Fall Math Capstone Talks

Fall 2021 Math Capstone talks with take place on Tuesday, December 7th and Wednesday, December 8th.

Tuesday, Dec 7th. VH1224

6:00pm Angela Stamilio Pell’s Equation

6:25pm Clare Wacker The RSA System of Cryptography

6:50pm Kathryn Pietka Multidimensional Scaling

7:15pm Hayato Miyazaki  Health Technology Assessment Based on Markov Chains and Simulation

7:40pm Son Vu  Composite Appending Sequences in Base 3

8:05pm Samantha Shirk The Equivalence of Side-Angle-Side and Side-Side-Side in Absolute Geometry

8:30pm Isabelle Albers  The Knapsack Algorithm as a Trapdoor Function

8:55pm  Tyler Beauregard  Sprague-Grundy Theorem and Impartial Games

Wednesday, Dec 8th. VH1228

4:00pm Sarah Landgraf  The Significance of Imaginary Numbers

4:25pm Katelyn Low The Mathematics Behind Redistricting

4:50pm  Sarah Bellm Primality Testing and Cryptography

5:15pm Kelli Ellis QR factorization

5:40pm  Ethan Hemmer Life Insurance and Contingent Annuities

6:05pm  Andy Swanson  Markov Chains and their Applications to Actuarial Science

6:30pm  Garrett Gifford Finding Ranks of Matrices

6:55pm  Andrew Vazquez  The Undecidability of the Word Problem in Group Theory