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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