AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, February 5, 2020 07:49:26

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

• 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 Poincar\'e 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