Archives: 2010–2011 Thesis Proposals

Student	Advisor	Second Reader	Proposal
Kate M. Burgers	Jon Jacobsen	Rachel Levy	Using Systems of Coupled Oscillators to Find the Beat in Music
Georgi Dinolov	Rachel Levy	Dagan Karp	Three-Dimensional Swarming Dynamics
Ann Johnston	Michael Orrison	Matt Davis	Markov Bases for Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis of Partially Ranked Data
Max B. Kutler	Dagan Karp	Eric Katz (UT-Austin)	Studying Group Actions on Graphs via Tropical Geometry and Chip-Firing
Sarah Loeb	Kimberly Kindred	Susan Martonosi	Extending List Coloring of Planar Graphs
Kyle Luh	Nicholas Pippenger	Francis Su	Asymptotic Bounds on the Hypergeometric Distribution
Chandler May	Susan Martonosi	Kimberly Kindred	The Sensor Location Problem
Allison M. Park	Darryl Yong	Stacy Brown (Pitzer)	Equity in Math Education
Austin Quan	John Milton (Scripps)	Darryl Yong	Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy: Metastability in a Dynamic Disease?
Elizabeth (Lizard) Reiland	Arthur Benjamin	Kimberly Kindred	Combinatorial Interpretations of Fibonomial Identities
Andrew S. Ronan	Andrew Bernoff	Chad M. Topaz (Macalester College)	Dynamics of Attractive–Repulsive Swarms
Jacob N. Scott	Francis Su	Nicholas Pippenger	Helly's Theorem and Voting Theory
Dmitri Skjorshammer	Ursula Whitcher	Dagan Karp	Classification of Tops in Five Dimensions
Donald Lee Wiyninger III	Nicholas Pippenger	Michael Orrison	Continued Fractions
Jeffrey Wong	Rachel Levy	Andrew Bernoff	Simulations of Surfactant Spreading

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