Women in Mathematics

WOMEN IN MATH - FUND FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Past Recipients

2006-2007 Recipients

1. Anna Auker , Freshman, Superviser: James Sellers.
   Title: Properties of recurrent Sequences
   Description: As part of a small group, Anna will participate in a study of recurrences and related properties (such as divisibility of Fibonacci numbers and related families.
2. Kristina Colladay, Senior, Superviser: Andrew Belmonte.
   Title: Mathematical modeling of biodiesel production
   Description:Biodiesel is a fuel esentially interchangeable with petroleum diesel, produced by chemical reaction from mo0st vegetable oils. We are studying the coupled Oridnary Differential Equations models for this reaction, and comparing it with our own biodiesel production experiments in the Pritchard Fluid Lab.
3. Christine Cushwa, Senior, Superviser: Diane Henderson and Victor Nistor.
   Title: Numerical look at Mathieu's equation.
   Description: We studied differential equations with non-constant coefficients, concentrating on the Mathieu equation for which we conducted a numerical investigation.
4. Fara Delitsky, Freshman, Superviser: Anna Mazzucato and Victor Nistor.
   Title: Numerical methods for elliptic equations and linear algebra
   Description: We study the properties of the stiffness matrix associated to the discretization of the Laplace equation. Our approximation space is defined in terms of a partition of unity. We want to obtain a fast method for solving the resulting linear system. We will consider the effect of changing the basis of the Finite Element space.
5. Noopur Pathak, Sophomore, Adviser: Luen-Chau Li.
   Title: Zero-preserving isospectral flows
   Description: We plan to construct isospectral flows on symmetric matrices which preserve zero patterns and which converge to diagonal matrices. We hope to be able to use such flows to compute the eigenvalues of some classes of structured matrices.