Madison Koskey had the highest score in the class on this project task:
Fold an idealized protein known as S64 to obtain a highest possible score in the hydrophobic-polar protein folding model in three dimensions.
This problem was studied by Lesh, Mitzenmacher, and Whitesides (2003).
Above we see Madison’s intricate folding of S64 which earned a score of 27.
To try your hand at rotating it in 3D, go directly to this link.
Lei Liu completed her Master’s degree with the project title Complexity of Options in 2017.
An extension to monotone options (pictured) was presented at
ALH-2018. The new paper is called The number of languages with maximum state complexity and has been accepted for TAMC 2019.
As of 2022, the paper has been through 7 revisions and has been accepted for publication in the journal Algebra Universalis.
Some of the 168 monotone Boolean functions of 4 variables
2nd Annual SURE Symposium 2019
SURE: Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
will feature two projects mentored by Prof. Kjos-Hanssen:
VC-dimensions of nondeterministic finite automata for words of equal length
Davin Takahashi and Ethan Lamb
Ishigami and Tani studied VC-dimensions of finite automata. We show that their results apply to a new notion, lower VC-dimension, where all sets (instead of some set) of a given cardinality must be shattered. We also relate the VC-dimension to the Separating Words problem.
Savings from word powers in automatic complexity
Sun Young Kim and Clyde Felix
The automatic complexity of a word was introduced by Shallit and Wang in 2001 and studied further by Kjos-Hanssen since 2013. In this work we develop an implementation of a lower bound on the complexity involving occurrences of powers of words, such as the occurrence of “humu” twice in “humuhumunukunukuapua’a”.
Kaui Yogi completed his Master project in Spring 2018. With Achilles Beros we have a new paper on Planar digraphs for automatic complexity based in part on Yogi’s project work and accepted at TAMC 2019.
Spring 2017 saw the last MATH 373 class ever, as we transitioned to MATH 372 combining MATH 371 (probability) and 373 (statistics).
Final cohort MATH 373 students Tiffany Eulalio and Jake Koki’s term paper on apartment rental prices in Honolulu has been accepted for publication in undergraduate journal Manoa Horizons volume II.
2014 M.A. graduate Malihe Alikhani completed her Master’s project on American option pricing and optimal stopping for success runs. She participated in the Cornell Summer School in Probability 2014.
Her project constitutes one of the parts of the new paper Pricing Complexity Options, which appeared in
Algorithmic Finance, 2015.
The best version of the paper is at arxiv.org
The ideas are implemented in the Complexity Option Game!
Kayleigh Hyde presented our joint paper on nondeterministic automatic complexity at
COCOON 2014.
In 2015, the paper appeared in Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.
The ideas are implemented in the Complexity Guessing Game!