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Nine mathematics majors present at research conference

A total of nine mathematics majors presented their research results at the ninth annual Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference on Saturday, Nov. 2 at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

From left to right: Ben Ackerman, Erin Strosnider, John Antonelli, Colleen Brockmyre, Christie Dierk, Chris Shill, Todd Calnan, Nakhila Mistry. Not pictured: Andrew Fischer.
​Elon’s ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ presenters were well represented at the conference and comprised 25 percent of all ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ presentations, which was more than any other participating institution.

¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ who presented at the conference included:

  • Benjamin Ackerman ’13, “Continued Fractions, Ford Circles, and Descartes’ Theorem”, mentored by Todd Lee, professor of mathematics. 
  • John Antonelli ’15, “Finding Solutions to the Turning All Lights Out Puzzle in 3D”, mentored by Crista Arangala, associate professor of mathematics.
  • Colleen Brockmyre ’14, “Basic Linear Algebra behind Google’s Search Engine”, mentored by Jim Beuerle, associate professor of mathematics. 
  • Todd Calnan ’14, “Fractals and their application in medical imaging”, mentored by Jeff Clark, professor of mathematics. 
  • Christine Dierk ’14, “A Recursive Solution to Enumerating Directed Graphs”, mentored by Todd Lee, professor of mathematics. 
  • Andrew Fischer ’14, “Investigation into a mathematical model of epileptic seizures”, mentored by Karen Yokley, assistant professor of mathematics.
  • Nakhila Mistry ’14, “Music Genomics: Applying Seriation Algorithms to Billboard #1 Hits”, mentored by  Arangala. 
  • Christopher Shill ’14, “Computing Galois groups of degree 12 2-adic fields with trivial automorphism group”, mentored by Chad Awtrey, assistant professor of mathematics.
  • Erin Strosnider ’14, “Degree 14 p-adic fields”, mentored by Awtrey.