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USTARS 2019

The Ninth Annual USTARS was held at Iowa State University in April 2019.  Dr. Minerva Catral of Xavier University delivered the Keynote Lecture, "Group Inverses of Matrices, Sign Patterns and Applications."  Two students were named the Distinguished Graduate Student.  Sherilyn Tamagawa of the University of California, Santa Barbara presented "Trivalent Spatial Graphs and Niebrzydowski Algebras," and Alessandra Constantini of the Purdue University presented "Blow-up constructions and the defining ideal of Rees algebras."  For more information about the USTARS 2019 program and a list of presented talks, please click on the link to the left.
Organizers:  
​Jeannine Abiva

Syvillia Averett
Ty Frazier
Erik Insko


Advisory
Board
:                              
​Prof. Federico Ardila
​Prof. Erika Camacho
Prof. Rebecca Garcia

Prof. Edray Goins

Ryan Moruzzi Jr.
​Candice Price

Javier Ronquillo
Shannon Talbott


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​Prof. Dagan Karp
​Prof. Phil Kutzko

LTC Donald Outing
Prof. Cynthia J. Wyels
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2019 Program

USTARS 2018

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2018 Program
The Eighth Annual USTARS was held at Reed College in April 2018.  Dr. Jose Perea of Michigan State University delivered the Keynote Lecture, "Some applications of topology to data science."  Two students were named the Distinguished Graduate Student.  Eva Elduque of the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented "On the signed Euler characteristic property for subvarieties of abelian varieties," and Clifford Bridges of the University of Colorado, Boulder presented "Embedding Problems over Z_p with Kernel Z^n_{p^2}."  For more information about the USTARS 2018 program and a list of presented talks, please click on the link to the left.
Organizers:  
​Jeannine Abiva

Syvillia Averett 
Erik Insko


Advisory
Board
:                              
​Prof. Federico Ardila
Prof. Erika Camacho
Prof. Rebecca Garcia
​P
rof. Edray Goins

Candice Price
Shannon Talbott


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​Prof. Dagan Karp
​Prof. Phil Kutzko

LTC Donald Outing
Prof. Cynthia J. Wyels

USTARS 2017

The Seventh Annual USTARS was held at Amherst College in April 2017.  Dr. Chelsea Walton delivered the Keynote Lecture, "Math in the Age of Trump."  Two students were named the Distinguished Graduate Student.  Robert Walker of The University of Michigan presented "Uniform Asymptotic Growth on Symbolic Powers of Ideals," and Bahar Acu of University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles presented "Symplectic mapping class group relations generalizing the chain relation."  For more information about the USTARS 2017 program and a list of presented talks, please click on the link to the right.
Organizers:  
​Jeannine Abiva

Syvillia Averett
Erik Insko

Advisory
Board
:                             
​Prof. Federico Ardila
Prof. Erika Camacho
Prof. Rebecca Garcia

Prof. Edray Goins

​​Garrett Jones
Candice Price
Shannon Talbott


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​Prof. Dagan Karp
​Prof. Phil Kutzko

LTC Donald Outing
Prof. Cynthia J. Wyels
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Participants of 2017
USTARS 2017

USTARS 2016

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Participants of USTARS 2016
USTARS 2016
The Sixth Annual USTARS was held at Sam Houston State University in April 2016.  Dr. aBa Mbirika, The University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, delivered the Keynote Lecture, "My Combinatorial Journey through Algebra and Topology."  Two students were named the Distinguished Graduate Student.  Alexander Diaz-Lopez of Notre Dame presented "Coexter groups, peak sets, and root systems," and Yen Duong of University of Illinois at Chicago presented "Random groups and cubulations."  For more information about the USTARS 2016 program including a list of presented talks, please click on the link to the left.
Organizers:  
​Jeannine Abiva

Syvillia Averett
Erik Insko

Advisory
Board
:                             
​Prof. Federico Ardila
Prof. Erika Camacho
Prof. Rebecca Garcia

Prof. Edray Goins
                        

​​Garrett Jones
Candice Price
Shannon Talbott



​​Prof. Dagan Karp
​Prof. Phil Kutzko

LTC Donald Outing
Prof. Cynthia J. Wyels

USTARS 2015

The Fifth Annual USTARS was held at Florida Gulf Coast University in April 2015.  Dr. Angelica Osorno, Reed College, delivered the Keynote Lecture, "Why do topologists care about category theory?"  Gabriel Sosa presented the Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture, "The many applications of Grobner bases."  For more information about the USTARS 2015 program, a list of presented talks, and a list of participants, please click on the links to the right.
Organizers:  
​Jeannine Abiva

Syvillia Averett
Erik Insko

Advisory
Board
:
Prof. Erika Camacho
Prof. Rebecca Garcia

Prof. Edray Goins

​Garrett Jones
Candice Price
Shannon Talbott



​LTC Donald Outing
Prof. Cynthia J. Wyels
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Participants of USTARS 2015
USTARS 2015

USTARS 2014

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Participants of USTARS 2014
USTARS 2014
The Fourth Annual USTARS was held at University of California, Berkeley in April 2014.  Dr. Mohamed Omar, Harvey Mudd College, delivered the Keynote Lecture, "When Algebra Meets Optimization, And My Journey Through Grad School."  Two students were named the Distinguished Graduate Student.  Pablo Solis, University of California, Berkeley, delivered the Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture, "Loop groups, embeddings and moduli spaces."  Cindy (Sin Yi) Tsang, University of California, Santa Barbara, delivered the Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture, "Galois module structure of abelian extensions."    For more information about the USTARS 2014 program, a list of presented talks, and a list of participants, please click on the links to the left.  
Organizers:  
Jeannine Abiva
​Syvillia Averett     
Pamela Harris
Erik Insko

Advisory 
Board:          
Prof. Erika Camacho
Prof. Edray Goins
Prof. Phil Kutzko

​Garrett Jones
Candice Price
Shannon Talbott



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LTC Donald Outing
Prof.  Cynthia J. Wyels

USTARS 2013

The Third Annual USTARS was held at Purdue University in April 2013.  Dr. Jennifer Vasquez, University of Scranton, delivered the Keynote Lecture, "Games, the Braid Group, and a Short Exact Sequence."  This year two students were named the Distinguished Graduate Student.  Servando Pineda Carranza, San Francisco State University, delivered the  Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture, "Hopf Random Walk on Generalized Permutohedra."  Aaron Mazel-Gee, University of California, Berkeley, delivered the Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture, "You could've invented tmf."    For more information about the USTARS 2013 program including a list of presented talks please click on the link to the right. 
Organizers:  
Jeannine Abiva
​Alejandra Alvarado
Syvillia Averett     
Pamela Harris

​Erik Insko
Garrett Jones
Candice Price
Shannon Talbott 
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Participants of USTARS 2013
USTARS 2013

USTARS 2012

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Participants of USTARS 2012
USTARS 2012
The Second Annual USTARS was held at the University of Iowa in April 2012.  
Dr. Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University, delivered the Keynote Lecture, "Combinatorics of CAT (0) Cube Complexes" and Anastasiia Tsvietkova presented the Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture, "Hyperbolic Structures on Link Complements."  For more information about the USTARS 2012 program and a list of presented talks, please click on the link to the left.  
Organizers:  
Jeannine Abiva
​Syvillia Averett
Erik Insko

​Garrett Jones

Candice Price
Shannon Talbott

USTARS 2011

The first USTARS was held at The University of Iowa in April 2011.  Dr.  Emille Davie Lawrence, California State Polytechnic University, delivered the Keynote Lecture, "The $\sigma$-order on $B_n$" and Dido Salazar-Torres, San Francisco State University, presented the Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture, "Marked Poset Polytopes."  For more information about the USTARS 2011 program and a list of presented talks, please click on the link to the right.
Organizers:  
Syvillia Averett
Carlos De La Mora

​Erik Insko
Candice Price
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Participants of USTARS 2011
USTARS 2011
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