Student Research Projects

Supervised by Bruce B. Peckham


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"
    Expected graduation: November 2008. (Coadvised with Barry James.)

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.

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