Schedule of Events


All conference events will take place in Buildings 3 and 8 on the Campus Map and in the Ursa Major Suite (2611) in the Bronco Student Center (Campus Building 35 on the Campus Map) at Cal Poly Pomona. Click here to see a campus map.

PLEASE BRING A COPY OF THE CAMPUS MAP WITH YOU!! Signs for the conference will be posted.


Time Event Location
8:00 - 8:50 am Registration and light continental breakfast Bronco Student Center/Univ Park Walkway (Bldg 35)
9:00 - 9:50 am Morning Address by Mariah Birgen Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
10:10 - 11:40 am Student Talks, Session I Bldgs 3 and 8
11:50 - 12:30 pm Career Panel Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
12:30 - 1:20 pm Lunch Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
1:30 - 2:50 pm Student Talks, Session II Bldgs 3 and 8
2:50 - 3:10 pm Afternoon Break Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
3:15 - 4:05 pm Keynote Address by Michael Dorff Ursa Major (Bldg 35)
4:05 - 4:20 pm Prize Session Ursa Major (Bldg 35)

Schedule of Student Talks

Here are pdf versions of the Student Talk Schedule and Abstract List. The abstracts are also mobile friendly! Use the links below with your mobile device.


Morning Abstracts

Afternoon Abstracts


Rm Time Speaker Institution Title
Morning Session 10:10 - 11:30 am
Bldg 8 Rm 4 10:10 - 10:30 Elaina Aceves & David Heywood LMU & CSU Fresno Embedding Cycles in Projective Spaces
10:40 - 11:00 Jennifer Elder & Elaina Aceves CSU Fresno Invariants for Spatial Graphs
11:10 - 11:30 David Heywood CSU Fresno A State Model for the SO(2n) Kauffman Polynomial
Moderator: Oscar Vega, CSU Fresno
Bldg 8 Rm 210 10:10 - 10:30 Zachery Reed Pepperdine Univ Did Penn and Teller Tell a Lie?
10:40 - 11:00 Jiang Wancen & Noah Webster Pepperdine Univ Spatial Simulation of Chaparral Vegetation Response to Frequent Wildfire
11:10 - 11:30 Jordon White CSU Monterey Bay Cycle Embeddings in Finite Planes
Moderator: Tim Lucas, Pepperdine University
Bldg 8 Rm 241 10:10 - 10:30 Khoi Vo UCLA What are Quaternions and Some of its Application
10:40 - 11:00 Casey Adams Cal Lutheran Univ The Zombie Apocalypse
11:10 - 11:30 Justine Duke Cal Lutheran Univ Catenary Curve in Application
Moderator: Amber Rosin, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 8 Rm 302 10:10 - 10:30 Miguel Rodriguez Cal Poly Pomona Fluid Flow: Understanding the Navier-Stokes Equations
10:40 - 11:00 Yusuf Jabri Cal Poly Pomona Wonderful Properties of the Wythoff Array
11:10 - 11:30 Amanda Hoisington UC Riverside Classification of Parseval Frames in (Z_2)^n by Transmission Error
Moderator: Alan Krinik, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 8 Rm 345 10:10 - 10:30 Jenny Chang, Reina Galvez, & Duy Ngo CSU Fullerton A Statistical Modeling Approach for the Analysis of Neuronal Intensity Rates
10:40 - 11:00 Leonila Lagunes CSU Fullerton Biomimetic Pattern Recognition for Cancer Detection
11:10 - 11:30 Ivan Espinosa CSU Fullerton New Observations and Data on M & m Sequences
Moderator: Tamas Forgacs, CSU Fresno
Bldg 8 Rm 348 10:10 - 10:30 Kevin Negron CSU Fullerton Multicomplex Stone-Weierstrass Theorem
10:40 - 11:00 Kelly Hartmann CSU Fullerton Model Analysis in Proof Schemes
11:10 - 11:30 Rebecca Etnyre & Lucy Odom CSU Fullerton Amalgamatic Curvature and Absolutely Umbilical Hypersurfaces
Moderator: Ricardo Cordero-Soto, Cal Baptist University
Bldg 3 Rm 1616 (FR/SO) 10:10 - 10:30 Eric Santana Fullerton College The Hadamard Conjecture: Part II
10:40 - 11:00 Triet Ta Fullerton College The Search for Smooth, Physically Reasonable Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations
11:10 - 11:30 Raul Reyes Fullerton College Alternate Versions of the Riemann-Zeta Conjecture
Moderator: Frank Gonzalez, Saddleback College
Bldg 3 Rm 1623 (FR/SO) 10:10 - 10:30 Gurpreet Cheema & Salem Nadia Bakersfield College $amp; CSU Bakersfield The Probability of the Infinite Coin Toss
10:40 - 11:00 Aleksandr Volokh University High School Visualization of Dynamics of the ABC Flow
11:10 - 11:30 Roberto Flores de Apodaca Concordia Univ Creating a More Perfect Voting System
Moderator: Melinda Schulteis, Concordia University
Bldg 3 Rm 1637 (FR/SO) 10:10 - 10:30 Han Zheng UC Irvine Tropical Arithmetic and Polynomials
10:40 - 11:00 Stanley Zhou UC Irvine Open Questions About Semi-Metric Spaces
11:10 - 11:30 Aaron Sung UC Irvine Fibonacci Numbers and their Generalizations
Moderator: Dana Clahane, UC Irvine
Afternoon Session 1:30 - 2:50 pm
Bldg 3 Rm 1616 (FO/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 A.P. Matthews Fullerton College Chaos of the Logistic Map
2:00 - 2:20 Valerie Guerra Fullerton College Pollock's Octahedral Numbers Conjecture
2:30 - 2:50 Khan Mohammad Fullerton College Do Odd Weird Numbers Exist?
Moderator: Jeff Gray, Santa Barbara City College
Bldg 3 Rm 1623 1:30 - 1:50 Graciela Cruz & Ryan Meier Pierce College and East Los Angeles College Adjustment Computations and Least Squares Analysis in Land Surveying
2:00 - 2:20 none none none
2:30 - 2:50 none none none
Moderator: Frank Gonzalez, Saddleback College
Bldg 3 Rm 1637 (FR/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 Dillon Allen UC Santa Barbara Useful Facts About Hermitian Matrices in Physics
2:00 - 2:20 Melody Lim & Anthony Hou UC Irvine & Arcadia High School Feature Identification for Colon Tumor Spheriod Classification
2:30 - 2:50 Bohyun Kim UC Irvine Ultimate Brownie Pan
Moderator: Rolando de Santiago, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 3 Rm 2137 1:30 - 1:50 Kevin O'Neill Harvey Mudd Lines in Tropical Quadrics
2:00 - 2:20 Ryan Takahashi Harvey Mudd Structured Matrices and the Algebra of Displacement Operators
2:30 - 2:50 Michael Earnest Harvey Mudd Extortion in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Moderator: Harriet Lord, Cal Poly Pomona
Bldg 3 Rm 2870 1:30 - 1:50 Jared Hallett Williams College Sets Whose Preimages Determine Meromorphic Functions, and Diophantine Equations with Separated Variables
2:00 - 2:20 Bob Lutz Pomona College Indestructible Operators
2:30 - 2:50 Luis Garcua Pomona College The Graphic Nature of Symmetric Supercharacters
Moderator: Don Hancock, Pepperdine University
Bldg 8 Rm 4 1:30 - 1:50 Joel Smith CSU Fresno The Singular Temperley Lieb Category
2:00 - 2:20 Jamie Peabody CSU Fresno The Category of sl(3) Webs
2:30 - 2:50 Benjamin Wright CSU Fresno Digits of Powers of Numbers in an Arbitrary Base
Moderator: Carmen Caprau, CSU Fresno
Bldg 8 Rm 210 1:30 - 1:50 Daniel Lee CSU Stanislaus An Introduction to Galois Theory
2:00 - 2:20 Camila Reyes CSU Stanislaus The Effect of Experiment Design on Network Inference
2:30 - 2:50 none none none
Moderator: Bradley Thomas, CSU Fresno
Bldg 8 Rm 241 1:30 - 1:50 Emily Ramos CSU Fullerton F-Test in Microarray Experiments
2:00 - 2:20 Cody Gruebele CSU Fullerton Comparison of Two Models for Fat/Water Separation in MRI
2:30 - 2:50 Katherine Estevez CSU Fullerton The 1/3 - 2/3 Conjecture
Moderator: Brian Fisher, Pepperdine University