Every Spring, the Department hosts a research day during which graduate students present their directed research or capsone projects and undergraduates present their honors theses. Other students participate as well in poster sessions, three minute thesis, and student talks.
This year research day will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Schedule of Events - all in 103A and the first floor of Walker Hall
- 1 - 2 pm: Three Minute Thesis Competition
- 2 - 3 pm: Poster Session with Refreshments
- 3 - 5 pm: Student presentations (and prizes!)
Presenters
1:00 p.m. (WA 103A): 3-Minute Thesis Competition
- Using Math to Teach Financial Literacy, Amber Mellon, M.A.
- I use RBFs to Solve PDEs on ES., Jacob Blazejewski, Ph.D.
- The Risch Algorithm: Exploring the Integrability of Functions in Terms of Elementary Functions, Brody Miller
- How Smart Bucks and Math Merge: Empowering Students with Financial Literacy, Silva Keohulian
2:00 p.m. (Outside WA 103A): Poster Session with Refreshments
- Mapping Maternal Health Care Access Disparities: A Fine-Scale Geospatial Analysis in North Carolina, Caroline A. Fehlman
- Overview of Interpolation using Radial Basis Functions and Runge Phenomena, Lucas Jimenez
- The Risch Algorithm: Exploring the Integrability of Functions in Terms of Elementary Functions, Brody Miller
3:00 p.m. (WA 103A): Master’s Directed Research Presentations
- How Smart Bucks and Math Merge: Empowering Students with Financial Literacy, Silva Keohulian
- Plato, Poincaré, & Pythagoras: an initiation into esoteric mathematical astronomy, James Watkins
4:00 p.m. (WA 103A): Undergraduate Talks
- Heuristics (and also Biases) in the Insurance Context, Dattasai Sagili
- Monte and Quasi-Monte Carlo Method for Integration, Seamus Flaherty
- Quaternionic Cryptography, Hank Ewing
4:00 p.m. (WA 103B): Undergraduate Talks
- Katherine Johnson’s Formulation and Calculation of the Azimuth Angle at a Spacecraft’s Burnout Position, Ethany Payne
- Exploration of Stochastic Differential Equations and Their Simulation, Joey Seevers
- Defining trajectories from recursive pairing between zeros and critical points of derivatives of random polynomials, Nickolos Monk
5:00 p.m. (WA 103A): Prize Drawing – attend talks for tickets! Thanks to Mint Indian Cuisine, Stick Boy Bread Company, Espresso News Cafe and Roastery, and The Department of Mathematical Sciences for generous prize donations!
Full Program [pdf]