Kerrigan Research Minigrants Program

The Department of Mathematics is calling for $300 research minigrants for the academic year 2007-2008. The applicants should be undergraduate or graduate UNO students with solid mathematics background. For details please check the Program Description file.

Proposed Projects for 2007-2008

• John Konvalina
• Quantifying Degrees of Randomness in Word Rhythms of Literary Works. Rebecca Pitz's report. Awarded the 1st prize.
• Mathematical analysis of self-similarity and other fractal features in musical forms. Status: unavailable
• Dora Matache
• Applications of Boolean networks to the study of the spread of an avian influenza epidemic . Status: unavailable
• Synchronization of stochastically coupled random Boolean networks. Status: unavailable
• Jack Heidel
• Fractals in Nature - Understanding Their Structure. Joseph Lee's report Awarded the 3rd prize.
• Slava Rykov
• Group Testing and its Application to Information Transmission and Neural Networks. Status: unavailable
• Statistical Thermodynamic Fidelity of DNA Codes. Status: unavailable
• Partition Codes: Analyses and Generation. Status: unavailable
• Average Covering Radius of Algebraic Codes. Status: unavailable

• Steve From
• Hoeffding-type probability inequalities for the distribution of sums of possibly dependent random variables. Birame Sene's report Awarded the 2nd prize.

• Valentin Matache
• A computerized investigation of numerical ranges. Jay Pedersen's report Awarded the 3rd prize.

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