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In addition to student presentations, the conference features two invited faculty
plenary talks, a panel on career opportunities in government, industry, and academia, networking opportunities at lunch (provided to all participants) and a drawing for door prizes at the end.
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Location: 7800 York Road, on the campus of Towson University in Towson Maryland.
Time:10 am -- 5:30 pm
Registration starts at 9:30am, along with coffee and pastry refreshments.
Free lunch provided for all registered participants. Stay until after the final plenary talk for a chance to win one of 5 door prizes (including board games and, like every year, a flying drone!)
Please fill out the online registration form if you are planning to attend.
Organizers: Sergiy Borodachov (sborodachov@towson.edu), Alexei Kolesnikov (akolesnikov@towson.edu), Nathan McNew (nmcnew@towson.edu), Hervé Nganguia (hnganguia@towson.edu)
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Bio:Ed Scheinerman is a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics where he has also served in a variety of administrative roles. His area of research is in discrete mathematics (especially graph theory). He is the author of several books including a discrete mathematics textbook and The Mathematics Lover’s Companion, a book for a broad readership. He is currently working on a book about the role of infinity in mathematics.
Title: Where Parallel Lines Meet: Take a Ride to Infinity on the Projective Plane
Abstract: Parallel lines do not meet; they have no points in common. And yet, when we look at a long stretch of railroad tracks, the rails appear to be coming closer and closer together, perhaps meeting at the horizon. This feature of how our eyes perceive the world is used by artists to create images that convey a realistic sense of depth. The familiar Euclidean plane doesn’t provide a framework for perspective art. When we extend the Euclidean plane with an additional line at infinity, we create a new structure called the projective plane in which parallel lines meet. In this presentation we’ll introduce the projective plane, see how to name points and lines with homogeneous coordinates, learn how points and lines are dual to each other, realize that the line at infinity is not special, reveal the topology of the projective plane, and meet the Fano plane – a skinny cousin of the projective plane that has only seven points and seven lines.
Anna Mazzucato, Pennsylvania State University.
Title: Inverse problems for differential equations: how to ``see” an underground tectonic fault
Abstract: I will give a brief introduction to inverse problems for differential equations, specifically how to remotely probe an object using solutions to differential equations. Examples of such problems are in medical imaging, non-destructive testing, and mining prospection. In seismology, the interior of the Earth can be probed in different ways, for example by generating small earthquakes and using seismic ways. I will discuss another way, where GPS data from satellites can be used to locate and monitor tectonic faults deeply buried underground in between earthquakes.
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| Career Panel |
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- Megan Doring, TECH(x)
- James Della-Giustina, NASA Ames Research Center
- Matthew Tiger, Videoamp
- John Bernard Gonzalez Jr, US Dept of Defense
- Jennifer Weiler, Enterprise Reporting and Security Data Analyst at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing
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Parts of the conference will also be available on Zoom. Links to participate will be emailed to registered participants.
Last modified 6 November 2024.