Sample Presentations

Most recent student work can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/nanoselfassembly/

However, here are a few sample presentations (mostly PowerPoint) by past students--talks from Senior Seminars, Hudson River, Parents' Weekend, and some Independent Study results. Note: The mathematics in some of the presentations requires MathType to be viewed properly.

• Mathematical models for building graphical complexes from DNA, Nicolas Bruno, '09, Akie Hashimoto,'09, Paul Jarvis, '09, VGN summer 08.
• The Potts and Ising Models of Statistical Mechanics, Eva Ellis-Monaghan, Villanova '10, MAA Summer '08
• Minimum pots for the usual suspects, with David Miller, '07 and Laura Beaudin '07, VGN Summer '08
• The Circuit Partition Polynomial and Applications to the Tutte Polynomial, Andrea Austin, 08, VGN '07
• The Potts Model, Laura Beaudin, '07, VGN '07
• Graph Theory Aiding DNA Fragment Assembly, Jon Kaptcianos, '09, VGN '07
• Efficient DNA construction using minimization, Dave Miller, '07, VGN '07
• The Circuit Partition Polynomial and Applications to the Tutte Polynomial, Andrea Austin, '08, Hudson River, '07
• Unit Rectangle Visibility Graphs, Sarah Hamilton, '07, Hudson River '07
• Chaos.pdf, Kelsey Stavseth, '07, Hudson River '07
• An Introduction to the Tutte Polynomial, Patti Bodkin, '04, and Whtiney Sherman, '04, Hudson River.
• The Kauffman Bracket as an Evaluation of the Tutte Polynomial, Whitney Sherman, '04,
  • Spring '04 Hudson River.
• The Potts Model Partition Function: an application of the Tutte polyomial in physics, Patti Bodkin, '04, Spring '04 Hudson River.
• The Mathematics of Force-Directed Placement, Jamey Lewis, '06, Spring '04 Hudson River.
• Hydrocarbon Chains- Stuck Unknots?, Mike White, '06, Spring '04 Hudson River.
• Group Theory and the Warlpiri Tribe, Natalie Skall, '04, Spring '04 Hudson River.
• The Geometry of Sea Shells, Mandy Daniels, '04, Spring '04 Senior Seminar.
• The Kauffman Bracket in Knot Theory, Whitney Sherman, '04, Spring '04 Senior Seminar.
• Fighting the Plane Patti Fogarty, '00, an SMC alum. This is part of her UVM master's thesis, given as a talk here at SMC in Spring '03.
• The Instant Insanity Game Sarah Graham, '06, for Parents' weekend Spring '03.
• Origin of The Euler Cycle The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg Whitney Sherman, '04, for Parents' weekend, Spring '03.
• Graphic Tool for Computer Chip Layout Laura McLane, '03, a Spring '03 Hudson River Talk about her work on an industry-driven independent study project.
• Error Detection and Correction Colin Kriwox, '03, a Senior Seminar Talk in Spring '03.
• Island Networks Aaron Derochers, '04, a Spring '03 Hudson River talk about an application of graph theory to anthropology.