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Friday, August 20

12:15pm

Registration
in Math Tower 7th Floor Lounge
231 West 18th Ave

MW 724

1:45pm

"Welcome to Young Mathematicians Conference - 2004"

Peter March (Chair, Dept of Math, OSU)

MW 724

2:00pm

Parallel Sessions (I)

Session A (EA 265)

2:00pm	Peter Shallot (Slippery Rock Univ)	Trajectory estimation of small diameter rockets
2:30pm	Alicia Jumper (Ohio State Univ)	Mathematical Models of the Human Sleep/Wake Cycle
3:00pm	Kristen Dardia (James Madison Univ)	Using Scale Mixtures of Normals to Model Continuously Compounded Return
3:30pm	Laura Dev & Sara Lapan (Tufts University & Univ of Chicago)	Modeling Cancer Mathematically

Session B (EA 275)

2:00pm	Tyler Smith (Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )	1-Groups Acting on CAT(0) Cube Complexes
2:30pm	Johnson Xin Jia (Univ California, Los Angeles)	Hyperbolic isometries on R-trees
3:00pm	Kimberly Cervello (State Univ of New York at Genesco)	Extraction Degrees of Zero Sequences in Finite Abelian Groups
3:30pm	Liya Zhu (Univ California, Berkeley)	Extraction Degrees of Zero Sequences
4:00pm	Micah Miller (Bowdoin College)	Constructing Minimal Length Representatives in Thompson\'s Group F

Session C (EA 285)

2:00pm	Shawn Elledge (Arizona State Univ)	Applications of Graph Pebbling to Group Theory
2:30pm	John Hegeman (Stanford Univ)	Polynomial Designs: Existence and Construction Results
3:00pm	Steven Klee & Leah Yates (Valparaiso Univ & East Carolina Univ)	Tight Subdesigns of the Higman-Sims Design
3:30pm	Colleen Hughes (Denison Univ)	Straight Line Embeddings of K6
4:00pm	Jesse Raab (College of Charleston)	Slightly Irregular Non-Planar Graphs

Eighteenth Avenue
classroom building

5:00pm

"Fixed Points and Stormy Weather"
Prof. Mike Starbird
(Univ Texas, Austin)

EA 160

Free Evening Click here for Food, Movies, Venues

Saturday, August 21

8:30 am

Coffee

9:45 am

"TBA"

Prof John Conway
(Princeton Univ)

EA160

11:00 am

Poster Session
& Refreshments

Julie Bjornstad & Alexei Dachevski (Georgia Institute of Technology)	Modeling of Phytoplankton Food Chains
Nate Burch (Grand Valley State Univ)	Least squares Properties of the Lanczos\' Derivative and Higher Order Lanczos\' Derivatives
Thomas Callaghan (Georgia Institute of Technology)	Random Walker (Monkey) Rankings for College Football
Daisy (Yan) Huang (Univ California, Berkeley)	Estimating Survival Curves with Boundary Constrain
Mary E. Kloc (Kenyon College)	Computational Modeling of Ca2+ Oscillations in Astrocytes
Sidharth Rupani (Worchester Poly Inst)	Modeling iBOT Belt Dynamics
Leya Tesmenitsky (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)	A Game Based on Vertex-Magic Edge Labeling
Mark Westland (Pacific Lutheran Univ)	A Quantitative Study of Student Retention by both Statistical and Probabilistic Approaches

MW 724
(Mathematics Lounge)

12:00 pm

Lunch Break

1:00 pm

Parallel Sessions (II)

Session A (EA 265)

1:00pm	Inna Zakharevich (Harvard Univ)	A Generalization of Wigner\'s Semicircle Law: Distribution of States of Random Symmetric Matrices
1:30pm	Chris Hammond (Ohio State Univ)	Density of States of Random Symmetric Toeplitz Matrices
2:00pm	SuchetaSoundarajan (Ohio State Univ)	m-paths of the 3x+1 problem

Session B (EA 275)

1:00pm	Jason Allen Anema (Purdue Univ)	Riemann Zeta Function as a Conformal mapping
1:30pm	Xiaoling Ang (Loyola Univ Chicago)	Explorations of the Henon Map for Small Values of a and c
2:00pm	Gwyneth Harrison-Shermoen (Wesleyan Univ)	A search for f-invariant δ-Scrambled Sets

Session C (EA 285)

1:00pm	Lorraine Kraus (The College of New Jersey.)	Multiple Attacks on Methods for Hiding Messages
1:30pm	Benjamin Johnson (Kenyon College)	Searching for New Error Correcting Codes
2:00pm	Gagon Sekhon ( California State Univ, Hayward)	Time Release Cryptography

2:30 pm

Poster Session
& Refreshments
(See Morning Session)

MW 724
(Mathematics Lounge)

3:30 pm

Parallel Sessions (III)

Session A (EA 265)

3:30pm	Anthony DiPietro (Grove City College)	3D Edge Detection and Visualization based on the Geometric Heat Equation
4:00pm	Nancy Rodriguez (Univ of San Diego)	Displacement Analysis on a Three-Layered Elastic Strip Subjected to Heaviside Loading

Session B (EA 275)

3:30pm	Jessica J. Poole (Texas Southern Univ)	Modular Pascal Triangle
4:00pm	Misha Teplitskiy (Rice Univ)	Partial Semigroups and Primality Indicators

Session C (EA 285)

3:30pm	Aaron Thomas Hill (Brigham Young Univ)	Construction of Semi-symmetric Graphs of Girth 6 and Degree 4
4:00pm	Benjamin Vugteveen (Grand Valley State Univ)	You, Me, and Semi-Symmetry: Disjunction Graphs and their Properties

5:00 pm

" Phyllotaxis, Dancing Elves, and a Flower's View of Euclid's Algorithm"

Prof. Susan Goldstine
(St. Mary's College of Maryland)

EA 0160

6:45 pm

Banquet at Fawcett Center
2400 Olentangy River Road
in the Alumni Lounge

Sunday, August 22

8:30 am

Coffee

9:30 am

Closed Session for Mentors

MW 154

9:30 am

Parallel Sessions (IV)

Session A (EA 265)

9:30am	Phillip Whitman (Univ of Texas at Austin)	Analyziing behavior of solutions of a nonlinear elliptic PDE
10:00am	Grant Michael Boquet (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ)	GRiTS: Global Re-indexing for Triangular (Tetrahedral) Simplices
10:30am	Jim Freitag and Jennifer Mo (Univ of Illinois and Northwestern Univ)	Generalizations Schelling Neighborhood Segregation Model (Evolutioniary Game Theory)
11:00am	Micah J. Fuerst (Wright State Univ)	Existence Status of Circulant Weighing Matrices

Session B (EA 275)

9:30am	Damir Dzhalil Dzhafarov (PurdueUniv )	On Binary Relations in Definitions of Finiteness
10:00am	Jeff Ginn and Jenell Nyberg (Central Michigan Univ)	New Results on Difference Sets
10:30am	Daniel Reiser (New Mexico State Univ)	Factorization Lengths in Numerical Monoids
11:00am	Nathan Kaplan (Princeton Univ)	Non-Unique Factoriztions in Numerical Monoids Generated by Intervals

Session C (EA 285)

9:30am	James Owen Sizemore (Univ California, Berkeley)	Relations Between Crosscap Number and Genus of Torus Knots
10:00am	Matthew King	Two size PBD\'s with a Maximum Number of Triples
10:30am	Samuel J, Buelk (College of Charleston)	Two Block Size PBDs with a Maximum Number of Triples
11:00am	Benjamin Harris (Brown Univ)	The Minimum Positive Semidefinite Rank of a Graph

11:30am

Wrap Up Session

MW 724
(Mathematics Lounge)