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

StudentThesisAdvisor
Atef AliTotal Variation Poisson Learning via the Primal Dual MethodJ. Calder
Annika ChristiansenGeometric Model for the Category of Indecomposable Representations of Quivers of Dynkin Type DV. Reiner
David FloederClass Balancing in Semi-Supervised Graph-Based LearningJ. Calder
Nicholas HansonThe Hopf Conjecture in 4 DimensionsA. Akhmedov
Isaac Martinq-analogues of rational numbersN. Ovenhouse
Daniel MiaoSparse Regression and it's Application to a Spectral Band Selection ProblemG. Lerman
Trent NeutgensStolarsky Principle: Interplay between Discrepancy and Discrete EnergyD. Bilyk
Nhung PhamCombinatorics on Bulgarian SolitaireV. Reiner
Cori RobertsA Comparison of Strategies for Predicting the Winner of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Tournament of ChampionsA. Odlyzko
Jordan SmelterThree Drug Synergy Models and Their ApplicationsJ. Foo
Michael ThomasApplication of Convex Classification Methods to Robust Subspace Recovery and the Eight-Point AlgorithmG. Lerman
Gabriella Torres NothaftAn analysis of the consequences of algae harvesting in a lake eutrophication modelR.McGehee
Alex ZhengAdversarial Weight Matrix Perturbations for Graph Semi-Supervised Poisson LearningJ. Calder
Charles ZiemannExploring and Improving the Pedagogy of Proofs in 'Introduction to Proofs' coursesP. Garrett

2020-21

StudentThesisAdvisor
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 MetricM. 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

StudentThesisAdvisor
Nicholas Backes"Cohomology of Abelian Varieties with Certain Vector-Valued Coefficients"K-W. Lan
Bernardo Bianco Prado"An Overview of Invariant Manifolds and their Applications"P. Polacik
Noah Carpenter"The Hadamard Product and a Few Open Problems"A. Akhmedov
Emily Koithan"Projecting Combined Anthropogenic and Natural Ecosystem Dynamics to Restore the Planet While Feeding the World"R. McGehee
Sean Mcnally“Virtual Complete Intersections in Stanley-Reisner Rings and Smooth Fano Toric Varieties”C. Berkesch
Jacob Ogden“A Complexified Model of the Navier-Stokes Equations with FractionalvDissipation”V. Sverak
Rebecca Rechkin"Proving the Hook Length Formula"C. Berkesch
Calvin Roth"An Overview of Factoring Algorithms"D. Johnstone