Spring 2008 Degree Recipients

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

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  • Recent progress on mathematical wave turbulence

    Speaker: Yu Deng (USC) https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/yudeng/

    When: Thu, September 7, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall MTH1311
  • Invasion: robustness and universality

    Speaker: Cole Graham (Brown University) https://colegraham.net/

    When: Thu, September 14, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: EGR3102
  • Formation of shocks for the Einstein-Euler system

    Speaker: John Anderson (Stanford) https://web.stanford.edu/~jrlander/

    When: Thu, September 21, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Dynamics of kink clusters for scalar fields in dimension 1+1

    Speaker: Andrew Lawrie (MIT) https://math.mit.edu/~alawrie/

    When: Thu, September 28, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Effects of Network Structure on Spreading of Innovations

    Speaker: Gadi Fibich http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~fibich/

    When: Thu, October 5, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Convergence rates to traveling waves

    Speaker: Lenya Ryzhik  http://math.stanford.edu/~ryzhik/

    When: Thu, October 12, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • The nonlinear theory of sound

    Speaker: Robin Yong (UMass Amherst)

    When: Thu, October 19, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Regularity of Bubbles in Porous Media

    Speaker: Neel Patel 

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Parabolic equations and diffusion processes with degeneration: boundary problems, metastability, and homogenization

    Speaker: Leonid Koralov (UMD)

    When: Thu, November 2, 2023 - 3:15am
    Where: MTH1311
  • To Flutter or Not: Mathematical Aeroelasticity

    Speaker: Justin Webster (UMBC) http://webster.math.umbc.edu/ 

    When: Thu, November 16, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems with Local Boundary Conditions

    Speaker: James Scott (Columbia) https://sites.google.com/view/jamesmichaelscott/home

    When: Thu, November 30, 2023 - 3:30pm
    Where:
  • Matrix generalization of the cubic SzegÅ‘ equation

    Speaker: Ruoci Sun https://sites.google.com/view/sun-ruoci/home

    When: Thu, February 8, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Nearly self-similar blowup of the slightly perturbed homogeneous Landau equation with very soft potentials

    Speaker: Jiajie Chen (Courant) https://jiajiechen94.github.io/ 

    When: Thu, February 22, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • One example of Residual Diffusivity

    Speaker: Gautam Iyer https://www.math.cmu.edu/~gautam/sj/index.html

    When: Thu, April 4, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Global regularity for critical SQG in bounded domains

    Speaker: Peter Constantin https://web.math.princeton.edu/~const/

    When: Thu, April 18, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH3206
  • Where does friction come from? Hamiltonian systems for classical and quantum particles

    Speaker: Thierry Goudon  (INRIA, France)

    When: Thu, May 2, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311
  • Local well-posedness and smoothing of MMT kinetic wave equation

    Speaker: Joonhyn La (KIAS, Korea)

    When: Thu, May 9, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: MTH1311