{"id":836,"date":"2016-09-19T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/?page_id=836"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:55:46","slug":"seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/research\/seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Capstone Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Seminar (MTH 491), is the capstone course for mathematics majors. Each student completes a senior project, which is usually a research project but may be an expository paper. Each student also prepares an oral presentation on his or her project; these presentations are given near the end of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>Students who have arranged for an internship at an outside company may use this to satisfy their capstone requirement. These students should contact their departmental advisor well in advance of the internship to make arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Recent Undergraduate Capstone Projects<\/h2>\n<p>The research topics for <em>Senior Seminar<\/em> are almost unlimited. Recently, students have written capstone papers on mathematical physics, complex analysis, game theory, geometry, numerical analysis, and other topics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fall 2021 &#8211; Senior Seminars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Maegan Burke<br \/>\n<em>The Planimeter: Sweeping Through an Area Near You<\/em><br \/>\nDr. Bonita Lawrence\n<\/li>\n<li>Tanisha Lilly<br \/>\n<em>Graphs and the Minimum Rank Problem <\/em><br \/>\nDr. Ansam Al-Aqtash\n<\/li>\n<li>Logan Rose<br \/>\n<em>The Support Vector Machine <\/em><br \/>\nDr. Avishek Mallick\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Spring 2021 &#8211; Senior Seminars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Erica Burns<br \/>\n<em>Predicting Academic Intervention Need<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Colton Farley<br \/>\n<em>Description and Application of Neural Networks<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kenny Hughes<br \/>\n<em>Analyzing Two-Player Finite Zero-Sum Games<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chloe&#8217; Marcum<br \/>\n<em>Extended Schur Functions<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Forest Rowley<br \/>\n<em>Generalized Vandermonde Determinants<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Joseph Stamm<br \/>\n<em>2-Primitive Decompositions of K_n and K_n-I<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lynne Thompson<br \/>\n<em>Exact Confidence Intervals<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jordan Toppins<br \/>\n<em>Connecting High School Elements to Predict STEM Degrees<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ian Waddell<br \/>\n<em>Numerically Solving the Blasius Problem<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2020 &#8211; Senior Seminars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Isaac Brown<br \/>\n<em>Hamilton cycle decompositions of hypergraphs<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Michael Schroeder<\/li>\n<li>Jordyn Bryson<br \/>\n<em>2-Primitivity in Steiner Triple Systems<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Michael Schroeder<\/li>\n<li>Tyler Call<br \/>\n<em>Generalizations of Chromatic Polynomials<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Elizabeth Niese<\/li>\n<li>Parker D&#8217;Antoni<br \/>\n<em>Predicting Points Per Game in Basketball<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Anna Mummert<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Day<br \/>\n<em>Allocation in Series-Parallel and Parallel-Series Circuits<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Laura Adkins<\/li>\n<li>Christian Gunnoe<br \/>\n<em>The Lambert W Function<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Scott Sarra\t<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Jarrell<br \/>\n<em>A comparison of two binary classifiers<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Avishek Mallick<\/li>\n<li>Joel Krznaric<br \/>\n<em>Modeling SARS-CoV-2 Transmission<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Michael Otunuga<\/li>\n<li>Skylaar Mease<br \/>\n<em>Probably Approximately Correct Learning<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Carl Mummert<\/li>\n<li>Kayla Skidmore<br \/>\n<em>Voronoi Diagrams<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Bonita Lawrence <\/li>\n<li>Scotty Wroten II<br \/>\n<em>Enumeration of Small k-Fuss Schroder Paths<\/em><br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. JiYoon Jung <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Seminar (MTH 491), is the capstone course for mathematics majors. 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