Archives: Proposals 2002–2003

Student Advisor Second Reader Proposal Title
Dan Beutel Andrew Bernoff Thomas Donnelly (Physics) Modelling Advection and Diffusion in Microchannels
Adam Bliss Francis Su Henry Krieger “Geometric” Topology
Benjamin Bryant Andrew Bernoff Annette Hosoi Boundary Layer Disturbance Through Interaction with Surface Films
Melissa Chase Ran Libeskind-Hadas (CS) Arthur Benjamin Shortest Path Problems
David Clarke (Physics) John Townsend (Physics) Weiqing Gu A Geometric Approach to Feynman's Path Integrals
John Cloutier Francis Su Lesley Ward Combinatorial Analogues of the Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem
Nate Eldredge Michael Orrison Shahriar Shahriari (Pomona) An Eigenspace Approach to Fourier Transforms on Iterated Wreath Product Groups
Daniel Gianotti Ali Nadim (CGU) Andrew Bernoff Fluid Drop Coalescence in a Hele-Shaw Cell
Andrew Iannaccone Byron Walden (Santa Clara) Lesley Ward Locating a Triangle's Conformal Center
Stephen Haas Lesley Ward Henry Krieger Results on the Hausdorff Dimensions of Julia Sets
Peter Lamb Ali Nadim Andrew Bernoff Ridge Coarsening in Evaporatively-Driven Climbing Films
Matthew Macauley Michael Orrison James Hoste (Pitzer) Algebraic and Combinatorial Representations of Juggling Patterns
Christopher Pries Weiqing Gu Jon Jacobsen Finding Super-Symmetric Cayley Cycles in Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Ross Richardson Weiqing Gu Zach Dodds Averaging Curves on a Manifold and Related Computational Questions
Jeremy Rouse Arthur Benjamin Naiomi Cameron Extensions of Fibonacci Identities to Arbitrary Linear Recurrences 
Micah Smukler Weiqing Gu Francis Su Topology and Geometry of Minkowski Products
Kira Sushkoff Weiqing Gu Michael Orrison Minkowski Actions of Quaternion Sets and Their Applications
David Uminsky Michael Orrison Francis Su Voting Paradoxes and their Algebraic Structure