Department of Mathematics, WUSTL - Recent Ph.D.s

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Recent Ph.D.s | Ph.D.s, 1991-1998 | Current Graduate Students


The following is a chronological listing of persons granted a Ph.D. by the Department of Mathematics in the past eight years. In each case, the name of the recipient is followed by the name(s) of the thesis advisor, the dissertation title, and the recipient's current institutional affiliation. The strong interdisciplinary nature of our program is manifested by the presence in some instances of advisor faculty members from other disciplines such as philosophy, biostatistics, and system control theory.

  • Michael Hamm Summer 2009 (R. Roberts), Filing Essential Laminations, Post Doc, Washington University in St. Louis Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Michael B. Henry Summer 2009 (R. Roberts), Connections between Floer-type invariants and Morse-type invariants of Legendrian knots, Post Doc, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
  • Ruibin Xi Summer 2009 (N. Lin), Statistical aggregation: Theory and applications, Post Doc, Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
  • Robert Houska Summer 2009 (G. Weiss, E. Wilson), Frames, Composite Wavelets, and Shearlets, Willaim Jewel, Post Doc, Liberty, Missouri
  • Haley Jane Abel 2009 (S. Sawyer), The Role of Positive Selection in Molecular Evolution: Alternative Models for Within-Locus Selective Effects; University of Salt Lake, Post Doc, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Joseph Bohanon 2009 (J. Shareshian), Groups in which the Normalizer of Every Non-normal Subgroup is Maximal, United States Federal Government, Consultant, Maryland
  • Robert Anthony Brieler 2009 (J. Shareshian), Symmetric and Alternating Groups as Monodromy Groups of Compact Riemann Surfaces: The Case of Four Branch Pointsa, Southwestern Illinois College, Associate Professor, Belleville Illinois
  • Jonathan D. Browder 2009 (J. Shareshian), Proper Group Actions and the Face Structure of Simplicial Complexes, Acting Assistant Professor/Post Doc, University of Washington, Washington
  • Chunlin Fan 2009 (S. Sawyer), Contributions to the Theory of Copula, Consultant, Phoenix Arizona
  • James Thomas Gill 2009 (A. Baernstein), Functions of Finite Distortion in the Plane and a Lower Bound for the Weak-type Constant of the Beurling-Ahlfors Transform, University of Washington-Seattle, Assistant Professor/Post Doc, Seattle, Washington
  • Yonhow Lin 2009 (R. Rochberg), The Interplay Between Harmonic Analysis, Function Theory and Operators
  • Timothy Lott 2009 (R. Roberts), Dehn Fillings of Hyperbolic Punctured-Torus Bundles, United State Federal Government, Consultant, Washington, District of Columbia
  • Emily Ronshausen 2009 (R. Feres), The Liouville Property in the Discrete Group-Action Setting, University of Arizona, Teaching Post Doc, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
  • Bennett James Standeven 2009 (S. Krantz), The Role of First Order Logic in Complex Analysis of Several Variables
  • Brian Maurizi 2008 (J. McCarthy), Noise Sensitivity of an Entropy-Based Signal Receiver; Ameren Energy, Senior Quantitative Analyst, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Jeffrey Blanchard 2007 (G. Weiss & E. Wilson), Existence and Accuracy Results for composite Dilation Wavelets; Research Assistant Professor VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah
  • Lina Lee 2007 (S. Krantz) Asymptotic Behavior of Invariant Metrics; Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
  • Bo Zhao 2007 (N. Weaver) Noncommutative Differential Calculus from the Inner Derivation
  • Amei 2007 (S. Sawyer) A time-dependent Poisson random field model of polymorphism within and between two related species; Assist. Prof., University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Benjamin Braun 2007 (J. Shareshian) Ehrhart Theory of Lattice Polytopes; Assist. Prof., University of Kentucky
  • Greg Knese 2007 (J. McCarthy) Schwartz lemmas on the polydisk; Visiting Assist. Prof., University of CA - Irvine
  • Paul Koester 2007 (R. Rochberg) Estimates on a generalization of the Erdos Turan Function; Post Doc at University of Indiana-Bloomington
  • Sooraj Kuttykrishnan 2007 (D. Wright) Stably tame polynomial automorphisms of polynomial rings in two variables over a UFD; Post Doc Washington University Medical School, Center for Computational Genomics/Department of Computer Science
  • Kimberly Randle 2007 (J. Shareshian) Combinatorial Properties of the Conjugacy Class Subgroup Partially Ordered Set of Finite Groups; Citigroup
  • Prasada Vegulla 2007 (J. McCarthy) Geometry of Distinguished Varieties; Post Doc at Ben Gurion University of the Negev - Post Doc.
  • Aaron Wiechmann 2007 (R. Roberts) Recognition of Thin Position and the Additivity Conjecture; U.S. Government.
  • Wang Q. Lim 2006 (G. Weiss) Wavelets with composite Dilations and Their Applications; C. Hsiung Visiting Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.
  • David Opela 2006 (N. Weaver) Extensions and Dilations of N-Tuples of Hilbert Space Operators; Quantitative Analyst at D. E. Shaw Group, New York, New York.
  • Cindy Traub 2006 (J. Shareshian) Topological Effects Related to Minimum Weight Steiner Triangulations; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University/Edwardsville.
  • Zemin Zeng 2006 (N. Mohan Kumar) Set Theoretic Complete Intersections and Torsion Cycles; American Institute of Mathematics Sciences, Springfield, Missouri.
  • Saida Sultanic, 2005 (J. McCarthy) Commutant Lifting Theorem for the Bergman Space; PostDoc, University of Florida.
  • Leonid Kovalev, 2005 (A. Baernstein) Orientation - Presserving Sobolev Mapping; Assistant Professor, Syracuse University.
  • Jing Zhang 2004 (N. Mohan Kumar) Threefolds with Vanishing Hodge Cohomology; Tenure Track Faculty, SUNY, Albany.
  • Seth A. Howell, 2004 (Steven Krantz) Commutator, Curve, and Variety Type: An Investigate of Finite Type in Several Complex Variables; Department of the Army, Washington D.C.
  • Ningping Liu, 2003 (Ed Spitznagel) Statistical Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimators for Complete and Censored Data from Mixed Exponential and Weibull Distributions; Visiting Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, D.C.
  • Lynn Apfel, 2003 (Steven Krantz) Localization properties and boundary behavior of the Bergman kernel; Department of Defense, Washington D. C.
  • Cristina Draghici, 2003 (Albert Baernstein) Polarization and rearrangement inequalities for multiple integrals; Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • Kwok-Pun Ho, 2002 (Guido Weiss) Anisotropic function spaces; Visiting Scholar, Institute of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
  • Brody Johnson, 2002 (Guido Weiss) Wavelets: Generalized quasi-affine and oversampled affine frames; Assistant Professor, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Michael Jury, 2002 (John McCarthy) Matrix products and interpolation problems in Hilbert function spaces; Assistant Professor, University of Florida.
  • Mauro Maggioni, 2002 (Guido Weiss) On the dicretization of continuous wavelets and frames; Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Dylan Retsek, 2001 (Steven Krantz) The Kernel Supremum Property and Norms of Composition Operators; Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California.
  • Marcin Bownik, 2000 (Richard Rochberg) Anisotropic Hardy spaces and wavelets; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Wojciech Czaja, 2000 (M. Victor Wickerhauser) Applications of local autocovariance matrices; Assistant Professor, University of Maryland.
  • Ziemowit Rzeszotnik, 2000 (Guido Weiss) Combinatorial Analysis, Characterization theories in the theory of wavelets; Professor, Institute of Mathematics, University of Wroclaw, Poland.
  • Holly Bernstein, 1999 (Gary Jensen) Isothermic tori with spherical lines of curvature.
  • Jonathan Corbett, 1999 (Guido Weiss) Coherent states on kinematic groups: the study of spatio-temporal wavelets and their application to motion estimation; Research Instructor of Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics, Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Giacomo Gigante, 1999 (Guido Weiss) A general method for transferring one dimensional results in harmonic analysis to different settings associated with groups and hypergroups; Professor, Universit degli studi di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.
  • Kristen Lampe, 1999 (David Wright) A counting formula for colored, rooted forests and its relation to the Jacobian conjecture; Assistant Professor, Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin.
  • Peter Lampe, 1999 (Renato Feres) Dynamics, Cartan geometries, and rigidity; Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin.
  • Morten Nielsen, 1999 (M. Victor Wickerhauser) Size properties of wavelet packets; Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark.


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