Honors Program
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Honors Program Presentations
Honors Program Presentations
Mathematics Honors Program Presentations are held each June. These presentations were based on theses submitted for examination to the Mathematics Department Honors Committee.
The Mathematics Department Honors Committee determines the level of honors awarded (Honors with Distinction, Honors with High Distinction, or Honors with Highest Distinction), based on the student's GPA in the major and the quality of the honors work.
2017-2018
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drew Nguyen | Honors with Distinction | Linear Models and Sequential Hypothesis Testing | Ian Abramson |
2016-2017
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| He Jiang | Honors with Distinction | A Comparison of Permutation and Bootstrap Tests | Ery Arias-Castro |
| Sohyeon Park | Honors with High Distinction | Optimal Worm Shapes in a Caustic Environment | Li-Tien Cheng, Bo Li |
| Jiayi Tong | Honors with High Distinction | Random Matrices with Blocks of Intermediate Scale Strongly Correlated Band Matrices | Todd Kemp |
| Brian Tran | Honors with Highest Distinction | Structure Preserving Discretizations of Classical Field Theories | Michael Holst, Melvin Leok |
2015-2016
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Chen | Honors with Distinction | On the Fundamental Groups of Ricci Solitons | Bennett Chow |
| Wanting Chen | Honors with Distinction | Effect of Graph Structures on Selection for a Model of a Population on an Undirected Graph | Jason Schweinsberg |
| Yujo Chen | Honors with Distinction | Topics in Number Theory: Elliptic Curves | Daniel Kane |
| Stavros Sioutis | Honors with High Distinction | Calibration and Filtering of Exponential Lévy Option Pricing Models | Philip Gill, Allan Timmermann, Patrick Fitzsimmons |
2014-2015
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Dougherty | Honors with High Distinction | Vassiliev Invariants, Chord Diagrams, and Jacobi Diagrams | Justin Roberts |
| Michael Olsen | Honors with High Distinction | Numerical Performance of Time-Frequency Transforms in Lossy Audio Coding | Michael Holst |
| Bjorn Wehlin | Honors with Highest Distinction | Josephson Junctions in Unconventional Superconductors | David Meyer (Math), Robert Dynes (Physics), Shane Cybart (Physics) |
| Wenjing Yin | Honors with Highest Distinction | Robust Significance Testing in Sparse and High Dimensional Linear Models | Jelena Bradic |
2013-2014
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artem Mavrin | Honors with High Distinction | A Survey of Analytic Number Theory | Alina Bucur |
| Sam Tracy | Honors with Distinction | Ordinal data and a comparison of the General Estimating Equations against Maximum Likelihood Estimation | Ronghui "Lily" Xu |
| Laura Wilke | Honors with Distinction | Comparing Partial Rankings | David Meyer |
2012-2013
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camille Briat | Honors with Distinction | Random-to-Random Shuffles | Todd Kemp |
| Gregory Edwards | Honors with High Distinction | On Genus Zero Stable Maps to the Flag Variety | Dragos Oprea |
| Siuyung Fung | Honors with High Distinction | Functions of Baire Class One | Jacob Sterbenz |
| Geoff Ganzberger | Honors with High Distinction | Some Properties of Rational Points on Elliptic Curves | Alina Ioana Bucur |
2011-2012
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katie Gedeon | Honors with Distinction | Simultaneous Triangularization of Certain Sets of Matrices | Lance Small |
| Lihua Huang | Honors with High Distinction | Keeler's Theorem and products of distinct transpositions | Ron Evans |
| Natalie Sauerwald | Honors with Distinction | A Wavelet-Based Approach to Template Matching Under Scaling and Translation | David Meyer |
| Anila Yadavalli | Honors with Distinction | Quadrant marked mesh patterns in words | Jeffrey Remmel |
2010-2011
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shishir Agrawal | Honors with Highest Distinction | The Euler Characteristic of the Moduli Space of Stable Maps into a Grassmannian | Dragos Oprea |
| Matthew Cha | Honors with High Distinction | A quantum random walk model for the (1+2) dimensional Dirac equation | David Meyer |
| Leilani Gilpin | Honors with Distinction | The Impact of Topology and Communication Models on Connectivity in Networks | Melvin Leok |
| Minji Kim | Honors with Distinction | Second Order Reed-Muller Decoding Algorithm in Quantum Computing | David Meyer |
| Bryce Terwilliger | Honors with Distinction | The Asymptotic Efficiency of the Bell-Doksum Procedure Relative to the T-test | Ian Abramson |
2009-2010
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Konstantin Dragomiretskiy | Honors with High Distinction | On Gauss Sums, Cyclotomic Number Fields and Stickelberger's Theorem | Harold Stark |
| Sarah Elghraoui | Honors with Distinction | Graphs, Zeta Functions, Diameters, and Cospectrality | Audrey Terras |
| Hayley Miles-Leighton | Honors with Distinction | Local Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Stochastic Heat Equation | Michael Holst |
| Franklin Wu | Honors with High Distinction | Induced Forests in Planar Graphs | Jacques Verstraete |
2008-2009
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathryn Farrell | Honors with High Distinction | Hamiltonian Mechanics and the Construction of Numerical Integrators | Michael Holst |
| Kevin Heins | Honors with Distinction | Spatial Correlation of Solar Radiation Stations Using Cross-Spectral Methods | Ery Arias-Castro |
2007-2008
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitaly Katsnelson | Honors with High Distinction | Chemical Reaction Networks: Comparing Deficiency, Determinant Expansions, and Sign Patterns | Bill Helton |
| Jennifer B. Webster | Honors with Distinction | Comparsion of Two Methods for Modeling Electron-Radiation Interactions | Michael Holst |
2006-2007
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan David Kommemi | Honors with Highest Distinction | Variational methods for weak solutions to the Einstein Hamiltonian constraint on finite domains with boundary | Michael Holst |
| Frank Lam | Honors with High Distinction | Special values of hypergeometric functions over finite fields | Ron Evans |
| Xinyi Lin | Honors with High Distinction | Estimation of the primary hazard ratio in the presence of a secondary covariate with non-proportional hazards | Ronghui Xu |
2005-2006
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will Garner | Honors with Distinction | Planting the (Intellectual) Need From Which Learning Grows | Guershon Harel |
| Jeremy M. Greene | Honors with High Distinction | Noncommutative Polynomials with Almost Positive Second Derivatives | J. William Helton |
| Eric Yin | Honors with Distinction | Multilevel Iterative Methods | Randy Bank |
2004-2005
| Name | Honors Level | Thesis | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joey Hammer | Honors with Distinction | Decomposing Hackenbush | Leonard Haff |
| Joshua A. Hernandez | Honors with Distinction | Non-Commutative Subharmonic and Harmonic Polynomials | J. William Helton |
| Chris Melancon | Honors with Distinction | Simulation of a Quantum Random Walk | Jeffrey Rabin, David Meyer |
| Jonathan Pearlman | Honors with Distinction | Necessary Conditions for the Non-existence of Odd Perfect Numbers | Ronald Evans |
| Christopher Severs | Honors with High Distinction | Distance 2 Permutation Statistics and Symmetric Functions | Jeffrey Remmel |