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Results
These are the results of the fellowship:
Awards
- Miranda Hayworth won first price in the Genesis competition for undergraduate poster presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, August 2008
- Miranda Hayworth won the second place in the Harter Award competition, UNCG, May 2008
- Amy Roop, Miranda Hayworth and Robert Gove received the UNCG Student Excellence Award, the highest award for an undergraduate student. May 2008
- Miranda Hayworth received The John Bowley Derieux Research Award: 1 st place in Poster Competition, 105 th Annual North Carolina Academy of the Sciences Meeting
- Miranda Hayworth received The John Bowley Derieux Research Award: 2 nd place in Zoology Speech Competition, 105 th Annual North Carolina Academy of the Sciences Meeting
- Meghan Fitzgerald receives the Patterson award for the best undergraduate presentation at the MAA conference in Charleston, SC, March 2008
- Miranda Hayworth won an award for outstanding undergraduate student presentation at the North Carolina Academy of Sciences
- Brian Stadler won an award for outstanding undergraduate student presentation at the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, UNCG, October 12-14, 2007
Papers
- M. Wilhelm, M. Chhetri, J. Rychtar, O. Rueppell - A Game Theoretical Analysis of the Mating Sign Behavior in the Honey bee, submitted
- R. Gove, M. Hayworth, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell - Social insect colony performance in relation to task and mating number under two alternative response threshold models, submitted to Animal Behaviour
- M. Hayworth, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, R. Gove, J. Metheny, O. Rueppell - Behavioral Response to Increased Costs Decreases Mating Effort and Success in Polyandrous Honey Bee Queens, submitted to Animal Behaviour
- M. Broom, J. Rychtar - A game theoretical model of kleptoparasitism with incomplete information, submitted
- M. Broom, J. Rychtar, B. Stadler* - Evolutionary dynamics on graphs - the effect of graph structure and initial placement on mutant spread, submitted
- M. Broom, J. Rychtar, B. Stadler* - Evolutionary Dynamics on Small-Order Graphs, to appear in Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics
- S. Grundman*, L. Koblizkova, J. Rychtar - A Hawk-Dove game in finite kleptoparasitic populations, to appear in Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics
- M. Broom, J. Rychtar - Kleptoparasitic melees - modelling food stealing featuring contests with multiple individuals, submitted
- M. Crowe, M. Fitzgerald*, D. Remington, J. Rychtar - On deterministic and stochastic models of kleptoparasitism, to appear in Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics
- M. Chhetri, N. Johnson*, O. Rueppell, J. Rychtar - Revisiting the variance-based selection model of diploid drone production for multiple mating in honey bees, to appear in Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics
- M. Broom, J. Rychtar - An analysis of the fixation probability of a mutant on special classes of non-direction graphs, in press in Proc. Royal. Soc. London, Ser. A 2008 (464), 2609-2627
- M. Crowe, M. Fitzgerald*, D. Remington, G. Ruxton, J. Rychtar - Game Theoretic Model of Brood Parasitism in a dung beete Ontophagus taurus, Journal of Evolutionary Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s10682-008-9271-3
- O. Rueppell, N. Johnson*, J. Rychtar - Variance-Based Selection May Explain Mating Patterns in Social Insects, Biology Letters 2008 (4), 270-273
- M. Broom, J. Rychtar, C. Sykes* - The evolution of kleptoparasitism under adaptive dynamics without restrictions, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 2008 (11), No 4, 479-494.
- J. Rychtar, B. Stadler* - Evolutionary Dynamics on Small-World Networks, International Journal of Mathematics Sciences, 2 (1), 2008, 1-4.
- R. Gove*, J. Rychtar - On the exponential function, submitted to Mathematical Spectrum
- R. Gove* (mentored by J. Rychtar) - A slice of Pi, Explorations, 2007
- M. Broom, R. Luther, J. Rychtar - A Hawk-Dove game in kleptoparasitic populations, to appear in Journal of Combinatorics, Information & System Science
Oral Presentations
International:
- August 2008 - Hayworth M., Johnson N., Wilhelm M., Gove R., Metheny J., Rueppell O. The cost sensitive mating strategy of honeybee queens. Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society. Snowbird, UT. Genesis Award Winner.
- August 2008 - M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, J. Rychtar, J. Yang: Using empirical data to test the theoritical predictions of brood parasitism by Onthophagus taurus 45th annual meeting of the animal behavior society Snowbird, Utah
- July 2008 - D.L. Remington, R. Fogel, R. Gove, and J. Rychtar. Toward a systems biology of plant life history variation. Botany 2008 Conference, Vancouver, BC July 26-30, 2008
- May 2008 - J. Yang, M. Crowe, M. Fitzgerald, J. Rychtar: A stochastic model of kleptoparasitism, ISMT2008/FIM XVI, Memphis, TN
- May 2008 - J. Rychtar, M. Chhetri, M. Crowe, S. Gupta, D. Remington, O. Rueppell: Mating bees and rational numbers, ISMT2008/FIM XVI, Memphis, TN
- October 2007 - N. Johnson, O. Rueppell, M. Chhetri, R. Gove, M. Hayworth, J. Rychtar - Reduction in the variability of diploid drone production selects for multiple mating in honey bees - International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, UNCG, October 12-14, 2007
- October 2007 - R. Gove - Benefit Functions of Promoting Multiple Mating in Honeybee Queens - International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, UNCG, October 12-14, 2007
- October 2007 - B. Stadler, J. Rychtar - Evolutionary Dynamics: From Small-Worlds to Random Graphs - International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, UNCG, October 12-14, 2007
- October 2007 - J. Rychtar, M. Chhetri, M. Crowe, S. Gupta, D. Remington, O. Rueppell - Math models of beetles, bees, evolution, and genes - International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, UNCG, October 12-14, 2007
- October 2007 - M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar - Kleptoparasitism: Time is of the essence for Onthophagus Taurus - International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, UNCG, October 12-14, 2007
- September 2007 - J. Rychtar, M. Broom - Evolution of kleptoparasitism under adaptive dynamics - Mathematical Models in Evolution and Ecology 2007, University of Sussex, UK 20 - 21 September 2007
- August 2007 - J. Rychtar, M. Broom - Evolution of kleptoparasitism, SMB/JMB meeting, San Jose, CA
- June 2007 - J. Rychtar, M. Brooom - Evolution of kleptoparasitic behavior - Invited seminar, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
- June 2007 - O. Rueppell - Social Control of Lifespan in Social Insects. Workshop on Biodemography of Aging, Longevity & Sociality, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
- February 2007 - D.L. Remington - Genetic analysis of plant life history trade-offs: from "black box" to functional mechanisms. Invited seminar, University of Oulu, Finland, 2007.
National:
- January 2009 - J. Rychtar, M. Broom: Mathematical Models of Kleptoparasiting Behavior, AMS/MAA national meeting, Washington, DC
- January 2009 - M. Wilhelm, M. Chhetri, J. Rychtar, O. Rueppell: The Mating Game: A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Mating Sign Behavior in the Honey Bee, AMS/MAA national meeting, Washington, DC
- June 2008 - M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar: To steal or not to steal: Modeling kleptoparasitic behavior in the dung beetle Onthophagus Taurus, NSF/UBM PI meeting, Columbus, OH
- April 2008 - Hayworth, M.K., N.G. Johnson , M.E. Wilhelm, R.P. Gove, and O. Rueppell. Plasticity of Mating Behavior in Honeybee Queens. 22nd National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salisbury, Maryland.
Regional:
- November 2008 - M. Fitzgerald, J. Celin, M. Broom, M. Crowe, J. Rychtar: Strategies of a Kleptoparasitic Dung Beetle: Modeling Behavior with Game Theory - The institute for Mathematical Biology Education and Research, November 14-15, 2008, Appalachian State University.
- November 2008 - M. Wilhelm, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell, J. Rychtar: The Mating Game: A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Mating Sign Behavior in the Honeybee - The institute for Mathematical Biology Education and Research, November 14-15, 2008, Appalachian State University.
- November 2008 - N. Ross, M. Hayworth, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell: Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Social Apoptosis in Honeybee Colonies - The institute for Mathematical Biology Education and Research, November 14-15, 2008, Appalachian State University.
- November 2008 - A. Roop, M. Wilhelm, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell: A biological perspective on Mathematical Models Showing the Relationship Between Oyster and Fish Populations in Coastal Ecosystems - The institute for Mathematical Biology Education and Research, November 14-15, 2008, Appalachian State University.
- November 2008 - R. Gove, D. Remington, J. Rychtar: Modeling resource allocation strategies in A. Lyrata using trait networks - The institute for Mathematical Biology Education and Research, November 14-15, 2008, Appalachian State University.
- November 2008 - M. Fitzgerald, J. Celin, J. Yang, M. Crowe, J. Rychtar: Modeling Stealing Behavior in a North Carolina Dung Beetle - 4th annual UNCG RUMC, UNCG, November 8, 2008
- November 2008 - R. Gove, D. Remington, J. Rychtar: The resource allocation game: modeling strategies in Arabidopsis lyrata with trait networks - 4th annual UNCG RUMC, UNCG, November 8, 2008
- November 2008 - N. Ross, M. Hayworth, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell: Social Apoptosis in Honeybee Colonies - 4th annual UNCG RUMC, UNCG, November 8, 2008
- November 2008 - M. Wilhelm, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell, J. Rychtar: The Mating Game: A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Mating Sign Behavior in the Honeybee - 4th annual UNCG RUMC, UNCG, November 8, 2008
- July 2008 - M. Wilhelm, A. Roop, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell: Fish & Oysters: Modeling the effect of a cooperative system, UBM W&M-UNCG meeting, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- July 2008 - M. Hayworth, N. Ross, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell: Social Apoptosis in Honeybee Colonies?, UBM W&M-UNCG meeting, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- July 2008 - M. Fitzgerald, J.Yang, M. Crowe, J. Rychtar: Modeling Stealing Behavior in a North Carolina Dung Beetle, UBM W&M-UNCG meeting, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- July 2008 - R. Gove, R. Fogel, D. Remington, J. Rychtar: Modeling resource allocation strategies in Arabidopsis lyrata using trait networks, UBM W&M-UNCG meeting, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- April 2008 - Hayworth, M.K., N. Ross, N.G. Johnson, M.E. Wilhelm, R.P. Gove, J.D. Metheny, and O. Rueppell. The Reproductive Game Plan of Honeybee Queens. UNCG OUR EXPO, Greensboro , North Carolina.
- April 2008 - Hayworth, M.K., R.P. Gove, N.G. Johnson, M.E. Wilhelm, M.R. Leagon, J.D. Metheny, and O. Rueppell. Mating effort and success in response to increased flight costs in honeybee queens. 2 nd Annual Student and Postdoc Symposium of the North Carolina Honey Bee Research Consortium , Charlotte , North Carolina.
- March 2008 - Hayworth, M.K., N.G. Johnson, M.E. Wilhelm, R.P. Gove, M.R. Leagon, J.D. Metheny, and O. Rueppell. The Risk Sensitive Mating Behavior of Honeybee Queens . 105 th Annual North Carolina Academy of the Sciences Meeting, Greensboro, North Carolina.
- March 2008 - M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar: To steal or not to steal: Modeling kleptoparasitic behavior in the dung beetle Onthophagus Taurus, MAA meeting at Charleston, SC
- March 2008 - J. Rychtar, M. Broom, C. Sykes: Evolution of kleptoparasitic behavior, MAA meeting at Charleston, SC
- November 2007 - R. Gove, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, M. Hayworth, M. Leagon, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell - Colony Fitness as a Function of Division of Labor and Multiple Mating in Honeybee Queens - The institute for Mathematical Biology Education and Research, November 2-3, 2007, Appalachian State University.
- November 2007 - J. Rychtar, M. Chhetri, M. Crowe, S. Gupta, D. Remington, O. Rueppell - Mathematics of beetles, bees, evolution, and genes - The institute for Mathematical Biology Education and Research, November 2-3, 2007, Appalachian State University.
- November 2007 - M. Wilhelm, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell, J. Rychtar - The Mating Game: Evolutionary Stable Strategies of the Mating Sign Behavior in Honeybees - 3rd annual UNCG RUMC, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- November 2007 - M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar - Kleptoparasitism: Time is of the essence for Onthophagus taurus - 3rd annual UNCG RUMC, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- November 2007 - B. Stadler, J. Rychtar - Dynamics of Small Order Combinatorial Graphs - 3rd annual UNCG RUMC, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- November 2007 - R. Gove, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, M. Hayworth, M. Leagon, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell - Colony Fitness as a Function of Division of Labor and Multiple Mating in Honeybee Queens - 3rd annual UNCG RUMC, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- May 2007 - D.L. Remington - Genetic analysis of plant life history trade-offs: from "black box" to functional mechanisms. Departmental seminar, UNCG,
- April 2007 - M. Hayworth, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, R. Gove, M. Leagon, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell - Modeling bee behavior, Research in the Capital, Raleigh, NC.
- April 2007 - M. Hayworth, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, R. Gove, M. Leagon, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell - Identification of an integrative bio-mathematical research project on Apis mellifera behavior. Student and Postdoc Symposium of the North Carolina Honey Bee Research Consortium, Raleigh, NC.
- November 2006 - B. Stadler, J. Rychtar - Evolutionary Dynamics on Small-World Networks, UNCG RUMC
- November 2006 - R. Gove, J. Rychtar - A slice of Pi, UNCG RUMC
Poster Presentations
International:
- August 2008 - Hayworth, M., Johnson, N., Wilhelm, M., Gove, R., Metheny, J., Rueppell, O.: The cost sensitive mating strategy of honeybee queens, 45th annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Snowbird, Utah
- July 2008 - R. Gove, R. Fogel, J. Rychtar, D.L. Remington: Mathematical modeling of resource allocation strategies in Arabidopsis lyrata. Botany 2008 Conference, Vancouver, BC
- September 2007 - M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar - When resources are scare, pirates await - Mathematical Models in Evolution and Ecology 2007, University of Sussex, UK 20 - 21 September 2007
National:
- January 2009 - J. Rychtar, M. Chhetri, S. Gupta, D. Remington, O. Rueppell, M. Crowe: Math Biology Research at UNCG, AMS/MAA national meeting, Washington, DC
- June 2008 - J. Rychtar, M. Chhetri, M. Crowe, S. Gupta, D. Remington, O. Rueppell - Math Biology Research at UNCG - NSF/UBM PI meeting, Columbus, OH
- April 2008 - B. Stadler, J. Rychtar: Predicting Outcomes of the Evolutionary Dynamics on Graphs, National Conference of Undergraduate Research, Salisbury, MD
- August 2007 - J. Rychtar, M. Chhetri, M. Crowe, S. Gupta, D. Remington, O. Rueppell - Beetles, bees, evolution, and genes - NSF/UBM PI meeting, San Jose, CA
- April 2007 - R. Gove, J. Rychtar - A slice of Pi, NCUR, San Francisco.
Regional:
- November 2008 - J. Celin, M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, J. Rychtar: The Exciting Life of Dung Beetle, The State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creative Symposium, Boone, NC
- April 2008 - A. Roop, M. Wilhelm, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell: Mathematical model on the relationship between oyster reef system and the fish population in coastal ecosystems, UNCG OUR Expo
- April 2008 - M. Fitzgerald, J. Yang, M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar: Two Models of Kleptoparasitic Behavior, UNCG OUR Expo
- April 2008 - S. Grundman, L. Komarkova, J. Rychtar: Kleptoparasitism! The Stealing of Food by Birds and the Modelling Thereof, UNCG OUR Expo
- April 2008 - R. Gove, L. McCormick, J. Rychtar: Checking Sentence Structure using Computational Linguistics, UNCG OUR Expo
- April 2008 - B. Fogel, R. Gove, D. Remington, J. Rychtar: Mathematical Modeling of Resource Allocation Strategies in Arabidopsis lyrata, UNCG OUR Expo
- March 2008 - M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar: To steal or not to steal: Modeling kleptoparasitic behavior in the dung beetle Onthophagus Taurus, MAA meeting at Charleston, SC
- March 2008 - R. Gove, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, M. Hayworth, M. Leagon, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell: Improving honeybee division of labor and colony fitness with genetic variation in workers, MAA meeting at Charleston, SC
- November 2007 - M. Hayworth, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, R. Gove, M. Leagon, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell - Costly matings makes honey bee queen less promiscuous - 3rd annual State of North Carolina undergraduate research and creativity symposium, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- November 2007 - M. Wilhelm, N. Johnson, M. Hayworth, R. Gove, M. Leagon, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell - The Mating Game: Evolutionary Stable Strategies for the Mating Sign Behavior in Honeybees - 3rd annual State of North Carolina undergraduate research and creativity symposium, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- November 2007 - M. Fitzgerald, M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar - Dung Beetle Pirates, a model of kleptoparasitic behavior - 3rd annual State of North Carolina undergraduate research and creativity symposium, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- November 2007 - B. Stadler, J. Rychtar - Dynamics of Small Order Combinatorial Graphs - 3rd annual State of North Carolina undergraduate research and creativity symposium, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- November 2007 - R. Gove, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, M. Hayworth, M. Leagon, M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell - Colony Fitness as a Function of Division of Labor and Multiple Mating in Honeybee Queens -3rd annual State of North Carolina undergraduate research and creativity symposium, UNCG, November 17, 2007
- April 2007 - M. Fitzgerald, J. Krenicky, and J. Fonke (M. Crowe, D. Remington, J. Rychtar) - Kleptoparasitism: when resources grow scarce a pirate awaits. UNCG OUR Expo
- April 2007 - M. Hayworth*, N. Johnson, M. Wilhelm, R. Gove, M. Leagon (M. Chhetri, O. Rueppell) - Identification of an integrative bio-mathematical research project on Apis mellifera behavior. UNCG OUR Expo
- April 2007 - A. Pollok, D. Remington - Developing a genetic model of adaptive trade-offs in plant resource allocation. UNCG OUR Expo
- April 2007 - B. Stadler, J. Rychtar - Evolutionary dynamics on small world networks, UNCG OUR Expo
- April 2007 - A. Pollok, D. Remington - Developing a genetic model of adaptive trade-offs in plant resource allocation. UNCG OUR Expo
- November 2006 - B. Stadler, J. Rychtar - Evolutionary Dynamics on Small-World Networks, Second State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research Symposium NC State University, Raleigh, NC.
- November 2006 - R. Gove, J. Rychtar - A slice of Pi, Second State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research Symposium NC State University, Raleigh, NC.
Other
- November 2007 - S. Gupta and J. Rychtar organize the UNCG-RUMC
- October 2007 - S. Gupta and J. Rychtar organize the AISC
- September 2006 - S. Gupta organized the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques, Tomar, Portugal
- September 2006 - J. Rychtar organized a session of undergraduate research at ICIMST, Tomar, Portugal