2011–2012 Students

The following is a list of students taking Math 197 in 2011–2012, with links to their senior thesis webpages, which include links to their thesis proposals.

Student	Advisor	Second Reader	Thesis
Craig Burkhart	Francis Edward Su	Ann N. Trenk (Wellesley)	Approval Voting Theory with Multiple Levels of Approval
Trevor Caldwell	Alfonso Castro	Jon T. Jacobsen	Nonlinear Wave Equations and Solitary Wave Solutions in Mathematical Physics
John Choi	Nicholas Pippenger	Arthur T. Benjamin	Counting Vertices in Isohedral Tilings
Harris Enniss	Alfonso Castro	Jon T. Jacobsen	A Refined Saddle Point Theorem and Applications
Patrick Eschenfeldt	Francis Edward Su	Nicholas Pippenger	Approval Voting in Box Societies
August Guang	Francis Edward Su	Stephen E. Adolph	Switching Between Cooperation and Competition in Social Selection
Katie Hawley	Nicholas Pippenger	Arthur T. Benjamin	A Survey on Random Topological Surfaces (not available)
Curtis Heberle	Arthur T. Benjamin	Kimberly Kindred	A Combinatorial Approach to $r$-Fibonacci Numbers
Jennifer Iglesias	Ran Libeskind-Hadas (CS)	Nicholas Pippenger	Searching Stars for a Moving Hider
Kym Louie	Arthur T. Benjamin, Art Horowitz (Pomona)	Tom Leabhart (Pomona)	Flatterland: The Play
Palmer Mebane	Michael Orrison	Nicholas Pippenger	Uniquely Solvable Puzzles and Fast Matrix Multiplication
Jack Newhouse	Matthew Davis	Michael Orrison	Explorations of the Aldous Order on Representations of the Symmetric Group
Alice Paul	Susan E. Martonosi	Nicholas Pippenger	Detecting Covert Members of Terrorist Networks
Aaron Pribadi	Michael Orrison	Weiqing Gu	Algebraic Methods for Log-Linear Models
Dhruv Ranganathan	Dagan Karp	Davesh Maulik (MIT)	Gromov-Witten Theory of Blowups of Toric Threefolds
Louis Ryan	Andrew J. Bernoff	Chad M. Topaz	Analysis of Swarm Behavior in Two Dimensions
Maia Valcarce	Rachel Levy	Darryl Yong	Russian Mathematical Pedagogy in Reasoning Mind

Proposals are also available.