REU 2003
Central Michigan University
Final Reports
Here are final reports for the undergraduate research projects developed during
the NSF supported Research Experience for Undergraduates at Central Michigan
University in the summer of 2003.
Cover page for the 2003 Final Report,
listing participants and NSF grant number.
The Irredundant Number of Star
Graphs by Mindy Bradford under the direction of Sivaram Narayan
Minimum Rank of
Positive Semi-definite Matrices with a Prescribed Graph by Kelly Steinmetz
and Wendy Wang under the direction of Sivaram Narayan
On Graphs Associated
with a Commutative Zero Divisor Semigroup: Perfect, Complete R-partite, and Triangulated Planar Graphs
by Michel D’sa and Inessa Epstein under the direction of Lisa DeMeyer and Ken
Smith
On the Graph of a
Commutative Zero Divisor Semigroup by Amanda Geiser under the direction of
Lisa DeMeyer
Progress and Searches in
Difference Sets and Relative Difference Sets by Nicholas Bauer, Paul
Carmany and Peter Landry under the direction of Ken Smith
Subgraph Summability Number of
a Graph by Josh Whitney under the direction of Sivaram Narayan
The Subgraph Summability Number of
Squids and Paths by Raj Doshi under the direction of Sivaram Narayan
Two Families of
Randomly Decomposable Graphs by Erin Militzer and Lisa Driskell under the
direction of Ken Smith