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Kerrigan Research Minigrants Program

Each year the department offers $300 research minigrant to students interested in working on research projects with departent faculty members. Applicants should be undergraduate or graduate UNO students with solid mathematics background. New projects are posted each September, with students expected to present their results during the Mathematics Symposium each April. For more details, see the Program Description.

Projects for 2012-2013

Applied Mathematics

Dora Matache: Phase transition model for heterogenous Boolean networks. Status: Taken by Amanda Ludes.

Dora Matache: Heterogenous Boolean network simulator tool. Status: Taken by Celeste Mott.

Zhenyuan Wang: Ranking Fuzzy Numbers by their Left and Right Wingspans. Status: Taken by Li Westman.

Zhenyuan Wang: An Improvement on the Pseudo Gradient Search Used in Nonlinear Optimization. Status: Bo Guo.

Algebra / Knot Theory

Robert Todd: Introduction to knot theory and the clock number. Status: AVAILABLE.

Complex Analysis

Valentin Matache: Complex Dynamics, Geometric Function Theory, and a Fixed Point Theorem. Status: Taken by Teng Li.

Functional Operator Theory

Valentin Matache: Hyperbolic Composition Operators and the Invariant Subspace Problem. Status: Taken by Nguyen Nguyen.

Math Education

Michael Matthews: Impact of 3D video game play of visual/spatial reasoning. Status: Chelsea Ross.

Numerical Methods

Mahboub Baccouch: A local discontinuous Galerkin method for the fourth-order Euler–Lagrange partial differential equation for beams. Status: taken by Balagbo Lawson.

Mahboub Baccouch: The discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for two-dimensional convection-diffusion problems on triangular meshes. Status: taken by Joonhee Lee.