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Undergraduate Research Conference Awards
- 2025
- Student Talk Awards
- 1st Place: Jackson Wills and Trey Wilhoit, Roanoke College, Flood Warning! What Combinatorics and Algebra Tell us About Graphs
- 2nd Place: Rebecca Go, Stevenson University, Application of Hof's Dynamic Stability Model Through the Lens of a Countermovement Push-Up Trial: Derivation and Preliminary Results
- 3rd Place: Natalie Brownlowe and Jeffrey Bowerman, Towson University, Modeling Crime on Baltimore City Road Network
- Student Poster Awards
- 1st Place: Josiah Walker and Gregory Granahan, James Madison University, Testing the Boundaries of a Coanda Jet
- 2nd Place: Alexandra Veremeychik, Montgomery College, Data Driven Application Development
- 3rd Place: Adam Short and Val Paz-Soldan, James Madison University, Rocket Flame Trench Analysis with COMSOL Multi-physics Software
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Roanoke College
- Winning Radical Dash Team
Roanoke College
- 2024
- Student Paper Awards
- 1st Place: Matt Gunn, Randolph-Macon College, Exploring Probabilities in Bingo and its Variations
- 2nd Place: Abigail Basener, Virginia Military Institute, Detecting AI-generated writings
- 3rd Place: Natalie Brownlowe, Towson University, Mobility and Crime in Baltimore City
- Student Poster Awards
- 1st Place: Brendan Killeen, David Mack, Matthew Zieg of Virginia Military Institute, Resource Availability and Sex Ratios of Sea Lamprey Populations
- 2nd Place: Aidan Chadha, Virginia Tech, CG-Kit: Code Generation Toolkit for Performant and Maintainable Variants of Source Code
- 3rd Place: David Clements, Sarah Liebenow, Han-Chun Liu of Virginia Military Institute Sports Momentum through the Lens of Tennis
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Roanoke College
- Winning Radical Dash Team
Hollins University
- 2023
- 2022
- Student Paper Awards
- 1st Place: Gillian Carr, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Role of mixotrophic zooplankton in seasonally-forced plankton blooms
- 2nd Place: Emily Adams, Ajeya Dixon, Logan Lawson of Christopher Newport University and Norfolk State University,
Mathematical Modeling of Oncolytic Virotherapy as a Cancer Treatment
- 3rd Place: Lily Kimble, Shenandoah University, Sphere Projection of the Sierpinski Triangle
- Student Poster Awards
- 1st Place: Yang Hsia, Seth Gibson, James Burns of Virginia Military Institute, Bitcoin or Gold?
- 2nd Place: Royce Lorson, Shenandoah University, Using the Coupon Collector Problem to Analyze ”Gacha” Games
- 3rd Place: Lana Casingal, Bretia Green of Christopher Newport University and Norfolk State University, Mathematical Modeling of the Diffusion of Innovation
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Gabriel Johnson, Max Tucker, and Griffin Lofft of Washington College
- Winning Radical Dash Team
Alyson Conover, Gillian Carr, and Joseph Daly of St. Mary's College of Maryland.
- 2021
- Student Paper Awards
- 1st Place: Andrew Kappel, Shenandoah University, Using Baseball Sabermetrics to Predict Goal Scoring in Hockey
- 2nd Place:
Paige Beidelman, University of Mary Washington, Game Chromatic Number on Segmented Caterpillars
- Student Poster Awards
- 1st Place: Nicole Stock, James Madison University,
Higher Order Fourier Finite Element Methods for HodgeLaplacian Problems on Axisymmetric Domains
- 2nd Place: Lindsey Mercer, Andrew Ho, and Isaiah Weaver of Virginia Military Institute, Bees, Wasps, and Asian Giant Hornets, oh my!
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Anshu Sharma, Megan Gunn, and Devin Teri of Randolph Macon University
- Winning Radical Dash Team
No Radical Dash held this year
- 2020 No meeting
- 2019
- Student Paper Awards
- 1st Place: Martha Hartt, Randolph-Macon College, A Proof of Bertrand's Postulate
- 2nd Place: Garrett Fowler, Salisbury University, Conjecture O Holds for Some Horospherical Varieties Of Picard Rank 1.
- 3rd Place: Ryan Rhoades, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Exploration of the Inverse Galois Problem Using SageMath
- Student Poster Awards
- 1st Place: Amy Vennos, Salisbury University, Cycle Structures for Finite Cellular Automata Generated Over Groups, Rings, and Fields
- 2nd Place: David Carter, Jacon Wentworth, Virginia Military Institute
Louvre Evacuation Program
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Martha Hartt, Kirsten Tate, and Maria Cummings of Randolph Macon University
- Winning Radical Dash Team
Zachary Dorris, Lauren Thompson, Jenna Frick, and Billy Bekanich of Hood College
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- Student Paper Awards
- 1st Place: Ryan Poffenbarger, Virginia Military Institute, Hungarian Algorithm and Image Mosaicking
- 2nd Place: Tyler Hoffman, McDaniel College, Hausdorff Dimension of Generalized Fibonacci Word Fractals
- 3rd Place: Christopher Lloyd, University of Mary Washington, The Ko-Lee Key Exchange Protocol with Generalized Dihedral Groups
- Student Poster Awards
- 1st place: Madison Gamble and Blake Schildhauer, McDaniel College, Sums of Third Powers in Quaternion Rings
- 2nd place: Cassie Hartley, James Madison University, Analysis of a Metapopulation Model with an Allee Effect
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Chelsey Clement, Emily Marinucci, Samantha Mallie of Salisbury University
- Winning Radical Dash Team
Chelsey Clement, Emily Marinucci, Samantha Mallie of Salisbury University
- 2015
- Student Paper Awards
- 1st Place: Shuyan Zhan, Randolph-Macon College, China's Population & One-Child Policy
- 2nd Place: Hayley Harris, George Mason University, Prime Labelings of Generalized Petersen Graphs P(n,1)
- 3rd Place: Alexandra Jolly, Longwood University, Geometry and Billiards
- Student Poster Awards
- 1st place: Joseph Gills, Longwood University, Mean Curvature Zero Surfaces in Three-Dimensional Lie Groups
- 2nd place: Cassie Hartley, James Madison University, Analyzing Error Associated with Modeling a Swimming Worm
- 3rd Place: Zev Woodstock, James Madison University, Architectural Acoustic Oddities & Asymptotic Behavior of Repetition Pitch
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Sam Whitfield, Tyler Hoffman, Meg Protzman from McDaniel College
- Winning Radical Dash Team
Sam Whitfield, Tyler Hoffman, Meg Protzman, Amanda Owens from McDaniel College
- 2014
- Student Paper Awards
(There were two first place papers this year.)
- 1st place: Jon Marino, Roanoke College, Integer Compositions Applied to the Probability Analysis of Blackjack and the Infinite Deck Assumption
- 1st place: Emily Hunt, JMU, A Matrix Population for Monarch Butterflies
- 2nd place: Justin Stine and David Price, St' Mary's College of Maryland, Modeling Traffic Flow with Overtaking
- 3rd place: Carson Maki, Hampden-Sydney College, Timbral Partial Orders
- Student Poster Awards
- 1st place: Jeffrey Kopsick, JMU, Wiggling in a 3D Wonderland
- 2nd place: Nicolas Acton, JMU, The Coanda Effect and its Acoustic Applications
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Jeffrey Kane, Jeff Norton, and Meg Protzman from McDaniel College.
- Winning Radical Dash Team
Chris Broad, Ryan Sanford, and Nicolas Shields from the Catholic University of America
- 2013
- Student Paper Awards
- Joshua Kaminsky, St Mary's College of Maryland, A Different Type of Polygon
- Traymon Beavers, James Madison University, Graphs from Beyond the Grave: A Self-Stabilizing Algorithm for Double Domination
- Michael Ladas, Montgomery College, Modelling the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
- Student Poster Awards
- Kathy Dunning, Samim Manizade, and Ross Tavjar, Salisbury Univeresity,
I Think, Therefore I Bake: Building a Better Brownie
- Winning Jeopardy Team
Jon Marino, Jared Meadows, and Reem Zeidah from Roanoke College.
- Winning Radical Dash Team
Jon Marino, Jared Meadows, Reem Zeidah, and Morgan Elston from Roanoke College.
- 2011
- Student Paper Awards
- Kevin Doubleday, University of Mary Washington, Application of Markov Chains to Stock Trends
- Ryan Shifler, Salisbury University, Universal Groebner Bases of Circulant Polynomial Systems
- Student Poster Awards
- Benjamin Sapp, McDaniel College, The Kimberling Shuffle: You Can't Do This With a Deck of Cards
- Kylie Turner, Virginia Military Institute, Epidemiological Models of Chicken Pox in the United States
- Winning Jeopardy Team
- Benjamin Sapp, Michael Donders, and Fenghao Wang from McDaniel College.
- Radical Dash: At the first ever Radical Dash, an Amazing Race competition, we had over
fifty students involved in a total of 15 teams!
- Charlotte Funnell, Casey Petroff, and Matt Hubler from American University.
- Benjamin Sapp, Michael Donders, and Fenghao Wang from McDaniel College.
- 2010
- Student Paper Awards
- Yuri Calustro, Longwood University, Intersecting Cylinders at Arbitrary Angles
- Catherine Walsh, Salisbury University, The Dynamics of Finite Cellular Automata with Null Boundary Conditions
- Student Poster Awards
- Yuri Calustro, Longwood University, Intersecting Cylinders at Arbitrary Angles
- Robert Kelvey, McDaniel College, To be, or not to be...Lucky
- Winning Jeopardy team
- Cory Colbert from Virginia Commonwealth,
Stephen Hardy from McDaniel College, and
Robert Kelvey from McDaniel College
- COMAP recognition
- Cameron Auker, Nathan Parr, Douglas Vermilya,
Hampden-Sydney College
- Yuri Calustro, Nikole Varhegyi,
Longwood University
- Dennis Howell, Sara Miller, Patrick O'Neill,
Towson University
- 2009
- Student Paper Awards
- William Ella, University of Mary Washington
- David Weirich, Virginia Wesleyan College
- Chelsea Allison and Arthur Hughes, Mount St. Mary's University
- Student Poster Awards
- Brian Kim, Marriotts Ridge High School
- Alex Smith, Hampden-Sydney College
- Winning Jeopardy team
- Michael DeWitt, Nolan Skochdopole and Aashish Gadani of
Clover Hill High School
- COMAP recognition
- Toby Shearman and Patrick Lafond, Virginia Tech
- Michael DeWitt, Nolan Skochdopole and Aashish Gadani, Clover Hill High School
- Patrick O'Neil, Evan Menchini, and Will Frey, Virginia Tech
- 2008
- Student Paper Awards
- Amy Winslow of Randolph-Macon College
- Deena Hannoun and Leslie Hindman of James Madison University
- Jamey Szalay of James Madison University
- Student Poster Awards
- Danielle Shiley of Roanoke College
- Matthew Spencer of James Madison University
- Dan Boxer, Brent Kohler and Molly McHarg of James Madison University
- Winning Jeopardy team:
- Richard Hayden, Zachary Johnson and Nikole Widder-Varhegyi of Longwood University
- COMAP recognition
- Jorge Bruno, Matthew DiGiosaffatte and Benjamin Leard of James Madison University
- Victoria Ellison and Jefferson Livermon of James Madison University
- 2001
- Student Paper Awards
- Nancy Nichols and Tonya Kim, Randolph-Macon College - Can You Follow Our Train Of Thought? Analyzing The Effects Of A Railroad Crossing On Traffic Flow
- Adrien Treuille, Georgetown University - A Coloring Problem
and Patrick Meade, College of William & Mary -
Normal Matrices and Polar Decompositions in Indefinite Inner Products
- Mathematical Modeling Competition
- Problem A
MERITORIOUS RATING:
James Madison University. Team Members: Daniel Robinson, Florin Nedelciuc, and Justin Lacy
- Problem B
OUTSTANDING RATING:
Governor's School (Richmond). Team Members: Jonathan Charlesworth, Finale Doshi, and Joseph Gonzalez
MERITORIOUS RATING:
James Madison University. Team Members: Robert Knapik, Timothy Myers, and Eugene Kitamura
University of Richmond. Team Members: Tony Kirilusha, Jonathan Robbins, and Adam Weaver
- 2000
- Student Paper Awards
- Keith McCarron and Becci Torrey, American University - Continuous Motion of Displaced Coordinate Frames
- Thaddeus Selden and Neil Bridge, Randolph-Macon College - Interfering with Interference
- Nirit Sandman, George Washington University - An Exploration of a Type-B Tamari Poset
- Mathematical Modeling Competition
- Problem A
OUTSTANDING RATING:
Governor's School (Richmond). Advisor: Crista Hamilton. Team Members:
Finale Doshi, Rebecca Lessem, David Mooney
- Honorable Mention Teams
James Madison University. Advisor: Caroline Smith
Salisbury State University. Advisor: Steven M. Hetzler
- Problem B
MERITORIOUS RATING:
University of Richmond. Advisor: Kathy W. Hoke
- Honorable Mention Teams
Governor's School (Richmond). Advisor: Crista Hamilton.
Governor's School (Richmond). Advisor: John Barnes.
Salisbury State University. Advisor: Michael Bardzell.
- 1999
- Prizes for Student Papers - Research Papers
- Symmetric Simple Map with Low MN-Perturbations,
Tiffany Fisher (with Arun Verma and Alkesh Punjabi), Hampton University
- Interactive Web Activities, Tim Cavanaugh, St. Mary's College
- Bresenham's Circle Generator and the Dda Ellipse Generator
as Compared to Kappel's Ellipse Generator, Raymond Mooring, Morgan State University
and
Modeling Suspension Bridge Oscillations Using a Picard Iteration Technique,
Paul Dosart, James Madison University
- Prizes for Student Papers - Expository Papers
- The Weibull Distribution for Reliability Analysis,
Laura Schultz, Hood College
- Measure that Angle, Henry William Faxon, Bowie State University
and
Approximation Methods for Integro-differential Equations,
Aren Knutsen, James Madison University
- Prizes for Student Posters - Seniors
- A Combinatorial Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem,
Tonya Greene, Mary Baldwin College
and
Mathematics and the Art of M.C. Escher,
Kathryn Vanney and Katie Myers, Mary Baldwin College
- Sauntering in the Rain,
Lisa Black and Weiwei Pan, Mary Baldwin College
- Prizes for Student Posters - Juniors
- Origami and Conic Sections
Elizabeth Kiser and Christine McLean, Mary Baldwin College
and
Hasse Diagrams of Sets of Three and Four Elements
Dan Winter, Salisbury State University
- Meritorious teams in the 1999 Mathematical Contest in Modeling
- Problem A
- Governor's School (Richmond). Advisor: Crista Hamilton
- Governor's School (Richmond). Advisor: Crista Hamilton
- Virginia Western Community College. Advisor:Ruth Sherma
- Problem B
- Eastern Mennonite University. Advisor: John Horst
- James Madison University. Advisor: James Sochacki
- University of Richmond. Advisor: Kathy Hoke
- Honorable Mention Teams
- College of William and Mary. Advisor: Michael Trosset
- Georgetown University. Advisor: Andy Vogt
- Governor's School. Advisor: John Barnes
- Thomas Jefferson High School. Advisor: John Dell
- 1998
- Student Paper Competition - Expository Talks
- Rebecca Torrey and Keith McCarron, American University:
An Introduction to Fractal Geometry: It's Fractually Everywhere!
- Kendra Taylor, Hampton University:
Useful Strategies in Mathematical Optimization Modeling
- Student Paper Competition - Research Talks
- Jessica Lawson, Ronald Walsh, Christian Benjamin, John Kasprzak,
and Wendy Utz, St. Mary's College: Synchronous Fireflies: a Discrete
Mathematical Model and Navin Vembar, The George Washington University:
Partitions of the Edge-Set of a Graph into Trees.
- Lincoln Haughton, Hampton University: Exploration of Chaos and Heart Rhythms
- Student Paper Competition - Graduate Student Talks
- Special recognition for two graduate student presentations: Shawn Bruce, Va.
State University: Bicycle Tournament Square-Root Graphs and
Thomas Fitzkee, George Washington University: Self-Similar Tilings
Mathematical Modeling Competition
- Five student teams from our Section were awarded Meritorious status
for their solutions to this year's MCM problem: Mount Saint Mary's College,
Salisbury State University, College of William and Mary, Loyola College,
and Eastern Mennonite University.
- Six other teams earned Honorable Mention: Eastern Mennonite University,
Two teams from Loyola College, Georgetown University, Goucher College, and
Thomas Jefferson High School.
- Putnam Competition
- Ronald Walker of the University of Richmond was the highest scorer in our
Section this year.
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