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Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2009–2010 ALABAMA Auburn University (8) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Allagan, Julian, Choice numbers, Ohba numbers and Hall numbers of some complete k-partite graphs Delgado Ortiz, Abel, Intersection problem for the class of quaternary Reed-Muller codes Fuller, Chris, Constructive aspects of the generalized orthogonal group Greiwe, Regina, Properties of nonmetric hereditarily indecomposable subcon- tinua of finite products of lexicographic arcs Prier, David, The inverse domination number problem, DI-pathological graphs and fractional analogues Secor-Hutchinson, Jennifer, Thin-type dense sets and related properties Spadaro, Santi, Discrete sets, free se- quences and cardinal properties of topological spaces Tiemeyer, Michael, C 4 -factorizations with two associate classes University of Alabama-Birmingham (4) Department of Biostatistics Gao, Hong-Jiang, Hypothesis testing based on pool screening with unequal pool sizes Hamilton, Kiya, Extension of the pre- dictive power method with multiple endpoints Sun, Yanhui, Methods for estimating me- diation effects in survival analysis: Does weight loss mediate the undernutrition- mortality relationship in the older adults? Department of Mathematics Curry, Clinton, Topological models of Julia sets The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010) reported in the 2010 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences by 266 departments in 177 universities in the United States. Each entry contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of degrees listed for that university. University of Alabama-Huntsville (1) Department of Mathematical Sciences Igor, Savin, Numerical methods for sin- gularly perturbed boundary value prob- lems and singularly perturbed equa- tions University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (8) Department of Information, Systems Statistics, and Management Science Michaelson, Gregory, On the identifica- tion of statistically significant network topology Department of Mathematics Kidane, Berhanu, The corona theorem for the multiplier algebras on weighted Dirichlet spaces Ryle, Julie, A corona theorem for certain subalgebras of H (D) Taylor, Patrick, A graph theoretical model for the analysis of the game of football and a discussion of applications thereof Thagunna, Karan, Three assets model for portfolio selection under a constrained consumption rate process Upton, Julia, The hidden subgroup prob- lem for generalized quaternions Yu, Chunhui, Managing risk with short term futures contracts Zheng, Xiaohua, Volatility analysis for high frequency financial data ALASKA University of Alaska Fairbanks (2) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bulanova, Anna, Control theoretic ap- proach to sampling and approximation problems Mikhailov, Victor, Control and inverse problems for one dimensional systems ARIZONA Arizona State University (4) Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center Flores, Kevin, Multiscale modeling of cancer Ortiz Nieves, Angela, Modeling the trans- mission of Vancomyncin-resistant Ente- rococcus in hospitals: A case study Rios-Doria, Daniel, Modeling transient and sustained epidemic dynamics: Cholera, influenza and rubella as case studies Torre, Carlos A., Deterministic and sto- chastic metapopulation models for Dengue fever University of Arizona (12) Department of Mathematics Chesler, Joshua, Interactions with algebra across the disciplinary fields of math- ematics, education, and mathematics education Dyhr, Benjamin, The chordal Loewner equation driven by Brownian motion with a linear drift Hystad, Grethe, Periodic Ising correla- tions Kennedy, Bridget, Modelling pulse prop- agation in loss-compensated materials that exhibit the negative refreactive index property Kerl, John, Critical behavior for the model of random spatial permutations LaGatta, Thomas, Geodesics of random Riemannian metrics Lamb, McKenzie, Ginzburg-Weinstein isomorphisms for pseudo-unitary Lie groups Occhipinti, Thomas, Mordell-Weil groups of large rank in towers 978 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 58, NUMBER 7

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Doctoral Degrees Conferred2009–2010

ALABAMAAuburn University (8)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Allagan, Julian, Choice numbers, Ohbanumbers and Hall numbers of somecomplete k-partite graphs

Delgado Ortiz, Abel, Intersection problemfor the class of quaternary Reed-Mullercodes

Fuller, Chris, Constructive aspects of thegeneralized orthogonal group

Greiwe, Regina, Properties of nonmetrichereditarily indecomposable subcon-tinua of finite products of lexicographicarcs

Prier, David, The inverse dominationnumber problem, DI-pathological graphsand fractional analogues

Secor-Hutchinson, Jennifer, Thin-typedense sets and related properties

Spadaro, Santi, Discrete sets, free se-quences and cardinal properties oftopological spaces

Tiemeyer, Michael, C4-factorizations withtwo associate classes

University ofAlabama-Birmingham (4)

Department of Biostatistics

Gao, Hong-Jiang, Hypothesis testingbased on pool screening with unequalpool sizes

Hamilton, Kiya, Extension of the pre-dictive power method with multipleendpoints

Sun, Yanhui, Methods for estimating me-diation effects in survival analysis: Doesweight loss mediate the undernutrition-mortality relationship in the olderadults?

Department of Mathematics

Curry, Clinton, Topological models ofJulia sets

The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2009, to June 30,2010) reported in the 2010 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 266 departments in 177 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 ofAlabama-Huntsville (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Igor, Savin, Numerical methods for sin-gularly perturbed boundary value prob-lems and singularly perturbed equa-tions

University ofAlabama-Tuscaloosa (8)

Department of Information, Systems

Statistics, and Management Science

Michaelson, Gregory, On the identifica-tion of statistically significant networktopology

Department of Mathematics

Kidane, Berhanu, The corona theoremfor the multiplier algebras on weightedDirichlet spaces

Ryle, Julie, A corona theorem for certainsubalgebras of H∞(D)

Taylor, Patrick, A graph theoretical modelfor the analysis of the game of footballand a discussion of applications thereof

Thagunna, Karan, Three assets model forportfolio selection under a constrainedconsumption rate process

Upton, Julia, The hidden subgroup prob-lem for generalized quaternions

Yu, Chunhui, Managing risk with shortterm futures contracts

Zheng, Xiaohua, Volatility analysis forhigh frequency financial data

ALASKAUniversity of AlaskaFairbanks (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bulanova, Anna, Control theoretic ap-proach to sampling and approximationproblems

Mikhailov, Victor, Control and inverseproblems for one dimensional systems

ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (4)

Mathematical, Computational and

Modeling Sciences Center

Flores, Kevin, Multiscale modeling ofcancer

Ortiz Nieves, Angela, Modeling the trans-mission of Vancomyncin-resistant Ente-rococcus in hospitals: A case study

Rios-Doria, Daniel, Modeling transientand sustained epidemic dynamics:Cholera, influenza and rubella as casestudies

Torre, Carlos A., Deterministic and sto-chastic metapopulation models forDengue fever

University of Arizona (12)

Department of Mathematics

Chesler, Joshua, Interactions with algebraacross the disciplinary fields of math-ematics, education, and mathematicseducation

Dyhr, Benjamin, The chordal Loewnerequation driven by Brownian motionwith a linear drift

Hystad, Grethe, Periodic Ising correla-tions

Kennedy, Bridget, Modelling pulse prop-agation in loss-compensated materialsthat exhibit the negative refreactiveindex property

Kerl, John, Critical behavior for the modelof random spatial permutations

LaGatta, Thomas, Geodesics of randomRiemannian metrics

Lamb, McKenzie, Ginzburg-Weinsteinisomorphisms for pseudo-unitary Liegroups

Occhipinti, Thomas, Mordell-Weil groupsof large rank in towers

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Wasielak, Aramian, Various limiting cri-teria for multidimensional diffusionprocesses

Program in Applied Mathematics

Graff, Christian, Parameter estimation inmagnetic resonance imaging

McMahon, Joseph, Geometry and me-chanics of growing, nonlinearly elasticplates and membranes

Sun, Zhiying, Pattern formation and evo-lution on plants

ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas atFayetteville (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Rea, Garrett, A Harnack inequality forsolutions to second order divergenceform operators over Hormander vectorfields

CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (10)

Department of Applied and

Computational Mathematics

Buzi, Gentian, Control theoretic analysisof autocatalytic networks in biologywith applications to glycolysis

Chu, Chia-Chieh, Multiscale methods forelliptic partial differential equationsand related application

Du Toit, Philip, Transport and separatri-ces in time-dependent flows

Maynard Gayme, Dennice, A robust con-trol approach to understanding nonlin-ear mechanisms in shear flow turbu-lence

Department of Mathematics

Cheon, Wan Keng, Gromov-Witten invari-ants: Crepant resolutions and simpleflops

Gadre, Vaibhav, Dynamics of non-classicalinterval exchanges

Kozhan, Rostyslav, Asymptotics for or-thogonal polynomials, exponentiallysmall perturbations, and meromorphiccontinuations of Herglotz functions

Maltsev, Anna, Universality limits ofa reproducing kernel for a half-lineSchrodinger operator and clock behav-ior of eigenvalues

Schroeder, Brian, On elliptic semiplanes,an algebraic problem in matrix theory,and weight enumeration of certainbinary cyclic codes

Torres-Ruiz, Rafael, Geography and bota-ny of irreducible symplectic 4-manifoldswith abelian fundamental group

Claremont GraduateUniversity (12)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Angly, Florent, A computational workflowfor the estimation of environmentalviral diversity in metagenomes

Aven, John, Stochastic dynamics in cou-pled bistable systems with applicationsto sensor devices

Bergmann, Frank, An integrative ap-proach to modeling in systems biology

Coburn, Todd, Optimization: Nurbs andthe quasi-Newton method

Isayan, Vigen, t-copula based credit riskmodeling in a network economy

Marhadi, Kum, Investigation of progres-sive failure robustness and alternativeload paths for damage tolerant struc-tures

Nam, Hai Ah, Ab initio nuclear shellmodel calculations of some light nucleiwith a three-nucleon force

Negreiros, Rodrigo, Numerical study ofthe properties of compact stars

Nolan, Kieran, Meta-scheduling of level-set methods in a grid computing envi-ronment

Rodriguez-Brito, Beltran, A metagenomicexamination of a solar saltern in South-ern California

Rojas Ulacio, Otilio, Modelling of rupturepropagation under different frictionlaws using high-order mimetic opera-tors

Zhou, Ming, A mathematical analysis ofvesicle shapes

Stanford University (18)

Department of Mathematics

Kloke, Jennifer Novak, Methods and ap-plications of topological data analysis

Koytcheff, Robin Michael John, A homo-topy-theoretic view of Bott-Taubes inte-grals and knot spaces

Lo, Chieh-Cheng, Moduli spaces of PT-stable objects

Mathews, Daniel, Chord diagrams, contact-topological quantum field theory, andcontact categories

Rabinoff, Joseph, Higher-level canonicalsubgroups for p-divisible groups

Schoenfeld, Eric, Higher symplectic fieldtheorey invariants for cotangent bun-dles of surfaces

Tzeng, Yu-jong, A proof of the Gottsche-Yau-Zaslow formula

Wickelgren, Kirsten, Lower central seriesobstructions to homotopy sections ofcurves over number fields

Zhang, Ziyu, On singular moduli spacesof sheaves on K3 surfaces

Department of Statistics

Allen, Genevera, Transposable regular-ized covariance models with applica-tions to high-dimensional data

Emerson, Sarah, Small sample perfor-mance and calibration of the empiricallikelihood method

Jin, Yuxue, Regression modelling of com-peting risks with applications to bonemarrow transplantation studies andmortgate prepayment and default anal-ysis

Ma, Zongming, Contributions to highdimensional principal component anal-ysis

McMahon, Donal, Research synthesis formultiway tables of varying shapes andsize

Nowak, Gen, Some methods for analyzinghigh-dimensional genomic data

Perry, Patrick, Cross-validation for unsu-pervised learning

Shen, Bo, Probability forecast: Evaluationand early warning

Zhou, Baiyu, A method for the analysis ofmulti-factorial time course microarraydata with applications to a clinical burnstudy

University of California,Berkeley (29)

Department of Mathematics

Andrews, Uri, Amalgamation construc-tion and recursive model theory

Chen, Li-Chung, Skew linked partitionsand a representation-theoretic modelfor K-Schur

Curran, Stephen, Quantum symmetriesin free probability

Dan-Cohen, Ishai, Moduli of nondegener-ate unipotent representations

Datchev, Kiril, Distribution of resonanceson manifolds with hyperbolic ends

Erman, Daniel, Application and exten-sions of Boij-Soderberg theory

Fink, Alexander, Matroid polytope subdi-visions and valuations

Hynd, Ryan, Partial differential equationswith gradient constraints arising in theoptimal control of singular stochasticprocesses

LaVictoire, Patrick, Pointwise ergodic the-orems for nonconventional L1 averages

Matic, Ivan, Homogenization and largedeviations

Reyes, Manuel, One-sided prime ideals innoncommutative algebra

Satriano, Matthew, Stacky resolutions ofsingular schemes

Sharma, Arun, The structure of 3-freepermutations

Shiu, Anne, Algebraic methods for bio-chemical reaction network theory

Sun, Shenghao, On l-adic cohomology ofArtin stacks: L-functions, weights, andthe decomposition theorem

Viray, Bianca, The algebraic Brauer-Maninobstruction on Chatelet surfaces, de-gree 4 del Pezzo surfaces and Enriquessurfaces

Wand, Andrew, Diffeomorphisms of com-pact surfaces with boundary

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Yu, Jia, A local construction of the Smithnormal form of a matrix polynomialand time periodic gravity driven waterwaves

Department of Statistics

Coehlo, Nathan, Detection methods forastronomical time series

Dey, Partha, Contributions to Stein’smethod and some limit theorems inprobability

Lei, Jing, Non-linear filtering for statespace models: High dimensional appli-cations and theoretical results

Sen, Arnab, Spectra of random trees,coalescing non-Brownian particles andgeometric influences of Boolean func-tions

Taub, Margaret, Analysis of high through-put biological data: Some statisticalproblems in RNA-seq and mouse geno-typing

Tong, Frances, Statistical methods fordose response assays

Group in Biostatistics

Bullard, James, Statistical methods andsoftware for high-throughput gene ex-pression experiments

Hansen, Kasper, Analyses of high-through-put gene expression data

Polley, Eric, Super learnerWang, Nancy, Statistical problems in DNA

microarray data analysisWang, Xin Victoria, Microarray data anal-

ysis

University of California,Davis (12)

Department of Mathematics

Blackwood, Julie, Management-based mod-els in ecology

Herman, Matthew, Perturbations andradar in compressed sensing

Kim, Edward, Geometric combinatoricsof transportation polytopes and thebehavior of the simplex method

Rathbun, Matthew, Tunnel number one,fibered links and high distance knots

Rumanov, Igor, Integrable equations forrandom matrix spectral gap probabili-ties

Sivakoff, David, Random site subgraphsof the Hamming torus

Wang, Qiang, Promotion operators inrepresentation theory and algebraiccombinatorics

Department of Statistics

Jiang, Ci-Ren, Covariate adjusted func-tional principal component analysis

Taylor, Sandra, Composite interval map-ping for point mass mixtures

Wang, Ying-Fang, Topics on multivari-ate two-stage current-status data andmissing covariates in survival analysis

Wu, Shuang, Two topics in functionaldata analysis: Linear regression for lon-gitudinal data and functional modelingof recurrent events

Zhang, Yanhua, Fence methods in modeland moment condition selection ingeneralized method of moments

University of California,Irvine (12)

Department of Mathematics

Carlo, Chan, Scaffold facilitated multisitephosphorylation can induce biostability

Chetty, Sunil, Local constants of polarizedabelian varieties in dihedral extensions

Gao, Hao, Numerical methods for for-ward and inverse problems in opticalimaging

Haney, Seth, A mathematical approachto signaling, specificity, and growth inyeast cell mating

Katouli, Allen, Mathematical modeling ofdrug cross-resistance in cancer

Khong, Mitchell, Negative feedback, non-receptors, and morphogen gradient ru-bustness for a 1D model of a fruit flywing

Korniotis, Michail, A multi-factor quad-ratic stochastic volatility model withapplications in finance and insurance

Mueller, Graham, Association and depen-dence with applications to the parabolicAnderson model

Nash, Daniel, Homotopy 4-spheres andsurgery on 2-tori

Ograin, Christopher, Analysis of a geo-metric evolution equation for modelingthe morphology of anisotropic thinfilms

Sohn, Jinsun, Modeling and simulation ofbio-membranes

Tran, My An Thi, Analysis and geometryon a bounded strictly pseudoconvexdomain and its boundary

University of California,Los Angeles (40)

Department of Biostatistics, School

of Public Health

Altstein, Lily, Accelerated failure timemodels to estimate treatment efficacyamong unobserved subgroups of arandomized clinical trial

Zhou, Ying, Nonparametric and semipara-metric inference for treatment efficacyin randomized clinical trials with a time-to-event outcome and non-compliance

Zigler, Corwin, Bayesian strategies forposttreatment variable adjustment us-ing principal stratification: Applicationto treatment noncompliance and prin-cipal surrogate endpoints

Department of Mathematics

Asher, Jason, Some indecomposabilityresults for free probability spaces

Austin, Timothy, Multiple recurrence andthe structure of probability-preservingsystems

Baek, Sanghoon, Invariants of centralsimple algebras

Brown, Ethan, Optimization methods fornon-convex problems with applicationsto image segmentation

Bunn, Paul, Throughput-optimal routingin adversarial networks

Cherveny, Luke, An explicit genus-zeromirror principle with marked points

Conley, William, Inertial types and au-tomorphic representations with pre-scribed ramification

Dobrosotskaya, Julia, Wavelet analogueof Ginsburg-Landau energy, its Γ -convergence and applications

Eller, Timothy, Chiral vector bundlesEsser, John, Primal dual algorithms for

convex models and applications to im-age restoration, registration and nonlo-cal inpainting

Getreuer, Pascal, Contour stencils andvariational image processing

Goldstein, Thomas, Algorithms and appli-cations for l1 minimization

Hemenway, Brett, Losing informationJones, Paul, Statistical models of criminal

behavior: The effects of law enforce-ment actions

Jung, Mi Youn, Variational image segmen-tation and restoration using Sobolevgradients, nonlocal and iterative regu-larization methods

Lai, Rongjie, Computational differentialgeometry and intrinsic surface process-ing

Le, Thai Hoang, Topics in arithmeticcombinatorics in function fields

Lei, Guo-Ying, Critical percolation, uni-versality, and SLE6

Li, Yingying, Effective algorithms of L1optimization and its applications

Lie, Victor Daniel, Relational time-fre-quency analysis

Lin, Tungyou, Numerical minimization al-gorithms for nonlinear elasticity basedregistration in medical imaging

Malikiosis, Romanos, Discrete and otheranalogues of Minkowski’s theorems onsuccessive minima

Mao, Yu, Applications of variational mod-els and partial differential equations insignal recovery and image restoration

Newdelman, Brady, Harmonic measureon subsets of a Lipschitz graph and thecorona theorem

Salazar, Ricardo, Determination of time-dependent coefficients for a hyperbolicinverse problem

Shargel, Benjamin, Transient and asymp-totic fluctuation theorems for time-inhomogeneous processes

Steinhauer, Dustin, Aspects of thermo-acoustic tomography

Tyson, Jon, Estimates in quantum de-tection and in the theory of quantumrecovery channels

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Viola, Joseph, Semiclassical analysis fornon-selfadjoint operators with doublecharacteristics

Wang, Yang, Pricing and hedging ofAmerican-style options: Theory andpractice

Ye, Jian, Applications of variational mod-els in geometric problems

Department of Statistics

Chen, Gong, Modeling and analysis ofmultiple alignments, ChlP-seq, and geneexpression data for finding transcrip-tion factor binding sites

Diez, David, Extensions of distance andprototype methods for point patterns

Ferrari, Denise, Multi-fidelity data fusionfor aerodynamic metamodel design

Mason, Michael, Machine learning: Ap-proaches to understanding gene regu-lation in mouse embryonic stem cells

Nesbitt, Tess, Cost-sensitive tree-stacking:Learning with variable prediction errorcosts

Rojas, Randall, Explaining human causalretrieval using semantic data with smalltexts

University of California,Riverside (5)

Department of Mathematics

Burke-Loftus, Jennifer, Gaussian bonds ofan equation derived from the Navier-Stokes equations

Hoffnung, Alex, Foundations of categori-fied representation theory

Kuang, Shilong, Analysis of conjugateheat equation on complete non-compactRiemannian manifolds under Ricci flow

Lee, Hwa Young, The flat Hilbert schemeof points of nodal curves and thepunctual Hilbert scheme of points ofthe cusp curve

Sarhad, Jonathan, Spectral geometrieson the Sierpinski gasket and a Newtonembedding procedure for the nonlinearPoisson problem

University of California,San Diego (8)

Department of Mathematics

Budreau, Daniel J., Curve enumerationon the quintic threefold using tropicalmethods

Cooper, Benjamin, 3-dimensional topo-logical field theory and Harrison ho-mology

D’Adderio, Michele, Isoperimetric profileof algebras

Lust, Jaime, Verifying depth-zero super-cuspidal L-packets for inner forms ofGSp(4)

McGown, Kevin, Norm-Euclead Galoisfields

Shopple, John, An interface-fitted finiteelement based level set method: Al-gorithm, implementation, analysis andapplications

Slinglend, Nicholas, NC ball maps andchanges of variables

Tressler, Eric, Integral and EuclideanRamsey theory

University of California,Santa Barbara (14)

Department of Mathematics

Beil, Charlie, The geometry of noncom-mutative singularity resolutions

Benoy, Benjamin, A projective version ofPoincare’s polyhedron theorem

Blair, Ryan, Bridge number and Conwayproducts

Case, Jeffrey, Conformally warped mani-folds and quasi-Einstein metrics

Cruz-Cota, Aldo-Hilario, Hex structureson singular Euclidean surfaces withconical singularities

Erickson, Brittany, Complexity in thenonlinear Dietrich-Ruina friction law

Huang, Xiaoling, Ray-Singer conjectureon manifolds with isolated conicalsingularity

Johnson, Garrett, Cremmer-Gervais r-matrices and the Cherednik algebras

Liptrap, Jesse, From hypergroups to any-onic twines

Nahas, Joules, A decay property of solu-tions to the mKdV equation

Ottman, Ryan, Coxeter groups with hy-perbolic signature

Ramirez-Rosas, Teresita, Quadrisecantsand the ropelength of knots

Department of Statistics and Applied

Probability

Jiang, Yihua, Marcov chain Monte Carlostochastic approximation algorithmssmoothing spline ANOVA frailty modelsand applications

Montoya, Eduardo, Constrained func-tional data models with environmentalapplications

University of California,Santa Cruz (2)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Graham, Rishi, Information-driven coop-erative sampling strategies for spatialestimation by robotic sensor networks

Pignotti, Angela, Validation of lateralboundary conditions for regional cli-mate models

University of SouthernCalifornia (7)

Department of Mathematics

Golovko, Roman, The sutured embeddedcontact homology of S1 ×D2

Knape, Mathias, A general equilibriummodel for exchange rates and assetprices in an economy subject to jump-diffusion uncertainty

Maisch, Melissa, Optimal debt maturitystructure

Pehlivan, Lerna, On top to randomshuffles, no feedback card guessingand fixed points of permutations

Polunchenko, Aleksey, Quickset changedetection with applications to dis-tributed multi-sensor systems

Ritz, Sandra, A categorification of theBurau representation via contact geom-etry

Ross, Nathan, Exchangeable pairs inStein’s method of distributional ap-proximation

COLORADOColorado School ofMines (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Munson, Ashlyn, Efficient sampling meth-ods for case-control studies

Poole, Loren, Symbolic computation ofconservation laws of nonlinear partialdifferential equations using homotopyoperators

Yang, Xinhua, Extensions to alliances:Collision resolution MAC protocols forwireless networks

Colorado StateUniversity (13)

Department of Mathematics

Butler, Troy, Computational measure the-oretic approach to inverse sensitivityanalysis: Methods and analysis

Buzby, Megan, Short time analysis ofdeterministic ODE solutions and theexpected value of a correspondingbirth-death process

Dumitrescu, Olivia, Techniques in inter-polation problems

Hampson, Christian, Characteristics ofcertain families of random graphs

Holt, Eric, A ratio ergodic theorem onBorel actions of Z

d and Rd

James, Rodney, Linear systems andRiemann-Roch theory on graphs

Lynn, Rebecca, Multiplicities and equi-variant cohomology

Rutherford, Blake, Lagrangian mixing andtransport in hurricanes

Von Herrmann, Alan, Properties of the re-construction algorithm and associatedscattering transform for admittivitiesin the plane

Department of Statistics

Erdenebaatar, Chadraa, Statistical mod-eling with COGARCH (p,q) processes

French, Joshua, Confidence regions forlevel curves and a limit theorem for themaxima of Gaussian random fields

Sonderegger, Derek, Nonparametric func-tion smoothing: Fiducial inference offree knot splines and ecological appli-cations

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Wandler, Damian, A fiducial approach toextremes and multiple comparisons

University of Colorado,Boulder (10)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Adler, James, Nested irrigation and first-order systems least squares for in-compressible resistive magnetohydro-dynamics

Jamroz, Benjamin, Reducing modeling ofthe magnetorotational instability

Ketelsen, Christian, Least-squares finiteelement methods for quantum electro-dynamics

Levy, Michael, A high-order element-based Galerkin method for the globalshallow water equations

Liu, Si, Parallel fully coupled domain de-composition algorithm for some inverseproblems

Norgard, Gregory, Shock regularizationof conservation laws through use ofspatial averaging in nonlinear terms

Department of Mathematics

Angel, Eitan, A geometric construction ofcyclic cocycles on twisted convolutionalgebras

Newhall, Joseph, On the density of theHenig efficient points of asymptoticallycompact sets in locally convex vectorspaces

Tasset, Tiffany, Lagrange multipliers forset-valued functions when orderingcones have empty interior

Wittenborn, Erika, On special values ofhyperelliptic division polynomials anda formula of Eisenstein

University of Colorado,Denver (7)

Department of Biostatistics and

Informatics

Siewert, Elizabeth, Prediction of tran-scription factor binding sites usinginformation from multiple species

Yin, Xiang, Monitoring clinical trials withmultiple dose groups

Zhang, Weiming, Testing gene-environ-ment interactions on family-based as-sociation studies using non-randomlyascertained samples

Department of Mathematics and

Statistical Sciences

Harder, Christopher, Residual local pro-jection methods for the Darcy problem

Labovitz, Mark, Using return level asa dependence function in a statisticalmodel for the joint distribution of theextreme values of equities

Sousedik, Bedrich, Adaptive-multilevelBDDC

Tennenhouse, Craig, Some extensionsof graph saturation to edge colored,oriented, and subdivided graphs

University of Denver (2)

Department of Mathematics

Locke, Annette, Banach spaces on in-finitely branching trees

Werner, Brett, Strong orbit equivalenceand residuality

University of NorthernColorado (4)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Andrew, Lane, The relationship betweenmathematical induction, propositionfunctions, and implication functions

Champion, Joseph, The mathematics self-efficacy and calibration of studentsin a secondary mathematics teacherpreparation program

Deon, Rhoda, The nature of pedagogi-cal content knowledge about combina-torics representations among pre- andin-service K–8 teachers

Wheeler, Ann, Traditional and nontradi-tional preservice elementary teachers’perceptions about mathematics andmathematics teaching

CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (16)

Department of Mathematics

Axtell, Jonathan, Vector operator algebrasfor type G affine Lie algebras

Ge, Lin, Relationship between combina-torial measurements and Orlicz norms

Huynh, Tho, Parabolic Harnack inequalityand Caccioppoli inequality for stable-like processes

Karli, Deniz, Probabilistic Littlewood-Paley theory

Lombardo, Philip, Constant terms ofEisenstein series on affine Kac-Moodygroups over function fields over finitefields

Miller, Craig, The existence and unique-ness of solutions to a moving boundaryproblem

Miller, Lance, On the structure of Witt-Burnside rings

Molnar, David, Metrical Diophantine ap-proximation for continued fraction-likemaps of the interval

Prasad, Upendra, Nonnegative matrixfactorization: Analysis, algorithm andapplications

Steinhurst, Benjamin, Diffusion and Lapla-cians on Laakso, Barlow-Evans, andother fractals

Turlington, Amy, Computability of Heyt-ing algebras and distributive lattices

Department of Statistics

Gaioni, Elijah, Semiparametric functionalestimation and extreme estimation andextreme value modeling using mix-ture distributions and limited quantileinformation

Joyce, Patrick, A multivariate spatial pointprocess model: Theory, simulation andapplication

Raman, Balaji, On Gaussian HJM frame-work for eurodollar futures

Wang, Xia, Generalized link functions forbinary response data

Zou, Jian, Volatility estimation and optionpricing

Wesleyan University (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Khorami, Mehdi, Twisted K-theory

Yale University (4)

Biostatistics Division

Wu, Zhenyang, Model selection methodsfor high-dimensional data and their ap-plications to genome-wide associationstudies

Department of Mathematics

Lu, Dan, Howe duality correspondence of(O(p,q)osp(2,2))

Previdi, Luigi Claudio, Generalized Tatespaces

Department of Statistics

Hu, Xing (James), False discovery ratecontrol with groups

DELAWAREDelaware StateUniversity (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Green, Patrice, Adiabatic dynamics andintegrability of optical solitons

University of Delaware (3)

Department of Mathematical Science

Culbert, Craig, Spreads of three-dimen-sional and five-dimensional finite pro-jective space

Kosick, Pamela, Commutative semifieldsof odd order and planar Dembowski-Ostrom polynomials

Vasilic, Ana, Homogenizing acoustic prop-erties of cancellous bone

DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAGeorge WashingtonUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematics

Chubb, Jennifer, Ordered structures andcomputability

Sazdanovic, Radmila, Categorification ofknot and graph polynomials and thepolynomial ring

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Department of Statistics

Liu, Zhenyu, Triangle test and triangledata depth in nonparametric multivari-ate analyis

Markitsis, Anastasios, The proportion oftrue null hypotheses in microarray geneexpression data

Qin, Min, Some contributions to thetheory of unbiased statistical prediction

She, Dewei, Genetic association studyusing complex survey data

Tripputi, Mark, Use of mediation in de-signing clinical trials with two primaryend points

Warren, Susan, Evaluating the valueof adding diagnostic symptoms us-ing posterior probability and sensitiv-ity/specificity procedures

Howard University (1)

Department of Mathematics

McNeal, George D., Spectral analysisfor rank-one perturbations of diagonaloperators in non-Archimedean Hilbertspace

FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Buckley, Winston, Asymmetric informa-tion in fads models in Levy markets

Caliskan, Cafer, On projective planesChiorescu, Marcela, Minimal zero-dimen-

sional extensionsGonzalez, Madeline, Cryptography in the

presence of key-dependent messagesMarshall, Mario, Polynomials that are

integer-valued on the image of aninteger-valued polynomial

Moore, Audrey, Auslander-Reiten theoryfor systems of submodule embeddings

Perera, Sandun, Stochastic optimal im-pulse control of jump diffusions withapplication to exchange rates

Villanyi, Viktoria, Signature schemes insingle and multi-user settings

Florida Institute ofTechnology (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Ke, Hao-Jan, Layers of stochastic gamesMiller-Kermani, Donn, Women-owned

small businesses in the US: Overcominghurdles in federal procurement

Robinson, Randy, Fluctuation analysis offinancial markets

Florida StateUniversity (15)

Department of Mathematics

Bayazit, Dervis, Sensitivity analysis of op-tions under Levy processes via Malliavincalculus

Goncu, Ahmet, Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods in pricing finan-cial derivatives

Gutierrez, Juan B., Mathematical analysisof the use of Trojan sex chromosomesas means of eradication of invasivespecies

Hua, Fei, Modeling, analysis and simula-tion of the Stokes-Darcy system withBeavers-Joseph interface condition

Jimenez, Edwin, Uncertainty quantifica-tion of nonlinear stochastic phenomena

Jung, Yong, A computational study of ionconductance in the KcsA K+ channelusing a Nerst-Planck model with explicitresident ions

Levy, Giles, Solutions of second orderrecurrence relations

Parshad, Rana, Asymptotic behavior ofconvection in porous media

Simakhina, Svetlana, Level set and con-servative level set methods on dynamicquadrilateral grids

Striegel, Deborah, Modeling the foldingpattern of the cerebral cortex

Department of Statistics

Chalise, Prabhakar, Time scales in epi-demiological analysis

Fan, Li, Estimating the probability ofcardiovascular disease: A comparisonof methods

Gui, Wenhao, Adaptive series estimatorsfor copula densities

Ncube, Moeti, Stochastic models and in-ferences for commodity futures pricing

Thompson, Warren, Variable selectionof correlated predictors in logistic re-gression: Investigating the diet-hearthypothesis

University of CentralFlorida (2)

Department of Mathematics

Shi, Qiling, Weighted LP -stability forlocalized infinite matrices

Sweet, Erick, Analytical and numerical so-lutions to differential equations arisingin fluid flow and heat transfer problems

University of Florida (14)

Department of Mathematics

Arslan, Ogul, Some algebraic problemsfrom coding theory

Bonner, Timothy, The characters andcommutators of finite groups

Debhaumik, Anales, The hidden sub-group problem

Dung, Phan, Topics in global optimiza-tion: Ellipsoidal bisection, graph parti-tioning and sparse reconstruction

Fisher, Andrew, Hyperkahler manifoldsLuo, Jiangtao, Functional mapping of

dynamic systemsMorofushi, Yuri, p-adic theory of expo-

nential sums on the affine lineOh, Minah, Efficient solution techniques

for axisymmetric problems

Tan, Shuguang, Iterative solvers forhybridized finite element methods

Yang, Yong, Orbits of the actions of finitesolvable groups

Department of Statistics

Li, Qin, Statistical models for haplotypingcomplex inherited diseases in humans

Li, Yao, Statistical designs and algorithmsfor modeling the genetic architectureof cancer susceptibility

Liu, Ruitao, On some new contributionstowards objective priors

Tan, Aixin, Convergence rates and regen-eration of the block Gibbs sampler forBayesian random effects models

University of Miami (3)

Department of Mathematics

Harper, Eric, Casson-Lin type invariantsfor links

Katri, Patricia, Modeling the transmissiondynamics of the dengue virus

Zabalo, Joaquin, A mathematical modeldescribing the early development ofmultiple myeloma

University of SouthFlorida (6)

Department of Mathematics

Angeleska, Angela, Combinatorial modelsfor DNA rearrangements in ciliates

Findley, Elliott M., Fine asymptotics ofChristoffel functions and universalityfor Szego weights in the complex plane

Lynch, O’Neil L., Mixture distributionswith application to microarray dataanalysis

Manandhar Shrestha, Nabin K., Statisticallearning and Behrens-Fisher distribu-tion methods for heteroscedastic datain microarray analysis

Wagner, Kevin P., A generalized accep-tance urn model

Wu, Ling, Stochastic modeling and statis-tical analysis

GEORGIA

Emory University (11)

Department of Biostatistics

Chen, Jian, Multiple roots in logisticregression with errors in covariates

Gao, Jinging, Assessing observer agree-ment for categorical observations

Qian, Jing, Analysis of outcomes sub-ject to induced dependent censoring:Medical cost and successive durations

Yuemei, Wang, Statistical performance ofspatial systems

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Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Gehrke, Silke, Hamiltonicity and pan-cyclicity of 4-connected, claw- and net-free graphics

Graf, Tobias, On the near-field reflectorproblem and optimal transport

Helenius, Fred, Freudenthal triple sys-tems via root system methods

Martin, Daniel, Locally nearly perfectpackings

Nguyen, Ha, Polynomials nonnegative onnoncompact subsets of the plane

Shemmer, Benjamin, On graphs with agiven endomorphism monoid

Wendykier, Piotr, High performance Javasoftware for image processing

Georgia Institute ofTechnology (9)

School of Mathematics

Bishop, Shannon, Gabor and waveletanalysis with applications to Schattenclass integral operators

Borenstein, Evan, New results in arith-metic combinatorics

Deng, Hao, Mathematical approach todigital color image denoising

Grigo, Alexander, Billiards and statisticalmechanics

Keller, Mitchel, Some results on lineardiscrepancy for partially ordered sets

Kim, Hwa Kil, Hamiltonian systems andthe calculus of differential forms on theWasserstein space

Yildrim-Yolcu, Selma, Eigenvalue inequal-ities for relativistic Hamiltonians andfractional Laplacian

Yolcu, Turkay, Parabolic systems and anunderlying Lagrangian

Zhao, Kun, Initial-boundary value prob-lems in fluid dynamics modeling

University of Georgia (10)

Department of Mathematics

Ettinger, Bree, Bivariate splines for ozoneconcentration predictions

Shin, DongHoon, Regime switching mod-els and applications in optimal sellingrules and options

Yu, Jie, Regime-switching models withmean reversion and applications inoption pricing

Yu, Lirong, Asset allocation and optimalselling rule with regime switching andpartial observation

Department of Statistics

Kao, Ming-Hung, Optimal experimentaldesigns for event-related functionalmagnetic resonance imaging

Kim, Jaejik, Dissimilarity measures forhistogram-valued data and divisiveclustering of symbolic objects

Neustifter, Benjamin, Random effectsin point processes: Adding flexibilityto ecological momentary assessmentanalysis

Thayasivam, Umashanger, L2 estimationfor finite mixture models with applica-tions

Vaughan, Amy, Statistical inferences andvisualization based on a scale-spaceapproach

Xu, Jing, Semiparametric zero-inflatedregression models: Estimation and in-ference

IDAHOIdaho State University (1)

Department of Mathematics

Cox, Paul, Responses of a synchronizedcell population to continuous irradi-ation revealed through mathematicalmodeling and stochastic optimization

University of Idaho (2)

Department of Mathematics

Li, Zhongxiao, Asynchronous discourse ina web-assisted mathematics educationcourse

Zhong, Xue, Spatial structure, mating pairformation and estimation of plasmidtransfer rates

ILLINOISIllinois State University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Flores, Edna Horton, The utilization ofgraphing calculators in algebra I in-struction for low-SES students

McCool, Jenni, Measurement learning tra-jectories: A tool for professional devel-opment

Northern IllinoisUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Campbell, Kristen, Sequential closures ofl1 limit periodic continued fractionsand certain q-continued fractions

Gunsul, Paul, A class of small functionson the unit disc

Thapa, Mohan, A new hybrid methodfor finding eigenpairs of a symmetricquadratic eigenvalue problem in aninterval

NorthwesternUniversity (13)

Department of Mathematics

Dunlap, Thomas, Combinatorial repre-sentation theory of affine SL2 via poly-tope calculus

Fang, Bohan, Mirror symmetry, con-structible sheaves and toric varieties

Gao, Shu, Global solutions to the Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations for self-gravi-tating gaseous stars

Hua, Yongxia, Continuity of topologicalentropy of time-one maps of Anasovdiffeomorphisms

Ma, Shihan, Asymptotics of impliedvolatility in local volatility model nearexpiry

Potts, Amanda, Multiple ergodic averagesfor flows and an application

Thomas, Justin, Kontsevich’s swiss cheeseconjecture

Department of Statistics

Liu, Lingyun, On gatekeeping and weightedHochberg procedures

Shi, Kunyang, Power and sample sizedetermination for dose finding andmultiple endpoints

Department of Engineering Sciences

and Applied Mathematics

Anderson, Anthony M., On the dynamics,instability, and freezing of metallicfoams

Bieri, Joanna, Stabilization and dynamicsof edge flames in narrow channels

Stanton, Liam, Modeling in pattern for-mation with applications to electro-chemical phenomena

Swaminathan, Sumanth, Mathematicalmodeling of alignment dynamics inactive motor-filament systems

Southern IllinoisUniversity, Carbondale (2)

Department of Mathematics

Johnson, Darin, Topics in probabilisticcombinatorics

Khurram, Alia, Reconstruction of a uni-variate discrete function from the mag-nitude of its Fourier transform

University of Chicago (14)

Department of Mathematics

Barton, Ariel, Elliptic partial differentialequations with complex coefficients

Bou-Rabee, Khalid, Quantifying residualfiniteness

Carstea, Catalin, A construction of blow-up solutions for co-rotational wavemaps

Epstein, Rachel, The structure and appli-cations of the computably enumerablesets

Johnson, Niles, Morita theory and in-vestibility in bicategories

Kaletha, Tasho, Endoscopic characteridentities for depth-zero supercuspidalL-packets

Noel, Justin, Some applications of thetheory of formal groups to algebraictopology

Shulman, Megan, Equivariant local coeffi-cients and the RO(G)-graded cohomol-ogy of classifying spaces

Zamojski, Thomas, Counting rational ma-trices of a fixed irreducible polynomial

Zoque Lopez, Eliana, On the variety ofalmost commuting nilpotent matrices

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Department of Statistics

Lynch, Phillip, Locally mean revertingprocesses

Wang, Dan, Displaced lognormal and dis-placed Heston volatility skews: Analysisand applications to stochastic volatilitysimulations

Wang, Zuoheng Anita, Statistical methodsfor genetic association mapping ofcomplex traits with related individuals

Zhou, Zhou, Simultaneous inference oflinear models with time varying coeffi-cients

University of Illinois atChicago (19)

Public Health - Epidemiology and

Biostatistics Division

Boodram, Basmattee, Hepatitis C infec-tion among young injection drug users:Prevalence, chronicity and viral loadfluctuation

Broz, Dita, Transitions to injection andrisk of HIV, HBV and HCV among youngnon-injecting heroin users in Chicago

Chapple, Theresa, Effects of interpreg-nancy intervals immediately followinga fetal death on maternal and perinatalhealth

Gawel, Susan, The immunological andvirologic evolution of human immun-odeficiency and hepatitis C virusesamong women

Ivy, Wade, HIV risk perceptions, druguse and sexual practices among sexpartners in low-income Chicago neigh-borhoods

Li, Xue, A 3-level mixed-effects locationscale model with an application inecological momentary assessment data

Roberts, Daniel, Investigations of the longanterior zonule trait: A potential riskfactor for glaucoma

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics and Computer Science

Atkinson, Christopher, Volume estimatesfor hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra

Darke, Kelly, An examination of thequestioning interactions of prospectiveteachers during mathematical discus-sions

Docampo Alvarez, Roi, Arcs on determi-nantal varieties

Du, Rong, Moduli space of bounded com-plete Reinhardt domains and complexPlateau problem

Lynch, Sean, Drift-diffusion past circlesand ellipses

Manolov, Petar, Brauer trees in finitespecial linear groups

Shkop, Ahuva, On pseudoexponentialfields and Schanuel’s conjecture

Sohn, Eunju, Storage allocation underprocessor sharing and infinite servermodels

Tang, Yuqing, A comparison model formeasuring individual agreement

Tao, Jing, Linearly bounded conjugatorproperty for mapping class groups

Zang, Weitian, Complete topological clas-sification of complete intersectionweakly elliptic singularities

Zhang, Zhilong, Enumeration of generalt-ary trees and universal types

University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (22)

Department of Mathematics

Carlisle, Sylvia, Model theory of real treesand their isometries

Chasman, Laura, An isoperimetric in-equality for the fundamental tone ofthe free plate

Dewar, Michael, Congruences in modular,Jacobi, Siegel, and mock modular formswith applications

Eckhardt, Caleb, Local structure of nu-clear C∗-algebras

Goldbring, Isaac, Nonstandard methodsin Lie theory

Harper, Marc, Climbing Mount Probable

Kim, Byung Chan, Arithmetic of partitionfunctions and q-combinatorics

Kim, Sun, Bijective proofs of partitionidentities and covering systems

Koukoulopoulos, Dimitrios, Generalizedand restricted multiplication tables ofintegers

Lee, Christopher, Folded symplectic toricfour-manifolds

McCullough, Jason, The strong directsummand conjective

Peterson, Valerie, State complexes andspecial cube complexes

Prugsapitak, Supawadee, The Tarry-Escottproblem over quadratic fields

Samotij, Wojiciech, Extremal problems inpseudo-random graphs and asymptoticenumeration

Sneed, Jason, Prime and quasi-primenumber races

Tellez, Hernando, Contributions to modeltheory of metric structures

Tsai, Chia-Yen, Minimal pseudo-Anosovtranslation lengths on the Teichmullerspace

Walker, Barry, Multiplicative orientationsof K-theory and p-adic analysis

Zaki, Mohammad, Analytic continuationand natural boundaries of a family ofDirichlet series

Department of Statistics

Feng, Xingdong, Dimensionality of datamatrices with applications to geneexpression profiles

Hong, Feng, Contributions to statisticalproblems related to microarray data

Lin, Guixian, Quantile regression withcensored data

INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (9)

Department of Mathematics

Contreras, Andres, Gamma convergenceand the first critical field for Ginzburg-Landau on thin shells and manifolds

Holmes, William, A 3-D model of thecochlea with numerical simulation andasymptotics

Jhwueng, Dwueng-Chwuan, Some prob-lems in phylogenetics comparativemethods

Liu, Lihuei, On the smoothness of horo-cycle foliation on smooth compactsurfaces without focal points

Shen, Chun-Yen, Explorations of sum-product phenomena in fields

Shonia, Giorgi, A cross section from di-novariant in h-spaces to inner functionin higher dimensions

Su, Zhixu, Rational homotopy type ofmanifolds

Swanson, Rebecca, Relationships be-tween shellability, vertex decompos-ability, and h-vectors of simplicial com-plexes

Yazinski, Jonathan, Construction of smallexotic smooth 4-manifolds

Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Bieth, Bruno, Developing fast and ac-curate parallel solver for multi-scalesbiochemical reacting systems

Hemphill, Rachel, Robust equilibria:Normal-form, extensive-form, and re-peated games

Hong, Liang, Limiting performance of aone-unit system under various repairmodels

Niles, David, The Riemann-Hilbert-Birkhoffinverse monodromy problem and con-nection formulae for the third Painlevetranscendents

Purdue University (26)

Department of Mathematics

Berkesch, Christine, Euler-Koszul homol-ogy in algebra and geometry

Bryant, Lance, Filtered numerical semi-groups and applications to one-dimen-sional rings

Bryant, Sarah, Path and spectral proper-ties of certain Levy processes

Gerberry, David, Mathematical modelsof tuberculosis and childhood diseases:Very different approaches for verydifferent diseases

Jang, Bogume, Transfer from GSO(4) toGO(4) and L-functions

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Kim, Ha Young, Lyapunov exponents forstochastic Anderson models with non-Gaussian noise; portfolio optimizationin discrete time with proportional trans-action costs under stochastic volatility

Lee, Hyun Ho, Some examples in thenon-stable K-theory of C∗-algebras

Li, Jia, On numerical properties of dataassimilation methods

Masagutov, Vakhid, Infinitely generatedanalytic sheaves

Sandeep Varma, Vadakkumkoor, Descentand the generic packet conjecture

Shen, Yihuang, Monomial curves, Goren-stein ideals and Stanley decompositions

Wang, Yusun, Variant reflected BSDE withapplication to finance

Xie, Yu, Formulas for the multiplicity ofgraded algebras

Yang, Shan, Credit risk modeling underincomplete information

Zhang, Shun, Recovery based a posteri-ori error estimators for finite elementmethods

Department of Statistics

Chronopoulou, Alexandra, Variations andHurst index estimation for self-similarprocesses

Daggy, Joanne, Joint modeling of highlyskewed data with excess zeros usingcopulas

He, Yunxiao, Improving the EM algorithmfor maximum likelihood inference

Hua, Lanqing, Statistical inference ofprotein structure using small-angle x-ray scattering data

Kidwell, Paul, Methods for analyzingrankings and network intrusion detec-tion

Lipka, Alexander, Associating single nu-cleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) withbinary traits

Martin, Ryan, Fast nonparametric esti-mation of a mixing distribution withapplication to high-dimensional infer-ence

Ochsenfeld, Cherie, Mixed models inquantitative trait loci and associationmapping with bootstrap thresholds

Paul, Sudeshna, Estimation of inter-atomic distance distribution of proteinmolecules from small angle scattering(SAS) images

Shen, Gang, A Theil-type estimate in mul-tiple linear regression and developing anew BIC for detecting change-points

Zhao, Yang, Local likelihood modeling ofthe concept drift phenomenon

University of NotreDame (10)

Department of Mathematics

Axon, Logan, Algorithmically randomclosed sets and probability

Cole, Joshua, On the elementary theoriesof the Muchnik and Medvedev latticesof Π0

1 classes

Edgar, Thomas, Dominance and regular-ity in Coxeter groups

Juhlin, Prema, Fine structure of depen-dence in superstable theories of finiterank

Khomrutai, Sujin, Regularity of singularsolutions to σk-Yamabe problems

Kohlhaas, Angela, The core of an idealand its relationship to the coefficientand adjoint ideals

Lyapina, Oleksandra, The variety of La-grangian subalgebras of real semisim-ple Lie algebras

Smith, Bonnie, Cores of monomial idealsWallbaum, John, Computability of alge-

braic structuresZhu, Jianfeng, Application of discontin-

uous Galerkin finite element methodsfor vertebrate limb pattern formation

IOWAIowa State University (19)

Department of Mathematics

Alturk, Ahmet, Boundary functions forwavelets and their properties

Guo, Xiaofang, Generic two-phase coexis-tence in the quadratic contact process

Howk, Cory, A mathematical model forIL6-induced differentiation of neuralprogenitor cells on a micropatternedpolymer substrate

Kurth, Christopher, Modular forms andmodular symbols for noncongruencegroups

Ming, Ju, Optimal control of stochasticflow

Wells, Andrew, Zorn vector matrices overcommutative rings and the loops arisingfrom their construction

Department of Statistics

Bancroft, Timothy, Estimating the num-ber of true null hypotheses and the falsediscovery rate from multiple discretenon-uniform permutation P -values

Chapin, Patrick, Analysis of experimentsto validate computer models with bi-nary outputs

Demirkale, Cumhur, Classical and Bayes-ian mixed model analysis of microarraydata for detecting gene expression andDNA differences

Gao, Chunwang, Statistical method andsimulation on detecting cracks in vi-brothermography inspection

Hong, Yili, Reliability prediction based oncomplicated data and dynamic data

Huang, Ling, Probabilistic studies ofdifferent investment strategies

Li, Wen, Memory indicators and theirincorporation into dynamic models

Man-Yu, Yum, Statistical methods toestimate the relative contribution ofindividual effective dose and stochasticmodels in toxicology

Melnykov, Volodymyr, Some theoreticalcontributions to the evaluation andassessment of finite mixture modelswith applications

Page, Garritt, Bayesian mixture modelingand outliers in inter-laboratory studies

Paik, Minhui, Fractional imputationQin, Yingli, Statistical inference for high-

dimensional dataZuo, Jianying, Analysis of window-

observation recurrence data

University of Iowa (23)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Computational Science

Besse, Ian, Modeling caveolar sodium con-tributions to cardiac electrophysiologyand arrhythmogenesis

Gui, Le, Use of operator theory andsub-band filters in the analysis andencoding of signals and images

Kim, Soojeong, A 4-string tangle analysisof DNA-protein complexes based ondifference topology

Murphy, Kevin, The structure of gluons inpoint form quantum chromodynamics

Wei, Fengrong, High-dimensional regres-sion with grouped variables

Department of Biostatistics

Breheny, Patrick, Regularized methodsfor high-dimensional and bi-level vari-able selection

Hua, Lei, Spline-based sieve semipara-metric generalized estimating equationfor panel count data

Sparks, JonDavid, Model selection criteriain the presence of missing data basedon the Kullback-Leibler discrepancy

Department of Mathematics

Boerner, Jeffrey, Khovanov homology inthickened surfaces

Graber, John, Cellularity and the Jonesbasic construction

Huerter, Kimberly, Nonuniform thick-ness and global radius of curvature ofsmooth curves

Kintzinger, John, Commutative ringsMolle, Heather, The growth of the quan-

tum hyperbolic invariants of the figureeight knot

Preisser, Jonathan, Factorization in inte-gral domains without identity

Rao, Arvind, Weak solutions to a Monge-Ampere type equation on Kahler sur-faces

Reinkoester, Jeremiah, Relative prime-ness

Russell, Heather, Springer varieties froma topological perspective

Schmidt, Samuel, Endomorphisms, com-position operators and Cuntz families

Willis, Paulette, C∗-algebras of labeledgraphs and ∗-commuting endomor-phisms

Xu, Da, Classical groups, integrals, andVirasoro constraints

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Actuarial Science

Li, Jie, Spatial multivariate design in theplane and on stream networks

Liang, Dong, Issues in Bayesian Gaus-sian Markov random field models withapplication to inter-sensor calibration

Liu, Hai, Semiparametric regression anal-ysis of zero-inflated data

KANSASKansas State University (7)

Department of Mathematics

Alnaser, Ala’, Waring’s problem in alge-braic number fields

Cipra, James, Waring’s number in a finitefield

Hakami, Ali, Small zeros of quadraticcongruences to a prime power modulus

Mohamed Ismail, Mohamed Ishak, Lowerbounds for heights in cyclotomic exten-sions and related problems

Department of Statistics

Anderson, Michael, Bayesian classifica-tion of DNA barcodes

Ling, Yan, Inference for the intrinsicseparation among distributions whichmay differ in location and scale

Munasinghe, Wijith, Cluster based lack offit tests for nonlinear regression

University of Kansas (2)

Department of Mathematics

Hariharan, Ananthnarayan, Approximat-ing Artinian rings by Gorenstein ringsand 3-standardness of the maximalideal

Song, Jian, Some topics on the fractionalBrownian motion and stochastic partialdifferential equations

Wichita State University (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Clarkson, Elizabeth, Equivalence testingfor mean vectors of multivariate normalpopulations

Malla, Ganesh, Order restricted infer-ences about lifetimes under censoring

Myers, Joseph, Inverse doping profileanalysis for semiconductor quality con-trol

KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (11)

Department of Mathematics

Ho, Phuoc, Upper bounds on the splittingof the eigenvalues

Kilty, Joel, Lp boundary value problemson Lipschitz domains

Miker, Julie, Eigenvalue inequalities fora family of spherically symmetric Rie-mannian manifolds

Militzer, Erin, Lp-bounded point evalu-ations for polynomials and uniformrational approximation

Nie, Zhongyi, Estimates for a class ofmulti-linear forms

Roberts, Joshua, Low dimensional grouphomology—algorithms for upper boundsand generators

Wells, Matthew, Aspects of the geometryof metrical connections

Zhang, Ping, Iterative methods for com-puting eigenvalues and exponentials oflarge matrices

Department of Statistics

Barton, William, Comparison of two sam-ples by a non-parametric likelihood-ratio test

Hall, Benjamin, Nonparametric estima-tion of derivatives with applications

Liu, Chunxu, A nonparametric version ofWilk’s lambda—asymptotic results andsmall simple approximations

LOUISIANALouisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (18)

Department of Mathematics

Aikin, Jeremy, The structure of 4-sepa-rations in 4-connected matroids

Cai, Wei, Impulsive control systemsCaranica, Constantin, Algorithms related

to subgroups of the modular groupChristensen, Jens, Function spaces, wave-

lets and representation theoryChun, Carolyn, Unavoidable minors in

graphs and matroidsEgedy, Charles, The extended picture

group, with applications to line ar-rangement complements

Esunge, Julius, White noise methodsfor anticipating stochastic differentialequations

Fang, Liqun, Stochastic Navier-Stokesequations with fractional Brownian mo-tions

Fortes, Santiago, Power series expansionsfor waves in high-contrast plasmoniccrystals

Guevara, Alvaro, A regularization tech-nique in dynamic optimization

Hawwa, Fareed, Koszul duality for multi-graded algebras

Lowrance, Adam, Homological width andTuraev genus

Maciak, Piotr, Primes of the formX2+nY 2

in function fieldsMorgan, Evan, Some results on cubic

graphsPtitsyna, Natalia, A discrete model of

guided modes and anomalous scatter-ing in periodic structures

Vindas, Jasson, Local behavior of distri-butions and applications

Wiboonton, Keng, The Segal-Bargmanntransform on inductive limits of com-pact symmetric spaces

Zito, Kevin, Convolution semigroups

Louisiana TechUniversity (2)

Program of Mathematics and

Statistics

Feng, Wu, On calculating residuated ap-proximations and the structure of finitelattices of small width

Zhao, Di, Accurate and stable numericalmethods for solving micro heat trans-fer models in an N-carrier system inspherical coordinates

Tulane University (3)

Department of Biostatistics

Hsueh, Ya-Hui, Extensions of flowgraphmodels with covariates: An applicationfor kidney retransplantation

Department of Mathematics

Boettner, Stefan, Mixed transcendentaland algebraic extensions for the Risch-Norman algorithm

Boindala, Priya Shilpa, New minimalrepresentations of self-propelled swim-mers in low Reynolds number regimeusing regularized fundamental solu-tions with applications to collectiveflow

University of Louisiana atLafayette (7)

Department of Mathematics

Boonklurb, Ratinan, Blow-up, beyondquenching, and multidimensionalquenching due to local and nonlocalsources

Chiquet, Ross, Discrete juvenile-adultmodels with application to amphibians

Cleveland, John, Evolutionary game the-ory on measure spaces

Lee, Meesook, Fiducial inference for somediscrete distributions

Lin, Yin, Generalized inference for Weibulldistribution

Mallick, Avishek, Analysis of data inpresence of censored observation

Roy, Julie, Singularities in deterministicglobal optimization

MARYLANDJohns HopkinsUniversity (18)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Alvie, Hussein, Hydrodynamic and mag-netohydrodynamic turbulence: Invari-ants, cascades, and locality

Byrnes, Kevin, Theory and algorithms forset-function optimization

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Liu, Lu, Repeated game-theoretic mod-els in competitive electricity markets:Formulations and algorithms

Nakama, Takehiko, Analysis of executioncosts for QuickSelect

Reilly, Elizabeth, Random threshold graphsand related topics

Rukhin, Andrey, Asymptotic analysis ofvarious statistics for random graphinference

Zhong, Xiaogang, Some statistics prob-lems in bioinformatics

Department of Biostatistics

Chang, Howard, Statistical methods forestimating the health effects of coarseparticulate matter

Cheng, Yong, Pseudolikelihood methods:Theory and its application in geneticepidemiology

McCall, Matthew, Preprocessing and bar-coding of data from a single microarray

Myers, Jessica, Statistical methods for re-search in healthcare quality and safetyfrom observational data

Reich, Nicholas, Statistical methods forincomplete data from infectious diseaseoutbreaks

Wang, Chi, Exponential tilt models in thepresence of censoring

Wu, Hao, Three novel statistical appli-cations in genomics: Redefining CpGisland, peak detection from multi-ple ChIP-chip experiments, and datapre-processing for ABI/SOLiD secondgeneration sequencing technology

Zhu, Hong, Statistics methods for bivari-ate survival data with interval samplingand applications to biomedical studies

Department of Mathematics

Banerjee, Romie, Real Johnson-Wilsontheories and non-immersions of projec-tive spaces

Dahl, Jonathan, Existence and structureof solutions of Steiner problems inoptimal transport

Kleene, Stephen, Singular behavior ofminimal surfaces and mean curvatureflow

University of Maryland,Baltimore County (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Klein, Martin, Statistical analysis based onphysiologically-based pharmacokineticmodels

Moldovan, Melania M., A Gershgorintype theorem, spectral inequalities, andsimultaneous stability in Euclidean Jor-dan algebras

Petra, Cosmin, Homogenization of mono-tone linear complementarity problems

Vancea, Adrian, Infeasible interior pointmethods for sufficient linear comple-mentarity

Wu, Yukun, Bayes-type tests for con-stancy of parameters in logistic regres-sion models

University of Maryland,College Park (28)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics, and Scientific

Computing

Afsari, Bijan, Means and averaging onRiemannian manifolds

Athavale, Prashant, Novel integro-differ-ential schemes for multiscale imagerepresentation

Athreya, Dijavanti, Metastability in nearly-Hamiltonian systems

Blakely, Christopher, Meshless methodsfor elliptic boundary valued problemsand the rotational shallow water equa-tions on the sphere

Halper, Russell, On the routing andlocation of mobile facilities

Hoffman, Matthew, Ensemble data assim-ilation and breeding in the global ocean,Chesapeake Bay, and Mars

Kaipa, Krishna, Multi-scale modeling andcomputations

Lotze, Thomas, Anomaly detection intime series: Theoretical and practicalimprovements for disease outbreak de-tection

Nagem, Mohammed, Diagnostics for non-linear mixed effects models

Quah, John, A macroscale perspective ofnear-equilibrium relaxation of steppedcrystal surfaces

Wang, Wen-Chyi, Regularized variableselection in proportional hazards modelusing area under receiver operatingcharacteristic criterion

White, James, Novel methods for metage-nomic analysis

Xue, Fei, Numerical solutions of eigen-value problems with spectral transfor-mations

Zhang, Linbao, Multi-scale modeling andcomputations

Zhang, Shu, Mining of business data

Department of Mathematics

Adrian, Moshe, A new realization of thetame local Langlands correspondencefor GL(n, F ), n a prime

Agathocleous, Eleni, Class numbers ofreal cyclotomic fields of conductor pq

Chen, I-Kun, Spherical averaged end-point Strichartz estimates for thetwo-dimensional Schrodinger equationswith inverse square potential

De Simoi, Jacopo, Abundance of escapingorbits in a family of anti-integrablelimits of the standard map

Halbert, James, A modified Zwanzig-Moriformalism

Hirn, Matthew, Enumeration of harmonicframes and frame based dimensionreduction

Janicki, Ryan, Statistical inference basedon estimating functions in exact andmisspecified models

King, Emily, Wavelet and frame the-ory: Frame bound gaps, generalizedshearlets, Grassmannian fusion frames,p-adic wavelets

Li, Qiaoluan, Optimal approximationspaces for solving problems with roughcoefficients

Moore, Terrence, A theory of Cramer-Rao bounds for constrained parametricmodels

Ozdemir, Enver, Curves and their appli-cations to factoring polynomials

Wang, Jun, Multivariate variance gammaprocesses and its applications in multi-asset option pricing

Wilson, Kevin, A Tannakian descrip-tion for parahoric Bruhat-Tits groupschemes

MASSACHUSETTSBoston University (7)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Allen, Benjamin, Studies in the mathe-matics of evolution and biodiversity

Barendse, Peter, Improved necessary andsufficient conditions for the existenceof a subtle cardinal

Farrington, Eleanor, Aspects of Klein’squartic curve

Holzer, Matthew, Renormalization groupmethods for singularly perturbed sys-tems, normal forms and stability oftraveling waves in a reaction-diffusion-mechanics system

Huang, Yifei, A principled statisticalanalysis of discrete context-dependentneural coding

Kostadinov, Kalin, Constructing an ex-plicit modular symbol

Malerba, Paola, Excitation dominated orinhibition dominated: Different mecha-nisms behind rythmic interaction in ahippocampal model

Boston University Schoolof Public Health (8)

Department of Biostatistics

Blood, Emily, Performance of mixed ef-fects models in the analysis of medi-ated longitudinal data generated froma structural equation model

Du, Yangchun, Measuring effects of riskfactors on cumulative incidence andremaining lifetime risk in the presenceof competing risks

Lyass, Asya, Assessing if randomizedtreatment group should be included inthe imputation model when imputingmission outcome data in randomizedsuperiority clinical trials

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Menon, Sandeep, Performance evaluationand operating characteristics of com-monly used two stage adaptive designsand extension of the sample size calcu-lation method to a Poisson endpoint

Rong, Jian, On weighted regression oftime series for surveillance of influenzamortality

Yang, Mei, A Bayesian approach to biascorrection in effect estimates due todisease misclassification: Applicationsin arthritis research

Young, Robin, Properties of hypothesistests using generalized additive modelswith smoothers of geographic locationin spatial statistics

Zhu, Yanyan, Stratified proportionalodds models for multilevel ordinaldata with application to a knee painseverity study

Brandeis University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Huq, Aminul, Generalized Chung-Fellertheorems for lattice paths

Margolis, Max, Length functions of right-angled Artin groups

Radosevich, Mark, Concave symplecticfillings of spin contact 3-manifolds

Harvard University (33)

Department of Biostatistics

Betts, Keith, Robust methodology forpredicting and evaluating prognosis inright censored time to event data

Dicker, Lee, Regularized regression meth-ods for variable selection and estima-tion

Jeffery, Caroline, Disease mapping andstatistical issues in public health surveil-lance

Lutz, Sharon, Modern approaches inassociation mapping

Olives, Casey, Improving LQAS for mon-itoring and evaluation of health pro-grams in resource poor settings

Philip, Loni, Multilevel models for zero-inflated count data in environmentalhealth and health disparities research

Department of Mathematics

Dittmer, Andrew, Filament geometryGeraghty, David, Modularity lifting the-

orems for ordinary Galois representa-tions

Le, Anh Vinh, Some combinatorial prob-lems in vector spaces over finite fields

Lee, Ji Oon, Lower bound for ground stateenergy of dilute Bose gas

Subotic, Aleksandar, A monoidal struc-ture for the Fukaya category

van der Wyck, Frederick, Moduli of singu-lar curves and crimping

Woo, Jeechul, Arithmetic of elliptic curvesand surface: Descents and quadraticsections

Zaytman, Yevgeny, K3 surfaces of highPicard number and arithmetic applica-tions

Department of Statistics

Baines, Paul, Statistics, science and sta-tistical science: Modeling, inference andcomputation with applications to thephysical sciences

Chretien, Yves, Three applications ofstatistics to medical research

Li, Chenxin, Estimation of overflow prob-abilities for models with heavy tails andcomplex dependencies

Thomas, Andrew, Hierarchical modelsfor relational data: An example frompolitical science

School of Engineering and Applied

Science

Arkus, Natalie, Theoretical approaches toself-assembly and biology

Bird, James, Capillary dynamics of dropsand bubbles: Splashing, wetting, elec-trocoalescence, inverse coarsening, andthin films

Bor-rong, Chen, Systems challenges formedical sensor networks

Challen, Geoffrey, Data fidelity and re-source management for data-rich sen-sor networks

Colwell, Lucy, A statistical mechanicsapproach to topics in cell biology

Diez-Canas, Guillermo, Asymptoticallyoptimal simplicial approximation ofvector fields

Janapa Reddi, Vijay, Software-assistedhardware reliability: Enabling aggres-sive timing speculation using run-timefeedback from hardware and software

Kamar, Ece, Reasoning effectively un-der uncertainty for human-computerteamwork

Kopacz, Monika, Carbon monoxide sourceestimates: Multiple satellite datasetsand high resolution adjoint inversemodel

Lieberman, Erez, Evolution and the emer-gence of structure

Lorincz, Konrad, Resource aware pro-gramming in sensor networks

Muniswamy-Reddy, Kiran-Kumar, Foun-dations for provenance-aware systems

Presser, Aviv, Epigenetics and evolutionof developmental regulation in mam-mals

Romero, Fabiano, Efficient reflectancemodels for vision and graphics

Yu, Chih-Han, Biologically-inspired con-trol for self-adaptive multiagent sys-tems

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (18)

Department of Mathematics

Evans, Lawrence, A strong maximumprinciple for reaction-diffusion systemsand a weak convergence scheme for re-flected stochastic differential equations

Frankland, Martin, Quillen cohomologyof Pi-algebras and application to theirrealization

French, Jennifer, Derived mapping spacesas models for localizations

Gelvin, Matthew, Fusion action systemsHe, Zhenqi, Odd dimensional symplectic

manifoldsHua, Xia, Testing regression models with

residuals as dataKottke, Christopher N., Index theorems

and magnetic monopoles on asymptot-ically conic manifolds

Lehmann, Brian, Numerical properties ofpseudo-effective divisors

Lin, Qian, Modules over affine Lie al-gebras at critical level and quantumgroups

Liu, Ricky, Specht modules and Schubertvarieties for general diagrams

Lopes, William, The Seiberg-Witten equa-tions on a surface times a circle

McNamara, Peter, Whittaker functions onmetaplectic groups

Meszaros, Karola, Root polytopes, trian-gulations, and subdivision algebras

Osorno, Angelica, An infinite loop spacestructure for K-theory of bimonoidalcategories

Pires, Ana Rita, Origami manifoldsRedlich, Amanda, Unbalanced allocationsWang, Fang, Radiation field for Einstein

vacuum equationsXue, Ting, Nilpotent orbits in bad char-

acteristic and the Springer correspon-dence

NortheasternUniversity (5)

Department of Mathematics

Banerjee, Anandam, Tensor structure onsmooth motives

Fries, Marcus, Standard bases for coordi-nate rings of cotangent varieties

Gonzalez, John, Unbounded solutions ofthe modified Korteweg-de Vries equa-tions

Tran, Thao, Quantum F -polynomials inthe theory of cluster algebras

Yang, Shih Wei, Cluster algebras offinite type via semisimple groups andgeneralized minors

Tufts University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Burr, Meredith N., Continuous time ran-dom walks, their scaling limits andconnections with stochastic integration

Wolf, Jamison Belfint, Random fractalsand Levy processes

University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (5)

Department of Mathematics

D’Ambroise, Jennie, Generalized FMP andnonlinear Schrodinger type reformula-tions of some scalar field cosmologicalmodels

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Law, Kody, Existence, stability and dy-namics of solitary waves in nonlinearSchrodinger models with periodic po-tentials

McDaniel, Christopher, Geometric andcombinatorial aspects of 1-skeleta

Ridgdill, Penny, On the frequency offinitely anomalous elliptic curves

Shapiro, George, On the discrete dif-ferential geometry of surfaces in thefour-sphere

Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (2)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Ni, Peng, Anderson acceleration of fixedpoint iteration with applications toelectronic structure computations

Toto, Ma Criselda Santos, Bayesian predic-tive inference and multivariate bench-marking for small area means

MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics

Ampadu, Clement, Random walks andpartial differential equations

Goold, Eric, On the packing of cylindersupon a cylinder: A simulation algorithmand a closed-form model

Webster, Jordan, Hadamard differencesets in groups with high exponents

Michigan StateUniversity (9)

Department of Mathematics

Ay, Ahmet, Deciphering cis-regulatorytranscriptional grammar in drosophilamelanogaster by mathematical models

Coskun, Emre, The fine moduli space ofrepresentations of Clifford algebras

Jia, Zhiyuan, Kinesin-microtubule inter-actions: Transport and spindle forma-tion

Karakurt, Cagri, Some applications ofthe Giroux correspondence in low-dimensional topology

Speaker, Paul, Mathematical models ofthe manufacturing learning curve

Sun, Yuanchang, Mathematical model-ing and computation of the opticalresponse from nanostructures

Department of Statistics and

Probability

Chakraborty, Paramita, Particle trackingusing SDE driven by pure jump Levyprocesses

Du, Juan, Asymptotic and computationalmethods in spatial statistics

Liu, Rong, Non- and semiparametric mod-eling of financial and macro-economictime series

Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Science

Cui, Xiaoqi, Identifying gene-gene inter-actions and transcription regulators viadimension reduction methods

Westlund, Erik, Hamiltonian decomposi-tions of 6-regular Cayley graphs onAbelian groups

Oakland University (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Sanjeewa, Rakinawasan, Automorphismgroups of cyclic curves

Toma, Susan, Facet-inducing inequalitiesof the convex hull of integer solutionssatisfying the comb structure of themultiple-alldifferent predicate

University of Michigan (47)

Department of Biostatistics

Andridge, Rebecca, Methods for missingdata in complex sample surveys

Chen, Qixuan, Robust Bayesian predictiveinference for three topics in surveysampling

Ding, Ying, Some new insights about theaccelerated failure time model

Li, Yun, In silico haplotyping, genotypingand analysis of resequencing data usingMarkov models

Liang, Liming, Efficient methods foranalysis of genome scale data

Poisson, Laila, Integrative statistical meth-ods for the analysis of transcriptomicand metabolomic data

Xiao, Rui, Statistical methods for geneticassociation studies

Zheng, Jin, Models and methods forgenetic linkage and association analyses

Department of Mathematics

Ananyan, Tigran, Topics in tight closuretheory

Baskaran, Arvind, Modeling and simula-tion of hetero-epitaxial growth

Bober, Jonathan, Integer ratios of factori-als, hypergeometric series, and relatedstep functions

Bodova, Katarina, Topics in applied sto-chastic dynamics

Chen, Elizabeth, A picturebook of tetra-hedra packings

Constantine, David, Hyperbolic rank-rigidity and compact forms of ho-mogeneous spaces

Eischen, Ellen, p-adic differential op-erators on automorphic forms andapplications

Fernandez, Oscar, The Hamiltonizationof nonholonomic systems and its appli-cations

Goldmakher, Leo, Multiplicative mimicryand improvements of Polya-Vinogradovtheorem

Golman, Russell, Essays on populationlearning dynamics and boundedly ra-tional behavior

Graves, Hester, On Euclidean ideal classesHammond, Christopher, Invariants of

transformation groups acting on realhypersurfaces of complex spaces

Hofmann, Kyle, Triangulation of locallysemi-algebraic spaces

Jow, Shin-Yao, Mori dream spaces andOkounkov bodies

Kim, Wansu, Galois deformation theoryfor norm fields and its arithmeticapplications

Kinser, Ryan, Rank functors and repre-sentation of rings of quivers

Kutluhan, Cagatay, Floer homology andsymplectic forms on S1 ×M3

Lieberman, Michael, Topological andcategory-theoretic aspects of abstractelementary classes

Magid, Aaron, Deformation spaces ofKleinian surface groups are not locallyconnected

Maleh, Ray, Fast sparse approximationalgorithms for medical imaging

Metcalf-Burton, Jessica, Information ratesfor secret sharing over various accessstructures

Shretha, Sourya, Modeling transmissionand evolutionary dynamics of infec-tious diseases

Snipes, Marie, Flat forms in Banach spacesStapledon, Alan, The geometry and com-

binatorics of Ehrhart δ-vectorsTucker, Kevin, Jumping numbers and

multiplier ideals on algebraic surfacesVasques, Richard, Anisotropic diffusion

of neural particles in stochastic mediaVivas, Liz, Fatou Bieberbach domains and

automorphisms tangent to the identityWeiss, Michael, Mathematical sense, math-

ematical sensibility: The role of thesecondary geometry course in teachingstudents to be like mathematicians

Williams, Marshall, Metric current anddifferentiable structures

Xing, Hao, Analysis of the option pricesin jump diffusion models

Department of Statistics

Chakraborty, Bibhas, A study of non-regularity in dynamic treatment regimesand some design considerations formulticomponent interventions

Choi, Nam Hee, Investigation of smoothand non-smooth penalties for regular-ized model selection in regression

Gunter, Lacey, Variable selection fordecision making

Katenka, Natallia, Statistical problems inwireless sensor networks

Kleyman, Yevgeniya, Testing for covari-ate balance in comparative studies

McGowan, Herle, Experimentation meth-odologies for educational research withan emphasis on the teaching of statis-tics

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Rothman, Adam, Sparse estimation ofhigh-dimensional covariance matrices

Zhang, Aijun, Statistical methods incredit risk modeling

Zhou, Nengfeng, Sparse model identifica-tion for high dimensional data

Wayne State University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Nguyen, Son, Calculations towards thecomplex connective K-theory of QS0

Shkembi, Armira, The cohomology ofA(1) and motivic connective K-theories

Zhu, Huiqing, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for singularly perturbed prob-lems

MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota-Twin Cities (24)

School of Mathematics

Aschenbeck, Michael, A learning approachto detecting lung nodules in CT images

Berget, Andrew, Symmetries of tensorsBoavida, Joao Pedro, Compact periods of

Eisenstein series of orthogonal groupsof rank one

Chabaud, Brandon, Analysis and numer-ics of the mechanics of gels

Chen, Guangliang, Spectral curvatureclustering for hybrid linear modeling

Choffrut, Antoine, On the local structureof the set of steady-state solutions tothe 2D Euler equations

Dobson, Matthew, Mathematical founda-tions of the quasicontinuum multiscalemethod

Dorfmeister, Josef, Relative methods insymplectic topology

Foldes, Juraj, Asymptotic properties ofpositive solutions of parabolic equa-tions and cooperative systems withDirichlet boundary data

Hanhart, Alexander, Combinatorial topo-logical field theory

Hu, Jifeng, Mathematical modeling andanalysis of in vitro actin filamentdynamics and cell blebbing

Ichikawa, Ryhei, Adjoint recovery of su-perconvergent linear functionals fromGalerkin approximations

Kenney, Joseph, Evolution of differentialinvariant signatures and applications toshape recognition

Liu, Chin-Yueh, A kinetic theory approachto capturing interneuronal correlationin feed-forward networks

Merev, Ivan, A posteriori error esti-mates for time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations

Nielsen, Michelle, Stable convergence andMarkov processes

Post, Sarah, Models of second-order su-perintegrable systems

Su, Linlin, On some indefinite semilinearpartial differential equations in mathe-matical biology

Swenson, Daniel, The Steinberg complexof an arbitrary finite group in arbitrarypositive characteristic

Tuzel, Vasfiye Hande, A level set methodfor an inverse problem arising inphotolithography

Whitehouse, Jonathan, Generalized sines,multiway curvatures, and the multiscalegeometry of d-regular measures

Xu, Guoyi, Harmonic mean curvature flowin Riemannian manifolds and Ricci flowon noncompact manifolds

School of Statistics

Johnson, Alicia, Markov chain MonteCarlo for Bayesian hierarchical models

Zhang, Bo, Model selection in linearmixed-effects models

MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Balasubramanian, Suman, On the Erdos-Sos conjecture and the Cayley isomor-phism problem

University ofMississippi (1)

Department of Mathematics

Gao, Cuilan, Ranking on graph data usingkernelized spatial depth

MISSOURIMissouri University ofScience andTechnology (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Wintz, Nicholas, The Kalman filter ontime scales

St. Louis University (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Huling, Philip, Flat conformal deforma-tion theory of hyperbolic 3-orbifolds

Moses, Ashley, Linear independence ofwavelet systems and translations offunctions in Lp(R2)

University ofMissouri-Columbia (7)

Department of Mathematics

Annoni, Marco, Almost everywhere con-vergence for modified Bochner-Rieszmeans at the critical index for p ≥ 2

Barb, Simona, Topics in geometric analy-sis with applications to partial differen-tial equations

Benson, James, Mathematical problemsfrom cryobiology

Chapman, Jeremy, Finite point configura-tions and projection theorems in vectorspaces over finite fields

Heitzman, Michael, A free boundary gasdynamic model as a two-body fieldtheory problem

Lee, Jae Won, Seiberg-Witten invariantson three dimensional manifolds withorientation-reversing involutions

Redmond, Daniel, Existence and con-struction of real-valued equiangulartight frames

University of Missouri-St. Louis (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Zhu, Weiwei, The multilevel structures ofNURBs and NURBlets

Washington University inSt. Louis (8)

Department of Electricial and System

Engineering

Elvitigala, Thanura, Modeling and identi-fication of differentially regulated genesusing transcriptomics and proteomicsdata

Wang, Shuli, Electrocardiographic conse-quences of electrical and anatomicalremodeling in diabetic and obese hu-mans

Department of Mathematics

Deutsch, Michael, Equivariant deforma-tion of horospherical surfaces

Hamm, Michael, Filling essential lamina-tions

Henry, Michael, Connections betweenFloer-type invariants and Morse-typeinvariants of Legendrian knots

Houska, Robert, On the nonexistence ofshearlet scaling functions and charac-terizations of reproducing systems forshift invariant spaces

Sedlock, Nicholas, Properties of truncatedToeplitz operators

Xi, Ruibin, Statistical aggregation

MONTANAMontana StateUniversity (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Campanelli, Mark, Multicellular mathe-matical models of somitogenesis

Cummins, Breschine, Determining thebiomechanical response of a filiformhair array: A low Reynolds numberfluid-structure model

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Harker, Shaun, Classical mechanics withdissipative constraints

Jensen, Taylor, A study of the rela-tionship between introductory calculusstudents’ understanding of functionand their understanding of limit

Patterson, Kathryn, Gene regulation inthe lac operon

Trouba, Jerome, The design, implementa-ton, and evaluation of a teacher trainingworkshop for mathematics graduateteaching assistants

University of Montana -Missoula (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Chandler-Pepelnjak, John, Modeling con-versions in online advertising

Goldes, John, Regularization parameterselection methods for ill-posed Poissonimaging problems

Hart, John, Simple two-sided rationalvector spaces of rank 2

NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska-Lincoln (15)

Department of Mathematics

Au, Suanne, Fan cohomology and itsapplication to equivariant K-theory oftoric varieties

Dahal, Rajendra, Dynamic equations ontime scales

DeLegge, Anthony, Mathematical model-ing of optimal seasonal reproductionstrategies of plant populations and acomparison of long-term viabilities ofannuals and perennials

Dreher, Deanna, Pseudocodewords ofgraph covers and computation trees

Henriques, Ines, Quasi-complete intersec-tion ideals with applications to freeresolutions over Artinian rings

Huang, Mu-wan, Fan cohomology andequivariant Chow rings of toric varieties

Lubben, Joan, Modeling and analysis ofbiological populations

Parrott, Amy, A computational study ofthe effects of temperature variation onturtle egg development, sex determina-tion, and population dynamics

Rahmati, Hamid, Properties of local ringsand resolutions of modules

Department of Statistics

Fang, Xiang, Sequence comparison andstochastic model based on multi-orderMarkov models

Jiao, Shuo, Detecting differentially ex-pressed genes while controlling thefalse discovery rate for microarray data

Kerby, April, Spatial clustering using thelikelihood function

Koh, Woon Yuen, Some methods andapplications of super-saturated split-plot designs

Tu, Chunhao, Using nonlinear non-monotonic hormetic models and de-signs for detecting and estimatinghormesis

Zhou, Meijian, Fully exponential Laplaceapproximation EM algorithm for non-linear mixed effect models

NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (5)

Department of Mathematics

Genovese, Giulio, On the importance ofphase in improving detection of sharedgenomic segments

Kinlaw, Paul, Refocusing of null-geodesicsin Lorentz manifolds

Kobayashi, Mitsuo, On the density ofabundant numbers

Scoville, Nick, A metric for homotopytypes

Wright, Sarah, Aperiodicity in topologicalk-graphs

University of NewHampshire (8)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Abel, Todd, The impact of a mathemat-ics research experience on teachers’conceptions of student learning

Eroshkin, Oleg, Invariant Frechet algebrason bounded symmetric domains

Greenough, Justin, Bimodule categoriesand monoidal 2-structure

Johnson, Jeremiah, Admissible orders onquotients of the free associative algebra

Li, Qihui, MF algebras and a Bishop-Stone-Weierstrass theorem result

Liu, Juan, Wavelet regression with longmemory infinite moving average errors

Liu, Zhe, von Neumann algebras, affiliatedoperators and representations of theHeisenberg relation

Rojas-Arenaza, Miriam, Mathematics ofdouble-walled nanotube model: Asymp-totic spectral and stability analysis

NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (5)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Kaur, Manmeet, Perturbed spherical ob-jects in acoustic and fluid flow fields

Li, Jing, Modeling with bivariate geomet-ric distributions

Ren, Bo, Modeling and quasi-Monte Carlosimulation of risk in credit portfolios

Wang, Qiming, Nonlinear evolution ofannular layers and liquid threads inelectric fields

Yang, Ye, Reduced order models forfluid-structure interaction systems bymixed finite element formulation

Princeton University (14)

Department of Mathematics

Bakker, Benjamin, Hodge polynomials ofmoduli spaces of stable pairs on K3surfaces

Bhatt, Bhargav, Derived direct summandsFox, Jacob, Ramsey numbersJorza, Andrei, Crystalline representations

for GL(2) over quadratic imaginaryfields

Loh, Po-Shen, Results in extremal andprobabilistic combinatorics

Luli, Garving,Cm,ω extension by bounded-depth linear operators

Marshall, Simon, On the cohomologyand quantum chaos of the generalizedlinear group in two variables

Wu, Zhongtao, Floer homology and Dehnsurgery

Yu, Pin, On the rigidity of charged blackholes

Yung, Po Lam, Gagliardo-Nirenberg-Sobolov inequalities and finite type

Program in Applied Computational

Mathematics

Lu, Jianfeng, Density functional theory:Analysis and algorithms

Sadeghi, Kolia, Progress on decipheringthe retinal code

Sekora, Michael, Algorithms for hyper-bolic balance laws with multiscale be-havior: Application in radiation hydro-dynamics

Zhou, Xiang, Study of noise-induced tran-sition pathways in non-gradient sys-tems using adaptive minimum actionmethod

Rutgers University (22)

Department of Mathematics

Blight, Sara, Refinements of Selberg’ssieve

Cobbs, Ila, Lattice subgroups of Kac-Moody groups

Djankovic, Goran, On large families ofautomorphic L-functions on GL2

Ellis, Paul, The classification problem forfinite rank dimension groups

Ilinca, Liviu, Asymptotic enumeration of2- and 3-SAT functions

Koo, Jawon, Singular perturbation meth-ods in credit derivative modeling

Nguyan, Hoi, Some applications ofFreiman’s inverse theorem

Pegden, Wesley, Games, graphs and ge-ometry

Raff, Paul, Automated proof and discov-ery in three combinatorial problems

Rezazadegan, Reza, Pseudoholomorphicquilts of Khovanov homology

Robinson, Thomas, Formal calculus, um-bral calculus and basic axiomatics ofvertex algebras

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Schneider, Scott, Borel superrigidity foractions of low rank lattices

Shi, Ming, Local intensity and its dy-namics in multi-name credit derivativesmodeling

Staley, Daniel, Behavior of geodesic raysin spaces with geometric group actions

Yin, Biao, Gradient estimates for theconductivity problems and the systemsof elasticity

Zhang, Yuan, Invariant theory in Cauchy-Riemann geometry and applications tothe study of holomorphic mappings

Department of Statistics and

Biostatistics

Cheng, Jerry Q., Bayesian methods innon-standard missing data problems

Jiang, Wenhua, Topics in high-dimensionalinference

Lou, Jianxiong, Gambling theory andstock option models

Luo, Zhaoyu, Statistical methods for geneselection using differential gene expres-sion and building gene co-expressionnetworks

Xu, Lu, Small sample inference for collec-tions of Bernoulli trials

Ye, Fei, Imputation of automatic controlalgorithms and estimation in high-dimensional linear regression

RutgersUniversity-Newark (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Rubanovich, Dmitry, Endoscopic codesfor unitary groups over the real

NEW MEXICONew Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (7)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Biyogmam, Guy Roger, On the Leibniz(co)homology of the Lie algebra of theEuclidean group

Galayda, Suzanne, Effect of the diffusioncoefficient on noise expression in thelogistic equations and single microbemodel of the chemostat

Lucero-Bryan, Joel, Modal logics of somesubspaces of the real numbers: Dia-mond as derivative

Pham, Uyen, Contributions to statisticalanalysis of financial risks

Salas, Marc, Parabolic problems arisingin financial mathematics and semicon-ductor physics

Sanders, John, Studying periodic knotsusing braids and the Vogel algorithm

Yang, Qin, Regular completions of lat-tices

NEW YORKBinghamton University,State University of NewYork (6)

Department of Mathematics and

Science

Bowlin, Garry, Maximum frustration ofbipartite signed graphs

Jones, Keith, Controlled connectivity forcocompact isometric actions on simpli-cial trees

Rusnak, Lucas, Oriented hypergraphsSnopce, Ilir, Lie methods on pro-p groupsWang, Jiaping, The generalized MLE with

the censored and masked competingrisks data

Wilcox, Elizabeth, Complete finite groupsand wreath products

Clarkson University (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Chen, Ye, Efficient and robust solvers forMonge-Ampere equations

Sun, Jie, Networked networks: Uncoveringthe scale of your network dynamics

Yamoah, Godfred, Conservative tempo-ral and spatial adaptive methods forgroundwater flow

Columbia University (18)

Department of Biostatistics

Wu, Xi, Stepwise procedures for dosefinding in an adaptive clinical trial ofearly rehabilitation after acute stroke

Department of Mathematics

Branson, Mark, Action-Maslov homomor-phism for monotone symplectic mani-folds

Fink, Evan, On the twisted Floer ho-mology of mapping tori of periodicdiffeomorphisms

Fournie, David, Functional Ito calculusand applications

Kauppila, Helena, Convex duality in sin-gular control: Optional consumptionchoice with intertemporal substitutionand optimal investment in completemarkets

Krasner, Daniel, Computations and struc-tures in sl(n)-link homology

Levine, Adam, Applications of HeegaardFloer homology to knot and link con-cordance

Li, Chenxu, Managing volatility risk: In-novation of financial derivatives, sto-chastic models and their analyticalimplementation

Lin, Chen-Yun, On Hamilton’s Ricci flowand Bartnik’s construction of metricsof prescribed scalar curvature

Medos, Ivana, On the mean curvature flowof graphs of symplectomorphisms ofKahler-Einstein manifolds; applicationto complex projective spaces

Peters, Thomas, Computations of Hee-gaard Floer homology: Torus bundles,L-spaces, and correction terms

Shen, Mingmin, Rational curves on Fanothreefolds of Picard number one

Zakharov, Dmitry, The discrete Diracoperator and the discrete generalizedWeierstrass representation in pseudo-Euclidean spaces

Department of Statistics

Li, Xiaodong, Change-point distributionestimation in animal learning experi-ments

Novotny, Petr, Optimal portfolio execu-tion and high frequency financial data

Robinson, Lucy, Functional clustering andchange limit estimation in multi-subjectfMRI data

Schutt, Rachel, Topics in model-basedpopulation inference

Song, Li, Inference for nonstandard MAand noncausal VAR models

Cornell University (18)

Center for Applied Mathematics

Brisbin, Abra, Tracking the elusive gene:Linkage analysis for categorical traitsand ancestry assignment in admixedindividuals

Childs, Lauren, Microphages, oscillatorsand fish: Using dynamical systems toexamine biological problems

Kuehn, Christian, Multiple time scaledynamics with two fast variables andone slow variable

Department of Mathematics

Bowman, Joshua, Flat structures andcomplex structures in Teichmuller the-ory

Dimitrov, Nikolay, Rapid evolution ofcomplex limit cycles

Eshmatov, Alimjon, Group-valued implo-sion and conjugation spaces

Lipa, Christopher, Monodromy and Henonmappings

Needleman, Jonathan, On branching lawsof representations of GL4(F) to SP4(F)

O’Connor, Michael, Using tree automatato investigate intuitionistic logic

Pulemotov, Artem, Geometric flows onmanifolds with boundary

Wang, Biao, Foliations for quasi-Fuchsian3-manifolds

Worthington, James, Automata, represen-tations, and proofs

Zhao, Zhigen, The empirical Bayes ap-proach for shrinkage confidence inter-vals

Department of Statistics

Hanlon, Bret, High-dimensional data anal-ysis

Kormaksson, Matthias, Dynamic pathanalysis and model based clusteringof microarray data

Schifano, Elizabeth, Topics in penalizedestimation

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Shaby, Benjamin, Tools for hard Bayesiancomputations

Zipunnikov, Vadim, Topics in generalizedlinear mixed models

Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (5)

PhD Program in Mathematics

Bhatnagar, Anupam, Points of canonicalheight zero on projective varieties

Drummond-Cole, Gabriel C., HomotopyBatalin-Vilkovisky algebras, trivializingcircle actions, and moduli space

Farmatris, Ioannis, Cohomological as-pects of complete reducibility of repre-sentations

Flek, Ross D., On the dynamics of quasi-self matings of generalized starlikecomplex quadratics and the structureof the mated Julia sets

Friedman, Shoshana, Aspects of super-compactness, HOD and set theoreticgeology

New York University,Courant Institute (19)

Courant Institute of Mathematical

Sciences

Arsenio, Diogo, On the Boltzmann equa-tion: Hydrodynamic limit with long-range interactions and mild solutions

Chen, Xi (Roger), Two problems frommathematical finance

Chumakova, Lyubov, Simple waves: Shearinstability and eigenvalue crossings

Damron, Michael, 2D invasion percola-tion and a rill erosion model

Galehouse, Benjamin, Topologically accu-rate meshing using domain subdivisiontechniques

Gun, Onur, Universality of transientdynamics and aging for spin glasses

Khatri, Shilpa, A numerical method fortwo phase flows with insoluble andsoluble surfactants

Kim, Sungwook, A Baernstein problemof p-harmonic measures and an invari-ance of p-harmonic functions underboundary perturbations: Using tug-of-war with noise

Krahmer, Felix, Novel schemes for Sigma-Delta modulation: From improved ex-ponential accuracy to low-complexitydesign

Lee, Jungho, A hybrid domain decompo-sition method and its applications tocontact problems

Lee, Sangmin, Analysis of path samplingmethods for Ito SDEs

Lee, Wonjung, Resonance quartets indispersive wave turbulence

Lim, Sukbin, Noise-induced transitions inslow wave neuronal dynamics

Louidor, Oren, Topics in percolation,polymers and Potts dynamics

Park, Jungwoon, The nonlinear Schrodin-ger equation with a delta potential andeven initial data

Shmidheiser, Hans, Lattice Faddeev modelSoloviev, Fedor, Universal symplectic

forms in the soliton theoryVishe, Pankaj, Dynamical methods for

rapid computations of L-functionsWong, Tak-Kwong, On the well-posedness

of boundary layer equations

Polytechnic Institute ofNew York University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Ivan, Mirela, The finance and price ofwater

Tsang, Andy, Valuation on Lp-spaces

Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (7)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Bergeron, Charles, Scalable customizedmachine learning models motivated bypharmaceutical chemistry applications

Gatewood, James, Mathematical model ofspatial communication network flows

Mazzone, Eric, Applications of 3-convexityPearson, Yanthe, Discrete and continuous

stochastic models for neuromorpholog-ical data

Ramsden, Daryn, Optimization approachesto sensor placement problems

Szabo, Csilla, Marker models for actinpolymer dynamics and cell membraneprotrusion

Zhang, Ning, 2D log-elastographic meth-ods for tissue shear stiffness recon-struction using a 2D plane strain elasticsystem

State University of NewYork at Buffalo (12)

Department of Biostatistics

Asubonteng, Kobby Owusu, Data trans-formations in statistics

Filiaci, Virginia, Evaluation of binaryintermediate endpoints for their depar-ture from perfect surrogacy

Mashtare Jr., Terry, Extensions in the useof epsilon-skew-normal distribution forstatistical modeling

Department of Mathematics

Atena, Agegnehu, Mathematical mod-eling of driven dewetting and self-assembly of pulsed laser-irradiatedmetallic films

Ciungu, Lavinia, Cryptographic Booleanfunctions: Thue-Morse sequences, weightand nonlinearity

George, Prasanth, Fixed points in theevolution of the predominance of alocally favored allele

Guo, Xiao, Two classes of virtually fiberedMontesinos links of type ˜SL2

Hwang, Guenbo, Boundary value prob-lems for linear and nonlinear waveequations

LaFountain, Douglas, On the uniformthickness property and contact geomet-ric knot theory

Palaparthi, Sreekrishna, Two problemson closed geodesics in hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Vu, Phu, Grid based and meshless meth-ods for the computation of the cur-vatures and related local geometricquantities of a 3D surface

Zhang, Yu, Lifted Heegaard surfaces andvirtually Haken manifolds

State University of NewYork at Stony Brook (20)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Baez-Revueltas, Fabiola Berenice, Studiesof paired samples vs. independentsamples analyses

Bo, Wurigen, Applications of 3D fronttracking to multi phase fluid

Cai, Rong, Tomographic analysis andsimulation of reactive flow in columnexperiments

Cook, Samuel, A power study assuminga single exponential distribution withlong term survivors and a mixture oftwo exponential distributions

Cru, David, Dynamic hedge fund assetallocation under multiple regimes

Fei, Jun, On variances of continuous-timeMarkov decision processes

Ji, Xiaomei, 2D Riemann problem on fronttracking method

Khan, Mahsiul, Simulation-based sequen-tial Bayesian filtering with Rao-Blackwellization applied to nonlineardynamic state space models

Leng, Ling, Compound and constrainedregression analyses

Lim, Hyunkyung, Numerical modeling inturbulent mixing flows

Pradhan, Kith, Partial correlation analysisin functional brain imaging studies

Roberson, Andrea, A comparison of hid-den Markov model based programs fordetection of copy number variation inarray comparative genomic hybridiza-tion data

Sharpe, Kathryn, Structural equationmodeling for mixed designs

Shin, Soyoun, Linkage analysis of aquantitative trait: Suggested methodsfor sibling pairs with at least onemember having an extreme trait value

Sholokhova, Yelena, Network flow model-ing via Lattice-Boltzmann based chan-nel conductance. Prediction of relativepermeability in primary drainage

Zhang, Tianyi, Structural equation mod-eling with time series data

Department of Mathematics

Bulawa, Andrew, Maximal foliations inspacetime with translational symmetry

Chance, Michael C., Degenerate maximain Hamiltonian systems

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Cheraghi, Davoud, Dynamics of complexunicritical polynomials

Ostrovsky, Stanislav, Weighted-L2 inter-polation on non-uniformly separatedsequences

Syracuse University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Lu, Yao, Fast multiscale integral equationmethods for image restoration

Song, Guohui, Approximation of kernelmatrices and its applications

Zhang, Haizhang, Sampling with repro-ducing kernels

The University of Albany,SUNY (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Dow, Keiko, Extreme and non-extremepoints of compact and convex integralfamily of analytic functions

Kronholm, James Brandt, On congruenceproperties of p(n,m)

Tsakiri, Katerina, The effect of noise inprincipal component analysis and anapplication to ozone pollution study

University of Rochester (6)

Department of Biostatistics and

Computational Biology

Stokes-Riner, Abbie, Residual diagnosticmethods for Bayesian structural equa-tion models

Su, Haiyan, Empirical likelihood-basedinference for multiple regression andtreatment comparison

Yu, Qin, Distribution-free models forlongitudinal count data

Department of Mathematics

Lopez, Jonathan, On Lie algebras andcohomology associated to congruencesubgroups

Sookdeo, Vijay, Arithmetic properties oforbits of rational functions

Sukiennik, Justin, Equidistribution andvariation of height functions

NORTH CAROLINADuke University (8)

Department of Mathematics

Jauregui, Jeffrey, Mass estimates, con-formal techniques, and singularities ingeneral relativity

Thomas, Rachel, Time-scaled stochasticinput to biochemical reaction networks

Department of Statistical Science

Gray, Simone, Spatial modeling of mea-surement error in exposure to airpollution

Ji, Chunlin, Advances in Bayesian mod-elling and computation: Spatio-temporalprocesses, model assessment and adap-tive MCMC

Lunagomez, Simon, A geometric ap-proach for inference on graphical mod-els

Mao, Kai, Nonparametric Bayesian mod-els for supervised dimension reductionand regression

Wang, Hao, Bayesian multi- and matrix-variate modelling: Graphical modelsand time series

Wilson, Melanie, Bayesian model uncer-tainty and prior choice with applica-tions to genetic associate studies

North Carolina StateUniversity (32)

Department of Mathematics

Absher, John, On the isomorphy classesof involutions over SO(2n,k)

Alston, April, Heart rate regulation: Mod-eling and analysis

Fan, Xiang, Adaptive control of hystereticsmart material systems

Heller, Martin, Robust minimum densityestimators and stochastic resonance forclassification algorithms

Iwancio, Kathleen, Use of integral signa-ture and Hausdorff distance in planarcurve matching

Lin, Min Hsuing, Inverse problems ofmatrix data reconstruction

May, Lindsay, Shear-driven particle sizesegregation: Models, analysis, numeri-cal solutions, and experiments

Rehman, Rizwana, Numerical computa-tion of the characteristic polynomial ofa complex matrix

Taylor, Monique, Dafermos regulariza-tion of a modified KdV-Burgers equa-tion

Thompson, Kyle, Commuting involutionsof SL(n,k)

Wang, Qiang, Classification of KF -orbitsof unipotent elements in symmetricF -varieties of SL(n,F )

Watson, Robert, Lifting automorphismsfrom root systems to Lie algebras

Wilson, Heather, Model development ofnanotube infused polyimides

Xie, Hui, Finite element methods for in-terface problems with locally modifiedtriangulations

Zhang, Qin, Control of finite dimen-sional bilinear systems: Applications toquantum control systems

Department of Statistics

Cao, Weihua, Improving efficiency androbustness of doubly robust estimatorsin the presence of coarsened data

Chen, Chia-Cheng, Assessing agreementwith intraclass correlation coefficientand concordance correlation coefficient

DiCasoli, Carl, Bayesian regression meth-ods for crossing survival curves

Dickson, Samuel, Improving discovery ofcausal variants in geneteic associationstudies

Elliott, Laine, Adjusting for measurementerror

Gong, Xiaohua, Mapping quantitativetrait loci in outbred half-sib popula-tions

Hwang, Wook Yeon, Boosting methods forvariable selection in high dimensionalsparse models

Krachey, Elizabeth, Variations on theaccelerated failure time model: Mixturedistributions, cure rates, and differentcensoring scenarios

Miao, Huiping, Model selection and esti-mation in additive regression models

Miclaus, Kelci, Addressing sources of biasin genetic association studies

Mishra, Kaushal, Phase contrast neu-tron imaging using single and multiplepinhole apertures

Ouyang, Haojun, Bayesian approach fornonlinear dynamic system and genome-wide association study

Shows, Justin, Sparse estimation and in-ference for censored median regression

Sliva, Luciano, Multiple trait intervalmapping of quantitative trait loci frominbred line crosses

Stanislav, Stephen, Developments and ap-plications of a closed capture-recapturerobust design model to avian pointcount data

Wang, Chun-Ju, Risk measures and capi-tal allocation

Zhu, Ying, Modeling dependence in thedesign of crop insurance contracts

University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (29)

Department of Biostatistics

Chen, Li, Model checking and predictionwith censored data

Chien, Lung Chang, Multi-city time seriesanalysis of air pollution and mortal-ity data using generalized geoadditivemixed models

Cho, Hyunsoon, Bayesian influence diag-nostic methods for parametric regres-sion models

Enck, Steven, Latent class linear mixedmodels: A general approach imple-mented via SAS macro with a tutorialfor clinical researchers

Garcia, Ramon, Variable selection formodels with missing data

Ghosh, Arpita, Conditional likelihood forrisk estimation in genome scans andcoefficient shrinkage

Ho, Lindsey, Novel statistical methodsfor the study design and analysis ofgenome-wide association studies

Kim, Eunhee, Nonparametric and semi-parametric methods in medical diag-nostics

Li, Yimei, Statistical analysis of complexneuroimaging data

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Perin, Jamie, Improved generalized esti-mating equations for incomplete lon-gitudinal binary data, covariance esti-mation in small samples, and ordinaldata

Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela, Latent transitionmixture models for dietary patternanalysis

Zhao, Yufan, Reinforcement learning de-sign for cancer clinical trials

Department of Mathematics

Clemons, Joshua, Dynamical propertiesof Weierstrass elliptic functions onsquare lattices

Lin, Joyce, An experimental and math-ematical study on the prolonged res-idence time of sphere falling throughstratified fluids at low Reynold’s num-ber

Pennington, Nathan, The Lagrangian av-eraged Navier-Stokes equations withrough initial data

Rao, Indrani, Stability of noncharac-teristic boundary-layers for the com-pressible nonisentropic Navier-Stokesequations

Strychalski, Wanda, Simulation methodsfor spatio temporal models of biochem-ical signaling networks

Tiron, Roxana, Strongly nonlinear inter-nal waves in near two-layer stratifi-cations: Generation, propagation andself-induced shear instabilities

Xu, Ke, Mathematics of microrheologywith applications to pulmonary liquids

Department of Statistics and

Operation Research

Aydin, Burcu, Principal component anal-yses for tree structured objects

Baek, Changryong, Second order proper-ties of distribution tails and estimationof tail exponents in random differenceequations

Bolia, Nomesh, Scheduling in wirelessdata networks

Evangelou, Evangelos, Bayesian and fre-quentist methods for approximate in-ference in generalized linear mixedmodels

He, Xuanyao, Statistical inferences forcorrelated data prediction, estimationand design

Lee, Mihee, Deconvolution estimation ofa mixture distribution with boundaryeffects motivated by mutation distribu-tion

Liu, Nan, Appointment scheduling inhealth care

Lu, Ying, Advance in statistical theoryand methods for social sciences

Pak, SeoYoung, Flexible margin-basedclassification techniques

Tural, Mustafa K, Topics in basic reduc-tion and integer programming

University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Hinson, Kenneth, Braid indices in a classof closed braids

Hong, Won-Tak, A meshless method withenriched basis functions for singularityproblems

Wang, Yunfei, Essays on predictive re-gression models for asset returns

Zhou, Jun, Several statistical results un-der multinomial distribution with infi-nite categories

NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (2)

Department of Mathematics

Hashbarger, Carl, Ramification and inte-gral extensions of Dedekind domains

Spicer, Christopher, On Cohen-Kaplanskydomains

OHIOBowling Green StateUniversity (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Li, Hong, Simultaneous inference forpopulations with unequal variances

Case Western ReserveUniversity (14)

Department of Mathematics

Occhipinti, Rossanna, In silico testing ofhypothesis for brain energy metabolismwith new computational models withina statistical framework

Ye, Deping, Topics on convex geometryand phenomena in high dimensions

Department of Statistics

Fridline, Mark, Almost sure confidenceintervals for the correlation coefficient

Shi, Peipei, Estimation and approximationof tempered stable distributions

Department of Epidemiology and

Biostatistics

Howe, Evan, Health care utilization bythe homeless services population

Kim, Sulgi, Genetic association test forbinary traits with an applicant

Li, Yali, Association of common and rarevariants with complex diseases

Morris, Nathan, Multivariate and struc-tural equation modes in family data

Mupere, Ezekiel, Body wasting amongtuberculosis patients in urban Uganda,Kampala

Ou, Juchi, Evaluation of exposure/treat-ment effect via spatial propensity scorein observational studies

Rose, Johnie, Simulating the impact ofmass vaccination with live attenuatedhuman retrovirus vaccine in a develop-ing country

Stulberg, Jonah, Variation in adherence tosurgical process measures and clinicaloutcomes

Styron, Joseph, Pre-operative predictorsof patients returning to work followingprimary total knee arthroplasty

Szczotka-Flynn, Loretta, The longitudinalanalysis of silicone hydrogel (LASH)contact lens study

Kent State University (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Beil, Joel, Geometric properties of orbitsof integral operators

Fontes, Ramiro, Applications of Allouba’sdifferentiation theory and semi-SPDEs

Hanchin, Terence, On Sylvester’s theoremRichards, Gregory, Macroscopic modeling

of the smectic-CG phase formed bybent-core liquid crystals

Sbeih, Reema, Non-linear maps betweensubsets of Banach spaces

Shyshkov, Andriy, Numerical solution ofill-posed problems

Ohio State University,Columbus (32)

Department of Mathematics

Altomare, Christian, Degree sequences,forcibly chordal graphs and combinato-rial proof systems

Bezuglyy, Andriy, Reaction-diffusion-advection models for single and multi-ple species

Joshi, Badal, A doubly stochastic Poissonprocess model for wake-sleep cycling

Kadyrov, Shirali, Entropy and escapeof mass in non-compact homogeneousspaces

Khare, Niraj, Hypergraphs with restrictedvalency and matching number

Kilanowski, Philip, On the Kratky-Porodmodel for semi-flexible polymers in anexternal force field

Kurt, Oguz, On the edge-coloring ofgraphs

Kwa, Kiam Heong, Laser-driven chargedparticles as a dynamical system

Luo, Guo, Singularities in the complexspatial plane of a vortex sheet with blobregularization

Mance, William, Normal numbers withrespect to the Cantor series expansion

Mehta, Nishali, Graph gamesPuliyambalath, Naushad Pasha, Lambda

designs for lambda less than 60Qiu, Zhi, Study of ionization of quan-

tum systems with delta potentials indamped and undamped time periodicfields

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Wang, Xueying, Mechanisms of simpleperceptual decision making processes

Werner, Nicholas, Integer-valued polyno-mials over quaternion rings

Xie, Chao, Singularities in the unphysicalcomplex plane for deep water waves

Ye, Ji, Global existence for bubbles in aHele-Shaw cell with arbitrary nonzerosurface tension

Yu, Yang, A numerical approach forinterfacial motion and its applicationto viscous effects in the Benjamin-Feirinstability

Zeytuncu, Yunus, Lp and Sobolev regular-ity of weighted Bergman projections

Department of Statistics

Draguljic, Danel, Screening in physicaland computer experiments

Gemayel, Nader, Bayesian nonparametricmodels for ranked set sampling

Jung, Yoonsuh, Regularization of casespecific parameters: A new approach forimproving robustness and/or efficiency

Kang, Lei, Reduced-dimension hierarchi-cal statistical models for spatial andspatio-temporal data

Kim, Namhee, A semiparametric statisti-cal approach to functional MRI data

Lee, Ju Hee, Robust statistical model-ing through nonparametric Bayesianmethods

Liu, Yi, Testing for efficacy for primaryand secondary endpoints by partition-ing decision paths

Modur, Sharada, Missing data methodsfor clustered longitudinal data

Moon, Hyejung, Design and analysis ofcomputer experiments for screeninginput variables

Rao, Youlan, Statistical analysis of micro-array experiments in pharmacogeno-mics

Schuetter, Jared, Cairn detection in south-ern Arabia using a supervised automaticdetection algorithm and multiple sam-ple data

Yang, Jingyuan, Likelihood approachfor detecting imprinting and mater-nal effects in family-based associationstudies

Yu, Li, Tau-path test: A nonparametrictest for testing unspecified subpopula-tion monotone association

Ohio University, Athens (3)

Department of Mathematics

Dolph-Bosley, Laura, Applications of ele-mentary submodels in topology

Parra Avila, Benigno, On rational andperiodic power series and on sequentialand polycyclic error-correcting codes

Szabo, Steve, Convolutional codes withadditional structure and block codesover Galois rings

University of Cincinnati (7)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Ding, Lili, Bayesian frailty models for cor-related interval-censored survival data

Freeman, David, Bilipschitz homogeneityand Jordan curves

Hein, Misty, Occupational cohort stud-ies and the nested case-control studydesign

Kramer, Eugene, Nonhomogeneous bound-ary value problems for the Korteweg-de Vries equation on a bounded domain

Osorio, Mauricio, Error estimates for ameshfree method with diffuse deriva-tives and penalty stabilization

Shen, Rui, A Bayesian modeling of mono-tonic ordinal responses with applica-tion to maturation

Wang, Hongjun, On the estimation oflower-end quantiles from a right-taileddistribution

University of Cincinnati,Medical College (2)

Division of Epidemiology and

Biostatistics

Nguyen, Trang, Long-term outcomes oflumbar fusion among workers’ com-pensation subjects: A historical cohortstudy

Sucharew, Heidi, Item response theoryand transition models applied to aller-gen skin prick testing

University of Toledo (1)

Department of Mathematics

Gajewski, David, Analysis of groups gen-erated by quantum gates

OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (6)

Department of Mathematics

Khanal, Netra, A study on the solutions ofKawahara, and complex-valued Burgersand KdV-Burgers equations

Kighuradze, David, Removable sets forharmonic functions in Besov spaces

Liu, Zhenyi, Triangulations and Heegaardsplittings

Wang, Yu, The application of stochasticcontrol theory to hedge ratio optimiza-tion in risk management

Xing, Mei, A weak convergence for ap-proximation of American option prices

Department of Statistics

Guo, Qiang, Dimension reduction meth-ods in the study of the genetics of geneexpression

University of Oklahoma (3)

Department of Mathematics

Shaqlaih, Ali, Model selection using aninformation theory approach

Talley, Jana, Calculus instructors’ re-sponses to prior knowledge errors

Thapa, Narayan, Parameter estimationfor damped sine-Gordon equation withNeumann boundary condition

OREGONOregon State University (5)

Department of Mathematics

Cook, Samuel, Killing spinors and affinesymmetry tensors in Godel’s universe

Hass, Ryan, Pi-line reconstruction formu-las in computed tomography

Phon-On, Aniruth, A thin codimension-one decomposition of the Hilbert cube

Wills, Dean, Connections between combi-nations of permutations and algorithmsand geometry

Department of Statistics

Wang, Xianlong, Effect classification forlongitudinal data

Portland StateUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Roderick, Oleg, Model reduction for sim-ulation, optimization and control

Xu, Maochao, Stochastic orders in hetero-geneous samples with applications

University of Oregon (9)

Department of Mathematics

Black, Samson, Representations of Heckealgebras and the Alexander polynomial

Buck, Julian, Crossed product C∗-algebrasof certain non-simple C∗-algebras andthe tracial quasi-Rokhlin property

Burman, Jennifer, Horrocks’ conjectureand operations on Ext and Tor modules

Comes, Jonathan, Blocks in Deligne’scategory Rep(St )

Giusti, Chad, Plumber’s knots and unsta-ble Vasilliev theory

Heuser, Aaron, Generalized self-intersec-tion local time for a superprocess overa stochastic flow

Liang, Hutian, The crossed product ofC(X) by free and minimal actions of R

Nash, David, Graded representation the-ory of Hecke algebras

Sun, Wei, Crossed product C∗-algebrasof minimal dynamical systems on theproduct of the Cantor set and the torus

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PENNSYLVANIABryn Mawr College (3)

Department of Mathematics

Fury, Matthew, Continuous dependenceon modeling for ill-posed evolutionproblems

Swann, Jonah, Relative Khovanov-Jacobs-son classes for spanning surfaces

Wisniewski, Daniel, Bounding the num-ber of solutions to tetranomial Thueequations

Carnegie MellonUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematical Science

Seguin, Brian, Frame-free continuumthermomechanics

Wallace, Christopher, Mixed integer pro-gramming heuristics

Department of Statistics

Ayers, Elizabeth, Predicting performanceand scaling up estimates of studentskill knowledge

Friedenberg, David, Adaptive cluster de-tection

Gross, Justin, Cues and heuristics onCapitol Hill: Relational decision-makingin the U.S. Senate

Huang, Erich, System-oriented character-ization of the human visual system

Liebner, Jeffrey, Markov models for neu-ronal spike trains

Yang, Xiting (Cindy), Elicitation of expertknowledge of phylogenies in the formof rooted trees

Drexel University (1)

Department of Mathematics

Kose-Can, Emek, Catadioptric sensors

Lehigh University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Buehrle, Charles, The Hecke algebra ofthe symmetric group and the quantumimmanant space

Godbout, Christopher, On the behavior ofChern-Simons classes under the Ricciflow

Hook, Jonelle, The classification of crit-ical graphs and star-critical Ramseynumbers

Pennsylvania StateUniversity (22)

Department of Mathematics

Gogolyev, Andriy, Smooth conjugacy inhyperbolic dynamics

Grutzmann, Melchior, Courant algebroids:Cohomology and matched pairs

Higley, Michael, Stochastic and determin-istic processes in fragmentation andsedimentation

Ho, Wing Kai, On geodesics of compactRiemannian surfaces

Kang, Ming-Hsuan, Zeta functions andapplications of group based complexes

Li, Manlin, Analysis of deterministic andstochastic implicit interface interactionmodels of fluid-interface interactions

Li, Tianjiang, Abstract principal compo-nent analysis and applications to modelreduction

Lu, Min, Low-density parity-check codes:Asymptotic behavior and zeta functions

Orshankiy, Sergey, A PL-manifold ofnonnegative curvature homeomorphicto S2 × S2 is a direct metric product

Scheglov, Dmitry, Absence of mixing forsmooth flows on the genus two surface

Signori, Daniele, Poisson sigma models,reduction and nonlinear gauge theories

Willett, Rufus, Band-dominated operatorsand the stable Higson corona

Department of Statistics

Hiriote, Sasiprapa, Multivariate concor-dance correlation coefficient

Huang, Mian, Nonparametric techniquesin finite mixture of regression models

Kai, Bo, Robust nonparametric and semi-parametric modeling

Kim, Min Kyung, On dimension foldingof matrix or array valued statisticalobjects

Lee, Juyoun, Sampling contingency tablesgiven sets of marginals and/or con-ditionals in the context of statisticaldisclosure limitation

Liao, Shu-Min, Heteroscedastic unbal-anced nested designs and fully nonpa-rameteric analysis of covariance

Liu, Rong, Multiple imputation for miss-ing items in multiple section question-naires

Ma-Jiang, Yuejiao (Heather), Estimationand forecasting methodologies for non-parametric regression models via dy-namic linear models

Romer, Megan, The statistical analysisof monotone incomplete multivariatenormal data

Zhang, Lu, Bayesian analysis of mul-tivariate regime switching covariancemodel

Temple University (5)

Department of Mathematics

Fritzsche, David, Overlapping and non-overlapping orderings for precondition-ing

Mawi, Henok, The refractor problem withloss of energy and Monge-Ampere typeequations

Osborne, Charles, Some aspects of thetheory of the adelic zeta functionassociated to the space of binary cubicforms

Department of Statistics

Cao, Jun, A random linear-extensiontest based on classic nonparametricprocedures

Iyer, Vishwanath, An adaptive single-stepFDR controlling procedure

University ofPennsylvania (17)

Department of Mathematics

Der, Ricky, A theory of generalizedpopulation processes

Diemer, Colin, The birational geometry oftropical compactifications

Dyckerhoff, Tobias, Isolated hypersurfacesingularities as noncommutative spaces

He, Chenxu, Non-negatively curved coho-mogeneity one manifolds

Liang, Tian, An overview of the geometryand combinatorics of the Macdonaldpolynomial and q, t-Catalan number

Lugo, Michael, Profiles of large combina-torial structures

Olsen, John, Three dimensional manifoldsall of whose geodesics are closed

Rupinski, Andrew, Factorizations in theirreducible representations of compactsemisimple Lie groups

Department of Statistics

Braunstein, Alexander, Bayesian statisti-cal models for HIV evolution

Fu, Xin, Confidence bands in nonpara-metric regression

Han, Xu, Topics in shrinkage estimationand causal inference

Lin, Dongyu, Three topics in variableselection

Lysen, Shaun, Permuted inclusion crite-rion: A variable selection technique

McShane, Blakeley, Machine learningmethods with tire series dependence

Pang, Osbert, On the implementation andextension of BART

Yoon, Frank, New methods for the designand analysis of observational studies

Zhang, Mingyuan, Causal inference indiscretely observed continuous timeprocesses

University ofPittsburgh (18)

Department of Biostatistics

Chuong, Ya-Hsiu, A comparative study ofinferential procedures for air pollutionhealth effects research

Jakobsdottir, Johanna, Genetics of age-related maculopathy and score statis-tics for x-linked quantitative tests

Kong, Yuan, Prediction of accrual closuredate in multi-center clinical trials withPoisson process models

Kuo, Chia-Ling, Topics in statistical meth-ods for human gene mapping

Lotz, Meredith, Modeling missing covari-ate data and time-dependent covariatesin tree-structured survival analysis

Lu, Shu-ya, Issues in meta-analysis ofcancer microarray studies: Data depos-itory in R and a meta-analysis methodfor multi-class biomarker detection

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Miyahara, Sachiko, Statistical inferencesfor two-stage treatment regimes fortime-to-event and longitudinal data

Oh, Sunghee, Effects of missing valueimputation on down-stream analyses inmicroarray data

Rohay, Jeffrey, Statistical assessment ofmedication adherence data: A techniqueto analyze the J-shaped curve

Sattar, Abdus, Analysis of non-ignorablemissing and left-censored longitudinalbiomarkers data

Tudorascu, Dana, Partial least squareson data with missing covariates: Acomparison approach

Yuan, Xing, A meta-analysis frameworkfor combining incomparable Cox pro-portional hazard models caused byomitting important covariates

Department of Mathematics

Dahma, Alfred, Scales of function andmatrix spaces

Ganis, Benjamin, Multiscale methods forstochastic collocation of mixed finiteelements for flow in porous media

Obi, Onyeka, Results of approximationand measure on mutational spaces

Radelet, Dan, Hardy-type sequence spacesand Cesaro frames

Department of Statistics

Abebe, Kaleab, A study of treatment-by-site interaction in multisite clinicaltrials

Zhang, Wei, Optimal design and adaptivedesign in stereology

RHODE ISLANDBrown University (16)

Center for Statistical Science

Sui, Yunxia, Robust gene expression mea-sure using databases of microarrays

Department of Mathematics

Lee, Chong Gyu, Height estimates forrational maps

Salikhov, Konstantin, Multiple points ofimmersions

Division of Applied Mathematics

Baek, Hyoungsu, A spectral elementmethod for fluid-structure interaction:New algorithm and applications to in-tracranial aneurysms

Bengal, Nitsan, Grow up solutions andheteroclinics to infinity for scalar para-bolic PDE’s

Chang, Lo-Bin, Conditional modeling andconditional inference

Fedosov, Dmitry, Multiscale modeling ofblood flow and soft matter

Hadzic, Mahir, Stability and instability inthe Stefan problem with surface tension

Kloeckner, Andreas, High-performancehigh-order simulation of wave andplasma phenomena

Kushnarev, Sergey, The geometry of thespace of 2-D shapes and the Weil-Petersson metric

Lamar, Michael, Unsupervised linguisticinference

Pan, Wenxiao, Single particle DPD: Algo-rithms and applications

Papanicolaou, Andrew, Topics in nonlin-ear filtering

Roy, Ishani, High order WENO scheme forcomputational cosmology

Ruggieri, Eric, Inference in discrete highdimensional space: An exploration ofthe earth’s ice sheets through changepoint and variable selection techniques

Walsh, Samuel, Stratified and steadyperiodic water waves

University of RhodeIsland (2)

Department of Mathematics

Brett, Ann, Global behavior of somedifference equations and discrete dy-namical systems

Kudlak, Zachary, Problems in generalizededge colorings

SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (13)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Case, Michael, Improved accuracy forfluid flow problems via enhancedphysics

Cui, Yunwei, Integer-valued time seriesand renewal processes

Drake, Nathan, Decoding of multipointalgebraic geometry codes via lists

Faulkenberg, Stacey, Quality representa-tion in multiobjective programming

Fisher, Thomas, On the testing and esti-mation of high-dimensional covariancematrices

Flowers, Tim, Asymptotics of families ofpolynomials and sums of Hurwitz classnumbers

Gardenghi, Melissa, Multiobjective opti-mization for complex systems

Guan, Genhua, Factoring polynomialsand Grobner bases

Jacob, Bonnie, Source optimization in ab-stract function spaces for maximizingdistinguishability: Applications to theoptical tomography inverse problem

Jacob, Jobby, Variations on graph prod-ucts and vertex partitions

Park, Jang-Woo, Discrete dynamics overfinite fields

Robbins, Michael, Change-point detec-tion: Limit theory and applications

Woody, Jonathan, Some new problems inchangepoint analysis

Medical University ofSouth Carolina (4)

Department of Biostatistics and

Epidemiology

Elm, Jordan, Statistical approaches foradding or switching hypotheses inmulti-armed clinical trials

Swearingen, Christopher, Beta regres-sion: Modeling extremely skewed dis-tributions within a generalized linearframework

Wolf, Bethany, Discovering and measur-ing importance of logical combinationsof binary biomarkers

Yang, Chengwu, Development and appli-cation of logistic regression with fac-tor scores method in differential itemfunctioning detection for dichotomizedvariables

University of SouthCarolina (10)

Department of Epidemiology and

Biostatistics

Zhou, Li, Quantile regression with ordinaland discrete data

Department of Mathematics

Baczkowski, Daniel, Diophantine equa-tions involving factorials and latticepoints close to smooth curves

Banerjee, Pradipto, On a conjecture ofPal Turan and investigations into Ga-lois groups of generalized Laguerrepolynomials

Savu, Daniel, Sparse approximation inBanach spaces

Scott, Kathryn, On inherently nonfinitelybased varieties

Tian, Li, Error estimates for finite ele-ment/volume approximations of dissi-pative partial differential equations onsurfaces

Walters, Mark, Iterated point-line config-urations in projective planes

Department of Statistics

Das, Lalita, Functional ANOVA modelswith application to corporate bonds

Gao, Jinxin, Cluster analysis using shrink-age and stochastic methods

Shuang, Li, On the failure of complexload-sharing systems

SOUTH DAKOTASouth Dakota StateUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Brandenburger, Thomas, A Markov multi-nomial regression model for predictingconsumer credit risk

Furth, Alfred, A combination survival andtime series model for predicting timeto default

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TENNESSEEUniversity of Memphis (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Ciesielski, Maciej, Geometric propertiesof Lorentz spaces and applications toapproximation theory

Hulgan, Jonathan Darren, Graph coloringproblems with constraints

Liu, Zhengfeng, State space modeling onviral dynamics of HIV-1 infection in anantiretroviral therapy

Xu, Lijing, Literature based Bayesiananalysis of gene expression data

University of Tennessee,Knoxville (8)

Department of Mathematics

Chacon, Gerardo, Carleson-type inequali-ties in harmonically weighted Dirichletspaces

Irick, Brian, On the irreducibility of theCauchy-Mirimanoff polynomials

Kobayashi, Masato, Schubert numbersLindsay, James, A combinatorial unifica-

tion of binomial-like arraysMiller Neilan, Rachael, Optimal con-

trol applied to population and diseasemodel

Orick, Gerald, Computational circle pack-ing: Geometry and discrete analyticfunction theory

Sinclair, Jennifer, Small and large limits ofmultifractal stochastic processes withapplications

Smith, Harold, Fractions of numericalsemigroups

TEXASBaylor University (7)

Department of Mathematics

Cornelius, Alex N., Inverse limits of set-valued functions

Pruett, William, Diagrams and reduceddecompositions for cominiscule flagvarieties and affine Grassmannians

Tuncer, Davut, The left-definite spectralanalysis of the Legendre type differen-tial equation

Department of Statistical Sciences

Beavers, Daniel, Bayesian approachesto parameter estimation and variableselection for misclassified binary data

Pruszynski, Jessica, Bayesian models fordiscrete censored sampling and dosefinding

Seaman, John, III, Topics in Bayesian in-ference: Proof loading for combinationdrugs, induced priors, and distributionof archaeological assemblages

Young, Phil, Topics in dimension reduc-tion and missing data in statisticaldiscrimination

Rice University (22)

Department of Computational and

Applied Mathematics

Cesmelioglu, Aycil, Complex flow andtransport phenomena in porous media

Hardesty, Sean, Optimization of shellstructure acoustics

Issa, Leila, Source localization in clutteredacoustic waveguides

Kellems, Anthony, Model reduction oflarge spiking neutrons

Nong, Hung (Ryan), Numerical solutionsof matrix equations arising in modelreduction of large scale linear-timeinvariant systems

Sifuentes, Josef, Preconditioned iterativemethods for inhomogeneous acousticscattering applications

Wang, Yimin, Enhanced compressed sens-ing using iterative support detection

Department of Mathematics

Chaika, Jon, Interval exchange transfor-mations: Topological mixing, Hausdorffdimensions for ergodic measures anddisjointness

Elliot, Andrew, State cycles, quasipositivemodification, and constructing H-thickknots in Khovanov homology

Krueger, Helge, Positive Lyapunov expo-nent for ergodic Schrodinger operators

Pershell Null, Karoline, Some conditionsfor recognizing a 3-manifold group

Department of Statistics

Cruz, Alejandro, Estimating the termstructure with a semiparametric Bayes-ian population model: An applicationto corporate bonds

Foy, Millennia, Lung carcinogenesis mod-eling: Resampling and simulation ap-proach to model fitting, validation andprediction

Gershman, Darrin, Modeling prize dy-namics in electronic stock exchangeswith applications in developing auto-mated trading strategies

Goldwasser, Deborah, Parameter estima-tion in mathematical models of lungcancer

Kenney, Colleen, On the separation of TTauri star spectra using non-negativematrix factorization and Bayesian posi-tive source separation

Leon Novelo, Luis, Bayesian semiparamet-ric and flexible models for analyzingbiomedical data

Nguyen, Tuan, Dimension reductionmethods with applications to highdimensional data with a censored re-sponse

Savitsky, Terrance, Generalized Gaussianprocess models with Bayesian variableselection

Thomas, Sarah, Model-based clusteringfor multivariate time series of counts

Wu, Xiaowei, Branching processes withbiological application

Zhang, Nan, Regression survival anal-ysis with dependent censoring anda change-point for the hazard rate:With application to the impact of theGramm-Leach-Bliley Act to insurancecompanies’ survival

Southern MethodistUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematics

Dekany, Christina, Adaptive finite ele-ment methods for reaction-diffusionequations in two space dimensions

Klentzman, Jill, Explosion in thin filmsMitchell, Jonathan, Synchronous and

asynchronous oscillations in a modelfor antigenically varying malaria, in-cluding the effects of constant andstate-dependent delay

Nagasinghe, Ivanga, Computing princi-pal eigenvectors of large web graphs:Algorithms and accelerations related topagerank and hits

Stowell, David, Computing eigensolutionsof singular Sturm-Liouville problems inphotonics

Department of Statistical Science

Hardin, Andrew, Semi-parametric sim-ulation of AffyMetrix microarrays toobtain realistic output

McClellan, Elizabeth, Improving statis-tical methods in biological pathwayanalysis

O’Hair, Joel, Multidimensional signal de-tection in the presence of correlatednoise with application to brain imaging

Texas A&M University (20)

Department of Mathematics

Cameron, Jan, Normalizers of finite vonNeumann algebras

Dosev, Detelin, Commutators on Banachspaces

Freeman, Daniel, Upper estimates forBanach spaces

Ibrahim, Ashraf, Ultrametric fewnomialtheory

Kim, Seungil, Analysis of a PML methodapplied to acoustic scattering problemsin R2 and computation of resonancesin open systems

Ko, Youngdeug, Dimensions of bivariatespline spaces and algebaic geometry

Li, Yan, Some upscaling methods forflow and transport in heterogeneousreservoirs

Mukherjee, Kunal, Masa and bimoduledecompositions of II-1 factors

Savchuk, Dmytro, Asymptotic, algorith-mic and geometric aspects of groupsgenerated by automata

Schumacher, Paul, Parking functions andgeneralized Catalan numbers

Smith, Lidia, On non-orbit-transitive op-erators

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Trenev, Dimitar, Space scaling techniquesfor the numerical approximation ofproblems on unbounded domains. Ap-plications to the time-harmonic elasticwave and eddy-current problems

Department of Statistics

Ghosh, Souparno, Copula based hierar-chical Bayesian models

Hering, Amanda, Space-time forecastingand evaluation of wind speed withstatistical tests for comparing accuracyof spatial predictions

Joshi, Adarsh, Bayesian model selectionfor high-dimensional high-throughputdata

Lindsey, Charles, Sliced mean variance-covariance inverse regression dimen-sionality test

Litton, Nathaniel, Deconvolution in ran-dom effects models via normal mix-tures

Savchuk, Olga, Choosing a kernel forcross-validation

Wagaman, John, Model-based pre-pro-cessing in protein mass spectrometry

Zhong, Ming, Extended homozygosityscore tests to detect positive selectionin genome-wide scans

Texas Tech University (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Cakmak, Adem, Analysis of nonlinearDarcy-Forchheimer flows in porous me-dia

Ekanayake, Amy, Stochastic metapopula-tion models and watershed estimatesfor playas on the Southern High Plains

Ekanayake, Dinesh, Robust control of sat-urating, non-monotone hysteretic sys-tems with nonlinear frequency-depen-dent power losses

Mallawaarachchi, Don Kumudu, Stabilityand permanence in gender- and stage-structured discrete time models forthe boreal toad in single and multiplehabitats and a stochastic model for thehydroperiod of playas on the SouthernHigh Plains

University of Houston (9)

Department of Mathematics

Antil, Harbir, Optimization and modelreduction of time dependent PDE-constrained optimization problems: Ap-plications to surface acoustic wavedriven microfluidic biochips

Barlas, Nofil, Predictability and informa-tion loss in complex systems

Jain, Saurabh, Isotropic multiresolutionanalysis of rotational invariance andimage analysis

Kim, Tae-Beom, Mathematical issues inblood flow problems

Li, Huifang, Adaptive finite element ap-proximation of the Black-Scholes equa-tion based on residual-type a posteriorierror estimates

Nimsaila, Kawin, Markov chain and time-delay reduced modeling of nonlinearsystems

Sharma, Sonia, One-sided M-structure ofoperator spaces and operator algebras

Singh, Pretti, Applications of finite groupsto Parseval frames

Xhabli, Blevina, Universal operator sys-tem structures on ordered spaces andtheir applications

University of NorthTexas (4)

Department of Mathematics

Bajracharya, Neeraj, Level curves of theangle function of a positive definitesymmetric matrix

Kaown, Dougsoo, A new algorithm forfinding minimum distance between twoconvex hulls

Kieftenbeld, Vincent, Three topics in de-scriptive set theory

Schulle, Polly, The isomorphic structureof spaces of operators

University of Texas atArlington (11)

Department of Mathematics

Akinlar, Mehmet, A new method fornonrigid registration of 3D images

Dawkins, Paul, Non-traditional socio-mathematical norms in undergraduatereal analysis

Dong, Nathan, Logistic regression withmisclassified covariates using auxiliarydata

Ferim, Richard, Adaptive nonparametricdistribution-free procedures in factorialdata analysis

Hughes, Meri, The uniqueness of minimalacyclic complexes

Oprisan, Adina, Large deviation principlefor functional limit theorems

Pantong, Natee, A globally convergent nu-merical method for coefficient inverseproblems

Perez Gonzales, Humberto, Analysis andsimulation in neuron and fibrosis mod-els

Riley, Fransell, Testing the equality ofregression coefficients and a poolingmethodology from multiple sampleswhen the data is multicollinear

Salako, Stephen, Optical control approachto image registration

Zhang, Jianchun, Conditional confidenceintervals of process capability indicesfollowing rejection of preliminary tests

University of Texas atAustin (22)

Department of Mathematics

Adduci, Silvia, On real and p-adic Be-zoutians

Fili, Paul, Orthogonal decompositions ofthe space of algebraic numbers modulotorsion

Hopkins, Kimberly, Periods of modularforms and central values of L-functions

Jensen, David, Birational geometry ofthe moduli spaces of curves with onemarked point

Kalahurka, William, Rotational cohomol-ogy and total pattern equivariant co-homology of tiling spaces acted on byinfinite groups

Katerman, Eric, On some residual andlocally virtual properties of groups

Leger, Nicholas, A fragmentation modelfor sprays and L2 stability estimates forshocks solutions of scalar conservationlaws using the relative entropy method

Lowrey, Parker, Autoequivalences, stabil-ity conditions, and N-gons: An exampleof how stability conditions illuminatethe action of autoequivalences associ-ated to derived categories

Mautner, Carl, Sheaf theoretic methodsin modular representation theory

Mereb, Martin, On the E-polynomials of afamily of character varieties

Meth, John, Rational embeddings of theSeveri-Brauer variety

Mireles-James, Jason, Reliable computa-tion of invariant dynamics for conser-vative discrete dynamical syestms

Patterson, Cody, Fixed-point-free actionsof Coxeter groups on three-dimensionalCAT(0) spaces

Rodriguez, Miguel, The distribution ofroots of certain polynomials

Stover, Matthew, Cusps of Hermitianlocally symmetric spaces

Teixeira, Ricardo, On S1-strictly singularoperators

Williams, Jonathan, Broken Lefschetz fi-brations on smooth four-manifolds

Institute for Computational

Engineering and Sciences

Jhurani, Chetan, Multiscale modeling us-ing goal-oriented adaptivity and numer-ical homogenization

Li, Jun, A computational model forthe diffusion coefficients of DNA withapplications

Shestopalov, Nikolay, Controlled self-assembly of charged particles

Thomas, Sunil, On some problems inthe simulation of flow and transportthrough porous media

Wang, Wenhao, An algorithm of afully conservative volume correctedcharacteristics-mixed method for trans-port problems

University of Texas atDallas (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Chen, Xuan, Change-point analysis ofsurvival data with application in clinicaltrials

Kanlapuli Chandrasekaran, Keerthi, Op-timal control of piecewise smooth sys-tems

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Khan, Noureen, Invariants of links pre-served by 4-move

Ramachandar, Shahla, Pre-processingmethods and stepwise variable selec-tion for binary classification in high-dimensional data

Sauter, Alan, The generalized Godelsolution

Villa Carrillo, Jorge, Topological overlapmeasure of similarity

University ofTexas-School of PublicHealth (1)

Department of Biostatistics

Liu, Mei, Assessing the improved discrim-inatory power of a new biomarker inprognostic models

UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Sijin, Asian spread option pricingmodels and computation

Yan, Duokui, Four body problem

University of Utah (14)

Department of Mathematics

Algom-Kfir, Yael, The Lipschitz metric onouter space

Dinh, Trung, Associated primes andprimary decompositions of Frobeniuspowers

Khader, Karim, Laplace’s equation, thenonlinear Poisson equation and theeffects of Gaussian white noise on theboundary

Kilpatrick, Zachary, Spatially structuredwaves and oscillations in neuronalnetworks with synaptic depression andadaptation

Kitchen, Sarah, Localization of cohomo-logically induced modules to partialflag varieties

Lynch, Frank, Mathematical modeling ofthe gastric mucus gel

Malone, William, Topics in geometricgroup theory

Newby, Jay, Molecular motor-based mod-els of random intermittent search indendrites

Purcell, Michael, Techniques in mani-fold learning: Intrinsic dimension andprincipal surface estmation

Richins, Russell, Some applications ofminimizing variational principles forthe complex Helmholtz equation

Shiu, Shang-Yuan, Probability on discretestructure

Smith, Amber, Mathematical models ofinfluenza A virus and streptococcuspneumoniae infections

Tania, Nessy, Mathematical models ofcalcium regulation in cardiac cells

Thompson, Joshua, Real Schottky com-plex projective structures

Utah State University (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Gabrys, Robertas, Testing the stability ofthe functional autoregressive process

Morphet, William, Simulation, kriging,and visualization of circular-spatialdata

Strazzulo, Franzesco, Darboux integrablehyperbolic PDE’s in the plane of generictype: A classification by means ofCartan tensor and the C.A.S. Maple II

VERMONTUniversity of Vermont (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Brown, Melanie, Surface embeddings offamilies of combinatorial designs

Ginsberg, Hy, Minimal Heilbronn charac-ters of finite groups

Stor, Kirsten, Drawing graphs as super-thrackles

VIRGINIACollege of William &Mary (2)

Department of Mathematics

Kaczynski, William, Computational as-pects of stochastic operations research

Nasserase, Shahla, The logarithmic methodand the solution to the TP2-completionproblem

George MasonUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Siddique, Javed, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid flow into deformableporous materials

Department of Statistics

Khan, Diba, Direction-of-arrival estma-tion performance of space linear arrays

Manukyan, Zorayr, Sequential designsfor estimating toxicity and efficacy in adose-response setting

Old DominionUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Touron, Charles, An adaptive method forcalculating blow-up solutions

Zhao, Yueqin, Rao’s quadratic entropyand some new applications

University of Virginia (9)

Department of Mathematics

Finster, Eric, Stabilization of homotopylimits

Guberovic, Rafaela, Avoiding singularityformation in the 3D Navier-Stokes flows

Quertermous, Katie, Fixed-point compo-sition C∗-algebras

Wan, Jinkui, Representations of affineHecke algebras and related algebras

Zhao, Lei, Modular representations of Liesuperalgebras

Department of Statistics

Duan, Liang Liang, Heterogeneity inresponse-adaptive randomization

Liu, Yan, Statistical methodology in en-docrinology: Asymptotics for differenceand integral equation-based methods

Wages, Nolan, Dose-finding designs formulti-drug combinations

Zhu, Hongjian, Implementing response-adaptive randomized clinical trials: In-terior analysis and optimality

Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, MedicalCenter (3)

Department of Biostatistics

Dahman, Bassam, Nonlinear models inmultivariate population bioequivalencetesting

Ellis, Rhonda, Deriving optimal compositescores: Relating observational/longitu-dinal data with a primary endpoint

Marshall, Scott, An empirical approach toevaluating sufficient similarity in dose-response in complex chemical mixtures:Utilization of Euclidean distance as asimilarity measure

Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (11)

Department of Mathematics

Boquet, Grant, Geometric properties ofover-determined systems of linear par-tial difference equations

Botelho, Fabio, Variational convex analy-sis

Niese, Elizabeth, Combinatorial proper-ties of the Hilbert series of Macdonaldpolynomials

Rautenberg, Carlos, A distributed param-eter approach to optimal filtering andestimation with mobile sensor networks

Roinestad, Kristine, Geometry of fractalsquares

Zhang, Jingwei, Numerical methods forthe chemical master equation

Department of Statistics

Abdel-Salam, Abdel-Salam, Profile moni-toring with fixed and random effectsusing nonparametric and semiparamet-ric methods

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Freeman, Laura, Statistical methods forreliability data from designed experi-ments

Gan, Linmin, Adaptive threshold methodfor monitoring rates in public healthsurveillance

Marshall, Jennifer, Prospective spatio-temporal surveillance methods for thedetection of disease clusters

Oheanu, Denisa, Cumulative sum controlcharts for non-normal censored data

WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (38)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Fagnan, Kirsten, High-resolution finitevolume methods for extracorporealshock wave therapy

Kim, Minsun, A mathematical frameworkfor spatiotemporal optimality in radia-tion therapy

Machorro, Eric, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for 1-D spherical transportproblems

Uchida, Junya, Dynamical systems of ma-rine stratocumulus-topped boundarylayer

Department of Biostatistics

Berry, Kristin, Estimating lifetime medicalcosts under a semi-parametric gammafrailty copula model

Everson-Stewart, Siobhan, Non-inferiorityclinical trials: Bio-creep and a flexiblemargin approach for addressing non-constancy

Fong, Youyi, Algorithms and inferencefor mixture models with application toprotein sequence analysis

Hu, Nan, Regression methods of time-dependent ROC curve for evaluatingthe prognosis capacity of biomarkers

Jin, Yuying, Percentile value standardiza-tion for event time outcomes data

Koopmeiners, Joseph, Methods for groupsequential diagnostic biomarker studies

Odem-Davis, Katherine, Current issues innon-inferiority trials

Wolfson, Julian, Statistical methods foridentifying correlates of risk and surro-gate endpoints in vaccine trials

Department of Mathematics

Bradshaw, Robert, Provable computationof motivic L-functions

Card, Ryan, Brownian motion withboundary diffusion

Cross, Jonathan, Spectral abscissa op-timization using polynomial stabilityconditions

Dundon, Ariana, Families of log canoni-cally polarized varieties

Eaton, Julia, Variational properties ofpolynomial root functions and spectralfunctions

Finkel, Daniel, On the number of Fourier-Mukai partners of a K3 surface

Goff, Michael, Bounds on quantities re-lated to simplicial complexes

Gutzwiller, Luke, Affine Schubert-like va-rieties in type An

Holman, Sean, Generic uniqueness inpolarization tomography

Kantor, Joshua, Eleven dimensional su-pergravity on edge manifolds

Kirson, Antonio, Wild automorphismsand abelian varieties

Klee, Steven, Lower bound theorems forsimplicial and cubical complexes

Kopp, Travis, Kodaira-Iitaka dimensionon subvarieties

Lin, Qiuying, Sparsity and nonconvexnonsmooth optimization

Luoto, Kurt, Quasisymmetric functionsand their applications

Rosoff, David, Toward mapping spaces ofA-infinity categories

Winfree, Troy, Continuous homotopyfixed point spectra: Finiteness prop-erties and computations

Xu, Liang, Merging trust-region and lim-ited memory technologies for large-scale optimization

Zhang, Jun, Some developments in Artin-Schelter algebras

Department of Statistics

Admiraal, Ryan, Models for heterogene-ity in heterosexual partnership net-works

Carnegie, Nicole, A comparison of al-ternative methodologies for estimatingHIV incidence

Jiang, Yindeng, Factor model MonteCarlo methods for general fund-of-funds portfolio management

Krivitsky, Pavel, Statistical models forsocial network data and processes

Lenkoski, Alex, Bayesian model averagingand multivariate conditional indepen-dence structures

Ranjan, Roopesh, Combining and evalu-ating probabilistic forecasts

Seregin, Arseni, Convex analysis methodsin shape constrained estimation

Washington StateUniversity (5)

Department of Mathematics

Eubanks, Sherod, Topics in nonnegativematrix theory

Kouznetsov, Andrei, Complex averagesof particle quantities and equations ofbalance

Liu, Pengyu, Maximum likelihood esti-mation of an unknown change-pointin the parameters of a multivariateGaussian series with applications toenvironmental monitoring

Moyer, Nathan, Knapsack-type crypto-graphic system using algebraic numberrings

Sun, Yannan, External dependence ofmultivariate distributions and its appli-cations

WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics

Wang, Xiaofeng, Graph coloring and flowsYan, Huiya, Hamiltonian line graphs and

claw-free graphsZeng, Suxing, Numerical solutions of

boundary inverse problems for someelliptic partial differential equations

WISCONSINMarquette University (1)

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics and Computer Science

Sheng, Ru, Bayesian approach to hypo-thesis testing problems with skewedalternatives

University of Wisconsin,Madison (32)

Department of Mathematics

Bae, Myoungjean, Potential flow andtransonic shocks

Berliner, Adam, Determinants, perma-nents, and the enumeration of forestpartitions

Daugherty, Zajj, Degenerate two-bound-ary centralizer algebras

Davis, Matt, Representations of rank twoaffine Hecke algebras at roots of unity

Deatt, Louis, The positive semi-definiteminimum rank of a triangle-free graph

Ellison, Benjamin, Boolean indexed mod-els and Wheeler’s conjecture

Huang, Hongnian, Calabi flow on toricvariety

Hubler, Shane, Mathematical analysis ofmass spectrometry data

Joseph, Mathew, Some problems in ran-dom walks in random environment

Kazalicki, Matija, Some topics in thetheory of modular forms and Drinfeldmodular forms

Kim, Hanjun, On generations of mirrorpairs of Calabi-Yau varieties

Kumar, Rohini, Current fluctuations forindependent random walks

Li, Qian, Large scale computing for com-plementarity and variational inequali-ties

Remmel, Mark, New models for rotatingshallow water Boussinesq equations bysubsets of mode interactions

Turetsky, Daniel, Effective algebra andeffective dimension

Turkelli, Seyfi, Hurwitz schemes anddensity of discriminants

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Yip, Martha, Combinatorics of Macdonaldpolynomials

Zhu, Keya, Global regularity of Schrodingermaps into the hyperbolic plane H2 indimensions d greater than or equal to 3

Department of Statistics

Burgette, Lane, Essays on three Bayesianprior distributions

Choi, Younjeong, Statistical methods forgene set correlation analysis

Hu, Xing (James), False discovery ratecontrol with groups

Jiang, Deyuan, Semiparametric likelihoodmethods for longitudinal data withnonignorable nonresponse

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