A Primer for Undergraduate Research From Groups and Tiles to Frames and Vaccines

This highly readable book aims to ease the many challenges of starting undergraduate research. It accomplishes this by presenting a diverse series of self-contained, accessible articles which include specific open problems and prepare the reader to tackle them with ample background material and refe...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wootton, Aaron (Editor), Peterson, Valerie (Editor), Lee, Christopher (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Foundations for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Coxeter Groups and the Davis Complex (T.A. Schroeder)
  • A Tale of Two Symmetries: Embeddable and Non-Embeddable Group Actions on Surfaces (V. Peterson, A. Wootton)
  • Tile Invariants for Tackling Tiling Questions (M.P. Hitchman)
  • Forbidden Minors: Finding the Finite Few (T.W. Mattman)
  • Introduction to competitive graph coloring (C. Dunn, V. Larsen, J.F. Nordstrom)
  • Matrioids (E. McNicholas, N.A. Neudauer, C. Starr)
  • Finite Frame Theory (S. Datta, J. Oldroyd)
  • Mathematical decision-making with linear and convex programming (J. Kotas)
  • Computing weight multiplicities (P. E. Harris)
  • Vaccination strategies for small worlds. (W. Just, H. C. Highlander)
  • Steady and Stable: Numerical Investigations of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (R. C. Harwood)