Mathematics and Statistics Senior Thesis Talks

DateSpeaker
10/11

Shirley Toribio - Event Time Prediction with Time-varying Covariates
Advisor: Alejandra Castillo

Brandon Lau - Scaling Limits and the Feynman-Kac Formula
Advisor: Adam M. Yassine

2/7

Ruth Gale - 3D axisymmetric temperature-dependent viscoelastic models of magma chambers
Advisor: Adolfo Rumbos

Joe Cookson - A Bayesian approach to basketball analytics
Advisor: Gabriel Chandler

Arsum Nadeem Chaudhary - Partitions, pentagonal numbers and a recurrence relation
Advisor: Shahriar Shahriari

Nico Santa Maria - Judgment aggregation theory for opinion dynamics
Advisor: Taylor McAdam

2/14

Arsh Chhabra - Numerical semigroups from rational matrices
Advisor: Stephan Garcia

Allie Wong - Known attacks on elliptic curve cryptography
Advisor: Edray Goins

Mya Corral - An exploration of recommendation systems
Advisor: Alejandra Castillo

Sumi Vora - Minimal automata for Coxeter groups
Advisor: Gizem Karaali

2/21

Xuehuai He - Finding (all possible) regular polytopes
Advisor: Vin de Silva

Theo Kokonas - Dyck words, tree operations, and the middle levels problem
Advisor: Shahriar Shahriari

Karina Behera - Compactness of density spaces.
Advisor: Konrad Aguilar

Melinda Yang - Integral solutions to Pell's equation
Advisor: Edray Goins

2/28

Clara Caspard - A survey of combinatorial issues in graph optimization
Advisor: Max Hlavacek

Robin Shen - Using a graph theoretical framework to model accessibility of public transportation
Advisor: Gizem Karaali

Zoe Piccirillo - Agent-based modeling of climate policy: methods and applications
Advisor: Max Hlavacek

Tilo Reneau-Cardoso - Automated reasoning for computer algebra systems: Improving SymPy's assumptions module
Advisor: Gabriel Chandler

3/7

Emrys King - The historical confluence of statistical linear modeling and eugenics
Advisor: Shahriar Shahiari

Kyle Torres - Comparing estimation techniques in latent Dirichlet allocation
Advisor: Johanna Hardin

Mira Terdiman - Sigmoid modeling with Sicegar
Advisor: Johanna Hardin

Esteban Ayala - Differentiation on the quantized interval
Advisor: Konrad Aguilar

Elliott Abel - Boosting the candy model
Advisor: Gabriel Chandler

3/14No class (Day before Spring Break)
3/21Spring Break
3/28Cesar Chavez Day
4/4

Hubery Hu - Research on latent Dirichlet allocation and its application on synthetic network generation
Advisor: Johanna Hardin

Jayan Nitzsche - Spin glasses and the Ising model: formulation and simulation
Advisor: Adam Yassine

Stanley Su - Algorithms for counting primes
Advisor: Stephan Garcia

Cameron Hatler - An exposition in particle laden flow
Advisor: Adolfo Rumbos

Ryo Sato - A compactness problem
Advisor: Vin de Silva

4/11

Mitchell Keenan - Bongard problems and versatile reasoning methods
Advisor: Vin de Silva

Xiaoxing Yu - Geometry under the dynamicist's toolkit: origami slope-gaps and the Hall distribution
Advisor: Taylor McAdams

Ari Benveniste - Algebraic topology: theory and applications
Advisor: Vin de Silva

Franklin Paas - The value of weather: pricing weather derivatives using machine learning
Advisor: Konrad Aguilar

Chris Wang - A mathematical supplement for first-year physicists
Advisor: Edray Goins

4/18

Echo Zhang - Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition
Advisor: Shahriar Shahiari

Nicholas Mikhail - Re-ranking college soccer
Advisor: Gabriel Chandler

Edward Gao - Discrete complex functions on the Ising model
Advisor: Adam Yassine

Necdet Canim - Exploration of dimension reduction methods
Advisor: Johanna Hardin

Stephan Kwak - Introduction to neural networks in quantitative finance
Advisor: Adolfo Rumbos