<p> MAKO Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference – 2015 Saturday, November 14</p><p>Schedule</p><p>9:00 am – 9:05 am Welcome: Bill Bray, Mathematics Department Head, MSU 9:05 am – 9:25 am “Comprehending Higher Dimensions” Jonah Henry, Missouri State University 9:30 am – 9:55 am “How to Make Anyone Hate You in 10 Minutes with 17 Cards” Jon Rehmert, College of the Ozarks 10:00 am – 10:25 am “A Short Introduction to Fourier Series and Their Applications in Partial Differential Equations” Jonathan Stacy, Missouri State University 10:30 am – 10:55 am “The Derivation of the Conservation Equation” Alexa Busch, Drury University 11:00 am – 11:25 am “Stein’s Paradox” by Mena Whalen, Missouri State University 11:30 am – 11:55 am “Disease Survival in a Branching Process Model” Hope Woods, Lyon College noon – 12:25 pm Lunch – Cheek Lobby 12:30 pm – 12:55 pm “The Banach-Tarski Paradox” by Dylan Beck, Missouri State University 1:00 pm – 1:25 pm “A Theoretical and Numerical Analysis for Second Order Nonlocal Models” Lauren Lewandowski, Missouri State University 1:30 pm – 1:55 pm “Average Intensity of the Distribution of Complex Zeros of a Class of Random Polynomials” Spencer Smith, Southwest Baptist University 2:00 pm – 2:25 pm “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words” by Dr. Kevin Hopkins, Southwest Baptist University 2:30 pm – 2:55 pm “The Art Gallery Problem” Aaron Ogle, Missouri State University 3:00 pm – 3:05 pm Closing and final remarks</p>