The Mathematics Department's senior thesis presentations in the Spring of 2018 will be from 1:00 pm to 2:45 pm Friday afternoons in the Argue Auditorium, Millikan 1051 and the Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021 according to the schedule below. There will be no seminar on March 9 (the day before spring break) but instead there will be a seminar on Thursday March 8, from 4:30 to 5:30 pm. Each speaking slot is 20 minutes and this includes 2-3 minutes for questions and answers. Speakers should arrive 30 minutes early to make sure that their talk is uploaded and ready to go before the seminar begins. Two important dates to remember are February 14, 2018 (complete draft of the Thesis due), and April 11, 2018 (the final copy of the Thesis due). Feel free to invite friends and family to join us for your senior presentation. We ask the audience not to use or turn on laptops, tablets, phones, or other distracting electronic equipment during the presentations.
| Date | Seniors | Advisor | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 26 | Duncan Skerrett | Omayra Ortega | Modeling Malaria: The Deterministic Approach |
| Jan. 26 | Peter Xenopoulos | Jo Hardin | Feature Selection for Class Imbalance |
| Jan. 26 | Bryce Rogan | Omayra Ortega | Learning to Fail: Predicting Brittle Fracture Evolution |
| Jan. 26 | Ho Bin Kim | Adolfo Rumbos | Modeling Tumor Growth in Breast Cancer Patients |
| Jan. 26 | Robin Pollak | Vin de Silva | Topological Models for Concurrent Programming |
| Jan. 26 | Adam Starr | Vin de Silva | Fair Voting |
| Feb 2 | Kayla Cummings | Susan Martonosi | Operation Research to Model Government Influence on Vaccine Prices |
| Feb 2 | Errol Francis | Robin Wilson | Black In Math: A Critical Analysis of the Pomona College Math Department through the Black Male Lens |
| Feb 2 | Alan Peral Ortiz | Shahriar Shahriari | Locating Parks with a Multiobjective Optimization Method |
| Feb 2 | Alex Hof | Shahriar Shahriari | Chain Partitions of the Boolean Lattice |
| Feb 2 | Soren Aletheia-Zomlefer | Stephan Garcia | The Bateman-Horn Conjecture |
| Feb 2 | Chenxiao Song | Mark Huber | Strong Stationary Stopping Time of Random Walks |
| Feb 9 | Campbell Queen | Ghassan Sarkis | The Fibonacci Sequence Modulo M |
| Feb 9 | Siddarth Kannan | Dagan Karp | Intersection theory on moduli spaces of weighted stable curves via tropical geometry |
| Feb 9 | Adam Staplemann | Mark Huber | The CPRAR algorithm |
| Feb 9 | Chris Donnay | Stephan Garcia | On the Density of Quotient Sets Generated by Binary Quadratic Forms in the p-adics |
| Feb 9 | Jason Twohy | Ellie Dannenberg | Generating Sets for the Mapping Class Group Mod(S) |
| Feb 9 | Derek Huang | Vin de Silva | When Number Theory Meets Combinatorics |
| Feb 16 | Yu Xuan Hong | Vin de Silva | Invariant Measures on Convex Sets: On Minkowski Sums and Mixed Volumes |
| Feb 16 | Yiqi Zhao | Blerta Shtylla | How Mutation Order Affects Cancer |
| Feb 16 | Max Schwarzer | CGU Clinic | Learning to Fail: Predicting Fracturing in Brittle Materials with Deep Learning |
| Feb 16 | Adam Hinthorne | Gabe Chandler | Missing Data in NCAA Division III Baseball |
| Feb 16 | Kalyan Chadalavada | HMC Clinic | Partial Least Squares Regressions: Football Projection Model |
| Feb 16 | Cade Hulse | HMC Clinic | Operations Research & Supply Chain Management |
| Feb 23 | Jacob Gomez | Gizem Karaali | Ethnomathematics: Rethinking critical pedagogies for mathematics education |
| Feb 23 | Grant Belsterling | HMC Clinic | Time Series |
| Feb 23 | Amina Abdu | Adolfo Rumbos | Optimal Transport Theory for Equilibrium Selection in Discrete Games |
| Feb 23 | Edwin Villafane Hernandez | Blake Hunter | Detecting Communities Through Cultural Analytics and Multilayered Networks |
| Feb 23 | Samuel Yih | Stephan Garcia | Factorization Length Distribution in Numerical Semigroups |
| Feb 23 | Evan Schechter | Asuman Aksoy | Banach Spaces and Bernstein Pairs |
| March 2 | Vanessa Machuca | Ami Radunskaya | Age-Structured Modeling of Antarctic Fish Populations |
| March 2 | Claire Fan | Ami Rad/Blerta Shtylla | Modeling Sociality in Nephila clavipes Spider |
| March 2 | Tiannan Du | Allon Percus | Word Embedding and Its Applications |
| March 2 | Jeffrey Carney | HMC Clinic | Optical Character Recognition with Neural Networks |
| March 2 | Yufeng Hu | Omayra Ortega | Epidemiological Compartment Models of Malaria |
| March 8 | Ashley Simons | Talithia Williams | Topic Modeling the New York Times: A New Look at World War II |
| March 8 | Jacob Shore | Gabe Chandler | Modeling Westward Expansion through Filaments |
| March 8 | Ben Gregory | Kim Ayers | Symbolic Dynamics of Smale's Horseshoe |
| March 8 | Gillian Desmond | Vin de Silva | Error-Correcting Codes: Hidden Geometry |
| March 8 | Madhura Jayaraman | William Devanny | Monster Packing Theorem |
| March 8 | Austin Wei | Vin de Silva | Recurrence and Combinatorial Number Theory |
| March 23 | Andi Chen | Vin de Silva | Impartial Gamers’ Guide to Winning |
| March 23 | Nurullah Goren | Gizem Karaali | Quantitative Literacy in Context: Insights from Textbook Analysis |
| March 23 | Nicholas Vucovich | Ami Radunskaya | Modeling Warfare |
| March 23 | Nick Azar | Omayra Ortega | Methods of Malaria Modeling - Stochastic Processes |
| March 23 | Chris Barnes | Jo Hardin | Neural Style Transfer |
| March 23 | Paul Westcott | Adolfo Rumbos | Optimization of Common Pool Resource Games Using Control Theory |
| April 6 | Erin Angelini | Blerta Shtylla | An Energy-Based Model of Mitotic Spindle Alignment |
| April 6 | Ethan Matlin | Ami Rad/Blerta Shtylla | The Social Spider: An Agent-based Model for Clustering Behavior |
| April 6 | Luis Espino | Jo Hardin | Racism without a Face: Predictive Statistics in the Criminal Justice System |
| April 6 | Chaitanya Fatehpuria | Angelo De Pace | Modeling the Dynamic Conditional Correlation between India and United States Stock Markets with Multivariate GARCH models |
| April 6 | James Kinney | Gabe Chandler | Boosting in the Context of a New Regression Algorithm |
| April 6 | Neel Adhiraj Kumar | Vin de Silva | Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence for 2048 |
| April 13 | Amy Oden | Shahriar Shahriari | Evaluating Efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis |
| April 13 | Timothy Woods II | Ami Rad/Blerta Shtylla | Modeling Spider Behavior: An investigation of Spider Clustering |
| April 13 | Noah Keshner | Gabe Chandler | From Training to Test: A Way to Characterize Expected Performance on Future Data |
| April 13 | Shreyas Kadaba | HMC Clinic | Methods for Optimizing Supply Chain Management |
| April 13 | Kadija Yilla | Ami Radunskaya | Analyzing Cascades in Social Networks |
| April 13 | Kashvi Tibrewal | Jo Hardin | Learning from Loss Functions: An Alternative Approach to Classification |