College of Arts and Sciences
Oklahoma State University

Doctoral Dissertations Directed

• Melissa Mills, Case Studies of Instructional Practices in Proof-based Mathematics Lectures, Ph.D. Dissertation, July 2013.
• John D. Lorch, Unitary Structures for Ladder Representations of U(p,q), Ph.D. Dissertation, July 1995.

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Masters' Research Directed

• Rosaura Uscanga, Symmetries of the Platonic Solids, Master's thesis, July 2015.
• Kitty DeBock, Instructional Practices and Student Persistence After Calculus I, Masters' creative component, July 2014.
• Barbara Trigalet, Teaching Methods and Student Performance in Calculus I, Masters' Thesis, July 2013.
• Nicki Gaswick, Tiling of Rectangles with Congruent Polyominoes: Investigating Polyominoes of Order 5, Masters' Creative Component, July 2013 (jointly directed with J. Mermin and D. Wright).
• Mary Kelly-Harper, Math Jeopardy in the Pre-Calculus Classroom, Masters' Creative Component, August 2007.
• Ginny Bradley, Decomposition of Finite Group Representations, Masters' Creative Component, July 2005.
• Mendy Howell, The OSU High School Math Contest: A Closer Look, Masters' Creative Component, May 2005.
• Dan Sisk, Symmetric Patterns in Molecular Vibrations and Animal Gaits, Masters' Report, July 2002.
• Teodora Cox, Young Tableaux and Irreducible Representations of S_n , Masters' Creative Component, July 2001.
• Andrea Smith, Direct Products of Finite Groups and Irreducible Representations, Masters' Creative Component, July 2001.
• Allan Biehl, Linear Error Correcting Codes, Masters' Creative Component, June 1994.
• Cassandra Bowell, The Problem of Angle Trisection, Masters' Creative Component, December 1992.
• Bryan D. Fuxa, The Spatial Spread of Epidemics, Masters' Creative Component, December 1991.
• Xiaofeng Gao, The Effect of Valve Closure Patterns on Maximum Head at the Valve, Masters' Creative Component, May 1991.
• Tonya J. Duffield, Markov Chains and Applications, Masters' Creative Component, June 1989.
• Karen Billings, Estimating the Kilowatt-Hour Sales of Electricity, Masters' Creative Component, August 1988.
• Rob Moody, The Fast Fourier Transform, Masters' Creative Component, May 1988.

Undergraduate Research Directed

• Field Watts, Senior Honors Thesis expected, May 2018.
• Anna Gunther, Student Performance, Experiences, and Persistence with Observed Teaching Methods in Honors Calculus I, Senior Honors Thesis, May 2014.
• Markus Vasquez, Algebraic Contruction of Sudoku Solutions, Senior Honors Thesis, December 2010 (jointly directed with A. Kable and C. Francisco).
• Lauren Smith, Tiling the plane with convex, equilateral pentagons, Senior Honors Thesis, May 2010.
• John Knorr, Sudoku Solutions as Linear Maps, Senior Honors Thesis, May 2009.
• Carlos Bernal, Isomorphisms of the Rotational Symmetry Groups of the Platonic Solids, Senior Honors Thesis, May 2009.
• Cameron Fincher, Symmetry and Sudoku, Senior Honors Thesis, December 2006.
• David Paige, On Inverse Radon Transforms, Senior Honors Thesis, August 2005.
• Nathan Pennington, Inversion of the Finite Radon Transform, Senior Honors Thesis, June 2004.
• Mario White, Symmetries of the Regular Solids and the Buckyball, Senior Honors Thesis, May 2002.
• Charles Ratliff, Maxwell's Equations and the Conformal Group, Senior Honors Thesis, May 1999
• Jeffrey L. Whitworth, Eigenvalues and Diagonalizability of Totally Nonnegative, Irreducible Matrices, Senior Honors Thesis, April 1998.
• Deborah Alterman, Matt Hill, Sejung Kim, and Angela Minnick, Inversion of an Integral Tranform for SU(p,1), REU project, Summer 1993.
• Susan E. Thompson, Tests and Comparisons of Two Mathematical Models for Species Distribution, Senior Honors Thesis, July 1993.
• Michael C. Oehrtman, Inversion of an Integral Transform, Senior Honors Thesis, July 1992.