Doctoral Degrees Conferred · Lant, Timothy, Transition kernels, inte-gral semigroups on spaces of mea-sures, and perturbation by cumulative outputs. Li, Jiaxu, The dynamics of glucose-insulin

Doctoral Degrees Conferred2004–2005

ALABAMAAuburn University (2)

Mathematics and Statistics

Das, Kumer, Ruin estimates under inter-est force.

Granado, Michael, On the moving offproperty and weak additivity of localconnectedness and metrizability.

University of Alabama,Birmingham (3)

Biostatistics

Richman, Joshua S., Sample entropystatistics.

Mathematics

Lee, Young-Ran, Spectral properties ofa polyharmonic operator with limit-periodic potential in dimension two.

Lesort, Claire, Statistical efficiency andcomplexity of curve fitting algorithms.

University of Alabama,Tuscaloosa (10)

Information Systems, Statistics and

Management Science

Fan, Guangzhe, Regression and survivaltree analysis using TARGET.

Hong, Bo, Multivariate surveillance schemesfor infectious diseases on multiple lo-cations.

Howington, Eric, A genetic algorithmfor computing the minimum volumeellipsoid estimates.

Yadav, Prashant, Collaborative forecast-ing and supply chain coordination.

Yu, Jing, Space-time interaction modelsfor mortality data.

Mathematics

Eddins, Melanie, Variation of M/G/1queues with batch services.

Gong, Minqing, Waiting time in a com-bined first-come-first-served andshortest-time-first queue.

The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2004, to June 30,2005) reported in the 2005 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 215 departments in 152 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. A supplementary list containing namesreceived since compilation of this list will appear in a summer 2006 issueof the Notices.

Kwon, Miyeon, A class of operation onHardy space in Schatten-von Neumannclass and its properties.

Simmons, Carolyn, A comparison of poly-nomial preconditioners for solving lin-ear systems.

Zhang, Xinjun, A matrix version of coronatheorem for algebras of functions onreproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.

ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (6)


Dueck, Amylou, Robust imputation inmultivariate hierarchical data.

Gordillo, Luis, Q-Hausdorff summability.Lant, Timothy, Transition kernels, inte-

gral semigroups on spaces of mea-sures, and perturbation by cumulativeoutputs.

Li, Jiaxu, The dynamics of glucose-insulinendocrine metabolic regulatory system.

Murakami, Junko, Parameter estimate ofa hidden Markov chain.

Rahman, Mohammad Mahbuber, Numer-ical approximations to stochastic dif-ferential equations with applications tomathematical neurosciences.

University of Arizona (11)

Mathematics

Lozano, Guadalupe, Poisson geometry ofthe Ablowitz-Ladik equations.

Perlis, Alexander, The projective geom-etry of curves of genus one, and analgorithm for the jacobian of such acurve.

Shipmar, Patrick, Plant patterns.

Program in Applied Mathematics

Alvarez-Sierra, Oliverio, Acoustic reso-nance in a cavity under a subsonicflow.

Frey, Sarah, Characterization of instabil-ities in the problem of elastic planetarytides.

Kim, Sangil, Ensemble filtering methodsfor nonlinear dynamics.

Kondrashov, Dmitry, Protein control of aligand: Modeling nitric oxide release innitrophorin 4.

Lehovich, Andre, List-mode SPECT recon-struction using empirical likelihood.

Lu, Yixia, The integrability of secondorder nonlinear ordinary differentialequations with Painleve properties andLie symmetries.

Park, Subok, Signal detection with ran-dom backgrounds and random signals.

Sviercoski, Rosangela, Multiscale ana-lytical solutions and homogenizationof n-dimensional generalized ellipticequations.

ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas,Fayetteville (3)

Mathematical Sciences

Karber, Kristen, Star-shift invariant sub-spaces of H2(D).

Shores, Emily, Regularity theory for weaksolutions of systems in Carnot groups.

Singh, Pramod, Decomposition of non-linear operators on Banach lattices.

CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (13)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics

Stredie, Valentin Gabriel, Mathematicalmodeling and simulation of aquaticand aerial animal locomotion.

Westhead, Andrew, Upscaling for two-phase flows in porous media.

Yu, Xinwei, Localized non-blowup condi-tions for 3D incompressible Euler flowsand related equations.

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Control and Dynamical Systems

Bhat, Harish S., Lagrangian averaging,nonlinear waves, and shock capturing.

Del Vecchio, Domitilla, State estimationin multi-agent decision and controlsystems.

Gregory, Irene, Design and stability analy-sis of an integrated controller for highlyflexible advanced aircraft utilizing thenovel nonlinear dynamic inversion.

Papachristodoulou, Antonis, Scalable anal-ysis of nonlinear systems using convexoptimization.

Prajna, Stephen, Optimization-basedmethods for nonlinear and hybrid sys-tems verification.

Mathematics

Cai, Kaihua, Dispersive property ofSchrodinger operators.

Johnson, Jennifer, Artin L-functions forabelian extensions of imaginary quadrat-ic fields.

Katz, Daniel, On p-adic estimates ofweights in Abelian codes over Galoisrings.

Nenciu, Irina, Lax pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik system via orthogonal polynomi-als on the unit circle.

Whitehouse, David, The twisted weightedfundamental lemma for the transferof automorphic forms from GSp(4) toGL(4).

Claremont GraduateUniversity (1)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Le, Hieu, Delamination detection in com-posite laminates using genetic algo-rithm optimization.

Stanford University (14)

Statistics

Arias-Castro, Ery, Graphical structuresfor geometric detection.

Bair, Eric, Methods of predicting patientsurvival based on DNA microarray data.

Chatterjee, Sourav, Concentration in-equalities with exchangeable pairs.

Elkaroui, Noureddine, Extended validityof Tracy-Widom limiting law, with sta-tistical application.

Finkelman, Matthew, Statistical issues incomputerized adaptive testing.

Hooker, Giles, Diagnostics and extrapola-tion in machine learning.

Liu, Ruixue, New findings of functionalANOVA with applications to computa-tional finance and statistics.

Paul, Debashis, Nonparametric estima-tion of principal components.

Peng, Jie, Score statistics to map genes inhumans.

Qing Feng, Zhang, A basis functionapproach to interest rate derivativevaluation.

Stone, Eric, Statistical advances in inter-specific data analysis.

Terentyev, Sergiy, Asymmetric counter-party relations in default modeling.

Wang, Pei, Statistical methods for CGHarray analysis.

Xiaohu, Zhang, Thin blue noise samplingand its application to antialiasing incomputer graphics.

University of California,Berkeley (37)

Biostatistics

Neugebauer, Romain, Double robustestimation of causal parameters inmarginal structural models.

Tai, Yu Chuan, Multivariate empiricalBayes models for replicated microarraytime course data.

Xing, Biao, Statistical methods for detect-ing cis-regulatory motifs and construct-ing transcriptional regulatory networks.

Mathematics

Bejenaru, Ioan, Quadratic derivative non-linear Schrodinger equation.

Corn, Patrick, Del Pezzo surfaces and theBraner-Manin obstruction.

Ealy, Clifton, Thorn forking in simpletheories and a Manin-Mumford theoremfor T -modules.

Esty, Norah, Orbit structures of groupsof homeomorphisms on S1.

Ghioca, Dragos, The arithmetic of Drin-feld modules.

Hall, H. Tracy, Counterexamples in dis-crete geometry.

Hogan, Apollo, General topology underthe axiom of determinacy: The beautyof topology without choice.

Kamnitzer, Joel, Mirkovic-Vilonen cyclesand polytopes.

Kirkup, George, Examples of decomposi-tion of ideals.

Levin, Aaron, Generalizations of Siegel’sand Picard’s theorems.

Levy, Dan, Applications of graph theoryto chromosome rearrangements andphylogenetics.

Milanov, Todor, Singularity theory andintegrable hierarchies.

Miranian, Luisa, Matrix valued orthogonalpolynomials.

Nguyen, Nghi, Whitney theorems andLefschetz pencils over finite fields.

Pribik, Peter, Integrable soliton hierar-chies for so&d14,2n via intertwiningoperators.

Roberts, Lawrence, Heegaard-Floer ho-mology and d-based links in threemanifolds.

Shvets, Yelena, Problems of flooding inporous and fissured porous rock.

Siegel, Aaron, Loopy games and compu-tation.

Sinton, Andrew, The spherical trans-form on projective limits of symmetricspaces.

Speyer, David, Tropical geometry.

Sullivant, Seth, Toric ideals in algebraicstatistics.

Tseng, Hsian-Hua, Quantum Riemann-Rock, Lefschetz and Serre theorems fororbifold Gromov-Witten theory.

Van Luijk, Ronald, Rational points on K3surfaces.

Villareal, Oscar, Countable unions ofsubvarieties of semiabelian varieties.

Voight, John, Quadratic forms and quater-nion algebras: Algorithms and arith-metic.

Yu, Yifeng, L∞ variational problems,Aronsson equations and weak KAMtheory.

Statistics

Chen, Aiyou, Semiparametric inferencefor independent component analysis.

Collin, Francois, Analysis of oligonu-cleotide data with a view to data qualityassessment.

Hallgrimsdottir, Ingileif, Statistical meth-ods for gene mapping in complexdiseases.

Liang, Gang, Statistical inference in net-work tomography.

Ng, Vivian, Univariate and bivariate vari-able selection in high dimensional data.

Roginsky, Michael, Modeling of transientprocesses in Markov chains with anapplication to the Internet traffic de-scription.

Shi, Tao, Polar cloud detection usingsatellite data with analysis and applica-tions of kernel learning algorithms.

Zhao, Xiaoyue, Statistical methods forelucidating DNA motifs and modules.

University of California,Davis (9)

Mathematics

Dieng, Momar, Distribution functions foredge eigenvalues in orthogonal andsymplectic ensembles: Painleve repre-sentations.

Jerdonek, Christopher, The girth of aHeegaard splitting.

Tamaresis, John, Mathematical modelingof arterial endothelial cell responsive-ness to flow.

Statistics

Branscum, Adam, Bayesian nonparamet-ric and semiparametric inferences fordisease risk and ROC curves.

Gui, Jiang, Regularized estimation in thehigh-dimension and low-sample sizesettings with applications to genomicdata.

Last, Michael, Detecting abrupt changesin time-varying power spectra.

Tseng, Yi-Kuan, Joint modelling of time-to-event and longitudinal data.

Wai, Newton, Change trees and muta-grams for the visualization of localchanges in sequence data.

Doctoral Degrees Conferred

FEBRUARY 2006 NOTICES OF THE AMS 259

Zhou, Lei, A new expression index basedon the generalized logarithm and differ-ential expression analysis of affymetrixGeneChip arrays.

University of California,Los Angeles (24)

Mathematics

Bene, Alex, Intersections of cycles in thecombinatorial moduli space.

Biswas, Kingshook, On the geometry ofhedgehogs and log-Riemann surfaces.

Caston, Laurent, Super Lie groups, theiractions and applications.

Chung, Tsz Shun Eric, Finite volume anddiscontinuous Galerkin methods forthe numerical approximation of wavepropagation problems.

Cotta, Brian, Numerical methods forstiff reaction-diffusion equations withapplications to cardiological modeling.

Garibaldi, Julia, Erdos distance problemin other convex metrics.

Jones, Nathan, Almost all elliptic curvesare Serre curves.

Kostadinov, Boyan, The Picard-Fuchsequation and its monodromy for afamily of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces inCPN−1.

Lee, Sunmi, Artificial boundary condi-tions for linear elasticity and atomisticstrain models.

Li, Xiaosheng, Inverse scattering problemfor system of differential operators.

Mocanasu, Mona, Borel-Moore homologyand algebraic oriented theories.

Molnar, Stephanie, Sharp growth esti-mates for T (b) theorems.

Nguyen, Lan, The Ramanujan conjecturefor Hilbert modular forms.

Peng, Pan, Integrality structure in theGromov-Witten theory.

Soderlund, Christina, Characterizing fixedpoint sets of maps homotopic to a givenmap.

Somogyi, Zoltan, Stability of an implodingspherical wave in a van der Waals gas.

Staecker, Peter Christopher, The Reide-meister trace: Computation by nilpotent-ization and extension to coincidencetheory.

Tornquist, Asger, The Borel complexity oforbit equivalence.

Virdol, Cristian, Zeta functions of twistedquaternionic Shimura varieties.

Weisbart, David, Schrodinger operatorswith matrix potentials and convergenceof quantum systems on grids.

Yakes, Christopher, Composition opera-tors on L-domains.

Yip, Andy Ming Ham, Mathematical mod-els for data clustering.

Statistics

Tranbarger, Katherine, Point processprototypes and other applications ofpoint processes distance metrics.

Yu, Tianwei, Study of the transcriptionregulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

University of California,Riverside (5)

Mathematics

Carrion-Alvarez, Miguel, Loop quantiza-tion versus Fock quantization of p-formelectromagnetism on static spacetimes.

Chung, Jae-Wook, The algebraic structureof n-punctured ball tangles.

Culhan, Dustin, Associated primes andprimal decomposition in modules andlattice modules, and their duals.

Overholser, Eric, Boundary behavior ofan infinitesimal metric and intrinsicmeasure on domains and moduli space.

Statistics

Chu, Li Ping, Robustness of the respon-dents-generated interval.

University of California,San Diego (8)

Mathematics

Donohue, Michael, Rank regression andsynergy assessment.

Ericksen, Stefan, New settings of the firstorder Stark conjectures.

Griffin, Joshua D., Interior-point methodsfor large-scale nonconvex optimization.

Hazel, Graham P., Triangulating Teich-muller spaces using the Ricci flow.

Juhlin, Robert, Normal forms and conver-gence of formal CR mappings.

Shaheen, Anthony M., Finite planes andfinite upper half planes: Their geometry,a trace formula, modular forms, andEisenstein series.

Suaray, Kagba, On kernel density esti-mation for censored data.

Yu, Li, Superalgebraic interpretation ofquantization maps of Weil algebras.

University of California,Santa Barbara (5)

Mathematics

Delp, Kelly, Almost periodic flows on3-manifolds.

Lyons, William, Fast algorithms withapplications to PDEs.

Miller, Jeffrey, A 3rd order accurate pos-itive scheme for hyperbolic systems ofconservation laws in multi-dimensions.

Wills, Michael, Extension of spectralscales to unbounded operators.

Statistics and Applied Probability

Kulkarni, Priya, Bootstrap methods fortime series.

University of SouthernCalifornia (2)

Mathematics

Wan, Xuhu, Dynamic principal-agentproblem in continuous time.

Zhang, Yu, Global and local multiplesequence alignment by an Eulerian pathapproach.

COLORADOColorado School ofMines (3)

Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Abushama, Abeer, Modified nodal cubicspline collocation for Poisson’s and bi-harmonic equations in the unit square.

Feng, Yan, Interactive floorplanning inVLSI.

Hayes, Timothy, Multiple choice program-ming.

Colorado StateUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Grande, Beau, Time-stepper based nu-merical bifurcation analysis: An appli-cation to the Taylor-Couette problem.

Statistics

Gilleland, Eric, Statistical models forquantifying the spatial distribution ofseasonally derived ozone standards.

Hess, Ann, Models and methods for theanalysis of microarray data: Before andafter the fold change calculation.

University of Colorado,Boulder (15)

Applied Mathematics

Burrell, Neil, Merger and alignmentof three-dimensional quasigeostrophicvortices.

Carvalho, Marcio, Applying perfect sim-ulation to solve stochastic differenceequations that arise from certain timeseries models.

Hwang, Feng-Nan, Some parallel linearand nonlinear Schwarz methods andapplications in computational fluid dy-namics.

Maclachlan, Scott, Improving robustnessin multiscale methods.

Mullowney, Paul, Lagrangian particletransport/mixing in roll switching sys-tems.

Petersen, Mark, A study of geophysi-cal and astrophysical turbulence usingreduced equations.

Roehrle, Oliver, Multilevel first ordersystem least squares for quasi-linearelliptic partial differential equations.

Tearle, Matthew, Optimal perturbationanalysis of stratified shear flow.

Thaler, Eric, An evaluation of the opera-tional use of numerical solutions to thequasigeostrophic diagnostic equationsby weather forecasters.



Vadlamani, Srinath, An algorithmic unifi-cation of particle-in-cell and continuummethods and a wave particle descrip-tion for the electron temperature gradi-ent (ETG) instability saturation.

Westphal, Chad, First-order system leastsquares for geometrically-nonlinear elas-ticity in nonsmooth domains.

Mathematics

Brown, Christopher, Connectedness andreflections in symmetry algebras ofdifferential equations.

Cohen, Robert, Construction of an ordertheoretic duality for certain groups.

Horne, Jennifer Anne, Cardinal functionson pseudo-tree algebras, and a general-ization of homogeneous weak density.

McAlister, Erich, Noncommutative CW-complexes arising from crystallographicgroups and their K-theory.

University of Colorado,Denver (2)

Mathematics

Busch, Arthur, III, Arc-traceable tourna-ments.

Stewart, Dustin, Domination and matrixproperties in tournaments and general-ized tournaments.

University of NorthernColorado (1)


Duvall, Sally, Students’ concept images ofparameters in a multi-representationaldifferential equations course.

CONNECTICUTUniversity ofConnecticut (7)

Mathematics

Lavrentier, Alexander, Uniqueness of themartingale problem for some degener-ate elliptic operators.

Nurkhaidarov, Ermek, On automorphismsof models of Peano arithmetic.

Statistics

Huang, Lan, Bayesian methods for ana-lyzing missing covariates data.

Majumdar, Anandamayee, Some prob-lems in multivariate spatial and spatio-temporal modeling.

Mallick, Madhuja, Stable random familyeffects models for multivariate times toeffects analysis.

Paliwal, Prashni, Chronological eventmodeling and computation of condi-tional rates.

Wu, Shanshan, Statistical model develop-ment toward explaining species diver-sity.

Wesleyan University (5)

Mathematics and Computer Science

Coe, Russell, Variational principles forrelative d-bar pressure.

Krishnan, Ayalur, Universal quantifiersin logic programming via indexed cate-gories.

Rokicki, Anna, Finiteness results fordefinite η-regular and almost η-regularHermitian forms.

Roychowdhury, Mrinal, Finitary orbitequivalence.

Wynne, Brian, Continuous functions onessential P -spaces: A model-theoreticanalysis of some non-projectable lattice-ordered groups.

Yale University (6)

Biostatistics Division

Buenconsejo-Sinfuego, Joan, A Bayesianhierarchical model for estimation ofdisease incidence using two surveil-lance datasets.

Duan, Fenghai, Analysis of microarraydata.

Feng, Rui, A latent variable model forordinal traits.

Liu, Nianjun, Statistical methods forhaplotype analysis in genetic studies.

Wu, Yu-Te, Detecting rare adverse eventsin post-marketing studies: Sample sizeconsiderations.

Statistics

Valaitis, Eduardas, Testing the biomodal-ity of normal mixtures.

DELAWAREUniversity of Delaware (5)


Chandler, David, The Smith normal formsof designs with classical parameters.

Dmytrenko, Vasyl, Classes of polynomialgraphs.

Muniz, Wagner, A modified linear sam-pling method valid for all frequencies.

Tourrucoo, Fabricio, Perturbation meth-ods in mathematical finance: Zerocoupon bonds and bond options.

Williford, Jason, Constructions in finitegeometry with applications to graphs.

DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAAmerican University (5)


Begleri, Valbona, Prediction intervals forthe Poisson model with applications toAtlantic storms data.

Jalali, Behzad, An investigation of therelationship between the ability toread and comprehend and mathemati-cal skills.

Makhlouf, Fairouz, Regional scores forlocalizing genes.

Rishmawi, Shireen, Fitting concentrationdata with stable distributions.

Safi, Samir, The efficiency of OLS inthe presence of auto-correlated distur-bances in regression models.

George WashingtonUniversity (2)

Mathematics

Togha, Ataollah, On automorphisms ofstructures in logic and orderability ofgroups in topology.

Statistics

George, Barbara Jane, Bayesian regres-sion for circular data.

Howard University (3)

Mathematics

Farrier, Sandra, Fixed point and ergodictheorems for nonexpansive mappingson ultrametric Banach spaces.

Syafrida, An approach to approximationof (0, q) meromorphic forms on a stemmanifold.

Tankersley, Barbara, Some algebraic andcombinatorial interpretations of lowertriangular matrices from the Hankeliza-tion of sequences.

FLORIDAFlorida Institute ofTechnology (1)


Shaikh, Shoaib, Design optimization us-ing statistical techniques.

Florida State University (4)

Mathematics

Ibrahim Boulis, Caroline, Finite abeliangroup actions on orientable circle bun-dles over surfaces.

Statistics

Chaimongkol, Saengla, Modeling differ-ential item functioning (DIF) using mul-tilevel logistic regression models: ABayesian perspective.

Neher, Robert, Jr., A Bayesian MRF frame-work for labeling terrain using hyper-spectral images.

Ye, Gang, Nonparametric estimation forgeneral time-varying covariate effectregression models.

University of CentralFlorida (4)

Mathematics

Amezziane, Mohamed, Smoothing param-eter selection in nonparametric func-tional estimation.



Edwards, Heather, Measures of concor-dance of polynomial type.

Masino, Aaron, Wave structure functionand temporal frequency in weak tostrong optical turbulence.

Salman-Mohamed, Mohamed, Utilizationof total mass as a control in diffusionprocesses.

University of Florida (10)

Mathematics

Huang, Feng, Applications of variationalPDE models in medical image process-ing.

Huang, Shu-Jen, Multiscale discretizationof electric-field equations.

Sheu, Yuan-Chyuan, Partition propertiesand Halpern-Lauchli theorem on theCmin forcing.

Smith, Rebecca, Combinatorial algorithmsinvolving pattern containing and avoid-ing permutations.

Warren, Daniel, Optimizing the pack-ing behavior of layered permutationpatterns.

Statistics

Hitchcock, David, Smoothing functionaldata for cluster analysis.

Klingenberg, Bernhard, Regression mod-els for discrete time series data.

Marchev, Dobrin, Monte Carlo methodsfor posterior distributions associatedwith multivariate student’s t data.

Sinha, Karabi, Some contributions tosmall area estimation.

Sinha, Samiran, Bayesian inference formatched case-control studies.

University of SouthFlorida (3)

Mathematics

Chen, Zhao, Bayesian and empirical Bayeson power law process and microarrayanalysis.

Mahalingam, Kalpana, Involution codes:With application to DNA strand design.

Tookos, Ferenc, Holder continuity ofGreen’s functions.

GEORGIAEmory University (7)

Biostatistics

Chen, Ying, Evaluation of a diagnostic testwith partially missing gold standardinformation based on the test ignoranceregion.

Guo, Ying, Assessing agreement for sur-vival outcomes.

Yang, Yang, Design and analysis ofinfectious disease intervention trials.


Garten, Heather, Satellite graphs.Schmitt, John, On potentially P -graphic

degree sequences and saturated graphs.Siggers, Mark, Hypergraph packings and

Galois cohomology.Wilson, Ulrica, Cyclicity of division alge-

bras over an arithmetically nice field.

Georgia Institute ofTechnology (2)

School of Mathematics

Sammer, Marcus, A transportation ap-proach to the concentration of measure.

Song, Zixia, The extremal function for K9minors.

University of Georgia (10)

Mathematics

Almeida, Paulo, Sign changes of errorterms related to certain arithmeticfunctions.

Blair, James, On the embedding of trian-gles into integer lattices.

Gwena, Tawanda, Degenerations of Prymvarieties and cubic threefolds.

Matthews, Graham, Computing genera-tors and relations for matrix algebras.

Nash, Milton, Special values of Hur-witz zeta functions and Dirichlet L-functions.

Pooh, Charles, Capacity theory and alge-braic integers.

Shumbusho, Rene-Michel, Elliptic curveswith prime conductor and a conjectureof Cremona.

Statistics

Jiang, Yan, Semiparametric ANCOVA us-ing shape restrictions.

Yang, Ying, Nonparametric Bayesian in-ference in biostatistics.

Zhang, Zhengang, Marginal models forzero-inflated clustered data.

HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii (2)

Mathematics

Seffrood, Jiajia, Non-Desarguesian planes.Xiong, Jianfei, Some topics on geometry

and singularities.

IDAHOIdaho State University (1)

Mathematics

Moon, Bonnie, Radius of injectivity for aquarter plane.

University of Idaho (2)

Mathematics

Abdo, Zaid, Computationally intensivemethods for choosing, assessing andvalidating statistical models describingpolymorphism, with applications inpopulation genetics, phylogenetics andmicrobial ecology.

Sampson, Koffi, Structured coalescentwith nonconservative migration.

ILLINOISIllinois State University (5)

Mathematics

Adeyemi, Cheryl, Semiotic chaining: Pre-service teacher beliefs and instructionalpractices.

Carter, John, Effects of lesson studyon the beliefs and practices of novicemathematics teachers.

Seidelmann, Antoinette, Students’ con-ceptions of zero.

Tomas Ferreira, Rosa, Portuguese mathe-matics student teachers’ evolving teach-ing models: A modified teacher devel-opment experiment.

Yu, Paul, Prototype development and dis-course among middle school studentsin a dynamic geometry environment.

Northern IllinoisUniversity (2)


Fowler, Kari, Normal functions, theMacLane class and complex differen-tial equations in the unit disc.

Haertzen, Kevin, Geometric aspects ofSturm-Liouville problems.

NorthwesternUniversity (9)

Engineering Science and Applied

Mathematics

Comissiong, Donna, A stability analysisof polymerization fronts.

Norman, Catherine, A level set methodto numerically determine the dynamicsof gas bubbles in inclined channels.

Mathematics

Chen, Jun, Transonic shocks and gasdynamics.

Cheng, Xuezhi, TransferringC∞-structures.Clay, Lisa, Some conjectures about the

slopes of modular forms.Kim, Young-Heon, Holomorphic exten-

sions of Laplacians and their determi-nants.

Saghin, Radu, Generic properties of La-grangian systems and conservative dif-feomorphisms.

Yang, Zaiyong, Laminations and connect-ing orbits on lattice.

Zhu, Dianwen, Euler equations and steadysupersonic flows.



University of Chicago (16)

Mathematics

Barakat, Aliaa, On the moduli space ofdeformations of bihamiltonian hierar-chies of hydrodynamic type.

Cherkashin, Dmitriy, Perception game.Dani, Pallavi, Statistical properties of

elements in infinite groups.Draganescu, Andrei, Two investigations

in numerical analysis: Monotonicity pre-serving finite element methods andmultigrid methods for inverse para-bolic problems.

Duchin, Moon, Geodesics track randomwalks in Teichmuller space.

Fedorov, Roman, Algebraic and Hamil-tonian approaches to isostokes defor-mations.

Leyenson, Maxim, On some questions ofthe Brill-Noether theory forK3 surfaces.

Ogilvie, David, Isomorphisms of Heckealgebras and deformation rings in thefunction field case.

Pereira, Rochelle, Higher order cohomol-ogy operations and minimal atomicity.

Spice, Loren, Supercuspidal characters ofSLl over a p-adic field, l a prime.

Toumpakari, Evelin, On the abelian sand-pile model.

Winn, Brandy, Traveling fronts in areactive Boussinesq system: Boundsand stability.

Statistics

Clifford, David, The nature of spatialvariation in crop yields.

Min, Wanli, Inferences on time seriesdriven by dependent innovations.

Sen, Rituparna, Modeling the stock priceprocess as a continuous time jumpprocess.

Tong, Liping, Statistical inference formulti-color optical mapping data.

University of Illinois,Chicago (10)

Mathematics, Statistics and

Computer Science

Booton, Barry, Norm inequalities forcertain classes of functions and theirFourier transforms.

Chang, Li, Statistical analysis of highfrequency intraday security prices.

Chen, Jian, Growth rates with paths,non-commuting loops and Thurston’scompactness theorem.

Ding, Junfeng, Efficient association rulingmining among infrequent items.

Radin, Dale, Unidimensional Zariski-type structures and applications tothe model theory of compact complexspaces.

Takata, Ken, Listing algorithms for com-binatorial objects and related combina-torial problems.

Unlu, Fatih, On explicit representationsof the Grothendieck fundamental class.

Wang, Yusong, Computing dynamic out-put feedback laws with Pieri homo-topies on a parallel computer.

Yan, Xu, Optimal designs in stabilitystudies.

Yao, Haishen, Asymptotic analysis of theinfinite server shortest queue problems.

University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (22)

Mathematics

Chan, Song Heng, On cranks partitions,generalized Lambert series, and basichypergeometric series.

David, Murphy, Equivariant embeddingsof algebraic groups.

Demeter, Ciprian, Qualitative and quan-titative analysis of weighted ergodictheorems.

Galway, William Floyd, Analytic compu-tation of the prime-counting function.

Giarlotta, Alfio, Lexiographic products oflinear orderings.

Groisman, Pavel, New family of constantmean curvature surfaces with non-coplanar ends.

Hahn, Heekyoung, Einstein series, ana-logues of the Roger-Ramanujan func-tions, and partitions identities.

Jegdic, Katarina, Analysis of spacetimediscontinuous Galerkin method for sys-tems of conservation laws.

Kang, Jeong Hyun, Coloring of metricspaces and L(2,1)-labeling of graphs.

Kulosman, Hamid, Ideals of linear typeand c-sequences.

Mileti, Joseph, Partition relations andcomputability theory.

Nakprasit, Kittikorn, Coloring and pack-ing problems for d-degenerate graph.

Petracovici, Boris, Analysis of a space-time discontinuous Galerkin methodfor elastodynamics.

Petrenko, Bogdan, Primitive elements infinite fields.

Sano, Akira, The geometry of finite latticevarieties over Witt vectors.

Selvakumaran, T. V., Morita stable equiv-alence of certain algebras.

Shebalov, Sergey, Polyhedra study ofmixed integer programs with variableupper bounds.

Wong, Kittipat, Intrinsic ultracontractivityand other properties of mixed barrierBrownian motion.

Yesilyurt, Hamza, Contributions to theoryof Q-series and mock theta functions.

Statistics

Georgescu, Constantin, Finite populationquantile estimators.

Wei, Ying, Longitudinal growth chartsbased on the semiparametric quantileregression.

Xu, Xueli, Computerized adaptive testingand equating methods with nonpara-metric IRT models.

INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (12)

Mathematics

Carter, Nathan, Logics that prove theirown completeness.

Cheskidov, Alexey, The Navier-Stokes-alpha model and boundary-layer turbu-lence.

Ellett, Andrew, Portfolio managementtoward optimal consumption and ter-minal wealth.

Gu, Wentao, Fixed design regression forassociated random fields.

Himpel, Benjamin, A splitting formula forspectral flow on closed 3-manifolds.

Im, Bo-Hae, The rank of elliptic curvesover large fields.

Kong, Maiying, Nonparametric statisticaltechniques in bioassay.

Kudzin, Matthew, Cohomogeneity onemanifolds of non-negative curvature.

Martinez, Maricarmen, Common sensereasoning via product state spaces.

Mersch, John, Equational logic of recur-sive program schemes.

Qian, Lei, Message dependence and for-mal verification of authentication pro-tocols.

Wen, Su-Chi, Hyperbolic extensions ofalgebras with involution.

Purdue University (20)

Mathematics

Butske, William, Computational aspects ofthe endomorphism ring of the Jacobianof a curve of genus two.

Enoch, Ruth, Formal power series solu-tions for Schroeder’s equation in severalcomplex variables.

Glotov, Dmitry, Current and vortices inthe three-dimensional thin-film Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity.

Gower, Jason, Square form factorization.Mangasuli, Anandateertha, Eigenvalues

of the Laplacian for certain Riemannianmetrics on S2 and S3.

Oh, Byung-Geun, Curvature and hyper-bolicity of surfaces.

Rogers, Mark, The index of reducibilityof parameter ideals.

Sun, Jianzhong, Long-time limit for theGinzburg-Landau system with pinning.

Veliche, Oana, Homological dimensionsfor modules and complexes.

Veliche, Razvan, Some results on funda-mental groups of Kahler manifolds.

Ward, Mark, Analysis of an error resilientLempel-Ziv algorithm via suffix trees.

Statistics

Chakrabarti, Arijit, Model selection forhigh dimensional problems with appli-cations to function estimation.

Collevecchio, Andrea, Limit theorems forreinforced random walks on trees.



Florescu, Ionut, Stochastic volatility stockprice–coefficient estimation and optionpricing using a recombining tree andsharp estimation of the almost-sureLyapunov exponent for the Andersonmodel in continuous space.

Jiang, Hongmei, A two-step procedurefor multiple pairwise comparisons inmicroarray experiments.

Liu, Yali, Incorporating time-dependentcovariate in the Cox proportional haz-ards models: The LVAR approach.

Qin, Yu, A study of random field modelsin fitting unspecified data generatingprocesses: Theory and applications.

Seo, Jeonggang, Some classical andBayesian nonparametric regression meth-ods in a longitudinal marginal model.

Stevens, John, Meta-analytic approachesfor microarray data.

Vitek, Olga, An inferential approach toprotein backbone nuclear magnetic res-onance assignment.

University of NotreDame (7)

Mathematics

Bergner, Julia, Three models for thehomotopy theory of homotopy theories.

Calvert, Wesley, Algebraic structure andcomputable structure.

Heidenreich, Jacob, Stability theory mod-ulo a predicate.

Hubbard, Keith, The notion of vertexoperator coalgebra: A construction andgeometric characterization.

Jackson, Daniel, Birational maps of sur-faces with invariant curves.

Maican, Mario, Vector bundles of finiteorder on affine manifolds.

Markert, Elke, Connective 1-dimensionaleuclidean field theories.

IOWAIowa State University (14)

Mathematics

Aydinyan, Ruben, Loop transversal codesover finite rings.

Babyonyshev, Sergei, Metatheories of de-ductive systems.

Bhatt, Ghan, Nonseparable multivariatewavelets.

Campbell, Jessie, Enumeration and sym-metry of edit metric spaces.

Kim, Eun-Youn, Analysis of game playingagents with fingerprint.

Kiounge, Benard, Sedenion extensionloops and frames of hypercomplex2n-ons.

Maxwell, Mandi, Almost perfect nonlinearfunctions and related combinatorialstructures.

Mutungi, Patrick, Simple ternary complexGrassman algebras.

Wangsness, Amy, The matrix completionproblem regarding various classes ofP0,1-matrices.

Statistics

Ferraz, Cristiano, Sample design for qual-ity monitoring and measurement errorevaluation of large-scale longitudinalsurveys.

Furukawa, Kyoji, Development of Markovrandom field models based on expo-nential family conditional distributions.

Landes, Reid, Statistical methods forapplication to calibration problems.

Sun, Shuxia, Bootstrapping the samplequantile based on weakly dependentobservations.

Zhang, Zhongqi, Statistical analysis ofgene expression profiles.

University of Iowa (13)

Applied Mathematical and

Computational Sciences

Boston, Viorel, A posteriori error analysisand adaptive finite element solution ofvariational inequalities of the secondkind.

Del Valle, Sara, Effects of behavioralchanges and mixing patterns in mathe-matical models for smallpox epidemics.

Han, Xiaoxu, Local Z buffer algorithmsin real time rendering of large complexsystems.

Zhang, Li, The P -hub center allocationproblem and Q-upgrading arc problem.

Biostatistics

Yang, Xinqun, The posterior probabilityof linkage allowing for linkage dis-equilibrium and a new estimate ofdisequilibrium between a trait and amarker.

Mathematics

Dutkay, Dorin, Wavelet representations.Farthing, Cynthia, C∗-algebras of higher-

rank graphs: Desingularization andgroupoid methods.

Hong, Doojin, Spectra of higher spinoperators.

Hou, Xiaojie, Traveling wave solutions ofthe nonlinear diffusion-reaction equa-tion.

Marrero, Alberto, A groupoid approachto ultragraph C∗-algebras.

Stuffelbeam, Ryan, The theta correspon-dences for U (1) and the quasi-splitU (2).

Winders, Michael, Idealization.

Statistics and Actuarial Science

Kim, Chulmin, Unconstrained models forthe covariance structure of multivariatelongitudinal data.

KANSASKansas State University (3)

Mathematics

Kim, Sang Hyun, On the structure offinite AW∗-algebras.

Statistics

Perrett, Jamis, Using information on theintra-class correlation coefficient forhypothesis testing in unreplicated andunder-replicated experiments.

Sy, Oumar, Multilevel mediation analysis:Applications and estimation.

University of Kansas (2)

Mathematics

Caviglia, Giulio, Koszul algebras, Castel-nuovo-Mumford regularity and genericinitial ideals.

Epstein, Neil, Closure operators in com-mutative algebra: Tight closure, phan-tom depth, and ∗-spread.

Wichita State University (2)


Bunck, Benjamin, Fast pseudospectral al-gorithms for boundary value problemsfor the Laplace equation on a rectangle.

Treinen, Ray, A study of floating drops.

KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (8)

Mathematics

Dobranski, Michael, Construction of ex-ponentially growing solutions to first-order systems with non-local potentials.

Elliott, Steve, Simple homotopy theory forcell complexes.

Hoffnung, Leonard, Subspace projectionmethods for the quadratic eigenvalueproblem.

Noble, Leigh, Recovery of through-thick-ness texture profiles in orthorhombicsheets of cubic metals.

Ragland, Matthew, On generalizations ofgroups in which normality is a transitiveposition.

Sharrow Pinzon, Kathrine, Absolutelypure modules.

Stepp, Elizabeth, Large Whitney levels andfinite antichains.

Wesley, Molly, Torsion free covers ofgraded and filtered modules.

LOUISIANALouisiana StateUniversity (7)

Mathematics

Ionita, Costel, Class groups and norms ofunits.

Johansen, Troels, Orbit structure on theSilov boundary of a tube domain and thePlancherel decomposition of a causallycompact symmetric space, with empha-sis on the rank one case.

Kovacs, Mihaly, On qualitative propertiesand convergence of time-discretizationmethods for semigroups.



Mihai, Claudiu, Asymptotic Laplace trans-forms.

Mihai, Vochita, The Radon-Gauss trans-form.

Ortiz, Norma, Dynamical systems withtime delay.

Rios, Vinicio, Dissipative Lipschitz dy-namics.

Louisiana TechnicalUniversity (8)

Mathematics and Statistics Program

Feng, Zongwen, Modeling of solid layergrowth at a constant speed in a binarymelt crystallization process.

Gao, Wenzhi, Intelligent control of non-linear systems with actuator saturationusing neural networks.

Hughes, Joshua, Obstruction sets forclasses of cubic graphs.

Lan, Hong, Integrated modeling andparallel computation of laser-inducedaxisymmetric rod growth.

Su, Shengjun, Numerical simulation ofnanapulse penetration of biologicalmatter using the Z-transform.

Yu, Haofeng, A high-order finite dif-ference method for solving bioheattransfer equations in three dimensionaltriple-layered skin structure.

Zhang, Le, A numerical method for ob-taining an optimal temperature distri-bution on 3D triple-layered cylindricalskin structure.

Zheng, Bin, Computational approaches tothe design and analysis of stability ofpolypeptide multilayer thin films.

Tulane University (6)

Biostatistics

Broyles, Stephanie, Addressing missingdata in public health: An empiricalcomparison of strategies.

Diaz, Rafael, Power and bias analyzingthe logistic normal likelihood ratio test.

Lin, Hui-Yi, A comparison of goodness-of-fit tests for binomial generalizedestimating equations models.

Sabel-Soteres, Allison, Missing data tech-niques with Likert scales: An imputationstudy.

Shafer, Leigh Anne, Comparison of meth-ods in regression analysis with longitu-dinal data: A simulation study.

Xin, Xue, Performance assessment ofshrinkage estimators for prediction inmultiple regression with future randomX.

University of Louisiana atLafayette (8)

Mathematics

Cai, Yong, Improved inferential methodsfor some discrete distributions.

Hu, Shuhua, Structured population mod-els: Well-posedness, approximation andparameter estimation.

Jiang, Xiaoou, Single-point and completequenching for degenerate semilinearparabolic first initial-boundary valueproblems.

Kim, Mihye, Hybrid interval march-ing/branch and bound method forparametrized nonlinear systems.

Melton, Tanya, The generalized quasilin-earization method and higher order ofconvergence for nonlinear problems.

West, Ianna, Monotone iterative methodfor nonlinear problems.

Yang, Jie, Generalized iterative and fasterconvergence methods for nonlinear dy-namical systems.

Yu, JianQi, Inference on the differencebetween two normal means vectors:Complete and missing data cases.

MARYLAND

Johns HopkinsUniversity (16)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Castello, Beryl, Semi-obnoxious multi-facility location problems: Models andmethods.

Ceyhan, Elvan, An investigation of prox-imity catch digraphs in Delaunay tes-sellations.

John, Majnu, A data-adaptive methodol-ogy for finding the optimal weightedgeneralized Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxonstatistic.

May, William, Computational improve-ments in the substitution method forbounding percolation thresholds.

Wu, Xiaoling, Some statistical and compu-tational problems in pedigree linkage.

Biostatistics

Choi, Leena, Modeling biomedical dataand the foundations of bioequivalence.

Griswold, Michael, Complex distributions,hmmmm... hierarchical mixtures ofmarginalized multilevel models.

Liu, Dongmei, Application of hierarchicalmodels in microarray data analysis.

Robinson, John, A hierarchical multi-variate two-part model for profil-ing providers’ effects on healthcarecharges.

Shardell, Michelle, The analysis of in-formatively coarsened discrete time-to-event data.

Varadhan, Ravi, The role of the design,analysis, and computation in address-ing aetiology in three types of studiesin public health.

Wu, Zhijin, Probe level models for DNAmicroarrays.

Zhou, Hongling, Change point problemsin generalized linear models.

Mathematics

Krebs, Michael, Toledo invariants in 2-orbifolds.

Lee, Eun K., On certain cohomologicalinvariants of algebraic number fields.

Tinaglia, Giuseppe, Multi-valued graphsin embedded constant mean curvaturedisks.

University of Maryland,Baltimore County (8)


Hang, Yaming, Statistical analysis of two-dimensional electrophoresis gel images.

Korostyshevskiy, Valeriy, A Hermite spec-tral approach to homoclinic solutionsof ODEs.

Liu, Xing, Interior point methods forsufficient LCPs and their applicationsin bioinformatics.

Paul, Gitanjali, P -values for testing in-dividual bioequivalence and variancebioequivalence.

Tao, Jiyuan, Some P -properties for lineartransformations on the Lorentz cone.

Tymofyeyev, Yevgen, Optimal allocationfor multiarmed clinical trials.

Zhang, Jialu, Prediction model selection:Correlated data and CART.

Zhang, Yanqiong, Sequential monitoringfor randomization tests.

University of Maryland,College Park (21)

Mathematics

Abbiw-Jackson, Roselyn, Discrete opti-mization models in data visualization.

Al-Khal, Jawad, New examples of Sunimodal maps with a sigma-finite ab-solutely continuous invariant measure.

Cheng, Yang, Maximum likelihood esti-mation and computation in a randomeffect factor model.

Cohen Freue, Gabriela, On robustness insome extended regression models.

Dai, Shibin, Universal bounds on coars-ening rates for some models of phasetransitions.

Frommer, Ian, Modeling and optimizationof transmission networks.

Gagnon, Richard, Certain computationalaspects of power efficiency and of statespace models.

Gomez, Hector, Binormal motion ofcurves and surfaces in a manifold.

Jiang, Xiaoping, Nonparametric quasi-likelihood in longitudinal data.

Kalb, Virginia, Low-dimensional modelsfor fluid flow.

Kebo, Andrew, Quantum detection andfinite frames.

Lance, Ryan, Network state estimationvia passive traffic marketing.

Liu, Kexue, Nonlinear evolutionary PDEsin image processing and computervision.



Malekpour, Shirin, Predicate productlogic and embeddings of orderedabelian group.

Rapatski, Brandy, The non-linear trans-mission dynamics of HIV/AIDS.

Ren, Huaizhong, Autonomous stochasticperturbations of Hamiltonian systems.

Restrepo, Juan, Synchronization in net-works of coupled oscillators.

Schofer, Jarad, Borcherds forms andgeneralizations of singular moduli.

Trehan, Amit, Lifting of characters andorbital integrals on metaplectic groups.

Yang, Zhihui, Exit problems and stochas-tic resonance for a class of randomperturbations.

Yen, Ju-Yi, Multivariate Levy processesfor financial returns.

MASSACHUSETTSBoston University (8)


Kary, Michael, Evenness and its applica-tions.

Look, Daniel, Singular perturbations ofcomplex polynomials and circle inver-sion maps.

Lozano-Robledo, Alvaro, On elliptic unitsand p-adic Galois representations at-tached to elliptic curves.

Mencattini, Igor, The structures of inser-tion elimination Lie algebra.

Pasol, Vicentiu, p-adic modular symbolsattached to C.M. forms.

Shor, Caleb, On towers of function fieldsand the construction of the correspond-ing Goppa codes.

Stoev, Stilian, Stable self-similar andlocally self-similar random processes:Stochastic properties, parameter esti-mation and simulation.

Zagaris, Antonios, Analysis of reductionmethods for multiscale problems.

Boston University Schoolof Public Health (2)

Biostatistics

Leip, Eric, Adapting a method for ap-plying the Cox proportional hazardsmodel when the change time of a bi-nary time-varying covariate is intervalcensored.

Zhang, Fang, Age dependent QTL analy-sis using Gibbs sampling for randomeffects models.

Brandeis University (2)

Mathematics

Linshow, Andrew, Vertex algebras andinvariant theory.

Paksoy, Vehbi Emrah, The A-series of thetangent bundles of flag manifolds and ageneralization of Hori-Vata conjecture.

Harvard University (26)

Biostatistics

Christensen, Jared, Likelihood methodsfor clustered discrete and continuousoutcomes in developmental toxicology.

Cook, Andrea, Detecting spatial cluster-ing for discrete, censored, or longitudi-nal outcomes.

Fang, Xuemin, Probe-level microarrayanalyses: A random effect model toestimate cross-hybridization in expres-sion index computation.

Graham, Dionne, Statistical methods forthe analysis of HIV drug-resistancedata.

Jemiai, Yannis, Semiparametric meth-ods for inferring treatment effectson outcomes defined only if a post-randomization event occurs.

Kao, Ming-Chih, Computational and sta-tistical approaches to the study of thegenetic bases of human diseases.

Kim, Ryung Suk, Microarray analysis:Choice of metric, new clustering algo-rithm and identification of transcriptionfactors.

Leon, Larry, Robust inference and modelchecking techniques for censored linearregression models.

Lin, Ming, Statistical methods in SNP-array-based loss-of-heterozygosity stud-ies.

Litman, Heather, Estimation of marginalregression models with multiple sourcepredictors.

Loecke, David, Mixed effects mean scoremethod, optimal design for two-stagelongitudinal studies in a GEE frame-work, and addition of covariates toa Markov model approach for char-acterizing progression of HIV geneticmutations.

Martin, Emily, Survival analysis underdependent truncation of failure time.

Matthews, Abigail, Analysis of familystudies of disease.

Page, John, Doubly robust estimation:Structural nested cumulative failuretime models, correction of the diag-nostic likelihood ratio for verificationbias.

Shubina, Maria, On maximum attainablecorrelation for the Sarmanov family ofbivariate distributions, Bayesian analy-sis for markers and degradation, andthreshold models with markers mea-sured before observed event times.

Wager, Carrie, Mixed-model smoothingfor replicated spatial point patterns inbrain microscopy.

Wruck, Lisa, Statistical issues in the eval-uation of tests for diagnosing diseaseand monitoring disease progression.

Zhang, Bin, Statistical methods with un-recognized heterogeneity in survivaldata analysis, identifying family re-lationships in genetic studies, andresponse-related incomplete data.

Zheng, Lu (Summer), Contributions toanalysis of randomized multi-centerclinical trials: The role of conditioning.

Zhong, Sheng (Richard), Computationaland statistical approaches to studygene regulation and gene function.

Engineering and Applied Sciences

Kirsanov, Danil, Minimal discrete curvesand surfaces.

Lauga, Eric, Slip, swim, mix, pack: Fluidmechanics at the micron scale.

Nickerson, Jill, Reference specification inmultilingual document production.

Rusnak, John, Jr., The design structureanalysis system: A tool to analyzesoftware architecture.

Volpe, Anthony, Modeling flexible supplyoptions for risk-adjusted performanceevaluation.

Weber, Griffin, Data representation andalgorithms for biomedical informaticsapplications.

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (30)

Mathematics

Boulet, Cilanne, Partition identity bijec-tions related to sign-balance and rank.

Caines, Ian, New examples of four di-mensional AS-regular algebras.

Charbonneau, Benoit, Analytic aspects ofperiodic instantons.

Ching, Michael, Bar constructions fortopological operads and the Goodwilliederivatives of the identity.

Choi, Jaehyuk, Transport-limited aggre-gation and dense granular flow.

De Silva, Daniela, Existence and regu-larity of monotone solutions to a freeboundary problem.

Dolgushev, Vasilly, A proof of Tsygan’sformality conjecture for an arbitrarysmooth manifold.

Dong, Yu-An, Statistical analysis of pro-tein interaction network topology.

Douglas, Christopher, Twisted stable ho-motopy theory.

Francisco, Sandra, Symplectic isotopy forcuspidal curves.

Guth, Lawrence, Area-contracting mapsbetween rectangles.

Hajiaghayi, Mohammad Taghi, The bidi-mensionality theory and its algorithmicapplications.

He, Xuhua, Some subvarieties of theDe Concini-Procesi compactification.

Henriques, Andre, Orbispaces.Honsen, Morten, A compact moduli space

for Cohen-Macaulay curves in projectivespace.

Kleinberg, Robert, Online decision prob-lems with large strategy sets.

Lam, Thomas, Combinatorics of ribbontableaux.

Mirrokni, Vahab, Approximation algo-rithms for distributed and selfishagents.



Oblomkov, Alexei, Double affine Hecke al-gebras and noncommutative geometry.

Oprea, Dragos, The tautological classesof the moduli spaces of stable maps toflag varieties.

Persson, Per-Olof, Mesh generation forimplicit geometries.

Robinson, Hugh, Maps and localizationsin the category of Segal spaces.

Rochon, Frederic, Bott periodicity forfibred cusp operators.

Rosenblum, Michael Aaron, Approximat-ing fluid schedules in packet-switchednetworks.

Sutton, Brian, The stochastic operatorapproach to random matrix theory.

Testa, Damiano, The Severi problem forrational curves on del Pezzo surfaces.

Vondrak, Jan, Probabilistic methods incombinatorial and stochastic optimiza-tion.

Williams, Lauren, Combinatorial aspectsof total positivity.

Wu, Damin, Higher canonical asymptoticsof Kahler-Einstein metrics on quasi-projective manifolds.

Wu, Hao, Tight contact structures onsmall Seifert spaces.

NortheasternUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Seven, Ahmet, Combinatorial aspects ofdouble Bruhat cells and cluster alge-bras.

Tufts University (1)

Mathematics

Beltukov, Aleksei, Sonar transforms.

University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (7)

Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Sturdivant, Rod, Goodness-of-fit in hier-archical logistic regression models.


Cullinan, John, Local global propertiesof torsion points on three-dimensionalAbelian varieties.

Curran, Raymond, Toric ideals and dis-criminants in codimensions greaterthan two.

Eisner, Adam, A numerical explorationof the statistical behavior of the dis-cretized nonlinear Schrodinger equa-tion.

Hattaway, Amanda, Modelling tubu-loglomerular feedback in coupled neph-rons.

Rapti, Zoi, Modular instabilities of per-turbed Schrodinger-type equations.

Tzirakis, Nikolaos, Global well-posednessfor some dispersive partial differentialequations.

MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (2)

Mathematics

Abu Ghneim, Omar, Nonabelian McFar-land and Menon-Hadamard differencesets.

Kong, Lingji, A study of the properties,estimations and applications for thebeta-gamma distribution.

Michigan StateUniversity (15)

Mathematics

Alpay, Nimet, Global existence of solu-tions to nonlinear wave equations byweighted Strichartz inequalities.

Buyukbozkirli, Bulent, Modeling dynamicsof genetic algorithms for one max anddeceptive functions.

Cui, Changjun, Local regularization meth-ods for n-dimensional first-kind inte-gral equations.

Freidovich, Leonid, Logic-based switchingcontrol of nonlinear systems usinghigh-gain observers.

Go, Jaegwi, Bucking arch under normalpressure.

Novozhilova, Lydia, Axisymmetric prob-lems in nonlinear elasticity: Existenceand global injectivity of energy mini-mizers and new classes of exact solu-tions.

Slavin, Leonid, Bellman function andBMO.

Sorto, Maria, Prospective middle schoolteachers’ knowledge about data analysisand its application to teaching.

Vasiliu, Daniel, Constrained lower semi-continuity problems in the calculus ofvariations.

von Bergmann, Jens, Pseudo-holomorphicmaps in folded symplectic manifolds.

Yu, Jui-Ling, A fully explicit optimaltwo-stage scheme to solve the reaction-diffusion-chemotaxis system.

Yuce, Huseyin, The fundamental frequen-cies of plates with a core.

Statistics and Probability

Li, Fang, Testing for the equality of twoautoregressive and regression func-tions.

Sirbu, Corina Mihaela, Assessing medicalcosts from a longitudinal model.

Sirbu, George, Adaptive designs withcovariates.

Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (6)


Keranen, Melissa, Transverse Steinerquadruple systems.

Kodippli, Asitha, Analysis of intradaydynamics of options trading B.

Milanov, Valentin, Search procedure foridentifying gene-gene interaction basedon entropy measures.

Senaratne, Maddumage Dona, Develop-ment and analysis of a micro-macrosimulation.

Sha, Qiuying, Multi-locus association testfor detecting complex disease genes.

Yapa, Gaitri, Covariate measurement er-ror in dual systems models.

Oakland University (1)


Zhang, Racheal, Some analytical charac-teristics of the ridge regression trace.

University of Michigan,Ann Arbor (18)

Biostatistics

An, Hyonggin, Robust model-based anal-ysis of multivariate data with missingvalues.

Liu, Lei, Modeling recurrent events andmedical cost data in the presence of acorrelated terminating event.

Luo, Wen-Lin, General linear model forFMRI time series data: Model formula-tion, covariance estimation, and modelselection.

McClure, Leslie, Analysis of clinical trialdata where treatments favor differentoutcomes.

Min, Sung-joon, Group sequential meth-ods for nonlinear models in clinicaltrials.

Xie, Dawei, Combining information frommultiple surveys for small-area estima-tion: Bayesian approaches.

Mathematics

Chiang, Sylvia Pek-Yin, On vacuum prob-lems for different systems of conserva-tion.

Keen, Benjamin, A kinetic scheme for gasdynamics on arbitrary grids.

Kennedy, Christopher, An exploration ofdeep matrix algebras.

Kuronya, Alex, Asymptotic cohomologi-cal functions on projective varieties.

Lilov, Krastio, Fatou theory in two dimen-sions.

Mitavskiy, Boris, A mathematical modelof evolutionary computation and someconsequences.

Nguyen, Quang-Minh, Entropic graphsfor image registration.

Tung, Yan-Chun James, Fock spaces.Woods, Kevin, Rational generating func-

tions and lattice point sets.

Statistics

Dyson, Gregory, New techniques in clus-tering and microarray data analysis.

Vartivarian, Sonya, For the formation ofweighting class adjustments for unitnonresponse in sample surveys.

Xi, Bowei, Estimating internal link lossrates using active network tomography.



Wayne State University (7)

Mathematics

Aouina, Mokhtar, The moduli space ofthickenings.

Geremew, Wondimagegneau, Metric reg-ularity in variational analysis.

Habte, Aychiluhim, Application of varia-tional analysis to welfare economics.

Ion, Cristina, Recursive estimation algo-rithms using stochastic approximationmethods.

Lin, Runchang, Natural superconver-gence in two- and three-dimensionalfinite element methods.

Liu, Yuanjin, Two-time-scale systemswith Markovian regime switching.

Wang, Dong, Optimal control of differ-ential inclusions in infinite dimensionalspaces and semilinear evolution inclu-sions.

MINNESOTAUniversity of Minnesota,Twin Cities (10)

Division of Biostatistics, School of

Public Health

Huang, Xiaohong, Statistical methods forsample classification with microarraygene expression data.

Jin, Xiaoping, Multivariate lattice mod-els for areal data with application tomultiple disease mapping.

Zhi, Xin, Likelihood ratio tests for corre-lated time-to-event data using gammafrailty.

School of Statistics

Chen, Chao-Yin, Improving the chemicalmass balance model.

de la Vega Gongora, Jorge, A power studyof inverse regression methods.

Lazar, Radu, Methods for implementingBayesian inference for some problemsinvolving linear constraints.

Pontiggia, Laura, Topics in stochasticgames.

St. Clair, Katherine, Some objectiveBayesian methods for finite popula-tion sampling.

Wen, Xuerong (Meggie), Optimal sufficientdimension reduction in regression withcategorical predictors.

Yang, Rong, Statistical modeling of mul-tivariate longitudinal binary data.

MISSISSIPPIUniversity ofMississippi (4)

Mathematics

Kuhl, Jaromy, On completing and avoid-ing partial Latin squares.

Page, Robert, Jr., On bilinear maps oforder bounded variation.

Rayner, Ellen Gibson Johnston, The ex-changeable negative binomial distribu-tion and its applications.

Tyler, Benton, Tilings and packings ofn-dimensional cubes.

MISSOURI

St. Louis University (1)


Ohashi, Ryo, The isometry groups onprism manifolds.

University of Missouri,Columbia (4)

Statistics

Nashimoto, Kane, Multiple comparisontechniques for order restricted models.

Rabie, Huwaida, Optimal designs fordose-finding in contingent responsemodels.

Zhang, Zhigang, Nonproportional haz-ards regression models for survivalanalysis.

Zhao, Qiang, Nonparametric treatmentcomparisons for interval-censored fail-ure time data.

University of Missouri,Rolla (1)


Kytmanov, Alexey, Integral representa-tions and holomorphic extension ontoric varieties.

MONTANA

Montana StateUniversity (3)


Graham, Kimberly, An examination ofthe integration of graphing calculatorsin formal assessments that accompanyhigh school mathematics textbooks.

Hyde, Scott, Robust methods for mul-tivariate linear models with spectralmodels for scatter matrices.

Kosiak, Jennifer, Using asynchronous dis-cussions to facilitate collaborative prob-lem solving in college algebra.

University of Montana (2)


Perkins, David, Investigations of a chip-firing game.

Sloan, Deborah, A conflict in values:The dilemma of equity, diversity, andparticipation in higher mathematics.

NEBRASKAUniversity of Nebraska,Lincoln (3)

Mathematics

Baeth, Nicholas, Representation theoryof one-dimensional local rings of finiteCohen-Macaulay type.

Duncan, Benton, Universal operator alge-bras of directed graphs.

Koetz, Matthew, Algebraic constructionsof low-density parity check codes.

NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (3)

Mathematics

Cole, Daniel, On minimal surfaces inMartinet-type spaces.

Ryan, Nathan, Satake parameters ofSiegel modular forms.

Williams, B. Venus, The mathematics ofthe coordinated and precise dance thatkeeps us alive.

University of NewHampshire (4)


Alghanem, Maher, Evaluating the mid-dle school mathematics teacher prepa-ration program at Riyadh Teachers’College.

Bannon, Jon, Burnside factors, amenabil-ity defects and transitive families ofprojections in factors in type III.

Gao, Ming Chu, Free products of operatorspaces and free Markov processes.

Yousefi, Hassan, Stable invariant sub-spaces, reflexivity, and BMO.

NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (7)


Ambrosio, Christina, The control offrequency of a conditional oscillatorsimultaneously subjected to multipleoscillating inputs.

Champanerkar, Jyoti, Pitchfork bifurca-tions of invariant manifolds.

Lukyanov, Valery, Scattering matrix anal-ysis of photonic crystals.

Mileyko, Yuriy, Theory and algorithmsfor swept manifolds intersections.

Muhammed, Hameed, Influence of sur-factant on the breakup of a fluid jet inviscous surrounding.

Tran, Hoa, Numerical simulation of mi-crowave heating of a target with temper-ature dependent electrical properties ina single mode cavity.

Zhou, Lin, Perturbation analysis on dis-persive properties of microstrip.



Princeton University (8)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics

Downs, Oliver B., Learning, adaptive andoptimization: The nonnegative Boltz-mann machine and the tunneling sales-man algorithm.

Oum, Sang-il, Graphs of bounded rank-width.

Mathematics

Alexakis, Spyros, Local and global aspectsof conformal geometry.

Asok, Aravind, Geometry of simple G-varieties.

Brumley, Farrell, Distinguishing cuspforms on the general linear group.

Bufetov, Alexander, Decay of correlationsfor the Rauzy-Veech-Zorich inductionmap and the central limit theorem forthe Teichmuller geodesic flow.

De Sanctis, Luca, Structural approachesto spin glasses and optimization prob-lems.

Gressman, Philip, Lp − Lq estimates forRadon-like operators.

Rutgers University, NewBrunswick (14)

Mathematics

Blue, Pieter, Decay estimates and phasespace analysis for wave equations onsome black hole metrics.

Burdges, Jeffrey, Simple groups of finiteMorley rank of odd type: Toward anendgame.

Chelluri, Thyagaraju, Equidistribution ofroots of quadratic congruences.

Ciobanu, Laura Ioana, On the complexityof the endomorphism problem in freegroups.

Curry, Eva, Characterization of low-passfilters for multivariable wavelets andsome related questions.

Dalili, Kia, Cohomological methods fordetermining numerical invariants ofalgebras and modules.

Hartke, Stephen, Graph-theoretic modelsof spread and competition.

Lauve, Aaron, A quasideterminantal ap-proach to quantized flag varieties.

Li, Xiaoqing, The orthogonality of Heckeeigenvalues of automorphic forms.

Medville, Kai, Existence and blow upbehavior of planar harmonic functionssatisfying certain nonlinear Neumannboundary conditions.

Ponce, Augusto, Some elliptic problemswith singularities.

Rios, Alfredo Jose, Some problems on thepointwise convergence of wavelet seriesand Riesz products.

Sundberg, Eric, Fair and biased positionalgames.

Xu, Yongzhong, On the Morse index ofa functional arising in contact formgeometry.

Stevens Institute ofTechnology (1)


Kahl, Nathan, Enumerator polynomialsand the enumeration of subgraphs ofmultigraphs.

NEW MEXICONew Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (2)


Al-Ayyoub, Ibrahim, The Ratliff-Rush clo-sure and a minimal Groebner basis forcertain affine monomial curves.

Garcia, Rebecca, On the minors ofcatalecticant matrices and on the coad-unation of generalized crowns.

University of NewMexico (9)


Aden, James, Model selection in kernelmachine classification with applicationin bioinformatics.

Andries, Erie, Regularized least squareclassifiers: Application to leukemia dis-ease classification.

DeCastro, Manuela, Stability of parabolicsystems on a half-space and theoreticalaspects of radiation.

Degnan, James, Gene tree distributionsunder the coalescent process.

Dohnal, Tomas, Optical bullets in (2 + 1)Bragg resonant periodic structures andtheir interaction.

Doliga, Stanislaw, Real algebraic geome-try.

Glubokov, Andrey, Jet spaces of thequantum plane.

Justo, Dagoberto, High order mimeticmethods and absorbing boundary con-ditions.

Nazarov, Igor, A mathematical analysisfor sustainable management of ecosys-tems II. Perfectly matched layers forEuler’s linearized equation.

NEW YORKCity University of NewYork, Graduate Center (8)

Program in Mathematics

Diop, Serigne, Non-Gaussian models offinancial markets: Paths simulation viaseries representation.

Kahrobaei, Delaram, Residual solvability,generalized free products, finitely gen-erated nilpotent groups, free groups,and one-relator groups.

La Luz, Jose, The Bousfield-Kan spectralsequence for Moravalk-theory.

Leibman, George, Consistency strengthsof modified maximality principles.

Nouri, Fereydoun, Graph homology.Pineiro, Jorge, Mahler formula for dy-

namical systems on pn.Ushakov, Alexander, Fundamental search

problems in group theory.Zucker, Marc, Studies in cryptological

combinatorics.

Columbia University (20)

Biostatistics

Cheng, Jianfeng, Evaluating and cor-recting guess effect in not perfectdouble-blinded clinical trials.

Li, Huiling, Analysis of incomplete HRQoLdata in the REMATCH trial.

Wang, Cuiling, Regression analysis withmissing data.

Wong, Kam-Fai, Statistical analysis ofcurrent status data.

Wu, Songmei, Nonlinear modeling strate-gies for metabolism rate data in brainimaging studies.

Wu, Ya-Chi, Linear regression with in-complete dependent variable.

Mathematics

Hedden, Matthew, Knot Floer homologyand cabling.

McInroy, Adam, Orbifold mirror symme-try for complex tori.

Moser, Harriet, Proving a manifold to behyperbolic once it has been approxi-mated to be so.

Niccolai, John, Triple product L-functions.Qiu, Yannan, Special cycles on Siegel

3-folds.Sherman, Morgan, The infinitely near

Borel-fixed points on the Hilbert scheme.Van Steirteghem, Bart, A classification of

affine smooth spherical varieties.Wambach, Eric, Integral representations

on U (2) × U (3) and geometric applica-tions.

Statistics

Hadjiliadis, Olympia, Change-point direc-tion of two-sided alternatives in theBrownian motion model and its connec-tion to the gambler’s ruin problem withrelative wealth perception.

Hernandez del-valle, Gerardo, First pas-sage time densities of Brownian motionand applications to credit risk.

Ruiz-Mata, Jesus, Modeling credit andmarket risk and validation of models.

Wang, Hui, A new approach of detect-ing influential markers for complexphenotypes with genotype data.

Wang, Yuanjia, Non-parametric estima-tion of distribution functions fromKin-Cohort data.

Yan, Xin, Discriminant analysis usingmulti-gene profiles in molecular classi-fication of breast cancer.

Cornell University (18)

Applied Mathematics

Grasso, Catherine, Partial order graphsfor multiple sequence alignment.



Guzman, Johnny, Pointwise estimates fordiscontinuous Galerkin methods andfor the standard finite method withnumerical integration.

He, Changhong, Estimation of volatilitiesunder a Merton’s jump-diffusion modeland an uncertain volatility model.

Henniger, Jay, Small portfolio selectionfor benchmark tracking and optionhedging under basis risk.

Shontz, Suzanne, Numerical methods forproblems with moving meshes.

Singer, Michael, Efficient time splittingmethods for reacting flow calculations.

Mathematics

Belk, James, Thompson’s group F .Charalambous, Nelia, On the LP spectrum

of the Hodge Laplacian and logarithmicSobolev inequalities on non-compactmanifolds.

Ciubotaru, Dan, Unitary representationsof exceptional p-adic groups.

Cortissoz, Jean, On the Ricci flow inrotationally symmetric manifolds withboundary.

Francisco, Christopher, Hilbert functionsand graded free resolutions.

Gabay, Yuval, Double jump inversionsand strong minimal covers in theTuring degrees.

Greenberg, Noam, The role of true finite-ness in the admissible recursively enu-merable degrees.

Ku, Ja Eun, Least-squares methods forsecond-order elliptic partial differentialequations.

Leykekhman, Dmitriy, Pointwise weightederror estimates for parabolic finite ele-ment equations.

Lin, Yi, Equivariant symplectic Hodgetheory and strong Lefschetz manifolds.

Schwartz, Fernando, Scalar curvatureproblems on manifolds with bound-ary.

Zhou, Hilibin, Minimax estimation withthresholding and asymptotic equiva-lence theory for Gaussian varianceregression.

Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (6)


Ji, Xiaoyun, Clique partition problem withminimum size requirement.

Peng, Jufeng, Multiple robot coordina-tion: A mathematical programming ap-proach.

Scherzer, David, Multi-dimensional cellu-lar chords.

Thorp Kusel, Elizabeth, New parabolicequation solutions for high frequencyand elastic media problems.

Xin, Jianguo, Aspects on discontinuousGalerkin solutions of hyperbolic con-servation laws.

Xue, Yonggang, Hermite subdivisionschemes and jet subdivision surfaces.

State University of NewYork, Albany (1)


Kures, Osman, The Bergman projectionand related integral operators on theunit ball in Cn.

State University of NewYork, Binghamton (4)


Koban, Lori Jean, Two generations ofbiased graphs: Circuit signatures andmodular triples of matroids and biasedexpansions of biased graphs.

Palmatier, Joshua, M-zeroids: Structureand categorical equivalences.

Saldarriaga, Omar Daria, Fusion alge-bras, symmetric polynomials, orbits ofN-groups and rank level duality.

Sperber, Ron, A comparison of assemblymaps in algebraic K-theory.

State University of NewYork, Buffalo (9)

Mathematics

Agarwal, Anurag, Some quartic Diophan-tine equations.

Blanariu, Mihaela, Asymptotic analysisof patterns and islands in strained alloyfilms.

Cheptea, Dorin, A topological quan-tum field theory for the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki invariant of three-dimensionalmanifolds.

Fan, Jiangnan, Decorated link invariants.Georgescu, Catalin, The boundary map

and the connecting set in Conley indextheory.

Huynh, Vu, Reidemeister torsion, twistedAlexander polynomial, theA-polynomial,and the colored Jones polynomial ofsome classes of knots.

Kuppum, Srikanth, Edge polynomials,Newton and norm polygons of a familyof hyperbolic manifolds.

Li, Yuan, Symmetric Boolean functionsand their extension to finite fields.

Tekalign, Wondimu, Evolution equationfor a thin epitaxial film on a deformablesubstrate.

State University of NewYork, Stony Brook (20)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Curry, Michael, Applications of stochasticmethods for periodic scheduling.

Greene, Nataniel, Reconstructing piece-wise smooth functions from their spec-tral data.

Kim, Jieun, Path analysis of the visualattention network using fMRI data.

Kim, Youngeun, Bidomain simulation ofspiral waves of cardiac tissue in electri-cal cardiology.

Lee, Taewon, Statistical error analysis innumerical solutions of shock physicsproblems.

Li, Juan, Longitudinal, survival and jointmodeling analysis with Bayesian appli-cations.

Tintle, Nathan, Reclassification as a costeffective sample design for estimationand testing association when misclassi-fication errors are present.

Yu, Yan, Errors in numerical solutions ofshock physics problems.

Mathematics

Chiose, Ionut, On the embedding ofq-complete manifolds.

Friedman, Joshua, The Selberg traceformula and Selberg zeta-function forcofinite Kleinian groups with finite-dimensional unitary.

Gonzalez, Eduardo, Quantum cohomol-ogy and symplectomorphism type ofS1-manifolds with isolated fixed point.

Janks, Gregory, Some remarks on localconnectivity at the Feigenbaum point.

Javaheri, Mohammad, Conformally com-pact Einstein metrics with symmetry indimension 5.

Kim, Young Deuk, The Thurston bound-ary of Teichmuller space and complexof curve.

Liu, Yuan, Einstein metrics of positivesectional curvature on weighted projec-tive planes.

Moraru, Dan, A new construction ofanti-self-dual 4-manifolds.

Namazi, Hossein, Heegaard splittings andhyperbolic geometry.

Radulescu, Anca, The connected isen-tropes conjecture in a space of quarticpolynomials.

Valdez, Rogelio, Self-similarity of theMandelbrot set and parabolic bifurca-tion.

Xu, Ming, Bauer-Furuta invariant and co-homotopy refined Ruberman invariant.

University of Rochester (2)

Mathematics

Qiu, Xing, On stochastic flows and back-ward stochastic differential equationswith reflections.

Tang, Wan, Decay rates of oscillatoryintegral operators.

NORTH CAROLINADuke University (11)

Institute of Statistics and Decision

Sciences

Gunn, Laura, Bayesian order restrictedmethods with biomedical applications.

Rappold, Ana, Using expert knowledgewhen the data model is not knownin modeling the mixed layer of theAtlantic Ocean.

Rigat, Fabio, A beta-Stacy proportionalhazards model and Bayesian Weibullsurvival trees.



Mathematics

Buckingham, Robert, Long-time asymp-totics of the nonlinear Schrodingerequation shock problem.

Cain, John, Issues in the one-dimensionaldynamics of a paced cardiac fiber.

Curto, Carina, Matrix model superpoten-tials and Calabi-Yau spaces: An ADEclassification.

Feist, Andrew, Two problems in delaydifferential equations.

Fox, Daniel, Second order families ofcoassociative 4-folds.

Yang, Guoqiang, Quantitative models fordorsal closure in drosophila embryos.

Yasaki, Dan, On the existence of spinesfor Q-rank 1 groups.

Ying, Wenjun, A multilevel adaptive ap-proach for computational cardiology.

North Carolina StateUniversity (27)

Mathematics

Bidwell, John, Discrete nonautonomousdynamical systems, periodic dynamicalsystems.

Cook, William, Affine Lie algebras, vertexoperator algebras and combinatorialidentities.

Dozier, Richard, Existence and analysisof the limiting spectral distributionof large dimensional information-plus-noise.

Finkel, Daniel, Global optimization withthe DIRECT algorithm.

Gibson, Nathan, Terahertz-based electro-magnetic interrogation techniques fordamage detection.

Hatch, Andrew, Model development andcontrol design for high speed atomicforce microscopy.

He, Taiping, Reaction-diffusion systemswith discontinuous reaction functions.

Hillman, Rebecca, Relationship betweensymmetric brace algebras and pre-Liealgebras.

Jackson, Farrah, Characterization of in-volutions of SP (2N,K).

Kyei, Yaw, Numerical method and controltheory.

Levy, Rachel, Partial differential equa-tions of thin liquid films: Analysis andnumerical simulation.

Perry, John, Combinatorial criteria forGrobner bases.

Taylor, Dewey, Fine Bruhat intersectionsfor reductive monoids.

Wood, Lisa, Solvable length in Lie alge-bras, associative algebras and matrixgroups.

Yang, Xingzhou, Immersed interfacemethod for elasticity problems withinterfaces.

Statistics

Chen, Li, Bayesian hierarchical spatial-temporal models for wind prediction.

Feng, Sheng, Statistical studies of ge-nomics data.

Gosky, Ross, Bayesian analysis and match-ing errors in closed population capturerecapture models.

Hwang, Sang Pil, Dynamic time seriesanalysis using logistic function.

Li, Erning, Estimation for generalized lin-ear models when covariates are subjectspecific parameterina mixed modelswith longitudinal measurements.

Lin, Jiang, Topics in application of non-parametric smoothing.

Lokhnygina, Yuliya, Topics in design andanalysis of clinical trials.

Lu, Na, Statistical issues in coherent riskmanagement.

Rao, Harshavardhana, Contagion in fi-nancial markets: Two statistical ap-proaches.

Remlinger, Katja, Statistical design andanalysis of high throughput screeningdata using pooling experiments anddata mining techniques.

Wang, Jing, An optimization approachfor the parameter estimation of thenonlinear mixed effects models.

Wu, Yujun, Controlling variable selectionby the addition of pseudo-variables.

University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (14)

Biostatistics

Ahn, Chaehyung, Detecting linked changesin fast evolving genomes.

Begum, Munni, Statistical TK/TK doseresponse modeling of toxicity.

Capuano, George, A joint latent autore-gressive model for patient dropout andlongitudinal health related quality oflife subject to informative missingness.

Deng, Shibing, Some aspects on linearmodel analysis of microarray geneexpression data.

Gurka, Matthew, The Box-Cox transfor-mation in the general linear mixedmodel for longitudinal data.

Jung, Inkyung, Robust inference in unbal-anced heteroscedastic one-way randomeffects models using rank-based meth-ods.

Lu, Bing, Estimating correlation parame-ters in cluster intervention trials with bi-nary responses using estimating equa-tions.

Neelon, Brian, Bayesian order restrictedinference.

Pan, Zhiying, Regression analysis forcomplex longitudinal survey data.

Robbins, Tania, Combining microarrayswith QTL analysis.

Schwartz, Todd, A study of samplesize recalculation with particular focuson active- and placebo-controlled non-inferiority trials.

Wang, Lily, Some statistical aspects ofthe analysis of genomic sequences.

Mathematics

Chang, Soo-Ah, Factorizations in somespecial block monoids.

DiFranco, Jeffrey, Gibbs phenomenon forthe defocusing nonlinear Schrodingerequation.

University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (7)


Guo, Xunxiang, On frame wavelets.Herron, John, Weighted conditional ex-

pectation operators on Lp space.Hill, David, Time delayed dynamical sys-

tems and the Duffing equation.Hill, Jennifer, An inventory optimization

model with Markov-modulated com-modity prices.

Jang, Bong Soo, Homogenization of ir-regular shaped composite materials inperiodic structures.

Jin, Xiaodong, Contributions to kernelmethods and estimation of extremevalue index.

Xiong, Huaiyu, Nonparametric and semi-parametric functional coefficient in-strumental variable models.

OHIOBowling Green StateUniversity (6)


Grinevitch, Oxana, Student understand-ing of abstract algebra: A theoreticalexamination.

Harrar, Solomon, Linear models undernon-normality.

Kerns, (Gary) Jay, Signed measures inexchangeability and infinite divisibility.

Rolli, William, Frames and operator de-compositions in Hilbert spaces.

Sanders, Rebecca, Hypercyclic and super-cyclic operators in the weak topologyof Banach spaces.

Xu, Jin, Robustness study of some mul-tivariate tests in generalized linearmodels.

Case Western ReserveUniversity (12)

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Beaird, Heather, Putative DNRH agonisttherapy and dementia: An applicationof medicare hospitalization claims data.

Kasehagen, Laurin, Duffy-negativity andvivax malaria epidemiology: A studyof dual and multiple-record systemestimation and patterns of associationin Papua New Guinea.

Mascha, Edward, Assessing individualtreatment effect heterogeneity for bi-nary outcomes.



Nock, Nora, Development and applicationof DNA damage and DNA repair indicesto prostate cancer.

Orloff, Mohammed, Analysis of genes as-sociated with focal segmental glomeru-losclerosis.

Stein, Catherine, Genetic and environ-mental influences on tuberculosis sus-ceptibility.

Traore, Fatoumata, A conceptual modelfor understanding sexual risk amongpersons living with HIV/AIDS.

Zhu, Guohua, Ascertainment in two-phase sampling designs for segregationand linkage analysis.

Mathematics

Hahn, Philip, Origination and propagationof reaction diffusion waves in threespatial dimensions.

Statistics

Kitska, David, Simultaneous inference forfunctional linear models.

Piryatinska, Alexandra, Inference for theLevy models and their applications inmedicine and statistical physics.

Snyder, Scott, Evaluation of an im-plantable medical device: Design andmodeling of a three dimensional work-space.

Kent State University (2)


Fontes, Natacha, Multi-dimensional poly-nomial inequalities; norms of interpola-tion operators.

Zeibig, Gerd, Categorical methods infunctional analysis.

Ohio State University (15)

Mathematics

Antal, Tamas, Cyclic homology and Hopfalgebras.

Ghazaryan, Anna, Nonlinear convectiveinstability of fronts: A case study.

Guloglu, Ahmet M., On low-lying zeros ofautomorphic L-functions.

Herbig, Anne-Katrin, A sufficient condi-tion for subellipticity of the ∂-Neumannproblem.

Kaygun, Atabey, Bialgebra cyclic homol-ogy with coefficients.

Liu, Xing, Rigorous exponential asymp-totics for a nonlinear third order differ-ence equation.

Manukian, Vahagn, Existence and stabil-ity of multi-pulses with applications tononlinear optics.

Roman, Cosmin, Baer and quasi-Baermodules.

Wang, Jin, A numerical approach forthe interfacial motion between twoimmiscible incompressible fluids.

Statistics

Chen, Haiying, Ranked set sampling forbinary and ordered categorical variableswith applications in health survey data.

Duncan, Kristin, Case and covariate in-fluence: Implications for model assess-ment.

Gibellato, Marilisa, Stochastic modelingof the sleep processes.

Pavlicova, Martina, Thresholding in fMRIimages.

Sun, Junfeng, Stochastic models for com-pliance analysis and applications.

Wang, Tao, Statistical analysis of geneexpression experiments.

Ohio University (4)

Mathematics

Al-Hazmi, Husain, A study of CS and Σ-CSrings and modules.

Alsulami, Saud, On evolution in Banachspaces and commuting semigroups.

Castillo, Rene, Generalized non-autono-mous Kato classes and nonlinear Besselpotentials.

Constantin, Elena, Optimization and flowinvariance via high order tangent cones.

University of Akron (1)

Theoretical and Applied Mathematics

Kim, Shinuk, A numerical study of param-eter identification in linear and nonlin-ear elastic and viscoelastic plates.

University of Cincinnati (4)


Galstyan, Anahit, Existence and numberof global solutions to model nonlinearpartial differential equations.

Oh, Jiyeon, Error analysis of the exponen-tial Euler method and the mathematicalmodeling of the retinal waves in neuro-science.

Zhao, Shuhong, Statistical inference onbinomial proportions.

Zhou, Rong, Bayesian analysis of log-binomial models.

OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity-Stillwater (1)

Statistics

Bagour, Ali, Probability proportional tosize sampling.

University of Oklahoma (4)

Mathematics

Borovikova, Marina, Partial regularity ofweak solutions of quasilinear ellipticsystems and weak Harnack inequalities.

Gomarteli, Mamouka, On the normal ac-cessibility property of actions on man-ifolds: Ramifications in pseudo semi-groups of local diffeomorphisms.

Ou, Ye-Lin, P -harmonic morphisms, mini-mal foliations, and conformal deforma-tions of metrics.

Xu, Tao, Model-data synthesis in ter-restrial ecosystem modeling: Inverseanalysis and uncertainty analysis.

OREGONOregon State University (2)

Statistics

Amer, Safaa, Neural network imputation:A new fashion or a good tool.

Jia, Siwei, Optimization, conservationand valuation of contingent claims ineconomic resource management underuncertainty.

Portland StateUniversity (2)


Fish, Daniel, Metriplectic systems.Santoro, Emanuele, Thermodynamic met-

rics and the geometry of equilibriumsurfaces.

University of Oregon (5)

Mathematics

Harker, Hayden, Cohomology of a sub-Hopf algebra of a Steenrod algebra.

Loft, Brian, Connected components ofthe space of positive scalar curvaturemetrics on spheres.

Merchant, Eric, Structural properties ofHadamard designs.

Nordstrom, Hans, Associated primes overOre extensions and generalized Weylalgebras.

Ruiz, Efren, A classification theorem fordirect limits of extensions of circlealgebras by purely infinite C∗-algebras.

PENNSYLVANIACarnegie MellonUniversity (14)


Baia, Margarida, Variational multiscaleproblems and applications to thin films.

Brown, Chad, Set comprehension inChurch’s type theory.

Janecek, Karel, Futures trading modelwith transaction costs.

Ojakian, Kerry, Combinatorics in boundedarithmetic.

Pankavich, Stephen, The Vlasov Poissonsystem with infinite mass and energy.

Petrelli, Luca, Variational principle forgeneral diffusion problems.

Pirvu, Traian, Maximizing portfoliosgrowth rate under risk constraints.

Popovici, Cristina, Coupled singular per-turbations and homogenization.

Rivera, Juan, Portfolio choice under risklimits: A coherent approach.



Tudorascu, Adrian, Optimal mass trans-portation methods for gradient flows inthe weak topology.

Winger, Aris, On pattern formation ina one dimensional viscoelastic systemwith numerical computation.

Statistics

Araneda, Anita, Statistical inference inmapping and localization for mobilerobots.

Dunn, Michelle, Applying particle-filterand path-stack methods to detectinganomalies in network traffic volume.

Slavkovic, Aleksandra, Statistical disclo-sure limitation beyond the margins:Characterization of joint distributionsfor contingency tables.

Lehigh University (1)

Mathematics

Moller, Trisha, t-Split interval orders.

Pennsylvania StateUniversity, UniversityPark (18)

Mathematics

Damjanovic, Danijela, Local rigidity ofpartially hyperbolic higher rank Abelianactions on the torus.

Gerenrot, Dmitry, Residue formulation ofChern character on smooth manifolds.

Handzy, Nestor, Experimental observa-tions and mathematical description ofmicellar fluid flow.

Krat, Svetlana, Approximation problemsin length geometry.

Lee, Young-Ju, Modelling and simulationsof non-Newtonian fluid flows.

Raven, Jeffrey, An equivariant bivariantChern character.

Saunders, Christopher, Floer homologyfor almost Hamiltonian isotopies.

Shoenthal, David, Several results con-cerning low-dimensional length spaces.

Sostarecz, Michael, Experiments and mod-eling in viscoelastic fluids: Dimpleddrops and beaded filaments.

Ugarcovici, Ilie, Symbolic dynamics forgeodesic flows, hyperbolic measuresand periodic orbits.

Statistics

Antoniou, Efi, Nonparametric imputationand (mid-)rank test for mixed effectsmodels with missing data.

Bai, Steven, Cluster analysis of highdimensional data and dimension reduc-tion for regression.

Ding, Rui, Multiple response ridge analy-sis.

Kwanisai, Mike, Estimation in link-tracingdesigns with subsampling.

Wang, Haiyan, Testing in multifactorheteroscedastic anova and repeatedmeasures design with large number oflevels.

Wang, Shaoli, Dimension reduction inregression.

Yang, Ke, Using the Poisson kernel inmodel building and selection.

Zhan, Xiaojiang, Bayesian semiparamet-ric inference based on ranks.

Temple University (8)

Mathematics

Mammo, Behailu, A mean value theoremfor discriminants of abelian extensionsof a number field.

Nguyen, Truyen Van, On Monge-Amperetype equations arising in optimal trans-portation problems.

Tesemma, Mohammed Seid, Reflectiongroups and semigroup algebras in mul-tiplicative invariant theory.

Wen, Xiangdong, Rigorous experimentalmathematics applied to the Goulden-Jackson method, construction of sym-metric chains and the Sprague-Grundyfunction.

Statistics

Cai, Gengqian, Further results on Simestest and Benjamin-Hochberg false dis-covery rate procedure.

Deng, Ling, Heterogeneous and space-dependence of substitution rates—anapplication of zero-inflated models GEEand composite likelihood methods.

Li, Li, Design and analysis of DNAmicroarray data—model validation andsensitivity analysis.

Zhang, Hongyan, A Cox proportionalhazard model for monotonic severitymarked failures.

University ofPennsylvania (14)

Mathematics

Bana, Gergely, Soundness and complete-ness results for the formal model ofsymmetric encryption.

Barwick, Clark, (∞, n)-Cat as a closedmodel category.

Byun, Jungyoon, A generalization ofConnes-Kreimer Hopf algebra.

Hindawi, Mohamad, Asymptotic invari-ants of Hadamard manifolds.

Lee, Dong Uk, p-Adic monodromy of theordinary subscheme of Picard modularvariety.

Maxim, Laurentiu, Alexander invariantsof hypersurface complements.

Mehrotra, Sukhendu, Triangulated cate-gories of singularities, matrix factoriza-tions and LG-models.

Sabitova, Maria, Root numbers of Abelianvarieties and representations of theWeil-Deligne group.

Tripp, James, Contact structures on open3-manifolds.

Yap, Shirley, Prescribing curvature forms:Solvability and obstruction results.

Statistics

Greery, Robert Alan, Jr., Noncompliance,covariance adjustment, and matchingin randomized controlled trials.

Liu, Naiping, Covariance selection andestimation through modified Choleskydecomposition and the value/growthspreads as predictors of returns.

Wang, Liang, A new adaptive variableselection criterion and its applicationsin financial markets.

Zhang, Liangyue, Efficient estimationin marginal partially linear modelsfor longitudinal/clustered data usingsplines.

University ofPittsburgh (17)

Biostatistics

Dang, Qianyu, Using trajectories from abivariate growth curve of covariates ina Cox model analysis.

He, Shui, Generalized additive models fordata with concurvity: Statistical issuesand a novel model fitting approach.

Sang, Weilian, Empirical comparison ofU.S. Census Bureau population esti-mates used in morality and populationdata system of the University of Pitts-burgh, Department of Biostatistics.

Mathematics

Cross, Wesley, Principal value volumes ofp-adic rational polyhedra.

Domokos, Andras, On the regularity ofp-harmonic functions in the Heisenberggroup.

Dunca, Argus Adrian, Space averagedNavier-Stokes equations in the presenceof walls.

Grigoryan, Vahan, Multimodal biometricanalysis for monitoring of wellness.

Kaya, Songul, Numerical analysis of avariational multiscale method for tur-bulence.

Krisner, Ed, Multi-bump solutions of aone dimensional Wilson-Cowan typemodel.

Merdan, Huseyin, Renormalization groupmethods in applied mathematical prob-lems.

Pahlevani, Faranak, Sensitivity analysisof eddy viscosity models.

Scott-Pomerantz, Colleen, The k-epsilonmodel.

Statistics

Czanner, Gabriela, Applications of statis-tics in neuroscience.

Gogtas, Hakan, Improving coverage ofrectangular confidence interval.

Jia, Gang, Use of simultaneous infer-ence under order restriction, stepdowntesting procedure and stage-wise se-quential optimal design in clinical dosestudy.



Sengul, Tulay, The time varying au-toregressive model with covariates toanalyze longitudinal data with missingvalues.

Sun, Zhuoxin, Repeated measures mix-ture modeling with application to neu-roscience.

RHODE ISLANDBrown University (15)

Applied Mathematics

Chen, Shanqin, The heterogeneous multi-scale method based on the discon-tinuous Galerkin and finite volumeschemes.

Chen, Ting-Li, On the statistics of naturalimages.

Curran, John, Adaptive learning amonginteracting agents: An analysis of themany-agent, long-term limit.

Gao, Yun, Statistical models in neuralinformation processing.

Harrison, Matthew, Discovering composi-tional structure.

Sirisup, Sirod, Issues in low-dimensionalmodeling of unsteady flows: Conver-gence, asymptotic stability and recon-struction procedures.

Strain, Robert, Some applications of anenergy method in collisional kinetictheory.

Xu, Jin, High Reynolds number simulationand drag reduction techniques.

Xu, Zhengfu, Anti-diffusive flux correc-tions for high order finite differenceWENO schemes.

Zhang, Xiao, On large deviations approx-imations for occupancy models.

Mathematics

Acquista, Karen, A generalization of classfield theory using motivic complexes.

Jones, Rafe, Galois martingales and thehyperbolic subset of the p-adic Mandel-brot set.

Joyce, Michael, Rational points on the E6cubic surface.

Lauzon, Michael, Harmonic analysis forvector-valued functions with operatorweights.

Wick, Brett, Analytic projections, the ge-ometry of holomorphic vector bundlesand applications to the corona problem.

University of RhodeIsland (3)

Mathematics

Chatterjee, Esha, Global behavior in ra-tional difference equations.

Collins, Jarred, Moore-Greig designs.Faubert, Glenn, Caterpillar tolerance rep-

resentations of graphs.

SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (4)


Hunt, Brian, Multiobjective programmingwith convex cones: Methodology andapplications.

Limbupasiriporn, Jirapha, Partial permu-tation decoding for codes from designsand finite geometrics.

Limbupasiriporn, Prasit, Hidden sub-group problem in quantum computing.

Roop, John Paul, Variational solutionof the fractional advection dispersionequation.

Medical University ofSouth Carolina (1)

Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and

Epidemiology

Yoo, Wonsuk, Bayesian hierarchical change-point model for longitudinal biomark-ers.

University of SouthCarolina, Columbia (9)

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Moran, Robert, Working and analyzingclinical data in a family practice.

Shoultz, Gerald, Sprawl, measures ofsprawl and chronic obstructive pul-monary disease: A Bayesian spatialanalysis.

Sutton, Shae, Modeling of spatially-referenced event data in a South Car-olina population.

Mathematics

Kidd, Travis, On the irreducibility ofLaguerre polynomials of Lm(m)(x).

Vatchev, Vesselin, Analysis of the intrinsicmode functions.

Zhao, Jie, Multigrid methods for fourthorder problems.

Statistics

Hare, David, Simultaneous inference forratios of linear combinations of generallinear model parameters.

Han, Jun, Parametric latent class modelfor longitudinal markers and recurrentevents.

Stocker, Russell, A general class of para-metric models for recurrent event data.

TENNESSEEUniversity of Memphis (3)


Montagh, Balazs, Unavoidable substruc-tures.

Schroeder, Jason, Estimation from re-sponse-biased incomplete data andsupplementary information.

Zhong, Ping, Stochastic modeling of HIVpathogenesis under therapy and vac-cine.

University of Tennessee,Knoxville (2)

Mathematics

Iskra, John, Decidability in algebraicgeometry.

Vasilevska, Violeta, Fibrator properties ofPL manifolds.

Vanderbilt University (1)

Mathematics

Sonkin, Dmitriy, On groups of largeexponents n and n-periodic products.

TEXASBaylor University (3)

Mathematics

Da Cunha, Jeffrey, Lyapunov stabilityand Floquet theory for nonautonomouslinear dynamic systems on time scales.

Karna, Basant K., Comparison of smallesteigenvalues and extremal points.

Statistical Science

Clark, Deeanna Antosh, Statistical issuesconcerning modeling and evaluatingstudent achievement and school ac-countability.

Rice University (3)

Mathematics

Meng, Zheng, Geometric variational prob-lems with cross-sectional constraints.

Trout, Aaron, Spaces with positive com-binatorial curvature.

Zhang, Jun, Geometric compactificationof moduli space of cubic surfaces andKirwan blowup.

Texas A&M University (24)

Mathematics

Feng, Zhaosheng, Some results on thewave equation with Van der Pol typenonlinear boundary condition and theBurgers-Korteweg-de Vries equation.

Hamid, Sami, On the structure of a classof operators.

Hoang, Luan, Asymptotic expansions ofthe regular solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations and applications tothe analysis of the helicity.

Kolev, Tzanio, Dual least-squares meth-ods for computational electromagnet-ics.

Ryan, John, Global existence of reac-tion diffusion equations over multipledomains.

Wang, Yanqiu, Preconditioning for themixed formulation of linear plane elas-ticity.

Yao, Xudong, A min-max method for find-ing multiple critical points in Banachspace.



Statistics

Apanasovich, Tatiyana, Testing for spa-tial correlation and semiparametric spa-tial modeling of binary outcomes withapplication in aberrant crypt foci incolon carcinogenesis experiments.

Bae, Kyounghwa, Bayesian model basedapproaches with MCMC computation tosome bioinformatics problems.

Chang, Ilsung, Bayesian inference onmixture models and their applications.

Dunlap, Mickey, Using the bootstrap toanalyze variable stars data.

Hu, Zonghui, Semiparametric functionaldata analysis for longitudinal/clustereddata: Theory and application.

Ju, Hyunsu, Topics in analyzing longitu-dinal data.

Jung, Jeesun, High resolution linkage andassociation study of quantitative traitloci.

Kim, Hyun Sun, Topics in ordinal logisticregression and its applications.

Ko, Kyungduk, Bayesian wavelet ap-proaches for parameter estimation andchange point detection in long memoryprocesses.

Lee, Ho-Jin, Functional data analysisclassification and regression.

Leyk Williams, Malgorzata (Gosia), FLAREassay images in colon carcinogenesis.

Liu, Li-Yu Daisy, Coefficient of intrinsicdependence a new measure of associa-tion.

Pokta, Suriani, Bayesian model selectionusing exact and approximated posteriorprobabilities with applications to stardata.

Ryu, Duchwan, Bayesian regression anal-ysis with longitudinal measurements.

Song, Joon Jin, Bayesian multivariatespatial models and their applications.

Song, Juhee, Bootstrapping in a highdimensional but very low sample sizeproblem.

Spinka Holan, Christine, Gene environ-ment interactions in genetic epidemiol-ogy.

Texas Tech University (5)


Franklin, Scott, A computational three-field methodology for non-conformingfinite elements over partitioned do-mains.

Khoujmane, Ali, Improving regressionfunction estimators.

Murphy, Eric, Complex variables andcircle packing.

Swim, Edward, Non-conforming finiteelement methods for fluid-structureinteraction.

Willis, Nicholas, Singular points of realsextic curves.

University of Houston (4)

Mathematics

Boiarkine, Oleg, Mixed hybrid finite ele-ment methods for diffusion equationson nonmatching meshes.

Jacobs, Philip, Symmetric attractors withnon-trivial isotropy.

Martynenko, Andrey, Numerical methodsfor advection-diffusion equations onlocally refined meshes.

Pepper, Ryan, Binding independence.

University of NorthTexas (2)

Mathematics

Coiculescu, Ion, Dynamics, thermody-namic formalism and perturbations oftranscendental entire functions of finitesingular type.

Ghenciv, Petre, Hamiltonian cycles insubset and subspace graphs.

University of Texas,Arlington (2)

Mathematics

Dimitrov, Dobromir, Nonstandard finitedifference methods for dynamical sys-tems with applications in mathematicalbiology.

Zhu, Xiao Ping, Preliminary test andshrinkage estimators for the mean ofbivariate normal distribution.

University of Texas,Austin (13)

Mathematics

Baker, Kenneth, Knots on once-puncturedtorus fibers.

Condon, John, Mahler measure evalua-tions in terms of polylogarithms.

Fukshansky, Leonid, Algebraic points ofsmall height with additional arithmeticconditions.

Kelliher, James, The vanishing viscositylimit for incompressible fluids in twodimensions.

LaMar, M. Drew, Human acoustics: Fromvocal chords to inner ear.

Lehr, Heather, Analysis of a Darcy-Stokessystem modeling fluid flow in vuggyporous media.

Parker, Adam, An elementary construc-tion of M0,0(Pr , d).

Petersen, Kathleen, One-cusped congru-ence subgroups of PSL2(OK ).

Portillo-Bobadilla, Francisco, Computa-tions on an equation of the BSD type.

Silvestre, Luis, Regularity of the obstacleproblem for a fractional power of theLaplace operator.

Sinclair, Christopher, Multiplicative dis-tance functions.

Stoikov, Sasha, Optimal strategies inincomplete financial markets.

Teixeira, Eduardo, Regularity of freeboundary in variational problems.

University of Texas,Dallas (5)


Banks, Troy, Invariant kernels and theirorthogonal polynomials.

Barakat, Moe, Polynomials in several non-commuting variables and some of theirasymptotic properties.

Costa, Fred, Structured matrix calcula-tions via quaternions.

Navarra-Madsen, Junalyn, Colorability,tangles and quandles.

Odushkin, Taras, Mathematical models ofatomic scale deformations and spatialnonuniformities in solid bodies.

UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Brown, Sarah, A numerical scheme forMullins-Sekerka flow in 3-space dimen-sions.

University of Utah (4)

Mathematics

Cavaleri, Renzo, A topological quantumfield theory of intersection numbers formoduli spaces of admissible covers.

Folias, Stefanos, Stimulus-induced wavesand breathers in synaptically-coupledneural networks.

Le, An, Nonlinear eigenvalue problems.Sato, Fumitoshi, Relations in tanto logical

rings by localization.

VIRGINIAOld DominionUniversity (2)


Mav, Deepak, Statistical analysis of longi-tudinal and multivariate discrete data.

Walker, Steven, The straggling Green’sfunction method for ion beam trans-port.

University of Virginia (6)

Mathematics

Helmstutter, Randall, Quillen equivalentcategories of functors.

Richardson, Pamela, Centroids of qua-dratic Jordan superalgebras.

Roche, Jennifer, Radices and matrix rings.

Statistics

Chan, Kuo-Chen, Proposal of a new semi-parametric method that does not relyon the assumption of normality in thetransformed data and is suitable fornon-normally distributed transformeddata.



Guise, Thomas, D-optimal biased coinsfor clinical trials.

Soukup, Matthew, Evaluating classifica-tion performance.

Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (9)

Mathematics

Brunnhofer, Harald, Forced capillary-gravity waves in a 2D rectangular basin.

Chinyoka, Tirivanhu, Numerical simula-tion of stratified flows and dropletdeformation in 2D shear flow of Newto-nian and viscoelastic fluids.

Cline, Danny, On the computation of in-variants in non-normal, non-pure cubicfields and in their normal closures.

Colon-Reyes, Omar, Monomials dynami-cal systems over finite fields.

Krueger, Denise, Stabilized finite ele-ment methods for feedback control ofconvection diffusion equations.

Pierson, Mark, Theory and application ofa class of abstract differential-algebraicequations.

Rothstein, Ivan, Semiclassical scatteringfor two and three body problems.

Singler, John, Sensitivity analysis of par-tial differential equations with applica-tions to fluid flow.

Vugrin, Kay, On the effects of noise onparameter identification optimizationproblems.

WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (15)

Applied Mathematics

Farnum, Edward, Stability and dynamicsof solitary waves in nonlinear opticalmaterials.

Hewitt, Sarah, Dynamics and stability ofperiodic spatial patterns in the opticalparametric oscillator.

Komuro, Rie, Multi-objective evolution-ary algorithms for ecological processmethods.

Medlock, Jan, Integro-differential-equationmodels in ecology and epidemiology.

Pelanti, Marica, Wave propagation algo-rithms for multicomponent compres-sion flow with applications to volcanicjets.

Peters, Matthew, Moist convection andthe large scale tropical calculation.

Williams, David, Solving singular pertur-bation problems: An amplitude equa-tion approach.

Mathematics

Blair, Matthew, Strichartz estimates forwave equations with coefficients ofSobolev regularity.

Chebolu, Sunil, Refinements of chromatictowers and Krull-Schmidt decomposi-tions in stable homotopy categories.

Hanusa, Christopher, A Gessel-Viennot-type method for cycle systems withapplications to Aztec pillows.

Meyer, Daniel, Melting snowballs.Nichifor, Alexandra, Iwasawa theory for

elliptic curves with cyclic isogenies.Skokan, Michael, Regularity of ghosts of

geodesic X-ray transform.Swanson, Jason, Topics in stochastic

analysis.

Statistics

Gottardo, Raphael, Robust Bayesian anal-ysis of gene expression microarraydata.

Washington StateUniversity (5)

Mathematics

Edmeade, Dean, Nonlinear stability anal-ysis of hexagonal optical pattern for-mation in an atomic sodium vapor ringcavity.

Goff, Matthew, Multivariate discrete phase-type distributions.

Miller, James, Exon and intron detectionin human genomic DNA.

Nag, Parthasarathi, Energy decay esti-mates for certain class of nonlinearsystems arising in models of powersystems.

Sasaki, Takashi, Maxwell’s equations withtemperature effect.

WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (2)

Mathematics

Martinez-Montejano, Jorge, Results onhyperspaces.

Niu, Jianbing, Graph minor.

WISCONSINMarquette University (1)

Mathematics, Statistics and

Computer Science

Luo, Jinghui, Construction and analysisof airway water clearance models.

Medical College ofWisconsin (1)

Biostatistics

Wong, Hong, Inference for the sharedpower variance function frailty modeland correlated gamma frailty model.

University of Wisconsin,Madison (10)

Statistics

Barrios, Ernesto, Topics on engineeringstatistics.

Cheng, Bin, Some hypothesis testingresults for two-way linear models inclinical trials.

Dahl, David, Conjugate Dirichlet pro-cess mixture models: Efficient sam-pling, gene expression and clustering.

Hong, Quan, A pseudo empirical likeli-hood approach to nonignorable nonre-sponse.

Jin, Chunfang, Contributions to the de-sign and analysis of quantitative traitloci experiments.

Leng, Chenlei, Some problems in modelselection.

Ma, Shuangge, Penalized M-estimationfor partly linear transformation modelswith current status data.

Song, Yang, Two-way latent variableclustering.

Yuan, Ming, Automatic smoothing andvariable selection.

Yuan, Zhilong, Designs for phase I cancertrials: Incorporation of grade informa-tion and multiple risk group studies.

University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (2)


Bartl, Michael, On a hyper-Hilbert trans-form and singular integrals.

Yousuf, Muhammad, Smoothing schemesfor inhomogenous linear and semilinearparabolic problems with nonsmoothdata.

WYOMINGUniversity of Wyoming (4)

Mathematics

Christian, Justin, Three problems in com-binatorial matrix theory.

Kim, In-Jae, Spectral properties of combi-natorial classes.

Statistics

El-Houbi, Ashraf, Methods for resourceselection studies using correlated data.

Greenwood, Mark, Functional data analy-sis for glaciated valley profile analysis.



Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2004–2005Supplementary ListThe following list supplements the list of thesis titles published in the February 2006 Notices, pages 230–45.

ALABAMAUniversity of Alabama, Huntsville (2)

MatheMatical ScienceS

Park, Thomas, Age structure in epidemic models of vector-borne infections.

Wang, Yan, Acquisition numbers and completion-acquisition numbers.

CALIFORNIAUniversity of California, Irvine (8)

MatheMaticS

Koslover, Deborah, Quasiperiodic Jacobi matrices of magnetic orign.

Liu, Chiung-ju, Banodo-Futaki invariants on hypersurfaces and Tian-Yau-Zelditch expansions.

Nakamura, Remi, MLE of parameters in the drifted Brownian motion and its error.

Rooze, Matthew, The use of unabounded activation functions in neural networks and neural network approaches to nuisance parameter problems.

Sadovsky, Alexander, A biodynamical study of epidermal wound repair in embryos.

Schulteis, Melinda, Continuity of the Lyapunov exponent for quasiperiodic Jacobi matrices.

Sinek, John, Integrated multi-scale modeling of therapeutics delivery to cancerous lesions.

Xiaoming, Zheng, Adaptive finite-element/level-set methods of free boundary problems: applications to multiphase flows and reaction-diffusion models of tumor growth.

University of California, Santa Cruz (3)

MatheMaticS

Bass, Jamey, A Calabi-Yau analogue of the Dedekind Eta function.

Raske, David, Q-curvature on closed Riemannian mani-folds of dimension greater than four.

Moura, Francisco, Three novel clustering algorithms and their application to microarray encephalogram data.

Stanford University (7)

MatheMaticS

Adams, Tarn, Flat chains in Banach spaces.

Godin, Veronique, A category of bordered fat graphs and the mapping class group of a bordered surface.

Grueneberg, Michel , The Yamabe flow on three-manifolds.

Kim, Byoung-Du, The parity conjecture and algebraic functional equations for elliptic curves at primes with supersingular reduction.

Lee, Dan Archibald, Connected sums of special Lagrangian submanifolds.

Shi, Danzhu, Capillary surfaces at a re-entrant corner.

Zhu, Ke, Degeneration of the moduli space of J-holomorphic discs and Legendrian contact homology.

CONNECTICUT Yale University (7)

MatheMaticS

Brenner, Eliot Philip, Grenier Domains for arithmetic groups and associated tilings.

Ershov, Mikhail V., On finite presentability of some pro-p groups on related questions

Kim, Sangjib, Standard monomial theory for flag algebras.

Salmasian, Hadi, A new notion of rank for unitary representation based on Kirillov’s orbit method.

Samuels, Beth Sharon, Ramanujan complexes, their non-uniform quotients, and isospectrality.

Schul, Raanan, Subsets of rectifiable curves in Hilbert space and the analyst’s TSP.

MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard University (8)

MatheMaticS

G r e e n , P e t e r , G e o m e t r i c i t y o f l o c a l p - a d i c representations.

Grigorov, Grigor, Kato’s Euler system and the main conjecture.

Kaplan, Jonathan, Morphlets; a multiscale representation for diffeomorphisms.

Khosla, Deepak, Moduli spaces of curves with linear series and the slope conjecture.

Lef, Edward, A modular non-rigid Calabi-Yau threefold.

Mast, Jerrel, Pseudoholomorphic punctured spheres in the symplectization of a quotient.

Mohta, Vivek, Applications of Chiral perturbation theory.

Neel, Robert, The heat kernel at the cut locus.

MICHIGAN

Western Michigan University (5)

MatheMaticS

Chaiyakarn, Archara, Structure preserving algorithms for computing the symplectic singular value decomposition.

Gera, Ralucca M., Stratification and domination in graphs and digraphs.

Noh, Jihwa, An investigation of secondary teachers’ knowledge of rate of change in the context of teaching a standard-based curriculum.

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Pacheenburawana, Pariwatana, Global optimality conditions in mathematical programming and optimal control.

Shafer, Kathryn, Two high school teachers’ initial use of geometer’s sketchpad: Issues of implementation.

MINNESOTAUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis (10)

MatheMaticS

Alexandrov, Oleg, Wave Propagation in optical fibers analysis and optimization.

Cho, Sungwon, Boundary behavior of solutions to second order elliptic and parabolic equation.

Erban, Radek, From individual to collective behavior in biological systems.

Galbraith, Michael, Geometric optics, convex functions, Carleman estimates and interfaces in the boundary control of the wave equation.

Hall, John, Combinatorial deformations of the full transformation semigroup.

Han, Young Ae, An efficient solver for problems of scattering.

Kang, Minchul, Temporal and spatial aspects of calcium dynamics in astrocyles.

Tarfulea, Nicolae, Constraint preserving boundary conditions for hyperbolic formulations of Einstein’s equations.

Yenikaya, Bayram, Adapative methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

Zhang, Jian, Scattering problems in inhomogeneous scalar wave equation.

MISSOURI

University of Missouri, Columbia (6)

MatheMaticS

Batchenko, Volodymyr, On the spectra of Schrödinger and Jacobi operations with complex-valued quasi-peridoc algebra-geometric coefficients.

Bilyk, Dmytro, Distributional estimates for multilinear operatiors.

Cramer, David, Fredholm determinants and the Evans function.

Honzik, Petr, Maximal operators associated with Fourier multipliers.

Luo, Shangzhen, Filtering of hidden weak Markov chain and its application to finance.

Mayboroda, Svitlana, The Poisson problem in Lipschitz domains.

NEW JERSEYRutgers University, Graduate School (6)

StatiSticS

Ganning, Kenneth, An examination of the mean and quantiles from a relational system with a fixed just unnoticeable difference representation.

Grothendieck, John, Tracking changes in language.

Heath, Susan, A new model for wireless telephony.

Lakshminarasimhan, Ramprasath, Statistical options-crash resistant financial contracts based on robust location estimators.

Wang, Hongwei, Selected topics in longitudinal data analysis and modeling.

Xia, Qi, Exact methods applied to group sequential and other stratified comparative Poisson designs.

NEW YorkCourant Institute, New York University (14)

MatheMaticS

Apfaltrer, Felix, Population density methods in 2 spatial dimensions and application to neural networks with realistic synapitc kinetics.

Siefring Richard, Intersection theory of finite energy surfaces.

Eng, David, Scaling limits of random Schrodinger equations.

Feng, Fan-Fu, On the totally asymptotic zero range process.

Kobre, Elisha, Rates of diffusion in dynamical systems with random groups.

Rottenstreich, Sivan, Error bounds for the weak coupling Schrodinger equation.

Sun, Rongfeng, Convergence of coalescing nonsimple random walks to the Brownian web.

Wendl, Chris, Finite energy foliations and surgery on transverse links.

Cascini, Paolo, On the cotangent bundle of a projective variety.

Ko, Yueh Joy, Partially regular and singular solutions to the Landau-Lifshits (Gilbert) equations.

McGahagan, Helena, Some existence and uniqueness results for Schrodinger maps and Landau-Lifshitz equations.

Oliveira, Roberto, Preferential attachment.

Zygouras, Nikolaos, Limit Theorems: for a periodically or randomly driven semilinear equation.

Papazoglu-Statescu, Oana, Maximizing the expected utility of final time wealth with little trading.

Polytechnic University (1)

MatheMaticS

Pistoia, Marco, A unified mathematical model for stack- and role-based authorization systems.

Syracuse University (1)

MatheMaticS

John, Thomas, Selection procedures for lognormal populations.

TEXAS

Rice University (6)

coMputational and applied MatheMaticS

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Castillo, Zenaida, A new algorithm for continuation and bifurcation analysis of large scale free surface flows.

Nguyen, Hoang, Domain decomposition methods for linear-quadratic elliptic optimal control problems.

Padula, Anthony, Software design for simulation driven optimization.,

Teng, Cong, Model reduction of second linear dynamical systems.

Vincent-Finely, Rachel, A reduced basis method for molecular dynamics simulation.

Wrightman, Jennifer, Approximation and computation of the solution to the magneto-ionosphere coupling equation via mixed formulation.

Southern Methodist University (4)

StatiStical Science

Carmack, Patrick, Recursive partitioning in spatially correlated data.

Liu, Yushan, On estimation of the number of multinomial cells from cluster sampling.

Wang, Zhu, The application of the Kalman filter to nonstationary time series chirp process through exponential transformation.

Shen, Shuyi, Minimum L2 estimation for Poisson mixtures.

WASHINGTON

University of Washington(6)

BioStatiSticS

Bergemann, Tracy Lee, Image analysis and signal extraction from cDNA microarrays.

Buzkova, Petra, Marginal regression analysis of longitudinal data with irregular, biased sampling.

Chen, Lu, Semiparametric analysis of failure time data from case-control family studies on candidate genes.

Haneuse, Sebastein, Ecological studies using supplemental case-control data.

Liu, Hao, Semiparametric marginal mean models for multivariate counting processes.

Zhang, Zheng, Semiparametric least-squares analysis of the receiver operating characteristic curve.

WISCONSIN

University of Wisconsin, Madison (13)

MatheMaticS

Benesh, Bret, Counting generators in finite groups that are generated by two subgroups of prime power order.

Taylor, Paul, Bochner-Riesz means with respect to a rough distance function.

Chatterjee, Rohit, On class polynomials and supersingular j-invariants.

Cossey, James, Generalizations of the Fong Swan Theorem.

Sutherland, Jamie, Values in university mathematics placement practice.

Stefansson, Narfi, The structure of sparse representations of images using tight frames.

El-Guindy, Ahmad, Weierstrass point on modular curves.

Halfpap, Jennifer, Contributions to the theory of the holomorphic extension of CR functions.

Laghi, Norberto, A topics in the regularity theory of fourier integral operators.

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