Western Illinois University Department of Mathematics News and Events

News

Several of our mathematics majors participated in the 2008 Undergraduate Research Day on April 16th. Following is a listing of those students along with the names of their faculty advisors and their topics.

Michael Baramidze - Dr. Victoria Baramidze, advisor - Using Spherical Harmonies to Approximate Functions on the Unit Sphere
Sarah Cane - Dr. Boris Petracovici, advisor - Calculating the Heat Flow Through a Sphere Using Fourier Expansions: How the Fourier Series Can Help Make Sure Your Meatball is Cooked to Perfection
Sarah Cramsey and Tyler Van Vleet - Dr. Marko Kranjc, advisor - The Newton's Method
Kirsten Goranson - Dr. James Olsen, advisor - Rates: Activities for Improving Multiplicative, Proportional, and Algebraic Reasoning for the ISAT, PSAE, and Life
Lindsay Henderson and Dustin Macdermott - Dr. Marko Kranjc, advisor - Bisection Method of Approximating Zeros of Functions
Breanne Hoffman - Dr. Feridun Tasdan, advisor - Analysis of the Effects of Origin and Relevant Baseline Medical Conditions on Death or Myocardial Infarction in the PURSUIT Trial
Samer Khouri and Kyle Lovell - Dr. Iraj Kalantari, advisor - A Function Can Be Continuous Everywhere and Not Differentiable Anywhere (Using MAPLE)
Carla Webb - Dr. Victoria Baramidze, advisor - Bessel's Function: A Study of its Zeros
Carla Webb - Dr. Rumen Dimitrov, advisor - Using Principal Component Analysis to Extract Meaning from Test

Coming Mathematics Events

May 5th-9th, 2008 - Final Exams
May 26th, 2008 - Memorial Day, University Closed