Irena Swanson's Thesis Students

The following three were my Ph.D. students at New Mexico State University:

• Mark Rhodes, Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2001, "An algorithm for the computation of adjoints of monomial ideals in polynomial rings".
  
• Ibrahim Al-Ayyoub, Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2004, "The Ratliff-Rush closure and a minimal Groebner basis for certain affine monomial curves".
  
• Rebecca Elaine Garcia, Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2004, "On the minors of catalecticant matrices and on the coadunation of generalized crowns".
  
  I coadvised the following Master's/Ph.D. students:
  
• Elena Grieco, 2005, Ph.D., co-advised with Anna Guerrieri, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
  
• Trung Dinh, 2009, Ph.D., advised by Paul Roberts, University of Utah.
  
• Francesca Di Giovannantonio, 2010, Ph.D., co-advised with Anna Guerrieri, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
  
• Alessio Sammartano, 2012, Master's degree, co-advised with Marco D'Anna, University of Catania, Italy.
  
  The following were my Reed College senior thesis students:
  
• Evan Ward, "Prime Filtrations of Monomial Rings", 2006.
  
• Vanessa Holfeltz, "A Lie-Theoretic Approach to Robot Kinematics", 2007.
  
• Timothy Armstrong, "Federal Research Funding and Patenting in U.S. Universities" (Mathematics-Economics, main advisor Jeffrey Parker), 2007.
  
• Michael Allard, "Anomalous Diffusion, Fractional Calculus, and Random Walks" (Mathematics-Physics, co-advised with Nicholas Wheeler), 2008.
  
• Eric Brattain-Morrin, "Entropy, Computation, and Demons", 2008.
  
• Jessica Gill, "Monomial Ideals", 2008.
  
• Chris Cotter, "Permanental Ideals", 2009.
  
• Bryan Head, "An Abstraction of Evolution through Algebra", 2009.
  
• Joshua O'Rourke, "Frobenius Numbers of Consecutive Squares", 2009.
  
• Joseph Hand,"Creative Destruction in a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Framework : Evaluation through Calibration and Simulation" (Mathematics-Economics, main advisor Jeffrey Parker), 2009.
  
• Gavin Bell, "Associated Primes of a Modified Mayr-Meyer Ideal with n = 1", 2011.
  
• David Nielsen, "A Problem of Zarankiewicz", 2011.
  
• Julia Porcino, "An Analysis of Permanental Ideals over Hypermatrices", 2011.
  
• Ryan Wall, "A Safari Through Algebraic Geometry", 2012.
  
• Jay Harman, "Two Algorithms and a Miracle", 2012.
  
• Clara Redwood, "Curving Paper: a Folding Algorithm for Origami Ellipsoid Patterns Using Curved Crease Couplets", 2013.
  
• Brett Beutell, "To Bayes or Not to Bayes: Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Approximation of the Posterior Distribution of Bayesian Networks", 2014.
  
• Johannes Harkins, "Testing the Efficiency of Sports Betting Markets: An Examination of National Football Leage and English Premier League Betting", (Mathematics-Economics, co-advised with Jeffrey Parker), 2014.
  
• Galen O'Sullivan, "Counting on Simplicial Complexes", 2014.
  
• Elijah Van Wing, "Present Value Under Non-Constant Models of Interest", 2014.
  
• Chris Vittal, "Non-Unique Factorization in Rings of Integer-Valued Polynomials", 2014.
  
• Damon Melton, "Jordan Canonical Forms of Commuting Nilpotent Matrices", 2015.
  
• Liam Bowcock, "Aggregating Over Ordinal Scales Using the Sugeno Integral", co-advised with Tom Wieting, 2016.
  
• Saul Chasin, "Auctions speak louder than words : application of alternate auction criteria to dynamic tax investment", (Mathematics-Economics, main advisor Jon Rork), 2016.
  
• William Holdhusen, "First quantization of the radiation reaction force" (Mathematics-Physics, main advisor Joel Franklin), 2016.
  
• Charles McIntyre, "Computing the band structure of InSb and CdTe quandum dots" (Mathematics-Physics, main advisor John Essick), 2016.
  
• Muldrow Etheredge, "Electrodynamics on Smooth Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds" (Mathematics-Physics, co-advised with Joel Franklin), 2017.
  
• Rik Ghosh, "Parametric Curve Fitting and Vector Graphics", 2017.
  
• Forrest Glebe, "Pushing the limit", 2017.
  
• Nicholas Terry, "Determining Restrictions on Potentially Friendly Numbers", co-advised with Shawn Baland, 2017.
  
• Sarah Weinstein, "Predicted Decay Ideal", 2017.
  
• Richard Pham, "Graph Reconfiguration in the Context of Permutation Routing" (Mathematics-Computer Science), 2019.
  
• Hayden Veytia, "An Encyclopedia of Infinitely Nested Square Roots", 2019.
  
• Will Daniel, "Machine Learning Application in Credit Card Fraud" (Mathematics-Economics, main advisor Jeff Parker), 2020.
  
• Young Kim, "Resolutions of Rees Algebras", 2020.