Spring 2012 Graduate Degree Recipients

MATH Ph.D.

	David Aulicino - Mathematics Thesis Title: Progress Toward Classifying Teichmueller Disks with Completely Degenerate Kontsevich-Zorich Spectrum Advisor: Dr. Giovanni Forni
	Xuwen Chen- Mathematics Thesis Title: Methods of Harmonic Analysis Applied to Bose-Einstein Condensation Advisors: Dr. Manoussos Grillakis & Dr. Matei Machedon
	Jeffrey Frazier - Mathematics Thesis Title: Length Spectral Rigidity of Nonpositively Curved Surfaces Advisor: Dr. William Goldman
	Yu-Ru Huang - Mathematics Thesis Title: Measure of parameters with a.c.i.m non-adjacent to the Chebyshev value in the quadratic family Advisor: Dr. Michael Jakobson
	David Karpuk - Mathematics Thesis Title: Weil-étale Cohomology over Local Fields Advisor: Dr. Niranjan Ramachandran
	Alexey Miroshnikov - Mathematics (August 2012) Thesis Title: A Variational Approximation Scheme for Radial Polyconvex Elasticity that Preserves the Positivity of Determinants Advisors: Dr. Konstantina Trivisa & Dr. Athanasios Tzavaras
	Sean Rostami - Mathematics Thesis Title: Kottwitz’s nearby cycles conjecture for a class of unitary Shimura varieties Advisor: Dr. Thomas Haines
	Rodrigo Trevino - Mathematics Thesis Title: Beyond Orientability and Compactness: New Results on the Dynamics of Flat Surfaces Advisor: Dr. Giovanni Forni

AMSC Ph.D.

	Sean Barnes Thesis: An Agent-Based Approach to Controlling Pathogenic Transmission in Medical Facilities Advisor: Bruce Golden
	Amanda Galante Thesis: Mathematical Models of Phototaxis and Cancer Immune Interactions Advisor: Doron Levy
	Guoyuan Liu Thesis: Modeling VIX Index and VIX Derivatives with Mean Reverting Models and Parameter Estimation Using Filter Methods Advisor: Dilip Madan
	Christopher Miller Thesis: Fast Algorithms for the Solution of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Advisor: James Reggia
	Alfredo Nava-Tudela Thesis: Image Representation and Compression via Sparse Solutions of Systems of Linear Equations Advisor: John Benedetto
	Shelby Wilson Thesis: Mathematical Models of Immune Regulation and Cancer Vaccines Advisor: Doron Levy

Maryland -- Penn State 
Dynamical Systems and Related Topics Workshop

This workshop is cosponsored by the dynamical systems groups at Maryland and Penn State, and has been held twice each year, beginning in Fall 1991. The Fall meetings are held at Penn State and the Spring meetings are held at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Maryland, College Park. Our spring meetings have been partially supported by the National Science Foundation from their beginning in 1992 through the present. 

Links to previous conference programs and upcoming conference:

• March 1992
• March 1993 (no record)
• March 1994
• March 1995
• March 1996 (Putnam and Kammeyer-Rudolph lecture series)
• April 1997
• March 1998
• March 1999 (Topological and measurable dynamics)
• March 2000 (Chaotic nonhyperbolic dynamics)
• March 2001
• March 2002 (Auslander conference)
• March 2003 (Host-Kra lecture series)
• March 2004
• March 2005
• March 2006 (Sinai conference)
• March 2007 (Furstenberg conference)
• March 2008 (Brin conference)
• April 2009
• April 2010 (Rudolph conference)
• April 2011 (Boyle session)
• April 2012
• April 2013
• April 2014
• April 2015

Other Meetings

For information on the Penn State meeting held each Fall, visit the home page of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry.

The Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference has met in the fall and spring for many years.

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences, SUNY at Stony Brook, maintains a list of upcoming Dynamics Conferences.

Maryland Mathematics Institute - Summer 2012

The Department of Mathematics at the College Park campus of the University of Maryland (UMD) is pleased to announce the third Maryland Mathematics Institute (MMI), a week-long summer course for secondary school mathematics teachers. The MMI will consist of presentations and discussions that are designed to be stimulating, accessible and useful for teaching.

Basic information:

• Dates: Monday, June 18 through Friday, June 22, 2012 (tentative, may change if public school years are extended) 
• Times: 8am-6pm
• Location: Physics 1201 on the College Park campus of UMD 
• Credits: 2 continuing professional development (CPD) credits, MSDE-certified 
• Also provided without charge: the credit-certificate fee, the price of the Geometer's Sketchpad and Fathom software packages for participants who do not have them.
• Contact: Professor Denny Gulick ( 301 405 5157)
• TO REGISTER FOR THE MMI: Mail in the registration form (click HERE for the form and address). 
  Around May 1, we expect to review applications for the MMI and select the 2012 MMI class, primarily on the basis of order of receipt of application, courses being taught, and diversity of participation by school and county.

Presentations

Dr. M. Michael Boyle: Struggles of the Past: How New types of Numbers Emerged Historically
Presentation: History of Numbers (pdf)

Dr. Denny Gulick: Encounters with Chaos
Presentation: Chaos (pdf)

Dr. Frances Gulick: Explorations with Geometer's Sketchpad

Dr. Frances Gulick: Exploring Statistics with Fathom

Dr. John Millson: The Space of Polygons in the Plane
Presentation: Moduli Spaces of Planar n-gon Linkages (pdf)

Dr. Lawrence Washington: Introduction to Cryptography, or How to Share
Presentations: Cannonballs(pdf), Secret Codes(pdf)

Dr. Justin Wyss-Gallifent: Tile Games and the Underlying Mathematics
Presentation: Sliding (pdf)

There will also be discussions on in-school topics of interest to teachers.

We intend to get the software packages Geometer's Sketchpad and Fathom onto the personal computers of teachers who do not have the software, for effective hands-on instruction at the MMI and use in the future. 

Prerequisites

The segments will be most useful for teachers with a basic foundation in algebra, and in some cases as indicated by the title geometry or probability/statistics. 

We also offer 5-week summer courses for high school teachers , beginning the week after the MMI, which are more appropriate for training in the basic foundations. In Summer 2012, we aim to offer MATH 484 (Geometry for High School Teachers) and MATH486 (Calculus for High School Teachers), provided there is sufficient interest (typically about 10 students are needed).

Our Vision for the Maryland Mathematics Institute

The Mathematics Department envisions the MMI as an annual one-week, two-credit summer course featuring several College Park faculty. The aim is to provide high school mathematics teachers with interesting and enjoyable mathematics relevant to teaching high school students, and to communicate to the teachers the pleasure and relevance of mathematics. The topics entailed in the MMI will go beyond the standard courses preparatory for teaching high school mathematics. The Department also aims to build communication between College Park faculty (primarily from the Mathematics Department but also from Mathematics Education) and high school teachers, and to provide high school mathematics teachers a setting to learn from each other and enhance their own community.

Talks are Thursdays at 3:30 pm in room 3206 MTH (the Math department colloquium room) unless noted otherwise.

The Mathematics department is committed to encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to engage in mathematical learning and research. It is host to the following programs:

• High school: resources for teachers, students, and their parents
• Girls Talk Math
• Women in Math
• The Directed Reading Program

Past programs supported by the Mathematics department include:

• Summer Program in Research and Learning (SPIRAL)
• Math, Applied Math, and Statistics Research Experience for Undergrads (MAPS-REU)