From black holes to locust swarms to kidney exchanges, Capstone Day, April 20, offered talks on a fascinating array of topics in the Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Department.

Classes were canceled and every senior who majored in the department presented on a topic they had researched during the course of the year—41 presentations this year. Of those 41, six outstanding talks earned awards and cash prizes of $100 for their presenters. A celebratory dinner followed. Following are the award winners:

• Black-Scholes Award
  Diarra Gueye
  Discrete and Continuous Approaches to Valuing Financial Options
• George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Award
  Matthew Hurni
  A Mathematical Perspective to Land Surveying
• George Dantzig Award
  Drew Van Denover
  The Mathematics of Kidney Exchanges
• Schwarzschild Award
  Allison Kennedy
  Black Hole Topology
• Kaplan-Meier Award
  Emily Hall
  Risk Factors Associated with Bone Marrow Transplantation in Leukemia Patients
• Al Khwarizmi-Finkel-Bentley Award
  Jon Bassen
  Mathematical Simulation of Locust Swarms