Congratulations to Our Ph.D.s Graduating 1998-1999 December 1998 Ph.D.s

Name	Program	Thesis Topic	Advisor	Career Plans (if known)
Peter Close	MAPL	Postprocessing and Superconvergence for Boundary Element Methods on Polygons with Nonuniform Meshes	Tobias von Petersdorff	Employed with Neuristics Corporation, Hunt Valley, MD
Yin-Tzer Shih	MAPL	Upwind Finite Element Solutions for Convection-Diffusion Problems	Howard Elman (CMSC)	Senior Scientific Analyst - Medical Optical Imaging Inc., Charlotte, NC

May 1999 Ph.D.s

Name	Program	Thesis Topic	Advisor	Career Plans (if known)
Jens Patrick Friedrich Funke	MATH	Rational Quadratic Divisors and Automorphic Forms	Steve Kudla	Post-Doc University of Indiana-Bloomington/then back to Germany
Hong Chan Kim	MATH	The Symplectic Structure on the Moduli Space of Real Projective Structures	William Goldman	?
Manuel Torres Leon	MATH	Minnimally Supported Frequency Wavelets	John Benedetto	University of Missouri at Columbia
Mark Douglas Morgan	MATH	The Degree of Modular Parameterizations of Q-curves	Lawrence Washington	Center for Computing Sciences, Bowie, MD
Jose Raul Quintero	MATH	Three-Dimensional Long Water Waves with Small Amplitude	Robert Pego	Universidad del Valle, Cali Colombia
Krishnan "Ravi" Shankar	MATH	Isometry Groups of Homogeneous Positively Curved Manifolds	Karsten Grove	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Edward Bruce Swartz	MAPL	Matroids and Quotients of Spheres	Karsten Grove	Post-Doc, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Guocheng Yuan	MATH	Properties of Numerical Experiments in Chaotic Dynamical Systems	James Yorke	Post-Doc, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Mary Helen Jacobsen Vanderschoot	MATH	Limit Sets for Continuous Flows on Surfaces	Nelson Markley	Post-Doc, Concordia College,Morehead Minnesota
Randy Paffenroth	MAPL	Mathematics Visualization, Parameter Continuation, and Steered Computations	John Maddocks (formerly UMCP) now in Lausanne, Switzerland	Post-Doc California Institute of Technology, Center for Research High Performance Computations
David Lindsay	MAPL	Computational Methods Applied to Wind Tunnel Optimization	Bruce Kellogg	?
Yi-Ting Hwang	STAT	Some Finite Sample Results in the Left-Truncation and Right-Censored Model	Grace Yang	Bio-Statistician, Georgetown School of Medicine, Washington DC
Zhenshao Zhong	STAT	Goodness-of-Fit Test with Application to Lifetime Data	Grace Yang	Bio Statistics Center, George Washington University, Washington DC

August 1999 Ph.D.s (who have already defended their theses)

Name	Program	Thesis Topic	Advisor	Career Plans (if known)
Alvaro Alvarez-Parrilla	MATH	Fourier Coefficient Relations and Geodesic Flow Invariant Distributions	Scott Wolpert	Post-Doc
Emilio Marmolejo-Olea	MATH	Morera Type Problems in Clifford Analysis	Carlos Berenstein	Post-Doc, University of Missouri, Columbia MO
Vladimir Shklover	MATH	Schiffer Problem and Isoparametric Hypersurfaces	Carlos Berenstein	Post-Doc, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Katharina Fortune Gurski	MAPL	Decay Rates of Internal Waves in Viscous Near-Critical Fluids	Robert Pego	NASA Goddard

 

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