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Past Research
 

Here is a list of some of the previous undergraduate research done by our students. Abstracts for talks on the more recent topics can be found here.

Spring 2007
  • Bobby Grizzard, What Does Sperner's Lemma Tell Us about Positive Matrices?
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Saclolo
  • Will Jaramillo, The Security of the RSA Cryptosystem
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Engquist
  • Andrew Beck, Much Ado about Nothing - Zeroes of Nth Partial Sums of
    the Complex Exponential Series
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Steven Ayala, Nice/Decent Polynomials
    Supervisor: Dr. Edward Early
  • Erica Miller, Carry Group Structure
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Daliah Maurer, Mathematical Analysis of HIV
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Saclolo
  • Jesse Barbour, A Generalization of Several Continued Fraction Forms
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Omar Mohamed, Tiling Squares using Two Types of Tiles
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Engquist
Spring 2006
  • Stephanie Anderson, Brunnian Links and Exotic Solutions to the Mu
    Transposase System
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte
  • Michael Johnston, The Knight's Tour Problem
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Engquist
  • Fred Deutsch, Optimization with Origamics: Working with Chessboards
    Supervisor : Dr. Michael Engquist
  • Camille Broadus, Figures of Constant Width on a Chessboard
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • William Beard, Explorations on a Radon Relative
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Engquist
  • Lindsey Heye, Perfect Precise Colorings of the Poincar Disk
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte
  • Joshua Cutshall, Bernoulli's Arc Length Transformations
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Heather Bruch, When Differential Equations get Fishy
    Supervisor: David Naples
Spring, 2005
  • Munabo Lwali, Largest Unit Octagon
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Saclolo
  • Leela Madan, DNA Chirality: A Mathematical aned C omputational Study
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte
  • Emanuel Mahanger, Public-Key Cryptography and the B-Algorithm
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Engquist
  • Sarah Mall, The DNA Inequality for a Non-Convex Cell
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte
  • Ryan Poplawski, Optimization Problems Involving a Circle and Three Squares
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Engquist
  • Jamie Shackelford, Maximization of a Square Covered by n Equilateral Triangles
    Supervisor: Dr.Michael Engquist
  • Dung Tran, Sums of Powers of Integers
    Supervisor : Dr. Michael Saclolo
Spring, 2004
  • Mary H. Avery, Reconstructing Convex Polyhedra from a Single Directed X-ray.
    Supervisor: David J. Naples
  • Katie Ann Baldwin, Applying Discrete Fair Division Methods to Land Division
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte
  • Andrew R. Cabezas, The Search for a Perfect Rational Cuboid: An Algebro-Geometric Approach
    Supervisor: Dr. Michael Saclolo
  • Greg Kerouac, Integrating Spatial GIS Data with an ODE Metapopulation Model
    Supervisor: David J. Naples
  • Russell D. Mowry, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences Mod 10n
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte
  • Stacey A. Worrell, Modeling Plane Curves using Bezier Splines
    Supervisor: Dr.Michael Saclolo
Spring, 2003
  • Christopher Barker, Predicting Ground-Level Ozone in Austin
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Y Naples
  • Chris Clabes, Magic Squares and Cubes
    Supervisor: Br. Joseph Heisler, CSC
  • Francisco Escareno, Apollonius Property versus Spherical Maps and Their Relation to Mobius Transformations
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Joshua Godwin, A Prediction Model for Baseball Salaries
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Y Naples
  • Ruth Haberman, Exploration of the Dynamics of One-Dimensional Two-Parameter Maps Using Curves
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Jonathan Heacock, Irreducible Genus 3 Heegaard Diagrams of Lens Spaces
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte
  • Refugia Lehn, Kolam Figures and Their Relationships to Recursion Formulas and Fractals
    Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte
  • Jonathan Lucke, Spherical Maps Defined on Subsets of Euclidean p-Space
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
Spring, 2002
  • Audri Brisson, Midsets and Medial Axes
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Jefferey R. Goodwin, The Collatz Conjecture
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Matt Byrd, Metric Preserving Functions
    Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Spring, 2001
    • Christopher Noonan, The Fibonacci Sequence Over Finite Groups
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
    • Thomas Olson, A Study of Shadows Cast by Two Dimensional and Three Dimensional Cross Products of Cantor Sets.
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
    Spring 2000
    • Matthew Shirley, Self-Avoiding Random Walks
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Spring, 1999
    • Michael Dean, Fibonacci Series Modulo n
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
    • Daniel Ramirez, Multivariable Polynomials with Non-degenerate Critical Points
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
    • Micheal Valescu, A Minimization Problem Connected with a Generalized Jensen's Equation
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
  • Spring, 1998
    • Heather Lynnette Arnold, Functions that Satisfy Functional Equations
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
    • Ramon Duran, An Interesting Look at the Brachistochrone Problem
      Supervisor: Br. Louis Coe
    • Maria E. Torres, Functions Whose Successive Tangent Lines Enclose Proportional Areas
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
    Spring, 1997
    • Rebecca Mantsch, Mortality for Sets of 2x2 Matrices
      Supervisor: David Naples
    • Victoria Ortega, Using Self Similarity to find Length, Area and Dimension
      Supervisor: David Naples
    • Ana Rivera, A Nonlinear Recurrence Yielding Binary Digits
      Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Naples
    • Boris Yazlovitsky, Fractal Dimension
      Supervisor: David Naples
    Spring, 1996
    • Jill Bailey, What new centers can be derived from Morley's triangle?
      Supervisor: Stephanie Fitch
    • Robin Boehnemann, Circle Packing in Geometric Figures
      Supervisor: Stephanie Fitch
    • Ming Chen Chien, A Nonlinear Recurrence Yielding Binary Digits
      Supervisor: Cynthia Naples
    • Pablo Cortez, Rational Periodic Points of the Quadratic Function Qc(x) = x^2 +c
      Supervisor: David Naples
    • Edvardo Cue, Principles of Number Theory
      Supervisor: Br. Louis Coe
    • Juan Diego Gonzales, Nonlinear Recurrence Formulas Yielding Binary Digits
      Supervisor: Cynthia Naples
    • Chiu-Wei Ko, Differential Equations of Heat Conduction
      Supervisor: Stephanie Fitch
    • Gwyn Waterfield, The Chaotic Mapping Xn+1 =(1+ë)Xn mod1 and Its Probability Distribution
      Supervisor: David Naples
    Spring, 1995
    • Charnae Jordan, Critical Points and the Index of Real Polynomials in Two Variables
      Supervisor: Jean McKemie
    • Brenda J. Kolas, Degenerate and Nondegenerate Critical Points of Multivariable Polynomials
      Supervisor: Jean McKemie
    • Jorge Trevino, What is Behind Random Dot Stereograms?
      Supervisor: David Naples
    • Maribel Martinez, Knots and DNA
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
    • Eva Rostro, The Fibonacci Sequence and Its Applications
      Supervisor: Br. Louis Coe
    • Jennifer Wells, A Comparison of the Mathematical Models of Running
      Supervisor: Dr. Jean McKemie
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