Schedule of Events


Registration and the opening session for the conference will be held in George Elkins Auditorium. The student talk sessions and the panel discussions will be held in the Joslyn Plaza Annex (JPA) classrooms adjacent to Elkins. Lunch will be in Joslyn Plaza (outside). A campus map is available here. Signs for the conference will be posted.

Time Event Location
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and light continental breakfast Joslyn Plaza
9:00 - 9:50 am Welcome and Career Panel Elkins
10:00 - 11:10 am Student Talks, Session I JPA 188, 189, 190, 191 and AC 261, 263
11:15 - 12:05 pm Parallel Sessions

Panel Discussion on Surviving the First Year of Grad School

Game Time for all Others!

 Elkins and Joslyn Plaza
12:10 - 1:05 pm Lunch Joslyn Plaza
1:15 - 2:30 pm Student Talks, Session II JPA 188, 189, 190, 191 and AC 261, 263
2:30 - 2:45 pm Afternoon Break Joslyn Plaza
2:50 - 3:40 pm Keynote Address by Tony DeRose Elkins
3:45 - 4:15 pm Prize Session Elkins

Schedule of Student Talks


Rm* Time Speaker Institution Title
Morning Session
AC 261 (F) 10:00 - 10:15 am Maegan Blansett Pepperdine Puzzling Paradoxes
10:20 - 10:35 am Jin Choe Fullerton College Perfect Numbers
10:40 - 10:55 am Wancen Jiang Pepperdine The Fourth Dimension
11:00 - 11:15 am Eugenia Purcar Pepperdine Were you drunk last night?
Moderator: Don Hancock, Pepperdine
AC 263 (P) 10:00 - 10:15 am Dallas Duckett & Aniya Henry Pepperdine One Cake, Four Cuts, Two Hungry People
10:20 - 10:35 am Brittany Beck & Alexandra Goodrich Pepperdine Math Blunders in History
10:40 - 10:55 am Kangkeun Rhee Pepperdine Taxicab Number and its Aspects
11:00 - 11:20 am Lucy Orozco & Cinthia Vega Loyola Marymount Encouraging Girls in Math
Moderator: Brian Fisher, Pepperdine
AC 286 (P) 10:00 - 10:15 am Anandi Hira Pepperdine Let's go to Wicked: A Problem in Probability and Combinatorics
10:20 - 10:35 am Amy Walecka Pepperdine Wicked: A Problem in Probability and Combinatorics (II)
10:40 - 10:55 am Kristen Bretney Loyola Marymount Using Singular Value Decomposition to Characterize Voting in Los Angeles
11:00 - 11:20 am Darlena Kern Pepperdine Euler vs. Gauss
Moderator: David Strong, Pepperdine
AC 290 10:00 - 10:15 am Stefan Bock & Rebecca Ramos CSU Bakersfield Tunable Balancing of RSA Exponents
10:20 - 10:35 am Michelle Hoshiko CSU Fresno Highway speeding and policing--a game theoretical model
10:40 - 10:55 am Melissa Marchand CSU Bakersfield Bayesian Attack on Various Statistical Digital Watermarks
11:00 - 11:15 am Keith Earl & Bethany Tasaka CSU San Bernardino Upper bound and Lower Bound for the Ratio Number of the Cube of a Path
Moderator: Tamas Forgacs, CSU Fresno
PC 188 (S) 10:00 - 10:15 am Brian Burnap Loyola Marymount The Riemann Hypothesis for Beginners
10:20 - 10:35 am Megan Ly Loyola Marymount Infinite Sets
10:40 - 11:00 am Matthew Michael Fresno Pacific Can You Hear Me Now? A study in voice recognition
11:00 - 11:15 am Christina Gower Loyola Marymount The Intonation and Compensation of Fretted String Instruments
Moderator: Karrolyne Fogel, Cal Lutheran
PC 189 10:00 - 10:15 am Kate Ellis CSU Stanislaus Volume Formulas for the Inner epsilon-Neighborhoods of Certain Cantor Strings
10:20 - 10:35 am Shane Gibson CSU Stanislaus The Minkowski and Hausdorff Dimensions of Related Fractal Strings
10:40 - 11:00 am Michael Mackenzie CSU Stanislaus Partition Zeta Functions of a Multinormal Measure
11:00 - 11:15 am Jake Feldman Harvey Mudd Revenue Management: Optimizing a Restaruant's Reservation Scheduling
Moderator: John Rock, CSU Stanislaus
PC 190 10:00 - 10:15 am Troy Cannon, Carlos Hernandez, & Luis Torres CSU Fullerton On kth roots in the Symmetric Inverse Monoid
10:20 - 10:35 am Josh Maglione CSU Fullerton Generating Sets in the Alternating Group
10:40 - 11:00 am Michael Laidlaw CSU Fullerton Image Compression using Singular Value Decomposition
11:00 - 11:15 am Andreea Erciulescu Colorado State Solving the Kakuro Puzzle
Moderator: Angel Pineda, CSU Fullerton
PC 191 10:00 - 10:15 am Christina Gower Loyola Marymount The Large-Scale Structure of the Galactic Universe
10:20 - 10:35 am Morgan Cole Cal Poly Pomona Apollo's Origami
10:40 - 10:55 am Tobit Raff Whittier College Computations with Erdos' minimum modulus problem
11:00 - 11:15 am Karen Wood Cal Poly Pomona Simplified Volcanic Flow
Moderator: Mark Kozek, Whittier College
Afternoon Session
AC 261 (F) 1:15 - 1:35 pm Vasili Kapogianis Fullerton College Analysis on spikes
1:40 - 2:00 pm Emmanuel Tsukerman Stanford An Iterative Process Associated to a Non-cyclic Quadrilateral
2:05 - 2:20 pm Zackery Reed Pepperdine Buffon Needle Pi Approximation Technique
Moderator: Tim Lucas, Pepperdine
AC 263 (S) 1:15 - 1:35 pm Reza Nikoopour Fullerton College Maxwell's question of the existence of equilibria for Newtonian potentials
1:40 - 2:00 pm Eric Orozco Fullerton College Some famous outstanding problems in number theory
2:05 - 2:20 pm Jason Samarin Fullerton College Using Modern Technological Tools in Mathematics
Moderator: Dana Clahane, Fullerton College
AC 286 (S) 1:15 - 1:35 pm Isaac Birnbaum CSU Fresno On the Well-Covered Dimensions of Various Graphs and Graph Families
1:40 - 2:00 pm Brian Hutchings Santa Monica Tripolar Coordination and "Up"
2:05 - 2:20 pm Darlena Kern & Francis Batac Pepperdine Actions-Processes-Objects: Views of Mathematics
Moderator: Brian Fisher, Pepperdine
AC 290 (S) 1:15 - 1:35 pm Demetrius Moore Fullerton College The Fibonacci Mysteries
1:40 - 2:00 pm Matt Maldonado Fullerton College A finite quandle on a group of roots of unity
2:05 - 2:25 pm Colleen Nelson Fullerton College Expressing an Integral as an Infinite Series of Derivatives
Moderator: Kevin Iga, Pepperdine
PC 188 1:15 - 1:35 pm Kara Godshalk Lehigh University Solving the Equation of Love
1:40 - 2:00 pm William Hung CSU Northridge Classroom Management in Secondary Schools
2:05 - 2:25 pm David Roberts CSU Northridge On the Maximum Number of Isosceles Right Triangles in a Finite Point Set
Moderator: Carol Adjemian, Pepperdine
PC 189 1:15 - 1:35 pm Brian Vega Cal Poly Pomona Coding Theory: Categorizing Toric Codes
1:40 - 2:00 pm Franque Bains CSU Los Angeles Does Mandatory Homework have a positive effect on achievement of Calculus college students?
2:05 - 2:25 pm Derek Wolcott CSU Los Angeles The free monoid on {A,C,G,T,U}: Cracking Viral Genetic Code with Brute Force Algebra
Moderator: Borislava Gutarts, CSU Los Angeles
PC 190 1:15 - 1:35 pm Skylar Trigueiro Whittier College A 5th Order Accurate Positive Numerical Scheme for Solving Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws in One Dimension
1:40 - 2:00 pm Wilson YH. Lee Fullerton College Are the sum, difference, product, and/or quotient of pi and e irrational?
2:05 - 2:25 pm Kevin Negron Fullerton College Are there universes where gravitational forces allow an object to stay at rest?
Moderator: Mark Kozek, Whittier
PC 191 1:15 - 1:35 pm Stefan Johnson--canceled CSU San Bernardino Partition Labeling Using Prime Factorizations
1:40 - 2:00 pm Tania Miller Cypress College/CSU Long Beach Statistical Analysis of Nutritional Food Choices by Nugget Patrons
2:05 - 2:25 pm Christina Mantas Fullerton College Conjectures about twin, Mersenne, and Sophie Germain primes
Moderator: Min-Lin Lo, CSU San Bernadino