Schedule for Math 640 (Spring 2024) Student Final Presentation and Grande Finale (by Neil Sloane) May 2, 12:00-2:30 pm (via WebEx)

Every talk (except Dr. Sloane's) should last (at most) 8 minutes, including questions.

• 12:00-12:05: opening words by Dr. Z.

• 12:05: 12:15: Project 1: Construct a Database of Weight-Enumerators of all cyclic linear codes [n,k] over GF(q) up to a given size
  By Lucy Martinez (project leader), Himanshu Chandra, Nkhalo Malawo

  writeup   Maple code   data (zip file)  

• 12:15-12:25: Project 2: Construct a Database of Weight-Enumerators of all BCH codes over GF(q) up to a given size
  Joseph Koutsoutis (and only member)

  writeup   Maple code  

• 12:25-12:35: Project 3: Construct a Database of All Overlapping Word Chains and Cycles and Use them to Construct a "Snake Charmer" Puzzle book
  Ramesh Balaji (project leader), Daniel Elwell, Nuray Kutlu

  writeup   Maple code   slides   website

• 12:35-12:45: Project 4: Construct a Database of All Word Pyramids
  Isaac Lam (project leader), Dayoon Kim

  writeup   Maple code  

• 12:35-12:45: Project 5: Study the Statistics of the English Language
  Pablo Blanco Hinojosa (project leader), Aurora Hiveley, Kaylee Weatherspoon

  writeup   Maple code  

• 12:45-12:55: Project 6: Create an Anagram Puzzle Book
  Alex Varjabedian (project leader), Ryan Badi, Shaurya Baranwal

  writeup   Maple code  

• Project 7: 12:55-1:05 Create an integer sequence data-base of all Constant term sequences of the form ConstantTerm f(x)^n, for f(x)=a+b*x+c/x
  Gloria Liu (project leader and only member)

  writeup   Maple code   Python code (for accessing the OEIS) 

  Project 8: 1:05-1:15: Project 8: Study Linear Lee Codes
  Alex Valentino (proeject leader and onley member)

  writeup   Maple worksheet  

• 1:15-1:25: Project 9: Proving some conjectures about Hardinian arrays
  Robert Dougherty-Bliss (project leader), George Spahn

  writeup   Maple code  

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• 1:30-2:20: GRANDE FINALE: Guest-lecture BY Dr. Neil Sloane, Founder and President of the OEIS and Coding Theory pioneer

  The Reluctance of a Number Sequence - a new concept for analyzing sequences

  Here are the slides  

Here is the video of the students' presentations followed by Neil Sloane's "grand finale" talk (starting 1:24 )

back to Experimental Mathematics (Spring 2024).