Millikin Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Millikin University

8:15 am - 9:00 am

Check-in/Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:10 am

Welcome

9:10 am - 9:30 am

Joe Nance - University of Illinois

A Method for Recursively Generating Sequential Rational Approximations to

9:35 am - 9:55 am

Gina Luciano - Millikin University

Using Data Mining to Analyze Admissions Data

9:55 am - 10:05 am

Break

10:05 am - 10:25 am  

Kelly Collins - University of Evansville

Minimum Energy Solutions for the Shape of a Slice of French Bread

10:30 am - 10:50 am

Kaitlyn Cassity - University of Central Missouri

Factorization in k-furcus Semigroups

10:55 am - 11:45 am

Plenary Lecture

Dr. Nicholas Baeth - University of Central Missouri

Matrices Behaving Badly: Examples of Non-unique Factorization within Matrix Semigroups

11:45 pm - 12:45 pm

Lunch

12:45 pm - 1:05 pm

James Gossell - University of Central Missouri

Creating Irreducible Divisor Graphs for Numerical Monoids

1:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Chelsey Johnson - University of Central Missouri

Cliques and Numerical Monoids

1:30 pm - 1:40 pm

Break

1:40 pm - 2:00 pm

Trey Brock - University of Central Missouri

Monoids Defined by Second Order Recurrence Relations

2:05 pm - 2:25 pm

Lane Bloome - Millikin University

Compressed Zero-divisor Graphs of Finite Commutative Rings

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm

Darrin Weber - Millikin University

Zero-divisor Lattices on Commutative Rings

2:50 pm - 3:00 pm

Closing