Volume 11

DOI: 10.1137/18S017120

Authors: Connor Bramham (Socrates Prep), Brandon Mayle (Socrates Prep), Maura Gallagher (Socrates Prep), Douglas Magruder (Socrates Prep), Cooper Reep (Socrates Prep)
Project Advisors: Neal Gallagher (Socrates Prep)

Abstract: In building a robot for the FTC competition, our team needed to remove motor noise from our sensor signals. So we settled on using a median filter...

DOI: 10.1137/18S017053

Authors: Aaron Yeiser (MIT)
Project Advisors: Alex Townsend (Cornell University)

Abstract: When numerically solving partial differential equations (PDEs), the first step is often to discretize the geometry using a mesh and to solve a corr...

DOI: 10.1137/18S01717X

Authors: Mark Dibbs (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)
Project Advisors: Amy Veprauskas (University of Louisiana-Lafayette)

Abstract: In this paper, we develop a density dependent model to describe sperm whale population dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico. For this model, we consider...

DOI: 10.1137/18S017181

Authors: Kristen Lawler (Marist College), Christian Schmidt (The College of Saint Scholastica)
Project Advisors: John Alford (Sam Houston State University)

Abstract: Whooping cranes (Grus americana) became endangered in the late 1800s when population numbers dwindled to as low as only 15 wild birds. Today, the w...

DOI: 10.1137/18S016655

Authors: Caitlin Shener (UCLA), Brian Oceguera (UCLA), Sally Lee (UCLA)
Project Advisors: Mason Porter (UCLA)

Abstract: We develop an approach for exploring questions regarding language use and connections between people in social networks. In particular, we investig...

DOI: 10.1137/17S015860

Authors: Wei (Maggie) Wu (Scripps College)
Project Advisors: Deanna Needell (University of California, Los Angeles)

Abstract: The Randomized Gauss-Seidel Method (RGS) is an iterative algorithm that solves large-scale systems of linear equations Ax Æ b. This paper studies a...

DOI: 10.1137/18S016643

Authors: Mackenzie Jones (The University of Akron), Alison Frideres (Simpson College), Bailey Kramer (University of Wisconsin-Stout)
Project Advisors: Keith Wojciechowski (University of Wisconsin-Stout)

Abstract: Near Menomonie, Wisconsin the lakes suffer from algae blooms during the warm summer months. Mathematical models describing the cyanobacteria popula...

DOI: 10.1137/18S01720X

Authors: Michael Vronsky (Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA), Ryan Huang (Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA), Daniel Wang (Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA), Justin Ju (Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA), Joanne Yuan (Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA)
Project Advisors: Carol Evans (Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA)

Abstract: Food insecurity affects millions of individuals in the United States. We develop a model to address food insecurity by repurposing food waste and a...

DOI: 10.1137/18S017259

Authors: Jacob Honeycutt (Clemson University), Hannah Johnson (Clemson University), Sarah Kelly (Clemson University)
Project Advisors: Leo Rebholz (Clemson University)

Abstract: We study data assimilation in fluid transport models for contaminant transport, using the recently proposed nudging technique proposed by Titi et a...

DOI: 10.1137/18S016680

Authors: Yue Sun (Nanjing University), Qian Xu (Nanjing University), Qizhi Cai (Nanjing University)
Project Advisors: Hongjun Fan (Nanjing University)

Abstract: The Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River is confronted with foundation errosion and control limitation currently, so a strategy to maintain water manage...