VIGRE-sponsored Undergraduate Research Projects


Undergraduate Projects, 2005-2007

Student: Jerome Drescher
Advisor: James Zhang, Mathematics
Quarter: Fall 2005
Title: Computational Aspects of Non-Commutative Geometry
Amount: $250

Student: Dylan Harper
Advisor: Eric Babson, Mathematics
Quarter: Fall 2005
Title: Shannon capacity
Amount: $500

Student: Jerome Drescher
Advisor: James Zhang, Mathematics
Quarter: Winter 2006
Title: Computational Aspects of Non-Commutative Geometry
Amount: $500

Student: Laura Hodgson
Advisor: Eric Babson, Mathematics, Matthew Kahle (VIGRE fellow)
Title: Geometric graph theory
Quarter: Winter 2006
Amount: $500

Student: Richard Kelley
Advisor: Eric Babson, Mathematics, Matthew Kahle (VIGRE fellow)
Quarter: Winter 2006
Title: Geometric graph theory
Amount: $500

Student: Ming Li
Advisor: Eric Babson, Mathematics, Matthew Kahle (VIGRE fellow)
Quarter: Winter 2006
Title: Graph homomorphisms and statistical physics
Amount: $500

Student: Zack Spencer
Advisor: Eric Babson, Mathematics, Matthew Kahle (VIGRE fellow)
Quarter: Winter 2006
Title: Graph homomorphisms and statistical physics
Amount: $500

Student: Jerome Drescher
Advisor: James Zhang, Mathematics
Quarter: Spring 2006
Title: Computational Aspects of Non-Commutative Geometry
Amount: $500

Student: David Kaplan
Advisor: Tom Duchamp (Math), Werner Stuetzle (Stat)
Quarter: Spring 2006
Title: Geometry of High Dimensional Data
Amount: $1,000

Student: Ming Li
Advisor: Eric Babson, Mathematics, Matthew Kahle (VIGRE fellow)
Quarter: Spring 2006
Title: Graph homomorphisms and statistical physics
Amount: $500

Student: Zack Spencer
Advisor: Eric Babson, Mathematics, Matthew Kahle (VIGRE fellow)
Quarter: Spring 2006
Title: Graph homomorphisms and statistical physics
Amount: $500

Students: Carin Danos
 Chris Davis
 Lulu McCourt
 David Parascand
 Eric Schoof
 Olena Skrinnik
 Chris Arnaud
 Rodney Wells
 (all for Math 171 credit)
Advisors: Virginia Warfield, Math;
 Kris Kissel, graduate student in Math;
 Randy Boucher, graduate student in Applied Math
Quarter: Winter 2006
Title: Math Fairs in local Elementary Schools
Amount: Hourly

Students: Anthony Vigil, Krista Davis
Advisors: Julie Pevtsova, Postdoc in Math
Quarters: Fall 2005, Winter 2006, Spring 2006
Title: Montlake Elementary Enrichment Project
Amount: Hourly

Students: Ivy Ng, Adam Perry, Alvin Raj
Advisors:(3 Paid by VIGRE, 3 by TOPS Elementary)
 Beth Morris, VIGRE fellow, Mathematics, Project Coordinator;
 Zack Treisman, VIGRE fellow, Mathematics;
 Mike Cecil, TA Mathematics;
 Emily Fagerstrom, TA Mathematics;
 Robert Bradshaw, TA Mathematics;
 Kirsten Fagnan, RA Applied Mathematics
Quarters: Fall 2005, Winter 2006, Spring 2006
Title: TOPS Elementary Olympiad project
Amount: Hourly

Student:Clement Yang
Advisor:Donald Percival, Stat
Quarter:Spring 2006
Title:Wavelet Analysis of Sea Ice Thickness
Amount:1000

Student:Nate Bottman
Advisor:Bernard Deconinck, Applied Math
Title:Stability of Nonlinear Waves
Amount:1000
Quarter:Summer 2006

Student:Robert Branom
Advisor:Ashley Steel, Statistics
Title:Correlations between habitat loss and salmon population status
Amount:1500
Quarter:Summer 2006, Fall 2006

Student:Lee Barr
Advisor:Ashley Steel, Statistics
Title:Landscape structure versus content: Impacts of large-scale land use on salmon and their habitats
Amount:810
Quarter:Summer 2006

Student:Norris Berry
Advisor:Nathan Kutz, Applied Math
Title:Controlling and manipulating Bose-Einstein condensates
Amount:1000
Quarter:Summer 2006

Student:Joel Nishimura
Advisor:Nathan Kutz, Applied Math
Title:Dynamics of optical parametric osciallators
Amount:1000
Quarter:Summer 2006

Student:Cassandra Connor
Advisor:Loyce Adams, Applied Math
Title:Using spines to represent closed curves
Amount:1000
Quarter:Summer 2006

Student: Jerome Drescher
Advisor: James Zhang, Mathematics
Quarter: Fall 2006
Project: Computational Aspects of Non-Commutative Geometry
Stipend: $500

Student: Emily Kirkman
Advisor: William Stein, Mathematics
Quarter: Fall 2006
Project: Software for Advanced Graph Theory Research
Stipend: $1200

Student: Bobby Moretti
Advisor: William Stein, Mathematics
Quarter: Fall 2006
Project: Improving the Accessibility of SAGE
Stipend: $1500

Student: Tom Boothby
Advisor: William Stein, Mathematics
Quarter: Fall 2006
Project: Numerical Software Development for SAGE
Stipend: $2000

Student: Yi Qiang
Advisor: William Stein, Mathematics
Quarter: Fall 2006
Project: Distributed Computing with SAGE
Stipend: $1800

Student: Laura Knudsen
Advisor: Peter Guttorp, Statistics
Quarter: Fall 2006
Project: Environmental Policy: Air and Water Standards
Stipend: $500

Student: Dan Schultheis
Advisor: Doug Lind, Mathematics
Quarter: Fall 2006
Project: Groebner bases
Stipend: $1000

Past Undergraduate Projects


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