Our faculty are proud of the research they've completed (see below for more information). But more impressive is the work of our students:
Undergraduate projects:
- Kovyrshina, Montes, & Watkins: Franklin magic circles (w/ Garcia)
- Herring, Meza, & Nieuwoudt: Sandpile groups (w/Garcia-Puente)
- Bankhead, Voth, Woods: discrete Morse theory (w/Loft)
- Spielvogel: Identifying causal effects with computer algebra (w/Garcia-Puente)
- Meyer, Sanders,Seitz: Enumeration of Franklin circles (w/Garcia)
- Diaz & Howard: Algebraic methods for phylogenetic inference (w/Garcia-Puente)
Graduate projects:
- Alex Diaz: Testing a distance algorithm in tree space (w/ Loft, 2011)
- Samantha Caspar: Midpoints of tree geodesics & consensus (w/Loft, 2011)
- Robert Williams: Monomial ideals (w/Garcia-Puente, 2011)
- Luis Molina: Sandpile groups (w/Garcia-Puente, 2011)
- Sarah Spielvogel: Completing Emmy Noether' 1908 thesis (w/ Garcia, 2011)
- Charity Bankhead, Generalized crowns (w/ Garcia, 2010)
Current Grants
- Pacific Undergraduate Research Experience in Mathematics (PURE Math)
funded by NSF MCTP program, 2011-2015
- Long-Term Undergraduate Research Experience (LURE)
funded by NSF and SHSU
- Peers Enhancing their Education through Research & Scholarship (PEERS)
funded by NSF S-STEM program, 2008-2012
Current areas of faculty research:
Differential Topology (Loft)
Differential Geometry (Loft)
Computational Algebraic Geometry (Garcia-Puente)
Low-dimensional Topology (Jensen)
Topological Groups (Short)
Mathematical Biology (Alford)
Mathematical Modeling (Alford, Swim)
Mathematics for ELL (Jasper)
Textbook Analysis (Jones)
Concept Maps (Swarthout)
Grobner Bases (Garcia)
Difference Sets (Smith)
Commutative Algebra (Chapman, Garcia)
Computational Algebra (Garcia)
Combinatorics (Chapman, Malandro, Smith)
Number Theory (Chapman)
Statistical Shape Analysis (Manage)
Biostatistics (Manage)
Quality Control (Scariano)
Multivariate Analysis (Hallum)
Regression Analysis (Hallum)
Noncommutative functional analysis (Hay)
Numerical Analysis (Swim)
Approximation Theory (Wang)
Numerical Methods (Swim)
Harmonic Analysis (Wang)
Wavelets (Wang)
Algebraic Statistics (Garcia-Puente)
Bayesian Statistics (Holt)