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Doctoral Degrees Conferred2005–2006

ALABAMAAuburn University (4)

Mathematics and Statistics

Bailey, Bradley, Related covering proper-ties

Sindelrova, Petra, An example on move-able approximations of a minimal setin a continuous flow.

Turner, David, Coefficient space proper-ties and a Schur algebra generalization.

Yan, Wen, Generalization of Ky Fan-Amir-Moez-Horn-Mirsky’s result on theeigenvalues and real singular values ofa matrix.

University of Alabama,Birmingham (3)

Mathematics

Brouwer, Gaston, Green’s functions froma metric point of view.

Lian, Jinguo, Pattern formation for somesystems of nonlinear differential equa-tions.

Zhang, Hongkun, Statistical properties ofchaotic billiards.

University of Alabama,Huntsville (1)

Mathematics

Wang, Yan, Acquisition numbers andcompetition-acquisition number.

University of Alabama,Tuscaloosa (11)

Information Systems Statistics and

Management Science

Cai, Biao, Evaluation of Gini S meandifference, mean deviation, and quasi-range as estimators of sigma for theperformance of Shewhart x-bar controlcharts.

Haynie, James Brandon, Progressivelyphased bridge inspection process.

Kim, Young-il, Multivariation SPC forbatch processes.

The above list contains the names and thesis titles of recipients ofdoctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences (July 1, 2005, to June 30,2006) reported in the 2006 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciencesby 222 departments in 164 universities in the United States. Each entry

contains the name of the recipient and the thesis title. The numberin parentheses following the name of the university is the number ofdegrees listed for that university. A supplementary list containing namesreceived since compilation of this list will appear in a summer 2007 issueof the Notices.

Mysore, Shrikanth, Three essays in sched-uling.

Saithanu, Kidakan, Neural networks andmultivariate quality control.

Shaltayev, Dmitriy, The value of marketinformation in serial supply chains withMarkov-modulated demand.

Watkins, Wade, An efficient search foridentifying unobservable factors.

Mathematics

Gong, Minqing G., Waiting time in acombined FCFS and STF queue.

Jun, Younbai, Domain decompositionalgorithms for solving parabolic partialdifferential equations.

Rogers, Frank D., Optimal choices in anLFR system.

Ryang, Dohyoung, Finitely generatedgroups acting eometrically on gener-alized hyperbolic spaces.

ARIZONAArizona StateUniversity (3)


Al-Sulami, Hamed Hamdan, C∗-algebrasfor boundary actions of abelian-by-cyclic groups.

Clark, Phil, The emergence of a classroomcommunity of practice into mathemati-cal structures course.

Lopez-Cruz, Roxana, Structured SIS epi-demic models with applications to HIVepidemic.

University of Arizona (11)

Mathematics

Belnap, Jason, Putting TAs into context:Understanding the graduate mathemat-ics teaching assistant.

Leitner, Frederick, Deformation theoryof noncommutative formal group inpositive characteristics.

Pawloski, Robert, Computing the coho-mology ring and Ext-algebra of groupalgebras.

Program in Applied Mathematics

Chitnis, Nakul, Using mathematical mod-els in controlling the spread of malaria.

Espinola-Rocha, Jesus Adrian, Short-timeasymptotic analysis of the Manakovsystem.

Forgoston, Eric, Initial-value problem forperturbations in compressible bound-ary layers.

Kano, Patrick, Development and analysisof high accuracy numerical methods forcomputational optics.

Linfoot, Andy, A case study of multi-threaded Buchberger normal form algo-rithm.

Schofield, Samuel, Dynamics of laminarjets in stratified fluids.

Soneson, Joshua, Optical pulse dynam-ics in nonlinear and resonant non-composite media.

Soterwood, Jeanine, Model and analysisof provider-user games.

CALIFORNIA

California Institute ofTechnology (9)

Applied and Computational

Mathematics

Demanet, Laurent, Curvelets, wave atomsand wave equations.

Goulet, David, Mathematical models ofthe developing C. elegans hermaphroditegonad.

Luo, Wuan, Wiener chaos expansionsand numerical solutions of stochasticpartial differential equations.

Strinopoulos, Theofilos, Upscaling immis-cible two-phase flows in an adaptiveframe.

Control and Dynamical Systems

Shadden, Shawn, A dynamical systemsapproach to unsteady systems.

FEBRUARY 2007 NOTICES OF THE AMS 277

Mathematics

Gealy, Matthew, On the Tamagawa num-ber conjecture for motives attached tomodular forms.

Liu, Xiaoyu, On divisible codes over finitefields.

Navilarekallu, Tejaswi, On the equivari-ant Tamagawa number conjecture.

Sorensen, Claus, Level-raising for GSp(4).

Claremont GraduateUniversity (7)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Bui, Minh, Linear phase orthogonal filterbank construction with applications toimage and geometric approximations.

Cepeda-Rizo, Juan, Solid and fluid me-chanics: Case studies in electronic pack-aging.

De Pass, Monica, Wavelet feature ex-traction of high-range resolution radarprofiles using generalized Gaussian dis-tributions for automated target recog-nition.

Fedorchuk, Katherine, Condensed historymethods for Monte Carlo solutions ofphoton transport problems.

Longhini, Patrick, Nonlinear dynamicsdesign and operation of advanced mag-netic sensors.

Teng, Ying, Modeling and simulation ofaeroserroelastic control with multiplecontrol surfaces using µ-method.

Wong, Chao-Jen, The embedding methodfor simulation for enzyme kinetics andtransfer in sessile hydrogel drop.

Stanford University (6)

Statistics

Han, Jiarui, Dynamic portfolio manage-ment.

Li, Jingyang, Contributions to Bayesiansurvival analysis.

Schwartzman, Armin, Random ellipsoidsand false discovery rates: Statistics fordiffusion tensor imaging data.

Xing, Haipeng, Change-point stochasticregression models with applications toeconometric time series.

Zhang, Nancy, Change-point models andsequence alignments: Statistical prob-lems of genomics.

Zou, Hui, Some perspectives of sparsestatistical modeling.

University of California,Berkeley (33)

Biostatistics

Birkner, Merrill, Statistical hypothesistesting and application to biologicaldata.

Machekano, Rhoderick, Statistical com-plications of infectious disease data:Machine learning, causal inference andmultiple testing.

Sinisi, Sandra, Data-adaptive predictionwith the deletion/substitution/additionalgorithm.

Wang, Yan, Statistical methods for eval-uating linkage disequilibrium usinglength of haplotype sharing.

Mathematics

Borooah, Gautam, Clean conditions andincidence rings.

Diesl, Alexander, Classes of strongly cleanrings.

Dorsey, Thomas, Cleanness and strongcleanness of rings of matrices.

Dugas, Alexander, Stable equivalencesof finite dimensional algebras: Relativehomology and lifting problems.

Eriksson, Nicholas, Algebraic combina-torics for computational biology.

Farjoun, Yossi, Nucleation, growth, andcoarsening: A global view on aggrega-tion kinetics.

Fertig, Ron, Almost rational torsionpoints on Abelian varieties.

Gracia-Saz, Alfonso C., The symbol of afunction of a pseudodifferential opera-tor.

Grigsby, Elisenda, Knot floer homology incyclic branched covers.

Grossman, Pinhas, Intermediate subfac-tors with small index.

Hough, J. Ben, Asymptotic results forzeros of diffusing Gaussian analyticfunctions.

Huggins, Bonnie, Fields of moduli andfields of definition of curves.

Kim, Walter, Ramification points on theeigencurve and the two variable sym-metric square p-adic L-function.

Lim, Chu-Wee, Decomposition of spacesof cusp forms over Q and variants ofPartial Nim.

Menta, Rajan, Supergroupoids, doublestructures, and equivariant cohomol-ogy.

Mesyan, Zachary, On endomorphismrings of infinite direct sums of modules.

Nielsen, Pace, The exchange property formodules and rings.

Okunev, Pavel, Renormalization methodswith applications to spin systems andfinance.

Palamarchuk, Konstantin, The 6-vertexmodel in statistical mechanics.

Rinker, Mark, Height functions, maps tothe integers, and the Whitehead graphof a finite presentation.

Woo, Alexander, Ideals of the polynomialring generated by irreducible symmetricgroup representations and Ellingsrud-Strømme.

Xia, Jianlin, Fast direct solvers for struc-tured linear systems of equations.

Statistics

Chen, Chao, Topics on random forests.Guha, Apratim, Analysis of dependence

structures of hybrid stochastic process-ing using mutual information.

Hammond, Alan, Two models of proba-bility theory: Brownian fluctuations anda kinetic limit.

Krishnapur, Manjunath, Zeros of randomanalytic functions.

McAuliffe, Jon, Statistical methods forcomparing genomes.

Pete, Gabor, Dependent percolation crit-ical exponents, anchored isoperimetryand random walks.

Zhao, Peng, Regularization: Sparsity,structure and computation.

University of California,Davis (9)

Mathematics

Cheng, Ching-hsiao, Navier-Stokes equa-tions interacting with a nonlinear elasticshell.

Deka, Lipika, Fermionic formulas forunrestricted Kostka polynomials andsuperconformal characters.

Johnson, Jesse, Heegaard splittings, thecurve complex and the points complex.

Larripa, Kamila, Mathematical models ofthe cytoskeleton.

McAllister, Tyrrell, Applications of poly-hedral geometry to computational rep-resentation theory.

Safnuk, Bradley, Intersection theory onthe moduli space of curves.

Smith, Noel, Boundary interpolating trigo-nometric transforms and applications.

Wilson, Robin, Knots with infinitely in-compressible Seifert surfaces.

Zhao, Jucheng, Efficient approximations:Overcome boundary effects.

University of California,Los Angeles (34)

Biostatistics

Comulada, Warren, Two-part longitudi-nal multivariate models for sex, drugs,and teratology.

Gadallah, May Mokhtar Aly, Combingaggregated and individual level datato estimate individual level parame-ters variance, covariance, and slopecoefficient.

Lemus, Hector, Bayesian state space mod-eling of heterogeneous multivariate lon-gitudinal data.

Li, Ning, Joint analysis of longitudinalmeasurements and competing risk fail-ure time data.

Siddique, Juned, Multiple imputation us-ing an iterative hot-deck with distancebased donor selection.

Wu, Tongtong, A partial linear semi-parametric additive risks model fortwo-stage design survival studies.

Zhao, Yu, Additive risk regression forsurvival data from two-stage designs.

Zhou, Kefei, A unified approach to non-parametric comparisons of receiver op-erating characteristics curves for longi-tudinal and clustered data.

Doctoral Degrees Conferred

278 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 54, NUMBER 2

Mathematics

Bueti, John, A bound for the (n,k)maximal function via incidence combi-natorics.

Cai, Shuang, Algebraic connective K-theory: A simple definition and itsconsequences.

Feigon, Brooke, Periods and relative traceformulas for GL(2) in the local setting.

Folsom, Amanda, Modular units.Gilette, Alan, Image inpainting using

phase-field method.He, Lin, Applications and generalizations

of the iterative refinement method.Khamsemanan, Nirattaya, Estimation of

Nielsen numbers.Kim, Yon Seo, Localization method as

a universal approach to the Gromov-Witten theory.

Klein, Silvius, Spectral theory for discrete,quasi-periodic Schrodinger operators.

Le, Triet, A study of image segmentationand decomposition in a variationalapproach.

Lee, Catherine, The effect of smoothnessand derivative conditions on the fixedpoint sets of smooth maps.

Leung, Shing-Yu, Applications of the levelset method to geometrical optics, trans-mission tomography, image processingand crystal growth modeling.

Lieu, Linh, Contribution to problems inimage restoration, decomposition, andsegmentation by variational methodsand PDEs.

Ouellette, Keith, On the Fourier inversionformula for reductive adelic groups.

Park, Frederick, Total variation and dual-ity for blind image.

Peterson, Jesse, 1-cohomology and rigid-ity in Π1 factors.

Schubert, Claus, New u-invariants ofquadratic forms and function fields ofgood forms of height two.

Sze, Nang Keung, Multilevel optimizationfor VLSI circuit placement.

Thiyanaratnam, Pradeep, Modeling andsimulation of electrodisposition in 2and 3 dimensions.

Visan, Monica, The defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equationin dimensions five and higher.

Xu, Jinjun, Iterative regularization andnonlinear inverse scale space methodsin image restoration—interactive regu-larization and nonlinear inverse scalespace methods in image restoration.

Statistics

He, Yan, Missing data imputation fortree-based models.

Huang, Wehua, Methods to extract rareevents.

Maciuca, Romeo, MCMC analysis: Firsthitting times, visiting scheme, andauxiliary variables.

Veen, Alejandro, Some methods of as-sessing and estimating point processesmodels for earthquake occurrences.

Zheng, Ming, ChIP-chip: Data, model andanalysis.

University of California,Riverside (3)

Mathematics

Bartels, Tobias, Higher gauge theory,2-bundles.

Hernandez, Lisa, On the girth of a knot.Pearse, Erin, Complex dimensions of

self-similar systems.

University of California,San Diego (13)

Mathematics

Cecil, Mathew S., The Taylor map oncomplex path groups.

Emmons, Caleb J., Higher order integralStark-type conjectures.

Fenwick, Jennifer E., A survey of meshingalgorithms and a multi-purpose meshgenerator.

Fleming, Thomas R., Generalized linkhomotopy invariants.

Horton, Matthew D., Ihara zeta functionsof irregular graphs.

Kang, Weining, An invariance principlefor semimartingale reflecting Brown-ian motions (SRBMs) in domains withpiecewise smooth boundaries.

Lee, Jason, Topics in combinatorial gametheory: Partizan versions of Nim, thehypercube description and results oncomputation in the field of numbers.

Lim, Poon Chuan Adrian, Path integralson a compact manifold with non-negative curvature.

Miceli, Brian, A rook theory modelfor product formulas and poly-Stirlingnumbers.

Newland, Derek, Kernels in the Selbergtrace formula on Tk and distributionsof the zeroes of the Ihara-zeta function.

Pendergrass, Cayley, Just-infinite alge-bras and an extension of a theorem ofHerstein.

Winkelmann, Beate M., Finite dimensionaloptimization methods and their appli-cation to optimal control with PDEconstraints.

Wu, Lei, Random inscribed polytopes.

University of California,Santa Barbara (13)

Mathematics

Ham, Ji-Young, The minimal dilatationsof 4 and 5 braids.

Lichtenstein, Eric, Divisors for ellipticcurves satisfying Zagier’s conjecture.

Pavone, Christopher, The spectral scaleof a self-adjoint operator in a semifinitevon Neumann algebra.

Roybal, Roger, A reproducing kernelcondition for indeterminacy in themultidimensional moment problem.

Sittinger, Brian, Recurrence formulae forthe coefficients of modular forms andfunctions.

Tomova, Madlena, Compressing thinspheres in the complement of a link.

Wylie, William, On the fundamental groupof noncompact manifolds with nonneg-ative Ricci curvature.

Statistics and Applied Probability

Chernobai, Anna, Contributions to mod-eling of operational risk in banks.

Frame, Samuel, Some contributions tosemi-supervised learning.

Grebeck, Michael, Application of stochas-tic programming and stable distribu-tions to asset liability management.

Lei, Xiaofang, Bayes nets: A general-ized variable elimination algorithm andapplications to classification.

Tong, Tiejun, On variances estimationwith application to microarray dataanalysis.

Yuan, Jiacheng, Bootstrap resampling inwavelet analysis and statistical methodsin ecological research.

University of California,Santa Cruz (5)

Mathematics

Bonini, Vincent, Negatively small pertur-bations of the Laplacian on asymptoti-cally flat manifolds.

Glesser, Adam, Refinements of Dade’sprojective conjecture.

Jordan, Leif, Classification of irreduciblevi modules for a negative definite rankone even lattice L.

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

Rosen, Oren, Sturm Liouville extensions:Applications in plate vibration.

University of SouthernCalifornia (7)

Mathematics

Cetin, Coskun, Backward stochastic differ-ential equations with quadratic growthand their applications.

Dong, Huamei, Critical region for dropletformation/dissolution.

Li, Ming, Statistical models of sequencingerror and algorithms of polymorphismdetection.

Liu, Xiaobo, The quantum Teichmullerspace as a noncommutative algebraicobject.

Shamam, Asher, Modeling and deconvo-lution of alcohol transport through hu-man skin employing a new fully-discreteparameters estimation framework forparabolic and hyperbolic distributedparameter systems.

Torres, Juan, Space-time decay of solu-tions of the Navier-Stokes equations.

Yang, Yi, Computational genome analysisby alignment.



COLORADOColorado School ofMines (3)

Mathematics and Computer Science

Al-Ramouni, Suad, Efficient algorithmsfor association rules from transactionaldatabases.

Gao, Kun, Attribute based modeling: Aninterpolation approach to design.

Idwan, Sahar, Algorithms for discretegeometric and graph theoretic pursuitproblems.

Colorado StateUniversity (6)

Mathematics

Eastman, Sean, Analysis and applicationof the nonlinear power method.

Hacioglu, Ilhan, The integral structure ofHecke algebras for finite generalizedpolygons.

Neckels, David, Variational methods foruncertainty quantification.

Statistics

Abd El-Fattah, Ehab, Saddlepoint approx-imations for linear rank models.

Abdel Karim, Amany, Applications ofgeneralized inference.

Storlie, Curtis, Tracking of multiple merg-ing and splitting targets with applica-tion to convective systems.

University of Colorado atBoulder (9)

Applied Mathematics

Brannick, James, Adaptive algebraic multigrid coarsening strategies.

Cooley, Daniel, Statistical analysis ofextremes motived by weather and cli-mate studies: Applied and theoreticaladvances.

Hoefer, Mark, Dispersive shock waves inBose-Einstein condensates and nonlin-ear nano-oscillators in ferromagneticthin films.

Lee, Eunjung, FOSLL∗ for eddy currentproblems with three-dimensional edgesingularities.

Suwannajan, Pakinee, Evaluating the per-formance of latent semantic indexing.

Wysham, Derin, Reducibility, manifolds,and bifurcations of invariant tori indynamical systems.

Mathematics

Chambers, Amy, Certain subalgebras ofthe tensor product of graph algebras.

Massman, John, Applications of algebraicgeometry to error-correcting codes.

Smith, Becker Sidney, The Hilbert e-operator and its significance for meta-mathematics.

University of Colorado atDenver (3)

Mathematics

JuJunanashvili, Abram, Angles betweeninfinite-dimensional subspaces.

Rostermundt, Robert, A description of allelation groups of the Hermitian surfacein 3-dimensional projective space overa finite field of characteristic 2.

Weinstein, Tessa, Three-phase hybrid mix-ture theory for swelling drug deliverysystems.

University of Colorado atDenver and HealthSciences Center (1)

Preventive Medicine and Biometrics

Bjork, Kathe, Robust identification ofdifferential gene expression and dis-crimination.

University of NorthernColorado (3)

School of Mathematical Sciences

Banks, Clare, Preservice teachers’ per-sonal epistemological beliefs in relationto their beliefs in the National Councilof Teachers of Mathematics’ principlesand standards for school mathematics.

Duvall, Sally, Students’ concept images ofparameters in a multi-representationaldifferential equation course.

Tsay, David, Pedagogical content knowl-edge in prospective elementary teach-ers: The schema of multiplication.

CONNECTICUTUniversity of Connecticut,Storrs (5)

Mathematics

Catral, Minerva, Group inverses andmean first passage matrices in finiteergodic Markov chains.

O’Neill, Krista, High frequency responseto low frequency forcing in a non-linearmechanical model.

Speicher, Regina, Numerical solutions toan Allen-Chan type equation.

Statistics

Song, Seongho, Hierarchical Bayesiananalysis of genetic diversity in geo-graphically structured populations.

Zhang, Zhenkui, Variable window scanstatistics.

Wesleyan University (1)


Cane, Ilirjan, Shellability properties onplanar graded posets and higher ordercomplexes.

Yale University (7)

Mathematics

Armstrong, John, Extensions of classicalknot invariants to categories of tangles.

Duncan, John F., Vertex operators, andthree sporadic groups.

Lim, Seonhee, Enumeration of latticesand entropy rigidity of group actionson trees and buildings.

Mallahi-Karai, Keivan, Relative growthand Kazhdan property for arithmeticgroups.

Poznansky, Tal, Existence of simultane-ous Ping-Pong partners in linear groups.

Salehi-Golsefidy, Alireza, Lattices of min-imum covolume in Chevalley groupsover positive characteristic local fields.

Szlam, Arthur D., Non-stationary analysison data sets and applications.

DELAWAREUniversity of Delaware (2)

Mathematical Science

Platte, Radrigo, Accuracy and stability ofglobal radial basis function methodsfor the numerical solution of partialdifferential equations.

Sun, Jiguang, Numerical analysis of non-linear ferromagnetic materials.

DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIAAmerican University (3)


Bejleri, Valbona, Prediction intervals forthe Poisson model with applications toAtlantic storms data.

Gochenaur, Deborah, African Americansand STEM: An examination of oneintervention program.

Pascal, Matthew, No Child Left Behind inthe mathematics classroom: A regionalassessment of the impacts that the NoChild Left Behind Act of 2001 has hadon the mathematics classroom learningenvironment.

George WashingtonUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Helme-Guizon, Laure, A categorificationfor the chromatic polynomial.

Statistics

Gartvig, Konstantin, Asset pricing underparameter uncertainty.

Hui, Terrence, Bootstrap and likelihoodbased inference for ranked set samples.

Howard University (3)

Mathematics

Mohlala, Molobe, Enriched quantum Yang-Baxter geometry, quantum geometry.



Moshesh, Irene, Image partition regularityof affine transformations.

Rahman, Abdul, On the constructionand cohomology of a self-dual per-verse sheaf on simple stratified spacesmotivated by string theory.

FLORIDAFlorida AtlanticUniversity (2)

Mathematical Sciences

Humphreys, Katherine, Enumeration oflattice paths using finite operator cal-culus.

Mahalanobis, Ayan, Diffie-Hellman keyexchange protocol, its generalizationand nilpotent groups.

Florida Institute ofTechnology (5)


Liew, Agatha, Stochastic analysis of amultivariable random walk with appli-cations to finance.

Lindsay, Rita, An analysis of the effectsof a computer enhanced curriculumand learning style on student achieve-ment in college algebra at a Floridacommunity college.

Samanta, Tathagata, Comparing pseudo-and quasi-random number generatorsin multivariable integration and travel-ing salesman problem.

Shaikh, Shoaib, Design optimization us-ing statistical techniques.

Smith, Timothy, On periodic solutions ofnonlinear hyperbolic equations of thefourth order.

Florida StateUniversity (11)

Mathematics

Akella, Santha, Deterministic and sto-chastic aspects of data assimilation.

Croicu, Ana-Maria, Single and multiple-objective stochastic programming withapplications to aerodynamics.

Cui, Zhenlu, Rheology and mesoscalemorphology of flows of cholesteric andnematic liquid crystal polymers.

Ganesan, Anand, Two part thesis: 1. Amodified k-ε turbulence model of highspeed jets at elevated temperatures. 2.Modeling and a computational study ofspliced acoustic liners.

Goforth, Jacqueline, A description andanalysis of a two variable version of theNTRU cryto system.

Hu, Wenbo, Calibration of generalizedhyperbolic distributions using the EMalgorithm, with applications in riskmanagement, portfolio optimization,and portfolio credit risk.

Kadioglu, Samet, All speed multi-phaseflow solvers.

Srinivasan, Parthasarathy, Applicationsof representation theory and higher-order perturbation theory in NMR.

Statistics

Franks, Billy, Investigating the categoriesfor blood pressure for risk assessmentof death due to coronary heart disease.

Kaziska, David, Statistics models onhuman shapes with applications toBayesian image segmentation and gaitrecognition.

Munshi, Mahtab, Impact of missing dataon building prognostic models acrossstudies.

University of CentralFlorida (4)

Mathematics

Bradshaw, David, Classification of high-dimensional vectors based on matrix-variate distributions.

Heard, Astrid, Applications of statisticalmethods for risk and reliability.

Qi, Limin, Phase synchronization inthree-dimensional lattices and globallycoupled populations of nonidenticalRossler oscillators.

Singh, Neeta, Epidemiological modelsfor mutating pathogen with temporaryimmunity.

University of Florida (15)

Mathematics

An, Jung-ha, Various methods in shapeanalysis and image segmentation andregistration.

Bhat, Yermal Sujeet, A multiscale analysisof PDE modeling voltage potential.

Jakimovik, Slagjana, On the classificationof inverse limit spaces of tent maps.

Kozinski, Jason, Abstract bilinear integra-tion and applications.

Melikhov, Sergey, Geometry of link in-variants.

Rojas-Rebolledo, Diego, Approximationsto the strength of ODA-determinacyand applying determinacy to porosity.

Sadykov, Rustam, Singularities of smoothmaps.

Thiruvenkadam, Sheshadri, Partial differ-ential equations (PDE) and variationalmethods applied to medical image anal-ysis.

Tweddle, J. Christopher, Minimization oflinear growh functionals of measure.

Statistics

Capanu, Marinela, Tests of misspecifica-tion for parametric models.

Chakraborty, Sounak, Bayesian machinelearning.

Cui, Yuehua, Statistical functional map-ping for genetic control of programmedcell death.

Min, Lin, Mathematical and statisticalmethods for identifying DNA sequencevariants that encode drug response.

Rumcheva, Pavlina, Projected multivari-ate linear models for directional data.

Zhao, Wei, Statistical modeling for func-tional mapping of longitudinal andmultiple longitudinal traits: Structuredante-dependance model and waveletdimensionality reduction.

University of Miami (2)

Mathematics

Anthappan, Paul, On trigonometric inter-polation.

Solis, Didier, Global properties of asymp-totically de Sitter and anti de Sitterspacetimes.

University of SouthFlorida (4)

Mathematics

Fall, Djiby, Longtime dynamics of hy-perbolic evolutionary equations in un-bounded domains and lattice systems.

Kephart, David, Topology, morphism,and randomness on the space of formallanguages.

Rajaram, Lakshminarayan, Statisticalmodels for environmental and life sci-ences.

Youmbi, Norbert, Contributions to har-monic analysis and probability theoryon semihypergroups.

GEORGIA

Clark AtlantaUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Torain, David S., II, An analytical ap-proach to the bio-economic dynamicsof a fishery which includes simultane-ous harvesting of other species.

Emory University (7)

Biostatistics

Hickson, DeMarc, Multilevel (hierarchi-cal) analysis of the human immuno-deficiency virus and high risk sexualbehavior: Assessing model fit with theDIC generalized coefficient of determi-nation.

Leong, Traci, First- and second-orderproperties of spatial point processes inbiostatistics.

Lin, Carol, Evaluating and optimizingperformance of diagnostic systems withmultiple tests.

Patel, Rajan, Determining connectivityof the human brain with functionalneuroimaging data.

Tassone, Eric, Small area estimation ofhealth disparity via Bayesian hierarchi-cal models.




Crane, Brian, Forbidden subgraphs and(k,m)-pancyclic graphs.

Ferrara, Michael, The degree strippingmethod for potentially H-graphic se-quences.

Georgia Institute ofTechnology (7)

School of Mathematics

Chen, Jian, Bifurcations normal formsand their applications.

Gameiro, Marcio, Topological analysis ofpatterns.

Hegde, Rajneesh, New tools and resultsin graph structure theory.

Hohenegger, Christel, Small scale sto-chastic dynamics for particle imagevelocimetry applications.

Moeller, Todd K., Conley-Morse chainmaps.

Norine, Serguei, Matching structure andPfaffian orientations of graphs.

Wollen, Paul, Extremal functions forgraph linkages and rooted minors.

University of Georgia (10)

Mathematics

Baramidze, Victoria, Spherical splines forscattered data fitting.

Chang, Sungkon, On the arithmetic oftwists of super elliptic curves.

Nam, Kyunglim, Tight wavelet frameconstruction and its application forimage processing.

Pemy, Moustapha, Regime switching mar-ket models and applications.

Statistics

Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar, Novel non-parametric methods for event timedata.

Habtzghi, Desale, Maximum likelihoodbased estimation of hazard functionunder shape restrictions and relatedstatistical inference.

Shen, Jing, Robust estimation and infer-ence in finite mixtures of generalizedlinear models.

Woo, Mi-Ja, Robust estimation in mixturemodels and small area estimation usingcross-sectional time series models.

Zhao, Ying, Some stochastic shapes ap-plications in time series and Markovchains.

Zheng, Haitao, Inference for time seriesmodels for count data.

HAWAIIUniversity of Hawaii (1)

Mathematics

Kalk, Jonathan, Sparse ordinary graphs.

IDAHOIdaho State University (2)

Mathematics

Earl, Katheryne, Remediation in Ameri-can colleges: Its history and future.

Velasquez, Maria Elena, Wavelets: Theoryand applications.

University of Idaho (3)

Mathematics

Guan, Yongtao, Algorithms and MonteCarlo methods in computational biol-ogy.

Ponciano Castellanos, Jose Miguel, On theuse of stochastic population models inmicrobial ecology.

Sprano, Timothy, Prime ideals of theinfinite product ring of p-adic integers.

ILLINOISIllinois Institute ofTechnology (1)

Applied Mathematics

Bongolan-Walsh, Vena Pearl, Nonautono-mous and stochastic dynamics ofoceanic gravity currents.

Illinois State University (2)

Mathematics

Brown, Susan, The trigonometric connec-tion: Students’ understanding of sineand cosine.

Nenduradu, Rajeev, Characterizing pre-service teachers’ use of representationsin solving algebraic problems involvingexponential relationships.

Northern IllinoisUniversity (3)


Apel, Geoffrey, Quintuple product identi-ties.

Kong, Ling Ju, Non-linear boundary prob-lems of ordinary differential equations.

Peng, Wujian, On the Krylov subspacesolutions of matrix equations in controltheory.

NorthwesternUniversity (11)

Engineering Science and Applied

Mathematics

Catlla, Anne, Pattern formation in impul-sively forced Faraday waves.

Singh, Gogi, Mathematical modeling ofself-organized nano-scale porous struc-tures in anodic aluminum oxide.

Spiller, Elaine, Computational studies ofrate events in optical transmissionsystems.

Mathematics

Carter, Andrea, The Brauer group of DelPezzo surfaces.

Heller, Jeremiah, Semi-topological cobor-dism for complex varieties.

Joukhovitski, Valentina, Topological mod-ular forms and pn-level structures atthe prime p.

McCarthy, Anne, Rigidity of solvablegroup actions.

Pearson, Paul, The mod2 homology ofthe connective spectrum of topologicalmodular forms.

Salomone, Matthew, Quasi-periodic con-tinuation along a continuous symmetry.

Youngren, Drew, Microlocal analysis ofthe anharmonic oscillator with largepotential.

Zhang, Hua, Symplectic partially hyper-bolic diffeomorphisms.

Southern IllinoisUniversity, Carbondale (1)

Mathematics

Huang, Zhongming, Multinomial changepoint problems.

University of Chicago (24)

Mathematics

Athreya, Jayadev, Quantitative recur-rence of Teichmuller geodesic flow.

Copeland, David, A definition of theglobal Weyl group and a simple exam-ple.

D’Costa, Sameer, Trace of Frobenius foran ordinary elliptic wave.

Gurshi, Michael, An algebraic theory oftricategories.

Haynes, Richard, Results concerning theG-signature.

Iyer, Gautam, A stochastic Lagrangianformulation of the incompressibleNavier-Stokes and related transportequations.

Johns, Joseph, Complexification of Morsefunctions and the directed Fukoyacategory.

Khare, Apoorva, Category G over thesymplectic oscillator algebra.

Melnick, Karin, Compact Lorentz mani-folds with local symmetry.

Mulnix, James, Lp estimates for parabolicoblique derivative problems.

Park, Jinhyun, Infinitesimal and cyclicaspects of motives.

Pettet, Alexandra, Cohomology of somesubgroups of the automorphism groupof the free group.

Ramadoss, Ajay, On the nonexistence ofcertain morphisms from Grassmannianto Grassmannian in characteristic O.

Sen, Anindya, Investigating the limitorder book.

Thomas, Joaquin Teruji, The Maslov indexas a quadratic space.



Vasilyev, Sergey, Genus two Veech sur-faces arising from general quadraticdifferentials.

Wang, Stephen, Representations of right-angled Artin groups into higher-rankLie groups.

Wieland, Ben, Pullback conjectures forautomorphism groups of free groups.

Statistics

Anderes, Ethan, Estimating deformationsof Gaussian random fields.

Bernstein, Elliot, Statistical models forobject classification and detection.

Im, Hae Kyung, Two problems in envi-ronmetrics.

Jun, Mikyoung, Space-time models andtheir application to air pollution.

Thornton, Timothy, Statistical inferencefor genetic analysis in related individu-als.

Zheng, Maoxia, Two statistical problemsin gene mapping.

University of Illinois atChicago (18)

Mathematics, Statistics and

Computer Science

Deng, Yunfan, Design of crossover trialswith binary outcomes.

Fang, Xin, D-optimal designs for pharma-cokinetic and combined pharmacoki-netic pharmacodynamic models.

Jahn, Sarah, A blowing up algorithm forcalculating rings of integers.

LaRosa, Myrna, Spanish calculators andGalileo.

Li, Gang, Locally D-optimal designs fornonlinear models with minimal numberof support points.

Liu, Libin, Data mining of biologicalsequences.

Nath, Rishi, Partial results on Navarro’sconjecture and the Isaacs-Navarro con-jecture for the alternating groups.

Niknejad, Amir, Application of singularvalue decomposition to DNA microarray.

Popova, Natalya, The onset of convectionin a horizontal layer of a porousmedium in the presence of vibration.

Rosen, Eric, Contributions to the modeltheory of differential fields.

Shive, Joseph, Conjugation problems forHirsch foliations.

Tang, Jiuhong, Exotic option stochasticvolatility model and incentive scheme.

Wang, Limin, Jail X: Protecting users fromX applications.

Wu, Wenting, Unified approach for as-sessing agreement.

Yim, Yangsoon, On quasi-homogeneousspace: Maximal operators and Ap .

Yin, Changchuan, A novel exon finding al-gorithm based on the 3-base periodicityanalysis of genome information.

Yoo, Dongchul, Optimal tracking condi-tions for linear extended state observeron uncertain system.

Zhu, Zongwu, Option pricing and jumpdiffusion models.

University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign (17)

Mathematics

Chan, O-Yeat, Investigations into cranksof partitions, trigonometric sums, andq-integrals.

Gepner, David, Equivariant elliptic coho-mology.

Li, Jinjie, Asymptotic behavior of homolo-gies and intersection multiplicity.

Liu, Chaoyuan (Mary), The convergenceof Lebesque derivatives and ergodicaverages.

Mullet, Joshua, Fibered Calabi-Yau vari-eties and toric varieties.

Polkowska, Dominika, Bounded pseudo-algebraically closed structures.

Sabalka, Lucas, On graph braid groups.Wang, Yun, Potential theory of general-

ized hyperbolic processes.Yang, Jian, Stochastic volatility models:

Option price approximation, asymp-totics and maximum likelihood estima-tion.

Yew, Khye Loong, On some classicalBanach space concepts in operatorspace theory.

Yi, You-Chiang, On the modularity ofhigher dimensional varieties.

Zhang, Feng, Potential theory for subor-dinate killed Brownian motion in someunbounded domains.

Statistics

Choi, Hyunyoung, Topics in nonlineartime series.

Mu, Yunming, Power transformation to-ward linear or partially linear quantileregression models.

Neocleous, Tereza, A partially linearmodel for censored regression quan-tiles.

Zhou, Jianhui, Robust and constraineddimension reduction.

Zhou, Tianyue, Linear mixed models withnon-normal distributions.

INDIANAIndiana University,Bloomington (11)

Mathematics

Belinschi, Serban, Complex analysis meth-ods in noncommutative probability.

Chiru, Eduard, Harmonic forms on coho-mogeneity one manifolds.

Jung, Chang-Yeol, Numerical approxi-mation of two dimensional singularlyperturbed problems.

Kim, Yun-Hui, Topologically non-triviallocal minimizers of the Oseen-Frankenergy.

Kurt, Yesem, New key exchange primi-tives.

Shaw, Jason, Spectral densities of discreteand continuous-indexed random fields.

Timar, Adam, Group-invariant randomprocesses.

Tone, Florentina, On the long-time sta-bility of numerical schemes for theNavier-Stokes equations.

Viglizzo, Ignacio, Coalgebras on measur-able spaces.

Wilson, Eric, Exotic lens spaces andquotients of Brieskorn spheres.

Yavuz, Onur, Invariant subspaces forBanach space operators with a multiplyconnected spectrum.

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Fokin, Vladimir, Six-vertex model with do-main wall boundary conditions: Riemann-Hilbert approach.

Ulgen, Semail,K-exact groupC∗-algebras.

Purdue University (21)

Mathematics

Celikler, Yalin, Geometry ofD-semianalyticand subanalytic sets over complete non-Archimedean fields.

Cumming, Christine, Residual intersec-tions in Cohen-Macaulay rings.

Gunatillake, Gajath, Weighted composi-tion operators.

Kaleem, Faisal, The structure of properholomorphic mappings of a planar do-main onto a simply connected domain.

Kim, Wook, Standard module conjecturefor Gspin groups.

Liu, Yuping, Stochastic optimization prob-lems in insurance.

Nane, Erkan, Iterated Brownian motion:Lifetime asymptotics and isoperimetric-type inequalities.

Niederhausen, Meike, Backward stochas-tic differential equations and general-ized risk models.

Rajagopal, Ambica, Continuity propertiesof symmetric stable processes.

Sarol, Yalcin, Applications of the Gaus-sian stochastic analysis of fractionalBrownian noise to regularity of sto-chastic heat equations and to portfoliooptimization.

Sega, Lucian, Ideal class semigroups ofintegral domains.

Strunk, Brent, Castelnuovo-Mumford reg-ularity, postulation numbers, and re-duction numbers.

Wang, Xiaohong, Backward bifurcation ina mathematical model for tuberculosiswith loss of immunity.



Statistics

Han, Chun, Non- and semi-parametricregression with correlated data.

Johnson, Bradford, Some topics in proba-bility and statistics.

Kim, Nak-Kyeong, Bayesian models andMarkov chain Monte Carlo methodsfor protein motifs using secondarycharacteristics.

Liu, Lei, On the estimation of mixingdistributions: NPMLE and NPMPLE.

Wang, Yun, Methods for missing valuesin dichotomous response variables.

Yu, Lianbo, Statistical issues in proteinmicroarray analysis.

Zeng, Peng, Fourier methods for suffi-cient dimension reduction in regres-sion.

Zhong, Wenxuan, Nonparametric cluster-ing and model selection with applica-tion in bioinformatics.

University of NotreDame (4)

Mathematics

Balreira, Cabral, Detecting invertibilityfrom the topology of the pre-images ofhyperplanes.

Bates, Daniel, Theory and applications onnumerical algebraic geometry.

Hutchinson, Ryan, Generic properties ofconvolutional codes.

Kelley, Christine, Pseudocodewords, ex-pander graphics and the algebraic con-struction of low-density parity-check.

IOWAIowa State University (11)

Statistics

Botts, Carsten, Bayesian methods in singleand multiple curve fitting.

Chen, Lihua, Combining generalized lin-ear models.

Esker, Paul, Epidemiology and diseasemanagement of Stewart’s disease ofcorn in Iowa.

Heilmann, Cory, Estimation of green-house gases from a trace gas study.

Love, Tanzy, Exploring statistical meth-ods for analysis of microarray data.

Miller, Curtis, Search for level sets offunctions by computer experiments.

Wang, Dong, New aspects of statisticalmethods for missing data problems,with applications in bioinformatics andgenetics.

Wang, Yurong, Advanced statistical meth-ods for analysis of NDE data.

Xu, Xia, Toxicokinetic-gased survivalmodel for analysis of toxicity datawith changing data.

Zhai, Dongmei, Continuous-time block-oriented nonlinear modeling with com-plex input noise structure.

Zhou, Zhigang, Statistical method forspatial screening.

University of Iowa (18)

Applied Mathematics and

Computational Science

Candelana, Jose, Construction and anal-ysis of two habitat spectific dispersalmodels.

Del Valle, Sara, Effects of behavioralchanges and mixing patterns in mathe-matical models for smallpox epidemics.

Oh, Hyounkyun, SPARK methods formixed DAEs of index 2 and 3 and theirapplication in mechanics.

Saenz, Roberto, Mathematic models fortwo species sharing an infectious dis-ease.

Zhu, Jiehua, Image reconstruction andgeometric modeling in computed to-mography.

Biostatistics

Xie, Xianjin, A goodness-of-fit test forlogistic regression models with contin-uous predictors.

Yoo, Bongin, Estimation and design con-siderations in the mixed effects Coxregression model.

Zhang, Wei, Analysis of doubly censoredsurvival data with applications to GBV-Cand HIV studies.

Mathematics

Bildea, Stefan, Generalized free productsof measurable equivalence relationsand unital C∗-algebras.

Cho, Il Woo, Random variables in a graphW∗-probability space.

Frazier, Andrea, Generalized factoriza-tion in integral domains.

Ganatra, Amit, Some topics in factoriza-tion in commutative rings with zerodivisors.

Hauschild, Holly, On the affine Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebra and its cyclo-tomic quotients.

Ionescu, Marius, C∗-algebras associatedwith Mauldin-Williams graphs.

Khots, Dmitriy, Isotrophy subgroups oftransformation groups.

McAtee, Jenelle, C2 smooth knots ofconstant curvature.

Picioroaga, Gabriel, Amenability prop-erties of the von Neumann algebrasassociated with generalized Thompsongroups.

Song, Myung-sin, Wavelet image com-pression.

KANSASKansas State University (6)

Mathematics

Li, Yiqiang, Affine canonical bases.Tang, Xin, Applications of noncommuta-

tive algebraic geometry to representa-tion theory.

Statistics

Fang, Liang, An intra-class correlationmodel for under-replicated split plotexperiments.

Kang, Qing, Nonparametric tests of me-dian for a size-biased sample.

Keighley, John, A simulation study ofpower for a repeated measurements ex-periment using mixed model methodol-ogy.

Vahl, Christopher, Algorithms for con-structing D-optimal designs for multi-level experiments.

University of Kansas (4)

Mathematics

Engheta, Bahman, Bounds on projectivedimension.

Maldonado, Diego, Multilinear singularintegrals and quadratic estimates.

Rice, Glenn, Asymptotic properties oftorsion-free symmetric powers of mod-ules.

Striuli, Janet, Extensions of modules anduniform bounds of Artin-Rees type.

KENTUCKYUniversity of Kentucky (3)

Mathematics

Money, James, Variational methods forthe image deblurring and discretizedPicard’s method.

Nedeva, Todorka, Rings of power seriesin the binomial polynomials.

Quillen, Patrick, Generalizations of aninverse free Krybu subspace method forthe symmetric generalized eigenvalueproblem.

LOUISIANALouisiana StateUniversity (11)

Mathematics

Al-Shammari, Khalid, Filippov’s operatorand discontinuous differential equa-tions.

Aristidou, Michael, Laguerre functionsassociated to Euclidean Jordan algebras.

Arslan, Mustafa, Integral cohomology ofthe Siegel modular variety of degreetwo and level three.

Breitzman, Timothy, Multiscale strainanalysis.

Cazacu, George, Stability in dynamicalpolysystems.

Cazacu, Rodica, Quasicontinuous deriva-tives and viscosity functions.

Czarneski, Debra, Zeta functions of finitegraphs.

Dobrescu, Mihaela, Wavelet sets with andwithout groups and multiresolutionanalysis.



McAllister, Sarah, Error estimates forstabilized approximation methods forsemigroups.

Schellhorn, William, Virtual strings forclosed curves with multiple compo-nents and filamentations for virtuallinks.

Zabic, Stanislav, Impulsive systems.

Louisiana TechnologyUniversity (4)

Computational Analysis and

Modeling

Barron, Brian, An FE-FD hybrid schemefor solving parabolic two-step microheat transport equations in irregu-larly shaped three dimensional double-layered thin films exposed to ultra-short-pulse lasers.

Paun, Mihaela, Measuring inequality: Sta-tistical inference theory with applica-tions.

Tang, Xingui, A numerical method forobtaining an optimal temperature dis-tribution in a 3D triple-layered skinstructure embedded with multi-levelblood vessels.

Zheng, Xiangyin, Modeling and simula-tion of value-at-risk in the financialmarket area.

Tulane University (3)

Biostatistics

Morgan, Leslie Heard, An empirical studyof the power and accuracy of threetests for specific clustering.

Mathematics

Manna, Dante, An extension of Landentransformations.

Webb, Joel, Stabilization of sphericalspace forms.

University of Louisiana atLafayette (5)

Mathematics

Dean, William M., Ray tracing by linearinterval estimations.

Gorton, Christine, Generalized primaryrings.

Hongthong, Siriporn, Techniques for ver-ified global solution of minimax prob-lems.

Tang, Xiaohua, Operator splitting schemesfor biharmonic problems arising in con-tinuum mechanics.

Wang, Xubo, Nonlinear size-structuredpopulation models.

MARYLANDJohns HopkinsUniversity (10)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Xiang, Pengfei, Limit theory for thedomination number of random classcover catch diagraphs.

Biostatistics

Egleston, Brian, Causal inference withsensitivity analysis: Methods for inves-tigating mediation and accounting fordeath in observational studies.

Guo, Hongfei, Analysis of differentiatedrisk factor associations with multipleoutcomes.

Katki, Hormuzd, Extending Mendelianmodels that predict if one has a disease-causing mutation based on family his-tory of disease.

Li, Fan, Statistical designs and analysesfor partially controlled studies.

Lin, Rougheng, Loss function based rank-ing methods with applications to healthservices research and gene expression.

Luo, Xianghua, Recurrent event modelswith time-dependent covariates andinformative censoring.

Ziegler, Kathryn, Exploratory inference.

Mathematics

Stewart, Ann, Existence theorems forsome nonlinear hyperbolic equationson a waveguide.

Su, Hsin-Hao, The E(1,2) cohomologyof the Eilenberg-MacLane space laneK(2,3).

University of Maryland,College Park (29)

Mathematics

Borovikov, Anna, Multivariate error co-variance estimates by Monte-Carlo stim-ulation for oceanographic assimilationstudies.

Bourouihiya, Abdelkrim, Buerling weightedspaces, product convolution operators,and the tensor product of frames.

Chen, Ru, Model misspecification withparameters of increasing dimension.

Chen, Te-Ching, Estimating commonodds ratio with missing data.

Danforth, Christopher, Making forecastsfor chaotic processes in the presence ofmodel error.

Desai, Angela, Zd symbolic dynamics:Coding with an entropy inequality.

Dunlavy, Daniel, Homotopy optimizationmethods and protein structure predic-tion.

Foroozan, Farshad, Discrete inverse con-ductivity problem on network.

Grant, Angela, Finding optimal orbits ofchaotic systems.

Guo, Haiming, Generalized volatility andcalculating VaR using a semiparametricmodel.

Harlim, John, Errors in the initial condi-tions for numerical weather prediction:A study of error growth patterns anderror reduction with ensemble filtering.

Hauck, Cory, Entropy-based moment clo-sures in semiconductor models.

Howard, Benjamin, Matroids and geomet-ric invariant theory of torus actions onflag spaces.

Jiminez, William, Riemannian submer-sions and Lie groups.

Kim, Sunhee, Stimulating risk neutralstochastic processes with a view topricing exotic options.

Lawton, Sean, SL(3, C)-character varietiesand RP2-structures on a trinion.

Li, Feiyue, Modeling and solving sev-eral important variants of the vehiclerouting problem.

McClendon, David, Orbit discontinuitiesand topological models for Borel semi-flows.

Mekchay, Khamron, Convergence of adap-tive finite element methods.

Peterson, Elisha, Trace diagrams, repre-sentations, and low dimensional topol-ogy.

Rohde, Gustav, Registration methods forquantitative imaging.

Romero, Juan, Generalized multiresolu-tion analysis: Construction and mea-sure theoretic characterization.

Skufca, Joseph, Understanding a chaoticsaddle with focus on a 9-variable modelof planar Couette flow.

Truman, Christopher, Turaev torsion ofmanifolds with boundary.

Tsou, Hsiao-Hui (Sophie), Factor analysisof cross-classified data.

Wu, Xianfang, Stochastic volatility withLevy processes: calibration and pricing.

Xiao, Yue, Leveraged Levy processes asmodels for stock prices.

Xiong, Yupei, The minimum labelingspanning tree problem and some vari-ants.

Zhang, Bing, A new Levy-based short ratemodel for the fixed income market andits estimation with particle filter.

MASSACHUSETTSBoston University (5)


Beck, Margaret, Topics in stability theoryfor partial differential equations.

Chua, David, Statistical analysis forwhole networks.

Diniz Behn, Cecilia, A mathematicalmodel of network dynamics govern-ing sleep-wake behavior in mice.

Kao, Mei-fang, Bayesian modeling ofnonrandom drop-outs in longitudinaldata analysis.

Torres-Ardila, Fabian, Chern-Simons formsin infinite dimensions.

Boston University Schoolof Public Health (2)

Biostatistics

Li, Jiang, Modeling of silent events andevaluation of biomarkers in a prospec-tive study with scheduled follow-up.

Posner, Michael, Propensity scores: Whenare they needed and methods of imple-mentation.



Brandeis University (7)

Mathematics

Chang, Seunghwan, Extensions of rankone (ϕ, Γ)-modules.

Cheong, Daewoong, Quantum cohomol-ogy rings of Lagrangian and orthogo-nal Grassmannians and Vafa-Intriligatortype formulas.

Feldman, Ophir, Actions of finite typeArtin groups on R-trees.

Ghosh, Anish, Dynamics or homogeneousspaces and Diophantine approximationon manifolds.

Pande, Aftab, Local constancy of eigen-forms.

Petersen, Thomas Kyle, Descents, peaksand P -partitions.

Romano, Bruce, On Stark’s conjecture foroctahedral representations.

Harvard University (36)

Biostatistics

Forsberg White, Laura, Statistical meth-ods for the detection and quantificationof infectious disease epidemics.

Goodman, Melody, Statistical methods forcommunity-based cancer interventionsand health disparities research.

Griffin, Beth Ann, Inference for failuretime data subject to interrupted haz-ards to interval censoring.

Gryparis, Alexandros, Bayesian semipara-metric regression methods with appli-cation to environmental epidemiology.

Guo, Yu, Statistical issues in microarraydata analysis, array-to-array normal-ization, empirical Bayes batch effectadjustment, and Pearson’s correlationcoefficient in the context of replicatedexperiments.

Harezlak, Jaroslaw, Using functional re-gression models to analyze longitudinaldata.

Karamitis Nikolov, Margaret, Statisticalmethods for assessing source-specifichealth effects of air pollution.

Murphy, Amy, Novel methodologies forgenetic association testing.

Najita, Julie, Statistical issues in thedesign and analysis of developmentaltoxicity studies.

Ruan, Ping (Kathryn), Methodology forfailure time data with missing cause offailure or dependent censoring.

Schumi, Jennifer, Resampling-based meth-ods for multiple hypothesis testing.

Soh, Chang-Heok, Bias-reduction in vari-able selection and the analysis ofcompeting risks with missing covariantvalues with right-censored data.

Szwarc, Suzanne, Statistical models forfertility-related issues in adjuvant treat-ment for breast cancer.

Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric, Statistical meth-ods for robust inference in causal andmissing data models.

Vanderweele, Tyler, Contributions to thetheory of causal directed acyclic graphs.

Engineering and Applied Science

Drinea, Eleni, Lower bounds for thecapacity of channels with I.I.D. deletionsand insertions.

Gal, Ya’akov, Reasoning about rationalityand beliefs.

Li, Jr-Shin, Control of inhomogeneousensembles.

Ng, Brenda, Factored inference for ef-ficient reasoning of complex dynamicsystems.

Nguyen, Minh-Huyen, Zero knowledgeand efficient provers.

Shan, Chung-Chieh, Linguistic side ef-fects.

Viola, Emanuele, The complexity of hard-ness amplification and derandomiza-tion.

Yuan, Haidong, Geometry, optimal con-trol and quantum computing.

Mathematics

Bainbridge, Matthew, Euler characteris-tics of Teichmuller curves in genustwo.

Cautis, Sabin, Extending families ofcurves: Monodromy and applications.

Chmutova, Tatyana, Representations ofthe symplectic reflection algebras andof the rational Cherednik algebras.

Herzig, Florian, The weight in a Serre-type conjecture for tame n-dimensionalGalois representations.

Kim, Namhoon, Algebraic aspects ofoperator products and generalizationsof vertex algebras.

Kumar, Abhinav, K3 surfaces of highrank.

Matsen, Erick, Analysis of probabilisticmodels of evolution.

Petrakiev, Ivan, On zero-dimensionalschemes with special Hilbert functions.

Schein, Michael, Weights of Galois repre-sentations associated to Hilbert modu-lar forms.

Sena-Dias, Rosa, Estimated transversalityand rational maps.

Wu, Chun-Chun, On the geometry ofsuperstring with torsion.

Yoshida, Teruyoshi, Weight spectral se-quence and Hecke correspondence onShimura varieties.

Yu, Jeng-daw, On ordinary K3 surfacesover Fp.

Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (23)

Mathematics

Ackerman, Nathanael, Quantifier rankspectrum of L-infinity-omega.

Angeltveit, Vigleik, Noncommutative ringspectra.

Chan, Alice, Models of high rank forweakly scattered theories.

Chu, Kevin, Asymptotic analysis of ex-treme electrochemical transport.

Fok, Pak-Wing, Simulations of axisym-metric stepped surfaces with a facet.

Goddard, Christina, Improving a bound-ing result for weakly-scattered theories.

Harmon, Dion, New bounds on optimalbinary search trees.

Heluani, Reimundo, Super symmetric ver-tex algebras and supercurves.

Hill, Michael, Computational methods forhigher real K-theory with applicationsto tmf .

Hopkinson, John, Universal polynomialsin λ-rings and the K-theory of theinfinite loop space tmf .

Hu, David, The hydrodynamics of water-walking insects and spiders.

Kamenova, Ljudmila, Hyper-Kaehler fi-brations and Hilbert schemes.

Kim, Boguk, Three-dimensional solitarywaves in dispersive wave systems.

Lam, Fumei, Traveling salesman pathproblems.

Liu, Fu, Contributions to the theory ofEhrhart polynomials.

Malon, Christopher, The p-adic localLanglands conjecture.

Santoro, Bianca, Asymptotic expansionof complete Ricci-flat metrics on openmanifolds.

Solomon, Jake, Intersection theory on themoduli space of the holomorphic curveswith Lagrangian boundary conditions.

Stephens, Benjamin, Thread-wire sur-faces.

Tenner, Bridget, The combinatorics ofreduced decompositions.

Vener, David, Rocking and rolling downan incline: The dynamics of nestedcylinders on a ramp.

Vera, Daniel, Topological Hochschild ho-mology of twisted group algebras.

Zhang, Zhou, Degenerate Monge-Ampereequations over projective manifolds.

NortheasternUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Nathanson, Michael, Local discriminationand quantum channel capacities.

Perez, Joe, L2 Fredholm property ∂ Neu-mann problem on strongly pseudocon-vex G-manifolds.

Wickramasinghe, Irosha, Relative condi-tional complexity of compression forauthorship attribution of texts.

University ofMassachusetts,Amherst (2)


Costeniuc, Marius, Ensemble equivalenceand phase transitions for general mod-els in statistical mechanics and for theCurie-Weiss-Potts model.

Tsagkarogiannis, Dimitrios, Mathematicalstrategies for the coarse-graining ofinteracting particle systems.



Worcester PolytechnicInstitute (1)

Mathematics and Science

Simonis, Joseph, Inexact Newton methodsapplied to underdetermined systems.

MICHIGANCentral MichiganUniversity (2)

Mathematics

Al-Sharawi, Ziyad, Periodic discrete dy-namical systems.

Pararai, Mavis, Measurement errors ingeneralized Poisson regression model.

Michigan StateUniversity (15)

Mathematics

Dai, Zhewei, Local regularization for theautoconvolution problem.

Danielson, Christopher, Walking a straightline: Introductory discourse on linearityin classrooms and curriculum.

Demirkoparan, Hasan, Pure Azimuthalshearing deformations for an extendedclass of elastic materials that are char-acterized by a microstructurally moti-vated internal balance principle.

Feng, Peng, Pattern information in somenonlinear systems.

Han, Jianlong, Nonlocal Cahn-Hilliardequation.

Lee, Jungho, The deformations of acurved rod.

Li, Peijun, Inverse medium scattering forelectromagnetic wave propagation.

Park, Tae-Wan, The existence of globalsolutions of a variational nonlinearwave equation.

Wu, Dongsheng, Geometric properties ofanisotropic Gaussian random fields.

Zhou, Guangyu, On a class of nonlocalevolution equations.

Statistics and Probability

Wang, Li, Semilinear stochastic differen-tial equations in Hilbert spaces drivenby non-Gaussian noise and their asymp-totic properties.

Wu, Mingxin, Trimmed and Winsorizedestimators.

Xue, Lan, Additive coefficient modelingvia marginal integration and polynomialspline smoothing.

Yi, Tingting, Some inference problemsfor interval censored data.

Zhang, Hui, Resampling methods foradaptive designs.

Michigan TechnicalUniversity (2)


Alqaraleh, Sahar Mubarak, Variationalprinciples for linear and nonlinear mix-tures: New derivations and applicationto bilinear materials and yield behavior.

Khan, Aktar, Numerical methods forelliptic inverse problems with interiordata.

Oakland University (1)


Xia, Zhengzhi, Some contributions tomultiple comparison methods for lon-gitudinal data and general linear mixedeffects models.

University of Michigan (30)

Biostatistics

Andrei, Adin-Cristian, Nonparametric andsemiparametric censored survival anal-ysis of correlated times to event andtheir sequelae.

He, Yulei, Multiple imputation for contin-uous non-normal missing data.

Li, Mingyao, Statistical methods in genemapping of complex diseases.

Liu, Dawei, Semiparametric regressionfor multi-dimensional data: Kernel ma-chines and mixed-effects models.

Long, Qi, Emerging issues in causalinference for intervention trials.

Yuan, Ying, Model-based estimates of thefinite population mean for two-stagecluster samples with nonresponse.

Zhou, Honghong, Case-control studieswith longitudinal covariates.

Mathematics

Andrei, Alina, The parameter space ofquadratic polynomial maps on C2.

Berger, Tobias, The Eisenstein ideal forimaginary quadratic fields.

Bird, Erik, A proof of existence ofparticle-like solutions to Einstein-Diracequations.

Blekherman, Grigoriy, Convex geometryof orbits.

Brown, Jim, Saito-Kurokawa lifts, L-valuesfor GL2, and congruences betweenSiegel modular forms.

Chindris, Calin, The cone of effectiveweights for quivers and Horn typeproblems.

Chivoret, Sebastien, Properties of multi-ple stochastic integrals with respect tofractional Brownian motion and appli-cations to nonlinear filtering.

Choi, Jungmin, Partial hedging in finan-cial markets with a large agent.

Ciupe, Stanca, Development and applica-tions of mathematics tools in modelsof infectious diseases and biologicalphenomenon.

Dietz, Geoffrey, Closure operations inpositive characteristic and big Cohen-Macaulay algebras.

Fiore, Thomas, Pseudo limits, bi-adjoints,and pseudo algebras: Categorical foun-dations of conformal field theory.

Forde, Jonathan, Delay differential equa-tion models in mathematical biology.

Gao, Peng, N-level density of the lowlying zeros of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions.

Hering, Milena, Syzygies of toric varieties.Lorenz, William, A self-adaptive ran-

dom walk algorithm to identify geneticepistatic effects.

Mihalcea, Constantin, Equivariant quan-tum cohomology of homogeneous spaces.

Peters, Han, Non-autonomous complexdynamical systems.

Shastry, Sreekar, The Drinfeld modularJacobian J1(n) has connected fibers.

Teitler, Zachariah, Multiplier ideals ofline arrangements.

Wolfe, Alexandre, Asymptotic invariantsof graded systems of ideals and linearsystems on projective bundles.

Statistics

Hu, Jennifer, Modeling variation in func-tional responses with applications inhuman motion analysis.

Lawrence, Earl, Flexicast network delaytomography.

Wang, Xiao, Nonparametric inferencewith applications to dark matter es-timation in astronomy and degradationmodeling in reliability.

Wayne State University (1)

Mathematics

Song, Qingshuo, Numerical methods forcontrol and games of regime-switchingdiffusion systems: Algorithms, analysis,and computations.

Western MichiganUniversity (3)

Mathematics

Escuadro, Henry, Detectable colorings ofgraphs.

Fox, Joseph, Nilpotent orbits on infinites-imal symmetric spaces.

Stockero, Shari, The effect of usingvideo cases of mathematics teaching onpreservice teachers’ development of areflective stance towards teaching.

MINNESOTAUniversity ofMinnesota-Twin Cities (25)

Division of Biostatistics, School of

Public Health

Li, Bingbing, Sample size calculationin survival trials accounting for timedependent dynamics of noncomplianceand risk.

Liu, Xuan, Latent variable models formultivariate spatial data.

Lu, Haolan, Measuring the complexityof generalized linear hierarchical mod-els and Bayesian areal wombling forboundary analysis.

Reich, Brian, Sample size calculationswith correlated binary data and multi-ple treatments.



School of Mathematics

Anand, Akash, An efficient high-ordernumerical algorithm for scattering by3-dimensional “thin structures”.

Celiker, Fatih, Discontinuous Galerkinmethods for structural mechanics.

Cheh, Jeongoo, Symmetry pseudogroupsof differential equations.

Chen, Min-Hung, High order Runge-Kuttadiscontinuous Galerkin methods forcomputational electromagnetics.

Dong, Hongjie, On some problems relatedto the regularity theory for second-order elliptic-parabolic equations andtheir numerical approximations.

Du, Dapeng, Three regularity resultsrelated to the Navier-Stokes equations.

Ecevit, Fatih, Integral equation formula-tions of acoustic and electromagneticscattering problems: High-frequencyasymptotic expansion and convergenceof multiple scattering interations.

Hoft, Thomas, An inverse problem innondestructive evaluation of spotwelds.

Kim, Dayoon, Partial differential equa-tions in Sobolev spaces with or withoutweights.

Ponomarenko, Mariya, Error estimatesand adaptivity in approximation offunctions by artificial neural networks.

Rogness, Jonathan, Homological and ho-motopical algebra of exact couples.

Turc, Catalin, High-order integral equa-tion methods for high-frequency roughsurface scattering applications.

Weng, Pangyen, On Sobolev spaces ofdivergence-free vector fields and theirapplications.

School of Statistics

Bennie, Barbara, Optimal bidding strate-gies for a non-durable consumer goodwith cyclic production.

Gregas, Matthew, A semi-parametric ap-proach to intensity curve estimationwith applications to neuroscience.

Huang, Yu-Min, Hypotheses with multiplelinear inequality constraints.

Sheng, Jun, Methods for comparing twocrossing hazard functions.

Sun, Jingran, Image segmentation forcDNA microarray data based on localpolynomial kernel smoothing.

Wang, Junhui, Topics in large margin su-pervised and semi-supervised learning.

Wang, Lifeng, On L 1-norm multi-classsupport vector machines: Methodology,theory and applications.

Yoo, Jae Keun, Optimal sufficient di-mension reduction for the multivariateconditional mean in multivariate re-gression.

MISSISSIPPIMississippi StateUniversity (1)


Wattanataweekul, Hathaikarn, Convexanalysis and flows in infinite networks.

University ofMississippi (5)

Mathematics

Anderson, Joe, Reconnected binary ma-troids and graphs.

Cotwright, Carla, Clones and minors inmatroids.

Sanford, Alice, Cycle spectra, automor-phic uniqueness, and isomorphism.

Williams, Bryan, Large circuit pairs inmatroids.

Wilson, Adrian, Graph groupoids andtheir topology.

MISSOURIUniversity ofMissouri-Columbia (13)

Mathematics

Arutyunyants, Georgiy, Combinatorialmethods in harmonic analysis.

Brown, James (Ryan), Complex andalmost-complex structures on six di-mensional manifolds.

Diestel, Geoffrey, Bilinear Littlewood-Paley theory and square function esti-mates.

Jakab, Tunde, Parabolic layer potentialsand initial boundary value problems inLipschitz cylinders with data in Besovspaces.

Kucherenko, Tamara, The absolute func-tional calculus for sectorial operators.

Nguyen, Phuc, Potential theory and har-monic analysis methods for quasilinearand Hessian equations.

Sansing, Christopher, Directional time-frequency analysis with applications.

Yaskin, Vladyslav, Applications of theFourier transform to convex geometry.

Yaskina, Maryna, Topics in functionalanalysis and convex geometry.

Statistics

Duty, Paul, Improving the delta methodfor nonlinear functions.

Park, Do Hwan, Semiparametric andnonparametric methods for the analysisof longitudinal data.

Sheng, Junfeng, Diagnosis, selection, andmultiple comparisons in the mixedmodeling framework.

Zhang, Song, Bayesian hierarchical mod-els and applications in cancer analysis.

University ofMissouri-Rolla (2)


Rueck, Florian, Bootstrap prediction in-tervals for multivariate time series.

Ye, Yi (Derek), Statistical methods for theanalysis of aerosol concentration data.

University of Missouri-St. Louis (2)


Ndao, Rokhaya, Subdivision schemes forthe design and rendering of 3D sur-faces.

Wurdack, Karen, Hierarchical Kalmanfiltering.

Washington University (9)

Electricial and Systems Engineering

Day, Theodore, Applications of opera-tions research to medical informaticsand systems.

Du, Xiuxia, Detection of visual input andcontrol mechanism in the visual cortexof turtles.

Fischer, Brian, A model of the compu-tations leading to a representation ofauditory space in the midbrain of thebarn owl.

Huang, Yong, A decomposition and se-lection method for solving VRPSTW andDEA applications.

Joseph, Jenner, Bio-inspired encodingof images with spatiotemporal corticalactivity waves and information recoveryvia dynamical modeling.

Mathematics

Lim, Wang Q., Wavelets with compositedilation and their applications.

Opela, David, Extensions and dilations ofN-tuples of Hilbert space operators.

Traub, Cynthia, Topological effects re-lated to minimum weight Steiner trian-gulations.

Zeng, Zemin, Set theoretic complete in-tersections and torsion cycles.

MONTANA

Montana StateUniversity-Bozeman (1)


Hasenbank, Jon, The effects of a frame-work for procedural understanding oncollege algebra students’ proceduralskill and understanding.

University of Montana -Missoula (2)


Luttman, Aaron, A three-dimensionalvariational approach to video segmen-tation.

Whitmire, Jane, The use of computermanipulatives in building integratedconcrete understandings in secondarymathematics education.



NEBRASKAUniversity ofNebraska-Lincoln (4)

Mathematics

Bartley, Katherine, Decoding algorithmsfor algebraic geometric codes overrings.

James, Justin, Some decision problems ingroup theory.

Langdon, Jennifer, Asymptotic behaviorof linear dynamic equations on a timescale.

Statistics

Hooks, Tisha, Design and analysis ofexperiments in the presence of spatialcorrelation.

NEW HAMPSHIREDartmouth College (1)

Mathematics

Stemkoski, Lee, The Selberg trace formulafor cocompact arithmetic groups inSL(3, R).

University of NewHampshire (1)


Montiel, Mariana, The process of inte-gration and the concept of integral:How does success with applicationsand comprehension of underlying no-tions such as accumulation relate tostudents’ mathematical ability.

NEW JERSEYNew Jersey Institute ofTechnology (3)


Lahiri, Soumi, Linear and log-linear mod-els based on generalized inverse sam-pling scheme.

Tseluiko, Dimitri, Mathematical problemsarising in interfacial electrohydrody-namics.

Zorych, Ivan, A Bayesian approach towireless location problems.

Princeton University (5)

Mathematics

Chen, Szu-Yu (Sophie), Boundary valueproblems of fully nonlinear equationsin conformal geometry.

Ciperiani, Mirela, Solvable points ongenus one curves.

Jorati, Hadi, Singular kernels adapted tocurved flags.

Silberman, Lior, Arithmetic quantumchaos on locally symmetric spaces.

Wu, Ming-Yih, Stochastic Bouissinesqequations and the infinite dimensionalMalliavin calculus.

Rutgers University, NewBrunswick (11)

Mathematics

Apagodu, Moa, The sharpening of Wilf-Zeilberger theory.

Enciso, German, Monotone input/outputsystems and biological applications.

Ganguly, Satadal, Large sieve inequalitiesand application to counting modularforms of weight one.

Holowinsky, Roman, Shifted convolutionsums and quantum unique ergodicity.

Jin, Qinian, Curvature prescribing prob-lems in hyperbolic space and conformalgeometry.

Kong, Liang, A mathematical study ofopen-closed conformal field theories.

Mikula, Richard, The Weingarten cur-vature problem: Prescribing Gauss-Kronecker curvature on group invariantconvex hypersurfaces.

Nacin, David, Structural properties ofalgebras arising from pseudoroots.

Radomirovic, Sasa, Cusp forms overfunction fields and modular symbols.

Vatter, Vincent, The enumeration andstructure of permutation classes.

Weininger, Nicholas, Correlation proper-ties of discrete probability models.

Stevens Institute ofTechnology (3)


Cho, Hong-Ray, An introduction tocounter groups.

Rekeda, Ludmyla, Statistical tests forstochastic dominance.

Von Dohlen, Paul, Novel approaches toparticle-tracking simulations for timedependent velocity fields.

NEW MEXICO

New Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces (5)


Li, Baokun, Estimation on random setdata and skew normal distribution.

Moyo, Lloyd, Codomains for the Cauchy-Riemann operator, Laplace operatorand the product Laplace operator in thecontext of the S-convolution.

Obiedat, Hamed, Topological characteri-zations of the Schwartz space and theBeurling-Bjorck space.

Weaver, Christopher, Modeling social sys-tems processes found in text cor-pora through windowed latent seman-tic analysis and simulation of conceptrefreshment events.

Yasein, Mohammad, Polynomial andfinite-type invariants of theta-curves.

University of NewMexico (3)


Marquez-Lago, Tatiana, Numerical esti-mation of progesterone transcription inthe EGFR pathway.

Vlaicu, Irina, Weak turbulence theory forcoasting beams with Schottky noise.

Xu, Ling, Bayesian methods for com-puting populations with multimodaldistributions.

NEW YORKCity University of NewYork, Graduate Center (8)

Mathematics

Allen, David, On the homotopy of toricspaces with applications to the homo-topy groups of certain manifolds.

Bocchi, Timothy, Prescribed mean curva-ture graphs in hyperbolic space.

Gouraige, Rony, Z-classes in central sim-ple algebras.

Jitsukawa, Toshiaki, Stallings foldingsand subgroups of free groups.

Lee, Jaewoo, Infinitely often dense basesand geometric structure of sumsets.

Majidi-Zolbanin, Mahdi, Splitting of vec-tor bundles on punctured spectrum ofregular local rings.

Markowsky, Gregory, The derivative ofintersection local time in the plane.

Ulrich, James, Ore revisited: An algo-rithmic investigation of the simplecommutator promise problem.

Clarkson University (1)


Vasileva, Irina, Force inversion in floatingplate dynamics.

Columbia University (21)

Biostatistics

Chen, Mei-Yin, Two stage stepwise proce-dures for dose finding in clinical trialswith a biological endpoint.

Tian, Hong, Variance estimation of thecross validation estimator of the gener-alization error.

Yang, Yuqing, Some statistical methodsfor diagnostic accuracy with correlateddata.

Mathematics

Alyurov, Mikhail, Aloff-Wallach spaces:Volumes, curvatures, injectivity radii.

Freiermuth, Hans Georg, On partial com-pactifications of the space of framedvector bundles on the projective plane.

Kawamuro, Keiko, Algebraic crossingnumber and braid index.

Lamberson, Peter John, Splice type sin-gularities and iterated branched cycliccovers.



Laza, Radu, Deformations of singularitiesand variations of GIT quotients.

Martens, Johan, Instanton counting throughnon-Abelian localization.

Ording, Philip, On knot Floer homologyof satellite (1,1) knots.

Phan, Jeffrey, Order properties of mono-mial ideals and their free resolutions.

Zuehlke, John, Some Diophantine equa-tions with complex exponents.

Statistics

Kardaras, Konstantinos, The numeraireportfolio and arbitrage in semimartin-gale models of financial markets.

Kerman, Jouni, An integrated frameworkfor Bayesian graphical modeling, infer-ence, and prediction.

Liang, Yu, Joint modeling and analy-sis of longitudinal observations andobservation times.

Pal, Soumik, On capital requirements andoptimal strategies to achieve accept-ability.

Shnaidman, Michael, New approachesto modelling and analyzing recurrentevent time data.

Xu, Jinfeng, Parameter estimation, modelselection and inferences in L1-basedlinear regression.

Young, Fanesca, Discriminating betweencommon risk factors and a causalrelationship in familial co-aggregationstudies.

Zhang, Daqing, Marginal quantile meth-ods for censored multiple event times.

Zhang, Xi, Estimating the mixing pro-portion in a semi-parametric mixturemodel from censored time-to-eventdata.

Cornell University (25)

Center for Applied Mathematics

Blais, Marcel, Liquidity and modellingthe stochastic supply curve for a stockprice.

Boyle, Katharyn, Risk minimization hedg-ing methods using options.

Carey, Varis, A posteriori error estima-tion for the finite element method vialocal averaging.

Franco, Maria Mercedes, Existence andregularity of minimizers for a one-dimensional elasticity problem withoutconvexity.

Goel, Sharad, Estimating mixing times:Techniques and applications.

Martin, Carla, Higher-order Kroneckerproperties and tensor decompositions.

Rodriguez, Jesus, Forward models andoptions in electricity markets.

Small, Tara, Modeling tradeoffs in inter-mittent connectivity networks.

Mathematics

Belk, Maria, Applications of stress theory:Realizing graphs and Kneser-Poulsen.

Berestycki, Nathanael, Phase transitionsfor the distance of random walks andapplications to genome rearrangement.

Gibson, Lee, The number of sites visitedby a random walk on an infinite graph.

Haiduc, Radu, Horseshoes in the forcedvan der Pol equation.

Hamblen, Spencer, Lifting n-dimensionalGalois representations.

Hardin, Christopher, The Horn theory ofrelational Kleene algebra.

Kemp, Todd, Hypercontractivity in non-commutative holomorphic spaces.

Mermin, Jeffrey, Lexicographic ideals.

Montalban, Antonio, Beyond the arith-metic.

Morris, Steve, Four- and six-dimensionalnilmanifolds and symplectic forms.

Roeder, Roland, Topology for the basinsof attraction of Newton’s method intwo complex variables.

Sayit, Hasanjan, Realistic no arbitrageconditions.

Slavnov, Serguei, Semantic investigationsof linear logic.

Thacker, John, Property of Brownian andrandom walk loop soups.

Trujillo Ferreras, Jose Antonio, The ran-dom walk loop soup and the expectedarea of the Brownian loop in the plane.

Woodroofe, Russ, Shelling the coset poset.

Zeng, Yan, Compensator of stopping timeand its application to finance.

Courant Institute, NewYork University (11)

Mathematics

Azer, Karim, A one-dimensional modelof blood flow in arteries with friction,convection and unsteady Taylor diffu-sion based on the Womersley velocityprinciple.

Griffith, Boyce, Simulating the blood-muscle-valve mechanics of the heart byan adaptive and parallel version of theimmersed boundary method.

Isaacson, Samuel, Stochastic reaction-diffusion methods for modeling geneexpression and spatially distributedchemical kinetics.

Lisi, Samuel, Applications of symplecticgeometry to Hamiltonian systems.

Liu, Kai Ju, A trainable graph combinationscheme for belief propagation.

Neylon, Tyler, Sparse solutions for linearprediction problems.

Raj, Arjun, Stochastic processes in cellbiology.

Schaffrin, Helga, An optimization ap-proach to sea ice dynamics.

Tu, Xuemin, BDDC domain decomposi-tion algorithms: Methods with threelevels and for flow in porous media.

Vladimirski, Boris, Modeling and analysisof spontaneous electrical episodic ac-tivity in the developing nervous systemby means of a heterogeneous excita-tory network of spiking neurons withslow synaptic depression and reducedmean-field models.

Walker, Ryan, A two-dimensional coupledmodel for ice shelf-ocean interaction.

Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute (11)


Banks, Jeffrey, A high resolution Godurovmethod for high-speed mutli-materialflows.

Castronovo, Emilio, A comparative studyof Lagrangian stochastic models foroceanic transport.

Dediu, Sava, Recovering inhomogeneitiesin a waveguide using eigensystem de-composition.

Farwell, Kristin, Gomory cutting planesusing exact arithmetic.

Glackin, James, Solving bi-level linear pro-grams using multiple objective linearprogramming.

Koch, Gretchen, Simulating the min sys-tem in Escherichia coli: Two models ofoscillating polymer chains.

Maserumule, Rebecca, On the linear sta-bility analysis of the wetting front inthe Vandose zone.

Pokorni, Boris, On the dynamics andintermittancy in the numerical modelof gravity surface water waves.

Roe-Dale, Rachel, Quantitative models incancer chemotherapy.

Xiang, Zhi, Multiple-response latent anal-ysis (MLA).

Xie, Gang, Smoothness analysis of sub-divisions in nonlinear and geometricalsettings.

State University of NewYork, Albany (1)


McCollum, Joseph, Random walks on thedihedral group and abelian groups.

State University of NewYork, Binghamton (4)


Florez, Rigoberto, Four studies in thegeometry of biased graphs.

Kong, Fanhui, Asymptotic properties ofBuckley-James estimator.

Salazar-Diaz, Olga, Thompson’s group Vfrom a dynamical viewpoint.

Wang, Yishi, Some new tests for normal-ity.

State University of NewYork, Buffalo (2)

Mathematics

Cheon, Younhwan, Some enumerationproblems for cryptographic Booleanfunctions.



Mohammed-Awel, Jemal Said, Determin-istic and stochastic models of devel-opment of resistance to geneticallymodified pesticidal crops.

State University of NewYork, Stony Brook (32)

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Ahn, Kwangmi, Quantifying the percentincrease in minimum sample size oflinear trend tests resulting from SNPgenotyping errors in genetic associationstudies.

Baek, Inyoung, Optimal designs forpotential missing trials in multiple-objective dose response studies.

Chung, Sohae, Bone image analysis:Quantifying topological change in boneunder uniform erosion.

Duan, Tao, A power study of a twosample likelihood ratio test in thepresence of mixtures.

Dutta, Srabasti, Supernovae and hydro-dynamic instabilities.

Fan-Orzechowski, Xiaofei, Applications ofLovasz’s theta and Lagrangian func-tions to certain deterministic and sto-chastic optimization problems.

Genethliou, Dora, Statistical approachesto electric load forecasting.

Han, Guowen, Analysis of multiscalemolecular dynamics algorithms for sim-ulating biomolecules.

Heller, Jason, Automatic recognition ofharmonic bird sounds.

John, Elizabeth, An implementation ofwarm-start strategies in interior-pointmethods for linear programming.

Lee, Yoonha, Stochastic error analysis ofmultiscale flow simulations: Two-phaseoil reservoir problem.

Liu, Xinfeng, Turbulent mixing with scalebreaking phenomena.

Lu, Tianshi, Direct numerical simulationof bubbly flow and interfacial dynamicsof phase transition.

Prodanovic, Masa, Fluid displacementin rock cores: A study based onthree-dimensional X-ray microtomog-raphy images.

Sung, Heejong, Power calculation forlinkage analysis of a disease relatedtrait.

Tsai, Ko-Jen, Construction of optimalthree-level factorial design for responsesurface model selection.

Xu, Bin, An empirical study of classifi-cation and regression tree and randomforests.

Ye, Qing, Survival analysis estimationand testing assuming a two componentexponential mixture.

Yoon, Choongseok, Representation ofgenerally-mixed multivariate aerosol bythe quadrature method of moments.

Yoon, Seungtai, Bayesian factor screen-ing.

Zhao, Ming, Error analysis in numericalsolutions of various shock physicsproblems.

Mathematics

Cabrera Ocanas, Carlos, Towards clas-sification of laminations associated toquadratic polynomials.

Core Bianchi, Susana, Analogues of theusual pseudodifferential calculus onthe Heisenberg group.

Hooper, W. Patrick, On the stability ofperiodic billiard paths in triangles.

Hu, Wenchuan, Algebraic cycles andLawson homology.

Lynberg, Karyn, A theorem on the bound-ary behavior of a uniformly convergentof conformal maps of the unit disk.

Nie, Zhaohu, Karoubi’s construction formotivic cohomology operations.

Rasdeaconu, Rares, On the topologyand differential geometry of Kaehlerthreefolds.

Reiris, Martin, Aspects of the long timeevolution in general relativity and ge-ometrization of three-manifolds.

Teh, Jyh-Haur, A homology and cohomol-ogy theory for real projective varieties.

Van Coevering, Craig, Toric surfaces andSasakian-Einstein 5-manifolds.

Wilson, Scott, On the algebra and geome-try of a manifold’s chains and cochains.

Syracuse University (2)

Mathematics

Gao, Yunchuan, Multi-category supportvector machines.

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

University of Rochester (2)

Mathematics

Chen, Rui, Heat equation with white orfractional noise potentials.

Fang, Bin, Wave equation with whitenoise potentials and fractional whitenoise potentials.

NORTH CAROLINADuke University (10)

Institute of Statistics and Decision

Science

Carvalho, Carlos, Structure and spar-sity in high-dimensional multivariateanalysis.

Duan, Jun (Jason), Spatio-temporal mod-eling using nonparametric and stochas-tic differential equation approaches.

Hans, Christopher, Regression modelsearch and uncertainty with many vari-ables.

Kohnen, Christine, Using multiply im-puted, synthetic data to facilitate datasharing.

Liao, Ming, Bayesian models and ma-chine learning with gene expressionand analysis applications.

Tu, Chong, Bayesian nonparametric mod-eling using Levy process priors with ap-plications for function estimation, timeseries modeling and spatio-temporalmodeling.

Xia, Gangqiang, Large sample size issuesin spatial statistics.

Mathematics

Anderson, David, Stochastic perturba-tions of biochemical reaction systems.

Deering, Ryan, Fine scale analysis ofspeech using empirical mode decompo-sition: Insight and applications.

Laurent, Thomas, New phenomena innon-local partial differential equations.

North Carolina StateUniversity (29)

Mathematics

Adams, Brian, Non-parametric parameterestimation and clinical data fitting witha model of HIV infection.

Cabbage, Brian, The Stone-Cech com-pactification of the plane.

Cicco, Tracey, Algorithms for comput-ing restricted root systems and Weylgroups.

Gao, Jining, The algebraic structure ofBRST operators and their applications.

Glotov, Petr, Time reversal of electro-magnetic waves in randomly layeredmedia.

Hood, Jeffrey, Molecular-based modelsfor viscoelasticity of polymers.

Ingram, Frank, III, On the wreath productof Schur functions.

Lasater, Matthew, Numerical methods forthe Wigner-Poisson equations.

May, John, Approximate factorizationof polynomials in many variables andother problems in approximate alge-bra via singular value decompositionmethods.

Ray, Robert, Quantum symmetric spacesand quantum symplectic invariants.

Schugart, Richard, Mathematical modelsand numerical methods for analysisof mechanical and chemical loading inarticular cartilage.

Taylor, Padraic, On the solvability ofnonlinear discrete multipoint boundaryvalue problems.

Yokley, Karen, Physiologically based modeldevelopment and parameter estimation:Benzene dosimetry in humans and res-piratory irritation response in rodents.

Zhou, Xianwen, Application of perturba-tion methods to modeling correlateddefaults in financial markets.

Statistics

Gao, Guozhi, Semiparametric estimatorsfor the regression coefficients in thelinear transformation competing risksmodels with missing cause of failure.



Goyal, Lovely, Statistical inference fornon-linear mixed effects models involv-ing ordinary differential equations.

Guo, Xiang, Statistical analysis in twostage randomization designs in clinicaltrials.

Han, Sanggohn, Inference regarding mul-tiple structural changes in linear modelsestimated via two stage least squares.

Heo, Tae-Young, Spatial modeling forcapturing the effects of point sources.

Hepler, Amanda, Improving forensicidentification using Bayesian networksand relatedness estimation: Allowingfor population substructure.

Jiang, Honghua, Age-dependent tag re-turn models for estimating fishing mor-tality, natural mortality and selectivity.

Kang, Changku, Regression via clusteringusing Dirichlet mixtures.

Lee, Hyeyoung, Reparametrized dynamicspace-time models and spatial modelselection.

Liu, Feng, Elliptical copulate with dy-namic conditional correlation.

Park, Jungwook, Statistical inference forcorrelated data based on censoredobservations.

Park, Mansik, Symmetry and separabilityin spatial-temporal processes.

Song, Hae-Ryoung, Associations betweenGaussian Markov random fields andGaussian geostatistical models with anapplication to model the impact of airpollution on human health.

Wang, Qiong, Robust estimation via mea-surement error modeling.

Webster, Raymond, Spatial modeling ofdetection and abundance from countsurveys of animal populations.

University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill (20)

Biostatistics

Bigelow, Jamie, Semiparametric Bayesianmethods for hierarchical functionaldata.

Chen, Qingxia, Theory and inference forparametric and semiparametric meth-ods in missing data problems.

Chi, Yueh Yun, Bayesian methods forlongitudinal and survival data with ap-plication to clinical trials and genomics.

Diao, Guoqing, Semiparametric modelsfor mapping quantitative trait loci inexperimental design and human pedi-grees.

Kistner, Emily, A method for using nu-clear families to test linkage and as-sociation, maternal effects, and parent-of-origin effects between marker andquantitative trait.

Pennell, Michael, Bayesian semiparamet-ric methods for longitudinal, multivari-ate and survival data.

Sterrett, Andrew, Hidden Markov modelsand sequential imputation to infer thelocation of tumor loci.

Mathematics

Bailey, Sarah E., Dynamical propertiesof some non-stationary non-simpleBratteli-Vershik systems.

Boysal, Arzu, Picard group of mod-uli spaces of semistable principal G-bundles over algebraic curves.

Gamber, Emily Brown, A topologicalclassification of D-dimensional cellularautomata.

Zheng, Xiaoyu, The effective propertiesof nematic polymer nano-composites.

Statistics and Operation

Chamu Morales, Francisco, Estimation ofmax-stable processes using Monte Carlomethods with applications to financialrisk assessment.

Chen, Feng, Admission control and rout-ing in multi-priority systems.

Ghosh, Arka, Controlled stochastic net-works in heavy traffic.

Huang, Tao, Dynamic revenue manage-ment of flexible capacity.

Huang, Wei, Managing warranty servicespricing inventory and outsourcing.

Kolenikov, Stanislav, A modification ofthe EM algorithm with applications tospatio-temporal modeling.

Pacheco-Soto, Ivan, Cyclical time serieswith squeezed time.

Ross, Kevin, Convergent numerical schemesfor stochastic singular control prob-lems with state constraints.

Wu, Yichao, Probability approximationwith application in computational fi-nance and computational biology.

University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte (2)


Taylor, John, Arithmetic properties ofpullback domains.

Techanie, Geta, Images of two to onecontinuous maps.

OHIOAir Force Institute ofTechnology (2)


Schubert, Christine, Quantifying correla-tion and its effects on system perfor-mance in classifier fusion.

Thorsen, Steven, The application of cat-egory theory and analysis of receiveroperating characteristics to informationfusion.

Bowling Green StateUniversity (6)


Dunlap, Jonathan, Uniqueness of Curtis-Phan-Tits amalgams.

Jagannathan, Keshav, Statistical infer-ence and goodness-of-fit tests forskewed double exponential models.

Knox, Michelle, Algebraic and lattice the-oretic properties of density continuousfunctions.

Marin, Juan, Dense sets of common cyclicvectors for Jordan operators.

Melnykov, Igor, Simultaneous inferencein the analysis of gene expression data.

Roberts, Adam, A Phan-type theorem fororthogonal groups.

Case Western ReserveUniversity (1)

Mathematics

Feng, Qingfu, On pre-image topologicalpressures.

Ohio State University,Columbus (27)

Mathematics

Chan, Ping-Shun, Invariant representa-tions of GSp(2).

Fu, Yun, Linear stability of an interfacebetween two incompressible fluids.

Guler, Dincer, Chern forms of positivevector bundles.

Kane, Abdoul, Activity propagation intwo-dimensional neuroray networks.

Kennell, Lauren, Boundary behavior ofthe Bergman kernel on locally stronglypseudoconvex domains with respect toweighted Lebesgue measure.

Lee, Seung Youn, Reflected Rouse model.McKinley, Scott, An existence result from

the theory of the fluctuating hydrody-namics of polymers in dilute solution.

Micu, Eliade, Graph minors and Had-wiger’s conjecture.

Pitale, Ameya, Liftings from ˜SL2 toGSpin(1,4).

Salminen, Adam, On the sources ofsimple modules in nilpotent blocks.

Tsoi, Man, Persistence of planar spiralwaves under domain truncation nearthe core.

Wolfe, Adam, S-sparse Steiner triplesystems.

Xia, Honggang, On zeros of cubic L-functions.

Statistics

Alexandridis, Roxana, Minimum dispar-ity inference for discrete ranked setsampling data.

Dingus, Cheryl, Designs and methods forthe identification of active location anddispersion effects.

Du, Juan, Judgment post-stratificationfor designed experiments.

Frey, Jesse, Inference procedures basedon order statistics.

Huang, Yifan, Partition testing and main-tenance gene solution.



Kosler, Joseph, Multiple comparison usingmultiply-imputed data under a two-waymixed effect repeat measure interactionmodel.

Li, Qianqiu, Bayesian inference on hepa-totoxicity.

Li, Xiaobai, Stochastic models for MRIlesion count sequences from patientswith relapsing multiple sclerosis.

Ling, Xiang, Adaptive design in dose-response studies.

Liu, Sijin, Computational developmentsof ψ-learning.

Marin, Ofelia, Designing computer exper-iments to estimate integrated responsefunctions.

Papachristou, Charalampos, Construct-ing confidence regions for the locationsof putative trait loci using data fromaffected sib-pair designs.

Park, Changyi, Generalized error ratesfor margin-based classifiers.

Xu, Haiyan, Using the partitioning prin-ciple to control generalized familywiseerror rate.

Ohio University, Athens (1)

Mathematics

Lee, Haewon, Nonlinear evolution equa-tions and optimization problems inBanach spaces.

University of Cincinnati (1)


Diene, Adama, Structure of permutationpolynomials.

University of Toledo (4)

Mathematics

Hettiarachchi, Chamath, Representationsfor six dimensional Lie algebras with acodimension one nilradical.

Rawashdeh, Mahmoud, Representationsfor six dimensional Lie algebras witha codimension two nilradical and theinverse problem for the associatedcanonical connection.

Wang, Shuwen, Statistical inferences forROC curves under density ratio models.

Zhang, Shiju, Statistical inferences undera semiparametric finite mixture model.

OKLAHOMAOklahoma StateUniversity, Stillwater (1)

Mathematics

Zhu, Xinyun, Finite representations of aquiver arising from string theory.

University of Oklahoma (2)

Mathematics

Stone, Andrea, A psychometric analysisof the statistics concept inventory.

Sulman, Robert, Affine group actions onEuclidean space.

OREGONOregon State University (3)

Statistics

Cooper, Cynthia, Developing a basis forcharacterizing precision of estimatesproduced from non-probability sampleson continuous domains.

Monleon, Vicente, Regression calibrationand maximum likelihood inference formeasurement error.

Tsai, Guei-Feng, Semiparametric andmixed models for longitudinal data.

University of Oregon (5)

Mathematics

Amende, Bonnie,G-irreducible subgroupsof type A.

Dunn, Corey, Curvature homogeneouspseudo-Riemannian manifolds.

Montgomery, Martin, Global dimensionof certain binomial rings.

Ruff, Oliver, Completely splittable rep-resentations of symmetric groups andaffine Hecke algebras.

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Flaxman, Abraham, Average-case analy-sis for combinatorial problems.

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Kravitz, David, Satisfiability and the giantcomponent in online variants of theclassical random models.

Speight, Adam, Multigrid methods forcalibrating financial models.

Vera, Juan, Variations on the preferentialattachment graph.

Statistics

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Heinold, Brian, Sum list coloring andchoosability.

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Shank, Nathan, Limit theorems for ran-dom Euclidean graphs.

Pennsylvania StateUniversity, UniversityPark (16)

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Yuan, Haiping, Special value formulae ofRankin L-functions.

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Cheng, Lan, Analysis and numericalsolution of an inverse first passageproblem from risk management.

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Jackson, Matthew, A sheaf theoretic ap-proach to measure theory.

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Kim, Jeongeun, Parameter estimation instochastic volatility models with miss-ing data using particle methods and theEM algorithm.

Ren, Lulu, Parameter estimation for latentmixture models with applications topsychiatry.

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Chou, Ching-Shan, High order residualdistribution conservative finite differ-ence WENO schemes for steady stateproblems on non-smooth meshes.

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Elmoghraby, Amal, Capturing complexgeophysical flows from Lagrangian dy-namics.

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Jin, Ya, Probabilistic hierarchical imagemodels.

Kanevsky, Alex, High order implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta time-integrationmethods and applications and time-consistent filtering in spectral methods.

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Madiman, Mokshay, Topics in informa-tion theory, probability and statistics.

Redd, Thomas, Measures of ergodicity,mixing, and transport in 2D maps andflows.

Sendersky, Radislav, Advanced high ordernumerical methods for shock wavescomputations.

Sezer, Ali Devin, Dynamic importancesampling for queueing networks.

Symeonidis, Vasileios, Numerical meth-ods for multi-scale simulation of non-Newtonian flows.

Wilcox, Lucas, High order accurate meth-ods for solving the time-harmonicMaxwell’s equations.

Yuan, Ling, Discontinuous Galerkin meth-od based on non-polynomial spaces.

Mathematics

Bucur, Alina Ioana, On the simultaneousnonvanishing of quadratic twists ofGL(2) L-series over the rational functionfield.

Ha Quang, Minh, Reproducing kernelHilbert spaces in learning theory.

Hur, Mikyoung Vera, Steady water waveswith vorticity.

Jiang, Yongbin, Weil-etale topologies overlocal rings.

Wilkin, Graeme Peter, An analytic stratifi-cation of the space of Higgs bundles.

Xing, Yulong, High order well-balancednumerical schemes for hyperbolic sys-tems with source terms.

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Quinn, Eugene, On the boundedness char-acter of third-order rational differenceequations.

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Wlodarczyk, Dariusz, Synthesis dynamicmulti-rigid-body contact problems withfriction.

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Chen, Yian, Optimal DNA microarraydesign.

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Mathematics

Ding, Yabin, Multiscale ELLAM meth-ods for transient advection-diffusionequations with highly oscillatory coeffi-cients.

Jin, Xiaohua (Teresa), Real number graphlabelings with distance conditions.

Wang, Hua, Subtrees of trees, Wienerindex and related problems.

Wu, Jianfeng, Connecting relation alge-bras to forcing.

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Li, Huajiang, A system of efficient andportable multiple recursive generatorsof large order.



Liu, Henry, Recent extremal problems incombinatorics.

Morris, Robert D., Phase transitions incombinatorics.

Murdock, Julie Angela, Persistence andstability of spatial patterns in neuralnetwork models.

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Mathematics

Cathey, Matthew, Packings of conformalpreimages of circles.

Hrynkiv, Volodymyr, Optimal control ofpartial differential equations and varia-tional inequalities.

Shattuck, Mark, Parity theorems for com-binatorial statistics.

Szapiel, Marek, Hypersurfaces of pre-scribed hyperbolic curvature.

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Mirani, Mozhgan, Classical trees andultrametric spaces.

Zhao, Yan, A model for strep throat in-fection: Dynamics of contingency geneselection in an infected host.

Zhong, Changyong, Multiplication opera-tors and m-Berezin transforms.

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Gray, Michael, Uniqueness implies unique-ness and existence for nonlocal bound-ary value problems for third orderordinary differential equations.

Ma, Ding, Uniqueness implies unique-ness and existence for nonlocal bound-ary value problems for fourth orderdifferential equations.

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Feng, Amy, Bayesian evaluation of surro-gate endpoints.

McBride, John, Conjugate hierarchicalmodels for spatial data: An applicationof an optimal selection procedure.

Spann, Melissa, Bayesian adaptive designsfor non-inferiority and dose selectiontrials.

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Comas, Agata, Time-domain decomposi-tion preconditioners for the solutionof discretized parabolic optimal controlproblems.

Dussaud, Eric, Velocity analysis in thepresence of uncertainty.

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Ridzal, Denis, Trust-region SQP methodswith inexact linear system solves forlarge-scale optimization.

Thornquist, Heidi, Fixed-polynomial ap-proximate spectral transformations forpreconditioning the eigenvalue prob-lem.

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Peterson, James, Coordinate scans, com-pactness properties, and area mini-mization.

Wu, Yue, Applications of Rauzy induc-tion on the generic ergodic theory ofexchange transformations.

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Cong, Xiuyu (Julie), Some statistical issuesin breast cancer screening studies andclustered failure times data.

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Deng, Li, Modeling the carcinogenesisin lung cancer: Taking smoking andgenetic susceptibility into account.

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Han, Shu, Modeling auxiliary informationin clinical trials.

Lee, Jong Soo, Hypothesis testing withfunctional data.

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Yu, Zhaoxia, Haplotype blocks and asso-ciation mapping.

Zhou, Xian (Nicole), Bayesian inference ofordinal data.

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Risser, Hilary, Computational methods forsingularly perturbed two-point bound-ary value problems.

Wang, David, Parallel computation forreservoir thermal simulation: An over-lapping domain decomposition ap-proach.

Texas A&M University (22)

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Copeland, Dylan, Negative-norm least-squares methods for axisymmetricMaxwell equations.

Dascaliuc, Radu, Behavior of dissipativePDE’s for negative times.

Fuselier, Edward, Refined error estimatesfor matrix-valued radial basis functions.

Henderson, Troy, Causal equivalence offrames.

Kim, Taejong, Mesh independent con-vergence of modified inexact Newtonmethods for second order nonlinearproblems.

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Onica, Constantin, Forced two-layer beta-plane quasigeostrophic flow.

Randrianarivony, Lovasoa, Nonlinear clas-sification of Banach spaces.

Sahutoglu, Sonmez, Compactness of thed-bar Neumann problem and Steinneighborhood bases.

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Baladandayuthapani, Veerabhadran,Bayesian methods in bioinformatics.

Choi, Sujung, On two-sample data analy-sis by exponential model.

Hintze, Christopher, Modeling correlationin binary count data with application tofragile site identification.

Hintze, Eric, Small sample multiple test-ing with application to cDNA microar-ray data.

Kim, Kyong Ryun, Second order accuratevariance estimation in poststratifiedtwo-stage sampling.

Kim, Myung Suk, Statistical testing andestimation in continuous time interestrate models.

Kim, Sinae, Bayesian variable selection inclustering via Dirichlet process mixturemodels.

Kwon, Deukwoo, Wavelet methods andstatistical applications: Network secu-rity and bioinformatics.

Munoz Maldonado, Yolanda, Mixed mod-els, posterior means and penalized leastsquares.

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Pacull, Francois, A numerical study of theimmersed boundary method.

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Mathematics

Al-Haddad, Shemsi, Generic algebras andKazhdan-Lusztig theory for monomialgroups.

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Howard, Tamani, Hyperbolic Monge-Ampere equation.

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Deng, Shutian, Direct numerical simu-lation for flow transition over a flatplane.

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Phillips, Phillip J., Finite element methodsin linear poroelasticity: Theoretical andcomputational results.

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Mathematics

Alvarado, Francisco, A nonlinear stabilityanalysis of rhombic optical patternformation in an atomic sodium vaporring cavity.

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Zhou, Huajun, Multivariate compoundpoint processes with drifts.

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Mathematics

Millan Millan, Andres, Applications of thecovering property axiom.

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Zhang, Xu, Inference for cumulativeincidence function with right censoredand/or left truncated competing risksdata.

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Jenkins, Michael, Equivalences of holo-morphic mappings in one and severalcomplex variables.

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Weinberg, Aaron, A framework for an-alyzing objects in mathematical dis-course.

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