RTG Mini-Conference

Each year the students participating in a research tutorial group (RTG) present their findings in an RTG Mini-Conference.

2008 RTG Mini Conference: December 11, 2008

Enrique Acosta, Ranks of elliptic curves over function fields. (Advisor: Doug Ulmer)
Geillan Aly, 2-Dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theory. (Advisor: Doug Pickrell)
Michael Bishop, Bounded States of Schrodinger's Equation with Random Potentials. (Advisor: Jan Wehr)
Michael Gilbert, The Infinite Upper Half Plane Self Avoiding Walk. (Advisor: Tom Kennedy)
Yaron Hadad, General Relativity: Numerical Solutions of Einstein's field equation. (Advisor: Mikhail Stepanov)
Martin Leslie, Ranks of elliptic curves over function fields. (Advisor: Doug Ulmer)
Nathan Ordansky, The Burnside Ring of a Finite Group. (Advisor: Klaus Lux)
Derek Seiple, G-Invariant Binary Self-Dual Codes and their Classifications. (Advisor: Klaus Lux)
Shane Passon, Modeling DNA mutation and recombination in neutral fitness scenarios. (Advisor: Joe Watkins)

David Herzog, A Conjecture of Samuel. (Advisor: Kirti Joshi)
Chuan Huang, A Study on Homoclinic Tangles. (Advisor: Don Wang)
Lizhen Lin, Path Integral Method for Time Series. (Advisor: Juan Restrepo)
Chol Park, The Trace and Valuation Maps in p-adic Cyclotomic Fields. (Advisor: David Savitt)
Aleksandar Petrov, A Look at Zeta Functions of a Family of Calabi-Yau Manifolds & Elliptic Curves. (Advisor: Kirti Joshi)
Victor Piercey, The Geometry of Polygon Spaces. (Advisor: Philip Foth)
Jordan Schettler, Bernoulli Numbers. (Advisor: Kirti Joshi)
Ryan Smith, The Trace and Valuation Maps in p-adic Cyclotomic Fields. (Advisor: David Savitt)
Matthew Thomas, The Geometry of Polygon Spaces. (Advisor: Philip Foth)
Cong Xie, Nonconvexity Causes Trouble. (Advisor: William Faris)
Mei Yin, Quantum Scattering. (Advisor: William Faris)

Yuliya Gorlina, Symplectic geometry and polygon moduli spaces. (Advisor: Philip Foth)
Christopher Jewell (Advisor: Doug Ulmer)
John Kerl, The Berezin Integral. (Advisor: John Palmer)
Jennifer Leahy (Advisor: Jim Cushing)
Andy Lebovitz, An Introduction to p-divisible Groups. (Advisor: Adrian Vasiu)
Tommy Occhipinti, (Advisor: Doug Ulmer)
Grant Peterson (Advisor: Joe Watkins)

Abhishek Bhattacharya, Frechet Means and their Estimation. (Advisor: Rabi Bhattacharya)
Joshua Chesler, An Aspiring Mathematician Goes Back to Middle School: A Search for Mathematical Depth and Analysis. (Advisor: unknown)
Sarah Hoffman, Random thoughts on Random Matrix Theory. (Advisor: Ken McLaughlin)
Mel Koppens, Disordered Systems. (Advsisor: Jan Wehr)
Thomas LaGatta, Geodesics on a Random Riemannian Plane. (Advisor: Jan Wehr)
Aisha Najera, Comparison of Symplectic and Riemannian Geometry. (Advisor: Doug Pickrell)
Yijun Shao, A good compactification of the space of holomorphic maps from P^1 to P^n. (Advisor: Yi Hu)
Jefferson Taft, The Compactification of the Module Space of pointed Riemann spheres. (Advisor: Philip Foth)
Casey Warmbrand, Random Thoughts on Random Matrix Theory. (Advisor: Ken McLaughlin)

Daniel Bartlett, Geometric invariant theory and stability. (Advisor: Yi Hu)
Ben Dyhr, Introduction to coherent states. (Advisor: Jan Wehr)
Grethe Hystad, The discrete Laplace operator. (Advisor: Daniel Ueltschi)
Milos Ivkovic, Achievable information rates for high-speed long-haul optical transmission. (Advisor: Ildar Gabitov)
McKenzie Lamb, The state polytope and the secondary polytope. (Advisor: Yi Hu)
Predrag Punosevac, The N-body problem. (Advisor: Don Wang)
Aramian Wasielak, Infinite geodesics in first passage percolation. (Advisor: Jan Wehr)
Brad Weir, Non-uniform hyperbolic dynamics. (Advisor: Don Wang)