MATHEMATICS ADVANCED STUDY SEMESTER
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL
MASS FEST CONFERENCE
AUGUST 7-8, 2013
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Penn State (REU) announces the MASS FEST Conference for the Summer 2013. It will be a small informal conference for MASS and Summer REU program alumni. REU 2013 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 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:05-11:05 | A. Calderon, H. Chau, S. Fairchild, S. Simon |
Rigid Tilings by L-shaped n-ominoes and Notched Rectangles and the Impossibility of Tiling Odd by Odd Rectangles by L-shaped Odd Tiles |
| 11:15-11:45 | K. Lui, S. Venkatesh | Semigroup problems for Aff+ and related groups |
| 11:50-12:20 | G. Rojas Kirby, H. Mai | Тhe Frog Problem, limits and bounds in a probabilistic system |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:50 | Professor Nigel Higson | Weyl's Character Formula |
| 3:00-3:30 | T. Silverman | Hilbert Space Extensions of Anosov Diffeomorphisms |
| 3:40-4:10 | A. Payne, Z. Yang | Periodic Metrics |
| 3:50-4:20 | M. Miller | Billiards on Graphs |
| Thursday, August 8 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00-11:00 | D. Ehrmann, Z. Higgins, W. Shin | The Structure of Max-Plus Hemispaces |
| 11:10-11:40 | V. Arul, G. Frost, D. Jung | Results to Improve the Efficiency of BCH and CRC Codes |
| 11:45-12:15 | A. Hanlon, D. Dore | Symplectic Topology and Area Preserving Maps of S2 |