SHSU Student Presentations

Student Talks and Presentations

Joint Mathematics Meetings	Meeting of the Texas Section of the MAA	Math Fest	Texas Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
	Texas Section 2008	Math Fest 2008	TUMC 2008
	Texas Section 2007	Math Fest 2007	TUMC 2007
Joint Meetings 2006	Texas Section 2006	Math Fest 2006	TUMC 2006
Joint Meetings 2005	Texas Section 2005	MathFest 2005	TUMC 2005
Joint Meetings 2004	Texas Section 2004	MathFest 2004
	Texas Section 2003	MathFest 2003

Meeting of the TX Section of the MAA 2008
Stephenville, TX
April 2-5, 2008

Rebecca Bowyer
Picture Perfect
Lindsay Brown
Testing for Synergy in Combinations of Cancer Fighting Agents
(Advised by Melinda Holt)
Sarah C. Evans
Nonparametric Bootstrap Applications in Linear Regression
(Advised by Ananda Bandulasiri)
Justin Green
Using Hansen Solubility Parameters to Model Solvent Blends
(Advised by Brian Loft)
Kalanka Pradeep Javalath
Comparisons of Robustness of the Tests for Equality of Variances
(Advised by Ananda Bandulasiri)
Christine Keith
Symmetry Groups from Crystal Structures
Douglas Moore
Fourier Transforms and 4-D Tensor-Based Wave Equations
Brandon Morgan
The Truth is Not Enough to Set you Free
Amanda Seitz
Prime Faux Pas
Krystal Woods
The Existence of Infinity Through Transfinite Numbers

TUMC 2007
Huntsville, TX
November 3, 2007

Jared Albrecht
The Three Models of Hyperbolic Geometry
(Advised by Yuliya Babenko)

Mark Lane
Algebraic Combinatorics and Magic n-Circles
(advised by Rebecca Garcia)

Stefanie Meyer
Complex History

Mauricio Rivas
Morse Theory from a Combinatorial Point of View
(Advised by Brian Loft)

Amanda Seitz
Fun Fibonacci Facts

Dana Wheaton
Billiard Mathematics

Krystal Woods
How Long is the Coast of Britain?
(Advised by Yuliya Babenko)

Math Fest 2007
San Jose, CA
August 2 - 5, 2007

Mark Lane
Magic n-Circles
(Advised by Rebecca Garcia)
Stefanie Meyer
A Complex History
Mauricio Rivas
A Combinatorial Morse Theory
(Advised by Brian Loft)
Amanda Seitz
Fun Fibonacci Facts
Dana Wheaton
Billiard Mathematics

Meeting of the Texas Section of the MAA
Edinburg, TX
12 - 14 April 2007

James Doughman

Simulating One-Day-International Cricket Scores
(Advised by Ananda Bandulasiri)
Tiffany Gatchel
In the Blink of an Eye
Luke Harrison
How Not To Be Like Cortez
Mark Lane
Algebraic Combinatorics and Magic n-Circles
(Advised by Rebecca Garcia)
Recognized for outstanding student presentation
Stefanie Meyer
A Complex History
Amanda Seitz
Bunnies, Bees, and Pineapples - Oh, my! An exploration of the Fibonacci Sequence
Darrel A. Silva
Order Dimension of the Joining of Special Classes of Poset
(Advised by Rebecca Garcia)
Recognized for outstanding student presentation
Min Sun
Comparing Two Imputation Methods for Continuous Data
Dana G. Wheaton
Rack 'em

TUMC 2006
SHSU
October, 2006

James Branch

Curves and Surfaces: The Development of CAGD
b
(Advised by Yuliya Babenko)
Mark Lane

Magic Connections Between Squares and Graphs
(Advised by Rebecca Garcia)
Melissa Mauck

Fingerprints: Are They Your Own?
Amy Potter

Sabermetrics, or Which Astro is the Most Valuable Player?

(Advised by Yuliya Babenko)
Mauricio Rivas

Art and Mathematics

Math Fest 2006
Knoxville, TN
August, 2006

Angela Brown

(poster presentation)
Mark Lane

Magic Connections Between Squares and Graphs
(Advised by Rebecca Garcia)
Mauricio Rivas
Mathematics and Art
Darrel Silva
The Coadunation of Genrealized Crowns
(Advised by Rebecca Garcia)

Meeting of the Texas Section of the MAA
Wichita Falls, TX
April, 2006

Angela Brown
A Partial Classification of Mathematically Celtic Knots
Samuel Seth Demel
Homeomorphisms, Diffeomorphisms, and Prime Numbers
(Advised by Brian Loft)
Fang Duan
Crossover Design
(Advised by Ferry Butar)
Riley Gough
The Great RBI Prophecy

Eunice Gray
Population Processes

Huixing He
Incomplete Block Designs
Advised by Ferry Butar

Amanda Hoffman
Naive Derivatives
Advised by Jon Short

Shelly Keith
Magnetization of Cerium Ions as a Function of Temperature
Recognized for an Outstanding Student Presentation

Mark Lane
Magic Connections Between Squares and Graphs
Advised by Rebecca Garcia

Melissa Mauck
Fingerprints: Are They Your Own?

Youfeng Nie
Incomplete Block Designs: Factorial Treatment Design
Advised by Ferry Butar
Recognized for an Outstanding Student Presentation

Leslie A Pacher
The Mathematical "Witch"

Mauricio Rivas
Art and Mathematics

Erik Robertson
Actuaries: Capitalizing Risk

Courtney Sanchez
A Pony's Proper Proportions

Aruna Saram
Taguchi Approach to the Design of Experiment for Quality and Cost
Advised by Ferry Butar

Kennon Silence
``Understanding Animal Group Movement'' or ``A Schooling Schooling''
Advised by Brian Loft

Min Sun
Two-Level Fractional Factorial Designs
Advised by Ferry Butar

Yuhong Tang
Comprehensive optimal design in split-plot method
Advised by Ferry Butar

Jing Wang
Two RSM Models and the Corresponding Designs
Advised by Ferry Butar
Recognized for an Outstanding Student Presentation

Lacey Wells
A New Look at an Old Twist

Joint Mathematics Meetings 2006
San Antonio, TX
January, 2006
Poster Presentations

Eunice Gray
Population Processes

Poster prepared as part of AMSSI REU at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Mauricio Rivas
Knot Just Art From Trigonometry

Poster overseen by Jackie Jensen

Texas Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2005
Huntsville, TX
October, 2005
(Talks overseen by Jackie Jensen)

Sarah Fritsch
The Life and Work of Georg Cantor
Eunice Gray
Hispanic Mathematicians
Lindsay Hardy
350 Years of Proving Fermat's Last Theorem
Amanda Hoffman
Zero: It's More Than Nothing
Melissa Mauck
The Spiral of Roots
Mauricio Rivas
Extending Means to n Variables

Math Fest 2005
Albuquerque, NM
August, 2005
(Talks overseen by Jackie Jensen and Julie Jones.)

Angela Brown
Which Mathematical Knots are Celtic?
Nicholas Croll
Generalizing Identities for Sine and Cosine
Sarah Fritsch
The Life and Work of Georg Cantor

Won for best talk in her session
Amanda Hoffman
It's More Than Nothing
Mark Lane
An Introduction to Franklin Squares
Melissa Mauck
The Spiral of Roots
Nnamdi Oparanozie
Koch and the Koch Snowflake
Mauricio Rivas
Extending Means to n Variables

Meeting of the Texas Section of the MAA
Arlington, TX
April, 2005
(Talks overseen by Jackie Jensen and Julie Jones unless otherwise noted.)

Angela Brown
What Determines a Celtic Knot?
Dale Cap
Permutation Tests for Mulivariate Data
(Advisor: Ferry Butar)
Nicholas Croll
Generalizing the Sum Identities for Sine and Cosine
Patrick Ferguson
A History of Heliocentric Theory
Sarah Fritsch
The Life and Work of Georg Cantor
Eunice Gray
I Have a Math Degree: What Now?
Rebecca Griffin
The Logic Behind Digital Systems
Riley Gough
When Billy Wagner Pitches to Gary Sheffield
Lindsay Hardy
Mathematics and Art: The Mathematical Works of M.C. Escher
Amanda Hoffman
Zero: It's More Than Nothing
Hideyuki Honjo
Permutation Tests for Paired Comparison
(Advisor: Ferry Butar)
Pollyanna Jones
Florence Nightingale
Malhar Kale
Chaos Dynamics for Forecasting a Time Series
(Advisor: Ferry Butar)
Mark Lane
Counting Frankline Squares
Melissa Mauck
The Spiral of Roots
Ashley Moses
A Calculus Student's Dream: A Generalized Power Rule
Jae-wan Park
Permutation Tests for Two Sample
(Advisor: Ferry Butar)
Kenneth Parker
Permutation Tests for K-sample
(Advisor: Ferry Butar)
Annapurna Ravi
An Insight into Heavy-Tailed Distributions
(Advisor: Ferry Butar)
Andrew Reynolds
Modern Polling Methods
Mauricio Rivas
Extending Means to n Variables
Lacey Wells
Women Can Do Math!

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Atlanta, GA January 2005

Oral presentations

Angela Brown
Can Celtic Knots Be Classfied?
(Advisor: Jackie Jensen)

Poster presentations

Emily Buessing
Loaded Dice (Advisor: Julie Jones)

MathFest 2004
Providence, RI
11 August - 14 August, 2004
(Talks overseen by Jackie Jensen and Julie Jones)

Angela Brown
Knot Your Usual Talk About Celtic Art
Emily Buessing
Loaded Dice
Christy Sue Crouch
Coloring with Hamilton and Tait
Pollyanna Jones
The Mathematics of Florence Nightingale
Mark Lane
Mathematical Developments in Early Chinese History
Katherine Magouirk
Pythagorean Society
Ashley Moses
The Impact of Additional Data Values to Standard Statistical Estimators
Andrew Reynolds
Today or Tomorrow?

Meeting of the Texas Section of the MAA
Corpus Christi, TX
April, 2004
(Talks overseen by Jackie Jensen and Julie Jones unless otherwise noted.)

Angela Brown
Knot Theory: An Overview
Emily Buessing
John Nash
Lisa Cannon
A Multivariate Analysis of MIDI Data
(Advisor: Cecil Hallum)
Christy Sue Crouch
PHiZZ, Colors and Soccer Balls
Eunice Gray
Hispanic Mathematicians

Award won for best presentation in her session
Lindsay Beth Hardy
Sophie Germain, the Masked Woman of Mathematics
James Kyle Jordan
Terrorized by Mathematics: A Statistical Analysis of Terrorism
Abishek Lall
Spatial Predication of Data Using Kriging
Mark Lane
The Influence of Chinese Mathematics on Contemporary Mathematics
Katherine Magouirk
The Pythagorean Society
Ashley Moses
The Impact of One Additional Data Value to Standard Statistical Estimators
Andrew Reynolds
Today or Tomorrow?
Barbara Sexton
Means of Complex Numbers

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Phoenix, AZ
January 2004
(Presentations overseen by Jackie Jensen and Julie Jones)

Poster presentations

Christy Sue Crouch
Which Came first: e or ln?
Katie Magouirk
A Statistical Overview of the Death Penalty in Texas
Ashley Moses
The Impact of One Additional Data Value to Standard Statistical Estimators
Barbara Sexton
Means of Complex Numbers

MathFest 2003
Boulder, CO
August 2003
(Talks overseen by Jackie Jensen and Julie Jones)

Angela Brown
An Overview of Molecular and Crystallographic Symmetries
Christy Sue Crouch
Which Came First: e or Natural Log?
Lindsay Beth Hardy
Three Hundred Fifty Years of Proving Fermat's Last Theorem
Katherine Magouirk
A Statistical Overview of the Death Penalty in Texas
Barbara Sexton
Means of Complex Numbers

Award won for best presentation in her session

Meeting of the Texas Section of the MAA
Huntsville TX
April 2003
(Talks overseen by Jackie Jensen and Julie Jones)

Angela Brown
Symmetry Groups of Molecular Structures

Award won for best presentation in her session
JoAnna Crixell
A Statistical View of Epidemiology
Christy Sue Crouch
Which Came First: e or Natural Log?
Suzanna Grimes
Modeling US Abridged Life Table of the 2002 National Vital Statistics Report
Lindsay Beth Hardy
Three Hundred Fifty Years of Proving Fermat's Last Theorem

Award won for best presentation in her session
Loletha Jones
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes: the First African American Female Mathematician
James Kyle Jordan
Generating Pythagorean Triples
Katherine Magouirk
Fractals Based on Pascal's Triangle
Ashley Moses
Heron's Formula and His Proof
Barbara Sexton
RSA Public Key Cryptosystem