Prizes
Prizes
Honors Projects
2009 - Elizabeth Frances Chertavian, (Honors)
Inversion of a Firn Air Diffusion Model to Determine Atmospheric Gas Concentration Histories
2009 - Susanna Ruth Kimport, (Honors)
An Algorithm for Computing Word Length in Thompson’s Group F
2009 - Erin McDonald Taylor, (Honors)
Lobster Cardiac Ganglion and Heart Tissue as Coupled Oscillators
2008 - Not Awarded
2007 - Taylor Baillie Arnold, (Honors)
Convergence Properties of Simplex Optimization Methods
2006 - Gregory Paul Levin, (Honors)
Logistic Regression: Theory and Application
2006 - G Sarah Erika Oberg, (Honors)
Projective Geometry: An Analytic and Synthetic Approach
2005 - William Anthony Alto, (Honors)
Finite Group Representations
2005 - Gregory Andrew Kelsey, (Honors)
Wordlength in Alternative Presentations for Thompson's Group F
2005 - Laura Jones Perovich, (Honors)
Newton's Method: A Mathematical Model of Giant Swings
2005 - Matthew Gordon Robertson, (Honors)
Schottky Groups and Mobius Transformations
2004 - Somboon Chiewcharnpipat, (Honors)
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications in Everyday Life
2004 - Micah Israel Miller, (Honors)
Metric Properties of Thompson's Group F
2003 - Justin M. Foster, (Honors)
Fractals and Fractal Dimension
2003 - Nima Soltanzad, (Honors)
Complex Variable Methods in Linear Elasticity - Katherine Ann Stallkamp, (Honors)
Spinor Groups and Rotations in n-Dimensions
2003 - 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
2002 - 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
1996 - 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
1993 - 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
1992 - 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
1991 - 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
1989 - 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
1985 - Melvin P. Olson, III, (Honors)
Optimal Transformation for Regression
1984 - Warren A. Turner, (Highest Honors)
The Representation Theory of Compact Lie Groups
1984 - Stephen J. Mitchell, (High Honors)
Duality and Its Applications to Optimization in Normed Spaces
1983 - Reed Hastings, (Highest Honors)
A Study of Riemann Surfaces
1983 - Paul F. Banta, (High Honors)
The Independence of the Axiom of Choice
1983 - 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
1982 - Andrea Oser, (High Honors)
Some Homology Theory: Complements of Poincare
1981 - Vivian Siegel, (High Honors)
Mathematical Applicability: A Random Walk Down Neutral Theory
1981 - 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
1980 - 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)
1978 - 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
1977 - 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