Kentucky Section of the Mathematical Association of America
Bellarmine University – March 30-31, 2012
Friday, March 30 – Contributed Talks/Invited Address/Others
2:00-8:00 / Origami Display and Screen Play “Between the Folds”
(Horrigan 108)
HORRIGAN 103 / HORRIGAN 104 / HORRIGAN 105 / HORRIGAN 106 / HORR 107
3:20-3:35 / Isaiah Harney (u) Transylvania U
A rational approach to Irrationality / Rebekah Robinson (g)
U of L
Confidence Estimation in Segmented Regression / Frank Raymond (f)
Bellarmine U
Solution to the Stochastic Multi-D Bellman Equation w/ App. to Resource Mngmt / MaxfieldLeidner (g)
U of L
The Total Chromatic Sum and Untemperable Graphs / Dora Ahmadi (f) & Julie Lang (u)
Morehead State U
Mathematics College Readiness
3:40-3:55 / Finley Freibert (g: presenter) & J-L Kim (f)
U of L
Classification of CIS codes of Length 14 / Ryan Therkelsen (f)
Bellarmine U
Some Properties of Generalized Partitions / Andy Martin (f)
Kentucky State U
Should it be called the “Dirichlet Rearrangement Theorem”? / Joshua Bradley (u)
Morehead State U
HyperNEAT Chess / Chris Christensen (f)
NKU
Fruit Attack
4:00 – 4:15 / Devrion Wells (u)
Kentucky State U
Graph Theory and its Connection to Today’s World / Logan Higginbotham (u)
Morehead State U
Of Fish and Bus Routes / Betsy Heines (u)
Transylvania U
The King’s Roundtable: Couples Only / Susan White (f)
Bellarmine U
Ramsey Functions for Quasi-Progressions with Large Diameter / Robert Powers (f)
U of L
A Celebration of May’s Theorem
4:30 – 5:30 / Invited Address
Erik Demaine(MIT)
“Algorithms meet Art, Puzzle, and Magic”
(Amy Cralle Theatre in Wyatt Hall)
5:45 – 7:15 / Banquetwith Live Music
(Hillary’s in Student Center)
HORRIGAN 103 / HORRIGAN 104 / HORRIGAN 105 / HORRIGAN 106 / HORRIGAN 107
7:30 –
7:45 / Kara Wiltrout (u), Carl Durcholz (u), Cali Thomas (u)
Asbury U
ρ, ρ, ρ Your Boat / Leanne Faulkner (f)
Kentucky Wesleyan
What I have learned in two years of Common Core State Standards / Rus May (f)
Morehead State U
How Hard Can the First Problem in Graph Theory Be? / Ryan Gill (f)
U of L
Regression methods with High Dimensional Inputs / Tom Richmond (f)
WKU
Counting Convex Topologies on a Finite Totally Ordered Set
7:50 –
8:05 / Daniel Burton (u), Jennifer Birriel (f), Ignacio Birriel (f)
Morehead State U
VLF Observations of Meteor Showers Using the INSPIRE VLF-3 / Jacob Wildstrom (f)
U of L
Domination Density in Stacks of Graphs / Claus Ernst (f)
WKU
Mathematical Project of Students of the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science / Kaity Bradley (u), Aaron Hill (u), George Lytle (u)
Asbury U
Embezzlement; the Katz out the Bag / Josh Edge (u)
Transylvania U
A Tail of Two Palindromes
8:10 –
8:25 / Anthony Montemayor (g)
WKU
Generating Random Polygons in Spherical Confinement / Amir Ahmadi (u)
Morehead State U
Kentucky’s Potential for Wood Biofuel Production: An Economic Feasibility Analysis / RasithaJayasekare (g)
U of L
Multiple Change Point Estimation in a Liquidity Effect Model / Ryan Stuffelbeam (f)
Transylvania U
How Weird are Weird Fractions? / Virgil Barnard (u)
UK
Independent Proof of Quadratic Reciprocity
8:30 / Aftermath
(Lobby of Norton Health Science Center Hall)