The Electronic Proceedings of Undergraduate Mathematics Day

Volume 1 (2004)

Conference held on November 1, 2003

Schraut Memorial Lecture

• Dr. Robert Lewand "How Not to Get Lost While on a Random Walk", 1-13

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Invited Address

• Dr. Chikako Mese  "Curvature and the shape of the universe", 1-13

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Contributed Papers

• Robert Arnold, Tom Attenweiler, Christopher Brockman, Bethany, Lesko, Christine, Martinek, Colleen McCormick, Jessica McQuiston, Jessica Parker, and Amy Rohmiller "Newton's Unfinished Business: Uncovering the Hidden Powers of Eleven in Pascal's Triangle", 1-5               
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• Walter H. Chen "Ramanujan Graphs in the Construction of LDPC Codes", 1-7

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• Gayatri Gunda and Dr. Aparna Higgins "Pebbling on Directed Graphs", 1-13

   

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• Kevin Hurley "Some Interesting Multiples of Nine: Use Your Digits to Get the Digits!", 1-10

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• Andrew Schworer and Dr. Peter Hovey "Newton-Raphson Versus Fisher Scoring Algorithms in Calculating Maximum Likelihood Estimates", 1-11

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