23rd Annual Undergraduate STEM Research Showcase

Prof. Bockting Events, Math Talks, Student Opportunities

On November 7th, DePaul hosted its 23rd Annual Undergraduate STEM Research Showcase. At the showcase, DePaul students communicated their research findings with the scientific community through poster presentations and research talks. Several Mathematical Sciences students presented their work, including:

Oral Presentations

  • Umid Ahmadali, The Six-Vertex Model with Partial Domain Wall Boundary Conditions (pDWBC) and the Probability Distribution of the Type-C Vertex in the Final Row
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Karl Liechty
  • Umid Ahmadali, Non-Distributive Intervals on the Type-B Tamari Lattice
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Emily Barnard
  • Owen Levens, Polynomials Arising from Sorted Binomial Coefficients
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allan Berele
  • Nicolas Oses Frola, The Effectiveness of a Size-Based Recognition Model on Motif Identification and Characterization
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Shaun Mahoney, Penn State University

Poster Presentations

  • Clara Campos de Araujo, The Dirichlet Eigenvalue Problem on Grid Domains 
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Sher
    Work supported by the Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (URAP)
  • Michael Czaplinski, A Tale of Knots with Many Twists and Turns
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung
  • Joosung Lee, Who Can Win in a Game of Knots?  
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung
  • Owen Levens, Pascalian Root Asymptotics 
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allan Berele
    Work supported by the Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP)
  • Jiahui Li, L-splines-of-order-4-algorithm
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung
  • Vu Phan, Expected Number of Turns to Complete a Generalized (m,n) Bingo Game 
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ilie Ugarcovici
  • Grant Williams, Can ChatGPT Help Undergraduates Solve Graduate Level Abstract Geometry Problems?  
    Faculty Advisor: Dr. Enrico Au-Yeung

The showcase also featured a plenary talk by 2011 DePaul Math alumna Dr. Joelle Mbatchou. After graduating from DePaul in 2011, Dr. Mbatchou went on to earn Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Chicago.  In Dr. Mbatchou’s current role as a Senior Statistical Geneticist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals,  she works on the development of statistical methods and computational tools for large-scale data sets. You can read more about her work here.