Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2003–2004, Volume 52, Number 2
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Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2003–2004 ALABAMA Do, Younghae, Chaotic transient behavior Piatek-Jimenez, Katrina, Undergraduate of dynamical systems under random mathematics students’ understanding University of Alabama, perturbations. of mathematical statements and proofs. Ephrem, Menassie, Characterizing liminal Pierce, Virgil, The asymptotic expansion Birmingham (4) ∗ ∗ and type I graph C -algebras and C - of the partition function of random Biostatistics algebra of the Z2-tree. matrices. Li, Yufeng, Parameter estimation for a Hirman, Joseph, The role of variance: an Rasmussen, Christopher, Jacobians of proposed joint distribution of multi- extension of small area estimation. etale covers of the projective line minus variate Bernoulli trials. Kim, Bong-Sik, Alpha models for rotating three points. Zhang, Yuting, A pattern mixture model Navier-Stokes equations in geophysics Selden, Jeffrey, The density of states in a for censored binary longitudinal data. with nonlinear dispersive regulariza- quasi-gap. tion. Wootton, Aaron, Defining algebraic poly- Mathematics Larsem, Sean, Supporting the guided nomials for cyclic prime covers of the reinvention of the concepts of group Malaugh, James M., Rotational sets of the Riemann sphere. d and isomorphism: a developmental re- circle under Z . search project. Yan, Aimin, An inverse goundwater Negoita, Cristina, Global kinetic imag- ARKANSAS model. ing using dynamic positron emission University of Alabama, tomography data. University of Arkansas (3) Smith, Shelly, A discrete homotopy theory Mathematical Sciences Tuscaloosa (4) for graphs, with application to order Information Systems, Statistics, and complexes of lattices. Hughes, Kimberly, Variations on general- ized logit models: alternative links and Management Science Yang, Daqing, Extension of the game col- oring number and some results on the stepwise selection. Flynn, Timothy, Sequencing mixed-model choosability of complete multipartite Reed, Michael, Symbolic blow-ups and assembly lines in a lean environment. graphs. generation in degree four. Ybarra, Lynn, Small area estimation using Mathematics Wu, Hsing-Yen, Tight congruences on data from multiple surveys. semigroups. Bunnag, Dhiranuch, Stochastic algo- rithms for global optimization. University of Arizona (11) Cheng, Kang-Ping, Three numerical Applied Mathematics CALIFORNIA schemes for solving nonlinear partial Hoppin, John, Ranking estimation meth- California Institute of differential equations. ods in medical imaging without the use Sukantamala, Nattakorn, Area operator of a gold standard. Technology (15) on Hardy spaces. Kuecken, Michael,Ontheformationof Applied Mathematics fingerprints. Camp, Charles David,Temporaland Lane, Emily, Wave-current interactions in ARIZONA spatial patterns of the interannual coastal waters and their application to variability of stratospheric ozone and shore-connected bars. Arizona State dynamics. Lo, Arthur, Theoretical simulation of University (12) metabolic mechanisms for regulating Chaubell, Mario Julian, Low-coherence interferometric imaging: solution of Mathematics and Statistics capillary perfusion in working skeletal muscle. the one-dimensional inverse scattering problem. Boerner, Rochus, Wavelets with integer Parra, Mario, Filter-bank transforms with dilation factors larger than two. exact inverses. Control and Dynamical Systems Burke, John,Mathematicalmodelsof metabolic cascades and gene regulation. Mathematics Dunbar, William, Distributed receding Chidambaram, Rama,Modelinganddeci- Hoffman, Thomas, Constructing basic horizon control of multiagent systems. sion making in a semiconductor supply algebras for the principal block of Leok, Melvin, Foundations of computa- chain. sporadic simple groups. tional geometric mechanics. contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title.The number The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2003, to June 30, degrees listed for that university.A supplementary list containing names 2004) reported in the 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences received since compilation of this list will appear in a summer 2005 issue by 221 departments in 152 universities in the United States.Each entry of the Notices. 264 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 52, NUMBER 2 Doctoral Degrees Conferred Ross, Shane, Cylindrical manifolds and Harvey, Nathaniel, Finitary codes on Edens, Thaddeus, A new large total vari- tube dynamics in the restricted three- Bernoulli shifts. ation stability result for the quadratic body problem. Horowitz, Jason, Linearizing countably nonlinear system associated with the West, Matthew, Variational integrators. infinite partial orders. compressible Euler equations by eigen- value methods. Mathematics Jung, Kenley,Fractalentropiesanddi- mensions for microstate spaces. Grishin, Denis, Fast and efficient methods Bartroff, Jay, Asymptotically optimal for multi-dimensional scattered data multistage hypothesis tests. Kalman, Tamas,Contacthomologyand approximation. one parameter families of Legendrian Ishkhanov, Tigran, Legendrian knots: Colwell, Jason, The conjecture of Birch knots. and Swinnerton-Dyer elliptic curves equivalence of normal rulings and with complex multiplication by a non- Karaali, Gizem, r -matrices on Lie super- augmentations of Chekanov-Eliashberg maximal order. algebras. algebra. Daftuar, Sumit, Eigenvalue inequalities in Latremoliere, Frederic, Finite dimensional Peirce, James, Well-posedness of the quantum information processing. approximations of quantum tori for the three dimensional Lagrangian averaged Gupta, Vineet, Conformal laminations. quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance. Navier-Stokes equations. Lin, Qiang, Bloch-Kato conjecture for the Miller, Benjamin, Full groups, classifica- Wolowski, Lech, Noise induced dissipation adjoint of H (X0(N)) with integral Hecke tion, and equivalence relations. in discrete-time classical and quantum algebra. Myers, Robert, Global transverse disks dynamical systems. Martin, Kimball, Four-dimensional Galois and suspendibility criteria. Yoshida, Ruriko, Barvinok’s rational func- representations of solvable type and Nemyrovska, Nina,Onatypicalrepresen- tions: algorithms and applications to automorphic forms. tations of classical Lie superalgebras of optimization, statistics, and algebra. Vasylkevych, Sergiy, Poisson structures defect one. Statistics for PDEs associated with diffeomor- Proudfoot, Nicholas,Hyper-K¨ahler ana- phism groups. logues of K¨ahler quotients. Leng, Xiaoyan, Functional linear discrim- ination analysis. Vessenes, Rebecca, Generalized Foulkes’ Purbhoo, Kevin, Vanishing and non- conjecture and tableaux construction. vanishing criteria for branching Schu- Senturk, Damla, Covariate adjusted re- Zhan, Dapeng, Random Loewner chains bert calculus. gression and correlation. in Riemann surfaces. Yao, Fang, Functional data analysis for Sandman, Nirit, Tamari lattices and a longitudinal data. Claremont Graduate geometric problem in antitrust. Tang, Xiang, Quantization of noncom- (3) University of California, University mutative Poisson manifolds. Los Angeles (17) Mathematics Viswanath, Sankaran, Stabilization of Bhan, Ashish, Topological structure of tensor products in Kac-Moody algebras. Mathematics networks derived from microarray time- Zambon, Marco, Submanifold averaging Balbas, Jorge, Non-oscillatory central series data. in Riemannian, symplectic and contact schemes for the equations of ideal Eyadat, Mohammad, Comparative per- geometry. magnetohydrodynamics in one- and formance evaluation of practical digital Zhu, Chenchang, Integrating Lie alge- two-space dimensions. watermarking embedded schemes. broids via stacks and applications to Cecil, Thomas, Numerical methods for Orrala, Carlos, Numerical and experimen- Jacobi manifolds. partial differential equations involving tal investigations of two side-by-side discontinuities. turbulent jets in a cross flow. Statistics Chaudhary, Suneal, Acceleration of Monte University of California, Ge, Yongchao, Multiple testing in mi- Carlo methods using low discrepancy croarrays. sequences. Berkeley (28) Kechris, Katherina, Statistical methods Choi, Yohann, Computation of ordinal- Biostatistics for discovering features in molecular invariant trajectory solutions to multi- sequences. person bargaining problems. Bolstad, Benjamin, Low-level analysis of Daileda, Ryan, Extremal class numbers Nacu, Serban, On the simulation of high-density oligonucleotide array data: of non-Abelian number fields. background, normalization and sum- certain random systems. marization. Davey, Owen, On the existence of alge- Popovic, Lea, Asymptotic genealogy of braic oriented equivariant cohomology Molinaro, Annette, Novel approaches to a branching process and a model of theories. prediction to survival in cancer re- macroevolutions. search: focus on genomics. Forbes, Brian, Open string mirror maps Schafer, Chad, Constructing confidence from Picard-Fuchs equations on relative Mathematics regions of optimal expected size: theory cohomology. and application to cosmic microwave Gutars, Borislava, The inverse boundary Alexandrova, Ivana, Structure of the inference. semi-classical amplitude for general value problem in anisotropic media. scattering. University of California, Kao, Chiu-Yen, Fast sweeping methods Dasgupta, Samit, Gross-Stark units, Stark- for static Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Heegner points, and class fields of real Davis (12) Lee, Arthur, Symplectic integration