Research Minigrants Program

Kerrigan Research Minigrants Program

The Department of Mathematics is calling for $300 research minigrants for the academic year 2010-2011. The applicants should be undergraduate or graduate UNO students with solid mathematics background. For details please check the Program Description file.

Proposed Projects for 2010-2011

Applied Mathematics

Dora Matache

Mean-Field Boolean Model of a Signal Transduction Network. Status: taken by Naomi Kochi. Report. Awarded first prize.
Distributed prediction market using Boolean network modeling. Status: taken by Janyl Jumadinova. Report

John Konvalina

Cellular Automata and Canalizing Functions.. Status: taken by Karen Holly. Report. Awarded third prize.

Slava Rykov

Distance of Cyclic Codes for Additive Stem Similarity. Status: taken by Vladimir Ufimtsev. Report

Algebra

Griff Elder

Artin-Schreier-Witt extensions in characteristic zero. Status: taken by Alex James. Report

Numerical Methods for Solving Differential Equations

Mahboub Baccouch

The discontinuous Galerkin method applied to Euler-Bernoulli equation. Status: taken by Jaime Lopez. Report . Awarded third prize.

Approximation theory/numerical analysis

Steve From

Approximation and interpolation of completely monotone functions using certain families of generalized polynomials. Status: taken by David Loscutoff. Report. Awarded second prize.

Complex Analysis

Valentin Matache

Two conjectures related to Riemann's conformal equivalence theorem. Status: taken by Daniel Miller. Report. Awarded second prize.

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