News from the Graduate Program
Congratulations
to Our Ph.D.s graduating 1997-1998
December 1997 Ph.D.s
Name |
Program |
Thesis Topic |
Advisor |
Career Plans (if known) |
Robert Hoffman |
MAPL |
Integer Programming Models for Ground-Holding
in Air Traffic Flow Management |
Michael Ball (BMGT) |
Postdoc, ISR |
Stefan Kehrbaum |
MAPL |
Hamiltonian Formulations of the Equilibrium Conditions
Governing Elastic Rods: Qualitative Analysis and
Effective Properties |
John Maddocks |
Algorithmics, Inc. |
Navin Keswani |
MATH |
Relative Eta-Invariants and C*-Algebra K-Theory |
Jonathan Rosenberg and Nigel Higson (Penn State) |
Postdoc, University of Muenster, Germany |
Misha Kilmer |
MAPL |
Regularization of Ill-Posed Problems |
D. O'Leary and G. Stewart (CMSC) |
Postdoc, Northeastern Univ. |
May 1998 Ph.D.s
Name |
Program |
Thesis Topic |
Advisor |
Career Plans (if known) |
Santiago Arteaga |
MAPL |
Nonlinear and Parallel Algorithms for
Finite Element Discretizations of the
Incompressible Navier-Stokes
Equation |
Howard Elman (CMSC) |
? |
Igor Belegradek |
MATH |
Counting Negatively Curved Manifolds |
William Goldman |
Postdoc, McMaster Univ. |
Stephanie Cawthorne |
MATH |
Forcing with Directed Families of Finite Structures |
David Kueker |
Asst. Prof., Marymount Univ. |
Alessandra Gallinari |
MATH |
The Orbit Method for the Unipotent Group
over Finite Fields |
Jonathan Rosenberg |
seeking employment in Spain |
Jose Gonzalez |
MATH |
On a Category of "Uniform" Spaces |
Joel Cohen |
? |
Melissa Harrison |
MAPL |
Frames and Irregular Sampling from a Computational
Perspective |
John Benedetto |
? |
Ali Hirsa |
MAPL |
Numerical Algorithms for the Convection-Diffusion
Equations and Variance Gamma Model |
Howard Elman (CMSC) and Dilip Madan (BMGT) |
? |
Karen Horn |
MATH |
Classification of Term Orders on a Module |
William Adams |
staying home with a young child, part-time work |
Neal Jeffries |
STAT |
Logistic Mixtures of Generalized Linear
Model Time Series |
Benjamin Kedem |
Postdoc, NIH |
Kimberly King |
MATH |
Minimal Models of Genus 1 Curves |
Kevin Coombes |
SAIC |
Samuel Lightwood |
MATH |
An Embedding Theorem for a Class of Z2
Shifts of Finite Type |
Mike Boyle |
Postdoc, Vienna, Austria |
Florence Newberger |
MATH |
The Ergodic theory of Bowen-Margulis Measure |
Daniel Rudolph |
Postdoc, Penn State Univ. |
Andreas Rosenschon |
MATH |
On the K-Cohomology of Algebraic Varieties |
Kevin Coombes |
Postdoc, Univ. of Genoa, Italy |
Hui-Chuan Wu |
MATH |
Multidimensional Irregular Sampling in Terms of
Frames |
John Benedetto |
? |
August 1998 Ph.D.s
(who have already defended their theses)
Name |
Program |
Thesis Topic |
Advisor |
Career Plans (if known) |
Steven Lillywhite |
MATH |
Cohomology of a Symplectic Quotient of a Loop
Space |
John Millson |
Postdoc, Center for Geometry and Dynamical Systems,
Lisbon, Portugal |
Ruth Pfeiffer |
STAT |
Statistical Problems for Stochastic Processes
with Hysteresis |
Mark Freidlin |
Postdoc, NIH |
Jason Schultz |
MATH |
Lifting of Characters of SL2~(F)
and of O1,2(F) for F Nonarchimedean |
Jeff Adams |
? |
Fred Torcaso |
MATH |
Reaction-Diffusion Equations in Random Media |
Tzong-Yow Lee |
US Naval Observatory |
Bei Wang |
MAPL |
High Order Godunov Schemes for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws |
Harland Glaz |
? |
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