August 19, 2024

Raison d'être - Capstone projects

A Capstone Research project is a wonderful experience for a Mathematics educator engaged in Undergraduate Research. That's our raison d'être! Here are the Capstones that I advised at ONU. With many thanks to all those amazing students.

1.     Kaleb Swieringa, On the Alternating Sum of Divisors 2023

2.     McKinley Britton: Fibonacci Numbers and Domino Tilings 2023

3.     Alexander Hare: Experiments with Greatest Prime Factor Sequences 2023

4.     Rachael Harbaugh: Extending a Putnam Problem to Fields of Various Characteristics 2022

5.     Benjamin Morris: Fibonacci Periods 2022

6.     Greg Hassenpflug: The Golden Ratio 2021

7.     Aaron Kemats: An Investigation of the Square Grid Graph 2021

8.     Travis Maenle: A linear complexity analysis of quadratic residues and primitive roots spacings 2020

9.     Bryan Peck: Bell's Inequalities 2020

10.  Kaity Kelly: Gaussian Integers 2020

11.  Kenneth Eaton: The Fundamentals of Automated Theorem Proving 2019

12.  Megan Meyer: An Experimental Approach to Sophie Germain Sequences 2019

13.  Addison Carter: An Introduction to Partitions and Compositions 2019

14.  Rachel Liebrecht: Special Topics on Graph Theory and Ramsey Numbers 2019

15.  Shannon Tefft: Processing Quadratic Residues with Ducci Iterations 2019

16.  Jenna Holler: American Mathematics Competitions – Variations and Generalizations 2018

17.  Joseph Stomps: American Mathematics Competitions AMC 10 - analogies and generalizations 2018

18.  Matthew Golden: The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula 2017

19.  Michelle Haver: Poissonian Character and Chebyshev Bias for GPF Sequences: A Computational Analysis 2017

20.  Amanda Marco: Fibonacci Numbers and Some of Their Properties 2014

21. Matthew R. Zirkle: Finding Square Roots in a Prime Field 2013

22.  Jonathan C. Schroeder: Small Special Pairs of Primitive Roots 2013

23.  Donald J. Pleshinger: On a Congruence of Ohtsuka 2013

24.  Ashley Risch: An Euler-Fibonacci Sequence 2011

25.  Lauren Sutherland: Multidimensional Greatest Prime Factor Sequences 2011

26.  Greg Back: The Greatest Prime Factor and its Applications 2010

27.  Jenna Brace: Traffic Flow Simulation with Cellular Automata 2010

28.  John Holodnak: The Perron-Frobenius Theorem and Applications 2010

29.  Sharon Binkley: The One Time Pad and Text Visualization 2009

30.  Joshua Somerlot: The Affine Cipher 2009

31.  Andrew Homan: An Overview of Model Theory and Completeness 2007

32.  Allison Mackay: Elementary Number Theory and Classical Cryptography 2006

33.  Lisa Scheckelhoff: GPF Sequences 2006

34.  Brandon Bucholtz: The Euclidean Algorithm 2006

35.  Jacob L. Johanssen: Fibonacci-Lucas Densities 2006

36.  Nathan Baxter: Finite Fields 2005

37.  Sara Miller: Fibonacci Numbers 2003