Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences

Research Experiences at the Biological Mathematical Interface (REBMI)

(R1) Scalable optimization of adaptive scheduling in SWIFT for large parallel computation on grids
Ragib Morshed (Pom)
Advisor - Steve L. Small (University of Chicago)

(R2) Protein hoping simulations and the importance of sub-exposure behavior in protein-DNA interactions
Kimberly Fong (SCR)  and   Lauren Harrell (CMC)
Advisor -Yan Mei Wang  (Washington University, St. Louis)

(R3) Computational modeling of gene expression and the effect of scaffold proteins
Atul Vyas  (CMC)
Advisor - Peter Swain (McGill University, Montreal)

(R4) Human hand: The mechanical finger
Lolly Simoni  (HMC),  Kari Oki (SCR),  Manish Kurse (USC)
Advisor - Francisco Valero-Cuevas (USC)

(R5) Algorithms for seizure detection in EEG/ECoG
Harry Dudley (HMC) and  Mark Frei (Flint Hill Scientific, Lawrence)
Advisor - Ivan Osorio (University of Kansas, Kansas City)

(R6) Modeling infection dynamics of Equine infectious anemia virus
Brian Stock (HMC)
Advisor - Elissa Schwartz (Washington State University, Pullman)

(R7) Using genetic algorithms to explore motifs for efficient macromolecular assembly
Joshua Lippai (POM)  
Advisor - Peter Swain (McGill University, Montreal)

(R8) Effects of downhill running on body metabolics and kinetics
Adam Coleman (CMC)  and  Jamie Gunn (CMC)
Advisor -  Michelle Lechner LeBlanc     (Cal Lutheran)

(R9) Survival and proliferation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in lymphoid tissue
Ben Fogelson (HMC)
Advisor - L. G. de Pills (HMC)

Harvey Mudd College

(H1) An Experimental Study of Particle-laden Fluid Flow
Patrick Foley,Vedika Khemani and Stephen Rosenthal (HMC)
Advisor- Rachel Levy

(H2) Disaster LA- Detecting and Preventing Terrorist Activity
Jackie Brosamer (UCLA), Mayra Cisneros (UCLA), Eunice Huang (UCLA), Edwin Lei (HMC), Denise Lewis (UCLA), Maria Pavlovskaia (UCLA)
Advisors-Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA), Martin Short (UCLA)

(H3) Hydrodynamic Origin of Whale Footprints: An Introduction
Dmitri Skjorshammer (HMC)
Advisor- Rachel Levy

(H4) An Evaluation of Pan-Sharpening Methods
Melissa Strait (HMC), Daria Merkurjev (UCLA), Sheida Rahmani (UCLA)
Advisor-Todd Wittman (UCLA)

Pomona College

(P1) Periodic solutions to a piecewise linear second order differential equation
James Buerger (’10)
Advisor- Adolfo Rumbos

(P2) Solving two-point boundary value problems via the Hilbert space approach
Megan Hunter (’10)
Advisor- Adolfo Rumbos

(P3) Modeling the degree distribution of a fractal transportation network
Juan Diego Rodriguez (’09)
Advisors- Alfred Hubler and Pia Ketish ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL)

(P4) The search for an origin: The ancestral periodic orbit and sacker bifurcation
Tammy Zhu (’10)
Advisor- Richard Elderkin

(P5) The two-locus, two allele model with selection
 Scott Zimmerman (’09)
Advisors- Ami Radunskaya and  Andre Cavalcanti

(P6) Modeling the degree distribution of a fractal transportation network
Juan Diego Rodriguez (PO '09)
Advisor-  Alfred Hubler, Santa Fe Institute and Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The CGU BLAIS Foundation

(B1) On Metric Trees and n-Widths
George Dekermenjian (CGU) and Kyle Kinneberg (CMC)
Advisors: Asuman Aksoy (CMC) and Henry Schellhorn (CGU)

(B2) Geometric Modeling
 Darren Whitwood (CGU) and Rockstrah Parousia (HMC)
Advisors: Hedley Morris (CGU) and Weiqing Gu (HMC)

(B3) Centrality based analysis of real world networks.
Sri Paladugu (CGU/KGI) and Alex Haro (HMC)
Advisors: Alpan Raval (CGU/KGI) and Ran Liebeskind-Hadas(HMC)

Scripps College

(S1) Structure of Unitary Cayley Graphs
Rachel Karpman (Scripps), Megan Boggess (Columbia Union College), Tiffany Jackson-Henderson(St. Augustine's College), and Isidora Jimenez (Mills College)
Advisor- Christopher Towse