MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
SEVENTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 10, 2005
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2005. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2005 students will present final research project results. MASS and REU alumni are invited to share their research activities. There will also be guest mathematics lecturers. We hope you plan to attend so you may share both knowledge and MASS and REU memories.
| August 10, 2005 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 11:15-11:45 | Saying He Samuel Hoyland |
Estimates of the ribbon length for torus knots |
| 12:00-12:30 | Yilun Hu James Krysiak Lauren Weiner |
Alexandrov's conjecture for tetrahedrons and flat regions |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00–2:50 | Svetlana Katok | |
| 3:00-3:30 | Anna Gladstone Kenneth Monk |
Arnold's map and it's properties |
| 3:35-4:05 | Timothy Wertz Elona Ershov |
Benford's law for the area of countries |
| 4:10-4:40 | Rob King Toan Phan James Krysiak |
Convex set furthest from a set of ellipses |