Fourth Annual

Conference Schedule

All talks are open to the entire UNL Community

Friday, February 1, 2002

2:30

Welcome and Registration, Auditorium, CBA 143
There will be soft drinks and snacks at the registration

3:30

Opening Session, Auditorium, CBA 143
Welcome: Judy Walker, Co-Chair of the Conference Organizing Committee
Remarks: Harvey Perlman, Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3:45

Plenary Session I, Auditorium, CBA 143
Dusa McDuff, State University of New York at Stony Brook
``My Mathematical Life''

4:45

Break

5:00

Session 1 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

CBA 025 (Chair: Sylvia Wiegand)

5:00 - 5:15

Sarah Genoway, University of Texas-Austin
''Integral closure of monomial ideals without embedded primes''

5:20 - 5:35

Heather McDonough, Muhlenberg College
``Structure theory for root groups''

5:40 - 5:55

Karen Kapur, University of California - Berkeley
``The group generated by an n-cycle and a product of two disjoint cycles, each having one point in common with the n-cycle''

CBA 128 (Chair: Lisa Johnson)

5:00 - 5:15

Kelly Dickson, James Madison University
``Numerical computation for problems in non-linear solid mechanics with singularities''

5:20 - 5:35

Janet Braunstein, Providence College
``Sequences: Sums of Cubes of Digits''

5:40 - 5:55

Mary Lee, James Madison University
``Asymptotic analysis of an inward point load acting on a half-space: a nonlinearly elastic near-load model''

CBA 132 (Chair: Lucinda Zmarzly)

5:00 - 5:15

Amber Lee, University of Texas at Tyler
``Potential paddings for minimum coverings of Kn with fish''

5:20 - 5:35

Yumi Odama, University of California - Berkeley
``Enumeration of (0,1) and integer doubly stochastic matrices''

5:40 - 5:55

Ellen Veomett, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
``Perfect domination in Kneser graphs''

7:00

Banquet, Yankee Hill Room - Third Floor of the Cornhusker Hotel
Keynote Speaker: Theresa Strei, National Security Agency
``Women of Undercover Mathematics''

Saturday, February 2, 2002

8:00

Continental Breakfast, CBA Food Court

8:30

Session 2 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

CBA 025 (Chair: Mark Brittenham)

8:30 - 8:45

Jane Holsapple, Bryn Mawr College
``Invariants of Legendrian knots''

8:50 - 9:05

Katrina Keating, San Francisco State University
``The total curvature of knots''

9:10 - 9:25

Bronlyn Wassink, SUNY - Geneseo
``Colorability, Mod-p labelings, and the Alexander polynomial in knot theory''

CBA 128 (Chair: Julie Berg)

8:30 - 8:45

Stacey Stillion, Ohio Northern University
``Covariates of pancreas transplant survival in recipients of combined kidney-pancreas grafts''

8:50 - 9:05

Abby Mroczenski, St. Norbert College
``The Federalist Papers: a statistical analysis of authorship''

9:10 - 9:25

Amber Dennison, Elon University
``Making farming more interesting with math''

CBA 132 (Chair: Lisa Orlandi-Korner)

8:30 - 8:45

Rachel Esselstein, University of California - San Diego
``Dots and boxes''

8:50 - 9:05

Carmen McLean, Louisiana State University - Shreveport
``The string art problem: discovering the envelope''

9:10 - 9:25

Rachel Koskodan, Wayne State University
``Geometric Applications of a unit fraction equation''

9:30

Short Break

9:40

Panel Discussion: Careers in Mathematics, CBA 143

Panelists:	Rosemary Chang, Coastcom
	Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	Theresa Strei, National Security Agency
	Lisa Johnson, University of St. Thomas
	Julie Berg, ZS Associates (Chicago)
Moderator:	Glenn Ledder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10:40

Break, CBA Food Court

11:00

Session 3 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

CBA 025 (Chair: Susan Hermiller)

11:00 - 11:15

Elizabeth Norton, Harvey Mudd College
``Data compression on the symmetric group''

11:20 - 11:35

Emily Putnam, San Francisco State University
``Distinctness of self-intersecting curves on the punctured n-holed torus''

11:40 - 11:55

Hoai Nam Tran, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
``The Chreier group''

CBA 143 (Chair: Theresa Strei)

11:00 - 11:15

Sharon Chuba, Penn State University
``Pressureless incompressible Euler flow in 2D with no external forces''

11:20 - 11:35

Shazia Khan, California State University - Fullerton
``A mathematical model for jaundice and its treatments''

11:40 - 11:55

Angela Ortiz, Terannie Vazquez, Universidad Metropolitana
Beverly Gonzalez, University of Illinois
``Am I too fat?: Bulimia as an epidemic''

12:00

Lunch, Wick Alumni Center, 1520 ``R'' Street (corner of 16th & ``R'')

1:30

Plenary Session II, Auditorium, CBA 143
Rosemary Chang, Coastcom
``Mathematics in Industry: What Matters''

2:30

Short Break

2:40

Session 4 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

CBA 025 (Chair: Katherine Kime)

2:40 - 2:55

Libby Beer, University of Nebraska
``Food Chain Chaos!''

3:00 - 3:15

Sharon Blatt, Elon University
``RISKy business''

CBA 143 (Chair: Roger Wiegand)

2:40 - 2:55

Ellen Eischen, Princeton University
``Rational points on elliptic curves''

3:00 - 3:15

Anne Short, Harvey Mudd College
``Elliptic curves and L-functions''

3:20

Short Break

3:30

CBA 143 Panel Discussion: Choosing a Graduate School

Panelists:	Dusa McDuff, SUNY Stony Brook
	Amelia Taylor, Rutgers University
	Angela Vierling, Boston University
	Lisa Johnson, University of St. Thomas
	Theresa Strei, National Security Agency
	Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Moderator:	Mark Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

4:30

Break, CBA Food Court

4:50

Session 5 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

CBA 025 (Chair: Julie Berg)

4:50 - 5:05

Steffany Belcher-Novosad, Arkansas State University
``Minimum G-aberration designs from Hadamard matrices of order 28''

5:10 - 5:25

Brooke Rohde, United States Military Academy
``Using RGB stereo sensor fusion to enhance depth and volume perception''

5:30 - 5:45

Jodie Jansen, Luther College
``Analysis of adolescent obesity and nutritional behaviors using chi-squared and correlation tests''

CBA 143 (Chair: Jamie Radcliffe)

4:50 - 5:05

LeeAnn Feathers, University of the Pacific
``Embedding complete graphs onto triangular grids''

5:10 - 5:25

Zhou Dong, Carnegie Mellon University
``Probability on polynomials over finite fields''

5:30 - 5:45

Gadalia Weinberg, University of Colorado
``Quaternary codes''

5:50

Dinner (see Restaurant Guide)

7:30

Game Night, Arbor Room, Lower Level of the Cornhusker Hotel Hosted by Women's Undergraduate Math Network

Sunday, February 3, 2002

8:30

Continental breakfast, CBA Food Court

9:00

Session 6 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

CBA 025 (Chair: Amelia Taylor)

9:00 - 9:15

Brenda Johnson, South Dakota State University
``Disjunctive Rado numbers''

9:20 - 9:35

Miyuki Breen, The University of Akron
``Finding the area of fractal tilings''

9:40 - 9:55

Coral Wheeler, University of Akron
``Burnside's Lemma, theory and applications''

CBA 143 (Chair: Kirsten Messer)

9:00 - 9:15

Julia Arciero, University of Michigan
``A mathematical model of tumor evasion of immune surveillance''

9:20 - 9:35

Dorea Claassen, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
``Convex hull analysis of protein/DNA complexes''

9:40 - 9:55

Melanie Lee, UCLA
``Modeling the combination of cytotoxic and antiangiogenic agents in the treatment of cancer using a compartmental model''

10:00

Break, CBA Food Court

10:20

Session 7 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

CBA 025 (Chair: Martha Gregg)

10:20 - 10:35

Jill Schmidt, St. Norbert College
``Angular distribution beam studies of He* + CH4''

10:40 - 10:55

Dawn Ashley, Kalamazoo College
``An introduction to invariant theory via the calculation of Z2[x1,x2,x3]Z7''

CBA 143 (Chair: Wendy Hines)

10:20 - 10:35

Dorothy Moorefield, Appalachian State University
``Effects of ozone on the spatial components of plant cells''

10:40 - 10:55

Ellen Panofsky, Millersville University
``Circularity of circulant graphs''

11:00

Conference Wrap-up, CBA 143 Remarks: Jim Lewis, Chair of the UNL Department of Mathematics and Statistics