MICHIGAN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-FLINT, OCTOBER 22nd, 2005

PROGRAM

TIME		EVENT			ROOM
8:00 - 9:00 am		Registration & Continental Breakfast			1^st Floor MSB
9:00 - 9:15 am		Welcoming ceremony			109 MSB
9:15 - 10:15 am		"Conjugate Coupling: The Romantic Adventures of the Quintessential Quadratic" Edward Burger, Williams College			109 MSB
10:30 - 11:50 am		Morning Parallel Sessions (see below)			3^rd Floor MSB
12:00 - 1:15 pm		Lunch			1^st Floor UCEN
1:30 - 2:15 pm		Mathematical Games			109 MSB
2:30 - 4:00 pm		Afternoon Parallel Sessions (see below)			3^rd Floor MSB
INFORMATION TABLES: GRADUATE SCHOOL information, REU PROGRAMS, and JOURNALS will be on display during the entire day in room 329 MSB.
BOOK SIGNING: Professor Burger will be available to sign copies of his new book: "Coincidence, Chaos and All that Math Jazz". Books will be available for purchase outside room 109 MSB from 1:15 to 2:30 pm.
MORNING PARALLEL SESSIONS
ABSTRACTS
TIME	Session A1 Room 302		Session A2 Room 306	Session A3 Room 314		Session A4 Room 322
10:30 - 10:45	Brian Keinath Central Michigan University "Upper Bounds in Graph Pebbling"		Dustin Pluta University of Michigan-Flint "Finding Optimal Linear Codes over Rings"	David Visser and Kim Harrison Hope College "Modeling Tri-Trophic Interactions with tall fescue, fall armyworms, and euplectrus constockii"		Dr. Paul Fishback Grand Valley State U. "An Introduction to Latex"
10:50 - 11:05	Shova KC Hope College "Randomly Generated triangles whose vertices are vertices of a regular"		Christopher Zin Wayne State University "Computing Annihilators, Alternators and Associators in Cayley-Dickson algebras"	Lauren Bieling University of Michigan -Flint "Using math to allocate assets from a rollover lump sum into a 401(k) plan"		Dr. Peiru Wu Michigan State University "Professional Master in Industrial Mathematics"
11:10 - 11:25	Cleland Loszewski Central Michigan University "Zero-divisor semigroups on triangulated surfaces"		Sean Tilson Wayne State University "The mod 2 cohomology of the Steenrod algebra"	Gian Yu Lee Eastern Michigan University "Individual & collective risk models"		Carrie Blakeslee Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Co. "What is an Actuary"
11:30 - 11:45	Elizabeth Adenegan Hope College "Fair Division and budget constraints"		Ben Bellah University of Michigan - Flint "Negative Bases"	Amanda Pascoe Furman University "A computational study of sharkskin instability"		Dr. Tom Nichols U. of Michigan - AnnArbor "UM Graduate Program in Biostatistics"
AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS
ABSTRACTS
TIME	Session P1 Room 302		Session P2 Room 306	Session P3 Room 314		Session P4 Room 322
2:30 - 2:45	Faith Balun and Christopher Zin Wayne State University "Classifying permutation tuples of low genus, I"		Kamha Kuok University of Michigan - Flint "Nonnegative matrix factorization"	Matthew Stamps Grand Valley State U. "A genetic algorithm for the minimum tollboth problem"		Tim Coles Yazaki North America Inc. "Concept Application, Organization, and Awareness - What You Are Really Learning in College"
2:50 - 3:05	Patrice Rapin and Chris Leirstein Wayne State University "Classifying permutation tuples of low genus, II"		Chris Smith Grand Valley State U. "Hypergeometric summations and WZ"	Matthew Causley Kettering University "Numerical Solution of the Hyperbolic Heat Conduction Equations"		Kristy Coles AAM Corporate Quality "A Mathematics Foundation for a Successful Career in Industry"
3:10 - 3:25	Daniela Banu Hope College "Presentations and representations of metacyclic groups"		Nathaniel Burch Grand Valley State U. "Statistical properties of higher order Lanczos derivatives"	Justin Pittsley University of Michigan - Flint "Modeling the positions of infielders"		Dr. Terrel Hodge Western Michigan University "Graduate Program in Mathematics"
3:30 - 3:45	George Sulisz University of Michigan-Dearborn "Finite approximations to composition operators and their spectra"					Dr. Arnie Hammel Central Michigan University "Graduate Program in Mathematics"