MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 11-12, 2011
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2011. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2011 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 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 11:30-12:05 | B. Reiser, H. Gorman | Outer Billiards in the Hyperbolic Plane |
| 12:40-1:10 | E. Abrikosov | Poncelet type theorems |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:30-3:00 | A. Wang, C. Hess | On periodic billiard trajectories in non-convex domains: a geometric approach. |
| 3:10-4:10 | J. Keneda, E. Berg, J. Moody, C. Chen, X. Wang, S. Bloom |
Steinhaus Sets in Euclidean Space and the Urysohn Universal Space |
| 4:15-4:45 | D. Gekhtman | Flying beetles |
| Friday, August 12 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00-10:30 | Andrey Voinov | How large a variation of geodesic's normal is possible? |
| 10:35-11:05 | X. Wang,A. Janke | Areas of Countries and Benford's Law |
| 11:10-11:40 | C. Cannizzo, A. Leaf, N. Sakharova | Z2-actions by Symplectic Automorphisms of a Torus |
| 11:45-12:15 | A. Beemer, T. Morrison, S. Smith, J. Zanazzi |
Minimal Entropy of Z2 actions |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:30 | D. Laackman, L. Amen, E. Duriev | A Dynamical System of the Fuchsian Group Associated to Surfaces of Genus at least 2 |
| 2:35-2:55 | C. Chen | Further Results on Partions with Early Conditions |
| 3:00-3:20 | A. Wang | On the polyhedral origami. |
| 3:20-3:40 | C. Hess | Crocheting curvature |
| 3:45-4:15 | W. Xu and J. Han | A General Consideration of DNA Geometric Inequality |
| 4:20-4:50 | A. Erchenko and Y. Wang | Around Livshitz Theorem |