Many of my research students have won the Chavin Prize for the best mathematics thesis. Almost all of my graduated thesis students are now doing graduate work at universities such as U. Washington, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, Chicago, Duke, Caltech, Stanford, and Cambridge. When I received the thank-you-note from Dylan Helliwell when he got his tenure track job at Seattle University, tears were in my eyes.
More information about the math thesis program is available on the senior thesis website.
Current Students
- 2019-2020: Mengyi Shan
Past Projects
- 2018-2019: Conner DiPaolo – Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra and its Applications to Machine Learning
- 2017-2018: Xinrui Yan – Mathematics of Emergent Gravity Based on Quantum Entanglement
- 2017-2018: Matthew Simon
- 2016-2017: Bo Zhang – Machine Learning on Statistical Manifold
- 2016-2017: Ian R.W. Schweickart – Investigating Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift Using Principal Component Analysis and Association Rule Mining
- 2016-2017: Kathryn Dover – Pattern Recognition in Stock Data
- 2015-2016: Matthew Dannenberg – Pattern Recognition in High-Dimensional Data
- 2015-2016: Casey Chu – The Geometry of Data: Distance on Data Manifolds
- 2013-2014: Sorathan Chaturapruek – A Mathematical Framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Obstacle Avoidance
- 2012-2013: Peter Fedak
- 2012-2013: Nathan Pinsky – Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching and Visualizing Differential Geometry
- 2005-2006: Tyler Seacrest – Matrix Perturbation Theory and Its Applications in Image Processing
- 2005-2006: Kenneth Maples – Optimal Control of Tuned Mass Damper During Strong Earth Quake
- 2004-2005: Ruben Arenas – Explaining the Universe: Exploring the Structure of Gz
- 2004-2005: Jeffery Jauregui – Calibrated Cycles in G2 Manifolds
- 2003-2004: Matthew Holdon – Geometries of Associative Manifold
- 2002-2003: Kira Sushkoff – Minkowski Actions of Quaternion Sets and Their Applications in CAGD
- 2002-2003: Micah Smukler – Geometry and Topology and Minkowski Products and Their Applications in Biological Modeling
- 2002-2003: Christopher Pries – Finding Super Symmetric Cycles in Calabi-Yau Manifolds
- 2002-2003: Ross Richardson – Applications of Matrix Theory, Lie Group and Lie Algebra Theory to CAGD
- 2001-2002: Lara Mercurio – Special Lagrangian Submanifolds in C3
- 2000-2001: Ian Weiner – Associative 3-Manifolds in R7
- 1999-2000: Yinan Song – Finite Invariance in Cayley Calibrations
- 1999-2000: Ryan Haskett – Examples of Volume-Preserving Great Circle Flows of S3
- 1997-1998: Dylan Helliwell – Quaternion Determinant and its Applications