Three students and two faculty members presented at MathFest 2014, the national conference of the Mathematical Association of America, in Portland, Oregon, on August 6-9, 2014.
French and Soltz spoke on work related to their respective 2014 SURE projects, both mentored by Awtrey. Each of them plans to submit their results for publication and continue working on new projects this coming academic year.
Mistry’s research was mentored by professor of mathematics Todd Lee. Having graduated in May, Mistry is traveling to Sri Lanka in the fall on a Fulbright award where she will teach English literature.
Clark presented in the session “Open and Accessible Problems in Real or Complex Analysis.” His talk focused on undergraduate research problems rooted in the foundational material that students learn in calculus.
Also in attendance at the conference was visiting assistant professor of mathematics Kristen Mazur. Mazur participated in intensive professional development workshops that were sponsored by Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching), a national program of the Mathematical Association of America dedicated to training recent mathematics Ph.D. recipients for careers as teacher-scholar-mentors.
The titles of the presentations are as follows:
French: “A new algorithm for Galois groups of quintic polynomials”
Mistry: “A Modified Random Walker Ranking System for NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Teams”
Soltz: “Counting roots and Galois groups”
Clark: “A Topology of Subdivision for the Real Numbers”
Awtrey: “One approach to undergraduate research in computational Galois theory”