Past Honors BS and BA Papers
2019 Honors Papers
- Joshua Beck: An application of differential geometry to freeform optics manufacturing
- Kevin Hunt: The eigenvalue distribution of random matrices with distortion
- Shenxiong Li: On the Spectrum and Essential Minimum of Heights in the Projective Plane
- Zachary Polansky: Equilateral triangles in vector spaces over finite fields
- Guowei Shan: On zeros of the p-adic zeta function and generic Newton polygons of Hecke polynomials
- Manuel Stoeckl: Approaches for the hinge and distinct distance problems
2018 Honors Papers
- Dionel Jaime: Method of Stationary Phase and Applications
- Shir Maimon: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
- Logan Meredith: On the Cauchy-Kowalevski theorem for analytic nonlinear partial differential equations
- Kenneth Plante: Free Actions on products of spheres
- Gabrielle Scullard: Factorization Properties of Integer-Valued Polynomials
- David Soukup: Embeddings of Weighted Graphs in Erdos-type Settings
- Zhonghui Sun: Projection Theorems in Vector Spaces over Finite Fields
- Mark Sweeney: Model Theory
- Alfredo Vargas: Minimal Surfaces in R^3
- Jean Weill: Yang-Mills Theory on a Cylinder
2017 Honors Papers
- Charlotte Aten: The Topology of Magmas
- Noah Chrein: Enriched Coproducts and the Twisted Adjunction
- Benjamin Dees: Analogs of the Erdos integer distance principle in vector spaces over finite fields
- Adam Lott: Roth's Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions
- Lee Murphy: The Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem
- Daniel Rubery: On a finite field analog of the bilinear spherical averaging operator
- Emily Windes: The Frobenius Theorem and Foliations
2016 Honors Papers
- Luke Cybulski: Sugawara's construction of the Virasoro algebra for c=1,h=0
- Bai Lin: Sums of permutations
- Haoran Liu: Infinite Galois theory
- Brian McDonald: Hinges in Z_p^d and applications to pinned distance sets
- Lisa Rosenfeld: The box problem in two and higher dimensions
- Adam Scrivener: On incomplete distance sets in Z_p x Z_p
- Yinuo Zhang: Shifted K-theoretic Pourier-Reutenauer algebra
2015 Honors Papers
- David Sekora: Discrete valuation rings and Dedekind domains
- Elizabeth Winkelman: The CW-complex of translation surfaces of genus 2 with one singularity
2014 Honors Papers
- Peihong Jiang: Controlling generic formal fibers of polynomial rings
- Ari Stoller: Conjugacy classes and irreducible representations of metacyclic groups
2013 Honors Papers
- Emmett Wyman: Two geometric combinatorial problems in vector spaces over finite fields
- Yujia Zhai: Areas of triangles and Beck's theorem in places over finite fields