Schedule of Events


Registration and the opening session for the conference will be held in George Elkins Auditorium. The student talk sessions and the panel discussions will be held in the classrooms in the Appleby Center (AC) and Plaza Classrooms (PC). Lunch will be in Joslyn Plaza (outside). A campus map is available here. Signs for the conference will be posted.

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Time Event Location
8:00 - 8:50 am Registration and light continental breakfast Elkins
9:00 - 9:50 am Morning Activity Elkins
10:10 - 11:30 am Student Talks, Session I AC and PC
11:40 - 12:30 pm Career Panel Elkins
12:30 - 1:20 pm Lunch Joslyn Plaza
1:30 - 2:50 pm Student Talks, Session II AC and PC
2:50 - 3:10 pm Afternoon Break Joslyn Plaza
3:15 - 4:05 pm Keynote Address by Bill Richoux, Google Elkins
4:05 - 4:20 pm Prize Session Elkins

Schedule of Student Talks

Please note that as part of PCUMC's commitment to be green whenever possible, paper copies of the abstracts will NOT be available at the conference. Here are pdf versions of the Student Talk Schedule and Abstract List.


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Morning Abstracts

Afternoon Abstracts


Rm Time Speaker Institution Title
Morning Session 10:10 - 11:30 am
PC 188 10:10 - 10:30 Alexander Goldman (FR/SO) Fullerton College Group Theory an The Herzog-Schonheim Conjecture
10:40 - 11:00 Caleb Kunchandy Fullerton College Are there any quasiperfect or odd M-superperfect numbers (REU)
11:10 - 11:30 Alfredo Velez Fullerton College The Agoh-Giuga Conjecture (History/Bio)
Moderator: Helena Noronha, CSU Northridge
PC 189 (FR/SO) 10:10 - 10:30 Nate Hovey Fullerton College An Introduction to Simply Mathematical Models of Solar System Orbital Behavior
10:40 - 11:00 Alexander Meiburg Dos Pueblos Analytic Extension of Tetration through Expansion at a Fixed Point
11:10 - 11:30 Dillon Allen College of the Sequoias Fenyman Path Integral in Quantum Mechanics (History/Bio)
Moderator: Ross Rueger, College of the Sequoias
PC 190 10:10 - 10:30 Sharat Chandra (FR/SO) UC Irvine An Exposition on Shor's Algorithm in Quantum Computation
10:40 - 11:00 Mark Rychnovsky UC Santa Barbara Large Structured Space of Strong Linearizations (Sr. Proj)
11:10 - 11:30 Nicholas Dibble-Kahn UC Santa Barbara Perfect Matching of Bipartite Graph
Moderator: Padraic Bartlett, UC Santa Barbara
PC 191 10:10 - 10:30 Brent Allman Univ. of San Diego DNA and Knot Theory: Topological Applications to Biology (Class Proj)
10:40 - 11:00 Erika Ordog Pepperdine Univ. Harmonographs: Visualizing the Mathematics of Music (Class Proj)
11:10 - 11:30 Thomas Shifley Pepperdine Univ Weird Dice: An Application of Algebraic Combinatorics (Class Proj)
Moderator: Don Thompson, Pepperdine University
AC 261 10:10 - 10:30 David Lingenbrink Harvey Mudd A New Subgroup Chain for the Finite Affine Group (Sr. Proj)
10:40 - 11:00 Jeremy Usatine Harvey Mudd Arithmetical Graphs and the Frobenius Number (Sr. Proj)
11:10 - 11:30 Emily Fischer Harvey Mudd Infinitely Many Rotationally Symmetric Solutions to the Laplace-Beltrami Equation on the Unit Sphere (Sr. Proj)
Moderator: Don Hancock, Pepperdine University
AC 253 10:10 - 10:30 Tongija Shi Harvey Mudd Random Permutations (Sr. Proj)
10:40 - 11:00 Shreyas Kumar Harvey Mudd Simulations and Experiments of Surfactant Driven Thin-Film Flow (Sr. Proj)
11:10 - 11:30 Gabriella Heller Pomona College Topological Complexity in Protein Structures (Sr. Proj)
Moderator: Michael Gagliardo, California Lutheran University
AC 270 10:10 - 10:30 Efe Umukoro Cal Baptist Univ An Application of Girth, a preliminary report (Sr. Proj)
10:40 - 11:00 Benjamin Knisley Cal Baptist Univ Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity in Native American Adolescents and Exploratory Data Analysis (REU)
11:10 - 11:30 Joseph Gemignani Cal Baptist Univ Solution of a Schrodinger Equation with a Generalized Caldirola-Kanai Hamiltonian (REU)
Moderator: Ricardo Cordero-Soto, California Baptist University
AC 280 10:10 - 10:30 Jennifer Elder CSU Fresno>/td> A Yang-Baxter model for Specializations of the Kauffman Polynomial (Sr. Proj)
10:40 - 11:00 Elaina Aceves CSU Fresno An Invariant for Spatial Graphs (Sr. Proj)
11:10 - 11:30 Kelsey Friesen & Thoa Tran CSU Fresno Invariants for Virtual Singular Links (Sr. Proj)
Moderator: Carmen Caprau, CSU Fresno
AC 286 10:10 - 10:30 Leonila Lagunes CSU Fullerton Cancern Screening using Hyper-Dimensional Biomimetic Pattern Recognition (Sr. Proj)
10:40 - 11:00 Daniel Collister CSU Los Angeles Kappa Values and the Lonely Runner Conjecture: A Race in Reverse (REU)
11:10 - 11:30 -- -- --
Moderator: Bradley Thomas, California Baptist University
AC 290 10:10 - 10:30 Taylor Russell UC Riverside Applying Bayesian Methods to Ground Fule Estimation (REU)
10:40 - 11:00 -- -- --
11:10 - 11:30 Arcadia Larsen Whittier College Inequalities for Positive Rank and Crank Moments of Overpartitions (REU)
Moderator: Chris Brown, California Lutheran University
Afternoon Session 1:30 - 2:50 pm
PC 188 (FO/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 Quoc Viet Luu Fullerton College Are there any Odd Weird Numbers and How Large are their Abundances (Class Proj/Journal)
2:00 - 2:20 Faith Forcucci Fullerton College Landau's Problems (REU/History-Bio)
2:30 - 2:50 Hyunjoon Choi Fullerton College The Weak and Strong Goldbach's Conjecture (REU/History-Bio)
Moderator: Sabrina Barajas, Santa Barbara City College
PC 189 (FR/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 Brandon Van Over MiraCosta College Continued Fractions as an Algorithm for Calculating the Value of Pi (REU)
2:00 - 2:20 Abraham Ibanez MiraCosta College Introduction to Non-Standard Analysis
2:30 - 2:50 Armin Niakan Moorpark College On the Inconsistency of the Naive Set Theory
Moderator: Ryan Petitfils
PC 190 1:30 - 1:50 Maximilian Hung, Bohyun Kim, & Xiling Zhang UC Irvine Barcode Deconvolution via Wiener and Dictionary Analysis of Barcode Subsections (Class Proj)
2:00 - 2:20 Krista Kernodle UC Irvine The Effect of a Time-Dependent Genetic Mutation Rate on Cancerous Growth (REU)
2:30 - 2:50 Eric Lai UC Irvine The Minimum Distance between Finite Cyclic Groups (Class Proj)
Moderator: David Crombecque, USC
PC 191 (FR/SO) 1:30 - 1:50 Jane Lee Pepperdine Univ Farkle (Class Proj)
2:00 - 2:20 Kade Shoemaker Pepperdine Univ Quants: The Mathematicians of Wall Street
2:30 - 2:50 Felipe Lopez Santiago Canyon College The 17 Equations that Changed the World! (History-Bio)
Moderator: Courtney Davis, Pepperdine University
AC 261 1:30 - 1:50 Darcy Cox & Amanda Grimm Azusa Pacific Univ 1-3-4-7: An Example in Pattern Matching (Sr. Proj)
2:00 - 2:20 Brooke Swanson Cal Lutheran Univ Elliptic Curves Over Infinite Fields (Sr. Proj)
2:30 - 2:50 Kelsey Swerdfeger Concordia Univ Solving Systems of Equations Using Groebner Bases (Sr. Proj)
Moderator: Melinda Schulteis, Concordia University
AC 263 1:30 - 1:50 Sam Gutekunst Harvey Mudd Disrupting Networks by Maximizing Load (Sr. Proj)
2:00 - 2:20 Peter Megson Harvey Mudd Experiments with Surfactants on Thin Fluid Films (Sr. Proj)
2:30 - 2:50 Matthew McDermott Harvey Mudd Fast Algorithms for Data Analysis on Tabloid Spaces (Sr. Proj)
Moderator: Yanping Ma, Loyola Marymount University
AC 270 1:30 - 1:50 Gurpreet Cheema & Nadia Salem CSU Bakersfield Probability of the Infinite Dice Roll
2:00 - 2:20 Manual Lopez CSU Fresno Random Walks: Concepts and Applications (Class Proj)
2:30 - 2:50 -- -- --
Moderator: Comian de Souza, CSU Fresno
AC 280 1:30 - 1:50 Jesus Navarro CSU Stanislaus 2-D Smoothing of Images by an Edge Map (REU)
2:00 - 2:20 Danny Orton CSU Fullerton An Invariant for Singular Links (REU)
2:30 - 2:50 Hye Rin Lin CSU Fullerton Imperfections and Their Advantages (REU)
Moderator: Stefaan Delcroix, CSU Fresno
AC 286 1:30 - 1:50 Kathryn Heal UCLA EEG Analysis Using Empirical Wavelet Transform (REU/Sr. Proj)
2:00 - 2:20 Daniel Moyer UCLA Metaheuristics of Agent Based Swarm and Contagion (REU)
2:30 - 2:50 Khoi Vo UCLA The 1/3 - 2/3 Conjecture and Making Comparison and Sorting More Efficient (Class Proj/History-Bio)
Moderator: Kevin Iga, Pepperdine University
AC 290 1:30 - 1:50 Freeman Levine Univ of Redlands Mathematical Modeling of Edge Flames in Micro-combustors (REU/Sr. Proj)
2:00 - 2:20 Spencer Igram UC Santa Barbara Periodic Linking in Randomly Generated N-gons (Sr. Proj)
2:30 - 2:50 Theresa Chadwick & Kevin Pelaez Univ of San Diego Seasonal Correlation of SIDS Death Rates in California Counties (Sr. Proj)
Moderator: Oscar Vega, CSU Fresno