Josh Knutson presents at the Celebration of Creative Inquiry (Photo by Tom Roster)
Three students in Gustavus’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science presented their honors thesis research recently. The photo shows Josh Knutson at the college-wide Celebration of Creative Inquiry presenting his work on the use of subdivision surfaces for three-dimensional graphics. Knutson also presented the work to the department, earning honors in both mathematics and computer science for his work under Mike Hvidsten’s supervision. Another student with a double-duty honors thesis was Sarah Cowles. For her honors majors in mathematics and biology, she presented a mathematical analysis of lion vocalizations, supervised by Tom LoFaro and Jon Grinnell. Alex Wauck’s honors thesis in computer science, supervised by Max Hailperin, merged two previously separate program-improving transformations. All three students will be among those graduating this Sunday.