Archana Khurana has been selected to receive the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in a General Education Course. Awards are based solely on student nominations and are solicited from across campus. From the many nominations received, the selection committee was very impressed by the student experience…Read More
Yanir’s proposal on “Incorporating outreach into the curriculum via experiential learning” is one of the only 27 projects out of 140 submissions that were funded by the UMD Do Good Campus Fund. Read More
Congratulations to UMD’s 3 Goldwater Scholars this year, all from CMNS: Junior physics and mathematics double-degree student Yash Anand Sophomore atmospheric and oceanic science and physics double-degree student Malcolm Maas Junior biological sciences and mathematics double-degree student Jerry Shen Over the last 15 years, UMD’s nominations yielded 49 scholarships—No. 2…Read More
Congratulations to Maria Cameron for her MURI award. MURI are multidisciplinary university research initiative grants that are awarded by the department of defense. Cameron’s grant is sponsored by the office of naval research. Her team includes Balakumar Balachandran (ME) and Miao Yu (ME). This is a project on “disorder-influenced collective…Read More
The university announced today a big gift to the Math Department. The very generous gift of $27.2M was made by Michael & Eugenia Brin. The gift will endow the Brin Mathematics Research Center, establish an endowed chair, and launch a summer camp for high school students. The official university’s press…Read More
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2012 Graduate Degree Recipients
MATH Ph.D.
AMSC Ph.D.
MATH M.A.
STAT M.A.
AMSC M.S.
PhD
Juliana Belding, PhD in Mathematics
Advisor: L. Washington
Dissertation Title: Number Theoretic Algorithms for Elliptic Curves
Hunter Johnson, PhD in Mathematics
Advisor: C. Laskowski
Dissertation Title: Definable Families of Finite VC Dimension
Nicholas Long, PhD in Mathematics
Advisor: M. Boyle
Dissertation Title: Involutions of Shifts of Finite Type: Fixed Point Shifts, Orbit Quotients, and the Dimension Representation
Jane Long, PhD in Mathematics
Advisor: J. Schafer
Dissertation Title: The Cohomology of the Affine Group over Fp2 and of PSL(3, Fp)
Yabing Mai, PhD in Mathematical Statistics
Advisor: E. Slud
Dissertation Title: Comparing Survival Distributions in the Presence of Dependent Censoring: Asymptotic Validity and Bias Correction of the Logrank Test
Tinghui Yu, PhD in Mathematical Statistics
Advisor: A. Kagan
Estimation Theory of a Location Parameter in Small Samples
MA
Nicolas Flores-Castillo, MA in Mathematics
Advisor: K. Grove
Thesis Title: Synge's Trick Revisted
John Habert, MA in Mathematics
Advisor: L. Washington
Anton Lukyanenko, MA in Mathematics
Advisor: W. Goldman
Projective Deformations of Triangle Tilings
Cristian Tomesetti, MA in Mathematics
Advisor: D. Dolgopyat
PhD
Huillin Li, PhD in Mathematical Statistics
Advisor: P. Lahari
Dissertation Title: Small Area Estimation: An Empirical Best Linear Unbiased Prediction Approach
Guanhua Lu, PhD in Mathematical Statistics
Advisor: B. Kedem
Dissertation Title: Asymptotic Theory in Multiple-Sample Semiparametric Density Ratio Models and its Application to Mortality Forecasting
Min Min, PhD in Mathematical Statistics
Advisor: P. Smith
Dissertation Title: Asymptotic Normality in Generalized Linear Mixed Models.
Onur Oktay, PhD in Mathematics
Advisor: J. Benedetto
Dissertation Title: Frame Quantization Theory and Equitriangular Tight Frames
MA
Morgan Stern, MA in Mathematics
Advisor: L. Washington
Aneesah Williams, MA in Mathematical Statistics
Advisor: E. Slud
Thesis Title: Fay-Herriot Small Area Estimation in the Survey of Business Owners
PhD
Ganesh Nadarajasundaram, PhD in Mathematical Statistics
Advisors E. Slud and P.Lahari
Dissertation Title: Small Area Estimation and Prediction Problems
Kathryn Truman, PhD in Mathematics
Advisor: L. Washington
Dissertation Title: Analysis and Extension of Non-Commutative NTRU
The model theory expert joins the university from UCLA. Artem Chernikov joined the University of Maryland's Department of Mathematics on August…Read More
The project is supported by a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Scott Wolpert, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the…Read More