Publications from REU and Excel Programs at Lafayette College

Asterisks denote undergraduate authors.



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Evan Fisher, Matthew Berman*, Natalie Vowels*, and Christine Wilson*, "Excursions of a Normal Random Walk above a Boundary," Statistics and Probability Letters, 48 (2000), 141-151.

Danielle Bianco*, Olivia M. Carducci, Stephen Hartke*, and Anne Larimer*, "Stable matchings in the couples problem," Morehead Electronic Journal of Applicable Mathematics, Issue 2, MATH-2001-06, January 16, 2002.

Nathan C. Carter*, Stephen M. Grimes*, and Clifford A. Reiter, "Frieze and Wallpaper Chaotic Attractors with a Polar Spin," Computers & Graphics, 22 6 (1998) 765-779.

Nathan C. Carter*, Richard L. Eagles*, Stephen M. Grimes*, Andrew C. Hahn* and Clifford A. Reiter, "Chaotic Attractors with Discrete Planar Symmetries," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 9 12 (1998) 2031-2054.

Nathan Carter*, Richard Eagles*, Stephen Grimes*, Andrew Hahn*, and Clifford A. Reiter, "Chaos with Symmetry: Reflections on an Exhibition," The CDROM Proceedings of the APL97 International Conference on APL, Toronto, Ontario, August 17-20, 1997.

Susan Garner Garille* and John Meier,  Whitehead graphs and the S1 invariants of infinite groups, International Journal of Algebra and Computation, 8 (1998) 23-34.


Summer 1996
Lori Fern*, Gary Gordon, Jason Leasure*, Sharon Pronchik*, "Matroid automorphisms and symmetry groups," Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing, 9 (2000), 105-123.

Christina Ahrens*, Gary Gordon, and Elizabeth McMahon, "Finite Convex Sets and the Beta Invariant," Discrete and Computational Geometry 22 (1999), 411-424.

Christie L. Gilbert*, Joseph D. Kolesar*, Clifford A. Reiter, and John D. Storey*, "Function Digraphs of Quadratic Maps Modulo p," The Fibonacci Quarterly, 39 1 (2001) 32-49.

Sean Grettum*, Jennifer Mandelson*, John Meier, Philippa Mignon Rhodes*, "Automatic Groups, Rational Growth, and Polygonal Amalgams," Communications in Algebra 29 (2001) 5371--5382.

Elizabeth McMahon, Beth A. Shimkus*, and Jessica Wolfson*, "Chordal graphs and the characteristic polynomial," Discrete Math. 262 (2003) 211-219.


Summer 1995
Jessica Wolfson* and John Meier, "Visualizing the Geometry of Lissajous Knots", College Mathematics Journal 28 (1997) 211--216

Nicole Librizzi*, John H. Long, Robert G. Root, "Modeling a swimming fish with an initial-boundary value problem: unsteady maneuvers of an elastic plate with internal force generation," Mathematical and Computer Modeling 30 (1999) 77-93.

Travis Lee*, Max Minzner*, Evan Fisher, "The length of an excursion above a linear boundary by a random walk," Statistics and Probability Letters, 34 (1997) 397-402.

Travis Lee*, Max Minzner*, Evan Fisher, "Excursions of a random walk related to the strong law of large numbers," The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 28 (1998) 595--606.

Gabriel F. Brisson* and Clifford A. Reiter, "Parallel Processing with J," Vector, 13 1 (1996) 86-95.

Gabriel F. Brisson*, Kaj M. Gartz*, Benton J. McCune*, Kevin P. O'Brien*, and Clifford A. Reiter, "Symmetric Attractors in 3D Space," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 7 7 (1996) 1033-1051.


Summer 1994
Jessica K. Benashski*, Ryan R. Martin*, Justin T. Moore* and Lorenzo Traldi, "On the b -invariant for graphs," Congressus Numerantium, 109 (1995) 211-221.

Laura McKinney*, John Meier and Katherine Schnare*, "Abelian quotients of Artin groups," Houston Journal of Mathematics, 21 (1995) 659-670.

Caroline Lucheta*, Eli Miller* and Clifford A. Reiter, "Digraphs from powers mod p," The Fibonacci Quarterly, 34 3 (1996) 226-239.


Summer 1993
Sandy D. Balkin*, Deborah S. Cousins*, Christopher K. Orr* and Clifford A. Reiter, "Short periods of continued fraction convergents modulo m: a generalization of the Fibonacci case," The Fibonacci Quarterly, 33 3 (1995) 222-233.

Sarah Drucker*, Evan Fisher and Imola Fodor*," On random walks and levels of the form na," The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 26 1 (1996) 117-134.

Gary Gordon, Eleanor McDonnell*, Darren Orloff* and Nen Yung, "On the Tutte polynomial of a tree," Congressus Numerantium, 108 (1995) 141-151.

Gary Gordon and Eleanor McDonnell*, "Trees with the same degree sequence and path numbers," Discrete Mathematics, 147 (1995) 297-300.



Summer 1992