Senior Seminars
2019 - 2020
Tucker Johnson
Arya Uphoff
Probability and consequences of the Alabama paradox
The Collatz conjecture
2018 - 2019
Nathan Beneke
Denis Ostroushko
The complexity of finding graph isomorphisms
Analyzing a two-player zero-sum game
2017 - 2018
Logan Brion
Emily Schaeffer
Shenning Zhang
Conjugacy classes in groups
Pollard's p-1 and Pollard's rho
Prime Races
2016 - 2017
Austin Keller
Jinhyung Kim
Frobenius Coin Problem
Riemann zeros
2014 - 2015
Emily Auch
Sae Sun Kim
Sean Stockholm
Bernoulli numbers and Faulhaber’s formula
Dessins d’enfants
Visualizing quadratic forms
2013 - 2014
Peter Ehlers
Zeyun Lin
Solutions to Schrodinger's equation for a trapezoidal well
Gauss sums as random walks
2011 - 2012
Jared Chang
Christine Hoffman
Thomas Mohr
Karl Schliep
Random polynomials
Finding Galois groups by maximal subgroup elimination
Convergence rate of Robinson's game theory algorithm
The hydrogen atom
2010 - 2011
Tony Bjorkland
Nate Christensen
Chad Seibert
Prime certification
Colossally abundant numbers
The quadratic sieve
2009 - 2010
Joy Heysse
Danielle Schatschneider
Melissa Helgeson
Yue Li
Aliquot sequences
Random power law graphs
ElGamal encryption
ESSes in random games
2008 - 2009
Kevin Scharber
Continued fractions
2007 - 2008
Nicole Gallagher
Jason Eckert
The game of Hex
The Mandelbrot set
2006 - 2007
Rachel Carlson
Zach Juhnke
Vibonacci numbers
The prisoner's dilemma
2004 - 2005
Lisa Holloway
Ben Peterson
Congruent numbers
A factoring algorithm
2003 - 2004
Eric Hansen
Susie Hanson
Stacy Nordgren
Amanda Quammen
Dan Wespetal
Colossally abundant numbers
Iterating x2+c
Game theory
Intertwining of eigenvalues
Approximating pi
2002 - 2003
Shawna Beaudry
Jessi Gurr
Joanie Lofgren
Pascal's triangle with entries from groups
The 3x+1 problem
The Fourier series of the Devil's staircase
2001 - 2002
Jeff Nelson
Jason Smith
Chad Ollestad
Chris Esterly
Hyung Kim
Stieltjes polynomials
RSA Encryption
Eigenvalues of graphs
Random Graphs
Spanning trees and determinants
2000 - 2001
Greg Perry
GCD and factorization
1999 - 2000
Dominic Popowski
Error correcting codes