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JMM 06 Student Poster Winners
The 2006 List of Prize Winners and Advisors
Joint Mathematical Meetings of the AMS/MAA
San Antonio, TX
Supported by:
American Mathematical Society
Association for Women in Mathematics
Council on Undergraduate Research
Educational Advancement Foundation
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Poster Number 2: An Upper Bound on Stick
Numbers for All
Alternating Knots
Author: Erik A. Insko, California State University, San
Bernadino
Advisor: Rolland Trapp, REU Instructor
Poster Number 5: The Structure of Zero-Divisor Graphs
Authors: Helen A. Hauser, Natalia Cordova and Clyde
Gholston, Summer
Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Advisor: Reza Akhtar, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Poster Number 8: Mixing of Quantum Walk on Circulant
Bunkbeds
Author: Siddharth Rajaram, Department of Mathematics,
Middlebury
College
Advisor: Christino Tamon, Division of Mathematics and
Computer Science,
Clarkson University
Poster Number 11: Modeling Scavenger Populations With
Cubic
Systems of
Differential Equations
Author: Ben C. Nolting, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Advisor: Joseph Previte, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Poster Number 13: Predicting CDR Flexibility in
Immunoglobulin
Author: Sean M. Law, York University, Toronto, Canada and
Michigan
State University
Advisor: Walter J Whiteley, York University, Toronto, Canada
Poster Number 21: An Investigation into Statistical
Tests for
Stochastic Dominance with Applications to Economic Decision Theory
Author: David J. Kahle, University of Richmond
Advisor: Javier Rojo, Rice University
Poster Number 29: Rupture in Thin Fluid Films
Author: Robin M. Baur, Harvey Mudd College
Advisor: Andrew J. Bernoff, Harvey Mudd College
Poster Number 31: Comparing Voting Methods Using
Representation
Theory
Author: Gregory T. Minton, Harvey Mudd College
Advisor: Michael Orrison, Harvey Mudd College
Poster Number 42: The Linear Cutwidth of Complete
n-Partite Graphs
Author: Chelsea Rae Weitzel, California State
University San
Bernardino
Advisor: Joe Chavez, California State University San
Bernardino
Poster Number 52: LDPC Codes Generated by Conics in
the Classical
Projective Plane
Author: Sean V. Droms, University of Mary Washington
Advisor: Keith E. Mellinger, University of Mary
Washington
Poster Number 55: On the Generalization of the Frobenius
Problem
Authors: Enrique Trevino, University of Texas at El Paso and
Jeffrey
Amos, Kansas State University
Advisor: Vadim Ponomarenko, Trinity University
Poster Number 60: Localization of Sensors in Networks:
Global Rigidity
of G2 in R2 and G3 in R3
Author: Matthew Cheung, York University
Advisor: Walter Whiteley, York University
Poster Number 63: Robustness and Transients Applied to
Harvesting
Peregrine Falcon Populations
Author: Ellen Peterson, Wittenberg University
Advisor: Richard Rebarber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Poster Number 66: Eulerian Graph Representations for siRNA
Sequence
Structure
Author: Karen Lostritto, Brown University
Advisor: Stanley Dunn, Rutgers University
Poster Number 72: Locating Circular Inclusions Within a
Bounded Region
Author: Hilary M. Spring, Mount Holyoke College
Advisor: Kurt Bryan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Poster Number 74: Heart Rate Regulation During the
Postural
Change from Sitting to Standing
Authors: Robert W. Benim, University of Portland, Sarah Lynn
Joyner,
Meredith College and Eamonn Tweedy, North Carolina State University
Advisors: Mette Olufsen, Hien Tran and Laura Ellwein
North
Carolina State University
Poster Number 75: Analysis of Microarray Data using
Monte Carlo
Neural Networks
Author: Patricia A. Carey, East Tennessee State
University
Advisor: Jeff Knisley, East Tennessee State University
Poster Number 76: Uniformly (t,r)-regular Graphs
Author: Haijian Kevin Lin, UC Berkeley
Advisor: Peter D Johnson, Auburn University
Poster Number 78: The Effect of Immune Response and
Combination
Drug Treatment on the Progression of Multi-Strain HIV
Author: Kelly Rose Smith, Clarion University of PA
Advisor: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State
University,
Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute
Poster Number 83: An Interspecies Competition Model
with
Multiscale Interpretations
Author: Jose Luis Almora, University of North Carolina
at Chapel
Hill Advisor: Carlos Castillo Chavez, Arizona State
University
Poster Number 84: Modeling of the Growth of the
Loosening Zone
Around a Borehole Using Integro-Differential Equations
Author: La'Nita D. Ward, Spelman College
Advisor: Alla Balueva, Spelman College
Poster Number 85: A Continuous Model of Gene Expression
Authors: Lissette LaPlace, University of the Virgin
Islands,
Elizabeth Miller, Ferris State University, Jason Pham, California
Polytechnic State University and Joseph Hunt, Lamar University
Advisor: Erika Camacho, Loyola Marymount University
Poster Number 87: 3-Rank in Quadratic Fields
Author: Carl Erickson, Stanford University
Advisor: Allison Pacelli, Williams College
Poster Number 88: An Exploration of the Lights Out
Solitaire Game
on Paths, Cycles, and Caterpillar Graphs
Author: Alexander W. Giffen, University of Dayton
Advisors: Darren Parker, University of Dayton
Poster Number 90: Tiling with 4 X 6 and 5 X 7
Rectangles
Author: Rachell Ashley, Frances Cabrera, Rochester
Institute of
Technology
Advisor: Darren A Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Poster Number 93: Markovian Change Point Analysis
Applied to DNA
Author: Aaron J. Arvey, Claremont McKenna College
Advisor: Alpan Raval, Keck Graduate Institute
Poster Number 96: Alcohol's Effect on Neuron Firing
Author: Edna Susan Joseph, University of the Virgin Islands
Advisors: Stephen Wirkus and Erika Camacho, Applied
Mathematical
Sciences Summer Institute
Poster Number 97: Polytopes, Toric Varieties, and
Ideals: A look
at Pyramids and Prisms
Author: Lisa D. Byrne, St Mary's College of Maryland
Advisor: Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College
Poster Number 110: On the Frequency and Generation of
Sturmian and
One-Dimensional Cut and Project Sequences
Author: Kensey L. Riley, Truman State University
Advisor: David Garth, Truman State University
Poster Number 112: Lie Sphere Transformations
Author: Ellen K. Gasparovic, College of the Holy Cross
Advisor: Thomas Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
Poster Number 115: Nimber Sequences with no Preperiod
for
Three-Element
Subtraction Sets
Author: Brittany C. Shelton, Montclair State
University
Advisor: Michael Jones, Montclair State University
Poster Number 121: A Newton Polyhedron Method for
Explicit
Calculation of the Igusa Local Zeta Function Associated with a
Degenerate Polynomial
Author: Adrienne B. Rau, Barnard College, Columbia
University
Advisor: Margaret Robinson, Mt Holyoke College
Poster Number 123: FEMLAB Electromagnetic-thermal
Model of
Microwave Thermal Processing
Authors: Christopher Mirabito, Carnegie Mellon
University and Anu
Narayanan, The University of Texas ’ Austin
Advisors: Suzanne Weekes and Vadim Yakovlev, Worcester
Polytechnic
Institute
Poster Number 125: Intrinsic Spectral Geometry of the
Kerr-Newman Event
Horizon
Author: Ricardo Javier Cordero, Universidad Metropolitana de
Puerto Rico
Advisor: Martin Engman, Universidad Metropolitana de Puerto
Rico
Poster Number 126: In Search of an 8: Rank Computations on a
Family of
Quartic Curves
Author: Kathleen Ansaldi, Loyola College of Maryland
Advisor: Edray Goins, Purdue University
Poster Number 127: Binary Quadratic Forms and Classes of
Convex
Polygons in the Lattice Plane
Author: Kevin J Hughes, The University of Texas at Austin
Advisor: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas, The University of
Texas at Austin
Poster Number 131: Mathematical Model of Plastron
Respiration in
American Dog Tick
Author: Bach Quang Ha, Mathematical Biology Initiative,
Truman State
University
Advisor: Phillip Ryan, Truman State University
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