Troy math fest 2015 program

1. 7:45 - Registration/Sign-In -- Hawkins Hall Lobby
Breakfast/Refreshments
8:15-8:30 Welcome and Opening Session
Hawkins Hall Auditorium, Room 122
Presentations
Hawkins Hall, Room 117
Presentations
Hawkins Hall, Room 119
Presentations
Hawkins Hall, Room 111
Presentations
Hawkins Hall, Room 122
8:35-8:55 Golden Perfection
Justin Huval, Josie Thrasher,
Wynn
Diane Porter
Proposal for a Supersonic
Transportation for the Future
Requiring Low Energy
Shelley Hansen, Aaron Wilson,
and Ashlinn Watford
Vijaya Gompa
Novel Agent Method Intelligent
Public Transportation System
Matthew Kotkowski, Yonas
Getahun, Hien Nguyen, Hongyu
Ma, Wasan Ahmed
Sergey Belyi
9:00-9:20 Mandlebrot, Sierpinski, and You
Lizzie Carnley, Desiree
Kirkwood,
Kayla Sprayberry
Diane Porter
Modeling Population of the
American Bison
Hunter Mims
Reiff LaFleur
Modal Consequence Relations:
Lauren Coe
Trey Worthington
Steve Ramroop
An App that Discovers
Wireless Networks
Eugene Belyi, Trung Do,
Indravadan Patel
Sergey Belyi
9:25-9:45 Case Study of Graph
Isomorphism
Gayle Stephens
Ken Roblee
Foundations of Operator Theory
Brandon McMahan
Huijun Yi
Bound States in the Radiation
Continuum for Periodic
Structures
Joseph Park
Reiff Lafleur
“Shapeshifters’ – A look at
Tessellations
Tyler Hall, James Nichols,
Alex Thorpe
Diane Porter
9:50-10:10 A Factoring Attack on the RSA
Algorithm
Haley Creech
Ken Roblee
Minimizing Area with Lagrange
Multipliers
Jeff Dzugan, Meredith
Robinson, Aaron Pendleton
Huijun Yi
Presidential Proof of the
Pythagorean Theorem
India Collier, Nick James,
Gabrielle Turvin
Diane Porter
10:15-10:35 Chromatic Polynomial of Trees
and Cn:
Justin Huval
Ken Roblee
Optimization and A Game of
Thieves:
Hope Ervin, Visvanathan
Subramaniam
Vijaya Gompa
Error Analysis of Topographic
Mapping Methods
Dylan Cook, Drew Bowers, Will
Livingston
David Griffin
Content Centric Testbed
Framework for Health-IoT
Richard Seales, Eugene
Belyi, Trung Do
Sergey Belyi

2. 10:40-11:00 Conic Sections and
Communications
Wesley Henderson
Barbara Wolfe
Graph Energy
Thomas Rechtman
Reiff LaFleur
Groups, Quasigroups, and the
Sudoku Property
John Carr
David Griffin
How Economists Are Secretly
Mathematicians
Olivia Melton,
Kara Jane Henry
Huijun Yi
11:10-11:55 MathFest 2015 Invited Talk, Amalgamations and Hamilton Decompositions
Dr. Chris Rodger, Auburn University
Hawkins Hall Auditorium, Room 122
12:00-1:10 Presenter Recognition, Door Prizes, Group Photo
Hawkins Hall, Room 122
Lunch -- Trojan Dining Hall
Presentations
Hawkins Hall, Room 117
Presentations
Hawkins Hall, Room 119
Presentations
Hawkins Hall, Room 111
Presentations
Hawkins Hall, Room 122
1:20-1:40 Elements of Taxicab Geometry
Kari Biggs,
Mallory Bush, Alex Smith
Diane Porter
Exploration of Babylonian
Mathematics
Sierra Oglesby
Reiff LaFleur
Mathematical Model --Spread of
an Epidemic
Sarah Abdulkareem, Eugene
Belyi, Y. Getahun, Hien Nguyen,
Indravadan Patel
Sergey Belyi
Mutation rates, Matrices, and
Markov chains
Meredith Robinson
Barbara Wolfe
1:45-2:05 Survey of Markov Processes
Aaron Wilson
Huijun Yi
Compare/Contrast of Kruskal’s
and Prim’s Algorithms
Quinton Lindsey
Ken Roblee
The Power of “Back of the
Envelope Calculations” to
Understand the World
Dr. Indra Mukhopadhyay
Shelley Hansen, Aaron Wilson,
Ashlinn Watford.
Vijaya Gompa
2:10 – 2:55 Calculus Competition –Hawkins 122
2:10-2:30 The Halting Problem
Shakil Rafi
Huijun Yi
Localizations and Their Zero-
Divisor Graphs
J. Alex Layson, William Young
Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm
for Digraphs
Tabitha Turner
Reiff Lafleur
2:35-2:55 Newton's Method, Chaos, and
Fractals
Stuart Jones
Vijaya Gompa
Prufer Codes
Teresa Barr
Barbara Wolfe
Application of Expected Value
in Calculating Premium of
Automobile Insurance Policies
Jarrett Vickers and Xuan Ngo
Sergey Belyi

3. 3:00-3:20 Euler’s Formula and Its
Generalization
Matthew Bowling
Reiff Lafleur
Tree Traversals
Rechelle Caldwell
Barbara Wolfe
Chronology of Pi
Nguyen Do, Jessie Hammett,
Alethea Hoffer, Quinton Lindsey
Diane Porter
3:25 – 3:45 Calculus Competition Awards, Door Prizes, Closing Remarks – Hawkins 122