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Summer 2002 Participants

Random Walks and Simulation Program

Undergraduates in the Program:
Micah Allred: Junior, Brigham Young University
  • Gave two joint lectures with Amanda Ellis on "Mathematics of Finance" and "Simulating the Wright-Fischer Gene Frequency Model".
Rex Butler: Junior, University of Utah
  • Gave a lecture on his program that simulates aspects of the "Linear and Nonlinear Voter Model".
Song Du: Freshman, University of Utah
  • Gave a joint lecture with Ron McKay on "Hitting/Escape Probabilities for Brownian Motion".
  • Project Summary with Ron McKay
Amanda Ellis: Junior, University of Utah
  • Gave two joint lectures with Micah Allred on "Mathematics of Finance" and "Simulating the Wright-Fischer Gene Frequency Model".
Ronald McKay: Senior, University of Utah
  • Gave a joint lecture with Song Du on "Hitting/Escape Probabilities for Brownian Motion".
  • Project Summary with Song Du
John Schweitzer: Junior, Hillsdale College

Matthew Taylor: Senior, University of Utah
Graduate Student Assistants in the Program:
Sarah Geneser
  • Lectured on MatLab and wrote some of the original programs to get the participants started.
Lars Louder
  • Gave two lectures on "Random Walks and Electrical Networks".
Robert Thorn
  • Gave two lectures on "Three Probabilistic Games" that included an introduction to Markov chains in the setting of a game of chance.
Guest Lecturer for the Random Walks Program:
Nelson Beebe
  • Lectured on "Random Number Generation and Network Security".
Faculty for the Random Walks Program:
Davar Khoshnevisan
  • To see a list of Dr. Khoshnevisan's lectures, please click here.
Individual REU Projects
David Ayala: University of Utah Troy Finlayson: University of Utah Amy Heaton: Freshman, University of Utah Ali Jabini: Freshman, University of Utah Jenny Jacobs: University of Utah Benjamin Murphy: Senior, University of Utah Michael Woodbury: Junior, University of Utah
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