Hamilton College was well represented at the 15th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held on April 19 at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., with 11 students giving talks.
In pure mathematics, Will Eagen '11 presented The Sine of a Matrix and other Transcendental Functions Performed on Matrices; Walter Schoen '08 presented Finding the Automorphism Group of a Graph using Determining Sets; Nguyen Thao Nguyen '08 presented Proving Fermat's Little Theorem using Fixed Points from Dynamical Systems; and Xin Wang '08 presented What is a Line Segment?
There were three papers exploring the use of mathematical models in stock option pricing: Gabriela Ghimis '08 presented Option Pricing and Brownian Motion, Zunfeng Chen '08 presented A Simple Model for Pricing Call Options and Yejun Qian '08 presented Simulating Stock Price Evolution: A Monte Carlo Approach. Bryden Considine '08 and Jordan Barone '08 collaborated on a paper on the use of mathematical models in biology, Investigating the Use of Logistic, Gompertz and Barayni Functions in Modeling the Microbial Growth Curve.
After helping the Hamilton crew team in a scrimmage against St. Lawrence in the morning, Sarah Henochowicz '08 gave a statistical paper, Exploring Some Methods for Dealing with Missing Data. Finally, in the area of mathematical entertainment, Abishek Maity '08 showed his short films, Tipsy Teacher, Candid Camera and Linear Algebra.
Also attending the conference were first-year students Lu Qi and Ke Qu, as well as mathematics professors Tim Kelly, Richard Bedient, Larry Knop and Sally Cockburn.
In pure mathematics, Will Eagen '11 presented The Sine of a Matrix and other Transcendental Functions Performed on Matrices; Walter Schoen '08 presented Finding the Automorphism Group of a Graph using Determining Sets; Nguyen Thao Nguyen '08 presented Proving Fermat's Little Theorem using Fixed Points from Dynamical Systems; and Xin Wang '08 presented What is a Line Segment?
There were three papers exploring the use of mathematical models in stock option pricing: Gabriela Ghimis '08 presented Option Pricing and Brownian Motion, Zunfeng Chen '08 presented A Simple Model for Pricing Call Options and Yejun Qian '08 presented Simulating Stock Price Evolution: A Monte Carlo Approach. Bryden Considine '08 and Jordan Barone '08 collaborated on a paper on the use of mathematical models in biology, Investigating the Use of Logistic, Gompertz and Barayni Functions in Modeling the Microbial Growth Curve.
After helping the Hamilton crew team in a scrimmage against St. Lawrence in the morning, Sarah Henochowicz '08 gave a statistical paper, Exploring Some Methods for Dealing with Missing Data. Finally, in the area of mathematical entertainment, Abishek Maity '08 showed his short films, Tipsy Teacher, Candid Camera and Linear Algebra.
Also attending the conference were first-year students Lu Qi and Ke Qu, as well as mathematics professors Tim Kelly, Richard Bedient, Larry Knop and Sally Cockburn.
