DIMACS Connect Institute '03
Student Research Conference

Saturday, May 8, 2004


9:30-10:00	Registration
		Outside Lounge, 4th Floor, CoRE Building

		Refreshments
		Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building

10:00-10:10	Welcome
		Seminar Room, Room 431, CoRE Building

		Professor Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director, Rutgers University
		Professor Linda Lesniak, DCI Program Director, Drew University

10:10-11:00	Keynote Address: 
                Adam Buchsbaum
                AT&T Labs Research
                "Improving Table Compression with Combinatorial Optimization"

11:10-12:30     Morning Session - Seminar Room, 431

		11:10 - 11:25	Pooja Gupta
                		MKA
                		"Attempting Original Research in a Highschool Classroom"

		11:25 - 11:30	Questions and Answers

		11:30 - 11:45	Brett Richardson, Gwenn Santoro, Kathleen Zanone	
				Cresskill High School
				"Search Numbers"

		11:45 - 11:50	Questions and Answers

		11:50 - 12:05	Jason Yu, Deanna Santigo, Eric Kwan
				Cresskill High School
				"The Game of Nim"

		12:05 - 12:10	Questions and Answers

		12:10 - 12:25	Alec Sobel, Ji Hoon Kim, Jordan Glanzberg, Albert Garcia
				Cresskill High School
				"Art Gallery"

		12:25 - 12:30	Questions and Answers

12:30-1:15      Luncheon
                Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building

12:45-1:15	Tapes of the following talks will be shown in Room 431 (Seminar Room). 
		Please feel free to take your lunch to the seminar room to watch the tapes.

		Zachary Johnson, Matthew Hazi, Joshua Millstein, Roland Philabaum
		Suncoast High School
		"The Traveling Salesman Problem"

		Alondra Cooper, Spencer Gottlieb, Paul Nelson
		Suncoast High School
		"Transitivity in Tournaments"

		Tony Barbieri, Michael Desiderio, Matthew Pollit
		Suncoast High School
		"Graph Coloring and Chromatic Polynomials"

1:15-2:15       Afternoon Session - Seminar Room, 431

		1:15 - 1:30	Carrie Li, Dalia Sharps, Amelia Zecker
				School of the Future
				"Eulerian Graphs"

		1:30 - 1:35	Questions and Answers

		1:35 - 1:50	Eric Zelinski, Salvatore Sciacca, Michael Sowinski, Richard Kosik
				Seton Catholic High School

		1:50 - 1:55	Questions and Answers

		1:55 - 2:10	Casey Chance and Samin Green
				Charter School of Wilmington
				"Optimizing Location Using Topics from Graph Theory"

		2:10 - 2:15	Questions and Answers

2:15-2:25	Refreshments
		Lounge, Room 401, 4th Floor, CoRE Building


		2:25 - 2:40	Thomas Schuck
				Charter School of Wilmington
				"On the Optimization of the Snowplow Routes 
				for the Town of Elsmere, Delaware"

		2:40 - 2:45	Questions and Answers

		2:45 - 3:00	Brent Heeke, David Rutter, Brian Wile
				Grayson High School
				"Voice of the People? An Investigation of a Hypothetical Student Council Election"

		3:00 - 3:05     Questions and Answers

		3:05 - 3:20	Olga Zverovich
				Brooklyn Technical High School
				"A Solution to a Problem of Gargano, Quintas and Rubens"				

		3:20 - 3:25	Questions and Answers

3:25-3:45	Awards and Closing Remarks
		Seminar Room, 431



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