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Doctoral Degrees Conferred2013–2014
ALABAMAAuburn University (12)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Asplund, John, 5-cycle systemsDenhere, Melody, Robust statistical meth-
ods for the functional logistic modelHarmon, Henry, Some geometry of sym-
metrized tensor spacesHe, Xin, Lebesgue approximation of su-
perprocessesHughes, Glenn, Completeness properties
in function spaces with the compact-open topology
Indika, Kodithuwakku Arachchige Avan-tha, Orthogonal bases of certain sym-metry classes of tensors associatedwith Brauer characters
Jones, Cadavious, Security and secure-dominating sets in graphs
Kong, Liang, Spatial spread dynamicsof monostable equations in locallyinhomogeneous habitats
Miakonkana, Guy-vanie Marcias, Non-parametric rank based inferences forgeneralized linear models, longitudinaldata analysis, and variable selection
Mijena, Jebessa, Space-time fractionalCauchy problems and trace estimatesfor relativistic stable processes
Sawant, Pallavi, Robust methods formultivariate functional data analysis
Sturm, Frank, Pseudo-solenoids are notcontinuously homogeneous
University of Alabama (6)
Department of Mathematics
Acharyya, Amrita, Coverings of profinitegraphs
Chen, Qiang, Calculus of variations andoptimal control
DarAssi, Mahmoud, Investigation of theheat and mass transfer in a liquidsuspension of small particles
Das, Bikash, Cofinite graphs and theirprofinite completions
The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2013, to June 30,2014) reported in the 2015 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 197 departments in 143 universities in the United States. Each entry
contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The numberin parentheses following the name of the university is the number ofdegrees listed for that university.
Maxwell, Mary, Using Bayesian tech-niques with item response theory toanalyze mathematics tests
Schweiger, Adam, Gravity, surfactants,and instabilities of two-layer shearflaws
University of Alabama atBirmingham (9)
Department of Biostatistics
Mehta, Tapan, The apparent change inobesity-mortality associations: Method-ological issues in survival analyses withcensored outcomes
Seals, Samantha, Spatial analysis of car-diovascular MRI data
Wu, Guodong, Quantification and as-sociation analysis for next-generationsequencing data
Yan, Qi, Statistical methods for set-basedassociation tests in genetic studies
Department of Mathematics
Chapman, Jacob, Spectral properties ofrandom block operators
Korepanov, Alexey, Small perturbationsin hard balls dynamics
Mahato, Ajay, The inverse volatility prob-lem for American options
Ptacek, Ross, Laminations and the dy-namics of iterated cubic polynomials
Wyatt, Mitchell, Uniqueness of potentialin Schrodinger’s equation with oneboundary measurement
University ofAlabama-Tuscaloosa (1)
Information Systems Statistics and
Management Science Department
Xu, Jie, Three essays on improving en-semble models
ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (14)
School of Human Evolution and
Social Change
Cruz-Aponte, Maytee, Epidemic dynamicsof metapopulation models
Luli, Dori, A neuronal network model ofDrosophila antennal lobe
Morales-Butler, Emmanuel, Applicationsof nonlinear systems of ordinary differ-ential equations and Volterra integralequations to infectious disease epi-demiology
Patterson-Lomba, Oscar, On the dynam-ics of infectious diseases in modernlandscapes: Urban settings and drugresistance
School of Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences
Bowling, Stacey, Conceptions of func-tion composition in college precalculusstudents
Elledge, Shawn, On minimal levels ofIwasawa towers
Halani, Aviva, Students’ ways of thinkingabout combinatorics solution sets
Ismay, Chester, Testing independence ofparallel pseudorandom number streams:Incorporating the data’s multivariatenature
Jin, Wen, Persistence of discrete dynami-cal systems in infinite dimensional statespaces
Liu, Hao, Spatial spread of rabies inwildlife
Molla, Theodore, On tiling directedgraphs with cycles and tournaments
Valdivia, Arturo, Alternative methods viarandom forest to identify interactionsin a general framework and variableimportance in the context of value-added models
Young, Jonathan, Dependent models ofsignal transduction networks
AUGUST 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 783
Zhang, Jun, A continuous latent factormodel for non-ignorable missing datain longitudinal studies
University of Arizona (18)
Department of Mathematics
Gilbert, Michael, Investigating the rela-tionship between restriction measuresand self-avoiding walks
Herrera-Valdez, Marco, Geometry andnon-linear dynamics underlying ex-citability phenotypes in biophysicalmodels of membrane potential
Islambekov, Umar, Lieb-Robinson boundsfor the Toda lattice
Leslie, Martin, Hypermap-homology quan-tum codes
Thomas, Matthew, Analyzing conceptualgains in introductory calculus withinteractively-engaged teaching styles
Program in Applied Mathematics
Bailey, Brenae, Stochastic models of −1programmed ribosomal frameshifting
Comeau, Darin, Conceptual and numeri-cal modeling of ice in a global climateframework
Dinius, Joseph, Dynamical properties ofa generalized collision rule for multi-particle systems
Hariprasad, Daniel, Dynamics and lateralmigration of red blood cells in Stokesflow
Hyman, Jeffrey, Heterogeneities andstructures of flow through explicitporous microstructures
Kent, Stuart, Multi-scale conformal mapsand free boundary problems
Love, David, Data-driven methods foroptimization under uncertainty withapplication to water allocation
Lyttle, David, Modeling inhibition-med-iated neural dynamics in the rodentspatial navigation system
Mann, Sarah, The original view ofReed-Solomon coding and the Welch-Berlekamp decoding algorithm
Pennybacker, Matthew, A numerical studyof pattern-forming fronts in phyllotaxis
Stockbridge, Rebecca, Bias and variancereduction in assessing solution qualityfor stochastic programs
Yang, Bole, Asymptotic behaviors ofCMV matrices and discrete nonlinearSchroedinger equations
Statistics GIDP
Fang, Qijun, Hierarchical Bayesian bench-mark dose analysis
ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas atFayetteville (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Foster, Newton, General sampling schemesfor the Bergman spaces
Fulmer, Shanda, Closed-range composi-tion operators on weighted Bergmanspaces and applications
Tinker, Michael, The Szego kernel of cer-tain polynomial models and heat kernelestimates for Schrodinger operatorswith reverse holder potentials
Whittle, Carrie, The word problem for theautomorphism groups of right-angledArtin groups is in P
CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (6)
Applied and Computational
Mathematics Department
Amlani, Faisal, A new high-order Fouriercontinuation-based elasticity solver forcomplex three-dimensional geometries
Ci, Maolin, Multiscale model reductionmethods for deterministic and stochas-tic partial differential equations
Sanan, Patrick, Geometric elasticity forgraphics, simulation, and computation
Tavallali, Peyman, Sparse Time-FrequencyData Analysis: A multi-scale approach
Tyranowski, Tomasz, Geometric integra-tion applied to moving mesh methodsand degenerate lagrangians
Department of Mathematics
Daigle, Gerald, On the local Tamagawanumber conjecture for Tate motives
Claremont GraduateUniversity (13)
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Abouali, Mohammad, Investigating Cast-illo-Grone’s mimetic difference oper-ators in development of geophysicalfluid dynamic models implemented onGPGPUS
Akhter, Sajia, Finding a novel way for fastsequence alignment and exploiting in-formation theory in bacterial genomesand complete phages
Chaumont, Nicolas, Modeling animal in-teractions with their environment
Chen, Jerry, Role of the micro: RNA miR-124 in the regulatory networkgoverning PNS development in Cionaintestinalis
Franklin, Michael, Electrowetting-basedmicrofluidics: Modeling and simulation
Garcia-Cardona, Cristina, Multiclass learn-ing on graphs: Diffuse interface modelsand beyond
Nachawati, Susan, DNA visualizationwith Sacks Spiral methods: An ap-plication in genomic engineering
Recova, Leandro, Applications of Morsetheory to semilinear elliptic boundaryvalue problems
Seguritan, Victor, Neural network predic-tions of protein function
Sharpsten, Lucie, Predicting glaucomaprogression using random forests forcorrelated binary response based onlongitudinally collected standard auto-mated perimeter data
Teagle-Hernandez, Allen, Very efficientnumerical solutions via the “Mehrstel-lan” methods in 1D, 2D, and 3D forcomplex differential equations demon-strated for acoustic and related fields
Thomas, Mary, Parallel implementationof the curvilinear ocean and atmo-spheric (UCOAM) model and supportingcomputational environment
Zajac, Peter, Globally accessible finiteelement based web solver for thevibrational Schrodinger equation andapplication to HC3O and ZnCl2+
Naval PostgraduateSchool (1)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Chung, Jong, Affine equivalence and con-structions of cryptographically strongBoolean functions
Stanford University (19)
Department of Mathematics
Adams, Henry, Evasion paths in mobilesensor networks
Buchholtz, Ulrik, Unfolding of systems ofinductive definitions
Carlotto, Alessandro, Rigidity and flexi-bility phenomena in general relativity
Grigoriev, Ilya, Relations among charac-teristic classes of manifold bundles
Ha, Junsoo, Some problems in multiplica-tive number theory
Haber, Nicholas, Microlocal analysis of La-grangian submanifolds of radial points
Levin, Brandon, G valued flat deforma-tions and local models
Li, Xiaodong, Sparse and low rank struc-tures in robust principal componentanalysis, compressed sensing with cor-ruptions, and phase retrieval
Lipnowski, Michael, Equivariant torsionand base change
Malkiewich, Cary, Duality and linear ap-proximations in Hochschild homology,K theory, and string topology
Murphy, Daniel, Algebraic modular formson definite orthogonal groups
Petrow, Ian, Moments of automorphic Lfunctions and related problems
Department of Statistics
Basak, Anirban, Probability models onlarge random graphs and matrices
Gavish, Matan, Topics in matrix inferenceGrazier G’Sell, Maxwell, Inference for
correlation-based hierarchical cluster-ing of variables
Head, Austen, Statistical methods ongraphs
Lim, Michael, The group-lasso: Two novelapplications
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
784 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 7
Mukherjee, Sumit, Estimation in exponen-tial families with unknown normalizingconstant
Sun, Nike, Gibbs measures and phasetransitions on locally tree-like graphs
University of California,Berkeley (39)
Department of Mathematics
Beraldo, Dario, Loop group actions oncategories and Whittaker invariants
Boocher, Adam, Super flatnessBray, Nicolaus, Methods for measurement
and interpretation of gene expressionCharalambidis, Marko, External problems
in analysisChirvasitu, Alexandru, Linearly reductive
quantum groups: Descent, simplicityand finiteness properties
Choi, Keon, The embedded contact ho-mology of toric contact manifolds
Daub, Michael, Complex and p-adic com-putations of Chow-Heegner points
Do, Hanh, Monoidal structure in mirrorsymmetry and noncommutative geom-etry
Flock, Taryn, On extremizers for certaininequalities of the k-plane transform
Forman, Noah, Instruction sets for walksand the quantile path transformation
Froehle, Bradley, High-order discontinu-ous Galerkin fluid-structure interactionmethods
Haken, Ian, Randomizing reals and thefirst order consequences of 2-randoms
Hurtado-Salazar, Sebastian, Homomor-phisms between groups of diffeomor-phisms
Kaspar, David, Exactly solvable stochasticmodels in elastic structures and scalarconservation laws
Mannisto, Peter, Albanese and Picard1-motives in positive characteristic
McDougal, Shawn, Representing Sato-Levine invariants by Whitney towerintersections
Miles, Andrew, Moduli of elliptic curvesvia twisted stable maps
Nguyen, Khoa, Arithmetic dynamics ofdiagonally split polynomial maps
Ren, Qingchen, Computations and modulispaces for non-Archimedean varieties
Rodriguez, Jose, Numerical algebraic ge-ometry for maximum likelihood esti-mation
Solis, Pablo, Wonderful loop group em-beddings and applications to the mod-uli of G-bundles on curves
Tener, James, Construction of the uni-tary free fermion Segal conformal fieldtheory
Trang, Nam, Generalized Solovay mea-sures, the HOD analysis and the coremodel induction
Tucker Simmons, Matthew, Quantum al-gebras associated to irreducible gener-alized flag manifolds
Vianna, Renato, On exotic Lagrangian toriin Cp2
Watson, Nathaniel, Non-simplicial nervesof two-dimensional categorical struc-tures
Westrick, Linda, Computability in ordinalranks and symbolic dynamics
Yu, Thanh, Combinatorial patterns insyzygies
Department of Statistics
Bean, Derek, Non-gaussian componentanalysis
Bhattacharyya, Sharmodeep, A study ofhigh-dimensional clustering and statis-tical inference on networks
Huoh, Yu-Jay, Sensitivity analysis ofstochastic simulator with informationtheory
Loh, Po-Ling, High-dimensional statisticswith systematically corrupted data
Long, James, Prediction methods forastronomical data observed with mea-surement error
Sapp, Stephanie, Subsemble: A flexibleensemble prediction method
Tran, Ngoc, Topics in tropical linearalgebra and applied probability
Group in Biostatistics
Brown, Daniel, Applications of causalinference in problems of occupationalhealth
Decker, Anna, Semiparametric predic-tion, variable importance, and effectestimation in trauma care
Eliseeva, Ekaterina, Machine learning andcausal inference methods for the deriva-tion of exposure-response curves
Pozzi, Luca, Topics in evidence synthesis
University of California,Davis (16)
Department of Mathematics
Brummitt, Charles, Models of systemicevents: Interdependence, contagion andinnovation
Chong, Eun A., Nonlinear equations ofmixed type and transonic flows
Kwok, Ricky, On the distribution of theleading particle in the ASEP with stepinitial condition and the self-adjointASEP
Li, Lingyun, Central limit theorem forlinear statistic of eigenvalues of largerandom matrices
O’Brien, Matthew, Scalable domain de-composed Monte Carlo particle trans-port
Reed, Matthew, The central limit theoremfor linear spectral statistics of subma-trices of the Gaussian Wigner randommatrices
Department of Statistics
Chou, Elizabeth, Computed data-geometrybased supervised and semi-supervisedlearning in high dimensional data
Dienes, Christopher, On-line monitoringin linear time series models
Dienes, Erin, An information theoreticapproach to biomarker validation
Huang, Chun-Jung, Spatial-temporal mod-els for image data analyses
Jin, Yin, Estimating component reliabilityusing system lifetime data
Noguchi, Kimihiro, Exploratory analysisand modeling of financial time series
Tao, Wenwen, Represent derivatives andtime dynamics for longitudinal data
Wang, Ru, High-dimensional graphicalmodels learning
Xu, Cong, Semiparametric analysis ofincomplete survival data
Zhou, Siyuan, Semiparametric modelingof non-autonomous dynamical systems
University of California,Irvine (10)
Department of Mathematics
Abatzoglou, Alexander, A CM ellipticcurve framework for deterministic pri-mality proving on numbers of specialform
Feng, Jie, Matrix factorization and itsapplication in blind source separationand finance
He, Fei, Regularity of the Ricci flow andrigidity of Ricci solitons
Holben, Ryan, Lowering the consistencystrength of square principles at singularcardinals
Long, Xiaolong, Constructing sparse andfast mean reverting portfolios
Ryerson, Shane, Ultrasensitivity and pa-rameter variability in independent mul-tisite systems
Said, Mustafa, Almost commuting ele-ments in non-commutative symmetricoperator spaces
Sun, Zheng, Modeling of stem cellsWang, Dongyong, Numerical methods
for reaction diffusion systems in highspatial dimensions
Wang, Lihan, Hodge theory on compactsymplectic manifolds with boundaries
University of California,Los Angeles (22)
Department of Mathematics
Alexander, Damon, Limiting evolutionof families of parabolic differentialequations
Barekat, Farzin, Applications of stochas-tic simulation and compressed sensingto large systems
Chen, Xiaojing, Global Torelli theoremfor projective manifolds
Das, Shagnik, Extensions of classic theo-rems in extremal combinatorics
David, Guy, Lipschitz maps in metricspaces
Hayes, Benjamin, Extended von Neu-mann dimension for representations ofgroups and equivalence relations
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 785
Howes, Russell, Virtual node methods forincompressible flow
Kinneberg, Kyle, A coarse entropy-rigiditytheorem and discrete length-volumeinequalities
Kostic, Tijana, Threshold dynamics forstatistical density estimation and graphclustering
Li, Yingkun, Mock-modular forms ofweight one
Murphy, Jason, Nonlinear Schrodingerequations at non-conserved critical reg-ularity
Richelson, Silas, Cryptographic proto-cols with strong security: Non-malleablecommitments, concurrent zero-knowl-edge and topology-hiding multi-partycomputation
Ricketson, Lee, Two approaches to ac-celerated Monte Carlo simulation ofCoulomb collisions
Rodgers, Bradley, The statistics of thezeros of the Riemann zeta-function andrelated topics
Sanders, Beren, Higher comparison mapsfor the spectrum of a tensor triangu-lated category
Schaeffer, Hayden, Variational modelsfor fine structures
Skoufranis, Paul, Approximations in op-erator theory and free probability
Ventullo, Kevin, On the Gross-Stark andIwasawa main conjectures
Yang, Yi, Fast and robust algorithmsfor compressive sensing and otherapplications
Zahl, Joshua, Maximal functions, inci-dence theorems, and efficient partitionsof Euclidean space
Zhao, Bin, Local indecomposability ofHilbert modular representations andMumford-Tate conjecture
Department of Statistics
Levinson, Matthew, Penalized Bayesianmodel selection and prediction for generegulation in higher organisms
University of California,Merced (4)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Loffeld, John, Design, implementationand performance of exponential inte-grators for high performance comput-ing applications
Rohde, Shelley, Modeling diffuse re-flectance measurements of light scat-tered by layered tissues
Sahin, Derya, Modeling light propagationin luminescent media
Vaz, Garnet, Graph based scalable algo-rithms with applications
University of California,Riverside (4)
Department of Mathematics
Kim, Chunghoon, Deformations of com-pact holomorphic Poisson manifoldsand algebraic Poisson schemes
Department of Statistics
Guo, Li, Near uniformly minimum vari-ance quadratic unbiased estimation ofvariance components in mixed effectsmodels
Yue, Liu, Estimation of two populareconometric models: Random effectspanel data model and simultaneousequations model
Xin, Zhang, Sequential procedures fornonparametric statistical process con-trol and longitudinal data classification
University of California,San Diego (10)
Department of Mathematics
Briggs, Christopher, Uniform exponentialgrowth in algebras
Gao, Teng, A rearrangement inequlity fordiffusion process
Meredith, Michael Brandon, Mirror sym-metry on toric varieties via tropicalgeometry
Mihalik, Adam, Adaptive methods in thefinite exterior calculus framework
Rodriguez, Ryan, Preperfectoid algebras
Timmons, Craig, Extremal graphs andadditive combinatorics
Walsh, Katherine P., Patterns and stabilityin the coefficients of the color Jonespolynomial
Wang, Li, Semidefinite relaxation ap-proach to polynomial optimization andits extension
Wildman, Chad, Global existence anddispersion of solutions to nonlinearKlein-Gordon equations with potential
Zhang, Zezhou, Nonassociative algebraand groups with property
University of California,Santa Barbara (7)
Department of Mathematics
Flores, Cynthia, On decay properties ofsolutions to the Benjamin-Ono equation
Harrison, Martin, Quadratic convexityand sums of squares
Jaramillo, Andrew, Unipotent radicalsof the standard Borel and parabolicsubgroups in quantum special lineargroups
Jaramillo, Maree, The structure of fun-damental groups of smooth metricmeasure spaces
Plunkett, Patrick, Spatially adaptive nu-merical methods for stochastic bio-physical processes
Sigurdsson, Jon Karl, Continuum andcoarse-grained modeling of lipid bilayermembranes
Speer, Timothy, Isometries of the Hilbertmetric
University of California,Santa Cruz (9)
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Department
Anderson, Ross, Uncertainty-anticipatingstochastic optimal feedback control ofautonomous vehicle models
Beltran, Francisco, Quantifying the im-pact of climate change on oceanicvariables
Guenther, John, Optimization with globalsensitivity analysis and optimum char-acterization
Poynor, Valerie, Bayesian nonparametricgamma mixtures for mean residual lifeinference
Department of Mathematics
Brasher, Reuben, Asymptotics of deter-minants of a class of perturbed Toeplitzmatrices
Dods, Victor, What happens when youpush a cubic meter of Jello into awormhole
Laber, Robert, C-graded vertex algebrasand their representations
Magee, Michael, Quantitative spectral gapfor thin groups of hyperbolic isometries
Perepelitsky, Philipp, P -permutation equiv-alences between blocks of finite groups
University of SouthernCalifornia (11)
Department of Mathematics
Avdek, Russell, Liouville hypersurfacesand connect sum cobordisms
Banuelos, Selenne, Structured two-stagepopulation model with migration be-tween multiple patches in a periodicenvironment
Bilal, Taylan, Some computations forbivariant cycle cohomology
Chubatiuk, Alona, Nonparametric estima-tion of an unknown probability distri-bution using maximum likelihood andBayesian approaches
Ericksen, Adam, The geometry of motivicspheres
Marinov, Radoslav, Applications of Stein’smethods on statistics of random graphs
Ostrovskyi, Vitalli, Point singularities on2D surfaces
Pike, John, Eigenfunctions for randomwalks on hyperplane arrangements
Wasilewska, Katarzyna, Limiting distri-butions and error terms for the numberof visits to balls in mixing dynamicalsystems
Xu, Li, Parameter estimate for hyperbolicSPDE’s with stochastic coefficients
Yildirim, Gokhan, On the depinning tran-sition of the directed polymer in arandom environment with a defect line
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
786 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 7
COLORADOColorado School ofMines (1)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Probst, Alexandre, A tablet-PC softwareapplication for statistics classes
Colorado StateUniversity (12)
Department of Mathematics
Maple, Jennifer, Steady state Hopf modeinteraction in anisotropic system
Munoz-Alicea, Roberto, HIV-1 gag traffick-ing and assembly; mathematical modelsand numerical simulations
Ross, Dustin, Open and closed Gromov-Witten theory of three dimensional toricCalabi-Yau orbifolds
Salvi, Niketa, Two-step coding theoremin the nearly continuous category
Springer, Bethany, Nearly continuousKakutani equivalence
Strickland, Christopher, The mathemati-cal modeling and analysis of nonlocalinvasions and savanna population dy-namics
Ziegelmeier, Lori, Exploiting geometry,topology and optimization for knowl-edge discovery in big data
Department of Statistics
Hanks, Ephraim, Statistical models foranimal movement and landscape con-nectivity
He, Zonglin, Nonparametric regressionwith categorical covariates
Schliep, Erin, Spatial probit models formultivariate ordinal data: Computa-tional efficiency and parameter identifi-ability
Wang, Huan, Shape restricted splineregression and hypothesis tests in thepresence of correlation
Wang, Yuan, Linear system design forcompression and fusion
University of Colorado,Boulder (11)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Galanthay, Theodore, On adaptive use ofinformation in habitat selection
Garcia, Jose, Beta-plane approximationof wind-driven ocean circulation us-ing a first order system least-squaresformulation
Jones, Tobias, Algebraic multigrid meth-ods for parallel computing, systems,and graphs
Rasca, Anthony, Modeling solar windmass-loading due to dust in the solarcorona
Sen, Amrik, A tale of waves and eddies ina sea of rotating turbulence
Webb, Adrean, Stokes drift and meshlesswave modeling
Department of Mathematics
Andrews, Scott, Type-free approaches tosupercharacter theories of unipotentgroups
Feaver, Amy, Euclid’s algorithm in multi-quadratic fields
Keller, Justin, Generalized supercharactertheories and Schur rings for Hopfalgebras
Purkis, Benjamin, Projective multiresolu-tion analyses over irrational rotationalgebras
Wayne, David, The K-theory of filtereddeformations of graded polynomial al-gebras
University of Colorado,Denver (8)
Department of Biostatistics and
Informatics
Brinton, John, Statistical methods forcancer screening
Kreidler, Sarah, Calculating power for thegeneral linear multivariate model andthe general linear mixed model
Kroehl, Miranda, On the use of lassoregression for mediation analysis withapplication to microbiota data
Ringham, Brandy, Reducing decision er-rors in repeated measures studies withmissing data
Department of Mathematics and
Statistical Sciences
Erbes, Catherine, Extremal problems fordegree sequences
Lowery, Bradley, Topics in communication-avoiding algorithms and stability analy-sis
Morris, Timothy, New results on cyclestructures of graphs
Nabity, Matthew, On accelerating thenonsymmetric eigenvalue problem inmulticore architectures
University of Denver (1)
Department of Mathematics
Trujillo, Timothy, Topological Ramseyspaces, associated ultrafilters, and theirapplications to the Tukey theory ofultrafilters and Dedekind cuts of non-standard arithmetic
University of NorthernColorado (3)
School of Mathematical Sciences
Dibbs, Rebecca, The effects of forma-tive assessment on students’ Zone ofProximal Development in introductorycalculus
Glassmeyer, David, Secondary teachermodels of quantitative reasoning
Roberson, Lee, Building bridges: Connect-ing collegiate athletic and mathematicscultures
CONNECTICUT
University of Connecticut,Storrs (16)
Department of Mathematics
Baldenko, Alex, The top Lyapunov expo-nent of symplectic stochastic differen-tial equations: Theory and numerics
Canakci, Ilke, Snake graph calculus andcluster algebras from surfaces
Gunathilaka, Unawatuna Gamage Asiri,Property and casualty claim cost man-agement
Kelleher, Daniel, Geometric techniques inanalysis on fractals
Lamoureux, Matthew, Stirling’s formulain number fields
Li, Ji, Topological and isotopic equiva-lence with applications to visualization
Lu, Lu, On the integrated squared errorof the linear wavelet density estimator
Department of Statistics
Boyko, Jennifer, Handling data with threetypes of missing values
Chaurasia, Ashok, Model selection proce-dures for incomplete data
Jiang, Xun (Tony), A new classs of linkfunctions for modeling categorical datawith applications in biology
Liao, Gong-Yi, Residual likelihood basedclustering models
Pare, Valerie, Impact of prior distribu-tion uncertainty in multiple imputationinference
Rayaprolu, Sairam, Multiple testing un-der dependence with approximate pos-terior likelihood
Shang, Hongwei, A two-step estimationprocedure and a goodness-of-fit test forspatial extremes models
Viran Muthu Poruthotage, Sankha, Multi-ple crossing fixed-size sequential confi-dence regions for the mean vector andregression parameters under multivari-ate normality
Wang, Xiao (Leo), Scan statistics fornormal data
Wesleyan University (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Bourdon, Abbey, A uniform version of afiniteness conjecture for elliptic curveswith complex multiplication
Graham, Bonita, A construction of rigidanalytic cohomology classes for splitreductive algebraic groups
Ricci, James, Finiteness results for regularternary quadratic polynomials
White, David, Monoidal Bousfield local-izations and algebras over operads
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 787
Yale University (7)
Biostatistics Division
Ryslik, Gregory, Identification of non-random somatic mutation clusteringwhile accounting for protein tertiarystructure: Extensions, novel method-ologies and applications to identifyingoncogenic driver mutations
Department of Mathematics
Banerjee, Soumya, Tropical geometryover higher dimensional local fields
Frailey, Conor, Representations of thegeneral linear groupoid over a non-Archimedean local field
Li, Han, Some effective results in homo-geneous dynamics and number theory
Shen, Linhui, Geometry of canonicalbases and mirror symmetry
Department of Statistics
Cho, Sanghee, High-dimensional regres-sion with random design, includingsparse superposition codes
Wang, Xiaofei, Generalized Bayesianchange point analysis via product par-tition models
DELAWAREDelaware StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chen, Feiyu, Simulation of partial volumeaveraging in a software breast phantom
Zeng, Fang, Direct methods for interiorinverse scattering problem
University of Delaware (7)
Department of Mathematical Science
Deng, Quan, Tear film modeling in 1Dand 2D moving geometry with high-order method
Fu, Zhixing, Contributions to the study ofthe hybridizable discontinuous Galerkinmethod
Han, Qunhui, Analysis and simulation ofexit time problems
Li, Jing, Staggered-grid FDTD methodfor ultrasound propagation throughcancellous bone
Lu, Sijiang, Delta BEM discretization oftransient and harmonic waves
Wu, Fan, Strongly regular graphs, associ-ation schemes and Gauss sums
Xiao, Zunlei, Gaussian and related pro-cesses: Lower tail probability and appli-cation
DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAGeorge WashingtonUniversity (12)
Department of Mathematics
Herning, Joseph, Spectrum and factors ofsubstitution dynamical systems
Maeda, Kai, Self-distributed magmas andtheir Richter’s degrees
Xie, Lu, Analysis of the long rangeinteraction in the ternary system
Department of Statistics
Biswas, Bipasa, Statistical analysis of DNAcopy number variation with sequencingdata
Chowdhury, Mohammed, Nonparametricsmoothing estimation of conditionaldistribution functions with longitudi-nal data and time-varying parametricmodels
Kalpathy, Ravi, Perpetuities in fair leaderelection algorithms
Qing, Siyu, Longitudinal weight calibra-tion with estimated control totals forcross sectional survey data: Theory andapplications
Temprosa, Marinella, An imputation-estimation algorithm using time-varyingauxiliary covariates for a longitudinalmodel when outcome is missing bydesign
Xu, Ruihua, Analysis of mixed types oftraits in genetic association studies andapplication to genome-wide associationstudies
Xu, Wenjing, Statistical properties of bio-statistical methods for correlated pro-cesses with application to data arisingin the legal settings
Yang, Mengta, Depth functions, mul-tidimensional medians, and tests ofuniformity on proximity graphs
Zhang, Fanni, Concordant integrativeanalysis of multiple gene expressiondata sets
Howard University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Foster, Bertrum, Rational points andisogenies of the Holm curves over finitefields
Fulton, Kourtney, Continuous homomor-phism from βS to S∗
Kayende, Oliver, Character sum boundsand hyperforms on binary group alge-bras
Miabey, Teylama, Spectral analysis forfinite rank perturbations of diagonaloperators in non-Archimedean Hilbertspace
Nelson, Valerie, Existence results forsome higher-order abstract differentialequations with applications to PDEs
Peters, Monique, Characterizing differ-ences between the left and right opera-tions on βS
Phulara, Dev, A generalization of theCentral Sets Theorem with applicationsand some additive and multiplicativeRamsey numbers
FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Zhang, Wei, Detection of multiple change-points in hazard models
Florida Institute ofTechnology (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Alharthi, Nadiyah, A piecewise WKBapproximation for One-Turning-PointSturm-Liouville equations and asymp-totics for eigenvalues
Florida StateUniversity (28)
Department of Mathematics
Amusan, Ibukun, Parameter estimationfor a stochastic volatility model withcoupled additive and multiplicativenoise
Daou, Arij, From songs to ion channelsand mathematical modeling
Garreau, Pierre, Jump dependence andmultidimensional default risk: A newclass of structural models with stochas-tic intensities
Geng, Jian, Calibration of local volatilitymodels and proper orthogonal decom-position reduced order modeling forstochastic volatility models
He, Yanyan, Uncertainty quantificationand data fusion based on Dempster-Shafer theory
Huang, Wanwan, Stochastic modeling offinancial derivatives
Huang, Wen, Optimization algorithmson Riemannian manifolds with applica-tions
Islim, Ahmed Derar, Pricing and hedgingderivatives with sharp profiles usingtuned high resolution finite differenceschemes
Liao, Xia, Chern classes of sheaves of log-arithmic vector fields for free divisors
Liu, Yaning, Non-intrusive methods forprobabilistic uncertainty quantificationand global sensitivity analysis in non-linear stochastic phenomena
Lu, Yuanting, Discrete Frenet frame withits application of structural biology andkinematics
Ohm, Candace, The evolution of decep-tion in signaling systems
Wang, Dongxu, 3-manifolds of S1-categorythree
Whidden, Mark, Numerical methods formultiphase systems with applicationsto biology
Winters, Andrew, Discontinuous Galerkinspectral element approximations forthe reflection and transmission ofwaves from moving material interfaces
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Zhang, Yuan, Modeling high frequencyorder book dynamics with supportvector machines
Department of Statistics
Almansour, Aseel, The risk of lipidson coronary heart disease: Prognosticmodels and meta-analysis
Bryner, Darshan, 2D affine and projectiveshape analysis and Bayesian elasticactive contours
Chung, Steve, A class of semiparametricvolatility models with applications tofinancial time series
Girimurugan, Senthil Balaji, Nonlinearmultivariate tests for high-dimensionaldata using wavelets with applicationsin genomics and engineering
Ha, Seung-Yeon, Theories on group vari-able selection in multivariate regressionmodels
Holden, Robert, Failure time regressionmodels for thinned point processes
Laborde, Jose, Elastic shape analysis ofproteins and RNAs
Nilles, Ester, An ensemble approach topredicting health outcomes
Su, Jingyong, Statistical analysis of tra-jectories on Riemannian manifolds
Tang, Yuanyuan, Bayesian methods forskewed response including longitudinaland heteroscedastic data
Tao, Yingfeng, The frequentist perfor-mance of some Bayesian confidenceintervals for the survival function
Williams, Felicia, The relationship ofdiabetes to coronary heart diseasemortality: A meta-analysis based onperson level data
University of CentralFlorida (6)
Department of Mathematics
Benhaddou, Rida, Nonparametric andempirical Bayes estimation models
Haussermann V, John William, Tilingproperties of spectra of measures
Losert, Bernd, Extensions of S-spacesMichalak, Martin, Dynamical invariants
and the fluid impulse in plasma modelsPridemore, Kathryn, Accelerated life
model with various types of censoreddata
Van Gorder, Robert, Nonlinear dispersivepartial equations of physical relevancewith application to vortex dynamics
University of Florida (26)
Department of Mathematics
Broschinski, Adam, Eigenvalues of self-adjoint Toeplitz operators with respectto a constrained algebra
Feng, Wei, Charge transport analysis forlightning
Gluck, Matthew, Blow-up analysis andclassification theorems for solutions tosemi-linear elliptic equations
Guo, Ying, Energy estimates and Harnacktype inequalities for prescribing cur-vature type equations with boundaryconditions
Homberger, Cheyne, Patterns in permu-tations and involutions: A structuraland enumerative approach
Hou, Hongyan, Convergence analysis oforthogonal collocation methods for un-constrained optimal control
Hungerford, James, The vertex separatorproblem and edge-concave quadraticprogramming
Huynh, Duc, Problems on finite exten-sions of local function fields
Inman, Jessica, Examples of reaction-diffusion equations in biological sys-tems: Marine protected areas and quo-rum sensing
Lauderdale, Lindsey-Kay, Maximal sub-groups of finite groups
Lee, JoAnn, A simulation model for thespread of citrus greening via transmis-sion between flush shoots and Diapho-rina citri
Li, Jie, Multiset graph partitioningMico-Umutesi, Delphine, Estimating the
violation of the KKT conditionsNewton, Robert, On Lusternik-Schnirel-
mann category of connected sumsOuyang, Yuyuan, Optimal first order
methods for a class of non-smoothconvex optimization with applicationsto image analysis
Richards, Trevor, On level curves andconformal equivalence of meromorphicfunctions
Shi, Jiangli, Statistical dependence mea-sure based multi-model image regis-tration and registration assisted non-parametric image segmentation
Stetler, Eric, Multiplication operators onHilbert spaces of Dirichlet series
Stupiansky, Jillian, Mathematical model-ing of citrus greening
Zhang, Haili, Mathematical modeling forimage segmentation and restoration
Department of Statistics
Dasgupta, Shibasish, High dimensionalinference and variable selection
Gaskins, Jeremy, Bayesian methods formodeling dependence structures in lon-gitudinal data
Huang, Lei, Survival and reliability analy-sis under Polya tree processes priors
Kim, Chan Min, Bayesian methods forinference on the causal effects ofmediation
Li, Ke, Bayesian multiple testing undersparsity for exponential distributions
Wang, Shu, Extending the Nadaraya-Watson estimator for data with spatiallycorrelated errors
University of Miami (2)
Department of Mathematics
Gonzalez DeLeon, Rafael, On the com-binatorics of the free Lie algebra withmultiple brackets
Liu, Yijia, Hodge theoretic aspects ofcategorical spectrum
University of SouthFlorida (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bonsu, Nana Osei, Age dependent anal-ysis and modeling of prostate cancerdata
Chan, Yiu Ming, Statistical analysis andmodeling of prostate cancer
De Castro, Lisa, Analytic functions withreal boundary values in Smirnov classesEp
Pokhrel, Keshav, Statistical analysis andmodeling of brain tumor data: Histologyand regional effects
Teodorescu, Iuliana, Optimization in non-parametric survival analysis and cli-mate change modeling
Zerihun, Tadesse, Nonlinear techniquesfor stochastic systems of differentialequations
GEORGIAEmory University (6)
Department of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics
Ling, Qiang, Bayesian spatial-temporalmodels for areal count data
Mitchell, Emily, Regression models for acontinuous outcome subject to pooling
Mathematics and Computer Science
Department
Chu, Qing, Numerical methods for wave-front reconstruction
Jameson, Marie, Combinatorial objects atthe interface of q-series and modularforms
Klymko, Christine, Centrality and com-municability measures in complex net-works: Analysis and algorithms
Rolen, Larry, Maass forms and quantummodular forms
Georgia Institute ofTechnology (9)
School of Mathematics
Amirkhanyan, Gagik, Problems in combi-natorial number theory
Backman, Spencer, Combinatorial divisortheory for graphs
Casey, Meredith, Branched covers ofcontact manifolds
Liu, Jingfang, Adaptive iterative filteringmethods for non-linear signal analysisand applications
Lu, Jun, Method of evolving junctions:A new approach to path planning andoptimal control
Shin, Hyunshik, Algebraic degrees ofstretch factors in mapping class groups
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Shokrieh, Farbod, Divisors on graphs,binomial and monomial ideals, andcellular resolutions
Winarski, Rebecca, Symmetry, isotopy,and irregular covers
Yin, Ke, New algorithms for solvinginverse source problems with applica-tions in flourescence tomography
Georgia StateUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Burns Childers, Annie, Calculus students’understanding of the derivative in re-lation to the vertex of a quadraticfunction
Malec, Sara, Intersection algebras andpointed rational cones
Meadows, Leslie, Iteratively regularizedmethods for inverse problems
Wang, Yanhong, Clustering, classifica-tion, and factor analysis in high dimen-sional data analysis
University of Georgia (17)
Department of Mathematics
Berglund, Michael, Bounding expectedvalues on random polygons
Doyle, John, Dynamics of quadratic poly-nomials over quadratic fields
Musgrave, Stacy, Structure and represen-tation of alternative Clifford algebrasof quadratic forms
Nguyen, Duc Duy, Optimal asset tradingunder regime switching models
Shin, Jae Ho, The reduction map forthe moduli spaces of weighted stablehyperplane arrangements
Talian, Andrew, Endotrivial modules forclassical Lie superalgebras
Tenini, Joseph, Results on an extendedTorelli map and singularities of degen-erate Abelian varieties
Thompson, Katherine, Explicit represen-tation results of quadratic forms overQQ and QQ(
√5) by analytic methods
Department of Statistics
Brown, Andrew, Bayesian multiple testingunder dependence with application tofunctional magnetic resonance imaging
Hilafu, Haileab, On dimension reductionand feature selection in high dimen-sions
Lee, Jinae, Functional magnetic resonanceimaging data clustering
Lee, Jung Ae, Sample integrity in highdimension
Liu, Xinyu, Sample size determinationin multi-class classification and predic-tion based on single-nucleotide poly-morphisms
Samadi, Yaser, Matrix time series analysisSun, Lin, Bayesian factor analysis for
fMRI dataWu, Hsin-Ping, Locally optimal designs
for generalized linear models
Zhang, Nan, Hilbert-Schmidt indepen-dence criterion in sufficient dimensionreduction and feature screening
HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii atManoa (2)
Department of Mathematics
Marriott, John, Geometric optimal controlwith an application to imaging innuclear magnetic resonance
Yoshida, Rintaro, Linear and non-linearoperators, and the distribution of zerosof entire functions
IDAHOIdaho State University (1)
Department of Mathematics
Baird, Daniel, Introduction to math edu-cation analysis: A textbook for mathe-matics graduate teaching assistants
University of Idaho (2)
Department of Mathematics
Liu, Zhenia, Conditional persistence forrandom walks
Torrance, Douglas, Nondefective secantvarieties of varieties of completelydecomposable forms
ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (1)
Applied Mathematics Department
Balint, Gergely, Non-adaptive group test-ing Steiner systems and Latin squares
Illinois State University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Cross, Laban, Student’s development anduse of internal representations whensolving algebraic tasks
Hertel, Joshua, Investigating the purposeof trigonometry in the modern sciences
Kara, Melike, Students’ reasoning aboutinvariance of volume as a quantity
Scranton, Melissa, Examining middleschool students’ statistical thinkingwhile working in a technological envi-ronment
Wickstrom, Megan, An examination ofteachers’ perceptions and implementa-tion of learning trajectory based pro-fessional development
Northern IllinoisUniversity (8)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Bailey, Christopher, The MP algorithmand its applications
Ghosh, Santu, Smoothed bootstrap per-centile ellipsoidal confidence region formean vector
McCombs, Paul, Analysis of secondsemester calculus students’ under-standing of series and series con-vergence
McCullough, Kristin, An application ofstatistics in nanotechnology
Montz, Allen, Some bipolar viscous fluidflow problems in rigid and compliantdomains
Patel, Rita, A mixed methods analysisof calculus students’ understanding ofslope and derivative concept
Saint-George, Thomas, Nodal solutionsof nonlinear boundary value problemswith multi-point boundary conditions
Wangle, Jayleen, Calculus student under-standing of continuity
NorthwesternUniversity (18)
Department of Mathematics
Bobkova, Irina, Resolutions in the K(2)-local category at the prime 2
Hoyois, Marc, A quadratic refinementof the Grothendieck-Lefschetz-Verdiertrace formula
Matsuoka, Takuo, Descent and the Koszulduality for locally constant factorisationalgebras
Potash, Eric, Euclidean embeddings andRiemannian Bergman metrics
Zhang, Zhenghe, Positivity and con-tinuity of Lyapunov exponents forone-frequency, smooth quasi-periodicSchrodinger operators
Department of Statistics
Gou, Jiangtao, Topics in p-values basedmultiple test procedures
Li, Cheng, On likelihood-free Bayesian in-ference, model selection and risk min-imization for increasing dimensionaldata
McCallum, Kenneth, Modeling read distri-butions in high-throughput sequencingdatasets
Xi, Dong, Topics in gatekeeping andgroup sequential procedures for multi-ple endpoints
Zhao, Yu, On asymptotic distributionsand confidence intervals for LIFT mea-sures in data mining
Zhao, Zhenyu, Integrated likelihood com-putation method and application
Engineering Sciences and Applied
Mathematics Department
Hansen, Samantha, Newton methods forlarge scale problems in machine learn-ing
Johnson, Travis, Inexact active-set al-gorithms for nonlinear and quadraticoptimization
McConnell, Lane, A numerical investiga-tion of the electrohydrodynamics oflipid bilayer vesicles
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Piet, David, Mathematical models, analyti-cal solutions and numerical simulationsof self-assembled magnetic colloidalstructures
Vogl, Christopher, Moving boundary prob-lems with anomalous diffusion and alevel set, immersed interface method
Woolley, Olivia, The individual’s perspec-tive of the network: Universality intransportation, the resilience of globalmobility, and the dynamics of voluntaryvaccination with information
Yaple, Haley, Mathematical models forthe dynamics of competitive systems,with applications to religious shift andferromagnetism
Southern IllinoisUniversity-Carbondale (6)
Department of Mathematics
Adatorwovor, Dayana, H-removable se-quences of graphs
Al-Talib, Mohammad, Statistical modelsutilizing dependence between variables
Boone, Joshua, Higher-order Lucas se-quences and Dickson polynomials
Tosun, Cemile, Explicit factorization ofgeneralized cyclotomic polynomials oforder 2m3 over a finite field Fq
Tosun, Kursad, Qualitative and quanti-tative analysis of stochastic models inmathematical epidemiology
Yi, Huijun, Constrained statistical infer-ence when target and sample popula-tions differ
University of Chicago (17)
Department of Mathematics
Alvisio, Marcelo, Applications of sto-chastic calculus to Schramm-Loewnerevolution and option pricing
Borman, Matthew Strom, Symplectic quasi-states and Lagrangian topology
Dobrovolska, Galyna, Finite local systemsin the Drinfeld-Laumon construction
Gekhtman, Ilya, Dynamics of convexcocompact subgroups of mapping classgroups
Hoyer, Rolf, Two topics in stable homo-topy theory
Jenkins, Evan, A double construction forpointed Lie 2-algebras
Mann, Kathryn, Components of repre-sentation spaces
Merling, Mona, Equivariant algebraic K-theory
Naik, Vipul, Lazard correspondence up toisoclinism
Nguyen, Thi Thao, The Dirichlet andregularity problems for second orderlinear elliptic operators in boundedLipschitz domains
Shao, Yuan, Maximal displacement ofcritical branching random walks andsymmetric stable processes
Stephenson, Jonathan, Topics in com-putability: Boolean algebras and effec-tive packing dimension
Studenmund, Daniel, Abstract commen-surators of lattices in solvable Liegroups and solvable S-arithmetic groups
Wilson, Jennifer, FIW -modules and stabil-ity phenomena for representations ofclassical Weyl groups
Wright, Alexander, Affine invariant sub-manifolds of the moduli space ofabelian differentials
Department of Statistics
Petkova, Desislava, Inferring effectivemigration from geographically indexedgenetic data
Reimherr, Matthew, Functional data meth-ods for genome wide association stud-ies
University of Illinois atChicago (23)
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Division
Kaufman, Derrick, Multivariate survivalanalysis of macrovascular events inveterans with type 2 diabetes
Zhao, Weihan, Statistical methodologiesfor group comparisons of brain connec-tivity using multimodal neuroimagingdata
Mathematics, Statistics and
Computer Science Department
Bourque, Matthew Joseph, A policy im-provement algorithm for some classesof stochastic games
Brasile, Andrew Leland, Essential spun-normal surfaces via tropical geometry
Cooper, Jeffrey, Independent sets insparse hypergraphs
Diochnos, Dimitrios Ioannis, Analysis ofalgorithms in learning theory and net-work analysis of knowledge bases
Groff, Bradley Williams, Splittings ofrelatively hyperbolic groups
Gross, Elizabeth Ann, Algebraic complex-ity in statistics using combinatorial andtensor methods
Haidau, Cristina, A study of well posed-ness for systems of coupled non-lineardispersive wave equations
Huang, Hsin-Hsiung, Information extrac-tion for virus classification and robustdimension reduction
Krieger, Holly Christine, Primitive primedivisors in polynomial dynamics
Liang, Hao, Equation problem over cen-tral extensions of hyperbolic groups
Lombardi, Luigi, Derived equivalences ofirregular varieties and constraints onHodge numbers
Lozano Huerta, Cesar, Birational geome-try of complete quadrics
Luo, Xue, A novel algorithm to solve thenonlinear filtering problems in real-time
Reschke, Paul Michael, Cohomologicalinsights for complex surface automor-phisms with positive entropy
Sahota, Davender Singh, Borel complexityof the isomorphism relation for o-minimal theories
Simmons, William D., Completeness offinite-rank differential varieties
Wechter, Matthew A., Differential op-erators on finite purely inseparableextensions
Xu, Tu, New developments of minimumclinically important difference: Theoryand methodology
Ye, Hexi, Complex dynamics: Schwarzianderivatives and measures of maximalentropy
Zeng, Jiewei, Optimal designs for multi-exponential models with covariancestructure
Zhang, Zhifan, Portfolio choice withgeneral pricing kernel
University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (19)
Department of Mathematics
Bankovic, Anja, Length functions in flatmetrics
Carty, Thomas, Analysis of a 1D approxi-mation of the Boltzmann equation: Thesubclass of grossly determined solu-tions and the asymptotic behavior ofthe class of general solutions
Choi, Ilkyoo, Extremal problems on varia-tions of graph colorings
DeJarnette, Noel, Self-improving Orlicz-Poincare inequalities
Faruk, Temur, Linear and bilinear restric-tion estimates for the Fourier transform
Fu, Ser-Wei, Ridigity of length functionsover strata of flat metrics
Im, Mee Seong, On semi-invariants offiltered representations of quivers andthe cotangent bundle of the enhancedGrothendieck-Springer resolution
Jahanbekam, Sogol, Extremal problemsfor labelling of graphs and distance indigraphs
Jeon, Bo Gwang, Hyperbolic 3-manifoldsof bounded volume and trace fielddegree
Kim, Jaehoon, Extremal problems involv-ing forbidden subgraphs
Konstantoulas, Ioannis, Effective multiplemixing in Weyl chamber actions
Lansing, Jennifer, On the Stern sequenceand a related sequence
Li, Chunyi, Deformations of the Hilbertscheme of points on a del Pezzo surface
Ray, Brian, Rigidity in free groupsSon, Sarah Soojin, Spectral problems on
triangles and disks: Extremizers andground state resolution
Xiao, Jiajie, Distribution of some arith-metic sequences
Xiao, Lechao, Sharp estimates for trilinearoscillatory integral forms
Xu, Ping, Identities involving theta func-tions and analogues of theta functions
Yancey, Kelly, Uniformly rigid homeo-morphisms
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INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (16)
Department of Mathematics
Attenborough, Holly, On noninvertiblecohomology arising from idempotentsin the Brauer monoid
Chao, Khek Lun Harold, Rigidity of groupactions on CAT(0) spaces
Chung, Yu-Min, On the computationof inertial manifolds, foliations, andtracking initial conditions
Coti Zelati, Michele, Differential inclu-sions and variational inequalities re-lated to the primitive equations of theatmosphere
Fadali, Tarek, Spin and homotopy topo-logical field theory in dimension 2
Huang, Aimin, Initial and boundary valueproblems for the primitive equationsand shallow water equations
Hui, Chun Yin, Monodromy of Galois rep-resentations and equal-rank subalgebraequivalence
Jung, Soyeun, Pointwise nonlinear stabil-ity and asymptotic behavior of periodictraveling-wave solutions of systemsof reaction-diffusion equations and ofconservation laws
Neese, Brandon, Numerical simulationsregarding turbulence and convection
Pinzon Caicedo, Juanita, Independence ofsatellites of torus knots in the smoothconcordance group
Poelhuis, Jonathan, Medians and weightedlocal estimates for singular integral op-erators
Ratnayake, Jayampathy, On the forms ofweak crossed product algebras
Riggs, Kyle, Computable properties ofdecomposable and completely decom-posable groups
Tan, Kuo-Chiang, Codes for square-tiledsurfaces
Yao, Jinghua, Existence, stability and bi-furcation problems in continuum ther-modynamics
Zhong, Ping, Regularities for distribu-tions of free multiplicative Brownianmotion and free multiplicative convolu-tion semigroups
Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Harsy, Amanda, Locally compact prop-erty A groups
Lin, Qun, A jackknife empirical likelihoodapproach to goodness of fit U-statistictesting with side information
Purdue University (30)
Department of Mathematics
Alfaro-Murillo, Jorge, An epidemiologicalmodel structured by time since lastinfection
Allen, Mark, Thin free boundary problemsBanerjee, Agnid, Normalized p-Laplacian
evolution: Boundary behavior of non-negative solutions of fully nonlinearparabolic equations, gradient boundsfor p-harmonic systems with vanishingNeumann (Dirichlet) data in a convexdomain
Barone, Salvador, Some quantitative re-sults in real algebraic geometry
Cao, Shuhao, The a posteriori errorestimation in finite element method forthe H(curl) problems
Fuchs, Urs, Pseudoholomorphic curves insymplectic and contact geometry andtheir application in dynamics
He, Ying, Efficient spectral-element meth-ods for acoustic scattering and relatedproblems
Hora, Raphael, Scattering theory onasymptotic hyperbolic manifolds
Huang, Shanshan, Signal/image registra-tion via polynomial system solutionmethod and the Pascal triangle of adiscrete image
Imberti, David, Methods for increasingdomains of convergence in iterativelinear system solvers
Kim, Yeansu, L-functions from Langlands-Shahidi method for GSpin groups andthe generic Arthur L-packet conjecture
Li, Jing, Efficient estimation of failureprobability
Nguyen, Lan, Rees algebras of linearlypresented ideals
Ni, Lichen, C1-continuous spectral ele-ments and time integration algorithms
Qiu, Lingyun, Inverse boundary valueproblems for time-harmonic waves:Conditional stability and iterative re-construction
Ramachandran, Kousik, Asymptotic be-havior of positive harmonic functionsin certain unbounded domains
Shi, Wenhui, Parabolic problems with thinfree boundaries
Tran, Dat, Direct images as Hilbert fieldsand their curvatures
Wang, Jin, Sub-Riemannian heat ker-nels on model spaces and curvature-dimension inequalities on contact man-ifolds
Zhang, Xuejing, Some aspects of sto-chastic differential equation driven byfractional Brownian motion
Department of Statistics
Chang, Ching-Yun, Cost-effective and ac-curate protein quantification for large-scale targeted proteomics
Davidson, Allison, A study of the tenabil-ity of Polya urn schemes
DePalma, Glen, Disk diffusion break-point determination using a Bayesiannonparametric variation of the errors-in-variables model
Hu, Juan, Optimal low rank model formultivariate spatial data
Liu, Cheng, Non-parameter spatial mod-els
Nisen, Jeffrey, Statistical estimation ofjump-diffusion models via optimalthresholding
Srivastava, Sanvesh, A framework forpractical Bayesian analysis of high-dimensional genomic data
Wu, Han, Statistical models for gene andtranscripts quantification and identifi-cation using RNA-Seq
Yu, Danni, Estimation of variation ofhigh-throughput molecular biologicalexperiments with small sample size
Yun, Hyokun, Doubly separable modelsand distributed parameter estimation
University of NotreDame (9)
Applied and Computational
Mathematics and Statistics
Hao, Wenrui, Homotopy method for non-lienear partial differential equaiton
Li, Chunlei, Computational modeling ofmicrotubule instability
Lioi, Josh, Advancements in the modelingof blood clot formation
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Xiaoyang, Curvature and Rieman-nian submersions
John, Harvey, Around Palais’ coveringhomotopy theorem
Lin, Yueh-Ju, Connected sum construc-tion of constant Q-curvature manifoldsin higher dimensions
Liu, Han, A plane rotational map withChebyshev-like dynamics
Ocasio Gonzalez, Victor, Computability inthe class of real closed fields
Poulios, Georgios, Peterzil-Steinhorn sub-groups of real algebraic groups
IOWAIowa State University (40)
Department of Mathematics
Albashrawi, Saleh, Second order charac-teristic based schemes for chemotaxissystem
Basnet, Man, On modified l1-minimizationproblems in compressed sensing
Erickson, Craig, Sign patterns that requireeventual exponential nonnegativity
Failing, David, Commutative, idempotentgroupoids and the constraint satisfac-tion problem
Hao, Yiping, Computation and analysisof evolutionary game dynamics
Osborne, Steven, Cospectral bipartitegraphs for the normalized Laplacian
Pryporov, Maksym, Gaussian beam meth-ods for the Schrodinger equation withperiodic potentials and strictly hyper-bolic systems
Seol, Young Soo, Random walks in asparse random environment
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Wang, Chi-Jen, Analysis of discretereaction-diffusion equations for au-tocatalysis and continuum diffusionequations for transport
Wang, Jing, Modeling of the interplay be-tween single-file diffusion and reactionconversion in mesoporous systems
Warnberg, Nathan, Positive semidefinitepropagation time
Department of Statistics
Abell, Caitlyn Elizabeth, Evaluation oflitters per sow per year as a meansto reduce non-productive sow days incommercial swine breeding herds andits association with other economicallyimportant traits
Blythe, Derek Charles, An investigationof viral fitness using statistical andcomputer models of equine infectiousanemia virus infection
Bramer, Lisa Marie, Methods for model-ing and forecasting wind characteristics
Du, Chuanlong, Modeling, inference, andclustering for equivalence classes of3-D orientations
Ghosh, Subhomoy, Topics in stochasticgrowth models
He, Ru, Structure learning in Bayesiannetworks and session analysis of peoplesearch within a professional socialnetwork
Hildreth, Laura Ann, Residual analysisfor structural equation modeling
Hobbs, Jonathan Michael, Characterizingdiurnal and interannual variability inthe atmosphere through physical andstochastic models
Hoeksema, Amy Beth, Statistical methodsfor the forensic analysis of stratiatedtool marks
Hsu, Yu-Yi, Reducing parameter estima-tion bias for data with missing valuesusing simulation extrapolation
Kim, Eunice Jungeun, Hotspot detectionand a nonstationary process variancefunction estimation
Le, Dai-Trang, Applying item responsetheory modeling in educational re-search
Li, Jun, Two sample interference for highdimensional data and nonparametricvariable selection for census data
Li, Yang, Non-parametric and semi-parametric estimation of spatial co-variance function
Lin, Hui, Statistical methods in diseaserisk analysis, disease testing, and nutri-tion epidemiology
Liu, Bin, Estimating multiple treatmenteffects in two-phase observational data
Liu, Jia, Statistical inference for functionsof the parameters of a linear mixedmodel
Liu, Shiyao, Statistical methods for ex-treme values and degradation analysis
Loy, Adam M., Diagnostics for mixed/hierarchical linear models
Majumder, Md Mahbubul Amin, Investi-gations into visual statistical inference
McKelvey, Mark Wesley, Modifications toclassification and regression trees tosolve problems related to imperfectdetection and dependence
Riddles, Minsun Kim, Propensity scoreadjusted method for missing data
Shukla, Sachet Ashok, Topics in cancergenomics
Stanfill, Bryan Adams, Statistical methodsfor random rotations
Vendettuoli, Marie C, Workflow tools forbiological applications
Xie, Yihui, Dynamic graphics and report-ing for statistics
Yang, Shan, Estimation under stochasticdifferential equations
Yang, Shu, Fractional imputation methodof handling missed data and spatialstatistics
Zhou, Wen, Some Bayesian and multi-variate analysis methods in statisticalmachine learning and applications
University of Iowa (18)
Applied Mathematical and
Computational Sciences
Abiva, Jeannine Therese, Learning the as-sociation of multiple inputs in recurrentnetworks
Krines, Mark, On the probabilistic mod-eling of consistency for iterated posi-tional election procedures
Padberg, Mary Therese Zeithaml, Soft-ware for modeling protein-bound DNA:Determining a geometric structure con-sistent with known topological data
Sheng, Qiwei, Some approximations toradiative transfer equation and theirapplications
Yang, Fan, Asymptotics for risk measureof extreme risks
Department of Biostatistics
Carter, Knute D, Best-subset model selec-tion based on multitudinal assessmentsof likelihood improvements
Johnson, Amy M, Modeling time seriesdata with semi-reflective boundaries
Yin, Jun, Bayesian statistical modelingof epidemics and the contact networksthat transmit them
Department of Mathematics
Benson, Katherine, On radio labeling ofdiameter N − 2 and caterpillar graphs
Brooks, Susan, The geometry and topol-ogy of wide ribbons
Florescu, Alina, Reduced τn-factorizationin Z and taun-factorizations in N
Goertzen, Corissa, Operations on infinitex infinite matrices, and their use indynamics and spectral theory
Jones, Garrett, Modeling knotted proteinswith tangles
Mooney, Christopher, Generalized fac-torization in commutative rings withzero-divisors
Niedzialomski, Amanda, Consecutive ra-dio labelings and the Cartesian productof graphs
Teff, Nicholas, The Hessenberg represen-tation
Wolf, Travis, Coisometric extensions
Department of Statistics and
Actuarial Science
Chang, Shu-Ching, Antedependence mod-els for skewed continuous longitudinaldata
KANSASKansas State University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Bischof, Bryan, Deformations of differen-tial operators
DeSilva, Dilum, Lind-Lehmer constant forgroups of the form Znp
Department of Statistics
Ramirez, Girly, Variable selection andprediction in sparse ultra high dimen-sional additive models
Richardson, Troy, Treatment heterogene-ity and potential outcomes in linearmixed effects models
Serasinghe, Roshan, Individual mediatingeffects and the concept of terminalmeasures data
Xiang, Sijia, Semiparametric mixturemodels
University of Kansas (3)
Department of Mathematics
Console, Alexander, Limit domains inseveral complex variables
Harnett, Daniel, Central limit theoremsfor some symmetric stochastic integrals
Zhang, Mingji, Dynamics of Poisson-Nernst-Planck system and applicationsto ionic channels
Wichita State University (2)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Physics
Al-Shutnawi, Basma, On convergence setsof formal power series
Ryan, Justin, Geometry of horizontalbundles and connections
KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (13)
Department of Mathematics
Akman, Murat, On the dimension of a cer-tain measure arising from a quasilinearelliptic pde
Dailey, Megan, Relative perturbation the-ory for diagonally dominant matrices
Gier, Megan, Eigenvalue multiplicities ofthe Hodge Laplacian on coexact 2-formsfor generic metrics on 5-manifolds
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Gunturkun, Sema, Homogenous Goren-stein ideals and Boij-Soderberg decom-positions
Hines, Clinton, Spin cobordism and wedgequasitoric manifolds
Huang, Tao, Regularity and uniquenessof some geometric heat flows and itsapplications
Kremer, Ray, Homological algebra withfiltered modules
Monday, Casey, A characterization ofserve classes of reflective modules overa complete local Noetherian ring
Ozbek, Furuzan, Subfunctors of exten-sion functors
Sturgeon, Stephen, Boij-Soderberg de-compositions, cellular resolutions, andpolytopes
Department of Statistics
Feng, Limin, James-Stein type compoundestimation of multiple mean responsefunctions and their derivatives
Xi, Jing, Polytopes arising from binarymutlti-way contingency tables and char-acteristic imsets for Bayesian networks
Zhang, Xiang, Analysis of spatial data
University of Louisville (2)
Department of Mathematics
Kodippuli Thanthillage Dona, RasithaRangani Jayasekare, Mixture of Poissondistributions to model discrete stockprice changes
Wang, Chunwei, A stage structured de-layed reaction-diffusion model for com-petition between two species
LOUISIANALSU Health ScienceCenter, New Orleans (3)
Department of Biostatistics
Berken, Jennifer, A study of type I andtype II error rates of accepted andnovel analysis methods through thedevelopment of an automated methodto simulate comet assay images
Beyl, Robbie, Accuracy of p-values forinverse prediction in multi-categorysettings
Du, Roufei, Functional profiling of next-generation sequencing
Louisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (6)
Department of Mathematics
Blanton, Jacob, Reformulations for con-trol systems and optimization problemswith impulses
Dribus, Benjamin, On the infinitesimaltheory of Chow groups
Eakins, Evan, Constructive aspects ofKochen’s theorem on p-adic closures
Latin, Ladorian, A semigroup/Laplacetransform approach to approximatingflows
McGuire, Trevor, Combinatorial free res-olutions of ideals with monomial andbinomial generators
Peng, Yun, Ito formula and Girsanovtheorem on a new Ito integral
Louisiana TechnologyUniversity (4)
Program of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bracey, Scarlett, Modeling and controlof nanoparticle bloodstream concentra-tion for tumor therapies
Han, Fei, Numerical simulation of hydro-gen absorption/desorption processesin cylindrical metal-hydrogen reactorsfor hydrogen storage
Shi, Liwei, A mathematical model andnumerical method for thermoelectricDNA sequencing
Wang, Yifan, Numerical solutions forproblems with complex physics in com-plex geometry
Tulane University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Luo, Qingyang, Integrated analysis ofclinical and longitudinal genomic data
Xiang, Tian, Global dynamics of thelocal and nonlocal Patlak-Keller-Segelchemotaxis system
University of Louisiana atLafayette (4)
Department of Mathematics
Delcambre, Mark, Finite difference schemesfor a structured model of mycobac-terium marinum
LeBlanc, Richard L., Baer and Rickartproperties in modules and an associ-ated radical
Muniswamy, Sowmya, Analytical and nu-merical approach to Caputo fractionaldifferential equations via generalizediterative schemes with applications
Wang, Yi, Analysis and numerical schemesfor certain structured population mod-els
MARYLANDJohns Hopkins University,Bloomberg School ofPublic Health (4)
Department of Biostatistics
Krall, Jenna, Statistical methods for link-ing the chemical composition of partic-ulate matter to health outcomes
Maas, Paige, Synthesizing data sourcesto develop and update risk models
Shou, Haochang, Statistical methods forstructured multilevel functional data:Estimation and reliability
Wei, Yingying, Integrative statistical mod-els for genomic signal detection
Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore (10)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Adali, Sancar, Joint optimization of fi-delity and commensurability for mani-fold alignment and graph matching
Qin, Yichen, Robust inference via Lq-likelihood
Sussman, Daniel, Foundations of adja-cency spectral embedding
Wang, Qi, Optimization with discretesimultaneous perturbation stochasticapproximation using noisy loss func-tion measurements
Zheng, Fang, Algebraic approaches forconstructing multi-D wavelets
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Xuehua, An improvement on eigen-function restriction estimates for com-pact boundaryless Riemannian mani-folds with nonpositive sectional curva-ture
Karami, Arash, Zeros of random Rein-hardt polynomials
Shao, Peng, Sobolev resolvent estimatesof the Laplace-Beltrami operator oncompact Riemannian manifolds
Sinclair, Duncan, Heat kernels on Rie-mannian polyhedra and heat flows intoNPC manifolds
Xiao, Ling, Flow problems in hyperbolicspace
University of Maryland,Baltimore County (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Ayyala, Deepak Nag, High dimensionaltime series: Mean vector testing andtesting for autocorrelation matrices
Cornwell, David, Amplified quantumtransforms
Jacobs, Justin, Nonparametric Bayesiandensity estimation on Riemannian man-ifolds
Mbodj, Malick, Ellipsoidal tolerance re-gions and simultaneous tolerance in-tervals for some multivariate normalpopulation
Raim, Andrew, Computational methodsin finite mixtures using approximateinformation and regression limited tothe mixture mean
Trott, David, Top heavy and specialBishop-Phelps cones, Lyapunov rank,and related topics
Zimmer, Zachary, Tolerance intervalsunder some discrete models, zero-inflated models and mixture models
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University of Maryland,College Park (16)
Department of Applied Mathematics,
Statistics, and Scientific
Computation
Andrews, Travis, Frame multiplicationtheory for vector-valued harmonic anal-ysis
Ballew, Joshua, Mathematical topics influid-particle interaction
Blagg, David, Unramified extensions ofthe cyclotomic Z2-extension of Q(
√d, i)
Cloninger, Alexander, Exploiting data-dependent structure for improving sen-sor acquisition and integration
Doster, Timothy, Harmonic analysis in-spired data fusion with applications inremote sensing
Drombosky, Tyler, Geodynamic simula-tions using the fast multipole boundaryelement method
Meng, Tong, Two price economy incontinuous time and its applications infinance
Motesharrei, Safa, Minimal models ofhuman-nature interaction
Otarola Pasten, Enrique, A PDE approachto numerical fractional diffusion
Patrick, Carlos, Surface tension freeboundary problems: Formulation, op-timal control, and numerics
Rajapakse, Vinodh, Data representationfor learning and information fusion inbioinformatics
Skinner, Michael, An efficient method forradiation hydrodynamics in models offeedback-regulated star formation
Sotiris, Ekaterina, Outlier modeling forspatial Gaussian random fields
Tsai, Wan-Yu, Lift of the trivial represen-tation to a nonlinear cover
Wickman, Clare, An optimal transportapproach to some problems in frametheory
Yu, Wei-Hsuan, Spherical two-distancesets and related topics in harmonicanalysis
MASSACHUSETTSBoston University (9)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Benes, Gregory, Stability of multi-solutionsin the TODA model and torus canardsin neuroscience models
Cuzzocreo, Daniel, Dynamical invariantsand parameter space structures forrational maps
Fitzgibbon, Elizabeth, Rational maps: Thestructure of Julia sets from accessibleMandelbrot sets
Gonzalez Ramirez, Laura, Existence andstability of traveling waves in a bio-logically constrained model of seizurewave propagation
Liu, Chong, Functional principal compo-nent and factor analysis of spatiallycorrelated data
Nikolaev, Nikolay, Some methods forrobust inference in econometric factormodels and in machine learning
Viles, Weston, Network data analysisWard, Brandon, Observables in the BC
systemZelinsky, Joshua, Variations on the Artin
primitive root conjecture
Brandeis University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Fang, Yu, Automorphic construction ofunits in a totally real field
Hermes, Stephen, Higher homotopy struc-tures of Ginzburg algebras
Ostroff, Jonah, Counting connected di-graphs with gradings
Zhang, Yurong, Iwasawa main conjecturefor Eisenstein series Ek+z,2,1,ε
Harvard U, School ofPublic Health (14)
Biostatistics Department
Alexeeff, Stacey, Measurement error in en-vironmental exposures: Statistical im-plications for spatial air pollution mod-els and gene environment interactiontests
Barnett, Ian, SNP-set tests for sequencingand genome-wide association studies
Bind, Marie-Abele, Statistical methods toinvestigate the role of genetic andepigenetic mechanisms in air pollutionand temperature health effects
Braun, Danielle, Statistical methods toadjust for measurement error in riskprediction models and observationalstudies
Cudhea, Frederick, A novel method formodeling hierarchical developmentaltoxicity data and calculating joint riskBMDs based on the Plackett-Dale distri-bution
Dai, Wei, Robust approaches to markeridentification and evaluation for riskassessment
Dean, Natalie Exner, Surveillance meth-ods for monitoring HIV incidence anddrug resistance
Huang, Norman, Graph-based supportvector machines for patient responseprediction using pathway and geneexpression data
Lin, Xinyi, Statistical methods for high-dimensional data in genetic epidemiol-ogy
Meyer, Mark, Function-on-function re-gression with public health applications
Mitchell, Shira, Capture-recapture estima-tion for conflict data and hierarchicalmodels for program impact evaluation
Mukherjee, Rajarshi, Statistical inferencefor high dimensional problems
Rader, Kevin, Methods for analyzingsurvival and binary data in complexsurveys
Sathirapongsasuti, Jarupon Fah, Post-genomic approaches to personalizedmedicine: Applicaitons in exome se-quencing, microbiome, and COPD
Harvard University (16)
Department of Mathematics
Antonakoudis, Stergios, The complex ge-ometry of Teichmuller space
Daemi, Aliakbar, Symmetric spaces andknot invariants from gauge theory
Diao, Hansheng, The eigencurve is properIvrii, Oleg, The geometry of the Weil-
Petersson metric in complex dynamicsLe Hung, Bao Viet, Modularity of some
elliptic curves over totally real fieldsPflueger, Nathan, Regeneration of elliptic
chains with exceptional linear seriesRaskin, Samuel, Chiral principal series
categoriesWoolf, Matthew, Relative Jacobeans of
linear systemsZhou, Jie, Arithmetic properties of mod-
uli spaces and topological string par-tition functions of some Calabi-Yauthreefolds
Department of Statistics
Bischof, Jonathan, Interpretable and scal-able Bayesian models for advertisingand text
Espinosa, Valeria, A Bayesian perspectiveon factorial experiments using potentialoutcomes
Guo, Lei, Bayesian biclustering on dis-crete data: Variable selection methods
Han, Simeng, Statistical methods foraggregation of indirect information
Kelly, Joseph, Advances in the normal-normal hierarchical model
Sabbaghi, Arman, Dilemmas in design:From Neyman and Fisher to 3D printing
Watson, David, Complications in causalinference: Incorporating informationobserved after treatment is assigned
Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (18)
Department of Mathematics
Batson, Joshua, Obstructions to slicingknots and splitting links
Belanger-Rioux, Rosalie, Compressed ab-sorbing conditions for the Helmholtzequation
Cesnavicius, Kestutis, Selmer groups asflat cohomology groups
Culler, Lucas, The blowup formula forhigher rank Donaldson invariants
Deckelbaum, Alan, The structure of auc-tions: Optimality and efficiency
DeFranco, Mario, The unramified princi-pal series at p-adic groups the Besselfunction
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Dubbs, Alexander, Beta-ensembles withcovariance
Jackson-Hanen, David, Symplectic coho-mology of contractible surfaces
Keating, Ailsa Macgregor, Symplecticproperties of Milnor fibres
Ketover, Daniel, Min-max minimal sur-faces is 3-manifolds
Lesieutre, John, Negative answers to somepositivity questions
Lieson, Mark, New statistical geneticmethods for elucidating the history andevolution of human populations
Liu, Tiankai, On planar rational cuspidalcurves
Minton, Gregory, Computer-assistedproofs in geometry and physics
Oza, Anand, A trajectory equation forwalking droplets: Hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory
Park, Jennifer, Effective Chabauty forsymmetric powers of curves
Tsymbaliuk, Oleksandr, The affine Yan-gian of gl1 and the infinitesimal Chered-nik algebras
Tucker, George, Statistical methods toinfer biological interactions
NortheasternUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Appel, Andrea, Monodromy theorems inthe affine setting
Duke, Andrew, Cube-like regular inci-dence complexes
Kesir, Mustafa, A mathematical modelof redox/methylation metabolism inhuman neuronal cells
Veetel, Bindu, On the regularity of solu-tions to the Beltrami equation in theplane
Yang, Yaping, Three contributions totopology, algebraic geometry and rep-resentation theory: Homological finite-ness of abelian covers, algebraic ellipticcohomology theory and monodromytheorems in the elliptic setting
Zhao, Gufang, Deprived category and co-homology of resolution of singularities:Examples from representation theory
Tufts University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Friedhoff, Stephanie, Design and analysisof multigrid methods for parabolicproblems
Hao, Ning, Moving from matrix to tensor-based analysis and algorithms for appli-cations in imaging science and beyond
Offerman, Christine, Multi-temporal waveequations on flat and compact symmet-ric spaces
University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (13)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Aiello, Domenico, Galois theory of iter-ated morphisms on reducible ellipticcurves and Abelian surfaces with realmultiplication
Chen, Dechang, Isoperimetric inequal-ity and area growth of surfaces withbounded mean curvature
Friedlander, Holley, Twisted Weyl groupmultiple Dirichlet series over the ratio-nal function field
Gassert, Thomas, Prime decompositionin iterated towers and discriminantformulae
Herr, Daniel, Open books on contactthree orbifolds
Kazanova, Anna, Degenerations ofGodeaux surfaces and exceptional vec-tor bundles
Koonz, Jennifer, Properties of singularSchubert varieties
Li, Jingran, Conditional Gaussian fluctu-ations and refined asymptotics of thespin in the phase-coexistence region
Li, Kai, Discrete parity-time symmetricnonlinear Schrodinger lattices
Mohr, Luke, Martingale central limit the-orem and nonuniformly hyperbolic sys-tems
Rana, Julie, Boundary divisors in themoduli space of stable quintic surfaces
Yan, Dong, Dark-bright solitons andvortices in Bose-Einstein condensates
Department of Public Health
Biostatistics
Yu, Shuli, Evaluating predictors of in-dividual dietary intake latent valuesunder different mixed models
Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (1)
Mathematical Sciences Department
Zheltukhin, Sergey, Preferred frequenciesfor coupling of seismic waves andvibrating tall buildings
MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Aqtash, Raid, On generating new fam-ilies of distributions using the logitfunction
Aljarrah, Mohammad, System of con-tinuous distributions generated fromquantile functions
Alzaghal, Ahmad, Families of exponenti-ated generalized distributions: Proper-ties and applications
Gautam, Yadu, A novel approach of im-puting summary statistics for genome-wide association study
Loszewski, Cleland, The symplectic vol-ume of the ribbon graph complex
Wijetunge, Tharanga, The role of advancestudent response system-perspectivesof the preservice secondary mathemat-ics teachers
Michigan StateUniversity (11)
Department of Mathematics
Bao, Lian Zhang, Some properties ofbackward forward parabolic equationsfrom population dynamics
Giambrone, Adam, A combinatorial ap-proach to knot theory: Volume boundsfor hyperbolic semi-adequate link com-plements
Jones, Jaylan, Development of a fastand accurate time stepping scheme forthe functionalized Cahn-Hillard equa-tion and application to a graphicsprocessing unit
Krcatovich, David, The reduced knotFloer complex
Maridakis, Manousos, The concentrationprinciple
Reznikov, Aleksandr, Weighted norm in-equalities for Calderon-Zygmund oper-ators
Shadrach, Richard, Integral models ofcertain PEL Shimura varieties with Γ1(p)-type level structure
Department of Statistics and
Probability
Cheng, Dan, The excursion probability ofGaussian and asymptotically Gaussianrandom fields
Kang, Lening, The excursion probabilityof Gaussian and asymptotically Gaus-sian random fields
Wu, Cen, High dimensional statisticalmethods for gene-environment interac-tions
Zhang, Kai, Model selection and forecast-ing for periodic time series
Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Al-Habahbeh, Abdallah, Simulations ofNewtonian and non-Newtonian flows indeformable tubes
Kumari, Sapna, Identification of genescontrolling biological processes andpathways through statistical analysisand network reconstruction
Oakland University (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Connolly, Robert D., Matching preclusionand conditional matching preclusionproblems for the folder Petersen cube
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Hayman, Thomas J., Facet-inducing in-equalities of the convex hull of integersolutions of application-driven struc-tures of multiple all-different predi-cates
University of Michigan (37)
Department of Mathematics
Abram, William, Equivariant complexcobordism
Altschul, Samuel, Endoscopy for nilpotentorbits of G2
Beichman, Jennifer, Nonstandard disper-sive estimates and linearized waterwaves
Bosler, Peter, Particle methods for geo-physical flow on the sphere
Brooks, Ernest, Generalized Heegner cy-cles, Shimura curves, and special valuesof p-adic L-functions
Chung, Sohhyun, The impact of Vol-cker rule on bank profits and defaultprobabilities
Clader, Emily, The Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence for certaincomplete intersections
Ford, Nicolas, Geometric shifts andpositroid varieties
Gignac, William, Equidistribution of preim-ages in nonarchimedean dynamics
Gu, Huaiying, Value-at-Risk (VaR) anddynamic portfolio selection
Henry, Shawn, Classifying topoi andpreservation of higher order logic bygeometric morphisms
Huang, Yu-Jui, Topics in stochastic con-trol with applications to finance
Kim, Jae Kyoung, Mathematical modelingand analysis of biological clocks withincells
Lapan, Sara, On the existence of attract-ing domains for maps tangent to theidentity
Lee, Seung Jin, Centrally symmetric poly-topes with many faces
Meyer, Jeffrey, On the totally geodesiccommensurability spectrum of an arith-metic locally symmetric space
Mueller, Alexander, Applications of gen-eralized Fermat varieties to zeta func-tions of Artin-Schreier curves
Priddis, Nathan, A Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence for the mir-ror quintic
Reyes, Kristopher-Roy, Large scale ki-netic Monte Carlo simulations: Theory,implementation and applications
Roberts, Joseph, Steady and self-similarsolutions to two-dimensional hyper-bolic conservation laws
Rosen, Julian, The artithmetic of multipleharmonic sums
Sadiq, Burhan, Finite difference meth-ods, Hermit interpolation and Quasi-Uniform Spectral Schemes (QUSS)
Scherr, Zachary, Rational polynomial Pellequations
Scott, Geoffrey, Torus actions and singu-larities in symplectic geometry
Shearer, Paul, Separable inverse prob-lems, blind deconvolution, and straylight correction for extreme ultravioletsolar images
Shen, Yefeng, Gromov-Witten theory ofelliptic orbifold projective lines
Shoemaker, Mark, A mirror theorem forthe mirror quintic
Watkins, Jordan, The higher rank rigiditytheorem for manifolds with no focalpoints
Wu, Jingchen, Some problems in stochas-tic control theory related to inventorymanagement and coarsening
Zhu, Zhixian, Topics in singularities andjet schemes
Department of Statistics
Cheng, Jie, Mixed and covariate depen-dent graphical models
Mallik, Atul, Topics on threshold estima-tion, multistage methods and randomfields
Mankad, Shawn, Statistical techniquesfor the exploratory analysis of struc-tured three-way and dynamic networkdata
Mukherjee, Ashin, Topics on reducedrank methods for multivariate regres-sion
Park, Yeo Jung, New methods for dis-covering hidden dependence and forassessing the possible influence of un-observed variables
Sales, Adam, New perspectives on regres-sion adjustment in causal inference,with applications to educational pro-gram evaluation
Zhang, Zhanyang, Predictive models andcalibration analysis in large-scale com-putational studies
Wayne State University (8)
Department of Mathematics
Fan, Li, DG and HDG for curved structuresHashemi, Araz, Adaptive stochastic sys-
tems: Estimation, filtering, and noiseattenuation
Talafh, Yousef, Two-time scale systems incontinuous time with regime switchingand their applications
Tilson, Sean, Power operations in theKunneth and C2-equivariant Adamsspectral sequences with applications
Tran, Nghia, Full stability in optimizationXiao, Yayuan, Discrete Littlewood-Paley-
Stein theory and Wolff potentials onhomogeneous spaces and multiparam-eter Hardy spaces
Zhao, Guangliang, Properties of nonlin-ear randomly switching dynamic sys-tems: Mean-field models and feedbackcontrols for stabilization
Zhu, Jiuyi, Qualitative properties of solu-tions of fully nonlinear equations andoverdetermined problems
Western MichiganUniversity (10)
Department of Mathematics
Andrews, Eric, On Eulerian irregularityand decompositions in graphs
Arnold, David, Classifying spaces ofsymmetric groups and wreath products
Atanga, Napthalin, Elementary schoolteachers’ use of curricular resourcesfor lesson design and enactment
Bulut, Alper, Lie loops associated withGL(H ), H a separable infinite dimen-sional Hilbert space
Edson, Alden J., A deeply digital instruc-tional unit on binomial distributionsand statistical inference: A design ex-periment
Goss, Joshua, A method for assessingand describing the informal inferentialreasoning of middle school students
Houck, Julienne (Julie), A pattern inthe Lusternik-Schnirelmann category ofrational spaces
Kipka, Robert, Mathematical methodsof analysis for control and dynamicoptimization problems on manifolds
Department of Statistics
Burgos, Jaime, Multivariate autoregres-sive time series using Schweppe weightedWilcoxon estimates
Jelsema, Casey, Estimates and inferencefor spatial and spatio-temporal mixedeffects models
MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota-Twin Cities (19)
Division of Biostatistics, School of
Public Health
Austin, Erin, Penalized regression and itsapplications to genetics and genomics
Quick, Harrison, Spatiotemporal gradientmodeling with applications
Zhang, Yiwei, Two topics in associationanalysis of DNA sequencing data
School of Mathematics
Chang, Ching-Hao, Isotopy of nodal sym-plectic spheres in rational manifolds
Chen, Haoran, A dynamic model ofpolyeclectrolyte gels
Feng, Hao, On three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with axi-symmetricvortex rings as initial vorticity
Huang, Jia, 0-Hecke algebra actions onflags, polynomials, and Stanley-Reisnerrings
Miller, Alexander, Reflection arrange-ments and ribbon representations
Nie, Xiaolan, Complex Monge-Ampereequations and Chern-Ricci flow on Her-mitian manifolds
Oestreicher, Samantha, Forced oscillatorswith dynamic Hopf bifurcations andapplications to Paleoclimate
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Thompson, Robert, Applications of mov-ing frames to group foliation of differ-ential equations
Williams, Nathan, Cataland
School of Statistics
Ding, Shanshan, Sufficient dimensionreduction for complex data structures
Kang, Yicheng, Edge detection and imagerestoration of blurred noisy imagesusing jump regression analysis
Mai, Qing, Variable selection in high-dimensional classification
Price, Bradley, Ridge fusion in statisticallearning
Sherwood, Benjamin, Quantile regressionmodel selection
Zhang, Xin, Envelopes for efficient multi-variate parameter estimation
Zimmerman, Patrick, Survey samplingand multiple stratifications
MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bhoumik, Soumya, On the automorphismgroups of almost circulant graphs anddigraphs
Kalappattil, Lakshmi, Classes of singularnonlinear eigenvalue problems withsemipositone structure
Williams, Jahmario, Positive radial solu-tions for p-Laplacian singular boundaryvalue problems
University ofMississippi (3)
Department of Mathematics
Curry, Jamye, Rank-based two sampletests under a general alternative
Putnam, Bette, The characterization ofgraphs with small bicycle spectrum
Turnage-Butterbaugh, Caroline, Momentsof products of L-functions
University of SouthernMississippi (1)
Department of Mathematics
Cenek, Eowyn, Iterative solvers for large,dense matrices
MISSOURIMissouri University ofScience andTechnology (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Zeng, Bilin, Sparse group sufficient di-mension reduction and covariance cu-mulative slicing estimation
St Louis University (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Lloyd-Hepburn, Tanya, Ricci flow onanti-self-adjoint naturally reductive ho-mogeneous spaces
Pedigo, Mark, The lower central series ofthe free nilpotent groups of finite rank
University ofMissouri-Columbia (15)
Department of Mathematics
Alhazaa, Khalifa, Counter examples onStrichartz’s inequalities
Brigham, Daniel, Quasi-metric geometryCahill, Jameson, Frames and projectionsNicholas, Jacob, Limit of many molecules
dynamics with rigorous macroscopicresults
Soumya, Sanyal, Irrational behavior ofalgebraic discrete valuations
Valerian, Yurov, Stability estimates forstrongly continuous semigroups andpartly parabolic reaction diffusion equa-tions
Vinh, Pham, Generating sequences ofvaluations and applications
Department of Statistics
Dey, Rima, Random set models forgrowth with applications to nowcasting
Gladish, Daniel, Spatio-temporal modelswith time-varying spatial model errorfor enviromental processes
Kim, Sungwook, Optimal experimentaldesign under a multivariate Weibullfunction
Le, Tri Minh, The formal definition ofreference priors under a general classof divergence
Qi, Yue, Equivalence test of high dimen-sional microarray data
Wang, Haiying, Design and analysis ofa new bounded log-linear regressionmodel
Wu, Guohui, Flexible Bayesian hierarchi-cal models for discrete-valued spatio-temporal data
Yang, Wen-Hsi, Hierarchical nonlinear,multivariate, and spatially-dependenttime-frequency functional models
University ofMissouri-Kansas City (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Wu, Wei, Sequential designs and applica-tion in software engineering
University of Missouri-StLouis (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Li, Lihua, Basis function approaches fortwo dimensional Cochlear models
Washington University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Deng, Wei, Four generated rank 2 arith-metically Cohen-Macaulay bundles ongeneral sextic surfaces
Preston M. Green Department of
Electricial and System Engineering
Zlotnik, Anatoly, Optimal control andsynchronization of dynamic ensemblesystems
MONTANAMontana StateUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Akapame, Sydney, Robust design strate-gies for nonlinear models using geneticalgorithms
Bouwman, Andrew, L-cuts for genus 2translation surfaces
Moreland, Heather, Traveling waves inpancreatic islets
Nordey, Kim, Investigating viable argu-ments: Preservice secondary teachers’ability to construct arguments and cri-tique the reasoning of others
Nowack, Shane, Niche character in atemporally varying environment
Thorenson, Jennifer, Discontinuous Galerkinfinite element method for stimulationof a transcription process method
Vsevolozhskaya, Olga, Combining func-tions and the closure principle for per-forming follow-up tests in functionalanalysis of variance
University of Montana -Missoula (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chih, Tien, Abstracted primal-dual affineprogramming
Kogan, Clark, Accuracy assessment inBayesian forecasting linear and nonlin-ear models
Severino, Michael, Digraphs and homo-morphisms: Core, construction, andcolorings
NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska-Lincoln (17)
Department of Mathematics
Auch, Tanner, Development and ap-plication of difference and fractionalcalculus on discrete time scales
Awasthi, Pushp Raj, Boundary value prob-lems for discrete fractional equations
Carraher, James, Results on edge-coloredgrahs and pancyclicity
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Clark, Thomas, An applied functionaland numerical analysis of a 3-D fluid-structure interactive PDE
Corwin, Nathan, Embedding and nonem-bedding results for R. Thompson’sgroup V and related groups
DeVries, Melanie, Unknotting moves ofvirtual knots
Denkert, Annika, Results on contain-ments and resurgences with a focus onideals of points in the plane
Gibbons, Courtney, Decompositions ofBetti diagrams
Haymaker, Kathryn, Combinatorial andalgebraic coding techniques for flashmemorage storage
Johnson, Ashley, Closure and homologicalproperties of (auto)stackable groups
Nolting, Ben, Random search models offoraging behavior: Theory, simulation,and observation
Pei, Pei, Well-posedness and stability ofa semilinear Mindlin-Timoshenko platemodel
Yu, Xuan, Geometric study of the cate-gory of matrix factorizations
Department of Statistics
Black, Michael, Informative retesting forhierarchical group testing
Claassen, Elizabeth, A reduced biasmethod of estimating variance com-ponents in generalized linear mixedmodels
Montesinos-Lopez, Osval, Design and anal-ysis of multistage group testing surveyswith application to detecting and esti-mating prevalence of transgenic corn inMexico
Wichman, Christopher, A test for detect-ing changes in closed networks basedon the number of communications be-tween nodes
NEVADAUniversity of Nevada, LasVegas (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Zhou, Shilei, Time-dependent randomeffect Poisson random field model forpolymorphism within and between tworelated species
NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (10)
Department of Mathematics
Archer, Kassie, Permutations realized bysigned shifts
Bloom, Jonathan, Pattern avoiding per-mutations and rook placements
Crytser, Danny, Traces on graph algebrasEngberg, Zebediah, The arithmetic of
cyclic subgroups
Gillaspy, Elizabeth, K-theory for twistedgroupoid C∗-algebras
Hamaker, Zachary, Bijective combina-torics of reduced decompositions
Kinnaird, Katherine, Aligned hierarchiesfor sequential data
Komarov, Natalie, Capture time in vari-ants of cops and robbers games
LaLonde, Scott, Nuclearity and exact-ness for groupoid crossed productC∗-algebras
Levi, Asa, Refocussing and virtual Legen-drian knots
University of NewHampshire (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chen, Yanni, Function spaces based onsymmetric norms
Kim, Hyung, Developing mathematicsteachers’ pedagogical identity in theclassroom context
Laflamme, Eric, Extreme value theory: Ap-plications to estimation of stochastictraffic capacity and statistical down-scaling of precipitation extremes
Lu, Kewei, On Fan’s adaptive Neymantests for two testing problems in timeseries analysis
Morena, Matthew, Mutual stabilizationof chaotic systems through entangledcupolets
NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (8)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Akcay, Zeynep, Dynamics of phase lock-ing in neuronal networks in the pres-ence of synaptic plasticity
Aunsri, Nattapol, Particle filtering forfrequency estimation from acoustictime-series in dispersive media
Bandha, Sonia, Data analysis and simula-tion for warranties and golf handicaps
Lin, Tao, Inverse methods for soundspeed estimation in the ocean
Lynch, Gavin, The control of the falsediscovery rate under structured hy-potheses
Nganguia, Herve, Electro-deformation ofa moving boundary: A drop interfaceand a lipid bilayer membrane
Qiu, Zhiying, FWER controlling proce-dures for testing multiple hypotheseswith hierarchical structure and applica-tions in clinical trials
Zhang, Yang, A modeling study of thehistory-dependence of conduction de-lay in unmyelinated axons
Princeton University (18)
Department of Mathematics
Alexeev, Boris, An assortment of results incombinatorics and compressed sensing
An, Xinliang, Formation of trapped sur-faces in general relativity
McBreen, Michael, Quantum cohomologyof hypertoric varieties and geometricrepresentations of Yangians
Park, YoungHan, Hyperbolic hypergeo-metric monodromy groups and geo-metric finiteness
Pollack, Aaron, Rankin-Selberg integralsin many complex variables and Rankin-Selberg integrals associated to non-unique models
Reichert, Nicholas, Some results on afully nonlinear equation in conformalgeometry
Ruth, Sam, A bound on the average rankof j-invariant zero elliptic curves
Seed, Cotton, Higher differentials onKhovanov homology
Shenfeld, Daniel, Abelianization of stableenvelopes in symplectic resolutions
Sosoe, Philippe, Fluctuation bounds fortwo disordered models
Sun, Hongbin, On closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds and pseudo-Anosov maps
Tu, Yu-Chao, Etale covering between res-olution of isolated singularities andGaffney-Lazarsfeld theorem for homo-geneous spaces
Zhan, Bohua, Combinatorial methods inbordered Heegaard Floer homology
Program in Applied Computational
Mathematics
Arrubarrena, Jesus Puente, Distances andalgorithms to compare sets of shapesfor automated biological morphomet-rics
Cheng, Xiuyuan, Random matrices inhigh-dimensional data analysis
Kihun, Nam, Stochastic differential equa-tions with superlinear drivers
Kim, Ilhee, On containment relations indirected graphs
Wang, Lanhui, Robust synchronizationand 3D reconstruction from Cryo-EMimages
Rutgers School of PublicHealth (1)
Department of Biostatistics
Li, Shiansong, Bayesian statistical anal-ysis in a phase II clinical trial withsurvival endpoint in patients with B-cellchronic lymphocytic leukemia
Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New JerseyNew Brunswick (22)
Department of Statistics and
Biostatistics
Dai, Dong, Bayesian model averagingwith exponential least squares loss
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Li, Wentao, Importance sampling meth-ods with multiple sampling distribu-tions
Liu, Kezhen, Statistical applications tocardiovascular disease research
Liu, Yufan, Recent advances in computerexperiment modelng
Tang, Ning, Robust gene set analysis androbust gene expression
Yang, Guang, Meta-analysis through com-bining confidence distributions
Yi, Lan, Biomarker discovery for mi-croarray data by enriched methods,stochastic approximation, and mixedmodels
Mathematics Department
Bate, Brandon, Automorphic distribu-tions and the functional equation forthe standard L-function for G2
Craig, Katy, The exponential formula forthe Wasserstein metric
Datar, Ved, Canonical Kahler metricswith cone singularities
Fu, Knight, Slice filtration and torsiontheory in motivic cohomology
Li, Zhan, On the birationality of toricdouble mirrors
McRae, Robert, Integral forms for certainclasses of vertex operator algebras andtheir modules
Naqvi, Yusra, A product formula for cer-tain Littlewood-Richardson coefficientsfor Jack and Macdonald polynomials
Osorio, Eduardo, Finite-difference andfinite-element solution of boundaryvalue and obstacle problems for theelliptic Heston operator
Pal, Susovan, Boundary and Holder reg-ularity of Douady-Earle extensions andeigenvalues of Laplace operators actingon Riemann surfaces
Ravikumar, Vijay, Triple intersectionnumbers for isotropic Grassmannians
Sadowski, Christopher, On the structureof principal subspaces of standardmodules for affine Lie algebras oftype A
Samuel, Matthew, The Leibniz formula fordivided difference operators associatedto Kac-Moody root systems
Wang, Hui, On a Hardy type inequalityand a singular Sturm-Liouville equation
Wang, Yu, Curvature and statisticsYang, Jinwei, Some results in the rep-
resentation theory of strongly gradedvertex algebras
Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New JerseyNewark (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Aggarwal, Monica, On Rota-Baxter Nijen-huis TD-algebra
Kapadia, Hetal, Deligne pairings anddiscriminants of algebraic varieties
Stevens Institute ofTechnology (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Zhang, Yi Di, Groups and ordinals byautomata
NEW MEXICONew Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Jaradat, Imad, Equivariant triviality ofproper Ga-actions on A4
rTchamna Kouna, Simplice, The ideal com-
pletion of a Noetherian local domainYang, Taewon, The logic of bundles
University of NewMexico (9)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Byrne, Martha, Changes in student prov-ing skills and attitudes following acooperative learning seminar
Castaneda, Candelario, Sasakian geome-try on lens space bundles over Riemannsurfaces
Hattab, Mohammad, A survey of lack-of-fit tests based on sums of orderedresiduals
Heras-Llanos, Alfonso, Arithmetic differ-ential subgroups of GLn
Madrid Ramirez, Pedro, Modeling themechanical response of polycrystallinethin films
Terry, Jason, Quantification of stabil-ity in systems of nonlinear ordinarydifferential equations
Toropu, Cristina, ABC theorems in thefunctional case
Wang, Xueqin, Bayesian partially orderedprobit and logit models with an appli-cation to course redesign
White, Bryan, Star operations and numer-ical semigroup rings
NEW YORKBinghamton University,State University of NewYork (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Science
Jaafari, Fatima Zohra, Adaptive meth-ods for estimating the mean of finitepopulation
Kaminski, Jackie, Classification of in-ductively factored gain-graphic arrang-ments of hyperplanes
McCulloch, Ryan, The Chermak-Delgadolattice of finite groups
Minemyer, Barry, Isometric embeddingsof polyhedra
Ruiz, Amanda, Realization spaces ofphased matroids
Wu, Xiaolei, Farrell-Jones conjecture forthe solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups
Clarkson University (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Fowler, Michael, Generalized uncertaintyquantification for linear inverse prob-lems in X-ray imaging
Hu, Wenjin, Quantitative investigation ofthe technologies that support Cloudcomputing
Huddy, Stanley R., The effects of couplingdelay on the dynamics and synchroniza-tion of small oscillator networks
Kramer, Sean, Oceanographic modelingwith hyperspectral satellite data
Li, Na, Variants of ALS method andsource apportionment application
Mihajlovikj, Vidoje, Hybrid layout ofmetabolic networks
Opperman, Michael, Graphs with perfectstate transfer in quantum walks
Columbia University (26)
Department of Biostatistics
Chen, Tianle, Statistical modeling andstatistical learning for disease classifi-cation and prediction
Ciarleglio, Adam, On wavelet-based pro-cedures for scalar-on-function regres-sion
Hu, Chih-Chi, Sequential quantile estima-tion using continuous outcomes withapplications in dose finding
Jia, Xiaoyu, Two-stage continual reassess-ment method and patient heterogeneityfor dose-finding studies
Yu, Gary, Identifying patterns in be-havioral public health data mixturemodeling with an informative numberof repeated measures
Department of Mathematics
Clarkson, Corrin, Three manifold mu-tations detected by Heegaard Floerhomology
Collins, Tristan, Canonical metrics inSasakian geometry
Hanselman, Jonathan, Bordered Hee-gaard Floer homology and graph mani-folds
Koziol, Karol, Iwahori-Hecke algebras inthe mod-p local Langlands program
Nyberg, Thomas, Constant scalar curva-ture of toric fibrations
Pan, Xuanyu, Rational normal curves oncomplete intersections
Puskas, Anna, Demazure-Lusztig opera-tions and metaplectic Whittaker func-tions on covers of the general lineargroup
Putyra, Krzystof, On a generalization ofodd Khovanov homology
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Waldron, Alex, Self-duality and singulari-ties in the Yang-Mills flow
Wang, Ye-Kai, A spacetime Alexandrovtheorem
Whitehead, Ian, Multiple Dirichlet seriesfor affine Weyl groups
Xia, Jie, Towards a definition of Shimuracurves in positive characteristics
Xue, Hang, The geometry and arithmeticof genus four curves
Department of Statistics
Dorie, Vincent, Mixed methods for mixedmodels
Gore, Kristen, Unbiased penetrance es-timates with unknown ascertainmentstrategies
Huang, Chien-Hsun, Interaction-basedlearning for high-dimensional data withcontinuous predictors
Liu, Ying, Kernel-based association mea-sures
Pickov, Radka, Generalized volatility-stabilized processes
Teravainen, Timothy, Semiparametric es-timation of a gaptime-associated haz-ard function
Vinkovskaya, Ekaterina, A point processmodel for the dynamics of limit orderbooks
Zhang, Stephanie, Statistical inferenceand experimental design for Q-matrixbased cognitive diagnosis models
Cornell University (20)
Center for Applied Mathematics
Chacon, Adam, Eikonal equations: Newtwo-scale algorithnms and error analy-sis
Cochran, Amy, Ultrasound-based mea-surements for diagnosing medical dis-orders
Iams, Sarah, Characterizing mosquitoflight through measurement and simu-lation
Montovan, Kathryn, Cooperation in arepetitive and often mistaken world
Mull-Osborn, Alexander, Portfolio opti-mization in incomplete markets in thepresence of asset price bubbles
Nguyen, Duc, A study of the tail measureand its applications in risk modeling
Nishimura, Joel, Designing pulse coupledoscillators to synchronize
Department of Mathematics
Alonso, Juan, Graphs of free groups andtheir measure equivalence
Bessonov, Mariya, Probabilistic modelsfor population dynamics
El Fassy Fihry, Youssef, Graded Cherednikalgebra and quasi-invariant differentialforms
Jones, Kristine, Generic initial ideas oflocally Cohen-Macaulay space curves
Miller, Robyn, Symbolic dynamics onbilliard flow in isosceles triangles
Radu, Remus, Topological models forhyperbolic and semi-parabolic complexHenon maps
Tanase, Raluca, Henon maps, discretegroups and continuity of Julia sets
Tran, Hung, Aspects of the Ricci flowWong, Ka Yue (Daniel), Dixmier algebras
on complex classical nilpotent orbitsand their representation theories
Zheng, Tianyi, Random walks on someclasses of solvable groups
Department of Statistical Sciences
Gomez Tecuapelta, Inder, Asymptotic in-ference for locally stationary processes
Li, James, Tensor (multidimensional ar-ray) decomposition, regression andsoftware for statistics and machinelearning
Schneider, Matthew, Three papers ontime series forecasting and data privacystatistics
Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (9)
PhD Program in Mathematics
Chen, Anbo, Involutions in arithmeticgeometry
Chen, Tao, Geometric characterizationand dynamics of entire functions
Ji, Ran, The asymptotic Dirichlet prob-lems on manifolds with unboundednegative curvature
Lam, Ha, Exploring platform (semi)groupsfor non-commutative key-exchange pro-tocols
Singh, Satyanand, Special representa-tions, Nathanson’s lambda seqencesand explicit bounds
Susse, Timothy, Stable commutator lengthin amalgamated free products
Suzzi Valli, Robert, Non-simple closedgeodesics on 2-orbifolds
Terlecky, Peter, Lean, green, and lifetimemaximizing mobile sensor deploymenton a barrier
Thrall, Louis, Trees, prisms, and a Quillenmodel structure on prismatic sets
New York UniversityPolytechnic School ofEngineering (3)
Department of Mathematics
Medina, Luciano, Chern-Simons equa-tions arising in a quantum Hall effect
Yarmish, Jason, Elliptic Brunn-Minkowskitheory: Generalizations of the Brunn-Minkowski inequalities
Zhu, Guangxian, Minkowski problemsand affine isoperimetric inequalities
New York University,Courant Institute (27)
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
Chou, Evan, Beta-duals of frames and ap-plications to problems in quantization
Cohen, Naftali, What drives the Brewer-Dobson circulation? Wave mean-flowtheories, interactions between resolvedand unresolved waves and the limits ofdownward control
Elgindi, Tarek, Some results on the Eulerequations for incompressible flow
Harel, Matan, The localization phasetransition in random geometric graphswith too many edges
Heilman, Steven, Gaussian isoperimetryfor multiple sets
Jhang, An-Sheng, Dilute suspensions oflength-changing rods in various do-mains
Jorgensen, Jens, Zero transmission inacoustic membrains
Kim, Hongsik, Optimal execution underliquidity constraints
Kim, Yungkwon, The effect of inhibitoryfeedback in small neural network
Koehler, Lukas, On the Shafarevich con-jecture
Krishnan, Arjun, Variational formula forthe time-constant of first-passage per-colation
Li, Sean, Quantitative embeddability ofgroups
Li, Xichen, Teleconnections between thetropical oceans and Antarctic climate
Lin, Ling, Mathematical study of mile-stoning
May, Sandra, Embedded boundary ofmethods for flow in complex geometries
Mehrdad, Behzad, Random sparse groupswith a given degree sequence
Portegies, Jacobus (Jim), Spectral geome-try with applications to data analysis
Ryals, Brian, Synchronization and phase-locking of coupled oscillators
Salas-Boni, Rebeca, Dimensionality reduc-tion rotations and hypothesis testingvia classifier performance
Schioppa, Andrea, Derivations and Al-berti representations
Sen, Sanchayan, On random minimalspanning trees and inhomogeneousrandom graphs
Stern, Alon, Ocean heat delivery mecha-nisms beneath Arctic ice shelves
Thomas, Jordan, Contraction techniquesin the hyperbolicity of surfaces ofgeneral type
Trigila, Giulio, A mesh free method foroptimal transport and a binary integerlinear programming solver
Yang, Dingyu, A complete theory ofKuranishi structures and the polyfold-Kuranishi correspondence
Zhu, Bo, Gauss-Newton-Metropolis withbackup strategy
Zhu, Kangping, Two problems in applica-tions of PDE
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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New York University,Stern School ofBusiness (1)
IOMS-Statistics Group
Flynn, Cheryl, Prediction for data-dependentregularization and consistent bicluster-ing
Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Bai, Lijie, On convex quadratic programswith linear complementary constraints
DelBene, Kevin, Mathematical modelingof wildfire dynamics
Fayton, Joseph, Estimation of geoacousticparameters of marine mud
Lee, Timothy, Approximations and im-provements to semidefinite relaxationsof optimization problems
Newman, Andrew, Low dimensional toolsfor the study of turbulence with appli-cations to wind energy
Sikorski, Kajetan, Pairwise approxima-tions in micro-swimming
Stony Brook University (40)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Cai, Ying, A stochastic segmentationmodel for recurrent copy number alter-ations in grouped array-CGH data
Chai, Yikang, Modeling intra-day marketswith an application of risk managementand optimal order execution
Chen, Yu-Chuan, Canonical forestDong, Xu, New development on mar-
ket microstructure and macrostructure:Patterns of U.S. high frequency dataand a unified factor model framework
Goswami, Mayank, Computing Teichmullermaps and applications of conformal ge-ometry to sensor networks
Guo, Tongfei, Scalable particle and meshalgorithms for elliptic components ofmultiphase problems
Jia, Tengjie, Structures and algorithmsfor covariance estimates with applica-tion to finance
Jiang, Tao, Mathematical modeling ofG-protein-coupled receptor signalingpathways
Kim, Hyoungkeun, Models and numeri-cal algorithms for hydrodynamics withatomic processes and high energy den-sity applications
Kim, Joo-Won, Throat intersection in porenetworks and application to reactiveflow
Kurosaki, Tetsuo, Risk measurement andmanagement in the global markets withthe tempered stable distributions
Lihm, Jayon, Mixture modeling of next-generation sequencing data and its ap-plications to genotyping and estimatinggenotype frequency
Lu, Tianyu, The Chinese equity riskfactor model based on heavy taileddistributions, and its application in riskmanagement and portfolio optimiza-tion
Panok, Lena, The dynamical basis for thedecanalization of gap gene expressionin Kruppel mutant embryos
Ray, Navamita, High-order surface re-construction and its applications forsurface integrals and surface remesh-ing
Shao, Pengyuan, Approximation of longmemory process by short memoryprocess—with application to optionvaluation
Song, Yuzhou, Structure breaks in PCAwith applications in finance
Tsao, Angela, Partial hedging under sto-chastic interest rate
Tsuchida, Naoshi, Application of riskanalysis based on advanced probabilis-tic models
Wu, Jie, Novel computational method-ology for detecting and quantifyingalternative splicing from RNA-seq data
Yu, Han, Application of machine learningto decision support systems
Yu, Yang, Essays in financial economet-rics
Yuan, Eting, A study of two optimalplanning problems in smart grid
Zhang, Lina, Studies of hydrodynamicprocesses in alternative magneto-inertialfusion devices
Zhang, Ruiqi, Modeling the effect ofsequencing error
Zhou, Yijie, Front tracking method withhigh-order enhancement and its ap-plication in two-phase micromixing ofincompressible viscous fluids
Department of Mathematics
Aleyasin, Seyed Ali, The space of Kahlerpotentials on singular and non-compactmanifolds
Cha, Ye Sle, Deformations of axiallysymmetric initial data and the angularmomentum-mass inequality
D’Mello, Shane, Real rational curves oflow degree
Gallardo, Patricio, On the moduli spaceof quintic surfaces
Gianniotis, Panagiotis, The Ricci flow onmanifolds with boundary
Gindi, Steven, Holomorphic twistor spacesand bihermitian geometry
Kim, Inyoung, Almost-Kahler anti-self-dual metrics
Lee, Jaepil, Computation of borderedFloer invariant of (2,2n) torus link
Li, Long, On the uniqueness of singularKaehler-Einstein metrics
Meneses, Claudio, Kahler potentials onthe moduli space of stable parabolicbundles over the Riemann sphere
Smith, Lloyd, The Kontsevich space ofrational curves on cyclic covers ofprojective space
Wen, Jun, Shintani zeta functions andWeyl group multiple Dirichlet series
Wroten, Matthew, The eventual Gaussiandistribution of self-intersection num-bers on closed surfaces
Zhang, Xin, On the local-global principlefor Appolonian-3 circle packings
Syracuse University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Entner, Jeremy, Methods of nonparamet-ric multivariate ranking and selection
Kamau, Leonard, Technology adoptionin secondary mathematics teaching inKenya: An explanatory mixed methodsstudy
Zhao, Liang, Filter-based multiscale en-tropy analysis of complex physiologicaltime series
The University at Albany,SUNY (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chagouel, Isaak, The geometry of theprojective joint spectrum and the com-mutativity of self-adjoint operators
Lubovsky, Arthur, Alcove models forHall-Littlewood polynomials and affinecrystals
Qin, Yueshi, On Rudin’s pathologicalsubmodules over bidisk
Smitas, Daniel, Lipschitz estimates onweakly pseudoconvex domains
Wolf-Christensen, Lauren, The essentialspectra of Toeplitz operators on Hardyspaces and the Riemann-Hilbert prob-lem
University atBuffalo-SUNY (8)
Department of Biostatistics
Dong, Tuochuan, Three and more classdiagnostic studies
Imam, Netsanet, High dimensional factoranalysis for predictive modeling, genediscovery, and genetic risk assessment
Lai, Wei, Quantile function methods withapplications to robust estimation
Tao, Ge, Novel likelihood type statisti-cal procedures based on frequentist,Bayesian and hybrid techniques appliedto health related studies
Yan, Li, Selected topics in statisticalmethods for DNA microarray analysis
Yin, Jingjing, Topics in ROC analysis:Joint inference, combination of multiplebiomarkers, and confidence bands
Department of Mathematics
Corrigan-Salter, Bruce, Rigidification ofhomotopy algebras over finite productsketches
Johns, Bryan, The theory of 2-functions
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University of Rochester (9)
Department of Biostatistics and
Computational Biology
Chen, Juo-Fan, State space models anddifferential equations for dynamic generegulatory network identification
Evans, Katie, Extensions to model-basedclustering for mixed-type data: A newmodel framework, variable selection,and outlier identification
Wu, Pan, A new class of structuralfunctional response models for causalinference and mediation analysis
Yang, Hui, Model selection and modelaveraging for longitudinal data withapplications in personalized medicine
Yu, Yao, Single-index model with appli-cation in estimation of ODE and generegulatory network
Department of Mathematics
Creek, Matthew, Large-data global well-posedness for the (1 + 2)-dimensionalequivariant Faddeev model
Gratton, Chad, ABC implies Bang-Zsigmondyresults in arithmetic dynamics
Larson, Donald, The Adams-Novikov E2-term for Behrens’ spectrum Q(2) at theprime 3
Stafa, Mentor, On polyhedral productsand spaces of commuting elements inLie groups
NORTH CAROLINADuke University (18)
Department of Mathematics
Crosskey, Miles, Atlas simulation: A nu-merical scheme for approximating mul-tiscale diffusions embedded in highdimensions
Lawley, Sean, Stochastic switching inevolution equations
Li, Junchi, Axelrod’s model in two dimen-sions
O’Neill, Christopher, Monoid congru-ences, binomial ideals, and their de-compositions
Ryu, Hwayeon, Feedback-mediated dy-namics in the kidney: Mathematicalmodeling and stochastic analysis
Sgouralis, Ioannis, A dynamical nephrovas-cular model of renal autoregulation
Xu, Hangjun, Uniformly area expandingflows in spacetimes
Department of Statistical Science
Au, Timothy, Topics in computationaladvertising
Challis, Christopher, Bayesian structuralphylogenetics
Heard, Daniel, Statistical inference utiliz-ing agent-based models
Leininger, Thomas, Bayesian analysis ofspatial point patterns
Li, Yingbo, Bayesian hierarchical modelsfor model choice
Montagna, Silvia, On Bayesian analy-ses of functional regression, correlatedfunctional data and non-homogeneouscomputer models
Murray, Jared, Some recent advancesin non- and semiparametric Bayesianmodeling with copulas, mixtures, andlatent variables
Petralia, Francesca, Structured Bayesianlearning through mixture models
Terres, Maria, Multivariate spatial pro-cess gradients with environmental ap-plications
Wang, Jianyu, Bayesian modeling andadaptive Monte Carlo with geophysicsapplications
Yang, Yun, Nonparametric Bayes for bigdata
North Carolina StateUniversity (43)
Department of Mathematics
Ball, Kenneth, Structure preserving inte-grators and Hamel’s equations
Benim, Robert, Isomorphy classes ofinvolutions on SO(n,k,β) and SP(2n,k)where n > 2
Brenneman, Kathryn, Lifting k-involu-tions from the root system to the Liealgebra
Comer, Matthew, Error correction forsymbolic and hybrid symbolic-numericsparse interplation algorithms
Costolanski, Anne, Numerical simulationof resonant tunneling devices describedby the Wigner-Poisson equations
Cousins, William, Boundary conditionsand uncertainty quantification for hemo-dynamics
Crook, Susan, Automated shape recogni-tion and curve matching using discreteinvariants
Elamami, Elgaddafi, Augmented strate-gies for 3D elliptic interface problemswith piecewise constant discontinuouscoefficients
Fleisher, Daniel, Wakimoto modules, FMSBosonization and integrable hierarchies
Hendrix, Angelean, Modeling the effectsof androgens on hormonal regulationof the menstrual cycle
Hutchens, John, Isomorphy classes of k-involutions of algebraic groups of typeG2 and F4
Jiang, Ming, Traveling wave solutions,periodic and chaotic solutions of aPDE approximation of coupled Chua’scircuits
Kenz, Zachary, Stenosis-driven acousticwave propagation in biotissue: Model-ing and the inverse problem
Law, Shirley, Combinatorial realizationof certain Hopf algebras of pattern-avoiding permutations
Margolskee, Alison, A whole life model ofthe human menstrual cycle
Maroncelli, Daniel, Existence of solutionsto nonlinear boundary value problemsat higher dimensional resonance
McMahan, Jerry, Control applicationsfor smart systems exhibiting hystereticnonlinearities
Norbrothen, Emma, On classifying of thedouble cosets Hk\Gk/Hk of SL(2, k)
Pendleton, Terrance, An analytical andnumerical study of a class of nonlinearevolutionary PDEs
Rehm, Keri, Multiscale modeling of plantgrowth combining enzyme kinetics andwhole plant dynamics and experimentaldesign applications
Sawyer, Megan, Compartmentalizing thesunlight vitamin: Physiologically basedpharmacokinetic modeling and vitaminD
Schwartz, Nathaniel, On the classificationof k-involutions of SL(n,k) and O(n,k)over fields of characteristic 2
Smith, Erick, SAR imaging through theEarth’s ionosphere
Willert, Jeffrey, Hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo methods for solving theneutron transport equation and k-eigenvalue problem
Williams, Nakeya, Mathematical model-ing of cardiovascular dynamics duringhead-up tilt
Wright, Justin, Periodic dynamical sys-tems of population models
Department of Statistics
Bai, Xiaofei, Doubly-robust estimators inobservational studies with and withouta stratified sub-sample
Banerjee, Sayantan, Bayesian inferencefor high dimensional models: Conver-gence properties and computationalissues
Beeman, Jennifer, Assessing understand-ing of sampling distributions and dif-ferences in learning amongst differentlearning styles
Bernhardt, Paul, Statistical modeling withcovariates subject to detection limits
Che, Ronglin, Statistical methods in ge-netic association studies and a geneticrisk score for predictive modeling ofdisease risk: From gene discovery totranslation
Davenport, Clemontina, Semiparametricregression models for interacting co-variates
Geng, Yuan, Flexible statistical learningmethods for survival data: Risk protec-tion and optimal treatment decision
Kao, Yi-Min, Advances in nonparametricBayesian methods for clustering andclassification
Kong, Dehan, Penalized regression meth-ods with application to domain selec-tion and outlier detection
Shen, Weining, Adaptive Bayesian func-tion estimation
Torres, Pedro, Quantile regression for re-peated responses measured with error
Vock, Laura, Bridge models and variableselection methods for spatial data
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Wang, Liwei, Nonparametric models forlongitudinal data using Bernstein poly-nomial sieve
Wang, Xin, Statistical methods for gene-gene interaction: Detections and classi-fications
Wilson, Thomas, Advances in Bayesianmethods for high-dimensional environ-mental data
Zhang, Aijing, Statistical methods forassessment of biosimilarity on follow-on biologics
Zhao, Guolin, Assessing complex geneticeffects using variance component basedmarker-set methods
University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (36)
Department of Biostatistics
Brownstein, Naomi, Analysis of time-to-event data, intermediate phenotypes,and sparse factors in the OPPERA study
Chung, Wonil, Bayesian parametric andnonparametric methods for multipleQTL mapping and SNP-set analysis
Ha, Min Jin, Graphical models for highdimensional genomic data
Hyun, Noorie, Analysis of interval cen-sored data using a longitudinal biomark-er
Khondker, Zakaria, Bayesian penalizedmethods for high-dimensional data
Lin, Ja-an, Statistical methods for imag-ing genetic data
Liu, Lan, Casual inference with interfer-ence
Song, Guochen, Enrollment and stoppingrules for managing toxicity in phase IIoncology trials with delayed outcome
Urrutia, Eugene, The statistical analysisof genetic sequencing and rare variantassociation studies
Zhang, Yi (Ian), Statistical methods forevaluating the diagnostic accuracy ofincomplete multiple tests
Zhao, Ni, Kernel machine methods foranalysis of genomic data from differentsources
Zhou, Jing, Nonparametric Bayes meth-ods for high dimensional data andgroup sequential design for longitudi-nal trials
Zhu, Ruoqing, Three-based methods forsurvival analysis and high-dimensionaldata
Zou, Baiming, Robust and efficient sta-tistical inference for clustered observa-tional data in comparative effectivenessresearch
Department of Mathematics
Abel, Michael, Virtual crossings and fil-trations in linkk homology
Allman, Justin, K-classes of quiver cycles,Grothendieck polynomials and iteratedresidues
Chen, Shengqian, Dynamics of contin-uously stratified and two-layer incom-pressible Euler fluids and internal waves
Fovargue, Daniel, Multiscale and multi-physics computational models of pro-cesses in shock wave lithotripsy
Fowler, Jacob, Rational homology disksmoothing components of weightedhomogeneous surface singularities
Herschlag, Gregory, Continuum-atomisticalgorithms for dendritic formations
Martindale, James, A soft-magnetic slen-der body in a highly viscous fluid
Maultsby, Bevin, The geometry of radialstates in nonlinear elliptic problems
Ogrosky, Harold Reed, Modeling liquidfilm flow inside a vertical tube
Overbay, Andrea, Perturbative expansionof the colored Jones polynomial
Roberts, Andrew, Abrupt changes andintervening oscillations in conceptualclimate models
Shi, Feng, Modeling networks and dy-namics in complex systems: From nano-composites to opinion formation
Soibelman, Alexander, The very goodproperty for moduli of parabolic bun-dles and the Deligne-Simpson problem
Wang, Simi, Modeling networks in nano-composites and power grids
Department of Statistics and
Operation Research
Chaudhuri, Ritwik, Non-Gaussian semi-stable distributions and their statisticalapplications
Gong, Qi, Stochastic models for orderbook dynamics
Lee, Nelson, Service center design andcontrol problem
Lee, Wonyul, New statistical learningmethods for multiple high dimensionaldatasets
Sabourin, Jeremy, LASSO based resamplemodel averaging for genetics associa-tion studies
Wang, Xuan, The critical scaling windowfor dynamic random graph process
Wei, Susan, Latent supervised learningand DiProPerm
Ye, Han, Data-driven workforce manage-ment in call centers
University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Hounkanli, Kokouvi, The center andcyclicity problems in a family of threedimensional polynomial systems of or-dinary differential equations
Liu, Yi, Generalized quasi-likelihood ratiostatistics for multivariate time-varyingcoefficient regression models
Ray, Elijah, A random hierarchical Lapla-cian
Wang, Yonggang, Generalized quasi-likelihood ratio tests for varying co-efficients quantile regression models
Wu, Li, Consistent nonparametric teston nonlinear regression models withnear-integrated covariates
NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (3)
Department of Mathematics
Abdullayev, Farhod, Variational methodsfor polycrystal plasticity and relatedtopics in partial differential equations
Nasseh, Saeed, DG homological algebra,properties of ring homomorphisms,and the generalized Auslander-Reitenconjecture
Wicklein, Richard, Codualizing modulesand complexes
OHIOAir Force Institute ofTechnology (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Geyer, Andrew, Different formulations ofthe orthogonal array problem and theirsymmetries
Greenwell, Brandon, Topics in statisticalcalibration
Gutman, Alex, Construction, analysis,and data-driven augmentation of su-persaturated designs
Paek-Spidell, Gracie, Analysis of heatpartitioning during sliding contact athigh speed and pressure
Bowling Green StateUniversity (10)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chen, Yanran, Influence of correlationand missing data on sample size deter-mination in mixed models
Combs, Adam, Bayesian model check-ing methods for dichotomous itemresponse theory and testlet models
Hasan, Abeer, A study of skew t distribu-tion with application
Immormino, Nicholas, Clean rings andclean group rings
Kadel, Gokul, Hypercyclic extensions ofan operator on a Hilbert subspace withprescribed behaviors
Lin, Yong, A partitioning approach forthe selection of the best treatment
Ngunkeng, Grace, Statistical analysis ofskew normal distribution and its appli-cations
Pailden, Junvie, Applications of empiricallikelihood to zero-inflated data
Paneru, Khyam, Regression analysis forzero inflated population under complexsampling designs
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Son, Vladimir, Multivariate populationattributable hazard function for right-censored data
Case Western ReserveUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics, Applied
Mathematics and Statistics
Arnold, Andrea, Sequential Monte Carloparameter estimation for differentialequations
Cheng, Yougan, Computational modelsof brain energy metabolism at differentscales
Gassama, Edrissa, Piezoelectric inverseproblems with resonance data: A se-quential Monte Carlo analysis
Joseph, Charles, Multi-scale modeling andanalysis of options markets
Volzer, Joseph, An invariant embeddingapproach to domain decomposition
Kent State University,Kent (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Braga, Bruno, On the Borel complexity ofsome classes of Banach spaces
Franca, Willian, Commuting maps onsome subsets that are not closed underaddition
Kim, Jaegil, Duality phenomena andvolume inequalities in convex geometry
Montanaro, William, Character degreegraphs of almost simple groups
Sass, Catherine, Prime character degreegraphs of solvable groups having diam-eter three
Starvaggi, Patrick, Exact distributions ofsequential probability ratio tests
Ohio State University,Columbus (36)
Department of Mathematics
Acan, Huseyin, An enumerative-probabil-istic study of chord diagrams
Christopherson, John Cory, Ideals in theStone-Cech compactification of a count-able semigroup and some applicationsto ergodic theory and topological dy-namics
George, Jennifer, TQFTs from quasi-Hopfalgebras and group cocycles
Gibbons, Aliska, Automorphism groupsof buildings contstructed via coveringspaces
Greene, Ryan, The deformation theory ofdiscrete reflection groups and projec-tive structures
Jia, Yuhan, Numerical study of the KPsolitons and higher order Miles theoryof the mach reflection in shallow water
Joecken, Kyle, Dimension of virtuallycyclic classifying spaces for certaingeometric groups
Kowalick, Ryan, Discrete systolic inequal-ities
Miller, Jason, Okounkov bodies of Boreloribit closures in wonderful groupcompactifications
Olmez, Fatih, Sleep-wake transition dy-namics and power-law fitting with anupper bound
Ozcakir, Ozge, Traveling wave solutionsin a cylindrical pipe
Park, Hyejin, New asymptotic methods inthe study of analytic differential anddynamical systems
Perkins, Rudolph, On special values ofPellarin’s L-series
Peterson, Nicholas, On random k-outgraphs with preferential attachment
Poole, Daniel, A study of random hyper-graphs and directed graphs
Rosenblatt, Heather, Asymptotics andBorel summability: Applications toMHD, Boussinesq equations and rig-orous Stokes constant calculations
Son, Younghwan, Some results on jointergodicity, sets of recurrence and sub-stitution and tiling systems
Vutha, Amit, Normal forms and unfold-ings of singular strategy functions
Waller, Bradley, Properties of p-adic C−kdistributions
Wiser, Justin, Harmonic resonance dy-namics of a periodically forced Hopfoscillator
Department of Statistics
Bai, Shasha, Inference on intraclass cor-relation coefficients arising in a generalclustered repeated measures design
Bradley, Jonathan, Selection of predictorsand estimators in spacial statistics
Chen, Tian, Judgement post-stratificationwith machine learning techniques: Ad-justing for missing data in surveys anddata mining
Fan, Hang, Estimation of species tree us-ing approximate Bayesian computation
Frazier, Marian, Adaptive design forglobal fit of non-stationary surfaces
Gao, Jinguo, Rank regression in orderrestricted randomized designs
Hinton, Alice, Contributions to discrim-inant analysis of cross-sectional andlongitudinal data with applications
Kil, Siyoen, Finding a targeted subgroupwith efficacy for binary response withapplication for drug development
Kim, Sungmin, Community detection indirected networks and its applicationto analysis of social networks
Leatherman, Erin, Optimal predictive de-signs for experiments that involve com-puter simulators
Liang, Zhiyu, Eigen-analysis of kerneloperators for nonlinear dimension re-duction and discrimination
Sampath, Srinath, Analysis of agreementbetween two long ranked lists
Sgambellone, Anthony, Use of rankinginformation from unmeasured unitsin ranked set and judgements poststratified smaples
Spade, David, Investigating convergenceof Markov chain Monte Carlo methodsfor Bayesian phylogenetic inference
Sullivan, Danielle, A hot deck imputa-tion procedure for multiply imputingnonignorable missing data: The proxypattern-mixture hot deck
Thompson, Katherine, Using ancestralinformation to search for quantitativetrai loci in genome-wide associationstudies
Ohio University, Athens (5)
Department of Mathematics
Beal, Joshua, Matching problems forstochastic processes
Buckalew, Richard, Mathematical modelsin cell cycle biology and pulmonaryimmunity
Hoffman, Douglas, A coloring theoremfor inaccessible cardinals
Malaikah, Khalid, Laplacian growth: In-terface evolution in a Hele-Shaw cell
Mastromatteo, Joseph, The subprojectiv-ity and pure-subinjectivity domain of amodule
University of Cincinnati (8)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Guo, Wei, A unified approach to datatransformation and outlier detectionusing penalized assessment
Kim, Woosuk, Statistical inference ondual generalized order statistics forBurr type III distribution
Li, Dandan, On multiplicity adjustmentin Bayesian variable selection
Li, Qian, Infinite mixture model basedcluster analysis for gene expressiondata
Ramaruban, Nadesan, Commutative hy-peralgebra
Xiao, Yang, A Bayesian subgroup analysisusing an additive mixture model
Zhang, Xiao, Experiment design andreliability analysis of accelerated degra-dation test
Zou, Yuanshu, Robustifying a non-linearmodel using wavelets
OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Lizhi, Systolic freedom of 3-manifolds
Kwon, Bo-hyun, An algorithm to classifyrational 3-tangles
Mills, Melissa, Case studies of instruc-tional practices in proof-based mathe-matics lectures
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Regmi, Dipendra, A study on the globalregularity for two-dimensional magneto-hydro-dynamic and Boussinesq equa-tions
Tao, Lizheng, 2D Boussinesq equationswith logarithmically super-critical con-ditions
Wescoatt, Benjamin, An explanation ofcollege students’ problem solving be-haviors while verifying trigonometricidentities: A mixed methods case study
Yamazaki, Kazuo, On the existence andsmoothness problem of the magneto-hydrodynamics system
University of Oklahoma (5)
Department of Mathematics
Herrera, Yoe, Intersection numbers in ahyperbolic surface
Lee, Misun, Calculus instructors’ ROGs inteaching low achieving students
Li, Suyu, Some sharp inequalities relatedto Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality
Lynam, Matthew, Extensional mapsThuong, Scott, Classification, cobordism,
and curvature of four-dimensional infra-solo manifolds
OREGONOregon State University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Medina, Patricia, Mathematical treatmentand simulation of methane hydratesand adsorption models
Department of Statistics
Mi, Gu, Statistical analysis of RNA se-quencing count data
Sun, Luna, Statistical methods for seriallycorrelated zero-inflated proportions
University of Oregon (4)
Department of Mathematics
Kloefkorn, Tyler, On algebras associatedto finite ranked posets and combinato-rial topology
Schultz, Patrick, Algebraic weak factor-ization systems in double categories
Stewart, Allen, Motivic integral of K3surfaces over a non-Archimedean field
Sun, Michael, The tracial Rokhlin prop-erty for countable discrete amenablegroup actions on nuclear tracially ap-proximately divisible C∗-algebras
PENNSYLVANIACarnegie MellonUniversity (13)
Department of Mathematical Science
Allen, Emily, Combinatorial interpreta-tions of generalizations of Catalannumbers and ballot numbers
Boney, Will, Advances in classificationtheory for abstract elementary classes
Lambie-Hanson, Chris, Covering matri-ces, squares, scales, and stationaryreflection
McKenney, Paul, Forcing axioms and therigidity of corona algebras
Ouyang, Yuhui, Numerical approximationof valuation equations incorporatingstochastic volatility models
Rute, Jason, Topics in algorithmic ran-domness and computable analysis
Department of Statistics
Etchegaray Garcia, Beatriz, Classificationvia auxiliary information: Formalismand application to classification ofvariable stars
Izbicki, Rafael, A spectral series approachto high-dimensional nonparametric in-ference
Kent, Brian, Level set trees for appliedstatistics
Kurtz, Zachary, Local log-linear modelsfor capture-recapture
VanHoudnos, Nathan, The efficacy ofthe Hedges correction for unmodeledclustering, and its generalizations inpractical settings
Wu, Jionglin, Statistical multi-coil MRIreconstruction
Zeifman, Lubov, A new parametric modelfor the point spread function and itsapplication to Hubble space telescopedata
Drexel University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Dalal, Avinash, Quantum and affine Schu-bert calculus and Macdonald polynomi-als
Parry, Daniel, A polynomial variation ofMeinardus’ theorem
Lehigh University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Baker, Breeanne, The k-fixed-endpointpath partition problem
Garmirian, Patricia, The central limittheorem and the estimation of theconcentration of measure for fractionalBrownian motion
Haines, Christopher, The relative advan-tage of knowing an initiation time or amean time when estimating a param-eter from an exponential distributionusing type-II left censored date
Halperin, Alexander, Subdivisions withdistance constraints in large graphs
Ryan, Kathleen, Degree sequences ofedge-colored graphs in specified fami-lies and related problems
Zhang, Yingying, Geometric quantizationof classical metrics on the moduli spaceof canonical metrics
Pennsylvania StateUniversity (13)
Department of Mathematics
Basu, Sankha, A model of intuitionismbased on Turing degrees
Facchi, Giancarlo, Optimal bidding in alimit order book
Flynn, Ryan, Quaternion algebras andelliptic curves over function fields offinite characteristic
Han, Ke, An analytical approach to sus-tainable transportation network design
Ji, Xiang, Deformation problems in Liealgebroids and extended Poisson geom-etry
Katz, Matthew, On the number of A × Bquotient diagrams of integer partitions
Le, Thinh, Nonlocal exterior calculus onRiemannian manifolds
Mayanskiy, Evgeny, Asymptotic Mukaimodel of M6
Pathak, Noopur, Computable aspects ofmeasure theory
Song, YanLi, Geometric quantization, re-duction and k-homology
Wei, Deling, Models of noncooperativegames
Yashinski, Allan, Periodic cyclic homologyand smooth deformations
Yu, Shilin, The Dolbeault DGA of a formalneighborhood
Pennsylvania StateUniversity, UniversityPark (9)
Department of Statistics
Kim, Seonjin, Three essays on nonpara-metric inference for longitudinal dataand time series data
Li, Xiaoye, Three essays on non-stationarytime series
Li, Yihan, Methods in multiple testingand meta-analysis with applications tothe analysis of genomic data
Lou, Lejia, Threeholded partial correla-tion approach for variable selectionin linear models and partially linearmodels
Nunes, Marcus, Analysis of next-gensequencing data with excess of zeroes
Wang, Wei, Performance criteria for con-trol charts
Woo, Yong Ming, Optimization and sta-tistical estimation for the post random-ization method
Zhang, Ying, New models for conditionalcovariance matrix
Zhu, Yeying, Data-adaptive approachesto modeling propensity scores in causalinference problems
Temple University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Fan, Shimao, Data-fitted generic macro-scopic traffic flow models
Gidelew, Getnet, Harmonic analysis oncombinatorial graphs
Shank, Stephen, Low-rank solution meth-ods for large-scale linear matrix equa-tions
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Department of Statistics
Campbell, Kathleen, Extension of Kendall’stau using rank-adapted SVD to identifycorrelation and factors among rankersand equivalence classes among rankedelements
Halbert, Keith, Estimation of proba-bility of failure for damage-tolerantaerospace structures
Xu, Yihuan, Robust estimation of theparameters of g- and h-distributions,with application to outlier detection
University ofPennsylvania (28)
Applied Mathematics and
Computational Science
Han, Wei, Predictable sequences andcompeting with strategies
Liu, Xiaoxian, A PDE-based method foroptimizing solar cell performance
Liu, Yang, 3D image reconstruction fromserial sections
Yang, Fan, Causal inference methodsfor addressing censoring by death andunmeasured confounding using instru-mental variables
Zhang, Xingtan, A sharper ratio
Department of Mathematics
Aditya, Surapaneni, A constructible higherRiemann Hilbert correspondence
Curry, Justin, Sheaves, cosheaves andapplications
Ding, Shanshan, A random walk inrepresentations
Jing, Taisong, The strong CM liftingproblem and the relabelling action onthe equicharacteristic universal defor-mation space of formal groups overFp
Kelly, Tyler, On Berglund-Hubsch-Krawitzmirror symmetry
Korman, Eric, Elliptic involutive struc-tures and generalized Higgs algebroids
Manion, Ryan, Heterotic Chen-Ruan co-homology
Mostert, Pieter, Mixed zeta functionsNuchi, Haggai, The Hopf fibrations are
characterized by being fiberwise homo-geneous
Subramanian, Sneha, Zeros, critical pointsand coefficients of random functions
Tai, Matthew, Family algebras and theisotypic components of g ⊗ g
Wen, Haomin, Scattering and lens rigidityYeroshkin, Dmytro, Riemannian orbifolds
with non-negative curvature
Wharton Statistics Department
Affandi, Raja Hafiz, Learning, large-scaleinference, and temporal modeling ofdeterminantal point processes
Ernst, Philip, Multiple collection estima-tion of population size: A generalizationof “capture-recapture”
Fuki, Igar, Bayesian aspects of classifica-tion procedures
Goldstein, Alex, Topics in tree-basedmethods
Hong, Andrew, Gaussian Markov randomfield models for surveillance error andgeographic boundaries
Kapelner, Adam, Statistical analysis anddesign of crowdsourcing applications
Pitkin, Emil, Inference for approximatingregression models
Rising, Justin, Advances in the theory ofdeterminantal point processes
Rodu, Jordan, Spectral estimation ofhidden Markov models
Zubizarreta, Jose, Optimal designs forobservational studies using integer pro-gramming
University ofPittsburgh (24)
Department of Biostatistics
Begum, Ferdouse, GWAS meta-analysis:Methodology and application to humanmeiotic recombination
Chang, Lun-Ching, Issues in informationintegration of omics data: Microarraymeta-analysis for candidate marker andmodule detection and genotype callingincorporating family information
Chen, Yi-Fan, Statistical issues in com-parative effectiveness research
Dong, Xinxin, Topics in joint modelingof longitudinal biomarker, quality oflifetime, and survival data
He, Fanyin, Nonparametric MANOVA ap-proaches for non-normal multivariateoutcomes
Lee, Ching-Wen, Joint modeling with cen-sored data and group-based trajectoryclustering
Ling, Yun, Detection of influential ob-servations in longitudinal multivariatemixed effects regression models
Ma, Hua, Evaluation of diagnostic per-formance using partial area under theROC curve
Olson Hunt, Megan, A permutation-basedcorrection for Pearson’s chi-square teston data with an imputed complexoutcome/a modified EM algorithm forcontingency table analysis with missingdata
Sampene, Emmanuel, A simple locallyefficient estimator for relative risk incase-cohort studies
Singhabahu, Dilrukshika, Robust partialleast squares regression and outlierdetection using minimum covariancedeterminant method and a resamplingmethod
Tang, Shaowu, Investigations on genomicmeta-analysis: Imputation for incom-plete data and properties of adaptivelyweighted Fisher’s method
Zhang, Yang, Statistical methods for pa-tient chemosensitivity prediction basedon in vitro dose-response data anda modified expectation-maximization(EM) algorithm for regression analy-sis of data with non-ignorable non-response
Zhou, Xiaozhi, Sensitivity analysis anduncertainty analysis in a large-scaleagent-based simulation model of infec-tious diseases
Department of Mathematics School
of Arts and Sciences
Chuang, Ken-Hsien, Canonical connec-tions
Miloua, Attou, Steady state thin filmequation with van der Waals force
Shim, Hyung Bo, Indefinite string struc-ture
Stepien, Tracy, Collective cell migrationin single and dual cell layers
Tran, Hoang, Partitioned methods forcoupled fluid flow problems
Tronzo, Mark, Analysis of a PDE modelof necrotizing enterocolitis
Yu, Cheng, Some analytical issues for theselected complex fluids models
Department of Statistics
Li, Siyu, Simultaneous population anddose selection in clinical trials andcluster validation
Yavuz, Idil, Non-parametric inferenceand regression analysis for cumula-tive incidence function under two-stagerandomization
RHODE ISLANDBrown University (26)
Department of Biostatistics
Austin, Andrea, Covariate defined latentspace models for social networks withextensions to biomolecular pathways
Chrysanthopoulou, Stavroula, Statisticalmethods in micro-simulation modeling:Calibration and predictive accuracy
Miles, Ott, Analytic methods for networkdata
Department of Mathematics
Kiral, Eren Mehmet, Spectral theory andshifted convolution sums in analyticnumber theory
Kuan, Chan leong, Hybrid bounds ontwisted L-functions associated to mod-ular forms
Leshin, Jonah, Class field towers, solvableGalois representations and Noether’sproblem in Galois theory
Minevich, Igor, Cohomology of topologi-cal groups and Grothendieck topologies
Molcho, Samouil, Log stable maps withtorus actions
Tassy, Martin, Tiling by barsWheeler, Miles, Large-amplitude solitary
water waves with vorticity and surfacepressure
Wiygul, David, Doubling constructionswith asymmetric sides
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Division of Applied Mathematics
Chen, Zheng, Recovering exponential ac-curacy in spectral methods involvingpiecewise smooth functions with un-bounded singularities
Choi, Minseok, Time-dependent Karhunen-Loeve type decomposition methods forSPDEs
Freifeld, Oren, Statistics on manifoldswith applications to modeling shapedeformations
Klobusicky, Joe, Kinetic limits of piece-wise deterministic Markov processesand grain boundary coarsening
McQuighan, Kelly, Oscillons near Hopf bi-furcations of planar reaction-diffusionequations
Miller, Jeffrey, Nonparametric and variable-dimension Bayesian mixture models:Analysis, comparison, and new meth-ods
Parks, Matthew, Bayesian statistical infer-ence of non-allelic homologous recom-bination in the human genome usinghigh-throughput sequencing data
Schuster, Jessica, A stochastic contextfree model of epistatic interaction inhuman genome
Slivinski, Laura, Lagrangian data assimila-tion and its applications to geophysicalfluid flows
Sugden, Lauren, Structure, variation, andreproducibility: Bayesian inference inproblems arising from the study ofRNA and RNA-binding protein
Tirupathi, Seshu, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for magma dynamics
Wu, Wei, Large deviations and quasipo-tential for finite state mean field inter-acting particle systems
Yang, Xiu, The holy trinity of stochasticmodeling and uncertainty quantifica-tion: High-dimensionality, sparsity andrare events
Yu, Yue, Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction: Analysis and sim-ulations
Zhang, Zhongqiang, Towards high-ordermethods for stochastic differentialequations with white noise: A spec-tral approach
University of RhodeIsland (4)
Department of Mathematics
Phifer, Caitlin, The cycle intersection ma-trix and applications to planar graphsand network theory
Richmond, Daniel, Implicitly restartedKrylov subspace methods for large-scale least-square problems
Rudasill, William, New results and im-provements related to the study ofmulti-specialization whist tournamentdesigns
Smith, Diana, Towards Steinberg’s con-jecture
SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (9)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Dandurand, Brian, Mathematical opti-mization for engineering design prob-lems
Galvin, Keith, Advancements in finiteelement methods for Newtonian andnon-Newtonian flows
Johnson, Charles, Involutive translationsurfaces and Panov planes
Livsey, James, Count time series anddiscrete renewal processes
Pandey, Abhishek, Modeling dengue trans-mission and vaccination
Wang, Dewei, Nonparametric and semi-parametric group testing regressionmodels
Wash, Kirsti, Identifying codes and domi-nation in graph products
Weerasena, Lakmali, Approximations inmultiobjective optimization with appli-cations
Zantout, Dania, On the cuspidality ofMaass-Gristenko and mixed level lifts
Medical University ofSouth Carolina (4)
Department of Public Health Sciences
Chiuzan, Codruta, Adaptive early-phasedesigns for assessing toxicity and effi-cacy outcomes - applications in cancerimmunotherapy
Logan, Sarah, Psychopharmacotherapyuse and adherence in autism spectrumdisorders
Nida, Adrian, Obtaining sense fromsenselessness: Using machine learn-ing tools to classify systemic lupuserythematosus from free text regionsof an electronic health record
Wheless, Lee, The association betweencommon variants in nucleotide excisiongenes and non-melanoma skin cancer
University of SouthCarolina (8)
Department of Mathematics
Brown, Kenneth, Shimura images of afamily of half integral weight modularforms
Dove, Andrew, Generalizations of Sperner’stheorem: Packing posets, families, for-bidding posets, and supersaturation
Harrington, Joshua, Selected research incovering systems of the integers andthe factorization of polynomials
Johnston, Jeremy, Turan problems onnon-uniform hypergraphs
Department of Statistics
Chang, Wen, Bayesian analysis of contin-uous curve functions
Hill, Blake, Permutation testing for co-variance matrices, with applications inshape analysis
Li, Li, Applications of Bayesian nonpara-metric to reliability and survival data
Thompson, Jean Marie, Methods of clus-tering mixed data
SOUTH DAKOTASouth Dakota StateUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Ban, Yuguang, Understanding evolutionof gene expression by comparativeanalysis
Bondalapati, Krishna, Improving geneticanalysis with augmented experimentaldesigns
Devkota, Mitra, Spatial data analysisPadhy, Budhinath, Analysis of multivari-
ate longitudinal data using structuralequation modeling
TENNESSEEUniversity of Memphis (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chen, Si, DNA sequence analysis forapplication to phylogenetic tree con-struction and simulated metagenomicbinning
Clendenen, Raluca Loana, Wentzell bound-ary conditions with general weights andasymptotic parabolicity for stronglydamped waves
Collins, Jared Timothy, Bad cycles, blowuppoints and baby Mandelbrot sets
Hu, Wenrong, Sample size/power calcu-lation for stratified case-cohort designand generalized stratified case-cohortdesign
King, Raena, Hermitian operators andprojections on Hardy spaces
Winter, Bryan R., Design, search andimplementation of improved large or-der multiple recursive generators andmatrix congruential generators
University of Tennessee,Knoxville (6)
Department of Mathematics
Fatheddin, Parisa, Asymptotic behaviorof a class of SPDEs
Lewis, Thomas, Finite difference anddiscontinuous Galerkin finite elementmethods for fully nonlinear secondorder partial differential equations
Martinez, Marco V., Optimal control formanagement in gypsy moth models
Smith, Jesse, Properties of ideal-basedzero-divisor graphs of commutativerings
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White, Joseph, Isolation and deformationresults for commuting squares of finitedimensional star algebras
Xing, Fei, Long time asymptotics ofOrnstein-Uhlenbeck processes in Pois-son random media
Vanderbilt University (8)
Department of Mathematics
Bosuwan, Nattapong, Two problems inasymptotic analysis: Pade-orthogonalapproximation and Riesz polarizationconstants
Camp, Wes, Graph separators and bound-aries of right-angled Artin and Coxetergroups
Marshall, Emily, Hamiltonicity and struc-ture of classes of minor-free graphs
Smedberg, Matthew, Necessary condi-tions for finite decidability in lo-cally finite varieties admitting stronglyAbelian behavior
Spaeth, Anneliese, A determination of theexistence of various types of positivesystems in Lp
Wires, Alexander, Some resuts in univer-sal algebra
Wu, Jianchao, The Novikov conjecture,the group of volume preserving diffeo-morphisms and non-positively curvedHilbert manifolds
Zhou, Dapeng, The coarse Baum-Connesconjecture and controlled operator K-theory
TEXASBaylor University (10)
Department of Mathematics
Eisenbarth, Geoff, Quadratic Lyapunovtheory for dynamic linear switchedsystems
Fouts Aceves, Kelly, On a ring associatedto F [x]
Hartsock, Gail, A combinatorial prop-erty of Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand reso-lutions of unitary highest weight mod-ules
Liu, Xueyan (Sherry), Existence anduniqueness of solutions of boundaryvalue problems by matching solutions
Stewart, Jessica D., Spectral analysis ofthe exceptional Laguerre and Jacobiequations
Wagner, Bradley, Finitary incidence alge-bras
Department of Statistical Sciences
Beeson, John, Topics in multivariate co-variance estimation and time seriesanalysis
Carlile, Tom, Adaptive designs for phaseII clinical trials with binary endpoints
Sides, Ryan, Sample size determinationfor two sample binomial and Poissondata models based on Bayesian decisiontheory
Yuan, Jiang, Normal approximation forBayesian models with non-samplingbias
Rice University (14)
Department of Computational and
Applied Mathematics
Acosta, Sebastian, Inverse source prob-lems for time-dependent radiative trans-port
Du, Bosen, Adaptive reduction of largespiking neurons
Hokanson, Jeffrey, Numerically stableand statistically efficient algorithms forlarge scale exponential fitting
Department of Mathematics
Cooper, James, Two mod-p Johnsonfiltrations
Munger, Paul, Spectral regularity in somemodels of aperiodic order
Ong, Darren, Spectral characteristics ofaperiodic CMV and Schrodinger opera-tors
Ray, Arumina, Casson towers and filtra-tions of the smooth knot concordancegroup
Zhang, Letao, Deformations of Hilbertschemes of points on K3 surfaces andrepresentation theory
Department of Statistics
Affinito, Ricardo, Identifying and dealingwith the approach of bears and theirdeparture
Egbulefu, Joseph, Robust GARCH meth-ods and analysis of partial least squaresregression
Jiang, Fei, Bayesian decision-theoreticmethod and semi-parametric approachwith applications in clinical trial designsand longitudinal studies
Peterson, Christine, Bayesian graphicalmodels for biological network inference
Xu, Yanxun, Application of Bayesianmodeling to high-throughput genomicdata and clinical trial design
Yang, Jingjing, Smoothing functionaldata with a Bayesian hierarchical modeland robust fitting of a Weibull modelwith optional censoring
Southern MethodistUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics
Gardner, David, Filters for the improve-ment of multiscale data from atomisticsimulations
Ketelaar, Christiaan, Stability of elec-trolyte films on flat and structuredsubstrates
Pearson, Glen, The parallel immersedinterface method with a triangularmesh representation of an interface
Statistical Science Department
Lou, Ying, Sample size estimation forcomparing repeated count measure-ment using GEE
Sadler, Bivin, New methods in itemresponse theory: Information, bias andmean square error
Texas A&M University (21)
Department of Mathematics
Benli, Mustafa, Presentations and struc-tural properties of self-similar groupsand groups without free sub-semigroups
Bruillard, Paul, On the classification oflow-rank braided fusion categories
Ghosh, Aditi, Fast algorithms for bihar-monic problems and applications tofluid dynamics
Hein, Nickolas, Reality and computationin Schubert calculus
Moon, Sunghwan, Properties of someintegral transforms arising in tomogra-phy
Nguyen, Hao Thanh, Greedy strategiesfor convex minimization
Qi, Yang, Geometry of feasible spaces oftensors
Rusek, Korben, A -discriminant varietiesand amoebae
Thompson, Travis, Results towards a seal-able multiphase Navier-Stokes solverfor high Reynolds number flow
Tomov, Vladimir, Entropy viscosity methodfor Lagrangian hydrodynamics and cen-tral schemes for mean field games
Wang, Kainan, Parallel Markov chainMonte Carlo methods for large scalestatistical inverse problems
Webster, Jennifer, Cost-sensitive classifi-cation methods for detection of smug-gled nuclear material in cargo contain-ers
Yang, Yuping, Central limit theorems forempirical processes based on stochasticprocesses
Zuo, Lihua, Inverse problems for frac-tional diffusion equations
Department of Statistics
Chen, Hsiang-Chun, Interference for clus-tered mixed outcomes from a multivari-ate generalized linear mixed model
Cheng, Yichen, Stochastic approximationand its application in MCMC
De, Debkumar, Essays on Bayesian timeseries and variable selection
Sun, Ranye, Thresholding multivariateregression and generalized principalcomponents
Wei, Rubin, Highly nonlinear measure-ment error models in nutritional epi-demiology
Xu, Kun, Semiparametric estimation andinference with mis-measured, corre-lated or mixed observations, and theapplication in ecology, medicine, andneurology
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Zhu, Xinxin, Wind speed forecasting forpower operation
Texas StateUniversity-San Marcos (1)
Department of Mathematics
Oktavia, Rini, Diagnostic assessment toidentify students’ developmental levelsin learning statistics
Texas Tech University (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bloshanskaya, Lidia, Mathematical modelof well productivity index of Forch-heimer flows in fractured reservoirs
Vidurupola, Sukhitha, Mathematical mod-els for bacteriophage dynamics applica-ble to phage therapy
Wijayasinghe, Indika, Eye/hand coordi-nation under optimal and potentialcontrol
Williams, Erin, Categorization of all New-ton maps conjugate to quadratic poly-nomials
University of Houston (16)
Department of Mathematics
Andrews, Jared, A new gap theorem re-sult for proper holomorphic mappingsbetween complex balls
Bhardwaj, Manisha, Visual decision mak-ing in the presence of stimulus andmeasurement correlations
Freeman, Jeff, Combining diffeomorphicmatching with image sequence registra-tion
Jegdic, Ilijia, Large time step and overlap-ping grids for conservation law
Kong, Ao, Mass spectrometry data miningfor cancer detection
Lee, Brandon, Pseudoconformal curva-ture and the embeddability of a CRhypersurface
Liu, Puchen, Solutions of equations forthe regulation of kinase activity in afinite cylindrical cell
Liu, Zhiheng, Snapshot location by errorequilibration in proper orthogonal de-composition for linear and semilinearpartial differential equations
Mabuza, Sibusiso, Modeling, analysis andnumerical simulation of reactive solutetransport problems in moving domains
Meklachi, Taoufik, New insights on qua-sistatic and acoustic cloaking
Mohapatra, Anushaya, Rank one dynam-ics near heteroclinic cycles and condi-tional memory loss for nonequilibriumdynamical systems
Qin, Yue, A second order variationalapproach for diffeomorphic matchingof 3D surfaces
Rivas, Mauricio, Unconstrained varia-tional principles and Morse indicesfor linear elliptic eigenproblems
Royce, Maureen, Extensions of approxi-mately unital operator algebras
Trousdale, James, The interplay of ar-chitecture and correlated variability inneuronal networks
Yu, Yao, Numerical simulation and mod-eling of cell motion in microchannels
University of NorthTexas (3)
Department of Mathematics
Dahal, Rabin, Centers of invariant dif-ferential operator algebras for Jacobigroups of higher rank
McWhorter, Samuel, Some practical re-sults in the theory of support-vectormachines
Weng, Yu, Maximum likelihood estima-tion of logistic sinusoidal regressionmodels
University of Texasat Arlington (7)
Department of Mathematics
Diakite, Ibrahim, Effects of discrete timedelay and parameters variation ondynamical systems
Dong, Xiaoyang, Mathematical models ofnutrient recycling and toxin productionin a gradostat
Licea Salazar, Juan, The polynomialchaos method with applications torandom differential equations
Lin, Daoying, Haplotype based statisticalinference for case control genetic asso-ciation studies with complex sampling
Owens, Larrissa, Differential equationmodels of foreign body fibrotic reac-tions for assessing roles of macrophagephenotypes and mesenchymal stemcells
Unlu, Mehmet, A generalized approach toDarboux transformations for differen-tial equations
Wang, Weichao, Numerical studies forM-matrix algebraic Riccati equations
University of Texasat Austin (19)
Department of Mathematics
Ding, Tian, Numerical algorithms for in-verse problems in acoustics and optics
Frederick, Christina, Numerical methodsfor multiscale inverse problems
Grizzard, Robert, Heights and infinitealgebraic extensions of the rationals
Kelly, Michael, Some inequalities inFourier analysis and applications
Kidwell, Keenan, Some results in Iwasawatheory and the p-adic representatontheory of p-adic GL2
Long, Ligang, Slice ribbon conjecture,pretzel knots and mutation
Mandel, Travis, Tropical theta functionsand log Calabi-Yau surfaces
Meier, Jeffrey, Exceptional Seifert fiberedsurgeries on Montesinos knots and dis-tinguishing smoothly and topologicallydoubly slice knot
Safronov, Pavel, Geometry of integrablehierarchies and their dispersionlesslimits
Taylor, Samuel, Geometric properties ofouter automorphism groups of freegroups
Xie, Zhihui, From quantum many bodysystems to nonlinear Schrodinger equa-tions
Institute for Computational
Engineering and Sciences
Al-Hinai, Omar, Mimetic finite differencesfor porous media applications
Chan, Jesse, A DPG method for convection-diffusion problems
Flath, Hannah Pearl, Hessian-based re-sponse surface approximations for un-certainty quantification in large-scalestatistical inverse problems, with appli-cations to groundwater flow
Mattis, Steven, Mathematical modeling offlow through vegetated regions
Mayo, Talea, Data assimilation for pa-rameter estimation in coastal oceanhydrodynamics modeling
Meixner, Jessica, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for spectral wave/circulationmodeling
Roberts, Nathan, A discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin methodology for incompress-ible flow problems
Xiao, Hailong, Multiscale mortar mixedfinite element methods for flow prob-lems in highly heterogeneous porousmedia
University of Texasat Dallas (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Li, Zhichao, Symmetric systems of im-plicit functional differential equations:Existence of solutions and bifurcationresults
University of Texas-School of Public Health (5)
Division of Biostatistics
Benoit, Julia, Analysis of longitudinaldata using a continuous-time Markovchain with misclassification
Jiang, Jing, A novel concept on in-cremental cost-effectiveness ratio withcensored cost data
Ma, Junsheng, A Bayesian approach tolongitudinal categorical data in a conti-nous time Markov chain model
Park, Minjeong, General linear modelsin a missing outcome environment ofclinical trials incorporating splines fortime-invariant continuous adjustment
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Zewdie, Getie, Applied differential equa-tion to classify myocardial infarc-tion diseases from electrocardiography(ECG) signals
UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics
Hu, Yu, American spread option modelsand valuation
Sinkovic, John, The minimum rank prob-lem for outerplanar graphs
Taylor, James, Investment-consumptionwith randomly terminating income
University of Utah (6)
Department of Mathematics
Cobb, Sarah,H2(SL2(Z[t, t−1]);Q) is infinite-dimensional
Ertl, Veronika, Overconvergent Chernclasses and higher cycle classes
Kelly, Brendan, Cohomology of certainsubgroups of solvable linear groups
Qu, Feng, Invariance of quantum ringsunder ordinary flops
Zhang, Yuchen, Generic vanishings, pluri-canonical maps and volume of isolatedsingularities
Zwick, Patrick D., Variations on a themeof symmetric tropical matrices
VERMONTUniversity of Vermont (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bliss, Catherine, Description, predictionand evolution of a large dynamic net-work from incomplete data
Oka, Ganesh, A cellular automata basedmodel for upscaling the impact of bac-terial growth attached to soil particleson the intrinsic permeability of the soil:Theory and simulations
VIRGINIAGeorge MasonUniversity (10)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Di, Zichao, A multigrid optimizationframework for vector quantization
Johannsen, David, The geometry of thequotient stack arising from a stacky fan
Long, Tim, Ring extensions involvingamalgamated duplications
Merrick, Cynthia, Some properties ofsimplicial geometries
Raissi, Maziar, Multi-fidelity stochasticcollocation methods using model re-duction techniques
Department of Statistics
Gao, Lei, Bayesian dose-finding procedurebased on information criterion andefficacy-toxicity trade-offs
Ren, Pin, Empirical likelihood confidenceregions for branching processes withimmigration
Saxton, Daniel, Inference for preferentialattachment models and related topics
Yan, Yongping, Bayesian hierarchicalpoint-pattern-based intensity model inprediction of highway losses
Yuan, Mengdie, Semiparametric regres-sion analysis of survival and longitudi-nal data
Old DominionUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Gounley, John, Modeling and simulationof shape changes of red blood cells inshear flow
Kocaogul, Ibrahim, Computational solu-tions of the forward and adjoint Eulerequations with application to ductaeroacoustics
Phuworawong, Panon, Analysis and sim-ulation of kinetic model for activesuspensions
Pohrivchak, Michael, Ray- and wave-theoretic approach to electromagneticscattering from radially inhomoge-neous spheres and cylinders
Posny, Drew, Analyzing cholera dynamicsin homogeneous and heterogeneousenvironments
University of Virginia (13)
Department of Mathematics
Bradshaw, Zachary, On turbulent dy-namics and related theoretical topicsassociated with diffusive incompress-ible fluid models
Chandra, Ajay, Construction and analy-sis of a hierarchical massless quantumfield theory
Clark, Sean, Quantum supergroups andcanonical bases
Fourrier, Nicolas, Analysis of existence,regularity and stability of solutions towave equations with dynamic boundaryconditions
Heald, Andrea, Bounded generation oftwo families of S-arithmetic groups
Hogancamp, Matthew, Local and quasi-local sl(2) link homology
Katz, Mor, Essentially normal composi-tion operators
Knapp, Jason, Stability and conversionof approximate solutions to the Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation
Lefler, Christopher, Well-posedness andstability for nonlinear Schrodinger equa-tions with dynamic/Wentzell boundaryconditions
Pappas, Nathaniel, On rank gradient andp-gradient of finitely generated groups
Department of Statistics
Ma, Wei, Statistical inference of covariate-adaptive randomized clinical trials
Tang, Xiaoxiao, Forecasting economicvariable using Markov quantile regres-sion
Xue, Yuan, Blomarker-based dose-findingdesigns for single-or multiple-agentphase I trials
Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, MedicalCenter (7)
Department of Biostatistics
Bello, Ghalib, Application and extensionof weighted quantile sum regressionfor the development of a clinical riskprediction tool
Farhat, Naha, Design and analysis oftoxicological experiments with mul-tiple endpoints and synergistic andinhibitory effects
Hammouri, Hanan, Review and extensionfor the O’Brien Fleming multiple testingprocedure
Hou, Jiayi, Regularization methods forpredicting an ordinal response usinglongitudinal high-dimension genomicdata
Reese, Sarah, Detecting and correctingbatch effects in high-throughput ge-nomic experiments
Sinks, Shuxian (Zhang), Response adap-tive design using auxiliary and primaryoutcomes
Wilk, Amber, The estimation and eval-uation of optimal thresholds for twosequential testing strategies
Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (11)
Department of Mathematics
Bowman, Adam, Toward a rigorous jus-tification of the three-body impactparameter approximation
Brunson, Jason, Matrix Schubert varietiesfor the affine Grassmannian
Jarvis, Christopher, Parameter dependentmodel reduction for complex fluid flows
Oremland, Matthew, Techniques for math-ematical analysis and optimization ofagent-based models
Ran, Yu, Nonhomogeneous Dirichletinitial boundary value problems for2-dimensional nonlinear Schrodingerequations
Department of Statistics
Chen, Yajuan, Cluster-based profile mon-itoring in phase I
Cheng, Lulu, Statistical methods for ge-netic pathway-based data analysis
Duan, Yuanyuan, Statistical predictionsbased on accelerated degradation dataand spatial count data
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 811
Seiss, Mark, Improving survey method-ology through matrix sampling design,integrated statistical review into datacollection, and synthetic estimationevaluation
Stallings, Jonathan, General weightedoptimality of designed experiments
Wang, Ning, GLR control charts formonitoring controlled binary processes
WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (38)
Applied Mathematics Department
Grosek, Jacob, Robust real-time imageprocessing through dynamic mode de-composition
Hu, Yu, Collective activity in neuralnetworks: The mathematical structureof connection graphs and populationcodes
Jones, Christopher, Single-column andmixed-layer model analysis of subtrop-ical stratocumulus response mecha-nisms relevant to climate change
Kim, Jihwan, Finite volume method fortsunamis generated by submarine land-slides
Lajore, Guillaume, On driven neural as-semblies: Synchrony, chaos and entropy
Rockne, Russell, Patient-specific mathe-matical radiation oncology
Trogdon, Thomas, Riemann-Hilbert prob-lems. Their numerical solution andthe computation of nonlinear specialfunctions
Zhong, Mingyuan, Value function approx-imation methods for linearly-solvableMarkov decision process
Biostatistics Department
deCamp, Allan, Assessing vaccine effectsin HIV-I trials
Granston, Tanya, Lagged effects andinterval censoring in the stepped wedgedesign of cluster randomized clinicaltrials
Laird, Amy, Modeling a progressive dis-ease process under panel observation
Lange, Jane, Latent continuous timeMarkov for partially-observed multi-state disease processes
Wang, Zheyu, Latent class and latentprofile analysis in medical diagnosisand prognosis
Zheng, Cheng, Causal mediation analysiswith failure time outcome and error-prone longitudinal covariate
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Jie, Hybrid inverse problemsChoi, Daeshik, Estimating norms of ma-
trix functions using numerical rangesDeines, Alyson, Shimura degrees for el-
liptic curves over number fieldsDrugan, Gregory, Self-shrinking solu-
tions to mean curvature flow
Fan, Wai, Interacting particle systemswith annihilation through membranes
Johnson, Tobias, Eigenvalue fluctuationsfor random regular graphs
Kocyigit, Ilker, A hybrid inverse problemarising from acousto-electric coupling
Lou, Shuwen, Brownian motion on spaceswith varying dimensions
Paquette, Elliot, Eigenvalue fluctuations ofrandom matrices beyond the Gaussianuniversality class
Pfeiffer, James, Problems in probabilityand optimization
Roberts, Austin, Dual equivalence graphsand their applications
Sisodia, Gautam, The Grothendieck groupsof module categories over coherent al-gebras
Slivken, Erik, Three problems in discreteprobability
Tittelfitz, Justin, Thermoacoustic tomog-raphy in elastic media
Tran, Huy, The regularity of Loewnercurves
Wang, Dake, On special Lagrangian equa-tions
Ward, Matthew, Arithmetic properties ofthe derived category for Calabi-Yauvarieties
Zhuang, Guangbin, Hopf algebras offinite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension
Department of Statistics
Doss, Charles, Shape-constrained infer-ence for concave-transformed densitiesand their modes
Fosdick, Bailey, Modeling heterogeneitywithin and between matrices and arrays
Glazner, Christopher, Monte Carlo es-timation of identity by descent inpopulations
Koepke, Hoyt, An algorithmic frameworkfor high dimensional regression withdependent variables
Sverdlov, Serge, Functional quantitativegenetics and the missing heritabilityproblem
Volfovsky, Alexander, Statistical inferenceusing Kronecker structured covariance
Washington StateUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematics
Cangelosi, Richard, Pattern formationproperties of a system of interaction-diffusion equations relevant to a mussel-algae eco-system in a quiescent marinelayer
Chan, Yin, A method of applying anunbiased estimator for monitoring theWeibull shape parameter and time-to-time model using copula w/acc. lifetest
Paparella, Pietro, Matrix roots of non-negative and eventually non-negativematrices
Zhuo, Jingxuan, Mathematical models ofimmersed boundary complex fluids
WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Ye, From graph coloring to receptorclustering
Glatzer, Timothy, Continuities on sub-spaces
Gu, Xiaofeng, Connectivity and spanningtrees of graphs
WISCONSINMarquette University (2)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics and Comp Science
Bruce, Iain, Determination of correlationsinduced by the SENSE and GRAPPA PMRImodels with an appliation to MRI RFcoil design
Kiware, Samson, Bioinformatics systemsand mathematical models for improvedunderstanding of malaria transmission,control, and elimination
Medical College ofWisconsin (4)
Division of Biostatistics
Ellis, Kristin, Methods to classify survivaldata
He, Peng, Bias reduction by usingcovariate-adjusted censoring weightsfor survival and competing risks data
Mendolia, Franco, Pseudo-observation re-gression in the presence of left-truncation
Wang, Yanzhi, Generalized linear mixedmodels for correlated time to eventdata using pseudo-values
University of Wisconsin,Madison (30)
Department of Mathematics
Benguria Depassier, Maria Soledad, Es-timates for the Szego kernel on un-bounded convex domains
Bockting-Conrad, Sarah, Tridiagonal pairs,double lowering operators, and Uq(sl2)
Davis, Rachel, Images of metabelian Ga-lois representations associated to ellip-tic curves
Hablicsek, Marton, Derived intersectionsand applications
Hanson, Edward, Characterizations ofLeonard pairs
Holcomb, Diane, Point process limits ofrandom matrices
Jefferis, Leland, Computing high fre-quency solutions of symmetric hyper-bolic systems with polarized waves
Jensen, Sara, On the character degreesimplicial complex of a finite solvablegroup
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
812 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 7
Koyama, Masanori, Analysis of stochas-tically modeled biochemical processeswith applications to numerical methods
Kumar, Ashutosh, On some problems inset-theoretic real analysis
Lee, Jae-Ho,Q-polynomial distance-regulargraphs and double affine Hecke algebraof rank one
Medini, Andrea, The topology of ultrafil-ters as subspaces of the Cantor set andother topics
Murcko, Jason, On the differentiation ofBesov spaces
Nelson, Joanna, Applications of auto-matic transversality in contact homol-ogy
Peterson, Aaron, On uniformly finite-typedomains
Rice, Brian, The thin set theorem forpairs and substructures of the Muchniklattice
Wang, Dongning, Seidel representationfor symplectic orbitfolds and its appli-cations
Wolf, Elizabeth, Computational methodsfor parametric sensitivities of stochas-tic chemical reaction networks
Zhao, Yongqiang, On sieve methods forvarieties over finite fields
Zhou, Zhennan, Computational methodsfor semi-classical Schrodinger equa-tions with vector potentials and Ehren-fest dynamics
Department of Statistics
Chai, Yi, Screening based Bregman diver-gence estimation and the application tospike train data analysis
Chen, Guangde, Regularized estimationfor nonlinear index models and nonlin-ear additive models
Cui, Qiurong, Max-linear competing fac-tor models multivariate Frechet tiltedGaussian distribution
Pei, Qinglin, Statistical models and SNPdetection methods for flash sequencing
Thurman, Andrew, On model selectionof spatial point processes
Zhang, Jie, Analysis of panel data withinformative missing responses
Zhang, Qiong, Cross-validation designand spatial modeling with applicationsin nanotechnology and marketing
Zhang, Sheng, Bayesian variable selectionvia a benchmark
Zheng, Hao, Range dimensional covari-ance matrix estimation with decomposi-tion-based regularization
Zhu, Bin, On max-stable processes andtheir extensions
University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
La Corte, Diana Thomson, Newton’smethod backpropagation for complex-valued holomorphic neural networks:Algebraic and analytic properties
Lin, Xiaoying, The boundedness of Haus-dorff operators on function spaces
Moussa, Ridha, On the generalized Inceequation
Williams, Lauren, Invariant polynomialson tensors under the action of a productof orthogonal groups
WYOMINGUniversity of Wyoming (6)
Department of Mathematics
Aryal, Saroj, Sparse moment problemBush, Lawrence, On the postprocessing
techniques of the continuous Galerkinfinite element
Rigelo, Joyce, A new multiscale mixedmethod and an uncertainty quantifica-tion technique for porous media flows
Sollami, Michael, Computational graphtheory
Wiblemo, Cara, Automorphism decom-position of graphs
Department of Statistics
Gupta, Pritam, Statistical analysis ofbrucellosis prevalence among elk in thegreater Yellowstone area
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 813