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Doctoral Degrees Conferred2006–2007

ALABAMA

Auburn University (8)

Mathematics and Statistics

Castellana, Vincent, On the spectrum ofminimal covers by triples.

Diawara, Norou, New classes of multi-variate gamma survival and reliabilitymodels.

Nguyen, Tung, A-stability for two speciescompetition diffusion systems.

Ozkan, Sibel, Hamilton decompositionswith primitive leaves.

Pettis, Carl, The triangle intersectionproblem for hexagon triple systems.

Stone, Jennifer, Non-metric continua thatsupport Whitney maps.

Trimm, Janet, On Frobenius numbers inthree variables.

Tuncer, Necibe, A novel finite element dis-cretization of domains with spheroidalgeometry.

University of Alabama atBirmingham (2)

Mathematics

Areeg, Abdalla, Monte-Carlo studies withrandom fuzzy numbers.

Childers, Douglas, Some topological re-sults on the influence of critical pointsin rational dynamics.

University ofAlabama-Tuscaloosa (3)

Mathematics

Bulka, Yuriy, Multiple nonlinear Volterraintegral equations.

Kim, Young Hee, A hysteresis model fortwo-dimensional input signals.

Qui, Lin, Morrey type spaces and Carlesonmeasures.

The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2006, to June 30,2007) reported in the 2007 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. A supplementary list containing namesreceived since compilation of this list will appear in a summer 2008 issueof the Notices.

ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (9)


Driver, Eric, A targeted Martinet search.Imran, Mudassar, Mathematical models

in biofilm and antibiotic treatment.Infante, Nicole, Students’ understanding

of related rates problems in calculus.Knapp, Jessica, Students’ appropriation

of proving practices in advanced calcu-lus.

Lu, Yan, Longitudinal estimation in dualframe surveys.

Mason, Clinton, Modeling glucose dynam-ics leading to a diabetic state withsimulations performed from data.

Shim, Eunha, Mathematical models ofrotavirus transmission in the presenceof maternal antibodies and vaccination.

Tridane, Abdessamad, Mathematical anal-ysis of immunological and epidemio-logical models of influenza infection.

Wang, Hao, Mathematical analysis oftrophic interactions: From bacteriacompetition of lemming cycles.

University of Arizona (9)

Mathematics

Caine, John, Poisson structures on U/Kand applications.

Habermas, Derek, Compact symmetricspaces, triangular factorization andCayley coordinates.

Konstantinou, Panagiota, Homomorph-isms of the fundamental group of asurface into PSU (1,1) and the action ofthe mapping class group.

Levitt, Benjamin, Tate-Shafarevich groupsof Jacobians of Fermat curves.

Lo, Assane, Witten Laplacian methods ofcritical phenomena.

Punosevac, Predrag, Regularization ofsimultaneous binary collisions in somegravitational systems.

Spiegler, Adam, Stability of generic equi-libria of the 2n-dimensional free rigidbody using the energy-Casimir method.

Program in Applied Mathematics

Garcia-Naranjo, Luis, Almost Poissonbrackets for nonholonomic systems onLie groups.

McNicholas, Erin, Embedded tree struc-tures and eigenvalue statistics of genuszero one-face maps.

ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas atFayetteville (2)

Mathematics and Sciences

Kali, Zdenka, Two extremal problems incomplex function theory.

Lewis, Camille, Homotopy techniques andpolynomial roots.

CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (5)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics

Bou-Rabee, Nawaf, Hamiltonian-Pontrya-gin integrators on Lie groups.

Dondl, Patrick Werner, Structure and evo-lution of Martensitic phase boundaries.

Latini, Marco, Simulations and anal-ysis of two- and three-dimensionalsingle-mode Richtmyer-Meshkov insta-bility using weighted essentially non-oscillatory and vortex methods.

Zhang, Lei, Metric based upscaling forpartial differential equations with acontinuum of scales.

Mathematics

Pelayo, Roberto, Diameter bounds onthe complex of minimal genus Seifertsurfaces for hyperbolic knots.

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Claremont GraduateUniversity (6)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Cadwallader-Olsker, Todd, Proof schemesand proof writing.

Daneshbod, Yousef, Mathematical modelsin microfluidics: Capillary electrophore-sis and sessile drop physics.

Gasner, Scott, Cellular pattern formationand noise in O(2) symmetric systems.

Lewis, Steven, Bayesian parameter and or-der estimation in profile hidden Markovmodels.

Schmitz, Adeline, Constructive neuralnetworks for function approximationand their application to CFD shapeoptimization.

Sunahata, Hiroki, Interaction of the quan-tum vacuum with an accelerated objectand its contribution to inertia reactionforce.

University of California,Berkeley (33)

Group in Biostatistics

Bein, Edward, Topics in causal infer-ence: Analyzing psychotherapy out-come studies, convex-combination esti-mators, and G-computations model se-lection.

Petersen, Maya, Applications of causalinference methods to improve the treat-ment of antiretroviral-resistant HIV in-fection.

Mathematics

Alappatu, Jomy, An analysis of random-ized algorithms on trees.

Anderson, Bernard, Relative properties ofreals.

Assaf, Sami, Dual equivalence graphs,ribbon tableaux and MacDonald poly-nomials.

Berbec, Ioan, Group schemes over Ar-tinian rings and applications.

Cameron, Maria, Seismic velocity estima-tion from time migration.

Carnahan, Scott, Monstrous Lie algebrasand generalized moonshine.

Chen, Yanfeng, Categorification of rep-resentations of quantum groups andinvariants of tangle cobordisms.

Chester, Elizabeth, Fast methods forcomputing all-to-all geodesic paths forthe eikonal equation.

Christianson, Hans, Quantum monodromyand non-concentration near a closedsemi-hyperbolic orbit.

Franklin, Johanna, Aspects of Schnorrrandomness.

Goodrick, John, When are elementarilybi-embeddable models isomorphic?

Greicius, Aaron, Elliptic curves with sur-jective global Galois representation.

Hoyt, Crystal, Kac-Moody superalgebrasof finite growth.

Huh, Jae-Seok, Implicit interface finiteelement method for elliptic interfaceproblems.

Inoue, Taiyo, Organizing volumes ofright-angled hyperbolic polyhedra.

Kelley, James, Homotopical syzygies inK-theory.

Kirkpatrick, Kay, Rigorous derivation ofthe Landau equation in the weak cou-pling limit.

Lyo, Grace, Semilinear actions of Galoisgroups and the algebraic K-theory offields.

Marzuola, Jeremy, A stable class of per-turbations for minimal mass solitons ofsaturated NLSE in 3d.

Medvedev, Alice, Group-like minimal setsin ACFA.

Miller, Carl, Cohomology of p-torsionsheaves on characteristic-p curves.

Morrison, Scott, A diagrammatic categoryfor the representation theory of Uq(sln).

Nieh, Ari, Decategorification of local sl(2)and sl(3) Khovanov homology.

Shan, Ying, Solving partial differentialequations on irregular domains withmoving interfaces, with applicationsto superconformal electrodeposition insemiconductor manufacturing.

Spivak, David, Quasi-smooth derivedmanifolds.

Wang, Jiajun, Cosmetic surgeries, niceHeegaard diagrams and Floer homol-ogy.

Weare, Jonathan, Smoothing and filter-ing of stochastic ordinary and partialdifferential equations by efficient pathsampling.

Webster, Ben, Poisson algebraic geometryin representation theory and combina-torics.

Weinstein, Jared, Automorphic represen-tations with local constraints.

Yazdani, Soroosh, Modular forms withodd congruence numbers.

Yu, Josephine, Combinatorial aspects oftropical geometry.

University of California,Davis (14)

Mathematics

Choup, Leonard, Edgeworth expansion ofthe eigenvalue distribution function ofGUE and LUE.

Kuang, Jessica, Models of seed predationand coexistence of desert annual plantspecies.

Lankham, Isaiah, Patience sorting and itsgeneralizations.

Liao, Ben-Shan, Subspace projection meth-ods for model order reduction andnonlinear eigenvalue problem.

Pitman, Damien, Clustering in randomfitness landscapes: Conformity and in-compatibility.

Sternberg, Philip, Applications of crystalbases to current problems in represen-tation theory.

Wissman, Brian, Global solutions to theultra-relativistic Euler equations.

Statistics

Ding, Jimin, Joint modelling of survivaland longitudinal data.

Liao, Shanmei, Application of bootstrapconfidence region for multivariate anal-ysis.

Metoyer, Candace, Estimation methodsfor linear, nonlinear and multidimen-sional time series: Applications of state-space modeling.

Wang, Lu, Penalization and rank reduc-tion.

Ye, Jingjing, Preprocessing and biomarkerdetection analysis for biological massspectrometry data.

Zhang, Nan, Functional data analysis fornon-Gaussian longitudinal data.

Zhu, Shuying, Bootstrap methods withapplications in multivariate analysis.

University of California,Irvine (11)

Mathematics

Bai, Li, Time reversal through roughsurface.

Bargagliotti, Anna, An exploration of theeffects of data based on ranks.

De Santiago, Rafael, Interest rate deriva-tives and value-at-risk with multiscalestochastic volatility.

Egualada, Tristan, Small-time asymp-totics for multi-asset options.

Kang, Yang, The Liouville equation forgeneral ergodic magnetic Schrodingeroperations.

Kronewetter, Jason, Advances in topolog-ical social choice.

Lam, Kwan Hang, Weighted Poincareinequality and manifolds with Spin(9)holonomy.

Lin, Christopher, Curvature-induced quan-tization in tubular neighborhoods aboutcomplete Riemannian manifolds.

Lunasin, Evelyn, Analytical and compu-tational study of certain sub-grid scaleL-models of turbulence.

Macklin, Paul, Toward computationaloncology: Nonlinear simulation ofcentimeter-scale tumor growth in com-plex, heterogeneous tissue.

Natsukawa, Eisuke, On the Weil-Petersongeometry of the moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds.

University of California,Los Angeles (25)

Mathematics

Boisvert, Alex, A new definition of theSteenrod operations in algebraic geom-etry.

Chan, Stephen, Colinking properties ofEuclidean neighborhood retracts inmerger manifolds.

Doctoral Degrees Conferred

FEBRUARY 2008 NOTICES OF THE AMS 281

Chung, Jason, Variational image segmen-tation and restoration using multilayerimplicit curve evolution approach.

Crawford, Nick, Mean field theories andmodels of statistical physics.

Dokos, Pericles, On the combinatorial andspectral properties of finite quotients ofthe Bruhat-Tits building of the type C2by discrete subgroups of PGSP4 and thearithmetic of quaternionic hermitianforms.

Draganova, Anna, Asymptotic existenceof decompositions of edge-coloredgraphs and hypergraphs.

Fernandez, Rahul, Airy functions associ-ated to compact Lie groups and theiranalytic properties.

Gillette, Alan, Image inpainting using amodified Cahn-Hilliard equation.

Handy, Jon, Bounded analytic functionson the complements of square Cantorsets: The corona problem and relatedproblems.

Ioanna, Adrian, Rigidity results in the or-bit equivalence theory of non-amenablegroups.

Jetter, Madeleine, Steiner equivalence ofconvex bodies: Analytic and algebraicperspectives.

Kittrel, John, Full groups and hyperfinite-ness.

O’Dell, Steve, Inverse scattering forSchrodinger type operators in exte-rior domains containing surfaces withinterfaces.

Ryckman, Eric, Spectral equivalences forJacobi matrices.

Skeith, William, Homomorphic encryp-tion and non-interactive secure compu-tation.

Sun, Hae-Sang, Non-vanishing mod p ofspecial L-values.

Tanushev, Nick, Gaussian beams: Theoryand applications.

Upton, Margaret, Galois representationsattached to Picard curves and equidis-tribution of traces of Hecke operatorsfor GL2.

Statistics

Baek, Jong-Ho, Statistical methods for asensor rich building.

Erickson, Stephen, Hierarchical empiricalBayes analysis of genomic microarrays.

Kriegler, Brian, Cost-sensitive stochasticgradient boosting within a quantitiveregression framework.

Li, Jinhui, Analysis of longitudinal datawith missing values.

Presson, Angela, Statistical methods forcomplex disease analysis.

Sun, Wei, Statistical strategies in eQTLstudies.

Wang, Hui, Extended homozygosity inhigh density genotyping.

University of California,Riverside (7)

Mathematics

Crockett, Catherine, On the topology,combinatorics and geometry of circleand spherical orders.

Daudert, Britta, Epidemic modeling oncomplex networks, localization on snow-flake domains.

Lu, Hung, p-adic fractal strings and theircomplex dimensions.

Morton, Jeffrey, Extended TQFT’s andquantum gravity.

Rock, John, Zeta functions, complex di-mensions of fractal strings and multi-fractal analysis of mass distributions.

Senesi, Jagannatha Prasad, Finite dimen-sional representation of the twistedloop algebras.

Wise, Derek, Topological gauge theory,Cartan geometry and gravity.

University of California,San Diego (14)

Mathematics

Anderson, Reid, Local algorithms forgraph partitioning and finding densesubgraphs.

Bandlow, Jason, Combinatorics of Mac-donald polynomials and extensions.

Berg, Arthur, Nonparametric functionestimation with infinite-order kernelsand applications.

Colarusso, Mark, The Gelfand-Zeitlin alge-bra and polarizations of regular adjointorbits for classical groups.

Erway, Jennifer, Iterative methods forlarge-scale unconstrained optimization.

Farina, John, Stability properties in ringtheory.

Kotschwar, Brett, Some results on thequalitative behavior of solutions tothe Ricci flow and other geometricevolution equations.

Lebl, Jiri, Singularities and complexity inCR geometry.

Musiker, Gregg, A combinatorial com-parison of elliptic curves and criticalgroups of graphs.

Smith, Barry, On the values of equi-variant and Artin L-functions of cyclicextensions of number fields.

Voden, Thomas, Subalgebras of Golod-Shafarevich algebras.

Wildstrom, David, Dynamic resource lo-cation on generalized distance metrics.

Wong, Aaron, The Brauer-Siegel theoremfor fields of bounded relative degree.

Wroblewski, David, Non-smooth Brown-ian martingales and stochastic integralrepresentations.

University of California,Santa Barbara (5)

Mathematics

Dawson, Liana, Unique continuation forhigher order dispersive equations.

Gunnarsson, Gunnar, Stochastic partialdifferential equation models for high-way traffic.

Statistics and Applied Probability

Paradkar, Deepali, Some contributions toinferential tests in mixture models andmodel-based clustering.

Siddiqi, Muhammad Aleemuddin, Statisti-cal image and functional data analysis.

Villacorta, Alexander, Information diffu-sion in multimedia environments.

University of California,Santa Cruz (4)

Mathematics

Agapito, Ruben, Study of energy decay ofmagnetohydrodynamics equations.

Berman, Abraham, On centers of blocksof finite groups.

McCain, William, Properties of the lin-earized Kepler operator.

Niche, Cesar, On the topological entropyand periodic orbits of optical andmagnetic flows.

COLORADO

Colorado School ofMines (5)

Mathematics and Computer Science

Crabtree, John, Design and implementa-tion of computational automation toolsfor the evaluation of detailed chemicalkinetic mechanisms.

Hyatt, John, Domain decomposition or-thogonal spline collocation with non-matching grids.

Kurkowski, Stuart, Credible mobile ad hocnetwork simulation-based studies.

McMullin, Dale, A graphical data structurefor complicated vector field propertiesand behavior.

Wang, Zhongben, Modified nodal cubicspline collocation methods for ellipticand parabolic problems.

Colorado StateUniversity (8)

Mathematics

Cruceanu, Stefan, Numerical solutionsof nonlinear systems derived fromsemilinear elliptical equations.

Devanath, Sripriya, Modular decomposi-tion of K-hypergraphs.

Kull, Trent, Coefficient recovery in para-bolic initial boundary value problems.

Sandelin, Jeff, Global estimate and con-trol of model, numerical, and parametererror.



Statistics

Coar, William, State-space models forstream networks.

Merton, Andrew, Geostatistical models:Model selection and parameter estima-tion under infill and expanding domainasymptotics.

Ozaksoy, Isin, Modeling genetic correla-tion in microsatellite frequencies asso-ciated with covariates and populationsubstructure.

Patterson, Paul, Generalized inference formixed linear models problems.

University of Colorado,Boulder (9)

Applied Mathematics

Ahrens, Cory, The asymptotic analysisof communications and wave collapseproblems in nonlinear optics.

Jin, Chao, Parallel domain decompositionmethods for stochastic partial differen-tial equations and analysis of nonlinearintegral equations.

Liu, Hong, Rare events, heavy tails, andsimulation.

Sheehan, Brendan, Multigrid methods forisotropic neutron transport.

Mathematics

Catone, Christopher, Projective equiva-lence of Finsler and Riemannian sur-faces.

Deajim, Abdul, On non-associative di-vision algebras arising from ellipticcurves.

Furst, Veronika, A characterization ofsemiorthogonal Parseval wavelets inabstract Hilbert spaces.

Miller, Sheila, Free left-distributive alge-bras.

Sagullo, Noel, A Drinfeld analogue of theBrownawell-Waldschmidt theorem.

University of NorthernColorado (3)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Cribari, RaKissa, Socio-cultural factorsand seventh grade students’ attitudesand beliefs about mathematics.

Dollard, Clark, Preservice elementaryteachers’ thinking about situations in-volving probability.

Huang, Chein Chung, The understandingof multiplication of preservice elemen-tary school teachers in Taiwan.

CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (14)

Mathematics

Foondun, Mohammud, Harnack inequali-ties for integro-differential operators.

Mullen, Ryan, Examples of Banach spacesthat are not branch algebras.

Rogalski, Alexander, Reverse mathemat-ics on lattice ordered groups.

Schwell, Rachel, Operads, polytopes andthe A∞-Deligne conjecture.

Shlapaik, Yuriy, Numerical methods forfinding certain solutions to Gross-Pitaevskii type equations with generalpotentials.

Tang, Huili, Uniqueness for the Martin-gale associated with pure jump pro-cesses.

Statistics

Das, Sonali, A new development ofBayesian structural equations modelwith application to the VHA surveydata.

Diva, Ulysses, Novel approaches in mod-eling spatially correlated multivariatedata.

Ghosh, Samiran, Clustering classificationand function for high dimensional dataarising from bioinformatics and relateddomains.

Liu, Zhaohui, Bayesian inference for non-homogeneous Poisson process modelsfor software reliability.

Oemcke, Zoe, The estimation and fore-casting of volatility: The use of stock,option and high-frequency data to as-sist in the valuation of options.

Pepe, William, On some bounded risksequential procedures for exponentialmean and normal density estimation.

Song, Changhong, Analyzing longitudinaldata using random effects models.

Xu, Hai, Statistical inference and comput-ing for diffusion models in finance.

Yale University (6)

Mathematics

Bremer, James C., Adaptive multiscaleanalysis of graphs and manifolds.

Kim, Sang-hyun, Hyperbolic surfaces sub-groups of right-angled Artin graphproducts of groups.

Licata, Anthony Michael, Moduli spacesof sheaves on surfaces in geometricrepresentation theory.

Licata, Joan, Heegaard Floer link homol-ogy, the Thurston norm, and minimal-complexity surfaces.

Sussan, Joshua, Category 0 and sl(k) linkinvariants.

Wong, Helen, SO(3) quantum invariants:Density and applications.

DELAWAREUniversity of Delaware (2)

Mathematical Science

Capursi, Maria, On some projectiveplanes of order 16 arising by Bose-Barlotti derivation.

Zhou, Junjie, Option pricing under thegeneralized tempered stable process.

DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAGeorge WashingtonUniversity (4)

Mathematics

Dabkowska, Malgorzata, Turing degreespectra of groups and their spaces oforders.

Ufferman, Eric, Structures and partialcomputable automorphisms.

Veve, Michael, Skein modules, orderablemagmas, and billiards.

Statistics

Chen, Xiao Wu, Inference of haplotypeeffects in case-control studies usingunphased genotype and environmentdata.

FLORIDAFlorida Institute ofTechnology (1)

Mathematical Sciences

Allen, Josef, Multiplicative noise ratioand speckle reduction for syntheticaperture radar imagery via nonlinearpartial differential equation methods.

Florida StateUniversity (16)

Mathematics

Achuthan, Srisairam, Analysis of orien-tational restraints in solid-state nuclearmagnetic resonance with applicationsto protein structure determination.

Asbury, Thomas, From data to structure:Using orientational information withPISEMA spectra to build atomic models.

Galloway, Mack, Option pricing withselfsimilar, additive processes.

Laing, Christian, Biomedical applicationsof shape descriptors.

Mann, Jennifer, DNA knotting: Occur-rences, consequences, and resolution.

Toporikova, Natalia, Regulation of rhyth-mic prolactin secretion: Combined math-ematical and experimental study.

Tzigantchev, Dimitre, Predegree polyno-mials of plane configurations in projec-tive space.

Webster, Clayton, Reduction techniquesfor the numerical solution to stochasticpartial differential equations.

Wood, William, Combinatorial type prob-lems for triangulation graphs.

Zhang, Jianke, Numerical methods forportfolio risk estimation.

Statistics

Auguste, Anna, Estimation from datarepresenting a sample of curves.

Delpish, Ayesha, Comparison of estima-tors in hierarchical linear modeling.



Herbei, Radu, Quasi-3D statistical inver-sion of oceanographic tracer data.

Rubinshtein, Eugenia, Optimal linear rep-resentations of images under diversecriteria.

Sharma, Dinesh, Logistic regression, mea-sures of explained variation, and thebase rate problem.

Yu, Han, Nonparametric minimax testingon high frequency data.

University of CentralFlorida (4)

Mathematics

Cowan, Doris C., Effects of atmosphericturbulence on the propagation of flat-tened Gaussian optical beams.

Jing, Wu, Frames in Hilbert C-modules.Mancas, Stefan C., Dissipative solitons in

the cubic-quintic complex Ginszburg-Landau equation: Bifurcations and spa-tiotemporal structure.

Vetelino, Frida, Fade statistics for alasercom system and the joint PDF ofa gamma-gamma distributed irradianceand its time derivative.

University of Miami (2)

Mathematics

Clarke, Patrick, Duality for formal toricLandau-Ginzburg models.

Dominguez, Alvio, Non-existence ofproduct-form solutions for some closeddiscrete-time queueing networks.

University of SouthFlorida (10)

Mathematics

Ameur, Kheira, Polynomial quandle cocy-cles, their knot invariants and applica-tions.

Aryal, Gokarna R., Study of Laplace andrelated probability distributions andtheir applications.

Camara, Louis R., Statistical modelingand assessment of software reliability.

Cureg, Edgardo S., Some problems inproducts of random matrices.

Gishe, Jemal E., Finite family of or-thogonal polynomials and resultants ofChebyshev polynomials.

Mostafa, Abdelelah M., Regression ap-proach to software reliability models.

Pirnot, Joni B., Recognizable languagesdefined by two-dimensional shift spaces.

Quarcoo, Joseph O., Contributions tothe degree theory for perturbations ofmaximal monotone operators.

Shibata, Michiru, Pricing models andanalysis of corporate coupon-bondsand credit default swaptions.

Wooten, Rebecca Dyanne, Statistical envi-ronmental models: Hurricane, lightning,rainfall, flooding, red tide and volca-noes.

GEORGIAEmory University (9)

Biostatistics

Moore, Renee, Prediction of random ef-fects when data are subject to adetection limit.

Wu, Haiyan, Hierarchical analysis of mi-croarray experiments with applicationsto the study of CD8 T cell immuneresponses.


Berger, Andre, Faster minimum weightsubgraph algorithms.

Kurzyniec, Dawid, Towards lightweightand reconfigurable resources sharingframeworks.

Liu, Jia, Pre-conditioned Kyrlov subspacemethods for incompressible flow prob-lems.

Powell, Jeffrey, Two questions aboutconnectivity in graphs.

Tengan, Eduardo, Graphs and surfaces.Wagner, Brian, Subgraph sequences in

graphs and diagraphs.Zich, Jan, The Hajos conjecture and

triangulations.

Georgia Institute ofTechnology (2)

School of Mathematics

Jiang, Wen, Maximum codes with theidentifiable parent property.

Komendarczyk, Rafal, Nodal sets andcontact structures.

University of Georgia (9)

Mathematics

Ashton, Edward, Exploring continuoustensegrities.

Cho, Okkyung, Construction of com-pactly supported multiwavelets.

Guy, Michael, Moduli of weighted stablemaps and their gravitational descen-dants.

Hower, Valerie, Hodge spaces of real toricvarieties.

Mullikin, Chad, On length minimiz-ing curves with distortion thicknessbounded below and distortion boundedabove.

Park, Daeshik, The Fekete-Szego theoremwith splitting conditions on the projec-tive line of positive characteristics.

Zhou, Jie, Construction of orthonormalwavelets of dilation factor 3 withapplication in image compression anda new construction of multivariatecompactly supported tight frame.

Statistics

Bhattacharya, Archan, Inference for con-trolled branching processes, Bayesianinference for zero-inflated count data,and Bayesian techniques for hairlinefracture detection and reconstruction.

Han, LingLing, Models with subject bytreatment and subject by carryoverinteractions and use of baseline mea-surements in crossover trials.

HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii atManoa (3)

Mathematics

Chrisman, Micah, The number theory offinite cyclic actions on surfaces.

Kaneshige, Bryon, On semifree symplecticcircle actions.

Piotrowski, Andrzej, Linear operators andthe distribution of zeros of entirefunctions.

ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (1)

Applied Mathematics

Zhang, Guo Quan, Iterated approximatemoving least-squares: Theory and ap-plications.

Northern IllinoisUniveresity (4)


Brahma, Sanjoy, Robust and minimumnorm partial quadratic eigenvalue as-signment problems: Theory and com-putations.

Frobish, Daniel, Estimation of changepoints in recurrent events models.

Hein, Robert, P -polynomial table algebrasand distance regular graphs.

Kallenbach, Jeffrey, Spectral concentra-tion in the Sturm-Liouville differentialequation.

NorthwesternUniversity (10)

Engineering Science and Applied

Mathematics

Clay, Matthew, Motion of thin dropletsdue to surfactants and gravity.

Fisher, Lael, Mathematical modeling ofinterfacial hydrodynamic phenomenain some liquid-fluid systems.

Norris, Scott, Evolving faceted surfaces:From continuum modeling, to geomet-ric simulation, to mean-field theory.

Park, Jang, Numerical studies of integralequation and rod models of solid fuelcombustion.

Rempe, Michael, Efficient computationalstrategies for simulating neural activityon branched structures.

Retford, Christopher, Multi-scale model-ing of surfaces and edges of nanoscalematerials.



Mathematics

Aldi, Marco, A-branes and mirror sym-metry.

Borisov, Dennis, Homotopy Gerstenhaberstructure on deformation complex of amorphism.

Johnson, Michael, Results on polynomialergodic averages.

Voineagu, Mircea, Semi-topological K-theory of certain projective varieties.

Southern IllinoisUniversity, Carbondale (3)

Mathematics

Chang, Jing, Resistant dimension reduc-tion.

Kazi, Haseeb, Inequalities and bounds forelliptic integrals.

Marr, Alison, Labelings of directed graphs.

University of Chicago (22)

Mathematics

Abouzaid, Mohammed, On homologicalmirror symmetry for toric varieties.

Balduzzi, David, Hamiltonian geometryof moduli space of bundles on curves.

Boyarchenko, Dmitriy, Characters of unip-otent groups over finite fields.

Dymarz, Tullia, Large scale geometry ofcertain solvable groups.

Jackson, Craig, Nilpotent slices andHilbert schemes.

Kerr, Gabriel, Weighted blow-ups andmirror symmetry for toric surfaces.

McCathern, Sharon, A replacement the-orem for modules with a unipotentautomorphism.

Morris, Courtney, On free Z/pZ actionson products of spheres.

Ponto, Kathleen, Fixed point theory andtrace for bicategories.

Putman, Thomas, An infinite presentationof the Torelli group.

Rule, David, The regularity and Neumannproblem for non-symmetric elliptic op-erators.

Scheels, Ann, The fortification illusion ofmigraine.

Smithling, Brian D., On the moduli stackof commutative, 1-parameter formal Liegroups.

Thomas, Anne, Lattices in automorphismgroups of polyhedral complexes.

Walker, Katharine, Fundamental groupsof moduli spaces of quadratic differen-tials.

Yanagisawa, Masuo, Floer homology forelliptic K3 surface.

Young, Robert, Filling inequalities andthe geometry of nilpotent groups.

Zarnescu, Arghir, Analytic study of mod-els of complex non-Newtonian fluids.

Statistics

Jager, Abigail, Likelihood methods forpotential outcomes.

Ostrovnaya, Irina, Estimating error ratesfor independent and dependent teststatistics.

Shao, Xiaofeng, Statistical evaluation ofmultiresolution model output and spec-tral analysis for nonlinear time series.

Yang, Jie, Infinite exchangeability andpartitions and permanent process andclassification model.

University of Illinois atChicago (21)

Mathematics, Statistics and

Computer Science

Akbas, Erol, A presentation for the au-tomorphisms of the 3-sphere that pre-serve a genus two Heegaard splitting.

Andikfar, Hossein, Decomposition num-bers and Cartan invariants of finitegroups of Lie type in the definingcharacteristic.

Beyarslan, Ozlem, Random structuresover pseudofinite fields.

Brugueras, Jaime, On payoff allocationsfor assignment games and on algo-rithms for stochastic games.

Cai, Dongmin, Information-based projec-tion method for categorical clusteringand outlier detection.

Chakrabarty, Siddhartha, Optimal con-trol of drug delivery to brain tumorsusing a distributed parameters deter-ministic model.

Coppola, Andrew, The theory of Q-abstract elementary classes.

Dong, Yuping, Surveillance studies onchange point in incidence rate.

Fernos, Talia, Relative property (T ), lineargroups, and applications.

Grizzard, Phil, On Lefschetz charactersof 2-local geometries for some sporadicgroups.

Gupta, Chetan, Algorithms to identifyclusters and outliers based on dyadicdecomposition with applications tostreams.

Lenzhen, Anna, Teichmuller geodesicsthat do not have a limit in PMF.

Lou, Congrong, Assessment of agree-ment.

Olson, Jeffrey, Finiteness conditions onvarieties of residuated structures.

Savic, Predrag, Counting closed orbits inrectangles with slits.

Taber, Mark, Analyticity of the Dirichlet-Neumann operator and its applicationto detecting ocean bathymetry.

Tancredi, Daniel, Design insights forepidemiological studies of prevalentand incident dementia.

Wei, Li, Stochastic curtailment methodunder linear models.

Yan, Guoqing, Option pricing for astochastic-volatility jump-diffusion mod-el.

Yan, Zhiwu, Crossover designs for aself and simple mixed carryover effectsmodel with correlated errors.

Ye, Jinchun, Optimal life insurance pur-chase, consumption and portfolio un-der an uncertain life.

University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (23)

Mathematics

Anguelova, Jana, Quantum vertex alge-bras and symmetric polynomials.

Cao, Weiting, Some problems in struc-tural graph theory.

Cho, Jae-Seong, An algebraic generaliza-tion of subelliptic multipliers.

Gambill, Thomas, L2 bounds of theattractor for the KS equation.

Gibson, Donald, Covering systems.Jossey, John, Galois 2-groups unramified

outside 2.Kaul, Hemanshu, Topics in stochastic

combinatorial optimization and ex-tremal graph theory.

Ledoan, Andrew, Distribution of Fareyseries and free path lengths for acertain billiard in the unit square.

Lee, Jae-ug, Particles’ spreading in asimple Majda model and eigenvalueestimation through Cayley transform.

Markin, Nadya, Realization of Galoisgroups with restricted ramification.

Paulhus, Jennifer, Elliptic factors in theJacobians of low genus curves.

Poitevin, Luis, Model theory of Nakanospaces.

Snapp, Bart, Generalized local cohomol-ogy and the canonical element conjec-ture.

Tao, Hua, Potential theory for subor-dinate Brownian motion by temperedstable subordinator.

Treneer, Stephanie, Congruences for thecoefficients of weakly holomorphicmodular forms.

Wong, Jeremy, Collapsing manifolds withboundary.

Yu, Gexin, External problems on linkageand packing in graphs.

Statistics

Gao, Bing, Clustering analysis for non-stationary time series.

Li, Xiaodong, Methods and theory forjoint estimation of incidental and struc-tural parameters in latent class models.

Liu, Heng, Biocriterion clustering and se-lecting the optimal number of clustersvia agreement measure.

Noe, Douglas, Partially Bayesian variableselection in classification trees.

Wang, Huixia, Interference on quantileregression for mixed model with appli-cation to GeneChip models.

Yang, Yan, Marginal mixture analysis ofcorrelated bounded response data.



INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (18)

Mathematics

Abu-Shammala, Wael Nafez, The HardyLorentz spaces.

Basyrov, Alexander, Intersection of Segrevarieties.

Hsia, Chun-Hsiung, Bifurcation and sta-bility in fluid dynamics and geophysicalfluid dynamics.

Jordan, Dan, A Grothendieck modulewith applications to rationality of thePoincare series.

Khan, Qayum, On connected sums of realprojected spaces.

Kim, Yun-Su, Linear algebraic propertiesof co-operators.

Lee, Chung Min, On phase reconstruction.Lee, Soyeon, Nonparametric regression of

spatial data analysis.Li, Jiexiang, Nonparametric estimation of

spatial data.Ma, Qingfeng, Analysis and numerics of

id time dependent superconductivitywith an applied current.

Nam, Jayoung, Mathematical studies onthe human eye.

Park, Jungho, Bifurcation and stabilityproblems in fluid dynamics.

Picard, Frederic, Some problems concern-ing multilinear forms.

Shieh, Tien-Tsan, Onset of thin super-conducting loop in a large magneticfield.

Teutsch, Jason, Noncomputable spectralsets.

Weyhaupt, Adam, New families of embed-ded triply periodic minimal surfaces ofgenus three in Euclidean space.

Winebarger, Lynn, K-interpolated se-quences.

You, Eun-Kyung, Koszul algebras of twogenerators and an Np property over aruled surface.

Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (1)


Mallison, Robert G., Jr., Zeros of sectionsof exponential sums.

Purdue University (27)

Mathematics

Chang, Yu-Lin, Two problems in Kahlermanifolds of non-positive curvature.

Chen, Lung-Hui, Scattering theory on hy-perbolic spaces with potential scatterer.

Fouli, Louiza, A study on the core ofideals.

Grant Perez, Valeria V., Independence ofelements in a ring and the height of theideal they generate.

Kang, Su-Jeong, Coniveau and the gener-alized Hodge conjecture.

Kim, Minkyun, Solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equations for d-wave supercon-ductors and a proof of their four-foldsymmetry.

Kleinfelter, Natalie, A thermodynamicallyconsistent, two time-scale theory formultiphase flow in porous media.

Li, Ya, Study of plant toxicity on a plant-herbivore model and its applications.

Li, Zhihong, Elliptic curve factoringmethod via FFTs with division poly-nomials.

Mummert, Philip, Horseshoes, solenoids,and holomorphic motions for Henonmaps.

Rong, Libin, Mathematical modeling ofHIV-1 infection and drug therapy.

Selby, Christina, Geometry of hypersur-faces in Carnot groups of step 2.

Shen, Shuo, Finite fields of low character-istic in elliptic curve cryptography.

Simon, Scott, A Dolbeault isomorphismtheorem in infinite dimensions.

Sundaravaradhan, Rajan, Some struc-tural results for the stability of rootnumbers.

Yi, Son-Young, Nonconforming mixedfinite element methods for linear elas-ticity.

Yu, Yuhua, Indifference pricing, sto-chastic control, and equity-linked lifeinsurance.

Zerhusen, Aaron, Embeddings of pseu-doconvex domains in certain Banachspaces.

Zhang, Tao, Application of fractionalBrownian motion to portfolio opti-mization; sharp estimation on almostsure asymptotic behavior of Brownianpolymer in fractional Brownian envi-ronment.

Statistics

Bremer, Martina, Identifying regulatedgenes through the correlation structureof time dependent microarray.

Du, Pang, Some problems in hazardestimation with smoothing splines.

Gunaratna, Nilupa, Evaluating the nutri-tional impact of maize varieties geneti-cally improved for protein quality.

Kim, Kyunga, Statistical issues in map-ping of genetic determinants for ex-pression level polymorphisms.

Nolan, Joseph, Statistical methods forusing 41Ca to assess treatment effectson bone turnover.

Park, Junyong, Classification and variableselection for high dimensional multi-variate binary data: Adaboost basednew methods and a theory for theplug-in rule.

Tokdar, Surya, Exploring Dirichlet mix-ture and logistic Gaussian process pri-ors in density estimation, regressionand sufficient dimension reduction.

Tyner, Benjamin, Experimental methodsfor model selection.

University of NotreDame (6)

Mathematics

Dumitrescu, Florin, Superconnections andsuper parallel transport.

Hannah, Heather, Well-posedness andregularity for a higher order periodicmKdV equation.

Lu, Ye, Finding all real solutions ofpolynomial systems.

Olson, Erika, The initial value problemfor two nonlinear evolution equations.

Redden, D. Corbett, Canonical metric con-nections associated to string structures.

Wang, Shuangcai, Blow-up in nonlinearheat equations.

IOWAIowa State University (18)

Mathematics

Chepkwony, Isaac, Analysis and controltheory of some cochlear models.

Gunaratne, Ajith, Penalty function meth-od for constrained molecular dynamics.

Vedell, Peter, Boundary value approachesto molecular dynamics simulation.

Wu, Di, Distance-based protein structuremodeling.

Statistics

Camano-Garcia, Gabriel, Statistic onStiefel manifolds.

DeCook, Rhonda, New statistical methodsin bioinformatics: For the analysis ofquantitative trait loci (QTL), microar-rays, and eQTLs.

Jiang, Qi, Statistical analysis of safetyand health issues.

Jovaag, Kari, Weedy Setaria species-group seed heteroblasty blueprintsseedling.

Legg, Jason, Estimation for two-phaselongitudinal surveys with application tothe National Resources Inventory.

Leyva-Estrada, Norma, Statistical infer-ence for particle systems from sievingstudies.

Li, Xiaoxi, Applications of nonparametricregression in survey statistics.

Mukhopadhyay, Pushpal, Extensions ofsmall area models with applications tothe National Resources Inventory.

Recknor, Justin, New methods for design-ing and analyzing microarray experi-ments for the detecton of differentialexpression.

Wang, Yaqin, Estimation of acceleratedfailure time models with random ef-fects.

Wu, Han, Poisson process models for acombination of points and counts inspace.

Wu, Yu, Estimation of regression coef-ficients with unequal probability sam-ples.



Zhang, Wuyan, The design and analysisof microarray experiments using pooledsamples for the study of quantitativetraits.

Zhang, Xiaohong, Generalized estimatingequations for clustered survival data.

University of Iowa (21)

Applied Mathematics and

Computational Science

Coskun, Huseyin, Mathematical modelsfor amoeboid cell motility and modelbased inverse problems.

Biostatistics

Kim, Kwang-Youn, Statistical methods fordetecting positional correlation of ex-pression and genetic interactions witheQTL data.

Mendoza, Maria, Case-deletion diagnos-tics for multipoint quantitative traitlocus linkage analysis.

Mathematics

Bataineh, Malik, Generalization of primeideals.

Nicholson, Neil, On knots and theirinvariants.

Ortiz-Navarro, Juan, A volume form onthe Khovanov invariant.

Schroeder, Helen, Notes on the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representation.

Sellke, Kristen, The Kauffman bracketskein module of torus knot.

Todd, Robb, Khovanov homology, twistnumber and a prelude to a cobordisminvariant.

Vega, Oscar, A generalization of J-planes.Vega-Vazquez, Victor, W∗-algebras and

finite directed graphs.Villanueva, Alfredo, A new and computa-

tional approach to prolongations.Zhao, Chunshan, Qualitative analysis of

nonlinear elliptic equations and para-bolic systems.

Statistics and Actuarial Science

Chakravarty, Subhashish, Bayesian sur-face smoothing under anistropy.

Hansen, Beth, Penalized likelihood es-timation of a mixed-effect transferfunction model.

Ng, Andrew, On dual insurance riskmodels.

Qin, Rui, Modeling bivariate survivaltimes by copulas.

Samia, Noelle, A generalized thresholdmixed model for analyzing non-normalnonlinear time series.

Sun, Peng, Bayesian analysis and ap-plications of a generalized thresholdautoregressive model.

Xie, Huiliang, Regression with smoothlyclipped absolute deviation penalty.

Zhao, Lili, Bayesian decision-theoreticgroup sequential analysis with survivalendpoints in Phase II clinical trials.

KANSASKansas State University (1)

Statistics

Smith, Christina, Estimation of treatmenteffects under combined sampling andexperimental designs.

University of Kansas (2)

Mathematics

Carlson, Nathan, Non-regular homoge-neous spaces and gaps in the partialorder of Hausdorff topologies.

Mitchell, Lon, Simplicity of C∗-algebrasusing unique eigenstates.

KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (3)

Mathematics

Bennewitz, Bjorn, Non-uniqueness in afree boundary problem.

Daniel, Pinzon, Vertex algebras andstrongly homotopy Lie algebras.

Yuho, Shin, Geodesics of a two-stepnilpotent group.

University of Louisville (6)

Mathematics

Battioui, Chakib, Cost models with promi-nent outliers.

Czajkowski, Michal, Generalized broken-line logistics regression with applica-tion to anomaly detection.

Nfodjo, David, Social-economic factors toutilization of the emergency depart-ment at a Jefferson County hospital.

Twagilimana, Joseph, Combining datamining and statistical techniques foranalysis of outcomes in hospital emer-gency department.

White, Jeremy, Finite upper semimodularlattices and the c-median property.

White, Susan, Properties of generic andalmost every mappings in various non-locally compact Polish abelian groups.

LOUISIANALouisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (10)

Mathematics

Beavers, Brian, Circuits and structure inmatroids and graphs.

Becnel, Jeremy, Extension of Schor’speriod-finding algorithm to infinite di-mensional Hilbert spaces.

Bureau, Jean, Representation propertiesof definite lattices in function fields.

Kim, Jeonghun, Classifying quadraticnumber fields up to Arf equivalence.

Kwon, Nam Hee, Subrepresentation semi-rings and an analogue of 6j-symbols.

Lee, See Keong, On moment conditionsfor the Girsanov theorem.

Qazaqzeh, Khaled, Topics in quantumtopology.

Steubner, Michael, An inverse homog-enization design method for stresscontrol in composites.

Wu, Jie, Limit theorems for weighted sto-chastic systems of interacting particles.

Yin, Hong, Backward stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in two dimensions.

Louisiana TechnologyUniversity (2)

Mathematics and Statistics Program

Popa, Bianca, Membrane systems withlimited parallelism.

Wu, Xiaoshuo, Modeling core generationand transport phenomena of microcap-sules.

Tulane University (5)

Biostatistics

Morgan, Leslie, An empirical study of thepower and accuracy of three tests forspecific clustering.

Shaffer, Jeffrey, Complete diallel crossdesigns in incomplete blocks.

Mathematics

Duncan, Christopher, Open boundaryDirichlet problems for Laplace’s equa-tion in the plane.

Tlupova, Svetlana, Improved accuracy ofnumerical solutions of coupled Stokesand Darcy flows based on boundaryintegrals.

Vernon, Richard, Preimages of planarcontinua.

University of Louisiana atLafayette (5)

Mathematics

Dib, Youssef, Continuous and discretemodels in population biology.

Mondal, Sumona, Construction of tol-erance regions for some multivariatelinear models.

Mukherjee, Shubhabrata, Tolerance lim-its and stress-strength reliability forsome continuous models.

Thibodeaux, Jeremy, Structured popula-tion models in the biological and socialsciences.

Xia, Yanping, Inferences on simple, mul-tiple, and dependent correlation coeffi-cients.

MARYLANDJohns HopkinsUniversity (6)

Biostatistics

Cohen, David, Causal inference with in-strumental variables in discrete time toevent and partial identification settings.



Huang, Yi, Statistical methods for thedetermination of average associationaland causal effect.

Scharpf, Robert, Combining high-through-put genomic data: Methods and utility.

Wang, Wenyi, Statistical methods for can-cer risk assessment and copy numberestimation.

You, Xiaojun, Statistical aspects of quar-antine interventions and incubationperiods in epidemics.

Mathematics

Zrebiec, Scott, Hole probability and largedeviations in the distribution of thezeros of Gaussian random holomorphicfunctions.

University of Maryland,Baltimore County (4)


Mitra, Pranab, Some aspects of inferenceon common mean.

Shevchenko, Olena, Topics in structuredconvex optimization and non-linearprogramming.

Vallejos, Ronny, A similarity coefficientfor spatial and temporal sequences.

Vdovina, Tetyana, Operator upscaling forthe wave equation.

University of Maryland,College Park (26)

Mathematics

Bourne, David, The Taylor-Couette prob-lem in deformable cylinder.

Chen, Zhiwei, Asymptotic problems re-lated to Smolvehowski-Kramers approx-imation.

Datta, Somantika, Wiener’s generalizedharmonic analysis in waveform design.

Dogan, Gunay, A variational frameworkfor image segmentation.

Dykstra, Andrew, Two equivalence rela-tions in symbolic dynamics.

Errthum, Eric, Singular moduli of Shimuracurves.

Fertig, Elana, Assimilating satellite obser-vations with a local ensemble Kalmanfilter.

Howard, Tatiana, Lifting of charac-ters p-adic orthogonal and metaplecticgroups.

Howell, William, Simulation optimizationof traffic light signal timings via pertur-bation analysis.

Hyde, Valerie, Representing, visualizingand modeling online auction data.

Jiang, Ning, Weakly compressible Naviers-Stokes approximation of gas dynamics.

Kim, Taejung, An investigation on holo-morphic vector bundles and Krichever-Lax matrices on algebraic curve.

Lee, Dongwook, An unsplit mesh schemefor multidimensional magnetohydrody-namics a staggered dissipation-controldifferencing algorithm.

Liu, Jie, Error estimates of stable efficientNavier-Stokes solvers via commutatorestimate.

Pande, Ashwin, Topological T -dualityKK-monopoles, gerbes and automor-phisms.

Pelzer, Blake, Computing an octahedraltiling for the last ideal complex hyper-bolic triangle group.

Schmoyer, Susan, Triviality and nontrivi-ality of Tate-Lichtenbaum self pairings.

Schurr, Simon, An inexact interior-pointalgorithm for conic convex optimiza-tion problems.

Shuttleworth, Robert, Block precondition-ers for the Navier-Stokes equations.

Sindi, Suzanne, Describing and modelingrepetitive sequence in DNA.

Steurer, Aliza, On the Galois groupsof the 2-class towers of examples ofnumber fields.

Tangboondouangjit, Aram, Sigma-deltaquantization: Number theoretic aspectsof refining quantization error.

Vogler, John, Linear forms in logarithmsand integer points on genus-two curves.

Wang, Shanshan, Exploring and modelingonline auctions using functional dataanalysis.

Xia, Qing, Extending the Levy processesto multiasset products pricing.

Zorn, Christian, Computing local L-factors for the unramified principalseries of Sp(2, F ) and its metaplecticcover.

MASSACHUSETTSBoston University (8)


Baditoiu, Gabriel, Integrable systems andFeynman diagrams.

Chen, Ming-Huei, Identification of poly-morphisms that explain a linkage sig-nal.

Dıaz, Rafael, Deformation quantizationof the moduli space of flat connections.

Matsumura, Tomoo, Orbifold cohomol-ogy of a wreath product orbifold.

Park, Jeehoon, p-adic family of half-integral weight modular forms and itsarithmetic applications.

Serenevy, Amanda, Dynamic mechanismsin networks of interneurons with peri-odic drives.

Vierling-Claassen, Dorea, Modeling cor-tial rhythms in schizophrenia: Neuronalrecruitment and suppression.

Zhou, Yingchun, Research on randompermutations of long-range dependentsequences and drug target prediction.

Boston University Schoolof Public Health (5)

Biostatistics

Keyes, Michelle, Statistical analyses ofdata with a dense sequence of mea-surements from medical devices forevaluating subclinical disease.

Liu, Chunyu, Selection of the most infor-mative individuals from families withmultiple siblings for association stud-ies.

Thwin, Soe Soe, The analysis of longitudi-nal binary response data observed overunequal time intervals.

Wang, Bingxia, The role of alternativestatistical methods of CD4 cell countestimation in quantifying HIV-relatedmorbidity and mortality.

Xu, Jing, Alternative approaches for ana-lyzing over and under dispersed persontime data.

Harvard University (31)

Biostatistics

Carey Cinar, Amy, Dose response mod-els for mixed dependent outcomes indevelopmental toxicity.

DeSantis, Stacia, Supervised and unsu-pervised latent class models for high-dimensional data.

Engler, David, Novel statistical modelingand selection methodologies for highdimensional genomic data.

Healy, Brian, Combining retrospectiveand prospective data in characterizingaccumulation of antiviral drug resis-tance mutations.

Johnson, William Evan, Statistical modelsfor removing microarray batch effectsand analyzing genome tiling micro-arrays.

Li, Lingling, Robust inference usinghigher order influence functions.

Rajicic, Natasa, Survival analysis of lon-gitudinal microarray data.

Rakovski, Cyril, Contributions to family-based association tests in candidategenes.

Salganik, Mikhail, Biomedical applica-tions of smoothing and feature signifi-cance.

Sanchez Loya, Brisa, Structural equationmodels: Fitting, diagnostics, and appli-cations to environmental epidemiology.

Sebro, Ronnie, Assessing the impactof population stratification on bothgenomewide case-control associationstudies and on family-based studies.

Signorovitch, James, Identifying infor-mative biological markers in high-dimensional genomic data and clinicaltrials.

Teixeira-Pinto, Armando, Multivariateanalysis of non-commensurate out-comes.

Whalen, Elizabeth, Creating linked, inter-active views of multivariate data.

Zhang, Peng, Analyses of periodic ob-servations and time series data withapplications to HIV prevention andstate-space models.

School of Engineering and Applied

Science

Adaska, Jason, Control of fluid queues.



Bakas, Nikolaos, Gravity wave-mean flowinteractions.

Belabbas, Mohamed, Hamiltonian sys-tems for computation.

Cheng, Chen-Mou, AANET: Aerial ad hocnetworking.

Fedorova, Alexandra, Operating systemscheduling for chip multithreaded pro-cessors.

Feldman, Vitaly, Efficiency and compu-tational limitations of learning algo-rithms.

Goodell, Geoffrey, Perspective access net-works.

Greenstadt, Rachel, Improving privacy indistribution constraint optimization.

Healy, Alexander, Applications of un-conditional pseudorandomness in com-plexity theory.

Hsiao, Pai-Hsiang, Maximizing through-put of relay networks using UAVs.

Kapanci, Emir, Signal-to-score music tran-scription with graphical models.

Lakshmanan, Geetika, Meshing pointclouds using discrete one-forms.

Logutor, Oleg, Multi-model fusion anduncertainty estimation for ocean pre-diction.

Malan, David, Rapid detection of bot-nets through collaborative networks ofpeers.

Ong, Shien, Unconditional relationshipswithin zero knowledge.

Stein, Christopher, Adaptive parallel com-putation for heterogeneous processors.

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (13)

Mathematics

Bahramgiri, Mohsen, Algorithmic ap-proaches to graph state under theaction of local Clifford group.

Burns, Jason, The number of degreesequences of graphs.

Deshpande, Amit, Sampling-based algo-rithms for dimension reduction.

Friedman, Brad, The evolution and speci-ficity of RNA splicing.

Gerhardt, Teena, The RO(S1)-gradedequivariant homotopy of THH(Fp).

Lehman, Rebecca, Brill-Noether type the-orems with a movable ramificationpoint.

Leung, Alan, Adaptive protocols for thequantum depolarizing channel.

Malmendier, Andreas, Expressions for thegenerating function of the Donaldsoninvariants for CP2.

Nichols-Barrer, Joshua Paul, On quasi-categories as a foundation for higheralgebraic stacks.

Pang, Huadong, Parabolic equations with-out a minimum principle.

Pylyavskyy, Pavlo, Comparing productsof Schur functions and quasisymmetricfunctions.

Rademacher, Luis, Dispersion of massand the complexity of geometric prob-lems.

Sutherland, Andrew, Order computationsin generic groups.

NortheasternUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Dai, Shouxin, Isomorphism between al-gebraic cobordism and K-theory oversingular schemes.

Huang, Rung-Tzung, Refined analytictorsion: Comparison theorems, productformula and examples.

Malagon-Lopez, Jose, Adams operationsand lambda operations on classifyingoriented cohomology theories.

Tufts University (1)

Mathematics

Weiss, Arthur, Some non-unimodal levelalgebras.

University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (3)


Greene, Mairead, On the index of cyclo-tomic units.

Nageswaran, Visweswaran, Minimax vari-ational principle for the rotating shal-low water equations: First order Rossbynumber effect in geophysical flows.

Okada, So, On stability manifolds ofCalabi-Yau surfaces.

Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (1)


Onofrei, Daniel, New results in the multi-scale analysis on perforated domainsand applications.

MICHIGANMichigan StateUniversity (8)

Mathematics

Moore, Amy, Diffusion flame stability.Zhang, Weiwei, Improved mode match-

ing method for scattering from largecavities.

Statistics and Probability

Guo, Hongwen, Inference on long memoryprocesses.

Liu, Lin, Estimation of net present valueof total health care costs.

Luo, Jun, High dimension and smallsample size problems: Classification,gene selection and asymptotics.

Song, Weixing, Minimum distance regres-sion model fitting with measurementerrors.

Wang, Jing, The application of B-splinesmoothing: Confidence bands and ad-ditive modeling.

Wang, Li, Polynomial spline smoothingfor time series.

Michigan TechnicalUniversity (4)

Mathematics and Science

Grassl, Thomas, A game-theoretic viewon intermediated exchange.

Srinivasan, Seshasai, Computational opti-mization of diesel engines to minimizefuel consumption and emissions.

Talafha, Adeeb, Inverse scattering trans-form analysis of multi-soliton solutionsof the three-wave-interaction of longrectangular pulses.

Wang, Hao, Applications of combinatorialdesigns to coding theory.

Oakland University (1)


Bandyopadhyay, Nibedita, Models andmethodologies for recurrent event data.

University of Michigan (27)

Mathematics

Adeboye, Ilesanmi, Volumes of hyperbolicorbifolds.

Arnold, Trevor, Anticyclotomic Iwasawatheory for modular forms.

Bernard, Yann, The coupling of gravity toYang-Mills fields and fermions in staticspherically symmetric spacetimes.

Conger, Mark, Shuffling decks with re-peated card values.

Costea, Serban, Strong A∞-weights andscaling invariant Besov and Sobelev-Lorentz capacities.

Dao, Hailong, Homological properties ofmodules over complete intersections.

Jeray, Paul, Explicit matrix representa-tions for type D Coxeter groups.

Jiarasuksakun, Thiradet, On expandergraphs and hypergraphs.

Kaganovskiy, Leon, Adaptive hierarchicaltree-based panel method for 3-D vortexsheet motion.

Kastermans, Bart, Cofinitary groups andother almost disjoint families of reals.

Klosin, Krzysztof, Congruences amongautomorphic forms of the unitary groupU (2,2).

Lee, Nam-Hoon, Constructive Calabi-Yaumanifolds.

Lu, Lu, Bounds on the enstrophy growthrate for solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations.

Mehran, Afsaneh, Even eights on a Kum-mer surface.

Payne, Samuel, Toric vector bundles.Pelayo, Alvaro, Symplectic torus actions.Schmidt, Benjamin, Weakly hyperbolic

group actions.Smith, Matthew, On solution-free sets for

simultaneous additive equations.



Yuen, Cornelia, Jet schemes and trun-cated wedge schemes for monomialschemes and determinantal varieties.

Statistics

Choe, Su Bang, Statistical analysis oforientation trajectories via quaternionswith applications to human motion.

Dood, Joel, On the analysis and design ofcomputer experiments.

Jung, Shiang-Tung, A random effectsapproach to unfolding models.

Kulkarni, Rohit, Discovering meaningfulassociations in biological networks vialow-order correlations.

Pal, Jayanta, Statistical analysis andinference in shape restricted problemswith applications to astronomy.

Phaibulpanich, Akarin, Contributions tometric learning to nearest neighborclassification.

Wang, Jing, Statistical modeling for 3-Dtrajectories.

Zheng, Chuang, Uniform simulation ofSPD matrices with applications to eval-uating classifiers.

Wayne State University (1)

Mathematics

Aga, Mosisa, Higher-order improvementsof the parametric bootstrap for linearregression processes with stationaryGaussian long-memory errors.

Western MichiganUniversity (2)

Mathematics

Furdui, Ovidiu, The Fock space andrelated Bergman type integral operator.

Okamoto, Futaba, Measures of traversabil-ity in graphs.

MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota-Twin Cities (13)

Division of Biostatistics, School of

Public Health

He, Yi, Bayesian analysis of real timeRT-PCR data with right censoring.

Ma, Haijun, Bayesian hierarchical bound-ary analysis for areal public healthdata.

Xiao, Guanghua, Integrating biologicalknowledge and other sources of datainto microarray data analysis.

Xie, Yang, Integrated analysis of genomicdata to study gene regulation.

Zheng, Yan, Topics in the low-levelanalysis of microarrays.

School of Statistics

Agboto, Vincent, Bayesian approaches tomodel robust designs.

Cook, Christopher, A game theoreticapproach to options markets.

Li, Xiaoyan “Casey”, Statistical skeletonestimation.

Liu, Song, Model combining and itsapplications: Longitudinal and semi-parametric models.

Maboudou-Tchao, Messan Edgard, Self-starting multivariate exponentiallyweighted moving average.

Neath, Ronald, Monte Carlo methodsfor maximum likelihood estimation inhierarchical models.

Shan, Kejia, Combining regression meanand quantile estimators.

Stefan, Despina, Multi-block relationshipsin high dimensions.

MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (3)


Jahan, Nusrat, Applying goodness-of-fit techniques to testing time seriesGaussianity and linearity.

Sun, Yijun, Global attractivity of higherorder nonlinear difference equations.

Wu, Xiaoqin, Temperature effects in semi-conductor equations.

MISSOURISt. Louis University (1)


Granda, Larry, Dehn surgery on singularknots.

University ofMissouri-Columbia (7)

Mathematics

Ganichev, Mikhail, Convergence of greedyalgorithms in Banach spaces.

Shi, Qiang, Sharp estimates of transmis-sion boundary value problem for Diracoperators in non-smooth domains.

Skripka, Anna, Trace formulae in finitevon Neumannn algebras.

Zinchenko, Maxim, Topics in spectral andinverse spectral theory.

Statistics

Hooten, Mevin, Hierarchical spatio-tem-poral models for ecological processes.

Sun, Xiaoqian, Bayesian spatial data anal-ysis with its application to the MissouriOzark Forest Ecosystem Project.

Wang, Lianming, Statistical analysis ofmultivariate interval-censored failuretime data.

University of Missouri-St. Louis (2)


Mason, Eric H., Image segmentation byenergy and related functional mini-mization methods.

Stamps, David, Markov chain Monte Carlomethods for regression splines with apenalized acceptance ratio.

Washington University (4)

Electricial and System Engineering

Ganesan, Narayan, Control of decoher-ence in open quantum systems usingfeedback.

McGregor, Nathan, Semi-global and glo-bal output regulation for classes ofnonlinear systems.

Wang, Wenxue, Dynamics of the turtlevisual cortex and design of sensornetworks.

Xu, Min, Function approximation meth-ods for optimal control problems.

MONTANAMontana StateUniversity-Bozeman (6)


Hayes, Christina, Generic properties ofthe infinite population genetic algo-rithm.

Latulippe, Christine, Environments thatencourage mathematics graduate teach-ing assistants: The effects of institutiontype and availability of training.

Latulippe, Joe, Nonautonomous burstingmodel for neurons.

Nelson, Karma, Developing a professionallearning community among mathemat-ics teachers on two Montana indianreservations.

Szomolay, Barbara, Analysis and controlof a biofilm disinfection model.

Welder, Rachael, Preservice elementaryteachers’ mathematical content knowl-edge of prerequisite algebra concepts.

University ofMontana-Missoula (2)


Braver, Seth, Lobachevski illuminated:Content, methods, and context of thetheory of parallels.

Gray, Katharine, Comparison of trenddetection methods.

NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska-Lincoln (6)

Mathematics

Brown Kramer, Joshua, Two problems inextremal set theory.

Buchholz, Bobbi, Self-adjoint matrix equa-tions on time scales.

Cokeley, Paul, Boundary and localizednull controllability and correspondingblow up rates of thermoelastic andstructurally damped systems.



Haataja, Steve, Amalgamation of inversesemigroups and operator algebras.

Loeb, Edward, Quantum error-correctingcodes: From stabilizer codes to inducedcodes.

White, Diana, Proper resolutions andtheir applications.

NEW HAMPSHIREUniversity of NewHampshire (6)


Ghosh, Shamindra, Planar algebras: Acategory theoretic point of view.

Gray, David, An investigation of pre-service teachers’ and professional math-ematicians’ perceptions of mathemati-cal proof at the secondary school level.

Mitcheltree, Melissa, Exploring lessonstudy as a form of professional develop-ment for enriching teacher knowledgeand classroom practices.

Naidu, Deepak, Morita equivalence forgroup-theoretical categories.

Titova, Anna, Understanding abstractalgebra concepts.

Zarringhalam, Kourosh, Cupolets: Chao-tic unstable periodic orbits, theory andapplication.

NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (4)


Banerjee, Sibabrata, Problems related toefficacy measurement and analyses.

Cheng, Yiming, Prediction of mRNApolyadenylation sites in the humangenome and mathematical modeling ofalternative polyadenylation.

Kintos, Nickolas, Modeling projection neu-ron and neuromodulatory effects on arhythmic neuronal network.

Roychoudhury, Satrajit, Selected prob-lems of inference on branching processand Poisson shock model.

Princeton University (16)

Mathematics

Fan, Edward, Finiteness and compact-ness on a class of critical metrics indimension six.

Hogadi, Amit, Topics in birational geom-etry.

Lv, Jinchi, High dimensional variableselection and covariance matrix estima-tion.

Maulik, Davesh, Gromov-Witten theory ofAn resolutions.

Milecevic, Djordje, Large values on eigen-functions on arithmetic hyperbolicmanifolds.

Ni, Yi, Knot Floer homology detects fibredknots.

Street, Brian, A parametrix for Kohn’soperator.

Suh, Junecue, Mixed characteristic stud-ies in arithmetic geometrycirbua.

Treumann, David, Exit paths and con-structible stacks.

Ulcigrai, Corinna, Ergodic properties ofsome area-preserving flows.

Wang, Qian, Causal geometry of Einstein-vacuum spacetimes.

Program in Applied Computational

Mathematics

Athanassoulis, Agissilaos, Smoothed Wig-ner transforms and homogenization ofwave propagation.

Donev, Aleksandar, Jammed packings ofhard particles.

Li, Dong, Mathematical analysis of molec-ular dynamics and related problems.

Sun, Yi, The heterogeneous multiscalemethods for interface tracking.

Yang, Zhijiang, Topics in atomistic andcontinuum modeling and simulationsof solids.

Rutgers, The StateUniversity of NewJersey (6)

Mathematics

Calinescu, Corina (Nicoleta), Intertwiningvertex operators and representations ofaffine Lie algebras.

Cuckler, William, Hamiltonian cycles inregular tournaments and Dirac graphs.

Pham, Thuy, Studies on jdeg of algebraicstructures.

Vijay, Sujith, Arithmetic progressions:Combinatorial and number-theoreticperspectives.

Weingart, Michael, Spectral functions ofinvariant operators in skew multiplicityfree spaces.

Xu, Haoyuan, Critical exponent ellipticequation: Gluing and the moving spheremethod.

NEW MEXICOUniversity of NewMexico (4)


Briand, Daniel, Applying Bayesian up-dating methods to a new combinedlifecycle failure distribution.

Kang, Huining, Semiparametric estima-tion of the odds ratio and ROC curve ofa generalized odds-rate model.

Sobol, Andrey, A Vlasov treatment of the2DF collective beam-beam interaction:Analytical and numerical results.

Yang, Mingan, Applications of mixturesof polya trees to multivariate survivaland ordinal data.

NEW YORKColumbia University (17)

Biostatistics

Chen, Tai-Tsang, Assessing repeated di-agnostic test accuracy with samplessubject to selection bias.

Esserman, Denise, Frailty models forgrouped multivariate survival data.

Lee, Hye-Seung, Familial correlation anal-ysis using regression models.

Lu, Yimeng, A mixture random effectsmodel for clustering functional data.

Luo, Xiaodong, Analysis of failure timedata with interval censoring, bivariatetruncation.

Reiss, Philip, Regression with signals andimages as predictors.

Tu, Yi-Hsuan, Simple confidence boundsby an alpha-splitting procedure in dose-finding studies.

Zhou, Xianhuang, Some statistics forcomparing two treatments with placebo,with selection of better treatment.

Mathematics

Atici, Alp, Advances in quantum compu-tational learning theory.

Caputo, Maria, Highly degenerate har-monic mean curvature flow.

Egglezos, Nikolaos, Aspects of utilitymaximization with habit formation:Dynamic programming and stochasticPDEs.

Said, Jeffrey, Nonlinear stochastic modelsof liquidity effects in financial markets.

Tsai, Chiung-Nan, On some non-linearheat flows in Kaehler geometry.

Yuster, Debbie, Triangulations, tropicalgeometry, and applications.

Statistics

Fang, Yixin, Testing for familial aggre-gation when the population size isknown.

Nimeskern, Olivier, A state-space modelof financial time series consistent withtechnical trading rules.

Zheng, Yu, Some stochastic models andanalysis for purchasing duration andbrand switching.

Cornell University (23)

Center for Applied Mathematics

Alexander, Siddharth, DVar and Var for aportfolio of derivatives.

Casey, Fergal, Prediction and optimalexperimental design in systems biologymodels.

Cintron-Arias, Ariel, Modeling and param-eter estimation of contact processes.

Interian-Fernandez, Yannet, Models andalgorithms: Applications to satisfiabil-ity and genome rearrangement prob-lems.

Pasour, Virginia, Computational and ana-lytical perspectives on the drift paradoxproblem in a freshwater embayment.



Tien, Joseph, Optimization for burstingneural models.

Wiley, Daniel, Waves in nonlocally cou-pled oscillators.

Mathematics

Armstrong, Drew, Generalized noncross-ing partitions and combinatorics ofCoxeter groups.

Bode, Jason, Isoperimetric constants andself-avoiding walks and polygons onhyperbolic Coxeter groups.

Camenga, Kristin, Angle sums on poly-topes and polytopal complexes.

Chan, Benjamin, Coexistence of contactprocesses.

Chen, Guan-Yu, The cutoff phenomenonfor finite Markov chains.

Gryc, William, On the holonomy of theCoulomb connection over 3-manifoldswith boundary.

Klebanov, Evgeniy, Asymptotic behaviorof convolutions of centered densityon Lie groups of polynomial volumegrowth.

Martin, Jason, Building infinite ray classtowers with specific signatures andsmall bounded root discriminants.

Maxim, Andrei, Aspects of the finiteelement method for elliptic partialdifferential equations.

Moldavskis, Vadims, The new genericproperties of the real and complexdynamical systems.

Pivarski, Melanie, Heat kernels on Eu-clidean complexes.

Saliola, Franco, The face semigroup alge-bra of a hyperplane arrangement.

Sinnott, Steve, Algebraic properties ofBayesian networks.

Solo, Aaron, Finite element methods forelliptic and parabolic problems withlow regularity boundary data.

Vermesi, Brigitta, Intersection exponentsfor random walks on cylinders.

Wall, Treven, A Fatou theorem for aclass of quasi-linear elliptic partialdifferential equations.

Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (10)

PhD Program in Mathematics

Bonanome, Marianna, Quantum algo-rithms in combinatorial group theory.

Clement, Anthony, On the Baumslag-Solitar groups and certain generalizedfree products.

Gitman, Victoria, Applications of theproper forcing axiom to models ofPeano arithmetic.

Johnstone, Thomas, Strongly unfoldablecardinals made indestructible.

Landesman, Peter, Generalized differen-tial Galois theory.

Reitz, Jonas, The ground axiom.Shohat, Erez, Countable short recursively

saturated models of arithmetic.

Tavakoli, Kourosh, Conformal geometryof plane domains and holomorphiciterated function systems.

Wladis, Claire, Metric properties ofThompson’s groups F (n) and F (n,m).

Zahariev, Svetoslav, Approximation ofspectra results for twisted Laplaceoperators.

Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (7)


Collis, Jon, New capabilities for parabolicequations in elastic media.

de Oliveira, Guilherme, Numerical studiesof the behavior of heterogeneous ex-plosives using the ignition-and-growthmodel.

Eladdadi, Amina, Mathematical modelingof the effects of Hera overexpressionon cell proliferation and cell cycle inbreast cancer.

Ferrara, Matthew, Radar signal process-ing.

Khan, Adnan, Parametrization for somemultiscale problems in biology andturbulence.

Reilly-Raska, Laurel, Deterministic andstochastic interval wave effects onshallow water acoustic propagation.

Sapariuc, Ioan, A numerical study of afractional step scheme for the reactiveEuler equation.

State University of NewYork at Albany (2)


Beecher, Amanda, Combinatorial descrip-tion of a free resolution of a multi-graded module.

Lance, Timothy K., Continuous controland Novikov conjectures in exact non-split categories.

State University of NewYork at Binghamton (3)

Mathematics and Science

Klein, Thomas, Filtered ends of pairs ofgroups.

Mendoza, Gabriela, On some minimalityconditions involving elements of primeorder in a group G.

Smith, Joseph, Groups whose normalizersform a chain.

State University of NewYork at Buffalo (8)

Mathematics

Bayram, Saziye, Analysis of TGF-mediateddynamics in a system of many couplednephrons.

Farnsworth, Duane, Hankel operatorson the Segal-Bargmann space andsymmetrically-normed ideals.

Glomski, Matthew, Existence and unique-ness of the critical wave number andcritical Rayleigh number for the asym-metric planar Benard problem and afunction space formulation of the non-linear problem.

Le, Long, New models for geophysicalmass flow.

Le, Trieu, Toeplitz operators on theHardy and Bergman spaces.

Staic, Mihai, Quantum groups at intersec-tion between algebra and geometry.

Stancu, Alin, Hochschild cohomology andderived categories.

Teju, Hailu, Definitive analysis of Hopfbifurcations in the centrifugal governor.

State University of NewYork at Stony Brook (16)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Daaboul, Firas, 3D image analysis forautomated recognition of neurons.

Eremina, Daria, A new expectation-maximization framework for partialvolume segmentation of medical im-ages.

Fang, Bin, Parallel spherical cutoff 3DFFT and its implementaton in SPMEalgorithm for biophysical studies: Ap-plication to the 6D torus QCDOC super-computer.

Kang, Yeona, Fast algorithm for theprotein folding dynamics.

Kim, Wonkuk, Application of asymptoticLRTS results to mixture problems ingenetic research.

Liu, Jinjie, A conservative front trackingmethod in N-dimensions.

Pestieau, Jean Nicolas, Uncertainty quan-tification and grid-based geometricalcomputations for turbulent fluid mix-ing.

Retelevski-Kugler, Dorothy, Properties ofTukey’s one degree of freedom testfor detecing epistasis in non-normalquantitative trait loci.

Tashman, Adam, Modeling risk in arbi-trage strategies using finite mixtures.

Yang, Zhongming, Restricted mixturelinear regression models: Estimation,power and sample size calculations.

Mathematics

Hakobyan, Hrant, Conformal dimensionof Cantor sets and curve families inthe plane central sets of Hausdorffdimension 2.

Han, Zhigang, Bi-variant norms on thegroup of symplectomorphisms.

Li, Li, Chow motive of Fulton-MacPhersonconfiguration spaces and wonderfulcompactifications.

Lopez, Luis, Topics in algebraic cycles.Lyberg, Ivar, Statistical mechanics of

hard spheres and the two dimensionalIsing lattice.

Suvaina, Ioana, Einstein metrics on non-simply connected 4-manifolds.



Syracuse University (7)

Mathematics

Bridgers, Leah, Conceptions of continu-ity: An investigation of high schoolcalculus teachers and their students.

Buzaianu, Elena, Selection procedures forbinomial populations.

Cetinkaya, Bulent, Recollected changes inmathematics teachers’ beliefs and prac-tices: Perceptions and psychologicaltype preferences.

Gogus, Nihat, Continuity of plurisub-harmonic and Perron-Bremermann en-velopes.

Lynn, Philip, Deformations of plane curvesingularities of constant class.

Ning, Wei, A new approach for interac-tions in two-way ANOVA models.

Pelley, Allen, Representations of a val-ued quiver, the lattice of admissiblesequences, and the Weyl group of aKac-Moody algebra.

University of Rochester (6)

Biostatistics and Computational

Biology

He, Xiaomin, Stochastic curtailment inmulti-armed trials.

Wang, Hongyue, R-symmetry and appli-cations.

Mathematics

Hu, Rui, Lp norm estimates of eigenfunc-tions restricted to submanifolds.

Kim, Sung Eun, Calderon’s problem forLipschitz piecewise smooth conductivi-ties.

Wu, Zhixin, Hitting and fractal propertiesof a random string with colored noise.

Zhao, Xi, Stochastic decay equationsand invariant measure for the waveequations with noise.

NORTH CAROLINA

Duke University (9)

Institute of Statistics and Decision

Science

House, Leanna, Nonparametric Bayesianmodels in expression proteomic appli-cations.

Leman, Scotland, On evolutionary theory,inference, and simulation: A geneologi-cal perspective.

Lucas, Joseph, Sparsity modeling for highdimensional systems: Applications ingenomics and structural biology.

Luo, Jing Qin, Model selection, covarianceselection and Bayes classification viashrinkage estimators.

Wu, Yuhong, Bayesian tree models.

Mathematics

Haskett, Ryan, Long-time asymptotic so-lutions in driven microfluidic processes.

Lefew, William, Optical precursor behav-ior.

Lucas, Timothy, Numerical solutions ofan immunology model using reaction-diffusion equations with stochasticsource terms.

Streets, Jeffrey, Ricci Yang-Mills flow.

North Carolina StateUniversity (22)

Statistics

Banerjee, Anindita, Optimal two-stagedesigns in phase-II clinical trials.

Barker, Clayton, The orthogonal interac-tions model for unreplicated factorialexperiments.

Bergquist, Mandy, Caution using boot-strap tolerance limits with applicationto dissolution specification limits.

Boyer, Joseph, Topics involving thegamma distribution: The normal co-efficient of variation and conditionalMonte Carlo.

Chen, Xi, Characterizing the genetic struc-ture of populations.

Chen, Yun, False selection rate methodsin the Cox proportional hazards model.

Crotty, Michael, Assessing the effects ofvariability in interest rate derivativepricing.

Dasah, Julius, Estimating the number ofclusters in cluster analysis.

Doehler, Kirsten, Smooth inference forsurvival functions with arbitrarily cen-sored data.

Foley, Kristen, Multivariate spatial tempo-ral statistical models for applications incoastal ocean prediction.

Huang, Xianzheng, Robustness in latentvariable models.

Jiang, Liqui, Topics in longitudinal stud-ies with coarsened data.

Kim, Seong-Tae, A new approach to unitroot tests in univariate time seriesrobust to structural changes.

Kyung, Minjung, Generalized condition-ally autoregressive models.

Lan, Lan, Variable selection in linearmixed model for longitudinal data.

Liu, Peng, A stochastic volatility modeland inference for the term structure ofinterest rates.

Liu, Xiaoni, New methods using Lev-ene type tests for hypotheses aboutdispersion differences.

Ma, Liyun, Spectral methods for like-lihood approximation of spatial pro-cesses.

Ruan, Chen, Recursive quantile estima-tion with application to value at risk.

Samanta, Suvajit, A statistical charac-terization of the genetic structure ofpopulations.

Zhang, Ke, Statistical analysis of com-pounds using OBSTree and compoundmixtures using nonlinear models.

Zhu, Liansheng, Analyzing longitudinaldata with non-ignorable missing.

University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (13)

Biostatistics

Barry, William, Resampling-based tests offunctional categories in gene expressionstudies.

Dann, Rebekkah, Methods for strength-ening the design and analysis of clinicaltrials to show non-inferiority of a newtreatment to a reference treatment fora binary response variable.

Gear, James, A test for detecting space-time clustering and a comparison withsome existing methods.

Gelfond, Jonathan, Bayesian model-basedmethods for the analysis of DNA mi-croarrays with survival, genetic andsequence data.

Luta, Gheorghe, Empirical likelihood-based adjustment methods.

Mathematics

Choate, Eric P., Small amplitude oscil-latory flows of nematic liquid crystalpolymers.

Hagihara, Rika, Rational maps lackingcertain periodic orbits.

Jia, Jun, Krylov deferred correction meth-ods for differential equations withalgebraic constraints.

Leiterman, Terry Jo, Exact and asymptoticlow Reynolds time-varying solutions forspinning rods with a comparison to ex-periments on the micro and macroscale.

Liu, Liyan, Assimilation of Lagrangiandata into layered ocean models.

Mukherjee, Debabrata, Determinants ofthe hypergeometric period matrices ofa real arrangement and its dual.

Sell, Elizabeth, Universal abelian coversfor surface singularities zn = {f (x,y)}.

Yayama, Yuki, Dimensions of compactinvariant sets of some expanding maps.

University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (4)


Guo, Nailong, Numerical study on theoptimal coupling by evanescent whis-pering gallery modes between twomicro-spheres by using a discontin-uous spectral element method.

Holt, Jason, Spectral analysis of the one-dimensional Schrodinger operator withunbounded potentials.

Islami-Arshagi, Hussein, The long-timebehavior of solutions of differencewave equations.

Li, Henong, Semiparametric weak instru-mental variables model for panel andcross-sectional data.



NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (2)

Mathematics

Dutta, Tridib, On a generalized notion ofintegrality and VSFT domains.

Usmanov, Shukhrat, Structure of isome-tries on non-commutative Lp-spacesand a dominated ergodic theorem.

OHIOBowling Green StateUniversity (10)


Boos, Lynette, Function algebras on Rie-mann surfaces and Banach spaces.

Islam, Md. Khairul, Transformed tests forhomogeneity of variances and means.

Kasturiratna, Dhanuja, Assessing thedistributional assumptions in one-wayregression model.

Korpas, Agata, Occupation times of con-tinuous Markov processes.

Lu, Xiaojing, Simultaneous confidencebounds with applications to drug sta-bility studies.

Muchemedzi, Reuben, Likelihood-basedconfidence bands for a ROC curve.

Puharic, Douglas, The face consistencyand embeddability of Fullerenes.

Sarver, Michael, Structure-based multipleRNA sequence alignment and findingRNA motifs.

Shapla, Tanweer, Inference of attribu-table risk for multiple exposure levelsunder cross-sectional sampling design.

Toribio, Sherwin, Bayesian model check-ing strategies for dichotomous itemresponse theory models.

Case Western ReserveUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Hageman, Rachael, Bayesian methods forlarge-scale parameter and sensitivityanalyses for myocardio metabolism.

Ohio State University,Columbus (21)

Mathematics

Dimitrov, Youri, Polynomially dividedsolutions of bipartite self-differentialfunctional equations.

Guler, Dincer, Chern forms of positivevector bundles.

Hammett, Adam, On comparability ofrandom permutations.

Oman, Greg, A generalization of Jonssonmodules over commutative rings withidentity.

Pavlov, Ronald, Some results on recur-rence and entropy.

Pu, Ming, Pricing in the actuarial market.

Wang, Hongyuan, On a class of alge-braic surfaces with numerically effec-tive cotangent bundles.

Statistics

He, Qinying, Inference on correlationfrom incomplete bivariate samples.

Katsaounis, Parthena, Equivalence ofsymmetric factorial designs and char-acterization and ranking of two-levelsplit-lot designs.

Kim, YongKu, Bayesian multiresolutiondynamic models.

Kosler, Joseph, Multiple comparisons us-ing multiply-imputed data under a two-way mixed effects repeated measuresinteraction model.

Li, Bin, Statistical learning and predictivemodeling in data mining.

Liu, Liang, Reconstructing posterior dis-tributions of a species phylogeny usingestimated gene tree distributions.

Liu, Qing, Optimal experimental designsfor hyperparameter estimation in hier-archical linear models.

Ruan, Shiling, Poisson race models: The-ory and application in conjoint choiceanalysis.

Sun, Yiping, Rank-sum test for two-sample location problem under orderrestricted randomized design.

Wan, Shuyan, Likelihood-based proce-dures for obtaining confidence intervalsof disease loci with general pedigreedata.

Yu, Lili, Variable selection in the generallinear model for censored data.

Yu, Qingzhao, Bayesian synthesis.Zhang, Jian, Loss function approaches

to predict a spatial quantile and itsexceedance region.

Zhao, Yanxing, Parametric inference fromwindow censored renewal process data.

Ohio University, Athens (1)

Mathematics

Al-Ahmadi, Adel, Injectivity conditionson group rings.

University of Cincinnati (3)


Badamdorj, Dorjsuren, Modeling andcomputation of signal transduction ofolfactory cilla with non-uniform CNGand CI (Ca) channels distributions.

Dumitru, Raluca Alina, Compact quan-tum group actions on C∗-algebras.

Visinescu, Bogdan, K-theory and ho-motopy type of certain infinite C∗-algebras.

University of Cincinnati,Medical College (1)

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Division

Ndikintum, Nfii, Statistical considerationsfor paired repeated measures designsof method comparison studies: Appli-cation to pulse oximetry.

University of Toledo (2)

Mathematics

Deng, Xin, Goodness-of-fit tests of thedensity ration models.

Hindeleh, Firas, Application of differ-ential geometry to metric separabilityproblems in Lie groups.

OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity, Stillwater (3)

Mathematics

Miller, David, Evaluating the effectivenessof a learning system for technicalcalculus.

Statistics

Maharry, Timothy, Proportion differ-ences using the beta-binomial distri-bution.

Morris, Tracy, A permutation test for thestructure of a covariance matrix.

University of Oklahoma (5)

Mathematics

Hamidi Alaoui, Abdelhamid, Vorticity-based estimation of vertical velocitiesfrom radar data: Accuracy and sensitiv-ity.

Hands, Krista, The business calculusGMTA: An exploration of how to teacha course one has never taught.

Lancaster, Stephen, Pre-service teach-ers and statistics: Interrelationshipsbetween content confidence, knowl-edge, and attitudes; pedagogical con-tent knowledge; and teacher interest inprofessional development in statistics.

Li, Junfang, Geometric evolution equa-tions and p-harmonic theory with ap-plications in differential geometry.

Wu, Lina, P -harmonic theory on ellipsoidswith applications in geometry.

OREGONOregon State University (2)

Statistics

Alnosaier, Waseem, Kenward-Roger ap-proximate F test for fixed effects inmixed linear models.

Li, Yonghai, Likelihood analysis of themultivariate ordinal probit model forrepeated and spatial ordered categori-cal responses.

Portland StateUniversity (2)


Anderson, Rick, Mathematics meaningand identity: A study of the practice ofmathematics education in a rural highschool.



Williams, Anca, A qualitative analysis ofhybrid control systems.

University of Oregon (7)

Mathematics

Allen, Paul, Timelike minimal submani-folds in Robertson-Walker spacetimes.

Carter, John, Convergence of the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence for MoravaK-theory.

Dolan, Peter, A Z2-graded generalizationof Kostant’s version of the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem.

Hill, David, The Jantzen-Shapovalov formand Cartan invariants of symmetricgroups and Hecke algebras.

Hoover, Skip, Dimension functions ofrationally dilated wavelets.

Miller, Matthew, Configuration spaces oflens spaces.

Rodriguez-Ordonez, Hugo, Topologicalstudy of nonsingular bilinear maps.

PENNSYLVANIACarnegie MellonUniversity (2)

Mathematical Science

Cudina, Milica, Asymptotic control forsome time-varying stochastic networks.

Natarajan, Venkatesh, Independent setsin powers of odd cycles and the globalmin-cut problem.

Lehigh University (2)

Mathematics

Bendjilali, Nasrine, New approaches tomultiple comparisons.

Li, Xiaoxue, Some properties of thev1-periodic spectrum associated to ex-ceptional Lie groups.

Pennsylvania StateUniversity, UniversityPark (13)

Mathematics

Gorb, Yuliya, Asymptotic analysis ofeffective properties of highly concen-trated composites.

Meemark, Yotsanan, Operators based ondouble cosets of GL2.

Mummert, Anna, Thermodynamic for-malism for nonuniformly hyperbolicdynamical systems.

Ryham, Rolf, An energetic variationalapproach to mathematical modeling ofcharged fluids: Charge phases, simula-tion and well posedness.

Tsao, Shih-Chang, On explicit construc-tions and improved bounds of algebraicgeometry codes.

Yuncken, Robert, Analytic structures forthe index theory of SL(3,C).

Statistics

Chen, Yi-Ju, Robustness properties ofgeneralized correlation coefficients, withassociations to cross-over designs.

Dziak, John, Penalized quadratic infer-ence functions for variable selection inlongitudinal research.

Kang, Doh Yung, Casual inference bysemiparametric imputation.

Lee, Hyun-Sook, Two topics: A jackknifemaximum likelihood approach to sta-tistical model selection and a convexhull peeling depth approach to non-parametric massive multivariate dataanalysis with applications.

Sarr, Makhtar, Robust nonparametricinference based on the multivariatetrimmed mean.

Xu, Hong, Contributions to adaptive websampling designs.

Zhang, Zhe, New modeling proceduresfor functional data in computer experi-ments.

University ofPennsylvania (7)

Mathematics

Bak, Anthony, Constructing bundles onAbelian surface.

Corry, Scott, Arithmetic and geometry ofthe open p-adic disc.

Daenzer, Calder, A groupoid approach tononcommutative T -duality.

Guerra, Stefano, Spectral cover construc-tion for associated bundles.

Hoelscher, Corey A., Classification ofcohomogeneity one manifolds in lowdimensions.

Hoelscher, Jing Long, Galois extensionsramified at one prime.

Statistics

Xu, Juntian, A closed form for theharmonic-prior Bayes estimator with as-sociated confidence sets for the meansof a multivariate normal distribution.

University ofPittsburgh (13)

Mathematics

Diwadkar, Jyotsna, Nilpotent conjugacyclasses of reductive p-adic Lie algebrasand definibility in Pas’s language.

Duran, Ahmet, Overreaction behaviorand optimization techniques in mathe-matical finance.

Gurel Kazanci, Fatma, Pattern formationin coupled networks with inhibition andgap junctions.

Hart, Gary D., A constraint-stabilizedtime-stepping approach for piecewisesmooth multi-body dynamics.

Manica, Carolina, Numerical methods inturbulence.

Mihai, Daniela, Mathematical aspects oftwistor theory.

Pencheva, Gergina, Multiblock modelingof flow in porous media and applica-tions.

Rebholz, Leo, Helicity and physical fidelityin turbulence modeling.

Tadesse, Arebaw, Compact compositionoperators on the Hardy and Bergmanspaces.

Statistics

Gamalo, Mark, Bounded influence ap-proaches to constrained mixed vectorautoregressive models.

Sezer, Ahmer, Reporting uncertainty byspline function approximation of log-likelihood.

Soulakova, Julia, Dose finding strategiesfor single drug and combination drugtrials.

Ziegler, Melissa, Variable selection whenconfronted with missing data.

RHODE ISLANDBrown University (11)

Applied Mathematics

Cheng, Yingda, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for Hamiltonian-Jacobi equa-tions and equations with higher orderderivative.

Lian, Heng, Some topics on statisticaltheory and applications.

Lin, Guang, Parallel high-order methodsfor deterministic and stochastic CFDand MHD problems.

Oman, Peter, Enriched homotopy andcalculus.

Qiu, Jingmei, High order schemes: Con-vergence for hyperbolic conservationlaws and applications in computationalcosmology.

Wan, Xiaoliang, Adaptive multi-elementgeneralized polynomial chaos: Algo-rithms and applications.

Mathematics

Chen, Ming, Analysis of some nonlineardispersive waves in a compressiblehyperelastic plate.

Hutz, Benjamin, Arithmetic dynamics onvarieties of dimension greater than 1.

Jang, Juhi, Diffusive expansion in kinetictheory and dynamics of gaseous stars.

King, Michael, Cluster ensembles of typeAn and the canonical map for configu-ration spaces.

Manes, Michelle, Arithmetic dynamics ofrational maps.

University of RhodeIsland (3)

Mathematics

McGurer, Melinda, Optimizing waitingmeasures in flow-shops.



McPhillips, Kenneth, Far field shallowwater wave number estimates given alinear towed array using fast maximumlikelihood, matrix pencil and subspacefitting techniques.

Tiner, Gary, On the Erdos–Sos Conjec-ture.

SOUTH CAROLINAMedical University ofSouth Carolina (4)

Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and

Epidemiology

Abell, Jill, Racial disparities in cardio-vascular mortality risk associated withbody mass index in men and women: Asubject level meta analysis.

Adelman, Aaron S., Population mixingand risk of childhood acute lymphoblas-tic leukemia.

Lin, Yan, Analyzing 2×2 tables with smallsample sizes and possibly missing data.

McNeil, Rebecca, Development and ap-plication of the multivariate Mantel-Haenszel mean scores test.

University of SouthCarolina (9)

Mathematics

Beanland, Kevin, A hereditarily indecom-posable Banach space and embeddingof l-infinity into the space of operators.

Finch, Carrie, Topics from the irreducibil-ity of polynomials and coverings of theintegers.

Li, Shuang, Numerical methods and anal-yses for the fluid flow in the fracturedporous media.

Liu, Xiteng, Space signal representationin redundant systems.

Wang, Kening, Domain decompositionmethods for fourth order problems.

Statistics

Buckley, Brooke, Benchmark analysis un-der Abbott-adjusted quantal responsemodels.

Jaki, Thomas, Maximum kernel likelihoodestimation.

Wu, Yuping, Statistical methods for theanalysis of mass spectrometry data.

Yates, Philip, Methods for the analysis offlood frequency data.

TENNESSEEUniversity of Memphis (3)


Gal, Ciprian, Wentzell boundary condi-tions in the context of wave equations,Sturm-Liouville operators and Cahn-Hilliard models.

Fu, Dongyue, A comparative study ofgeneral linear mixed model and permu-tation tests in group-randomized trialsunder non-normal error distributions.

Zhou, Hong, Optimal fold-over plans forthree level fractional factorial designs.

University of Tennessee,Knoxville (4)

Mathematics

Asano, Erika, Three population modelsapplied to competition, disease andinvasion.

Ding, Wandi, Two biological applicationsof optimal control to hybrid differentialequations and elliptic PDEs.

Mitra, Atish, Cohomological dimensionwith respect to nonabelian groups.

Saum, Michael, Adaptive discontinuousGalerkin finite element methods forsecond and fourth order elliptic partialdifferential equations.

Vanderbilt University (3)

Mathematics

Futamura, Fumiko, Symmetrical local-ized frames, localized operators andtheir application to the construction oflocalized Hilbert and Banach frames.

Leonetti, Casey, Reconstruction fromerror-affected data in shift-invariantspaces.

Shan, Lin, Equivariant index theory andnon-positively curved manifolds.

TEXASBaylor University (6)

Statistical Sciences

Carlin, Patricia, Bayesian inference forcorrelated binary data with an applica-tion to diabetes complication progres-sion.

Cheng, Dunlei, Topics in Bayesian samplesize determination and Bayesian modelselection.

McGlothlin, Anna, Logistic regressionwith misclassified response and co-variate measurement error: A Bayesianapproach.

Moore, Page, A restriction method forthe analysis of discrete longitudinalmissing data.

Ounpraseuth, Songthip, Selected topicsin statistical discriminant analysis.

Riggs, Kent, Maximum-likelihood-basedconfidence regions and hypothesis testsfor selected statistical models.

Rice University (12)

Computational and Applied

Mathematics

Guevara Vasquez, Fernando, On theparametrization of ill-posed inverseproblems arising from elliptic partialdifferential equations.

Sabino, John, Solution of large-scale Lya-punov equations via the block modifiedSmith method.

Shah, Mili, A symmetry preserving singu-lar value decomposition.

Mathematics

Chuang, Jer-Chin, Transgressive chains,harmonic cycles, and subdivisions.

Kim, Soomin, Limits of minimal surfaceswith increasing genus.

Knecht, Amanda, Weak approximationfor degree two delPezzo surfaces.

Samansky, Eric, Convergence of Gibbsmeasure and the behavior of shrinkingtubular neighborhoods of fractals andalgebraic sets.

Zhu, Wei, Minimizing and flow problemsfor multiple valued functions on maps.

Statistics

Bhatti, Chad, Statistical models for intra-day trading dynamics.

Paszek, Pawel, Modeling stochasticity ingene regulation.

Rossell, David, Some approaches toBayesian design of experiments andmicroarray data analysis.

Yamal, Jose-Miguel, Multilevel classifica-tion: Classification of populations frommeasurements on members.

Southern MethodistUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Markos, Mulugeta, Steady liquid flowand liquid-vapor interface shapes indifferent groove structures in microheat pipes.

Rangelova, Marina, Error estimation forfourth order partial differential equa-tions.

Savchuk, Tatyana, The multiscale finiteelement method for elliptic problems.

Texas A&M University (16)

Mathematics

Ambartsoumian, Gaik, Spherical radontransform and mathematical problemsof thermoacoustic tomography.

Decker, Marvin, Loop spaces in motivichomotopy theory.

Mei, Tao, Operator valued Hardy spaces.Munasinghe, Samangi, Geometric condi-

tions in C which imply compactness ofthe d-bar Neumann operator.

Ong, Beng, Spectral problems of opti-cal waveguides and quantum graphstheory.

Pereira, Mariana, On simple modules forcertain pointed Hopf algebras.

Roque-Sol, Marco, Sensitivity and Fourierspectrum of topological dynamical sys-tems and chaotic interval maps.

Tohaneanu, Stefan, Homological algebraand problems in combinatorics andgeometry.

Wiggins, Alan, Singular subfactors of II1factors.

Zhang, Zhigang, Modeling, analysis andcontrol of quantum electronic devices.



Statistics

Cheon, Sooyoung, Protein folding andphylogenetic tree reconstruction usingstochastic approximation Monte Carlo.

Li, Bo, An analysis of Texas rainfall dataand asymptotic properties of space-time covariance estimators.

Li, Yehua, Topics in functional dataanalysis with biological applications.

Lobach, Iryna, Case-control studies ofgenetic and environmental factors witherror in measurement of environmentalfactors.

Wang, Xiaohui, Bayesian classificationand survival analysis with curve predic-tors.

Zhang, Weimin, Topics in living cellMPLSM image analysis.

University of Houston (8)

Mathematics

Abdulbala, Soha, Generalized sigma-deltaquantization.

Flagg, Mary, The role of the Jacobsonradical of the endomorphism ring inthe Baer-Kaplansky theorem.

Foss, Fred, On the numerical exact point-wise interior controllability of the scalarwave equation and solution of nonlinearelliptic eigenproblems.

Gvozdev, Vladimir, Discretizations of thediffusion and Maxwell equations inpolyhedral meshes.

Kalva, Deepti, Equiangular cyclic frames.Liu, Yuncheng, Defect relations on para-

bolic manifolds and degeneracy ofholomorphic curves.

Wang, Yunjiao, Patterns of synchrony inlattice dynamical systems.

Xu, Dekang, Proper holomorphic map-pings between balls.

University of NorthTexas (2)

Mathematics

Edson, Marcia, Around the Fibonaccinumeration system.

Yingst, Andrew, A characterization ofhomeomorphic Bernoulli trial mea-sures.

University of Texas atArlington (1)

Mathematics

Cai, Jiangang, LES for wingtip vortexaround an airfoil.

University of Texas atAustin (17)

Institute for Computer Engineering

and Science

Baird, John, Numerical analysis of therepresenter method applied to reservoirmodeling.

Bazilevs, Jurijs, Isogeometric analysis ofturbulence and fluid-structure interac-tion.

Heath, Ross, Numerical analysis of thediscontinuous Galerkin method appliedto plasma physics.

Kurtz, Jason, Fully automatichp-adaptivityfor acoustic and electromagnetic scat-tering in three dimensions.

Rath, James, Multiscale basis optimiza-tion for Darcy flow.

Mathematics

DeBlois, Jason, Totally geodesic surfacesin hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Dıaz Espinosa, Oliver R., Renormalizationand central limit theorem for criticaldynamical systems with external weakrandom noise.

Fokam, Jean Marcel, Forced vibrationsvia Nash-Moser iterations.

Gagliardo, Michael, The higher flows ofharmonic maps.

Haynes, Alan, Tools and techniques inDiophantine approximation.

Kent, Richard Peabody, IV, Geometry andalgebra of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Kwon, Young-Sam, Strong trace fordegenerate parabolic-hyperbolic equa-tions and applications.

Pekker, Alexander, Diophantine approx-imation in projective space and theabsolute Siegel’s lemma.

Rand, Betseygail, Pattern-equivariant co-homology of tiling spaces with rota-tions.

San Martin Gomez, Mario, A three di-mensional finite element method andmultigrid solver for a Darcy-Stokes sys-tem and applications to vuggy porousmedia.

Scholl, Matthew, Local elliptic boundaryvalue problems for the Dirac operator.

Zarzar, Marcos, Error-correcting codeson low Neron-Severi rank surfaces.

University of Texas atDallas (6)


El-Sissi, Nermine, Positive definite kernelsand lattice paths.

Kshattry, Indra B., Modeling arsenic inthe wells of Nepal.

Suzuki, Sumihiro, Constructive method-ologies of optimal sequential plans.

Xia, Jingsi, Optimal sequentially plannedchange-point detection procedures.

Xiao, Peng, Contributions to multivariateL-moments: L-comoment matrices.

Zhou, Hong, Parametrizations of uni-tary and positive matrices in quantuminformation and control.

UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Xie, Zhifu, The N-body problem.

University of Utah (6)

Mathematics

Despotovic, Zrinka, Action dimension ofmapping class groups.

Kovacevic, Domagoj, Exceptional dualpair correspondences.

Louder, Larsen, Krull dimension for limitgroups.

Newren, Elijah, Enhancing the immersedboundary method: Stability, volumeconservaton, and implicit solvers.

Oster, Andrew, Mathematical models ofcortical development.

Zobitz, John, Mathematical approachesto partition net ecosystem exchangeof CO2 in a high elevation subalpineforest.

VIRGINIAOld DominionUniversity (4)


Deng, Yihao, Efficient unbiased estimat-ing equations for analyzing structuredcorrelation matrices.

Jones, Andrea, The computation of exactGreen’s functions in acoustic analogyby a spectral collocation boundaryelement method.

Slaba, Tony, Three methods for solv-ing the low energy neutron transportequation.

Srivastava, Jayesh, Canonical correlatonanalysis and correspondence analysisof longitudinal data.

University of Virginia (5)

Mathematics

Hafizoglu, Cavit, Linear quadratic regu-latory boundary/point control of sto-chastic PDE systems with unboundedcoefficients.

Smith, Michael, Derivations of 8 simpleJordan superalgebras.

Taylor, David, The Bloch-Okounkov func-tion and dimension formulas for mod-ules of infinite-dimensional Lie alge-bras.

Toundykov, Daniel, Long-term dynamicsof a semilinear wave equation withlocalized nonlinear dissipation, criti-cal source term, and mixed boundaryconditions.

Tuffaha, Amjad, Well-posedness, solv-ability, and optimal control of coupledPDEs with an interface.

Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (15)

Mathematics

Chalmeta, Alberto, On the units andstructure of the 3-Sylow subgroups ofthe ideal class groups of pure bicubicfields and their normal closures.



Dimitrova, Elena, Polynomial models forsystems biology: Data discretizationand term order effect of dynamics.

Fulton, Brian, Analysis and approxima-tion of viscoelastic and thermoelasticjoint-beam systems.

Fulton, Melanie, The quantum automor-phism group and undirected trees.

Grinshpon, Mark, Universal localizationand group cohomology.

Kachroo, Pushkin, Control of hyperbolicpartial differential equations: Applica-tion to traffic.

Rivera-Marrero, Olgamary, The place ofdiscrete mathematics in the schoolcurriculum: An analysis of preserviceteachers’ perceptions of the integrationof discrete mathematics into secondarylevel courses.

Vance, James, Permanent coexistence foromnivory models.

Statistics

Farrar, David, Some model based andnonparametric clustering methods forcharacterization of regional ecologicalstressor response patterns and regionalenvironmental quality trends.

Joner, Michael, Univariate and multivari-ate surveillance methods for detectingincreases in incidence rates.

Liu, Bing, Casual gene network interfer-ence from genetical genomics experi-ments via structural equation modeling.

Pickle, Stephanie, Semiparametric tech-niques for response surface methodol-ogy.

Wang, Li, Recommendations for designparameters for central composite de-signs with restricted randomization.

Zhang, Huizi, Classification analysis ofenvironmental monitoring: Combininginformation across multiple studies.

Zhang, Ying, Efficient sampling plansfor control charts when monitoring anautocorrelated process.

WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (23)

Applied Mathematics

George, David, Finite volume methodsand adaptive refinement for tsunamipropagation and inundation.

Jeon, Jihyoun, Mathematical modelingof pre-malignant lesions in multistagecarcinogenesis.

Srivastava, Santosh, Bayesian minimumexpected risk estimation of distribu-tions for statistical learning.

Toth, Damon, Analysis of age-structuredchemostat models.

Biostatistics

Li, Min, Bayesian discovery of regulatorymotifs using reversible jump Markovchain Monte Carlo.

Mathematics

Baek, Yeongcheon, An interior pointapproach to the constrained nonpara-metric mixture models.

Blazek, Kirk, The one-dimensional inverseproblem of reflection seismology on aviscoelastic medium.

Bogart, Tristram, Problems in compu-tational algebra and integer program-ming.

Doherty, Davis, On singularities of gener-ic projections.

Jabbusch, Kelly, Notions of positivity ofvector bundles.

Jin, Hai, The inverse problem of fiberBragg gratings.

Jones, Brant, Some combinatorics onHecke algebras of reflection groups.

Kahle, Matthew, Topology of randomsimplicial complexes.

Lockridge, Keir, The generating hypoth-esis in general stable homotopy cate-gories.

Schwede, Karl, On F -injective and DuBoissingularities.

Shmerkin, Pablo, The structure of over-lapping self-affine sets.

Treisman, Zachary, Arc spaces and ratio-nal curves.

Tzou, Leo, Partial differential equations.Zaveri, Sona, The second eigenfunction

of the Neumann Laplacian on thinregions.

Statistics

Glynn, Adam, Alleviating ecological biasin generalized linear models and opti-mal design with subsample data.

Nugent, Rebecca, Algorithms for estimat-ing the cluster tree of a density.

Shortreed, Susan, Learning in spectralclustering.

Westveld, Anton, Statistical methodologyfor longitudinal social network data.

Washington StateUniversity (4)

Mathematics

David, Roden Jason A., Algorithms forthe unitary eigenvalue problem.

Griffin, Kent, Solving the principal mi-nor assignment problem and relatedcomputations.

Zhou, Haujun, Multivariate compoundpoint processes with drifts.

Zhu, Yuntao, Stochastic semidefinite pro-gramming.

WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Aslam, Muhammad, Some new modelsfor image compression.

WISCONSINMedical College ofWisconsin (1)

Biostatistics

Liu, Jingxia, Utilizing propensity scoresto test treatment effects in survivaldata.

University of Wisconsin,Madison (44)

Mathematics

Alfeld, Christopher, To branch or not tobranch: Branching and non-branchingin the Medvedev lattice of “Π0

1” classes.Anderson, Jaclyn Ann, Two problems in

the theory of t-core partitions.Bowman, John, Finite-dimensional mod-

ules for the quantum affine algebraUq(y) and its Borel subalgebra.

Chakrabarti, Debraj, Approximation ofmaps with values in a complex oralmost complex manifold.

Funk-Neubauer, Darren, Tridiagonal pairsand their use in representation theory.

Garthwaite, Sharon, On questions ofcongruence and size for modular formsand Maass-Poincare series.

Getz, Jayce, Intersection homology ofHilbert modular varieties and quadraticbase change.

Griffeth, Stephen, Rational Cherednikalgebras and bases for coinvariantrings.

Hartwig, Brian, Tetrahedron algebra andtridiagonal pairs.

He, Weiyong, On the Calabi flow.Hur, Youngmi, Novel methodologies for

effective wavelet constructions in highdimensions.

Kach, Asher, Characterizing the com-putable structures Boolean algebrasand linear orders.

Kane, Benjamin, Computationally fea-sible bounds for representations ofintegers by ternary quadratic formsand CM lifts of supersingular ellipticcurves.

Kim, Ahyoung, Locating absolutely con-tinuous spectra of Jacobi operators.

Liao, Xiaomei, Computational high fre-quency waves in heterogeneous media.

Mahlburg, Karl, Congruence propertiesof modular forms and applications tonumber theory.

Nguyen, Xuan Hien, Construction of em-bedded complete self-similar surfacesPart 1.

Novak, Kyle, A semiclassical transportmodel for thin quantum barriers.

Oberlin, Richard, The (d,k) Kakeya prob-lem and estimates for the X-ray trans-form.

Petrosyan, Nansen, Jumps in cohomologyof groups periodicity and semidirectproduct.



Spaeth, Peter, Floer homology and engulf-able Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms.

Sutton, Taliesin, Automorphic forms onquaternion algebras and central criticalvalues of L-functions.

Vasquez, Elisa, Geometric partitions ofdefinite sets and an application of theCauchy-Crofton formula.

Weber, Brian, Moduli spaces of extremalKohler manifolds.

Statistics

Carew, John, Statistical methods formagnetic resonance images.

Chen, Meng, Statistical methods for ex-pression quantitative trait loci (eQTL)mapping.

Cheng, Guang, Higher order semipara-metric frequentist inference and theprofile sampler.

Cheng, Yu, Association analysis of multi-variate competing risks data.

Fang, Fang, Empirical likelihood ap-proach for stratified samples with non-response.

Fu, Haoda, Sparsity and smoothnessfor disease rate mapping via BayesianLasso.

Hu, Bo, Explained variation for logis-tic regression and linear mixed-effectmodel.

Jeon, Yongho, New methods for nonpara-metric graphical model building andstate price density estimation.

Kwak, Minjung, Testing for independenceof a survival time from a covariate.

Li, Jialiang, Estimation techniques formulti-dimensional effective dose underparametric and semiparametric models.

Li, Xiaolei, Bayesian analysis of cross-classified spatial data with auto-correla-tion.

Lu, Fan, Regularized nonparametric logis-tic regression and kernel regularization.

Mukherjee, Rajat, On accelerated failuretime models for forward and backwardrecurrence times.

Mun, Jungwon, Diagnostics for repeatedmeasurements using residual sum ofsquares.

Qi, Xin, The central limit theorems forspace-time point processes.

Sarkar, Deepayan, On the analysis ofoptical mapping data.

Song, Rui, Inference for change-pointtransformation models.

Wei, Xiaodan, A test for non-inferioritywith a mixed multiplicative additivenull hypothesis.

Wu, Zhengxiao, A filtering approach toabnormal cluster identification.

Xu, Lei, Grouping methods for infor-mative missing data in longitudinalstudies.



Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2006–2007Supplementary ListThe following list supplements the list of thesis titles published in the February 2008 Notices, pages 280–99.

CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute of Techology (4)

Control and dynamiCal SyStemS

Chen, Lijun, Wireless network design and control.

Lui, Xin, Robustness, complexity, validation and risk.

Mysore, Shreesh, Structural plasticity in neuronal networks.

Martinez, Alfredo, A treatise on econometric forecasting.

Naval Postgraduate School (1)

mathematiCS

Johnson, Anthony, A time dependent finite element approach to optimizing seismic sonar arrays.

University of California, Berkeley (14)

StatiStiCS Bourgon, Richard, Chromatin-immune precipitation and

high density tiling microarrays: A generative model, methods for analysis and methodology assessment in the absence of a “gold standard”.

Cho, Young, Estimating velocity fields on a freeway from low resolution video.

Lasiecki, Pawel, Assessment of stochastic differential equation and Markov chain models in time series.

Li, Bo, On goodness-of-fit tests of semiparametric models.

Panaretos, Victor, Inverse problems, stochastic geometry, structural biology.

Roch, Sebastien, Markov models on trees: Reconstruction and applications.

Yi, Jing, Absolute and relative quantification of fluorescently labelled DNA.

Group in BioStatiStiCS

Bein, Edward, Topics in causal inference: Analyzing psychotherapy outcome studies, convex-combination estimators, and G-computations model selection.

Petersen, Maya, Applications of causal inference methods to improve the treatment of antiretroviral-resistant HIV infection.

Tang, Hui, Finding DNA cis-regulatory elements using regression methods.

Teng, Siew-Leng, Statistical methods in integrative analysis of gene expression data with applications to biological pathways.

Young, Jessica, Statistical methods for complicated current status and high-dimensional data structures with applications in environmental epidemiology.

Zhou, Yun, Statistical issues in a case-control study of gene expression in postmortem human brains.

Wang, Yue, Data-adaptive estimation in causal inference for point treatment study.

University of California, Los Angeles (9)

BioStatiStiCS

Alber, Susan, A partition model for treatment effects and treatment-covariate interactions.

Chiang, Lu-May, A Bayesian adaptive design for 2-drug combination phase I clinical trials with ordinal toxicity outcomes.

Gadallah, May, Combining aggregated and individual level data to estimate individual level parameters: Variance, covariance, and slope coefficient.

Kim, Hyun Jung, Classification in Thoracic computated tomagraphy image data.

Lemus, Hector, Bayesian state space modeling of heterogeneous multivariate longitudinal data.

Park, Grace Song-Ye, Modeling longitudinal radiographic progression patterns in rheumatoid arthritis.

Wu, Tongtong, A partial linear semiparametric additive risk model for two-stage design survival studies.

Zhao, Yu, Additive risks regression for survival data from two-stage designs.

Zhou, Kefei, A unified approach to nonparametric comparisons of receiver operating characteristic curves for longitudinal and clustered data.

Stanford University (9)

StatiStiCS

Guo, Yaqian, High dimensional classification with applica-tion in microarray analysis.

Jin, Wei, A Bayesian approach for additive-multiplicative hazard models.

Kapp, Amy, Cluster analysis with the in-group propor-tion.

Mathis, Charles, A statistic for measuring the value of side information in investment.

Park, Mee Young, Generalized linear models with regu-larization.

Purdom, Elizabeth, Multivariate kernel methods in the analysis of graphical structures.

Shi, Jianxin, Quantitative trait mapping using large pedi-grees and model selection.

Stodden, Victoria, Model selection when the number of variables exceeds the number of observations.

Tribble, Seth, Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms using complexly uniformly distributed sequences.

CONNECTICUT Wesleyan University (2)

mathematiCS and Computer SCienCe

Gochev, Vasil, Compact-open-like topologies on C(K) and applications.

Lu, Yun, Reducts of countably categorical graphs.

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FLORIDA University of Florida (16)

mathematiCS

Gray, Peter, The predictable projection and the predictable dual projection of a two parameter stochastic process.

Guo, Weihong, Medical Image segmentation and diffusion weighted magnetic resonance image analysis.

Keeran, Willard, Coexistence in a feedback-mediated chemostat.

Liu, Juan, Information theoretic content and probability.

Nenciu, Andriana, Characters of finite groups.

Smith, Justin, Discrete groups from a course perspective.

Turygin, Yuri, Borsuk-Ulam property of finite group actions on manifolds and applications.

Zahnen, Jeffrey, Penalized maximum likelihood methods for emission tomography.

Zhang, Hongchao, Gradient methods for large-scale nonlinear optimization.

StatiStiCS

Kim, Bong-Rae, Statistical models for clustering dynamic gene expression profiles.

Liu, Xuefeng, Bayesian methodology for models with multivariate (longitudinal) outcomes.

Mergel, Victor, Divergence loss for shrinkage estimation, prediction and prior selection.

Mukhopadhyay, Siuli, Multiresponse, GLM, and other recent approaches in response surface methodology.

Yang, Jie, Nonparametric functional mapping for quantitative trait loci.

Zhang, Li, Bayesian methods in case-control studies with application in genetic epidemiology.

Zhu, Yun, Application of asymmetric Laplace Law in financial risk measures and time series analysis.

ILLINOIS

University of Illinois at Chicago (1)

diviSion of epidemioloGy and BioStatiStiCS

Chosy, Erin, Correlates and health consequences of victimization in a sample of chemically-dependent detainees.

IOWA

University of Iowa (2)

applied mathematiCS and Computational SCienCe

Coskun, Huseyin, Mathematical models for amoeboid cell mutility and model based inverse problems.

Shimanovich, Victoria, Optimization of large scale sparse nonlinear systems for flexible protein conformation.

KANSAS

Kansas State University (3)

mathematiCS

Koshkin, Sergiy, Homogeneous spaces & Faddeev-Skyrme.

Pasko, Brian, The cohomology of a matrix subgroup.

Randriampiry, Njinasoa, On A-quasiconvex functions and weak lower semicontinuity.

MARYLANDJohn Hopkins University (5)

applied mathematiCS and StatiStiCS

Aksakalli, Vural, Protocols for stochastic shortest path problems with dynamic learning.

Feng, Jian, Some probability and statistics problems in protemics research.

Hu, Jiang, Sequential designing and terminal analysis of multinomial data.

Nickel, Christine, Random dot product graphs: A model for social networks.

Tucker, Kimberly, Exact and asymptotic dot product representations of graphs.

MASSACHUSETTSBrandeis University (7)

mathematiCS

Balasubramanyam, Baskar, Hida families of Hilbert modulor forms and p-adic L-functions.

Dousmanis, Gerasimos, Families of Wach modules and two-dimensional crystalline Galois representations.

Gospodinov, Georgi, Relative invariants of Legendrian knots.

Lai, Hsin-Hong, The invariance of virtual classes under blow up of a point when g=0.

Li, Ji, Counting prime graphs and point-determining graphs using combinatorical theory of species.

Rajagopalan, Sridhar, Heegaard Floer homology and symmetrices of knots and links

Song, Balin, On the equivariant cohomology of the genus zero moduli space for stable maps to a grassmanian.

Harvard University (6)

mathematiCS

Chen, Jy-Ying Janet, The degree 4 L-function of an automorphic form full level on the rank 2 real symplectic group.

Cotterill, Ethan, Enumerative geometry of curves with exceptional secant planes.

Jain, Sonal, Minimal heights and regulators for elliptic surfaces.

Lobb, Andrew, A slice genus lower bound from sl(n) Khovanov-Rozansky homology.

Mok, Chung-Pang, The exceptional zero conjecture for Hilbert modular forms.

Shin, Sug Woo, Counting points on lgusa varieties.

MISSISSIPPIUniversity of Mississippi (7)

mathematiCS

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Kim, Yang-Jin, Mathematical modeling of cell movement and tumor spheroid growth in vitro.

Koch, Gabriel, A Liouville theorem for the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations.

Lee, Chang-Hyeong, Stochastic analysis of biochemical reaction networks.

Luo, Jun, On the rate of convergence of the finite-difference approximations for parabolic Bellman equations with constant coefficients.

Nien, Chu-Feng, Models of representations of general linear groups over p-adic fields.

Park, Jinhae, Mathematical modeling and analysis of ferroelectricity in liquid crystals.

Swenson, James, The mod-2 cohomology of finite coxeter groups.

Tarfulea, Nicoleta, Mathematical modeling of signal transduction and cell mobility in tumor angiogensis.

Taskin, Muge, Properties of four partial orders on standard young tableaux.

Wang, Haiyang, Hybridization of the continuous Galerkin finite element method for second-order elliptic and linear elasticity problems.

Wittman, Todd, Variational approaches to digital image zooming.

Xu, Fei, Homological properties of category algebras.

Zhang, Tianyu, Numerical simulation of Ferromagnetic shape memory thin film.

Drake, Daniel, Towards a combinatorial theory of multiple orthogonal polynomials.

Gantner, Ryan, Branching annihilating random walks and their application to traffic flow.

Harrelson, Eric, The homology of the open-closed Riemann surface dioperad and open-closed string topology.

NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (8)

mathematiCS

Campos, Oscar, Asymptotic tensor norms.

Dorais, Francois , Souslin trees and degrees of constructibility.

Esselstein, Rachel, On the complexity of building a graph with given neighborhoods.

Klyve, Dominic, Explicit bounds on twin primes and Brun's constant.

Moseman, Elizabeth, The combinatorics of coordinate percolation.

Setyadi, Alison, The affine buildings of SLn and Spn: A combinatorial perspective.

Storm, Christopher, Extending the Ihara-Selberg zeta function of hypergraphs.

Tou, Erik, Zeta Functions for a class of cocompact arithmetic lattices in SL(3,R).

NEW JERSEYStevens Institute of Technology (2)

mathematiCal SCienCeS

Babaali, Parisa, Genesic and structural properties of random automata.

Bokka, Sankar, Statistical tests for the identification of differentially expressed genes.

Dolo, Samuel, A nonparametric test for scale in univariant population setup.

Garner, Latonya, A partially exchangeable model with applications to correlated binary data.

Horton, Leslie, Enumerations of independent sets in graph.

Keeton, Stephanie, The semiparametric exchangeable mode and its applications.

Nicholson, Emlee, Long cycles and paths containing K-ordered vertices in graphs.

Smith, Pamela, An efficient nonparametric test for bivariant two-sample location problem.

MISSOURIMissouri University of Science & Technology (1)

mathematiCS and StatiStiCS

Hu, Xiaojun, Distributional aspects of P-values and their use in multiple testing situations.

Washington University (9)

mathematiCS

Amei, Amei, A time-dependent Poisson random field model of polymorphism within and between two related species.

Brown, Ben, Ehrhart theory of lattice polytopes.

Knese, Greg, Schwartz lemmas on the polydisk.

Koester, Paul, Estimates on a generalization of the Erdos Tiran function.

Kuttykrishnan, Sooraj , Stably tame polynomial automorphisms of polynormal rings in two variables over a UFD.

Lim, Wang Q., Wavelets with composite dilations and their applications.

Randle, Kim, Combinatorial properties of the conjugacy class subgroup partially ordered set of finite groups.

Vegulla, Prasda, Geometry of distinguished varieties.

Wiechmann, Aaron, Recognition of thin position and the additivity conjectures.

MINNESOTAUniversity of Minnesota (22)

SChool of mathematiCS

Collins, Kevin, An inverse problem in determining the electrical potential on the heart.

Dong, Bo, Superconvergent discontinous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems.

Huska, Juraj, Qualitative properties of second order parabolic equations.

Jia, Ning, Matroids, Schubert polynomials and Fibonacci trees.

Karunathilake, Upali, A representation theorem for certain solutions to Burger's equation.

Kim, Pilwon, Invariantization of numerical schemes for differential equations using moving frames.

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OHIO

Case Western Reserve University (18)

epidemioloGy and BioStatiStiCS

Bochud, Murielle, Family-based association studies of the genetic determinants of renal sodium handling.

Hu, Simin, New methods for variable selection with applications to survival analysis and statistical redundancy using gene expression data.

Katamba, Achilles, Efficiency of sputum microscropy in diagnosis and cost-effectiveness of 6-month and 8-month treatment of new smear positive pulmonary setting of high HIV prevalence.

Larkin, Emma, A genetic analysis of correlated traits: The apena hypopnea index and body mass index.

Miller, Katherine, Genetic susceptibility in Alzheimer's disease and the role of lipid metabolism.

Nakku-Joloba, Edith, The seroprevalence and incidence of Herpes 1 and 2 in Kampala, Uganda.

Peterson, Lars, Contextual associations of unmet health care locations.

Sinha, Moumita, Estimation of haplotype frequencies from data.

Sinha, Ritwik, Efficient confidence sets for disease gene.

Stubblefield, Angelique, Healthcare utilization and risk for intentional injury death among Ohio children enrolled in Medicaid, 1992-1998.

Sucheston, Lara, Statistical methods for the genetic analysis of developmental disorders.

Terris, Darcey, Maximizing efficiency in risk adjustment under conditions of uncertainty and resources constraints.

Thompson, Cheryl, Stratified linkage analysis based on population substructure.

Trapl, Erika, Understanding adolescent survey responses: impact of mode and other characteristics on data outcomes and quality.

Xing, Chao, Topics in multipoint linkage and association analysis.

Xing, Guan, A simple new method for robust estimation.

Xu, Zhiying (Cindy), A quantitative trait linkage method for longitudinal pedigree data and its application.

Zhou, Esther, Treatment outcomes for socialized prostate patients: From individual to population.

Ohio State University, Columbus (1)

mathematiCS

Stey, George Carl, Asymptotic expansion for the L’ Norm of N-fold convolutions.

PENNSYLVANNIA

University of Pittsburgh (9)

BioStatiStiCS

Chen, Huanyu, Experimental design for unbalanced data involving a two level logistic model.

Dai, Feng, Variance components models in statistical genetics: Extensions and applications.

Dean, Leighton, A method for detecting optimal splits over time in survival analysis using tree-structured models.

Strigul, Nikolai, A new method of scaling vegetation dynamics from individual level to forest ecosystems based on crown plasticity.

Rutgers University - Newark (1)

mathematiCS and Computer SCienCe

Malik, Vidur, Curves generated on surfaces by the Gilman-Maskit algorithm.

Rutgers University - New Brunswick (4)

StatiStiCS and BioStatiStiCS

Chang, Denise, Individualized hospital report cards.

Fang, Jiangang, Network tomography: the estimation of traffic matrix and link delay.

Tang, Weihua, Conditional false discovery rate and significance analysis of microarray data.

Yue, Shentu, Some advances in causal inference with missing data and dichotomization of response in regression analysis.

NEW YorkNew York University, Courant Institute (11)

mathematiCS

Ariel, Gil, Effective stochastic dynamics in deterministic systems: Model problems and applications.

Barrerio, Andrea, Wave driven vertex of dynamics in the surf zone.

Calle, Maria, Mean curvature flow and minimal surfaces.

Hayes, Edward, The application of a semi-analytical method for computing asymptotic approximations to option prices.

Konig, Christoff, Arctic landfast sea ice.

Korotianev, Mikhail, Torelli-type theorem for curves defined over finite fields.

Ly, Cheng, Population density approach to neural network modeling: Dimension reduction analysis, technique, and firing rate dynamics.

Mori, Yoichiro, A three-dimensional model of cellular electrical activity.

Rutenburg, Alexander, PoRST Hamiltonian ten bulk-quantified gange theory.

Wright, Paul, Rigorous results for the periodic oscillation of adiabatic piston.

Zhu, Guo Dong (Ernest), Pricing options on trading strategies.

State University of New York at Buffalo (1)

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Majumdar, Antara, Maximum liklihood estimation of models based on the Monte Carlo EM.



VIRGINIA

Virginia Commonwealth University (2)

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Davenport, James, An adaptive dose-finding design using a non-responde model.

Zhao, Jianmin, Optimal clustering: genetic constrained K- and linear programming algorithms.

WISCONSIN

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (2)


Geliazkova, Maya, Spatial thresholding procedures in fMRI data.

Van Groningen, Anthony, Graded multiplicities of the nullcone for the algebraic symmetric pair of type G.

Ko, Feng-shou, Identification and assessment of longitudinal biomarkers using frailty models in survival analysis.

Li, Jia, A strategy for stepwise regression procedures in survival analysis with missing covariates.

Lin, Yan, Statistical issues in family-based genetic association studies with application to congenital heart defects in Down syndrome.

Soaita, Adina, GEE models for the longitudinal analysis of the effects of occupational radiation exposure on lymphocyte counts in Russian nuclear workers.

Xu, Qing, Inference on survival data under nonproportional hazards.

Yu, Shui, A tree-structured survival model with incomplete and time-dependent covariates: Illustrations using type 1 diabetes data.

RHODE ISLAND

Brown University (3)

BioStatiStiCS

Lee, Joo Yeon, Sensitivity analysis and informative priors for longitudinal binary data with dropout.

Shiu, Shang-Ying, PROC and ROC analysis: Effective of threshold value for diagnostic test and reference standard.

Su, Li, Bayesian semiparametric regression for censored and incomplete longitudinal data.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Clemson University (4)


Engau, Alexander, Beyond pareto optimality: Domination and decomposition in multiobjective programming.

Eyabi, Gilbert, Some properties of L(2,1)-coloring as related to the channel assignment problem.

Lockard, Shannon, Random vectors over finite fields.

Singh, Vijay, Equitable efficiency in multiple criteria optimization.

TEXAS

Southern Methodist University (3)

StatiStiCal SCienCe

Chen, Zhongxue, Probe-level data analysis for high-density oligonucleotide arrays.

Gu, Kangxia, The comparison of two poisson rates.

Lin, Qihua, Bayesian hierarchical spatiotemporal modeling of functional magnetic resonance imaging data.

Texas Tech University (3)

mathematiCS and StatiStiCS

McGee, Shelly, Computational modeling of chemical transport in flow structure interaction in porus media.

McGee, Wayne, h-p-k least squares finite element methodology and implementation for fluid-structure interaction.

Yan, Ke, Variance reduction for kernel estimators in clustered longitudinal data analysis.

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