Pi Mu Epsilon Student Presentation Awards
2013 MathFest - Hartford, CT

Prizes for outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon student talks, presented to the students at the Pi Mu Epsilon Banquet and Award Ceremony Friday evening, were:

Awards funded by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for excellence in student exposition and research to:

• Daniel Persia, Denison University, Ohio Iota, Modeling NBA Player Value from Box Score
  Data
• Karenna Genzlinger, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania Alpha Alpha, Minimum Sumset
  Size
• Calvin Cochran, Hendrix College, Arkansas Beta, Shuffle Posets and their Hasse Diagrams
• Joshua Brakensiek, High School and USAMO Winner, Virginia Iota, Bounds on MSNs
  Accepting Directed Trees
• Lisa Borum, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia Iota, Pebbling Chessboard and Samurai
  Sudoku Graphs
• Laura Staver, St Norbert College, Wisconsin Delta, Zero Forcing for Lattices
• Alex Leitheiser, St. Norbert College, Wisconsin Delta, On the Atomisticity of Superchar-
  acter Lattices of Cyclic Groups
• Matthew Barry, Texas A and M University, Texas Eta, MathLex: A Web-Based Mathe-
  matical Entry System
• Sarah Ritchey, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Residue Number System Overflow
  Detection Algorithms for Signed Numbers
• Eric Shehadi, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Prioritizing Vacant Residential Prop-
  erties for Demolition in Youngstown
• Camron Bagheri, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Applications of Linear Algebra
  to the Fibonacci Sequence
• Ashley Orr, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Fourier and Wavelet Analysis: Ex-
  tracting the Business Cycle
• Kim Do, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, Introduction to Combinatorial Game
  Theory and What Lies Underneath
• Michael Baker, Youngstown State University, Ohio Xi, A Study of Optical Gain in Three-
  Component Multilayered Films

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics awards for outstanding student exposition and research in applied mathematics to:

• Daniel Miller, Texas A&M University, TX Eta, Powering Your Water Heater with Solar Energy

MAA Special Interest Group – Environmental Mathematics:

• Nicole Gardner, Texas A&M University, TX Eta, Climate Change in the Florida Everglades