学生研究展示
在春天, the 数学ematics Department hosted the 2017 Showcase of Student 研究 in 数学ematics. The Showcase featured five participating undergraduate and graduate students and each student gave a 20-30 minute presentation on their research projects.
发言人: 凯利·克里斯坦森
标题: The Impact of Spatial Structure on Phage-Bacteria Interactions
文摘: Phage (viruses that infect bacteria) produce a burst of progeny upon lysis of a bacterial cell. “Phage therapy” (as an alternative to antibiotics) has thus far not lived up to initial expectations. Lab experiments have shown that bacteria are able to survive even when phage density is high. 另外, surviving cell densities in biofilms are orders of magnitude larger than in liquid cultures. We constructed two models (an agent based model and an ODE model) to examine various bacterial protection mechanisms and how these are influenced by spatial structure. 在某些情况下, coexistence of phage and bacteria was a consequence of self-organization that segregated phage and bacteria, with most bacteria surviving in regions with phage sinks and most phage lurking in complementary areas.
发言人: 多萝西Catey
Title: 寻求和. Sought: Movement Strategies in Epidemics
文摘: 当灾难发生时, 比如流行病, 发生, a common response is to flood the affected area with volunteers. Organizations like the CDC and WHO implement intervention strategies such as contact tracing, 检疫/隔离, 疫苗接种, 和治疗, which have often been studied using epidemiological models at the institutional or access level. We are interested in studying implementation at the individual level. We construct a simple agent-based model that has an SIR-like structure in order to study the effects of movement strategies and to inform decision-maker intuition. We find that the movement strategy chosen by volunteers can have a large impact on the attack rate of the disease.
发言人: 丹尼尔·瑞斯
Title: Fourier Coefficients of Siegel Paramodular Forms and Paramodular Hecke Operators
文摘: Modular forms are periodic functions, and as such have Fourier expansions. The Fourier coefficients of elliptic modular forms satisfy certain arithmetic properties and are related to the eigenvalues of Hecke operators. Much work has been done of late to produce similar results in the theory of Siegel modular forms, which are a natural extension of elliptic modular forms. In current research we seek to fill some of the gap for Siegel paramodular forms. In this talk we will present the known results and discuss where we are trying to fill the gap.
发言人: 约旦哈代
标题: Fourier-Jacobi Coefficients of Twists of Siegel Modular Forms
文摘: Modular Forms are defined to be functions of a complex variable satisfying a certain restrictive set of functional equations. For such a restrictive set of objects, they appear in a variety of contexts; originally appearing in the work of mathematicians such as Jacobi, Dedekind和Klein, they have far-reaching applications in analysis, 代数, 拓扑学与数论.
Two generalizations of the modular form are the Jacobi form and the Siegel modular form. A degree two Siegel modular form has a Fourier-Jacobi expansion written in terms of Jacobi forms. The goal of my research is to write the formula for a twisting function developed by Johnson-Leung and Roberts in a (hopefully) cleaner way using the Jacobi-Fourier expansion.
发言人: Brenna气恼
标题: Crossing Fans of Segments Determined by a Finite Point Set
文摘: Let S be a finite set of points in the plane in general position. We investigate the number of points S must contain in order to guarantee the existence of specified patterns of intersecting segments determined by S. Specifically we are interested in “fans” of segments sharing a single point of S in which each segment in the fan is crossed by a single segment or set of segments.
