Poster Sessions

Purpose

To study on your own or in collaboration with one other student, one of the mathemtical topics listed below. To understand the mathematical connections in the topic you choose and to prepare a poster(s) and be ready to explain the mathematical ideas to other students, your instructor and visitors. You will have up to 20 minutes to stand by your poster and explain to those who come by your poster.

Poster Session Dates

April 6 and 8

Poster Topics

The Power Game (Chap. 2)
1. Describe the Banzhaf Power Index
2. Describe the Shapley-Shubik Power Index
3. Helpful Web links
Mathematics of Apportionment (Chap. 4)
1. What is an apportionment problem?
2. What is an apportionment method?
3. Describe the different apportionment methods.
4. Points to address relative to a method:
  - specify standard divisors and determine for your methods
  - specify a standard quota and determine for your method
  - what are some of the paradoxes with the methods
5. Is there a fair method?
6. Helpful Web links
  - Congressional Apportionment
  - FEDERALIST Paper No. 54
Fibonacci's Signature in Nature (Chap. 9)
1. Explain golden rectangles
2. Describe gnomons
3. Explain gnomonic growth
4. Bring in Fibonacci numbers into the picture?
5. Helpful Web links
Barcodes, Zips and Strips (see handout)
1. What is a UPC number?
2. What is an ISBN number?
3. How do computers read and correct ID/serial numbers
4. What do the strips on the back of an envelope mean?
5. Helpful Web links
  - Bar Codes