Past Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

Research Opportunities for Undergraduates (Past Projects)

Analysis of Protein Structure

Presidential Scholar Rob Taintor '08 worked with professors Rockmore and Leibon, implementing a fast Hermite Transform algorithm that will be used in analyzing data to help determine protein structure. This work is currently being written up for journal publication.

Topological invariants of wave fronts and virtual knots

Presidential Scholar Evarist Byberi '08 worked with professor Chernov on the project titled "Topological invariants of wave fronts and virtual knots." The result of this project were new interesting results about bridge and unknotting numbers of virtual knots.

Medical Imaging

Chetan Mehta '08 worked on optimal measurements for Diffuse Optical Tomography, a medical imaging inverse problem. Senior Thesis, advisor --- prof. Alexander Barnett.

Chaotic Dynamics

Presidential Scholar Chor Lam '09 worked with professor Barnett on chaotic dynamics in the mushroom billiard (Fall-Winter 2007-2008).

Acoustics/Number Theory

WISP student Vissuta Jiwariyavej '09 analysed the acoustic impulse-response of the racquetball court using method of images and techniques from number theory (prof. Alexander Barnett).

A Mathematical Analysis of Concussive Injuries and their Diagnostic Tools

Michael P. McClincy '06 studied head injuries in sports and the tests used to assess their mental effects, and even devised a combined score which was a better predictor than the individual scores. Senior Thesis, advisor --- prof. Peter Winkler.