Departmental honors in mathematics
Recent recipients of departmental honors
| Year | Student | Title of Thesis | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Emily Shambaugh |
Factorization Patterns of Polynomials and Partitions |
Holley Friedlander |
| 2023 | None | ||
| 2022 | Alex Nash | Parametrized Dynamics of the Dixon Elliptic Functions | Lorelei Koss |
| 2021 | None | ||
| 2020 | None | ||
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2019 |
Mengting Chao | Dynamics of the Taylor Series Approximation of the Dixon Elliptic Functions | Lorelei Koss |
| 2019 | Moyi Tian | Maypole Braids: An Analysis Using the Annular Braid Group | Dave Richeson |
| 2018 | None | ||
| 2017 | None | ||
| 2016 | None | ||
| 2015 | Marc Besson | Generalized Symmetric Spaces of the Modular Group Mm(2) | Jennifer Schaefer |
| 2015 | Katie Roy | Dynamics of the Real Weierstrass Elliptic Function | Lorelei Koss |
| 2014 | Simon Feeman | Dynamics of a Family of Eighth-Degree Complex Polynomials | Lorelei Koss |
| 2014 | Kathryn Schlechtweg | On the Generalized Symmetric Spaces of the Semidihedral Groups | Jennifer Schaefer |
| 2013 | Yujia Zhou | Classification of symbolic dynamics for one-dimensional dynamical systems with overlapping regions | Dave Richeson |
| 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 |
| 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 |