Department of Mathematics

§ Alumni News§

Are you interested in working on some research in mathematics? Many professors have projects for students to work on, or we can help you with something that you are interested in already! Please stop by and ask us. Here are some current and recent projects, along with a list of faculty interests.

Current & Recent Projects

  • Chris Kirkland (2012) completed an REU this summer and presented his research at MathFest 2010. Great job!
  • Chris Kirkland (2012) spent Fall 2010 working with Dr. Symmington to find an algebraic formula for the locus of incenters of an interesting family of tirangles. This work is motivated by Dr. Symmington's work with a determatological surgeon, Joshua Lane.
  • Melanie Markman is currently working with Dr. Denny on developing a simulation of C.S. Holling's experiments to determine a model of the rate at which small mammals find prey as a function of the density of the prey in the environment.
  • Andrew Conner (2011) is working with Dr. Herink on generalizations of Zeckendof's Theorem (Every positive integer can be uniquely expressed as a sum of nonconsecutives Fibonacci numbers). Andrew developed an interest in this after attending MUURMaC last year. He is presenting at Georgia Southern's Eacgle Undergraduate Mathematics Conference in 2010.
  • Daniel Brown (2010) completed a mathematical analysis of the construction of the fort at First Colony in North Carolina. This work was supervised by both Dr. Symington (Mathematics) and Dr. Eric Klingelhofer (Anthropology).
  • Annie Morris (2010) is working on her senior presentation with Dr. Denny. This will explore the definition, basic theory and applications of Fourier series.
  • Jonathan Crosby (2009) spent time working with Dr. Herink investigating the Fibonacci sequence mod n. He presented his research at MUURMaC in 2009.
  • Whitney Thompson (2009) completed a senior research project with Dr. Nelson that involved a statistical analysis of the former Atlanta Brave Jeff Francoeur to determine whether he is a streaky hitter.
  • Kimberly Conner (2007) researched 6-by-6 sudoku puzzles with Dr. Herink.
  • Andrew Gainer (2007) completed an honors research project supervised by Dr. Symmington. The project concerned immersed closed curves in the plane.

Faculty Research Interests

  • Dr. Beier - Lie Algebras, Quantum Groups, Representation Theory, Combinatorics
  • Dr. Denny - Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Modeling, Analysis
  • Dr. Hartfield - Mathematics Education
  • Dr. Herink - Set Theory, Combinatorics
  • Dr. Howard - Biological Modeling, Epidemiology, ODEs, PDEs, Semigroups of Operators
  • Dr. Malagon - Lie algebras, Quadratic Forms, Galois Cohomology
  • Dr. McIlwain - Differential Operators on Graphs
  • Dr. Nelson - Current interest in Statistics
  • Dr. Reinkoester - Commutative Rings, Multiplicative Ideal Theory, Abstract Factorization
  • Dr. Symington - Symplectic Topology with a preference for Geometric flavor in particular in dimension four.
  • Dr. Yackel - Mathematical Art, Mathematics Education