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the dynamics of Influenza transmission in school-age population of Utah</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~alberts">Tom Alberts</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Mackenzie Simper</b> <ul> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>The Stochastic Heat Equation on Markov Chains</em></li> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>The Bak-Sneppen Model of Biological Evolution</em></li> </ul> <b>Chong Wang</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>The Surprising Mathematics of Longest Increasing Subsequences</em></li> </ul> <b>Tianyu Wang</b> <ul> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>Maxima of Correlated Gaussian Random Variables</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~albright">Jason Albright</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Alex Henabray</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>Numerical Solution of 1D Stefan Problems</em></li> </ul> <b>Camille Humphries</b> <ul> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Adaptive Numerical Simulation of a 1D Shallow Water Model</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~pa">Peter Alfeld</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Yuji Chen</b> <ul> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>Analysis and Design of Mathematical Ranking Algorithms</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~bertram">Aaron Bertram</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Hunter Simper</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Singular points and the reducibility of Tropical curves</em>, Supported by <a href="/agtrtg">Algebraic Geometry and Topology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~bestvina">Mladen Bestvina</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Kouver Bingham</b> <ul> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Root Systems, Finite Reflection Groups, and Lie Algebras</em>, Supported by <a href="/agtrtg">Algebraic Geometry and Topology RTG</a> grant</li> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>Reflection Groups and Coxeter Groups</em>, Supported by <a href="/agtrtg">Algebraic Geometry and Topology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~heather">Heather Brooks</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Oliver Richardson</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Mathematical model insights into neurobiology</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Braden Schaer</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Mathematical model insights into neurobiology</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Anand Singh</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Mathematical model insights into neurobiology</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Marie Tuft</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Mathematical model insights into neurobiology</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~cherk">Andrej Cherkaev</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Nathan Briggs</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Optimal three material design on the microstructure and macrostructure scale</em></li> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>General case of 2D and 3D optimal design of optimal composites</em></li> </ul> <b>Logan Calder</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>Modeling material failure in a triangular lattice</em></li> </ul> <b>Sophia Hudson</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Exploring 2D Truss Structures Through Finite Element Simulation</em></li> </ul> <b>Kejia Zhu</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>Modeling material failure in a triangular lattice</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~elena">Elena Cherkaev</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Jeremy Allam</b> <ul> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>Chaos Theory in Orbital Mechanics</em></li> </ul> <b>Jamin Gieber</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su15.html">Su15:</a> <em>Deriving the Lorenz equations</em></li> </ul> <b>Sage Paterson</b> <ul> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Modeling Electrical Breakdown and Fractal Lichtenberg Figures</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~ciubo">Dan Ciubotaru</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Wyatt Mackey</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>On the McKay Graphs of the Projective Representations of $S_n$</em></li> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Planarity of the McKay Graphs of $S_n$</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~clemens">Herb Clemens</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Math 4800 F15:</b> <i><a href="ugrad/math4800.html">Algebra, Geometry and a little bit of String Theory</a></i>. <blockquote> <b>Participants</b>: Sabastian Atwood, Bryan Azbill, Arianna Esqueda, Gabrielle Gold, Tanner Gould, Ethan Lake, Michael Leue, Andrew Ross, Jessica Schulze, Nathan Western, Nathan Willis, Katherine Young </blockquote><br> </blockquote>  <a href="/~defernex">Tommaso De Fernex</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Math 4800 S15:</b> <i><a href="/~defernex/4800-S15.html">An introduction to Tropical Geometry</a></i>. <blockquote> <b>Participants</b>: Brady Bowen, Aaron Huston, Connor James, Ethan Lake, Scott Neville, Taylor Pope, Oliver Richardson, Hunter Simper </blockquote><br> </blockquote>  <a href="/~epshteyn">Yekaterina Epshteyn</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Alex Henabray</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>Numerical Solution of 1D Stefan Problems</em></li> </ul> <b>Camille Humphries</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Numerical Methods for the Advection Equation: Comparison of Lax-Friedrichs and Central Schemes</em></li> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Adaptive Numerical Simulation of a 1D Shallow Water Model</em></li> </ul> <b>Spencer Phippen</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Difference Potentials Method for Interface Problems</em>, NSF grant support</li> </ul> <b>Math 4800 S14:</b> <i><a href="/~epshteyn/m4800.html">Selected Numerical Algorithms and Their Analysis</a></i>. <blockquote> <b>Participants</b>: Nathan Briggs, Annie Cherkaev, Stephen Durtschi, Kyle Hiroyasu, Erika Loertscher, Sean O'Connor, Troy Raen, Justin Talbot, Hitesh Tolani, Ericson Weah </blockquote><br> </blockquote>  <a href="/~ethier">Stewart Ethier</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Nathan Simonsen</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Simulation of Texas hold'em</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="http://www.math.utah.edu/people/info/wrapper.php?sayonita">Sayonita Ghosh Hajra</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Jacob Madrid</b> <ul> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>Study of a link invariant-Stabilized Hat Heegaard Floer Homology</em></li> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Study of a link invariant- Stabilized Hat Heegaard Floer Homology</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~fguevara">Fernando Guevara Vasquez</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Michael Primrose</b> <ul> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Imaging with Waves</em></li> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Imaging with waves in random media</em>, Supported by NSF DMS-1411577</li> </ul> <b>Wenyi Wang</b> <ul> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Uncertainty quantification of acoustic wave propagation in plate material</em></li> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Imaging in a Homogeneous Aluminum Plate by Using Ultrasonic Waves</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~davith">Davit Harutyunyan</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Trevor Dick</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>Nonlinear Elasticity: Optimal Climbing Rope</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~choheneg">Christel Hohenegger</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Ryan Durr</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>The Quantification of Exit Times for Varying Fluid Models</em></li> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>The Quantification of Exit Times for varying fluid models</em></li> </ul> <b>Michael Senter</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Random Motion in Media with Memory</em></li> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Numerical investigation of first passage time through a fluid layer</em></li> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>Concurrency and GPU Computing in C++ with MATLAB</em></li> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Numerical investigation of First Passage Time through a Fluid Layer</em>, Supported by NSF DMS-1413378</li> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>Numerical investigation of First Passage Time through a Fluid Layer</em>, Supported by NSF DMS-1413378</li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~horvath">Lajos Horvath</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Siben Li</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Statistical Analysis of Lightcurves</em></li> </ul> <b>Jonathan Race</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Explorations in GARCH(1,1) Processes</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~jjohnson">Drew Johnson</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Drew Ellingson</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Computation of Top Intersections on the Moduli Space of Curves</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~kjohnson">Katrina Johnson</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Wantong Du</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>The Role of mRNA Decay in a Genetic Switch</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~davar">Davar Khoshnevisan</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Wantong Du</b> <ul> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Crime Rate Analysis - United States since 1960s</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~lawley">Sean Lawley</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Oliver Richardson</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Mathematical model insights into neurobiology</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Braden Schaer</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Mathematical model insights into neurobiology</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Anand Singh</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Mathematical model insights into neurobiology</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Marie Tuft</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Mathematical model insights into neurobiology</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~olewis">Owen Lewis</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Olivia Dennis</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Mathematical Models of Cell Motility</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Naveen Rathi</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Mathematical Models of Cell Motility</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Gerardo Rodriguez-Orellana</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Mathematical Models of Cell Motility</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Nathan Willis</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Mathematical Models of Cell Motility</em>, Supported by <a href="/research/mathbio/rtg/">Mathematical Biology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~marcus">Steffen Marcus</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Drew Ellingson</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Tropical Analogues of Classical Theorems</em></li> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Computation of Top Intersections on the Moduli Space of Curves</em></li> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Computing Top Intersections on the Moduli Space of Curves</em>, Supported by <a href="/agtrtg">Algebraic Geometry and Topology RTG</a> grant</li> </ul> <b>Math 4800 F13:</b> <i><a href="/~marcus/math4800/">Inquiry into Mathematics</a></i>. <blockquote> <b>Participants</b>: Brady Bowen, Logan Calder, Nate Call, Stephen Durtschi, Joshua Keeler, Sage Paterson </blockquote><br> </blockquote>  <a href="/~milton">Graeme Milton</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Math 4800 F14:</b> <i><a href="/ugrad/math4800f14.pdf">An inverse problem: finding boundary fields which produce breakdown</a></i>. <blockquote> <b>Participants</b>: Destan Beene, Andrew Boyle, Nathan Briggs, Zoe Koch, Michael Primrose, Michael Zhao </blockquote><br> </blockquote>  <a href="/~nesse">Will Nesse</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Brian Sheng</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su15.html">Su15:</a> <em>Characterization of Moving Objects with a Wireless Sensor Network of Quadcopters</em></li> </ul> <b>Gregory Strader</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su15.html">Su15:</a> <em>Research Into Statistical Thermodynamics</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~osting">Braxton Osting</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Hitesh Tolani</b> <ul> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>Dependence of infectious disease transmission on the contact network topology</em></li> </ul> <b>Michael Zhao</b> <ul> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>Spectrum of the Laplacian of Random Graph Models</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~savin">Gordan Savin</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Brady Thompson</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>The Discriminant Relation Formula</em></li> </ul> <b>Michael Zhao</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Quaternions algebras</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~sofia">Sofia Tirabassi</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Curtis Houston</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Further Analysis of Asymptotic Syzygies of Algebraic Varieties</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~toledo">Domingo Toledo</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Kejia Zhu</b> <ul> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Reading class from Polya and Szego, Problems and theorems in analysis 1</em></li> <li><a href="S15.html">S15:</a> <em>reading class on Geometry of Surfaces by Stillwell</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~toth">Damon Toth</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Alexander Beams</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Epidemiology of Carbapenem Resistant Bacterial Infections</em></li> </ul> <b>Hitesh Tolani</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>Network models to study transmission of Influenza in school-age population</em></li> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Modeling the dynamics of Influenza transmission in school-age population of Utah</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~tucker">Don Tucker</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Stephen McKean</b> <ul> <li><a href="F15.html">F15:</a> <em>Fluid dynamics of matter, traffic, and money</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="http://www.sci.utah.edu/~dxiu/">Dongbin Xiu</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Wenyi Wang</b> <ul> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Uncertainty quantification of acoustic wave propagation in plate material</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~tsinghai">Qinghai Zhang</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Yang Lou</b> <ul> <li><a href="Su14.html">Su14:</a> <em>An extension of the PAM method to three dimensions for interface tracking</em></li> </ul> </blockquote>  <a href="/~zhu">Jingyi Zhu</a><br> <blockquote> <b>Logan Calder</b> <ul> <li><a href="F13.html">F13:</a> <em>Fractal Models of Finance</em></li> <li><a href="S14.html">S14:</a> <em>Fractional Brownian Motion of Prices in the Stock Market</em></li> </ul> <b>Zhao Jin</b> <ul> <li><a href="F14.html">F14:</a> <em>Construction of Optimal Portfolio Strategies</em></li> </ul> <b>Tao Yu</b> <ul> 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