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PCC 6803 Willem Vermaas 2016 Shane Lubold A Statistical Framework for Detecting Edges from Noisy Fourier Data with Multiple Concentration Factors Anne Gelb Douglas Cochran 2016 Jared Scolaro Mathematical Modeling of Foundress Associations in Social Insects in Order to Understand Aggression in Cooperative Social Systems Eric Kostelich 2016 Lee Burke A New Numerical Method Based on Leapfrog for Atmospheric and Ocean Modeling Mohamed Moustaoui 2016 John Harrington Are NBA Video Games Representing the Real Game? A Statistical Comparison of Phoenix Suns’ Shooting Patterns and their Video Game Counterpart Dieter Armbruster Ioannis Kamarianakis 2016 Leah Nahon An Analysis on the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM fields Sarah Duerden Kathleen Brewer 2016 Alexandra Porter Collaborative Computation in Self-Organizing Particle Systems Andrea Richa 2016 Connor Schmitt, Dawson Rickets, Maia Castiglione, Forrest Witten Collaborative Thesis: Supplier Tool Selection Mark Simonson 2016 Perry Vargas Numerical Simulation of the Surface Brightness of Astrophysical Jets Carl Gardner 2016 Kirsten Voorhees Comparison of Regression and Tree Analyses for Predicting Alcohol-Related Problems Robert McCulloch 2015 Rachael Moore Designing concentration factors to detect jump discontinuities from non-uniform Fourier data Anne Gelb 2015 Caroline Dougher A Guide to Financial Mathematics Jelena Milovanovic 2015 Stephanie Taylor Two-Dimensional Stratified Cavity Flow Under Harmonic Forcing Bruno Welfert 2015 Riley Molloy Conditions for Almost Commuting Matrices to be Nearly Commuting Jack Spielberg 2015 Christina Findley WENO Simulations of AGN-jet Induced Star Formation Carl Gardner 2015 Jay Barraza Mathematical Modeling: Lights Out! Paul Vaz 2015 Chris Luna Prediction of heat transport in multiple tokamak devices with neural networks Wenbo Tang 2015 Michael Byrne An exploration of proofs of the Szemerédi regularity lemma Andrzej Czygrinow 2015 Ian Neufer Two Approaches to MRI Reconstruction: Gaussian Radial Basis Functions and Single Shot Parse Rodrigo Platte 2015 Peter Chotras Random Simulations of Braess's Paradox Dieter Armbruster Nicolas Lanchier 2015 Melinda Jenner Quantifying the Mortality Impact of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in Arizona Gerardo Chowell-Puente Eric Kostelich 2014 Jacob Smith Estimation of Standard Errors of Arizona Student Growth Percentiles May Boggess 2014 Tana Klinger Exploring Student Thinking in Novel Linear Relationship Problems Marilyn Carlson 2014 Lauren Crider Maximum Entropy Surrogation in Multiple Channel Signal Detection Douglas Cochran 2014 Kristen McLeod FOURFUN: A new system for automatic computations using Fourier expansions Rodrigo Platte 2014 Gabriel Wasserman Incorporating the Sparsity of Edges into the Fourier Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Functions Anne Gelb Douglas Cochran 2014 James Upton Visualizing Lagrangian Coherent Structures from Realistic Flow Data Wenbo Tang Mohamed Moustaoui 2013 Alexander Gutierrez Edge Informed Fourier Reconstruction from Non-Uniform Spectral Data Rodrigo Platte Anne Gelb 2013 Zahra Hussaini Effect of Defects on Calculation of Electron Energy Loss Spectra of Ceria and Titania Peter Crozier 2013 Ryan Whitehurst Wada basins of attraction in diffeomorphic maps Eric Kostelich 2013 Adam Martinez Edge Detection from Non-Uniform Fourier Data via a Modified Method of Convolutional Gridding Anne Gelb Douglas Cochran Rodrigo Platte 2013 Spencer Prost Comparison of MIMD and SIMT Parallel Iterative Solvers for Laplace’s Equation Carl Gardner Bruno Welfert 2013 Angelica Deibel Lagrangian Transport of Inertial Particles in Hurricane Katrina Wenbo Tang Mohamed Moustaoui Eric Kostelich 2012 Michael Manning Predicting Glioblastoma Growth Using a Poisson Process Eric Kostelich Yang Kuang Carl Gardner 2012 Emily McKee Recursion: A Lesson in Recursively Defined Functions According to the Common Core State Standards for High School Carla van de Sande 2012 Christian Wake Lagrangian Skeletons in Hurricane Katrina Wenbo Tang 2012 Devon Powell Numerical Simulation of Jet-Induced Star Formation Carl Gardner