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Doctoral Degrees Conferred2003–2004

ALABAMAUniversity of Alabama,Birmingham (4)

Biostatistics

Li, Yufeng, Parameter estimation for aproposed joint distribution of multi-variate Bernoulli trials.

Zhang, Yuting, A pattern mixture modelfor censored binary longitudinal data.

Mathematics

Malaugh, James M., Rotational sets of thecircle under Zd.

Yan, Aimin, An inverse goundwatermodel.

University of Alabama,Tuscaloosa (4)

Information Systems, Statistics, and

Management Science

Flynn, Timothy, Sequencing mixed-modelassembly lines in a lean environment.

Mathematics

Bunnag, Dhiranuch, Stochastic algo-rithms for global optimization.

Cheng, Kang-Ping, Three numericalschemes for solving nonlinear partialdifferential equations.

Sukantamala, Nattakorn, Area operatoron Hardy spaces.

ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (12)

Mathematics and Statistics

Boerner, Rochus, Wavelets with integerdilation factors larger than two.

Burke, John, Mathematical models ofmetabolic cascades and gene regulation.

Chidambaram, Rama, Modeling and deci-sion making in a semiconductor supplychain.

The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2003, to June 30,2004) reported in the 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 221 departments in 152 universities in the United States. Each entry

contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The numberin 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 summer 2005 issueof the Notices.

Do, Younghae, Chaotic transient behaviorof dynamical systems under randomperturbations.

Ephrem, Menassie, Characterizing liminaland type I graph C∗-algebras and C∗-algebra of the Z2-tree.

Hirman, Joseph, The role of variance: anextension of small area estimation.

Kim, Bong-Sik, Alpha models for rotatingNavier-Stokes equations in geophysicswith nonlinear dispersive regulariza-tion.

Larsem, Sean, Supporting the guidedreinvention of the concepts of groupand isomorphism: a developmental re-search project.

Negoita, Cristina, Global kinetic imag-ing using dynamic positron emissiontomography data.

Smith, Shelly, A discrete homotopy theoryfor graphs, with application to ordercomplexes of lattices.

Yang, Daqing, Extension of the game col-oring number and some results on thechoosability of complete multipartitegraphs.

Ybarra, Lynn, Small area estimation usingdata from multiple surveys.

University of Arizona (11)

Applied Mathematics

Hoppin, John, Ranking estimation meth-ods in medical imaging without the useof a gold standard.

Kuecken, Michael, On the formation offingerprints.

Lane, Emily, Wave-current interactions incoastal waters and their application toshore-connected bars.

Lo, Arthur, Theoretical simulation ofmetabolic mechanisms for regulatingcapillary perfusion in working skeletalmuscle.

Parra, Mario, Filter-bank transforms withexact inverses.

Mathematics

Hoffman, Thomas, Constructing basicalgebras for the principal block ofsporadic simple groups.

Piatek-Jimenez, Katrina, Undergraduatemathematics students’ understandingof mathematical statements and proofs.

Pierce, Virgil, The asymptotic expansionof the partition function of randommatrices.

Rasmussen, Christopher, Jacobians ofetale covers of the projective line minusthree points.

Selden, Jeffrey, The density of states in aquasi-gap.

Wootton, Aaron, Defining algebraic poly-nomials for cyclic prime covers of theRiemann sphere.

ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas (3)

Mathematical Sciences

Hughes, Kimberly, Variations on general-ized logit models: alternative links andstepwise selection.

Reed, Michael, Symbolic blow-ups andgeneration in degree four.

Wu, Hsing-Yen, Tight congruences onsemigroups.

CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (15)

Applied Mathematics

Camp, Charles David, Temporal andspatial patterns of the interannualvariability of stratospheric ozone anddynamics.

Chaubell, Mario Julian, Low-coherenceinterferometric imaging: solution ofthe one-dimensional inverse scatteringproblem.

Control and Dynamical Systems

Dunbar, William, Distributed recedinghorizon control of multiagent systems.

Leok, Melvin, Foundations of computa-tional geometric mechanics.

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Ross, Shane, Cylindrical manifolds andtube dynamics in the restricted three-body problem.

West, Matthew, Variational integrators.

Mathematics

Bartroff, Jay, Asymptotically optimalmultistage hypothesis tests.

Colwell, Jason, The conjecture of Birchand Swinnerton-Dyer elliptic curveswith complex multiplication by a non-maximal order.

Daftuar, Sumit, Eigenvalue inequalities inquantum information processing.

Gupta, Vineet, Conformal laminations.Lin, Qiang, Bloch-Kato conjecture for the

adjoint of H′(X0(N)) with integral Heckealgebra.

Martin, Kimball, Four-dimensional Galoisrepresentations of solvable type andautomorphic forms.

Vasylkevych, Sergiy, Poisson structuresfor PDEs associated with diffeomor-phism groups.

Vessenes, Rebecca, Generalized Foulkes’conjecture and tableaux construction.

Zhan, Dapeng, Random Loewner chainsin Riemann surfaces.

Claremont GraduateUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Bhan, Ashish, Topological structure ofnetworks derived from microarray time-series data.

Eyadat, Mohammad, Comparative per-formance evaluation of practical digitalwatermarking embedded schemes.

Orrala, Carlos, Numerical and experimen-tal investigations of two side-by-sideturbulent jets in a cross flow.

University of California,Berkeley (28)

Biostatistics

Bolstad, Benjamin, Low-level analysis ofhigh-density oligonucleotide array data:background, normalization and sum-marization.

Molinaro, Annette, Novel approaches toprediction to survival in cancer re-search: focus on genomics.

Mathematics

Alexandrova, Ivana, Structure of thesemi-classical amplitude for generalscattering.

Dasgupta, Samit, Gross-Stark units, Stark-Heegner points, and class fields of realquadratic fields.

Datta, Ruchira S., Algebraic methods ingame theory.

Giaimo, Daniel, On the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of curves and re-duced schemes.

Graf, Peter, Optimization of model re-duction for linear ordinary differentialequations.

Harvey, Nathaniel, Finitary codes onBernoulli shifts.

Horowitz, Jason, Linearizing countablyinfinite partial orders.

Jung, Kenley, Fractal entropies and di-mensions for microstate spaces.

Kalman, Tamas, Contact homology andone parameter families of Legendrianknots.

Karaali, Gizem, r -matrices on Lie super-algebras.

Latremoliere, Frederic, Finite dimensionalapproximations of quantum tori for thequantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance.

Miller, Benjamin, Full groups, classifica-tion, and equivalence relations.

Myers, Robert, Global transverse disksand suspendibility criteria.

Nemyrovska, Nina, On atypical represen-tations of classical Lie superalgebras ofdefect one.

Proudfoot, Nicholas, Hyper-Kahler ana-logues of Kahler quotients.

Purbhoo, Kevin, Vanishing and non-vanishing criteria for branching Schu-bert calculus.

Sandman, Nirit, Tamari lattices and ageometric problem in antitrust.

Tang, Xiang, Quantization of noncom-mutative Poisson manifolds.

Viswanath, Sankaran, Stabilization oftensor products in Kac-Moody algebras.

Zambon, Marco, Submanifold averagingin Riemannian, symplectic and contactgeometry.

Zhu, Chenchang, Integrating Lie alge-broids via stacks and applications toJacobi manifolds.

Statistics

Ge, Yongchao, Multiple testing in mi-croarrays.

Kechris, Katherina, Statistical methodsfor discovering features in molecularsequences.

Nacu, Serban, On the simulation ofcertain random systems.

Popovic, Lea, Asymptotic genealogy ofa branching process and a model ofmacroevolutions.

Schafer, Chad, Constructing confidenceregions of optimal expected size: theoryand application to cosmic microwaveinference.

University of California,Davis (12)

Mathematics

Ahmed, Maya, Algebraic combinatoricsof magic squares.

Ballinger, Brad, Length-preserving trans-formations in polygons.

Beaver, Scott, Banach algebras of integraloperators, off-diagonal decay, and ap-plications in wireless communications.

Edens, Thaddeus, A new large total vari-ation stability result for the quadraticnonlinear system associated with thecompressible Euler equations by eigen-value methods.

Grishin, Denis, Fast and efficient methodsfor multi-dimensional scattered dataapproximation.

Ishkhanov, Tigran, Legendrian knots:equivalence of normal rulings andaugmentations of Chekanov-Eliashbergalgebra.

Peirce, James, Well-posedness of thethree dimensional Lagrangian averagedNavier-Stokes equations.

Wolowski, Lech, Noise induced dissipationin discrete-time classical and quantumdynamical systems.

Yoshida, Ruriko, Barvinok’s rational func-tions: algorithms and applications tooptimization, statistics, and algebra.

Statistics

Leng, Xiaoyan, Functional linear discrim-ination analysis.

Senturk, Damla, Covariate adjusted re-gression and correlation.

Yao, Fang, Functional data analysis forlongitudinal data.

University of California,Los Angeles (17)

Mathematics

Balbas, Jorge, Non-oscillatory centralschemes for the equations of idealmagnetohydrodynamics in one- andtwo-space dimensions.

Cecil, Thomas, Numerical methods forpartial differential equations involvingdiscontinuities.

Chaudhary, Suneal, Acceleration of MonteCarlo methods using low discrepancysequences.

Choi, Yohann, Computation of ordinal-invariant trajectory solutions to multi-person bargaining problems.

Daileda, Ryan, Extremal class numbersof non-Abelian number fields.

Davey, Owen, On the existence of alge-braic oriented equivariant cohomologytheories.

Forbes, Brian, Open string mirror mapsfrom Picard-Fuchs equations on relativecohomology.

Gutars, Borislava, The inverse boundaryvalue problem in anisotropic media.

Kao, Chiu-Yen, Fast sweeping methodsfor static Hamilton-Jacobi equation.

Lee, Arthur, Symplectic integration ofnonlinear Hamiltonian dynamics.

Min, Cho-Hong, A computational frame-work tracking a moving interface inarbitrary dimension and codimension.

Moelich, Mark, Logic models in segmen-tation and tracking.

Nicoara, Remus, Some finiteness resultsfor commuting squares of finite dimen-sional von Neumann algebras.

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Soderlund, Christina, Characterizing fixedpoint sets.

Tan, Chong Hui, Equivariant K-theories,equivariant cycle theories and equivari-ant motivic homotopy theory.

Zhu, Wei, Illusory contours and shapebased segmentation.

Statistics

Yuan, Shin-Sheg, Some contributions incomputational biology.

University of California,Riverside (5)

Mathematics

Lindborg, Suzanne, Representations ofaffine Lie algebras of level zero.

MacLaughlin, Colin, Integrable and abeliandeformations of abelian complex struc-tures on 2-step nilmanifolds.

Pae, Chanwoo, Groebner bases of Vero-nese embeddings and N-P problems.

Tian, Jianjun, Evolution algebra theory.

Statistics

Miller, Diane, Can we ask better ques-tions? An examination of the respon-dent generated interval protocol.

University of California,Santa Barbara (9)

Mathematics

Barnard, Joshua, Ends of word-hyperbolicthree-manifolds.

Brown, Darin, Lifting properties of primegeodesics on hyperbolic surfaces.

Crow, Katherine, Von Neumann regularskew group rings.

Ennis, John, On the universal cover of theGromov-Hausdorff limit of manifoldswith Ricci curvature bounded below.

He, Zhen, Interpolation by bounded ana-lytic functions in domains of Cn.

Proskin, Heath, Flat faces in puncturedtorus groups.

Statistics and Applied Probability

Hernandez, Jorge, A general frameworkfor term structure and credit riskmodels driven by Levy processes.

Liu, Anna, Hypothesis testing in smooth-ing spline models and modeling ofhormone generating mechanisms.

Sklar, Jeffrey, Some contributions tospatially adaptive non-parametric re-gression.

University of SouthernCalifornia (2)

Mathematics

Kim, Dong-Jin, Efficient methods fornonlinear parabolic PDEs.

Mao, Wei-Cheng, Quadratic variation esti-mators for diffusion models in finance.

COLORADOColorado School ofMines (1)

Mathematical and Computer Sciences

Yang, Yongjun, A new discontinuousfinite element method based on a least-squares stabilization for elliptic andconvection-diffusion problems.

Colorado StateUniversity (4)

Statistics

Andrews, Margaret, Parameter estima-tion for all-pass time series.

Johnson, Devin, Models for the analysisof discrete compositional data: Anapplication of random effects graphicalmodels.

Mahabir, Sean, Evaluation of the methodR procedure for one way random effectsmodels.

Rodriguez-Yam, Gabriel, Estimation forstate-space models and Bayesian re-gression analysis with parameter con-straints.

University of Colorado,Boulder (8)

Applied Mathematics

Baker, Allison Hoat, On improving theperformance of the linear solver restart-ed GMRES.

McNamara, Richard, Applications ofspanning trees to continuous-time Mar-kov processes, with emphasis on losssystems.

Olson, Luke Nathan, Multilevel least-squares finite element methods forhyperbolic PDEs.

Sandberg, Kristian Hans, Forward and in-verse wave propagation using bandlim-ited functions and a fast reconstructionalgorithm for electron microscopy.

Schneider, Ulrike, Advances and applica-tion in perfect sampling.

Mathematics

Gomez, Andriana, Conservative maps:Reversibility, invariants and approxi-mation.

Kirwin, William, Coherent states andgeometric quantization.

Seaton, Christopher, Two Gauss-Bonnetand Poincare-Hopf theorems for orb-ifolds with boundary.

University of Colorado,Denver (3)

Mathematics

Argentati, Merico, Principal angles be-tween subspaces as related to Rayleighquotient and Raleigh Ritz inequalitieswith applications to eigenvalue accu-racy and an eigenvalue solver.

Brown, David, Variations on intervalgraphs.

Uiyyasathian, Chariya, Maximal-cliquepartitions.

CONNECTICUTUniversity ofConnecticut (8)

Mathematics

Bulancea, Gabriela, Sequence algebras ofcontinuous functions.

Jones, Molli, Group gradings of incidencealgebras.

Keiter, Jonathan, One-vertex triangula-tions and Heegaard splittings.

Nurkhaidarov, Ermek, On automorphismsof models of Peano arithmetic.

Xu, Jianhong, Parallel computation forMarkov chains via Perron complemen-tation.

Statistics

Bhaumik, Amitabha, Dynamical hierar-chical models with applications.

Fu, Rongwei, Probabilistic structure andstatistical inference for nonexplicit pop-ulation models of allele frequency.

Liu, Junfeng, On skew-elliptical distribu-tions with applications.

Yale University (12)

Mathematics

Akhmedov, Azer, Quasi-isometric rigidityin group varieties.

Breuillard, Emmanuel Francois, Equidis-tribution of random walks on nilpotentLie groups and homogeneous spaces.

Huang, Huajun, Borel orbits of classicalsymmetric subgroups on multiplicity-free flag manifolds.

Kang, Nam-Gyu, Boundary behavior ofSLE.

Ostrovsky, Dmitry, Stochastic modeling:Underlying stochastic processes andmodel dynamics.

Rogers, Luke G., A degree-independentSobolev extension operator.

Uriarte-Tuero, Ignacio, On Marcinkiewiczintegrals and harmonic measure.

Statistics

Cojocaru, Daniela, A strategy for param-eter estimation in the nonlinear errorsin variables model.

Doros, Gheorghe, A class of one-stepesimators in interval censoring.

Leung, Gilbert, Improving regressionthrough model mixing.

Panayides, Marios, The market makingsystem of the NYSE and other markets:Implementation in emerging markets.

Radchenko, Peter, Asymptotics undernonstandard conditions.



DELAWAREUniversity of Delaware (5)


Chandler, David, The Smith normal formsof design with classical parameters.

Dmytrenko, Vasyl, Classes of polynomialgraphs.

Fiedler, Frank, Maximal arcs in PG(2,2,m).Muniz, Wagner, A modified linear sam-

pling method valid for all frequencies.Williford, Jason, Constructions in finite

geometry with application to graphs.

DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAAmerican University (3)


Dickens, James, An analysis of the impactand focus of preparation efforts toimprove performance on the Stanfordnine mathematics test.

Dweik, Bashir, Mixtures of Erlang distri-butions and renewal processes basedon them.

Hill, Vicki, Constantin Caratheodory:1873–1950.

George WashingtonUniversity (4)

Mathematics

Dabkowski, Mieczyslaw, Cubic skein mod-ules and Burnside groups.

Statistics

Christophi, Costas, Distances in randomtries via analytic probability: The oscil-latory distribution.

El-Baz, Abeer, Some contributions tostatistical prediction theory.

Fan, Jiaquan, Short-term cancer inci-dence prediction.

Howard University (1)

Mathematics

Diatta, Bassirou, Quivers, representationtheory, non-commutative symplecticgeometry, stratification and singularsymplectic quotients.

FLORIDAFlorida Institute ofTechnology (2)


Dontha, Satyanarayana, Variational Lya-punov method for differential equa-tions.

Martinez-Garza, Cesar, Impulsive hybriddifferential systems with invisible solu-tions.

Florida State University (8)

Mathematics

Jones, Deborah, Intersection numbers ofdivisors in graph varieties.

Lengfield, Marc, Envelopes, duality, andmultipliers for certain non-locally con-vex Hardy-Lorentz spaces.

Montin, Benoit, A stock market agent-based model using evolutionary gametheory and quantum mechanical for-malism.

Vogeler, Roger, On the geometry ofHurwitz surfaces.

Statistics

Kitsanta, Panagiota, Assessing adversebirth outcomes via classification trees.

Liu, Dacheng, Mixed-effects state spacemodels for longitudinal data analysis.

Pu, Wenji, Selecting mixed-effects modelsbased on a generalized informationcriterion.

Smith, Michael, A framework for usingmulti-modal sensors to estimate targetlocations and identities in a battlefieldscene.

University of CentralFlorida (5)

Mathematics

Boncek, John, Studies in tight frames andpolar derivatives.

Korotkova, Olga, A model for a partiallycoherent Gaussian beam in atmosphericturbulence with applications for Laser-com and Lidar systems.

Muise, Robert, Quadratic filters for auto-matic pattern recognition.

VanDeCar, Ida (Sidra), Inequalities in-volving complex rational functions.

Zamyatin, Alexander, Mathematics ofcone-beam transform in computer to-mography.

University of Florida (1)

Mathematics

Griffiths, William, On integer solutions tosystems of linear equations.

University of Miami (2)

Mathematics

Canas, Carlos, Multiserver cyclic queue-ing networks with discrete time: Exactresults and approximations.

Kolacinski, Joseph Franke, Mathematicsanxiety and learned helplessness.

University of SouthFlorida (2)

Mathematics

Abdallah, Ahmed, Global dynamics ofdamped Boussinesq equations.

Al-Najjar, Hasan, Tridiagonal pairs inrepresentation theory.

GEORGIAEmory University (7)

Biostatistics

Davis, Xiaohong, Estimating vaccine effi-cacy from household data.

Mathematics and Computer Science

Glimm, Tilmann, Supersymplectic reduc-tion.

Palmer, Katrina, Regularization of quasi-Newton methods: Applied to imagerestoration.

Perrone, Lisa, Kronecker products inimage restoration.

Schacht, Mathias, On the regularitymethod for hypergraphs.

Sissokho, Papa, Light spanners and sparsepseudorandom graphs.

Whalen, Thor, Degree conditions andrelations to distance, extendability, andlevels of connectivity in graphs.

Georgia Institute ofTechnology (7)

Mathematics

Curran, Sean, Independent trees in 4-connected graphs.

Day, Sarah, A rigorous numerical methodin infinite dimensions.

Figueroa-Lopez, Jose Enrique, Nonpara-metric estimation of Levy processeswith a view towards mathematical fi-nance.

Kreslavskiy, Dmitry, Lorentz lattice gaseson graphs.

Ohoudjou, Kasso, Characterization offunction spaces and boundedness of bi-linear operators through Gabor frames.

Rasmussen, Bryan, Numerical methodsfor the continuation of invariant tori.

Sheppardson, Laura, Disjoint paths inplanar graphs.

University of Georgia (9)

Mathematics

Awanou, Gerard, Energy methods in 3Dspline approximations of the NavierStokes equations.

Beck, Michael, Square dependence inrandom integers.

Donnelly, Steve, Finding elements ofgiven order in Tate-Shafarevich groupsof elliptic curves.

Pine, Eric, Sums of integer cubes.Vologodsky, Vitali, The extended Torelli

and Prym maps.

Statistics

Lee, Jaechoul, Linear trends, periodicities,and extremes.

Wang, Lihua, Parameter estimation formixtures of generalized linear mixed-effects model.

Xiao, YuanHui, Shot noise processes.Zhou, Jin, Non-Gaussian bifurcating mod-

els.



HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii (1)

Mathematics

Wills, Luis, Finite group graded Lie alge-braic extensions and trefoil symmetricrelativity, standard model, Yang Millsand gravity theories.

IDAHOIdaho State University (1)

Mathematics

Potter, Russell, Further results on theSiler cones and related cone theory.

University of Idaho (1)

Mathematics

Zhang, Danhong, Disjoint cycles ingraphs and directed graphs.

ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (1)

Applied Mathematics

Miranda, Jesus, Incorporating R-functionsinto the theory of positive definite func-tions to solve elliptic partial differentialequations.

Illinois State University (7)

Mathematics

Bower, Michelle (Wallace), Characteriza-tion of high school mathematics andphysics language genres.

Foster, Halcyon, Already left behind:What can be done for low achievinghigh school mathematics students.

Johnson, Yolanda, Come home, then: Anexploration of the past and presentexperiences of two 8th grade blackfemales in one mathematics classroom.

Nugent, Patricia, Using a webboard as anasynchronistic community to facilitatefirst year secondary mathematics teach-ers as they move from apprenticeshipstatus to effective teacher status.

Olson, Jo, Teachers’ acceptance of newleadership roles and changes in class-room practices.

Pennisi, Sarah-Jean, Making improvingpractice part of teachers’ practice in thecontext of teaching geometry.

Yimer, Asmamaw, Metacognitive and cog-nitive functioning of college studentsduring mathematical problem solving.

NorthwesternUniversity (14)

Engineering Science and Applied

Mathematics

Cui, Changrong, Hydrodynamic and dif-ferential-diffusion effects on premixedflame propagation.

Devadoss, Divya E., Mathematical model-ing of polymerization waves.

Montgomery, Kimberley, Feedback con-trol of traveling wave solutions to thecomplex Ginzburg Landau equation anda nonlinear analysis of the amplificationproperties of auditory hair cells.

Moroz, Vadim, Rotating non-BoussinesqRayleigh-Benard convection.

Perry, Michael F., Mathematical analysisof two monomer systems of frontalpolymerization.

Ritter, Laura R., On initiation of polymer-ization waves in thermal free-radicalfrontal polymerization.

Roxin, Alexander C., Five projects inpattern formation, fluid dynamics andcomputational neuroscience.

Wahle, Christopher W., Gas-solid nonequi-librium in filtration combustion.

Mathematics

Fisher, Todd, On the structure of hyper-bolic sets.

Perepelitsa, Mikhail, Global existence ofsolutions with large, discontinuous ini-tial data for the Navier-Stokes equationsfor compressible fluid flows.

Phelps, Kathleen, A study on the rela-tionship between the cohomology of2-groups and certain subalgebras of themod-2 Steenrod algebra.

Pribble, Ethan, Algebraic stacks for stablehomotopy theory and the algebraicchromatic convergence theorem.

Renze, John, Perverse sheaves on affineGrassmannians of type A1.

Schemmerhorn, Kristen, Unstable opera-tions and the Bousfield-Kuhn functor.

Southern IllinoisUniversity, Carbondale (5)

Mathematics

Aimanassra, Mahmoud, Estimation ofsurvival and cumulative hazard func-tions of restricted quality adjustedlifetime.

Hjouj, Fawaz, Identification of reflected,dilated, translated and rotated objectsfrom their Radon projections.

Ibrahim, Haslinda, A family of designsfor triads and related factorizations.

McCreight, Jeff, Generalized Fourier trans-forms.

Staples, George, Clifford algebras, combi-natorics, and stochastic processes.

University of Chicago (26)

Mathematics

Barnhill, Angela, Fixed point theoremsfor actions of Coxeter groups on non-positively curved singular spaces.

Belkin, Mikhail, Problems of learning onmanifolds.

Calta, Kariane, Veech surfaces and com-plete periodicity in genus two.

Crisman, Karl-Dieter, Chow groups ofzero-cycles relative to hyperplane ar-rangements.

Guay, Nicolas, Representation theory ofrational Cherednik algebras.

Holmer, Justin, Uniform estimates forthe Zakharov system and the initial-boundary value problem for theKorteweg de Vries and nonlinear Schro-dinger equations.

Johnson, Brian, Factoring Cartan matricesof group algebras.

Lucarelli, Catherine, A converse to Mazur’sinequality for split classical groups.

Lucarelli, Vincent, Affine pavings foraffine Springer fibers for split elementsin PGL(3).

Maher, Joshua, The geometry of dilata-tion and distortion.

Mehta, Mridul, Birational equivalence ofHiggs moduli.

Rodriguez, Andres, Prequantization ofmoduli of G-bundles.

Rogale Plazonic, Kristina, Limits of invari-ants of algebraic cycles in a geometricdegeneration.

Shapiro, Ilya, BRST reduction of the chiralHecke algebra.

Sigurdsson, Johann, The homotopy the-ory of ex-spaces.

Spallone, Steven, Arthur’s trace formulafor SO(5) and individual discrete seriesmatrix coefficients.

Vandervelde, Samuel, The Mahler mea-sure of parametrizable polynomials.

Yan, Chao-Ping, A new angle on the tiltillusion.

Yeap, Lay May, Reversible normal formsand nonlinear development of ellipticalinstability.

Statistics

Bouman, Peter, Statistical and computa-tional methods for complex multicenterdata analysis.

Dolgoarshinnykh, Regina, Epidemic mod-elling: SIRS models.

Kordzakhia, George, The problem ofcoexistence in multi-type competitionmodels.

Romero, Martin, On two topics with nobridge: Bridge sampling with depen-dent draws and bias of the multipleimputation variance estimator.

Song, Jongwoo, A sequential clusteringalgorithm with applications to geneexpression data.

Tan, Zhiqiang, Likelihood approach forMonte Carlo integration.

Welty, Leah, Spatial statistics for model-ing phytoplankton.

University of Illinois,Chicago (9)

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Liu, Li, A mixed effects model forlongitudinal multivariate ordinal data.



Mathematics, Statistics and

Computer Science

Budur, Nero, Multiplier ideals and Hodgetheory.

Dominici, Diego, Asymptotic analysis ofa data handling system and its general-ization.

Egorin, Vladimir, Characteristic varietiesof algebraic curves.

Florek, Wojciech, Foliations: A probabilis-tic potential theory approach.

Goncharov, Yevgeny, Mathematical the-ory of mortgage and modeling.

Klaff, Benjamin, Boundary slopes ofknots in closed 3 manifolds with cyclicfundamental groups.

Nguyen, Nghiem, Higher order stabilitytheory of solitary waves.

Ping, Zhihong, Measures of importancewith applications to inspection policies.

University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (20)

Mathematics

Al-Fadhel, Tariq, Rates of convergence ofcontinued fractions and an approxima-tion theorem.

Avramidou, Parthena, Ergodic theory andharmonic analysis.

Bush, Michael, p-Class towers of imagi-nary quadratic fields.

Denne, Elizabeth, Alternating quadrise-cants of knots.

Gagelman, Jerry, Stability in geometrictheories.

Kim, Seog-Jin, Problems in graph coloringand graph structure.

Kongsiriwong, Sarachai, Theta functionsand related infinite series.

Li, Hui, Semi-free Hamiltonian circleactions on 6-dimensional symplecticmanifolds.

Li, Xiaosheng, Quasi conformal groups.Martin-Pizarro, Amador, Algebraic curves

over supersimple fields.Minasian, Vahagn, On THH and TAQ of

commutative S-algebras.Musa, Mona, On dihedral codes and

the double circulant conjecture forextended quadratic residue codes.

Petracovici, Lia, Cremer fixed points andcritical points in complex dynamics.

Rohwer, Thomas, Modules over valuedfields with an endomorphism.

Spiroff, Sandra, Limiting behavior onrestriction of divisor classes to hyper-surfaces.

Yeap, Boon Pin, Contributions to trigono-metric sums and mock theta functions.

Statistics

Georgescu, Constantin, Quantile estima-tors for finite populations.

Lin, Nan, Three statistical problems withimprecisely or incompletely observeddata.

Wei, Ying, Longitudinal growth chartsbased on semiparametric quantile re-gression.

Xu, Xueli, Computerized adaptive testingand equating methods with nonpara-metric IRT models.

INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (4)

Mathematics

Chung, Min, Local sine and cosine basesof Coifman and Meyer type and theconstruction of smooth wavelets.

Kim, Kyounghee, Integrals of exponentialBrownian motion and derivative pricingin the log-normal bond model.

Shiu, Ji-Liang, The H1-closure of the Haarsystem and its dual space.

Tsyganov, Eugene, Global existence forsystems of mixed hyperbolic-parabolictype, with discontinuous initial data.

Indiana University-PurdueUniversity, Indianapolis (1)


Di, Xiaojun, Real zeros of random poly-nomials: Scaling and universality.

Purdue University (12)

Mathematics

Di, Xiaojun, Real zeros of random poly-nomials: Scaling and universality.

Hosseini, Majid, Ratio inequalities forheat kernels.

Janakiraman, Prabhu, Weak-type esti-mates for singular integral and maximaloperators.

Joo, Sookyung, The phase transition be-tween chiral nematic and smectic C∗liquid crystals.

Merenkov, Sergiy, Determining biholo-morphic type of a manifold usingcombinatorial and algebraic structures.

Yu, Xiaoxiang, Finiteness of orbits andpoles of intertwining operators.

Zhang, Ning, Holomorphic line bundleson the loop space of the Riemannsphere.

Statistics

Annis, David H., A new statistical modelcombining strength and binary choicewith applications to paired comparisonproblems.

Cao, Dachuang, Quantitative trait locusanalysis in polyploids.

Grevstad, Nels, Statistical analysis ofmedical images.

Lin, Xiaodong, Finite mixture for cluster-ing, dimension reduction and privacypreserving data mining.

Ma, Ping, Nonparametric mixed-effectmodels.

University of NotreDame (9)

Mathematics

Arana, Andrew, Arithmetical investiga-tions: A study of models of arithmeticand purity of methods.

Chernysh, Vladislav, On the homotopytype of the space of positive scalarcurvature metrics.

Dekker, Michael, A new proof of thebordism invariance of the index.

Gorla, Elisa, Lifting properties from thegeneral hyperplane section of a projec-tive scheme.

Gorsky, Jennifer, On the Cauchy problemfor a KdV type equation on the circle.

Han, Guangyue, Space time coding withmultiple antenna systems.

Harrington, Phillip, Compactness andsubellipticity for the ∂ Neumann prob-lem on domains with minimal smooth-ness.

Kiskowski, Maria, Discrete stochasticmodels of morphological pattern for-mation in biology.

Weber, Rebecca, A definable relationbetween c. e. sets and ideals.

IOWAIowa State University (13)

Mathematics

Calhoun-Lopez, Marcus, Numerical solu-tions of hyperbolic conservation laws:Incorporating multi-resolution viscos-ity methods into the finite elementframework.

Kwon, Hee-Dae, Analysis and approxima-tion of terminal-state tracking optimalcontrol problems and controllabilityproblems constrained by linear andnonlinear parabolic partial differentialequations.

Tuncay, Candan, Oscillatory behaviorof higher order functional differentialequations with distributed deviatingargument.

Yang, Sung-Dae, Shooting methods fornumerical solutions of control prob-lems constrained by linear and non-linear hyperbolic partial differentialequations.

Statistics

De Cock, Dean, Kriging as an alternativeto polynomial regression in responsesurface analysis.

Drignei, Dorin, Statistical analysis ofmultivariate computer output.

Fridley, Brooke, Data augmentation forthe handling of censored spatial data.

Ilk, Ozlem, Exploratory multivariate lon-gitudinal data analysis and models formultivariate longitudinal binary data.

Kim, Ji-Yeon, Nonparametric regressionestimation under complex samplingdesigns.



Lee, Eun-Kyung, Projection pursuit meth-ods for exploratory supervised classifi-cation.

Silva, Damiao Nobrega Da, Adjustmentsfor survey unit nonresponse undernonparametric response mechanisms.

Wang, Jing, Interval mapping of QTL withselective DNA pooling data.

Zhang, Hongmei, Probability models fordesign and analysis of genetic data.

University of Iowa (18)

Applied Mathematical and

Computational Sciences

Jiang, Hong, Exploring algorithms fornetwork capacity dimensioning andtraffic modeling.

Kim, Changki, Modeling surrender/lapserates and valuing surrender options inKorean interest indexed annuities.

Leem, Koung-Hee, Solving linear systemsfor meshfree discretizations.

Biostatistics

Wang, Deli, Robust estimation of a two-way semilinear model with applicationsto microdata normalization and analy-sis.

Wang, Wenquan, Estimating and testingtreatment effects on two binary end-points and association between end-points in clinical trials.

Mathematics

Ahn, Jeongho, Dynamic frictionless con-tact problems with linearly elastic bod-ies.

Ahn, Myung-sook, Weekly clean rings andalmost clean rings.

Clarke, Sharon, Star-operations inducedby overrings.

Hidayat, Dylmoon, Continuously trans-lated framelets and wavelets.

Oshima, Chihiro, Characterization theo-rems in infinitary languages.

Robeson, John, Irredundant generatingsets for modalities.

Svidersky, Ilona, Lifting schemes forwavelets.

Ugalde, William, Conformal invariantsand the Wodzicki residue.

Waters, Gavin, W 2,p estimates for para-bolic equations.

Yoon, Jasang, Structure and spectraltheory of multivariable weighted shiftsof hyponormal operators.

Youn, Eun-Jung, Essential laminationsand Dehn surgery on Montesinos knots.

Statistics and Actuarial Science

Christ, Aaron, An animal movementmodel incorporating resource selectionand home range.

Lin, Yu-Jau, The Bayesian analysis ofthreshold autoregressive models.

KANSAS

Kansas State University (5)

Mathematics

Onofrei, Silvia, A characterization of twoclasses of locally truncated diagramgeometries.

Statistics

Lee, Eun-Joo, Statistical analysis softwarefor multiplicative interaction models.

Shanga, Gilbert, Analysis of crossoverdesigns when treatments have unequalvariances.

Su, Zhaohui, Inference on some lin-ear mixed-effect models and testingfor lack-of-fit for experiments withoutreplication.

Taylor, Veronica, Use of three partialareas for establishing bioequivalenceand estimation of sample size forequivalence studies.

University of Kansas (3)

Mathematics

Arana, Luis, The C∗-algebra of Lie semidi-rect products of the form Rn ×a R.

Bach, Kelly, A cancellation problem forquantum spheres.

Mir, Ellen, Relative topological propertiesof Hausdorff spaces.

Wichita State University (1)


Benchama, Noureddine, A simplifiedFornberg-like method for the conformalmapping of multiply connected regions.

KENTUCKY

University of Kentucky (7)

Mathematics

Bendall, Gareth, Domination analysis be-yond the traveling salesman problem.

Goodloe, Mary, Hadamard products ofconvex harmonic mappings.

Ishizuka, Wataru, The weak compactnessand regularity of weakly harmonicmaps on Riemannian manifolds withbounded measurable metrics.

Kovacs, Steve, Invertibility preservingmaps of C∗-algebras.

Menzel, Matthew, Generalized sewingconstructions for polytopes.

Mueller, Stacey, Harmonic mappings andsolutions of a differential equationrelated to the de la Vallee Poussinmeans.

Riehemann, Robert, Subset takeaway ongraphs.

LOUISIANALouisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (5)

Mathematics

Blankenship, Robin, Book embeddings ofgraphs.

Harris, John, The Kauffman bracket skeinmodule of the quaternionic manifold.

Holcomb, Michael, On the geometry andtopology of moduli spaces of multi-polygonal linkages.

Kanno, Jinko, Splitter theorems for 3-and 4-regular graphs.

Wang, Hao-Hao, Equations of parametricsurfaces with base points via syzygies.

Louisiana TechnicalUniversity (4)

Mathematics and Statistics Program

Hu, Jing, Mathematical and empiricalmodeling of chemical reactions in amicroreactor.

Kaba, Ibrahima, A numerical methodto solve the two-step parabolic heattransfer equations in a microspheresubjected to an ultrafast laser pulse.

Shen, Lixin, A three-level finite differencescheme for solving a dual-phase-laggingheat transport equation in sphericalcoordinates.

Zhen, Peng, Modeling of the inverse heat-conduction problem with applicationto laser chemical vapor deposition andbioheat transfer.

University of Louisiana atLafayette (3)

Mathematics

Guo, Huizhen, Inference on quantiles ofsome parametric models.

Lu, Yong, Inferences on the commonmean of normal populations: The cor-related and uncorrelated cases.

Sonnier, William Joshua, Mathematicalmodeling of coupled nonlinear Schroe-dinger systems using conservationschemes.

MARYLANDJohns HopkinsUniversity (9)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Cope, Leslie, Some asymptotic propertiesof smooth quantile ratio estimation.

Yuan, Weishi, Asymptotic properties andinferences for varying coefficient re-gression with longitudinal variables.



Biostatistics

Chen, Weimin, Robust quantitative traitlinkage analysis in extended humanpedigrees.

Eddings, Wesley, Topics in the philosophyof statistics: Methods, data, and theory.

Gupte, Nikhil, Statistical models andmethods for mother to infant HIVtransmission studies.

Mathematics

Dean, Brian, Some results on stablecompact embedded minimal surfacesin 3-manifolds.

Lee, Seok-Min, On certain cohomologicalinvariants of quadratic number field.

Xu, Xiangjin, Eigenfunction estimates oncompact manifolds with boundary andHormander multiplier theorem.

Zhang, Sirong, Curvature estimates forconstant mean curvature surfaces inthree manifolds.

University of Maryland,Baltimore (2)


Webster, Samuel, Stability and conver-gence of a spectral Galerkin method forthe linear Boltzmann equation.

Zhao, Qing, Correlation machines andtheir applications.

University of Maryland,College Park (13)

Mathematics

Calcut, Jack, Torelli actions and smoothstructures on 4-manifolds.

Eikenberg, Edward, Rational points onsome families of elliptic curves.

Jones, Catherine, Pyramids of properness:Proving the properness conjecture.

Kolesar, Joseph, Sigma delta modulationand correlation criteria for the con-struction of finite frames arising incommunication theory.

Kollar, Richard, Existence and stabilityof vortex solutions of certain nonlinearSchrodinger equations.

Ott, William, Infinite-dimensional dynam-ical systems and projections.

Perlitz, Michael, Explaining the emergenceof cooperation: An axiomic theory ofaccumulation.

Ridley, Ahmad, Performance analysis ofmulticlass preemptive-resume prioritycall center with time-varying arrivals.

Snitz, Kobi, Theta correspondence ofautomorphic characters.

Tang, Zhihui, Fast transforms based onstructured matrices with applicationsto the fast multiple method.

Wu, Chin-Tien, On implementation ofan accurate and efficient solver forconvection-diffusion equations.

Zheng, Shijun, Besov spaces for theSchrodinger operator with barrier po-tential.

Measurement, Statistics and

Evaluation

Koenig, Judith, Comparison of character-istic curve methods for linking param-eters estimated with the generalizedgraded unfolding model.

MASSACHUSETTSBoston University (7)

Biostatistics

Govindarajulu, Usha, The selection offrailty models and the developmentof a frailty model for unexplainedheterogeneity in the Framingham heartstudy.

Guo, Chao-Yu, Extensions of family-based genetic tests of linkage and/orassociation for a dichotomous trait.


Andonova Jaeger, Savina, Theoreticaland experimental analysis of the gen-eralization ability of some statisticallearning algorithms.

Chazaro, Irmarie, A comparison offamily-based association test for quan-titative traits.

Macabea, Joyce, Dynamics of Shepherdmoon ring systems.

Vierling, Angela, Linear systems on ruledsurfaces and moduli of vector bundlesover curves.

Zompatori, Marina, Curves of high genusin projective space.

Brandeis University (5)

Mathematics

Bone, Eric, A generalization of Pohlig-Hellman simplification in elliptic curvecryptography.

Bourgoin, Mario, Immersed curves andlinks in oriented thickenings.

Kim, Hee-Jung, Modifying surfaces in4-manifolds by twist spinning.

Varvak, Anna, Encoding properties oflattice paths.

Xin, Gouce, The ring of Malcev-Neumannseries and the residue theorem.

Harvard University (28)

Biostatistics

Arroyo, Cassandra, High dimensionaldata analysis with applications to dia-betes prevention and physical activitydata.

Ding, Beiying, Analysis of high dimen-sional data: Classification, measure-ment error model and graph basedassociation measures, with applicationto microarray data.

O’Brien, Liam, Methods for the analysislongitudinal multiple source data andmultiple predictor data.

Park, Yuhyun, Semiparametric statisticalinference in survival analysis.

Retina Rabbee, Nusrat, Power studies: I.Power and sample size for ordered cat-egorical data. II. Power calculations forfamilial aggregation studies. III. Powercalculations for selective genotyping inQTL mapping in backcrosses.

Roberts, Kevin, Latent predictor modelswith applications to asthma.

Scholtens, Denise, Studies in multidimen-sional data: Estimation of the bivariatesurvival curve, analysis of factorialdesigned microarray experiments, iden-tification of protein complex member-ship.

Wilkins, Kenneth, Marginally-specified con-ditional models for longitudinal out-comes with possibly non-ignorable non-response.

Zhao, Yihua (Mary), General designBayesian generalized linear mixed mod-els with applications to spatial statis-tics.

Engineering and Applied Sciences

Ashmore, Jacqueline, Free-surface andcoating flows.

Cettei, Kim, Code cache management indynamic optimization systems.

Ellard, Daniel, Trace-based analyses andoptimizations for network storage ser-vers.

Fischer, Robert, Web applications withclient-side storage.

Mansouri, Abdol, Sub-elliptic diffusions,geometry, and control.

Rauenbusch, Timothy, Measuring infor-mation transmission for team decisionmaking.

Schechter, Stuart, Computer securitystrength and risk: A quantitative ap-proach.

Sullivan, David, Using probabilistic rea-soning to automatic software tuning.

Valente, Andre, Symmetries and geomet-rical ansatze in dynamical systems:Hybrid dynamics, control with mov-ing averages, microflows, and networkrobustness problem.

Mathematics

Coskun, Izzet, Degenerations of scrollsand Del Pezzo surfaces and applicationsto enumerative geometry.

Dumas, David, Complex projective struc-tures, grafting, and Teichmuller theory.

Manolescu, Ciprian, A spectrum valuedTQFT from the Seiberg-Witten equa-tions.

Marian, Alina, Intersection theory on themoduli space of stable bundles viamorphism spaces.

Mirzakhani, Maryam, Simple geodesicson hyperbolic surfaces and volume ofthe moduli space of curves.

Plamenevskaya, Olga, Contact structuresand Floer homology.

Ramsey, Nicholas, Geometric and p-adicmodular forms of half-integral weight.

Rauch, Daniel, Perturbations of the d-baroperator.



Rogers, Nicholas, Elliptic curves x3 +y3 =k with high rank.

Yang, Stephanie, Special linear series inp2.

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (24)

Mathematics

Blanchette, Francois, Sedimentation in astratified ambient.

Bozin, Vladimir, Geometry of Ricci flatKahler manifolds and some counterex-amples.

Clifford, Peter, Algebraic and combinato-rial properties of minimal border striptableaux.

Costeanu, Viorel, On the 2-typical deRham-Witt complex.

Early, Edward, Chain and antichain enu-meration in posets, and b-ary partitions.

Elizalde, Sergi, Statistics on pattern-avoiding permutations.

Ganter, Nora, Orbifold genera, productformulas and power operations.

Hou, Zuoliang, Local complex singularityexponents for isolated singularities.

Korn, Michael, Geometric and algebraicproperties of polyomino tilings.

Latour, Frederic, Representations of Cher-ednik algebras in positive charac-teristic.

Lieblich, Max, Moduli of twisted sheavesand generalized Azumaya algebras.

Luo, Wei, On contact homology of theunit cotangent bundle of a Riemannsurface with genus greater than one.

Lurie, Jacob, Derived algebraic geometry.Mahdian, Mohammad, Facility location

and analysis of algorithms throughfactor-revealing programs.

Osserman, Brian, Limit linear series inpositive characteristic and Frobenius-unstable vector bundles on curves.

Popescu, Ionel, Morse inequalities, a prob-abilistic approach.

Radoicic, Rados, Extremal problems incombinatorial geometry and Ramseytheory.

Ragharsson, Kari, Frobenius transfersand p-local finite groups.

Rassart, Etienne, Geometric approachesto computing Kostka numbers andLittlewood-Richardson coefficients.

Sankar, Arvind, Smoothed analysis ofGaussian elimination.

Sesum, Natasa, Limiting behaviour ofRicci flows.

Usher, Michael, Relative Hilbert schememethods in pseudoholomorphic geom-etry.

Wang, Lijing, Bergman kernel and stabil-ity of holomorphic vector bundles withsections.

Yee, Wai Ling, On the signature of theShapovalov form.

NortheasternUniversity (6)

Mathematics

Dubrovskiy, Stanislav, Differential invari-ants of geometric structures.

Keng, Shengli, The geometry of G2 mani-folds.

Kreiman, Victor, Monomial bases andapplications for Richardson and Schu-bert varieties in ordinary and affineGrassmannians.

Scott, Joshua, Grassmannians and clusteralgebras.

Silantyev, Valentin, Kirchhoff and Ria-bouchinsky models with semiperme-able obstacles.

Wang, Erxiao, Submanifold geometriesand integrable systems.

Tufts University (2)

Mathematics

Cowan, John David, A billiard model of agas of rigid particles.

Pedroza, Andres, Cohomology and locali-sation formulas.

University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (2)


Garibotti, Gilda, Estimation of the sta-tionary distribution of Markov chains.

Otto, Peter, Study of equilibrium macro-states for two models in statisticalmechanics.

MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (2)

Mathematics

Maynard, Jacinth, A class of beta-exponential distributions: Properties,estimation and applications.

Sadir, Dawn, Circular symmetry of spec-tra of composition operators.

Michigan StateUniversity (10)

Mathematics

Cheng, Szu-En, Generating function proofsof identities and congruences.

Cheng, Wen-Chiao, Relations among con-ditional entropy, topological entropyand pointwise preimage entropy.

Furaidan, Monther Rashed, Imprimitivedistance-transitive graphs.

Kwon, Seongchun, Real aspects of themoduli space of stable maps of genuszero curves.

Morgan, Charles, Decay of correlationsfor piecewise smooth mappings withunbounded distortion.

Redett, David, Invariant vector subspacesof Lp with applications.

Saldivia, Luis, Topological transitivity ofbounded linear operators.

Sword, Sarah, Intermediate domains be-tween a local ring and its completion:Conditions for normality and factorial-ity.

Statistics and Probability

Li, Fang, Testing for the equality of twoautoregressive and regression func-tions.

Stepanov, Alexey G., Optimal control ofdynamical systems with jump Markovperturbations.

Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (2)


Nickolov, Radoslav, Association tests forcandidate genes based on Gibbs randomfield models.

Sarami, Chekad, Topics in coding theoryand combinatorial structures.

Oakland University (2)


Ghosh, Pulak, A Bayesian approach tobioequivalence trials.

Kikas, Lazaros, Interconnection networksand the k-disjoint paths problem.

University of Michigan,Ann Arbor (31)

Biostatistics

Carlson, Nichole, A bivariate model oftwo pulsatile hormones: A Bayesianapproach.

Feng, Shibao, Relative risk model analysisof multivariate survival data.

Hayasaka, Satoru, Validating and im-proving cluster size influence in brainimage analysis.

Hsu, Chiu-Hsieh, Survival analysis vianonparametric multiple imputation.

Huang, Chiang-Ching, Markov model fordefining genomic changes using geneexpression profiling.

Isaman, Deanna, Use of indirect transi-tion estimates in discrete-state multiple-stage models.

Li, Yisheng, Bayesian inference in gener-alized additive mixed models.

Liu, Fang, Bayesian methods for statisti-cal disclosure control in microdata.

Patil, Sujata, Latent trajectory models forlongitudinal data: A Bayesian approach.

Wang, Yue, Statistical methods utiliz-ing biomarkers in clinical trials andscreening studies.

Yu, Jian, Prosper function analysis fororgan allocation, a counting processand Martingale approach.

Yu, Menggang, Joint longitudinal-survival-cure model with application in prostatecancer studies.



Mathematics

Aubrey, Jason, Pseudo-dominating fami-lies of functions.

Elitzur, Haggai, Tight closure in Artinianmodules.

Hitchman, Theron J., Rigidity theoremsfor large dynamical systems with hy-perbolic behavior.

Johnson, Amanda, Multiplier ideals ofdetrimental ideals.

Jupiter, Daniel, Envelopes of holomorphyand approximation theorems.

Klodginski, Elizabeth, Essential surfacesin fibered 3-manifolds.

Kravitz, Scott, The homology of a filteredBoolean algebra.

Lawes, Elliot, Motivic integration and theregular Shalika germ.

Papikian, Mihran, Optimal elliptic curves,discriminants, and the degree conjec-ture over function fields.

Slapar, Marko, Real surfaces in complexsurfaces.

Storm, Peter, The barycenter method onsingular spaces.

Walker, Ronald, Concerning characteri-zations of boundaries of holomorphici-chains within complex surfaces.

Westerland, Craig, Stable splittings ofconfiguration spaces of surfaces andrelated mapping spaces.

Yong, Alexander, On combinatorics ordegeneracy loci and H(G/B).

Statistics

Choe, Jee-Weon, Bayesian optimality cri-teria for supersaturated designs.

Gopikrishnan, Ajita, Reliability inferencebased on time-to-failure and degrada-tion data: Some models, methods andefficiency comparisons.

Kim, Dong-Yun, Sequential test andchange point problems with staggeredentry.

Mease, David, Contributions to engineer-ing statistics: X-testing for reliabilityand optimal partitioning strategies.

Shin, Yong-Yun, Inference and applica-tions in hierarchical linear models withmissing data.

Wayne State University (4)

Mathematics

Crachiola, Anthony, On the AK invariantof certain domains.

Naga, Ahmed, On recovery type a pos-teriori error estimators in adaptive C0

Galerkin finite element methods.

Shvartsman, Ilya, Discrete approxima-tions and minimax synthesis in dynamicoptimization.

Wang, Lianwen, Optimal control of hered-itary differential inclusions.

Western MichiganUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Weinhold, Marcia, How secondary schoolmathematics teachers construct an un-derstanding of “appropriate use” ofgraphing calculators in the context ofcollegial inquiry.

MINNESOTAUniversity of Minnesota,Twin Cities (10)

Biostatistics

Guo, Xu, On Kay and Little’s approachto logistic regression model and somenew results.

Short, Margaret, Topics in hierarchicalspatial models: Covariate-adjusted spa-tial and spatio-temporal CDF modelling.

Zhao, Yanli, Interim monitoring of ran-domized clinical trials with multipleendpoints.

Mathematics

Kim, Kyeong-Hun, On stochastic par-tial differential equations with variablecoefficients in C1 domains.

Lee, Jae-Hyouk, Geometrics motivatedfrom normed algebras.

Lee, Kijung, Lp theory of stochasticpartial differential systems.

Rademacher, Jens, A mechanism forperiodic secondary wave bifurcation ofpulses in reaction-diffusion systems.

Statistics

Barnes, Katherine, Bayesian inference inspatial clustering models of crime data.

Sung, Yun Ju, Likelihood inference formutation accumulation experiments.

Zamba, Kokou (Gideon), Some issues inSPC: Change-point problems.

MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (1)


Liao, Wenyuan, Efficient higher order al-gorithms for solving reaction-diffusionequations.

University ofMississippi (1)

Mathematics

Welch, Amy, Tychonoff’s theorem andthe metric topology of path spaces.

MISSOURIUniversity of Missouri,Columbia (4)

Mathematics

Duda, Jakub, Aspects of delta-convexivity.

Portal, Pierre, Harmonic analysis of Ba-nach space valued functions in thestudy of parabolic evolution equations.

Statistics

Lee, Suhwon, Nonparametric Bayesiandensity estimation and smoothingsplines.

Xu, Ke (Bill), Efficient parameterizationand estimation of spatio-temporal dy-namic models.

University of Missouri,Rolla (1)


Lathrom, Grant, Automorphism groupsof resolvable incidence structures.

Washington University (9)

Mathematics

Apfel, Lynn, Localization properties andboundary behavior of the Bergmankernel.

Draghici, Cristina, Polarization and re-arrangement inequalities for multipleintegrals.

Liu, Ningping, Statistical properties ofmaximum likelihood estimators forcomplete and censored data frommixed exponential and Weibull dis-tributions.

Zhang, Jing, Threefolds with vanishingHodge cohomology.

Systems Science and Mathematics

Albright, Brian, An embedded optimiza-tion-simulation approach to dynamicpickup and delivery problems.

Celani, Fabio, Omega-limit sets of non-linear systems that are semigloballypractically stabilizable.

Lan, Chun Hua, Controllability of timedependent quantum control systems.

Liu, Ping, Appearance methods of solvingrecognition and estimation problems inrobotics.

Polpitiya, Ashoka, Geometry and controlof human eye movements.

MONTANAMontana StateUniversity (1)


Griffiths, Roger, Return map characteri-zation of singular solutions for a modelof bursting with two slow variables.

University of Montana (2)


Bedros, Varoujan, An exploratory studyof students’ understanding of indirectproof.

Clouse, Chris, Greedoid invariant theoryand the greedoid Tutte polynomial.



NEBRASKAUniversity of Nebraska,Lincoln (2)

Mathematics

Hinrichs, Paul, Consumer expenditureestimation incorporating generalizedvariance functions in hierarchical Bayesmodels.

Lindblad, Steven, Inverse monoids pre-sented by a single sparse relator.

NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (2)

Mathematics

Clark, Lisa, Classifying the type of group-oid C∗-algebras.

Dryden, Emily, Geometric and spectralproperties of compact Riemann or-bisurfaces.

NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (3)


Goullet, Arnaud, Mixing enhancement bydual speed rotating stirrer.

Picarelli, Michele, A Gibbs sampling ap-proach to maximum a posteriori timedelay and amplitude estimation.

Segin, Tetyana, Nonlinear long-wave in-terfacial stability of two-layer gas-liquidflow.

Princeton University (15)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics

Brown, Eric, Neural oscillators and in-tegrators in the dynamics of decisiontasks.

Liu, Di, Topics in the analysis andcomputation of stochastic differentialequations.

Rickard, Scott, Time-frequency and time-scale representations of doubly spreadchannels.

Rudin, Cynthia, Boosting, margin anddynamics.

Worden, Lee, Evolution, constraint, co-operation, and community structure insimple models.

Mathematics

Araujo, Carolina, The variety of tangentsto rational curves.

Berger, Eli, Topological methods inmatching theory.

Coskunuzer, Baris, Minimal surfaces andgenuine lamination.

Eftekhary, Eaman, Holomorphic curvesin topology and geometry.

Gonzalez, Maria Del Mar, Singular sets ofa class of fully nonlinear equations inconformal geometry.

Keevash, Peter, The role of approximatestructure in extremal combinatorics.

Ng, Ting Fai, Geometry of algebraicvarieties.

Prasanna, Kartik, On a certain ratioof Petersson norms and level-loweringcongruences.

Rodrigo, Jose Luis, On the evolution ofsharp fronts for the surface quasi-geostrophic equation.

Rojas-Leon, Antonio, General estimatesfor exponential sums.

Rutgers University, NewBrunswick (12)

Mathematics

Biezuner, Rodney Josue, Best constants,optimal Sobolev inequalities on Rie-mannian manifolds and applications.

James, Taylor, Connections with Bohmianmechanics.

Kruczek, Klay, Tic-tac-toe and tumble-weeds.

Li, Aobing, On some conformally invari-ant fully nonlinear equations.

Li, Xiaoyong, Pinned constrained Brown-ian motion with application to bondpricing.

Mazza, Carlo, Schur functors and mo-tives.

Radnell, David, Schiffer variation inTeichmuller space, determinant linebundles and modular functors.

Rosenthal, Malka, Extremal hypergraphsfor certain forbidden traces.

Schutzer, Waldeck, On some combinato-rial aspects of representation theory.

Taylor, Yuka, Quantum 6j symbolsand a semiclassical invariant of three-manifolds.

Young, Matthew, Random matrix theoryand families of elliptic curves.

Zhang, Lin, Vertex operator algebras andKazhdan-Lusztig’s tensor category.

NEW MEXICONew Mexico StateUniversity (3)


Feng, Ding, Choquet weak convergenceof capacity functionals and statisticalinference with random sets.

Mehta, Parag, Actions of the complexadditive group on affine spaces.

Oh, Hyunju, The universal Vassilievinvariant for the Lie superalgebraosp(1|2).

University of NewMexico (5)


Brock, Guy, Analysis of gene regula-tory networks using fuzzy logic andprobabilistic models.

Kehowski, Walter, Hypernormal mani-folds.

Liang, Hwa Ching, Diagnostic methodsfor accelerated failure time models.

Malloy, Elizabeth, Diagnostics for thescale of functional predictors.

Martinez, Derek, Greenberg transformsof singular varieties and maps.

NEW YORKCity University of NewYork, Graduate Center (9)

Mathematics

Abbaspour, Hossein, On string topologyof 3-manifold.

Brock, Martin, Conjugate reducibility offamilies of block-diagonal matrices overan extension field of a perfect field, andapplications to matrix subalgebras andsubgroups.

Khan, Bilal, The structure of automorphicconjugacy in the free group of rank two.

Kvaschuk, Alexei, One-variable equationsin torsion-free hyperbolic groups.

Majewicz, Stephen, Nilpotent Q[x]-power-ed groups and Z[x]-groups.

Prado, Lucio, p-potential theory ongraphs p-parabolicity and p-hyperboli-city.

Serbin, Denis, Infinite words and lengthfunctions.

Suzuki, Cristina, Rough isometries be-tween non-compact Riemannian mani-folds.

Wan, Aaron, The local theory of rootnumbers.

Clarkson University (1)

Mathematics and Computer Science

Morawska, Barbara, Goal-directed E-unification-completeness, decidabilityand complexity.

Columbia University (13)

Biostatistics

Xie, Hui, An index of sensitivity to nonig-norability: Extensions and applications.

Zawadzki, Rosita, A study of the perfor-mance of the truncated Levin Robbinssequential elimination procedure forchoosing the best of three binomialpopulations.

Mathematics

Cadman, Charles, Quantum cohomologyof stacks and enumerative applications.

Casalaina-Martin, Sebastian, Singularitiesof the Prym theta divisor.

Sadykov, Marat, Two results in thearithmetic of Shimura curves.

Sampsa, Samila, Models of decision mak-ing in a social context.

Song, Jian, The Szego kernel of an orb-ifold circle bundle and its application.

Thillainatesan, Meera, A kernel for auto-morphic L-functions on GL(n,R).



Weinkove, Benjamin, The J-flow, theMabuchi energy, the Yang-Mills flowand multiplier ideal sheaves.

Statistics

Feng, Xin, Functioning in computerizedadaptive testing.

Huang, Zaiying, Bayesian computationfor multilevel models: Some new meth-ods with applications.

Liu, Mongling, Semiparametric analysison longitudinal data in the presence ofinformation censoring.

Pasarica, Cristian, Topics in statistics andprobability.

Cornell University (18)

Applied Mathematics

Casey, Richard, Periodic orbits in neuralmodels: Sensitivity analysis and algo-rithms for parameter estimates.

Cetin, Umut, Default risk and liquidityrisk modeling.

Diaz, Aaron, Topics in hybrid systems.Mehta, Prashant, Nonbifurcating solu-

tions for parallel flows.Patron, Maria-Cristina, Risk measures

and optimal strategies for discretehedging.

Tomita, Tiberiu, Applications of sto-chastic calculus and partial differentialequations in financial economics.

Biometrics

Briggs, William Matthew, Assessing thevalue of yes/no forecasts.

Crainiceanu, Ciprian, Nonparametric like-lihood testing.

El Sheneity, Sahar, Alternative methodsto the maximum likelihood in thelogistic discrimination model.

Joo, Yongsung, Evaluation of model se-lection criteria in log spline models.

Madsen, Lisa, Regression with spatiallymisaligned data.

Zhang, Dabao, Bayesian inference fordifferential gene expression data.

Mathematics

Best, Janet, The mathematics of ecologicalcompetition.

Horak, Matthew, Mapping class sub-groups of outer automorphism groups.

Hsiao, Samuel, Quasisymmetric func-tions and combinatorial enumerationsin spheres.

Marques, Fernando, Existence and com-pactness theorems on conformal defor-mation of metrics.

Schuller, Rebecca, A theory of multitasklearning for learning from disparatedata sources.

Walker, Shawn, Shift techniques andmulticover inequalities on colored com-plexes.

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Atzberger, Paul, Stochastic modeling ofthe kinesin motor protein.

Cherepinsky, Vera, On mathematical as-pects of genomic analysis.

de Aranjo, Thelmo, Effects of upwardpropagating gravity waves or the meanstate of the atmosphere.

Demers, Mark, Markov extensions andnatural conditionally invariant mea-sures for dynamical systems with holes.

Forger, Daniel, Deterministic and sto-chastic mathematical modeling andcomputer simulation of the mammalianintracellular circadian clock.

Friz, Peter, Rough path theory and appli-cations to stochastic analysis.

Goldfeld, Paulo, Balancing Neumann-Neumann preconditions for the mixedformulation of almost-incompressiblelinear elasticity.

Herbert, Robert, Codimension two place-wise linear immersion of complex pro-jection space.

Iwasawa, Kazuhiro, Fast relevant simula-tion in finance.

Jiang, Huiqiang, Free boundary problemswith volume constraints: Zero set ofSobolev functions.

Judice, Pedro, Dynamic asset pricing viaconic duality.

Kim, Yongsam, The penalty immersedboundary method and its application toaerodynamics.

Lim, Ju Young, Pricing and hedging indexoptions.

Loubet, Enrique, Genesis and extinction ofsolitons arising from individual flowsof the Camassa-Holm hierarchy: Therise of a novel Darboux-like transform.

Miller, Laura, A computational study offlight in the smallest insects.

Mogultay, Itir, Modeling the atmosphericmixed layer.

Perez, Josi Antonio, Convergence of nu-merical schemes in the total variationsense.

Pignol, Ricardo, Energy transfer in sys-tems with random forcing and nonlin-ear dissipation.

Plaza-Villegas, Ramon, On the stability ofshock profiles.

Podesta, John, Some results concerningthe MHD boundary conditions on thebase of the solar corona.

Reznikoff, Maria, Rare events in finiteand infinite dimensions.

Slastikov, Valeriy, Topics in micromag-netics.

Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (5)


Basescu, Vasile, An analytic center cuttingplane method in conic programming.

Bi, Jinbo, Support vector regression withapplications in automated drug recov-ery.

Frank, Scott, Modeling nonlinear internalwave effects on broadband shallowwater acoustics.

Outing, Donald, Parabolic equation meth-ods for range dependent layered elasticmedia.

Renzi, Daniel, Interior elastodynamicsinverse problems: Shear wave speed re-covery in transient elastography usinglevel set based inversion of arrival time.

State University of NewYork, Albany (3)


Featherstonhaugh, Stephen, Abelian HopfGalois structures on Galois field exten-sions of prime power order.

Kelley, Amy, Blaschke products, innerfunctions with finite spectrum andoperators similar to a contraction.

Olsen, Darlene, The spectrum of Zd-actions in ergodic theory.

State University of NewYork, Binghamton (4)


Brown, Marlo, Detection of change-pointsin categorical data.

Donnelly, John, Properties of RichardThompson’s group F related to amena-bility.

Koban, Nicholas, Controlled topology in-variants of translation actions.

Wang, Xueqin, The properties of theTheil-Sen estimator.

State University of NewYork, Buffalo (4)

Mathematics

Chae, Hyungjik, Some results concerningpolarized partition relations.

Chen, Qi, Integral TQFTs and periodic3-manifolds.

Chen, Shr-jing, On nonlinear stability ofspherically symmetric model of stellardynamics under spherically symmetricperturbations.

Lo, Min-lin, Bargmann transform andwindowed Fourier localization.

State University of NewYork, Stony Brook (15)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Baek, Songjoon, Variable selection forheteroscedastic data.

George, Erwin, A numerical study ofRayleigh-Taylor instability.

Greenwald, Lorraine, Performance ofsimulating annealing with generalizedmove generation.

Hsiang, Tien-Ruey, Geometric algorithmsfor controlling and analyzing swarmsof robots and groups of aircraft.



Ji, Fei, Linkage analysis of a diseaserelated trait using a pleiotropic analysis.

Kang, Sun Jung, Effects of errors inspecification of genotypes of singlenucleotide polymorphisms.

Oh, Cheongeun, Robust Bayesian variableselection.

Panini, Radha, Option pricing with Merlintransforms.

Sztainberg, Marcello, Algorithms forswarm robotics.

Wang, Xuena, Pattern detection and dis-crimination in MS based proteomicanalysis.

Weaver, Christina, Effects of errors inspecification of genotypes of singlenucleotide polymorphism on the 2 × 3test of independence.

Yoo, Yun Joo, Power study of likelihoodbased linkage statistics.

Mathematics

Behrstock, Jason, Asymptotic geometryof the mapping class group and Teich-muller space.

Craig, Gordon, Dehn filling and asymp-totically hyperbolic Einstein manifolds.

Panafidin, Sergei, Nevanlinna theory andPlucker identities.

Syracuse University (4)

Mathematics

John, Thomas, Selection procedures forlognormal populations.

Lee, Travis, An extension of the Thom-Porteous formula to a certain class ofcoherent sheaves.

Subramanian, Uma, Biting convergenceof null-Lagrangians.

Zangor, Roxana, Numerical methods forsmooth, detectable image perturba-tions.

University of Rochester (4)

Mathematics

Felea, Raluca, Composition of Fourierintegral operators with fold and blowdown singularities.

Mustafaev, Zokhrab, Some geometric in-equalities in Minkowski spaces.

Voloshina, Maria, On the holomorph of adiscrete group.

Zhang, Yilian, The one dimensional in-verse problem and new integrable dy-namical systems.

NORTH CAROLINADuke University (8)

Mathematics

Barnes, Andrew, Electromagnetic scat-tering by three-dimensional periodicstructures.

Benes, Christian, On some problemsconcerning planar random walks.

Greer, John, Fourth order diffusions forimage processing.

Hale, Christopher, On calculations ofleaky modes in photonic crystals.

Karp, Robert, D-branes on Calabi-Yaumanifolds and II-stability in the derivedcategory.

Kesseler, Kevin, Analysis of feedback-mediated dynamics in two couplednephrons.

Kozdron, Michael, Simple random walkexcursion measure in the plane.

Statistics and Decision Sciences

Molina, German, Bayesian stochasticcomputation, with application to modelselection and inverse problems.

North Carolina StateUniversity, Raleigh (31)

Mathematics

Al-Ashhab, Samer, The role of sh-Liealgebras in Lagrangian field theory.

Attiogbe, Cyril, On characterizing nilpo-tent Lie algebras by their multipliers.

Chen, Guo, Immersed interface methodfor the biharmonic equation on irregu-lar domain and its applications.

Daily, Marilyn, L-structures on spaces oflow dimension.

Dometrius, Christopher, Relationship be-tween symmetric and skew-symmetricbilinear forms and involutions onSL(N,K) and SO(N,K, b).

Drake, Kimberly, Analysis of numericalmethods for fault detection and modelidentification in linear systems withdelays.

Fowler, Kathleen, Nonsmooth nonlineari-ties in applications from hydrology.

Han, Chuan-Hsiang, Singular perturba-tions on non-smooth boundary prob-lems in finance.

Hicks, Gregory, Modeling and control ofa snake-like serial-link structure.

Kharebaua, Zviad, Singular cochains andrational homotopy type.

Lewis, Brian, Optimal control and shapedesign: Theory and applications.

Massad, Jordan, Macroscopic models forshape memory alloy characterizationand design.

Nealis, James, Model-based robust con-trol designs for high performance mag-netostrictive transducers.

Seaton, Gerald, The lattice of equivalenceclasses of closed sets and the Stone-Cech compactification.

Weiman, Robert, Granular flow models:Analysis and numerical simulations.

Williams, Ellison Anne, A formula forn-row Macdonald polynomials.

Williams, Michael, Nilpotent n-Lie alge-bras.

Williams, Vicky, Root multiplicities of theindefinite Kac-Moody algebras HCn(1).

Zager, Michael, Modeling the distributionand metabolism of the phytoestrogengenistein in rats.

Statistics

Doi, Jimmy, Comparison of exact uncon-ditional methods for the difference oftwo binomial proportions.

Gauvin, Jennifer, Stepwise hypothesistesting with applications in pharmaceu-tical responses.

Leon, Selene, Semiparametric efficient es-timation of treatment effect in a pretest-posttest study with missing data.

McIntyre, Julie, Density deconvolutionwith replicate measurements and auxil-iary data.

Morris, Richard, Likelihood ratio testsfor association with multiple diseasesusceptibility alleles genotyping errorsor missing parental data.

Mukhopadhyay, Pralay, Exact test andexact confidence intervals for the ratioof two binomial proportions.

Scholl, Elizabeth, Molecular evolution andhorizontal gene transfer in meloido-gyne spp.

Tang, Yongqiang, Dirichlet process mix-ture models for Markov processes.

Thompson, Denis, Finding homologousgenes with primers designed usingevolutionary models.

Wahed, Abdus, Efficient estimation ofthe survival distribution and relatedquantities of treatment policies in two-stage randomization designs in clinicaltrails.

Wang, Dazhe, Frequentist and Bayesiananalysis of random coefficient autore-gressive models.

Wu, Weiwei, Estimating value at riskand the expected shortfall for het-eroscedastic financial log returns: Atwo-stage method.

University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill (13)

Biostatistics

Condon, Sean, Spatial analysis of birth-weight and infant mortality.

Hu, Jianhua, Identifying differentiallyexpressed genes, computing gene ex-pression indexes and sample size inmicroarray experiments.

Lee, Ji-Hyun, Practical issues arisingin clustered data: Modified GEE andgoodness-of-fit test.

Leu, Szu-Yun, Non-homogeneous Poissonprocess models for genetic crossoverinterference.

Pan, William, Multilevel spatial and sta-tistical analyses to examine the rela-tionship between population and envi-ronment: A case study of EcuadorianAmazon.

Wang, Kai, Designs for two-dimensionalphase I trials in oncology.

Wang, Xiaofei, Semiparametric methodsfor biased sampling schemes in epi-demiologic studies with auxiliary co-variates.



Young, Mary, Generalized estimatingequations (GEE) with design-based cor-relation structures for cluster-unit tri-als.

Zink, Richard, Correlated binary regres-sion using orthogonalized residuals.

Mathematics

DeCoste, Rachelle, Density of closedgeodesics in a compact nilmanifoldwith Chevalley rational structure.

Lau, Stephen, Rapid evaluation of radia-tion boundary kernels for time-domainwave propagation on blackholes.

Stevens, Laura, KZ type equations, elliptichypergeometric functions and ellipticSelberg integrals.

Vembar, Navin, Oriented matroid integerchains.

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Mathematics

Maney, Jack, On the boundary map andintegral morphisms.

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Sanqui, Jose (Joel), Characterization andstatistical inference for the skew-normal distribution.

Case Western ReserveUniversity (3)

Statistics

Charnigo, Richard, Testing homogene-ity in finite mixtures and semi-localparadigm for wavelet denoising.

Ganocy, Steve, Estimation of problemsfrom data with change points.

Wang, Bin, Estimation problems frombiased sampling.

Kent State University (4)


Ghaim, Berhane, On the geometry ofBanach space operators.

Kim, Sun-mi, Orthogonal polynomials,quadrature rules and linear algebra.

Shuibi, Abdallah, Numerical methods forlarge-scale ill-posed problems.

Sprague, Emily, Uniform integrability andrelated topics.

Ohio State University (16)

Mathematics

Argesanu, George, Risk analysis andhedging in incomplete markets.

Boros, Dan, On L (squared)-homology oflow dimensional buildings.

Han, Zhongxian, Actuarial modeling ofextremal events using transformed gen-eralized extreme value distribution andgeneralized Pareto distribution.

Iancu, Aniela Karina, Numerical methodsfor pricing basket options.

Lladser, Manuel, Asymptotic enumera-tion via singularity analysis.

Malyushitsky, Sergey, On Sylow 2-sub-groups of finite simple groups of orderup to 210.

Mendris, Robert, The link of suspensionsingularities and Zariski’s conjecture.

Ott, Michael, Symplectic convexity theo-rems and applications to the structuretheory of semisimple Lie groups.

Wang, Chian-Jen, On the existence ofcuspidal distinguished representationsof metaplectic groups.

Zhou, Xiangqian, Some excluded minortheorems of binary matroids.

Statistics

Biswas, Swati, On incorporating hetero-geneity in linkage analysis.

Guha, Subharup, Benchmark estimationfor Markov chain Monte Carlo samples.

Kelbick, Nicole, Detecting underlyingemotional sensitivity in bereaved chil-dren via a multivariate normal mixturedistribution.

Liu, Yufeng, Multicategory psi-learningand support vector machine.

Tang, Yuxiao, Inference on cross correla-tion with repeated measures data.

Wang, Qiang, Maximum likelihood es-timation of phylogenetic trees withevolutionary parameters.

Ohio University (3)

Mathematics

Dinh, Hai, On the structure and equiva-lence of codes over finite rings.

Er, Noyan, Rings characterized by directsums of CS modules.

Voisei, Mircea, First-order necessary opti-mality conditions for nonlinear optimalcontrol.

University of Cincinnati (2)


Wang, Guojun, Some Bayesian methodsin the estimation of parameters inthe measurement error models andcrossover trial.

Yu, Weiming, Identification of coefficientsin reaction-diffusion equations.

OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Cox, Jonathan, A presentation for theChow ring A∗(M0,2(p1,2)).

University of Oklahoma (1)

Mathematics

White, Jonathan, Using technology tofacilitate visualization in multivariablecalculus.

OREGONOregon State University (4)

Mathematics

Bell, Andrea, Hilbert modular surfacesand uniformizing groups of Klein in-variants.

Black, Wendy, Pseudo orbit shadowing.Lin, Fusen, Numerical inversion of Laplace

transforms by the trapezoidal typemethods.

Statistics

Amer, Safaa, Neural network imputation:A new fashion or a good tool.

Portland StateUniversity (1)


Blair, Steve, Describing undergraduates’reasoning within and across Euclidean,taxicab, and spherical geometries.

University of Oregon (1)

Mathematics

Geer, Nathan, Link invariants, quantizedsuperalgebras and the Kontsevich inte-gral.

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Bocea, Marian, A Young measure ap-proach to nonlinear membrane theory.

Kolesnikov, Alexei, Generalized amalga-mation in simple theories and char-acterization of dependence in non-elementary classes.

Komarek, Paul, Logistic regression fordata mining and high-dimensional clas-sification.

Radu, Petronela, On semilinear waveequations.

Simic, Ksenija, Aspects of ergodic theoryin subsystems of second-order arith-metic.

Sirbu, Mihai, A two-person game forpricing convertible bonds.

Trapp, Kathryn, A class of compatiblediscretizations with applications to div-curl systems.

Xu, Mingxin, Minimizing shortfall risk us-ing duality approach—an application topartial hedging in incomplete markets.



Statistics

Behseta, Sam, Bayesian multiple curvefitting in the analysis of neuronal data.

Chen, Fang, A two-stage method forapproximate spatial inferences by com-bining independent site-specific analy-sis.

Haviland, Amelia, Understanding genderand racial wage gaps among the highlyeducated.

Jang, Woncheol, Nonparametric densityestimation and clustering with applica-tion to cosmology.

Lee, Pak Kuen Philip, The generalizedlambda distribution applied to spotexchange rates.

Trottini, Mario, Decision models for datadisclosure limitation.

Tzeng, Jung-Ying, Identification of mu-tations affecting liability to complexdiseases by the analysis of haplotypes.

Zhang, Yangang, Hierarchical spatialmodels and Monte Carlo analysis ofmine locations in robotic land-minesearch.

Drexel University (1)

Mathematics

Kheyfets, Boris, Some stochastic prop-erties of random classical and Carlitzcompositions.

Lehigh University (2)

Mathematics

Potocka, Katarzyna, The number of sum-mands in v1-periodic homotopy groupsof SU(n).

Shimkus, Beth, Limit theory for function-als on random bipartite sets.

Pennsylvania StateUniversity (13)

Mathematics

Binns, Stephen, The Medvedev and Much-nik lattices of Π0

1 classes.Chacon, Ben, Undecidability of the prob-

lem of distinguishing k-theory classesof the reduced group C∗-algebra for afinitely presented group.

Dogru, Filiz, Polygonal outer billiards inthe hyperbolic plane.

Talitskaya, Anna, Partially hyperbolicphenomena in dynamical systems withdiscrete and continuous time.

Statistics

Demirtas, Hakan, Multiple imputation fornonignorable dropout using Bayesianpattern-mixture models.

Elmore, Ryan, Semiparametric analysisof finite mixture models with repeatedmeasures.

Harel, Ofer, Strategies for data analysiswith two types of missing values.

Liu, Jiawei, Robust fitting of multinomialmodels based on assessment of modelbuilding errors.

McDermott, James, Low-storage sequen-tial methods for datamining and theanalysis of massive datasets.

Ray, Surajit, Distance-based model-selec-tion with application to the analysis ofgene expression data.

Tan, Hensiong, Variance estimation withastronomical measurement errors.

Wang, Jiping, NPMLE in estimating thenumber of expressed genes using ESTdata while accounting for measurementerror.

Wang, Lan, Testing in heteroscedasticANOVA with large number of levels andin nonparametric ANCOVA.

Temple University (2)

Mathematics

Sun, Xinyu, Computer-assisted and com-puter-generated research on combin-atorial games and pattern-avoidance.

Yayenie, Omer, Hyperbolic convexity ofa standard fundamental domain of asubgroup of the Hecke discrete groups.

University ofPennsylvania (14)

Mathematics

Aker, Kursat, Higgs bundles on Del Pezzofibrations.

Butler, Frederick, Cycle-counting q-rooktheory and other generalizations ofclassical rook theory.

Chadha, Rohit, A formal analysis ofexchange of digital signatures.

Gheorghiciuc, Irina, The subword com-plexity of finite and infinite binarywords.

Khalid, Madeeha, K3 correspondences.Magland, Jeremy, Discrete inverse scat-

tering theory for NMR pulse design.Parsley, R. Jason, The Biot-Savart oper-

ator and electrodynamics on boundedsubdomains of the 3-sphere.

Shen, Junhao, Free probability, free en-tropy and generator problems for vonNeumann algebras.

Song, Chunwei, Combinatorial theoryof q,t-Schroder polynomials, parkingfunctions and trees.

Statistics

Levins, Mihails, Variance estimation fornonparametric regression and its appli-cations.

Li, Xuefeng, Infinitely divisible time seriesmodels.

Liu, Linxu, Semi-parametric and non-parametric models for survival data.

Shen, Haipeng, Nonparametric regres-sion for problems involving lognormaldistributions.

Venkataramani, Chandramouliswar, Ran-dom walk hypotheses and profitabilityof momentum based trading rules.

University ofPittsburgh (10)

Mathematics

Curtu, Rodica, Waves and oscillations inmodel neuronal networks.

Guo, Yixin, Existence and stability ofstanding pulses in neural networks.

Heitmann, Noel, Subgrid stabilization ofevolutionary diffusive transport prob-lems.

Marsh, Andrew, Topology of functionspaces.

Sahin, Niyazi, Derivation, analysis andtesting of new near wall models forlarge eddy simulation.

Wisloski, Gregory, Some characterizationsof generalized metric spaces using thediagonal.

Statistics

Auh, Sungyoung, Isotonic logistic dis-crimination.

Koyama, Tatsuki, A framework for designof two-state adaptive procedure.

Li, Yulin, Aging properties of mixturedistributions.

Yothers, Gregory, Methodologies for iden-tifying subsets of the population wheretwo treatments differ.

RHODE ISLANDBrown University (13)

Applied Mathematics

Amarasingham, Asohan, Statistical meth-ods for the assessment of temporalstructure in the activity of the nervoussystem.

Chen, Qianyong, Topics in spectral meth-ods.

Li, Fengyan, On locally divergence-freediscontinuous Galerkin methods.

Liu, Dong, Spectral element/force cou-pling method: Application to colloidaldevices and self-assembled structuresin 3D domains.

Lucor, Didier, Generalized polynomialchaos: Applications to random oscilla-tors and flow-structure interactions.

Pai, Hui-Ming, A robust formulation ofa multi-class queueing network controlproblem.

Wu, Wei, Statistical models of neuralcoding in motor cortex.

Xiu, Dongbin, Generalized (Wiener-Askey)polynomial chaos.

Mathematics

Christoforou, Cleopatra, Hyperbolic sys-tems of balance laws via vanishingviscosity.

Horozov, Ivan, Euler characteristics ofarithmetic groups.

Karageorgis, Paschalis, Nonlinear waveswith sign-changing potentials.



Leonard, Kathryn, Measuring shape space:ε-entropy, adaptive coding and two-dimensional shape.

Wang, Qingxue, Multiple polylogarithmmotives and moduli spaces M0,n.

University of RhodeIsland (2)

Mathematics

Clark, Cathy Ann, Global behavior ofnonlinear difference equations and sys-tems.

Travers, Brian, Generalized whist tourna-ments and generalized whist frames.

SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (5)


Farr, Jeffrey, Computing Grobner bases,with applications to Pade approxima-tion and algebraic coding theory.

Gorka, Artur, The random multi-direc-tional method of feasible directions.

Ntasin, Louis, A posteriori error esti-mation and adaptive computation ofviscoelastic fluid flow.

Rodrigues, Virginia, Multivariate polyno-mials: Irreducibility and Grobner bases.

Waters, Lawrence, A parallel implemen-tation of the Glowinski-Pironneau algo-rithm for the modified Stokes problem.

Medical University ofSouth Carolina (2)

Biometry and Epidemiology

Khedouri, Christopher, Use of global testsfor multiple outcomes with applicationsin psychiatry.

Sadler, Zara, An approach to estimatingrelative goodness of fit with applicationto the diagnostic interview schedule forselected ethnic groups in the US.

University of SouthCarolina, Columbia (5)

Mathematics

Park, Kyungwon, Bivariate rational ap-proximation and anisotropic Franklinbases.

Ryan, Pamela, Hardy-Sobolev spaces andBanach algebras on the unit ball of C (n).

Statistics

Bhargava, Parul, Confidence bound com-paring two regression lines with controlregression line.

Nitcheva, Daniela, Multiple comparisonsin low-dose risk assessment with quan-tal response data.

Tomlinson, Meredith, Inference for accel-erated test models based on failuresor degradation data from cumulativedamage processes.

TENNESSEEUniversity of Memphis (4)


Cutler, Jonathan, Extremal and algebraicgraph theory.

Hubenko, Alice, Cliques, strong packingand cycle covers.

Kombe, Ismail, Linear and nonlinearparabolic partial differential equationswith singular lower order term.

Liang, Yulan, Gene expression temporalpatterns classification with hierarchicalBayesian neural networks and timelagged recurrent neural networks.

University ofTennessee (4)

Mathematics

Battle, Laurie, Eigenvalue dependenceon problem: Parameters for StieltjesSturm-Liouville problems.

Khanal, Harihar, Computational modelsof diffusion of second messengers invisual transduction.

Salinas, Rene, Modeling the effects ofalternative harvesting strategies on theblack bear population of the southernAppalachians.

Smith, Neal, Graph-theoretic propertiesof the zero-divisor graph of a ring.

Vanderbilt University (3)

Mathematics

Alewine, John Alan, An inductive unittopology on the Denjoy space.

Jennings, Dana Lynn Gaston, Separatingcycles in triangulations of the doubletorus.

Stephens, David Christopher, The nonori-entable genus of the complete tripartitegraph.

TEXASBaylor University (6)

Mathematics

Singh, Parmjeet, Existence of positivesolutions to singular boundary valueproblems.

Statistical Science

Boese, Doyle, Likelihood-based confi-dence intervals for proportion pa-rameters with binary data subject tomisclassification.

Elsalloukh, Hassan, The epsilon-skew-exponential power distribution.

Guardiola, Jose, The semicircular normaldistribution.

Maddox, Amy, Regression effect models.Young, Marsha, Contributions to the

theory of quadratic forms and general-ized quadratic forms in normal randommatrices.

Rice University (11)

Computational and Applied

Mathematics

Husband, Christopher, Stochastic opti-mization applications in molecular elec-tronics.

Li, Ming, New algorithms of pathwidthcomputation.

Redl, Timothy, A study of universitytimetabling that blends graph color-ing with the satisfaction of variousessential and preferential conditions.

Wang, Zhen, A generalized trust regionSQP algorithm for equality constrainedoptimization.

Mathematics

Gwosdz-Gee, Carol, Strong S-equivalenceof ordered links.

Heap, Aaron, Bordism invariants of themapping class group.

Huang, Zheng, Harmonic maps and thegeometry of Teichmuller space.

Leidy, Constance, Higher-order linkingforms.

Statistics

Ghebremichael, Musie, Nonparametric es-timation of bivariate mean residual lifefunction.

Sung, Hsi-Guang, Gaussian mixture re-gression and classification.

Swartz, Michael, Stochastic search genesuggestion: Hierarchical Bayesian modelselection meets gene mapping.

Southern MethodistUniversity (5)

Mathematics

Li, Baoyan, A control volume functionapproximation method and reservoirsimulation with flexible grids.

Statistical Science

Cohlmia, Krista, Filtering M-stationaryprocesses.

Jiang, Huiping, Time-frequency analysisQ(lambda) stationary process.

Shen, Shuyi, Minimum L2 estimation forPoisson mixtures.

Spence, Jeffrey, A spatial analysis ofSPECT brain imaging data: Optimalpredictions in regions of interest.

Texas A&M University (15)

Mathematics

Choi, Woonjung, The existence of met-rics of nonpositive curvature on theBrady-Krammer complexes for finite-type Artin groups.

Coskun, Hasan, The BCn Bailey lemmaand generalizations of Rogers-Ramanu-jan identities.

Ginting, Victor, Upscaled modeling inporous media flow utilizing finite vol-ume method.



Husain, Ali-Amir, On the cohomology ofoperator algebras.

Khalmanova, Dinara, Productivity indexas an integral characteristic of diffusionprocesses.

Kim, Mijoung, The D-Neumann operatorand the Kobayashi metric.

Le Gia, Quoc, Approximation of lin-ear partial differential equations onspheres.

Statistics

Boucher, Thomas, V -uniform ergodicityof threshold autoregressive nonlineartime series.

Guan, Yongtao, Nonparametric methodsof assessing spatial isotropy.

Holan, Scott, Time series exponentialmodels: Theory and methods.

Lee, Kyeong Eun, Bayesian models forDNA microarray data analysis.

Lee, Sang-Joon, Asymptotics and compu-tations for approximation of method ofregularization estimators.

Park, Chun Gun, MCMC methods forwavelet representations in single indexmodels.

Yu, Jihnhee, Approaches to the multivari-ate random variables associated withstochastic processes.

Zhao, Caixia, One-sided cross-validationfor a model motivated by variable stardata.

Texas Tech University (6)


Emmert, Keith, Deterministic and sto-chastic discrete-time epidemic modelswith applications to amphibians.

Lee, Eun-Joo, Estimating linear func-tionals of indirectly observed inputfunctions.

Lee, Seung-Hwan, Checking the censoredtwo-sample accelerated life model us-ing integrated cumulative hazard dif-ference.

Navaratna, Channa, Estimation of theorigin of contaminent particles usingpoint measurements in a fluid flow.

Omolo, Bernard, Aligned rank test forrepeated observation models with or-thonormal design.

Perera, Pantaleon, Asymptotic feedbackcontrollability and topological structureof controllable linear switched systems.

University of Houston (4)

Mathematics

Ahmed-Zaid, Abdelnour, Boundary stabi-lization of wave equation type models:A numerical approach.

Holmes, Roderick, Optimal frames.Kaneda, Masayoshi, Multipliers and alge-

braizations of operator spaces.Yi, Eunjeong, Nevanlinna theory and

iteration of rational maps.

University of NorthTexas (4)

Mathematics

Bahreini, Manneh, Complemented sub-spaces of bounded linear operators.

Boykin, Charles, The study of translationequivalence on integer lattices.

Ghenciu, Ioana, Spaces of compact oper-ators.

Muller, Kimberly, Polish spaces and ana-lytic sets.

University of Texas,Arlington (4)

Mathematics

Kadjo, Hilaire, Age structured populationmodel: Interaction between nutrientsand phytoplankton.

Luo, Sheng, A multigrid method for 2-DMGD flow control analysis.

Nguyen, Vinh, Regression model withexplanatory variable subject to asym-metric measurement errors.

Sohaee, Nassim, Upward embedding ofdigraphs on the surfaces.

University of Texas,Austin (7)

Computational and Applied

Mathematics

Aizinger, Vadym, A discontinuous Galer-kin method for two and three-dimen-sional shallow-water equations.

Carnes, Brian Ross, Adaptive finite el-ements for nonlinear transport equa-tions.

Pardo, David, Integration of hp-adaptivitywith a two grid solver: Applications toelectromagnetics.

Sun, Shuyu, Discontinuous Galerkin meth-od for reactive transport in porousmedia.

Mathematics

Goodman, Noah, Contact structures andopen books.

Pacetti, Ariel, A formula for the centralvalue of certain Hecke L-functions.

Petsche, Clayton, The distribution ofGalois orbits of low heights.

University of Texas,Dallas (3)


Schmegner, Claudia, Decision theoreticresults for sequentially planned proce-dures.

Seida, David Lee, Estimation of attitudeparameters from variation in imageoverlap.

Wang, Jin, On nonparametric multivari-ate scale, kurtosis, and tailweight mea-sures.

UTAHUniversity of Utah (5)

Mathematics

Guy, Robert, A continuum model ofplatelet aggregation: Closure, computa-tional methods and simulation.

Kohler, Brynja, T-lymphocyte populationdynamics in health and auto immunity.

Lukic, Denis, Twisted Harish-Chandrasheaves and Whittaker modules.

Piepmeyer, Gregory, Constructing per-fect complexes with given intersectionproperties.

Robbins, Thomas, Seed dispersal and bi-ological invasion: A mathematical anal-ysis.

Utah State University (2)


Biesecker, Matthew, Geometric studies inhyperbolic systems in the plane.

Zhu, Zewen, Optimal experimental de-signs with correlated observations.

VIRGINIACollege of William andMary (1)

Mathematics, Applied Science

Milligan, Thomas, On certain sets ofmatrices: Euclidean squared distancematrices, ray-nonsingular matrices, andmatrices generated by reflections.

Old DominionUniversity (4)


Feldman, Gary, A forward-backward flu-ence model for the low-energy neutronBoltzmann equation.

Novaprateep, Boriboon, Superconvergenceof iterated solutions for linear andnonlinear integral equations: Waveletapplications.

Plungpongpun, Kusaya, Analysis of mul-tivariate data using Kotz type distribu-tion.

Shi, Genming, Estimation of parametersin replicated time series regressionmodels.

University of Virginia (7)

Mathematics

Bhattacharya, Chirashree, Free groupsand their automorphisms.

Carley, Holly, The strong-coupling limitfor the ground state of a particleharmonic oscillator interaction.

Guadagni, Gianluca, Renormalizationgroup for a lattice system.

Meehan, Melissa, Detection of symplecticcommutator subgroups.



Statistics

Betcher, Joshua, Statistical inference un-der order restrictions with applications.

Buot, Max Louis, Applications of geneticalgorithms in maximum likelihood esti-mation.

Tomita, Yuji, On properties of multi-variate mixture vector autoregressivemodels.

Virginia CommonwealthUniversity (5)

Biostatistics

Campbell, Leanne, Futility analysis withcovariables.

Eckel, Jeanette, Statistical analyses oftime-course and dose-response mi-croarray experiments.

Hamm, Adam, Analysis of an interactionthreshold in drug/chemical mixtures.

Massie, Tammy, Testing genetic hypoth-esis on bivariate dichotomous twindata using repeated measures logisticregression.

Rutledge, Brandy, A comparison of twinmethods when the liability is non-normal.

Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (10)

Mathematics

Buterakos, Lewis, The exit time distri-bution for small random perturbationsof dynamical systems with a repulsivetype stationary point.

Camp, Brian, A class of immersed finiteelement spaces and their application toforward and inverse interface problems.

Evans, Katie, Reduced order controllersfor distributed parameter systems.

Forcey, Stefan, Loop spaces and iteratedhigher dimensional enrichment.

Garcia-Puente, Luis, Algebraic geometryof Bayesian networks.

Gillespie, Jason, A combinatorial proof ofthe positivity of Lusztig’s q-analogueof weight multiplicity for rank I Liealgebras.

Nguyen, Hoan, Volterra systems withrealizable kernels.

Rai, Tapan, Infinite Grobner bases andnon-commutative polly cracker cryp-tosystems.

Vugrin, Eric, On approximation and opti-mal control of non-normal distributedparameter systems.

Statistics

Kim, Keun Pyo, Process monitoring withmultivariate data: Varying sample sizesand linear profiles.

WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (13)

Applied Mathematics

Hsu, Viktoria R.T., Ion transport throughbiological cell membranes: From electro-diffusion to Hodgkin-Huxley via a quasisteady-state approach.

Mathematics

Chen, Jein-Shan, Merit functions andnonsmooth functions for the second-order cone complementarity problem.

Hahn, Rebekah, K(1)-local Iwasawa the-ory.

Hladky, Robert, Boundary regularity ofthe Neumann problem for the KohnLaplacian on the Heisenberg group.

Kim, Panki, Potential theory for stableprocesses.

Maxwell, David, Initial data for blackholes and rough spacetimes.

Ramaseshan, Karthik, Microlocal analysisof the Doppler transform on R3.

van Opstall, Michael, Some stable degen-erations and applications to moduli.

Statistics

Anderson, Amy Dawn, The genetic struc-ture of related recombinant lines.

Balabdaoui, Fadoua, Nonparametric esti-mation of a k-monotone density: A newasymptotic distribution theory.

Drton, Mathias, Maximum likelihood es-timation in Gaussian AMP chain graphmodels and Gaussian ancestral graphmodels.

Sieberts, Solveig Kara, Joint relationshipinference from three or more individ-uals in the presence of genotypingerror.

Sugar, Elizabeth Ann, Personal character-istics and covariate measurement errorin disease risk estimation.

Washington StateUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Edmeade, Dean Emmanuel, Nonlinearstability analysis of hexagonal opticalpattern formation in an atomic sodiumvapor ring cavity.

Mapes, Eric, Analytic and numerical solu-tions of framework models.

Rajapakse, Indika, A mathematical modelfor neuronal groups.

WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Wang, Yi, Fast wavelet collocation meth-ods for second kind integral equationson polygons.

Xu, Rui, On flows of graphs.Zhan, Mingquan, Eulerian subgraphs and

Hamiltonicity of claw-free graphs.

WISCONSINMarquette University (1)

Mathematics, Statistics and

Computer Science

Oliveira, Luis, Varieties of pseudosemi-lattices.

Medical College ofWisconsin (1)

Biostatistics

Bajorunaite, Ruta, Comparison of fail-ure probabilities in the presence ofcompeting risks.

University of Wisconsin,Madison (25)

Mathematics

Chakrabarti, Manish, Representations ofmodular and quantum Weyl algebrasand of generalized Heisenberg algebras.

Cho, Cheol-Hyun, Holomorphic discs,spin structures and Floer cohomologyof the Clifford torus.

de Sousa Dias Lopes, Samuel, On thestructure and representation theoryof the quantized enveloping algebraUq(g)+, for g semisimple.

Lau, Michael, Fock representations andcentral extensions.

Lee, Youngsuk, Anisotropic energy trans-fer in beta-plane and rotating flows.

Ondrus, Matthew, Whittaker modules,central characters, and tensor productsfor quantum enveloping algebras.

Thiem, F. Nathaniel, Unipotent Hecke al-gebras: The structure, representations,and combinatorics.

Unlu, Ozgun, Constructions of free groupactions on products of spheres.

Velikina, Julia, Twisting transform andreplicable functions.

Statistics

Ahn, Hongyup, Restricted likelihood ratiotests for fixed effects in mixed effectsmodels.

Cheng, Bin, Some hypothesis testingresults for two-way linear models inclinical trials.

Dahl, David, Conjugate Dirichlet pro-cess mixture models: Efficient sam-pling, gene expression and clustering.

Debroy, Saikat, Computational methodsfor mixed-effects models.

Gross, Kevin, The aphid, the wasp, andthe matrix: Aspects of modeling host-parasitoid and single-species dynamics.

Hong, Quan, A pseudo empirical likeli-hood approach to nonignorable nonre-sponse.



Ji, Yuan, On Bayesian modeling anddesign for microarray gene expressiondata.

Jin, Chunfang, Contributions to the de-sign and analysis of quantitative traitloci experiments.

Lee, Yoonjung, Two essays on model-ing financial markets as complex andinteractive systems.

Leng, Chenlei, Some problems in modelselection.

Li, Liang, Modeling the measurementerror of apnea-hypopnea index.

Li, Ruojia, Some new multivariate qualitymonitoring procedures.

Ma, Shuangge, Penalized M-estimationfor partly linear transformation modelswith current status data.

Todem, David, Latent-structured regres-sion modeling for longitudinal multi-variate ordinal 1 count data.

Yan, Jun, Functional regression modelsand temporal processes.

Yuan, Ming, Automatic smoothing andvariable selection via regularization.



Doctoral DegreesConferred 2003–2004Supplementary ListThe following list supplements the list of thesis titles published inthe February 2005 Notices, pages 264–82.

ALABAMAAuburn University (4)

MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

Granado, Michael, On the moving off property and weak ad-ditivity of local connectedness and metrizability.

Holliday, John, The Shields-Harary number graphs.

Logan, Sasha, Maximal sets of Hamilton cycles.

Muse, William, Orthogonal quadruple systems and 3-frames.

CALIFORNIAUniversity of California, Irvine (4)

MATHEMATICS

Boutchaktchiev, Vilislav, Mixed Hodge structure on Brill-Noe-ther stacks.

Gurtas, Yusuf, Positive Dehn twist expressions for some elements of finite order in the mapping class group.

Tsai, Yen-Lung, Non-abelian Clemens-Schmid exact sequences.

Yun, Myung Sik, Numerical simulation of microstructuralevolution of inhomogenous elastic media.

University of California, San Diego(10)

MATHEMATICS

Chang, Frank, Division algebras over generalized localfields.

Kroyan, Julia, Trust-search algorithms for unconstrainedoptimization.

Lu, Shaoying, Scalable parallel multilevel algorithms forsolving partial differential equations.

McMurry, Timothy Lewis, Infinite order flat-top kernels innonparametric regression.

Melcher, Tai, Hypoelliptic heat kernel inequalities on Liegroups.

Mendes, Anthony A., Building generating functions brickby brick.

Ovall, Jeffrey Scott, Duality-based adaptive refinement forelliptic PDEs.

Parker, Cameron, Block bootstrap methods for unit root testing.

Sanchez, Rino, A construction of small unitary represen-tations.

Schuman, Michele Ann, A new look at problems of Herstein and Kaplansky.

FLORIDAUniversity of Florida (1)

STATISTICS

Kim, Myung Joon, Constrained Bayes and empirical Bayesestimators under squared error and balanced loss func-tions.

KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (4)

STATISTICS

Berhane, Indrias, Consistency and generalization errorbound of feed forward neural network trained withsmoothing regularizer.

Kim, Kyoungmi, Empirical likelihood ratio method when additional information is known.

Peng, Xuejun, Simultaneous inference and sample size considerations for microarray data analysis.

Smith, Michelle, Markov chain analysis and statistical inference for start-up demonstration test.

NEW JERSEYRutgers University, GraduateSchool (4)

STATISTICS

Eyheramendy, Susana, Bayesian text categorization.

Liu, Jun, Stochastical control problems with limitations onthe set of allowable controls.

Thompson, Wesley, Transformation and selection of covariates estimating equations.

Zhang, Jingshan, Scalar scale analysis of multivariate data-robust testing based on scale curves.

PENNSYLVANIATemple University (5)

STATISTICS

Allen, Shannon Eileen, Analysis of hierarchical factoriallayouts when observations are sampled from unbalancedfinite populations of finite effects.

Chin, Jie, Bayesian approaches to simultaneous testing ofmultiple hypotheses.

Gagnon, Robert Charles, Experiments with unknown parameters in variance.

Li, Susan Xuemei, Further contributions to Fisher’s andSims’ tests.

Pasles, Elise B., Mutually nearly orthogonal Latin squaresand their applications.

University of Pittsburgh (8)

BIOSTATISTICS

Kelly, Mary E., Zero inflation in ordinal data: applicationsof a mixture model.

McHenry, Michael Brent, New estimation approaches in survival analysis with Aalen’s additive risk model.

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Ruppert, Kristine, Assessment of the use of biopsies collected as part of nonsystematic follow-up of liver transplant patients.

Shen, Changyu, Regression analysis in longitudinal stud-ies with nonignorable missing outcomes.

Szatkiewicz, Jin Peng, Mapping genes for quantitative traitsusing selected samples of sibling pairs.

Wang, Jiping, Use of receiver operating characteristic curvein medical decision making.

Xu, Lei, Covariate adjustment partial least squares for theextraction of the spatial temporal pattern.

Ye, Yunrong, The correlated random parameters modelfor longitudinal binary response data with missing covariates.

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