Doctoral Degrees Conferred2007–2008
ALABAMAAuburn University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Ford, Robert, Path curvatures on a convexroof
Hollingsworth, Blane, Stochastic differ-ential equations: A dynamical systemsapproach
Moore, Emilia, On the existence of evenand K-divisible matchings
University of Alabama atBirmingham (3)
Department of Mathematics
Baker, Steven Jeffrey, Spectral propertiesof displacement models
Goswick, Lee, Dynamical, geometric andarithmetic properties of Euclidean lat-tices
Hamza, Eman, Localization propertiesfor the unitary Anderson model
University ofAlabama-Huntsville (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Duehring, Dawn, Periodic traveling wavesolutions for diffusion equations withtime-delayed and non-local respondingreaction
Hester, Anthony, Semigroups generatedby pseudo-contractive mappings underthe Nagumo conditions
Sinko, Anne, Generalized colorings ingraphs
University ofAlabama-Tuscaloosa (6)
Department of Mathematics
Raridan, Chris, Useful results for thestudy of magical and expander graphs
Thomas, Shawanda, An optimal hedgingstrategy for multiple commodities
The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2007, to June 30,2008) reported in the 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 213 departments in 154 universities in the United States. Each entrycontains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number
in parentheses following the name of the university is the number ofdegrees listed for that university. A supplementary list containing namesreceived since compilation of this list will appear in a summer 2009 issueof the Notices.
Xu, Ming, Optimal consumption rateunder certain spending behavior
Department of Information Systems
Statistics and Management Science
Natarajarathinam, Malini, Base stockpolicies for the stochastic inboundinventory routing problem
Upreti, Rahul, Inventory policies for con-tainers with stochastic returns
Wang, Huaping, Missing data analy-sis in structural equation modeling—expectation maximization and multipleimputation methods
ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (10)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Cates, Dennis, Edge detection usingFourier data with applications
Dur-e-ahmad, Muhammad, Structuralplasticity of dentritic spines: A compu-tational study
Erdem, Mustafa, Epidemics in structuredpopulation with isolation and cross-immunity
Gehrig, Eric, Hopf algebras, projections,and coordinates of the first kind incontrol theory
Malik, Tufail, Microbial quiescence, a sur-vival strategy in environmental stress
Mendez, Guillermo, Tree-based methodsto model dependent data
Sealey, Vicki, Calculus students’ assimi-lation of the Riemann integral into apreviously established limit structure
Sutton, Karyn, Theoretical studies onpneumococcal vaccination
Thalhauser, Craig, The two-state modelof cancer growth: Evolutionary implica-tions at the local and global scales
Zhong, Zimin, Curve registration in func-tional data analysis
University of Arizona (8)
Department of Mathematics
Berger, Lisa, Ranks of Abelian varieties intowers of function fields
Fernandes, Anthony, A partnership be-tween a middle school teacher and anovice mathematics educator centeredaround the content
Ivkovic, Milos, Characterization and cod-ing techniques for long-haul opticaltelecommunication systems
McLeman, Cameron, A Gold-Shafarevichequality and p-tower groups
Miller, Justin, On p-adic continued frac-tions and quadratic irrationals
Program in Applied Mathematics
Arpin, Sheree, Using mathematical mod-els to investigate phenotypic oscilla-tions in cichlid fish: A case of frequency-dependent selection
Shen, Fangfang, Approximating ideal-observer performance using Fisherinformation and the extreme value dis-tribution in detection tasks
Shkarayev, Maxim, Effects of nonlinearityand disorder in communication systems
ARKANSAS
University of Arkansas atFayetteville (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Gyurov, Boyko, Maximal inverse semi-groups of transformations
Haller, Erin, Comparison principles forfully non-linear parabolic equations inCarnot groups with applications to thehorizontal Gauss curvature flow
Taylor, Phillip, Analytic bounded pointevaluations and polynomial approxima-tion in the mean on crescents
FEBRUARY 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 281
CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (13)
Department of Applied and
Computational Mathematics
Donaldson, Roger, Discrete geometrichomogenisation and inverse homogeni-sation
Helgason, Hannes, Nonparametric detec-tion and estimation of highly oscillatorysignals
Hoch, David, Nonreflecting boundaryconditions obtained from equivalentsources for time-dependent scatteringproblems
Monro, John, Jr., A super-algebraicallyconvergent windowing-based approachto the evaluation of scattering fromperiodic rough surfaces
Sweatlock, Sarah, Asymptotic weightanalysis of low-density parity check(LDPC) codes
Tian, Lixiu, Effective behavior of dielectricelastomer composites
Wang, Ke, A subdivision approach tothe construction of smooth differentialforms
Control and Dynamical Systems
Flores, Melvin, Real-time trajectory gener-ation for constrained nonlinear dynam-ical systems using nonuniform rationalB-spline basis functions
Grubits, Katalin, Low-dimensional repre-sentations of transitions in molecularsystems
Waydo, Stephen, Explicit object represen-tation by sparse neural codes
Department of Mathematics
Levaillant, Claire, Irreducibility of theLawrence-Kramer representation of theBMW algebra of type An-1
Tsankov, Todor, Amenability, countableequivalence, relations and their fullgroups
Venzke, Rupert, Braid forcing, hyper-bolic geometry and pseudo-Anosovsequences of low entropy
Claremont GraduateUniversity (3)
School of Mathematical Sciences
Beasley, Joseph, Performance feedbackand control of solar concentrators usingwave front sensing techniques
Paolini, Christopher, A service-orientedarchitecture for thermochemical com-putation
Xu, Dong, FEMVib, an ab initio multi-dimensional solver for probing vibra-tional dynamics in polyatomic moleculesand free radicals
Stanford University (21)
Department of Mathematics
Akat, Muzaffer, A unified credit riskmodel
Alper, Jarod, Good moduli spaces forArtin stacks
Buyukboduk, Kazim, Kolyvagin systemsover an Iwasawa algebra
Chang, Huai-Lian, Donaldson Thomasinvariant of P1 scroll
Duque, David Fernandez, Results in dy-namic topological logic
Eichmair, Michael, Non-variational exis-tence problems in general relativity
Groft, Chad Lawrence, Isoperimetric in-equalities on the universal covers ofcompact spaces
He, Jian, Symplectic field theory ofsubcritical Stein manifolds
Helleloid, Geir Trygve, Automorphismgroups of finite p-groups: Structureand applications
Ramras, Daniel Alexander, Stable rep-resentation theory of infinite discretegroups
Wu, Baosen, Degeneration formula ofDonaldson-Thomas invariants
Department of Statistics
Chang, George, Tools for multivariatebump hunting
Chen, Jiehua, Regression models withspatially correlated errors: Applicationsto urban core growth in China
Chen, Zehao, Estimation of high dimen-sion covariance matrix and adaptiveportfolio selection
Eckner, Andreas, Two essays on creditdefault correlation
Horel, Guillaume, Estimating integratedvolatility with Markov chains
Li, Ping, Stable random projections andconditional random sampling, two sam-pling techniques for modern massivedatasets
Salzman, Julia, Spectral analysis withMarkov chains
Turnbull, Brit, Empirical null distribu-tions and local false discovery rates
Ward, Gillian, Statistics in ecologicalmodeling; the presence-only problemand other procedures
Zhen, Wei, Greedy functional learningmachine in finance
University of California,Berkeley (6)
Department of Statistics
Bhamidi, Shankar, Random networks:Flows and asymptotics
Dong, Rui, Coagulation-fragmentationduality for Poisson-Dirichlet distri-butions, and exchangeable partitionsderived from Markovian coalescents
Peled, Ron, Global irregularities for Pois-son processes—gravitational allocationand rough isometries
Rocha, Guilherme, Sparsity and modelselection through convex penalties:Structured selection, covariance selec-tion and some theory
Traskin, Mikhail, On the consistency ofensemble classification algorithms
Group in Biostatistics
Bembom, Oliver, Statistical methods forcausal inference when the assumptionof experimental treatment assignmentis violated
University of California,Davis (21)
Department of Mathematics
Breslin, William, Curvatures of surfacesin hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Farrell, Brendan, Analysis of noncommu-tative operator classes in informationtheory and harmonic analysis
Guan, Raymond, Advanced equalizationtechniques for wireless communica-tions
Hodge, Andrew, The degrees of thelogarithmic extension of the cotangentbundle to the moduli of pointed curvesand Hitchin systems, spectral curvesand KP equations
Lai, (Yuan-Juang) Yvonne, An effec-tive compactness theorem for Coxetergroups
Lee, Jaejeong, Fundamental domains ofconvex projective structures
Liu, Shuang, Improving the classificationof microarray data: Supervised andunsupervised methods
Rutherford, Daniel, Relationship betweenLegendrian knot invariants
Suh, Chan-Ho, Modified normal surfacetheories
Williams, Michael, Lens space surgerieson tunnel number one knots
Wilmarth, Constance, Projections of sin-gular vectors of Verma modules overrank 2 Kac-Moody Lie algebras
Wright, Roy, Spatial and temporal hetero-geneity of host-parasitoid interactionsin lupine habitat
Yan, Pengchong, Broadband detectionand imaging of multiple targets inclutter
Department of Statistics
Gu, Zhonghua, Model diagnostics forgeneralized linear mixed models
Liu, Wei, Statistical network comparisonLu, Ruixiao, Statistical issues in detection
of biological signals in the analysis ofmicroarray gene expression data
Nguyen, Thuan, New procedures of fencemethods and their applications
Tang, En-Tzu, On estimation of the meansquared error in small area estimationand related topics
Tseng, Szu-Ching, A generalized self-consistency approach to semiparamet-ric survival models
Zhang, Zhen, Functional data analysis fordensities
Zhu, Li, Modeling dynamics in two sta-tistical problems: Longitudinal diseaseactivity score and parasite infection
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
282 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 2
University of California,Irvine (5)
Department of Mathematics
Li, Xiangrong, Nonlinear simulations ofsolid tumor growth using a mixturemodel: Invasion and branching
Munteanu, Ovidiu, The structure of com-plete manifolds with positive spectrum
Vargas, Benjamin, Mixed end conditionsand morphogen gradient formation
Webster, Micah, Nonlinear stability analy-sis of a free boundary problem
Wong, Chiu Fai, Zeta functions of pro-jective toric hypersurfaces over finitefields
University of California,Los Angeles (17)
Department of Mathematics
Brandman, Jeremy, A level set methodfor calculating eigenvalues of ellipticoperators on closed surfaces and aproof of blow up of L∞ weak solutionsof an aggregation equation
Busch, Joseph, Lower bounds in arith-metic complexity via asymmetric em-beddings
Epstein, Inessa, Some results on orbitinequivalent actions of non-amenablegroups
Hinde, Colin, The essence of Ricci curva-ture
Kwon, Soonsik, Low regularity problemof the higher order KdV type equationsand the orbital stability issues of solitonsolutions
Landa, Yanina, Visibility of point cloudsand exploratory path planning in un-known environments
Leo, John, Fourier coefficients of trianglefunctions
Ni, Kang-Yu, Variational PDE-based im-age segmentation and inpainting withapplications in computer graphics
O’Donnol, Danielle, Intrinsically n-linkedspatial graphs
Prescott, Timothy, Invariance principlesfor random environments and shapetheorems
Roy, Tristan, Global existence of thedefocusing cubic wave equation indimension 3
Sinapova, Dima, A model for a very goodscale and bad scale
Smith, S. Alex, Layered percolation on thecomplete graph
Souldatos, Ioannis, Characterizable cardi-nals and local Hanf numbers
Waelder, Robert, Elliptic genera in alge-braic geometry
Yanovsky, Igor, Unbiased nonlinear imageregistration
Zhu, Mingqiang, Fast numerical algo-rithms for total variation based imagerestoration
University of California,Riverside (5)
Department of Statistics
Lesch, Scott, A new class of goodness-of-ittests based on linear functions of orderstatistics for the exponential distribu-tion under general Type II censoringschemes
Liu, Junmei, Estimating the number ofspecies from a censored sample
Wilson, Jason, On the probability ofcorrect selection when k is large
Zhang, Qi, Different statistical tests toassess the validity of one-part softwarereliability models
Zhang, Wei, Logistic regression withunknown sizes
University of California,San Diego (12)
Department of Mathematics
Angle, Robert, Holomorphic Segre pre-serving maps
Bucicovschi, Orest, Simple Lie algebras,algebraic prolongations and contractstructures
Butler, Steven, Eigenvalues and structuresof graphs
Clark, David, Functorality for the su(3)Khovanov homology
Guo, Hong Xin, The 3-dimensional steadygradient Ricci soliton
Horn, Larissa, Fun with tensor productsLiese, Jeffrey, Counting patterns in per-
mutations and wordsNordgren, Karl, Well-posedness for the
equations of motion of an inviscid,incompressible, self gravitating fluidwith free boundary
Regev, Alon, Filtered algebraic algebrasRichardson, Ross, Combinatorial and ge-
ometric problems on point processesRiehl, Amanda, Ribbon Schur functions
and permutation patternsRobinson, Daniel, Primal-dual methods
for nonlinear optimization
University of California,Santa Barbara (4)
Department of Statistics and Applied
Probability
Bagasheva, Biliana, Bayesian methods inthe investment management process
Kaneda, Naohisa, Fitting mixture modelsfrom kernel estimators
Vestal, Douglas, Interacting particle sys-tems for pricing credit derivatives
Wang, Dezhong, Pricing tranches of aCDO and CDX index
University of California,Santa Cruz (2)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Patil, Anand, Bayesian nonparametricsfor inference of ecological dynamics
Taddy, Matthew, Bayesian nonparamet-ric analysis of conditional distributionsand inference for Poisson point pro-cesses
University of SouthernCalifornia (7)
Department of Mathematics
Akopian, Vardan, Modeling of Earth’sionosphere and variational approachfor data assimilation
Alaghband, Mohamad, Stochastic modelsfor understanding and pattern recogni-tion of molecular data
DiMuro, Joseph, On prime power ele-ments of GLd(q) acting irreducibly onlarge subspaces
Han, Yong Ho, Commuting triples ofmatrices
Hiatt, Christopher, Quantum traces inquantum Teichmuller space
Mayberry, John, The effects of noise onbifurcations in circle maps with appli-cations to integrate-and-fire models inneural biology
Villalobos, Jose, Monte Carlo methods forFBSDEs in high dimensions
COLORADOColorado StateUniversity (13)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Azemi, Abdullah, Classification algo-rithms for graphs, digraphs, and linearspaces
Davis, Diane, Toward a type Bn geometricLittlewood-Richardson rule
Fatemeh, Emdad, Signal fraction analy-sis for subspace processing of highdimensional data
Jen-Mei, Chang, Classifications on theGrassmannians: Theory and applica-tions
Mertens, Keith, Mathematical methodsfor fluid-solid interfaces: Meanderingstreams and sand ripples
Murphy, Ethan, 2-D D-bar conductivity re-constructions on non-circular domains
Muskat, Jeremy, Algebraic curves overfinite fields
Peters, Pamela, Gaussian maps for doublecovers of smooth toric surfaces
Wildey, Timothy, A posteriori analysisof operator decomposition on interfaceproblems
Yue, Qiao, Radial basis functions (RBFs)for solving color conversion problems
Department of Statistics
Cao, Xiaofan, Model selection based onexpected square Hellinger distance
Higgs, Megan, Clipped latent-variablespatial models for ordered categoricaldata
Wu, Rongning, Estimation for some linearand nonlinear time series models
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
FEBRUARY 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 283
University of Colorado,Boulder (9)
Department of Mathematics
Bruns, Corey, Variations of independencein Boolean algebras
Davenport, John, Analysis of Americanoptions
Ernst, Dana, A diagrammatic represen-tation of an affine C Temperly–Liebalgebra
Formichella, Marc, Functional equationsamong Barnes’ integrals and hypergeo-metric series
Mann, Allen, Independence-friendly cylin-dric set algebras
Nickodemus, Matthew, Natural dualitiesfor finite groups with Abelian Sylowsubgroups
Pohlmann, Brent, Structural propertiesof acyclic heaps with applications toKazhdan-Lusztig theory
Radhakrishnan, Vinod, An asymptoticformula for the number of non-Serrecurves in a two parameter family ofelliptic curves
Seguin, Troy, Risk measures
CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (9)
Department of Mathematics
Bowers, Adam, The Grothendieck in-equality: Methods and applications
Kaur, Sawinder Pal, An eigenvalue prob-lem for some nonlinear transformationof multidimensional arrays
Ranasinghe, Sudath, Model to develop aprovision for adverse deviation (PAD)for the mortality risk of impaired lives
Department of Statistics
Das, Sourish, Generalized linear modelsand beyond: An innovative approachfrom Bayesian perspective
Guo, Feng, Modeling genetic data usingBayesian hierarchical models
Li, Pengfei, A factor and vector-AR modelfor analyzing high dimension volatilityfor high frequency financial data
Mukhopadhyay, Jaydip, Mining tools forhigh-dimensional time series data usingspectral methods
Xi, Yingmei, New development of Bayesianmixture models for survival and surveydata
Yu, Fang, Bayesian methods for high-throughput gene expression data inbioinformatics
DELAWAREUniversity of Delaware (6)
Department of Mathematical Science
Beckham, Jon Regan, Analysis of mathe-matical models of electrostatically de-formed elastic bodies
Moulton, Derek, Mathematical modelingof field driven curvature surfaces
Ronkese, Robert, The analysis and nu-merical simulation of a mathematicalmodel of bone growth and reabsorption
Vasquez, Paula, Modeling wormlike mi-cellar solutions
Zhang, Ningyi, Inverse problem for wavepropagation in a perturbed layeredhalf-space and orthogonality relationsin poroelastic materials
Zhang, Xinyi, Expected length of mini-mum spanning tree
DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIA
George WashingtonUniversity (9)
Department of Mathematics
Andress, Tanya, The spectrum and thefirst Cech cohomology group of a onedimensional tiling dynamical system
Barg, Michael, Direct methods in thecalculus of variations with applica-tions to tendon-reinforced piecewise-isotropic membranes
Jasso-Hernandez, Fanny, A homologicalalgebraic approach to the Tutte polyno-mial
McKenna, Geoffrey, Graphs, algebra, andprobability
Niebrzydowski, Maciej, Some applicationsof quandles and their homology to thegeometry of knots
Department of Statistics
Davi, Ruthanna, Joint testing of sensitiv-ity, specificity, and kappa in diagnosticstudies
Huang, Dalong, Effects of contaminationon statistical inference using sib-pairanalysis
Shu, Yu, Group sequential designs andinference of a medical diagnostic testwith binary outcomes
VanRaden, Mark, Cumulative logit-Poissonand cumulative-logit negative binomialcompound regression models for countdata
Howard University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Attimu, Dodzi, Linear operators on somenon-Archimedean Hilbert spaces andtheir spectral theory
Dembele, Bassidy, Malaria model in peri-odic environments
Legette, Lakeshia, Maximal groups inthe Stone-Cech compactification of adiscrete semigroup
FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Kalis, Jan, Sobolev inequalities
Florida Institute ofTechnology (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Mamillapalle, Sameer, A study of func-tional differential equations with antic-ipation and retardation
Sartor, Kenneth, A study of variationalphase estimation methods for syntheticaperture radar applications
Seetharaman, Hariharan, Adapted wave-let methods for heat equation on un-bounded domains
Shaykhian, Gholam, Integration and op-timization: Irrational numbers for ran-dom sequences and scope of evolution-ary algorithms
Florida StateUniversity (15)
Department of Mathematics
Chan, Wan-Kan, Analysis and approxima-tion of a two-banded Ginzburg-Landaumodel of superconductivity
Chen, Zheng, ANOVA for parameter de-pendent nonlinear PDEs and numericalmethods for the stochastic Stokes equa-tions
Culham, Andrew, Asset pricing in a Lu-cas framework with boundedly rationalheterogeneous agents
Moreno, Juan, Impulse control problemsunder non-constant volatility
Nguyen, Hoa, Centroidal Voronoi tes-selations for mesh generation: Fromuniform to anisotropic adaptive trian-gulations
Novocin, Andrew, Factoring univariatepolynomials over the rationals
Saka, Yuki, Analysis of two PDE modelsin fluid mechanics: Nonlinear spectraleddy-viscosity model of turbulence andinfinite-Prandtl-number model of man-tle convection
Singleton, Lee, Geometric and computa-tional generation, correction, and sim-plification of cortical surfaces of thehuman brain
Zhu, Wuming, A spectral element methodto price European options
Department of Statistics
Choi, Seo-eun, A statistical approach toocean circulation inverse problem
He, Jianghua, Time-varying coefficientsmodels for longitudinal aging data
Norton, Jon, Spatiotemporal Bayesianhierarchical models, with applicationto birth outcomes
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
284 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 2
Stefanov, Dimitre, Cardiovascular riskfunctions based on multi-state models
Tan, Fei, A method for finding the nadirof non-monotonic relationships
Uhm, Dai Ho, Flexible additive risk mod-els using piecewise constant hazardfunctions
University of CentralFlorida (4)
Department of Mathematics
Flores, Paul, Categorical properties oflattice-valued convergence spaces
Holmquist, Sonia, An examination ofthe effectiveness of the Adomian de-composition method in fluid dynamicapplications
Vogel, Thomas, Soliton solutions of non-linear partial differential equationsusing variational approximations andinverse scattering techniques
Wlodarczyk, Tomasz, Stability and preser-vation properties of multisymplecticintegrators
University of Florida (21)
Department of Mathematics
Aslan, Beyza, A continuous approach tothe lightning discharge
Brodhead, Paul, Computable aspects ofclosed sets
Chen, Pengwen, Bergman metrics andtheir applications
Coleman, Micah, Asymptotic enumera-tion in pattern avoidance and in thetheory of set partitions and asymptoticuniformity
Nguyen, Hung Ngoc, Representations offinite groups of Lie type
Sabuwala, Adnan, A convergence studyof spectrally matched grids in thepresence of non-smooth data andanisotropy
Strich, Robert, Passive states and es-sential observers in algebraic quantumfield theory
Venkataraman, Prabhu, The 2-lien of a2-gerbe
Zeng, Qingguo, Diffusion weighted mag-netic resonance image analysis andmedical image registration
Zheng, Xiqiang, Efficient Fourier trans-forms on hexagonal arrays
Department of Statistics
Baldwin, Jamie, Evaluating adjustmentsto the mean squared error due to es-timating variance parameters in linearmixed models
Giurcanu, Mihai, Biased bootstrap forsemiparametric models
Lee, Keunbaik, Marginalized regressionmodels for longitudinal categorical data
Li, Hongying, Mapping quantitative traitnucleotides with longitudinal data sub-ject to non-ignorable dropout
Liu, Tian, Bayesian functional mappingof complex dynamic traits
Naranjo, Arlene, State-space models withexogenous variables and missing data
Papageorgiou, Georgious, Multivariatelimited translation estimators
Roy, Ananya, Empirical and hierarchicalBayesian methods with applications tosmall area estimation
Ryu, Euijung, Modeling and inference foran ordinal effect size measure
Saha, Sourish, Response surface designsfor linear mixed models
Santra, Upasana, Probability matchingpriors for the bivariate normal distribu-tion
University of SouthFlorida (12)
Department of Mathematics
Adhikari, Dhruba R., Applications ofdegree theories to non-linear operatorequations in Banach spaces
Andreevska, Irena, Mathematical mod-eling and analysis of options withjump-diffusion volatility
Daqqa, Ibtisam, Subconstituent algebrasof Latin squares
Davis, John C., Identification of parame-ters when the density of the minimumis given
Genova, Daniela, Forbidding and enforc-ing of formal languages, graphs, andpartially ordered sets
George, Florence, Johnson’s system ofdistributions and microarray data anal-ysis
Hoare, Armando, Parametric, non-para-metric and statistical modeling of stonycoral reef data
Ibrahimu, Boubakari, The Leray-Schauderapproach for the topological degree ofperturbed maximal monotone opera-tors
Mbah, Alfred K., On the theory of recordsand applications
Shih, Shou Hsing, Forecasting models foreconomic and environmental data
Staninska, Ana, A theoretical model forflexible tiles self-assembly
Taylor, Rodney, Lagrange interpolationon Leja points
GEORGIAEmory University (6)
Department of Biostatistics
Chen, Huichao, Statistical methods formodeling exposure and reproductiveoutcomes
Crawford, Sara, Multiple sources of in-formative dropout in longitudinal data
Wannemuehler, Kathleen, Likelihood-based measurement error adjustmentsin occupational and environmental ex-posure studies
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Hanson, Lauren, Techniques in con-strained optimization involving partialdifferential equations
Magnant, Colton, Partitions of graphsunder distance constraints
Nastase, Esmeralda, Color criticality andchromatic connectivity of graphs
Georgia Institute ofTechnology (7)
School of Mathematics
Carroll, Christina, Enumerative combina-torics of posets
Inkmann, Torsten, Tree-based decom-positions of graphs on surfaces andapplications to the traveling salesmanproblem
Kampel, Guido, Mathematical modelingof fines migration and clogging inporous media
Kettner, Michael, Algorithmic and topo-logical aspects of semi-algebraic setsdefined by quadratic polynomials
Lessard, Jean-Philippe, Validated continu-ation for infinite dimensional problems
Ulusoy, Suleyman, The mathematical the-ory of thin film evolution
Viveros-Rogel, Jorge, An extension ofKAM theory to quasi-periodic breathersolutions in Hamiltonian lattice system
University of Georgia (13)
Department of Mathematics
Cinkir, Zubeyir, The tau constant ofmetrized graphs
Cooper, Bobbe Jane, Support varieties fortilting modules for GLn
Davie, Emille Kennae, Characterizingright-veering homeomorphisms of thepunctured torus via the Burau repre-sentation of B3
Liu, Haipeng, Prewavelet solution toPoisson equations
Petrov, Peter Konstantinov, Nash problemon spaces of arcs
Platt, Kenyon, Classifying the represen-tation type of infinitesimal blocks ofcategory OS
Rusinko, Joseph Patrick, Equivalence ofmirror families constructed by toricdegenerations of flag varieties
Wright, Caroline, Second cohomologygroups of Frobenius kernels
Wu, Jianbao, Spherical splines for Her-mite interpolation and surface design
Department of Statistics
Cai, YiMei, Estimation of the seed disper-sal distribution with genotypic data
Iaci, Ross, Multivariate association anddimension reduction
Park, Jin-Hong, Dimension reduction intime series
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
FEBRUARY 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 285
Zhang, ChenHua, Applications of smoothlyvarying functions and tail index estima-tion
ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (2)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Erickson, John F., Generalized nativespaces
Ortega, Oscar, Consensus and location:The mean function
Northern IllinoisUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Cappetta, Robert, Reflective abstractionand the concept of limit: An experimen-tal study
Kisunzu, Phillip, Teacher instructionalpractices, students’ mathematical dis-positions and mathematics achieve-ment
Poliak, Cathy, Observed confidence levelsfor regression parameters
Santra, Sourav, Some contributions todesign and analysis of crossover exper-iments
NorthwesternUniversity (11)
Department of Mathematics
Alexander, Gary Clark, Index theo-rems on noncommutative two-tori andHochschild cohomology of quantumspecial linear groups
Bailey, Scott, Topological splittings ofspectra related to tmf
Chu, Chenghao, Representing cohomol-ogy theories in the triangulated cate-gory of motives
Dhand, Vivek, Geometric Langlands dual-ity and forms of reductive groups
Novak, Christopher, Group actions viainterval exchange transformations
Department of Engineering Sciences
and Applied Mathematics
Donovan, Graham, Rare event simula-tion systems using the cross-entropymethod
Kao, Justin, Mathematical modeling, sim-ulation, and analysis of two problemsin interfacial fluid dynamics
Tikhomirova, Anna, Mathematical mod-eling of structure formation in angio-genesis
Vaughan, Benjamin, Applications of theextended finite element method inmathematical biology
Department of Statistics
Ge, Yang, Bayesian inference with mix-tures of logistic regression: Functionalapproximation, statistical consistencyand algorithmic convergence
Rhoads, Christopher, Utilizing prior in-formation about the variance structure
Southern IllinoisUniversity, Carbondale (3)
Department of Mathematics
Abuhassan, Hassan, Some transformeddistributions
Lin, Yuan, High-order finite differencemethods for solving heat equations
deSouza, Comlan, Periodic eigenfunc-tions of the Fourier transform operator
University of Chicago (22)
Department of Mathematics
Bremer, Christopher, An Euler integralformula for epsilon factors of connec-tions
Csima, Nora Elizabeth, Newton-Hodgefiltration for F -crystals with structure
Day, Matthew, Symplectic structures onright-angled Artin groups: Between themapping class group and the symplecticgroup
Gashi, Qendrim, A conjecture of Kottwitzand Rapoport for split groups
Geline, Michael, Modular representationtheory and the Schur index
Guillou, Bertrand, On some properties ofmotivic cohomology
Kamgarpour, Masoud, Stacky Abelianiza-tion of connected algebraic groups
Lange, Karen, The computational com-plexity of homogeneous models
Lee, Benjamin, On the algebraic de Rhamcomplex
Longo, Nicholas P. M., Quasilinear Schro-dinger equations
Masson, Robert, The growth exponent forplanar loop-erased random walk
Nguyen, Tu Ahn, Unique continuationfor parabolic equations and local well-posedness for mKdV equation
Peng, Irine, Quasi-isometries of somesolvable groups
Schedler, Travis, Differential operatorsand Batalin-Vilkovisky structures innoncommutative geometry
Tikaradze, Akaki, The center and repre-sentations of infinitesimal Hecke alge-bra
Wallace, Christopher, Galois and motivicGalois groups
Zbarsky, Boris, On some stratifications ofaffine Deligne-Lusztig varieties for SL3
Department of Statistics
Hugeback, Angela, Point process modelsfor astronomy: Quasars, coronal massejections and solar flares
Ke, Baoguan, A method for geneticmapping of quantitative traits andrelated statistical problems
Kim, Su Yeon, Adaptive evolution ofconserved non-coding elements
Lim, Chae Young, Characteristics of amodel error in an air quality model andfixed-domain asymptotic properties ofspatial cross-periodograms
Zhao, Zhibiao, Nonparametric inferencefor stochastic diffusion models
University of Illinois atChicago (18)
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Division
Evans, Charlesnika, Blood stream infec-tions in veterans with spinal cord injury
Fitchett, George, The role of daily spiritualexperience in cardiovascular disease
Gao, Sasha, Information recovery fromsurrogate outcomes in incomplete lon-gitudinal data
Mattson, Christine, Risk compensation,circumcision, and HIV prevention inKisumu, Kenya
McIntyre, Anne, Lessons learned fromsurveillance for bacterial infectious dis-eases
Qualls-Hampton, Raquel, Health-relatedquality-of-life and pain in an SCI popu-lation: Descriptive and factor
Mathematics, Statistics & Computer
Science Department
Cashen, Christopher, Quasi-isometriesamong tubular groups
Chan, Kungho, Local positivity andSeshadri constants
Fathallah-Shaykh, Hassan, Modeling andlocal filtering of noise embedded ingenome-scale microarray datasets
He, Peng, The risk neutral dynamicsof market implied volatility and itsapplication
Krop, Elliot, Enumerating matchings inregular graphs
Rafalski, Shawn, Immersed turnovers inhyperbolic 3-orbifolds
Vozoris, Kathryn, The complex field witha predicate for the integers
Yuce, Iker, Decompositions of 2-generatorfree Kleinian groups and hyperbolic dis-placements
Zhang, Weiya, Designs for a toxicity-efficacy model and inference on anormal mean with known coefficient ofvariation
Zhao, Ailing, Newton’s method with de-flation for isolated singularities of poly-nomial systems
Zhou, Ling, Association rule mining andquantitative association rule miningamong infrequent items
Zhuang, Yan, Parallel implementation ofpolyhedral homotopy methods
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University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (24)
Department of Mathematics
Azgin, Salih, Model theory of valueddifference fields
Bansal, Shivi, Rational points on latticevarieties
Cao, Zhu, Product identities for thetafunctions
Chaiya, Somjate, Complex dynamics andSalem numbers
Ferguson, Colin, Chain conditions onsubnormal subgroups
Forgacs, Tamas, Interpolation of weightedL2-holomorphic functions in higher di-mensions
Hu, Yong, Localization of divisors of inte-gers and of some arithmetic functions
Huber, Timothy, Zeros of generalizedRogers-Ramanujan functions and topicsfrom Ramanujan’s theory of ellipticfunctions
Kadziela, Samuel, Rigid analytic uni-formization of hyperelliptic curves
Kilbourn, Timothy, Congruence proper-ties of Fourier coefficients of modularforms
Kou, Ming, Existence and convergenceof stochastic Loewner evolution inmultiply connected domains
Malicki, Maciej, Topologies and metricson Polish groups
Moreno, Javier, Iterative differentialGalois theory in positive characteris-tic: A model theoretic approach
Pahlajani, Chetan, Stochastic averagingcorrectors for a noisy Hamiltoniansystem with discontinuous statistics
Park, Seung Kook, Applications of alge-braic curves to cryptography
Prince, Noah, Deltz-system methods incontemporary graph theory
Schoretsanitis, Konstantinos, Fraisse the-ory for metric structures
Sinthaveelert, Malinee, Prescribing dila-tions in space
Suer, Sonat, Model theory of differentiallyclosed fields with several commutingderivations
Vandenbussche, Jennifer, Five topics inextremal and structural graph theory
Wang, Chunlin, On the estimator of thedensity of Feynman-Kac semigroups of2-stable-like processes and the purelydiscontinuous Girsanov transform of2-stable-like processes
Wu, Qingquan, Algorithmic aspects ofbiquadratic cubic and radical functionfield
Xiong, Maosheng, Distribution of Selmergroups of quadratic twists of a familyof elliptic curves
Department of Statistics
Li, Di, Markov chain marginal bootstrapfor generalized estimating equations
INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (8)
Department of Mathematics
Duncan, Jonathan, First return recov-ery of Baire class one functions onultrametric spaces
Franko, Jennifer, Braid group representa-tions via the Yang Baxter equation
Irwin, Trevor, Fraisse limits and colimitswith applications to continua
Jung, Min Kyung, Statistical methods forbiological applications
Pham, Du, Comparison of finite vol-ume and finite difference methods andconvergence results for finite volumeschemes
She, Chunfeng, A mathematical modelfor power derivatives
Zhang, Siyu, Pricing caps and swap-tions when bond prices follow jump-diffusion processes and have log-pricevolatility
Zhou, Chunlai, Complete deductive sys-tems for probability logics with appli-cations in Harsanyi type spaces
Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Ramsey, Bobby, Jr., A generalization ofthe Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre spectralsequence for polynomial cohomology
Purdue University (26)
Department of Mathematics
Azar, Monique, Some lower and upperbounds in real algebraic geometry
Blanco-Silva, Francisco, The curvelet trans-form. A generalized definition and ap-proximation properties
Deger, Mustafa Ersin, A biholomorphismfrom the Bell representative domainonto an annulus and kernel functions
Dwelle, Kayla, Some results on Hadamardclosure and variation diminishing prop-erties of totally nonnegative matrices
Gu, Nan, Some results in the problem ofsimultaneous resolution of singularities
Kumar, Manish, Fundamental group inpositive characteristic
Lomeli, Luis, Functoriality for the classicalgroups over function fields
Maxin, Daniel, The interplay of isolationfrom reproduction with demographyand sexually transmitted diseases
Mitchell, Ronald (Chris), Hochschild co-homology and the Smith resolution
Siudeja, Bartlomiej, Properties of heatkernels
Tan, Kuan, Applications of the Schwarzfunction to a class of multiply con-nected domains with symmetries
Tapp, Darren, Bernstein-Sato polynomi-als and Picard-Lefschetz monodromy
Validashti, Javid, Multiplicities of gradedalgebras
Vizcarra, Andrew, Regularity of sub-Gaussian processes and other randomfields
Wang, Chunbo, Mixed finite elementmethods for the Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations
Yalcin, Umud, Rank three symplecticgroups
Yang, Xiaofeng, Modeling, analysis andsimulation of multi-phase flows
Zhang, Pei, Mathematical modeling ofhost-parasite dynamics
Zhao, Yanhong, On forward-backwardstochastic differential equations andrelated numerical methods
Department of Statistics
Chen, Hui, Voice over the internet: Statis-tical properties and quality of service
Cheng, Riyan, Statistical methods formapping multiple complex traits
Knapp, Shannon, Incorporating uncer-tainty into non-invasive DNA-basedmark-recapture population estimates
Lu, Zhenqiang, Stenosis surveillance ofhemodialysis patients
Xu, Hui, Some applications of the priorBayes approach
Xu, Huiping, Estimation of a general cor-relation structure for latent class andlatent variable models of multivariatebinary data
Zhang, Jianying, Algorithm-based sta-tistical modeling with application tomulti-sensor tracking data with missingvalues
University of NotreDame (5)
Department of Mathematics
Chailuek, Kamthorn, An extension ofBergman spaces and their Toeplitzoperators
Eleftheriou, Panteleimon, Groups defin-able in linear o-minimal structures
Harper, John, Quillen homology of mod-ules over operads
Jones, Benjamin, On the singular Chernclasses of Schubert varieties via smallresolution
Quinn, Sara, Algorithmic complexity ofalgebraic structures
IOWAIowa State University (11)
Department of Mathematics
Chung, Key One, Weak homomorphismsof coalgebras
Fiedler, James, Greco-Latin squares asbijections
Halverson, Matthew, Asymptotic behav-ior of the solutions to a family of PDE’sarising from the chemotaxis equationsof Keller and Segal
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Meng, Qiang, Topics in pricing Americantype financial contracts
Rice, Theodore, Greedy quasigroups andgreedy algebras with applications tocombinatorial games
Wang, Zhongming, Development of levelset method for computing the semi-classical limit in Schrodinger equationswith potentials
Department of Statistics
Chatterjee, Arindam, Applications ofasymptotic expansions to some sta-tistical problems
Huckett, Jennifer, Synthetic data methodsfor disclosure limitation
Lawrence, Michael, Interactive graphics,graphical user interfaces and softwareinterfaces for the analysis of biologicalexperimental data and networks
Ott, Ellis, Schools left behind; statisticalissues with NCLB (No Child Left Behind)
Wickham, Hadley, Practical tools forexploring data and models
University of Iowa (27)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Computational Science
Choi, Yang Ho, Curvature arbitrageKwon, Hun, W 2,p estimates for linear
fourth order elliptic equations withBMO coefficients in Reinfenberg flatdomains
Medikonduri, Ram Kishore, Tabulation oftangles and solving tangle equations
Nicholson, Neil, On knots and theirinvariants
Ortiz-Rosado, Ricardo, Newton/AMG al-gorithm for solving complementarityproblems arising in rigid body dynam-ics with frictional impacts
Pansera, Jerome, Local risk minimization,consistent interest-rate modeling andapplications to life insurance
Department of Biostatistics
Minggen, Lu, Analysis of panel count datausing monotone polynomial splines
Shi, Qian, Bayesian methods of evaluationand use of surrogate endpoints in thesingle-trial settings
Tan, Huaming, Variable selection andestimation in the partially linear AFTmodel
Zhang, Suhong, Inference on associationmeasure in copula model for bivariatesurvival data with hybrid censoring andapplication to a HIV study
Zugui, Zhang, Model selection for nearlyreplicated data based on conceptualpredictive statistics
Department of Mathematics
Bennett, Lucas, Edge index and arc indexof knots and links
Caprau, Carmen, An sl(2) tangle homol-ogy and seamed cobordisms
Diaz, Esteban, Connections between ho-mology group planes, and flocks ofquadratic cones
Duan, Yanzheng, On some geometric andapproximation properties in Banachspaces
Hamon, Suzanne, Some topics in t-fac-torizations
Llosent, Giovanna, Stable endomorphismrings and Ext groups for the symmetricgroup S4
Ortiz-Albino, Reyes, On generalized non-atomic factorizations
Reif, Kathleen, Hyperbolicity of arbores-cent tangle spaces
Rivera, Joaquin, Existence of travelingwave solutions for a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation
Stoeckel, Matthew, Computing quantumhyperbolic invariants
Taylor, Scott, Options pricingWendt, Theodore, Mixed complementarity
formulations and energy balance indynamic contact problems
Department of Statistics and
Actuarial Science
Feng, Dai, Bayesian hidden Markov nor-mal mixture models with application toMRI tissue classification
Gao, Xiaoli, Penalized methods for high-dimensional least absolute deviationregression
Ko, Bangwon, On sums of dependentheavy-tailed random variables and val-uation of equity-linked insurance prod-ucts
Lee, Yeonok, A mixture of semiparametricmodels
KANSASKansas State University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Adongo, Donald, A local extrapolationmethod for hyperbolic conservationlaws: The ENO and Goodman-LeVequeunderlying schemes and sufficient con-ditions for TVD
Chen, Weidong, An efficient method foran ill-posed problem—band-limited ex-trapolation by regularization
Department of Statistics
Bsharat, Rebhi, Evaluation of nCk estima-tors
Liu, Ying, On goodness-of-fit of logisticregression model
von Borries, George Freitas, Partitionclustering of high dimensional lowsample size data based on p-values
University of Kansas (3)
Department of Mathematics
Parker, Kenneth, Some results in obstruc-tion theory for projective modules
Xiaobo, Liu, Some problems in the sto-chastic portfolio theory
Yasong, Jin, Maximum queue length of afluid model with a Gaussian input
Wichita State University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Harder, Theodore, Some remarks onconstructive Yukawa theory in fourdimensions
KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (7)
Department of Mathematics
Clift, Shawn, Generalized Witt vectorsGodefroy, Hugh, A study of orienta-
tion maps: Crystallographic symmetry,mean orientation, and applications
Kiteck, Daniel, Covers of modelsPetrovic, Sonja, Algebraic and combina-
torial properties of certain toric idealsin theory and applications
Shin Kim, Aekyoung, The Lp Neumannproblem for Laplace’s equation on con-vex domains
Slone, Michael, Homological combina-torics and extensions of the cd-index
Zhang, Wei, GMRES on a tridiagonalToeplitz linear system
University of Louisville (4)
Department of Mathematics
Nowrouzi Kashan, Fariba, Cost shiftingof the drug-eluting stent
Petrou, Christiana, Use of text mining topredict patient compliance
Tesfamicael, Mussie, Forecasting pre-scription of medications and cost anal-ysis using time series
Wiglesworth, Lesley, A study of unitbar-visibility graphs
LOUISIANALouisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (5)
Department of Mathematics
Daspan, Gideon, Comparison of KP andBBM-KP models
Kim, Heon, Sign ambiguities of Gaussiansums
Laubinger, Martin, Differential geome-try in Cartesian closed categories ofsmooth spaces
Namli, Suat, Multiplicative renormaliza-tion method for orthogonal polynomi-als
Wallace, Steven, Surgery description ofcolored knots
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Louisiana TechnologyUniversity (4)
Mathematics and Statistics Program
Du, Xudong, A finite difference methodfor studying thermal deformation in a3D microsphere exposed to ultrashortpulsed lasers
Liu, Chang, Stochastic modeling of retailmortgage loans based on past due,prepaid, and default states
Nilsen, Erik Alfonso, Nonlinear dynamicalanalysis of brain electrical activity dueto exposure to weak environmentallyrelevant electromagnetic fields
Niu, Tianchan, A hyperbolic two-stepmodel based finite difference methodfor studying thermal deformation
Tulane University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Aranda, Vivian, Computational model-ing of peristaltic pumping using themethod of regularized Stokeslets
Medina, Luis, Case studies of experimen-tal mathematics: p-adic valuations ofrecurrences
Musielak, Magdalena, A computationalmodel of nutrient transport and acqui-sition by diatom chains in a movingfluid
University of Louisiana atLafayette (4)
Department of Mathematics
Carrillo-Escobar, Julio, Blow-up andquenching phenomena for singularsemilinear parabolic problems
Choudhury, Jayanta, Numerical andasymptotic investigation of the station-ary-propagated localized solutions ofthe Boussinesq equation in two dimen-sions
Lu, Fei, ANOVA and MANOVA underheteroscedasticity
Treeyaprasert, Tawikan, Blow-up andquenching phenomena due to a con-centrated nonlinear source on a semi-infinite interval
MARYLANDJohns HopkinsUniversity (18)
Department of Biostatistics
Achy-Brou, Aristide, Three novel ap-proaches to analyzing longitudinal data:Regression on longitudinal propensityscores, enhanced sensitivity analysisframework and marked renewal sto-chastic processes
An, Ming-Wen, On the importance ofdesigns in better addressing missingdata due to death and to loss-to-follow-up
Colantuoni, Elizabeth, Topics in causalestimation for public health research
Li, Xianbin, Modeling composite outcomeand jointly modeling its components
Lu, Yun, Detecting and contending withthe influence of “unmeasured” con-founders
Luo, Sheng, Mixed effects stochasticprocess models of smoking cessationbehavior
Manichaikul, Ani, Statistical methods formapping quantitative trait loci in ex-perimental crosses
McGready, John, Two studies on currentissues in biostatistical education
Ning, Jing, Estimating causal treatmenteffects for post-randomization markerdata with failure event censoring
Su, Shu-Chih, Structure/function rela-tionships in the analysis of anatomicaland functional neuroimaging data
Wang, Weiwei, Counterfactual inferencefrom observational data: Methods andapplications
Yin, Yue, Bayesian analysis of infectiousdisease time series data and optimalconstrained Bayesian updating
Zhou, Yijie, Association of mortality rateswith race and income among U.S.Medicare participiants
Department of Mathematics
Baugher, Ben, Statistics of critical pointsin Kahler geometry and string theory
Choi, Sung Rak, The geography of modelsand its applications
MacDonald, Brian, Statistics of non-realzeros and critical points of systemsof real random polynomials in severalvariables
Wang, Shaui, On a certain triple system,elliptic curves and Gauss theory ofquadratic forms
Zhong, Qi, Energies of zeros of randomsections on Riemann surfaces
University of Maryland,Baltimore County (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Li, Feng, Statistical inference for pro-teomics
Siddani, Ravi, Spatio-temporal modelingof rain rates
Soane, Ana Maria, Variational problemsin weighted Sobolev spaces with appli-cations to computational fluid dynam-ics
Sun, Zhibin, Geomagnetic data assim-ilation using ensemble methods toestimate forecast error covariance
MASSACHUSETTSBoston University (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Busuioc, Cecilia, Eisenstein cohomology,Milnor K-theory and special values ofL-functions
Marotta, Sebastian, The complex dynam-ics of singularly perturbed rationalmaps
Matsura, Ryota, Twisted root numbersof elliptic curves semistable at primesabove 2 and 3
Mikitchenko, Oleg, Applications of theresolution of singularities to asymptoticanalysis of differential equations
Wahl, Eric, Geodesics on isopotentialsurfaces and solutions to Newton’sN-body problem
Yeats, Karen, Growth estimates forDyson–Schwinger equations
Zollinger, Elizabeth, A family of cometsin the three-body problem
Boston University Schoolof Public Health (6)
Department of Biostatistics
Cho, Kelly, Handling linkage disequilib-rium in linkage analysis using denseSNPs
Lee, Sophia, Analysis of correlated binarydata in non-inferiority trials
Montez-Rath, Maria, Models for non-additive interaction effects
Scaramucci, Amy, A modified log ranktest to account for left truncated sur-vival data: A comparison with the usuallog rank test
Wang, Ling, Bayesian model-based clus-tering of short-time series
Yin, Xiaoyan, Genetic association analy-ses of time-to-event data: Selection biasand imputation from the FraminghamHeart Study
Brandeis University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Tseng, Jimmy, On shrinking target prop-erties
Wong, Dong, Spiked models in Wishartensemble
Harvard University (37)
Department of Biostatistics
Aryee, Martin, Leveraging hidden corre-lations in high-dimensional biologicaldata
Basagana Flores, Xavier, Design of obser-vational longitudinal studies
Ding, Xiao, Family-based association testswith longitudinal measurements
Fardo, David, Statistical issues in genome-wide association studies
Hedt, Bethany, Novel methods for effi-cient surveillance and monitoring
Loerch, Patrick, Using mixed effects mod-els to integrate high-dimensional, ge-nomic data and an array-based analysisof the evolution of brain aging
Mar, Jessica, Stochastics and networks ingenomic data
McDaniel, Samuel, The analyses of arrayCGH data and current status data
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Orellana, Liliana, Methodological chal-lenges for the estimation of optimaldynamic treatment regimes from ob-servational studies
Pei, Lixia, Design and analysis of quantileequivalence bridging trials
Ravichandran, Caitlin, Joint modelingof longitudinal and state-change pro-cesses
Wang, Rui, Nonparametric methods forinference after variable selection, com-parisons of survival distributions, andrandom effects meta-analysis, and re-porting of subgroup analyses
Department of Mathematics
Alvine, Amanda, Investigation of J-holo-morphic curves in M3 × S1
Anno, Irina, Weak representation of tan-gle categories in algebraic geometry
Chen, Dawei, Covers of elliptic curvesand slopes of effective divisors on themoduli space of curves
Fedorchuk, Maksym, Severi varieties andthe moduli space of curves
Freer, Cameron, Models with high Scottrank
Harvey, David, Algorithms for p-adiccohomology and p-adic heights
Lan, Kai-Wen, Arithmetic compactifica-tions of PEL-type Shimura varieties
Pottharst, Jonathan, Selmer growth and a“triangulordinary” local condition
Smyth, David, Compact moduli of sin-gular curves: A case study in genusone
Department of Statistics
Fan, Xiaodan, Integrating correlated data-sets to improve inference in computa-tional biology
Liu, Jingchen, Effective modeling and sci-entific computation with applications tohealth study, astronomy, and queueingnetwork
School of Engineering and Applied
Science
Cavallo, Ruggiero, Social welfare maxi-mization in dynamic strategic decisionproblems
Chong, Hamilton, Geometric methods inperceptual image processing
Corbo, Jacomo, Multiparty large-scalenetwork formation: Economic modelsand mechanisms
Durant, Kathleen, Sentiment drift and itseffect on the classification of web logposts
Gu, Jiajun, Bayesian two-way clusteringKirsch, Adam, Hash-based data struc-
tures for extreme conditionsLahaie, Sebastien, A modular framework
for multi-agent preference elicitationLedlie, Jonathan, A locality-aware ap-
proach to distributed systemsLee, Benjamin, Statistical inference for
efficient microarchitectural analysis
Michael, Loizos, Autodidactic learningand reasoning
Roper, Marcus, Symmetry breaking andun-breaking in microhydrodynamicalsystems: Swimming, pumping and bio-ballistics
Thorpe, Christopher, Probably correct,secrecy preserving computation and itsapplication in auctions and securitiesexchanges
Vlah, Dario, Antenna selection perfor-mance in 802.11 networks
Yamins, Daniel, A theory of local-to-global algorithms for one-dimensionalspatial multi-agent systems
Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (17)
Department of Mathematics
Chebikin, Denis, Polytopes, generatingfunctions, and new statistics related todescents and inversions in permuta-tions
Fang, Chuying, Ad-nilpotent ideals ofcomplex and real reductive groups
Francis, John, Derived algebraic geometryover En-rings
Gu, Jerin, Single-petaled K-types andWeyl group representations for classicalgroups
Havlickova, Marketa, Boundaries of K-types in discrete series
Kamrin, Kenneth, Stochastic and deter-ministic models for dense granularflow
Konvalinka, Matjaz, Combinatorics ofdeterminantal identities
Lee, Peter, Grobner bases in rationalhomotopy theory
Lipyanskiy, Maksim, A semi-infinite cycleconstruction of Floer homology
Montarani, Silvia, Finite dimensional rep-resentations of symplectic reflectionalgebras for wreath products
Rubinstein, Yanir Akiva, Geometric quan-tization and dynamical constructionson the space of Kahler metrics
Rycroft, Christopher, Multiscale modelingin granular flow
Savva, Nikos, Viscous fluid sheetsShapiro, Yakov, An extension of the
Hodge theorem to certain non-compactmanifolds
Sidenko, Sergiy, Kac’s random walk andcoupon collector’s process on posets
Wang, Zuoqin, Spectral properties ofKahler quotients
Yang, Fangyun, Dirac operators andmonopoles with singularities
NortheasternUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics
Long, David, Alexander and Thurstonnorms of links and 3-manifolds
Pelaez-Menaldo, Jose Pablo, Multiplicativeproperties of the slice filtration
Straus, Kenneth, Validation of a proba-bilistic model of language acquisitionin children
Tufts University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Caterina, Gianluca, Least action princi-ples and additive invariants for a classof reversible cellular automata
Munro, Erin C., The axonal plexis: Adescription of the behavior of a networkof axons connected by gap junctions
University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (8)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Are, Sasanka, Coarse-graining dynamicsof interacting particle systems
Beheshti, Shabnam, Solutions of dilatonfield equations with applications to thesoliton-black hole correspondence ingeneralized JT gravity
Damon, Eli, Analysis of the Gauss-Greenform on the moduli space of unduloids
Diehl, Michael, Large deviations of ob-servables in classical and quantumlattice spin systems
Fenn, Molly, Generating equivalence classof B-stable ideals
Herring, Gregory, Some applicationsof computational mathematics: Tumorangiogenesis and Bose-Einstein conden-sates
Oh, Choonghong, Well-posedness theoryof a one parameter family of coupledKdV-type systems and their invariantGibbs measures
VonRenesse, Christine, Combinatorial as-pects of toric varieties
Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Richardson, Casey, Some problems in themathematics of fracture: Paths fromfront kinetics and a level set method
MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics
Alraqad, Tariq, Construction of non-embeddability of quasi-residual designs
Karthikeyan, Palramani, Compact andHilbert-Schmidt weighted compositionoperators on the Bergman space
Li, Shubiao, The generalized Lagrangianprobability distribution: Properties andapplications
Osifodunrin, Adegoke Solomon, Investi-gation of difference sets with order36
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Sarker, Animesh, Compact and Hilbert-Schmidt weighted composition opera-tors on the Hardy space
Michigan StateUniversity (14)
Department of Mathematics
Baykur, Refik Inanc, Symplectic struc-tures, Lefschetz fibrations, and theirgeneralization on smooth four-mani-folds
Brooks, Cara, A discrepancy principlefor parameter selection in local reg-ularization of linear Volterra inverseproblems
Goyt, Adam, Patterns in set partitionsand compositions
Guha, Mohar, Front dynamics in non-smooth ignition systems in a noisyenvironment
Gurel, Erhan, Galois structure of modularforms of even weight
Lee, Ki-Moon, The maximum-likelihooddecoding algorithms of low-densitycodes over binary erasure channels
Lee, Tsung-Lin, A rank-revealing methodfor low-rank matrices with updating,downdating, and applications
Li, Ying, Studies of nonlinear problemsfor Maxwell’s equations
Luo, Xiaoyue, Local regularization fornonlinear Volterra integral equation ofHammerstein type
Seckin, Elif, Centralizers of elements ofprime order in locally finite simplegroups
Sun, Yuhui, Mathematical modeling ofimages and surfaces
Walia, Rajeev, Tensor factorization andspin construction for Kac-Moody alge-bras
Yu, Si-Ning, Matched interface and bound-ary (MIB) method for surface singulari-ties and its applications
Department of Statistics and
Probability
Zhang, Yanwei, A hierarchical Bayesianapproach to model spatially correlatedbinary data: With applications to dentalresearch
Michigan TechnicalUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Science
Qin, Huaizhen, Statistical approach forgenome-wide association study andmicroarray analysis
Oakland University (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Kirkwood, Daniel, A hybrid algorithm forthe common real zero problem
M’Bengue, M’Bagne, Analysis of modelsfor nonlinear dynamic beams with orwithout damage or frictionless contact
Shawash, Nart, Relationships among pop-ular interconnection networks and theircommon generalization
Wijesiri, Galbodayage, Theta functions ofalgebraic curves with automorphisms
University of Michigan (26)
Department of Mathematics
Agarwal, Mahesh, p − L function forGSp(4)× GL(2)
Bauer, Amy, A multi-scale cell-basedmodel to simulate and elucidate themechanisms controlling tumor-inducedangiogenesis
Cais, Bryden, Correspondences, integralstructures, and compatibilities in p-adiccohomology
Crown, Sarah, The homology of the cycliccoloring complex of simple graphs
Feng, Hualong, Vortex sheet simulationsof 3D flows using an adaptive triangularpanel/particle method
Huh, Sukmoon, Moduli spaces of stablesheaves on a plane and an embeddedcurve
Khan, Rizwanur, Non-vanishing of thesymmetric square L-function
Maruskin, Jared, On the dynamical prop-agation of subvolumes and on thegeometry and variational principles ofnonholonomic systems
Min, Hyekyung, Stochastic control mod-els of optimal dividend and capitalfinancing
Mueller, Charles, On the varieties of pairsof matrices whose product is symmetric
Rong, Feng, Critically finite maps, attrac-tors and local dynamics
Sargsyan, Khachik, First passage times inthe near-continuum limit of birth-deathprocesses
Stein, Andrew, Mathematical models forglioblastoma invasion in vitro
Stipins, Janis III, On finite k-nets in thecomplex projective plane
Veomett, Ellen, The computational com-plexity of convex bodies
Wildrick, Kevin, Quasisymmetric param-eterizations of two-dimensional metricspaces
Zupunski, Eric, A bound on the com-plexity of the JSJ decomposition in thebounded case
Department of Statistics
Amirall, Daniel, Towards assessing time-varying causal effect moderation inexperimental and observational studies
Breto, Carles, Statistical inference fornonlinear dynamical systems
Culp, Mark, Multi-view learning withadditive models on graphs
Culp, Stacey, Nonlinear dimensionalityreduction for functional data
Lan, Yan, Topics on change-point esti-mation under adaptive sampling proce-dures
Lee, Joon Sang, Two stage sequentialestimation procedures and a convexoptimization problem
Li, Youjuan, Efficient computation andmodel selection of regularized quantileregression
Somboonsavatdee, Anupap, Some contri-butions to reliability and lifetime dataanalysis
Verbitsky, Natalya, Associational andcausal inference in spatial hierarchi-cal settings: Theory and applications
Wayne State University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Nguyen, Mau Nam, Variational analysisof marginal functions and set-valuedmappings with applications to opti-mization and stability
Potsepun, Nadiya, The long-run behaviorof the replicator dynamics systemsunder the Stratonovich type randomperturbations
Sun, Lijing, A CR Poincare inequality andfundamental solutions of generalizedsubelliptic Schrodinger operators
Wei, Jinfeng, Time series modeling forterrain profiles
Zhu, Chao, Asymptotic properties ofhybrid stochastic systems
Western MichiganUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics
Cengiz, Nesrin, What allows teachers toextend student thinking during wholegroup discussions
Cox, Dana, Understanding similarity:Bridging visual and analytical strate-gies for proportional thinking
MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota-Twin Cities (10)
Division of Biostatistics, School of
Public Health
Cui, Yue, Smoothing analysis of varianceand extending the definition of degreesof freedom
School of Statistics
Borba de Andrade, Bernardo, Topics innonstandard probability theory
Dong, Yingwen, Inference and modelselection
Ferrari, Davide, Maximum Lq-likelihoodmethod: Parametric density estimationvia nonextensive entropy minimization
Forzani, Liliana, Sufficient dimensionreduction based on normal and Wishartinverse models
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Kraker, Jessica, Penalized regressionmethods and validation, with partic-ular focus on chemometric data
Lin, Chihche, Optimal combining of sta-tistical procedures
Shao, Yongwu, Topics on dimensionreduction
Strief, Jeremy, Bayesian sampling weights:An approximation to the Polya poste-rior
Zhang, Yongli, Model selection
MISSOURIMissouri University ofScience & Technology (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Beane, Robbie, Inverse limits of permuta-tion maps
Sanyal, Suman, Stochastic dynamic equa-tions
University ofMissouri-Columbia (11)
Department of Mathematics
Borovyk, Vita, Box approximation andrelated techniques in spectral theory
El Hitti, Samar, Algebraic resolution offormal ideals along a valuation
Hanumanthu, Krishna, Toroidalization oflocally toroidal morphisms
Hart, Derrick, Exploration of geometriccombinatorics in vector spaces overfinite fields
Koucherik, Elena, Transference and Szego’sTheorem for measure preserving repre-sentations
Pogan, Alexandru Alin, Dichotomy theo-rems and applications
Schlieper, Jared, Extremal sections of unitball in Lorentz sequences space
Wright, Matthew, Boundary value prob-lems for the Stokes system in Lipschitzdomains
Zymonopoulou, Maria-Isavella, Sectionsof complex convex bodies
Department of Statistics
Arab, Ali, Hierarchical Bayesian semi-parametric zero-inflated Poisson mod-els for multivariate spatio-temporalenvironmental processes
He, Xin, Regression analysis of panelcount data with dependent observationtimes
Washington University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Blanchard, Jeffrey, Existence and ac-curacy results for composite dilationwavelets
Lee, Lina, Asymptotic behavior of invari-ant metrics
Maurizi, Brian, Noise sensitivity of anentropy-based signal receiver
Zhao, Bo, Noncommutative differentialcalculus from the inner derivation
MONTANAMontana StateUniversity-Bozeman (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Colt, Diana, Cognitive presence amongmathematics teachers: An analysis oftasks and discussions in an asyn-chronous online graduate course
Harper, Jonathan, The use of computeralgebra systems in a procedural algebracourse to facilitate a framework forprocedural understanding
Sharp, Julia, New statistical methods foranalyzing proteomics data from affinityisolation LC-MS/MS experiments
University of Montana -Missoula (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Lambert, Scott, Spectral preserver prob-lems in uniform algebras
Laobeul, N’Djekornom, Regularizationmethods for ill-posed Poisson imag-ing problems
VanSpronsen, Hillary, Proof processes ofnovice mathematics proof writers
NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska-Lincoln (12)
Department of Mathematics
Davis, Jennifer, Algebraic geometric codeson anticanonical surfaces
Dvorak, Matthew, Qualitative and quan-titative analysis of a fluid-structureinteractive partial differential equationmodel
Eubanks-Turner, Christina, Prime idealsin low-dimensional mixed polynomial/power series rings
Feller, Heidi, Solving boundary valueproblems using critical point theory
Gregg, Martha, C∗-extreme points in thegeneralized state space of a commuta-tive C∗-algebra
Higgins, Raegan, Oscillation theory ofdynamic equations on time scales
Luckas, Melissa, Ranks and bounds forindecomposable modules over one-dimensional Noetherian rings
Milan, David, C∗-algebras of inversesemigroups
Sakuntasathien, Sawanya, Global well-posedness for systems of nonlinearwave equations
Weiss, Jacob, Second order dynamic equa-tions on time scales
Department of Statistics
Schmid, Kendra, Analysis of landmarkdata using multi-dimensional regres-sion
Wang, Yi, Semiparametric mixed-effectsanalysis on PK/PD models using differ-ential equations
NEW HAMPSHIREUniversity of NewHampshire (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Fang, Junsheng, Unitarily invariant normsand tensor products of maximal injec-tive von Neumann subalgebras
NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chandrasekaran, Lakshmi, Role of plas-ticity in temporal coding of neuronalnetworks
Ha, Joon, Roles of gap junctions inneuronal networks
Murisic, Nebojsa, Instabilities of volatilefilms and drops
Posta, Filippo, Signal transmission inepithelial layers
Princeton University (9)
Department of Mathematics
Arguin, Louis-Pierre, The structure of cor-relation in quasi-stationary competingparticle systems
Carlsson, Erik, Vertex operators andmoduli spaces of sheaves
Gornik, Bojan, Duality of Khovanov-Rozansky link homology
Juhasz, Andras, Floer homology andsutured manifolds
Li, Ye, Smoothing Riemannian metrics indimension 4 and its applications
Sorrentino, Alfonso, On the structure ofaction-minimizing sets for Lagrangiansystems
Sullivan, Blair D., Extremal problems indigraphs
Xu, Chenyang, Topics on rationally con-nected varieties
Program in Applied Computational
Mathematics
Kryazhimskiy, Sergey, Pathogen evolu-tion under natural selection: The influ-enza A case study
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RutgersUniversity-Newark (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
McDonald, Keith Tim, On p-adic zetafunctions and their derivatives at s = 0
NEW MEXICONew Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Noussi, Hubert, Stabilization of compe-tition models in the chemostat viafeedback linearization
University of NewMexico (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Beznosova, Oleksandra, Bellman func-tions, paraproducts, Haar multipliers,and weighted inequalities
Gomez, Ralph, On Lorentzian Sasaki-Einstein geometry
NEW YORKClarkson University (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Santitissadeekorn, Naratip, Transportanalysis and motion estimation of dy-namical systems of time-series data
Shen, Xunyang, Towards a practical so-lution of handling over/under flowexceptions with alternate number for-mats
Vora, Mehul, A novel approach to datamining: GA for feature selection
Yao, Chen, Modeling low-dimensionalsubmanifolds in dynamical systems
Columbia University (16)
Department of Mathematics
Baldwin, John, Heegaard Floer homology,contact structures, and open books
Faber, Alexander, Topics in arithmeticgeometry over function fields
Gillam, William, Hyperelliptic Gromov-Witten theory
Gkigkitzis, Ioannis, On the cross curvaturetensor and the cross curvature flow
Hanson, Nels, Sobolev norms of holo-morphic sections and variations of thedensity of states
Hsieh, Ming-Lun, Construction of p-adicordinary Eisenstein series on certainunitary groups
Kontorovich, Alex, The hyperbolic latticepoint count in infinite volume withapplications to sieves
Li, Qi, Energy functionals and their appli-cations to Monge-Ampere equations
Mezhericher, Borislav, Computational as-pects of Maass forms for SL(3, z)
Swinarski, David, Geometric invarianttheory and moduli spaces of pointedcurves
To, Tung, A free boundary problem forthe evolution p-Laplacian equation witha combustion boundary condition
Yuan, Xinyi, Equidistribution theory overalgebraic dynamical systems
Zhang, Bei, Fourier-Jacobi coefficients ofEisenstein series on unitary group
Zickert, Christian, Hyperbolic 3-manifoldsand the Cheeger-Chern-Simons class
Department of Statistics
Abayomi, Kobi Ako, Diagnostics for mul-tivariate imputation copula based in-dependent component analysis and amotivating example
Lee, Yi Hsuan, Contributions to thestatistical analysis of item responsetime in educational training
Cornell University (12)
Center for Applied Mathematics
Lyles, Danielle, Chromaffin cell excitabil-ity and BK channel gating: Data, model-ing, simulation, and experiment
Robinson, Michael, Eternal solutions andheteroclinic orbits of a semilinear para-bolic equation
Schmidt, Deena, A mathematical look atDNA regulatory sequence evolution
Sherwood, William Erik, Response innetworks of bursting neurons: Modelingcentral pattern generators
Yamada, Richard Yujiro, Quantitativemodels of transcriptional elongation
Zhang, Wenjie, Measure of serial de-pendence and testing for conditionalquantile models
Department of Mathematics
Eshmatov, Farkhod, The Calogero-Mosercorrespondence for noncommutativedeformations of Kleinian singularities
Gyrya, Pavel, Heat kernel estimates forinner uniform subsets of Harnack-typeDirichlet spaces
Johnston, Henri, The trace map and Galoismodule structure of rings of integersfor absolutely abelian number fields
Schweig, Jay, Poset convex-ear decom-positions and applications to the flagh-vector
Sinefakopoulos, Achilleas, On some classesof Borel fixed ideals and their cellularresolutions
Velasco, Mauricio Fernando, Monomialresolutions and the Cox rings of delPezzo surfaces
Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (7)
PhD Program in Mathematics
Munn, Michael, Volume growth and thetopology of manifolds with nonnegativeRicci curvature
Nechayeva, Marina, Asymptotics ofweighted lattice point counts insidedilating domains
Serme, Abdramane, On iterative refine-ment/improvement of the solution toan ill conditioned linear system
Wojciechowski, Radoslaw, Stochastic com-pleteness of graphs
Won, Dong Wook, Word problems onbalanced semigroups and groups
Yuan, Shenglan, Dynamics of certainfamilies of transcendental meromor-phic functions
Zyman, Marcos, IA-automorphisms andlocalization of nilpotent groups
New York University,Courant Institute (20)
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
Bramham, Barney, Pseudoholomorphicfoliations for area preserving disc maps
Cousot, Laurent, Constructions of martin-gales and of increasing processes withconstrained marginal distributions
Diaz-Alban, Jose, The high frequency andinviscid limit of acoustic waves in aporous medium
Fish, Joel, Compactness results for pseudo-holomorphic curves
Hammond, David, Representing and mod-eling images with multiscale local ori-entation
Hasha, Alexander, Gravity wave refrac-tion by three-dimensionally varyingwinds and the global transport ofangular momentum in the atmosphere
Heymann, Matthias, The geometric min-imum action method: A least actionprinciple on the space of curves
Hryniewicz, Umberto, Finite energy folia-tions of convex sets in R4
Huang, Shih-Ting, On the mechanism offorward motion during flapping flight:Numerical simulation by the immersedboundary method
Kadota, Minoru, The Madden-Julian os-cillation and its seasonal impact onmid-latitude weather predictability
Kargin, Vladislav, Limit theorems in freeprobability theory
Koiller, Jose, Invariant measures for cou-pled map graphs
Kuptsov, Alexey, REM universality forrandom Hamiltonians
Lee, Pilhwa, The immersed boundarymethod with advection-electrodiffusion
Royfman, Roman, Randomly trapped ran-dom walks
Shen, Haiping, Two PDE problems fromelectromagnetics
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Spagnolie, Saverio, Flapping, ratcheting,bursting and tumbling: A selectionof problems in fluid-body interactiondynamics
Stechmann, Samuel, Models of convec-tively coupled waves in the tropicalatmosphere
Tice, Ian, Lorentz space estimates andapplied boundary current dynamics forGinzburg-Landau
Vilensky, Yevgeny, Large deviation boundsfor the totally asymmetric simple ex-clusion process
Polytechnic University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Centonze, Paolina, An algebra for accesscontrol
Lenchner, Jonathan, Sylvester-Gallai re-sults and other contributions to combi-natorial and computational geometry
Morgan, Thomas, Concentration andsparsity in space and frequency
Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (7)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Agius, Phaedra, Mathematical models forbiological data
Andersen, Timothy, Trapped slender vor-tex filaments in statistical equilibrium
Dediu, Simona, Analysis of frequencydependent attenuation in shallow water
Gershgorin, Boris, Characterization ofthermalized Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains
Kunapuli, Gautam, A bi-level optimiza-tion approach to machine learning
Yan, Fu, Two-stage Nash equilibriumproblems
Zhao, Jinye, Recent applications of Nashequilibria
State University of NewYork at Albany (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Clark, Timothy, Poset resolutions ofmonomial ideals
Madsen, Alpheus, Symbolic powers andGorenstein grade-3 ideals
State University of NewYork at Binghamton (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Science
Atanasov, Risto, Groups of geometricdimension 2
Chen, Cuixian, Asymptotic propertiesof the Buckley-James estimator for abivariate interval censorship regressionmodel
Du, Jichang, Covariate-matched estima-tor of the error variance in nonpara-metric regression
Loftus, John, Powers of words in languagefamilies
Millan-Vossler, Silvia, The Whitehead andthe lower algebraic K-theory of braidgroups on S2 and RP2
Wassink, Bronlyn, Subgroups of R. Thomp-son’s group F that are isomorphic toF
State University of NewYork at Buffalo (5)
Department of Mathematics
Han, Xiaoying, Interlayer mixing in thinfilm growth
Li, Jinglai, Estimating the reliability ofoptical fiber communication systems
Mastroberardino, Antonio, Three-dimen-sional equilibrium crystal shapes withcorner energy regularization
Yu, Chih-Chien, Conditions for the exis-tence of a steady state solution for acompetition system of plankton popu-lation
Department of Biostatistics
Pak, Youngju, Multivariate linear pathmodels
State University of NewYork at Stony Brook (31)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Brady, Christine, Power analysis of finitemixtures of Poisson distributions
Braunstein, Janet, Analysis of task map-ping for parallel supercomputers
Du, Jian, Simulations of magnetohydro-dynamics multiphase flow
Fazzari, Melissa, Classification ensembleswith applications to genomics
Huang, Zhuying, The power of link-age analysis of a quantitative diseaseendophenotype
Ji, Chen, Joint analysis of gene andprotein data
Jia, Xicheng, Applications of front track-ing to multiple scientific problems
Lavergne, Paul, Thermonuclear flamestudies in rectangular geometry
Lee, Hyunsun, Compressible multiphasemultispecies flow models
Li, Yuanhua, Enhanced 3D front trackingmethod with locally grid based interface
Lim, Noha, Classification ensembles fromrandom partitions using logistic regres-sion models
Ma, Yeming, Step density function andbootstrap resampling
Manu, Manu, Canalization of gap geneexpression during early development inDrosophila melanogaster
Masser, Thomas, Breaking temperatureequilibrium for mixed cell hydrody-namics
McQuown, Joseph, Multi-scale, geomet-ric algorithm for non-parametric dataexploration with an application to ge-nomic data
Polishchuk, Valentin, Non-crossing pathsand minimum-cost flows in polygonaldomains
Tung, Lin, The impact of genotype mis-classification errors on the power todetect a genetic association and gene-environment interaction with Cox pro-portional modeling
Wang, Shuqiang, Solving elliptic interfaceproblem using mixed finite elementmethod
Wu, Xiangfeng, Optimal designs for seg-mented polynomial models and web-based implementation of optimal de-sign software
Zhang, Yue, Path analysis of multivari-ate time series data with subject-levelcovariates
Department of Mathematics
An, Daniel, Complete set of eigenfunc-tions of the quantum periodic Todachain
Chen, Je-Wei, Neighborly properties ofsimple convex polytopes
Chen, Xiaojun, On general chain model ofthe free loop space and string topology
Dupont, Emiko, A symplectic isotopy of aproduct of projective spaces
Dutta, Satyaki, Rigidity of conformallycompact manifolds
Kalafat, Mustafa, Self-dual metrics on4-manifolds
Li, Tao, A monotonicity conjecture forthe entropy of Hubbard trees
Mustopa, Yusuf, The effective cone onsymmetric powers of curves
Prince, Tanvir, On the Lego-Teichmullergame for finite G cover
Shu, Yu-Jen, Compact complex surfacesand cscK metrics
Unal, Ibrahim, Phi-critical submanifoldsand convexity in calibrated geometry
Syracuse University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Adamowicz, Tomasz, On the geometry ofp-harmonic mappings
Dickerson, David, High school mathe-matics teachers’ understandings of thepurposes of mathematical proof
Kimani, Patrick, Calculus students’ un-derstandings of the concepts of func-tion transformation, function composi-tion, function inverse, and the relation-ships among the three concepts
Nzuki, Francis, Investigating African Amer-ican students’ identity and agency ina mathematics and graphing calculatorenvironment at a low-SES school
Struble, Dale, Wavelets on manifolds andmultiscale reproducing kernel Hilbertspaces
University of Rochester (7)
Department of Biostatistics and
Computational Biology
He, Hua, Correcting verification bias inthe assessment of the accuracy ofdiagnostic tests
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Wagner-Georger, Lesley, Some skew mod-els for quantal response analysis
Department of Mathematics
Bian, Ji, The pair correlation of zeros ofξ(k)(s)
Liang, Lei, Comparison principle forstochastic heat equations
Lu, Naiji, Models based on pure birth andbranching process
Milinovich, Micah, Mean-value estimatesfor the derivative of the Riemann zeta-function
Xue, Heng, Extensions of stochastic inte-grals as distributions and applicationsto SPDEs
NORTH CAROLINADuke University (13)
Department of Mathematics
Belov, Sergei, Breaking in the semiclassi-cal solution of the focusing nonlinearSchrodinger equation
Gratton, Michael, Coarsening of thin fluidfilms
Narkawicz, Anthony, Cohomology jump-ing loci and the relative Malcev comple-tion
Nicholas, Michael, A third order numer-ical method for 3D doubly periodicelectromagnetic scattering problems
Robbins, Nicholas, Negative point masssingularities in general relativity
Spivey, Joseph, Twisted cohomology ofhyperelliptic mapping class groups
Xu, Feng, SU(3) structures and specialLagrangian geometries
Department of Statistical Science
Chu, Jen-Hwa, Bayesian function esti-mation using overcomplete dictionarieswith application in genomics
Kinney, Satkartar, Model selection andmultivariate inference using data mul-tiply imputed for disclosure limitationand nonresponse
Pillai, Natesh, Levy random measures:Posterior consistency and applications
Sang, Huiyan, Extreme value modelingfor space-time data with meteorologicalapplications
Shen, Haige, Bayesian analysis in can-cer pathway studies and probabilisticpathway annotation
Woodard, Dawn, Conditions for rapid andtorpid mixing of parallel and simulatedtempering on multimodel distributions
North Carolina StateUniversity (30)
Department of Mathematics
Beier, Julie, Crystals for Demazure mod-ules of special linear quantum affinetype
Beun, Stacy, On the classification of orbitsof minimal parabolic k-subgroups act-ing on symmetric k-varieties of SL(n,k)
Braun, Tom, High speed model imple-mentation and inversion techniques forsmart material transducers
Brown, Jonathan, N-symplectic quantiza-tion
Cook, James, Foundations of supermath-ematics with applications to N = 1supersymmetric field theory
David, John, Estimation and shape de-sign: Analysis and applications
De Vault, Kristen, Numerical study of twoproblems in fluid flow: Cavitation andcerebral circulation
Dillard, Karen, An application of implicitfiltering to water resources manage-ment
Gong, Yan, Immersed-interface finite-element methods for elliptic and elas-ticity interface problems
Grove, Sarah, Optimization problems inthe presence of uncertainty
Osborne, Jason, On geometric control de-sign for holonomic and nonholonomicmechanical systems
Petersen, Richard, Transformation semi-groups over groups
Sweetingham, Kelly, Auxiliary signal de-sign for fault detection in nonlinearsystems
Wills, Rebecca, When rank trumps pre-cision: Using the power method tocompute Google’s pagerank
Department of Statistics
Chang, Sheng-Mao, A stationary sto-chastic approximation algorithm forestimation in GLMM
Chiswell, Karen, Model diagnostics forthe nonlinear mixed effects model withbalanced longitudinal data
Griffith, Emily, Catch curve and capturerecapture models: A Bayesian combinedapproach
Gu, Jiezhun, Nonparametric and semi-parametric inference about ROC curves
Huang, Lingkang, Variable selection inmulticlass support vector machine andapplication in genomics data analysis
Jones, Martha, A retrospective methodfor inference on haplotype main ef-fects and haplotype-environment inter-actions using clustered haplotypes
Liu, Jiajun, Domain enhanced analysisof microarray data using the geneontology annotations
Liu, Shufang, Modeling mean residual lifefunction using scale mixtures
Lu, Xiaomin, Improving the efficiency oftest and estimates of treatment effectwith auxiliary covariates in the presenceof censoring
Nail, Amy, Quantifying local creation andregional transport using a hierarchicalspace-time model of ozone as functionof observed NOx, a latent space-timeVOC process, emissions, and meteorol-ogy
Ni, Xiao, Variable selection in partial lin-ear models and semiparametric mixedmodels
Tang, Lihua, “Smooth” inference forclustered survival data
Yang, Hongmei, Variable selection pro-cedures for generalized linear mixedmodels in longitudinal data analysis
Yoshizaki, Jun, Use of natural tagsin closed population capture-recapturestudies: Modeling misidentification
Yu, Miao, Quantitative trait loci (QTL)mapping with longitudinal traits
Zhang, Min, Semi-parametric methods foranalysis of randomized clinical trialsand arbitrarily censored time-to-eventdata
University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (24)
Department of Mathematics
Hague, Charles, Cohomology of flagvarieties and the BK-filtration
Jablonski, Michael, Real geometric invari-ant theory and Ricci soliton metrics ontwo-step nilmanifolds
Lee, Joohee, Mathematical descriptionsof nematic polymers in the monolayerlimit
Lin, Zhi, Passive scalar intermittency inrandom flows
Lindley, Brandon S., Linear and nonlinearshear wave propagation in viscoelasticmedia
Marangell, Robert, The general quadruplepoint formula
Richmond, Edward, Recursive structuresin the cohomology of flag varieties
Todd, Abby, Inclusion of a glycogenregulation mathematical model into acontextual metabolic framework
Yang, Gao, Short time behavior of so-lutions to nonlinear Schrodinger equa-tions in N space dimensions
Yao, Lingxing, Viscoelasticity at micro-scopic and macroscopic scales charac-terization and prediction
Department of Statistics and
Operation Research
Bai, Ping, Temporal-spatial modeling inFMRI
Didier, Gustavo, Adaptive wavelet decom-positions of time series
Gaydos, Travis, Data representation andbasis selection to understand variationof function valued traits
Huang, Tao, Continuous optimizationapproaches to the quadratic assignmentproblem
Lee, Chihoon, Long time asymptotics forconstrained diffusions in polyhedraldomains
Lee, Myung Hee, Continuum directionvectors in high dimensional low samplesize data
Liu, Liqiang, Queueing models withworkload-based balking applications tocall center
Liu, Xuxin, New statistical tools formicroarray data and comparison withexisting tools
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Maroulas, Vasileios, Small noise largedeviations for infinite dimensional sto-chastic dynamical systems
Shamseldin, Elizabeth C., Asymptoticmulti-variate kriging using estimatedparameters with Bayesian predictionmethods for non-linear predicaments
Sun, Xing, Significance and recovery ofblock structures in binary and real-valued matrices with noise
Trovero, Michele A., Effects of aggre-gation on estimators of long-rangedependence
Zhang, Lingsong, Functional singularvalue decomposition and multi-resolu-tion anomaly detection
Zhou, Jie, High dimensional spatial mod-eling of extremes: With application toU.S. rainfalls
University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Fan, Kai, A generalized discontinuousGalerkin (GDG) method and its applica-tions
Hyun, Jeunggeun, Statistical analysis ofcompeting risk models
Jalali, Mohammadreza, Central limit the-orem for Markov chains on compactabelian groups
Jeong, Jae-Woo, Implementation of repro-ducing polynomial particle (RPP) shapefunctions in meshless particle meth-ods for two-dimensional elliptic partialdifferential equations
McNair, Dawn, Duals of ideals and traceproperties in rings with zero divisors
Squartini, Nicola, Global limit theoremsfor sums of independently identicallydistributed random variables using qua-sicumulants
NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (1)
Department of Mathematics
Matson, Amanda, Results regarding finitegeneration, near finite generation, andthe catenary degree
OHIOBowling Green StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Marcusanu, Mihaela, The classification of�1-embeddable Fullerenes
Yenigun, Deniz, A test of independencein contingency tables based on maximalcorrelation
Case Western ReserveUniversity (9)
Department of Mathematics
Li, Zhuo Bin, Schistosomiasis transmis-sion and control in a distributed het-erogeneous human-snail environmentin coastal Kenya
Zachlin, Paul, On the field of values ofthe inverse of a matrix
Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics
Bajunirwe, Francis, Effectiveness of an-tiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda
Jun, Gyungah, Identification of genesassociated with age-related cataract
Kiwanuka, Noah, The effect of HIV-1subtypes on HIV transmission anddisease progression in Rakai district,Uganda
Kou, Tzuyung Doug, Watchful waitingand active surveillance in prostatecancer patients—a population-basedstudy using the SEER-Medicare linkeddatabase
Liu, Constance, Evaluating measures ofgeographic accessibility in urban dia-betics in Cuyahoga County
Londono, Douglas, Applications of theHardy-Weinberg principle to detectionof linkage disequilibrium and genotyp-ing errors in the context associationstudies
Marrie, Ruth Ann, Influence of comor-bid diseases and health behaviors onclinical characteristics, disability at di-agnosis and disability progression inmultiple sclerosis
Kent State University (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Abramov, Vilen, Stopping times relatedto trading strategies
Li, Hongcheng, Multivariate extension ofCUSUM procedure
Rollick, Mary Elizabeth, Puzzling overspatial reasoning: A phenomenologicalstudy of pre-service elementary teach-ers
Ohio State University,Columbus (18)
Department of Mathematics
Balachandran, Niranjan, The 3-designproblem
Hambrock, Richard, Evolution of condi-tional dispersal: A reaction-diffusion-advection approach
Hur, Suhkjin, The Kuratowski coveringconjecture for graphs of order less than10
Lennon, Craig, On the likely number ofstable marriages
McClain, Christopher, Edge colorings ofgraphs and multigraphs
Nikolov, Martin, Construction of series ofdegenerate representations for GSp(2)and PGL(n)
Park, Chongseok, Irregular behavior in anexcitatory-inhibitory neural network
Qi, Dongwen, On irreducible, infinite,non-affine Coxeter groups
Schoenecker, Kevin Joseph, An infinitefamily of anticommutative algebraswith a cubic form
Xu, Songyun, Degree 2 curves in theDwork pencil
Department of Statistics
Cui, Zhenhuan, The solution paths ofmulticategory support vector machines:Algorithm and applications
Lam, Chen Quin, Sequential adaptivedesigns in computer experiments forresponse surface model fit
Lang, Lixin, Advancing sequential MonteCarlo for model checking, prior smooth-ing and applications in engineering andscience
Li, Hongfei, Approximate profile likeli-hood estimation for spatial-dependenceparameters
Pan, Xueliang, Using structural informa-tion in modeling and multiple align-ments for phylogenetics
Roberts, Clint, Imputing missing valuesin time series of count data usinghierarchical models
Wang, Ke, On concomitants of orderstatistics
Wei, Lai, Spectral-based tests for period-icities
Ohio University, Athens (1)
Department of Mathematics
Srivastava, Ashish, Rings characterizedby properties of direct sums of modulesand on rings generated by units
University of Akron (1)
Department of Theoretical and
Applied Mathematics
Childers, Carey, Effective properties ofa fiber reinforced composite with afunctionally graded transition zone
University of Cincinnati (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Camfield, Christopher, Comparison of BVnorms in weighted Euclidean spacesand metric measure spaces
Hunter, Tina, Gibbs sampling and ex-pectation maximization methods forestimation of censored values fromcorrelated multivariate distributions
Jiang, Dongming, Objective Bayesian test-ing and model selection for Poissonmodels
Oraby, Tamer, Spectra of random block-matrices and products of random ma-trices
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Ruth, Harry L., Jr., Conformal densitiesand deformations of uniform Loewnermetric spaces
Usman, Muhammad, Forced oscillationsof the Korteweg-de Vries equation andtheir stability
University of Toledo (1)
Department of Mathematics
Liu, Nanshan, Theory and applications ofLegendre polynomials and wavelets
OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (1)
Department of Statistics
Wagler, Amy, Simultaneous inference ingeneralized linear model settings
University of Oklahoma (3)
Department of Mathematics
Martinez, Eduardo, Combination of qua-siconvex subgroups in relatively hyper-bolic groups
Olaya, Pedro, Orbital integral correspon-dence for the pair (G2, Sp(1, R)) via theCauchy Harish-Chandra integral
Seo, Arim, Torus leveling of (1,1)-knots
OREGONOregon State University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Strowbridge, Jessica, Middle school teach-ers’ use of a formative feedback guidein mathematical problem solving in-struction
Department of Statistics
Giovanini, Jack, Generalized linear mixedmodels with censored covariates
Henry, John, III, Extreme value indexestimation with applications to model-ing extreme insurance losses and seasurface temperatures
Irvine, Kathi, Graphical models for multi-variate spatial data
Lu, Lin, Unconditional estimating equa-tion approaches for missing data
Portland StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Ciancetta, Matthew, Statistics students’reasoning when comparing distribu-tions of data
Noll, Jennifer, Graduate teaching assis-tants’ statistical knowledge for teaching
University of Oregon (5)
Department of Mathematics
Archey, Dawn, Crossed product C∗-algebras by infinite group actions witha generalized tracial Rokhlin property
Jordan, Alexander, A super version ofZhu’s theorem
Kronholm, William, The RO(G)-gradedSerre spectral sequence
Miller, Matthew, The rational homotopytypes of configuration spaces of three-dimensional lens spaces
Wilson, James, Group decompositions,Jordan algebras, and algorithms forp-groups
PENNSYLVANIABryn Mawr College (3)
Department of Mathematics
Battiste Presutti, Cathleen, Determininglower bounds for packing densities ofnon-layered patterns using weightedtemplates
Dalton, Jennifer, Legendrian torus linksTeti, Sherry, The existence of elliptic peri-
odic orbits in the smoothed Bunimovichstadium
Carnegie MellonUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematical Science
Anthony, Barbara, Approximation algo-rithms for network design with uncer-tainty
Carita, Graca, Relaxation in SBV forconstrained-valued fields
Cohen, Albert, A probabilistic analysis ofgrain growth
Towsner, Henry, Some results in logicand ergodic theory
Young, Michael, Triangle problems inextremal graph theory
Department of Statistics
Serban, Mihaela, Derivative pricing undermultivariate stochastic volatility mod-els with application to equity options
Lehigh University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Gorman, Jennifer, Nested traveling sales-person problems
Mformbele, Akongnwi Clement, Time de-pendent and steady state interactionamong capillaries in skeletal muscle
Panofsky, Ellen, Graph labeling problemswith distance conditions
Pennsylvania StateUniversity (18)
Department of Mathematics
Bang, Seunghoon, Rarefaction wave ofpressure-gradient system
Barton, James, Generalized complex struc-tures on Courant algebroids
Cho, Durkbin, Multilevel methods forthe generalized finite element methoddiscretizations
Kang, Hunseok, Dynamics of the localmap of a discrete Brusselator model
Keith, William, Ranks of partitions andDurfee symbols
Rowell, Michael, The Bailey transformand conjugate Bailey pairs
Stojanovic, Gordana, Embedding withcertain non-degeneracy conditions
Wang, Jiakou, Stochastic and determinis-tic coagulation models, their numericalapproximations and applications to cellaggregation
Zhang, Ke, Thermodynamic formalismfor maps with inducing schemes
Department of Statistics
Han, Bing, A Bayesian approach to falsediscovery rate for large scale simulta-neous inference
Hui, Guodong, Matrix distances withtheir application to finding directionaldeviations from normality in high-dimensional data
Jung, Hyekyung, A latent-class selectionmodel for nonignorable missing data
Li, Yan (Maggie), Some contributions tononparametric modeling with corre-lated data
Seo, Byungtae, Doubly-smoothed maxi-mum likelihood estimation
Tang, Zhihui, Three topics on dimensionreduction
Yang, Jingyun, Measurement of agree-ment for categorical data
Yao, Weixin, On using mixtures andmodes of mixtures in data analysis
Young, Derek, A study of mixtures ofregression
Temple University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Bitew, Worku, Sufficient conditions andhigher-order regularity for local mini-mizers in the calculus of variations
DeSario, David, Polyhedral sums andtheta series
Elhashash, Abdul Rahman (Abed), Perron-Frobenius properties of general matri-ces and generalized M-matrices whichmay not have nonnegative inverses
Liu, Zhongzhi, Quantum random walksunder decoherence
University ofPennsylvania (4)
Department of Mathematics
Bogdan Pavelescu, Elena, Braids and openbook decompositions
Dalakov, Peter, Higgs bundles and opersFithian, David, Pseudomodular Fricke
groupsKerin, Martin, Biquotients with almost
positive curvature
University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh (7)
Department of Mathematics
Day, Jerry, On Banach function spacesand the fixed point property
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Day, Judy, Mathematical approaches tomodeling, understanding, and control-ling the acute inflammatory responseto pathogen and endotoxin
Hancioglu, Baris, Mathematical modelingof virus dynamics in immunology
Mi, Qi, Modelling wound healing innecrotizing enterocolitis and diabeticfoot ulcer
Neda, Monika, Numerical analysis andphenomenology of homogeneous, iso-tropic turbulence generated by higherorder models of turbulence
Pejic, Bojana, On the uniqueness of Polishgroup topologies
Xie, Dejun, Optimal prepayment strategyof mortgages
RHODE ISLANDBrown University (15)
Department of Mathematics
Kwon, Hyun-Kyoung, Similarity of op-erators and geometry of eigenvectorbundles
Miller, Stephen Francis, The calculus ofequivariant spectra and a classificationof degree 2 endofunctors
Stange, Katherine Elisabeth, Elliptic netsand elliptic curves
Wise, Jonathan Samuel Dennis, The genuszero Gromov-Witten theory of [Sym2
P2]
and the enumerative geometry of hy-perelliptic curves in P
2
Yasufuku, Yu, Vojta’s conjecture andblowups
Division of Applied Mathematics
Chun, Sehun, High-order accurate meth-ods for solving Maxwell’s equations;modeling photonic crystals and thinlayer approximations
Dean, Thomas Anthony, A subsolutionsapproach to the analysis and imple-mentation of splitting algorithms inrare event simulation
Feiszli, Matt, Conformal shape represen-tation
Foo, Jasmine, Multi-element probabilisticcollocation in high dimensions: Appli-cations to systems biology and physicalsystems
Keaveny, Eric, Dynamics of structuresin active suspensions of paramagneticparticles and applications to artificialmicro-swimmers
Leder, Kevin, Large deviations and impor-tance sampling for queueing systemswith discontinuous service policies
Li, Zheng, Approximation to randomprocess by wavelet basis
Libertini, Jessica, Determining tumorblood flow parameters using dynamicimaging data
Micheli, Mario, The differential geometryof landmark shape manifolds: Metrics,geodesics, and curvature
Wang, Wei, Multiscale discontinuousGalerkin methods and applications
SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Beeler, Robert, Automorphic decomposi-tions of graphs
Faulkner, Bryan, Estimates related to thearithmetic of elliptical curves
Howell, Jason, Numerical approxima-tion of shear-thinning and Johnson-Segalman viscoelastic fluid flows
Kraft, Christine, Planning, scheduling,and timetabling in a university setting
Seneviratne, Padmapani, Permutation de-coding of the codes from graphs anddesigns
Zhao, Meng, Issues in model selection,minimax estimation, and censored dataanalysis
Medical University ofSouth Carolina (7)
Department of Biostatistics,
Bioinformatics & Epidemiology
Hedden, Sarra, Methods in substanceabuse clinical trials
Howard, Virginia, Nativity and interstatemigration patterns and their effect onstroke risk factors
Jaffa, Miran, Development and applica-tion of models for slope estimation forunivariate and bivariate longitudinaloutcomes in the presence of informa-tive right censoring
Johnson, Shayna, Racial disparities inliving kidney donations among SouthCarolinians: The effect of health con-ditions, individual behavior, and familyattributes
Karpievitch, Yuliya, Computational toolsfor MS-based proteomics
Mountford, William, Racial variation inlong-term risk of cardiovascular diseasemortality with regards to diabetes andhypertension
Rastogi, Amal, Arterial compliance andperiodontal inflammation in adults
University of SouthCarolina (12)
Department of Mathematics
Jordan, Kelly, The necklace poset is asymmetric chain order
Kozek, Mark, Applications of coveringsystems of integers and Goldbach’sconjecture with monic polynomials
Owens, Luke, Multigrid methods for twoweakly over-penalized interior penaltymethods
Rusu, Anamaria, Determining starlikebodies by their curvature integrals
Sanacory, Frank, The richness of thespace of operators on a Banach space
Department of Statistics
Adekpedjou, Akim, Estimation of the gap-time distribution with recurrent eventdata under an informative monitoringperiod
Autin, Melanie, Nonparametric methodsin the analysis of estuarine waterquality data
Deutsch, Roland, Benchmark analysis fortwo predictor variables
Ignatova, Iliana, Multistage samples andthe minimum sum method for Medicarefraud investigations
Ni, Jun, Extensions of hierarchical Bayesianshrinkage estimation with applicationsto a marketing science problem
Quiton, Jonathan, General outlier detec-tion and goodness of fit for recurrentevent data
Zhang, Litong, The estimation of multi-dimensional item response theory model
TENNESSEEUniversity of Memphis (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Wheeler, Jeffrey Paul, The Cauchy-Daven-port theorem and the Erdos-Heilbronnproblem for finite groups
Zhang, Lijun, Stochastic and state spacemodels of carcinogenesis with applica-tions
University of Tennessee,Knoxville (2)
Department of Mathematics
LaGrange, John, Zero-divisor graphs,commutative rings of quotients, andBoolean algebras
Phillippi, R. David, A comparison of thedeck group and the fundamental groupof uniform spaces obtained by gluing
Vanderbilt University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Callender, Hannah, Mathematical mod-eling of species-specific diacylglyceroldynamics in the RAW 264.7 macrophagefollowing P2Y6 receptor activation byuridine 5′-diphosphate
Hinow, Peter, Partial differential equa-tion models for intranuclear diffusion,inverse problems in nanobiology andcell cycle specific effects of anticancerdrugs
Jennings, David, Topological algebras andq-undemanding varieties
Lambert, Thomas Paul, On the classifica-tion of closed flat four-manifolds
Nowak, Piotr Wojciech, Property A asmetric amenability and its applicationsto geometry
Spakula, Jan, K-theory of uniform Roealgebras
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Yattselev, Maxym Leonidovich, Non-Hermi-tian orthogonality and meromorphicapproximation
TEXASBaylor University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Jackson, Billy Joe, A general linear sys-tems theory on time scales: Transforms,stability, and control
Rogers, James W., Adaptive methods forthe Helmholtz equation with discontin-uous coefficients at an interface
Rice University (16)
Department of Computational and
Applied Mathematics
Castillo, Edward, Optical flow methodsfor the registration of compressibleflow images and images containinglarge voxel displacements of artifacts
Eydelzon, Anatoly, A study on condi-tions for sparse solution recovery incompressive sensing
McClosky, Benjamin, Independence sys-tems and stable set relaxations
Turner, Jesse, Multi-scale behavior inchemical reaction systems: Modeling,applications, and results
Young, Joseph, Program analysis andtransformation in mathematical pro-gramming
Department of Mathematics
Jennings, Landan, Sufficient conditionsfor Hamiltonian paths
Jorgensen, Jamie, Surface homeomor-phisms that do not extend to anyhandlebody and the Johnson filtration
Ralston, David, Heaviness: An extensionof a lemma of Yuval Peres
Simpson, Matthew, On log canonical mod-els of the moduli space of stable pointedgenus zero curves
Department of Statistics
Fox, Garrett, A Bayesian hierarchicalmodel for detecting associations be-tween haplotypes and disease usingunphased SNPs
Gershman, Jason, Classification of time-course gene expression array data
Jabri, Hannah, Term structures and con-ditional probabilities of corporate de-fault in an incomplete informationsetting
Kyj, Lada, Estimating realized covarianceusing high frequency data
Noyola-Martinez, Josue, Investigation ofthe Tau-leap method for stochasticsimulation
Papkov, Galen, Locally-adaptive polynomial-smoothed histograms with applicationto massive and pre-binned data sets
Williams, Talithia, A dynamic spatio-temporal model for real-time estima-tion of rainfall data
Southern MethodistUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics
Cao, Guanghua (Kenny), Pricing and riskmanagement of variable annuities andequity indexed annuities
Chaturvedi, Praveen, Single phase multi-component flow simulation in porousmedia
Lam, Kwan, Pattern formation in non-linear chemical systems
Department of Statistics Science
Robertson, Steve, Generalizations andapplications of linear chirp stationaryprocesses
Xu, Mengyuan, Filtering analysis of non-stationary time series by time deforma-tion
Texas A&M University (17)
Department of Mathematics
Abbott, Kevin, Applications of algebraicgeometry to object/image recognition
Bondarenko, Ievgen, Groups generated bybounded automata and their Schreiergraphs
Celik, Mehmet, Contributions to the com-pactness theory of the ∂ Neumannoperator
Dobrev, Veselin, Preconditioning of dis-continuous Galerkin methods for sec-ond order elliptic problems
Dostert, Paul, Multiscale simulation meth-ods for stochastic porous media flowsand applications
Fuselier, Jenny, Hypergeometric func-tions over finite fields and relations tomodular forms and elliptic curves
Ivanov, Nikolay, On the structure of somefree products of C∗-algebras
Kannan, Lavanya, Densities in graphsand matroids
Kostic, Dimitrije, Graph searching and ageneralized parking function
Moreira, Rivera, Products of represen-tations of symmetric group and non-commutative versions
Ruffo, James, A straightening law for theDrinfel′d Lagrangian Grassmannian
Zheng, Bentuo, Embeddings and factor-izations of Banach spaces
Department of Statistics
Gold, David, Bayesian learning in bioin-formatics
Jin, Lei, Generalized score tests formissing covariate data
Lee, Sang Han, Estimating and testing offunctional data with restrictions
Liu, Lian, Topics in measurement errorand missing data problems
Liu, Yingxue, Estimation of circadian pa-rameters and investigation in cyanobac-teria via semiparametric varying coeffi-cient periodic models
Texas Tech University (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Cupidon, Jean Rene, Functional dataanalysis
Ji, Xiao Yi, Frechet differentiation offunctions of operators with applicationto functional data analysis
Pang, Wai Kong Johnny, Some statisticalmethods for directly and indirectlyobserved functional data
Talukder, Mohammed H., Order-restrictedanalysis for repeated measures
Wang, Keyi, Variance reduction methodsbased on smoothing spline estimatorfor non-parametric regression model
Wesley, Curtis, Discrete time and contin-uous time epidemic models with appli-cations to the spread of hantavirus inwild rodent and human populations
University of Houston (5)
Department of Mathematics
Linsenmann, Christopher, Adaptive multi-level-based shape optimization for sta-tionary Stokes flows by path-followingprimal-dual interior point methods
Gucciardi, Barbara, Subgroupoids in cou-pled cell systems
Hao, Jiao, Numerical methods and sim-ulations for fluid/particle interactions:Sedimentation in a viscoelastic fluidand cell lifting in shear flow
Nguyen, Ha, Whitney regularity for solu-tions to the Livsic coboundary equationon Cantor sets in dimension three
Patel, Swabhimita, Global existence forsolutions of diffusively coupled reac-tion diffusion equations
University of NorthTexas (2)
Department of Mathematics
Atim, Alexander, Uniqueness results forthe infinite unitary, orthogonal andassociated groups
Pudipeddi, Sridevi, Localized radial solu-tions for nonlinear p-Laplacian equa-tion in Rn
University of Texas atArlington (6)
Department of Mathematics
Badiu, Florin, Study of multiple impactsof a rigid body with a flat surface
Busse, Theresa, Generalized inverse scat-tering transform for the nonlinearSchrodinger equation
Martines, Ian, Mathematical analysis ofallelopathy and resource competitionmodels
Mo, Min, Estimating absolute transcriptconcentration for microarrays usingLangmuir adsorption theory
Stern, Paul, On progenitively Koszulcommutative rings
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Xie, Peng, Uniform compact/noncompactschemes for shock/boundary layer in-teraction
University of Texas atAustin (19)
Department of Mathematics
Carreon, Fernando, Singular limits ofreaction diffusion equations of KPPtype in an infinite cylinder
Chan, Chi Hin, The De Giorgi methodas applied to the regularity theory ofincompressible Navier-Stokes equations
Cozzi, Elaine, Incompressible fluids withvorticity in Besov spaces
Czubak, Magdalena, Well-posedness forthe space-time monopole equation andWard wave map
Garza, John, The height in terms of thenormalizer of a stabilizer
Ghosh, Rohit, Incompleteness of theGiulietti-Ughi arc
Hammond, John, Regular realizations ofp-groups
Hitt, Laura, Genus 2 curves in pairing-based cryptography and the minimalembedding field
Klonoff, Kevin, An index theorem indifferential K-theory
Luxton, Mark, The log canonical compact-ification of the moduli space of six linesin P
2
Moreira, Diego, Least supersolution ap-proach to regularizing elliptic freeboundary problems
Samuels, Charles, Auxiliary polynomialsand Weil height
Van Horn-Morris, Jeremy, Constructionson open decompositions
Young, Andrea, Modified Ricci flow on aprincipal bundle
Institute for Computer Engineering
and Sciences
Bauman, Paul, Adaptive multiscale mod-eling of polymeric materials using goal-oriented error estimation, Arlequin cou-pling and goals algorithms
Cottrell, John, Isogeometric analysis andnumerical modeling of the fine scalefields within the variational multiscalemethod
Khandelwal, Shweta, Ecology of infec-tious diseases with contact and perco-lation theory
Sokolova, Ekaterina, Indifference valua-tion in non-reduced incomplete modelswith a stochastic risk factor
Su, Qimou, Essays on derivatives pricingin incomplete financial markets
University of Texas atDallas (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Sahi, Ramanjit, Tangle replacement moveson links
Yin, Kunshan, A Bayesian paradigm formethod comparison studies
UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics
Grout, Jason, The minimum rank problemover finite fields
University of Utah (8)
Department of Mathematics
Chamberlain, Erin, Modules with pre-scribed intersection properties
Iwao, Yoshihiro, Invariance of Gromov-Witten theory under a simple flop
McNulty, Meagan, Mathematical modelsof respiratory inflammation
Nesse, William, Random fluctuations indynamical neural networks
Song, Qiang, Questions in local cohomol-ogy and tight closure
Thompson, Joshua, Grafting real complexprojective structures
Todorov, Gueorgui, Pluricanonical mapon threefolds of general type and theGromov-Witten potential of the local
Zhang, Dali, Inverse electromagneticproblem for microstructure media
VERMONTUniversity of Vermont (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Mahassen, Hania, Weakly and stronglycorrelated two-dimensional layeredCoulomb systems
VIRGINIAOld DominionUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Parrish, Sarah, Analysis and applicationof perfectly matched layer absorbingboundary conditions for computationalaeroacoustics
Sabo, Roy, Modeling and efficient estima-tion of intra-family correlations
Thomas, Howard, II, On the use of quasi-Newton methods for the minimizationof convex quadratic splines
University of Virginia (6)
Department of Mathematics
Bociu, Lorena, Existence, uniqueness andblow-up of solutions to wave equationswith supercritical boundary interiorsources and damping
Cramer, Wesley, Cyclotomic Specht filtra-tions and Delta filtrations
Daniels, Inger, Wellposedness of a non-linear structural acoustic interactionwith a Boussinesq plate equation
Ott, Katharine, Boundary integral equa-tions in non-smooth domains
Pons, Matthew, Composition operatorson Besov and Dirichlet type spaces
Suwanna, Sujin, On the mean squaredistance in the Anderson model
Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (9)
Department of Mathematics
Baccouch, Mahboub, Superconvergenceand a posteriori error estimation for thediscontinuous Galerkin method appliedto hyperbolic problems on triangularmeshes
Hughes, Sharon, Born Oppenheimer ex-pansion for diatomic molecules withlarge angular momentum
Temimi, Helmi, A discontinuous Galerkinmethod for higher-order differentialequations applied to the wave equation
Timsina, Tirtha, Sensitivities in optionpricing models
Department of Statistics
Fraker, Shannon, Evaluation of scanmethods used in temporal monitoringof public health surveillance data
Lee, Mi Hyun, On independent referencepriors
Li, Zheng-rong, Model-based tests forstandards evaluation and biological as-sessments
Love, Kimberly, Modeling error in geo-graphic information systems
Wan, Wen, A semiparametric method tomulti-response optimization
WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (32)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Bale, Brandon, Modeling the dynamicsand stability of mode-locked fiber lasers
Gomez, Miguel, Optimization-based anal-ysis of rigid mechanical systems withunilateral contact and kinetic friction
Jeon, Jihyoun, Mathematical modelingof pre-malignant lesions in multistagecarcinogenesis
Patterson, Matthew, Computing the Abelmap and the Riemann constant vector
Seo, Gunog, The dynamics of sim-ple predator-prey models with Hollingfunctional responses
Srivastava, Santosh, Bayesian minimumexpected risk estimation of distribu-tions for statistical learning
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Department of Biostatistics
Chen, Lin, Causal modeling in quantita-tive genomics
French, Benjamin, Analysis of aggregatelongitudinal data with time-dependentexposure
Huang, Yang, Evaluating the predictive-ness of continuous biomarkers
Hubbard, Rebecca, Modeling a non-homogeneous Markov process via timetransformation
Leek, Jeffrey, Surrogate variable analysisRosenthal, Elisabeth, Linkage and segre-
gation analysis allowing for multiallelicinheritance
Rudser, Kyle, Variable importance in pre-dictive models: Separating borrowinginformation and forming contrasts
Taylor, Leslie, Estimating causal treat-ment effect in randomized clinicaltrials with noncompliance and outcomenonresponse
Yu, Xuesong, Statistical methods for ana-lyzing genomic data with considerationof spatial structures
Department of Mathematics
Bahuaud, Eric, Intrinsic characterizationof asymptotically hyperbolic metrics
Courdurier, Matias, Restricted measure-ments for the X-ray transform
Dochtermann, Anton, The topology ofgraph homomorphisms
Eroglu, Ilgar, Self-similar sets, projec-tions and arithmetic sums
Frohmader, Andrew, Face vectors of flagcomplexes
Kelly, Elizabeth, Schubert objectsKissel, Kris, Generalizations of a result of
Lewis and VogelKrishnan, Venkateswaran, A support the-
orem and an inversion formula for thegeodesic ray transform
Langmore, Ian, Inverse transport withangularly averaged measurements
Warren, Micah, Special Lagrangian equa-tions
Williams, Catherine, Asymptotic behaviorof marginally trapped tubes in spheri-cally symmetric black hole spacetimes
Yun, Sangwoon, A coordinate gradientdescent method for structural non-smooth optimization
Department of Statistics
Berrocal, Veronica, Probabilistic weatherforecasting with spatial dependence
Mondal, Debashis, Wavelet variance anal-ysis for time series and random fields
Oron, Assaf, “Up-and-down” and thepercentile-finding problem
Pavlides, Marios, Nonparametric estima-tion of multivariate monotone densities
Telesca, Donatello, Bayesian hierarchicalcurve registration
Washington StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics
Hsu, Chia-Yu, A 3D bacterial swimmingmodel coupled with external fluid me-chanics using the immersed boundarymethod
Jeon, Jong-Sam, Powerful ray patterns
WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematics
Cai, Maomao, Solutions for a 2-dimen-sional stabilized Kuramoto-Sivashinskysystem
Sutyak, Andrea, Pierce-Engel hybrid ex-pansions
Van Vliet, Daniel, Nonlinear approxima-tion using Blaschke polynomials
Zhang, Taoye, Integer flow and Petersenminor
WISCONSINMedical College ofWisconsin (2)
Division of Biostatistics
Liu, Jingxia, Utilizing propensity scoresto test treatment effects in survivaldata
Zhang, Yinghua, Selecting between theCox and Aalen models for right cen-sored survival data
University of Wisconsin,Madison (13)
Department of Mathematics
Deng, Geng, Simulated-based optimiza-tion
Henderickson, Anders, Supercharactertheories of finite cyclic groups
Holden, Christopher, Mod 4 Galois repre-sentations and elliptic curves
Hunter, James, Higher-order reverse topol-ogy
Kieserman, Noah, The Liouville phe-nomenon in the deformation problemof coisotropics
Mueller, Stefan, The group of Hamiltonianhomeomorphisms and co-symplectictopology
Raghavan, Dilip, Madness and othertopics in set theory
Rose, Michael, On Gromov-Witten invari-ants of stacks
Rouse, Jeremy, Arithmetic analytic andgeometric aspects of the theory ofmodular forms
Shallue, Andrew, Two number theoreticalgorithms that illustrate the power andlimitations of randomness
Tang, Yudong, Geodesic rays and testconfigurations
Wang, Bing, On the conditions to extendRicci flow
Wang, Jue, On lower branch exact coher-ent structures
University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (9)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Dudek, John, A mathematical investiga-tion of solutions for the two-componentorder parameter in the Ginzburg-Landau equations of superconductivity
Lee, Jae Kook, Some covers and relativecovers of modules
Lehrke, Stephen, Asymptotic propertiesof the MLE of parameters of themultivariate O-U process
May, Margaret, Finite dimensional Z-compactifications
Mooney, Christopher, On boundaries ofCAT(0) groups
Schroeder, Timothy, l2-homology of Cox-eter groups
Sears, Christopher, Monotonicity of knead-ing sequences in families of one-kinkmaps
Shomberg, Asta, Estimation of false dis-covery rate under parametric assump-tions with application to DNA micro-arrays
Zaidan, Younis, Analysis of Maxwell-systems with various nonlinear polar-ization mechanisms
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Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2007–2008Supplementary ListThe following list supplements the list of thesis titles published in the February 2009 Notices, pages 281–301.
ALABAMAUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (3)
Biostatistics
Ayanlowo, Ayanbola, Design of Phase II & III clinical trials.
Jones, Tamekia, A statistical approach identifying and limiting the effect of influential observations.
Sawrie, David, Preemptive power for the consulting statistician: novel application of internal pilot design and information based monitoring systems.
CALIFORNIANaval Postgraduate School (1)
applied MatheMatics
Phillips, Donovan, Mathematical modeling and optimal control of battlefield information flow.
University of California, Berkeley (24)
MatheMatics Al-Aidroos, Jameel, Perfect pairings in the tautological
rings of the moduli spaces of stable curves.
Berg, Jennifer Danae, On the center of the lie superalgebra q(n)(2).
Burstein, Richard David, Hadamard subfactors of Bisch-Haagerup type.
Chen, Tianbing, Piecewise polynomial discretization and Krylov-accelerated multigrid for elliptic interface problems.
Clayton, Aubrey, Mutation-selection balance for polynomial selection costs and matrix-valued orthogonal polynomial.
Closson, Erik, The solovay sequence in derived models associated to mice.
Courtney, Dennis, Asymptotic lifts of UCP semigroups.
Dan-Cohen, Elizabeth, Structure of root-reductive lie algebras.
Fern, Jesse, Calculations of quantum error correction and fault tolerance thresholds.
Freeman, David Stephen, Constructing Abelian varieties for pairing-based cryptography.
Gray, Aaron, Functoriality of the logarithmic Riemann-Hilbert.
Han, Fei, Supersymmetric QFTS, super loop spaces and Bismut-Chern character.
Huggins, Peter, Polytopes in computational biology.
Jetchev, Dimitar, CM points, selmer groups, component groups and Euler systems.
Kirkpatrick, Kay, Rigorous derivation of the Landau equation in the weak coupling limit.
Lebow, Eli, Embedded contact homology of 2-torus bundles over the circle.
Levine, Lionel, Limit theorems for internal aggregation models.
Mihaescu, Radu, Distance methods in phylogeny.
Morton, Jason, Geometry of conditional independence.
Nachmias, Asaf, Percolation on finite groups.
Schlutenberg, Farmer, Measures in mice.
Tingley, Peter, Some results on the crystal commutor and affine sl(n) crystals.
Yao, Jiangang, Codimension one embedding of manifolds.
Zywina, David, The large sieve and Galois representations.
University of California, Riverside (4)
MatheMatics
McLoughlin, Peter, When is the adjoint of a finite-rank minimal projection also minimal.
Troutman, Tiffany, Infinity-harmonic functions, maps and morphisms of Riemannian manifolds.
Wrkich, James, Solvability of some inhomogeneous parabolic.
Yao, Chui Zhi, Discrete logarithm and related problems in cryptography.
University of California, Santa Barbara (10)
MatheMatics
Barbaro, Alethea, An interacting particle model for the migrations of pelagic fish.
Haynal, Heidi, PI degree parity in q-skew polynomial rings.
Kolpas, Allison, Coarse-grained analysis of collective mo-tion in animal groups.
Learned, John, Graphical methods in representation theory.
Levitt, Rena, Biautomaticity and nonpositively curved spaces.
Macauley, Matthew, Coexter theory and discrete dynami-cal systems.
Rehkopf, Edward, Reduction of quadratic forms over polynomial rings.
Sentinella, Robert, Multi-scale modeling of liquid crystal-line polymers.
Trethewey, Peterson, Conformal curvature and one-relator group theory.
Wiley, Chad, Nugatory crossings in closed 3-braid dia-grams.
COLORADO University of Colorado, Boulder (10)
applied MatheMatics
Kurcz, Christopher, Fast convolutions with Helmholtz Green's functions and radially symmetric band-limited kernels.
Lim, Jisun, The qualitative study of a chemical reaction diffusion system and some integral equations.
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Mao, Wenjin, Dimension jumping and auxiliary variable techniques for Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms.
Nolting, Joshua, Efficiency-based local adaptive refinement for FOSLS finite elements.
Pietarila-Graham, Jonathan, Regularizations as subgrid models for turbulent flows.
Piret, Cecile, Analytical and numerical advances in radial basis functions.
Rojsiraphisal, Thaned, A study of the variability of the North Indian ocean.
Wang, Jian, Recovering Bayesian networks with applications to gene regulary networks.
Watson, Michael, A study of rotationally constrained convection in tall annular geometries.
Zuev, Julia, Recent advances in numerical PDEs.
University of Denver (1)
MatheMatics
Nagrath, Aditya, Properties of scattered lattices, and the introduction of a meet semilattice duality.
CONNECTICUT Wesleyan University (1)
MatheMatics and coMputer science
Babichev, Andrey, Speedups of ergodic group extensions.
Yale University (4)
MatheMatics
Liu, Qihou, On the colored Jones polynomials of certain links.
Maitra, Rachel, Mathematically rigorous quantum field theories with a non-linear normal ordering of the Hamiltonian operator.
Patnaik, Manish, Geometry of loop Einstein series.
Zhu, Minxian, Vertex operator algebras arising from affine lie algebras.
IDAHO Idaho State University (1)
MatheMatics
Lundeen, Suzanne, The finite reflection group H4.
ILLINOIS
Illinois State University (5)
MatheMatics
Hofbauer, Pamela , Characterizing high school students' understanding of the purpose of graphical representations.
Knapp, Andrea, Prompting mathematics teacher development through dynamic discourse.
Naresh, Nirmala, Workplace mathematics of the bus conductors in Chennai, India.
Simmons, Eugene, The effects of using a QAR reading strategy to improve students' conceptual understanding.
Thompson, Kevin, Students' understanding of trigonometry enhanced through the use of a real word problem: improving the instructional sequence.
KENTUCKY
University of Kentucky (5)
statistics
Hersh, Matt, Indentification of multiple functional peaks resulting from a common peak shape function.
Li, Hao , Identifying gene expression patterns in oligonucleotide microarray experiments.
McClintock, Scott, Stochastic securities market model with no short selling.
Vandyke, Rhonda, Classification of self-modeling regressions.
Zhu, Hua, Smoothed empirical likelihood for quantiles and some variations/extention of empirical likelihood for Buckley-James estimator.
MARYLANDJohn Hopkins University (1)
applied MatheMatics and statistics
Tan, Liang, Numerical methods for multi-dimensional American options.
University of Maryland (23)
applied MatheMatics and coMputer science
Bard, George, Algorithms for solving linear and polynomial systems over finite fields with applications to cryptoanalysis.
Chakraborty, Purnendu, Molecular dynamic studies of organic coated nano aerosols.
Cheng, Bin, On the rotational shallow water and Euler equations.
Finkbiner, Amy, Global phenomena from local rules: Peer-to-peer networks and discrete crystal steps.
Ganesh, Nadarajasundaram, Small area estimation and prediction problems.
Heath, Jeffery, Global optimization of finite mixture models.
Johnson, Hunter, Definable families of finite VC dimension.
Li, Huilin, Small area estimation: an empirical best linear unbiased prediction approach.
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