PROJECT DAY

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, USD

Day:                                            Friday, May 7^th 2004

Location:                                     204 Serra Hall

Time:                                           12:30pm-4pm

Presentation Length:                  40 minutes (presentation+questions)

Time between Presentations:     5 minutes

Audience:                                     Students and faculty

SCHEDULE

Free Lunch:                                                        12:30pm-1pm

Applied Math Presentations (Part 1)                1:00pm-2:30pm

Presenter:                                 Adam Carney              

Title:                                         Determining the Offensive Value of a Major League Baseball

                                                Player, using Linear Regression Analysis and Bootstrap

Topics/Field of Study                Sport Statistics (Baseball, SPSS, Bootstrap method)

Committee Members:               Cameron Parker, Eric Jiang, Stacey Langton, Ani Velo

Presenter:                                 Takanobu Ameya                    

Title:                                         The z-transform Method and its Applications

                                                to Wave Propagation in Layered Media

Topics/Field of Study                Difference Equations, PDE, Linear Algebra

Committee Members:               Lukasz Pruski, Jeff Wright, Ani Velo

Coffee Break/Dessert                                      2:30pm-2:40pm

Applied Math Presentations (Part 2)               2:40pm-4pm

Presenter:                                 Elizabeth Herman               

Title:                                         How Many Judges Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?

Topics/Field of Study                Graph theory and Algorithm Analysis

Committee Members:               John Glick,  Jane Friedman, Ani Velo

Presenter:                                 Dragan Plakalovic                    

Tentative Title:                          Stress Wave Propagation through non-Goupillaud type Elastic Layered Media

Topics/Field of Study                Method of Characteristics, Difference Equations, PDE

Committee Members:               Lukasz Pruski, Jeff Wright, Ani Velo

Committee Member Expectations:

Each Committee consists of 3-4members. The role of a committee member includes:

1) Read the thesis before the oral presentation and provide feedback. You should be getting a thesis draft from the student at least a week prior to the oral presentation.

2) Attend the oral presentation (asking questions, making comments is optional).

3) Attend a final 10-20min. committee meeting; provide feedback to the committee and propose a grade. This meeting can happen sometimes during the week after the oral presentation and before the finals.