Twelve YSU mathematics students attended the summer annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and Pi Mu Epsilon (PME) in Portland, Oregon on August 5-8.  All students gave oral presentations on a variety of topics in mathematics. All these students gave very good presentations, and four students received awards for outstanding talks. This marks the fifth consecutive year that YSU students have won four or more speaking awards. No other school has ever won more than 3 awards in any single year.

Student	Hometown	Title of Presentation
Alycia Kolat	Brookfield, OH	Supersolvable Groups
*Patrick Walker	Struthers, OH	Metric-Preserving Mappings
Mario Sracic	Hermitage, PA	Volume and Surface Area of Hyperspheres in Rn
Scott Eddy	Boardman, OH	A Geometric Composition of Isometries
Allison WIland	Canfield, OH	Sylow's Theorem
Angela Urban	Hubbard, OH	Groups and Counting
**Moriah Wright	Ashtabula, OH	Mathematical Modeling of Cardiac Myocytes
Joshua Mike	Youngstown, OH	Modeling Senktide Response to Pyramidal Neuron
Kristi Mraz	Youngstown, OH	Modeling Selenium Metabolism in Bacteria
**Lisa Curll	Columbiana, OH	Bacterial Resistance
**Matthew Alexander	Espyville, PA	An Application of the Riemann Zeta Function
Justin Laufman	Canfield, OH	Really Counterintuitive

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

MathFest 2009, Portland Oregon.  Back row: Patrick Walker, Mario Sracic, Scott Eddy, Josh Mike, Justin Laufman. Middle row: Matt Alexander, Lisa Curll, Moriah Wright, Alycia Kolat, Allison Wiland, Kristi Mraz, Angela Urban. Front row (faculty advisors) Tom Wakefield, Angela Spalsbury, George Yates.

Drs. Spalsbury, Wakefield (project NExT participant), Faires and Yates also attended MathFest 2009. Thanks also to faculty who advised students on their projects. This included: Drs. Flowers, Pollack, Jalics, Wingler, Wakefield, Fabrykowski, Faires and Yates.   

The students are grateful for the support from: The Office of the Provost (Student USE Fund), STEM College Dean, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, CURMath, Pi Mu Epsilon, Mathematical Association of America, and NSF grant DBI-0827205.