Department of Mathematics
The Fourth Annual Harriett J. Walton
Symposium on
Undergraduate Mathematics Research
April 1, 2006
Partially funded by the MAA NSF-RUMC Program (NSF Grant DMS-0241090)
Schedule
Session 1
1:00-1:20 Gabriel J. Williams, Jr., Morehouse College
Formation of shock waves
1:25-1:45 Jessica Curry, Yudan Wei, and Jianmin Zhu, Fort Valley State University
Studying the effect of antibacterial agents on the growth of a bacterial population with a mathematical model
1:50-2:10 Gregory Strawder, Albany State University
Some Applications of Functions of a Complex Variable in Physics and Engineering
2:15-2:35 Shane Sawyer, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Investigation of Spurious Waves in the Solution of the Euler Equations with Discontinuous Initial Data
2:40-3:00 Lee Niedrach, University of Georgia
Modeling of the Fractured Zone Expansion in Rocks
3:05-3:25 Mathis Gibson, Morehouse College
The theory of Hybrid systems
Session 2
1:00-1:20 Carl Slater, Morehouse College
Mapping Polypeptide Sequences as Protein Pipes in a 3D Sequence Space Based on a Graph Theory Representation of the Genetic Code
1:25-1:45 David N. Arnold, University of Cincinnati
The Quasisymmetry of the Natural Power Function
1:50-2:10 Rozina Essani Georgia State University
Singular Value Decomposition in Image Processing
2:15-2:35 Yiran (Raymond) Yuan, Georgia State University
1D Forward Problem in Diffusion Based Optical Tomography
2:40-3:00 Christopher Turner, Morehouse College
Wavelets and Statistical Application
3:05-3:25 Antonio Buddington, Albany State University
Solutions to a Class of Nonlinear Initial Value Problems Using Euler’s Method
3:30-3:50 James Whitfield, Morehouse College
All Electron Quantum Monte Carlo Study of CH*
