Sarah Fletcher Harvey Mudd Exploring (k,m)-Agreeability in Tree Societies
Moderator: Carol Adjemian, Pepperdine University
143 10:00 - 10:15 am Kathryne Kistler California Baptist Why Knot?
10:20 - 10:35 am Maxim Gilula UC Irvine Root Hair Growth in Arabidopsis Thaliana
10:40 - 11:00 am Nicole Winkler Augustana College The Birds and the Bees: An Exploration into Mammalian, Insect, Avian, and Fish swarming in both One- and Two- Dimensions
Moderator: Lisa Hernandez, California Baptist University
Afternoon Session
138 1:20 - 1:40 pm Christopher Gutierrez & Max Velado CSU Bakersfield A Time Series Intra-Video Collusion Attack on Frame-by-Frame Video Watermarking
1:45 - 2:05 pm Natalie Durgin Harvey Mudd Abelian Sandpiles on Symmetric Graphs
2:10 - 2:30 pm Skylar Trigueiro Whittier College A New 4th Order Accurate Numerical Scheme For Solving Systems of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Moderator: Mark Kozek, Whittier College
139 1:20 - 1:40 pm Benjamin Preskill Harvey Mudd Nonexistence of Continuous Solutions to a Semilinear Wave Equation
1:45 - 2:05 pm Ted Spaide Harvey Mudd Fast Fourier Transforms on the Special Linear Group
2:10 - 2:30 pm Hendrik Orem Harvey Mudd Fast Matrix Multiplication via Group Actions
Moderator: Michael Orrison, Harvey Mudd College
141 1:20 - 1:40 pm Derek DeSantis, Josefina Flores & Kathleen Lewis CSU Channel Islands Mathematical Modeling for Structured Textures
1:45 - 2:05 pm Melanie Stuart Southwestern College MESA Member Southwestern College
2:10 - 2:30 pm Joe Adams UC Riverside DFT, FFT, and NTT
Moderator: Brian Fisher, Pepperdine University
142 1:20 - 1:40 pm Konrad Aguilar Cal Poly Pomona Pricing Call Options Under the Binomial Model
1:45 - 2:05 pm Dorian Smith CSU Los Angeles The AGM and Lemniscate
2:10 - 2:30 pm Manuel Segura CSU Los Angeles A unifying approach to several classes of metric spaces
Moderator: Janet Beery, University of Redlands
143 1:20 - 1:40 pm Tim Carrell Pomona College The Surface Biquandle
1:45 - 2:05 pm Johanna Hennig Scripps College Knot Invariants from Quandles and Racks
2:10 - 2:30 pm Mutaz Alsayegh UC Riverside Surface Fitting Via Least Squares
Moderator: Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College