A student who satisfies the requirements of the College for admission to the Honors Program and
is interested in doing independent work is strongly encouraged to participate in the departmental
Honors Program. Students who successfully complete the Honors Program will have their degrees
conferred with 'Honors' or 'High Honors' in mathematics; high honors is awarded only if the student
submits a written thesis. Interested students should read carefully the section The Honors
Program in Mathematics found in the Dartmouth ORC and consult with the Department Advisor
to Mathematics Majors.
This program can be especially important to those who contemplate graduate work in mathematics or
a related field.
Recent honors theses
The following honors theses are available in PDF in full-text or abstract format. Emphasized titles denote winners of the Hazleton Mirkil Prize for Best Senior Thesis Presentation, awarded at the Department’s annual barbecue, generally held in May.
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
- Co-Diffusion of Social Contagions
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, advisor Feng Fu
- Numbers free of large prime factors
Jared Duker Lichtman, advisor Carl Pomerance
- Understanding Gambling Behavior and Risk Attitudes Using Massive Online Casino Data
Jonathan Meng, advisor Feng Fu
- Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Temperature-Dependent Fluctuations in the Population of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti, in Outdoor, Indoor, and Underground Habitats
Annika Roise, advisor Dorothy Wallace
2017
2016
2015
2014
- G-edge colored planar rook algebra
Sean Griffin, advisor Rosa Orellana
- Hermit points on an octahedron
Annie Mauhs-Pugh, advisor Peter Doyle
- Sandbagging in one-card poker
Daniel Miao, advisor Peter Doyle
- The reciprocal sum of the amicable numbers
Hanh Nguyen, advisor Carl Pomerance
- Counting Clusters on a Grid
Jacob Richey, advisor Peter Winkler
- Russell Sets, Topology, and Cardinality
Ethan Thomas, advisor Marcia Groszek
- Monte Carlo Comparison of Strategies for Blackjack
Atul Vaidyanathan, advisor Peter Winkler
- Control Strategies and Seasonal Fluctuation in Tsetse Fly Populations and Human African Trypanosomiasis: A Mathematical Model
Nejc Zupan, advisor Dorothy Wallace
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2006
2005