MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
ELEVENTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 12-13, 2009
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2009. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2009 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 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00-10:50 | Professor John Roe | Mysteries of the fourth dimension |
| 11:00-11:40 | Zachary Mitchell, Gregory Simon and Xueying Zhao | Trapping light by mirrors |
| 11:50-12:30 | Andrea Heyman, Haoyuan Li and Corina Ray | Polygonal outer billiards in hyperbolic plane |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:40 | Val Zakharevich | Self-dual polygons |
| 2:50-3:30 | Patrik Brandt, Brandon Kerr and Ben Ponedel | DNA inequality in 3d |
| 3:35-4:15 | Jordan Greenblatt | Livshitz theorem for matrix valued functions |
| Thursday, August 13 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00-10:50 | Professor Sergei Tabachnikov | Sylvester's theorem |
| 11:00-11:40 | Stephanie Blanda, Calvin Condon and Christian Woods | Billiards in n-dimensional tetrahedra |
| 11:50-12:30 | Laura Florescu and Michael Lengel | Closure condition for a chain of null geodesics |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:40 | Natasha Potashnik, Steven Wolf and Adam Zydney | p-adic Reduction Theory |
| 2:50-3:30 | Peter Bashangel, Michael Horning and Keith Leitmeyer | Unbounded bicycles on unicycle path? |
| 3:35-4:15 | Roman Kogan | Legendrian Knots, Khovanov Homology and Unicorns |