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 |