VIGRE Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Projects 2003-04
| Student: Erin Kirkegaard |
| Advisor: Julie Overbaugh |
| Quarter: Autumn 2003 |
| Project: Examining the Heterogeneity/Diversity of HIV-1
in the POL & GAG Region of HIV-1 Viral Variants |
| Stipend: $1500 |
| Student: Noah Giansiracusa |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Autumn 2003 |
| Project: Coding and Information Theory |
| Stipend: $500 |
I am currently working with Professor Jim Morrow to investigate some of the
mathematical foundations of information and coding theory. This consists
primarily of probability theory, combinatorics, and abstract algebra. We
are reading through Steven Roman's undergraduate text, "Introduction to
Coding and Information Theory" in order to develop a sufficient background
in the subject. As we go through this book we are discussing several
problematic and/or somewhat ambiguous statements which we hope to better
understand and explain in a more serious mathematical analysis than is
sometimes given when considering the actual process of encoding and
decoding messages.
| Student: Nathan Patterson |
| Advisor: James Zhang |
| Quarter: Autumn 2003 |
| Project: Noncommutative Algebra |
| Stipend: $500 |
| Student: Mizuki Hashiguchi |
| Advisor: William Criminale |
| Quarter: Autumn 2003 |
| Project: Improving the Efficiency of Ocean Thermal
Energy Conversion |
| Stipend: $1000 |
| Student: Josh Shadlen |
| Advisor: Sandor Kovacs |
| Quarter: Autumn 2003 |
| Project: Algebraic Geometry |
| Stipend: $1000 |
| Student: Bill Dickerson |
| Advisor: Boris Solomyak |
| Quarter: Autumn 2003 |
| Project: Substitution Dynamical Systems |
| Stipend: $400 |
| Student: Ravi Shroff |
| Advisor: Douglas Lind |
| Quarter: Winter 2004 |
Project: Grobner bases |
| Stipend: $1000 |
| Student: Eliana Hetcher |
| Advisor: Garrett Odell |
| Quarter: Winter 2004 |
| Project: ODE model of a C.elegans embryo cortex |
| Stipend: $500 |
| Student: Noah Giansiracusa |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Winter 2004 |
| Project: Coding and Information Theory |
| Stipend: $500 |
| Student: Terri Moore |
| Advisor: John Palmieri |
| Quarter: Winter 2004 |
| Project: Non-Unique Factorization in Integral Domains |
| Stipend: $1000 |
| Student: Five undergraduates |
| Advisor: Debbie Seidell |
| Quarter: Winter 2004 |
| Project: Mathematical enrichment in local schools |
| Stipend: $1000 ($200 per student) |
| Student: Nathan Patterson |
| Advisor: James Zhang |
| Quarter: Winter 2004 |
| Project: Noncommutative Algebra |
| Stipend: $500 |
| Student: Michael Nivala |
| Advisor: Bernard Deconick |
| Quarter: Spring 2004 |
| Project: Computing Conserved Quantities of One-Dimensional Evolution Equations |
| Stipend: $500 |
| Student: Terri Moore |
| Advisor: John Palmieri |
| Quarter: Spring 2004 |
| Project: Counting Minimal Zero-Sequences of Length n |
| Stipend: $850 (including $350 travel) |
| Student: Joshua Gooding |
| Advisor: Bob Dumas |
| Quarter: Spring 2004 |
| Project: Mutually Predatory Populations |
| Stipend: $500 |
| Student: Leslie Kwor |
| Advisor: Donald Percical |
| Quarter: Winter and Spring 2004 |
| Project: Wavelet-based Statistical Analysis |
| Stipend: $1500 ($500 Winter, $100 Spring) |
| Student: Ravi Shroff |
| Advisor: Douglas Lind |
| Quarter: Spring 2004 |
| Project: Grobner bases |
| Stipend: $1000 |
| Student: Alex Jin |
| Advisor: Hong Qian |
| Quarter: Spring 2004 |
| Project: Effect of human activities on the survival of organgutans |
| Stipend: $1000 |
| Student: Noah Giansiracusa |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Spring 2004 |
| Project: Coding and Information Theory |
| Stipend: $500 |
| Student: Laura Hodgson |
| Advisor: Martina Morris |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: Social Network Modeling |
| Stipend: $2000 |
| Student: Elliott Ginder |
| Advisor: KK Tung |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: Empirical Mode Decomposition |
| Stipend: $2000 |
| Student: Rain Cui |
| Advisor: Ashley Steel |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: Water temperature variability in foodplain ecosystems |
| Stipend: $1000 |
| Student: Joshua Rapkin |
| Advisor: Scott Emerson |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: Meta-analysis of Group Sequential Clinical Trials |
| Stipend: $2000 |
| Student: David Hiller |
| Advisor: Marina Meila |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: Analyzing Data Sets using Spectral Clustering |
| Stipend: $1700 (matching NASA undergraduate research funding) |
| Student: Tracy Lovejoy |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: REU program in Inverse Problems |
| Stipend: $3500 (Assistant) |
| Student: Sam Coskey |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: REU program in Inverse Problems |
| Stipend: $3500 (Assistant) |
| Student: Kyotaro Hemmi |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: REU program in Inverse Problems |
| Stipend: $3500 (Assistant) |
| Student: Andrew Lewis |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: REU program in Inverse Problems |
| Stipend: $3500 (Assistant) |
| Student: Nicholas Reichert |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: REU program in Inverse Problems |
| Stipend: $3500 (Assistant) |
| Student: Shen (Jerry) Pan |
| Advisor: Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: REU program in Inverse Problems |
| Stipend: $3500 (Assistant) |
| Student: Kyle Nyvall, Krista Davis, Jessie Hsu, Ivy Ng, Dustin Forster |
| Advisor: Debbie Seidel and Jim Morrow |
| Quarter: Spring 2004 |
| Project: Math enrichment at an elementary school |
| Stipend: $200 each |
| Student: Mose Andre |
| Advisor: Scott Emerson |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: Bootstrapping in Sequential Analysis |
| Stipend: $1000 |
| Student: Braxton Osting |
| Advisor: Nathan Kutz |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: Stability and Dynamics of Nonlinear PDE's |
| Stipend: $2000 |
| Student: Emily Price |
| Advisor: Patrick Perkins |
| Quarter: Summer 2004 |
| Project: Algebraic Geometry |
| Stipend: $1000 |
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