STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Elmhurst College students have been active in learning and discovering new mathematical information, techniques, and applications.  Elmhurst College has a long history of student participation in the Mathematics Division of the Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area Student Spring Symposium, local seminars, and national meetings.
 

LOCAL AND REGIONAL PRESENTATIONS

•  1979    David Spooner "Walking in the rain" - Merit of Excellence
•  1979    David Hamann  "More Probabilities in Proofreading"
•  1980    D. Hamann and D. Spooner "Boundary Value Problems and Solar Energy"
•  1981    Cathy Carbonaro "More on Pinochle"
•  1981    Beverly Saltz "Coin Tossing and Probability" - Merit of  Excellence
•  1981    Paul Rudnik, "The Determination of an Angle-Dependent Function to be used to Approximate Cellular Cross-Sectional Area"
•  1981    Robert Urbane "Seven Game Series in Sports"
•  1982    Donna Walters  "The Scheduling Problem" - Merit of Excellence
•  1984    Fardad Serry  "Fractals" -Merit of Excellence
•  1986    Gerry Flanigan  "The Teapot Phenomenon"
•  1988    LisaMarie Nicolosi "The Tower of Hanoi"
•  1988    Michelle DiPaolis, Lorelei Purdy, and Gail Scheuerman,  "An Analysis of the Game Monopoly"
•  1988    Robert Hendrix and Blaine Krage "The Game of Battleship"
•  1989    Bill Richter, "Computer Simulation of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos"
•  1990    Sandra Gough, "Coding Thoery: BCH Codes"
•  1990    Donna Peers, "Group Theory Through Card Shuffling"
•  1990    Kirk Rowe, "To Flip a Coin"
•  1991    Mark Dobner, "The Intermediate Value Property"
•  1992    Jonathan Caforio, "The Essence of Visual Geometry and its Relationship to Algebra"
•  1993    Emmi Connell, "Happy Numbers"
•  1993    Robert Burnham and Stephen Krug, "The Theoretical Concept Concerning the Verification of the Braess Paradox"
•  1993    Michael Callahan, "The Runge-Lenz Vector: Applications to Rutherford Scattering"   (In Physics)
•  1997    Brian Sievers, "Combustion, Premixed and Diffusion flames"
•  1997    MaryBeth Lake, "Just-About-Right Scales"

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NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

        In 1990, Donna Peers presented her paper, "Group Theory Through Card Shuffling," at the Pi Mu Epsilon National meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

         In 1991, Mark Dobner presented his paper, "The Intermediate Value Property," at the Pi Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honorary meeting in Orono, Maine.  He was one of eight award winners from among the 48 papers presented at the meeting.

        In 1997, Carrie J. Eschenbrenner presented her paper, "Orlik-Solomon Algebras and Tutte Polynomials, " at the Annual American Mathematical Society Meeting in San Diego, California.

       In 1998, MaryBeth Lake presented her paper, "Just-About-Right Scales, " at the Pi Mu Epsilon National meeting in Toronto, Ontario.
 
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