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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