Post on 17-Jul-2020
Doctoral Degrees Conferred2016–2017
ALABAMA
Auburn University (13)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Barnett, Johnathan, The fractional chro-matic number and the Hall ratio
Costa Lima, Italo Raony, Robust simul-taneous inference for functional dataanalysis
Denu, Dawit, Analysis of stochastic vec-tor host epidemic model with directtransmission
Ghimire, Prakash, Derivations of theLie algebra of strictly upper triangularmatrices and dominate upper triangularladder matricies
Hollis, Daniel, Disjoint G-designs andthe intersection for some seven edgegraphs
James, Daniel, Isomorphic Ext functorsof torsion-free finite rank modules overa Dedekind domain
Kermausuor, Seth, Atomic characteriza-trion of L1 and the Lorentz–Bochnerspace LX (p,1) for 1 ≤ p <∞ with someapplications
Krizan, Christopher, Euclidean Szlamnumbers
Liphan, David, Compactifications of in-decomposable topological spaces
Perry, Katherine, Rainbow trees in edge-colored complete graphs and blockdecompositions of almost completegraphs
Weerasinghe, Kariyawasam, Convergenceanalysis and numerical simulation ofparticle swarm optimization
Wu, Hao, Mathematical and numericalanalysis for linear peridynamic bound-ary valve problems
Yucel, Ahmet, Machine learning tech-niques for text classification
University of Alabama (7)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Jahdaly, Noufe, Linear and nonlinearconvection in an infinitely high cavityin the presence of rotation
The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2016, to June 30,2017) reported in the 2018 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 275 departments in 202 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.
Cui, Wei, Fractional Brownian motion andmanaging risk with short-term futurescontracts
Hoang, Cong, Sparse technology inweighted harmonic analysis
Liu, Veny, Free inverse semigroupoidsand their inverse subsemigroupoids
Sandor, Bryan, On finitely generatednilpotent groups and their subgroups
Vo, Huy, Krylov approximations andmodel reduction methods for the chem-ical master equation
Watley, Laura Erin, Structural validity andreliability of two observation protocolsin college mathematics
University of Alabama atBirmingham (7)
Department of Biostatistics
Venturi, Yogasudha, Methods for theanalysis of genetic differences in eth-nicity and sex for complex humantraits
Zhang, Xinyan, Statistical methods incancer survival prediction and micro-biome data analysis
Department of Mathematics
Abdul-Rahman, Houssam, Entanglementin disordered quantum XY chains
Antwi-Fordjour, Kwadwo, Pattern forma-tion and semilinear evolution equationsin function spaces
Kim, Seonguk, Perturbation formulas forGross-Pitaevskii equation with periodicpotential
Mann, Ivan, A metrically defined uni-formization map of planar domains
Moxley, Caleb, Homotopical complexityof several billiard models
University ofAlabama–Huntsville (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Li, Yang, Discrete-time structured mod-els and their dynamics for interactivewild and sterile mosquitos malariatransmission
University of Alabama (1)
Department of Information Systems,
Statistics and Management Science
Zhu, Xuwen, The development of diag-nostic tools for mixture modeling andmodel-based clustering
ARKANSAS
University of Arkansas atFayetteville (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Ding, Chao, Construction of confor-mally invariant operators in higherspin spaces
Dutta, Arnab, On compactness and close-rangeness of composition operators
Juda, Daniel, On rings of invariants forcyclic p-groups
ARIZONA
Arizona StateUniversity (16)
Mathematics, Computational and
Modeling Sciences Center
Chowell, Diego, Mathematical and com-putational models of cancer and theimmune system
Mamada, Robert, Potential games andcompetition in the supply of naturalresources
Udiani, Oyita, A novel approach to studytask organization in animal groups
School of Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences
Al-Suleiman, Sultan, Toward enumeratingthe chains of maximum length ofCambrian and m-eralized Cambrianlattices
Byerley, Cameron, Secondary teachers’and calculus students’ meanings forfraction, measure, and rate of change
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 969
Farrell, Alex, Prey-predator-parasite: Anecosystem model with fragile persis-tence
Gutierrez Cortez, Paloma, Rotating split-cylinder flows
Korytowski, Daniel, Persistence for killthe winner nested infection Lotka-Volterra models
Lanfear, Nathan, The Pauli-Lubanski vec-tor in a group-theoretical approach torelativistic wave equations
Liu, Ruowen, Numerical issues arising inthe simulations of transient water flowin layered unsaturated soils
Mitrano, Arthur, Properties of divergence-free methods for approximation and so-lution of partial differential equations
Nelson, Luke, Toward the enumeration ofmaximal chains in the Tamari lattices
Pell, Bruce, Dynamics and implicationsof data-based disease models in publichealth and agriculture
Rutter, Erica, A mathematical journey ofcancer growth
Treat, Kevin, On chains in the Tamarilattice
Zhu, Junfei, A power study of GFfitStatistics as components of PearsonChi-Square
University of Arizona (17)
Department of Mathematics
Berard, Whitney, Explicit Serre weightconjectures in dimension four
Brown, Tova, Asymptotics and dynamicsof map enumeration problems
Davis, Erik, Consistency of modularityclustering on random geometric graphs
Lee, Hyereem, Triples in finite groupsand a conjecture of Guralnick and Tiep
Trefethen, Stephen, Non-abelian compo-sition factors of m-rational groups
Williams, Ronnie, Level compatibility inthe passage from modular symbols tocup products
Zhelezov, Gleb, Coalescing particle sys-tems. Applications to nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations
Program in Applied Mathematics
Borghese, Michael, A proof of the solitonresolution conjecture for the focusingnonlinear Schrodinger equation
Burton, Jackson, Theoretical models fordrug delivery to solid tumors
Leach, Andrew, Monte Carlo methods forstochastic differential equations andtheir applications
Ragsdale, Aaron, Multi-allele populationgenomics for inference of demographyand natural selection
Veprauskas, Amy, On the dynamic di-chotomy between positive equilibriaand synchronous 2-cycles in matrixpopulation models
Young, Alex, Three essays on complexsystems
Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
in Statistics
Bear, John, A logistic normal mixturemodel for compostitions with essentialzeros
Fang, Fang, Modern econometric tech-niques applied to three essays in spatialeconomics
Schissler, Alfred, Contributions to geneset analysis of correlated, paired-sample transcriptome data to enableprecision medicine
Zeng, Yue, Variable screening in multi-category classification for ultra-highdimensional data
CALIFORNIA
California Institute ofTechnology (4)
Department of Computing and
Mathematical Sciences
Bruer, John, Recovering structured low-rank operators using nuclear norms
Chen, Yuhua, Concentration inequalitiesof random matrices and solving pty-chography with a convex relaxation
Perez Arancibia, Carlos, Windowed inte-gral equation methods for problems ofscattering by defects and obstacles inlayered media
Zhang, Pengchuan, Compressing positivesemidefinite operators with sparse/local-ized bases
Claremont GraduateUniversity (15)
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Babakhani, Behrouz, Novel microstrippatch antennas with frequency agility,polarization reconfigurability, dual nullsteering capability and phased array an-tenna with beam steering performance
Berardi, Vincent, Analytic framework forthe design, implementation, and anal-ysis of dynamic, and real-time healthinterventions
Campbell, Karen, SEIRscape, an agent-based mosquito-human virus basis ofDengue risk across Peru and Thailand
Denaro, Kameryn, Quantifying diseaseseverity of cystic fibrosis using linearquantile mixed models
Flenner, Jennifer, Deep non-negative ma-trix factorization
Jin, Sixian, Martingale representation the-orems based on Malliavin calculus
Leung, Kimberly, Stochastic models forprecipitable water in convection
Paluri, Seethal, Cross-layer schemes forenhancing H.264/AVC video qualityover wireless channels
Raman, Saravana, Simulation of plethys-mographic environment in pulmonaryfunction studies
Rossi, Julia, Non-conservative variationalapproximation for nonlinear Schrodingerequations and its applications
Silva, Genivaldo, Who is there and whatare they doing? An agile and computa-tionally efficient framework for genomediscovery and annotation from metage-nomic big data
Woolf, Tina, Practical compressed sensing
Xu, Qian, Generalized varying-coefficientmixed models with missing data andsurrogate information
Zablocki, Rong, Large-scale inference in-corporating covariates and network de-pendence with application to genome-wide association studies
Zhou, Deng, I/O stade optimization fornon-volatile memory based storage sys-tems
Stanford University (20)
Department of Mathematics
Booher, Jeremy, Geometric deformationsof orthogonal and symplectic Galoisrepresentations
Brady, Zarathustra, Sieves and iterationrules
Buciumas, Valentin, Quantum groups andthe Yang Baxter equation
Diao, Peter, Differential calculus ongraphon space and statistical appli-cations of graph limit theory
Florea, Alexandra, Moments and zeros ofL functions over function fields
Gao, Jun, The front asymptotics for thenon local KPP equation
Greer, Francois, Modular forms in enu-merative geometry
Jafarov, Jafar, Loop equations and stringdualities in lattice gauge theories
Lawrence, Brian, Two results on periodmaps
Makisumi, Shotaro, Modular Koszdul du-ality for Soergel bimodules
Mantoulidis, Christos, Geometric varia-tional problems in mathematical physics
Montague, David, Covariance estimationand graphical models for infinite col-lections of random variables
Ren, Weilvo, Two models on limit ordertrading
Ronchetti, Nicolo, On the mod p derivedHecke algebra of a p adic group
Shabani, Beniada, Propogation in multidimensional Fisher KPP equations
Siegel, Kyler, New constructions andcomputations on rigid and flexiblesymplectic geometry and applicationsto several complex variables
Siu, Ho Chung, Valve distribution ofautomorphic forms in a family
Thorvaldsson, Sverrir, Boundary fibra-tion structures and quasi homogeneousgeometries
Tripathy, Arnav, The symmetric powerand etale realization functors commute
White, Graham, Combinatorial methodsin Markov chain mixing
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
970 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 8
University of California,Berkeley (31)
Department of Mathematics
Anderson, David, Reliable and efficientalgorithms for spectrum-revealing low-rank data analysis
Appel, Daniel, Theory of real bundles onthe projective line
Chavez, Anastasia, Posets, polytopes, andpositroids
Drouot, Alexis, Stability of resonancesunder singular perturbations
Dudzik, Andrew, Quantales and hyper-structures
Fortunato, Meire, Curved and anisotropicunstructured mesh generation andadaptivity using the Winslow equations
Harrison-Trainor, Matthew, The complex-ity of countable structures
Kileel, Joseph, Algebraic geometry forcomputer vision
Kim, Eugenia, Numerical methods for theLandau–Lifshitz equation in micromag-netics: The mimetic finite differencemethod and the mass-lumped finiteelement method
Liu, Weihua, Noncommutative distribu-tional symmetries and their related deFinetti type theorems
Park, Doosung, Triangulated categoriesof motives over fs log schemes
Policastro, Christopher, Integral estimatesfor approximations by incompressibledeformations
Rosu, Eugenia, Integers that can bewritten as the sum of two rationalcubes
Schrader, Gus, Quantum groups, charac-ter varieties and integrable systems
Tsukerman, Emmanuel, Combinatorialanalysis of continuous problems
Vasquez, Markus, Essays in mathematicaleconomics
Voellmer, Andreas, A partial characteri-zation of �κ for plus-one premice
Wan, Michael, Towards a model theory ofalmost complex manifolds
Wells, Christopher, Methods for optimalstochastic control and optimal stoppingproblems featuring time-inconsistency
Department of Statistics
Hermon, Jonathan, Maximal inequalitiesand mixing times
Ho, Christine, Statistical modeling andanalysis for biomedical applications
Li, Xiang, Inference on graphs: Fromprobability methods to deep neuralnetworks
Regier, Jeffrey, Topics in large-scale sta-tistical inference
Tang, Wenpin, Continuous paths in Brow-nian motion and related problems
Terhorst, Jonathan, Demographic infer-ence from large samples: Theory andmethods
Zhang, Yumeng, Phase transistions ofrandom constraints satisfaction prob-lem
Group in Biostatistics
Gerlovina, Inna, Small sample inference
Moore, Sara, Yet another local learner(YALL): A localized machine learningalgorithm with appliances in precisionmedicine
Petito, Lucia, Topics in survival analysis
Sarovar, Varada, Targeted maximumlikelihood estimation for evaluationof the health impacts of air polution
Toth, Boriska, Targeted learning of indi-vidual effects and individualized treat-ments using an instrumental variable
University of California,Davis (19)
Department of Mathematics
Castillo Castillo, Federico, Local Ehrhartpositivity
Deride Silva, Julio, Essays on variationalapproximation techniques for stochas-tic optimization problems
Jana, Indrajit, Spectrum of random bandmatrices
Koenig, Dale, Trisections in three andfour dimensions
Kringe, Henry, A categorification of thecrystal isomorphism
Lang, Alexander, On the classification ofsupercharacter theories
Ling, Shuyang, Bilinear inverse problems:Theory, algorithms, and applications
Rogers, Carson, Fibered links in the3-sphere
Weaver, Chelsea, Analysis and extensionsof sparse representations in signalclassification
Young, Amanda, Spectral properties ofmulti-dimensional quantum spin sys-tems
Zhou, Yuan, Infinite-dimensional relax-ations of mixed-integer optimizationproblems
Department of Statistics
Chan, Stephanie, A maximum entropyapproach to joint modeling multipleprimate social networks and a newaudio classification scheme
Cheung, Rex Che Yeung, Statistical ma-chine learning applications in time se-ries, network, and partition-wise mod-els
Fan, Minjie, Modeling vectorial and non-Gaussian random fields on a sphere
Fujii, Kevin, Ranking, clustering, and datavisualization methods for revealing net-work structure
Ji, Hao, Optimal designs for longitu-dinal/functional data, extensions andapplications
Meng, Haoying, Spatio-temporal model-ing and predictions of house prices inSan Jose
Qi, Gao, Some contributions to statisticalsignal processing and machine learning
Yan, Hao, Statistical learning of non-Euclidean objects and applications
University of California,Irvine (14)
Department of Mathematics
Boling, Jess, Two geometric flows, whichare well adapted for non-Kahler geome-try
Franco De Leon, Mariano, Numericalmethods for curve evolution underdispersive geometric dynamics
Galgon, Geoff, Trees, refining, and com-binatorial characteristics
Garrett, Ervin, The cube problem forlinear orders
Han, Rui, Discrete ergodic Jacobi matri-ces: Spectral properties and quantumdynamical bounds
Lopez, Christopher, Compactness andrigidity for the ambient obstructionflow
Peng, Tao, Data-driven models for dy-namics of gene expression and singlecells
Ren, Rufei, Generic Newton polygon forexponential sums in two variables withtriangular base
Ta, Catherine, Miltiscale modeling of theepilthelial-mesenchymal transition
Takahashi, Yuki, Sums and products ofCantor sets and separable two dimen-sional quasicrystal models
Thomas, Andrew, A general mixture fornonlinear heterogeneous tumor growth
Yang, Jienian, Stochastic modeling ofstem cells
Zhang, Cheng, Scalable Hamiltonian MonteCarlo via surrogate methods
Zhang, Shuai, Transformed L1 function,sparse optimization algorithms andapplications
University of California,Los Angeles (29)
Department of Biostatistics
Aralis, Hilary, Modeling multistate mod-els with back transitions: Statisticalchallenges and applications
Malazarte Antonio, Anna Liza, The good,the bad and the fitting: A Bayesianhierarchical model for patient prefer-ences elicited through discrete choiceexperiments
Department of Mathematics
Bobkov, Anton, Computations of Vapnik–Chervonenkis density in various model-theoretic structures
Charlesworth, Ian, On bi-free probabilityand free entropy
Charlie, Marshak, Applications of net-work science to criminal networks,university education, and ecology
Chongchitmate, Wutichai, New modelsfor multi-party computation
Cook, Nicholas, Spectral properties ofnon-Hermitian random matrices
Flapan, Laure, Hodge structures withHodge numbers (n,0, . . . ,0, n) and theirgeometric realizations
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 971
Gast, Theodore, Numerical simulationof elastic, viscoelastic, and granularmaterials
Ge, Stephen, The eigenvalue spacing ofi.i.d. random matrices and related leastsingular value results
Gold, Julian, Isoperimetric shapes insupercritical bond percolation
Greenblatt, Jordan, Dimensional asymp-totics for norms of maximal averagingoperators on Cartesian powers of finitegraphs
Hood, Kaitlyn, Theory of particle focusingin inertial microfluidic devices
Kalyanswamy, Sudesh, Automorphy lift-ing theorems
Lin, Jeffrey, Understanding probabilisticmodels through limit theorems
Lindquist, Jeffrey, Weak capacity inAhlfors regular metric spaces
Mullath Mohammed Sherief, Mohammed-zuhair, Ramified lifts and dimension ofordinary deformation rings
Ohrt, Christopher, Higher twisted torsioninvariants
Pradhana, Andre, Multiphase simulationusing material point method
Sella, Yehonatan, The mixed Tate prop-erty of reductive algebraic groups
Stoffregen, Matthew, Pin(2)-equivariantSeiberg-Witten Floer homology
Tekin, Omer Faruk, Application of spar-sity promoting techniques in numericalsolutions of partial differential equa-tions
Travis, Meyer, Energy models for signalprocessing and matrix factorization
Vivian, Bailey, Cohomological invariantsof finite groups
Wong, Jeffrey, Particle-laden viscous flowon an incline
Wu, Tianyu, Coordinate update algo-rithms: Theory and applications
Xie, Fei, Toric surfaces over arbitraryfields
Zemke, Ian, TQFT structures in HeegaardFloer homology
Zhu, Wei, Nonlocal variational methodsin image and data processing
University of California,Riverside (9)
Department of Mathematics
Blanton, Donna, On tensor products ofdemazure modules for sl 2[t]
Castro, Kyle, Multiplicative charactersums and the applications to prob-lems in analytic number theory
Choi, Hyun, Semistar operations in inte-gral domains and multiplicative lattices
O’Dell, Matthew, Integrable representa-tions of equivariant map algebras asso-ciated with Borel-de Siebenthal pairs
Rajan, Priyanka, Geometry and topologyof some fake projective spaces
Roby, Scott, Alpha-scaling zeta functionsfor self-similar multifractals
Walker, Andrew, Non-Noetherian Cohen-Macaulay rings
Watson, Sean, Fractal zeta functions: ToAhlfors spaces and beyond
Williams, Parker, Information gatheringon bounded degree trees and propertiesof random matrices
University of California,San Diego (8)
Department of Mathematics
Aksoy, Sinan, Random walks on directedgraphs and orientation of graphs
Grogan, Francesca, Computational tech-niques in molecular dynamics and det-onation shock dynamics
Li, Xiaolong, Moduli of continuity, Gausscurvature flow and Ricci solitons
Pu, Xiao, Topics in clustering: Featureselection and semiparametric modeling
Smith, Daniel, A Kodaira vanishing theo-rem for formal schemes
Spicer, Calum, Higher dimensional foli-ated Mori theory
Strahl, Perry, The Picard group of themoduli space of genus zero stablequotients to flag varieties
Tobin, Robin, Extremal spectral invariantsof graphs
University of California,Santa Barbara (2)
Department of Mathematics
Cattan, David, On the numerics, genera-tion, and scaling of fluvial landscapes
Lo Kim Lin, Jon, Micro-macro modelingand computation of ferrofluids
University of California,Santa Cruz (4)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Cadonna, Annalisa, Bayesian mixturemodels for spectral density estimation
Moll, Ryan, The dynamics of layered andnon-layered oscillatory double-diffusiveconvection
Department of Mathematics
Carman, William Rob, Unit groups ofrepresentations rings and their ghostrings as biset functions
Zhang, Linyi, On S-matrix and fusion
rules for irreducible VG modules
University of SouthernCalifornia (6)
Department of Mathematics
Acu, Bahar, On fillings of contact mani-folds by J-holomorphic curves
Ejder, Ozlem, The torsion subgroups ofelliptic curves in elementary Abelian2-extensions and the monodromy ofFermat surfaces
Lamberto-Egan, Laffite, A braid groupaction of categorified quantum groups
Tsilifis, Panagiotis, Design, dimensional-ity reduction, and variational methodsin uncertainty quantification
Weisheng, Xie, Stochastic differentialequation driven by fractional Brown-ian motion and Poisson jumps
Xiaojing, Xing, Optimal dividend andinvestment problems under Sparre An-derson model
COLORADO
Colorado School ofMines (1)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Shutt, Deborah, Modeling, analysis andsimulation of complex disease dynam-ics for HIV, Ebola, and Zika virus
Colorado StateUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematics
Arn, Robert, On the formulation and usesof SVD-based generalized curvatures
Dauphin, Stephen, General model-baseddecomposition framework for Polarimetric synthetic apeture images
Hodges, Timothy, Avoiding singularitiesduring homotopy continuation
Marrinan, Timothy, Grassmann, Flag, andSchubert varieties in applications
University of Colorado,Boulder (10)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Jennings, Dale, Advances in MCMC meth-ods with applications to particle filter-ing, DSMC and Bayesian networks
Martin, Bradley, Application of RBF-FD towave and heat transport problems indomains with interfaces
Mirzaev, Inomzhon, Analytical and nu-merical investigation of long term be-havior of microbial flocculation equa-tions
Sturdevant, Benjamin, Fully kinetic ionmodels for magnetized plasma simula-tions
Department of Mathematics
Chhay, Boramey, Euler-Arnold equationson the group of contactomorphismsand Teichmuller theory
Krupa, Matthew, Differential geometry ofprojective limits of manifolds
Moorhead, Andrew, Higher commutatortheory for congruence modular vari-eties
Parker, Keli, Semistable modular com-pactifications of moduli spaces of genusone curves
Smith, Kathleen, On minimum varianceunbiased estimation of a power of anunknown scalar or matrix
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
972 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 8
Washabaugh, Pearce, The diffeomor-phism group approach to vorticitymodel equations
University of ColoradoAnschutz MedicalCampus (1)
Department of Biostatistics and
Informatics
DeWitt, Peter, Parsimonious B-Spline re-gression models via control polygonand control net reduction for identify-ing factors explaining variation in dailyhormone profile during the menopausaltransition
University of Denver (3)
Department of Mathematics
Aguilar, Konrad, Quantum metrics on ap-proximately finite-dimensional algebras
Al-Ali, Masoumah, Z2-orbifolds of affinevertex algebras and W -algebras
Giron Garnica, Gabriel, Banach spacesfrom barriers in high dimensional El-lentuck spaces
University of NorthernColorado (1)
School of Mathematical Sciences
King, Jeffrey, Students social adaptationto mathematical tasks
CONNECTICUT
University of Connecticut,Storrs (20)
Department of Mathematics
Andrews, Ulysses, Existence of diffusionsof 4N carpets
Arthur, Frank, Liouville-type theoremsfor higher order elliptic systems
Brzoska, Antoni, Spectral properties ofthe Hata tree
Chou, Michael, Torsion of rational ellipticcurves over Abelian extensions of Q
Corekli, Cagnur, Finite element methodsof Dirichlet boundary optimal controlproblems with weakly imposed bound-ary conditions
Joseph, Michael, Toggling involutions andhomomesies for maps on finite sets,noncrossing partitions, and indepen-dent sets of path graphs
Miller, David J, Fast algorithms for struc-tured matrices and Laurent polynomials
Niu, Gao, Actuarial application of agentbased modeling
Ou, Tze-Chun, Irreducible modules overKLR algebras of twisted affine type
Ramli, Rozita, Generalized linear modelapproach to adjusting expected as-sumptions of long-term care incidencerates
Shum, Fan Ny, Stabilization by noise ofsystems of complex-valued ODEs
Stahl, Rachel, Computability theoreticresults for the game of cops androbbers on infinite graphs
Xhumari, Sandi, Generalizedp-adic Gausssums
Zito, Stephen, Modules from tilted tocluster-titled algebras
Department of Statistics
Bader, Brian, Automatic, efficient, andpractical extreme value analysis withenvironmental applications
Fu, Wei, Predicting ultimate targets withtime-dependent predictors
Saha, Abhisek, Bayesian analysis of itemresponse theory and its applications tolongitudinal education data
Wang, Chun, On statistical methods forbig data
Wang, Yu-Bo, Adaptive partition weightedMCMC estimation
Wu, Qianzhu, Robust scan statistics fordetecting a local change in populationmean
Wesleyan University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Kreinbihl, James, A Fox–Milnor theoremfor knots in a thickened surface
Marino, Alicia, Finiteness of strictly n-regular quadratic forms
Vigliotta, Sarah, Fractional chromaticnumbers of incidence graphs
Yale University (11)
Department of Biostatistics
Fu, Zhixuan, Penalized variable selectionin competing risks regression
Liu, Tiangi, Some statistical methods forbrain gene expression data: Dimensionreduction, feature screening and causalinference
Lu, Qiongshi, Integrative functional an-notation of the human genome and itsapplications in post GWAS analysis
Shabarova, Veronika, Multivariate ap-proach to modeling of time to eventdata with non-susceptible fraction andinformative censoring
Sun, Jiehuan, Statistical methods fortanslational medicine in longitudinalgenomic studies
Department of Mathematics
Dimitrov, Vesselin, Diophantine approxi-mations by special points and applica-tions to dynamics and geometry
Ehrman, Max, Almost primes in thinorbits of pythagorean triangles
Koplewitz, Shaked, Random graphs, sand-pile groups, and surjectivity of randommatrices
Luh, Kyle, Universality of random graphsand random matrices
Nguyen, Oanh, Random polynomials
Zhang, Liyang, Quantum unique ergod-icity of degereate eisenstein series onGL(n)
DELAWARE
Delaware StateUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Zheng, Peng, Automatic image regis-tration by using multi-variate splinefunctions
University of Delaware (7)
Department of Mathematical Science
Hassell, Matthew, Some applications ofintegral equations to the solution oftransient partial differential equations
Jin, Ke, On the length of the longest com-mon subsequence of two independentmallows pemutations
Kapita, Shelvean, Plane wave discontin-uous Galerkin methods for acousticscattering
Plaza, Rafael, Representation theorymethods in extremal combinatorics
Sanchez-Vizuet, Tonatiuh, Integral andcoupled integral-volume methods forevolutionary wave structure interaction
Sun, Shuying, On some families of alge-braically defined graphs
Xu, Peng, Some topics in random walks ongraphs, harmonic analysis and rogozintype inequalities for locally compactgroups
DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIA
George WashingtonUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics
Aganezov, Sergey, Phylogenomics meetsgenome assembly: From evolutionaryanalysis to scaffolding
Walker, Hakim, Computable isomor-phisms of directed graphs
Yang, Seung Yeop, Khovanov homology,distributive structure homology andapplications to knot theory
FLORIDA
Florida AtlanticUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Amento, Brittanney, Quantum circuits forcryptanalysis
Hurley, Michael, New geometric large sets
Kasti, Dinesh, An algorithmic approachto the lattice structures of attractorsand Lyapunuv functions
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 973
Khadka, Bal, Techniques in lattice basisreduction
Florida Institute ofTechnology (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Ben-Rabha, Raja, Initial boundary valueproblems for higher order nonlinearhyperbolic equations with two indepen-dent variables
Binmahfoudh, Ahmed, New bounds forK-out-of-n type probabilities and theirapplications
Iqbal, Naveed, On the classification of thesecond minimal orbits of the contin-uous endomorphisms on the real lineand universality in chaos
Iwezulu, Kenneth, Discrete and continu-ous operational calculus in stochasticgames
Mandelkern, Jeremy, Sturm–Liouville equa-tions with singular endpoints of Poincarerank zero and one
Florida StateUniversity (27)
Department of Mathematics
Aktas, Mehmet, Topology of N-gonalcurves
Billet, Robert, Flow equivalence classesand Psuedo-Anosov
Chen, Yuanda, Modeling limit order bookdynamics using Hawkes processes
Chiu, Chun-Yuan, Modeling credit risk inthe default threshold framework
Dai, Yao, Game-theoretic models of ani-mal behavior observed in some recentexperiments
Eilertsen, Justin, Local and global bi-furcations in finite-dimensional centermanifold equations of double-diffusiveconvection
Gu, Fangxi, Exponential convergencefourier method and its applicationto option pricing with Levy processes
Harris, Corey, Effective methods in in-tersection theory and combinatorialalgebraic geometry
Mandel, David, Random Sobol’ sensitivityanalysis and model robustness
Mayhook, Dane, Conformal tilings andtype
McKenna, Joseph, Insulin secretion rhythms:Calcium regulation of beta-cell metabolismand rescue of islet oscillations
Tai, Liang-Hsuan, Trend and variable-phase seasonality estimation from func-tional data
Weingard, Daniel, Scroll waves: And howthey interact with non-reactive knots,tori, and spheres
Wyse, John, The impact of competitionon temporal musth strategies: A game-theoretic approach
Yao, Kovadio, Statistical analysis on ob-ject spaces with applications to 3D faceanalysis and exchange rates data
Yildirim, Vehpi, Mathematical modelingand analysis of gene knockout compen-sation in pancreatic beta-cells
Department of Statistics
Alzahrani, Hissah, Multivariate binarylongitudinal data analysis
Anaya, Josue, First steps towards imagedenoising in low-light conditions
Cleveland, Jason, Robust function reg-istration using depth on the phasevariablility
Geng, Junxian, Bayesian models for cap-turing heterogeneity in discrete data
Gordon, Glenna, Intensity estimation inPoisson processes with phase variability
Gupta, Ajay, Modeling multivariate datawith parameter-sensitive subspaces
Gupta, Cherry, Bayesian inference andnovel models for survival data withcured fraction
Huang, Xue, Sparse feature and elementselection in high-dimensional vectorautoregressive models
Lee, JiWon, Small area estimation withautomatic random effects selection
Lester, David, High level image analysison manifolds via projective shapes and3D reflection shapes
Orndorff, Mark, Nonparametric detectionof arbitrary changes to distributions inprocess control
University of CentralFlorida (2)
Department of Mathematics
Dutta, Aritra, Weighted low-rank approx-imation of matrices: Some analyticaland numerical aspects
Rolek, Martin, Coloring graphs with for-bidden minors
University of Florida (18)
Department of Mathematics
Adams, Francis, Anticliques in Borelgraphs on polish spaces and com-putable ultrahomogeneous structures
Borchering, Rebecca, Population thresh-olds and disease ecology
Cyr, Christopher, On S-semipermutablesubgroups of simple groups
Milliken, Evan, Metrapopulation modelsof infectious salmon anemia
Molnar, Todd, Local distribution of thenumber of small prime factors
Saucedo, Omar, Mathematical modelingof avian influenza
Ward, Larie, Shift operators on Hilbertspaces arising from trees
Zhang, Hao, Modeling and algorithm ofinformation sharing in inverse problem
Department of Statistics
Abrahamsen, Tavis, Convergence anal-ysis of MCMC samplers for Bayesianlinear mixed models with P > N
Feng, Wei, Models for the analysis ofrepeated attempt designs
Ha, Trung, Convergence analysis of birth-death Markov chains and Gibbs sam-plers
Parker, Robert, Some strong and weaklimit theorems for double sums ofrandom elements in branch spaces
Saha, Abhishek, Bayesian inference inGaussian graphical models when theunderlying graph is non-decomposable
Wang, Chuan, Contributions to Bayesianstatistical methods for agricultural andbiological engineering
Xiang, Ruoxuan, Consistency of highdimensional Bayesian models
Xu, Dandan, Bayesian nonparametricmethods for analysis of electronichealth records
Zhong, Xiaolong, Essays on empiricallikelihood
Zhu, Guangyu, Likelihood based partialleast squares
University of FloridaCollege of PublicHealth (4)
Department of Biostatistics
An, Qi, Optimal group sequential designs
Jingnan, Zhang, An early warning systemfor modeling and monitoring spatio-temporal pattern of infectious disease
Li, Yang, Population-based unified curerate model and population-based Gom-pertz cure rate model
Xinrui, Zhang, Internal pilots with theunivariate approach to repeated mea-sures
University of Miami (2)
Department of Mathematics
Cardona Caviria, Jorge, On statisticalsolutions of evolution equations
Langdon, Christopher, Symmetric 1-twisteddifferentials and the quadric algebra
University of SouthFlorida (11)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Assonken Tonfack, Patrick, Modeling infinance and insurance with Levy-Itodriven dynamic processes under semiMarkov-type switching regimes andtime domans
Enriquez-Savery, Sherlene, Statistical anal-ysis of a risk factor in finance andenvironmental models for Belize
Fleeman, Matthew, Putnam’s inequalityand analytic content in the Bergmanspace
Hilton, Kristina, Dynamics of multicul-tural social networks
Kim, Doo Young, Statistical modeling ofcarbon dioxide and cluster analysis oftime dependent information
Lappano, Stephen, Some results concern-ing permutation polynomials over finitefields
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Manukure, Solomon, Hamiltonian for-mulations and symmetry constraints ofSoliton hierarchies of (1+1)-dimensionalnonlinear evolution equations
Tharu, Bhikari, Statistical analysis andmodeling health data: A longitudinalstudy
Tu, Junyi, Global attractors and randomattractors of reaction diffusion systems
Wang, Xing, Time dependent kernel den-sity estimation: A new parameter esti-mation algorithm, applications in timeseries classification and clustering
Zoalroshd, Seyed, On spectral propertiesof single layer potentials
GEORGIA
Augusta University (3)
Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Chen, Chen-Chun, Classification methodsfor circular-linear data using periodicfunctions
Hu, Fengjiao, Statistical methods to de-tect differentially methylated regionswith next generation sequencing data
Jin, Chan, A new method for analyzing1 : N matched case control studies withincomplete data
Emory University (11)
Department of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics
Alhanti, Brooke, Methods for estimatingthe effects of air pollution on asthmaunder a changing climate
Jiang, Yunxuan, Statistical methods forrare-variant sequencing studies in pedi-grees
Kemmer, Phebe, Statistical approachesfor exploring brain connectivity withmultimodal neuroimaging data
Wang, Lijia, Composite conditional likeli-hood
Watson, Dominque, Robust statisticalmethods for handling missing data
Yang, Jing, Flexible association methodsfor bivariate survival data
Mathematics and Computer Science
Department
Chen, Isabel, Centrality measures andcontagion and temporal networks
Fuller, Jessica, On saturation spectrum
Gordon-Sarney, Reed, Zero-cycles on Tor-sars under linear algebraic groups
Kay, William, Extremal problems forgraphs and hypergraphs
Shi, Huiqiang, Harmonic measure, re-duced extremal length and quasi circles
Georgia Institute ofTechnology (5)
School of Mathematics
Cohen, Emma, Problems in Catalan mix-ing and matchings in regular hyper-graphs
Conway, James, Transverse surgery onknots in contact three-manifolds
He, Dawei, Special TK5 in graphs con-taining K4-
Mou, Chenchen, Uniqueness, existence,and regularity of solutions of integro-PDEs in domans if Rn
Xia, Dong, Statistical inference for largematrices
Georgia StateUniversity (11)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
An, Yueheng, Novel nonparametric meth-ods for ROC curves
Gao, Wei, Minimum ranks and refinedinertias of sign pattern matrices
Hora, Israel, Estimation of county leveldiabetes prevalence using Bayesian hi-erarchical model
Jeyarajah, Jenny, Constructing empiri-cal likelihood confidence intervals formedical cost data with censored obser-vations
Li, Chenxue, Some novel statistical infer-ences
Mullins, Paula, A mathematical modelfor beta1-adrenergic regulation of themouse ventricular myocyte contraction
Rozier, Kelvin, A mathematical modelof the combined β1- and β2- adren-ergic signaling system in the mouseventricular myocyte
Wang, Jing, Functional principal compo-nent analysis for discretely observedfunctional data and Sparse Fisher’sdisciminant analysis with thresholdedlinear constraints
Xia, Jun, Statistical models and analysisof growth processes in biological tissue
Yates, Amy, Intersection of longest pathsin graph theory and predicting perfor-mance in facial recognition
Zhang, Jiehuan, Analysis of travelingwave propagation in one-dimensionalintegrate-and-fire neural networks
University of Georgia (14)
Department of Mathematics
Bonsignore, Brian, Cohomological n-equivalence in differential graded al-gebras
Chapman, Harrison, A diagrammatic the-ory of random knots
Huckaba, Lauren, Simplices and sets of
positive upper density in Rd
Luu, Phong, Optimal pairs trading rulesand numerical methods
Slavov, George, Bivariate spline solutionto a class of reaction-diffusion equa-tions
Troupe, Lee, Three applications of sievemethods in analytic number theory
Zhang, Jun, Hamiltonian dynamics andpersistent homology
Department of Statistics
Chen, Xianyan, Nonlinear constrainedoptimization in R and its applicationfor sufficient dimension reduction andvariable selection
Cobb, Stacy, Optimizing parameters forsequencing study desings
Ionan, Alexei, Bayesian framework fordeveloping and evaluation medicationscreening tests for early disease detec-tion with applications in oncology
Lyford, Alexander, Investigating under-graduate student understanding ofgraphical displays of quantitative datathrough machine learning algorithms
Martin, Jacob, Topics in zero-inflatedcount regression coefficients of deter-mination and marginal models
Tong, Hao, Identifying and understand-ing repetitive patterns
Wang, Li-Yu, Regularized aggregationapproaches for complex data
HAWAII
University of Hawaii atManoa (3)
Department of Mathematics
Brown, Jonathan, The maximum numberof covers in a lattice and in otherrelated posets
Mukai, Jared, The log-periodic power lawmodel: An exploration
Verrette, Jean, Results on algebraic real-ization of equivariant bundles over the2-sphere
IOWA
Iowa State University (29)
Department of Mathematics
Berikkyzy, Zhanar, The edit distancefunction: Forbidding induced powers ofcycles and other questions
Dagtoros, Kubilay, Large deviation resultsfor random walks in a sparse randomenvironment
Heysse, Kristin, Construction for cospec-tral graphs for the normalized Lapla-cian matrix and distance matrix
Li, Jiali, Congruence n-permutable vari-eties
Lin, Jephian C.-H., Variants of zeroforcing and their applications to theminimum rank problem
Martinez Rivera, Xavier, The principalrank characteristic sequence and theenhanced principal rank sequence
Moss, Kevin, Coloring problems in graphtheory
Rasberry, Darrin, On minimal supportsolutions of underdetermined systemsof linear equations
Sanyatit, Preechaya, Isomorphisms ofuniform algebras on the 2-torus
Wang, Feifei, Computational modeling ofimpact and deformation
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Wang, Stefanie, On free quasigroups andquasigroup representations
Department of Statistics
Almodovar Rivera, Israel, Some contribu-tions to K-means clustering problems
Basulto Elias, Guillermo, Kernel deconvo-lution density estimation
Cao, Fan, Local polynomial kernel smooth-ing with correlated error
Foster, Robert Christian, Topics in empir-ical Bayesian analysis
Hadler, Jeremy, Forensic tool mark com-parisions: Tests for the null hypothesisof different sources
Hare, Eric, Statistical methods for bulletmatching
Howard, Reka, Evaluation of parametricand nonparametric statistical methodsin genomic prediction
King, Emily Anne, Bayesian inference ofvirus evolutionary models from next-generation sequencing data
Landau, William, High-dimensional hier-archical models and massively parallelcomputing
Li, Qi, Decision making under uncertain-ties for renewable energy and precisionagriculture
Lock, Dennis, Statistical methods insports with a focus on win probabilityand performence
Michaud, Nicholas, Bayesian models andinferential methods for forecasting dis-ease outbreak severity
Sievert, Carson Paul, Interfacing R withweb technologies for interactive sta-tistical graphics and computing withdata
Trujillo Rivera, Eduardo, Non parametricregression models with and withoutmeasurement error in the covariates,for univariate and vector responses: ABayesian approach
Xu, Yuhang, Selected topics in measure-ment error and functional data analysis
Yang, Yueran, To deny or confess: Aninterrogation decision-making model
Yin, Xin, Porbabilistic Methods for qual-ity improvement in high through putsequencing data
Zhang, Wei, Inference based on data fromsuperpositions of identical renewal pro-cesses
University of Iowa (33)
Applied Mathematical and
Computational Sciences
Ambrose, Joseph, Dynamic field theoryapplied to fMRI signal analysis
Barela, Mario, A complimentarity ap-proach to modeling dynamic electriccircuits
Dill, Benjamin, Numerical simulation ofthe impact of a steel ball with a rigidfoundation
Hu, Nan, A unified discrepancy-basedapproach for balancing efficiency androbustness in state-space modeling es-timation, selection, and diagnosis
Landgren, Jeffrey, An acoustic eigen-value problem and its application toelectrochemistry
Michlin, Tracie, Using wavelet bases toseparate scales in quantum field theory
Ongie, Gregory, Off-the-grid compressiveimaging
Richmond, Nathaniel, On stochastic net-work design: Modeling approaches andsolution techniques
Valeva, Silviya, Workforce and inventorymanagement under uncertain demand
Walk, Julia, A mathematical model of theeffects of multiple myeloma on renalfunction
Yang, Kai, Dynamics of energy criticalnonlinear Schrodinger equation withinverse square potential
Zhao, Ze, Stochastic volatility modelswith applications in finance
Department of Biostatistics
Deonovic, Benjamin E, MCMC samplingmethods for binary variables with ap-plication to Haplotype phasing allelespecific expression
Pagan-Rivera, Keyla, A Bayesian correc-tion for measurement error in pooledstudies of residential radon and lungcancer
Wu, Hongqian, Proportional likelihoodratio model for longitudinal discreteinterval data
Yu, Lixi, Regularized efficient score esti-mation and testing (RESET) approach inlow-dimensional and high-dimensionalGLM
Department of Mathematics
Abdulwahid, Adnan, Cofree objects inthe categories of comonoids in certainAbelian monoidal categories
Almodovar Velazquez, Leyda, Studyingbrain networks via topological dataanalysis and hierarchical clustering
Bates, Dana, On a free boundary problemfor ideal viscons and heat conductinggas flow
Druivenga, Nathan, Quantum topologyand me
Gerstle, Kevin, On the green rings ofpointed, coserial Hopf algebras
Griesenauer, Erin, Algebras of cross sec-tions
Ligo, Richard, Conformal transforma-tions, curvature, and energy
Norton, Rachael, Pick interpolation, dis-placement equation, andW∗-correspon-dences
Qin, Huan, Averages of fractional expo-nential sums weighted by Maass forms
Ramirez, Camila, P -bigon right-veering-ness and over twisted contact struc-tures
Rodman, Daniel, An infinite family oflinks with critical bridge spheres
Tipton, James, Reproducing kernel Hilbertspaces and complex dynamics
Yu, Lu, Wavelets on hierarchical trees
Department of Statistics and
Actuarial Science
Somal, Harsimran, Heterogeneous com-puting for the Bayesian HNICAR modelwith incomplete data
Yi, Congrui, Penalized methods and algo-rithms for high-dimensional regressionin the presence of heterogeneity
Zhou, Zhenhao, From valuing equitylinked death benefits to pricing Ameri-can options
Zhou, Ziqian, Statistical inference ofdistributed delay differential equations
IDAHO
Idaho State University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Klimas, Caitlin, Picard and Taylor kernelsfor self-adjoint second order differen-tial equations
University of Idaho (2)
Department of Mathematics
Ikeda, Masaki, enumeration of permuta-tions indexing local complete intersec-tion Schubert varieties
Rupert, Malcolm, An explicit Theta liftfrom Hilbert to Siegel paramodularforms
ILLINOIS
Illinois Institute ofTechnology (4)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Ha, Hansen, Numerical methods for twodimensional nonlocal equations arisingfrom non-Gaussian stochastic dynamics
Hernandez, Francisco, A boundary inte-gral method for computing the forcesof moving beads in a 3-dimensionallinear visoelastic flow
Jimenez Rugama, Lluis Antoni, Adaptivequasi-Monte Carlo cubature
Zhao, Meng, An efficient adaptive rescal-ing scheme for computing Hele-Shawproblems
Illinois State University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Kanbir, Sinan, An intervention studyaimed at enhancing seventh-grade stu-dents’ development of the concept of avariable
Rupnow, Theodore, Secondary mathemat-ics teachers’ learning through practice:The case of Rudy
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Northern IllinoisUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Luvsandash, Khulan, Change point de-tection for dependent spatio-temporaldata
Paul, Erina, Approximate Bayesian com-putation in nonparametric Bayesianmodels
Wang, Andrew, Constrained and coxetertable algebras
NorthwesternUniversity (15)
Department of Mathematics
Couch, Michael, A study of the equi-variant Gromov-Witten theory of theprojective line and Eynard-Orantin re-cursion
Gao, Honghao, Augmentations and sheavesfor knot conormals
Legg, Robert, An obstruction theory forcomodules suited for producing ele-ments of the exotic Picard group
Liang, Weiping Spencer, The Brown-Peterson homology of the connectedcover of the j-spectrum
Moy, Richard, Non-CM Hilbert modularforms of partial weight one
Serban, Vlad, Infinitesimal p-adic Manin-Mumford and application to Hida the-ory
Specter, Joel, Unramifiedness and crys-tallinity
Wei, Ann Rebecca, What do algebrasform?
Wilson, Dylan, Equivariant, parameter-ized, and chromatic homotopy theory
Wu, Lei, Multi-indexed Deligne extensionsand multiplier subsheaves
Yoo, Philsang, Langlands duality andquantum field theory
Zhou, Peng, From Lagrangian thimbles toconstructible sheaves
Department of Engineering Science
and Applied Mathematics
Jiang, Zuo, Nonlocal effects of interspe-cific prey competition on the stabilityof predator-prey equilibria
Kimmel, Gregory, Transport propertiesof superconductors using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation:Analytical solutions, numerical meth-ods and optimization
Park, Paul, Mixing with piecewise isome-tries
Southern IllinoisUniversity Carbondale (4)
Department of Mathematics
Adhikari, Kamal Mani, Realizations ofsimple smale flows on three-manifolds
Al-Hashimi, Ghazwan Mohammed, A zetafunction for flows with L (-1,-1) template
Alsulaimani, Hamdan, Strict regularityof positive definite ternary quadraticforms
Pathak, Nimishaben Shailesh, Lyapunov-type inequalify and eigenvalue esti-mates for fractional problems
University of Chicago (20)
Department of Mathematics
Akin, Victoria, An algebraic characteriza-tion of the point-pushing subgroup
Balibanu, Ana, The wonderful compacti-fication and the universal centralizer
Chen, Gong, Dispersive equations withmultiple potentials
Chen, Weiyan, Analytic number theoryfor o-cycles
Fan, Tiangi,D-infinity modules on smoothrigid analytic varieties and locally ana-lytic representations
Ho, Quoc, Free factorization algebra andhomology of configuration spaces inalgebraic geometry
Howe, Sean, Overconvergent modularforms and thep-adic Jacquet–Langlandscorrespondece
Johnstone, Daniel, A Gelfond-Graev for-mula and stable transfer factors forSLn
Lim, Chang Mou, A geometric height ongenus one curves
Rodriguez, Casey, Stable soliton reso-lution for wave maps on a curvedspacetime
Sakellaris, Georgios, Boundary value prob-lems in Lipschitz domains for equationswith drifts
Salter, Nicholas, The topology of surfacebundles: Cohomology and enumerationof fiberings
Wang, Jonathan, On an invariant bilinearform on the space of automorphicforms via asymptotics
Wilmes, John, Structure, automorphisms,and isomorphisms of regular combina-torial objects
Xu, Zhouli, In and around stable homo-topy groups of spheres
Department of Statistics
Goessling, Marc, High-dimensional gener-ative models: Shrinkage, composition,and autoregression
Roy, Rishideep, Extreme values of log-correlated Gaussian fields
Xing, Zhengrong, Poisson Multiscale meth-ods for high-throughput sequencingdata
Xu, Mengyu, Two problems in high-dimensional inference: L2 test by re-sampling and graph estimation of non-stationary time series
Zhu, Yuancheng, Constrained and lo-calized forms of statistical minimaxtheory
University of Illinois atChicago (17)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science
Adali, Riza Seckin, Sincular loci of restric-tion varieties
Austin, Alexander, Logarithmic poten-tials and quasiconformal flows on theHeisenberg group
Bu, Xianwei, D-optimal designs for multi-nomial logistic models
Cantrell, Michael, Ergodic theory andgeometry of nilpotent groups
Cheng, Ling, Optimal biomarker-stratifieddesign and adaptive design in mixturedistributions
Hardwick, John, Graphical algorithms forfinding the nucleolus of binary-valuedmatching games
Jiang, Liyian, A nonparametric estimateof the risk-neutral density and itsapplications
Jonathon, Yaggie, Topics in knowledgerepresentation belief revision and con-ditional knowledge bases
Lelkes, Adam Daniel, Algorithms andcomplexity results for learning and bigdata
Nie, Keyu, Studies on some inferentialaspects of Graybill-deal estimators
Powers, Brian, An analysis of multivariatefinal-offer arbitration
Ryan, Timothy, The effective cone ofmoduli spaces of sheaves on a smoothquadric surface
Terry, Caroline, Model theory and ex-tremal combinatorics: Structure, enu-meration, and 0-1 laws
Tian, Tian, Optimal design theory inearly-phase dose-finding problems
Zaya, Karen, Problems of regularity inmodels arising from fluid dynamics
Zheng, Xudong, The Hilbert schemes ofpoints on singular varieties and Kodairanon-vanishing in characteristic p
Zielinski, Joseph, Compact structures indescriptive classification theory
University of Illinois,Urbana–Champaign (32)
Department of Mathematics
Andersen, Nickolas, Arithmetic of maassforms of half-integral weight
Aramyan, Nerses, A construction of topo-logical field theories
Compaan, Erin, Smoothing propertiesof certain dispersive nonlinear partialdifferential equations
Cong, Lin, Stability thresholds for signedLaplacians on locally-connected net-works
Delcourt, Michelle, Viewing extremal andstructural problems through a proba-bilistic lens
Duarte Gelvez, Eliana, Syzygies and im-plicitization of tensor product surfaces
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 977
Fieldsteel, Nathan, Some problems inpolynomial interpolation and topologi-cal complexity
Gupta, Neha, Certain free group func-tions and untangling closed curves onsurfaces
Heersink, Byron, Applications of dynam-ical systems to Farey sequences andcontinued fractions
Huan, Zhen, Quasi-elliptic cohomology
Huo, Zhenghui, A new computation of theBergman Kernel and related techniques
Klamsakul, Natawat, A look at T1 and Tbtheorems on non-homogeneous spacesthrough time-frequency analysis
Lu, Qu, Intrinsic contractivity for somenon-symmetric Levy processes withnon-local operators
McConvey, Andrew, Sufficient conditionsfor the existence of specified subgraphsin graphs
Nawaz, Tayyab, Applications of Stein’smethod and large deviations principle’sin mean-field O(N) models
Nelson, Peter, A small presentation forMorava E-Theory power operations
Pechenik, Oliver, K-Theoretic Schubertcalculus and applications
Petrickova, Sarka, Extremal problems oncounting combinatorial structures
Rezvani, Sepideh, Approximating rotationalgebras and inclusions of C∗-Algebras
Santana, Michael, Extremal problems oncycle structure and colorings of graphs
Sharifzadeh, Maryam, Embedding prob-lems and Ramsey-Turan variation inextremal graph theory
Spinoza, Hannah, On some problems inreconstruction
Vichitkunakom, Panupong, Cluster alge-bras and discrete integrable systems
Wise, Jennifer, Games on graphs, visibilityrepresentations, and graph colorings
Witsarut, Pho-On, Gromov boundaries ofcomplexes associated to surfaces
Department of Statistics
Bi, Xuan, Dimension reduction and ef-ficient recommender system for large-scale complex data
Eisiner, Robert David, Sampling for con-ditional inference on contigency tables,multigraphs, and high dimensional ta-bles
Hu, Jianjun, Statistical methods for learn-ing sparse features
Sengupta, Srijan, Statistical analysis ofnetworks with community structureand bootstrap methods for big data
Shand, Lyndsay, Methods and applica-tions for space-time data
Wang, Jin, Scalable algorithms for Bayesianvariable selection
Ye, Sangbeak, Sequential mastery detec-tion and Bayesian learning promotionunder cognitive diagnostic models
INDIANA
IndianaUniversity–PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Carichino, Lucia, Multiscale mathematicalmodeling of ocular blood flow andoxygenation and their relevance toglaucome
Cassani, Simone, Compliant and col-lapsible tubes: Modeling, analysis andapplications in medicine
Li, Lingnan, Maximum empirical likeli-hood estimation in U -statistics-basedgeneralized estimating equations
Prada, Daniele, A hybridizable discon-tinuous Galerkin method for nonlinearporous media viscoelasticity with appli-cations in ophthalmology
Yoo, Yeon Joo, Strategies to tackle ill-posed problems in biological systems
Indiana University,Bloomington (13)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Yu-Yuan, Generalized Boole trans-formations with infinitely many singu-larities
Gupta, Nikhil, Spectral properties of thenon-Euclidean Laplacian
Gur, Metin, Hypersurfaces with centralconvex cross sections
Hu, Hailiang, Z/3-actions on S8× S8
× S8
Huo, Wenru, The global attractor, finitedimensionality, determining modes anddata assimilation of 2D Boussinq sys-tem
Kim, Jiwon, Fixed points on p-adic perioddomains and rational conjugacy classes:An example for GSp(4)
Li, Yingwei, Pointwise stability estimatesfor shock and reaction diffusion waves
Lightfoot, Ashley, Invariants of link ho-motopy in dimension four
Nguyen, Phuong, Deterministic and sto-chastic partial differential equations influid and solid mechanics
Ong, Kiah Wah, On some dynamic transi-tion problems
Timko, Edward, Polynomial tuples ofcommuting isometries constrained by1-dimensional varieties
Tune, William, A lambda calculus formonotonicity reasoning
Zhang, Le, Very weak solutions of theStokes problem in a convex polygonand its numerical simulation
Purdue University (18)
Department of Mathematics
Ahn, Sung Won, Oscillation of quenchedslowdown asymptotic of RWRE in Z
Chen, Yi, Local polynomial chaos ex-pansion method for high dimensionalstochastic differential equations
Lucas, Jason, Connecting models of con-figuration spaces: From double loops tostrings
Mukundan, Vivek, Rees algebras anditerated Jacobian duals
Park, Eun Young, The error estimationin finite element method for the linearelasticity problems
Perlmutter, Michael, Martingales, singularintegrals, and fourier multipliers
Yue, Zhao, Inverse surface scatteringproblems for elastic waves
Zhang, Xin, Extreme-strike and small-time asymptotics for Gaussian stochas-tic volatility model
Zheng, Yiqiang, Mathematical modelsof Ebola virus disease and vaccinepreventable diseases
Department of Statistics
Bemis, Kylie, A framework for the sta-tistical analysis of mass spectrometryimaging experiments
Chakraborty, Piyas, Some contstructivesuggestions on false models
Huang, Qiming, Model-free variable screen-ing, sparse regression analysis andother applications with optimal trans-formations
Ness, Robert, Bayesian methods for causalinference of cell signal transduction
Pan, Chao, Group transformation andidentification with kernel methods andbig data mixed logistic regression
Qu, Simeng, Some functional regressionmodels in the frame work of reproduc-ing kernel Hilbert space
Tong, Xiaosu, Divide and recombinedfor large complex data: Nonparametric-regression modeling of spatial andseasonal-temporal time series
Yu, Zhuqing, High dimensional inferencefor semiparametric models
Zheng, Faye, The design and statisti-cal analysis of single-cell sequencingexperiments
University of NotreDame (9)
Applied and Computational
Mathematics and Statistics
Kupaev, Timur, Multiscale simulationstudy of the effects of fiber alignment,bending and stress strain relations onfibrin networks
Machen, Michael, Krylov implicit integra-tion factor methods for solving fourthorder equations
Mahserejian, Shamt, Modeling study ofthe connection between microlevel TIPstructures with macro-level phases forcharacterizing microtubule mechanismof dynamic instability
Specht, Alicia, Robust inference and net-work analysis for non-Gaussian gene-expression data
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Department of Mathematics
Ansaldi, Kathleen, Regularity of Tor,LCM-duals and Hilbert functions
Burkard, Edward, First steps in homotopyresults for symplectic embeddings ofellipsoids
Ulrickson, Peter, Oriented one-dimensionalsupersymmetric Euclidean field theo-ries and K-theory
Vander Werf, Nathan, Screening opera-tors for lattice vertex operator algebrasand resulting constructions
Wang, Weijia, Closure operator and latticeproperty of root systems
KANSAS
Kansas State University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Hui, Counting representations ofdeformed preprojective algebras
Goerl, Lee, Sheaves of differential opera-tors and D-modules on non-commutativeprojective spaces
Ostergaard, Misty, Solutions of diagonalcongruences with variables restrictedto a box
Xiao, Xinli, The double of representationsof cohomological hall algebras
University of Kansas (5)
Department of Mathematics
Kang, Su Chen, Quantum families ofmaps
Ngo, Cuong, Moving mesh methods fornumerical solution of porous mediumequations
Rajaguru, Biswajit, Projective normalityfor some families of surfaces of generaltype
Serio, Grant, Miultiplicities in commuta-tive algebra
Steyer, Andrew, A Lyapunov exponentbased stability theory for ordinary dif-ferential equation initial value problemsolvers
University of KansasMedical Center (2)
Department of Biostatistics
Chen, Xueyi, Mathematical modeling ofthe separation process of chromatogra-phy and estimation of parameters
Noel-MacDonnel, Janelle, RNA-seq analy-sis strategies and ethical considerationsinvolved in precision medicine
Wichita State University (3)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Physics
Alghamdi, Suad A, Composite optimalcontrol for interconnected singularlyperturbed systems
Hamdan, Mustafa Mahmoud Naji, Unbi-asedness of homogeneity test of normalmean vectors under multivariate orderrestrictions
Mitchell, Colm Patric, A capillary surfacewith no radial limits
KENTUCKY
University of Kentucky (26)
Department of Biostatistcs
Appiah, Frank, Mixture modeling withapplications in Alzheimer’s disease
Ding, Xiuhua, Modeling dementia risk,cognitive change, predictive rules inlongitudinal studies
Morris, Sarah, Methods for determiningtime to return to play after recreationalinjury in field and court sport athletes
Smith, Rachel, Exploration of the misuse,abuse, and diversion of Gabapentin
Starnes, Catherine, Evaluating a by-stander intervention program on repro-ductive coercion: Using quasi-experi-mental design strategies to addressmethodologic issues in randomizedcommunity prevention trials
Timsina, Lava, Examining the activities,effectiveness, and contribution of lo-cal public health departments using anational longitudinal survey of publichealth systems
Department of Mathematics
Barnard, Kristen, Some take-away gameson discrete structures
Croyle, Laura, Solutions to the Lp mixedboundary value problem in C1,1 do-mains
Gu, Shu, Homogenization of Stokes sys-tems with periodic coefficients
Harney, Isaiah, Colorings of Hamming-distance graphs
Hedmark, Dustin, The partition lattice inmany guises
Hough, Wesley, On independence, match-ing, and homomorphism complexes
Lindgren, Joseph, Orbital stabilty re-sults for soliton solutions to non-linearSchrodinger equations with externalpotentials
Mosley, John, In search of a class ofrepresentatives for SU -cobordism usingthe Witten genus
Music, Michael, Inverse scattering for thezero-energy Novikov-Veselov equation
Schreffler, Morgan, Approximation of so-lutions to the mixed Dirichlet-Neumannboundary value problem on Lipschitzdomains
Sordo Vieira, Luis, On p-adic fields andp-groups
Wolf, Robert, Compactness of isoresonantpotentials
Yaowei, Zhang, The Bourgain spacesand recovery of magnetic and electricpotentials of Schrodinger operators
Department of Statistics
Crouch, Rebecca, Aggregated quantitativemultifactor dimensionality reduction
Shu, Shen, Developing an alternative wayto analyze nanostring data
Wang, Hong, Improved models for differ-ential analysis for genomic data
Wang, Hongyuan, Statistical inference ondynamical systems
Yang, Yifan, Novel computational meth-ods for censored data and regression
Yang, Yuchen, Statistical methods forenvironment exposure data subject todetection limits
Zhao, Yumin, Statistical inference ontrimmed means and partial area underRoc curves by empirical likelihoodmethod
University of Louisville (1)
Department of Mathematics
Paniagua Mejia, Carlos, Mathematicalhybrid models for image segmentation
LOUISIANA
Louisiana State University(LSU), Baton Rouge (14)
Department of Mathematics
Abeynanda, Gayan, Dynamic resonantscattering of near-monochromatic fields
Brannan, Tyler, A conditioned Gaussian-Poisson model for default phenomena
Bucher, Eric, Cluster algebras and max-imal Green sequences for closed sur-faces
Frnka, Richard, Asymptotic formulae forrestricted unimodal sequences
Ghulam, Ashar, Method of the Riemann-Hilbert problem for the solution of theHelmholtz equation in a semi-infinitestrip
Holmes, Andrew, On the Skein theory of0-framed surgery along the Trefoil knot
Istvan, Kyle, Manifestations of symmetryin polynomial link invariants
Levitt, Jesse, Properties of polynomialidentity quantized Weyl algebras
Matherne, Jacob, Derived geometric Sa-take equivalence, Springer correspon-dence, and small representations
Peng, Jun, Beyond the tails of the coloredJones polynomial
Pfeil, Simon, On properties of matroidconnectivity
Schoenbaum, Lucius, Towards theory andapplications of generalized categoriesto areas of type theory an categoricallogic
Scirratt, Austin, Evolution semigroups forwell-posed, non-autonomous evolutionfamilies
Viator, Robert, Spectral properties ofphotonic crystals: Bloch waves andband gaps
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 979
LSU Health ScienceCenter, New Orleans (1)
Department of Biostatistics
Zhai, Yi, Optimal designs for some dose-response models
Louisiana TechUniversity (5)
Program of Mathematics and
Statistics
Adkinson, Joshua, Generalized partialdirected coherence and centrality mea-sures in brain networks for epilepto-genic focus localization
Blazek, Sara, A study of mathematicsacheivement, placement, and gradua-tion of engineering students
McAdams, Stacey, Embedding orientedgraphs in books
Orndorff, Casey, Thermal analysis ina triple-layered skin structure withembedded vasculature, tumor, and goldnanoshells
Zhang, Sui, An improved imaging methodfor extended targets
Tulane University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Beyarslan, Selvi, Regularity of powers ofedge ideals
Guan, Xiao, Methods in symbolic compu-tation and p-adic valuations of polyno-mials
Karakoc, Selcuk, On minimum area ho-motopies
Mannan, Forest, Singly-periodic stokesflow near a plane wall and the simula-tion of cilia
Zhang, Kui, A symptotic theory forthe statistical analysis of anomalousdiffusion in single particle trackingexperiments
University of Louisiana atLafayette (3)
Department of Mathematics
Guilbeau, Jared Thomas, A vector parallelbranch and bound algorithm
Robin, Tracy James, Density of a normalsubgroup of the invertibles in certainmultiplier algebras
Wang, Xiao, Inferences on gamma dis-tributions: Uncensored and censoredcases
MARYLAND
Johns HopkinsUniversity (8)
Department of Biostatistics
Bai, Jiawei, Statistical methods for wear-able devices with applications to epi-demiological studies
Cai, Qing, Joint modeling and estima-tion for recurrent events, longitudinalmeasurements and survival data
Charu, Vivek, Statistical methods andapplications in medicine and publichealth
He, Bing, FCAT: A flexible classificationtoolbox for signal detection in high-throughput sequencing data
Kim, Jeongyong, Statistical methods formultivariate failure-time data undercompeting risks
Qian, Tianchen, Semiparametric estima-tion in observational studies and ran-domized trials
Usher, Therri, Likelihood-based methodsof mediation analysis in the context ofhealth disparities
Xu, Yuting, Dynamic functional connec-tivity in functional magnetic resonanceimaging data
Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore (4)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Chen, Min, Capturing volatility smileswith a perpetual leverage model and itsimplications to fund overlay designs
Paat, Joseph, On the development ofcut-generating functions
Department of Mathematics
Cattell, Stephen, A completion of domi-nant k-theory
Su, Chenyang, Starshaped locally convexhypersurfaces with prescribed curva-ture and boundary
University of Maryland,Baltimore County (13)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Albertine, April, Statistical meta-analysismethods for publication bias, effectsize estimation, and synthetic data
Barouti, Maria, Clustering for monitoringdistributed data streams
Bastero, Rowena, A swapping method andexploratory analysis for average treat-ment effect estimation based on partialbalancing and simultaneous inferenceof regression models
Carey, Bryce, Developing a computa-tional model of neural networks into alearning machine
Graf, Jonathan, Parallel performance ofnumerical simulations for applied par-tial differential equation models onthe Intel Xeon Phi Knights landingprocessor
Hajghassem, Mona, Efficient multigridmethods for optimal control of partialdifferential equations
Jeong, Juyoung, Spectral sets and func-tions of Euclidean Jordan algebras
Massarelii, Nicole, Analysis of sensoryfeedback in the Lamprey central patterngenerator for locomotion
Orlitzky, Michael, Positive operators, Z-operators, Lyapunov rank, and lineargames on closed convex cones
Park, Hyekyung, Robust value-at-risk(VaR) portfolio selection problem underthe joint ellipsoidal uncertainty set inthe presence of transaction costs
Tay Stamoulas, Serap, Asymptotic analy-sis of opinion dynamic models
Yang, Ye, The simultaneous assessmentof normality and homoscedasticity insome linear model
Zhao, Jian, Some approximate confi-dence intervals and regions for inter-laboratory data analysis
University of Maryland,College Park (5)
Department of Mathematics
Cohen, Jonathan, Transfer of represen-tations and orbital integrals for innerforms of GL(n)
Horn, Marc, A combinatorial formula fortest functions with Pro-p Iwahori levelstructure
Huang, Jonathan, Exponentiation of mo-tivic zeta functions
Kelly, Sean, The adelic differential gradedalgebra for surfaces
Yu, Luquan, Two goodness-of-fit tests forthe density ratio model
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston College (2)
Department of Mathematics
Mullane, Scott, Adventures in the canoni-cal bundles on curves
Soylu, Cihan, Special cycles on GSpinShimura varieties
Boston University (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chaudhary, Osman, Rigorous justifica-tion of Taylor dispersion via centermanifold theory
Cummings, Patrick, Nonlinear Schrodingerapproximations for partial differentialequations with quadratic and quasilin-ear terms
Goeva, Aleksandrina, Complexity penal-ized methods for structured and un-structured data
Kuklinski, Parker, Absorption phenomenain quantum walks
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Boston University Schoolof Public Health (6)
Department of Biostatistics
Enserro, Danielle, Measures of discrimi-nation, reclassification, and calibrationfor risk prediction models: An explo-ration in their interrelationships andpractical utility and improvement intheir estimation
Kane, Elizabeth, Evaluating multiple im-putation methods for longitudinal healthyaging index: A score variable with datamissing due to death, dropout, andseveral missing data mechanisms
Manimaran, Solaiappan, Statistical meth-ods for analyzing data with applicationsin modern biomedical analysis and per-sonalized medicine
McIntosh, Avery, Extensions to Bayesiangeneralized linear mixed effects modelsfor household Tuberculosis transmis-sion
Perez, Jeremiah, Assessing non-inferiorityversus risk difference in one-to-manypropensity-score matched studies
Shappell, Heather, Methods for longi-tudinal complex network analysis inneuroscience
Brandeis University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Raoux, Katherine, Tau-invariants forknots in rational homology spheres
Tirrell, Jordan, Orthogonal polynomials,lattice paths, and skew Young tableaux
Wadleigh, Nick, Shrinking target phe-nomena applied to zero-one laws foruniform diophantine approximation
Wong, Bi Ji, Torsion invariants of 3-orbifolds, equivarienat corks and Hee-gard Floer homology
Zhao, Xi, Application of lattice pointscounting to shrinking target problems
Harvard UniversitySchool of Public Health (13)
Department of Biostatistics
Anoke, Sarah, Practicable characteriza-tion of systematic heterogeneity
Barfield, Richard, Statistical methods foranalysis of genetic and genomic data inpopulation science
Chen, Sixing, Hypothesis testing andmodel selection for complex data
Du, Ye Ting, Adjustment for populationstatification in sequencing associationstudies and model averaged matchingestimator
Evans, Katherine, Contributions to semi-parametric methods for incompletedata
Gronsbell, Jessica, Robust and efficientmachine learning methods for the anal-ysis of electronic medical records data
Liu, Shelley Han, Statistical methods forestimating the effects of multi-pollutantexposures in children’s health research
Mattie, Heather, On the estimation andprediction of tie strength in socialnetworks
McIntosh Nurse, Christina, An analysis ofusing pedigrees in family based studiesand an exploration of cancer risk andcancer resistance using twin studies
Ren, Boyu, Bayesian statistical frameworkfor high-dimensional count data and itsapplication in microbiome studies
Schlauch, Daniel, Methods for estimatinghidden structure and network transi-tions in genomics
Sun, Ryan, Methods for high-dimensionalinference in genetic association studies
Zheng, Yu Evelyn, Efficient assessmentof individualized disease risk and treat-ment response via augmentation
Harvard University (19)
Department of Mathematics
Brantner, David, The Lubin-Tate theoryof spectral lie algebras
Knight, Erick, A p-adic Jacquet-Langlandscorrespondence
Lovering, Thomas, Integral canonicalmodels for G-bundles on Shimura vari-eties of abelian type
Mathew, Akhil, Nilpotence and descent instable homotopy theory
Sankar, Krishanu, Symmetric powers andthe equivariant dual Steenrod algebra
Shankar, Ananth, The p-curvature con-jecture and monodromy about simpleclosed loops
Zhou, Rong, Mod-p isogeny classes onShimura varieties with parahoric levelstructure
Zhu, Yihang, The stabilization of theFrobenius–Hecke traces on the intersec-tion cohomology of orthogonal Shimuravarieties
Department of Statistics
Bavli, Hillel, Improving the accuracy ofcivil damage awards with claim aggre-gation
Chen, Yang, Expediting scientific discov-eries with Bayesian statistical methods
D’Amour, Alexander, Superpopulationgeneralization in social network analy-sis
Kao, Edward, Causal inference undernetwork interference: A framework forexperiments on social networks
Krakovna, Viktoriya, Building interpretablemodels: From Bayesian networks toneural networks
Yang, Justin, A grand journey of statisti-cal hierarchical modeling
School of Engineering and Applied
Science
Dudte, Levi, Inverse design of shape usingfolds and cuts in flat sheets
Horvat, Christopher, Theory, modeling,and impacts of the sea ice floe sizedistribution
Minot, Ariana, Distributed optimizationmethods for monitoring and operatingelectric power systems
Perol, Thibaut, Geophysics from small tobig data
Weiner, Ian, High-SNR capacity of AWGNchannels with generic alphabet con-straints
Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (19)
Department of Mathematics
Abel, Zachary, On folding and unfoldingwith linkages and polyhedra
Blaier, Netanel, The quantum Johnson ho-momorphism and symplectomorphismof 3-folds
Carpentier, Sylvain, Rational matrix dif-ferential operators and integrable sys-tems of PDEs
Fan, Chenjie, On long time dynamic andsingularity formation of NLS
Farber, Miriam, Arrangements of minorsin the positive Grassmannian
Finucane, Hilary, Functional and cross-trait genetic architecture of commondiseases and complex traits
Harman, Nate, Deligne categories andrepresentation stability in positive char-acteristic
Knizel, Alisa, Random tilings: Gap proba-bilities, local, and global asymptotics
Liu, Gaku, The topology of Baues com-plexes and flip graphs
Lodhia, Asad, Topics in linear spectralstatistics of random matrices
Lovasz, Laszlo, Regularity and removallemmas and their applications
Nardin, Denis, Stability and distributivityover orbital ∞-categories
Shah, Jay, Parametrized higher categorytheory
Sun, Xin, Mating of negatively correlatedtrees with applications to Schnyderwoods and bipolar orientations
Thompson, Daniel, Representation theoryof the global Cherednik algebra
Vladu, Adrian, Shortest paths, Markovchains, matrix scaling, and beyond:Improved algorithms through the lensof continuous optimization
Wang, Menglu, Gaussian free field,Schramm–Loewner evolution andLiouville quantum gravity
Yang, Ben, Polynomial partitioning andincidence problems in higher dimen-sions
Yu, Yun William, Compressive algorithmsfor search and storage in biological data
NortheasternUniversity (8)
Department of Mathematics
Cecchini, Simone, Callias-type operatorsin C∗-algebras
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 981
He, Chou, Localization of certain torusactions on odd-dimensional manifoldsand its applications
Hodges, Reuveu, Schubert singularitiesand Levi subgroup actions on Schubertvarieties
Rangachev, Antoni, Local volumes, inte-gral closures, and equisingularity
Rodriguez, Jose Simental, On Harish-Chandra bimodules for rational Chered-nik algebras
Seal, Gouri, Two contributions in topol-ogy and geometry: Polynomial assign-ments for Bott-Samelson manifolds andthe triple reduced product and Hamil-tonian flows
Zhang, Liwei, Application of statisticsin side channel information leakageanalysis modeling, metric, detectiontesting
Zhang, Tong, SCOT modeling and itsstatistical applications of time series
Tufts University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Chlebak, Lise, The time-changed Q-Wiener process and associated sto-chastic differential equations
Clay, Erica, Quaternion algebra and Wittstheorem
Rothschild, Seth, Unipotent algebraicgroups
Sanchez, Andrew, A theory of sub-Finslersurface area in the Heisenberg group
Takeuchi, Ryusei Melody, An analysisof neuronal networks with recurrentexitation
Wu, Qiong, Analysis of stochastic differ-ential equations with multi-time scalesand subdiffusion processes in Hilbert
Zhang, Jiani, Design and application oftensor decompositions to problems inmodel and image compression andanalysis
University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (9)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Beaudry, Isabelle, Inference from networkdata in hard-to-reach populations
Gourgoulias, Konstantinos, Informationmetrics for predictive modeling andmachine learning
Lowell, Mark, A Siefert-van Kampen the-orem for Legendrian submanifolds andexact Lagrangian cobordisms
Nichols, Daniel, Dynamical systems andzeta functions of function fields
Shelly, Thomas, Skein theory and al-gebraic geometry for the two-variableKauffman invariant of links
Vogiannou, Anastasios, Spherical tropi-calization
Xu, Haitao, Studies on lattice systems mo-tivated by PT-symmetry and granularcrystals
Zhang, Zijing, Statistical methods on riskmanagement of extreme events
Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Xu, Hui, Statistical methods for highdimensional data arising from largeepidemiological studies
Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Li, Yiqing, Quasi-static fracture evolutionwith cohesive energy
Manandhar, Binod, Bayesian models forthe analysis of noisy responses fromsmall areas: An application to povertyestimation
Sanguinet, William, Various extensions inthe theory of dynamic materials witha specific focus on the checkerboardgeometry
Wang, Liang, In Vivo IVUS-based 3D fluid-structure interaction models for humancoronary atherosclerotic plaque vul-nerability assessment and progressionprediction.
Zuo, Heng, 3D multi-physics MRI-basedhuman right ventricle models for hu-man patients with repaired tetralogy offallot: Cardiac mechanical analysis andsurgical outcome prediction
MICHIGAN
Central MichiganUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics
Anderson, Linda, the role of dynamicallylinked representations in student con-ceptualization of vectors and matrices
Witherspoon, Grace, Generalization of theodd Weibull family for competing riskanalysis
Michigan StateUniversity (16)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Yasiri, Khaldoun Saad Ghalib, Gradientestimates for solutions to divergenceform elliptic equations with piecewiseconstant coefficients in dimension N
Burton, Stephan, Volumes, determinants,and meridian lengths of hyperboliclinks
Cho, Hana, Method of lines transpose:High-order schemes for parabolic prob-lems
Feng, Xiao, High order finite differenceWENO schemes for ideal magnetohy-drodynamics
Gao, Qinfeng, Numerical methods forgravity inversion, synthetic apertureradar, and travel-time tomography
Liu, Qinbo, Estimates on singular valuesof functions of perturbed operators
Machen, Casey, Abelian varieties associ-ated to Clifford algebras
Nagy, Akos, The berry connection andother aspects of the Ginzburg-Landautheory in dimension 2
Olson, Emily, Progress on the 1/3-2/3conjecture
Wang, Bao, Mathematical modeling andcomputation of molecular solvation andbinding
Department of Statistics and
Probability
Cai, Liqian, High-dimensional inferencefor spatial error models
Chakraborty, Sayan, Bayesian variableselection and network estimation
Kim, Jiwoong, Regression models withdependent errors and goodness of fittest of errors
Maurya, Ashwini, Estimating covariancestructure in high dimensions
Nandy, Siddhartha, High-dimensional vari-able selection for spatial regression andcovariance estimation
Tesnjak, Irena, Limiting properties ofinfinite superpositions of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type processes and theirapplications to finance
Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Alokaily, Samer, Modeling and simulationof the peristaltic flow of Newtonian andnon-Newtonian fluids with applicationto the human body
Pastine, Adrian, Two problems of Ger-hard Ringel
Shonibare, Olabanji, Numerical simula-tion of viscoelastic multiphase flowsusing an improved adaptive approach
Oakland University (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Almusharrf, Amera, Delay differentialequations and the logistic model withtwo delays
Bahuguna, Manoj, Analytics of asymme-try and transformation to multivariatenormality through Copula functionswith applications
Elkadry, Alaa, Statistical analyses of“randomly sourced data”
Hoxhaj, Valmira, Some contributions tostatistical data analytics with applica-tions in finance
Nierman, Ryan, Combinatorial approachesto continuous problems
Wiggins, Alexander, On the propertiesand behavior of the condition numberfor linear programming
Zhamo, Ervisa, Contributions to the sta-tistical analysis of computer experi-ments
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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University of Michigan (39)
Department of Biostatistics
He, Zihuai, Set-based tests for geneticassociation and gene-environment in-teraction
Lehmann, Douglas, Robust instrumentalvariable methods for casual inference
Lin, Keng-Han, Statistical methods fordetecting rare variant associations infamily-based designs
Liu, Zhuqing, Bayesian local smoothingmodeling and inference for pre-surgicalFMRI data
Rothwell, Rebecca, Statistical methods inpopulation genetics for next generationsequencing data
Shi, Yang, Statistical and computationalmethods for differential expressionanalysis in high-throughput gene ex-pression data
Shu, Hai, High dimensional dependentdata analysis for neuroimaging
Smith, Abigail Randolph, Sequential strat-ification for estimating effects of time-dependent treatments on multivariatesurvival outcomes
Sun, Zhichao, Efficient designs for early-phase clinical trials and exposure en-riched outcome trajectory dependentsampling for longitudinal studies ofgene-environment interaction
Tao, Yebin, Semiparametric regressionand machine learning methods forestimating optimal dynamic treatmentregimes
Wu, Fan, Analysis of complex survivaland longitudinal data in observationalstudy
Zhu, Jian, Assessment and improvementof a sequential regression multivariateimputation algorithm
Department of Mathematics
Ellis, Dondi, Motivic analogues of MO andMSO
Fraser, Christopher, Correspondences be-tween cluster structures
Karpman, Rachel, Total positivity andnetwork parametrizations: From type Ato type C
Levinson, Jake, Foundations of Boij-Soderberg theory for grassmannians
Li, Jiaqi, Stochastic perron for stochastictarget problems
Li, Wei, Nonlinear wave propagation indeterministic and stochastic media
Marple, Gary, Fast, high-order algorithmsfor simulating vesicle flows throughconstrained geometries
Pal, Suchandan, An explicit jacquet-langlands correspondence
Prigge, David, Absorbing boundary con-ditions and numerical methods for thelinearized water wave equation in 1 and2 dimensions
Razavi, Hamed, Symmetric hybrid sys-tems: Periodic Gait design for leggedrobots
Rebhuhn-Glanz, Rebecca, Closure opera-tions that induce big Cohen–Macaulaymodules and algebras, and classifica-tion of singularities
Renardy, David, Bumping in deformationspaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds withcompressible boundary
Simon, Gregory, Automorphism-invariantintegrals forms in Griess algebras
Souza, Andre, An optimal control ap-proach to bounding transport proper-ties of thermal convection
Walch, Olivia, Exploring subconsciousvision and circadian rhythms throughmathematical modeling
Wiltshire-Gordon, John, Representationtheory of combinatorics categories
Department of Statistics
Errickson, Joshua, Two-stage regressionfor treatment effect estimation
Le, Can, Estimating community structurein networks by spectral methods
Lei, Huitian, An online actor critic algo-rithm and a statistical decision proce-dure for personalizing intervention
Nielsen, Karen, Selecting and evaluatingmodels to reflect underlying scientificpriciples: Using basis sets to parame-terize hypotheses
Park, Seyoung, Selected problems forhigh-dimensional data - Quantile anderrors-in-variables regressions
Sougata, Chaudhuri, Online learning torank with feedback on top ranked items
Wang, Yingchuan, Logistic-normal mix-tures with heterogeneous componentsand high dimensional covariates
Wu, Tianshuang, Set valued dynamictreatment regimes
Yang, Ziheng, Integrative analysis meth-ods for biological problems using datareduction approaches
Zhang, Yiwei, Regularization and opti-mization methods for high-dimensionaldata
Zhang, Yuan, Statistical network analysis:Beyond block models
Wayne State University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Cao, Tan, Optimal control of a perturbedsweeping process with applications tothe crow motion model
Hoang, Tuan, Stochastic hybrid systems:Numerical methods, limit results, andcontrols
Mei, Hongwei, Ergodicity of stochasticswitching diffusions and stochastic de-lay systems
Nguyen, Ba, New combinatorial formulasfor cluster monomials of type A quivers
Sarabi, Ebrahim, Variational analysis andstability in optimization
Tran, Ky, Nonlinear stochastic systemsand controls: Lotka–Volterra type mod-els, permanence and extinction, optimalharvesting strategies, and numericalmethods for systems under partialobservations
Zhang, Lu, Multi-parameter and multilin-ear psuedo-differential operators andsharp Trudinger–Moser inequalities
Western MichiganUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematics
Bi, Zhenming, Highly Hamiltonian graphsand digraphs
Kratky, James, Pedagogical moves ascharacteristics of one instructor’s in-strumental orchestrations with Tinker-plots and the TI-73 Explorer: A casestudy
Department of Statistics
Andrews, Nichole, Subgroup analysis andgrowth curve models for longitudinaldata
Dykes, Bradford, Some nonparametricordered restricted inference problemsin the context of a statistical educationstudy
Mantilla, Libertie, Companion of mediansusing multivariate mixed design data
Shi, Chenyang, Spatial analysis of timebetween two consecutive dental andtwo consecutive well-child visits forfoster care youth
Zhang, Shaofeng, Development of tradi-tional and Rank-based algorithms forlinear models with autoregressive er-rors and multivariate logistic regressionwith spatial random effects
MINNESOTA
University ofMinnesota (28)
Division of Biostatistics, School of
Public Health
Bai, Yun, Statistical methods for geneticand epigenetic studies
Bose, Maitreyee, Model building for Gaus-sian process random effects modelsusing the spectral approximation
Coombes, Brandon, Tests for detectionof rare variants and gene-environmentinteraction in cohort and twin familystudies
Lin, Lifeng, Statistical methods for meta-analysis
Schnell, Patrick, Credible subgroups:Identifying the population that ben-efits from treatment
Xu, Zhiyuan, Powerful association test-ing with application to neuroimaginggenetics
School of Mathematics
Arnaldsson, Orn, Involutive moving frames
Binder, Andrew, Development and anal-ysis of computationally efficient meth-ods for analyzing surface effects
Dassbach, Paula, Computational aspectsof energy minimization of the Landau–de Gennes model for liquid crystals
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 983
Gray, Nathan, Metaplectic ice for Cartantype C
Grodzicki, William, The non-split Besselmodel on GSp(4) as on Iwahori–Hechealgebra module
Gunawan, Emily, Combinatorics of clus-ter algebras from surfaces
Hill, Jonathan, Fundamental solutionsand green functions for nonhomoge-neous second order elliptic operatorswith discontinuous coefficients
Li, Jun, Symplectomorphism group ofrational 4-manifolds
Moulton, Jeffrey, Robust fragmentation:A data-driven approach to decision-making under distributional ambiguity
Ortan, Alexandra, Efficient numerical al-gorithms for virtual design in nanoplas-monics
Poling, Bryan, Towards a frameworkfor simultaneous feature tracking andsegmentation
Senou, Jessica, Weighted differential in-varient signatures and applications toshape recognition
Sharma, Amit, Higher Picard groupoidsand DW-Theory
Wan, Chen, A local trace formula andthe multiplicity one theorem for theGinzburg–Rallis model
School of Statistics
Eck, Daniel, Statistical inference in multi-variate settings
Gu, Yuwen, High dimensional regressionand classification and their optimiza-tion
Majumdar, Subhabrata, An inferentialperspective on data depth
Mallik, Abhirup, Application of functionaldata on medical images/climate
Molstad, Aaron, Model-based methods forhigh-dimensional multivariate analysis
Nandy, Abhishek, On small area estima-tion
Vats, Dootika, Output analysis for Markovchain Monte Carlo
Yang, Fan, Personalized recommendersystem
MISSOURI
Missouri University ofScience andTechnology (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Brigham II, Reginald, A harmonic m-factorial function and applications
Myers III, Donald F, Pointwise and uni-form covergence of Fourier series onSU (2)
St Louis University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Smith, Gerrit, Realizing injective split-tings of stable 4-manifolds
University ofMissouri–Columbia (11)
Department of Mathematics
Bemrose, Travis, Properties of frames andrelationships between them with em-phasis on subframes and unconditionalconvergence
Guo, Victor, Exponential sums, charactersums, sieve methods and distributionof prime numbers
McCrady, Andrew, Perinormality in poly-nomial and module-finite ring exten-sions
Okamoto, Nicholas, Radiation conditionsand integral representations for Clif-ford algebra-valued null-solutions ofthe iterated perturbed Dirac operator
Pinkham, Eric, Outer products and frameco-efficients
Polstra, Thomas, Uniform bounds in F -finite rings and their applications
Quinn, Stephen, Sublinear version ofthe Schur test and weighted norminequalities
Sukhtaiev, Selim, Topics in spectral the-ory of differential operators
Tuomanen, Brian, Sequences of rank-1 projections and Gabor tight fusionframes
Xue, Jianfei, On hydrodynamic equationsand their relation to kinetic theory andstatistical mechanics
Yang, Xinyao, Stability of planer frontsfor a class of reaction diffusion equa-tions
University ofMissouri–Kansas City (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Konboon, Malinee, A hybrid modelingapproach to assess the efficacy ofparatuberculosis control measures onUS dairy farms
Song, Xing, First and second order ef-ficiency of sequential designs in anonlinear situation with applications
University of Missouri–StLouis (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Alkhidhr, Hanan, Correspondence be-tween multiwavelet shrinkage/multiplewavelet frame shrinkage and nonlineardiffusion
Kalubowila, Sumudu, Mathematical ap-proaches to digital image inpainting
Washington University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Benge, Philip, Paraproducts and welllocalized operators
Papiu, Alexandru, Connectivity boundsand S-partitions for triangulated mani-folds
Rahm, Robert, Weighted inequalities forthree operators
Yang, Yu, Explicit bases of motivesover number fields with application toFeynman integrals
MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Ferguson, Joseph, Anisotropic quadrilat-eral mesh optimization
Krishnasamy Saraswathy, Vidhya, Thenumerical solutions of fractional differ-ential equations with fractional Taylorvector
Xu, Yang, On non-parametric confidenceintervals for density and hazard ratefunctions and trends in daily snowdepth in North America
University ofMississippi (5)
Department of Mathematics
Henegan, James, Asymptotic propertiesof polynomials orthogonal over multi-ply connected domains
Nakarmi, Janet, On variable bandwidthkernel density and regression estima-tion
Naugle, Lynsey, Orthogonal polynomialson an arc of the unit circle withrespect to a generalized Jacobi weight:A Risemann-Hilbert approach
Sang, Yongli, Memory properties of trans-formations of linear processes andsymmetric Gini correlations
Wang, Shaohui, On topological indicesand denomination numbers of graphs
University of SouthernMississippi (3)
Department of Mathematics
Khatri Ghimire, Balaram, Hybrid Cheby-shev polynomial scheme for the nu-merical solutions of partial differentialequations
Lamichhane, Anup, Fast method of par-ticular solutions for solving partialdifferential equations
Richardson, Megan, Krylov subspacespectral methods for PDEs in polarand cylindrical geometries
MONTANA
Montana StateUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Arnold, Elizabeth, Investigating the teach-ing of statistics with technology at thehigh school level through the use ofannotated lesson plans
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Banner, Katharine, Is model averagingthe solution for addressing modeluncertainty? Methodological insights,tools assessment, and considerationsfor practical use
Kanewske, Daniel, Stress Taylor symme-try preserving model applied to the 2-dviscoelastic plan of a biofilm
Lerch, Michael, Statistics in the pres-ence of cost: Cost-considerate variableselection and MCMC convergence diag-nostics
McClanahan, Nathan, Seperating the EPSin a biofilm: Models and simulations ofmovement of the EPS within
Pettry, Danielle, The development of spe-cialized content knowledge among sec-ondary mathematics pre-service teach-ers
University ofMontana–Missoula (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Katerba, Charles, Modules, fields of defi-nition, and the Culler–Shalen norm
NEBRASKA
University ofNebraska–Lincoln (16)
Department of Mathematics
Ahrendt, Kevin, The existence of so-lutions for a nonlinear self-adjointdifference equation
Edholm, Christina, Management of in-vasive species using optimal controltheory
Egg, Rebekah, Cohen-Macaulay dimen-sion for coherent rings
Falahola, Brittney, Characteristics ofGorenstein rings using Frobenius
Inam, Muhammad, Adian inverse semi-groups
Lutz, Jason, Homological characteriza-tions of quasi-complete intersections
Myers, John, Homological criteria forminimal multiplicity
Owad, Nick, Bridge spectra of cables of2-bridge knots
Parmelee, Caitlyn, Applications of dis-crete mathematics for understandingdynamics of synapses and networks inneuroscience
Russell, Travis, Abstract characteriza-tions of ordered operator spaces
St. Goar, Julia, A Caputo boundary valueproblem in Nabia fractional calculus
Tomlinson, Charles, Extremal problemsfor graph homomorphisms and au-tomata
Tomlinson, Maranda, Languages, geodesics,and HNN extensions
Department of Statistics
Kismiantini, Methods for detecting timelags in animal temperature regulation
Nzouda-Tsotezo, Cyrille, Risk evaluationand portfolio allocation in the contextof high frequency trading
Zhang, Yixiang, Novel protein functionalanalysis based on weighted and di-rected protein overlap network andadjusted entropy measurements
NEVADA
University of Nevada, LasVegas (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Breckling, Sean, Numerical and sensitivityanalyses of Navier-Stokes alpha models
Ikeda, Emi, Investigation of determinacyfor games of variable length
Shields, Sidney, Novel methods for Maxwell’sequations and their applications
Xu, Jianbo, Statistical inference of geneticforces using a Poisson random fieldmodel with non-constant populationsize
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Dartmouth College (3)
Department of Mathematics
Dwyer, Timothy, c-Wilf equivalences ofpermutations
Harris, Seth, On-line algorithms andreverse mathematics
Sullivan, Everett, Linear chord diagramswith long chords
University of NewHampshire (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bornstein, Neil, Music of the triangles:How students come to understandtrigonometric identities and transfor-mations
Brand, Evan, Spatially-localized solutionsof plane Couette flow
Earls, David, Students’ misconceptionsof sequences and series in secondsemester calculus
Marshall, Ian, On tensor autoequiva-lences of graded fusion categories
Sager, Lauren, A Beurling theorem fornoncommutative Hardy spaces associ-ated with a semifinite von Neumannalgebra with various norms
Storch, Laura, Chaos in ecology: Anexamination of nonlinear populationdynamics in diffusive and advectivedispersal environments
Szeto, Mimi, A dynamical-systems ap-proach to understanding turbulence inplane Couette flow
NEW JERSEY
Montclair StateUniversity (1)
Mathematical Sciences Department
Flood, Marguerite, Adult learners, learn-ing disabilities, and mathematics: Acase study
New Jersey Institute ofTechnology (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Cheng, Ruihua, Structural explorationand inference of the network
Dong, Nanyi, Instabilities of liquid metalon nanoscale
Kovalcinova, Lenka, Numerical simula-tions of dense granular systems withand without cohesive effects
Mema, Ensela, Mathematical models forpolymer-nematic interactions
Rahman, Aminur, Qualitative modelingand analysis of chaotic logical circuitsand walking droplets: A dynamicalsystems approach
Wang, Shaobo, Efficient high-order in-tegral equation methods for the heatequation
Princeton University (10)
Department of Mathematics
Avdeeva, Maria, Limit theorems for B-freeintegers and the Moebius function
Gauthier, Gregory, The structure ofgraphs with no cycles of length 0(mod 3)
Hernandez, Matthew, Mechanisms of La-grangian analyticity in fluids
Humphries, Peter, Equidistribution inshrinking sets and L4-norm boundsfor automorphic forms
Liu, Yuchen, Kahler–Einstein metrics andnormalized volumes of valuations
Sandon, Colin, Community detection inthe stochastic block model: Fundamen-tal limits
Stogin, John, Nonlinear wave dynamics inblack hole spacetimes
Talebizah Sardari, Naser, Optimal strongapproximation for quadratic forms
Wang, Xuecheng, Global solutions forthe gravity water waves system: Infinitedepth setting and flat bottom setting
Yazdi, Mohammadmahdi, On Thurston’sEuler class one conjecture
Rutgers School of PublicHealth (1)
Department of Biostatistics
Young, Tina, A new paradigm of findingthe maximum tolerated dose in Phase Icancer clinical trials with application toIL-21
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Rutgers University–NewBrunswick (17)
Department of Statistics and
Biostatistics
Die, Sun, Deconvolution of transcriptprofiling data and asymptotic inferenceof cross-correlation in L infinity
Jiao, Yang, Recent developments in com-plex meta-analysis using the confidencedistribution approach
Li, Chengrui, Fusion learning of depen-dent studies by confidence distribution(CD): Theory and applications
Yirui, Hu, Power analysis on longitudinalone-way crossover studies
Mathematics Department
Baron, Jacob, Two problems on cycles inrandom graphs
Berkowitz, Ross, A few combinatorialproblems
Devlin, Patrick, A treatise on the binomialtheorem
Donders, Michael, Uniformity of cubelines and related problems
Fox, Nathan, An exploration of nestedrecurrences using experimental mathe-matics
Guo, Siao-Hao, Self-shrinkers and singu-larity models of the mean curvatureflow
Levanger, Rachel, A comparison frame-work for interleaved persistence mod-ules and applications of persistenthomology to problems in fluid dynam-ics
Naumovitz, Timothy, Very efficient ap-proximation algorithms to edit distanceproblems
Pontes, Pedro, Critical zeros of classgroup L-functions
Sjuvon, Chung, Cominuscule flag va-rieties and their quantum K-theory:Some results
Sun, Liming, Yamabe problem on com-pact manifolds with boundary
Wolf, Charles, Incidence problems indiscrete geometry
Yan, Xukai, Homogeneous solutions ofstationary Navier–Stokes equations withisolated singularities on the unit sphere
Stevens Institute ofTechnology (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Garreta, Albert, The diophantine problemover random nilpotent groups
Gul, Funda, Matrix embeddings of nilpo-tent and solvable groups
Panteleev, Dmitry, Conjugacy searchproblem and the Andrews–Curtis con-jecture
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico Institute ofMining and Technology (1)
Department of Mathematics
Eisa, Sameh, Mathematical modeling andanalysis of wind turbine’s dynamics
New Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Avila, Francisco, The frame of the p-adicnumbers
Paulino, Raymond, Minimal reductions ofedge ideals
University of NewMexico (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Alvarado, Cesar, Cancer modeling: Fromoptimal cell renewal to immunotherapy
Jiang, Huan, Modeling trait evolutionaryprocesses with more than one gene
Morre, Gregg, Standard closure opera-tions on several rings of dimensionone
Pesko, John, Parametric bootstrap and ob-jective Bayesian testing with applicationto heteroscedastic ANOVA
Vides, Fredy, Toroidal matrix links: Localfree homotopies and matrix topology
NEW YORK
Binghamton University,State University of NewYork (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Science
Bi, Nan, Empirical likelihood for a classof semiparametric regression models
Kelley, Andrew, Maximal subgroup growthof some groups
Columbia University (17)
Department of Mathematics
Choi, Kyeongsu, The Gauss curvatureflow: Regularity and asymptotic behav-ior
Deopurkar, Ashwin, Tropical geometry ofcurves with large theta characteristics
Filip, Ioan, A local relative trace formulafor spherical varieties
Guerreiro, Joao, The GL(3) Kuznetsovtrace formula and applications
Keller, Jordan, Linear stability of Schwarz-schild spacetime
Lewis, Paul, A large sieve zero densityestimate for Maass cusp forms
Petkov, Vladislav, Distinguished repre-sentations of the metaplectic cover ofGL(n)
Su, Changjian, Stable basis and quantumcohomology of cotangent bundles offlag varieties
Wong, Chuen-Ming, Unoriented skein re-lations for grid homology and tangleFloer homology
Zhou, Zijun, Relative orbifold Donaldson-Thomas theory and the degenerationformula
Department of Statistics
Bloem-Reddy, Benjamin, Random walkmodels, preferential attachment, andsequential Monte Carlo methods foranalysis of network data
Cho, Yong Bum, Measuring spatial ex-tremal dependence
Gao, Yuanjun, Statistical machine learn-ing methods for high-dimensional neu-ral population data analysis
Ma, Yuting, Flexible sparse learning offeature subspaces
Neuberg, Richard, Advances in credit riskmodeling
Patra, Rohit Kumar, Semiparametric in-ference with shape constraints
Wang, Wei, On model-selection and ap-plication of multilevel models in surveyand causal inference
Cornell University (17)
Center for Applied Mathematics
Clawson, Zachary, Shortest path prob-lems: Domain restriction, anytime plan-ning, and multi-objective optimization
Hood, Amanda, Localizing the eigenval-ues of matrix-valued functions: Analy-sis and applications
Joshi, Sumedh, Development of parallelhigh-order numerical methods for high-Reynolds number environmental flows:A look at a deflated Schur complementmodel
Phalitnonkiat, Pakawat, Extreme behaviorof the surface ozone over continentalU.S.
Verdiyan, Vardan, Predictability of fundsfollowing common investment philoso-phies
Department of Mathematics
Collins, Voula, Crystal branching for non-Levi sub-groups and a puzzle formulafor the equivariant cohomology of thecontangent bundle on projective space
Fong, Pok-wai, Smoothness properties ofsymbols, Calderon communicators andgeneralizations
Liu, Yao, Riesz distributions associatedto Dunkl operators
Miller, Daniel, Counterexamples relatedto the Sato-Tate conjecture
Palmer, Aaron, Incompressibility andglobal injectivity in second-gradientnon-linear elasticity
Pueschel, Kristen, On residual propertiesof groups and Dehn functions formapping tori of right angled Artingroups
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Qian, Lihai, Rigidity on Einstein mani-folds and shrinking Ricci soliton in highdimensions
Wu, Chenxi, Translation surfaces: Sad-dle connections, triangles and coveringconstructions
Department of Statistical Sciences
Kirtland, Kelly Meredith, Outlier detec-tion and multicollinearity in sequentialvariable selection
Liu, Yanning, Statistical issues in thedesign and analysis of clinical trials
Nicholson, William, Tools for modelingsparse vector autoregressions
Tupper, Laura, Topics in classificiationand clustering of high dimensional data
Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (16)
PhD Program in Mathematics
Basilio, Jorge, Manifold convergence:Sewing sequences of Riemannian man-ifolds with positive or nonnegativescalar curvature
Flint, Chaya, Intercusp geodesics andcusp shapes of fully augmented links
Florez, Jorge, Explicit reciprocity laws forhigher local fields
Gunther, Joseph, Counting rational points,integral points, fields, and hypersur-faces
Gustavson, Richard, Elimination for sys-tems of algebraic differential equations
Habic, Miha, Joint laver diamonds andgrounded forcing axioms
Karabulut, Cihan, On sums of binaryHermitian forms
Kim, Seungwon, Turaev surfaces andtoroidally alternating knots
Kim, Won Geun, On the free and G-saturated weight monoids of smoothaffine spherical varieties for G =SL(n)
Liang, Zhao, Fast algorithms on randommatrices and structured matrices
Miller, Cheyne, On the derivative of2-holonomy for a non-Abelian gerbe
Minden, Kaethe, On subcomplete forcing
Park, Byung Do, A geometric model oftwisted differential K-theory
Seff, David, Diophantine approximationand the atypical numbers of Nathansonand O’Bryant
Wong, Tian An, Explicit formulae andtrace formulae
Zapata, Gabriel, Rewriting methods ingroups with applications to cryptogra-phy
New York University,Courant Institute (23)
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
Blum-Smith, Benjamin, Two inquiriesabout finite groups and well-behavedquotients
Blumenthal, Alex, Nonuniformity hyper-bolic theory for Banach space mappings
Brenowitz, Noah, Data analysis and non-local parametrization strategies for or-ganized atmospheric convection
Chariker, Christopher Logan, Dynamicsof cortial neural networks
Chen, Weikun, Data driven optimal trans-portation and its application
DeSalvo, Giulia, Theory and algorithmsfor learning with stratified decisions
Dong, Yilun, A new VIX pricing model
Eriksson-Bique, Sylvester, Quantitative em-beddability and connectivity in metricspaces
Fogelson, Ben, Mechanical models insingle-cell locomotion, adhesion, andforce production
Friel, Robert, Optimization closures formixing shocks in stratified hydrostaticflows
Fu, Hang, Division polynomials and in-tersection of projective torsion points
Huynh, Thang, Accurate quantizationin redundant systems: From framesto compressive sampling and phaseretrieval
Kuang, Simeng, Two topics in data anal-ysis: Sample-based optimal transportand analysis of turbulent spectra fromship track data
Lopes, Domingos, Global existence for theirrotational Euler–Korteweg system inthree dimensions
Nica, Mihai, Non-intersecting randomprocesses and multi-layer random poly-mers
O’Brien, Ethan, Rods with misfit andtwisted ribbons; Two problems in themechanics of thin elastic objects
Podder, Moumanti, The strange logic ofGalton-Watson trees
Qi, Di, Strategies for reduced-order mod-els in uncertainty quantification ofcomplex turbulent dynamical systems
Sagun, Levent, Explorations on high di-mensional landscapes: Spin glasses anddeep learning
Tobasco, Ian, Variational analysis ofcompressed thin elastic sheets and thephase diagrams of mean field spinglasses
Yamada, Ray, Moisture and wave-meanflow interactions in the general circula-tion of Earth’s atmosphere
Yang, Qiu, Multi-scale models for thescale interaction of organized tropicalconvection
Yang, Scott, Theory and algorithms fordynamic and adaptive online learning
New York University,Stern School ofBusiness (1)
IOMS-Statistics Group
Fu, Wei, Nonparametric methods in sta-tistical learning: Unbiasedness in re-gression trees, survival trees for non-standard data, and estimating the num-ber of clusters
Stony Brook University (36)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Cao, Yiwei, Computational design ofcarbohydrate-binding proteins
Chen, Minqin, More efficient kernel learn-ing for genomic data integration andprediction
Cheng, Po-Keng, An interactive agent-based model
Delaney, Tristan, High order adaptiveextended stencil finite element method(AES-FEM) for applications with curvedboundaries
Dong, Fangfei, Risk assessment for intra-day trading
Dong, Yijun, Measuring treasury bondportfolio risk and portfolio optimiza-tion with a non-Gaussian multivariatemodel
Gao, Zheng, Numerical coupling andsimulation of point-mass system withthe turbulent fluid flow
Hu, Yifan, Exploration of statistical learn-ing strategies and their applications onmedical image data for computer-aideddiagnosis
Huang, Jefferson, Complexity estimatesand reductions to discounting for totaland average-reward Markov decisionprocesses and stochastic games
Li, Shanshan, Estimation and detectionof network variation in intraday stockmarket
Lin, Rong, Algorithms for large scalecomputation of information geometricmodel reduction with application toprediction in finance
Liu, Hongxu, Weighed-least-squares basedessential non-oscillatory Schemeson un-structured meshes
Liu, Yang, An isoformfree model for dif-ferential expression analysis in RNAseqdata
Lu, Cao, Efficient iterative and multigridsolvers with applications
Ma, Jun, Numerical algorithms for Vlasov-Poisson equation and applications tocoherent electron cooling
Melvin, Jeremy, Numerical modeling ofhydrodynamic instabilities and theirimpact on mix in inertial confinementfusion
Meng, Ziqi, Penalized Gaussian mixturemodel and its application to QTL map-ping
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Rana, Verinder, Uncertainty quantifica-tion and sensitivity analysis of inertialconfinement fusion simulations
Rao, Pooja, Turbulent mixing in Richtmyer-Meshkov instability using front-tracking
Shin, Jeewoen, Evolution of complexityin gene regulatory networks duringhost-parasite coevolution
Tian, Xinyu, Group LASSO for predictionof clinical outcomes in cancer
Tiano, Michael, Dynamic elliptical distri-butions
Wang, Ke, Two essays in empirical finance
Yan, Jiaju, Multi-class ROC random for-est for imbalanced classification andapplication
Zhang, Junying, Mixture innovation fulltime varying parameter vector autore-gression model
Zhang, Ke, A new nonlinear state spacerealization of GARCH and low rankadversarial bandit algorithms
Zhao, Lu, On miRNA-mRNA networkextraction and an ultrafast nucleotidebarcodes clustering algorithm
Zhao, Xinglin, Mesh refinement and highorder reconstruction for finite elementmethod on unconstructed meshes
Zhao, Yuan, Log-linear model based treeand latent variable model for countdata
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Gao, Classification of gravitationalinstantons with faster than quadraticcurvature decay
Chen, Xuan, Bundles of irreducible Clif-ford modules and the existence of spinstructures
Crowe, Cameron, Algebraic structureswith structure constants and algebraichomotopy
Niu, Jingchen, A sharp compactness theo-rem for genus-two pseudo-holomorphicmaps
Ranade, Nissim, Algebraic methods intopology and applications
Sadanand, Chandrika, A two dimensionaldescription of Heegaard
Zeng, Yu, Deformations of twisted cscKmetrics
Syracuse University (1)
Department of Mathematics
Stangle, Joshua, Representation theory oforders over Cohen-Macaulay rings
University atAlbany–SUNY (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Allahverdi, Muberra, Torsion-freeness ofsymmetric powers, exterior posers andSchur functors
Beckhardt, Susan, Extension propertiesof asymptotic property c and finitedecomposition complexity
Ferro, Richard, Structured pseudospectraof block matrix structures
Parnett, Ian, Swan classes and realisableclasses for integral group rings overfinite certifications
University atBuffalo–SUNY (10)
Department of Biostatistics
Foss, Alexander, Clustering methods formixed-type data
Wang, Dan, Statistical influence on alter-native diagnostic accuracy measures:Tackling challenges in multiple-classesgenomic data
Yang, Zhengyu, Confidence interval con-struction for the difference of pro-portions based on correlated bilateraldata
Zhao, Yang, Novel statistical methodsfor constructing decision-making testprocedures with applications to healthrelated studies
Department of Mathematics
Guo, Jingyang, Adaptive radial basisfunction END and WENO methods forhyperbolic conservation laws
Jiang, Yongle, On cocycle superrigidityproblem for algebraic actions
Luo, Yixian, Relative sofic entropy
Reid, Elizabeth, The theory of K-MRSfunctions
Wang, Xiao, Kazhdan’s property (T) andstructure of exotic hyperbolic manifold
Zhang, Xiaoqi, A stochastic processmodel for the distribution of hospi-tal charge and length of stay
University ofRochester (10)
Department of Biostatistics and
Computational Biology
Hebert, Donald, Global tests for multipleoutcomes in randomized trials
Liu, Chang, Bayesian semiparametricmeasurement error models: Estimation,variable selection and fast algorithms
Singh, Kyra, Variable selection methodsfor model-based clustering: Proceduresfor functional data and Bayesian infer-ence
Yu, Ziji, Theory and application of themode centric M-Gaussian distribution
Department of Mathematics
Baluyot, Siegfred, On the zeros of Rie-mann’s zeta-function
Ethier, Dillon, Sum-product estimates andfinite point configurations over p-adicfields
Ge, Fan, On zeros of the derivative of theRiemann zeta-function
Kiria-Kaiserberg, Vyacheslav, Explosionof stochastic differential delay equationwithout the drift
Murphy, Brendan, Group actions in arith-metic combinatorics
Papadopulos, Patrick, On topologicalproperties of configuration spaces ofcertain specialized graphs
Yeshiva University (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Li, Yan, Direct methods for problemsinvolving the nonlocal elliptic operators
NORTH CAROLINA
Duke University (15)
Department of Mathematics
Andreae, Phillip, Analytic torsion, the Etainvariant, and closed differential formson spaces of metrics
Fitzpatrick, Brian, Complete mirror pairsand their naive stringy hodge numbers
Ji, Hangjie, Thin films with non-conver-sative effects
Pan, Yu, Augmentations and exact La-Grangian cobordisms
Roech, Henri, Proof of a null penroseconjecture using a new quasi-local mass
Yin, Rujie, High dimensional signal pro-cessing
Department of Statistical Science
Chai, Christine, Statistical issues in quan-tifying text mining performance
Chen, Xi, Bayesian dynamic modeling forstreaming network data
Crawford, Lorin, Bayesian kernel mod-els for statistical genetics and cancergenomics
Dalzell, Nicole, Bayesian approaches tofile linking with faulty data
Gu, Mengyang, Robust uncertainty quan-tification and sealable computation forcomputer models with massive output
McAlinn, Kenichiro, Dynamic modelingand Bayesian predictive synthesis
Shirota, Shinichiro, Bayesian modelingand computation for complex spatialpoint patterns
Wang, Xiangyu, Distributed feature se-lection in large n and large p regressionproblems
Wei, Lan, Methods for imputing missingvalues and synthesizing confidentialvalues for continuous and magnitudedata
North Carolina StateUniversity (21)
Department of Mathematics
Acquesta, Erin, Cost and benefit analysisof vaccination strategies for the HIVvirus
Akoglu, Tulay, Certifying solutions topolynomial systems over Q
Ambrosino, Mary, Maximum gap of (in-verse) cyclotomic polynomials
Barnard, Emily, The canonical join repre-sentation in algebraic combinatorics
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Benfield, Michael, Some geometric aspectsof hyperbolic conservation laws
Brown, Elisabeth, A nonlinear conserva-tion law modeling carbon sequestration
Bryan, Timothee, Hall-Littlewood vertexoperators and the Kostka-Foulkes poly-nomials
Catenacci, Jared, Quantifying degrada-tion in ceramic matrix compositesthrough electromagnetic interrogationand related estimation techniques
Demir, Ismail, Classification of 5-dimen-sional complex nilpotent Leibniz alge-bras
Derochers, Stephen, Numerical study andfeedback stabilization of a linear hydro-elasticity model
Hansen, Brittany, The hyperbolic Kac-
Moody Lie algebra of type G12 and its
root multiplicities
Lankford, George, Optimization, model-ing and control applications to Klystrondesigning and Hepatitis C dynamics
Lewis, Allison, Gradient-free active sub-space construction and model calibra-tion techniques for complex models
Meehan, Emily, Posets and Hopf algebrasof rectangulations
Ozcan, Seyma, Development of well-balanced and asymptotic preservingnumerical methods for partial differen-tial equations
Schmidt, Kathleen, Uncertainty quantifi-cation for mixed-effects models withapplications in nuclear engineering
Sidle, Glenn, Using multi-class machinelearning methods to predict majorleague baseball pitches
Tanadkithirun, Raywat, Partition-basedproposal distributions for importancesampling
Toth, Alexander, A theoretical analysisof Anderson acceleration and its appli-cation in multiphysics simulation forlight-water reactors
Wang, Zhaohui, A Robin-Robin domaindecomposition method for a Stokes-Darcy system with a locally modifiedmesh
White, Ashley, Conjugacy and other re-sults in Leibniz algebras
University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (32)
Department of Biostatistics
Bainbridge, Jonathan, Modeling the dif-fusion of sentinel lymph node biopsyin breast cancer treatment
Benecha, Habtamu, Marginally-specifiedmean models for counts with mixturedistributions
Bryant, Christopher, A Bayesian analysisof weighted stochastic block modelswith applications in brain functionalconnectomics
Butler, Emily, Using patient preferences toestimate optimal treatment strategiesfor competing outcomes
Hibbard, Jonathan, Harnessing hetero-geneity to improve patient outcomes
Jaeger, Byron, Extending R2 to the gener-alized linear mixed model for longitu-dinal data
Kim, Jung In, Contributions to recurrentevent data analysis
Li, Siying, Methods in randomized basedANCOVA for novel crossover designsand sensitivity analysis for missing data
Pan, Yinghao, Secondary analysis inoutcome-dependent-sampling designs
Psioda, Matthew, Statistical methods forBayesian clinical trial design and DNAmethylation deconvolution
Teran Hidalgo, Sebastian, Applications ofindependence statistics to goodness-to-fit, multivariate change point estimationand clustering of variables
Xue, Wei, Genetic association analysis onsecondary phenotypes and group con-ditional variable importance in OPPERA
Department of Mathematics
Aminian, Manuchehr, The role of crosssectional geometry in the passive tracerproblem
Battista, Nicholas, The fluid dynamicsof heart development: The effect ofmorphology on flow at several stages
Falcon, Claudia, Entrainment dominatedeffects in the long residence timesof solid spheres in sharply stratifiedmiscible viscous fluids
Guan, Wenhua, Fast algorithms for Brow-nian dynamics with hydrodynamic in-teractions
Harabin, George Perry, Diffusively drivenflows in stratified fluids
Hult, Caitlin, Modeling nucleosomal DNAin living yeast
Lee, Hsuan-wei, Dynamics and socialclustering on coevolving networks
Malahe, Michael, PDE solvers for hybridCPU-GPU architectures
Wessler, Timothy, Mathematical modelingof biological processes at the cellular,tissue and system levels
Department of Statistics and
Operation Research
An, Hyowon, Gaussian centered L-moments
Bodwin, Kelly, Mining of variable associa-tions
Jin, Jimmy, Scale-free random graphdynamics
Kabul, Mustafa, Papers on selling tostrategic customers: A supply chainperspective
Lee, Eunjee, Advanced Bayesian modelsfor high-dimensional biomedical data
Ouyang, Huiyin, Confidence intervals forsolutions to variational inequalities
Palowitch, John, Beyond the stochasticblock model: Community detection forcomplex weighted networks
Wu, Ruoyu, Some asymptotic results forweekly interacting particle systems
Yu, Dongqing, Data-driven quality ofservice improvements in hospitals
Yu, Qunqun, Horizontal variation, curveregistration, human connectome data
Zhang, Yu, Index Policies for patientscheduling and ATM replenishment
University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (10)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Basnet, Amod, Parallel computing forMarkov chains with islands and ports
Crosby, Gary, Optimal multiple stopping:Theory and applications
Fernando, Wedige, American options pric-ing using HJM methodology
Getan, Asmaa, Intermittency for branch-ing random walks with heavy tails
Kim, Sinae, Partition of unity isogeomet-ric analysis for singularly perturbedproblems and fourth-order differentialequations containing singularities
Rattan, Puja, Isogeometric collocationmethod for elasticity problems contain-ing singularities
Wu, Jian, High-order H(div) discontinuousGalerkin methods for MHD equations
Yu, Xintian, Nonparametric predictiveregression
Zhao, Cong, Non-nested model selectionvia empirical likelihood
Zhou, Yijing, Path integral methods usingFeynman-Kac formula and reflectingbrownian motions for Neumann andRobin problems
University of NorthCarolina at Greensboro (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Sihm, Jeong Sep, Modified binary ran-domized response technique models
Vanlangenberg, Christopher, Data gener-ation and estimation for axially sym-metric processes on the sphere
Zatezalo, Tanja, Generalized mixture es-timators for the finite population mean
NORTH DAKOTA
North Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (1)
Department of Mathematics
Sattler, Elizabeth, Subfractals induced bysubshifts
OHIO
Air Force Institute ofTechnology (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Armstrong, Andrew, Synergistic effectsof phase folding and wavelet denoisingwith applications in light curve analysis
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Mohd-Zaid, Mohd, A statistical approachto characterize and detect degradationwithin the Barabasi–Albert network
Uber, Richard, Time domain analysis ofelectromagnetic scattering from mul-tiple cavities embedded in a groundplane
Bowling Green StateUniversity (8)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Aliyev, Denis, Visualization and unsuper-vised pattern recognition in multidi-mensional data using a new heuristicfor linear data ordering
Islam, Mohammad, Dose-response analy-sis for time-dependent efficacy
Kelvey, Robert, Groups acting on twin-trees and Chabauty space
Laubacher, Jacob, Secondary Hochschildand cyclic (co)homologies
Oyeniran, Oluyemi, Estimating the pro-portion of true null hypotheses inmultiple testing problems
Pan, Juming, Adaptive LASSO for mixedmodel selection via profile log-likelihood
Papathanasiou, Dimitrios, Hypercyclic al-gebras and affine dynamics
Walmsley, David, A constructive ap-proach to the universality criterionfor semigroups
Case Western ReserveUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematics, Applied
Mathematics and Statistics
Alsenafi, Abdulaziz, Segregation dynam-ics motivated by territorial markings:The transition from a particle to acontinuum model
Atta-Fosu, Thomas, Fourier based methodfor simultaneous segmentation andnonlinear image registration
Prezioso, Jamie, An inverse problem ofcerebral hemodynamics in the Bayesianframework
Yoon, Nara, Stratified worm burden ap-proach to modeling schistosomiasistransmission and control
Population and Quantitative Health
Sciences
Benchek, Penelope, How extensive of arole do gene-gene interactions play inthe genetic architecture of complextraits
Voss-Hoynes, Heather, Dissecting the ge-netics of human communitication: In-sights into speech, language, and read-ing
Wang, Heming, Local ancestry interfer-ence and its implication in searchingfor selection evidence in recent admixedpopulation
Kent State University,Kent (7)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chen, Lu, A diffusion model for compo-sitional data
Dykes, Laura, New methods for solutionof discrete ill-posed problems
Falco Benavent, Francisco Javier, Com-plex approximation and fibers of Ba-nach algebras of analytic functions
Hendrixson, Lisa, Connections betweenthe number of constituents and thederived length of a group
Hogan, Ian, The Brauer complex anddecomposition numbers of symplecticgroups
Riel, Zachariah, On certain classes andideals of operators on L1
Wynn, Casey, Supercharacter theories ofCamina pairs
Ohio State University,Columbus (16)
Department of Mathematics
Buenger, Carl, Quantitative non-divergence,effective mixing, and random walks onhomogeneous spaces
Edholm, Luke, The Bergman kernel of fatHartogs triangles
Le, Giang, The action dimension of Artingroups
Moreira, Joel, Partition regular polyno-mial patterns in commutative semi-groups
Steward, Michael, Extending the Skolemproperty
Sun, Weizhou, Local discontinuous Galer-kin method for Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetzov equation and improvedBoussinesq equation
Swang, Theodore, A mathematical modelfor the energy allocation function ofsleep
Wang, Shi, Barycentric straightening,splitting rank and bounded cohomology
Xia, Bingyu, Moduli spaces of Bridgelandsemistable complexes
Zheng, Cheng, Sparse equidistributionof unipotent orbits in finite-volumequotients of PSL(2,R)
Department of Statistics
Chen, Po-Hsu, Modeling multivariate sim-ulator outputs with applications toprediction and sequential pareto mini-mization
Jia, Yanan, Bilnear mixed effects modelsfor multi-indexed multivariate data
Liang, JoJo, Empirical Bayes model aver-aging in the presence of model misfits
Matthews, Michael, Extending rankedsampling in inferential procedures
Mohr, Anna, Statistical methodology formultiple networks
Wei, Ran, On estimation problems ofnetwork sampling
Ohio University, Athens (3)
Department of Mathematics
Ballone, Frank, γ-sets and the (A,B∞)selection principle
Perron, Michael, On the structure ofindependent families
Simmons, Darren, On Lagrangian alge-bras in braided fusion categories
University of Cincinnati (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Alsayigh, Saed, New password authenti-cated key exchange based on the ringlearning with errors
Dragan, Catalin, Norms associated toweights in von Neumann algebras anddecompositions of positive operators
Jaberansari, Negar, Bayesian hierarchicalmodels for partially observed data
Li, Shenghao, Non-homogeneous bound-ary value problems for Boussinesq-typeequations
Loreaux, Jireh, Diagonals of operators:Majorization, a Schur-Horn theoremand zero-diagonal idempotents
Snook, Michael, Quantum resistant au-thenticated key exchange from ideallattices
University of Toledo (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Clos, Timothy, Compactness of Hankeloperators with continuous symbols ondomains in C2
He, Wencan, Statistical inference of bi-normal ROC curves based on densityratio model
Lamichhane, Manoj, Levi subalgebras ofgl(5,R)
Ren, Kaili, Empirical likelihood methodsin missing response problems andcausal inference
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma StateUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematics
Bilogliadov, Mykhailo, Equilibrium prob-lems in potential theory
Department of Statistics
Kaukis, Nicholas, Utilizing observationand ranks in kernel estimation
Mostafa, Sayed, Nonparametric kerneldensity estimation using auxilary infor-mation from complex survey data
Watts, David, Classifying discoveries:Implementing a generalized multipletesting protocol for exploratory dataanalysis
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
990 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 8
University of Oklahoma (3)
Department of Mathematics
Broda, James, Convergence rates for sta-tionary distributions of semistochasticprocesses
Nguyen, Huy, F -harmonic maps in Kahlergeometry
Tharp, Benjiman, Representation of themarked Brauer algebra
University of Oklahoma,Health Science Center (4)
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department
Hill, Claude, Modeling nonstationaryanisotropic geospatial data processes
James, Shirley, Electronic nicotine deliv-ery systems and smoking reduction,substitution, and cessation
Mowls Carroll, Dana, Cigarette smoking,electronic nicotine product use, andbiomarkers of exposure among Ameri-can Indians in the Southern Plains
Norris, Ann, An evaluation of medicaland behavioral risk factors for aviationaccidents
University of Tulsa (1)
Department of Mathematics
Puhl, Maria, Analysis of sparse modelingtechniques applied to RS-FMRI data
OREGON
Oregon StateUniversity (10)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Hammali, Hussain, Nonuniform sam-pling of band-limited functions
Al-Saedi, Ali, Periodicity and partitioncongruences
Edwards, Brandon, A new algorithm forcomputing the Veech group of a trans-lation surface
Kennedy, Kenneth, Model adaptivity andnumerical solutions using sensitivityanalysis
McDermott, Kirk, Topological and dynam-ical properties of cyclically presentedgroups
Morrill, Thomas, Overpartition ranks,cranks, and Frobenius representations
Parker, Forrest, Shift dynamics of cycli-cally presented groups with positivelength four relators
Robson, Charles, Computable random-ness and coding the orbits of theCollatz map
Sakkaplangkul, Puttha, Multiscale meth-ods and energy stable discretizationsfor Maxwell’s equations in linear andnonlinear materials
Department of Statistics
James, Addison, Information criterion fornonparametric model-assisted surveyestimators
Portland StateUniversity (4)
Fariborz Maseeh Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
Rector, Robert Blake, Generalized dif-ferential calculus and applications tooptimization
Schimanski, Nichole, Orthomorphisms ofBoolean groups
Shaw, Jeremy, Computational algorithmsfor improved representation of themodel error covariance in weak-constraint4D-var
Yannotta, Mark, Conventionalizing andaxiomatizing in a community collegebridge course
University of Oregon (8)
Department of Mathematics
Howell, Nicholas, Motives of log schemes
Kazaras, Demetre, Gluing manifolds withboundary and bordisms of positivescalar curvature metrics
Kutler, Max, Faithful tropicalization ofhypertoric varieties
Lim, Bronson, Equivariant derived cate-gories associated to a sum of potentials
Reid, Benjamin, Constructing a V2 selfmap at p = 3
Schopieray, Andrew, Relations in the Wittgroup of nondegenerate braided fusioncategories arising from the representa-tion theory of quantum groups at rootsof unity
Steinberg, David, Homological propertiesof standard KLR modules
Xu, Tianyuan, On the subregular J-ringof coxeter systems
PENNSYLVANIA
Bryn Mawr College (1)
Department of Mathematics
Myer, Ziva, A product structure on gener-ating family cohomology for Legendriansubmanifolds
Carnegie MellonUniversity (9)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Antikacioglu, Arda, Quantifying and im-proving sales diversity in recommendersystems
Davis, Jacob, Universal graphs at ℵω1+1
and set-theoretic geology
Johansson, Tony, Random graphs andalgorithms
Lavrov, Mikhail, Results in Ramsey theoryand probabilistic combinatorics
Liu, Pan, Variational and PDE methodsfor image processing
Murphy, Thomas, Convex analysis of anequation arising in oil reservoir models
Rinaldi, Matteo, Dynamics of phase sepa-ration and pattern formation
Tshikawa, Tetsuya, Optimal investmentand pricing in models where the under-lying asset may default
Vasey, Sebastien, Superstability and cate-goricity in abstract elementary classes
Drexel University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Burnette, Charles, Factoring permuta-tions into the product of two invo-lutions: A probabilistic, combinatorialand analytic approach
Hayes, Tim, Quasi-spline sheaves andtheir contact ideals
Liu, Shunlian, Well-posedness of hydro-elastic waves and their truncated seriesmodels
Lohss, Amanda, Tableaux and the asym-metric simple exclusion process
Rody, Sarah, Vector fields, eigensurfaces,and prescribed curvature in opticaldesign
Wong, Chung, Spectral density functionsand their applications
Lehigh University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Borselli, Alex, Galois groups of CM fieldsin degrees 24, 28, and 30
Gerek, Aydin, Hendry’s conjecture ofchordal graph subclasses
Pennsylvania StateUniversity (8)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, William, Moduli interpretations fornoncongruence modular curves
Early, Nicholas, Combinatorics and rep-resentation theory for generalized per-mutohedra
Liao, Hung-Chang, Rokhlin type theo-rems in operator algebras
Ma, Yicong, Fast solvers for incompress-ible MHD systems
Vinhage, Kurt, Rigidity of genuinelyhigher-rank homogeneous flows
Zhang, Qingtian, Uniqueness and sin-gularities of weak solutions to somenonlinear wave equations
Zhang, Siyan, Heat kernels, exponentialsin solvable Lie groups and the meanreverting SABR model
Zhen, Yicun, Accounting for the modelerror and sampling error for ensembleKalman filter
Temple University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Bao, Dianbin, Identities between Heckeeigenforms
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 991
Jacoby, Adam, On representations ofHopf algebras
Ratner, Michael, Quantum walks andstructured searches on free groups andnetworks
Schneider, Geoffrey, Recursively generat-ing formality quasi-isomorphisms withapplications to deformati on quantiza-tion
Department of Statistical Science
Yang, Chaozheng, Sufficient dimensionreduction in complex datasets
Zhang, Yongxu, On two new estimatorsfor the CMS through extensions of OLS
University ofPennsylvania (13)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Computational Science
Lee, Kwonsang, Causal inference beyondestimating average treatment effects
Rogers, Ryan M, Leveraging privacy indata analysis
Department of Biostatistics,
Epidemiology, and Informatics
Bender, Shaun, Ignorability conditionsfor incomplete data and the first-orderMarkov conditional linear expectationapproach for analysis of longitudinaldiscrete data with overdispersion
Billig, Erica, Detecting and controllinginsect vectors in urban environments:Novel Bayesian methods for complexspatial data
Jemielita, Thomas, Efficient baseline uti-lization in crossover clinical trialsthrough linear combinations of base-lines: Parametric, nonparametric, andmodel selection approaches
Shin, Daniel, Novel statistical methodolo-gies in analysis of position emissiontomography data: Applications in seg-mentation, normalization, and trajec-tory modeling
Tahirovic, Emin, Sensitivity analysis fornon-ignorable dropout of marginaltreatment effect in longitudinal trialsfor G-computation based estimators
Department of Mathematics
Albert, Benjamin, Effective field theoryon manifolds with boundary
Citoler Saumell, Martin, A gap theoremfor half-conformally-flat 4-manifolds
Nayak, Soumyashant, On the diagonalsof projections in matrix algebras overvon Neumann algebras
Patel, Neel, Rigorous results in fluid andkinetic models
Qiang, Hua, Bott-Chern characteristicforms and index theorems for coherentsheaves on complex manifolds
Tomaskovic-Moore, Sebastian, Galois mod-ule structure of Lubin-Tate modules
University ofPittsburgh (30)
Department of Biostatistics
Apfel, Abraham, A stability analysis ofsparse k-means
Balmert, Lauren, Nonparametric infer-ence and regression on quantile lifes-pan
Carlson, Jenna, Methods for family-baseddesigns in genetic epidemiology studies
Huo, Zhiguang, Statistical integrativeomics methods for disease subtypediscovery
Lin, Chien-Wei, Power calculation andstudy design in RNA-seq and Methyl-seq
Paliwal, Yuvika, Generalized linear mod-els for analysis of cross-correlatedbinary response in multi-reader studiesof diagnostic imaging
Potter, Andrew, Multiscale multivariatefunctional principal component analy-sis with an application to multivariatelongitudinal cardiac signals
Shan, Ying, Statistical methods for ge-netic risk confidence intervals, Bayesiandisease risk prediction, and estimatingmutation screening saturation
Topp, Andrew, Doubly robust estimationin two-stage dynamic treatment regimesin the presence of drop-out
Woolley, Shannon, Tests for random signscensoring in competing risks
Department of Mathematics
Burstein, David, Random graph genera-tion techniques and applications
Cely, Jorge, Applications of motivic inte-gration to the fundamental lemma
Gallagher, Torrey, Averaging and fixedpoints in banach spaces
Harris, Jeremy, A spatially extended Wil-son Cowan model for coutical circuits:Fram patterns to wave
Hu, Jilong, Vortex sheets in elastic fluids
Hurl, Nicholas, Analysis of time filters inmultisteps methods
Khankan, Sarah, Predictability of aver-age temperatures using ensemble algo-rithms
Li, Yong, Time filters for numericalweather predictions
Malekzadeh, Soheil, Unrectifiability ofmetric spaces and mapping of boundedlength distortion
Morgan, Jeremiah, P -ordered familiesand related topological properties
Navrotskaya, Irina, The inverse problemin classical statistical mechanics and itsapplications to liquid state theory
Snyder, Abigail, Pattern generation multi-functionality in a neural network in-spired by turtle scratch rhythms
Stanhope, Shelby, Parameter estimationfor dynamical systems
Wang, Changqing, Domain decomposi-tion methods for coupled Stokes–Darcyflows
Wang, Yangyang, Understanding and dis-tiguishing multiple time scale dynamics
Wheeler, Matthew, Rational structuresand differential cohomology
Xu, Jiaqing, Modeling defaults in bankingand real estate
Young, Glenn, Combating pathogen in-vasion: Macroscopic and microscopicviews
Zhou, Xiaodan, Analysis on metric mea-sure spaces Sobolev and Viscosity ap-proaches
Zimmerman, Scott, Sard in Sobolev spaceand curves in the Heisenberg group
RHODE ISLAND
Brown University (25)
Department of Biostatistics
Erar, Bahar, Whole genome regressionfor modeling gene by treatment inter-actions in structured populations
Gu, Chenyang, Statistical missing datamethods with applications to healthservices research
Yue, Mun Sang, Evaluation of predictiveaccuracy of tests and impact of tests onpatient outcomes
Zhao, Yi, Causal mediation analysis ofbig data
Department of Mathematics
Ascher, Kenneth, Higher dimensional bi-rational geometry: Moduli and arith-metic
Chen, Xiaoshuang, Duality theorems andspecial value of Artin 1-functions atzero
Healey, Vivian, The Loewner equationwith branching and the continuumrandom tree
Kim, Semin, Harmonic maps and themoduli of Higgs bundles
Le, Quang Nhat, A family of projectivelynatural polygon iterations
Liu, Chang, Blow-up for the 10 nonlin-ear Schrodinger equation with pointnonlinearity
Lowry-Duda, David, On some variants ofthe Gauss circle problem
McGrath, Peter, Existence and uniquenessresults for minimal surfaces
Ramassamy, Sanjay, Topics in combina-torics: From probability to geometry
Division of Applied Mathematics
Caginalp, Carey, A deriviation and analy-sis of the n-point hierarchy for conser-vation laws and multistable dynamicswith white noise in the Allen-Cahnequation
Ciocanel, Maria-Veronica, Modeling in-tracellular transport during messengerRNA localization in xenopus oocytes
Glusa, Christian, Multigrid and domaindecomposition methods in fault-proneenvironments
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
992 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 8
Kilikian, Virginia, Chemotactic responsemodels for motile bacteria
Kim, Steven, Problems at the interfaceof probability and convex geometry:Random projections and constrainedprocesses
Lee, Seungjoon, Statistical learning toolsfor information fusion in computationalfluid dynamics
Loper, Jackson, Theory and computationof modern probabilistic models
Qin, Tong, Positivity-preserving high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods:Implicit time stepping and applicationsto relativistic hydrodynamics
Volkening, Alexandria, Modeling patternformation on zebrafish
Wang, Wei-Ying, Image compression anddata clustering: New takes on some oldproblems
Xia, Chao, Traffic flow models: Analysis,estimation and control
Zhang, Hong, Regularity theory of ellipticand parabolic equations and systems
University of RhodeIsland (2)
Department of Mathematics
Khyat, Toufik, Bifurcation of some pla-nar discrete dynamial systems withapplications
McArdle, David, Global dynamics bound-edness of discrete population models
SOUTH CAROLINA
Clemson University (10)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Adelgren, Nathan, Solution techniquesfor classes of biobjective and paramet-ric programs
Giberson, Luke, Average Frobenius distri-butions for elliptic extremal primes andKobiltz’s conjecture
Goodell, Brandon, Assessing non-atomicityin groups of divisibility
He, Qijun, Algebraic geometry arisingfrom discrete models of gene regulatorynetworks
Joyner, Jason, A new look at matrixanalytic methods
Koshy Chenthittayil, Sherli, Chaos topermanence: Through control theory
Lipman, Drew, Normal domains arisingfrom graph theory
Wilson, Anastasia, Modeling, analysis, andsimulation of adsorption in functional-ized membranes
Wilson, Christopher, Tolerance intervalsfor hierarchical data
Xu, Shuhan, Numerical study for non-Newtonian fluid-structure interactionproblems
Medical University ofSouth Carolina (4)
Department of Public Health Sciences
Cassarly, Christy, Mutistate Markov mod-els for ordinal function outcomes ofacute onset disease application in acutestroke therapy trials
Prince Nelson, Sybil, An extension oflogic regression to classify and predictdisease outcomes from continuous andbinary predictors and their interactions
Ward, Ralph, Improving methods formodeling high dimensional binary fea-tures data with applications for as-sessing disease burden from diagnostichistory and for dealing with miss-ing covariates in administrative healthrecords
Wei, Wei, Novel design and analyticalapproaches for phase II cancer clinicaltrials
University of SouthCarolina (10)
Department of Mathematics
Boehnlein, Edward, On crown-free setfamilies, diffusion state difference, andnon-uniform hypergraphs
Lewis, Tyler, A family of simple codi-mension two singularities with infiniteCohen-Macaulay representation type
Department of Statistics
Hou, Peijie, Topics in group testing withmultiple infections
Kindo, Bereket, Bayesian ensemble of re-gression trees for multinominal probitand quantile regression
Lee, Han, Some issues in Markov chainMonte Carlo estimation for item re-sponse theory
Liu, Jianxuan, Semiparametric estimationand inference in causal inference andmeasurement error models
Liu, Piao Mu, Semiparametric joint dy-namic modeling of a longitudinalmarker, recurrent competing risks, anda terminal event
Sarker, MD, Modern estimation problemsin group testing
Wang, Sheng-Yang, Adaptive regressionmodel for flexible survival data analysis
Wu, Zizhen, Simultaneous registrationand clustering of functional data
SOUTH DAKOTA
South Dakota StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Karki, Laxman, Spatial and spatiotempo-ral modeling of epidemiological data
O’Brien, Austin, A kernel based approachto determine atypicality
TENNESSEE
Middle Tennessee StateUniversity (10)
Department of Mathematical Science
Baum, Britanny Smith, Examining theinfluence of argumentation on the sta-tistical problem-solving process
Bhatt, Harish, Efficient and accurate ex-ponential time differencing schemes forsystems of nonlinear time dependentpartial differential equations
Colgin, Zane, Computational improve-ments for stochastic simulation withmultilevel Monte Carlo
Ewool, Richard, Mathematical modelingand simulation of a multiscale tumorinduced angiogenesis model
Jones, Zachary, Modeling of cell cyclecheckpoints with applications to theanalysis of intermitotic time data
Kassaee, Ameneh, Exploring the role ofmotivation and mindset in achievementof STEM majors in precalculus
Liang, Jingsai, Regularized statisticaltechniques for high dimensional medi-cal imaging data processing
Liang, Xiao, Efficient numerical methodsfor nonlinear Schrodinger equations
Reshniak, Viktor, Reducing computa-tional cost of the multilevel MonteCarlo method by construction of suit-able pathwise integrators
Yang, Xin, Machine learning techniquesfor high-dimensional neuroimaging dataanalysis
University of Memphis (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Abayie Boateng, Nana Akwasi, On someexact nonparametric conditional testfor clustered binary data
Binski, Scott, Games on grids and graphs
Sahasrabudhe, Julian, Extremal and Ram-sey problems on graphs and the inte-gers
Tag, Hyyung-Joon, Some geometricalproperties of Orlicz–Lorentz spacesand their Kothe duals
Taylor, Aaron, Classes of operators onblock spaces
University of Tennessee,Knoxville (7)
Department of Mathematics
Kang, Kai, Advanced sequential MonteCarlo methods and their applicationsto sparse sensor network for detectionand estimation
Krumwiede, Tim, Surface energy in bond-counting models on Bravais and non-Bravais lattices
Loga, Christopher, Extension theoremson matrix weighted Sobolev spaces
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 993
Massaro, Tyler, Variable selection viapenalized regression and the genetic al-gorithm using information complexity,with applications for high-dimensional-omics data
Pantha, Buddhi, Anthrax models involv-ing immunology, epidemiology and con-trols
Pollesch, Nathan, Mathematical approachesto sustainability assessment and proto-col development for the bioenergy sus-tainability target assessment resources(Bio-STAR)
Wang, Liguo, Numerical solutions ofstochastic differential equations
Vanderbilt University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Tang, Sui, Dynamical Sampling
Wen, Chenxu, Amenable extensions in II1factors
Vanderbilt University,School of Medicine (3)
Department Biostatistics
Liu, Qi, Covariate-adjusted Spearman’sRank correlation with probability-scaleresiduals
Samuels, Lauren, Aspects of casual in-ference within the evenly matchablepopulation: The average treatment ef-fect on the evenly matchable units,visually guided cohort selection, andbagged one-to-one matching
Smith, Derek, Empirical Bayes methodsfor modern statistical problems
TEXAS
Baylor University (9)
Department of Mathematics
Averbeck, Nathan, Chaos in dendritic andJulia sets
Hunter, Reeve, The specification propertyand chaos in multidimensional shiftspaces and general compact metricspaces
Department of Statistical Sciences
Blair, Somer, Contributions to the theoryand practice of prior elicitation in abiopharmaceutical research
Faya, Paul, Bayesian methods in non-clinical pharmaceutical statistics
Sims, Justin, Modeling nonlinear, nonsta-tionary vector time series: Methods andapplications
Vallejo, Jonathon, Some new applicationsof Bayesian longitudinal models
Van Zyl, Johanna, Evaluating treatmentefficacy using AUC modeling
Waken, Robert, Flexible spatial interpo-lation and uncertainty quantification:With applications in radar rainfall esti-mation
Wu, Wenqi, Network meta-analysis withrare events and misclassified response
Rice University (20)
Computational and Applied
Mathematics Department
Becker, Timothy, Bilevel clique interdictinand related problems
Bencomo, Mario, Representation and es-timation of seismic sources via multi-poles
Deng, Xiaodi, A parallel-in-time gradient-type method for optimal control prob-lems
Fast, Caleb, Novel techniques for thezero-forcing and p-median graph loca-tion problems
Magruder, Caleb, Projection-based modelreduction in the context of optimizationwith implicit PDE constraints
Puelz, Charles, Numerical methods andapplications for reduced models ofblood flow
Vargas, Arturo, Hermite methods for thesimulation of work propagation
Wang, Zheng, GPU-accelerated discon-tinouos Galerkin methods on hybridmeshes: Applciation in seismic imaging
Zhou, Muhong, Energy-conserving com-posite staggered-grid finite differencetime domain scheme for order waveequation system
Department of Mathematics
Allums, Derek, Notes on real rationallyconnected varieties and Fano threefoldsof genus 12
Bosman, Anthony, Shake slice and shakeconcordant links
Bregman, Corey, Automorphisms or non-positively curved cube complexes, right-angled Artin groups, and homology
Do, Tam, Global regularity and finite-timeblow-up in model fluid equations
Downs, Carol, A mass minimizing flow forreal-valued flat chains with applicationsto transport networks
Park, JungHwan, Derivatives of genusone and three knots
Department of Statistics
Babkin, Sergii, High-dimensional and de-pendent data with additional structure
Han, Yu, Impact of news on crude oilfutures
Li, Qiwei, Bayesian models for high-dimensional count data with featureselection
Wadsworth, W. Duncan, Bayesian non-parametric methods for microbiomedata analysis
Wang, Zeya, Statistical modeling forcellular heterogenity problems in can-cer reserach deconvolution, Ganssiangraphical models and logistic regres-sion
Southern MethodistUniversity (11)
Department of Mathematics
Castro-Castro, Claudia, Nonlinearity, PTsymmetry twist and disorder in the dis-crete nonlinear Schroedinger equation
Schoenfeld, Jessica, The existence ofspontaneous parity-time symmetry break-ing, assymetric transport and defectmodes in nonlinearity coupled Van DerPol oscillations
Lagrone, John, Application and optimiza-tion of complete radiation boundaryconditions
Liu, Yang, The immersed interface methodfor flow around non-smooth boundariesand its parallelization
Sheffield, Thomas, Collapses and ensem-ble dynamics in one and two dimen-sional weak wave turbulence
Statistical Science Department
Allen, Chelsea, Modeling of heapedcigarette count data
Fernando, Mahesh, Confidence intervalsfor the variance ratios in any unbal-anced linear mixed model
Li, Lie (Nathan), Development of meta-analysis methods in biomedical studies
Liu, Bingchen, Ranked set sampling esti-mators of discrete distributions param-eters and estimation of total from apopulation of unknown size
Lu, Wentao, Meta-analysis approaches tocombine multiple gene set environmentstudies
Wang, Mumu, Using ranked set sam-pling with binary outcomes in clusterrandomized designs
Texas A&M University (29)
Department of Mathematics
Alotibi, Manal, Global-local nonlinearmodel reduction for flows in heteroge-neous porous media
Barquero-Sanchez, Adrian, The Chowla-Selberg formula for CM fields and theColmez conjecture
Carroll, David, Periodic points in shifts offinite type overgroups with connectionsto growth
Do, Ngoc, Some spectral problems inmathematical physics
Ergur, Alperen, Sparsity, randomness andconvexity in applied algebraic geometry
Farnsworth, Cameron, The polynomialwaring problem and the determinant
Gesmundo, Fulvio, Geometry and repre-sentation theory in the study of matrixrigidity
Guan, Yonghui, Equations for chow va-rieties, their secant varieties and othervarieties arising in complexity theory
Kocak, Dilber, Growth of algebras andcodes
Lee, Chak Shing, Generalization of mixedmultiscale finite element methods withapplications
Liu, Wen, Degeneracies in the eigenvaluespectrum of quantum graphs
Phillipson, Kaitlyn, Quantitative aspectsof sums of squares and sparse polyno-mial systems
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
994 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 8
Porter, Curtis, The local equivalence prob-lem for 7-dimensional, 2-nondegenerateCR manifolds whose cubic form is ofconformal unitary type
Quezada de Luna, Manuel, Methods forsolving the linear scalar conservationlaw with applications on multiphaseflow
Shankara Narayana Rao, Bheemaiah V.,On a spatiotemporal population dynam-ics model to track density and averagemass: Application to brown shrimp
Tian, Jing, Study on nonlinear analysisand chaos in vibrations and fluids
Yang, Yanfang, POD-DEIM global-localmodel reduction for multi-phase flowsin heterogeneous porous media
Yang, Yong, Continuous finite elementapproximation of hyperbolic systems
Ye, Shuai, GMSFEM for nonlinear prob-lems and space-time GMSFEM
Zhang, Bingsheng, On the solutions in theglobal attractor of the incompressibleNavier-Stokes equations
Zhang, Sheng, Nonlinear quotients ofBanach spaces
Department of Statistics
Dorn, Mary Francis, Semiparametric clas-sification under a forest density as-sumption
He, Kejun, Sparsity and low rank struc-tures in functional data analysis
He, Shiyuan, Functional light curve mod-els for type Ia supernovae and Miravariables, with their application of dis-tance determination
Li, Furong, Statistical inference for largespatial data
Liang, Liang, Semiparametric efficientestimators in primary and secondaryanalysis of case-control studies
Liu, Senmao, A comprhensive approachfor sparse principle component anal-ysis using regularized singular valuedecomposition
Su, Ya, A general approach for asymp-totics of penalizes spline estimation inextended linear models
Wang, Xiao, Dynamic othogonal subseriesfor high-dimensional and nonstationarytime series
Texas State University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Miller, Geoffrey, Exploring mathemati-cal flow: A case study of pre-servicesecondary teachers collaborating onmodel-eliciting activities
Namakshi, Nama, Creating a pathway toSTEM: Role of an informal mathematicsprogram
Rasche, Alexander, Is tutoring teaching?Exploring tutoring’s potential to im-prove mathematics teacher education
Wilkerson, Joshua, Cultivating mathemat-ical affections: Developing a produc-tive disposition through engagement inservice-learning
Texas Tech University (11)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Celik, Emine, Generalized Forchheimerflows of compressible fluids in hetero-geneous porous media
Cherry, Ashley, Piecewise linear approx-imation for nonlinear programmingproblems
Dissanayake, Chandani, Finite elementsimulation of space/time behavior ina two species ecological stoichiometricmodel
Fan, Wenzhen, Control systems splineson the manifold of lines in R2
Jeganathan, Pratheepa, Multivariate ex-tensions of saddlepoint-based boot-strap and an empirical saddlepoint ap-proximation method for smoothing sur-vival functions under right-censoring
Li, Bo, Simultaneous inference basedon rank regression in biomedical dataanalysis
Meek, Ashley, Block preconditioned im-plicit Runge-Kutta methods for the in-compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Niu, Xu, Mathematics prerequisites fordoctoral level studies in finance
Oki, Takafumi, Tracking orientation con-trol satisfying Donders’ constraint onSO(3)
Paragoda, Thanuja, Willmore and gen-eralized Willmore energies in spaceforms
Prematilake, Chalani, Prediction of lowerbounds of the number of samplingpoints for approximating shapes ofplanar contours
University of Houston (14)
Department of Mathematics
Bearden, Clifford Alexander, Hilbert C∗-modules over σ∗-algebras
Chaturvedi, Ananya, On holomorphicsectional curvature and fibrations
Chiu, Shang-Huan, 3D DLM/FD methodsfor sumulating the motion of spheres inbonded shear flows of Oldroyd-B fluids
Chowdhury, Tasadduk, Region-of-interestreconstruction from truncated cone-beam CT
Geiger, Brett, Large deviations for dy-namical systems with small noise
Hussein, Saud, An improved defect rela-tion and height inequality
Kurzanova, Daria, Efficient numericaltreatment of high-contrast diffusionproblems
Liao, Hungzen, Some results on thedegeneracy of entire curves and integralpoints in the complements of divisors
Liu, Changan, The impact of STDP andcorrelated activity on network structure
Mills, Charles, An improved defect rela-tion for holomorphic curves in projec-tive varieties
Park, Jungim, Unicity results for Gaussmaps of minimal surfaces immersed inRm
Poll, Daniel, Stochastic dynamics in bumpattractor models of spatial workingmemory
Suri, Nishant, Naimark’s problem forgraph C∗-algebras
Ugur, Gul, Uniqueness results of alge-braic curves and related topics
University of NorthTexas (7)
Mathematics Department
Caruvana, Christopher, An extension ofthe Baire property and uniqueness oftopologies on holomorphic functions
Dance, Cody, Contributions to descriptiveset theory
Dave, Ojas, Irreducible modules forYokonuma-type Hecke algebras
Holshouser, Jared, Partition propertiesfor non-ordinal sets under the axiom ofdeterminacy
Martin, James, Rankin–Cohen bracketsfor Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermi-tian modular forms
Tomlin, Drew, A decomposition of thegroup algebra of a hyperoctahedralgroup
Uhl, Christine, Quantum Drinfeld Heckealgebras
University of North TexasHealth Science Center (1)
Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Atienza, Philamer, Adaptation of thegenetic risk prediction model BRCAPROfor primary care settings
University of Texas atArlington (9)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Dujaly, Hassan Abd Salman, Weightedupwinding compact scheme for shockcapturing
Au, Melinda, Three-dimensional image re-construction (3 direct) of sparse signalswith MRI application
Boodhwani, Afshan, Nonparametric adap-tive distribution-free procedure forcrossover design with repeated mea-sures
Chen, Xi, Numerical construction of dif-feomorphism and its application to gridgeneration and image registration
Mitchell, Christopher, Calculating repro-ductive numbers for periodic epidemicsystems
Poudyal, Basanti Sharma, Existence ofexact zero divisors and totally reflexivemodules in Artinian rings
Steele, Nathan, Support and rank varietiesof totally acyclic complex
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 995
Wiangnak, Piyachart, Likelihood basedinference for COM-Poisson cure ratemodel with interval censored data
Xi, Hongguang, A harmonic functionmethod for EEG source reconstruction
University of Texas atAustin (23)
Institute for Computational
Engineering and Sciences
Almani, Tameem, Efficient algorithms forflow models coupled with geomechan-ics for porous media applications
Arabshahi, Hamidreza, Space-time hy-bridized discontinuous Galerkin meth-ods for shallow water equations
Bello-Rivas, Juan M., Iterative milestoning
Du, Wei, Mathematical modeling of theinteraction between two-phase environ-mental flow and protective hydraulicstructures
Harmon, Michael, Numerical algorithmsbased on Galerkin methods for themodeling of reactive interfaces in pho-toelectrochemical solar cells
Kamensky, David, Immersogeometric fluid-structure interaction analysis of bio-prosthetic heart valves
Morales Escalante, Jose, DiscontinuousGalerkin methods for Boltzmann-Poissonmodels of electron transport in semi-conductors
Neupane, Prapti, Advances itowards amulti-dimensional discontinuous Galerkinmethod for modeling hurrican stormsurge induced flooding in coastal wa-tersheds
Rabidoux, Scott, Extending the reachof algorithms for the calculation ofmolecular vibronic spectra
Sakamoto, Yusuke, One cell as a mixture:Simulation of the mechanical responsesof valve interstitial cells
Voelkel, Stephen, Thermal nonequilibriummodels for high-temperature reactiveprocesses
Department of Mathematics
Akopian, Sona, Global Lp solutions ofthe Boltzmann equation with an angle-potential concentrated collision kerneland convergence to a Landau solution
Cohn, Lee, Rectifying stable infinity-categories and relative Koszul dualityfor operads
Colbert, Cory, Cardinality restrictions onNoetherian spectra
Fontes, Ernest E., A weighty theorem ofthe heart for the algebraic K-theory ofhigher categories
Ganev, Iordan, The wonderful compacti-fication for quantum groups
Geng, Tianran, Forward portfolio theoryand financial time series modeling
Lee, Andrew, Mapping tori and stablepairs
Morales Delgado, Javier Alejandro, Leastaction principles with applications togradient flows and kinetic equations
Singh, Sukhpreet, Entropy theory forlocally compact sofic groups
Villar Lozano, Maria Soledad, Relax, de-scend, and certify: Optimization tech-niques for typically tractable data prob-lems
Yu, Hui, Some regularity results fornonlocal elliptic equations
Zhang, Rongting, Hybrid inverse prob-lems in molecular imaging
University of Texas atDallas (9)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Acosta-Mejia, Cesar, Pseudolikelihoodmethods in multichannel change-pointdetection
Cao, Yujing, Graphical modeling of bio-logical pathways in genomic studies
Chen, Yanping, Deterministic computa-tion of the low probability tail ofthe velocity distribution due to parti-cle collisions in spatially homogeneousplasmas
Datta, Ananda, Detecting rare haplotypedisease association: Comparison of ex-isting population-based methods and anew family-based quantitative Bayesianlasso method
Herzig, Emily, Spin groups and exponen-tation
Rathnayake, Lasitha, Modeling and anal-ysis of functional and longitudinal datawith biomedical applications
Skaaning, Sonny, Inventory control withpricing optimization in continuous time
Wang, Yunfei, Connections among multi-variate rank functions, depth functions,and sign and signed-rank statistics
Zhang, Yuan, Detecting rare haplotype-environment interaction under uncer-tainty of gene-environment indepen-dence assumption with an extension tocomplex sampling data
UTAH
Brigham YoungUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics
Jiang, Ana, American spread option pric-ing with stochastic interest rates
Lytle, Joshua, Stability of planar deto-nations in the reactive Navier-Stokesequations
University of Utah (15)
Department of Mathematics
Albright, Eric Jason, Numerical meth-ods based on difference potentials formodels with material interfaces
Bardsley, Patrick, Intensity-only imagingwith waves, restarted inverse Bornseries, and the analysis of coarseningin polycrystalline materials
Basinski, Andrew, Area-restricted searchstrategies in groups of foraging ants
Bezdek, Pavel, Appoximation and blow-up problems in stochastic differentialequations
Childs, Parker, Analysis of stochasticchemical reactions through state spacereduction
Choi, Sung Chan, Analysis of spatialParrondo games with modified game A
Eason, Joseph, Modeling the effects ofworker rules on territorial conflicts inants
Fan, Honglu, Gromov–Witten theory ofprojective bundles
Johnson, Jared, Two enumerative prob-lems in algebraic geometry
Karamched, Bhargav, Mathematical mod-els of moter-based intracellular trans-port
Lam, Tony, Central limit theorem forrandom polymers in weak disorder
Li, Shiu-Tang, Comparisan principles forparabolic stochastic partial differentialequations
Lindo, Haydee, Trace ideals and centersof endomorphism rings
Wang, Yuan, Birational geometry of ir-regular varieties in zero and positivecharacteristic
Xu, Bin, Mathematical models of cellpolarization
Utah State University (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bailey, Sean, To dot product graphs andbeyond
Hickes, Jesse, Classification of spacetimeswith symmetry
Lewis, Matthew, Laboratory experiencesin mathematical biology for post-secondary mathematics students
Li, Yuanzhi, Bayesian models for repeatedmeasures data using Markov chainMonte Carlo methods
Yi, Ju, Definition and construction ofentropy satisfying multiresolution anal-ysis (MRA)
VIRGINIA
College of William andMary (1)
Department of Applied Science
Pelejo, Diane Christine, Matrix resultsand techniques in quantum informationscience and related topics
George MasonUniversity (8)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Badgaish, Manal, Modeling, analysis, andcomputation of non-linear soft tissueinteraction with flow dynamics withapplication to aneurysms
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de Silva, Hasitha, Large deviations andrare event simulations for portfoliocredit risk
O’Neil, Patrick, Analyzing and extendingthe distance-to-measure gradient flowusing higher order Voronoi diagrams
Department of Mathematics
Alhajjar, Elie, A new valuation on latticepolytopes
Hmidouch, Nacir, Weighted compositionoperators acting on some classes ofBanach spaces of analytic functions
Mendelson, Samuel, Matrix algebras: Equiv-alent ring relations and special presen-tations
Whelan, George, Generalized depth andassociated primes in the perfect closureR∞
Department of Statistics
Zhang, Zijing, Rendered 3D graphicalexploration of multivariate data basedon truncated octahedron binning, gray-level image processing and cognostics
Old DominionUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Poddar, Arjun, Analysis of dependentdiscrete choices using Gaussian copula
University of Virginia (7)
Department of Statistics
Diver, Paul, A methodology for two-levelproduct partition model estimation ofnormal means
Lu, Miao, Single-index models with vary-ing co-efficients
Department of Mathematics
Bonventre, Peter, Comparison of modelsfor equivariant operads
Ko, Hankyung, Representations of quan-tum groups at roots of unity and theirreductions mod p to algebraic grouprepresentations
Kochalski, Katelynn, Fluid limits and thebatched processor sharing model
Leitmeyer, Keith, Turbulence, regular-ity, and geometry in solutions tothe Navier-Stokes and magnetohydro-dynamic equations
Wang, Bo, A generalization of Martingaletheory to self-averaging processes
Virginia CommonwealthUniversity (1)
Department of Statistical Sciences
and Operations
Moradi Rekabdarkolaee, Hossein, Dimen-sion reduction and variable selection
Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (15)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Xiaofeng, Plane permutations andtheir applications to graph embeddingsand genome rearrangements
Cui, Jing, Boundary controllability andstabilization of nonlinear Schrodingerequations in a finite interval
Eastridge, Samuel, First cohomology ofsome infinitely generated groups
Erwin, Samantha, Mathematical modelsof immune responses to infectiousdiseases
Kuster, George, On the role of studentunderstanding of function and rate ofchange in learning differential equa-tions
Letona-Bolivar, Cristina, On a classof parametrized domain optimizationproblems with mixed boundary condi-tion types
Shifler, Ryan, Equivariant quantum coho-mology of the odd symplectic Grass-mannian
Xie, Xuping, Large Eddy simulation re-duced order models
Department of Statistics
Carzolio, Marcos, On a selection of ad-vanced Markov chain Monte Carlo al-gorithms for everyday use: Weightedparticle, tempering practicle reversiblejump and extensions
Kang, Xiaoning, Contributions to largecovariance and inverse covariance ma-trices estimation
Keefe, Matthew, Statistical monitoringand modeling for spatial processes
Rhodes, Austin, Accelerated life test mod-eling using median rank regression
Song, Yuhyun, Linkage based Dirichletprocesses
Sun, Jinhui, Robust feature screeningprocedures for mixed type of data
Yuan, Miao, Corporate default predic-tions and methods for uncertaintyquantifications
WASHINGTON
University ofWashington (34)
Applied Mathematics Department
Lansdell, Benjamin, On renewal encod-ing: Its estimation, application, anddevelopment
Ma, Yian, Irreversibility in stochasticdynamic models and efficient Bayesianinference
Massey, Susan, Multi-scale modeling ofparacrine PDGF-driven glioma growthand invasion
Moe, Scott, High-order shock capturingmethods with compact stencils for usewith adaptive mesh refinement andmapped grids
Oleskiw, Timothy, On computing shape: Astudy of the neural processes concern-ing naturalistic boundary confirmationwithin the ventral visual pathway
Rim, Donsub, Uncertainty quantificationproblems in tsunami modeling andreduced order models for hyperbolicpartial differential equations
Segal, Benjamin, The stability and in-stabilities of stationary solutions tothe nonlinear Schroedinger and sine-Gordon equations
Shapero, Daniel, Data assimilation prob-lems in glaciology
Thakkar, Niket, Energy and charge trans-fer in open plasmonic systems
Department of Biostatistics
Brown, Lisa, Statistical methods in ad-mixture mapping: Mixed model basedtesting and genome-wide significancethresholds
Chen, Shizhe, Flexible modeling andestimation for high-dimensional graphs
Fisher, Leigh, Modeling of infectiousdisease surveillance data
Keller, Joshua, Methods for confound-ing adjustment and high-dimensionalenvironmental exposures
Kirk, Jennifer, Statistical methods forinferring population structure with hu-man genome sequence data
Koh, William Jen Hoe, Adaptive designs inthe time to event setting: The potentialfor benefit and risk
Korpak, Anna, Methods for hypothesistesting in animal carcinogenicity exper-iments
Morrison, Jean, Flexible strategies for as-sociation analysis with genomic pheo-types
Peterson, Ashley, Data-adaptive modelingusing convex regression
Prince, David, Searching for predictivesubgroups
Sheng, Elisa, Methods for estimatingcausal effects of treatment in RCT’swith simultaneous provider and subjectnoncompliance
Spieker, Andrew, Recovering natural his-tory: Modeling cardiovascular biomark-ers in the presence of endogenousmedication use
Department of Mathematics
Hoberg, Rebecca, Bin packing, numberbalancing, and rescaling linear pro-grams
Nimer, Abdalla Dali, Geometry of n-uniform measures
Paquette, Courtney, Structure and com-plexity in non-convex and non-smoothoptimization
Ramadas, Harishchandra, Algorithms indiscrepancy theory and lattices
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Wang, Lidan, Non-local operators, jumpdiffusions and Feynman–Kac trans-forms
Department of Statistics
Azose, Jonathan, Projection and estima-tion of international migration
Green, Christopher, Applications of ro-bust statistical methods in quantitativefinance
Greene, Evan, Finite smapling exponen-tial bounds
Grimson, Fiona, Scalable methods for theinference of identity by descent
Loh, Wen Wei, Finite population inferencefor causal parameters
McQueen, James, Scalable manifold learn-ing and related topics
Xu, Jason, Likelihood-based inference forpartially observed multi-type Markovbranching processes
Young, William Chad, Bayesian methodsfor inferring gene regulatory networks
Washington StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Cameron, Thomas, On the computationof eigenvalues, spectral bounds, andHessenberg form for matrix polynomi-als
Han, Bo, Interior point algorithms forstochastic semidefinite programming
Lundholm, Ian, Studying and support-ing the teaching practice of calculusteaching assistants
Payton, Spencer, Student logical impli-cations and connections between sym-bolic representations of a linear systemwithin the context of an introductorylinear algebra course
Streifel, Amy, Skew characteristic polyno-mials of cacti
WEST VIRGINIA
West VirginiaUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Abd Al-Rahem, Mushtaq, A multidimen-sional technique for measuring con-sensus within groups via conditionalprobability
Amsaad, Mohamed, Well-defined La-grangian flows for absolutely contin-uous curves of probabilities on theline
Anderson, Janet, A study of arc strongconnectivity of digraphs
Elmagbri, Fairouz, Moment-type nonpara-metric estimation in some direct andindirect models
LaRue, Renee, An analysis of student ap-proaches to solving optimization prob-lems in first semester calculus
Vincent, Brittany, First semester caculusstudents’ concept definitions and con-cept images of the tangent line and howthese relate to students’ understand-ings of the derivative
WISCONSIN
Marquette University (5)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science
Addo, Ivor, Designing human-centeredcollective intelligence
Baur, Brittany, Inferring regulators frommultiple types of biological data incancer
Gani, Md Osman, A novel approach tocomplex human activity recognition
Kociuba, Mary, A Fourier description ofcovariance, and separation of simulta-neously encoded slices with in-planeacceleration in fMRI
Stamm, Karl, Gene set enrichment andprojection displays: A computationaltool for knowledge discovery in tran-scriptomes
Medical College ofWisconsin (2)
Division of Biostatistics
Martens, Michael, Group sequential de-sign and sample size calculations forcovariate adjusted competing risks andsurvival analysis
Shi, Yushu, Weibull mixture models forregression in the context of time-to-event data
University of Wisconsin,Madison (30)
Department of Mathematics
Abbott, Carolyn, Acylindrical actions onhyperbolic spaces
Dimou, Evangelos, Maximal estimates forsolutions to dispersive equations
Emrah, Elnur, Exactly solvable inhomo-geneous corner growth models
Jain, Lalit, Big model monodromy forfamilies of G-covers
Janjigian, Christopher, Large deviationsfor certain solvable directed polymermodels
Kabakulak, Ahmet, A-infinity algebrasand ribbon graphs
Li, Yu, Ricci flow on asymptoticallyEuclidean manifolds
Matei, Vlad, A geometric perspective onsome arithmetic statistics questionsover function fields over finite fields
Mueller, Peter, Unsteady biomixing andheat transfer in microchannels
Poskin, Jeff, Representability in mixedinteger quadratic programming
Ross, Daniel, The Ulam sequence andrelated phenomena
Rush, Keith, Orthogonal polynomials onthe unit circle: Steklov problems andweight perturbations
Tveite, Paul, Effectivizations of dimen-sion and cardinal characteristics
Wang, Jason, Phylogenetic reconstructionaccuracy in the face of heterogeneity,recombination, and reticulate evolution
Wang, Kejia, A journey to low sphericaldiscrepancy
Wen, Huanyu, Winding problems of pla-nar Markov processes
Department of Statistics
Choi, Jeea, Pre-processing and stas-tistical inference methods for high-throughput genomic data with ap-plication to biomarker detection andregenerative medicine
Davis, John, Size-biased sampling indisparity analysis
Kim, Donggyu, Statistical inferences onhigh-frequency financial data and quan-tum state tomography
Li, Yuanzhi, Contributions to classifica-tion and regression trees
Liu, Shixue, Regularized outcome weightedsubgroup identification with smoothhinge loss
Nie, Xiao, Some methods for large-scalestatistical computing and modelingcomputer simulations
Park, Gunwoong, Large-scale directedgraphical model learning
Qi, Cuicui, Model-assisted regression es-timator for longitudinal data with non-ignorable dropout
Sadeghi, Soheil, Sliced designs for multi-platform online experiments
Ta, Tram, Generalized regression estima-tors with high-dimensional covariates
Vieira Nunes Ludwig, Guilherme, Datafusion and spatial confounding in semi-parametric methods for spatial andspatio-temporal data
Wendelberger, Barbara, Exploiting bi-ology’s structure-function relationshipto improve effective connectivity esti-mates in neuroimaging
Xie, Yaoguo, Topics on multivariate semi-continuous proportionally constrainedtwo part models
Zhang, Grace (Xin), Statistical methodsfor high frequency financial data
University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (10)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Asante-Asamani, Emmanuel, A real dis-tinct poles exponential time differ-encing scheme for advection-diffusionreaction equations
Barrera, Joseph, Asymptotic expansionof the L2-norm of a solution of thestrongly dumped wave equation
Harlass, Carsten, Density estimationfor lifetime distributions under semi-parametric random censorship models
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Jiang, Yi, Nonlocal Debye–Huckel equa-tions and nonlocal linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations for electrostaticsof electrolytes
Tidmore, Joseph, Cocompact cubulationsof mixed 3-manifolds
Ying, Jinyong, Domain decompositionbased hybrid methods of finite elementand finite difference and applicationsin biomolecule simulations
Department of Mathematics
Bauer, Tyler, Estimating the selectiongradient of a function-valued trait
Hoeppner, Matthew, On some one-complexdimensional slices of the boundednesslocus of a multi-parameter rationalfamily
Zhao, Qian, Robust and computationallyefficient methods for fitting loss modelsand pricing insurance risks
Department of Mathematics and
Atmospheric Sciences
Haulmark, Matthew, Splittings of rela-tively hyperbolic groups and classifica-tions of 1-dimensional boundaries
WYOMING
University of Wyoming (4)
Department of Mathematics
Jennings, Rachel, Modeling the transmis-sion and maintenance of low pathogenicAvian influenza among wild birds withenvironmental heterogeneity and hostconditions
Kuang, Dongyang, A particle methodfor Euler Poincare equation and itsapplications in analysis of landmarkbased image templates
Seo, Mookwon, Alternative models forwater in filtration and oil reservoirs inground
Torsu, Prosper, Uncertainty quantifica-tion and models of multiphase flow inporous media
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