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STaRS - Students Talk Research Seminar
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The "Students Talk Research" Seminar (STaRS) is focused on exploring accessible and engaging problems in mathematics. This seminar is designed for undergraduate students, offering challenges that appeal to both beginners and more experienced attendees.
Presentations will be delivered by undergraduate or graduate students involved in various math research projects. Speakers are encouraged to prepare their talks to be accessible to anyone with a background in Calculus I or II, and all presenters must complete at least one rehearsal with the STaRS organizer before their presentation.
If you are an undergraduate or TAMS student interested in joining the STaRS mailing list, please e-mail Dr. Kiko Kawamura at kiko.kawamura@unt.edu with the subject line "STaRS".
Upcoming Events
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Recent Events
| Date | Speaker(s) | Mentor/Supervisor(s) | Title |
| 2025-11-12 | Dr. Walter Bridges, Dr. Kiko Kawamura, and Dr. Jackson Morrow |
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Interested in Undergraduate Research? Join STaRS! |
| 2025-10-29 | Miguel Gonzales-Carriedo (Undergraduate) and Jonathan Leung (Undergraduate) |
Dr. Kiko Kawamura and Dr. Rudolf Prokaj |
Shifted Variations of Revolving Fractals |
| 2024-11-1 | Ethan Karpeles (Undergraduate) |
Dr. Lea Beneish |
Rational Points on Elliptic Curves |
| 2024-10-25 | Hunter Hoinkes (TAMS) and Jingyuan (Abel) Wang (TAMS) |
Dr. Lior Fishman, Kenzie Fontenot (Graduate), and Dr. Stephen Jackson |
An Exploration of the Mathematical Games of Cops and Robbers |
| 2024-10-18 | Miguel Gonzalez-Carriedo (Undergraduate), Audrey Perry (TAMS), and Everest Zimmerman (Lehigh Univ.) |
Dr. Kiko Kawamura and Matthew Ortiz (Graduate) |
Exploring Complex Base Number Expansions and Fractals |
| 2023-4-7 | Hunter Baird, Ali Diwan, and Luis Vazquez (Undergraduate) | Dr. Joe Iaia | Two Infinite Families of Solutions of a Singular Differential Equation on Exterior Domains |
| 2023-3-3 | Ethan Rebello, Jayanth Pandit, and Zachary Li (TAMS) | Dr. Lior Fishman | Using Mathematics Modeling to Create Non-Gerrymandered Congressional Voting Maps |
| 2022-10-14 | Yugendra Uppalapati (TAMS) | Joseph Prein (Graduate) and Dr. Nam Trang | Investigating Exact Cancellations in Cholesky Decompositions Via Schur's Complemeents and Graphs |
| 2022-10-7 | Justin Browning (Undergraduate), Arnav Mazumder, and Gowri Nanda (TAMS) | Noelle West (Graduate) | Mathematically Modelling Virus Propagation on social Media Networks with the SMIRQ Model |
