Undergraduate Research

Students and Presentations

  1. Student: Erin Fixico-Mitchell (Fall 2012). Title: The Ancestry of a Language: Exploring Glottochronology. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Sciences Fall Annual Technical Meeting, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  2. Student: Austin Wood (Fall 2012). Title: A Survey of Quaternions. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Sciences Fall Annual Technical Meeting, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  3. Student: Joey Pavlovich. Title: The Mathematics and Application of Quarterback Ratings. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Sciences Fall Annual Technical Meeting, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  4. Student: Joshua Crittenden. Title: Random Number Generation: Part I. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Sciences Fall Annual Technical Meeting, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  5. Student: Ashley Cardwell. Title: The Mathematical Modeling of Golf. Presentation: ECU Honors Presentation, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Andrei Ghenciu.
  6. Student: Joshua Crittenden (Spring 2012). Title: Prime Numbers in Cryptography. Presentation: TORUS Conference, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  7. Student: Scott Brian (Fall 2011 and Spring 2012. Title: Remote Sensing. Presentation: Society of Physics Students’ Meeting, 2011 and OK-AR MAA Sectional Conference, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  8. Students: Kaleb Gordon, Erin Fixico-Mitchell, Jeffery Spears, Tabitha Heaton (Spring 2012). Title: Graph Theory. Presentation: OK-AR MAA Sectional Meeting, 2012. Advisors: Dr. Andrew Wells and Dr. Andrei Ghenciu
  9. Students: Bobby Carnes, Simmon Harjo, Christopher Eckler (Spring 2012). Title: Cryptography. Presentation: OK-AR MAA Sectional Meeting, 2012. Advisors: Dr. Andrew Wells and Dr. Andrei Ghenciu
  10. Student: Alyssa Eickenhorst (Spring 2012). Title: Fourier Transforms. Presentation: OK-AR MAA Sectional Meeting, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Heather Hannah
  11. Student: Janne’ Klassen (Spring 2012). Title: Using LaPlace Transforms to Solve PDEs. Presentation: OK-AR MAA Sectional Meeting, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Heather Hannah
  12. Student: Janne’ Klassen (Fall 2011). Title: New Derivative. Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day, 2011. Advisor: Dr. Heather Hannah
  13. Student: Ashley Cardwell (Fall 2011). Title: The Mathematics of Hyperthermia as a Treatment Option for Tumors. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Science Meeting, Durant, OK. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  14. Student: An Qi Ho (Fall 2011). Title: Studying Interactions Between Healthy Cells and Cancer Cells Using Nonlinear Difference Equations. Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day, Lawton, OK. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  15. Student: Cody Barlow (Fall 2011). Title: Fuzzy Logic. Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day, Lawton, OK. Advisor: Dr. Heather Hannah
  16. Student: Laura Johnson (Fall 2011). Title: Analytic Geometry. Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day, Lawton, OK. Advisor: Dr. Andrei Ghenciu
  17. Student: Jessica Stettler (Fall 2011). Title: Vector and Tensor Analysis. Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day, Lawton, OK. Advisor: Dr. Heather Hannah
  18. Students: Cody Barlow, Jessica Stettler, Jeffery Spears, Erin Fixico, Laura Johnson, Kaleb Gordon, Tabitha Heaton (Summer 2011). Title: Teaching a Crytography Lesson to High School Students. Presentation: Oklahoma Council for Teachers in Mathematics (OCTM) Conference, Oklahoma City, OK. Advisor: Dr. Andrew Wells
  19. Student: Jing Chen (Spring 2011). Title: Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) in Financial Mathematics. Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day 2011 (tentative). Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  20. Students: Jessica Pitts, Cody Barlow, Jeffery Spears (Spring 2011). Title: ECU Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Phase-I). Presentation: Noyce Midwest Regional Conference, Indianapolis, IN and Noyce PI Conference, Washington, DC. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  21. Student: Sarah Newell (Spring 2011). Title: Inverted Algorithmic Analysis. Presentation: OK-AR Sectional Meeting of MAA 2011. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  22. Student: Matthew Donica (Spring 2011): Title: Calculating Prime Numbers of Length Six or Higher Using the C++ Programming Language. Presentation: Texas Oklahoma Research Undergraduate Symposium (TORUS) Conference 2011. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  23. Student: Checed Rodgers (Spring 2011): Title: "Granting Certiorari" - A Mathematical Model for Supreme Court Acceptance of Appealed Cases. Presentation: Texas Oklahoma Research Undergraduate Symposium (TORUS) Conference 2011. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  24. Students: Jason Bucy, Nicholas Nottingham, Jeffery Spears, Tomas Tillery (Fall 2010 and Spring 2011). Title: Modeling Interactions Among Healthy Cells, Tumor Cells and Medicine in Mice Using Nonlinear Differential Equations. Presentation: Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) Spring Research Conference 2011 at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah and Oklahoma Research Day 2011. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  25. Student: Brad Paddock (Fall 2010). Title: Illusions in Optical Illuminence. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Science Meeting 2010. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  26. Student: Whitney McDaniel (Fall 2010). Title: Measuring Cardiac Output: The Analysis of Dye-Dilution Data. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Science Meeting 2010. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  27. Student: Sarah Morris (Fall 2010). Title: Linear Algebra and Buffaloes. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Science Meeting 2010. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  28. Student: Charles Southerland (Fall 2010 and Spring 2011). Title: Program Derivation of Matrix Operations in Galois Field. Presentation: Oklahoma Academy of Science Meeting 2010 and Oklahoma Computing Conference 2011. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  29. Student: Jing Chen, Linh Nguyen and Thinh Tran (Spring 2010, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 ). Title: Modeling Interactions among Healthy Cells, Tumor Cells and Medicine in Mice Using Nonlinear Difference Equations. Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day 2010. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  30. Students: Matthew Donica, Kaleb Gordon, Laura Johnson and Jessica Pitts (Fall 2009 and Spring 2010). Title: Modeling Interactions Among Fish, Fishermen and Fish-Eating Birds. Presentation: Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) Spring Research Conference 2010 at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Oklahoma Research Day 2011, Texas Oklahoma Research Undergraduate Symposium (TORUS) Conference 2011 and MAA OK-AR Sectional Meeting. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  31. Student: Brandan Rosa (Spring 2009 and Summer 2009). Title: Studying Stability of Nonlinear Dynamical System using Linearization Technique and Lyapunov Function. Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day 2009 and MAA OK-AR Section Meeting 2010. Advisor Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  32. Student: Brandan Rosa (Fall 2008), Title: Some Preliminaries Towards Chaos, Presentation: ECU Math Club, Oklahoma Research Day 2008, MAA OK-AR Section Meeting 2009. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  33. Student: Jacob Gammill (Spring 2008), Title: Equilibrium Stability Criteria for Nonlinear Dynamical System, Presentation: ECU Math Club, Oklahoma Research Day 2008. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand
  34. Student: Vanessa Canfield (Spring 2007), Title: The Golden Ratio, Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  35. Student: Jennifer Nicholson (Fall 2006), Title: Proofs of Correctness: Least Common Multiples, Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day 2006. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  36. Student: Marion Magee (Fall 2006), Title: Proofs of Correctness: Greatest Common Divisors and Integer Division, Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day 2006. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  37. Student: Vanessa Canfield (Fall 2006), Title: Fibonacci Numbers, Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day 2006. Advisor: Dr. Anita Walker
  38. Student: Rebekah Rogers (Summer and Fall 2006), Title: Bacteria, Nutrient and Medicine in Human Body, Presentation: Oklahoma Research Day 2006. Advisor: Dr. Robert Ferdinand

Pictures

Brandan Rosa: ECU Academic Excellence Day 2009

CURM Group Hangs Out Before Their Talk at the Conference 

Kaleb Gordon and Matthew Donica Presenting at CURM Conference

Jessica Pitts and Laura Johnson Presenting at CURM Conference

Checed Rodgers at TORUS 2011

Matthew Donica at TORUS 2011

2010-2011 ECU CURM Group

Jayson Bucy & Jeff Spears at CURM 2011 Spring Conference

Nick Nottingham and Tomas Tillery at CURM 2011 Spring Conference

Cody Barlow, Jessica Pitts & Jeffery Spears present poster at 2011 Noyce Midwest Regional Conference, Indianapolis, IN