Watertown Native Matt Tardiff Earns Summer Research Award

EASTON, MA (04/10/2012)(readMedia)-- Watertown native Matt Tardiff will be one of 50 students from Stonehill College working with faculty members at the College this summer on research projects through the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. The SURE Program provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher.

Tardiff, a sophomore mathematics major and psychology minor at Stonehill, along with one other student, will work with Hsin-hao Su, assistant professor of Mathematics, on The Edge Balance Index Set of the Halin Graph of the L-Product of Cycles by a Path.

Tardiff and the other student will be working together in search of a solution to a special graph labeling problem, specifically, finding the edge-balance index set of a graph. This project is a continuation of previous projects where three L-product graphs were solved. If able to solve the remaining problem, Tardiff and the other student will write a joint paper to present in the 26th Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing at Southern Utah University in October 2012.

The scholars and their faculty mentors are the 17th group to work under the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. SURE Scholars will engage in weekly meetings to discuss the progress of their projects and other topics of general interest, and will be paid a stipend for their full-time service. All SURE Scholars will present summaries of their summer's work at an all-campus poster session in the early fall.

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