Graduate Students

1. BJ Olsen
   Master's thesis: "Bifurcations of Piecewise Continuous Functions"
   Graduated: 1994.
2. Jason Puckett
   Master's project: "Computing Periodic Orbits"
   Graduated: 1995.
3. Zbigniew Wdowiak
   Master's project: "Newton's and Burgstahler's Root Finding Methods"
   Graduated: April, 1996.
4. Colleen Frost
   Master's project: "A comparison study of the SIS and SIRS Epidemic Models"
   Graduated: August, 1996.
5. Jon Drexler
   Master's project: "A nonanalytic perturbation of the complex quadratic map"
   Graduated: August, 1996.
6. Diana Colt
   Master's project: "Seasonal Disruption in Elementary Models of Insect Epidemics"
   Graduated: August, 1999. (Coadvised with Harlan Stech.)
7. Angela Cates
   Master's project: "A Mathematical Investigation of the Decomposition of Leaf Litter"
   Graduated: March, 2000. (Coadvised with Harlan Stech.)
8. Cosmin Deciu
   Master's project: "Some Aspects of Homoclinic Orbits in a Henon-like Map"
   Graduated: September, 2000.
9. Steve Law
   Master's project: "Lyapunov Exponents"
   Graduated: 2003.
10. Wendy Graves
    Master's project: "A comparison of Some Simple Models of Mutualism"
    Graduated: September 2003. (Coadvised with John Pastor.)
11. Laura Zimmermann
    Master's project: "A Producer-Consumer Model with Stoichiometry"
    Graduated: July 2006. (Coadvised with John Pastor.)
    Download project pdf here . (30 pages)
12. Laurence Lin
    Master's thesis: "A stoichiometric model of two producers and one consumer"
    Graduated: June 2008. (Coadvised with Harlan Stech, John Pastor.)
    Download thesis pdf file here .(90 pages)
13. James Polsinelli
    Master's project: "Probability theory, ergodicity, and applications to dynamical systems"
    Graduated: 2010. (Coadvised with Barry James.)
14. Garrett Taft
    Master's Thesis: "Chaos, Attractors, and the Lorenz Conjecture: Noninvertible transitive maps of invariant sets are sensitive"
    Graduated: August 2010. Download thesis pdf here .

Undergraduate Students

1. Zbigniew Wdowiak
   UROP project: "Newton's method for cubics"
   1992.
2. Ron Nelson
   UROP project: "Computing Fractal Basin Boundaries"
   1993.
3. Eric Nielsen
   Research Assistant project: "Developing a GUI for a Dynanmical Systems Software Package (TBC)"
   1993.
4. Mircea Ungureanu
   UROP project: "Nonlinear Dynamics Applied to Financial Markets"
   1999.
5. Tim Luthens
   Research Assistant project: "Computing the Topology of `folded' Surfaces"
   1999.
6. Mike Dvorak
   UROP project: "Use of Dynamical Systems to Control Micoorganism Populations"
   2000.
7. Brian Ketelboeter
   UROP project: "The Cusp bifurcation in two dimensions"
   2000.
8. Dan Gastler
   UROP project: "The n-body problem"
   2000. (coadvised with Guihua Fei)
9. J P McBride
   UROP project: "Dynamical Systems Software"
   2006.
10. Seth Slettedahl
    UROP project: "The dynamics of a noninvertible 2D map"
    2006.
11. Jerod Lass
    Honors Project: "Analysis of Traffic Circles"
    2009.
12. Jacob Yunker
    Honors Project: "Statistical analysis for a proposed mechanism of protein-membrane interactions"
    2010.
13. Brett Bozyk
    Honors Project: "The spine of Newton's Method for Cubics"
    2010.