Larry R. Mugridge Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics Research

Want to speak at the 2024 symposium?

The 2024 Mugridge Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics Research will be held on Thursday, March 28.

Please sign up here to speak at the symposium!

Questions?  Concerns?  Please e-mail Dr. McLoughlin.

Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 3:30pm in Lytle 214

• Samuel Murray, "On Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic"
• Ashton Datko, Nate Polidoro, and Philip Thomas, "Flag Patterns and Pattern Avoidance"
• Andrew Moody, "Blitzkrieg: 'The Fastest Game of War'"

Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 3:00pm in Lytle 214

• Nicholas Brown,"Bifurcation: An Analysis on a System of Differential Equations”
• Hailey Goodwin, "Magic²"
• Samuel Murray, "On Two-Player Impartial Pebbling Games”

• Trevor Wylezik,  Kelsey DeAcosta*, Cole Hadley*, and Ashhad Hanafi*, "Consecutive Integer Matrices"

*Penn State Berks

Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 3:00pm in Lytle 214

• Peter Kanjorski, "A Proof of 'If H is a subgroup of a finite group G and the index of H in G is the smallest prime divisor of the order of G, H is a normal subgroup of G"
• Vanessa Maybruck, "How to Teach High Schoolers about Differential Equations and Mathematical Modelling"
• Isaac Reiter, "That Every 'Like' is Not the Same, O Caesar: Perfect Matching Transitivity of Circulant Graphs"

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 2:30pm on Zoom

• Peter Kanjorski, “Counting the Number of Complete Bipartite Subgraphs in Three Dimensional Monomial Graphs"
• Vanessa Maybruck, “An Examination of Fontan Circulation Using Differential Equation Models and Numerical Methods”
• Isaac Reiter, "What You Have Leftover is Perfect: Enumerating the PSR Divisors"

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 in Lytle Hall 214

Plenary Talk at 11:00 A.M.

• Dr. Wing Hong Tony Wong, “What Is So Special About a Comb?” 

Student Talks at 3:00 P.M.

• Grant Fickes, “Edge-Distinguishing Chromatic Number for Four-legged Spider Graphs”
• Vanessa Maybruck, “An Analysis of the Fontan Procedure Model”
• Alexander Miller, “Extensions on Conway’s Wizard Problem”
• Jacob M^cCann, “Well < Well < Well; So You Want to Well-order Uncountable Sets?”  
• Gabriel Olah, “Schur Numbers and Beyond”

Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in Lytle Hall 214

• Jacob Christ, "An Introduction to Relativity"
• Grant Fickes, "Edge-Distinguishing Chromatic Number for Spider Graphs"
• Shannon Golden, "On the Girth of Two-dimensional Real Algebraically Defined Graphs"
• Jacob Kramer, "It's Only Complex If You Make It: The Two Square Problem"
• Ethan Wallace, "Random Walk Simulation of Ideal Gases"

Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in Lytle Hall 214

• Nathaniel Benjamin, "An Interesting View of Quadratic Forms"
• Shannon Golden, "Coloring the Integers"
• Sarah Kilgore and Mason Smith, "Can Students be Successful?"
• Diego Manzano-Ruiz, "Vertex Coloring Game on Graphs"
• Charles Saternos, "A Population-Based Metaheuristic Approach for Solving the Multi-Demand Multidimensional Knapsack Problem"

Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in Lytle Hall 228

• Nathaniel Benjamin, "Trichotomy, Many-Valued Logic, and Other Fuzzy Subjects"
• Dylan Gaspar, "A Steiner Optimization of the Cable Trench Problem"
• Richard Lichtenwalner, "An `Unreal' Infinity"
• Danielle Sienko, "A Consideration of Scheduling Final Exams"
• Jiao Xu, "Coinbinatorics"

Friday, April 10, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. in Boehm Hall 262

• Christopher Amici, "B³: Bayes, Bayesian Statistics, and Baseball"
• Andrew Douventzidis, "Logarithms and Hot Peppers"
• Hallie Langley, "The Hula Hoop: An Exploration in Mathematical Modeling"
• Kevin Ruppert, "To Infinity and Beyond!"
• Paul Schwartz, "Analysis of the Complexity of Making an NFL Schedule"

Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. in Lytle Hall 218

• Jesse Bailey, "On the Irrationality of the Square Root of a Prime Number"
• Zachary Bales, "A Slice of π: A Recreation of Two Computation Techniques"
• Odysseus Fox, "Statistical Analysis of Crater Distribution Compared to Geologic Units on Mars"
• Stuart Galletta, "The Best Monopoly in Monopoly"
• Jacob Levan, "Big Wheel Keep on Turning"
• Ian Tomes, Luke Eshbach, and Stuart Galletta, "Allocation of Financial Aid"