Session on Number Theory Room: LC 100
Chairs: Anna Haensch, Wesleyan University
John McCabe, Manhattan College
9:40
An Arithmetic Metric
Diego Dominici, SUNY New Paltz
10:00
Pythagorean Triples and the Gaussian Integers
Lynea Snyder, Manhattan College
10:20
p-adic numbers
Glenn Henshaw, Wesleyan University
10:40
The Pell Equation
Anna Haensch, Wesleyan University
11:00
They go on and on...
Emily Dennett, University of Massachusetts Amherst
11:20
In Pursuit: the search for odd perfect numbers
Addie Armstrong, Norwich University
Session on Algebra Room: LC 103
Chairs: Robert W. McGrail, Bard College
Elisha Peterson, United States Military Academy
9:40
Correcting the Record with Knot Coloring
Robert McGrail, Bard College
10:00
Trace Diagrams and the Gram Determinant
James R. Lee, United States Military Academy
10:20
A family of recursively defined polynomials: Their properties and applications
Steven Goliber, Western Connecticut State University
10:40
The insolubility of the quintic
Dusan Milanovic, St. Francis College
11:00
Babylonian number system and quadratic equation
Nicholas Stano, College of Mount Saint Vincent
11:20
From Prime Factorization to Primary Decomposition
Cameron Bishop, Southern Connecticut State University
Session on Game Theory Room: LC 104
Chairs: Maria Belk, Bard College
Matthew Glomski, Marist College
9:40
Unusual Payout Scheme in a Bingo-like Carnival Game
Matthew Lopes, Marist College
10:00
An Alternate Approach to Sprouts
Lionel Barrow and Cedric Cogell, Bard College
10:20
The Value of Information in Simple Competitive Games
Peter Kerkhof, United States Military Academy
10:40
What does it mean to say a game is fair?
Rita Welsh and Alexandra Konneker, Manhattan College
11:00 Are the Rules of Poker Wrong?
Silas Meredith, Horace Mann School
11:20 Playing Games with Abstract Algebra: The "Lights Out" Puzzle
Jenae Beauchamp, Eastern Connecticut State University
Session on Geometry Room: LC 107
Chairs: David M. Clark, SUNY New Paltz
David Hobby, SUNY New Paltz
9:40
Angular Determinations of a Quadrilateral I
Donald Silberger, SUNY New Paltz
10:00
Angular Determinations of a Quadrilateral II
David Hobby, SUNY New Paltz
10:20
A Resolution of the Geometry Dilemma
David M. Clark, SUNY New Paltz
10:40
No angle axioms
Bjorn Schellenberg, College of Mount Saint Vincent
11:00
How To Measure Angles with a Ruler
Marko Dedovic, St Francis College
11:20
What is the most distant point?
Brianna Frabizio, Manhattan College
Session on Applied Mathematics Room: LC 108
Chairs: Sunday Chikwendu, SUNY New Paltz
Richard Halpern, SUNY New Paltz
9:40
Cooperation in Pursuit and Evasion
Lucas Gebhart, United States Military Academy
10:00
Coupled Cell Networks and Sea Turtle Population Modeling
Cadet Dominic Senteno, United States Military Academy
10:20
Simple mathematical model of optical-fiber manufacturing: Numerical simulation with CAS Maple
John Lee and Xing Zhu, Western Connecticut State University
10:40
Nonlinear Dynamic Systems in Simple Electronics
Joseph Rappa, SUNY New Paltz
11:00
Mathematical modeling for analysis of infectious diseases
Samia Nazzal, Franco Porto,Rachel Lemmey, Christina Tawfik and Rushabh Jhaveri, Mercy College
11:20
Ordering of Search Engine Results: google it!
Leigh Noble
Session on Numerical Analysis Room: LC 113
Chairs: Lawrence Fialkow, SUNY New Paltz
Robert Ronkese, US Military Academy at West Point
9:40
Gaussian Quadrature Rule
Carlos Suero, SUNY New Paltz
10:00
How many points?
Lawrence Fialkow, SUNY New Paltz
10:20
An Overview of the Picard Method for Solving ODEs
Olga Stulov and Jason Caggiano, SUNY New Paltz
10:40
Complex Polynomial Modeling: Developments and Applications
Addison Bohannon, United States Military Academy
11:00
Entropy from High Resolution Software Counters
Lucas Enloe, United States Military Academy
11:20
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems via Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
Timothy Andrews, University of Hartford
Afternoon Sessions
Session on Differential Equations Room: LC 100
Chair: Fotios Paliogiannis, St. Francis College
2:00
The Heat Equation – Derivation and Methods of Solutions
Sandip Hodkhasa, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
2:20
The Heat Equation – Approximation Methods
Paul LaVergne, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
2:40
A successful hunt for periodic solutions
Lydia Novozhilova, Western Connecticut State University
3:00
Solving ODE by Factoring the Differential Operator
Stela Mihneva, St. Francis College
Session on Analysis Room: LV 103
Chairs: Krishnamurthi Ravishankar, SUNY New Paltz
2:00
Business Card Cubes and the Menger Sponge
Elizabeth Scherer and Andrea Orlando, Manhattan College
2:20
The composition of functions
Hussain Gardezi, College of Mount St. Vincent
2:40
Minimizing Integrals of Constrained Polynomials
Jean Cesarius, CUNY Queens College
3:00
What's The Largest Area One Can Bound With A Fixed Length of String
Joel Specter, Wesleyan University
Session on Combinatorics Room: LC 104
Chair: Sean Cleary, The City College of New York
2:00
An Introduction to Ramsey Theory
David White, Wesleyan University
2:20
Rotation distance and binary trees
Rodion Kosovsky, John Passaro, and Yasser Toruno, The City College of New York
2:40
The shortest network problem
Sarah Janssen, Manhattan College
3:00
A brief introduction to the Stable Marriage Problem
Steven Dennett, Wesleyan University
Session on Complex Analysis Room: LC 107
Chair: Vasil Skenderi, St. Joseph's College
2:00
Mobius Transformation
Kristi Burns, Brian Callen and Christine Turner, St. Joseph's College
2:20
Complex Integration and Causality
Natalie Cartwright, SUNY New Paltz
2:40
Conformally Yours, Rectangles
Joe Fera, Wesleyan University
3:00
Practical Applications of Conformal Mapping in the Complex Plane
Tim Ivancic and Ryan Vinson, SUNY New Paltz
Session on Geometry/Number Theory Room: LC 108
Chair: Lauren Rose, Bard College
2:00
Voronoi Diagrams Flag Vectors
Liz Jimenez, Bard College
2:20
Out in left field...way out!
Andrew Lazowski, Wesleyan University
2:40
Finite Sums of Fibonacci-Based Sequences
Katharina Carella, Ithaca College
3:00
Toward an Encyclopedia of Finite and Infinite Sums and Products of Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers
Harvey J. Hindin, Emerging Technologies Group, Inc.
Session on Mathematics Education/ Operations Research
Room: LC 113 Chair: Robert Decker, University of Hartford
2:00
Qualitative Graphing Techniques
Fred Rickey, United States Military Academy
2:20
Collaborative projects in an undergraduate mathematical modeling course
Doug Fletcher and Aaron Elliott, United States Military Academy
2:40
Dynamic Java Applets for Mathematical Visualization the Easy Way
Victor Sklutovsky, University of Hartford
3:00
Methods in Operations Research
Desislava Slavova, Norwich University
Lecture Center Lobby
Poster Session
3:30 – 4:00 Lecture Center Lobby
An OpenMath Content Dictionary for Finite Quandles
Georgi Smilyanov, Bard College
Dynamical Analysis of the Quadratic Function "Q(x) = x2 + c"
Joseph Ruotolo, SUNY New Paltz
Effects of alpha-pinene on the Musca Domestica
Angela Acevedo, SUNY New Paltz
Enhancement of Understanding Algebraic Concepts using Cryptographic Algorithm
Casey Kondelka, Mayra Avila, Stephanie Bann and Jose Valerio, Mercy College
Euler Circuits
Kyle Bryant, Stephanie Delgado and Pedro Hernandez, SUNY New Paltz
Modeling the Energy Usage of Cell Phones
Sebastian McDaniel, Jennifer Goldfuss, and Daniel Radil, Southern Connecticut State University
New Paltz Waltz
Jessica Mandia, SUNY New Paltz
Planning and Scheduling
Natalie Teresa Medrano and James Vazquez, SUNY New Paltz
QuanDLe
Jackie Bow and Bella Manoim, Bard College
Visualizing Quandles in Mathematica
Aleksandar Chakarov, Adina-Raluca Stoica and Petar Stojanov, Bard College
Voronoi Diagrams Face and Flag Vectors
LizJimenez,BardCollege
