A total of nine mathematics majors presented their research results at the ninth annual Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference on Saturday, Nov. 2 at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
Students who presented at the conference included:
- Benjamin Ackerman ’13, “Continued Fractions, Ford Circles, and Descartes’ Theorem”, mentored by Todd Lee, professor of mathematics.
- John Antonelli ’15, “Finding Solutions to the Turning All Lights Out Puzzle in 3D”, mentored by Crista Arangala, associate professor of mathematics.
- Colleen Brockmyre ’14, “Basic Linear Algebra behind Google’s Search Engine”, mentored by Jim Beuerle, associate professor of mathematics.
- Todd Calnan ’14, “Fractals and their application in medical imaging”, mentored by Jeff Clark, professor of mathematics.
- Christine Dierk ’14, “A Recursive Solution to Enumerating Directed Graphs”, mentored by Todd Lee, professor of mathematics.
- Andrew Fischer ’14, “Investigation into a mathematical model of epileptic seizures”, mentored by Karen Yokley, assistant professor of mathematics.
- Nakhila Mistry ’14, “Music Genomics: Applying Seriation Algorithms to Billboard #1 Hits”, mentored by Arangala.
- Christopher Shill ’14, “Computing Galois groups of degree 12 2-adic fields with trivial automorphism group”, mentored by Chad Awtrey, assistant professor of mathematics.
- Erin Strosnider ’14, “Degree 14 p-adic fields”, mentored by Awtrey.