Schedule for the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

Schedule for February 11-13, 2000 Friday, February 11, 2000

2:30 p.m. Welcome and Registration, Heritage Room, Nebraska Union
There will be soft drinks and snacks at the registration.
3:30 p.m. Opening Session, Nebraska Union Auditorium
Welcome: Judy Walker, Chair of the Conference Organizing Committee
Opening Remarks: Merlin Lawson, Dean of Graduate Studies
3:45 - 4:45 p.m. Plenary Session, Nebraska Union Auditorium
Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas
"Solitons: Where applied math meets algebra and geometry"
4:45 - 5:00 p.m. Move to Burnett
5:00 p.m. Session 1 - Presentations by Undergraduate Women
- 5:00 - 5:15 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Sarah Brown,
  Cayley Graphs, Spectra of Cayley Graphs of Z/nZ, and Applications
  Burnett 107: Tracy Phelps,
  Analyzing Current Meter Data to Characterize Tidal and
  Subtidal Processes in Delaware's Inland Bays
- 5:20 - 5:35 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Holly Marie Swisher,
  Irreducibles in Block Semigroups
  Burnett 107: Teresa Selee,
  When Will the Ball Stop Bouncing?
- 5:40 - 5:55 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Everilis Santana-Vega,
  Cycle Decomposition of Monomials Given by Permutations
  Burnett 107: Joanna Bieri,
  Grand Canyon River Trip Simulator Project
7:00 p.m. Banquet, Holiday Inn Salon A/B rooms
Program: Sylvia Wiegand, UNL Dept. of Math. and Stats.
"Grace Chisholm Young, pioneer woman mathematician"
Introduced by: Allan Donsig, UNL Dept. of Math. and Stats.

Saturday, February 12, 2000
8:00 a.m. Coffee, Juice and Rolls, Burnett 106
8:30 a.m. Session 2 - Presentations by Undergraduate Women
- 8:30 - 8:45 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Sarah Gulde,
  Classification of Plane Curves
  Burnett 107: Katherine Arrington,
  Math Education/Math Modelling
- 8:50 - 9:05 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Courtney Fitzgerald,
  Expected Areas of Randomly Generated Triangles
  Burnett 107: Carrie Denton,
  Math--It's A Beautiful Thing: A Look at Symmetry in Nature
- 9:10 - 9:25 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Maire Snipes,
  Brownian Motion and the Shape of a Region's Boundary:
  Generating Step Functions from Circle Domains
  Burnett 107: Maria E. Rafael,
  The Use of Writing in Teaching Mathematics
- 9:30 - 9:45 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Betseygail Rand,
  Matrices with Non-Zero Minors as a Function of Sparsity
  Burnett 107: Kathryn Rendall,
  Rado Numbers for X Y C = Z
9:50 a.m. Break,
Burnett 106
10:10 a.m. Panel Discussion, Burnett 115: Is graduate school right for you?
Panelists: Julie Berg, Karl Kattchee, Cheryl Olsen, Karen Uhlenbeck
Moderator: Susan Hermiller, UNL Dept. of Math. and Stats.
11:10 a.m. Plenary Session, Burnett 115:
Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratories
"Applications of Optimal Control to Various Population Models"
Introduced by: Richard Rebarber, UNL Dept. of Math.
12:10 Noon Lunch, Valentinos party room
1:40 p.m. Session 3 - Presentations by Undergraduate Women
- 1:40 - 1:55 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Rhiannon Weaver,
  New Congruences for the Partition Function
  Burnett 107: Danielle Arett,
  Generalized Towers of Hanoi: Codes and Graphs
- 2:00 - 2:15 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Beth Noble,
  Hash Functions
  Burnett 107: Fumei Lam,
  Forcing Numbers of Several Planar Graphs
- 2:20 - 2:35 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Sara LaLumia,
  The Black-Scholes Equation
  Burnett 107: Melissa Desjarlais,
  Number of Spanning Trees of a 1 x n Grid Graph
2:40 p.m. Break, Burnett 106
3:30 p.m. Session 4 - Presentations by Undergraduate Women
- 3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Debbie Zadina,
  Control Theory
  Burnett 107: Mirela Ciperjani,
  Introduction to Lie algebras
- 3:50 - 4:05 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Adegoriola Anjorin,
  Chaos in the Dynamics of the Family of Logistic Maps
  Burnett 107: Paulette Cha,
  Algebraic Curves
- 4:10 - 4:25 p.m.
  Burnett 103: Rebecca Weinhold,
  From Stability to Chaos in Low-Dimensional Dynamics
  Burnett 107: Kimberly Schneider,
  Igusa Local Zeta Function of Elliptic Curves
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Panel Discussion, Burnett 115: Choosing a Graduate School
Panelists: Matthew Koetz, Suzanne Lenhart, Lisa Orlandi-Korner, Amelia Taylor
Moderator: Roger Wiegand, Graduate Chair, UNL Dept. of Math. and Stats.
5:30 p.m. End of the day reception, Burnett 106

Sunday, February 13, 2000
8:00 a.m. Coffee, Juice and Rolls, Burnett 106
8:30 a.m. Session 5 - Presentations by Undergraduate Women
- 8:30 - 8:45 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Virginia M. Roberts,
  Wavelets as a Tool for Remastering Music
  Burnett 107: Michelle Bylund,
  Random Sperner Systems
- 8:50 - 9:05 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Anne-Marie Hunter,
  The Virtual Cell
  Burnett 107: Monica Castro-Simmons,
  Bi-Symmetric Invariants
- 9:10 - 9:25 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Elaine Spiller,
  Four Wave Mixing in Optical Fibers: A Numerical Model
  Burnett 107: Melissa DeLeon,
  A Study of Sufficient Conditions for Hamiltonian Cycles
9:30 a.m. Break, Burnett 106
10:00 a.m. Session 6 - Presentations by Undergraduate Women
- 10:00 - 10:15 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Julia Brainin,
  R3 as the Disjoint Union of Circles
  Burnett 107: Jaclyn Kohles,
  Partitions Which are Simultaneously t1- and t2-Core
- 10:20 - 10:35 a.m.
  Burnett 103: Yvonne Lai,
  Popping Bubbles: the Double Bubble Conjecture in the Fourth Dimension
  Burnett 107: Andrea Saunders,
  Representing Chemical Transformations with Transitional Labelings of Graphs
10:40 a.m. End of Conference Wrap-up, Burnett 115:
Jim Lewis, Chair of the UNL Department of Mathematics and Statistics