REU 2003

Central Michigan University

Final Reports

Here are final reports for the undergraduate research projects developed during the NSF supported Research Experience for Undergraduates at Central Michigan University in the summer of 2003.

Cover page for the 2003 Final Report, listing participants and NSF grant number.

The Irredundant Number of Star Graphs by Mindy Bradford under the direction of Sivaram Narayan

Minimum Rank of Positive Semi-definite Matrices with a Prescribed Graph by Kelly Steinmetz and Wendy Wang under the direction of Sivaram Narayan

On Graphs Associated with a Commutative Zero Divisor Semigroup:  Perfect, Complete R-partite, and Triangulated Planar Graphs by Michel D’sa and Inessa Epstein under the direction of Lisa DeMeyer and Ken Smith

On the Graph of a Commutative Zero Divisor Semigroup by Amanda Geiser under the direction of Lisa DeMeyer

Progress and Searches in Difference Sets and Relative Difference Sets by Nicholas Bauer, Paul Carmany and Peter Landry under the direction of Ken Smith

Subgraph Summability Number of a Graph by Josh Whitney under the direction of Sivaram Narayan

The Subgraph Summability Number of Squids and Paths by Raj Doshi under the direction of Sivaram Narayan

Two Families of Randomly Decomposable Graphs by Erin Militzer and Lisa Driskell under the direction of Ken Smith