MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
NINTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 15-16, 2007
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2007. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2007 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.
| Wednesday, August 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00-10:50 | Sergei Tabachnikov | |
| 11:05-11:35 | Erik Larson | The DNA Inequality in Non-Convex Regions |
| 11:40-12:10 | Kledin Dobi Ashley K. Wheeler |
Duality in the Projective Plane |
| 12:15-12:45 | Alexander Waagen Nora Youngs |
Periodic Orbits in Tetrahedra |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:30 | Isaac Levy | Complexity of the Dual Billiard for the Regular Pentagon |
| 2:40-3:10 | Bryan Gillespie Tyler London |
On a Semi-dispersing Billiards of Infinite Entropy |
| 3:15-3:45 | Carl Sutherland | Primitive Normal Bases in Finite Fields |
| Thursday, August 16 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00-10:30 | Thomas Alden Gassert Aaron Yeager |
Characterization of Vertex-Reinforced Random Walks and Trapping Subgraphs |
| 10:35-11:05 | Vivek Agarwala | An Analysis of Bounded Diagonally Non-Recursive Functions |
| 11:15-11:45 | Andrew Kontaxis Michael Wijaya |
Arithmetic and Geometric Codings |
| 11:50-12:10 | Alex Rosenfield | Boreal Reducibility of Well Founded and Countably Branched Trees |
| 12:15-12:45 | Weikang Fan Zach Westerfield |
Automorphism Groups of the Binary Tree Generated by Finite Automation |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:50 | Adrian Ocneanu | |
| 3:10-3:40 | Daniel McDonald Zipeng Wang |
Conjugacies of Weakly Finitary Rooted Tree Automorphisms |
| 3:40-4:10 | Dory Deines Matthew Pancia |
Bouncing Balls in Gravity Fields |