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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

James, Daniel, Isomorphic Ext functorsof torsion-free finite rank modules overa Dedekind domain

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

Hoang, Cong, Sparse technology inweighted harmonic analysis

Liu, Veny, Free inverse semigroupoidsand their inverse subsemigroupoids

Sandor, Bryan, On finitely generatednilpotent groups and their subgroups

Vo, Huy, Krylov approximations andmodel reduction methods for the chem-ical master equation

Watley, Laura Erin, Structural validity andreliability of two observation protocolsin college mathematics

University of Alabama atBirmingham (7)

Department of Biostatistics

Venturi, Yogasudha, Methods for theanalysis of genetic differences in eth-nicity and sex for complex humantraits

Zhang, Xinyan, Statistical methods incancer survival prediction and micro-biome data analysis

Department of Mathematics

Abdul-Rahman, Houssam, Entanglementin disordered quantum XY chains

Antwi-Fordjour, Kwadwo, Pattern forma-tion and semilinear evolution equationsin function spaces

Kim, Seonguk, Perturbation formulas forGross-Pitaevskii equation with periodicpotential

Mann, Ivan, A metrically defined uni-formization map of planar domains

Moxley, Caleb, Homotopical complexityof several billiard models

University ofAlabama–Huntsville (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Li, Yang, Discrete-time structured mod-els and their dynamics for interactivewild and sterile mosquitos malariatransmission

University of Alabama (1)

Department of Information Systems,

Statistics and Management Science

Zhu, Xuwen, The development of diag-nostic tools for mixture modeling andmodel-based clustering

ARKANSAS

University of Arkansas atFayetteville (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Ding, Chao, Construction of confor-mally invariant operators in higherspin spaces

Dutta, Arnab, On compactness and close-rangeness of composition operators

Juda, Daniel, On rings of invariants forcyclic p-groups

ARIZONA

Arizona StateUniversity (16)

Mathematics, Computational and

Modeling Sciences Center

Chowell, Diego, Mathematical and com-putational models of cancer and theimmune system

Mamada, Robert, Potential games andcompetition in the supply of naturalresources

Udiani, Oyita, A novel approach to studytask organization in animal groups

School of Mathematical and

Statistical Sciences

Al-Suleiman, Sultan, Toward enumeratingthe chains of maximum length ofCambrian and m-eralized Cambrianlattices

Byerley, Cameron, Secondary teachers’and calculus students’ meanings forfraction, measure, and rate of change

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Farrell, Alex, Prey-predator-parasite: Anecosystem model with fragile persis-tence

Gutierrez Cortez, Paloma, Rotating split-cylinder flows

Korytowski, Daniel, Persistence for killthe winner nested infection Lotka-Volterra models

Lanfear, Nathan, The Pauli-Lubanski vec-tor in a group-theoretical approach torelativistic wave equations

Liu, Ruowen, Numerical issues arising inthe simulations of transient water flowin layered unsaturated soils

Mitrano, Arthur, Properties of divergence-free methods for approximation and so-lution of partial differential equations

Nelson, Luke, Toward the enumeration ofmaximal chains in the Tamari lattices

Pell, Bruce, Dynamics and implicationsof data-based disease models in publichealth and agriculture

Rutter, Erica, A mathematical journey ofcancer growth

Treat, Kevin, On chains in the Tamarilattice

Zhu, Junfei, A power study of GFfitStatistics as components of PearsonChi-Square

University of Arizona (17)

Department of Mathematics

Berard, Whitney, Explicit Serre weightconjectures in dimension four

Brown, Tova, Asymptotics and dynamicsof map enumeration problems

Davis, Erik, Consistency of modularityclustering on random geometric graphs

Lee, Hyereem, Triples in finite groupsand a conjecture of Guralnick and Tiep

Trefethen, Stephen, Non-abelian compo-sition factors of m-rational groups

Williams, Ronnie, Level compatibility inthe passage from modular symbols tocup products

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

White, Graham, Combinatorial methodsin Markov chain mixing

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University of California,Berkeley (31)

Department of Mathematics

Anderson, David, Reliable and efficientalgorithms for spectrum-revealing low-rank data analysis

Appel, Daniel, Theory of real bundles onthe projective line

Chavez, Anastasia, Posets, polytopes, andpositroids

Drouot, Alexis, Stability of resonancesunder singular perturbations

Dudzik, Andrew, Quantales and hyper-structures

Fortunato, Meire, Curved and anisotropicunstructured mesh generation andadaptivity using the Winslow equations

Harrison-Trainor, Matthew, The complex-ity of countable structures

Kileel, Joseph, Algebraic geometry forcomputer vision

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

Zhang, Yumeng, Phase transistions ofrandom constraints satisfaction prob-lem

Group in Biostatistics

Gerlovina, Inna, Small sample inference

Moore, Sara, Yet another local learner(YALL): A localized machine learningalgorithm with appliances in precisionmedicine

Petito, Lucia, Topics in survival analysis

Sarovar, Varada, Targeted maximumlikelihood estimation for evaluationof the health impacts of air polution

Toth, Boriska, Targeted learning of indi-vidual effects and individualized treat-ments using an instrumental variable

University of California,Davis (19)

Department of Mathematics

Castillo Castillo, Federico, Local Ehrhartpositivity

Deride Silva, Julio, Essays on variationalapproximation techniques for stochas-tic optimization problems

Jana, Indrajit, Spectrum of random bandmatrices

Koenig, Dale, Trisections in three andfour dimensions

Kringe, Henry, A categorification of thecrystal isomorphism

Lang, Alexander, On the classification ofsupercharacter theories

Ling, Shuyang, Bilinear inverse problems:Theory, algorithms, and applications

Rogers, Carson, Fibered links in the3-sphere

Weaver, Chelsea, Analysis and extensionsof sparse representations in signalclassification

Young, Amanda, Spectral properties ofmulti-dimensional quantum spin sys-tems

Zhou, Yuan, Infinite-dimensional relax-ations of mixed-integer optimizationproblems

Department of Statistics

Chan, Stephanie, A maximum entropyapproach to joint modeling multipleprimate social networks and a newaudio classification scheme

Cheung, Rex Che Yeung, Statistical ma-chine learning applications in time se-ries, network, and partition-wise mod-els

Fan, Minjie, Modeling vectorial and non-Gaussian random fields on a sphere

Fujii, Kevin, Ranking, clustering, and datavisualization methods for revealing net-work structure

Ji, Hao, Optimal designs for longitu-dinal/functional data, extensions andapplications

Meng, Haoying, Spatio-temporal model-ing and predictions of house prices inSan Jose

Qi, Gao, Some contributions to statisticalsignal processing and machine learning

Yan, Hao, Statistical learning of non-Euclidean objects and applications

University of California,Irvine (14)

Department of Mathematics

Boling, Jess, Two geometric flows, whichare well adapted for non-Kahler geome-try

Franco De Leon, Mariano, Numericalmethods for curve evolution underdispersive geometric dynamics

Galgon, Geoff, Trees, refining, and com-binatorial characteristics

Garrett, Ervin, The cube problem forlinear orders

Han, Rui, Discrete ergodic Jacobi matri-ces: Spectral properties and quantumdynamical bounds

Lopez, Christopher, Compactness andrigidity for the ambient obstructionflow

Peng, Tao, Data-driven models for dy-namics of gene expression and singlecells

Ren, Rufei, Generic Newton polygon forexponential sums in two variables withtriangular base

Ta, Catherine, Miltiscale modeling of theepilthelial-mesenchymal transition

Takahashi, Yuki, Sums and products ofCantor sets and separable two dimen-sional quasicrystal models

Thomas, Andrew, A general mixture fornonlinear heterogeneous tumor growth

Yang, Jienian, Stochastic modeling ofstem cells

Zhang, Cheng, Scalable Hamiltonian MonteCarlo via surrogate methods

Zhang, Shuai, Transformed L1 function,sparse optimization algorithms andapplications

University of California,Los Angeles (29)

Department of Biostatistics

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

Flapan, Laure, Hodge structures withHodge numbers (n,0, . . . ,0, n) and theirgeometric realizations

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Gast, Theodore, Numerical simulationof elastic, viscoelastic, and granularmaterials

Ge, Stephen, The eigenvalue spacing ofi.i.d. random matrices and related leastsingular value results

Gold, Julian, Isoperimetric shapes insupercritical bond percolation

Greenblatt, Jordan, Dimensional asymp-totics for norms of maximal averagingoperators on Cartesian powers of finitegraphs

Hood, Kaitlyn, Theory of particle focusingin inertial microfluidic devices

Kalyanswamy, Sudesh, Automorphy lift-ing theorems

Lin, Jeffrey, Understanding probabilisticmodels through limit theorems

Lindquist, Jeffrey, Weak capacity inAhlfors regular metric spaces

Mullath Mohammed Sherief, Mohammed-zuhair, Ramified lifts and dimension ofordinary deformation rings

Ohrt, Christopher, Higher twisted torsioninvariants

Pradhana, Andre, Multiphase simulationusing material point method

Sella, Yehonatan, The mixed Tate prop-erty of reductive algebraic groups

Stoffregen, Matthew, Pin(2)-equivariantSeiberg-Witten Floer homology

Tekin, Omer Faruk, Application of spar-sity promoting techniques in numericalsolutions of partial differential equa-tions

Travis, Meyer, Energy models for signalprocessing and matrix factorization

Vivian, Bailey, Cohomological invariantsof finite groups

Wong, Jeffrey, Particle-laden viscous flowon an incline

Wu, Tianyu, Coordinate update algo-rithms: Theory and applications

Xie, Fei, Toric surfaces over arbitraryfields

Zemke, Ian, TQFT structures in HeegaardFloer homology

Zhu, Wei, Nonlocal variational methodsin image and data processing

University of California,Riverside (9)

Department of Mathematics

Blanton, Donna, On tensor products ofdemazure modules for sl 2[t]

Castro, Kyle, Multiplicative charactersums and the applications to prob-lems in analytic number theory

Choi, Hyun, Semistar operations in inte-gral domains and multiplicative lattices

O’Dell, Matthew, Integrable representa-tions of equivariant map algebras asso-ciated with Borel-de Siebenthal pairs

Rajan, Priyanka, Geometry and topologyof some fake projective spaces

Roby, Scott, Alpha-scaling zeta functionsfor self-similar multifractals

Walker, Andrew, Non-Noetherian Cohen-Macaulay rings

Watson, Sean, Fractal zeta functions: ToAhlfors spaces and beyond

Williams, Parker, Information gatheringon bounded degree trees and propertiesof random matrices

University of California,San Diego (8)

Department of Mathematics

Aksoy, Sinan, Random walks on directedgraphs and orientation of graphs

Grogan, Francesca, Computational tech-niques in molecular dynamics and det-onation shock dynamics

Li, Xiaolong, Moduli of continuity, Gausscurvature flow and Ricci solitons

Pu, Xiao, Topics in clustering: Featureselection and semiparametric modeling

Smith, Daniel, A Kodaira vanishing theo-rem for formal schemes

Spicer, Calum, Higher dimensional foli-ated Mori theory

Strahl, Perry, The Picard group of themoduli space of genus zero stablequotients to flag varieties

Tobin, Robin, Extremal spectral invariantsof graphs

University of California,Santa Barbara (2)

Department of Mathematics

Cattan, David, On the numerics, genera-tion, and scaling of fluvial landscapes

Lo Kim Lin, Jon, Micro-macro modelingand computation of ferrofluids

University of California,Santa Cruz (4)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Cadonna, Annalisa, Bayesian mixturemodels for spectral density estimation

Moll, Ryan, The dynamics of layered andnon-layered oscillatory double-diffusiveconvection

Department of Mathematics

Carman, William Rob, Unit groups ofrepresentations rings and their ghostrings as biset functions

Zhang, Linyi, On S-matrix and fusion

rules for irreducible VG modules

University of SouthernCalifornia (6)

Department of Mathematics

Acu, Bahar, On fillings of contact mani-folds by J-holomorphic curves

Ejder, Ozlem, The torsion subgroups ofelliptic curves in elementary Abelian2-extensions and the monodromy ofFermat surfaces

Lamberto-Egan, Laffite, A braid groupaction of categorified quantum groups

Tsilifis, Panagiotis, Design, dimensional-ity reduction, and variational methodsin uncertainty quantification

Weisheng, Xie, Stochastic differentialequation driven by fractional Brown-ian motion and Poisson jumps

Xiaojing, Xing, Optimal dividend andinvestment problems under Sparre An-derson model

COLORADO

Colorado School ofMines (1)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Shutt, Deborah, Modeling, analysis andsimulation of complex disease dynam-ics for HIV, Ebola, and Zika virus

Colorado StateUniversity (4)

Department of Mathematics

Arn, Robert, On the formulation and usesof SVD-based generalized curvatures

Dauphin, Stephen, General model-baseddecomposition framework for Polarimetric synthetic apeture images

Hodges, Timothy, Avoiding singularitiesduring homotopy continuation

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

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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

Fu, Wei, Predicting ultimate targets withtime-dependent predictors

Saha, Abhisek, Bayesian analysis of itemresponse theory and its applications tolongitudinal education data

Wang, Chun, On statistical methods forbig data

Wang, Yu-Bo, Adaptive partition weightedMCMC estimation

Wu, Qianzhu, Robust scan statistics fordetecting a local change in populationmean

Wesleyan University (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Kreinbihl, James, A Fox–Milnor theoremfor knots in a thickened surface

Marino, Alicia, Finiteness of strictly n-regular quadratic forms

Vigliotta, Sarah, Fractional chromaticnumbers of incidence graphs

Yale University (11)

Department of Biostatistics

Fu, Zhixuan, Penalized variable selectionin competing risks regression

Liu, Tiangi, Some statistical methods forbrain gene expression data: Dimensionreduction, feature screening and causalinference

Lu, Qiongshi, Integrative functional an-notation of the human genome and itsapplications in post GWAS analysis

Shabarova, Veronika, Multivariate ap-proach to modeling of time to eventdata with non-susceptible fraction andinformative censoring

Sun, Jiehuan, Statistical methods fortanslational medicine in longitudinalgenomic studies

Department of Mathematics

Dimitrov, Vesselin, Diophantine approxi-mations by special points and applica-tions to dynamics and geometry

Ehrman, Max, Almost primes in thinorbits of pythagorean triangles

Koplewitz, Shaked, Random graphs, sand-pile groups, and surjectivity of randommatrices

Luh, Kyle, Universality of random graphsand random matrices

Nguyen, Oanh, Random polynomials

Zhang, Liyang, Quantum unique ergod-icity of degereate eisenstein series onGL(n)

DELAWARE

Delaware StateUniversity (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Zheng, Peng, Automatic image regis-tration by using multi-variate splinefunctions

University of Delaware (7)

Department of Mathematical Science

Hassell, Matthew, Some applications ofintegral equations to the solution oftransient partial differential equations

Jin, Ke, On the length of the longest com-mon subsequence of two independentmallows pemutations

Kapita, Shelvean, Plane wave discontin-uous Galerkin methods for acousticscattering

Plaza, Rafael, Representation theorymethods in extremal combinatorics

Sanchez-Vizuet, Tonatiuh, Integral andcoupled integral-volume methods forevolutionary wave structure interaction

Sun, Shuying, On some families of alge-braically defined graphs

Xu, Peng, Some topics in random walks ongraphs, harmonic analysis and rogozintype inequalities for locally compactgroups

DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIA

George WashingtonUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics

Aganezov, Sergey, Phylogenomics meetsgenome assembly: From evolutionaryanalysis to scaffolding

Walker, Hakim, Computable isomor-phisms of directed graphs

Yang, Seung Yeop, Khovanov homology,distributive structure homology andapplications to knot theory

FLORIDA

Florida AtlanticUniversity (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Amento, Brittanney, Quantum circuits forcryptanalysis

Hurley, Michael, New geometric large sets

Kasti, Dinesh, An algorithmic approachto the lattice structures of attractorsand Lyapunuv functions

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Khadka, Bal, Techniques in lattice basisreduction

Florida Institute ofTechnology (5)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Ben-Rabha, Raja, Initial boundary valueproblems for higher order nonlinearhyperbolic equations with two indepen-dent variables

Binmahfoudh, Ahmed, New bounds forK-out-of-n type probabilities and theirapplications

Iqbal, Naveed, On the classification of thesecond minimal orbits of the contin-uous endomorphisms on the real lineand universality in chaos

Iwezulu, Kenneth, Discrete and continu-ous operational calculus in stochasticgames

Mandelkern, Jeremy, Sturm–Liouville equa-tions with singular endpoints of Poincarerank zero and one

Florida StateUniversity (27)

Department of Mathematics

Aktas, Mehmet, Topology of N-gonalcurves

Billet, Robert, Flow equivalence classesand Psuedo-Anosov

Chen, Yuanda, Modeling limit order bookdynamics using Hawkes processes

Chiu, Chun-Yuan, Modeling credit risk inthe default threshold framework

Dai, Yao, Game-theoretic models of ani-mal behavior observed in some recentexperiments

Eilertsen, Justin, Local and global bi-furcations in finite-dimensional centermanifold equations of double-diffusiveconvection

Gu, Fangxi, Exponential convergencefourier method and its applicationto option pricing with Levy processes

Harris, Corey, Effective methods in in-tersection theory and combinatorialalgebraic geometry

Mandel, David, Random Sobol’ sensitivityanalysis and model robustness

Mayhook, Dane, Conformal tilings andtype

McKenna, Joseph, Insulin secretion rhythms:Calcium regulation of beta-cell metabolismand rescue of islet oscillations

Tai, Liang-Hsuan, Trend and variable-phase seasonality estimation from func-tional data

Weingard, Daniel, Scroll waves: And howthey interact with non-reactive knots,tori, and spheres

Wyse, John, The impact of competitionon temporal musth strategies: A game-theoretic approach

Yao, Kovadio, Statistical analysis on ob-ject spaces with applications to 3D faceanalysis and exchange rates data

Yildirim, Vehpi, Mathematical modelingand analysis of gene knockout compen-sation in pancreatic beta-cells

Department of Statistics

Alzahrani, Hissah, Multivariate binarylongitudinal data analysis

Anaya, Josue, First steps towards imagedenoising in low-light conditions

Cleveland, Jason, Robust function reg-istration using depth on the phasevariablility

Geng, Junxian, Bayesian models for cap-turing heterogeneity in discrete data

Gordon, Glenna, Intensity estimation inPoisson processes with phase variability

Gupta, Ajay, Modeling multivariate datawith parameter-sensitive subspaces

Gupta, Cherry, Bayesian inference andnovel models for survival data withcured fraction

Huang, Xue, Sparse feature and elementselection in high-dimensional vectorautoregressive models

Lee, JiWon, Small area estimation withautomatic random effects selection

Lester, David, High level image analysison manifolds via projective shapes and3D reflection shapes

Orndorff, Mark, Nonparametric detectionof arbitrary changes to distributions inprocess control

University of CentralFlorida (2)

Department of Mathematics

Dutta, Aritra, Weighted low-rank approx-imation of matrices: Some analyticaland numerical aspects

Rolek, Martin, Coloring graphs with for-bidden minors

University of Florida (18)

Department of Mathematics

Adams, Francis, Anticliques in Borelgraphs on polish spaces and com-putable ultrahomogeneous structures

Borchering, Rebecca, Population thresh-olds and disease ecology

Cyr, Christopher, On S-semipermutablesubgroups of simple groups

Milliken, Evan, Metrapopulation modelsof infectious salmon anemia

Molnar, Todd, Local distribution of thenumber of small prime factors

Saucedo, Omar, Mathematical modelingof avian influenza

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

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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

Huckaba, Lauren, Simplices and sets of

positive upper density in Rd

Luu, Phong, Optimal pairs trading rulesand numerical methods

Slavov, George, Bivariate spline solutionto a class of reaction-diffusion equa-tions

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

Zhang, Jun, Hamiltonian dynamics andpersistent homology

Department of Statistics

Chen, Xianyan, Nonlinear constrainedoptimization in R and its applicationfor sufficient dimension reduction andvariable selection

Cobb, Stacy, Optimizing parameters forsequencing study desings

Ionan, Alexei, Bayesian framework fordeveloping and evaluation medicationscreening tests for early disease detec-tion with applications in oncology

Lyford, Alexander, Investigating under-graduate student understanding ofgraphical displays of quantitative datathrough machine learning algorithms

Martin, Jacob, Topics in zero-inflatedcount regression coefficients of deter-mination and marginal models

Tong, Hao, Identifying and understand-ing repetitive patterns

Wang, Li-Yu, Regularized aggregationapproaches for complex data

HAWAII

University of Hawaii atManoa (3)

Department of Mathematics

Brown, Jonathan, The maximum numberof covers in a lattice and in otherrelated posets

Mukai, Jared, The log-periodic power lawmodel: An exploration

Verrette, Jean, Results on algebraic real-ization of equivariant bundles over the2-sphere

IOWA

Iowa State University (29)

Department of Mathematics

Berikkyzy, Zhanar, The edit distancefunction: Forbidding induced powers ofcycles and other questions

Dagtoros, Kubilay, Large deviation resultsfor random walks in a sparse randomenvironment

Heysse, Kristin, Construction for cospec-tral graphs for the normalized Lapla-cian matrix and distance matrix

Li, Jiali, Congruence n-permutable vari-eties

Lin, Jephian C.-H., Variants of zeroforcing and their applications to theminimum rank problem

Martinez Rivera, Xavier, The principalrank characteristic sequence and theenhanced principal rank sequence

Moss, Kevin, Coloring problems in graphtheory

Rasberry, Darrin, On minimal supportsolutions of underdetermined systemsof linear equations

Sanyatit, Preechaya, Isomorphisms ofuniform algebras on the 2-torus

Wang, Feifei, Computational modeling ofimpact and deformation

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Wang, Stefanie, On free quasigroups andquasigroup representations

Department of Statistics

Almodovar Rivera, Israel, Some contribu-tions to K-means clustering problems

Basulto Elias, Guillermo, Kernel deconvo-lution density estimation

Cao, Fan, Local polynomial kernel smooth-ing with correlated error

Foster, Robert Christian, Topics in empir-ical Bayesian analysis

Hadler, Jeremy, Forensic tool mark com-parisions: Tests for the null hypothesisof different sources

Hare, Eric, Statistical methods for bulletmatching

Howard, Reka, Evaluation of parametricand nonparametric statistical methodsin genomic prediction

King, Emily Anne, Bayesian inference ofvirus evolutionary models from next-generation sequencing data

Landau, William, High-dimensional hier-archical models and massively parallelcomputing

Li, Qi, Decision making under uncertain-ties for renewable energy and precisionagriculture

Lock, Dennis, Statistical methods insports with a focus on win probabilityand performence

Michaud, Nicholas, Bayesian models andinferential methods for forecasting dis-ease outbreak severity

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

Norton, Rachael, Pick interpolation, dis-placement equation, andW∗-correspon-dences

Qin, Huan, Averages of fractional expo-nential sums weighted by Maass forms

Ramirez, Camila, P -bigon right-veering-ness and over twisted contact struc-tures

Rodman, Daniel, An infinite family oflinks with critical bridge spheres

Tipton, James, Reproducing kernel Hilbertspaces and complex dynamics

Yu, Lu, Wavelets on hierarchical trees

Department of Statistics and

Actuarial Science

Somal, Harsimran, Heterogeneous com-puting for the Bayesian HNICAR modelwith incomplete data

Yi, Congrui, Penalized methods and algo-rithms for high-dimensional regressionin the presence of heterogeneity

Zhou, Zhenhao, From valuing equitylinked death benefits to pricing Ameri-can options

Zhou, Ziqian, Statistical inference ofdistributed delay differential equations

IDAHO

Idaho State University (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Klimas, Caitlin, Picard and Taylor kernelsfor self-adjoint second order differen-tial equations

University of Idaho (2)

Department of Mathematics

Ikeda, Masaki, enumeration of permuta-tions indexing local complete intersec-tion Schubert varieties

Rupert, Malcolm, An explicit Theta liftfrom Hilbert to Siegel paramodularforms

ILLINOIS

Illinois Institute ofTechnology (4)

Department of Applied Mathematics

Ha, Hansen, Numerical methods for twodimensional nonlocal equations arisingfrom non-Gaussian stochastic dynamics

Hernandez, Francisco, A boundary inte-gral method for computing the forcesof moving beads in a 3-dimensionallinear visoelastic flow

Jimenez Rugama, Lluis Antoni, Adaptivequasi-Monte Carlo cubature

Zhao, Meng, An efficient adaptive rescal-ing scheme for computing Hele-Shawproblems

Illinois State University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Kanbir, Sinan, An intervention studyaimed at enhancing seventh-grade stu-dents’ development of the concept of avariable

Rupnow, Theodore, Secondary mathemat-ics teachers’ learning through practice:The case of Rudy

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Northern IllinoisUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Luvsandash, Khulan, Change point de-tection for dependent spatio-temporaldata

Paul, Erina, Approximate Bayesian com-putation in nonparametric Bayesianmodels

Wang, Andrew, Constrained and coxetertable algebras

NorthwesternUniversity (15)

Department of Mathematics

Couch, Michael, A study of the equi-variant Gromov-Witten theory of theprojective line and Eynard-Orantin re-cursion

Gao, Honghao, Augmentations and sheavesfor knot conormals

Legg, Robert, An obstruction theory forcomodules suited for producing ele-ments of the exotic Picard group

Liang, Weiping Spencer, The Brown-Peterson homology of the connectedcover of the j-spectrum

Moy, Richard, Non-CM Hilbert modularforms of partial weight one

Serban, Vlad, Infinitesimal p-adic Manin-Mumford and application to Hida the-ory

Specter, Joel, Unramifiedness and crys-tallinity

Wei, Ann Rebecca, What do algebrasform?

Wilson, Dylan, Equivariant, parameter-ized, and chromatic homotopy theory

Wu, Lei, Multi-indexed Deligne extensionsand multiplier subsheaves

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

Alsulaimani, Hamdan, Strict regularityof positive definite ternary quadraticforms

Pathak, Nimishaben Shailesh, Lyapunov-type inequalify and eigenvalue esti-mates for fractional problems

University of Chicago (20)

Department of Mathematics

Akin, Victoria, An algebraic characteriza-tion of the point-pushing subgroup

Balibanu, Ana, The wonderful compacti-fication and the universal centralizer

Chen, Gong, Dispersive equations withmultiple potentials

Chen, Weiyan, Analytic number theoryfor o-cycles

Fan, Tiangi,D-infinity modules on smoothrigid analytic varieties and locally ana-lytic representations

Ho, Quoc, Free factorization algebra andhomology of configuration spaces inalgebraic geometry

Howe, Sean, Overconvergent modularforms and thep-adic Jacquet–Langlandscorrespondece

Johnstone, Daniel, A Gelfond-Graev for-mula and stable transfer factors forSLn

Lim, Chang Mou, A geometric height ongenus one curves

Rodriguez, Casey, Stable soliton reso-lution for wave maps on a curvedspacetime

Sakellaris, Georgios, Boundary value prob-lems in Lipschitz domains for equationswith drifts

Salter, Nicholas, The topology of surfacebundles: Cohomology and enumerationof fiberings

Wang, Jonathan, On an invariant bilinearform on the space of automorphicforms via asymptotics

Wilmes, John, Structure, automorphisms,and isomorphisms of regular combina-torial objects

Xu, Zhouli, In and around stable homo-topy groups of spheres

Department of Statistics

Goessling, Marc, High-dimensional gener-ative models: Shrinkage, composition,and autoregression

Roy, Rishideep, Extreme values of log-correlated Gaussian fields

Xing, Zhengrong, Poisson Multiscale meth-ods for high-throughput sequencingdata

Xu, Mengyu, Two problems in high-dimensional inference: L2 test by re-sampling and graph estimation of non-stationary time series

Zhu, Yuancheng, Constrained and lo-calized forms of statistical minimaxtheory

University of Illinois atChicago (17)

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics and Computer Science

Adali, Riza Seckin, Sincular loci of restric-tion varieties

Austin, Alexander, Logarithmic poten-tials and quasiconformal flows on theHeisenberg group

Bu, Xianwei, D-optimal designs for multi-nomial logistic models

Cantrell, Michael, Ergodic theory andgeometry of nilpotent groups

Cheng, Ling, Optimal biomarker-stratifieddesign and adaptive design in mixturedistributions

Hardwick, John, Graphical algorithms forfinding the nucleolus of binary-valuedmatching games

Jiang, Liyian, A nonparametric estimateof the risk-neutral density and itsapplications

Jonathon, Yaggie, Topics in knowledgerepresentation belief revision and con-ditional knowledge bases

Lelkes, Adam Daniel, Algorithms andcomplexity results for learning and bigdata

Nie, Keyu, Studies on some inferentialaspects of Graybill-deal estimators

Powers, Brian, An analysis of multivariatefinal-offer arbitration

Ryan, Timothy, The effective cone ofmoduli spaces of sheaves on a smoothquadric surface

Terry, Caroline, Model theory and ex-tremal combinatorics: Structure, enu-meration, and 0-1 laws

Tian, Tian, Optimal design theory inearly-phase dose-finding problems

Zaya, Karen, Problems of regularity inmodels arising from fluid dynamics

Zheng, Xudong, The Hilbert schemes ofpoints on singular varieties and Kodairanon-vanishing in characteristic p

Zielinski, Joseph, Compact structures indescriptive classification theory

University of Illinois,Urbana–Champaign (32)

Department of Mathematics

Andersen, Nickolas, Arithmetic of maassforms of half-integral weight

Aramyan, Nerses, A construction of topo-logical field theories

Compaan, Erin, Smoothing propertiesof certain dispersive nonlinear partialdifferential equations

Cong, Lin, Stability thresholds for signedLaplacians on locally-connected net-works

Delcourt, Michelle, Viewing extremal andstructural problems through a proba-bilistic lens

Duarte Gelvez, Eliana, Syzygies and im-plicitization of tensor product surfaces

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Fieldsteel, Nathan, Some problems inpolynomial interpolation and topologi-cal complexity

Gupta, Neha, Certain free group func-tions and untangling closed curves onsurfaces

Heersink, Byron, Applications of dynam-ical systems to Farey sequences andcontinued fractions

Huan, Zhen, Quasi-elliptic cohomology

Huo, Zhenghui, A new computation of theBergman Kernel and related techniques

Klamsakul, Natawat, A look at T1 and Tbtheorems on non-homogeneous spacesthrough time-frequency analysis

Lu, Qu, Intrinsic contractivity for somenon-symmetric Levy processes withnon-local operators

McConvey, Andrew, Sufficient conditionsfor the existence of specified subgraphsin graphs

Nawaz, Tayyab, Applications of Stein’smethod and large deviations principle’sin mean-field O(N) models

Nelson, Peter, A small presentation forMorava E-Theory power operations

Pechenik, Oliver, K-Theoretic Schubertcalculus and applications

Petrickova, Sarka, Extremal problems oncounting combinatorial structures

Rezvani, Sepideh, Approximating rotationalgebras and inclusions of C∗-Algebras

Santana, Michael, Extremal problems oncycle structure and colorings of graphs

Sharifzadeh, Maryam, Embedding prob-lems and Ramsey-Turan variation inextremal graph theory

Spinoza, Hannah, On some problems inreconstruction

Vichitkunakom, Panupong, Cluster alge-bras and discrete integrable systems

Wise, Jennifer, Games on graphs, visibilityrepresentations, and graph colorings

Witsarut, Pho-On, Gromov boundaries ofcomplexes associated to surfaces

Department of Statistics

Bi, Xuan, Dimension reduction and ef-ficient recommender system for large-scale complex data

Eisiner, Robert David, Sampling for con-ditional inference on contigency tables,multigraphs, and high dimensional ta-bles

Hu, Jianjun, Statistical methods for learn-ing sparse features

Sengupta, Srijan, Statistical analysis ofnetworks with community structureand bootstrap methods for big data

Shand, Lyndsay, Methods and applica-tions for space-time data

Wang, Jin, Scalable algorithms for Bayesianvariable selection

Ye, Sangbeak, Sequential mastery detec-tion and Bayesian learning promotionunder cognitive diagnostic models

INDIANA

IndianaUniversity–PurdueUniversity Indianapolis (5)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

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

Cassani, Simone, Compliant and col-lapsible tubes: Modeling, analysis andapplications in medicine

Li, Lingnan, Maximum empirical likeli-hood estimation in U -statistics-basedgeneralized estimating equations

Prada, Daniele, A hybridizable discon-tinuous Galerkin method for nonlinearporous media viscoelasticity with appli-cations in ophthalmology

Yoo, Yeon Joo, Strategies to tackle ill-posed problems in biological systems

Indiana University,Bloomington (13)

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Yu-Yuan, Generalized Boole trans-formations with infinitely many singu-larities

Gupta, Nikhil, Spectral properties of thenon-Euclidean Laplacian

Gur, Metin, Hypersurfaces with centralconvex cross sections

Hu, Hailiang, Z/3-actions on S8× S8

× S8

Huo, Wenru, The global attractor, finitedimensionality, determining modes anddata assimilation of 2D Boussinq sys-tem

Kim, Jiwon, Fixed points on p-adic perioddomains and rational conjugacy classes:An example for GSp(4)

Li, Yingwei, Pointwise stability estimatesfor shock and reaction diffusion waves

Lightfoot, Ashley, Invariants of link ho-motopy in dimension four

Nguyen, Phuong, Deterministic and sto-chastic partial differential equations influid and solid mechanics

Ong, Kiah Wah, On some dynamic transi-tion problems

Timko, Edward, Polynomial tuples ofcommuting isometries constrained by1-dimensional varieties

Tune, William, A lambda calculus formonotonicity reasoning

Zhang, Le, Very weak solutions of theStokes problem in a convex polygonand its numerical simulation

Purdue University (18)

Department of Mathematics

Ahn, Sung Won, Oscillation of quenchedslowdown asymptotic of RWRE in Z

Chen, Yi, Local polynomial chaos ex-pansion method for high dimensionalstochastic differential equations

Lucas, Jason, Connecting models of con-figuration spaces: From double loops tostrings

Mukundan, Vivek, Rees algebras anditerated Jacobian duals

Park, Eun Young, The error estimationin finite element method for the linearelasticity problems

Perlmutter, Michael, Martingales, singularintegrals, and fourier multipliers

Yue, Zhao, Inverse surface scatteringproblems for elastic waves

Zhang, Xin, Extreme-strike and small-time asymptotics for Gaussian stochas-tic volatility model

Zheng, Yiqiang, Mathematical modelsof Ebola virus disease and vaccinepreventable diseases

Department of Statistics

Bemis, Kylie, A framework for the sta-tistical analysis of mass spectrometryimaging experiments

Chakraborty, Piyas, Some contstructivesuggestions on false models

Huang, Qiming, Model-free variable screen-ing, sparse regression analysis andother applications with optimal trans-formations

Ness, Robert, Bayesian methods for causalinference of cell signal transduction

Pan, Chao, Group transformation andidentification with kernel methods andbig data mixed logistic regression

Qu, Simeng, Some functional regressionmodels in the frame work of reproduc-ing kernel Hilbert space

Tong, Xiaosu, Divide and recombinedfor large complex data: Nonparametric-regression modeling of spatial andseasonal-temporal time series

Yu, Zhuqing, High dimensional inferencefor semiparametric models

Zheng, Faye, The design and statisti-cal analysis of single-cell sequencingexperiments

University of NotreDame (9)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics and Statistics

Kupaev, Timur, Multiscale simulationstudy of the effects of fiber alignment,bending and stress strain relations onfibrin networks

Machen, Michael, Krylov implicit integra-tion factor methods for solving fourthorder equations

Mahserejian, Shamt, Modeling study ofthe connection between microlevel TIPstructures with macro-level phases forcharacterizing microtubule mechanismof dynamic instability

Specht, Alicia, Robust inference and net-work analysis for non-Gaussian gene-expression data

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Department of Mathematics

Ansaldi, Kathleen, Regularity of Tor,LCM-duals and Hilbert functions

Burkard, Edward, First steps in homotopyresults for symplectic embeddings ofellipsoids

Ulrickson, Peter, Oriented one-dimensionalsupersymmetric Euclidean field theo-ries and K-theory

Vander Werf, Nathan, Screening opera-tors for lattice vertex operator algebrasand resulting constructions

Wang, Weijia, Closure operator and latticeproperty of root systems

KANSAS

Kansas State University (4)

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Hui, Counting representations ofdeformed preprojective algebras

Goerl, Lee, Sheaves of differential opera-tors and D-modules on non-commutativeprojective spaces

Ostergaard, Misty, Solutions of diagonalcongruences with variables restrictedto a box

Xiao, Xinli, The double of representationsof cohomological hall algebras

University of Kansas (5)

Department of Mathematics

Kang, Su Chen, Quantum families ofmaps

Ngo, Cuong, Moving mesh methods fornumerical solution of porous mediumequations

Rajaguru, Biswajit, Projective normalityfor some families of surfaces of generaltype

Serio, Grant, Miultiplicities in commuta-tive algebra

Steyer, Andrew, A Lyapunov exponentbased stability theory for ordinary dif-ferential equation initial value problemsolvers

University of KansasMedical Center (2)

Department of Biostatistics

Chen, Xueyi, Mathematical modeling ofthe separation process of chromatogra-phy and estimation of parameters

Noel-MacDonnel, Janelle, RNA-seq analy-sis strategies and ethical considerationsinvolved in precision medicine

Wichita State University (3)

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics, and Physics

Alghamdi, Suad A, Composite optimalcontrol for interconnected singularlyperturbed systems

Hamdan, Mustafa Mahmoud Naji, Unbi-asedness of homogeneity test of normalmean vectors under multivariate orderrestrictions

Mitchell, Colm Patric, A capillary surfacewith no radial limits

KENTUCKY

University of Kentucky (26)

Department of Biostatistcs

Appiah, Frank, Mixture modeling withapplications in Alzheimer’s disease

Ding, Xiuhua, Modeling dementia risk,cognitive change, predictive rules inlongitudinal studies

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

Department of Statistics

Crouch, Rebecca, Aggregated quantitativemultifactor dimensionality reduction

Shu, Shen, Developing an alternative wayto analyze nanostring data

Wang, Hong, Improved models for differ-ential analysis for genomic data

Wang, Hongyuan, Statistical inference ondynamical systems

Yang, Yifan, Novel computational meth-ods for censored data and regression

Yang, Yuchen, Statistical methods forenvironment exposure data subject todetection limits

Zhao, Yumin, Statistical inference ontrimmed means and partial area underRoc curves by empirical likelihoodmethod

University of Louisville (1)

Department of Mathematics

Paniagua Mejia, Carlos, Mathematicalhybrid models for image segmentation

LOUISIANA

Louisiana State University(LSU), Baton Rouge (14)

Department of Mathematics

Abeynanda, Gayan, Dynamic resonantscattering of near-monochromatic fields

Brannan, Tyler, A conditioned Gaussian-Poisson model for default phenomena

Bucher, Eric, Cluster algebras and max-imal Green sequences for closed sur-faces

Frnka, Richard, Asymptotic formulae forrestricted unimodal sequences

Ghulam, Ashar, Method of the Riemann-Hilbert problem for the solution of theHelmholtz equation in a semi-infinitestrip

Holmes, Andrew, On the Skein theory of0-framed surgery along the Trefoil knot

Istvan, Kyle, Manifestations of symmetryin polynomial link invariants

Levitt, Jesse, Properties of polynomialidentity quantized Weyl algebras

Matherne, Jacob, Derived geometric Sa-take equivalence, Springer correspon-dence, and small representations

Peng, Jun, Beyond the tails of the coloredJones polynomial

Pfeil, Simon, On properties of matroidconnectivity

Schoenbaum, Lucius, Towards theory andapplications of generalized categoriesto areas of type theory an categoricallogic

Scirratt, Austin, Evolution semigroups forwell-posed, non-autonomous evolutionfamilies

Viator, Robert, Spectral properties ofphotonic crystals: Bloch waves andband gaps

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LSU Health ScienceCenter, New Orleans (1)

Department of Biostatistics

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

Graf, Jonathan, Parallel performance ofnumerical simulations for applied par-tial differential equation models onthe Intel Xeon Phi Knights landingprocessor

Hajghassem, Mona, Efficient multigridmethods for optimal control of partialdifferential equations

Jeong, Juyoung, Spectral sets and func-tions of Euclidean Jordan algebras

Massarelii, Nicole, Analysis of sensoryfeedback in the Lamprey central patterngenerator for locomotion

Orlitzky, Michael, Positive operators, Z-operators, Lyapunov rank, and lineargames on closed convex cones

Park, Hyekyung, Robust value-at-risk(VaR) portfolio selection problem underthe joint ellipsoidal uncertainty set inthe presence of transaction costs

Tay Stamoulas, Serap, Asymptotic analy-sis of opinion dynamic models

Yang, Ye, The simultaneous assessmentof normality and homoscedasticity insome linear model

Zhao, Jian, Some approximate confi-dence intervals and regions for inter-laboratory data analysis

University of Maryland,College Park (5)

Department of Mathematics

Cohen, Jonathan, Transfer of represen-tations and orbital integrals for innerforms of GL(n)

Horn, Marc, A combinatorial formula fortest functions with Pro-p Iwahori levelstructure

Huang, Jonathan, Exponentiation of mo-tivic zeta functions

Kelly, Sean, The adelic differential gradedalgebra for surfaces

Yu, Luquan, Two goodness-of-fit tests forthe density ratio model

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston College (2)

Department of Mathematics

Mullane, Scott, Adventures in the canoni-cal bundles on curves

Soylu, Cihan, Special cycles on GSpinShimura varieties

Boston University (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Chaudhary, Osman, Rigorous justifica-tion of Taylor dispersion via centermanifold theory

Cummings, Patrick, Nonlinear Schrodingerapproximations for partial differentialequations with quadratic and quasilin-ear terms

Goeva, Aleksandrina, Complexity penal-ized methods for structured and un-structured data

Kuklinski, Parker, Absorption phenomenain quantum walks

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Boston University Schoolof Public Health (6)

Department of Biostatistics

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

Wadleigh, Nick, Shrinking target phe-nomena applied to zero-one laws foruniform diophantine approximation

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

Sankar, Krishanu, Symmetric powers andthe equivariant dual Steenrod algebra

Shankar, Ananth, The p-curvature con-jecture and monodromy about simpleclosed loops

Zhou, Rong, Mod-p isogeny classes onShimura varieties with parahoric levelstructure

Zhu, Yihang, The stabilization of theFrobenius–Hecke traces on the intersec-tion cohomology of orthogonal Shimuravarieties

Department of Statistics

Bavli, Hillel, Improving the accuracy ofcivil damage awards with claim aggre-gation

Chen, Yang, Expediting scientific discov-eries with Bayesian statistical methods

D’Amour, Alexander, Superpopulationgeneralization in social network analy-sis

Kao, Edward, Causal inference undernetwork interference: A framework forexperiments on social networks

Krakovna, Viktoriya, Building interpretablemodels: From Bayesian networks toneural networks

Yang, Justin, A grand journey of statisti-cal hierarchical modeling

School of Engineering and Applied

Science

Dudte, Levi, Inverse design of shape usingfolds and cuts in flat sheets

Horvat, Christopher, Theory, modeling,and impacts of the sea ice floe sizedistribution

Minot, Ariana, Distributed optimizationmethods for monitoring and operatingelectric power systems

Perol, Thibaut, Geophysics from small tobig data

Weiner, Ian, High-SNR capacity of AWGNchannels with generic alphabet con-straints

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (19)

Department of Mathematics

Abel, Zachary, On folding and unfoldingwith linkages and polyhedra

Blaier, Netanel, The quantum Johnson ho-momorphism and symplectomorphismof 3-folds

Carpentier, Sylvain, Rational matrix dif-ferential operators and integrable sys-tems of PDEs

Fan, Chenjie, On long time dynamic andsingularity formation of NLS

Farber, Miriam, Arrangements of minorsin the positive Grassmannian

Finucane, Hilary, Functional and cross-trait genetic architecture of commondiseases and complex traits

Harman, Nate, Deligne categories andrepresentation stability in positive char-acteristic

Knizel, Alisa, Random tilings: Gap proba-bilities, local, and global asymptotics

Liu, Gaku, The topology of Baues com-plexes and flip graphs

Lodhia, Asad, Topics in linear spectralstatistics of random matrices

Lovasz, Laszlo, Regularity and removallemmas and their applications

Nardin, Denis, Stability and distributivityover orbital ∞-categories

Shah, Jay, Parametrized higher categorytheory

Sun, Xin, Mating of negatively correlatedtrees with applications to Schnyderwoods and bipolar orientations

Thompson, Daniel, Representation theoryof the global Cherednik algebra

Vladu, Adrian, Shortest paths, Markovchains, matrix scaling, and beyond:Improved algorithms through the lensof continuous optimization

Wang, Menglu, Gaussian free field,Schramm–Loewner evolution andLiouville quantum gravity

Yang, Ben, Polynomial partitioning andincidence problems in higher dimen-sions

Yu, Yun William, Compressive algorithmsfor search and storage in biological data

NortheasternUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematics

Cecchini, Simone, Callias-type operatorsin C∗-algebras

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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

Gao, Qinfeng, Numerical methods forgravity inversion, synthetic apertureradar, and travel-time tomography

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

Machen, Casey, Abelian varieties associ-ated to Clifford algebras

Nagy, Akos, The berry connection andother aspects of the Ginzburg-Landautheory in dimension 2

Olson, Emily, Progress on the 1/3-2/3conjecture

Wang, Bao, Mathematical modeling andcomputation of molecular solvation andbinding

Department of Statistics and

Probability

Cai, Liqian, High-dimensional inferencefor spatial error models

Chakraborty, Sayan, Bayesian variableselection and network estimation

Kim, Jiwoong, Regression models withdependent errors and goodness of fittest of errors

Maurya, Ashwini, Estimating covariancestructure in high dimensions

Nandy, Siddhartha, High-dimensional vari-able selection for spatial regression andcovariance estimation

Tesnjak, Irena, Limiting properties ofinfinite superpositions of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type processes and theirapplications to finance

Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Alokaily, Samer, Modeling and simulationof the peristaltic flow of Newtonian andnon-Newtonian fluids with applicationto the human body

Pastine, Adrian, Two problems of Ger-hard Ringel

Shonibare, Olabanji, Numerical simula-tion of viscoelastic multiphase flowsusing an improved adaptive approach

Oakland University (7)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Almusharrf, Amera, Delay differentialequations and the logistic model withtwo delays

Bahuguna, Manoj, Analytics of asymme-try and transformation to multivariatenormality through Copula functionswith applications

Elkadry, Alaa, Statistical analyses of“randomly sourced data”

Hoxhaj, Valmira, Some contributions tostatistical data analytics with applica-tions in finance

Nierman, Ryan, Combinatorial approachesto continuous problems

Wiggins, Alexander, On the propertiesand behavior of the condition numberfor linear programming

Zhamo, Ervisa, Contributions to the sta-tistical analysis of computer experi-ments

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University of Michigan (39)

Department of Biostatistics

He, Zihuai, Set-based tests for geneticassociation and gene-environment in-teraction

Lehmann, Douglas, Robust instrumentalvariable methods for casual inference

Lin, Keng-Han, Statistical methods fordetecting rare variant associations infamily-based designs

Liu, Zhuqing, Bayesian local smoothingmodeling and inference for pre-surgicalFMRI data

Rothwell, Rebecca, Statistical methods inpopulation genetics for next generationsequencing data

Shi, Yang, Statistical and computationalmethods for differential expressionanalysis in high-throughput gene ex-pression data

Shu, Hai, High dimensional dependentdata analysis for neuroimaging

Smith, Abigail Randolph, Sequential strat-ification for estimating effects of time-dependent treatments on multivariatesurvival outcomes

Sun, Zhichao, Efficient designs for early-phase clinical trials and exposure en-riched outcome trajectory dependentsampling for longitudinal studies ofgene-environment interaction

Tao, Yebin, Semiparametric regressionand machine learning methods forestimating optimal dynamic treatmentregimes

Wu, Fan, Analysis of complex survivaland longitudinal data in observationalstudy

Zhu, Jian, Assessment and improvementof a sequential regression multivariateimputation algorithm

Department of Mathematics

Ellis, Dondi, Motivic analogues of MO andMSO

Fraser, Christopher, Correspondences be-tween cluster structures

Karpman, Rachel, Total positivity andnetwork parametrizations: From type Ato type C

Levinson, Jake, Foundations of Boij-Soderberg theory for grassmannians

Li, Jiaqi, Stochastic perron for stochastictarget problems

Li, Wei, Nonlinear wave propagation indeterministic and stochastic media

Marple, Gary, Fast, high-order algorithmsfor simulating vesicle flows throughconstrained geometries

Pal, Suchandan, An explicit jacquet-langlands correspondence

Prigge, David, Absorbing boundary con-ditions and numerical methods for thelinearized water wave equation in 1 and2 dimensions

Razavi, Hamed, Symmetric hybrid sys-tems: Periodic Gait design for leggedrobots

Rebhuhn-Glanz, Rebecca, Closure opera-tions that induce big Cohen–Macaulaymodules and algebras, and classifica-tion of singularities

Renardy, David, Bumping in deformationspaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds withcompressible boundary

Simon, Gregory, Automorphism-invariantintegrals forms in Griess algebras

Souza, Andre, An optimal control ap-proach to bounding transport proper-ties of thermal convection

Walch, Olivia, Exploring subconsciousvision and circadian rhythms throughmathematical modeling

Wiltshire-Gordon, John, Representationtheory of combinatorics categories

Department of Statistics

Errickson, Joshua, Two-stage regressionfor treatment effect estimation

Le, Can, Estimating community structurein networks by spectral methods

Lei, Huitian, An online actor critic algo-rithm and a statistical decision proce-dure for personalizing intervention

Nielsen, Karen, Selecting and evaluatingmodels to reflect underlying scientificpriciples: Using basis sets to parame-terize hypotheses

Park, Seyoung, Selected problems forhigh-dimensional data - Quantile anderrors-in-variables regressions

Sougata, Chaudhuri, Online learning torank with feedback on top ranked items

Wang, Yingchuan, Logistic-normal mix-tures with heterogeneous componentsand high dimensional covariates

Wu, Tianshuang, Set valued dynamictreatment regimes

Yang, Ziheng, Integrative analysis meth-ods for biological problems using datareduction approaches

Zhang, Yiwei, Regularization and opti-mization methods for high-dimensionaldata

Zhang, Yuan, Statistical network analysis:Beyond block models

Wayne State University (7)

Department of Mathematics

Cao, Tan, Optimal control of a perturbedsweeping process with applications tothe crow motion model

Hoang, Tuan, Stochastic hybrid systems:Numerical methods, limit results, andcontrols

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

Western MichiganUniversity (7)

Department of Mathematics

Bi, Zhenming, Highly Hamiltonian graphsand digraphs

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

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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

Sharma, Amit, Higher Picard groupoidsand DW-Theory

Wan, Chen, A local trace formula andthe multiplicity one theorem for theGinzburg–Rallis model

School of Statistics

Eck, Daniel, Statistical inference in multi-variate settings

Gu, Yuwen, High dimensional regressionand classification and their optimiza-tion

Majumdar, Subhabrata, An inferentialperspective on data depth

Mallik, Abhirup, Application of functionaldata on medical images/climate

Molstad, Aaron, Model-based methods forhigh-dimensional multivariate analysis

Nandy, Abhishek, On small area estima-tion

Vats, Dootika, Output analysis for Markovchain Monte Carlo

Yang, Fan, Personalized recommendersystem

MISSOURI

Missouri University ofScience andTechnology (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Brigham II, Reginald, A harmonic m-factorial function and applications

Myers III, Donald F, Pointwise and uni-form covergence of Fourier series onSU (2)

St Louis University (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Smith, Gerrit, Realizing injective split-tings of stable 4-manifolds

University ofMissouri–Columbia (11)

Department of Mathematics

Bemrose, Travis, Properties of frames andrelationships between them with em-phasis on subframes and unconditionalconvergence

Guo, Victor, Exponential sums, charactersums, sieve methods and distributionof prime numbers

McCrady, Andrew, Perinormality in poly-nomial and module-finite ring exten-sions

Okamoto, Nicholas, Radiation conditionsand integral representations for Clif-ford algebra-valued null-solutions ofthe iterated perturbed Dirac operator

Pinkham, Eric, Outer products and frameco-efficients

Polstra, Thomas, Uniform bounds in F -finite rings and their applications

Quinn, Stephen, Sublinear version ofthe Schur test and weighted norminequalities

Sukhtaiev, Selim, Topics in spectral the-ory of differential operators

Tuomanen, Brian, Sequences of rank-1 projections and Gabor tight fusionframes

Xue, Jianfei, On hydrodynamic equationsand their relation to kinetic theory andstatistical mechanics

Yang, Xinyao, Stability of planer frontsfor a class of reaction diffusion equa-tions

University ofMissouri–Kansas City (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Konboon, Malinee, A hybrid modelingapproach to assess the efficacy ofparatuberculosis control measures onUS dairy farms

Song, Xing, First and second order ef-ficiency of sequential designs in anonlinear situation with applications

University of Missouri–StLouis (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Computer Science

Alkhidhr, Hanan, Correspondence be-tween multiwavelet shrinkage/multiplewavelet frame shrinkage and nonlineardiffusion

Kalubowila, Sumudu, Mathematical ap-proaches to digital image inpainting

Washington University (4)

Department of Mathematics

Benge, Philip, Paraproducts and welllocalized operators

Papiu, Alexandru, Connectivity boundsand S-partitions for triangulated mani-folds

Rahm, Robert, Weighted inequalities forthree operators

Yang, Yu, Explicit bases of motivesover number fields with application toFeynman integrals

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi StateUniversity (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Ferguson, Joseph, Anisotropic quadrilat-eral mesh optimization

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

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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

Myers, John, Homological criteria forminimal multiplicity

Owad, Nick, Bridge spectra of cables of2-bridge knots

Parmelee, Caitlyn, Applications of dis-crete mathematics for understandingdynamics of synapses and networks inneuroscience

Russell, Travis, Abstract characteriza-tions of ordered operator spaces

St. Goar, Julia, A Caputo boundary valueproblem in Nabia fractional calculus

Tomlinson, Charles, Extremal problemsfor graph homomorphisms and au-tomata

Tomlinson, Maranda, Languages, geodesics,and HNN extensions

Department of Statistics

Kismiantini, Methods for detecting timelags in animal temperature regulation

Nzouda-Tsotezo, Cyrille, Risk evaluationand portfolio allocation in the contextof high frequency trading

Zhang, Yixiang, Novel protein functionalanalysis based on weighted and di-rected protein overlap network andadjusted entropy measurements

NEVADA

University of Nevada, LasVegas (4)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Breckling, Sean, Numerical and sensitivityanalyses of Navier-Stokes alpha models

Ikeda, Emi, Investigation of determinacyfor games of variable length

Shields, Sidney, Novel methods for Maxwell’sequations and their applications

Xu, Jianbo, Statistical inference of geneticforces using a Poisson random fieldmodel with non-constant populationsize

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Dartmouth College (3)

Department of Mathematics

Dwyer, Timothy, c-Wilf equivalences ofpermutations

Harris, Seth, On-line algorithms andreverse mathematics

Sullivan, Everett, Linear chord diagramswith long chords

University of NewHampshire (7)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bornstein, Neil, Music of the triangles:How students come to understandtrigonometric identities and transfor-mations

Brand, Evan, Spatially-localized solutionsof plane Couette flow

Earls, David, Students’ misconceptionsof sequences and series in secondsemester calculus

Marshall, Ian, On tensor autoequiva-lences of graded fusion categories

Sager, Lauren, A Beurling theorem fornoncommutative Hardy spaces associ-ated with a semifinite von Neumannalgebra with various norms

Storch, Laura, Chaos in ecology: Anexamination of nonlinear populationdynamics in diffusive and advectivedispersal environments

Szeto, Mimi, A dynamical-systems ap-proach to understanding turbulence inplane Couette flow

NEW JERSEY

Montclair StateUniversity (1)

Mathematical Sciences Department

Flood, Marguerite, Adult learners, learn-ing disabilities, and mathematics: Acase study

New Jersey Institute ofTechnology (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Cheng, Ruihua, Structural explorationand inference of the network

Dong, Nanyi, Instabilities of liquid metalon nanoscale

Kovalcinova, Lenka, Numerical simula-tions of dense granular systems withand without cohesive effects

Mema, Ensela, Mathematical models forpolymer-nematic interactions

Rahman, Aminur, Qualitative modelingand analysis of chaotic logical circuitsand walking droplets: A dynamicalsystems approach

Wang, Shaobo, Efficient high-order in-tegral equation methods for the heatequation

Princeton University (10)

Department of Mathematics

Avdeeva, Maria, Limit theorems for B-freeintegers and the Moebius function

Gauthier, Gregory, The structure ofgraphs with no cycles of length 0(mod 3)

Hernandez, Matthew, Mechanisms of La-grangian analyticity in fluids

Humphries, Peter, Equidistribution inshrinking sets and L4-norm boundsfor automorphic forms

Liu, Yuchen, Kahler–Einstein metrics andnormalized volumes of valuations

Sandon, Colin, Community detection inthe stochastic block model: Fundamen-tal limits

Stogin, John, Nonlinear wave dynamics inblack hole spacetimes

Talebizah Sardari, Naser, Optimal strongapproximation for quadratic forms

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

Yazdi, Mohammadmahdi, On Thurston’sEuler class one conjecture

Rutgers School of PublicHealth (1)

Department of Biostatistics

Young, Tina, A new paradigm of findingthe maximum tolerated dose in Phase Icancer clinical trials with application toIL-21

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Rutgers University–NewBrunswick (17)

Department of Statistics and

Biostatistics

Die, Sun, Deconvolution of transcriptprofiling data and asymptotic inferenceof cross-correlation in L infinity

Jiao, Yang, Recent developments in com-plex meta-analysis using the confidencedistribution approach

Li, Chengrui, Fusion learning of depen-dent studies by confidence distribution(CD): Theory and applications

Yirui, Hu, Power analysis on longitudinalone-way crossover studies

Mathematics Department

Baron, Jacob, Two problems on cycles inrandom graphs

Berkowitz, Ross, A few combinatorialproblems

Devlin, Patrick, A treatise on the binomialtheorem

Donders, Michael, Uniformity of cubelines and related problems

Fox, Nathan, An exploration of nestedrecurrences using experimental mathe-matics

Guo, Siao-Hao, Self-shrinkers and singu-larity models of the mean curvatureflow

Levanger, Rachel, A comparison frame-work for interleaved persistence mod-ules and applications of persistenthomology to problems in fluid dynam-ics

Naumovitz, Timothy, Very efficient ap-proximation algorithms to edit distanceproblems

Pontes, Pedro, Critical zeros of classgroup L-functions

Sjuvon, Chung, Cominuscule flag va-rieties and their quantum K-theory:Some results

Sun, Liming, Yamabe problem on com-pact manifolds with boundary

Wolf, Charles, Incidence problems indiscrete geometry

Yan, Xukai, Homogeneous solutions ofstationary Navier–Stokes equations withisolated singularities on the unit sphere

Stevens Institute ofTechnology (3)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Garreta, Albert, The diophantine problemover random nilpotent groups

Gul, Funda, Matrix embeddings of nilpo-tent and solvable groups

Panteleev, Dmitry, Conjugacy searchproblem and the Andrews–Curtis con-jecture

NEW MEXICO

New Mexico Institute ofMining and Technology (1)

Department of Mathematics

Eisa, Sameh, Mathematical modeling andanalysis of wind turbine’s dynamics

New Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (2)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Avila, Francisco, The frame of the p-adicnumbers

Paulino, Raymond, Minimal reductions ofedge ideals

University of NewMexico (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Alvarado, Cesar, Cancer modeling: Fromoptimal cell renewal to immunotherapy

Jiang, Huan, Modeling trait evolutionaryprocesses with more than one gene

Morre, Gregg, Standard closure opera-tions on several rings of dimensionone

Pesko, John, Parametric bootstrap and ob-jective Bayesian testing with applicationto heteroscedastic ANOVA

Vides, Fredy, Toroidal matrix links: Localfree homotopies and matrix topology

NEW YORK

Binghamton University,State University of NewYork (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Science

Bi, Nan, Empirical likelihood for a classof semiparametric regression models

Kelley, Andrew, Maximal subgroup growthof some groups

Columbia University (17)

Department of Mathematics

Choi, Kyeongsu, The Gauss curvatureflow: Regularity and asymptotic behav-ior

Deopurkar, Ashwin, Tropical geometry ofcurves with large theta characteristics

Filip, Ioan, A local relative trace formulafor spherical varieties

Guerreiro, Joao, The GL(3) Kuznetsovtrace formula and applications

Keller, Jordan, Linear stability of Schwarz-schild spacetime

Lewis, Paul, A large sieve zero densityestimate for Maass cusp forms

Petkov, Vladislav, Distinguished repre-sentations of the metaplectic cover ofGL(n)

Su, Changjian, Stable basis and quantumcohomology of cotangent bundles offlag varieties

Wong, Chuen-Ming, Unoriented skein re-lations for grid homology and tangleFloer homology

Zhou, Zijun, Relative orbifold Donaldson-Thomas theory and the degenerationformula

Department of Statistics

Bloem-Reddy, Benjamin, Random walkmodels, preferential attachment, andsequential Monte Carlo methods foranalysis of network data

Cho, Yong Bum, Measuring spatial ex-tremal dependence

Gao, Yuanjun, Statistical machine learn-ing methods for high-dimensional neu-ral population data analysis

Ma, Yuting, Flexible sparse learning offeature subspaces

Neuberg, Richard, Advances in credit riskmodeling

Patra, Rohit Kumar, Semiparametric in-ference with shape constraints

Wang, Wei, On model-selection and ap-plication of multilevel models in surveyand causal inference

Cornell University (17)

Center for Applied Mathematics

Clawson, Zachary, Shortest path prob-lems: Domain restriction, anytime plan-ning, and multi-objective optimization

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

Fong, Pok-wai, Smoothness properties ofsymbols, Calderon communicators andgeneralizations

Liu, Yao, Riesz distributions associatedto Dunkl operators

Miller, Daniel, Counterexamples relatedto the Sato-Tate conjecture

Palmer, Aaron, Incompressibility andglobal injectivity in second-gradientnon-linear elasticity

Pueschel, Kristen, On residual propertiesof groups and Dehn functions formapping tori of right angled Artingroups

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Qian, Lihai, Rigidity on Einstein mani-folds and shrinking Ricci soliton in highdimensions

Wu, Chenxi, Translation surfaces: Sad-dle connections, triangles and coveringconstructions

Department of Statistical Sciences

Kirtland, Kelly Meredith, Outlier detec-tion and multicollinearity in sequentialvariable selection

Liu, Yanning, Statistical issues in thedesign and analysis of clinical trials

Nicholson, William, Tools for modelingsparse vector autoregressions

Tupper, Laura, Topics in classificiationand clustering of high dimensional data

Graduate Center, CityUniversity of New York (16)

PhD Program in Mathematics

Basilio, Jorge, Manifold convergence:Sewing sequences of Riemannian man-ifolds with positive or nonnegativescalar curvature

Flint, Chaya, Intercusp geodesics andcusp shapes of fully augmented links

Florez, Jorge, Explicit reciprocity laws forhigher local fields

Gunther, Joseph, Counting rational points,integral points, fields, and hypersur-faces

Gustavson, Richard, Elimination for sys-tems of algebraic differential equations

Habic, Miha, Joint laver diamonds andgrounded forcing axioms

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

Stony Brook University (36)

Department of Applied Mathematics

and Statistics

Cao, Yiwei, Computational design ofcarbohydrate-binding proteins

Chen, Minqin, More efficient kernel learn-ing for genomic data integration andprediction

Cheng, Po-Keng, An interactive agent-based model

Delaney, Tristan, High order adaptiveextended stencil finite element method(AES-FEM) for applications with curvedboundaries

Dong, Fangfei, Risk assessment for intra-day trading

Dong, Yijun, Measuring treasury bondportfolio risk and portfolio optimiza-tion with a non-Gaussian multivariatemodel

Gao, Zheng, Numerical coupling andsimulation of point-mass system withthe turbulent fluid flow

Hu, Yifan, Exploration of statistical learn-ing strategies and their applications onmedical image data for computer-aideddiagnosis

Huang, Jefferson, Complexity estimatesand reductions to discounting for totaland average-reward Markov decisionprocesses and stochastic games

Li, Shanshan, Estimation and detectionof network variation in intraday stockmarket

Lin, Rong, Algorithms for large scalecomputation of information geometricmodel reduction with application toprediction in finance

Liu, Hongxu, Weighed-least-squares basedessential non-oscillatory Schemeson un-structured meshes

Liu, Yang, An isoformfree model for dif-ferential expression analysis in RNAseqdata

Lu, Cao, Efficient iterative and multigridsolvers with applications

Ma, Jun, Numerical algorithms for Vlasov-Poisson equation and applications tocoherent electron cooling

Melvin, Jeremy, Numerical modeling ofhydrodynamic instabilities and theirimpact on mix in inertial confinementfusion

Meng, Ziqi, Penalized Gaussian mixturemodel and its application to QTL map-ping

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Rana, Verinder, Uncertainty quantifica-tion and sensitivity analysis of inertialconfinement fusion simulations

Rao, Pooja, Turbulent mixing in Richtmyer-Meshkov instability using front-tracking

Shin, Jeewoen, Evolution of complexityin gene regulatory networks duringhost-parasite coevolution

Tian, Xinyu, Group LASSO for predictionof clinical outcomes in cancer

Tiano, Michael, Dynamic elliptical distri-butions

Wang, Ke, Two essays in empirical finance

Yan, Jiaju, Multi-class ROC random for-est for imbalanced classification andapplication

Zhang, Junying, Mixture innovation fulltime varying parameter vector autore-gression model

Zhang, Ke, A new nonlinear state spacerealization of GARCH and low rankadversarial bandit algorithms

Zhao, Lu, On miRNA-mRNA networkextraction and an ultrafast nucleotidebarcodes clustering algorithm

Zhao, Xinglin, Mesh refinement and highorder reconstruction for finite elementmethod on unconstructed meshes

Zhao, Yuan, Log-linear model based treeand latent variable model for countdata

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Gao, Classification of gravitationalinstantons with faster than quadraticcurvature decay

Chen, Xuan, Bundles of irreducible Clif-ford modules and the existence of spinstructures

Crowe, Cameron, Algebraic structureswith structure constants and algebraichomotopy

Niu, Jingchen, A sharp compactness theo-rem for genus-two pseudo-holomorphicmaps

Ranade, Nissim, Algebraic methods intopology and applications

Sadanand, Chandrika, A two dimensionaldescription of Heegaard

Zeng, Yu, Deformations of twisted cscKmetrics

Syracuse University (1)

Department of Mathematics

Stangle, Joshua, Representation theory oforders over Cohen-Macaulay rings

University atAlbany–SUNY (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Allahverdi, Muberra, Torsion-freeness ofsymmetric powers, exterior posers andSchur functors

Beckhardt, Susan, Extension propertiesof asymptotic property c and finitedecomposition complexity

Ferro, Richard, Structured pseudospectraof block matrix structures

Parnett, Ian, Swan classes and realisableclasses for integral group rings overfinite certifications

University atBuffalo–SUNY (10)

Department of Biostatistics

Foss, Alexander, Clustering methods formixed-type data

Wang, Dan, Statistical influence on alter-native diagnostic accuracy measures:Tackling challenges in multiple-classesgenomic data

Yang, Zhengyu, Confidence interval con-struction for the difference of pro-portions based on correlated bilateraldata

Zhao, Yang, Novel statistical methodsfor constructing decision-making testprocedures with applications to healthrelated studies

Department of Mathematics

Guo, Jingyang, Adaptive radial basisfunction END and WENO methods forhyperbolic conservation laws

Jiang, Yongle, On cocycle superrigidityproblem for algebraic actions

Luo, Yixian, Relative sofic entropy

Reid, Elizabeth, The theory of K-MRSfunctions

Wang, Xiao, Kazhdan’s property (T) andstructure of exotic hyperbolic manifold

Zhang, Xiaoqi, A stochastic processmodel for the distribution of hospi-tal charge and length of stay

University ofRochester (10)

Department of Biostatistics and

Computational Biology

Hebert, Donald, Global tests for multipleoutcomes in randomized trials

Liu, Chang, Bayesian semiparametricmeasurement error models: Estimation,variable selection and fast algorithms

Singh, Kyra, Variable selection methodsfor model-based clustering: Proceduresfor functional data and Bayesian infer-ence

Yu, Ziji, Theory and application of themode centric M-Gaussian distribution

Department of Mathematics

Baluyot, Siegfred, On the zeros of Rie-mann’s zeta-function

Ethier, Dillon, Sum-product estimates andfinite point configurations over p-adicfields

Ge, Fan, On zeros of the derivative of theRiemann zeta-function

Kiria-Kaiserberg, Vyacheslav, Explosionof stochastic differential delay equationwithout the drift

Murphy, Brendan, Group actions in arith-metic combinatorics

Papadopulos, Patrick, On topologicalproperties of configuration spaces ofcertain specialized graphs

Yeshiva University (1)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Li, Yan, Direct methods for problemsinvolving the nonlocal elliptic operators

NORTH CAROLINA

Duke University (15)

Department of Mathematics

Andreae, Phillip, Analytic torsion, the Etainvariant, and closed differential formson spaces of metrics

Fitzpatrick, Brian, Complete mirror pairsand their naive stringy hodge numbers

Ji, Hangjie, Thin films with non-conver-sative effects

Pan, Yu, Augmentations and exact La-Grangian cobordisms

Roech, Henri, Proof of a null penroseconjecture using a new quasi-local mass

Yin, Rujie, High dimensional signal pro-cessing

Department of Statistical Science

Chai, Christine, Statistical issues in quan-tifying text mining performance

Chen, Xi, Bayesian dynamic modeling forstreaming network data

Crawford, Lorin, Bayesian kernel mod-els for statistical genetics and cancergenomics

Dalzell, Nicole, Bayesian approaches tofile linking with faulty data

Gu, Mengyang, Robust uncertainty quan-tification and sealable computation forcomputer models with massive output

McAlinn, Kenichiro, Dynamic modelingand Bayesian predictive synthesis

Shirota, Shinichiro, Bayesian modelingand computation for complex spatialpoint patterns

Wang, Xiangyu, Distributed feature se-lection in large n and large p regressionproblems

Wei, Lan, Methods for imputing missingvalues and synthesizing confidentialvalues for continuous and magnitudedata

North Carolina StateUniversity (21)

Department of Mathematics

Acquesta, Erin, Cost and benefit analysisof vaccination strategies for the HIVvirus

Akoglu, Tulay, Certifying solutions topolynomial systems over Q

Ambrosino, Mary, Maximum gap of (in-verse) cyclotomic polynomials

Barnard, Emily, The canonical join repre-sentation in algebraic combinatorics

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Benfield, Michael, Some geometric aspectsof hyperbolic conservation laws

Brown, Elisabeth, A nonlinear conserva-tion law modeling carbon sequestration

Bryan, Timothee, Hall-Littlewood vertexoperators and the Kostka-Foulkes poly-nomials

Catenacci, Jared, Quantifying degrada-tion in ceramic matrix compositesthrough electromagnetic interrogationand related estimation techniques

Demir, Ismail, Classification of 5-dimen-sional complex nilpotent Leibniz alge-bras

Derochers, Stephen, Numerical study andfeedback stabilization of a linear hydro-elasticity model

Hansen, Brittany, The hyperbolic Kac-

Moody Lie algebra of type G12 and its

root multiplicities

Lankford, George, Optimization, model-ing and control applications to Klystrondesigning and Hepatitis C dynamics

Lewis, Allison, Gradient-free active sub-space construction and model calibra-tion techniques for complex models

Meehan, Emily, Posets and Hopf algebrasof rectangulations

Ozcan, Seyma, Development of well-balanced and asymptotic preservingnumerical methods for partial differen-tial equations

Schmidt, Kathleen, Uncertainty quantifi-cation for mixed-effects models withapplications in nuclear engineering

Sidle, Glenn, Using multi-class machinelearning methods to predict majorleague baseball pitches

Tanadkithirun, Raywat, Partition-basedproposal distributions for importancesampling

Toth, Alexander, A theoretical analysisof Anderson acceleration and its appli-cation in multiphysics simulation forlight-water reactors

Wang, Zhaohui, A Robin-Robin domaindecomposition method for a Stokes-Darcy system with a locally modifiedmesh

White, Ashley, Conjugacy and other re-sults in Leibniz algebras

University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (32)

Department of Biostatistics

Bainbridge, Jonathan, Modeling the dif-fusion of sentinel lymph node biopsyin breast cancer treatment

Benecha, Habtamu, Marginally-specifiedmean models for counts with mixturedistributions

Bryant, Christopher, A Bayesian analysisof weighted stochastic block modelswith applications in brain functionalconnectomics

Butler, Emily, Using patient preferences toestimate optimal treatment strategiesfor competing outcomes

Hibbard, Jonathan, Harnessing hetero-geneity to improve patient outcomes

Jaeger, Byron, Extending R2 to the gener-alized linear mixed model for longitu-dinal data

Kim, Jung In, Contributions to recurrentevent data analysis

Li, Siying, Methods in randomized basedANCOVA for novel crossover designsand sensitivity analysis for missing data

Pan, Yinghao, Secondary analysis inoutcome-dependent-sampling designs

Psioda, Matthew, Statistical methods forBayesian clinical trial design and DNAmethylation deconvolution

Teran Hidalgo, Sebastian, Applications ofindependence statistics to goodness-to-fit, multivariate change point estimationand clustering of variables

Xue, Wei, Genetic association analysis onsecondary phenotypes and group con-ditional variable importance in OPPERA

Department of Mathematics

Aminian, Manuchehr, The role of crosssectional geometry in the passive tracerproblem

Battista, Nicholas, The fluid dynamicsof heart development: The effect ofmorphology on flow at several stages

Falcon, Claudia, Entrainment dominatedeffects in the long residence timesof solid spheres in sharply stratifiedmiscible viscous fluids

Guan, Wenhua, Fast algorithms for Brow-nian dynamics with hydrodynamic in-teractions

Harabin, George Perry, Diffusively drivenflows in stratified fluids

Hult, Caitlin, Modeling nucleosomal DNAin living yeast

Lee, Hsuan-wei, Dynamics and socialclustering on coevolving networks

Malahe, Michael, PDE solvers for hybridCPU-GPU architectures

Wessler, Timothy, Mathematical modelingof biological processes at the cellular,tissue and system levels

Department of Statistics and

Operation Research

An, Hyowon, Gaussian centered L-moments

Bodwin, Kelly, Mining of variable associa-tions

Jin, Jimmy, Scale-free random graphdynamics

Kabul, Mustafa, Papers on selling tostrategic customers: A supply chainperspective

Lee, Eunjee, Advanced Bayesian modelsfor high-dimensional biomedical data

Ouyang, Huiyin, Confidence intervals forsolutions to variational inequalities

Palowitch, John, Beyond the stochasticblock model: Community detection forcomplex weighted networks

Wu, Ruoyu, Some asymptotic results forweekly interacting particle systems

Yu, Dongqing, Data-driven quality ofservice improvements in hospitals

Yu, Qunqun, Horizontal variation, curveregistration, human connectome data

Zhang, Yu, Index Policies for patientscheduling and ATM replenishment

University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (10)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Basnet, Amod, Parallel computing forMarkov chains with islands and ports

Crosby, Gary, Optimal multiple stopping:Theory and applications

Fernando, Wedige, American options pric-ing using HJM methodology

Getan, Asmaa, Intermittency for branch-ing random walks with heavy tails

Kim, Sinae, Partition of unity isogeomet-ric analysis for singularly perturbedproblems and fourth-order differentialequations containing singularities

Rattan, Puja, Isogeometric collocationmethod for elasticity problems contain-ing singularities

Wu, Jian, High-order H(div) discontinuousGalerkin methods for MHD equations

Yu, Xintian, Nonparametric predictiveregression

Zhao, Cong, Non-nested model selectionvia empirical likelihood

Zhou, Yijing, Path integral methods usingFeynman-Kac formula and reflectingbrownian motions for Neumann andRobin problems

University of NorthCarolina at Greensboro (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Sihm, Jeong Sep, Modified binary ran-domized response technique models

Vanlangenberg, Christopher, Data gener-ation and estimation for axially sym-metric processes on the sphere

Zatezalo, Tanja, Generalized mixture es-timators for the finite population mean

NORTH DAKOTA

North Dakota StateUniversity, Fargo (1)

Department of Mathematics

Sattler, Elizabeth, Subfractals induced bysubshifts

OHIO

Air Force Institute ofTechnology (3)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Armstrong, Andrew, Synergistic effectsof phase folding and wavelet denoisingwith applications in light curve analysis

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Mohd-Zaid, Mohd, A statistical approachto characterize and detect degradationwithin the Barabasi–Albert network

Uber, Richard, Time domain analysis ofelectromagnetic scattering from mul-tiple cavities embedded in a groundplane

Bowling Green StateUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Aliyev, Denis, Visualization and unsuper-vised pattern recognition in multidi-mensional data using a new heuristicfor linear data ordering

Islam, Mohammad, Dose-response analy-sis for time-dependent efficacy

Kelvey, Robert, Groups acting on twin-trees and Chabauty space

Laubacher, Jacob, Secondary Hochschildand cyclic (co)homologies

Oyeniran, Oluyemi, Estimating the pro-portion of true null hypotheses inmultiple testing problems

Pan, Juming, Adaptive LASSO for mixedmodel selection via profile log-likelihood

Papathanasiou, Dimitrios, Hypercyclic al-gebras and affine dynamics

Walmsley, David, A constructive ap-proach to the universality criterionfor semigroups

Case Western ReserveUniversity (7)

Department of Mathematics, Applied

Mathematics and Statistics

Alsenafi, Abdulaziz, Segregation dynam-ics motivated by territorial markings:The transition from a particle to acontinuum model

Atta-Fosu, Thomas, Fourier based methodfor simultaneous segmentation andnonlinear image registration

Prezioso, Jamie, An inverse problem ofcerebral hemodynamics in the Bayesianframework

Yoon, Nara, Stratified worm burden ap-proach to modeling schistosomiasistransmission and control

Population and Quantitative Health

Sciences

Benchek, Penelope, How extensive of arole do gene-gene interactions play inthe genetic architecture of complextraits

Voss-Hoynes, Heather, Dissecting the ge-netics of human communitication: In-sights into speech, language, and read-ing

Wang, Heming, Local ancestry interfer-ence and its implication in searchingfor selection evidence in recent admixedpopulation

Kent State University,Kent (7)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Chen, Lu, A diffusion model for compo-sitional data

Dykes, Laura, New methods for solutionof discrete ill-posed problems

Falco Benavent, Francisco Javier, Com-plex approximation and fibers of Ba-nach algebras of analytic functions

Hendrixson, Lisa, Connections betweenthe number of constituents and thederived length of a group

Hogan, Ian, The Brauer complex anddecomposition numbers of symplecticgroups

Riel, Zachariah, On certain classes andideals of operators on L1

Wynn, Casey, Supercharacter theories ofCamina pairs

Ohio State University,Columbus (16)

Department of Mathematics

Buenger, Carl, Quantitative non-divergence,effective mixing, and random walks onhomogeneous spaces

Edholm, Luke, The Bergman kernel of fatHartogs triangles

Le, Giang, The action dimension of Artingroups

Moreira, Joel, Partition regular polyno-mial patterns in commutative semi-groups

Steward, Michael, Extending the Skolemproperty

Sun, Weizhou, Local discontinuous Galer-kin method for Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetzov equation and improvedBoussinesq equation

Swang, Theodore, A mathematical modelfor the energy allocation function ofsleep

Wang, Shi, Barycentric straightening,splitting rank and bounded cohomology

Xia, Bingyu, Moduli spaces of Bridgelandsemistable complexes

Zheng, Cheng, Sparse equidistributionof unipotent orbits in finite-volumequotients of PSL(2,R)

Department of Statistics

Chen, Po-Hsu, Modeling multivariate sim-ulator outputs with applications toprediction and sequential pareto mini-mization

Jia, Yanan, Bilnear mixed effects modelsfor multi-indexed multivariate data

Liang, JoJo, Empirical Bayes model aver-aging in the presence of model misfits

Matthews, Michael, Extending rankedsampling in inferential procedures

Mohr, Anna, Statistical methodology formultiple networks

Wei, Ran, On estimation problems ofnetwork sampling

Ohio University, Athens (3)

Department of Mathematics

Ballone, Frank, γ-sets and the (A,B∞)selection principle

Perron, Michael, On the structure ofindependent families

Simmons, Darren, On Lagrangian alge-bras in braided fusion categories

University of Cincinnati (6)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Alsayigh, Saed, New password authenti-cated key exchange based on the ringlearning with errors

Dragan, Catalin, Norms associated toweights in von Neumann algebras anddecompositions of positive operators

Jaberansari, Negar, Bayesian hierarchicalmodels for partially observed data

Li, Shenghao, Non-homogeneous bound-ary value problems for Boussinesq-typeequations

Loreaux, Jireh, Diagonals of operators:Majorization, a Schur-Horn theoremand zero-diagonal idempotents

Snook, Michael, Quantum resistant au-thenticated key exchange from ideallattices

University of Toledo (4)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Clos, Timothy, Compactness of Hankeloperators with continuous symbols ondomains in C2

He, Wencan, Statistical inference of bi-normal ROC curves based on densityratio model

Lamichhane, Manoj, Levi subalgebras ofgl(5,R)

Ren, Kaili, Empirical likelihood methodsin missing response problems andcausal inference

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma StateUniversity (4)

Department of Mathematics

Bilogliadov, Mykhailo, Equilibrium prob-lems in potential theory

Department of Statistics

Kaukis, Nicholas, Utilizing observationand ranks in kernel estimation

Mostafa, Sayed, Nonparametric kerneldensity estimation using auxilary infor-mation from complex survey data

Watts, David, Classifying discoveries:Implementing a generalized multipletesting protocol for exploratory dataanalysis

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University of Oklahoma (3)

Department of Mathematics

Broda, James, Convergence rates for sta-tionary distributions of semistochasticprocesses

Nguyen, Huy, F -harmonic maps in Kahlergeometry

Tharp, Benjiman, Representation of themarked Brauer algebra

University of Oklahoma,Health Science Center (4)

Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Department

Hill, Claude, Modeling nonstationaryanisotropic geospatial data processes

James, Shirley, Electronic nicotine deliv-ery systems and smoking reduction,substitution, and cessation

Mowls Carroll, Dana, Cigarette smoking,electronic nicotine product use, andbiomarkers of exposure among Ameri-can Indians in the Southern Plains

Norris, Ann, An evaluation of medicaland behavioral risk factors for aviationaccidents

University of Tulsa (1)

Department of Mathematics

Puhl, Maria, Analysis of sparse modelingtechniques applied to RS-FMRI data

OREGON

Oregon StateUniversity (10)

Department of Mathematics

Al-Hammali, Hussain, Nonuniform sam-pling of band-limited functions

Al-Saedi, Ali, Periodicity and partitioncongruences

Edwards, Brandon, A new algorithm forcomputing the Veech group of a trans-lation surface

Kennedy, Kenneth, Model adaptivity andnumerical solutions using sensitivityanalysis

McDermott, Kirk, Topological and dynam-ical properties of cyclically presentedgroups

Morrill, Thomas, Overpartition ranks,cranks, and Frobenius representations

Parker, Forrest, Shift dynamics of cycli-cally presented groups with positivelength four relators

Robson, Charles, Computable random-ness and coding the orbits of theCollatz map

Sakkaplangkul, Puttha, Multiscale meth-ods and energy stable discretizationsfor Maxwell’s equations in linear andnonlinear materials

Department of Statistics

James, Addison, Information criterion fornonparametric model-assisted surveyestimators

Portland StateUniversity (4)

Fariborz Maseeh Department of

Mathematics and Statistics

Rector, Robert Blake, Generalized dif-ferential calculus and applications tooptimization

Schimanski, Nichole, Orthomorphisms ofBoolean groups

Shaw, Jeremy, Computational algorithmsfor improved representation of themodel error covariance in weak-constraint4D-var

Yannotta, Mark, Conventionalizing andaxiomatizing in a community collegebridge course

University of Oregon (8)

Department of Mathematics

Howell, Nicholas, Motives of log schemes

Kazaras, Demetre, Gluing manifolds withboundary and bordisms of positivescalar curvature metrics

Kutler, Max, Faithful tropicalization ofhypertoric varieties

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

Hayes, Tim, Quasi-spline sheaves andtheir contact ideals

Liu, Shunlian, Well-posedness of hydro-elastic waves and their truncated seriesmodels

Lohss, Amanda, Tableaux and the asym-metric simple exclusion process

Rody, Sarah, Vector fields, eigensurfaces,and prescribed curvature in opticaldesign

Wong, Chung, Spectral density functionsand their applications

Lehigh University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Borselli, Alex, Galois groups of CM fieldsin degrees 24, 28, and 30

Gerek, Aydin, Hendry’s conjecture ofchordal graph subclasses

Pennsylvania StateUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematics

Chen, William, Moduli interpretations fornoncongruence modular curves

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

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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

Wheeler, Matthew, Rational structuresand differential cohomology

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

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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

Liu, Jianxuan, Semiparametric estimationand inference in causal inference andmeasurement error models

Liu, Piao Mu, Semiparametric joint dy-namic modeling of a longitudinalmarker, recurrent competing risks, anda terminal event

Sarker, MD, Modern estimation problemsin group testing

Wang, Sheng-Yang, Adaptive regressionmodel for flexible survival data analysis

Wu, Zizhen, Simultaneous registrationand clustering of functional data

SOUTH DAKOTA

South Dakota StateUniversity (2)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Karki, Laxman, Spatial and spatiotempo-ral modeling of epidemiological data

O’Brien, Austin, A kernel based approachto determine atypicality

TENNESSEE

Middle Tennessee StateUniversity (10)

Department of Mathematical Science

Baum, Britanny Smith, Examining theinfluence of argumentation on the sta-tistical problem-solving process

Bhatt, Harish, Efficient and accurate ex-ponential time differencing schemes forsystems of nonlinear time dependentpartial differential equations

Colgin, Zane, Computational improve-ments for stochastic simulation withmultilevel Monte Carlo

Ewool, Richard, Mathematical modelingand simulation of a multiscale tumorinduced angiogenesis model

Jones, Zachary, Modeling of cell cyclecheckpoints with applications to theanalysis of intermitotic time data

Kassaee, Ameneh, Exploring the role ofmotivation and mindset in achievementof STEM majors in precalculus

Liang, Jingsai, Regularized statisticaltechniques for high dimensional medi-cal imaging data processing

Liang, Xiao, Efficient numerical methodsfor nonlinear Schrodinger equations

Reshniak, Viktor, Reducing computa-tional cost of the multilevel MonteCarlo method by construction of suit-able pathwise integrators

Yang, Xin, Machine learning techniquesfor high-dimensional neuroimaging dataanalysis

University of Memphis (5)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Abayie Boateng, Nana Akwasi, On someexact nonparametric conditional testfor clustered binary data

Binski, Scott, Games on grids and graphs

Sahasrabudhe, Julian, Extremal and Ram-sey problems on graphs and the inte-gers

Tag, Hyyung-Joon, Some geometricalproperties of Orlicz–Lorentz spacesand their Kothe duals

Taylor, Aaron, Classes of operators onblock spaces

University of Tennessee,Knoxville (7)

Department of Mathematics

Kang, Kai, Advanced sequential MonteCarlo methods and their applicationsto sparse sensor network for detectionand estimation

Krumwiede, Tim, Surface energy in bond-counting models on Bravais and non-Bravais lattices

Loga, Christopher, Extension theoremson matrix weighted Sobolev spaces

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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)

Wang, Liguo, Numerical solutions ofstochastic differential equations

Vanderbilt University (2)

Department of Mathematics

Tang, Sui, Dynamical Sampling

Wen, Chenxu, Amenable extensions in II1factors

Vanderbilt University,School of Medicine (3)

Department Biostatistics

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

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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

Oki, Takafumi, Tracking orientation con-trol satisfying Donders’ constraint onSO(3)

Paragoda, Thanuja, Willmore and gen-eralized Willmore energies in spaceforms

Prematilake, Chalani, Prediction of lowerbounds of the number of samplingpoints for approximating shapes ofplanar contours

University of Houston (14)

Department of Mathematics

Bearden, Clifford Alexander, Hilbert C∗-modules over σ∗-algebras

Chaturvedi, Ananya, On holomorphicsectional curvature and fibrations

Chiu, Shang-Huan, 3D DLM/FD methodsfor sumulating the motion of spheres inbonded shear flows of Oldroyd-B fluids

Chowdhury, Tasadduk, Region-of-interestreconstruction from truncated cone-beam CT

Geiger, Brett, Large deviations for dy-namical systems with small noise

Hussein, Saud, An improved defect rela-tion and height inequality

Kurzanova, Daria, Efficient numericaltreatment of high-contrast diffusionproblems

Liao, Hungzen, Some results on thedegeneracy of entire curves and integralpoints in the complements of divisors

Liu, Changan, The impact of STDP andcorrelated activity on network structure

Mills, Charles, An improved defect rela-tion for holomorphic curves in projec-tive varieties

Park, Jungim, Unicity results for Gaussmaps of minimal surfaces immersed inRm

Poll, Daniel, Stochastic dynamics in bumpattractor models of spatial workingmemory

Suri, Nishant, Naimark’s problem forgraph C∗-algebras

Ugur, Gul, Uniqueness results of alge-braic curves and related topics

University of NorthTexas (7)

Mathematics Department

Caruvana, Christopher, An extension ofthe Baire property and uniqueness oftopologies on holomorphic functions

Dance, Cody, Contributions to descriptiveset theory

Dave, Ojas, Irreducible modules forYokonuma-type Hecke algebras

Holshouser, Jared, Partition propertiesfor non-ordinal sets under the axiom ofdeterminacy

Martin, James, Rankin–Cohen bracketsfor Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermi-tian modular forms

Tomlin, Drew, A decomposition of thegroup algebra of a hyperoctahedralgroup

Uhl, Christine, Quantum Drinfeld Heckealgebras

University of North TexasHealth Science Center (1)

Department of Biostatistics and

Epidemiology

Atienza, Philamer, Adaptation of thegenetic risk prediction model BRCAPROfor primary care settings

University of Texas atArlington (9)

Department of Mathematics

Al-Dujaly, Hassan Abd Salman, Weightedupwinding compact scheme for shockcapturing

Au, Melinda, Three-dimensional image re-construction (3 direct) of sparse signalswith MRI application

Boodhwani, Afshan, Nonparametric adap-tive distribution-free procedure forcrossover design with repeated mea-sures

Chen, Xi, Numerical construction of dif-feomorphism and its application to gridgeneration and image registration

Mitchell, Christopher, Calculating repro-ductive numbers for periodic epidemicsystems

Poudyal, Basanti Sharma, Existence ofexact zero divisors and totally reflexivemodules in Artinian rings

Steele, Nathan, Support and rank varietiesof totally acyclic complex

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Wiangnak, Piyachart, Likelihood basedinference for COM-Poisson cure ratemodel with interval censored data

Xi, Hongguang, A harmonic functionmethod for EEG source reconstruction

University of Texas atAustin (23)

Institute for Computational

Engineering and Sciences

Almani, Tameem, Efficient algorithms forflow models coupled with geomechan-ics for porous media applications

Arabshahi, Hamidreza, Space-time hy-bridized discontinuous Galerkin meth-ods for shallow water equations

Bello-Rivas, Juan M., Iterative milestoning

Du, Wei, Mathematical modeling of theinteraction between two-phase environ-mental flow and protective hydraulicstructures

Harmon, Michael, Numerical algorithmsbased on Galerkin methods for themodeling of reactive interfaces in pho-toelectrochemical solar cells

Kamensky, David, Immersogeometric fluid-structure interaction analysis of bio-prosthetic heart valves

Morales Escalante, Jose, DiscontinuousGalerkin methods for Boltzmann-Poissonmodels of electron transport in semi-conductors

Neupane, Prapti, Advances itowards amulti-dimensional discontinuous Galerkinmethod for modeling hurrican stormsurge induced flooding in coastal wa-tersheds

Rabidoux, Scott, Extending the reachof algorithms for the calculation ofmolecular vibronic spectra

Sakamoto, Yusuke, One cell as a mixture:Simulation of the mechanical responsesof valve interstitial cells

Voelkel, Stephen, Thermal nonequilibriummodels for high-temperature reactiveprocesses

Department of Mathematics

Akopian, Sona, Global Lp solutions ofthe Boltzmann equation with an angle-potential concentrated collision kerneland convergence to a Landau solution

Cohn, Lee, Rectifying stable infinity-categories and relative Koszul dualityfor operads

Colbert, Cory, Cardinality restrictions onNoetherian spectra

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

Li, Shiu-Tang, Comparisan principles forparabolic stochastic partial differentialequations

Lindo, Haydee, Trace ideals and centersof endomorphism rings

Wang, Yuan, Birational geometry of ir-regular varieties in zero and positivecharacteristic

Xu, Bin, Mathematical models of cellpolarization

Utah State University (5)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Bailey, Sean, To dot product graphs andbeyond

Hickes, Jesse, Classification of spacetimeswith symmetry

Lewis, Matthew, Laboratory experiencesin mathematical biology for post-secondary mathematics students

Li, Yuanzhi, Bayesian models for repeatedmeasures data using Markov chainMonte Carlo methods

Yi, Ju, Definition and construction ofentropy satisfying multiresolution anal-ysis (MRA)

VIRGINIA

College of William andMary (1)

Department of Applied Science

Pelejo, Diane Christine, Matrix resultsand techniques in quantum informationscience and related topics

George MasonUniversity (8)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Badgaish, Manal, Modeling, analysis, andcomputation of non-linear soft tissueinteraction with flow dynamics withapplication to aneurysms

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de Silva, Hasitha, Large deviations andrare event simulations for portfoliocredit risk

O’Neil, Patrick, Analyzing and extendingthe distance-to-measure gradient flowusing higher order Voronoi diagrams

Department of Mathematics

Alhajjar, Elie, A new valuation on latticepolytopes

Hmidouch, Nacir, Weighted compositionoperators acting on some classes ofBanach spaces of analytic functions

Mendelson, Samuel, Matrix algebras: Equiv-alent ring relations and special presen-tations

Whelan, George, Generalized depth andassociated primes in the perfect closureR∞

Department of Statistics

Zhang, Zijing, Rendered 3D graphicalexploration of multivariate data basedon truncated octahedron binning, gray-level image processing and cognostics

Old DominionUniversity (1)

Department of Mathematics and

Statistics

Poddar, Arjun, Analysis of dependentdiscrete choices using Gaussian copula

University of Virginia (7)

Department of Statistics

Diver, Paul, A methodology for two-levelproduct partition model estimation ofnormal means

Lu, Miao, Single-index models with vary-ing co-efficients

Department of Mathematics

Bonventre, Peter, Comparison of modelsfor equivariant operads

Ko, Hankyung, Representations of quan-tum groups at roots of unity and theirreductions mod p to algebraic grouprepresentations

Kochalski, Katelynn, Fluid limits and thebatched processor sharing model

Leitmeyer, Keith, Turbulence, regular-ity, and geometry in solutions tothe Navier-Stokes and magnetohydro-dynamic equations

Wang, Bo, A generalization of Martingaletheory to self-averaging processes

Virginia CommonwealthUniversity (1)

Department of Statistical Sciences

and Operations

Moradi Rekabdarkolaee, Hossein, Dimen-sion reduction and variable selection

Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and StateUniversity (15)

Department of Mathematics

Chen, Xiaofeng, Plane permutations andtheir applications to graph embeddingsand genome rearrangements

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

Massey, Susan, Multi-scale modeling ofparacrine PDGF-driven glioma growthand invasion

Moe, Scott, High-order shock capturingmethods with compact stencils for usewith adaptive mesh refinement andmapped grids

Oleskiw, Timothy, On computing shape: Astudy of the neural processes concern-ing naturalistic boundary confirmationwithin the ventral visual pathway

Rim, Donsub, Uncertainty quantificationproblems in tsunami modeling andreduced order models for hyperbolicpartial differential equations

Segal, Benjamin, The stability and in-stabilities of stationary solutions tothe nonlinear Schroedinger and sine-Gordon equations

Shapero, Daniel, Data assimilation prob-lems in glaciology

Thakkar, Niket, Energy and charge trans-fer in open plasmonic systems

Department of Biostatistics

Brown, Lisa, Statistical methods in ad-mixture mapping: Mixed model basedtesting and genome-wide significancethresholds

Chen, Shizhe, Flexible modeling andestimation for high-dimensional graphs

Fisher, Leigh, Modeling of infectiousdisease surveillance data

Keller, Joshua, Methods for confound-ing adjustment and high-dimensionalenvironmental exposures

Kirk, Jennifer, Statistical methods forinferring population structure with hu-man genome sequence data

Koh, William Jen Hoe, Adaptive designs inthe time to event setting: The potentialfor benefit and risk

Korpak, Anna, Methods for hypothesistesting in animal carcinogenicity exper-iments

Morrison, Jean, Flexible strategies for as-sociation analysis with genomic pheo-types

Peterson, Ashley, Data-adaptive modelingusing convex regression

Prince, David, Searching for predictivesubgroups

Sheng, Elisa, Methods for estimatingcausal effects of treatment in RCT’swith simultaneous provider and subjectnoncompliance

Spieker, Andrew, Recovering natural his-tory: Modeling cardiovascular biomark-ers in the presence of endogenousmedication use

Department of Mathematics

Hoberg, Rebecca, Bin packing, numberbalancing, and rescaling linear pro-grams

Nimer, Abdalla Dali, Geometry of n-uniform measures

Paquette, Courtney, Structure and com-plexity in non-convex and non-smoothoptimization

Ramadas, Harishchandra, Algorithms indiscrepancy theory and lattices

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Wang, Lidan, Non-local operators, jumpdiffusions and Feynman–Kac trans-forms

Department of Statistics

Azose, Jonathan, Projection and estima-tion of international migration

Green, Christopher, Applications of ro-bust statistical methods in quantitativefinance

Greene, Evan, Finite smapling exponen-tial bounds

Grimson, Fiona, Scalable methods for theinference of identity by descent

Loh, Wen Wei, Finite population inferencefor causal parameters

McQueen, James, Scalable manifold learn-ing and related topics

Xu, Jason, Likelihood-based inference forpartially observed multi-type Markovbranching processes

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

WISCONSIN

Marquette University (5)

Department of Mathematics,

Statistics and Computer Science

Addo, Ivor, Designing human-centeredcollective intelligence

Baur, Brittany, Inferring regulators frommultiple types of biological data incancer

Gani, Md Osman, A novel approach tocomplex human activity recognition

Kociuba, Mary, A Fourier description ofcovariance, and separation of simulta-neously encoded slices with in-planeacceleration in fMRI

Stamm, Karl, Gene set enrichment andprojection displays: A computationaltool for knowledge discovery in tran-scriptomes

Medical College ofWisconsin (2)

Division of Biostatistics

Martens, Michael, Group sequential de-sign and sample size calculations forcovariate adjusted competing risks andsurvival analysis

Shi, Yushu, Weibull mixture models forregression in the context of time-to-event data

University of Wisconsin,Madison (30)

Department of Mathematics

Abbott, Carolyn, Acylindrical actions onhyperbolic spaces

Dimou, Evangelos, Maximal estimates forsolutions to dispersive equations

Emrah, Elnur, Exactly solvable inhomo-geneous corner growth models

Jain, Lalit, Big model monodromy forfamilies of G-covers

Janjigian, Christopher, Large deviationsfor certain solvable directed polymermodels

Kabakulak, Ahmet, A-infinity algebrasand ribbon graphs

Li, Yu, Ricci flow on asymptoticallyEuclidean manifolds

Matei, Vlad, A geometric perspective onsome arithmetic statistics questionsover function fields over finite fields

Mueller, Peter, Unsteady biomixing andheat transfer in microchannels

Poskin, Jeff, Representability in mixedinteger quadratic programming

Ross, Daniel, The Ulam sequence andrelated phenomena

Rush, Keith, Orthogonal polynomials onthe unit circle: Steklov problems andweight perturbations

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

Davis, John, Size-biased sampling indisparity analysis

Kim, Donggyu, Statistical inferences onhigh-frequency financial data and quan-tum state tomography

Li, Yuanzhi, Contributions to classifica-tion and regression trees

Liu, Shixue, Regularized outcome weightedsubgroup identification with smoothhinge loss

Nie, Xiao, Some methods for large-scalestatistical computing and modelingcomputer simulations

Park, Gunwoong, Large-scale directedgraphical model learning

Qi, Cuicui, Model-assisted regression es-timator for longitudinal data with non-ignorable dropout

Sadeghi, Soheil, Sliced designs for multi-platform online experiments

Ta, Tram, Generalized regression estima-tors with high-dimensional covariates

Vieira Nunes Ludwig, Guilherme, Datafusion and spatial confounding in semi-parametric methods for spatial andspatio-temporal data

Wendelberger, Barbara, Exploiting bi-ology’s structure-function relationshipto improve effective connectivity esti-mates in neuroimaging

Xie, Yaoguo, Topics on multivariate semi-continuous proportionally constrainedtwo part models

Zhang, Grace (Xin), Statistical methodsfor high frequency financial data

University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee (10)

Department of Mathematical

Sciences

Asante-Asamani, Emmanuel, A real dis-tinct poles exponential time differ-encing scheme for advection-diffusionreaction equations

Barrera, Joseph, Asymptotic expansionof the L2-norm of a solution of thestrongly dumped wave equation

Harlass, Carsten, Density estimationfor lifetime distributions under semi-parametric random censorship models

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Jiang, Yi, Nonlocal Debye–Huckel equa-tions and nonlocal linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations for electrostaticsof electrolytes

Tidmore, Joseph, Cocompact cubulationsof mixed 3-manifolds

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

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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

differential equations.Sandoval, Christopher, Generalized Kubelka-Munk theory—A

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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Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Annual Survey

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.