Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2016–2017 ALABAMA Cui, Wei, Fractional Brownian motion and University of Alabama (1) managing risk with short-term futures Auburn University (13) contracts Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science Department of Mathematics and Hoang, Cong, Sparse technology in Statistics weighted harmonic analysis Zhu, Xuwen, The development of diag- Liu, Veny, Free inverse semigroupoids nostic tools for mixture modeling and Barnett, Johnathan, The fractional chro- and their inverse subsemigroupoids model-based clustering matic number and the Hall ratio Sandor, Bryan, On finitely generated Costa Lima, Italo Raony, Robust simul- nilpotent groups and their subgroups taneous inference for functional data Vo, Huy, Krylov approximations and ARKANSAS analysis model reduction methods for the chem- Denu, Dawit, Analysis of stochastic vec- ical master equation University of Arkansas at tor host epidemic model with direct Watley, Laura Erin, Structural validity and Fayetteville (3) transmission reliability of two observation protocols Department of Mathematical Ghimire, Prakash, Derivations of the in college mathematics Lie algebra of strictly upper triangular Sciences matrices and dominate upper triangular University of Alabama at Ding, Chao, Construction of confor- ladder matricies Birmingham (7) mally invariant operators in higher Hollis, Daniel, Disjoint G-designs and spin spaces Department of Biostatistics the intersection for some seven edge Dutta, Arnab, On compactness and close- graphs Venturi, Yogasudha, Methods for the rangeness of composition operators James, Daniel, Isomorphic Ext functors analysis of genetic differences in eth- Juda, Daniel, On rings of invariants for of torsion-free finite rank modules over nicity and sex for complex human cyclic p-groups a Dedekind domain traits Kermausuor, Seth, Atomic characteriza- Zhang, Xinyan, Statistical methods in trion of L1 and the Lorentz–Bochner cancer survival prediction and micro- ARIZONA space LX (p, 1) for 1 ≤ p < ∞ with some biome data analysis applications Department of Mathematics Arizona State Krizan, Christopher, Euclidean Szlam University (16) numbers Abdul-Rahman, Houssam, Entanglement Liphan, David, Compactifications of in- in disordered quantum XY chains Mathematics, Computational and decomposable topological spaces Antwi-Fordjour, Kwadwo, Pattern forma- Modeling Sciences Center Perry, Katherine, Rainbow trees in edge- tion and semilinear evolution equations in function spaces Chowell, Diego, Mathematical and com- colored complete graphs and block putational models of cancer and the Kim, Seonguk, Perturbation formulas for decompositions of almost complete immune system graphs Gross-Pitaevskii equation with periodic potential Mamada, Robert, Potential games and Weerasinghe, Kariyawasam, Convergence competition in the supply of natural Mann, Ivan, A metrically defined uni- analysis and numerical simulation of resources particle swarm optimization formization map of planar domains Moxley, Caleb, Homotopical complexity Udiani, Oyita, A novel approach to study Wu, Hao, Mathematical and numerical task organization in animal groups analysis for linear peridynamic bound- of several billiard models ary valve problems University of School of Mathematical and Yucel, Ahmet, Machine learning tech- Statistical Sciences niques for text classification Alabama–Huntsville (1) Al-Suleiman, Sultan, Toward enumerating Department of Mathematical University of Alabama (7) the chains of maximum length of Sciences Cambrian and m-eralized Cambrian Department of Mathematics Li, Yang, Discrete-time structured mod- lattices Al-Jahdaly, Noufe, Linear and nonlinear els and their dynamics for interactive Byerley, Cameron, Secondary teachers’ convection in an infinitely high cavity wild and sterile mosquitos malaria and calculus students’ meanings for in the presence of rotation transmission fraction, measure, and rate of change The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2016, to June 30, in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of 2017) reported in the 2018 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences degrees listed for that university. by 275 departments in 202 universities in the United States. Each entry SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 969 Doctoral Degrees Conferred Farrell, Alex, Prey-predator-parasite: An Graduate Interdisciplinary Program Rossi, Julia, Non-conservative variational ecosystem model with fragile persis- in Statistics approximation for nonlinear Schrodinger¨ tence equations and its applications Bear, John, A logistic normal mixture Silva, Genivaldo, Who is there and what Gutierrez Cortez, Paloma, Rotating split- model for compostitions with essential are they doing? An agile and computa- cylinder flows zeros Korytowski, Daniel, Persistence for kill tionally efficient framework for genome Fang, Fang, Modern econometric tech- the winner nested infection Lotka- discovery and annotation from metage- niques applied to three essays in spatial Volterra models nomic big data economics Lanfear, Nathan, The Pauli-Lubanski´ vec- Woolf, Tina, Practical compressed sensing Schissler, Alfred, Contributions to gene tor in a group-theoretical approach to Xu, Qian, Generalized varying-coefficient set analysis of correlated, paired- relativistic wave equations mixed models with missing data and sample transcriptome data to enable surrogate information Liu, Ruowen, Numerical issues arising in precision medicine the simulations of transient water flow Zablocki, Rong, Large-scale inference in- Zeng, Yue, Variable screening in multi- in layered unsaturated soils corporating covariates and network de- category classification for ultra-high pendence with application to genome- Mitrano, Arthur, Properties of divergence- dimensional data free methods for approximation and so- wide association studies lution of partial differential equations Zhou, Deng, I/O stade optimization for Nelson, Luke, Toward the enumeration of CALIFORNIA non-volatile memory based storage sys- maximal chains in the Tamari lattices tems Pell, Bruce, Dynamics and implications California Institute of Stanford University (20) of data-based disease models in public Technology (4) health and agriculture Department of Mathematics Department of Computing and Rutter, Erica, A mathematical journey of Booher, Jeremy, Geometric deformations cancer growth Mathematical Sciences of orthogonal and symplectic Galois Treat, Kevin, On chains in the Tamari Bruer, John, Recovering structured low- representations lattice rank operators using nuclear norms Brady, Zarathustra, Sieves and iteration Zhu, Junfei, A power study of GFfit Chen, Yuhua, Concentration inequalities rules Statistics as components of Pearson of random matrices and solving pty- Buciumas, Valentin, Quantum groups and Chi-Square chography with a convex relaxation the Yang Baxter equation Perez Arancibia, Carlos, Windowed inte- Diao, Peter, Differential calculus on University of Arizona (17) gral equation methods for problems of graphon space and statistical appli- Department of Mathematics scattering by defects and obstacles in cations of graph limit theory layered media Florea, Alexandra, Moments and zeros of Berard, Whitney, Explicit Serre weight Zhang, Pengchuan, Compressing positive L functions over function fields conjectures in dimension four semidefinite operators with sparse/local- Gao, Jun, The front asymptotics for the Brown, Tova, Asymptotics and dynamics ized bases non local KPP equation of map enumeration problems Greer, Francois, Modular forms in enu- Davis, Erik, Consistency of modularity Claremont Graduate merative geometry clustering on random geometric graphs University (15) Jafarov, Jafar, Loop equations and string Lee, Hyereem, Triples in finite groups dualities in lattice gauge theories Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a conjecture of Guralnick and Tiep Lawrence, Brian, Two results on period Trefethen, Stephen, Non-abelian compo- Babakhani, Behrouz, Novel microstrip maps sition factors of m-rational groups patch antennas with frequency agility, Makisumi, Shotaro, Modular Koszdul du- Williams, Ronnie, Level compatibility in polarization reconfigurability, dual null ality for Soergel bimodules the passage from modular symbols to steering capability and phased array an- Mantoulidis, Christos, Geometric varia- cup products tenna with beam steering performance tional problems in mathematical physics Zhelezov, Gleb, Coalescing particle sys- Berardi, Vincent, Analytic framework for Montague, David, Covariance estimation tems. Applications to nonlinear Fokker- the design, implementation, and anal- and graphical models for infinite col- Planck equations ysis of dynamic, and real-time health lections of random variables interventions Program in Applied Mathematics Ren, Weilvo, Two models on limit order Campbell, Karen, SEIRscape, an agent- trading Borghese, Michael, A proof of the soliton based mosquito-human virus basis of Ronchetti, Nicolo, On the mod p derived resolution conjecture for the focusing Dengue risk across Peru and Thailand Hecke algebra of a p adic group nonlinear Schrodinger¨ equation Denaro, Kameryn, Quantifying disease Shabani, Beniada, Propogation in multi Burton, Jackson, Theoretical models for severity of cystic fibrosis using linear dimensional Fisher KPP equations drug delivery to solid tumors quantile mixed models Siegel, Kyler, New constructions