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Friday, August 12

12:30pm
MW724

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

1:30pm
MW724

"Welcome to the Young Mathematicians Conference 2005"
Prof Warren Sinnott (Director of VIGRE Program, OSU Math)

2:00pm
EA2x5

Session I-A
Chair: Prof Joshua Laison. Room:EA265.

2:00pm EA265	Angelo L Chandler Jr. Diane M Lunman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute & Nazareth College of Rochester NY)	Applications of covering maps to spectral theory of graphs
2:30pm EA265	Robert J Marciniak Jordan A Volz (Canisius College & Bard College)	Characteristic Polynomials, the Figure Equation, and Algebra of Graphs
3:00pm EA265	Courtney R Gibbons (Colorado College)	Fixing Sets of Graphs and Groups
3:30pm EA265	Kevin Lin (UC Berkeley)	*Uniformly (3,r)-regular graphs*
4:00pm EA265	Christopher W Miller Amber C Russell (Fairfield University & Mississippi State University)	Isoperimetric Numbers of Balanced Incomplete Block Design Graphs

Session I-B
Chair: Prof Paul Baginski. Room:EA275.

2:00pm EA275	Matthew Strom Borman (Reed College)	Investigations in Nonabelian Difference Sets of Order 25
2:30pm EA275	Kathleen G Kennedy (The University of the South)	Factorization and Delta Sets in K[x;S]
3:00pm EA275	Matthew R K Wright (Carnegie Mellon)	Accepted Elasticity of Semigroup Rings
3:30pm EA275	Christopher Y Crutchfield (UC Berkeley)	Full Elasticity of Semi-group Rings
4:00pm EA275	Enrique Trevino Yan Zhang (University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) & Harvard University)	On the Generalization of the Frobenius Problem

Session I-C
Chair: Prof Cameron Parker. Room:EA285.

2:00pm EA285	Tim E Clem (American University)	Automatic Differentiation: Approaches and Optimizations
2:30pm EA285	Nickolaus J Mueller (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)	An Analysis of Algorithms for Solving Phase Retrieval Problems
3:00pm EA285	Michael S Skalak (Northwestern University)	Properties of the Horst Algorithm for the Multivariate Eigenvalue Problem
3:30pm EA285	Walter J Melancon (Louisiana State University)	Rational realization of nonzero eigenvalues for symmetric matrices of trees and tree sign patterns
4:00pm EA285	Daniel A James (University of San Diego)	Finding A Matrix of Given Sign Pattern And Line Sums Using the Revised Simplex Method

5:00pm
EA160

Robot Motions and Collisions
Satyan Devadoss
Williams College

Free Evening Click here for Food, Movies, Venues

Saturday, August 13

8:30am
MW724

Coffee/Breakfast

9:30am
EA160

The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set
Robert L. Devaney
Boston University

10:30am
MW724

Poster Presentations
& Refreshments

Beth E Bower Pamela S Wentz (College of William and Mary & Millersville University)	Portfolio Optimization: MAD vs. Markowitz
Sarah M Karl (Central Michigan University)	The Effects of El Nino on mid-Michigan Climate
Meghan E Kelly (University of Illinois)	Least Squares Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
Yishi P Li (Florida State University / Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)	Computational Network Survivability
Tracy J McKay (Bowdoin College)	Evaluating the Chi-Square Attack for Steganography Using ROC Curves
Tricia E Profic Jack Wessel (Canisius College)	Covers, Laplacians, and Kesten's Theorem
John Ratanaprasatporn Israel Cabello (Binghamton University & Texas State)	Microarray Data: Dimension Reduction Strategies
Rebecca J Rosenblatt (University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign)	Inverse Problems on Electric Fields
Yan Shen (University of Chicago)	The Sentinel Method and Pollution in an Aquifer
Joanne M Sklodowski (University of Dayton)	A Statistical Investigation of Obese Mice and Link to Diabetes

Noon

Lunch Break

1:00pm
EA2x5

Session II-A
Chair: Prof Hasan Hamdan. Room:EA265.

1:00pm EA265	Siddharth Rajaram (Middlebury College)	Mixing Properties in Quantum Walks
1:30pm EA265	Nathanial J Burch (Grand Valley State University)	Statistical Properties of Higher-order Lanczos Derivatives
2:00pm EA265	Amy M Jacks John L Szarka (University of Missouri - Rolla & James Madison University)	Comparing Ratio Estimators Based on Systematic Samples

Session II-B
Chair: Prof Joseph Rosenblatt. Room:EA275

1:00pm EA275	Michael S Chmutov (The Ohio State University)	The Knight Move in Chromatic Graph Cohomology
1:30pm EA275	Go Fujita (University of Florida)	Robots on Graphs
2:00pm EA275	Brian H Bargh (Messiah College)	Comparing Normal Forms of Artin Briad Groups

Session II-C
Chair: Prof Dinesh Sarvate. Room:EA285

1:00pm EA285	Stacey E Ackerman Cyrus Aghili (Brown University & Columbia University)	Comaprison of Dimension Reduction Strategies Applied to Microarray Data to Predict Survival
1:30pm EA285	Stephanie C Hicks Bethany L Jablonski (Louisiana State University & East Tennessee State University)	A Comparative Study of Sib-Trait Linkage Analysis Methods
2:00pm EA285	Rahul Bansal Justin P Peters (University of Texas at Austin & Wartburg College)	The Importance of Parameter Estimation in the Modeling of Cell Proliferation

2:30pm
MW724

Refreshments and Posters (see above)
--- Group Photo at 3:00 pm ---

3:30pm
EA2x5

Session III-A
Chair: Prof Airat Bekmetjev. Room:EA265

3:30pm EA265	Matthew J Rodrigues Samuel B Williams (UC Berkeley & UNC-Asheville)	Sufficient Conditions for Complete Minors
4:00pm EA265	Rebecca K Lambert (Carnegie Mellon University)	Sorting Problems in Graphs

Session III-B
Chair: Prof Joseph Rosenblatt. Room:EA275

3:30pm EA275	Ioana R Soran (Georgia Institute of Technology)	Weights whose Biorthogonal Polynomials admit a Rodrigues Formula
4:00pm EA275	James O Sizemore (UC Berkeley)	New Results Concerning C-Groups

Session III-C
Chair: Prof Dinesh Sarvate. Room:EA285

3:30pm EA285	Michael H Borkowski (Simon's Rock College of Bard / Amherst College)	A Numerical Solution to the Quantum Mechanical Inverse Problem with Rational Scattering Coefficients
4:00pm EA285	Patrick M Corbin (Tulane University)	Global Behavior of Dynamical Systems

5:00pm
EA160

The Art of Computation:
M.C. Escher in the 21st Century
Ellen Gethner
University of Colorado

6:30pm

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

Sunday, August 14

8:30am
MW724

Coffee/Breakfast

8:30am
Blackwell

Closed Mentor Session & Breakfast
at the Blackwell Inn Breakfast Room

10:00am
EA2x5

Session IV-A
Chair: Prof Kristi Meyer. Room:EA265

10:00am EA265	Amy M Reiszl (College of Charleston)	A Rank 6 Alternative to the Plücker Relations
10:30am EA265	Alan M LaMielle (Central Michigan University)	The Computerized Exploration of Graphs
11:00am EA265	Katherine A Soller (Central Michigan University)	Walk-Regular Graphs That are Not Vertex-Transitive
11:30am EA265	Yunjiang Jiang (University of Georgia)	Minimal positive semidefinite rank of matrices associated with bipartite graphs

Session IV-B
Chair: Prof Dan Kalman. Room:EA275

10:00am EA275	Nancy Ho Jennifer A Jones (Mills College & Colorado State University-Fort Collins)	Classification of Paradromic Rings
10:30am EA275	James A Godzik (University of California, Berkeley)	Colorability of paradromic rings
11:00am EA275	Gabriel E Maybrun (California State University, Chico)	Boundary Slope Diameter and Crossing Number of 2-Bridge Knots
11:30am EA275	Sara K Rezvi (University of Chicago)	Implications of intrinsically S¹ linked graphs in knot theory

Session IV-C
Chair: Tuncay Aktosun. Room:EA285

10:00am EA285	Briana L McGarry (Central Michigan University)	Cellular Automata: Is Rule 30 Random?
10:30am EA285	Eric Purdy (University of Chicago)	Coin Weighing Problems
11:00am EA285	Tracey D Gunter (College of Charleston)	Group Divisible Design with Two Groups and Block Size Five
11:30am EA285	Samuel J Buelk (College of Charleston)	Pairwise Balanced Designs of Block Sizes Three and Five

Noon
MW724

"Wrap-Up Session of YMC 2005"
Prof Warren Sinnott & Organizers