AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, October 22, 2019 03:30:05

Fall Western Sectional Meeting

• University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
• November 9-10, 2019 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1153

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu

Please note room assignments are subject to change right up until the meeting occurs. The program published here is continually updated and may be more current than the printed program. The following material has been posted without being proofread in order to provide you with the most current information.

• Saturday November 9, 2019, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics: Presentations on Research and Mentorship, I
  Room 2365, Sproul Hall
  Organizers:
  David Weisbart, University of California, Riverside weisbart@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Buffon's Needle on the Sphere and the Poincaré Disk.
    Aizelle Abelgas, The University of California, Riverside
    Francis Lam, The University of California, Riverside
    John Palacios*, The University of California, Riverside
    David Weisbart, The University of California, Riverside, Mathematics
    (1153-60-522)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling Taylor's Law with Migration: An Undergraduate Research Experience.
    Tyler A. Mansfield*, Brigham Young Univeristy
    (1153-97-504)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mentoring in Broad and Interdisciplinary Research Areas.
    Benjamin Z. Webb*, Brigham Young Univeristy
    (1153-97-470)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Three different types of Undergraduate Research Projects.
    Fernando Lopez-Garcia*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1153-26-474)
• Saturday November 9, 2019, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics: Presentations on Research and Mentorship, II
  Room 2365, Sproul Hall
  Organizers:
  David Weisbart, University of California, Riverside weisbart@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Difference of Convex Functionals for Group Sparsity in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.
    Jacob Householder*, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Whittier College
    Fredrick Park, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Whittier College
    (1153-68-492)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mentoring Undergraduates in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Research.
    Jacob Householder, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Whittier College
    Fredrick Park*, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Whittier College
    (1153-68-434)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday November 10, 2019, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics: Presentations on Research and Mentorship, III
  Room 2365, Sproul Hall
  Organizers:
  David Weisbart, University of California, Riverside weisbart@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some structural results about commutative doubly-idempotent semirings.
    Natanael Alpay*, Chapman University
    Peter Jipsen, Chapman University
    (1153-08-471)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Three undergraduate research experiences in abstract algebra.
    Peter Jipsen*, Chapman University
    (1153-08-472)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Nonlocal Modeling and Nonlocal Helmholtz-like Decomposition.
    Cynthia V Flores*, California State University Channel Islands
    (1153-35-469)
• Sunday November 10, 2019, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research in Mathematics: Presentations on Research and Mentorship, IV
  Room 2365, Sproul Hall
  Organizers:
  David Weisbart, University of California, Riverside weisbart@math.ucr.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Computational Thinking in Undergraduate Research: From Mathematical Art and Puzzles to Modern Data Science.
    Boyan S Kostadinov*, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
    (1153-97-495)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Building Successful and Inclusive Research Teams.
    Susan E. Martonosi*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1153-97-457)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reflections on mentoring undergraduates in research experiences in celestial mechanics.
    Lennard F Bakker*, Brigham Young University
    (1153-70-273)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion