Eighth Annual

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All talks are open to the entire UNL Community

Friday, February 3, 2006

2:30: Welcome and Registration, City Campus Nebraska Union Auditorium, Rm. 211
There will be soft drinks and snacks at the registration
3:30: Opening Session, City Campus Nebraska Union Auditorium, Rm. 211
Welcome: Judy Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Remarks: J.B. Milliken, President, University of Nebraska
3:45 - 4:45: Plenary Session I, City Campus Nebraska Union Auditorium, Rm. 211
Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University
Computing over the reals: where Turing meets Newton
4:45: Break, City Campus Nebraska Union Auditorium, Rm. 211
5:00: Opportunities from Federal Agencies, City Campus Nebraska Union Auditorium, Rm. 211
Michelle Wagner, National Security Agency
Lloyd Douglas, National Science Foundation
7:00: Banquet, Holiday Inn
Speaker: Bettye Anne Case, Florida State University

Saturday, February 4, 2006

8:00

Continental Breakfast, CBA Courtyard

8:30

Session 1 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

Graph Theory, CBA 143 (Chair: Christine Heitsch)
Statistics and Financial Mathematics, CBA 025 (Chair: Kristie Pfabe)
Number Theory, CBA 128 (Chair: Andrea Frazier)

8:30 - 8:45

CBA 143: Sarah Bleiler, Seton Hall University
A surgery reducing the number of spanning trees for certain threshold graphs
CBA 025: Aubrey Komorowski, Duquesne University
Independence models, likelihood ratio tests, and a side of bacon
CBA 128: Pam Welch, Nazareth College of Rochester
Partitions of integers

8:50 - 9:05

CBA 143: Diana Carr, Central College
The congestion of graphs
CBA 025: Tabitha Huntemann, St. Mary's College of Maryland
A simple method for parameter estimation for the left-truncated normal distribution
CBA 128: Lola Thompson, University of Chicago
Impartial combinatorial games and the field ON2

9:10 - 9:25

CBA 143: Elizabeth Hayden, Coe College
Finding short paths, minimal cutsets, and enumerations of graphs
CBA 025: Shengjie Guo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Topics in financial mathematics
CBA 128: Kensey Riley, Truman State University
On the frequency and generation of Sturmian and one-dimensional cut and project sequences

9:30

Short Break, CBA Courtyard

9:45

Panel Discussion: Careers Using Mathematics, Love Library Auditorium

Panelists:	Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University
	Christine Heitsch, University of Washington
	Laura S. Kang, Boeing
	Krista Taylor, Shawnee State University
	Michelle D. Wagner, National Security Agency
Moderator:	Lloyd Douglas, National Science Foundation

10:40

Break, CBA Courtyard

11:00

Session 2 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

Graph Theory, CBA 143 (Chair: Amelia Taylor)
Mathematical Biology, CBA 025 (Chair: Richard Rebarber)
General, CBA 128 (Chair: Sue Geller)

11:00 - 11:15

CBA 143: Diane Lunman, Nazareth College of Rochester
Applications of covering maps to spectral theory of graphs
CBA 025: Jennifer Houle, University of Maine
A spatial population model on a dynamic heterogenous landscape
CBA 128: Heather Anderton, Houghton College
Shanille shoots baskets: a generalization of a 2002 Putnam Exam contest problem

11:20 - 11:35

CBA 143: Tricia Profic, Canisius College
Covers, Laplacians, and Kesten's theorem
CBA 025: Jessica Schaefer, Northern Arizona University
Diffusive equations with non-constant harvesting
CBA 128: Brittany Mosby, Spelman College
Elliptic curve applications in number theory and cryptography

11:40 - 11:55

CBA 143: Eliana Hechter, University of Washington
Embeddings of circular planar graphs
CBA 025: Nancy Newren, University of Utah
Wild population augmentation from reserve populations
CBA 128: Traci Baker, Cathy George, and Laura Smith, Northwest Missouri State University
Observations and recommendations for reading mathematics

12:00

Group Photo, Nebraska Union

12:15

Lunch, Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R Street (corner of 16th & R)
Note: The plenary speakers, panelists, invited graduate students, and members of the organizing committee have agreed to sit at assigned tables so that participants can have an opportunity to talk with them informally. Check the packet of bios for table assignments.

2:00 - 3:00

Plenary Session II, Love Library Auditorium
Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University
From fixed points to dynamics

3:10

Session 3 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

Graph Theory and Optimization, CBA 143 (Chair: Laura S. Kang)
Mathematical Biology, CBA 025 (Chair: Brigitte Tenhumberg)
Analysis, CBA 128 (Chair: Wendy Hines)

3:10 - 3:25

CBA 143: Colleen Hughes, Denison University
The Steiner problem on a wide cone
CBA 025: Alyson Deines, Kansas State University
Robustness and transients applied to falcon harvesting
CBA 128: Erica Zrubek, Texas A&M University
Finite-interval wavelet sets

3:30 - 3:45

CBA 143: Sharon Hutton, Baylor University
Totally unimodular matrices and graphs
CBA 025: Amy Keighley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cheetah conservation
CBA 128: Kim Meyer and Kelly Houston, University of Louisville
Small subsets of the real line

3:50 - 4:05

CBA 143: Candace Selneck, Emmanuel College
An optimal algorithm for a course scheduling problem
CBA 025: Joy Kogut, Simmons College
Modeling invasive species

4:10

Poster Session, CBA, main north-south hallway
Snacks, CBA Courtyard

5:15

Session 4 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

Knot Theory, CBA 143 (Chair: Krystyna Kuperberg)
Algebra, CBA 025 (Chair: Sue Geller)
Analysis, CBA 128 (Chair: Al Peterson)

5:15 - 5:30

CBA 143: Debbie Witczak, Benedictine University
The arccos(-1/3) regular stick number of knots
CBA 025: Daniela Banu, Hope College
Presentations and representations of metacyclic groups
CBA 128: Heather Rosenblatt, University of Missouri
A general converse theorem for mean value theorems in linear elasticity

5:35 - 5:50

CBA 143: Melanie DeVries, University of Iowa
Technology and the knot table
CBA 025: Sarah Gilles, St. Olaf College
Selfatopes and their properties
CBA 128: Laura Cannon, Brigham Young University
Minimal surfaces and harmonic shearing

6:10

Dinner (see Restaurant Guide)

8:00

Game Night, Missouri and Niobrara Rooms, Holiday Inn

Sunday, February 5, 2006

8:00

Continental breakfast, CBA Courtyard

8:30

Session 5 - Presentations by Undergraduate Participants

Discrete Mathematics, CBA 143 (Chair: Kathy Bartley)
Analysis, CBA 025 (Chair: David Pitts)
Combinatorics, CBA 128 (Chair: Ellen Veomett)

8:30 - 8:45

CBA 143: Maureen Jackson, Lafayette College
The mathematics behind the game of SET
CBA 025: Rachel Saul, Texas A&M University
Tight frames in R^2
CBA 128: Emma Millman, Gettysburg College
On cutsets in the Boolean lattice

8:50 - 9:05

CBA 143: Sara Rowell, Xavier University
Using sets of winning coalitions to generate feasible Banzhaf power distributions
CBA 025: Megan Gallant, Trinity University
Periodic points in maps with f-invariant delta-scrambled sets
CBA 128: Margie Leopold, Regis University
Tropical mathematics in polynomials

9:10 - 9:25

CBA 143: Robyn Wolfe, Shippensburg University
Banzhaf power index applied to the 2005 German elections
CBA 025: Ashley Askew, Clayton State University
The delta derivative of the sine and cosine functions on time scales

9:45

Break, CBA Courtyard

10:00

Panel Discussion: Choosing a Mathematics Graduate Program, Love Library Auditorium

Panelists:	Bettye Anne Case, Florida State University
	Cindy Farthing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1999 NCUWM participant
	Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University
	Jennifer Leahy, University of Arizona
	Andrea Watkins, Duke University
	Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Moderator:	Jim Lewis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

11:00

Conference Wrap-up, Love Library Auditorium
Remarks: John Meakin, Chair of the UNL Department of Mathematics