Student Presentations
2024
- Grace Cerrato '24, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Assessing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injuries on Neurodegenerative Disease Onset: Insights from Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data Analysis, May 7, 2024.
- Jiaqi Fang '24, (Advisor: Professor Neranga Fernando), Complete Permutation Polynomials over Finite Fields, May 7, 2024.
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Max He '24, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Optimizing Warehouse Operations: Single Robot Navigation and Future Multi-Agent Coordination, May 7, 2024.
- Lindsay Marjanksi '24, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Network Analysis of Face Recognition EEG Data, May 7, 2024.
- Diana Sefransky '24, (Advisor: Professor Becca Winarski), Hyperbolic Voronoi Diagrams of Horocycles, May 7, 2024.
2022
- Rebecca Henion '22, (Advisor: Professor Ed Soares), Principles of Experimental Design, April 27, 2022.
- Leo Kahan '22, (Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine), Intro to Networks and the Optimization of Networks, April 27, 2022.
- MaryClare Martin '22, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Topological Analysis of Transfer Learning, April 27, 2022.
- Sarah Vermette '22, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Discourse Sheaves and Opinion Dynamics on Watts-Strogatz Networks, April 27, 2022.
- Max Watson '22, (REU presentation), On the Security of the CGL Hash Function, April 27, 2022.
2021
- Anbo (Amber) Wu '21, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Application of Topological Data Analysis in an Economic Context: Property Tax Maps, May 10, 2021.
- Emily Devine '21, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Understanding Behavioral Synchrony: Differences in Functional EEG Networks in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder, May 10, 2021.
- Molly Oyer '21, (Advisor: Professor Gareth Roberts), Ocean's Deadliest: Modeling White Shark and Grey Seal Populations off the Coast of Cape Cod, May 10, 2021.
- Grace Longwell '21, (Advisor: Professor Steven Levandosky), Solving the Wave Equation in 1, 2, and 3 Dimensions, May 10, 2021.
2020
- Xinyi (Elena) Wang '20, (Advisor: Professor John Little), Investigations on Invariant Theory, May 5, 2020.
- John Graf '20, (Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine), Partitions With Distinct Parts and the Parity of Their Rank, May 5, 2020.
- Piotr Pogorzelski '20, (Advisor: Professor Eric Ruggieri), Predicting NCAA March Madness Games Using Bayesian Logistic Regression Techniques, May 5, 2020.
- Jinghan (Damon) Chen '20, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Persistent Homology in a Dynamic Deposition Model based on Ballistic Depositions, May 6, 2020.
- Yuwei Cheng '20, (Advisor: Professor Shannon Stock), “Understanding Genetic Risk in Schizophrenia: A Machine Learning Approach to Variable Selection in a High-Dimensional Bayesian Path Analysis, February 25, 2020.
2018
- Caroline Galvinhill '18, (Advisor: Professor Thomas Cecil), Exploring Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry, May 8, 2018.
- Katie Heenan '18, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), A Topological and Graphical Data Analysis of Simulated Ballistic Deposition, May 8, 2018.
- Michell Yu '18, (Advisor: Professor Eric Ruggieri), Detecting Change Points in Climate Records, May 7, 2018.
- Lucca Eloy '18, (Advisor: Professor Stanzi Royden), A Computational Model of Heading and Object Detection using Real-World Scenes, May 7, 2018.
- Rich Bielak '18, (Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine), A Combinatorial Proof of an Euler Type Identity due to Andrews, May 4, 2018.
- Caitlin Harty '18, (Advisor: Professor Eric Ruggieri), Analyzing Monopoly Using Statistical Computing, May 2 2018.
- Cara Donovan '18, (Advisor: Professor ), A Dynamical Systems Approach to Climate Modeling, May 2, 2018.
2017
- Bobby Eilbacher '17, (Advisor: Professor Alisa DeStefano), Taming the Elements: How We Use Math to Predict the Weather, May 10, 2017.
- Sarah Tymochko '17, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Topological Data Analysis of Retinal Vasculature, May 10, 2017.
- Olivia Lau '17, (Advisor: Professor Ed Soares), Computation of Parkinson's Disease Related Patterns using PET Imaging, May 9, 2017.
- Brian Toner '17, (Advisor: Professor Ed Soares), Identification of Treatment Effect for Alzheimer's Disease Based on Blinded Clinical Data, May 8, 2017.
- Emily Winn '17, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Topological Modeling of Force Networks in Granular Materials, May 8, 2017.
2016
- J.C. Winslow '16, (Advisor: Professor Kevin Walsh), Analyzing Cell Phone Coverage near Worcester, MA Using Topological Landmarked Based Mapping, May 10, 2016.
2015
- Brian Toner '17 and Sarah Tymochko '17, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), In-111 Uptake in SPECT Images of Murine Tumors with varying Antigen Expression: A Topological Approach, July 30, 2015.
- Joeseph Terranova '16, (Advisor: Professor Eric Ruggieri), A Probabilistic Change Point Analysis to Find the Steroid Era in Major League Baseball, July 30, 2015.
- Timothy Arnold '16 and Brian Menezes '16, (Advisor: Professor Gareth Roberts), Relative Equilibria of Four Vortices with Three Equal Circulations, July 30, 2015.
- Woosub Shin '15, (Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine), An Introduction to Ramsey Theory, Honors Presentation, May 5, 2015.
- Alec Rockwell '15, (Advisor: Professor Steve Levandosky), Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem and the Existence of Nash Equilibrium, Honors Presentation, May 4, 2015.
- Sarah Ober '15, (Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine), The Theory of Partitions, Honors Presentation, May 4, 2015.
- Bill Hallahan '15, (Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine), Stability of the Coefficients in the Kronecker Product of a Hook and a Rectangle, Honors Presentation, April 30, 2015.
- Ken Goettler '15, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), Modeling T Cell Dynamics: Chronic Immune Activation and Cellular Lifetimes in HIV-1 Infection Honors Presentation, April 30, 2015.
- Melissa R. McGuirl '15, (Advisor: Professor David Damiano), A Topological Analysis of Targeted In-111 Uptake in SPECT Images of Mouse Tumors, Honors Presentation, April 28, 2015.
- Gopal Yalla '15, (Advisor: Professor Ed Soares ), Optimization of Chromatogram Alignment Using A Class Separability Criterion, Honors Presentation, April 28, 2015.
2013
- Lauren Buckley '14, (Advisor: Professor John Little), Topic Surface Codes, Holy Cross: Summer Research Presentation, July 25, 2013.
- Margaret F. Hauser'15 and Gopal R. Yalla '15, (Advisor: Professor Gareth Roberts), Linearly Stable Relative Equilibria Utilizing a Dominant Mass Holy Cross: Summer Research Presentation, July 24, 2013.
- Mark Safran '15, (Advisor: Professor Kevin Walsh), iOS App Development and the Xcode IDE, Holy Cross: Summer Research Presentation, July 25, 2013.
- Alex Yeo '15, (Advisor: Professor Stanzi Royden), Combining motion and depth cues in the detection of moving objects by moving observers, Holy Cross: Summer Research Presentation, July 25, 2013.
2010
- Jonathan Root '10, (Advisor: Professor Rafe Jones), The Proportion of k-cycles for Polynomials Modulo Primes Holy Cross: Departmental Honors Thesis Presentation, April 29, 2010.
- Shea Sennett '10, (Advisor: Professor Gareth Roberts), Collinear Central Configurations in the n-Body Problem, Holy Cross: Departmental Honors Thesis Presentation, April 28, 2010.
2009
- Clarice Ferolito '09,
(Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine),
Littlewood's Conjecture
Holy Cross: Departmental Honors Thesis Presentation,
May 1, 2009.
- Jonathon Madore '09,
(Advisor: Professor Sharon Frechette),
Elliptic Curves: Groups, Fields, and Cryptography,
Holy Cross: Departmental Honors Thesis Presentation,
May 1, 2009.
- Katie Moore '09,
(Advisor: Professor Stanzi Royden),
Cortical processing of moving object detection: Psychophysical and computational studies,
Holy Cross: Departmental Honors Thesis Presentation,
May 1, 2009.
- Kate Donovan '09,
(Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine),
A Combined Graph Theory and Number Theory Approach to
Ramanujan Graphs
Holy Cross: College Honors Thesis Presentation,
April 29, 2009.
- Bridget Whitehead '09,
(Advisor: Professor David Damiano),
A Study in Viral Dynamics: Modeling the Immune Response to HIV-1 after HAART
Holy Cross: Departmental Project Presentation,
April 28, 2009.
- Matt Brady '10,
(Advisor: Professor David Damiano),
Modeling Deeply Knotted Proteins with KnotPlot,
Undergraduate Poster Session of the Joint Mathematics Meeting,
Washington DC, January 2009.
2008
- James Antonio '09,
(Advisor: Professor Andrew Hwang),
The geometry of Clairaut metrics,
Holy Cross: 2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, September 5, 2008.
- Matt Brady '10,
(Advisor: Professor David Damiano),
Detecting deep protein knots with Knotplot,
Holy Cross: 2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, September 5, 2008.
- Christina D'Ambrogio '11,
(Advisors: Professor Laurie Smith King and Professor Viraj Kumar),
The Art of iRobot Programming and Guidance,
Holy Cross: 2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, September 5, 2008.
- Mike Holloway '09,
(Advisor: Professor Stanzi Royden),
A computational model for detecting moving objects,
Holy Cross: 2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, September 5, 2008.
- Jonathon Madore '09,
(Advisor: Professor Sharon Frechette),
Cryptography with Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields,
Holy Cross: 2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, September 5, 2008.
- Katie Moore '09,
(Advisor: Professor Stanzi Royden),
The psychophysics of moving object detection: The effect of speed,
Holy Cross: 2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, September 5, 2008.
- Shea Sennett '10,
(Advisor: Professor Gareth Roberts),
Investigations of Special N-Body Orbits,
Holy Cross: 2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, September 5, 2008.
- Bridget A. Whitehead '09,
(Patrick H. Ryan, Ph.D. Jeff W. Burkle,
Christopher D. Codispoti MD MS, Grace K. LeMasters Ph.D.
Co-authors from Department of Environmental Health, University
of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, where the research was done),
Are Skin Prick Tests or Wheal Sizes Prior to 24 Months
of Age Associated with Allergic Sensitization at 36 Months?,
Holy Cross: 2008 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, September 5, 2008.
- Megan Murphy '08,
(Advisor: Professor Alisa DeStefano),
Girls and Math Education,
Women's and Gender Studies Capstone Project Presentation,
May 2, 2008.
- Rachel Quaden '08,
(Advisor: Professor Alisa DeStefano),
Wavelets in Medical Imaging,
College Honors Program Thesis Presentation,
May 2, 2008.
- Alex Simao,
(Advisor: Professor John Little),
Applications of Computational Commutative Algebra in Statistics,
Undergraduate Research Presentation in Mathematics,
Thursday, May 1, 2008.
- Katherine L. Fitzpatrick '08,
(Advisor: Professor David Damiano),
Non-Loose Legendrian Knots,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Mathematics,
May 1, 2008.
2007
- Candida L. Desjardins '07,
(Advisor: Professor Ed Soares),
A Remote and Non-Contact Method for Obtaining the Blood-Pulse Waveform with a
Laser Doppler Vibrometer,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Mathematics,
May 2, 2007.
- Kathryn Y. Noonan '07,
(Advisor: Professor David Damiano and Professor Kimberley Frederick, Chemistry),
Principal Component Analysis of Illicit Drug Mixtures
(using Raman Spectroscopy),
Undergraduate Research Presentation,
April 30, 2007.
- Renee A. Laverdiere '07,
(Advisor: Professor Tom Cecil),
Matrix Groups: A Confluence of Algebra and Geometry,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Mathematics,
April 30, 2007.
2006
- Erin M. Connors '06,
(Advisor: Professor Stanzi Royden),
The Detection of Moving Objects by Moving Observers,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Computer Science,
May 4, 2006.
- Alison Brown, Maggie Kielman and Angelina Kim,
(Advisor: Professor David Damiano),
Knot Your Average Talk: Legendrian Knots and their Invariants,
Senior Undergraduate Research Presentation in Mathematics,
May 3, 2006.
- Ellen Gasparovic '06,
(Advisor: Professor Tom Cecil),
Strange New Universe: A Study of Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Mathematics,
May 3, 2006.
- Rob Truxler '06,
(Advisor: Professor Stanzi Royden),
A Computational Model for the Detection of Heading from a Video Camera,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Computer Science,
May 2, 2006.
2005
- Elizabeth M. Sennott '05,
(Advisor: Professor David Damiano),
Color by Numbers: On a conjecture of Kauffman and Harary,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Mathematics,
May 4, 2005.
- Ryan P. Schwarz '05,
(Advisor: Professor John Little),
Toric and Quasi-Toric Codes,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Mathematics,
May 2, 2005.
- Trevor M. O'Brien '05,
(Advisor: Professor Gareth Roberts),
Elusive Zeros Under Newton's Method: An Introduction to Complex Dynamics,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Mathematics,
April 27, 2005.
2004
- Michael G. Higdon '04,
(Advisor: Professor Alisa DeStefano),
Wavelets and Multiresolution Analysis,
Department Honors Thesis Presentation,
May, 2004.
2003
- Kathleen Leahy '04,
(Advisor: Professor Cristina Ballantine),
Enigma The Code that Changed History,
Northeastern Section of the MAA (NES/MAA), Wellesley College,
November 21, 2003.
- Daniel Conti '03,
(Advisor: Professor Stanzi Royden),
Moving Through Virtual Reality: Simulations and Experiments, Thesis
Presentation for Honors in Computer Science,
April 30, 2003.
- Heather Bain '03,
(Advisor: Professor David Damiano),
The Future of Carbon in Brazil: Three Contrasting Scenarios,
Thesis Presentation for Honors in Mathematics,
April 29, 2003.