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Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2015–2016 ALABAMA Auburn University (8) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Aust, Jennifer, Bounded complete embed- ding graphs Bertl, Alan, Techniques for finding home- omorphisms between generalized in- verse limits Byaly, Alexander, Generalized matrix functions Erzurumluoglu, Aras, Fair factorizations and fair holey factorizations of the complete multipartite graph and related edge-colorings Lilly, Kristen, Robust group variable se- lection methods Nwaeze, Eze, Location of zeros and growth of polynomials Pannu, Jasdeep, Robust variable selec- tion methods for functional regression models Sarver, Zachary, Extensions of mono- tonicity results to semisimple Lie groups University of Alabama (6) Department of Mathematics Acharyya, Soumyadip, A difference of composition operators on Bergman space Alli, Toyin, Statistical networks with applications in economics and finance Chataut, Laxmi, Groups with conditions on non-permutable subgroups Duffee, Linden, On the harmonic and geometric maximal operators Nguyen, Duc, High order FDTD methods for electromagnetic systems in disper- sive inhomogeneous media Perry, Kaitlyn, Polydegree properties of polynomial automorphisms The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016) reported in the 2017 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences by 266 departments in 195 universities in the United States. Each entry contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of degrees listed for that university. University of Alabama at Birmingham (7) Department of Biostatistics Dawson, Erica L, Performance of ordinary least squares and heteroskedasticity consistent covariance matrix estimators in heteroskedastic analysis of covari- ance models Jones, Lindsay, Statistical methodology to improve the understanding of DNA methylation data Kim, Hwasoon, Evaluation of sample size re-estimation procedures for non- inferiority designs with time-to-event outcomes Malick, Himel, Some contributions to Bayesian regularization methods with applications to genetics and clinical trials Department of Mathematics Alawam, Fatin, Subsurface parameter estimation in oilfield modeling Barry, Brandon, On the simplest lamina- tion of a given identity return triangle Besing, Kyle, Spectral properties and localization of two random Laplacians on graphs University of Alabama—Huntsville (2) Department of Mathematical Sciences He, Yunzhu, Wavelet estimators in non- parametric regression model and simu- lation study Marples, Pamela, Graph sharing parame- ters University of Alabama—Tuscaloosa (2) Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science Department Michael, Semhar, The development of diagnostic tools for mixture modeling and model-based clustering Walker, Michael, Reduced-bias prediction regions and estimators of the original response when using data transforma- tions ARIZONA Arizona State University (16) School of Human Evolution and Social Change Barley, Kamal, Parameter estimation and mathematical modeling of visceral Leishmaniasis Evangelista, Arlene, Characterization of the Mathematical Theoretical Biology Institute as a Vygotkian-Holzman zone of proximal development Gonzalez, Beverly, Quantitative modeling methods for analyzing clinical to public health problems Morales, Romarie, Robustness of con- tact and age-aggregation in influenza models Murillo, Anarina, Type 2 Diabetes and obesity: A biological, behavioral and environmental context Smith, Adrian, Biophysical mechanism for correlated spiking: Relating neural syncrony and common excitatory drive Summer, Ilyssa, Oncolytic viral and im- munotheraphy models combined with strategies to ameliorate cancer burden School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Denker, Dennis, High-order methods ex- ploiting sparsity with applications in imaging and PDEs Evilsizor, Stephen, Evolutionary games as interacting particle systems Ilkturk, Utku, Observability methods in sensor scheduling Marfai, Frank, Characterizing teacher change through the perturbation of pedagogical goals Morgan, Adam, Cuntz-Pimsner algebras of twisted tensor products of corre- spondences and other constructions AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 727

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Page 1: Doctoral Degrees Conferred...Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2015–2016 ALABAMA Auburn University (8) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Aust, Jennifer, Bounded complete embed- ding

Doctoral Degrees Conferred2015–2016

ALABAMA

Auburn University (8)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Aust, Jennifer, Bounded complete embed-ding graphs

Bertl, Alan, Techniques for finding home-omorphisms between generalized in-verse limits

Byaly, Alexander, Generalized matrixfunctions

Erzurumluoglu, Aras, Fair factorizationsand fair holey factorizations of thecomplete multipartite graph and relatededge-colorings

Lilly, Kristen, Robust group variable se-lection methods

Nwaeze, Eze, Location of zeros andgrowth of polynomials

Pannu, Jasdeep, Robust variable selec-tion methods for functional regressionmodels

Sarver, Zachary, Extensions of mono-tonicity results to semisimple Liegroups

University of Alabama (6)

Department of Mathematics

Acharyya, Soumyadip, A difference ofcomposition operators on Bergmanspace

Alli, Toyin, Statistical networks withapplications in economics and finance

Chataut, Laxmi, Groups with conditionson non-permutable subgroups

Duffee, Linden, On the harmonic andgeometric maximal operators

Nguyen, Duc, High order FDTD methodsfor electromagnetic systems in disper-sive inhomogeneous media

Perry, Kaitlyn, Polydegree properties ofpolynomial automorphisms

The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2015, to June 30,2016) reported in the 2017 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 266 departments in 195 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.

University of Alabama atBirmingham (7)

Department of Biostatistics

Dawson, Erica L, Performance of ordinaryleast squares and heteroskedasticityconsistent covariance matrix estimatorsin heteroskedastic analysis of covari-ance models

Jones, Lindsay, Statistical methodologyto improve the understanding of DNAmethylation data

Kim, Hwasoon, Evaluation of samplesize re-estimation procedures for non-inferiority designs with time-to-eventoutcomes

Malick, Himel, Some contributions toBayesian regularization methods withapplications to genetics and clinicaltrials

Department of Mathematics

Alawam, Fatin, Subsurface parameterestimation in oilfield modeling

Barry, Brandon, On the simplest lamina-tion of a given identity return triangle

Besing, Kyle, Spectral properties andlocalization of two random Laplacianson graphs

University ofAlabama—Huntsville (2)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

He, Yunzhu, Wavelet estimators in non-parametric regression model and simu-lation study

Marples, Pamela, Graph sharing parame-ters

University ofAlabama—Tuscaloosa (2)

Information Systems, Statistics, and

Management Science Department

Michael, Semhar, The development ofdiagnostic tools for mixture modelingand model-based clustering

Walker, Michael, Reduced-bias predictionregions and estimators of the originalresponse when using data transforma-tions

ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (16)

School of Human Evolution and

Social Change

Barley, Kamal, Parameter estimationand mathematical modeling of visceralLeishmaniasis

Evangelista, Arlene, Characterization ofthe Mathematical Theoretical BiologyInstitute as a Vygotkian-Holzman zoneof proximal development

Gonzalez, Beverly, Quantitative modelingmethods for analyzing clinical to publichealth problems

Morales, Romarie, Robustness of con-tact and age-aggregation in influenzamodels

Murillo, Anarina, Type 2 Diabetes andobesity: A biological, behavioral andenvironmental context

Smith, Adrian, Biophysical mechanismfor correlated spiking: Relating neuralsyncrony and common excitatory drive

Summer, Ilyssa, Oncolytic viral and im-munotheraphy models combined withstrategies to ameliorate cancer burden

School of Mathematical and

Statistical Sciences

Denker, Dennis, High-order methods ex-ploiting sparsity with applications inimaging and PDEs

Evilsizor, Stephen, Evolutionary games asinteracting particle systems

Ilkturk, Utku, Observability methods insensor scheduling

Marfai, Frank, Characterizing teacherchange through the perturbation ofpedagogical goals

Morgan, Adam, Cuntz-Pimsner algebrasof twisted tensor products of corre-spondences and other constructions

AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 727

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Tallman, Michael, An examination of theeffect of a secondary teacher’s image ofinstructional constraints on his enactedsubject matter knowledge

Thatcher, Andrea, Swarming in boundeddomains

Wienke, Matthew, An aggregate secondorder continuum model for transientproduction planning

Yu, Wanchunzi, A test and confidence setfor comparing the location of quadraticgrowth curves

University of Arizona (8)

Department of Mathematics

Chavez, Angel, Werner’s measure on self-avoiding loops and representations ofthe Virasoro algebra

Henniges, Alex, Kisin-Ren classificationsof pi-divisible O-modules via the Dieu-donne crystal

Thomas, Joseph, Conformal variations ofpiecewise constant curvature two andthree manifolds

Program in Applied Mathematics

Armstrong (Hine), Michelle, A finite el-ement model for mixed porohyper-elasticity with transport, swelling, andgrowth

Berman, Benjamin, Accelerated radialmagnetic resonance imaging: New ap-plication and methods

Holman, Benjamin, Analytical study andnumerical solution of the inverse sourceproblem arising in thermoacoustic to-mography

Shah, Aalok, Continuous models of alphaand beta protein structures

Williams, Katherine, Anti-cancer treat-ment and the cell cycle: Cellular-levelmathematical models

University of Arizona, Meland Enid ZuckermanCollege of PublicHealth (1)

Department of Biostatistics

Fiero, Mallorie, Statistical approachesfor handling missing data in clusterrandomized trials

ARKANSASUniversity of Arkansas atFayetteville (5)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Chung, Ming-Hua, Probablistic graphicalmodeling on big data

Iwaki, Chizuko, Probablistic graphicalmodeling on big data

Shabazz, Melissa, Isometries of Besovtype spaces among composition opera-tors

Thomas, Emily, The maximal Thurston-Bennequin number on grid number ndiagrams

Thomas, Ryan, Effects of dynamic graph-ing utilities on student attitudes andconceptual understanding in collegealgebra

CALIFORNIACalifornia Institute ofTechnology (6)

Department of Computing and

Mathematical Sciences

Akhmetgaliyev, Eldar, Fast numericalmethods for mixed, singular Helmholtzboundary value problems and Laplaceeigenvalue problems

Department of Mathematics

Hwang, Brian, Constructing self-dual au-tomorphic representations on generallinear groups

Nastasescu, Maria, Nonvanishing of L-functions for GL(n)

Ni, Xiang, Rota-Baxter algebras, renor-malization on Kausz compactificationsand replicating of binary operads

Sinha, Gaurav, Black-box reconstructionof depth three circuits with top fan-intwo

Yeo, Foo Yee, I-adic cohomology of thedual Lubin-Tate tower via the exteriorpower

Claremont GraduateUniversity (16)

Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Abdallah, Shaher, General stability analy-sis of composite sandwich plates underthermal load

Choi, Patrick, Optimization of princi-pal eigenvalue of an elliptic operatorwith applications to heat conductivityproblem

Garcia, Mariangel, Data assimilation unitfor the general curvilinear environmen-tal model

He, Lingjun, Semiparametric varying-coefficient mixed effects modeling ap-proaches to longitudinal data

Herrlin, Daniel, Forecasting MLB perfor-mance utilizing a Bayesian approach inorder to optimize a fantasy baseballdraft

Kandes, Martin, Modeling the effects ofinertial forces on Bose-Einstein conden-sates in rotating frames of reference

Ko, Gene, Computational approaches fordescriptor optimization and model de-velopment for HIV-1 drug design

Ledahl, Jeffrey, Bayesian join modeling oflongitudinal visual field data with cor-related binary and survival outcomes

Liu, Chen, Monte Carlo algorithms forAmerican option pricing: An analysisof convergence rates and the applica-tion of backward Taylor expansion onvariance reduction techniques

Michal, Matthew, Analytic and numericalanalysis of lubrication coating flowmodels

Schuster, Micah, Systematic investigationof operators in nuclear systems

Taherian, Shahab, Computational fluiddynamics analyses of ambient particledeposition in the human respiratorysystem and virus transport aboard aregional aircraft

Turtle, James, Synchronization in cou-pled spin-torque nano oscillators: Non-linear dynamics analysis

Wilson, Mark, Structure and rheologicalproperties of self-associating polymernetworks

Zhao, Peng, Novel random forest meth-ods applied to medical studies

Zubairi, Omair, An investigation of de-formation of the stellar structure ofneutron stars

Stanford University (19)

Department of Mathematics

Ahuja, Saran, Mean field games withcommon noise

Boreico, Iurie, Statistics of random inte-gral matrices

Chodosh, Otis, The geometry of asymp-totically hyperbolic manifolds

Edelen, Nicholas, On the free boundarymean curvature flow

Furmaniak, Ralph, On the structure andcomplex analysis of Dirichlet series

Goodman, Elizabeth, Lagrangian tori inR4 and S2×S2

Hintz, Peter, Global analysis of linear andnonlinear wave equations on cosmolog-ical spacetimes

Jerison, Daniel, The drift and minoriza-tion method for reversible Markovchains

Kalisnik Verovsek, Sara, Tropical coor-dinates on the space of persistencebarcodes

Kupers, Alexander, Some finiteness re-sults for groups of automorphisms ofmanifolds

Leach, Jeremy, The vacuum Einsteinconstraint equations on manifolds withends of cylindrical type

Litt, Daniel, Non-abelian Lefschetz hyper-plane theorems

Nariman, Sam, Stable moduli of flatmanifold bundles

Nestoridi, Evrydiki-Xenia, Rates of con-vergence of Markov chains to station-arity: Strong stationary times, coupling,Gelfand pairs and comparison theory

Nguyen, Khoa, On symplectic homologyof the complement of a positive normalcrossing divisor in a projective variety

Nolen, Samuel, The string topology ofholomorphic curves in BU (n)

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Skryzalin, Jacek, Numeric invariants frommultidimensional persistence

Tsai, Li-Cheng, Weak universality of in-teracting particle systems

Zamorzaev Orleanschii, Alexandr,Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture for genusO real Gromov-Witten invariants

University of California,Berkeley (40)

Department of Mathematics

Bejraburnin, Natth, A study on corre-lation between genes’ functions andevolutions

Chough, Chang-Yeon, Topological tropesof algebraic stacks

Cook, Woo-Hyun, Transformation ofPDEs: Optimal transport and conser-vation laws

Duersch, Jed, High efficiency spectralanalysis and BLAS-3 randomized QRCPwith low-rank approximations

Fortunato, Meire, Curved and anisotropicunstructered mesh generation and adap-tivity using the Winslow equations

Gannot, Oran, Curved and anistropic un-structered mesh generation and adap-tivity using the Winslow equations

Gillespie, Maria, A combinational ap-proach to the q,t-symmetry in Macdon-ald polynomials

Greengard, Daniel, Complex boundaryintegral equation formulation and sta-bility analysis of a Maxwell model ofan elastic model of solid-solid phasetransformations

Johnson, William, Fun with fieldsKominiarczuk, Jakub, Acyclic Monte Carlo:

Efficient multiscale sampling of undi-rected graphical models through fastmarginalization

Kroener, Christoph, A mathematical ex-ploration of a PDE system for lithium-ion batteries

Kruckman, Alex, Infinitary limits of finitestructures

Laine, Kim, Security of genus 3 curves incryptography

Lee, Minjae, Spectral analysis on pointinteractions

Li, Penghui, Uniformation of semistablebundles on elliptic curves

Lieb, Anna, Modeling and optimizationof transients in water distribution net-works

Liu, Weihua, Noncommutative distribu-tional symmetries and their relatedde Finetti type theorems

Mandelshtam, Olya, Combinatorics of theasymmetric simple exclusion process

Mazel-Gee, Aaron, Goerss-Hopkins ob-struction theory via model ?-categories

McMillan, Benjamin, Geometry and con-servation laws for a class of second-order parabolic equations

Melgaard, Christopher, Randomized piv-oting and spectrum-revealing boundsin numerical linear algebra

Robeva, Elina, Decomposing matrices,tensors and images

Schweber, Noah, Interactions betweencomputability theory and set theory

Scott, Jacob, An I/O-complexity lowerbound for all recursive matrix multipli-cation algorithms by path-routing

Shapiro, Alexander, Grothendieck resolu-tion, affine Grassmannian, and Yangian

Tabrizian, Peyam, Asymptotic PDE mod-els for chemical reactions and diffu-sions

Wong, Christopher, Bilinear quadraturesand their applications

Department of Statistics

Basu, Riddhipratim, Lipschitz embed-dings of random objects and relatedtopics

Bloniarz, Adam, Leveraging latent struc-ture in high-dimensional data: Causal-ity, neuroscience, and nonparametrics

Kamm, John, One and two locus likeli-hoods under complex demography

Schiebinger, Geoffrey, Sparse inverseproblems: The mathematics of preci-sion measurement

Tran, Linda, Forecasting high-dimensionalstate-spaces in the presence of modelerror

Wu, Siqi, Dictionary learning: Analysis ofspatial gene expression data and localidentifiability theory

Group in Biostatistics

Cotterman, Carolyn, Statistical methodsfor predicting dengue diagnosis usingclinical and LC-MS data

Coyle, Jeremy, Towards a practical imple-mentation of optimal treatment

Hansen, Curt, The LITSE algorithm: The-ory and application

Luedtke, Alex, Evaluating the impact ofindividualized treatment strategies

Mejia, Robin, Estimating size of unob-served populations in human rights:Problems in Syria and El Salvador

Sofrygin, Oleg, Semi-parametric estima-tion network data and tools for con-ducting complex simulation studies incausal inference

Tran, Linh, Comparative causal effectestimation and robust variance forlongitudinal data structures with appli-cations to observational HIV treatment

University of California,Davis (12)

Department of Mathematics

Dutra, Brandon, Decomposition methodsfor nonlinear optimization and datamining

Halabi, Ryan, Surface plasmon polaritonsin nonlinear media

Irion, Jeffrey, Multiscale transforms forsignals on graphs: Methods and appli-cations

Kopel, Philip, Hermitian and non-Hermit-ian random matrix theory

La Haye, Reuben, Quantitative combi-natorial geometry with applications tonumber theory and optimization

Lydon, Mark, On the chromatic symmet-ric function of graphs

Miller, Jacob, Transportation networksand matroids: Algorithms through cir-cuits and polyhedrality

Mossessian, George, Stabilizing Heegaardsplittings of high-distance knots

Navarro, Gustavo, Local well-posednessand global stability of the two-phaseStefan problem

Qin, Chuan, Card shuffles, genome rear-rangements, and social networks

Tian, Ruoguang, Top to random shufflesand characterization of rigged configu-rations of b(∞) in type A

Westenberger, Christopher, Knots andlinks from random projections

University of California,Irvine (20)

Department of Mathematics

Anzaldo, Leesa, Degeneracy ioci in grass-mannians

Asatryan, Ani, ODEs in mathematicalmedicine: New virus dynamics in thepresence of multiple invections; Evolu-tion of genetic instability in heteroge-neous tumors

Dellaca, Roger, Growth conditions onHilbert functions of modules

Ferrenc, Adrian, An explicit constructionfor homotopy monoidal structure

Gao, Hongwei, Random homogenizationof coercive Hamilton-Jacobi equationsin 1d

Ho, Michael, Sparse optimization meth-ods and statistical modeling with appli-cations to finance

Lee, Mary, Mathematical modeling oftumor growth and metabolism

Northrup, Cynthia, Toward the consis-tency strength of stationary set reflec-tion on small cardinals

Northrup, Scott, Arithmetic sums ofnearly affine Cantor sets

Reale, Nicholas, Deformations of mani-folds of Calabi-Yau type

Sanchez, Cynthia, Fastest time to cancerby loss of tumor suppressor genes oroncogene activation

Su, Heng, Selmer parity of quadratictwists of elliptic curves

Tsang, Chi Shing, Topics on Schrodingeroperators

Xu, Hang, On the spectrum and self-adjoint extension of Laplace operatoron Kahler manifolds

Yin, Penghang, Non-convex optimizationmethods for sparse and low-rank re-construction

Yu, Myungjun, Selmer ranks of twists ofalgebraic curves

Zhang, Lingxiao, Passive imaging of aspherically symmetric inclusion by elas-tic waves

Doctoral Degrees Conferred

AUGUST 2017 NOTICES OF THE AMS 729

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Zhang, Shiwen, Arithmetic criterion offull spectral dimensionality for analyticquasiperiodic Schodinger operators

Zhong, Lin, Fast solvers for numeri-cal schemes based on finite elementexterior calculus

Zu, Penghe, Global sparse basis methodof solving residual KPP front speeds intime-periodic cellular flows in the smalldiffusion limit

University of California,Los Angeles (31)

Department of Biostatistics, Fielding

School of Public Health

Clark, Michelle, Statistical models fordetecting transgenerational genetic ef-fects

Estes, Jason, Time dynamic modeling andinference approaches for outcomes inpatients on dialysis

Gill, Mandev, Bayesian modeling of viralphylodynamics

Lu, Xiang, Handling incomplete high-dimensional multivariate longitudinaldata with mixed data types by multipleimputation using a longitudinal factoranalysis model

Shih, Wendy, Ensemble based estimatorsof a latent variable: Application in agingresearch

Wu, Sheng, Optimal design of clusterrandomized trials with binary outcomes

Department of Mathematics

Aaserud, Andreas, Weak and approxi-mate equivalence of group actions inthe framework of ultrapower Cartaninclusions

Carolino, Pietro, The structure of locallycompact approximate groups

Chen, William, Mutal and tight stationar-ity

Chongchitmate, Wutichai, New modelsfor practical secure computation

Dragomiretskiy, Konstantin, Variationalmethods in signal decomposition andimage processing

Galatan, Alin, Smooth bimodules andcohomology of II1 factors

Garrabrant, Scott, P-recursive integersequences and automata theory

Gast, Theodore, Numerical simulationof elastic, viscoelastic and granularmaterials

Greenblatt, Jordan, Asymptotic maximaloperator norms for Cartesian powers offinite grpahs

Hernandez, Joshua, Models and methodsfor sensor-based environment explo-ration

Jao, Casey, Energy-critical and mass-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equationswith variable coefficients

Keranen, Jukka, Compact support coho-mology of Picard modular surfaces

Lang, Jaclyn, Images of Galois represen-tations associated to p-adic families ofmodular forms

Li, Zhiqiang, Ergodic theory of expandingThurston maps

Lin, Jianfeng, The unfolding Seiberg-Witten-Floerr spectrum: Definition, prop-erty and applications

Lynn, Melissa, Sums-of-squares formulasover arbitrary fields

Pauwels, Bregje, Quasi-Galois theory intensor-triangulated categories

Peng, Zhimin, Asynchronous parallel al-gorithms for large scale problems

Ram, Daniel, A material point methodfor complex fluids

Rosenbaum, William, Distributed almoststable matchings

Soffer, Andrew, Combinatorics of conju-gacy classes in Un(Fq)

Tran, Giang, Sparsity-inducing methodsin imaging sciences and partial differ-ential equations

Wang, Teng, Population genetics in asingle organism: Models of neurosporacrassa nuclear dynamics

Woodworth, Joseph, Numerical optimiza-tion methods for image processing andmachine learning

Yin, Changyong, Geometry of Calabi-Yaumoduli

University of California,Merced (1)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Martin, David, Accounting for surfaceconcentrations using a VOF front track-ing method in multiphase flow

University of California,Riverside (5)

Department of Mathematics

Dusel, John, Combinatorics of crystalfolding

Navas, Esteban, A Priori bound on thevelocity in axially symmetric Navier-Stokes equations

Schneider, Lisa, Multiplicities associatedto Demazure flags of sl2[t]-modules

Shereen, Peri, A Steinberg type decom-position theorem for higher level De-mazure modules

Wand, Jeffery, Demazure flags of localWeyl modules

University of California,San Diego (18)

Department of Mathematics

Aisenberg, James, The proof and searchcomplexity of three combinatorial prin-ciples

Behzadan, Ali, An analysis of the con-formal formulation of the Einsteinconstraint equations on asymptoticallyflat manifolds

Cheung, Man Wai, Tropical techniques incluster theory and enumerative geome-try

Cummings, Jonathan, Flips and juggles

Das, Shaunak, Vector bundles on perfec-toid spaces

Elle, Susan, A study of dimension S oreextensions

Hoff, Daniel, Some structural resultsfor measured equivalence relations andtheir associated von Neumann algebra

Longo, Brian, “Super-approximation” inabsolutely almost simple groups overthe field of rational functions withcoefficients in a finite field

Moody, John Brogan, Discrete differentialstructures on simplical complexes

Palmer, Joseph, Symplectic invariants andmoduli spaces of integrable systems

Semko, Jeremy, Controlled rough pathson manifolds

Sergel, Emily, The combinatorics of nablapn and connections to the rationalshuffle conjecture

Tait, Michael, Connections between graphtheory, addititve combinatorics, andfinite incidence geometry

Tong, Pun Wai, Classical limit on quan-tum mechanics for unbounded observ-ables

Tully-Doyle, Ryan K, On the representa-tion and boundary behavior of certainclasses of holomorphic functions inseveral variables

Wang, Liang, Topics in tranformation-based statistical method

Wilkins, Gautam, An empirical choas ex-pansion method for uncertainty quan-tification

Won, Robert, The graded module categoryof a generalized Weyl algebra

University of California,Santa Barbara (9)

Department of Mathematics

Comelli, Silvia, Hartree-Fock theory witha self-generated magnetic field

Cote, Benjamin, A complex Euclideanreflection group and its braid

Cui, Xingshan, Higher categories andtopological quantum field theories

Delgadillo, Ricardo, Semiclassical meth-ods for high frequency wave propaga-tion in periodic media

Karimi, Shahab, Stochastic 2D Navier-Stokes equation and applications to 2Dturbulence

Smith, Derek, Propagation of regularitywithin solutions to Korteweg-de Vriestype equations

Tsang, Sin Yi Cindy, On the Galois modulestructure of the square root of theinverse different in abelian extensions

Wang, Changliang, Linear stability of Ein-stein metrics and Perelman’s lambda-functional for manifolds with conicalsingularities

Wirts, Shawn, Poincare inequalities undergauge transformations

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University of California,Santa Cruz (6)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Department

Betancourt Canizales, Brenda, Modelingand prediction of time series of directedbinary networks

Lopez Arriaza, Juan, Unraveling steel-head life history complexity throughmathematical modeling

Pourmohamad, Tony, Combining multi-variate stochastic process models withfilter methods for constrained opti-mization

Soper, Braden, Non-zero-sum, adversarialdetection games in network security

White, Katelyn, Numerical investigationsof spherical boundary-driven dynamos

Department of Mathematics

Beloi, Aleksander, Shinani’s method: Zetavalues and stark units

University of SouthernCalifornia (11)

Department of Mathematics

Abram, Michael, Symmetries of categori-fied quantum groups

Kang, Yongjian, Large-scale inference inmultiple Gaussian graphical models

Karnam, Chandrasekhar, Dynamic ap-proaches for some time inconsistentproblems

Keller, Christian, Pathwise stochasticanalysis and related topics

Ren, Haining, The cycle convergence rateof cyclic permutations

Tucker, Henry, Frobenius-Schur indica-tors for near group and Haagerup-Izumifusion

Ugurlu, Kerem, Some mathematical prob-lems for the stochastic Navier-Stokesequations

Wang, Jian, On the torsion structure ofelliptic curves over cubic number fields

Williams, Andrew, On the Giroux corre-spondence

Yang, Fan, Entry times statistics onmetric spaces

Zhang, Tian, Optimal investment andreinsurance problems and related non-Markovian FBSDEs with constraints

COLORADOColorado School ofMines (2)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Alyoubi, Ahmad, High performance com-putational algorithms for a class of inte-ger and fractional evolutionary models

Maestas, Joseph, Long-range shock pro-pogation in ocean waveguides

Colorado StateUniversity (19)

Department of Mathematics

Alsaker, Melody, Computational advance-ments in the D-bar reconstructionmethod for 2-D electrical impedancetomography

Chepushtanova, Sofya, Algorithms forfeature selection and pattern recogni-tion on Grassmann manifolds

Cooper, Benjamin, Abstract hyperovals,partial geometries, and transitive hy-perovals

Hanson, Eric, Algorithms in numericalalgebraic geometry and applications

Ho, Anne, Counting Artin-Schreier curvesover finite fields

Ihde, Steven, Preconditioning polynomialsystems using Macaulay dual spaces

Mikucki, Michael, Electromechanical andcurvature driven molecular flows forlipid membranes

Sadre-Marandi, Farrah, Mathematical mod-eling for HIV-1 viral capsid structureand assembly

Department of Statistics

Alsaker, Cody, Statistical innovations forestimating shape characteristics of bi-ological macromolecules in solutionusing small-angle x-ray scattering data

Edmondson, Stacy, Adjusting for cap-ture, recapture, and identity uncertaintywhen estimating detection probabilityfrom capture-recapture surveys

Hunter, Brett, Modeling the upper tailof the distribution of facial recognitionnon-match scores

Russell, Brook, Understanding extremebehavior by optimizing tail dependencewith application to ground level ozonevia data mining and spatial modeling

Sienkiewicz, Ela, Analysis of structureddata on big data with application toneuroscience

Sun, Libo, Parameter inference and modelselection for differential equation mod-els

Tan, Hongyu, Modulated renewal processmodels with functional predictors forneural connectivities

Tipton, John, Improved estimation andprediction for computationally expen-sive ecological and paleoclimate models

Tu, Yan, A penalized estimation proce-dure for varying coefficient models

Wu, Jiwen, Penalized isotonic regressionand an application in survey sampling

Young, Gabriel, Inference for functionaltime series with applications to yieldcurves and intraday cumulative returns

University of Colorado,Boulder (13)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Ali, Ashar Fawad, ULF waves and diffu-sive radial transport of charged parti-cales

Bao, Lei, Efficient time-integrationschemes for discontinuous Galerkinnon-hydrostatic atmosphere models

Barnett, Gregory, A robust RBF-FD formu-lation based on polyharmonic splinesand polynomials

Cheng, Ze, Qualitative analysis of somenon-linear PDE

Nieves, David J, Investigations of reducedequations for rotating, stratified andnon-hydrostatic flows

Wong, Anthony, The impact of stable wa-ter isotopic information on parametercalibration in a land surface model

Department of Mathematics

Grimes, Matt, Compactifications of uni-versal moduli spaces of vector bundlesand the log-minimal model progam onMg

Havasi, Krisztian, Geometric realizationof strata in the boundary of the inter-mediate Jacobian locus

Linman, Julie, Minimal functions on therandom permutation

Nishikawa, Jared, Applications of cryto-graphic hash functions

Nita, Alexander, Self adjointness of thesympletic dirac operators

Scherer, Charles, Maximal comparableand incomparable sets in Boolean alge-bras

Shannon, Erica, Computing invariantforms for Lie algebras using heaps

University of Colorado,Denver (2)

Department of Mathematical and

Statistical Sciences

Brandt, Axel, Computational approachesin graph theory

Thomas, Brent, Saturation spectrum fortrees

University of Denver (2)

Department of Mathematics

Ash, Drew, Topological speedupsFrench, Thomas, Follower and extender

sets in symbolic dynamics

University of NorthernColorado (3)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Roach, Catherine, A study of noviceinstructors’ questioning techniques andclassroom discourse surrounding thosequestions

Troudt, Melissa, Mathematicians’ evolvingpersonal arguments: Ideas that moveproof constructions forward

Troup, Jonathan, “Students” develop-ment of geometric reasoning about thederivative of complex-valued functions

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CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (13)

Department of Mathematics

Asaad, Malva, Hypoelliptic heat kernelon nilpotent Lie groups

Judge, Jonathan, Modules over rank-twoKLR algebras

Lorincz, Andras, Bernstein-Sato polyno-mials for quivers

Mackenzie, Michael, Unitary k-Hessenbergmatrices

Pellico, Ryan, Multiple periodic solutionsof a nonlinear suspension bridge sys-tem of partial differential equations

Serhiyenko, Khrystyna, Induced and coin-duced modules over cluster-tilted alge-bras

Department of Statistics

Goh, Gyuhyeong, Applications of Berg-man divergence measures in Bayesianmodeling

Joeng, Hee-Koung, Theory and methodsfor modeling and fitting discrete timesurvival data

Larose, Chantal, Model based clusteringof incomplete data

Ouyang, Guang, Social network commu-nity detection

Serhiyenko, Volodymyr, Dynamic mod-eling of multivariate counts: Fitting,diagnostics and applications

Wang, Zhuo, Estimating equations forspatial extremes with applications todetection and attribution analysis ofchanges in climate extremes

Zhao, Bo, Scan statistics for detecing alocal change in variance for normal data

Wesleyan University (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Karker, Mary Leah, Two applications oftopology to the study of non-classicallogics

Liu, Jingho, Representations of integralhermitian forms by sums of norms

Yale University (9)

Biostatistics Division

Zhao, Qing, Integrative analysis of multi-dimensional cancer genomic data

Department of Mathematics

Allegretti, Dylan G, The geometry ofcluster varieties from surfaces

Cheung, Rex, Integrability estimates onthe space of S-arithmetic lattices

Faonte, Giovanni, Nerve construction, A-infinity functors and homotopy theoryof differential graded categories

Pimenov, Svyatoslav, Kostant’s theoremfor Lie superalgebra gl(m,n)

Ranganathan, Dhruv, Skeletons, degen-erations, and Gromov-Witten theory

Rao, Anup, Algorithms for Lipschitzextensions on graphs

Department of Statistics

Gao, Chao, Frequentist justifications ofBayes procedures

Rush, Cynthia, Iterative algorithms forinference and optimization, with appli-cations in communications and com-pressed sensing

DELAWAREDelaware StateUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Hui, Pengrui, Moving window finite-difference time-domain method basedon space-time coordinate transforma-tion

Zhao, Yingxue, Finite-difference time-domain method for hydrodynamic elec-tion fluid Maxwell equations

University of Delaware (8)

Department of Mathematical Science

Alexander, James, Selected results incombinatorics and graph theory

Castillo, Christopher, A method for con-structing groups of permutation poly-nomials and its applications to projec-tive geometry

Evans, Ryan, A mathematical journeythrough optical biosensors

Li, Jiange, Some topics in probabilitytheory, combinatorics and informationtheory

Li, Weiqiang, Algebraic methods in graphtheory

Meng, Shixu, Inverse scattering for apenetrable cavity and the transmissioneigenvalue problem

Qiu, Tianyu, Time domain in boundaryintegral methods in acoustics, heatdiffusion and electromagnetism

Yang, Fan, Scattering and inverse scat-tering in the presence of complexbackground media

DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAGeorge WashingtonUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics

El Sherif, Lara, Matchings, intersectiongraphs, and the maximum genus ofgraphs

Hu, Yeyao, Disc assemblies and spikeassemblies in inhibitory systems

Marshall, Leah, Computability-theoreticproperties of partial injections, treesand nested equivalences

Howard University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Alberto, Genesis, The division polyno-mials for the Holm curve and theirproperties

Arienmughare, Martin, Three, four-waveHLLC Riemann solver for single andmultiphase flow, and the classical andsemi-relativistic CGL-MHD

Siewe, Nourridine, Granuloma formationand immune response to infection byLeishmania: Mathematical models

FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (5)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Fontaine, Marcus, Nonlinear phenomenafrom a reinjected horseshoe

Ippolito, Stephen, Kicks and maps: A dif-ferent approach to modeling biologicalsystems

Rutherford, Vermont, Negligible varia-tion, change of variables, and a smoothanalog of the Hobby-Rice theorem

Sharma, Madhav, Maximally Prufer ringsThapa Magar, Krishna, Low rank tran-

sitive representations, primitive exten-sions, and the collision problem inPSL(2,q)

Florida Institute ofTechnology (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Goldfarb, Jonathan, On the optimal con-trol of the free boundary problems forthe second order parabolic equations

Florida StateUniversity (26)

Department of Mathematics

Adams, Bill, Lagrangian specialization vialog resolution and Schwartz-MacPherson-Chern classes

Ballenger-Fazzone, Brendon, An analysisof conjugate harmonic components ofmagnetic functions and lambda har-monic functions

Cole, Justin, Non-linear Schrodinger-typesystems: Complex lattices and non-paraxiality

Diaz-Martinez, Diego, Multiscale sum-maries of probability measures withapplications to plant and microbiomedata

Ekrut, David, Symmetry solutions ofthe multiphase model with biologicalapplications

Fletcher, Patrick, Theoretical, computa-tional, and experimental topics in ante-rior pituitary cell signaling

Han, Daozhi, Diffuse interface methodfor two-phase incompressible flows

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Jarrett, Angela, Investigating persistantinfections using mathematical model-ing and analyses

Jones, Dawna, Asset pricing equilibria forheterogeneous limit-information agents

Kim, Sarah, A mathematical model ofcelebral cortical folding developmentbased on a biomechanical hypothesis

Li, Mao, Quantifying phenotype variatiointhrough local persistant homology andimaging

Sun, Dong, High order long-time accuratemethods for Stokes-Darcy system anduncertainity quantification of contain-ment transport

Woodruff, Celestine, Efficient and accu-rate numerical schemes for long timestatistical properties of the infinitePrandtl number model for correction

Xu, Linlin, Gpn computing in financialengineering

Yuan, Wei, Estimating sensitivities of ex-otic options using Monte Carlo methods

Zhou, Guifang, Rank-constrained opti-mization: A Riemannian manifold ap-proach

Department of Statistics

Alrajhi, Sharifah, Examining the relation-ship of dietary component intake toeach other and to mortality

Fraser, Raphael, Median regression forcomplex survey data

Gramajo, Gary, Feature selection withannealing with application to big data

Qiu, Mingfei, The one- and two-sampleproblem for data on Hilbert manifoldswith applications to shape analysis

Schleeter, Tiffany, Methods of blockthresholding across multiple resolutionlevels in adaptive wavelet estimation

Scolnik, Ryan, Predictive accuracy mea-sures for binary outcomes: Impact ofincidence rate and optimization tech-niques

Shao, Jiang, Matched sample based crossnormalization methid on microarraygene dataset

Yu, Kaixian, Statistical methods for bigdata and their applications in biomedi-cal research

Zhang, Qiaoya, Sparse generalized PCAand dependency learning for large-scaleapplications

Zhang, Shuguang, Time-varying mixturemodels for financial risk management

University of CentralFlorida (1)

Department of Mathematics

Russo, Matthew, Building Lay integrablevariable-coefficient generalizations tointegrable PDEs and exact solutions tononlinear PDEs

University of Florida (14)

Department of Mathematics

Gray, Daniel, Bounds on the lengths ofrestricted superpatterns

Pantone, Jay, Structural analysis of per-mutation classes

Russo, Ben, Lifting thereoms for tuples of3-isometric and 3-symmetric operatorswith applications

Severa, William, Geometric representa-tions of the infimax S-adic family

Sharpe, Nicholas, A Z2 construction of a

K-automorphism that commutes with arank-1 transformation

Srinivasan, Tulsi, The Lusternik-Schnirel-mann category of Peano Continua

Torres, Juan, Dynamics of law and highpathagenic avian influenza in birds

Department of Statistics

Chen, Zhe, Inference for the number oftopics in the latent Dirichlet allocationmodel via Bayesian mixture modelling

Jung, Yeun Ji, Convergence analysis ofMarkov chain Monte Carlo algorithmsfor Bayesian regression models withnon-Gaussian errors

Linero, Antonio, Nonparametric Bayes:Inference under nonignorable missing-ness and model selection

Nguyen, Trang, Some contributions toBayesian item response models, case-control studies and case-cohort studies

Pal, Subhadip, Development and analysisof new Markov chain Monte Carlo(MCMC) algorithms

Park, Yeonhee, A Markov chain MonteCarlo approach to empirical Bayes infer-ence and Bayesian sensitivity analysisvie empirical processes

Wu, Yang, Bayesian inference with com-posite likelihoods

University of FloridaCollege of PublicHealth (7)

Department of Biostatistics

Ghebremariam, Samson, Modeling co-circulating pathogens for cohort studiesin the presence of high-dimensionalmissing data and left censoring

Helian, Shanjun, Structural nested model-ing and penalized correlation methodsfor clinical trials

Kirpich, Alexander, Dynamic infectiousdisease modeling challenges influencedby real life problems

Li, Li, Adjusting for confounding due tounmeasured characteristics that varyacross the levels of one or two factors

Meng, Ya, Analysis of infectious diseasein the presence of missing data in bothoutcome and covariates

Zeng, Hui, Graphical approaches to multi-ple testing within 2X2 factorial designs

Zhu, Yifan, Satistical considerations inmodeling infectious disease surveil-lance data

University of Miami (3)

Department of Mathematics

Cabrera Pacheco, Armando, On geomet-ric problems involving Schwarzschildmanifolds

Ding, Ziqian, Dihedral symmetries ofnon-crossing partition lattices

Song, Yishu, Hydrodynamic limit for Bak-Sneppen branching diffusions

University of SouthFlorida (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

D’Andrea, Joy, A statistical analysis ofhurricanes in the Atlantic Basin andsinkholes in Florida

Mudunuru, Venkateswara Rao, Modellingand survival analysis of breast cancer:A statistical artificial neural network,and decision tree approach

Pathirana, Vindya, Nearest neighbor for-eign exchange rate forecasting withMahalanobis distance

GEORGIAAugusta University (1)

Department of Biostatistics and

Epidemiology

Campbell, Jeff, Bayerian functional clus-tering and VMR identification in methy-lation micro array data

Emory University (14)

Department of Biostatistics and

Bioinformatics

Bray, Margaret, Algorithmic approachesto classifying biological networks

Dai, Tian, Agreement methods for com-plex outcomes in biomedical studies

Liu, Shuling, Joint modeling approachesfor clustered survival data with randomcluster size

Lu, Xin, Estimation of potential outcomeswhen treatment assignment and dis-continuation compete in observationaldata

Shi, Ran, Some novel statistical methodsfor neuroimaging data analysis

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Bhaskhar, Nivedita, R-equivalence andnorm principles in algebraic groups

Bhat, Vindya, Ramsey and Turan-typetheorems for hypergraphs

Clemm, Amanda, Elliptic curves, eta-quotients and Weierstrass mock modu-lar forms

Etropolski, Anastassia, Rational points oncurves

Retter, Troy, Some Ramsey type problemsWest, Mckenzie, Brauer-Manin computa-

tions for surfaces

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Wu, Zhengyao, Hasse principle for Her-mitation spaces

Yang, Boyi, Numerical modeling ofblood flow problems in coronary ar-teries: Patient-specific processing, fromstented geometries to fluid dynamics

Yang, Huanhuan, Parameter estimationand reduced order modeling in electro-cardiology

Georgia Institute ofTechnology (8)

School of Mathematics

Awi, Romeo, Minimization problems in-volving polyconvex integrands

Bush, Albert, Multifold sums and prod-ucts over R, and combinatorial prob-lems on sumsets

Difonzo, Fabio, The Filippov momentssolution on the intersection of two andthree manifolds

Hu, Jing, Complete nonnegatively curvedspheres and planes

Krone, Robert, Symmetric ideals andnumerical primary decomposition

Li, Wuchen, A study of stochastic dif-ferential equations and Fokker-Planckequations of applications

Vaidyanathan, Ranjini, Thermostated Kacmodels

Wang, Ruidong, Combinatorial problemsfor graphs and partially ordered sets

Georgia StateUniversity (6)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Carter, Douglas, Synchronization in dy-namical networks with mixed coupling

Liu, Hui, On regularized Newton-typealgorithms and a posteriori error es-timates for solving ill-posed inverseproblems

Marsli, Rachid, New extensions of theGersgorin theory

Stroev, Mikhail, Some results on general-ized complementary basis matrices anddense alternating sign matrices

Xing, Tingli, Computational study inchaotic dynamical system and mecha-nism for pattern generation in three-cellnetwork

Yang, Ping, Spanning Halin subgraphsinvolving forbidden subgraphs

University of Georgia (19)

Department of Mathematics

Brunyate, Adrian, A modular compact-ification of the space of elliptic K3surfaces

Castro, Nickolas, Relative trisections ofsmooth 4-manifolds with boundary

Hardesty, William, On support varietiesfor algebraic groups

Hicks, Jacob, Quadratic forms over Hassedomains: Finiteness of the Hermiteconstant

Jacobs, Kenneth, Asymptotic behaviorof arithmetic equivariants in non-Archimedean dynamics

Lacy, Allan, On the index of genus onecurves

McFaddin, Patrick, K-cohomology of gen-eralized Severi-Brauer varieties

Needham, Thomas, Grassmannian geom-etry of framed curve spaces

Troupe, Lee, Three applications of sievemethods in analytic number theory

Turbow, Maren, Structure theory ofgraded central simple algebras

Zawodniak, Matthew, A moduli space forrational homotopy types with the samehomotopy Lie algebra

Department of Statistics

Hu, Hejiao, A waiting time approach fora disability model

Kim, Sangjin, Prioritizing hypothesistests for high throughput data withmultiple testing methods

Liu, Fei, Cluster analysis for symbolicinterval data using linear regression

Qiu, Debin, Grouped variable screeningfor ultrahigh dimensional data

Wang, Shiyao, Modeling the effects ofpartially observed covariates with anextension of the Horvitz-Thompsonestimator in point sampling of EMAdata

Yan, Zhen, A birth and death model forRNA-Seq data analysis

Zhao, Jing, A probabilistic model for genefamily evolution

Zhuang, Yuan, Time series clustering us-ing copula-based higher order Markovprocesses

HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii atManoa (4)

Department of Mathematics

Joyce, Michael, A presentation of twofamilies of uniformly bounded repre-sentations of CAT (0)-cubical groupsand an example from hyperbolic geom-etry

Patterson, Geoffrey, Asteroid rendezvousmissions using optimal control

Reckwerdt, Eric, Weak amenability isstable under graph products

Tamura-Sato, Aaron, A hybrid controlmodel of fractone-dependent morpho-genesis

IDAHOIdaho State University (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Chikwanda, Patreck, Connectedness oftwo-sided Cayley digraphs

University of Idaho (2)

Department of Mathematics

Cockreham, James, Metric entrophy un-der generalized convexity

Oldroyd, Jesse, Generalizations and ap-proximations of equiangular tight frames

ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (6)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Chen, Tao, Dynamic conic finance viabackward stochastic difference equa-tions and recursive construction ofconfidence regions

Ding, Yuhan, Guaranteed adaptive uni-variate function approximation

Jiang, Lan, Guaranteed Monte Carlomethods for estimating means of ran-dom variables

Mitillos, Christoudoulos, Topics in graphfall-coloring

Turian, Emma, Computation and analysisof tumor growth

Zhou, Xuan, Function approximation withkernel methods

Illinois State University (3)

Department of Mathematics

Enzinger, Nicole, Developing and describ-ing the use and learning of conceptualmodels for integer addition and sub-traction of grade 5 students

Kirwan, James, Preservice secondarymathematics teachers’ knowledge ofgeneralization and justification on geo-metric-numerical patterning tasks

Nickels, Megan, Mathematics in thecharmed world: Affecting power, privi-lege, and conceptual understanding forchronically ill children through roboticsplay

Northern IllinoisUniversity (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Kifowit, Steven, A divide-and-conquersplit Schur algorithm

Mitchell, Tyler, Fusion rings with degrees1 and 4

Schaumburg, Herman, Combinatorial in-terpretations of continued fractionswith multiple limit points

Wallis, Benjamin, The almost invarianthalfspace problem

NorthwesternUniversity (10)

Department of Mathematics

Dolores Cuenca, Eric, DG: Swiss cheeseconjecture

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Egger, Philip, Some computations in v2-periodic homotopy theory at the prime2

Elliot, Christoper, Gauge theoretic aspectsof the geometric Langlands correspon-dence

Huang, Zili, Perron numbers and theirdistribution

Knudsen, Benjamin, Higher envelopingalgebras and configuation spaces ofmanifolds

Mahowald, Matthew, Knots and gammaclasses in open topological string theory

Wenbo, Sun, Structure theorems in dy-namics and their applications

Engineering Science and Applied

Mathematics Department

Slawik, Alexander, Nonlinear analysis ofsilicon microdisk resonators

Weiss, Noah, Periodic array of partiallyinsulated interface cracks subjected tounifrom fox-field heat flow

Wells, Daniel, Global methods for con-trolling noise response and identifyingbifurcations in complex dynamical sys-tems, with applications to biologicalcollective behavior

Southern IllinoisUniversity Carbondale (3)

Department of Mathematics

Alsibiani, Wahidah, Reducibility of para-bolically induced representations

Liu, Jun, New computational methods foroptimal control of partial differentialequations

Rajasingam, Prasanthan, On the numer-ical solution of continuous coupledalgebraic Riccati equations

University of Chicago (17)

Department of Mathematics

Bapat, Asilata, Some results on perversesheaves and Bernstain-Sato polynomials

Cheng, Shuyang, Towards a nonstandardFourier analysis in automorphic forms:Some results on two toy examples

Engelstein, Max, Free boundary problemsfor harmonic and caloric measure

Fehrman, Benjamin, Isotropic diffusionsin random environment

Filip, Simion, Teichmuller dynamics andHodge theory

Gazaki, Evangelia, Zero cycles on abelianvarieties, Somekawa K-groups and localsymbols

Geng, Andrew, The classification of five-dimensional geometries

Koshikawa, Teruhisa, Hodge bundles andheights of pure motives

Thatte, Vaidehee, Ramification theory forarbitrary valuation rings in positivecharacteristic

Zheng, Bowei, Limiting behavior of criticalbranching Brownian motion with killing

Department of Statistics

Dutta, Somak, Residual likelihood analy-sis for spatial mixed linear models

Liu, Zhe, High-dimensional graph estima-tion and density estimation

Ng, Lian Huan, Three essays on statisticalmodels for computer vision

Poppick, Andrew, Statistical methods forclimatic processes with temporal non-stationarity

Potiron, Yoann, Estimating the integratedparameter of the locally parametricmodel in high-frequency data

Shender, Dinah, Tradeoffs between com-putation and accuracy in statisticalestimation

Wang, Miaoyan, Mixed-model and quasi-likelihood methods for genetic associ-ation studies in samples with relatedindividuals and population structure

University of Illinois atChicago (12)

Mathematics, Statistics and

Computer Science Department

Bilman, Deniz, On longtime asymptoticsfor the Toda lattice and its Hamiltonianpertubations

Conant, Gabriel, Model theory and combi-natorics of homogenous metric spaces

Dyer, Jessica, Dynamics of equicontinu-ous group actions on Cantor sets

Kjerland, Marc, Model reduction andfluctuation response for two-timescalesystems

Kun, Jeremy, Graphs, new models, andcomplexity

Pajda-Delao, Jennifer, On the law of it-erated logarithms for Brownian motionon compact manifolds

Schneider, Jonathan, Diagrammatic theo-ries of 1- and 2-dimensional knots

Sun, Yan, A subgroup identificationmethod with interaction filtering andquantitative criteria

Tammali, Venu, High-order pertubationof surfaces approach to Fokas integralequations: Maxwell equations

Yu, Xiangcheng, Accelerating polynomialhomotopy continuation on graphicsprocessing units

Yuan, Ting, On the structered mani-fold optimization: Reduced-rank andpositive definite matrix estimation

Zheng, Hui, Virus classification based onalignment-free methods

University of Illinois,Urbana—Champaign (20)

Department of Mathematics

Ackermann, Colleen, Quasiconformal map-pings on planar surfaces

Berning, Stephen, Dynamics of a fullystochastic discretized neuronal modelwith excitatory and inhibitory neurons

Collier, Brian, Finite order automor-phisms of Higgs bundles: Theory andapplication

Demirbas, Seckin, A study on certainSchrodinger equations

DiPasquale, Michael, Splines on polytopalcomplexes

Galiardi, Meghan, Mathematical modelsin evolutionary dynamics

Hasler, Jordan, Stochastic and determin-istic epidemic models

Hockensmith, Daniel, A classification oftoric, folded-symplectic manifolds

Kim, Ki Yeun, Dynamics of bouncing rigidbodies and billiards in the spaces ofconstant curvature

Liu, Hong, Extremal graph theory: Super-saturations and enumeration

Mahoney, Thomas, Online choosability ofgraphs

McDonald, Daniel, Competitive versionsof vertex ranking and game acquisition,and a problem on proper colorings

Reiniger, Benjamin, Coloring and con-structing (hyper) graphs with restric-tions

Roy, Arindam, Ramanujun’s identities,Voronoi summation formula, and ze-roes of partial sums of zeta andL-functions

Searles, Dominic, Root-theoretic Youngdiagrams and Schubert calculus

Work, Grace, Transversals to horocycleflow on the moduli space of translationsurfaces

Yeakel, Sarah, Goodwillie calculus and IZhou, Sishen, Topology of configuration

space on trees

Department of Statistics

Shi, Peibei, Weak signal identification andinference in penalized model selcetion

Wang, Shiyu, Some theoretical and ap-plied developments to support cogni-tive learning and adaptive testing

INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (10)

Department of Mathematics

Bhattacharya, Prasit, Higher associativityof Moore spectra

Carter, Anne, Lubin-Tate deformationspaces and (φ, Γ )-modules

de Araujo Monterio da Silva, Rafael,Transverse steady bifurcation of vis-cous shock solutions of a system ofparabolic conservation laws in a strip

Gershon, Arthur, New directions in theenumeration of tilings of a chessboard

Lo, Chi Yu, The height-2 Lubin-Tate spaceand p-adic analytic representation

Nguyen, Thang, Qi-embedding rigidityof nonuniform lattices in higher ranksample Lie groups

Rohatgi, Ranjan, On the enumeration ofLozenge tilings of halved hexagons

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Sadigov, Tural, Data assimilation anddetermining forms for weakly damped,dispersive systems

Yang, Ning, Cross-wired lamplightergroups and linearity of automatagroups

Yang, Ping, Dynamic transition forRayleigh-Benard convection

IndianaUniversity–PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Carichino, Lucia, Multiscale mathematicalmodeling of ocular blood flow andoxygenation and their relevance toglaucoma

Cassani, Simone, Blood circulation andaqueous humor flow in the eye: Multi-scale modeling and clinical applications

Lynch, Rodney, Arithmetic on normalforms of elliptic curves

Wang, Shan, An easy likelihood approachto improved estimation of linear func-tionals of a probability measure withside information with applications tostructural equation models

Purdue University (36)

Department of Mathematics

Backing, Thomas, Regularity of solutionsand the free boundary for a class ofBernoulli-type parabolic free boundaryproblems with variable coefficients

Boswell, Jacob, Prime saturations andRees algebras of almost linearly pre-sented ideals

Chavez Casillas, Jonathan, Stochasticmodeling of limit order books: Conver-gence of the prime process, simulationand applications

Chen, Binghe, Least-square finite ele-ment method for singularly perturbedproblems and the Oseen problem

Choi, Heejun, On several efficient al-gorithms for some partial differentialequations

Cox, Britain, Supercuspidal representa-tions arising from stable vectors

De Silva, Randombage, Rank constrainedhomotopies of matrices and the Blacka-dar-Handelman conjectures on C+-algebras

Hines, Taylor, The radius of comparisonand mean typological dimension

Kloster, Kyle, Graph diffusions and ma-trix functions: Fast algorithms andlocalization results

Legg, Alan, Applications of the Bergmanprojection to quadrature domains andthe Khavinson-Shapiro conjecture

Luo, Yankeng, Small-time expansions forlocal jump-diffusion models

McGee, Reginald, Modeling, analysis,and control of Syk-mediated signal-ing events for B cells and associatedcellular response for B cells

Miller, Brittney, Kernels of adjointsof composition operators on Hilbertspaces of analytic functions

Montano, Jonathon, Generalized multi-plicities and depth of blowup algebras

Mrad, Lidia, Dynamic analysis of Chevronstructures in liquid crystal cells

Noparstak, Jacob, On flows in Teichmullerand moduli spaces of surfaces

Rizzie, Anthony, Refined estimates on theBetti numbers of semi-algebraic sets

Rizzie, Erin, Adjoints of compositionoperators with a broader class ofsymbols

Rotz, Kevin, Monotonicity formulas fordiffusion operators on manifolds andCarnot groups, heat kernel asymptoticsand Wiener’s criterion on Heisenberg-type groups

Schneider, Andrew, Finite-dimensionalapproximations and deformations ofgroup C*-algebras

Sosa, Gabriel, On monomial orders,Koszul algebras and toric rings

Stull, Nicholas, Unique continuation frominfinity for perturbations of the com-plex hyperbolic space

Swartz, Drew, Analysis of models forcurvature driven motion interfaces

Wang, Xu, Incompressible multiphaseflows: Issues and algorithms

Wang, Yiran, The resolvent of the Lapla-cian on non-trapping asymptoticallyhyperbolic manifolds

Weigandt, James, Ranks of elliptic curvesand Selmer groups

Yim, Arnold, Homological properties ofdeterminantal arrangements

Zhang, Wei, Toms-Winter conjecture andtracial state space with non-compactextreme boundary

Department of Statistics

Chen, Ningning, Assessing inter-rateragreement for compositional data

Cheng, Longjie, On methods for variableselection under single index model andDNA methylation status calling

Choi, Meena, A flexible and versi-tile framework for statistical designand analysis of quantitative massspectrometry-based proteomic experi-ments

Lawlor, Michael, Calcium requirementdistribution via bone growth modeling

Navarro, Rolando, Malliavin calculus inthe canonical Levy process: White noisetheory and financial applications

Olafsson, Sveinn, Applications of short-time asymptotic methods to optionpricing and change-point detection forLevy processes

Rounds, Jeremiah, Inference using multi-level genomic features sets and modelsin RNA-Seq experiments

Wang, Xiaoguang, Realized kernel esti-mation of integrated volatility usinghigh frequency with random tradingtime

University of NotreDame (8)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics and Statistics

Wu, Liang, High order fast iterativemethods for steady state of hyperbolicpartial differential equations

Department of Mathematics

Diaz-Lopez, Alexander, Root systems ofreflection systems and w-graphs overnon-commutative algebras

Ferdinands, Timothy, Groupoids withroot systems in real vector spaces

Jiang, Xumin, Boundary expansions forminimal graphs in the hyperbolic space

Madsen, Jeffrey, Equations of Rees alge-bras and singularities of rational planecurves

Smith, Douglas, A method for estimatingentropy of real birational maps withconstrained critical orbits

Stoffel, Augusto, Supersymmetric fieldtheories and orbifold cohomology

Vojdani, Somayeh, On Presburger arith-matic, nonstandard finite cyclic groups,and definable compactifications

IOWAIowa State University (17)

Department of Mathematics

Herr, John, Fourier series for singularmeasures and the Kaczmarz algorithm

Hogenson, Kirsten, Random and deter-ministic versions of extremal posetproblems

Kingsley, Nicole, Skew propogation timeLois, Brian, Correctness results for on-line

robust principal components analysisMartinez, Jose de Jesus, Modeling and

controllability of a heat equation with apoint mass

Palmowski, Kevin, A fractional approachto minimum rank and zero forcing

Roat, Jolie, On 8p-dimensional Hopf alge-bras with the Chevalley property

Voller, Zachary, Limit theorems for per-sistent random walks in cookie envi-ronments

Department of Statistics

Cheng, Xiaoyue, Interactive visualizationfor missing values, time series, andareal data

Erciulescu, Andreea, Prediction variancefor small area models when the covari-ate area mean is subject to estimationerror

Follett, Lendie, Bayesian contributions tothe modeling of multivariate macroeco-nomic data

Fortin, Daniel, Contributions to modelingspatially indexed functional data usinga reproducing kernel Hilbert spaceframework

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Marget, Wilmina, Experimental designsfor multiple responses with differentmodels

Maurer, Karsten, Applications of tech-nology and large data in statisticseducation and statistical graphics

Osthus, David, Applications of and exten-sions to state-space models

Reiners, Jostein, Computer model opti-mization within hidden constraints

Simpson, Matthew, Essays in Bayesianmodeling and computing

University of Iowa (28)

Applied Mathematical and

Computational Sciences

Fonley, Morgan, Effects of oscillatoryforcing on hydrologic systems underextreme conditions: A mathematicalmodeling approach

Patterson, Catherine, Histomorphometry-based modeling and simulation of mul-tiple myeloma bone disease

Wang, Xiayi, Structured modeling andsimulation of articular cartilage lesionformation: Development and validation

Yang, Boshi, A conic optimization ap-proach to variants of the trust regionsubproblem

Zhang, Tianyi, Source recovery in bio-luminescence tomography based onradiative transfer

Zhu, Chenhong, New insight into modelsof cardiac caveolae and arrhythmia

Department of Biostatistics

Liu, Ke, A joint model of an internaltime-dependent covariate and bivariatetime-to-event data with an applicationto muscular dystrophy surveilllance,tracking, and research network data

Lu, Wenjinig, Monotone spline-based non-parametric estimation of longitudinaldata with mixture distributions

Pugh, Melissa A, A Bayesian approach todetect time-specific group differencesbetween nonlinear temporal curves

Tang, Fan, Structural time series cluster-ing, modeling, and forecasting in thestate-space framework

Ten Eyck, Patrick, Problems in general-ized linear model slection and predic-tive evaluation for binary outcomes

Thomann, Mitchell, The flexible bivariatecontinual reassessment method

VanBuren, John M, Integrating indepen-dent spatio-temporal replications toassess population trends in diseasespread

Department of Mathematics

Borchers, Brian, Uniquely clean elements,optimal sets of units and countingminimal sets of units

Colon, Nelson, Localized skein algebrasas Frobenius extensions

Czarnecki, Kyle, Resonance sums forRankin-Selberg products

Good, Jennifer, Weighed interpolationover W*-algebras

Grove, Colin, A combinatorial approachto the Cabling conjecture

Honken, Annette, Mapping distance oneneighborhoods within knot distancegraphs

Koffi, Gerard, Modules and orbits of theregular action, and deformations ofincidence algebras

Margolin, Benjamin, Non-commutativedeformation rings

Meyer, David, Universal deformationrings and fusion

Salazar, Nathan, Resonance for Maassforms in the spectral aspect

Savala, Paul, Computing spectral datafor Maass cusp forms using resonance

Soto, Roberto, Universal deformationrings and semidihedral 2-groups

Wackwitz, Daniel, Versal deformationrings of modules over Brauer treealgebras

Wassink, Luke, Split covers for certainrepresentations of classical groups

Department of Statistics and

Actuarial Science

Jiao, Feiran, High-dimensional inferenceof ordinal data with medical applica-tions

KANSASKansas State University (5)

Department of Mathematics

Alsulmi, Badria, Generalized Jacobi sumsmodulo prime power

Bunch, Eric, K-theory in algebraic geome-try

Thapa Magar, Surya, Skeleta of affinecurves and surfaces

Tran, Nhan, Numerical methods for solv-ing wave scattering problems

Department of Statistics

Tong, Bo, More accurate two-samplecomparisons for skewed populations

University of Kansas (9)

Department of Mathematics

Alkrani, Shalan, Three dimensional Ja-cobian derivations and divisor classgroups

Han, Zheng, Reflected diffusions andapplication to finance

Hu, Guannan, Fractional diffusion inGaussian noisy environment

Huang, Leonard, Generalized fixed-pointalgebras for twisted C*-dynamical sys-tems

Li, Xi, Dynamics of a degenerate Fokker-Planck equation and its application

Liu, Yanghui, Numerical solutions ofrough differential equations and sto-chastic differential equations

Reynolds, John, Convergence propertiesof Hausdorff closed spaces

Se, Tony, Depth and associated primes ofmodules over a ring

Su, Chen, Some studies on parameterestimations

University of KansasMedical Center (3)

Department of Biostatistics

Bimali, Milan, A likelihood-based ap-proach to the assessment of largesample convergence and model basedclustering

Garrard, Lili, Classical and Bayesianinstrument development

Lei, Yang, Parametric and nonparametricmodels in health research: Design andanalysis

Wichita State University (3)

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics, and Physics

Badreddine, Mohamed, A comparison ofsome numerical conformal mappingmethods for simply and multiply con-nected domains

Liang, Li, Increasing stability in theinverse problem for the Schrodingerequation

Rinker, Patrick, Pellet ablation in Toka-mak reactors

KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (13)

Department of Mathematics

Cai, Yue, New perspectives of quantumanalogues

Constable, Jonathan, Kronecker’s theoryof binary bilinear forms with applica-tions to representations of integers assums of three squares

Fogarty, Neville, On skew-constacycliccodes

Liang, Qiao, Singular value computationand subspace clustering

Nelson, Sarah, Flag-f-vectors of polytopeswith few verticies

Solus, Liam, Polyhedral problems in com-binatorical convex geometry

Wang, Hao, The Krylov subspace meth-ods for the computation of matrixexponents

Department of Statistics

Lou, Wenjie, Multi-state models withmissing covariates

Qi, Meng, Development in normal mixtureand mixture of expert modeling

Roualdes, Edward, New results in ell-1penalized regression

Shen, Zhiyuan, Empirical likelihood anddifferentiable functionals

Weyenberg, Grady, Statistics in theBillera-Holmes-Vogtmann treespace

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University of Louisville (6)

Department of Mathematics

Foreman, Erika, Order automorphismson the lattice of residuated maps ofsome special nondistributive lattices

Hoots, Lucas, Strong quota pair systemsand May’s theorem on median semilat-tices

Meng, Quancheng, Spreading speeds andtraveling waves in some populationmodels

Money, Chad, Chaos in semiflowsSuer, Charles, The PC-tree algorithm,

Kuratowski subdivisions, and the torusWang, Minghu, Mathematical studies of

the glucose-insulin regulatory systemmodels

LOUISIANALSU Health SciencesCenter, New Orleans (3)

Department of Biostatistics

Ardah, Husam, A new two-stage samplingdesign for sensitive questions throughrandomized response technique anddirect questioning

Danos, Denise, Binary regression withstochastic covariates

Zhu, Han, Bayesian sequential random-ization designs for phase III clinicaltrials

Louisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (12)

Department of Mathematics

Adimurthi, Karthik, Global a priori esti-mates and sharp existence results forquasilinear equations on nonsmoothdomains

Cross, Christopher Adam, Partial cosine-Funk transforms at poles of the cosine-λ transform on Grassmann manifolds

Darweesh, Amer, Wavelets, coorbit the-ory, and projective representation

D’souza, Kimberly, Excluding a weakly4-connected minor

Grey, Jacob, Analysis of nonlinear disper-sive model equations

Hajij, Mustafa, Knots, skein theory andq-series

Hayajneh, Mostafa, Twisted reflectionpositivity

Hu, Ying, Left-orderability, cyclic branchedcovers and representations of the knotgroup

Lewchalermvongs, Chanun, Well-quasi-ordering by the induced-minor relation

Majed, Lieth, Topological dynamics oncompact phase spaces

Smirnov, Aleksandr, Riemann-Hilbert for-malism in the study of crack propaga-tion in domains with a boundary

Yang, Yunyun, A new method in dis-tribution theory with a non-smoothframework

Tulane University (6)

Department of Mathematics

Ahmadi, Elham, Boundary integral for-mulation for flows containing an inter-face between two porous media

Barker, Tyler, A monad for randomizedalgorithms

Jiu, Lin, The method of brackets and theBernoulli symbol

Qu, Zhuolin, Fast operator splitting meth-ods for nonlinear PDEs

Sun, Mengyao, Algebraic properties ofsquarefree monomial ideals

Yang, Qiang, Macroscopic fiber motionin a polymeric fluid driven by a four-roll-mill

University of Louisiana atLafayette (4)

Department of Mathematics

Chellamuthu, Vinodh, Structure popula-tion models: Numerical methods andapplications to dynamics of amphibiansand chytridiomycosis

Li, Xinyu, Size-structured populationmodel with distributed states in therecruitment: Approximation and pa-rameter estimation

Miller, Robert Lloyd, Models for the inter-actions of size structured populationsand the environment

Sambandham, Bhuvaneswari, Analysis ofsequential Caputo fractional differen-tial equations with applications

MARYLANDJohns Hopkins UniversityBloomberg School ofPublic Health (13)

Department of Biostatistics

Abreu, Francis, Definition and estima-tion of intervention effects in complexsystems: Gender equity in academia

Collado Torres, Leonardo, Annotation-agnostic differential expression analy-sis

Fisher, Aaron, Methods for high dimen-sional analysis, multiple testing, andvisual exploration

Fortin, Jean-Philippe, Statistical methodsfor epigenetic data and structural mag-netic resonance imaging

Huang, Lei, Statistical methods in high-dimensional structured data

Lu, Yi, Influence function based statis-tical inference under various samplingdesigns

Mejia, Amanda, Statistical methods forfunctional magnetic resonance imagingdata

Muschelli, John, Computational methodsfor neuroimaging in R: Stroke hemor-rhage in x-ray computed tomographyscanning

Pal Choudhury, Parichoy, Statistical in-ference with multiple data sources

Patil, Prasad, Assessing reproducibilityand value in genomic signatures

Qiu, Huitong, Statistical methods andtheory for analyzing high dimensionaltime series

Sweeney, Elizabeth, Statistical methodsfor analysis of structural magneticresonance imaging in patients withmultiple sclerosis

Yue, Chen, Generalizations, extensionsand applications for principal compo-nent analysis

Johns HopkinsUniversity (7)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Liu, Bo, Energy commodity price analysisand trading strategies

Yoder, Jordan, On model-based semi-supervised clustering

Department of Mathematics

Beardsley, Jonathan, Coalgebraic struc-ture and intermediate Hopf-Galois ex-tensions of Thom spectra in quasicate-gories

Lorman, Vitaly, Real Johnson-Wilson the-ories and computations

Mincheva, Kalina, Semiring congruencesand tropical geometry

Xue, Min, Concerning the Klein-Gordonequation on asymptotically Euclideanmanifolds

Zhu, Junyan, Hole probabilities of SU(m+1)Gaussian random polynomials

University of Maryland,Baltimore County (10)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Al-Najjar, Elias, Extensions of Cook’sprincipal fitted components for suffi-cient dimension reduction

Baro, Elande, Bayesian latent propensityscore approach for average causal effectestimation allowing covariate measure-ment error

Coulibaly, Zana, Calcium dynamics fromrandomly releasing sparks in cardiacmyocytes: Analyzing and simulating aprobabilistic 3-dimensional mathemati-cal model with point release sources

Flouri, Marilena, Tolerance limits andconfidence limits for cost-effectivenessanalysis

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Karmakar, Moumita, Variable selectionin high dimensional complex data andBayesian estimation of reduction sub-space

Khuvis, Samuel, Porting and tuning nu-merical kernels in real-world appli-cations to many-core Intel Xeon Phiaccelerators

Plunkett, Amanda, Analysis and testingof sparse high dimensional discretedata

Pottackal, Ginto, Some tests, confidencelimits and tolerance limits for assessingbiosimilarity

Wang, Ting, Parametric sensitivity analy-sis of stochastic reaction networks

Xi, Mingyu, Statistical modeling and hy-pothesis testing of chemical-chemicalinteraction: A non-parametric approach

University of Maryland,College Park (28)

Department of Mathematics

Begue, Matthew, Expedition in data andharmonic analysis on graphs

Brandon, Andrew, Capturing micro-emul-sions and micro-foams with the arbi-trary Langrangian Eulerian method

Civan, Gokhan, Identification of oper-ators on elementary locally compactabelian groups

Clapp, Geoffrey, Applying mathematicalmodels to study the role of the im-mune system in chronic myelogenousleukemia

Clark, Chae, Spectral frame analysis andlearning through graph structure

Cui, Ran, The real-quaternionic indicatorof irreducible self-conjugate represen-tations of real reductive groups

Darmon, David, Statistical methods foranalyzing time series data drawn fromcomplex social systems

Das, Suddhasattwa, Chaos and quasiperi-odicity

Delgadino, Matias, Analysis of self-organization

Doboszczak, Stefan, Existence and weak-strong uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes-Smoluchowski system over mov-ing domains

Forstall, Virginia, Iterative solution meth-ods for reduced-order models of param-eterized partial-differential equations

Galagate, Douglas, Causal inference witha continuous treatment and outcome:Alternative estimators for parametricdose-response functions

Guay, Matthew, Sparse signal representa-tion in digital and biological systems

Hafftka, Ariel, Tensor completion formultidimensional inverse problems withapplications to magnetic resonancerelaxometry

Harris, David, Algorithms and general-izations for the Lovasz local lemma

Hsiao, Chiao-Wen, Multivariate meth-ods for high-throughput biologicaldata with application to comparativegenomics

Kuz, Elif, Quantitative derivation ofeffective evolution equations for thedynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates

Laun, Gregory, Fundamental domains forproper affine actions of Coxeter groupsin three dimensions

Mendelowitz, Lee, Algorithms for align-ment and visualization of genome map-ping data with applications to structuralvariant detection

Norwood, Adrienne, Bred vectors, singu-lar vectors, and Lyapunov vectors insimple and complex models

Okrah, Kwame, Shape analysis of high-throughput genomics data

Paulson, Joseph, Normalization and dif-ferential abundance analysis of metage-nomic biomarker-gene surveys

Rast, Richard, The complexity of isomor-phisms for some first order theorems

Schmiedling, Scott, Strong shift equiva-lence, algebraic k-theory, and isolatingzero-dimensional dynamics on mani-folds

Stepanov, Alexey, Dynamical and steady-state solutions of nonlinear viscoelas-ticity

Weinberg, Daniel, Multiscale and direc-tional representations of high-dimension-al information content in remotelysensed data

Xue, Zhenyi, Bayesian estimation of theinbreeding coefficient for single nu-cleotide polymorphism collected usingcomplex survey data

Zhong, Ming, Hierarchical reconstructionmethod for solving ill-posed linearinverse problems

MASSACHUSETTSBoston College (4)

Department of Mathematics

Hubbard, Diana, Properties and appli-cations of the annular filtration onKhovanov homology

Romano, Beth, On the local Langlandscorrespondence: New examples fromthe epipelagic zone

Saltz, Adam, The spectral sequence fromKhovanov homology to Heegaard-Floerhomology and transverse links

Yarmola, Andrew, Convex hulls hyper-bolic in 3-space and generalized ortho-spectral identities

Boston University (7)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bai, Shuyang, Probabilistic and statis-tical problems related to long-rangedependence

Curtis, Jessica, Class discovery via featureselection in unsupervised settings

Deng, Xinyi, Point process modeling andestimation: Advances in the analysis ofdynamic neural spiking data

Fischer, Benjamin, Perturbed polyhedraand the construction of local Euler-Maclaurin formulas

Karnataki, Aditya, Two theorems onGalois representations and Shimuravarieties

McCauley, Thomas, Chern-Weil tech-niques on loop spaces and the Maslovindex in partial differential equations

Sanjari, Ali, Liquidation under dynamicprice impact

Boston University Schoolof Public Health (5)

Department of Biostatistics

Choi, Seung Hoan, Evaluation of statis-tical methods, modeling, and multipletesting in RNA-SEQ studies

Griffin, Paula Jean, Biological networkmodels for inferring mechanism ofaction, characterizing cellular pheno-types, and predicting drug response

Hong, Jaeyoung, Meta-analysis strategiesfor heterogeneous studies in genome-wide association studies

Rybin, Denis, Placebo response character-istic in sequential parallel comparisondesign studies

Xue, Luting, Evaluation extension of akernel-based method for gene-gene in-teraction tests of common variants

Brandeis University (4)

Department of Mathematics

Cordes, Matthew, Morse boundaries ofproper geodesic spaces

Deo, Shaunak, Structure of Hecke alge-bras in two scenarios: Mod p modularforms and eigenvarieties

Kelly, Tynan, Twisted linking numbersand Casson-Gordon invariants

Ly, Tue, Diophantine approximation inalgebraic number fields and flows onhomogeneous dynamics

Harvard T. H. Chan Schoolof Public Health (9)

Biostatistics Department

Antonelli, Joseph, Statistical methods foranalyzing complex spatial and missingdata

Chakrabortty, Abhishek, Robust semi-parametric inference in semi-supervisedsettings

Gurmu, Yared, Modeling and estimationof patterns of relationship formationand dissolution

Hayeck, Tristan, Retrospective mixedmodel and propensity score methodsfor case control data

Miles, Caleb, Semiparametric methods forcausal mediation analysis and measure-ment error

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Ramchandani, Ritech, Rank-based meth-ods for survival data with multipleoutcomes

Staples, Patrick, On the statistical proper-ties of epidemics on networks

Sun, Baoluo, Semi-parametric methodsfor missing data and causal inference

Yung, Godwin Yuen Han, Statistical meth-ods for analyzing genetic sequencingassociation studies

Harvard University (22)

Department of Mathematics

Bland, Jason, On the arithmetic of hyper-elliptic curves

Cavazzani, Francesco, Complete homo-geneous varieties via representationtheory

Fintzen, Jessica, On the Moy-Prased filtra-tion and stable vectors

Matveev, Konstantin, q-deformed inter-acting particle system RSKs and randompolymers

Moon, Yong Suk, Galois deformation ringand Barsotti-Tate representation in therelative case

Perry, Alexander, Derived categories andbirational geometry of Gushel-Makaivarieties

Tang, Yunqing, Algebraicity criteria andtheir applications

Tynan, Philip, Equivariant Weiss calculusand loop spaces of Stiefel manifolds

Xie, Yi, On the frame singular instan-ton Floer homology from higher rankbundles

Zahariuc, Adrian, Degenerations, log K3pairs and low genus curves on algebraicvarieties

Department of Statistics

Garcia-Horton, Viviana, Topics in Bayesianinference for causal effects

Jones, David, Information: Measuring themissing, using the observed, and ap-proximating the complete

Li, Yang, Statistical methods for large-scale integrative genomics

Lu, Jiannan, On causal inference forordinal outcomes

Sosina, Sobambo, Analysis, modeling, andoptimal experimental design under un-certainty: From carbon nano-structuresto 3D printing

Tak, Hyungsuk, Topics in Bayesian hier-archical modeling and its Monte Carlocomputations

Toulis, Panagiotis, Implicit methods foriterative estimation with large data sets

Zhao, Anqi, Time for a new angle! Unravelthe mystery of split-plot designs via thepotential outcomes prism

School of Engineering and Applied

Science

Gupta, Manish, Complexity reduction fornear real-time high dimensional filter-ing and estimation applied to biologicalsignals

Huntley, Miriam, Quantitative methodsfor analyzing structure in genomes,self-assembly, and random matrices

Overvelde, Johannes, Embracing com-pliance and instabilities to achievefunction mechanical metamaterials anddevices

Wang, Pai, Phononic crystals and acousticmetamaterials

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (26)

Department of Mathematics

Alpert, Hannah, Special gradient trajec-tories counted by simplex straightening

Berchenko-Kogan, Yakov, Yang-Mills re-placement

Binder, John, Fields of rationality ofcuspidal automorphic representations

Boger, Dorin, Parabolic Springer resolu-tion

Bottman, Nathaniel, Pseudoholomorphicquilts with figure eight singularity

Chang, Jui-En, The 1-dimensional λ-selfshrinkers in R

2 and the nodal sets ofbiharmonic Steklov problems

Engel Shaposhnik, Efrat, Antichains ofinternal orders and semiorders, andDilworth lattices of maximum sizeantichains

Entova Aizenbud, Inna, Schur-Weyl dual-ity in complex rank

Fei, Teng, On the geometry of theStrominger system

Grinberg, Darij, Studies on quasisymmet-ric functions

Guang, Qiang, Self-shrinkers and trans-lating solitons of mean curvature flow

Hortsch, Ruthi, Counting elliptic curvesof bounded Faltings height

Lee, Yin Tat, Faster algorithms for convexand combinatorial optimization

Li, Jiayong, A-infinity algebras for La-grangians via polyfold theory for Morsetrees with holomorphic disks

Lin, Francesco, Monopoles and pin(2)-symmetry

Liu, Zihan, The Morse index of meancurvature flow self-shrinkers

Mangoubi, Oren, Integral geometry, Hamil-tonian dynamics, and Markov chainMonte Carlo

Moll, Alexander, Random partitions andthe quantum Benjamin-Ono hierarchy

Rippel, Oren, Sculpting representationsfor deep learning

Simmons, Sean, Preserving patient pri-vacy in biomedical data analysis

Srinivasan, Padmavathi, Invariants linkedto models of curves over discretevaluation rings

Sun, Yi, Quantum intertwiners and inte-grable systems

Vaintrob, Dmitry, Mirror symmetry andthe K theory of a p-adic group

Viscardi, Michael, Equivariant quantumcohomology and the geometric Satakeequivalence

Wadhwa, Neal, Revealing and analyzingimperceptible deviations in images andvideos

Zhang, Ruixun, Economic behavior froman evolutionary perspective

NortheasternUniversity (6)

Department of Mathematics

Bade, Nathaniel, Anomalies and holomor-phy in supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories

Bolognese, Barbara, Two results on di-visors on moduli spaces of sheaveson algebraic surfaces: Generic strangeduality on abelian surfaces and Nefcones of Hilbert schemes of points onsurfaces with irregularity zero

Gamse, Elisheva, Two explorations insymplectic geometry: I. Moduli spacesof parabolic vector bundles over curvesII. Characteristics of quantisations ofHamiltonian actions of compact Liegroups on symplectic manifolds

Lin, Yinbang, Moduli spaces of stablepairs

Wang, He, Resonance varieties, Chenranks and formality properties offinitely generated groups

Zhang, Rouran, Gauge theory and self-linking of Legendrian knots

Tufts University (5)

Department of Mathematics

Benson, Thomas, Multigrid-based precon-ditions for saddle-point problems

Bray, Sarah, Nonuniform hyperbolicity inHilbert geometries

Buckles, Kevin, Survival numbers ofgroups and graphs with emphasis onzd and Diestel-Leader graphs

O’Connell, Meghan, Advanced techniquesin the computation of reduced ordermodels and Krylov recycling for diffuseoptical tomography

Stark, Emily, Abstract commensurabil-ity and quasi-isometry classification ofhyperbolic group amalgams

University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (6)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Buskin, Nikolay, K3 surfacesDuanmu, Mei, Modeling, analysis and

numerical simulations in mathemati-cal biology of traveling waves, Turinginstability and tumor dynamics

Oloo, Stephen, Equivariant intersectioncohomology of Borel orbit closures inthe wonderful compactification of agroup

Ray, Evan, Hidden Markov models forphysical activity classification and en-ergy expenditure estimation

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Wang, Peng, Variable selection in singleindex varying coefficient models withlasso

Wilson, Tobias, The topology of the affineSpringer fiber in type A

Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Ho, Nguyenho, Swimming filaments in aviscous fluid with resistance

Kiley, Erin, Reduced-dimensional coupledelectromagnetic, thermal, and mechan-ical models of microwave sintering

Nika, Grigor, Multiscale analysis of emul-sions and suspensions with surfaceeffects

Yin, Jiani, Bayesian nonparametric mod-els for multi-stage sample surveys

MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics

Lazar, Drew, Scale and dimension reduc-tion in symmetric spaces

Mohammad, Mutaz, Frame based methodfor investigating Gibbs phenomenon

Soller, Katherine, Normalizable and uni-tarizable matrices

Michigan StateUniversity (17)

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Liping, A linear homotopy methodfor computing generalized tensor eigen-pairs

Dahlberg, Samantha, Patterns and statis-tics in partitions and restricted growthfunctions

Gao, Hongli, Minimization of some non-smooth convex functionals arising inmicromagnetics

Hu, Xianfeng, Machine learning methodfor authorship attribution

Ivanisvili, Paata, Geometric aspects ofexact solutions of Bellman equations ofharmonic analysis problems

Jin, Jiayin, Invariant manifold theory andits applications to nonlinear PDEs

Kim, Seonghak, The existence of Lipschitzsolutions to some forward-backwardparabolic equations

Kraitzman, Noa, Bifurcation and competi-tive evolution of network morphologiesin the strong functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation

Liang, Yu, The mathematical models ofnutritional plasticity and the bifurca-tions of a nonlocal diffusion equation

Lui, Qinbo, Estimates on singular valuesof functions of perturbed operators

Machen, Casey, Abelian varieties associ-ated to cubic and quartic forms

Nagy, Akos, The Berry connection andother aspects of the Ginzberg-Landautheory in dimension 2

Rey, Guillermo, Sharp estimates in har-monic analysis

Tang, Qi, High-order unstaggered con-strained transport method for magne-tohydrodynamic equations

Wang, Bao, Mathematical modeling andcomputation of solvation and binding

Wolf, Eric, A particle-in-cell method forthe simulations of plasmas based on anunconditionally stable wave equationsolver

Xun, Wang, A novel approach to blindsource separation and extraction inaudio

Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Baniabedalruhman, Ahmad, Dynamicmeshing around fluid-fluid interfaceswith applications to droplet tracking incontraction geometries

Gorgin, Elaheh, Heuristic methods forTikhonov regularization

Liang, Chao, Development of computa-tional methods for the investigationof liquid drop phenomena in externalflows

Oakland University (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Abdallah, Mohamad, Fault-tolerant Hamil-tonian-connectivity of 2-tree generatednetworks

Alshorman, Areej, Mathematical modelsof HIV latent infection with time delaysand age structure

Beshaj, Lubjana, Integral binary formswith minimal height

Pate, Kevin, Quadratic homogeneousKeller maps

University of Michigan (24)

Department of Mathematics

Acosta, Pedro, A general Landau-Ginzburg/Gromov-Witten correspondence

DeWoskin, Daniel, Multiscale modeling ofcoupled oscillators with applications tothe mammalian circadian clock

Farmer, Brittan, Modeling and simulationof carbon nanotube growth

Gupta, Purvi, Fefferman’s hypersurfacemeasure and volume approximationproblems

Hathaway, Daniel, Domination of func-tions

Kadyriszova, Zhibek, Tight closure, F-purity, and varieties of nearly commut-ing matrices

Kaye, Adam, Arithmetic of the AsaiL-function for Hilbert modular forms

Kim, Giwan, Richardson varieties in atoric degeneration of the flag variety

Perez, Juan, On connections betweeninvariants of singularities in zero andpositive characteristics

Ricks, Russell, Flat strips, Bowen-Margulismeasures, and mixing of the geodesicflow for rank one CAT(0) spaces

Shnidman, Ariel, Heights of generalizedHeegner cycles

Su, Yi, Electrical networks and electricalLie theory of classical types

Wetzel, Alfredo, Three stratified fluidmodels: Benjamin-Ono, tidal resonance,and quasi-geostrophy

Zhang, Tengren, Degeneration of Hitchinrepresentations

Zhao, Xiaolei, Topological Abel-Jacobimapping and Jacobi inversion

Department of Statistics

Bagchi, Pramita, Non-standard problemsunder short and long range dependence

Henderson, James, Methods for recon-structing networks with incompleteinformation

Lu, Xi, Evaluation and comparison ofdynamic treatment regimes: Methodsand challenges

Ma, Jing, Estimation and inference forhigh-dimensional Gaussian graphicalmodels with structural constraints

Narisetty, Naveen Naidu, Statistical anal-ysis of complex data: Bayesian modelselection and functional data depth

Nguyen, Dao Xuan, Iterated filteringand smoothing with applications toinfectious disease models

Roy, Sandipan, Statistical inference andcomputational methods for large high-dimensional data with network struc-ture

Xia, Donggeng, Measuring influence andtopic dependent interactions in socialmedia networks based on a countingprocess modeling framework

Zhou, Xiang, Three essays on economicinequality and social mobility

Wayne State University (8)

Department of Mathematics

Catanzaro, Michael, A topological studyof stochastic dynamics on CW com-plexes

Cui, Xiaoyue, New characterizations ofSobolev spaces on Heisenberg groups,Carnot groups and higher order Sobolevspaces on Euclidean space

Guo, Hailong, Recovery techniques forfinite element methods and their appli-cations

Nguyen, Nhat, On a multi-dimensionalsingular stochastic control problem:The parabolic case

Ouyang, Wei, Well-posedness propertiesin variational analysis with applications

Tian, Yuan, Finite-difference methods inoptimal control of differential inclu-sions

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Yuan, Quan, Stochastic recursive algo-rithms with applications to consensusand particle swarm optimization

Zabka, Matthew, Cohomology operationson random spaces

Western MichiganUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematics

Clark, Timothy, Resolving classes andresolvable spaces in rational homotopy

LaForge, Elliot, Chromatic connectivity ofgraphs

MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota—TwinCities (22)

Division of Biostatistics, School of

Public Health

Kim, Junghi, Statistical methods for imag-ing genetics

Lee, Chi Hyun, Nonparametric and semi-parametric methods for recurrent gaptime data

Musgrove, Donald, Spatial models forlarge spatial and spatiotemporal data

Ray, Debashree, Statistical modeling andtesting for joint association in genome-wide association studies

School of Mathematics

Acosta, Javier, Convergence in law ofthe centered maximum of the mollifiedGaussian free field in two dimensions

Dilks, Kevin, Involutions on Baxter objectsand q-gamma nonnegativity

Fu, Guosheng, Devising superconvergentHDG methods by M-decompositions

Garver, Alexander, On the structure oforiented exchange graphs

Goh, Ryan, Pattern formation in the wakeof external mechanisms

Goodson, Heidi, Hypergeometric func-tions and arithemtic properties of alge-braic varieties

Leifeld, Juliann, Smooth and nonsmoothbifurcations in Welander’s ocean con-vection mode

Mak, Cheuk Yu, Rigidity of symplecticfillings, symplectic division and Dehntwist exact sequences

McConville, Thomas, Biclosed sets incombinatorics

McIntyre, Stephen, Understanding andanalyzing APD alternans

Melbourne, James, Convex measures andassociated geometric and functionalinequalities

O’Connell, Rosemary, A computationalstudy of cortical spreading depression

Olson, Derek, Formulation and analysisof an optimization-based atomistic-to-continuum coupling algorithm

Patrias, Rebecca, Combinatorial construc-tions motivated by K-theory of theGrassmannian

Wang, Xu, Searching, clustering and re-gression on non-Euclidean spaces

Wei, Ning, Alternans, ephaptic couplingand their relation to ventricular ar-rhythmias

School of Statistics

Archila, Felipe Acosta, Markov ChainMonte Carlo for linear mixed models

Knudson, Christina, Monte Carlo likeli-hood approximation for generalization

MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bonyo, Job, Groups of isometries as-sociated with automorphisms of thehalf-plane

Calvert, Velinda, Rational Bernoulli func-tions for solving problems on un-bounded domains

Mashayehki, Somayeh, Hybrid functionsin fractional calculus

University ofMississippi (2)

Department of Mathematics

Nakarmi, Janet, On variable bandwidthkernel density and regression estima-tion

Priddy, Bruce, Independent dominationof subcubic graphs

University of SouthernMississippi (2)

Department of Mathematics

Cibotarica, Alexandru, Solution of non-linear time-dependent PDEs throughcomponentwise approximation of ma-trix functions

Kuo, Lei-Hsin, On the selection of a goodshape parameter for RBF approximation

MISSOURIMissouri University ofScience andTechnology (7)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Abdurasul, Emad, Small sample confi-dence bands for the survival functionunder the proportional hazards model

Cuchta, Thomas, Discrete analogues ofsome classical special functions

Edirisinghe, Pasan, Small sample saddle-point confidence intervals in epidemi-ology

Jornaz, Abdelmonaem, Modeling dailyelectricity load using splines and func-tional principal components

Liu, Xuejing, On testing common indicesfor several multi-index models: A link-free approach

Ozturk, Ozkan, Existence and classifica-tion of nonoscillatory solutions of twodimensional time scale systems

Zhong, Xiao, Essays on unit root testingin time series

St Louis University (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Garbuz, Darren, Decomposing gluingmaps for Heegaard diagrams in termsof Lickorish generators

Munden, James, Explicit formulae for theexponential map for special families ofdeformed space forms

Sykes, Kyle, Burn time: Computation andproperties

University ofMissouri—Columbia (15)

Department of Mathematics

Bontz, Simon, Rectifiability and harmonicmeasure

Coleman, Thomas, Inertial Chow ringsand a new asymptotic product

Granger, Valerie, GIT-equivalence andsemi-stable subcategories of quiver rep-resentations

He, Danqing, Weak Hardy spaces andparaproducts

Kline, Daniel, Locally semi-simple quiverrepresentations

Lynch, Richard, Subsequences of framesand their operators

Renner, Andrew, A foliated Seiberg-Witten theory

Schmutzler, Brock, Calderon-Zygmundtheory for single integral operatorsassociated with second-order ellipticpartial differential systems on roughsubdomains of Riemannian manifolds

Spencer, Patrick, Some results in convexgeometry

Department of Statistics

Cheng, Yuan, Bayesian analysis of fMRIdata and RNA-seq time course experi-ment data

Liu, Sifan, Partially informative normaland partial spline models

Nicholas, Alan, Functional data analysis:Children’s mathematical development

Tong, Xiaojun, Bayesian smoothing splinemodels and their application in estimat-ing yield curves

Wu, Ho-Hsiang, Nonlocal priors forBayesian variable selection in GLM andGLMM and their application in biologydata

Yang, Yiqun, Bayesian hierarchical mod-els for estimating nest survival

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University ofMissouri—Kansas City (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Menning, Melissa, Cohomology of finitemodules over short Gorenstein rings

Washington University (7)

Department of Mathematics

Boyett, Casey, Graphs with eigenvalues ofhigh multiplicity

Chu, Cheng, Three problems in operatortheory and complex analysis

Cox, Chris, No-slip billiards

Fernandes da Silva Jr, Genival Francisco,On the limiting behavior of variationsof Hodge structures

Keast, Ryan, Some results in higherweight Hodge theory

Liu, Bingyuan, Several complex variables,complex geometry and their applica-tions

Passer, Ben, Noncommutative Borsuk-Ulam theorems

MONTANA

Montana StateUniversity (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Bergren, Hannah, On abstract tiling ac-tions, expansiveness and local structure

Heberling, Tamra, Mathematical mod-eling for transcription of DNA withpausing: Stochastic model with torque,and diffusive transport model

Jackson, Benjamin, Transport of dis-solved and particulate material inbiofilm-lined tubes and channels

Malo, Robert, Discrete extremal lengthsof graph approximations of Sierpinskicarpets

Samuels, Shari, The evolution of prospec-tive elementary teacher’s compenten-cies

Weeding, Jennifer, Bayesian measurementerror modeling with application to thearea under the curve summary measure

University ofMontana—Missoula (2)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Joyce, Kevin, Point spread function esti-mation and uncertainty quantification

Palmer, Cody, The dynamics of vector-borne relapsing diseases

NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska—Lincoln (12)

Department of Mathematics

Behrens, Sarah, Graph centers, hyper-graph degree sequences, and induced-saturation

Dailey, Douglas, Rigidity of the Frobe-nius, Matlis reflexivity, and minimal flatresolutions

Dyer, Scott, The strict higher Grothendieckintegral

Kerian, Anne, Crosscap number: Hand-cuff graphs and unknotting number

Nu’man, Anisah, Tame filling functionsand closure properties

Reynolds, Sara, Dynamics of interactingpopulations: Consumer-resource sys-tems and evolutionary outcomes forcannibalistic spiders

Roth, Zachary, Analysis of neuronal se-quences using pairwise biases

Schafhauser, Christopher, Generalizationsof AF-embedding theorems of Brownand Pimsner

Shultis, Katherine, Systems of parametersand the Cohen-Macaulay property

Thompson, Peder, Stable local cohomol-ogy

Trageser, Jeremy, Local and nonlocalmodels in thin-plate and bridge dynam-ics

Department of Statistics

Hao, Xiaojuan, Variational Bayesian in-ference on phylogenetic trees, withapplications to metagenomics

NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (5)

Department of Mathematics

Cianci, Donato, On the Poisson relationfor lens spaces

Epstein, Jonathan, Dynamics of magneticflows on nilmanifolds

Hein, Jeffery, Orthogonal modular formsInfeld, Ewa, Uniform avoidance cou-

pling, design of anonymity systems andmatching theory

Petit, Nicolas, Finite-type invariants oforder one for framed and long virtualknots

University of NewHampshire (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Benson, David, Extensions of MF alge-bras and volume entropy in finite vonNeumann algebras

Chaar, May, Secondary preservice, in-service, and student teachers’ noticingof mathematical work and thinking intrigonometry

Machmer-Wessel, Keely, Discussion, taskselection, and novice teachers’ under-standing of the common core mathpractices

McClain, John, A supercell, Bloch wavemethod for calculating low-energy elec-tron reflectivity with applications tofree-standing graphene and molybde-num disulfide

Wen, Baole, Porous medium convectionat large Rayleigh number: Studies ofcoherent structure, transport, and re-duced dynamics

NEW JERSEYMontclair StateUniversity (1)

Mathematical Sciences Department

Abi-Hanna, Rabab, How do manipula-tives help students communicate theirunderstanding of double-digit subtrac-tion?

Princeton University (16)

Department of Mathematics

Collins, Dan, Anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions and Ichino’s formula

Dowlin, Nathan, Khovanov-Rozansky com-plexes in the knot Floer cube of resolu-tions

Harron, Piper, The equidistribution oflattice shapes of rings of integersof cubic, quartic, and quintic numberfields

Sawin, Will, A Tannakian category and ahorizontal equidistribution conjecturefor exponential sums

Schweinhart, Benjamin, Statistical topol-ogy of embedded graphs

Truong, Linh, Applications of Heegaard-Floer homology to knot concordance

Varma, Ila, On local-global compatibilityfor cuspidal regular algebraic automor-phic representations of GLn

Wang, Xuecheng, Global solutions forthe gravity water waves system: Infinitedepth setting and flat bottom setting

Xiu, Yang, Elliptic involution in borderedHeegaard-Floer homology

Zhang, Ruobing, Regularity, quantitativegeometry and curvature bounds

Program in Applied Computational

Mathematics

Chan, Yuk Fung, Financial models forcommodity, energy and equity markets

Hammoud, Naima, On instabilities inthin-film flows

Joe-Wong, Carlee, Smart data pricingLi, Qianxiao, Phase transition and free

action of non-equilibrium systemsTai, Cheng, Multi-scale adaptive repre-

sentation of signals: Models and algo-rithms

Wang, Chu, Collective behavior in network-based dynamical systems

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Rutgers The StateUniversity of New JerseyNew Brunswick (20)

Department of Statistics and

Biostatistics

Chang, Kun, Topics in compositional,seasonal and spatial-temporal time se-ries

Fan, Yi, New nonparametric approachesfor multivariate and functinal data anal-ysis in outlier detection, constructionof tolerance tubes and clustering

Mitra, Priyam, Topics in model averagingand toxicity models in combinationtherapy

Shu, Heng, Improved methods for causalinference data combination

Wu, Yaoshi, Higher order multivariate in-ference using approximation methods

Mathematics Department

Borda, Bence, The number of latticepoints

Chien, Edward, Square tiling of surfacesfrom discrete harmonic 1-chains

Coulson, Bud, An affine Weyl group inter-pretation of the “motivated proofs” ofthe Gordon-Andrews-Bessoud identities

Cowan, Charles Wes, Optimal data uti-lization for goal-oriented learning

Garnett, Brian, Small deviations of sumsof random variables

Kaya, Burak, Cantor minimal systemsfrom a descriptive perspective

Kim, John, Probabilistic and polynomialmethods in additive combinatorics andcoding theory

Larenas, Manuel, An abstract approachto pointwise decay estimates for dis-persive equations

Nuer, Howard, Moduli of Bridgelandstable objects on an Enriques surface

Russell, Matthew, Using experimentalmathematics to conjecture and provetheorems in the theory of partitions andcommutative and non-commutative re-currences

Seuffert, Francis, An extension of theBianchi-Egnell stability estimate to Bakry,Gentil, and Ledoux’s generalization ofthe Sobolev inequality to continuousdimensions and an application

Shar, Nathaniel, Experimental methodsin permutation patterns and bijectiveproof

Trinh, Tien, Estimates on non-decayingWhittaker functions

Wilson, Glen, Motivic stable stems overfinite fields

Xiao, Jianguo, Multi-center vector fieldmethods and some applications fordispersive equations

Rutgers The StateUniversity of New JerseyNewark (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Wang, Pei, Relative Rips machine and thintype components of bound complexes

Stevens Institute ofTechnology (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Davidson, James, Mathematical theory ofcondensing coagulation

Flynn, Christopher, Hurst parameter es-timation of a discretely sampled Itointegral with fractional Brownian mo-tion driven integrand

Heinig, Monika, On neighbor componentorder edge connectivity

NEW MEXICONew Mexico Institute ofMining and Technology (2)

Department of Mathematics

Leguy, Gunter, The effect of a basal-friction parameterization on grounding-line dynamics in ice-sheet models

Miller, Gabrielle, Urban blast waves: Asemi-analytic solution for intense ex-plosions with rigid wall reflections

New Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (5)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Anderson, Meredith, Character varietiesof twice-punctured torus bundles

Basyal, Deepak, A 1933 Nepali mathe-matics and astrology book Sis’ubodhaTaran gini II: Translation and commen-tary on mathematics chapters

Fawaz, Zahi, Bounded archimedean f-rings

Paudel, Lokendra, The group of invertiblefractional ideals of a Prufer intersectionof valuation rings

Tian, Weizhong, The distortion risk mea-sures and multivariate distributionsbased on skew-normal settings

University of NewMexico (6)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bizzozero, David, Studies of coherentsynchroton radiation with the discon-tinuous Galerkin method

Gong, Ming, Improving the material pointmethod

Konda, Sahitya, Spatial decay of rotatingwaves and restrictions on finite disks

Medina, Erik, Lifts of Frobenius on arith-metic jet spaces of schemes

Wei, Yonghua, Dynamic generalized ex-treme value via particle filters

Zhou, Lang, Neyman smooth-type good-ness of fit tests in complex surveys

NEW YORKBinghamton University,State University of NewYork (6)

Department of Mathematics and

Science

Bustamante, Mauricio, On the topology ofthe space of pinched negatively wiredmetrics with finite volume and identicalends

Diao, Qinggang, Cox proportional haz-ards model with time-dependent co-variates

Ding, Ding, Canonical Barsotti-Tate groupsof finite level

Lu, Qiyi, Learning partially labeled data inthe high-dimensional, low-sample sizesetting

Penta, Diego, Decomposition of the rank3 Kac-Moody Lie algebras F with respectto the rank 2 hyperbolic subalgebra Fib

Zhu, Yilin, Estimation of error distribu-tion function in a varying coefficientmodel

Clarkson University (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Gajamannage, Kelum, Manifold learningand dimensionality reduction in collec-tive motion

Jayawardana, Veroni, Inferences on fi-bromyalgia regression models and mul-tiple imputations on missing values

Quansah, Emmanuel, Investigation ofthree species predator-prey food chainmodels in ecology: “Ecological” damp-ing, Allee effects and environmentalnoise

Columbia University (22)

Department of Applied Physics and

Applied Mathematics

Harnett, Sean, Optimization methods forpower grid reliability

Jenkinson, Michael, Bifurcation of on-siteand off-site solitary waves of discretenonlinear Schrodinger type equations

Lee-Thorp, James, Bifurcation perspectiveon topologically protected and non-protected states in continuous systems

Department of Mathematics

Benoist, Stephane, Conformally invariantrandom planar objects

Bruggeman, Cameron, Dynamics of largerank-based systems of interacting dif-fusions

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Castellano, Robert, Kuranishi atlases andgenus zero Gromov-Witten invariants

Filip, Ioan, A local relative trace formulafor spherical varieties

Gimre, Karsten, Isometric embeddingsand quasi-local energy

Heyman, Andrea, Dualization and defor-mation of the Bar-Natan-Russel skeinmodule

Krishna, Rahul, Relative trace formula forso2×SO3 and the Waldspurger formula

Krishnamoorthy, Subrahmanya, Graphtheory, dynamics, and Barsotti-Tategroups: Variations on a theme ofMochizuki

Liu, Zheng, Nearly overconvergent formsand p-adic L-functions for symplecticgroups

Pal, Vivek, Simultaneous twists of ellipticcurves and the Hasse principle forcertain K3 surfaces

Potashnik, Natasha, Derived categories ofmoduli spaces of semistable pairs overcurves

Smirnov, Andrey, Quantum differenceequations for quiver varieties

Wang, Chongli, An alternative proof ofgenericity for the unitary group in threevariables

Wang, Yinghui, Viscosity characteriza-tions of explosions and arbitrage

Zhao, Jingyu, Periodic sympletic co-homologies and obstructions to La-grangian immersions

Department of Statistics

Agne, Michael, An assortment of unsu-pervised and supervised applications tolarge data

Chen, Yunxiao, Latent variable modelingand statistical learning

Franco Saldana, Diego, Advances inmodel selection techniques with appli-cations to statistical network analysisand recommender systems

Shahn, Zachary, Methods for personal-ized and evidence based medicine

Cornell University (18)

Biological Statistics and

Computational Biology

Bolotskikh, Alexandra, Post selection in-ference

Center for Applied Mathematics

Gushchin, Andrey, Synchronization ofcoupled oscillators: Heterogeneity andplasticity

Joo Park, Hyung, Topics in structure de-termination of submicron sized objects

Kloumann, Isabel, Behaviors, interac-tions, and communities in networks

Randles, Evan, Convolution powers ofcomplex-valued functions and somerelated topics in partial differentialequations

Toupo, Danielle, Nonlinear dynamics ofcycles in evolutionary games

Wilson, Kyle, Robustly modeling the worldfrom photos

Zhou, Zhengyi, Predicting ambulance de-mand

Department of Mathematics

Belanger, David, Sets, models and proofs:Topics in the theory of recursive func-tions

Benea, Cristina, Vector-valued extensionsfor singular bilinear operators andapplications

Chong, Kai Fong Ernest, Face vectors andHilbert functions

Clavier, Lucien, Non-affine horocycle-invariant ergodic measures on strata oftranslation surfaces

Jung, Joeun, Iterated trilinear Fourierintegrals with arbitrary symbols

Kara, Yasemin, The Laplacian on hy-perbolic Riemann surfaces and Maassforms

Kern, Thomas, Nonstandard models ofthe weak second order theory of onesuccessor

Kesler, Robert, Unbounded multilinearmultipliers adapted to large subspacesand estimates for degenerate simplexoperators

Messick, Scott, Continuous autonomacompactness, and Young measures

Zlatev, Radoslav, Examples of impliciti-zation of hypersurfaces

Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (16)

PhD Program in Mathematics

Arettines, Chris, On the relationship be-tween intersection angles of geodesicsand hyperbolic metrics on surfaces

Blair, David, Counting restricted integerpartitions

Cavallo, Bren, Algorithmic properties ofpoly-Z groups and secret sharing usingnon-commutative groups

Fischer, Aron, Massey products in stringtopology

Florez, Jorge, Explicit reciprocity laws forhigher local fields

Karabulut, Cihan, On sums of binaryHermitian forms

Kramer-Miller, Joseph, P-adic L-functionsand the geometry of Hida families

Quinn, Joseph, Quaternion algebras andhyperbolic 3-manifolds

Rivera, Manuel, On string topology op-erations and algebraic structures onHochschild complexes

Sosnovski, Bianca, Cayley graphs of semi-groups and applications to hashing

Spizzirri, Nicholas, An averaging methodfor advection-diffusion equations

Taam, Alexander, Equations over hyper-bolic groups

Vidaurre, Elizabeth, Cohomology of cer-tain polyhedral product spaces

West, Lloyd, The moduli space of rationalmaps

Yang, Heng, Stochastic processes andtheir applications to change point de-tection problems

Zhou, Hengyu, Some Bernstein type re-sults of graphical self-shrinkers withhigh codimension in Euclidean space

New York UniversityTandon School ofEngineering (1)

Department of Mathematics

Gbedemah, Amakoe, On the Lp theory ofpositive definite matrices

New York University,Courant Institute (23)

Courant Institute of Mathematical

Sciences

Askham, Travis, Integral-equation meth-ods for inhomogeneous elliptic partialdifferential equations in complex ge-ometry

Calvo, Juan, Domain decomposition meth-ods for problems in H(curl)

Chen, Nan, Filtering and predicting com-plex nonlinear turbulent dynamical sys-tems with model error

Denlinger, Ryan, The propagation ofchaos for a rarefied gas of hard spheresin vacuum

Fang, Fang, Hydrodynamic interactionsbetween self-propelled flapping wings

Greenberg, Spencer, Machine learning atextremes

Guadagni, Joseph, Numerical solver forthe two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equa-tions in gyrokinetic variables

Hershkovits, Or, Mean curvature flow:Smoothing, regularity and isoperimetricproperties

Jagannath, Aukosh, Variational and struc-tural methods in mean field spin glasses

Jiang, Tian, Adaptive geometric searchfor protein design

Kuznetsov, Vitaly, Theory and algorithmsfor forecasting non-stationary time se-ries

Lee, Dooheon, Stable boundaries ofCAT(0) groups

Lewis, Michael, Bayesian analysis andMonte Carlo sampling in the study ofcryo-electron microscopy

Munoz Medina, Andres, Learning theoryand algorithms for auctioning andadaptation problems

Park, Hyungbin, The Martingale extrac-tion method with applications to fi-nance

Qian, Jin, Contraction of algebraic pointsRyan, Jeffrey, Probabilistic topic models

of fragmented DNA for rapid organismidentification

Seo, Insuk, Large scale behavior of inter-acting Brownian motions

Widmayer, Klaus, On dispersive effectsin inviscid fluids and non-uniquenessof weak wave maps

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Wu, Chenyue, Energy distance in data-driven distribution analysis

Xiao, Xiao, Surface bouyancy dynamics inthe ocean

Yu, Bing, The effects of flow on theequilibrium state of a plasma

Zhong, Xingxin, Principal dynamical com-ponents: Methods, properties and fi-nancial applications

New York University,Stern School ofBusiness (1)

IOMS-Statistics Group

Cao, Wen, Three essays in modren dataanalysis: Drift in asset price models,a mixed model approach for text re-views, and improved survival trees forcompeting risks data

Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (7)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Altrichter, Scott, Flight path optimizationfor resolution and coverage in SyntheticAperture Radar (SAR)

Chen, Jiaming, Electrical impedence to-mography and D-bar equation

DiLorenzo, Tyson, Classifying micro-tubual network using curvature cal-culation of discrete curves

Kim, Jerry, Time reversal operation fordistributed systems in stationary anddynamic environment

Nambirajan, Srinivas, Topics in matrixapproximation

Pyzza, Pamela, Idealized models of insectolfaction

Rosenthal, Joseph, Mathematical modelsof amyloid-beta production, aggrega-tion, and treatment in Alzheimer’sdisease

Stony Brook University (35)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Chen, Hao, Development of a novel dou-ble neural network and its applications

Chen, Hsin-Chiang, Scalable Lagrangianpartical algorithms for compressiblefluid dynamics

Citovsky, Gui, Geometric optimizationproblems in sensor networks

Conley, Rebecca, Overcoming elementquality dependence of finite elementmethods

Dong, Xiaojin, A new stochastic regimeswitching model with time-varying re-gression coefficients and error vari-ances

Feng, Tian, An empirical study onconcentration-QTc model

Gong, Xiaoxue, Turbulent combustionstudy of scamjet problem

Hao, Xue, Factor-augmented error cor-rection model with time varying coeffi-cients

He, Fei, Development and applicationof an integrated parallel platform onshort-read sequences assembly

Hu, Wenlin, Statistical moments in variable-density incompressible Rayleigh-Taylorflows

Huang, Jiayu, A constrained functionallinear model for multi-loci genetic map-ping

Huang, Kan, Greedy local routing andgeometric hitting problem

Huang, Ya-Ting, Stochastic short termforecasting of cloud boundaries

Jiang, Lingling, Structure-based drug de-sign targeting HIVgp41

Lee, Hyejoo, Clustering and classificationmethods for prediction of the risk fordeveloping disease

Lee, Soyoun, Multi-marker linkage dis-equilibrium mapping of quantitativetrait loci

Mo, Hua, Estimation of alpha stabledistribution and tempered stable distri-bution

Qi , Huan, High-resolution detection ofchange-point with low coverage single-cell sequencing data

Ruan, Tingjun, Multiple-objective clus-tering analysis

Shi, Xiang, Advanced applications ofgeneralized hyperbolic distributions inportfolio allocation and measuring di-versification

Wang, Bing, Monotonicity properties ofstochastic kriging metamodels in se-quential setting and a new adaptivesampling method for prediction

Yu, Kwang Min, Computational relativis-tic electrodynamics: New algorithms,parallel software, and applications toaccelerator design

Yu, Riyu, Log band fraction approxima-tion for covariance estimation and lowvolatility

Zhang, Li, Influence propagation model-ing and applications in finance

Zhang, Na, Design and analysis of parallelargorithms for multiscale modeling ofplatelets

Zhang, Xiao, Regime switching frac-tionally integrated GARCH in dynamicvolatility modeling

Zhang, Yuzhong, Asset pricing in intra-day trading

Zhou, Sichen, Multiple change-points es-timation in GARCH models

Department of Mathematics

Adams, Joseph, Infinitely primitivelyrenormalizable polynomials of boundedtype

Hao, Cheng, Regularized geometry of theloop space

Lin, Tsung-Yin, On the local isometricembedding in R

3 of surfaces with zerosets of Gaussian curvature formingcusp domains

Medina, Anibal, E-infinity comodules andtopological manifolds

Sobolev, Yury, Tritangents of sphericalcurves

Ying, Chi, On the route to chaos for two-dimensional modestly area-contractinganalytic maps

Zhang, Zili, Multiplicativity of perversefiltration for Hilbert schemes of fiberedsurfaces

Syracuse University (1)

Department of Mathematics

Biermann, Patrick, Lipschitz geometry ofBanach and metric spaces

The University of Albany,SUNY (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Choi, JaeYong, Convergence of a smoothrandom average and its variation in-equality

Guzman, Maxine, Swan modules of ele-mentary abelian 2-groups over quadraticimaginary fields

Hepworth, Emily, Generators for k of acategory with cofibrations

Ramer, Kevin, On combinatorial formulasfor non-symmetric Macdonald polyno-mials

Wood, Daniel, On monomial resolutionssupported on posets

University atBuffalo—SUNY (12)

Department of Biostatistics

Baker, Mark, A collection of proceduresfor non-standard hypothesis testingproblems in order restricted spaces

Chen, Xiwei, New statistical procedureswith parametric and nonparametriclikelihood structures with applicationsto evaluations of discriminant abilityof biomarkers measured with/withoutmeasurement errors

Dibaj, Seyedeh Shira, Exact tests indifferent dichotomous data analysisproblems

Golzy, Mojgan, Mixed effects modeling ofrecurrent events: A generalized frailtymodel approach

Liu, Xiaobin, Selected methods for corre-lated binary data, model selection andhomogeneity tests

Ren, Xing, Novel methods for estimatingnull distributions in gene and genepathway analysis for large scale hy-pothesis testing

Yang, Luge, Some novel applications ofempirical likelihood methods

Department of Mathematics

Liang, Bingbing, Mean dimension, meanlength, and von Neumann-Luck rank

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Orenstein, Adam, An algebra of functionson the unit circle and Toeplitz operatorsin symmetrically-normed ideals

Rosas, Michael, On the structure ofSpecht modules in weight three blocksof symmetric algebras

Ruppe, Dennis, On the AJ-conjecture forcertain families of satellite knots

Sartwell, Matthew, Detecting mappingspaces and derived equivalence of alge-braic theories

University of Rochester (6)

Department of Biostatistics and

Computational Biology

Chen, Tian, A new class of functionalresponse models for robust regressionanalysis

Chowdhry, Amit, Missing data in meta-analysis

Tran, Thanh Van, Threshold booleannetwork inference and experimentaldesign

Xia, Changming, Generalized semipara-metric linear mixed-effects models

Department of Mathematics

Kotok, Malcolm, Computing zeta func-tions of nondegenerate hypersurfacesover finite fields

Straub, Denitza, Numerical and microlo-cal analysis of inverse problems withinternal data

NORTH CAROLINADuke University (12)

Department of Mathematics

Diaz, Humberto, Finite-dimensionality,Chow-Kunneth decompositions and in-tersections of cycles

Leverson, Caitlin June, Augmentation andrulings of Legendrian links

Potter, Harrison David Parke, Modelingtemperature dependence in Mangioni-driven thin-films

Temamogullari, Nihal Ezgi, Mathematicalmodeling of perifusion cell structureexperiments

Wang, Kangkang, Determinant, wall mon-odromy and spherical functor

Department of Statistical Science

Chang, Shih-Han, Interfaces betweenBayesian and frequentist multiple test-ing

Glynn, Christopher, Advances in dynamicmodeling and computation for countdata

Irie, Kaoru, Bayesian emulation for se-quential modeling, inference and deci-sion analysis

Johndrow, James, Bayesian inference inlarge-scale problems

McClure, David, Relaxations of differen-tial privacy and risk/utility evaluationsof synthetic data and fidelity measures

Schifeling, Tracy, Combining informa-tion from multiple sources in Bayesianmodeling

St Thomas, Brian, Linear subspace andmanifold learning via extrinsic geome-try

North Carolina StateUniversity (27)

Department of Mathematics

Adoteye, Kaska, Biological applicationsof uncertainty quantification, includingmultiscale Daphnia Magna populationmodeling

Al-Kateeb, Ala’a Qasim, Structure andproperties of cyclotomic polynomials

Battista, Christina, Parameter estimationof viscoelastic models in a 1-D circula-tory network

Bishop, Abigail, Involution posets onnon-crystallographic coveter groups

Bock, Brandon, Algebraic and combinato-rial properties of statistical models ofranked data

Bookman, Lake, Approximate solutionsof the Landau-Lifshitz equations

Burch, Tiffany, Supersolvable Leibnizalgebras

Chen, Guanyu, Accurate gradient com-putation for elliptic interface problemswith discontinuous and vaiable coeffi-cients

Cooley, Brett, Sequential programmingfor PDE constrained optimization

Daleo, Noah, Algorithms and applicationsin numerical elimination theory

Fregosi, Anna, Calibration of thermal soilproperties in the shallow substance

Hoang, Phuong, Supervised learning inbaseball pitch and Hepatitis C diagnosis

Holodnak, John, Topics in randomizedalgorithms for numerical linear algebra

Ivy, Samuel, Classifying the fine struc-tures of involutions acting on rootsystems

Jiang, Hansi, Modularity component anal-ysis

Kennedy, Emese, Swing-up and stabiliza-tion of a single inverted pendulum:Real-time implementation

Landi, Amanda, The nonnegative matrixfactorization: Methods and applications

Long, Colby, Algebraic geometry of phy-logenetic models

Mason, Sarah, Conjugacy classes of max-imal k-split Tori invariant under aninvolution of SL(n,k)

Nance, James, Investigating moleculardynamics with sparse grid surrogatemodels

Ngamini, Melissa, Nonlinear filteringproblems for systems governed byPDEs

Ozbag, Fatih, Stability analysis of com-bustion waves in porous media

Panza, Nicole, Modeling follicle wavedynamics in the menstrual cycle

Rahmoeller, Margaret, On demure crys-tals for the quantum affine algebraUq(sl(n))

Turner, Bethany, Some criteria for solv-able and supersolvable Leibniz algebras

Varga, Katherine, Portfolio optimizationwith stochastic dividends and stochas-tic volatility

Wheeless, William, Additional symmetriesof the extended Toda hierarchy

University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (40)

Department of Biostatistics

Choi, Byeongyeob, Statistical contribu-tions to non-experimental studies

Chung, Yunro, Statistical contributions toorder restricted inference for survivaldata analysis

Daza, Eric, Longitudinal regression con-ditioning on continuation

Deng, Yu, Generalized change-point haz-ard models with censored data

Hammill, Bradley, The use of propensityscore methods to address confoundingby provider

Lam, Diana, Innovative methods forsome statistical issues in clinical trials

Ni, Ai (Andy), Variable selection forcase-cohort studies with failure timeoutcome

O’Brien, Jonathon, Statistical methods forproteomics

Ou, Fang-Shu, Quantile regression mod-els for interval-censored failure timedata

Roy, Pourab, Non-parametric and semi-parametric estimation in forward andbackward recurrence time data

Rudra, Pratyaydipta, Statistical tools forgeneral association testing and controlof false discoveries in group testing

Stewart, Thomas, Statistical learning withmissing data

Sun, Hengrui, Controlling multiplicity inconfirmatory clinical trials

Wise, Alison, Making robust use ofparental genotype data for finding ef-fects of variants on the X-chromosome

Yang, Hojin, Learning methods in repro-ducing kernel Hilbert space based onhigh-dimensional features

Zhou, Xin, Machine learning techniquesfor optimal treatment regimes

Department of Mathematics

Brandon, Namdi, Novel integration intime methods via deferred correc-tion formulations and space-time par-allelization

Grudzien, Colin, The method of geomet-ric phase as a reformulation of theEvans function for reaction diffusionequations

Hoover, Alexander, From pacemaker tovortex ring: Modeling jellyfish propul-sion and turning

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Jin, Yuan, Rheology and flow of mucus inhuman bronchial epithelial cell cultures

Lax, David, Combinatorial structures inthe coordinate rings of Schubert vari-eties

Moore, Ryo, Extensions of J. Bourgain’sdouble recurrence theorem

Mukherjee, Mayukh, Variationalapproaches to nonlinear Schrodingerand Klein-Gordon equations

Schuster, Michael, Rank reduction ofconformal blocks

Sherman, Cass, Weight stretching inmoduli of parabolic bundles and quiverrepresentations

Tzou, Chung-Nan, Formulation of under-water plumes and velocity variationsdue to entertainment in stratified envi-ronments

Department of Statistics and

Operation Research

Feng, Qing, Non-iterative joint and in-dividual variation explained and auto-matic Toda transformation

Kimes, Patrick, New statistical learningapproaches with applications to RNA-Seq data

Lamm, Michael, Confidence intervals forsolutions to stochastic variational in-equalities

Li, Gen, Integrated analysis of multipledata sets with biomedical applications

Liu, Minghui, Elementary reformulationand succinct certificates in conic linearprogramming

Shi, Wen, Applications of fiducial infer-ence to biology

Wang, Dong, Some statistical approachesto the analysis of matrix-valued data

Wang, Ling, Statistical challenges ingenomic-wide association study

Wilson, James, A hypothesis testing ap-proach to assessing and identifyingsignificant structure in network models

Xie, Yuying, Estimation of graphical mod-els with biomedical applications

Yin, Leicheng, Monte Carlo strategies inoption pricing for SABR model

Yin, Liang, Confidence regions and in-tervals for sparse penalized regressionusing variational inequality techniques

Yu, Guan, Flexible supervised learningtechniques with applications in neuro-science

Zhai, Haojin, Principal component analy-sis in phylogenetic tree space

University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (6)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Erturk, Huseyin, Limit theorems for ran-dom exponential sums and their appli-cations to insurance and the randomenergy model

Fairchild, Michael, Symmetry and con-straints in hydrodynamics and mechan-ical locomotion

Huang, Wei, Frame wavelets in highdimension

Lee, Unkyung, Analysis of semiparamet-ric regression models for the cumu-lative incidence functions under thetwo-phase sampling designs

Turhan, Nezihe, Limit theorems for oneclass of ergodic Markov chains

Zinser, Brian, High-order integral equa-tions for electromagnetic problems inlayered media with applications in biol-ogy and solar cells

NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (7)

Department of Mathematics

Altmann, Hannah, Semidualizing DGmodules over tensor products

Aung, Pye, Gorenstein dimensions ofrings of the form R ⊕ C

Dunn, Thomas, Integral closure and gen-eralized multiplicity sequence

Habtemicael, Semere, Modeling finan-cial swaps and geophysical data usingBarndorff-Nielsen and Shephard model

Singh, Jayant, Optimization problemsarising in stability analysis of discretetime recurrent neural networks

Spanier, Mark, L1-approximation in deBranges spaces

Totushek, Jonathan, Homological dimen-sions with respect to a semidualizingcomplex

OHIOAir Force Institute ofTechnology (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Knight, Emily, Modeling radiation ef-fectiveness for inactivation of bacillusspores

Seymour, Richard, Testing the adequacyof a semi-Markov process

Bowling Green StateUniversity (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Chen, Ying-Ju, Jackknife empirical likeli-hood and change point problems

Li, Songzi, K-groups: A generalization ofK-means by energy distance

Li, Yi, Goodness-of-fit tests for Dirichletdistributions with applications

Liu, Yang, Variable selection utilizing thewhole solution path

Paler, Mary Elvi, On modern measuresand tests of multivariate independence

Case Western ReserveUniversity (7)

Department of Mathematics, Applied

Mathematics and Statistics

Bruno, Paul, Rademacher sums, Heckeoperators, and moonshine

Callahan, Margaret, Bayesian parameterestimation and inference across scales

Hoehner, Steven, The surface area de-viation of the Euclidean ball and apolytope

Yu, Lijun, Sequential Monte Carlo esti-mation for dynamic brain imaging inmagnetoencephalography

Department of Epidemiology and

Biostatistics

Borsay Hall, Noemi, Genetics of metabolicsyndrome in the women’s resistance toinfection, progression to active dis-ease, host genetics and mycobateriumtuberculosis lineage

Chan, Philip Kit-Man, Mental health andsexual minorities in the Ohio ArmyNational Guard

Natanzon, Yanina, Genetics of metabolicsyndrome in the Women’s InteragencyHIV Study (WIHS)

Kent State University,Kent (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Hoffman, John, Some problems in addi-tive number theory

Livshyts, Galyna, On the geometry oflog-concave measures

Lyons, Corey, Induced characters withequal degree constituents

Tang, Tunan, Extensions of Gauss, blockGauss and Szego quadrature rules, withapplications

Ohio State University,Columbus (12)

Department of Statistics

Hu, Zhengyu, Initializing the EM algo-rithm for data clustering and subpopu-lation detection

Landgraf, Andrew, Generalized princi-pal component analysis: dimensionalityreduction through the projecting ofnatural parameters

Olsen, Andrew, When infinity is too longto wait: On the convergence of Markovchain Monte Carlo methods

Petraglia, Elizabeth, Estimating county-level aggravated sexual assault ratesby combining data from the NationalCrime Victim Survey and the NationalIncident-Based Reporting System

Risser, Mark, Spatially-varying covariancefunctions for nonstationary spatial pro-cess modeling

Stettler, John, The discrete thresholdregression model

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Thomas, Zachary, Bayesian hierarchicalspace-time clustering methods

Vaidynathan, Sivaranjani, Bayesian mod-els for computer model calibration andprediction

Wang, Xiaomu, Robust Bayes in hierar-chical modeling and empirical Bayesanalysis in multivariate estimation

White, Staci, Quantifying model error inBayesian parameter estimation

Yang, Hui, Adjusting for bounding andtime-in sample effects in NCVS propertycrime rate estimation

Zaetz, Jiaqi, A Riemannian framework forshape analysis of annotated 3D objects

Ohio University, Athens (3)

Department of Mathematics

Gong, Xue, Dynamical systems in celldivision cycle, winnerless competitionmodels, and tensor approximations

Nguyen, Son, Topics on sufficient dimen-sion reduction

Oduro, Bismark, Mathematical models ofChagas disease

University ofCincinnati (11)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Barrera, Juan, Quenched asymptotics ofthe discrete Fourier transforms of astationary process

Bellman, Jacob, Phase response opti-mization of the circadian clock inNeurospora crassa

Caicedo Caceres, Miguel Andres, Well-posedness and control of the Korteweg-de Vries equation on a finite domain

Duan, Li, Bayesian nonparametric meth-ods with applications in longitudinal,heterogeneous and spatiotemporal data

Estep, Dewey, Prime end boundaries ofdomains in metric spaces and theDirichlet problem

Fox-Neff, Kristen, Inverse methods inparameter estimation for High IntensityFocused Ultrasound (HIFU)

Guo, Yixuan, Bayesian model selectionfor Poisson and related models

Li, Xining, Preservation of bounded geom-etry under transformations of metricspaces

Lopez, Marcos, Discrete approximationsof metric spaces with controlled geom-etry

Molina, Sergio, Semi-regular sequencesover F2

Zhang, Zongjun, Adaptive robust regres-sion approaches in data analysis andtheir applications

University of Toledo (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Karki, Manoj, Invariant Riemannian met-rics in four dimensional Lie groups

Liu, Gang, A new approach to ANOVAmethods for autocorrelated data

Mei, Jingning, Inference for autoregres-sive coefficients and error distribution

Pokharel, Krishna, An isospectral flow forcomplex upper Hessenberg matrices

Tang, Lin, Efficient inference for pe-riodic autoregressive coefficients withpolynomial spline smoothing approach

OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics

Xie, Xiaoju, Statistics of the numberof real zeros of random orthogonalpolynomials

Xu, Pengcheng, Pants block decomposi-tion of 3-manifolds

Zhang, Yujie, A weak Galerkin mixed fi-nite element method for linear elasticityequations

University of Oklahoma (7)

Department of Mathematics

Bauer, Sean, On the existence of KAMtori for presymplectic vector fields

Ho, Nancy, Controllability of linearand nonlinear control systems relatedthrough simulation relations

Kahlil, Estapraq, Existence and stabilityof solutions to a model equation fordispersion-managed solitary waves

Tang, Shiyun, Some results on the el-liptic equations and modeling seasonaldynamics of human influenza

Turki, Salam, The representations over p-adic fields associated to elliptic curves

Wright, Rachel, Totally reflected groupsYamamoto, Tetsuya, Categorizing stu-

dents’ difficulties with proof construc-tion

OREGONOregon State University (8)

Department of Mathematics

Costa, Timothy, Hybrid multiscale meth-ods with applications to semiconduc-tors, porous media and materials sci-ence

Do, Hieu, New families of pseudo-Anosovhomeomorphisms with vanishing Sah-Arnoux-Fathi invariant

Loke, Sooie Hoe, Ruin problems with riskyinvestments

McGregor, Duncan, Compatible discreti-zations for Maxwell’s equations withgeneral constitutive laws

Sherson, Brian, Some results in single-scattering tomography

Department of Statistics

Skalland, Timothy, An evaluation of de-sign and inference in special topics ofgroup sequential procedures

Wang, Lu, Nonparametric estimation ofadditive models with shape constraints

Zhuo, Bin, Higher-level analysis of RNA-Seq experiments: Multiple data sets andmultiple genes

Portland StateUniversity (6)

Fariborz Maseeh Department of

Mathematics and Statistics

Harb, Ammar, Discrete stability of DPGmethods

James, Carolyn, Development of mid-dle school teachers’ knowledge andpedagogy of justification

Mahoney, James, Tree graphs and orthog-onal spanning tree decompositions

Olivares, Nicole, Accuracy of wave speedscomputed from the DPG and HDG meth-ods for electromagnetic and acousticwaves

Strand, Krista, Intermediate grades teach-ers’ noticing of the mathematical qual-ity of instruction

Strand, Stephen, II, The intermediatevalue theorem as a starting point forinquiry-oriented advanced calculus

University of Oregon (5)

Department of Mathematics

Arbo, Matthew, Zonotypes and hyper-tonic varieties

Hilburn, Justin, Hypergeometric systemsand projective modules in hypertoniccategory O

Iverson, Joseph, Frames generated byactions of locally compact groups

Muth, Robert, Representations ofKhovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras ofaffine Lie type

Welly, Adam, The geometry of quasi-Sasaki manifolds

PENNSYLVANIACarnegie MellonUniversity (17)

Department of Mathematical Science

Cheng, Zhe, Endogenous mortgage cur-rent coupons

Gunther, William, Some results on classi-cal semantics and polymorphic types

Jiang, Zilin, Problems in discrete geome-try and extremal combinatorics

Liu, Jing, Numerical approximations ofproblems that arise in elasticity

Murray, Ryan, Some asymptotic resultsfor phase transition models

Rodriguez, Daniel, Models of R-super-compactness

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Sae-Sue, Tanawit, Radner equilibrium ininfinite and finite time-horizon Levymodels

Weston, Kimberly, Market stability innonequivalent markets and the Martin-gale property of the dual optimizer

Department of Statistics

Asta, Dena, Geometric approaches toinference: Non-Euclidean data and net-works

Bellone, Gaia, Clustering strategies forDNA genotyping

Bodea, Corneliu, A method to exploit thestructure of genetic ancestry spaces toenhance case-control studies

Ciollaro, Mattia, Nonparametric tech-niques for functional data analysis

Huang, Shiqiong, High dimensional sparseprecision matrix estimation

Lu, Cong, Understanding the geneticbasis of schizophrenia by using RNA-sequencing data

Stern, Rafael, A statistical contributionto historical linguistics

Ventura, Samuel, Large-scale classifica-tion and clustering methods with appli-cations in record linkage

Wang, Lawrence, Network comparisonsusing sample splitting

Drexel University (4)

Department of Mathematics

Armstrong, Jeffrey, The homotopy the-ory of modules of curved A-infinitecategories

Minner, Michael, Compressive sensingapplied to MIMO radar and sparesdisjoint scenes

Smith, Jonah, A new class of integrablesurfaces related to Bertrand curves

Tang, Xuezhi, Synchronization of cou-pled dynamical systems on Cayley andrandom graphs

Lehigh University (5)

Department of Mathematics

Clearman, Samuel, Combinatorial as-pects of Hecke algebra characters

Cui, Xin, On curvature, volume growthand uniqueness of steady Ricci solitons

Dumnich, Sarah, A measure theoreticapproach to the construction of scalingfunctions for wavelets

Ferahlar, Cuneyt, A Weitzenbock formulafor compact complex manifolds andapplications to the Hopf conjecture inreal dimension 6

Wildman, Mackenzie, The Dobric-Ojedaprocess with applications to optionpricing and the stochastic heat equation

Pennsylvania StateUniversity (26)

Department of Mathematics

Bannangkoon, Pichkitti, C∗-algebras inKirillov theory

Droz, Daniel, Orthogonal sets of Latinsquares and class-r hypercubes gener-ated by finite algebraic systems

Gafni, Ayla, Asymptotic formulae inanalytic number theory

Huang, Zhan, Nonlocal models withconvection effects

Khanmohammadi, Ehssan, Quantizationof coadjoint orbits via positivity ofKirillov’s character formula

Maler, Adrian, Effective theory of Levyand Feller processes

Peng, Guangzhong, Quantization of affinecoadjoint orbits

Qiao, Changhe, General purpose com-positional simulation for multiphasereactive flow with a fast linear solver

Wang, Haining, Anticyclotomic Iwasawatheory for Hilbert modular forms

Yang, Kai, Stable discretization and ro-bust preconditioning for fluid-structureinteraction

Yelton, Jeffrey, Hyperelliptic Jacobiansand their associated �-adic Galois rep-resentations

Zelenberg, Aleksey, Rokhlin dimensionfor C∗-correspondences

Department of Statistics

Bagyan, Armine, Central limit theoremsfor randomly modulated sequences ofrandom vectors with resampling andapplications to statistics

Cho, Youngjoo, Semiparametric analysisof failure time data in the presence ofdependent censoring

Christou, Eliana, A non-iterative methodfor fitting the single index quantileregression model with uncensored andcensored data

Goldstein, Joshua, Compartmental, spa-tial and point process models forinfectious diseases

Huang, Yuan, Projection test for high-dimensional mean vectors with optimaldirection

Liu, Yang, Approaches to reduce andintegrate data in structured and high-dimensional regression problems ingenomics

Park, Sae Na, Classification of transientsby distance measures

Shen, Wejie, Dimensional analysis instatistics: Theories, methodologies, andapplications

Song, Won Chul, Nonparametric indepen-dence screening and test-based screen-ing via the variance of the regressionfunction

Wang, Ningtao, A block mixture model tomap eQLTs for gene clustering

Wang, Yaqun, Inference of gene regula-tory network based on gene expressiondynamics in response to environmentalsignals

Xu, Zhuying, Locally stationary quantileregression for inflation and interestrates

Yu, Ye, New procedures for Cox’s modelwith high dimensional predictors

Zhan, Xiang, Kernel machine methodswith applications to high-throughoutdata

Temple University (10)

Department of Statistical Science

Afriyie, Prince, Applications of proce-dures controlling the tail probability ofthe false discovery proportion

Banton, Dwaine, A Bayesian decisiontheoretic approach to fixed sample sizedetermination and blinded sample sizere-estimation for hypothesis testing

Chen, Aiying, Multiple testing proceduresunder group sequential design

Gehman, Andrew, The effects of spa-tial aggregation on spatial time seriesmodeling and forecasting

Gilbert, Elizabeth, The validity of sum-mary comorbidity measures

Huang, Ke, Optimal reduced size choicesets with overlapping attributes

Lee, Bu Hyoung, The use of temporally ag-gregated data on detecting a structuralchange of a time series process

Liu, Yanping, New approaches to multipletesting of grouped hypotheses

Minster, Angela, Model-free variable se-lection through sufficient dimensionreduction

Xiao, Jing, Some results on Pareto optimalchoice sets for estimating main effectsand interactions in 2n and 3n factorialplans

University ofPennsylvania (22)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Computational Science

Gu, Shi, Control theoretic analysis ofhuman brain networks

Department of Biostatistics and

Epidemiology

Gamerman, Victoria, Statistical methodsfor time-conditional survival probabil-ity and equally spaced count data

Kennedy, Edward H, Doubly robust causalinference with complex parameters

Kobie, Julie, Sparse simultaneous signaldetection with applications in genomics

Li, Jiaqi, Modeling approaches for costand cost-effectiveness estimation usingobservational data

Shi, Pixu, Statistical methods for com-positional and tree-structured countdata

Wan, Fei, Instrumental variable andpropensity score methods for biasadjustment in non-linear models

Department of Mathematics

Astrand, Matti, Lifting problems and theirindependence of coefficient field

Frankel, Brett S, Representations of fun-damental groups of abelian varieties incharacteristic p

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Gilula, Maxim M., A real analytic approachto estimating oscillatory integrals withnondegenerate phases

Jang, Jin Woo, Global classical solutionsto the relativistic Boltzmann equationwith angular cut-off

Kjuchukova, Alexandra, On the classifi-cation of irregular dihedral branchedcovers of four-manifolds

Mo, Li-Ping, Hit polynomials have onlyreal roots

Poh, Julius Wei Quan, Shape and otherproperties of 1324-avoiding permuta-tions

Pun, Ying Anna, On decomposition ofthe product of Demazure atoms andDemazure characters

Sundstrom, James D., Lower bounds forgeneralized regulators

Tofts, Spencer, On the existence of so-lutions to the Muskat problem withsurface tension

Wharton Department of Statistics

Fogarty, Colin, Modern optimization inobservational studies

Johnson, Kory, Discrete methods in statis-tics: Feature selection and fairness-aware data mining

Peng, Peichao, Essays in problems insequential decisions and large-scalerandomized algorithms

Satopaa, Ville, Partial information frame-work: Basic theory and applications

Weinstein, Asaf, Empirical Bayes estima-tion in cross-classified Gaussian modelswith unbalanced design

University ofPittsburgh (15)

Department of Biostatistics

Chen, Jia-Yuh, Joint modeling of bivariatelongitudinal and bivariate survival datain spouse pairs

Ghebrehawariat, Kidane, Parametric in-ference on quantile residual life

Jiang, Yingda, Gene-based associationtesting of dichotomous traits using gen-eralized functional linear mixed modelsfor family data

Johnson, Geoffrey, Quality adjusted Q-learning and conditional structuralmean models for optimizing dynamictreatment regimes

Wang, Tianxiu, Competing risks regres-sion under random signs censoringusing pseudo-values

Department of Mathematics

Grady, Daniel, Steenrod squares andMassey products in Deligne cohomol-ogy

He, Peng, Mathematical analysis of creditdefault swaps

Liu, Lifeng, Two nonlinear lattice prob-lems in materials

Moraiti, Marina, Coupled groundwater-surface water flows: Effect small physi-cal parameters and numerical methods

Tanase, Roxana, Parameter estimationof partial differential equations usingstochastic methods

Department of Statistics

Chen, Xiaotian, Association analysis ofsuccessive events and diagnostic accu-racy analysis for competing risk data

Gu, Hong, Statistical approaches in theRDOC paradigm for post-mortem braintissue studies

Simsek, Burcin, Stochastic models withapplications to imaging and neuro-science

Wei, Yafei, Estimation, model selectionand resilience of power law distribu-tions

Ye, Cong, Multiple change-point detec-tion for piecewise stationary categoricaltime series

PUERTO RICOUniversity of Puerto Rico,Rio Piedras (4)

Department of Mathematics

Cui, Bo, Exponential rank and classi-fication of AH-algebras using Morsetheory

Innocent, Jean K., Bayes factors consis-tency for nested linear models withincreasing dimensions

Li, Ang, Bayesian calibration of p-valuesunder multiple comparisons: Boundsand new approximations

Qin, Hu, Code raised from hypercubegraph and completed graph

RHODE ISLANDBrown University (10)

Department of Mathematics

Carter, Paul, Fast pulses with oscillatorytails in the FitzHugh-Nagumo system

Culiuc, Amalia, Weighted estimates ofCalderon-Zygmund operators on vector-valued function spaces

Newkirk, Edward, Billards with bombsOu, Yumeng, Multi-parameter commu-

tators and new function spaces ofbounded mean oscillation

Division of Applied Mathematics

Aghajani, Mohammadreza, Infinite-dimensional scaling limits of stochasticnetworks

Ahn, Seonmin, Bayesian inference in sta-tistical analysis of paleoclimate records

Deng, Mingge, Dissipative particle dy-namics for anisotropic particles andelectrostatic fluctuations: A fully La-grangian approach

Makrides, Elizabeth, Existence and stabil-ity of localized planar patterns

Sanchez Uribe, Manuel, Finite elementmethods for interface problems usingunfitted meshes: Design and analysis

Trask, Nathaniel, Compatible high-ordermeshless schemes for viscous fluidflows through �2-optimization

University of RhodeIsland (2)

Department of Mathematics

Armstrong, Addie, Degree-limited defec-tive 3-colorings of planar graphs

Denette, Erin, Minimal Cantor sets: Thecombinatorial construction of ergodicfamilies and semi-conjugations

SOUTH CAROLINAClemson University (13)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Buckingham, Patrick, On the transientbehavior of queueing processes

Chao, Shih-Wei, Toric heaps and cyclicreducibility in Coxeter groups

Dowling, Michael, Expander graphs andcoding theory

Finney, Michael, Estimating single gen-der classroom effects using propensityscores and matching

Grotheer, Rachel, Hyperspectral diffuseoptical tomography using the reducedbasis method and sparsity constraints

He, Qijun, Algebraic geometry arisingfrom discrete models of gene regulatorynetworks

Hedetniemi, Jason, Problems in domina-tion and graph products

Jiang, Chendi, Reliability analysis of load-sharing models

Leverenz, Jonathon, Network target coor-dination for multiparametric program-ming

Priyadarshani, Hewa Arachchige Anu-radha, Bayesian minimum descriptionlength techniques for multiple change-point detection

Strauss, Thilo, Statistical inverse prob-lems in electrical impedance and dif-fuse optical tomography

Tu, Shiyi, Objective Bayesian analysis onthe quantile regression

Xu, Honghai, Problems in dominationand graph products

Medical University ofSouth Carolina (6)

Department of Public Health Sciences

Carroll, Rachel, Model selection for hi-erarchical Poisson modeling in diseasemapping

Fan, Liqiong, Covariate misclassificationunder covariate-adaptive randomiza-tion: Understanding the impact andmethod for bias correction

Nicholas, Katherine, Covariate adjust-ment in non-inferiority trials: Implica-tions for type I errors

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Payne, Elizabeth, Statistical methods formodeling count data with overdisper-sion and missing time varying categori-cal covariates

Rotejanaprasert, Chawarat, Develop-ments in clustering and surveillancefor spatial health data

Voronca, Delia, Marginal inference forpositive outcomes with a point mass atzero

University of SouthCarolina (11)

Department of Mathematics

Faulkner, Nathan, Commutator studiesin pursuit of finite basis result

Lane, Michael, Avoiding doubled wordsin strings of symbols

Rorabaugh, Daniel, Toward the combina-torial limit of free words

Short, Taylor, Some extremal and struc-tural problems in graph theory

Smith, Heather, Trees, partitions, andother combinatorial structures

Wang, Che, Fast methods for variable-coefficient peridynamic and non-localdiffusion models

Department of Statistics

Bao, Junshu, Development and applica-tion of Bayesian semiparametric modelsfor dependent data

Cipolli, William, Bayesian nonparametricapproaches to multiple testing, densityestimation and supervised learning

Wu, Haifeng, Frailty Probit models forclustered interval-censored failure timedata

Yao, Bin, Semiparametric regression anal-ysis of panel count data and intervalcensored failure time data

Zhou, Haiming, Bayesian semi- and non-parametric analysis for spatially corre-lated survival data

TENNESSEEMiddle Tennessee StateUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Gaddy, Angeline, Identification of obsta-cles to transitioning to reform-orientedinstruction among high school mathe-matics teachers

Gerstenschlager, Natasha, Identifying thesupports needed by a sixth gradeteacher implementing a reform-oriented,statistics unit

Liang, Xiao, Efficient numerical methodsfor nonlinear Schrodinger equations

University of Memphis (5)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Dogan, Ali, On saturated graphs andcombinatorial games

Fofana, Demba, On some Bayesian andempirical Bayes procedures for analyz-ing gene expression data

Kester, Merve, Approximations by gener-alized discrete singular operators

Madahian, Behrouz, Statistical shrink-age methods for classification, pre-diction, and feature extraction usinggenomewide gene expression data andsmall sample sizes

Sokolov, Yury, Dynamics of discrete andcontinuous spatially distributed sys-tems

University of Tennessee,Knoxville (13)

Department of Mathematics

Allen, Brian, Non-compact solutions ofinverse mean curvature flow in hyper-bolic space

Austin, Kyle, Geometry of scalesBintz, Jason, Population modeling for

resource allocation and antimicrobialstewardship

Collins, Craig, Domain decompositionmethods for discontinuous Galerkinapproximations of elliptic problems

DeSilva, Kokum, Investigating advectioncontrol in competitive PDE systems andenvironmental transmission in Johne’sdisease ODE models

Golenbiewski, Kyle, Kinetic Monte Carlomodels for crystal defects

Holloway, Michael, Duality of scalesJum, Ernest, Numerical approxiamtion of

stochastic differential equations drivenby Levy motion with infinitely manyjumps

Levy, Benjamin, Modeling feral hogs inGreat Smoky Mountains National Park

Lewis, Elizabeth, The congruence-basedzero-divisor graph

Li, Yukun, Numerical methods for de-terministic and stochastic phase fieldmodels of phase transition and relatedgeometric flows

Manathunga, Vajira, The Conway poly-nomial and amphicheiral knots

Sunkes, James, Hankel operators on theDrury-Arveson space

Vanderbilt University (7)

Department of Mathematics

Corson, Samuel, Subgroups and quotientsof fundamental groups

Gao, Min, Age-structured populationmodels with applications

Jiang, Jiayi, Quantization in signal pro-cessing with frame theory

Jones, Corey, Annular representation the-ory with applications to approximationand rigidity properties for rigid C∗-tensor categories

Northington, Michael, V, Balian-Low typetheorems for swift-invariance spaces

Shao, Yuanzhen, Theory of parabolicdifferential equations on singular man-ifolds and its applications to geometricanalysis

Su, Yujian, Disease minimal on flat toriand four-point maximal polarization onS2

TEXASBaylor University (12)

Department of Mathematics

Graham, Curtis, Boundary conditionsdependence of spectral zeta functions

Nelms, Charles, Eigenvalue comparisontheorems for certain boundary valueproblems and position solutions fora fifth order singular boundary valueproblem

Nguyen, Huy, Krylov methods for solvinga sequence of large systems of linearequations

Streit, Brian, Conformal mapping meth-ods for spectral zeta function

Tennant, Tim, Chaotic properties of set-valued dynamical systems

Wicks, Quinn, Glazman-Krein-Naimarktheory, left-definite theory and thesquare of the Legendre polynomialsdifferential operator

Yang, Zhao, A multigrid Krylov methodfor eigenvalue problems

Department of Statistical Sciences

Chen, Wencong, Bayesian models forunmeasured confounder in the analysisof time-to-event data

Eschmann, Mark, Bayesian methods toestimate the accuracy of a binarymeasurement system

Guo, Yuanyuan, Topics in Bayesian adap-tive clinical trial design using dynamiclinear models and missing data imputa-tion in logistic regression

Marcovitz, Michelle, Bayesian models forshort sequences of correlated binaryvariables possessing first-order Markovdependence

Tecson, Kristen, Topics in Bayesian mod-els with ordered parameters: Responsemisclassification, covariate misclassifi-cation, and sample size determination

Rice University (17)

Computational and Applied

Mathematics Department

Gandham, Rajesh, High performancehigh order numerical methods: Ap-plications in ocean modeling

Huang, Yin, Born waveform inversion inshot coordinate domain

Medina, David, Okl: A unified languagefor parellel architectures

Whaley, Meagan, Dynamics of brain net-works during reading

Wood, Cynthia, Clique generalizationsand related problems

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Department of Mathematics

Acosta, Jorge, Holonomy limits of cyclicopers

Durgin, Natalie, Geometric invariant the-ory quotient of the Hilbert scheme ofsix points on the projective plane

Funk, Quentin, Two variants on theplateau problem

Huang, Andy, Handle crushing harmonicmaps between surfaces

Ince, Kenan, The untwisting number of aknot

Vance, Katherine, Tau invariants of spa-tial graphs

Department of Statistics

Chiang, Sharon, Hierarchical Bayesianmodels for multimodal neuroimagingdata

Flores Castillo, Nicolas, Stochastic mod-eling of cancer tumors using Moranmodels and an application to cancergenetics

Kim, Soyeon, Prediction oriented markerselection for personalized medicinewith application to high dimensionaldata

McDonald, Thomas, Modeling clonal evo-lution with branching processes

Ni, Yang, Bayesian graphical models forcomplex biological networks

Vankov, Emilian, Filtering and estimationfor a class of stochstic volatility modelswith intractable likelihood

Southern MethodistUniversity (7)

Department of Mathematics

Choi, Young Ok, The Galerkin boundaryelement method for three-dimensionaltransient Stokes flow

Downes, Edward, Numerical studies ofnonlinear processes in light filaments

Jang, Chang Young, Contributions tothe theory and applications of Hermitemethods

Wang, Zheng, Filtered Davidson-typemethods for large-scale eigen-relatedproblems

Statistical Science Department

Liu, Bingchen, Ranked set sampling andjudgment post-stratification estimatorsfor discrete distributions

Lu, Wentao, An adaptive testing approachfor meta-analysis of gene set enrich-ment studies

Yang, Yandan (Daisy), On analysis ofsystem-based reliability data

Texas A&M University (24)

Department of Mathematics

Boedihardjo, March, Topics in functionalanalysis

Castanon Quiroz, Daniel, Solution of theMHD equations with non-axisymmetricconductors using Fourier-finite elementmethod

Chan, Wai Kit, Perturbations of certaincrossed product algebras by free groups

Gin, Craig, Topics in stability analysisof multi-layer Hele-Shaw and porousmedia flows

Goldsmith, Aaron, LASSO asymptoticswith heavy tailed error

Grimley, Lauren, Brackets on Hochschildcohomology of noncommutative alge-bras

Gu, Cong, Computational mechanics foraircraft water entry and wind energy

Hamm, Keaton, On the interpolationof smooth functions via radial basisfunctions

Johnson, Maya, A continuing mechan-ics model of stress mediated arterialgrowth during hypertension using anEulerian frame

Liu, Jiayin, Quantifying uncertainty foran elliptic inverse problem with finitedata

Moon, Minam, Generalized discontinuousmultiscale method for flows in highlyheterogeneous porous media

Muddamallappa, Mallikarjunaiah, On twotheories for brittle fracture: Modelingand direct numerical simulation

Penland, Andrew, Finitely constrainedgroups

Protosav, Anastasiya, Local-global modelreduction techniques

Rainone, Timothy, K-theoretic dynamicsand C∗-crossed products

Ren, Jun, Multiscale solution techniquesfor high-contrast anisotropic problems

Rupam, Rishika, Meromorphic inner func-tions and their applications

Tan, Xiaosi, Multilevel uncertainty quan-tification techniques using multiscalemethods

Wang, Yi-Ching, Numerical computationof wind turbine flows and fluid prob-lems by open FOAM and ANSYS

Zhou, Zhi, Numerical analysis of fraction-al-order differential equations withnonsmooth data

Department of Statistics

Jeong, Jaehong, Spatial-temporal modelsfor processes on the sphere and theirapplication in climate problem

Rahmen, Shahina, Efficient nonpara-metric and semiparametric regressionmethods with application in case con-trol studies

Zhang, Bohali, Statistical methods forlarge spatial and spatio-temporal data-sets

Zhang, Nan, Adaptive basis sampling forsmoothing splines

Texas ChristianUniversity (1)

Department of Mathematics

Matthews, Kyle, Universal Poincare du-ality for intersection homology ofbranched and partial coverings of pseu-domanifolds

Texas State University (7)

Department of Mathematics

Bower, Rachel, Cases of noticing in lin-guistically diverse mathematics class-rooms

Hanusch, Sarah, The use of examples ina transition-to-proof course

Herrera, Christine, The effect of theconceptualization of limits on proofcomprehension

Mejia Colindres, Carlos Alberto, The me-diating role of mathematical translan-guaging

Melnikova, Yuliya, Alignment in students,teaching assistants and instructors onthe purpose and practice of calculus Ilabs

Smith, Shawnda, Geometry teaching knowl-edge: A comparison between pre-serviceand high school geometry teachers

Starkey, Christina, Reflective journalingas a tool to support learning mathemat-ical proofs

Texas Tech University (8)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Chakraborty, Pritha, Extremal problemsin Bergman spaces

Gamage, Pemantha, Smoothed functionalprincipal component analysis

Gonzalez, Elias, Complex classification ofsingularities of reducible septic curves

Jesse, Odin, Algebraic characterizationof non-negativity of polynomials overpolytopes

Koksal, Fatih, Injectivity and Gorensteininjectivity under faithfully flat ringextensions

Ma, Jie, On stability of linear switchingsystems

Osborn, Sarah, Multilevel solution strate-gies for the stochastic Galerkin method

Wijenayaka, Hansameenu Thanuka, Anal-ysis of the error in an iterative algorithmfor solution of regulator problems forlinear distributed parameter controlsystems

University of Houston (11)

Department of Mathematics

Agrawal, Akshay, Optimization of planewave directions in plane wave dis-continuous Galerkin methods for theHelmholtz equations

Alsheikh, Dina, The hypercircle methodand an equilibrated a posteriori errorestimator for discontinuous Galerkinapproximations of elliptic boundaryvalue problems on simplicial meshes

Alvarez, Angelynn, On the positive holo-morphic sectional curvature of projec-tivized vector bundles over compactcomplex manifolds

Hammen, Nathaniel, Stable phase re-trieval using low-redundancy frames ofpolynomials

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Leonhard, Nicole, Correlation minimizingframes

Maxwell, Nicholas, Gaussian polynomialfilters and generalized shift-invariantframes

Ng, Wai Hin, Tensor products of operatorsystems via factorization

Ortiz, Carlos, Graph parameters via oper-ator systems

Ozcan, Burcin, Image analysis usingdirectional multiscale representationsand applications for characterization ofneuronal morphology

Preston, Benjamin, A hidden Markovrenewal model

Zheng, Da, The operation system gen-erated by Cuntz isometries and itsapplications

University of NorthTexas (7)

Mathematics Department

Atmai, Rachid, Contributions to descrip-tive set theory

Berardinelli, Angela, Restricting invari-ants and arrangements of finite com-plex reflection groups

Chang, Cheng (Jeff), The relative com-plexity of various classification prob-lems among compact metric spaces

Dahal, Koshal, Trees and ordinal indicesin C(K) spaces for K countable compact

Islas, Jose, Optimal strategies for stop-ping near the top of a sequence

Jacobs, George Anthony, Reduced idealsand periodic sequences in pure cubicfields

Krohne, Edward, Continuous combina-torics on F(2(Z2))

University of Texas atArlington (11)

Department of Mathematics

Ali, Ahmed, Bisection method for thebanded hyperbolic quadratic eigenvalueproblem

Blackwell, Justin, Numerical methods forspontaneous and evoked glutamate re-lease

Chandler, Richard, On the quantumspaces of some quadratic regula al-gebras of global dimension four

Goodwin, Rachel, Some multivariate pro-cess capability indices

Griffis, John, Representations of the ex-tended Poincare superalgebras in fourdimensions

Looney, Carl, Finite M-inverse loops andquasigroups with a long inverse cycle

Sutton, Julie, The influence of dynamic vi-sualization on undergraduate calculuslearning

Traylor, Rachel, Stochastic reliabilitymodels for a general server and re-lated networks

Ventura, Wilber, On solving forward-backward SDEs

Wood, Daniel, Advancements and appli-cations of nonstandard finite differencemethods

Xiao, Pengcheng, A modeling study inthe regulation of stress on neuronalplasticity

University of Texas atAustin (28)

Department of Mathematics

Bennett, Julia, Exotic smoothings via largeR4’s in Stein surfaces

Berg, Jennifer, Obstructions to the in-tegral Hasse principle for generalizedaffine Chatelet surfaces

Chen, Chieh, Implicit boundary integralmethods

Delfeld, James, Labeling and denoisinggeometrically parameterized data withapplications to cryo-em

Fenyes, Aaron, Warping geometric struc-tures and abelianizing SL(2,R) localsystems

Franklin, Giovanni, The Andre-Quillenspectral sequence for pre-logarithmicring spectra

Fredrickson, Laura, Asymptotic limits inthe Hitchin moduli space

Gal, Itamar, Explorations in algebra andtopology

Garza, Cesar, A construction of hyper-kahler metrics through Riemann-Hilbertproblems

Goswami, Pulak, Recovering the payoffstructure of a utility maximizing agent

Hughes, Adam, Multiplicative and dy-namical analysis on ideles and ideleclass groups

Jain, Rohit, Regularity estimates for somefree boundary problems of obstacle-type

Kontaxis, Andrew, Asymptotics for opti-mal investment with high-water markfee

Larson, Kyle, Some constructions in-volving surgery on surfaces involving4-manifolds

Li, Jiexian, Existence, characterizationand approximation in the generalizedmonotone follower problem

Pool, Jamie, A quadrature Eulerian-Lagrangian WENO scheme for reservoirsimulation

Royer, Aaron, Aspects of derived Koszulduality

Taskovic, Maja, Mittag-Leffler momentsand weighted L∞ estimates for solutionsto the Boltzmann equation for hardpotentials without cutoff

White, Chris, Optimality guarantees fornon-convex low rank matrix recoveryproblems

Institute for Computational

Engineering and Science

Carleton, James, Microscale modelingof layered fibrous networks with ap-plications to biomaterials for tissueengineering

Ellis, Truman, Space-time discontinuousPetrov-Galerkin finite elements for tran-sient fluid machanics

Graham, Lindley, Adaptive measure-theoretic parameter estimation forcoastal ocean modeling

Hussmann, Jeffrey, Expanding the ap-plications of high-throughput DNA se-quencing

Isaac, Tobin, Scalable, adaptive methodsfor forward and inverse problems incontinental-scale ice sheet modeling

Martin, James, A computational frame-work for the solution of infinite-dimensional Bayesian statistical inverseproblems with application to globalseismic inversion

Morrison, Rebecca, On the representa-tion of model inadequacy: A stochasticoperator approach

Taus, Matthias, Isogeometric analysis forboundary integral equations

Young, Jonathan, Computational discov-ery of genetic targets and interactions:Applications to lung cancer

University of Texas atDallas (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Chu, Jufen, Nonparametric hazard rateestimation with left truncated and rightcensored data

Elewitz, Zachary, Detection of the Reide-meister 2-move via generalized Polyakinvariants

Li, Changsong, Multiplicative structureon KBSM of I-bundle over a disk withthree punctures

Wang, Shanshan, Masking and swampingrobustness of outlier detection proce-dures

Wang, Tiansong, Multi-sensor change-point detection

Wijesuriya, Uditha, Exploratory nonpara-metric functional data analysis usingthe spatial depth approach

University of TexasSchool of Public Health (12)

Department of Biostatistics

Azadeh, Shabnam, Integrative Bayesianmodeling of imaging and genetic data

Cao, Ying, Detecting genetic and nutri-tional lung cancer risk factors relatedto folate metabolism using Bayesiangeneralized linear models

Hong, Chuan, Statistical tests for ho-mogeneity using parametric and semi-parametric models with applications tometa-analysis and statistical genetics

Huang, Jing, Bayesian dynamic mediationanalysis

Li, Xiaoqi, Statistical models for recurrentevents during alternating restraint andnon-restraint periods

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Lin, Li An, Bayesian analysis of multi-type recurrent events with dependenttermination

Liu, Yulun, Meta-analytical methods andtheir applications to biomedical studies

Sun, Jia, A hierarchical model of mu-tations with genotyping errors andmaximum likelihood estimations andthe male-to-female mutation rate ratio

Wu, Chih-Hsien, Analysis of bivariatelongitudinal discrete data: A jointcontinuous-time Markov chains ap-proach

Yang, Yang, Data-adaptive SNP-set-basedassociation tests of longitudinal traits

Ye, Jiabu, Covariates adjustment fornonparametric tests for two samplecomparison

Zhu, Huirong, Two-part mixture mod-els for zero-inflated longitudinal mea-surements with heterogeneous randomeffects and time to event data

UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematics

Dang, Vinh, Compression bodies andtheir boundary hyperbolic structures

Simmons, Skyler, Analysis of multiplecollision-based periodic orbits in di-mension higher than one

University of Utah (7)

Department of Mathematics

Babenko, Vira, Numerical analysis inL-spaces

Cesa, Morgan, Dehn functions of higherrank arithmetic groups of type An inproducts of simple Lie groups

Dixon-Gorringe, Megan, Roles for ubiq-uitin and dimensional dependence inprotein regulation

Egbert, Paul Andrew, Log minimal modelsof arithmetic threefolds

Kerby, Brent, Semivariogram estimation:Asymptotic theory and applications

Krtolica, Predrag, Compatibility condi-tions in discrete structures and appli-cation to damage

Watson, Alan, Generic vanishing andthe geometry of irregular varieties inpositive characteristics

Utah State University (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Duncan, Jacob, A spatiotemporal moun-tain pine beetle outbreak model predict-ing severity, cycle period, and invasionspeed

Flake, Darl, Separation of points andinterval estimation in mixed dose-response curves with selective com-ponent labeling

Neupane, Ram, Modeling seed dispersaland population migration given a dis-tribution of seed handling times andvariable dispersal motility: Case studyfor pinyon and juniper in Utah

VIRGINIAGeorge MasonUniversity (4)

Department of Statistics

Hoysepyan, Harut, Valuation of commer-cial mortgages in incomplete markets:A four-state model with fundamentaleconomic theory

Shao, Hui, Exact properties of restrictedrandomization procedures

Wilson, Seunghye, Trend detection andpattern recognition in financial timeseries

Ye, Xuan, Group sequential methods forROC curves

Old DominionUniversity (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Li, Wei, Modeling and simulation ofmolecular Couette flows and relatedflows

University of Virginia (7)

Department of Mathematics

Atkinson, Scott, Convex sets associated toC∗-algebras

Bley-Delgado, Gonzalo, Estimates of func-tional integrals of non-relativistic quan-tum field theory with applications tothe Nelson and Polaron methods

De Stefani, Alessandro, Homological meth-ods, singularities, and numerical invari-ants

Franz, Daniel, Quantifying the residualfitness of linear groups

Hardy, Stephen, Pseudocompact C∗-algebras

Lai, Chun-Ju, Affine quantum symmetri-cal pairs: Multiplication formulas andcanonical bases

Terwilliger, Bryce, Tandem queues withidentical service times in heavy traffic

Virginia CommonwealthUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Applied Mathematics

Cooper, Racheal, An applied mathemati-cal approach to modeling inflammation:Hematopoietic bone marrow stem cells,systemic estrogen and wound healingand gas exchange in the lungs and body

Lazaryan, Shushan, Dynamics of dis-crete planar systems that model stage-structured populations

Department of Statistical Sciences

and Operations Research

Leonard, Robert, Considerations for screen-ing and follow-up experimentation

Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (22)

Department of Mathematics

Arat, Seda, A systems biology approachto microbiology and cancer

Gao, Guangyue, Some controllability andstabilization problems of surface waveson water with surface tension

Kramer, Boris, Model and reduction forcontrol, identification and compressedsensing

Kuster, George, On the role of studentunderstanding of function and rate ofchange in learning differential equa-tions

Lattimer, Alan, Model reduction of non-linear fire dynamics model

Li, Ming, Recycling preconditioners andmatrix reordering

Moon, Kihyo, Immersed discontinuousGalerkin methods for acoustic wavepropagation in inhomogeneous media

Plaxco, David, Relating understanding ofinverse and identity to engagement inproof in abstract algebra

Wang, Taige, Mathematical analysis onthe PEC model for Thixotropic fluids

Wills, Andrew, Abacus-tournament mod-els of Hall-Littlewood polynomials

Department of Statistics

Carzolio, Marcos, On a selection of ad-vanced Markov chain Monte Carlo al-gorithms for everyday use: Weightedparticle, tempering, practical reversiblejump, and extensions

Chen, Chen, Evaluating time-varying ef-fect in single type and multi-type semi-parametric recurrent event models

Hoegh, Andrew, Predictive model fusion:A modular approach to big, unstruc-tured data

Li, Qing, Recurrent event models fordetecting the change points in thedriving risk of the teenage drivers

Loftus, Stephen, On the use of groupedcovariate regression in oversaturatedmodels

Ortega Villa, Ana Maria, Semiparametricvarying coefficient models for matchedcase-crossover studies

Shan, Liang, Joint Gaussian graphicalmodel for multi-class and multi-leveldata

Sun, Peng, Semiparametric Bayesian ap-proach using weighted Dirichlet processmixture for finance statistical models

Xie, Yimeng, Advancements in degrada-tion modeling, uncertainty quantifica-tion and spatial variable selection

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Yuan, Miao, Corporate default predic-tions and methods for uncertaintyquantifications

Zhang, Angang, Some advances in classi-fying and modeling complex data

Zhang, Xiang, Dynamic probability con-trol limits for risk-adjusted Bernoullicumulative sum charts

WASHINGTONUniversity ofWashington (37)

Applied Mathematics Department

Curtius, Kathleen, Multiscale modeling ofesophageal adenocaranoma

Sheils, Natalie, Interface problems usingthe Fokas method

Biostatistics Department

Benkeser, David, Data-adaptive estima-tion in longitudinal data structureswith applications in vaccine efficacytrials

Dominguez Islas, Clara Penelope, Newmethods for meta-analysis under a fixedeffects framework, with frequentist andBayesian estimation

Kosel, Alison, Local estimations of patientprognosis

Liang, Chao-Kang, Methods for describ-ing the time-varying predictive perfor-mance of survival models

McHugh, Caitlin, Statistical methods forthe analysis of autosomal and X chro-mosome genetic data in samples withunknown structure

Salim, Bob, Stochastic optimization andsubgroup selection

Tan, Kean Ming, Graph estimation andcluster analysis in high dimensions

Wang, Linbo, Causal inference with selec-tion and confounding variables

Zelnick, Leila, Analysis of biased sam-pling designs in longitudinal data

Department of Mathematics

Bartlett, Alan, Spectral theory of Zd-

substitutionsChen, Hao, Computational aspects of

the modular parametrization of ellipticcurves

Clenaghan, Graham, Grothendieck dual-ity on diagrams of schemes

Ganguly, Shirshendu, Aspects of Markovchains and particle systems

Holdaway, Cody, Path algebras and mono-mial algebras of finite GK-dimension asnoncummutative homogeneous coordi-nate rings

Junge, Matthew, Random recursionMcMurdie, Christopher, The C∗-algebra

of a finite T0 topological spaceMerhej, Jessica, On the geometry of recti-

fiable sets with Carleson and Poincare-type conditions

Negron, Cris, Alternate approaches to thecup product and Gerstenhaber bracketon Hochschild cohomology

Palvannan, Bharathwas, On Selmer groupsand factoring p-adic L-functions

Prelli, Lorenzo, Results on singularities ofpairs

Rudnick, Christian, Boundary Harnackprinciple for stable-like processes

Sprehn, David, Some cohomology of finitegeneral linear groups

Stark, James, Sheaves on support vari-eties and varieties of elementary subal-gebras

Taylor, Jair, Formal group laws andhypergraph colorings

Wang, Jiashan, Matrix free methods forlarge scale optimization

Wong, Ting Kam Leonard, Geometry andoptimization of relative arbitrage

Zhou, Hanming, Some linear and nonlin-ear geometric inverse problems

Department of Statistics

Harmon, James, The likelihood pivot:Performing inference with confidence

Irvahn, Jan, Phylogenetic stochastic map-ping

Leung, Dennis, Testing independence inhigh dimensions and identifiability ofgraphical models

McDavid, Andrew, Statistical hurdle mod-els for single cell gene expression:Differential expression and graphicalmodeling

Mercer, Laina, Space-time smoothingmodels for surveillance and complexsurvey data

Ren, You, Bayesian modeling of a highresolution housing price index

Theobald, Roderick, Lord’s paradox andtargeted interventions: The case ofspecial education

Washington StateUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Alzaleq, Lewa’, A Klein-Gordon equationrevisited: New solutions and a compu-tational method

Klosterman, Peter, Identification and es-tablishment of social and sociomathe-matical norms associated with mathe-matically productive discourse

Skulpakdee, Wanrudee, Portfolio opti-mization on jump diffusion

WEST VIRGINIAWest VirginiaUniversity (6)

Department of Mathematics

Algefari, Mansour, On supereulerian di-graphs

Aslatami, Khalid, A study on dicycledand Eulerian subdigraphs

Guven, Emine, Validation of an exper-imentally motivated predictive modelfor the spontaneous clustering of re-ceptors on the cell membrane

Tichenor, Todd, Topics in graph compo-sition

Wang, Keke, Supereulerian properties ingraphs and Hamiltonian properties inline graphs

Zhang, Meng, Spanning trails and span-ning trees

WISCONSINMarquette University (4)

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics and Comp Science

Buelow, Zachary, Out-tournament matri-ces with equal ranks

Kawsar, Ferdaus, Computational ap-proaches for remote monitoring ofsymptoms and activites

Majumder, AKM Jahangir, Developmentof a wireless mobile computing plat-form for fall risk prediction

Rizia, Rizwana, A mobile health approachto assist veterans reintegrating intocivilian life

Medical College ofWisconsin (1)

Division of Biostatistics

Zhang, Ying, Inference of transition prob-abilities in multi-state models usingadaptive inverse probability censoringweighting technique

University of Wisconsin,Madison (36)

Department of Mathematics

Cladek, Laura, Multiplier theorems, squarefunction estimates, and Bochner-Rieszmeans associated with rough domains

Dewey, Edward, Characteristic classes ofcameral curves

Hu, Yueke, Period integrals, L-functions,and applications to subconvexity boundand mass equidistribution

Kim, Yoosik, On non-displaceable La-grangian tori on Fano toric surfaces:Wall-crossings and bulk-deformations

Lee, Jaeho, Non-displaceable toric fiberson compact symplectic manifolds viatropicalization

Li, Lei, Fluid-structure interaction atdifferent Reynolds numbers

Strenner, Balazs, Algebraic degrees andGalois conjugates of Penner stretchfactors

Su, Yun, Higher order degrees of complexhypersurface complements

Sun, Yu, Multilevel Monte Carlo meth-ods with applications to biochemicalmodels

Wong, Kaiho Tommy, Twisted Alexanderpolynomials of hypersurface comple-ments

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Xu, Xiaoqian, Singularities and mixing influid mechanics

Zhao, Jie, Hyperkahler metrics on focus-focus fibrations

Zheng, Fan, On constructing eigenfunc-tions of Weil representations over p-adic fields

Department of Statistics

Binkiewicz, Norbert, Contextualized net-work analysis: Theory and methods fornetworks with node covariates

Brooks, Wesley, Local variable selection invarying-coefficients regression models

Chen, Yan, Some new methodologies inoptimal designs, composite likelihoodand reinforcement learning

Cho, Juhee, Statistial inferences andapplications for a low-rank matrix

Du, Lilun, Some new developments onmultiple testing procedures

Fan, Haoyang, A boosting approach tohigh dimensional linear mixed model

Feng, Xiaoping, Composite likelihood es-timation and inference for spatial datamodels

Fu, Rao, Regularized regression methodswith spatial binary and multinomialoutcomes

Guo, Xiao, Topics on estimation of largecovariance and precision matrices

Henderson, Nicholas, Methods for rankingand selection in large-scale inference

Idowu, Timothy, Bayesian inference formax-stable processes with applicationto financial data

Jiang, Qi, Bayesian functional concurrentlogistic models for spatial categoricaldata

Konate, Lancine, Dependent credit riskmodeling using nonlinear filtering tech-niques

Kong, Jing, Topics on distance corre-lation, feature screening and lifetimeexpectancy with application to BeaverDam Eye Study data

Liu, Yi, Volatility estimation with finani-cial data

Solis-Lemus, Claudia, Statistical methodsto infer population structure with coa-lescence and gene flow

Tian, Jianan, Dissection and fine-mappingof tran-eQTL

Wang, Zhishi, Statistical methods forgene set analysis

Xiong, Lie, Statistical learning for highdimensional data set with group struc-ture

Xu, Chenliang, Statistical analysis ofquantum annealing models and densitymatrix estimation in quantum homo-dyne tomography

Ye, Shuyun, Statistical methods for sub-class discovery on genomic structureswith quantitative outcomes

Zhai, Yun, Discrete time harness pro-cesses

Zuo, Chandler, Large-scale computationin genomic and epigenomic inference

University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (11)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Adhikari, Ram, A weak Simpson methodfor a class of stochastic differentialequations and numerical stability re-sults

Cheong, Sami, Parameter estimation forthe spatial Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processwith missing observations

Feller, Jesse, Random iteration of rationalmaps

Gollin, James, The root-finite conditionon groups and its application to grouprings

Griffin, Brian, Improving the subgrid-scale representation of hydrometeorsand microphysical feedback effects us-ing a multivariate PDF

Kopacz, Dawn, Predictability of sea icenear bifurcations

Mitchell, Alan, The existence of theMandelbrot set in the parameter planesof certain rational functions

Samanthi, Ranadeera, Comparing theriskiness of dependent portfolios

Sugiyama, Noriyuki, The Great Lakes’regional climate regimes

Trulen, Justin, Asymptotic estimates forsome dispersive equations on the alpha-modulation space

Yu, Daoping, Statistical contributions tooperational risk modeling

WYOMINGUniversity of Wyoming (4)

Department of Mathematics

Choi, Hayoung, Hamburger moment com-pletions and its applications

Deng, Quanling, Local conservation oncontinuous Galerkin finite elementmethods with application

Huntington, Michael, A tuan type resultand generalized friendship graphs

Nelson, Curtis, Tiling with dominoesand monomers, P-sets, and the inverseeigenvalue problem

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