Student Successes
Student research and activities.
Tara Umana (2007), awarded a Clare Booth Luce Scholarship for her 2007-2009 undergraduate studies.
The following students were recognized at the 2007 College of Arts and Sciences Honors Convocation.
- Andrew L'ecuyer and Christopher Macaluso were the recipients of The Outstanding Computer Science Major Award.
- Eric Lewandowski was the recipient of The Outstanding Mathematics Major Award.
The following students were recognized at the 2006 College of Arts and Sciences Honors Convocation.
- Ashley M. Cook, Chandler K. Neal and Gregory W. Rome were the recipients of The Outstanding Computer Science Major Award.
- Meghan M. McGlone and Kellie R. Roussell were recipients of The Outstanding Mathematics Major Award.
- Gregory W. Rome was the recipient of The ACM Award in Computer Science.
The following students were recognized at the 2005 College of Arts and Sciences Honors Convocation.
- Jonathan A. Biguenet, Thair B. Judeh, and Mark J. Williams, Jr., were recipients of The Outstanding Computer Science Major Award.
- Krystal L. Grillot and Thair B. Judeh, were recipients of the The Outstanding Mathematics Major Award.
- Taniecea A. Arceneaux and Matthew E. Smith, were recipients of The AMS/MAA Award in Mathematics.
Here is a list of current, recent and past student research projects and other related activities.
Matthew Smith (2005) Presentation: "Finite Group Actions on the Two Dimensional Disk are Conjugate to Linear Actions," won second place in the Undergraduate Student Research Paper Competition at MAA's Regional Mathematics Competition.
Krystal Grillot (2005), awarded ETS Recognition of Excellence Award for her her outstanding performance on two Praxis II tests.
Taniecea A. Arceneaux (2004) Presentation: "The Influence of Damping on some Hyperbolic Conservation Laws", The Mathematical Association for America Louisiana/Mississippi Section 81st Annual Meeting, Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond, March 4-6, 2004. Accepted for "Program for Women in Mathematics, Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs", May 17-27, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.
Charles Griggs (2004) Presentation: "The nth Order DS-Divisors of Positive Integers", The Mathematical Association for America Louisiana/Mississippi Section 81st Annual Meeting, Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond, March 4-6, 2004.
Audry Herbert (2004) Presentation: " Graduation Rates of American Colleges" Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, February 6-8, 2004 and The Mathematical Association for America Louisiana/Mississippi Section 81st Annual Meeting, Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond, March 4-6, 2004. Accepted to Graduate School Mathematics at Tulane University.
Jared Prolo (2004) Accepted to Graduate School Mathematics University of Santa Cruz.
Matthew Smith (2004) Accepted for Research Experience for Undergraduates, Dept. Math. Tulane University.
Thair B. Judeh (2004) Accepted for Research Experience for Undergraduates in Distributed Rational Agents, Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington.
Catherine Putonti (2000) Catherine's research into data warehouses and databases let to two publications: "Generalization and personalization of drill-down operator for data warehouses" and "Design of Data Warehouses with Dynamically Changing Data Sources" which were published in the Proceedings of the Southern Conference on Computing.
John Maynard (2000) John is developing techniques to support the use of Smart Boards and other emerging technologies in the classroom.
Ronnie Yates (1999) Ronnie was a recipient of a Richard Frank grant to support his research on hand-held computers. He also showed how database constraints could be expressed graphically using an Object Relationship model. These database constraints are integrated into the Object-oriented environment that includes database primitives. The database primitives allow the graphical constraints to be used to generate Java code. In this way, they hope to develop a system that allows graphical specifications of database constraints and automatic code generation of them.
Ryan Harvey (1999) He has developed some statistical models
Steve Claverie (1998) Steve developed a computer-aided software development (CASE) tool. The CASE tool will allow a user to create a program using primarily graphics and icons. When completed the CASE tool will automatically generate Java code that can be used on the Internet.
The CASE tool is based on an extension of the Entity-Relationship model that is used in developing databases. The database is a repository of information about the graphical representation - the shapes used, their size, location, color, etc. By using Steve's CASE tool, a user will be able to generate Java code much like one can generate basic operations on a database, like queries and updates.
Steve's paper entitled "Operators in an Extended Entity-Relationship Model and their Applications" was accepted for publication and presentation at the South East Regional ACM Conference.
Another paper of Steve's entitled "Cooperative Processes under a Shortest-Job-First CPU Scheduling Algorithm" was accepted for publication and presentation at the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges South Central Conference.
Huy Vo and Jeff Peters (1998) They worked on a system which allowed a user to create graphically components of a database. With this system, a user, with little knowledge of programming or programming concepts, can construct a sophisticated database.
Jeff Peters and Huy Vo co-authored a paper Entitled: "Graphical Representation and Storage Issues in Object-Oriented Rule Modeling" which was accepted for publication and presentation at the South East Regional ACM Conference.
Huy also developed a system which allows a user to create graphically rules, constraints and other components of a database. By using graphics, the user of Huy's system will be able to 1. describe a database structure; 2. include rules by which data is constrained; 3. add data to the database; and, 4. check the validity of the data with respect to the constraints. In this way, a sophisticated database system can be constructed and maintained by users with little knowledge of programming or programming concepts. This system will be particularly useful to administrators and managers.
Huy was also the recipient of a Richard Frank grant.
Angie Troxclair (1998) She worked on an undergraduate research project in statistical quality control.
Andrew Vlahutin (1998) He produced a technical report entitled: "Inheritance in Database Applications Generated from an Extended Entity-Relationship Model. "
Angelle Hoffman (1997) Angelle worked on an undergraduate research project in mathematics education.
Kevin Lewandowski (1997) Kevin was the recipient of a Richard Frank grant to support his research efforts in object-oriented programming.
Matt Tritico (1997) Matt's paper entitled, "Understanding Operating System Concepts through Visual Basic Implementation," was accepted for publication and presentation at the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges South Central Conference in San Antonio.
Rudolph Mappus (1996) A dataflow graphical query language based on a functional paradigm.
Erick Villalobos (1996) Graphical representation of rules in an object-oriented environment.
Ryan Benton (1995) Using genetic algorithms to improve interpretation of satellite data.