Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2016–2017 ALABAMA Auburn University (13) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Barnett, Johnathan, The fractional chro- matic number and the Hall ratio Costa Lima, Italo Raony, Robust simul- taneous inference for functional data analysis Denu, Dawit, Analysis of stochastic vec- tor host epidemic model with direct transmission Ghimire, Prakash, Derivations of the Lie algebra of strictly upper triangular matrices and dominate upper triangular ladder matricies Hollis, Daniel, Disjoint G-designs and the intersection for some seven edge graphs James, Daniel, Isomorphic Ext functors of torsion-free finite rank modules over a Dedekind domain Kermausuor, Seth, Atomic characteriza- trion of L 1 and the Lorentz–Bochner space L X (p, 1) for 1 ≤ p< ∞ with some applications Krizan, Christopher, Euclidean Szlam numbers Liphan, David, Compactifications of in- decomposable topological spaces Perry, Katherine, Rainbow trees in edge- colored complete graphs and block decompositions of almost complete graphs Weerasinghe, Kariyawasam, Convergence analysis and numerical simulation of particle swarm optimization Wu, Hao, Mathematical and numerical analysis for linear peridynamic bound- ary valve problems Yucel, Ahmet, Machine learning tech- niques for text classification University of Alabama (7) Department of Mathematics Al-Jahdaly, Noufe, Linear and nonlinear convection in an infinitely high cavity in the presence of rotation The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients of doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017) reported in the 2018 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences by 275 departments in 202 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. Cui, Wei, Fractional Brownian motion and managing risk with short-term futures contracts Hoang, Cong, Sparse technology in weighted harmonic analysis Liu, Veny, Free inverse semigroupoids and their inverse subsemigroupoids Sandor, Bryan, On finitely generated nilpotent groups and their subgroups Vo, Huy, Krylov approximations and model reduction methods for the chem- ical master equation Watley, Laura Erin, Structural validity and reliability of two observation protocols in college mathematics University of Alabama at Birmingham (7) Department of Biostatistics Venturi, Yogasudha, Methods for the analysis of genetic differences in eth- nicity and sex for complex human traits Zhang, Xinyan, Statistical methods in cancer survival prediction and micro- biome data analysis Department of Mathematics Abdul-Rahman, Houssam, Entanglement in disordered quantum XY chains Antwi-Fordjour, Kwadwo, Pattern forma- tion and semilinear evolution equations in function spaces Kim, Seonguk, Perturbation formulas for Gross-Pitaevskii equation with periodic potential Mann, Ivan, A metrically defined uni- formization map of planar domains Moxley, Caleb, Homotopical complexity of several billiard models University of Alabama–Huntsville (1) Department of Mathematical Sciences Li, Yang, Discrete-time structured mod- els and their dynamics for interactive wild and sterile mosquitos malaria transmission University of Alabama (1) Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science Zhu, Xuwen, The development of diag- nostic tools for mixture modeling and model-based clustering ARKANSAS University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (3) Department of Mathematical Sciences Ding, Chao, Construction of confor- mally invariant operators in higher spin spaces Dutta, Arnab, On compactness and close- rangeness of composition operators Juda, Daniel, On rings of invariants for cyclic p-groups ARIZONA Arizona State University (16) Mathematics, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center Chowell, Diego, Mathematical and com- putational models of cancer and the immune system Mamada, Robert, Potential games and competition in the supply of natural resources Udiani, Oyita, A novel approach to study task organization in animal groups School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Al-Suleiman, Sultan, Toward enumerating the chains of maximum length of Cambrian and m-eralized Cambrian lattices Byerley, Cameron, Secondary teachers’ and calculus students’ meanings for fraction, measure, and rate of change SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 969
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Doctoral Degrees Conferred2016–2017
ALABAMA
Auburn University (13)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Barnett, Johnathan, The fractional chro-matic number and the Hall ratio
Costa Lima, Italo Raony, Robust simul-taneous inference for functional dataanalysis
Denu, Dawit, Analysis of stochastic vec-tor host epidemic model with directtransmission
Ghimire, Prakash, Derivations of theLie algebra of strictly upper triangularmatrices and dominate upper triangularladder matricies
Hollis, Daniel, Disjoint G-designs andthe intersection for some seven edgegraphs
Kermausuor, Seth, Atomic characteriza-trion of L1 and the Lorentz–Bochnerspace LX (p,1) for 1 ≤ p <∞ with someapplications
Krizan, Christopher, Euclidean Szlamnumbers
Liphan, David, Compactifications of in-decomposable topological spaces
Perry, Katherine, Rainbow trees in edge-colored complete graphs and blockdecompositions of almost completegraphs
Weerasinghe, Kariyawasam, Convergenceanalysis and numerical simulation ofparticle swarm optimization
Wu, Hao, Mathematical and numericalanalysis for linear peridynamic bound-ary valve problems
Yucel, Ahmet, Machine learning tech-niques for text classification
University of Alabama (7)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Jahdaly, Noufe, Linear and nonlinearconvection in an infinitely high cavityin the presence of rotation
The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2016, to June 30,2017) reported in the 2018 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 275 departments in 202 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.
Cui, Wei, Fractional Brownian motion andmanaging risk with short-term futurescontracts
Zhelezov, Gleb, Coalescing particle sys-tems. Applications to nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations
Program in Applied Mathematics
Borghese, Michael, A proof of the solitonresolution conjecture for the focusingnonlinear Schrodinger equation
Burton, Jackson, Theoretical models fordrug delivery to solid tumors
Leach, Andrew, Monte Carlo methods forstochastic differential equations andtheir applications
Ragsdale, Aaron, Multi-allele populationgenomics for inference of demographyand natural selection
Veprauskas, Amy, On the dynamic di-chotomy between positive equilibriaand synchronous 2-cycles in matrixpopulation models
Young, Alex, Three essays on complexsystems
Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
in Statistics
Bear, John, A logistic normal mixturemodel for compostitions with essentialzeros
Fang, Fang, Modern econometric tech-niques applied to three essays in spatialeconomics
Schissler, Alfred, Contributions to geneset analysis of correlated, paired-sample transcriptome data to enableprecision medicine
Zeng, Yue, Variable screening in multi-category classification for ultra-highdimensional data
CALIFORNIA
California Institute ofTechnology (4)
Department of Computing and
Mathematical Sciences
Bruer, John, Recovering structured low-rank operators using nuclear norms
Chen, Yuhua, Concentration inequalitiesof random matrices and solving pty-chography with a convex relaxation
Perez Arancibia, Carlos, Windowed inte-gral equation methods for problems ofscattering by defects and obstacles inlayered media
Zhang, Pengchuan, Compressing positivesemidefinite operators with sparse/local-ized bases
Claremont GraduateUniversity (15)
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Babakhani, Behrouz, Novel microstrippatch antennas with frequency agility,polarization reconfigurability, dual nullsteering capability and phased array an-tenna with beam steering performance
Berardi, Vincent, Analytic framework forthe design, implementation, and anal-ysis of dynamic, and real-time healthinterventions
Campbell, Karen, SEIRscape, an agent-based mosquito-human virus basis ofDengue risk across Peru and Thailand
Denaro, Kameryn, Quantifying diseaseseverity of cystic fibrosis using linearquantile mixed models
Flenner, Jennifer, Deep non-negative ma-trix factorization
Jin, Sixian, Martingale representation the-orems based on Malliavin calculus
Leung, Kimberly, Stochastic models forprecipitable water in convection
Paluri, Seethal, Cross-layer schemes forenhancing H.264/AVC video qualityover wireless channels
Raman, Saravana, Simulation of plethys-mographic environment in pulmonaryfunction studies
Rossi, Julia, Non-conservative variationalapproximation for nonlinear Schrodingerequations and its applications
Silva, Genivaldo, Who is there and whatare they doing? An agile and computa-tionally efficient framework for genomediscovery and annotation from metage-nomic big data
Woolf, Tina, Practical compressed sensing
Xu, Qian, Generalized varying-coefficientmixed models with missing data andsurrogate information
Zablocki, Rong, Large-scale inference in-corporating covariates and network de-pendence with application to genome-wide association studies
Zhou, Deng, I/O stade optimization fornon-volatile memory based storage sys-tems
Stanford University (20)
Department of Mathematics
Booher, Jeremy, Geometric deformationsof orthogonal and symplectic Galoisrepresentations
Brady, Zarathustra, Sieves and iterationrules
Buciumas, Valentin, Quantum groups andthe Yang Baxter equation
Diao, Peter, Differential calculus ongraphon space and statistical appli-cations of graph limit theory
Florea, Alexandra, Moments and zeros ofL functions over function fields
Gao, Jun, The front asymptotics for thenon local KPP equation
Greer, Francois, Modular forms in enu-merative geometry
Jafarov, Jafar, Loop equations and stringdualities in lattice gauge theories
Lawrence, Brian, Two results on periodmaps
Makisumi, Shotaro, Modular Koszdul du-ality for Soergel bimodules
Mantoulidis, Christos, Geometric varia-tional problems in mathematical physics
Montague, David, Covariance estimationand graphical models for infinite col-lections of random variables
Ren, Weilvo, Two models on limit ordertrading
Ronchetti, Nicolo, On the mod p derivedHecke algebra of a p adic group
Shabani, Beniada, Propogation in multidimensional Fisher KPP equations
Siegel, Kyler, New constructions andcomputations on rigid and flexiblesymplectic geometry and applicationsto several complex variables
Siu, Ho Chung, Valve distribution ofautomorphic forms in a family
Thorvaldsson, Sverrir, Boundary fibra-tion structures and quasi homogeneousgeometries
Tripathy, Arnav, The symmetric powerand etale realization functors commute
Kim, Eugenia, Numerical methods for theLandau–Lifshitz equation in micromag-netics: The mimetic finite differencemethod and the mass-lumped finiteelement method
Liu, Weihua, Noncommutative distribu-tional symmetries and their related deFinetti type theorems
Park, Doosung, Triangulated categoriesof motives over fs log schemes
Policastro, Christopher, Integral estimatesfor approximations by incompressibledeformations
Rosu, Eugenia, Integers that can bewritten as the sum of two rationalcubes
Schrader, Gus, Quantum groups, charac-ter varieties and integrable systems
Tsukerman, Emmanuel, Combinatorialanalysis of continuous problems
Vasquez, Markus, Essays in mathematicaleconomics
Voellmer, Andreas, A partial characteri-zation of �κ for plus-one premice
Wan, Michael, Towards a model theory ofalmost complex manifolds
Wells, Christopher, Methods for optimalstochastic control and optimal stoppingproblems featuring time-inconsistency
Department of Statistics
Hermon, Jonathan, Maximal inequalitiesand mixing times
Ho, Christine, Statistical modeling andanalysis for biomedical applications
Li, Xiang, Inference on graphs: Fromprobability methods to deep neuralnetworks
Regier, Jeffrey, Topics in large-scale sta-tistical inference
Tang, Wenpin, Continuous paths in Brow-nian motion and related problems
Terhorst, Jonathan, Demographic infer-ence from large samples: Theory andmethods
Aralis, Hilary, Modeling multistate mod-els with back transitions: Statisticalchallenges and applications
Malazarte Antonio, Anna Liza, The good,the bad and the fitting: A Bayesianhierarchical model for patient prefer-ences elicited through discrete choiceexperiments
Department of Mathematics
Bobkov, Anton, Computations of Vapnik–Chervonenkis density in various model-theoretic structures
Charlesworth, Ian, On bi-free probabilityand free entropy
Charlie, Marshak, Applications of net-work science to criminal networks,university education, and ecology
Chongchitmate, Wutichai, New modelsfor multi-party computation
Cook, Nicholas, Spectral properties ofnon-Hermitian random matrices
Marrinan, Timothy, Grassmann, Flag, andSchubert varieties in applications
University of Colorado,Boulder (10)
Department of Applied Mathematics
Jennings, Dale, Advances in MCMC meth-ods with applications to particle filter-ing, DSMC and Bayesian networks
Martin, Bradley, Application of RBF-FD towave and heat transport problems indomains with interfaces
Mirzaev, Inomzhon, Analytical and nu-merical investigation of long term be-havior of microbial flocculation equa-tions
Sturdevant, Benjamin, Fully kinetic ionmodels for magnetized plasma simula-tions
Department of Mathematics
Chhay, Boramey, Euler-Arnold equationson the group of contactomorphismsand Teichmuller theory
Krupa, Matthew, Differential geometry ofprojective limits of manifolds
Moorhead, Andrew, Higher commutatortheory for congruence modular vari-eties
Parker, Keli, Semistable modular com-pactifications of moduli spaces of genusone curves
Smith, Kathleen, On minimum varianceunbiased estimation of a power of anunknown scalar or matrix
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Washabaugh, Pearce, The diffeomor-phism group approach to vorticitymodel equations
University of ColoradoAnschutz MedicalCampus (1)
Department of Biostatistics and
Informatics
DeWitt, Peter, Parsimonious B-Spline re-gression models via control polygonand control net reduction for identify-ing factors explaining variation in dailyhormone profile during the menopausaltransition
University of Denver (3)
Department of Mathematics
Aguilar, Konrad, Quantum metrics on ap-proximately finite-dimensional algebras
Al-Ali, Masoumah, Z2-orbifolds of affinevertex algebras and W -algebras
Giron Garnica, Gabriel, Banach spacesfrom barriers in high dimensional El-lentuck spaces
University of NorthernColorado (1)
School of Mathematical Sciences
King, Jeffrey, Students social adaptationto mathematical tasks
CONNECTICUT
University of Connecticut,Storrs (20)
Department of Mathematics
Andrews, Ulysses, Existence of diffusionsof 4N carpets
Arthur, Frank, Liouville-type theoremsfor higher order elliptic systems
Brzoska, Antoni, Spectral properties ofthe Hata tree
Chou, Michael, Torsion of rational ellipticcurves over Abelian extensions of Q
Corekli, Cagnur, Finite element methodsof Dirichlet boundary optimal controlproblems with weakly imposed bound-ary conditions
Joseph, Michael, Toggling involutions andhomomesies for maps on finite sets,noncrossing partitions, and indepen-dent sets of path graphs
Miller, David J, Fast algorithms for struc-tured matrices and Laurent polynomials
Niu, Gao, Actuarial application of agentbased modeling
Ou, Tze-Chun, Irreducible modules overKLR algebras of twisted affine type
Ramli, Rozita, Generalized linear modelapproach to adjusting expected as-sumptions of long-term care incidencerates
Shum, Fan Ny, Stabilization by noise ofsystems of complex-valued ODEs
Stahl, Rachel, Computability theoreticresults for the game of cops androbbers on infinite graphs
Xhumari, Sandi, Generalizedp-adic Gausssums
Zito, Stephen, Modules from tilted tocluster-titled algebras
Department of Statistics
Bader, Brian, Automatic, efficient, andpractical extreme value analysis withenvironmental applications
Ward, Larie, Shift operators on Hilbertspaces arising from trees
Zhang, Hao, Modeling and algorithm ofinformation sharing in inverse problem
Department of Statistics
Abrahamsen, Tavis, Convergence anal-ysis of MCMC samplers for Bayesianlinear mixed models with P > N
Feng, Wei, Models for the analysis ofrepeated attempt designs
Ha, Trung, Convergence analysis of birth-death Markov chains and Gibbs sam-plers
Parker, Robert, Some strong and weaklimit theorems for double sums ofrandom elements in branch spaces
Saha, Abhishek, Bayesian inference inGaussian graphical models when theunderlying graph is non-decomposable
Wang, Chuan, Contributions to Bayesianstatistical methods for agricultural andbiological engineering
Xiang, Ruoxuan, Consistency of highdimensional Bayesian models
Xu, Dandan, Bayesian nonparametricmethods for analysis of electronichealth records
Zhong, Xiaolong, Essays on empiricallikelihood
Zhu, Guangyu, Likelihood based partialleast squares
University of FloridaCollege of PublicHealth (4)
Department of Biostatistics
An, Qi, Optimal group sequential designs
Jingnan, Zhang, An early warning systemfor modeling and monitoring spatio-temporal pattern of infectious disease
Li, Yang, Population-based unified curerate model and population-based Gom-pertz cure rate model
Xinrui, Zhang, Internal pilots with theunivariate approach to repeated mea-sures
University of Miami (2)
Department of Mathematics
Cardona Caviria, Jorge, On statisticalsolutions of evolution equations
Langdon, Christopher, Symmetric 1-twisteddifferentials and the quadric algebra
University of SouthFlorida (11)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Assonken Tonfack, Patrick, Modeling infinance and insurance with Levy-Itodriven dynamic processes under semiMarkov-type switching regimes andtime domans
Enriquez-Savery, Sherlene, Statistical anal-ysis of a risk factor in finance andenvironmental models for Belize
Fleeman, Matthew, Putnam’s inequalityand analytic content in the Bergmanspace
Hilton, Kristina, Dynamics of multicul-tural social networks
Kim, Doo Young, Statistical modeling ofcarbon dioxide and cluster analysis oftime dependent information
Lappano, Stephen, Some results concern-ing permutation polynomials over finitefields
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Manukure, Solomon, Hamiltonian for-mulations and symmetry constraints ofSoliton hierarchies of (1+1)-dimensionalnonlinear evolution equations
Tharu, Bhikari, Statistical analysis andmodeling health data: A longitudinalstudy
Tu, Junyi, Global attractors and randomattractors of reaction diffusion systems
Wang, Xing, Time dependent kernel den-sity estimation: A new parameter esti-mation algorithm, applications in timeseries classification and clustering
Zoalroshd, Seyed, On spectral propertiesof single layer potentials
GEORGIA
Augusta University (3)
Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Chen, Chen-Chun, Classification methodsfor circular-linear data using periodicfunctions
Hu, Fengjiao, Statistical methods to de-tect differentially methylated regionswith next generation sequencing data
Jin, Chan, A new method for analyzing1 : N matched case control studies withincomplete data
Emory University (11)
Department of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics
Alhanti, Brooke, Methods for estimatingthe effects of air pollution on asthmaunder a changing climate
Jiang, Yunxuan, Statistical methods forrare-variant sequencing studies in pedi-grees
Kemmer, Phebe, Statistical approachesfor exploring brain connectivity withmultimodal neuroimaging data
Wang, Lijia, Composite conditional likeli-hood
Watson, Dominque, Robust statisticalmethods for handling missing data
Yang, Jing, Flexible association methodsfor bivariate survival data
Mathematics and Computer Science
Department
Chen, Isabel, Centrality measures andcontagion and temporal networks
Fuller, Jessica, On saturation spectrum
Gordon-Sarney, Reed, Zero-cycles on Tor-sars under linear algebraic groups
Kay, William, Extremal problems forgraphs and hypergraphs
Shi, Huiqiang, Harmonic measure, re-duced extremal length and quasi circles
Georgia Institute ofTechnology (5)
School of Mathematics
Cohen, Emma, Problems in Catalan mix-ing and matchings in regular hyper-graphs
Conway, James, Transverse surgery onknots in contact three-manifolds
He, Dawei, Special TK5 in graphs con-taining K4-
Mou, Chenchen, Uniqueness, existence,and regularity of solutions of integro-PDEs in domans if Rn
Xia, Dong, Statistical inference for largematrices
Georgia StateUniversity (11)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
An, Yueheng, Novel nonparametric meth-ods for ROC curves
Gao, Wei, Minimum ranks and refinedinertias of sign pattern matrices
Hora, Israel, Estimation of county leveldiabetes prevalence using Bayesian hi-erarchical model
Jeyarajah, Jenny, Constructing empiri-cal likelihood confidence intervals formedical cost data with censored obser-vations
Li, Chenxue, Some novel statistical infer-ences
Mullins, Paula, A mathematical modelfor beta1-adrenergic regulation of themouse ventricular myocyte contraction
Rozier, Kelvin, A mathematical modelof the combined β1- and β2- adren-ergic signaling system in the mouseventricular myocyte
Wang, Jing, Functional principal compo-nent analysis for discretely observedfunctional data and Sparse Fisher’sdisciminant analysis with thresholdedlinear constraints
Xia, Jun, Statistical models and analysisof growth processes in biological tissue
Yates, Amy, Intersection of longest pathsin graph theory and predicting perfor-mance in facial recognition
Zhang, Jiehuan, Analysis of travelingwave propagation in one-dimensionalintegrate-and-fire neural networks
University of Georgia (14)
Department of Mathematics
Bonsignore, Brian, Cohomological n-equivalence in differential graded al-gebras
Chapman, Harrison, A diagrammatic the-ory of random knots
Sievert, Carson Paul, Interfacing R withweb technologies for interactive sta-tistical graphics and computing withdata
Trujillo Rivera, Eduardo, Non parametricregression models with and withoutmeasurement error in the covariates,for univariate and vector responses: ABayesian approach
Xu, Yuhang, Selected topics in measure-ment error and functional data analysis
Yang, Yueran, To deny or confess: Aninterrogation decision-making model
Yin, Xin, Porbabilistic Methods for qual-ity improvement in high through putsequencing data
Zhang, Wei, Inference based on data fromsuperpositions of identical renewal pro-cesses
University of Iowa (33)
Applied Mathematical and
Computational Sciences
Ambrose, Joseph, Dynamic field theoryapplied to fMRI signal analysis
Barela, Mario, A complimentarity ap-proach to modeling dynamic electriccircuits
Dill, Benjamin, Numerical simulation ofthe impact of a steel ball with a rigidfoundation
Hu, Nan, A unified discrepancy-basedapproach for balancing efficiency androbustness in state-space modeling es-timation, selection, and diagnosis
Landgren, Jeffrey, An acoustic eigen-value problem and its application toelectrochemistry
Michlin, Tracie, Using wavelet bases toseparate scales in quantum field theory
Ongie, Gregory, Off-the-grid compressiveimaging
Richmond, Nathaniel, On stochastic net-work design: Modeling approaches andsolution techniques
Valeva, Silviya, Workforce and inventorymanagement under uncertain demand
Walk, Julia, A mathematical model of theeffects of multiple myeloma on renalfunction
Yang, Kai, Dynamics of energy criticalnonlinear Schrodinger equation withinverse square potential
Zhao, Ze, Stochastic volatility modelswith applications in finance
Department of Biostatistics
Deonovic, Benjamin E, MCMC samplingmethods for binary variables with ap-plication to Haplotype phasing allelespecific expression
Pagan-Rivera, Keyla, A Bayesian correc-tion for measurement error in pooledstudies of residential radon and lungcancer
Wu, Hongqian, Proportional likelihoodratio model for longitudinal discreteinterval data
Yu, Lixi, Regularized efficient score esti-mation and testing (RESET) approach inlow-dimensional and high-dimensionalGLM
Department of Mathematics
Abdulwahid, Adnan, Cofree objects inthe categories of comonoids in certainAbelian monoidal categories
Almodovar Velazquez, Leyda, Studyingbrain networks via topological dataanalysis and hierarchical clustering
Bates, Dana, On a free boundary problemfor ideal viscons and heat conductinggas flow
Druivenga, Nathan, Quantum topologyand me
Gerstle, Kevin, On the green rings ofpointed, coserial Hopf algebras
Griesenauer, Erin, Algebras of cross sec-tions
Ligo, Richard, Conformal transforma-tions, curvature, and energy
Yoo, Philsang, Langlands duality andquantum field theory
Zhou, Peng, From Lagrangian thimbles toconstructible sheaves
Department of Engineering Science
and Applied Mathematics
Jiang, Zuo, Nonlocal effects of interspe-cific prey competition on the stabilityof predator-prey equilibria
Kimmel, Gregory, Transport propertiesof superconductors using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation:Analytical solutions, numerical meth-ods and optimization
Park, Paul, Mixing with piecewise isome-tries
Southern IllinoisUniversity Carbondale (4)
Department of Mathematics
Adhikari, Kamal Mani, Realizations ofsimple smale flows on three-manifolds
Al-Hashimi, Ghazwan Mohammed, A zetafunction for flows with L (-1,-1) template
Morris, Sarah, Methods for determiningtime to return to play after recreationalinjury in field and court sport athletes
Smith, Rachel, Exploration of the misuse,abuse, and diversion of Gabapentin
Starnes, Catherine, Evaluating a by-stander intervention program on repro-ductive coercion: Using quasi-experi-mental design strategies to addressmethodologic issues in randomizedcommunity prevention trials
Timsina, Lava, Examining the activities,effectiveness, and contribution of lo-cal public health departments using anational longitudinal survey of publichealth systems
Department of Mathematics
Barnard, Kristen, Some take-away gameson discrete structures
Croyle, Laura, Solutions to the Lp mixedboundary value problem in C1,1 do-mains
Gu, Shu, Homogenization of Stokes sys-tems with periodic coefficients
Harney, Isaiah, Colorings of Hamming-distance graphs
Hedmark, Dustin, The partition lattice inmany guises
Hough, Wesley, On independence, match-ing, and homomorphism complexes
Lindgren, Joseph, Orbital stabilty re-sults for soliton solutions to non-linearSchrodinger equations with externalpotentials
Mosley, John, In search of a class ofrepresentatives for SU -cobordism usingthe Witten genus
Music, Michael, Inverse scattering for thezero-energy Novikov-Veselov equation
Schreffler, Morgan, Approximation of so-lutions to the mixed Dirichlet-Neumannboundary value problem on Lipschitzdomains
Sordo Vieira, Luis, On p-adic fields andp-groups
Wolf, Robert, Compactness of isoresonantpotentials
Yaowei, Zhang, The Bourgain spacesand recovery of magnetic and electricpotentials of Schrodinger operators
Zhai, Yi, Optimal designs for some dose-response models
Louisiana TechUniversity (5)
Program of Mathematics and
Statistics
Adkinson, Joshua, Generalized partialdirected coherence and centrality mea-sures in brain networks for epilepto-genic focus localization
Blazek, Sara, A study of mathematicsacheivement, placement, and gradua-tion of engineering students
McAdams, Stacey, Embedding orientedgraphs in books
Orndorff, Casey, Thermal analysis ina triple-layered skin structure withembedded vasculature, tumor, and goldnanoshells
Zhang, Sui, An improved imaging methodfor extended targets
Tulane University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Beyarslan, Selvi, Regularity of powers ofedge ideals
Guan, Xiao, Methods in symbolic compu-tation and p-adic valuations of polyno-mials
Karakoc, Selcuk, On minimum area ho-motopies
Mannan, Forest, Singly-periodic stokesflow near a plane wall and the simula-tion of cilia
Zhang, Kui, A symptotic theory forthe statistical analysis of anomalousdiffusion in single particle trackingexperiments
University of Louisiana atLafayette (3)
Department of Mathematics
Guilbeau, Jared Thomas, A vector parallelbranch and bound algorithm
Robin, Tracy James, Density of a normalsubgroup of the invertibles in certainmultiplier algebras
Wang, Xiao, Inferences on gamma dis-tributions: Uncensored and censoredcases
MARYLAND
Johns HopkinsUniversity (8)
Department of Biostatistics
Bai, Jiawei, Statistical methods for wear-able devices with applications to epi-demiological studies
Cai, Qing, Joint modeling and estima-tion for recurrent events, longitudinalmeasurements and survival data
Charu, Vivek, Statistical methods andapplications in medicine and publichealth
He, Bing, FCAT: A flexible classificationtoolbox for signal detection in high-throughput sequencing data
Kim, Jeongyong, Statistical methods formultivariate failure-time data undercompeting risks
Qian, Tianchen, Semiparametric estima-tion in observational studies and ran-domized trials
Usher, Therri, Likelihood-based methodsof mediation analysis in the context ofhealth disparities
Xu, Yuting, Dynamic functional connec-tivity in functional magnetic resonanceimaging data
Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore (4)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics
Chen, Min, Capturing volatility smileswith a perpetual leverage model and itsimplications to fund overlay designs
Paat, Joseph, On the development ofcut-generating functions
Department of Mathematics
Cattell, Stephen, A completion of domi-nant k-theory
Su, Chenyang, Starshaped locally convexhypersurfaces with prescribed curva-ture and boundary
University of Maryland,Baltimore County (13)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Albertine, April, Statistical meta-analysismethods for publication bias, effectsize estimation, and synthetic data
Barouti, Maria, Clustering for monitoringdistributed data streams
Bastero, Rowena, A swapping method andexploratory analysis for average treat-ment effect estimation based on partialbalancing and simultaneous inferenceof regression models
Carey, Bryce, Developing a computa-tional model of neural networks into alearning machine
Enserro, Danielle, Measures of discrimi-nation, reclassification, and calibrationfor risk prediction models: An explo-ration in their interrelationships andpractical utility and improvement intheir estimation
Kane, Elizabeth, Evaluating multiple im-putation methods for longitudinal healthyaging index: A score variable with datamissing due to death, dropout, andseveral missing data mechanisms
Manimaran, Solaiappan, Statistical meth-ods for analyzing data with applicationsin modern biomedical analysis and per-sonalized medicine
McIntosh, Avery, Extensions to Bayesiangeneralized linear mixed effects modelsfor household Tuberculosis transmis-sion
Perez, Jeremiah, Assessing non-inferiorityversus risk difference in one-to-manypropensity-score matched studies
Shappell, Heather, Methods for longi-tudinal complex network analysis inneuroscience
Brandeis University (5)
Department of Mathematics
Raoux, Katherine, Tau-invariants forknots in rational homology spheres
Tirrell, Jordan, Orthogonal polynomials,lattice paths, and skew Young tableaux
Wong, Bi Ji, Torsion invariants of 3-orbifolds, equivarienat corks and Hee-gard Floer homology
Zhao, Xi, Application of lattice pointscounting to shrinking target problems
Harvard UniversitySchool of Public Health (13)
Department of Biostatistics
Anoke, Sarah, Practicable characteriza-tion of systematic heterogeneity
Barfield, Richard, Statistical methods foranalysis of genetic and genomic data inpopulation science
Chen, Sixing, Hypothesis testing andmodel selection for complex data
Du, Ye Ting, Adjustment for populationstatification in sequencing associationstudies and model averaged matchingestimator
Evans, Katherine, Contributions to semi-parametric methods for incompletedata
Gronsbell, Jessica, Robust and efficientmachine learning methods for the anal-ysis of electronic medical records data
Liu, Shelley Han, Statistical methods forestimating the effects of multi-pollutantexposures in children’s health research
Mattie, Heather, On the estimation andprediction of tie strength in socialnetworks
McIntosh Nurse, Christina, An analysis ofusing pedigrees in family based studiesand an exploration of cancer risk andcancer resistance using twin studies
Ren, Boyu, Bayesian statistical frameworkfor high-dimensional count data and itsapplication in microbiome studies
Schlauch, Daniel, Methods for estimatinghidden structure and network transi-tions in genomics
Sun, Ryan, Methods for high-dimensionalinference in genetic association studies
Zheng, Yu Evelyn, Efficient assessmentof individualized disease risk and treat-ment response via augmentation
Harvard University (19)
Department of Mathematics
Brantner, David, The Lubin-Tate theoryof spectral lie algebras
Knight, Erick, A p-adic Jacquet-Langlandscorrespondence
Lovering, Thomas, Integral canonicalmodels for G-bundles on Shimura vari-eties of abelian type
Mathew, Akhil, Nilpotence and descent instable homotopy theory
He, Chou, Localization of certain torusactions on odd-dimensional manifoldsand its applications
Hodges, Reuveu, Schubert singularitiesand Levi subgroup actions on Schubertvarieties
Rangachev, Antoni, Local volumes, inte-gral closures, and equisingularity
Rodriguez, Jose Simental, On Harish-Chandra bimodules for rational Chered-nik algebras
Seal, Gouri, Two contributions in topol-ogy and geometry: Polynomial assign-ments for Bott-Samelson manifolds andthe triple reduced product and Hamil-tonian flows
Zhang, Liwei, Application of statisticsin side channel information leakageanalysis modeling, metric, detectiontesting
Zhang, Tong, SCOT modeling and itsstatistical applications of time series
Tufts University (7)
Department of Mathematics
Chlebak, Lise, The time-changed Q-Wiener process and associated sto-chastic differential equations
Clay, Erica, Quaternion algebra and Wittstheorem
Rothschild, Seth, Unipotent algebraicgroups
Sanchez, Andrew, A theory of sub-Finslersurface area in the Heisenberg group
Takeuchi, Ryusei Melody, An analysisof neuronal networks with recurrentexitation
Wu, Qiong, Analysis of stochastic differ-ential equations with multi-time scalesand subdiffusion processes in Hilbert
Zhang, Jiani, Design and application oftensor decompositions to problems inmodel and image compression andanalysis
University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (9)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Beaudry, Isabelle, Inference from networkdata in hard-to-reach populations
Gourgoulias, Konstantinos, Informationmetrics for predictive modeling andmachine learning
Lowell, Mark, A Siefert-van Kampen the-orem for Legendrian submanifolds andexact Lagrangian cobordisms
Nichols, Daniel, Dynamical systems andzeta functions of function fields
Shelly, Thomas, Skein theory and al-gebraic geometry for the two-variableKauffman invariant of links
Vogiannou, Anastasios, Spherical tropi-calization
Xu, Haitao, Studies on lattice systems mo-tivated by PT-symmetry and granularcrystals
Zhang, Zijing, Statistical methods on riskmanagement of extreme events
Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Xu, Hui, Statistical methods for highdimensional data arising from largeepidemiological studies
Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (5)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Li, Yiqing, Quasi-static fracture evolutionwith cohesive energy
Manandhar, Binod, Bayesian models forthe analysis of noisy responses fromsmall areas: An application to povertyestimation
Sanguinet, William, Various extensions inthe theory of dynamic materials witha specific focus on the checkerboardgeometry
Wang, Liang, In Vivo IVUS-based 3D fluid-structure interaction models for humancoronary atherosclerotic plaque vul-nerability assessment and progressionprediction.
Zuo, Heng, 3D multi-physics MRI-basedhuman right ventricle models for hu-man patients with repaired tetralogy offallot: Cardiac mechanical analysis andsurgical outcome prediction
MICHIGAN
Central MichiganUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics
Anderson, Linda, the role of dynamicallylinked representations in student con-ceptualization of vectors and matrices
Witherspoon, Grace, Generalization of theodd Weibull family for competing riskanalysis
Michigan StateUniversity (16)
Department of Mathematics
Al-Yasiri, Khaldoun Saad Ghalib, Gradientestimates for solutions to divergenceform elliptic equations with piecewiseconstant coefficients in dimension N
Burton, Stephan, Volumes, determinants,and meridian lengths of hyperboliclinks
Cho, Hana, Method of lines transpose:High-order schemes for parabolic prob-lems
Feng, Xiao, High order finite differenceWENO schemes for ideal magnetohy-drodynamics
Mei, Hongwei, Ergodicity of stochasticswitching diffusions and stochastic de-lay systems
Nguyen, Ba, New combinatorial formulasfor cluster monomials of type A quivers
Sarabi, Ebrahim, Variational analysis andstability in optimization
Tran, Ky, Nonlinear stochastic systemsand controls: Lotka–Volterra type mod-els, permanence and extinction, optimalharvesting strategies, and numericalmethods for systems under partialobservations
Zhang, Lu, Multi-parameter and multilin-ear psuedo-differential operators andsharp Trudinger–Moser inequalities
Kratky, James, Pedagogical moves ascharacteristics of one instructor’s in-strumental orchestrations with Tinker-plots and the TI-73 Explorer: A casestudy
Department of Statistics
Andrews, Nichole, Subgroup analysis andgrowth curve models for longitudinaldata
Dykes, Bradford, Some nonparametricordered restricted inference problemsin the context of a statistical educationstudy
Mantilla, Libertie, Companion of mediansusing multivariate mixed design data
Shi, Chenyang, Spatial analysis of timebetween two consecutive dental andtwo consecutive well-child visits forfoster care youth
Zhang, Shaofeng, Development of tradi-tional and Rank-based algorithms forlinear models with autoregressive er-rors and multivariate logistic regressionwith spatial random effects
MINNESOTA
University ofMinnesota (28)
Division of Biostatistics, School of
Public Health
Bai, Yun, Statistical methods for geneticand epigenetic studies
Bose, Maitreyee, Model building for Gaus-sian process random effects modelsusing the spectral approximation
Coombes, Brandon, Tests for detectionof rare variants and gene-environmentinteraction in cohort and twin familystudies
Lin, Lifeng, Statistical methods for meta-analysis
Schnell, Patrick, Credible subgroups:Identifying the population that ben-efits from treatment
Xu, Zhiyuan, Powerful association test-ing with application to neuroimaginggenetics
School of Mathematics
Arnaldsson, Orn, Involutive moving frames
Binder, Andrew, Development and anal-ysis of computationally efficient meth-ods for analyzing surface effects
Dassbach, Paula, Computational aspectsof energy minimization of the Landau–de Gennes model for liquid crystals
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 983
Gray, Nathan, Metaplectic ice for Cartantype C
Grodzicki, William, The non-split Besselmodel on GSp(4) as on Iwahori–Hechealgebra module
Gunawan, Emily, Combinatorics of clus-ter algebras from surfaces
Hill, Jonathan, Fundamental solutionsand green functions for nonhomoge-neous second order elliptic operatorswith discontinuous coefficients
Li, Jun, Symplectomorphism group ofrational 4-manifolds
Moulton, Jeffrey, Robust fragmentation:A data-driven approach to decision-making under distributional ambiguity
Ortan, Alexandra, Efficient numerical al-gorithms for virtual design in nanoplas-monics
Poling, Bryan, Towards a frameworkfor simultaneous feature tracking andsegmentation
Senou, Jessica, Weighted differential in-varient signatures and applications toshape recognition
Krishnasamy Saraswathy, Vidhya, Thenumerical solutions of fractional differ-ential equations with fractional Taylorvector
Xu, Yang, On non-parametric confidenceintervals for density and hazard ratefunctions and trends in daily snowdepth in North America
University ofMississippi (5)
Department of Mathematics
Henegan, James, Asymptotic propertiesof polynomials orthogonal over multi-ply connected domains
Nakarmi, Janet, On variable bandwidthkernel density and regression estima-tion
Naugle, Lynsey, Orthogonal polynomialson an arc of the unit circle withrespect to a generalized Jacobi weight:A Risemann-Hilbert approach
Sang, Yongli, Memory properties of trans-formations of linear processes andsymmetric Gini correlations
Wang, Shaohui, On topological indicesand denomination numbers of graphs
University of SouthernMississippi (3)
Department of Mathematics
Khatri Ghimire, Balaram, Hybrid Cheby-shev polynomial scheme for the nu-merical solutions of partial differentialequations
Lamichhane, Anup, Fast method of par-ticular solutions for solving partialdifferential equations
Richardson, Megan, Krylov subspacespectral methods for PDEs in polarand cylindrical geometries
MONTANA
Montana StateUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Arnold, Elizabeth, Investigating the teach-ing of statistics with technology at thehigh school level through the use ofannotated lesson plans
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Banner, Katharine, Is model averagingthe solution for addressing modeluncertainty? Methodological insights,tools assessment, and considerationsfor practical use
Kanewske, Daniel, Stress Taylor symme-try preserving model applied to the 2-dviscoelastic plan of a biofilm
Lerch, Michael, Statistics in the pres-ence of cost: Cost-considerate variableselection and MCMC convergence diag-nostics
McClanahan, Nathan, Seperating the EPSin a biofilm: Models and simulations ofmovement of the EPS within
Pettry, Danielle, The development of spe-cialized content knowledge among sec-ondary mathematics pre-service teach-ers
University ofMontana–Missoula (1)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Katerba, Charles, Modules, fields of defi-nition, and the Culler–Shalen norm
NEBRASKA
University ofNebraska–Lincoln (16)
Department of Mathematics
Ahrendt, Kevin, The existence of so-lutions for a nonlinear self-adjointdifference equation
Edholm, Christina, Management of in-vasive species using optimal controltheory
Egg, Rebekah, Cohen-Macaulay dimen-sion for coherent rings
Falahola, Brittney, Characteristics ofGorenstein rings using Frobenius
Inam, Muhammad, Adian inverse semi-groups
Lutz, Jason, Homological characteriza-tions of quasi-complete intersections
Hood, Amanda, Localizing the eigenval-ues of matrix-valued functions: Analy-sis and applications
Joshi, Sumedh, Development of parallelhigh-order numerical methods for high-Reynolds number environmental flows:A look at a deflated Schur complementmodel
Phalitnonkiat, Pakawat, Extreme behaviorof the surface ozone over continentalU.S.
Verdiyan, Vardan, Predictability of fundsfollowing common investment philoso-phies
Department of Mathematics
Collins, Voula, Crystal branching for non-Levi sub-groups and a puzzle formulafor the equivariant cohomology of thecontangent bundle on projective space
Karabulut, Cihan, On sums of binaryHermitian forms
Kim, Seungwon, Turaev surfaces andtoroidally alternating knots
Kim, Won Geun, On the free and G-saturated weight monoids of smoothaffine spherical varieties for G =SL(n)
Liang, Zhao, Fast algorithms on randommatrices and structured matrices
Miller, Cheyne, On the derivative of2-holonomy for a non-Abelian gerbe
Minden, Kaethe, On subcomplete forcing
Park, Byung Do, A geometric model oftwisted differential K-theory
Seff, David, Diophantine approximationand the atypical numbers of Nathansonand O’Bryant
Wong, Tian An, Explicit formulae andtrace formulae
Zapata, Gabriel, Rewriting methods ingroups with applications to cryptogra-phy
New York University,Courant Institute (23)
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
Blum-Smith, Benjamin, Two inquiriesabout finite groups and well-behavedquotients
Blumenthal, Alex, Nonuniformity hyper-bolic theory for Banach space mappings
Brenowitz, Noah, Data analysis and non-local parametrization strategies for or-ganized atmospheric convection
Chariker, Christopher Logan, Dynamicsof cortial neural networks
Chen, Weikun, Data driven optimal trans-portation and its application
DeSalvo, Giulia, Theory and algorithmsfor learning with stratified decisions
Dong, Yilun, A new VIX pricing model
Eriksson-Bique, Sylvester, Quantitative em-beddability and connectivity in metricspaces
Fogelson, Ben, Mechanical models insingle-cell locomotion, adhesion, andforce production
Friel, Robert, Optimization closures formixing shocks in stratified hydrostaticflows
Fu, Hang, Division polynomials and in-tersection of projective torsion points
Huynh, Thang, Accurate quantizationin redundant systems: From framesto compressive sampling and phaseretrieval
Kuang, Simeng, Two topics in data anal-ysis: Sample-based optimal transportand analysis of turbulent spectra fromship track data
Lopes, Domingos, Global existence for theirrotational Euler–Korteweg system inthree dimensions
Nica, Mihai, Non-intersecting randomprocesses and multi-layer random poly-mers
O’Brien, Ethan, Rods with misfit andtwisted ribbons; Two problems in themechanics of thin elastic objects
Podder, Moumanti, The strange logic ofGalton-Watson trees
Qi, Di, Strategies for reduced-order mod-els in uncertainty quantification ofcomplex turbulent dynamical systems
Sagun, Levent, Explorations on high di-mensional landscapes: Spin glasses anddeep learning
Tobasco, Ian, Variational analysis ofcompressed thin elastic sheets and thephase diagrams of mean field spinglasses
Yamada, Ray, Moisture and wave-meanflow interactions in the general circula-tion of Earth’s atmosphere
Yang, Qiu, Multi-scale models for thescale interaction of organized tropicalconvection
Yang, Scott, Theory and algorithms fordynamic and adaptive online learning
New York University,Stern School ofBusiness (1)
IOMS-Statistics Group
Fu, Wei, Nonparametric methods in sta-tistical learning: Unbiasedness in re-gression trees, survival trees for non-standard data, and estimating the num-ber of clusters
Lim, Bronson, Equivariant derived cate-gories associated to a sum of potentials
Reid, Benjamin, Constructing a V2 selfmap at p = 3
Schopieray, Andrew, Relations in the Wittgroup of nondegenerate braided fusioncategories arising from the representa-tion theory of quantum groups at rootsof unity
Steinberg, David, Homological propertiesof standard KLR modules
Xu, Tianyuan, On the subregular J-ringof coxeter systems
PENNSYLVANIA
Bryn Mawr College (1)
Department of Mathematics
Myer, Ziva, A product structure on gener-ating family cohomology for Legendriansubmanifolds
Carnegie MellonUniversity (9)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Antikacioglu, Arda, Quantifying and im-proving sales diversity in recommendersystems
Davis, Jacob, Universal graphs at ℵω1+1
and set-theoretic geology
Johansson, Tony, Random graphs andalgorithms
Lavrov, Mikhail, Results in Ramsey theoryand probabilistic combinatorics
Liu, Pan, Variational and PDE methodsfor image processing
Murphy, Thomas, Convex analysis of anequation arising in oil reservoir models
Rinaldi, Matteo, Dynamics of phase sepa-ration and pattern formation
Tshikawa, Tetsuya, Optimal investmentand pricing in models where the under-lying asset may default
Vasey, Sebastien, Superstability and cate-goricity in abstract elementary classes
Drexel University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Burnette, Charles, Factoring permuta-tions into the product of two invo-lutions: A probabilistic, combinatorialand analytic approach
Early, Nicholas, Combinatorics and rep-resentation theory for generalized per-mutohedra
Liao, Hung-Chang, Rokhlin type theo-rems in operator algebras
Ma, Yicong, Fast solvers for incompress-ible MHD systems
Vinhage, Kurt, Rigidity of genuinelyhigher-rank homogeneous flows
Zhang, Qingtian, Uniqueness and sin-gularities of weak solutions to somenonlinear wave equations
Zhang, Siyan, Heat kernels, exponentialsin solvable Lie groups and the meanreverting SABR model
Zhen, Yicun, Accounting for the modelerror and sampling error for ensembleKalman filter
Temple University (6)
Department of Mathematics
Bao, Dianbin, Identities between Heckeeigenforms
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
SEPTEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 991
Jacoby, Adam, On representations ofHopf algebras
Ratner, Michael, Quantum walks andstructured searches on free groups andnetworks
Schneider, Geoffrey, Recursively generat-ing formality quasi-isomorphisms withapplications to deformati on quantiza-tion
Department of Statistical Science
Yang, Chaozheng, Sufficient dimensionreduction in complex datasets
Zhang, Yongxu, On two new estimatorsfor the CMS through extensions of OLS
University ofPennsylvania (13)
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Computational Science
Lee, Kwonsang, Causal inference beyondestimating average treatment effects
Rogers, Ryan M, Leveraging privacy indata analysis
Department of Biostatistics,
Epidemiology, and Informatics
Bender, Shaun, Ignorability conditionsfor incomplete data and the first-orderMarkov conditional linear expectationapproach for analysis of longitudinaldiscrete data with overdispersion
Billig, Erica, Detecting and controllinginsect vectors in urban environments:Novel Bayesian methods for complexspatial data
Jemielita, Thomas, Efficient baseline uti-lization in crossover clinical trialsthrough linear combinations of base-lines: Parametric, nonparametric, andmodel selection approaches
Shin, Daniel, Novel statistical methodolo-gies in analysis of position emissiontomography data: Applications in seg-mentation, normalization, and trajec-tory modeling
Tahirovic, Emin, Sensitivity analysis fornon-ignorable dropout of marginaltreatment effect in longitudinal trialsfor G-computation based estimators
Department of Mathematics
Albert, Benjamin, Effective field theoryon manifolds with boundary
Citoler Saumell, Martin, A gap theoremfor half-conformally-flat 4-manifolds
Nayak, Soumyashant, On the diagonalsof projections in matrix algebras overvon Neumann algebras
Patel, Neel, Rigorous results in fluid andkinetic models
Qiang, Hua, Bott-Chern characteristicforms and index theorems for coherentsheaves on complex manifolds
Tomaskovic-Moore, Sebastian, Galois mod-ule structure of Lubin-Tate modules
University ofPittsburgh (30)
Department of Biostatistics
Apfel, Abraham, A stability analysis ofsparse k-means
Balmert, Lauren, Nonparametric infer-ence and regression on quantile lifes-pan
Carlson, Jenna, Methods for family-baseddesigns in genetic epidemiology studies
Huo, Zhiguang, Statistical integrativeomics methods for disease subtypediscovery
Lin, Chien-Wei, Power calculation andstudy design in RNA-seq and Methyl-seq
Paliwal, Yuvika, Generalized linear mod-els for analysis of cross-correlatedbinary response in multi-reader studiesof diagnostic imaging
Potter, Andrew, Multiscale multivariatefunctional principal component analy-sis with an application to multivariatelongitudinal cardiac signals
Shan, Ying, Statistical methods for ge-netic risk confidence intervals, Bayesiandisease risk prediction, and estimatingmutation screening saturation
Topp, Andrew, Doubly robust estimationin two-stage dynamic treatment regimesin the presence of drop-out
Woolley, Shannon, Tests for random signscensoring in competing risks
Department of Mathematics
Burstein, David, Random graph genera-tion techniques and applications
Cely, Jorge, Applications of motivic inte-gration to the fundamental lemma
Gallagher, Torrey, Averaging and fixedpoints in banach spaces
Harris, Jeremy, A spatially extended Wil-son Cowan model for coutical circuits:Fram patterns to wave
Hu, Jilong, Vortex sheets in elastic fluids
Hurl, Nicholas, Analysis of time filters inmultisteps methods
Khankan, Sarah, Predictability of aver-age temperatures using ensemble algo-rithms
Li, Yong, Time filters for numericalweather predictions
Malekzadeh, Soheil, Unrectifiability ofmetric spaces and mapping of boundedlength distortion
Morgan, Jeremiah, P -ordered familiesand related topological properties
Navrotskaya, Irina, The inverse problemin classical statistical mechanics and itsapplications to liquid state theory
Snyder, Abigail, Pattern generation multi-functionality in a neural network in-spired by turtle scratch rhythms
Stanhope, Shelby, Parameter estimationfor dynamical systems
Wang, Changqing, Domain decomposi-tion methods for coupled Stokes–Darcyflows
Wang, Yangyang, Understanding and dis-tiguishing multiple time scale dynamics
Xu, Jiaqing, Modeling defaults in bankingand real estate
Young, Glenn, Combating pathogen in-vasion: Macroscopic and microscopicviews
Zhou, Xiaodan, Analysis on metric mea-sure spaces Sobolev and Viscosity ap-proaches
Zimmerman, Scott, Sard in Sobolev spaceand curves in the Heisenberg group
RHODE ISLAND
Brown University (25)
Department of Biostatistics
Erar, Bahar, Whole genome regressionfor modeling gene by treatment inter-actions in structured populations
Gu, Chenyang, Statistical missing datamethods with applications to healthservices research
Yue, Mun Sang, Evaluation of predictiveaccuracy of tests and impact of tests onpatient outcomes
Zhao, Yi, Causal mediation analysis ofbig data
Department of Mathematics
Ascher, Kenneth, Higher dimensional bi-rational geometry: Moduli and arith-metic
Chen, Xiaoshuang, Duality theorems andspecial value of Artin 1-functions atzero
Healey, Vivian, The Loewner equationwith branching and the continuumrandom tree
Kim, Semin, Harmonic maps and themoduli of Higgs bundles
Le, Quang Nhat, A family of projectivelynatural polygon iterations
Liu, Chang, Blow-up for the 10 nonlin-ear Schrodinger equation with pointnonlinearity
Lowry-Duda, David, On some variants ofthe Gauss circle problem
McGrath, Peter, Existence and uniquenessresults for minimal surfaces
Ramassamy, Sanjay, Topics in combina-torics: From probability to geometry
Division of Applied Mathematics
Caginalp, Carey, A deriviation and analy-sis of the n-point hierarchy for conser-vation laws and multistable dynamicswith white noise in the Allen-Cahnequation
Ciocanel, Maria-Veronica, Modeling in-tracellular transport during messengerRNA localization in xenopus oocytes
Glusa, Christian, Multigrid and domaindecomposition methods in fault-proneenvironments
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Kilikian, Virginia, Chemotactic responsemodels for motile bacteria
Kim, Steven, Problems at the interfaceof probability and convex geometry:Random projections and constrainedprocesses
Lee, Seungjoon, Statistical learning toolsfor information fusion in computationalfluid dynamics
Loper, Jackson, Theory and computationof modern probabilistic models
Qin, Tong, Positivity-preserving high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods:Implicit time stepping and applicationsto relativistic hydrodynamics
Volkening, Alexandria, Modeling patternformation on zebrafish
Wang, Wei-Ying, Image compression anddata clustering: New takes on some oldproblems
Xia, Chao, Traffic flow models: Analysis,estimation and control
Zhang, Hong, Regularity theory of ellipticand parabolic equations and systems
University of RhodeIsland (2)
Department of Mathematics
Khyat, Toufik, Bifurcation of some pla-nar discrete dynamial systems withapplications
McArdle, David, Global dynamics bound-edness of discrete population models
SOUTH CAROLINA
Clemson University (10)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Adelgren, Nathan, Solution techniquesfor classes of biobjective and paramet-ric programs
Giberson, Luke, Average Frobenius distri-butions for elliptic extremal primes andKobiltz’s conjecture
Goodell, Brandon, Assessing non-atomicityin groups of divisibility
He, Qijun, Algebraic geometry arisingfrom discrete models of gene regulatorynetworks
Joyner, Jason, A new look at matrixanalytic methods
Koshy Chenthittayil, Sherli, Chaos topermanence: Through control theory
Lipman, Drew, Normal domains arisingfrom graph theory
Wilson, Anastasia, Modeling, analysis, andsimulation of adsorption in functional-ized membranes
Wilson, Christopher, Tolerance intervalsfor hierarchical data
Xu, Shuhan, Numerical study for non-Newtonian fluid-structure interactionproblems
Medical University ofSouth Carolina (4)
Department of Public Health Sciences
Cassarly, Christy, Mutistate Markov mod-els for ordinal function outcomes ofacute onset disease application in acutestroke therapy trials
Prince Nelson, Sybil, An extension oflogic regression to classify and predictdisease outcomes from continuous andbinary predictors and their interactions
Ward, Ralph, Improving methods formodeling high dimensional binary fea-tures data with applications for as-sessing disease burden from diagnostichistory and for dealing with miss-ing covariates in administrative healthrecords
Wei, Wei, Novel design and analyticalapproaches for phase II cancer clinicaltrials
University of SouthCarolina (10)
Department of Mathematics
Boehnlein, Edward, On crown-free setfamilies, diffusion state difference, andnon-uniform hypergraphs
Lewis, Tyler, A family of simple codi-mension two singularities with infiniteCohen-Macaulay representation type
Department of Statistics
Hou, Peijie, Topics in group testing withmultiple infections
Kindo, Bereket, Bayesian ensemble of re-gression trees for multinominal probitand quantile regression
Lee, Han, Some issues in Markov chainMonte Carlo estimation for item re-sponse theory
Massaro, Tyler, Variable selection viapenalized regression and the genetic al-gorithm using information complexity,with applications for high-dimensional-omics data
Pantha, Buddhi, Anthrax models involv-ing immunology, epidemiology and con-trols
Pollesch, Nathan, Mathematical approachesto sustainability assessment and proto-col development for the bioenergy sus-tainability target assessment resources(Bio-STAR)
Liu, Qi, Covariate-adjusted Spearman’sRank correlation with probability-scaleresiduals
Samuels, Lauren, Aspects of casual in-ference within the evenly matchablepopulation: The average treatment ef-fect on the evenly matchable units,visually guided cohort selection, andbagged one-to-one matching
Smith, Derek, Empirical Bayes methodsfor modern statistical problems
TEXAS
Baylor University (9)
Department of Mathematics
Averbeck, Nathan, Chaos in dendritic andJulia sets
Hunter, Reeve, The specification propertyand chaos in multidimensional shiftspaces and general compact metricspaces
Department of Statistical Sciences
Blair, Somer, Contributions to the theoryand practice of prior elicitation in abiopharmaceutical research
Faya, Paul, Bayesian methods in non-clinical pharmaceutical statistics
Sims, Justin, Modeling nonlinear, nonsta-tionary vector time series: Methods andapplications
Vallejo, Jonathon, Some new applicationsof Bayesian longitudinal models
Van Zyl, Johanna, Evaluating treatmentefficacy using AUC modeling
Waken, Robert, Flexible spatial interpo-lation and uncertainty quantification:With applications in radar rainfall esti-mation
Wu, Wenqi, Network meta-analysis withrare events and misclassified response
Rice University (20)
Computational and Applied
Mathematics Department
Becker, Timothy, Bilevel clique interdictinand related problems
Bencomo, Mario, Representation and es-timation of seismic sources via multi-poles
Deng, Xiaodi, A parallel-in-time gradient-type method for optimal control prob-lems
Fast, Caleb, Novel techniques for thezero-forcing and p-median graph loca-tion problems
Magruder, Caleb, Projection-based modelreduction in the context of optimizationwith implicit PDE constraints
Puelz, Charles, Numerical methods andapplications for reduced models ofblood flow
Vargas, Arturo, Hermite methods for thesimulation of work propagation
Wang, Zheng, GPU-accelerated discon-tinouos Galerkin methods on hybridmeshes: Applciation in seismic imaging
Zhou, Muhong, Energy-conserving com-posite staggered-grid finite differencetime domain scheme for order waveequation system
Department of Mathematics
Allums, Derek, Notes on real rationallyconnected varieties and Fano threefoldsof genus 12
Bosman, Anthony, Shake slice and shakeconcordant links
Bregman, Corey, Automorphisms or non-positively curved cube complexes, right-angled Artin groups, and homology
Do, Tam, Global regularity and finite-timeblow-up in model fluid equations
Downs, Carol, A mass minimizing flow forreal-valued flat chains with applicationsto transport networks
Park, JungHwan, Derivatives of genusone and three knots
Department of Statistics
Babkin, Sergii, High-dimensional and de-pendent data with additional structure
Han, Yu, Impact of news on crude oilfutures
Li, Qiwei, Bayesian models for high-dimensional count data with featureselection
Wadsworth, W. Duncan, Bayesian non-parametric methods for microbiomedata analysis
Wang, Zeya, Statistical modeling forcellular heterogenity problems in can-cer reserach deconvolution, Ganssiangraphical models and logistic regres-sion
Southern MethodistUniversity (11)
Department of Mathematics
Castro-Castro, Claudia, Nonlinearity, PTsymmetry twist and disorder in the dis-crete nonlinear Schroedinger equation
Schoenfeld, Jessica, The existence ofspontaneous parity-time symmetry break-ing, assymetric transport and defectmodes in nonlinearity coupled Van DerPol oscillations
Lagrone, John, Application and optimiza-tion of complete radiation boundaryconditions
Liu, Yang, The immersed interface methodfor flow around non-smooth boundariesand its parallelization
Sheffield, Thomas, Collapses and ensem-ble dynamics in one and two dimen-sional weak wave turbulence
Statistical Science Department
Allen, Chelsea, Modeling of heapedcigarette count data
Fernando, Mahesh, Confidence intervalsfor the variance ratios in any unbal-anced linear mixed model
Li, Lie (Nathan), Development of meta-analysis methods in biomedical studies
Liu, Bingchen, Ranked set sampling esti-mators of discrete distributions param-eters and estimation of total from apopulation of unknown size
Lu, Wentao, Meta-analysis approaches tocombine multiple gene set environmentstudies
Wang, Mumu, Using ranked set sam-pling with binary outcomes in clusterrandomized designs
Texas A&M University (29)
Department of Mathematics
Alotibi, Manal, Global-local nonlinearmodel reduction for flows in heteroge-neous porous media
Barquero-Sanchez, Adrian, The Chowla-Selberg formula for CM fields and theColmez conjecture
Carroll, David, Periodic points in shifts offinite type overgroups with connectionsto growth
Do, Ngoc, Some spectral problems inmathematical physics
Ergur, Alperen, Sparsity, randomness andconvexity in applied algebraic geometry
Farnsworth, Cameron, The polynomialwaring problem and the determinant
Gesmundo, Fulvio, Geometry and repre-sentation theory in the study of matrixrigidity
Guan, Yonghui, Equations for chow va-rieties, their secant varieties and othervarieties arising in complexity theory
Kocak, Dilber, Growth of algebras andcodes
Lee, Chak Shing, Generalization of mixedmultiscale finite element methods withapplications
Liu, Wen, Degeneracies in the eigenvaluespectrum of quantum graphs
Phillipson, Kaitlyn, Quantitative aspectsof sums of squares and sparse polyno-mial systems
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
994 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 8
Porter, Curtis, The local equivalence prob-lem for 7-dimensional, 2-nondegenerateCR manifolds whose cubic form is ofconformal unitary type
Quezada de Luna, Manuel, Methods forsolving the linear scalar conservationlaw with applications on multiphaseflow
Shankara Narayana Rao, Bheemaiah V.,On a spatiotemporal population dynam-ics model to track density and averagemass: Application to brown shrimp
Tian, Jing, Study on nonlinear analysisand chaos in vibrations and fluids
Yang, Yanfang, POD-DEIM global-localmodel reduction for multi-phase flowsin heterogeneous porous media
Yang, Yong, Continuous finite elementapproximation of hyperbolic systems
Ye, Shuai, GMSFEM for nonlinear prob-lems and space-time GMSFEM
Zhang, Bingsheng, On the solutions in theglobal attractor of the incompressibleNavier-Stokes equations
Zhang, Sheng, Nonlinear quotients ofBanach spaces
Department of Statistics
Dorn, Mary Francis, Semiparametric clas-sification under a forest density as-sumption
He, Kejun, Sparsity and low rank struc-tures in functional data analysis
He, Shiyuan, Functional light curve mod-els for type Ia supernovae and Miravariables, with their application of dis-tance determination
Li, Furong, Statistical inference for largespatial data
Liang, Liang, Semiparametric efficientestimators in primary and secondaryanalysis of case-control studies
Liu, Senmao, A comprhensive approachfor sparse principle component anal-ysis using regularized singular valuedecomposition
Su, Ya, A general approach for asymp-totics of penalizes spline estimation inextended linear models
Wang, Xiao, Dynamic othogonal subseriesfor high-dimensional and nonstationarytime series
Texas State University (4)
Department of Mathematics
Miller, Geoffrey, Exploring mathemati-cal flow: A case study of pre-servicesecondary teachers collaborating onmodel-eliciting activities
Namakshi, Nama, Creating a pathway toSTEM: Role of an informal mathematicsprogram
Rasche, Alexander, Is tutoring teaching?Exploring tutoring’s potential to im-prove mathematics teacher education
Wilkerson, Joshua, Cultivating mathemat-ical affections: Developing a produc-tive disposition through engagement inservice-learning
Texas Tech University (11)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Celik, Emine, Generalized Forchheimerflows of compressible fluids in hetero-geneous porous media
Cherry, Ashley, Piecewise linear approx-imation for nonlinear programmingproblems
Dissanayake, Chandani, Finite elementsimulation of space/time behavior ina two species ecological stoichiometricmodel
Fan, Wenzhen, Control systems splineson the manifold of lines in R2
Jeganathan, Pratheepa, Multivariate ex-tensions of saddlepoint-based boot-strap and an empirical saddlepoint ap-proximation method for smoothing sur-vival functions under right-censoring
Li, Bo, Simultaneous inference basedon rank regression in biomedical dataanalysis
Meek, Ashley, Block preconditioned im-plicit Runge-Kutta methods for the in-compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Niu, Xu, Mathematics prerequisites fordoctoral level studies in finance
Fontes, Ernest E., A weighty theorem ofthe heart for the algebraic K-theory ofhigher categories
Ganev, Iordan, The wonderful compacti-fication for quantum groups
Geng, Tianran, Forward portfolio theoryand financial time series modeling
Lee, Andrew, Mapping tori and stablepairs
Morales Delgado, Javier Alejandro, Leastaction principles with applications togradient flows and kinetic equations
Singh, Sukhpreet, Entropy theory forlocally compact sofic groups
Villar Lozano, Maria Soledad, Relax, de-scend, and certify: Optimization tech-niques for typically tractable data prob-lems
Yu, Hui, Some regularity results fornonlocal elliptic equations
Zhang, Rongting, Hybrid inverse prob-lems in molecular imaging
University of Texas atDallas (9)
Department of Mathematical
Sciences
Acosta-Mejia, Cesar, Pseudolikelihoodmethods in multichannel change-pointdetection
Cao, Yujing, Graphical modeling of bio-logical pathways in genomic studies
Chen, Yanping, Deterministic computa-tion of the low probability tail ofthe velocity distribution due to parti-cle collisions in spatially homogeneousplasmas
Datta, Ananda, Detecting rare haplotypedisease association: Comparison of ex-isting population-based methods and anew family-based quantitative Bayesianlasso method
Herzig, Emily, Spin groups and exponen-tation
Rathnayake, Lasitha, Modeling and anal-ysis of functional and longitudinal datawith biomedical applications
Skaaning, Sonny, Inventory control withpricing optimization in continuous time
Wang, Yunfei, Connections among multi-variate rank functions, depth functions,and sign and signed-rank statistics
Zhang, Yuan, Detecting rare haplotype-environment interaction under uncer-tainty of gene-environment indepen-dence assumption with an extension tocomplex sampling data
UTAH
Brigham YoungUniversity (2)
Department of Mathematics
Jiang, Ana, American spread option pric-ing with stochastic interest rates
Lytle, Joshua, Stability of planar deto-nations in the reactive Navier-Stokesequations
University of Utah (15)
Department of Mathematics
Albright, Eric Jason, Numerical meth-ods based on difference potentials formodels with material interfaces
Bardsley, Patrick, Intensity-only imagingwith waves, restarted inverse Bornseries, and the analysis of coarseningin polycrystalline materials
Basinski, Andrew, Area-restricted searchstrategies in groups of foraging ants
Bezdek, Pavel, Appoximation and blow-up problems in stochastic differentialequations
Childs, Parker, Analysis of stochasticchemical reactions through state spacereduction
Choi, Sung Chan, Analysis of spatialParrondo games with modified game A
Eason, Joseph, Modeling the effects ofworker rules on territorial conflicts inants
Fan, Honglu, Gromov–Witten theory ofprojective bundles
Johnson, Jared, Two enumerative prob-lems in algebraic geometry
Karamched, Bhargav, Mathematical mod-els of moter-based intracellular trans-port
Lam, Tony, Central limit theorem forrandom polymers in weak disorder
Cui, Jing, Boundary controllability andstabilization of nonlinear Schrodingerequations in a finite interval
Eastridge, Samuel, First cohomology ofsome infinitely generated groups
Erwin, Samantha, Mathematical modelsof immune responses to infectiousdiseases
Kuster, George, On the role of studentunderstanding of function and rate ofchange in learning differential equa-tions
Letona-Bolivar, Cristina, On a classof parametrized domain optimizationproblems with mixed boundary condi-tion types
Shifler, Ryan, Equivariant quantum coho-mology of the odd symplectic Grass-mannian
Xie, Xuping, Large Eddy simulation re-duced order models
Department of Statistics
Carzolio, Marcos, On a selection of ad-vanced Markov chain Monte Carlo al-gorithms for everyday use: Weightedparticle, tempering practicle reversiblejump and extensions
Kang, Xiaoning, Contributions to largecovariance and inverse covariance ma-trices estimation
Keefe, Matthew, Statistical monitoringand modeling for spatial processes
Rhodes, Austin, Accelerated life test mod-eling using median rank regression
Song, Yuhyun, Linkage based Dirichletprocesses
Sun, Jinhui, Robust feature screeningprocedures for mixed type of data
Yuan, Miao, Corporate default predic-tions and methods for uncertaintyquantifications
WASHINGTON
University ofWashington (34)
Applied Mathematics Department
Lansdell, Benjamin, On renewal encod-ing: Its estimation, application, anddevelopment
Ma, Yian, Irreversibility in stochasticdynamic models and efficient Bayesianinference
Young, William Chad, Bayesian methodsfor inferring gene regulatory networks
Washington StateUniversity (5)
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics
Cameron, Thomas, On the computationof eigenvalues, spectral bounds, andHessenberg form for matrix polynomi-als
Han, Bo, Interior point algorithms forstochastic semidefinite programming
Lundholm, Ian, Studying and support-ing the teaching practice of calculusteaching assistants
Payton, Spencer, Student logical impli-cations and connections between sym-bolic representations of a linear systemwithin the context of an introductorylinear algebra course
Streifel, Amy, Skew characteristic polyno-mials of cacti
WEST VIRGINIA
West VirginiaUniversity (6)
Department of Mathematics
Abd Al-Rahem, Mushtaq, A multidimen-sional technique for measuring con-sensus within groups via conditionalprobability
Amsaad, Mohamed, Well-defined La-grangian flows for absolutely contin-uous curves of probabilities on theline
Anderson, Janet, A study of arc strongconnectivity of digraphs
Elmagbri, Fairouz, Moment-type nonpara-metric estimation in some direct andindirect models
LaRue, Renee, An analysis of student ap-proaches to solving optimization prob-lems in first semester calculus
Vincent, Brittany, First semester caculusstudents’ concept definitions and con-cept images of the tangent line and howthese relate to students’ understand-ings of the derivative
Tveite, Paul, Effectivizations of dimen-sion and cardinal characteristics
Wang, Jason, Phylogenetic reconstructionaccuracy in the face of heterogeneity,recombination, and reticulate evolution
Wang, Kejia, A journey to low sphericaldiscrepancy
Wen, Huanyu, Winding problems of pla-nar Markov processes
Department of Statistics
Choi, Jeea, Pre-processing and stas-tistical inference methods for high-throughput genomic data with ap-plication to biomarker detection andregenerative medicine
Ying, Jinyong, Domain decompositionbased hybrid methods of finite elementand finite difference and applicationsin biomolecule simulations
Department of Mathematics
Bauer, Tyler, Estimating the selectiongradient of a function-valued trait
Hoeppner, Matthew, On some one-complexdimensional slices of the boundednesslocus of a multi-parameter rationalfamily
Zhao, Qian, Robust and computationallyefficient methods for fitting loss modelsand pricing insurance risks
Department of Mathematics and
Atmospheric Sciences
Haulmark, Matthew, Splittings of rela-tively hyperbolic groups and classifica-tions of 1-dimensional boundaries
WYOMING
University of Wyoming (4)
Department of Mathematics
Jennings, Rachel, Modeling the transmis-sion and maintenance of low pathogenicAvian influenza among wild birds withenvironmental heterogeneity and hostconditions
Kuang, Dongyang, A particle methodfor Euler Poincare equation and itsapplications in analysis of landmarkbased image templates
Seo, Mookwon, Alternative models forwater in filtration and oil reservoirs inground
Torsu, Prosper, Uncertainty quantifica-tion and models of multiphase flow inporous media
Doctoral Degrees Conferred
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Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2016–2017Supplementary ListThe following list supplements the list of thesis titles published in the September 2018 Notices, pages 969–999. CALIFORNIAStanford University (26)StatisticsChoi, Yunjin, Selecting the dimension of a subspace in
principal component analysis and canonical correlation analysis.
Dobriban, Edgar, Topics in high-dimensional asymptotics.Erdogdu, Murat Anil, Stein's Lemma and subsampling in
large-scale optimization.Fukuyama, Julia, Multivariate methods for the analysis of
structured data.Gorham, Jackson, Measuring sample quality with Stein's
method.He, Hera, Efficient permuation P-value estimates for gene set
tests.Huang, Ruojun, Monotone interactions of random walks and
graphs.Janson, Lucas, A model-free approach to high-dimensional
inference.Jiang, Bai, Two parameter inference methods in likelihood-
free models: approximate Bayesian computation and contrastive divergence.
Kou, Jiyao, Large-scale inference with block structure.Kuang, Yuming, Adaptive particle filters in hidden Markov
models: A new approach and its application.Lee, Minyong, Prediction and dimension reduction methods
in computer experiments.Liu, Linxi, Convergence rates of a class of multivariate density
estimators based on adaptive partitioning.Loftus, Joshua, Post-selection inference for models
characterized by quadratic constraints.Michael, Haben, Evaluating diagnostics under dependency.Pekelis, Leonid, Flase discoveries with dependence, towards an
objective inference.Powers, Scott, Leveraging similarity in statistical learning.Sen, Subhabrata, Optimization, random graphs, and spin
glasses.Sepehri, Amir, Non-parametric goodness-of-fit testing and
applications.Tian, Xiaoying, Topics in selective inference.Wager, Stefan, Causal inference with random fields.Wang, Chaojun, Financial markets and trading networks.Wang, Jingshu, Factor analysis for high dimensional inference.Xiang Gao, Katelyn, Scalable estimation and inference for
massive linear mixed models with crossed random effects.Zhao, Qingyuan, Topics in causal and high dimensional
inference.Zheng, Charles Yang, Supervised evaluation of representations.University of California, Los Angeles (10)StatisticsGordon, Joshua Seth, Nonparametric estimation forecasts,
and model evaluation of spatial temporal point process models for California seismicity.
Ho, Hao, Integrative analysis of genomic and transcription data in Taiwanese lung and adenocarcinomas.
Lu, Yang, Coupling and learning hierarchical generative and descriptive models for image systems and analysis.
Mao, Junhua, Multimodal learning for vision and language.Razaee, Zahra, Community detection in networks with node
covariates.
Listings of the actual departments that comprise these groups are available on the AMS website at www.ams.org /annual-survey/groupings.
A department is in Group...
...when its subject area, highest degree offered, and
PhD production rate p
Math Public Large Math PhD, 7.0 ≤ p
Math Public Medium Math PhD, 3.9 ≤ p < 7.0
Math Public Small Math PhD, p < 3.9
Math Private Large Math PhD, 3.9 ≤ p
Math Private Small Math PhD, p < 3.9
Applied Math Applied mathematics, PhD
Statistics Statistics, PhD
Biostatistics Biostatistics, PhD
Masters Math, masters
Bachelors Math, bachelors
Doctoral MathMath Public, Math Private, & Applied Math
Stat/Biostat or Stats Statistics & Biostatistics
Math All groups except Statistics & Biostatistics
Department Response Rates by Grouping
Group Received
Math Public Large: 26 of 26 including 0 with no degrees
Math Public Medium: 40 of 40 including 0 with no degrees
Math Public Small: 67 of 68 including 8 with no degrees
Math Private Large: 23 of 24 including 0 with no degrees
Math Private Small: 28 of 28 including 1 with no degrees
Applied Math: 30 of 30 including 2 with no degrees
Statistics: 58 of 59 including 4 with no degrees
Biostatistics: 33 of 46 including 4 with no degrees
Total: 315 of 321 including 4 with no degrees
As of press time for this issue of Notices, the following departments had not responded to the survey. Therefore, any PhDs which may have been awarded by these departments are not included in this report.
Mathematics DepartmentsCalifornia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Statistics DepartmentsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Biostatistics DepartmentsSaint Louis University College for Public Health & Social JusticeUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Texas–School of Public Health
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Zhao, Wanying, Adaptive designs utilizing covariates for precision medicine and their statistical inference.
Howard University(1)MathematicsPleasant, Kendra, When Ramsey meets Stone-Cech: Some new
results in Ramsey theory.
FLORIDAUniversity of South Florida (2)Epidemiology & BiostatisticsNash, Michelle, Deployment, post-traumatic stress disorder
and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among US active-duty military women.
Sebastião, Yuri Combo Vanda, Racial and ethnic differences in low-risk cesarean deliveries in Florida.
ILLINOISNorthwestern University (4)StatisticsGao, Yi, On a generalization of the Gini correlation for
statistical data mining.Hu, Xiaofei, Volatility estimation for integer-valued financial
time series.Mei, Xuan, Small dispersion asymptotics in stratified models.Seeskin, Zachary, Topics on official statistics and statistical
policy.KENTUCKYUniversity of Louisville (2)Bioinformatics & BiostatisticsDutta, Sandipan, Some contributions to nonparametric
inference for clustered and multistate data.Shah, Jasmit, Novel statistical approaches for missing values
in truncated high-dimensional metabolomics data with a detection threshold.
MISSOURIUniversity of Missouri–Columbia (3)StatisticsCheng, Yuan, Bayesian analysis of fMRI data and RNA-Seq
time course experiment data.Wang, Henan, Bayesian partition models for DNA methylation
analysis.Yu, Guanglei, Regression analysis of panel count data with
informative observations and drop-outs.
NEW YORKClarkson University (1)Mathematics & Computer ScienceAl Basheer, Aladeen, A mathematical investigation of the
effects of cannibalism in two and three species predator-prey systems.
Columbia University (4)Applied Physics & Applied MathematicsDandapani, Aditi, Enlargement of filtration and the strict local
Martingale property in stochastic differential equations.Shaevitz, Daniel, Extreme weather: Subtropical floods and
tropical cyclones.Tian, Xiaochuan, Nonlocal models with a finite range of
nonlocal interactions.BiostatisticsChen, Yakuan, Methods for functional regression and
nonlinear mixed-effects models with applications to PET data.
Rosario, Ryan Robert, A data augmentation approach to short text classification.
Wang, Jianyu, Modeling objects and parts by compositional relations.
Wang, Peng (Jerry), Joint multiple visual task understanding from a single image via deep learning and conditional random field.
Xia, Fangting, Pose-guided human semantic part segmentation.
Yu, Chengcheng (Joey), Single view 3D reconstruction and parsing using geometric commonsense for scene understanding.
University of California, Merced (5)School of Natural SciencesAdhikari, Lasith, Nonconvex sparse recovery methods.Dark, Julie, A theoretical understanding of circular
polarization memory.Davis, Jason Karl, Mathematical models of prions in
S.cerevisiae.Madushani, R.W.M.A., Parameter inference for stochastic
derivation and extension from radiative transfer.University of California, Santa Barbara (3)Statistics & Applied ProbabilityHe, Jingyi, Fixed mixed effects models with big data.Shi, Jian, Some contributions to smoothing spline density
estimation and inference.Zhu, Ling, Regularization and look-ahead procedures for
selection of basic functions from multiple libraries.COLORADOColorado State University (3)StatisticsLiao, Xiyue, Change-point estimation using shape-restricted
regression splines.Wang, Lulu, Some topics on model-based clustering.Weller, Zachary, Nonparametric tests of spatial isotropy and
calibration-capture-recapture.
CONNECTICUTYale University (1)Statistics and Data ScienceShaham, Uri, Algorithms, applications and theoretical
properties of deep neural networks.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAGeorge Washington University (8)StatisticsChen , Chen, Advances in urn models and applications to self-
similar bipolar networks.Cheung, Li, Mixture models for left- and interval-censored
data and concordance indices for composite survival outcomes.
Feng, Yarong, On fast growth models for random structures.Huang, Hailin, Semi-parametric and structured nonparametric
modeling.Wang, Cong, Analysis for familial aggregation using recurrence
risk for complex survey data.Yang, Aotian, Constrained maximum entropy models for
selecting genotype interactions associated with interval-censored failure times and methods for power calculation in a three-arm four-step clinical bioequivalence study.
Yang, Bioa, Particle and ensemble methods for state space models.
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Cornell University (7)Biological Statistics & Computational BiologyDias, Jishnu, Using protein interactome networks to
understand human disease and evolution.Gao, Feng, Utilizing rare and X-linked variants for inference
of population size history and association studies of complex diseases.
Huang, Lei, Information topology of kinetic models of metabolism.
Meyer, Michael J., Methods for functional inference in the proteome and interactome.
Ramstetter, Monica, High resolution relative detection via inference of identical by descent sharing of sample ancestors.
Sinclair, David Giles, Model selection results for latent high-dimensional graphical models on binary and count data with applications of fMRI and genomics.
Zawack, Kelson, A comprehensive analysis of the United States' National Resistance Monitoring System.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (3)Mathematical SciencesHeath, Emily, Optimization approaches to problems in
network mitigation and restoration.Pickering, William, Solution of urn models by generating
functions with applications to social, physical, biological, and network sciences.
Shen, Xin, Complimentary formulations for problems with sparcity objective.
NORTH CAROLINANorth Carolina State University (12)StatisticsAlfaro Cordoba, Marcela, Variable selection methods with ap-
plications to atmospheric sciences.Choi, Bong Seog, Testing and estimation under hidden activity.Das, Priyam, Bayesian quantile regression.Hager, Sarah Rebecca, Optimal dynamic treatment regimes
from a classification perspective for two stage studies with survival data.
Kang, Suhyun, Flexible estimation and testing methods for survival data with application in epidemiology and precision medicine.
Li, Yuan, GPU computing in statistics and R solution.Morris, Samuel Alan, Spatial methods for modeling extreme
and rare events.Park, So Young, Longitudinal functional data analysis with
biomedical applications.Peng, Huimin, Selection and inference for high-dimensional
regression with applications in biomedical research.Peterson, Geoffrey Cohn Lee, Mean-dependent spatial prediction
methods with applications to materials sciences.Wang, Chong, A study of sufficient dimension reduction
methods.Xu, Yingzi, Binormal precision-recall and ROC classification
and variable selection.
NORTH DAKOTANorth Dakota State University, Fargo (1)StatisticsSattler, Elizabeth, Subfractals induced by subshifts.PENNSYLVANIACarnegie Mellon University (2)StatisticsAsher, Jana, Methodological innovations in the collection and
analysis of human rights violation data.Chen, Yen-Chi, Statistical inference using geometric features.Pennsylvania State University (6)StatisticsBerstein, Jason, Inference of biophysical diffusion with
transient binding using particle filters and stochastic EM.Chu, Wanghuan, Feature screening for ultra-high dimensional
longitudinal data.Hao, Han, Modeling the genetic architecture of complex
traits.Russell, James, Stochastic models for individual and collective
animal movement.Taoufik, Bahaeddine, Functional data based inference for high
frequency financial data.Xu, Zhanxiong, Efficient parameter estimation methods using
quantile regression in heteroscedastic methods.University of Pittsburgh (2)StatisticsLee, Sung Won, Analysis of variation structure of high-
dimensional multi-block data.Zhang, Yun, Cluster analysis and network community
detection with application to neuroscience.SOUTH CAROLINAUniversity of South Carolina (1)Epidemiology & BiostatisticsXu, Xinling, Statistical methods for multivariate and correlated
data.VERMONTUniversity of Vermont (4)Mathematics & StatisticsCody, Emily, Mathematical modeling of public opinion using
traditional and social media.McAndrew, Thomas, Weighted networks: Applications from
power grid construction to crowd control.Regan, Andrew, Towards a science of human stories: Using
sentiment analysis and emotional arcs to understand the building blocks of complex social systems.
Stephens, Thomas, Topological methods for evolution equations.
VIRGINIAVirginia Commonwealth University, Medical Center (4)BiostatisticsCzarnota, Jenna, Modeling spatially varying effects of chemical
mixtures.Evani, Bhanu, Weighted quantile sum regression for analyzing
correlated predictors acting through a mediation pathway on a biological outcome.
Ferber, Kyle, Methods for predicting an ordinal response with high-throughput genomic data.
Joshi, Kabita, Finding the cutpoint of a continuous covariate in a parametric survival analysis model.