DIMACS/DIMATIA/VIGRE Research Experiences for Undergraduates 2002



 

 

Wednesday, July 24, 2002

 

REU Seminar

3rd Floor, Room 301

                       

12:00 - 12:30   Lunch

 

12:30 -   2:00   Jozsef Beck, Dept. of Mathematics, Rutgers University

                              Generating Functions in Combinatorics and Number Theory

 

  2:00 -   2:15   Break

           

REU Final Presentations

3rd Floor, Room 301

                       

  2:15 -   2:30   Inessa Epstein, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

                  Logical Analysis of Data

 

  2:30 -   2:45   Jakub Cerný, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

                              Pentagon Problem

 

  2:45 -   3:00   Rupert Venzke, Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, PA

                              Representation Theory and L-S Paths

 

  3:00 -   3:15   Thomas Schneider, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre-Haute, IN

                              Text Classification Using Bayesian Networks

 

  3:15 -   3:30   Stanislav Ostrovsky, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

                              Synchronization Phenomenon in Dynamical Systems on Non-linear Coupled Oscillators

 

  3:30 -   3:45   Break

 

  3:45 -   4:00   Michael Lesnick, Brown University, Providence, RI

                              A Problem in Quantum Control: Solving an Instance of the Shcrodinger's Equation

 

  4:00 -   4:15   Rahul Malhotra, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

                              Eigenvalues of a Hermitian Matrix Sum

 

  4:15 -   4:30   Daniel Boylan, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

                              Modeling Information Cost in Auctions

 

  4:30 -   4:45   Vít Jelínek, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

                              The Unit Distance Problem for Convex Polygons

 

  4:45 -   5:00   John McClain, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Fermi's Golden Number for an Interacting Spin System