Historical Notes

The Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Conference began with its inaugural year in 1984 with its purpose to spotlight and celebrate the accomplishments and work of undergraduate mathematicians.

Previous and Future Conference Dates

	28th Conference (2011)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 25th and 26th, 2011
	Organizers:	Mike Devasher and Leanne Holder
	Speakers and Talks:	Bryan Shader Communication Complexity and Up with determinants Robert E. Bradley Sineseeing: a sightseeing voyage with sine
	27th Conference (2010)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 26th and 27th, 2010
	Organizers:	Steve Carlson and Leanne Holder
	Speakers and Talks:	Sarah Greenwald Good News Everyone! Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons and Futurama and Rubik's Cube Games on Spheres: Geometry of Spherical Orbifolds Robert E. Bradley From Differentials to Limits: Fleeting Flirtations and Lingering Loyalties
	26th Conference (2009)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 27th and 28th, 2009
	Organizers:	Kurt Bryan and Steve Galinaitis
	Speakers and Talks:	T. Christine Stevens Ham Sandwiches and Hairy Coconuts - an Algebraic Topologist's Feast and Mathematical Ways and Congressional Means Kelly Black Hey, You Kids! Turn Up That Noise
	25th Conference (2008)       » web site «
	Dates:	April 11 and April 12, 2008
	Organizers:	Bill Butske and Yosi Shibberu
	Speakers and Talks:	John F. Hamilton, Jr. Industrial Mathematics and Digital Imaging and Mathematics Dan Isaksen Quaternions, Octonions, and Beyond
	24th Conference (2007)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 9 and March 10, 2007
	Organizers:	Allen Broughton and Ken McMurdy
	Speakers and Talks:	Jerry L. Bona Big Waves on Deep Water - Tsunamis and Rogue Waves and Mathematics and Beach Protection Jennifer Quinn Determinants Via Determined Ants
	23rd Conference (2006)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 31 and April 1, 2006
	Organizers:	Joshua Holden and David Rader
	Speakers and Talks:	Michael Rosen The Zeta Function for Beginners and Irreducible Polynomials Modulo p Allen Holder Optimal Oncology
	22nd Conference (2005)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 18 and 19, 2005
	Organizers:	Diane Evans and Mark Inlow
	Speakers and Talks:	John Casti Would-Be Worlds: Toward a Theory of Complex Systems and THE BORDERLINE: On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge Chris Pincock When does a mathematical question become a philosophical question?
	21st Conference (2004)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 19 and 20, 2004
	Organizers:	Jeff Leader and Diane Evans
	Speakers and Talks:	V. F. Rickey The Archimedes Palimpsest, and Carl Friedrich Gauss: Classic Hard Figurer William Dunham Much Ado About Everything: The Mathematics of Leonhard Euler
	20th Conference (2003)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 21 and 22, 2003
	Organizers:	Steve Carlson and Tom Langley
	Speakers and Talks:	De Witt L. Sumners Calculating the Secrets of Life: Mathematics in Biology, and Medicine and DNA Topology Aparna Higgins Demonic Graphs and Undergraduate Research
	19th Conference (2002)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 15 and 16, 2002
	Organizers:	Roger Lautzenheiser and Jerry Muir
	Speakers and Talks:	Harold Boas Reflections on the Arbelos, and What Can One Say Absolutely about Power Series? Liz Jessup Matrices, Vector Spaces, and Information Retrieval
	18th Conference (2001)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 16 and 17, 2001
	Organizers:	David Finn and Tanya Leise
	Speakers and Talks:	Suzanne Lenhart Can you Park your Car with Lie Brackets? Linda Petzold Computational Science and Engineering: A Case Study
	17th Conference (2000)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 17 and 18, 2000
	Organizers:	Gary Sherman and David Finn
	Speakers and Talks:	Frank Morgan Soap Bubble Contest and The Double Bubble Conjecture Nigel Boston Cryptography and the Benefits of Ignorance
	16th Conference (1999)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 19 and 20, 1999
	Organizers:	Allen Broughton and David Rader
	Speakers and Talks:	Colm Mulcahy Wavelets - a new tool for imaging, graphics and Hollywood, and The curves and surfaces of the digital age Michael Trick Adventures in Sports Scheduling
	15th Conference (1998)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 13 and 14, 1998
	Organizers:	Kurt Bryan and Yosi Shibberu
	Speakers and Talks:	Ed Packel Symbolic Dynamics: A Mathmatica(l) Window to Chaos, and Puzzles and Paradoxes in Game Theory Charles Groetsch A Tale of Slow Projectiles, Tartaglia's Wager and Halley's Comment
	14th Conference (1997)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 21 and 22, 1997
	Organizers:	Elton Graves and Aaron Klebanoff
	Speakers and Talks:	Herb Bailey Mathematics for Fun and Money Michael Moody An ODE to Toys: Motivating Differential Equations with Physical Models Gilbert Strang The Search for a Good Basis
	13th Conference (1996)       » web site «
	Dates:	March 15 and 16, 1996
	Organizer:	Nacer Abrouk
	Speakers and Talks:	Richard Brualdi Rooks on Boards, Permanents and Determinants and a Computationally Intractable Problem, and Majorization (Averaging) and Doubly Stochastic Matrices Steve Lallo The Mathematics of Card Shuffling
	12th Conference (1995)
	Dates:	March 10 and 11, 1995
	Organizer:	John Rickert
	Speakers and Talks:	Marty Isaacs You Can Count on Groups, and Dirty Children, Unfaithful Husbands, and Similar Problems Roger Lautzenheiser What Does it All Mean?
	11th Conference (1994)
	Dates:	March 25 and 26, 1994
	Organizer:	Lynn Kiaer
	Speaker and Talks:	Gene Berg Mathematics of the CD Player , and Mathematics of Digital Modems
	10th Conference (1993)
	Dates:	March 19 and 20, 1993
	Organizers:	Steve Carlson and Bart Goddard
	Speakers and Talks:	Carla Savage Generating Combinatorial Structures, and Hamilton Cycles in Symmetric Graphs Gary Sherman Introducing...Cwatsets
	9th Conference (1992)
	Dates:	March 13 and 14, 1992
	Organizers:	Steve Carlson and Bart Goddard
	Speakers and Talks:	William Dunham Constructing the Regular Heptadecagon: Ingenuity or Just a Lucky Gauss? Joseph Gallian Touring a Torus
	8th Conference (1991)
	Dates:	March 15 and 16, 1991
	Organizer:	George Berzsenyi
	Speakers and Talks:	Herb Bailey Where Do Problems Come From and Where Do They Go? Clark Kimberling Triangle Centers Ira Rosenhaltz Tackling the Ticklish Type of Tic-Tac Toe
	7th Conference (1990)
	Dates:	April 6 and 7, 1990
	Organizer:	George Berzsenyi
	Speakers and Talks:	Bruce Reznick Fun with Generating Functions, and The Stern Sequence Gary Sherman Problems, Problems Everywhere
	6th Conference (1989)
	Dates:	April 7 and 8, 1989
	Organizer:	Roger Lautzenheiser
	Speakers and Talks:	Fred Roberts The One-Way Street Problem, and From Garbage to Rainbows
	5th Conference (1988)
	Dates:	April 8 and 9, 1988
	Organizer:	Robert Lopez
	Speakers and Talks:	Underwood Dudley Mathematical Cranks Paul Zorn Calculus in its Fourth Century
	4th Conference (1987)
	Dates:	April 3 and 4, 1987
	Organizer:	Brian Winkel
	Speakers and Talks:	H. T. Banks Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Physical and Biological Sciences: A General View, and Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Physical and Biological Sciences: Specific Case Studies Underwood Dudely The Calculus Book
	3rd Conference (1986)
	Dates:	April 4 and 5, 1986
	Organizers:	Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine, and Al Schmidt
	Speakers and Talks:	Peter Hilton Vital Surgery on a Moribund Curriculum Jean Pederson From Elementary Geometry to Modern Number Theory
	2nd Conference (1985)
	Dates:	April 19 and 20, 1985
	Organizers:	Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine, and Al Schmidt
	Speakers and Talks:	Herb Bailey Balancing a Yardstick on an Apple Jerry Cline Modules in Applied Mathematics
	1st Conference (1984)
	Dates:	April 13, 1984
	Organizers:	Elton Graves, John Kinney, Robert Pervine, and Al Schmidt
	Speakers and Talks:	Bill Rouse Monitoring the Physical World with Micros Maynard Thompson A Microcomputer Lab for Post-Calculus Classes Brian Winkel Is it Greener on the Other Side? Emerging Software

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