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
Questions? Contact Christine Spassione
Page last updated: May 11, 2004.