Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium
Saturday, October 13, 2012
University of Illinois at Chicago

Organized by David Dumas and Steven Hurder

About the symposium

The Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium at UIC is an annual one-day meeting focusing on undergraduate mathematical research and education. The meeting features invited lectures by mathematical researchers and contributed lectures by undergraduates on their own research projects.

The next UMS will be held at UIC on Saturday, October 13, 2012.

UMS 2012 Poster (PDF)

Download the poster (PDF)

Plenary lectures

Attending the symposium

Online registration for this year's symposium has closed. If you have not yet registered but want to attend the symposium, please come to SEO 300 between 8:15am and 8:50am on Saturday morning to register in person. (See detailed location information and map links below.)

Schedule of events

Plenary lectures are 50 minutes and student lectures 20 minutes; breaks of 10 minutes between talks allow for questions and discussion. A catered lunch of sandwiches and salads is provided for all symposium participants.
8:15 - 8:50am Sign-in and coffee in SEO 300
Morning session — Plenary Lectures — Lecture Center F1
8:55am Opening remarks
9:00am Andrea Young (Ripon) — Discrete Differential Geometry
10:00am Ramin Takloo-Bighash (UIC) — Distribution of orders in number fields
11:00am Nathan Dunfield (UIUC) — Mathematical truths: experiment, proof, and understanding
12:00pm Lunch in SEO 300
Afternoon Session 1 — Student lectures — Lecture Center F1
1:00pm Charles Alley (UIC) — Continued Fractions as Linear Fractional Transformations and Related Results
1:30pm Jake Marcinek (Caltech) — Subrings of Z6
2:00pm Nathaniel Bude (Ripon) — Hill-Climbing Search for Metrics on Triangulations of S3
2:30pm Fiacha Heneghan and Ashley Sliva (DePaul) — Min-max Up-down Permutations
3:00pm Coffee break in SEO 300
Afternoon session 2 — Student lectures — Lecture Center F1
3:30pm Sangwon Hyun (Michigan) — Examining the Sample Complexity of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
4:00pm Brian Freidan and Robert Halliday (UIUC) — The Sphere in Spacetime
4:30pm Milica Vesovic (UIC) — Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems

Location

All symposium events will take place on the UIC campus. Registration, lunch and coffee will be provided in room 300 of the Science and Engineering Offices building (SEO), while the lectures will take place in room 1 of Lecture Center F (LCF).

SEO and LCF are adjacent buildings on UIC's east side campus, near the Daley Library; refer to the campus map for details:

Contact

For further information, please contact David Dumas (ddumas@math.uic.edu).