Canisius-RIT Joint Conference

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CANISIUS-RIT JOINT CONFERENCE 2009

On 7/22, we had a mini-conference with the REU group at Rochester Institute of Technology. In the below are the titles of the talks given. We thank the RIT group for hosting the event this year.

Presentations by students in the NSF-REU program in Extremal Graph Theory and Dynamical Systems at RIT

(1) Ericka Mochan (Western New England College) and Davis Buenger (Rice University)

Title: External Cavity Mode Solutions to the Lang-Kobayashi Equations

(2) Kristen Bretney (Loyola Marymount University) and Brian Allen (Messiah College)

Title: Analyzing Hyperspectral Images

(3) Sandra James (Concordia University, St. Paul) and Andrew Zemke (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Title: k-Rankings of Graphs

(4) Kevin Black (Harvey Mudd College) and Daniel Leven (Rutgers University)

Title: Finding Ramsey Numbers

Presentations by students in the NSF-REU program in Geometry and Physics on Graphs at Canisius College

(1) Robert Abramovic (Johns Hopkins University)

Title: Harmonic Maps and the Dirichlet Problem

(2) Greg Gauthier (Vanderbilt University)

Title: Graph Fortresses Cheeger Values

(3) Laura Janssen (University of Nebraska)

Title: Extensions of the Heisenberg Group

(4) Jonathan Jaquette (Swarthmore College)

Title: Symbolic Embeddings of Dynamical Systems

(5) Mollie Stein (Barnard College)

Title: Zeta Functions of Graph Covers

(6) Ann Johnston (Harvey Mudd College) and Andrew Reynolds (University of California, Los Angeles)

Title: C*-algebras of Graph Products

(7) Amelia Wallace (University of North Carolina)

Title: Expander Graphs