Print Page

Departmental Honors in Mathematics or Computer Science



Recent recipients of departmental honors

Mathematics

Year Student Title of Thesis Advisor
2012 Haosong Wang Dynamics of the Complex Hyperbolic Cosine-Root Family Lorelei Koss
2011    Fabio Drucker     Symbolic Dynamics with Overlapping Partitions and Cocyclic Subshifts     Dave Richeson
2011 Thanh To Mathematical Techniques for Assigning First Year Seminars Dick Forrester
2011 Danni Yu     Translating B Machines to JML Specifications Tim Wahls
2009 Ritwik Niyogi Dynamical Effects of Non-Linearities and Time-Varying Gain Modulation in Neurally Plausible Network Models of Perceptual Decision-Making John MacCormick
2008 Christian Millichap Topology of Discretized Configuration Spaces Dave Richeson
2007 Paul Winkler Circle Maps Dave Richeson
2007 Jared Lease Coefficient Shifting to Improve Glover's Linearization of the Heaviest k-Subgraph Problem Dick Forrester
2007 Jeff Goldsmith Dynamics of the Derivative of the Weierstrass Elliptic Function Lorelei Koss
2005 Angelo Polo p-Groups and Nilpotency Vonn Walter
2004 Theresa Sparacio Periodic Trajectories in Triangular Billiards: Methods of Construction Dave Richeson
2003 Elizabeth Bouzarth A Link Between Mathematics and Physics: A Study of Knot Theory and Magnetic Field Line Reconnection Dave Richeson

Computer Science

Year Student Title of Thesis

Advisor
2012 Katherine Veil Improving the jmle Tool's Constraint Solving On Sets      Tim Wahls
2011 Fabio Drucker Expanding Krakatoa/Why Tim Wahls
2011 Russell Toris Evolving Robotic Desires: A New Approach to Bridging the Reality Gap Grant Braught
2010 James Doyle PathFinder in CUDA John MacCormick
2010 Michael Keating Executing Formal Specifications via Constraint Programming: Enhancing the jmle Tool Tim Wahls
2009 Matt Bachmann The Effects of Network Structure and Fitness Sharing on the Evolutionary Dynamics of Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Strategies Grant Braught
2009 Adrian Kostrubiak Integration of Java Generics Into The jmle Tool Within The Eclipse IDE Tim Wahls
2009 Richard Rast Automated Interpretation of Arithmetic in First-Order Theories Tim Wahls
2009 Ke (Harry) Zhou Improving the Two Color Image Prior Bayesian Demosaicing Algorithm John MacCormick
2008 Mark Veronda Applying a Genetic Algorithm to the Localization Problem using an Extremely Sensing Limited Robot Grant Braught
2008 Ryan Zeigler A New Approach for Evolving Robotic Controllers Grant Braught
2007 Scott McHugh Small World Structures in Evolved Neural Networks Grant Braught
2006 Stevan Kominac Evolving Small-World Neural Networks Grant Braught
2003 Ash Dean The Influence of Learning on Chance, History and Adaptation in Artificial Evolution Grant Braught
2003 Adam Labadorf Dynamic Correlation: the effect of learning on evolution when learning and evolutionary tasks are different Grant Braught
2003 Rebecca Wells Effects of Learning on Coevolution Grant Braught