The following is a list of the Ph. D. degrees awarded 2007-2025 including the title of the dissertation, the thesis advisor(s) and when possible, the first place of employment.
2024-2025
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Program | First Employment |
| Schinella D'Souza | Thurston Theory for a Family of Chebyshev Polynomials and Cosine Maps | Koch | Math | Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow; University of Toronto |
| Zenan Fu | Cluster structures in Mixed Grassmannians | Fomin | Math | |
| Jiajia Guo | Median Filters for Multiphase Interfacial Motions | Esedoglu & Shahani | AIM | Walter Noll Postdoctoral Research Associate; Carnegie Mellon University |
| Saem Han | Forward and Inverse Numerical Methods Leveraging Gradient Flows and Optimal Transport | Veerapaneni & Garikipati | AIM | Data Scientist; Google |
| Max Lahn | Reducibility and Anosov Representations | Canary | Math | Postdoc; University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Han Le | Log-Determinant of the Laguerre Beta Ensembles and Free Energy of the Bipartite Spherical Sherrington–Kirkpatrick Model | Baik | Math | Postdoctoral Scholar; Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo |
| Daniel Maes | Understanding Coexistence Outcomes for Intransitive Competition Using Properties of Circulant Matrices | Booth & Ostling | AIM | Postdoctoral Research Associate (C.R. Wiley Instructorship); University of Utah |
| Michael Mueller | Reverse Hurwitz counts of genus 1 curves | Pixton | Math | |
| Andres Martinez Servellon | A Theory of Higher Order Perivations | Smith | Math | |
| Scott Neville | Combinatorics of Quiver Mutations | Fomin | Math | ICERM (The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics) & LACIM at UQAM (Laboratoire d'Algèbre, de Combinatoire et d’Informatique Mathématique) |
| Kashvi Srivastava | Analytical and Computational Approaches to Nonlinear Dynamics in Enzyme Kinetics and Sleep-Wake Regulation | Booth & Schnell | AIM | Quantitative Research Analyst; Graham Capital Management, L.P. |
| Christopher Stith | Trapped Surface Formation in General Relativity and Double Null Foliations | Bieri | Math | |
| Olivia Strahan | Combinatorial Methods in Mixed Characteristic: The Theory of t-Monomials | Smith | Math | Postdoctoral Fellowship; University of New Mexico |
| Guanhua Sun | Reconstruction, simulation, and analysis of large-scale neuronal connectivity of the mouse brain | Forger & Watson | AIM | Courant Instructor; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Derrick Sund | Modeling of Cell Cycle Distortion and p16ink4a Significance in Human Papillomavirus-Infected Cells and Novel Use of Partial Differential Equations in Epidemiology Modeling | Eisenberg & Jackson | AIM | |
| Tejaswi Tripathi | Exponential Last Passage Percolation in the Upper Large Deviation Regime and Multi-Point Distributions for other LPP Models | Baik | Math | Mathematics Visiting Assistant Professor; University of Kansas |
| Katja Vassilev | One-dimensional Wave Kinetic Theory | Hani | Math | L.E. Dickson Instructor; University of Chicago |
| Sridhar Venkatesh | Hodge Theoretic Singularities and Hodge Theoretic Aspects of Toric Varieties | Mustata | Math | Assistant Adjunct Professor; UCLA |
| Shirlyn Wang | A Multi-Model, Data-Driven Approach to Studying Tumor-Immune Dynamics and Immunotherapy Efficacy | Jackson & Eisenberg | AIM | Research Scientist with Upstart |
| Boyang Wu | Rigorous Derivation of the Wave Kinetic Equation for \beta-FPUT System | Hani & Pan | AIM | Quantitative Anaylitics; Barclays |
| Teresa Yu | Equivariant Modules Over Polynomial Rings in Infinitely Many Variables | Snowden | Math | Postdoc; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig) |
| Qiusheng Zhao | Double Ramification Cycle and Admissible Cover Cycles | Pixton | Math |
2023-2024
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | Program | First Employment |
| Jineon Baek | A new conditional upper bound for the area of a moving sofa | Zieve | Math | Post Doc Researcher; Yonsei University, Korea |
| Anna Brosowsky | The Cartier Core Map and F-graded Systems | Smith | Math | NSF Post Doc; University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
| Brian Chen | Applications of Generative Models for Neural Quantum States and Imitation Learning | Veerapaneni & Gorodetsky | AIM | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Jessie Conrad | Identification, Verification, and Validation of Epidemiological Models in Public Health Practice | Eisenber & Jackson | AIM | Post Doc; Intelligence & Systems Analysis Group at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) in the Global Security Division |
| Shelby Cox | Algebraic Structures into Phylogenetics: Insights from Tropical Convexity and Likelihood Geometry | Speyer | Math | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences |
| Xiaoyu Dong | Non-Asymptotic Singular Value Analysis of Random Matrices with Computer Science Applications | Rudelson | Math | Peng Tsu Ann Assistant Professorship (Visiting Fellow); National University of Singapore |
| Karthik Ganapathy | GL-algebras in positive characteristic | Snowden | Math | SEW Visiting Assistant Professor; Department of Mathematics, University of California |
| Andy Gordon | The Closed Stratum of a Parahoric Deligne-Lusztig Variety | Chan | Math | |
| Andy Jiang | Grothendieck Duality and D-modules via Diagonally Supported Sheaves | Bhatt | Math | Post Doc; Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| Sameer Kailasa | Modeling Relays and Rhythms of the Granular Retrosplenial Cortex | Booth | Math | |
| Sayantan Khan | Dynamics on the Moduli Space of Non-Orientable Surfaces | Wright | Math | Quantitative Researcher with Susquehanna International Group |
| Oliver Knitter | Exploration of Quantum-Inspired Deep Learning Architectures for Fundamental Applications in Scientific Computing | Veerapaneni & Hero | AIM | Research Post Doc; Sandbox AQ |
| Yiyang Liu | Electromagnetic inverse wave scattering via reduced order modeling | Borcea & Dowling | AIM | |
| Malavika Mukundan | Transcendental Thurston Theory and Dynamical Approximations | Koch | Math | Post Doc Associate Teaching Scholar; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University |
| Ilia Nekrasov | Tensorial measures on omega-categorical structures | Snowden | Math | Charles B. Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor; Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley |
| April Nellis | Applications of Stochastic Optimal Control to Pandemic Management, Optimal Energy Production, and Decentralized Finance | Cohen & Bayraktar | AIM | Staff Researcher; Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University |
| Swaraj Sridhar Pande | The F-signature and the Frobenius-Alpha Invariant of Projective Varieties | Smith | Math | Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute |
| Benjamin Riley | Self-Conjugate Cobordism and the Rectified Adams-Novikov Spectral Sequence | Kriz | Math | |
| Kannappan Sampath | A p-adic Jacquet Langlands Correspondence | Prasanna | Math | Indian Statistical Institute |
| Binglin Song | Balanced Heat Transport and Optimal Cooling | Esedoglu | Math | |
| Daniel Stoll | Dynamical Varieties | Koch | Math | |
| Chuhao Sun | Optimal singular control problems and quantum-inspired algorithms in finance | Cohen & Subramanian | AIM | Post Doc; University of Michigan |
| Ethan Zell | Finite State Mean Field Games | Cohen | Math | Optiver as a Quantitative Researcher; Chicago |
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013 - 2014
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | First Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Altman | Integer Complexity, Addition Chains, and Well Ordering | J. Lagarias | |
| Jeffrey Calder (AIM) | Hamilton-Jacobi Equations for Sorting and Percolation Problems | S. Esedoglu & A. Hero | University of California, Berkeley |
| Kevin Carde | Cluster Algebras and Classical Invariant Rings | S. Fomin | Canada/USA Mathcamp |
| Michael Chmutov | The Structure of W-Graphs Arising in Kazhdan-Lusztig Theory | J. Stembridge | University of Minnesota |
| Emily Clader | The Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau Correspondence for Certain Complete Intersections | Y. Ruan | ETH Zurich - Institute for Theoretical Studies |
| Nicolas Ford | Geometric Shifts and Positroid Varieties | D. Speyer | Jane Street Capital |
| Bich (Becky) Hoai | On Symplectic Invariants Associated to Zoll Manifolds | D. Burns | Federal Researve Bank of St. Louis |
| June Huh | Rota's Conjecture and Positivity of Algebraic Cycles in Toric Varieties | M. Mustata | Clay Mathematics Institute |
| Rafe Kinsey | A Priori Estimates for Two-Dimensional Water Waves with Angled Crests | S. Wu | |
| Kin Kwan Leung | Complex Geometric Invariants Associated to Zoll Manifolds | D. Burns | University of Toronto |
| Sijun Liu | Functional Equations Involving Laurent Polynomials and Meromorphic Functions, with Applications to Dynamics and Diophantine Equations | M. Zieve | Oracle |
| Zhipeng Liu | Discrete Toeplitz Determinants and their Applications | J. Baik | New York University |
| Linquan Ma | The Frobenius Endomorphism and Multiplicities | M. Hochster | Purdue University |
| Hieu Ngo | Generalizations of the Lerch Zeta Function | J. Lagarias | Texas A&M University Qatar |
| Nathan Priddis | A Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau Correspondence for the Mirror Quintic | Y. Ruan | Leibniz University of Hannover |
| Mario Riolo (AIM) | Topics in Structured Host-Antagonist Interactions | C. Doering & P. Rohani | University of Michigan |
| Geoffrey Scott | Torus Actions and Singularities in Symplectic Geometry | D. Burns | University of Toronto |
| Ashley Wheeler | Ideals Generated by Principal Minors | M. Hochster | University of Arkansas |
| Mary Wootters | Any Errors in this Dissertation are Probably Fixable: Topics in Probability and Error Correcting Codes | M. Strauss | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Jingchen Wu (AIM) | Some Problems in Stochastic Control Theory Related to Inventory Management and Coarsening | J. Conlon & X. Chao | Amazon.com |
| Yilun Wu (AIM) | On Existence and Properties of Rotating Star Solutions to the Euler-Poisson Equations | J. Smoller & F. Adams | Brown University |
| Xin Zhou | Asymptotics of Equivariant Syzygies | R. Lazarsfeld & M. Mustata | Global Atlantic |
| Andrew Zimmer | Rigidity in Complex Projective Space | R. Spatzier | University of Chicago |
2012 - 2013
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | First Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Abram | Equivariant Complex Cobordism | I. Kriz | Hillsdale College |
| Samuel Altshul | Endoscopy for Nilpotent Orbits of G_2 | S. DeBacker | Harvard University |
| Jennifer Beichman | Nonstandard Dispersive Estimates and Linearized Water Waves | S. Wu | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Peter Bosler (AIM) | Particle Methods for Geophysical Flow on the Sphere | R. Krasny & C. Jablonowski | University of Michigan |
| Ernest Hunter Brooks | Generalized Heegner Cycles, Shimura Curves, and Special Values of p-ADIC L-Functions | K. Prasanna | Federale de Lausanne |
| Sohhyun Chung (AIM) | The Impact of Volcker Rule on Bank Profits and Default Probabilities | J. Conlon & J. Keppo | Samsung |
| William Gignac | Equidistribution of Preimages in Nonarchimedean Dynamics | M. Jonsson | Ecole Polytechnique/Georgia Tech |
| Huaiying Gu (AIM) | Value-At-Risk (VaR) and Dynamic Portfolio Selection | J. Conlon & H. Li | Key Corp |
| Shawn Henry | Classifying Topoi and Preservation of Higher Order Logic by Geometric Morphisms | A. Blass | Colorado University |
| Yu-Jui Huang (AIM) | Topics in Stochastic Control with Applications to Finance | E. Bayraktar & H. Li | Dublin City University |
| Jae Kyoung Kim (AIM) | Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Cellular Clocks | D. Forger & V. Booth | Ohio State University |
| Ross Kravitz | Problems in Optimal Stopping and Control | E. Bayraktar | Kabam |
| Sara Lapan | On the Existence of Attracting Domains for Maps Tangent to the Identity | M. Jonsson | Northwestern University |
| Seung Jin Lee | Centrally Symmetric Polytopes with Many Faces | A. Barvinok | Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
| Sarah Mayes | The Asymptotic Behavior of Generic Initial Systems | K. Smith | Quest University Canada |
| Jeffrey Meyer | On the Totally Geodesic Commensurability Spectrum of an Arithmetic Locally Symmetric Spaces | R. Spatzier & M. Stover | University of Oklahoma |
| Alexander Mueller | Applications of Generalized Fermat Varieties to Zeta Functions of Artin-Schreier Curves | M. Zieve | Less Annoying Software |
| Luis Nunez Betancourt | Finiteness Properties of Local Cohomology | M. Hochster | University of Virginia |
| Kristofer-Roy Reyes (AIM) | Fast Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations: Theory, Implementation and Applications | P. Smereka & J. Mirecki-Millunchick | State University of New York - Buffalo |
| Joseph Roberts | Steady and Self-similar Solutions to Two-dimensional Hyperbolic Conservation Laws | V. Elling | Pennsylvania State University |
| Julian Rosen | The Arithmetic of Multiple Harmonic Sums | J. Lagarias | University of Waterloo |
| Burhan Sadiq (AIM) | Finite Difference Methods, Hermite Interpolation and Quasi-Uniform Spectral Schemes (QUSS) | D. Viswanath & J. Boyd | Johns Hopkins University |
| Zachary Scherr | Rational Polynomial Pell Equations | M. Zieve | University of Pennsylvania |
| Paul Shearer (AIM) | Separable Inverse Problems, Blind Deconvolution, and Stray Light Correction for Extreme Ultraviolet Solar Images | A. Gilbert, R. Frazin & A. Hero | University of Michigan |
| Yefeng Shen | Gromov-Witten Theory of Elliptic Orbifold Projective lines | Y. Ruan | Kavli IPMU |
| Mark Shoemaker | A Mirror Theorem for the Mirror Quintic | Y. Ruan | University of Utah |
| Jordan Watkins | The Rank Rigidity Theorem for Manifolds with No Focal Points | R. Spatzier | |
| Zhixian Zhu | Topics in Singularities and Jet Schemes | M. Mustata | KIAS |
2011 - 2012
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | First Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taeyong Ahn | Foliation Structure for Generalized Henon Mappings |
J. Fornaess | POSTECH |
| Aubrey da Cunha | Turing Machines, Cayley Graphs, and Inescapable Groups | A. Blass | MathWorks |
| Elizabeth DeWitt |
Identities Relating Schur s-Functions and Q-Functions |
J. Stembridge | University of Maryland University College |
| Steven Flores (AIM) |
Correlation Functions in Two-Dimensional Critical Systems with Conformal Symmetry |
C. Doering & R. Ziff | |
| Aurel (Mihai) Fulger |
Local Volumes | R. Lazarsfeld | Princeton University |
| Max Glick |
The Pentagram Map: Combinatorial and Geometric Perspectives |
S. Fomin | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute |
| Ashley Holland (AIM) | Penalized Spline Estimation in the Partially Linear Model |
V. Young & M. Cataneo | Grace College |
| Xueying Hu (AIM) | Essays in Financial and Insurance Mathematics | E. Bayraktar & H. Li | Goldman Sachs |
| Geri Izbicki Jennings (AIM) | Efficient Numerical Methods for Water Wave Propagation in Unbounded Domains |
S. Karni & R. Beck | University of Massachusetts |
| Robin Lassonde | Splittings of Non-Finitely Generated Groups |
G. P. Scott | East Agile |
| Michelle Lee | Dynamics on the PSL(2, C)-character variety of certain hyperbolic 3-manifolds | R. Canary | University of Maryland |
| Matthew Masarik (AIM) | Decay of Solutions to the Wave Equation in Static Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes | J. Smoller & M. Volonteri | SRI International |
| Lindsey McCarty (AIM) | Preemptive Rerouting of Airline Passengers under Uncertain Delays |
D. Viswanath & A. Cohn | Cedarville University |
| Andrey Mishchenko | Rigidity of Thin Disk Configurations | J. Lagarias | UCLA IPAM |
| Ajinkya More | Symbolic Powers and other Contractions of Ideals in Noetherian Rings |
M. Hochster | ZL Technologies Inc |
| Darragh Rooney (AIM) | Control of Finite-Dimensional Quantum Systems under Lindblad Dissipation |
A. Bloch & C. Rangan | Universitat Wurzburg |
| Jordan Sahattchieve | Solutions to Two Open Problems in Geometric Group Theory |
G. P. Scott | William Rainey Harper College |
| Dave Starinshak (AIM) | Level Set Methods for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics |
S. Karni & K. Powell | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Michael Von Korff |
The F-Signature and Frobenius Splitting on Toric Varieties | K. Smith | Reasoning Mind |
| Nina White |
Bounds on Eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator for Certain Classes of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds | J. Souto & R. Canary | University of Michigan |
| Jared Whitehead (AIM) | Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics |
C. Doering & R. Rood | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
2010 - 2011
| Name | Dissertation Title |
Advisor(s) | First Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florian Block | Plane Curves, Node Polynomials, and Floor Diagrams |
S. Fomin | University of Warwick |
| Eugene Eisenstein | Inversion of Adjunction in High Codimension | R. Lazarsfeld | Goldman Sachs |
| Matthew Elsey (AIM) | Algorithms for Multiphase Motion with Applications to Materials Science | S. Esedoglu & W. Lu | Courant Institute, NYU |
| Timothy Ferguson | Extremal Problems in Bergman Spaces | P. Duren | Vanderbilt University |
| Jose Gonzalez |
Toric Projective Bundles | M. Mustata | University of British Columbia |
| Daniel Hernandez | $F$-Purity for Hypersurfaces | K. Smith | University of Minnesota |
| Gerardo Hernandez-Duenas | An Algebra of Singular Semi-classical Pseudodifferential Operators, and Numerical Methods for Shallow Water and Porous Media Flows | A. Uribe & S. Karni | University of Wisconsin |
| Brian Jennings (AIM) |
Generalized Lagrangian States and Their Propagation in Bargmann Space | A. Uribe & E. Geva | Westfield State University |
| Harlan Kadish | Complexity in Invariant Theory | H. Derksen | Texas A&M University |
| Hyosang Kang | Cofinite Classifying Spaces for Lattices in R-Rank One Semisimple Lie Groups | L. Ji | Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
| Daniel Kneezel | Verlinde K-Theory | I. Kriz | Art of Problem Solving |
| Manuel Rodrigo Parra | Currents and Equidistribution in Holomorphic Dynamics | M. Jonsson | MathWorks |
| Ricardo Portilla |
Finite Order Automorphisms and a Parametrization of Nilpotent Orbits in P-Adic Lie Algebras | S. DeBacker | Celerity |
| Austin Shapiro | Independence Models for Integer Points of Polytopes | A. Barvinok | Art of Problem Solving |
| Xinyun Sun |
CM Lifting of Albelian Varieties | B. Conrad | |
| Nathan Totz |
A Rigorous Justification of the Modulation Approximation to the 2D Full Water Wave Problem | S. Wu | Duke University |
| Chelsea Walton |
On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras | K. Smith & J. Stafford | University of Washington |
| Ting Wang (AIM) |
Stochastic Analysis of Insurance Products | V. Young & H. Li | Goldman Sachs |
| Benjamin Weiss |
Diophantine Equations with Two Separated Variables | J. Lagarias & M. Zieve | Technion |
| Emily Witt |
Local Cohomology and Group Actions | M. Hochster | University of Minnesota |
| Qian Yin | Lattes Maps and Combinatorial Expansion | M. Bonk & M. Zieve | MSRI & University of Chicago |
| Hsu-Wen Young | Components of Algebraic Sets of Commuting and Nearly-Commuting N-Tuples of Matrices | M. Hochster | National Taiwan University |
| Crystal Zeager | The Azukawa Metric and the Pluricomplex Green Function | J. Fornaess | McKinsey & Co |
2009 - 2010
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor(s) | First Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Boateng (AIM) | Cartesian Treecode Algorithms for Electrostatic Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations |
R. Krasny & E. Geva | University of Michigan |
| Elizabeth Chen | A Picturebook of Tetrahedral Packings | J. Lagarias | Harvard University |
| Jiarui Fei | General Presentations of Algebras | H. Derksen | University of California- Riverside |
| Johnson Jia | The Arithmetic of the Yoshida Lift | C. Skinner | PIMS/University of British Columbia |
| Brian Jurgelewicz | McKay's Correspondence for Klein's Quartic Curve |
I. Dolgachev | |
| Marc Krawitz | FJRW Rings and Landau-Ginzburg Mirror Symmetry | Y. Ruan | McKinsey & Company |
| Catherine Kublik (AIM) | Topics in PDE-Based Image Processing |
S. Esedoglu & J. Fessler | University of Texas at Austin |
| Victor Lozovanu | Invariants in Algebraic Geometry | R. Lazarsfeld | Queen’s University |
| Johanna Mangahas | A Recipe for Short-word Pseudo-Anosovs, and More | J. Souto | Brown University |
| Tomoki Ohsawa (AIM) | Nonholonomic and Discrete Hamilton-Jacobi Theory | A. Bloch & L. Pando-Zayas | University of California at San Diego |
| Kyle Ormsby | Computations in Stable Motivic Homotopy Theory | I. Kriz | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Felipe Ramirez | Smooth Cocycles over Homogeneous Dynamical Systems | R. Spatzier | University of Bristol, UK |
| Nicholas Rupprecht |
Effective Correspondents to Cardinal Characteristics in Cichon's Diagram | A. Blass | Virtu Financial LLC |
| Luis Serrano | Non-Commutative Schur P-Functions and the Shifted Plactic Monoid | S. Fomin | University of Quebec at Montreal |
| Sourya Shrestha (AIM) | Modeling Transmission and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Infectious Diseases | P. Nelson & A. King | University of Michigan |
| Kelli Talaska |
Positivity in Real Grassmannians: Combinatorial Formulas | S. Fomin | University of California at Berkeley |
| Kevin Tucker |
Jumping Numbers and Multiplier Ideals on Algebraic Surfaces | K. Smith | University of Utah |
| Lei Wang (AIM) |
Radial Basis Functions and Vortex Methods and their Application to Vortex Dynamics on a Rotating Sphere | R. Krasny & J. Boyd | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Marshall Williams | Metric Currents and Differentiable Structures | M. Bonk & J. Heinonen | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Brian Wyman | Polynomial Decomposition over Rings | M. Zieve | PNYLAB, LLC |
| Zhenjie Xu (AIM) | Asymptotic Analysis and Numerical Analysis of the Benjamin-Ono Equation | P. Miller & J. Boyd | Bloomberg |
2008 - 2009
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor(s) | First Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tigran Ananyan | Topics in Tight Closure Theory | M. Hochster | Adrian College |
| David Anderson | Degeneracy and G_2 Flags | W. Fulton | University of Washington |
| Arvind Baskaran (AIM) | Modeling and Simulation of Hetero-epitaxial Growth | P. Smereka & K. Garikipati | Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA |
| Jonathan Bober | Integer Ratios of Factorials, Hypergeometric Series, and Related Step Functions | J. Lagarias | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Katarina Bodova (AIM) | Topics in Applied Stochastic Dynamics | C. Doering & A. Amirdjanova | Comenius University |
| David Constantine | Hyperbolic Rank-Rigidity and Compact Forms of Homogeneous Spaces | R. Spatzier | University of Chicago |
| Ellen Eischen | P-adic Differential Operators on Automorphic Forms and Applications | N. Ramsey & C. Skinner | Northwestern University |
| Oscar Fernandez (AIM) | The Hamiltonization of Nonholonomic Systems and its Applications | A. Bloch & A. Rojo | University of Michigan |
| Leo Goldmakher | Multiplicative Mimicry and Improvements of the Polya-Vinogradov Theorem | J. Lagarias & K. Soundararajan | University of Toronto |
| Russell Golman (AIM) | Essays on Population Learning Dynamics and Boundedly Rational Behavior | A. Blass & S. Page | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Hester Graves | On Euclidean Ideal Classes | N. Ramsey | Queen’s University |
| Christopher Hammond | Invariants of Transformation Groups Acting on Real Hypersurfaces in Complex Spaces | D. Barrett | Texas A&M University |
| Kyle Hoffman | Triangulation of Locally Semi-Algebraic Spaces | M. Mustata | National Security Agency |
| Paul Johnson | Equivariant Gromov-Witten Theory of One Dimensional Toric Stacks | Y. Ruan | Imperial College |
| Shin-Yao Jow | Mori Dream Spaces and Okounkov Bodies | R. Lazarsfeld | University of Pennsylvania |
| Wansu Kim | Galois Deformation Theory for Norm Fields and its Arithmetic Applications | B. Conrad & S. DeBacker | Imperial College |
| Ryan Kinser | Rank Functors and Representation Rings of Quivers | H. Derksen | University of Connecticut |
| Cagatay Kutluhan | Floer Homology and Symplectic Forms on S^1 X M^3 | D. Burns | MSRI |
| Michael Lieberman | Topological and Category-Theoretic Aspects of Abstract Elementary Classes | A. Blass | University of Pennsylvania |
| Aaron Magid | Deformation Spaces of Kleinian Surface Groups are not Locally Connected | R. Canary | University of Maryland |
| Ray Maleh (AIM) | Fast Sparse Approximation Algorithms for Medical Imaging | A. Gilbert & J. Fessler | L3 Communications |
| Jessica Metcalf-Burton | Information Rates for Secret Sharing Over Various Access Structures | A. Blass | |
| Marie Snipes | Flat Forms in Banach Spaces | M. Bonk & J. Heinonen | Kenyon College |
| Alan Stapleton |
The Geometry and Combinatorics of Ehrhart $\delta$-Vectors | M. Mustata | MSRI |
| Richard Vasques (AIM) | Anisotropic Diffusion of Neutral Particles in Stochastic Media |
C. Doering & E. Larsen | McKinsey & Company |
| Liz Vivas | Fatou Bieberbach Domains and Automorphisms Tangent to the Identity | B. Stensones | Purdue University |
| Michael Weiss | Mathematical Sense, Mathematical Sensibility: The Role of the secondary Geometry Course in Teaching Students to be like Mathematicians | H. Bass | Oakland University |
| Hao Xing | Analysis of the Option Prices in Jump Diffusion Models | E. Bayraktar | London School of Economics |
2007 - 2008
| Name | Dissertation Title |
Advisor(s) | First Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Bauer (AIM) | A Multi-Scale Cell-Based Model to simulated and Elucidate the Mechanisms Controlling Tumor-Induced Angiogenesis | T. Jackson & Y. Jiang | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Oscar Felgueiras | The Ample Cone for a Morphism | R. Lazarsfeld | Universidade do Porto |
| Sara Gentry (AIM) | Mathematical Modeling of Mutation Acquisition in Hierarchical Tissues: Quantification of the Cancer Stem Cell Hypothesis | T. Jackson & S. Morrison | University of Michigan |
| Jose Gomez-Guerra |
Models of Twisted K-Theory | I. Kriz | University of British Columbia |
| Jasun Gong | Derivations on Metric Measure Spaces | M. Bonk & J. Heinonen | University of Pittsburgh |
| Mark Iwen (AIM) |
Algorithmic Compressed Sensing with Applications | M. Strauss & J. Patel | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications |
| Harsh Jain | Quantitative Modeling of Molecular Pathways Associated with Intratumoral Angiogensis | T. Jackson | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University |
| Jason Kutch (AIM) | Signal in Human Motor Unsteadiness: Detecting the Action and Activity of Muscles | A. Bloch & A. Kuo | University of Southern California |
| KyungYong Lee | On Realization of Line Arrangements as Multiplier Ideals | R. Lazarsfeld | Purdue University |
| John MacKay | Conformal Dimension and the Quasisymmetric Geometry of Metric Spaces | B. Kleiner | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Jared Maruskin (AIM) | On the Dynamical Propagation of Subvolumes and on the Geometry and Variatioinal Principles of Nonholonomic Systems | A. Bloch & D. Scheeres | San Jose State University |
| Yogesh More | Arc Valuations on Smooth Varieties | K. Smith | University of Missouri |
| Hannah Robbins | Finiteness of Associated Primes of Local Cohomology Modules | M. Hochster | Wake Forest University |
| Susan Sierra |
The Geometry of Birationally Commutative Graded Domains | J. Stafford | University of Washington |
| Craig Spencer | Analytic Methods for Diophantine Problems | T. Wooley | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Joe Stubbs |
Potent Elements and Tight Closure in Artinian Modules | M. Hochster | University of Texas-Austin |
| Giancarlo Urzua | Arrangements of Curves and Algebraic Surfaces | I. Dolgachev | University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| Diane Vavrichek | Accessibility and JSJ Decompositions of Groups |
G. P. Scott | The State University of New York |
| Bo Yang | Application of Perturbation Methods to Pricing Credit and Equity Derivatives | E. Bayraktar | Morgan Stanley |
