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
Shihua Wen, PhD in Mathematical Statistics
Advisor: B. Kedem
Dissertation Title:Simi-Parametric Cluster Detection
Amy Finkbeiner, PhD in Mathematics
Advisor: J. Yorke
Dissertation Title: Global Phenomena from Local Rules: Peer to Peer Networks and Discrete Chrystal Steps

 

PhD

David Bourne, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: S. Antman
Dissertation Title: The Taylor-Couette Problem in a Deformable Cylinder
Somantika Datta, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: J. Benedetto
Dissertation Title: Wiener's Generalized Harmonic Analysis in Waveform Design
Andrew Dykstra, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: M. Boyle
Dissertation Title: Two Equivalence Relations in Symbolic Dynamics
Eric Errthum, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: S. Kudla
Dissertation Title: Singular Moduli of Shimura Curves
Tatiana Howard, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: J. Adams
Dissertation Title: Lifting of Characters p-adic Orthogonal and Metaplectic Groups
Taejung Kim, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: W. Goldman
Dissertation Title: An Investigation on Holomorphic Vector Bundles and Krichever-Lax Matrices Over an Algebraic Curve
Ashwin Pande, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: J. Rosenberg
Dissertation Title: Topological T-Duality for KK-Monopoles, Gerbes and Automorphisms
Susan Schmoyer, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: L. Washington
Dissertation Title: Triviality and Nontriviality of Tate-Lichtenbaum Self Pairings
Christian Zorn, Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: S. Kudla
Dissertation Title: Computing Local L-Factors for the Unramified Principal Series of Sp(2, F) and Its Metaplectic Cover
Shanshan Wang, Ph.D. in Statistics
Advisors: W. Jank and P. Smith
Dissertation Title: Exploring and Modeling Online Auctions using Functional Data Analysis

MA

Juliana Belding, M.A. in Mathematics
Advisor: L. Washington
Scholarly Paper Title: The Discrete Logarithm Problem on the p-torsion Subgroup of Elliptic Curves
Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman, M.A. in Mathematics
Advisor: B. Hunt
Scholarly Paper Title: Strange Non-chaotic Attractors
Eun Young Kim, M.A. in Mathematics
Advisor: J.-G. Liu
Scholarly Paper Title: Modelling, analysis and computational aspects of electrostatics for biomolecules
Na An, M.A. in Mathematical Statistics
Advisor: P. Smith
Thesis Title: Baseline Adjustment for Ordinal Covariates by Inducing a Partial Ordering in Randomized Clinical Trials