MASS Fest 2008

MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
TENTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 14-15, 2008
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2008. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2008 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.

Thursday, August 14
Time Speaker Title
10:00-11:00 Professor A. Ocneanu Poncelet and Cayley type Theorems
11:10-12:00 F. Greer, T. Tusing The DNA Inequality in Non-Convex Regions
12:10-1:00 T. Reeb, R. Wells Triangulations of the square and corresponding polynomials
1:00-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:00 M. Harrison A family of continuous maps on a square
3:15-3:45 J. Root, Ya. Shlapentokh-Rothman 2-Division on elliptic curves and a Galois representation
4:00-4:30 D. Davis, R. Krishna Intersection multiplicities and Bezout’s Theorem
Friday, August 15
Time Speaker Title
10:00-11:00 Professor M. Levi The classical mechanical uncertainty principle, mappings and telescopes
11:05-12:05 S. Howe, S. Pal, M. Pancia, V. Zakharevich Bicycle monodromy and Menzin’s conjecture in the spherical and hyperbolic metrics
12:10-1:00 J. Taylor, L. Walmach Oscillation of unicycle tracks
1:00-3:00 Lunch
3:00-3:50 C. Grieves, S. Kensell, J. Klobusicky Polygonal outer billiards in the hyperbolic plane
4:00-4:30 S. Sicienski, R. Zandstra Three dimensional analogues of the DNA Inequality