{"id":989,"date":"2018-08-29T13:13:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/?page_id=989"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:51:29","slug":"hub","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/capstone\/senior-thesis\/hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Thesis Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-mudd2021-right-sidebar right-sidebar\" id=\"right-sidebar\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Math Thesis Contacts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thesis Coordinator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Heather Zinn Brooks<br><a href=\"mailto:&#104;&#122;&#105;&#110;n&#98;&#114;&#111;oks&#64;&#104;m&#99;.&#101;du\">h&#122;inn&#98;r&#111;o&#107;&#115;&#64;h&#109;c&#46;edu<\/a><br><a href=\"tel:+19096071560\">909.607.1560<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Coordinator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>DruAnn Thomas<br><a href=\"mailto:d&#116;h&#111;ma&#115;&#64;hmc&#46;&#101;du\">&#100;th&#111;&#109;&#97;&#115;&#64;&#104;&#109;c.edu<\/a><br><a href=\"tel:+19096218896\">909.621.8896<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IT Analyst<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Hernandez-Alvarez<br><a href=\"mailto:&#109;hern&#97;&#110;d&#101;&#122;&#97;&#108;var&#101;&#122;&#64;&#104;m&#99;.edu\">&#109;&#104;&#101;rn&#97;&#110;d&#101;&#122;&#97;&#108;&#118;ar&#101;z&#64;h&#109;&#99;.&#101;&#100;&#117;<\/a><br><a href=\"tel:+19096073618\">909.607.3618<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Math Thesis Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/capstone\/senior-thesis\/hub\/\">Thesis Hub<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/capstone\/senior-thesis\/template\/\">Templates<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/mathematics\/capstone\/senior-thesis\/archives\/\">Past Projects<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure id=\"igsv-1arFcREWGUMLbcobO8XHDhdSUwhYhaqtjF7zsk7TmfPM\" class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Student<\/th><th>Advisor<\/th><th>Second Reader<\/th><th>Thesis Website<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Tito Augusto Cuchilla<\/td><td>Vindas Mel\u00e9ndez<\/td><td>Randolph(CS)<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.hmc.edu\/tcuchilla\/home\">Hamiltonian Paths on the Skeleton of Polytopes<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jenna (Yuanyuan) Luo<\/td><td>Karp, Gonzalez Anaya<\/td><td>Payne(UofM)<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.hmc.edu\/jennaluo\/home\">The Tropical Submodules for Metric Graphs with Genus at Least Two<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Connor Neely<\/td><td>Karp<\/td><td>Ross(SFSU)<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.hmc.edu\/cneely\">A Friendly Introduction to Gromov-Witten Theory<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Saheli Patel<\/td><td>Martonosi<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Maddie Reeve<\/td><td>Zinn Brooks<\/td><td>Miles(Utah)<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.hmc.edu\/mreeve\">Toward conditions for consensus of noisy bounded-confidence models<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Elizabeth Rogers<\/td><td>Martonosi<\/td><td>Paul(Brown)<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.hmc.edu\/erogers\/home\">Increasing computational efficiently of solving the All-Pairs Vitality Maximization Problem<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kieran Saucedo<\/td><td>Edholm(SCR)<\/td><td>de Pillis<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.hmc.edu\/ksaucedo\">Stochastic Dynamics in Legionnaires Disease Epidemiology<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gregory Wickham<\/td><td>Bang(CS)<\/td><td>Orrison<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nicole Wu<\/td><td>Aguilar(PO)<\/td><td>Castro<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.hmc.edu\/nwu\/home\">Nonstandard Analysis, Ultraproducts, and C*-Algebras<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Joshua Zhong<\/td><td>Su<\/td><td>Lanier(Louisiana State)<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.hmc.edu\/jzhong\/home\">A combinatorial view of the fixed-point property for projective planes of even dimension<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lilian Zhu<\/td><td>Sanchez<\/td><td>Johnson(ASU), McGillicuddy(Woods Hole Oceanography Institute)<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Current Thesis Students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forms\/Spreadsheets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1cDARGRBknX8DIXxw7h6JxiR7bIvEnYf7RFKkln5s5e8\/edit?gid=0#gid=0\">2025-2026 Talks Schedule<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1D5D5m6JyJFwcnDZoS4l6p7QpREaQWUMe\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=107051564934242703866&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">HMC Mathematics Department Student Application for Travel Funds<\/a><br>(Please see DruAnn Thomas before completing!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Instruction Documents &amp; 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