Eleven YSU Mathematics students attended the National Mathematics Meeting, MathFest 2008.  MathFest is the Annual Summer Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) and was held in Madison, WI on July 29-August 2 this year. All of these students gave presentations on various topics in mathematics, and four students won awards for their talks.  The following students attended and presented their research at MathFest 2008:

Student	Hometown	Title of Presentation
*Matt Alexander	Espyville, PA	Cracking the Sudoku
Erica Cross	Mineral Ridge, OH	Regression Statistics with Data Subjected to Type II Censoring
Tyler Drombosky	Boardman, OH	An Introduction to the Hodgkin-Huxley Model
Krista Foster	Girard, OH	Thermal Evaluation in Composite Materials with Porosity
Damon Haught	Cortland, OH	An Introduction to Degree Theory in Rn
John Hoffman	Poland, OH	What Do We Know About Symmetries of Polynomials?
**Ryan Livingston	Hubbard, OH	Can 2008 be the first digits of 2n?
**Jared Ruiz	Girard, OH	A Surprising Sum of Arctangents
(*)Doug Wajda	Farmdale, OH	Partial Differential Equation Model of Traffic Flow
Allison Wiland	Canfield, OH	Fibonacci Numbers in Architecture
Moriah Wright	Ashtabula, OH	Cauchy’s Condensation Test

(*)*    Prize-winning MAA student talk
()**    Prize-winning Pi Mu Epsilon student talk
*(*)    Prize-winning SIAM student talk

Student speakers at MathFest 2008, Madison, WI: From left, Ryan Livingston, Allison Wiland, Moriah Wright, Krista Foster, John Hoffman, Jared Ruiz, Matt Alexander, Damon Haught, Erica Cross, Tyler Drombosky and Doug Wajda.

The performance of YSU students is especially significant, since no other University has won more than three awards at any MathFest meeting, and YSU students have received a total of 18 awards in the last 4 years.  Student projects were advised by Drs. Fabrykowski, Jalics, Smotzer, Spalsbury, Taylor and Yates.  Drs. Angela Spalsbury and George Yates accompanied students to this conference.