Results of REU Research 2017

REU Mini-Conference held July 17-18, 2017

Schedule and Abstracts

Participants, Presentations, and Reports

• Algebraic Methods in Mathematical Biology Mentors: Anne Shiu; Nida Obatke, Ola Sobieska, Jonathan Tyler
  • Megan Franke (UCSB): Every Neural Code Can Be Realized by Convex Sets, slides
  • Molly Hoch (Wellesley College): Investigating an algebraic signature for max intersection-complete codes, slides
  • Samuel Muthiah (Westmont College): On the identification of k-inductively pierced codes using toric ideals, slides
  • Mark Sweeney (University of Rochester): Conditions for Solvability in Chemical Reaction Networks at Quasi-Steady-State, slides
  • Ray Tung (Brown University): Oscillations in Michaelis-Menten Systems, slides

• Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computation Mentors: Julia Plavnik; Paul Gustafson, Ola Sobieska
  • Elena Amparo (College of William and Mary): Classification of Strictly Weakly Integral Modular Categories of Dimension 16p, slides
  • Kathleen Lee (Whittier College): On classification of (weakly integral) modular categories by dimension, slides
  • Etude O'Neel-Judy (Northern Arizona University): On Classification of Low-Dimensional Irreducible Representations of B_5. slides
  • Paul Vienhage (Emory University): Classification of Low Dimensional Unitarizable Representations of B_5, slides

• Number Theory Mentors: Matt Young, Riad Masri; Nathan Green, Wei-Lun Tsai
  • Alex Mathers (University of Alabama), Maria Ross (University of Puget Sound), and Arianna Iannuzzi (Saint Mary's College): Nonvanishing of Hecke series and l-torsion in class groups, slides
  • Thomas Brazelton (Johns Hopkins University) and Victoria Jakicic (Indiana University of Pennsylvania): Zeros of Newform Eisenstein Series on \Gamma_0(N) Slides: part 1 and part 2; ArXiV link for paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03633.