27th USA/USM/SELU Research Mini-Conference

The USA/USM/SELU research mini-conference is a (very) regional one-day meeting, featuring research presentations in the physical and mathematical sciences from students and faculty from universities in the Gulf Coast area. A principal goal of this conference is to involve undergraduate students in research and provide an opportunity for them to present their work. There is no conference fee, and a free lunch will be provided to all participants.

We encourage interested faculty and students, including those who may not want to present, to attend and learn more about research going on in our Gulf area. For more information, please contact one of the local organizers:

When? Thursday, April 26, 2018
9am - 4pm (CT)

Where? University of South Alabama
Terrace Room in Student Center

Registration and abstract submission:
Submit your abstract to straub@southalabama.edu before Friday, April 20.
Please also send an email, including your name and affiliation, if you just wish to attend.

Conference schedule

Time
09:00welcome by chairs and dean
09:15presentations
09:15: Kent Clark (30min)
09:45: Bin Wang
10:00coffee break
10:10presentations
10:10: Emily Grinstead (30min)
10:40: Conor McGibboney
10:55: Errieol Milliner
11:10: Ryan Ankersen and John Jennings
11:25: Taylor Hay
11:40: Samantha Taylor
11:55: Sam Formichella
12:10lunch break
02:00presentations
02:00: Romulus Godang
02:15: Koray Akozbek
02:30: Noah Whittington, Noah Palframan, Salomon Itza and Troy Henderson (30min)
03:00: Karen Kohl (30min)
03:30: Josh Robbins
03:45: Cody Martin
afterwardsSpring Physics Picnic in Langan Park
sponsored by Society of Physics Students, everyone welcome
the picnic is scheduled for 04:30 - 06:30, but people are welcome to arrive early

Talks

Show/hide abstracts.
  1. Koray Akozbek and W. Tyler McCleery (University of South Alabama)
    (15min) Spatial and temporal dependence of nutrient delivery in Arabidopsis
  2. Ryan Ankersen and John Jennings (Springhill College)
    (15min) Measuring Partisan Bias in State Redistricting
  3. Kent Clark (University of South Alabama)
    (30min) Double Stars: Measure and Publish
  4. Sam Formichella (University of South Alabama)
    (15min) Gaussian binomial coefficients with negative arguments
  5. Romulus Godang (University of South Alabama)
    (15min) Recent Results with Partial Reconstruction of anti-B0 Mesons at BABAR
  6. Emily Grinstead (University of South Alabama)
    (30min) Multiple Log-Concavity of Finite Sequences
  7. Taylor Hay (Southeastern Louisiana University)
    (15min) Electric Permittivity of Free Space
  8. Noah Whittington, Noah Palframan, Salomon Itza and Troy Henderson (University of Mobile)
    (30min) Touchdown: landing probes on space objects
  9. Karen Kohl (University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast)
    (30min) Some extensions to the method of brackets
  10. Cody Martin (University of South Alabama)
    (15min) π-Base: A Database of Topological Spaces
  11. Conor McGibboney (Southeastern Louisiana University)
    (15min) Deformation Dynamics in Solids
  12. Errieol Milliner (University of South Alabama)
    (15min) Magnetic Monopole Clustering Algorithm
  13. Josh Robbins (University of South Alabama)
    (15min) History of the Neutrino
  14. Samantha Taylor (Southeastern Louisiana University)
    (15min) Residual Stress Analysis on Welds Through Numerical Analysis and Experiments
  15. Bin Wang (University of South Alabama)
    (15min) Fitting Finite Normal Mixture Models to NGS-Seq microRNA

Participants

  1. Koray Akozbek (University of South Alabama)
  2. Ryan Ankersen (Springhill College)
  3. Mark Byrne (Springhill College)
  4. Kent Clark (University of South Alabama)
  5. Joerg Feldvoss (University of South Alabama)
  6. Sam Formichella (University of South Alabama)
  7. Martin Frank (University of South Alabama)
  8. Albert Gapud (University of South Alabama)
  9. Romulus Godang (University of South Alabama)
  10. Emily Grinstead (University of South Alabama)
  11. Taylor Hay (Southeastern Louisiana University)
  12. Troy Henderson (University of Mobile)
  13. Kevin Ingles (University of South Alabama)
  14. Salomon Itza (University of Mobile)
  15. John Jennings (Springhill College)
  16. Karen Kohl (University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast)
  17. Cody Martin (University of South Alabama)
  18. Conor McGibboney (Southeastern Louisiana University)
  19. W. Tyler McCleery (University of South Alabama)
  20. Errieol Milliner (University of South Alabama)
  21. Trevor Olsson (University of West Florida)
  22. Noah Palframan (University of Mobile)
  23. Elena Pavelescu (University of South Alabama)
  24. Josh Robbins (University of South Alabama)
  25. Armin Straub (University of South Alabama)
  26. Samantha Taylor (Southeastern Louisiana University)
  27. Bin Wang (University of South Alabama)
  28. Noah Whittington (University of Mobile)
  29. Sanichiro Yoshida (Southeastern Louisiana University)

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