Senior Theses

2024 Senior Theses - Graduated with Distinction

May 2024

Angikar Ghosal

Representation Theoretic Formulation of Quantum Error Correcting Codes
Advisor: Robert Calderbank


Benjamin Goldstein

Soap-Film-Like Surfaces of Revolution
Advisor: Demetre Kazaras


Noah Harris

Black Hole Thermodynamics, Large N Gauge Theories, and Deriving the AdS/CFT Correspondence
Advisor: Paul Aspinwall


Owen Huber

Long-Time Behavior of Some ODEs with Partial Damping
Advisor: Kyle Liss


Aram Lindroth

Towards a Functional Equation for the $\mathbb{A}^1$-Logarithmic Zeta Function
Advisor: Kirsten Wickelgren


Emmanuel Mokel

Monitoring Nonstationary Variance to Assess Convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Advisor: Jonathan Mattingly


Nathan Nguyen

Towards Solving Variational Graphon Problem for Random Hypergraphs
Advisor: Nicholas Cook


Nathanael Ong

On the Betti Numbers of Rank 2 Compact Locally Symmetric Spaces
Advisor: Mark Stern


Jean-Luc Rabideau

Random Restrictions in the p-Biased Measure
Advisor: Henry Pfister


Riki Shimizu

Unveil Sleep Spindles with Concentration of Frequency and Time (ConceFT)
Advisor: Hau-Tieng Wu


December 2023

Alice Ding

Quantum State Tomography via Tensor Ring Representation
Advisor: Jianfeng Lu


Jesse Zhang

Answer Filtration with Filtration: Toward a Theory of Lifetime Filtration for Multiparameter Persistence Modules
Advisor: Ezra Miller


 

May 2023

Alex Burgin

The Schrodinger Maximal Function and Generalizations
Advisor: Lillian Pierce


Nick Chakraborty

Improve Accuracy and Speed of Manifold Reconstruction and De-Noising from Scattered Data in R2
Advisor: Hongkai Zhao


Jeffrey Cheng

Mixing in Measure Preserving Dynamical Systems
Advisor: Tarek Elgindi


Carson Dudley

A Mathematical Model of a Peritoneal Staphylococcus Aureus infection
Advisor: Anna Nelson


Riley Fisher

Pattern Formation in Evolving Domains
Advisor: Tom Witelski


Yijia Liu

Multitaper Wave-Shape F-Test For Detecting Non-Sinusoidal Oscillations
Advisor: Hau-Tieng Wu


Rui Xin

Diffusing on multiple fibers
Advisor: Ingrid Daubechies and Shira Faigenbaum


December 2022

William He

Symmetric Formulas for Products of Permutations
Advisor: Benjamin Rossman

May 2022

Craig Chen

A homotopic variant of policy gradients for the linear quadratic
regulator problem
Advisor: Andrea Agazzi


Nathan Geist

Homological algebra of modules over real polyhedral groups
Advisor: Ezra Miller


Braden Hoagland

Percolation Processes on Dynamically Grown Graphs
Advisor: Rick Durrett


Daniel Hwang

Analyzing the bistability of the minimally bistable ERK network using
the discriminant locus
Advisor: Maggie Regan


Wallace Peaslee

Dolbeault Cohomology of Non-Compact Metric Graphs
Advisor: Joseph Rabinoff


Ethan Wu

Mathematical Modeling of TIE1 and Endothelial Metabolism
Advisor: Michael Reed


December 2021

Norah Tan

Some Mathematical Problems in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information
Advisor: Robert Calderbank

Anuk Dayaprema

Solitons for the closed G2 Laplacian flow in the cohomogeneity-one setting
Advisor: Mark Haskins


Ziyang Ding

At the Intersection of Deep Sequential and State-space Model Framework
Advisor: Sayan Mukherjee


Lucas Fagan

Schur Polynomials and Crystal Graphs
Advisor: Spencer Leslie


Xinchun Hu

Resolving Simpson’s Paradox in NC Public School Grading System
Advisor: Greg Herschlag


Phoebe Klett

Implementing non-canonical Sylvan Resolutions
Advisor: Ezra Miller


Jianyou Wang

Deep Reinforcement Adaptive Computational Processor
Advisor: Vahid Tarokh

Alex Damian

Theoretical Guarantees for Signal Recovery
Advisor: Hau-tieng Wu


Blythe Davis

The Spherical Manifold Realization Problem
Advisor: Faramarz Vafaee


Onkar Gujral

Khovanov Homology and Knot Concordance
dvisor: Adam Levine


Xiayimei Han

Hodge Representations of Calabi-Yau 3 Folds
Advisor: 
Colleen Robles


Remy Kassem

Symmetry Detection of Unknown Volumes from Projected Variations
Advisor: Xiuyuan Cheng


Joey Li

Algebraic Data Structures for Decomposing Multipersistence Modules
Advisor: Ezra Miller 

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Tyler Lian

Evaluating Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks in the Clinic
Advisor: Paul Bendich


Jonathan Michala

Uniqueness of Ranked Pairs
Advisor: Hubert Bray 


Benjamin Nativi

An Analogue of Gauss Composition for Binary Cubic Forms
Advisor: Aaron Pollack


Sam Pease

Computing Values of Symmetric Square L-Functions using Ichino's Pullback Formula
Advisor: Aaron Pollack


Junmo Ryang

Embedding Lagrangian Surfaces
Advisor: Robert Bryant

Irina Cristali

Poisson Percolation on the Square Lattice
Advisors: Rick Durrett, Matthew Junge


David Geng

Creating Musical Rubato Using Deep Learning
Advisor: Ezra Miller


Zhenhua Liu

Stationary One-Sided Area Minimizing Hypersurfaces with Isolated Singularities
Advisors: William Allard, Hubert Bray, Robert Bryant


Xueying Wang

Unfolding High-Dimensional Convex Polyhedra
Advisor: Ezra Miller


Claire Wiebe

Analyzing the Effects of Partisan Correlation on Election Outcomes using Order Statistics
Advisor: Jonathan Mattingly


Gaitling Zhou

Elliptic Curves over Dedekind Domains
Advisor: William Pardon

(you can search for archived versions of these theses here)

  • Surabhi Beriwal Statistical analysis of fruit fly wing vein topology (2018) [with E. Miller]
  • Trung Can The Heisenberg-Weyl Group, Finite Symplectic Geometry, and their applications  (2018) [with R. Calderbank]
  • Feng Gui On Calibrations for Area Minimizing Cones (2018) with [H. Bray]
  • Neel Kurupassery  Cryptographic Primitives in Artin Groups of Type Ik(m)  (2018)  [with M. Abel]
  • Eric Peshkin  The quantification of markers of economic development from time-series satellite imagery using deep learning (2018) with [with P. Bendich and D. Thomas]
  • Weiyao Wang  Understanding Operator Reed-Muller Codes Through the Weyl Transform (2018) [with R. Calderbank]
  • Alexander Pieloch The Topology of Moduli Spaces of Real Algebraic Curves (2017) [with R. Hain]
  • Samadwara Reddy The Vietoris–Rips Complexes of Finite Subsets of an Ellipse of Small Eccentricity (2017) [with H. Adams]
  • Lindsey Brown An Application of Abstract Algebra to the Neural Code for Sound Localization in Barn Owls (2016) [with M. Reed]
  • David Builes The Large Cardinal Hierarchy (2016) [with R. Hodel]
  • Kyle Casey Siegel Modular Forms (2016) [with L. Saper]
  • Bryan Runjing Liu Modeling the Effects of Positive and Negative Feedback in Kidney Blood Flow Control (2016) [with A. Layton]
  • Francois Thelot A Maximum Entropy Based Approach for the Description of
    the Conformational Ensemble of Calmodulin from Paramagnetic NMR (2016)
    [with M. Maggioni and B. Donald]
  • Will Victor Efficient algorithms for Traffic Data Analysis (2016)[computer science with P. Agarwal]
  • Paul Ziquan Yang Morphisms with Only Mild Singular Fibers and Bertini Theorems over Finite Fields (2016) [with C. Schoen]
  • Rex Zhitao Ying Approximation Algorithms of Dynamic Time Warping and Edit Distance (2016) [computer science with P. Agarwal]
  • Roger Zou Deformable Graph Model for Trackng Epithelial Cell Sheets in Florescence Microscopy (2016)[computer science with C. Tomasi]
  • Anne Talkington Modeling the Dynamics of Cancerous Cells in vivo (2015) [with R. Durrett]
  • Rowena Gan Geometry of Impressionist Music (2015) [with E. Miller]
  • David Hemminger Augmentation Rank of Satellites with Braid Pattern (2015) [with L. Ng and C. Cornwell]
  • Mandy Jiang Dynamic random network model for human papilloma virus transmission (2015) [with M. Ryser]
  • Hunter Nisonoff Efficient Partition Function Estimatation in Computational Protein Design (2015) [with M. Maggioni]
  • Eugene Rabinovich The Conformal Manifold in N=(2,2) SCFTs   (2015)  [physics  with R. Plesser]
  • Marshall Ratliff Introducing the Cover tree to Music Information Retrieval (2015) [with P. Bendich]
  • Brett Schnobrich Heisenberg-Weyl Group, Subspace Packings, and Image Processing (2015) [with R. Calderbank]
  • Christy Vaughn Stochastic Study of Gerrymandering (2015) [with J. Mattingly]
  • Aashiq Dheeraj A Stochastic Spatial Model for Tumor Growth (2014) [with R. Durrett]
  • Joshua Izzard Rank p2 Representations of Semisimple Lie Algebras (2014) [with J. Getz]
  • Kathleen Lan Coalescing random walks on n-block Markov chains (2014) [with K. McGoff]
  • Leslie Lei Lei Infinite Swapping Simulated Tempering (2014) [with J. Lu]
  • Julia Ni A convex approach to tree-based wavelet compression (2014) [with A. Thompson]
  • Jiarou Ivy Shen Merge times and hitting times of time-inhomogeneous Markov chains (2014) [with D. Sivakoff]
  • Daniel Stern Low-Order Lagrangians Depending on a Metric and a Matter Field of Arbitrary Rank (2014) [with H. Bray]
  • Daniel Vitek Knot Contact Homology and the Augmentation Polynomial (2014) [with C. Cornwell]
  • Alexander Wertheim Complex Multiplication on Elliptic Curves (2014) [with L. Saper]
  • Luxi Wei Modeling Credit Risk using Rating and Environmental Factors (2014) [with R. Durrett]
  • Timothy Chang On the existence of a simple winning strategy in the T(4.3) knot game (2013) [with D. Herzog]
  • Conrad de Peuter Modeling basketball games as alternating renewal-reward processes and predicting match outcomes (2013) [with R. Durrett]
  • Bryan Jacobson A practical approximation of persistent local homology (2013) [with P. Bendich]
  • Kara Karpman Simulating mucociliary transport using the method of regularized Stokelets (2013) [with A. Layton]
  • Carmen Lopez Modeling the folate pathway in Escherichia coli (2013) [with A. Layton]
  • James Mallernee Strategy and honesty based comparison of preferential ballot voting methods (2013) [with H. Bray]
  • William Zhang Evolutionary dynamics in host pathogen model (2013) [with R. Durrett]
  • Ben Bellis Investigation of a Local Computation of the Signature from the Triangulation of a Manifold (2012) [with M. Stern]
  • Adrian Chan Pricing financial derivatives with multi-task machine learning and mixed effects method (2012) [with J. Bouvrie]
  • Kyu Won Choi Relative contributions of common jumps in realized correlations (2012) [with A. Petters]
  • Veronica Ciocanel Analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of the forced planar string pendulum (2012) [with T. Witelski]
  • Kaveh Danesh A branching process model of ovarian cancer (2012) [with R. Durrett]
  • Theo Frehlinghuysen Carbon sequestration via forest management techniques (2012) [with D. Kraines]
  • Yingyi Shen A study of edge toric ideals using associated graphs (2012) [with S. Mapes]
  • Daniel Thielman Complex-balanced steady state of chemical reaction networks that contain an Eulerian cycle (2012) [with C. Berkesch]
  • Kaitlin Daniels Noise driven Transitions between stable equilibria in stochastic dynamical systems (2011) [with A. Athreya]
  • Alan Guo Lattice point methods for combinatorial games (2011) [with E. Miller]
  • Nils Hultgren Centrality and network analysis: A perturbative approach to dynamical importance (2011) [with I. Matic]
  • Hans Kist Estimating carbon sequestration potential in the boreal forests (2011) [with D. Kraines]
  • Misha Lavrov Invariants in Legendrian links in the solid torus (2011) [with D. Rutherford]
  • Philip Pham Tubuloglomerular feedback signal transduction in the loops of Henle (2011) [with A. Layton]
  • Thames Sae Sue A simple cardiac model exhibiting stationary discordant alternans (2011) [with D. Schaeffer]
  • Max Tabachnik An analysis of preferential ballot voting methods (2011) [with H. Bray]
  • Bo Waggoner A model of the foot and ankle in running (2011) [with E. Bouzarth]
  • Wutichai Chongchitmate Classification of Legendrian knots and links (2010) [with L. Ng]
  • Jason D. Lee Multiscale analysis of dynamic graphs (2010) [with M. Maggioni]
  • Jeremy Semko Statistical analysis simulations of coarsening droplets coating a hydrophobic surface (2010) [with T. Witelski]
  • Amy Wen Model of feedback-mediated dynamics of coupled nephrons with compliant thick ascending limbs (2010) [with A. Layton]
  • Jason Ferguson Factorization of Primes in Biquadratic Extensions of Q (2009) [with C. Schoen]
  • Jared Haftel A Closer Look at ADC multivariate GARCH (2009) [with M. Huber]
  • Mark Hallen Improving accuracy and scope of quantitative FRAP analysis (2009) [with A. Layton]
  • Andy Ng Retinoid Transport in the Vision cycle (2009) [with J. Mercer]
  • Aaron Pollack Relations between special derivations arising from modular forms (2009) [with R. Hain]
  • Jesse Thorner Simplicial homology and DeRham’s theorem (2009) [with W. Allard]
  • Barry Wright III Objective measures of preferential ballot voting systems (2009) [with H. Bray]
  • Michael Bauer Existence and stability of patterns arising from square wave forcing of the damped Mathieu equation (2008) [with A. Catlla]
  • Tirasan Khandhawit On Legandrean and transverse knots (2008) [with L. Ng]
  • Aalok Shah An overview of fast marching and optimal control methods for trajectory optimization (2008) [with W. Allard]
  • Charles Staats III Application of discrete geometry to the construction of Laurent-rational zeros (2008) [with S. Sharif]
  • Elliott Wolf Computational pathways to Godel’s first incompletness theorem (2008) [with R. Hodel]
  • Lingen Zhang The motion of sets of vortices (2008) [with T. Witelski]
  • Morgan Brown An algorithm for tracking persistence pairing of a discrete homotopy of Morse functions on S2 (2007) [with J.Harer]
  • Brandon Levin Class field theory and the problem of representing primes by binary quadratic forms (2007) [with L. Saper]
  • Stepan Paul Lines and conics relative to degenerating divisors in CP2 (2007) [with J. Davis]
  • James Zou 3-D reconstruction and topological analysis of root architecture (2007) [with J. Harer]
  • Pradeep Baliga Dynamic cellular automata model of toll plaza traffic flows (2006) [with W. G. Mitchener]
  • Adam Chandler Dynamic cellular automata model of toll plaza traffic flows (2006) [with W. G. Mitchener]
  • Matthew Fischer Mapping model of cardiac-membrane dynamics (2006) [with D. Schaeffer]
  • Qinzheng Tian Simulation of Newtonian fluid flow between rotating cylinders (2006) [with T. Witelski]
  • Yee Lok Wong Models of instant runoff voting (2006) [with J. Mattingly]
  • Oaz Nir Mechanical arms and algebraic topology (2005) [with J.Harer]
  • Mayank Varia Explicit calculation of the L invariant for Kummer surfaces (2005) [with J. Hanke]
  • David Arthur On the higher Hasse-Witt matrices and related in variants (2004) [with W. Pardon]
  • Suzy Borgschulte A mathematical approach to the panting of dogs (2004) [with M. Reed]
  • Lauren M. Childs Scaling population dynamics from the macroscopic to the microscopic (2004) [with T. Kepler]
  • Ryan Letchworth Wavelet methods for numerical solutions of differential equations (2004) [with S. Roudenko]
  • David Marks Coadjoint orbits and geometric quantization (2004) [with M.R. Plesser]
  • Lori Peacock Distributions of the small eigenvalues of Wishart matrices (2004) [with B. Rider]
  • Lindsay C. Piechnik Smooth reflexive 4-polytopes have quadratic triangulations (2004) [with C. Haase]
  • Matthew Toups A solution to the D0-D4 system of equations (2004) [with M. Stern]
  • Jenna VanLiere Mathematically modelling the growth and diversification of T-cell populations (2004) [with T. Kepler]
  • Matthew J. Atwood Evaluating singular and nearly singular integrals numerically (2003) [with J.T. Beale]
  • Marie Guerraty Controlling alternans in a cardiac map model (2003) [with M. Romeo]
  • Meredith C. Houlton Classification of critical curves and preliminary analysis of caustics (2003) [with A. Petters]
  • Steven R. Nicklas Envy and satisfaction in the public goods game (2003) [with D. Kraines]
  • Dane R. Voris A numerical approach to the Mt/Mt/Nt queue with abandonment (2003) [with B. Rider]
  • Melanie Wood Invariants and relations of the action of the absolute Galois group on dessins d’enfants and the algebraic fundamental group of the punctured sphere (2003) [with R. Hain]
  • Thomas W. Finley Efficient Myrinet routing (2002) [with W. Allard]
  • Samuel W. Malone Alternative Price Processes for Black-Scholes: Empirical Evidence and Theory (2002) [with A. Petters]
  • Carl Miller Exponential Iterated Integrals and the Solvable Completion of Fundamental Groups (2001) [with R. Hain]
  • Daniel Neill Optimality under Noise: Higher Memory Strategies for the Alternating Prisoner’s Dilemma (2001) Computer Science [with D. Kraines]
  • Luis Von Ahn Models of the language of set theory and Zermelo Frankel axioms (2000) [with R. Hodel]
  • Christopher Beasley Superconformal theories from Branes at Singularities (1999) Physics [with R. Plesser]
  • Alexander Brodie Measurable Cardinals (1999) [with R. Hodel]
  • Jeffrey DiLisi The Biology and Mathematics of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Testicular Axis (1999) [with M. Reed]
  • Garrett Mitchener Lattices and Sphere Packing (1999) [with R. Hain]
  • Andrew O. Dittmer Generalized Formulas for Circular Polygons (1998) [with R. Hain]
  • Richard R. Schneck Set Theory and Cardinal Arithmetic (1997) [with R. Hodel]
  • Tung T. Tran Counting Independent Subsets in Nearly Regular Graphs (1997) [with G. Lawler]
  • Paul A. Dreyer Knot theory and the human pretzel game (1995) [with J. Harer]
  • Paul J. Koss Effects of noise on the iterated prisoner’s dilemma (1995) [with D. Kraines]
  • Jeff Vanderkam Eigenfunctions of an acoustic system (1994) [with T. Beale]
  • Linie Chang Mathematics and immunology: Modeling antigen and antibody interactions (1993) [with M. Reed]
  • Sang H. Chin Action of the Torelli group on the 3-fold cover of G-hole torus (1993) [with R. Hain]
  • Jennifer Slimowitz Transitions of gaps between the integers N satisfying Nq < j (1993) [with M. Reed]
  • David Jones Primality testing, factoring and continued fractions (1992) [with C. Schoen]
  • Will Schneeberger The axiom diamond (1992) [with J. Shoenfield]
  • Jeanne Nielsen Triply periodic minimal surfaces in R(1991) [with R. Bryant