Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
Choice in Adolescent Mathematics Classrooms and How it Affects Student Motivation, Hamilton D. Schattgen
Department: Education; Mathematics
Energy Conservation: Harnessing Excess Thermal Energy and Converting to Electricity by Use of the Thermoelectric Effect, Katherine Shideler
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Finding Stationarity: Integer Vs Fractional Differentiation, Angad Singh
Department: Mathematics
Hit or Miss: An Examination of how Free Agency Affects Competitive Balance through the Major League Baseball (MLB) Labor Market, Brett Stern
Department: Business Economics; Mathematics
An Exploration of Real-Time Computer Graphics, Morgan Thompson
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Exploring Spotify Genre Recommendation Systems, Angelo Williams
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Exoplanets Sunsets, Xinchen Xie
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Investigation of Para-Aminobenzoic Acid's Photodegradation in Different pH Environments under UVB Light, Jingyi Zhou
Department: Chemistry; Mathematics
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
On The Relative Long-Term Future Importance of Investments in Economic Growth and Global Catastrophic Risk Reduction, Pedro Adami Oliboni
Department: Mathematics; Philosophy
Who Will Be Crowned King of Europe? A Predictive Model for the Uefa Champions League, Zacharias Andreou
Department: Mathematics
Predicting Major College Football All-American teams & NFL Draft Value, D'Andre E. Brown
Department: Mathematics
Finding a Satisfying Way of Healthy Eating – A Diet Model that Cares about Personal Preferences, Tianyi Cai
Department: Mathematics
The Art Gallery Problem, Nicole Driver
Department: Mathematics
Cheat Detection using Machine Learning within Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Harry Dunham
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Optimizing Crop Rotations and Pest Management Strategies in Agriculture, Madeleine Ferguson
Department: Mathematics
A Mathematical Analysis of the Game of Santorini, Carson Clyde Geissler
Department: Mathematics
Computational Analysis of PsAvh172 Data to Investigate the Targets of Phytophthora sojae in Soybean Host A Hierarchical Clustering Evaluation of Yeast RNA-Seq Data, Vi Huynh
Department: Mathematics; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A Theory of Fire Service Provision: With an empirical analysis of response time, suppression time, and service output, Hyong-gu Hwang
Department: Economics; Mathematics
Yijing and Its Mathematical Thinkings, Yifan Jiang
Department: History; Mathematics
Modeling Community Resource Management: an Agent-Based Approach, Maya M. Lapp
Department: Mathematics
Optimization of a Hybrid Clean Energy System, Jacob I. Lewis
Department: Mathematics
Calculators in the High School Classroom: Anxiety Levels and Attitudes Towards Mathematics, Kendall Lloyd
Department: Mathematics; Education
What a Mouthful! Geographic Tongue as a Reaction-Diffusion System, Margaret K. McGuire
Department: Mathematics
Developing A Web-Based Application for Finding Meeting Places, Aedan D. Pettit
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
What’s in the Water? Examining Contamination by Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Rainwater, Kyndal A. Pike
Department: Chemistry; Mathematics
The Planar Rook Algebra, Henry Potts-Rubin
Department: Mathematics
Rings & Things: Localization, Discrete Valuations, and Completion in Ring Theory, Lily Richardson
Department: Mathematics
A Predictive Model for Coach Firings in NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball, Eli Samuelson
Department: Mathematics
Ordinal Data Analysis: Determining the Effectiveness of Domestic Abuse Intervention in Adolescent Teens, Christian Santos
Department: Mathematics
An Exploration of Retention and Persistence in STEM Fields at the College of Wooster, Harriet FC Sudduth
Department: Mathematics
SkillSHARE: An Advisor Consulting Web-app utilizing a Hybrid Recommender Engine, Hieu Tran
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Compactness Measures for Legislative Districts, Isaac Weiss
Department: Mathematics; Political Science
Minimize Return Risk: —Using NLP Model to Select a Desirable American and European Options Portfolio, Yinxi Zhao
Department: Mathematics
A Time Series Analysis of the Relationship between Agriculture and Economic Growth in Southeast Asia from 1960-2018, Daniel E. Zuchelkowski
Department: Mathematics
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
Watching Sunsets in Exoplanet Skies, Hwan Bae
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Analysis of the relationship between Prices and Transactional Drivers of Bitcoin, Christian Betre
Department: Mathematics
3D Object Recognition in Real Time Using Machine Learning, Bhargav Anandkumar Bhalodi
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Investigation of Granger-causality in the Context of Cross-Spectral Analysis, Allison Clough
Department: Mathematics
Predictive Modeling for the Women's Division I National Championship Bracketing, Hunter D. Coia
Department: Mathematics
The Best Offense: Game Theory in Video Game Enemies, Natalie Czaban
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Learning Quantum Computing, Jacob Denbeaux
Department: Mathematics
College Football Win Probability, Jordan Dennis
Department: Mathematics
Optimizing Timber Harvest Value: A Dynamic Programming Investigation, Kayleigh T. Dietz
Department: Mathematics
Spacetime Engineering: Time-Slowing Space-Expanding Lunchbox, Haidar Esseili
Department: Physics; Mathematics
Deep Reinforcement Learning in Self-Driving Car Systems, Eric Michael Gabriel
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Functions of Bounded Variations and Their Properties, Thomas Gin
Department: Mathematics
Sputnik, The Beep-Beep-Beep Heard Around the World: An Analysis of the Orbital Trajectory of Sputnik and its Reception in the Soviet Union, Gillian Gregory
Department: Mathematics; Russian Studies
Ethics in Computing, David Edward Hale
Department: Mathematics; Philosophy
Determining the Accuracy of GALFIT in Morphology Measurement of Galaxies from Image Analysis, Vincent W.H. Hui
Department: Mathematics; Physics
The Difficulties of Modeling Virtual Water Using Gravity Models, Hope Hunter
Department: Mathematics
Ray Tracing: A Study Of Realism, Mijiti Mierkamili
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
You Are What You Eat: Regression Analysis of the Social Determinants of Diet, Callie Ogland-Hand
Department: Mathematics; Sociology and Anthropology
Conversational Mathematics, Dylan Orris
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Queuing Theory in Manufacturing Systems, Shuwen Pang
Department: Mathematics
Gardening Algorithms for the Fruitful Future: Decision Trees and Random Forest Algorithms to Predict Child Malnutrition Populations Globally, Kory Sansom
Department: Mathematics
Investigation of the Aqueous Photodegradation of Ortho-Substituted Aminobenzoic Acid Derivatives Under UVC Light, Rose D. Taylor
Department: Chemistry; Mathematics
Of Elder Gods and Calculated Odds, Benjamin Peleh Verschell
Department: Mathematics
Exploring Topics of the Art Gallery Problem, Megan Vuich
Department: Mathematics
Investigation of the Development and Behavior of Heterogeneous Tumors, Afton H. Widdershins
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Mathematics
2020 United States Election Forecasting, Micheas Yimam
Department: Mathematics
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
Connecting Five Stones: Artificial Intelligence Implementation For Go-moku In Unity, Jianqiu Bai
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
The First Spacewalk: An Exploration of the Mathematical and Cultural Implications of the Space Race, Aidan Brown
Department: Mathematics; Russian Studies
Predicting NCAA Division I Softball At-Large Bids, Madelynn A. Chase
Department: Mathematics
Understanding Human Well-Being, Junyi Chen
Department: Mathematics; Philosophy
Analyzing and Solving the Nurse Scheduling Problem, Nicholas Hagopian-Zirkel
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Sports Analytics With Computer Vision, Colby T. Jeffries
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Dispatches from the Fly Killer: A mathematical model that studies the correlation between sleep fragmentation and longevity in Drosophila melanogaster, Vedica Jha
Department: Biology; Mathematics
A Discussion of Integer Programming and its Application to the Battleship Puzzle, William Koenig
Department: Mathematics
Fractals and Fractal Time Series, Sonia Malik
Department: Mathematics
Behind Black-Scholes: Probability and Measure Theory in Finance, Daniel T. Manfrediz
Department: Mathematics
Algorithmic Music Composition, Thomas Matlak
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
She Shoots, She Scores: Creating a Mathematical Model to Predict Expected Shot Value in Women's NCAA Division III Basketball, Paige McKean
Department: Mathematics
A Behavioral Approach To CAPM, Ethan Myers
Department: Mathematics; Business Economics
Understanding Municipal Bond Ratings Using Ordered Multinomial Logistic Regression, Thao Nguyen
Department: Business Economics; Mathematics
An Investigation of Markov Chains and their Application to Hospital Patient Flow, Sarah Padrutt
Department: Mathematics
The Shot Heard Around The World: Determining the Influence and the Spread of the Anti-vaccination Ideology on Measles Outbreaks Using Epidemiological Models, Jennifer Shepheard
Department: Biology; Mathematics
Crime Around the World: Using Mathematical Modeling Techniques to Model Aggregated Worldwide Crime Rates, Kelly M. Steurer
Department: Mathematics
Logic -> Proof -> REST, Maxwell Taylor
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
SOMETHING FISHY: A Comprehensive Analysis of Terror Plots subject to Binomial and Poisson Distributions, Sabrina S. Tobe
Department: Mathematics
Does Insurance Impact Happiness? An Analysis of Crop Micro-Insurance Structures' Impact on the Well Being of Farmers within Developing Economies: A Sri-Lankan Study Using a Utility Framework & Linear Algebra Perspective, Giorgio Tramonto
Department: Economics; Mathematics
Inclusion of Blocking Power for a Complete Voting Power Analysis in the IMF, Shiwani Varal
Department: Mathematics; Political Science
On Hausdorff Dimension and Julia Sets, Ruifeng Xu
Department: Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence with Reinforcement Learning in First Person Shooter Games, Zhirui Zhang
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Skilled Emigration, Return, and Human Capital Formation: A Game Theoretic Approach, Ruben Aguero Quinteros
Department: Economics; Mathematics
A Mathematical Modeling Examination of the Changing Social, Economic and Environmental Indicators for Infant Mortality Rates Across The United States, Sophia Anderson
Department: Mathematics
An Analysis of The Surreal Number System, Aaron C. Brown
Department: Mathematics
A Stroll Through Cantor's Paradise: Appraising the Semantics of Transfinite Numbers, Matthew R. Buranosky
Department: Mathematics; Philosophy
Are We There Yet?: A Traveling-Salesman Approach to Road-Trip Optimization, Lauren Burke
Department: Mathematics
Math Rules Everything Around Me: Ann Examination of Fractals and Their Real-World Applications, Dana Faust
Department: Mathematics
Monotonic Untangling to Solve the Unknotting Problem, Dana Foley
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
On Degree Bound for Syzygies of Polynomial Invariants, Zhao Gao
Department: Mathematics
The Earth-Moon Problem: A Study In Topological Graph Theory, Robert H. Gates
Department: Mathematics
On Rationality and Morality: Three Kinds of Approaches, Emily A. Howerton
Department: Mathematics; Philosophy
Understanding Gödel's Incompleteness Proofs, Nanako Ito
Department: Mathematics
Clear Communication: Construction and Implementation of Error-Correcting Codes, Alex P. Iudice
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Building a Course Recommender System for The College of Wooster, Nan Jiang
Department: Computer Science; Mathematics
Smallball: A Statistical Analysis on the 2016 SEC Baseball Season, Jacob T. Kail
Department: Mathematics
An Introduction to Integer Programming, Including a Sports League Scheduling Application, Matthew John Kelly
Department: Mathematics
The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model and a Test for Efficiency in the Underlying Stock Market, Sanjana Kumbhani
Department: Business Economics; Mathematics
Bidder’s Behavior Model and Seller Revenue in eBay’s Buy It Now option, Gina Trang Lam
Department: Mathematics