Projects Before 2008

Students are listed by the year

the project was disseminated

at the national MathFest meeting.

Cynthia Stuber

1985

Network Modeling in a Transportation Environment

Steve Van Lieshout

1986

Counting Rectangles in a Multirectangular Region

Mary Ehle

1987

Theology, Mathematics, and Meaning

Summer Quimby

1987

A Bit of Checking and Correcting

Katie Coenen

1988

Removing the Absolute from Relativity

Summer Quimby

1988

A Brute Force Solution to a Putman Problem

Jenny Spence

1989

Making 4ents out of Math: One of Its Practical Uses

Tim Strnad

1989

Resonance: Is It Live, or Is It ...?

Mike Lang

1990

Honey, I Shrunk the Bits

Sandy Gestl

1991

Bits 'n Bytes

Amy Krebsbach

1991

Just an Average Integral

Mike Lang

1991

The Schrödinger Wave Equation and the Hydrogen Atom

Linda Mueller

1991

Problem Solving and Paper Towels

Amy Krebsbach

1992

An Introduction to Elliptic Integrals

Dawn Boyung

1993

Math Anxiety

Sandy Gestl

1993

Math Methods Down Under

Jamie Downs

1994

The Construct Mutex

Joe Engel

1994

A Practical Application of Mutex

Adam Zeuske

1994

Having a Ball with Pythagoras

Jacqueline Gosz

1995

Is There (Ever) an End?

Dennis Schmidt

1995

The Seven Guesses: Guesses No Longer

Rick Tuggle

1995

A Function and Its 'Dual'

Mark Meeker

1995

A Naive Application of Cramer's Rule

Jacqueline Gosz

1996

Effects of the Tide

Dennis Schmidt

1996

Ovals in Kaleidoscopic Tilings on Closed Surfaces

Libby Wiebel

1996

Who Left Fingerprints on the Keyboard?

Mike De Coster

1997

The Rolling Ball Problem

Jessica Thelen

1997

Do You Always Have to Put in What You Get Out?

Mark Meeker

1997

The Coffin Problem

Kate Rendall

1997

Make Me an Offer, Any Offer!

Erin Huebner

1998

Don't Let Topspin Put You in a Tailspin

Tina Huss

1998

From X-rays to CAT-Scans

Laura Lemke

1998

The Golden Proportion: An Advertising Venture

Erica Pagel

1998

The Economics of Game Theory

Kate Rendall

1998

Mathematical Models and Potato Crops

Heather Olm

1998

Searching for Gold

Kate Rendall

1999

Strong Selectivity, Monochromatic, and Zero-Sum Solutions to Equations

Libby Wiebel

1999

Making Music: The Scientific Sonification

Erin M. Bergman

2000

Energizer Fractions: They Keep Going and Going and...

Dave Kurzynski

2000

Symmetric Exponential Equations

Abby Mroczenski

2000

Figure it Out: The Mathematics Behind Figure Skating Scores

Heather Olm

2000

Radial Checkers: A New Twist to an Old Game

Kate Rendall

2000

Zero Sum Rado Numbers for X1 + X2 + C = X3

Rosemary Tomase

2000

Which is the Right Path for Me?

Danielle Delimata

2000

Straight Launch

Kevin Santry

2000

Intercepting an Object using the Slowest Speed

Erin M. Bergman

2001

Mathematics and Origami

Abby Mroczenski

2001

Authorship of the Federalist Papers

Phil Busse

2002

Error-Correcting Codes and Abstract Algebra

Tammy Bastian

2002

Balancing the Balance

Adam Christman

2003

Does Your Vote Count?

Brian Hahn

2003

Honey, Where Should We Sit?

Holly Thomson

2003

Fun with Triangles

Melanie Antos

2003

Any Way You Slice It

Melanie Antos

2004

Partitioning and Power Series

Brian Hahn

2004

The Mathematics of Polarized Helium

Jill Schmidt

2004

The Accuracy of Three-Dimensional Bone Models Constructed from Computed Tomography Scans

Sarah Van Asten

2004

Mathematics in Adaptive Education

AJ Wood

2004

Mathematical Espionage: Breaking the 'Unbreakable' Code

Jenni Wirth

2004

Driving Mathematically

Jason Brinker

2005

Let Me Do a Little Number

Nicole O'Connell

2005

The Rinsing Problem

Jackie Van Ryzin

2005

Sumthing Special: the n Festivals of Whatever

Kyle Diederich

2006

Measuring the Diskivity of a Plane Region

Mark Krines

2006

An Exploration of Subspaces of Complex Matrices

Ryan Pavlik

2006

Finding Polygon Intersections Numerically

Jackie Van Ryzin

2006

Analysis of Semidefinite Directions Algorithms in Detecting Necessary Constraints

Jenni Wirth

2006

Strategize Your Trivial Pursuit Game

Kyle Diederich

2007

Measuring the Diskivity of a Plane Region

Mark Krines

2007

Finding and Maintaining Separable Preferences

Ryan Pavlik

2007

Computational Intersection of Polygons - Intuitive Procedures and Practical Problems

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