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Math 790 Information

Examples of Previous Projects:

2022 Projects

John Nicholson “Simulation Classes of Aperiodic Algebras” (Supervisor: Dr. Mathew Valeriote)

2021 Projects

Emma Manninen “An Exploration of Quantum Computation and Complexity” (Supervisor: Dr. Mathew Valeriote)

2020 Projects

Emma Holmes “Sensitivity Analysis of a Keen-based Economic Model with Climate” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Grasseli)
Jarvis Kennedy “An Algebraic Condition for a Complex to be Virtual” (Supervisors: Dr. M. Harada and Dr. A. Van Tuyl)
Dicle Mutlu “Classification of 1-Types in Valued Differential Fields” (Supervisor: Dr. D. Haskell)
Ashleigh Robson-Petch “Transitions in Whooping Cough Dynamics in London 1664-1950” (Supervisor: Dr. D. Earn)

2019 Projects

Jordan Pyke “Transitions in London Measles Dynamic” (Supervisor: Dr. D. Earn)
Michael Verwer “Bergman’s Condition and varieties with near unanimity terms” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Valeriote)
Amandeep Heer “A Diversity Statistic and Its Probability Density Function” (Supervisor: Dr. S. Feng)
Johnson Tan “Rabin’s Theorem

2018 Projects

Michael Cox “On Condition Numbers of On Condition Numbers of Companion Matrices” (Supervisor: Dr. A. Van Tuyl)
David Faig ” De nability of Tree Languages” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Valeriote)
Alexei Kuzmin ” Package evolvr: analysis of public goods games inPackage evolvr: analysis of public goods games infinite and infinite populations” (Supervisor: Dr. D. Earn)
Roger Zhang “ Intentional infection as a method of population-level disease control” (Supervisor: Dr. D. Earn)
Fraser Walker “ Keen model with exogenous shocks” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Grasselli)

2017 Projects

Larry Wu: “Convexity and Extremality of Frame-associated Measures supported on the unit sphere SN-1” (Supervisor: Dr. J-P. Gabardo)
Sam Budd: “An Introduction to f-Ideals and their Complements” (Supervisor: Dr. A. Van Tuyl)
Becky Hooper: ” Shellability of the van der Waerden complex” (Supervisor: Dr. A. Van Tuyl)
Michael Riddell: “The Zero Forcing Number of Circulant Graphs” (Supervisors: Dr. A. Van Tuyl and Dr. K. VenderMeulen)

2016 Projects

Madelaine Hill: “A Predator-Prey Model in the Chemostat with Holling Type II Dynamics” (Supervisor: Dr. G. Wolkowicz)

2015 Projects

Taylor Lesnick: “The Constructibility of the Regular n-gon” (Supervisor: Dr. I. Hambleton)
Ana Lucic: “Investigating Psychometric Aspects of Math-Oriented Questions on PISA Tests” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Lovric)

2014 Projects

Chris Gatapolous: “Braid Group Cryptography” (Supervisor: Dr. H. Boden)
Joshua Lockridge: “On Solvable Polynomials and their Galois Groups” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Kolster)

2013 Projects

Bilal Abbasi: “Decay Rates of the Solutions of u = 0 in the Roberson-Walker Space-time” (Supervisor: Dr. W. Craig)
Maria Campanella:”Preserving Near Unanimity Termsunder Direct Products” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Valeriote)
Ben Goodman: “Two-Component Ginzburg Landau Functional” (Supervisor: Dr. S. Alama)
Ashan James: “Coexistence of Two Serotypes of Dengue Virus with and without Seasonal Variation” (Supervisor: Dr. G. Wolkowicz)
Amanda Kamping-Carder: “The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam System and Its Connection to the Boussinesq Equation” (Supervisor: Dr. W. Craig)
Vivek Thampi: “Backward Bifurcations inWithin Host HBV/HCVModels” (Supervisor: Dr. B. Bolker)
Lindsay White: “Finite Simple Groups in Geometry and Topology” (Supervisor: Dr. I. Hambleton)

2012 Projects

Mostafa Abdi: ”Study of Vortices in two-dimensional Harmonic Potentials” (Supervisor: Dr. D. Pelinovsky)
Islami Arash: ”Elliptic Curves and Elliptic Functions” (Supervisor: Dr. C. P. Mok)
Lauren DeDieu: ” Lambda-Harmonious Graph Colouring” (Supervisor: Dr. A. Rosa)
Sophia Halassy: ”Modelling of Nerve Impulses” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Lovric)
Zuzana Masarova: ”Reaction Graphs for Some Complete Graph Decompositions” (Supervisor: Dr. A. Rosa)
Angelica Mendaglio: ”A Comparative Review of Mathematical Educational Strategies in Ontario and Finland” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Lovric)
Abdel-Aziz Shehata: ”Hasimoto’s Trasnform and its Application to Vortex Filament Dynamics” (Supervisor: Dr. W. Craig)
Ozlem Umdu: ”The Monstrous Moonshine” ( Supervisor: Dr. M. Kolster)

2011 Projects

Andrew Lovric: ”The Perplexities of Proofs” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Lovric)
Blake Rasmussen: ”The Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis from ZFC” (Supervisor: Dr. B. Hart)
Chi Zhang: ”Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions of the forced pendulum” (Supervisor: Dr. S. Alama)
Anam Hafsa: ”Idempotent Maltsev Conditions” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Valeriote)
Peter Kandolf: ”Exponential Integrators” (Supervisor: Dr. N. Kevlahan)
Rober Pupo: ”Random Matrix Theory and its Ramifications in Number Theory” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Min-Oo)
Roqayia Shalabi: ”Springer Varieties, Fixed Points , and Young Tableau Combinatorics” (Supervisor: Dr. M. Harada)
Juan Senisterra: ”Dynamical analysis of the anaerobic digestion model as proposed by Hess and Bernard” (Supervisor: Dr. G. Wolkowicz)
Xuan Meng: ”Optimal Portfolios Selection under Value-at-Risk” (Supervisor: Dr. T. Pirvu)