Topics from the 8th Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Book 64)

The Annual University Of North Carolina Greensboro Regional Mathematics And Statistics Conference (uncg Rmsc) Has Provided A Venue For Student Researchers To Share Their Work Since 2005. The 8th Conference Took Place On November 3, 2012. The Uncg-rmsc Conference Established A Tradition Of Attracting Active Researchers And Their Faculty Mentors From Nc And Surrounding States. The Conference Is Specifically Tailored For Students To Present The Results Of Their Research And To Allow Participants To Interact With And Learn From Each Other. This Type Of Engagement Is Truly Unique. The Broad Scope Of Uncg-rmsc Includes Topics In Applied Mathematics, Number Theory, Biology, Statistics, Biostatistics And Computer Sciences. Preface -- Promoting Undergraduate Research In Mathematics -- A Program Making A Difference In Quantitative Sciences -- Quantitative Methods In Biomedical Applications: Creative Inquiry And Digital Learning Environments To Engage And Mentor Stem Students In Mathematics. Edited By Jan Rychtář, Sat Gupta, Ratnasingham Shivaji, Maya Chhetri. Front Matter....Pages i-viii CURM: Promoting Undergraduate Research in Mathematics....Pages 1-6 NCSU-CUSP: A Program Making a Difference in Quantitative Sciences....Pages 7-13 Quantitative Methods in Biomedical Applications: Creative Inquiry and Digital-Learning Environments to Engage and Mentor STEM Students in Mathematics (NSF Funded Research)....Pages 15-24 Proving the “Proof”: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Positively Impacts Students....Pages 25-29 Modeling Heat Explosion for a Viscoelastic Material....Pages 31-37 Soliton Solutions of a Variation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation....Pages 39-53 Galois Groups of 2-Adic Fields of Degree 12 with Automorphism Group of Order 6 and 12....Pages 55-65 Laplace Equations for Real Semisimple Associative Algebras of Dimension 2, 3 or 4.....Pages 67-83 Fibonacci and Lucas Identities via Graphs....Pages 85-92 More Zeros of the Derivatives of the Riemann Zeta Function on the Left Half Plane....Pages 93-104 Application of Object Tracking in Video Recordings to the Observation of Mice in the Wild....Pages 105-115 The Card Collector Problem....Pages 117-123 The Effect of Information on Payoff in Kleptoparasitic Interactions....Pages 125-134 A Field Test of Optional Unrelated Question Randomized Response Models: Estimates of Risky Sexual Behaviors....Pages 135-146 A Spatially Organized Population Model to Study the Evolution of Cooperation in Species with Discrete Life-History Stages....Pages 147-154 Analysis of Datasets for Network Traffic Classification....Pages 155-168 Back Matter....Pages 169-170