Student Talks
 
     Students will have 15 minutes to give their talk.  This time should include 2-3 minutes for questions.  The talks are scheduled with 5 minute breaks in between to allow conference participants to move freely between the different talk sessions.  You may find a complete schedule of talks and abstracts for each talk HERE.
 

Morning Session:  8:30-9:45 a.m.
 
Session I:
8:30-8:45:  A Fast Fourier Transform for the Symmetric Group,
                   Tristan Brand, Harvey Mudd College
 
8:50-9:05:  Using Standard and Non-standard Finite Difference Schemes to Approximate Nonlinear PDE's
                   Karl McMurtry, Occidental College
 
9:10-9:25:  Competition, Succession and PDE's
                   Simon Stump, Harvey Mudd College
 
9:30-9:45:  How to Walk Mathematically
                   Michelle Casper, Pepperdine University
 
Session II:
8:30-8:45:  A Combinatorial Model of the Symmetries of the Klein Quartic
                   Thomas Albertson, Cal State Long Beach
 
8:50-9:05:  Irreducible Graphs
                   Masanori Koyama, Harvey Mudd College
 
9:10-9:25:  Partitions and Pascal's Triangle
                   Matt Highfield, Pepperdine University
 
9:30-9:45:  Multi-Ordered Posets
                   Lisa Bishop, Occidental College
 
Session III:
8:30-8:45:  Math Behind Yagi-Uda Antenna
                   Nina Gilberte, Occidental College
 
8:50-9:05:  Unfair Representation in the Electoral College - A Probabilistic Approach
                   Tom Elgin, Pomona College
 
9:10-9:25:  Zombies, STD's and Graphs:  Epidemiological Modeling Using Network Theory
                   Patrick Dixon, Occidental College
 
9:30-9:45:  Warfare Modeling Using Simple Lanchester Equations
                   Ryan Sharp, Northern Arizona University
 

Freshman-Sophomore Session:  11:00-12:00
Session I:
11:00-11:15:  Identification of Square Roots in Graph Theory
                       Trenton Jansen, Cal State Fullerton
 
11:20-11:35:  Algebraic Insights Into Voting Theory
                       Gregory Minton, Harvey Mudd College
 
11:40-11:55:  Classification of Rootless Matrices
                       Camden Jansen, California Institute of Technology
 
Session II:
11:00-11:15:  The Math Behind Google's Page Rank Algorithm
                        Carolyn Yarnall, University of San Diego
 
11:20-11:35:  The Relationship Between Stress Levels and a Piano Player's Performance
                        Jade Conlee, Mount St. Mary's College
 
11:40-11:55:  Spectral Methods in PDE
                       David Gross, Harvey Mudd College
 

Afternoon Session:  3:45-4:45 p.m.
Session I:
3:45-4:00:  The Analysis of Switching Costs Through Game Theory
                   Chandler Lutz, University of Redlands
 
4:05-4:20:  The Geometry of Goaltending
                    Kieran Riordan, Pepperdine University
 
4:25-4:40:  The Singular Values of the Exponentiated Adjacency Matrices of Broom-Tree Graphs
                    Tracy Powell, Harvey Mudd College
 
Session II:
3:45-4:00:  Conditionally Convergent Series
                   Madjiguene Ndiaye
 
4:05-4:20:  Poincare's Index Theorem
                   Adam Denlinger, University of Redlands
 
4:25-4:40:  The Logic of Sets
                    Samuel Wu, University of Redlands
 
4:45-5:00:  Improper Complex Integrals and Riemann Surfaces
                   Brian Partida, University of Redlands