Schedule of Events


All conference events will take place in Buildings 3 and 8 on the Campus Map and in the Ursa Major Suite (2611) in the Bronco Student Center (Campus Building 35 on the Campus Map) at Cal Poly Pomona. Click here to see a campus map.

PLEASE BRING A COPY OF THE CAMPUS MAP WITH YOU!! Signs for the conference will be posted.


Time Event Location
8:00 - 8:50 am Registration and light continental breakfast Bronco Student Center/Univ Park Walkway (Bldg 35)
9:00 - 9:50 am Career Panel Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
10:10 - 11:40 am Student Talks, Session I Bldgs 3 and 8
11:50 - 12:30 pm Parallel Sessions:

I. Grad School Panel

II. Diversity in Mathematics Panel

 Bldg 3 Room 2137

Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
12:30 - 1:20 pm Lunch Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
1:30 - 2:50 pm Student Talks, Session II Bldgs 3 and 8
2:50 - 3:10 pm Afternoon Break Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
3:15 - 4:05 pm Keynote Address by Dr. Ron Eglash Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
4:05 - 4:20 pm Prize Session Ursa Major (Bldg 35)

Schedule of Student Talks

Click here for a pdf version of the Student Talk Schedule.


Rm Time Speaker Institution Title
Morning Session 10:10 - 11:40 am
Bldg 3 Rm 1616 10:10 - 10:25 Kelly Blakeman & Katherine Urabe LMU & CSU Fresno On Legendre Multiplier Sequences
10:35 - 10:50 Kris Hatch & Megan Ly UCSB & LMU The Motzkin Algebra
11:00 - 11:15 Janet Kim & Ayden Smalling Pepperdine Arnold's Cat Maps
11:25 - 11:40 None
Moderator: Brian Fisher, Pepperdine University
Bldg 3 Rm 1623 (FR/SO) 10:10 - 10:25 Katherine Estevez Fullerton College Gilbreath's Conjecture
10:35 - 10:50 Raul Reyes Fullerton College Fortune's Conjecture
11:00 - 11:15 Tiffany Nguyen Fullerton College Speeding up the Healing of Wounds using Mathematical Biology
11:25 - 11:40 Kurt Hessian Fullerton College The ABC Conjecture
Moderator: Dana Clahane, Fullerton College
Bldg 3 Rm 1637 10:10 - 10:25 Michael Menke UCR An Interesting Application of Topology to Algebra
10:35 - 10:50 Kevin Wong UCR Topological Quantum Computing
11:00 - 11:15 Lihua Huang UCSD Uniqueness Results for Extremal Holomorphic Functions in the Bidisk
11:25 - 11:40 Steven Esquivel San Diego State Univ Modeling the Resolution of Holliday Junction (HJ) Intermediates of Bacteriophage Lambda Site-Specific Recombination using Ordinary Differential Equations
Moderator: Julia Bergner, UC Riverside
Bldg 3 Rm 2137 (Fr/So) 10:10 - 10:25 Kristin Dettmers Cal Poly Pomona Fun with Fractals
10:35 - 10:50 Megan Sorenson Concordia Fractals and Beyond
11:00 - 11:15 Khoi Vo Fullerton College Are 10 and Other Numbers Other Than 1 also Lonely
11:25 - 11:40 Aleksandr Volokh University H.S. Attractors of Piecewise Affine Maps
Moderator: Karen Vaughn, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 3 Rm 2870 (FR/SO) 10:10 - 10:25 Tam Nguyen UC Berkeley Linear Algebra Formulation for Quantum Mechanics
10:35 - 10:50 Timothy Nguyen UCLA Imaginary Numbers in Real Space
11:00 - 11:15 Trisha Nguyen Ohlone College Division by Zero Formulation
11:25 - 11:40 Vu Leo UCR Dynamical Billards on an Ellipse
Moderator: Bill Kronholm, Whittier College
Bldg 8 Rm 4 10:10 - 10:25 Jamie Peabody & Karen Willis CSU Fresno Grim: A Subtraction Game on Finite Graphs
10:35 - 10:50 Megan Kuneli & Robyn McDonald CSU Fresno The Well-Covered Dimension of Products of Graphs
11:00 - 11:15 Veronica Rindge Univ of San Diego Math Modeling: A Scheduling Problem
11:25 - 11:40 Andrea Arauza & Jason Bello CSU Stanislaus & UCLA Semi-Dynamic Hedging with Transaction Costs
Moderator: Oscar Vega, CSU Fresno
Bldg 8 Rm 156 10:10 - 10:25 None
10:35 - 10:50 Alberto Soto Cal Poly Pomona Modeling Blood Pressure Dynamics
11:00 - 11:15 Julie Wasiuk CSU San Bernardino Linking Number: Do Knot Show Up
11:25 - 11:40 Lynette Mejia & Nolberto Rezola CSU San Bernardino Radio Number for Square Cycles
Moderator: Min-Lin Lo, CSU San Bernardino
Bldg 8 Rm 241 10:10 - 10:25 Mikhail Popov CSU Fullerton Assessing Uncertainty of Clustered Neuronal Intensity Curves
10:35 - 10:50 Peter Ho & Lucy Odom CSU Fullerton Chasles' Angle Invariance Property of The Helicoid in the Tri- Twisted Real Ambient Space
11:00 - 11:15 Nicholas Blackford, Daniel Lenders & Danny Orton CSU Fullerton An Inverse-Based Analogue of the Probability that Two Elements in a Finite Group Commute
11:25 - 11:40 Nancy Garcia CSU Fullerton Gestures as Facilitators to Proficient Mental Modelers
Moderator: Angel Pineda, CSU Fullerton
Bldg 8 Rm 302 10:10 - 10:25 Craig Burkhart Harvey Mudd Approval Voting Theory with Multiple Levels of Approval
10:35 - 10:50 Palmer Mebane Harvey Mudd Group-theoretic Matrix Multiplication Algorithms
11:00 - 11:15 August Guang Harvey Mudd Switching Between Cooperation and Competition in Game Theory
11:25 - 11:40 None
Moderator: Dagan Karp, Harvey Mudd College
Bldg 8 Rm 345 10:10 - 10:25 Megan Ameche Cal Lutheran Autonomous Robotic Movement Planning
10:35 - 10:50 Randee Smith Cal Lutheran Evolutionary Game Theory and "The Tragedy of the Commons"
11:00 - 11:15 None
11:25 - 11:40 None
Moderator: Ricardo Cordero-Soto, Cal Baptist University
Afternoon Session 1:30 - 2:50 pm
Bldg 3 Rm 1616 1:30 - 1:50 Stephanie Angus Whittier College Modular Representations of Graphs
2:00 - 2:20 Kellie Rodden Concordia Solving Three-Variable Linear Diophantine Equations
2:30 - 2:50 Jessica De Silva CSU Stanislaus The Alignment of Arbitrary Contours Using Area Difference Distance Measurement
Moderator: Melinda Schulteis, Concordia University
Bldg 3 Rm 1623 1:30 - 1:50 Wancen Jiang & Garrett Johns Pepperdine Chaparral Population Models in Response to Wildfires
2:00 - 2:20 Michelle Bongard & Joseph LaBriola LMU & Pomona College Analyzing the Intraday Movement of VIX Derivatives
2:30 - 2:50 Colleen Bouey & Erika Mesa LMU New Series for pi via Polynomial Approximations to arctangent
Moderator: Timothy Lucas, Pepperdine University
Bldg 3 Rm 1637 (FR/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 Kevin Baragona SBCC Signal Processing on 3-Dimensional Solids
2:00 - 2:20 Kevin Oskar Negron CSU Fullerton Isometries in Metric and Ultrametric Space
2:30 - 2:50 Ismael Perez San Diego State Univ The Application of Perturbation Theory to a System of Linear Differential Equations
Moderator: Scott Annin, CSU Fullerton
Bldg 3 Rm 2137 1:30 - 1:50 Allison Mok UC Irvine Cell Clustering using Shape Context
2:00 - 2:20 Swati Bhonsle & Alissa Klinzmann UC Irvine Centroid Distance Function and the Fourier Descriptor with Applications to Cancer Cell Clustering
2:30 - 2:50 Jorly Chatouphonexay CSU Fullerton Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Fat Fraction Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging at High Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Moderator: Nicole Engelke, CSU Fullerton
Bldg 3 Rm 2870 1:30 - 1:50 April Morton Cal Poly Pomona Investigation of a Statistical Metric for Validation of a Structural Dynamics Model
2:00 - 2:20 Rolando de Santiago Cal Poly Pomona Recursive Relations and Lattice Strings
2:30 - 2:50 Yusuf Jabri Cal Poly Pomona Sequences that Talk about Themselves
Moderator: Harriet Lord, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 8 Rm 4 1:30 - 1:50 Jennifer Iglesias Harvey Mudd Searching for a Moving Hider
2:00 - 2:20 Harris Enniss Harvey Mudd A Refined Saddle Point Principle
2:30 - 2:50 Patrick Eschenfeldt Harvey Mudd Voting in Box Societies in R^d
Moderator: Amber Rosin, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 8 Rm 156 (FR/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 Annalise Bui Fullerton College The Invariant Subspace Problem
2:00 - 2:20 David Eng Fullerton College The Catalan-Dickson Aliquot Sequence Conjecture
2:30 - 2:50 Matthew Pak Fullerton College Do Gravitational Forces Cancel in Every Universe
Moderator: Dana Clahane, Fullerton College
Bldg 8 Rm 210 (FR/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 Amer Saleemi Fullerton College Groups, Isomorphisms, the Group Counting Number Problem, and the Gnu Hunting Conjecture
2:00 - 2:20 Ben Hartley Fullerton College Openness of Polynomially Open-Invariant, Increasing Unions of Compact, Polynomially Convex Subsets of Complex n-space
2:30 - 2:50 Ryan Trias Fullerton College An Introduction to the Fourier and short-time Fourier Transforms with Application to Audio Signal Processing
Moderator: Alan Krinik, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 8 Rm 241 1:30 - 1:50 Jeff Hicks UCLA Some Equivalent Theorems in Extremal Combinatorics
2:00 - 2:20 Brian Hutchings UCLA The Kleinbottlefold and How to use It
2:30 - 2:50 None
Moderator: Tamas Forgacs, CSU Fresno
Bldg 8 Rm 246 (FR/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 Melissa Riddle Fullerton College The Jacobian Conjecture
2:00 - 2:20 Valerie Guerra Fullerton College The Search for the Exact Value of Bloch's Constant
2:30 - 2:50 Keziah Tan Fullerton College The Plane Fixed Point Problem
Moderator: Mitsuo Kobayashi, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 8 Rm 302 1:30 - 1:50 Vanessa Kleckner & Amelia Stonesifer St. Olaf College Explorations into the Lawn Mowing Problem: Specific Cases and General Trends
2:00 - 2:20 Amanda Hoisington UCR Wavelet Analysis and Letter Recognition
2:30 - 2:50 Aaron Pribadi Harvey Mudd Algebraic Statistics and Symmetric Binary Models
Moderator: Ryan Szypowski, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 8 Rm 345 1:30 - 1:50 None
2:00 - 2:20 Joshua Dubon Fullerton College Composition Operators on Bloch-Orlicz Spaces
2:30 - 2:50 Nadia Salem CSU Bakersfield Disabilities in Math
Moderator: Robert Horvath, El Camino College