ASPiRE

Advancing Student Participation in Research Experiences

 Saturday, February 10, 2024.  9:00 am – 4:00 pm.  FGCU Main Campus.

Advancing Student Participation in Research Experiences (ASPiRE) is an annual conference held at Florida Gulf Coast University each February to educate students about what it means to do “mathematics research" and inform them of research opportunities.

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2024 Program

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Morning Session

Starting at 8:00 AM

Seidler Hall Lobby

Registration.   Please register before you go to breakfast.

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Seidler Hall Lobby

Breakfast

9:00 AM

Seidler Room 114

Opening Remarks

Clay Motley,  Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University

9:15 AM

Seidler Room 114

Research experiences of undergrads, grads and beyond: from space colonization to water waves, tumor modeling, and more
Svetlana Roudenko,  Florida International University

10:00 AM

Seidler Room 114

 Break and Networking

10:15 AM

Seidler Room 114

Doing Research in the History of Mathematics

Chuck Lindsey,  Florida Gulf Coast University

11:00 AM

Seidler Room 114

 Panel Discussion — Q&A and Group Photograph 

12:00 PM

Seidler Hall Courtyard

Group Photo outside Seidler Hall

12:15 PM-1:30 PM

Whitaker Hall Lobby

 Lunch & Poster Session

Poster Presentations

12:15 PM-1:30 PM

Whitaker Hall Lobby

Mitigation of Pollution from Sewer Systems
Erik Anderson
Florida Gulf Coast University

Uncertainty Propagation in Image Deblurring

Thomas Pasfield
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University


Afternoon PARALLEL Session 1

1:30 PM

Whitaker Hall 103

Stability of Solutions for KdV-Type Equation
Diana Son
Florida International University

1:50 PM

Whitaker Hall 103

Hidden Opportunities
Brandon Roche
Florida Gulf Coast University

2:10 PM

Solutions to a Higher-Dispersion Water Wave Equation
Beckett Sanchez
Florida International University

2:30 PM

Whitaker Hall 103

Break

2:50 PM

Whitaker Hall 103

Lazy Cops and Robbers on a Sphere
Jonathan Gonzalez
Florida Gulf Coast University

03:10 PM

Whitaker Hall 103

Autonomous Video Transmission and Air-to-Ground Coordination in UAV-swarm-aided Disaster Response Platform
Paulo Drefahl
Florida Gulf Coast University

3:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Afternoon PARALLEL Session 2

1:30 PM

Whitaker Hall 104

Quantifying Uncertainty in Segmentation of Computed Tomography
Ioannis Paraschos
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

1:50 PM

Whitaker Hall 104

Uncertainty Propagation in Image Debluring
Madeline Gorman
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

2:10 PM

Marriage and Math? Establishing Connections between Hall’s Marriage Theorem and Birkhoff’s Theorem
Diana Dancea
Nova Southeastern University

2: 30 PM

Whitaker Hall 104

Break

2:50 PM

Whitaker Hall 104

Data Analysis of Gravitational Wave Signals GW150914 and GW170817 Using Python
Mason Huffman
Cape Coral High School

3:10 PM

Whitaker Hall 104

Expected Value of Interior Points of Lattice Polygons
Paul Myrin
Florida Gulf Coast University

3:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Contacts

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Maynard, Gretchen
Administrative Specialist II, Mathematics
SH 0208A
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Assistant Professor, Mathematics
WH 0209

Committee Members 

Annette Chionilos
Lucas Everham
Brian Johnson

Katie Johnson
Menaka Navaratna
Galen Papkov

Perri Spence
Dania Sheaib
Shaun Sullivan


The conference is funded by the FGCU College of Arts and Sciences, the FGCU Whitaker Center STEM Education, the FGCU Office of Undergraduate Studies, the Office of Scholarly Innovation and Student Research, Textbook Publishers, and the FGCU Department of Mathematics.

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