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Doctoral Degrees Conferred2014–2015
ALABAMAAuburn University (13)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bao, Feng, Efficient numerical algorithmsfor solving nonlinear filtering problems
Bragan, Kelly, Topics in edge-regulargraphs
Brauss, Daniel, Implementation of a finiteelement method for the velocity-currentmagnetohydrodynamics equations
Brice, Daniel, On derivations of parabolicsubalgebras of reductive Lie algebras
Chaffee, Joseph, 3-cycle systems andstructure within graph decompositions
Chase, Timothy, Monotonic coveringproperties
Clontz, Steven, Applications of limitedinformation strategies for topologicalgames
Erzurumluoglu, Araz, Fair factorizationsand fair holey factorizations with twoassociate classes and prescribed regu-larity
Hammer, James, Factor pair Latin squaresNguelifack, Brice, Generalized signed-
rank estimator for nonlinear modelswith multidimensional indices and two-phase linear models
Rawal, Nar, Principal eigenvalue theoryfor time periodic nonlocal dispersaloperations and applications
Tadesse, Dawit, High-dimensional classi-fication methods for sparse data andtheir applications in text and datamining
Xie, Xiaoxia, Nonlocal dispersal equationsand convergence to random dispersalequations
University of Alabama (6)
Department of Mathematics
Banjade, Debendra, Wolff’s ideal problemin the multiplier algebra on Dirichletspace
Duong, Nguyen, Twisting bordered Kho-vanov homology
The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2014, to June 30,2015) reported in the 2016 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.
Shahmurov, Rishad, Linear and nonlinearRayleigh-Benard convection in absenceof horizontal boundaries
Song, Yuanyuan, Stability analysis of abilayer coating a cylindrical tube
Tian, Wufeng, Fast alternating directionimplicit schemes for geometric flowequations and nonlinear Poisson equa-tions in biomolecular solvation analysis
Ying, Mengyi, Interval method for specialconstrained global optimization prob-lems
University of Alabama atBirmingham (10)
Department of Biostatistics
George, Brandon, A spatiotemporal modelfor repeated imaging data
Li, Peng, The small sample inferences ofcluster-randomized trials
Loop, Matthew, Spatial analysis of hy-pertension prevalence using a large UScohort
Merrill, Peter, Non-compliance in clinicaltrials: The perils of statistical methods
Ranjan, Ashutosh, Power issues and inter-nal pilot design in cluster-randomizedtrials with unequal cluster sizes
Salter, Amber, Practical extensions of thecontinual reassessment method
Tripathi, Arvind, Count models withmultiple inflations
Wang, Guoqiao, An evaluation of samplesize re-estimation adaptive designs anddelayed-start designs for Alzheimer’sdisease
Department of Mathematics
Fadl Allah, Alzaki, Elliptic equationsand systems with nonlinear boundaryconditions
Muthoka, Terrence, American optionsand semilinear parabolic partial differ-ential equations in weighted Sobolevspaces
University ofAlabama–Huntsville (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Albashaireh, Reem, Traveling wave solu-tions of a chemotaxis model: Existenceand stability
ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (11)
Mathematics, Computational and
Modeling Sciences
Bliss, Nadya, Statistical signal processingfor graphs
School of Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences
Alvarez, Roberto, A two-strain spatiotem-poral mathematical model of cancerwith free boundary condition
Everett, Rebecca, Applications of theDroop cell quota model to data basedcancer growth and treatment models
Holeva, Thomas, A kinetic approachto anomalous diffusion in biologicaltrapping regions
Packer, Aaron, Cell quota based popula-tion models and their applications
Peace, Angela, Stoichiometric producer-grazer models incorporating the effectsof excess food-nutrient content ongrazer dynamics
Robinson, Benjamin, Operator-valuedframes associated with measure spaces
Temkit, M’hamed, Experimental designsfor generalized linear models and func-tional magnetic resonance imaging
Wang, Ran, On choosability and paintabil-ity of graphs
Zhou, Yuqin, Mathematical and statisticalinsights in evaluating state dependenteffectiveness of HIV prevention inter-ventions
Zinzer, Scott, One- and two-variablep-adic measures in Iwasawa theory
790 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 7
University of Arizona (15)
Department of Mathematics
Blackburn, Chantel, Mathematics accord-ing to whom? Two elementary teachersand their encounters with the mathe-matical horizon
Hinkel, Dustin, Constructing simultane-ous Diophantine approximations ofcertain cubic numbers
Jiang, Jianping, Random walks and theirscaling limits
Lafferty, Matthew, Eichler-Shimura coho-mology groups and the Iwasawa mainconjecture
Maienschein, Thomas, Desingularizingthe boundary of the moduli spaceof genus one stable quotients
Powell, Kevin, Modular symbols moduloEisenstein ideals for Bianchi spaces
Prasad, Priya, Connection, motivation,and alignment: Exploring the effectsof content-based mathematics profes-sional development
Todd, George, Linear relations betweenmultizeta values
Waters, Patrick, Combinatorics of theHermitian 1-matrix model
Program in Applied Mathematics
Birrell, Jeremiah, Non-equilibrium as-pects of relic neutrinos: From freeze-out to the present day
McDaniel, Austin, The effects of timedelay on noisy systems
Rosenthal, William Steven, Data assim-ilation in systems with strong signalfeatures
Whalen, Patrick, Full field propagationmodels and methods for extreme non-linear optics
Statistics GIDP
Kim, Hyeonju, Probabilities of ruin ineconomics and insurance under light-and heavy-tailed distributions
Sohn, Michael, Novel computational andstatistical approaches in metagenomicstudies
ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas atFayetteville (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Wanjohi, Richard, Online detection ofoutliers and structural breaks usingsequential Monte Carlo Methods
CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (9)
Department of Computing and
Mathematical Sciences
Cubillos, Max, General-domain compress-ible Navier-Stokes solvers exhibitingquasi-unconditional stability and high-order accuracy in space and time
Mason, Gemma, Full and model-reducedstructure-preserving simulation of in-compressible fluids
Department of Mathematics
Chiriac, Liubomir, Special Frobeniustraces in Galois representations
Dawra, Nakul, On the link Floer homol-ogy of L-space links
Elliot, Ross, Topological strings, doubleaffine Hecke algebras, and exceptionalknot homology
Fan, Sin Tsun Edward, On the construc-tion of higher etale regulators
Kasatkin, Victor, Some constructions re-lated to noncommutative tori, Fredholmmodules and the Beilinson-Bloch regu-lator
Linghu, Daiqi, Chains of non-regular deBranges spaces
Skinner, Brian, Logarithmic potential the-ory on Riemann surfaces
Claremont GraduateUniversity (10)
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Hallett, Melodie, Novel random forest andvariable importance methods for corre-lated survival data, with applications totooth prognosis
Heckman, David, Variations on Markovchain Monte Carlo Methods: Continuousand discrete optimization of schedulingproblems
Liu, Zheng, A bond option pricing for-mula in the extended CIR model
Lyons, Daniel, Dynamics and bifurca-tions in coupled bistable systems withapplications to engineering devices
Najera Chesler, Aisha, Non-linear anal-ysis and modeling of FHR and ECOG:Predicting fetal distress in labor
Sanchez, Eduardo, Mimetic finite differ-ences and parallel computing to stim-ulate carbon dioxide subsurface masstransport
Suarez Solano, Jean, Regularization ofsingular sources for PSIC computationsof particle-laden flows with shocks
Sun, Xun, On the geometry of cyclic andpermutation invariant lattices
Wang, Wei, Boosting performance and en-durance of flash-based storage systems:From embedded systems to enterpriseservers
Xu, Shujing, Effects of history and liftforce on particle trajectories in oscilla-tory rotating fluids
Naval PostgraduateSchool (1)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Boucher, Randy, Galerkin optimal control
Stanford University (10)
Department of Mathematics
Bernstein, Megan Maria, Random walkson the symmetric group, likelihoodorders, and involutions
Henderson, Christopher Kling, Propaga-tion phenomena in reaction advectiondiffusion equations
Katshelson, Vitaly, Diffraction of elasticwaves by edges
Kim, Seung Ki, On the shape of a highdimensional random lattice
Lin, Yuncheng, On higher q, t Catalannumbers
Pang, Chung Yin Amy, Hopf algebras andMarkov chains
Pardon, John Vincent, A new construc-tion of virtual fundamental cycles insymplectic geometry
Sapir, Jenya Markovna, Non-simple geo-desics on surfaces
Shao, Xuancheng, Dichotomy betweenstructure and randomness in combina-torial number theory
Yang, Haizhao, Oscillatory data analy-sis and fast algorithms for integraloperators
University of California,Berkeley (38)
Department of Mathematics
Achinger, Piotr, K(π,1) spaces in alge-braic geometry
Beal, Khalilah, Viscosity solution meth-ods in risk analysis
Berger, Emily, Probabilistic methods forsingle individual haplotype reconstruc-tion
Chih, Ellen, Indivisible characteristics ofrecursively enumerable sets
Galkowski, Jeffrey, Distribution of reso-nances in scattering by thin barriers
Haberman, Boaz, Inverse problems withrough data
Harris, Kelley, Inference of populationhistory and mutation biology fromhuman genetic variation
Harrop Griffiths, Benjamin, Quasilineardynamics of KdV-type equations
Hilaire, Christian, The Ricci flow onRiemannian groupoids
Honigs, Katrina, Derived equivalent vari-eties and their zeta functions
Jin, Long, Scattering resources for convexobstacles
Jin, Xin, Symplectic approaches in geo-metric representation theory
Kalman, Adam, Newton polytopes ofcluster variables
Lanoue, Daniel, The metric coalescentLee, Heather, Homological mirror sym-
metry for open Riemann surfaces frompair-of-pants decompositions
Merberg, Adam, Noncommutative gener-alized Brownian motions with multipleprocesses
Morrison, Ralph, Tropical and non-Archmidean curves
Pejic, Michael, Quantum Bayesian net-works with application to problemsdisplaying Parrondo’s paradox
Peterson, Eric, Cotangent spectra and thedeterminantal sphere
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 791
Preskill, Benjamin, The jump splicemethod for elliptic interface problemsand the incompressible Navier-Stokesequations
Rosen, Zvi, Algebraic matroids in appli-cations
Sylvan, Zachary, On partially warppedFukuya categories
Tsou, Benjamin, Eigenvalue distributionsof symmetric group representations
Vu, Thanh, Combinatorial patterns insyzygies
Wang, Luming, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods on moving domains with largedeformations
Wayman, Eric, A skew-product decom-position on a manifold equipped witha group action, a Lorentz model withvariable density in a conservative forcefield, and reconstruction of a mani-fold from the intrinsic metric of anassociated Markov chain
Zhang, Te, Weak convergence and rapidlyoscillating pendula
Department of Statistics
Broderick, Tamara, Clusters and fea-tures from combinatorial stochasticprocesses
Li, Hongwei, Theoretical analysis andefficient algorithms for crowdsourcing
Lopes, Miles, Some inference problems inhigh-dimensional linear models
Racz, Miklos, Influences in voting andgrowing networks
Ruddy, Sean, Shrinkage of dispersionparameters in the double exponentialfamily of distributions, with applica-tions to genomic sequencing
Biostatistics
Balzer, Laura, Design and analysis ofcluster randomized trials with applica-tion to HIV prevention and treatment
Boley, Nathan, Methods for the analysisof high throughput sequencing data
LeDell, Erin, Scalable ensemble learningand computationally efficient varianceestimation
Lendle, Samuel, Targeted minimum lossbased estimation: Applications and ex-tensions in causal inference and bigdata
Stoiber, Marcus, Biological networks: Dy-namics, mechanisms and responses
Zheng, Wenjing, Semiparametric and ro-bust methods for complex parametersin causal inference
University of California,Davis (16)
Department of Mathematics
Lewis, Owen, Mathematical investiga-tion of hydrodynamic contributionsto amoeboid cell motility in physarumpolycephalum
Li, Binglin, Towards a theory of Abel-Jacobi maps and limit linear series forcurves of compact types
Lu, Steven, No quantum Brooks’ theorem
Scrimshaw, Travis, Crystals and riggedconfigurations
Tavernetti, William, Modeling and simu-lation of thermal ignition, flame fronts,reactive flows and transonic combus-tion
Waagen, Alexander, Phase transitions onstatic and evolving networks: Effect ofcompetition, zealotry, and growth
Watson, Richard, The structure of tran-sient memory in a simple model ofinhibitory neural feedback
Wertz, Tim, Localized operators andeigenvector localization
Department of Statistics
Becker, Gabriel, Rethinking dynamic doc-uments for data analytic research
Ganguly, Apratim, Applications and the-oretical properties of local geometrybased structure learning methods inGaussian graphical models
He, Jinjiang, Functional correlations toquantify functional connectivity inbrain imaging
Lai, Chu Shing (Randy), Generalized fidu-cial inference and its applications
Melcon, Erin, Penalty parameter selectionin generalized linear models and linearmixed models
Udaltsova, Irina, Bayesian estimation oflog(N > S)− logS
Wong, Ka Wai (Raymond), Fiber directionestimation in diffusion MRI
Zhang, Xiaoke, A unified theory and atime-varying additive model for func-tional and longitudinal data
University of California,Irvine (10)
Department of Mathematics
Eskew, Monroe, Measurability propertieson small cardinals
Forero Cuervo, Andres, Consistencystrength of stationary catching
Hill, Joshua, On calculating the cardinalityof the value set of a polynomial (andsome related problems)
Keti, Matt, Reed-Solomon codes and thedeep hole problem
Konstorum, Anna, Mathematical model-ing of tumor-microenvironment dynam-ics
Liu, Hsiao-Fan, Geometric curve flows
Rische, Jacquelyn, Mathematical model-ing of language learning
Smith, Luke, Refining multivariate valueset bounds
Yan, Huaming, Mathematical modeling ofbranching morphogenesis and vasculartumor growth
Zou, Changjian, Inverse problems inacoustic and electromagnetic scattering
University of California,Los Angeles (33)
Department of Biostatistics, Fielding
School of Public Health
Boren, David, Agent-based modeling forHIV prevention
Fischer, Heidi Jean, Statistical methodsfor ultrafine particle distributions
Harrell, Lauren, Analysis strategies forplanned missing data in health sciencesand education research
Konikoff, Jacob, Cross-sectional HIV in-cidence estimation: Techniques andchallenges
Qiu, Jiaheng, Finding optimal experimen-tal designs for models in biomedicalstudies via particle swarm
Rizzo Varela, Shemra, Uncertainty inmeta-analysis: Bridging the divide be-tween ideal and available extracteddata
Department of Mathematics
Benatar, Jacques, The existence of smallprime gaps in subsets of the integers
Bhaskar, Siddharth, Recursion versus tailrecursion over abstract structures
Burungale, Ashay, On the non-trivialityof arithmetic invariants modulo p
Davis, Damek, On the design and analysisof operator-splitting schemes
Denomme, Robert, Character formulasfor 2-Lie algebras
Feldman, William, Asymptotic behaviorof nonlinear PDE: Dynamic stability ofa droplet model and boundary datahomogenization
Gan, Wenying, Several problems in ex-tremal combinatorics
Guan, Feng, Affine structure on theTeichmuller spaces and period mapsfor Calabi-Yau manifolds
Hachtman, Sherwood, Calibrating deter-minacy strength in Borel hierarchies
Hu, Huiyi, Graph based models forunsupervised high dimensional dataclustering and network analysis
Kim, Sungjin, Average of the first in-variant factor of the reductions of theAbelian varieties of CM type
Krause, Benjamin, Some results in point-wise ergodic theory
Leary, Brian, On maximal amenable sub-algebras of amalgamated free productvon Neumann algebras
Liu, Yajing, Applications of the linksurgery formula in Heegaard Floerhomology
Mackey, Alan, Part I: Steady states intwo-species particle aggregation; Part II:Sparse representations for multiscalePDE
Malyshev, Anton, Combinatorics of finitelygenerated groups
Merkurjev, Ekaterina, Variational andPDE-based methods for big data analy-sis, classification and image processingusing graphs
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
792 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 7
Miner, Samuel, Limit shapes of restrictedpermutations
Nelson, Brent, Non-tracial free transportand applications
O’Connor, Daniel, Primal-dual decompo-sition by operator splitting and applica-tions to image deblurring
Radke, Eric, Net weighting methods andother novel approaches in variation-aware placement and sizing
Rajagopalan, Anand, Outlier eigenvaluefluctuations of perturbed iid matrices
Scaduto, Christopher, Instantons and oddKhovanov homology
Walsberg, Erik, Metric geometry in a tamesetting
Wang, Yuting, Virtual node algorithmsfor simulating and cutting deformablesolids
Xu, Samantha, Hamiltonian systems andGibbs measures
Zipkin, Joseph, Mathematical models andmethods for behavior in social net-works: Urban crime, self-exciting inter-actions, and information spread
University of California,Riverside (9)
Department of Mathematics
Lunde, Mathew, Self-extensions and primefactorizations of representations ofquantum affine algebras
Park, Jason, Random measure algebrasunder convolution
Safii, Soheil, Equivariant and isovariantfunction spaces
Thistlethwaite, Oliver, Seiberg-Witten in-variants, Alexander polynomials, andfibred classes
Wand, Jeffrey, Demazure flags of localWeyl modules
West, Jacob, Higher Auslander-Reiten the-ory
Department of Statistics
Crackel, Roberto, Likelihood free infer-ence for a flexible class of bivariate betadistributions
Xiao, Zhen, Parameter estimation in dif-ferential equation based models
Zheng, Zongpeng (Patrick), Projection,search, and optimality in factorial ex-periments
University of California,San Diego (15)
Department of Mathematics
Cheng, Shi, Analysis and numerical treat-ment of elliptic equations with stochas-tic data
Compeau, Phillip, Scalable online algo-rithmic biology education and DCJ-Indelsorting
Deotte, Chris, Domain partitioning meth-ods for elliptic partial differential equa-tions
Hennig, Johanna, Locally finite dimen-sional Lie algebras
Kasa, Michael, Toward Gromov-Witten in-variants relatively coherent logarithmicschemes
Kempton, Mark, High dimensional spec-tral graph theory and non-backtrackingrandom walks on graphs
Lobue Tiefenbruck, Janine, Combinatorialproperties of quasi-symmetric Schurfunctions and generalized Demazureatoms
Louie, Janelle, Classification of convexancient solutions to curve shorteningflow on the sphere
Meng, Wang, On the detection of sparsemixtures
Parks, Helen, Structural approaches tolarge-scale systems: Variational integra-tors for interconnected Lagrange-Diracsystems and structured model reduc-tion on Lie groups
Shustrova, Anna, Primal-dual interiormethods for quadratic programming
Tiee, Christopher, Computation and visu-alization of geometric partial differen-tial equations
Wen, Jiayi, Mathematical modeling andcomputational methods for electro-static interactions with applications tobiological molecules
Wilson, Andrew, Generalized shuffle con-jectures for the Garsia-Haiman deltaoperator
Zimmermann, David, Logarithmic Sobolevinequalities for Gaussian convolutionsof compactly supported measures
University of California,Santa Barbara (14)
Department of Mathematics
Ackermann, Robert, On pseudo-Anosovmaps, symplectic, Perron-Frobenius ma-trices, and compression bodies
Chapman, Kyle, An ergodic algorithmfor sampling equilateral knots withthickness
Jonov, Boyan, Longtime behavior of smallsolutions to viscous perturbations ofnonlinear hyperbolic systems in 3-D
Leitner, Arielle, Limits under conjugacyof the diagonal Cartan group in SLn(R)
Leyton Chisholm, Elizabeth, Braid groupsand Euclidean simplices
Ream, Robert, Index estimates and exis-tence of minimal surfaces in manifoldswith controlled curvature
Salazar, Daniel, Modeling and computa-tion of immersed, flexible boundariesin complex fluids
Department of Statistics and Applied
Probability
Chiu, Chi-Yang, Nonparametric mixed-effects density regression
Fahham Saporito, Yuri, Topics on func-tional Ito calculus and multiscale sto-chastic volatility modeling
Hancock, David, Investigating optimalinvestment problems for portfolios ofcointegrated assets, with transactioncosts
Lin, Junjing, Some contributions to non-parametric Bayesian methods
Lu, Chunhsiung, Stochastic filtering prob-lem with financial application to highfrequency trading
Sheinson, Michael, Sequential Monte Carlomethods: Applications to disease surveil-lance and fMRI data
Swenson, Julianne, Contributions to Bayesianstatistics vector autoregressive time se-ries, instrumental variables, recommen-dation systems
University of California,Santa Cruz (10)
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Department
Chesi, Simone, Attitude control of nanosatel-lite using shifting masses
DeYoreo, Maria, A Bayesian frameworkfor fully nonparametric ordinal regres-sion
Phelps, Christopher, Computational opti-mal control of nonlinear systems withparameter uncertainty
Richardson, Robert, Flexible integro-differential equations for Bayesian mod-eling of spatio-temporal data
Walton, Claire, The design and implemen-tation of motion planning problemsgiven parameter uncertainty
Xiao, Sai, Bayesian non-parametric mod-eling for some classes of temporal pointprocesses
Department of Mathematics
Goren, Yusuf, Counting periodic orbits:Conley conjecture for Lagrangian cor-respondences and resonance relationsfor closed Reeb orbits
Owen, Mitchell, Families of half-integerweight Eisenstein series
Tabing, Felicia, String homology and Liealgebra structures
Yuan, Wei, The geometry of vacuumstatic space and deformations of scalarcurvature
University of SouthernCalifornia (12)
Department of Mathematics
Bessam, Diogo, Large deviations rates ina Gaussian setting and related topics
Daley, Timothy, Non-parametric modelsfor large capture-recapture experimentswith applications to DNA sequencing
Ekren, Ibrahim, Path-dependent partialdifferential equations and related top-ics
Islak, Umit, Concentration inequalitieswith couplings from Stein’s method
Newman, Burton, Growth of torsion inquadratic extensions of quadratic cy-clotomic fields
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 793
Pei, Yuan, Certain regularity problems influid dynamics
Sokolov, Grigory, Multi-population opti-mal change-point detection
Tian, Yin, Categorification of sl (1,1) viacontact topology
Timmer, Joseph, Frobenius-Schur indi-cators of Hopf algebras arising fromfactorizations of the symmetric group
Warner, Harry Jared, Springer isomor-phisms and the variety of elementarysubalgebras
Zheng, Zemin, Feature selection and in-teraction screening in high-dimensionalmodeling
Zhuo, Jia, Probabilistic numerical meth-ods for fully nonlinear PDEs and relatedtopics
COLORADOColorado School ofMines (2)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Nealy, Jennifer, A study of normal modesolutions for seismo-acoustic propaga-tion scenarios
Zaharatos, Brian, Statistical modeling ofphotovoltaic device performance
Colorado StateUniversity (13)
Department of Mathematics
Adkins, Melissa, Modeling local patternformation on membrane surfaces usingnon-local interactions
Freese, Hilary, Abelian surfaces with realmultiplication over finite fields
Hughes, Justin, Group action on neigh-borhood complexes of Cayley graphs
Lane-Harvard, Elizabeth, Strongly regulargraphs from large arcs
Miles, Eric, Bridgeland stability of linebundles on surfaces
Motta, Francis, Optimally topologicallytransitive orbits, complex Hadamardmatrices and an ion bombardment
Osnaqq, Silvia, Low rank representationsof matrices using nuclear norm heuris-tics
Previte, Corrine, The D-neighborhoodcomplex of graphs
Schmidt, Eric, Number-theoretic proper-ties of the binomial distribution withapplications in arithmetic geometry
Schwickerath, Anthony, Linear models,signal detection, and the Grassmannmanifold
Zhang, Chuan, Storing cycles in Hopfield-type neural networks
Department of Statistics
Bugbee, Bruce, Semiparametric regres-sion in the presence of complex vari-ance structures arising from small anglex-ray scattering data
Herndon, Wade, Testing and adjustingfor informative sampling in survey data
University of Colorado,Boulder (13)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Appelhans, David, Trading computationfor communication: A low communica-tion algorithm for the parallel solutionof PDEs using range decomposition,nested iteration, and adaptive meshrefinement
Brutz, Michael, Mathematical modellingand analysis of several diffusive pro-cesses
Chen, Yuanting, Bayesian semi-parametricmodeling of time-to-event data
Hao, Sijia, Numerical methods for solvinglinear elliptic PDEs: Direct solvers andhigh order accurate discretizations
Keck, Dustin, Aggregation dynamics: Nu-merical approximations, inverse prob-lems, and generalized sensitivity
Leibs, Christopher, First-order systemsleast-squares finite element methodsand nested iteration for electromag-netic two-fluid kinetic-based plasmamodels
Monnig, Nathan, From nonlinear embed-ding to graph distances: A spectralperspective
Romero, Henry, Fundamental limits ofnetwork communication with generalmessage sets: A combinatorial ap-proach
Sirisubtawee, Sekson, Stability and bifur-cations of a piecewise-smooth elasto-plastic inverted pendulum model: To-wards an understanding of dynamics ofbuildings under earthquake-type forc-ing
Department of Mathematics
Davison, Trubee, Generalizing the Kan-torovich metric to projection-valuedmeasures: With an application to iter-ated function systems
Hower, John, A global symbol for theb-calculus on manifolds with boundary
Migler, Joseph, Determinants in K-theoryand operator algebras
Zhang, Liang, Problems concerning spa-tial branching particle systems withinteraction
University of Colorado,Denver (3)
Department of Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences
DeOrsey, Philip, Hyperovals and cyclo-tomic sets in AG(2,q)
Diemunsch, Jennifer, Three problems instructural and extremal graph theory
Kondratenko, Volodomyr, Efficient algo-rithms for wildland fire simulation
University of Denver (2)
Department of Mathematics
Aboras, Mouna, Dihedral-like construc-tions of automorphic loops
Cardona, Riquelmi, The finite embed-dability property for some noncom-mutative knotted varieties of RL andDRL
CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (11)
Department of Mathematics
Hewa Katuwandeniyage, Priyantha, Mul-tivariate longitudinal data analysis oractuarial applications
Huan, Tingting, Traveling fronts to reac-tion diffusion equations with fractionalLaplacians
Huang, Shujuan, Risk assessment andpricing for group health claims
K.M.G. Dias, Usahani, Longitudinal analy-sis of mortality risk factors for actuarialvaluation
Martin, Caleb, Computability theory andordered groups
Suggs, Jacob, On lowness for isomor-phism as restricted to classes of struc-tures
Zhao, Mingfeng, Traveling wave solu-tions to the Allen-Cahn equations withfractional Laplacians
Zheng, Wenyuan, Portfolio choice withlife annuities under probability distor-tion
Department of Statistics
Banerjee, Swarnali, Sequential fixed-accuracy confidence interval estimationmethodologies in statistical ecology andrelated topics
Harrington, Patrick, Classification andmultiple hypothesis testing in microar-ray and RNA-Seq experiments
Zhang, Danjie, Model assessment in jointmodeling of longitudinal and survivaldata with applications to cancer clinicaltrials
Wesleyan University (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Smith, Brett, On minimality of planargraphs with respect to treewidth
Valenzuela, Gabriel, Homological algebraof complete and torsion modules
Yale University (11)
Biostatistics Division
Gilani, Owais, Spatiotemporal calibrationand resolution refinement of outputfrom deterministic models
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
794 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 7
Department of Mathematics
Constantin, Sarah, Diffusion harmonicsand dual geometry on Carnot manifolds
Huang, Shinnyih, An improvement toZaremba’s conjecture
Kimport, Susanna, Quantum modularforms, mock modular forms, and partialtheta functions
Leeb, William, Topics in metric approxi-mation
Len, Yoav, Tropical Brill-Noether theoryMunoz, Francisco, The classification of as-
sociated varieties of some generalizedHarish-Chandra modules
Tarik, Aougab, Effectivizing the geometryof the curve complex
Department of Statistics
Ren, Zhao, Structured covariance and pre-cision matrices estimation: Toeplitz co-variance and Gaussian graphical model
Yang, Xiao, Compression and predictivedistributions for large alphabets
Ye, Saier, Multivariate regression withblock-structured predictors
DELAWAREDelaware StateUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Ajayi, Adonis, Local mesh refinementtechniques for ground penetrating radar
Liu, Yuhong, UWB radar signal detectionand imaging
Sanchez, Polina, Dynamics of shallowwater waves with spatio-temporal dis-persion on Rosenau-KDV-RLW equationwith power law nonlinearity
Savescu, Michelle, Optical soliton pertur-bation with dual dispersion
University of Delaware (12)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Emerick, Brooks, Modeling molecular andtissue dynamics in the human coloniccrypt: An investigation into colon can-cer development
Fang, Rui, Stochastic analysis of ant-based routing and probabilistic mod-eling of medium access control inwireless local area networks
He, Zhenyu, High order smoothed parti-cle hydrodynamic methods for slightlycompressible bounded flow
Jin, Shi, Gaussian processes: KL ex-pansion, small ball probability andapplications in time series models
Kodess, Aleksandr, Properties of somealgebraically defined digraphs
Li, Longfei, Mathematical models andnumerical methods for human tear filmdynamics
Shoushani, Michael, Parameter recoveryand transmission problems in poro-elastic media
Song, Yan, Numerical schemes for coarse-graining of stochastic lattice dynamics
Sun, Yu, Modeling and analyzing largeswarms with covert leaders
Tang, Jiahua, Determining the twist ofan optical fiber
Vermette, Jason, Spectral and combina-torial properties of friendship graphs,simplicial rook graphs, and extremalexpanders
Zeng, Yun, Stochastic modeling of softmaterials
DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAGeorge WashingtonUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics
Hammarsten, Carl, Decorated Heegaarddiagrams and combinatorial HeegaardFloer homology
Marshall, Leah, Computability-theoreticproperties of partial injections, trees,and nested equivalences
Savitsky, Thomas, Some problems onmatroids and integer polymatroids
Shoup, David, Half disc stationary setson the boundary of a binary inhibitorysystem
Wang, Jing, Homology of small categoriesand its applications
Howard University (1)
Department of Mathematics
Erebholo, Francis, Application of thedisposition model to the analysis oflongitudinal binary outcomes in thepresence of incomplete data
FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Adams, Ronald, Curve shortening insecond-order Lagrangian systems
Budhathoki, Parshuram, Elliptic curves:Identity-based signing and quantumarithmetic
Gottipati, Chenchu, Graph labeling andnon-separating trees
Grigoriev, Stepan, General monotonicity,interpolation of operators and applica-tions
Yang, Yang, Stability analysis for sin-gularly perturbed systems with time-delays
Florida Institute ofTechnology (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
White, Ryan, Random walks on randomlattices and their applications
Florida StateUniversity (22)
Department of Mathematics
Donahue, Matthew, Modeling the role ofbiofilm formation in the developmentof plant diseases
Emanuello, John, Analysis of functionsof split-complex, multicomplex, andsplit-quaternionic variables and theirassociated conformal geometries
Jemison, Matthew, An asymptotically pre-serving method for multiphase flow
Karabiyik, Tugba, A game-theoretic anal-ysis of competition over indivisibleresources
Kunwar, Vijay, Hypergeometric solutionsof second order differential equationswith rational function coefficients
Li, Xin, Myrberg’s numerical uniformiza-tion
Nguyen, Nguyet Thi, Probabilistic meth-ods in estimation and prediction offinancial models
Sengul, Sevgi, Unveiling mechanisms forelectrical activity patterns in neuronsand pituitary cells using mathematicalmodeling and analysis
Shen, Yingyun, Mathematical models ofdengue fever and measures to controlit
Waller, Russell, Periodic pieces of pseudo-Anosov flows in graph manifolds
Wills, Anthony, Analysis of regularity andconvergence of discretization methodsfor the stochastic heat equation forcedby space-time white noise
Xu, Qiuping, Keeping pace with thetimes: Quantifying variations of newlyemerging biological shape data
Zhu, Ming, Radically elementary stochas-tic summation with applications tofinance
Department of Statistics
Galvis, Oliver, Sparse factor auto-regres-sion methodology for forecasting timeseries in high dimensions with verymany predictors
Griffin, Felicia, An examination of theconcept of frailty in the elderly
Jiang, He, The studies of joint sparsitypursuit of hierarchical variable selec-tion and fused lasso
Martinez, Elvis, Practical methods forequivalence and non-inferiority studieswith survival response
Rosenthal, Michael, Parametric and non-parametric spherical regression withdiffeomorphisms
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 795
Tucker, James, Functional componentanalysis and regression using elasticmethods
Wade, Henning, A metric for comparingdensities underling sets of shapes
Xie, Qian, Tools for statistical analysison shape spaces of three-dimensionalobjects
Zhang, Zhengwu, Geometric approachesfor analysis of images, densities, andtrajectories
University of CentralFlorida (6)
Department of Mathematics
Baxter, Mathew, Analytical solutions tononlinear differential equations arisingin physical problems
Ge, Lei, Calibration of option pricing inreproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
Krylov, Roman, Inversion of the brokenray transform
Martinenko, Eugeny, Functional dataanalysis and its application to can-cer data
Siple, Angela, Integral representations ofpositive linear functionals
Veras, Johann, Electrical conductivityimaging via boundary value problemsfor the 1-Laplacian
University of Florida (11)
Department of Mathematics
Basabe, Ibai, Advancing topologicalrobotics: Topological complexities ofrobot motion planning
Gulbudak, Hayriye, Modeling culling andvaccination in poultry with applicationto avian influenza
Jefferson, Aziza, The substitution de-composition of matchings and RNAsecondary structures
Jennings-Shaffer, Christopher, Analyticand arithmetic properties of smallestparts partition functions and general-izations
Liu, Meng, Modeling and algorithms forcompressive magnetic resonance imagereconstruction
Patane, Frank, On representations bypositive definite binary and ternaryquadratic forms
Yashtini, Maryam, Fast TV-regularizedlarge-scale and ill-conditioned linearinversion with application to partiallyparallel imaging
Department of Statistics
Choi, Hee Min, Convergence analysis ofGibbs samplers for Bayesian regressionmodels
Liu, Minzhao, New approaches for quan-tile regression
Xu, Xiaofan, Bayesian variable selectionand estimation
Zhang, Long, On security properties ofrandom matrix masking
University of FloridaCollege of PublicHealth (2)
Department of Biostatistics
Cai, Zhuangyu, Conditional pseudo-likeli-hood and generalized linear mixedmodel methods to adjust for confound-ing due to cluster
He, Ying, On statistical inference of twoadaptive clinical trial designs
University of Miami (5)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Jing, Nonlinear dynamics of someecological and epidemiological models
Evans Lee, Kyle, On the configurationspaces of lens spaces
Poudel, Prayat, Link homology and equi-variant gauge theory
Zhang, Fan, A nonlocal spatial model oncontinuous time and space
Zhang, Zhe, Scaling limit of a generalizedPolya urn model
University of SouthFlorida (7)
Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics
Lu, Xiaosun, Statistical modeling and pre-diction of HIV/AIDS prognosis: Bayesiananalysis of nonlinear dynamic mixtures
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Burns, Jonathan, Recursive methods innumber theory, combinatorial graphtheory, and probability
Choi, Bong-Jin, Statistical analysis, model-ing, and algorithms for pharmaceuticaland cancer systems
Kafle, Ram, Trend analysis and model-ing of health and environmental datajoinpoint and functional approach
Karpenko, Daria, Active tile self-assemblyand simulations of computational sys-tems
Otunuga, Olusegun, Stochastic modelingand analysis of energy commodity spotprice processes
Sharaf, Taysseer, Statistical learning withartificial neural networks applied tohealth and environmental data
GEORGIAAugusta University (2)
Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Campbell, Jeff, Bayesian functional clus-tering and VMR identification in Methy-lation Microarray Data
Garren, Jeonifer, A resampling methodof time course gene expression data forgene network inference
Emory University (12)
Department of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics
An, Qiun, Models for statistical analysisof infectious disease data
Mehta, Christina, Centralization in smallgraphs
Mishra-Kalyani, Pallavi, Statistical meth-ods for causal inference in observa-tional studies
Sun, Xiaoyan, Flexible semiparametricregression methods for observationalfollow-up studies
Zhao, Yize, Bayesian feature selectionmethods for complex biomedical data
Mathematics and Computer Science
Department
Bermudez, Hernando, Linear preserverproblems and cohomological invariants
Bertagna, Luca, Reliable direct and in-verse methods in computational hemo-dynamics
Cream, Megan, On chorded cyclesGriffin, Michael, Applications of har-
monic Maass formsLarsen, Victor, An ε improvement in the
asymptotic density of k-critical graphsPhilipp, Pascal, Resonance asymptotics
for asymptotically hyperbolic mani-folds with warped-product ends
Svishcheva, Anastasia, Analysis and sim-ulation of Bingham fluid problems withPapanastasiou-like regularizations: Pri-mal and dual formulations
Georgia Institute ofTechnology (13)
School of Mathematics
He, Yunlong, Accelerated algorithms forcomposite saddle point problems andapplications
Hoffmeyer, Allen, Small-time asymptoticsof call prices and implied volatilities forexponential Levy models
Hu, Lili, Numerical algorithms based onthe back and forth error compensationand correction
Hurth, Tobias, Invariant densities for dy-namical systems with random switching
Kaloti, Amey, Stein fillings of contactmanifolds supported by planar openbooks
Liu, Chun-Hung, Graph structures andwell-quasi-ordering
Luo, Ye, Linear systems on metric graphsand some applications to tropical ge-ometry and non-archimedean geometry
Pryby, Christopher, Some results on sumsand products
Rangel, Pedro, A non-asymptotic study oflow-rank estimation of smooth kernelson graphs
Vuong, Thao, The colored Jones polyno-mial and its stability
Wang, Xiaolin, A numerical study ofvorticity enhanced heat transfer
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Whalen, Peter, Pfaffian orientations, flatembeddings, and Steinberg’s conjecture
Zhang, Weizhe, Minimum principle of thetemperature in compressible Navier-Stokes equations with applications tothe existence theory
Georgia StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Han, Jie, Perfect matchings, tilings andHamilton cycles in hypergraphs
Li, Nana, Union closed set conjectureShan, Songling, Homeomorphically irre-
ducible spanning trees, Halin graphs,and long cycles in 3-connected graphswith bounded maximum degrees
University of Georgia (16)
Department of Mathematics
Brons, Theresa, Rational and line bun-dle cohomology for reductive algebraicgroups
Ghosh Hajra, Sayonita, Grid presentationfor Heegaard Floer homology of adouble branched cover
Hu, Xiaoyan, The compactifications ofmoduli spaces of Burniat surfaces with2 ≤ K2 ≤ 5
Oakley, Joel, Lagrangian submanifolds ofproducts of spheres
Department of Statistics
Addo Safo, Sandra, Design and analysisissues in high dimension, low samplesize problems
Chakraborty, Adrijo, Hierarchical Bayes-ian methods for survey sampling andother applications
Chen, Yi, Symbolic data regression andclustering methods
Hu, Linwei, Optimal design of experi-ments
Jaeger, Adam, Composite empirical like-lihood: A derivation of multiple non-parametric likelihoods
Liao, Lina, Developments of regularizedapproaches in non-standard paradigm
Sheng, Wenhui, Sufficient dimension re-duction and variable selection via dis-tance covariance
Tan, Xijue, Optimal designs for general-ized linear models
Tang, Jin, Generalized quasi-likelihoodratio test for semiparametric analysisof covariance models in longitudinaldata
Tuglo, Emmanuel, Analysis of univariateand multivariate longitudinal data withcensored and missing response withcomplex covariance structure
Wang, Guannan, High/ultra-high dimen-sional single-index models
Wu, Wenbo, Stable and pseudo sufficientdimension reduction
HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii atManoa (5)
Department of Mathematics
Bates, Robert, Hyperbolicity preservingdifferential operators and classifica-tions of orthogonal multiplier se-quences
Holmes, Tristan, Inflation of finite latticesalong all-or-nothing subsets
Nguyen, Paul Kim Long Vu, Complexityof index sets of computable lattices
Sia, Gretel, Orderings of semifieldsThompson, Bianca, Exceptional points in
arithmetic dynamics
IDAHOIdaho State University (1)
Department of Mathematics
Rose, Jason, A stochastic model of cancerprogression: Mathematical analysis andbiomedical implications
University of Idaho (1)
Department of Mathematics
Haler, Sean, Disjoint seven cycles and thefour placement of trees
ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (3)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Flavell, Allen, Physics-preserving finitedifference schemes for the Poisson-Nerst-Planck equations
Gao, Ting, Non-Gaussian stochastic dy-namics: Modeling, simulation, quantifi-cation and assimilation
Liu, Kai, Dynamics of vesicles in viscousfluid
Illinois State University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Eames, Cheryl, Investigating children’sintuitive and analytical thinking aboutpath length as a developmental phe-nomenon
Safak, Elif, Study of Turkish teachers’knowledge for teaching statistics
Northern IllinoisUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Antonou, Angela, Characterization oftable algebras by their multiplicities
Chamberlain, Jeremy, Nodal solutionsof nonlocal integral boundary valueproblems
Jiang, Qi, Flexible modeling of competingrisks and cure rate in survival analysis
Kettlestrings, Caroline, A classification ofclass two and class three nilpotent tablealgebras
NorthwesternUniversity (11)
Department of Engineering Science
and Applied Mathematics
Choi, Hannah, Modeling of oscillationsand bursting in retinal all amacrinecells
Panaggio, Mark, Spot and spiral chimerastates: Dynamical patterns in networksof coupled oscillators
Schlick, Conor, Applications of advection-diffusion to fluid and granular flows
Wasserman, Max, Properties and appli-cations of the IMDB film connectionsnetwork
Department of Mathematics
Deng, Yanxia, Conley-Zehnder index andsome applications
Guo, Ziyue, Abelian graphsKoppensteiner, Clemens, Some microlocal
aspects of perverse coherent sheavesand equivariant D-modules
Wang, Zhenan, Global and local proper-ties of solutions of stochastic partialdifferential equations
Department of Statistics
Kuyper, Arend, An alternative method forteacher evaluation when using studenttest score data
Tang, Yang, Reducing bias and increasingprecision in nonexperimental studies
Zhang, Fengqing, Statistical modeling forhigh dimensional structured data withapplication to neuroimaging
Southern IllinoisUniversity, Carbondale (10)
Department of Mathematics
Adatorwovor, Dayana, H-removable se-quences of graphs
Almarri, Barakah, Renormalization and∗-product of the horseshoe maps
Al-Tabib, Mohammad, Statistical modelsutilizing dependence between variables
Kottegoda, Suwanda, The number ofzeros of linear recurring sequencesover finite fields
Meyer, Nicholas, Determination of quad-ratic lattices by local structure andsublattices of codimension one
Peiris, Thelge Buddika, Constrained sta-tistical inference in regression
Siriwardena, Lochana, Stochastic modelsin population dynamics
Talafha, Abdallah M., Modified stochasticSine-Gordon equation
Wang, Xiuquan, Parameter estimationin the advection diffusion reactionmodel with mean occupancy time andboundary flux approaches
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 797
Yi, Huijun, Constrained statistical infer-ence when target and sample popula-tions differ
University of Chicago (26)
Department of Mathematics
Astor, Eric, Asymptotic density and effec-tive negligibility
Choi, Hyomin, Pricing of path dependentderivatives with discretely monitoredunderlying assets
Field, Laurence, Configurational mea-sures on Schramm-Loewner evolutions
Le, Daniel, Aspects of the p-adic Lang-lands program for GL3(Qp)
Lin, Jessica, On the stochastic homoge-nization for fully nonlinear uniformlyparabolic equations in stationary er-godic spatio-temporal media
Manin, Fedor, Asymptotic invariants ofhomotopy groups
She, Yiwei, The unpolarized Shafarevichconjecture for K3 surfaces
Skalit, Christopher, Strong positivity ofintersection multiplicity for unramifiedregular local rings
Staats, Charles, Rational curves on uni-versal hypersurfaces
Suzuki, Takashi, Grothendieck’s pairingon Neron component groups
Tshishiku, Bena, Obstructions to realizingmapping classes by diffeomorphisms
Turanova, Olga, Error estimates for ap-proximations of certain fully nonlinearequations
Turner, Katharine, Topics in a statisticalapproach to applied topology
Van Limbeek, Wouter, Discrete and con-tinuous aspects of local symmetry
Wake, Preston, Eisenstein Hecke algebrasand Iwasawa theory
Walters, Robin, An application of D-modules: The Sato-Bernstein polyno-mial
Wilson, Bobby, Three results in analysisZhang, Yan, Asymptotic behavior of
nonlocal KPP equations
Department of Statistics
Dempsey, Walter, Statistical methods injoint modeling of longitudinal andsurvival data
Fox, Christopher, Interpretation and in-ference of linear structural equationmodels
Horrell, Michael, Two projects in Gaus-sian random field space-time statistics
Janofsky, Eric, Exponential series ap-proaches for nonparametric graphicalmodels
Jiang, Duo, Statistical methods for ge-netic association analysis in sampleswith related individuals and populationstructure
Su, Wei, Contact processes on randomregular graphs
Wang, Ruming, Three essays in mathe-matical finance
Zhong, Sheng, Mixed-model methods forgenome-wide association analysis withbinary traits
University of Illinois atChicago (10)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science
Chou, Chih-Chi, Singularities in birationalgeometry
Durham, Matthew, The coarse geometryof the Teichmuller metric: A quasiisom-etry model and the actions of finitegroups
Gaster, Jonah, Thurston’s skinning mapand curves on surfaces
Kavlie, Landon, An investigation of theforced Navier-Stokes equations in twoand three dimensions
Randall, Stading, Ramsey type problemson the hypercube and hypergraphs
Revzin, Ella, Nonparametric regressionmodels and bootstrap inference
Song, Lei, Rational singularities of Brill-Noether loci and log canonical thresh-olds on Hilbert schemes of points
Sun, Yan, A subgroup identificationmethod with interaction filtering andquantitative criteria
Wang, Jing, Adaptive optimal two treat-ment crossover designs with binaryendpoint
Wesolek, Phillip, The global structure oftotally disconnected locally compactPolish groups
University of Illinois atUrbana–Champaign (28)
Department of Mathematics
Anders, Katherine, Properties of digitalrepresentations
Benson, Brian, Sturm-Liouville estimatesfor the Laplacian and Cheeger constant
Hu, Ping, Extremal graph theory: Flagalgebras, Ramsey-Turan numbers, chro-matic thresholds, and sparse hyper-graphs
Jang, Donghoon, Symplectic circle actionswith isolated fixed points
Liang, Jian, Operator-valued Kirchbergtheory and its connection to tensornorms and correspondences
Lukyanenko, Anton, Geometric mappingtheory of the Heisenberg group, sub-Riemannian manifolds, and hyperbolicspaces
Phaovibul, M. Tip, Extensions of theSelberg-Delange method
Puleo, Gregory, Problems in list coloring,triangle covering, and pursuit-evasiongames
Ravat, Uma, On the analysis of stochasticoptimization and variational inequalityproblems
Reuter, Victoria, Hypergeometric func-tions, continued fractions for productsof gamma functions, and q-analogues
Schultz, Daniel, Cubic theta functionsand identities for Appell’s F1 function
Shan, Jianyun, Ideals of powers of linearforms
Shen, Jiashun, Multiplicative codes ofReed-Muller type
Song, Rui, Clearing financial network andits stability
Spiegelhalter, Paul, Asymptotic formu-lae for certain arithmetic functionsproduced by fractional linear transfor-mations
Suwannaphichat, Sineenuch, Extremalfunctions related to convexity and mar-tingales
Tangjai, Wipawee, Density and spacingproperties of some families of non-standard ternary representations
Vellis, Vyron, Quasisymmetric spheresconstructed over quasidisks
Wang, Han, On the topology of the spacesof coverings
Wong, Yat Sen, J-holomorphic curves andtheir applications
Yeager, Elyse, Extremal problems in dis-joint cycles and graph saturation
Zeng, Qiang, Poincare inequalities innoncommutative Lp spaces
Zhao, Min, Ramsey theory and its appli-cation
Department of Statistics
Choi, Seokwoo, Quantile autoregressionwith censored data
Dalpiaz, David, Statistics methods formodeling RNA-Seq short-read data
Rho, Yeonwoo, Inference of time series re-gression models with weakly dependenterrors
Sewell, Daniel, Statistical models andinference for dynamic networks
Shu, Xinxin, Time-varying networks esti-mation and Chinese words segmenta-tion
INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (13)
Department of Mathematics
Barker, Blake, Numerical proof of stabil-ity of roll waves in the small-amplitudelimit for inclined thin film flow
Bousquet, Arthur, Numerical analysis ofcomputations of fluid flows: Geophysi-cal flows and classical flows
Chen, Ko-Shin, Stability and motion lawsfor Ginzburg-Landau vortices on man-ifolds under dissipative and conserva-tive dynamics
Gangavarapu, Venkata Krishna Kishore,Representation variety of Fuchsiangroups in indefinite special orthogo-nal groups
Hong, Youngjoon, Analysis and approxi-mation of linear and nonlinear partialdifferential equations: Boundary lay-ers, atmospheric equations, change ofphase
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Lai, Tri, Enumeration of tilings of quasi-hexagons
Link, Joshua, Global existence of unique-ness for various shallow water modelsforced by a multiplicative white noise
Martinez, Vincent, On Gevrey regularityof equations of fluid and geophysicalfluid dynamics with applications to 2Dand 3D turbulence
Silva, Elwadura Prabath, Vector-valuedinequalities with application to bi-parameter problems in linear and bi-linear settings
Tapay, Andrew, Some results in fluid me-chanics using Littlewood-Paley theory
Wallace, Erik, Principally polarized abeliansurfaces with surjective Galois repre-sentations on 1-torsion
Wang, Chuntian, Initial and boundaryvalue problems for the determinis-tic and stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsovequation in a bounded domain
Wu, Ka Kuen, Formulation of the equa-tions of the humid atmosphere in thecontext of variational inequalities
IndianaUniversity–PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Rathnayake, Sumedha, A p-adic spectraltriple
Roth, Samuel, Ergodic properties ofcountable extensions
Purdue University (38)
Department of Mathematics
Acuna Valverde, Luis, Heat trace and heatcontent asymptotics for Schrodingeroperators of stable processes/fractionalLaplacians
Alvey, Christina, Investigating synergy:Mathematical models for the coupleddynamics of HIV and HSV-2 and otherendemic diseases
Chen, Xiaoxiao, Epistemic uncertaintyquantification in scientific models
Cheng, Liang, The asymptotic behaviorof diffusion and gradient flow on titledperiodic potentials
Darvas, Tamas, Geometry in the space ofKahler potentials
Dinh, Vu, Probabilistic uncertainty quan-tification and experiment design fornonlinear models: Applications in sys-tems biology
Gaither, Jeffrey, Variance of the internalprofile in suffix trees
Hernandez Ceron, Nancy, Discrete epi-demic models with arbitrarily dis-tributed disease stages
Homan, Andrew, Applications of microlo-cal analysis to some hyperbolic inverseproblems
Kala, Vitezslav, Density of self-dual auto-morphic representations of GLN (AQ)
Kim, Bumsik, Functional inequalities andthe curvature dimension inequality ontotally geodesic foliations
Kim, Jieun, Mathematical approaches tofood nutrient content estimation with afocus on phenylalanine
Kim, Youngsu, Quasi-Gorensteinness ofextended Rees algebras
Lee, Byeongho, G-Frobenius manifoldsMa, Lina, Spectral methods for PDE’s in
spherical domainMontalto, Carlos, Stability analysis of
three inverse problems: The study ofthe hyperbolic inverse boundary valueproblem, current density impedanceimaging and image based visual correc-tion
Mugo, Kevin, Mod 4 Galois representa-tions from elliptic curves, a Brauer-Severi variety and a Brauer type embed-ding problem
Peng, Guanying, Analysis of supercon-ductivity models in magnetic fields
Qi, Xin, Uncertainty quantification inscientific models
Tsumura, Yu, A 2-categorical extensionof the Reshetikhin-Turaev theory
Vogt Geisse, Katia, Structured determinis-tic models applied to malaria and otherendemic diseases
Weigel, Peter, Orderability and rigidity incontact geometry
Xi, Yuanzhe, Structured matrix computa-tions via randomization, their analysis,and applications
Zhang, Yongheng, Permutahedra, config-uration spaces and spineless cacti
Department of Statistics
Choi, InKyung, Modeling spatial covari-ance functions
Datta, Jyotishka, Some theoretical andmethodological aspects of multipletesting, model selection, and relatedareas
Gautier, Philip, Divide and recombinefor large complex data: The subsetlikelihood modeling approach to re-combination
Gopaladesikan, Mohan, On the occur-rences of motifs in recursive trees, withapplications to random structures
Han, Xiang (Sean), Divide and recombine:Autoregressive models and STL+
He, Shuang, Modeling and inference infunctional data analysis
He, Xian, Uncertainty quantification andcalibration of physical models
Huang, Yen-Ning, Spatial marked pointprocess: Model and inferences
Law, Chi Wai, A pure-jump market-making model for high-frequency trad-ing
Li, Jianfu (Jeff), The Tessera D&R compu-tational environment: Designed experi-ments for R-Hadoop performance andBitcoin analysis
Sun, Wei, Stability of machine learningalgorithms
Sun, Zhaonan, Statistical calibration anddifferential gene expression analysis ofRNA-Seq data
Wang, Libo, Identification of genomicfactors using family-based associationstudies
Zhu, Jingyi, Nonparametric variable selec-tion and dimension reduction methodsand their applications in pharmacoge-nomics
University of NotreDame (12)
Department of Applied and
Computational Mathematics and
Statistics
Buchmann, Amy, Mathematical and com-putational modeling of bacterial motil-ity and swarming
Chen, Weiye, Penalized methods andtheir applications to genetic researchand economic forecasting
Jiang, Tian, Krylov implicit integra-tion factor WENO methods for stiffadvection-diffusion-reaction equations
Sun, Wenzhao, A computational modelfor developmental biology with im-plementation on graphical processingunit
Department of Mathematics
Benn, James, The L2 geometry of thesymplectomorphism group
Culver, Quinn, Topics in algorithmicrandomness and effective probability
Ghini Bettiol, Renato, On different notionsof positivity of curvature
Hilyard, Justin, Various results on enu-merations of graph homomorphisms
Holmes, John, The Cauchy problem forseveral nonlinear evolution equations
Kandel, Santosh, Examples of Riemannianfunctorial quantum field theory
Kroeger, Nicole, Coisotropic subalgebrasof complex semisimple Lie bialgebras
Thompson, Ryan, The Cauchy problemfor the CH2 system
IOWAIowa State University (24)
Department of Mathematics
Ayers, Kim, Graph determined symbolicdynamics and hybrid systems
Ekstrand, Jason, Positivity in functionalgebras
Johnson, Ryan, The Frobenius-Schur indi-cator of Tambara-Yamagami categories
Kramer, Lucas, On forbidden subposetsin the Boolean lattice: An application offlag algebras
Lee, Yongki, Threshold dynamics in hy-perbolic partial differential equations
Nowak, Kathleen (Katy), Partial geometricdesigns and difference families
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Orizaga, Saulo, On the nonlinear regimeof electrically induced viscous sets withfinite conductivity
Ploymaklam, Nattapol, Numerical su-perposition of Gaussian beams overpropagating domain for high fre-quency waves and high-order invariant-preserving methods for dispersive waves
Wang, Min, Mathematical and statisticalmodels in evolutionary game theory
Zheng, Yun, Asset pricing based onstochastic delay differential equations
Department of Statistics
Casleton, Emily, A local structure graphmodel for network analysis
Chen, Senniang, Imputation of missingvalues using quantile regression
Fostvedt, Luke, Mixed effects modelingwith missing data using quantile re-gression and joint modeling
Im, Jongho, Some methods for handlingmissing data in surveys
Koh, Yew Meng, Contributions to thedesign and analysis of nondestructiveevaluation experiments
Lanker, Cory, Local prediction and clas-sification techniques for machine learn-ing and data mining
Li, Jing, Biclustering methods and aBayesian approach to fitting Boltzmannmachines in statistical learning
Liu, Fanfang, Statistical methods in de-tecting differential expressed genes,analyzing insertion tolerance for genesand group selection for survival data
Qiu, Yumou, Inference of high-dimensionalcovariance matrices and thresholdingtests for high-dimensional count distri-butions
Roy Choudhury, Niladri, Explorations ofthe lineup protocol for visual inference:Application to high dimension, lowsample size problems and metrics toassess the quality
Van Hala, Matthew, On empirical likeli-hood methods for irregularly locatedspatial data
Vanderplas, Susan, Perception in statisti-cal graphics
Wang, Min, Mathematical and statisticalmodels in evolutionary game theory
Zheng, Yun, Asset pricing based onstochastic delay differential equations
University of Iowa (12)
Department of Applied Mathematical
and Computational Sciences
Ellingwood, Nathan, Methods for improv-ing performance of particle trackingand image registration in computa-tional lung modeling using multi-coreCPUs and GPUs
Gasper, Rebecca, Action potentials in theperipheral auditory nervous system: Anovel PDE distribution model
Department of Biostatistics
Brown, Grant D., Application of hetero-geneous computing techniques to com-partmental spatiotemporal epidemicmodels
Lourens, Spencer G., Bias in mixtures ofnormal distributions and joint model-ing of longitudinal and time-to-eventdata with monotonic change curves
Department of Mathematics
Fitzpatrick, Michael, Continuous familiesof representations of mapping classgroups
Nathanson, Ekaterina, Path integrationwith non-positive distributions and ap-plications to the Schrodinger equation
Ortiz, Marcos, Convex decompositiontechniques applied to handlebodies
Salazar-Torres, Dido, The Khovanov ho-mology of the jumping jack
Williams, Jessica, A ring theoretic ap-proach to radicals of extensions
Department of Statistics and
Actuarial Science
Chai, Hao, Statistical inference in highdimensional and AFT models
Van Krevelen, Ryne, Improved intervalestimation of comparative treatmenteffects
Zhang, Xiangmin, Nonconvex selection innonparametric additive models
KANSASKansas State University (9)
Department of Mathematics
Hao, Zheng, Obstacle problems withelliptic operators in divergence form
Herbert, Jodi, Boundedness properties ofbilinear pseudodifferential operators
Junla, Nakorn, Classification of certaingenera of codes, lattices and vertexoperator algebras
Pigno, Vincent, Prime power exponen-tial and character sums with explicitevaluations
Department of Statistics
Bai, Xiuqin, Robust mixtures of regressionmodels
Chen, Yixin, Statistical inference for vary-ing coefficient models
Gharaibeh, Mohammed, Nonparametriclack-of-fit tests in presence of het-eroscedastic variances
Sahtout, Mohammad, Improving the per-formance of the prediction analysisof microarrays algorithm via differ-ent thresholding methods and het-eroscedastic modeling
Yu, Chun, Robust regression mixturemodeling
University of Kansas (6)
Department of Mathematics
Chaffee, Lucas, Commutators of multi-linear singular integral operators withpointwise multiplication
Clifton, Cody, A stochastic system modelfor PageRank: Parameter estimation andadaptive control
Espenschied, William, Graphs of poly-topes
Huang, Jingyu, Stochastic partial dif-ferential equations driven by colorednoise
Le, Khoa, Nonlinear integrals, diffusionsin random environments and stochasticpartial differential equations
Sanders, William, Categorical and homo-logical aspects of module theory overcommutative rings
University of KansasMedical Center (2)
Department of Biostatistics
Jiang, Wei, Optimal designs for two-armrandomized Phase II clinical trials withmultiple constraints
Jiang, Yu, Bayesian methods for vali-dating patient reported outcomes andpredicting patient accrual in clinicaltrials
Wichita State University (1)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Physics
Alsultan, Rehab, k-differenced vector ran-dom fields
KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (19)
Departments of Epidemiology and
Biostatistcs
Bardach, David, Evidence-based hospitalsGordon, Leonard, The non-steroidal anti-
inflammatory drugs-myocardial infarc-tion association: An investigation ofKentucky Medicaid prescription claims
Guo, Jing, Developments in nonparamet-ric regression methods with applicationto Raman spectroscopy analysis
Singleton, Mike, Nonlinear hierarchicalmodels for longitudinal experimentalinfection studies
Department of Mathematics
Armenoff, Nicholas, Free resolutions as-sociated to representable matroids
Brewer, Thomas, Algebraic properties offormal power series composition
Camacho, Fernando, A posteriori errorestimates for surface finite elementmethods
Davis, Robert, Unimodality questions inEhrhart theory
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Du, Wenwen, Material tensors and pseu-dotensors of weakly-textured polycrys-tals with orientation measure definedon the orthogonal group
Fox, Norman, Combinatorial potpourri:Permutations, products, posets, andpfaffians
Robinson, William, Determinantal idealsfrom symmetrized skew tableaux
Saxton, Aaron, Decay estimates on tracenorms of localized functions of Schro-dinger operators
Taylor, Clifford, Deletion-induced trian-gulations
Troha, Carolyn, Analysis and construc-tions of subspace codes
Department of Statistics
Fan, Qian, Normal mixture and contam-inated model with nuisance parameterand applications
Li, Yinglei, Genetic association testing ofcopy number variation
Wei, Shaoleng, Multi-state models forinterval censored data with competingrisk
Weyenberg, Grady, Statistics in theBillera-Holmes-Vogtmann treespace
Zhou, Feng, Contaminated Chi-SquareModeling and its application in mi-croarray data analysis
University of Louisville (5)
Department of Mathematics
Bjurstrom, Katey, Acyclic and indiffer-ence transitive collective choice func-tions
Godbey, Michael, The use of variable-bagging and the cross-validation in theprediction of Alzheimer’s using theADNI database
Hunt, Heather, Several functional equa-tions defined on groups arising fromstochastic distance measures
Perkins, Allison, Functional equationswith involution related to sine andcosine functions
Smith, Lyle, Improved self-consistencyfor SCED-LCAO
LOUISIANALSU Health SciencesCenter, New Orleans (2)
Department of Biostatistics
Leonardi, Claudia, A two-stage random-ized response technique for surveyingsensitive topics
Zhou, Yuan, Crossover adaptive sequen-tial parallel comparison design to re-duce bias and improve power for de-tecting treatment differences in clinicaltrials
Louisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (13)
Department of Mathematics
Abernathy, Susan, Obstructions to em-bedding genus-1 tangles in links
Dawson, Matthew, Conical representa-tions for direct limits of Riemanniansymmetric spaces
Ferguson, Adam Beau, Excluding twominors of the Petersen graph
Guillot, Daniel, Coloring graphs drawnwith crossings
Hall, Dennis, On matroid and polymatroidconnectivity
Holmes, Irina, The Gaussian Radon trans-form for Banach spaces
Huang, Xu, Exponentially convergent gen-eralized finite element method formulti-scale problems
Kafle, Bir Bahadur, Local conjugationsof groups and applications to numberfields
Lambert-Cole, Peter, Invariants of Legen-drian products
Liang, Dun, Explicit equations of non-hyperelliptic genus 3 curves with realmultiplication by Q(ζ7 + ζ−1
7 )Moss, John Tyler, Extremal problems in
matroid connectivityTaylor, Jesse, Extremal problems in ma-
troid minorsUnlu, Zuhal, Robust preconditioning for
high-contrast elliptic partial differentialequations
Louisiana TechnologyUniversity (2)
Program of Mathematics and
Statistics
Li, Yang, Improvements on segmenta-tion based contour method for DNAmicroarray image segmentation
Walters, Jonathan, Analysis of a mathe-matical model for the heave motion of amicro aerial vehicle with flexible wingshaving non-local damping effects
Tulane University (6)
Department of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics
Joyce, Cara, Variable selection for transi-tion analysis
Thiero, Oumar, A new method of resam-pling testing nonparametric hypothe-ses: Balanced randomization tests
Department of Mathematics
Cui, Shumo, Well-balanced central-upwindschemes
Hoffman, Franz, A numerical method fordoubly-periodic Stokes flow in 3D withand without a bounding plane
Kurochkin, Dmitry, Numerical methodfor constrained optimization problemsgoverned by nonlinear hyperbolic sys-tems of PDEs
Li, Huicong, Reaction-diffusion equationson domains with thin layers
University of Louisiana atLafayette (2)
Department of Mathematics
Wang, Qian, Global existence and blow-up for diffusion equations with memoryboundary conditions
Wu, Yixiang, Long time behavior forreaction-diffusion population models
MARYLANDJohns Hopkins UniversityBloomberg School ofPublic Health (9)
Department of Biostatistics
Chen, Shaojie, Statistical methods toanalyze massive high-dimensional neu-roimaging data
Frazee, Alyssa, High-resolution gene ex-pression analysis
Gellar, Jonathan, Functional regressionmethods for densely-sampled biomark-ers in the ICU
Han, Fang, Large-scale semiparametricinference for large, complex, and noisydatasets
Lum, Kirsten, Joint modeling of hierarchi-cal data with application to prospectivepregnancy studies
Sun, Yifei, Statistical methods for analyz-ing marker processes in the presenceof a terminal event
Webb Vargas, Yenny, Causal inferencemethods for measurement error andmediation analysis
Wu, Zhenke, Statistical methods for in-dividualized health with applicationto childhood pneumonia and healthpolicies: Etiology, diagnosis, and inter-vention
Yang, Juemin, Statistical methods forbrain imaging and genomic data analy-sis
Johns HopkinsUniversity (11)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Chen, Li, Pattern recognition on randomgraphs
Chestnut, Stephen, Stream sketches, sam-pling, and sabotage
Shen, Cencheng, Matching and inferencefor multiple correlated data sets
Yang, Sitan, Micro-array based multiclassclassification using relative expressionanalysis
Department of Mathematics
Jun, Jaiung, Algebraic geometry oversemi-structures and hyper-structuresof characteristic one
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 801
Karami, Arash, Zeros of random Rein-hardt polynomials
McGonagle, Matthew, The Gaussian isoperi-metric problem and the self-shrinkersof mean curvature flow
Ross, John, Rigidity results for lambda-hypersurfaces
Sun, Hongtan, Strichartz estimates forwave and Schrodinger equations onhyperbolic trapped domains
Tolliver, Jeffrey, Hyperstructures andidempotent semistructures
Wang, Xing, Asymptotic behavior of spec-trums for elliptic pseudo-differentialoperators
University of Maryland,Baltimore County (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Choi, Sungwoo, Classification using theROC curve analysis and testing non-equivalence
Guha, Nilabja, Bayesian estimation undershape restriction and some deconvolu-tion problems
Huang, Xuan, An MPI-CUDA implemen-tation of a model for calcium inducedcalcium release in a three-dimensionalheart cell on a hybrid CPU/GPU cluster
Saraswat, Jyoti, Multigrid solution ofdistributed optimal control problemsconstrained by semilinear elliptic PDEs
Yang, Yang, Bayesian adaptive dose-finding methods in Phase 1 drug com-bination trials
Zhai, Shuyan, Tolerance limits and hy-potheses tests for the comparison ofdissolution profiles
University of Maryland,College Park (40)
Department of Mathematics
Cash, Brianna, Using domain-specific information in image processing
Chau, Marie, Stochastic simulation:stochastic approximation methods andsensitivity analyses
Contreras Barraza, Fabian, Regularity of absolutely continuous invariant mea-sures for piecewise expanding uni-modal maps
Dayaratna, Kevin, Contributions to Bayes-ian statistical modeling in public policy research
Ding, Zi, Optimal learning with non-Gaussian rewards
Dong, Chen, Hierarchical Bayes analysisof behavioral experiments
Greene, James, Mathematical models oftumor heterogeneity and drug resis-tance
Han, Bin, Statistical and optimal learningwith applications in business analytics
Hennessy, Angela, An algorithmic ap-proach to invariant rational functions
Ho, Son Lam, On conformally flat circlebundles over surfaces
Hotta, Daisuke, Proactive quality controlbased on ensemble forecast sensitivityto observations
Ji, Ran, Semiparametric threshold regres-sion analysis for time-to-event data
Joglekar, Madhura, Robustness of at-tracting orbits
Koprowski, Paul, Finite frames and graphtheoretical uncertainty principles
Kreisel, Michael, Gabor frames for qua-sicrystals and K-theory
Lai, Yenming Mark, Optimal space-timefrequency design of microphone net-works
Lee, Jong Jun, Small mass asymptoticsfor problems in stochastic differentialequations
Liu, Xuan, Statistical analysis of onlineeye and face-tracking applications inmarketing
Long, Terence, Twist-bulge derivativesand deformations of properly convexreal projective structures on surfaces
Markou, Ioannis, A Fokker-Planck studymotivated by a problem in fluid-particleinteractions
Murphy, James, Anisotropic harmonicanalysis of integration of remotelysensed data
Nakamura, Kanna, Evolution of facetedcrystal surfaces: Modeling and theory
Nam, Kijoeng, Dimension reduction ininverse spline regression
Pajor-Gyulai, Zsolt, Limit behavior of ran-domly perturbed strong cellular flows:Averaging and homogenization
Phillips, Edward, Fast solvers and un-certainty quantification for models ofmagnetohydrodynamics
Qu, Huashuai, Simulation optimization:New methods and an application
Ralston, Jacob, The relative Lie algebracohomology of the Weil representation
Salins, Michael, Asymptotic problems forstochastic partial differential equations
Shaw, David, Regulation methods forhigh-dimensional inference
Shen, Meiyu, Statistical methods in bioe-quivalence studies
Somarakis, Christoforos, Problems in dis-tributed control systems, consensusand flocking networks
Stern, Morgan, Investigations of highlyirregular prime and associated ray classfields
Talukder, Hisham, Applications of para-metric and semi-parametric models forlongitudinal data analysis
Tan, Changhui, Multiscale problems oncollective dynamics and image process-ing: Theory, analysis and numerics
Taroudaki, Viktoria, Image estimationand uncertainty quantification
Tcheuko, Lucas, Asymptotic problems ofstochastic processes and correspondingpartial differential equations
Tian, Yue, Analysis with application toviewership of motion pictures
Tomas, Ignacio, Ferrofluids: Modeling,numerical analysis and scientific com-puting
Walker, Brenton, Topological structureof spatially-distributed network codedinformation
Yacoubou Djima, Karamatou, Multiscaleanalysis and diffusion semigroups withapplications
MASSACHUSETTSBoston College (3)
Department of Mathematics
Haraway, Robert, Dehn paternity boundsand hyperbolicity tests
Phillips, Andrew, Moduli of CM falseelliptic curves
Vlamas, Nicholas, Identities on hyper-bolic manifolds and quasi-conformalhomogeneity of hyperbolic surfaces
Boston University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Johnston, Ian, Hierarchical Bayesian mod-els for genome-wide association studies
Peng, Lijun, Bayesian stochastic blockmodels for community detection in net-works and community-structured co-variance selection
Zhang, Yaonan, Statistical analysis ofnetwork data motivated by problems inonline social media
Boston University Schoolof Public Health (8)
Department of Biostatistics
Bae, Harold, Understanding the ge-netic basis of complex polygenic traitsthrough Bayesian model selection ofmultiple genetic models and networkmodelling of family-based genetic data
Gao, Wei, Sequence kernel associationtest, gene-environment interaction test,and meta-analysis for family sampleswith repeated measurements or multi-ple traits
Liu, Xuan, New approach to comparetreatments in adaptive seamless de-signs while maintaining type I error andensuring adequate power
Pickard, Michael, Estimation methods inadaptive treatment-selection designs
Shuai, Wang, Genetic association meth-ods for multiple types of traits in familysamples
Teng, Zhaoyang, Optimal and adaptivedesigns for multi-regional clinical trialswith regional consistency requirement
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Wu, Joseph Moon Wai, Adaptive method-ologies in multi-arm dose response andbiosimilarity clinical trials
Yang, Yijun, Evaluating multiple end-points in heart failure clinical trials
Brandeis University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Carr, Michael, Two-generator subgroupsof right-angled Artin groups are quasi-isometrically embedded
Chen, Jingyue, Existence and rigidity ofCalabi-Yau bundles
Medvedovsky, Anna, Lower bounds ondimensions of mod-p Hecke algebras:The nilpotence method
Harvard University (25)
Department of Mathematics
Antolin Camarena, Omar, The mod 2homology of free spectral Lie algebras
Atanasov, Atanas, Interpolation and vec-tor bundles on curves
Boxer, George, Torsion in the coherentcohomology of Shimura varieties andGalois representations
Heuts, Gijsbert, Goodwillie approxima-tions to higher categories
Kuan, Jeffrey, Several theorems aboutprobabilistic limiting expressions: TheGaussian free field, symmetric Pearceyprocess, and strong Szego asymptotics
Li, Chao, 2-Selmer groups and Heegnerpoints on elliptic curves
Riedl, Eric, Rational curves on hypersur-faces
Schieder, Simon, Picard-Lefschetz oscilla-tors for the Drinfeld-Lafforgue-Vinbergcompactification
Sia, Charmaine, Structures on forms ofK-theory
Takahashi, Ryosuke, The moduli spaceof S1-type zero loci for Z/2 harmonicspinors in dimension 3
Tavares Bujokas, Gabriel, Covers of anelliptic curve E and curves in E × P1
Tsai, Cheng-Chiang, A formula for someShalika germs
Department of Statistics
Andric, Nikola, Exploring objective causalinference in case-noncase studies underthe Rubin causal model
Cervone, Daniel, Inference and predictionproblems for spatial and spatiotempo-ral data
Ding, Peng, Exploring the role of random-ization in causal inference
Feller, Avi, Essays in causal inference andpublic policy
Fernandez, Daniel, Cell states and cellfate: Statistical and computational mod-els in (epi)genomics
Franks, Alexander, Quantifying sourcesof variation in high-throughput biology
Hennessey, Jonathan, Topics in experi-mental and tournament design
Lee, Joseph, Extensions of randomization-based methods for causal inference
Wang, Lazhi, Methods in Monte Carlocomputation, astrophysical data analy-sis and hypothesis testing with multiply-imputed data
School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences
Chemama, Michael, Flames, splashesand microdroplets: A mathematical ap-proach to three fluid dynamics prob-lems
Costa, Thiago, A non-parametric per-spective on the analysis of massivenetworks
Platt, John, Dynamics and materialsphysics of fault rupture and glacialprocesses
Rhines, Andrew, Past and future cli-mate variability: Extremes, scaling, anddynamics
Harvard T. H. Chan Schoolof Public Health (12)
Department of Biostatistics
Agniel, Denis, Statistical methods formultivariate and complex phenotypes
Dimont, Emmanuel, Methods for theanalysis of differential composition ofgene expression
Kunz, Lauren, Statistical methods forcomparative effectiveness research ofmedical devices
Liu, Zhonghua, Plasma metabolites andbody mass index in US men and womenof European ancestry; novel statisticalmethods for analyzing multiple pheno-types in genetic association studies
Neykov, Matey, Three aspects of biosta-tistical learning theory
Shen, Yuanyuan, Ordinal outcome pre-diction and treatment selection in per-sonalized medicine
Smoot Malecha, Elizabeth, Methods for ef-fectively combining group- and individ-ual-level data
Sullivan, Adam, Sensitivity analysis forlinear structural equation models, lon-gitudinal mediation with latent growthmodels and blended learning in bio-statistics education
Yip, Wai-Ki, Statistical methods for an-alyzing DNA methylation data andsubpopulation analysis of continuous,binary and count data for clinical trials
Yong, Florence, Quantitative methods forstratified medicine
Zhang, Yifan, Bayesian adaptive clinicaltrials
Zhao, Rui, Integrated analysis of longitu-dinal tumor burden data
Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (21)
Department of Mathematics
Andrews, Michael, The v1-periodic partof the Adams spectral sequence at anodd prime
Donovan, Michael, Unstable operations inthe Bousfield-Kan spectral sequence forsimplicial commutative F2-algebras
Geneson, Jesse, Bounds on extremal func-tions of forbidden patterns
Glasman, Saul, Day convolution and theHodge filtration on the THH
Grinshpun, Andrey, Some problems ingraph Ramsey theory
Harris, Daniel, The pilot-wave dynamicsof walking droplets in confinement
Iriarte, Benjamin, Combinatorics of acyclicorientations of graphs: Algebra, geome-try, and probability
Mendelson, Dana Sydney, Nonlinear dis-persive equations with random initialdata
Nandakumar, Vinoth, Coherent sheaveson varieties arising in Springer theory,and category 0
Ostrev, Dimiter, The structure of optimaland nearly-optimal quantum strategiesfor non-local XOR games
Potechin, Aaron, Analyzing monotonespace complexity via the switchingnetwork model
Shlapentokh-Rothman, Yakov, Mode sta-bilities and instabilities for scalar fieldson Kerr spacetimes
Svaldi, Roberto, Log geometry and ex-tremal contractions
Trongsiriwat, Wuttisak, Combinatorics ofpermutation patterns, interlacing net-works, and Schur functions
Wang, Guozhen, Unstable chromatic ho-motopy theory
Watson, Samuel, Conformal loop ensem-bles and the Gaussian free field
Wei, Wenzhe, Nuclear norm penalizedLAD estimator for low-rank matrixrecovery
Zeng, Yi, Mathematical modeling oflithium-ion intercalation particles andtheir electrochemical dynamics
Zepeda Nunez, Leonardo Andres, Fastand scalable solvers for the Helmholtzequation
Zhao, Yufei, Sparse regularity and relativeSzemeredi theorems
Zhu, Xuwen, The eleven dimensionalsupergravity equations, resolutions andLefschetz fiber metrics
NortheasternUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics
Matteo, Nicholas, Convex polytopes andtilings with few flag orbits
Scheidwasser, Ilya, Contractions of poly-gons in abstract polytopes
Williams, Abigail, Wythoffian skeletalpolyhedra
Tufts University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Babinski, Alex, Orbits and centralizers foralgebraic groups in small characteris-tic and Lie algebra representations instandard Levi form
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Carlson, Jeffrey, Equivariant formality ofisotropic toral actions
Cunningham, Charles, Automorphism ofright-angled Coxeter groups
Eisenberg, Andrew, Groups quasi-isomet-ric to H × Rn
Emerson, David, Advanced discretiza-tions and multigrid methods for liquidcrystal configurations
Wolak, Mathew, The centers of the univer-sal enveloping algebras for contractedLie groups
University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Drellich, Elizabeth, Combinatorics ofequivalent cohomology: Flags and regu-lar nilpotent Hessenberg varieties
Hatley, Jeffrey, Obstruction criteria formodular deformation problems
MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Aqtash, Ansam, The minimum semidef-inite rank of signed graphs
Al-Jarrah, Yousef, Wavelet based methodfor numerical solution of integral equa-tions and applications
Al-Mofleh, Hazem, Robust variogram fit-ting using non-linear rank-based esti-mators
Diaz, Pedro, On the Delta Conjecture andthe Graph Complement Conjecture forminimum semidefinite rank of a graph
Shams, Azza, An approximation to non-linear coupled reaction-diffusion equa-tion using adomian decompositionmethod and fractional operators
Zannon, Mohammad, Third order sheardeformation theory for free vibrationof cylindrical thick shell
Michigan StateUniversity (12)
Department of Mathematics
Barrese, Kenneth, m-level rook place-ments
Droba, Justin, Linear response densityfunctional theory for metal surfaceswith application to second harmonicgeneration
Fan, Wei, Plugs in simply-connected four-manifolds with boundaries
Hallam, Joshua, Quotient posets and thecharacteristic polynomial
Hong, Yuqi, Near-field imaging of imped-ance grating surfaces
Lee, Christine, Relationship between poly-nomial invariants and the topology ofthe knot
Park, Jin Kyoung, Mathematical modelingand stimulation of mechanoelectricaltransducers and nanofluidic channels
Vafaee, Faramarz, Heegaard Floer ho-mology and L-space knots
Williams, Luke, Handlebody structures ofrational balls
Department of Statistics and
Probability
Qi, Xin, Functional data analysis withapplications
Sabzikar, Farzad, Tempered fractionalBrownian motion
Zhang, Zhen, Clustering analysis ofspatio-temporal and functional data
University of Michigan (31)
Department of Mathematics
Altman, Harry, Integer complexity, addi-tion chains, and well ordering
Benson-Putnins, David, Volumes and inte-ger points of multi-index transportationpolytopes
Brouwer, Andrew, Models of HPV as aninfectious disease and as an etiologicalagent of cancer
Calder, Jeffrey, Hamilton-Jacobi equa-tions for sorting and percolation prob-lems
Carde, Kevin, Cluster algebras and classi-cal invariant rings
Chmutov, Michael, The structure of W -graphs arising in Kazhdan-Lusztig the-ory
Fleming, Balin, Arc schemes in logarith-mic algebraic geometry
Hoai, Becky, On symplectic invariantsassociated to Zoll manifolds
Huh, June, Rota’s conjecture and positiv-ity of algebraic cycles in toric varieties
Kinsey, Rafe, A priori estimates for two-dimensional water waves with angledcrests
Leung, Kin Kwan, Complex geometricinvariants associated to Zoll manifolds
Liu, Sijun, Functional equations involvingLaurent polynomials and meromorphicfunctions, with applications to dynam-ics and Diophantine equations
Liu, Zhipeng, Discrete Toeplitz determi-nants and their applications
Ma, Linquan, The Frobenius endomor-phism and multiplicities
Ngo, Hieu, Generalizations of the Lerchzeta function
Riolo, Maria, Topics in structured host-antagonist interactions
Seward, Brandon, Krieger’s finite gen-erator theorem for ergodic actions ofcountable groups
Ullery, Brooke, Tautological vector bun-dles on the Hilbert scheme of pointsand the normality of secant varieties
Wheeler, Ashley, Ideals generated byprincipal minors
Wootters, Mary, Any errors in this disser-tation are probably fixable: Topics inprobability and error correcting codes
Wu, Yilun, On existence and propertiesof rotating star solutions to the Euler-Poisson equations
Zhang, Yuchong, Problems in mathemat-ical finance related to transaction costsand model uncertainty
Zhou, Xin, Asymptotics of equivariantsyzygies
Zhou, Zhou, Topics in optimal stoppingand fundamental theorem of assetpricing
Zimmer, Andrew, Rigidity in complexprojective space
Department of Statistics
Basu, Sumanta, Modeling and estimationof high-dimensional vector autoregres-sions
Brown, Tom, Analyzing spatial processeslocally
Chakrabarty, Nirupam, Semiparametricestimation of target location in wirelesssensor network
Hsu, Ming-Chi, Contributions to variablescreening and summaries of depen-dence structures
Shen, Juan, Model-based inference forsubgroup analysis
Yuen, Robert, Topics on estimation, pre-diction and bounding risk for multivari-ate extremes
Wayne State University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Baran, Nicholas, On switching diffusions:The Feynman-Kac formula and near-optimal controls
Lam, Nguyen, Moser-Trudinger and Adamstype inequalities and applications
Yang, Zhixin (Harriet), Stability and con-trols for stochastic dynamic systems
Western MichiganUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematics
Johnston, Daniel, Edge colorings ofgraphs and their applications
Lumduanhom, Chira, Modular monochro-matic colorings spectra and frames ingraphs
Perovic, Vasilije, Spectrally equivalentmatrix polynomials: Non-standard rep-resentations and preservation of struc-ture
Schwass, James, Phantom maps, decom-posability, and spaces meeting particu-lar finiteness conditions
Smith, Dustin, Eliciting elementary schoolstudents’ informal inferential reasoningthrough storytelling
Zumbrun, Christina, Secondary mathe-matics teachers’ attitudes and beliefstoward statistics: Develping an initialprofile
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Department of Statistics
Jiang, Haolai, Inference on differences ink means for data with excess zeros anddetection limits
MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota–Twin Cities (23)
Division of Biostatistics, School of
Public Health
Ma, Xiaoye, Network meta-analysis ofdiagnostic tests
Murray, Thomas, Hierarchical modelsthat flexibly incorporate supplementalinformation for settings with unknownnonlinear functions
Wey, Andrew, Estimation of nuisanceparameters in survival models
Zhang, Jing, Bayesian hierarchical meth-ods for network meta-analysis
School of Mathematics
Ali, Adil, Boundary-value problems onspaces of automorphic forms
Averina, Viktoria, A mathematical modelof neurally-mediated angiotensin II-salthypertension
Bashkirov, Denis, The BV formalism forhomotopy Lie algebras
Benson, Joseph, Integrable planar curveflows and the vortex membrane flow inEuclidean 4-space using moving framesand the variational bicomplex
Campbell, Patrick, Dynamical implica-tions of network statistics
Chen, Nai-Chia, Periodic brake orbits inthe N-body problem
Csar, Sebastian, Root and weight semi-group rings for signed posets
Edman, Robert, Diameter and coherenceof monotone path graphs
Hoyer-Leitzel, Alanna, Bifurcations andlinear stability of families of relativeequilibria with a dominant vortex
Jaramillo, Gabriela, Inhomogeneities inspatially extended pattern forming sys-tems
Kim, Minsu, Thermomechanical model ofgels
Schrier, Madeline, Barcode decoding ina camera-based scanner: Analysis andalgorithms
Switala, Nicholas, Some invariants ofnonsingular projective varieties andcomplete local rings
School of Statistics
Bezener, Martin, Bayesian spatiotempo-ral modeling using spatial hierarchicalpriors with applications to functionalmagnetic resonance imaging
Chen, Gang, Forecast combination foroutlier protection and forecast combi-nation under heavy tailed errors
Rolling, Craig, Estimation of conditionalaverage treatment effects
Yan, Qi, Coherent pursuit and boostinglearning
Yang, Yi, A unified algorithm for fittingpenalized models with high dimensiondata
Yuan, Yiping, Statistical learning of high-dimensional directed acyclic graphicalmodels
MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Ballamoole, Snehalatha, Spectral proper-ties of a class of integral operators onspaces of analytic functions
Butler, Dagny, Analysis of classes of non-linear eigenvalue problems on exteriordomains
University ofMississippi (3)
Department of Mathematics
Lee, Byunghoon, Diagonals of tensorproducts of Banach lattices with bases
Schwanke, Christopher, Complex vectorlattices: Tensor products and multilin-ear maps
Weatherall, Lauren, Gini covariance ma-trix and its affine equivariant version
University of SouthernMississippi (2)
Department of Mathematics
Jones, Corey, Time integration methodsof fundamental solutions and approxi-mate fundamental solutions for nonlin-ear elliptic partial differential equations
Monroe, Jeanette, Hybrid meshless methodfor numerical solution of partial differ-ential equations
MISSOURIMissouri University ofScience andTechnology (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
De Mel, Withanage Ajith, On some in-ferential problems with recurrent eventmodels
Streipert, Sabrina, Discrete and dynamicpopulation models with logistic growthrate
Sultana, Nasrin, Volterra difference equa-tions
Thilakaratne, Malaka, GARCH models forhigh frequency time series
Zhao, Renren, Small sample UMPU equiv-alence testing based on saddlepointapproximations
St Louis University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Paullin, Katherine, Spun almost normalform
Siddique, Feroz, Additive representationsof elements in rings
Steward, Robert, Methods in statisticalchange-point analysis
University ofMissouri–Columbia (11)
Department of Mathematics
Alvardo, Ryan, Topics in geometric anal-ysis and harmonic analysis on spacesof homogeneous type
Brewster, Kevin, Trace/extension opera-tors in rough domains and applicationsto partial differential equations
Oveys, Hesam, Age-dependent branchingprocesses and applications to Luria-Delbruck experiment
Woodland, Lindsey, Frames and applica-tions: Distribution of frame coefficients,integer frames and phase retrieval
Department of Statistics
Cook, Tyler, Model evaluation and vari-able selection for interval-censored data
Cui, Shiqi, Bayesian analysis for detect-ing differentially expressed genes fromRNA-Seq data
Ma, Ling, Semi-parametric regressionanalysis of interval-censored failuretime data
Wang, Zhenyu, Bayesian non-linear meth-ods for survival analysis and structuralequation models
Yi, Min, A ballooned beta-logistic modelZheng, Dan, Bayesian analysis of capture-
recapture model and diagnostic test inclinical trials
Zhou, Qingning, Statistics analysis ofbivariate interval-censored failure timedata
University ofMissouri–Kansas City (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Meng, Jianfeng, Change point analysisof copy number variants using nextgeneration sequencing data
University of Missouri-StLouis (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Van Der Walt, Maria, Wavelet analysis ofnon-stationary signals with applications
Washington University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Chang, Chao, Nonparametric Bayesianquantile regression
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Chen, Liwei, Regularity of the Bergmanprojection on variants of the Hartogstriangle
Liow, Hien-haw, Application of machinelearning to mapping and simulatinggene regulatory networks
Meyer, Dave, Wavelets factorization andrelated polynomials
Rock, Brady, Incompatibility of Diophan-tine equations arising from strongfactorial conjecture
Wallace, Matt, Determining fractionalconversion for class reaction-diffusionsystems
Xie, Yao, Applications of nonlinear opti-mization
MONTANAMontana StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Manlove, Joe, Allowable rotation numbersfor Siegel disks of rational maps
Waters, Ryan, From immunology to MRIdata analysis: Problems in mathematicalbiology
University of Montana -Missoula (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chaphalkar, Rachel, A longitudinal studyof students’ reasoning about variationin distributions in an introductorycollege statistics course
Swicegood, Grant, An investigation of theimpact of iPad usage on elementarymathematical skills and attitudes
NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska–Lincoln (14)
Department of Mathematics
Brackins, Abigail, Boundary value prob-lems of nabla fractional differenceequations
Brown, Michael, Knorrer periodicity andBott periodicity
Gipson, Phillip, Invariant basis numberand basis type for C∗-algebras
Hardin, Jason, Algebraic properties ofExt-modules over complete intersec-tions
Keel, Brittney, Bioinformatic game theoryand its application to cluster multi-domain proteins
Keough, Lauren, Extremal results for thenumber of matchings and independentsets
Webb, Marcus, Frobenius and homologi-cal dimensions
Youngs, Nora, The neural ring: Usingalgebraic geometry to analyze neuralcodes
Zheng, Yang, Betti sequences over localrings and connected sums of Gorensteinrings
Department of Statistics
Bright, Brianna, Investigating the perfor-mance of asymptotic interval estima-tion and hypothesis testing methodsfor functions of binary and Poissonparameters
Chernyavskiy, Pavel, On the analysis ofevent-related potential and electroen-cephalographic data: Spatio-temporalmodeling, variography, and simulation
Fellers, Pamela, Value-added methodol-ogy for estimating professional devel-opment program effects
Sainath, Jyothsna, Structural equationmixed models with an application tosmall area estimation
Zeleny, Tucker, A new approach to model-ing multivariate time series on multipletemporal scales
NEVADAUniversity of Nevada, LasVegas (7)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
McDonald, Joseph, Exact statistical infer-ences for functions of parameters ofthe log-gamma distribution
McGinn, Donald, Generalized Markoffequations, Euclid trees, and Chebyshevpolynomials
Sun, Xudong, Empirical studies on inter-est rate derivatives
Sun, Yuzhou, Modeling studies and nu-merical analyses of coupled PDEs sys-tem in electrohydrodynamics
Wang, Zhou, A study of sequential infer-ence for the risk ratio and measure ofreduction of two binomials
Yu, Lanxuan, Exact controllability ofthe Lazer-McKenna suspension bridgeequation
Zhou, Libo, A study of joinpoint modelsfor longitudinal data
NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (5)
Department of Mathematics
Adelstein, Ian, Results on minimizingclosed geodesics
Martinez, Megan, Equivalences on pat-terns in random walks
McNew, Nathan, Multiplicative problemsin combinatorial number theory
Wolff, Sarah, Generalized Fourier trans-forms and their applications
Zhao, Lin, Boundary integral methodsand their applications
University of NewHampshire (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chen, Yanni, Function spaces based onsymmetric norms
Qian, Wenhua, Type II1 von Neumannalgebras with property Γ
Riepel, Brianna, Brauer-Picard groups ofpointed fusion categories
Zhang, Ye, Nonseparable Calkin algebras
NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Ahmed, Nubyra, Methods for two-samplecomparisons from censored time-to-event data
Akcay, Zeynep, Dynamic of phase lockingin neuronal networks in the presenceof synaptic plasticity
Grandhi, Anjana, Multiple testing proce-dures for complex structured hypothe-ses and directional decisions
Midura, Dawid, Efficient domain decom-position algorithms for the solution ofthe Helmholtz equation
Mondal, Shoubhik, Confidence bands forsurvival curves using model assistedCox regression
Varfolomiyev, Oleksiy, An efficient bound-ary integral method for stiff fluid inter-face problems
Princeton University (17)
Department of Mathematics
Beck, Thomas, Level set shape for groundstate eigenfunctions on convex domains
Deng, Yu, Long time behavior of somenonlinear dispersive equations
Lewallen, Sam, FloergasbordMacbeth, Heather, Kahler-Einstein met-
rics, Bergman metrics, and higheralpha-invariants
Manion, Andrew, Constructions and com-putations in Khovanov homology
Miller, Alison, Counting simple knots viaarithmetic invariant theory
Peckner, Ryan, Two dynamical perspec-tives on the randomness of the Mobiusfunction
Racz, Bela, Geometry of (1,1)-knots andknot Floer homology
Shah, Shrenik, p-adic approaches to theLanglands program
Shen, Liangming, Smoothing conic Kahlermetrics and conical Kahler-Ricci flow
Tarfulea, Andrei, A study in the asymp-totic behavior of nonlinear evolutionequations with nonlocal operators
Tsiokos, Elefterios, Integrals of automor-phic forms and L-functions
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Zhang, Yu, On the global solutions ofquasilinear dispersive equations
Zong, Runhong (Runpu), Topics in bira-tional geometry of algebraic varieties
Program in Applied Computational
Mathematics
Bandeira, Afonso, Convex relations forcertain inverse problems on graphs
Ozyesil, Onur, Camera motion estimationby convex programming
Tian, Haoshu, Mathematical models forfinancial data
Rutgers The StateUniversity of New Jersey,New Brunswick (25)
Department of Statistics and
Biostatistics
Li, Huijuan, Adaptive sampling withapplication in environmental studiesand computer experiments
Liu, Jie, Post-GWAS analysisLiu, Xialu, New models and methods for
time series analysis in big data eraMitra, Ritwik, Topics in high dimensional
statistical estimation and inferenceXia, Yi, Extended bootlier procedure
for detection of outliers in univariatesamples and linear regression analysis
Zhang, Yayan, Data normalization andclustering for big and small data andan application to clinical trials
Mathematics Department
Aminzare, Zahra, On the synchronousbehavior in complex nonlinear dynami-cal systems
Bush, Justin, Shift equivalence and acombinatorial-topological approach todiscrete-time dynamical systems
Cantillo, Jorge, Critical zeros of HeckeL-functions
Dibble, James, Totally geodesic maps intomanifolds with no focal points
Fiordalisi, Francesco, Logarithmic inter-twining operators and genus-one corre-lation functions
Flores, Jaret, Homological algebra forcommutative monoids
Gilmer, Justin, Discrete local central limittheorems and Boolean function com-plexity measures
Guo, Bin, Some parabolic and ellipticproblems in complex Riemannian ge-ometry
Hamm, Arran, On Erdos-Ko-Rado forrandom hypergraphs
Herdade, Simao, Stability results in addi-tive combinatorics and graph theory
Kallupalam Balasubramian, Moulik, Scalarfields and spin-half fields on mildly sin-gular spacetimes
Kanade, Shashank, Some results on therepresentation theory of vertex op-erator algebras and integer partitionidentities
Lubyshev, Vladimir, Nonlinear PDEs andan application to high-frequency trad-ing
Marcondes de Freitas, Michael, A class ofinput/output random systems: Mono-tonicity and a small-gain theorem
Miller, John, Class number of totally realnumber fields
Myers, Kellen, Computational advancesin Rado numbers
Nandi, Debajyoti, Partition identities aris-ing from the standard A(2)
2 -models oflevel 4
Tyrrell, Thomas, The Brauer-Manin ob-struction on families of hyperellipticcurves
Xiao, Ming, On mapping problems inseveral complex variables
Rutgers The StateUniversity of New JerseyNewark (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Ghosh, Pritam, Applications of weakattraction theory in Out(FN)
Isaacson, Brad, On character sums of Lee-Weintraub, Arakawa, and Ibukiyama,and related sums
Shi, Zhiqin, Algebraic studies of symmet-ric operators
Stevens Institute ofTechnology (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Krsteva, Kristina, Estimation and opti-mization of linear multi factor modelsof stock returns and detection of un-derlying regime-switching process inmodels
Morar, Pavel, Search problems in groupsand branching processes
Wolfhagen, Eli, Optimization with mul-tivariate stochastic dominance con-straints
NEW MEXICONew Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Aryal, Pradip, A study of Brownian mo-tion under brachistochrone-type met-rics
Shan, Qingsong, A measure for mutuallycomplete dependence and its estima-tion
Urenda-Castaneda, Julio, Algorithmic as-pects of the embedding problem
Wei, Zheng, Multivariate affiliation andthe joint distribution of random setvectors with copulas
Yousef, Feras, Mathematical analysis ofLandau-de Gennes phenomenologicalmodel for bent-core liquid crystals
University of NewMexico (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Dong, Yan, Nonparametric Bayes ap-proach for a semi-mechanistic pharma-cokinetic and pharmacodynamic model
Dyachenko, Sergey, Strongly nonlinearphenomena and singularities in optical,hydrodynamic and biological systems
Gong, Maozhen, Order-constrained ref-erence priors with implications forBayesian isotonic regression, analysisof covariance and spatial models
Hummel, Michelle, Delaunay-Laguerre ge-ometry for macromolecular modelingand implicit solvation
Qeadan, Fares, On the equivalence be-tween the LRT, RLRT and F -test fortesting variance components in thegeneralized split-plot models
NEW YORKBinghamton University,State University of NewYork (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Science
Du, Wenyu, Accurate and efficient numer-ical performance evaluation of gener-alized Shiryaev-Roberts procedure forquickest change-point
Li, Jinghao, Purity results on F -crystalsSorcar, Gangotryi, Non-triviality of the
fundamental group of the Teichmullerspace of negatively curved metrics of anon-locally symmetric curved manifold
Tanusevski, Slobodan, Generalized Thomp-son groups
Clarkson University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Basnayake, Ranil, Inverse problems forimage processing of spatiotemporaldynamical systems
Columbia University (15)
Department of Biostatistics
Mauro, Christine, Learning logic rulesusing an iterative algorithm: With anapplication to developing criteria setsfor the diagnostic and statistical manualof mental disorders
Song, Xiaoyu, A new estimating equationapproach for secondary trait analysesin genetic-control studies
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Department of Mathematics
Balsam, Nava, The parity of analyticranks among quadratic twists of ellipticcurves over number fields
Engel, Philip, A proof of Looijenga’sconjecture via integral-affine geometry
Heath, Timothy, On spectral bounds forcongruence families of subgroups inSL3(Z)
Mooney, Connor, Singular solutions tothe Monge Ampere equation
Negut, Andrei, Quantum algebras andcyclic quiver varieties
Rubin, Daniel, Partial differential equa-tions and variational approaches toconstant scalar curvature metrics inKahler geometry
Wang, Zhuhai, A Minkowski-type inequal-ity for hypersurfaces in warped productmanifolds
Zong, Zhengyu, Equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of GKM orbifolds
Department of Statistics
Bilina Falafala, Roseline, Mathematicalmodeling of insider trading
Fan, Ruixue, On identifying rare variantsfor complex human traits
He, Ran, A graphon-based framework formodeling large networks
Jingjing, Zou, Efficiency in lung trans-plant allocation strategies
Yang, Xuan, Limit theory for spatialprocesses, bootstrap quantile varianceestimators and efficiency measures forMarkov chain Monte Carlo
Cornell University (29)
Biological Statistics and
Computational Biology
Chang, Diana, Exploring the geneticarchitecture of complex diseases withgenome-wide association studies
Hunter-Zinck, Haley, Metrics of geneticrelatedness in applications of humangenomics
Martins, Andre, Modeling of DNA tran-scription regulation
Mentch, Lucas, Ensemble trees and CLTs:Statistical inference in machine learning
Steingrimsson, Jon, Information recoverywith missing data when the outcomesare right censored
Center for Applied Mathematics
Holden, Matthew Harrison, Optimal man-agement of biological populations
Krityakierne, Tipaluck, Global optimiza-tion of computationally expensive black-box problems using radial basis func-tions
Murugan, Mathav Kishore, Random walkson metric measure spaces
Ruelas, Rocio Esmeralda, Nonlinear para-metric excitation of an evolutionarydynamical system
Ugander, Johan Holke Olof, Computa-tional perspectives on large-scale socialnetworks
Wesson, Elizabeth Nicholas, Replicator dy-namics with alternate growth functions,delay, and quasiperiodic forcing
Zayas-Caban, Gabriel, Dynamic alloca-tion of healthcare resources
Department of Mathematics
Amchislavska, Margarita, The geometryof generalized lamplighter groups
Baik, Hyungryul (Harry), Laminations ofthe circle and hyperbolic geometry
Bjorndahl, Adam, Language-based gamesEscobar Vega, Laura, Brick varieties and
toric matrix Schubert varietiesFok, Chi-Kwong, The real K-theory of
compact Lie groupsLam, Chor Hang, Homological stability of
diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifoldsLindsey, Kathryn, Families of dynami-
cal systems associated to translationsurfaces
Lodha, Yash, Finiteness properties andpiecewise projective homeomorphisms
Marshall, Andrew, On configuration ofspatial planar graphs
Ojeda Aristizabal, Diana, Ramsey theoryand Banach space geometry
Ugurcan, Baris, Lp estimates and poly-harmonic boundary value problems ofthe Sierpinski gasket and Gaussian freefields on high dimensional Sierpinskicarpet graphs
Department of Statistical Sciences
Chen, Maximillian, Dimension reductionand inferential procedures for images
Chetelat, Didier, High-dimensional infer-ence by unbiased risk estimation
Earls, Cecilia Ann, Bayesian hierarchicalGaussian process models for functionaldata analysis
Gaynannova, Irina, Estimation of sparselow-dimensional linear projections
Thorbergsson, Leifur, Experimental de-sign for partially observed Markovdecision processes
Wan, Muting, Model-based classificationwith applications to high-dimensionaldata in bioinformatics
Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (10)
PhD Program in Mathematics
Arreche, Carlos, An algorithmic approachto the differential Galois theory ofsecond-order linear differential equa-tions with differential parameters
Bromberg, Lisa, Some applications ofnoncommutative groups and semi-groups to information security
Carmody, Erin K., Force to change largecardinal strength
Fortier Bourque, Maxime, The holomor-phic couch theorem
Hu, Yunchun, Martingales for uniformlyquasisymmetric circle endomorphisms
Larson, Christopher, Some combinatorialproperties of polyiamonds
Miasnikov, Nikita A., Asymptotic invari-ants and flatness of local endomor-phisms
Retamoso, Ivan, On polynomial roots ap-proximation via dominant eigenspacesand isolation of real roots
Stout, Andrew R., Motivic integration overnilpotent structures
Wolf, Jesse L., New results on randomizedmatrix computations
New York UniversityPolytechnic School ofEngineering (1)
Department of Mathematics
Kone, Hassane, Orlicz moment-entropy-information inequalities, parametrizedBlack-Scholes and (x2, λ)-Gaussian stockpricing model
New York University,Courant Institute (17)
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
Alanko, Samu, Regression-based MonteCarlo methods for solving nonlinearPDEs
Attanasio, Stefano, Single and multi-period portfolio theory: Two extensionsfor practical applications
Bushuk, Mitchell, A statistical and dy-namical study of the Arctic Sea-icevariability
Corona, Eduardo, Fast direct solvers forintegral equations
Costa, Edgar, Effective computations ofHasse-Weil zeta functions
Cottrell, Seth, Some applications of quan-tum walks to a general class of searchesand the computation of Boolean func-tions
Delong, Steven, Temporal integrators forLangevin equations with applications tofluctuating hydrodynamics and Brown-ian dynamics
Eckner, Sinziana, Stochastic Ising modelsat zero temperature on various graphs
Fai, Thomas, Fluid mechanics of thered blood cell and its cytoskeleton byan immersed boundary method withnonuniform viscosity and density
Guo, Yuan, Wave scattering and small-scale wave interactions
Huang, Jingyin, Quasi-isometry classifi-cation of right-angled Artin groups withfinite outer automorphism group
Jenkins, Daniel, Exceptional times for thediscrete web and predictability in Isingmodels
Kornbluth, Yitzhak, Noether’s problemfor the five unsolved groups of order64: A quadric model
Lee, Donghyun, Fluids with free-surfacesand vanishing viscosity limit
Rachh, Manas, Integral equation methodsfor problems in electrostatics, elasto-statics and viscous flow
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Snelson, Stanley, Nonlocal heat flows intosingular spaces
Wu, Chen-Hung, Simulation of osmoticswelling and osmotic pumping by thestochastic immersed boundary method
Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (8)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Abdul-Majid, Emann, Exploring the non-planar effects of iris formation
Altrichter, Scott, Flight-path optimiza-tion for resolution and coverage insynthetic-aperature radar (SAR)
Givler, Amy, A stochastic conditionalvalue-at-risk approach to disaster reliefplanning
Levy, Michael, Weighting statistics forestimation in a multiscale sensor radarconfiguration
Muller, Peter, Numerical methods ofelectrical impedance tomography
Reyna, Matthew, On the stability andaccuracy of high-order Runge-Kuttadiscontinued Galerkin methods
Yang, He, Analysis and applications ofdiscontinuous Galerkin methods forhyperbolic equations
Yao, Lei, Probabilistic modeling of genomeevolution and disease spread of tuber-culosis
Stony Brook University (34)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Au, Loretta, Quantitative approaches fordeconvolving the multiple contribu-tions of primary structure to proteinfitness
Chen, Jiansong, QTL mapping of longitu-dinal count traits
Chen, Lin, Statistical methods for op-timizing task performance in nuclearmedicine imaging and in x-ray breastimaging
Fu, Jinmiao, Multi-platform comparisonusing structural equation modeling anderrors in variables model with randomeffects
Huang, Erya, Statistical methods forassociation analysis of biological data
Kaufman, Ryan, Software tools for sto-chastic simulations of turbulence
Lee, Un Jung, The application of tra-jectory analysis for an early warningsystem in STEM courses
Li, Long, A greedy method to simulatedrainage in cross sections
Li, Muqi, Real-time power flow analysisand short-term electricity load forecast-ing in smart grid
Mandava, Manasa, On solutions of Kol-mogorov’s equations for non-homogen-eous jump Markov processes and suffi-ciency of Markov policies in continuous-time Markov decision processes
Muqattash, Isa, Multi-armed bandits withapplications to Markov decision pro-cesses and scheduling problems
Peng, Lizhen, Statistical frameworks ofintegrated analysis for genetic data
Pothapragada, Seetha, Modeling plateletson parallel computers
Shi, Qiangqiang, Modeling of parachutedynamics with GPU enhanced contin-uum fabric model and front trackingmethod
Song, Bowen, ROC random forest and itsapplications
Sun, Guoli, Significant distinct branchesof hierarchical trees: A framework forstatistical analysis and data
Wen, Ruofeng, Learning mixed sparsefactor networks structure: A latentvariable approach
Wu, Yijin, Epigenetic study with genome-wide hypothesis test and stepwise mul-tivariate adaptive regression splines(SMARS)
Xu, Ying, Numerical modeling and com-bustion studies of scramjet simulation
Xue, Shuai, A sharp boundary model forelectrocardiac simulations
Yang, Yiyang, Numerical algorithms forheterogeneous computation of PDE ex-tended system with applications
Yao, Yuan, Protein dimerization mecha-nisms study with molecular dynamicssimulation
Zhang, Qiao, Identification of differentialgene pathways in microarray
Zhang, Yuanhao, Statistical comparisonof measurement platforms
Zhu, Jiawen, MicroRNA target identifica-tion by reverse phase protein array
Zuber, James, Probing the knowableunknown: Applied experimental algo-rithmics
Department of Mathematics
Atyam, Anant, Affine stratifications andequivariant vector bundles on the mod-uli of principally polarized abelianvarieties
Elson, Ilya, Application of the Seiberg-Witten equations to the differentialgeometry of non-compact Kahler mani-folds
Hughes, Mark, Braiding non-ribbon sur-faces and constructing broken fibra-tions on smooth 4-manifolds
Norton, Chaya, Limits of real-normalizeddifferentials on stable curves
Perales Aguilar, Raquel, Convergenceof manifolds and metric spaces withboundary
Wang, Xiaojie, Uniqueness of Ricci flowsolution on non-compact manifolds andintegral scalar curvature bound
Yao, Chengjian, Conical Kahler-Einsteinmetrics and its applications
Zhang, Zheng, On the geometric and mo-tivic realizations of variations of Hodgestructure over Hermitian symmetricdomains
Syracuse University (3)
Department of Mathematics
DiMarco, Claudio, Metric space invariantsbetween the topological and Hausdorffdimensions
Shrestha, Khim, Poletsky-Stessin Hardyspaces on the unit disk
Yazici, Ozcan, Extension of plurisub-harmonic functions and dynamics ofpolynomial mappings
The University of Albany,SUNY (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Coleman, Michael, The kernel group ofelementary 2-groups over quadraticimaginary extensions
Stevenson, Daniel, Interpolation and sam-pling on the Fock space
Wu, Yue, Lorentz group of submodulesin H2(D2)
Yixin, Yang, On numerical invariants ofsubmodules in H2(D2)
University atBuffalo–SUNY (6)
Department of Biostatistics
Consiglio, Joseph, Exact approaches totesting problems involving nuisanceparameters
Jalal, Kabir, Imputation based methodsfor incidence rate estimation of dis-eases from federal and state mortalitydata supplemented with disease reg-istry data
Shi, Yi, Inference about the mean areaunder the curve in preclinical sparsesampling designs
Department of Mathematics
Fagerstrom, Emily, On the nonlinearSchrodinger equation with nonzeroboundary conditions
Kraus, Daniel, Vector nonlinear Schrodingersystems with nonzero boundary condi-tions
Winter, Blake, Virtual, welded, and ribbonlinks in arbitrary dimensions
University ofRochester (10)
Department of Biostatistics and
Computational Biology
Han, Yu, New semiparametric methodsfor clustered time-to-event data
Ma, Fei, Composite likelihood inferencefor multivariate finite mixture modelsand application to flow cytometry
Morrissette, Jason, Order restricted anal-ysis of covariance with interactions
Zhang, Xiao, Hypothesis testing problemsinvolving order restricted parameters
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Department of Mathematics
Aksoy Yazici, Esen, Erdos type configu-ration problems in modules over finiterings
Al-Raisi, Ali, Equivariance, module struc-ture, branched covers, Strickland maps,and cohomology related to the polyhe-dral product functor
Bennett, Michael, Some extremal prob-lems in combinatorial geometry overfinite fields
Hou, Zhuang, Blow-up properties of sto-chastic delay differential equations
Juul, Jamie, Galois groups of iterated ra-tional functions and their applications
Walters, Meg, Concentration of measuretechniques and applications
Yeshiva University (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Zhuo, Ran, Qualitative properties forsolutions of nonlinear equations andsystems involving higher order andfractional order Laplacians
NORTH CAROLINADuke University (16)
Department of Mathematics
Gaines, Benjamin, Aspects of the (0,2)-McKay correspondence
Gao, Tingran, Hypoelliptic diffusionmaps and their applications in au-tomated geometric morphometrics
Goetz, Andrew, The Einstein-Klein-Gordonequations, wave dark matter, and theTully-Fisher relation
Kordek, Kevin, Theta functions and thestructure of Torelli groups in low genus
Venkatesh, Anil, Triple products of Eisen-stein series
Watanabe, Tatsunari, Rational points ofuniversal curves in positive characteris-tics
Zhang, Yuan, Applications of spatialmodels to ecology and social systems
Department of Statistical Science
Broadbent, Mary, Semiparametric Bayesianregression with applications in astron-omy
Hu, Jingchen, Dirichlet process mixturemodels for nested categorical data
Jarrett, Nicholas, Nonlinear prediction incredit forecasting and cloud computingdeployment optimization
Kunihama, Tsuyoshi, Nonparametric Bayesanalysis of social science data
Paiva, Thais, Multiple imputation meth-ods for nonignorable nonresponse,adaptive survey design, and dissemi-nation of synthetic geographies
Qamar, Shaan, Topics in Bayesian com-putation for streaming data and struc-tured sparse regression
Soriano, Jacopo, Bayesian methods fortwo-sample comparison
VanDerwerken, Douglas, Monitoring andimproving Markov chain Monte Carloconvergence by partitioning
Zhao, Zoey Yi, Bayesian multiregressiondynamic models with applications infinance and business
North Carolina StateUniversity (44)
Department of Mathematics
Abby, Ralph, Stochastic clustering: Visu-alization and application
Adams, Stephen, On the cross sectionlattice of reductive monoids
Armstrong, Alyssa, Demazure crystals forthe quantum affine algebra Uq(D(3)
4 )Bathmann, Kristen, State estimation from
sparse observation networks and satel-lite measurement
Batson, Scott, On the relationship be-tween two embeddings of ideals intogeometric space and the shortest vectorproblem in principal ideal lattices
Britt, Darrell Steven, High-order accuratesolutions to the Helmholtz equation inthe presence of boundary singularities
Davidson, Ruth, Some problems in geo-metric combinatorics and mathematicalphylogenetics
Elashegh, Ahlam, Mathematical and com-putational mixture models for cartilageregeneration in cell-seeded scaffolds
Elsinger, Jason, Classification of orbifoldmodules under an automorphism oforder two
Herman, Aaron, Positive root bounds androot separation bounds
Hunnell, Mark, Orbits of minimal para-bolic k-subgroups on symmetric k-varieties
Jeeruphan, Thanawit, Random walk withjump dependent cookies on Z
Kapraun, Dustin, Cell proliferation mod-els, CFSE-based flow cytometry data,and quantification of uncertainty
Khuhirun, Borworn, Classification ofnilpotent Lie algebras with small breadth
Lowman, Nicholas, Viscous fluid conduitsas a prototypical nonlinear dispersivewave platform
Magnum, Chad, Representations of twistedtoroidal Lie algebras of type A2n−1
McAlister, Allison, Frattini properties ofLeibniz algebras
Ray, Chelsie, Complemented Leibniz al-gebras
Rohal, James, Connectivity in semi-algebraic sets
Scott, Jason, Fault detection in differentialalgebraic equations
Sutherland, Amanda, Generalization ofthe Cartan and Iwasawa decomposi-tions to SL2(k)
Thompson, Karmethia, Solving nonlinearconstrained optimization time delaysystems with a direct transcriptionapproach
Wentworth, Mami, Verification techniquesfor parameter selection and Bayesianmodel calibration presented for an HIVmodel
Wentworth, Thomas, Leverage scores:Sensitivity and applications to random-ized algorithms
Yang, Min, Local unitary equivalence ofquantum computation
Department of Statistics
Bhaumik, Prithwish, Bayesian estimationand uncertainty quantification in differ-ential equation models
Coleman, Deidra, Advances in signifi-cance testing for cluster detection
Coles, Adrian, New approaches to con-ducting inference in nonlinear func-tional regression models with novelapplications to copy number data
Jang, Woo Sung, Semiparametric Bayesianquantile regression
Lee, Hui-Jie, Advances in Bayesian infer-ence of species divergence times
Li, Xiaoshan, Tensor based statisticalmodels with applications in neuroimag-ing data analysis
Linn, Kristin, Interactive modeling tech-niques for non-smooth functionals indynamic treatment regimes
Pomann, Gina-Maria, Statistical methodsfor magnetic resonance image analysiswith applications to multiple sclerosis
Sahoo, Saswata, High dimensional meth-ods in statistics and finance
Smith, Luke, Bayesian quantile regressionin biostatistical applications
Talapatra, Kasturi, Space-filling exploratoryexperimental design (SEED)
Tidemann-Miller, Beth Ann, Statisticalmodeling of multivariate functionaldata that exhibit complex correlationstructures
Usset, Joseph, Complex regression modelsfor functional data
Xiao, Wei, Flexible methods and compu-tation for model selection and optimaltreatment learning
Xu, Guangning, Variable selection inmeasurement error models
Yoo, William, Sup-norm posterior conver-gence rates for regression models withapplication to estimating the locationof function maximum
Zhang, Na, Variable selection for optimaltreatment regimes
Zhang, Yiwen, Selected topics in statisti-cal computing
Zhou, Mi, Sequential change point detec-tion
University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (39)
Department of Biostatistics
Aimyoung, Natnaree, Property scoremethods for competing risks
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Buchanan, Ashley, Causal inference inHIV/AIDS research: Generalizability andapplications
Chen, Guanhua, Statistical learning forbiomedical data under various forms ofheterogeneity
Chen, Ting-Huei, Penalized estimationmethods and their application ingenomics and beyond
Cornea, Emil, Advanced biostatisticalmethods for curved and censoredbiomedical data
Dasgupta, Sayan, Non-parametric andsemi-parametric methods for parsimo-nious statistical learning with complexdata
Douglas, Christian, Statistical methodsfor assessing the effect of mortalityon rates of change and variability in alongitudinal study of the elderly
Gouskova, Natalia, Analysis of complextime-to-event data
Hoberman, Steven, Response adaptive de-signs for highly successful treatments,randomness and relationship detectionin clinical trials
Huang, Kuan-Chieh, Statistical methodsfor genetic and epigenetic associationstudies
Hyun, Noorie, Analysis of interval cen-sored data using a longitudinal biomarker
Liu, Qian, Non-parametric machine learn-ing methods for clustering and variableselection
Liu, Xiaoxi, Variable selection and statis-tical learning for censored data
Rao, Shangbang, Spatially regularizinghigh angular resolution diffusion imag-ing
Richardson, Amy, Inference about treat-ment effects using bounds, sensitivityanalysis and instrumental variables
Rigdon, Joseph, Causal inference forbinary data with interference
Smith, Che, Model selection for nonnestedlinear mixed models
Smith, Valerie, A marginalized two-partmodel for semicontinuous data
Tang, Zhengzheng, Association analysisof rare variants in sequencing studies
Wekheye, Kelley, Statistical methods forrepeated measures in experimental gin-givitis with adjustment for left trunca-tion due to lower detection limits
Yin, Zhaoyu, Statistical analyses of highthroughput genetics and genomics data
Zhang, Hongtao, Statistical methods forcorrelated data from observationalstudies
Zhou, Xiaolei, Model assessment for mod-els with missing data
Department of Mathematics
Baird, Austin, Modeling valveless pump-ing mechanisms
Brown, Merrick, Saturation problem foraffine Kac-Moody algebras
Bushek, Nathaniel, DescendingG-equivar-iant line bundles to GIT quotients
Seaborn, Joseph, Combinatorial inter-pretation of the Kumar-Peterson limitfor sln(C) Demazure characters andGelfand pattern description of sln(C)Demazure characters
Willig, Colton, Nonlinear geometric opticsfor reflecting and evanescent pulses
Wilson, Benjamin, Measuring complexityin dynamical systems
Department of Statistics and
Operation Research
Kechagias, Stefanos, Bivariate long-rangedependent time series models withgeneral phase
Miao, Di, Class-sensitive principal com-ponents analysis
Miranda, Michelle, Bayesian analysis ofultra-high dimensional neuroimagingdata
Pal Majumder, Abhishek, Long timeasymptotics of some weakly interact-ing particle system and higher orderasymptotics of generalized fiducial dis-tribution
Shin, Sunyoung, Contributions to penal-ized estimation
Skwerer, Sean, Tree oriented data analy-sis
Sun, Zhankun, Priority scheduling of jobswith hidden types
Wang, Tao, Empirical analysis of se-quential trade models for market mi-crostructure
Xiong, Jie, Radical distance weighteddiscrimination
Zhang, Chong, Flexible classificationtechniques with biomedical applica-tions
University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Baker, Katherine, Image Charge Sol-vation Model (ICSM) for simulatingbiomolecules and KcsA ion-channels
Qi, Li, Generalized semiparametric varying-coefficient models for longitudinal data
Semiyari, Hamid, Approximating solu-tions of boundary value problems
Zheng, Lukun, Spectral theorems forSchrodinger operator on general graphs
University of NorthCarolina at Greensboro (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Abebe, Abraham, Positive solutions ofnonlinear elliptic boundary value prob-lems
Moran, Danielle, Permanence results fordimension-theoretic coarse notions
Sinclair, Brian, Enumerating invariantsand extensions of local fields
NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (2)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Kaseasbeh, Saba, Ideal graphsBatell, Mark, The half-factorial property
in polynomial rings
OHIOAir Force Institute ofTechnology (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Batterton, Katherine, Statistical inferenceon optimal points to evaluate multistateclassification systems
Bowling Green StateUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Fode, Adamou, A discontinuous Galerkin-front tracking scheme and its optimal2
error estimationGhosh, Swarup, Isolated point theorems
for uniform algebras on manifoldsLi, Songzi, K-groups: A generalization of
K-means by energy distanceLu, Shihai, Novel step-down multiple
testing procedures under dependencePinheiro, Leonardo, Chaotic extensions
for general operators on a Hilbertsubspace
Wenren, Cheng, Mixed model selectionbased on the conceptual predictivestatistic
Case Western ReserveUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics, Applied
Mathematics and Statistics
Caglar, Umut, Divergence and entropyinequalities for log concave functions
Kent State University,Kent (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Cordier, Michelle, On bodies whose shad-ows are related via rigid motions
Doyle, Michael, Partitioning the set ofsubgroups of a finite group usingThompson’s generalized characters
Kozhushkina, Olena, The Bishop-Phelps-Bollobas theorem and operators onBanach spaces
Yu, Xuebo, Generalized Krylov subspacemethods with applications
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Ohio State University,Columbus (31)
Department of Mathematics
Bosna, Bora, On amalgamation of purepatterns of resemblance of order two
Edgren, Neal, Poincare-type metrics andtheir ∂− estimates on pseudoconvexdomains
Fotis, Samuel, On the nonvanishing ofcentral L-values associated to Heckeeigenforms
Kim, Jung-Eun, Analysis of sleep-waketransition dynamics by stochastic meanfield model and metastable state
Lam, Wing Chung Jonathan, Second mo-ment of the central values of thesymmetric square L-functions
Nasca, Angelo, The linear dynamics ofseveral commuting operators
Qi, Zhi, Theory of Bessel functions ofhigh rank
Ravindran, Hari A., On shifted con-volution sums involving the Fouriercoefficients of theta functions attachedto quadratic forms
Robertson, Donald, Characteristic factorsfor multiple recurrence and combinato-rial applications
Sui, Zhenan, On some classes of fullynonlinear partial differential equations
Talamo, James, Ultraintense laser-drivenrelativistic hydrodynamics for planesymmetric systems
Wang, Kun, On the Farrell-Jones isomor-phism conjecture
Wang, Xiaohui, Singularity theory ofstrategy functions under dimorphismequivalence
Yang, Lei, Hausdorff dimension of diver-gent geodesics on product of hyperbolicspaces
Zhang, Qing, Bounds for Hecke eigen-forms and their allied L-functions
Department of Statistics
Ashmead, Robert, Propensity score meth-ods for estimating causal effects fromcomplex survey data
Cao, Di, Bayesian adaptive estimation ofhigh dimensional vectors
Chen, Linchao, Predictive modeling ofspatio-temporal datasets in high di-mensions
Davis, Casey, A Bayesian approach toprediction and variable selection usingnonstationary Gaussian processes
Lewis, John, Bayesian restricted likeli-hood methods
Quan, Aaron, Batch sequencing methodsfor computer experiments
Schneider, Grant, Maximum likelihoodestimation for stochastic differentialequations using sequential kriging-based optimization
Shuang, Xia, Detecting rare haplotype-environment interaction and dynamiceffects of rare haplotypes using logisticBayesian LASSO
Som, Agniva, Paradoxes and priors inBayesian regression
Wang, Meng, Family-based Bayesian LASSOfor detecting association of rate haplo-types with common diseases
Yan, Jingjing, Hierarchical random-effectmeta-analysis of binary events investi-gating the relation between treatmenteffect and underlying risks
Yin, Jiangyong, Bayesian analysis of non-Gaussian stochastic processes for tem-poral and spatial data
Zhang, Fangyuan, Detecting genomicimprinting and maternal effects infamily-based association studies
Zhang, Yulei, Computer experiments withboth quantitative and qualitative inputs
Zheng, Wenjun, Wavelet-based estimationfor Gaussian time series and spatio-temporal processes
Zhiguang, Xu, Modeling non-Gaussiantime-correlated data using nonpara-metric Bayesian method
Ohio University, Athens (2)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Essa, Lulwah Mohammed, Modulesover infinite dimensional algebras
Pilewiski, Nicholas, Units and Leavitt pathalgebras
University of Cincinnati (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Al Marzooq, Sadiqah, Qualitative analysisof biofilms in water networks
Caicedo-Casso, Angelica Graciela, Periodrobustness analysis of minimal modelsfor biochemical oscillators
Clack, Jhules, Theoretical analysis formoving least square method with sec-ond order pseudoderivatives and stabi-lization
Glore, Mary Lee, The threshold prior inBayesian hypothesis testing
Rarivoarimanana, Andoniaina, Unbal-anced urn models and applications
Toprakseven, Suayip, Error analysis ofextended discontinuous Galerkin (XdG)method
University of Toledo (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bhattarai, Giriraj, Inverse problem ofLagrangian mechanics in dimensionthree
Karki, Ramesh, Sobolev gradient flow andapplications to nonlinear problems
Paudyal, Bhupendra, Eigenfunctions ofcomposition operators on Bloch-typespaces
Wang, Suohong, Semiparametric infer-ences under density ratio models
OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Alesandroni, Guillermo, Monomial reso-lutions
K. C., Durga, A study on the globalwell-posedness for the two-dimensionalBoussinesq and Lans-alpha magnetohy-drodynamics equations
Nepal, Kedar, An exploration of math-ematics graduate teaching assistants’teaching philosophies: A case study
Tovstolis, Alexander, Multipliers in Hardyand Bergman spaces, and Riesz decom-position
Wise, Wilhelmina, Potential theory of thefarthest distance function
Yang, Xiaowei, The integral graded ho-mology of Reeb chord complex ofLegendrian knots in R3
University of Oklahoma,Health Science Center (1)
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department
Davis, Erin, Vitamin D: Associations be-tween 25 hydroxy vitamins and polycys-tic ovary syndrome. Intrauterine insem-ination success and adolescent obesity
OREGONOregon State University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Kim, Dojin, The variable speed waveequation and perfectly matched layers
Wongsason, Patcharee, 3-D cone beam re-construction formulas for the transverse-ray transform with source points on acurve
Department of Statistics
Payton, Quinn, Modeling density depen-dence in the presence of measurementerror
Portland StateUniversity (1)
Fariborz Maseeh Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
Fasteen, Jodi, An investigation of therole of alternate numeration systems inpreservice teacher mathematics contentcourses
University of Oregon (8)
Department of Mathematics
Bibby, Christin, Abelian arrangementsDilts, James, The Einstein constraint
equations on asymptotically Euclideanmanifolds
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Gardella, Eusebio, Compact group actionson C∗-algebras: Classification, non-classifiability, and crossed products;and rigidity results for Lp-operatoralgebras
Loubert, Joseph, Affine cellularity offinite type KLR algebras, and homomor-phisms between Specht modules forKLR algebras in affine type A
Perlmutter, Nathan, Linking forms, sin-gularities, and homological stabilityfor diffeomorphism groups of odd-dimensional manifolds
Reynolds, Andrew, Representations of theoriented Brauer category
Ro, Min, Approximate diagonalizationof homomorphisms to C∗-algebras oftracial rank one
Vicinsky, Deborah, The homotopy calcu-lus of categories and graphs
PENNSYLVANIABryn Mawr College (1)
Department of Mathematics
Goedhart, Eva, The nonexistence of solu-tions to certain families of Diophantineequations
Carnegie MellonUniversity (17)
Department of Mathematical Science
Bufford, Laura, 3D-2D dimension reduc-tion of homogenized thin films
Garcia, Nicolas, Variational limit of graphcuts on point clouds
Hausauer, Justin, Sparse grid combi-nation techniques for solving high-dimensional parabolic equations withan application to the LIBOR marketmodel
Kell, Brian, Decision diagrams for combi-natorial optimization and satisfaction
Simione, Robert, Properties of minimizersof nonlocal interaction energy
Slusky, Marla, Integrating relaxations forcombinatorial optimization
Wu, Lijiang, Nonlocal interaction equa-tions in heterogeneous and non-convexenvironments
Department of Statistics
Bodea, Corneliu, A method to exploit thestructure of genetic ancestry spaces toenhance case-control studies
Foley, Patrick, Statistical methods indiffusion connectomics
Lecci, Fabrizio, Statistical inference fortopological data analysis
Liu, Li, High dimensional statistical anal-ysis to reveal the genetic basis ofautism
Sadinle Garcia-Ruiz, Mauricio, A Bayesianpartitioning approach to duplicate de-tection and record linkage
Tang, Mingyu, Duration models with anapplication on limit order book data
Todorova, Sonia, Statistically and com-putationally efficient inference frommultineuron spike trains
Wang, Wanjie, Clustering with importantfeatures PCA
Yang, Xiaolin, Social network modelingand the evaluation of structural simi-larity for community detection
Yu, Fei, Scalable privacy-preserving datasharing methodology for genome-wideassociation studies
Drexel University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Abduvalieva, Gulnara, Fixed-point andimplicit/inverse function theorems forfree noncommutative functions
Chen, Jinguin, Numerical methods anduniqueness for the Canham-Helfrichmodel of biomembranes
Rome, Scott, Asymptotic methods ininverse scattering
Lehigh University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Long, Jamie, Capabilities of limitationsof infinite time computation
Prudente, Matt, Two-player graph peb-bling
Win, Rivka, Statistical comparisons oftime series
Pennsylvania StateUniversity (24)
Department of Mathematics
Liang, Chao, Approximate solutions tosecond order parabolic equations, withapplication to financial modeling
Ryan, Shawn, Effective properties andcollective dynamics in bacterial suspen-sions
Turner, Jacob, The invariant theory andgeometry pertaining to tensor networksand some further applications
Wang, Lu, The auxiliary space solversand their applications
Wu, Weisheng, Geodesic flows on man-ifolds of nonpositive curvature andnondense orbits in partially hyperbolicsystems
Zhang, Dongmei, Control problems ininfectious disease management
Zhang, Xuan, Studies on the weak conver-gence of partial sums in Gibbs-Markovdynamical systems
Department of Statistics
Bomiriya, Rashmi, Topics in exponentialrandom graph modeling
Cai, Xizhen, Model selection and survivalanalysis with application to large time-varying networks
Chang, Won, Climate model calibra-tion using high-dimensional and non-Gaussian spatial data
Chen, Zhe, Hierarchical Bayesian modeldevelopment with applications in mar-keting
Hua, Wen-Yu, Kernel methods for neu-roimaging genomewide association stud-ies
Kankam, Kwame, Robust parameter de-sign: A penalized likelihood approach
Karwa, Vishesh, Likelihood based infer-ence in data privacy and other discretemissing data problems
Kuruppumullage Don, Prabhani, Estima-tion and model selection for blockclustering with mixtures: A compositelikelihood approach
Liu, Xiaoyu, Joint modeling of longitu-dinal and survival data: New models,computing techniques and applications
Luo, Wei, Efficient estimation and orderdetermination for sufficient dimensionreduction
Philtron, Daisy, Three novel proceduresto control the false discovery rate
Sie, Haskell, Statistical aspects of com-puterized adaptive testing
Sun, Wei, Feature screening in ultra-highdimensional survival data analysis
Tabacu, Lucia, Logarithmic quantile esti-mation and its applications to nonpara-metric factorial designs
Trail, Jessica, Dynamic models for in-tensive longitudinal data: New models,statistical procedures, and applications
Yang, Hanyu, Statistical models for scalarresponse with longitudinal covariates
Zhu, Xiaotian, Non-parametric finite mul-tivariate models with applications
Temple University (10)
Department of Mathematics
Dong, Zhou, High-order numerical meth-ods for pressure Poisson equationreformulations of the incompressibleNavier-Stokes equations
Hamm, Jessica, Multiplicative invariantsof root lattices
Ladenheim, Scott, Constraint precondi-tioning of saddle point problems
Millichap, Christian, Mutations and ge-ometric invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Paljug, Brian, Deformation complexes foralgebraic operads and their applications
Department of Statistics
Campbell, Kathleen, Extension of Kendall’sτ using rank-adapted SVD to identifycorrelation and factions among rankersand equivalence classes among rankedelements
Chang, Yu-Wei, Sample size determina-tion for a three-arm biosimilar trial
Fu, Min, A resampling based approach inevaluation of dose-response models
Li, Yan Yan, Extensions of D-optimalminimal designs for mixture models
Xu, Yihuan, Robust estimation of theparameters of g-and-h distributions,with applications to outlier detection
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University ofPennsylvania (10)
Applied Mathematics and
Computational Science
Lu, Yichao, Fast linear algorithms formachine learning
Zhang, Anru, High-dimensional statisti-cal inference: From vector to matrix
Zhao, Fan, Inversion of the star transform
Department of Mathematics
Fagerholm, Edvard, Automated analysisin generic groups
Greenwood, Torin, Asymptotics of bivari-ate generating functions with algebraicsingularities
Li, Tong, Twisted spectral data andsingular monopole
Spaide, Ted, Shifted symplectic struc-tures on spaces of framed maps
Wharton Statistics Department
Bleich, Justin, Extensions and applica-tions of ensemble-of-trees methods inmachine learning
Kang, Hyunseung, Instrumental variablesand Mendelian randomization with in-valid instruments
Novak, Julie, Bayesian modeling of con-sumer behavior in the presence ofanonymous visits
University ofPittsburgh (33)
Department of Biostatistics
Buhule, Olive, Bayesian hierarchical jointmodeling of repeatedly measured mixedbiomarkers of disease severity andtime-to-time event
Chen, Rui, Meta-analysis framework forpeak calling by combining multipleChIP-seq algorithms and gene cluster-ing by combining multiple transcrip-tomic studies
Geng, Ming, Marginal structural Coxproportional hazards model for datawith measurement errors
Jia, Jia, Association analysis betweenbinary traits and common or raregenetic variants on family-based data
Kim, Sunghwan, Statistical learning meth-ods for multi-omics data integration indimension reduction, supervised andunsupervised machine learning
Li, Xiaoxue, Time varying coefficientmodel for gap times in ecologicalmomentary assessment data
Liao, Ge, Genome-wide power calculationand experimental design in RNA-Seqexperiment
Lin, Hui-Min, Behavior of statistics forgenetic association in a genome-widescan context
Liu, Qing, Dynamic prediction models fordata with competing risks
Lopa, Samia, Inference on quantile resid-ual life for length-biased survival data
Ogbagaber, Semhar, Hypothesis test-ing in sequentially randomized designsthrough artificial randomization
Ren, Yi, Proportional subdistribution haz-ards regression with interval-censoredcompeting risks data
Weng, Yu-Ting, Statistical methods forfitting dengue disease models, andrelated issues
Won, Seung Hyun, Joint modeling oftime-to-event data and multiple ratingsof a discrete diagnostic test without agold standard
Wu, Wen-Chi, Inference on conditionalquantile residual life for censored sur-vival data
Ye, Lei, Semiparametric estimation proce-dures using local polynomial smoothingfor inconsistently measured longitudi-nal data
Zamboni, Beth, TWISTed survival: Identi-fying surrogate endpoints for mortalityusing QTWIST and conditional diseasefree survival
Zeng, Zhen, A pipeline for classifyingclose family relationships with denseSNP data and putative pedigree infor-mation
Department of Mathematics
Burns, Jared, Continuity in Banach spacesHolland, Jonathan, On causal geometriesJiang, Nan, Fast calculation of flow
ensemblesKapulkin, Krzysztof, Joyal’s conjecture in
homotopy type theoryKubacki, Michaela, Higher-order, strongly
stable methods for uncoupling ground-water-surface water flow
Kusner, Woden, Bounds on packing den-sity via slicing
Liu, Guoqing, On the steady states of thinfilm equations
Mamatelashvili, Ana, Tukey order onsets of compact subjects of topologicalspaces
Ochoa, Pablo, Geometrical problems inthe mathematical study of pre-strainedmaterials
Sivek, Jeromy, Differentiability, summa-bility, and fixed points in Banach spaces
Takhirov, Aziz, Numerical analysis of theflows in the pebble bed geometries
Department of Statistics
Fan, Jieyu, On Markov and hidden Markovmodels with applications to trajectories
Houze, Martin, Joint regression modelingof two cumulative incidence functionsunder an additivity constraint andstatistical analyses of pill-monitoringdata
Qi, Wenjing, High dimensional variableselection via penalized likelihood forgeneralized linear models
Rothenberger, Scott, Analysis of func-tional correlations
RHODE ISLANDBrown University (21)
School of Public Health, Department
of Biostatistics
Lopez, Michael, Causal inference withmultiple treatments
Department of Mathematics
Anderson, Theresa, A framework forCalderon-Zygmund singular integraloperators on spaces of homogeneoustype
Belulovich, Thomas, Absolute homotopylimits
Hindes, Wade, Galois uniformity in arith-metic dynamics
Lai, Jingguo, Two weight problems andBellman functions on filtered probabil-ity spaces
Ma, Ningning, Tropicalization of thedimer model
Routis, Evangelos, Weighted compactifi-cations of configuration spaces
Tran, Minh-Hoang, Weil-etale cohomol-ogy and special values of L-functions of1-motives
Ulirsch, Martin, Tropical geometry oflogarithmic schemes
Winter, Dale, Mixing properties of flowson geometrically finite hyperbolic man-ifolds
Wong, Wei-Pin, Height functions andthe specialization map for families ofelliptic curves
Division of Applied Mathematics
Cho, Heyrim, High-dimensional response-excitation PDF methods for uncertaintyquantification and stochastic modeling
Johnson, Dane, Moderate deviations andsubsolution-based importance samplingfor stochastic recursive algorithms
Johnson, Daniel, Combinatorial and geo-metric structure in the self-assembly ofpolyhedra
Kim, Changho, Analysis and simulationof molecular systems: Memory functionapproach and uncertainty quantifica-tion
Nadkarni, Dahlia, The incidental param-eter problem in network analysis forneural spiking data
Nixon, Andrew, On numerical models ofcalcium-induced calcium release
Perdikaris, Paris, Data-driven parallel sci-entific computing: Multi-fidelity infor-mation fusion algorithms and applica-tions to physical and biological systems
Wu, Lei, From kinetic theory to fluidmechanics: Viscous surface wave andhydrodynamic limit
Zayernouri, Mohsen, Spectral and spec-tral element methods for fractionalPDEs
Zheng, Mengdi, Numerical methods forstochastic systems subject to general-ized Levy noise
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University of RhodeIsland (2)
Department of Mathematics
Jamieson, William, Planar difference equa-tions: Asymptotic behavior of solutionsand 1-1 resonant points
Reis, Jenna, The spectral connectionmatrix for classical real orthogonalpolynomials
SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (11)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Anderson, Sarah, Applications of alge-braic geometry codes to polar coding
Black, Nathanael, Homomorphic encryp-tion and the approximate GCD problem
Bowers, Abigail, On numerical algorithmsfor fluid flow regularization models
Capaverde, Juliane, Grobner bases: De-gree bounds and generic ideals
Carden, Stephen, Convergence of a rein-forcement learning algorithm in contin-uous domains
Keaton III, Rodney, Level stripping ofgenus 2 Siegel modular forms
Kuberry, Paul, An optimization-basedapproach to decoupling fluid-structureinteraction
Mao, Yue, Numerical problems related tocoding theory
Morgan, Dominique, A statistical distanceapproach to species composition data
Waddell, Lucas, Linear programmingmethods for identifying solvable casesof the quadratic assignment problem
Wang, Dongmei, Some problems in vet-erinary medicine disease mapping
Medical University ofSouth Carolina (3)
Department of Public Health Sciences
Ellerbe, Caitlyn, A seamless two-stagedose selection design for repeated mea-sures data with a continuous outcome
Onicescu, Georgiana, Spatially-explicitsurvival modeling for small area cancerdata
Spainhour, John Christian, A Gaussianmixture method for modeling and as-sessment of MALDI-TOF mass spectrafor stable isotope standard quantifica-tion
University of SouthCarolina (10)
Department of Mathematics
Dunn, Scott, Explorations in elementaryand analytic number theory
Norazaliza, Jamil-Mohd, Mathematicalmodeling and simulation of biofuel pro-duction from lignocellulosic biomass
Oh, Richard, Fake real quadratic orders
Sanders, Toby, Image processing and 3-Dreconstruction in tomography
Zhao, Jia, 3D mathematical modelingand computations of cellular dynamicsusing complex-fluid models
Ziemke, Matt, Pettis integration withapplications to generators of quantumMarkov semigroups
Department of Statistics
Fu, Yin, Dimensionality assessment andestimation for the variable compensa-tion model
Rahman, A.K.M. Fazlur, Non- and semi-parametric Bayesian inference with re-current events and coherent systemsdata
Wang, Naichen, Semiparametric analysisof bivariate interval-censored data
Yu, Shun, Model diagnostics for gener-alized linear mixed models for binaryresponses
SOUTH DAKOTASouth Dakota StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Hennessey, Jason, Availability and preser-vation of scholarly digital resources
Swanstrom, Ryan, Scoring a softwaredevelopment organization with a singlenumber
TENNESSEEMiddle Tennessee StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Borodin, Volodymry, Efficient computingof potential fields induced by pointsources in thin perforated shell struc-tures
Xiong, Lu, Statistical computing schemesfor proteomics data processing andinsurance solvency modeling
University of Memphis (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Johnson, Richard, Searching and sortingalgorithms
Juskevicius, Tomas, Probabilistic inequal-ities and bootstrap percolation
Kittipassorn, Teeradej, Problems in ex-tremal and Ramsey graph theory
Vu, Dominik, Separating families andcombinatorial games
Zhou, Jee, D∗ sets and AIP∗ sets in zand countable fields
University of Tennessee,Knoxville (6)
Department of Mathematics
Clark, Holly, Multistep kinetic MonteCarlo
Diegel, Amanda, Numerical analysis ofconvex splitting schemes for Cahn-Hilliard and coupled Cahn-Hilliard-fluid-flow equations
Kelly, Michael, Spatial dynamic modelsfor fishery management and water-borne disease control
Lorton, Cody, Numerical methods andalgorithms for high frequency wavescattering problems in homogeneousand random media
Luo, Shuaibing, Some aspects of functiontheory for Dirichlet-type spaces
Numfor, Eric, Models linking epidemiol-ogy with immunology and ecology
Vanderbilt University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Chong, Fan Fei, E-theory for Lp algebrasand the dual Novikov conjecture
Davis, Jacqueline, Spatio-temporal trade-off for quasi-uniform sampling of sig-nals in evolutionary systems
Huo, Xi, A disease age structured modelof epidemic population dynamics withpublic health interventions
Liao, Naian, Topics on a logarithmicdiffusion equation
Liu, Zhengwei, Skein theory for subfactorplanar algebras
TEXASBaylor University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Brennan, Brian, Numerical analysis ofa multi-physics model for trace gassensors
Kelly, James, Inverse limits with irre-ducible set-valued functions
Poulsen, Dylan, Stability and control onstochastic time scales
Department of Statistical Sciences
Buros, Amy, Semiparametric AUC regres-sion for ordered treatment effects
Rice University (16)
Computational and Applied
Mathematics Department
Arellano, John, Algorithms to find thegirth and cogirth of a linear matroid
Atcheson, Reid, Accelerated plane-wavediscontinuous Galerkin methods forheterogeneous scattering problems
Castanon, Jorge, A spectrum-based reg-ularization approach to linear inverseproblems: Models, learned parametersand algorithms
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Deng, Wei, Generalizations of the alter-nating direction method of multipliersfor large-scale and distributed opti-mization
Li, Jizhou, High order discontinuousGalerkin methods for simulating mis-cible displacement process in porousmedia with a focus on minimal regular-ity
Wang, Yingpei, On the approximation ofthe Dirichlet to Neumann map for highcontrast two phase composites and itsapplications to domain decompositionmethods
Xu, Yangyang, Block coordinate updatemethod in tensor optimization
Yang, Xin, Simulation of CO2 sequestra-tion in saline aquifers using discontin-uous Galerkin method
Department of Mathematics
Cohen, David, The large scale geometryof strongly aperiodic subshifts of finitetype
Fillman, Jacob, Spectral analysis of one-dimensional operators
Kozin, Nikita, Toric fibrations and modelsof universal torsors
Li, Qiongling, Hitchin components, Rie-mannian metrics and asymptotics
Vela, Diego, Infection by a string link
Department of Statistics
Ramos, Jaime, Robust methods for fore-cast aggregation
Woroszylo, Casper, Limiting approxima-tions for stochastic processes in sys-tems biology
Zhang, Linlin, Bayesian nonparametricmodels for functional Magnetic Reso-nance Imaging (fMRI) data
Texas A&M University (31)
Department of Mathematics
Alrashed, Fahad, Massively parallel NavierStokes equation solver
Ayyuru, Mustafa, Compactness of the ∂-Neumann operator on the intersectiondomains in CN
Causey, Ryan, Szlenk index, upper esti-mates and embedding in Banach spaces
Eser, Zekiye, Primary components ofbinomial ideals
Lee, Sanghyun, Numerical simulations ofbouncing jets
Li, Guanglian, Multiscale model reductionfor high-contrast flow problems
Mai, Na T., On strong ellipticity andmonotonicity for iimplicit and strain-limiting theories of elasticity
Mao, Youli, Geometric multigrid methodsfor flow problems in highly heteroge-neous porous media
Nguyen, Van, Tate cohomology of finitedimensional Hopf algebras
Ortega Castillo, Sofia, Cluster value prob-lems in infinite-dimensional spaces
Phillipson, Mitchell, Monotone sequencesin combinatorial structures
Rowe, Stephen, Meshfree methods usinglocalized kernel bases
Samart, Detchat, Mahler measures ofhypergeometric families of Calabi-Yauvarieties
Wang, Fang, Regularizing inverse prob-lems
Weyand, Tracy, Zeros of eigenfunctionsof the Schrodinger operator on graphsand their relation to the spectrum ofthe magnetic Schrodinger operator
Zhang, Yue, Applications of potentialtheory to the analysis of Property (Pq)
Department of Statistics
Chen, Shuai, Statistical inference formedical costs and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios with censored data
Chown, Justin, New approaches in testingcommon assumptions for regressionswith missing data
Feng, Shuo, A likelihood based frame-work for data integration with applica-tion to eQTL mapping
Goddard, Scott, Restricted most powerfulBayesian tests
Gregory, Karl, Two-sample testing inhigh dimension and a smooth blockbootstrap for time series
Kim, Jinsu, A bootstrap Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for Bayesian analy-sis of big data
Lin, Fang-Yu, Combining strategies forparallel stochastic approximation MonteCarlo algorithm of big data
Lu, Ming, Investigation of simple linearmeasurement error models (SLMEMS)with correlated data
McGuffey, Elizabeth, Statistical methodsfor integrating genomics data
Miao, Jingang, New advances in logisticregression for handling missing andmismeasured data with applications inbiostatistics
Qu, Yuan, Estimation of large spectralfunction and its application
Roh, Soojin, Robust ensemble Kalmanfilters and localization for multiplestate variables
Sarkar, Abhra, Bayesian semiparametricdensity deconvolution and regressionin the presence of measurement errors
Song, Qifan, Variable selection for ultra-high dimensional data
Wang, Yanqing, Relative risks analysis innutritional epidemiology
Texas State University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Hammons, Jake Lowman, The effectsof smartpen narrated solutions setson student study routines and theirperceptions of the solution sets as ahelp resource
Schrauth, Michelle, Fostering mathemat-ical creativity in the middle grades:Pedagogical and mathematical practices
Texas Tech University (19)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Abeysundara, Hemalika, Minimum Hel-linger distance estimation of a regres-sion function in a parametric familywith a random design model
Abeysundara, Sachith, Regression splineswith free knots vs. penalized splines: Acomparative study
Athukorallage, Bhagya, Capillarity andelastic membrane theory from an en-ergy point of view
Biswas, Arunabha, Some aspects ofhigher Mahler measure
Cui, Cong, Some asymptotic results forfunctional linear regression
Dassanayake, Don Placida Amali, Localorthogonal polynomial expansion andempirical saddle-point approximationfor density estimation
Dillon, Geoffrey, Block preconditionersfor coupled physics problems
Emerson, Jennifer, Fitting control theo-retic spline to very large data sets
Faucett, Jessica, Classification of localrings based on multiplicative structurein homology
Gillies, Kendall, Osculatory smoothingsplines for approximation of ordinarydifferential equations
Gunatilake, Pinnawala, Hierarchical basesand a multilevel finite element solver
Hafferkamp, Brett, Expectations and esti-mates for some conformal invariants
Kieu, Thinh, Finite element methods fornonlinear wave equations
Luo, Li, Inference for stress-strengthreliability for the Burr type X withcensored samples
Makaya, Jacob, Static and steady-statebubbles in the channel
Ogura, Masaki, Mean stability of switchedlinear systems
Pang, Yulei, Transpositions shuffling andlinear switching systems
Smith, Scott, Couple theory in stress-strength reliability estimation and in-ference: Applications to the Burr X andLomax distributions
Wijekularathna, Danush, Rank procedurefor testing linear hypotheses in re-peated measures design
University of Houston (11)
Department of Mathematics
Cho, Manki, Steklov eigenproblems andapproximations of harmonic functions
Guo, Wei, High order schemes fortransport problems: Semi-Lagrangianschemes with applications to plasmaphysics and atmospheric sciences, andsuperconvergence
Haas, John, Frame potentials and geome-try of frames
Liu, Zhuo, Mixed finite element methodswith piece-wise constant fluxes
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Nguyen, Trung, A primal-dual active setmethod and algorithm for chemicalequilibrium problems related to model-ing of atmospheric inorganic aerosols
Niu, Xiting, The dynamics of red bloodcell under the effect of shape memory
Upadhyay, Sanat, Extraction and normal-ization of directional characteristics ofimages and textures using multiscaletransforms
Whalen, Tristan, Classfication of Leavittpath algebras using algebraic K-theory
Zhang, Lan, Numerical simulation of twophase flow using the level set approach
Zhang, Licheng, Some statistical prop-erties of chaotic dynamical systems:Non-stationary central limit theoremsand extreme value theory
Zhao, Shihai, Numerical simulation ofred blood cells in capillaries
University of NorthTexas (2)
Department of Mathematics
Montgomery, Jason, Condition-dependentHilbert spaces for gradient descent andapplication to the Tricomi equation
Senadheera, Jayantha, Hermitian Jacobiforms and congruences
University of Texas atArlington (9)
Department of Mathematics
Alkhezi, Yousuf, Properties of the pinchedtensor product
Aman, Kelly, Applications of cubicalarrays in the study of finite semifields
Ferguson, Thomas, Weight modules oforthosymplectic Lie superalgebras
Lacy, Scott, Property D cyclic neofieldsMachuca, Alicia, A method for exact solu-
tions to integrable evolution equationsin 2 + 1 dimensions
Rangel, Denise, Representation theoryof totally reflexive modules over non-Gorenstein rings
Ray, Allie, Nilpotent Lie algebras andnilmanifolds constructed from graphs
Romero-Padilla, Juan, Estimation of vari-ance in bivariate normal distributionafter preliminary test of homogeneity
Wang, Zhengjie, Construction of weightedupwind compact scheme
University of Texas atAustin (24)
Department of Mathematics
Carlson, William, On the linear stabilityproblem for Jeffery-Hamel flows
Jo, Jason, Structured low complexity datamining
Knudson, Karin, Recovery of continuousquantities from discrete and binarydata with applications to neural data
Kriventsov, Dennis, A local-nonlocal trans-mission problem
Long, Ligang, Slice ribbon conjecture,pretzel knots and mutation
Mark, Alice, The classification of rank 3reflective hyperbolic lattices over Z(
√2)
Moss, Gilbert, Interpolating gamma fac-tors in families
Orem, Hendrik, Coordinate systems andassociative algebras
Pancia, Matthew, The Goodwillie tower offree augmented algebras over connec-tive rings spectra
Starkston, Laura, Classifications and ap-plications of symplectic fillings ofSeifert fibered spaces over S2
Taliaferro, Kenneth, The dynamics ofBose gases
Vallelian, Sarah, Quantitative PAT withunknown ultrasound speed: Uncer-tainty characterization and reconstruc-tion methods
Xie, Zhihui, From quantum many bodysystems to nonlinear Schrodinger equa-tions
Zhu, Yuecheng, Compactification of mod-uli spaces and mirror symmetry
Zufelt, Nicholas, The combinatorics ofreducible Dehn surgeries
Institute for Computational
Engineering and Sciences
Bryant, Corey, On goal-oriented errorestimation and adaptivity for nonlin-ear systems with uncertain data andapplication to flow problems
Di Pierro, Michele, Optimization of forcefields for molecular dynamics
Farrell, Kathryn, Selection, calibration,and validation of coarse-grained modelsof atomistic systems
Liu, Ju, Thermodynamically consistentmodeling and simulation of multiphaseflows
Schofield, Grady, Computing accuratesolutions to the Kohn-Sham problemquickly in real space
Taicher, Abraham, Mixed framework forDarcy-Stokes mixtures
Ulerich, Rhys, Reducing turbulence- andtransition-driven uncertainty in aero-thermodynamic heating predictions forblunt-bodied reentry vehicles
Wright, Eric, Bayesian learning meth-ods for potential energy parameterinference in coarse-grained models ofatomistic systems
Zhang, Chenglong, On the study ofdeterministic conservative solvers forthe nonlinear Boltzmann and Landautransport equations
University of Texas atDallas (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Carcea, Marcel, Contributions to time se-ries modeling under first order momentassumptions
Jafeh, Farzan, Congruence principle forBrouwer degree of equivariant mapsbetween solvable group representationspheres
Lv, Yanli, New equivariant methods andapplications to symmetric differentialequations
Nawarathna, Lasitha, Heteroscedasticmodels for method comparison data
Smirnova, Ekaterina, Large cross-covari-ance matrix estimation with applica-tions to FMRI data
Zhao, Tian, Multiple comparisons in trun-cated group sequential experimentswith applications in clinical trials
University ofTexas–School of PublicHealth (15)
Division of Biostatistics
Chen, Geng, Bayesian inference for multi-variate longitudinal data analysis usingrobust distributions
Du, Yining, Response adaptive random-ization and biomarker-based trial de-signs for addressing patient hetero-geneity in personalized medicine
Jimenez, Sara, Evaluating the effects oftreatment switching with randomiza-tion as an instrumental variable in arandomized controlled trial
Kim, Taebeom, Statistical methods forincorporating biological knowledge intoassociation tests of sequencing data
Lee, Dung-Yang, Functional linear modelswith functional response and predictorsfor temporal quantitative traits in sleepapnea
Li, Lerong, Dynamic model and its appli-cations to molecular and physiologicalanalysis
Lin, E., Joint modeling of short-termand long-term outcomes for interimdecision making in oncology phase IIclincal trials
Ma, Long, General statistical frameworkfor disease risk prediction by geneticvariants, gene expression and image
Qiao, Wei, Bayesian adaptive randomiza-tion with covariate-adjustment signa-ture design
Rahman, Mohammad, Sparse structuralequations and integrated genomic andepigenomic analysis
Seay, Roann, Using a joint continuoustime Markov chain to represent thetrauma patient’s ICU and ventilatorexperience
Wang, Yaping, Variable selection, re-sponse adaptive randomization andcovariate-adjusted response-adaptiverandomization for personalized medi-cine
Wei, Caimiao, Bayesian modeling ofcombined endpoints for sequentiallyadaptive design and confirmatory trialplanning
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Yu, Xiaoying, A transitional model of thelongitudinal data analysis for the bi-variate binary outcome with applicationon mother’s stress and child’s illness
Zhou, Renke, Semiparametric joint mod-els for semi-competing risks data withmissing cause of informative terminalevent
UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics
Misseldine, Andrew, Algebraic and combi-natorial properties of Schur rings overcyclic groups
University of Utah (13)
Department of Mathematics
Das, Omprokash, Adjunction and inver-sion of adjunction in positive charac-teristic
Jeffries, Kenneth, Rings of invariants,F -regularity, and local cohomology
Kordy, Michal, Efficient computationalmethods for electromagnetic imagingwith applications to 3D magnetotel-lurics
Leibman, Sonya, Stability under powersof minset of hyperbolic irreducibleautomorphism
Magi, Ross, Dynamic behavior of biologi-cal membranes
Mann, Brian, Some hyperbolic Out(FN )-graphs and nonunique ergodicity ofvery small FN -trees
Martinez, Christian, Some birational ge-ometric aspects of moduli spaces ofsheaves on surfaces via Bridgelandwall-crossing
Moore, James, Mathematical modeling ofautoimmune disease
Rice, Greg, Roles for ubiquitin and dimen-sional dependence in protein regulation
Thaler, Andrew, Bounds on the volumeof an inclusion in a body and cloakingdue to anomalous localized resonance
Wang, Jia, Change point analysis of paneldata
Watanobe, Yohsuke, Weak tight geodesicsin the curve complex
Zwick, Patrick, Variations on a theme ofsymmetric tropical matrices
VERMONTUniversity of Vermont (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Allgaier, Nicholas, Reverse engineeringthe human brain. An evolutionary com-putation approach to the analysis offMRI
Pechenick, Eitan, Exploring the Googlebooks corpus: An information-theoreticapproach to linguistic evolution
Williams, Jake, Lexical mechanics: Parti-tions, mixtures, and context
VIRGINIAGeorge MasonUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Crone, Michael, Dynamics of harvestedresources, with emphasis on commer-cially exploited fisheries
Schmidt, Amy, Properties of rings and ofring extensions invariant under groupaction
Department of Statistics
Cao, Xin, Inference for age-dependentbranching process and their applica-tions
Heim, Krista, Visualization and model-ing for crime data indexed by roadsegments
Miao, Zhuang, Within-cluster resamplingmethods for clustered receiver operat-ing characteristic (ROC) data
Weko, Charles, Network inference fromgrouped data
Old DominionUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Harris, Charles, Uniform l1 behaviorof a time discretization method fora Volterra integrodifferential equationwith convex kernel; duality of the weakparallelogram laws on Banach spaces
Sengupta, Pooja, Bivariate doubly inflatedPoisson and related regression models
Viswakula, Sameera, Zero-inflated mod-els to identify transcription factor bind-ing sites in ChIP-Seq experiments
University of Virginia (8)
Department of Mathematics
Banerjee, Arindam, Castelnuovo-Mumfordregularity and edge ideals
Bao, Huanchen, Canonical bases arisingfrom quantum symmetric pairs andKazhdan-Lusztig theory
Nessler, Reed, Simple connectivity inpolar spaces with group-theoretic ap-plications
Remine, Daniel, Analysis and computa-tional fluid dynamics for the stabi-lization and control of 3-dimensionalNavier-Stokes fluid channel flows by awall-normal boundary controller
Smirnov, Ilya, Uniform convergence meth-ods in Hilbert-Kunz theory
Spencer, Julia, Min-max game theory forthe linearized Navier-Stokes equationswith internal localized control anddistributed disturbance
Department of Statistics
Tait, Christopher, Early-phase dose-findingdesigns for bivariate outcomes
Wu, Jingwei, High-dimensional ordinarydifferential equation models for con-nectivity studies
Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, School ofMedicine (4)
Department of Biostatistics
Galadima, Hadiza Issaka, Controllingfor confounding when association isquantified by area under the ROC curve
Haynes, Mary, Incorporating dependenceboundaries in simulating associateddiscrete data
Manser, Paul, Methods for integrativeanalysis of genomic data
Ren, Chunfeng, Latent variable modelsgiven incompletely observed surrogateoutcomes and covariates
Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (17)
Department of Mathematics
Boyce, Steven, Modeling students’ unitscoordinating activity
Chaabane, Nabil, Immersed and discon-tinuous finite element methods
Kadelka, Claus, Robustness analysis ofgene regulatory networks
Schmidt, Daniel, Eigenvalue statistics forrandom block operators
Wells, David, Stabilization of POD-ROMs
Department of Statistics
Bedair, Khaled, Statistical methods formulti-type recurrent event data basedon Monte Carlo EM algorithms andcopula frailties
Chen, Tianlei, Cure rate models withnonparametric form of covariate effects
Fang, Youjia, Modeling driving risk usingnaturalistic driving study data
Hu, Xinran, On grouped observation levelinteraction and a big data Monte Carlosampling algorithm
King, Caleb, Bridging the gap: Selectedproblems in model specification, es-timation, and optimal design fromreliability and lifetime data analysis
Li, Han, Statistical modeling and analysisof bivariate spatial-temporal data withthe application to stream temperaturestudy
Mahmoud, Hamdy, Some advanced semi-parametric single-index modeling forspatially-temporally correlated data
Peng, Yiming, GLR control charts for pro-cess monitoring with sequential sam-pling
Roberts, Lucas, Variable selection anddecision trees: The DiVaS and ALoVaSmethods
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Xu, Yangyi, Frequentist-Bayesian hybridtests in semiparametric and nonpara-metric models
Xu, Zhibing, Statistical modeling andpredictions based on field data anddynamic covariates
Zhang, Dengfeng, Latent class model intransportation study
WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (41)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Cayco Gajic, Natasha, Coordinated neuralactivity: Mechanistic origins and impacton stimulus coding
Chen, Meng-Huo, Analysis of an aggregation-based algebraic multigrid method andits parallelization
Fu, Xing, Integrating data-driven meth-ods in nonlinear dynamical systems:Control, sparsity and machine learning
Johnson, Mikala, Self-optimizing meta-material antennas
Maia, Pedro, Mathematical modeling offocal axonal swellings arising in trau-matic brain injuries and neurodegener-ative diseases
Trichtchenko, Olga, On the instability ofwater waves with surface tension
Department of Biostatistics
Bergen, Silas, Spatial measurement errormethods in air pollution epidemiology
Coley, Rebecca Yates, Bayesian hierarchi-cal frailty models for heterogeneity inrisk
Conomos, Matthew, Inferring, estimating,and accounting for population andpedigree structure in genetic analyses
Fu, Rong, Joint modeling of survivaland longitudinal data measured witherror, with application to assessingimmune correlates of protection invaccine efficacy trials
Hanscom, Brett, Biostatistical methodsfor HIV monitoring and prevention
Hu, Jie, A Z-estimation system for two-phase sampling with applications toadditive hazards models and epidemio-logic studies
Skrivankova, Veronika, Methods for es-timation and evaluation of marker-guided treatment rules based on multi-variate marker panels
Smith, Megan, Methods for the predictionof endpoint-occurrence times in clinicaltrials
Yee, Laura, Survival analysis methods forrecurrent medical cost data
Zhang, Rui, Marginalizable mixed effectsmodels for clustered binary, categoricaland survival data
Zhao, Wei, On estimation of time-varyingpopulation attributable fraction forpopulation-based case-control studies
Department of Mathematics
An, Yajun, Finite-difference methods forsecond-order wave equations with re-duced dispersion errors
Aponte Roman, Camil, Graded groupschemes
Barnes, Joel, Conformal welding of uni-form random trees
Caday, Peter, On numerics and inverseproblems
Chiecchio, Alberto, Towards a non-Q-Gorenstein minimal model program
Erickson, Lindsay, Deformation invari-ance of rational pairs
Jordan-Squire, Christopher, Convex opti-mization over probability measures
Lai, Ru-Yu, Inverse problems for scalarelliptic equations and systems
Lewis, Stephen, Local set approximation:Infinitesimal to local theorems andapplications
Marinov, Kaloyan, Inverse boundary-value problems on an infinite slab
Pawlowski, Brendan, Permutation dia-grams in symmetric function theoryand Schubert calculus
Robinson, Richard, The positive semidef-inite rank of matrices and polytopes
Sarantsev, Andrey, Competing Brownianparticles
Spicer, Simon, The zeros of elliptic curveL-functions: Analytic algorithms withexplicit time complexity
Tadic, Tvrtko, Time-like graphical modelsWang, Xingting, Classification of con-
nected Hopf algebras up to prime-cubedimension
Yang, Yang, Three elliptic inverse prob-lems
Zsamboki, Pal, Toward the compactifica-tion of the stack of Lie(G)-forms usingperfect complexes
Department of Statistics
Gerard, David, Theory and methods fortensor data
Kappedal, Ryan, Gravimetric anomalydetection using compressed sensing
Koepke, Amanda, Predictive modeling ofcholera outbreaks in Bangladesh
Li, Ke (Kirk), Degeneracy, duration,and co-evolution: Extending exponen-tial random graph models (ERGM) forsocial network analysis
Sharkansky, Stefan, Discrete-time thresh-old regression for survival data withtime-dependent covariates
Xu, Lei, R-squared inference under non-normal error
Washington StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Balmer, Elizabeth, Applications of gen-eralized Laplacian matrices in graphtiling
Ibrahim, Sharif, Data-inspired advancesin geometric measure theory: General-ized surface and shape metrics
Lougheed, Thomas, First mathematicsgrade and persistence to graduation inSTEM
Small, Benjamin, On α-critical graphs andtheir construction
Wang, Wen, Numerical methods forAmerican option pricing with nonlinearvolatility
WISCONSINMarquette University (5)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science
Adibuzzaman, Mohammad, Computa-tional approaches for monitoring ofhealth parameters and their evaluationin clinical setting
Jain, Niharika, Affective computing inthe area of autism
Karaman, Meryem, Incorporating MRrelaxivities for FMRI activation, for moreaccurate MR image reconstruction, andfor correlation effect examination
Pradeep, Prachi, Hybrid computationaltoxicology models for regulatory riskassessment
Tanviruzzaman, Mohammad, Towardsusable end-user authentication
Medical College ofWisconsin (1)
Division of Biostatistics
Li, Jianing, Treatment effect adjustmentand model diagnosis for competingrisks data
University of Wisconsin,Madison (30)
Department of Mathematics
Alladi, Sriram, A multiplier theorem forultraspherical polynomials
Bridy, Andrew, The Artin-Mazur zetafunction of a rational map in positivecharacteristics
Chen, Xianghong, Restriction of theFourier transform to Salem sets
Cheng, Yongtao, A mixed fluid-kineticsolver for the Vlasov-Poisson equations
Dummit, Evan, Counting number field ex-tensions of given degree, bounded dis-criminant, and specified Galois group
Dynerman, David, Describing geometryand symmetry of cryo-EM datasetsusing algebra
Holzer, Jesse, Methods for numericalsolution of structured variational in-equalities
Johnson, Silas, Weighted discriminantsand mass formulas for number fields
Khan, Mushfeq, Some results on algo-rithmic randomness and computability-theoretic strength
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Lynch, Alison, Algebraic characteriza-tions of Cauchy pairs and Uq(sl 2)-modules
Nagpal, Rohit, FI-modules and the coho-mology of modular representations ofsymmetric groups
Nan, Ting-Ting, Entropy regions and thefour-atom conjecture
Peterson, Aaron, On uniformly finite-typedomains
Pretel, Gabriel, Tridiagonal pairs ofKrawtchouk type and their compati-ble elements
You, Qian, Ancient solutions of curveshortening problem
Department of Statistics
Chan, Vincent, Topics in regularizedsingle index model
Chen, Jiajie, Space-filling designs fornumerical integration and stochasticprogramming
Geng, Zhigeng, Variable selection viapenalized likelihood
Ho, Lam, Asymptotics of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck tree models: Theory andcomputation
Korthauer, Keegan, Bayesian hierarchicalmodeling of high-throughput genomicdata with applications to cancer bioin-formatics and stem cell differentiation
Kwak, Il Youp, Regression-based methodsto map quantitative trait loci underlyingfunction-valued phenotypes
Leng, Ning, Statistical methods for reli-able inference in RNA-seq experimentsto facilitate regenerative medicine
McDaniel, Lee, Additive hazards modelsin non-inferiority trials
Qin, Tai, Statistical justifications forcomputationally tractable network dataanalysis
Schwefel, Brittany, Estimating the timeto a composite outcome when eventascertainment is delayed and non-monotone and event adjudication isincomplete
Xu, Jiale, Stagewise and stepwise meth-ods for space and space-time clusterdetection
Xu, Xu, Topics on the design of experi-ments
Xu, Yaoyao, Regularized outcome weightedsubgroup identification
Zeng, Xin, Statistical methods and soft-ware for ChIP-seq data analysis
Zhang, Wenwen, PLUTO: Penalized unbi-ased logistic regression trees
University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (9)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Jeffrey, Rolland, Some results on pseudo-collar structures on high-dimensionalmanifolds
La Corte, Jason, The Markov-Dubins prob-lem with free terminal direction in anonpositively curved cube complex
Mogilski, Wiktor, The fattened Davis com-plex and the weighted L2-(co)homologyof Coxeter groups
Moran, Molly, On the dimension of groupboundaries
Osborne, Jeremy, Statistical hyperbolicityof relatively hyperbolic groups
Schleben, Brad, Infinite dimensional Clif-ford algebras and wedge representa-tions of gl∞|∞
Schreve, Kevin, The L2 cohomology ofdiscrete groups
Sparks, Peter, Contractible n-manifoldsand the double n-space property
Yang, Wen, Shape-invariant models fornon-independent functional data
WYOMINGUniversity of Wyoming (9)
Department of Mathematics
Allison, Mary, Minimizing the averagemean-first passage time for Markovchains associated with a graph
Hassani Monfared, Keivan, The Jacobianmethod: The art of finding more needlesin nearby haystacks
Jan, Ahmad, A Bayesian framework forthe validation of porous media flowmodels at the laboratory scale
Kazemi Foroushani, Ehsan, The direct andlarge eddy simulation of the turbulentEkman layer
Kuo, Yi-Hung, Analysis and developmentof compact finite difference schemesand optimized numerical dispersionrelation
Mallik, Sudipta, New probabilistic, com-binatorial, and algebraic methods forminimum rank problems
Department of Statistics
Cao, Yongtao, Multiple-criteria optimalexperimental design: Algorithms andapplications
Marcy, Peter, On the use and utilityof gradient information in computerexperiments
Studyvin, Jared, Factor models: Evalua-tion and improvement
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