David B. Damiano
Theses and Tutorials 1984 -- 2024
- Lindsay Marjanski, Fall 2023-Spring 2024, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Network Analysis of Face Recognition EEG Data, Advisor
- Grace Cerrato, Spring 2024, Directed Project (SR), Assessing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injuries on Neurodegenerative Disease Onset: Insights from Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data Analysis, Advisor
- Minxuan He, Spring 2024, Directed Project (SR), Optimizing Warehouse Operations: Single Robot Navigation and Future Multi-Agent Coordination, Advisor
- Zihui Weng, Summer 2023 (SR), Functional Communities in EEG Data from a Face Recognition Task, Advisor
- Zhaoqi Wu, Summer 2023 (SR), Topological Data Analysis on Butterfly Images, Advisor
- Zikuan Zhu, Summer 2023 (SR), An Interpretation of the Solow Growth Model with Persistence Diagram, Advisor
- Thomas Yacovone, Spring 2023, Directed Reading, Algebraic Topology, Advisor
- Zihui Weng, Spring 2023, Directed Project (SR), Topics in Network Analysis, Advisor
- Zihui Weng, Fall 2022, Directed Project (SR), Computational Network Theory, Advisor
- Lindsay Marjanski, Fall 2022, Directed Project (SR), Computational Topology, Advisor
- Sarah Vermette, Fall 2021-Spring 2022, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Discourse Sheaves to Model Opinion Dynamics on Watts-Strogatz Networks, Advisor
- MaryClare Martin, Spring 2022, Directed Project (SR), Topology of Transfer Learning, Advisor
- Thomas Yacovone, Fall 2021, Directed Reading, Numerical Linear Algebra, Advisor
- Sarah Vermette, Summer 2021 (SR), Discourse Sheaves to Model Opinion Dynamics on Watts-Strogatz Networks, Advisor
- Daniel Rodden, Summer 2021 (SR), Topological Diagrams Distinguish Subtypes of Cancer, Advisor
- Amber Wu, Fall 2020-Spring 2021, Departmental and College Honors Thesis (SR), Topological Data Analysis in an Economic Context:
Property Tax Maps, Advisor
- Emily Devine, Fall 2020-Spring 2021, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Understanding Behavioral Synchrony Differences in the Functional EEG Networks in Adolescents with
Autism Spectrum Disorder, co-Advisor, with Prof. Richard Schmidt, Psychology.
- Daniel Rodden, Spring 2021, Directed Project (SR), Topological Data Analysis for Genomics , Advisor
- Isabella Giaquinta, Spring 2021, Directed Project (SR), Pandemic Modeling, Advisor
- Matthew Sexton, Sarah Vermette, Thomas Yacovone, Directed Reading, Mathematical Statistics, Advisor
- Phoebe Cheng, Fall 2020, Directed Project, Departmental Honors (SR), Understanding the Transfer Learning of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with Mapper, Advisor
- Max Watson, Fall 2020, Directed Project (SR), Topology of Gravity Waves, Advisor
- Mike Ding, Summer 2020 (SR), Euler Characteristic Transform and 3D Image Analysis, Advisor
- MaryClare Martin, Summer 2020, (SR) Machine Learning in Python, Advisor
- Max Watson, Summer 2020 (SR), Pattern Detection with Persistence Images, Advisor
- Amber Wu, Summer 2020 (SR), Topological Data Analysis of Geographic Networks, Advisor
- Emily Devine, Spring 2020 (SR), Directed Project, Computational Neuroscience, Advisor
- Jinghan Chen, Fall 2019-Spring 2020, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Persistent Homology in Ballistic
Deposition Simulation Models, Advisor
- Emily Devine, Summer 2019 (SR), Understanding Behavioral Synchrony in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder using Functional EEG Networks, Advisor
- Patrycja Przewoznik, Summer 2019 (SR), Structural Analysis of Force Chains within Communities of Particles, Advisor
- Sarah McGuire, Fall 2018-Spring 2019, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Functional EEG Networks:
Understanding Behavioral Synchrony Differences in Adolescents in the Autism Spectrum Disorder, Advisor, with Prof. Richard Schmidt, Psychology.
- Michael Marlett, Fall 2018-Spring 2019, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Topology and Convolutional Neural Networks
Applied to Retinal Disease, Advisor
- Jinghan Chen, Spring 2019. Directed Reading (SR), Random Walks in Topology, Advisor
- Allison Sullivan, Fall 2018--Spring 2019. Directed Project (SR), Topological Modeling of Force Networks in Simulated Granular Materials
, Advisor
- Sarah McGuire, Summer 2018 (SR), Behavioral Synchrony and Functional EEG
Networks, Advisor, with Prof. Richard Schmidt, Psychology.
- Michael Marlett, Summer 2018 (SR), Macular Degeneration Classification
Through Topology and Convolutional Neural Networks, Advisor
- Kate Heenan, Spring 2018. Mathematics Honors Thesis (SR),
A Topological and Graphical Approach to Analyzing Ballistic Deposition Models, Advisor
- Lucca Eloy, Spring 2018, Computer Science Honors Thesis (SR), <\em>
A Computational Model of Heading and Object Detection Using Real World Scenes, Reader.
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Michelle Yu, Spring 2018, Mathematics Honors Thesis (SR),
Detecting Climate Change Points, Reader.
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Allison Sullivan, Fall 2017--Spring 2018. Directed Project (SR), Community Topology 1,2}, Advisor
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Anna Hulsemann, Spring. Directed Reading, Real and Abstract Analysis 1, Advisor
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Anna Hulsemann, Fall 2017. Directed Reading (SR), Connectome Topology, Advisor
- Kate Heenan, Summer 2017 (SR), Ballistic deposition: graph theory, the Laplace matrix & eigenvalue analysis, Advisor
- Sarah McGuire, Summer 2017 (SR), EEG and Behavioral Synchrony, Advisor with Prof. Richard Schmidt, Psychology.
- Ally Sullivan, Summer 2017 (SR), Topological Modeling of Force Networks in Granular Material, Advisor
- Katie Heenan, Fall 2016-Spring 2017, Directed Project (SR), Ballistic Deposition 1, 2. Advisor
- Sarah Tymochko, Fall 2016-Spring 2017, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Topological Data Analysis of Retinal
Vasculature , Advisor
- Emily Winn, Fall 2016-Spring 2017, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Topological Modeling of Force Networks in Granular Materials, Advisor
- Kate Heenan, Summer 2016 (SR), Topological Data Analysis of Ballistic Deposition Models, Advisor
- Emily Winn, Summer 2016 (SR), Topological Modeling of Force Networks in Granular Materials, Advisor
- Sarah Tymochko, Spring 2016, Directed Project (SR) Modeling with Topology 2, Advisor
- Brian Toner and Sarah Tymochko, Fall 2015, Directed Project (SR), Modeling with Topology 1, Advisor
- Brian Toner and Sarah Tymochko, Summer 2015 (SR), In-111 Uptake in SPECT Images of Murine Tumors with Varying
Antigen Expression: A Topological Approach, Advisor
- Melissa R. McGuirl, Fall 2014-Spring 2015, Departmental and College Honors Thesis (SR), A Topological Analysis of Targeted In-111 Uptake in SPECT Images of Mouse Tumors, Advisor
- Ken Goettler, Fall 2014-Spring 2015, Department Honors Project (SR), Modeling T Cell Dynamics: Lifetimes and Chronic Activation in HIV-1 Infection, Advisor
- Ken Goettler, Summer 2014 (SR), Modeling Chronic Immune Activation in HIV-1 Infection, Advisor
- Molly Lynch, Fall 2013-Spring 2014, Department Honors Thesis (SR), Mathematical Modeling of HIV:
Exploring the Damaged Niche Hypothesis, Advisor
- Melissa R. McGuirl, Fall 2013-Spring 2014, Directed Project (SR),
Applied Computational Topology 1, 2. Advisor
- Molly Lynch, Summer 2013 (SR), Mathematical Modeling of HIV:
Exploring the Damaged Niche Hypothesis, Advisor
- Melissa R. McGuirl, Summer 2013 9SR), The Topological Microstructure of Murine Tumors, Advisor
- Leah DeCoste, Fall 2012-Spring 2013, Department Honors Thesis (SR), Modeling the Limited Immune Reconstitution of
HIV-1 Patients on HAART: The Damaged Niche
Hypothesis. Advisor
- Alexandra Femia, Fall 2012-Spring 2013, Directed Project (SR),
Modeling Negative Curvature of Beta Sheet Proteins. Advisor
- Meghan Reynolds, Fall 2012-Spring 2013, Biology Research (SR),
Amphibian Population Demographics: Modeling Abundance of Red-Spotted Newt Using Program MARK. Second Advisor
- Laura Webber, Spring 2013, Department Honors Thesis (SR), Using Motion and Disparity Tuning to Detect Moving Objects
. Reader.
- Alisa Aylward, Fall 2011-Spring 2012, Department Honors Thesis (SR), Homology of Proteins. Advisor
- Leah DeCoste, Fall 2011-Spring 2012, Directed Project (SR),
HIV Modeling 1, 2. Advisor
- Leah DeCoste, Summer 2011 (SR), Modeling the Immune Reconstitution on HAART, Advisor
- Maria Cavicchi, Fall 2010-Spring 2011, Directed Project,
HIV Research 3, 4. Advisor
- Deirdre Scully, Fall 2010-Spring 2011, Directed Project,
Contact Topology 1,2. Advisor
- Lauren Brais, Spring 2011, CISS Academic Internship at UMass
Medical School. Advisor
- Maria Cavicchi, Summer 2010 , Modeling the Immunological Response to
HIV-1 After HAART, Advisor
- Deirdre Scully, Summer 2010 , Overtwisted Contact
Structures, Advisor
- Maria Cavicchi, Fall 2009-Spring 2010, Directed Project , HIV
Research 1, 2. Advisor
- Matthew Brady, Summer 2009 , Creating a Quantum Computer to Approximate
the Jones Value of Four-Stranded Braids, Advisor
- Maria Cavicchi, Summer 2009 , An Alternative Perspective for
Modeling HIV, Advisor
- Bridget A. Whitehead, Fall 2008-Spring 2009, Departmental Honors
Project , Modeling the
Immune Response to HIV 1 after HAART, Advisor
- Kathleen D. Moore, 2009 , Cortical Processing of Moving Object
Detection: Psychophysical and Computational Studies, Departmental Honors
Thesis, Reader.
- Owen Fenton, Fall 2008, Modeling Differential Equations in
Mathematical Biology, Tutorial, Advisor
- Matthew Brady, Summer 2008 , Modeling Deeply Knotted Proteins with Knotplot,
Summer Research Project, Advisor
- Jon Root, Spring 2008, Linear Algebra and Calculus on Manifolds, Tutorial, Advisor
- Katherine L. Fitzpatrick, 2008 , Non-Loose Legendrian
Knots Departmental Honors Thesis, Advisor
- Kathryn Y. Noonan, 2007, College Honors Thesis and Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Multivariate Analysis of Drug Mixtures Using Raman Spectroscopy, Co-Advisor with Prof. Kimberley Frederick, Department of Chemistry.
- Alison M. Brown, MacKenzie (Maggie) C. Kielman, Angelina Yooyoung Kim, Fall 2005, Spring 2006 Tutorial (SR),Contact Topology Tutorial, Advisor Department presentation: Chekanov Decomposition Invariants of Rational Legendrian Knots.
- Elizabeth M. Sennott, 2005, College Honors Thesis (SR), On a Conjecture by Kauffman and Harary., Advisor
- Courtney Michna, 2004, ``Elusive Possession:'' Daisy Buchanan and Zelda Fitzgerald. College Honors
Thesis, Reader.
- Heather L. Bain, 2003, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR) The Future of Carbon in Brazil: Three Contrasting Scenarios H.L. Bain, G.C. Hurtt (University of New Hampshire), and M.F. Cardoso (University of New Hampshire). Advisor
- Lan P. Tran, 2001, College Honors Thesis (SR), Studies of Chaotic Behaviors of Dynamical
Systems through Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Advisor
- Katie Grant, Fall 2000, Geometry of Biological Time, Tutorial,
Advisor
- Tessa-Jonne Osborne-Smith, 1999, College Honors Thesis, A Mathematical Model of
Hearing: The Cochlea, Advisor
- Gregory K. Yurasek, 1999, College Honors Thesis The Mathematical Slant: Mathematical
Philosophy and its Pedagogical Implications., Reader.
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John William Hoppin, 1998, Departmental Honors Thesis (SR), Noise Characterization of
Reconstruction Algorithms in Single Photon Emission Computed
Tomography, Reader.
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Jamie Iosue, Spring 1997, Tutorial, Hamilton's Equations and Potential
Energy Surfaces in Chemical Kinetics, Advisor
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Joseph Dirocco, 1996, College Honors Thesis, (SR) Neural Networks, co-Advisor with
Ken Prestwich, Department of Biology.
- Suzanne Buchta, 1995, Application of Topology to DNA Structure \&
Function, Fenwick Scholar Project. Co-Advisor with Margaret
N. Freije, Department of Mathematics and Computers Science.
- Melissa Dean, 1995, One- and Two-Dimensional Dynamical Systems,
Departmental Honors Thesis. Reader.
- Jon D. Pilon, 1994, College Honors Thesis, Wavelet Analysis and the Large-Scale
Structure of the Universe, Advisor
- Carolyn A. Brenia, Spring 1994, Washington Semester Preogram (SR) A New Vision for the Learning
and Teaching of Mathematics at the Secondary Level: Cooperative
Learning with Technology, Advisor
- Sean McGrath, Spring 1994, Tutorial. Co-advisor with Margaret
N. Freije.
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Meghan A. Gillin, 1994, College and Departmental Honors
Thesis, Some Results in Global Differential
Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Reader.
- Monique O'Brien, Spring 1993, Tutorial Analytical Dynamics, Advisor
- Meredith R. Putnam, 1993, Departmental Honors Thesis, Special Surfaces in Three-Space, Reader.
- Steven Levandosky, 1992, College and Departmental Honors Thesis, Operator Algebras. College and
Departmental Honors Thesis, Advisor
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Brian Foster, Spring 1989, APL. Tutorial, Advisor
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David Banach, 1989, Departmental Honors Project, Isometries on Riemannian Manifolds.
Advisor
- John Birge, 1989,Departmental Honors Project, Mathematical Physics,
co-advisor with Patrick Shanahan.
- Michele Intermont, 1989, College Honors Thesis, The Lie Geometry of Spheres, Reader.
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Jennifer Zaiser, 1987, College Honors Thesis, Solitons: Linear and Non-Linear Waves.
Advisor
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