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Doctoral Degrees Conferred2012–2013
ALABAMAAuburn University (15)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bahmanian, Mohammad, Amalgamationsand detachments of graphs and hyper-graphs
Bindele, Huybrechts, Rank-based regres-sion for nonlinear and missing models
Brown, Wesley, Modular balanced graphsCarrigan, Braxton, Triangulations and
simplex tilings of polyhedraClark, Jonathan, Nim on graphsCouch, P. J. (Phillip), The metamorphosis
of maximum packings of 2Kn withtriples into maximum packings of 2Knwith 4-cycles
Jiang, Nan, Upper bounds on the coars-ening rates for some non-conservingequations
Li, Geng, Semi-supervised classificationtechniques in big data text analytics
Liu, Xuhua, Gradient flows, convexity andadjoint orbits
Noble, Abigail, Maximal sets of Hamiltoncycles in complete multipartite graphs
Ohlson, Vicky, Almost resolvable maxi-mum packings of bipartite graphs with4-cycles
Petrie, Caleb, On security, (F, I)-security,and ultra-security in graphs
Roberts, Daniel, Stars and hyperstarsThompson, Mary Clair, Asymptotic re-
sults in noncompact semisimple Liegroups
Whitt, Thomas, Path decompositions ofthe Kneser graph
University of Alabama (4)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Jing, Most likely path to theshortfall risk in long-term hedging withshort-term future contracts
Holloway, Caleb, Wolff’s theorem onideals for mathematics
The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2012, to June 30,2013) reported in the 2013 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 197 departments in 143 universities in the United States. Each entrycontains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number
in 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 later 2014 issue ofthe Notices.
Karatas, Yalcin, Groups whose non-permutable subgroups satisfy certainconditions
Ross, Lance, Context sensitive languagesand word problems
University of Alabama atBirmingham (5)
Department of Biostatistics
Mbowe, Omar, An investigation of theeffect of misspecifying the randomeffect distribution and the incorrectassumption of equal intraclass cor-relation coefficients among treatmentgroups in the analyses of data fromcluster randomized trials
Yang, Celeste T., Hypothesis tests ofequivalence and their application tomicroarray and clinical trial data
Department of Mathematics
Bledsoe, Matthew, Resonances and in-verse scattering
Huang, Qizhuo, Geometric fitting inerrors-in-variables model
Ma, Hui, Geometric fitting of quadraticcurves and surfaces
University ofAlabama-Tuscaloosa (2)
Information Systems, Statistics, and
Management Science Department
Mercado, Gary, On the detection andestimation of changes in a processmean based on kernel estimators
Oh, Dong-Yop, GA-Boost: A genetic algo-rithm for robust boosting
ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (10)
School of Human Evolution and
Social Change
Murillo, David, Cites in ecology: Settle-ment patterns and diseases
Salau, Kehinde, Assessing the effects ofinstitutional and spatial arrangementsin analytical and computational modelsof conservation
Vega-Guzman, Jose, Solution methods forcertain diffusion-type equations
School of Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences
Bilinsky, Lydia, Dynamic Hopf bifurcationin spatially extended excitable systemsfrom neuroscience
Horan, Victoria, Listing combinatorialobjects
Huang, Qing, Some topics concerning thesingular value decomposition and gen-eralized singular value decomposition
Jones, Jeremiah, Drift-diffusion simula-tion of the ephaptic effect in the triadsynapse of the retina
Li, Jingjin, Multivariate generalization ofreduced major axis regression
Rabern, Landon, Coloring graphs fromalmost maximum degree sized palettes
Smith, Matt, On-line coloring of partialorders, circular arc graphs, and trees
University of Arizona (11)
Department of Mathematics
Acosta, Enrique, Leading order asymp-totics of a partition function for coloredtriangulations
Bishop, Michael, Low energy states ofquantum systems in disordered Bernoullienvironments
Hadad, Yaron, Integrable nonlinear rela-tivistic equations
Nguyen, Dong Quan, Nonexistence ofrational points on certain varieties
Park, Chol, Semi-stable deformation ringsin Hodge-Tate weights (0,1,2)
Schaeffer Fry, Amanda, Irreducible rep-resentations of finite groups of Lie type:On the irreducible restriction problemand some local-global conjectures
Smith, Ryan, Serre weights: The partiallyramified case
SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 937
Program in Applied Mathematics
Fry, Brendan, Theoretical models forblood flow regulation in heterogeneousmicrovascular networks
Hottovy, Scott, The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation for stochas-tic differential equations with arbitrarystate-dependent friction
McGuire, Luke, Modeling the evolution ofRill networks, debris fans, and cindercones: Connections between sedimenttransport processes and landscape de-velopment
Tolwinski-Ward, Susan, Inference on tree-ring width and paleoclimate using aproxy model of intermediate complex-ity
ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas atFayetteville (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Bloomfield, Nathan, On the representa-tion of inverse-semigroups by difunc-tional relations
Espinosa Lucio, Belen, Hardy space prop-erties of the Cauchy kernel function forstrictly convex planar domain
Myers, Jeanine, The effect of symmetryon the Riemann map
CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (9)
Department of Computing and
Mathematical Sciences
Cheng, Mulin, Adaptive methods ex-ploring intrinsic sparse structures ofstochastic partial differential equations
Elling, Timothy, GPU-accelerated Fourier-continuation solvers and physically-exact computational boundary condi-tions for wave scattering problems
Gittens, Alex, Topics in randomized nu-merical linear algebra
McCoy, Michael, A geometric analysis ofconvex demixing
Department of Mathematics
Bartlett, Padraic, Completions of ε-denseLatin squares
Peskin, Laura, Ordinary mod p repre-sentations of the metaplectic cover ofp-adic SL2
Teh, Kevin, Dirac spectra, summationformulae, and the spectral action
van Garrel, Michel, Relative mirror sym-metry and ramifications of a formulafor Gromov-Witten invariants
Wong, Wing Hong Tony, Diagonal forms,linear algebraic methods and Ramsey-type problems
Claremont GraduateUniversity (16)
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Baik, Eunsil, Dynamics of two-componentBose-Einstein condensates
Berggren, Susan Anne Elizabeth, Com-putational and mathematical modelingof coupled superconducting quantuminterference devices
Billen, Joris, Simulated associating poly-mer networks
Bliss, David Atwood, Periodic boundaryvalue problems and the Dancer-Fucikspectrum under conditions of reso-nance
Caplan, Ronald Meyer, Study of vor-tex ring dynamics in the nonlinearSchrodinger equation utilizing GPU-accelerated high-order compact numer-ical integrators
Che, Xiaoyu, Joint modeling and analysisof recurrent and terminal events
De Cecchis, Dany, Development of aparallel coupler library with minimalinter-process synchronization
Frumkin, Jesse Peter, Induction of chro-mosome instability by gene dosageand over-expression in saccharomycescerevisiae
Glueck, Ruben Jeffrey, Pseudo-spectraland Kronecker product methods forfourth order partial differential equa-tions
Lo, Shin-en, A fire spread model usinglevel set methods
Moberly, Raymond Bion, Quantizationof a low-density parity-check (LDPC)decoder
Navarro, Rafael, Dynamical properties ofBose-Einstein condensates
Schmieder, Robert Armin, A frameworkfor identifying antibiotic resistance inthe human microbiome
Shu, Jody Hewychun, Autonomous voiceand motion controlled video camerasystem for instructional technology
Wilson, Jonathon Louis, Advancements inelicitation, aggregation, and forecastingof probability distributions under timeconstraints
Zarei, Sara, Mathematical modeling ofcystic fibrosis
Stanford University (23)
Department of Mathematics
Bellovin, Rebecca, p-adic Hodge theory inrigid analytic families
Campbell, Jonathan, Some results onK-theory, topological Hochschild ho-mology, and parameterized spectra
de Matos Geraldes Diogo, Luis, FilteredFloer and symplectic homology viaGromov-Witten theory
Fouladgar, Kaveh, Regularity theory forthe symmetric minimal surface equa-tion
Jiang, Yunjiang, Mixing time of Markovchains on finite and compact Lie groups
Kozai, Kenji, Singular hyperbolic struc-tures on pseudo-Anosov mapping tori
Miller, Jeremy, The topology of spaces ofJ-holomorphc maps to CP2
Murphy, Emmy, Loose Legendrian em-beddings in high dimensional contactmanifolds
Nance, Tracy, Equivariant algebraic k-theory of products of motivic circles
Peng, Minyu, Deviation inequalities foreigenvalues of deformed random ma-trices
Pham, Ha, A model diffractive boundaryvalue problem on an asymptoticallyanti-de Sitter space
Radziwill, Maksym, Zero-distribution andsize of the Riemann zeta-function onthe critical line
Rubinstein-Salzedo, Simon, Controllingramification in number fields
Stiennon, Nisan, The moduli space of realcurves and a Z/2-equivariant Madsen-Weiss theorem
Zhao, James, A random walk throughcombinatorial probability
Zhou, Xin, On the variational methods forminimal submanifolds
Department of Statistics
Chen, Hao, Two graph-based tests forhigh-dimensional inference
He, Pei, Non-proportional hazards in clin-ical trials with failure time endpoints
Liao, Yueh-Wen, Adaptive design of clin-ical trials with interim selection oftreatment arms
Mukherjee, Gourab, Sparsity and shrink-age in predictive density estimation
Ray, Nelson, Topics in two-sample testingSimon, Noah, Interactions and high di-
mensional dataSu, Yong, Statistical methods for dynam-
ical panel data and their applications
University of California,Berkeley (48)
Department of Mathematics
Bayer, Robertson, Lowness for computa-tional speed
Berwick Evans, Daniel, Supersymmetricsignal models, partition functions, andthe Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem
Cramer, Scott, The inverse limit reflectionand the structure of L(Vλ+1)
Cristofaro-Gardiner, Daniel, Some resultsinvolving contact homology
Critch, Andrew, Algebraic geometry ofhidden Markov and related models
DeIonno, John, Quasi-variational inequal-ities for source-expanding Hele-Shawproblems
Donatelli, Jeffrey, Reconstruction algo-rithms for x-ray nanocyst
Dyatlov, Semyon, Resonances in generalrelativity
Erhard, Julia, The Carlson-Simpson lemmain reverse mathematics
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
938 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 61, NUMBER 8
Ettinger, Boris, Well-posedness of thethree-form field equation and the min-imal surface equation in Minkowskispace
Ghosh, Subhroshekar, Rigidity phenom-ena in random point sets
Grip Barros Ramos, Vinicius, The asymp-totics of ECH capacities and absolutegradings on Floer homologies
Halpern-Leistner, Daniel, Geometric in-variant theory and derived categoriesof coherent sheaves
Hartglass, Michael, Free probability, pla-nar algebras and the multicoloredGuinnot-Jones-Shylakhtenko construc-tion
Hengesbach, Conrad, Prescribed meancurvature systems
Hening, Alexandru, Two models of de-fault from finance and a model ofinvasion from ecology
Igusa, Gregory, Generic reduction, andwork with partial computations andpartial oracles
Iveson, Sarah, A special case of the k-Littlewood-Richardson rule for k-Schurfunctions
Johnson-Freyd, Theodore, Perturbativemethods in path integration
Kazi, Michaeel K., Reconstruction fromvolume fraction data using variationaltechniques and level set methods
Kominiarczuk, Jakub, Acyclic Monte CarloLin, Haijian Kevin, Two studies of topo-
logical quantum field theory in twodimensions
Martirosyan, Lilit, The representation the-ory of the exceptional Lie superalgebrasF (4) and G(3)
Oliveira e Silva, Diogo, Oscillatory in-tegrals and external problems in har-monic analysis
Potter, Trevor, Dynamics and stability ofrolling viscoelastic tires
Saye, Robert, The Voronoi implicit in-terface method and applications tomultiphase fluid flow and multiscalemodeling of foam dynamics
Seyfaddini, Sobhan, C0 rigidity in Hofergeometry and Floer theory
Tran, Hung, Some new methods forHamilton-Jacobi type nonlinear partialdifferential equations
Voroninski, Vladislav, Phaselift: A novelframework for phase retrieval
Wilson, Trevor, Contributions to descrip-tive inner model theory
Yoo, Hwajong, Modularity of residuallyreducible Galois representations andEisenstein ideals
Department of Statistics
Abramson, Joshua, Some minorants andmajorants of random walks and Levyprocesses
Benjamini, Yuval, Predictive models inneuroscience and bioinformatics
Cai, Mu, High dimensional covarianceestimation and variable selection
Gagnon-Bartsch, Johann, Removing un-wanted variation from microarray datawith negative controls
Heggeseth, Brianna, Longitudinal clusteranalysis with applications to growthtrajectories
Higgins, Michael, Applications of inte-ger programming methods to solvestatistical problems
Lee, Wayne, Bayesian analysis in prob-lems with high dimensional data andcomplex dependence structure
Lin, Winston, Essays on causal inferencein randomized experiments
Neeman, Joseph, Isoperimetry and noisesensitivity in Gaussian space
Purdy, David, Sparse models for sparsedata: Methods, limitations, visualiza-tions, and ensembles
Raskutti, Garvesh, Large-scale sparse re-gression models under weak assump-tions
Ting, Daniel, Graphs and combinatorialrepresentations of stochastic processes
Wang, Yueqing, Aerosol retrieval usingremote-sensed observations
Group in Biostatistics
Chaffee, Paul, Targeted minimum lossbased estimation for longitudinal data
Kim, Kyung Pil, Application of statisti-cal methods to integrative analysis ofgenomic data
Li, Jingyi (Jessica), Statistical and com-putational methods for analyzing high-throughput genomic data
McLoughlin, Kevin Shane, Modeling andanalysis of oligonucleotide microarraydata for pathogen detection
University of California,Davis (15)
Department of Mathematics
Barrera-Rodriguez, Carlos, A collectionof multicurve complexes
Dobrin, Adam, Exploring the effects ofenforced proximity in enzyme reactionkinetics
Hildebrand, Robert, Algorithms and cut-ting planes for mixed integer programs
Hole, Jason, Well-posedness of the free-boundary compressible 3-D Euler equa-tions with surface tension and the zerosurface tension
Kemper, Yvonne, Problems of enumer-ation and realizability on matroids,simplicial complexes, and graphs
Mach, Paul, Protein sequence design forfold recognition using a new quantifica-tion of protein geometry
Travers, Nicholas, Bounds on conver-gence of entropy rate approximationsin hidden Markov processes
Woei, Ernest, Characterization and clus-tering of dendritic trees using mor-phological features extracted by graphspectra
Xia, Jing, Finding disease associatedgenes from microarray data
Department of Statistics
Chen, Jun, Statistical methods for diffu-sion magnetic resonance imaging
Chen, Senke, Predictive modeling forclustered data with applications
Gottlieb, Andrea, Functional methods forstickiness and compositional longitudi-nal data
Qiao, Wanli, On estimation of filamentarystructures
Tan, Zheng, Testing contagion in multi-variate financial time series based onresidual and recurrence times
Wang, Lu, Generalized exponential pre-diction for time series analysis
University of California,Irvine (19)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Meng, Study of noise attenuationin feedback systems
Choi, Timothy, Kloosterman sums andL-functions
Faubion, Zachary, Improving the consis-tency strength of stationary set reflec-tion at aleph omega plus one
Gong, Keqin, Portfolio optimization un-der multiscale volatility model
Huang, Chien-Hao, Random potentialsfor pinning models with interactions
Huber, Kenn, Disorder relevance in con-tinuous time polymer models
Jankans, Jeremy, Tangent space of Chowvariables
Mei, May, Spectral properties of primitiveinvertible substitution Schrodinger andJacobi operators
Moobed, Shabnam, Multi-scale models ofsolid tumor growth from the cell levelto the continuum
Nguyen, Son, The bootstrap multi-scaleanalysis for the multi-particle Andersonmodel
Ovadia, Jeremy, Computational modelingof tissue growth, organization, andpatterning
Pachas, William, On the invariance prin-ciple and central limit theorems onstochastic flow
Rael, Michael, Results on the parabolicAnderson model
Wang, Fan, Fast calibration in SLV modelWang, Jingyu, On the geometry of Beilin-
son quiver moduli spaces for P2
Wong, Angela, Primality test using ellipticcurves with complex multiplication byQ(√−7)
Wu, Min, Modeling of microenvironmen-tal fluid dynamics and vascular tumorgrowth
Yessen, William, Dynamical methods inone-dimensional quasi-periodic latticemodels
Yin, Deliang, Paraxial coupling of electro-magnetic waves in random media
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 939
University of California,Los Angeles (29)
Department of Biostatistics, Fielding
School of Public Health
He, Ren, Multiple imputation of high-dimensional mixed incomplete data
Jeffries, Robin, Sequential Bayesian re-gression for multiple imputation andconditional editing
Liao, Eileen, Challenges in high-throughputdata analysis: Proteomic data pre-processing and network methods forintegrating multiple data types
Shih, Vivian, Statistical methods for eval-uating relational structures in multi-dimensional phenotypic data for neu-ropsychiatric disorders
Department of Mathematics
Baron, Joshua, Efficient secure computa-tion and randomness
Compton, Ryan, Sparsity promoting opti-mization in quantum mechanical signalprocessing
Givens, Clinton, Measures of efficiencyfor secure multiparty computation
Hall, Michael, Spectral theory for semi-classical operators and artificial blackholes
Hammock, Frances, POD investigationsLane, Matthew, Generalized Atkin poly-
nomials and non-ordinary hyperellipticcurves
Liu, Wenjian, The tightness of the Kesten-Stigum reconstruction bound
McKinlay, Christopher, Efficient alge-braic representations for throughput-oriented algorithms
Navkal, Viraj, K′-theory of a Cohen-Macaulay local ring with n-cluster tilt-ing object
O’Brien, Michael, The role of short-termsynaptic plasticity in neural networkspiking dynamics and in the learning ofmultiple distal rewards
Palumbo, Justin, Hechler forcing and itsrelatives
Stomakhin, Alexey, Part I: Reconstructionof missing data in social networks basedon temporal patterns of interactions.Part II: Constitutive modeling in solidmechanics for graphics applications
Sun, Hui, Singular solutions and patternformation in aggregation equations
Taylor, David, Moduli of hyperellipticcurves and invariants of binary forms
Thamrongthanyalak, Athipat, Extensionsand smooth approximations of defin-able functions in O-minimal structures
Tong, Melissa, Restoration of images inthe presence of Rician noise and in thepresence of atmospheric turbulence
Tserunyan, Anush, Finite generators forcountable group actions; finite indexpairs of equivalence relations; complex-ity measures for recursive programs
Yang, Jed, Computational complexity anddecidability of tileability
Department of Statistics
Fellows, Ian, Exponential family randomnetwork models
Fu, Fei, Sparse causal network estimationwith experimental intervention
Hu, Wenze, Integrating 3D and 2D rep-resentations for view invariant objectrecognition
Jaynes, Jessica, Contributions in design ofexperiments: Methods and applications
Kukuyeva, Irina, Array independent com-ponent analysis with application toremote sensing
Yau, Nathan, An online tool for personaldata collection and exploration
You, Jiashen, A statistical modelingmethodology for the analysis of termstructure of credit risk and its depen-dency
University of California,Merced (1)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Kumar, Nitesh, Modeling dependence indata: Option pricing and random walks
University of California,Riverside (10)
Department of Mathematics
Gumaer, Dennis, A Jacobi field splittingtheorem for positive curvature
Highfield, Matthew, Twisted graded Heckealgebras for elementary abelian groups
Quinn, John, Scale covariance of fractalsets and measures, a differential ap-proach to the box-counting functions,with applications
Department of Applied Statistics
Ambartsoumian, Tatevik, Cumulative sumalgorithms based on nonparametrickernel density estimators
Ban, Jifei, Comparison of species assem-blages using data depth and mixturemodel
Fu, Yingzhou (Joyce), Statistical processcontrol tools for network monitoringusing generalized linear mixed models
Hansen, Anne, Goodness-of-fit tests forautoregressive logistic regression mod-els and generalized linear mixed models
Murillo, Gabriel, SNP calling using geno-type model selection on high-throughputsequencing data
Yang, Cheng-Hsueh (Peter), Predictionintervals in generalized linear mixedmodels
Yu, Yao, Bayesian and non-parametricapproaches to missing data analysis
University of California,San Diego (19)
Department of Mathematics
Banham, Timothy, A phase field modelfor cell shapes: Gamma-convergenceand numerical simulations
Berglund, James, Z-graded maximal or-ders of GK 3
Duane, Adrian Scott Campe, Patternmatching statistics in the permutationsand the alternating permutations
Eustis, Alex, Hypergraph independencenumbers
Hall, James, Convergence of Galerkinvariational integrators for vector spacesand Lie groups
Hicks, Angela, Parking function polyno-mials and their relation to the ShuffleConjecture
Hughes, Jacob, Stochastic processes aris-ing from graph manipulations
Hummon, Benjamin, Surface diagramsfor Gray categories
Jones, Miles, Consecutive matches inpermutations and cycles
Kenter, Franklin H. J., On spectral proper-ties of graph coloring, directed graphs,and hypergraphs
Kungurtsev, Vyacheslav, Second deriva-tive sequential quadratic programmingmethods for nonlinear optimization
Lipshutz, David, Existence, uniquenessand stability of slowly oscillating pe-riodic solutions for delay differen-tial equations with non-negativity con-straints
Meier, Caleb, Generalized solutions andnon-uniqueness in the Einstein con-straint equations: Some unresolved is-sues with the conformal formulation
Metti, Maximilian Sloan, Analysis of somehigher order space-time moving finiteelement methods
Oliver, Jesus, A vector field method fornon-trapping spacetimes
Parrish, Andrew, Adventures in graphRamsey theory
Serencsa, Jonathan, A development ofdiscretization techniques for some el-liptic and hyperbolic PDE
Wilson, Ben, Topics in Khovanov homol-ogy
Yang, Bo, Some results on gradient Riccisolitons and complete Kahler manifoldswith nonnegative curvature
University of California,Santa Barbara (17)
Department of Mathematics
Albrecht, Brent, Optimal mass transportand curvature bounds
Brighton, Kevin, Geometry of nonnega-tively curved smooth metric spaces
Cass, Jonathan, Generalized arithmeticfunctions
Chang, Liang, Non-semisimple general-izations of Turaev-Viro TQFTs and theirlattice model realizations
Grano, Ellie, Algorithms for planar alge-bras
Kabbabe, Tomas, In search of exceptionalcollections
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
940 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 61, NUMBER 8
Kennedy, Kathleen Grace, A diagram-matic multivariate Alexander invariantof tangles
Martin, Charles, Variational methods inpotential theory and planar ellipticgrowth
Plunkett, Laura, An analysis of shape,scaling and knotting in polymer modelswith and without excluded volume
Thompson, Keith, Group actions onspaces with surface quotients
Valdman, David, Spectral methods foranalyzing biological polymers
Yoshizawa, Michael, High distance Hee-gaard splittings via Dehn twists
Department of Statistics and Applied
Probability
Gao, Chunkai, Diversification, systemicdefault and regulation
Kim, Mee-Kyung, Semi-parametric mixed-effect models for the analysis of QTintervals
Kulikova, Varvara, Mixture tests withcontributions to the analysis of timesbetween events in a LOB
Ren, Bin, Asymptotic behavior of worstcase scenario prices in uncertain volatil-ity models
Shen, Qunying, European option pricingin liquid markets
University of California,Santa Cruz (11)
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Department
He, Yuning, Variable-length functionaloutput prediction and boundary detec-tion for an adaptive control simulator
Wang, Ziwei, A Bayesian nonparametricmodeling framework for extreme valueanalysis
Department of Mathematics
Batoreo, Marta, Coisotropic symplectictopology and periodic orbits in sym-plectic dynamics
Howard, Wyatt, The Monster Tower andaction selectors
Jiao, Kiangyu, Quantum dimensions andquantum Galois theory
Nitz, Frederic, On lattice-like subgroupsof Witt group schemes, and associatedmoduli spaces
O’Hare, Shawn, Fusion systems and bisetfunctors via ghost algebras
Shanbrom, Corey, Two problems in sub-Riemannian geometry
Shelley, Christopher, An arithmetic con-struction of the Gaussian and Eisensteintopographs
Xu, Zhe, Spectral gaps of random Heckeoperators
Yu, Nina, Representations of vertex oper-ator algebras
University of SouthernCalifornia (14)
Department of Mathematics
Courter, Rebecca, Computing higher in-dicators for the double of a symmetricgroup
Dreyer, Guillaume, Geometric propertiesof Anosov representations
Du, Jie, Stochastic games on stoppingtime
Huang, Yang, Homotopy classes of 2-plane fields in low dimensional topol-ogy
Ko, Hong Fu, Recurrence and Renyientropy
Lin, Ning, Estimation on coefficients instochastic differential equations
Moers, Michael, Statistical inference ofstochastic differential equations drivenby Gaussian noise
Nibert, Joel, Invariant measures of astochastic predator prey model
Pham, Triet, Zero-sum stochastic differ-ential games in weak foundation andrelated norms for semi-martingales
Song, Jinlin, Time-sequential testing formultiple hypotheses
Wang, Huanhuan, Asset managementwith incomplete information
Wang, Xin, Nonlinear expectations forcontinuous time model with jumps andapplications
Xu, Shanshan, Non-parametric multivari-ate regression hypothesis testing
Zhong, Jie, Second order in time sto-chastic evolution equation and Wienerchaos approach
COLORADOColorado School ofMines (2)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Lucero, Christian, Bayes risk A-optimalexperimental design methods for ill-posed inverse problems
Thompson, Ty, Algorithms and analysisfor simulation of deterministic andstochastic Ginzburg-Landau models
Colorado StateUniversity (9)
Department of Mathematics
Bayens, Luke, Hyperovals, Laguerre planesand hemisystems—an approach viasymmetry
Brake, Daniel, Homotopy continuationmethods, intrinsic localized modes, andcooperative robotic workspace
Marks, Justin, Mean variants on matrixmanifolds
Rohrbacker, Nicholas, Sparse multivariateanalyses via l1-regularized optimiza-tion problems solved with Bregmaniterative techniques
Williams, Cassandra, Conjugacy classesof matrix groups over local rings andan application to the enumeration ofabelian varieties
Zou, Yang, Spatiotemporal complexityin Ginzburg Landau equations foranisotropic systems
Department of Statistics
Dahlke, Markk, Survey sampling withnonparametric regression: Endogenouspost-stratification and penalized instru-mental variables
Hernandez-Stumpfhauser, Daniel, Bayesiananalysis of directional data based onthe projected normal distribution
Weller, Grant, Joint tail modeling viaregular variation with applications inclimate and environmental studies
University of Colorado,Boulder (26)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Alexander, Zachary, A topology-basedapproach for nonlinear time series withapplications in computer performanceanalysis
Baldwin, Douglas, Dispersive shock waveinteractions and two-dimensional ocean-wave soliton interactions
Biagioni, David, Numerical construc-tion of Green’s functions in high-dimensional elliptic problems with vari-able coefficients and analysis of re-newable energy data via sparse andseparable approximations
Fox, Adam, Destruction of invariant toriin volume-preserving maps
Hammond, Jason, Analysis and simula-tion of partial differential equations inmathematical biology: Applications tobacterial biofilms and Fisher’s equation
Hampton, Jerrad, Dissimilarity and opti-mal sampling in urn ensembles
Kaslovsky, Daniel, Analysis of high-dimensional data
Lewis, Ryan, Nonlinear approximationsin filter design and wave propagation
Lipinski, Douglas, Efficient ridge trackingalgorithms for computing Lagrangiancoherent structures in fluid dynamicsapplications
Liu, Kuo, Hybrid first-order system least-squares finite element methods with theapplication to Stokes and Navier-Stokesequations
Mosovsky, Brock, Finite-time transport inaperiodic dynamical systems
Reeger, Jonah, A computational study ofthe fourth Painleve equation and a dis-cussion of Adams predictor-correctormethods
Reynolds, Matthew, Nonlinear approx-imations in tomography, quadratureconstruction, and multivariate reduc-tions
Skardal, Per Sebastian, Periodic behaviorin cardiac tissue: Dynamics
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 941
Taylor, Dane, Spectral theory for therobustness and dynamical propertiesof complex networks
Villavert, John, The analysis of somenonlinear partial differential equations
Wu, Yuqi, Parallel scalable domain decom-position methods for simulating bloodflows in three-dimensional compliantarteries
Department of Mathematics
Chriestenson, Bryce, The real homotopytype of singular spaces via the Whitney-de Rham complex
Cong, Cui, Implicit space-time domaindecomposition methods for stochasticparabolic partial differential equations
Gern, Tyson, Leading coefficients ofKazhdan-Lusztig polynomials in typeD
Kish, Jonathan, Harmonic analysis on thepositive rationals: Multiplicative func-tions and exceptional Dirichlet charac-ters
Ma, Chao, Qualitative and quantitativeanalysis of nonlinear integral and dif-ferential equations
Martinez, Michael, The relative K-theoryof an algebraic pair
McGregor-Dorsey, Zachary, Some proper-ties of full heaps
Moore, Matthew, The undecidability ofthe definability of principal subcongru-ences
Wakefield, Nathan, Primitive divisors ingeneralized iterations of Chebyshevpolynomials
University of Colorado,Denver (3)
Department of Biostatistics
Horton, Kenneth, A multiple-subject anal-ysis of pulsatile hormones using birth-death Markov chain Monte Carlo
Pyle, Laura, Inference for incompletelyobserved longitudinal endpoints in clin-ical trials with application to trial mon-itoring
Sillau, Stefan, Local likelihood non-parametric and semi-parametric meth-ods for longitudinal data applied to astudy of air pollution and asthma
University of Denver (2)
Department of Mathematics
Greer, Mark, Loops and their permutationgroups
Kirshtein, Jenya, Cayley-Dickson loops
University of NorthernColorado (2)
School of Mathematical Sciences
Glassmeyer, David, Secondary teachermodels of quantitative reasoning
Yestness, Nissa, A study of undergraduatestudents’ use of diagrams in under-standing and constructing proofs aboutgroups, subgroups, and isomorphisms
CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (14)
Department of Mathematics
Daniels, Harris, Siegel functions, modularcurves and Serre’s uniformity problem
Feinberg, Gabriel, Homogeneous repre-sentations of Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquieralgebras
Mututhanthrige-Perera, Sirani, Quasisep-arable approach to matrices of Vander-monde type
Ren, Hua, Myers inequality for stable-likeoperators and pathwise uniqueness ofSDEs with jumps
Sarukkali, Milanthi, Replicated stratifiedsampling for sensitivity analysis
Department of Statistics
Bharath, Karthik, Inference for discretelyobserved processes
Chattopadhyay, Bhargab, Performanceof U-statistics having kernels of degreehigher than two in inference problemswith applications
Hu, Shan, Dynamic modeling of discrete-valued time series with applications
Li, Wenqing, Bayesian design of non-inferiority clinical trials
Liu, Ran, Clustering, classification andsegmentation of 3-dimensional images
Wei, Ziwen, Bayesian methodologies fortime-course gene expression data andclinical trial data
Wu, Rui, Theory and method for estimat-ing Bayesian posterior marginal densityand normalizing constant based oninflated density ratio with applications
Yao, Hui, Maximum likelihood andBayesian inference of meta-analysis re-gression models
Zhang, Yuanye, Bayesian methodologyfor survival data with semi-competingrisks
Wesleyan University (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Haensch, Anna, On almost universalternary inhomogeneous quadratic poly-nomials
Heenehan, Meghan, Chromatic numberand immersions of complete graphs
Morehouse, Edward, Categorical proofsearch for logic
Townsend, Brett, Dimension theory indense regular groups
Yale University (11)
Department of Mathematics
Cramer, Tim, Hall algebras and derivedcategories
Di Brino, Gennaro, Quot schemes ininfinite dimensions
Foster, Tyler, Higher configuration oper-ads
Hsu, Yu-Wen, Curve shortening flow andsmooth projective planes
Kim, Hyun Kyu, Quantum Teichmullerspace and universal modular groupoid
Logan, Miriam, Compositions of averag-ing operators on spheres
Modami, Babak, Prescribing the behav-ior of Weil-Petersson geodesics in themoduli space of Riemann surfaces
Tryniecki, Michal, Local and globalparametrizations of hyperbolic spaceand hyperbolic manifolds via heat ker-nel
Department of Statistics
Arnold, Taylor, Inference with ill-conditioned design matrices: Methodol-ogy and implementations
Joseph, Antony, On achieving information-theoretic limits using high dimensionalregression
Liu, Yang, Optimizing the use of sum-mary statistics in approximate Bayesiancomputation
DELAWARE
Delaware StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Atif, Sami, Dynamics of solitons forLangmuir waves in plasmas
Girgis, Laila, Perturbation of gaussons innonlinear optical fibers
Han, Bing, New traveling wave solutionsfor the Camassa-Holm equation
Reljin, Natasa, Classification of musicperformers based on multifractal fea-tures
Turner, Tiara, Transmission eigenvalues:Estimates, computations, and applica-tions in inverse scattering
University of Delaware (6)
Department of Mathematical Science
Brubaker, Nicholas, Mathematical theoryof electro-capillary surfaces
Kronenthal, Brian, On polynomial graphsand generalized quadrangles
Shu, Lu, Multilevel algorithms for saddlepoint problems
Wong, Wiseley, Spanning trees, tough-ness, and eigenvalues of regular graphs
Zheng, Jintong, Explicit Gaussian solu-tions to stochastic delay differentialequations with applications to modelsin finance
Zumbrum, Matt, Extensions for a surface-volume reaction model with applicationto optical biosensors
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DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAGeorge WashingtonUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematics
Shoda, Ken, Large families of matroidswith the same Tutte polynomial
Department of Statistics and
Biostatistics
Sun, Wanjie, Methods for a longitudi-nal quantitative outcome with a mul-tivariate Gaussian distribution multi-dimensionally censored by therapeuticintervention
Yao, Wenliang, Estimation of the areaunder the ROC curve with complexsurvey data
Zhou, Jie, Coarsened propensity scoresand hybrid estimators for missing dataand causal inference
Howard University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Ashley, Caleb James, Towards a discrete-ness algorithm for non-elementary rank3 subgroups of PSL(2, R)
Crowder, Tanner, Representations ofquantum channels
McCalla, Peter N., On the maximality ofcertain hyperelliptic curves over a finitefield of square order
Twum, Ralph A., An application of en-riched category theory to the Borel-WeilTheorem
FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (8)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Acharya, Cheban, On the spectrum ofpositive operators
Bulj, Djordje, A study of divisors andalgebras on a double cover of the affineplane
Chang, Fazhe, AUC estimation undervarious survival models
Harmon, Drake, A class of rationalsurfaces with a non-rational singularityexplicitly given by a single equation
Kolotoglu, Emre, Construction of combi-natorial designs with prescribed auto-morphism groups
Kosloff, Leonardo, On the Laplacian andfractional Laplacian in exterior do-mains and applications to the quasi-geostrophic equation
Pace, Nicola, Coset intersection problemand application to 3-nets
Villanueva, Yuri, Rings of integer-valuedpolynomials and derivatives
Florida Institute ofTechnology (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Avila-Herrera, Juan, Mixed integer linearprogramming based implementationsof logical analysis of data and itsapplications
Chin-Quee, Duane, Existence theory forfirst order functional differential equa-tions with anticipation and retardation
Florida StateUniversity (19)
Department of Mathematics
Bates, Jonathan, Spectral methods formorphometry
Boor, Joseph, An analytic approach toestimating the required surplus, bench-mark profit, and optimum reinsuranceretention for an insurance enterprise
Fang, Tingting, Solving linear differentialequations in terms of hypergeometricfunctions by 2-descent
Fullwood, James, On elliptic fibrationsand the F-theory compactifications ofstring vacua
Heaton, Randall, Algorithms for com-puting congruences between modularforms
Li, Dan, Periods and motives: Applica-tions in mathematical physics
Namihira, Motoi, Probabilistic uncer-tainty analysis and its applicationsin option models
Robinson, Daniel, Functional data analy-sis and partial shape matching in thesquare root velocity framework
Teka, Wondimu, Nonlinear dynamics un-derlying fast bursting in pituitary cells
Toole, Gregory, Modeling cortical foldingpatterns of the brain using a growingdomain
Wang, Guanghong, Dirac operators, mul-tipliers and Hp spaces of monogenicfunctions
Wells, Linda, Shape analysis of curves inhigher dimensions
Yan, Jinhua, Partial differential equationmethods to price options in the energymarket
Department of Statistics
Abayomi, Emilola, The relationship be-tween body mass and blood pressure indiverse populations
Bain, Rommel, Monte Carlo likelihoodestimation for conditional autoregres-sive models with application to sparsespatiotemporal data
Becvarik, Rachel, Nonparametric nonsta-tionary density estimation includingupper control limit methods for detect-ing change points
Kurtek, Sebastian, Riemannian shapeanalysis of curves and surfaces
McGinnity, Kelly, Nonparametric waveletthresholding and profile monitoring fornon-Gaussian errors
Rivera, Gretchen, Meta analysis and metaregression of a measure of discrimina-tion used in prognostic modeling
University of CentralFlorida (3)
Department of Mathematics
Pecora, Keri Ann, Partially integrablePT-symmetric hierarchies of nonlinearpartial differential equations
Pehlivan, Saliha, Spectrally uniform framesand spectrally optimal dual frames
Ramesh, Gayatri, Modified Pal interpola-tion and sampling bilevel signals withfinite rate of innovation
University of Florida (21)
Department of Mathematics
Browne, Cameron, Two extensions of aclassical within-host virus model
Castillo-Gil, Miriam, Functions of positivereal part of the unit ball of a normedspace
Chen, Fuhua, Multiphase image segmen-tation based on intensity statistics:Modeling and applications
Gregus, Jan, Geometric modular actionin 5-dimensional Minkowski space
Jacobsen, Karly, A mathematical modelfor tumor therapy with a fusogeniconcolytic virus
Kutsak, Sergii, Essential manifolds withextra structures
Lee, Jin-Seop, Image registration by usingstatistical information
Luery, Kristin, Composition operators onHardy spaces of the disk and half-plane
Maissen, James, Extensions of group ac-tions and the Hilbert-Smith conjecture
Posirca, Iulia, Variational models forsimultaneous image segmentation andnoise removal
Raney, Lee, Idempotent elements inblocks of p-solvable groups
Rosenfeld, Joel, Classes of densely de-fined multiplication and Toeplitz oper-ators with applications to extensions ofRKHS’s
Toska, Ferit, Effective symbolic dynamicsand complexity
Wyman, Sebastian, Closed sets, continu-ous functions, and symbolic dynamicsin the arithmetic hierarchy
Department of Statistics
Chatterjee, Arkendu S., Bayesian modelselection and fit for incomplete longi-tudinal data
Guo, Meixi, Empirical Bayes and likeli-hood based methods for measurementerror models
Holt, Nathan M., Tests of hypotheses forcomplex data
Li, Chen, Linear mixed model estimationwith Dirichlet process random effects
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 943
Lopiano, Kenneth K., Regression modelswith spatially misaligned data
Savenkov, Oleksandr, Novel methods fortime series data in clinical studies
Sparks, Douglas, Posterior consistency ofBayesian regression models
University of FloridaCollege of PublicHealth (2)
Department of Biostatistics
He, Zhulin, Causal inference with complexsampling designs
Wang, Yanpin, Inference for correlationmatrices for longitudinal and ordereddata
University of Miami (3)
Department of Mathematics
Alpar, Marta, Universal classification oftopological categories
Vega, Carlos, New approaches to space-time rigidity and splitting
Wang, Lei, Modeling environment con-tamination of antibiotic-resistant bacte-ria in hospitals
University of SouthFlorida (13)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Abdeljabbar, Alrazi, Wronskian, Gram-mian and Pfaffian solutions to nonlin-ear partial differential equations
Asfaw, Teffera, Topological degree andvariational inequality theories for pseu-domonotone perturbations of maximalmonotone operators
Dizona, Jill, On algorithmic fractionalpackings of hypergraphs
Dolzhenko, Egor, Modeling state transi-tions with automata
Fernando, Waththage Neranga, A studyof permutation polynomials over finitefields
Kottabi, Zahra, Statistical modeling andanalysis of breast and pancreatic can-cers
Meng, Jinghan, Bi-integrable and tri-integrable couplings and their Hamil-tonian structures
Muche, Tilahun, Hamiltonian set of polyg-onal paths in 4-valent spatial graphs
Paothong, Arnut, Dynamic processes innetwork goods: Modeling, analysis andapplications
Pedjeu, Jean-Claude, Multi-time scalesstochastic dynamic processes: Model-ing, methods, algorithms, analysis andapplications
Siu, Daniel, Stochastic hybrid dynamicsystems: Modeling, estimation and sim-ulation
Van Name, Joseph, Boolean partitionalgebras
Wanduku, Divine, Stochastic modelingof network-centric epidemiological pro-cesses
GEORGIAEmory University (13)
Department of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics
Chen, Shuo, New statistical techniquesfor high-dimensional neuroimaging data
Ji, Shuang, Quantile regression for com-plex censored data
Tang, Li, Analysis of data with com-plex misclassification in response orpredictor variables by incorporatingvalidation subsampling
Wang, Ming, Spatial and spatial-temporalpoint process analysis
Xue, Wenqiong, Statistical methods formultimodal data: Techniques for thecombined analysis of brain functionand structure
Mathematics and Computer Science
Department
Aposporidis, Alexis, Numerical analysis ofmixed formulations for Bingham fluids
Choi, Eric, Rotationally symmetric planesin comparison geometry
Crompton, Laura Catherine, Asymptoticsof resonances for radial potential scat-tering in hyperbolic space
Kuhlemann, Verena, Iterative methodsand partitioning techniques for largesparse problems in network analysis
La Fleur, Steven, On problems in extremalgraph theory and Ramsey theory
Lemke Oliver, Robert, Topics in analyticnumber theory
Mejia Bustamante, Veronica, Iterativepolyenergetic digital tomosynthesis re-constructions for breast cancer screen-ing
Villa, Umberto, Scalable efficient methodsfor incompressible fluid-dynamics inengineering problems
Georgia Health SciencesUniversity (2)
Department of Biostatistics
Greene, Joshua, Mixture models for ana-lyzing antigen receptor data
McCracken, Courtney, Correlation co-efficient inference for left-censoredbiomarker data with known detectionlimits
Georgia Institute ofTechnology (16)
School of Mathematics
Asadi Shahmirzadi, Arash, Minor mini-mal non-projective planar graphs withinternal 3-separation
Chenette, Nathan Lee, Symmetric schemesfor efficient range and error-tolerantsearch on encrypted data
Feng, Huijun, Goodness-of-fit test andbilinear model
Gong, Ruoting, Small-time asymptoticsand expansions of option prices underLevy-based models
Huynh, Huy Ngoc, Estimating the maxi-mum probability of categorical classesand applications to biological diversitymeasurement
Li, Yao, Stochastic perturbation and itsapplication to complex biological net-works
Ma, Jinyong, Topics in sequence analysisMinsker, Stanislav, Non-asymptotic bounds
for prediction problems and density es-timation
Ni, Kai, The asymptotic rate of the lengthof the longest significant chain withgood continuation in Bernoulli net andits applications in filamentary detection
Postle, Luke, 5-list-coloring graphs onsurfaces
Scurry, James, One and two weight theoryin harmonic analysis
Sedjro, Marc, On the almost axisymmetricflows with forcing terms
Tosun, Bulent, Legendrian and transverseknots and their invariants
Tran, Anh, The volume conjecture, theAJ conjectures and skein modules
Wang, Ruodu, Some questions in riskmanagement and high-dimensional dataanalysis
Ye, Tianjun, Forbidden subgraphs and3-colorability
Georgia SouthernUniversity, Jiann Ping-ShuCollege of PublicHealth (2)
Division of Biostatistics
Butterfield, Ryan, A study of suicide: Alatent class-evidence based model forscreening of suicidal behaviors amongadolescents living in the United Statesfrom 1991–2011
Garg, Priyanka, Robustness of multipleimputation under missing at random(MAR) mechanism: A simulation study
Georgia StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Akcin, Haci, Nonparametric inferencesof hazard rate function with righttruncated data
Cui, Ye, Advanced design of cancer phaseI and phase II clinical trials
Luo, Shan, New nonparametric methodsfor income distributions
University of Georgia (16)
Department of Mathematics
Ellis, Jennifer, On the geometry of sets ofpositive reach
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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George, Whitney, Positive twist knots andthickenings
Krumm, David, Quadratic points on mod-ular curves
LeBlanc, Maury, Analyzing free quantumfield theories on the ax + b space-time and Wigner contractions to theMinkowski plane
Li, Wenjing, Spiral Schubert varieties inaffine A2
Mastin, John, Symmetries of compositeknots
Matamba Messi, Leopold, Theoretical andnumerical approximation of the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi model for image denois-ing in the continuous setting
Rice, Alex, Improvements and extensionsof two theorems of Sarkozy
Department of Statistics
Askew, Ashley, Numerical optimizationand empty set problem in applicationof empirical likelihood methods
Bartlett, Andrew, Extreme value esti-mators for various non-negative timeseries with heavy-tail innovations
Feng, Cong, Nonparametric analysis oftime series with complex features
Kulvanich, Nat, Mixture Poisson pointprocesses: Assessing heterogeneity inEMA analysis
O’Neal, Christopher, Asymptotic expan-sions of processes with extreme valuerandom variable innovations
Xu, Kun, A systematic study reveals newinsights of cancer
Xue, Yijie, Applications of empirical like-lihood to nonresponse problem andchangepoint detection
Xue, Yuan, Sufficient dimension foldingtheory and methods
HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii atManoa (2)
Department of Mathematics
Grabarek, Lukasz, Non-linear stabilityand hyperbolicity preserving operators
Yap, Diane, Dynamical complex multipli-cation
IDAHOUniversity of Idaho (5)
Department of Mathematics
Ahlman, Christopher, Local newforms forthe group of 2 × 2 matrices over anon-Archimedean field
Frost, Jodi, Pre-service teachers’ concep-tions of literal symbols
Torrance, Douglas, Nondefective secantvarieties of varieties of completelydecomposable forms
Wan, Jia, On Waring’s problem for skew-symmetric forms
Department of Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology
Wojtowicz, Andrzej, Estimating the num-ber and distribution of beneficial muta-tions for models of adaptive evolution
ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (5)
Applied Mathematics Department
Barua, Amlan, A numerical and analyt-ical study of the growth of secondphase particles using sharp interfaceapproach
Iyigunler, Ismail, Topics in counterpartyrisk and dynamic conic finance
Kan, Xingye, Quantitative tools for sto-chastic dynamical systems: Invariantstructures and escape probabilities
Xu, Shengqiang, A multi-curve LIBORmarket model with uncertainties de-scribed by random fields
Yang, Jiarui, The relationship betweendefault and volatility and its impact oncounterparty credit risk
Illinois State University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Miller, Amanda, Investigating conceptual,procedural, and intuitive aspects of areameasurement
Zhang, Xiaofen, Enriching fifth-graders’concept images and understandings ofunit fractions
Northern IllinoisUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Chatterjee, Arpita, Bayesian inference ofmixed effects models for sparse binarydata with applications to adverse events
Decaro, Michael, Representations ofmx2+ny2
Dong, Qian, Modeling dependence andregression analysis in competing riskcure rate models
Ficken, Susan, Asymptotics for the zeroof a basic hypergeometric function inthree parameters
Leroux, Christine, On universal local-ization of noncommutative Noetherianrings
Sugrue, Patrick, Non-meromorphic solu-tions to differential equations
NorthwesternUniversity (16)
Department of Mathematics
Beaudry, Agnes, The duality resolutionspectral sequence for the Moore spec-trum at the prime 2
Chaudhuri, Chitrabhanu, Topologicalbounds on certain open subvarietiesof the compactified moduli space ofcurves
Gunningham, Sam, Categorified har-monic analysis on complex reductivegroups
Kotov, Vladimir, The Atiyah-Bott theoremfor algebraic surfaces
Le, Ian, Higher laminations and affinebuildings
Parkhe, Kiran, Actions of the Heisenberggroup on surfaces
Tanaka, Hiroaki, A functor from La-grangian cobordisms to the Fukayacategory
Department of Statistics
Fonseca Mendes, Eduardo, Convergencerates and model selection for mixtureof experts
Li, Juanjuan, Bayesian variable selectionfor high-dimensional clustering
Wang, Huanhuan, Univariate ARMA-AGARCH and multivariate ARMA-GARCHmodeling
Engeering Science and Applied
Mathematics Department
Davis, Michael J., Evolution and instabilityof clean foams
Demers, Matthew, Curvature-driven pat-tern formation in multicomponent mem-branes
Gruber, Christopher, Mathematical mod-els of cell preservation by drying
Tanzy, Matthew, Modeling problems incombustion and population dynamics
Trana, Rachel, Modeling of subthresholdvoltage responses, synaptic integrationand backpropagating action potentialsin CA1 pyramidal neurons
Tzou, Cheng, Pattern formation in theweakly nonlinear and singularly per-turbed regimes of the Brusselatormodel
Southern IllinoisUniversity Carbondale (1)
Department of Mathematics
Kemajou, Elisabeth, A stochastic delaymodel for pricing corporate liabilities
University of Chicago (23)
Department of Mathematics
Avramidi, Grigori, Isometries of noncom-pact aspherical manifolds
Balaji, Sundeep, G-valued potentiallysemi-stable deformation rings
Bass, Jared, Topological classification ofsome multiaxial actions on spheres andproducts
Davey, E. Blair, Some quantitative uniquecontinuation results for eigenfunctionsof the magnetic Schrodinger operator
Gao, Kun, Implied volatility asymptoticsJimenez Rolland, Rita, Examples of repre-
sentation stability phenomena
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 945
Lawrie, Andrew, On the global behaviorof wave maps
Papaioannov, Athanasios, Algebraic solu-tions of non-abelian differential equa-tions
Rezaei, Mohammad Abbas, SLE curvesand natural parametrization
Rosso, Daniele, Mirabolic flag varieties:Combinatorics and convolution alge-bras
Schaeppi, Daniel, Generalized Tannakaduality
Thibault, Matthew, Homotopy theory ofcombinatorial categories
Wright, Matthew, Computability and struc-tures
Department of Statistics
Barta, Winfried, Random walk Metropolischains on the hypercube
Castruccio, Stefano, Statistical methodsfor climate estimates
Chang, Changgee, Estimation of covari-ance matrix for high-dimensional andhigh-frequency data
Chang, Xiaohui, Wavelet analysis inspatial interpolation of high-frequencymonitoring data
Guinness, Joseph, Non-stationary modelsfor spatial-temporal processes
Han, Han, From Bayes calculation toefficient integration of studies: Threestatistical problems
Lee, Myoungji, Local properties of irregu-larly observed Gaussian fields
Wang, Dan (Christina), Estimation ofleverage effect
Zhang, Ting, Nonparametric inference onnonstationary time series
Zhong, Yunda, A large scale multipletesting for data with spatial signs
University of Illinois atChicago (19)
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Division
Peterson, Caryn, Survival disparity inblack and white women with ovariancancer: The role of mediators andcontextual factors
Shi, Fei, Model selection in multivariateanalysis with missing data
Mathematics, Statistics and
Computer Science Department
Adrovic, Danko, Solving polynomial sys-tems with tropical methods
Dexter, Kathleen, Some results on therepresentation theory of the symplecticsimilitude group of order four
Drueck, Fred, Limit models, superlimitmodels, and two cardinal problems inabstract elementary classes
Freitag, James, Model theory and differ-ential algebraic geometry
Hernandez, Troy, Vectorization general-izations in genomics and transportation
Jiao, Yang, Of nonlinear filtering prob-lems: Structure theorem and a newsuboptimal filter
Lombardi, Luigi, Derived equivalences ofirregular varieties and constraints onHodge numbers
London, Stephen, Constructing new Tu-ryn type sequences, T-sequences andHadamard matrices
McBride, Travis, On stability of general-ized short-crested water waves
Robinson, Christine, On Siegel Maass waveforms of weight 0
Siler, William, The geometry of carriergraphs in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Stasi, Despina, Combinatorial problemsin graph drawing and knowledge repre-sentation
Sulo Caceres, Rajmonda, Temporal scaleof dynamic networks
Sward, Andrew, A discontinuous-Galerkinmethod for the CEV process
Tang, Gail, Students’ errors in setting updifference quotients and connectionsto their conceptions of function
Yu, Yue, Assessment of agreements inlinear and generalized linear mixedmodels
Zuo, Huaiqing, Complete coordinate-freecharacterization of isolated homoge-neous singularities and derivations ofmoduli
University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (27)
Department of Mathematics
Avsec, Stephen, Gaussian-like von Neu-mann algebras and noncommutativeBrownian motion
Beder, Jesse, The grade conjecture andasymptotic intersection multiplicity
Bonnell, Christopher, Combinatorics of afamily of stochastic differential equa-tions with an eye towards topologicaltemperature
Butterfield, Jane, Forbidden substruc-tures: Induced subgraphs, Ramseygames, and sparse hypergraphs
Choi, Jinwon, Enumerative invariants forlocal Calabi-Yau threefolds
Cummins, Desmond, The Dehn func-tion, word problem, and bounded wordproblem for finitely generated decid-able group presentations
Curcic, Milos, Lattice polytopes with dis-tinct pair-sums
Dixit, Atul, Transformation formulas as-sociated with integrals involving theRiemann Ξ-function and Rank-Cranktype PDEs in partition theory
Eid, Abdulla, Invariant embeddings of theDeligne-Lusztig curves with application
Hu, Yi, Discrete Fourier restriction phe-nomenon associated with some periodicdispersive equations
Jao, Fang-Kai, On vertex degrees, graphdecomposition, and circular chromaticRamsey number
Kim, Eunmi, Root distribution of polyno-mials and distance sums on the unitcircle
Kinnersley, William, Degree Ramsey the-ory, game and Roman domination andgame saturation in graphs
Kwiatkowska, Aleksandra, Dynamics ofPolish groups
Lior, Dan, Computing the Goodwillie-Taylor tower of discrete modules
Liu, Chih-Chung, The analytic and asymp-totic behaviors of vortices
Mak, Kit Ho, On congruence functionfields with many rational places
Maungchang, Rasimate, Curves on sur-faces
Park, Hyunchul, Potential theory of sub-ordinate Brownian motions and theirperturbations
Polanco Encarnacion, Geremias, Beattyratios, algorithms related to Sturmiansequences and uniform distributiontheory
Tran, Khang, Discriminants: Calculation,properties, and connection to the rootdistribution of polynomials with ratio-nal generating functions
Vandehey, Joseph, Error term improve-ments for van der Corput transforms
Vlasic, Andrew, Stochastic stability ofreplicator dynamics with random jumps
Yancey, Matthew, Sparse color-criticalgraphs and rainbow matchings in edge-colored graphs
Zheng, Zhi, Stochastic Stefan problems:Existence, uniqueness, and modeling ofmarket limit orders
Department of Statistics
Bawawana, Bavwidinsi, Nonparametrictesting for random effects in mixedeffects models based on the piecewiselinear interpolate of the log character-istic function
Yun, Jong Hyun, Ensemble filtering forspace state models
INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (17)
Department of Mathematics
Bayraktar, Turgay, Green currents formeromorphic maps of compact Kahlermanifolds
Chadwick, Steven Greg, Structured orien-tations of Thom spectra
Clouatre, Raphael, Similarity results foroperators of class C0
Di Plinio, Francesco, Lp bounds forthe directional Hilbert transform andendpoint estimates with application toEuler equations
Gelantalis, Michal, Rotating 2N-vortex so-lutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equationon S2
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Huang, Hao-Wei, On the support of mea-sures in free additive and multiplicativesemigroups
Kashyap, Neeraj, Ranks of elliptic curvesover cyclic cubic, quartic, and sexticextensions
Li, Kevin, Single-periodic minimal sur-faces with Scherk ends near parallelplanes
Li, Zhenyu, Some applications of thebarycenter method
Lin, Jan-Li, Degree growth and stabiliza-tion of monomial maps
Lodge, Russell, The boundary behavior ofThurston’s pullback map
Morrow, Steve, Coboundary theorems forcollections of random varables withmoment conditions
Niichel, Robert, On periodograms of rho-prime mixing fields
Thornhill, Christopher, Permanence prop-erties of Hilbertian fields under alge-braic extensions
Weakley, Le Mai, Some strictly stationary,N-tuplewise independent counterexam-ples to the central limit theorem
Young, Justin, On the E2 structure ofcochains
Youngs, Mattias, Existence of locallymomentum conserving solutions to amodel for heat conducting flows
Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Bothner, Thomas, Asymptotics of theFredholm determinant correspondingto the first bulk critical universalityclass in random matrix models
Carter, Jim, Commutants of compositionoperators on the Hardy space of thedisk
Kaschner, Scott, Superstable manifoldsof invariant circles and codimension-1Bottcher functions
McBride, Matthew, D-bar and Dirac opera-tors on classical and quantum domains
Thompson, Derek, Restrictions to invari-ant subspaces of composition operatorson the Hardy space of the disk
Purdue University (27)
Department of Mathematics
Bridges, Bobby, A solution to Schroeder’sequation in several variables
Carrion, Jose, On some noncommuta-tive topological spaces associated withgroups and dynamical systems
Chen, Feng, Efficient spectral methodsand stable time discretizations for aclass of nonlinear parabolic type PDEs
Cheng, Lei, Mathematical analysis ofchevron structure in liquid crystal films
Cheong, Chi Weng, Distances between ap-proximately unitary equivalence classesof self-adjoints in C∗-algebras
Choiy, Kwangho, Transfer of Plancherelmeasures between p-adic inner forms
Colbert-Kelly, Sean, Theoretical and com-putational analysis of a Ginzburg-Landau energy model for smectic-C∗liquid crystals with defects
Eden, Richard, Probability tail estimatesand convergence results for generaldistributions using Malliavin calculusand Stein’s equations
Ganapathy, Radhika, The Deligne-Kazhdan philosophy and the Langlandsconjectures in positive characteristic
Gao, Hui, Breuil’s conjecture on stronglydivisible lattices in the r = p − 1 unipo-tent case
Ip, Tsz Ho, A metric question on com-pactified complex ball quotients
Luca, Mihnea-Paul, Strong unique contin-uation for hyperbolic operators
Lugo, Jose, Quasidiagonality and KK-theory of continuous fields of C∗-algebras
Mantero, Paolo, Linkage and Hilbert func-tions
Mishra, Manish, Structure of the unrami-fied L-packet
Munive, Isidro, Parabolic equations insub-Riemannian spaces: Boundary be-havior of non-negative solutions, curva-ture-dimension inequalities, Li-Yau in-equalities and volume growth
Rungratgasame, Thitarie, An analysisof crystalline surface diffusion in theframework of subdifferential method
Sungmun, Cho, Group schemes and localdensities of quadratic forms in residuecharacteristic 2
Viquez, Juan, Convergence in law forgeneral distributions in Wiener andWiener-Poisson spaces using Malliavincalculus and Stein’s method
Wang, Botong, Parabolic Higgs bundlesand filtered local systems
Ward, Ben, Cohomology of operad alge-bras and Deligne’s conjecture
Zheng, Xiaoning, High-order numericalmethods: Algorithms and applications
Department of Statistics
Barboza, Luis, New methods of estima-tion of long-memory models with anapplication in climatology
Baumann, Douglas, Annotation-informedintegration of ’omic data in next-generation sequencing
Chen, Xiongzhi, General method for adap-tive control and estimation of falsediscovery rate
Clough, Timothy, Statistical protein quan-tification and prioritization in label-freeshotgun LC-MS/MS proteomics
Dutta, Ritabrata, Model selection: Bayesand frequentist perspective
University of NotreDame (14)
Applied and Computational
Mathematics and Statistics
Du, Huijing, Multiscale modeling of bac-terial swarming
Liu, Yuan, WENO computations and pat-tern stability
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Tiancong, Local existence theoremsfor fully nonlinear partial differentialequations
Cotter, Sarah, Characterizing forking inVC-minimal theories
Davidson, Melissa, Continuity propertiesof the solution map for the generalizedreduced Ostrovsky equation
Engbers, John, Some problems involvingH-colorings of graphs
Flood, Stephen, Paths, trees, and the com-putational strength of some Ramsey-type theorems
Grayshan, Katelyn, Analysis of a familyof shallow water waves
Johnson, Jesse, Computable model theoryfor uncountable structures
Li, Gang, Constant Q-curvature metricsnear the hyperbolic metric
Patnott, Megan, Arithmetically Goren-stein sets of points on general surfacesin P3
Precup, Martha, Affine pavings of Hes-senberg varieties for semisimple groups
VanDenDriessche, Steven, Embedding com-putable infinitary equivalence into p-groups
Yoon, Youngho, Spectrum of hyperplanearrangements in four variables
IOWAIowa State University (25)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Sa’di, Sa’ud, Sampling and interpola-tion in Hilbert spaces of entire functions
Aydogmus, Ozgur, Non-local interactionsin spatial evolutionary games
Huang, Yuanyuan, Statistical summaryof protein structures
Hwang, Sukjung, Holder regularity ofsolutions of generalized p-Laplaciantype parabolic equations
Li, Zhen, Stochastic homogenization ofelliptic equation and optimal control
Olmez, Oktay, On highly regular digraphsPark, Jun Koo, Normal mode analysis and
Gaussian network modelTang, Chunquan, Mixed boundary value
problems for quasilinear elliptic equa-tions
Tims, Geoff, Haemers’ minimum rankYu, Hui, On entropy satisfying and
maximum-principle-satisfying high-order methods for Fokker-Planck equa-tions
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 947
Department of Statistics
Chen, Sixia, Efficient estimation in miss-ing data and survey sampling problems
Ji, Tieming, Borrowing information acrossgenes and experiments for improvederror variance estimation in microarraydata analysis and statistical inferencesfor gene expression heterosis
Joseph, Maria Lavonne, Threshold valueestimation in the presence of covariatemeasurement error
Kraemer, Kari Angela, Confidence in-tervals for variance components andfunctions of variance components inthe random effects model under non-normality
Orr, Megan Cristina, Assessing differen-tial expression when the distribution ofeffect sizes is asymmetric and evaluat-ing concordance of differential expres-sion across multiple gene expressionexperiments
Pazdernik, Karl T., Alternative approachesto maximum likelihood estimation ofthe spatial random effects model
Qiu, Yu, Isotropic distributions for 3-dimension rotations and one-sampleBayes inference
Schmidt, Kristian, Modeling cash fre-quency data
Si, Yaqing, Statistical analysis of RNA-SEQdata from next-generation sequencingtechnology
Tian, Ye, Estimating a parametric life-time distribution from superimposedrenewal process data
Trapp, Allan Francis, Applications ofnon-parametric kernel smoothing esti-mators in Monte Carlo risk assessments
Wang, Heng, Application of order re-stricted statistical inference and hiddenMarkov modeling to problems in biol-ogy and genomics
Xu, Ruo, Improvements to random forestmethodology
Xu, Zheng, Essays on GMO effects oncrop yields, the effects of pricing errorson implied volatilities and smoothingfor seasonal time series with a longcycle
Zoh, Roger Sai, Using the negative log-gamma distribution for Bayesian sys-tem reliability assessment
University of Iowa (25)
Applied Mathematical and
Computational Sciences
Diedrichs, Danilo, A mathematical modelof the unfolded protein response tostress in the endoplasmic reticulum ofmammalian cells under stress
Graham, Jason, Mathematical represen-tations in musculoskeletal physiologyand cell motility
Li, Bin, Look-back stopping times andtheir applications to liquidation riskand exotic options
Tsuruta, Kai, Construction of the waveoperator for non-linear dispersive equa-tions
Department of Biostatistics
Foster, Eric D., State-space time seriesclustering using discrepancies based onthe Kullback-Leibler information andMahalanobis distance
Kliethermes, Stephanie A., A Bayesiannonparametric approach to modelinglongitudinal growth curves with non-normal outcomes
Mills, Elizabeth Dastrup, Adjusting forcovariates in zero-inflated gamma andzero-inflated log-normal models forsemicontinuous data
Shen, Shihao, Statistical methods for RNAsequencing
Zhang, Tao, Discrepancy-based algo-rithms for best-subset model selection
Department of Mathematics
Averett, Syvillia, Some representations ofSl∗(2, A)
De la Mora, Carlos, Explicit Plancherelmeasure for PGL2(F)
Gaebler, David, Unital dilations of com-pletely positive semigroups
Greene, Andrew, Extensions of Hilbertmodels over tensor algebras
Insko, Erik, Equivariant cohomology andlocal invariants of Hessenberg varieties
Juett, Jason, Some topics in abstractfactorization
Niedzialomski, Robert, Extension of posi-tive definite functions
Price, Candice, A biological applicationfor the oriented skein relation
Schirmer, Trenton, Two varieties of tun-nel number subadditivity
Talbott, Shannon, Universal deformationrings of modules for algebras of dihe-dral type of polynomial growth
Udrea, Bogdan, Applications of deforma-tion rigidity theory in von Neumannalgebras
Welch, Stephen,C1,α regularity for bound-aries with prescribed mean curvature
Wright, Carmen, Some representationtheory for Sl∗(2, A) whereA = M(2,O/p2)and ∗ equals transpose
Zupan, Alexander, Thin position, bridgestructure, and monotonic simplificationof knots
Department of Statistics and
Actuarial Science
Li, Jinzheng, Statistical detection withweak signals via regularization
Yuan, Zhongyi, Quantitative analysis ofextreme risks in insurance and finance
KANSASKansas StateUniversity (12)
Department of Mathematics
Fan, Zhaobing, Geometric approach toHall algebra and character sheaves
Lee, Ik Jae, A new generalization of theKhovanov homology
Majard, Dany, Cubical categories, TQFTsand new possible representations ofthe Poincare group
Moore, Todd, What calculus do studentslearn after calculus?
Natarajan, Rekha, Application and anal-ysis of just in time teaching methods ina calculus course
Saleh, Ibrahim, Cluster automorphismsand hyperbolic cluster algebras
Silwal, Sharad, Harnack’s inequality inspaces of homogeneous type
Teka, Kubrom, The obstacle problemfor second order elliptic operators innondivergence form
Zhang, XiaoJing, A law of the iteratedlogarithm for general lacunary series
Department of Statistics
Demel, Seth, Modeling and computationof multivariate datasets in space andtime
Keating, Karen, Analysis of pyrosequencedata
Zheng, Lianqing, Statistical identificationof metabolic reactions catalyzed bygene products of unknown function
University of Kansas (7)
Department of Mathematics
Brucal Hallare, Maila, Solutions of latticedifferential equations over inhomoge-neous media
Hart, Jarod, Bilinear Littlewood-Paleysquare functions and singular integrals
Lamb, Charles, Neutral equations ofmixed type
Lei, Pedro, On the self-similar Gaussianprocesses
Lu, Fei, Some applications of Malliavincalculus to SPDE and convergence ofdensities
Oh, Seungly, Normal form approachfor dispersive equations with low-regularity data
Stone, Branden, Super-stretched andcountable Cohen-Macaulay type
Wichita State University (2)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Physics
Khanfer, Ammar, On the existence ofcentral fans of capillary surfaces
Metheny, Maryssa, Covariance structuresof Gaussian and log-Gaussian vectorstochastic processes
KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (4)
Department of Mathematics
Hineman, Jay, The hydrodynamic flow ofnematic liquid crystals in R3
Walker, Ryan, On a Paley-Wiener theoremfor the ZS-AKNS scattering transform
Wilfong, Andrew, Toric varieties andcobordism
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Department of Statistics
Wang, Zilong, Analysis of binary data viaspatial-temporal autologistic regressionmodels
University of Louisville (2)
Department of Mathematics
Caragianis, Christophe, Connected match-ings in special families of graphs
Leidner, Maxfield, A study of the totalcoloring of graphs
LOUISIANALSU Health ScienceCenter, New Orleans (3)
Department of Biostatistics
Burton, Jeffrey, Improved hypothesistests for linear combinations of fixedeffects parameters in nonlinear randomeffects models
Fan, Ying, Multiple mediation analysisfor general predictive models
Yang, Shengping, Normalization andgenotyping methodologies for singlenucleotide polymorphism array andnext-generation sequencing data
Louisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (14)
Department of Mathematics
Armond, Cody, The head and tail conjec-ture for alternating knots
Gruszka, Aleksandra, Some tracking prob-lems for aerospace models with inputconstraints
Gu, Shiyuan, C0 interior penalty methodsfor Cahn-Hilliard equations
Ho, Vivian, Paley-Wiener theorem forline bundles over compact symmetricspaces
Huang, Lingyan, Subgradient formulasfor optimal control problems with con-stant dynamics
Jacobson, Jeremy, On the Witt groups ofschemes
McCarty, Benjamin, Hypercube diagramsfor knots, links, and knotted tori
Nan, Zhe, Application of Helmholtz/Hodgedecomposition to finite element meth-ods for two-dimensional Maxwell’sequations
Russell, Amber, Graham’s variety andperverse sheaves on the nilpotent cone
Szozda, Benedykt, The new stochasticintegral and anticipating stochastic dif-ferential equations
Tao, Ming, Large deviations for stochasticNavier-Stokes equations with nonlinearviscosities
Windsberger, Lee, Operational methodsfor evolution equations
Xuanting, Cai, Skein theory and topologi-cal quantum field theory
Yue, Chen, Resonance and double nega-tive behavior in metamaterials
Louisiana TechnologyUniversity (7)
Computational Analysis and
Modeling Program
Atkins, Scott Alan, Event shapes inproton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy=1.96 TeV
Cheng, Yuan, New microarray image seg-mentation using segmentation basedcontours method
Idowu, Richard, A study of cellularcalcium dynamics in culture using fluo-rescence microscopy—A statistical andmathematical approach
Rahman, Khandaker Abir, Snoop-forge-replay attack on continuous verificationwith keystrokes
Saini, Sheetal, Adaptive grid based lo-calized learning for multidimensionaldata
Thanakornworakij, Thanadech, Reliabil-ity models for HPC applications and acloud economic model
Thompson, Sr., Mark Anthony, Predictingthreat potential using cyber sensors
Tulane University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Meyer, Karlene, Distance-weighted neigh-boring sites models for methylationpattern inheritance
Twelbeck, Tim, Shellability of the Bruhatorder on Borel orbit closures
University of Louisiana atLafayette (6)
Department of Mathematics
Lennon IV, Matthew J., Intrinsic and denseintrinsic extensions of rings
Ma, Baoling, Long-time solution behaviorand higher order numerical schemesfor structured population models
Ryan, Chris E., Fully invariant modulardecompositions using pairwise comaxi-mal ideals
Xie, Fang, Tolerance intervals for somecontinuous and discrete distributions
Xu, Zhao, Inferences on lognormal distri-butions based on samples with multipledetection limits
Zhang, Dan, Test and interval estimationmethods for binomial and Poissondistributions
MARYLANDJohns HopkinsBloomberg School ofPublic Health (3)
Department of Biostatistics
Li, Shanshan, Statistical methods for eval-uating diagnostic accuracy of biomark-ers
Parker, Hilary, Statistical approaches forthe removal of batch effects in genomicstudies
Wu, George, Statistical methods for theintegrative analysis of high-throughputgenomic data
Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore (8)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Cao, Xumeng, Relative performance ofexpected and observed Fisher informa-tion matrix in covariance estimation formaximum likelihood estimates
Lin, Peter, A paradigm shift in interest-rate modeling
Liu, Peng, Optimal liquidation of creditand equity derivatives portfolios
Lyzinski, Vincent, Intertwinings, interlac-ing eigenvalues and strong stationaryduality for diffusions
Sanchez Vega, Francisco, Learning ofmultivariate distributions with compo-sitional graphical models
Sedlock, Matthew, Site percolation thresh-olds and critical exponents in inhomo-geneous percolation models
Department of Mathematics
Hussey, Caleb, Classification and analysisof low index mean curvature flow self-shrinkers
Shahriyari, Leili, Translating graphs bymean curvature flow
University of Maryland,Baltimore County (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Danaher, Michelle, Biospecimen assess-ment
Gao, Zhong, On multistage adaptivebiomarker-directed clinical trial design
Gopalakrishnan, Mathangi, Validationsof surrogate endpoints by Bayesianequivalence testing
Saraf, Sanatan, Statistical validation ofsurrogate endpoints using equivalencetesting
Sun, Anna, Applying weighted GEE formissing data analysis and sample sizeestimation in repeated measurementstudies with dropout
Thompson, Stephen, Anomalous diffu-sion in subsets of Euclidean space
Wouhib, Abera, Exploring methods ofestimating heterogeneity parameters instatistical meta-analysis
University of Maryland,College Park (25)
Department of Mathematics
Angelos, Bryant, The hunt variancegamma process with applications tooption pricing
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 949
Bradford, Jeremy, Commutative endo-morphism rings of simple Abelian vari-eties over finite fields
Duke, Kevin, A study of the relation-ship between spectrum and geometrythrough Fourier frames and Laplacianeigenmaps
Dussault, Benjamin, Modeling and solv-ing ARC routing problems in streetsweeping and snow plowing
Franco, Carolina, Selected problems inmulti-sample statistical inference
Gao, Peng, A multivariate stochasticLevy correlation model with integratedWishart time change and its applicationin option pricing
Ghosh, Debojyoti, Compact-reconstructionweighted essentially non-oscillatoryschemes for hyperbolic conservationlaws
Guo, Wei, Exploring and modeling ofbidding behavior and strategies ofonline auctions
Ha, Neung Soo, Hierarchical Bayesianestimation of small area mean usingcomplex survey data
Hu, Wenqing, Asymptotic problems instochastic processes and differentialequations
Jorstad, Anne, Measuring deformationand illumination changes in imageswith applications to face recognition
Li, Jing, Analysis of repeated measuresin the presence of missing observationsdue to dropout
Miroshnikov, Alexey, A variational ap-proximation scheme for radial poly-convex elasticity that preserves thepositivity of determinants
Rainwater, Sabrina, Nonlinear and mul-tiresolution error covariance estimationin ensemble data assimilation
Sanders, Andrew, Minimal surfaces, hy-perbolic 3-manifolds and related defor-mation spaces
Schmitt, Karl, Network algorithms forcomplex systems with applications tononlinear optics and genome assembly
Schug, David, Three dimensional edgedetection using wavelet and shearletanalysis
Sibley, Benjamin, Asymptotics of theYang-Mills flow for holomorphic vectorbundles over Kahler manifolds
Suntornchost, Jiraphan, Analysis of mod-els for epidemiologic and survival data
Wang, Rongrong, Global geometric con-ditions on sensing matrices for thesuccess of �1 minimization algorithms
Wu, Minghao, Linear stability analysisusing Lyapunov inverse iteration
Wu, Weiqiang, On embedded spheres ofaffine manifolds
Xue, Jinxin, Non-collision singularities ina planar two-center-two-body problem
Yan, Jin, Reversible jump hidden Markovmodel analysis of longitudinal datawith medical applications
Zhou, Wen, Out-of-sample fusion
MASSACHUSETTSBoston College (1)
Department of Mathematics
Hansen, David, Overconvergent cohomol-ogy: Theory and applications
Boston University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Sweet, Ross, Extended unoriented topo-logical field theories and G-extendedFrobenius algebras
Boston University Schoolof Public Health (9)
Department of Biostatistics
Chen, Han, Statistical methods for ge-netic association studies: Multi-cohortand rare genetic variants approaches
Cheng, Hai Long, Meta-analysis of safetydata: Approximation of arcsine trans-formation and application of mixturedistribution modeling
Dufour, Alyssa Beth, Cluster analysis oflongitudinal trajectories
Guo, Wei, Sample size re-estimation inactive controlled non-inferiority clinicaltrials using a frequentist approach
Himali, Jayandra Jung, Effect of selectionof censoring times on survival analysisestimation of disease incidence andassociation with risk factors
Louie-Gao, Qiong, Multiple phenotypemodeling in pleiotropic effect studiesof quantitative trait loci
Lustgarten, Stephanie, Non-parametricBayesian prediction of landmark timesfor analysis of failure-time data
Moser, Carlee Brooks, A Bayesian frame-work for incorporating multiple datasources and heterogeneity in the analy-sis of infectious disease outbreaks
Wang, Ke, Multistate Markov chain tran-sition models for clustered longitudinalcategorical data: Application to a kneepain severity study
Brandeis University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Burchardt, Alyson, The Hausmann-Wein-berger 4-manifold invariant of right-angled Artin groups
Charis, Alexander, Mod p representationsof reductive p-adic groups
Graham, Matthew, Studying surfaces in4-dimensional space using knot Floerhomology
Majumdar, Dipramit, Geometry of theeigencurve at critical Eisenstein seriesof weight 2
Merrill, Keith, Some results of intrinsicapproximation
Moynihan, Matthew, The flag descent andthe colored Eulerian descent algebra
Vijayan, Anna, Compactifying the spaceof length functions of a right-angledArtin group
Harvard University (9)
Department of Mathematics
Kaplan, Nathan, Rational point countsfor del Pezzo surfaces over finite fieldsand coding theory
Lin, Yu-Shen, Open Gromov-Witten in-variants on elliptic K3 surfaces andwall-crossing
Patel, Anand Pankaj, The geometry ofHurwitz space
Sung, Yih, Holomorphically parametrizedL2 Cramer’s rule and its algebraicgeometric applications
Tiozzo, Giulio, Entropy, dimension andcombinatorial moduli for one-dimensionaldynamical systems
Tsai, Pei-Yu, On newforms for splitspecial odd orthogonal groups
Wang Ericson, Carl William, Moduli ofGalois representations
Wang, Xiaoheng, Pencils of quadrics andJacobians of hyperelliptic curves
School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences
Owrutsky, Philip, Periodic pulsed control-lability with applications to NMR
Harvard UniversitySchool of Public Health (12)
Biostatistics Department
Cefalu, Matthew, Statistical methods foreffect estimation in biomedical re-search: Robustness and efficiency
Correia, Andrew, Estimating the healtheffects of environmental exposures:Statistical methods for the analysis ofspatio-temporal data
Goyal, Ravi, Estimating network featuresand associated measures of uncertaintyand their incorporation in networkgeneration and analysis
Li, Shuli, Estimating and testing treatmenteffects and covariate by treatment in-teraction effects in randomized clinicaltrials with all-or-nothing compliance
Qiao, Dandi, Statistical approaches fornext-generation sequencing data
Quiroz Zarate, Alejandro, Decipheringthe biological mechanisms driving thephenotype of interest
Sharkey, Brian, Statistical methods forthe assessment of safety and efficacy inHIV clinical trials
Sinnott, Jennifer, Kernel machine meth-ods for risk prediction with high di-mensional data
Swanson, David, Hypothesis testing inGWAS and statistical issues with com-pensation in clinical trials
Valeri, Linda, Statistical methods forcausal mediation analysis
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
950 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 61, NUMBER 8
Watts, Krista, Bayesian methods andcomputation for large observationaldatasets
White, Richard, Novel statistical meth-ods applied in clinical trials and gutmicrobiota
Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (19)
Department of Mathematics
Boyle, Elette, Secure multi-party protocolsunder a modern lens
Chiu, Jiawei, Matrix probing, skeletondecompositions, and sparse Fouriertransform
Clausen, Dustin, Arithmetic duality inalgebraic K-theory
Fortuna, Giorgia, Beilinson-Bernstein lo-calization theorem for the affine Grass-mannian
Halldorsson, Hoeskuldur, Self-similar so-lutions to the mean curvature flow inEuclidean and Minkowski space
Haugseng, Rune, Weakly enriched highercategories
Horel, Geoffroy, Operads, modules andhigher Hochschild cohomology
Khandhawit, Tirasan, Twisted Manolescu-Floer spectra for Seiberg-Witten mono-poles
Levin, Alex, Graphs, matrices, and pop-ulations: Linear algebraic techniquesin theoretical computer science andpopulation genetics
Li, Nan, Combinatorial aspects of poly-tope slices
Loh, Po-Ru, Algorithms for genomicsand genetics: Compression-acceleratedsearch and admixture analysis
Marberg, Eric, Coxeter systems, multi-plicity free representations, and twistedKazhdan-Lusztig theory
Molacek, Jan, Bouncing and walkingdroplets: Towards a hydrodynamicpilot-wave theory
Pereira, Luis, Goodwillie calculus andalgebras over a spectral operad
Singh, Bhairav, Some results relatedto the quantum geometric Langlandsprogram
Suh, Uhi Rinn, Structure of classicalW -algebras
Ullman, John, On the regular slice spec-tral sequence
Yan, Zhang, The combinatorics of AdinkrasYun, Taedong, Diagrams of affine permu-
tations and their labellings
NortheasternUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics
Galetto, Federico, Free resolutions oforbit closures for representations withfinitely many orbits
Helfand, Ilanit, Constructions of k-orbitabstract polytopes
Russell, Jeremy, A functional approach tolinkage and the asymptotic stabilizationof the tensor product
Shafiei, Masoumeh, Apolarity for thedeterminant and permanent
Stella, Salvatore, Discrete structures infinite type cluster algebras
Tufts University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Donghui, Numerical methods foredge preserving image restoration
Lim, Kyung-Taek, The spherical meanvalue operator on Euclidean and hyper-bolic spaces
Ryvkina, Jelena, Fractional Brownian mo-tion with variable Hurst parameter
University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Gasca-Aragon, Hugo, Data combinationfrom multiple sources under measure-ment error
Shen, Yannan, On models of short pulsetype in continuous media
Tanguay, Allison, New bilinear estimatesfor quadratic-derivative nonlinear waveequations in 2 + 1 dimensions
Zhao, Yue, Improved computational meth-ods for Bayesian tree models
Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (3)
Mathematical Sciences Department
Bhatta, Dilli, A Bayesian test of indepen-dence for two-way contingency tablesunder cluster sampling design
Borges, Carlos, A multifrequency methodfor the solution of the acoustic inversescattering problem
Liang, Haodong, Fractal interfaces andheat transmission problems
MICHIGANMichigan StateUniversity (11)
Department of Mathematics
Balm, Cheryl, Topics in knot theory: Ongeneralized crossing changes and theadditivity of the Turaev genus
Chen, Tianran, Projective path trackingfor homotopy continuation method
Deng, Wei, Study of a class of Landau-Lifshitz equations of ferromagnetismwithout exchange energy
Kwon, Oh, Conceptualizing vectors incollege geometry: A new frameworkfor analysis of student approaches anddifficulties
Lawlor, David, Sub-linear Fourier alorithms:Theory and implementation
Musselman, Bernard, Diffusion for Markovwave equations
Pattakos, Nikolas, Continuity of weightedestimates in harmonic analysis withrespect to the weight
Van Groningen, Gerard, Implicit solu-tions to the wave equation based on themethod of lines transpose
Weiwen, Gu, A decomposition algo-rithm of skew-symmetric and skew-symmetrizable exchange matrices
Department of Statistics and
Probability
Cao, Guanqun, Statistical inference forfunctional and longitudinal data
Li, Xiaoyu, Testing of the regressionfunctions when responses are missingat random
Michigan TechnicalUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Al-Jamal, Mohammad, Numerical solu-tions of elliptic inverse problems viathe equation error method
Dai, Yilin, Statistical methods for multi-marker testing in genetic associationstudies
Fang, Shurong, Statistical methods forrare and common variant associationstudies
Molzon, Raymond, Berry-Esseen boundsfor nonlinear statistics, and asymptoticrelative efficiency between correlationstatistics
Oakland University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Lolla, Madhuri, Comparison of numer-ical methods for 2D crystals underanisotropic surface free energy andthrough evolution
University of Michigan (38)
Department of Biostatistics
Boonstra, Phil, Shrinkage methods utiliz-ing auxiliary information to improvehigh-dimensional prediction models
Gao, Xin, Causal modeling with princi-pal stratification to assess effects oftreatment with partial compliance, non-compliance, and principal surrogacy inlongitudinal and time-to-event settings
Gong, Qi, Semiparametric methods forestimating the effect of a longitudinalcovariate and time-dependent treat-ment on survival using observationaldata with dependent censoring
He, Zhi, Semi-parametric and parametricmethods for the analysis of multi-centersurvival data
Hu, Chen, Semiparametric regressionmodels for disease natural history andmultiple events in cancer research
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 951
Hu, Youna, Statistical methods on emerg-ing medical studies
Jia, Nan, Generalized statistical ap-proaches for the design for phase Itrials
Lee, Oliver, Permutation tests for randomeffects in mixed models
Li, Yijiang, Optimization and simulationof kidney paired donation programs
Ma, Yu, Analysis of marked recurrentevents in the presence of a terminatingevent
Maitra, Samopriyo, Applications of cir-cular distributions and spatial pointprocesses to the analysis of periodontaldata
Sun, Rena, Evaluating failure outcomeswith applications to transplant facilityperformance
Wang, Fei, Development of joint estimat-ing equation approaches to mergingclustered or longitudinal datasets frommultiple biomedical studies
Wu, Meihua, Study design for longitudinaland high dimensional measures
Xiang, Fang, Developing pseudo-observa-tion and multiple imputation approachesfor analysis of dependently censoredsurvival and quality adjusted survivaldata
Department of Mathematics
Ahn, Taeyong, Foliation structure forgeneralized Henon mappings
da Cunha, Aubrey, Turing machines,Cayley graphs, and inescapable groups
DeWitt, Elizabeth, Identities relating Schurs-functions and Q-functions
Flores, Steven, Correlation functions intwo-dimensional critical systems withconformal symmetry
Glick, Max, The pentagram map: Combi-natorial and geometric perspectives
Holland, Ashley, Penalized spline estima-tion in the partially linear model
Kravitz, Ross, Problems in optimal stop-ping and control
Lee, Michelle, Dynamics on the PSL(2,C)-character variety of certain hyperbolic3-manifolds
Mayes, Sarah, The asymptotic behaviorof generic initial systems
McCarty, Lindsey, Preemptive reroutingof airline passengers under uncertaindelays
Mishchenko, Andrey, Rigidity of thin diskconfigurations
More, Ajinkya, Symbolic powers andother contractions of ideals in Noethe-rian rings
Nunez Betancourt, Luis, Finiteness prop-erties of local cohomology
Rooney, Patrick, Control of finite-dimen-sional quantum systems under Lindbladdissipation
Sahattchieve, Jordan, Solutions to twoopen problems in geometric grouptheory
Starinshak, Dave, Level set methods forradiative shock hydrodynamics
Von Korff, Michael, The F -signature andFrobenius splitting on toric varieties
White, Nina, Bounds on eigenvalues of theLaplace-Beltrami operator for certainclasses of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Department of Statistics
Guo, Cen, Machine learning methods formagnetic resonance imaging analysis
Wang, Zhen, Topics in time series analy-sis with macroeconomic applications
Zangeneh, Sahar, Model-based methodsfor robust finite population inferencein the presence of external information
Zhang, Juan, Statistical analysis for ge-nomic studies involving measurementerror, multiple populations, and limitedsample size
Zhao, Yunpeng, Statistical inference forsome problems in network analysis
Western MichiganUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics
Fonger, Nicole, Characterizing and sup-porting change in algebra students’ rep-resentational fluency in a CAS/paper-and-pencil environment
Lin, Jianwei, The domination number ofKa�Kb�Kc�
Phillips, Benjamin, Boolean and profiniteloops
Sievewright, Daniel, Weighted shifts offinite multiplicity
Department of Statistics
Elbayoumi, Tamer, A robust estimate forthe bifurcating autoregressive modelwith application to cell lineage data
MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota-Twin Cities (43)
Division of Biostatistics, School of
Public Health
Kim, Sunkyung, New penalized regres-sion approaches to analysis of geneticand genomic data
Li, Shuzhen, Statistical modeling of signaldetection in fMRI data
Monteiro, Joao, Process-based Bayesianmelding of occupational exposure mod-els and industrial workplace data
Zhong, Wei, Bayesian adaptive designs inphase I/II clinical trials
School of Mathematics
Byrnes, Patrick, Structural aspects ofdifferential posets
Chen, Haojie, Generalized complex struc-tures on 4-manifolds
Doh, Hyun Soo, Error estimates for finitedifference solutions of second-orderelliptic equations in discrete Sobolevspaces
Guo, Xiaoqin, Diffusivity and ballisticbehavior of random walk in randomenvironment
He, Xiaoqing, The effects of diffusion andspatial variation in the Lotka-Volterracompetition-diffusion system
Jia, Hao, On some regularity problems inthe theory of Navier Stokes equation
Khamviwath, Varunyu, Directional sens-ing and actin dynamics in dictyosteliumdiscoideum amoebae
Kim, Christopher, Contracting convextorus by its harmonic mean curvatureflow
Kim, Ji Hee, Concentration of empiricaldistribution functions for dependentdata under analytic hypotheses
Lee, Jeonghun, Mixed methods with weaksymmetry for time dependent problemsof elasticity and viscoelasticity
Li, Hui, Topics in the mathematical theoryof nonlinear elasticity
Li, Liping, A generalized Koszul theoryand its applications in representationtheory
Li, Xingjie, The development and analy-sis of atomistic-to-continuum couplingmethods
Li, Xu, On fully nonlinear elliptic andparabolic equations in domains withVMO coefficients
Liu, Baiying, Fourier coefficients of au-tomorphic forms and Arthur classifica-tion
Liu, Gang, On manifolds with Ricci curva-ture lower bound and Kahler manifoldswith nonpositive bisectional curvature
Shen, Xin, Unramified computation oftensor L-functions on symplectic groups
Shi, Ke, Devising superconvergent HDGmethods for partial differential equa-tions
Shih, Hsi-Wei, Some results on scatteringfor log-subcritical and log-supercriticalnonlinear wave equations
Wang, Qixuan, Modeling of amoeboidswimming at low Reynolds number
Wang, Teng, Filtering partially observablediffusions up to the exit time from adomain
Wang, Yi, Robust hybrid linear modelingand its applications
Wu, Qiliang, Defects and stability ofTuring patterns
Wu, Weiwei, Lagrangian spheres, sym-plectic surfaces and the symplecticmapping class group
Yu, Guowei, Homoclinic and heteroclinicorbits in Lagrangian dynamical systems
Zhang, Wujun, Convergence of adaptivehybridizable discontinuous Galerkinmethods for second-order elliptic equa-tions
Zhang, Yi, Local cohomology modulesover polynomial rings of prime charac-teristic
Zhao, Liqiong, Synchronization on secondorder networks
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Zhou, Wei, On the interior regularity fordegenerate elliptic equations
Zhu, Yifei, The power operation structureon Morava E-theory of height 2 at theprime 3
School of Statistics
Li, Danning, Random matrix theoryand its application in high-dimensionalstatistics
Park, Ka Young, Comparing crossinghazard rate functions by joint modelingsurvival and longitudinal data
Qu, Yanping, A Bayesian approach tojoint small area estimation
Soma, Michael, A Bayesian approach tocluster sampling
Su, Zhihua, Envelope models and meth-ods
Wang, Zhan, Minimax estimation andmodel identification for high-dimensionalregression
Xing, Chen, Image registration by non-degenerate pixel detection
Xue, Lingzhou, Regularized learning ofhigh-dimensional sparse graphical mod-els
Zhou, Tianyang, Bayesian approach tophase II statistical process control fortime series
MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bagchi Misra, Arundhati, Total varia-tion based methods for speckle imagedenoising
Ko, Eunkyung, Analysis of classes ofsingular boundary value problems
Sasi, Sarath, Alternate stable states inecological systems
University ofMississippi (2)
Department of Mathematics
Harville, Kayla, On binary and regularmatroids without small minors
Yu, Kai, Contributions to robust methods:Modified rank covariance matrix andspatial-EM algorithm
MISSOURIMissouri University ofScience andTechnology (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chieochan, Rotchana, Periodic q-differenceequations
Heim, Julius, Economics and finance ontime scales
Randrianampy, Noroharivelo, Saddlepoint-based bootstrap inference for exponen-tial failure times with right-censoring
Rupasinghe, Maduka, Sieve bootstrapbased prediction intervals and unit roottests for time series
Saint Louis University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Prince-Lubawy, Jesse, Equivalence ofcyclic p-squared actions on handle-bodies of genus g
University ofMissouri-Columbia (18)
Department of Mathematics
Ao, Lunhao, On projective morphisms ofvarieties with nef anticanonical divisor
Grau de la Herran, Ana, Generalizedlocal Tb theorem and applications
Heinecke, Andreas, Complemented blockbases of symmetric bases and specialtetris fusion frame constructions
Peterson, Jesse, Fusion frame construc-tions and frame partitions
Sukhtayev, Alim, The Evans function,the Weyl-Titchmarsh function and theBirman-Schwinger operators
Varner, Gregory, Stochastically perturbedNavier-Stokes system on the rotatingsphere
Department of Statistics
Duan, Ran, The nonparametric methodsfor the analysis of interval-censoredfailure time data
Hu, Na, Statistical analysis of length-biased and right-censored data
Lane, Adam, Two stage adaptive optimaldesign with applications to dose-findingclinical trials
Leeds, William, Hierarchical modeling ofnonlinear multivariate spacio-temporaldynamical systems in the presence ofuncertainty
Li, Junlong, Regression analysis of clus-tered interval-censored failure timedata
Li, Yang, Semiparametric and nonpara-metric methods for the analysis ofpanel count data
Liang, Ye, Bayesian methods on selectedtopics
Liu, Yajun, Bayesian analysis of spatialand survival models with applicationsof computation techniques
Min, Xiaoyi, Objective Bayesian inferencefor stress-strength models and BayesianANOVA
Sanyal, Nilotpal, Bayesian fMRI data anal-ysis and Bayesian optimal design
Wang, Tianhua, Adaptive designs fordose-finding studies and an adaptivemultivariate CUSUM control chart
Xu, Chang, Estimating population sizewith objective Bayesian methods
University ofMissouri-Kansas City (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Plummer, Paul, Detecting change pointsin a compound Poisson process
University of Missouri-St.Louis (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Aleshunas, John, GP representation spacereduction using a tiered search scheme
Washington University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Bickel, Kelly, Agler decompositions onbidisk and derivatives of matrix func-tions
Brady, Joshua, Analysis of the Navier-Stokes-αβ equations
Chumley, Timothy, Limit theorems forrandom billiard models
Quddus, Safdar, On the homology ofnoncommutative toroidal orbifolds
Wang, Qingyun, Tracial Rokhlin propertyand non-commutative dimension
MONTANAMontana StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Buhanan, David, On some aspects ofcocyclic subshifts: Languages and au-tomata
Chang, Yin, Principal component modelsapplied to confirmatory factor analysis
Keren, Ilai, Development of total systemsapproach to multi-pest managementdecision models
Mudzimiri, Rejoice, A study of the de-velopment of technological pedagogicalcontent knowledge in pre-service sec-ondary mathematics teachers
Soto, Adrian, On the connectedness ofthe Rauzey fractal
University of Montana -Missoula (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Howard, Marylesa, Computational meth-ods for support vector machine classifi-cation and large-scale Kalman filtering
Johnson, Jeffrey, Peripherally-multiplicativespectral preservers between functionalgebras
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NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska-Lincoln (14)
Department of Mathematics
Alyousef, Khulud, Boundary value prob-lem for discrete fractional equations
Boeckner, Derek, Directed threshold graphsand directed graph limits
Celikbas, Ela, Prime ideals in two-dimensional Noetherian domains andfiber products and connected sums
Croll, Amanda, Periodic modules overGorenstein local rings
Eager, Eric, Modeling and mathematicalanalysis of plant models in ecology
Geisbauer, Joseph, Regularity for solu-tions to parabolic systems and nonlocalminimization problems
Goodrich, Christopher, On nonlocal bound-ary value problems of fractional andinteger order
Janssen, Michael, Symbolic powers ofideals in k[PN ]
Johnson, Brian, Commutative rings gradedby abelian groups
Johnson, Katherine, The weak discrep-ancy and linear extension diameter ofgrids and other posets
Morrison, Katherine, Equivalence and du-ality for rank-metric and matrix codes
Department of Statistics
Frenzel, Martin, Frequentist approachesto overdispersed repeated measurescount data
Yaseen, Muhammad, Modeling complexmultivariate genotype-by-environmentinteractions
Zhang, Boan, Group testing regressionmodels
NEVADAUniversity of Nevada, LasVegas (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Waters, Jiajia, Discontinuous Galerkinfinite element methods for Maxwell’sequations in dispersive and metamate-rials media
NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (1)
Department of Mathematics
Gottschlich, Avram, Elliptic curves froma statistical point of view
University of NewHampshire (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Galle, Gillian, What do students do inself-formed mathematics study groups?
Yao, Shan, On wavelet-based testing forserial correlation of unknown formusing Fan’s adaptive Neyman method
NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (7)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Cai, Chenjing, Mathematical models forbistable nematic liquid crystal displays
Cargill, Daniel, Analytical and computa-tional methods for the study of rareevent probabilities in dispersive anddissipative waves
Chen, Feiyan, Goodness-of-fit tests forgeometric models
Liang, Zhi, Fast algorithms for Brown-ian dynamics simulation with hydrody-namic interactions
Lu, Xiaoyu, The application of Bayesianadaptive design and Markov model inclinical trials
Ma, Manman, A numerical method forelectro-osmotic flow with deformableinterfaces
Pohlmeyer, Jeffrey, Modeling cell prolifer-ation in a perfusion tissue engineeringbioreactor
Princeton University (21)
Department of Mathematics
Altug, Salim Ali, Beyond endoscopy viathe trace formula
Biesel, Owen, Galois closures for ringsCooper, Yaim, The geometry of stable
quotients in genus oneDiCerbo, Gabriele, Effective boundedness
results in algebra and analytic geometryFarajzadeh Tehrani, Mohammad, On
moduli space of real curves in sym-plectic manifolds
Hughes, Kevin, Arithmetic analogues inharmonic analysis: Results related toWaring’s problem
Isett, Philip, Holder continuous Eulerflows with compact support in time
Jung, Junehyuk, On the zeros of auto-morphic forms
Oh, Sung-Jin, Finite energy well-posednessof the (3 + 1)-dimensional Yang-Millsequations using a novel Yang-Mills heatflow gauge
Pixton, Aaron, The tautological ring ofthe moduli space of curves
Rios-Zertuche, Rodolfo Antonio, Near-involutions, the pillowcase distribution,and quadratic differentials
Sacca, Giulia, Fibrations in abelian vari-eties associated to Enriques surfaces
Shankar, Arul, The average rank ofelliptic curves over number fields
Wilson, Kevin, Varieties of almost minimaldegree: Algebra, analysis and geometry
Xu, Guangbo, Symplectic vortex equationand adiabatic limits
Yang, Shiwu, Nonlinear wave equationson time dependent inhomogeneousbackgrounds
Neuroscience Institute
Feng, Samuel, Extensions and applica-tions of stochastic accumulator modelsin attention and decision making
Ozkaya, Sadik Gorkem, Randomizedwavelets on arbitrary domains andapplications to functional MRI analysis
Shen, Hao, Renormalization theory in sta-tistical physics and stochastic analysis
Voronin, Sergey, Regularization of lin-ear systems with sparsity constraintswith applications to large scale inverseproblems
Wong, Pak Hin, Local semicircle laws forthe Gaussian beta-ensembles
Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New JerseyNew Brunswick (20)
Department of Mathematics
Castro, Hernan, On some singular Sturm-Liouville equations and a Hardy typeinequality
DeMarco, Robert, Triangles in randomgraphs
Duncan, David, A compactness result forthe quilted Atiyah-Floer conjecture
Durst, Susan, Universal labeling algebrasas invariants of layered graphs
Maalaoui, Ali, The action functional ondual Legendrian submanifolds of theloop space of a contact three dimen-sional closed manifold
Nakamura, Brian, Computational meth-ods in permutation patterns
Nanda, Vidit, Discrete Morse theory forfiltrations
Patel, Priyam, Quantifying algebraic prop-erties of surface groups and 3-manifoldgroups
Pfaff, Catherine, Constructing and clas-sifying fully irreducible outer automor-phisms of free groups
Venugopalan, Sushmita, Yang-Mills heatflow on gauged holomorphic maps
Wang, Ke, Optimal upper bound for theinfinity norm of eigenvectors of randommatrices
Wang, Yunpeng, Asymptotic behavior ofsolutions to the conformal quotientequation
Yang, Tian, The skein algebra of arcs andlinks and the decorated Teichmullerspace
Department of Statistics
Chen, Xueying, Analysis of big data bysplit-and-conquer and penalized regre-sions: New methods and theories
Ma, Min, Hypothesis testing of bio-equivalence
Ma, Yingqiu, Multiple testing proceduresand simultaneous interval estimateswith the interval property
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Nguyen, Tuan H., Random covering inhigh dimension by a union of scaledconvex sets
Qiao, Wenqian, Recent advances in statis-tical models: Topics in model selectionand semi-parametric inference
Sun, Tingni, Statistical methods for high-dimensional data and continuous glu-cose monitoring
Wang, Jiabin, A state space model ap-proach to functional time series andtime series driven by differential equa-tions
Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New Jersey-Newark (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Fein, Gregory, A recognition theoremfor polynomial growth outer automor-phisms of the free group
Silverio, Andrew, Linking and discrete-ness in hyperbolic 4-space
Stevens Institute ofTechnology (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Iswara Chandra Vidyasagar, Lakshmi, Oncomponent order edge connectivity andcomponent order edge reliability
Lonen, Thomas, Option pricing utilizinga jump diffusion model with a logmixture normal jump distribution
Luttrell, Kristi, On the neighbor-componentorder connectivity model of graph the-oretic networks
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Altawalbeh, Zuhier, On the map fromLeibniz to Hochschild homology
Hren, Joshua David, Fibers of completescalar extensions
Kengwoung-Keumo, Jean-Jacques, Com-petition between two phytoplanktonspecies under predation and allelo-pathic effects
Nguyen, Phan, Biorthogonal waveletsadapted to boundary value problems
Savic, Milos, Proof and proving: Logic, im-passes, and the relationship to problemsolving
Vo, Van, Monotonicity of the reflectedBessel transition density on the diago-nal
University of NewMexico (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Chen, Xi, Numerical and analytical stud-ies of electromagnetic waves: Hermitemethods, supercontinuum generation,and multiple poles in the SEM
Lin, Yong, Contributions to linear models:Lack-of-fit test and linear model withsingular covariance matrices
Xu, Ling, Viscous flow past plates
NEW YORKBinghamton University,State University of NewYork (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Loney, Quincy, Decomposition of level-1representations of D(1)
4 with respect
to its subalgebra G(1)2 in the spinor
constructionMauriello, Christopher, Branching rule
decomposition of irreducible level-1E(1)
6 -models with respect to F (1)4
Xu, Yifan, On first crossing times ofmixed compound Poisson processes un-der various boundary conditions withapplications in queuing and risk theo-ries
Zhang, Can, Two-stage and sequentialprocedures for Behrens-Fisher problemand their exact evaluations
Clarkson University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Almomani, Ahmad, Constraint handlingfor derivative-free optimization
Liu, Zhiqiang, Dealing efficiently withexclusive OR, abelia groups and homo-morphism in cryptographic analysis
Zheng, Jiongxuan, Comparing dynamicalsystems by mostly conjugacy
Columbia University (21)
Department of Biostatistics
Zhang, Bingzhi, On composition datamodeling and its biomedical applica-tions
Department of Mathematics
Carneiro, Andre, A geometric construc-tion of a Calabi quasimorphism onprojective space
Disegni, Daniel, p-adic heights of Heegnerpoints on Shimura curves
Ellis, Alexander, Odd symmetric functionsand categorification
Fanoe, Andrew, Properties of Hamilton-ian torus actions on closed symplecticmanifolds
Garcia, Luis, Singular theta lifts and near-central special values of Rankin-SelbergL-functions
Hendricks, Kristen, Localization and Hee-gaard Floer homology
Maddock, Zachary, del Pezzo surfaceswith irregularity and intersection num-bers on quotients in geometric invarianttheory
Qi, You, Hopfological algebraWang, Yu, Local regularity of the complex
Monge-Ampere equationYang, Yanhong, Purity of the strat-
ification by Newton polygons andFrobenius-periodic vector bundles
Zhou, Fan, Sato-Tate problem for GL(3)
Department of Statistics
Cribben, Ivor, Detecting dependencechange points in multivariate time se-ries with applications in neuroscienceand finance
Liu, Heng, Some models for time seriesof counts
Qian, Bo, Credit risk modeling and anal-ysis using Copula method and change-point approach to survival data
Sadhukhan, Subhankar, On optimal arbi-trage under constratints
Seijo, Emilio, Statistical inference in twonon-standard regression problems
Sit, Tony, Contributions to semiparamet-ric inference to biased-sampled andfinancial data
Xu, Gongjun, Statistical inference fordiagnostic classification models
Zang, Pengfei, Modeling strategies forlarge dimensional vector autoregres-sions
Zhang, Junyi, Estimation and testingmethods for monotone transformation
Cornell University (18)
Department of Mathematics
Alonso, Juan, Graphs of free groups andtheir measure equivalence
Anema, Jason, Counting spanning treeson fractal graphs
Gorbovickis, Igors, Some problems fromcomplex dynamical systems and com-binatorial geometry
Lierl, Janna, Heat kernel estimates oninner uniform domains
Luo, Shisen, Hard Lefschetz property ofHamiltonian GKM manifolds
Luthy, Peter, Bi-parameter maximal mul-tilinear operators
Mahmood, Fatima, Jacobi structures anddifferential forms on contact quotients
Meerkamp, Philipp, Singular Hopf bifur-cation
Pabiniak, Milena, Hamiltonian torus ac-tions in equivariant cohomology andsymplectic topology
Rajchgot, Jenna, Compatibility split sub-varieties of the Hilbert scheme of pointsin the plane
Samuelson, Peter, Colored Jones polyno-mials and the quantum torus
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Department of Statistical Sciences
Cunningham, Caitlin, Markov methodsfor identifying ChIP-seq peaks
Ji, Pengsheng, Selected topics in nonpara-metric testing and variable selection forhigh dimensional data
Johnson, Lynn Marie, Topics in linearmodels: Methods for clustered, cen-sored data and two-stage samplingdesigns
Morris, Darcy, Methods for multivariatelongitudinal count and duration modelswith applications in economics
Narayanan, Rajendran, Shrinkage esti-mation for penalised regression, lossestimation and topics on largest eigen-value distributions
Xiao, Luo, Topics in bivariate splinesmoothing
Zeber, David, Extremal properties ofMarkov chains and the conditionalextreme value model
Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (14)
Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
Antonakos, Evangelia, Forms of explicitcommon knowledge
Chen, Yimao, Uniqueness theorems forsome nonlinear parabolic equations
Dhamoon, Subir, The differentiability ofrenormalized triple intersection localtimes
Erlandsson, Viveca, The Margulis regionin hyperbolic 4-space
Evren, Ozgur, The length spectrum met-ric on the Teichmueller space of infinitetype surfaces
Funk, Jeanne, The Witt ring of a smoothcurve with good reduction over a localfield
Hirsh, Joseph, Derived noncommutativedeformation theory
Jimenez Lopez, Francisco, Length spec-trum metric and modified length spec-trum metric on Teichmuller spaces
Kim, Kwang Hyun, On the rank of 2-primary part of Selmer group of certainelliptic curves
Koupparis, Charalambos, Non-commuta-tive cryptography: Diffie-Hellman andCCA secure cryptosystems using ma-trices over group rings and digitalsignatures
Lakzian, Sajjad, Smooth convergenceaway from singular sets and intrinsicflat continuity of Ricci flow
Lee, Whanki, Resplendent models gener-ated by indiscernibles
Perlmutter, Norman, Inverse limits ofmodels of set theory and the largecardinal hierarchy near a high-jumpcardinal
Stout, Brian, Dynamical Shafarevich re-sults for rational maps
New York University,Courant Institute (5)
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
Goldman, Dorian, Energy driven patternformation in non-local Cahn-Hilliardenergy
Karabash, Dmytro, Stability of Hawkesprocess and other models
Mohylevskyy, Yevhen, Ergodicity and per-colation for variants of one-dimensionalvoter models
Stinchcombe, Adam, New approaches tomodeling stochastic gene expression
Zhu, Lingjiong, Nonlinear Hawkes pro-cesses
New York University,Stern School ofBusiness (2)
Information, Operations, and
Management Sciences–Statistics
Group
Kovtun, Vladimir, The value of informa-tion sharing in supply chains facingARMA demand
Liu, Jun, 1. The slow convergence ofOLS estimators and estimated portfolioweights under long-memory stochasticvolatility; 2. Nonparametric tests of in-dependence and Markov property forinterval censored models; 3. Nonpara-metric estimation of the cumulativeintensities in an interval censored com-peting risks model
Polytechnic Institute ofNew York University (1)
Department of Mathematics
Lazarashvili, Liana, A new normed spacefor acoustic inverse problems
Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (7)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Barranca, Victor, Data compression insensory processing
Fessel, Kimberly, An examination of non-linear waves in the cochlea
Hammel, Erik, Using reinforcement learn-ing to improve network durability
Jones, Jessica, Statistical comparison ofshear wave speed recovery using thedirect algorithm and the arrival timealgorithm
Warner, Andrew, Event chain and in-verse problems with applications toneuroscience
Webster, Tegan, Scalar and vector multi-static radar data models
Zhang, Weituo, Analytical approach foropinion dynamics on social networks
Stony Brook University (38)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Balius, Trent, Application and develop-ment of computational tools in drugdiscovery
Biro, Michael, Beacon-based routing andguarding
Dyedov, Volodymyr, Automatic mesh gen-eration and processing for biomedicalgeometries
Goode, Jimmie, Maximum likelihood esti-mation of stable non-Gaussian financialmodels
Hu, Yijing, Front tracking method onphase transition problems and applica-tions
Huang, Jun, New development on con-strained variational analysis for a singlecolumn—with spatial and temporal cor-relations integrated
Iwerks, Justin, Combinatorics and com-plexity in geometric visibility problems
Jin, Jing, Principal components ancestryadjustment
Kaman, Tulin, Rayleigh-Taylor turbulentmixing simulations
Kim, Hyeuk, A novel combining algorithmin classification
Kim, Joung-Dong, Modeling of airfoildynamics with front tracking method
Knapik, Timothy, Approximate policiesfor partially observable Markov deci-sion processes with continuous statespaces using parameterized probabilitydistributions
Li, Yan, Mass spring model and itscoupling with front tracking method
Li, Yinghua, Generalized Delaunay refine-ment algorithms on hyperbolic plane
Liao, Willey, A novel Bayesian segmenta-tion model for ChIP-seq data analysis
Lin, Ruonan, The application and as-sessment of consumer credit scoringmodels in measuring consumer loanissuing risk of commercial banks inChina
Mo, Yifan, A stochastic segmentationmodel for categorical and continuousfeatures for different biological dataanalysis
Mukherjee, Sudipto, Docking platformand validation resources for structure-based drug design
Patsalo, Vadim, Computational and bio-physical investigation of multivalentproteins
Wang, Duo, Numerical differential geom-etry and its applications
Wang, Yifan, Longitudinal quantitativetrail locus and population stratification
Wei, Hongren, Models and numericalalgorithms for fracture of solids
Wu, Shanshan, A first-principles study ofCys and MPA ligated CdSe nanoclustersfor quantum dot solar cells
Zhang, Peng, A methodology for designand applications of parallel computers
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Zhang, Shiyuan, Controlled optimal de-signs for dose response study
Zhang, Xiaochu, A new regime switchingmodel for financial time series
Zhou, Xiaoping, Error reduction in pa-rameter estimation with case studies inrisk measurement and portfolio opti-mization
Department of Mathematics
Balsam, Benjamin, Turaev-Viro theory asan extended TQFT
Chatav, Eitan, Representation theory ofcategorified quantum sl 2
Gutt, Jan, Hwang-Mok rigidity of comi-nuscule homogeneous varieties in posi-tive characteristic
Hales, Jonathan, Exotic four-manifolds,corks and Heegaard Floer homology
Knox, Kenneth, Compactness theoremsfor Riemannian manifolds with bound-ary and applications
Pingali, Vamsi, On some computationaland analytic aspects of Chern-Weil
Popa, Alexandra, Two-point Gromov-Witten formulas for symplectic toricmanifolds
Walsh, Joseph, On the partition functionfor CPI-instantons on a flat torus
Wright, Evan, Ricci-flat anti-self-dualasymptotically locally Euclidean 4-mani-folds
Young, Matthew, Self-dual Hall modulesZhang, Yongsheng, Gluing techniques in
calibrated geometry
University at Albany,SUNY (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
DeGraw, Arthur, Optimal recovery ofholomorphic functions from inaccu-rate information about integration typeoperators
Macrina, Amy, The spectral analysis oflongitudinal data with applications toatmospheric variables
University at Buffalo,SUNY (8)
Department of Biostatistics
Attwood, Kristopher, Selected topics intwo and three class ROC analysis
Brady, William, Methods for early phaseclinical development
Kim, Song Eun, Efficient novel non-parametric tests and estimations withapplications to biomedical studies
Tsai, Wan-Min, Advanced and novel para-metric and nonparametric likelihoodstatistical techniques with applicationsin epidemiology
Department of Mathematics
Halliwell, Garry, An unconditionally sta-ble spectral method for an isotropicthin-film equation
Huang, Huichi, Compact quantum groupactions on compact quantum spaces
Le, Tuan, Infinite volume limit for corre-lation functions in the dipole gas
Zhang, Chen, Spatially explicit population-genetics modeling in a discontinuoushabitat and in the presence of an Alleeeffect
University of Rochester (6)
Department of Biostatistics and
Computational Biology
Chen, Zhen, A flexible copula model forbivariate survival data
Department of Mathematics
da Silva, Daniel, Non-concentration ofenergy in generalized wave maps
Henao Gomez, Alejandro, Uniquenessproperties in the theory of stochasticdifferential equations
Lester, Stephen, The distribution of valuesof the Riemann zeta-function
Zeng, Yan, Blow-up results for stochasticheat equations
Zhang, Xiang, A small data globalwell-posedness result for the 2 + 1-dimensional equivariant Fadeev model
NORTH CAROLINADuke University (14)
Department of Mathematics
Kim, Hyeongkwan, Gersten-Witt complexof Hirzebruch surfaces
Li, Yi, Numerical methods for simulat-ing fluid motion driven by immersedinterfaces
Luo, Shishi, Probabilistic methods formultiscale evolutionary dynamics
Munch, Elizabeth, Applications of persis-tent homology to time varying systems
Parry, Alan, Wave dark matter and dwarfspheroidal galaxies
Department of Statistical Science
Banerjee, Anjishnu, Scalable nonparamet-ric Bayes learning
Bonassi, Fernando, Approximate Bayesiancomputation for complex dynamic sys-tems
Cron, Andrew, Mixture modeling, sparsecovariance estimation and parallel com-puting in Bayesian analysis
Cui, Kai, Bayesian modeling and compu-tation for mixed data
Lin, Lin, Bayesian variable selection inclustering and hierarchical mixturemodeling
Nakajima, Jochi, Bayesian analysis oflatent threshold models
Si, Yajuan, Nonparametric Bayesian meth-ods for multiple imputation of largescale incomplete categorical data inpanel studies
Wang, Fangpo, Space and space-timemodeling of directional data
Wang, Xiaojing, Bayesian modeling usinglatent structures
North Carolina StateUniversity (22)
Department of Mathematics
Attarian, Adam, Patient specific subsetselection, estimation and validation ofan HIV-1 model with censored obser-vations under an optimal treatmentschedule
Bobinyec, Karen, Observer constructionfor systems of differential algebraicequations using completions
Corne, Matthew, Minimally-constrainedcanonical quantization of geometrody-namics
Erbacher, Christina, Root multiplicities ofthe indefinite Kac-Moody algebra HD(3)
4King, Sarah, Multi-moment methods for
PDEs and GPUs for large-scale scientificcomputations
Mohamed, Saad, A Lie theoretic approachto the full transformation semigroup
Spayd, Kimberly, Two phase flow inporous media: Traveling waves andstability analysis
Tolley, Melissa, The connections betweenA-infinity and L-infinity algebras
Winton, Corey, Parameter estimation ingroundwater models using proper or-thogonal decomposition
Zhang, Sidong Max, The immersed in-terface method for two-dimensionalHelmholtz/Poisson equation with com-plex number space
Department of Statistics
Avery, Matthew, New techniques forfunctional data analysis: Model selec-tion classification, and nonparametricregression
Brown, Chad, A study of using lym-phoblastoid cell lines in pharmacoge-nomics and drug family clustering
Fiske, Ian, Characterizing spatiotemporaltrends in amphibian abundance usinglatent variable models
Jiang, Liewen, Methods for interquantileshrinkage and variable selection inlinear regression models
Lin, Chen-Yen, Some recent develop-ments in parametric and nonparametricregression models
Liu, Bo, Accelerated failure time modelfor correlated survival data: Efficientestimation and inference
Post, Justin, Methods to improve pre-diction accuracy under structural con-straints
Shin, Seung Jun, New techniques for high-dimensional and complex data analysisbased on weighted learning
Vock, David, Advanced statistical meth-ods for complex longitudinal data
Wang, Dong, Model selection and esti-mation in generalized additive mixedmodels
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Zhang, Baqun, Robust statistical methodfor estimating optimal dynamic treat-ment regimes
Zhang, Bo, Dimension reduction and clas-sification for high dimensional complexdata
University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (28)
Department of Biostatistics
Colby Bozenhardt, Emily, Methods forpopulation pharmacokinetics and phar-macodynamics
He, Qianchuan, Variable selection, sparsemeta-analysis and genetic risk pre-diction for genome-wide associationstudies
Hussey, Michael, Extensions of nonpara-metric randomization-based analysis ofcovariance
Kundu, Suprateek, Bayesian nonparamet-ric methods for conditional distribu-tions
Long, Dorothy Leann, Marginalized zero-inflated Poisson regression
Long, Dustin, Casual inference and prin-cipal stratification: Competing risks,bounds and surrogates
Powers, James, Population-averaged mod-els for diagnostic accuracy studies andmeta-analysis
Wheeler, Matthew, Bayesian nonparamet-ric differential equation models forfunctions
Zhao, Yue, Sensitivity analyses of time-to-event data with possibly informativecensoring for confirmatory clinical tri-als
Department of Mathematics
Bayless, Rachel, Entropy of transforma-tions that preserve an infinite measure
Fovargue, Lauren, Addressing the com-putational bottleneck of the immersedboundary method through multi-implicitand multi-rate strategies with time par-allelism
Furno, Joanna, Ergodic theory of p-adictransformations
Glover, Rebecca, Generalized twistorspaces for hyperkahler and quater-nionic Kahler geometry
Kaliszewski, Ryan, Structure of quiverpolynomials and Schur positivity
Lee, Brandyn Gregory Rogers, A com-parison of eigencones under certaindiagram automorphisms
Mukhopadhyay, Swarnava, Rank-levelduality of conformal blocks
Orr, Daniel, Nonsymmetric differenceWhittaker functions and double affineHecke algebras
Pereira, Joel, On the Cohen-Macaulayproperty of quotients of conical alge-bras by monomial ideals
Viotti, Claudio, Analytical and numericalstudies on stratified fluid flows
Department of Statistics and
Operations Research
Borysov, Petro, Local classification ofclinical data
Chen, Jiang, Some topics in large devi-ations theory for stochastic dynamicalsystems
Deng, Chao, Optimal design and con-trol of resources for finite-populationqueueing systems
Gratton, Melanie, Algorithms for trust-region subproblems with linear inequal-ity constraints
Lu, Xiaosun, Object oriented data anal-ysis of cell-well structured data andstatistical analysis of elastic functions
Luo, Jianzhe, Queueing approaches toappointment system design
Mills, Alex, Patient prioritization andresource allocation in mass casualtyincidents
Ru, Hongyu, Statistical analysis of finan-cial time series and risk management
Shen, Dan, PCA asymptotics and analysisof tree data
University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (9)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Agbor, Andu, The asymptotic approxima-tion of the transition probability for therandom walks with heavy tails
Birdsong, Sarah, On the structure andinvariants of cubical complexes
Enos, Graham, Binary Edwards curves inelliptic curve cryptography
Jutmaan, Yanjmaa, Branching processesin random trees
Kim, Hyunju, Isogeometric analysis andpatchwise reproducing polynomial par-ticle method for plates
Shou, Qiong, Semiparametric time-varyingcoefficient regression model for longi-tudinal data with censored time origin
Xiang, Ming, Hybrid solvation models forelectrostatic interactions in moleculardynamics simulations of ionic solvent
Zhang, Xing, Asymptotic normality ofentropy estimators
Zou, Wenhua, A unified treatment ofderivative pricing and forward decisionproblems within the HJM framework
NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (2)
Department of Mathematics
Anderson, Benjamin, NAK for Ext, ascentof module structures, and the blindnessof extended modules
Hasenauer, Richard, Almost Dedekinddomains and atomicity
OHIOAir Force Institute ofTechnology (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Poteet, Miriam, Parametrizing finite framesand optimal frame completion
Schrock, Christopher, Distributional MonteCarlo methods for the Boltzmann equa-tion
Bowling Green StateUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Li, Qie, Bayesian hierarchical model formultiple comparisons in mixed models
Wang, Yinna, Efficient stepwise pro-cedures for minimum effective doseunder heteroscedasticity
Yang, Guangyuan, The energy goodness-of-fit test for univariate stable distribu-tions
Case Western ReserveUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Homa, Laura, Bayesian methods forsource separation in magnetoencephalog-raphy
Immonen, Taina, Computational modelsof ex vivo HIV-1 dynamics and fitnessacross scales
Jenkinson, Justin, Convex geometric con-nections to information theory
McGivney, Debra, Statistical precondi-tioning and quantitative imaging forelectrical impedance tomography
Qin, Jing, Prior information guided imageprocessing and compressive sensing
Department of Statistics
Gunaratnam, Bakeerathan, Topics instochastics and statistics: Shock cre-ation and dissolution for stable andLinnik conservation laws and targetstudent recruitment using predictivemodeling
Kent State University (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Kiteu, Marco Mpimbo, Orbits of operatorson Hilbert space and some classes ofBanach spaces
Korte, Robert, Inference in power seriesdistributions
Leow, Kai-Siong, Pricing of swing options:A Monte Carlo simulation approach
Martin, David, Quadrature approximationof matrix functions, with applications
Miller, Joseph, Move-count means withcancellation and word selection prob-lems in Rubik’s cube solutionapproaches
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Ohio State University,Columbus (21)
Department of Mathematics
Alexander, Samuel, The theory of severalknowing machines
All, Timothy, On the Galois modulestructure of the units and ray classesof a real abelian number field
Banerjee, Sayanti, A mathematical modelfor the transition in firing patternsacross puberty of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron
Chen, Weitao, Fast sweeping methods forsteady state hyperbolic conservationproblems and numerical applicationsfor shape optimization and computa-tional cell biology
Estill, Charles, Matroid relations: Matroidsfor algebraic topology
Hiranmoy, Easwaran, MultidimensionalKhintchine-Marstrand-type problems
Kim, Raeyong, On the theorem of Kan-Thurston and algebraic rank of CAT(0)groups
Sivaraman, Vaidyanathan, Some topicsconcerning graphs, signed graphs andmatroids
Sun, Wei, On a class of complex Monge-Ampere type equations on Hermitianmanifolds
Teh, Wen Chean, Ramsey algebras andRamsey spaces
Yu, Xun, On smooth isolated curves ingeneral complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds
Department of Statistics
Chen, Dao-Peng, Statistical power forRNA-seq data to detect two epigeneticphenomena
Erich, Roger, Regression modeling oftime to event data using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
Hwang, Beom Seuk, Semiparametric Baye-sian joint modeling with applications intoxicological risk assessment
Lu, Pingbo, Calibrated Bayes factors formodel selection and model averaging
Pi, Lira, Fisher information in censoredsamples from univariate and bivariatepopulations and their applications
Sengupta, Aritra, Empirical hierarchicalmodeling and predictive inference forbig, spatial, discrete, and continuousdata
Sun, Fang Fang, On A-optimal designsfor discrete choice experiments andsensitivity analysis for computer exper-iments
Tang, Szu-Yu, Partition testing for broadefficacy and in genetic subgroups
Uematsu, Kazuki, Statistical consistencyof ranking: Bipartite and multipartitecases
Wang, Rui, Comparisons of classificationmethods in efficiency and robustness
University of Cincinnati (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Julian, Poranee, Geometric properties ofthe Ferrand metric
Martial, Longla, Modeling dependenceand limit theorems for copula-basedMarkov chains
Patnaik, Sasmita, Ideals and commuta-tors of operators
Wang, Xiaopei, Multi-way block modelsYin, Zhijun, Security of unbalanced oil-
vinegar signature scheme
University of Toledo (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Appuhamy, Amila, Algebraic propertiesof Toeplitz operators on weightedBergman spaces
Nikpour, Mehdi, Toeplitzness of composi-tion operators and parametric Toeplitz-ness
OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics
Dioses, Jorge, Generalizing the theoremof Nakagawa on binary cubic forms tonumber fields
Lee, Juhyung, A functional equation fora prehomogeneous vector space andunitary representations of GL(2n,R)
Tanabe, Naomi, Arithmetic properties ofL-functions attached to Hilbert modularforms
Department of Statistics
Lin, Lichi, Multivariate normal inferencefor heterogeneous samples and anapplication to meta analysis
Nicholson, Janae, Methods of genomeassociation mapping with rate variantsfor normal responses
University of Oklahoma (8)
Department of Mathematics
Balasubramanian, Kumar, Self-dual rep-resentations with vectors fixed underan Iwahori subgroup
Cheng, Kesong, Mathematical theory inclassification and segmentation
Cook, John Paul, A guided reinvention ofring, integral domain, and field
Lee, Sang Rae, The geometry of Houghton’sgroups
Li, Ye, Comparison theorems, geometricinequalities, and applications to p-harmonic geometry
Lin, Weihua, Trinomial-tree distributionof a nonlinear positive stochastic inter-est rate model with connections to thepotential approach and its applicationto computing corporate default risk
Luo, Qinghua, Optimization problem ofKlein-Gordon equation
Tucker, Cherith, Geodesic fibrations ofelliptic 3-manifolds
OREGONOregon State University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Bradford, Kyle, Adiabatic and stableadiabatic times
Daowsud, Katthaleeya, Continued frac-tions and the divisor at infinity on ahyperelliptic curve: Examples and orderbounds
Gelbaum, Zachary, Some results in prob-ability from the functional analyticviewpoint
Rode, Erica, Gaussian random fields re-lated to Levy’s Brownian motion: Rep-resentations and expansions
Vasylkivska, Veronika, Stochastic analysisof flow and transport in porous media
Wichitsongkram, Noppadon, A represen-tation of fractional Brownian motion
Department of Statistics
Che, Xuan, Spatial graphical models withdiscrete and continuous components
Portland StateUniversity (2)
Fariborz Maseeh Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
Bartlo, Joanna, Why ask why: An ex-ploration of the role of proof in themathematics classroom
Johnson, Estrella, Establishing founda-tions for investigating inquiry-orientedteaching
University of Oregon (6)
Department of Mathematics
Bartz, Jeremiah, Multinets in P2 and P3
Bell, Thomas, Uniqueness of conformalRicci flow and backward Ricci flow onhomogeneous 4-manifolds
Foster, John, Semisimplicity of certainrepresentation categories
Montgomery, Aaron, Topics in randomwalks
Platt, David, Chern character for globalmatrix factorizations
Shum, Christopher, Solvable particle mod-els related to the beta-ensemble
PENNSYLVANIABryn Mawr College (1)
Department of Mathematics
Micklewright, Christopher, Circle-valuedgenerating family invariants
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Carnegie MellonUniversity (16)
Department of Mathematical Science
Bal, Deepak, Colorings, matchings andpackings in random and pseudo-randomgraphs
Bennett, Patrick, Dynamic concentrationin some discrete random processes
Canepa, Elena Cristina, Numerical sim-ulation of defaults in large bankingsystems
Klimova, Alexandra, Numerical algorithmfor options of Asian type with continu-ous sampling
Mosfovyi, Oleksii, Necessary and suffi-cient conditions in the problem ofoptimal investment with intermediateconsumption
Piovano, Paolo, Evolution and regularityresults for epitaxially strained thinfilms and material voids
Potter, Christopher, Kernel selection forconvergence and efficiency in MarkovChain Monte Carlo
Sullivan, Brendan, Textbook and coursematerials for “Concepts of Mathemat-ics”
Tsourakakis, Charalampos, Mathematicaland algorithmic aspects of network andbiological data
Unger, Spencer, Some results on the treeproperty
Department of Statistics
Galyardt, April, Mixed membership distri-butions with applications to modelingmultiple strategy usage
Goerg, Georg, Learning spatio-temporaldynamics: Nonparametric methods foroptimal forecasting and automated pat-tern discovery
Hall, Robert, New statistical applicationsfor differential privacy
Liu, Di, Comparing data sources in highdimensions
Studer, Cassandra, Incorporating learn-ing over time into the cognitive assess-ment framework
Sweet, Tracy, Statistical network mod-els for replications and experimentalinterventions
Drexel University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Jordon, Daniel, Spectral properties ofdifferential operators with vanishingcoefficients
Nolan, Kimberly, Forward and inverseBorn series for diffuse, scalar, andelectromagnetic waves
Yu, Le, Automorphisms of random trees
Lehigh University (2)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Qiang, Some uniqueness and rigid-ity results on gradient Ricci solitons
Shelton, Brittany, Combinatorial interpre-tations of induced sign characters ofthe Hecke algebra
Pennsylvania StateUniversity (18)
Department of Mathematics
Ai, Chong, Effect of tidal dissipation onthe motion of celestial bodies
Chen, Jianyu, Coexistence of hyperbolicand non-hyperbolic behavior in smoothdynamical systems
Chen, Yao, Algbraic multilevel methodsfor graph Laplacians
Crisp, Tyrone, Equivariant homology andrepresentation theory of p-adic groups
Hong, Seunghun, A Lie-algebraic ap-proach to the local index theorem oncompact groups
Hong, Wei, Some problems in Poissongeometry
Huang, Jing-Jing, Analytic methods forDiophantine problems
Hudelson, William, Partial randomnessand Kolmogorov complexity
Misiats, Oleksandr, Asymptotic analysisof Ginzburg-Landau superconductivitymodel
Nowakowski, Brian, On multi-parametersemimartingales, their integrals andweak convergence
Qu, Qingqin, The generalized finite ele-ment method, numerical treatment ofsingularities, interfaces and boundaryconditions
Saadatpour Moghaddam, Assieh, Dy-namic modeling of biological and phys-ical systems
Siegel, Paul, Homological calculationswith the analytic structure group
Tseng, Michael, Rokhlin actions on AFC∗-algebras and classifiability
Verma, Manoj, Representation of integersby a family of cubic forms in sevenvariables
Zhang, Jingyan, Shrinking dimer dynam-ics (SDD) and saddle point search
Zhang, Tianyou, The structure of solu-tions near a degenerate line for mixedtype equations in gas dynamics
Zhu, Lin, Livsic theorem for cocycles withvalue in GL(N,QP )
Pennsylvania StateUniversity, UniversityPark (12)
Department of Statistics
Changpetc, Pannapa, Model selection forlogistic regression via association rules
Fu, Guifang, Statistical models for map-ping genes that contribute to shapevariation
Jandarov, Roman, Inference with im-plicit likelihoods for infectious diseasemodels
Kurum, Esra, Joint modeling of longitu-dinal binary and continuous responses
Lee, Kuang-Yao, A general theory of non-linear sufficient dimension reduction:Formulation and estimation
Liu, Jingyuan, Statistical methods fordifferent ultrahigh dimensional models
Simeonov, Ivan, Spatial point processmodeling of viral infections in cellcultures
Vu, Duy, Statistical models and algo-rithms for large network analysis
Wang, Qing, Investigation of topics inU-statistics and their applications inrisk estimation and cross-validation
Xu, Jialin, A generalized linear model forpeak calling in ChIP-Seq data
Zambom, Adriano, Hypothesis testingand variable selection in nonparametricregression
Zhong, Wei, Feature screening and vari-able selection for ultrahigh dimensionaldata analysis
Temple University (5)
Department of Statistics
Cheng, Aili, Confidence regions for op-timal controllable variables for therobust parameter design problem
Clements, Nicole, Multiple testing ingrouped dependent data
Strandberg, Alicia, A nonparametric testfor deviation from randomness
Su, Ying, Designs for testing lack of fitfor a class of Sigmoid curve models
Turkoz, Ibrahim, Blinded evaluations ofeffect sizes in clinical trials: Compar-isons between Bayesian and EM analysis
University ofPennsylvania (7)
Department of Mathematics
Abuzzahab, Omar, The 2-core of a ran-dom inhomogeneous hypergraph
Hasson, Hilaf, The prime-to-p part ofetale fundamental groups of curves
Lu, Zhentao, Topics in quantum sheafcohomology
Topaz, Adam, Commuting-liftable sub-groups of Galois groups
Wei, Zhaoting, Baum-Connes conjecture,flag varieties and representations ofsemisimple Lie groups
Wharton Statistics Department
Entine, Oliver, Disease diagnosis fromimmunoassays with plate to plate vari-ability
Wang, Pengyuan, Informative Bayesianmodeling with applications to mediadata
University ofPittsburgh (24)
Department of Biostatistics
Adeniji, Abidemi, Incorporating diagnos-tic accuracy into the estimation ofdiscrete survival function
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Choi, Ji-In, Prediction in the joint mod-eling of mixed types of multivariatelongitudinal outcomes and a time-to-event outcome
Emeremni, Chetachi, Inference for rightcensored, and right censored lengthbiased data through inverse weighting
Fu, Bo, Joint modeling of time-to-eventdata with competing risks
Hong, Seo Yeon, Multilevel joint analysisof longitudinal and binary outcomes
Im, Kyung-Ah, A stochastic EM algorithmfor G-rho family accelerated failure timemodel with random effects
Kidwell, Kelley, Survival analysis ofshared-path adaptive treatment strate-gies
Ozbek, Umut, Statistical methods forrecovering GWAS data
Pugh, Nathan, The use of multiple groupoutlier detection methods to identifyinformative brain regions in magneticresonance images
Shah, Nilesh, The latent group-based tra-jectory model: Development of discrim-ination measures and joint modelingwith subdistributions
Tu, Li-Chuan, The performance of biased-coin minimization in multicenter ran-domized clinical trials
Yabes, Jonathan, Semiparametric estima-tors in competing risks regression
Department of Mathematics
Everest, Thomas, Fixed points of non-expansive maps on closed, bounded,convex sets in �1
Huang, Junming, Hierarchical structuralmodels of portfolio credit risk
Jones, Christopher, Optimal mortgageprepayment under the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model
Kovan-Bakan, Merve, Complexity of fam-ilies of compact sets in RN
Liu, Zhuomin, Conformal mappings andisometric immersions under secondorder Sobolev regularity
Nezir, Veysel, Fixed point properties forc0-like spaces
Smith, Daniel, Mathematical models ofbranching actin networks: Results andmethods
Solovyev, Alexey, Formal computationsand methods
Spardy, Lucy, Investigating the effects ofnetwork structure and afferent feed-back in models of rhythmic movement
Department of Statistics
Jeong, Hyewook, The spectral analysisof nonstationary categorical time seriesusing local spectral envelope
Shi, Haiwen, Parametric regression anal-ysis and discrimination analysis ofcompeting risk data
Zhang, Qi, Optimal procedures in high-dimensional variable selection
RHODE ISLANDBrown University (11)
Department of Mathematics
Anderson, Jacqueline, p-adic analoguesof the Mandelbrot set
Davis, Diana, Cutting sequences on trans-lation surfaces
Hong, Younghun, Nonlinear Schroedingerequations with potentials
Hulse, Thomas A., Triple shifted sums ofautomorphic L-functions
Lim, Li-Mei, Multiple Dirichlet series as-sociated to prehomogeneous spacesand the relation with GL3(Z) Eisensteinseries
Muthiah, Dinakar, Double MV cycles,affine PBW bases and crystal combina-torics
Sprung, Florian, The arithmetic of ellipticcurves in towers of number fields
Division of Applied Mathematics
Liu, Yufei, Large deviation theory forempirical measures: Explicit formulasand application to Monte Carlo
Yang, Yang, High order numerical meth-ods for hyperbolic equations: Super-convergence, and applications to delta-singularities and cosmology
Zhang, Yifan, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for convection-diffusion equa-tions: Positivity preserving and multi-scale resolution
Zhu, Xueyu, Reduced basis methods andtheir applications
University of RhodeIsland (7)
Department of Mathematics
Drymonis, Emmanouil, Patterns of bound-edness of rational systems in the plane
Gilbert, Adam, Some results on graphrepresentations and closure systems
Heissan, Mia, Some results on graphrepresentations and graph colorings
Krul, Michael, Commutative algebra,Groebner bases, and hypergraph col-orings
Lapierre, Evelina, On the global behaviorof some systems of difference equa-tions
Lugo, Gabriel, Unboundedness results forrational difference equations
Lynd, Chris, On the global character ofsome systems of rational differenceequations in the plane
SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (8)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Cooper, John, Sparsity regularization indiffuse optical tomography
Gillam, Christopher, Sensitivity analysisin magnetic resonance elastographyand a local wavelength based on wavedirection
Muldoon, Frank, Polyhedral approxima-tions of quadratic semi-assignmentproblems, disjunctive programs, andbase-2 expansions of integer variables
Wang, Min, Bayesian hypothesis test-ing and variable selection in high-dimensional regression
White, Catherine, Sensitivity analysis anddetectability of magnetic resonanceelastography
Wickramarachchi, Tharanga, Asymptoticsfor the arc length of a multivariate timeseries and its applications as a measureof risk
Wilson, Nicholas, Physics-based algo-rithms and divergence-free finite el-ements for coupled flow problems
Zheng, Qi, Robust and efficient regression
Medical University ofSouth Carolina (3)
Department of Public Health Sciences
Boan, Andrea, An assessment of thehospitalization rates and associated co-morbid conditions in secondary strokeprevention
Parker, Anthony, New statistical methodsfor the analysis of periodontal data
Weng, Yanqiu, Impact of safety mon-itoring on efficacy analyses in largeconfirmatory group sequential trialswith non-trivial safety event rate
University of SouthCarolina (14)
Department of Mathematics
Barwick, Brett, A computational ap-proach to the Quillen-Suslin theorem,Buchsbaum-Eisenbud matrices, andgeneric Hilbert-Burch matrices
Basu, Kandapriya, Mathematical model-ing and computational studies for cellsignaling
Basu, Treena, Fast solution methods forfractional diffusion equations and theirapplications
Brown, Kenneth, Shimura images of afamily of half-integral weight modularforms
Chen, Chen, Phase-field model for het-erogeneous bio-film solvent interactionand 3-D numerical simulation by GPUs
Hankins, Jeffrey, The uniform box prod-uct of some spaces with one non-isolated point
Johnson, Virginia, Enumeration resultson leaf-labeled trees
Mohr, Austin, Applications of the lop-sided Lovasz local lemma regardinghypergraphs
Peng, Xing, Fractional chromatic numbersand spectra of graphs
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Department of Statistics
Chen, Yuhui, Bayesian nonparametricmodels and tests for association insurvival data
Du, Jiejun, Measurement error models inshape analysis
Feng, Yuling, Estimation and Q-matrixvalidation for diagnostic classificationmodels
Lewis, Nicole, Protein identification usingBayesian stochastic search
Yang, Na, Modeling mixed unfolding/monotone dichotomous item exams
SOUTH DAKOTASouth Dakota StateUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Pottala, James, Advanced statistical meth-ods for analyzing heart disease riskfactors based on blood fatty acid data
TENNESSEEUniversity of Memphis (2)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Riet, Ago-Erik, On integer sequences andpackings and games on graphs
Wu, Yanan, Stochastic models of humankidney cancer
University of Tennessee,Knoxville (4)
Department of Mathematics
Eaton, Carrie, Modeling the genetic con-sequences of mutualism on communi-ties
Guan, Zhen, First and second orderunconditional energy stable schemesfor nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn equations
Penrod, Keith, Big homotopy theoryRand, Ashley, Multiplicative sets of atoms
Vanderbilt University (9)
Department of Mathematics
Boatman, Nicholas Stephen, Partial-Burnside groups
Chen, Xuemei, Stability of compressedsensing for dictionaries and almostsure convergence rate for the Kaczmarzalgorithm
Hull, Michael Bradley, Properties ofacylindrically hyperbolic groups andtheir small cancellation quotients
Kapitanov, Georgi Ivanov, A mathemati-cal model of cancer stem cell
Kent, Curtis A., Topological properties ofasymptotic cones
LeCrone, Jeremy, On the axisymmetricsurface diffusion flow
Wang, Lujun, Trivariate polynomial splineson 3D T-meshes
Wires, Alexander Duane, Some results inuniversal algebra
Young, William, An investigation of resid-uated lattices with modal operators
TEXASBaylor University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Sutherland, Shawn M., Existence of posi-tive solutions to right focal threepointsingular boundary value problems
Department of Statistical Sciences
Bray, Ross, A bivariate regression modelwith correlated mixed responses
Falley, Brandi, Bayesian approaches fordesign of psychometric studies withunderreporting and misclassification
Patrick, Joshua, Semiparametric estima-tion and forecasting for functional-coefficient autoregressive models
Rice University (9)
Computational and Applied
Mathematics Department
Liu, Kun, Discontinuous Galerkin meth-ods for parabolic partial differentialequations with random input data
Sun, Dong, A nonlinear differential sem-blance algorithm for waveform inver-sion
Wang, Xin, Transfer-of-approximation ap-proaches for subgrid modeling
Department of Mathematics
Martin, Taylor, Lower order solvability oflinks
McNeil, Reagan, A new filtration of theMagnus kernel
Department of Statistics
Banuelos, Rosa, A simulation-based ap-proach to study rare variant associationacross the disease spectrum
Grolemund, Garrett, Tools and theory toimprove data analysis
Hicks, Stephanie, Probabilistic models forgenetic and genomic data with missinginformation
Silver, Justin, Robust parametric func-tional component estimation using adivergence family
Southern MethodistUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematics
Case, Elizabeth, Numerical integral equa-tions in solidification and melting prob-lems
Pampell, Alyssa, Multiscale dynamics andstochastic forcing of the Atlantic merid-ional overturning circulation in concep-tual models
Stein, Kurt, Complete radiation boundaryconditions: Corner and edge closureconditions
Tiedeman, Hilari, Multilevel Schur com-plement preconditioning for multi-physics simulations
Statistical Science Department
Hu, Yalan, Spike detection and accom-modation for functional magnetic reso-nance imaging data
Jayalath, Kalanka, Spatial point pro-cesses in pre-historic house structures
Turner, Jacob, A novel approach tomodeling immunology data derivedfrom flow cytometry
Texas A&M University (23)
Department of Mathematics
Brown, Donald, Multiscale methods forfluid-structure interaction with applica-tions to deformable porous media
Chavez Dominguez, Javier, Operatorideals in Lipschitz and operator spacescategories
Ferguson, Lauren, Brittle fracture mod-eling with a surface tension excessproperty
Gou, Kun, Recovery of the shear modulusand residual stress of hyperelastic softtissues by inverse spectral techniques
Irving, Corey, Wachspress varietiesJoshi, Sunnie, A model for the estimation
of residual stresses in soft tissuesKang, Seul-Ki, Multiscale simulation and
uncertainty quantification techniquesfor Richards’ equation in heterogeneousmedia
Martin Del Campo Sanchez, Abraham,Galois groups of Schubert problems
Mehmetoglu, Orhan, Stability and conver-gence of high order numerical methodsfor nonlinear hyperbolic conservationlaws
Shroff, Piyush, Finite generation of coho-mology of quotients of a PBW algebra
Wei, Jia, Reduced order model and un-certainty quantification for stochasticporous media flows
Yang, Ming, On partial and genericuniqueness of block term tensor de-composition in signal processing
Ye, Ke, Tensor network states, immanantsand the geometric complexity theoryprogram
Department of Statistics
Ball, Robyn, Statistical methods for highdimensional biomedical data
Crawford, Scott, Efficient estimation ina regression model with missing re-sponses
Gaucher, Beverly, Factor analysis forskewed data and skew-normal maxi-mum likelihood factor analysis
Jann, Dominic, Bayesian logistic regres-sion with Jaro-Winkler string compara-tor scores provides sizable improve-ment in probabilistic record matching
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Kim, Mi Jeong, Efficient semiparametricestimators for nonlinear regressionsand models under sample selectionbias
Kohli, Priya, Prediction and estimation ofrandom fields
Mukhopadhyay, Subhadeep, Nonparamet-ric inference for high dimensional data
Park, Jincheol, Bayesian analysis for largespatial data
Wang, Yiyi, Statistical models for nextgeneration sequencing data
Zhang, Lin, Application of Bayesian hier-archical models in genetic data analysis
Texas StateUniversity-San Marcos (4)
Department of Mathematics
Gerber, Lindsey, The effects of a modeldevelopmental mathematics programon elementary and middle school pre-service teachers
Jaster, Robert W., Inverting the classroomin college algebra: An examination ofstudent perceptions and engagementand their effect on grade outcomes
Tennant, Aimee, Adult student learningbehaviors in a roadblock mathematicscourse
Wilson, Aaron T., Developing measuresof teachers’ knowledge for teachingmathematics to Latino English languagelearners
Texas Tech University (7)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Bulut, Ummugul, Derivation of SDEs forcorrelated random walk models andphylogenetic trees
Cho, Jea-Pil, The Kauffman bracket skeinalgebra of the punctured torus
De Silva, Rondombage Nadeeka, Span ofsubcontinua
Kliewer, Anton, Parameter sensitivity forstochastic differential equations in tu-mor growth, exit distributions, andbiomathematical modeling
Lahodny, Glenn, Persistence and extinc-tion of disease in stochastic epidemicmodels and dynamically consistent dis-crete Lotka-Volterra competition mod-els
Li, Siming, A new model for the simula-tion of dynamic clinical trials
Wickramasinghe, Indika, Extensions ofsaddlepoint-based bootstrap inferencewith application to moving averagemodel of order one
University of Houston (8)
Department of Mathematics
Ankita, Jain, Data-driven techniques forestimation and stochastic reduction ofmulti-scale systems
Han, Qi, Exterior regularized harmonicand harmonic functions
Liao, Qing-Qing, Wavelet approaches toseismic data analysis
Negi, Pooran, Directional multiscale anal-ysis using shearlet theory and applica-tions
Shi, Lingling, Numerical simulation of cellmotion in microchannels
Singh, Pankaj, Frames as codes forstructured erasures
Tumel, Filiz, Random walks on a latticewith deterministic local dynamics
Zeleke, Kidist, Numerical simulationsof surface acoustic wave-actuated cellsorting and enantiomer separation
University of NorthTexas (11)
Mathematics Department
Akter, Hasina, Real analyticity of Haus-dorff dimension of disconnected Juliasets of cubic parabolic polynomials
Cohen, Michael, Descriptive set theoryand measure theory in locally compactand non-locally compact groups
Das, Tushar, Kleinian groups in Hilbertspace
Foster-Greenwood, Briana, Hochschild co-homology of skew group algebras
Herath, Dushanthi, Nonparametric esti-mation of receiver operating character-istic surfaces via Bernstein polynomials
Larsen, Jeannette, Equivalence classesof subquotients of pseudodifferentialoperator modules on the line
Pannu, Husanbir, Semi-supervised andself-evolving learning algorithms withapplication to anomaly detection incloud computing
Paudel, Laxmi, Traveling wave solutionsof the porous medium equation
Shi, Xiaohui (Rebecca), Graev metrics andisometry groups of Polish ultrametricspaces
Walker, Daniel, Determinacy-related con-sequences on limit superiors
Xuan, Mingzhi, On Steinhaus sets, or-bit trees and universal properties ofvarious families of subgroups in S∞
University of Texas atArlington (7)
Department of Mathematics
Chen, Linlin, On primitivity and dimen-sion of finite semifields and their planes
Garrett, Charles, Numerical integrationof matrix Riccati differential equationswith solution singularities
Moon, Byungsoo, A study of the gen-eralized two-component Hunter-Saxtonsystem and Burger αβ type equations
Rhoden, Aubrey, Applications and adap-tions of a globally convergent methodin inverse problems
Seaquist, Thomas, Optimal stopping forMarkov modulated Ito diffusions withapplications to finance
Uechi, Katsuhiro, Smooth quantile pro-cesses for right censored data
Veerapen, Padmini, Point modules overregular graded Clifford algebras
University of Texas atAustin (26)
Department of Mathematics
Alter, Mio, Differential T-equivalent K-theory
Ballas, Samuel, Flexibility and rigidityof three-dimensional convex projectivestructures
Chang, Hector, Regularity for solutionsof nonlocal fully nonlinear parabolicequations and free boundaries on twodimensional cones
Indrei, Emanuel, Optimal transport, freeboundary regularity, and stability re-sults for geometric and functional in-equalities
Kim, Seong Jun, Numerical methods forhighly oscillatory dynamical systemsusing multiscale structure
Lee, Yoonsang, Towards seamless multi-scale computations
Maximo, Davi, On the blow-up of four-dimensional Ricci flow singularities
Monin, Phil, Essays on achieving invest-ment targets and financial stability
Moore, Allison, Behavior of knot Floerhomology under Conway and genustwo mutation
Norfleet, Mark, Fuchsian groups of sig-nature (0 : 2, . . . ,2; 1; 0) with rationalhyperbolic fixed points
Quitalo, Veronica, Regularity of a segre-gation problem with an optimal controloperator
Rauh, Nick, Resultants and height boundsfor zeros of homogeneous polynomialsystems
Vipismakul, Wasin, The stabilizer of thegroup determinant and bounds forLehmer’s conjecture of finite abeliangroups
Wu, Haotian, Analysis of Ricci flow onnoncompact manifolds
Yao, Yuan, A criterion for toric varieties
Institute for Computational
Engineering and Sciences
Blom, Ulf Martin, Automated predictionof human disease genes
Borden, Michael, Isogeometric analysis ofphase-field models for dynamic brittleand ductile fracture
Bramwell, Jamie, A discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method for seismic tomogra-phy problems
Garg, Vikram, Coupled flow systems, ad-joint techniques and uncertainty quan-tification
Gatto, Paolo, Modeling bone conductionof sound in the human head via hp-finite elements
Kirschenmann, Thomas, A collection ofBayesian models of stochastic failureprocesses
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Poulson, Jack, Fast parallel solution ofheterogeneous 3D time-harmonic waveequations
Povich, Timothy, Discontinuous Galerkin(DG) methods for variable densitygroundwater flow and solute transport
Tsuji, Paul, Fast algorithms for frequencydomain wave propagation
Windle, Jesse, Forecasting high-dimensional,time-varying variance-covariance matri-ces with high-frequency data and sam-pling Polya-gamma random variates forposterior distributions derived fromlogistic likelihoods
Worthen, Jennifer, Inverse problems inmantle convection: Models, algorithms,and applications
University of Texas atDallas (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Nguyen, Minh Phuoc, Shape analysisusing geometric features and diffeo-morphic deformation
Nguyen, My Linh, Symmetric boundaryvalue problems for vector nonlinearpendulum equation: Equivariant degreeapproach
Ogola, Gerald O., Statistical methods forplanning and interpretation of prostatecancer biopsy sessions
Sengupta, Dishari, A robust linear mixedeffects model with application tomethod comparison studies
University ofTexas-School of PublicHealth (9)
Division of Biostatistics
Cheng, Lee, Developing the follow-upschedules for women with breast cancer
Gu, Xuemin, Clinical trial design forbiomarker-based targeted therapy de-velopment
Huang, Furong, Robust effect sizes andtheir confidence intervals for groupdifference between trajectories in hier-archical linear growth model
Liang, Fu-Wen, Mixture modeling forjoint analysis of survival, discrete andcontinuous data
Liu, Jun, Analyzing left-truncated right-censored data with uncertain onsettime with parametric models
Liu, Ping, On Bayesian seamless phaseI–II designs
Liu, Suyu, Bayesian adaptive designs inearly phase clinical trials
Wang, Tao, A simulation study of thestandard design, the rolling six design,the CRM and the modified CRM in phaseI clinical trials
Zhang, Hong, Optimal and minimal two-stage designs in phase II dose clinicaltrials
UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematics
Francis, Amanda, New computationaltechniques in FJRW theory with ap-plications to Landau-Ginzburg mirrorsymmetry
Li, Ji, Persistence and foliation theoryfor random dynamical systems andtheir application to geometric singularperturbation
Luo, Yi, Spread option pricing withstochastic interest rate
Turner, Emma, k-S-rings
University of Utah (3)
Department of Mathematics
Bannish, Brittany, Mathematical modelsof fibrinolysis
Graham, Erica, Mathematical models ofmechanisms underlying long-term type2 diabetes progression
Wood, Aaron, A minimal type of the2-adic Weil representation
VIRGINIAGeorge MasonUniversity (4)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Beagley, Jonathan, Extremal combina-torics in geometry and graph theory
Berry, Tyrus, Model free techniques forreduction of high-dimensional dynam-ics
Department of Statistics
Parhat, Parwen, Randomization tests forregression models in clinical trials
Wang, Yang, Optimal randomization pro-cedures for clinical trials
Old DominionUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Jayatillake, Rasika, A statistical modelto determine multiple binding sites ofa transcription factor on DNA usingChIP-seq data
Mushti, Sirisha, Analysis of continuouslongitudinal data with ARMA(1,1) andantedependence correlation structures
Ravi, Bhaskara, Analysis of discrete pro-bit models with structured correlationmatrices
University of Virginia (13)
Department of Mathematics
Baltera, Constance, Coinvariant algebrasand fake degrees for spin Weyl groups
Dobbs, Daniel, Properties of measuresand processes related to Brownian mo-tion on infinite-dimensional Heisenberg-like groups
Droms, Sean, Constructions of Steinfillings
Emerick, Timothy, A group-theoretic char-acterization of the unipotent radical
Graber, Philip, The wave equation withgeneralized nonlinear acoustic bound-ary conditions
Johnson, Joseph, K(X): An equivariant K-theory functor from spaces to lambda-rings
Kleski, Craig, Boundaries for operatorsystems
Mazur, Kristen, On the structure ofMackey functors and Tambara functors
McCarty, Jason, The mod 2 homology ofinfinite loopspaces
Peng, Yung-Ning, Parabolic presentationsof the super Yangian Y (glM/N ) andapplications
Pollio, Timothy, The multinorm principleWebster, Justin, Analysis of flow-plate
interactions: Semigroup well-posednessand long-time behavior
Yarnall, Carolyn, The slices of suspen-sions of HZ for cyclic p-groups
Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, MedicalCenter (4)
Biostatistics Department
Carrico, Caroline, Characterization of aweighted quantile sum approach forhighly correlated data in risk analysisscenarios
Carrico, Robert, Unbiased estimation forthe contextual effect of duration ofadolescent height growth on adulthoodobesity and health outcomes via hierar-chical linear and nonlinear models
Sheldon, Emily, Choosing the cut-pointfor a restricted mean in survival analy-sis, a data driven method
Sima, Adam, Accounting for model un-certainty in linear mixed-effects models
Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (14)
Department of Mathematics
Cao, Zhenwei, Quantum evolution: Thecase of weak localization for a 3Dalloy-type Anderson model and appli-cation to Hamiltonian based quantumcomputation
Farlow, Kasie, The reflected quasipoten-tial: Characterization and exploration
Foster, Erich, Finite elements for thequasi-geostrophic equations of theocean
Leite Dos Santos Nunes, Vitor, Frechetsensitivity analysis and parameter esti-mation in groundwater flow models
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Mattox, Wade, Homology of group vonNeumann algebras
Murrugarra Tomairo, David, Algebraicmethods for modeling gene regulatorynetworks
Zhang, Xu, A posteriori error analysisfor a discontinuous Galerkin methodapplied to hyperbolic problems ontetrahedral meshes
Department of Statistics
Fang, Zaili, Some advanced model selec-tion problems on nonparametric/semi-parametric models for high dimen-sional data
Han, Chao, Bayesian visual analytics: In-teractive visualization for high-dimen-sional data
Johnson, Nels G., Semiparametric regres-sion methods with covariate measure-ment error
Kensler, Jennifer, Analysis of reliabilityexperiments with random blocks andsubsampling
Maiti, Dipayan, Model selection and av-eraging and interactive visual analyticsfor high-dimensional data
Xiao, Pei, Robust MEWMA-type controlcharts for monitoring the covariancematrix of multivariate processes
Xu, Liaosa, The design of GLR controlcharts for process monitoring
WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (30)
Applied Mathematics Department
Cain, Nicholas, Probabilistic, statistical,and dynamical models of neural deci-sion making
Jacobs, Joshua, Vortex dynamics ofgeostrophically adjusted density per-turbations in stratified incompressiblefluids
Lemoine, Grady, Numerical modeling ofporoelastic-fluid systems using high-resolution finite volume methods
Zhang, Yun, ETG-ETL portfolio optimiza-tion
Zhou, Jiansong, Climate response to solarvariation: Cyclic and secular
Zhou, Ying, Geographic range shifts un-der climate warming
Biostatistics Department
Bryan, Matthew, Methodology for exam-ining differential rates of change forlongitudinal data
Cheung, Charles Yin Kiu, Using interac-tive vectors to impute genotypes anddetect genotyping errors
Chi, Peter, Problems in pedigrees andphylogenies
Danaher, Patrick, Methods for the es-timation and application of biologicalnetworks
Gabriel, Erin, Education of potentialsurrogate endpoints
Levin, Gregory, An evaluation of adaptiveclinical trial designs with pre-specifiedrules for modifying the sampling plan
Pashova, Hristina, Methods for detectionof interactions with multiple compo-nents
Ross, Michelle, The Bayesian analysis ofdata arising from complex samplingdesigns
Saegusa, Takumi, Weighted likelihoodestimation under two-phase sampling
Teeple, Elizabeth, Adjusting for misclas-sified outcomes in a multistate model
Zhao, Shanshan, Covariate measurementerror correction methods in mediationanalysis with failure time data
Zheng, Xiuwen, Covariate measurementerror correction methods in mediationanalysis with failure time data
Department of Mathematics
Aholt, Christopher, Polynomials in multi-view geometry
Blair-Stahn, Nathaniel, A geometric per-spective on first-passage competition
Grigg, Nathan, Deformations of cate-gories of coherent sheaves and Fourier-Mukai transforms
Ning, Weiyang, Markov chain mixingtime, card shuffling and spin systemsdynamics
Patrolia, Lee, The radiative transfer equa-tion in photoacoustic imaging
Wang, Wenhan, Isolated curves for hy-perelliptic curve cryptography
Wong, Chun Wai Carto, Smoothness ofLoewner slits
Department of Statistics
Bauer, Cici, Bayesian modeling of healthdata in space and time
Maravina, Tatiana, Tests for differencesbetween least squares and robust re-gression parameter estimates and re-lated topics
Palacios Roman, Julia, Bayesian nonpara-metric inference of effective populationsize trajectories from genomic data
Perrault-Joncas, Dominique, Learning andmanifolds: Leveraging the intrinsic ge-ometry
Wheldon, Mark, Bayesian population re-construction: A method for estimatingage- and sex-specific vital rates and pop-ulation counts with uncertainty fromfragmentary data
Washington StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics
Smith, Gavin, Simplicial complexes andthe Optimal Homologous Chain Prob-lem
Trinh, Giang Bang, Computation of mul-tivariate normal probabilities using bi-variate conditioning with simulation
Van Dyke, Benjamin, Directional direct-search optimization methods withpolling directions based on equal angledistributions
Van Dyke, Heather, A study of p-variationand the p-Laplacian for 0 < p < 1 andfinite hyperplane traversal algorithmsfor signal processing
Wu, Peiling, Tail densities of copulas andtheir applications to extremal depen-dence analysis of vines
WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (7)
Department of Mathematics
Li, Ping, Cycles and bases of graphs andmatroids
Liang, Yanting, Cycles, disjoint spanningtrees and orientations of graphs
Wenliang, Tang, Circuits, perfect match-ings, and paths in graphs
Wu, Yezhou, Integer flows and moduloorientations
Yao, Senmei, Group connectivity ofgraphs
Ye, Dong, Perfect matching and circuitcover of graphs
Zhang, Zheng, Optimal portfolio andconsumption with transaction costs
WISCONSINMarquette University (2)
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science
Haque, Md, Mobile based symptom man-agement for palliative care
Rahman, Farzana, Ensuring applicationspecific security, privacy and perfor-mance goals in RFID systems
University of Wisconsin,Madison (33)
Department of Mathematics
Amorim, Lino, A Kunneth theorem inLagrangian Floer theory
Bao, Erkao, On J-holomorphic curves inalmost complex manifolds with asymp-totically cylindrical ends
Beros, Achilles, Applications of arithmeticcomplexity and priority arguments inalgorithmic learning theory
Beros, Konstantinos, Descriptive grouptheory
Boonkasame, Anakewit, On propagationand stability of internal waves
Brown, George, Leonard triples asso-ciated with the anticommutator spinalgebra
Deng, Qiang, Tropical cyclogenesis andvertical shear in a moist Boussinesqmodel
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Durfee, Christina, Groups with a charac-ter of large degree relative to a normalsubgroup
Garton, Derek, Random matrices andCohen-Lenstra statistics for global fieldswith roots of unity
Li, Qin, Modeling and computation meth-ods for multi-scale quantum dynamicsand kinetic equations
Ling, Jie, Arithmetic intersection andresultants
Lock, Michael, Index theorems for anti-self-dual and self-dual orbifolds
Qi, Peng, Surface hopping and relatedproblems
Seal, David, Discontinuous Galerkin meth-ods for Vlasov models of plasma
Tumasz, Sarah, Topological mixing
Vincent, Christelle, Drinfeld modularforms modulo P and Weierstrass pointson Drinfeld modular curves
Wang, Li, Numerical methods for multi-scale hyperbolic and kinetic equations
Wang, Rui, The contact triad connectionand contact instantons
Wang, Zhan, Dynamics of strongly non-linear water waves with capillary andflexure effects
Zhao, Luanlei, Period integral of auto-morphic Green functions
Department of Statistics
Chung, Dongjun, Statistical methods andsoftware for ChIP-seq data analysis
Chung, Yujin, Inference of gene treediscordance and recombination
Dai, Bin, Multivariate Bernoulli distribu-tion and its applications
Ding, Shilin, Learning graph structurewith parametric and non-parametricmodels
He, Qiuling, Model-based analysis meth-ods in statistical genomics
Hwang, Youngdeok, Topics on the designand analysis on computer experiments
Jin, Chongyang, Statistical modeling andinference for spatial categorical data
Li, Quefeng, High dimensional classifica-tion and variable selection
Lin, Yunzhi, Model selection methodsfor cancer staging and other diseasestratification problems
Moon, Jee Young, A causal gene networkwith genetic variations incorporatingbiological knowledge and latent vari-ables
Tao, Minjing, Large volatility matrix esti-mation based on high-frequency finan-cial data
Yang, Fan, On high dimensional dataanalysis and biomedical genomics
Yu, Xinxin, Testing hypotheses undercovariate-adaptive randomization inlinear and generalized linear models
University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Gaddis, Jason, PBW deformations ofArtin-Schelter regular algebras andtheir homogenizations
Masaros, America, Category O represen-tations of the Lie superalgebra osp (3,2)
Olivas Saunders, Rolando, Improved es-timation of PM2.5 using Lagrangiansatellite-measured aerosol optical depth
WYOMINGUniversity of Wyoming (5)
Department of Mathematics
Cerwinsky, Derrick, Algebraic multigrid(AMG) methods with an introduction toAMGLab
Lenth, Kevin, Application of a pertur-bation method to nonlinear stochasticPDEs
Quade, Eric, A new construction ofviscous weak detonation profiles
Department of Statistics
Gemoets, Darren, Bayesian parameter es-timation in dynamic ecological models
Singh, Sarabdeep, Statistical analysis ofgene duplication data
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