doctoral degrees conferred...doctoral degrees conferred 2015–2016 alabama auburn university (8)...
TRANSCRIPT
Doctoral Degrees Conferred2015–2016
ALABAMA
Auburn University (8)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Aust, Jennifer, Bounded complete embed-ding graphs
Bertl, Alan, Techniques for finding home-omorphisms between generalized in-verse limits
Byaly, Alexander, Generalized matrixfunctions
Erzurumluoglu, Aras, Fair factorizationsand fair holey factorizations of thecomplete multipartite graph and relatededge-colorings
Lilly, Kristen, Robust group variable se-lection methods
Nwaeze, Eze, Location of zeros andgrowth of polynomials
Pannu, Jasdeep, Robust variable selec-tion methods for functional regressionmodels
Sarver, Zachary, Extensions of mono-tonicity results to semisimple Liegroups
University of Alabama (6)
Department of Mathematics
Acharyya, Soumyadip, A difference ofcomposition operators on Bergmanspace
Alli, Toyin, Statistical networks withapplications in economics and finance
Chataut, Laxmi, Groups with conditionson non-permutable subgroups
Duffee, Linden, On the harmonic andgeometric maximal operators
Nguyen, Duc, High order FDTD methodsfor electromagnetic systems in disper-sive inhomogeneous media
Perry, Kaitlyn, Polydegree properties ofpolynomial automorphisms
The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2015, to June 30,2016) reported in the 2017 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 266 departments in 195 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.
University of Alabama atBirmingham (7)
Department of Biostatistics
Dawson, Erica L, Performance of ordinaryleast squares and heteroskedasticityconsistent covariance matrix estimatorsin heteroskedastic analysis of covari-ance models
Jones, Lindsay, Statistical methodologyto improve the understanding of DNAmethylation data
Kim, Hwasoon, Evaluation of samplesize re-estimation procedures for non-inferiority designs with time-to-eventoutcomes
Malick, Himel, Some contributions toBayesian regularization methods withapplications to genetics and clinicaltrials
Department of Mathematics
Alawam, Fatin, Subsurface parameterestimation in oilfield modeling
Barry, Brandon, On the simplest lamina-tion of a given identity return triangle
Besing, Kyle, Spectral properties andlocalization of two random Laplacianson graphs
University ofAlabama—Huntsville (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
He, Yunzhu, Wavelet estimators in non-parametric regression model and simu-lation study
Marples, Pamela, Graph sharing parame-ters
University ofAlabama—Tuscaloosa (2)
Information Systems, Statistics, and
Management Science Department
Michael, Semhar, The development ofdiagnostic tools for mixture modelingand model-based clustering
Walker, Michael, Reduced-bias predictionregions and estimators of the originalresponse when using data transforma-tions
ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (16)
School of Human Evolution and
Social Change
Barley, Kamal, Parameter estimationand mathematical modeling of visceralLeishmaniasis
Evangelista, Arlene, Characterization ofthe Mathematical Theoretical BiologyInstitute as a Vygotkian-Holzman zoneof proximal development
Gonzalez, Beverly, Quantitative modelingmethods for analyzing clinical to publichealth problems
Morales, Romarie, Robustness of con-tact and age-aggregation in influenzamodels
Murillo, Anarina, Type 2 Diabetes andobesity: A biological, behavioral andenvironmental context
Smith, Adrian, Biophysical mechanismfor correlated spiking: Relating neuralsyncrony and common excitatory drive
Summer, Ilyssa, Oncolytic viral and im-munotheraphy models combined withstrategies to ameliorate cancer burden
School of Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences
Denker, Dennis, High-order methods ex-ploiting sparsity with applications inimaging and PDEs
Evilsizor, Stephen, Evolutionary games asinteracting particle systems
Ilkturk, Utku, Observability methods insensor scheduling
Marfai, Frank, Characterizing teacherchange through the perturbation ofpedagogical goals
Morgan, Adam, Cuntz-Pimsner algebrasof twisted tensor products of corre-spondences and other constructions
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 727
Tallman, Michael, An examination of theeffect of a secondary teacher’s image ofinstructional constraints on his enactedsubject matter knowledge
Thatcher, Andrea, Swarming in boundeddomains
Wienke, Matthew, An aggregate secondorder continuum model for transientproduction planning
Yu, Wanchunzi, A test and confidence setfor comparing the location of quadraticgrowth curves
University of Arizona (8)
Department of Mathematics
Chavez, Angel, Werner’s measure on self-avoiding loops and representations ofthe Virasoro algebra
Henniges, Alex, Kisin-Ren classificationsof pi-divisible O-modules via the Dieu-donne crystal
Thomas, Joseph, Conformal variations ofpiecewise constant curvature two andthree manifolds
Program in Applied Mathematics
Armstrong (Hine), Michelle, A finite el-ement model for mixed porohyper-elasticity with transport, swelling, andgrowth
Berman, Benjamin, Accelerated radialmagnetic resonance imaging: New ap-plication and methods
Holman, Benjamin, Analytical study andnumerical solution of the inverse sourceproblem arising in thermoacoustic to-mography
Shah, Aalok, Continuous models of alphaand beta protein structures
Williams, Katherine, Anti-cancer treat-ment and the cell cycle: Cellular-levelmathematical models
University of Arizona, Meland Enid ZuckermanCollege of PublicHealth (1)
Department of Biostatistics
Fiero, Mallorie, Statistical approachesfor handling missing data in clusterrandomized trials
ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas atFayetteville (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chung, Ming-Hua, Probablistic graphicalmodeling on big data
Iwaki, Chizuko, Probablistic graphicalmodeling on big data
Shabazz, Melissa, Isometries of Besovtype spaces among composition opera-tors
Thomas, Emily, The maximal Thurston-Bennequin number on grid number ndiagrams
Thomas, Ryan, Effects of dynamic graph-ing utilities on student attitudes andconceptual understanding in collegealgebra
CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (6)
Department of Computing and
Mathematical Sciences
Akhmetgaliyev, Eldar, Fast numericalmethods for mixed, singular Helmholtzboundary value problems and Laplaceeigenvalue problems
Department of Mathematics
Hwang, Brian, Constructing self-dual au-tomorphic representations on generallinear groups
Nastasescu, Maria, Nonvanishing of L-functions for GL(n)
Ni, Xiang, Rota-Baxter algebras, renor-malization on Kausz compactificationsand replicating of binary operads
Sinha, Gaurav, Black-box reconstructionof depth three circuits with top fan-intwo
Yeo, Foo Yee, I-adic cohomology of thedual Lubin-Tate tower via the exteriorpower
Claremont GraduateUniversity (16)
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Abdallah, Shaher, General stability analy-sis of composite sandwich plates underthermal load
Choi, Patrick, Optimization of princi-pal eigenvalue of an elliptic operatorwith applications to heat conductivityproblem
Garcia, Mariangel, Data assimilation unitfor the general curvilinear environmen-tal model
He, Lingjun, Semiparametric varying-coefficient mixed effects modeling ap-proaches to longitudinal data
Herrlin, Daniel, Forecasting MLB perfor-mance utilizing a Bayesian approach inorder to optimize a fantasy baseballdraft
Kandes, Martin, Modeling the effects ofinertial forces on Bose-Einstein conden-sates in rotating frames of reference
Ko, Gene, Computational approaches fordescriptor optimization and model de-velopment for HIV-1 drug design
Ledahl, Jeffrey, Bayesian join modeling oflongitudinal visual field data with cor-related binary and survival outcomes
Liu, Chen, Monte Carlo algorithms forAmerican option pricing: An analysisof convergence rates and the applica-tion of backward Taylor expansion onvariance reduction techniques
Michal, Matthew, Analytic and numericalanalysis of lubrication coating flowmodels
Schuster, Micah, Systematic investigationof operators in nuclear systems
Taherian, Shahab, Computational fluiddynamics analyses of ambient particledeposition in the human respiratorysystem and virus transport aboard aregional aircraft
Turtle, James, Synchronization in cou-pled spin-torque nano oscillators: Non-linear dynamics analysis
Wilson, Mark, Structure and rheologicalproperties of self-associating polymernetworks
Zhao, Peng, Novel random forest meth-ods applied to medical studies
Zubairi, Omair, An investigation of de-formation of the stellar structure ofneutron stars
Stanford University (19)
Department of Mathematics
Ahuja, Saran, Mean field games withcommon noise
Boreico, Iurie, Statistics of random inte-gral matrices
Chodosh, Otis, The geometry of asymp-totically hyperbolic manifolds
Edelen, Nicholas, On the free boundarymean curvature flow
Furmaniak, Ralph, On the structure andcomplex analysis of Dirichlet series
Goodman, Elizabeth, Lagrangian tori inR4 and S2×S2
Hintz, Peter, Global analysis of linear andnonlinear wave equations on cosmolog-ical spacetimes
Jerison, Daniel, The drift and minoriza-tion method for reversible Markovchains
Kalisnik Verovsek, Sara, Tropical coor-dinates on the space of persistencebarcodes
Kupers, Alexander, Some finiteness re-sults for groups of automorphisms ofmanifolds
Leach, Jeremy, The vacuum Einsteinconstraint equations on manifolds withends of cylindrical type
Litt, Daniel, Non-abelian Lefschetz hyper-plane theorems
Nariman, Sam, Stable moduli of flatmanifold bundles
Nestoridi, Evrydiki-Xenia, Rates of con-vergence of Markov chains to station-arity: Strong stationary times, coupling,Gelfand pairs and comparison theory
Nguyen, Khoa, On symplectic homologyof the complement of a positive normalcrossing divisor in a projective variety
Nolen, Samuel, The string topology ofholomorphic curves in BU (n)
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
728 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Skryzalin, Jacek, Numeric invariants frommultidimensional persistence
Tsai, Li-Cheng, Weak universality of in-teracting particle systems
Zamorzaev Orleanschii, Alexandr,Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture for genusO real Gromov-Witten invariants
University of California,Berkeley (40)
Department of Mathematics
Bejraburnin, Natth, A study on corre-lation between genes’ functions andevolutions
Chough, Chang-Yeon, Topological tropesof algebraic stacks
Cook, Woo-Hyun, Transformation ofPDEs: Optimal transport and conser-vation laws
Duersch, Jed, High efficiency spectralanalysis and BLAS-3 randomized QRCPwith low-rank approximations
Fortunato, Meire, Curved and anisotropicunstructered mesh generation and adap-tivity using the Winslow equations
Gannot, Oran, Curved and anistropic un-structered mesh generation and adap-tivity using the Winslow equations
Gillespie, Maria, A combinational ap-proach to the q,t-symmetry in Macdon-ald polynomials
Greengard, Daniel, Complex boundaryintegral equation formulation and sta-bility analysis of a Maxwell model ofan elastic model of solid-solid phasetransformations
Johnson, William, Fun with fieldsKominiarczuk, Jakub, Acyclic Monte Carlo:
Efficient multiscale sampling of undi-rected graphical models through fastmarginalization
Kroener, Christoph, A mathematical ex-ploration of a PDE system for lithium-ion batteries
Kruckman, Alex, Infinitary limits of finitestructures
Laine, Kim, Security of genus 3 curves incryptography
Lee, Minjae, Spectral analysis on pointinteractions
Li, Penghui, Uniformation of semistablebundles on elliptic curves
Lieb, Anna, Modeling and optimizationof transients in water distribution net-works
Liu, Weihua, Noncommutative distribu-tional symmetries and their relatedde Finetti type theorems
Mandelshtam, Olya, Combinatorics of theasymmetric simple exclusion process
Mazel-Gee, Aaron, Goerss-Hopkins ob-struction theory via model ?-categories
McMillan, Benjamin, Geometry and con-servation laws for a class of second-order parabolic equations
Melgaard, Christopher, Randomized piv-oting and spectrum-revealing boundsin numerical linear algebra
Robeva, Elina, Decomposing matrices,tensors and images
Schweber, Noah, Interactions betweencomputability theory and set theory
Scott, Jacob, An I/O-complexity lowerbound for all recursive matrix multipli-cation algorithms by path-routing
Shapiro, Alexander, Grothendieck resolu-tion, affine Grassmannian, and Yangian
Tabrizian, Peyam, Asymptotic PDE mod-els for chemical reactions and diffu-sions
Wong, Christopher, Bilinear quadraturesand their applications
Department of Statistics
Basu, Riddhipratim, Lipschitz embed-dings of random objects and relatedtopics
Bloniarz, Adam, Leveraging latent struc-ture in high-dimensional data: Causal-ity, neuroscience, and nonparametrics
Kamm, John, One and two locus likeli-hoods under complex demography
Schiebinger, Geoffrey, Sparse inverseproblems: The mathematics of preci-sion measurement
Tran, Linda, Forecasting high-dimensionalstate-spaces in the presence of modelerror
Wu, Siqi, Dictionary learning: Analysis ofspatial gene expression data and localidentifiability theory
Group in Biostatistics
Cotterman, Carolyn, Statistical methodsfor predicting dengue diagnosis usingclinical and LC-MS data
Coyle, Jeremy, Towards a practical imple-mentation of optimal treatment
Hansen, Curt, The LITSE algorithm: The-ory and application
Luedtke, Alex, Evaluating the impact ofindividualized treatment strategies
Mejia, Robin, Estimating size of unob-served populations in human rights:Problems in Syria and El Salvador
Sofrygin, Oleg, Semi-parametric estima-tion network data and tools for con-ducting complex simulation studies incausal inference
Tran, Linh, Comparative causal effectestimation and robust variance forlongitudinal data structures with appli-cations to observational HIV treatment
University of California,Davis (12)
Department of Mathematics
Dutra, Brandon, Decomposition methodsfor nonlinear optimization and datamining
Halabi, Ryan, Surface plasmon polaritonsin nonlinear media
Irion, Jeffrey, Multiscale transforms forsignals on graphs: Methods and appli-cations
Kopel, Philip, Hermitian and non-Hermit-ian random matrix theory
La Haye, Reuben, Quantitative combi-natorial geometry with applications tonumber theory and optimization
Lydon, Mark, On the chromatic symmet-ric function of graphs
Miller, Jacob, Transportation networksand matroids: Algorithms through cir-cuits and polyhedrality
Mossessian, George, Stabilizing Heegaardsplittings of high-distance knots
Navarro, Gustavo, Local well-posednessand global stability of the two-phaseStefan problem
Qin, Chuan, Card shuffles, genome rear-rangements, and social networks
Tian, Ruoguang, Top to random shufflesand characterization of rigged configu-rations of b(∞) in type A
Westenberger, Christopher, Knots andlinks from random projections
University of California,Irvine (20)
Department of Mathematics
Anzaldo, Leesa, Degeneracy ioci in grass-mannians
Asatryan, Ani, ODEs in mathematicalmedicine: New virus dynamics in thepresence of multiple invections; Evolu-tion of genetic instability in heteroge-neous tumors
Dellaca, Roger, Growth conditions onHilbert functions of modules
Ferrenc, Adrian, An explicit constructionfor homotopy monoidal structure
Gao, Hongwei, Random homogenizationof coercive Hamilton-Jacobi equationsin 1d
Ho, Michael, Sparse optimization meth-ods and statistical modeling with appli-cations to finance
Lee, Mary, Mathematical modeling oftumor growth and metabolism
Northrup, Cynthia, Toward the consis-tency strength of stationary set reflec-tion on small cardinals
Northrup, Scott, Arithmetic sums ofnearly affine Cantor sets
Reale, Nicholas, Deformations of mani-folds of Calabi-Yau type
Sanchez, Cynthia, Fastest time to cancerby loss of tumor suppressor genes oroncogene activation
Su, Heng, Selmer parity of quadratictwists of elliptic curves
Tsang, Chi Shing, Topics on Schrodingeroperators
Xu, Hang, On the spectrum and self-adjoint extension of Laplace operatoron Kahler manifolds
Yin, Penghang, Non-convex optimizationmethods for sparse and low-rank re-construction
Yu, Myungjun, Selmer ranks of twists ofalgebraic curves
Zhang, Lingxiao, Passive imaging of aspherically symmetric inclusion by elas-tic waves
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 729
Zhang, Shiwen, Arithmetic criterion offull spectral dimensionality for analyticquasiperiodic Schodinger operators
Zhong, Lin, Fast solvers for numeri-cal schemes based on finite elementexterior calculus
Zu, Penghe, Global sparse basis methodof solving residual KPP front speeds intime-periodic cellular flows in the smalldiffusion limit
University of California,Los Angeles (31)
Department of Biostatistics, Fielding
School of Public Health
Clark, Michelle, Statistical models fordetecting transgenerational genetic ef-fects
Estes, Jason, Time dynamic modeling andinference approaches for outcomes inpatients on dialysis
Gill, Mandev, Bayesian modeling of viralphylodynamics
Lu, Xiang, Handling incomplete high-dimensional multivariate longitudinaldata with mixed data types by multipleimputation using a longitudinal factoranalysis model
Shih, Wendy, Ensemble based estimatorsof a latent variable: Application in agingresearch
Wu, Sheng, Optimal design of clusterrandomized trials with binary outcomes
Department of Mathematics
Aaserud, Andreas, Weak and approxi-mate equivalence of group actions inthe framework of ultrapower Cartaninclusions
Carolino, Pietro, The structure of locallycompact approximate groups
Chen, William, Mutal and tight stationar-ity
Chongchitmate, Wutichai, New modelsfor practical secure computation
Dragomiretskiy, Konstantin, Variationalmethods in signal decomposition andimage processing
Galatan, Alin, Smooth bimodules andcohomology of II1 factors
Garrabrant, Scott, P-recursive integersequences and automata theory
Gast, Theodore, Numerical simulationof elastic, viscoelastic and granularmaterials
Greenblatt, Jordan, Asymptotic maximaloperator norms for Cartesian powers offinite grpahs
Hernandez, Joshua, Models and methodsfor sensor-based environment explo-ration
Jao, Casey, Energy-critical and mass-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equationswith variable coefficients
Keranen, Jukka, Compact support coho-mology of Picard modular surfaces
Lang, Jaclyn, Images of Galois represen-tations associated to p-adic families ofmodular forms
Li, Zhiqiang, Ergodic theory of expandingThurston maps
Lin, Jianfeng, The unfolding Seiberg-Witten-Floerr spectrum: Definition, prop-erty and applications
Lynn, Melissa, Sums-of-squares formulasover arbitrary fields
Pauwels, Bregje, Quasi-Galois theory intensor-triangulated categories
Peng, Zhimin, Asynchronous parallel al-gorithms for large scale problems
Ram, Daniel, A material point methodfor complex fluids
Rosenbaum, William, Distributed almoststable matchings
Soffer, Andrew, Combinatorics of conju-gacy classes in Un(Fq)
Tran, Giang, Sparsity-inducing methodsin imaging sciences and partial differ-ential equations
Wang, Teng, Population genetics in asingle organism: Models of neurosporacrassa nuclear dynamics
Woodworth, Joseph, Numerical optimiza-tion methods for image processing andmachine learning
Yin, Changyong, Geometry of Calabi-Yaumoduli
University of California,Merced (1)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Martin, David, Accounting for surfaceconcentrations using a VOF front track-ing method in multiphase flow
University of California,Riverside (5)
Department of Mathematics
Dusel, John, Combinatorics of crystalfolding
Navas, Esteban, A Priori bound on thevelocity in axially symmetric Navier-Stokes equations
Schneider, Lisa, Multiplicities associatedto Demazure flags of sl2[t]-modules
Shereen, Peri, A Steinberg type decom-position theorem for higher level De-mazure modules
Wand, Jeffery, Demazure flags of localWeyl modules
University of California,San Diego (18)
Department of Mathematics
Aisenberg, James, The proof and searchcomplexity of three combinatorial prin-ciples
Behzadan, Ali, An analysis of the con-formal formulation of the Einsteinconstraint equations on asymptoticallyflat manifolds
Cheung, Man Wai, Tropical techniques incluster theory and enumerative geome-try
Cummings, Jonathan, Flips and juggles
Das, Shaunak, Vector bundles on perfec-toid spaces
Elle, Susan, A study of dimension S oreextensions
Hoff, Daniel, Some structural resultsfor measured equivalence relations andtheir associated von Neumann algebra
Longo, Brian, “Super-approximation” inabsolutely almost simple groups overthe field of rational functions withcoefficients in a finite field
Moody, John Brogan, Discrete differentialstructures on simplical complexes
Palmer, Joseph, Symplectic invariants andmoduli spaces of integrable systems
Semko, Jeremy, Controlled rough pathson manifolds
Sergel, Emily, The combinatorics of nablapn and connections to the rationalshuffle conjecture
Tait, Michael, Connections between graphtheory, addititve combinatorics, andfinite incidence geometry
Tong, Pun Wai, Classical limit on quan-tum mechanics for unbounded observ-ables
Tully-Doyle, Ryan K, On the representa-tion and boundary behavior of certainclasses of holomorphic functions inseveral variables
Wang, Liang, Topics in tranformation-based statistical method
Wilkins, Gautam, An empirical choas ex-pansion method for uncertainty quan-tification
Won, Robert, The graded module categoryof a generalized Weyl algebra
University of California,Santa Barbara (9)
Department of Mathematics
Comelli, Silvia, Hartree-Fock theory witha self-generated magnetic field
Cote, Benjamin, A complex Euclideanreflection group and its braid
Cui, Xingshan, Higher categories andtopological quantum field theories
Delgadillo, Ricardo, Semiclassical meth-ods for high frequency wave propaga-tion in periodic media
Karimi, Shahab, Stochastic 2D Navier-Stokes equation and applications to 2Dturbulence
Smith, Derek, Propagation of regularitywithin solutions to Korteweg-de Vriestype equations
Tsang, Sin Yi Cindy, On the Galois modulestructure of the square root of theinverse different in abelian extensions
Wang, Changliang, Linear stability of Ein-stein metrics and Perelman’s lambda-functional for manifolds with conicalsingularities
Wirts, Shawn, Poincare inequalities undergauge transformations
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
730 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
University of California,Santa Cruz (6)
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Department
Betancourt Canizales, Brenda, Modelingand prediction of time series of directedbinary networks
Lopez Arriaza, Juan, Unraveling steel-head life history complexity throughmathematical modeling
Pourmohamad, Tony, Combining multi-variate stochastic process models withfilter methods for constrained opti-mization
Soper, Braden, Non-zero-sum, adversarialdetection games in network security
White, Katelyn, Numerical investigationsof spherical boundary-driven dynamos
Department of Mathematics
Beloi, Aleksander, Shinani’s method: Zetavalues and stark units
University of SouthernCalifornia (11)
Department of Mathematics
Abram, Michael, Symmetries of categori-fied quantum groups
Kang, Yongjian, Large-scale inference inmultiple Gaussian graphical models
Karnam, Chandrasekhar, Dynamic ap-proaches for some time inconsistentproblems
Keller, Christian, Pathwise stochasticanalysis and related topics
Ren, Haining, The cycle convergence rateof cyclic permutations
Tucker, Henry, Frobenius-Schur indica-tors for near group and Haagerup-Izumifusion
Ugurlu, Kerem, Some mathematical prob-lems for the stochastic Navier-Stokesequations
Wang, Jian, On the torsion structure ofelliptic curves over cubic number fields
Williams, Andrew, On the Giroux corre-spondence
Yang, Fan, Entry times statistics onmetric spaces
Zhang, Tian, Optimal investment andreinsurance problems and related non-Markovian FBSDEs with constraints
COLORADOColorado School ofMines (2)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Alyoubi, Ahmad, High performance com-putational algorithms for a class of inte-ger and fractional evolutionary models
Maestas, Joseph, Long-range shock pro-pogation in ocean waveguides
Colorado StateUniversity (19)
Department of Mathematics
Alsaker, Melody, Computational advance-ments in the D-bar reconstructionmethod for 2-D electrical impedancetomography
Chepushtanova, Sofya, Algorithms forfeature selection and pattern recogni-tion on Grassmann manifolds
Cooper, Benjamin, Abstract hyperovals,partial geometries, and transitive hy-perovals
Hanson, Eric, Algorithms in numericalalgebraic geometry and applications
Ho, Anne, Counting Artin-Schreier curvesover finite fields
Ihde, Steven, Preconditioning polynomialsystems using Macaulay dual spaces
Mikucki, Michael, Electromechanical andcurvature driven molecular flows forlipid membranes
Sadre-Marandi, Farrah, Mathematical mod-eling for HIV-1 viral capsid structureand assembly
Department of Statistics
Alsaker, Cody, Statistical innovations forestimating shape characteristics of bi-ological macromolecules in solutionusing small-angle x-ray scattering data
Edmondson, Stacy, Adjusting for cap-ture, recapture, and identity uncertaintywhen estimating detection probabilityfrom capture-recapture surveys
Hunter, Brett, Modeling the upper tailof the distribution of facial recognitionnon-match scores
Russell, Brook, Understanding extremebehavior by optimizing tail dependencewith application to ground level ozonevia data mining and spatial modeling
Sienkiewicz, Ela, Analysis of structureddata on big data with application toneuroscience
Sun, Libo, Parameter inference and modelselection for differential equation mod-els
Tan, Hongyu, Modulated renewal processmodels with functional predictors forneural connectivities
Tipton, John, Improved estimation andprediction for computationally expen-sive ecological and paleoclimate models
Tu, Yan, A penalized estimation proce-dure for varying coefficient models
Wu, Jiwen, Penalized isotonic regressionand an application in survey sampling
Young, Gabriel, Inference for functionaltime series with applications to yieldcurves and intraday cumulative returns
University of Colorado,Boulder (13)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Ali, Ashar Fawad, ULF waves and diffu-sive radial transport of charged parti-cales
Bao, Lei, Efficient time-integrationschemes for discontinuous Galerkinnon-hydrostatic atmosphere models
Barnett, Gregory, A robust RBF-FD formu-lation based on polyharmonic splinesand polynomials
Cheng, Ze, Qualitative analysis of somenon-linear PDE
Nieves, David J, Investigations of reducedequations for rotating, stratified andnon-hydrostatic flows
Wong, Anthony, The impact of stable wa-ter isotopic information on parametercalibration in a land surface model
Department of Mathematics
Grimes, Matt, Compactifications of uni-versal moduli spaces of vector bundlesand the log-minimal model progam onMg
Havasi, Krisztian, Geometric realizationof strata in the boundary of the inter-mediate Jacobian locus
Linman, Julie, Minimal functions on therandom permutation
Nishikawa, Jared, Applications of cryto-graphic hash functions
Nita, Alexander, Self adjointness of thesympletic dirac operators
Scherer, Charles, Maximal comparableand incomparable sets in Boolean alge-bras
Shannon, Erica, Computing invariantforms for Lie algebras using heaps
University of Colorado,Denver (2)
Department of Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences
Brandt, Axel, Computational approachesin graph theory
Thomas, Brent, Saturation spectrum fortrees
University of Denver (2)
Department of Mathematics
Ash, Drew, Topological speedupsFrench, Thomas, Follower and extender
sets in symbolic dynamics
University of NorthernColorado (3)
School of Mathematical Sciences
Roach, Catherine, A study of noviceinstructors’ questioning techniques andclassroom discourse surrounding thosequestions
Troudt, Melissa, Mathematicians’ evolvingpersonal arguments: Ideas that moveproof constructions forward
Troup, Jonathan, “Students” develop-ment of geometric reasoning about thederivative of complex-valued functions
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 731
CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (13)
Department of Mathematics
Asaad, Malva, Hypoelliptic heat kernelon nilpotent Lie groups
Judge, Jonathan, Modules over rank-twoKLR algebras
Lorincz, Andras, Bernstein-Sato polyno-mials for quivers
Mackenzie, Michael, Unitary k-Hessenbergmatrices
Pellico, Ryan, Multiple periodic solutionsof a nonlinear suspension bridge sys-tem of partial differential equations
Serhiyenko, Khrystyna, Induced and coin-duced modules over cluster-tilted alge-bras
Department of Statistics
Goh, Gyuhyeong, Applications of Berg-man divergence measures in Bayesianmodeling
Joeng, Hee-Koung, Theory and methodsfor modeling and fitting discrete timesurvival data
Larose, Chantal, Model based clusteringof incomplete data
Ouyang, Guang, Social network commu-nity detection
Serhiyenko, Volodymyr, Dynamic mod-eling of multivariate counts: Fitting,diagnostics and applications
Wang, Zhuo, Estimating equations forspatial extremes with applications todetection and attribution analysis ofchanges in climate extremes
Zhao, Bo, Scan statistics for detecing alocal change in variance for normal data
Wesleyan University (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Karker, Mary Leah, Two applications oftopology to the study of non-classicallogics
Liu, Jingho, Representations of integralhermitian forms by sums of norms
Yale University (9)
Biostatistics Division
Zhao, Qing, Integrative analysis of multi-dimensional cancer genomic data
Department of Mathematics
Allegretti, Dylan G, The geometry ofcluster varieties from surfaces
Cheung, Rex, Integrability estimates onthe space of S-arithmetic lattices
Faonte, Giovanni, Nerve construction, A-infinity functors and homotopy theoryof differential graded categories
Pimenov, Svyatoslav, Kostant’s theoremfor Lie superalgebra gl(m,n)
Ranganathan, Dhruv, Skeletons, degen-erations, and Gromov-Witten theory
Rao, Anup, Algorithms for Lipschitzextensions on graphs
Department of Statistics
Gao, Chao, Frequentist justifications ofBayes procedures
Rush, Cynthia, Iterative algorithms forinference and optimization, with appli-cations in communications and com-pressed sensing
DELAWAREDelaware StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Hui, Pengrui, Moving window finite-difference time-domain method basedon space-time coordinate transforma-tion
Zhao, Yingxue, Finite-difference time-domain method for hydrodynamic elec-tion fluid Maxwell equations
University of Delaware (8)
Department of Mathematical Science
Alexander, James, Selected results incombinatorics and graph theory
Castillo, Christopher, A method for con-structing groups of permutation poly-nomials and its applications to projec-tive geometry
Evans, Ryan, A mathematical journeythrough optical biosensors
Li, Jiange, Some topics in probabilitytheory, combinatorics and informationtheory
Li, Weiqiang, Algebraic methods in graphtheory
Meng, Shixu, Inverse scattering for apenetrable cavity and the transmissioneigenvalue problem
Qiu, Tianyu, Time domain in boundaryintegral methods in acoustics, heatdiffusion and electromagnetism
Yang, Fan, Scattering and inverse scat-tering in the presence of complexbackground media
DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAGeorge WashingtonUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics
El Sherif, Lara, Matchings, intersectiongraphs, and the maximum genus ofgraphs
Hu, Yeyao, Disc assemblies and spikeassemblies in inhibitory systems
Marshall, Leah, Computability-theoreticproperties of partial injections, treesand nested equivalences
Howard University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Alberto, Genesis, The division polyno-mials for the Holm curve and theirproperties
Arienmughare, Martin, Three, four-waveHLLC Riemann solver for single andmultiphase flow, and the classical andsemi-relativistic CGL-MHD
Siewe, Nourridine, Granuloma formationand immune response to infection byLeishmania: Mathematical models
FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Fontaine, Marcus, Nonlinear phenomenafrom a reinjected horseshoe
Ippolito, Stephen, Kicks and maps: A dif-ferent approach to modeling biologicalsystems
Rutherford, Vermont, Negligible varia-tion, change of variables, and a smoothanalog of the Hobby-Rice theorem
Sharma, Madhav, Maximally Prufer ringsThapa Magar, Krishna, Low rank tran-
sitive representations, primitive exten-sions, and the collision problem inPSL(2,q)
Florida Institute ofTechnology (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Goldfarb, Jonathan, On the optimal con-trol of the free boundary problems forthe second order parabolic equations
Florida StateUniversity (26)
Department of Mathematics
Adams, Bill, Lagrangian specialization vialog resolution and Schwartz-MacPherson-Chern classes
Ballenger-Fazzone, Brendon, An analysisof conjugate harmonic components ofmagnetic functions and lambda har-monic functions
Cole, Justin, Non-linear Schrodinger-typesystems: Complex lattices and non-paraxiality
Diaz-Martinez, Diego, Multiscale sum-maries of probability measures withapplications to plant and microbiomedata
Ekrut, David, Symmetry solutions ofthe multiphase model with biologicalapplications
Fletcher, Patrick, Theoretical, computa-tional, and experimental topics in ante-rior pituitary cell signaling
Han, Daozhi, Diffuse interface methodfor two-phase incompressible flows
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
732 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Jarrett, Angela, Investigating persistantinfections using mathematical model-ing and analyses
Jones, Dawna, Asset pricing equilibria forheterogeneous limit-information agents
Kim, Sarah, A mathematical model ofcelebral cortical folding developmentbased on a biomechanical hypothesis
Li, Mao, Quantifying phenotype variatiointhrough local persistant homology andimaging
Sun, Dong, High order long-time accuratemethods for Stokes-Darcy system anduncertainity quantification of contain-ment transport
Woodruff, Celestine, Efficient and accu-rate numerical schemes for long timestatistical properties of the infinitePrandtl number model for correction
Xu, Linlin, Gpn computing in financialengineering
Yuan, Wei, Estimating sensitivities of ex-otic options using Monte Carlo methods
Zhou, Guifang, Rank-constrained opti-mization: A Riemannian manifold ap-proach
Department of Statistics
Alrajhi, Sharifah, Examining the relation-ship of dietary component intake toeach other and to mortality
Fraser, Raphael, Median regression forcomplex survey data
Gramajo, Gary, Feature selection withannealing with application to big data
Qiu, Mingfei, The one- and two-sampleproblem for data on Hilbert manifoldswith applications to shape analysis
Schleeter, Tiffany, Methods of blockthresholding across multiple resolutionlevels in adaptive wavelet estimation
Scolnik, Ryan, Predictive accuracy mea-sures for binary outcomes: Impact ofincidence rate and optimization tech-niques
Shao, Jiang, Matched sample based crossnormalization methid on microarraygene dataset
Yu, Kaixian, Statistical methods for bigdata and their applications in biomedi-cal research
Zhang, Qiaoya, Sparse generalized PCAand dependency learning for large-scaleapplications
Zhang, Shuguang, Time-varying mixturemodels for financial risk management
University of CentralFlorida (1)
Department of Mathematics
Russo, Matthew, Building Lay integrablevariable-coefficient generalizations tointegrable PDEs and exact solutions tononlinear PDEs
University of Florida (14)
Department of Mathematics
Gray, Daniel, Bounds on the lengths ofrestricted superpatterns
Pantone, Jay, Structural analysis of per-mutation classes
Russo, Ben, Lifting thereoms for tuples of3-isometric and 3-symmetric operatorswith applications
Severa, William, Geometric representa-tions of the infimax S-adic family
Sharpe, Nicholas, A Z2 construction of a
K-automorphism that commutes with arank-1 transformation
Srinivasan, Tulsi, The Lusternik-Schnirel-mann category of Peano Continua
Torres, Juan, Dynamics of law and highpathagenic avian influenza in birds
Department of Statistics
Chen, Zhe, Inference for the number oftopics in the latent Dirichlet allocationmodel via Bayesian mixture modelling
Jung, Yeun Ji, Convergence analysis ofMarkov chain Monte Carlo algorithmsfor Bayesian regression models withnon-Gaussian errors
Linero, Antonio, Nonparametric Bayes:Inference under nonignorable missing-ness and model selection
Nguyen, Trang, Some contributions toBayesian item response models, case-control studies and case-cohort studies
Pal, Subhadip, Development and analysisof new Markov chain Monte Carlo(MCMC) algorithms
Park, Yeonhee, A Markov chain MonteCarlo approach to empirical Bayes infer-ence and Bayesian sensitivity analysisvie empirical processes
Wu, Yang, Bayesian inference with com-posite likelihoods
University of FloridaCollege of PublicHealth (7)
Department of Biostatistics
Ghebremariam, Samson, Modeling co-circulating pathogens for cohort studiesin the presence of high-dimensionalmissing data and left censoring
Helian, Shanjun, Structural nested model-ing and penalized correlation methodsfor clinical trials
Kirpich, Alexander, Dynamic infectiousdisease modeling challenges influencedby real life problems
Li, Li, Adjusting for confounding due tounmeasured characteristics that varyacross the levels of one or two factors
Meng, Ya, Analysis of infectious diseasein the presence of missing data in bothoutcome and covariates
Zeng, Hui, Graphical approaches to multi-ple testing within 2X2 factorial designs
Zhu, Yifan, Satistical considerations inmodeling infectious disease surveil-lance data
University of Miami (3)
Department of Mathematics
Cabrera Pacheco, Armando, On geomet-ric problems involving Schwarzschildmanifolds
Ding, Ziqian, Dihedral symmetries ofnon-crossing partition lattices
Song, Yishu, Hydrodynamic limit for Bak-Sneppen branching diffusions
University of SouthFlorida (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
D’Andrea, Joy, A statistical analysis ofhurricanes in the Atlantic Basin andsinkholes in Florida
Mudunuru, Venkateswara Rao, Modellingand survival analysis of breast cancer:A statistical artificial neural network,and decision tree approach
Pathirana, Vindya, Nearest neighbor for-eign exchange rate forecasting withMahalanobis distance
GEORGIAAugusta University (1)
Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Campbell, Jeff, Bayerian functional clus-tering and VMR identification in methy-lation micro array data
Emory University (14)
Department of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics
Bray, Margaret, Algorithmic approachesto classifying biological networks
Dai, Tian, Agreement methods for com-plex outcomes in biomedical studies
Liu, Shuling, Joint modeling approachesfor clustered survival data with randomcluster size
Lu, Xin, Estimation of potential outcomeswhen treatment assignment and dis-continuation compete in observationaldata
Shi, Ran, Some novel statistical methodsfor neuroimaging data analysis
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Bhaskhar, Nivedita, R-equivalence andnorm principles in algebraic groups
Bhat, Vindya, Ramsey and Turan-typetheorems for hypergraphs
Clemm, Amanda, Elliptic curves, eta-quotients and Weierstrass mock modu-lar forms
Etropolski, Anastassia, Rational points oncurves
Retter, Troy, Some Ramsey type problemsWest, Mckenzie, Brauer-Manin computa-
tions for surfaces
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 733
Wu, Zhengyao, Hasse principle for Her-mitation spaces
Yang, Boyi, Numerical modeling ofblood flow problems in coronary ar-teries: Patient-specific processing, fromstented geometries to fluid dynamics
Yang, Huanhuan, Parameter estimationand reduced order modeling in electro-cardiology
Georgia Institute ofTechnology (8)
School of Mathematics
Awi, Romeo, Minimization problems in-volving polyconvex integrands
Bush, Albert, Multifold sums and prod-ucts over R, and combinatorial prob-lems on sumsets
Difonzo, Fabio, The Filippov momentssolution on the intersection of two andthree manifolds
Hu, Jing, Complete nonnegatively curvedspheres and planes
Krone, Robert, Symmetric ideals andnumerical primary decomposition
Li, Wuchen, A study of stochastic dif-ferential equations and Fokker-Planckequations of applications
Vaidyanathan, Ranjini, Thermostated Kacmodels
Wang, Ruidong, Combinatorial problemsfor graphs and partially ordered sets
Georgia StateUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Carter, Douglas, Synchronization in dy-namical networks with mixed coupling
Liu, Hui, On regularized Newton-typealgorithms and a posteriori error es-timates for solving ill-posed inverseproblems
Marsli, Rachid, New extensions of theGersgorin theory
Stroev, Mikhail, Some results on general-ized complementary basis matrices anddense alternating sign matrices
Xing, Tingli, Computational study inchaotic dynamical system and mecha-nism for pattern generation in three-cellnetwork
Yang, Ping, Spanning Halin subgraphsinvolving forbidden subgraphs
University of Georgia (19)
Department of Mathematics
Brunyate, Adrian, A modular compact-ification of the space of elliptic K3surfaces
Castro, Nickolas, Relative trisections ofsmooth 4-manifolds with boundary
Hardesty, William, On support varietiesfor algebraic groups
Hicks, Jacob, Quadratic forms over Hassedomains: Finiteness of the Hermiteconstant
Jacobs, Kenneth, Asymptotic behaviorof arithmetic equivariants in non-Archimedean dynamics
Lacy, Allan, On the index of genus onecurves
McFaddin, Patrick, K-cohomology of gen-eralized Severi-Brauer varieties
Needham, Thomas, Grassmannian geom-etry of framed curve spaces
Troupe, Lee, Three applications of sievemethods in analytic number theory
Turbow, Maren, Structure theory ofgraded central simple algebras
Zawodniak, Matthew, A moduli space forrational homotopy types with the samehomotopy Lie algebra
Department of Statistics
Hu, Hejiao, A waiting time approach fora disability model
Kim, Sangjin, Prioritizing hypothesistests for high throughput data withmultiple testing methods
Liu, Fei, Cluster analysis for symbolicinterval data using linear regression
Qiu, Debin, Grouped variable screeningfor ultrahigh dimensional data
Wang, Shiyao, Modeling the effects ofpartially observed covariates with anextension of the Horvitz-Thompsonestimator in point sampling of EMAdata
Yan, Zhen, A birth and death model forRNA-Seq data analysis
Zhao, Jing, A probabilistic model for genefamily evolution
Zhuang, Yuan, Time series clustering us-ing copula-based higher order Markovprocesses
HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii atManoa (4)
Department of Mathematics
Joyce, Michael, A presentation of twofamilies of uniformly bounded repre-sentations of CAT (0)-cubical groupsand an example from hyperbolic geom-etry
Patterson, Geoffrey, Asteroid rendezvousmissions using optimal control
Reckwerdt, Eric, Weak amenability isstable under graph products
Tamura-Sato, Aaron, A hybrid controlmodel of fractone-dependent morpho-genesis
IDAHOIdaho State University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chikwanda, Patreck, Connectedness oftwo-sided Cayley digraphs
University of Idaho (2)
Department of Mathematics
Cockreham, James, Metric entrophy un-der generalized convexity
Oldroyd, Jesse, Generalizations and ap-proximations of equiangular tight frames
ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (6)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Chen, Tao, Dynamic conic finance viabackward stochastic difference equa-tions and recursive construction ofconfidence regions
Ding, Yuhan, Guaranteed adaptive uni-variate function approximation
Jiang, Lan, Guaranteed Monte Carlomethods for estimating means of ran-dom variables
Mitillos, Christoudoulos, Topics in graphfall-coloring
Turian, Emma, Computation and analysisof tumor growth
Zhou, Xuan, Function approximation withkernel methods
Illinois State University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Enzinger, Nicole, Developing and describ-ing the use and learning of conceptualmodels for integer addition and sub-traction of grade 5 students
Kirwan, James, Preservice secondarymathematics teachers’ knowledge ofgeneralization and justification on geo-metric-numerical patterning tasks
Nickels, Megan, Mathematics in thecharmed world: Affecting power, privi-lege, and conceptual understanding forchronically ill children through roboticsplay
Northern IllinoisUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Kifowit, Steven, A divide-and-conquersplit Schur algorithm
Mitchell, Tyler, Fusion rings with degrees1 and 4
Schaumburg, Herman, Combinatorial in-terpretations of continued fractionswith multiple limit points
Wallis, Benjamin, The almost invarianthalfspace problem
NorthwesternUniversity (10)
Department of Mathematics
Dolores Cuenca, Eric, DG: Swiss cheeseconjecture
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
734 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Egger, Philip, Some computations in v2-periodic homotopy theory at the prime2
Elliot, Christoper, Gauge theoretic aspectsof the geometric Langlands correspon-dence
Huang, Zili, Perron numbers and theirdistribution
Knudsen, Benjamin, Higher envelopingalgebras and configuation spaces ofmanifolds
Mahowald, Matthew, Knots and gammaclasses in open topological string theory
Wenbo, Sun, Structure theorems in dy-namics and their applications
Engineering Science and Applied
Mathematics Department
Slawik, Alexander, Nonlinear analysis ofsilicon microdisk resonators
Weiss, Noah, Periodic array of partiallyinsulated interface cracks subjected tounifrom fox-field heat flow
Wells, Daniel, Global methods for con-trolling noise response and identifyingbifurcations in complex dynamical sys-tems, with applications to biologicalcollective behavior
Southern IllinoisUniversity Carbondale (3)
Department of Mathematics
Alsibiani, Wahidah, Reducibility of para-bolically induced representations
Liu, Jun, New computational methods foroptimal control of partial differentialequations
Rajasingam, Prasanthan, On the numer-ical solution of continuous coupledalgebraic Riccati equations
University of Chicago (17)
Department of Mathematics
Bapat, Asilata, Some results on perversesheaves and Bernstain-Sato polynomials
Cheng, Shuyang, Towards a nonstandardFourier analysis in automorphic forms:Some results on two toy examples
Engelstein, Max, Free boundary problemsfor harmonic and caloric measure
Fehrman, Benjamin, Isotropic diffusionsin random environment
Filip, Simion, Teichmuller dynamics andHodge theory
Gazaki, Evangelia, Zero cycles on abelianvarieties, Somekawa K-groups and localsymbols
Geng, Andrew, The classification of five-dimensional geometries
Koshikawa, Teruhisa, Hodge bundles andheights of pure motives
Thatte, Vaidehee, Ramification theory forarbitrary valuation rings in positivecharacteristic
Zheng, Bowei, Limiting behavior of criticalbranching Brownian motion with killing
Department of Statistics
Dutta, Somak, Residual likelihood analy-sis for spatial mixed linear models
Liu, Zhe, High-dimensional graph estima-tion and density estimation
Ng, Lian Huan, Three essays on statisticalmodels for computer vision
Poppick, Andrew, Statistical methods forclimatic processes with temporal non-stationarity
Potiron, Yoann, Estimating the integratedparameter of the locally parametricmodel in high-frequency data
Shender, Dinah, Tradeoffs between com-putation and accuracy in statisticalestimation
Wang, Miaoyan, Mixed-model and quasi-likelihood methods for genetic associ-ation studies in samples with relatedindividuals and population structure
University of Illinois atChicago (12)
Mathematics, Statistics and
Computer Science Department
Bilman, Deniz, On longtime asymptoticsfor the Toda lattice and its Hamiltonianpertubations
Conant, Gabriel, Model theory and combi-natorics of homogenous metric spaces
Dyer, Jessica, Dynamics of equicontinu-ous group actions on Cantor sets
Kjerland, Marc, Model reduction andfluctuation response for two-timescalesystems
Kun, Jeremy, Graphs, new models, andcomplexity
Pajda-Delao, Jennifer, On the law of it-erated logarithms for Brownian motionon compact manifolds
Schneider, Jonathan, Diagrammatic theo-ries of 1- and 2-dimensional knots
Sun, Yan, A subgroup identificationmethod with interaction filtering andquantitative criteria
Tammali, Venu, High-order pertubationof surfaces approach to Fokas integralequations: Maxwell equations
Yu, Xiangcheng, Accelerating polynomialhomotopy continuation on graphicsprocessing units
Yuan, Ting, On the structered mani-fold optimization: Reduced-rank andpositive definite matrix estimation
Zheng, Hui, Virus classification based onalignment-free methods
University of Illinois,Urbana—Champaign (20)
Department of Mathematics
Ackermann, Colleen, Quasiconformal map-pings on planar surfaces
Berning, Stephen, Dynamics of a fullystochastic discretized neuronal modelwith excitatory and inhibitory neurons
Collier, Brian, Finite order automor-phisms of Higgs bundles: Theory andapplication
Demirbas, Seckin, A study on certainSchrodinger equations
DiPasquale, Michael, Splines on polytopalcomplexes
Galiardi, Meghan, Mathematical modelsin evolutionary dynamics
Hasler, Jordan, Stochastic and determin-istic epidemic models
Hockensmith, Daniel, A classification oftoric, folded-symplectic manifolds
Kim, Ki Yeun, Dynamics of bouncing rigidbodies and billiards in the spaces ofconstant curvature
Liu, Hong, Extremal graph theory: Super-saturations and enumeration
Mahoney, Thomas, Online choosability ofgraphs
McDonald, Daniel, Competitive versionsof vertex ranking and game acquisition,and a problem on proper colorings
Reiniger, Benjamin, Coloring and con-structing (hyper) graphs with restric-tions
Roy, Arindam, Ramanujun’s identities,Voronoi summation formula, and ze-roes of partial sums of zeta andL-functions
Searles, Dominic, Root-theoretic Youngdiagrams and Schubert calculus
Work, Grace, Transversals to horocycleflow on the moduli space of translationsurfaces
Yeakel, Sarah, Goodwillie calculus and IZhou, Sishen, Topology of configuration
space on trees
Department of Statistics
Shi, Peibei, Weak signal identification andinference in penalized model selcetion
Wang, Shiyu, Some theoretical and ap-plied developments to support cogni-tive learning and adaptive testing
INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (10)
Department of Mathematics
Bhattacharya, Prasit, Higher associativityof Moore spectra
Carter, Anne, Lubin-Tate deformationspaces and (φ, Γ )-modules
de Araujo Monterio da Silva, Rafael,Transverse steady bifurcation of vis-cous shock solutions of a system ofparabolic conservation laws in a strip
Gershon, Arthur, New directions in theenumeration of tilings of a chessboard
Lo, Chi Yu, The height-2 Lubin-Tate spaceand p-adic analytic representation
Nguyen, Thang, Qi-embedding rigidityof nonuniform lattices in higher ranksample Lie groups
Rohatgi, Ranjan, On the enumeration ofLozenge tilings of halved hexagons
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 735
Sadigov, Tural, Data assimilation anddetermining forms for weakly damped,dispersive systems
Yang, Ning, Cross-wired lamplightergroups and linearity of automatagroups
Yang, Ping, Dynamic transition forRayleigh-Benard convection
IndianaUniversity–PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Carichino, Lucia, Multiscale mathematicalmodeling of ocular blood flow andoxygenation and their relevance toglaucoma
Cassani, Simone, Blood circulation andaqueous humor flow in the eye: Multi-scale modeling and clinical applications
Lynch, Rodney, Arithmetic on normalforms of elliptic curves
Wang, Shan, An easy likelihood approachto improved estimation of linear func-tionals of a probability measure withside information with applications tostructural equation models
Purdue University (36)
Department of Mathematics
Backing, Thomas, Regularity of solutionsand the free boundary for a class ofBernoulli-type parabolic free boundaryproblems with variable coefficients
Boswell, Jacob, Prime saturations andRees algebras of almost linearly pre-sented ideals
Chavez Casillas, Jonathan, Stochasticmodeling of limit order books: Conver-gence of the prime process, simulationand applications
Chen, Binghe, Least-square finite ele-ment method for singularly perturbedproblems and the Oseen problem
Choi, Heejun, On several efficient al-gorithms for some partial differentialequations
Cox, Britain, Supercuspidal representa-tions arising from stable vectors
De Silva, Randombage, Rank constrainedhomotopies of matrices and the Blacka-dar-Handelman conjectures on C+-algebras
Hines, Taylor, The radius of comparisonand mean typological dimension
Kloster, Kyle, Graph diffusions and ma-trix functions: Fast algorithms andlocalization results
Legg, Alan, Applications of the Bergmanprojection to quadrature domains andthe Khavinson-Shapiro conjecture
Luo, Yankeng, Small-time expansions forlocal jump-diffusion models
McGee, Reginald, Modeling, analysis,and control of Syk-mediated signal-ing events for B cells and associatedcellular response for B cells
Miller, Brittney, Kernels of adjointsof composition operators on Hilbertspaces of analytic functions
Montano, Jonathon, Generalized multi-plicities and depth of blowup algebras
Mrad, Lidia, Dynamic analysis of Chevronstructures in liquid crystal cells
Noparstak, Jacob, On flows in Teichmullerand moduli spaces of surfaces
Rizzie, Anthony, Refined estimates on theBetti numbers of semi-algebraic sets
Rizzie, Erin, Adjoints of compositionoperators with a broader class ofsymbols
Rotz, Kevin, Monotonicity formulas fordiffusion operators on manifolds andCarnot groups, heat kernel asymptoticsand Wiener’s criterion on Heisenberg-type groups
Schneider, Andrew, Finite-dimensionalapproximations and deformations ofgroup C*-algebras
Sosa, Gabriel, On monomial orders,Koszul algebras and toric rings
Stull, Nicholas, Unique continuation frominfinity for perturbations of the com-plex hyperbolic space
Swartz, Drew, Analysis of models forcurvature driven motion interfaces
Wang, Xu, Incompressible multiphaseflows: Issues and algorithms
Wang, Yiran, The resolvent of the Lapla-cian on non-trapping asymptoticallyhyperbolic manifolds
Weigandt, James, Ranks of elliptic curvesand Selmer groups
Yim, Arnold, Homological properties ofdeterminantal arrangements
Zhang, Wei, Toms-Winter conjecture andtracial state space with non-compactextreme boundary
Department of Statistics
Chen, Ningning, Assessing inter-rateragreement for compositional data
Cheng, Longjie, On methods for variableselection under single index model andDNA methylation status calling
Choi, Meena, A flexible and versi-tile framework for statistical designand analysis of quantitative massspectrometry-based proteomic experi-ments
Lawlor, Michael, Calcium requirementdistribution via bone growth modeling
Navarro, Rolando, Malliavin calculus inthe canonical Levy process: White noisetheory and financial applications
Olafsson, Sveinn, Applications of short-time asymptotic methods to optionpricing and change-point detection forLevy processes
Rounds, Jeremiah, Inference using multi-level genomic features sets and modelsin RNA-Seq experiments
Wang, Xiaoguang, Realized kernel esti-mation of integrated volatility usinghigh frequency with random tradingtime
University of NotreDame (8)
Applied and Computational
Mathematics and Statistics
Wu, Liang, High order fast iterativemethods for steady state of hyperbolicpartial differential equations
Department of Mathematics
Diaz-Lopez, Alexander, Root systems ofreflection systems and w-graphs overnon-commutative algebras
Ferdinands, Timothy, Groupoids withroot systems in real vector spaces
Jiang, Xumin, Boundary expansions forminimal graphs in the hyperbolic space
Madsen, Jeffrey, Equations of Rees alge-bras and singularities of rational planecurves
Smith, Douglas, A method for estimatingentropy of real birational maps withconstrained critical orbits
Stoffel, Augusto, Supersymmetric fieldtheories and orbifold cohomology
Vojdani, Somayeh, On Presburger arith-matic, nonstandard finite cyclic groups,and definable compactifications
IOWAIowa State University (17)
Department of Mathematics
Herr, John, Fourier series for singularmeasures and the Kaczmarz algorithm
Hogenson, Kirsten, Random and deter-ministic versions of extremal posetproblems
Kingsley, Nicole, Skew propogation timeLois, Brian, Correctness results for on-line
robust principal components analysisMartinez, Jose de Jesus, Modeling and
controllability of a heat equation with apoint mass
Palmowski, Kevin, A fractional approachto minimum rank and zero forcing
Roat, Jolie, On 8p-dimensional Hopf alge-bras with the Chevalley property
Voller, Zachary, Limit theorems for per-sistent random walks in cookie envi-ronments
Department of Statistics
Cheng, Xiaoyue, Interactive visualizationfor missing values, time series, andareal data
Erciulescu, Andreea, Prediction variancefor small area models when the covari-ate area mean is subject to estimationerror
Follett, Lendie, Bayesian contributions tothe modeling of multivariate macroeco-nomic data
Fortin, Daniel, Contributions to modelingspatially indexed functional data usinga reproducing kernel Hilbert spaceframework
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
736 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Marget, Wilmina, Experimental designsfor multiple responses with differentmodels
Maurer, Karsten, Applications of tech-nology and large data in statisticseducation and statistical graphics
Osthus, David, Applications of and exten-sions to state-space models
Reiners, Jostein, Computer model opti-mization within hidden constraints
Simpson, Matthew, Essays in Bayesianmodeling and computing
University of Iowa (28)
Applied Mathematical and
Computational Sciences
Fonley, Morgan, Effects of oscillatoryforcing on hydrologic systems underextreme conditions: A mathematicalmodeling approach
Patterson, Catherine, Histomorphometry-based modeling and simulation of mul-tiple myeloma bone disease
Wang, Xiayi, Structured modeling andsimulation of articular cartilage lesionformation: Development and validation
Yang, Boshi, A conic optimization ap-proach to variants of the trust regionsubproblem
Zhang, Tianyi, Source recovery in bio-luminescence tomography based onradiative transfer
Zhu, Chenhong, New insight into modelsof cardiac caveolae and arrhythmia
Department of Biostatistics
Liu, Ke, A joint model of an internaltime-dependent covariate and bivariatetime-to-event data with an applicationto muscular dystrophy surveilllance,tracking, and research network data
Lu, Wenjinig, Monotone spline-based non-parametric estimation of longitudinaldata with mixture distributions
Pugh, Melissa A, A Bayesian approach todetect time-specific group differencesbetween nonlinear temporal curves
Tang, Fan, Structural time series cluster-ing, modeling, and forecasting in thestate-space framework
Ten Eyck, Patrick, Problems in general-ized linear model slection and predic-tive evaluation for binary outcomes
Thomann, Mitchell, The flexible bivariatecontinual reassessment method
VanBuren, John M, Integrating indepen-dent spatio-temporal replications toassess population trends in diseasespread
Department of Mathematics
Borchers, Brian, Uniquely clean elements,optimal sets of units and countingminimal sets of units
Colon, Nelson, Localized skein algebrasas Frobenius extensions
Czarnecki, Kyle, Resonance sums forRankin-Selberg products
Good, Jennifer, Weighed interpolationover W*-algebras
Grove, Colin, A combinatorial approachto the Cabling conjecture
Honken, Annette, Mapping distance oneneighborhoods within knot distancegraphs
Koffi, Gerard, Modules and orbits of theregular action, and deformations ofincidence algebras
Margolin, Benjamin, Non-commutativedeformation rings
Meyer, David, Universal deformationrings and fusion
Salazar, Nathan, Resonance for Maassforms in the spectral aspect
Savala, Paul, Computing spectral datafor Maass cusp forms using resonance
Soto, Roberto, Universal deformationrings and semidihedral 2-groups
Wackwitz, Daniel, Versal deformationrings of modules over Brauer treealgebras
Wassink, Luke, Split covers for certainrepresentations of classical groups
Department of Statistics and
Actuarial Science
Jiao, Feiran, High-dimensional inferenceof ordinal data with medical applica-tions
KANSASKansas State University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Alsulmi, Badria, Generalized Jacobi sumsmodulo prime power
Bunch, Eric, K-theory in algebraic geome-try
Thapa Magar, Surya, Skeleta of affinecurves and surfaces
Tran, Nhan, Numerical methods for solv-ing wave scattering problems
Department of Statistics
Tong, Bo, More accurate two-samplecomparisons for skewed populations
University of Kansas (9)
Department of Mathematics
Alkrani, Shalan, Three dimensional Ja-cobian derivations and divisor classgroups
Han, Zheng, Reflected diffusions andapplication to finance
Hu, Guannan, Fractional diffusion inGaussian noisy environment
Huang, Leonard, Generalized fixed-pointalgebras for twisted C*-dynamical sys-tems
Li, Xi, Dynamics of a degenerate Fokker-Planck equation and its application
Liu, Yanghui, Numerical solutions ofrough differential equations and sto-chastic differential equations
Reynolds, John, Convergence propertiesof Hausdorff closed spaces
Se, Tony, Depth and associated primes ofmodules over a ring
Su, Chen, Some studies on parameterestimations
University of KansasMedical Center (3)
Department of Biostatistics
Bimali, Milan, A likelihood-based ap-proach to the assessment of largesample convergence and model basedclustering
Garrard, Lili, Classical and Bayesianinstrument development
Lei, Yang, Parametric and nonparametricmodels in health research: Design andanalysis
Wichita State University (3)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Physics
Badreddine, Mohamed, A comparison ofsome numerical conformal mappingmethods for simply and multiply con-nected domains
Liang, Li, Increasing stability in theinverse problem for the Schrodingerequation
Rinker, Patrick, Pellet ablation in Toka-mak reactors
KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (13)
Department of Mathematics
Cai, Yue, New perspectives of quantumanalogues
Constable, Jonathan, Kronecker’s theoryof binary bilinear forms with applica-tions to representations of integers assums of three squares
Fogarty, Neville, On skew-constacycliccodes
Liang, Qiao, Singular value computationand subspace clustering
Nelson, Sarah, Flag-f-vectors of polytopeswith few verticies
Solus, Liam, Polyhedral problems in com-binatorical convex geometry
Wang, Hao, The Krylov subspace meth-ods for the computation of matrixexponents
Department of Statistics
Lou, Wenjie, Multi-state models withmissing covariates
Qi, Meng, Development in normal mixtureand mixture of expert modeling
Roualdes, Edward, New results in ell-1penalized regression
Shen, Zhiyuan, Empirical likelihood anddifferentiable functionals
Weyenberg, Grady, Statistics in theBillera-Holmes-Vogtmann treespace
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 737
Zhu, Shihong, Empirical likelihood confi-dence band
University of Louisville (6)
Department of Mathematics
Foreman, Erika, Order automorphismson the lattice of residuated maps ofsome special nondistributive lattices
Hoots, Lucas, Strong quota pair systemsand May’s theorem on median semilat-tices
Meng, Quancheng, Spreading speeds andtraveling waves in some populationmodels
Money, Chad, Chaos in semiflowsSuer, Charles, The PC-tree algorithm,
Kuratowski subdivisions, and the torusWang, Minghu, Mathematical studies of
the glucose-insulin regulatory systemmodels
LOUISIANALSU Health SciencesCenter, New Orleans (3)
Department of Biostatistics
Ardah, Husam, A new two-stage samplingdesign for sensitive questions throughrandomized response technique anddirect questioning
Danos, Denise, Binary regression withstochastic covariates
Zhu, Han, Bayesian sequential random-ization designs for phase III clinicaltrials
Louisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (12)
Department of Mathematics
Adimurthi, Karthik, Global a priori esti-mates and sharp existence results forquasilinear equations on nonsmoothdomains
Cross, Christopher Adam, Partial cosine-Funk transforms at poles of the cosine-λ transform on Grassmann manifolds
Darweesh, Amer, Wavelets, coorbit the-ory, and projective representation
D’souza, Kimberly, Excluding a weakly4-connected minor
Grey, Jacob, Analysis of nonlinear disper-sive model equations
Hajij, Mustafa, Knots, skein theory andq-series
Hayajneh, Mostafa, Twisted reflectionpositivity
Hu, Ying, Left-orderability, cyclic branchedcovers and representations of the knotgroup
Lewchalermvongs, Chanun, Well-quasi-ordering by the induced-minor relation
Majed, Lieth, Topological dynamics oncompact phase spaces
Smirnov, Aleksandr, Riemann-Hilbert for-malism in the study of crack propaga-tion in domains with a boundary
Yang, Yunyun, A new method in dis-tribution theory with a non-smoothframework
Tulane University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Ahmadi, Elham, Boundary integral for-mulation for flows containing an inter-face between two porous media
Barker, Tyler, A monad for randomizedalgorithms
Jiu, Lin, The method of brackets and theBernoulli symbol
Qu, Zhuolin, Fast operator splitting meth-ods for nonlinear PDEs
Sun, Mengyao, Algebraic properties ofsquarefree monomial ideals
Yang, Qiang, Macroscopic fiber motionin a polymeric fluid driven by a four-roll-mill
University of Louisiana atLafayette (4)
Department of Mathematics
Chellamuthu, Vinodh, Structure popula-tion models: Numerical methods andapplications to dynamics of amphibiansand chytridiomycosis
Li, Xinyu, Size-structured populationmodel with distributed states in therecruitment: Approximation and pa-rameter estimation
Miller, Robert Lloyd, Models for the inter-actions of size structured populationsand the environment
Sambandham, Bhuvaneswari, Analysis ofsequential Caputo fractional differen-tial equations with applications
MARYLANDJohns Hopkins UniversityBloomberg School ofPublic Health (13)
Department of Biostatistics
Abreu, Francis, Definition and estima-tion of intervention effects in complexsystems: Gender equity in academia
Collado Torres, Leonardo, Annotation-agnostic differential expression analy-sis
Fisher, Aaron, Methods for high dimen-sional analysis, multiple testing, andvisual exploration
Fortin, Jean-Philippe, Statistical methodsfor epigenetic data and structural mag-netic resonance imaging
Huang, Lei, Statistical methods in high-dimensional structured data
Lu, Yi, Influence function based statis-tical inference under various samplingdesigns
Mejia, Amanda, Statistical methods forfunctional magnetic resonance imagingdata
Muschelli, John, Computational methodsfor neuroimaging in R: Stroke hemor-rhage in x-ray computed tomographyscanning
Pal Choudhury, Parichoy, Statistical in-ference with multiple data sources
Patil, Prasad, Assessing reproducibilityand value in genomic signatures
Qiu, Huitong, Statistical methods andtheory for analyzing high dimensionaltime series
Sweeney, Elizabeth, Statistical methodsfor analysis of structural magneticresonance imaging in patients withmultiple sclerosis
Yue, Chen, Generalizations, extensionsand applications for principal compo-nent analysis
Johns HopkinsUniversity (7)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Liu, Bo, Energy commodity price analysisand trading strategies
Yoder, Jordan, On model-based semi-supervised clustering
Department of Mathematics
Beardsley, Jonathan, Coalgebraic struc-ture and intermediate Hopf-Galois ex-tensions of Thom spectra in quasicate-gories
Lorman, Vitaly, Real Johnson-Wilson the-ories and computations
Mincheva, Kalina, Semiring congruencesand tropical geometry
Xue, Min, Concerning the Klein-Gordonequation on asymptotically Euclideanmanifolds
Zhu, Junyan, Hole probabilities of SU(m+1)Gaussian random polynomials
University of Maryland,Baltimore County (10)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Al-Najjar, Elias, Extensions of Cook’sprincipal fitted components for suffi-cient dimension reduction
Baro, Elande, Bayesian latent propensityscore approach for average causal effectestimation allowing covariate measure-ment error
Coulibaly, Zana, Calcium dynamics fromrandomly releasing sparks in cardiacmyocytes: Analyzing and simulating aprobabilistic 3-dimensional mathemati-cal model with point release sources
Flouri, Marilena, Tolerance limits andconfidence limits for cost-effectivenessanalysis
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
738 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Karmakar, Moumita, Variable selectionin high dimensional complex data andBayesian estimation of reduction sub-space
Khuvis, Samuel, Porting and tuning nu-merical kernels in real-world appli-cations to many-core Intel Xeon Phiaccelerators
Plunkett, Amanda, Analysis and testingof sparse high dimensional discretedata
Pottackal, Ginto, Some tests, confidencelimits and tolerance limits for assessingbiosimilarity
Wang, Ting, Parametric sensitivity analy-sis of stochastic reaction networks
Xi, Mingyu, Statistical modeling and hy-pothesis testing of chemical-chemicalinteraction: A non-parametric approach
University of Maryland,College Park (28)
Department of Mathematics
Begue, Matthew, Expedition in data andharmonic analysis on graphs
Brandon, Andrew, Capturing micro-emul-sions and micro-foams with the arbi-trary Langrangian Eulerian method
Civan, Gokhan, Identification of oper-ators on elementary locally compactabelian groups
Clapp, Geoffrey, Applying mathematicalmodels to study the role of the im-mune system in chronic myelogenousleukemia
Clark, Chae, Spectral frame analysis andlearning through graph structure
Cui, Ran, The real-quaternionic indicatorof irreducible self-conjugate represen-tations of real reductive groups
Darmon, David, Statistical methods foranalyzing time series data drawn fromcomplex social systems
Das, Suddhasattwa, Chaos and quasiperi-odicity
Delgadino, Matias, Analysis of self-organization
Doboszczak, Stefan, Existence and weak-strong uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes-Smoluchowski system over mov-ing domains
Forstall, Virginia, Iterative solution meth-ods for reduced-order models of param-eterized partial-differential equations
Galagate, Douglas, Causal inference witha continuous treatment and outcome:Alternative estimators for parametricdose-response functions
Guay, Matthew, Sparse signal representa-tion in digital and biological systems
Hafftka, Ariel, Tensor completion formultidimensional inverse problems withapplications to magnetic resonancerelaxometry
Harris, David, Algorithms and general-izations for the Lovasz local lemma
Hsiao, Chiao-Wen, Multivariate meth-ods for high-throughput biologicaldata with application to comparativegenomics
Kuz, Elif, Quantitative derivation ofeffective evolution equations for thedynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates
Laun, Gregory, Fundamental domains forproper affine actions of Coxeter groupsin three dimensions
Mendelowitz, Lee, Algorithms for align-ment and visualization of genome map-ping data with applications to structuralvariant detection
Norwood, Adrienne, Bred vectors, singu-lar vectors, and Lyapunov vectors insimple and complex models
Okrah, Kwame, Shape analysis of high-throughput genomics data
Paulson, Joseph, Normalization and dif-ferential abundance analysis of metage-nomic biomarker-gene surveys
Rast, Richard, The complexity of isomor-phisms for some first order theorems
Schmiedling, Scott, Strong shift equiva-lence, algebraic k-theory, and isolatingzero-dimensional dynamics on mani-folds
Stepanov, Alexey, Dynamical and steady-state solutions of nonlinear viscoelas-ticity
Weinberg, Daniel, Multiscale and direc-tional representations of high-dimension-al information content in remotelysensed data
Xue, Zhenyi, Bayesian estimation of theinbreeding coefficient for single nu-cleotide polymorphism collected usingcomplex survey data
Zhong, Ming, Hierarchical reconstructionmethod for solving ill-posed linearinverse problems
MASSACHUSETTSBoston College (4)
Department of Mathematics
Hubbard, Diana, Properties and appli-cations of the annular filtration onKhovanov homology
Romano, Beth, On the local Langlandscorrespondence: New examples fromthe epipelagic zone
Saltz, Adam, The spectral sequence fromKhovanov homology to Heegaard-Floerhomology and transverse links
Yarmola, Andrew, Convex hulls hyper-bolic in 3-space and generalized ortho-spectral identities
Boston University (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bai, Shuyang, Probabilistic and statis-tical problems related to long-rangedependence
Curtis, Jessica, Class discovery via featureselection in unsupervised settings
Deng, Xinyi, Point process modeling andestimation: Advances in the analysis ofdynamic neural spiking data
Fischer, Benjamin, Perturbed polyhedraand the construction of local Euler-Maclaurin formulas
Karnataki, Aditya, Two theorems onGalois representations and Shimuravarieties
McCauley, Thomas, Chern-Weil tech-niques on loop spaces and the Maslovindex in partial differential equations
Sanjari, Ali, Liquidation under dynamicprice impact
Boston University Schoolof Public Health (5)
Department of Biostatistics
Choi, Seung Hoan, Evaluation of statis-tical methods, modeling, and multipletesting in RNA-SEQ studies
Griffin, Paula Jean, Biological networkmodels for inferring mechanism ofaction, characterizing cellular pheno-types, and predicting drug response
Hong, Jaeyoung, Meta-analysis strategiesfor heterogeneous studies in genome-wide association studies
Rybin, Denis, Placebo response character-istic in sequential parallel comparisondesign studies
Xue, Luting, Evaluation extension of akernel-based method for gene-gene in-teraction tests of common variants
Brandeis University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Cordes, Matthew, Morse boundaries ofproper geodesic spaces
Deo, Shaunak, Structure of Hecke alge-bras in two scenarios: Mod p modularforms and eigenvarieties
Kelly, Tynan, Twisted linking numbersand Casson-Gordon invariants
Ly, Tue, Diophantine approximation inalgebraic number fields and flows onhomogeneous dynamics
Harvard T. H. Chan Schoolof Public Health (9)
Biostatistics Department
Antonelli, Joseph, Statistical methods foranalyzing complex spatial and missingdata
Chakrabortty, Abhishek, Robust semi-parametric inference in semi-supervisedsettings
Gurmu, Yared, Modeling and estimationof patterns of relationship formationand dissolution
Hayeck, Tristan, Retrospective mixedmodel and propensity score methodsfor case control data
Miles, Caleb, Semiparametric methods forcausal mediation analysis and measure-ment error
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 739
Ramchandani, Ritech, Rank-based meth-ods for survival data with multipleoutcomes
Staples, Patrick, On the statistical proper-ties of epidemics on networks
Sun, Baoluo, Semi-parametric methodsfor missing data and causal inference
Yung, Godwin Yuen Han, Statistical meth-ods for analyzing genetic sequencingassociation studies
Harvard University (22)
Department of Mathematics
Bland, Jason, On the arithmetic of hyper-elliptic curves
Cavazzani, Francesco, Complete homo-geneous varieties via representationtheory
Fintzen, Jessica, On the Moy-Prased filtra-tion and stable vectors
Matveev, Konstantin, q-deformed inter-acting particle system RSKs and randompolymers
Moon, Yong Suk, Galois deformation ringand Barsotti-Tate representation in therelative case
Perry, Alexander, Derived categories andbirational geometry of Gushel-Makaivarieties
Tang, Yunqing, Algebraicity criteria andtheir applications
Tynan, Philip, Equivariant Weiss calculusand loop spaces of Stiefel manifolds
Xie, Yi, On the frame singular instan-ton Floer homology from higher rankbundles
Zahariuc, Adrian, Degenerations, log K3pairs and low genus curves on algebraicvarieties
Department of Statistics
Garcia-Horton, Viviana, Topics in Bayesianinference for causal effects
Jones, David, Information: Measuring themissing, using the observed, and ap-proximating the complete
Li, Yang, Statistical methods for large-scale integrative genomics
Lu, Jiannan, On causal inference forordinal outcomes
Sosina, Sobambo, Analysis, modeling, andoptimal experimental design under un-certainty: From carbon nano-structuresto 3D printing
Tak, Hyungsuk, Topics in Bayesian hier-archical modeling and its Monte Carlocomputations
Toulis, Panagiotis, Implicit methods foriterative estimation with large data sets
Zhao, Anqi, Time for a new angle! Unravelthe mystery of split-plot designs via thepotential outcomes prism
School of Engineering and Applied
Science
Gupta, Manish, Complexity reduction fornear real-time high dimensional filter-ing and estimation applied to biologicalsignals
Huntley, Miriam, Quantitative methodsfor analyzing structure in genomes,self-assembly, and random matrices
Overvelde, Johannes, Embracing com-pliance and instabilities to achievefunction mechanical metamaterials anddevices
Wang, Pai, Phononic crystals and acousticmetamaterials
Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (26)
Department of Mathematics
Alpert, Hannah, Special gradient trajec-tories counted by simplex straightening
Berchenko-Kogan, Yakov, Yang-Mills re-placement
Binder, John, Fields of rationality ofcuspidal automorphic representations
Boger, Dorin, Parabolic Springer resolu-tion
Bottman, Nathaniel, Pseudoholomorphicquilts with figure eight singularity
Chang, Jui-En, The 1-dimensional λ-selfshrinkers in R
2 and the nodal sets ofbiharmonic Steklov problems
Engel Shaposhnik, Efrat, Antichains ofinternal orders and semiorders, andDilworth lattices of maximum sizeantichains
Entova Aizenbud, Inna, Schur-Weyl dual-ity in complex rank
Fei, Teng, On the geometry of theStrominger system
Grinberg, Darij, Studies on quasisymmet-ric functions
Guang, Qiang, Self-shrinkers and trans-lating solitons of mean curvature flow
Hortsch, Ruthi, Counting elliptic curvesof bounded Faltings height
Lee, Yin Tat, Faster algorithms for convexand combinatorial optimization
Li, Jiayong, A-infinity algebras for La-grangians via polyfold theory for Morsetrees with holomorphic disks
Lin, Francesco, Monopoles and pin(2)-symmetry
Liu, Zihan, The Morse index of meancurvature flow self-shrinkers
Mangoubi, Oren, Integral geometry, Hamil-tonian dynamics, and Markov chainMonte Carlo
Moll, Alexander, Random partitions andthe quantum Benjamin-Ono hierarchy
Rippel, Oren, Sculpting representationsfor deep learning
Simmons, Sean, Preserving patient pri-vacy in biomedical data analysis
Srinivasan, Padmavathi, Invariants linkedto models of curves over discretevaluation rings
Sun, Yi, Quantum intertwiners and inte-grable systems
Vaintrob, Dmitry, Mirror symmetry andthe K theory of a p-adic group
Viscardi, Michael, Equivariant quantumcohomology and the geometric Satakeequivalence
Wadhwa, Neal, Revealing and analyzingimperceptible deviations in images andvideos
Zhang, Ruixun, Economic behavior froman evolutionary perspective
NortheasternUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Bade, Nathaniel, Anomalies and holomor-phy in supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories
Bolognese, Barbara, Two results on di-visors on moduli spaces of sheaveson algebraic surfaces: Generic strangeduality on abelian surfaces and Nefcones of Hilbert schemes of points onsurfaces with irregularity zero
Gamse, Elisheva, Two explorations insymplectic geometry: I. Moduli spacesof parabolic vector bundles over curvesII. Characteristics of quantisations ofHamiltonian actions of compact Liegroups on symplectic manifolds
Lin, Yinbang, Moduli spaces of stablepairs
Wang, He, Resonance varieties, Chenranks and formality properties offinitely generated groups
Zhang, Rouran, Gauge theory and self-linking of Legendrian knots
Tufts University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Benson, Thomas, Multigrid-based precon-ditions for saddle-point problems
Bray, Sarah, Nonuniform hyperbolicity inHilbert geometries
Buckles, Kevin, Survival numbers ofgroups and graphs with emphasis onzd and Diestel-Leader graphs
O’Connell, Meghan, Advanced techniquesin the computation of reduced ordermodels and Krylov recycling for diffuseoptical tomography
Stark, Emily, Abstract commensurabil-ity and quasi-isometry classification ofhyperbolic group amalgams
University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Buskin, Nikolay, K3 surfacesDuanmu, Mei, Modeling, analysis and
numerical simulations in mathemati-cal biology of traveling waves, Turinginstability and tumor dynamics
Oloo, Stephen, Equivariant intersectioncohomology of Borel orbit closures inthe wonderful compactification of agroup
Ray, Evan, Hidden Markov models forphysical activity classification and en-ergy expenditure estimation
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
740 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Wang, Peng, Variable selection in singleindex varying coefficient models withlasso
Wilson, Tobias, The topology of the affineSpringer fiber in type A
Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Ho, Nguyenho, Swimming filaments in aviscous fluid with resistance
Kiley, Erin, Reduced-dimensional coupledelectromagnetic, thermal, and mechan-ical models of microwave sintering
Nika, Grigor, Multiscale analysis of emul-sions and suspensions with surfaceeffects
Yin, Jiani, Bayesian nonparametric mod-els for multi-stage sample surveys
MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics
Lazar, Drew, Scale and dimension reduc-tion in symmetric spaces
Mohammad, Mutaz, Frame based methodfor investigating Gibbs phenomenon
Soller, Katherine, Normalizable and uni-tarizable matrices
Michigan StateUniversity (17)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Liping, A linear homotopy methodfor computing generalized tensor eigen-pairs
Dahlberg, Samantha, Patterns and statis-tics in partitions and restricted growthfunctions
Gao, Hongli, Minimization of some non-smooth convex functionals arising inmicromagnetics
Hu, Xianfeng, Machine learning methodfor authorship attribution
Ivanisvili, Paata, Geometric aspects ofexact solutions of Bellman equations ofharmonic analysis problems
Jin, Jiayin, Invariant manifold theory andits applications to nonlinear PDEs
Kim, Seonghak, The existence of Lipschitzsolutions to some forward-backwardparabolic equations
Kraitzman, Noa, Bifurcation and competi-tive evolution of network morphologiesin the strong functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation
Liang, Yu, The mathematical models ofnutritional plasticity and the bifurca-tions of a nonlocal diffusion equation
Lui, Qinbo, Estimates on singular valuesof functions of perturbed operators
Machen, Casey, Abelian varieties associ-ated to cubic and quartic forms
Nagy, Akos, The Berry connection andother aspects of the Ginzberg-Landautheory in dimension 2
Rey, Guillermo, Sharp estimates in har-monic analysis
Tang, Qi, High-order unstaggered con-strained transport method for magne-tohydrodynamic equations
Wang, Bao, Mathematical modeling andcomputation of solvation and binding
Wolf, Eric, A particle-in-cell method forthe simulations of plasmas based on anunconditionally stable wave equationsolver
Xun, Wang, A novel approach to blindsource separation and extraction inaudio
Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Baniabedalruhman, Ahmad, Dynamicmeshing around fluid-fluid interfaceswith applications to droplet tracking incontraction geometries
Gorgin, Elaheh, Heuristic methods forTikhonov regularization
Liang, Chao, Development of computa-tional methods for the investigationof liquid drop phenomena in externalflows
Oakland University (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Abdallah, Mohamad, Fault-tolerant Hamil-tonian-connectivity of 2-tree generatednetworks
Alshorman, Areej, Mathematical modelsof HIV latent infection with time delaysand age structure
Beshaj, Lubjana, Integral binary formswith minimal height
Pate, Kevin, Quadratic homogeneousKeller maps
University of Michigan (24)
Department of Mathematics
Acosta, Pedro, A general Landau-Ginzburg/Gromov-Witten correspondence
DeWoskin, Daniel, Multiscale modeling ofcoupled oscillators with applications tothe mammalian circadian clock
Farmer, Brittan, Modeling and simulationof carbon nanotube growth
Gupta, Purvi, Fefferman’s hypersurfacemeasure and volume approximationproblems
Hathaway, Daniel, Domination of func-tions
Kadyriszova, Zhibek, Tight closure, F-purity, and varieties of nearly commut-ing matrices
Kaye, Adam, Arithmetic of the AsaiL-function for Hilbert modular forms
Kim, Giwan, Richardson varieties in atoric degeneration of the flag variety
Perez, Juan, On connections betweeninvariants of singularities in zero andpositive characteristics
Ricks, Russell, Flat strips, Bowen-Margulismeasures, and mixing of the geodesicflow for rank one CAT(0) spaces
Shnidman, Ariel, Heights of generalizedHeegner cycles
Su, Yi, Electrical networks and electricalLie theory of classical types
Wetzel, Alfredo, Three stratified fluidmodels: Benjamin-Ono, tidal resonance,and quasi-geostrophy
Zhang, Tengren, Degeneration of Hitchinrepresentations
Zhao, Xiaolei, Topological Abel-Jacobimapping and Jacobi inversion
Department of Statistics
Bagchi, Pramita, Non-standard problemsunder short and long range dependence
Henderson, James, Methods for recon-structing networks with incompleteinformation
Lu, Xi, Evaluation and comparison ofdynamic treatment regimes: Methodsand challenges
Ma, Jing, Estimation and inference forhigh-dimensional Gaussian graphicalmodels with structural constraints
Narisetty, Naveen Naidu, Statistical anal-ysis of complex data: Bayesian modelselection and functional data depth
Nguyen, Dao Xuan, Iterated filteringand smoothing with applications toinfectious disease models
Roy, Sandipan, Statistical inference andcomputational methods for large high-dimensional data with network struc-ture
Xia, Donggeng, Measuring influence andtopic dependent interactions in socialmedia networks based on a countingprocess modeling framework
Zhou, Xiang, Three essays on economicinequality and social mobility
Wayne State University (8)
Department of Mathematics
Catanzaro, Michael, A topological studyof stochastic dynamics on CW com-plexes
Cui, Xiaoyue, New characterizations ofSobolev spaces on Heisenberg groups,Carnot groups and higher order Sobolevspaces on Euclidean space
Guo, Hailong, Recovery techniques forfinite element methods and their appli-cations
Nguyen, Nhat, On a multi-dimensionalsingular stochastic control problem:The parabolic case
Ouyang, Wei, Well-posedness propertiesin variational analysis with applications
Tian, Yuan, Finite-difference methods inoptimal control of differential inclu-sions
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 741
Yuan, Quan, Stochastic recursive algo-rithms with applications to consensusand particle swarm optimization
Zabka, Matthew, Cohomology operationson random spaces
Western MichiganUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics
Clark, Timothy, Resolving classes andresolvable spaces in rational homotopy
LaForge, Elliot, Chromatic connectivity ofgraphs
MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota—TwinCities (22)
Division of Biostatistics, School of
Public Health
Kim, Junghi, Statistical methods for imag-ing genetics
Lee, Chi Hyun, Nonparametric and semi-parametric methods for recurrent gaptime data
Musgrove, Donald, Spatial models forlarge spatial and spatiotemporal data
Ray, Debashree, Statistical modeling andtesting for joint association in genome-wide association studies
School of Mathematics
Acosta, Javier, Convergence in law ofthe centered maximum of the mollifiedGaussian free field in two dimensions
Dilks, Kevin, Involutions on Baxter objectsand q-gamma nonnegativity
Fu, Guosheng, Devising superconvergentHDG methods by M-decompositions
Garver, Alexander, On the structure oforiented exchange graphs
Goh, Ryan, Pattern formation in the wakeof external mechanisms
Goodson, Heidi, Hypergeometric func-tions and arithemtic properties of alge-braic varieties
Leifeld, Juliann, Smooth and nonsmoothbifurcations in Welander’s ocean con-vection mode
Mak, Cheuk Yu, Rigidity of symplecticfillings, symplectic division and Dehntwist exact sequences
McConville, Thomas, Biclosed sets incombinatorics
McIntyre, Stephen, Understanding andanalyzing APD alternans
Melbourne, James, Convex measures andassociated geometric and functionalinequalities
O’Connell, Rosemary, A computationalstudy of cortical spreading depression
Olson, Derek, Formulation and analysisof an optimization-based atomistic-to-continuum coupling algorithm
Patrias, Rebecca, Combinatorial construc-tions motivated by K-theory of theGrassmannian
Wang, Xu, Searching, clustering and re-gression on non-Euclidean spaces
Wei, Ning, Alternans, ephaptic couplingand their relation to ventricular ar-rhythmias
School of Statistics
Archila, Felipe Acosta, Markov ChainMonte Carlo for linear mixed models
Knudson, Christina, Monte Carlo likeli-hood approximation for generalization
MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bonyo, Job, Groups of isometries as-sociated with automorphisms of thehalf-plane
Calvert, Velinda, Rational Bernoulli func-tions for solving problems on un-bounded domains
Mashayehki, Somayeh, Hybrid functionsin fractional calculus
University ofMississippi (2)
Department of Mathematics
Nakarmi, Janet, On variable bandwidthkernel density and regression estima-tion
Priddy, Bruce, Independent dominationof subcubic graphs
University of SouthernMississippi (2)
Department of Mathematics
Cibotarica, Alexandru, Solution of non-linear time-dependent PDEs throughcomponentwise approximation of ma-trix functions
Kuo, Lei-Hsin, On the selection of a goodshape parameter for RBF approximation
MISSOURIMissouri University ofScience andTechnology (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Abdurasul, Emad, Small sample confi-dence bands for the survival functionunder the proportional hazards model
Cuchta, Thomas, Discrete analogues ofsome classical special functions
Edirisinghe, Pasan, Small sample saddle-point confidence intervals in epidemi-ology
Jornaz, Abdelmonaem, Modeling dailyelectricity load using splines and func-tional principal components
Liu, Xuejing, On testing common indicesfor several multi-index models: A link-free approach
Ozturk, Ozkan, Existence and classifica-tion of nonoscillatory solutions of twodimensional time scale systems
Zhong, Xiao, Essays on unit root testingin time series
St Louis University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Garbuz, Darren, Decomposing gluingmaps for Heegaard diagrams in termsof Lickorish generators
Munden, James, Explicit formulae for theexponential map for special families ofdeformed space forms
Sykes, Kyle, Burn time: Computation andproperties
University ofMissouri—Columbia (15)
Department of Mathematics
Bontz, Simon, Rectifiability and harmonicmeasure
Coleman, Thomas, Inertial Chow ringsand a new asymptotic product
Granger, Valerie, GIT-equivalence andsemi-stable subcategories of quiver rep-resentations
He, Danqing, Weak Hardy spaces andparaproducts
Kline, Daniel, Locally semi-simple quiverrepresentations
Lynch, Richard, Subsequences of framesand their operators
Renner, Andrew, A foliated Seiberg-Witten theory
Schmutzler, Brock, Calderon-Zygmundtheory for single integral operatorsassociated with second-order ellipticpartial differential systems on roughsubdomains of Riemannian manifolds
Spencer, Patrick, Some results in convexgeometry
Department of Statistics
Cheng, Yuan, Bayesian analysis of fMRIdata and RNA-seq time course experi-ment data
Liu, Sifan, Partially informative normaland partial spline models
Nicholas, Alan, Functional data analysis:Children’s mathematical development
Tong, Xiaojun, Bayesian smoothing splinemodels and their application in estimat-ing yield curves
Wu, Ho-Hsiang, Nonlocal priors forBayesian variable selection in GLM andGLMM and their application in biologydata
Yang, Yiqun, Bayesian hierarchical mod-els for estimating nest survival
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
742 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
University ofMissouri—Kansas City (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Menning, Melissa, Cohomology of finitemodules over short Gorenstein rings
Washington University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Boyett, Casey, Graphs with eigenvalues ofhigh multiplicity
Chu, Cheng, Three problems in operatortheory and complex analysis
Cox, Chris, No-slip billiards
Fernandes da Silva Jr, Genival Francisco,On the limiting behavior of variationsof Hodge structures
Keast, Ryan, Some results in higherweight Hodge theory
Liu, Bingyuan, Several complex variables,complex geometry and their applica-tions
Passer, Ben, Noncommutative Borsuk-Ulam theorems
MONTANA
Montana StateUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Bergren, Hannah, On abstract tiling ac-tions, expansiveness and local structure
Heberling, Tamra, Mathematical mod-eling for transcription of DNA withpausing: Stochastic model with torque,and diffusive transport model
Jackson, Benjamin, Transport of dis-solved and particulate material inbiofilm-lined tubes and channels
Malo, Robert, Discrete extremal lengthsof graph approximations of Sierpinskicarpets
Samuels, Shari, The evolution of prospec-tive elementary teacher’s compenten-cies
Weeding, Jennifer, Bayesian measurementerror modeling with application to thearea under the curve summary measure
University ofMontana—Missoula (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Joyce, Kevin, Point spread function esti-mation and uncertainty quantification
Palmer, Cody, The dynamics of vector-borne relapsing diseases
NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska—Lincoln (12)
Department of Mathematics
Behrens, Sarah, Graph centers, hyper-graph degree sequences, and induced-saturation
Dailey, Douglas, Rigidity of the Frobe-nius, Matlis reflexivity, and minimal flatresolutions
Dyer, Scott, The strict higher Grothendieckintegral
Kerian, Anne, Crosscap number: Hand-cuff graphs and unknotting number
Nu’man, Anisah, Tame filling functionsand closure properties
Reynolds, Sara, Dynamics of interactingpopulations: Consumer-resource sys-tems and evolutionary outcomes forcannibalistic spiders
Roth, Zachary, Analysis of neuronal se-quences using pairwise biases
Schafhauser, Christopher, Generalizationsof AF-embedding theorems of Brownand Pimsner
Shultis, Katherine, Systems of parametersand the Cohen-Macaulay property
Thompson, Peder, Stable local cohomol-ogy
Trageser, Jeremy, Local and nonlocalmodels in thin-plate and bridge dynam-ics
Department of Statistics
Hao, Xiaojuan, Variational Bayesian in-ference on phylogenetic trees, withapplications to metagenomics
NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (5)
Department of Mathematics
Cianci, Donato, On the Poisson relationfor lens spaces
Epstein, Jonathan, Dynamics of magneticflows on nilmanifolds
Hein, Jeffery, Orthogonal modular formsInfeld, Ewa, Uniform avoidance cou-
pling, design of anonymity systems andmatching theory
Petit, Nicolas, Finite-type invariants oforder one for framed and long virtualknots
University of NewHampshire (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Benson, David, Extensions of MF alge-bras and volume entropy in finite vonNeumann algebras
Chaar, May, Secondary preservice, in-service, and student teachers’ noticingof mathematical work and thinking intrigonometry
Machmer-Wessel, Keely, Discussion, taskselection, and novice teachers’ under-standing of the common core mathpractices
McClain, John, A supercell, Bloch wavemethod for calculating low-energy elec-tron reflectivity with applications tofree-standing graphene and molybde-num disulfide
Wen, Baole, Porous medium convectionat large Rayleigh number: Studies ofcoherent structure, transport, and re-duced dynamics
NEW JERSEYMontclair StateUniversity (1)
Mathematical Sciences Department
Abi-Hanna, Rabab, How do manipula-tives help students communicate theirunderstanding of double-digit subtrac-tion?
Princeton University (16)
Department of Mathematics
Collins, Dan, Anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions and Ichino’s formula
Dowlin, Nathan, Khovanov-Rozansky com-plexes in the knot Floer cube of resolu-tions
Harron, Piper, The equidistribution oflattice shapes of rings of integersof cubic, quartic, and quintic numberfields
Sawin, Will, A Tannakian category and ahorizontal equidistribution conjecturefor exponential sums
Schweinhart, Benjamin, Statistical topol-ogy of embedded graphs
Truong, Linh, Applications of Heegaard-Floer homology to knot concordance
Varma, Ila, On local-global compatibilityfor cuspidal regular algebraic automor-phic representations of GLn
Wang, Xuecheng, Global solutions forthe gravity water waves system: Infinitedepth setting and flat bottom setting
Xiu, Yang, Elliptic involution in borderedHeegaard-Floer homology
Zhang, Ruobing, Regularity, quantitativegeometry and curvature bounds
Program in Applied Computational
Mathematics
Chan, Yuk Fung, Financial models forcommodity, energy and equity markets
Hammoud, Naima, On instabilities inthin-film flows
Joe-Wong, Carlee, Smart data pricingLi, Qianxiao, Phase transition and free
action of non-equilibrium systemsTai, Cheng, Multi-scale adaptive repre-
sentation of signals: Models and algo-rithms
Wang, Chu, Collective behavior in network-based dynamical systems
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 743
Rutgers The StateUniversity of New JerseyNew Brunswick (20)
Department of Statistics and
Biostatistics
Chang, Kun, Topics in compositional,seasonal and spatial-temporal time se-ries
Fan, Yi, New nonparametric approachesfor multivariate and functinal data anal-ysis in outlier detection, constructionof tolerance tubes and clustering
Mitra, Priyam, Topics in model averagingand toxicity models in combinationtherapy
Shu, Heng, Improved methods for causalinference data combination
Wu, Yaoshi, Higher order multivariate in-ference using approximation methods
Mathematics Department
Borda, Bence, The number of latticepoints
Chien, Edward, Square tiling of surfacesfrom discrete harmonic 1-chains
Coulson, Bud, An affine Weyl group inter-pretation of the “motivated proofs” ofthe Gordon-Andrews-Bessoud identities
Cowan, Charles Wes, Optimal data uti-lization for goal-oriented learning
Garnett, Brian, Small deviations of sumsof random variables
Kaya, Burak, Cantor minimal systemsfrom a descriptive perspective
Kim, John, Probabilistic and polynomialmethods in additive combinatorics andcoding theory
Larenas, Manuel, An abstract approachto pointwise decay estimates for dis-persive equations
Nuer, Howard, Moduli of Bridgelandstable objects on an Enriques surface
Russell, Matthew, Using experimentalmathematics to conjecture and provetheorems in the theory of partitions andcommutative and non-commutative re-currences
Seuffert, Francis, An extension of theBianchi-Egnell stability estimate to Bakry,Gentil, and Ledoux’s generalization ofthe Sobolev inequality to continuousdimensions and an application
Shar, Nathaniel, Experimental methodsin permutation patterns and bijectiveproof
Trinh, Tien, Estimates on non-decayingWhittaker functions
Wilson, Glen, Motivic stable stems overfinite fields
Xiao, Jianguo, Multi-center vector fieldmethods and some applications fordispersive equations
Rutgers The StateUniversity of New JerseyNewark (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Wang, Pei, Relative Rips machine and thintype components of bound complexes
Stevens Institute ofTechnology (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Davidson, James, Mathematical theory ofcondensing coagulation
Flynn, Christopher, Hurst parameter es-timation of a discretely sampled Itointegral with fractional Brownian mo-tion driven integrand
Heinig, Monika, On neighbor componentorder edge connectivity
NEW MEXICONew Mexico Institute ofMining and Technology (2)
Department of Mathematics
Leguy, Gunter, The effect of a basal-friction parameterization on grounding-line dynamics in ice-sheet models
Miller, Gabrielle, Urban blast waves: Asemi-analytic solution for intense ex-plosions with rigid wall reflections
New Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Anderson, Meredith, Character varietiesof twice-punctured torus bundles
Basyal, Deepak, A 1933 Nepali mathe-matics and astrology book Sis’ubodhaTaran gini II: Translation and commen-tary on mathematics chapters
Fawaz, Zahi, Bounded archimedean f-rings
Paudel, Lokendra, The group of invertiblefractional ideals of a Prufer intersectionof valuation rings
Tian, Weizhong, The distortion risk mea-sures and multivariate distributionsbased on skew-normal settings
University of NewMexico (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bizzozero, David, Studies of coherentsynchroton radiation with the discon-tinuous Galerkin method
Gong, Ming, Improving the material pointmethod
Konda, Sahitya, Spatial decay of rotatingwaves and restrictions on finite disks
Medina, Erik, Lifts of Frobenius on arith-metic jet spaces of schemes
Wei, Yonghua, Dynamic generalized ex-treme value via particle filters
Zhou, Lang, Neyman smooth-type good-ness of fit tests in complex surveys
NEW YORKBinghamton University,State University of NewYork (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Science
Bustamante, Mauricio, On the topology ofthe space of pinched negatively wiredmetrics with finite volume and identicalends
Diao, Qinggang, Cox proportional haz-ards model with time-dependent co-variates
Ding, Ding, Canonical Barsotti-Tate groupsof finite level
Lu, Qiyi, Learning partially labeled data inthe high-dimensional, low-sample sizesetting
Penta, Diego, Decomposition of the rank3 Kac-Moody Lie algebras F with respectto the rank 2 hyperbolic subalgebra Fib
Zhu, Yilin, Estimation of error distribu-tion function in a varying coefficientmodel
Clarkson University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Gajamannage, Kelum, Manifold learningand dimensionality reduction in collec-tive motion
Jayawardana, Veroni, Inferences on fi-bromyalgia regression models and mul-tiple imputations on missing values
Quansah, Emmanuel, Investigation ofthree species predator-prey food chainmodels in ecology: “Ecological” damp-ing, Allee effects and environmentalnoise
Columbia University (22)
Department of Applied Physics and
Applied Mathematics
Harnett, Sean, Optimization methods forpower grid reliability
Jenkinson, Michael, Bifurcation of on-siteand off-site solitary waves of discretenonlinear Schrodinger type equations
Lee-Thorp, James, Bifurcation perspectiveon topologically protected and non-protected states in continuous systems
Department of Mathematics
Benoist, Stephane, Conformally invariantrandom planar objects
Bruggeman, Cameron, Dynamics of largerank-based systems of interacting dif-fusions
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
744 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Castellano, Robert, Kuranishi atlases andgenus zero Gromov-Witten invariants
Filip, Ioan, A local relative trace formulafor spherical varieties
Gimre, Karsten, Isometric embeddingsand quasi-local energy
Heyman, Andrea, Dualization and defor-mation of the Bar-Natan-Russel skeinmodule
Krishna, Rahul, Relative trace formula forso2×SO3 and the Waldspurger formula
Krishnamoorthy, Subrahmanya, Graphtheory, dynamics, and Barsotti-Tategroups: Variations on a theme ofMochizuki
Liu, Zheng, Nearly overconvergent formsand p-adic L-functions for symplecticgroups
Pal, Vivek, Simultaneous twists of ellipticcurves and the Hasse principle forcertain K3 surfaces
Potashnik, Natasha, Derived categories ofmoduli spaces of semistable pairs overcurves
Smirnov, Andrey, Quantum differenceequations for quiver varieties
Wang, Chongli, An alternative proof ofgenericity for the unitary group in threevariables
Wang, Yinghui, Viscosity characteriza-tions of explosions and arbitrage
Zhao, Jingyu, Periodic sympletic co-homologies and obstructions to La-grangian immersions
Department of Statistics
Agne, Michael, An assortment of unsu-pervised and supervised applications tolarge data
Chen, Yunxiao, Latent variable modelingand statistical learning
Franco Saldana, Diego, Advances inmodel selection techniques with appli-cations to statistical network analysisand recommender systems
Shahn, Zachary, Methods for personal-ized and evidence based medicine
Cornell University (18)
Biological Statistics and
Computational Biology
Bolotskikh, Alexandra, Post selection in-ference
Center for Applied Mathematics
Gushchin, Andrey, Synchronization ofcoupled oscillators: Heterogeneity andplasticity
Joo Park, Hyung, Topics in structure de-termination of submicron sized objects
Kloumann, Isabel, Behaviors, interac-tions, and communities in networks
Randles, Evan, Convolution powers ofcomplex-valued functions and somerelated topics in partial differentialequations
Toupo, Danielle, Nonlinear dynamics ofcycles in evolutionary games
Wilson, Kyle, Robustly modeling the worldfrom photos
Zhou, Zhengyi, Predicting ambulance de-mand
Department of Mathematics
Belanger, David, Sets, models and proofs:Topics in the theory of recursive func-tions
Benea, Cristina, Vector-valued extensionsfor singular bilinear operators andapplications
Chong, Kai Fong Ernest, Face vectors andHilbert functions
Clavier, Lucien, Non-affine horocycle-invariant ergodic measures on strata oftranslation surfaces
Jung, Joeun, Iterated trilinear Fourierintegrals with arbitrary symbols
Kara, Yasemin, The Laplacian on hy-perbolic Riemann surfaces and Maassforms
Kern, Thomas, Nonstandard models ofthe weak second order theory of onesuccessor
Kesler, Robert, Unbounded multilinearmultipliers adapted to large subspacesand estimates for degenerate simplexoperators
Messick, Scott, Continuous autonomacompactness, and Young measures
Zlatev, Radoslav, Examples of impliciti-zation of hypersurfaces
Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (16)
PhD Program in Mathematics
Arettines, Chris, On the relationship be-tween intersection angles of geodesicsand hyperbolic metrics on surfaces
Blair, David, Counting restricted integerpartitions
Cavallo, Bren, Algorithmic properties ofpoly-Z groups and secret sharing usingnon-commutative groups
Fischer, Aron, Massey products in stringtopology
Florez, Jorge, Explicit reciprocity laws forhigher local fields
Karabulut, Cihan, On sums of binaryHermitian forms
Kramer-Miller, Joseph, P-adic L-functionsand the geometry of Hida families
Quinn, Joseph, Quaternion algebras andhyperbolic 3-manifolds
Rivera, Manuel, On string topology op-erations and algebraic structures onHochschild complexes
Sosnovski, Bianca, Cayley graphs of semi-groups and applications to hashing
Spizzirri, Nicholas, An averaging methodfor advection-diffusion equations
Taam, Alexander, Equations over hyper-bolic groups
Vidaurre, Elizabeth, Cohomology of cer-tain polyhedral product spaces
West, Lloyd, The moduli space of rationalmaps
Yang, Heng, Stochastic processes andtheir applications to change point de-tection problems
Zhou, Hengyu, Some Bernstein type re-sults of graphical self-shrinkers withhigh codimension in Euclidean space
New York UniversityTandon School ofEngineering (1)
Department of Mathematics
Gbedemah, Amakoe, On the Lp theory ofpositive definite matrices
New York University,Courant Institute (23)
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
Askham, Travis, Integral-equation meth-ods for inhomogeneous elliptic partialdifferential equations in complex ge-ometry
Calvo, Juan, Domain decomposition meth-ods for problems in H(curl)
Chen, Nan, Filtering and predicting com-plex nonlinear turbulent dynamical sys-tems with model error
Denlinger, Ryan, The propagation ofchaos for a rarefied gas of hard spheresin vacuum
Fang, Fang, Hydrodynamic interactionsbetween self-propelled flapping wings
Greenberg, Spencer, Machine learning atextremes
Guadagni, Joseph, Numerical solver forthe two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equa-tions in gyrokinetic variables
Hershkovits, Or, Mean curvature flow:Smoothing, regularity and isoperimetricproperties
Jagannath, Aukosh, Variational and struc-tural methods in mean field spin glasses
Jiang, Tian, Adaptive geometric searchfor protein design
Kuznetsov, Vitaly, Theory and algorithmsfor forecasting non-stationary time se-ries
Lee, Dooheon, Stable boundaries ofCAT(0) groups
Lewis, Michael, Bayesian analysis andMonte Carlo sampling in the study ofcryo-electron microscopy
Munoz Medina, Andres, Learning theoryand algorithms for auctioning andadaptation problems
Park, Hyungbin, The Martingale extrac-tion method with applications to fi-nance
Qian, Jin, Contraction of algebraic pointsRyan, Jeffrey, Probabilistic topic models
of fragmented DNA for rapid organismidentification
Seo, Insuk, Large scale behavior of inter-acting Brownian motions
Widmayer, Klaus, On dispersive effectsin inviscid fluids and non-uniquenessof weak wave maps
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 745
Wu, Chenyue, Energy distance in data-driven distribution analysis
Xiao, Xiao, Surface bouyancy dynamics inthe ocean
Yu, Bing, The effects of flow on theequilibrium state of a plasma
Zhong, Xingxin, Principal dynamical com-ponents: Methods, properties and fi-nancial applications
New York University,Stern School ofBusiness (1)
IOMS-Statistics Group
Cao, Wen, Three essays in modren dataanalysis: Drift in asset price models,a mixed model approach for text re-views, and improved survival trees forcompeting risks data
Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (7)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Altrichter, Scott, Flight path optimizationfor resolution and coverage in SyntheticAperture Radar (SAR)
Chen, Jiaming, Electrical impedence to-mography and D-bar equation
DiLorenzo, Tyson, Classifying micro-tubual network using curvature cal-culation of discrete curves
Kim, Jerry, Time reversal operation fordistributed systems in stationary anddynamic environment
Nambirajan, Srinivas, Topics in matrixapproximation
Pyzza, Pamela, Idealized models of insectolfaction
Rosenthal, Joseph, Mathematical modelsof amyloid-beta production, aggrega-tion, and treatment in Alzheimer’sdisease
Stony Brook University (35)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Chen, Hao, Development of a novel dou-ble neural network and its applications
Chen, Hsin-Chiang, Scalable Lagrangianpartical algorithms for compressiblefluid dynamics
Citovsky, Gui, Geometric optimizationproblems in sensor networks
Conley, Rebecca, Overcoming elementquality dependence of finite elementmethods
Dong, Xiaojin, A new stochastic regimeswitching model with time-varying re-gression coefficients and error vari-ances
Feng, Tian, An empirical study onconcentration-QTc model
Gong, Xiaoxue, Turbulent combustionstudy of scamjet problem
Hao, Xue, Factor-augmented error cor-rection model with time varying coeffi-cients
He, Fei, Development and applicationof an integrated parallel platform onshort-read sequences assembly
Hu, Wenlin, Statistical moments in variable-density incompressible Rayleigh-Taylorflows
Huang, Jiayu, A constrained functionallinear model for multi-loci genetic map-ping
Huang, Kan, Greedy local routing andgeometric hitting problem
Huang, Ya-Ting, Stochastic short termforecasting of cloud boundaries
Jiang, Lingling, Structure-based drug de-sign targeting HIVgp41
Lee, Hyejoo, Clustering and classificationmethods for prediction of the risk fordeveloping disease
Lee, Soyoun, Multi-marker linkage dis-equilibrium mapping of quantitativetrait loci
Mo, Hua, Estimation of alpha stabledistribution and tempered stable distri-bution
Qi , Huan, High-resolution detection ofchange-point with low coverage single-cell sequencing data
Ruan, Tingjun, Multiple-objective clus-tering analysis
Shi, Xiang, Advanced applications ofgeneralized hyperbolic distributions inportfolio allocation and measuring di-versification
Wang, Bing, Monotonicity properties ofstochastic kriging metamodels in se-quential setting and a new adaptivesampling method for prediction
Yu, Kwang Min, Computational relativis-tic electrodynamics: New algorithms,parallel software, and applications toaccelerator design
Yu, Riyu, Log band fraction approxima-tion for covariance estimation and lowvolatility
Zhang, Li, Influence propagation model-ing and applications in finance
Zhang, Na, Design and analysis of parallelargorithms for multiscale modeling ofplatelets
Zhang, Xiao, Regime switching frac-tionally integrated GARCH in dynamicvolatility modeling
Zhang, Yuzhong, Asset pricing in intra-day trading
Zhou, Sichen, Multiple change-points es-timation in GARCH models
Department of Mathematics
Adams, Joseph, Infinitely primitivelyrenormalizable polynomials of boundedtype
Hao, Cheng, Regularized geometry of theloop space
Lin, Tsung-Yin, On the local isometricembedding in R
3 of surfaces with zerosets of Gaussian curvature formingcusp domains
Medina, Anibal, E-infinity comodules andtopological manifolds
Sobolev, Yury, Tritangents of sphericalcurves
Ying, Chi, On the route to chaos for two-dimensional modestly area-contractinganalytic maps
Zhang, Zili, Multiplicativity of perversefiltration for Hilbert schemes of fiberedsurfaces
Syracuse University (1)
Department of Mathematics
Biermann, Patrick, Lipschitz geometry ofBanach and metric spaces
The University of Albany,SUNY (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Choi, JaeYong, Convergence of a smoothrandom average and its variation in-equality
Guzman, Maxine, Swan modules of ele-mentary abelian 2-groups over quadraticimaginary fields
Hepworth, Emily, Generators for k of acategory with cofibrations
Ramer, Kevin, On combinatorial formulasfor non-symmetric Macdonald polyno-mials
Wood, Daniel, On monomial resolutionssupported on posets
University atBuffalo—SUNY (12)
Department of Biostatistics
Baker, Mark, A collection of proceduresfor non-standard hypothesis testingproblems in order restricted spaces
Chen, Xiwei, New statistical procedureswith parametric and nonparametriclikelihood structures with applicationsto evaluations of discriminant abilityof biomarkers measured with/withoutmeasurement errors
Dibaj, Seyedeh Shira, Exact tests indifferent dichotomous data analysisproblems
Golzy, Mojgan, Mixed effects modeling ofrecurrent events: A generalized frailtymodel approach
Liu, Xiaobin, Selected methods for corre-lated binary data, model selection andhomogeneity tests
Ren, Xing, Novel methods for estimatingnull distributions in gene and genepathway analysis for large scale hy-pothesis testing
Yang, Luge, Some novel applications ofempirical likelihood methods
Department of Mathematics
Liang, Bingbing, Mean dimension, meanlength, and von Neumann-Luck rank
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
746 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Orenstein, Adam, An algebra of functionson the unit circle and Toeplitz operatorsin symmetrically-normed ideals
Rosas, Michael, On the structure ofSpecht modules in weight three blocksof symmetric algebras
Ruppe, Dennis, On the AJ-conjecture forcertain families of satellite knots
Sartwell, Matthew, Detecting mappingspaces and derived equivalence of alge-braic theories
University of Rochester (6)
Department of Biostatistics and
Computational Biology
Chen, Tian, A new class of functionalresponse models for robust regressionanalysis
Chowdhry, Amit, Missing data in meta-analysis
Tran, Thanh Van, Threshold booleannetwork inference and experimentaldesign
Xia, Changming, Generalized semipara-metric linear mixed-effects models
Department of Mathematics
Kotok, Malcolm, Computing zeta func-tions of nondegenerate hypersurfacesover finite fields
Straub, Denitza, Numerical and microlo-cal analysis of inverse problems withinternal data
NORTH CAROLINADuke University (12)
Department of Mathematics
Diaz, Humberto, Finite-dimensionality,Chow-Kunneth decompositions and in-tersections of cycles
Leverson, Caitlin June, Augmentation andrulings of Legendrian links
Potter, Harrison David Parke, Modelingtemperature dependence in Mangioni-driven thin-films
Temamogullari, Nihal Ezgi, Mathematicalmodeling of perifusion cell structureexperiments
Wang, Kangkang, Determinant, wall mon-odromy and spherical functor
Department of Statistical Science
Chang, Shih-Han, Interfaces betweenBayesian and frequentist multiple test-ing
Glynn, Christopher, Advances in dynamicmodeling and computation for countdata
Irie, Kaoru, Bayesian emulation for se-quential modeling, inference and deci-sion analysis
Johndrow, James, Bayesian inference inlarge-scale problems
McClure, David, Relaxations of differen-tial privacy and risk/utility evaluationsof synthetic data and fidelity measures
Schifeling, Tracy, Combining informa-tion from multiple sources in Bayesianmodeling
St Thomas, Brian, Linear subspace andmanifold learning via extrinsic geome-try
North Carolina StateUniversity (27)
Department of Mathematics
Adoteye, Kaska, Biological applicationsof uncertainty quantification, includingmultiscale Daphnia Magna populationmodeling
Al-Kateeb, Ala’a Qasim, Structure andproperties of cyclotomic polynomials
Battista, Christina, Parameter estimationof viscoelastic models in a 1-D circula-tory network
Bishop, Abigail, Involution posets onnon-crystallographic coveter groups
Bock, Brandon, Algebraic and combinato-rial properties of statistical models ofranked data
Bookman, Lake, Approximate solutionsof the Landau-Lifshitz equations
Burch, Tiffany, Supersolvable Leibnizalgebras
Chen, Guanyu, Accurate gradient com-putation for elliptic interface problemswith discontinuous and vaiable coeffi-cients
Cooley, Brett, Sequential programmingfor PDE constrained optimization
Daleo, Noah, Algorithms and applicationsin numerical elimination theory
Fregosi, Anna, Calibration of thermal soilproperties in the shallow substance
Hoang, Phuong, Supervised learning inbaseball pitch and Hepatitis C diagnosis
Holodnak, John, Topics in randomizedalgorithms for numerical linear algebra
Ivy, Samuel, Classifying the fine struc-tures of involutions acting on rootsystems
Jiang, Hansi, Modularity component anal-ysis
Kennedy, Emese, Swing-up and stabiliza-tion of a single inverted pendulum:Real-time implementation
Landi, Amanda, The nonnegative matrixfactorization: Methods and applications
Long, Colby, Algebraic geometry of phy-logenetic models
Mason, Sarah, Conjugacy classes of max-imal k-split Tori invariant under aninvolution of SL(n,k)
Nance, James, Investigating moleculardynamics with sparse grid surrogatemodels
Ngamini, Melissa, Nonlinear filteringproblems for systems governed byPDEs
Ozbag, Fatih, Stability analysis of com-bustion waves in porous media
Panza, Nicole, Modeling follicle wavedynamics in the menstrual cycle
Rahmoeller, Margaret, On demure crys-tals for the quantum affine algebraUq(sl(n))
Turner, Bethany, Some criteria for solv-able and supersolvable Leibniz algebras
Varga, Katherine, Portfolio optimizationwith stochastic dividends and stochas-tic volatility
Wheeless, William, Additional symmetriesof the extended Toda hierarchy
University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (40)
Department of Biostatistics
Choi, Byeongyeob, Statistical contribu-tions to non-experimental studies
Chung, Yunro, Statistical contributions toorder restricted inference for survivaldata analysis
Daza, Eric, Longitudinal regression con-ditioning on continuation
Deng, Yu, Generalized change-point haz-ard models with censored data
Hammill, Bradley, The use of propensityscore methods to address confoundingby provider
Lam, Diana, Innovative methods forsome statistical issues in clinical trials
Ni, Ai (Andy), Variable selection forcase-cohort studies with failure timeoutcome
O’Brien, Jonathon, Statistical methods forproteomics
Ou, Fang-Shu, Quantile regression mod-els for interval-censored failure timedata
Roy, Pourab, Non-parametric and semi-parametric estimation in forward andbackward recurrence time data
Rudra, Pratyaydipta, Statistical tools forgeneral association testing and controlof false discoveries in group testing
Stewart, Thomas, Statistical learning withmissing data
Sun, Hengrui, Controlling multiplicity inconfirmatory clinical trials
Wise, Alison, Making robust use ofparental genotype data for finding ef-fects of variants on the X-chromosome
Yang, Hojin, Learning methods in repro-ducing kernel Hilbert space based onhigh-dimensional features
Zhou, Xin, Machine learning techniquesfor optimal treatment regimes
Department of Mathematics
Brandon, Namdi, Novel integration intime methods via deferred correc-tion formulations and space-time par-allelization
Grudzien, Colin, The method of geomet-ric phase as a reformulation of theEvans function for reaction diffusionequations
Hoover, Alexander, From pacemaker tovortex ring: Modeling jellyfish propul-sion and turning
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 747
Jin, Yuan, Rheology and flow of mucus inhuman bronchial epithelial cell cultures
Lax, David, Combinatorial structures inthe coordinate rings of Schubert vari-eties
Moore, Ryo, Extensions of J. Bourgain’sdouble recurrence theorem
Mukherjee, Mayukh, Variationalapproaches to nonlinear Schrodingerand Klein-Gordon equations
Schuster, Michael, Rank reduction ofconformal blocks
Sherman, Cass, Weight stretching inmoduli of parabolic bundles and quiverrepresentations
Tzou, Chung-Nan, Formulation of under-water plumes and velocity variationsdue to entertainment in stratified envi-ronments
Department of Statistics and
Operation Research
Feng, Qing, Non-iterative joint and in-dividual variation explained and auto-matic Toda transformation
Kimes, Patrick, New statistical learningapproaches with applications to RNA-Seq data
Lamm, Michael, Confidence intervals forsolutions to stochastic variational in-equalities
Li, Gen, Integrated analysis of multipledata sets with biomedical applications
Liu, Minghui, Elementary reformulationand succinct certificates in conic linearprogramming
Shi, Wen, Applications of fiducial infer-ence to biology
Wang, Dong, Some statistical approachesto the analysis of matrix-valued data
Wang, Ling, Statistical challenges ingenomic-wide association study
Wilson, James, A hypothesis testing ap-proach to assessing and identifyingsignificant structure in network models
Xie, Yuying, Estimation of graphical mod-els with biomedical applications
Yin, Leicheng, Monte Carlo strategies inoption pricing for SABR model
Yin, Liang, Confidence regions and in-tervals for sparse penalized regressionusing variational inequality techniques
Yu, Guan, Flexible supervised learningtechniques with applications in neuro-science
Zhai, Haojin, Principal component analy-sis in phylogenetic tree space
University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (6)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Erturk, Huseyin, Limit theorems for ran-dom exponential sums and their appli-cations to insurance and the randomenergy model
Fairchild, Michael, Symmetry and con-straints in hydrodynamics and mechan-ical locomotion
Huang, Wei, Frame wavelets in highdimension
Lee, Unkyung, Analysis of semiparamet-ric regression models for the cumu-lative incidence functions under thetwo-phase sampling designs
Turhan, Nezihe, Limit theorems for oneclass of ergodic Markov chains
Zinser, Brian, High-order integral equa-tions for electromagnetic problems inlayered media with applications in biol-ogy and solar cells
NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (7)
Department of Mathematics
Altmann, Hannah, Semidualizing DGmodules over tensor products
Aung, Pye, Gorenstein dimensions ofrings of the form R ⊕ C
Dunn, Thomas, Integral closure and gen-eralized multiplicity sequence
Habtemicael, Semere, Modeling finan-cial swaps and geophysical data usingBarndorff-Nielsen and Shephard model
Singh, Jayant, Optimization problemsarising in stability analysis of discretetime recurrent neural networks
Spanier, Mark, L1-approximation in deBranges spaces
Totushek, Jonathan, Homological dimen-sions with respect to a semidualizingcomplex
OHIOAir Force Institute ofTechnology (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Knight, Emily, Modeling radiation ef-fectiveness for inactivation of bacillusspores
Seymour, Richard, Testing the adequacyof a semi-Markov process
Bowling Green StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chen, Ying-Ju, Jackknife empirical likeli-hood and change point problems
Li, Songzi, K-groups: A generalization ofK-means by energy distance
Li, Yi, Goodness-of-fit tests for Dirichletdistributions with applications
Liu, Yang, Variable selection utilizing thewhole solution path
Paler, Mary Elvi, On modern measuresand tests of multivariate independence
Case Western ReserveUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematics, Applied
Mathematics and Statistics
Bruno, Paul, Rademacher sums, Heckeoperators, and moonshine
Callahan, Margaret, Bayesian parameterestimation and inference across scales
Hoehner, Steven, The surface area de-viation of the Euclidean ball and apolytope
Yu, Lijun, Sequential Monte Carlo esti-mation for dynamic brain imaging inmagnetoencephalography
Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics
Borsay Hall, Noemi, Genetics of metabolicsyndrome in the women’s resistance toinfection, progression to active dis-ease, host genetics and mycobateriumtuberculosis lineage
Chan, Philip Kit-Man, Mental health andsexual minorities in the Ohio ArmyNational Guard
Natanzon, Yanina, Genetics of metabolicsyndrome in the Women’s InteragencyHIV Study (WIHS)
Kent State University,Kent (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Hoffman, John, Some problems in addi-tive number theory
Livshyts, Galyna, On the geometry oflog-concave measures
Lyons, Corey, Induced characters withequal degree constituents
Tang, Tunan, Extensions of Gauss, blockGauss and Szego quadrature rules, withapplications
Ohio State University,Columbus (12)
Department of Statistics
Hu, Zhengyu, Initializing the EM algo-rithm for data clustering and subpopu-lation detection
Landgraf, Andrew, Generalized princi-pal component analysis: dimensionalityreduction through the projecting ofnatural parameters
Olsen, Andrew, When infinity is too longto wait: On the convergence of Markovchain Monte Carlo methods
Petraglia, Elizabeth, Estimating county-level aggravated sexual assault ratesby combining data from the NationalCrime Victim Survey and the NationalIncident-Based Reporting System
Risser, Mark, Spatially-varying covariancefunctions for nonstationary spatial pro-cess modeling
Stettler, John, The discrete thresholdregression model
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
748 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Thomas, Zachary, Bayesian hierarchicalspace-time clustering methods
Vaidynathan, Sivaranjani, Bayesian mod-els for computer model calibration andprediction
Wang, Xiaomu, Robust Bayes in hierar-chical modeling and empirical Bayesanalysis in multivariate estimation
White, Staci, Quantifying model error inBayesian parameter estimation
Yang, Hui, Adjusting for bounding andtime-in sample effects in NCVS propertycrime rate estimation
Zaetz, Jiaqi, A Riemannian framework forshape analysis of annotated 3D objects
Ohio University, Athens (3)
Department of Mathematics
Gong, Xue, Dynamical systems in celldivision cycle, winnerless competitionmodels, and tensor approximations
Nguyen, Son, Topics on sufficient dimen-sion reduction
Oduro, Bismark, Mathematical models ofChagas disease
University ofCincinnati (11)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Barrera, Juan, Quenched asymptotics ofthe discrete Fourier transforms of astationary process
Bellman, Jacob, Phase response opti-mization of the circadian clock inNeurospora crassa
Caicedo Caceres, Miguel Andres, Well-posedness and control of the Korteweg-de Vries equation on a finite domain
Duan, Li, Bayesian nonparametric meth-ods with applications in longitudinal,heterogeneous and spatiotemporal data
Estep, Dewey, Prime end boundaries ofdomains in metric spaces and theDirichlet problem
Fox-Neff, Kristen, Inverse methods inparameter estimation for High IntensityFocused Ultrasound (HIFU)
Guo, Yixuan, Bayesian model selectionfor Poisson and related models
Li, Xining, Preservation of bounded geom-etry under transformations of metricspaces
Lopez, Marcos, Discrete approximationsof metric spaces with controlled geom-etry
Molina, Sergio, Semi-regular sequencesover F2
Zhang, Zongjun, Adaptive robust regres-sion approaches in data analysis andtheir applications
University of Toledo (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Karki, Manoj, Invariant Riemannian met-rics in four dimensional Lie groups
Liu, Gang, A new approach to ANOVAmethods for autocorrelated data
Mei, Jingning, Inference for autoregres-sive coefficients and error distribution
Pokharel, Krishna, An isospectral flow forcomplex upper Hessenberg matrices
Tang, Lin, Efficient inference for pe-riodic autoregressive coefficients withpolynomial spline smoothing approach
OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics
Xie, Xiaoju, Statistics of the numberof real zeros of random orthogonalpolynomials
Xu, Pengcheng, Pants block decomposi-tion of 3-manifolds
Zhang, Yujie, A weak Galerkin mixed fi-nite element method for linear elasticityequations
University of Oklahoma (7)
Department of Mathematics
Bauer, Sean, On the existence of KAMtori for presymplectic vector fields
Ho, Nancy, Controllability of linearand nonlinear control systems relatedthrough simulation relations
Kahlil, Estapraq, Existence and stabilityof solutions to a model equation fordispersion-managed solitary waves
Tang, Shiyun, Some results on the el-liptic equations and modeling seasonaldynamics of human influenza
Turki, Salam, The representations over p-adic fields associated to elliptic curves
Wright, Rachel, Totally reflected groupsYamamoto, Tetsuya, Categorizing stu-
dents’ difficulties with proof construc-tion
OREGONOregon State University (8)
Department of Mathematics
Costa, Timothy, Hybrid multiscale meth-ods with applications to semiconduc-tors, porous media and materials sci-ence
Do, Hieu, New families of pseudo-Anosovhomeomorphisms with vanishing Sah-Arnoux-Fathi invariant
Loke, Sooie Hoe, Ruin problems with riskyinvestments
McGregor, Duncan, Compatible discreti-zations for Maxwell’s equations withgeneral constitutive laws
Sherson, Brian, Some results in single-scattering tomography
Department of Statistics
Skalland, Timothy, An evaluation of de-sign and inference in special topics ofgroup sequential procedures
Wang, Lu, Nonparametric estimation ofadditive models with shape constraints
Zhuo, Bin, Higher-level analysis of RNA-Seq experiments: Multiple data sets andmultiple genes
Portland StateUniversity (6)
Fariborz Maseeh Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
Harb, Ammar, Discrete stability of DPGmethods
James, Carolyn, Development of mid-dle school teachers’ knowledge andpedagogy of justification
Mahoney, James, Tree graphs and orthog-onal spanning tree decompositions
Olivares, Nicole, Accuracy of wave speedscomputed from the DPG and HDG meth-ods for electromagnetic and acousticwaves
Strand, Krista, Intermediate grades teach-ers’ noticing of the mathematical qual-ity of instruction
Strand, Stephen, II, The intermediatevalue theorem as a starting point forinquiry-oriented advanced calculus
University of Oregon (5)
Department of Mathematics
Arbo, Matthew, Zonotypes and hyper-tonic varieties
Hilburn, Justin, Hypergeometric systemsand projective modules in hypertoniccategory O
Iverson, Joseph, Frames generated byactions of locally compact groups
Muth, Robert, Representations ofKhovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras ofaffine Lie type
Welly, Adam, The geometry of quasi-Sasaki manifolds
PENNSYLVANIACarnegie MellonUniversity (17)
Department of Mathematical Science
Cheng, Zhe, Endogenous mortgage cur-rent coupons
Gunther, William, Some results on classi-cal semantics and polymorphic types
Jiang, Zilin, Problems in discrete geome-try and extremal combinatorics
Liu, Jing, Numerical approximations ofproblems that arise in elasticity
Murray, Ryan, Some asymptotic resultsfor phase transition models
Rodriguez, Daniel, Models of R-super-compactness
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 749
Sae-Sue, Tanawit, Radner equilibrium ininfinite and finite time-horizon Levymodels
Weston, Kimberly, Market stability innonequivalent markets and the Martin-gale property of the dual optimizer
Department of Statistics
Asta, Dena, Geometric approaches toinference: Non-Euclidean data and net-works
Bellone, Gaia, Clustering strategies forDNA genotyping
Bodea, Corneliu, A method to exploit thestructure of genetic ancestry spaces toenhance case-control studies
Ciollaro, Mattia, Nonparametric tech-niques for functional data analysis
Huang, Shiqiong, High dimensional sparseprecision matrix estimation
Lu, Cong, Understanding the geneticbasis of schizophrenia by using RNA-sequencing data
Stern, Rafael, A statistical contributionto historical linguistics
Ventura, Samuel, Large-scale classifica-tion and clustering methods with appli-cations in record linkage
Wang, Lawrence, Network comparisonsusing sample splitting
Drexel University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Armstrong, Jeffrey, The homotopy the-ory of modules of curved A-infinitecategories
Minner, Michael, Compressive sensingapplied to MIMO radar and sparesdisjoint scenes
Smith, Jonah, A new class of integrablesurfaces related to Bertrand curves
Tang, Xuezhi, Synchronization of cou-pled dynamical systems on Cayley andrandom graphs
Lehigh University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Clearman, Samuel, Combinatorial as-pects of Hecke algebra characters
Cui, Xin, On curvature, volume growthand uniqueness of steady Ricci solitons
Dumnich, Sarah, A measure theoreticapproach to the construction of scalingfunctions for wavelets
Ferahlar, Cuneyt, A Weitzenbock formulafor compact complex manifolds andapplications to the Hopf conjecture inreal dimension 6
Wildman, Mackenzie, The Dobric-Ojedaprocess with applications to optionpricing and the stochastic heat equation
Pennsylvania StateUniversity (26)
Department of Mathematics
Bannangkoon, Pichkitti, C∗-algebras inKirillov theory
Droz, Daniel, Orthogonal sets of Latinsquares and class-r hypercubes gener-ated by finite algebraic systems
Gafni, Ayla, Asymptotic formulae inanalytic number theory
Huang, Zhan, Nonlocal models withconvection effects
Khanmohammadi, Ehssan, Quantizationof coadjoint orbits via positivity ofKirillov’s character formula
Maler, Adrian, Effective theory of Levyand Feller processes
Peng, Guangzhong, Quantization of affinecoadjoint orbits
Qiao, Changhe, General purpose com-positional simulation for multiphasereactive flow with a fast linear solver
Wang, Haining, Anticyclotomic Iwasawatheory for Hilbert modular forms
Yang, Kai, Stable discretization and ro-bust preconditioning for fluid-structureinteraction
Yelton, Jeffrey, Hyperelliptic Jacobiansand their associated �-adic Galois rep-resentations
Zelenberg, Aleksey, Rokhlin dimensionfor C∗-correspondences
Department of Statistics
Bagyan, Armine, Central limit theoremsfor randomly modulated sequences ofrandom vectors with resampling andapplications to statistics
Cho, Youngjoo, Semiparametric analysisof failure time data in the presence ofdependent censoring
Christou, Eliana, A non-iterative methodfor fitting the single index quantileregression model with uncensored andcensored data
Goldstein, Joshua, Compartmental, spa-tial and point process models forinfectious diseases
Huang, Yuan, Projection test for high-dimensional mean vectors with optimaldirection
Liu, Yang, Approaches to reduce andintegrate data in structured and high-dimensional regression problems ingenomics
Park, Sae Na, Classification of transientsby distance measures
Shen, Wejie, Dimensional analysis instatistics: Theories, methodologies, andapplications
Song, Won Chul, Nonparametric indepen-dence screening and test-based screen-ing via the variance of the regressionfunction
Wang, Ningtao, A block mixture model tomap eQLTs for gene clustering
Wang, Yaqun, Inference of gene regula-tory network based on gene expressiondynamics in response to environmentalsignals
Xu, Zhuying, Locally stationary quantileregression for inflation and interestrates
Yu, Ye, New procedures for Cox’s modelwith high dimensional predictors
Zhan, Xiang, Kernel machine methodswith applications to high-throughoutdata
Temple University (10)
Department of Statistical Science
Afriyie, Prince, Applications of proce-dures controlling the tail probability ofthe false discovery proportion
Banton, Dwaine, A Bayesian decisiontheoretic approach to fixed sample sizedetermination and blinded sample sizere-estimation for hypothesis testing
Chen, Aiying, Multiple testing proceduresunder group sequential design
Gehman, Andrew, The effects of spa-tial aggregation on spatial time seriesmodeling and forecasting
Gilbert, Elizabeth, The validity of sum-mary comorbidity measures
Huang, Ke, Optimal reduced size choicesets with overlapping attributes
Lee, Bu Hyoung, The use of temporally ag-gregated data on detecting a structuralchange of a time series process
Liu, Yanping, New approaches to multipletesting of grouped hypotheses
Minster, Angela, Model-free variable se-lection through sufficient dimensionreduction
Xiao, Jing, Some results on Pareto optimalchoice sets for estimating main effectsand interactions in 2n and 3n factorialplans
University ofPennsylvania (22)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Computational Science
Gu, Shi, Control theoretic analysis ofhuman brain networks
Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Gamerman, Victoria, Statistical methodsfor time-conditional survival probabil-ity and equally spaced count data
Kennedy, Edward H, Doubly robust causalinference with complex parameters
Kobie, Julie, Sparse simultaneous signaldetection with applications in genomics
Li, Jiaqi, Modeling approaches for costand cost-effectiveness estimation usingobservational data
Shi, Pixu, Statistical methods for com-positional and tree-structured countdata
Wan, Fei, Instrumental variable andpropensity score methods for biasadjustment in non-linear models
Department of Mathematics
Astrand, Matti, Lifting problems and theirindependence of coefficient field
Frankel, Brett S, Representations of fun-damental groups of abelian varieties incharacteristic p
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
750 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Gilula, Maxim M., A real analytic approachto estimating oscillatory integrals withnondegenerate phases
Jang, Jin Woo, Global classical solutionsto the relativistic Boltzmann equationwith angular cut-off
Kjuchukova, Alexandra, On the classifi-cation of irregular dihedral branchedcovers of four-manifolds
Mo, Li-Ping, Hit polynomials have onlyreal roots
Poh, Julius Wei Quan, Shape and otherproperties of 1324-avoiding permuta-tions
Pun, Ying Anna, On decomposition ofthe product of Demazure atoms andDemazure characters
Sundstrom, James D., Lower bounds forgeneralized regulators
Tofts, Spencer, On the existence of so-lutions to the Muskat problem withsurface tension
Wharton Department of Statistics
Fogarty, Colin, Modern optimization inobservational studies
Johnson, Kory, Discrete methods in statis-tics: Feature selection and fairness-aware data mining
Peng, Peichao, Essays in problems insequential decisions and large-scalerandomized algorithms
Satopaa, Ville, Partial information frame-work: Basic theory and applications
Weinstein, Asaf, Empirical Bayes estima-tion in cross-classified Gaussian modelswith unbalanced design
University ofPittsburgh (15)
Department of Biostatistics
Chen, Jia-Yuh, Joint modeling of bivariatelongitudinal and bivariate survival datain spouse pairs
Ghebrehawariat, Kidane, Parametric in-ference on quantile residual life
Jiang, Yingda, Gene-based associationtesting of dichotomous traits using gen-eralized functional linear mixed modelsfor family data
Johnson, Geoffrey, Quality adjusted Q-learning and conditional structuralmean models for optimizing dynamictreatment regimes
Wang, Tianxiu, Competing risks regres-sion under random signs censoringusing pseudo-values
Department of Mathematics
Grady, Daniel, Steenrod squares andMassey products in Deligne cohomol-ogy
He, Peng, Mathematical analysis of creditdefault swaps
Liu, Lifeng, Two nonlinear lattice prob-lems in materials
Moraiti, Marina, Coupled groundwater-surface water flows: Effect small physi-cal parameters and numerical methods
Tanase, Roxana, Parameter estimationof partial differential equations usingstochastic methods
Department of Statistics
Chen, Xiaotian, Association analysis ofsuccessive events and diagnostic accu-racy analysis for competing risk data
Gu, Hong, Statistical approaches in theRDOC paradigm for post-mortem braintissue studies
Simsek, Burcin, Stochastic models withapplications to imaging and neuro-science
Wei, Yafei, Estimation, model selectionand resilience of power law distribu-tions
Ye, Cong, Multiple change-point detec-tion for piecewise stationary categoricaltime series
PUERTO RICOUniversity of Puerto Rico,Rio Piedras (4)
Department of Mathematics
Cui, Bo, Exponential rank and classi-fication of AH-algebras using Morsetheory
Innocent, Jean K., Bayes factors consis-tency for nested linear models withincreasing dimensions
Li, Ang, Bayesian calibration of p-valuesunder multiple comparisons: Boundsand new approximations
Qin, Hu, Code raised from hypercubegraph and completed graph
RHODE ISLANDBrown University (10)
Department of Mathematics
Carter, Paul, Fast pulses with oscillatorytails in the FitzHugh-Nagumo system
Culiuc, Amalia, Weighted estimates ofCalderon-Zygmund operators on vector-valued function spaces
Newkirk, Edward, Billards with bombsOu, Yumeng, Multi-parameter commu-
tators and new function spaces ofbounded mean oscillation
Division of Applied Mathematics
Aghajani, Mohammadreza, Infinite-dimensional scaling limits of stochasticnetworks
Ahn, Seonmin, Bayesian inference in sta-tistical analysis of paleoclimate records
Deng, Mingge, Dissipative particle dy-namics for anisotropic particles andelectrostatic fluctuations: A fully La-grangian approach
Makrides, Elizabeth, Existence and stabil-ity of localized planar patterns
Sanchez Uribe, Manuel, Finite elementmethods for interface problems usingunfitted meshes: Design and analysis
Trask, Nathaniel, Compatible high-ordermeshless schemes for viscous fluidflows through �2-optimization
University of RhodeIsland (2)
Department of Mathematics
Armstrong, Addie, Degree-limited defec-tive 3-colorings of planar graphs
Denette, Erin, Minimal Cantor sets: Thecombinatorial construction of ergodicfamilies and semi-conjugations
SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (13)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Buckingham, Patrick, On the transientbehavior of queueing processes
Chao, Shih-Wei, Toric heaps and cyclicreducibility in Coxeter groups
Dowling, Michael, Expander graphs andcoding theory
Finney, Michael, Estimating single gen-der classroom effects using propensityscores and matching
Grotheer, Rachel, Hyperspectral diffuseoptical tomography using the reducedbasis method and sparsity constraints
He, Qijun, Algebraic geometry arisingfrom discrete models of gene regulatorynetworks
Hedetniemi, Jason, Problems in domina-tion and graph products
Jiang, Chendi, Reliability analysis of load-sharing models
Leverenz, Jonathon, Network target coor-dination for multiparametric program-ming
Priyadarshani, Hewa Arachchige Anu-radha, Bayesian minimum descriptionlength techniques for multiple change-point detection
Strauss, Thilo, Statistical inverse prob-lems in electrical impedance and dif-fuse optical tomography
Tu, Shiyi, Objective Bayesian analysis onthe quantile regression
Xu, Honghai, Problems in dominationand graph products
Medical University ofSouth Carolina (6)
Department of Public Health Sciences
Carroll, Rachel, Model selection for hi-erarchical Poisson modeling in diseasemapping
Fan, Liqiong, Covariate misclassificationunder covariate-adaptive randomiza-tion: Understanding the impact andmethod for bias correction
Nicholas, Katherine, Covariate adjust-ment in non-inferiority trials: Implica-tions for type I errors
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 751
Payne, Elizabeth, Statistical methods formodeling count data with overdisper-sion and missing time varying categori-cal covariates
Rotejanaprasert, Chawarat, Develop-ments in clustering and surveillancefor spatial health data
Voronca, Delia, Marginal inference forpositive outcomes with a point mass atzero
University of SouthCarolina (11)
Department of Mathematics
Faulkner, Nathan, Commutator studiesin pursuit of finite basis result
Lane, Michael, Avoiding doubled wordsin strings of symbols
Rorabaugh, Daniel, Toward the combina-torial limit of free words
Short, Taylor, Some extremal and struc-tural problems in graph theory
Smith, Heather, Trees, partitions, andother combinatorial structures
Wang, Che, Fast methods for variable-coefficient peridynamic and non-localdiffusion models
Department of Statistics
Bao, Junshu, Development and applica-tion of Bayesian semiparametric modelsfor dependent data
Cipolli, William, Bayesian nonparametricapproaches to multiple testing, densityestimation and supervised learning
Wu, Haifeng, Frailty Probit models forclustered interval-censored failure timedata
Yao, Bin, Semiparametric regression anal-ysis of panel count data and intervalcensored failure time data
Zhou, Haiming, Bayesian semi- and non-parametric analysis for spatially corre-lated survival data
TENNESSEEMiddle Tennessee StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Gaddy, Angeline, Identification of obsta-cles to transitioning to reform-orientedinstruction among high school mathe-matics teachers
Gerstenschlager, Natasha, Identifying thesupports needed by a sixth gradeteacher implementing a reform-oriented,statistics unit
Liang, Xiao, Efficient numerical methodsfor nonlinear Schrodinger equations
University of Memphis (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Dogan, Ali, On saturated graphs andcombinatorial games
Fofana, Demba, On some Bayesian andempirical Bayes procedures for analyz-ing gene expression data
Kester, Merve, Approximations by gener-alized discrete singular operators
Madahian, Behrouz, Statistical shrink-age methods for classification, pre-diction, and feature extraction usinggenomewide gene expression data andsmall sample sizes
Sokolov, Yury, Dynamics of discrete andcontinuous spatially distributed sys-tems
University of Tennessee,Knoxville (13)
Department of Mathematics
Allen, Brian, Non-compact solutions ofinverse mean curvature flow in hyper-bolic space
Austin, Kyle, Geometry of scalesBintz, Jason, Population modeling for
resource allocation and antimicrobialstewardship
Collins, Craig, Domain decompositionmethods for discontinuous Galerkinapproximations of elliptic problems
DeSilva, Kokum, Investigating advectioncontrol in competitive PDE systems andenvironmental transmission in Johne’sdisease ODE models
Golenbiewski, Kyle, Kinetic Monte Carlomodels for crystal defects
Holloway, Michael, Duality of scalesJum, Ernest, Numerical approxiamtion of
stochastic differential equations drivenby Levy motion with infinitely manyjumps
Levy, Benjamin, Modeling feral hogs inGreat Smoky Mountains National Park
Lewis, Elizabeth, The congruence-basedzero-divisor graph
Li, Yukun, Numerical methods for de-terministic and stochastic phase fieldmodels of phase transition and relatedgeometric flows
Manathunga, Vajira, The Conway poly-nomial and amphicheiral knots
Sunkes, James, Hankel operators on theDrury-Arveson space
Vanderbilt University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Corson, Samuel, Subgroups and quotientsof fundamental groups
Gao, Min, Age-structured populationmodels with applications
Jiang, Jiayi, Quantization in signal pro-cessing with frame theory
Jones, Corey, Annular representation the-ory with applications to approximationand rigidity properties for rigid C∗-tensor categories
Northington, Michael, V, Balian-Low typetheorems for swift-invariance spaces
Shao, Yuanzhen, Theory of parabolicdifferential equations on singular man-ifolds and its applications to geometricanalysis
Su, Yujian, Disease minimal on flat toriand four-point maximal polarization onS2
TEXASBaylor University (12)
Department of Mathematics
Graham, Curtis, Boundary conditionsdependence of spectral zeta functions
Nelms, Charles, Eigenvalue comparisontheorems for certain boundary valueproblems and position solutions fora fifth order singular boundary valueproblem
Nguyen, Huy, Krylov methods for solvinga sequence of large systems of linearequations
Streit, Brian, Conformal mapping meth-ods for spectral zeta function
Tennant, Tim, Chaotic properties of set-valued dynamical systems
Wicks, Quinn, Glazman-Krein-Naimarktheory, left-definite theory and thesquare of the Legendre polynomialsdifferential operator
Yang, Zhao, A multigrid Krylov methodfor eigenvalue problems
Department of Statistical Sciences
Chen, Wencong, Bayesian models forunmeasured confounder in the analysisof time-to-event data
Eschmann, Mark, Bayesian methods toestimate the accuracy of a binarymeasurement system
Guo, Yuanyuan, Topics in Bayesian adap-tive clinical trial design using dynamiclinear models and missing data imputa-tion in logistic regression
Marcovitz, Michelle, Bayesian models forshort sequences of correlated binaryvariables possessing first-order Markovdependence
Tecson, Kristen, Topics in Bayesian mod-els with ordered parameters: Responsemisclassification, covariate misclassifi-cation, and sample size determination
Rice University (17)
Computational and Applied
Mathematics Department
Gandham, Rajesh, High performancehigh order numerical methods: Ap-plications in ocean modeling
Huang, Yin, Born waveform inversion inshot coordinate domain
Medina, David, Okl: A unified languagefor parellel architectures
Whaley, Meagan, Dynamics of brain net-works during reading
Wood, Cynthia, Clique generalizationsand related problems
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
752 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Department of Mathematics
Acosta, Jorge, Holonomy limits of cyclicopers
Durgin, Natalie, Geometric invariant the-ory quotient of the Hilbert scheme ofsix points on the projective plane
Funk, Quentin, Two variants on theplateau problem
Huang, Andy, Handle crushing harmonicmaps between surfaces
Ince, Kenan, The untwisting number of aknot
Vance, Katherine, Tau invariants of spa-tial graphs
Department of Statistics
Chiang, Sharon, Hierarchical Bayesianmodels for multimodal neuroimagingdata
Flores Castillo, Nicolas, Stochastic mod-eling of cancer tumors using Moranmodels and an application to cancergenetics
Kim, Soyeon, Prediction oriented markerselection for personalized medicinewith application to high dimensionaldata
McDonald, Thomas, Modeling clonal evo-lution with branching processes
Ni, Yang, Bayesian graphical models forcomplex biological networks
Vankov, Emilian, Filtering and estimationfor a class of stochstic volatility modelswith intractable likelihood
Southern MethodistUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematics
Choi, Young Ok, The Galerkin boundaryelement method for three-dimensionaltransient Stokes flow
Downes, Edward, Numerical studies ofnonlinear processes in light filaments
Jang, Chang Young, Contributions tothe theory and applications of Hermitemethods
Wang, Zheng, Filtered Davidson-typemethods for large-scale eigen-relatedproblems
Statistical Science Department
Liu, Bingchen, Ranked set sampling andjudgment post-stratification estimatorsfor discrete distributions
Lu, Wentao, An adaptive testing approachfor meta-analysis of gene set enrich-ment studies
Yang, Yandan (Daisy), On analysis ofsystem-based reliability data
Texas A&M University (24)
Department of Mathematics
Boedihardjo, March, Topics in functionalanalysis
Castanon Quiroz, Daniel, Solution of theMHD equations with non-axisymmetricconductors using Fourier-finite elementmethod
Chan, Wai Kit, Perturbations of certaincrossed product algebras by free groups
Gin, Craig, Topics in stability analysisof multi-layer Hele-Shaw and porousmedia flows
Goldsmith, Aaron, LASSO asymptoticswith heavy tailed error
Grimley, Lauren, Brackets on Hochschildcohomology of noncommutative alge-bras
Gu, Cong, Computational mechanics foraircraft water entry and wind energy
Hamm, Keaton, On the interpolationof smooth functions via radial basisfunctions
Johnson, Maya, A continuing mechan-ics model of stress mediated arterialgrowth during hypertension using anEulerian frame
Liu, Jiayin, Quantifying uncertainty foran elliptic inverse problem with finitedata
Moon, Minam, Generalized discontinuousmultiscale method for flows in highlyheterogeneous porous media
Muddamallappa, Mallikarjunaiah, On twotheories for brittle fracture: Modelingand direct numerical simulation
Penland, Andrew, Finitely constrainedgroups
Protosav, Anastasiya, Local-global modelreduction techniques
Rainone, Timothy, K-theoretic dynamicsand C∗-crossed products
Ren, Jun, Multiscale solution techniquesfor high-contrast anisotropic problems
Rupam, Rishika, Meromorphic inner func-tions and their applications
Tan, Xiaosi, Multilevel uncertainty quan-tification techniques using multiscalemethods
Wang, Yi-Ching, Numerical computationof wind turbine flows and fluid prob-lems by open FOAM and ANSYS
Zhou, Zhi, Numerical analysis of fraction-al-order differential equations withnonsmooth data
Department of Statistics
Jeong, Jaehong, Spatial-temporal modelsfor processes on the sphere and theirapplication in climate problem
Rahmen, Shahina, Efficient nonpara-metric and semiparametric regressionmethods with application in case con-trol studies
Zhang, Bohali, Statistical methods forlarge spatial and spatio-temporal data-sets
Zhang, Nan, Adaptive basis sampling forsmoothing splines
Texas ChristianUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics
Matthews, Kyle, Universal Poincare du-ality for intersection homology ofbranched and partial coverings of pseu-domanifolds
Texas State University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Bower, Rachel, Cases of noticing in lin-guistically diverse mathematics class-rooms
Hanusch, Sarah, The use of examples ina transition-to-proof course
Herrera, Christine, The effect of theconceptualization of limits on proofcomprehension
Mejia Colindres, Carlos Alberto, The me-diating role of mathematical translan-guaging
Melnikova, Yuliya, Alignment in students,teaching assistants and instructors onthe purpose and practice of calculus Ilabs
Smith, Shawnda, Geometry teaching knowl-edge: A comparison between pre-serviceand high school geometry teachers
Starkey, Christina, Reflective journalingas a tool to support learning mathemat-ical proofs
Texas Tech University (8)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chakraborty, Pritha, Extremal problemsin Bergman spaces
Gamage, Pemantha, Smoothed functionalprincipal component analysis
Gonzalez, Elias, Complex classification ofsingularities of reducible septic curves
Jesse, Odin, Algebraic characterizationof non-negativity of polynomials overpolytopes
Koksal, Fatih, Injectivity and Gorensteininjectivity under faithfully flat ringextensions
Ma, Jie, On stability of linear switchingsystems
Osborn, Sarah, Multilevel solution strate-gies for the stochastic Galerkin method
Wijenayaka, Hansameenu Thanuka, Anal-ysis of the error in an iterative algorithmfor solution of regulator problems forlinear distributed parameter controlsystems
University of Houston (11)
Department of Mathematics
Agrawal, Akshay, Optimization of planewave directions in plane wave dis-continuous Galerkin methods for theHelmholtz equations
Alsheikh, Dina, The hypercircle methodand an equilibrated a posteriori errorestimator for discontinuous Galerkinapproximations of elliptic boundaryvalue problems on simplicial meshes
Alvarez, Angelynn, On the positive holo-morphic sectional curvature of projec-tivized vector bundles over compactcomplex manifolds
Hammen, Nathaniel, Stable phase re-trieval using low-redundancy frames ofpolynomials
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 753
Leonhard, Nicole, Correlation minimizingframes
Maxwell, Nicholas, Gaussian polynomialfilters and generalized shift-invariantframes
Ng, Wai Hin, Tensor products of operatorsystems via factorization
Ortiz, Carlos, Graph parameters via oper-ator systems
Ozcan, Burcin, Image analysis usingdirectional multiscale representationsand applications for characterization ofneuronal morphology
Preston, Benjamin, A hidden Markovrenewal model
Zheng, Da, The operation system gen-erated by Cuntz isometries and itsapplications
University of NorthTexas (7)
Mathematics Department
Atmai, Rachid, Contributions to descrip-tive set theory
Berardinelli, Angela, Restricting invari-ants and arrangements of finite com-plex reflection groups
Chang, Cheng (Jeff), The relative com-plexity of various classification prob-lems among compact metric spaces
Dahal, Koshal, Trees and ordinal indicesin C(K) spaces for K countable compact
Islas, Jose, Optimal strategies for stop-ping near the top of a sequence
Jacobs, George Anthony, Reduced idealsand periodic sequences in pure cubicfields
Krohne, Edward, Continuous combina-torics on F(2(Z2))
University of Texas atArlington (11)
Department of Mathematics
Ali, Ahmed, Bisection method for thebanded hyperbolic quadratic eigenvalueproblem
Blackwell, Justin, Numerical methods forspontaneous and evoked glutamate re-lease
Chandler, Richard, On the quantumspaces of some quadratic regula al-gebras of global dimension four
Goodwin, Rachel, Some multivariate pro-cess capability indices
Griffis, John, Representations of the ex-tended Poincare superalgebras in fourdimensions
Looney, Carl, Finite M-inverse loops andquasigroups with a long inverse cycle
Sutton, Julie, The influence of dynamic vi-sualization on undergraduate calculuslearning
Traylor, Rachel, Stochastic reliabilitymodels for a general server and re-lated networks
Ventura, Wilber, On solving forward-backward SDEs
Wood, Daniel, Advancements and appli-cations of nonstandard finite differencemethods
Xiao, Pengcheng, A modeling study inthe regulation of stress on neuronalplasticity
University of Texas atAustin (28)
Department of Mathematics
Bennett, Julia, Exotic smoothings via largeR4’s in Stein surfaces
Berg, Jennifer, Obstructions to the in-tegral Hasse principle for generalizedaffine Chatelet surfaces
Chen, Chieh, Implicit boundary integralmethods
Delfeld, James, Labeling and denoisinggeometrically parameterized data withapplications to cryo-em
Fenyes, Aaron, Warping geometric struc-tures and abelianizing SL(2,R) localsystems
Franklin, Giovanni, The Andre-Quillenspectral sequence for pre-logarithmicring spectra
Fredrickson, Laura, Asymptotic limits inthe Hitchin moduli space
Gal, Itamar, Explorations in algebra andtopology
Garza, Cesar, A construction of hyper-kahler metrics through Riemann-Hilbertproblems
Goswami, Pulak, Recovering the payoffstructure of a utility maximizing agent
Hughes, Adam, Multiplicative and dy-namical analysis on ideles and ideleclass groups
Jain, Rohit, Regularity estimates for somefree boundary problems of obstacle-type
Kontaxis, Andrew, Asymptotics for opti-mal investment with high-water markfee
Larson, Kyle, Some constructions in-volving surgery on surfaces involving4-manifolds
Li, Jiexian, Existence, characterizationand approximation in the generalizedmonotone follower problem
Pool, Jamie, A quadrature Eulerian-Lagrangian WENO scheme for reservoirsimulation
Royer, Aaron, Aspects of derived Koszulduality
Taskovic, Maja, Mittag-Leffler momentsand weighted L∞ estimates for solutionsto the Boltzmann equation for hardpotentials without cutoff
White, Chris, Optimality guarantees fornon-convex low rank matrix recoveryproblems
Institute for Computational
Engineering and Science
Carleton, James, Microscale modelingof layered fibrous networks with ap-plications to biomaterials for tissueengineering
Ellis, Truman, Space-time discontinuousPetrov-Galerkin finite elements for tran-sient fluid machanics
Graham, Lindley, Adaptive measure-theoretic parameter estimation forcoastal ocean modeling
Hussmann, Jeffrey, Expanding the ap-plications of high-throughput DNA se-quencing
Isaac, Tobin, Scalable, adaptive methodsfor forward and inverse problems incontinental-scale ice sheet modeling
Martin, James, A computational frame-work for the solution of infinite-dimensional Bayesian statistical inverseproblems with application to globalseismic inversion
Morrison, Rebecca, On the representa-tion of model inadequacy: A stochasticoperator approach
Taus, Matthias, Isogeometric analysis forboundary integral equations
Young, Jonathan, Computational discov-ery of genetic targets and interactions:Applications to lung cancer
University of Texas atDallas (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chu, Jufen, Nonparametric hazard rateestimation with left truncated and rightcensored data
Elewitz, Zachary, Detection of the Reide-meister 2-move via generalized Polyakinvariants
Li, Changsong, Multiplicative structureon KBSM of I-bundle over a disk withthree punctures
Wang, Shanshan, Masking and swampingrobustness of outlier detection proce-dures
Wang, Tiansong, Multi-sensor change-point detection
Wijesuriya, Uditha, Exploratory nonpara-metric functional data analysis usingthe spatial depth approach
University of TexasSchool of Public Health (12)
Department of Biostatistics
Azadeh, Shabnam, Integrative Bayesianmodeling of imaging and genetic data
Cao, Ying, Detecting genetic and nutri-tional lung cancer risk factors relatedto folate metabolism using Bayesiangeneralized linear models
Hong, Chuan, Statistical tests for ho-mogeneity using parametric and semi-parametric models with applications tometa-analysis and statistical genetics
Huang, Jing, Bayesian dynamic mediationanalysis
Li, Xiaoqi, Statistical models for recurrentevents during alternating restraint andnon-restraint periods
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
754 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Lin, Li An, Bayesian analysis of multi-type recurrent events with dependenttermination
Liu, Yulun, Meta-analytical methods andtheir applications to biomedical studies
Sun, Jia, A hierarchical model of mu-tations with genotyping errors andmaximum likelihood estimations andthe male-to-female mutation rate ratio
Wu, Chih-Hsien, Analysis of bivariatelongitudinal discrete data: A jointcontinuous-time Markov chains ap-proach
Yang, Yang, Data-adaptive SNP-set-basedassociation tests of longitudinal traits
Ye, Jiabu, Covariates adjustment fornonparametric tests for two samplecomparison
Zhu, Huirong, Two-part mixture mod-els for zero-inflated longitudinal mea-surements with heterogeneous randomeffects and time to event data
UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics
Dang, Vinh, Compression bodies andtheir boundary hyperbolic structures
Simmons, Skyler, Analysis of multiplecollision-based periodic orbits in di-mension higher than one
University of Utah (7)
Department of Mathematics
Babenko, Vira, Numerical analysis inL-spaces
Cesa, Morgan, Dehn functions of higherrank arithmetic groups of type An inproducts of simple Lie groups
Dixon-Gorringe, Megan, Roles for ubiq-uitin and dimensional dependence inprotein regulation
Egbert, Paul Andrew, Log minimal modelsof arithmetic threefolds
Kerby, Brent, Semivariogram estimation:Asymptotic theory and applications
Krtolica, Predrag, Compatibility condi-tions in discrete structures and appli-cation to damage
Watson, Alan, Generic vanishing andthe geometry of irregular varieties inpositive characteristics
Utah State University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Duncan, Jacob, A spatiotemporal moun-tain pine beetle outbreak model predict-ing severity, cycle period, and invasionspeed
Flake, Darl, Separation of points andinterval estimation in mixed dose-response curves with selective com-ponent labeling
Neupane, Ram, Modeling seed dispersaland population migration given a dis-tribution of seed handling times andvariable dispersal motility: Case studyfor pinyon and juniper in Utah
VIRGINIAGeorge MasonUniversity (4)
Department of Statistics
Hoysepyan, Harut, Valuation of commer-cial mortgages in incomplete markets:A four-state model with fundamentaleconomic theory
Shao, Hui, Exact properties of restrictedrandomization procedures
Wilson, Seunghye, Trend detection andpattern recognition in financial timeseries
Ye, Xuan, Group sequential methods forROC curves
Old DominionUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Li, Wei, Modeling and simulation ofmolecular Couette flows and relatedflows
University of Virginia (7)
Department of Mathematics
Atkinson, Scott, Convex sets associated toC∗-algebras
Bley-Delgado, Gonzalo, Estimates of func-tional integrals of non-relativistic quan-tum field theory with applications tothe Nelson and Polaron methods
De Stefani, Alessandro, Homological meth-ods, singularities, and numerical invari-ants
Franz, Daniel, Quantifying the residualfitness of linear groups
Hardy, Stephen, Pseudocompact C∗-algebras
Lai, Chun-Ju, Affine quantum symmetri-cal pairs: Multiplication formulas andcanonical bases
Terwilliger, Bryce, Tandem queues withidentical service times in heavy traffic
Virginia CommonwealthUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Applied Mathematics
Cooper, Racheal, An applied mathemati-cal approach to modeling inflammation:Hematopoietic bone marrow stem cells,systemic estrogen and wound healingand gas exchange in the lungs and body
Lazaryan, Shushan, Dynamics of dis-crete planar systems that model stage-structured populations
Department of Statistical Sciences
and Operations Research
Leonard, Robert, Considerations for screen-ing and follow-up experimentation
Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (22)
Department of Mathematics
Arat, Seda, A systems biology approachto microbiology and cancer
Gao, Guangyue, Some controllability andstabilization problems of surface waveson water with surface tension
Kramer, Boris, Model and reduction forcontrol, identification and compressedsensing
Kuster, George, On the role of studentunderstanding of function and rate ofchange in learning differential equa-tions
Lattimer, Alan, Model reduction of non-linear fire dynamics model
Li, Ming, Recycling preconditioners andmatrix reordering
Moon, Kihyo, Immersed discontinuousGalerkin methods for acoustic wavepropagation in inhomogeneous media
Plaxco, David, Relating understanding ofinverse and identity to engagement inproof in abstract algebra
Wang, Taige, Mathematical analysis onthe PEC model for Thixotropic fluids
Wills, Andrew, Abacus-tournament mod-els of Hall-Littlewood polynomials
Department of Statistics
Carzolio, Marcos, On a selection of ad-vanced Markov chain Monte Carlo al-gorithms for everyday use: Weightedparticle, tempering, practical reversiblejump, and extensions
Chen, Chen, Evaluating time-varying ef-fect in single type and multi-type semi-parametric recurrent event models
Hoegh, Andrew, Predictive model fusion:A modular approach to big, unstruc-tured data
Li, Qing, Recurrent event models fordetecting the change points in thedriving risk of the teenage drivers
Loftus, Stephen, On the use of groupedcovariate regression in oversaturatedmodels
Ortega Villa, Ana Maria, Semiparametricvarying coefficient models for matchedcase-crossover studies
Shan, Liang, Joint Gaussian graphicalmodel for multi-class and multi-leveldata
Sun, Peng, Semiparametric Bayesian ap-proach using weighted Dirichlet processmixture for finance statistical models
Xie, Yimeng, Advancements in degrada-tion modeling, uncertainty quantifica-tion and spatial variable selection
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 755
Yuan, Miao, Corporate default predic-tions and methods for uncertaintyquantifications
Zhang, Angang, Some advances in classi-fying and modeling complex data
Zhang, Xiang, Dynamic probability con-trol limits for risk-adjusted Bernoullicumulative sum charts
WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (37)
Applied Mathematics Department
Curtius, Kathleen, Multiscale modeling ofesophageal adenocaranoma
Sheils, Natalie, Interface problems usingthe Fokas method
Biostatistics Department
Benkeser, David, Data-adaptive estima-tion in longitudinal data structureswith applications in vaccine efficacytrials
Dominguez Islas, Clara Penelope, Newmethods for meta-analysis under a fixedeffects framework, with frequentist andBayesian estimation
Kosel, Alison, Local estimations of patientprognosis
Liang, Chao-Kang, Methods for describ-ing the time-varying predictive perfor-mance of survival models
McHugh, Caitlin, Statistical methods forthe analysis of autosomal and X chro-mosome genetic data in samples withunknown structure
Salim, Bob, Stochastic optimization andsubgroup selection
Tan, Kean Ming, Graph estimation andcluster analysis in high dimensions
Wang, Linbo, Causal inference with selec-tion and confounding variables
Zelnick, Leila, Analysis of biased sam-pling designs in longitudinal data
Department of Mathematics
Bartlett, Alan, Spectral theory of Zd-
substitutionsChen, Hao, Computational aspects of
the modular parametrization of ellipticcurves
Clenaghan, Graham, Grothendieck dual-ity on diagrams of schemes
Ganguly, Shirshendu, Aspects of Markovchains and particle systems
Holdaway, Cody, Path algebras and mono-mial algebras of finite GK-dimension asnoncummutative homogeneous coordi-nate rings
Junge, Matthew, Random recursionMcMurdie, Christopher, The C∗-algebra
of a finite T0 topological spaceMerhej, Jessica, On the geometry of recti-
fiable sets with Carleson and Poincare-type conditions
Negron, Cris, Alternate approaches to thecup product and Gerstenhaber bracketon Hochschild cohomology
Palvannan, Bharathwas, On Selmer groupsand factoring p-adic L-functions
Prelli, Lorenzo, Results on singularities ofpairs
Rudnick, Christian, Boundary Harnackprinciple for stable-like processes
Sprehn, David, Some cohomology of finitegeneral linear groups
Stark, James, Sheaves on support vari-eties and varieties of elementary subal-gebras
Taylor, Jair, Formal group laws andhypergraph colorings
Wang, Jiashan, Matrix free methods forlarge scale optimization
Wong, Ting Kam Leonard, Geometry andoptimization of relative arbitrage
Zhou, Hanming, Some linear and nonlin-ear geometric inverse problems
Department of Statistics
Harmon, James, The likelihood pivot:Performing inference with confidence
Irvahn, Jan, Phylogenetic stochastic map-ping
Leung, Dennis, Testing independence inhigh dimensions and identifiability ofgraphical models
McDavid, Andrew, Statistical hurdle mod-els for single cell gene expression:Differential expression and graphicalmodeling
Mercer, Laina, Space-time smoothingmodels for surveillance and complexsurvey data
Ren, You, Bayesian modeling of a highresolution housing price index
Theobald, Roderick, Lord’s paradox andtargeted interventions: The case ofspecial education
Washington StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Alzaleq, Lewa’, A Klein-Gordon equationrevisited: New solutions and a compu-tational method
Klosterman, Peter, Identification and es-tablishment of social and sociomathe-matical norms associated with mathe-matically productive discourse
Skulpakdee, Wanrudee, Portfolio opti-mization on jump diffusion
WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Algefari, Mansour, On supereulerian di-graphs
Aslatami, Khalid, A study on dicycledand Eulerian subdigraphs
Guven, Emine, Validation of an exper-imentally motivated predictive modelfor the spontaneous clustering of re-ceptors on the cell membrane
Tichenor, Todd, Topics in graph compo-sition
Wang, Keke, Supereulerian properties ingraphs and Hamiltonian properties inline graphs
Zhang, Meng, Spanning trails and span-ning trees
WISCONSINMarquette University (4)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics and Comp Science
Buelow, Zachary, Out-tournament matri-ces with equal ranks
Kawsar, Ferdaus, Computational ap-proaches for remote monitoring ofsymptoms and activites
Majumder, AKM Jahangir, Developmentof a wireless mobile computing plat-form for fall risk prediction
Rizia, Rizwana, A mobile health approachto assist veterans reintegrating intocivilian life
Medical College ofWisconsin (1)
Division of Biostatistics
Zhang, Ying, Inference of transition prob-abilities in multi-state models usingadaptive inverse probability censoringweighting technique
University of Wisconsin,Madison (36)
Department of Mathematics
Cladek, Laura, Multiplier theorems, squarefunction estimates, and Bochner-Rieszmeans associated with rough domains
Dewey, Edward, Characteristic classes ofcameral curves
Hu, Yueke, Period integrals, L-functions,and applications to subconvexity boundand mass equidistribution
Kim, Yoosik, On non-displaceable La-grangian tori on Fano toric surfaces:Wall-crossings and bulk-deformations
Lee, Jaeho, Non-displaceable toric fiberson compact symplectic manifolds viatropicalization
Li, Lei, Fluid-structure interaction atdifferent Reynolds numbers
Strenner, Balazs, Algebraic degrees andGalois conjugates of Penner stretchfactors
Su, Yun, Higher order degrees of complexhypersurface complements
Sun, Yu, Multilevel Monte Carlo meth-ods with applications to biochemicalmodels
Wong, Kaiho Tommy, Twisted Alexanderpolynomials of hypersurface comple-ments
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
756 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 64, NUMBER 7
Xu, Xiaoqian, Singularities and mixing influid mechanics
Zhao, Jie, Hyperkahler metrics on focus-focus fibrations
Zheng, Fan, On constructing eigenfunc-tions of Weil representations over p-adic fields
Department of Statistics
Binkiewicz, Norbert, Contextualized net-work analysis: Theory and methods fornetworks with node covariates
Brooks, Wesley, Local variable selection invarying-coefficients regression models
Chen, Yan, Some new methodologies inoptimal designs, composite likelihoodand reinforcement learning
Cho, Juhee, Statistial inferences andapplications for a low-rank matrix
Du, Lilun, Some new developments onmultiple testing procedures
Fan, Haoyang, A boosting approach tohigh dimensional linear mixed model
Feng, Xiaoping, Composite likelihood es-timation and inference for spatial datamodels
Fu, Rao, Regularized regression methodswith spatial binary and multinomialoutcomes
Guo, Xiao, Topics on estimation of largecovariance and precision matrices
Henderson, Nicholas, Methods for rankingand selection in large-scale inference
Idowu, Timothy, Bayesian inference formax-stable processes with applicationto financial data
Jiang, Qi, Bayesian functional concurrentlogistic models for spatial categoricaldata
Konate, Lancine, Dependent credit riskmodeling using nonlinear filtering tech-niques
Kong, Jing, Topics on distance corre-lation, feature screening and lifetimeexpectancy with application to BeaverDam Eye Study data
Liu, Yi, Volatility estimation with finani-cial data
Solis-Lemus, Claudia, Statistical methodsto infer population structure with coa-lescence and gene flow
Tian, Jianan, Dissection and fine-mappingof tran-eQTL
Wang, Zhishi, Statistical methods forgene set analysis
Xiong, Lie, Statistical learning for highdimensional data set with group struc-ture
Xu, Chenliang, Statistical analysis ofquantum annealing models and densitymatrix estimation in quantum homo-dyne tomography
Ye, Shuyun, Statistical methods for sub-class discovery on genomic structureswith quantitative outcomes
Zhai, Yun, Discrete time harness pro-cesses
Zuo, Chandler, Large-scale computationin genomic and epigenomic inference
University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (11)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Adhikari, Ram, A weak Simpson methodfor a class of stochastic differentialequations and numerical stability re-sults
Cheong, Sami, Parameter estimation forthe spatial Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processwith missing observations
Feller, Jesse, Random iteration of rationalmaps
Gollin, James, The root-finite conditionon groups and its application to grouprings
Griffin, Brian, Improving the subgrid-scale representation of hydrometeorsand microphysical feedback effects us-ing a multivariate PDF
Kopacz, Dawn, Predictability of sea icenear bifurcations
Mitchell, Alan, The existence of theMandelbrot set in the parameter planesof certain rational functions
Samanthi, Ranadeera, Comparing theriskiness of dependent portfolios
Sugiyama, Noriyuki, The Great Lakes’regional climate regimes
Trulen, Justin, Asymptotic estimates forsome dispersive equations on the alpha-modulation space
Yu, Daoping, Statistical contributions tooperational risk modeling
WYOMINGUniversity of Wyoming (4)
Department of Mathematics
Choi, Hayoung, Hamburger moment com-pletions and its applications
Deng, Quanling, Local conservation oncontinuous Galerkin finite elementmethods with application
Huntington, Michael, A tuan type resultand generalized friendship graphs
Nelson, Curtis, Tiling with dominoesand monomers, P-sets, and the inverseeigenvalue problem
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 757