Mentors

Dr. Carmen Caprau

Carmen CaprauDr. Carmen Caprau has worked on research projects with 4 undergraduate students in the last two years, and is currently supervising 6 undergraduate research students. The projects involve topics in knot theory and its connections to graph theory and abstract algebra.

Dr. Caprau’s students have presented their projects at various conferences, organized by the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society, by means of talks and/or poster presentations. She has also written one research paper with one of her students, and another paper is under preparation. Dr. Caprau has been awarded a mini-grant from the MAA Tensor Program for Women and Mathematics for the current academic year, to engage female students in research projects and in continuing to study mathematics.

Below are the accomplishments of her students so far, in reverse chronological order:

  1. Jennifer Elder, Elaina Aceves, Poster presentation at the JMM in San Diego, January 2013.
  2. David Heywood - Talk at the JMM in San Diego, January 2013.
  3. Joel Smith - Talk at the JMM in San Diego, January 2013.
  4. C. Caprau, J. Tipton, The Kauffman polynomial and trivalent graphs, preprint available at arxiv:mathGT/1107.1210
  5. James Tipton - Talk at the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, March 2011; Talk at the Central California Research Symposium (Outstanding Undergraduate Student Talk in Mathematical Sciences Award winner), Spring 2011; Poster presentation at the JMM in New Orleans, January, 2011; Poster presentation at the MAA Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii Section Meeting, February 2011.
  6. Ana-Cristina Jimenez - poster presentation at the JMM in New Orleans (Outstanding Poster Presentation Award winner), January 2011; poster presentation at the MAA Southern California-Nevada Section Meeting, April 2010; poster presentation at the Central California Research Symposium, Spring 2010.

Dr. Tamás Forgács

Tamas ForgacsDr. Tamás Forgács has supervised twelve undergraduate research students during the last few years. The projects ranged from game theory and economics to the distribution of zeros of analytic functions, his current area of research. Dr. Forgács’s students have given numerous talks and poster presentations at conferences, including conferences of the Missouri Valley Economic Association, the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. He has also written two research papers with his students. He participated in the CURM workshop for mentors in 2010, in the Field of Dreams Conference in November, 2011, in the workshop for undergraduate mentors at the Park City Mathematics Institute in June, 2012, and in the Trends in Undergraduate Research in the Mathematical Sciences conference in October, 2012. Below are the accomplishments of his students, in reverse chronological order (students in bold):

  1. Forgács, T., Tipton, J., Wright, B., Multiplier Sequences for Simple Sets of Polynomials, Acta Math. Hungar. Vol. 137 No. 4, 282-295, December, 2012. First published online on April 27, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s10474-012-0222-7
  2. Blakeman, K., Davis, E., Forgács, T., and Urabe, K., On Legendre Multiplier Sequences, Missouri J. Math. Sci., Vol. 24, Issue 1, 7-23. Spring 2012.
  3. Katie Urabe - poster presentation at the Golden Sectional Meeting of the MAA, Spring 2012; Talk at the Central California Research Symposium, Spring 2012; Talk at the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, March 2012; Poster presentation at the JMM in Boston (Outstanding Poster Presentation Award winner), January, 2012.
  4. Kelly Blakeman - Talk at MathFest, July, 2012; Talk at the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, March 2012
  5. Emily Davis - Talk at MathFest, July, 2012
  6. Michelle Hoshiko - Talk at the CURM spring research conference, Spring 2011; Talk at the Central California Research Symposium, Spring 2011; Talk at the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, March 2011; Poster presentation at the JMM in New Orleans, January, 2011, Poster Presentation at the JMM in San Francisco, January 2010.
  7. Mario Banuelos - Talk at the CURM spring research conference, Spring 2011; Talk at the Central California Research Symposium, Spring 2011; Talk at the Pacific Coast Under- graduate Mathematics Conference, March 2011; Poster presentation at the JMM in New Orleans, January, 2011.
  8. James Tipton - Talk at the CURM spring research conference, Spring 2011; Talk at the Central California Research Symposium, Spring 2011; Talk at the Pacific Coast Under- graduate Mathematics Conference, March 2011; Poster presentation at the JMM in New Orleans, January, 2011.
  9. Benjamin Wright - Talk at the CURM spring research conference, Spring 2011; Talk at the Central California Research Symposium, Spring 2011; Talk at the Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, March 2011; Poster presentation at the JMM in New Orleans, January, 2011.
  10. Lucy Montalvo - Poster presentation at the JMM in San Francisco, January 2010.
  11. Iliana Perez - Talk at the annual meeting of the Missouri Valley Economic Association in St. Louis, MO in October, 2008.