Recent Ph.D.s

August 2008

• Rebecca Schmitz
  Postdoctorate, University of Minnesota
  Toeplitz-Composition C*-Algebras with Piecewise Continuous Symbols
  (Advisor: Thomas Kriete)
  
• Jill Tysse
  Assistant Professor, Hood College
  The Centers of Spin Symmetric and Spin Hypooctahedral Group Algebras
  (Advisor: Weiqiang Wang)
  
• Yao Wang
  Lecturer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  On a Stochastic Wave Equation
  (Advisor: Lawrence Thomas)
  

May 2008

• Lorena Bociu
  NSF International Research Fellowship, University of Nice-Sophie, France
  Postdoctorate, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Existence, Uniqueness and Blow-up of Solutions to Wave Equations with Supercritical Boundary
  Interior Sources and Damping
  (Advisor: Irena Lasiecka)
  
• Wesley Cramer
  Cyclotomic Specht Filtrations and Delta Filtrations
  (Advisor: Brian Parshall)
  
• Inger Daniels
  Postdoctorate, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
  Wellposedness of a Nonlinear Structural Acoustic Interaction with a Boussinesq Plate Equation
  (Advisor: Irena Lasiecka)
• Katharine Ott
  NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research, University of Kentucky
  Boundary Integral Equations in Non-Smooth Domains
  (Advisor: Irina Mitrea)

August 2007

• Matthew Pons
  Assistant Professor, North Central College
  Composition Operators on Besov and Dirichlet Type Spaces
  (Advisor: Barbara MacCluer)
• Sujin Suwanna
  Lecturer, Thammasart University-Rangsit
  On the Mean Square Distance in the Anderson Model
  (Advisor: Ira Herbst)
  

May 2007

• Michael Smith
  Asst Professor, Earlham College
  Derivations of 8 Simple Jordan Superalgebras
  (Advisor: Kevin McCrimmon)
  
• David Taylor
  Asst. Professor, Roanoke College
  The Bloch-Okounkov Function and Dimension Formulas for Modules of Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras
  (Advisor: Weiqiang Wang)
• Daniel Toundykov
  Postdoctorate, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Long-Term Dynamics of a Semilinear Wave Equation with Localized Nonlinear Dissipation, Critical Source Term,
  and Mixed Boundary Conditions
  (Advisor: Irena Lasiecka)
• Amjad Tuffaha
  Asst. Professor, USC
  Well-Posedness, Solvability, and Optimal Control of Coupled PDEs with an Interface
  (Advisors: Irena Lasiecka, Zoran Grujic)

August 2006

• Cavit Hafizoglu
  Research Analyst, SunTrust Bank
  Linear Quadratic Regulatory Boundary/Point Control of Stochastic PDE Systems with Unbounded Coefficients
  (Advisor: Irena Lasiecka)

May 2006

• Laura Martini
  Political and Mathematical Unification: Algebraic Research in Italy, 1850-1914
  (Advisor: Karen Parshall)
• Erin Valenti
  Investment Analyst, Investure, LLC
  On an Infinite Elastica: Local Well-Posedness of the Initial Value Problem and Stability of Solitary Waves
  (Advisor: Almut Burchard)
• Jack Yang
  Vice President, Goldman Sachs
  A New Approach to the Modeling of Correlation Credit Derivatives
  (Advisor: Loren Pitt)

August 2005

• Ryan Higginbottom
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College
  The Nilpotent Filtration in Group Cohomology
  (Advisor: Nicholas Kuhn)
• Deborah Kent
  Visiting Professor, Simon Fraser University
  Benjamin Pierce and the Promotion of Research-Level Mathematics in America: 1830-1880
  (Advisor: Karen Parshall)

May 2005

• Pamela Richardson
  Visiting Assistant Professor, John Carroll University
  Centroids of Quadratic Jordan Superalgebras
  (Advisor: Kevin McCrimmon)
• Jennifer Roche
  Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  Radices and Matrix Rings
  (Advisor: John Faulkner)

August 2004

• Randall Helmstutler
  Assistant Professor, Mary Washington College
  Quillen Equivalent Categories of Functors
  (Advisor: Nicholas Kuhn)

May 2004

• Holly Carley
  Postdoctorate, Rutgers University
  The Strong-Coupling Limit for the Ground State of a Particle Harmonic Oscillator Interaction
  (Advisor: Lawrence Thomas)
• Gianluca Guadagni
  Renormalization Group for a Lattice System
  (Advisor: Lawrence Thomas)
• Melissa Meehan
  Assistant Professor, Bridgewater College
  Detection of Symplectic Commutator Subgroups
  (Advisor: John Faulkner)

January 2004

• Chirashree Bhattacharya
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Randolph Macon College
  Free Groups and their Automorphisms
  (Advisor: Andrei Rapinchuk)