Latin Honors

The department offers to mathematics majors the opportunity for graduation with Latin honors by honors project. The requirements are:

1. An overall GPA of at least 3.3 and a mathematics GPA of at least 3.5; and
2. A paper demonstrating significant independent work in mathematics written under the supervision of a faculty member. Usually the paper will be written as part of an independent study (Mathematics 193, 194) taken in the senior year

A student must apply for graduation with honors in the spring of the junior year. The application should be prepared according to the specifications for an independent study course application (see page 20), and the application should state the intention to pursue Latin honors by honors project.

In the spring of the senior year, the Director of Undergraduate Studies will name a two-person committee to review the paper. The faculty will be given the opportunity to read the paper and make comments to the committee. The committee, in consultation with the Director of Undergraduate Studies, determines whether Latin Honors will be awarded. The student will be expected to give a presentation of his or her work in a seminar intended for both faculty and students.

(In accordance with a change in university policy, Latin Honors by Honors Project will be discontinued beginning with the class matriculating in fall semester 1997; however, in its place, a program offering Graduation with Distinction in Mathematics is likely to be developed.)

Recent Recipients of Latin Honors

Awardee 		 Title of Paper 		 Advisor

Will Schneeberger 		 The Axiom Diamond 		 Shoenfield

(1992)

Linie Chang 		 Mathematical Models in Immunology 		 Reed

(1993)

Sang Chin 		 The 3-fold Cover of the G-hole Torus 		 Hain

(1993)

Jennifer Slimowitz 		Transitions of the Gaps between		 Pardon

(1993) 		    the Integers N Satisfying    

Jeffrey Vanderkam 		Eigenfunctions of an Acoustic System  		 Beale

(1994)

Paul Dreyer       		Knot Theory and the Human Pretzel Game 		 Harer

(1995)

Paul Koss         		The Effects of Noise on the 		 Kraines

(1995)            		   Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma