MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 6-7, 2012
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2012. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2012 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 8 | |
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| Speaker | Title |
| R. Sharp, D. Levenstein, M. Chao | On Tilings with L-shaped Trominoes and Tetrominoes |
| A. Upneja | Tiling Deficient Boards with L-Pentominoes |
| S. Zhan | Tiling Deficient Rectangles with T-Tetrominoes |
| Z. Rosengarten, A. Reich | Transitivity of Infinite-Dimensional Extensions of Anosov Diffeomorphisms |
| A. Erchenko | Lyapunov exponents |
| W. Stern, W. Leslie | Some Positive Livsic-Like Results |
| Thursday, August 8 | |
| U. Carl, K. W. O'Neill, N. Ryder, | Establishing a Metric in Max-Plus Geometry |
| J. Eskeldson, M. Jaffe | Imposing a Metric on Rnmin,max |
| M. Barnicle, N. Ryder, C. Schlom | Area Minimization in Normed Space |
| W. Cheung, M. S. Copenhaver, J. Ferrara | Discrepancy Theory and Connections to Convex Approximation |
| J. Kraisler, A. Zimmer | Behavior of Transient, Exhaustive Polling Systems with N Nodes |