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Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2014–2015 ALABAMA Auburn University (13) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bao, Feng, Efficient numerical algorithms for solving nonlinear filtering problems Bragan, Kelly, Topics in edge-regular graphs Brauss, Daniel, Implementation of a finite element method for the velocity-current magnetohydrodynamics equations Brice, Daniel, On derivations of parabolic subalgebras of reductive Lie algebras Chaffee, Joseph, 3-cycle systems and structure within graph decompositions Chase, Timothy, Monotonic covering properties Clontz, Steven, Applications of limited information strategies for topological games Erzurumluoglu, Araz, Fair factorizations and fair holey factorizations with two associate classes and prescribed regu- larity Hammer, James, Factor pair Latin squares Nguelifack, Brice, Generalized signed- rank estimator for nonlinear models with multidimensional indices and two- phase linear models Rawal, Nar, Principal eigenvalue theory for time periodic nonlocal dispersal operations and applications Tadesse, Dawit, High-dimensional classi- fication methods for sparse data and their applications in text and data mining Xie, Xiaoxia, Nonlocal dispersal equations and convergence to random dispersal equations University of Alabama (6) Department of Mathematics Banjade, Debendra, Wolff’s ideal problem in the multiplier algebra on Dirichlet space Duong, Nguyen, Twisting bordered Kho- vanov homology The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015) reported in the 2016 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences by 197 departments in 143 universities in the United States. Each entry contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of degrees listed for that university. Shahmurov, Rishad, Linear and nonlinear Rayleigh-B´ enard convection in absence of horizontal boundaries Song, Yuanyuan, Stability analysis of a bilayer coating a cylindrical tube Tian, Wufeng, Fast alternating direction implicit schemes for geometric flow equations and nonlinear Poisson equa- tions in biomolecular solvation analysis Ying, Mengyi, Interval method for special constrained global optimization prob- lems University of Alabama at Birmingham (10) Department of Biostatistics George, Brandon, A spatiotemporal model for repeated imaging data Li, Peng, The small sample inferences of cluster-randomized trials Loop, Matthew, Spatial analysis of hy- pertension prevalence using a large US cohort Merrill, Peter, Non-compliance in clinical trials: The perils of statistical methods Ranjan, Ashutosh, Power issues and inter- nal pilot design in cluster-randomized trials with unequal cluster sizes Salter, Amber, Practical extensions of the continual reassessment method Tripathi, Arvind, Count models with multiple inflations Wang, Guoqiao, An evaluation of sample size re-estimation adaptive designs and delayed-start designs for Alzheimer’s disease Department of Mathematics Fadl Allah, Alzaki, Elliptic equations and systems with nonlinear boundary conditions Muthoka, Terrence, American options and semilinear parabolic partial differ- ential equations in weighted Sobolev spaces University of Alabama–Huntsville (1) Department of Mathematical Sciences Albashaireh, Reem, Traveling wave solu- tions of a chemotaxis model: Existence and stability ARIZONA Arizona State University (11) Mathematics, Computational and Modeling Sciences Bliss, Nadya, Statistical signal processing for graphs School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Alvarez, Roberto, A two-strain spatiotem- poral mathematical model of cancer with free boundary condition Everett, Rebecca, Applications of the Droop cell quota model to data based cancer growth and treatment models Holeva, Thomas, A kinetic approach to anomalous diffusion in biological trapping regions Packer, Aaron, Cell quota based popula- tion models and their applications Peace, Angela, Stoichiometric producer- grazer models incorporating the effects of excess food-nutrient content on grazer dynamics Robinson, Benjamin, Operator-valued frames associated with measure spaces Temkit, M’hamed, Experimental designs for generalized linear models and func- tional magnetic resonance imaging Wang, Ran, On choosability and paintabil- ity of graphs Zhou, Yuqin, Mathematical and statistical insights in evaluating state dependent effectiveness of HIV prevention inter- ventions Zinzer, Scott, One- and two-variable p-adic measures in Iwasawa theory 790 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 7

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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