EXCERPTS FROM 2009 SECOND REPORT ANNUAL SURVEY OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (AMS-ASA-IMS-MAA-SIAIM) Matteson, David, Statistical inference for multivariate Doctoral Degrees nonlinear time series. Rosenthal, Dale, W. R., Trade classification and nearly- Conferred 2008–20009 gamma random variables. Song, Minsun, Restricted parameter space models for Supplementary List testing gene-gene interactions. The following list supplements the list of thesis titles published in Zheng, Xinghua, Critical branching random walks and the February 2010 Notices, pages 281–301. spatial epidemic. Zibman, Chava, Adjusting for confounding in a semi- ALABAMA parametric Bayesian model of short term effects of air pollution on respiratory health. University of Alabama (4) INFORMATION SYSTEMS, STATisTICS AND MANAGEMENT IOWA SCIENCE University of Iowa (4) Alhammadi, Yousuf, Neural network control charts for STATisTICS AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCE Poisson processes. Ahn, Kwang Woo, Topics in statistical epidemiology. Anderson, Billie, Study of reject inference techniques. Devasher, Michael, An evaluation of optimal experimental Fang, Xiangming, Generalized additive models with designs subject to parameter uncertainty for properties correlated data. of compartmental models used in individual Hao, Xuemiao, Asymptotic tail probabilities in insurance pharmacokinetic studies. and finance. Song, Jung-Eun, Bayesian linear regression via partition. CALIFORNIA KENTUCKY California Institute of Technology (1) University of Louisville (1) BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATisTICS CONTROL AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS Lan, Ling, Inference for multistate models. Shi, Ling, Resource optimization for networked estimator with guaranteed estimation quality. LOUISIANA University of California, Riverside (3 Tulane University (1) MATHEMATICS BIOSTATisTICS Alvarez, Vicente, A numercial computation of eigenfunctions for the Kusuoka laplacian on the Yi, Yeonjoo, Two part longitudinal models of zero heavy Sierpinski gasket. data. Childress, Scot Paul, Quantum measures, arithmetic coils, and generalized fractal strings. MASSCHUSETTS Wong, Chau Yim, On a class of commuting squares. Harvard University (8) University of California, Santa Cruz (1) STATisTICS MATHEMATICS Edlefsen, Paul, Profile HMMs for DNA sequence families: the Marks, Christopher, Classification of vecto-valued modu- conditional Baum-Welch and dynamical model-surgery lar forms of dimensions less than six. algorithms. Lenarcic, Alan, Bayesian two-glasso for the study of financial COLORADO contagion. Morgan, Charity, Assessing thought disordered University of Denver (1) behavior using finite mixture models and comparing MATHEMATICS approximations for logistic regression. Daly, Dan, Permutation patterns, reduced decompositions Olding, Benjamin, Methods of approximate inference: with few repetitions and the Bruhat order. applications to stochastic differential equations, video microscopy, and network data. ILLINOIS Zhang, Jing, Bayesian inference of interactions in biological problems. University of Chicago (8) Zhang, Tingting, Nonparametric studies of doubly stochastic poisson processes, binomial data, and high STATisTICS dimension, low sample size data. Atlason, Oli, Generalized parametric models. Zhang, Wei, Statistical methods for detecting expression De la Cruz Cabrera, Omar, Geometric approaches in the quantitative trait loci (eQTL). analysis of genetic data. Yuan, Yuan, Decoding gene expression regulation through Li, Yingying, Robustness of volalility estimations. Motif discovery and classification. © 20092010 American Mathematical Society, Notices of the AMS, August 20092010 1 ANNUAL SURVEY OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (AMS-ASA-IMS-MAA-SIAM) EXCERPTS FROM 2009 SECOND REPORT MICHIGAN Neiman, Michael, Negative correlation and log-concavity. Nguyen, Luc, Singular harmonic maps into hyperbolic Michigan Technological University (3) spaces and applications to general relativity. MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Rowland, Eric, Experimental methods applied to the computation of integer sequences. Tang, Rui, Statistical methods for genome-wide association study. Thanatipanonda, Thotsaporm, Symbolic-computational methods in combinatorial game theory and Ramsey Wang, Xuexia, Genetic association studies considering LD information and genome-wide application. theory. Ye, Zhan, Genetic association studies under the population Wang, Liming, Dynamics and asymptotic behaviors of stratification, family pedigree and application to genome- biochemical networks. wide association studies Wood, Philip, On the probability that a discrete complex random matrix is singular. MINNESOTA Stevens Institute of Technology (3) University of Minnesota (12) MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS Bussolari, Luca, Hyperbolic planar billiards with nearly flat Bellay, Jeremy, The stability and transitions of coherent focusing boundaries. structures on excitable and oscillatory media. Grechuk, Bogdan, Deviations measures: theory and Hiary, Ghaith, Fast methods to compute the Riemann Zeta application. function. Molyboha, Anton, Optimization approaches to sensor Korolev, Alexander, Large-distance asymptotics of steady- state incompressible fluid flows. placement for threat detection. Letang, Delia, Subconvexity bounds for automorphic L-functions on GL2. NEW YORK Li, Fang, Stability from the point of view of diffusion, relaxation and spatial inhomogeneity. Columbia University (3) Peterson, Jonathon, Limiting distributions and large BIOSTATisTICS deviations for random walks in random environments. Huang, Lin, Sequential test for right censored data with Rhoades, Brendon, Modeling and optimization of mortgage linear transformation models. loan portfolios. Tai, Wanling, Regularized estimation of covariance matrices Striker, Jessica, Poset and polytope perspectives on for longitudinal data through smoothing and shrinkage. alternating sign matrices. Valiquette, Francis, Applications of moving frames to Lie Wisnivesky, Juan, Instrumental variable estimation for pseudo-groups. survival data: evaluating the effectiveness radiation therapy for the treatment of lung cancer in the elderly in Xue, Chuan, Mathematical models of taxis-driven bacterial the presence of allocation bias. pattern formation. Yang, Jiaqi, Design and implementation of accurate and efficient integral equation methods with applications PENNSYLVANIA to ultrasound vibro-acoustography and geophysical propsection. Bryn Mawr College (1) Zhang, Wenliang, Lyubeznik numbers. MATHEMATICS Fukui, Ayako, Lp estimates for oscillatory singular integral NEW HAMPSHIRE operators and Marcinkiewicz integral operators. Dartmouth College (3) Drexel University (1) MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS Brown, Jonathan, Proper actions of groupoids on C*- algebras. Coletta, Meredith, Integrability in optical design. Goehle, Geoff, Groupoid crossed products. Temple University (3) Mahoney, John, A composition formula for asymptotic morphisms. STATisTICS Miller, Charles William, Familywise robustness criteria NEW JERSEY revisited for newer multiple testing procedures. Rutgers The State University of New Wang, Luqiang, Contributions to estimation of measures for assessing rater reliability. Jersey (8) Yang, Zijiang, New step down procedures for control of the MATHEMATICS familywise error rate. Levitt, Ian, Some problems in extremal graph theory avoiding the use of the regularity lemma. Mau, Sikimeti, The multiplihedra in Lagrangian Floer theory. 2 © 20092010 American Mathematical Society, Notices of the AMS,, AugustAugust 20082010 ANNUAL SURVEY OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (AMS-ASA-IMS-MAA-SIAM) EXCERPTS FROM 2009 SECOND REPORT NORTH CAROLINA Medical University of South Carolina (8) Duke University (8) DIVisiON OF BIOSTATisTICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY MATHEMATICS Kirbach, Stephanie, The risk and consequences of Baron, Rann, Small Boolean networks. cerebrovascular events, mortality, and institutionalization Bendich, Paul, Analyzing stratified spaces using persistent among Alzheimers patients on anti-psychotic therapy. version of intersection and local homology. Miller, Scott, Handling treatment by covariate interactions Cooke, Ben, Theory and practice in replica-exchange in interim analyses of clinical trials. molecular dynamics simulation. Nowacki, Amy, Response-adaptive randomization in Dai, Shu, Bifurcations in the Echebarria-karma modulation neurological clinical trials: obstacles in application. equation for cardic alternans in one dimension. Ouyang, Bichun, Modeling and Bayesian analysis of Froehlich, Mihaela, Two coating problems: thin film rupture recurrent events and longitudinal data with dependent and spin coating. termination. Law, Jing, Approximately counting perfect and general Saunders, Lee, A population-based study of repetitive matchings in bipartite and general graphs. traumatic brain injury mortality. McCarthy, Janice, TL2 index theory and D-particle binding. Sims, Kellie, Sphingolipids are altered in aging yeast cultures Smith, Abraham, Integrability of second-order partial under caloric restriction. differential equations and the geometry of GL(2) Wilson, Dulaney, Health effects of plutonium exposure. structures. Zhang, Boshao, Two stage clonal expansion models of carcinogenesis for acute, continuous, and multiple RHODE ISLAND exposure with applications. Brown University (6) TEXAS MATHEMATICS Katz, Daniel, Sumfree subsets in cubes of arbitrary Baylor University (4) dimension. MATHEMATICS Liaw, Constanze, Singular integrals and rank one perturbations. Bruder, Andrea, Applied left-defined theory; the Jacobi polynomials, their Sobolev orthogonality