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 |