• Home
• Math Dept.
• Honors-in-Discipline
• Research
• Teaching
• Fun Stuff
• Email Me

---

The tenth SemiAnnual Math Honors-in-Discipline Day (SAMHIDD 10) was held on December 7, 2012 in Room 313 of Gilbreath Hall. Several presentations were given by students who registered for honors enhanced classes during fall 2012. Pizza and snacks were generously provided by the Honors College and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Audience members consisting mostly of
Honors Calculus 1 students

Audience members, including Dean Pyles 
(second from the left) of the Honors College

The schedule of presentations was:

TIME	SPEAKER	TOPIC
1:40	Dean Rebecca Pyles, Honors College Robert "Dr. Bob" Gardner	Introduction and Welcome
1:45	Devanshu Agrawal	Compass and Straightedge Constructions (Honors Introduction to Modern Algebra)
2:00	Ryan Mills	A Stochastic Model of Netflix Data for Customer Flow (Honors Stochastic Processes)
2:15	Ryan Mills	Estimating a Proportion with Different Priors (Honors Mathematical Statistics 1)
2:30	Ben Jewett and Chase Mussard	Leibniz Papers of 1684 and 1686 (Honors Calculus 1)
2:45	Kathleen King and Stephanie Mersch	Biography of Leibniz (Honors Calculus 1)
3:00	Megan Butler and James Elliott	History and Derivation of L'Hopital's Rule (Honors Calculus 1)
3:15	Zachary Helbert	Modeling of Solid Mechanics (Honors Calculus 3)
3:30	Jessie Deering	Bolzano-Weierstrass: Extracting Convergent Subsequences from Bounded Sequences (Honors Analysis 1)

Devanshu Agrawal (right) with his honors course instructor Dr. Robert Beeler Ryan Mills giving one of his two presentations Ben Jewett and Chase Mussard Kathleen King and Stephanie Mersch Megan Butler and James Elliott Zachary Helbert Jessie Deering