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Peter Draznik
  • Mathematics, Physics
  • Class of 2014
  • Palatine, IL

Peter Draznik participated in Celebration of Learning

2012 May 7

More than 75 Augustana students from all academic areas shared their advanced research projects on Saturday, May 5, at the Celebration of Learning. This on-campus research symposium annually gives students an opportunity to show off their academic accomplishments to their families and the Augustana community.

Among the students involved:

Peter Draznik, a sophomore from Palatine, Ill., majoring in mathematics and physics. The research was titled Constructing Tournaments. We will introduce tournaments, a type of directed graph where there is exactly one edge between any two different vertices. We will also present various methods for creating some of these tournaments, a complete catalogue of tournaments of small order, and some results that give clues to the properties of tournaments.

Celebration participants presented their research through a poster display or an oral presentation. Many students expounded on the results of their Senior Inquiry, a multiple-term research project required for most academic programs. Other students shared honors capstone projects or student-faculty research findings. Because of the advanced level of research involved, most of the presenters are upperclass students.

Anne Earel and Stefanie Bluemle, Augustana reference librarians and the event's co-directors, said the Celebration of Learning provided an outlet for students to showcase their accomplishments.

Presentations topics varied greatly and included anthropology, biology, physics, geography, gender studies, theater and more.