VIGRE Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate Projects, 2004-2005

Student: Joshua Rapkin
Advisor: Scott Emerson
Quarter: Autumn
Project: Meta-analysis of group sequential trials
Stipend: $1000

Student: Ryan May
Advisor: June Morita
Quarter: Academic year
Project: Service Learning- the UW-K-12 tutoring connection
Stipend: $2000

Student: Nicholas Reichert
Advisor: Jim Morrow
Quarter: Autumn
Project: Graphs, networks, and embeddings
Stipend: $500

Student: Kyotaro Hemmi
Advisor: Jim Morrow
Quarter: Autumn
Project: Inverse problems
Stipend: $500

Student: Noah Giansiracusa
Advisor: Henry Cohn
Quarter: Autumn,Winter,Spring
Project: Sphere packing via potential energy minimization
Stipend: $500/quarter

Student: Brandon Ballinger
Advisor: Henry Cohn
Quarter: Autumn & Winter
Project: Sphere packing via potential energy minimization
Stipend: $500/quarter

Student: Joshua Proctor
Advisor: Nathan Kutz
Quarter: Autumn, 2004
Project: Q-Switching in modelocked lasers
Stipend: $2000

Student: Braxton Osting
Advisor: Nathan Kutz
Quarter: Autumn, 2004
Project: Dynamics of optical parametric oscillators
Stipend: $1500

Student: Marcus Hodges
Advisor: Kris Kissel
Quarter: Winter, 2005
Project: Stochastic differential equations
Stipend: $1000

Student: Nicholas Reichert
Advisor: Jim Morrow
Quarter: Winter
Project: Embeddings of graphs in surfaces
Stipend: $500

Student: Tim Erickson
Advisor: Beth Morris
Quarter: Winter/Spring
Project: High school math enrichment program
Stipend: $200/quarter

Student: David Hiller
Advisor: Beth Morris
Quarter: Winter/Spring
Project: High school math enrichment program
Stipend: $200/quarter

Student: Kalen Petersen
Advisor: Donna Calhoun
Quarter: Spring
Project: An Introduction to Vortex Dynamics
Stipend: $900

Student: Sean Nicholas Barkas
Advisor: Donna Calhoun
Quarter: Spring
Project: An Introduction to Vortex Dynamics
Stipend: $900

Student: Nicholas Reichert
Advisor: Jim Morrow
Quarter: Spring
Project: Embeddings of graphs in surfaces
Stipend: $500

Students: Eliana Hechter, Erin Tsai, Justin Vincent-Foglesong, Jeff Eaton
Advisor: Tatiana Toro
Quarter: Spring
Project: Wedgwood Math Day program
Stipend: Hourly

Students: David Duncan, Nicholas Reichert, Justin Vincent, Karl Fredrickson
Advisors: Steffen Rohde, Joan Lind
Quarter: Spring
Project: Stochastic Loewner Equation programming
Stipend: All $500 except Frederickson ($600)

Student: Joshua Shadlen
Advisor: Chuck Doran
Quarter: Summer
Project: Reflexive polytopes, toric varieties, and string dualities
Stipend: $2000

Student: Kimberlee Shish
Advisor: Nathan Kutz
Quarter: Summer
Project: Nonlinear Mode Coupling in Fiber Gratings
Stipend: $2000

Student: Norris Berry
Advisor: Nathan Kutz
Quarter: Summer
Project: Nonlinear waves and Bose-Einstein Condensation
Stipend: $2000

Student: Joshua Proctor
Advisor: Nathan Kutz
Quarter: Summer
Project: Modelocked lasers
Stipend: $2000

Students: Michael Gaul, Justin Vincent, Ravi Shroff
Advisor: Steffen Rohde, Joan Lind
Quarter: Summer
Project: Stochastic Loewner Equation programming
Stipend: $1260, $1800, $1350 resp.


Total: $31,110

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