Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Mathematics and Statistics Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2011
Gabriel Talbot Davis, Aaron Maurer, and Julie Michelman, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, An Open Problem in the Combinatorics of Macdonald Polynomials
Alex John Evangelides, Samuel Vaughn Tucker, Mary Ellen Bushman, and Nathan Mark King, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, The Combinatorics of Symmetric Functions: (3 + 1)-free Posets and the Poset Chain Conjecture
Qi Li, Chen Sun, and Jeremy Grevet, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, DNA Recombination: Looking at a Biological Process through the Lens of Knot Theory
Andrew Douglas Mering, Christopher Daniel Wilen, Celine Annabelle Yeh, and Hang Thi Viet Nguyen, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, Dynamics of Pulse-Coupled Integrate-and-Fire Oscillators
James Martin Munson and Elizabeth Collins-Wildman, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, Munshi's Theorem: Zero Places and Infinite Spaces
Submissions from 2010
Chrisna Aing, Sarah Halls, and Kiva Oken, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, Using Occupancy Theory and Hierarchical Models to Estimate Otter Population in Southeastern Minnesota
Erica Rochelle Chesley, Zachary Starer-Stor, and Emma Zhou, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, A Finite Simple Puzzle of Order 44,352,000
Grace Allsman Elwell, Henry Heitzer, and Erik Williams, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, Synchronicity of Biological Oscillators
Tomoki Isogai, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, Differences Between Single and Several Complex Variable Analysis
Becky Jean Patrias, Matthew Bernard Cordes, Beatrice Burlingame White, and Zheng Zhu, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, Shadows of the Cantor Set
Submissions from 2009
Hannah L. Breckbill, Aparna Dua, Luke B. Hankins, and Robert W. Trettin, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Challenge Math -- 2nd grade
Christina Knudson, Edward Kuhn, and Bassirou Sarr, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, A Bayesian spatial temporal model of ozone
David Lonoff and Daniel McDonald, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Bijective proofs: a comprehensive exercise
Ryan Andrew Smith and Yuan Tian, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Analytic proof of the prime number theorem
