Proceedings of the First MAKO Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference

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On Saturday, November 12, 2005, the first MAKO Undergraduate Math Research Conference was held at Missouri State University. Undergraduates from Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma were invited to present short talks on their research.

The papers below were from those presenters who chose to publish online.

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Papers

"RSA Public-Key Cryptosystem" by Chris Farley, College of the Ozarks with a Mathematica Notebook
"Sudoku for Dummies: A Mathematician's Approach", by Dianne Henry, Evangel University
"Consecutive Numbers in Lotteries", by Andrew J. Reed, Evangel University

Sponsoring Institutions:

College of the Ozarks
Drury University
Evangel University
Missouri State University
Southwest Baptist University

Funding for this conference was provided by NSF grant DMS-0241090 through the MAA Regional Undergraduate Mathematics Conferences Program, http://www.maa.org.