Recent Thesis and Dissertation Titles
2013
Scott Basco, MS, One Dimensional Approach to Modeling Damage Evolution of Galvanic Corrosion in Cylindrical Systems
Lisa Berry, MS, Painted Trees and Pterahedra
Daniel Crawford, MS, Minimizing Pollution Through Semi-Antagonistic Equilibrium Points
Ting Gao, MS, Energy-based model of multiwalled carbon nanotubes: atomistic-to-continuum approach including nonlocal effects
Kristen Pennington, MS, Improving College Algebra Grades Using Online Homework Completion as a Prerequisite for Quizzes
Austin Smith, MS, One Dimensional Approach to Modeling Damage Evolution of Galvanic Corrosion of a Concentric Cylindrical Geometry
Aaron Stenta, MS, One Dimensional Approach to Modeling Damage Evolution in Galvanic Corrosion
Michael Strayer, MS, Orders of Perfect Groups with Dihedral Involution Centralizers
2012
Curtis Anderson, MS, Analysis of Controlled Overrelaxation
Ross Bagwell, MS, Bifurcation and Stability of a Ring Problem Motivated by the Mechanics of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Matthew Brackman, MS, Modeling and Simulation of Damage Evolution in Crevice Corrosion
Kevin Buckman, MS, A Mathematical Model of Biofilm Growth and Decay with Applications of Antimicrobial
Shawn Burkett, MS, Conjugacy class sizes and character degrees in the linear and unitary groups
Paul Cullion, MS, 3-regularizing 3-semiFayers Partitions
Jonathan Hafner, MS, Evolving a Genetic Algorithm for Network Flow Optimization
Nathan Kilker, MS, The Cauchy-Born Rule Applied to a Discrete Model of a Nonwoven Fiber Mesh
Katie McCallum, MS, Probabilistic analysis of pipeline reliability using a Markov process
James Kyle Lays-Miller, PhD, Mathematical modeling of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm growth and treatment in the cystic fibrotic lung
Andrew Simpson, MS, A discrete model approach to biofilm growth
Joshua Stoffel, MS, Lagrange-Chebyshev Single Step Methods for Solving Differential Equations
Daniel Raies, MS, Counting the faithful irreducible characters of subgroups of the iterated wreath product
Stephen Reisdorf, MS, Cellohedra
Andrew Tuesday, MS, Modeling Atomic Defects in a Two-Dimensional Lennard-Jones Lattice Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
2011
Adam Martinez, MS, A Geometric Tiling Algorithm for Approximating Minimal Covering Sets.
Joseph Auger, MS, Orbits of the Dissected Polygons of the Generalized Catalan Numbers.
Stephanie Bissell, MS, The effects of quorum sensing on the phenotypes of pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria cells within a biofilm.
My Diep, MS, Uniqueness of entropy solutions to hyperbolic-parabolic conservation laws.
Fang Fang, MS, A Study of the Longterm Dynamics of a Discretization of a Light Viscoelastic Rod Carrying a Heavy Block.
Marlena Gouin, MS, Acid mine drainage remediation utilizing iron-oxidizing bacteria.
James Kozy, MS, A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Home Court Advantage and Optimal Offensive Strategy in Basketball.
James Leta, MS, An Elastic Model that Describes the Buckling of the Cross-Section of a Nanotube Interacting with a Rigid Ring.
Marissa Lora, MS, Modeling Alcohol Abuse Patterns in Hispanic-American Populations Using an SIR Model
Diana Macavei, MS, A game theoretic approach to the problem of determining the optimal number of years of education.
Brittni Mott, MS, Analysis of the Generalized Catalan Orbits.
Robert Moser, MS, A one-dimensional model of a proton-exchange membrane photoelectrolysis cell
Ryan Neubig, MS, Penetration of nanoparticles into a biofilm from a bulk fluid.
George Obeng, MS, A game theoretical model for prevention of meat contamination at a meat packing house.
Emily Saracusa, MS, A mathematical model for acid mine drainage removal and iron hydroxide crust formation.
Jacob Trombetta, MS, Time-frequency representation of musical signals using the discrete Hermite transform.
Brian Van Scoy, MS, Mathematical model for hydrogen production of a proton exchange membrance photoelectrochemical cell.
2010
Mary Zitnik, MS, A game theoretic approach to advertising strategy.
Kevin Kreighbaum, MS. Combinatorial problems related to the representation theory of the symmetric group
Corey Lyons, MS. The Gamma naught graph of a p-regular partition
Colin Mitchell, MS. Numerical simulation of calcium carbonate formation
Kendall Maurer, MS. Minimally simple groups and Burnside’s theorem
Patrick Starvaggi, MS. Use of a diffusive approximation of radiative transfer for modeling thermophotovoltaic systems
Matt Hoffman, MS. Use of a diffusive approximation of radiative transfer for modeling thermophotovoltaic systems
Dan Musser, MS. On propagation of heat in atomistic simulations
Korey Kilburn, PhD. A
2009
Jason Kimble, MS. Financial Mathematics and the Black-Scholes PDE
Shawn Ryan, MS. Bifurcation and boundary layer analysis for graphene sheets
David Nassar, MS. A mathematical model of biofilm growth and decay
Gary Orum, MS. Recent developments in the research of calcium carbonate precipitation
Troy
Erin McGough, MS. A Game-Theoretic Approach to Personnel Decisions in American Football
Sandra Addo, MS. A game-theoretic framework to competitive individual targeting
Pam Robison, MS. Mathematical modelling of biofilm growth and decay through various deliveries of antimicrobial
Sara Rollo, MS. Integrating health education and leisure time into economic growth modeling
2008
Christina Felix, MS. Classification of the doubly-invariant subgroups for p=2
Scott Kaschner, MS. Results and examples regarding bifurcation with a two-dimensional kernel
Aaron McClure, MS. An Analysis of Cardano’s Demonstrations of the Solutions to the Depressed Cubic
Heidi Robinson, MS. Developing a Strategy to Evaluate Fuel Mixer Performance Using Data Obtained by Spontaneous Raman Scattering
Kyle Terakedis, MS. Forced Decisions in a Multi-Street Game
Joe Tucker, MS. A three sector, integrated approach to economic growth modeling: production, human capital and health education
Toma Marinov, PhD. Field emission from coated nanowires
