Ithaca College

On Saturday, April 19, 11 students participated in the 15th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC), hosted by St. Lawrence University. The HRUMC is among the longest-running conferences dedicated solely to student-faculty research in mathematics, drawing schools from all over the Northeast for this one-day event.

The following talks were given:

• Matthew Rogala '08: "q-Analogues of the Genocchi Numbers"
• Sarah Jabon '11: "Islamic Contribution to Mathematics: Al Kharizmi's Completing the Square"
• Sigurd Teigen '08: "Creating a Web-based User Interface for GNUOctave"
• Krasimir Kehayov '10: "An Operator Method for Evaluating L2-Transforms"
• Megan Groll '10 and Kyle Rogers '09: "Convolutions, Laplace Transforms, and Parseval Relations"
• Matthew Mastroeni '09: "Developing a Convolution Analogue for the L2-transform"
• Tamara Niquette '08: "The Brunes Star and its Implications"
• Blagoy Kostadinov '09: "Chebyshev Polynomials and Their Properties"
• Dee Dee Dyer '08 and Jesse Hooper '08: "Visual Representation of Modular Arithmetic"

Funding for attending this conference was kindly provided by the Humanities and Sciences Educational Grant Initiative and the Department of Mathematics.