MCTP Undergraduate Research Conference

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