Honors Theses
Administrative procedures for writing an honors thesis
At least two semesters before you graduate: find a faculty advisor, and discuss an appropriate choice of topic. Start writing the thesis.
At least one semester before you graduate: remind your faculty advisor that they need to get a second faculty member to read the thesis, and it must be approved by the departmental Scholarship Committee.
The deadlines for approval of the finished thesis, and submitting the Departmental Honors form for Graduation, are:
- Dec 30 for January graduation
- May 15 for June graduation
- July 31 for August graduation
Recent Honors Theses
Here are some of the Honors Theses written by recent graduates.
Adam Bougaev (2024) A Deep Dive into Activated Random Walks and Layer Percolation
Kenny Feng (2024) Analysis of All the End Game Possibilities in Catch-up
John Galindo (2024) The Galois Correspondence
Janet Axelrud (2023) Spatial Dynamics of Argentine Tango
Eric Connelly (2021) Theory and Applications of Topological Data Analysis
Dajana Avxhi (2020) The Kuramoto Model for Noisy oscillators
Serena DiLeonardo (2018) Stochastic Population dynamics
Keven Calderon (2018) Coupled Oscillators and Applications to Human Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Brian Fox (2018) The Magic Theorem: There are only 17 Symmetric Planar Patterns
Rayan Ibrahim (2018) Introducing 3-path Domination in Graphs
Amanda Ciaramella (2016) Easy as pi
Almira Duka (2016) Patterns in Rubik’s Cube
Martin Lapinski (2016) Counting and Burnside’s Lemma
Bassem Nawar (2016) Stochatic Differential Equations, Monte-Carlo Simulations, and the Statistics of Randomly Advected Triangles
Lilani Seneviratne (2016) Coupled Oscillators and Applications to Human Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Keith Thompson (2016) Option Pricing: Foreign Exchange and Quantos
Ariana Zuberovic (2016) Modelling the Value of Project Labor Agreements: The No-Strike Clause Option
Jonathan Maltz (2010) Lattice Basis Reduction and Knapsack Cryptosystems