Student research

Summer, 2006

Ben Backup 2007 and Chris LeBailly 2006: (title to be announced).

Faculty director: Keri Kornelson

Douglas Babcock 2006, Benjamin Backup 2007, William Boney 2008, John Bowers 2006, Jacquelyn Burchfield 2006, Rolf Hoyer 2008, Emily Levenberg 2007, Avram Lyon 2006, and Norman Perlmutter 2007: Advanced linear algebra and frame theory.

Faculty director: Keri Kornelson

Summer, 2005

Lin Ji 2008 and Demetrio Rojas Aguilera 2008: Use of geospatial demographics in college recruitment planning.

Faculty director: Shonda Kuiper

Kaitlyn Ryan 2007 and Ogechi Nnadi 2006: Visualizing K-Bessel functions.

Faculty director: Karen Shuman

Avram Gottschlich 2007: The word problem.

Faculty director: Royce Wolf

Stephanie Fried 2007: E-choosability in outer-planar two-connected graphs.

Faculty director: Emily Moore

Norman Perlmutter 2007: Combinatorial group theory: representations of bicycles and tricycles.

Faculty director: Christopher P. French

Yvonne Palm 2006 and Tue To 2006: Geospatial analysis: estimating asthma prevalence rates in the United States.

Faculty directors: Tom Moore and Shonda Kuiper

Spring, 2005

Mary Katherine Kearney 2005 and Zelealem Yilma 2005: Senior seminar in mathematics.

Faculty director: Emily Moore

Summer, 2004

Samuel Eckstut 2005: Cycle-free presentations and the word problem.

Faculty director: Royce Wolf

Jingkan Gu 2006 and Christine Oehlert 2005: Solving infinite series closed forms.

Faculty director: Marc Chamberland

Arjun Guha 2006: Double torus knots.

Faculty director: Royce Wolf

Garth Spencer 2006: Counting loops: a problem in combinatorial geometry.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Zelealem Yilma 2005, Boundary words and tromino tiling.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Spring, 2004

Brooks Brunner 2005 and Christine Oehlert 2005: Senior seminar in mathematics.

Faculty director: Christopher P. French

Summer, 2003

Martha Makowski 2004 and Andrea Brennen 2004: Chaos in action: Discovering a basin of attraction.

Faculty director: Marc Chamberland

Jonathan Wellons 2004 and Ananta Tiwari 2004: Geometric configurations: order of polyominoes.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Mary Katherine Kearney 2005 and Amy Donahue 2005: Virtual knots on spheres.

Faculty director: Royce Wolf

Summer, 2002

Daren Brantley 2005: Geometric configurations: Rectifying polyominoes.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Emily Wergin 2003: Combinatorial geometry: Octagonal loops.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Nathan Gotman 2003 and Logan Axon 2003: (96, 20, 4) difference sets and designs.

Faculty director: Emily Moore

Benjamin Jones 2003: Techniques of applied regression.

Faculty director: Tom Moore

Summer, 2001

Jared Corduan 2002: Classifying virtual knots on the surface of a torus.

Faculty director: Royce Wolf

Ming Gu 2003: Tiling a rectangle with similar pieces.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Ari MacKinnon 2002: Extreme covering sets in the plane.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Rajendra Magar 2003: The Game of Life in finite arrays.

Faculty director: Marc Chamberland

Daisuke Ueno 2002: Flows on a sphere.

Faculty director: Mark Chamberland

John Wray 2003: An iterative process on strings of rational numbers.

Faculty director: Mark Chamberland

Summer, 2000

Nathan Corvino 2001: A linear-algebra library.

Faculty director: Gene Herman

Dolph Robb 2001: An iterative process on strings of rational numbers.

Faculty director: Marc Chamberland

Ole Nelson 2001: The toroidal Game of Life.

Faculty director: Marc Chamberland

Ben Skalland 2001: Difference sets in non-Abelian groups of order 70.

Faculty director: Emily Moore

Emily Resseger 2002: Equisum hexagons.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Alex Ford 2001: Tetrahedra with congruent faces and integer edge lengths and volumes.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Summer, 1999

Oleksiy Andriychenko 2001 and Ian Besse 2000: Iterative processes.

Faculty director: Marc Chamberland

Grace Lewis 2000, Rob Park 2001, and Kate Anderson 2002: Graph-coloring problems.

Faculty director: Emily Moore

John Pretz 2001 and Shekhar Shah 2001: Knot theory

Faculty director: Royce Wolf

Summer, 1998

Catherine Williams 1999: Topics in group theory.

Faculty director: Arnold Adelberg

Dorene Mboya 2000: Contributions to a library for the Linear Algebra Modules Project.

Faculty director: Gene Herman

Jennifer Heppner 1999: Trapezoids with integer sides having a given perimeter N.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Daniel Willms 1999: Cyclic quadrilaterals with integer sides having a given perimeter N.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Anne Wilson 1999: The 3x + 1 conjecture.

Faculty director: Marc Chamberland

Yuriy Shchuchinov 2000: Is every restriction of an l-formal arrangement l-formal?

Faculty director: Scott Imig

Summer, 1997

Catherine Williams 1999 and Molly Jo Dingel 1998: Bilaterally symmetric equisum sets with six elements.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Amanda Walker 1998: Conditions for the existence of difference sets.

Faculty director: Emily Moore

Jeremy Sheeley 1998: Contributions to a library for the Linear Algebra Modules Project.

Faculty director: Gene Herman

Collis Rost 1998 and Chris Jones 1998: The word problem in semigroups with cycle-free presentations.

Faculty director: Royce Wolf

Summer, 1996

Melissa Booker 1998: Dissections of polygons into triangles of equal area.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Dustin Key 1997: Using S-PLUS in an advanced course in probability and statistics.

Faculty director: Tom Moore

Andrew Lee 1998: Polyomino mistiling ratios.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Jeff Mather 1997 and Rebecca Schuller 1998: The word problem in semigroups with cycle-free presentations.

Faculty director: Royce Wolf

Jeremy Sheeley 1998: Contributions to a library for the Linear Algebra Modules Project.

Faculty director: Gene Herman

Roc Yang 1999: Pythagorean rectangles.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Summer, 1995

Allison Carruth 1997: Colorings of R² and R³.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Henry Dorn 1997: Constructing, displaying, and analyzing combinatorial objects in object-oriented MATLAB.

Faculty director: Emily Moore

Bao-jun Jiang 1997: On RAT-free sets.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

David Morse 1996: Contributions to an interactive text for linear algebra.

Faculty director: Gene Herman

Jason Parsons 1996: Three-dimensional analogues of Costas arrays.

Faculty director: Charles Jones

Adam Sales 1996: On packing an infinite sequence of circles.

Faculty director: Charles Jepsen

Chelsea Smock 1997: Solutions to word problems for finitely presented cycle-free groups.

Faculty director: Royce Wolf