AMS :: Fall Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:

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