DIMACS Connect Institute '00
Student Research Conference

Saturday, April 28, 2001


9:30-10:00	Registration
		Outside Lounge, 4th Floor, CoRE Building

		Refreshments
		Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building

10:00-10:10	Welcome
		Auditorium, 1st Floor, CoRE Building

		Professor Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director, Rutgers University
		Dr. Lloyd Douglas, National Science Foundation
		Professor Linda Lesniak, DCI Program Director, Drew University

10:10-11:00	Keynote Address: Stephen Maurer
		Professor of Mathematics
		Associate Provost for Information Technology,
		Swarthmore College
		Title: "The King Chicken Theorems"

11:10-12:30	Session A - CoRE A, 3rd Floor

		11:10-11:25	Michael Roberts
				Bethpage High School, Bethpage, NY
				"Graph Theory Dominations"

		11:25-11:30	Questions and Answers

		11:30-11:45	Maria Areiza, Victor Danny Cardozo, Elvert Restrepo
				White Plains High School, White Plains, NY
				"Distance and Facility Location"

		11:45-11:50	Questions and Answers

		11:50-12:05	Royce S. Okuyama
				The Hill School, Pottstown, PA
				"Equitable Chromatic Number of a Bipartite Graph"

		12:05-12:10	Questions and Answers

		12:10-12:25	Alex Cunha, Danielle Rosenberg
				White Plains High School, White Plains, NY
				"The Traveling Salesman Problem"

		12:25-12:30	Questions and Answers

		Session B - Seminar Room, 4th Floor

		11:10-11:25	Neal Parikh
				Collegiate School, New York, NY
				"Finding the k-level Domination Number for
				2 x m Grids"
				(In collaboration with Savitar Sundaresan)

		11:25-11:30	Questions and Answers

		11:30-11:45	Ben Howard
				Port Allegany High School, Port Allegany, PA
				"How Connected Are We?"

		11:45-11:50	Questions and Answers

		11:50-12:05	Alysha Daley
				Grandview High School, Aurora, CO
				"Steiner Points and the Wizard of Oz"

		12:05-12:10	Questions and Answers

		12:10-12:25	Scott Frison
				Port Allegany High School, Port Allegany, PA
				"Differentiating Sets on n-Cubes"

		12:25-12:30	Questions and Answers

12:30-1:20	Luncheon
		Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building

1:20-3:10	Session A - CoRE A, 3rd Floor

		1:20-1:35	Hannah Portello-Swagel
				Sitka High School, Sitka, AK
				"Alternative Voting Methods - A Closer Look"

		1:35-1:40	Questions and Answers

		1:40-1:55	Aaron Grogan
				Collegiate School, New York, NY
				"Harmonious Coloring of Paths"

		1:55-2:00	Questions and Answers

		2:00-2:15	Mary Grace Bernardo and Loren de la Cruz
				Academy of Mount Saint Ursula, New York, NY
				Title TBA

		2:15-2:20	Questions and Answers

		2:20-2:35	Zak Edwards
				Eaglecrest High School, Aurora, CO
				"Zookeeper's Dilemma: Using coloring to determine
				the least number of habitats to put animals in,
				some with a prey - predator relationship"

		2:35-2:40	Questions and Answers

		2:40-2:55	Charles Head
				Collegiate School, New York, NY
				"Minimizing the Total Distance of Three Regular Graphs"

		2:55-3:00	Questions and Answers

		3:00-3:15	Jahvette Smidth and Sherry-Ann Peters
				Curtis High School, Staten Island, NY
				"Fire Detection in Curtis High School"

		3:15-3:20	Questions and Answers

		Session B - Seminar Room, 4th Floor

		1:20-1:35	Adam Waxman (via VCR)
				Bethpage High School, Bethpage, NY
				"Steiner Points"

		1:35-1:40	Questions and Answers

		1:40-1:55	Whitney Donaldson and Christine Cordova
				San Marcos High School, San Marcos, CA
				"Solving Shortest Path, Minimal Distance, and
				Traveling Salesman Problems Using Weighted
				Graphs and Various Algorithms"

		1:55-2:00	Questions and Answers

		2:00-2:15	Justin Look
				Old Bridge High School, Old Bridge, NJ
				"Acyclic Chromatic Number"

		2:15-2:20	Questions and Answers

		2:20-2:35	Ainie Soetanto and Jennifer Gordon
				Marple Newtown Senior High School, Newtown
				Square, PA
				"Braces for Bridges and Buildings - Where and
				How Many?"

		2:35-2:40	Questions and Answers

		2:40-2:55	Linda Estevez and Lisa Schonback
				The Charter School of Wilmington, Wilmington, DE
				"Harmonious and Line-Distinguishing Coloring"

		2:55-3:00	Questions and Answers

		3:00-3:15	Leo Perez
				High School of Telecommunications Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, NY
				"k-Domination in Grid Graphs as it Relates to a
				Cooperative Learning Situation"

		3:15-3:20	Questions and Answers

		3:20-3:35	Zach Hays Featherstone and Tyler Robert Riehle Wykoff
				Central Catholic Junior/Senior High School
				"Dots and Boxes: A Winning Strategy"

		3:35-3:40	Questions and Answers


3:40-4:00	Refreshments
		Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building

4:00-4:20	Awards and Closing Remarks
		Auditorium, 1st Floor, CoRE Building




Questions? Contact Christine Spassione

Updated May 8, 2001