The MCTP Undergraduate Research Conference showcases the research of our talented undergraduates. It's funded by the National Science Foundation. Come see the interesting work they've done in math bio, solving PDEs, fluid dynamics, etc. Everyone's welcome to attend and those who RSVP will get a free lunch.
Second Annual Conference
Saturday, November 13, 2010 from 10am to 1pm in ATLAS 100
Program
- 10:00–10:15am — Samuel Ehrlich
Modeling water waves and fiber optics using higher order nonlinear Scrödinger equations
- 10:20–10:35am — Aaron Stockton and Zach Vaughan
Finding rational exponential or hyperbolic traveling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations
- 10:40–10:50am — Break
- 10:50–11:05am — Scott Satinover
Classifying line-soliton solutions of the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation using Hirota's bilinear method
- 11:10–11:25am — Stephen Kissler
Slime molds and public transit
- 11:30am–12:15pm — Lunch
- 12:15–12:30pm — Spencer Brugger, Kevin Murphy, and Scott Pawlowski
Synchronization, mode locking, and rotation numbers of Van der Pol oscillators
- 12:35–12:50pm — Ho Yun Chan
Experimental study of thermal convection driven by centrifugal buoyancy in a rapidly rotating annulus
First Annual Conference
Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 10am to 2pm in ATLAS 100
Program
- 10:00 am — Aaron Smith
Instabilities of Internal Gravity Waves
- 10:15 — Bobby Chan
Experimental Study of Thermal Convection Driven by Centrifugal Buoyancy in a Rapidly Rotating Annulus
- 10:30 — Ryan Thorpe, Nick Weinrich
Finite Time Lyapunov Exponents
- 10:45 — Pavel Zelinsky
Finite Time Lyapunov Exponents and the Standard Map
- 11:00 — Geoffrey Peterson
(Topic changed)
- 11:15–11:45 — Lunch
- 11:45 pm — Paul Fornia, Margaret Noble, Tiana Stastny
Spider Webs: Do They Exhibit a Natural Network?
- 12:00 — Matanya Horowitz
Modeling the Immune Complement Response
- 12:15 — JaeAnn Dwulet
Simulating Clusters of Charged Particles in Electric Potential Fields
- 12:30 — Tracy Babb
Numerical Evaluation Of Lattice Green's Functions