2011 Conference

The 2011 Indiana Undergraduate Research Conference

July 27, 2011

Schedule:

  • 8:30-9:30 - Registration and reception, Rawles Hall Lounge
  • 9:30-10:00 - Opening remarks, Lindley Hall Room 102
    • Professor Chris Connell, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Indiana University
    • Professor Kevin M. Pilgrim, Indiana University
    • Professor Bruce Solomon, Indiana University
  • 10:00-12:10 - Parallel sessions
    • speakers, titles, and abstracts
    • schedule for all sessions (times and locations)
  • 12:10-1:45 - Lunch, with some IU graduate students, at the Tudor Room, Indiana Memorial Union
  • 1:45-3:20 - Parallel sessions
    • speakers, titles, and abstracts
    • schedule for all sessions (times and locations)
  • 3:30-4:00 - Tea, Rawles Hall Lounge
  • 4:00-5:00 - Swain East 105

    Professor Matthias Weber, Indiana University

    An invitation to minimal surfaces

    Minimal Surfaces have attracted mathematicians for over 300 years. While much progress has been made, the key question remains very open: What are the possible topological types of complete, embedded minimal surfaces? I will survey the history of this and related questions, with many picturesque examples.

Hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University and supported by the National Science Foundation via a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant.