Doctoral Degrees Conferred - American Mathematical Society

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Doctoral Degrees Conferred
2010–2011
ALABAMA University of
Dhirasakdanon, Thanate, A model of
Alabama-Huntsville infectiousdiseasesinamphibianpopu-
(1)
Auburn University (6) lationswithephemerallarvalhabitat
DepartmentofMathematical Eke, Burce, Statistical models for social
DepartmentofMathematicsand
Sciences networkdata
Statistics
Franks, Chase, Classifying lambda mod-
Hughes, Jeremy, Hermite continuation
Alfonso, Paul, Jr., A generalization of ules up to isomorphism and applica-
andnumericalbifurcation
special atom spaces with arbitrary tionstoIwasawatheory
measure University of Guevara,CristiDarley,Globalbehaviorof
Back,Roxanne,K4−edesignswithahole finite energy solutions to the focusing
Alabama-Tuscaloosa
Boronski, Jan, Fixed points and periodic (3) nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation in d-
points of orientation reversing planar DepartmentofInformationSystems dimension
homeomorphisms StatisticsandManagementScience Jennings,Andrew,Monotonicityandma-
Gulderdek,Asli,OncontinuouslyUrysohn nipulability of ordinal and cardinal
spaces Boone, Jeffrey, Contributions to multi- socialchoicefunctions
variate control charting: Studies of the Kamat,Vikram,Erd˝os-Ko-Radotheorems:
McCauley, Laura, Hamiltonian decom-
Zchartandfournonparametriccharts New generalizations, stability analysis
positions of multi-partite graphs with
specifiedleaves Michaelson,Greg,Ontheidentificationof andChv´atal’sconjecture
statistically significant network topol- Lage Ramirez, Ana Elisa, Mathematical
Ngwane,Fidele,Integralclosures
ogy knowledge for teaching: Exploring a
University of Alabama (1) Sasamoto,Mark,Modeltreeanalysiswith teacher’ssourcesofeffectiveness
randomlygeneratedandevolvedtrees Lin, Youzuo, Numerical issues from in-
DepartmentofMathematics verse problems in image processing:
Parameter estimation, and parallel al-
Mahawanniarachchi,Padmal, P-algebras ARIZONA
gorithms for a high performance com-
andQ-algebras
putingenvironment
University of Alabama at Arizona State Manley, Michael, Saddle squares in ran-
Birmingham (7) University (21) dom two person zero sum games with
finitelymanystrategies
DepartmentofBiostatistics Mathematics,Computationaland McCamy, Michael, The efficacy and con-
ModelingSciencesCenter tribution of microsaccades during vi-
Robertson, Henry, Analysis of survival
sualfixation
datawithcensoredoutcomes Cordero-Soto, Ricardo J., Solvable time-
Moore,Kevin,Theroleofquantitativerea-
dependentmodelsinquantummechan-
DepartmentofMathematics soninginprecalculusstudentslearning
ics
centralconceptsoftrigonometry
Al-Sharadqah, Ali, Statistical analysis DiazHerrera,Edgar,Diffusiveinstability Patani, Nura, C∗-correspondences and
of curve fitting in errors-in-variables andaggregationinepidemics
topological dynamical systems asso-
models Urdapilleta,Alicia,Theoreticalstudieson ciated to generalizations of directed
AlAhmad, Rami, On inverse problems a two strain model of drug resistance: graphs
forleft-definitediscreteSturm-Liouville Understand, predict, and control the
Shen, Wei, A sparsity enforcing frame-
equations emergenceofdrugresistance workwithTV−L1regularizationandits
Freiji, Abraham, The BCS gap equation application in MR imaging and source
SchoolofMathematicaland
forasymmetricfermionicsystems localization
StatisticalSciences
Larussa,Mary,Conditionalwell-posedness Smith,David,Thefirst-fitalgorithmuses
anderrorboundsforthegroundwater Castillo-Garsow,Carlos,TeachingtheVer- manycolorsonsomeintervalgraphs
inverseproblem hulst model: A teaching experiment in White, Jacob, On the complement of r-
Mimbs,Debra,Laminations:Atopological covariationalreasoningandexponential disjoint k-parabolic subspace arrange-
approach growth ments
Nichols, Roger, Spectral properties of Chen,Wang-Juh,Supportvectormachine– Zuo,Miao,Gammalatentvariable model
structurallydisorderedmedia anewmodelanditsapplication fornon-negativematrixfactorization
contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number
The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of
in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of
doctoraldegreesinthemathematicalsciences(July1,2010,toJune30,
degreeslistedforthatuniversity.
2011)reportedinthe2011AnnualSurveyoftheMathematicalSciences
by197departmentsin143universitiesintheUnitedStates.Eachentry
985 NOTICESOFTHEAMS VOLUME59,NUMBER7
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
University of Arizona
(10) Nelson, Paul, Some new aspects of mass Dyer, Justin, Visualizing and modeling
equidistribution joint behavior of categorical variables
DepartmentofMathematics
Walji, Nahid, Supersingular distribution, withalargenumberoflevels
Champion, Daniel, M¨obius structures, congruenceclassbiasandarefinement Hiller,David,Alternativesplicinganalysis
Einstein metrics, and conformal varia- ofstrongmultiplicityone usingRNA-seqdata
tions on piecewise flat two and three Zhang, Dapeng, Projective Dirac opera- Johnson, Nicholas, Efficient models and
dimensionalmanifolds tors, twisted K-theory and local index algorithmsforproblemsingenomics
Herzog, David, Ergodicity of certain de- formula Ma,Li,CouplingoptionalPolyatreesand
generatecomplexdiffusionprocesses
thetwosampleproblem
Claremont Graduate
Shao, Yijun, A compactification of the
Muralidharan, Omkar, A mixture model
space of algebraic maps from P1 to a University (3) approachtoempiricalBayestestingand
Grassmannian
estimation
SchoolofMathematicalSciences
Taft, Jefferson, Intrinsic geometric flows
Pong, Chung Kwan, Interest rate mod-
onmanifoldsofrevolution Sepikas, John, Enhanced lattice meth- eling and a time series model for
Weir, Brad, The transfer of momentum ods for high dimensional quadrature functionaldata
from waves to currents due to wave applications
Sun, Kevin, Dynamic empirical Bayes
breaking Vu, Hun, A coupled vibratory gyro- modelsandtheirapplicationstolongi-
Yin, Mei, Spectral properties of the scope network with bi-directional uni- tudinaldata
renormalizationgroup directional,anddirectcoupling
Witten, Daniela, A penalized matrix de-
PrograminAppliedMathematics Wang,HsiChing,Z(cid:3)ofgaugedbaryonand compositionanditsapplications
lepton numbers at the large hadronic
Xu, Ya, Semi-supervised learning on
Diniega, Serina, Modeling aeolian dune collider
graphs—astatisticalapproach
anddunefieldevolution
Stanford University
Jimenez,Edward,Simulationandestima- (26) University of California,
tionoforganuptakeinadigitalmouse DepartmentofMathematics Berkeley
(26)
phantom
Pittman-Polletta, Benjamin, Factorization Baskin,Dean,Waveequationsonasymp- DepartmentofMathematics
toticallydeSitterspaces
in unitary loop groups and reduced
Anderson, Meghan, Solution spaces for
wordsinaffineWeylgroups Chan, Ken Yin Kwan, Moduli spaces of
linearequationsinvaluedD-fields
pseudo-holomorphic disks and Floer
Robertson-Tessi,Mark,Mathematicalmod-
theoryofcleanlyintersectingimmersed Canez, Santiago, Double groupoids, orb-
elsoftumorgrowthandtreatment
Lagrangians ifolds,andthesymplecticcategory
ARKANSAS Chandee, Vorrapan, Upper bounds and Cartwright, Dustin, Application of non-
momentsofL-functions linearalgebratobiology
Danciger, Jeffrey, Geometric transitions: Choi, Ka Lun, Constructing a broken
University of Arkansas at FromhyperbolictoAdSgeometry LefschetzfibrationofS4withaspunor
Fayetteville twist-spuntorusknotfiber
(1) Gell-Redman, Jesse, On harmonic maps
intoconicsurfaces Cueto,MariaAngelica,Tropicalimpliciti-
MathematicalSciencesDepartment
zation
Hall,Jack,Generalexistencetheoremsin
Stovall, Jessica, Nonlinear functionals modulitheory Farris, David, The embedded contract
on Banach lattices and their support homology of circle bundles over Rie-
Ivanov, Dmitriy, Part I: Symplectic ice;
sets manniansurfaces
PartII:GlobalandlocalKubotasymbols
Geraschenko,Anton,Toricstacks
Lahtinen, Anssi, String topology and
CALIFORNIA twistedK-theory Hill,Cameron,Theformationandevolu-
tionofgiantmolecularclouds
Malm, Eric James, String topology and
California Institute of thebasedloopspace Huang, An, On conformal field theory
Technology (9) Miller, Jason Peter, Limit theorems for andnumbertheory
Ginzburg-Landaurandomsurfaces Li,Qin,Pontrjaginformsoncertainstring
DepartmentofAppliedand homogeneousspaces
Perea Benitez, Jose Andres, Topology
ComputationalMathematics of spaces of micro-images, and an Lin,Shaowei,Algebraicmethodsforeval-
Becker, Stephen, Practical compressed applicationtotexturediscrimination uatingintegralsinBayesianstatistics
sensing: Modern data acquisition and Vacarescu, Anca, Filtering and param- McMillan,Aaron,Onembeddingsingular
signalprocessing eter estimation for partially observed Poissonspaces
Beni,CatherineE.,Simulationcapabilities generalizedHawkesprocesses Pavlov,Dmitri,Adecompositiontheorem
for challenging medical imaging and Williams,ThomasBenedict,Theequivari- for noncommutative Lp-spaces and a
treatmentplanningproblems ant motivic cohomology of varieties of newsymmetricmonoidalbicategoryof
Plan,Yaniv,Compressedsensing,sparse longexactsequences vonNeumannalgebras
approximation, and low-rank matrix Peterka, Mira Alexander, Finitely gener-
DepartmentofStatistics
recovery ated projective modules over theta
Vyetrenko, Svitlana, Network coding for Ahmed, Murat, Topics in unsupervised deformedspheres
errorcorrection learning: Feature selection and multi- Raicu,Claudiu,SecantvarietiesofSegre-
modality Veronesevarieties
DepartmentofMathematics
Chen, Ling, Option pricing and hedging Scow, Lynn Cho, Characterization theo-
Louwsma,Joel,Extremalityoftherotation withtransactioncosts remsbygeneralizedindiscernibles
quasimorphismonthemodulargroup Chen,YiFang,Statisticalcombinationof Tonita,Valentin,TwistedGromov-Witten
Lukic, Milivoje, Spectral theory for gen- climatemodels invariantsandapplicationstoquantum
eralized bounded variation perturba- Deng, Shaojie, Sequential methods for K-theory
tions of orthogonal polynomials and rare event simulations: Theory and Vinzant,Cynthia,Realalgebraicgeometry
Schr¨odingeroperators applications inconvexoptimization
AUGUST2012 NOTICESOFTHEAMS 986
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
University of California,
Zhu,John,Stickyincentivesanddynamic Shott,Martha,Traffic oscillationsdueto
agency:Optimalcontractingwithperks topologyandroutechoiceinelemental Los Angeles
(41)
andshirking freewaynetworks
DepartmentofBiostatistics,School
GroupinBiostatistics DepartmentofStatistics ofPublicHealth
Aguilar-Schall, Raul, Semi-parametric Childs, Erica, Statistical models of ma-
Chen, Dong, Manifold models for func-
graphical computation approach us- ternalandoffspringgeneticeffectsfor
tionaldata
ing loss-based estimation to estimate riskofdisease
exposureeffects:Applicationsoninfant Chen, Rongqi, Asymptotic distribution Kovalchik, Stephanie, Individual patient
developmentaloutcomes fortheplug-inestimationoflevelsets datameta-analysisofinterventionstud-
Goldstein, Benjamin, Finding genes re- Greasby, Tamara, Powering the future: ies
lated to disease using statistical learn- Wind power forecasts for Solano, Cali- Streja, Leanne, Models for motorcycle
ing fornia GrandPrixracing
Gruber, Susan, Collaborative targeted Hagar, Yolanda, Estimating colorectal DepartmentofMathematics
maximumlikelihoodestimation cancer screening in the presence of
Porter, Kristin, The relative performance missing data in a population with a Azzam, Jonas, Two applications of B-
oftargetedmaximumlikelihoodestima- resistant subset and multiple observa- numbertechniques
tors under violations of the positivity tions Bedrossian, Jacob, Part I: A virtual node
assumption method for elliptic interface problems;
Mao, Meng, Semiparametric efficient es-
Rose, Sherri, Causal inference for case- timation for a class of generalized Part II: Local and global theory of
controlstudies proportionaloddscuremodels,andan aggregation equations with nonlinear
diffusion
Stitelman, Ori, Targeted maximum like- extendedhazardmodelwithlongitudi-
lihood estimation techniques for time nalcovariates Brakocevic,Miljan,Anticyclotomicp-adic
to event data and the implications L-function and non-vanishing modulo
of coarsening an explanatory variable McAssey,Michael,Topicsonassociations pofspecialL-values
amongrandomprocesses
of interest via dichotomization in the Chen, Alexander, Boundary tracking in
context of causal inference in semi- Su, Yu-Ru, Survival analysis for incom- largedatasetsandmodelingtheevolu-
parametricmodels pletedata tionoflandscapes
Tuglus, Catherine, Robust semiparamet- Yang, Wenjing, Functional correlation Creutz, Darren, Commensurated sub-
ricregressionestimationusingtargeted and dynamic relations for sparsely groups and the dynamics of group ac-
maximumlikelihoodwithapplicationto sampledrandomprocesses tionsonquasi-invariantmeasurespaces
biomarkerdiscoveryandepidemiology Dabrowksi, Yoann, Free entropies, free
University of California, Fisher information, free stochastic dif-
University of California, ferentialequations,withapplicationsto
Irvine
Davis (13) vonNeumannalgebras
(21)
DepartmentofMathematics Do, Quang Yen, A nonlinear stationary
DepartmentofMathematics phasemethodforoscillatoryRiemann-
Denton,Tom,Excursionsintoalgebraand Alexander, Nicholas, Point counting on Hilbertproblems
combinatoricsatqequalszero reductionsofCMabeliansurfaces Gao,Wenhua,TheLaplace-Beltramioper-
ator in a level set framework and its
Dragon, Patrick, Integrality theorems in Cox,Geoff,Multi-componentvesiclemod-
applications
Liegroupsandquantummechanics eling under the influence of sponta-
Hunter, Blake, Data mining compressed, neouscurvature Guo, Zhaohui, Applications of fast l1-
minimization algorithms in high-
incompleteandinaccuratehighdimen- Di, Feiyue, Multiple time scales method
dimensionalhyperspectralimagery
sionaldata inHJMmodel
Hani, Zaher, Global and dynamical as-
Mohammadzadeh,Sonny,Resultsonthe Klagsbrun,Zev,Selmerranksofquadratic pects of nonlinear Schr¨odinger equa-
Eulercharacteristicandcohomologyof twistsofellipticcurves tionsoncompactmanifolds
Hamiltonian vector fields in the plane
Larios, Adam,Inviscidregularizationfor Huang, Yanghong, Self-similar blowup
anditsmaximalnilpotentsubalgebra
equationsofhydrodynamicmodels:An solutionsoftheaggregationequation
Ng,Stephen,Orderingofenergylevelsof
analyticalandcomputationalstudy Kwok, Stephen, Some results in super-
Uq(sl2)invariantHamiltonians Lo, Wing-Cheong, Growth and pattern symmetricalgebraicgeometry
Omar,Mohamed,Applicationsofconvex
controlsbymorphogengradients Liu,Wangyi,Twodynamicalsystemmod-
and algebraic geometry to graphs and
els based on real-world scenarios: A
polytopes Longo, Kate, Fourth order partial differ-
swarming control model and a surface
O’Rourke, Sean, Spectral properties of entialequationsforimageprocessing tensionmodel
randommatriceswithindependent en- Tran, Khang, Regularity of solutions Lou, Yifei, Local, non-local and global
tries forquasilinearsubellipticequationson methodsinimagereconstruction
Pon, Steven, Affine Stanley symmetric Hesenberggroup
Ma, Wenye, Variational models in image
functionsfortheclassicalgroups Urwin,Erin,Stochasticmodelingofcellu- andsignalenhancement
Raymer,Anastasia,Mixingtimeofthe15 larcooperation: Applications to cancer Maples, Kenneth, Arithmetic properties
puzzle andevolution ofrandommatrices
Reintjes,Moritz,Shockwaveinteractions Welters, Aaron, On the mathematics of Mata, Matthew, Particle-laden thin film
ingeneralrelativityandtheemergence slowlight flow: An alternating direction implicit
ofregularitysingularities scheme and comparison between the-
Whitney, Joshua, Minimum distance of
Schlichter,Tamara,Modelingthedynam- ory, numerical simulation and experi-
3Dtoricerrorcorrectingcodes
ics of central pattern generators and ments
anestheticaction Zhang, Liping, Polymers with the ex- McAdams, Aleka, Efficient solutions to
cludedvolumeeffect
Schwemmer, Michael, Influence of den- voxelized discretizations of elliptic
dritic properties on the dynamics of Zhao,Su,Computationalstudyofsignal- problems with applications to physi-
oscillatoryneurons ingspecificityandepigeneticregulation calsimulationinvisualeffects
987 NOTICESOFTHEAMS VOLUME59,NUMBER7
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
Meshkat, Nicolette, A differential algebra Huerta, John, Supersymmetry, division Petrillo, Thomas A., Number theory type
methodforeliminatingunidentifiability algebrasandhighergaugetheory formulaeappearingingraphs
Meyerson, William, Lipschitz and bi- Rafradeh,Azadeh,UsingtwistedAlexan- Scheinker,David,Boundedanalyticfunc-
LipschitzmapsonCarnotgroups derpolynomialstodetectfiberability tionsonthepolydisc
Peter, Tobias, Prime ideals of mixed Ridenour,Timothy,Facesofweightpoly- Scullard, Michael Scott, The Russian op-
Artin-Tatemotives topes and a generalization of a result tioninajump-diffusionmodel
Pozar,Norbert,Freeboundaryproblems ofVinberg Shakeel, Asif, Implementing measure-
Rodgers, Christopher, Higher symplectic ments and optimizing queries for the
Rodriguez,Nancy,Appliedpartialdiffer-
geometry quantumhiddensubgroupproblem
entialequationsincrimemodelingand
biologicalaggregation Rolle,Brian,Constructionofweakmirror Shroff, Ravi, Rigidity properties of CR
pairsbydeformations embeddingsintohyperquadrics
Smith, Paul, Subthreshold geometric
renormalization and energy-critical Walker,Christopher,Acategorificationof Vallieres, Daniel, On a generalization of
Schr¨odingermaps Hallalgebras therankoneRubin-Starkconjecture
Wong,ElizabethLaiSum,Active-setmeth-
Takei, Ryo, Applications of Hamilton- DepartmentofStatistics
odsforquadraticprogramming
Jacobi equations to homogenization,
optimalcontrolanddifferentialgames Banerjee,Hiya,Estimationofparameters University of California,
forlogisticregressionmodelindosere-
Tweedy, Eamonn, On the anti-diagonal Santa Barbara
sponseusingmixtureexperimentswith (8)
filtration for the Heegaard Floer chain
complexofabrancheddouble-cover knownorunknownrelativepotency DepartmentofMathematics
Chen,Xin,Low-levelandhigh-levelmicro-
Vanderberg-Rodes, Alexander, Generat- Cloutier, John, The universal pairing of
arraydataanalysis
ingfunctionzerosofMarkovprocesses graphs
andtheirapplications Dey,Debarshi,Estimationoftheparame- Finegold, Brie, The torus complex and
ters of skew normal distribution using
Wadhar, Hem, Energy driven pattern speciallineargroupsoverrings
simple approximations of the ratio of
formationinstrainedmaterials the normal density and distribution Howard,Thomas,Homologicalinvariants
Wong,TszWai,Computationalquasicon- functions in the representation theory of finite
formal geometry and its applications dimensionalalgebras
Huang, Hung-Jen, Bayesian analysis of
onmedicalmorphometryandcomputer Sulway,Robert,Braidedversionsofcrys-
errors-in-variablesgrowthcurvemodels
graphics tallographicgroups
Huang, Michael (Fu Ze), Robust and
Zhu, Yongning, Multigrid methods for optimumfractionalfactorialdesigns DepartmentofStatisticsandApplied
solidssimulation
Li, Judy (Xiang), Sequential probability Probability
DepartmentofStatistics ratiotestsforgeneralizedlinearmixed Bennett, Nathan, Some contributions to
models
middle-censoring
Brodsky, Janice, A multivariate method-
ologyforgenomeassociationstudies Pettyjohn, Jeffrey, Model-based estima- Rivera,Roberto,Multivariatespatialtem-
tionandinferenceproceduresforclock poral model with application to ocean
Cetinkaya, Mine, Estimating the impact synchronization colordata
of air pollution using small area esti-
Shao, Nan, Modeling almost periodicity Strong,Winslow,Arbitrageandstochastic
mation
inpointprocesses portfolio theory in stochastic dimen-
Chen, Hsiu Wen, The augmented desir- Wang, Bushi, Solving consistency prob- sion
ability function: Methods and applica- lems in multiple testing procedures Wu, Junqing, Basis selection from multi-
tions with consonant closed likelihood ratio plelibraries
Clements,Robert,Acomparisonofresid- test
ual analysis methods for space-time Wen, Musen, Statistical modelling of University of California,
point with applications to earthquake marked point processes and high fre- Santa Cruz (5)
forecastmodels quencydata
Nichols,Kevin,Newnonparametricmeth- DepartmentofAppliedMathematics
ods for the summary and description University of California, andStatistics
ofmarkedpointprocesses San Diego (15) Datta,Saheli,Bayesianhierarchicalmod-
Patel,Rakhee,Testinglocalself-similarity elsincharacterizing molecularadapta-
DepartmentofMathematics
inunivariateheavy-taileddata tion
Si, Zhang Zhang, Learning hierarchical Chang, Christopher, Topics in nonpara- Holsclaw, Tracy, Statistical modeling for
imagetemplates for object recognition metricstatistics dark energy and associated cosmologi-
anddetection Driscoll, Patrick R., Smooth densities calconstants
Wilson, Brigid, Statistical techniques for for solutions to differential equations Simon,Christopher,Statisticalanalysisof
theanalysisofquestionnairedatawith drivenbyfractionalBrownianmotion singlemoleculeexperiments
images Ferry, Michael William, Projected-search Traxler, Adrienne, Double-diffusive con-
methodsforbox-constrainedoptimiza- vection at high and low Prandtl num-
University of California, tion bers
Riverside (19) Greene, Jeremy Michael, Noncommuta- DepartmentofMathematics
tiveplurisubharmonicpolynomials
DepartmentofMathematics Espina,Jacqueline,ThemeanEulerchar-
Jamall, Mohammad, Coloring triangle-
acteristicofcontactmanifolds
Chamberlin, Samuel, Integral bases for freegraphsandnetworkgames
the universal enveloping algebras of Minor,Andre,TransversalCRmappings University of Southern
mapalgebras Nguyen, Hieu, p-adaptive and automatic California
(8)
Dolbin, Ronald, Abelian subalgebras of hp-adaptivefiniteelementmethodsfor
Z2-gradedLiealgebras;partitions,Young ellipticpartialdifferentialequations DepartmentofMathematics
diagrams,andballotnumbers Pesic, Vladimir, On dynamic scheduling Chen, Jianfu, Regime switch term struc-
Han, Richard, A construction of the ofaparallelserversystemwithcertain turemodelwithforward-backwardsto-
“2221”planaralgebra graphstructure chasticdifferentialequations
AUGUST2012 NOTICESOFTHEAMS 988
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
Keilberg, Marc, Higher indicators for DepartmentofMathematics Huang, Xiang, Nonrigid image registra-
somegroupsandtheirdoubles tionproblemusingfluiddynamicsand
Dent,Topaz,Clonesoffiniteidempotent
Kirtsaeng, Supap,Embedded contact ho- algebras with strictly simple subalge- mutualinformation
mology of a unit cotangent bundle via bras Ledford, Jeffrey, On the convergence of
stringtopology oneparameterfamiliesofinterpolators
Kim, Eun, Giving Spitzer’s zero range
Liu,Wei,Statisticalinferenceforstochas- processapositiverange Liang,Su,Investigatingthemodelofhigh
tichyperbolicequations school mathematics teacher prepara-
Noyes,Michael,Spectralpropertiesofthe
Roger,Julien,Factorizationrulesinquan- generalbetaHermiteandbetaLaguerre tioninChina
tumTeichmu¨llertheory ensemblesinthelimitbetatoinfinity Mang, Wu, Stochastic analysis on some
Tan, Minshao, Mathematical properties Roy, Michael, Coxeter group actions infinitedimensionalgroups
ofensembleKalmanfilter on complementary pairs of very well- Whitehead, Brian, Time spent in sets by
Vicol, Vlad, Analyticity and Gevrey class poised9F8(1)hypergeometricseries jumpprocesses
regularityfortheEulerequations Stackpole,Matthew,Dynamicequivalence Xu,Fangjun,Aclassofsingularsymmet-
Zhang, Changyong, Numerical weak ap- of control systems via infinite prolon- ricMarkovprocesses
proximation of stochastic differential gations Zhlobich, Pavel, Quasiseparable matrices
equationsdrivenbyL´evyprocesses Wiscons, Joshua, Moufang sets of finite andpolynomial
Morleyrank
DepartmentofStatistics
COLORADO University of Colorado,
Fama, Yuchen, A self-exciting switching
Denver
(6) model
Colorado State
DepartmentofMathematicsand Hurtado-Rua, Sandra, A new class of
University
(10) StatisticalSciences Bayesiansurvivalmodelsandbeyond
DepartmentofMathematics Morrison, Tod, A new paradigm for ro- Prates, Marcos, Link specification and
spatialdependenceforgeneralizedlin-
bustcombinatorialoptimization:Using
Benoit, Steven, Analysis and modeling earmixedmodels
persistenceasatheoryofevidence
of cells, cell behavior, and helical Stratton,Jeffrey,Diagnosticaccuracyofa
biologicalmolecules Stock, Elizabeth, Gradual numbers and binarytestinthepresenceoftwotypes
fuzzyoptimization
Farnell,Shawn,Artin-Schreiercurves ofmissingvalues
Thipwiwatpotjana, Phantipa, Linear pro-
Kim,Byungsoo,Constraineddynamicsof gramming problems for generalized Tchumtchoua,Sylvie,Bayesiansemipara-
rollingballsandmovingatoms uncertainty metricmodelsfordiscretelongitudinal
Malmskog, Elisabeth, Automorphisms of Vecharynski, Yaugen, Preconditioned it- data
afamilyofmaximalcurves erative methods for linear systems, Wesleyan University
(4)
McBee,Cayla,Sometopicsincombinato- eigenvalueandsingularvalueproblems
rialphylogenetics Vis, Timothy, Monomial hyperovals in DepartmentofMathematicsand
Olson, Travis, Hopf bifurcation in aniso- Desarguesianplanes ComputerScience
tropicreactiondiffusionsystemsposed Wojciechowski, Keith, Analysis and nu-
inlargerectangles merical solution of nonlinear Volterra Bravo-Vivallo, Daniel, The stable derived
categoryofaringviamodelcategory
Smith, Elin, Algorithms and geometric partial integrodifferential equations
analysis of data sets that are invariant modelingswellingporousmaterials Burke, John, On infection by string
underagroupaction links and new structure in the knot
University of Denver (2) concordancegroup
Whitfield, JaDon, A simplicial homotopy
groupmodelforK2ofaring DepartmentofMathematics Fera, Joseph, On exceptional points for
cocompactFuchsiangroups
Ziliak, Ellen, Arithmetic in group exten-
sionsusingapartialautomation Pula,JonKyle,Approximatetransversals Lazowski,Andrew,Resultsonthesizeof
inlatinsquares limitsetsofKleiniangroups
DepartmentofStatistics VonStroh,Jonathan,Liftingmodulemaps
betweendifferentnoncommutativedo- Yale University (5)
Chung, Sunghoon, Saddlepoint approx- mainalgebras
imation to functional equations in DepartmentofMathematics
queueing theory and insurance mathe- University of Northern
matics Colorado Kong, Wai Yip, Efficient solution of
(1) several types of partial differential
University of Colorado, SchoolofMathematicalSciences equations
Boulder (10) Parker,Catherine“Frieda”,Howintuition DivisionofBiostatistics
and language use relate to students’
DepartmentofAppliedMathematics Cislo, Paul, Spatial mixture models with
understanding of span and linear in-
ecological and public health applica-
Park,Min,Relaxation-correctedbootstrap dependence in an elementary linear
tions
algebraicmultigrid(rBAMG) algebraclass
Hsieh, Fu-Chi, A Bayesian hierarchical
Snyder, Krissy, Tuning and control in
spatial approach for the misalignment
humanlocomotion CONNECTICUT
problemindiseasemapping
Tang,Lei,Parallelefficiency-basedadap-
Li,Shu-Xia,Covariate-adjustedresponse-
tivelocalrefinement University of Connecticut,
adaptive randomization procedures in
Young, Patrick, Numerical techniques Storrs (13) multi-armclinicaltrialswithcontinuous
for the solution of partial differential responsevariables
and integral equations on irregular DepartmentofMathematics
Zhang,Lixun,ABayesianspatio-temporal
domainswithapplicationstoproblems
Fang, Zhang, A qualitative research on model for estimating daily nitrogen
inelectrowetting
Allen-Cahnequations dioxidelevels
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Doctoral Degrees Conferred
DELAWARE
Ilic, Ivana, The discrete logarithm prob- Tatar, Ahmet Emin, Picard 2-stacks and
leminnon-abeliangroups length3complexesofAbeliansheaves
University of Delaware
(2) Matheis,Kenneth,Analgebraicattackon Wang, Yaohong, Numerical methods for
DepartmentofMathematicalScience blockciphers two-phasejetflow
Cromer, Michael, Jr., A tale of two Singhi,Nidhi,Ontheminimallogarithmic Willyard,Matthew,Adaptivespectralele-
micelles: The analysis and simulation signatureconjecture ment methods to price American op-
of a two-species scission/reforming Singhi, Nikhil, The existence of mini- tions
modelforwormlikemicellarsolutions mallogarithmicsignaturesforclassical
Zhu, Qinghua, Pricing exchange op- groups DepartmentofStatistics
tionswithstochasticcorrelations Sullivan, Shaun, Multivariate finite oper-
atorcalculusappliedtocountingballot Badshah,Muffasir,Analysisofthewealth
DISTRICT OF pathscontainingpatterns distribution at equilibrium inahetero-
geneousagenteconomy
COLUMBIA Florida Institute of
Crane, Michael, Nonparametric estima-
George Washington Technology (5) tion of three dimensional projective
shapes with applications in medical
University (5) DepartmentofMathematical imagingandinpatternrecognition
Sciences
DepartmentofMathematics Dutton,Matthew,Individualpatient-level
Al-Mater, Najeeb, Random walk analysis data meta-analysis: A comparison of
Coleman,Michael,Surfaceaccuracyanal-
in queues with multiple control and methods for the diverse populations
ysisandmathematicalmodelingofde-
maintenance collaborationdataset
ployable largeaperture elastic antenna
reflectors Alghamdi,Abdullah,Multiplefluctuation Gu,Yu,Newsemiparametricmethodsfor
analysis in a queue with an enhanced recurrenteventsdata
Einziger, Hillary, Incidence Hopf alge-
maintenance
bras: Antipodes, forest formulas, and Lawhern, Vernon, Statistical modeling
noncrossingpartitions Koursaris,Constantine,Statisticalcontrol andapplicationsofneuralspiketrains
ofpeerreviewcost
Fisher,Forest,CoZinbielHopfalgebrasin Li,Xiaoyun,Analysisofmultivariatedata
combinatorics Motir, Ramy, Random walk processes withrandomclustersize
in a bilevel (M−N)-policy queue with
Lee, Jieun, Modeling the equilibrium multiplevacations Li, Yan, The effect of risk factors on
configurationofapiecewiseorthotropic coronary heart disease: Age relevant
pneumatic envelope and the phase Salem Alzahrani, Mohammed, Fluctua- multivariatemetaanalysis
separationprobleminamembrane tion analysis in a queue with (L,N)-
policyandsecondarymaintenance Li, Zhi, Multistate intensity model with
DepartmentofStatistics AR-GARCHrandomeffectforcorporate
Florida State
Adeshiyan, Samson, Unification of ran- creditratingtransitionanalysis
domized response designs and certain University (30) Olumide, Kunle, A probabilistic and
aspects of post-randomization for sta- graphical analysis of O. J. Simpson’s
DepartmentofMathematics
tisticaldisclosurecontrol murdercaseusingBayesiannetworks
Howard University Acosta-Minoli,Cesar,DiscontinuousGaler- Tang,Anqi,Aclassofmixed-distribution
(6) kin spectral element approximations models with applications in financial
DepartmentofMathematics on moving meshes for wave scattering dataanalysis
fromreflectivemovingboundaries
Gbade-Oyelakin,Adebukola,OnBayesian Wang,Wenting,Practicalusesandmeth-
andhybridinferencesinstatisticswith Bayazit,Dervis,Sensitivityanalysisofop- odsforsurvivalmodels
application to the non-nested disposi- tionsunderL´evyprocessesviaMalliavin
tion model for correlated binary out- calculus Wiltshire, Jelani, Age effects in the ex-
tinction of Planktonic Foraminifera: A
comes Cha, Yongjae, Closed form solutions of
new look at Van Valen’s Red Queen
Nelson, Fredrick, A geometric approach lineardifferenceequations hypothesis
toratiosofπ/3-congruentnumbers Chen,Xiao,4-DVardataassimilationand
Ofodile, Chinenye, The enumeration of POD model reduction methodologies Wu, Sutan, Goodness-of-fit tests for lo-
Dumont permutations with few occur- applied to geophysical fluid dynamics gisticregression
rencesofthreeandfourletterpatterns models Yang, Fang, Bayesian generalized poly-
Simon, Lois, Character sums and hyper- Duffy, Austen, Massively parallel algo- chotomousresponsemodelsandappli-
elliptic curves associated with subsets rithms for CFD simulation and opti- cations
offinitefieldswithsquareorder mization on heterogeneous many-cove Zhao,Feng,Bayesianportfoliooptimiza-
Wiley, Shari, Population dynamics of architectures tionwithtime-varyingfactormodels
discrete-time predator-prey exploited LePoudre, Philip, Computational aero- Zhao, Haiyan, Time-varying coefficient
fisherymodels acousticscascademodeloffannoise models with ARMA-GARCH structures
Williams, Kendall, Separating Milliken- Liu, Xinyang, Shape spaces, metrics and forlongitudinaldataanalysis
Taylor systems and variations thereof theirapplicationstobrainanatomy
in the dyadics and the Stone-Cˇech Mortada, Jamil, Artin and Dehn twist University of Central
compactificationofN subgroupsofthemappingclassgroup Florida
(2)
Qi, Chunhong, Numerical optimization
FLORIDA methodsonRiemannianmanifolds DepartmentofMathematics
Shen,Ji,No-referencenaturalimage/video
Florida Atlantic quality assessment of noisy, blurry, or Shao, Haimei, Price discovery in the U.S.
University (6) compressed images/videos based on bond market—trading strategies and
hybrid curvelet, wavelet and cosine thecostofliquidity
DepartmentofMathematical
transforms Smith, Todd Blanton, Variational embed-
Sciences
Simakhina, Svetlana, Level set and con- ded soliton, and traveling wavetrains
Ay, Basak, Unique decomposition of servativelevelsetmethodsondynamic generatedbygeneralizedHopfbifurca-
directsumsofideals quadrilateralgrids tions,insomeNLPDEsystems
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University of Florida Georgia Institute of
(8) Kent,Zachary,p-adicanalysisandmock
Technology modularforms
DepartmentofMathematics (9)
Balasubramanian,Sriram,Thenon-com- SchoolofMathematics IDAHO
mutative Carath´eodory-Fejer problem Almada-Monter, Sergio A., Scaling limit
3 forthediffusionexitproblem Idaho State University
(2)
Harrington,Jason,Topologicalefficiency Howard, David, A study of discrepancy
ofstirringwithobstacles3 inpartiallyorderedsets DepartmentofMathematics
Sankarpersad,Ryan,Optimalinvestment Palmer, Ian, The Riemannian geometry
Klimas, Andrew, On certain classes of
andconsumptionportfoliochoiceprob- ofcompactmetricspaces
linear transformations on hermitian
lem for assets modeled by Levy pro- Reguera Rodriquez, Maria del Carmen, andpositivesemidefinitematrices
cesses Sharp weighted estimates for singular
Kuhns,Chad,Helicoidalsurfacesofcon-
Smith, Aaron, Using Ulam’s method to integraloperators
stantanisotropicmeancurvature
testformixing Stefansson, Ulfar, Asymptotic properties
Ye, Xiaojing, Mathematical models and ofMuntzorthogonalpolynomials University of Idaho (1)
fast numerical algorithms in medical Tinaztepe,Ramazan,Modulationspaces,
DepartmentofMathematics
imagingapplications BMO, Zak transform and minimizing
DepartmentofStatistics IPHfunctionsovertheunitsimplex Welhan,Manuel,Treereconstruction,di-
Vagharshakyan, Armen, Estimates for rectedcyclesandflowdecompositions
Bhadra,Dhiman, Bayesiansemiparamet- discrepancyandCalderon-Zygmundop-
ricregressionandrelatedapplications erators ILLINOIS
Buta,Eugenia,Computationalapproaches Webb, Benjamin, Isospectral graph re-
forempiricalBayesmethodsandBayes- ductions,estimatesofmatrices’spectra Illinois Institute of
iansensitivityanalysis andnegativeSchwarziansystems
Technology
Wang, Chenguang, Bayesian nonpara- Yerger, Carl, Color-critical graphs on (3)
metric and semi-parametric methods surfaces DepartmentofAppliedMathematics
forincompletelongitudinaldata
Georgia State
Niu, Ben, Monte Carlo simulation for
University of South University (2) infinite-dimensionalintegrals
Florida (3) DepartmentofMathematicsand Sun, Xu, Topics on interfacial dynamics
andstochasticdynamics
DepartmentofMathematics Statistics
Zhang, Zhao, Dynamic coherent accept-
Cong, Chunling, Statistical analysis and Huang, Xin, Some topics in ROC curves abilityindicesandtheirapplicationsin
modeling of breast cancer and lung analysis finance
cancer Zhao, Meng, Treatment comparison in
Illinois State University
Karadayi,Enver,Topicsinrandomknots biomedicalstudiesusingsurvivalfunc- (4)
andR-matricesfromFrobeniusalgebras tion DepartmentofMathematics
Lundberg, Erik, Problems in classical University of Georgia
(6) Duarte, Jonathan, The effects of an un-
potential theory with applications to
mathematicalphysics DepartmentofMathematics dergraduatealgebracourseonprospec-
tive teachers’ understanding of quad-
Arap,Maxim,TautologicalringsofPrym
raticfunctions
GEORGIA varieties
Nillas, Leah, Pre-service teachers’ math-
Kong, Tin, Stochastic control and opti-
ematical understanding: The role of
Emory University (8) mizationofassetstrading discourse
Liu,LouisYang,Non-convexoptimization
DepartmentofBiostatisticsand Pulley, Cynthia, Using instruction to in-
for linear system with pregaussian
Bioinformatics matrices and recovery from multiple vestigatetheeffectofassessingreason-
ing tasks on students’ understanding
Derado, Gordana, Methods for address- measurements ofproof
ing spatial correlations in functional DepartmentofStatistics Webster Moore, Mary, Utilizing teachers’
Wnijeauyraowimaradgainnga,datSaameera, Statistical Leme,ixtJuareejuno,fLr2eEgreesstsiimonatiomnodfeolrs fiwniitthe kopnoinwglemdgoedeolfosfeltfeaaschleinagrnaenr:dAlZeadrenvinelg-
mfereethnotidaslpfroorterionbeuxsptreesstsiimonation of dif- applications and L2E penalty and non- inmiddleschoolnumbertheory
normalmixtures Northern Illinois
DepartmentofMathematicsand Mandal, Taniya, Comparing statistically
University
ComputerScience pooled brain maps in fMRI studies (5)
using parametric and non-parametric DepartmentofMathematical
Amin,Kinnari,OnKt-saturatedgraphs methods
Sciences
Black,Jodi,Zero cyclesofdegree oneon Xu,Wei,Symbolicdataanalysis:Interval-
principalhomogeneousspaces valueddataregression Cardwell,Matthew,Onthevaluedistribu-
Chen, Feng, Field patching and Galois tionandtopologyofclassesofDirichlet
cohomology HAWAII L-functions
Fan,YingWai,Practicalimagedeblurring Eggenberger, Joshua, Some problems in
with synthetic boundary conditions, University of Hawaii at the spectral theory of separated Dirac
withGPUs,andwithmultipleframes Mano operators
(2)
Hamilton, Steven, Numerical solution of Terlyga, Olga, Analysis of one dimen-
thek-eigenvalueproblem DepartmentofMathematics sionalpulsecombustion
Magnant, Zhuojun, Numerical methods Chasse, Matthew, Linear preservers and Wang, Xiaofei, Nodal solutions of non-
for optimal experimental design of entire functions with restricted zero linear boundary value problems with
ill-posedproblems loci p-Laplacian
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Yang, Yarong, Learning Bayesian net- Elgindi, Ali, On the topological structure Guan, Yun, Numerical homotopies for
worksfrommicroarraygeneexpression of complex tangencies to embeddings algebraicsetsonaparallelcomputer
data ofS3intoC3 Hu, Fannu, Options pricing—application
Ganguli,Abhik,Onthereductionmodulo of ray methods and singular perturba-
Northwestern
pofcertainmodularGaloisrepresenta- tions
University (7) tions Liang, Qian, Novel metrics for software
Hadari, Asaf, Algebraic entropy of the artifact recovery and genome space
DepartmentofEngineeringScience
mapping class group actionon charac- construction
andAppliedMathematics
tervarieties Nkengla, Mechie, Low rank approxima-
Christov, Ivan, From streamline jump- Lind,John,Thetheoryofdiagramspaces tionsformatricesandtensors
ing to strange eigenmodes and three- with applications to stable homotopy Nogami, Jumpei, On derived Calabi-Yau
dimensionalchaos:Atourofthemath- theoryandalgebraicK-theory varieties
ematical aspects of granular mixing in MadapusiSampath,KeerthiShyam,Toroi- Robertson, Marcy, Derived Morita theory
rotatingtumblers dal compactifications of integral mod- ofenrichedsymmetricmulticategories
Hibdon,Joseph,Effectsofvariabletrans- elsofShimuravarietiesofHodgetype St.John,David,Technicalanalysisbased
port and diffusive-thermal instabilities Riehl,Emily,Algebraicmodelstructures on moving average convergence and
ondiffusionflames Shipman, Ian, A geometric approach to divergence
Kublik, Richard A., Localized adaptive Orlov’stheorem Ye, Fei, Topology of moduli spaces and
timesteppinginnumericalsimulations Wallace,Edward,Noiseandsynchronyin complements of hyperplane arrange-
forneuroscience neuralnetworks ments
Schwalbe, Jonathan, Dynamics and sta- Zhang, Cuilan, Optimal allocation in
bility of lipid bilayer membranes in DepartmentofStatistics responsedrivenadaptivedesign
viscousflowandelectricfields
Finegold, Michael, Robust network infer- Zhao, Bo, Two methods of analyse DNA
Urdiales, Esteban, Thermal frontal poly- encewithmultivariatet-distributions sequences: Predicting coding regions
merizationwithencapsulatedreactants Huang, Alan, An exponential tilt ap- andclusteringhomologousDNA
andsphericallypropagatingwaves proachtogeneralizedlinearmodels Zhen, Qiang, The sojourn time distribu-
DepartmentofMathematics Huang, Yibi, Capacity analysis of attrac- tioninprocessor-sharingqueues
torneuralnetworkswithbinaryneuron Zhou, Ying, D-optimal designs for com-
Cheng, Chuangxun, Multiplicities of Ga- anddiscretesynapses plex nonlinear models in chemical
lois representations in cohomology Wang,Wenlong,Waveletanalysisfornon- kinetics, PK/PD, and environmental
groupsofShimuracurves stationarytimeseriesmodels science
Stojanoska,Vesna,Dualityfortopological
modularforms University of Illinois at University of Illinois,
Southern Illinois Chicago (22) Urbana-Champaign (33)
University, Carbondale DivisionofEpidemiologyand DepartmentofMathematics
(4)
Biostatistics Chen, Hsian-Yang, Torus-equivariant el-
DepartmentofMathematics
liptic cohomology and sigma orienta-
Camargo, Maria, The role of EBV in
Anver, Haneef, Mean Hellinger distance gastric carcinogenesis: Epidemiologic tions
as an error criterion in univariate and modelingandmolecularinvestigations Cooney, Thomas, Noncommutative Lp-
multivariatekerneldensityestimation spacesassociatedwithlocallycompact
Hotton, Anna, Behavioral risks and STI
Arachchi-Appuhamillage, Darshana, Or- outcomes in men who have sex with quantumgroups
der restricted estimation and tests for men:Chicago,2002–2010 Dennison,Melissa, Asequence related to
fitinhomogeneousrow-columnmodels theSternsequence
Kapur, Kush, Hypothesis testing, power
Roy, Sankhadip, Trace forms over finite and sample size determination for Elliot,Jason,Centralextensionsofdivisi-
fieldsofcharacteristictwo healthsciencedata blegroups
Sancier-Barbosa,Flavia,Closingthemem- Krishnamachari, Bhuma, Medication use Fu, Yong, Quantum cohomology of a
ory gap in stochastic functional differ- andimmuneresponsesinglioma HilbertschemeofaHirzebruchsurface
entialequations Mikhailov, Theresa, A family study to Green, William, Dispersive estimates for
assess genetic and environmental risk theSchr¨odingerequation
University of Chicago
(19) factorsininflammatoryboweldisease Grundmeier, Dusty, Group-invariant CR
DepartmentofMathematics Porter,Kimberly,Epidemiologicoutcomes mappings
and quality of life in brain tumor pa- Gugg, Chadwick, Identities for Rogers-
Akhunov,Timur,Localwellposednessof tients Ramanujanfunctionsandanalogues
dispersivesystemsin1D
Jaipong,Pradthana,Totallygeodesicsur-
Bohmann, Anna Marie, Topics in equi- DepartmentofMathematics, facescompressinarbitraryfilings
variantstablehomotopytheory StatisticsandComputerScience
Kantor,Ida,Graphs,codes,andcolorings
Church,Thomas, Orbits of curves under Abdelkerim, Richard, Geometry of the Kelsey,Greg,Mega-bimodulesoftopolog-
theJohnsonkernel dualgrassmannian icalpolynomials:Sub-hyperbolicityand
Datta,Swarnendu,Metricgroupattached Antieau, David Benjamin, The spectral Thurstonobstructions
toskew-symmetricbiextensions indexofBrauerclasses Kirov, Radoslav, Improved bound for
Deshpande, Tanmay, Heisenberg idem- Cordell,Sarah,Theinextricabilityofiden- codesandsecretsharingschemesfrom
potentsonunipotentgroups tity, participation, and math learning algebraiccurves
Dowdall, Spencer, On the dilatations among Latino/a undergraduate stu- Koukoukopoulos, Dimitirios, Generalized
and self-intersections of point-pushing dents and restricted multiplication tables of
pseudo-Anosovhomeomorphisms Deng,Mo,Naturalvectormethodofchar- integers
Dzhafarov, Damir, Reverse mathematics acterizing,clusteringandphylogenyof Lee, Jung Jin, On p-operator space and
ofcombinatorialprinciples DNA,genomeandproteins itsapplications
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Lenz, John, Extremal graph theory: Manack,Corey,Wordmaps,characteres- Rau, Andrea, Reverse engineering gene
Ramsey-Turan numbers, chromatic timates,andrandomwalksoncompact networks using genomic time-course
thresholds,andminors simpleLiegroups data
Lin, Xiong, Hilbert transform and its Mester,Peter,Examplesofinvariantpro- Zhang, Jianchun, Statistical inference
applicationinfinancialengineering cessesonCayleygraphs withweakbeliefs
Lipsky, David, Cocycle constructions for Qin, Zhen, Analysis and computation of Zheng,Cheng,Model-basedidentification
topologicalfieldtheories cornersingularitiesforsomeequations andquantificationofmetabolitesin1H
Milans, Kevin, Extremal problems in NMRspectra
Indiana University-Purdue
graphtheory University of Notre
Miller, Jesse, Nonstandard techniques in University Indianapolis (1)
Dame
liftingtheory (4)
DepartmentofMathematical
Ozkahya, Lale, Problems in extremal DepartmentofMathematics
Sciences
graphtheory
Gejji, Richard, Using continuous limit
Reynolds, Patrick, Dynamics of irre- Liechty, Karl, Exact solutions to the six- techniques and stochastic computa-
ducibleendomorphismsofFn vertex model with domain wall bound- tionalmodelingtopredictthebiological
Saran, Maya, Some results on Gδ ideals aryconditionsanduniformasymptotics behaviorofaggregatingcells
ofcompactsets of discrete orthogonal polynomials on
Holliman, Curtis, Continuity properties
Seo, Jeehyeon, A characterization of bi- aninfinitelattice of the data-to-solution map for the
Lipschitzembeddable metric spaces in Purdue University Hunter-Saxtonequation
termsoflocalbi-Lipschitzembeddabil- (20)
Korovnichenko,Olena,Generalizationsof
ity DepartmentofMathematics three-termrelationsinsolvablemodels
Solie, Brent, Algorithmic and statistical ofmathematicalphysics
properties of filling elements of a Brytik, Valeriy, Elastic-wave reverse-time
Sunyeekhan, Gun, Equivariant intersec-
free group, and quantitative residual migration and tomography: A multi-
tiontheory
propertiesofΓ-limitgroups scaleapproach
Wenger, Paul, Three existence problems Driskell, Lisa, Existence and stability of IOWA
inextremalgraphtheory travelingwavesolutionsinasimplified
modelofcardiactissue
DepartmentofStatistics Iowa State University (28)
Hackney,Phillip,Homologyoperationsin
Fan, Zhewen, Statistical issues and de- the spectral sequence of a cosimplicial DepartmentofMathematics
velopments intimeseries analysis and space Cheng, Yi-Lin, On Hopf algebras of
educationalmeasurement Ho,PakTung,Resultsongeometricflow dimension4p
Feng, Yang, Bayesian quantile linear Lin,Kuei-Nuan,Rees algebra ofdiagonal Choi, Jihyeok, Problems in graph theory
regression ideals andprobability
He,Zhi,Semiparametricinference Nahm, Sangil, Several problems in num- Kleiman, Elizabeth, High performance
Hsu, Ya-Hui, Applications of quantile bertheory computing techniques for attacking
regression to estimation and detection O’Malley,Daniel,Diffusiveprocessesrun reduced version of AES using XL and
ofsometailcharacteristics withnon-linearclocks XSLmethods
Kim, JiYoung, Robust methods for an- Rubiano,Andrea,Coupledenergeticmod- Kontogiannis, Dimitris, Homogenization
alyzing multivariate responses with elsfornematicelastomers problemsinrandommedia
applicationtotime-coursedata Tsai, Tung-Lin, Diffusive processes run Manske, Jacob, Coloring and extremal
Xia, Jing, Statistical methods for fMRI withnon-linearclocks problemsincombinatorics
dataanalysis Miranda-Mendoza, Fernando, An option-
Wan, Fang, Asymptomatic analysis and
Xu,Jiangfeng,Bayesianlatentclassmod- theoretic valuation model for residen-
numericalsimulationoftravelingwave
els tial mortgages with stochastic condi-
solutionsforcrystalgrowthwithcorner
Yang, Ji Yeon, Statistical modeling of regularization tionsanddiscountfactors
proteinlysatearraydata Row, Darren, Zero forcing number: Re-
Yang, Yiding, Students of dynamics of
sults for computation and comparison
infectiousdiseasesusingmathematical
INDIANA models withothergraphparameters
Seo, Yeon-Jung, A mathematical analysis
Indiana University, DepartmentofStatistics ofmultiple-targetSELEX
Sit, Atilla, Solving distance geometry
Bloomington Achberger, Tilman, Selecting subsets of
(8) problems for protein structure deter-
traitsforquantitativetraitlocianalysis
DepartmentofMathematics mination
Auer,Paul,Statisticaldesignandanalysis
Stanton, Brendon, On vertex identifying
Chai, Juanjuan, Mathematical and sta- ofnext-generationsequencingdata codesforinfinitelattices
tistical problems in phylogenetics and Gupta, Saptarshi, Computing environ- Zhon, Wen, Mathematical modeling of
genetics mentforthestatisticalanalysisoflarge MHC Class II immune response in
Du,Yu,DynamictransitionforKuramoto- andcomplexdata tissues
Sivashinsky equation and gas-liquid Lewandowski,Andrew,PopulationMonte
transition Carlo methods with applications in DepartmentofStatistics
Gie,Gung-Min,Analysisofsomesingular Bayesianstatistics Berg, Emily, A small area procedure for
perturbation problems and analysis of Mi,Yanhui,Buildingstatisticalmodelsfor estimatingpopulationcounts
thefiniteproblemmethod financial asset returns: New stochastic Beyler, Nicholas, Statistical methods for
Kim, Jiho, Higher-order algebras and volatilitymodels analyzingphysicalactivitydata
coalgebras Olbricht, Gayla, Incorporating genome Cai, Weiguo, Quantitative genetic and
Kim, Junghwa, On the behavior of a annotationinthestatisticalanalysisof statistical aspects of feed efficiency by
superconducting wire subjected to a genomic and epigenomic tiling array analysisoftheselectionexperimentfor
constantvoltagedifference data residualfeedintakeinYorkshirepigs
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Gardner, Stuart, Investigation of inter- Van Laarhoven, Jon, Exact and heuristic Manspeaker,Rachael,Usingdatamining
genicregions ofMycoplasmahyopneu- algorithms for the Euclidean Steiner to differentiate instruction in college
moniae and development of statistical treeproblem algebra
methods for analyzing small-scale RT- Wu,Yuan,Thepartiallymonotonetensor Shrestha, Tej, A deformation of k-linear
qPCRassays spline estimation of joint distribution monoidalcategory
Kientoff,Cherie,Developmentofweighted function with bivariate current status Westmoreland,Shawn,Opticalblackholes
model fit indexes for structural equa- data andsolitons
tionmodelsusingmultipleimputation
DepartmentofBiostatistics DepartmentofStatistics
Li, Ming, New methods for statistical
modeling and analysis of nondestruc- Chang, Yu-Hui H., Adaptive designs for Poulson,Robert,Treatmentheterogeneity
tiveevaluationdata doseresponsestudies andindividualqualitativeinteraction
Liu,Li,Groupedvariableselectioninhigh- Tolos,Siti,Nonparametricteststodetect
Liang, Kun, Hidden Markov models for
dimensional partially linear additive relationship between variables in the
simultaneous testing of multiple gene
Coxmodel presence of heteroscedastic treatment
setsandadaptiveanddynamicadaptive
effects
procedures for false discovery rate DepartmentofMathematics
controlandestimation University of Kansas
Correa, Alvaro, Bifurcation theory for (6)
Mueller, Kim, Construction and behavior
a class of second order differential DepartmentofMathematics
of multinomial Markov random field
equations
models Demirkaya, Aslihan, Long-time behavior
Drube, Paul, TQFT diffeomorphism in-
Peterson, Anna, A separability index for variantsandskeinmodels andthestabilityofspecialsolutionsof
clustering and classification problems nonlinearpartialdifferentialequations
Hager, Amanda, Freeness of hyperplane
with applications to cluster merging Humpert, Brandon, Polynomials associ-
arrangement bundles and local homol-
andsystematicevaluationofclustering ated with graph colorings and orienta-
ogyofarrangementcomplements
algorithms tions
Hager, William, Critical knots for min-
Pintar, Adam, Model selection for good imum distance energy and comple- McNeill, Daniel, Properties of H-sets,
estimation or prediction over a user- mentary domains of arrangements of Katetov spaces, and H-closed exten-
specifiedcovariatedistribution hypersurfaces sionswithcountableremainder
Qu,Long,Improvingstatisticalinference Lai, Mijia, Fully nonlinear flows and Song,Xiaoming,Backwardstochasticdif-
for gene expression profiling data by Hessian equations on compact K¨ahler ferential equations and stochastic dif-
borrowinginformation manifolds ferentialequationsdrivenbyfractional
Brownian motion and their numerical
Rajaram, Misha, Detecting recombina- Mbirika,Abukuse,Analysisofsymmetric
solutions
tion and its association with genomic function ideals: Towards a combinato-
Ward, Erika, New estimates in harmonic
featuresviastatisticalmodels rialdescriptionofthecohomologyring
analysisformixedLebesguespaces
Shi, Ying, Contributions to accelerated ofHessenbergvarieties
Zachariou, Yiannis, Identification and
destructivedegradationtestplanning McDougall, Adam, Relating Khovanov
adaptive control methods for some
homologytoadiagramlesshomology
Sun,Xiaoyong,Diagnosticsfornonlinear stochasticsystems
models with application to population McKinney, Colin, Conjugate diameters:
pharmacokineticmodeling Apollonius of Perga and Eutocius of Wichita State University (2)
Ascalon
Weaver, Brian, Methods for planning DepartmentofMathematicsand
repeatedmeasuresdegradationtests Meyer, Jonas, Noncommutative Hardy Statistics
algebras,multipliers,andquotients
Zhang, Jingsheng, A 3D model retrieval
Tian, Feng, On commutativity of un- AralumalligeSubbarayappa,Deepak,Sta-
system: Shape matching, database and
boundedoperatorsinHilbertspace bility of continuation, numerical ex-
queryinterface
Um, Ko Woon, Elliptic equations with periments and obstacle problems in
Zhou, Ming, Some goodness-of-fit tests singularBMOcoefficientsinReifenberg acousticandelectromagneticscattering
andefficientestimationinlongitudinal
domains Kim,Nanhee,Carlemanestimatesforthe
surveysundermissingdata
Velez Marulanda, Jose, Universal defor- general second order operators and
University of Iowa mation rings of modules over self- applicationstoinverseproblems
(23)
injectivealgebras
KENTUCKY
DepartmentofAppliedMathematical Yoo, Seonguk, Extremal sextic truncated
andComputationalSciences momentproblems
University of Kentucky
(8)
Deng, Junjun, Parallel computing tech- DepartmentofStatisticsand
niquesforcomputedtomography ActuarialScience DepartmentofMathematics
Galluzzo, Benjamin, A finite-difference Zhang, Tianyang, Partly parametric gen- Clark, Eric, Combinatorial aspects of
based approach to solving the subsur- eralizedadditivemodel excedancesandtheFr¨obeniuscomplex
face fluid flow equation in heteroge- Dibyajyoti, Deb, Diagonal forms and the
neousmedia KANSAS rationalityofthePoincar´eseries
Moon, Hyeyoung, Calculating knot dis- Steil,Laura,Isometryclassesofquadratic
tances and solving tangle equations Kansas State University (8) formsdefinedoverp-adicrings
involvingMontesinoslinks Taylor, Justin, Convergence of eigenval-
Schmidt, Stephanie, Mathematical mod- DepartmentofMathematics ues for elliptic systems on domains
els of ion transport through nafion Bhandari, Mukta, Inequalities associated withthintubesandtheGreenfunction
membranesinmodifiedelectrodesand to Riesz potentials and non-doubling forthemixedproblem
fuel cells without the electroneutrality measures Wells, Daniel, General flips and the cd-
assumption Indratno, Sapto, Numerical methods for index
Small, Scott, Runge-Kutta type methods solvinglinearill-posedproblems Zeckner, Matthew, Topological and com-
for differential-algebraic equations in Lyubinin,Anton,Modulesandcomodules binatorial properties of neighborhood
mechanics overnonarchimedeanHopfalgebras andchessboardcomplexes
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