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The Department of Mathematics and Statistics was host until 2014 to the MSc course in the Mathematics of Scientific and Industrial Computation (previously known as Numerical Solution of Differential Equations) and the MSc course in Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Oceans. A selection of dissertation titles are listed below, some of which are available online:
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Amanda Hynes - Slow and superfast diffusion of contaminant species through porous media
Emine Akkus - Estimating forecast error covariance matrices with ensembles
Rabindra Gurung - Numerical solution of an ODE system arising in photosynthesis
Zeinab Zargar - Modelling of Hot Water Flooding as an Enhanced Oil Recovery Method
Siti Mazulianawati Haji Majid - Numerical Approximation of Similarity in Nonlinear Diffusion Equations
Yu Chau Lam - Drag and Momentum Fluxes Produced by Mountain Waves
Josie Dodd - A Moving Mesh Approach to Modelling the Grounding Line in Glaciology
Chris Louder - Mathematical Techniques of Image Processing
Jonathan Muir - Flux Modelling of Polynyas
Naomi Withey - Computer Simulations of Dipolar Fluids Using Ewald Summations
Jean-Francois Vuillaume - Numerical prediction of flood plains using a Lagrangian approach
Tudor Ciochina - The Closest Point Method
Theodora Eleftheriou - Moving Mesh Methods Using Monitor Functions for the Porous Medium Equation
Melios Michael - Self-Consistent Field Calculations on a Variable Resolution Grid
Peter Barnet - Rain Drop Growth by Collision and Coalescence
Matthew Edgington - Moving Mesh Methods for Semi-Linear Problems
Samuel Groth - Light Scattering by Penetrable Convex Polygons
Charlotte Kong - Comparison of Approximate Riemann Solvers
Amy Jackson - Estimation of Parameters in Traffic Flow Models Using Data Assimilation
Bruce Main - Solving Richards' Equation Using Fixed and Moving Mesh Schemes
Justin Prince - Fast Diffusion in Porous Media
Carl Svoboda - Reynolds Averaged Radiative Transfer Model
Tahnia Appasawmy - Wave Reflection and Trapping in a Two Dimensional Duct
Nicholas Bird - Univariate Aspects of Covariance Modelling within Operational Atmospheric Data Assimilation
Michael Conland - Numerical Approximation of a Quenching Problem
Katy Shearer - Mathematical Modelling of the regulation and uptake of dietary fats
Peter Westwood - A Moving Mesh Finite Element Approach for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation
Kam Wong - Accuracy of a Moving Mesh Numerical Method applied to the Self-similar Solution of Nonlinear PDEs
James Barlow - Computation and Analysis of Baroclinic Rossby Wave Rays in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Martin Conway - Heat Transfer in a Buried Pipe
Simon Driscoll - The Earth's Atmospheric Angular Momentum Budget and its Representation in Reanalysis Observation Datasets and Climate Models
George Fitton - A Comparative Study of Computational Methods in Cosmic Gas Dynamics Continued
Fay Luxford - Skewness of Atmospheric Flow Associated with a Wobbling Jetstream
Jesse Norris - A Semi-Analytic Approach to Baroclinic Instability on the African Easterly Jet
Robert J. Smith - Minimising Time-Stepping Errors in Numerical Models of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Amandeep Virdi - The Influence of the Agulhas Leakage on the Overturning Circulation from Momentum Balances
Charlotta Howarth - Integral Equation Formulations for Scattering Problems
David Fairbairn - Comparison of the Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter with the Ensemble Transform Kalman Smoother
Mark Payne - Mathematical Modelling of Platelet Signalling Pathways Mesh Generation and its application to Finite Element Methods
Mary Pham - Mesh Generation and its application to Finite Element Methods
Sarah Cole - Blow-up in a Chemotaxis Model Using a Moving Mesh Method
Danila Volpi - Estimation of parameters in traffic flow models using data assimilation
Dale Partridge - Analysis and Computation of a Simple Glacier Model using Moving Grids
David MacLeod - Evaluation of precipitation over the Middle East and Mediterranean in high resolution climate models
Joanne Pocock - Ensemble Data Assimilation: How Many Members Do We Need?
Neeral Shah - Impact and implications of climate variability and change on glacier mass balance in Kenya
Tomos Roberts - Non-oscillatory interpolation for the Semi-Lagrangian scheme
Zak Kipling - Error growth in medium-range forecasting models
Zoe Gumm - Bragg Resonance by Ripple Beds
Muhammad Akram - Linear and Quadratic Finite Elements for a Moving Mesh Method
Andrew Ash - Examination of non-Time Harmonic Radio Waves Incident on Plasmas
Cassandra Moran - Harbour modelling and resonances
Elena Panti - Boundary Element Method for Heat Transfer in a Buried Pipe
Juri Parrinello - Modelling water uptake in rice using moving meshes
Ashley Twigger - Blow-up in the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation Using an Adaptive Mesh Method
Chloe Ward - Numerical Evaluation of Oscillatory Integrals
Christopher Warner - Forward and Inverse Water-Wave Scattering by Topography
Fawzi Al Busaidi - Fawzi Albusaidi
Christopher Bowden - A First Step Towards the Calculation of a Connectivity Matrix for the Great Barrier Reef
Evangelia-Maria Giannakopoulou - Flood Prediction and Uncertainty
Victoria Heighton - 'Every snowflake is different'
Thomas Jordan - Does Self-Organised Criticality Occur in the Tropical Convective System?
Gillian Morrison - Numerical Modelling of Tidal Bores using a Moving Mesh
Rachel Pritchard - Evaluation of Fractional Dispersion Models
Tamsin Lee - New methods for approximating acoustic wave transmission through ducts (PDF 2.5MB)
Lee Morgan - Anomalous diffusion (PDF-1.5MB)
Keith Pham - Finite element modelling of multi-asset barrier options (PDF-3MB)
Alastair Radcliffe - Finite element modelling of the atmosphere using the shallow water equations (PDF-2.5MB)
Sanita Vetra - The computation of spectral representations for evolution PDE (PDF-3.2MB)
Laura Baker - Properties of the ensemble Kalman filter (PDF-3.8MB)
Alison Brass - A moving mesh method for the discontinuous Galerkin finite element technique (PDF-916KB)
Daniel Lucas - Application of the phase/amplitude method to the study of trapped waves in the atmosphere and oceans (PDF-1.1MB)
Duduzile Nhlengethwa - Petrol or diesel (PDF-1MB)
Rhiannon Roberts - Modelling glacier flow (PDF-406KB)
David Skinner - A moving mesh finite element method for the shallow water equations (PDF-4.3MB)
Jovan Stojsavljevic - Investigation of waiting times in non-linear diffusion equations using a moving mesh method (PDF-538KB)
Bonhi Bhattacharya - A moving finite element method for high order nonlinear diffusion problems
Jonathan Coleman - High frequency boundary element methods for scattering by complex polygons
Rachael England - The use of numerical methods in solving pricing problems for exotic financial derivatives with a stochastic volatility
Stefan King - Best fits with adjustable nodes and scale invariance
Edmund Ridley - Analysis of integral operators from scattering problems
Nicholas Robertson - A moving Lagrangian mesh model of a lava dome volcano and talus slope
Iain Davison - Scale analysis of short term forecast errors
Richard Silveira - Electromagnetic scattering by simple ice crystal shapes
Nicola Stone - Development of a simplified adaptive finite element model of the Gulf Stream
Halina Watson - The behaviour of 4-D Var for a highly nonlinear system
Jonathan Aitken - Data dependent mesh generation for peicewise linear interpolation
Stephen Arden - A collocation method for high frequency scattering by convex polygons
Shaun Benbow - Numerical methods for american options
Stewart Chidlow - Approximations to linear wave scattering by topography using an integral equation approach
Philip McLaughlin - Outdoor sound propagation and the boundary element method
Antonis Neochoritis - Numerical modelling of islands and capture zone size distributions in thin film growth
Kylie Osman - Numerical schemes for a non-linear diffusion problem
Shaun Potticary - Efficient evaluation of highly oscillatory integrals
Martyn Taylor - Investigation into how the reduction of length scales affects the flow of viscoelastic fluid in parallel plate geometries
Aanand Venkatramanan - American spread option pricing
Richard Fruehmann - Ageostrophic wind storms in the central Caspian sea
Gemma Furness - Using optimal estimation theory for improved rainfall rates from polarization radar
Edward Hawkins - Vorticity extremes in numerical simulations of 2-D geostrophic turbulence
Robert Horton - Two dimensional turbulence in the atmosphere and oceans
David Livings - Aspects of the ensemble Kalman filter
David Sproson - Energetics and vertical structure of the thermohaline circulation
Rakhib Ahmed - Numerical schemes applied to the Burgers and Buckley-Leverett equations
James Atkinson - Embedding methods for the numerical solution of convolution equations
Catherine Campbell-Grant - A comparative study of computational methods in cosmic gas dynamics
Paresh Prema - Numerical modelling of Island ripening
Mark Webber - The point source methods in inverse acoustic scattering
Oliver Browne - Improving global glacier modelling by the inclusion of parameterised subgrid hypsometry within a three-dimensional, dynamical ice sheet model
Petros Dalakakis - Radar scattering by ice crystals
Eleanor Gosling - Flow through porous media: recovering permeability data from incomplete information by function fitting .
Sarah Grintzevitch - Heat waves: their climatic and biometeorological nature in two north american reigions
Helen Mansley - Dense water overflows and cascades
Polly Smith - Application of conservation laws with source terms to the shallow water equations and crowd dynamics
Peter Taylor - Application of parameter estimation to meteorology and food processing
Kate Alexander - Investigation of a new macroscopic model of traffic flow
Luke Bennetts - An application of the re-iterated Galerkin approximation in 2-dimensions
Peter Spence - The Position of the free boundary formed between an expanding plasma and an electric field in differing geometries
Daniel Vollmer - Adaptive mesh refinement using subdivision of unstructured elements for conservation laws
Clare Harris - The Valuation of weather derivatives using partial differential equations
Sarah Kew - Development of a 3D fractal cirrus model and its use in investigating the impact of cirrus inhomogeneity on radiation
Emma Quaile - Rotation dominated flow over a ridge
Jemma Shipton - Gravity waves in multilayer systems
Winnie Chung - A Spectral Method for the Black Scholes Equations
Penny Marno - Crowded Macroscopic and Microscopic Models for Pedestrian Dynamics
Malachy McConnell - On the numerical solution of selected integrable non-linear wave equations
Stavri Mylona - An Application of Kepler's Problem to Formation Flying using the Störmer-Verlet Method
Sarah Brodie - Numerical Modelling of Stratospheric Temperature Changes and their Possible Causes
Matt Sayer - Upper Ocean Variability in the Equatorial Pacific on Diurnal to Intra-seasonal Timescales
Laura Stanton - Linearising the Kepler problem for 4D-var Data Assimilation
R.B. Brad - An Implementation of the Box Scheme for use on Transcritical Problems
D. Garwood - A Comparison of two approaches for the Approximating of 2-D Scattered Data, with Applications to Geological Modelling
R. Hawkes - Mesh Movement Algorithms for Non-linear Fisher-type Equations
P. Jelfs - Conjugate Gradients with Rational and Floating Point Arithmetic
M. Maisey - Vorticity Preserving Lax-Wendroff Type Schemes
C.A. Radcliffe - Positive Schemes for the Linear Advection Equation
D. Brown - Two Data Assimilation Techniques for Linear Multi-input Systems.
S. Christodoulou - Finite Differences Applied to Stochastic Problems in Pricing Derivatives.
C. Freshwater - The Muskingum-Cunge Method for Flood Routing.
S.H. Man - Galerkin Methods for Coupled Integral Equations.
A. Laird - A New Method for Solving the 2-D Advection Equation.
T. McDowall - Finite Differences Applied to Joint Boundary Layer and Eigenvalue Problems.
M. Shahrill - Explicit Schemes for Finding Soliton Solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation.
B. Weston - A Marker and Cell Solution of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations for Free Surface Flow.
M. Ariffin - Grid Equidistribution via Various Algorithmic Approaches.
S.J. Fletcher - Numerical Approximations to Bouyancy Advection in the Eddy Model.
N.Fulcher - The Finite Element Approximation of the Natural Frequencies of a Circular Drum.
V. Green - A Financial Model and Application of the Semi-Lagrangian Time-Stepping Scheme.
D.A. Parry - Construction of Symplectic Runge-Kutta Methods and their Potential for Molecular Dynamics Application.
S.C. Smith - The Evolution of Travelling Waves in a Simple Model for an Ionic Autocatalytic System
P. Swain - Numerical Investigations of Vorticity Preserving Lax-Wendroff Type Schemes.
M. Wakefield - Variational Methods for Upscaling.
C.C. Anderson - A dual-porosity model for simulating the preferential movement of water in the unsaturated zone of a chalk aquifer.
K.W. Blake - Contour zoning.
M.R. Garvie - A comparison of cell-mapping techniques for basins of attraction.
W. Gaudin - HYDRA: a 3-d MPP Eulerian hydrocode.
D. Gnandi - Alternating direction implicit method applied to stochastic problems in derivative finance.
J. Hudson - Numerical techniques for conservation laws with source terms. .
H.S. Khela - The boundary integral method.
K. Singh - A comparison of numerical schemes for pricing bond options.
R.V. Egan - Chaotic response of the Duffing equation. A numerical investigation into the dynamics of the non-linear vibration equation.
R.G. Higgs - Nonlinear diffusion in reservoir simulation.
P.B. Horrocks - Fokker-Planck model of stochastic acceleration: a study of finite difference schemes.
M.A. Wlasek - Variational data assimilation: a study.
A. Barnes - Reaction-diffusion waves in an isothermal chemical system with a general order of autocatalysis.
S.J. Leary - Mesh movement and mesh subdivision.
S. McAllister - First and second order complex differential equations.
R.K. Sadhra - Investigating dynamical systems using the cell-to-cell mapping.
J.P. Wilson - A refined numerical model of sediment deposition on saltmarshes.
M. Bishop - The modelling and analysis of the equations of motion of floating bodies on regular waves.
J. Olwoch - Isothermal autocatalytic reactions with an immobilized autocatalyst.
S. Stoke - Eulerian methods with a Lagrangian phase in gas dynamics.
R. Coad - 1-D and 2-D simulations of open channel flows using upwinding schemes.
M. Ali - Application of control techniques to solving linear systems of equations .
M.H. Brookes - An investigation of a dual-porosity model for the simulation of unsaturated flow in a porous medium .
A.J. Crossley - Application of Roe's scheme to the shallow water equations on the sphere .
D.A. Kirkland - Huge singular values and the distance to instability. .
B.M. Neil - An investigation of the dynamics of several equidistribution schemes .
P.A. Burton - Re-iterative methods for integral equations .
J.M. Hobbs - A moving finite element approach to semiconductor process modelling in 1-D. .
L.M. Whitfield - The application of optimal control theory to life cycle strategies .
S.J. Woolnough - A numerical model of sediment deposition on saltmarshes .
I. MacDonald - The numerical solution of free surface/pressurized flow in pipes. .
A.D. Pollard - Preconditioned conjugate gradient methods for serial and parallel computers. .
C.J. Smith - Adaptive finite difference solutions for convection and convection-diffusion problems .
K.J. Neylon - Block iterative methods for three-dimensional groundwater flow models .
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Hello all! I’m an undergraduate math major. This semester I am starting a thesis for the College of Honors in the field of mathematics at my school. I have struggled the whole semester in trying to find a topic to write on and how to find sources on the topic. One of my professors suggested finding a topic I like and writing about its applications. I know as an undergrad I don’t need to contribute any “original work/ideas” to the field of mathematics. But does anyone, particularly someone who has does math research or written a thesis in mathematics have any ideas that might be interesting (and frankly, easier to write about)? I honestly am at a loss here trying to find a topic and beginning writing in the first place. Any tips or resources would be appreciated. I do enjoy calculus, financial mathematics, and abstract algebra. So far I’ve taken: Calculus 1&2, Linear and Abstract Algebra, Probability, Statistical Methods (I have NOT completed Real Analysis, Differential Equations, Calculus 3 or Number Theory yet) just so everyone has an idea. Thank you for your help!
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (6/28/2024) – School of Mathematics PhD student Sylvester Zhang was recently awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota. The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write their dissertation during the fellowship year.
Sylvester Zhang started the University of Minnesota Mathematics PhD program in Fall 2020, after completion of his undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Economics here at UMN. Zhang is interested in algebraic combinatorics. In particular he aims to explore topics like total positivity, cluster algebras, symmetric functions, and the flag manifold. Advised by Pavlo Pylyavskyy, Zhang is currently primarily focused on two distinct research topics: 1) an approach to Schubert polynomials using methods from mathematical physics, and 2) affine symmetric group and combinatorics of the affine flag variety. He says he is looking forward to continuing a career in academia and research after graduation.
The University of Minnesota DDF program aims to give the most accomplished Ph.D. candidates – those who have passed the written and oral preliminary examinations and their program coursework – an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write their dissertation during the fellowship year. The fellowship grants awardees a $25,000 stipend, academic year tuition, subsidized health insurance through the Graduate Assistant Health Plan for up to one calendar year, and a $1,000 conference grant.
While we want Ph.D. students to be independent, our practices can signal that we’re not available to support them when they need it, writes Ramon B. Goings.
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Consider the following discussion. A student tells me, “I have so much going on right now. I’m trying to write this dissertation, take care of my mom and raise my kids. I’m giving to everyone else and have nothing left to write.”
“Thanks for sharing,” I respond. “Have you reached out to your adviser to discuss what is happening and see what resources you might be able to access?”
“My adviser said they will meet with me when I have a document ready for them to review. They are too busy,” the student says. “I’ve just been struggling in silence and don’t know what to do.”
This conversation highlights the reality for many doctoral students—they may experience hardships in silence. The doctoral journey is an interesting experience during which students are provided structure through coursework and then, once they enter the dissertation phase, that structure is removed. They usually are in a position where they have to manage everything themselves.
As faculty members, we try to provide the space of intellectual curiosity for our students and allow them to explore their dissertation topics. However, while we want students to be independent, our practices can signal that we are not available to support them when they need it. What are some strategies that we should consider implementing to support our students who too often struggle in silence? Below are three that I have implemented in my chairing process.
Create an environment where students can share. Students want to meet our expectations and standards. Yet in efforts to not burden us, some students may choose not to reach out to us when they are experiencing challenges. In some instances, they also do not come to us due to the fear—and, at times, the reality—that they will face adverse consequence for doing so. While that can occur during the coursework phase, it is even more common when students are writing their dissertations, because they believe they must be independent scholars and figure everything out on their own.
To combat those situations, we as dissertation chairs must first create an environment where students can feel comfortable to share what they are going through. One simple way to foster that type of relationship is to first ensure that you make time to meet regularly with your advisees. While that may seem to be an obvious practice, I often hear from doctoral students, like the one in the opening vignette of this article, that they find it challenging just to get on their chair’s calendar. That can unintentionally signal to them that we as faculty members are not available. As a faculty member, I know we have many demands on our time. To support my students, I have dedicated times each week when students can meet with me as needed. Making the time consistent on my calendar allows me to ensure other activities do not get in the way of meeting with students. To be more efficient, I created a special Calendly meeting link that has time slots open for students to schedule.
Programs should also have regular faculty meetings to discuss student academic progress, along with any well-being challenges such as mental health and/or life challenges. Sometimes a student is more comfortable talking with a faculty member who is not on their dissertation committee, and having such conversations can provide a space for all faculty members to learn what is going on and potentially troubleshoot before a student’s difficulties gets worse.
Choose your words with care. As dissertation chairs, our words hold significant power with our advisees. Those words become even more important when our students are experiencing personal and/or professional challenges. To illustrate this point, I offer you one word that, when used, can be a trigger for students: concern.
Students have told me that if we use the word “concern” when talking with them, it signals something is drastically wrong with what they are doing. So if I am relaying information—especially feedback—to students, I ask myself the following before I speak:
I am certainly aware that interpretation is important, but while students can take feedback from us on their work, I have learned to be reflective about what I say. It can influence their self-confidence, a key component for completing the dissertation process.
Understand your role is not a problem solver but solution facilitator. When I talk with other faculty members, some are quick to declare they are scientists, not therapists, so supporting their students’ distinct life challenges isn’t in their job description. I also agree that it’s not our role as faculty members to solve students’ problems for them. But we can provide a listening ear and, most of all, connect students to the various resources that can support them in their decision making.
For instance, a chair I know was advising a doctoral student who was communicative when writing their proposal and moved through the process fairly quickly. Then, after the student collected their data, the chair noticed that the student slowed down their progress and that when they met the student exhibited some uncharacteristic behaviors. Fortunately, the two had established a positive rapport, so the faculty member was able to learn that the student was unexpectedly taking on caregiving responsibilities for a sibling while experiencing some housing instability. In that case, the faculty member was able to connect the student with a campus resource for caregivers and, through it, the student was able to find housing support.
I know many faculty members are already engaging in the practices that I’ve suggested, but I continue to encounter doctoral students at the dissertation phase who are suffering in silence.
I invite you to share with me in conversations on X any other successful strategies you’ve implemented to support your doctoral students. My mission is to bring to light some of these ideas so we can make our graduate programs spaces where our students can flourish.
Ramon B. Goings ( @ramongoings ) is an associate professor in the language, literacy and culture doctoral program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and founder of Done Dissertation .
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Dissertations. Most Harvard PhD dissertations from 2012 forward are available online in DASH, Harvard's central open-access repository and are linked below. Many older dissertations can be found on ProQuest Dissertation and Theses Search which many university libraries subscribe to.
bio-mathematics: introduction to the mathematical model of the hepatitis c virus, lucille j. durfee PDF ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF THE LITERATURE REGARDING ACTIVE AND DIRECT INSTRUCTION AND THEIR PROMOTION OF FLEXIBLE THINKING IN MATHEMATICS , Genelle Elizabeth Gonzalez
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 PDF. A Statistical Analysis of Hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin and Sinkholes in Florida, Joy Marie D'andrea. PDF. Statistical Analysis of a Risk Factor in Finance and Environmental Models for Belize, Sherlene Enriquez-Savery. PDF. Putnam's Inequality and Analytic Content in the Bergman Space, Matthew Fleeman. PDF
Dissertation Topics. This page contains details for the topics available for final year dissertations for MMath students, and for projects for BSc students. For full information on the BSc and MMath Final Year Projects, please see this page. These topics are also offered to students in MSc Mathematics.
History of Mathematics. Students wishing to do a dissertation based on the History of Mathematics are asked to contact Brigitte Stenhouse at [email protected] by Wednesday of week 1 with a short draft proposal. All decisions will be communicated to students by the end of week 2.
If you are an undergraduate looking for some research topics for your next math paper, you will surely appreciate our list of interesting undergraduate math research topics: Methods to count discrete objects. The origins of Greek symbols in mathematics. Methods to solve simultaneous equations. Real-world applications of the theorem of Pythagoras.
Theses/Dissertations from 2020. Mathematical Identities of Students with Mathematics Learning Dis/abilities, Emma Lynn Holdaway. Teachers' Mathematical Meanings: Decisions for Teaching Geometric Reflections and Orientation of Figures, Porter Peterson Nielsen. Student Use of Mathematical Content Knowledge During Proof Production, Chelsey Lynn ...
A senior thesis is required by the Mathematics concentration to be a candidate for graduation with the distinction of High or Highest honors in Mathematics. See the document ' Honors in Mathematics ' for more information about honors recommendations and about finding a topic and advisor for your thesis. With regards to topics and advisors ...
Dissertation in mathematics. This module enables you to carry out a sustained, guided, independent study of a topic in mathematics. There's a choice of topics, for example: algebraic graph theory; aperiodic tilings and symbolic dynamics; advances in approximation theory; history of modern geometry; interfacial flows and microfluidics ...
Here is the complete list of all doctoral dissertations granted by the School of Math, which dates back to 1965. Included below are also all masters theses produced by our students since 2002. A combined listing of all dissertations and theses, going back to 1934, is available at Georgia Tech's library archive.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021. PDF. Mathematical Modelling & Simulation of Large and Small Scale Structures in Star Formation, Gianfranco Bino. PDF. Mathematical Modelling of Ecological Systems in Patchy Environments, Ao Li. PDF. Credit Risk Measurement and Application based on BP Neural Networks, Jingshi Luo. PDF.
2024. Emily Dautenhahn. Thesis: Heat kernel estimates on glued spaces. Advisor: Laurent Saloff-Coste. First Position: Assistant Professor at Murray State University. Elena Hafner. Thesis: Combinatorics of Vexillary Grothendieck Polynomials. Advisor: Karola Meszaros. First Position: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow,, at University of Washington.
Al Kohli, Raad Sameer Al Sheikh (2024-06-11) - Thesis. In this thesis we shall study classes of groups defined by formal languages. Our first main topic is the class of groups defined by having an ET0L co-word problem; i.e., the class of co-ET0L groups.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021. PDF. Simulation of Pituitary Organogenesis in Two Dimensions, Chace E. Covington. PDF. Polynomials, Primes and the PTE Problem, Joseph C. Foster. PDF. Widely Digitally Stable Numbers and Irreducibility Criteria For Polynomials With Prime Values, Jacob Juillerat. PDF.
A selection of Mathematics PhD thesis titles is listed below, some of which are available online: 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991. 2024. Anne Sophie Rojahn - Localised adaptive Particle Filters for large scale operational NWP model 2023. Melanie Kobras - Low ...
Mathematics thesis and dissertation collection. ... This thesis is motivated by questions regarding the solvability of the Dirichlet and regularity boundary value problem with boundary data in Lᵖ for elliptic and parabolic operators. ... n this thesis we will discuss results and ideas in probability theory from a categorical point of view ...
Master's Theses 2019. Cameron Meaney. Mathematical Modelling of Cancer Treatments Involving Radiation Therapy and Hypoxia-Activated Prodrugs. Jennie Newman. Model for the RE-TC thalamic circuit with application to childhood absence epilepsy. Jesse Legaspi.
The dissertation will entail investigating a topic in an area of the Mathematical Sciences under the guidance of a dissertation supervisor. This will culminate in a written dissertation with a word limit of 7,500 words, which usually equates to 25-35 pages. It is expected that students embarking on a dissertation will be working on it over ...
The Senior Thesis in Mathematical Sciences course allows students to engage in independent mathematical work in an active and modern subject area of the mathematical sciences, guided by an official research faculty member in the department of mathematics and culminating in a written thesis presented in an appropriate public forum.
A selection of dissertation titles are listed below, some of which are available online: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991. 2014: Mathematics of Scientific and Industrial Computation. Amanda Hynes - Slow and superfast diffusion of contaminant species through porous ...
A collaborative model for teaching and learning mathematics in secondary schools. Ngwenya, Vusani (2021-11) Mathematics pass rates in South African schools, as in many developing nations, continue to be a source of concern for educators and policymakers alike. Improving mathematics performance is non-negotiable if Africa is to ...
Here are some topics which I enjoy and thought that you might enjoy given your coursework. Mathematical Cryptography and the development of post quantum cryptosystems (heavy on number theory applications of abstract algebra and advanced linear algebra) Game Tree Theory (probability theory and algebraic manipulations).
Agbavon, Koffi Messan (University of Pretoria, 2020) In this thesis, we make use of numerical schemes in order to solve Fisher's and FitzHugh-Nagumo equations with specified initial conditions. The thesis is made up of six chapters. Chapter 1 gives some literatures on partial ...
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (6/28/2024) - School of Mathematics PhD student Sylvester Zhang was recently awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota. The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and ...
While we want Ph.D. students to be independent, our practices can signal that we're not available to support them when they need it, writes Ramon B. Goings. Consider the following discussion. A student tells me, "I have so much going on right now. I'm trying to write this dissertation, take care of my mom and raise my kids. I'm giving to everyone else and have nothing left to write ...