At Siena College, students in mathematics have the opportunity to work one-on-one with faculty on cutting-edge research. The skills students develop conducting research are highly sought-after by employers and graduate institutions, and have helped our alumni obtain coveted positions at establishments such as Google, NYS Department of Health, and Process Engineering.
Recent student research projects
| Name | Research |
| Harry Shen | On a cyclic inequality related to Chebyshev polynomials |
| Stephanie Cambrea | The distribution of Fibonacci Numbers Modulo Primes |
| Elena Covill | On the subgroup generated by solutions of Pell's equation |
| Gili Rusak | A note on polynomial sequences modulo integers |
| David Talone | Real analysis in the lean proof assistant |
| Christian Kolker | Real analysis in the lean proof assistant |
| Jack Farrell | Generalized ODE compartmental models - SEIAR |
| Anna Morelli | The silver bullet of lycanthropy interventions |
| Owen Spolyar | Generalized ODE compartmental models - SEIAR |
| Ben Reale | Covid vaccination of incarcerated individuals |
| Eli Reece | On the origins of zombies: a modeling approach |
| Alisha Kulmari | On the origins of zombies: a modeling approach |
| Jacob Pacheco | Guns, zombies, and steel-head axes |
| Ahmani Roman | Guns, zombies, and steel-head axes |
| Usama Zafar | Mathematical Modeling of COVID-19 |
| Nicole Sell | Epidemic model for a tick-borne disease |
| Ahmani Roman | Wonder drugs and where to use them: a forecast on ivermectin's impact on malaria in Africa |
| Daniel Graham | A multi-model comparison of measles interventions |
| Will Marino | Students-helping-students |
| Andrew Klug | Predicting the implications of the hepatitis B vaccine on the virulence evolution of hepatitis D |
| Brianna Murphy | A forecast of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine resistant malaria in Malawi: a modeling study |
| Brian Valtin | On the evolution of HIV caused by Human Pegivirus co-infection |
| Veda Chandwani | The health benefit and cost-effectiveness of reducing severe malaria with gut microbiota |
| Justmil Villanueva | Evaluating the roll of computers in enhancing mathematical achievement in Capital District schools |
| Allison Mahoney |
Evaluating the threat of Bacterial Kidney Disease evolution in salmon aquaculture |
| Jacob Blackwood | Loxodromes on hypersurfaces of revolution |
| Adam Dukehart | Loxodromes on hypersurfaces of revolution |
| Emily Casey | Computable Legendrian knot invariants |
| Eli Bashwinger | The correlation numerical range and trace-positive complex polynomials |
| Francesca Romano |
Explicit formulas for multivariable Euler and Bernoulli numbers |
| Maureen Jeffery |
Moments in finite von Neumann algebras |
| Joseph D’Avanzo | ζ(n) via hyperbolic functions |
| Lindsay Kulzer |
The Group of Primitive Almost Pythagorean Triples |
| Nicholas Noblett | Nonresidually solvable hyperlinear one-relator groups |
| Matthew Farrelly |
The Burnside Group B(3,2) as a Two-Relator Quotient of C3*C3 |
Our research students learn to ...
- Communicate complex ideas and manage long-term project;
- Explore new ideas and mathematical objects;
- Look for patterns and use those patterns to predict the behavior of complex systems;
- Generalize their work to find new uses for the tools and techniques they have developed;
- Scour the mathematical literature to find recent articles relating to their own work; and
- Publicly present their work to other students and faculty in either the Siena Math Colloquium, the Siena Academic Showcase, or at a national research conference.
“Doing math research has been an eye-opening experience to all of the opportunities a career in math has to offer. Six weeks of research has given me more problem solving skills than sitting in a classroom for four years would, and these skills are applicable to all kinds of situations.” - Francesca Romano (2014)