Ken Monks's Undergraduate Student Research Program Information
In 1991 the University of Scranton created an Undergraduate Faculty-Student Research Program (FSRP) designed to allow undergraduates to gain research experience for transcript recognition, with no fee or credits involved. Participation in the program has been strictly voluntary for both the students and the faculty. The University also has an Honors Program in which students do independent study culminating in a senior thesis. There are also in-house competetive grants for funding undergraduates to do research over the summer.
In mathematics, I have directed several student research projects. Their work has resulted in the following student papers.
Student Papers
- Monks, K.M. (my son), The Sufficiency of Arithmetic Progressions
for the 3x+1 Conjecture, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 134
(10), October (2006), 2861-2872
Get: [the paper in pdf format]
Ken's paper was published in the Procedings of the American Mathematical
Society journal!
- Yazinski, Jonathan, Pseudoperiodicity and the 3x+1 Congjugacy Function, honor's
thesis, Spring 2003
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- Riggi, Carla, Hutchinson Operators in R3, honor's
thesis, Spring 2001
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Carla also wrote some 3d fractal software in Maple:
Get: [the Maple Source code for Chaos3d] and [the Maple help file for Chaos3d]
- Kucinski, Gina, Cycles for the 3x+1 Map on the Gaussian
Integers, preprint
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- Fraboni, Mike, Conjugacy and the 3x+1 Conjecture, preprint
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Mike's paper is the winner of the
1998 MAA EPADEL section Student Paper Competition.
Congratulations, Mike!
- Fusaro, Marc, A Visual Representation of Sequence Space, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal,
Pi Mu Epsilon Journal 10 (6), Spring 1997, 466-481
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Marc's paper is the winner of the
1997 MAA EPADEL section Student Paper Competition.
Congratulations, Marc!
Marc's paper was also awarded a 1997 Richard V. Andree
award after the officers and councilors of Pi Mu Epsilon judged it to be one of the best
three papers to have appeared in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal during 1997.
Congratulations again to Marc!
[Note: The dvi file includes text, but no figures. If you wish to see the figures print the pdf.]
- Joseph, John, A Chaotic Extension of the 3x+1 Function to Z2[i],
Fibonacci Quarterly, 36.4 (Aug 1998), 309-316
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You can also get a longer, more detailed version of John's paper in pdf format.
John's paper is the winner of the 1996 MAA EPADEL
section Student Paper Competition.
Congratulations, John!
- Farruggia, C., Lawrence, M., Waterhouse, B., The Elimination of a Family of Periodic
Parity Vectors in the 3x+1 Problem, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 10 (4), Spring (1996),
275-280
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Their paper was awarded a 1996 Richard V.
Andree award after the officers and councilors of Pi Mu Epsilon judged it to be one of the
best four papers to have appeared in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal during 1996.
Congratulations, Carolyn, Mike, and Brian!
If you are a student at the University of Scranton and might be interested in doing
such a project, please contact Ken Monks for further information.
