MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
EIGHTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 8 & 10, 2006
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2006. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2006 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.
MASS FEST SPEAKER SCHEDULE
Refreshments available in 114 McAllister Building, 9:30a.m. - 2:40p.m.
All talks will be held in 114 McAllister Building
| Tuesday, August 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00-10:30 | Doris Dobi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monica Fajardo, The College of New Jersey Timothy Heath, University of Michigan Jordan Tirrell, Lafayette College |
Periodic Billiard Trajectories in Polytopes and in the Bodies with Smooth Boundaries |
| 10:50–11:30 | Brandon Herman, Penn State University Amanda Hoffman, Sam Houston State University |
Estimating Bounds for Collisions in Semi-Dispersing Billiards |
| 11:35-12:05 | Jasmine Ng, UCLA Arthur Friend, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Connecting the Dotsbetween the 4D Terahedron and 3D Dodecahedron |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:50 | Alberto Bressan, Penn State University | Conservation Laws |
| 3:00-3:30 | Mike Caputo, Penn State University Kelsee Krull, Alma College |
Optimizing Sets of Partially Orthogonal Latin Squares |
| 3:35-4:05 | Jesse Barbour, St. Edwards University Tra Ho, Colorado University |
Generalization of the Continuous Fractions |
| Thursday, August 10 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00-10:40 | Maria Burago, Penn State University Iryna Deyneha, Lock Haven University |
The Distribution of the Coordinates of the Main Eigenvector in the Random Products of Markov matrices Part 1: The Benford Law and the Distribution of the Wealth under Random Despots |
| 10:50-11:30 | John Lesieutre, Harvard University | The Distribution of the Coordinates of the Main Eigenvector in the Random Products of Markov matrices Part 2: Convergence to the Unique Distribution |
| 11:35-12:05 | Sam Stromberg, Pomona College Daniel Volmar, Berkeley University |
Convex Body Furthest from the Set of all Ellipses |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:50 | John Clemens, Penn State University | The Axiom of Choice, definable cardinalities, and the Banach-Tarski paradox |
| 3:00-3:30 | Nathan Ordansky, Binghamton University Benjamin Petersen, Arizona State |
Lipschitz Automorphisms of Cantor Space |
| 3:35-4:05 | John Beagley, Illinois Institute of Technology Rachael Todd, Morivian College |
A Generalization of the Evans Conjecture |