Current Thesis Student Projects

The following is a list of students taking Math 197 in 2010–2011, with links to their senior thesis webpages, which include links to their thesis proposals.

Student	Advisor	Second Reader	Thesis
Kate M. Burgers	Jon Jacobsen	Rachel Levy	Finding the Beat in Music: Using Adaptive Oscillators
Georgi Dinolov	Rachel Levy	Dagan Karp	Swarm Control Through Symmetry and Distribution Characterization
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)	Group Actions and Divisors on Tropical Curves
Sarah Loeb	Kimberly Kindred	Susan Martonosi	Extending List Colorings of Planar Graphs
Kyle Luh	Nicholas Pippenger	Francis Su	Martingale Couplings and Bounds on Tails of Probability Distributions
Chandler May	Susan Martonosi	Kimberly Kindred	Verification of Solutions to the Sensor Location Problem
Allison M. Park	Darryl Yong	Stacy Brown (Pitzer)	Comparing the Cognitive Demand of Traditional and Reform Algebra 1 Textbooks
Austin Quan	John Milton (Scripps)	Darryl Yong	Noise, Delays, and Resonance in a Neural Network
Elizabeth (Lizard) Reiland	Arthur Benjamin	Kimberly Kindred	Combinatorial Interpretations of Fibonomial Identities
Andrew S. Ronan	Andrew Bernoff	Chad M. Topaz (Macalester College)	Analytic and Numerical Studies of a Simple Model of Attractive-Repulsive Swarms
Jacob N. Scott	Francis Su	Nicholas Pippenger	Approval Ratios of Two-Intersecting Double-Interval Societies (held until 2012)
Dmitri Skjorshammer	Ursula Whitcher	Dagan Karp	Tops in Higher Dimensions (held until 2012)
Donald Lee Wiyninger III	Nicholas Pippenger	Michael Orrison	Continued Fractions: A New Form
Jeffrey Wong	Rachel Levy	Andrew Bernoff	Simulations of Surfactant Spreading

Proposals are also available.