ORCA Math Conference for

Teachers & Undergraduates

Schedule

 

8:00 - 9:00         Coffee and Bagels in hall near Holt 155

9:00 - 12:10      Contributed talks in Holt 155 and 266 (two parallel sessions)

12:10 - 1:00      Lunch in SelvesterÕs Cafˇ

1:00 - 2:00         Split into two groups:

1. Students - Tour of Downtown Chico led by Chico REU students

2. Faculty and Teachers - Informal Discussion about RET

                  1:00 – 1:30 Teachers meet in Holt 266, Faculty in Holt 155

                                    1:30 – 2:00 All teachers and faculty meet in Holt 155

2:00 - 3:00         Invited talk by Lisa Berger, Shelving Books in Holt 266

3:10 – 5:00        Contributed talks in Holt 155 and 266

5:30                         Dinner at Peeking restaurant.

Schedule of Contributed Talks

 

Holt 155

 

9:40 – 10:10     The 1-Relaxed Game Chromatic Number of Paths and Extended Stars (Lynnette Snyder)

10:20 – 10:50 One Relaxed Game Chromatic Number of Caterpillars (Mallory Schaffert)

11:00 – 11:30 A Tree with Maximum Degree 3 and Game Chromatic Number 4 (Victor Larsen)

11:40 – 12:10 Clique-Relaxed Graph Coloring (William Sehorn)

 

3:10 – 3:40        Obstacle Number of Graphs (Christina Koch)

3:50 – 4:20        Convex Obstacle Numbers of Graphs (Hannah Alpert)

4:30 – 5:00        Expected Length of Minimal Spanning Trees on Graphs With Randomly

Weighted Edges (Krista Foltz, Chelsea McLennan, Jared Nishikawa, Ryan Valles, and Nada Bushey)

 

Holt 266

 

9:00 – 9:30        Classifying Graphs as Intrinsically Knotted (Chris Morris)

9:40 – 10:10     Intrinsic Knotting of Bipartite Graphs (Sophy Huck)

10:20 – 10:50 Focusing UCT Search in Go (Peter Drake, Jason Galbraith, Andrew Hubbard, Yung-Pin Chen, Seth Pellegrino, John Stogin, and Kevin Imber)

11:00 – 11:30 From Simple Continued Fractions to Lambda Fractions (Shira Hetz and Matthew Bracher)

11:40 – 12:00 Ergodic Methods in the Theory of Lambda Fractions (Michael Ontiveros)

12:00 – 12:10  Arithmetic Derivatives of Integers (Aaron Sewell)

 

3:10 – 3:40        Mathematical Modeling of Rotational Flows of Visco-Elastic Fluids (Christine Bittner, Konstantin Dragomiretskiy, Jim Friedrich and Kris Kilpatrick)

3:50 – 4:20        Identification of Individual Great Horned Owls Using Wavelet Analysis (Robert Vandermeulen, Katherine McCaffrey, Kevin Schiedler, Nicole Kingsley, and Heather Thomas)

4:30 – 5:00        Determining the Social Class Backgrounds of UC and CSU Mathematics Faculty (Sophy Huck, Carol Wilson, Megan O'Connor, and Elizabeth Zapata)