Search Research Symposium Abstracts

Nilpotent Symplectic Alternating Algebras

Let F be a field. A Symplectic alternating algebra over F is a triple (V, ( , ), · ) where V is a symplectic vector space over F with respect to a non-degenerate alternating form ( , ) and · is an alternating bilinear and binary operation on V such that the law (u · v, w) = (v · w, u) holds. These algebraic structures have arisen from the study of [Read More...]

Presenter: Layla Sorkatti, Southern Illinois University
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Contributed Talk
Presentation Time: June 18, 2022; 3:20 pm

Tensor Decomposition Based Iterative Hard Thresholding Algorithms

Due to the explosive growth of large-scale data sets, tensors have been a useful tool to analyze and process high-dimensional data. Different from the matrix case, tensor decomposition has been defined in various formats, which can be further used to define the best low-rank approximation of a tensor to significantly reduce the dimensionality. Equipped with [Read More...]

Presenter: Jing Qin, University of Kentucky
Authors: Rachel Grotheer, Shuang Li, Anna Ma, Deanna Needell and Jing Qin
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Contributed Talk
Presentation Time: June 18, 2022; 3:45 pm

Concept Portfolios: Project-Based Assessment for More Equitable Course Design

Beginning in Spring 2020, we stepped away from traditional exams and collaboratively developed the concept portfolio assessment with the aim of creating a more equitable learning experience for students. Since then, we have implemented this model of assessment in courses from Pre-Calculus through Number Theory as faculty at a community college and a small [Read More...]

Presenter: Dr. Claire Gibbons and Dr. Emerald Stacy, Pierce College Puyallup and Washington College
Authors: Dr. Claire Gibbons and Dr. Emerald Stacy
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Contributed Talk
Presentation Time: June 18, 2022; 4:10 pm

Strengthening engineering mathematics curriculum via interdisciplinary collaborations: the NSU SUMMIT-P project

Norfolk State University (NSU) is currently the only HBCU member in a national consortium called SUMMIT-P: Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnership. Stemming from work begun by the MAA’s Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years (CRAFTY) project, the goal of SUMMIT-P is to improve the [Read More...]

Presenter: Maila Hallare, Norfolk State University
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Contributed Talk
Presentation Time: June 18, 2022; 4:35 pm

A Study of Illumination Filtering and Movement Detection in Video Streaming Processing

We study a movement detection scheme for video streaming data using time series analysis. We employ simple scalar quantities such as (i) the Frobenius norm trajectory of a forward difference matrix and (ii) the Auto-correlation function to analyze the time series and detect movements in the video sequences. To remove the background interruptions, such as [Read More...]

Presenter: Phuong Mai Nguyen, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Authors: Phuong Mai Nguyen, Xingjie Li
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Contributed Talk
Presentation Time: June 19, 2022; 9:15 am

Application of Support Vector Machines to Diagnosis of Late-onset Glutaric Acidemia Type 2

Glutaric Acidemia Type 2 (GA2), or Multiple Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenation Deficiency (MADD), is a genetic metabolic disorder affecting amino acid, fatty acid, and choline mechanisms. While most cases present themselves at birth or at an early age, it is also quite possible to have an onset well into adulthood. For these late-onset patients, the road to diagnosis [Read More...]

Presenter: Beyza Aslan, University of North Florida
Authors: Beyza Aslan
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Contributed Talk
Presentation Time: June 19, 2022; 10:05 am

Epidemic Model-based Routing Protocol in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

In this talk, we introduce an application of epidemic model in developing a routing protocol in wireless ad-hoc networks. Wireless ad-hoc network is a decentralized type of temporary machine-to-machine connection that is spontaneous and does not depend on any fixed infrastructure and centralized administration. We adopt a modified stochastic branching [Read More...]

Presenter: Hyunsun Lee, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Symposium Year: 2022
Session: Contributed Talk
Presentation Time: June 19, 2022; 10:30 am