Undergraduate Posters at the 2005 SACNAS Conference

Undergraduate Student Posters in Mathematics were presented on Saturday, October 1. Thanks to these students and to the mathematicians who served as judges. Presenters are denoted in bold.

Application of Dimension Reduction Methods to Microarray Data to Predict Survival Time

Stacey E. Ackerman (Brown University), Cyrus Aghili (Columbia University), John Ratana (Binghamton University), Israel Cabello (Texas State University-San Marcos).

A Multicale Interspecies Competition Model

Jose L. Almora (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Nick Dowdall (Sonoma State University), Benjamin R. Morin (University of Maine), David Murillo (Arizona State University).

Disease Spread as a Function of Socioeconomic Status in Manhattan

Carlos Chiquete (University of Arizona), Julie C. Blackwood (Rochester Institute of Technology), Russell J. Latterman (Arizona State University), Stephen A. Small (Norfolk State University), Karyn Sutton (Arizona State University).

Epidemiology and Evolution of the Influenza Virus

Brandon Hale (Murray State University), Ariel Cintron-Arias (Arizona State University), Lorena Morales-Paredes (University of Alabama at Huntsville), David Segura (Arizona State University).

Modeling Interaction of Predator and Prey Populations on Dynamic Habitats

Poster Presentation Award in Mathematics Julijana Gjorgjieva, David Gross, and Job Jacobsen (Harvey Mudd College).

The Effects of Migration and Connectivity upon Initial Behavior of Multi-City Endemic Models

Matthew J. Hoffman (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), Alan J. Covert (Arizona State University), Laiza A. Espinoza (Arizona State University at the West Campus, Phoenix).

Using Lego Mindstorms to Communicate Between Multiple RCX Units

Juan J. Moreno, Jr. (Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program), David R. Cecil (Texas A&M University-Kingsville), Carmelino Castillo (Texas A&M University-Kingsville).

Effects of Lifestyle Choices on Atherosclerosis

Danielle E. Robbins (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Lily I. Davidoff (Mount Holyoke College), Heather H. Harrington (University of Massachusetts), Ludguier D. Montejo (Whitman College), Fabio A. Sanchez (Cornell University).

The Effect of Alcohol on Neuron Firing

Charles R. Rogers (North Carolina State University), Jeannine T. Abiva (Loyola Marymount University), Edna S. Joseph (University of the Virgin Islands), Arpy K. Mikaelian (University of California, Santa Barbara).

Understanding Mexican Immigration and U.S. Policy Change

Dario Alberto Varela (Arizona State University), Wilbert Fernandez Cuevas (Arizona State University), Genevieve-Yvonne Toutain (Simon’s Rock College of Bard).

Competing Population Stochastic Processes

Robert L. Bewernick (University of California, Los Angeles), Jeremy D. Dewar (Loyola Marymount University), Eunice Gray (Sam Houston State University), Nancy Y. Rodriguez (Loyola Marymount University), Randall J. Swift (California State Polytechnic University).

An Epidemic Model of HSV-1 with Vaccination

Saúl A. Blanco (Cornell University), Asela Acosta (Texas A&M International University), Efrat Bar-Zohar (Arizona State University), Dori Luli (North Central College), Linda Q. Gao (North Central College).

Computational Aspects of the Mollweide Projection

Anthony Castro (University of Puerto Rico in Humacao).

Intrinsic Spectral Geometry of the Kerr-Newman Event Horizon

Ricardo J. Cordero and Martin F. Engman (Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico).

Interleavers for Error-Correcting Codes

Joyce M. Fernandez (University of Puerto Rico in Humacao).

A Combinatoric Algorithm for Circularity Computation

John J. McGee (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University).

A Continuous Model of Gene Expression

Elizabeth M. Miller (Ferris State University), Jason Q. Pham (California State Polytechnic University), Lissette LaPlace (University of the Virgin Islands), Joseph F. Hunt (Lamar University).

Effectiveness of Interleavers in Turbo Coding

Benjamin P. Moreno (California State Polytechnic University), Laura M. Smith (Western Washington University), Andrea C. Viteri (College of Saint Catherine), Kouadio D. Yao (University of Arkansas at Little Rock).

An Epidemiological Approach to the Spread of Minor Political Parties

Clara Orbe (Brown University), Daniel R. Romero (Arizona State University), Karl Calderon (University of Arizona), Azra Panjwani (University of California, Berkeley).

The Effect of Immune Response and Combination Drug Treatment on the Progression of Multi-Strain HIV

Kelly Smith (Clarion University), Maria Osorio (University of Arizona), Mat Gluck (University of California, Riverside).

Cryptography: Modular Codes

Toy W. Stech and Chock Y. Wong (Chaminade University of Honolulu).

Permutation Monomials with Cycles of Length Two

Louis J. Cruz (University of Puerto Rico in Humacao).

Exploration of Khovanov Homology and Link Cobordisms

Luis A. Guerrero (University of California, San Diego).

Alexander Quandle Identification

Gabriel Murillo, Sam Nelson, and Anthony Thompson (University of California, Riverside).

AMS staff visited the posters and provided a packet of math resources and a gift to each presenter.

Read more about the 2005 SACNAS National Conference.

Photographs by AMS Public Awareness Officer Annette Emerson.