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Proceedings of  the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Mathematics

Oregon State University Summer 2004 

Dennis J. Garity, Director

 

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program held at the Mathematics Department of Oregon State University during the summer of 2004.  This program was funded by the National Science Foundation and by Oregon State University. The Provost's Office, the Research Office, the College of Engineering, the College of Science, the Mathematics Department and the Computer Science Department provided the funding from Oregon State University. Dennis J. Garity of the Mathematics Department directed the program and was a faculty advisor on research projects. Juha Pohjanpelto of the Mathematics Department and Paul Cull of the Computer Science were also faculty advisors on the research projects undertaken by the student participants. There were ten undergraduate participants in the program. The papers summarizing the research projects are listed below. The participants are listed below.

Robin Baur Harvey Mudd Jennifer Biermann Lawrence University 
Frank Chemotti   Davidson College  Jonathan Dent Calvin College
Sam Ganzfried Harvard University Jessica Kincaid  Oregon State University
Kathleen King  Olin College of Engineering   Andrea Rau St. Olaf College
Pamela Russell University of Pennsylvania Scott Weaver Oregon State University
Table of Contents
Robin Baur    Regular Homotopy Classes of Curves on the Torus
  (Advisor: Juha Pohjanpelto)
Jennifer Biermann and Jonathan Dent  Nonnegative Defect
  (Advisor: Juha Pohjanpelto)
Frank Chemotti and Andrea Rau Intersection Numbers of Closed Curves on the Punctured Torus
  (Advisor: Dennis Garity)
Sam Ganzfried    A Simple Algorithm for Knight's Tours
  (Advisor: Paul Cull)
Jessica Kincaid   A Graphical Exploration of Stable Characteristics of Simple Population Models
  (Advisor: Paul Cull)
Kathleen King    A New Puzzle Based on the SF Labelling of Iterated Complete Graphs
  (Advisor: Paul Cull)
Pamela Russell    Perfect One-Error-Correcting Codes on Iterated Complete Graph: Encoding and Decoding for the SF Labelling
  (Advisor: Paul Cull)
Scott Weaver Special Classes of Whitehead Automorphisms on the Free Group
  (Advisor: Dennis Garity)