Past Latin Honors Theses
Recent Latin Honors Theses are kept in volumes at the mathematics undergraduate office in 115 Vincent Hall. You are invited to view them if you are contemplating doing an honors thesis.
2021-22
| Student | Thesis | Advisor |
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| Atef Ali | Total Variation Poisson Learning via the Primal Dual Method | J. Calder |
| Annika Christiansen | Geometric Model for the Category of Indecomposable Representations of Quivers of Dynkin Type D | V. Reiner |
| David Floeder | Class Balancing in Semi-Supervised Graph-Based Learning | J. Calder |
| Nicholas Hanson | The Hopf Conjecture in 4 Dimensions | A. Akhmedov |
| Isaac Martin | q-analogues of rational numbers | N. Ovenhouse |
| Daniel Miao | Sparse Regression and it's Application to a Spectral Band Selection Problem | G. Lerman |
| Trent Neutgens | Stolarsky Principle: Interplay between Discrepancy and Discrete Energy | D. Bilyk |
| Nhung Pham | Combinatorics on Bulgarian Solitaire | V. Reiner |
| Cori Roberts | A Comparison of Strategies for Predicting the Winner of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Tournament of Champions | A. Odlyzko |
| Jordan Smelter | Three Drug Synergy Models and Their Applications | J. Foo |
| Michael Thomas | Application of Convex Classification Methods to Robust Subspace Recovery and the Eight-Point Algorithm | G. Lerman |
| Gabriella Torres Nothaft | An analysis of the consequences of algae harvesting in a lake eutrophication model | R.McGehee |
| Alex Zheng | Adversarial Weight Matrix Perturbations for Graph Semi-Supervised Poisson Learning | J. Calder |
| Charles Ziemann | Exploring and Improving the Pedagogy of Proofs in 'Introduction to Proofs' courses | P. Garrett |
2020-21
| Student | Thesis | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Dingjun Bian | "Higher Order Poisson Regularization for Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning" | J. Calder |
| Moriah Elkin | "The Structure of Young Modules in Characteristic 2" | P. Webb |
| Jackson Hampton | "Using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees to Better Evaluate NBA Players - a Basketball EPA Metric | M. Weimerskirch |
| Adam Hodapp | "Computer Implementation of Chain Complexes Over Finite Dimensional Algebras" | P. Webb |
| Alan Koval | "Harmonic Measure" | M. Engelstein |
| Henry Twiss | "Root systems of Kac-Moody Lie algebras attached to moments of Dirichlet L-functions" | A. Diaconu |
| Cameron Vogt | "Analytic Composition Expansions About Functional Equation Fixed Points" | R. Moeckel |
| Thomas Winckelman | "Fourier Analysis on Groups of Finite Measure" | D. Bilyk |
| Chen Yu | "Differentially Private Non-convex Optimization on the Grassmannian" | G. Lerman |
| Nicholas Zaczkowski | "Crystallographic groups" | P. Webb |
2019-20
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Student |
Thesis |
Advisor |
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Nicholas Backes |
"Cohomology of Abelian Varieties with Certain Vector-Valued Coefficients" |
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Bernardo Bianco Prado |
"An Overview of Invariant Manifolds and their Applications" |
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Noah Carpenter |
"The Hadamard Product and a Few Open Problems" |
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Emily Koithan |
"Projecting Combined Anthropogenic and Natural Ecosystem Dynamics to Restore the Planet While Feeding the World" |
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Sean Mcnally |
“Virtual Complete Intersections in Stanley-Reisner Rings and Smooth Fano Toric Varieties” |
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Jacob Ogden |
“A Complexified Model of the Navier-Stokes Equations with FractionalvDissipation” |
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Rebecca Rechkin |
"Proving the Hook Length Formula" |
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Calvin Roth |
"An Overview of Factoring Algorithms" |
D. Johnstone |