Undergraduate Research is an important requirement for the Bachelor of Science in Mathematics degree. Most students complete their research under the direction of Seattle University mathematics faculty. However, students can choose to do an off-campus Research Experience for Undergraduates sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Below is a partial list of SU faculty advisors along with the students they have directed and the titles of their undergraduate research projects.
Dr. Jeff Boersema
Students and Their Projects:
- Jennifer Kling: "Trigonometric Functions of Square Matrices"
Dr. John Carter
Students and Their Projects:
- Erin Hunt: "Water waves: comparisons between mathematical predictions and physical experiments"
- William Whitwell: "Stability of solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations"
- Mona Usmani: "Stability of Jacobi elliptic function solutions to the one-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation"
- Nathan Canney: "Stability of plane waves on deep water with dissipation"
- Cynthia Contreras: "Stability of plane-wave solutions of a dissipative generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation"
- Crystal Lee: "Mathematical models of the evolution of surface waves on deep water"
- Leland Jefferis: "Stability of nontrivial-phase solutions of the two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation"
- Eddie Feeley: "Stability of trivial-phase solutions to a class of nonlinear partial differential equations"
- Wilhelmina Chik: "Stability of plane-wave solutions of a dissipative generalization of the vector nonlinear Schrödinger equation"
Dr. Shusen Ding
Students and Their Projects:
- Toana Kawashima: "Applied Statistics Models"
- David Saunders: "Two Weight Poincaré Inequalities for Differential Forms in Averaging Domains"
- Philip Opperman: "Properties of L-averaging domains"
- Alisa Yamarat: "Applied Statistics"
Dr. Mark Maclean
Students and Their Projects:
- Leland Jefferis: "A Revisiting of Escher Tilings"
- Elizabeth Dick: "An Investigation of Divisor Graphs"
Dr. Janet Mills
Students and Their Projects:
- Thomas Shelly: "Inverse Semigroup of Partial Symmetries of a Regular Polygon"
Dr. Sandra Spiroff
Students and Their Projects:
- Justin Williams: "Five Point Zero Divisor Graphs"
Dr. Donna Sylvester
Students and Their Projects:
- Caitlin McHugh (with Dr. Robert Odom): "The Answer Isn’t So Sheer as the Shear Strength Goes to Zero: Fluids Cannot Be Bent"
- Edgar Lobaton: "Developing and Comparing Numerical Methods of Computing the Inverse Fourier Transform"
- Rachelle Fletcher: "Discrete Transmission Line Modeling"