Qualified students in the B.S. Mathematics program have the option to complete an honors thesis project under the supervision of a department faculty member and then graduate with Honors. Below is a list of recently completed honors theses.
Recent Mathematics Honors theses include:
| Student |
Term |
Faculty Supervisor |
Title |
| Michelle Houck1 |
Spring 2009 |
John T. Saccoman, Ph.D. |
A surgery reducing the number of spanning trees for threshold graphs having a specified degree condition |
| Monika Heinig |
Fall 2008 |
John T. Saccoman, Ph.D. |
Laplacian integral multigraphs |
| Sarah Smith |
Fall 2008 |
Nathan Kahl, Ph.D. |
Solutions of σ(q)+ σ(r)= σ(q+r) |
| Danielle Dombrowski2 |
Spring 2008 |
Daniel Gross, Ph.D. |
Component Order Connectivity of Harary Graphs |
| Susana Holloway2,3 |
Spring 2008 |
John T. Saccoman, Ph.D. |
A Note on Handshaking Puzzles III: Additional Multigraph Realizations |
| Joanna Gillen2 |
Spring 2008 |
Nathan Kahl, Ph.D. |
Spanning Trees of Complete Bipartite Graphs that Contain Specified Edges |
| Laura Helbing4 |
Fall 2007 |
John T. Saccoman, Ph.D. |
Spanning Trees of Non-Ideal Split Graphs |
| Jen Michewicz5 |
Fall 2006 |
John T. Saccoman, Ph.D. |
A Formula for the Number of Spanning Trees of Certain Non-Threshold Split Graphs |
- Poster on the work was presented at Garden State Undergraduate Student Conference, William Paterson University, February 2009.
- Talk on the work given at Moravian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Pennsylvania, February 2009.
- Work published in Graph Theory Notes of New York 56 (2009), pgs. 44-48.
- Work published in Congressus Numerantium 192 (2008), pgs. 129-139.
- Work published in Congressus Numerantium 184 (2007), pgs. 85-96.
To learn more about the honors thesis requirement or graduating with a B.S. in Mathematics Honors degree, please contact a
faculty advisor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
