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Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2012–2013 ALABAMA Auburn University (15) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bahmanian, Mohammad, Amalgamations and detachments of graphs and hyper- graphs Bindele, Huybrechts, Rank-based regres- sion for nonlinear and missing models Brown, Wesley, Modular balanced graphs Carrigan, Braxton, Triangulations and simplex tilings of polyhedra Clark, Jonathan, Nim on graphs Couch, P. J. (Phillip), The metamorphosis of maximum packings of 2K n with triples into maximum packings of 2K n with 4-cycles Jiang, Nan, Upper bounds on the coars- ening rates for some non-conserving equations Li, Geng, Semi-supervised classification techniques in big data text analytics Liu, Xuhua, Gradient flows, convexity and adjoint orbits Noble, Abigail, Maximal sets of Hamilton cycles in complete multipartite graphs Ohlson, Vicky, Almost resolvable maxi- mum packings of bipartite graphs with 4-cycles Petrie, Caleb, On security, (F,I )-security, and ultra-security in graphs Roberts, Daniel, Stars and hyperstars Thompson, Mary Clair, Asymptotic re- sults in noncompact semisimple Lie groups Whitt, Thomas, Path decompositions of the Kneser graph University of Alabama (4) Department of Mathematics Chen, Jing, Most likely path to the shortfall risk in long-term hedging with short-term future contracts Holloway, Caleb, Wolff’s theorem on ideals for mathematics The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013) reported in the 2013 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences by 197 departments in 143 universities in the United States. Each entry contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of degrees listed for that university. A supplementary list containing names received since compilation of this list will appear in a later 2014 issue of the Notices. Karatas, Yalcin, Groups whose non- permutable subgroups satisfy certain conditions Ross, Lance, Context sensitive languages and word problems University of Alabama at Birmingham (5) Department of Biostatistics Mbowe, Omar, An investigation of the effect of misspecifying the random effect distribution and the incorrect assumption of equal intraclass cor- relation coefficients among treatment groups in the analyses of data from cluster randomized trials Yang, Celeste T., Hypothesis tests of equivalence and their application to microarray and clinical trial data Department of Mathematics Bledsoe, Matthew, Resonances and in- verse scattering Huang, Qizhuo, Geometric fitting in errors-in-variables model Ma, Hui, Geometric fitting of quadratic curves and surfaces University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (2) Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science Department Mercado, Gary, On the detection and estimation of changes in a process mean based on kernel estimators Oh, Dong-Yop, GA-Boost: A genetic algo- rithm for robust boosting ARIZONA Arizona State University (10) School of Human Evolution and Social Change Murillo, David, Cites in ecology: Settle- ment patterns and diseases Salau, Kehinde, Assessing the effects of institutional and spatial arrangements in analytical and computational models of conservation Vega-Guzman, Jose, Solution methods for certain diffusion-type equations School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Bilinsky, Lydia, Dynamic Hopf bifurcation in spatially extended excitable systems from neuroscience Horan, Victoria, Listing combinatorial objects Huang, Qing, Some topics concerning the singular value decomposition and gen- eralized singular value decomposition Jones, Jeremiah, Drift-diffusion simula- tion of the ephaptic effect in the triad synapse of the retina Li, Jingjin, Multivariate generalization of reduced major axis regression Rabern, Landon, Coloring graphs from almost maximum degree sized palettes Smith, Matt, On-line coloring of partial orders, circular arc graphs, and trees University of Arizona (11) Department of Mathematics Acosta, Enrique, Leading order asymp- totics of a partition function for colored triangulations Bishop, Michael, Low energy states of quantum systems in disordered Bernoulli environments Hadad, Yaron, Integrable nonlinear rela- tivistic equations Nguyen, Dong Quan, Nonexistence of rational points on certain varieties Park, Chol, Semi-stable deformation rings in Hodge-Tate weights (0, 1, 2) Schaeffer Fry, Amanda, Irreducible rep- resentations of finite groups of Lie type: On the irreducible restriction problem and some local-global conjectures Smith, Ryan, Serre weights: The partially ramified case SEPTEMBER 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 937

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Page 1: Doctoral Degrees Conferred · 2014. 8. 8. · Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2012–2013 ALABAMA Auburn University (15) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bahmanian, Mohammad, Amalgamations

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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