Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference
at James Madison University
Saturday, October 3, 2009
| The fifth annual
SUMS
conference was held on Saturday, October 3, 2009. Approximately 250
people from eight states participated in SUMS.
Students gave twenty-nine contributed talks and presented twenty
posters
on a variety of
mathematical and statistical topics. SUMS at JMU is an annual one day conference promoting undergraduate research in mathematics, statistics, and their applications. The conference features contributed undergraduate research talks, invited talks aimed at a general undergraduate math audience, a poster session, graduate school, research, and math careers panels, and a math competition workshop for high school students. Anyone who has done original research in mathematics or statistics while an undergraduate is invited to contribute a 15 minute talk about his or her research. Undergraduate and high school students are invited to present research or expository posters on any mathematical topic. A short article about the 2008 conference appeared in the online edition of the Madison Scholar. Support for this conference is provided by National Science Foundation grant DMS-0846477 through the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences program. Additional support is provided by the College of Science and Mathematics at James Madison University, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at JMU, the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Diversity at JMU, Pi Mu Epsilon, the Math Club at JMU, and James Madison University. The American Mathematical Society has donated books form the Sally and Graduate Series. Publishing houses Pearson/Prentice Hall, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Wiley and Freeman/Worth also support the conference, as do puzzle makers Nikoli, Sterling Puzzles and Mefferts. |