Senior Seminar (MTH 491), is the capstone course for mathematics majors. Each student completes a senior project, which is usually a research project but may be an expository paper. Each student also prepares an oral presentation on his or her project; these presentations are given near the end of the semester.
Students who have arranged for an internship at an outside company may use this to satisfy their capstone requirement. These students should contact their departmental advisor well in advance of the internship to make arrangements.
Recent Undergraduate Capstone Projects
The research topics for Senior Seminar are almost unlimited. Recently, students have written capstone papers on mathematical physics, complex analysis, game theory, geometry, numerical analysis, and other topics.
Fall 2021 – Senior Seminars
- Maegan Burke
The Planimeter: Sweeping Through an Area Near You
Dr. Bonita Lawrence - Tanisha Lilly
Graphs and the Minimum Rank Problem
Dr. Ansam Al-Aqtash - Logan Rose
The Support Vector Machine
Dr. Avishek Mallick
Spring 2021 – Senior Seminars
- Erica Burns
Predicting Academic Intervention Need - Colton Farley
Description and Application of Neural Networks - Kenny Hughes
Analyzing Two-Player Finite Zero-Sum Games - Chloe’ Marcum
Extended Schur Functions - Forest Rowley
Generalized Vandermonde Determinants - Joseph Stamm
2-Primitive Decompositions of K_n and K_n-I - Lynne Thompson
Exact Confidence Intervals - Jordan Toppins
Connecting High School Elements to Predict STEM Degrees - Ian Waddell
Numerically Solving the Blasius Problem
2020 – Senior Seminars
- Isaac Brown
Hamilton cycle decompositions of hypergraphs
Advisor: Dr. Michael Schroeder - Jordyn Bryson
2-Primitivity in Steiner Triple Systems
Advisor: Dr. Michael Schroeder - Tyler Call
Generalizations of Chromatic Polynomials
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Niese - Parker D’Antoni
Predicting Points Per Game in Basketball
Advisor: Dr. Anna Mummert - Benjamin Day
Allocation in Series-Parallel and Parallel-Series Circuits
Advisor: Dr. Laura Adkins - Christian Gunnoe
The Lambert W Function
Advisor: Dr. Scott Sarra - Ryan Jarrell
A comparison of two binary classifiers
Advisor: Dr. Avishek Mallick - Joel Krznaric
Modeling SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
Advisor: Dr. Michael Otunuga - Skylaar Mease
Probably Approximately Correct Learning
Advisor: Dr. Carl Mummert - Kayla Skidmore
Voronoi Diagrams
Advisor: Dr. Bonita Lawrence - Scotty Wroten II
Enumeration of Small k-Fuss Schroder Paths
Advisor: Dr. JiYoon Jung