MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
TWELFTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 11-12, 2010
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2010. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2010 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 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 1040-11:10 | A. Khan, M. Nastasescu | Algebraic geometry and some theorems from elementary geometry |
| 11:20-11:50 | B. Hirsch, C. Anderson, A. Balasubranaman | Poncelet and Cayley-type problems on an ellipsoid in Minkowski space |
| 12:00-12:30 | A. Berkowitz | Oscillation and boundedness properties of bicycle curves |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:45 | Professor Sergei Tabachnikov | Triangulation of a square |
| 3:00-3:30 | J. Hughes, E. Karasiewicz | DNA inequality and integral geometry |
| 3:40-4:10 | N. Ray, K. Andre, N. Kroeger, C. Zach | Periodic billiard orbits in convex polytopes |
| Thursday, August 12 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:30-11:00 | N. Fernandez-Aria, Y. Vergun, C. Wolf | Geodesics on surfaces of non-positive curvature |
| 11:20-11:50 | M. Hom, L. Rast, B. Warner, W. Wright | Selected topics in one-dimensional dynamics |
| 12:00-12:30 | J. Chou, J. Novakovich, A. Pushkar | Outer billiards in hyperbolic plane |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:45 | Professor Anatole Katok | Around closed geodesics |
| 3:00-3:30 | A. Mathew, Ga. Karpman, A. Kotelskiy, M. Xu | Livsic theorem for semiderict products |