doctoral degrees conferred

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)


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)


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)


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)


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

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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


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)


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)


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)


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


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

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University of California,Irvine (5)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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


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



University of Colorado,Boulder (9)


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)


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


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)


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


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)


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)


Sciences

Kalis, Jan, Sobolev inequalities

Florida Institute ofTechnology (4)


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)


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


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



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)


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)


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


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)


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


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)


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


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



Zhang, ChenHua, Applications of smoothlyvarying functions and tail index estima-tion

ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (2)


Erickson, John F., Generalized nativespaces

Ortega, Oscar, Consensus and location:The mean function

Northern IllinoisUniversity (4)


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)


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


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)


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)


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


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

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NortheasternUniversity (3)


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Tufts University (2)


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Fang, Junsheng, Unitarily invariant normsand tensor products of maximal injec-tive von Neumann subalgebras

NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (4)


Sciences

Chandrasekaran, Lakshmi, Role of plas-ticity in temporal coding of neuronalnetworks

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Princeton University (9)


Arguin, Louis-Pierre, The structure of cor-relation in quasi-stationary competingparticle systems

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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

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Noussi, Hubert, Stabilization of compe-tition models in the chemostat viafeedback linearization

University of NewMexico (2)


Statistics

Beznosova, Oleksandra, Bellman func-tions, paraproducts, Haar multipliers,and weighted inequalities

Gomez, Ralph, On Lorentzian Sasaki-Einstein geometry

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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)


Baldwin, John, Heegaard Floer homology,contact structures, and open books

Faber, Alexander, Topics in arithmeticgeometry over function fields

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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


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


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

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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



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)


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)


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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

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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)


Statistics

Clark, Timothy, Poset resolutions ofmonomial ideals

Madsen, Alpheus, Symbolic powers andGorenstein grade-3 ideals

State University of NewYork at Binghamton (6)


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)


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


Pak, Youngju, Multivariate linear pathmodels

State University of NewYork at Stony Brook (31)


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


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)


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



Wagner-Georger, Lesley, Some skew mod-els for quantal response analysis


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

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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)


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


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)


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


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



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)


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

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Matson, Amanda, Results regarding finitegeneration, near finite generation, andthe catenary degree

OHIOBowling Green StateUniversity (2)


Statistics

Marcusanu, Mihaela, The classification of�1-embeddable Fullerenes

Yenigun, Deniz, A test of independencein contingency tables based on maximalcorrelation

Case Western ReserveUniversity (9)


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)


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)


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


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)


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)


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



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)


Liu, Nanshan, Theory and applications ofLegendre polynomials and wavelets

OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (1)


Wagler, Amy, Simultaneous inference ingeneralized linear model settings

University of Oklahoma (3)


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)


Strowbridge, Jessica, Middle school teach-ers’ use of a formative feedback guidein mathematical problem solving in-struction


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)


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)


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

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Battiste Presutti, Cathleen, Determininglower bounds for packing densities ofnon-layered patterns using weightedtemplates

Dalton, Jennifer, Legendrian torus linksTeti, Sherry, The existence of elliptic peri-

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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


Serban, Mihaela, Derivative pricing undermultivariate stochastic volatility mod-els with application to equity options

Lehigh University (3)


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)


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


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)


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)


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)


Day, Jerry, On Banach function spacesand the fixed point property



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)


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)


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

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