Working under the direction of researchers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division and UMW faculty, our mathematics majors completed undergraduate research projects. Each year’s project titles and/or participating students are listed below, along with their UMW mentors:
2017-2018
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Network Analysis: Identifying Nodes of Interest: Michael McKenna, Kirstyn Howard, and Alex Van Stippen(Dr. Hydorn)
2015-2016
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Sleeping Beauties: Identifying Important Papers that go Unnoticed for Many Years: James Branton and Kelly McGrady (Dr. Hydorn)
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Language Recognition: Steven D. Hartzell and Lolita S. Jojic (Dr. Denhere)
- Industrial Applications of Hidden Symmetries of Graphs: John Robie, Joe Dolan, and Brittany Armbright (Dr. Denhere)
- Modeling Workforce Dynamics at NSWC Dahlgren: William Wilkinson (Dr. Garcia, COB)
2014-2015
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Clifford Embeddings: a Problem in Quantum Coding Theory: Alaina Morello (Dr. Mellinger)
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The Eigenvectors of the Inter-Point Distance Matrix of Evenly Distributed Points in One Dimension: Michelle Craft (Dr. Hydorn)
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The Relationship Between Multidimensional Scaling and Principal Components Analysis: Lauren Falkenstein and Heather Coleman (Dr. Hydorn)
- Citation Prediction and Analysis: Travis Whitehead, Jonathan Blauvelt, Steven Hartzell, and Victoria Nguyen (Dr. Denhere)
2013-2014
- Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Counts in Time:Kimberly Hildebrand and Candice Benshoff (Drs. Hydorn and Davies)
- Citation Prediction and Analysis: William Etcho and Josiah Neuberger (Dr. Denhere)
- String Edit Distance for Micro-blogging Text: Anthony Bell and Jonathan Blauvelt (Dr. Hydorn)
- Simulation of a Social Network Graph: Cody Reibsome and Benjamin Blalock (Dr. Davies)