Department of Mathematics University of Nebraska at Omaha: Mathematics Awareness Month

Mathematics Awareness Month, April 2010
Mathematics and Climate
Department of Mathematics, UNO
April 9
Mathematics Symposium: "Mathematics Awareness Month at UNO"

9:00-12:00 AM, Room: Durham Science Center 256
Note: The student presenters are enrolled in the Kerrigan Research Minigrant Program.
9:00-9:05, Dora Matache, UNO - Mathematics, chair of the 2010 MAM committee and Mahboub Baccouch, UNO - Mathematics, symposium organizer
"Welcome"

9:05-9:25, Melissa Emory, UNO - Mathematics
"Quadratic solutions to x^4 + y^4 = D^2z^4 " (abstract)
Adviser: Griff Elder

9:25-9:45, Bryan Johnson, UNO - Mathematics
"Discontinuous Galerkin method with h-refinement for two dimensional linear hyperbolic problems on unstructured meshes" (abstract)
Adviser: Mahboub Baccouch

9:45-10:05, Joseph Lee, UNO - Mathematics
"On the Banach-Tarski Paradox" (abstract)
Adviser: Andrzej Roslanowski

10:05-10:25, Nian Yan, UNO - Mathematics
"A nonlinear multiregression model based on the Choquet integral with a quadratic core" (abstract)
Adviser: Zhenyuan Wang

10:25-10:30, Jack Heidel, UNO - Mathematics, Chair of the department
"The 2010 Kerrigan Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics Ceremony"

10:30-10:50, Kevin Beam, UNO - Mathematics
"The Multivariable Alexander Polynomial for a Family of Links" (abstract)
Adviser: Robb Todd

10:50-11:10, Aziz Inoyatov, UNO - Mathematics
"Applications of Information Theory in the Stock Market" (abstract)
Adviser: Slava Rykov

11:10-11:30, Jaime Lopez, UNO - Mathematics
"Solution of Eigenvalue problem for the confinement of vibrations in non homogeneous beams" (abstract)
Adviser: Mahboub Baccouch

11:30-11:50, Bo Guo, UNO - Information Science and Technology
"Identification of Monotone Measures" (abstract)
Adviser: Zhenyuan Wang

11:50-12:10, Weiwei Zhang, UNO - Mathematics
"The Choquet integral with respect to fuzzy-valued set functions" (abstract)
Adviser: Zhenyuan Wang

12:10-12:30, Beichen Wang, UNO - Mathematics
"On Normal Approximations to Discrete Distributions" (abstract)
Adviser: Steve From

April 12
"Preservice Math Teachers Party"
Organizers: Janice Rech and Michael Matthews.

4:30-5:30 PM, Durham Science Center (DSC) 208

April 16
Guest Speaker: Dr. Andrew Swift, UNO-Mathematics "Is NFL Overtime Unfair? Using Mathematics to Answer This and Other Sports Questions"

2:30-3:30 PM, Durham Science Center (DSC) TBA

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