Mathematics and Statistics Senior Thesis Talks

DateSpeaker
1/30

Gabriel Brenner - Schrödinger’s Train of Thought
Advisor: Adolfo Rumbos

Aaron Christopherson - Iterated Function Systems and Fractal Images
Advisor: Taylor McAdam)

Chloe Marple - Skein algebras of surfaces
Advisor: Helen Wong (CMC)

Z Skigen - Inference Without Data: A Bayesian Framework for Casual Transportability
Advisor: Jo Hardin

2/6

Alanna Baker - Spin Glass Phases in Minority Games
Advisor: Adam Yassine

Federica Domecq Lacroze - On Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
Advisor: Vin de Silva

Catherine Ma – Theoretical Analysis of Short-Burst Sampling for Redistricting
Advisor: Sarah Cannon (CMC)

Francisco Morales Puente - Implementing Network Flows into Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Konrad Aguilar

Daniel Tsai - Investigating Price Uncertainty using the Black-Scholes Equation
Advisor: Adam Yassine

2/13No seminar meeting
2/20

Theo Chinn - Matricial Dimension of Numerical Semigroups
Advisor: Stephan Ramon Garcia

Jazelle Saligumba – Statistics in the Social Sciences: A Case for Brunner–Munzel Over Mann-Whitney
Advisor: Jemma Lorenat (Pitzer)

Kartika Santoso - Decision-Focused Learning
Advisor: Konrad Aguilar

Tom Tang – Knot Theory and Topological Physics
Advisor: Sam Nelson (CMC)

Ella Zhu – Between Order and Chaos: Ideal Statistical Measures of Creativity and Structure in Fiction
Advisor: Ami Radunskaya

2/27

Yatziri Carmona Ochoa – From Data to Decisions: How Bayesian Networks Support Precision Medicine
Advisor: Alejandra Castillo

Isaiah Dawson - Chaos in Translation: Digitizing Symbolic Dynamics and Demystifying the Math Language Divide
Advisor: Ami Radunskaya

Jayhyun Suh - Shape Complexity in Humans, Math, and AI
Advisor: Ghassan Sarkis

Cole Umeyatsu – Generative Adversarial Networks
Advisor: Alejandra Castillo

Yueshuang Wang - The Braess Paradox In Static TraPic Network
Advisor: Vin de Silva

3/6

Max Feng - Power Integral Matrices
Advisor: Stephan Ramon Garcia

Tai Fowler - Exploration of the Gaussian Mixture Model and Its Applications to Baseball Analytics
Advisor: Jo Hardin

Evelyne Knight - On the geometry of number fields
Advisor: Lenny Fukshansky (CMC)

Filiana Kostopoulou - Indecomposable Elements in Lattices and Totally Real Number Fields
Advisor: Lenny Fukshansky (CMC)

Jake Sugawara - Re-Purposing Math Education: Practices and Understanding to Support Students
Advisor: Max Hlavacek

3/13No seminar meeting: Enjoy an early start to your last spring break at Pomona!
3/20No seminar meeting: It is spring break!
3/27No seminar meeting: It is Cesar Chavez Day!
4/3

Mia Adler - Modeling the Opioid Epidemic in the Inland Empire
Advisor: Ami Radunskaya

Iris Ashley - Exploring Mathematical Creative Writing through Poetry and Short Stories
Advisor: Gizem Karaali

Kellie Au - Triangle Counting in Social Networks
Advisor: Max Hlavacek

Taylor Campbell - Creating an Algorithm for Knitted Gauge
Advisor: Taylor McAdam

Dylan Yang - The Fibonacci Sequence Modulo Primes and Prime Powers
Advisor: Ghassan Sarkis

4/10

Sam Butler - Hybrid Optimization for Nonlinear Curve Fitting: An Exploration of the Levenberg–Marquardt and Whale Optimization Algorithms
Advisor: Jo Hardin

Priya Julian - The Math Behind Music
Advisor: Vin de Silva

Julianne Louie - Encoding Trained Neural Networks into Mixed Integer Linear
Advisors: Tzu-Yi Chen

Lawrence Stampino-Strain – Life Moves Pretty Fast: An Exploration of Conway’s Infamous Game
Advisor: Stephan Ramon Garcia

Eve Zeng – A Category for Statistical Manifolds
Advisor: Adam Yassine

4/17

Anthony Campos - Markov Chain Monte Carlo through the writings of its originators
Advisor: Jemma Lorenat (Pitzer)

Eleanor Chen - Optimal Hedging with Neural Networks
Advisor: Adolfo Rumbos

Neil Chulani - Formal Proofs for Post Quantum Cryptography
Advisor: Gizem Karaali

Matt Eichner - Reduced Enpoint Numerator Integer Sequences: Introducing a Novel Family of Integer Sequences
Advisor: Taylor McAdam

Miriam Zhou - Modeling Supply Chain Equilibrium and Resilience under Shocks: A Variational Inequality Approach
Advisor: Adolfo Rumbos

4/24

Philip Belin - On Ehrhart Positivity of Order Polytopes
Advisor: Max Hlavacek

Kendrick Dahlin - Metric Online Bipartite Matching
Advisor: Konrad Aguilar

Steven Kim - Investigating DiPiculty Through Sudoku
Advisor: Ghassan Sarkis

Kelvin Kissi - Optimizing Transducer Placement for Focused Ultrasound
Advisor: Ami Radunskaya

Tara Mukund - Graph Grammars for Visual Generation
Advisor: Tzu-Yi Chen