Research
Student Theses and Dissertations
- Continuous dependence on modeling for ill-posed evolution problem, Matthew Fury, 2010. Advisor: Rhonda Hughes.
- Relative Knovanov-Jacobsson classes for spanning surfaces, Jonah Swann, 2010. Advisor: Paul Melvin.
- Bounding the number of solutions to tetranomial Thue equations, Daniel Wisniewski, 2010. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- Lp Estimates for Oscillatory Singular Integral Operators and Marcinkiewicz Integral Operators, Ayako Fukui, 2009. Advisor: Leslie Cheng.
- Determining Lower Bounds for Packing Densitites of Non-Layered Patterns Using Weighted Templates, Cahtleen Battiste-Presuitti, 2008 Advisor: Walter Stromquist.
- Legendrian Torus Links, Jennifer Dalton, 2008. Advisor: Lisa Traynor.
- The Existence of Elliptic periodic Orbits in the Smoothed Bunimovich Stadium, Sherry Teti, 2008. Advisor: Victor Donnay.
- Continuous Dependence Results for Inhomogeneous Ill-Posed Problems, Beth Campbell-Hetrick, 2006. Advisor: Rhonda Hughes.
- Generating Family Invariants for Legendrian Links, Jill Jordan, 2005. Advisor: Lisa Traynor.
- Smooth Approximation of Singular Perturbations of the Laplacian, Walter Huddell, 2002. Advisor: Rhonda Hughes.
- The Arithmetic Genus of Threefolds Defined by Extended Hilbert Modular Groups, Amber Salzman, 2002. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- Symplectic Packings of Cotangent Bundles of Tori, Jean Mastrangeli, 1997. Advisor: Lisa Traynor.
- Sewn up and Surgered Swen up Link Exteriors: Surgery Presentations & Formulas for Lescop’s Invariant, Gowri Meda, 1997. Advisor: Paul Melvin.
- Expansion of Boundedness Results for Certain Oscillatory Integral Operators, Lise Chlebak, 2011. Advisor: Leslie Cheng.
- Galois Groups of Certain Polynomials of Prime Degree, Rebecca Rebhuhn-Glanz, 2011. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- Mathematical Modeling of Malaria, Amy Veprauskas, 2010. Advisor: Victor Donnay.
- On the Boundedness of Certain Oscillatory Integral Operators, Manal Zaher, 2010. Advisor: Leslie Cheng.
- Properties of Class Groups of a Family of Cyclic Cubic Fields, Jaclyn Lang, 2009. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- On the Boundedness of Oscillatory Integral Operators in Harmonic Analysis, Sarah Khasawinah, 2009. Advisor: Leslie Cheng.
- Solutions to a Parametrized Family of Relative Thue Equations, Amanda Hittson, 2009. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- Aditi Vashist, 2008
- A New Proof of the Spectral Theorem, Milena Redzic, 2008. Advisor: Rhonda Hughes.
- Thomas's Work on Split Families of Cubic Thue Equations, Wen Gao, 2007. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- Lp Boundedness of Oscillatory Integral Operators, Anna Gordon, 2007. Advisor: Leslie Cheng.
- Applications of Heatlets to Ill-Posed Problems, Emily McNabb, 2007. Advisor: Rhonda Hughes.
- Kirsten Kemp, 2006.
- Class Numbers and Other Numerical Invariants of Imaginary Quadratic Fields, Laura Hall, 2004. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- Morse Theory, Kim Urso, 2004. Advisor: Lisa Traynor.
- Producing Positive Lyapunov Exponents on the Sphere, Gina Calderaio, 2003. Advisor: Victor Donnay.
- Constructing Brownian Motion with Wavelets, Beth Campbell, 2002. Advisor: Rhonda Hughes.
- Chekanov’s Decomposition Invariant for Legendrian Knots, Jane Holsapple, 2002. Advisor: Lisa Traynor.
- Power Basis Generators in Cyclotomic Fields, Jill Jordan, 2002. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- Weight Systems, Rachael Thomas, 2001. Advisor: Paul Melvin.
- On Galois Realizability of Groups of Order 32, Grisha Stewart, 2001. Advisor: Helen Grundman.
- Weighted Lp -Lq Inequalities for Oscillatory Integral Operators, Lisa Marchisio, 2004. Advisor: Leslie Cheng
- Valuation of Asian Options: Monte Carlo Simulation, Ayako Fukui, 2003. Advisor: Leslie Cheng
- On a Study of Oscillatory Integral Operators, Shrooti Singh, 2003. Advisor: Leslie Cheng.
- On Slice Obstructions for Unknotting Number One Knots, Avalon Vanis, 2023. Advisor: Melvin
- Origami with Infinite Folds, Elizabeth Hankins, 2022. Advisor: Donnay
- Sums of Products of Kloosterman Sums, Ada Marcovitz, 2022. Advisor: Milićević.
- Modeling the Effects of Incretins and Circadian Misalignment on Glucose-Insulin Dynamics, Ryann McManus, 2022. Advisor: Graham
- Numerical Methods in Issues of Sustainability, Shefali Ramakrishna, 2022. Advisor: Donnay.
- Hecke Operators on Linear Representations Over Finite Fields, Sophia Schein, 2020. Advisor: Bergdall.
- p-adic Analysis and Supercongruences to Higher Prime Power Moduli, Aisha Mechery, 2019. Advisor: Milićević.
- Distribution of Kloosterman Paths to High Prime Power Moduli, Cheyenne (Sichen) Zhang, 2019. Advisor: Milićević.
- Exploring Oscillatory Integral Operators for Functions in Higher Dimensions, Sarah Gift 2018. Advisor: Cheng.
- Statistics of Perturbed Laplacian Eigenfunctions, Boyang Su, 2018. Advisor: Milićević.
- Cases of Effective Nonvanishing of Dirichlet L-Functions Over Primitive Galois Orbits, Ruoyun Lei 2017. Advisor: Milićević.
- Normal Rulings of Legendrian Satellite Knots, Madeleine Hanson-Colvin, 2016. Advisor: Traynor.
- Valuation of Lookback Options, Emily Schroeter, 2015. Advisor: Cheng.
- Stochastic Processes and Valuation of Options, Freda Li, 2014. Advisor: Cheng.
- New Results in Inverse Galois Theory, Katherine Engelman, 2014. Advisor: Grundman.
- Stochastic Processes and Pricing Derivatives in Continuous Time, Yolanda Shao 2013. Advisor: Cheng.
- Galois Groups of Certain Polynomials of Prime Degree, Rebecca Rebhuhn-Glanz, 2011. Advisor: Grundman.
- Expansion of Boundedness Results for Certain Oscillatory Integral Operators, Lise Chlebak, 2011. Advisor: Cheng.
- On the Boundedness of Certain Oscillatory Integral Operators, Manal Zaher, 2010. Advisor: Cheng.
- Mathematical Modeling of Malaria, Amy Veprauskas 2010. Advisor: Donnay.
- Properties of Class Groups of a Family of Cyclic Cubic Fields, Jaclyn Lang, 2009. Advisor: Grundman.
- Lp Boundedness of Oscillatory Integral Operators, Sarah Khasawinah, 2009. Advisor: Cheng.
- Solutions to a Parameterized Family of Relative Thue Equations, Amanda Hittson, 2009. Advisor: Grundman.
- Torsion in Khovanov Homology, Aditi Vashist, 2008. Advisor: Melvin.
- Applications to Heatlets to Ill-Posed Problems, McNabb, Emily 2007. Advisor: Hughes.
- Lp Boundedness of Oscillatory Integral Operators, Anna Gordon, 2007. Advisor: Cheng.
- Thomas's Work on Split Families of Cubic Thue Equations, Wen Gao, 2007. Advisor: Grundman.
- Lp Estimates for Oscillatory Integral Operators, Kirsten Kemp, 2006. Advisor: Cheng.
- Arnold's 4-Cusp Conjecture, Devasish Majumdar, 2005. Advisor: Lisa Traynor.
- Tangling Legendrian Knots, Cristina Nistor, 2005. Advisor: Paul Melvin.
- The Arnold Invariants of Plane Curves, Emi Arima, 2005. Advisor: Lisa Traynor
- A Simple-Homotopy Classification of Certain CW-Complexes by Reidemeister Torsion, Ben Allen, 2002. Advisor: Paul Melvin.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis of LED Conversion, Lisa Adanye. Advisor: Donnay.
- Exploring Applications of Arbitrage: Finding Arbitrage Opportunities in a Financial Context and Exploiting Market Inefficiencies in Parimutuel Horse Races, Li Gordon-Washington. Advisor: Cheng.
- Mathematics of Photoelasticimetry and Numerical Operation of the Photoelastic Grain Solver, Augustus Helson. Advisor: Cheng/Brzinski (HC).
- Improved Computational Approach to Measuring the Tightness of Molecular Knots, Yesenia Hernandez. Advisor: Francl/Myer.
- Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Visualization, Jasmine Lei. Advisor: Cheng/Normoyle.
- The Prisoners' Dilemma, Alishia Nation. Advisor: Cheng.
- Partial Differential Equation: Solution and Applications, Minh Anh Nguyen. Advisor: Cheng.
- The Sum of the Products of Four Kloosterman Sums, Catherine Robinson. Advisor: Milićević.
- Combinatorial Games: Nim, Wythoff's Game, Tape Dominoes, Simple Blokus, Lola Rodrigues. Advisor: Cheng.
- Valuation of Options, Hayat Shibeshi. Advisor: Cheng.
- Modeling Diabetes Using Symbolic Regression Techniques, Rosalie Tarsala. Advisor: Graham.
- Mathematics of Hedging, Veronica Wang. Advisor: Cheng.
2022
- Pricing Perpetual Barrier Options on Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson Stocks Using Microsoft Excel, Laila Ali. Advisor: Cheng.
- Discrete Fourier Analysis, Sidney Bachrach. Advisor: Cheng.
- An Application of Survival Model in Insurance, Marya Cruz. Advisor: Cheng.
- Numerical Modeling with Iterative Methods for Ground Water Flow Equation, Trang Duong. Advisor: Donnay.
- Trace Obstructions of Equidistributed Holonomy, Allison Eckert. Advisor: Milićević.
- Lp Estimates for Oscillatory Integral Operators and Hörmander's Theorem, Zaynab Ghazi. Advisor: Cheng.
- GBM Modeling of Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Stocks, Amirah Hewitt. Advisor: Cheng.
- The Mathematical Approach to Medical ImagingCheng.
- The Mathematics of Financial Derivatives, Jocelyn Luo. Advisor: Cheng.
- Valuation of Options, América Najera. Advisor: Cheng.
- Portfolio Optimization, Tina Nguruve. Advisor: Cheng.
- Application of Dual Quaternions to Skinning of Characters, Olga Shevchuk. Advisor: Traynor/Normoyle.
2021
- The Distribution of Greatest Common Divisor of Elements in Z[√2], Sandy Chen. Advisor: Bergdall.
- Mathematical Modeling of Pulmonary Thrombosis in COVID-19, Katie Coe. Advisor: Graham.
- Bond Pricing Models, Aakriti Dhital. Advisor: Cheng.
- Computationally Modeling the Human Complement System to Predict SARS-CoV-2 Immune Response, Samantha Hall. Advisors: Cheng/Radhakrishnan (UPenn).
- Energy Investing: Comparing Renewable and Fossil Energy Company Stock Prices Using the Binomial Tree Model, Grayson Hamrick. Advisor: Cheng.
- Valuation of Asian Options, Zhuoran Hu. Advisor: Cheng.
- Valuation of Barrier Options, Edith Jepkirui. Advisor: Cheng.
- Comparison of Hull-White Algorithm and Geometric Brownian Motion Using Six Chinese Stocks, Ziyi Li. Advisor: Cheng.
- Arbitrage Theorems and Their Applications, Jiayang Lu. Advisor: Cheng.
- American versus European Options, Joan Ndichu. Advisor: Cheng.
- The Mathematics of Medical ImagingCheng.
- Optimal Control Problems, Peiran Xu. Advisor: Traynor.
- Modeling Cause of beta-amyloid Induced Alzheimer's Disease and Its Potential Treatment, Liwei Yang. Advisor: Graham.
2020
- Modeling Air Pollution in Philadelphia Using Gaussian Plume Model and Diffusion Equations, Shannon Fisher. Advisor: Donnay.
- Transverse Unknotting Number and Family Trees, Blossom Jeong. Advisor: Traynor.
- Modeling Anchovy Interactions in the Puget Sound, Ellie Lee. Advisor: Graham.
- Effectiveness of Isolation and Quarantine for COVID-19 in Wuhan from November 17, 2019 to March 31, 2020, Irene Lin. Advisor: Graham.
- Mortality Modeling of NBA Players, Meagan Murray-Bruce. Advisor: Cheng.
- Modeling Ebola Virus in West Africa using Differential Equations, Ody Oranekwu. Advisor: Donnay.
- Portfolio Management, Shuning Wang. Advisor: Cheng.
- Predicting Stock Prices Using Mathematical Models, Xiya Wei. Advisor: Cheng.
- Stock Price Prediction for FAANG Stocks, Zhi Zheng. Advisor: Cheng.
- Option Pricing and Hedging Strategies, Maggie Zhong. Advisor: Cheng.
2019
- Predicting Stock Prices of Indian Pharmaceutical Companies, Namrata Basu. Advisor: Cheng.
- An Analysis of the Relationship between Stock Market Development and Economic Growth in Nepal, Romy Dangol. Advisor: Cheng.
- Modeling the Development and Transmission of HIV, Junyan Duan. Advisor: Donnay.
- Fitzhugh-Nagumo Analysis, Hodgkin-Huxley Models, and Applications in GnRH Secretion, Natalie Meacham. Advisor: Donnay.
- A Broad Overview of the Discrete Wavelet Transform in NMR Signal Processing, Leslie Reiffen. Advisor: Cheng.
- Arbitrage in Financial Markets, Siraj Mehendi. Advisor: Cheng.
- An Introduction to Khovanov Homology and Related Knot Invariants, Xingya Wang. Advisor: Melvin.
2018
- Optimal Control Theory: Finding the Optimal Cancer Treatment Protocol for Various Anti-Cancer Approaches, Dina Benedetto. Advisor: Graham.
- Portfolio Selection Problem: Optimal Portfolio and Minimum Analysis Approach, Linh Nguyen. Advisor: Cheng.
- An Application of Queueing Theory: Optimizing Queues at JFK Airport, Phuong Nguyen. Advisor: Graham.
- Valuation and Hedging of Barrier Options, Thu Nguyen. Advisor: Cheng.
- Mathematical Methods of Studying Disease: Formal and Statistical Approaches, Hunter Rendelman. Advisor: Cheng.
- On Some Supercongruence Conjectures for Hypergeometric Series, Yu Sheng. Advisor: Milićević.
- Valuation of Lookback Options on LVMH Stock, Rachel Terry. Advisor: Cheng.
- Persistent Homology: From Data to Barcodes, Wenqi Wang. Advisor: Melvin.
2017
- Pricing Up-And-Out Call Options, Yiling Bai. Advisor: Cheng.
- An Analysis of the Viability of Wind TurbinesDonnay.
- Valuation of Lookback Options, Prianka Ball. Advisor: Cheng.
- Multi-crossing Projections of Legendrian Knots, Tianyi He. Advisor: Traynor.
- Well-Quasi Ordering and its Relation to Terminating Rewrite System, Jingling Li. Advisor: Cheng.
- Chaotic Systems of Geodesics on Surfaces of Revolution, Westley Mildenhall. Advisor: Donnay.
- Well-Quasi Ordering and Confluence, Kewei Qu. Advisor: Cheng.
- Generalized Two-parameter Exponential Distribution and its Parameter Estimation, Yichen Wang. Advisor: Cheng.
2016
- Estimation Maximization Algorithm: Its Application and Implementation in R, Xiaoqi Geng. Advisor: Nancy Zhang at UPenn.
- Harshad Numbers and Shantid NumbersGrundman.
- Persistent Homology and Its Application to Data Analysis, Melina Koukoutchos, Advisor: Melvin.
- Financial Models: Theory with Examples using Real Data, Bingxi Lin. Advisor: Cheng.
- Applications of the Hull-White One-Factor Model, Yamina Mohattane. Advisor: Cheng.
- An Introduction to Computational Persistent Homology, Shuhong (Paula) Sun. Advisor: Melvin.
- Portfolio Management with a Focus on Monte Carlo Simulation, Siran Tang. Advisor: Cheng.
- Generalizations of Happy Numbers, Simon Williams. Advisor: Grundman.
- Immunological HIV/AIDS Modeling and Tumor Modeling, Wanqing Wu. Advisor: Donnay.
- Geometric Brownian Motion in Financial Mathematics, Ziyi Yan. Advisor: Cheng.
- A Development of Basic Stochastic Calculus and its Applications, Yuping Zhai. Advisor. Cheng.
2015
- Surgery Strings of Legendrian Knots, Orsola Capovilla-Searle. Advisor: Traynor.
- Stock Price Movement: Simulations and Theories, Xinyuan Dong. Advisor: Cheng.
- Geodesic Path of a Surface of RevolutionDonnay.
- New p-adic Sextic Supercongruences of Ramanujan Type, Madeleine Johnson. Advisor: Milićević.
- Valuation of American Options, Yifan Liu. Advisor: Cheng.
- Option Valuation Under Risk Neutral Measures, Danqi Luo. Advisor: Cheng.
- Analyzing Music Through Geometry, Swetha Narasimhan. Advisor: Traynor.
- Powering Our Future with Sun and Wind: A Renewable Energy Model for Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Danielle Preziuso. Advisor: Donnay.
- Fixed Point Theorems and Applications to Economics, Lipika Ramaswamy. Advisor: Traynor.
- Mathematical Modeling of Ebola, Jessie Tang. Advisor: Donnay.
2014
- A Development of Basic Stochastic Calculus and Its Applications, Taha Ahsin. Advisor: Cheng.
- The Omega Primality Function in Consecutively Generated Embedding Dimension Three Monoids, or How Studying Chicken McNuggets Helped Me Explain Complex Algebraic Structure, Emelie Curl. Advisor: Cheng.
- The Mathematics of Medical Imaging, Jeanne Mirbey. Advisor: Cheng.
- Brownian Motion, Sookyung Oh. Advisor: Cheng.
- Incomplete Character Sums, Kriti Shrestha. Advisor: Milićević.
- City Network: The Dynamics of Location, Education, and Production, Sophie Zhao. Advisor: Traynor.
2013
- Harmonic Analysis: the bounded Oscillatory Integrals, Lynne Ammar. Advisor: Cheng.
- Games, Games, Games: Multistage Stochastic Games, Bianca Boranda. Advisor: Traynor.
- Gonorrhea Transmission Dynamic and Netlogo Simulation, Hoang Ha. Advisor: Donnay.
- Introduction of Valuation of Financial Derivatives, Hao Jiang. Advisor: Cheng.
- Lp Estimates for a Certain Class of Oscillatory Integral Operators, Sunny Kang. Advisor: Cheng
- Netlogo Simulations of HPV, Brenda Martinez. Advisor: Donnay.
- Reproducing Kernal Hilbert Spaces in Multi-Task Machine Learning, Meagan Neal. Advisor: Cheng (jointly with Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Eric Eaton).
- Symmetry in Dance and Art: Group Theory and its Applications, Meghan Pandya. Advisor: Cheng.
- Hedging using Options and Futures, Alisha Pradhan. Advisor: Cheng.
- Mathematical Modeling of West Nile Virus and Climate Change, Hannah Weinstein. Advisor: Donnay.
- Cooperative Games and the Nash Bargaining Model, Qian Wu. Advisor: Traynor.
- Stochastic Process and Option Pricing Models, Pan Xie. Advisor: Cheng.
- The Set of Signed Unknotting Numbers, Traynor. Advisor: Traynor.
2012
- An Analysis of Energy Use in 91³ÉÈ˶¶ÒôÈë¿Ú Buildings, Kaushiki Dunusinghe. Advisor: Donnay.
- Vanilla and Exotic Options: Valuation and Hedging, Winniw Hien. Advisor: Cheng.
- Guinea Worm Disease: Opening a mathematical can of worms, Katie Link. Advisor: Donnay.
- An Inverse Zero-Sum Conjecture, Aidan Murphy. Advisor: Grundman.
- Valuation of Options, Jennifer Savage. Advisor: Cheng.
- A Theorem on the Weighted Davenport constant, Catherine Owens. Advisor: Grundman.
- Oscillatory intergral Operators and Improved Hormander's Theorem, Jennifer Savage. Advisor: Cheng.
- Options, Hedging and Portfolio Management, Tong Wu. Advisor: Cheng.
2011
- Construction of Smooth Curves and Surfaces, Bethany Azuma. Advisor: Melvin.
- Valuation of Barrier Options, Sasha Bereznak. Advisor: Cheng.
- Modeling the Joint Epidemics of HIV and TB, Ellie Caniglia. Advisor: Donnay.
- Mathematics in Medical Imaging, Sara Davidson. Advisor: Cheng.
- Valuation of Options and Hedging, Romy Delwar. Advisor: Cheng.
- Valuation of European and American Call Options, Anagha Kumar. Advisor: Cheng.
- Configuration Spaces of Graphs, Alex Lee. Advisor: Traynor.
- Mathematics in Crystallography, Adele Mirbey. Advisor: Cheng.
- Using Phylogenetic Trees to Understand the Evolution of Genes, Alison Panosia. Advisor: Traynor.
2010
- HIV - A Controllable Disease, Caitlin Iles. Advisor: Donnay.
- Mathematical Modeling of Climate Change: Examining the Diurnal Temperature Range, Naomi Hamermesh. Advisor: Donnay.
- The Mathematics of Catastrophe Risk, Alyssa Martin. Advisor: Cheng.
- Why ESPN Needs More Mathematicians, Leah Raj. Advisor: Cheng.
- AliciaOptions on Futures, Alicia Van Sciver. Advisor: Cheng.
2009
- Mathematically Modeling the Immunological Spread of HIV/AIDS, Jillian Brown. Advisor: Donnay.
- Analysis of the Black Scholes Model: An Imperative in Option Pricing, Catherine Durante. Advisor: Cheng.
- Fingerprint Compression using Wavelets, Jendra Hayde. Advisor: Cheng.
- Valuation of Barrier Options, Amanda Lu. Advisor: Cheng.
- Bond Pricing, Melania Macko. Advisor: Cheng.
- Climate Changes, Fisheries, and Mathematical Modeling, Hannah Waterhouse. Advisor: Donnay
2008
- Geometric and Topological properties of the Mobius Band, Melanie Edwalds. Advisor: Melvin.
- Langevin Equations: Modeling Particle Motion and Trail Formation, Dena Feldman.
- Analysis of the Black-Scholes Model: A Catalyst for Financial Mathematics, Jody Krieger. Advisor: Cheng.
- Helffer-Sjostrand Proof of the Spectral Theorem, Milena Redzic. Advisor: Hughes.
2007
- Isospectral Lattices and Quadratic Forms, Katie Haymaker. Advisor: Melvin.
- The Mathematical Dissection of Social Networks, Huong Huynj. Advisor: Donnay.
- Spectral Theorem for Compact Hermitian Operators, Genevieve Stein O'Brien. Advisor: Kasius.
- Intrinsic Linking Numbers of Complete Graphs, Cara Petonic. Advisor: Melvin.
- Bounded Mean Oscillation Space, Camille Porreca. Advisor: Cheng.
- Thurston-Bennequin Bound of Legendrian Links, Danny Tang. Advisor: Melvin.
- Social Network Analysis: Applications to School District Management, Priscilla Won. Advisor: Donnay.
2006
- Simplest Cubic Fields and Class Numbers, Nicole Benfold. Advisor: Grundman.
- Credit Risk Management, Cindy Do. Advisor: Stromquist.
- Stable Solvability of a Family of Quartic Thue Equations, Emily Hammer. Advisor: Grundman.
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