Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2014–2015 ALABAMA Auburn University (13) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bao, Feng, Efficient numerical algorithms for solving nonlinear filtering problems Bragan, Kelly, Topics in edge-regular graphs Brauss, Daniel, Implementation of a finite element method for the velocity-current magnetohydrodynamics equations Brice, Daniel, On derivations of parabolic subalgebras of reductive Lie algebras Chaffee, Joseph, 3-cycle systems and structure within graph decompositions Chase, Timothy, Monotonic covering properties Clontz, Steven, Applications of limited information strategies for topological games Erzurumluoglu, Araz, Fair factorizations and fair holey factorizations with two associate classes and prescribed regu- larity Hammer, James, Factor pair Latin squares Nguelifack, Brice, Generalized signed- rank estimator for nonlinear models with multidimensional indices and two- phase linear models Rawal, Nar, Principal eigenvalue theory for time periodic nonlocal dispersal operations and applications Tadesse, Dawit, High-dimensional classi- fication methods for sparse data and their applications in text and data mining Xie, Xiaoxia, Nonlocal dispersal equations and convergence to random dispersal equations University of Alabama (6) Department of Mathematics Banjade, Debendra, Wolff’s ideal problem in the multiplier algebra on Dirichlet space Duong, Nguyen, Twisting bordered Kho- vanov homology The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015) reported in the 2016 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences by 197 departments in 143 universities in the United States. Each entry contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The number in parentheses following the name of the university is the number of degrees listed for that university. Shahmurov, Rishad, Linear and nonlinear Rayleigh-B´ enard convection in absence of horizontal boundaries Song, Yuanyuan, Stability analysis of a bilayer coating a cylindrical tube Tian, Wufeng, Fast alternating direction implicit schemes for geometric flow equations and nonlinear Poisson equa- tions in biomolecular solvation analysis Ying, Mengyi, Interval method for special constrained global optimization prob- lems University of Alabama at Birmingham (10) Department of Biostatistics George, Brandon, A spatiotemporal model for repeated imaging data Li, Peng, The small sample inferences of cluster-randomized trials Loop, Matthew, Spatial analysis of hy- pertension prevalence using a large US cohort Merrill, Peter, Non-compliance in clinical trials: The perils of statistical methods Ranjan, Ashutosh, Power issues and inter- nal pilot design in cluster-randomized trials with unequal cluster sizes Salter, Amber, Practical extensions of the continual reassessment method Tripathi, Arvind, Count models with multiple inflations Wang, Guoqiao, An evaluation of sample size re-estimation adaptive designs and delayed-start designs for Alzheimer’s disease Department of Mathematics Fadl Allah, Alzaki, Elliptic equations and systems with nonlinear boundary conditions Muthoka, Terrence, American options and semilinear parabolic partial differ- ential equations in weighted Sobolev spaces University of Alabama–Huntsville (1) Department of Mathematical Sciences Albashaireh, Reem, Traveling wave solu- tions of a chemotaxis model: Existence and stability ARIZONA Arizona State University (11) Mathematics, Computational and Modeling Sciences Bliss, Nadya, Statistical signal processing for graphs School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Alvarez, Roberto, A two-strain spatiotem- poral mathematical model of cancer with free boundary condition Everett, Rebecca, Applications of the Droop cell quota model to data based cancer growth and treatment models Holeva, Thomas, A kinetic approach to anomalous diffusion in biological trapping regions Packer, Aaron, Cell quota based popula- tion models and their applications Peace, Angela, Stoichiometric producer- grazer models incorporating the effects of excess food-nutrient content on grazer dynamics Robinson, Benjamin, Operator-valued frames associated with measure spaces Temkit, M’hamed, Experimental designs for generalized linear models and func- tional magnetic resonance imaging Wang, Ran, On choosability and paintabil- ity of graphs Zhou, Yuqin, Mathematical and statistical insights in evaluating state dependent effectiveness of HIV prevention inter- ventions Zinzer, Scott, One- and two-variable p-adic measures in Iwasawa theory 790 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 7
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The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2014, to June 30,2015) reported in the 2016 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 197 departments in 143 universities in the United States. Each entry
contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The numberin parentheses following the name of the university is the number ofdegrees listed for that university.
Shahmurov, Rishad, Linear and nonlinearRayleigh-Benard convection in absenceof horizontal boundaries
Song, Yuanyuan, Stability analysis of abilayer coating a cylindrical tube
Tian, Wufeng, Fast alternating directionimplicit schemes for geometric flowequations and nonlinear Poisson equa-tions in biomolecular solvation analysis
Ying, Mengyi, Interval method for specialconstrained global optimization prob-lems
University of Alabama atBirmingham (10)
Department of Biostatistics
George, Brandon, A spatiotemporal modelfor repeated imaging data
Li, Peng, The small sample inferences ofcluster-randomized trials
Loop, Matthew, Spatial analysis of hy-pertension prevalence using a large UScohort
Merrill, Peter, Non-compliance in clinicaltrials: The perils of statistical methods
Ranjan, Ashutosh, Power issues and inter-nal pilot design in cluster-randomizedtrials with unequal cluster sizes
Salter, Amber, Practical extensions of thecontinual reassessment method
Chih, Ellen, Indivisible characteristics ofrecursively enumerable sets
Galkowski, Jeffrey, Distribution of reso-nances in scattering by thin barriers
Haberman, Boaz, Inverse problems withrough data
Harris, Kelley, Inference of populationhistory and mutation biology fromhuman genetic variation
Harrop Griffiths, Benjamin, Quasilineardynamics of KdV-type equations
Hilaire, Christian, The Ricci flow onRiemannian groupoids
Honigs, Katrina, Derived equivalent vari-eties and their zeta functions
Jin, Long, Scattering resources for convexobstacles
Jin, Xin, Symplectic approaches in geo-metric representation theory
Kalman, Adam, Newton polytopes ofcluster variables
Lanoue, Daniel, The metric coalescentLee, Heather, Homological mirror sym-
metry for open Riemann surfaces frompair-of-pants decompositions
Merberg, Adam, Noncommutative gener-alized Brownian motions with multipleprocesses
Morrison, Ralph, Tropical and non-Archmidean curves
Pejic, Michael, Quantum Bayesian net-works with application to problemsdisplaying Parrondo’s paradox
Peterson, Eric, Cotangent spectra and thedeterminantal sphere
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 791
Preskill, Benjamin, The jump splicemethod for elliptic interface problemsand the incompressible Navier-Stokesequations
Rosen, Zvi, Algebraic matroids in appli-cations
Sylvan, Zachary, On partially warppedFukuya categories
Tsou, Benjamin, Eigenvalue distributionsof symmetric group representations
Vu, Thanh, Combinatorial patterns insyzygies
Wang, Luming, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods on moving domains with largedeformations
Wayman, Eric, A skew-product decom-position on a manifold equipped witha group action, a Lorentz model withvariable density in a conservative forcefield, and reconstruction of a mani-fold from the intrinsic metric of anassociated Markov chain
Zhang, Te, Weak convergence and rapidlyoscillating pendula
Department of Statistics
Broderick, Tamara, Clusters and fea-tures from combinatorial stochasticprocesses
Li, Hongwei, Theoretical analysis andefficient algorithms for crowdsourcing
Lopes, Miles, Some inference problems inhigh-dimensional linear models
Racz, Miklos, Influences in voting andgrowing networks
Ruddy, Sean, Shrinkage of dispersionparameters in the double exponentialfamily of distributions, with applica-tions to genomic sequencing
Biostatistics
Balzer, Laura, Design and analysis ofcluster randomized trials with applica-tion to HIV prevention and treatment
Boley, Nathan, Methods for the analysisof high throughput sequencing data
Kempton, Mark, High dimensional spec-tral graph theory and non-backtrackingrandom walks on graphs
Lobue Tiefenbruck, Janine, Combinatorialproperties of quasi-symmetric Schurfunctions and generalized Demazureatoms
Louie, Janelle, Classification of convexancient solutions to curve shorteningflow on the sphere
Meng, Wang, On the detection of sparsemixtures
Parks, Helen, Structural approaches tolarge-scale systems: Variational integra-tors for interconnected Lagrange-Diracsystems and structured model reduc-tion on Lie groups
Shustrova, Anna, Primal-dual interiormethods for quadratic programming
Tiee, Christopher, Computation and visu-alization of geometric partial differen-tial equations
Wen, Jiayi, Mathematical modeling andcomputational methods for electro-static interactions with applications tobiological molecules
Wilson, Andrew, Generalized shuffle con-jectures for the Garsia-Haiman deltaoperator
Zimmermann, David, Logarithmic Sobolevinequalities for Gaussian convolutionsof compactly supported measures
University of California,Santa Barbara (14)
Department of Mathematics
Ackermann, Robert, On pseudo-Anosovmaps, symplectic, Perron-Frobenius ma-trices, and compression bodies
Chapman, Kyle, An ergodic algorithmfor sampling equilateral knots withthickness
Jonov, Boyan, Longtime behavior of smallsolutions to viscous perturbations ofnonlinear hyperbolic systems in 3-D
Leitner, Arielle, Limits under conjugacyof the diagonal Cartan group in SLn(R)
Adkins, Melissa, Modeling local patternformation on membrane surfaces usingnon-local interactions
Freese, Hilary, Abelian surfaces with realmultiplication over finite fields
Hughes, Justin, Group action on neigh-borhood complexes of Cayley graphs
Lane-Harvard, Elizabeth, Strongly regulargraphs from large arcs
Miles, Eric, Bridgeland stability of linebundles on surfaces
Motta, Francis, Optimally topologicallytransitive orbits, complex Hadamardmatrices and an ion bombardment
Osnaqq, Silvia, Low rank representationsof matrices using nuclear norm heuris-tics
Previte, Corrine, The D-neighborhoodcomplex of graphs
Schmidt, Eric, Number-theoretic proper-ties of the binomial distribution withapplications in arithmetic geometry
Schwickerath, Anthony, Linear models,signal detection, and the Grassmannmanifold
Zhang, Chuan, Storing cycles in Hopfield-type neural networks
Department of Statistics
Bugbee, Bruce, Semiparametric regres-sion in the presence of complex vari-ance structures arising from small anglex-ray scattering data
Herndon, Wade, Testing and adjustingfor informative sampling in survey data
University of Colorado,Boulder (13)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Appelhans, David, Trading computationfor communication: A low communica-tion algorithm for the parallel solutionof PDEs using range decomposition,nested iteration, and adaptive meshrefinement
Brutz, Michael, Mathematical modellingand analysis of several diffusive pro-cesses
Chen, Yuanting, Bayesian semi-parametricmodeling of time-to-event data
Hao, Sijia, Numerical methods for solvinglinear elliptic PDEs: Direct solvers andhigh order accurate discretizations
Leibs, Christopher, First-order systemsleast-squares finite element methodsand nested iteration for electromag-netic two-fluid kinetic-based plasmamodels
Monnig, Nathan, From nonlinear embed-ding to graph distances: A spectralperspective
Romero, Henry, Fundamental limits ofnetwork communication with generalmessage sets: A combinatorial ap-proach
Sirisubtawee, Sekson, Stability and bifur-cations of a piecewise-smooth elasto-plastic inverted pendulum model: To-wards an understanding of dynamics ofbuildings under earthquake-type forc-ing
Department of Mathematics
Davison, Trubee, Generalizing the Kan-torovich metric to projection-valuedmeasures: With an application to iter-ated function systems
Hower, John, A global symbol for theb-calculus on manifolds with boundary
Migler, Joseph, Determinants in K-theoryand operator algebras
Zhang, Liang, Problems concerning spa-tial branching particle systems withinteraction
University of Colorado,Denver (3)
Department of Mathematical and
Statistical Sciences
DeOrsey, Philip, Hyperovals and cyclo-tomic sets in AG(2,q)
Diemunsch, Jennifer, Three problems instructural and extremal graph theory
Kondratenko, Volodomyr, Efficient algo-rithms for wildland fire simulation
University of Denver (2)
Department of Mathematics
Aboras, Mouna, Dihedral-like construc-tions of automorphic loops
Cardona, Riquelmi, The finite embed-dability property for some noncom-mutative knotted varieties of RL andDRL
CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (11)
Department of Mathematics
Hewa Katuwandeniyage, Priyantha, Mul-tivariate longitudinal data analysis oractuarial applications
Huan, Tingting, Traveling fronts to reac-tion diffusion equations with fractionalLaplacians
Huang, Shujuan, Risk assessment andpricing for group health claims
K.M.G. Dias, Usahani, Longitudinal analy-sis of mortality risk factors for actuarialvaluation
Martin, Caleb, Computability theory andordered groups
Suggs, Jacob, On lowness for isomor-phism as restricted to classes of struc-tures
Zhao, Mingfeng, Traveling wave solu-tions to the Allen-Cahn equations withfractional Laplacians
Zheng, Wenyuan, Portfolio choice withlife annuities under probability distor-tion
Choi, Seokwoo, Quantile autoregressionwith censored data
Dalpiaz, David, Statistics methods formodeling RNA-Seq short-read data
Rho, Yeonwoo, Inference of time series re-gression models with weakly dependenterrors
Sewell, Daniel, Statistical models andinference for dynamic networks
Shu, Xinxin, Time-varying networks esti-mation and Chinese words segmenta-tion
INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (13)
Department of Mathematics
Barker, Blake, Numerical proof of stabil-ity of roll waves in the small-amplitudelimit for inclined thin film flow
Bousquet, Arthur, Numerical analysis ofcomputations of fluid flows: Geophysi-cal flows and classical flows
Chen, Ko-Shin, Stability and motion lawsfor Ginzburg-Landau vortices on man-ifolds under dissipative and conserva-tive dynamics
Gangavarapu, Venkata Krishna Kishore,Representation variety of Fuchsiangroups in indefinite special orthogo-nal groups
Hong, Youngjoon, Analysis and approxi-mation of linear and nonlinear partialdifferential equations: Boundary lay-ers, atmospheric equations, change ofphase
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
798 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 7
Lai, Tri, Enumeration of tilings of quasi-hexagons
Link, Joshua, Global existence of unique-ness for various shallow water modelsforced by a multiplicative white noise
Martinez, Vincent, On Gevrey regularityof equations of fluid and geophysicalfluid dynamics with applications to 2Dand 3D turbulence
Silva, Elwadura Prabath, Vector-valuedinequalities with application to bi-parameter problems in linear and bi-linear settings
Tapay, Andrew, Some results in fluid me-chanics using Littlewood-Paley theory
Wallace, Erik, Principally polarized abeliansurfaces with surjective Galois repre-sentations on 1-torsion
Wang, Chuntian, Initial and boundaryvalue problems for the determinis-tic and stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsovequation in a bounded domain
Wu, Ka Kuen, Formulation of the equa-tions of the humid atmosphere in thecontext of variational inequalities
IndianaUniversity–PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (2)
Thompson, Ryan, The Cauchy problemfor the CH2 system
IOWAIowa State University (24)
Department of Mathematics
Ayers, Kim, Graph determined symbolicdynamics and hybrid systems
Ekstrand, Jason, Positivity in functionalgebras
Johnson, Ryan, The Frobenius-Schur indi-cator of Tambara-Yamagami categories
Kramer, Lucas, On forbidden subposetsin the Boolean lattice: An application offlag algebras
Lee, Yongki, Threshold dynamics in hy-perbolic partial differential equations
Nowak, Kathleen (Katy), Partial geometricdesigns and difference families
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 799
Orizaga, Saulo, On the nonlinear regimeof electrically induced viscous sets withfinite conductivity
Ploymaklam, Nattapol, Numerical su-perposition of Gaussian beams overpropagating domain for high fre-quency waves and high-order invariant-preserving methods for dispersive waves
Wang, Min, Mathematical and statisticalmodels in evolutionary game theory
Zheng, Yun, Asset pricing based onstochastic delay differential equations
Department of Statistics
Casleton, Emily, A local structure graphmodel for network analysis
Chen, Senniang, Imputation of missingvalues using quantile regression
Fostvedt, Luke, Mixed effects modelingwith missing data using quantile re-gression and joint modeling
Im, Jongho, Some methods for handlingmissing data in surveys
Koh, Yew Meng, Contributions to thedesign and analysis of nondestructiveevaluation experiments
Lanker, Cory, Local prediction and clas-sification techniques for machine learn-ing and data mining
Li, Jing, Biclustering methods and aBayesian approach to fitting Boltzmannmachines in statistical learning
Liu, Fanfang, Statistical methods in de-tecting differential expressed genes,analyzing insertion tolerance for genesand group selection for survival data
Qiu, Yumou, Inference of high-dimensionalcovariance matrices and thresholdingtests for high-dimensional count distri-butions
Roy Choudhury, Niladri, Explorations ofthe lineup protocol for visual inference:Application to high dimension, lowsample size problems and metrics toassess the quality
Van Hala, Matthew, On empirical likeli-hood methods for irregularly locatedspatial data
Vanderplas, Susan, Perception in statisti-cal graphics
Wang, Min, Mathematical and statisticalmodels in evolutionary game theory
Zheng, Yun, Asset pricing based onstochastic delay differential equations
University of Iowa (12)
Department of Applied Mathematical
and Computational Sciences
Ellingwood, Nathan, Methods for improv-ing performance of particle trackingand image registration in computa-tional lung modeling using multi-coreCPUs and GPUs
Gasper, Rebecca, Action potentials in theperipheral auditory nervous system: Anovel PDE distribution model
Department of Biostatistics
Brown, Grant D., Application of hetero-geneous computing techniques to com-partmental spatiotemporal epidemicmodels
Lourens, Spencer G., Bias in mixtures ofnormal distributions and joint model-ing of longitudinal and time-to-eventdata with monotonic change curves
Department of Mathematics
Fitzpatrick, Michael, Continuous familiesof representations of mapping classgroups
Nathanson, Ekaterina, Path integrationwith non-positive distributions and ap-plications to the Schrodinger equation
Ortiz, Marcos, Convex decompositiontechniques applied to handlebodies
Salazar-Torres, Dido, The Khovanov ho-mology of the jumping jack
Williams, Jessica, A ring theoretic ap-proach to radicals of extensions
Department of Statistics and
Actuarial Science
Chai, Hao, Statistical inference in highdimensional and AFT models
Van Krevelen, Ryne, Improved intervalestimation of comparative treatmenteffects
Junla, Nakorn, Classification of certaingenera of codes, lattices and vertexoperator algebras
Pigno, Vincent, Prime power exponen-tial and character sums with explicitevaluations
Department of Statistics
Bai, Xiuqin, Robust mixtures of regressionmodels
Chen, Yixin, Statistical inference for vary-ing coefficient models
Gharaibeh, Mohammed, Nonparametriclack-of-fit tests in presence of het-eroscedastic variances
Sahtout, Mohammad, Improving the per-formance of the prediction analysisof microarrays algorithm via differ-ent thresholding methods and het-eroscedastic modeling
Yu, Chun, Robust regression mixturemodeling
University of Kansas (6)
Department of Mathematics
Chaffee, Lucas, Commutators of multi-linear singular integral operators withpointwise multiplication
Clifton, Cody, A stochastic system modelfor PageRank: Parameter estimation andadaptive control
Espenschied, William, Graphs of poly-topes
Huang, Jingyu, Stochastic partial dif-ferential equations driven by colorednoise
Le, Khoa, Nonlinear integrals, diffusionsin random environments and stochasticpartial differential equations
Sanders, William, Categorical and homo-logical aspects of module theory overcommutative rings
University of KansasMedical Center (2)
Department of Biostatistics
Jiang, Wei, Optimal designs for two-armrandomized Phase II clinical trials withmultiple constraints
Jiang, Yu, Bayesian methods for vali-dating patient reported outcomes andpredicting patient accrual in clinicaltrials
LOUISIANALSU Health SciencesCenter, New Orleans (2)
Department of Biostatistics
Leonardi, Claudia, A two-stage random-ized response technique for surveyingsensitive topics
Zhou, Yuan, Crossover adaptive sequen-tial parallel comparison design to re-duce bias and improve power for de-tecting treatment differences in clinicaltrials
Louisiana StateUniversity, BatonRouge (13)
Department of Mathematics
Abernathy, Susan, Obstructions to em-bedding genus-1 tangles in links
Dawson, Matthew, Conical representa-tions for direct limits of Riemanniansymmetric spaces
Ferguson, Adam Beau, Excluding twominors of the Petersen graph
Gellar, Jonathan, Functional regressionmethods for densely-sampled biomark-ers in the ICU
Han, Fang, Large-scale semiparametricinference for large, complex, and noisydatasets
Lum, Kirsten, Joint modeling of hierarchi-cal data with application to prospectivepregnancy studies
Sun, Yifei, Statistical methods for analyz-ing marker processes in the presenceof a terminal event
Webb Vargas, Yenny, Causal inferencemethods for measurement error andmediation analysis
Wu, Zhenke, Statistical methods for in-dividualized health with applicationto childhood pneumonia and healthpolicies: Etiology, diagnosis, and inter-vention
Yang, Juemin, Statistical methods forbrain imaging and genomic data analy-sis
Johns HopkinsUniversity (11)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Chen, Li, Pattern recognition on randomgraphs
Chestnut, Stephen, Stream sketches, sam-pling, and sabotage
Shen, Cencheng, Matching and inferencefor multiple correlated data sets
Yang, Sitan, Micro-array based multiclassclassification using relative expressionanalysis
Department of Mathematics
Jun, Jaiung, Algebraic geometry oversemi-structures and hyper-structuresof characteristic one
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 801
Karami, Arash, Zeros of random Rein-hardt polynomials
McGonagle, Matthew, The Gaussian isoperi-metric problem and the self-shrinkersof mean curvature flow
Ross, John, Rigidity results for lambda-hypersurfaces
Phillips, Andrew, Moduli of CM falseelliptic curves
Vlamas, Nicholas, Identities on hyper-bolic manifolds and quasi-conformalhomogeneity of hyperbolic surfaces
Boston University (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Johnston, Ian, Hierarchical Bayesian mod-els for genome-wide association studies
Peng, Lijun, Bayesian stochastic blockmodels for community detection in net-works and community-structured co-variance selection
Zhang, Yaonan, Statistical analysis ofnetwork data motivated by problems inonline social media
Boston University Schoolof Public Health (8)
Department of Biostatistics
Bae, Harold, Understanding the ge-netic basis of complex polygenic traitsthrough Bayesian model selection ofmultiple genetic models and networkmodelling of family-based genetic data
Gao, Wei, Sequence kernel associationtest, gene-environment interaction test,and meta-analysis for family sampleswith repeated measurements or multi-ple traits
Liu, Xuan, New approach to comparetreatments in adaptive seamless de-signs while maintaining type I error andensuring adequate power
Antolin Camarena, Omar, The mod 2homology of free spectral Lie algebras
Atanasov, Atanas, Interpolation and vec-tor bundles on curves
Boxer, George, Torsion in the coherentcohomology of Shimura varieties andGalois representations
Heuts, Gijsbert, Goodwillie approxima-tions to higher categories
Kuan, Jeffrey, Several theorems aboutprobabilistic limiting expressions: TheGaussian free field, symmetric Pearceyprocess, and strong Szego asymptotics
Li, Chao, 2-Selmer groups and Heegnerpoints on elliptic curves
Riedl, Eric, Rational curves on hypersur-faces
Schieder, Simon, Picard-Lefschetz oscilla-tors for the Drinfeld-Lafforgue-Vinbergcompactification
Sia, Charmaine, Structures on forms ofK-theory
Takahashi, Ryosuke, The moduli spaceof S1-type zero loci for Z/2 harmonicspinors in dimension 3
Tavares Bujokas, Gabriel, Covers of anelliptic curve E and curves in E × P1
Tsai, Cheng-Chiang, A formula for someShalika germs
Department of Statistics
Andric, Nikola, Exploring objective causalinference in case-noncase studies underthe Rubin causal model
Cervone, Daniel, Inference and predictionproblems for spatial and spatiotempo-ral data
Ding, Peng, Exploring the role of random-ization in causal inference
Feller, Avi, Essays in causal inference andpublic policy
Fernandez, Daniel, Cell states and cellfate: Statistical and computational mod-els in (epi)genomics
Franks, Alexander, Quantifying sourcesof variation in high-throughput biology
Hennessey, Jonathan, Topics in experi-mental and tournament design
Lee, Joseph, Extensions of randomization-based methods for causal inference
Wang, Lazhi, Methods in Monte Carlocomputation, astrophysical data analy-sis and hypothesis testing with multiply-imputed data
School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences
Chemama, Michael, Flames, splashesand microdroplets: A mathematical ap-proach to three fluid dynamics prob-lems
Costa, Thiago, A non-parametric per-spective on the analysis of massivenetworks
Platt, John, Dynamics and materialsphysics of fault rupture and glacialprocesses
Rhines, Andrew, Past and future cli-mate variability: Extremes, scaling, anddynamics
Harvard T. H. Chan Schoolof Public Health (12)
Department of Biostatistics
Agniel, Denis, Statistical methods formultivariate and complex phenotypes
Dimont, Emmanuel, Methods for theanalysis of differential composition ofgene expression
Kunz, Lauren, Statistical methods forcomparative effectiveness research ofmedical devices
Liu, Zhonghua, Plasma metabolites andbody mass index in US men and womenof European ancestry; novel statisticalmethods for analyzing multiple pheno-types in genetic association studies
Neykov, Matey, Three aspects of biosta-tistical learning theory
Shen, Yuanyuan, Ordinal outcome pre-diction and treatment selection in per-sonalized medicine
Smoot Malecha, Elizabeth, Methods for ef-fectively combining group- and individ-ual-level data
Sullivan, Adam, Sensitivity analysis forlinear structural equation models, lon-gitudinal mediation with latent growthmodels and blended learning in bio-statistics education
Yip, Wai-Ki, Statistical methods for an-alyzing DNA methylation data andsubpopulation analysis of continuous,binary and count data for clinical trials
Yong, Florence, Quantitative methods forstratified medicine
Zhang, Yifan, Bayesian adaptive clinicaltrials
Zhao, Rui, Integrated analysis of longitu-dinal tumor burden data
Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (21)
Department of Mathematics
Andrews, Michael, The v1-periodic partof the Adams spectral sequence at anodd prime
Schrier, Madeline, Barcode decoding ina camera-based scanner: Analysis andalgorithms
Switala, Nicholas, Some invariants ofnonsingular projective varieties andcomplete local rings
School of Statistics
Bezener, Martin, Bayesian spatiotempo-ral modeling using spatial hierarchicalpriors with applications to functionalmagnetic resonance imaging
Chen, Gang, Forecast combination foroutlier protection and forecast combi-nation under heavy tailed errors
Rolling, Craig, Estimation of conditionalaverage treatment effects
Yan, Qi, Coherent pursuit and boostinglearning
Yang, Yi, A unified algorithm for fittingpenalized models with high dimensiondata
Yuan, Yiping, Statistical learning of high-dimensional directed acyclic graphicalmodels
MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Ballamoole, Snehalatha, Spectral proper-ties of a class of integral operators onspaces of analytic functions
Butler, Dagny, Analysis of classes of non-linear eigenvalue problems on exteriordomains
University ofMississippi (3)
Department of Mathematics
Lee, Byunghoon, Diagonals of tensorproducts of Banach lattices with bases
Schwanke, Christopher, Complex vectorlattices: Tensor products and multilin-ear maps
Weatherall, Lauren, Gini covariance ma-trix and its affine equivariant version
University of SouthernMississippi (2)
Department of Mathematics
Jones, Corey, Time integration methodsof fundamental solutions and approxi-mate fundamental solutions for nonlin-ear elliptic partial differential equations
Gipson, Phillip, Invariant basis numberand basis type for C∗-algebras
Hardin, Jason, Algebraic properties ofExt-modules over complete intersec-tions
Keel, Brittney, Bioinformatic game theoryand its application to cluster multi-domain proteins
Keough, Lauren, Extremal results for thenumber of matchings and independentsets
Webb, Marcus, Frobenius and homologi-cal dimensions
Youngs, Nora, The neural ring: Usingalgebraic geometry to analyze neuralcodes
Zheng, Yang, Betti sequences over localrings and connected sums of Gorensteinrings
Department of Statistics
Bright, Brianna, Investigating the perfor-mance of asymptotic interval estima-tion and hypothesis testing methodsfor functions of binary and Poissonparameters
Chernyavskiy, Pavel, On the analysis ofevent-related potential and electroen-cephalographic data: Spatio-temporalmodeling, variography, and simulation
Fellers, Pamela, Value-added methodol-ogy for estimating professional devel-opment program effects
Sainath, Jyothsna, Structural equationmixed models with an application tosmall area estimation
Zeleny, Tucker, A new approach to model-ing multivariate time series on multipletemporal scales
NEVADAUniversity of Nevada, LasVegas (7)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
McDonald, Joseph, Exact statistical infer-ences for functions of parameters ofthe log-gamma distribution
McGinn, Donald, Generalized Markoffequations, Euclid trees, and Chebyshevpolynomials
Sun, Xudong, Empirical studies on inter-est rate derivatives
Sun, Yuzhou, Modeling studies and nu-merical analyses of coupled PDEs sys-tem in electrohydrodynamics
Wang, Zhou, A study of sequential infer-ence for the risk ratio and measure ofreduction of two binomials
Gilmer, Justin, Discrete local central limittheorems and Boolean function com-plexity measures
Guo, Bin, Some parabolic and ellipticproblems in complex Riemannian ge-ometry
Hamm, Arran, On Erdos-Ko-Rado forrandom hypergraphs
Herdade, Simao, Stability results in addi-tive combinatorics and graph theory
Kallupalam Balasubramian, Moulik, Scalarfields and spin-half fields on mildly sin-gular spacetimes
Kanade, Shashank, Some results on therepresentation theory of vertex op-erator algebras and integer partitionidentities
Lubyshev, Vladimir, Nonlinear PDEs andan application to high-frequency trad-ing
Marcondes de Freitas, Michael, A class ofinput/output random systems: Mono-tonicity and a small-gain theorem
Miller, John, Class number of totally realnumber fields
Myers, Kellen, Computational advancesin Rado numbers
Nandi, Debajyoti, Partition identities aris-ing from the standard A(2)
2 -models oflevel 4
Tyrrell, Thomas, The Brauer-Manin ob-struction on families of hyperellipticcurves
Xiao, Ming, On mapping problems inseveral complex variables
Rutgers The StateUniversity of New JerseyNewark (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Ghosh, Pritam, Applications of weakattraction theory in Out(FN)
Isaacson, Brad, On character sums of Lee-Weintraub, Arakawa, and Ibukiyama,and related sums
Shi, Zhiqin, Algebraic studies of symmet-ric operators
Stevens Institute ofTechnology (3)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Krsteva, Kristina, Estimation and opti-mization of linear multi factor modelsof stock returns and detection of un-derlying regime-switching process inmodels
Morar, Pavel, Search problems in groupsand branching processes
Wolfhagen, Eli, Optimization with mul-tivariate stochastic dominance con-straints
NEW MEXICONew Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Aryal, Pradip, A study of Brownian mo-tion under brachistochrone-type met-rics
Shan, Qingsong, A measure for mutuallycomplete dependence and its estima-tion
Urenda-Castaneda, Julio, Algorithmic as-pects of the embedding problem
Wei, Zheng, Multivariate affiliation andthe joint distribution of random setvectors with copulas
Dong, Yan, Nonparametric Bayes ap-proach for a semi-mechanistic pharma-cokinetic and pharmacodynamic model
Dyachenko, Sergey, Strongly nonlinearphenomena and singularities in optical,hydrodynamic and biological systems
Gong, Maozhen, Order-constrained ref-erence priors with implications forBayesian isotonic regression, analysisof covariance and spatial models
Hummel, Michelle, Delaunay-Laguerre ge-ometry for macromolecular modelingand implicit solvation
Qeadan, Fares, On the equivalence be-tween the LRT, RLRT and F -test fortesting variance components in thegeneralized split-plot models
NEW YORKBinghamton University,State University of NewYork (4)
Department of Mathematics and
Science
Du, Wenyu, Accurate and efficient numer-ical performance evaluation of gener-alized Shiryaev-Roberts procedure forquickest change-point
Li, Jinghao, Purity results on F -crystalsSorcar, Gangotryi, Non-triviality of the
fundamental group of the Teichmullerspace of negatively curved metrics of anon-locally symmetric curved manifold
Tanusevski, Slobodan, Generalized Thomp-son groups
Clarkson University (1)
Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Basnayake, Ranil, Inverse problems forimage processing of spatiotemporaldynamical systems
Columbia University (15)
Department of Biostatistics
Mauro, Christine, Learning logic rulesusing an iterative algorithm: With anapplication to developing criteria setsfor the diagnostic and statistical manualof mental disorders
Song, Xiaoyu, A new estimating equationapproach for secondary trait analysesin genetic-control studies
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Department of Mathematics
Balsam, Nava, The parity of analyticranks among quadratic twists of ellipticcurves over number fields
Engel, Philip, A proof of Looijenga’sconjecture via integral-affine geometry
Heath, Timothy, On spectral bounds forcongruence families of subgroups inSL3(Z)
Marshall, Andrew, On configuration ofspatial planar graphs
Ojeda Aristizabal, Diana, Ramsey theoryand Banach space geometry
Ugurcan, Baris, Lp estimates and poly-harmonic boundary value problems ofthe Sierpinski gasket and Gaussian freefields on high dimensional Sierpinskicarpet graphs
Department of Statistical Sciences
Chen, Maximillian, Dimension reductionand inferential procedures for images
Chetelat, Didier, High-dimensional infer-ence by unbiased risk estimation
Earls, Cecilia Ann, Bayesian hierarchicalGaussian process models for functionaldata analysis
Gaynannova, Irina, Estimation of sparselow-dimensional linear projections
Thorbergsson, Leifur, Experimental de-sign for partially observed Markovdecision processes
Wan, Muting, Model-based classificationwith applications to high-dimensionaldata in bioinformatics
Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (10)
PhD Program in Mathematics
Arreche, Carlos, An algorithmic approachto the differential Galois theory ofsecond-order linear differential equa-tions with differential parameters
Bromberg, Lisa, Some applications ofnoncommutative groups and semi-groups to information security
Carmody, Erin K., Force to change largecardinal strength
Fortier Bourque, Maxime, The holomor-phic couch theorem
Hu, Yunchun, Martingales for uniformlyquasisymmetric circle endomorphisms
Larson, Christopher, Some combinatorialproperties of polyiamonds
Miasnikov, Nikita A., Asymptotic invari-ants and flatness of local endomor-phisms
Retamoso, Ivan, On polynomial roots ap-proximation via dominant eigenspacesand isolation of real roots
Stout, Andrew R., Motivic integration overnilpotent structures
Wolf, Jesse L., New results on randomizedmatrix computations
New York UniversityPolytechnic School ofEngineering (1)
Department of Mathematics
Kone, Hassane, Orlicz moment-entropy-information inequalities, parametrizedBlack-Scholes and (x2, λ)-Gaussian stockpricing model
New York University,Courant Institute (17)
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
Alanko, Samu, Regression-based MonteCarlo methods for solving nonlinearPDEs
Attanasio, Stefano, Single and multi-period portfolio theory: Two extensionsfor practical applications
Bushuk, Mitchell, A statistical and dy-namical study of the Arctic Sea-icevariability
Corona, Eduardo, Fast direct solvers forintegral equations
Reyna, Matthew, On the stability andaccuracy of high-order Runge-Kuttadiscontinued Galerkin methods
Yang, He, Analysis and applications ofdiscontinuous Galerkin methods forhyperbolic equations
Yao, Lei, Probabilistic modeling of genomeevolution and disease spread of tuber-culosis
Stony Brook University (34)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Au, Loretta, Quantitative approaches fordeconvolving the multiple contribu-tions of primary structure to proteinfitness
Chen, Jiansong, QTL mapping of longitu-dinal count traits
Chen, Lin, Statistical methods for op-timizing task performance in nuclearmedicine imaging and in x-ray breastimaging
Fu, Jinmiao, Multi-platform comparisonusing structural equation modeling anderrors in variables model with randomeffects
Huang, Erya, Statistical methods forassociation analysis of biological data
Kaufman, Ryan, Software tools for sto-chastic simulations of turbulence
Lee, Un Jung, The application of tra-jectory analysis for an early warningsystem in STEM courses
Li, Long, A greedy method to simulatedrainage in cross sections
Li, Muqi, Real-time power flow analysisand short-term electricity load forecast-ing in smart grid
Mandava, Manasa, On solutions of Kol-mogorov’s equations for non-homogen-eous jump Markov processes and suffi-ciency of Markov policies in continuous-time Markov decision processes
Muqattash, Isa, Multi-armed bandits withapplications to Markov decision pro-cesses and scheduling problems
Peng, Lizhen, Statistical frameworks ofintegrated analysis for genetic data
Jalal, Kabir, Imputation based methodsfor incidence rate estimation of dis-eases from federal and state mortalitydata supplemented with disease reg-istry data
Shi, Yi, Inference about the mean areaunder the curve in preclinical sparsesampling designs
Department of Mathematics
Fagerstrom, Emily, On the nonlinearSchrodinger equation with nonzeroboundary conditions
Kraus, Daniel, Vector nonlinear Schrodingersystems with nonzero boundary condi-tions
Winter, Blake, Virtual, welded, and ribbonlinks in arbitrary dimensions
University ofRochester (10)
Department of Biostatistics and
Computational Biology
Han, Yu, New semiparametric methodsfor clustered time-to-event data
Richardson, Amy, Inference about treat-ment effects using bounds, sensitivityanalysis and instrumental variables
Rigdon, Joseph, Causal inference forbinary data with interference
Smith, Che, Model selection for nonnestedlinear mixed models
Smith, Valerie, A marginalized two-partmodel for semicontinuous data
Tang, Zhengzheng, Association analysisof rare variants in sequencing studies
Wekheye, Kelley, Statistical methods forrepeated measures in experimental gin-givitis with adjustment for left trunca-tion due to lower detection limits
Yin, Zhaoyu, Statistical analyses of highthroughput genetics and genomics data
Zhang, Hongtao, Statistical methods forcorrelated data from observationalstudies
Zhou, Xiaolei, Model assessment for mod-els with missing data
Pal Majumder, Abhishek, Long timeasymptotics of some weakly interact-ing particle system and higher orderasymptotics of generalized fiducial dis-tribution
Shin, Sunyoung, Contributions to penal-ized estimation
Skwerer, Sean, Tree oriented data analy-sis
Sun, Zhankun, Priority scheduling of jobswith hidden types
Wang, Tao, Empirical analysis of se-quential trade models for market mi-crostructure
Bhattarai, Giriraj, Inverse problem ofLagrangian mechanics in dimensionthree
Karki, Ramesh, Sobolev gradient flow andapplications to nonlinear problems
Paudyal, Bhupendra, Eigenfunctions ofcomposition operators on Bloch-typespaces
Wang, Suohong, Semiparametric infer-ences under density ratio models
OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Alesandroni, Guillermo, Monomial reso-lutions
K. C., Durga, A study on the globalwell-posedness for the two-dimensionalBoussinesq and Lans-alpha magnetohy-drodynamics equations
Nepal, Kedar, An exploration of math-ematics graduate teaching assistants’teaching philosophies: A case study
Tovstolis, Alexander, Multipliers in Hardyand Bergman spaces, and Riesz decom-position
Wise, Wilhelmina, Potential theory of thefarthest distance function
Yang, Xiaowei, The integral graded ho-mology of Reeb chord complex ofLegendrian knots in R3
University of Oklahoma,Health Science Center (1)
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department
Davis, Erin, Vitamin D: Associations be-tween 25 hydroxy vitamins and polycys-tic ovary syndrome. Intrauterine insem-ination success and adolescent obesity
OREGONOregon State University (3)
Department of Mathematics
Kim, Dojin, The variable speed waveequation and perfectly matched layers
Wongsason, Patcharee, 3-D cone beam re-construction formulas for the transverse-ray transform with source points on acurve
Department of Statistics
Payton, Quinn, Modeling density depen-dence in the presence of measurementerror
Portland StateUniversity (1)
Fariborz Maseeh Department of
Mathematics and Statistics
Fasteen, Jodi, An investigation of therole of alternate numeration systems inpreservice teacher mathematics contentcourses
University of Oregon (8)
Department of Mathematics
Bibby, Christin, Abelian arrangementsDilts, James, The Einstein constraint
equations on asymptotically Euclideanmanifolds
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Gardella, Eusebio, Compact group actionson C∗-algebras: Classification, non-classifiability, and crossed products;and rigidity results for Lp-operatoralgebras
Loubert, Joseph, Affine cellularity offinite type KLR algebras, and homomor-phisms between Specht modules forKLR algebras in affine type A
Perlmutter, Nathan, Linking forms, sin-gularities, and homological stabilityfor diffeomorphism groups of odd-dimensional manifolds
Reynolds, Andrew, Representations of theoriented Brauer category
Ro, Min, Approximate diagonalizationof homomorphisms to C∗-algebras oftracial rank one
Vicinsky, Deborah, The homotopy calcu-lus of categories and graphs
PENNSYLVANIABryn Mawr College (1)
Department of Mathematics
Goedhart, Eva, The nonexistence of solu-tions to certain families of Diophantineequations
Carnegie MellonUniversity (17)
Department of Mathematical Science
Bufford, Laura, 3D-2D dimension reduc-tion of homogenized thin films
Garcia, Nicolas, Variational limit of graphcuts on point clouds
Hausauer, Justin, Sparse grid combi-nation techniques for solving high-dimensional parabolic equations withan application to the LIBOR marketmodel
Kell, Brian, Decision diagrams for combi-natorial optimization and satisfaction
Simione, Robert, Properties of minimizersof nonlocal interaction energy
Ladenheim, Scott, Constraint precondi-tioning of saddle point problems
Millichap, Christian, Mutations and ge-ometric invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Paljug, Brian, Deformation complexes foralgebraic operads and their applications
Department of Statistics
Campbell, Kathleen, Extension of Kendall’sτ using rank-adapted SVD to identifycorrelation and factions among rankersand equivalence classes among rankedelements
Chang, Yu-Wei, Sample size determina-tion for a three-arm biosimilar trial
Fu, Min, A resampling based approach inevaluation of dose-response models
Li, Yan Yan, Extensions of D-optimalminimal designs for mixture models
Xu, Yihuan, Robust estimation of theparameters of g-and-h distributions,with applications to outlier detection
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 813
University ofPennsylvania (10)
Applied Mathematics and
Computational Science
Lu, Yichao, Fast linear algorithms formachine learning
Zhang, Anru, High-dimensional statisti-cal inference: From vector to matrix
Zhao, Fan, Inversion of the star transform
Department of Mathematics
Fagerholm, Edvard, Automated analysisin generic groups
Greenwood, Torin, Asymptotics of bivari-ate generating functions with algebraicsingularities
Li, Tong, Twisted spectral data andsingular monopole
Spaide, Ted, Shifted symplectic struc-tures on spaces of framed maps
Wharton Statistics Department
Bleich, Justin, Extensions and applica-tions of ensemble-of-trees methods inmachine learning
Kang, Hyunseung, Instrumental variablesand Mendelian randomization with in-valid instruments
Novak, Julie, Bayesian modeling of con-sumer behavior in the presence ofanonymous visits
University ofPittsburgh (33)
Department of Biostatistics
Buhule, Olive, Bayesian hierarchical jointmodeling of repeatedly measured mixedbiomarkers of disease severity andtime-to-time event
Chen, Rui, Meta-analysis framework forpeak calling by combining multipleChIP-seq algorithms and gene cluster-ing by combining multiple transcrip-tomic studies
Geng, Ming, Marginal structural Coxproportional hazards model for datawith measurement errors
Jia, Jia, Association analysis betweenbinary traits and common or raregenetic variants on family-based data
Kim, Sunghwan, Statistical learning meth-ods for multi-omics data integration indimension reduction, supervised andunsupervised machine learning
Li, Xiaoxue, Time varying coefficientmodel for gap times in ecologicalmomentary assessment data
Liao, Ge, Genome-wide power calculationand experimental design in RNA-Seqexperiment
Lin, Hui-Min, Behavior of statistics forgenetic association in a genome-widescan context
Liu, Qing, Dynamic prediction models fordata with competing risks
Lopa, Samia, Inference on quantile resid-ual life for length-biased survival data
Ogbagaber, Semhar, Hypothesis test-ing in sequentially randomized designsthrough artificial randomization
Ren, Yi, Proportional subdistribution haz-ards regression with interval-censoredcompeting risks data
Johnson, Daniel, Combinatorial and geo-metric structure in the self-assembly ofpolyhedra
Kim, Changho, Analysis and simulationof molecular systems: Memory functionapproach and uncertainty quantifica-tion
Nadkarni, Dahlia, The incidental param-eter problem in network analysis forneural spiking data
Nixon, Andrew, On numerical models ofcalcium-induced calcium release
Perdikaris, Paris, Data-driven parallel sci-entific computing: Multi-fidelity infor-mation fusion algorithms and applica-tions to physical and biological systems
Wu, Lei, From kinetic theory to fluidmechanics: Viscous surface wave andhydrodynamic limit
Zayernouri, Mohsen, Spectral and spec-tral element methods for fractionalPDEs
Zheng, Mengdi, Numerical methods forstochastic systems subject to general-ized Levy noise
Castanon, Jorge, A spectrum-based reg-ularization approach to linear inverseproblems: Models, learned parametersand algorithms
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 815
Deng, Wei, Generalizations of the alter-nating direction method of multipliersfor large-scale and distributed opti-mization
Li, Jizhou, High order discontinuousGalerkin methods for simulating mis-cible displacement process in porousmedia with a focus on minimal regular-ity
Wang, Yingpei, On the approximation ofthe Dirichlet to Neumann map for highcontrast two phase composites and itsapplications to domain decompositionmethods
Xu, Yangyang, Block coordinate updatemethod in tensor optimization
Yang, Xin, Simulation of CO2 sequestra-tion in saline aquifers using discontin-uous Galerkin method
Department of Mathematics
Cohen, David, The large scale geometryof strongly aperiodic subshifts of finitetype
Fillman, Jacob, Spectral analysis of one-dimensional operators
Kozin, Nikita, Toric fibrations and modelsof universal torsors
Li, Qiongling, Hitchin components, Rie-mannian metrics and asymptotics
Vela, Diego, Infection by a string link
Department of Statistics
Ramos, Jaime, Robust methods for fore-cast aggregation
Woroszylo, Casper, Limiting approxima-tions for stochastic processes in sys-tems biology
Zhang, Linlin, Bayesian nonparametricmodels for functional Magnetic Reso-nance Imaging (fMRI) data
Hammons, Jake Lowman, The effectsof smartpen narrated solutions setson student study routines and theirperceptions of the solution sets as ahelp resource
Schrauth, Michelle, Fostering mathemat-ical creativity in the middle grades:Pedagogical and mathematical practices
Texas Tech University (19)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Abeysundara, Hemalika, Minimum Hel-linger distance estimation of a regres-sion function in a parametric familywith a random design model
Abeysundara, Sachith, Regression splineswith free knots vs. penalized splines: Acomparative study
Athukorallage, Bhagya, Capillarity andelastic membrane theory from an en-ergy point of view
Biswas, Arunabha, Some aspects ofhigher Mahler measure
Cui, Cong, Some asymptotic results forfunctional linear regression
Dassanayake, Don Placida Amali, Localorthogonal polynomial expansion andempirical saddle-point approximationfor density estimation
Emerson, Jennifer, Fitting control theo-retic spline to very large data sets
Faucett, Jessica, Classification of localrings based on multiplicative structurein homology
Gillies, Kendall, Osculatory smoothingsplines for approximation of ordinarydifferential equations
Gunatilake, Pinnawala, Hierarchical basesand a multilevel finite element solver
Hafferkamp, Brett, Expectations and esti-mates for some conformal invariants
Kieu, Thinh, Finite element methods fornonlinear wave equations
Luo, Li, Inference for stress-strengthreliability for the Burr type X withcensored samples
Makaya, Jacob, Static and steady-statebubbles in the channel
Ogura, Masaki, Mean stability of switchedlinear systems
Pang, Yulei, Transpositions shuffling andlinear switching systems
Smith, Scott, Couple theory in stress-strength reliability estimation and in-ference: Applications to the Burr X andLomax distributions
Wijekularathna, Danush, Rank procedurefor testing linear hypotheses in re-peated measures design
University of Houston (11)
Department of Mathematics
Cho, Manki, Steklov eigenproblems andapproximations of harmonic functions
Guo, Wei, High order schemes fortransport problems: Semi-Lagrangianschemes with applications to plasmaphysics and atmospheric sciences, andsuperconvergence
Haas, John, Frame potentials and geome-try of frames
Liu, Zhuo, Mixed finite element methodswith piece-wise constant fluxes
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Nguyen, Trung, A primal-dual active setmethod and algorithm for chemicalequilibrium problems related to model-ing of atmospheric inorganic aerosols
Niu, Xiting, The dynamics of red bloodcell under the effect of shape memory
Upadhyay, Sanat, Extraction and normal-ization of directional characteristics ofimages and textures using multiscaletransforms
Whalen, Tristan, Classfication of Leavittpath algebras using algebraic K-theory
Zhang, Lan, Numerical simulation of twophase flow using the level set approach
Zhang, Licheng, Some statistical prop-erties of chaotic dynamical systems:Non-stationary central limit theoremsand extreme value theory
Zhao, Shihai, Numerical simulation ofred blood cells in capillaries
University of NorthTexas (2)
Department of Mathematics
Montgomery, Jason, Condition-dependentHilbert spaces for gradient descent andapplication to the Tricomi equation
Senadheera, Jayantha, Hermitian Jacobiforms and congruences
University of Texas atArlington (9)
Department of Mathematics
Alkhezi, Yousuf, Properties of the pinchedtensor product
Aman, Kelly, Applications of cubicalarrays in the study of finite semifields
Wei, Caimiao, Bayesian modeling ofcombined endpoints for sequentiallyadaptive design and confirmatory trialplanning
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 817
Yu, Xiaoying, A transitional model of thelongitudinal data analysis for the bi-variate binary outcome with applicationon mother’s stress and child’s illness
Zhou, Renke, Semiparametric joint mod-els for semi-competing risks data withmissing cause of informative terminalevent
UTAHBrigham YoungUniversity (1)
Department of Mathematics
Misseldine, Andrew, Algebraic and combi-natorial properties of Schur rings overcyclic groups
University of Utah (13)
Department of Mathematics
Das, Omprokash, Adjunction and inver-sion of adjunction in positive charac-teristic
Jeffries, Kenneth, Rings of invariants,F -regularity, and local cohomology
Kordy, Michal, Efficient computationalmethods for electromagnetic imagingwith applications to 3D magnetotel-lurics
Leibman, Sonya, Stability under powersof minset of hyperbolic irreducibleautomorphism
Magi, Ross, Dynamic behavior of biologi-cal membranes
Mann, Brian, Some hyperbolic Out(FN )-graphs and nonunique ergodicity ofvery small FN -trees
Martinez, Christian, Some birational ge-ometric aspects of moduli spaces ofsheaves on surfaces via Bridgelandwall-crossing
Rice, Greg, Roles for ubiquitin and dimen-sional dependence in protein regulation
Thaler, Andrew, Bounds on the volumeof an inclusion in a body and cloakingdue to anomalous localized resonance
Wang, Jia, Change point analysis of paneldata
Watanobe, Yohsuke, Weak tight geodesicsin the curve complex
Zwick, Patrick, Variations on a theme ofsymmetric tropical matrices
VERMONTUniversity of Vermont (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Allgaier, Nicholas, Reverse engineeringthe human brain. An evolutionary com-putation approach to the analysis offMRI
Pechenick, Eitan, Exploring the Googlebooks corpus: An information-theoreticapproach to linguistic evolution
Williams, Jake, Lexical mechanics: Parti-tions, mixtures, and context
VIRGINIAGeorge MasonUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Crone, Michael, Dynamics of harvestedresources, with emphasis on commer-cially exploited fisheries
Schmidt, Amy, Properties of rings and ofring extensions invariant under groupaction
Department of Statistics
Cao, Xin, Inference for age-dependentbranching process and their applica-tions
Heim, Krista, Visualization and model-ing for crime data indexed by roadsegments
Miao, Zhuang, Within-cluster resamplingmethods for clustered receiver operat-ing characteristic (ROC) data
Weko, Charles, Network inference fromgrouped data
Old DominionUniversity (3)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Harris, Charles, Uniform l1 behaviorof a time discretization method fora Volterra integrodifferential equationwith convex kernel; duality of the weakparallelogram laws on Banach spaces
Sengupta, Pooja, Bivariate doubly inflatedPoisson and related regression models
Viswakula, Sameera, Zero-inflated mod-els to identify transcription factor bind-ing sites in ChIP-Seq experiments
University of Virginia (8)
Department of Mathematics
Banerjee, Arindam, Castelnuovo-Mumfordregularity and edge ideals
Bao, Huanchen, Canonical bases arisingfrom quantum symmetric pairs andKazhdan-Lusztig theory
Nessler, Reed, Simple connectivity inpolar spaces with group-theoretic ap-plications
Remine, Daniel, Analysis and computa-tional fluid dynamics for the stabi-lization and control of 3-dimensionalNavier-Stokes fluid channel flows by awall-normal boundary controller
Smirnov, Ilya, Uniform convergence meth-ods in Hilbert-Kunz theory
Spencer, Julia, Min-max game theory forthe linearized Navier-Stokes equationswith internal localized control anddistributed disturbance
Department of Statistics
Tait, Christopher, Early-phase dose-findingdesigns for bivariate outcomes
Wu, Jingwei, High-dimensional ordinarydifferential equation models for con-nectivity studies
Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, School ofMedicine (4)
Department of Biostatistics
Galadima, Hadiza Issaka, Controllingfor confounding when association isquantified by area under the ROC curve
Haynes, Mary, Incorporating dependenceboundaries in simulating associateddiscrete data
Manser, Paul, Methods for integrativeanalysis of genomic data
Ren, Chunfeng, Latent variable modelsgiven incompletely observed surrogateoutcomes and covariates
Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (17)
Maia, Pedro, Mathematical modeling offocal axonal swellings arising in trau-matic brain injuries and neurodegener-ative diseases
Trichtchenko, Olga, On the instability ofwater waves with surface tension
Department of Biostatistics
Bergen, Silas, Spatial measurement errormethods in air pollution epidemiology
Coley, Rebecca Yates, Bayesian hierarchi-cal frailty models for heterogeneity inrisk
Conomos, Matthew, Inferring, estimating,and accounting for population andpedigree structure in genetic analyses
Fu, Rong, Joint modeling of survivaland longitudinal data measured witherror, with application to assessingimmune correlates of protection invaccine efficacy trials
Hanscom, Brett, Biostatistical methodsfor HIV monitoring and prevention
Hu, Jie, A Z-estimation system for two-phase sampling with applications toadditive hazards models and epidemio-logic studies
Skrivankova, Veronika, Methods for es-timation and evaluation of marker-guided treatment rules based on multi-variate marker panels
Smith, Megan, Methods for the predictionof endpoint-occurrence times in clinicaltrials
Yee, Laura, Survival analysis methods forrecurrent medical cost data
Zhang, Rui, Marginalizable mixed effectsmodels for clustered binary, categoricaland survival data
Zhao, Wei, On estimation of time-varyingpopulation attributable fraction forpopulation-based case-control studies
Department of Mathematics
An, Yajun, Finite-difference methods forsecond-order wave equations with re-duced dispersion errors
Aponte Roman, Camil, Graded groupschemes
Barnes, Joel, Conformal welding of uni-form random trees
Caday, Peter, On numerics and inverseproblems
Chiecchio, Alberto, Towards a non-Q-Gorenstein minimal model program
Erickson, Lindsay, Deformation invari-ance of rational pairs
Jordan-Squire, Christopher, Convex opti-mization over probability measures
Lai, Ru-Yu, Inverse problems for scalarelliptic equations and systems
Lewis, Stephen, Local set approximation:Infinitesimal to local theorems andapplications
Marinov, Kaloyan, Inverse boundary-value problems on an infinite slab
Pawlowski, Brendan, Permutation dia-grams in symmetric function theoryand Schubert calculus
Robinson, Richard, The positive semidef-inite rank of matrices and polytopes
Sarantsev, Andrey, Competing Brownianparticles
Spicer, Simon, The zeros of elliptic curveL-functions: Analytic algorithms withexplicit time complexity
Tadic, Tvrtko, Time-like graphical modelsWang, Xingting, Classification of con-
nected Hopf algebras up to prime-cubedimension
Yang, Yang, Three elliptic inverse prob-lems
Zsamboki, Pal, Toward the compactifica-tion of the stack of Lie(G)-forms usingperfect complexes
Department of Statistics
Gerard, David, Theory and methods fortensor data
Kappedal, Ryan, Gravimetric anomalydetection using compressed sensing
Koepke, Amanda, Predictive modeling ofcholera outbreaks in Bangladesh
Li, Ke (Kirk), Degeneracy, duration,and co-evolution: Extending exponen-tial random graph models (ERGM) forsocial network analysis
Sharkansky, Stefan, Discrete-time thresh-old regression for survival data withtime-dependent covariates
Xu, Lei, R-squared inference under non-normal error
Washington StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Balmer, Elizabeth, Applications of gen-eralized Laplacian matrices in graphtiling
Ho, Lam, Asymptotics of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck tree models: Theory andcomputation
Korthauer, Keegan, Bayesian hierarchicalmodeling of high-throughput genomicdata with applications to cancer bioin-formatics and stem cell differentiation
Kwak, Il Youp, Regression-based methodsto map quantitative trait loci underlyingfunction-valued phenotypes
Leng, Ning, Statistical methods for reli-able inference in RNA-seq experimentsto facilitate regenerative medicine