9:00 – 10:00 Registration and Coffee

10:00-11:10 Student Presentation Session A (3 talks, 20 minutes each)

RKC 101: Session A1 – Chair, Mona Merling

• 10:00            Critical Curves of Knot Energy, Matthew Wise, Vassar College                
• 10:25            Finite Instances of Knot Quandles, Peter Golbus, Bard College                  
• 10:50            Toward Quandle Dichotomy*, Mona Merling, Bard College  

               
RKC 102:  Session A2 - Chair:  Dexin Zhou                       

• 10:00            Data Mining Algorithms, Dexin Zhou, Bard College                  
• 10:25            Solving LaPlace’s Equation with Complex Polynomials Using Mathematica, Cadets Addison and Bohannon, USMA
• 10:50            Dirichlet's Integral*, Stela Mihneva, St. Francis College           

RKC 103: Session A3 - Chair: Shelley Stahl                       

• 10:00            Enumerating Chains in Partially Ordered Sets, Shelley Stahl and Ezra Winston,            Bard College                  
• 10:25            Complexers on Stars, Lindsay Erickson, NYU/University of Washington  
• 10:50            Properties of Exponential Matrices, Lerone Bleasdille, College of Technology of CUNY

11:30-12:30  Invited Address by Rob Benedetto of Amherst College.   “Introduction the ABC Conjecture”, Weiss Cinema.

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch - Multi-Purpose Room

1:15 – 1:50 Special screening of “Flatland”, RKC 103

2:00 – 3:10 Student Presentation Session B (3 talks, 20 minutes each)

RKC 101: Session B1 - Chair:  Morgon Kanter                       

• 2:00            Generation of Megagraphs, Morgon Kanter, Bard College                  
• 2:25            Self Contact in Fractal Trees, Bailey Meeker, Hobart and William Smith                                                              
• 2:50            Subcubes of the hypercube, Qn, Anthony Delgado, Purchase College

RKC 102:  Session B2 - Chair:  Natalie Frank                                   

• 2:00            A Generalization of Recursive Integer Sequences of Order 2, Stephen Parry, Elmira College                                  
• 2:25            Iterating a Voronoi Diagram, Sean Hart, Vassar College
• 2:50            Voronoi Inverses, Richard Langford, Vassar College                                  

RKC 103:  Session B3:  Chair: Tracey McGrail                       

• 2:00            Mathematical Models of Reptiles, Michael Zawoiski, City College                  
• 2:25            The Lion and Man Game in the P, David Cerna, RPI
• 2:50            Evolved Art - planetary motion, Jeffrey Tsang, Univ. of Guelph                   

3:15 – 3:45 Afternoon Break, RKC Lobby

3:45 – 4:50 Presentation Session C

RKC 101
3:45-4:10            REU Information Session (Drop in at any time)

RKC 102
3:45-4:10            Bard Masters in Teaching Program: Slideshow and info session                                    (Drop in at any time)

RKC 103
3:45-4:20            Screening of Flatland
4:20-4:50            Graduate School Information Session