Undergraduate and Graduate Student Posters in Mathematics at the 2008 National SACNAS Conference

Undergraduate and graduate students presented posters in mathematics at the 2008 SACNAS National Conference. The poster award winners in Mathematics were Gina Maria Pomann, College of New Jersey (award sponsored by the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics), Alex Washburne, University of New Mexico (award sponsored by the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics), and Justin Walbeck & Timothy Clinton, Tulane University (Marta Contreras Memorial Award). The presentations were in the exhibit hall, where fellow students, mathematicians, judges, other scientists and exhibitors could view the posters. The AMS Public Awareness Office provided a packet of math resources and a gift to each presenter. See the list of the 2008 posters.

Math posters at the 2008 SACNAS conference (presenter name is listed first, in bold, award winners in red):

Applied Mathematics:

THE EFFECTS OF CLUSTERED UNVACCINATED INDIVIDUALS ON EPIDEMIC OUTBREAK. Shannon Reed (University of Missouri, Columbia, MO), Hamilton Ackerman (Boston University, Boston, MA), Isaac Michaud (University of Maine, Orono, ME), Andre Robinson (Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY)
PRICING CALL OPTIONS UNDER THE BINOMIAL MODEL. Konrad Aguilar (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Krista Heim (Arcadia University, Glenside, PA and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Stephen Johnson (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY) and Nicole Stawasz (King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA, and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
THE EFFECTS OF MATERNAL AGE ON THE PREVALENCE OF AUTISM. Melissa Bilbao (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, CA), Alexander Castro (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL), Tyler Rigazio (University of Maine, Orono, ME)
A CYCLIC COMPARTMENTAL MODEL APPROACH TO THE NEMESIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: ALZHEIMER’S. Helme Castro (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ), Natalia Rodriguez (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, PR), Sunhwa Choi (Konkuk University, Seoul, KR), YuJie Shui (Boston University, Boston, MA)
NUMERICAL INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES WITH RATIONAL LANDEN TRANSFORMATIONS. Natasha Cayco Gajic (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA), Nathan Kallus (University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA), Jessica Stigile (Washington University in St. Louis, MO)
A TALE OF TWO REGIONS: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR CHAGAS DISEASE. Alhaji Cherif (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Viviana Garcia-Horton (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City, MX), Glorimar Melendez-Rosario (Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Cayey, PR), William Feliciano ((Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Cayey, PR)
EVALUATING TREATMENT OF HEPATITIS C FOR HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA MANAGEMENT. Liana Medina-Rios (Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA), Gloriell Cardona-Melendez (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, PR), Swati DebRoy (University of Florida, Gainsville, FL), MinJun Kang (Kyungpook National University, Daegu, KR), Christopher Kribs-Zaleta (University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX)
SEMI-AUTOMATIC SPIKE SORTING USING KLUSTAKWIK. Gina-Maria Pomann (The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)
OPTIMAL MOVEMENT IN THE PREY CAPTURE BEHAVIOR OF WEAKLY ELECTRIC FISH. Tiffany Psemeneki(Northwestern University, Evanston, IL), Claire Postlethwaite (University of Houston, Houston, TX), Jangir Selimkhanov (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL), Mary Silber (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL), Malcolm MacIver (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
EXACT SOLUTIONS TO THE NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION. Samuel Rivera (University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX)
MODELING DNA AND ITS THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS IN SOLUTION. Zoe Talbot, Xia Hua, Rob Scharein, Mariel Vazquez (San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA)
MODELING OF COHESIONLESS GRANULAR FLOWS. Liz Uribe (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)
MODELING DISEASE TRANSMISSION OF THE WEST NILE VIRUS USING CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE MODELS WITH SPACE. Justin Walbeck (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), Timothy Clinton (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), Caira Dyer (Dillard University, New Orleans, LA)
MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND COMPARISON OF LYTIC AND LYSOGENIC VIRUS LIFE CYCLES. Alex Washburne, Eric Toolson, Helen Wearing (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM)
POISSON SOLVER USING MPI . Cynthia Wood (University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA)

General Mathematics:

LANDEN TRANSFORMATION WITH COT(3X). Cindy Enrigue (Mathematical Science Research Institute Undergraduate Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA,), Gerard Koffi (University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA), Loraine Torres Castro (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Rio Piedras, PR)
EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS TO THE SINE-GORDON EQUATION. Ernesto Garcia (University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX)
THE ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE LANDEN TRANSFORMATION USING COT(4T). Bobby Wilson (Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA), Richard Garcia (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR), Aileen Nguyen (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, CA), Ivan Ojeda ((Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA))
COMPUTER GENERATED GRAPH THEORY CONJECTURES. Micaela Gilbert, Ryan Pepper, Ali Abedi (University of Houston–Downtown, Houston, TX)
THE EFFECTS OF ESTROGEN AND CHEMOTHERAPY ON THE DYNAMICS OF MALIGNANT CANCER. Cindy Jackson (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, CA), Lindsey Lauderdale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL)
THE MODIFIED KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION AND ITS EXACT SOLUTIONS. Antonio Lopez (University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX)
ULTRA-DISCRETE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND CELLULAR AUTOMATA. Jose de Jesus Martinez, Kenichi Maruno (The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX)
SPATIAL NETWORK TOPOLOGY. Crystal Moreno (University of Washington, Seattle, WA), Bianca Rodriguez (University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX), Leonardo Duenas-Osorio (Rice University, Houston, TX), Javier Rojo (Rice University, Houston, TX)
LANDEN TRANSFORMATIONS WITH THREE PARAMETERS. Marcos Ortiz (State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY), Ricela Feliciano-Semidei (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR), Jason Rosenberg (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), Kevin Wingfield (Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA)
CONSTRUCTION OF COVERINGS OF THE INTEGERS: EXPLORING AN ERDOS PROBLEM. Kristen Pueschel(University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Kelly Bickel (Centre College, Danville, KY and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Michael Firrisa (St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City, MD and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Juan Pablo Ortiz (California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS WITH PARRONDO’S PARADOX: INCREASING OUR BET WILL INCREASE OUR GAIN. Elizabeth M. Rivera, Elio Ramos (University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, Humacao, PR)
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND THE INCIDENCE OF DENGUE IN PONCE, PUERTO RICO, FROM 2003 TO 2007. Gloriell Cardona (University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, Cayey, PR), María-Eglée Pérez (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Rio Piedras, PR)
IMPROVING THE BOUND FROM THE JOHNSON-LINDENSTRAUSS LEMMA IN L2-NORM. Tuan Nguyen, Javier Rojo (Rice University, Houston, TX)

Pure Mathematics:

P-ADIC VALUATIONS OF STIRLING NUMBERS. Laine Noble (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), Ana Berrizbeitia (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX), Alexander Moll (Columbia University, New York, NY)
A GEOMETRIC APPROACH TO BERNOULLI-DEDEKIND SUMS. Anastasia Chavez, Matthais Beck (San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA)
ON APPROXIMATING THE NUMBER OF PRIMES LESS THAN A GIVEN NUMBER. William Garcia (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL)
ON THE PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE OF 4 X 4 SUDOKU TABLES. Ashley Larsen (Univeristy of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Stefano Campagna (Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Russell Latterman (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Andrea Stephan (University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
STUDY OF THE GENERAL FOUR-STATE MARKOV PROCESS. Lilinoe Harbottle (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona CA)

--- Annette Emerson, AMS Public Awareness Officer