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Department of Mathematics

The Sixth Annual Regional Workshop in the Mathematical Sciences

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Schedule for Saturday, November 8, 2003


8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast, Avery Hall

9:00 - 10:20 Plenary Talk, Avery 115

Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebraska, A role for derivatives in algebra

10:00 - 11:20 TALKS 1

Room 10:00-10:20 10:30-10:50 11:00-11:20
Session 0.693
Avery 106 Siva Kommuri
Study of Drought Effects on Vegetation Growth Using Decision Trees and Neural Networks
Jay Powell
Enhancing Knowledge Acquisition in the Context of Automatic Case Elicitation
Lisong Xu
Networking Protocols
Session 1.414
Avery 109 Steve Cohn
The Inverse Scattering Transform
Dan Van Peursem
The Pulfrich Effect: From Gun Scopes to Ellipses
Bill Wolesensky
Priority versus Brute Force: When Should Males Begin Guarding Resources?
Session 2.718
Avery 110 Melissa Desjarlais
Game Chromatic Number for Trees and Planar Graphs
Elizabeth Jurshak
Analyzing a Spirograph Shape with an Outer Ellipse and Inner Rotating Circular Wheel
Steve Haataja
Build your own Penrose tiling
Session 3.145
Avery 112 Catherine Knockenhauer
QTL analysis using Hidden Markov Models
Anil Jayaprakash
Predicting Temperatures in High Tunnels using a Mathematical Model
Brett Foley
Using SAS to Model Binary Outcomes with Correlated Observations
Session 4.669
Avery 118 Jennifer Langdon
Asymptotic Behavior of a Perturbed Linear Dynamic Equation on a Time Scale
Allan Peterson
Henstock-Kurkzweil delta and Nabla Integral
Jacob Weiss
Limit-Point Criteria for Dynamic Equations on Time Scales
Session 5.264
Avery 119 Mark J. Stigge
Hilbert Functions of Local Cohomology Modules
Mark Rogers
The Index of Reducibility of an Ideal
Diana White
Free Resolutions, the Euler Number, and a Generalization

11:20 - 11:40 Break, Avery Hall


11:40 - 1:30 TALKS 2

Room 11:40-12:00 12:10-12:30
Session 0.6931
Avery 106 Brandon Hauff
Graduate Education in CS&E: A Student Perspective
Myra Cohen
Graduate Education in CS&E: A faculty perspective
Session 1.4142
Avery 109 Brian Bockelman
A Hopf Bifurcation in a Predator-Prey Food Chain
Tom Shores
A Structured Population Model for Predator-Prey Systems
Session 2.7182
Avery 110 Matt Koetz
LDPC Codes from Graph Splittings
Jeremy Alm
What in the World Are We Doing? --An experiment in the philosophy of mathematics
Session 3.1415
Avery 112 Kendra Schmid
Statistics in NASCAR
Matt Wiedel
Lot Sampling and Sentencing
Session 4.669
Avery 118 Dustin Kozal and Vernon Volpe
Calculation Methods and Analysis of the Landau Function
Mary Vacha
The Geometry of the Dehn Complex for a Spatial Graph
Session 5.264
Avery 119 Jim Coykendall
Unique and almost unique factorization in monoids and integral domains
Tridib Dutta
A look at integral elements and some generalizations


Room 12:40-1:00 1:10-1:30
Session 0.6931
Avery 106 Sharad Seth
Graduate Education in CS&E at UNL: Opportunities
Session 1.4142
Avery 109 Irakli Loladze
Elemental Dynamics across Scales: from Molecules to the Biosphere
Ajith Gunaratne
3D structure Molecular Dynamics Simulation of BPTI with Distance-Constrained Penalty Terms
Session 2.7182
Avery 110 Keith Smeltz
Devising Divisibility Rules
Jamie Radcliffe
The Primes Contain Arbitrarily Long Arithmetic Progressions
Session 3.1415
Avery 112 Vladimir Ufimtsev
DNA Codes
Ghan Bhatt
Frames for hiding data
Session 4.669
Avery 118 Nicholas Gewecke
Population Dynamics on Non-Flat Landscapes
Doug Anderson
Periodic Differential Equations
Session 5.264
Avery 119 Kurt Herzinger
Numerical Semigroups - The Basics
Roger Wiegand
Cancellation and the Art of Cycle Maintenance

1:30 - 2:30 Lunch, Avery Hall