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Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2013–2014 ALABAMA Auburn University (12) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Asplund, John, 5-cycle systems Denhere, Melody, Robust statistical meth- ods for the functional logistic model Harmon, Henry, Some geometry of sym- metrized tensor spaces He, Xin, Lebesgue approximation of su- perprocesses Hughes, Glenn, Completeness properties in function spaces with the compact- open topology Indika, Kodithuwakku Arachchige Avan- tha, Orthogonal bases of certain sym- metry classes of tensors associated with Brauer characters Jones, Cadavious, Security and secure- dominating sets in graphs Kong, Liang, Spatial spread dynamics of monostable equations in locally inhomogeneous habitats Miakonkana, Guy-vanie Marcias, Non- parametric rank based inferences for generalized linear models, longitudinal data analysis, and variable selection Mijena, Jebessa, Space-time fractional Cauchy problems and trace estimates for relativistic stable processes Sawant, Pallavi, Robust methods for multivariate functional data analysis Sturm, Frank, Pseudo-solenoids are not continuously homogeneous University of Alabama (6) Department of Mathematics Acharyya, Amrita, Coverings of profinite graphs Chen, Qiang, Calculus of variations and optimal control DarAssi, Mahmoud, Investigation of the heat and mass transfer in a liquid suspension of small particles Das, Bikash, Cofinite graphs and their profinite completions The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014) reported in the 2015 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences by 197 departments in 143 universities in the United States. Each entry contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of degrees listed for that university. Maxwell, Mary, Using Bayesian tech- niques with item response theory to analyze mathematics tests Schweiger, Adam, Gravity, surfactants, and instabilities of two-layer shear flaws University of Alabama at Birmingham (9) Department of Biostatistics Mehta, Tapan, The apparent change in obesity-mortality associations: Method- ological issues in survival analyses with censored outcomes Seals, Samantha, Spatial analysis of car- diovascular MRI data Wu, Guodong, Quantification and as- sociation analysis for next-generation sequencing data Yan, Qi, Statistical methods for set-based association tests in genetic studies Department of Mathematics Chapman, Jacob, Spectral properties of random block operators Korepanov, Alexey, Small perturbations in hard balls dynamics Mahato, Ajay, The inverse volatility prob- lem for American options Ptacek, Ross, Laminations and the dy- namics of iterated cubic polynomials Wyatt, Mitchell, Uniqueness of potential in Schr¨ odinger’s equation with one boundary measurement University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (1) Information Systems Statistics and Management Science Department Xu, Jie, Three essays on improving en- semble models ARIZONA Arizona State University (14) School of Human Evolution and Social Change Cruz-Aponte, Maytee, Epidemic dynamics of metapopulation models Luli, Dori, A neuronal network model of Drosophila antennal lobe Morales-Butler, Emmanuel, Applications of nonlinear systems of ordinary differ- ential equations and Volterra integral equations to infectious disease epi- demiology Patterson-Lomba, Oscar, On the dynam- ics of infectious diseases in modern landscapes: Urban settings and drug resistance School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Bowling, Stacey, Conceptions of func- tion composition in college precalculus students Elledge, Shawn, On minimal levels of Iwasawa towers Halani, Aviva, Students’ ways of thinking about combinatorics solution sets Ismay, Chester, Testing independence of parallel pseudorandom number streams: Incorporating the data’s multivariate nature Jin, Wen, Persistence of discrete dynami- cal systems in infinite dimensional state spaces Liu, Hao, Spatial spread of rabies in wildlife Molla, Theodore, On tiling directed graphs with cycles and tournaments Valdivia, Arturo, Alternative methods via random forest to identify interactions in a general framework and variable importance in the context of value- added models Young, Jonathan, Dependent models of signal transduction networks AUGUST 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 783

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Page 1: Doctoral Degrees Conferred - American Mathematical Society · 2015-12-15 · Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2013–2014 ALABAMA Auburn University (12) Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Doctoral Degrees Conferred2013–2014

ALABAMAAuburn University (12)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Asplund, John, 5-cycle systemsDenhere, Melody, Robust statistical meth-

ods for the functional logistic modelHarmon, Henry, Some geometry of sym-

metrized tensor spacesHe, Xin, Lebesgue approximation of su-

perprocessesHughes, Glenn, Completeness properties

in function spaces with the compact-open topology

Indika, Kodithuwakku Arachchige Avan-tha, Orthogonal bases of certain sym-metry classes of tensors associatedwith Brauer characters

Jones, Cadavious, Security and secure-dominating sets in graphs

Kong, Liang, Spatial spread dynamicsof monostable equations in locallyinhomogeneous habitats

Miakonkana, Guy-vanie Marcias, Non-parametric rank based inferences forgeneralized linear models, longitudinaldata analysis, and variable selection

Mijena, Jebessa, Space-time fractionalCauchy problems and trace estimatesfor relativistic stable processes

Sawant, Pallavi, Robust methods formultivariate functional data analysis

Sturm, Frank, Pseudo-solenoids are notcontinuously homogeneous

University of Alabama (6)

Department of Mathematics

Acharyya, Amrita, Coverings of profinitegraphs

Chen, Qiang, Calculus of variations andoptimal control

DarAssi, Mahmoud, Investigation of theheat and mass transfer in a liquidsuspension of small particles

Das, Bikash, Cofinite graphs and theirprofinite completions

The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2013, to June 30,2014) reported in the 2015 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 197 departments in 143 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.

Maxwell, Mary, Using Bayesian tech-niques with item response theory toanalyze mathematics tests

Schweiger, Adam, Gravity, surfactants,and instabilities of two-layer shearflaws

University of Alabama atBirmingham (9)

Department of Biostatistics

Mehta, Tapan, The apparent change inobesity-mortality associations: Method-ological issues in survival analyses withcensored outcomes

Seals, Samantha, Spatial analysis of car-diovascular MRI data

Wu, Guodong, Quantification and as-sociation analysis for next-generationsequencing data

Yan, Qi, Statistical methods for set-basedassociation tests in genetic studies

Department of Mathematics

Chapman, Jacob, Spectral properties ofrandom block operators

Korepanov, Alexey, Small perturbationsin hard balls dynamics

Mahato, Ajay, The inverse volatility prob-lem for American options

Ptacek, Ross, Laminations and the dy-namics of iterated cubic polynomials

Wyatt, Mitchell, Uniqueness of potentialin Schrodinger’s equation with oneboundary measurement

University ofAlabama-Tuscaloosa (1)

Information Systems Statistics and

Management Science Department

Xu, Jie, Three essays on improving en-semble models

ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (14)

School of Human Evolution and

Social Change

Cruz-Aponte, Maytee, Epidemic dynamicsof metapopulation models

Luli, Dori, A neuronal network model ofDrosophila antennal lobe

Morales-Butler, Emmanuel, Applicationsof nonlinear systems of ordinary differ-ential equations and Volterra integralequations to infectious disease epi-demiology

Patterson-Lomba, Oscar, On the dynam-ics of infectious diseases in modernlandscapes: Urban settings and drugresistance

School of Mathematical and

Statistical Sciences

Bowling, Stacey, Conceptions of func-tion composition in college precalculusstudents

Elledge, Shawn, On minimal levels ofIwasawa towers

Halani, Aviva, Students’ ways of thinkingabout combinatorics solution sets

Ismay, Chester, Testing independence ofparallel pseudorandom number streams:Incorporating the data’s multivariatenature

Jin, Wen, Persistence of discrete dynami-cal systems in infinite dimensional statespaces

Liu, Hao, Spatial spread of rabies inwildlife

Molla, Theodore, On tiling directedgraphs with cycles and tournaments

Valdivia, Arturo, Alternative methods viarandom forest to identify interactionsin a general framework and variableimportance in the context of value-added models

Young, Jonathan, Dependent models ofsignal transduction networks

AUGUST 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 783

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Zhang, Jun, A continuous latent factormodel for non-ignorable missing datain longitudinal studies

University of Arizona (18)

Department of Mathematics

Gilbert, Michael, Investigating the rela-tionship between restriction measuresand self-avoiding walks

Herrera-Valdez, Marco, Geometry andnon-linear dynamics underlying ex-citability phenotypes in biophysicalmodels of membrane potential

Islambekov, Umar, Lieb-Robinson boundsfor the Toda lattice

Leslie, Martin, Hypermap-homology quan-tum codes

Thomas, Matthew, Analyzing conceptualgains in introductory calculus withinteractively-engaged teaching styles

Program in Applied Mathematics

Bailey, Brenae, Stochastic models of −1programmed ribosomal frameshifting

Comeau, Darin, Conceptual and numeri-cal modeling of ice in a global climateframework

Dinius, Joseph, Dynamical properties ofa generalized collision rule for multi-particle systems

Hariprasad, Daniel, Dynamics and lateralmigration of red blood cells in Stokesflow

Hyman, Jeffrey, Heterogeneities andstructures of flow through explicitporous microstructures

Kent, Stuart, Multi-scale conformal mapsand free boundary problems

Love, David, Data-driven methods foroptimization under uncertainty withapplication to water allocation

Lyttle, David, Modeling inhibition-med-iated neural dynamics in the rodentspatial navigation system

Mann, Sarah, The original view ofReed-Solomon coding and the Welch-Berlekamp decoding algorithm

Pennybacker, Matthew, A numerical studyof pattern-forming fronts in phyllotaxis

Stockbridge, Rebecca, Bias and variancereduction in assessing solution qualityfor stochastic programs

Yang, Bole, Asymptotic behaviors ofCMV matrices and discrete nonlinearSchroedinger equations

Statistics GIDP

Fang, Qijun, Hierarchical Bayesian bench-mark dose analysis

ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas atFayetteville (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Foster, Newton, General sampling schemesfor the Bergman spaces

Fulmer, Shanda, Closed-range composi-tion operators on weighted Bergmanspaces and applications

Tinker, Michael, The Szego kernel of cer-tain polynomial models and heat kernelestimates for Schrodinger operatorswith reverse holder potentials

Whittle, Carrie, The word problem for theautomorphism groups of right-angledArtin groups is in P

CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (6)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics Department

Amlani, Faisal, A new high-order Fouriercontinuation-based elasticity solver forcomplex three-dimensional geometries

Ci, Maolin, Multiscale model reductionmethods for deterministic and stochas-tic partial differential equations

Sanan, Patrick, Geometric elasticity forgraphics, simulation, and computation

Tavallali, Peyman, Sparse Time-FrequencyData Analysis: A multi-scale approach

Tyranowski, Tomasz, Geometric integra-tion applied to moving mesh methodsand degenerate lagrangians

Department of Mathematics

Daigle, Gerald, On the local Tamagawanumber conjecture for Tate motives

Claremont GraduateUniversity (13)

Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Abouali, Mohammad, Investigating Cast-illo-Grone’s mimetic difference oper-ators in development of geophysicalfluid dynamic models implemented onGPGPUS

Akhter, Sajia, Finding a novel way for fastsequence alignment and exploiting in-formation theory in bacterial genomesand complete phages

Chaumont, Nicolas, Modeling animal in-teractions with their environment

Chen, Jerry, Role of the micro: RNA miR-124 in the regulatory networkgoverning PNS development in Cionaintestinalis

Franklin, Michael, Electrowetting-basedmicrofluidics: Modeling and simulation

Garcia-Cardona, Cristina, Multiclass learn-ing on graphs: Diffuse interface modelsand beyond

Nachawati, Susan, DNA visualizationwith Sacks Spiral methods: An ap-plication in genomic engineering

Recova, Leandro, Applications of Morsetheory to semilinear elliptic boundaryvalue problems

Seguritan, Victor, Neural network predic-tions of protein function

Sharpsten, Lucie, Predicting glaucomaprogression using random forests forcorrelated binary response based onlongitudinally collected standard auto-mated perimeter data

Teagle-Hernandez, Allen, Very efficientnumerical solutions via the “Mehrstel-lan” methods in 1D, 2D, and 3D forcomplex differential equations demon-strated for acoustic and related fields

Thomas, Mary, Parallel implementationof the curvilinear ocean and atmo-spheric (UCOAM) model and supportingcomputational environment

Zajac, Peter, Globally accessible finiteelement based web solver for thevibrational Schrodinger equation andapplication to HC3O and ZnCl2+

Naval PostgraduateSchool (1)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Chung, Jong, Affine equivalence and con-structions of cryptographically strongBoolean functions

Stanford University (19)

Department of Mathematics

Adams, Henry, Evasion paths in mobilesensor networks

Buchholtz, Ulrik, Unfolding of systems ofinductive definitions

Carlotto, Alessandro, Rigidity and flexi-bility phenomena in general relativity

Grigoriev, Ilya, Relations among charac-teristic classes of manifold bundles

Ha, Junsoo, Some problems in multiplica-tive number theory

Haber, Nicholas, Microlocal analysis of La-grangian submanifolds of radial points

Levin, Brandon, G valued flat deforma-tions and local models

Li, Xiaodong, Sparse and low rank struc-tures in robust principal componentanalysis, compressed sensing with cor-ruptions, and phase retrieval

Lipnowski, Michael, Equivariant torsionand base change

Malkiewich, Cary, Duality and linear ap-proximations in Hochschild homology,K theory, and string topology

Murphy, Daniel, Algebraic modular formson definite orthogonal groups

Petrow, Ian, Moments of automorphic Lfunctions and related problems

Department of Statistics

Basak, Anirban, Probability models onlarge random graphs and matrices

Gavish, Matan, Topics in matrix inferenceGrazier G’Sell, Maxwell, Inference for

correlation-based hierarchical cluster-ing of variables

Head, Austen, Statistical methods ongraphs

Lim, Michael, The group-lasso: Two novelapplications

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Mukherjee, Sumit, Estimation in exponen-tial families with unknown normalizingconstant

Sun, Nike, Gibbs measures and phasetransitions on locally tree-like graphs

University of California,Berkeley (39)

Department of Mathematics

Beraldo, Dario, Loop group actions oncategories and Whittaker invariants

Boocher, Adam, Super flatnessBray, Nicolaus, Methods for measurement

and interpretation of gene expressionCharalambidis, Marko, External problems

in analysisChirvasitu, Alexandru, Linearly reductive

quantum groups: Descent, simplicityand finiteness properties

Choi, Keon, The embedded contact ho-mology of toric contact manifolds

Daub, Michael, Complex and p-adic com-putations of Chow-Heegner points

Do, Hanh, Monoidal structure in mirrorsymmetry and noncommutative geom-etry

Flock, Taryn, On extremizers for certaininequalities of the k-plane transform

Forman, Noah, Instruction sets for walksand the quantile path transformation

Froehle, Bradley, High-order discontinu-ous Galerkin fluid-structure interactionmethods

Haken, Ian, Randomizing reals and thefirst order consequences of 2-randoms

Hurtado-Salazar, Sebastian, Homomor-phisms between groups of diffeomor-phisms

Kaspar, David, Exactly solvable stochasticmodels in elastic structures and scalarconservation laws

Mannisto, Peter, Albanese and Picard1-motives in positive characteristic

McDougal, Shawn, Representing Sato-Levine invariants by Whitney towerintersections

Miles, Andrew, Moduli of elliptic curvesvia twisted stable maps

Nguyen, Khoa, Arithmetic dynamics ofdiagonally split polynomial maps

Ren, Qingchen, Computations and modulispaces for non-Archimedean varieties

Rodriguez, Jose, Numerical algebraic ge-ometry for maximum likelihood esti-mation

Solis, Pablo, Wonderful loop group em-beddings and applications to the mod-uli of G-bundles on curves

Tener, James, Construction of the uni-tary free fermion Segal conformal fieldtheory

Trang, Nam, Generalized Solovay mea-sures, the HOD analysis and the coremodel induction

Tucker Simmons, Matthew, Quantum al-gebras associated to irreducible gener-alized flag manifolds

Vianna, Renato, On exotic Lagrangian toriin Cp2

Watson, Nathaniel, Non-simplicial nervesof two-dimensional categorical struc-tures

Westrick, Linda, Computability in ordinalranks and symbolic dynamics

Yu, Thanh, Combinatorial patterns insyzygies

Department of Statistics

Bean, Derek, Non-gaussian componentanalysis

Bhattacharyya, Sharmodeep, A study ofhigh-dimensional clustering and statis-tical inference on networks

Huoh, Yu-Jay, Sensitivity analysis ofstochastic simulator with informationtheory

Loh, Po-Ling, High-dimensional statisticswith systematically corrupted data

Long, James, Prediction methods forastronomical data observed with mea-surement error

Sapp, Stephanie, Subsemble: A flexibleensemble prediction method

Tran, Ngoc, Topics in tropical linearalgebra and applied probability

Group in Biostatistics

Brown, Daniel, Applications of causalinference in problems of occupationalhealth

Decker, Anna, Semiparametric predic-tion, variable importance, and effectestimation in trauma care

Eliseeva, Ekaterina, Machine learning andcausal inference methods for the deriva-tion of exposure-response curves

Pozzi, Luca, Topics in evidence synthesis

University of California,Davis (16)

Department of Mathematics

Brummitt, Charles, Models of systemicevents: Interdependence, contagion andinnovation

Chong, Eun A., Nonlinear equations ofmixed type and transonic flows

Kwok, Ricky, On the distribution of theleading particle in the ASEP with stepinitial condition and the self-adjointASEP

Li, Lingyun, Central limit theorem forlinear statistic of eigenvalues of largerandom matrices

O’Brien, Matthew, Scalable domain de-composed Monte Carlo particle trans-port

Reed, Matthew, The central limit theoremfor linear spectral statistics of subma-trices of the Gaussian Wigner randommatrices

Department of Statistics

Chou, Elizabeth, Computed data-geometrybased supervised and semi-supervisedlearning in high dimensional data

Dienes, Christopher, On-line monitoringin linear time series models

Dienes, Erin, An information theoreticapproach to biomarker validation

Huang, Chun-Jung, Spatial-temporal mod-els for image data analyses

Jin, Yin, Estimating component reliabilityusing system lifetime data

Noguchi, Kimihiro, Exploratory analysisand modeling of financial time series

Tao, Wenwen, Represent derivatives andtime dynamics for longitudinal data

Wang, Ru, High-dimensional graphicalmodels learning

Xu, Cong, Semiparametric analysis ofincomplete survival data

Zhou, Siyuan, Semiparametric modelingof non-autonomous dynamical systems

University of California,Irvine (10)

Department of Mathematics

Abatzoglou, Alexander, A CM ellipticcurve framework for deterministic pri-mality proving on numbers of specialform

Feng, Jie, Matrix factorization and itsapplication in blind source separationand finance

He, Fei, Regularity of the Ricci flow andrigidity of Ricci solitons

Holben, Ryan, Lowering the consistencystrength of square principles at singularcardinals

Long, Xiaolong, Constructing sparse andfast mean reverting portfolios

Ryerson, Shane, Ultrasensitivity and pa-rameter variability in independent mul-tisite systems

Said, Mustafa, Almost commuting ele-ments in non-commutative symmetricoperator spaces

Sun, Zheng, Modeling of stem cellsWang, Dongyong, Numerical methods

for reaction diffusion systems in highspatial dimensions

Wang, Lihan, Hodge theory on compactsymplectic manifolds with boundaries

University of California,Los Angeles (22)

Department of Mathematics

Alexander, Damon, Limiting evolutionof families of parabolic differentialequations

Barekat, Farzin, Applications of stochas-tic simulation and compressed sensingto large systems

Chen, Xiaojing, Global Torelli theoremfor projective manifolds

Das, Shagnik, Extensions of classic theo-rems in extremal combinatorics

David, Guy, Lipschitz maps in metricspaces

Hayes, Benjamin, Extended von Neu-mann dimension for representations ofgroups and equivalence relations

Doctoral Degrees Conferred

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Howes, Russell, Virtual node methods forincompressible flow

Kinneberg, Kyle, A coarse entropy-rigiditytheorem and discrete length-volumeinequalities

Kostic, Tijana, Threshold dynamics forstatistical density estimation and graphclustering

Li, Yingkun, Mock-modular forms ofweight one

Murphy, Jason, Nonlinear Schrodingerequations at non-conserved critical reg-ularity

Richelson, Silas, Cryptographic proto-cols with strong security: Non-malleablecommitments, concurrent zero-knowl-edge and topology-hiding multi-partycomputation

Ricketson, Lee, Two approaches to ac-celerated Monte Carlo simulation ofCoulomb collisions

Rodgers, Bradley, The statistics of thezeros of the Riemann zeta-function andrelated topics

Sanders, Beren, Higher comparison mapsfor the spectrum of a tensor triangu-lated category

Schaeffer, Hayden, Variational modelsfor fine structures

Skoufranis, Paul, Approximations in op-erator theory and free probability

Ventullo, Kevin, On the Gross-Stark andIwasawa main conjectures

Yang, Yi, Fast and robust algorithmsfor compressive sensing and otherapplications

Zahl, Joshua, Maximal functions, inci-dence theorems, and efficient partitionsof Euclidean space

Zhao, Bin, Local indecomposability ofHilbert modular representations andMumford-Tate conjecture

Department of Statistics

Levinson, Matthew, Penalized Bayesianmodel selection and prediction for generegulation in higher organisms

University of California,Merced (4)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Loffeld, John, Design, implementationand performance of exponential inte-grators for high performance comput-ing applications

Rohde, Shelley, Modeling diffuse re-flectance measurements of light scat-tered by layered tissues

Sahin, Derya, Modeling light propagationin luminescent media

Vaz, Garnet, Graph based scalable algo-rithms with applications

University of California,Riverside (4)

Department of Mathematics

Kim, Chunghoon, Deformations of com-pact holomorphic Poisson manifoldsand algebraic Poisson schemes

Department of Statistics

Guo, Li, Near uniformly minimum vari-ance quadratic unbiased estimation ofvariance components in mixed effectsmodels

Yue, Liu, Estimation of two populareconometric models: Random effectspanel data model and simultaneousequations model

Xin, Zhang, Sequential procedures fornonparametric statistical process con-trol and longitudinal data classification

University of California,San Diego (10)

Department of Mathematics

Briggs, Christopher, Uniform exponentialgrowth in algebras

Gao, Teng, A rearrangement inequlity fordiffusion process

Meredith, Michael Brandon, Mirror sym-metry on toric varieties via tropicalgeometry

Mihalik, Adam, Adaptive methods in thefinite exterior calculus framework

Rodriguez, Ryan, Preperfectoid algebras

Timmons, Craig, Extremal graphs andadditive combinatorics

Walsh, Katherine P., Patterns and stabilityin the coefficients of the color Jonespolynomial

Wang, Li, Semidefinite relaxation ap-proach to polynomial optimization andits extension

Wildman, Chad, Global existence anddispersion of solutions to nonlinearKlein-Gordon equations with potential

Zhang, Zezhou, Nonassociative algebraand groups with property

University of California,Santa Barbara (7)

Department of Mathematics

Flores, Cynthia, On decay properties ofsolutions to the Benjamin-Ono equation

Harrison, Martin, Quadratic convexityand sums of squares

Jaramillo, Andrew, Unipotent radicalsof the standard Borel and parabolicsubgroups in quantum special lineargroups

Jaramillo, Maree, The structure of fun-damental groups of smooth metricmeasure spaces

Plunkett, Patrick, Spatially adaptive nu-merical methods for stochastic bio-physical processes

Sigurdsson, Jon Karl, Continuum andcoarse-grained modeling of lipid bilayermembranes

Speer, Timothy, Isometries of the Hilbertmetric

University of California,Santa Cruz (9)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Department

Anderson, Ross, Uncertainty-anticipatingstochastic optimal feedback control ofautonomous vehicle models

Beltran, Francisco, Quantifying the im-pact of climate change on oceanicvariables

Guenther, John, Optimization with globalsensitivity analysis and optimum char-acterization

Poynor, Valerie, Bayesian nonparametricgamma mixtures for mean residual lifeinference

Department of Mathematics

Brasher, Reuben, Asymptotics of deter-minants of a class of perturbed Toeplitzmatrices

Dods, Victor, What happens when youpush a cubic meter of Jello into awormhole

Laber, Robert, C-graded vertex algebrasand their representations

Magee, Michael, Quantitative spectral gapfor thin groups of hyperbolic isometries

Perepelitsky, Philipp, P -permutation equiv-alences between blocks of finite groups

University of SouthernCalifornia (11)

Department of Mathematics

Avdek, Russell, Liouville hypersurfacesand connect sum cobordisms

Banuelos, Selenne, Structured two-stagepopulation model with migration be-tween multiple patches in a periodicenvironment

Bilal, Taylan, Some computations forbivariant cycle cohomology

Chubatiuk, Alona, Nonparametric estima-tion of an unknown probability distri-bution using maximum likelihood andBayesian approaches

Ericksen, Adam, The geometry of motivicspheres

Marinov, Radoslav, Applications of Stein’smethods on statistics of random graphs

Ostrovskyi, Vitalli, Point singularities on2D surfaces

Pike, John, Eigenfunctions for randomwalks on hyperplane arrangements

Wasilewska, Katarzyna, Limiting distri-butions and error terms for the numberof visits to balls in mixing dynamicalsystems

Xu, Li, Parameter estimate for hyperbolicSPDE’s with stochastic coefficients

Yildirim, Gokhan, On the depinning tran-sition of the directed polymer in arandom environment with a defect line

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COLORADOColorado School ofMines (1)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Probst, Alexandre, A tablet-PC softwareapplication for statistics classes

Colorado StateUniversity (12)

Department of Mathematics

Maple, Jennifer, Steady state Hopf modeinteraction in anisotropic system

Munoz-Alicea, Roberto, HIV-1 gag traffick-ing and assembly; mathematical modelsand numerical simulations

Ross, Dustin, Open and closed Gromov-Witten theory of three dimensional toricCalabi-Yau orbifolds

Salvi, Niketa, Two-step coding theoremin the nearly continuous category

Springer, Bethany, Nearly continuousKakutani equivalence

Strickland, Christopher, The mathemati-cal modeling and analysis of nonlocalinvasions and savanna population dy-namics

Ziegelmeier, Lori, Exploiting geometry,topology and optimization for knowl-edge discovery in big data

Department of Statistics

Hanks, Ephraim, Statistical models foranimal movement and landscape con-nectivity

He, Zonglin, Nonparametric regressionwith categorical covariates

Schliep, Erin, Spatial probit models formultivariate ordinal data: Computa-tional efficiency and parameter identifi-ability

Wang, Huan, Shape restricted splineregression and hypothesis tests in thepresence of correlation

Wang, Yuan, Linear system design forcompression and fusion

University of Colorado,Boulder (11)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Galanthay, Theodore, On adaptive use ofinformation in habitat selection

Garcia, Jose, Beta-plane approximationof wind-driven ocean circulation us-ing a first order system least-squaresformulation

Jones, Tobias, Algebraic multigrid meth-ods for parallel computing, systems,and graphs

Rasca, Anthony, Modeling solar windmass-loading due to dust in the solarcorona

Sen, Amrik, A tale of waves and eddies ina sea of rotating turbulence

Webb, Adrean, Stokes drift and meshlesswave modeling

Department of Mathematics

Andrews, Scott, Type-free approaches tosupercharacter theories of unipotentgroups

Feaver, Amy, Euclid’s algorithm in multi-quadratic fields

Keller, Justin, Generalized supercharactertheories and Schur rings for Hopfalgebras

Purkis, Benjamin, Projective multiresolu-tion analyses over irrational rotationalgebras

Wayne, David, The K-theory of filtereddeformations of graded polynomial al-gebras

University of Colorado,Denver (8)

Department of Biostatistics and

Informatics

Brinton, John, Statistical methods forcancer screening

Kreidler, Sarah, Calculating power for thegeneral linear multivariate model andthe general linear mixed model

Kroehl, Miranda, On the use of lassoregression for mediation analysis withapplication to microbiota data

Ringham, Brandy, Reducing decision er-rors in repeated measures studies withmissing data

Department of Mathematics and

Statistical Sciences

Erbes, Catherine, Extremal problems fordegree sequences

Lowery, Bradley, Topics in communication-avoiding algorithms and stability analy-sis

Morris, Timothy, New results on cyclestructures of graphs

Nabity, Matthew, On accelerating thenonsymmetric eigenvalue problem inmulticore architectures

University of Denver (1)

Department of Mathematics

Trujillo, Timothy, Topological Ramseyspaces, associated ultrafilters, and theirapplications to the Tukey theory ofultrafilters and Dedekind cuts of non-standard arithmetic

University of NorthernColorado (3)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Dibbs, Rebecca, The effects of forma-tive assessment on students’ Zone ofProximal Development in introductorycalculus

Glassmeyer, David, Secondary teachermodels of quantitative reasoning

Roberson, Lee, Building bridges: Connect-ing collegiate athletic and mathematicscultures

CONNECTICUT

University of Connecticut,Storrs (16)

Department of Mathematics

Baldenko, Alex, The top Lyapunov expo-nent of symplectic stochastic differen-tial equations: Theory and numerics

Canakci, Ilke, Snake graph calculus andcluster algebras from surfaces

Gunathilaka, Unawatuna Gamage Asiri,Property and casualty claim cost man-agement

Kelleher, Daniel, Geometric techniques inanalysis on fractals

Lamoureux, Matthew, Stirling’s formulain number fields

Li, Ji, Topological and isotopic equiva-lence with applications to visualization

Lu, Lu, On the integrated squared errorof the linear wavelet density estimator

Department of Statistics

Boyko, Jennifer, Handling data with threetypes of missing values

Chaurasia, Ashok, Model selection proce-dures for incomplete data

Jiang, Xun (Tony), A new classs of linkfunctions for modeling categorical datawith applications in biology

Liao, Gong-Yi, Residual likelihood basedclustering models

Pare, Valerie, Impact of prior distribu-tion uncertainty in multiple imputationinference

Rayaprolu, Sairam, Multiple testing un-der dependence with approximate pos-terior likelihood

Shang, Hongwei, A two-step estimationprocedure and a goodness-of-fit test forspatial extremes models

Viran Muthu Poruthotage, Sankha, Multi-ple crossing fixed-size sequential confi-dence regions for the mean vector andregression parameters under multivari-ate normality

Wang, Xiao (Leo), Scan statistics fornormal data

Wesleyan University (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Bourdon, Abbey, A uniform version of afiniteness conjecture for elliptic curveswith complex multiplication

Graham, Bonita, A construction of rigidanalytic cohomology classes for splitreductive algebraic groups

Ricci, James, Finiteness results for regularternary quadratic polynomials

White, David, Monoidal Bousfield local-izations and algebras over operads

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Yale University (7)

Biostatistics Division

Ryslik, Gregory, Identification of non-random somatic mutation clusteringwhile accounting for protein tertiarystructure: Extensions, novel method-ologies and applications to identifyingoncogenic driver mutations

Department of Mathematics

Banerjee, Soumya, Tropical geometryover higher dimensional local fields

Frailey, Conor, Representations of thegeneral linear groupoid over a non-Archimedean local field

Li, Han, Some effective results in homo-geneous dynamics and number theory

Shen, Linhui, Geometry of canonicalbases and mirror symmetry

Department of Statistics

Cho, Sanghee, High-dimensional regres-sion with random design, includingsparse superposition codes

Wang, Xiaofei, Generalized Bayesianchange point analysis via product par-tition models

DELAWAREDelaware StateUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Chen, Feiyu, Simulation of partial volumeaveraging in a software breast phantom

Zeng, Fang, Direct methods for interiorinverse scattering problem

University of Delaware (7)

Department of Mathematical Science

Deng, Quan, Tear film modeling in 1Dand 2D moving geometry with high-order method

Fu, Zhixing, Contributions to the study ofthe hybridizable discontinuous Galerkinmethod

Han, Qunhui, Analysis and simulation ofexit time problems

Li, Jing, Staggered-grid FDTD methodfor ultrasound propagation throughcancellous bone

Lu, Sijiang, Delta BEM discretization oftransient and harmonic waves

Wu, Fan, Strongly regular graphs, associ-ation schemes and Gauss sums

Xiao, Zunlei, Gaussian and related pro-cesses: Lower tail probability and appli-cation

DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAGeorge WashingtonUniversity (12)

Department of Mathematics

Herning, Joseph, Spectrum and factors ofsubstitution dynamical systems

Maeda, Kai, Self-distributed magmas andtheir Richter’s degrees

Xie, Lu, Analysis of the long rangeinteraction in the ternary system

Department of Statistics

Biswas, Bipasa, Statistical analysis of DNAcopy number variation with sequencingdata

Chowdhury, Mohammed, Nonparametricsmoothing estimation of conditionaldistribution functions with longitudi-nal data and time-varying parametricmodels

Kalpathy, Ravi, Perpetuities in fair leaderelection algorithms

Qing, Siyu, Longitudinal weight calibra-tion with estimated control totals forcross sectional survey data: Theory andapplications

Temprosa, Marinella, An imputation-estimation algorithm using time-varyingauxiliary covariates for a longitudinalmodel when outcome is missing bydesign

Xu, Ruihua, Analysis of mixed types oftraits in genetic association studies andapplication to genome-wide associationstudies

Xu, Wenjing, Statistical properties of bio-statistical methods for correlated pro-cesses with application to data arisingin the legal settings

Yang, Mengta, Depth functions, mul-tidimensional medians, and tests ofuniformity on proximity graphs

Zhang, Fanni, Concordant integrativeanalysis of multiple gene expressiondata sets

Howard University (7)

Department of Mathematics

Foster, Bertrum, Rational points andisogenies of the Holm curves over finitefields

Fulton, Kourtney, Continuous homomor-phism from βS to S∗

Kayende, Oliver, Character sum boundsand hyperforms on binary group alge-bras

Miabey, Teylama, Spectral analysis forfinite rank perturbations of diagonaloperators in non-Archimedean Hilbertspace

Nelson, Valerie, Existence results forsome higher-order abstract differentialequations with applications to PDEs

Peters, Monique, Characterizing differ-ences between the left and right opera-tions on βS

Phulara, Dev, A generalization of theCentral Sets Theorem with applicationsand some additive and multiplicativeRamsey numbers

FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Zhang, Wei, Detection of multiple change-points in hazard models

Florida Institute ofTechnology (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Alharthi, Nadiyah, A piecewise WKBapproximation for One-Turning-PointSturm-Liouville equations and asymp-totics for eigenvalues

Florida StateUniversity (28)

Department of Mathematics

Amusan, Ibukun, Parameter estimationfor a stochastic volatility model withcoupled additive and multiplicativenoise

Daou, Arij, From songs to ion channelsand mathematical modeling

Garreau, Pierre, Jump dependence andmultidimensional default risk: A newclass of structural models with stochas-tic intensities

Geng, Jian, Calibration of local volatilitymodels and proper orthogonal decom-position reduced order modeling forstochastic volatility models

He, Yanyan, Uncertainty quantificationand data fusion based on Dempster-Shafer theory

Huang, Wanwan, Stochastic modeling offinancial derivatives

Huang, Wen, Optimization algorithmson Riemannian manifolds with applica-tions

Islim, Ahmed Derar, Pricing and hedgingderivatives with sharp profiles usingtuned high resolution finite differenceschemes

Liao, Xia, Chern classes of sheaves of log-arithmic vector fields for free divisors

Liu, Yaning, Non-intrusive methods forprobabilistic uncertainty quantificationand global sensitivity analysis in non-linear stochastic phenomena

Lu, Yuanting, Discrete Frenet frame withits application of structural biology andkinematics

Ohm, Candace, The evolution of decep-tion in signaling systems

Wang, Dongxu, 3-manifolds of S1-categorythree

Whidden, Mark, Numerical methods formultiphase systems with applicationsto biology

Winters, Andrew, Discontinuous Galerkinspectral element approximations forthe reflection and transmission ofwaves from moving material interfaces

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Zhang, Yuan, Modeling high frequencyorder book dynamics with supportvector machines

Department of Statistics

Almansour, Aseel, The risk of lipidson coronary heart disease: Prognosticmodels and meta-analysis

Bryner, Darshan, 2D affine and projectiveshape analysis and Bayesian elasticactive contours

Chung, Steve, A class of semiparametricvolatility models with applications tofinancial time series

Girimurugan, Senthil Balaji, Nonlinearmultivariate tests for high-dimensionaldata using wavelets with applicationsin genomics and engineering

Ha, Seung-Yeon, Theories on group vari-able selection in multivariate regressionmodels

Holden, Robert, Failure time regressionmodels for thinned point processes

Laborde, Jose, Elastic shape analysis ofproteins and RNAs

Nilles, Ester, An ensemble approach topredicting health outcomes

Su, Jingyong, Statistical analysis of tra-jectories on Riemannian manifolds

Tang, Yuanyuan, Bayesian methods forskewed response including longitudinaland heteroscedastic data

Tao, Yingfeng, The frequentist perfor-mance of some Bayesian confidenceintervals for the survival function

Williams, Felicia, The relationship ofdiabetes to coronary heart diseasemortality: A meta-analysis based onperson level data

University of CentralFlorida (6)

Department of Mathematics

Benhaddou, Rida, Nonparametric andempirical Bayes estimation models

Haussermann V, John William, Tilingproperties of spectra of measures

Losert, Bernd, Extensions of S-spacesMichalak, Martin, Dynamical invariants

and the fluid impulse in plasma modelsPridemore, Kathryn, Accelerated life

model with various types of censoreddata

Van Gorder, Robert, Nonlinear dispersivepartial equations of physical relevancewith application to vortex dynamics

University of Florida (26)

Department of Mathematics

Broschinski, Adam, Eigenvalues of self-adjoint Toeplitz operators with respectto a constrained algebra

Feng, Wei, Charge transport analysis forlightning

Gluck, Matthew, Blow-up analysis andclassification theorems for solutions tosemi-linear elliptic equations

Guo, Ying, Energy estimates and Harnacktype inequalities for prescribing cur-vature type equations with boundaryconditions

Homberger, Cheyne, Patterns in permu-tations and involutions: A structuraland enumerative approach

Hou, Hongyan, Convergence analysis oforthogonal collocation methods for un-constrained optimal control

Hungerford, James, The vertex separatorproblem and edge-concave quadraticprogramming

Huynh, Duc, Problems on finite exten-sions of local function fields

Inman, Jessica, Examples of reaction-diffusion equations in biological sys-tems: Marine protected areas and quo-rum sensing

Lauderdale, Lindsey-Kay, Maximal sub-groups of finite groups

Lee, JoAnn, A simulation model for thespread of citrus greening via transmis-sion between flush shoots and Diapho-rina citri

Li, Jie, Multiset graph partitioningMico-Umutesi, Delphine, Estimating the

violation of the KKT conditionsNewton, Robert, On Lusternik-Schnirel-

mann category of connected sumsOuyang, Yuyuan, Optimal first order

methods for a class of non-smoothconvex optimization with applicationsto image analysis

Richards, Trevor, On level curves andconformal equivalence of meromorphicfunctions

Shi, Jiangli, Statistical dependence mea-sure based multi-model image regis-tration and registration assisted non-parametric image segmentation

Stetler, Eric, Multiplication operators onHilbert spaces of Dirichlet series

Stupiansky, Jillian, Mathematical model-ing of citrus greening

Zhang, Haili, Mathematical modeling forimage segmentation and restoration

Department of Statistics

Dasgupta, Shibasish, High dimensionalinference and variable selection

Gaskins, Jeremy, Bayesian methods formodeling dependence structures in lon-gitudinal data

Huang, Lei, Survival and reliability analy-sis under Polya tree processes priors

Kim, Chan Min, Bayesian methods forinference on the causal effects ofmediation

Li, Ke, Bayesian multiple testing undersparsity for exponential distributions

Wang, Shu, Extending the Nadaraya-Watson estimator for data with spatiallycorrelated errors

University of Miami (2)

Department of Mathematics

Gonzalez DeLeon, Rafael, On the com-binatorics of the free Lie algebra withmultiple brackets

Liu, Yijia, Hodge theoretic aspects ofcategorical spectrum

University of SouthFlorida (6)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bonsu, Nana Osei, Age dependent anal-ysis and modeling of prostate cancerdata

Chan, Yiu Ming, Statistical analysis andmodeling of prostate cancer

De Castro, Lisa, Analytic functions withreal boundary values in Smirnov classesEp

Pokhrel, Keshav, Statistical analysis andmodeling of brain tumor data: Histologyand regional effects

Teodorescu, Iuliana, Optimization in non-parametric survival analysis and cli-mate change modeling

Zerihun, Tadesse, Nonlinear techniquesfor stochastic systems of differentialequations

GEORGIAEmory University (6)

Department of Biostatistics and

Bioinformatics

Ling, Qiang, Bayesian spatial-temporalmodels for areal count data

Mitchell, Emily, Regression models for acontinuous outcome subject to pooling

Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Chu, Qing, Numerical methods for wave-front reconstruction

Jameson, Marie, Combinatorial objects atthe interface of q-series and modularforms

Klymko, Christine, Centrality and com-municability measures in complex net-works: Analysis and algorithms

Rolen, Larry, Maass forms and quantummodular forms

Georgia Institute ofTechnology (9)

School of Mathematics

Amirkhanyan, Gagik, Problems in combi-natorial number theory

Backman, Spencer, Combinatorial divisortheory for graphs

Casey, Meredith, Branched covers ofcontact manifolds

Liu, Jingfang, Adaptive iterative filteringmethods for non-linear signal analysisand applications

Lu, Jun, Method of evolving junctions:A new approach to path planning andoptimal control

Shin, Hyunshik, Algebraic degrees ofstretch factors in mapping class groups

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Shokrieh, Farbod, Divisors on graphs,binomial and monomial ideals, andcellular resolutions

Winarski, Rebecca, Symmetry, isotopy,and irregular covers

Yin, Ke, New algorithms for solvinginverse source problems with applica-tions in flourescence tomography

Georgia StateUniversity (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Burns Childers, Annie, Calculus students’understanding of the derivative in re-lation to the vertex of a quadraticfunction

Malec, Sara, Intersection algebras andpointed rational cones

Meadows, Leslie, Iteratively regularizedmethods for inverse problems

Wang, Yanhong, Clustering, classifica-tion, and factor analysis in high dimen-sional data analysis

University of Georgia (17)

Department of Mathematics

Berglund, Michael, Bounding expectedvalues on random polygons

Doyle, John, Dynamics of quadratic poly-nomials over quadratic fields

Musgrave, Stacy, Structure and represen-tation of alternative Clifford algebrasof quadratic forms

Nguyen, Duc Duy, Optimal asset tradingunder regime switching models

Shin, Jae Ho, The reduction map forthe moduli spaces of weighted stablehyperplane arrangements

Talian, Andrew, Endotrivial modules forclassical Lie superalgebras

Tenini, Joseph, Results on an extendedTorelli map and singularities of degen-erate Abelian varieties

Thompson, Katherine, Explicit represen-tation results of quadratic forms overQQ and QQ(

√5) by analytic methods

Department of Statistics

Brown, Andrew, Bayesian multiple testingunder dependence with application tofunctional magnetic resonance imaging

Hilafu, Haileab, On dimension reductionand feature selection in high dimen-sions

Lee, Jinae, Functional magnetic resonanceimaging data clustering

Lee, Jung Ae, Sample integrity in highdimension

Liu, Xinyu, Sample size determinationin multi-class classification and predic-tion based on single-nucleotide poly-morphisms

Samadi, Yaser, Matrix time series analysisSun, Lin, Bayesian factor analysis for

fMRI dataWu, Hsin-Ping, Locally optimal designs

for generalized linear models

Zhang, Nan, Hilbert-Schmidt indepen-dence criterion in sufficient dimensionreduction and feature screening

HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii atManoa (2)

Department of Mathematics

Marriott, John, Geometric optimal controlwith an application to imaging innuclear magnetic resonance

Yoshida, Rintaro, Linear and non-linearoperators, and the distribution of zerosof entire functions

IDAHOIdaho State University (1)

Department of Mathematics

Baird, Daniel, Introduction to math edu-cation analysis: A textbook for mathe-matics graduate teaching assistants

University of Idaho (2)

Department of Mathematics

Liu, Zhenia, Conditional persistence forrandom walks

Torrance, Douglas, Nondefective secantvarieties of varieties of completelydecomposable forms

ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (1)

Applied Mathematics Department

Balint, Gergely, Non-adaptive group test-ing Steiner systems and Latin squares

Illinois State University (5)

Department of Mathematics

Cross, Laban, Student’s development anduse of internal representations whensolving algebraic tasks

Hertel, Joshua, Investigating the purposeof trigonometry in the modern sciences

Kara, Melike, Students’ reasoning aboutinvariance of volume as a quantity

Scranton, Melissa, Examining middleschool students’ statistical thinkingwhile working in a technological envi-ronment

Wickstrom, Megan, An examination ofteachers’ perceptions and implementa-tion of learning trajectory based pro-fessional development

Northern IllinoisUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Bailey, Christopher, The MP algorithmand its applications

Ghosh, Santu, Smoothed bootstrap per-centile ellipsoidal confidence region formean vector

McCombs, Paul, Analysis of secondsemester calculus students’ under-standing of series and series con-vergence

McCullough, Kristin, An application ofstatistics in nanotechnology

Montz, Allen, Some bipolar viscous fluidflow problems in rigid and compliantdomains

Patel, Rita, A mixed methods analysisof calculus students’ understanding ofslope and derivative concept

Saint-George, Thomas, Nodal solutionsof nonlinear boundary value problemswith multi-point boundary conditions

Wangle, Jayleen, Calculus student under-standing of continuity

NorthwesternUniversity (18)

Department of Mathematics

Bobkova, Irina, Resolutions in the K(2)-local category at the prime 2

Hoyois, Marc, A quadratic refinementof the Grothendieck-Lefschetz-Verdiertrace formula

Matsuoka, Takuo, Descent and the Koszulduality for locally constant factorisationalgebras

Potash, Eric, Euclidean embeddings andRiemannian Bergman metrics

Zhang, Zhenghe, Positivity and con-tinuity of Lyapunov exponents forone-frequency, smooth quasi-periodicSchrodinger operators

Department of Statistics

Gou, Jiangtao, Topics in p-values basedmultiple test procedures

Li, Cheng, On likelihood-free Bayesian in-ference, model selection and risk min-imization for increasing dimensionaldata

McCallum, Kenneth, Modeling read distri-butions in high-throughput sequencingdatasets

Xi, Dong, Topics in gatekeeping andgroup sequential procedures for multi-ple endpoints

Zhao, Yu, On asymptotic distributionsand confidence intervals for LIFT mea-sures in data mining

Zhao, Zhenyu, Integrated likelihood com-putation method and application

Engineering Sciences and Applied

Mathematics Department

Hansen, Samantha, Newton methods forlarge scale problems in machine learn-ing

Johnson, Travis, Inexact active-set al-gorithms for nonlinear and quadraticoptimization

McConnell, Lane, A numerical investiga-tion of the electrohydrodynamics oflipid bilayer vesicles

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Piet, David, Mathematical models, analyti-cal solutions and numerical simulationsof self-assembled magnetic colloidalstructures

Vogl, Christopher, Moving boundary prob-lems with anomalous diffusion and alevel set, immersed interface method

Woolley, Olivia, The individual’s perspec-tive of the network: Universality intransportation, the resilience of globalmobility, and the dynamics of voluntaryvaccination with information

Yaple, Haley, Mathematical models forthe dynamics of competitive systems,with applications to religious shift andferromagnetism

Southern IllinoisUniversity-Carbondale (6)

Department of Mathematics

Adatorwovor, Dayana, H-removable se-quences of graphs

Al-Talib, Mohammad, Statistical modelsutilizing dependence between variables

Boone, Joshua, Higher-order Lucas se-quences and Dickson polynomials

Tosun, Cemile, Explicit factorization ofgeneralized cyclotomic polynomials oforder 2m3 over a finite field Fq

Tosun, Kursad, Qualitative and quanti-tative analysis of stochastic models inmathematical epidemiology

Yi, Huijun, Constrained statistical infer-ence when target and sample popula-tions differ

University of Chicago (17)

Department of Mathematics

Alvisio, Marcelo, Applications of sto-chastic calculus to Schramm-Loewnerevolution and option pricing

Borman, Matthew Strom, Symplectic quasi-states and Lagrangian topology

Dobrovolska, Galyna, Finite local systemsin the Drinfeld-Laumon construction

Gekhtman, Ilya, Dynamics of convexcocompact subgroups of mapping classgroups

Hoyer, Rolf, Two topics in stable homo-topy theory

Jenkins, Evan, A double construction forpointed Lie 2-algebras

Mann, Kathryn, Components of repre-sentation spaces

Merling, Mona, Equivariant algebraic K-theory

Naik, Vipul, Lazard correspondence up toisoclinism

Nguyen, Thi Thao, The Dirichlet andregularity problems for second orderlinear elliptic operators in boundedLipschitz domains

Shao, Yuan, Maximal displacement ofcritical branching random walks andsymmetric stable processes

Stephenson, Jonathan, Topics in com-putability: Boolean algebras and effec-tive packing dimension

Studenmund, Daniel, Abstract commen-surators of lattices in solvable Liegroups and solvable S-arithmetic groups

Wilson, Jennifer, FIW -modules and stabil-ity phenomena for representations ofclassical Weyl groups

Wright, Alexander, Affine invariant sub-manifolds of the moduli space ofabelian differentials

Department of Statistics

Petkova, Desislava, Inferring effectivemigration from geographically indexedgenetic data

Reimherr, Matthew, Functional data meth-ods for genome wide association stud-ies

University of Illinois atChicago (23)

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Division

Kaufman, Derrick, Multivariate survivalanalysis of macrovascular events inveterans with type 2 diabetes

Zhao, Weihan, Statistical methodologiesfor group comparisons of brain connec-tivity using multimodal neuroimagingdata

Mathematics, Statistics and

Computer Science Department

Bourque, Matthew Joseph, A policy im-provement algorithm for some classesof stochastic games

Brasile, Andrew Leland, Essential spun-normal surfaces via tropical geometry

Cooper, Jeffrey, Independent sets insparse hypergraphs

Diochnos, Dimitrios Ioannis, Analysis ofalgorithms in learning theory and net-work analysis of knowledge bases

Groff, Bradley Williams, Splittings ofrelatively hyperbolic groups

Gross, Elizabeth Ann, Algebraic complex-ity in statistics using combinatorial andtensor methods

Haidau, Cristina, A study of well posed-ness for systems of coupled non-lineardispersive wave equations

Huang, Hsin-Hsiung, Information extrac-tion for virus classification and robustdimension reduction

Krieger, Holly Christine, Primitive primedivisors in polynomial dynamics

Liang, Hao, Equation problem over cen-tral extensions of hyperbolic groups

Lombardi, Luigi, Derived equivalences ofirregular varieties and constraints onHodge numbers

Lozano Huerta, Cesar, Birational geome-try of complete quadrics

Luo, Xue, A novel algorithm to solve thenonlinear filtering problems in real-time

Reschke, Paul Michael, Cohomologicalinsights for complex surface automor-phisms with positive entropy

Sahota, Davender Singh, Borel complexityof the isomorphism relation for o-minimal theories

Simmons, William D., Completeness offinite-rank differential varieties

Wechter, Matthew A., Differential op-erators on finite purely inseparableextensions

Xu, Tu, New developments of minimumclinically important difference: Theoryand methodology

Ye, Hexi, Complex dynamics: Schwarzianderivatives and measures of maximalentropy

Zeng, Jiewei, Optimal designs for multi-exponential models with covariancestructure

Zhang, Zhifan, Portfolio choice withgeneral pricing kernel

University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (19)

Department of Mathematics

Bankovic, Anja, Length functions in flatmetrics

Carty, Thomas, Analysis of a 1D approxi-mation of the Boltzmann equation: Thesubclass of grossly determined solu-tions and the asymptotic behavior ofthe class of general solutions

Choi, Ilkyoo, Extremal problems on varia-tions of graph colorings

DeJarnette, Noel, Self-improving Orlicz-Poincare inequalities

Faruk, Temur, Linear and bilinear restric-tion estimates for the Fourier transform

Fu, Ser-Wei, Ridigity of length functionsover strata of flat metrics

Im, Mee Seong, On semi-invariants offiltered representations of quivers andthe cotangent bundle of the enhancedGrothendieck-Springer resolution

Jahanbekam, Sogol, Extremal problemsfor labelling of graphs and distance indigraphs

Jeon, Bo Gwang, Hyperbolic 3-manifoldsof bounded volume and trace fielddegree

Kim, Jaehoon, Extremal problems involv-ing forbidden subgraphs

Konstantoulas, Ioannis, Effective multiplemixing in Weyl chamber actions

Lansing, Jennifer, On the Stern sequenceand a related sequence

Li, Chunyi, Deformations of the Hilbertscheme of points on a del Pezzo surface

Ray, Brian, Rigidity in free groupsSon, Sarah Soojin, Spectral problems on

triangles and disks: Extremizers andground state resolution

Xiao, Jiajie, Distribution of some arith-metic sequences

Xiao, Lechao, Sharp estimates for trilinearoscillatory integral forms

Xu, Ping, Identities involving theta func-tions and analogues of theta functions

Yancey, Kelly, Uniformly rigid homeo-morphisms

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INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (16)

Department of Mathematics

Attenborough, Holly, On noninvertiblecohomology arising from idempotentsin the Brauer monoid

Chao, Khek Lun Harold, Rigidity of groupactions on CAT(0) spaces

Chung, Yu-Min, On the computationof inertial manifolds, foliations, andtracking initial conditions

Coti Zelati, Michele, Differential inclu-sions and variational inequalities re-lated to the primitive equations of theatmosphere

Fadali, Tarek, Spin and homotopy topo-logical field theory in dimension 2

Huang, Aimin, Initial and boundary valueproblems for the primitive equationsand shallow water equations

Hui, Chun Yin, Monodromy of Galois rep-resentations and equal-rank subalgebraequivalence

Jung, Soyeun, Pointwise nonlinear stabil-ity and asymptotic behavior of periodictraveling-wave solutions of systemsof reaction-diffusion equations and ofconservation laws

Neese, Brandon, Numerical simulationsregarding turbulence and convection

Pinzon Caicedo, Juanita, Independence ofsatellites of torus knots in the smoothconcordance group

Poelhuis, Jonathan, Medians and weightedlocal estimates for singular integral op-erators

Ratnayake, Jayampathy, On the forms ofweak crossed product algebras

Riggs, Kyle, Computable properties ofdecomposable and completely decom-posable groups

Tan, Kuo-Chiang, Codes for square-tiledsurfaces

Yao, Jinghua, Existence, stability and bi-furcation problems in continuum ther-modynamics

Zhong, Ping, Regularities for distribu-tions of free multiplicative Brownianmotion and free multiplicative convolu-tion semigroups

Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (2)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Harsy, Amanda, Locally compact prop-erty A groups

Lin, Qun, A jackknife empirical likelihoodapproach to goodness of fit U-statistictesting with side information

Purdue University (30)

Department of Mathematics

Alfaro-Murillo, Jorge, An epidemiologicalmodel structured by time since lastinfection

Allen, Mark, Thin free boundary problemsBanerjee, Agnid, Normalized p-Laplacian

evolution: Boundary behavior of non-negative solutions of fully nonlinearparabolic equations, gradient boundsfor p-harmonic systems with vanishingNeumann (Dirichlet) data in a convexdomain

Barone, Salvador, Some quantitative re-sults in real algebraic geometry

Cao, Shuhao, The a posteriori errorestimation in finite element method forthe H(curl) problems

Fuchs, Urs, Pseudoholomorphic curves insymplectic and contact geometry andtheir application in dynamics

He, Ying, Efficient spectral-element meth-ods for acoustic scattering and relatedproblems

Hora, Raphael, Scattering theory onasymptotic hyperbolic manifolds

Huang, Shanshan, Signal/image registra-tion via polynomial system solutionmethod and the Pascal triangle of adiscrete image

Imberti, David, Methods for increasingdomains of convergence in iterativelinear system solvers

Kim, Yeansu, L-functions from Langlands-Shahidi method for GSpin groups andthe generic Arthur L-packet conjecture

Li, Jing, Efficient estimation of failureprobability

Nguyen, Lan, Rees algebras of linearlypresented ideals

Ni, Lichen, C1-continuous spectral ele-ments and time integration algorithms

Qiu, Lingyun, Inverse boundary valueproblems for time-harmonic waves:Conditional stability and iterative re-construction

Ramachandran, Kousik, Asymptotic be-havior of positive harmonic functionsin certain unbounded domains

Shi, Wenhui, Parabolic problems with thinfree boundaries

Tran, Dat, Direct images as Hilbert fieldsand their curvatures

Wang, Jin, Sub-Riemannian heat ker-nels on model spaces and curvature-dimension inequalities on contact man-ifolds

Zhang, Xuejing, Some aspects of sto-chastic differential equation driven byfractional Brownian motion

Department of Statistics

Chang, Ching-Yun, Cost-effective and ac-curate protein quantification for large-scale targeted proteomics

Davidson, Allison, A study of the tenabil-ity of Polya urn schemes

DePalma, Glen, Disk diffusion break-point determination using a Bayesiannonparametric variation of the errors-in-variables model

Hu, Juan, Optimal low rank model formultivariate spatial data

Liu, Cheng, Non-parameter spatial mod-els

Nisen, Jeffrey, Statistical estimation ofjump-diffusion models via optimalthresholding

Srivastava, Sanvesh, A framework forpractical Bayesian analysis of high-dimensional genomic data

Wu, Han, Statistical models for gene andtranscripts quantification and identifi-cation using RNA-Seq

Yu, Danni, Estimation of variation ofhigh-throughput molecular biologicalexperiments with small sample size

Yun, Hyokun, Doubly separable modelsand distributed parameter estimation

University of NotreDame (9)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics and Statistics

Hao, Wenrui, Homotopy method for non-lienear partial differential equaiton

Li, Chunlei, Computational modeling ofmicrotubule instability

Lioi, Josh, Advancements in the modelingof blood clot formation

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Xiaoyang, Curvature and Rieman-nian submersions

John, Harvey, Around Palais’ coveringhomotopy theorem

Lin, Yueh-Ju, Connected sum construc-tion of constant Q-curvature manifoldsin higher dimensions

Liu, Han, A plane rotational map withChebyshev-like dynamics

Ocasio Gonzalez, Victor, Computability inthe class of real closed fields

Poulios, Georgios, Peterzil-Steinhorn sub-groups of real algebraic groups

IOWAIowa State University (40)

Department of Mathematics

Albashrawi, Saleh, Second order charac-teristic based schemes for chemotaxissystem

Basnet, Man, On modified l1-minimizationproblems in compressed sensing

Erickson, Craig, Sign patterns that requireeventual exponential nonnegativity

Failing, David, Commutative, idempotentgroupoids and the constraint satisfac-tion problem

Hao, Yiping, Computation and analysisof evolutionary game dynamics

Osborne, Steven, Cospectral bipartitegraphs for the normalized Laplacian

Pryporov, Maksym, Gaussian beam meth-ods for the Schrodinger equation withperiodic potentials and strictly hyper-bolic systems

Seol, Young Soo, Random walks in asparse random environment

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Wang, Chi-Jen, Analysis of discretereaction-diffusion equations for au-tocatalysis and continuum diffusionequations for transport

Wang, Jing, Modeling of the interplay be-tween single-file diffusion and reactionconversion in mesoporous systems

Warnberg, Nathan, Positive semidefinitepropagation time

Department of Statistics

Abell, Caitlyn Elizabeth, Evaluation oflitters per sow per year as a meansto reduce non-productive sow days incommercial swine breeding herds andits association with other economicallyimportant traits

Blythe, Derek Charles, An investigationof viral fitness using statistical andcomputer models of equine infectiousanemia virus infection

Bramer, Lisa Marie, Methods for model-ing and forecasting wind characteristics

Du, Chuanlong, Modeling, inference, andclustering for equivalence classes of3-D orientations

Ghosh, Subhomoy, Topics in stochasticgrowth models

He, Ru, Structure learning in Bayesiannetworks and session analysis of peoplesearch within a professional socialnetwork

Hildreth, Laura Ann, Residual analysisfor structural equation modeling

Hobbs, Jonathan Michael, Characterizingdiurnal and interannual variability inthe atmosphere through physical andstochastic models

Hoeksema, Amy Beth, Statistical methodsfor the forensic analysis of stratiatedtool marks

Hsu, Yu-Yi, Reducing parameter estima-tion bias for data with missing valuesusing simulation extrapolation

Kim, Eunice Jungeun, Hotspot detectionand a nonstationary process variancefunction estimation

Le, Dai-Trang, Applying item responsetheory modeling in educational re-search

Li, Jun, Two sample interference for highdimensional data and nonparametricvariable selection for census data

Li, Yang, Non-parametric and semi-parametric estimation of spatial co-variance function

Lin, Hui, Statistical methods in diseaserisk analysis, disease testing, and nutri-tion epidemiology

Liu, Bin, Estimating multiple treatmenteffects in two-phase observational data

Liu, Jia, Statistical inference for functionsof the parameters of a linear mixedmodel

Liu, Shiyao, Statistical methods for ex-treme values and degradation analysis

Loy, Adam M., Diagnostics for mixed/hierarchical linear models

Majumder, Md Mahbubul Amin, Investi-gations into visual statistical inference

McKelvey, Mark Wesley, Modifications toclassification and regression trees tosolve problems related to imperfectdetection and dependence

Riddles, Minsun Kim, Propensity scoreadjusted method for missing data

Shukla, Sachet Ashok, Topics in cancergenomics

Stanfill, Bryan Adams, Statistical methodsfor random rotations

Vendettuoli, Marie C, Workflow tools forbiological applications

Xie, Yihui, Dynamic graphics and report-ing for statistics

Yang, Shan, Estimation under stochasticdifferential equations

Yang, Shu, Fractional imputation methodof handling missed data and spatialstatistics

Zhou, Wen, Some Bayesian and multi-variate analysis methods in statisticalmachine learning and applications

University of Iowa (18)

Applied Mathematical and

Computational Sciences

Abiva, Jeannine Therese, Learning the as-sociation of multiple inputs in recurrentnetworks

Krines, Mark, On the probabilistic mod-eling of consistency for iterated posi-tional election procedures

Padberg, Mary Therese Zeithaml, Soft-ware for modeling protein-bound DNA:Determining a geometric structure con-sistent with known topological data

Sheng, Qiwei, Some approximations toradiative transfer equation and theirapplications

Yang, Fan, Asymptotics for risk measureof extreme risks

Department of Biostatistics

Carter, Knute D, Best-subset model selec-tion based on multitudinal assessmentsof likelihood improvements

Johnson, Amy M, Modeling time seriesdata with semi-reflective boundaries

Yin, Jun, Bayesian statistical modelingof epidemics and the contact networksthat transmit them

Department of Mathematics

Benson, Katherine, On radio labeling ofdiameter N − 2 and caterpillar graphs

Brooks, Susan, The geometry and topol-ogy of wide ribbons

Florescu, Alina, Reduced τn-factorizationin Z and taun-factorizations in N

Goertzen, Corissa, Operations on infinitex infinite matrices, and their use indynamics and spectral theory

Jones, Garrett, Modeling knotted proteinswith tangles

Mooney, Christopher, Generalized fac-torization in commutative rings withzero-divisors

Niedzialomski, Amanda, Consecutive ra-dio labelings and the Cartesian productof graphs

Teff, Nicholas, The Hessenberg represen-tation

Wolf, Travis, Coisometric extensions

Department of Statistics and

Actuarial Science

Chang, Shu-Ching, Antedependence mod-els for skewed continuous longitudinaldata

KANSASKansas State University (6)

Department of Mathematics

Bischof, Bryan, Deformations of differen-tial operators

DeSilva, Dilum, Lind-Lehmer constant forgroups of the form Znp

Department of Statistics

Ramirez, Girly, Variable selection andprediction in sparse ultra high dimen-sional additive models

Richardson, Troy, Treatment heterogene-ity and potential outcomes in linearmixed effects models

Serasinghe, Roshan, Individual mediatingeffects and the concept of terminalmeasures data

Xiang, Sijia, Semiparametric mixturemodels

University of Kansas (3)

Department of Mathematics

Console, Alexander, Limit domains inseveral complex variables

Harnett, Daniel, Central limit theoremsfor some symmetric stochastic integrals

Zhang, Mingji, Dynamics of Poisson-Nernst-Planck system and applicationsto ionic channels

Wichita State University (2)

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics, and Physics

Al-Shutnawi, Basma, On convergence setsof formal power series

Ryan, Justin, Geometry of horizontalbundles and connections

KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (13)

Department of Mathematics

Akman, Murat, On the dimension of a cer-tain measure arising from a quasilinearelliptic pde

Dailey, Megan, Relative perturbation the-ory for diagonally dominant matrices

Gier, Megan, Eigenvalue multiplicities ofthe Hodge Laplacian on coexact 2-formsfor generic metrics on 5-manifolds

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Gunturkun, Sema, Homogenous Goren-stein ideals and Boij-Soderberg decom-positions

Hines, Clinton, Spin cobordism and wedgequasitoric manifolds

Huang, Tao, Regularity and uniquenessof some geometric heat flows and itsapplications

Kremer, Ray, Homological algebra withfiltered modules

Monday, Casey, A characterization ofserve classes of reflective modules overa complete local Noetherian ring

Ozbek, Furuzan, Subfunctors of exten-sion functors

Sturgeon, Stephen, Boij-Soderberg de-compositions, cellular resolutions, andpolytopes

Department of Statistics

Feng, Limin, James-Stein type compoundestimation of multiple mean responsefunctions and their derivatives

Xi, Jing, Polytopes arising from binarymutlti-way contingency tables and char-acteristic imsets for Bayesian networks

Zhang, Xiang, Analysis of spatial data

University of Louisville (2)

Department of Mathematics

Kodippuli Thanthillage Dona, RasithaRangani Jayasekare, Mixture of Poissondistributions to model discrete stockprice changes

Wang, Chunwei, A stage structured de-layed reaction-diffusion model for com-petition between two species

LOUISIANALSU Health ScienceCenter, New Orleans (3)

Department of Biostatistics

Berken, Jennifer, A study of type I andtype II error rates of accepted andnovel analysis methods through thedevelopment of an automated methodto simulate comet assay images

Beyl, Robbie, Accuracy of p-values forinverse prediction in multi-categorysettings

Du, Roufei, Functional profiling of next-generation sequencing

Louisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (6)

Department of Mathematics

Blanton, Jacob, Reformulations for con-trol systems and optimization problemswith impulses

Dribus, Benjamin, On the infinitesimaltheory of Chow groups

Eakins, Evan, Constructive aspects ofKochen’s theorem on p-adic closures

Latin, Ladorian, A semigroup/Laplacetransform approach to approximatingflows

McGuire, Trevor, Combinatorial free res-olutions of ideals with monomial andbinomial generators

Peng, Yun, Ito formula and Girsanovtheorem on a new Ito integral

Louisiana TechnologyUniversity (4)

Program of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bracey, Scarlett, Modeling and controlof nanoparticle bloodstream concentra-tion for tumor therapies

Han, Fei, Numerical simulation of hydro-gen absorption/desorption processesin cylindrical metal-hydrogen reactorsfor hydrogen storage

Shi, Liwei, A mathematical model andnumerical method for thermoelectricDNA sequencing

Wang, Yifan, Numerical solutions forproblems with complex physics in com-plex geometry

Tulane University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Luo, Qingyang, Integrated analysis ofclinical and longitudinal genomic data

Xiang, Tian, Global dynamics of thelocal and nonlocal Patlak-Keller-Segelchemotaxis system

University of Louisiana atLafayette (4)

Department of Mathematics

Delcambre, Mark, Finite difference schemesfor a structured model of mycobac-terium marinum

LeBlanc, Richard L., Baer and Rickartproperties in modules and an associ-ated radical

Muniswamy, Sowmya, Analytical and nu-merical approach to Caputo fractionaldifferential equations via generalizediterative schemes with applications

Wang, Yi, Analysis and numerical schemesfor certain structured population mod-els

MARYLANDJohns Hopkins University,Bloomberg School ofPublic Health (4)

Department of Biostatistics

Krall, Jenna, Statistical methods for link-ing the chemical composition of partic-ulate matter to health outcomes

Maas, Paige, Synthesizing data sourcesto develop and update risk models

Shou, Haochang, Statistical methods forstructured multilevel functional data:Estimation and reliability

Wei, Yingying, Integrative statistical mod-els for genomic signal detection

Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore (10)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Adali, Sancar, Joint optimization of fi-delity and commensurability for mani-fold alignment and graph matching

Qin, Yichen, Robust inference via Lq-likelihood

Sussman, Daniel, Foundations of adja-cency spectral embedding

Wang, Qi, Optimization with discretesimultaneous perturbation stochasticapproximation using noisy loss func-tion measurements

Zheng, Fang, Algebraic approaches forconstructing multi-D wavelets

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Xuehua, An improvement on eigen-function restriction estimates for com-pact boundaryless Riemannian mani-folds with nonpositive sectional curva-ture

Karami, Arash, Zeros of random Rein-hardt polynomials

Shao, Peng, Sobolev resolvent estimatesof the Laplace-Beltrami operator oncompact Riemannian manifolds

Sinclair, Duncan, Heat kernels on Rie-mannian polyhedra and heat flows intoNPC manifolds

Xiao, Ling, Flow problems in hyperbolicspace

University of Maryland,Baltimore County (7)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Ayyala, Deepak Nag, High dimensionaltime series: Mean vector testing andtesting for autocorrelation matrices

Cornwell, David, Amplified quantumtransforms

Jacobs, Justin, Nonparametric Bayesiandensity estimation on Riemannian man-ifolds

Mbodj, Malick, Ellipsoidal tolerance re-gions and simultaneous tolerance in-tervals for some multivariate normalpopulation

Raim, Andrew, Computational methodsin finite mixtures using approximateinformation and regression limited tothe mixture mean

Trott, David, Top heavy and specialBishop-Phelps cones, Lyapunov rank,and related topics

Zimmer, Zachary, Tolerance intervalsunder some discrete models, zero-inflated models and mixture models

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University of Maryland,College Park (16)

Department of Applied Mathematics,

Statistics, and Scientific

Computation

Andrews, Travis, Frame multiplicationtheory for vector-valued harmonic anal-ysis

Ballew, Joshua, Mathematical topics influid-particle interaction

Blagg, David, Unramified extensions ofthe cyclotomic Z2-extension of Q(

√d, i)

Cloninger, Alexander, Exploiting data-dependent structure for improving sen-sor acquisition and integration

Doster, Timothy, Harmonic analysis in-spired data fusion with applications inremote sensing

Drombosky, Tyler, Geodynamic simula-tions using the fast multipole boundaryelement method

Meng, Tong, Two price economy incontinuous time and its applications infinance

Motesharrei, Safa, Minimal models ofhuman-nature interaction

Otarola Pasten, Enrique, A PDE approachto numerical fractional diffusion

Patrick, Carlos, Surface tension freeboundary problems: Formulation, op-timal control, and numerics

Rajapakse, Vinodh, Data representationfor learning and information fusion inbioinformatics

Skinner, Michael, An efficient method forradiation hydrodynamics in models offeedback-regulated star formation

Sotiris, Ekaterina, Outlier modeling forspatial Gaussian random fields

Tsai, Wan-Yu, Lift of the trivial represen-tation to a nonlinear cover

Wickman, Clare, An optimal transportapproach to some problems in frametheory

Yu, Wei-Hsuan, Spherical two-distancesets and related topics in harmonicanalysis

MASSACHUSETTSBoston University (9)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Benes, Gregory, Stability of multi-solutionsin the TODA model and torus canardsin neuroscience models

Cuzzocreo, Daniel, Dynamical invariantsand parameter space structures forrational maps

Fitzgibbon, Elizabeth, Rational maps: Thestructure of Julia sets from accessibleMandelbrot sets

Gonzalez Ramirez, Laura, Existence andstability of traveling waves in a bio-logically constrained model of seizurewave propagation

Liu, Chong, Functional principal compo-nent and factor analysis of spatiallycorrelated data

Nikolaev, Nikolay, Some methods forrobust inference in econometric factormodels and in machine learning

Viles, Weston, Network data analysisWard, Brandon, Observables in the BC

systemZelinsky, Joshua, Variations on the Artin

primitive root conjecture

Brandeis University (4)

Department of Mathematics

Fang, Yu, Automorphic construction ofunits in a totally real field

Hermes, Stephen, Higher homotopy struc-tures of Ginzburg algebras

Ostroff, Jonah, Counting connected di-graphs with gradings

Zhang, Yurong, Iwasawa main conjecturefor Eisenstein series Ek+z,2,1,ε

Harvard U, School ofPublic Health (14)

Biostatistics Department

Alexeeff, Stacey, Measurement error in en-vironmental exposures: Statistical im-plications for spatial air pollution mod-els and gene environment interactiontests

Barnett, Ian, SNP-set tests for sequencingand genome-wide association studies

Bind, Marie-Abele, Statistical methods toinvestigate the role of genetic andepigenetic mechanisms in air pollutionand temperature health effects

Braun, Danielle, Statistical methods toadjust for measurement error in riskprediction models and observationalstudies

Cudhea, Frederick, A novel method formodeling hierarchical developmentaltoxicity data and calculating joint riskBMDs based on the Plackett-Dale distri-bution

Dai, Wei, Robust approaches to markeridentification and evaluation for riskassessment

Dean, Natalie Exner, Surveillance meth-ods for monitoring HIV incidence anddrug resistance

Huang, Norman, Graph-based supportvector machines for patient responseprediction using pathway and geneexpression data

Lin, Xinyi, Statistical methods for high-dimensional data in genetic epidemiol-ogy

Meyer, Mark, Function-on-function re-gression with public health applications

Mitchell, Shira, Capture-recapture estima-tion for conflict data and hierarchicalmodels for program impact evaluation

Mukherjee, Rajarshi, Statistical inferencefor high dimensional problems

Rader, Kevin, Methods for analyzingsurvival and binary data in complexsurveys

Sathirapongsasuti, Jarupon Fah, Post-genomic approaches to personalizedmedicine: Applicaitons in exome se-quencing, microbiome, and COPD

Harvard University (16)

Department of Mathematics

Antonakoudis, Stergios, The complex ge-ometry of Teichmuller space

Daemi, Aliakbar, Symmetric spaces andknot invariants from gauge theory

Diao, Hansheng, The eigencurve is properIvrii, Oleg, The geometry of the Weil-

Petersson metric in complex dynamicsLe Hung, Bao Viet, Modularity of some

elliptic curves over totally real fieldsPflueger, Nathan, Regeneration of elliptic

chains with exceptional linear seriesRaskin, Samuel, Chiral principal series

categoriesWoolf, Matthew, Relative Jacobeans of

linear systemsZhou, Jie, Arithmetic properties of mod-

uli spaces and topological string par-tition functions of some Calabi-Yauthreefolds

Department of Statistics

Bischof, Jonathan, Interpretable and scal-able Bayesian models for advertisingand text

Espinosa, Valeria, A Bayesian perspectiveon factorial experiments using potentialoutcomes

Guo, Lei, Bayesian biclustering on dis-crete data: Variable selection methods

Han, Simeng, Statistical methods foraggregation of indirect information

Kelly, Joseph, Advances in the normal-normal hierarchical model

Sabbaghi, Arman, Dilemmas in design:From Neyman and Fisher to 3D printing

Watson, David, Complications in causalinference: Incorporating informationobserved after treatment is assigned

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (18)

Department of Mathematics

Batson, Joshua, Obstructions to slicingknots and splitting links

Belanger-Rioux, Rosalie, Compressed ab-sorbing conditions for the Helmholtzequation

Cesnavicius, Kestutis, Selmer groups asflat cohomology groups

Culler, Lucas, The blowup formula forhigher rank Donaldson invariants

Deckelbaum, Alan, The structure of auc-tions: Optimality and efficiency

DeFranco, Mario, The unramified princi-pal series at p-adic groups the Besselfunction

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Dubbs, Alexander, Beta-ensembles withcovariance

Jackson-Hanen, David, Symplectic coho-mology of contractible surfaces

Keating, Ailsa Macgregor, Symplecticproperties of Milnor fibres

Ketover, Daniel, Min-max minimal sur-faces is 3-manifolds

Lesieutre, John, Negative answers to somepositivity questions

Lieson, Mark, New statistical geneticmethods for elucidating the history andevolution of human populations

Liu, Tiankai, On planar rational cuspidalcurves

Minton, Gregory, Computer-assistedproofs in geometry and physics

Oza, Anand, A trajectory equation forwalking droplets: Hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory

Park, Jennifer, Effective Chabauty forsymmetric powers of curves

Tsymbaliuk, Oleksandr, The affine Yan-gian of gl1 and the infinitesimal Chered-nik algebras

Tucker, George, Statistical methods toinfer biological interactions

NortheasternUniversity (6)

Department of Mathematics

Appel, Andrea, Monodromy theorems inthe affine setting

Duke, Andrew, Cube-like regular inci-dence complexes

Kesir, Mustafa, A mathematical modelof redox/methylation metabolism inhuman neuronal cells

Veetel, Bindu, On the regularity of solu-tions to the Beltrami equation in theplane

Yang, Yaping, Three contributions totopology, algebraic geometry and rep-resentation theory: Homological finite-ness of abelian covers, algebraic ellipticcohomology theory and monodromytheorems in the elliptic setting

Zhao, Gufang, Deprived category and co-homology of resolution of singularities:Examples from representation theory

Tufts University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Friedhoff, Stephanie, Design and analysisof multigrid methods for parabolicproblems

Hao, Ning, Moving from matrix to tensor-based analysis and algorithms for appli-cations in imaging science and beyond

Offerman, Christine, Multi-temporal waveequations on flat and compact symmet-ric spaces

University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (13)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Aiello, Domenico, Galois theory of iter-ated morphisms on reducible ellipticcurves and Abelian surfaces with realmultiplication

Chen, Dechang, Isoperimetric inequal-ity and area growth of surfaces withbounded mean curvature

Friedlander, Holley, Twisted Weyl groupmultiple Dirichlet series over the ratio-nal function field

Gassert, Thomas, Prime decompositionin iterated towers and discriminantformulae

Herr, Daniel, Open books on contactthree orbifolds

Kazanova, Anna, Degenerations ofGodeaux surfaces and exceptional vec-tor bundles

Koonz, Jennifer, Properties of singularSchubert varieties

Li, Jingran, Conditional Gaussian fluctu-ations and refined asymptotics of thespin in the phase-coexistence region

Li, Kai, Discrete parity-time symmetricnonlinear Schrodinger lattices

Mohr, Luke, Martingale central limit the-orem and nonuniformly hyperbolic sys-tems

Rana, Julie, Boundary divisors in themoduli space of stable quintic surfaces

Yan, Dong, Dark-bright solitons andvortices in Bose-Einstein condensates

Department of Public Health

Biostatistics

Yu, Shuli, Evaluating predictors of in-dividual dietary intake latent valuesunder different mixed models

Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (1)

Mathematical Sciences Department

Zheltukhin, Sergey, Preferred frequenciesfor coupling of seismic waves andvibrating tall buildings

MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (6)

Department of Mathematics

Al-Aqtash, Raid, On generating new fam-ilies of distributions using the logitfunction

Aljarrah, Mohammad, System of con-tinuous distributions generated fromquantile functions

Alzaghal, Ahmad, Families of exponenti-ated generalized distributions: Proper-ties and applications

Gautam, Yadu, A novel approach of im-puting summary statistics for genome-wide association study

Loszewski, Cleland, The symplectic vol-ume of the ribbon graph complex

Wijetunge, Tharanga, The role of advancestudent response system-perspectivesof the preservice secondary mathemat-ics teachers

Michigan StateUniversity (11)

Department of Mathematics

Bao, Lian Zhang, Some properties ofbackward forward parabolic equationsfrom population dynamics

Giambrone, Adam, A combinatorial ap-proach to knot theory: Volume boundsfor hyperbolic semi-adequate link com-plements

Jones, Jaylan, Development of a fastand accurate time stepping scheme forthe functionalized Cahn-Hillard equa-tion and application to a graphicsprocessing unit

Krcatovich, David, The reduced knotFloer complex

Maridakis, Manousos, The concentrationprinciple

Reznikov, Aleksandr, Weighted norm in-equalities for Calderon-Zygmund oper-ators

Shadrach, Richard, Integral models ofcertain PEL Shimura varieties with Γ1(p)-type level structure

Department of Statistics and

Probability

Cheng, Dan, The excursion probability ofGaussian and asymptotically Gaussianrandom fields

Kang, Lening, The excursion probabilityof Gaussian and asymptotically Gaus-sian random fields

Wu, Cen, High dimensional statisticalmethods for gene-environment interac-tions

Zhang, Kai, Model selection and forecast-ing for periodic time series

Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Al-Habahbeh, Abdallah, Simulations ofNewtonian and non-Newtonian flows indeformable tubes

Kumari, Sapna, Identification of genescontrolling biological processes andpathways through statistical analysisand network reconstruction

Oakland University (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Connolly, Robert D., Matching preclusionand conditional matching preclusionproblems for the folder Petersen cube

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Hayman, Thomas J., Facet-inducing in-equalities of the convex hull of integersolutions of application-driven struc-tures of multiple all-different predi-cates

University of Michigan (37)

Department of Mathematics

Abram, William, Equivariant complexcobordism

Altschul, Samuel, Endoscopy for nilpotentorbits of G2

Beichman, Jennifer, Nonstandard disper-sive estimates and linearized waterwaves

Bosler, Peter, Particle methods for geo-physical flow on the sphere

Brooks, Ernest, Generalized Heegner cy-cles, Shimura curves, and special valuesof p-adic L-functions

Chung, Sohhyun, The impact of Vol-cker rule on bank profits and defaultprobabilities

Clader, Emily, The Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence for certaincomplete intersections

Ford, Nicolas, Geometric shifts andpositroid varieties

Gignac, William, Equidistribution of preim-ages in nonarchimedean dynamics

Gu, Huaiying, Value-at-Risk (VaR) anddynamic portfolio selection

Henry, Shawn, Classifying topoi andpreservation of higher order logic bygeometric morphisms

Huang, Yu-Jui, Topics in stochastic con-trol with applications to finance

Kim, Jae Kyoung, Mathematical modelingand analysis of biological clocks withincells

Lapan, Sara, On the existence of attract-ing domains for maps tangent to theidentity

Lee, Seung Jin, Centrally symmetric poly-topes with many faces

Meyer, Jeffrey, On the totally geodesiccommensurability spectrum of an arith-metic locally symmetric space

Mueller, Alexander, Applications of gen-eralized Fermat varieties to zeta func-tions of Artin-Schreier curves

Priddis, Nathan, A Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence for the mir-ror quintic

Reyes, Kristopher-Roy, Large scale ki-netic Monte Carlo simulations: Theory,implementation and applications

Roberts, Joseph, Steady and self-similarsolutions to two-dimensional hyper-bolic conservation laws

Rosen, Julian, The artithmetic of multipleharmonic sums

Sadiq, Burhan, Finite difference meth-ods, Hermit interpolation and Quasi-Uniform Spectral Schemes (QUSS)

Scherr, Zachary, Rational polynomial Pellequations

Scott, Geoffrey, Torus actions and singu-larities in symplectic geometry

Shearer, Paul, Separable inverse prob-lems, blind deconvolution, and straylight correction for extreme ultravioletsolar images

Shen, Yefeng, Gromov-Witten theory ofelliptic orbifold projective lines

Shoemaker, Mark, A mirror theorem forthe mirror quintic

Watkins, Jordan, The higher rank rigiditytheorem for manifolds with no focalpoints

Wu, Jingchen, Some problems in stochas-tic control theory related to inventorymanagement and coarsening

Zhu, Zhixian, Topics in singularities andjet schemes

Department of Statistics

Cheng, Jie, Mixed and covariate depen-dent graphical models

Mallik, Atul, Topics on threshold estima-tion, multistage methods and randomfields

Mankad, Shawn, Statistical techniquesfor the exploratory analysis of struc-tured three-way and dynamic networkdata

Mukherjee, Ashin, Topics on reducedrank methods for multivariate regres-sion

Park, Yeo Jung, New methods for dis-covering hidden dependence and forassessing the possible influence of un-observed variables

Sales, Adam, New perspectives on regres-sion adjustment in causal inference,with applications to educational pro-gram evaluation

Zhang, Zhanyang, Predictive models andcalibration analysis in large-scale com-putational studies

Wayne State University (8)

Department of Mathematics

Fan, Li, DG and HDG for curved structuresHashemi, Araz, Adaptive stochastic sys-

tems: Estimation, filtering, and noiseattenuation

Talafh, Yousef, Two-time scale systems incontinuous time with regime switchingand their applications

Tilson, Sean, Power operations in theKunneth and C2-equivariant Adamsspectral sequences with applications

Tran, Nghia, Full stability in optimizationXiao, Yayuan, Discrete Littlewood-Paley-

Stein theory and Wolff potentials onhomogeneous spaces and multiparam-eter Hardy spaces

Zhao, Guangliang, Properties of nonlin-ear randomly switching dynamic sys-tems: Mean-field models and feedbackcontrols for stabilization

Zhu, Jiuyi, Qualitative properties of solu-tions of fully nonlinear equations andoverdetermined problems

Western MichiganUniversity (10)

Department of Mathematics

Andrews, Eric, On Eulerian irregularityand decompositions in graphs

Arnold, David, Classifying spaces ofsymmetric groups and wreath products

Atanga, Napthalin, Elementary schoolteachers’ use of curricular resourcesfor lesson design and enactment

Bulut, Alper, Lie loops associated withGL(H ), H a separable infinite dimen-sional Hilbert space

Edson, Alden J., A deeply digital instruc-tional unit on binomial distributionsand statistical inference: A design ex-periment

Goss, Joshua, A method for assessingand describing the informal inferentialreasoning of middle school students

Houck, Julienne (Julie), A pattern inthe Lusternik-Schnirelmann category ofrational spaces

Kipka, Robert, Mathematical methodsof analysis for control and dynamicoptimization problems on manifolds

Department of Statistics

Burgos, Jaime, Multivariate autoregres-sive time series using Schweppe weightedWilcoxon estimates

Jelsema, Casey, Estimates and inferencefor spatial and spatio-temporal mixedeffects models

MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota-Twin Cities (19)

Division of Biostatistics, School of

Public Health

Austin, Erin, Penalized regression and itsapplications to genetics and genomics

Quick, Harrison, Spatiotemporal gradientmodeling with applications

Zhang, Yiwei, Two topics in associationanalysis of DNA sequencing data

School of Mathematics

Chang, Ching-Hao, Isotopy of nodal sym-plectic spheres in rational manifolds

Chen, Haoran, A dynamic model ofpolyeclectrolyte gels

Feng, Hao, On three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with axi-symmetricvortex rings as initial vorticity

Huang, Jia, 0-Hecke algebra actions onflags, polynomials, and Stanley-Reisnerrings

Miller, Alexander, Reflection arrange-ments and ribbon representations

Nie, Xiaolan, Complex Monge-Ampereequations and Chern-Ricci flow on Her-mitian manifolds

Oestreicher, Samantha, Forced oscillatorswith dynamic Hopf bifurcations andapplications to Paleoclimate

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Thompson, Robert, Applications of mov-ing frames to group foliation of differ-ential equations

Williams, Nathan, Cataland

School of Statistics

Ding, Shanshan, Sufficient dimensionreduction for complex data structures

Kang, Yicheng, Edge detection and imagerestoration of blurred noisy imagesusing jump regression analysis

Mai, Qing, Variable selection in high-dimensional classification

Price, Bradley, Ridge fusion in statisticallearning

Sherwood, Benjamin, Quantile regressionmodel selection

Zhang, Xin, Envelopes for efficient multi-variate parameter estimation

Zimmerman, Patrick, Survey samplingand multiple stratifications

MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bhoumik, Soumya, On the automorphismgroups of almost circulant graphs anddigraphs

Kalappattil, Lakshmi, Classes of singularnonlinear eigenvalue problems withsemipositone structure

Williams, Jahmario, Positive radial solu-tions for p-Laplacian singular boundaryvalue problems

University ofMississippi (3)

Department of Mathematics

Curry, Jamye, Rank-based two sampletests under a general alternative

Putnam, Bette, The characterization ofgraphs with small bicycle spectrum

Turnage-Butterbaugh, Caroline, Momentsof products of L-functions

University of SouthernMississippi (1)

Department of Mathematics

Cenek, Eowyn, Iterative solvers for large,dense matrices

MISSOURIMissouri University ofScience andTechnology (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Zeng, Bilin, Sparse group sufficient di-mension reduction and covariance cu-mulative slicing estimation

St Louis University (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Lloyd-Hepburn, Tanya, Ricci flow onanti-self-adjoint naturally reductive ho-mogeneous spaces

Pedigo, Mark, The lower central series ofthe free nilpotent groups of finite rank

University ofMissouri-Columbia (15)

Department of Mathematics

Alhazaa, Khalifa, Counter examples onStrichartz’s inequalities

Brigham, Daniel, Quasi-metric geometryCahill, Jameson, Frames and projectionsNicholas, Jacob, Limit of many molecules

dynamics with rigorous macroscopicresults

Soumya, Sanyal, Irrational behavior ofalgebraic discrete valuations

Valerian, Yurov, Stability estimates forstrongly continuous semigroups andpartly parabolic reaction diffusion equa-tions

Vinh, Pham, Generating sequences ofvaluations and applications

Department of Statistics

Dey, Rima, Random set models forgrowth with applications to nowcasting

Gladish, Daniel, Spatio-temporal modelswith time-varying spatial model errorfor enviromental processes

Kim, Sungwook, Optimal experimentaldesign under a multivariate Weibullfunction

Le, Tri Minh, The formal definition ofreference priors under a general classof divergence

Qi, Yue, Equivalence test of high dimen-sional microarray data

Wang, Haiying, Design and analysis ofa new bounded log-linear regressionmodel

Wu, Guohui, Flexible Bayesian hierarchi-cal models for discrete-valued spatio-temporal data

Yang, Wen-Hsi, Hierarchical nonlinear,multivariate, and spatially-dependenttime-frequency functional models

University ofMissouri-Kansas City (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Wu, Wei, Sequential designs and applica-tion in software engineering

University of Missouri-StLouis (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Li, Lihua, Basis function approaches fortwo dimensional Cochlear models

Washington University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Deng, Wei, Four generated rank 2 arith-metically Cohen-Macaulay bundles ongeneral sextic surfaces

Preston M. Green Department of

Electricial and System Engineering

Zlotnik, Anatoly, Optimal control andsynchronization of dynamic ensemblesystems

MONTANAMontana StateUniversity (7)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Akapame, Sydney, Robust design strate-gies for nonlinear models using geneticalgorithms

Bouwman, Andrew, L-cuts for genus 2translation surfaces

Moreland, Heather, Traveling waves inpancreatic islets

Nordey, Kim, Investigating viable argu-ments: Preservice secondary teachers’ability to construct arguments and cri-tique the reasoning of others

Nowack, Shane, Niche character in atemporally varying environment

Thorenson, Jennifer, Discontinuous Galerkinfinite element method for stimulationof a transcription process method

Vsevolozhskaya, Olga, Combining func-tions and the closure principle for per-forming follow-up tests in functionalanalysis of variance

University of Montana -Missoula (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Chih, Tien, Abstracted primal-dual affineprogramming

Kogan, Clark, Accuracy assessment inBayesian forecasting linear and nonlin-ear models

Severino, Michael, Digraphs and homo-morphisms: Core, construction, andcolorings

NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska-Lincoln (17)

Department of Mathematics

Auch, Tanner, Development and ap-plication of difference and fractionalcalculus on discrete time scales

Awasthi, Pushp Raj, Boundary value prob-lems for discrete fractional equations

Carraher, James, Results on edge-coloredgrahs and pancyclicity

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Clark, Thomas, An applied functionaland numerical analysis of a 3-D fluid-structure interactive PDE

Corwin, Nathan, Embedding and nonem-bedding results for R. Thompson’sgroup V and related groups

DeVries, Melanie, Unknotting moves ofvirtual knots

Denkert, Annika, Results on contain-ments and resurgences with a focus onideals of points in the plane

Gibbons, Courtney, Decompositions ofBetti diagrams

Haymaker, Kathryn, Combinatorial andalgebraic coding techniques for flashmemorage storage

Johnson, Ashley, Closure and homologicalproperties of (auto)stackable groups

Nolting, Ben, Random search models offoraging behavior: Theory, simulation,and observation

Pei, Pei, Well-posedness and stability ofa semilinear Mindlin-Timoshenko platemodel

Yu, Xuan, Geometric study of the cate-gory of matrix factorizations

Department of Statistics

Black, Michael, Informative retesting forhierarchical group testing

Claassen, Elizabeth, A reduced biasmethod of estimating variance com-ponents in generalized linear mixedmodels

Montesinos-Lopez, Osval, Design and anal-ysis of multistage group testing surveyswith application to detecting and esti-mating prevalence of transgenic corn inMexico

Wichman, Christopher, A test for detect-ing changes in closed networks basedon the number of communications be-tween nodes

NEVADAUniversity of Nevada, LasVegas (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Zhou, Shilei, Time-dependent randomeffect Poisson random field model forpolymorphism within and between tworelated species

NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (10)

Department of Mathematics

Archer, Kassie, Permutations realized bysigned shifts

Bloom, Jonathan, Pattern avoiding per-mutations and rook placements

Crytser, Danny, Traces on graph algebrasEngberg, Zebediah, The arithmetic of

cyclic subgroups

Gillaspy, Elizabeth, K-theory for twistedgroupoid C∗-algebras

Hamaker, Zachary, Bijective combina-torics of reduced decompositions

Kinnaird, Katherine, Aligned hierarchiesfor sequential data

Komarov, Natalie, Capture time in vari-ants of cops and robbers games

LaLonde, Scott, Nuclearity and exact-ness for groupoid crossed productC∗-algebras

Levi, Asa, Refocussing and virtual Legen-drian knots

University of NewHampshire (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Chen, Yanni, Function spaces based onsymmetric norms

Kim, Hyung, Developing mathematicsteachers’ pedagogical identity in theclassroom context

Laflamme, Eric, Extreme value theory: Ap-plications to estimation of stochastictraffic capacity and statistical down-scaling of precipitation extremes

Lu, Kewei, On Fan’s adaptive Neymantests for two testing problems in timeseries analysis

Morena, Matthew, Mutual stabilizationof chaotic systems through entangledcupolets

NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (8)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Akcay, Zeynep, Dynamics of phase lock-ing in neuronal networks in the pres-ence of synaptic plasticity

Aunsri, Nattapol, Particle filtering forfrequency estimation from acoustictime-series in dispersive media

Bandha, Sonia, Data analysis and simula-tion for warranties and golf handicaps

Lin, Tao, Inverse methods for soundspeed estimation in the ocean

Lynch, Gavin, The control of the falsediscovery rate under structured hy-potheses

Nganguia, Herve, Electro-deformation ofa moving boundary: A drop interfaceand a lipid bilayer membrane

Qiu, Zhiying, FWER controlling proce-dures for testing multiple hypotheseswith hierarchical structure and applica-tions in clinical trials

Zhang, Yang, A modeling study of thehistory-dependence of conduction de-lay in unmyelinated axons

Princeton University (18)

Department of Mathematics

Alexeev, Boris, An assortment of results incombinatorics and compressed sensing

An, Xinliang, Formation of trapped sur-faces in general relativity

McBreen, Michael, Quantum cohomologyof hypertoric varieties and geometricrepresentations of Yangians

Park, YoungHan, Hyperbolic hypergeo-metric monodromy groups and geo-metric finiteness

Pollack, Aaron, Rankin-Selberg integralsin many complex variables and Rankin-Selberg integrals associated to non-unique models

Reichert, Nicholas, Some results on afully nonlinear equation in conformalgeometry

Ruth, Sam, A bound on the average rankof j-invariant zero elliptic curves

Seed, Cotton, Higher differentials onKhovanov homology

Shenfeld, Daniel, Abelianization of stableenvelopes in symplectic resolutions

Sosoe, Philippe, Fluctuation bounds fortwo disordered models

Sun, Hongbin, On closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds and pseudo-Anosov maps

Tu, Yu-Chao, Etale covering between res-olution of isolated singularities andGaffney-Lazarsfeld theorem for homo-geneous spaces

Zhan, Bohua, Combinatorial methods inbordered Heegaard Floer homology

Program in Applied Computational

Mathematics

Arrubarrena, Jesus Puente, Distances andalgorithms to compare sets of shapesfor automated biological morphomet-rics

Cheng, Xiuyuan, Random matrices inhigh-dimensional data analysis

Kihun, Nam, Stochastic differential equa-tions with superlinear drivers

Kim, Ilhee, On containment relations indirected graphs

Wang, Lanhui, Robust synchronizationand 3D reconstruction from Cryo-EMimages

Rutgers School of PublicHealth (1)

Department of Biostatistics

Li, Shiansong, Bayesian statistical anal-ysis in a phase II clinical trial withsurvival endpoint in patients with B-cellchronic lymphocytic leukemia

Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New JerseyNew Brunswick (22)

Department of Statistics and

Biostatistics

Dai, Dong, Bayesian model averagingwith exponential least squares loss

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Li, Wentao, Importance sampling meth-ods with multiple sampling distribu-tions

Liu, Kezhen, Statistical applications tocardiovascular disease research

Liu, Yufan, Recent advances in computerexperiment modelng

Tang, Ning, Robust gene set analysis androbust gene expression

Yang, Guang, Meta-analysis through com-bining confidence distributions

Yi, Lan, Biomarker discovery for mi-croarray data by enriched methods,stochastic approximation, and mixedmodels

Mathematics Department

Bate, Brandon, Automorphic distribu-tions and the functional equation forthe standard L-function for G2

Craig, Katy, The exponential formula forthe Wasserstein metric

Datar, Ved, Canonical Kahler metricswith cone singularities

Fu, Knight, Slice filtration and torsiontheory in motivic cohomology

Li, Zhan, On the birationality of toricdouble mirrors

McRae, Robert, Integral forms for certainclasses of vertex operator algebras andtheir modules

Naqvi, Yusra, A product formula for cer-tain Littlewood-Richardson coefficientsfor Jack and Macdonald polynomials

Osorio, Eduardo, Finite-difference andfinite-element solution of boundaryvalue and obstacle problems for theelliptic Heston operator

Pal, Susovan, Boundary and Holder reg-ularity of Douady-Earle extensions andeigenvalues of Laplace operators actingon Riemann surfaces

Ravikumar, Vijay, Triple intersectionnumbers for isotropic Grassmannians

Sadowski, Christopher, On the structureof principal subspaces of standardmodules for affine Lie algebras oftype A

Samuel, Matthew, The Leibniz formula fordivided difference operators associatedto Kac-Moody root systems

Wang, Hui, On a Hardy type inequalityand a singular Sturm-Liouville equation

Wang, Yu, Curvature and statisticsYang, Jinwei, Some results in the rep-

resentation theory of strongly gradedvertex algebras

Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New JerseyNewark (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Aggarwal, Monica, On Rota-Baxter Nijen-huis TD-algebra

Kapadia, Hetal, Deligne pairings anddiscriminants of algebraic varieties

Stevens Institute ofTechnology (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Zhang, Yi Di, Groups and ordinals byautomata

NEW MEXICONew Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Jaradat, Imad, Equivariant triviality ofproper Ga-actions on A4

rTchamna Kouna, Simplice, The ideal com-

pletion of a Noetherian local domainYang, Taewon, The logic of bundles

University of NewMexico (9)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Byrne, Martha, Changes in student prov-ing skills and attitudes following acooperative learning seminar

Castaneda, Candelario, Sasakian geome-try on lens space bundles over Riemannsurfaces

Hattab, Mohammad, A survey of lack-of-fit tests based on sums of orderedresiduals

Heras-Llanos, Alfonso, Arithmetic differ-ential subgroups of GLn

Madrid Ramirez, Pedro, Modeling themechanical response of polycrystallinethin films

Terry, Jason, Quantification of stabil-ity in systems of nonlinear ordinarydifferential equations

Toropu, Cristina, ABC theorems in thefunctional case

Wang, Xueqin, Bayesian partially orderedprobit and logit models with an appli-cation to course redesign

White, Bryan, Star operations and numer-ical semigroup rings

NEW YORKBinghamton University,State University of NewYork (6)

Department of Mathematics and

Science

Jaafari, Fatima Zohra, Adaptive meth-ods for estimating the mean of finitepopulation

Kaminski, Jackie, Classification of in-ductively factored gain-graphic arrang-ments of hyperplanes

McCulloch, Ryan, The Chermak-Delgadolattice of finite groups

Minemyer, Barry, Isometric embeddingsof polyhedra

Ruiz, Amanda, Realization spaces ofphased matroids

Wu, Xiaolei, Farrell-Jones conjecture forthe solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups

Clarkson University (7)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Fowler, Michael, Generalized uncertaintyquantification for linear inverse prob-lems in X-ray imaging

Hu, Wenjin, Quantitative investigation ofthe technologies that support Cloudcomputing

Huddy, Stanley R., The effects of couplingdelay on the dynamics and synchroniza-tion of small oscillator networks

Kramer, Sean, Oceanographic modelingwith hyperspectral satellite data

Li, Na, Variants of ALS method andsource apportionment application

Mihajlovikj, Vidoje, Hybrid layout ofmetabolic networks

Opperman, Michael, Graphs with perfectstate transfer in quantum walks

Columbia University (26)

Department of Biostatistics

Chen, Tianle, Statistical modeling andstatistical learning for disease classifi-cation and prediction

Ciarleglio, Adam, On wavelet-based pro-cedures for scalar-on-function regres-sion

Hu, Chih-Chi, Sequential quantile estima-tion using continuous outcomes withapplications in dose finding

Jia, Xiaoyu, Two-stage continual reassess-ment method and patient heterogeneityfor dose-finding studies

Yu, Gary, Identifying patterns in be-havioral public health data mixturemodeling with an informative numberof repeated measures

Department of Mathematics

Clarkson, Corrin, Three manifold mu-tations detected by Heegaard Floerhomology

Collins, Tristan, Canonical metrics inSasakian geometry

Hanselman, Jonathan, Bordered Hee-gaard Floer homology and graph mani-folds

Koziol, Karol, Iwahori-Hecke algebras inthe mod-p local Langlands program

Nyberg, Thomas, Constant scalar curva-ture of toric fibrations

Pan, Xuanyu, Rational normal curves oncomplete intersections

Puskas, Anna, Demazure-Lusztig opera-tions and metaplectic Whittaker func-tions on covers of the general lineargroup

Putyra, Krzystof, On a generalization ofodd Khovanov homology

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Waldron, Alex, Self-duality and singulari-ties in the Yang-Mills flow

Wang, Ye-Kai, A spacetime Alexandrovtheorem

Whitehead, Ian, Multiple Dirichlet seriesfor affine Weyl groups

Xia, Jie, Towards a definition of Shimuracurves in positive characteristics

Xue, Hang, The geometry and arithmeticof genus four curves

Department of Statistics

Dorie, Vincent, Mixed methods for mixedmodels

Gore, Kristen, Unbiased penetrance es-timates with unknown ascertainmentstrategies

Huang, Chien-Hsun, Interaction-basedlearning for high-dimensional data withcontinuous predictors

Liu, Ying, Kernel-based association mea-sures

Pickov, Radka, Generalized volatility-stabilized processes

Teravainen, Timothy, Semiparametric es-timation of a gaptime-associated haz-ard function

Vinkovskaya, Ekaterina, A point processmodel for the dynamics of limit orderbooks

Zhang, Stephanie, Statistical inferenceand experimental design for Q-matrixbased cognitive diagnosis models

Cornell University (20)

Center for Applied Mathematics

Chacon, Adam, Eikonal equations: Newtwo-scale algorithnms and error analy-sis

Cochran, Amy, Ultrasound-based mea-surements for diagnosing medical dis-orders

Iams, Sarah, Characterizing mosquitoflight through measurement and simu-lation

Montovan, Kathryn, Cooperation in arepetitive and often mistaken world

Mull-Osborn, Alexander, Portfolio opti-mization in incomplete markets in thepresence of asset price bubbles

Nguyen, Duc, A study of the tail measureand its applications in risk modeling

Nishimura, Joel, Designing pulse coupledoscillators to synchronize

Department of Mathematics

Alonso, Juan, Graphs of free groups andtheir measure equivalence

Bessonov, Mariya, Probabilistic modelsfor population dynamics

El Fassy Fihry, Youssef, Graded Cherednikalgebra and quasi-invariant differentialforms

Jones, Kristine, Generic initial ideas oflocally Cohen-Macaulay space curves

Miller, Robyn, Symbolic dynamics onbilliard flow in isosceles triangles

Radu, Remus, Topological models forhyperbolic and semi-parabolic complexHenon maps

Tanase, Raluca, Henon maps, discretegroups and continuity of Julia sets

Tran, Hung, Aspects of the Ricci flowWong, Ka Yue (Daniel), Dixmier algebras

on complex classical nilpotent orbitsand their representation theories

Zheng, Tianyi, Random walks on someclasses of solvable groups

Department of Statistical Sciences

Gomez Tecuapelta, Inder, Asymptotic in-ference for locally stationary processes

Li, James, Tensor (multidimensional ar-ray) decomposition, regression andsoftware for statistics and machinelearning

Schneider, Matthew, Three papers ontime series forecasting and data privacystatistics

Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (9)

PhD Program in Mathematics

Chen, Anbo, Involutions in arithmeticgeometry

Chen, Tao, Geometric characterizationand dynamics of entire functions

Ji, Ran, The asymptotic Dirichlet prob-lems on manifolds with unboundednegative curvature

Lam, Ha, Exploring platform (semi)groupsfor non-commutative key-exchange pro-tocols

Singh, Satyanand, Special representa-tions, Nathanson’s lambda seqencesand explicit bounds

Susse, Timothy, Stable commutator lengthin amalgamated free products

Suzzi Valli, Robert, Non-simple closedgeodesics on 2-orbifolds

Terlecky, Peter, Lean, green, and lifetimemaximizing mobile sensor deploymenton a barrier

Thrall, Louis, Trees, prisms, and a Quillenmodel structure on prismatic sets

New York UniversityPolytechnic School ofEngineering (3)

Department of Mathematics

Medina, Luciano, Chern-Simons equa-tions arising in a quantum Hall effect

Yarmish, Jason, Elliptic Brunn-Minkowskitheory: Generalizations of the Brunn-Minkowski inequalities

Zhu, Guangxian, Minkowski problemsand affine isoperimetric inequalities

New York University,Courant Institute (27)

Courant Institute of Mathematical

Sciences

Chou, Evan, Beta-duals of frames and ap-plications to problems in quantization

Cohen, Naftali, What drives the Brewer-Dobson circulation? Wave mean-flowtheories, interactions between resolvedand unresolved waves and the limits ofdownward control

Elgindi, Tarek, Some results on the Eulerequations for incompressible flow

Harel, Matan, The localization phasetransition in random geometric graphswith too many edges

Heilman, Steven, Gaussian isoperimetryfor multiple sets

Jhang, An-Sheng, Dilute suspensions oflength-changing rods in various do-mains

Jorgensen, Jens, Zero transmission inacoustic membrains

Kim, Hongsik, Optimal execution underliquidity constraints

Kim, Yungkwon, The effect of inhibitoryfeedback in small neural network

Koehler, Lukas, On the Shafarevich con-jecture

Krishnan, Arjun, Variational formula forthe time-constant of first-passage per-colation

Li, Sean, Quantitative embeddability ofgroups

Li, Xichen, Teleconnections between thetropical oceans and Antarctic climate

Lin, Ling, Mathematical study of mile-stoning

May, Sandra, Embedded boundary ofmethods for flow in complex geometries

Mehrdad, Behzad, Random sparse groupswith a given degree sequence

Portegies, Jacobus (Jim), Spectral geome-try with applications to data analysis

Ryals, Brian, Synchronization and phase-locking of coupled oscillators

Salas-Boni, Rebeca, Dimensionality reduc-tion rotations and hypothesis testingvia classifier performance

Schioppa, Andrea, Derivations and Al-berti representations

Sen, Sanchayan, On random minimalspanning trees and inhomogeneousrandom graphs

Stern, Alon, Ocean heat delivery mecha-nisms beneath Arctic ice shelves

Thomas, Jordan, Contraction techniquesin the hyperbolicity of surfaces ofgeneral type

Trigila, Giulio, A mesh free method foroptimal transport and a binary integerlinear programming solver

Yang, Dingyu, A complete theory ofKuranishi structures and the polyfold-Kuranishi correspondence

Zhu, Bo, Gauss-Newton-Metropolis withbackup strategy

Zhu, Kangping, Two problems in applica-tions of PDE

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New York University,Stern School ofBusiness (1)

IOMS-Statistics Group

Flynn, Cheryl, Prediction for data-dependentregularization and consistent bicluster-ing

Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Bai, Lijie, On convex quadratic programswith linear complementary constraints

DelBene, Kevin, Mathematical modelingof wildfire dynamics

Fayton, Joseph, Estimation of geoacousticparameters of marine mud

Lee, Timothy, Approximations and im-provements to semidefinite relaxationsof optimization problems

Newman, Andrew, Low dimensional toolsfor the study of turbulence with appli-cations to wind energy

Sikorski, Kajetan, Pairwise approxima-tions in micro-swimming

Stony Brook University (40)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Cai, Ying, A stochastic segmentationmodel for recurrent copy number alter-ations in grouped array-CGH data

Chai, Yikang, Modeling intra-day marketswith an application of risk managementand optimal order execution

Chen, Yu-Chuan, Canonical forestDong, Xu, New development on mar-

ket microstructure and macrostructure:Patterns of U.S. high frequency dataand a unified factor model framework

Goswami, Mayank, Computing Teichmullermaps and applications of conformal ge-ometry to sensor networks

Guo, Tongfei, Scalable particle and meshalgorithms for elliptic components ofmultiphase problems

Jia, Tengjie, Structures and algorithmsfor covariance estimates with applica-tion to finance

Jiang, Tao, Mathematical modeling ofG-protein-coupled receptor signalingpathways

Kim, Hyoungkeun, Models and numeri-cal algorithms for hydrodynamics withatomic processes and high energy den-sity applications

Kim, Joo-Won, Throat intersection in porenetworks and application to reactiveflow

Kurosaki, Tetsuo, Risk measurement andmanagement in the global markets withthe tempered stable distributions

Lihm, Jayon, Mixture modeling of next-generation sequencing data and its ap-plications to genotyping and estimatinggenotype frequency

Lu, Tianyu, The Chinese equity riskfactor model based on heavy taileddistributions, and its application in riskmanagement and portfolio optimiza-tion

Panok, Lena, The dynamical basis for thedecanalization of gap gene expressionin Kruppel mutant embryos

Ray, Navamita, High-order surface re-construction and its applications forsurface integrals and surface remesh-ing

Shao, Pengyuan, Approximation of longmemory process by short memoryprocess—with application to optionvaluation

Song, Yuzhou, Structure breaks in PCAwith applications in finance

Tsao, Angela, Partial hedging under sto-chastic interest rate

Tsuchida, Naoshi, Application of riskanalysis based on advanced probabilis-tic models

Wu, Jie, Novel computational method-ology for detecting and quantifyingalternative splicing from RNA-seq data

Yu, Han, Application of machine learningto decision support systems

Yu, Yang, Essays in financial economet-rics

Yuan, Eting, A study of two optimalplanning problems in smart grid

Zhang, Lina, Studies of hydrodynamicprocesses in alternative magneto-inertialfusion devices

Zhang, Ruiqi, Modeling the effect ofsequencing error

Zhou, Yijie, Front tracking method withhigh-order enhancement and its ap-plication in two-phase micromixing ofincompressible viscous fluids

Department of Mathematics

Aleyasin, Seyed Ali, The space of Kahlerpotentials on singular and non-compactmanifolds

Cha, Ye Sle, Deformations of axiallysymmetric initial data and the angularmomentum-mass inequality

D’Mello, Shane, Real rational curves oflow degree

Gallardo, Patricio, On the moduli spaceof quintic surfaces

Gianniotis, Panagiotis, The Ricci flow onmanifolds with boundary

Gindi, Steven, Holomorphic twistor spacesand bihermitian geometry

Kim, Inyoung, Almost-Kahler anti-self-dual metrics

Lee, Jaepil, Computation of borderedFloer invariant of (2,2n) torus link

Li, Long, On the uniqueness of singularKaehler-Einstein metrics

Meneses, Claudio, Kahler potentials onthe moduli space of stable parabolicbundles over the Riemann sphere

Smith, Lloyd, The Kontsevich space ofrational curves on cyclic covers ofprojective space

Wen, Jun, Shintani zeta functions andWeyl group multiple Dirichlet series

Wroten, Matthew, The eventual Gaussiandistribution of self-intersection num-bers on closed surfaces

Zhang, Xin, On the local-global principlefor Appolonian-3 circle packings

Syracuse University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Entner, Jeremy, Methods of nonparamet-ric multivariate ranking and selection

Kamau, Leonard, Technology adoptionin secondary mathematics teaching inKenya: An explanatory mixed methodsstudy

Zhao, Liang, Filter-based multiscale en-tropy analysis of complex physiologicaltime series

The University at Albany,SUNY (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Chagouel, Isaak, The geometry of theprojective joint spectrum and the com-mutativity of self-adjoint operators

Lubovsky, Arthur, Alcove models forHall-Littlewood polynomials and affinecrystals

Qin, Yueshi, On Rudin’s pathologicalsubmodules over bidisk

Smitas, Daniel, Lipschitz estimates onweakly pseudoconvex domains

Wolf-Christensen, Lauren, The essentialspectra of Toeplitz operators on Hardyspaces and the Riemann-Hilbert prob-lem

University atBuffalo-SUNY (8)

Department of Biostatistics

Dong, Tuochuan, Three and more classdiagnostic studies

Imam, Netsanet, High dimensional factoranalysis for predictive modeling, genediscovery, and genetic risk assessment

Lai, Wei, Quantile function methods withapplications to robust estimation

Tao, Ge, Novel likelihood type statisti-cal procedures based on frequentist,Bayesian and hybrid techniques appliedto health related studies

Yan, Li, Selected topics in statisticalmethods for DNA microarray analysis

Yin, Jingjing, Topics in ROC analysis:Joint inference, combination of multiplebiomarkers, and confidence bands

Department of Mathematics

Corrigan-Salter, Bruce, Rigidification ofhomotopy algebras over finite productsketches

Johns, Bryan, The theory of 2-functions

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University of Rochester (9)

Department of Biostatistics and

Computational Biology

Chen, Juo-Fan, State space models anddifferential equations for dynamic generegulatory network identification

Evans, Katie, Extensions to model-basedclustering for mixed-type data: A newmodel framework, variable selection,and outlier identification

Wu, Pan, A new class of structuralfunctional response models for causalinference and mediation analysis

Yang, Hui, Model selection and modelaveraging for longitudinal data withapplications in personalized medicine

Yu, Yao, Single-index model with appli-cation in estimation of ODE and generegulatory network

Department of Mathematics

Creek, Matthew, Large-data global well-posedness for the (1 + 2)-dimensionalequivariant Faddeev model

Gratton, Chad, ABC implies Bang-Zsigmondyresults in arithmetic dynamics

Larson, Donald, The Adams-Novikov E2-term for Behrens’ spectrum Q(2) at theprime 3

Stafa, Mentor, On polyhedral productsand spaces of commuting elements inLie groups

NORTH CAROLINADuke University (18)

Department of Mathematics

Crosskey, Miles, Atlas simulation: A nu-merical scheme for approximating mul-tiscale diffusions embedded in highdimensions

Lawley, Sean, Stochastic switching inevolution equations

Li, Junchi, Axelrod’s model in two dimen-sions

O’Neill, Christopher, Monoid congru-ences, binomial ideals, and their de-compositions

Ryu, Hwayeon, Feedback-mediated dy-namics in the kidney: Mathematicalmodeling and stochastic analysis

Sgouralis, Ioannis, A dynamical nephrovas-cular model of renal autoregulation

Xu, Hangjun, Uniformly area expandingflows in spacetimes

Department of Statistical Science

Au, Timothy, Topics in computationaladvertising

Challis, Christopher, Bayesian structuralphylogenetics

Heard, Daniel, Statistical inference utiliz-ing agent-based models

Leininger, Thomas, Bayesian analysis ofspatial point patterns

Li, Yingbo, Bayesian hierarchical modelsfor model choice

Montagna, Silvia, On Bayesian analy-ses of functional regression, correlatedfunctional data and non-homogeneouscomputer models

Murray, Jared, Some recent advancesin non- and semiparametric Bayesianmodeling with copulas, mixtures, andlatent variables

Petralia, Francesca, Structured Bayesianlearning through mixture models

Terres, Maria, Multivariate spatial pro-cess gradients with environmental ap-plications

Wang, Jianyu, Bayesian modeling andadaptive Monte Carlo with geophysicsapplications

Yang, Yun, Nonparametric Bayes for bigdata

North Carolina StateUniversity (43)

Department of Mathematics

Ball, Kenneth, Structure preserving inte-grators and Hamel’s equations

Benim, Robert, Isomorphy classes ofinvolutions on SO(n,k,β) and SP(2n,k)where n > 2

Brenneman, Kathryn, Lifting k-involu-tions from the root system to the Liealgebra

Comer, Matthew, Error correction forsymbolic and hybrid symbolic-numericsparse interplation algorithms

Costolanski, Anne, Numerical simulationof resonant tunneling devices describedby the Wigner-Poisson equations

Cousins, William, Boundary conditionsand uncertainty quantification for hemo-dynamics

Crook, Susan, Automated shape recogni-tion and curve matching using discreteinvariants

Elamami, Elgaddafi, Augmented strate-gies for 3D elliptic interface problemswith piecewise constant discontinuouscoefficients

Fleisher, Daniel, Wakimoto modules, FMSBosonization and integrable hierarchies

Hendrix, Angelean, Modeling the effectsof androgens on hormonal regulationof the menstrual cycle

Hutchens, John, Isomorphy classes of k-involutions of algebraic groups of typeG2 and F4

Jiang, Ming, Traveling wave solutions,periodic and chaotic solutions of aPDE approximation of coupled Chua’scircuits

Kenz, Zachary, Stenosis-driven acousticwave propagation in biotissue: Model-ing and the inverse problem

Law, Shirley, Combinatorial realizationof certain Hopf algebras of pattern-avoiding permutations

Margolskee, Alison, A whole life model ofthe human menstrual cycle

Maroncelli, Daniel, Existence of solutionsto nonlinear boundary value problemsat higher dimensional resonance

McMahan, Jerry, Control applicationsfor smart systems exhibiting hystereticnonlinearities

Norbrothen, Emma, On classifying of thedouble cosets Hk\Gk/Hk of SL(2, k)

Pendleton, Terrance, An analytical andnumerical study of a class of nonlinearevolutionary PDEs

Rehm, Keri, Multiscale modeling of plantgrowth combining enzyme kinetics andwhole plant dynamics and experimentaldesign applications

Sawyer, Megan, Compartmentalizing thesunlight vitamin: Physiologically basedpharmacokinetic modeling and vitaminD

Schwartz, Nathaniel, On the classificationof k-involutions of SL(n,k) and O(n,k)over fields of characteristic 2

Smith, Erick, SAR imaging through theEarth’s ionosphere

Willert, Jeffrey, Hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo methods for solving theneutron transport equation and k-eigenvalue problem

Williams, Nakeya, Mathematical model-ing of cardiovascular dynamics duringhead-up tilt

Wright, Justin, Periodic dynamical sys-tems of population models

Department of Statistics

Bai, Xiaofei, Doubly-robust estimators inobservational studies with and withouta stratified sub-sample

Banerjee, Sayantan, Bayesian inferencefor high dimensional models: Conver-gence properties and computationalissues

Beeman, Jennifer, Assessing understand-ing of sampling distributions and dif-ferences in learning amongst differentlearning styles

Bernhardt, Paul, Statistical modeling withcovariates subject to detection limits

Che, Ronglin, Statistical methods in ge-netic association studies and a geneticrisk score for predictive modeling ofdisease risk: From gene discovery totranslation

Davenport, Clemontina, Semiparametricregression models for interacting co-variates

Geng, Yuan, Flexible statistical learningmethods for survival data: Risk protec-tion and optimal treatment decision

Kao, Yi-Min, Advances in nonparametricBayesian methods for clustering andclassification

Kong, Dehan, Penalized regression meth-ods with application to domain selec-tion and outlier detection

Shen, Weining, Adaptive Bayesian func-tion estimation

Torres, Pedro, Quantile regression for re-peated responses measured with error

Vock, Laura, Bridge models and variableselection methods for spatial data

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Wang, Liwei, Nonparametric models forlongitudinal data using Bernstein poly-nomial sieve

Wang, Xin, Statistical methods for gene-gene interaction: Detections and classi-fications

Wilson, Thomas, Advances in Bayesianmethods for high-dimensional environ-mental data

Zhang, Aijing, Statistical methods forassessment of biosimilarity on follow-on biologics

Zhao, Guolin, Assessing complex geneticeffects using variance component basedmarker-set methods

University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (36)

Department of Biostatistics

Brownstein, Naomi, Analysis of time-to-event data, intermediate phenotypes,and sparse factors in the OPPERA study

Chung, Wonil, Bayesian parametric andnonparametric methods for multipleQTL mapping and SNP-set analysis

Ha, Min Jin, Graphical models for highdimensional genomic data

Hyun, Noorie, Analysis of interval cen-sored data using a longitudinal biomark-er

Khondker, Zakaria, Bayesian penalizedmethods for high-dimensional data

Lin, Ja-an, Statistical methods for imag-ing genetic data

Liu, Lan, Casual inference with interfer-ence

Song, Guochen, Enrollment and stoppingrules for managing toxicity in phase IIoncology trials with delayed outcome

Urrutia, Eugene, The statistical analysisof genetic sequencing and rare variantassociation studies

Zhang, Yi (Ian), Statistical methods forevaluating the diagnostic accuracy ofincomplete multiple tests

Zhao, Ni, Kernel machine methods foranalysis of genomic data from differentsources

Zhou, Jing, Nonparametric Bayes meth-ods for high dimensional data andgroup sequential design for longitudi-nal trials

Zhu, Ruoqing, Three-based methods forsurvival analysis and high-dimensionaldata

Zou, Baiming, Robust and efficient sta-tistical inference for clustered observa-tional data in comparative effectivenessresearch

Department of Mathematics

Abel, Michael, Virtual crossings and fil-trations in linkk homology

Allman, Justin, K-classes of quiver cycles,Grothendieck polynomials and iteratedresidues

Chen, Shengqian, Dynamics of contin-uously stratified and two-layer incom-pressible Euler fluids and internal waves

Fovargue, Daniel, Multiscale and multi-physics computational models of pro-cesses in shock wave lithotripsy

Fowler, Jacob, Rational homology disksmoothing components of weightedhomogeneous surface singularities

Herschlag, Gregory, Continuum-atomisticalgorithms for dendritic formations

Martindale, James, A soft-magnetic slen-der body in a highly viscous fluid

Maultsby, Bevin, The geometry of radialstates in nonlinear elliptic problems

Ogrosky, Harold Reed, Modeling liquidfilm flow inside a vertical tube

Overbay, Andrea, Perturbative expansionof the colored Jones polynomial

Roberts, Andrew, Abrupt changes andintervening oscillations in conceptualclimate models

Shi, Feng, Modeling networks and dy-namics in complex systems: From nano-composites to opinion formation

Soibelman, Alexander, The very goodproperty for moduli of parabolic bun-dles and the Deligne-Simpson problem

Wang, Simi, Modeling networks in nano-composites and power grids

Department of Statistics and

Operation Research

Chaudhuri, Ritwik, Non-Gaussian semi-stable distributions and their statisticalapplications

Gong, Qi, Stochastic models for orderbook dynamics

Lee, Nelson, Service center design andcontrol problem

Lee, Wonyul, New statistical learningmethods for multiple high dimensionaldatasets

Sabourin, Jeremy, LASSO based resamplemodel averaging for genetics associa-tion studies

Wang, Xuan, The critical scaling windowfor dynamic random graph process

Wei, Susan, Latent supervised learningand DiProPerm

Ye, Han, Data-driven workforce manage-ment in call centers

University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Hounkanli, Kokouvi, The center andcyclicity problems in a family of threedimensional polynomial systems of or-dinary differential equations

Liu, Yi, Generalized quasi-likelihood ratiostatistics for multivariate time-varyingcoefficient regression models

Ray, Elijah, A random hierarchical Lapla-cian

Wang, Yonggang, Generalized quasi-likelihood ratio tests for varying co-efficients quantile regression models

Wu, Li, Consistent nonparametric teston nonlinear regression models withnear-integrated covariates

NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (3)

Department of Mathematics

Abdullayev, Farhod, Variational methodsfor polycrystal plasticity and relatedtopics in partial differential equations

Nasseh, Saeed, DG homological algebra,properties of ring homomorphisms,and the generalized Auslander-Reitenconjecture

Wicklein, Richard, Codualizing modulesand complexes

OHIOAir Force Institute ofTechnology (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Geyer, Andrew, Different formulations ofthe orthogonal array problem and theirsymmetries

Greenwell, Brandon, Topics in statisticalcalibration

Gutman, Alex, Construction, analysis,and data-driven augmentation of su-persaturated designs

Paek-Spidell, Gracie, Analysis of heatpartitioning during sliding contact athigh speed and pressure

Bowling Green StateUniversity (10)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Chen, Yanran, Influence of correlationand missing data on sample size deter-mination in mixed models

Combs, Adam, Bayesian model check-ing methods for dichotomous itemresponse theory and testlet models

Hasan, Abeer, A study of skew t distribu-tion with application

Immormino, Nicholas, Clean rings andclean group rings

Kadel, Gokul, Hypercyclic extensions ofan operator on a Hilbert subspace withprescribed behaviors

Lin, Yong, A partitioning approach forthe selection of the best treatment

Ngunkeng, Grace, Statistical analysis ofskew normal distribution and its appli-cations

Pailden, Junvie, Applications of empiricallikelihood to zero-inflated data

Paneru, Khyam, Regression analysis forzero inflated population under complexsampling designs

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Son, Vladimir, Multivariate populationattributable hazard function for right-censored data

Case Western ReserveUniversity (5)

Department of Mathematics, Applied

Mathematics and Statistics

Arnold, Andrea, Sequential Monte Carloparameter estimation for differentialequations

Cheng, Yougan, Computational modelsof brain energy metabolism at differentscales

Gassama, Edrissa, Piezoelectric inverseproblems with resonance data: A se-quential Monte Carlo analysis

Joseph, Charles, Multi-scale modeling andanalysis of options markets

Volzer, Joseph, An invariant embeddingapproach to domain decomposition

Kent State University,Kent (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Braga, Bruno, On the Borel complexity ofsome classes of Banach spaces

Franca, Willian, Commuting maps onsome subsets that are not closed underaddition

Kim, Jaegil, Duality phenomena andvolume inequalities in convex geometry

Montanaro, William, Character degreegraphs of almost simple groups

Sass, Catherine, Prime character degreegraphs of solvable groups having diam-eter three

Starvaggi, Patrick, Exact distributions ofsequential probability ratio tests

Ohio State University,Columbus (36)

Department of Mathematics

Acan, Huseyin, An enumerative-probabil-istic study of chord diagrams

Christopherson, John Cory, Ideals in theStone-Cech compactification of a count-able semigroup and some applicationsto ergodic theory and topological dy-namics

George, Jennifer, TQFTs from quasi-Hopfalgebras and group cocycles

Gibbons, Aliska, Automorphism groupsof buildings contstructed via coveringspaces

Greene, Ryan, The deformation theory ofdiscrete reflection groups and projec-tive structures

Jia, Yuhan, Numerical study of the KPsolitons and higher order Miles theoryof the mach reflection in shallow water

Joecken, Kyle, Dimension of virtuallycyclic classifying spaces for certaingeometric groups

Kowalick, Ryan, Discrete systolic inequal-ities

Miller, Jason, Okounkov bodies of Boreloribit closures in wonderful groupcompactifications

Olmez, Fatih, Sleep-wake transition dy-namics and power-law fitting with anupper bound

Ozcakir, Ozge, Traveling wave solutionsin a cylindrical pipe

Park, Hyejin, New asymptotic methods inthe study of analytic differential anddynamical systems

Perkins, Rudolph, On special values ofPellarin’s L-series

Peterson, Nicholas, On random k-outgraphs with preferential attachment

Poole, Daniel, A study of random hyper-graphs and directed graphs

Rosenblatt, Heather, Asymptotics andBorel summability: Applications toMHD, Boussinesq equations and rig-orous Stokes constant calculations

Son, Younghwan, Some results on jointergodicity, sets of recurrence and sub-stitution and tiling systems

Vutha, Amit, Normal forms and unfold-ings of singular strategy functions

Waller, Bradley, Properties of p-adic C−kdistributions

Wiser, Justin, Harmonic resonance dy-namics of a periodically forced Hopfoscillator

Department of Statistics

Bai, Shasha, Inference on intraclass cor-relation coefficients arising in a generalclustered repeated measures design

Bradley, Jonathan, Selection of predictorsand estimators in spacial statistics

Chen, Tian, Judgement post-stratificationwith machine learning techniques: Ad-justing for missing data in surveys anddata mining

Fan, Hang, Estimation of species tree us-ing approximate Bayesian computation

Frazier, Marian, Adaptive design forglobal fit of non-stationary surfaces

Gao, Jinguo, Rank regression in orderrestricted randomized designs

Hinton, Alice, Contributions to discrim-inant analysis of cross-sectional andlongitudinal data with applications

Kil, Siyoen, Finding a targeted subgroupwith efficacy for binary response withapplication for drug development

Kim, Sungmin, Community detection indirected networks and its applicationto analysis of social networks

Leatherman, Erin, Optimal predictive de-signs for experiments that involve com-puter simulators

Liang, Zhiyu, Eigen-analysis of kerneloperators for nonlinear dimension re-duction and discrimination

Sampath, Srinath, Analysis of agreementbetween two long ranked lists

Sgambellone, Anthony, Use of rankinginformation from unmeasured unitsin ranked set and judgements poststratified smaples

Spade, David, Investigating convergenceof Markov chain Monte Carlo methodsfor Bayesian phylogenetic inference

Sullivan, Danielle, A hot deck imputa-tion procedure for multiply imputingnonignorable missing data: The proxypattern-mixture hot deck

Thompson, Katherine, Using ancestralinformation to search for quantitativetrai loci in genome-wide associationstudies

Ohio University, Athens (5)

Department of Mathematics

Beal, Joshua, Matching problems forstochastic processes

Buckalew, Richard, Mathematical modelsin cell cycle biology and pulmonaryimmunity

Hoffman, Douglas, A coloring theoremfor inaccessible cardinals

Malaikah, Khalid, Laplacian growth: In-terface evolution in a Hele-Shaw cell

Mastromatteo, Joseph, The subprojectiv-ity and pure-subinjectivity domain of amodule

University of Cincinnati (8)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Guo, Wei, A unified approach to datatransformation and outlier detectionusing penalized assessment

Kim, Woosuk, Statistical inference ondual generalized order statistics forBurr type III distribution

Li, Dandan, On multiplicity adjustmentin Bayesian variable selection

Li, Qian, Infinite mixture model basedcluster analysis for gene expressiondata

Ramaruban, Nadesan, Commutative hy-peralgebra

Xiao, Yang, A Bayesian subgroup analysisusing an additive mixture model

Zhang, Xiao, Experiment design andreliability analysis of accelerated degra-dation test

Zou, Yuanshu, Robustifying a non-linearmodel using wavelets

OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (7)

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Lizhi, Systolic freedom of 3-manifolds

Kwon, Bo-hyun, An algorithm to classifyrational 3-tangles

Mills, Melissa, Case studies of instruc-tional practices in proof-based mathe-matics lectures

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Regmi, Dipendra, A study on the globalregularity for two-dimensional magneto-hydro-dynamic and Boussinesq equa-tions

Tao, Lizheng, 2D Boussinesq equationswith logarithmically super-critical con-ditions

Wescoatt, Benjamin, An explanation ofcollege students’ problem solving be-haviors while verifying trigonometricidentities: A mixed methods case study

Yamazaki, Kazuo, On the existence andsmoothness problem of the magneto-hydrodynamics system

University of Oklahoma (5)

Department of Mathematics

Herrera, Yoe, Intersection numbers in ahyperbolic surface

Lee, Misun, Calculus instructors’ ROGs inteaching low achieving students

Li, Suyu, Some sharp inequalities relatedto Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality

Lynam, Matthew, Extensional mapsThuong, Scott, Classification, cobordism,

and curvature of four-dimensional infra-solo manifolds

OREGONOregon State University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Medina, Patricia, Mathematical treatmentand simulation of methane hydratesand adsorption models

Department of Statistics

Mi, Gu, Statistical analysis of RNA se-quencing count data

Sun, Luna, Statistical methods for seriallycorrelated zero-inflated proportions

University of Oregon (4)

Department of Mathematics

Kloefkorn, Tyler, On algebras associatedto finite ranked posets and combinato-rial topology

Schultz, Patrick, Algebraic weak factor-ization systems in double categories

Stewart, Allen, Motivic integral of K3surfaces over a non-Archimedean field

Sun, Michael, The tracial Rokhlin prop-erty for countable discrete amenablegroup actions on nuclear tracially ap-proximately divisible C∗-algebras

PENNSYLVANIACarnegie MellonUniversity (13)

Department of Mathematical Science

Allen, Emily, Combinatorial interpreta-tions of generalizations of Catalannumbers and ballot numbers

Boney, Will, Advances in classificationtheory for abstract elementary classes

Lambie-Hanson, Chris, Covering matri-ces, squares, scales, and stationaryreflection

McKenney, Paul, Forcing axioms and therigidity of corona algebras

Ouyang, Yuhui, Numerical approximationof valuation equations incorporatingstochastic volatility models

Rute, Jason, Topics in algorithmic ran-domness and computable analysis

Department of Statistics

Etchegaray Garcia, Beatriz, Classificationvia auxiliary information: Formalismand application to classification ofvariable stars

Izbicki, Rafael, A spectral series approachto high-dimensional nonparametric in-ference

Kent, Brian, Level set trees for appliedstatistics

Kurtz, Zachary, Local log-linear modelsfor capture-recapture

VanHoudnos, Nathan, The efficacy ofthe Hedges correction for unmodeledclustering, and its generalizations inpractical settings

Wu, Jionglin, Statistical multi-coil MRIreconstruction

Zeifman, Lubov, A new parametric modelfor the point spread function and itsapplication to Hubble space telescopedata

Drexel University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Dalal, Avinash, Quantum and affine Schu-bert calculus and Macdonald polynomi-als

Parry, Daniel, A polynomial variation ofMeinardus’ theorem

Lehigh University (6)

Department of Mathematics

Baker, Breeanne, The k-fixed-endpointpath partition problem

Garmirian, Patricia, The central limittheorem and the estimation of theconcentration of measure for fractionalBrownian motion

Haines, Christopher, The relative advan-tage of knowing an initiation time or amean time when estimating a param-eter from an exponential distributionusing type-II left censored date

Halperin, Alexander, Subdivisions withdistance constraints in large graphs

Ryan, Kathleen, Degree sequences ofedge-colored graphs in specified fami-lies and related problems

Zhang, Yingying, Geometric quantizationof classical metrics on the moduli spaceof canonical metrics

Pennsylvania StateUniversity (13)

Department of Mathematics

Basu, Sankha, A model of intuitionismbased on Turing degrees

Facchi, Giancarlo, Optimal bidding in alimit order book

Flynn, Ryan, Quaternion algebras andelliptic curves over function fields offinite characteristic

Han, Ke, An analytical approach to sus-tainable transportation network design

Ji, Xiang, Deformation problems in Liealgebroids and extended Poisson geom-etry

Katz, Matthew, On the number of A × Bquotient diagrams of integer partitions

Le, Thinh, Nonlocal exterior calculus onRiemannian manifolds

Mayanskiy, Evgeny, Asymptotic Mukaimodel of M6

Pathak, Noopur, Computable aspects ofmeasure theory

Song, YanLi, Geometric quantization, re-duction and k-homology

Wei, Deling, Models of noncooperativegames

Yashinski, Allan, Periodic cyclic homologyand smooth deformations

Yu, Shilin, The Dolbeault DGA of a formalneighborhood

Pennsylvania StateUniversity, UniversityPark (9)

Department of Statistics

Kim, Seonjin, Three essays on nonpara-metric inference for longitudinal dataand time series data

Li, Xiaoye, Three essays on non-stationarytime series

Li, Yihan, Methods in multiple testingand meta-analysis with applications tothe analysis of genomic data

Lou, Lejia, Threeholded partial correla-tion approach for variable selectionin linear models and partially linearmodels

Nunes, Marcus, Analysis of next-gensequencing data with excess of zeroes

Wang, Wei, Performance criteria for con-trol charts

Woo, Yong Ming, Optimization and sta-tistical estimation for the post random-ization method

Zhang, Ying, New models for conditionalcovariance matrix

Zhu, Yeying, Data-adaptive approachesto modeling propensity scores in causalinference problems

Temple University (6)

Department of Mathematics

Fan, Shimao, Data-fitted generic macro-scopic traffic flow models

Gidelew, Getnet, Harmonic analysis oncombinatorial graphs

Shank, Stephen, Low-rank solution meth-ods for large-scale linear matrix equa-tions

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Department of Statistics

Campbell, Kathleen, Extension of Kendall’stau using rank-adapted SVD to identifycorrelation and factors among rankersand equivalence classes among rankedelements

Halbert, Keith, Estimation of proba-bility of failure for damage-tolerantaerospace structures

Xu, Yihuan, Robust estimation of theparameters of g- and h-distributions,with application to outlier detection

University ofPennsylvania (28)

Applied Mathematics and

Computational Science

Han, Wei, Predictable sequences andcompeting with strategies

Liu, Xiaoxian, A PDE-based method foroptimizing solar cell performance

Liu, Yang, 3D image reconstruction fromserial sections

Yang, Fan, Causal inference methodsfor addressing censoring by death andunmeasured confounding using instru-mental variables

Zhang, Xingtan, A sharper ratio

Department of Mathematics

Aditya, Surapaneni, A constructible higherRiemann Hilbert correspondence

Curry, Justin, Sheaves, cosheaves andapplications

Ding, Shanshan, A random walk inrepresentations

Jing, Taisong, The strong CM liftingproblem and the relabelling action onthe equicharacteristic universal defor-mation space of formal groups overFp

Kelly, Tyler, On Berglund-Hubsch-Krawitzmirror symmetry

Korman, Eric, Elliptic involutive struc-tures and generalized Higgs algebroids

Manion, Ryan, Heterotic Chen-Ruan co-homology

Mostert, Pieter, Mixed zeta functionsNuchi, Haggai, The Hopf fibrations are

characterized by being fiberwise homo-geneous

Subramanian, Sneha, Zeros, critical pointsand coefficients of random functions

Tai, Matthew, Family algebras and theisotypic components of g ⊗ g

Wen, Haomin, Scattering and lens rigidityYeroshkin, Dmytro, Riemannian orbifolds

with non-negative curvature

Wharton Statistics Department

Affandi, Raja Hafiz, Learning, large-scaleinference, and temporal modeling ofdeterminantal point processes

Ernst, Philip, Multiple collection estima-tion of population size: A generalizationof “capture-recapture”

Fuki, Igar, Bayesian aspects of classifica-tion procedures

Goldstein, Alex, Topics in tree-basedmethods

Hong, Andrew, Gaussian Markov randomfield models for surveillance error andgeographic boundaries

Kapelner, Adam, Statistical analysis anddesign of crowdsourcing applications

Pitkin, Emil, Inference for approximatingregression models

Rising, Justin, Advances in the theory ofdeterminantal point processes

Rodu, Jordan, Spectral estimation ofhidden Markov models

Zubizarreta, Jose, Optimal designs forobservational studies using integer pro-gramming

University ofPittsburgh (24)

Department of Biostatistics

Begum, Ferdouse, GWAS meta-analysis:Methodology and application to humanmeiotic recombination

Chang, Lun-Ching, Issues in informationintegration of omics data: Microarraymeta-analysis for candidate marker andmodule detection and genotype callingincorporating family information

Chen, Yi-Fan, Statistical issues in com-parative effectiveness research

Dong, Xinxin, Topics in joint modelingof longitudinal biomarker, quality oflifetime, and survival data

He, Fanyin, Nonparametric MANOVA ap-proaches for non-normal multivariateoutcomes

Lee, Ching-Wen, Joint modeling with cen-sored data and group-based trajectoryclustering

Ling, Yun, Detection of influential ob-servations in longitudinal multivariatemixed effects regression models

Ma, Hua, Evaluation of diagnostic per-formance using partial area under theROC curve

Olson Hunt, Megan, A permutation-basedcorrection for Pearson’s chi-square teston data with an imputed complexoutcome/a modified EM algorithm forcontingency table analysis with missingdata

Sampene, Emmanuel, A simple locallyefficient estimator for relative risk incase-cohort studies

Singhabahu, Dilrukshika, Robust partialleast squares regression and outlierdetection using minimum covariancedeterminant method and a resamplingmethod

Tang, Shaowu, Investigations on genomicmeta-analysis: Imputation for incom-plete data and properties of adaptivelyweighted Fisher’s method

Zhang, Yang, Statistical methods for pa-tient chemosensitivity prediction basedon in vitro dose-response data anda modified expectation-maximization(EM) algorithm for regression analy-sis of data with non-ignorable non-response

Zhou, Xiaozhi, Sensitivity analysis anduncertainty analysis in a large-scaleagent-based simulation model of infec-tious diseases

Department of Mathematics School

of Arts and Sciences

Chuang, Ken-Hsien, Canonical connec-tions

Miloua, Attou, Steady state thin filmequation with van der Waals force

Shim, Hyung Bo, Indefinite string struc-ture

Stepien, Tracy, Collective cell migrationin single and dual cell layers

Tran, Hoang, Partitioned methods forcoupled fluid flow problems

Tronzo, Mark, Analysis of a PDE modelof necrotizing enterocolitis

Yu, Cheng, Some analytical issues for theselected complex fluids models

Department of Statistics

Li, Siyu, Simultaneous population anddose selection in clinical trials andcluster validation

Yavuz, Idil, Non-parametric inferenceand regression analysis for cumula-tive incidence function under two-stagerandomization

RHODE ISLANDBrown University (26)

Department of Biostatistics

Austin, Andrea, Covariate defined latentspace models for social networks withextensions to biomolecular pathways

Chrysanthopoulou, Stavroula, Statisticalmethods in micro-simulation modeling:Calibration and predictive accuracy

Miles, Ott, Analytic methods for networkdata

Department of Mathematics

Kiral, Eren Mehmet, Spectral theory andshifted convolution sums in analyticnumber theory

Kuan, Chan leong, Hybrid bounds ontwisted L-functions associated to mod-ular forms

Leshin, Jonah, Class field towers, solvableGalois representations and Noether’sproblem in Galois theory

Minevich, Igor, Cohomology of topologi-cal groups and Grothendieck topologies

Molcho, Samouil, Log stable maps withtorus actions

Tassy, Martin, Tiling by barsWheeler, Miles, Large-amplitude solitary

water waves with vorticity and surfacepressure

Wiygul, David, Doubling constructionswith asymmetric sides

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Division of Applied Mathematics

Chen, Zheng, Recovering exponential ac-curacy in spectral methods involvingpiecewise smooth functions with un-bounded singularities

Choi, Minseok, Time-dependent Karhunen-Loeve type decomposition methods forSPDEs

Freifeld, Oren, Statistics on manifoldswith applications to modeling shapedeformations

Klobusicky, Joe, Kinetic limits of piece-wise deterministic Markov processesand grain boundary coarsening

McQuighan, Kelly, Oscillons near Hopf bi-furcations of planar reaction-diffusionequations

Miller, Jeffrey, Nonparametric and variable-dimension Bayesian mixture models:Analysis, comparison, and new meth-ods

Parks, Matthew, Bayesian statistical infer-ence of non-allelic homologous recom-bination in the human genome usinghigh-throughput sequencing data

Schuster, Jessica, A stochastic contextfree model of epistatic interaction inhuman genome

Slivinski, Laura, Lagrangian data assimila-tion and its applications to geophysicalfluid flows

Sugden, Lauren, Structure, variation, andreproducibility: Bayesian inference inproblems arising from the study ofRNA and RNA-binding protein

Tirupathi, Seshu, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for magma dynamics

Wu, Wei, Large deviations and quasipo-tential for finite state mean field inter-acting particle systems

Yang, Xiu, The holy trinity of stochasticmodeling and uncertainty quantifica-tion: High-dimensionality, sparsity andrare events

Yu, Yue, Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction: Analysis and sim-ulations

Zhang, Zhongqiang, Towards high-ordermethods for stochastic differentialequations with white noise: A spec-tral approach

University of RhodeIsland (4)

Department of Mathematics

Phifer, Caitlin, The cycle intersection ma-trix and applications to planar graphsand network theory

Richmond, Daniel, Implicitly restartedKrylov subspace methods for large-scale least-square problems

Rudasill, William, New results and im-provements related to the study ofmulti-specialization whist tournamentdesigns

Smith, Diana, Towards Steinberg’s con-jecture

SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (9)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Dandurand, Brian, Mathematical opti-mization for engineering design prob-lems

Galvin, Keith, Advancements in finiteelement methods for Newtonian andnon-Newtonian flows

Johnson, Charles, Involutive translationsurfaces and Panov planes

Livsey, James, Count time series anddiscrete renewal processes

Pandey, Abhishek, Modeling dengue trans-mission and vaccination

Wang, Dewei, Nonparametric and semi-parametric group testing regressionmodels

Wash, Kirsti, Identifying codes and domi-nation in graph products

Weerasena, Lakmali, Approximations inmultiobjective optimization with appli-cations

Zantout, Dania, On the cuspidality ofMaass-Gristenko and mixed level lifts

Medical University ofSouth Carolina (4)

Department of Public Health Sciences

Chiuzan, Codruta, Adaptive early-phasedesigns for assessing toxicity and effi-cacy outcomes - applications in cancerimmunotherapy

Logan, Sarah, Psychopharmacotherapyuse and adherence in autism spectrumdisorders

Nida, Adrian, Obtaining sense fromsenselessness: Using machine learn-ing tools to classify systemic lupuserythematosus from free text regionsof an electronic health record

Wheless, Lee, The association betweencommon variants in nucleotide excisiongenes and non-melanoma skin cancer

University of SouthCarolina (8)

Department of Mathematics

Brown, Kenneth, Shimura images of afamily of half integral weight modularforms

Dove, Andrew, Generalizations of Sperner’stheorem: Packing posets, families, for-bidding posets, and supersaturation

Harrington, Joshua, Selected research incovering systems of the integers andthe factorization of polynomials

Johnston, Jeremy, Turan problems onnon-uniform hypergraphs

Department of Statistics

Chang, Wen, Bayesian analysis of contin-uous curve functions

Hill, Blake, Permutation testing for co-variance matrices, with applications inshape analysis

Li, Li, Applications of Bayesian nonpara-metric to reliability and survival data

Thompson, Jean Marie, Methods of clus-tering mixed data

SOUTH DAKOTASouth Dakota StateUniversity (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Ban, Yuguang, Understanding evolutionof gene expression by comparativeanalysis

Bondalapati, Krishna, Improving geneticanalysis with augmented experimentaldesigns

Devkota, Mitra, Spatial data analysisPadhy, Budhinath, Analysis of multivari-

ate longitudinal data using structuralequation modeling

TENNESSEEUniversity of Memphis (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Chen, Si, DNA sequence analysis forapplication to phylogenetic tree con-struction and simulated metagenomicbinning

Clendenen, Raluca Loana, Wentzell bound-ary conditions with general weights andasymptotic parabolicity for stronglydamped waves

Collins, Jared Timothy, Bad cycles, blowuppoints and baby Mandelbrot sets

Hu, Wenrong, Sample size/power calcu-lation for stratified case-cohort designand generalized stratified case-cohortdesign

King, Raena, Hermitian operators andprojections on Hardy spaces

Winter, Bryan R., Design, search andimplementation of improved large or-der multiple recursive generators andmatrix congruential generators

University of Tennessee,Knoxville (6)

Department of Mathematics

Fatheddin, Parisa, Asymptotic behaviorof a class of SPDEs

Lewis, Thomas, Finite difference anddiscontinuous Galerkin finite elementmethods for fully nonlinear secondorder partial differential equations

Martinez, Marco V., Optimal control formanagement in gypsy moth models

Smith, Jesse, Properties of ideal-basedzero-divisor graphs of commutativerings

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White, Joseph, Isolation and deformationresults for commuting squares of finitedimensional star algebras

Xing, Fei, Long time asymptotics ofOrnstein-Uhlenbeck processes in Pois-son random media

Vanderbilt University (8)

Department of Mathematics

Bosuwan, Nattapong, Two problems inasymptotic analysis: Pade-orthogonalapproximation and Riesz polarizationconstants

Camp, Wes, Graph separators and bound-aries of right-angled Artin and Coxetergroups

Marshall, Emily, Hamiltonicity and struc-ture of classes of minor-free graphs

Smedberg, Matthew, Necessary condi-tions for finite decidability in lo-cally finite varieties admitting stronglyAbelian behavior

Spaeth, Anneliese, A determination of theexistence of various types of positivesystems in Lp

Wires, Alexander, Some resuts in univer-sal algebra

Wu, Jianchao, The Novikov conjecture,the group of volume preserving diffeo-morphisms and non-positively curvedHilbert manifolds

Zhou, Dapeng, The coarse Baum-Connesconjecture and controlled operator K-theory

TEXASBaylor University (10)

Department of Mathematics

Eisenbarth, Geoff, Quadratic Lyapunovtheory for dynamic linear switchedsystems

Fouts Aceves, Kelly, On a ring associatedto F [x]

Hartsock, Gail, A combinatorial prop-erty of Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand reso-lutions of unitary highest weight mod-ules

Liu, Xueyan (Sherry), Existence anduniqueness of solutions of boundaryvalue problems by matching solutions

Stewart, Jessica D., Spectral analysis ofthe exceptional Laguerre and Jacobiequations

Wagner, Bradley, Finitary incidence alge-bras

Department of Statistical Sciences

Beeson, John, Topics in multivariate co-variance estimation and time seriesanalysis

Carlile, Tom, Adaptive designs for phaseII clinical trials with binary endpoints

Sides, Ryan, Sample size determinationfor two sample binomial and Poissondata models based on Bayesian decisiontheory

Yuan, Jiang, Normal approximation forBayesian models with non-samplingbias

Rice University (14)

Department of Computational and

Applied Mathematics

Acosta, Sebastian, Inverse source prob-lems for time-dependent radiative trans-port

Du, Bosen, Adaptive reduction of largespiking neurons

Hokanson, Jeffrey, Numerically stableand statistically efficient algorithms forlarge scale exponential fitting

Department of Mathematics

Cooper, James, Two mod-p Johnsonfiltrations

Munger, Paul, Spectral regularity in somemodels of aperiodic order

Ong, Darren, Spectral characteristics ofaperiodic CMV and Schrodinger opera-tors

Ray, Arumina, Casson towers and filtra-tions of the smooth knot concordancegroup

Zhang, Letao, Deformations of Hilbertschemes of points on K3 surfaces andrepresentation theory

Department of Statistics

Affinito, Ricardo, Identifying and dealingwith the approach of bears and theirdeparture

Egbulefu, Joseph, Robust GARCH meth-ods and analysis of partial least squaresregression

Jiang, Fei, Bayesian decision-theoreticmethod and semi-parametric approachwith applications in clinical trial designsand longitudinal studies

Peterson, Christine, Bayesian graphicalmodels for biological network inference

Xu, Yanxun, Application of Bayesianmodeling to high-throughput genomicdata and clinical trial design

Yang, Jingjing, Smoothing functionaldata with a Bayesian hierarchical modeland robust fitting of a Weibull modelwith optional censoring

Southern MethodistUniversity (5)

Department of Mathematics

Gardner, David, Filters for the improve-ment of multiscale data from atomisticsimulations

Ketelaar, Christiaan, Stability of elec-trolyte films on flat and structuredsubstrates

Pearson, Glen, The parallel immersedinterface method with a triangularmesh representation of an interface

Statistical Science Department

Lou, Ying, Sample size estimation forcomparing repeated count measure-ment using GEE

Sadler, Bivin, New methods in itemresponse theory: Information, bias andmean square error

Texas A&M University (21)

Department of Mathematics

Benli, Mustafa, Presentations and struc-tural properties of self-similar groupsand groups without free sub-semigroups

Bruillard, Paul, On the classification oflow-rank braided fusion categories

Ghosh, Aditi, Fast algorithms for bihar-monic problems and applications tofluid dynamics

Hein, Nickolas, Reality and computationin Schubert calculus

Moon, Sunghwan, Properties of someintegral transforms arising in tomogra-phy

Nguyen, Hao Thanh, Greedy strategiesfor convex minimization

Qi, Yang, Geometry of feasible spaces oftensors

Rusek, Korben, A -discriminant varietiesand amoebae

Thompson, Travis, Results towards a seal-able multiphase Navier-Stokes solverfor high Reynolds number flow

Tomov, Vladimir, Entropy viscosity methodfor Lagrangian hydrodynamics and cen-tral schemes for mean field games

Wang, Kainan, Parallel Markov chainMonte Carlo methods for large scalestatistical inverse problems

Webster, Jennifer, Cost-sensitive classifi-cation methods for detection of smug-gled nuclear material in cargo contain-ers

Yang, Yuping, Central limit theorems forempirical processes based on stochasticprocesses

Zuo, Lihua, Inverse problems for frac-tional diffusion equations

Department of Statistics

Chen, Hsiang-Chun, Interference for clus-tered mixed outcomes from a multivari-ate generalized linear mixed model

Cheng, Yichen, Stochastic approximationand its application in MCMC

De, Debkumar, Essays on Bayesian timeseries and variable selection

Sun, Ranye, Thresholding multivariateregression and generalized principalcomponents

Wei, Rubin, Highly nonlinear measure-ment error models in nutritional epi-demiology

Xu, Kun, Semiparametric estimation andinference with mis-measured, corre-lated or mixed observations, and theapplication in ecology, medicine, andneurology

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Zhu, Xinxin, Wind speed forecasting forpower operation

Texas StateUniversity-San Marcos (1)

Department of Mathematics

Oktavia, Rini, Diagnostic assessment toidentify students’ developmental levelsin learning statistics

Texas Tech University (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bloshanskaya, Lidia, Mathematical modelof well productivity index of Forch-heimer flows in fractured reservoirs

Vidurupola, Sukhitha, Mathematical mod-els for bacteriophage dynamics applica-ble to phage therapy

Wijayasinghe, Indika, Eye/hand coordi-nation under optimal and potentialcontrol

Williams, Erin, Categorization of all New-ton maps conjugate to quadratic poly-nomials

University of Houston (16)

Department of Mathematics

Andrews, Jared, A new gap theorem re-sult for proper holomorphic mappingsbetween complex balls

Bhardwaj, Manisha, Visual decision mak-ing in the presence of stimulus andmeasurement correlations

Freeman, Jeff, Combining diffeomorphicmatching with image sequence registra-tion

Jegdic, Ilijia, Large time step and overlap-ping grids for conservation law

Kong, Ao, Mass spectrometry data miningfor cancer detection

Lee, Brandon, Pseudoconformal curva-ture and the embeddability of a CRhypersurface

Liu, Puchen, Solutions of equations forthe regulation of kinase activity in afinite cylindrical cell

Liu, Zhiheng, Snapshot location by errorequilibration in proper orthogonal de-composition for linear and semilinearpartial differential equations

Mabuza, Sibusiso, Modeling, analysis andnumerical simulation of reactive solutetransport problems in moving domains

Meklachi, Taoufik, New insights on qua-sistatic and acoustic cloaking

Mohapatra, Anushaya, Rank one dynam-ics near heteroclinic cycles and condi-tional memory loss for nonequilibriumdynamical systems

Qin, Yue, A second order variationalapproach for diffeomorphic matchingof 3D surfaces

Rivas, Mauricio, Unconstrained varia-tional principles and Morse indicesfor linear elliptic eigenproblems

Royce, Maureen, Extensions of approxi-mately unital operator algebras

Trousdale, James, The interplay of ar-chitecture and correlated variability inneuronal networks

Yu, Yao, Numerical simulation and mod-eling of cell motion in microchannels

University of NorthTexas (3)

Department of Mathematics

Dahal, Rabin, Centers of invariant dif-ferential operator algebras for Jacobigroups of higher rank

McWhorter, Samuel, Some practical re-sults in the theory of support-vectormachines

Weng, Yu, Maximum likelihood estima-tion of logistic sinusoidal regressionmodels

University of Texasat Arlington (7)

Department of Mathematics

Diakite, Ibrahim, Effects of discrete timedelay and parameters variation ondynamical systems

Dong, Xiaoyang, Mathematical models ofnutrient recycling and toxin productionin a gradostat

Licea Salazar, Juan, The polynomialchaos method with applications torandom differential equations

Lin, Daoying, Haplotype based statisticalinference for case control genetic asso-ciation studies with complex sampling

Owens, Larrissa, Differential equationmodels of foreign body fibrotic reac-tions for assessing roles of macrophagephenotypes and mesenchymal stemcells

Unlu, Mehmet, A generalized approach toDarboux transformations for differen-tial equations

Wang, Weichao, Numerical studies forM-matrix algebraic Riccati equations

University of Texasat Austin (19)

Department of Mathematics

Ding, Tian, Numerical algorithms for in-verse problems in acoustics and optics

Frederick, Christina, Numerical methodsfor multiscale inverse problems

Grizzard, Robert, Heights and infinitealgebraic extensions of the rationals

Kelly, Michael, Some inequalities inFourier analysis and applications

Kidwell, Keenan, Some results in Iwasawatheory and the p-adic representatontheory of p-adic GL2

Long, Ligang, Slice ribbon conjecture,pretzel knots and mutation

Mandel, Travis, Tropical theta functionsand log Calabi-Yau surfaces

Meier, Jeffrey, Exceptional Seifert fiberedsurgeries on Montesinos knots and dis-tinguishing smoothly and topologicallydoubly slice knot

Safronov, Pavel, Geometry of integrablehierarchies and their dispersionlesslimits

Taylor, Samuel, Geometric properties ofouter automorphism groups of freegroups

Xie, Zhihui, From quantum many bodysystems to nonlinear Schrodinger equa-tions

Institute for Computational

Engineering and Sciences

Al-Hinai, Omar, Mimetic finite differencesfor porous media applications

Chan, Jesse, A DPG method for convection-diffusion problems

Flath, Hannah Pearl, Hessian-based re-sponse surface approximations for un-certainty quantification in large-scalestatistical inverse problems, with appli-cations to groundwater flow

Mattis, Steven, Mathematical modeling offlow through vegetated regions

Mayo, Talea, Data assimilation for pa-rameter estimation in coastal oceanhydrodynamics modeling

Meixner, Jessica, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for spectral wave/circulationmodeling

Roberts, Nathan, A discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin methodology for incompress-ible flow problems

Xiao, Hailong, Multiscale mortar mixedfinite element methods for flow prob-lems in highly heterogeneous porousmedia

University of Texasat Dallas (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Li, Zhichao, Symmetric systems of im-plicit functional differential equations:Existence of solutions and bifurcationresults

University of Texas-School of Public Health (5)

Division of Biostatistics

Benoit, Julia, Analysis of longitudinaldata using a continuous-time Markovchain with misclassification

Jiang, Jing, A novel concept on in-cremental cost-effectiveness ratio withcensored cost data

Ma, Junsheng, A Bayesian approach tolongitudinal categorical data in a conti-nous time Markov chain model

Park, Minjeong, General linear modelsin a missing outcome environment ofclinical trials incorporating splines fortime-invariant continuous adjustment

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Zewdie, Getie, Applied differential equa-tion to classify myocardial infarc-tion diseases from electrocardiography(ECG) signals

UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics

Hu, Yu, American spread option modelsand valuation

Sinkovic, John, The minimum rank prob-lem for outerplanar graphs

Taylor, James, Investment-consumptionwith randomly terminating income

University of Utah (6)

Department of Mathematics

Cobb, Sarah,H2(SL2(Z[t, t−1]);Q) is infinite-dimensional

Ertl, Veronika, Overconvergent Chernclasses and higher cycle classes

Kelly, Brendan, Cohomology of certainsubgroups of solvable linear groups

Qu, Feng, Invariance of quantum ringsunder ordinary flops

Zhang, Yuchen, Generic vanishings, pluri-canonical maps and volume of isolatedsingularities

Zwick, Patrick D., Variations on a themeof symmetric tropical matrices

VERMONTUniversity of Vermont (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bliss, Catherine, Description, predictionand evolution of a large dynamic net-work from incomplete data

Oka, Ganesh, A cellular automata basedmodel for upscaling the impact of bac-terial growth attached to soil particleson the intrinsic permeability of the soil:Theory and simulations

VIRGINIAGeorge MasonUniversity (10)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Di, Zichao, A multigrid optimizationframework for vector quantization

Johannsen, David, The geometry of thequotient stack arising from a stacky fan

Long, Tim, Ring extensions involvingamalgamated duplications

Merrick, Cynthia, Some properties ofsimplicial geometries

Raissi, Maziar, Multi-fidelity stochasticcollocation methods using model re-duction techniques

Department of Statistics

Gao, Lei, Bayesian dose-finding procedurebased on information criterion andefficacy-toxicity trade-offs

Ren, Pin, Empirical likelihood confidenceregions for branching processes withimmigration

Saxton, Daniel, Inference for preferentialattachment models and related topics

Yan, Yongping, Bayesian hierarchicalpoint-pattern-based intensity model inprediction of highway losses

Yuan, Mengdie, Semiparametric regres-sion analysis of survival and longitudi-nal data

Old DominionUniversity (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Gounley, John, Modeling and simulationof shape changes of red blood cells inshear flow

Kocaogul, Ibrahim, Computational solu-tions of the forward and adjoint Eulerequations with application to ductaeroacoustics

Phuworawong, Panon, Analysis and sim-ulation of kinetic model for activesuspensions

Pohrivchak, Michael, Ray- and wave-theoretic approach to electromagneticscattering from radially inhomoge-neous spheres and cylinders

Posny, Drew, Analyzing cholera dynamicsin homogeneous and heterogeneousenvironments

University of Virginia (13)

Department of Mathematics

Bradshaw, Zachary, On turbulent dy-namics and related theoretical topicsassociated with diffusive incompress-ible fluid models

Chandra, Ajay, Construction and analy-sis of a hierarchical massless quantumfield theory

Clark, Sean, Quantum supergroups andcanonical bases

Fourrier, Nicolas, Analysis of existence,regularity and stability of solutions towave equations with dynamic boundaryconditions

Heald, Andrea, Bounded generation oftwo families of S-arithmetic groups

Hogancamp, Matthew, Local and quasi-local sl(2) link homology

Katz, Mor, Essentially normal composi-tion operators

Knapp, Jason, Stability and conversionof approximate solutions to the Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation

Lefler, Christopher, Well-posedness andstability for nonlinear Schrodinger equa-tions with dynamic/Wentzell boundaryconditions

Pappas, Nathaniel, On rank gradient andp-gradient of finitely generated groups

Department of Statistics

Ma, Wei, Statistical inference of covariate-adaptive randomized clinical trials

Tang, Xiaoxiao, Forecasting economicvariable using Markov quantile regres-sion

Xue, Yuan, Blomarker-based dose-findingdesigns for single-or multiple-agentphase I trials

Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, MedicalCenter (7)

Department of Biostatistics

Bello, Ghalib, Application and extensionof weighted quantile sum regressionfor the development of a clinical riskprediction tool

Farhat, Naha, Design and analysis oftoxicological experiments with mul-tiple endpoints and synergistic andinhibitory effects

Hammouri, Hanan, Review and extensionfor the O’Brien Fleming multiple testingprocedure

Hou, Jiayi, Regularization methods forpredicting an ordinal response usinglongitudinal high-dimension genomicdata

Reese, Sarah, Detecting and correctingbatch effects in high-throughput ge-nomic experiments

Sinks, Shuxian (Zhang), Response adap-tive design using auxiliary and primaryoutcomes

Wilk, Amber, The estimation and eval-uation of optimal thresholds for twosequential testing strategies

Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (11)

Department of Mathematics

Bowman, Adam, Toward a rigorous jus-tification of the three-body impactparameter approximation

Brunson, Jason, Matrix Schubert varietiesfor the affine Grassmannian

Jarvis, Christopher, Parameter dependentmodel reduction for complex fluid flows

Oremland, Matthew, Techniques for math-ematical analysis and optimization ofagent-based models

Ran, Yu, Nonhomogeneous Dirichletinitial boundary value problems for2-dimensional nonlinear Schrodingerequations

Department of Statistics

Chen, Yajuan, Cluster-based profile mon-itoring in phase I

Cheng, Lulu, Statistical methods for ge-netic pathway-based data analysis

Duan, Yuanyuan, Statistical predictionsbased on accelerated degradation dataand spatial count data

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Seiss, Mark, Improving survey method-ology through matrix sampling design,integrated statistical review into datacollection, and synthetic estimationevaluation

Stallings, Jonathan, General weightedoptimality of designed experiments

Wang, Ning, GLR control charts formonitoring controlled binary processes

WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (38)

Applied Mathematics Department

Grosek, Jacob, Robust real-time imageprocessing through dynamic mode de-composition

Hu, Yu, Collective activity in neuralnetworks: The mathematical structureof connection graphs and populationcodes

Jones, Christopher, Single-column andmixed-layer model analysis of subtrop-ical stratocumulus response mecha-nisms relevant to climate change

Kim, Jihwan, Finite volume method fortsunamis generated by submarine land-slides

Lajore, Guillaume, On driven neural as-semblies: Synchrony, chaos and entropy

Rockne, Russell, Patient-specific mathe-matical radiation oncology

Trogdon, Thomas, Riemann-Hilbert prob-lems. Their numerical solution andthe computation of nonlinear specialfunctions

Zhong, Mingyuan, Value function approx-imation methods for linearly-solvableMarkov decision process

Biostatistics Department

deCamp, Allan, Assessing vaccine effectsin HIV-I trials

Granston, Tanya, Lagged effects andinterval censoring in the stepped wedgedesign of cluster randomized clinicaltrials

Laird, Amy, Modeling a progressive dis-ease process under panel observation

Lange, Jane, Latent continuous timeMarkov for partially-observed multi-state disease processes

Wang, Zheyu, Latent class and latentprofile analysis in medical diagnosisand prognosis

Zheng, Cheng, Causal mediation analysiswith failure time outcome and error-prone longitudinal covariate

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Jie, Hybrid inverse problemsChoi, Daeshik, Estimating norms of ma-

trix functions using numerical rangesDeines, Alyson, Shimura degrees for el-

liptic curves over number fieldsDrugan, Gregory, Self-shrinking solu-

tions to mean curvature flow

Fan, Wai, Interacting particle systemswith annihilation through membranes

Johnson, Tobias, Eigenvalue fluctuationsfor random regular graphs

Kocyigit, Ilker, A hybrid inverse problemarising from acousto-electric coupling

Lou, Shuwen, Brownian motion on spaceswith varying dimensions

Paquette, Elliot, Eigenvalue fluctuations ofrandom matrices beyond the Gaussianuniversality class

Pfeiffer, James, Problems in probabilityand optimization

Roberts, Austin, Dual equivalence graphsand their applications

Sisodia, Gautam, The Grothendieck groupsof module categories over coherent al-gebras

Slivken, Erik, Three problems in discreteprobability

Tittelfitz, Justin, Thermoacoustic tomog-raphy in elastic media

Tran, Huy, The regularity of Loewnercurves

Wang, Dake, On special Lagrangian equa-tions

Ward, Matthew, Arithmetic properties ofthe derived category for Calabi-Yauvarieties

Zhuang, Guangbin, Hopf algebras offinite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension

Department of Statistics

Doss, Charles, Shape-constrained infer-ence for concave-transformed densitiesand their modes

Fosdick, Bailey, Modeling heterogeneitywithin and between matrices and arrays

Glazner, Christopher, Monte Carlo es-timation of identity by descent inpopulations

Koepke, Hoyt, An algorithmic frameworkfor high dimensional regression withdependent variables

Sverdlov, Serge, Functional quantitativegenetics and the missing heritabilityproblem

Volfovsky, Alexander, Statistical inferenceusing Kronecker structured covariance

Washington StateUniversity (4)

Department of Mathematics

Cangelosi, Richard, Pattern formationproperties of a system of interaction-diffusion equations relevant to a mussel-algae eco-system in a quiescent marinelayer

Chan, Yin, A method of applying anunbiased estimator for monitoring theWeibull shape parameter and time-to-time model using copula w/acc. lifetest

Paparella, Pietro, Matrix roots of non-negative and eventually non-negativematrices

Zhuo, Jingxuan, Mathematical models ofimmersed boundary complex fluids

WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Ye, From graph coloring to receptorclustering

Glatzer, Timothy, Continuities on sub-spaces

Gu, Xiaofeng, Connectivity and spanningtrees of graphs

WISCONSINMarquette University (2)

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics and Comp Science

Bruce, Iain, Determination of correlationsinduced by the SENSE and GRAPPA PMRImodels with an appliation to MRI RFcoil design

Kiware, Samson, Bioinformatics systemsand mathematical models for improvedunderstanding of malaria transmission,control, and elimination

Medical College ofWisconsin (4)

Division of Biostatistics

Ellis, Kristin, Methods to classify survivaldata

He, Peng, Bias reduction by usingcovariate-adjusted censoring weightsfor survival and competing risks data

Mendolia, Franco, Pseudo-observation re-gression in the presence of left-truncation

Wang, Yanzhi, Generalized linear mixedmodels for correlated time to eventdata using pseudo-values

University of Wisconsin,Madison (30)

Department of Mathematics

Benguria Depassier, Maria Soledad, Es-timates for the Szego kernel on un-bounded convex domains

Bockting-Conrad, Sarah, Tridiagonal pairs,double lowering operators, and Uq(sl2)

Davis, Rachel, Images of metabelian Ga-lois representations associated to ellip-tic curves

Hablicsek, Marton, Derived intersectionsand applications

Hanson, Edward, Characterizations ofLeonard pairs

Holcomb, Diane, Point process limits ofrandom matrices

Jefferis, Leland, Computing high fre-quency solutions of symmetric hyper-bolic systems with polarized waves

Jensen, Sara, On the character degreesimplicial complex of a finite solvablegroup

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Koyama, Masanori, Analysis of stochas-tically modeled biochemical processeswith applications to numerical methods

Kumar, Ashutosh, On some problems inset-theoretic real analysis

Lee, Jae-Ho,Q-polynomial distance-regulargraphs and double affine Hecke algebraof rank one

Medini, Andrea, The topology of ultrafil-ters as subspaces of the Cantor set andother topics

Murcko, Jason, On the differentiation ofBesov spaces

Nelson, Joanna, Applications of auto-matic transversality in contact homol-ogy

Peterson, Aaron, On uniformly finite-typedomains

Rice, Brian, The thin set theorem forpairs and substructures of the Muchniklattice

Wang, Dongning, Seidel representationfor symplectic orbitfolds and its appli-cations

Wolf, Elizabeth, Computational methodsfor parametric sensitivities of stochas-tic chemical reaction networks

Zhao, Yongqiang, On sieve methods forvarieties over finite fields

Zhou, Zhennan, Computational methodsfor semi-classical Schrodinger equa-tions with vector potentials and Ehren-fest dynamics

Department of Statistics

Chai, Yi, Screening based Bregman diver-gence estimation and the application tospike train data analysis

Chen, Guangde, Regularized estimationfor nonlinear index models and nonlin-ear additive models

Cui, Qiurong, Max-linear competing fac-tor models multivariate Frechet tiltedGaussian distribution

Pei, Qinglin, Statistical models and SNPdetection methods for flash sequencing

Thurman, Andrew, On model selectionof spatial point processes

Zhang, Jie, Analysis of panel data withinformative missing responses

Zhang, Qiong, Cross-validation designand spatial modeling with applicationsin nanotechnology and marketing

Zhang, Sheng, Bayesian variable selectionvia a benchmark

Zheng, Hao, Range dimensional covari-ance matrix estimation with decomposi-tion-based regularization

Zhu, Bin, On max-stable processes andtheir extensions

University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

La Corte, Diana Thomson, Newton’smethod backpropagation for complex-valued holomorphic neural networks:Algebraic and analytic properties

Lin, Xiaoying, The boundedness of Haus-dorff operators on function spaces

Moussa, Ridha, On the generalized Inceequation

Williams, Lauren, Invariant polynomialson tensors under the action of a productof orthogonal groups

WYOMINGUniversity of Wyoming (6)

Department of Mathematics

Aryal, Saroj, Sparse moment problemBush, Lawrence, On the postprocessing

techniques of the continuous Galerkinfinite element

Rigelo, Joyce, A new multiscale mixedmethod and an uncertainty quantifica-tion technique for porous media flows

Sollami, Michael, Computational graphtheory

Wiblemo, Cara, Automorphism decom-position of graphs

Department of Statistics

Gupta, Pritam, Statistical analysis ofbrucellosis prevalence among elk in thegreater Yellowstone area

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