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Impact Of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research In Mathematics And Biology On The Development Of A New Course Integrating Five Stem Disciplines, Lester Caudill, April L. Hill, Kathy Hoke, Ovidiu Z. Lipan Oct 2010

Impact Of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research In Mathematics And Biology On The Development Of A New Course Integrating Five Stem Disciplines, Lester Caudill, April L. Hill, Kathy Hoke, Ovidiu Z. Lipan

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Funded by innovative programs at the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Richmond faculty in biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and computer science teamed up to offer first- and second-year students the opportunity to contribute to vibrant, interdisciplinary research projects. The result was not only good science but also good science that motivated and informed course development. Here, we describe four recent undergraduate research projects involving students and faculty in biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science and how each contributed in significant ways to the conception and implementation of our new Integrated Quantitative Science course, a …


Impact Of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research In Mathematics And Biology On The Development Of A New Course Integrating Five Stem Disciplines, Lester Caudill, April L. Hill, Kathy Hoke, Ovidiu Z. Lipan Oct 2010

Impact Of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research In Mathematics And Biology On The Development Of A New Course Integrating Five Stem Disciplines, Lester Caudill, April L. Hill, Kathy Hoke, Ovidiu Z. Lipan

Biology Faculty Publications

Funded by innovative programs at the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Richmond faculty in biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and computer science teamed up to offer first- and second-year students the opportunity to contribute to vibrant, interdisciplinary research projects. The result was not only good science but also good science that motivated and informed course development. Here, we describe four recent undergraduate research projects involving students and faculty in biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science and how each contributed in significant ways to the conception and implementation of our new Integrated Quantitative Science course, a …


On The Non-Existence Of A Projective (75, 4,12, 5) Set In Pg(3, 7), Aaron C.S. Chan, James A. Davis, Jonathan Jedwab Apr 2010

On The Non-Existence Of A Projective (75, 4,12, 5) Set In Pg(3, 7), Aaron C.S. Chan, James A. Davis, Jonathan Jedwab

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

We show by a combination of theoretical argument and computer search that if a projective (75, 4, 12, 5) set in PG(3, 7) exists then its automorphism group must be trivial. This corresponds to the smallest open case of a coding problem posed by H. Ward in 1998, concerning the possible existence of an infinite family of projective two-weight codes meeting the Griesmer bound.


Detecting Malicious Javascript, Matthew F. Der Apr 2010

Detecting Malicious Javascript, Matthew F. Der

Honors Theses

The increased use of the World Wide Web and JavaScript as a scripting language for Web pages have made JavaScript a popular attack vector for infecting users' machines with malware. Additionally, attackers often obfuscate their code to avoid detection, which heightens the challenge and complexity of automated defense systems. We present two analyses of malicious scripts and suggest how they could be extended into intrusion detection systems. For our analyses we use a sample of deobfuscated malicious and benign scripts collected from actual Web sites. First, using our malicious sample, we perform a manual analysis of attack signatures, identifying four …


Analysis Of Boolean Functions With High Second Order Nonlinearity, Corneliu A. Bodea Apr 2010

Analysis Of Boolean Functions With High Second Order Nonlinearity, Corneliu A. Bodea

Honors Theses

Highly nonlinear Boolean functions play a central role in the design and security analysis of high speed stream cyphers and block cyphers. We focus on analyzing the structure of Boolean functions that exhibit high second order nonlinearity. We commence with a theoretical overview of Boolean functions and Reed- Muller codes. We then introduce a new equivalence relation, 2-equivalence, for which we prove a number of important properties. Finally, we analyze the second order nonlinearity of concatenations of two Boolean functions.


Truncated Toeplitz Operators: Spatial Isomorphism, Unitary Equivalence, And Similarity, William T. Ross, Joseph A. Cima, Stephan Ramon Garcia, Warren R. Wogen Jan 2010

Truncated Toeplitz Operators: Spatial Isomorphism, Unitary Equivalence, And Similarity, William T. Ross, Joseph A. Cima, Stephan Ramon Garcia, Warren R. Wogen

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

A truncated Toeplitz operator Aᵩ : KƟ → KƟ is the compression of a Toeplitz operator Tᵩ : H2 → H2 to a model space KƟ := H2 ƟH2. For Ɵ inner, let TƟ denote the set of all bounded truncated Toeplitz operators on KƟ. Our main result is a necessary and sufficient condition on inner functions Ɵ1 and Ɵ2 which guarantees that TƟ1 and TƟ2 are spatially isomorphic. (i.e., UTƟ1 = TƟ2 U for some unitary U : KƟ1 …


Spatial Isomorphisms Of Algebras Of Truncated Toeplitz Operators, William T. Ross, Stephan Ramon Garcia, Warren R. Wogen Jan 2010

Spatial Isomorphisms Of Algebras Of Truncated Toeplitz Operators, William T. Ross, Stephan Ramon Garcia, Warren R. Wogen

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

We examine when two maximal abelian algebras in the truncated Toeplitz operators are spatially isomorphic. This builds upon recent work of N. Sedlock, who obtained a complete description of the maximal algebras of truncated Toeplitz operators.


The Norm Of A Truncated Toeplitz Operator, William T. Ross, Stephan Ramon Garcia Jan 2010

The Norm Of A Truncated Toeplitz Operator, William T. Ross, Stephan Ramon Garcia

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

We prove several lower bounds for the norm of a truncated Toeplitz operator and obtain a curious relationship between the H2 and H norms of functions in model spaces.


[Introduction To] Ordinary And Particial Differential Equations: An Introduction To Dynamical Systems, John W. Cain, Angela M. Reynolds Jan 2010

[Introduction To] Ordinary And Particial Differential Equations: An Introduction To Dynamical Systems, John W. Cain, Angela M. Reynolds

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Differential equations arise in a variety of contexts, some purely theoretical and some of practical interest. As you read this textbook, you will find that the qualitative and quantitative study of differential equations incorporates an elegant blend of linear algebra and advanced calculus. This book is intended for an advanced undergraduate course in differential equations. The reader should have already completed courses in linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and introductory differential equations.