Imagine Cup

Jess Bermudes,  Kilo Akuna, William Heatley, and Nick Nabavian advanced to the second round of the Imagine Cup game development competition sponsored by Microsoft.  Thier entry, Project 2015, was one of  150 entries selected out of 632 from around the world for the second round competition.

The team presented their work at the US finals of the SDI Competition in Boston on May 2.

Open to students around the world, the Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws serious talent, and the competition is intense. The contest spans a year, beginning with local, regional and online contests whose winners go on to attend the global finals held in a different location every year.  The intensity of the work brings students together, and motivates the competitors to give it their all. The bonds formed here often last well beyond the competition itself. This year's theme is "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today." The United Nations has identified some of the hardest challenges in the world today in its Millennium Goals. This year the Imagine Cup uses these ambitious challenges as a guiding light to inspire change all over the world.

Digital Image Processing

Aileen Gaudinez,
Michlle Creek and
Lisa Brown

 - won a meritorious award for their poster  "Derivatives and Gradients as Tools in Digital Image Processing" at the Spring 2009 SoCal-Nev Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) held at California Lutheran University on March 21, 2009.

Michelle Creek

- I'm doing a summer internship at SDSU in biomathematics. Specifically, we will be building on recent successes in analyzing metabolic activity of a microbial ecosystem.

Aileen Gaudinez

-This summer I will be doing research under the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program (MSRI-UP) at the University of California Berkeley. My research will be in Coding Theory. In this branch of mathematics people work to find methods that achieve error control without introducing undue redundancy, and that admit efficient encoding and decoding.

Lindsey Hughes

-has has two papers accepted for publication in spring 2009.

"Exploring Java Software Vocabulary: A Search and Mining Perspective" was accepted to the International Workshop of Search-Driven Development - Users, Interfaces, Tools and Environments (SUITE 2009).

"Capturing Java Naming Conventions with First-Order Markov Models" has been accepted to the International Conference on Program Comprehension.

Amy Buchmann 

"Sylow Theorems and the Classification of Finite Groups"

"A History of Quaternions"

Presentations at the Schmid College of Science Student Research Day

Joe Smith

"Running Embedded Linux on a Xilinx ML300"

Presentation at the Schmid College of Science Student Research Day.