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 | ||||