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Drawing Numbers And Listening To Patterns, Loren Zo Haynes Apr 2016

Drawing Numbers And Listening To Patterns, Loren Zo Haynes

Honors College Theses

The triangular numbers is a series of number that add the natural numbers. Parabolic shapes emerge when this series is placed on a lattice, or imposed with a limited number of columns that causes the sequence to continue on the next row when it has reached the kth column. We examine these patterns and construct proofs that explain their behavior. We build off of this to see what happens to the patterns when there is not a limited number of columns, and we formulate the graphs as musical patterns on a staff, using each column as a line or space …


Mathematical Models For Infectious Disease Transmission With Stochastic Simulation Of Measles Outbreaks, Valerie Welty Apr 2016

Mathematical Models For Infectious Disease Transmission With Stochastic Simulation Of Measles Outbreaks, Valerie Welty

Honors College Theses

As they are the leading cause of death among children and adolescents worldwide, it is of extreme importance to control the spread of infectious diseases. Information gained from mathematical modeling of these events often proves quite useful in establishing policy decisions to accomplish this goal. Human behavior, however, is quite difficult to recreate when using equations with pre-determined results, such as deterministic differential equations often used with epidemic models. Because of this, the focus of the research was to create a simulation of an outbreak, specifically of measles, by using an imaginary population experiencing simulated stochastic events on a discrete …


Blow-Up Solution And Blow-Up Rate Of Bose-Einstein Condensates With Rotational Term, Nyla Basharat Jan 2016

Blow-Up Solution And Blow-Up Rate Of Bose-Einstein Condensates With Rotational Term, Nyla Basharat

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, we discuss the Gross Pitaevskii Equation (GPE) with harmonic potential and with an angular momentum rotational term in space R^2, which describes the model for Bose-Einstein Condensation. Local Well-Posedness of the equation and the conservation identities for mass, energy and angular momentum are presented. Using the virial identities, we derive the condition for blow-up solution in finite time. Then a threshold of L^2 norm of wave function is obtained for global existence, of GPE in term of ground state solution. This method allows us to obtain our main result ``Sharp sufficient condition for global …


Stereographic Visualization Of Bose-Einstein Condensate Clouds To Measure The Gravitational Constant, Ed Wesley Wells Jan 2016

Stereographic Visualization Of Bose-Einstein Condensate Clouds To Measure The Gravitational Constant, Ed Wesley Wells

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis describes a set of tools that can be used for the rapid design of atom interferometer schemes suitable for measuring Newton's Universal Gravitation constant also known as "Big G". This tool set is especially applicable to Bose--Einstein--condensed systems present in NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory experiment to be deployed to the International Space Station in 2017. These tools include a method of approximating the solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger or Gross--Pitaevskii equation (GPE) using the Lagrangian Variational Method. They also include a set of software tools for translating the approximate solutions of the GPE into images of the optical …


Geometric-Based Algorithm For A Full Row-Rank System Matrix Along Multiple Directions In Dt, Igor Lutsenko Jan 2016

Geometric-Based Algorithm For A Full Row-Rank System Matrix Along Multiple Directions In Dt, Igor Lutsenko

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Discrete tomography (DT) is an image reconstruction procedure that deals with computational synthesis of a cross-sectional image of an object from either transmission or reflection data collected by penetrating an object with X-rays from a small number of different directions, and whose range of the underlying function is discrete. Image reconstruction using algebraic approach is time consuming and the computation cost depends on the size of the system matrix. More scanning directions provide an increase in the reconstructed image quality, however they increase the size of the system matrix dramatically. Deletion of linearly dependent rows of this matrix is necessary …


Black-Scholes Equation And Heat Equation, Charles D. Joyner Jan 2016

Black-Scholes Equation And Heat Equation, Charles D. Joyner

Honors College Theses

First, we present and define the Black-Scholes equation which is used to model assets on the stock market. After that, we derive the heat equation that describes how the temperature increases through a homogeneous material. Finally, we detail how the two equations are related. We introduce and relate the Black-Scholes equation and Heat Equation.