Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2010
The Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC) is a one-day mathematics conference held annually each Spring semester at rotating institutions, and attended by students and faculty from various universities, colleges, and community colleges in New York and New England. The first meeting was held in 1994 while the meeting for Spring 2008 was hosted by St. Lawrence University. The conference features short presentations by students and faculty, along with a longer invited address by a noted mathematician.
Every year, a large group of students and faculty members from our department attend this conference. Twenty-five students and faculty members attended the conference this year, held on April 17, 2010. Thirteen of us (eleven students and two faculty members) presented their research. The group of students traveling from St. Lawrence University included sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Tara Akstull - "Poisson Models to Predict Scoring Rates in Hockey"
Jeremy Hadler - "Evaluating the Robustness of Competing Clustering Algorithms"
Meg Howard - "Classification Trees and Effective Recruiting in College Sports"
Thang Huynh - "Fourier Analysis on Boolean Functions and its Applications"
Catherine Lane - "Does Iron-Fortified Fish Sauce Reduce the Presence of Anemia? Data Anlysis and Simulations"
Daniel M. Look (Faculty) - "A Visual Introduction to Complex Dynamics"
Oke McAndrews - "Forecasting the Natural Gas Market: Applications of Time Series Analysis"
Paul Mercurio - "Modeling the Spread of Raccoon Rabies in Connecticut using Spatial Data"
Katie Miller - "Predicting Wins for Baseball Games"
Jennifer Porter - "Detecting Hotspots with Spatial Analysis"
Karma Sonam - "Investigating the Convergence Rate of Sampling Distributions from Skewed Populations"
Marcus Tuttle - "Exploring Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques"
Sam Vandervelde (Faculty) - "Euler, Partitions and Triangular Numbers"