Department of Mathmatics

Prizes and History: Honors Projects

Year

Graduate

2006

 

Gregory Paul Levin, (Honors)
Logistic Regression: Theory and Application

 

Sarah Erika Oberg, (Honors)
Projective Geometry: An Analytic and Synthetic Approach

2005

 

William Anthony Alto, (Honors)
Finite Group Representations

 

Gregory Andrew Kelsey, (Honors)
Wordlength in Alternative Presentations for Thompson's Group F

 

Laura Jones Perovich, (Honors)
Newton's Method: A Mathematical Model of Giant Swings

 

Matthew Gordon Robertson, (Honors)
Schottky Groups and Mobius Transformations

2004

 

Somboon Chiewcharnpipat, (Honors)
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications in Everyday Life

 

Micah Israel Miller, (Honors)
Metric Properties of Thompson's Group F

2003

 

Justin M. Foster, (Honors)
Fractals and Fractal Dimension

 

Nima Soltanzad, (Honors)
Complex Variable Methods in Linear Elasticity

 

Katherine Ann Stallkamp, (Honors)
Spinor Groups and Rotations in n-Dimensions

 

Thomas John Wright, (Honors)
The Impossibility of Certain Types of Carmicheal Numbers

2002

 

Stephen J. Brady, (Honors)
The Connection Between Hyperbolic Geometry and Minkowiski Spacetime

 

Andrew D. Shaw, (Honors)
Visualizing Symmetry Groups of the Euclidean Plane

2001

 

Not Awarded

2000

 

Kimberly J. Schneider, (Honors)
Igusa Local Zeta Functions of Elliptic Curves, Hyperelliptic Curves, and Elliptic Surfaces

1999

 

Emily B. Dryden, (Honors)
Mobius Transformations in Spacetime

1998

 

Scott W. Hoenig, (Honors)
On the Dynamics of a Frisbee

1997

 

Andrea L. Vogl, (Honors)
Mathematical Modeling of the Human Circulatory System

1996

 

Barbara S. Foster, (Honors)
Edge Minimizing Configurations of Squares

 

Emily B. Proctor, (Honors)
An Exploration of the Group Structure of SL(2,R) and Its Universal Covering Group

1995

 

Deva R. Van Der Werf, (Honors)
Visualizing Teichmuller Space for Low Genus

1994

 

Not Awarded

1993

 

Christina Marie Freeman, (Honors)
Irreducible Representation of Semi-Simple Lie Algebras

 

John Sheldon Peters, (Honors)
The Matrix Group SL(2,R) and Its Covering Groups

1992

 

Christopher Lee Kraybill, (Highest Honors)
The Matrix Group SL(2,R) and the Image of Its Exponential Map

 

Timothy Jon Record, (Highest Honors)
A Study of the Matrix Group SL(2,R) and Its Decompositions

1991

 

Rebecca Jean Benner, (High Honors)
Methods of Analysis for Discrete Data

 

Jon Russell Jay, (Honors)
Estimating the Distribution of Prime Numbers

 

Jeffrey Alan Poulin, (Honors)
Classifying Lucas Sequences of the First Kind

1990

 

Kenneth John Woods, (High Honors)
Selected Topics in Solitons and Inverse Scattering

1989

 

Billy Don Sterling McConnell, (Highest Honors)
The A B C's of Self-Dual Graph Theory

 

Christopher Lee Meyer, (Honors)
Non-Linear Dynamics: The Van der Pol System and the Quadratic Map

1988

 

Susan M.L. Anderson, (High Honors)
The Academic Component of the Bowdoin Admissions Process: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis

1987

 

Andrew D. Zacks, (High Honors)
An Introduction to the Representation Theory of Complex Semi-Simple Lie Algebras

1986

 

Seth Thompson, (Honors)
Linear Functional Relationships: Fitting a Straight Line When Both Variables are Subject to Error

1985

 

Judith R. Hogan, (Honors)
Basic Principles of Reimannian Geometry

 

Melvin P. Olson, III, (Honors)
Optimal Transformation for Regression

1984

 

Warren A. Turner, (Highest Honors)
The Representation Theory of Compact Lie Groups

 

Stephen J. Mitchell, (High Honors)
Duality and Its Applications to Optimization in Normed Spaces

1983

 

Reed Hastings, (Highest Honors)
A Study of Riemann Surfaces

 

Paul F. Banta, (High Honors)
The Independence of the Axiom of Choice

 

Penelope A. Metropolis, (Honors)
Cubic Spline Based Finite Element Approximation Schemes for a Class of Linear Two Point Boundary Value Problems

1982

 

Thomas A. Downes, (Highest Honors)
A Search For A Solution: Cooperative Games, Their Associated Solution Concepts, and the Problem of Coalition Formation

 

Andrea Oser, (High Honors)
Some Homology Theory: Complements of Poincare

1981

 

Vivian Siegel, (High Honors)
Mathematical Applicability: A Random Walk Down Neutral Theory

 

Ruth E. Kocher, (Honors)
NP- Completeness Through the Eyes of a Travelling Salesman

1980

 

Bruce J. Palmer, (Highest Honors)
Irreducible Representations of the Rotational Group

 

Christina S. Van Lonkhuyzen, (Honors)
Analysis of Variance

1979

 

John E. Ottaviani, (Honors)
A Computational Method for Constrained Optimization

1978

 

John S. Leeming, (Highest Honors)
Irreducible Unitary Representations of SU(2)

 

Jeffrey S. Solomon, (High Honors)
Elements of the Spectral Theorem in Hilbert Spaces

 

Ann S. Vanderburgh, (High Honors)
Structure and Classification of Differentiable Manifolds

1977

 

Jeffrey S. Carroll, (Highest Honors)
An Introduction to Infinitesimal Analysis and a Nonstandard Proof of the Lebesque Criterion for Riemann Integration

 

Anthony G. Proulx, (High Honors)
Interrelations of Measure Theory and Point Set Topology

 

Meredith A. Malmberg, (Honors)
Continued Fractions: Theory and Applications

1976

 

Richard M. Crew, (Highest Honors)
Automorphic Functions in Hyperbolic Space Solutions to the Linear Least Squares Problem

1975

 

Kevin J. Mitchell, (Highest Honors)
Some Symmetries for Sums of Dirichlet Characters