Student Projects in Linear Algebra
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Fall 2009
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Student Projects
- Loggerhead Sea Turtles --- Ben Marshall and Alex Varner
- Eigenfaces --- Crystal Pepper and Chris Wilson
- Image Compression Using the Haar Wavelet Transform --- Adam Bruce and Alice Pitt
- Warping and Morphing --- Andrew Smith
- JPEG Image Compression --- Ian Snyder
- Magic Squares --- Dan Wheeler and Evan Sharp
- Sam Lloyd 15 Puzzle --- Dustin Madsen and Kyle Bishop
- Watermarking --- Mark McKenzie
Fall 2006
- Damien Adams and Halsey Patterson --- Haar Wavelet Transformation: Compression and Reconstruction>/li>
- Ben Allen --- Finite Element Model for Earthquakes
- Andrea Brown and Katie Moe --- Fractal Tilings
- Ken Gibson and Travis Chlossey --- Linear Algebra and Azulejos
- Ian Cooper and Craig Lorenc --- Image Compression Using Singular Value Decompositon
- Alison Pool and Lydia Silva --- Modeling Prey and Predator Populations
Fall 2005
- Ken Huffman -- Interpolating Data with the DFT
- Jacob Prystowsky and Levi Gill --- Calculating Web Page Authority Using the PageRank Algorithm
- Chris Moody and Boden Hegdahl --- Differentiation Matrices
- Brian Meyer and Garrett Jackson --- The N-Site Problem (GPS)
- Mike Liu and Elika Ketabchi --- Edge Detection Using Linear Spatial Filtering
- Nina Manuel and Bethany Adams --- The SVD and Image Compression
- Ben Ohanen and Matt Wisan --- JPEG Image Compression
- Peter Spiegel and Tim Meyers --- Warps and Morphs
- Kyle Shaw --- Arnold's Cat Map
Fall 2002
The following student teams have selected their projects.- Mike Land and Tara Puzin --- Warps and Morphs
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- Adobe Acrobat Presentation
- Adobe Acrobat Paper
- Mike and Tara also have a number of Matlab M-files that they used on their project. These can be downloaded here.
- Greg Ames -- Image Compression Using Haar Wavelet Transform
- David Frank --- Circulant Matrices and Polynomials
- Liz Arnold and Tiffany Blaszak --- Merlin's Magic Squares
- Steve Richards and Azuree Lovely --- Matrices, Vector Spaces, and Information Retrieval
- Mike Bruce and Emily Shernock --- Stage Based Population Projection Matrices and Their Biological Applications
- Tim Honn and Seth Stone ---
Fall 2001
The following students teams have selected their project topics.- Leland O'Driscoll and Rhyan Pink --- Iterative Relocation of Earthquake Hypocenters
- Jesse and Tim Trutna --- JPEG Image Compression
- LiHong Huang--- The Haar Wavelet Transformation and Image Compression
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- Power Point Presentation
- Adobe Acrobat Paper
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- Lee has provided his code for compression, project1.m. He also includes a sample image, bird.gif, to use with his code.
- Shinichi Tokoro --- Cryptography
- Robin R. Rumple and William Pence --- The Mathematics of GPS Through Linear Algebra
- Adam Abrahamsen and David Richards --- The Singular Value Decomposition and Image Compression
- Doug Saucedo and Jonathan Gent --- Projecting into Fourier
- Emilia Brinkhaus --- Lights Out
- Greg Brown and Liya Zhu --- Information Retrieval using Vector Spaces
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- Adobe Acrobat Presentation
- Adobe Acrobat Paper
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- Greg and Liya have provided a Matlab demonstration of information retrieval, retrieval_test.zip
- Iris Jensen --- Input-Ouput Analysis using the Leontief Open-Production Model
Fall 2000
The following students teams have selected their project topics.- Jeremy Miller and Ken Menkveld --- Quatrainment
- Mike Oremus and Ottopaskal Rice -- Image Compression
- Matthew Lincoln and Adrienne Carter -- Fourier Series and the Discrete Fourier Expansion
- Shavez Kaleem and Al Abrahamsen
Fall 1998
The following students teams have selected their project topics.- Ken Cabeen and Peter Gent --- Applications of the DCT
- Jody Hourigan and Lynn McIndoo --- The Singular Value Decomposition in Image Compression
- Sky McKinley and Megan Levine --- Cubic Spline Interpolation
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- Scientific Notebook Version
- Adobe Acrobat Version
- M-files associated with project: c_spline.m (updated 2/22/99)
- You can view a Power Point slide show of our presentation here.
- Matt Tanner and Joel Aguirre --- Image Compression with the Haar Wavelet Transform
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- Scientific Notebook Version
- Adobe Acrobat Version
- M-files associated with project.
- Paul Chesler --- Digital Audio Synthesis Using Matlab
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- Scientific Notebook Version
- Adobe Acrobat Version
- M-files associated with project.
- Kristian Cozyris and Craig Anderson --- The Fourier Series and the Discrete Fourier Transform
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- Scientific Notebook Version
- Adobe Acrobat Version
- M-files associated with project.
Fall 1997
The following students teams have selected their project topics.- Anonymous--- Principal Components Analyis in Remote Image Sensing
- Darren Tully and Pat Chavez --- Fractal Music
- Todd Douglas and Dustin Helliwell --- Hill Ciphers
- Aaron Ambrosini and Thomas Thomaides --- NFL Quarterback Rating System
- Mery Apple and Karen Glinden --- Forest Management --- Sustainable Harvesting
- Tammie Huff and Chris Ogden --- The Singular Value Decomposition in Image Compression
- Jim Fahey and Mike Asher --- Spotted Owl Population
- Lori Williford and Randy Cessna --- Fourier Series and the FFT
- Anonymous--- Mapping Using Distance Between Cities
- Gabe Petersen --- Arnold's Cat Map
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- Scientific Notebook Version
- Adobe Acrobat Version
- The file, catbox.exe, is a self-extracting zip file containing a Matlab program that performs the Arnold's cat map transformation. Unzip this file in a directory on your Matlab path.
- Peggy Morton and Arne Petersen --- Image Compression with the Haar Wavelet Transform
- Woody Burley and Neva Holloday --- Fractals
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- Scientific Notebook Version
- Adobe Acrobat Version
- The files, frac.m and enter1.m, can make fractal images to user specification. After downloading these files into a directory on the Matlab path, type help frac or help enter1 to display help on how to use these programs.
- Jennifer Terwilliger --- Analysis of Seismic Data