Honors Theses

Akdogan, Selin, Advances on Class 0 Pebbling Properties in Kneser Graphs, 2026

Bsila, Chadi, A Statistical Study of Byzantine Consensus via Bayesian Rank Aggregation, 2026

Dai, Tianye, High-Performance SPDZ via LLVM-based Compilation and Optimization, 2026

Orthwein, Dolph, Induced Saturation in the Boolean Lattice, 2026

Reynolds, Vincent, Outcome Determination, Connected Sums, & Game Variations in the Knotting-Unknotting Game, 2026

Sheng, Zan, Khintchine Inequalities on Distributions with Log-Concave Moment Sequence, 2026

Cox, Caroline, Pattern-Avoiding Desarrangements, 2025

Guth, Alice A., Virtual Reality: Measuring Movement and Mapping Bias, 2025

Harkins, Grant, Analysis of Order-Dependence and Accuracy in Rating Methods, 2025

Jones, Andrew J., A Machine Learning Approach to Expanding the Degrees of Freedom on Phone-Based Head Mounted Displays, 2025

Pakenas, Paige, Mathematical Insights for the Baltimore Orioles: Exploring Problems Related to Changepoint Detection and Predictive Modeling, 2025

Tuller, Jr, William Porcher Dubose, What Do Machines Understand About Music? An Analysis of Vector Embeddings and What They Encode, 2025

Wood, Kenan, Computational Combinatorics: Union-Closed Sets, Pebbling Graphs, and Formal Methods, 2025

Wood, Kenan, Distributed Computing: Arrovian Impossibilities, Blockchain Consensus, and Decentralized Applications, 2025

Ahmadi, Shahin, Time Series Classification of Fly Microbehaviors: An Application of Minirocketin Computational Neuroethology, 2024

Cha, Pauline W., Combating Discrimination: VR in the Classroom Against Stereotype Threat, 2024

Kalani, Malavika, Decoding Google’s Pagerank: A Critical Analysis pf Community Structures on Search Results, 2024

Rivera, Jr., Johnny, Counting Pattern Avoiding Permutations by Big Descents, 2024

Turk, Umut, Building a 2-Level Reliable Broadcast Algorithm, 2024

Vulpis, Cole Nathan, Evolution of the NBA: Analyzing Rebounding Trends Using Player Tracking Data, 2024

Clark, William Lathrop, Kernels of Descent Statistics, 2023

Elzatahry, Basel, Word-Level American Sign Language recognition Using Transformer and hybrid Models, 2023

Smith, Will, Ramsey Theory on the Integer Grid and the “L” Problem, 2023

Wang, Yanni (Mareen), Graph Pebbling on Grids, 2003

Baker, Noah, Triangle Degrees, 2022

Gatchel, Madelyn, Variable-Player Learning for Simulation-Based Games, 2021

Hayne, Roxana (Ana), Load Balancing in Lazy Implementations of Concurrent Data Structures, 2020

Li, Man (Max), Redefine the Hot Hand: Perception of Hotness Changes the Game, 2020

O’Neill, Aidan, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, 2020

Robertson, Michael David, Restricted Numerical Ranges of Digraph Laplacians, 2020

Strauss, Ryan, Task-Aware Multi-Task Agents, 2020

Thomas, Samuel C., Using Layering and Data Partitioning Techniques to Increase NUMA-Locality and Performance in Concurrent Data Structures, 2020

In the following list, * indicates that High Honors was awarded. Theses may usually be found in the college library or departmental collection.

• Williams, Niall, Estimation and Comparison of Rotation Gain Thresholds for Redirected Walking, 2019*
• Williams, Savannah, Zero Forcing Polynomials: Mapping Spiders to Paths, 2019*
• Tenpas, Nathaniel, Additive 3–Choosability of Planar Graphs, 2018*
• Chu, Jairui, Random Visibility in Unit Bars, 2017*
• Xue, Chenxiao, Learning a Branching Heuristic for SAT Solving, 2016*
• Jai, Kai, Matchings in Lex and Colex Graphs, 2016
• Reith, Thomas, Motif-based Clustering of Directed Networks, 2015*
• Williams, Ty, An Introduction to the Ideal Class Group, and a Comparison of Bounds on its Size, 2015
• Yan, Fangning (Richard), Expected peak sidelobe level of random sequences, 2015
• Mohorn, Matt, An Introduction to Graph Pebbling, 2014
• Bernstein, Daniel, Algorithmic Definitions of Singular Functions, 2013
• Poff, Corey, Pathology in Upper Confidence Bounds Applied to Trees, 2013*
• Thomson, Colin, A Hierarchy of Chaotic Topological Dynamics, 2013
• Yang, Chang (Kyle), The Bordeaux 3-color Conjecture and Near Coloring, 2013*
• Larson, Karen, Unwapping Rap: Classification of Drum Patterns in Rap Songs, 2012
• Altman, Ben, Higher-Order Automatic Differentiation of Multivariate Functions in MATLAB, 2010
• Oberst, Sarah, A Mathematical Model of Malaria, 2010
• Daves, Rosa Katie, Skyline Augmented Fillings, 2008
• Topaz, Adam, On the Galois Module Structure of Square Classes of Maximal Elementary Abelian 2-Extensions, 2008*
• Compeau, Phillip E.C. III, Cycles in Pancake Graphs, 2008*
• Dovidio, Nicholas A., Analysis and Applications of PageRank, HITS, the Vector Space Model, SALSA and Rank Correlation Techniques, 2007
• Helms, John A., An Adventure into Applied Abstract Algebra: Exploring the Rubik's Cube, 2007
• Cain, Nicholas, CMMI: Committee Machine Motif Identification using Artificial Neural Networks, 2006
• Chemotti, Frank, Galois module structure for square classes of units in Klein 4-group extensions, 2005
• McLean, Rob, Curves of constant geodesic curvature in the hyperbolic plane, 2003*
• Schultz, Andrew C., Galois module structure of Kx / Kxp for K / F cyclic of degree pn, 2002*
• Smith (Dunsmuir), Amy M., Basins of roots and periodicity in Newton's method for cubic polynomials, 2000
• More' (Grant), Maria M., Two gems of complex analysis: the Riemann mapping theorem and the uniformization theorem, 1997
• Young, Scott W., Methods for calculating Taylor polynomials easily and efficiently, 1997
• Onkey, Richard, On the edge-transitivity of circulant graphs, 1996
• Mubayi, Dhruv, Algorithms for Degree Sequences of Graphs and Score Sequences of Partially Oriented Graphs, 1995*
• DeSilva, Harin, Mathematical models in inventory theory, 1992
• Alyea, David, Queueing theory, 1988
• Simpson, L. Taylor, Concepts of compiler construction, 1986
• VanDeventer, Hank, Catastrophe theory for beginners, 1985
• Morrisett (Clark), Julia L. Octads, 1985
• Spangler, Thomas C., Some geometry and topology of geometric surfaces, 1980*
• Wong, Fai,  Statistics: an overview, 1979
• Gaynor, J.W., The theory of games, 1978