Ohio State is hosting an annual Young Mathematicians Conference.
This looks like a nice conference, with a wide set of excellent speakers, including the incomparable John Conway. GT undergrads should keep this in mind for next year.
Georgia Tech has two REU projects represented in the poster session , scroll half way down to see the abstracts of Thomas Callaghan's abstract, and of Julie Bjornstadt and Alexei Dachevski.
Julie and Alexi are reporting on work from the GT REU from this past summer.
It is in the area of math biology, and was done under the supervision of Professors Porter and Bunimovich in Mathematics, and Professor Christopher Klausmeir of the School of Biology.
The project concerns the dynamical behavior of photoplankton populations. These are critical populations in the oceans, motivating the study. The methods are from dynamical systems. They report that these populations exhibit long time stability, with relaxed oscillations. The bifurcation behavior is studied, as a function of the amount of nutrient available.
Thomas Callaghan is speaking on College Football Rankings. And if you don't know about this project a google search on "monkey bcs" is amusing. The top links are to Thomas Callaghan's work with Professors Peter Mucha and Mason Porter on this topic. A powerpoint file of his poster is available.