Recent Ph.D.'s, thesis titles, and advisors

January 2007. Pasour, Virginia Barton. Thesis: Computational and Analytical Perspectives on the Drift Paradox Problem in a Freshwater Embayment. Professor Stephen Ellner.

January 2007. Tien, Joseph Hua. Thesis: Optimization for Bursting Neural Models. Professor John Guckenheimer.

January 2007. Casey, Fergal P. Thesis: Prediction and Optimal Experimental Design in Systems Biology Models. Professor James Sethna.

January 2007. Alexander, Siddharth R. Thesis: DVar and Var for a Portfolio of Derivatives. Professor Thomas Coleman.

August 2006. Cintron-Arias, Ariel. Thesis: Modeling and Parameter Esitmation of Contact Processes. Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez.

August 2006. Fernandez, Yannet Interian. Thesis: Models and Algorithms: Applications to Satisfiability and Genome Rearrangement Problems. Professors Rick Durrett and Bart Selman.

August 2006. Wiley, Daniel A. Thesis: Waves in Nonlocally Coupled Oscillators. Professor Steven Strogatz.

January 2006. Blais, Marcel Yvon. Thesis: Liquidity and Modelling the Stochastic Supply Curve for a Stock Price. Professor Philip Protter.

August 2005. Boyle, Katharyn Arabella. Thesis: Risk Minimization Hedging Methods Using Options. Professor Thomas Coleman.

August 2005. Carey, Varis. Thesis: A Posteriori Error Estimation for the Finite Element Method via Local Averaging. Professor Lars B. Wahlbin.

August 2005. Franco, Maria Mercedes. Thesis: Existence and Regularity of Minimizers for a One-Dimensional Elasticity Problem Without Convexity. Professor Tim Healey.

August 2005. Goel, Sharad Chandra. Thesis: Estimating Mixing Times: Techniques and Applications. Professor Laurant Saloff-Coste.

August 2005. Martin, Carla Dee. Thesis: Higher-Order Kronecker Products and Tensor Decompositions. Professor Charles Van Loan.

August 2005. Rodriguez, Jesus Francisco. Thesis: Forward Models and Options in Electricity Markets. Professor Philip Protter.

August 2005. Small, Tara Michelle. Thesis: Modeling Tradeoffs in Intermittent-Connectivity Networks. Professor Zygmunt Haas.

May 2005. Guzman, Johnny. Thesis: Pointwise Esimates for Discontinous Galerkin Methods and for the Standard Finite Element Method with Numerical Integration. Professor Lars B. Wahlbin.

May 2005. He, Changhong. Thesis: Estimation of Volatilities Under a Merton's Jump-Diffusion Model and an Uncertain Volatility Model. Professor Thomas Coleman.

May 2005. Henniger, Jay. Thesis: Small Portfolio Selection for Benchmark Tracking and Option Hedging under Basis Risk. Professor Thomas Coleman.

May 2005. Singer, Michael A. Thesis: Efficient Time Splitting Methods for Reacting Flow Calculations. Professor Stephen Pope.

January 2005. Shontz, Suzanne. Thesis: Numerical Methods for Problems with Moving Meshes. Professor Stephen Vavasis.

January 2005. Grasso, Catherine S. Thesis: Partial Order Graphs for Multiple Sequence Alignment. Professor Rick Durrett.

January 2004. Casey, Richard James. Thesis: Periodic Orbits in Neural Models: Sensitivity Analysis and Algorithms for Parameter Estimations. Professor John Guckenheimer.

January 2004. Mehta, Prashant Girdharilal. Thesis: NonBifurcating Solutions for Paralle Flows. Professor Timothy Healey.

August 2003. Cetin, Umut. Thesis: Default Risk and Liquidity Risk Modeling. Professor Robert Jarrow.

August 2003. Diaz, Aaron Antonio. Thesis: Topics in Hybrid Systems. Professor Anil Nerode.

August 2003. Patron, Maria-Cristina. Thesis: Risk Measures and Optimal Strategies for Discrete Hedging. Professor Thomas F. Coleman.

August 2003. Tiberiu, Tomita Florin. Thesis: Applications of Stochastic Calculus and Partial Differential Equations in Financial Economics. Professor Robert Jarrow.

May 2003. Camacho, Erika Tatiana. Thesis: Mathematical Models of Retinal Dynamics. Professor Richard Rand.

May 2003. Rowell, Jonathan Tyrone. Thesis: Diffusive Food Webs and Signaling Dynamics of Populations. Professor Stephen Ellner.

January 2003: Carver, Sean Goodwin. Thesis: Control of a Spring-Mass Hopper. Professor John Guckenheimer.

January 2003: Phipps, Eric Todd. Thesis: Taylor Series Integration of Differential-Algebraic Equations: Automatic Differentiation as a Tool for Simulating Rigid Body Mechanical Systems. Professor John Guckenheimer.

August 2002. Hueffmeier, Ewald William. Thesis: Turbo Codes and Channel Information in Wireless Networks. Professor Stephen Wicker.

August 2002. Sundell, Nancy Marie. Thesis: Two Mathemtical Problems From Genetics and Ecology. Professor Richard Durrett.

May 2002. Ariaratnam, Joel Thevatharman. Thesis: Collective Dynamics of the Winfree Model of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators. Professor Steven Strogatz.

May 2002. Porter, Mason Alexander. Thesis: Quantum Chaos in Vibrating Billiard Systems. Professor Richard Liboff.

January 2002. Mareno, Anita. Thesis: Global Continuation in Higher-Gradient Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Elasticity. Professor Timothy Healey.

August 2001. Calabrese, Peter Paul. Thesis: Stochastic Microsatellite Models. Professor Rick Durrett.

August 2001. Goldberg, Debra Sue. Thesis: Algorithms for the Construction of Comparative Genome Maps. Professor Jon Kleinberg.

August 2001. Hiebeler, David Edward. Thesis: Populations and the Evolution of Dispersal on Spatially Structured Heterogeneous Landscapes. Professors Rick Durrett and David Winkler.

May 2001. Kim, Yohan. Thesis: Estimation of Smooth Volatility Functions in Option Pricing Models. Professor Thomas Coleman.

January 2001. Deever, Aaron Thomas. Thesis: Projection-Based Prediction and Context Modeling for Wavelet Image Compression. Professor Sheila Hemami.

January 2001. Howle, Victoria Ellen. Thesis: Efficient Iterative Methods for Ill-conditioned Linear and Nonlinear Network Problems. Professor Stephen Vavasis.

January 2001. Jonsson, Gudbjorn Freyr. Thesis: Eigenvalue Methods for Accurate Solution of Polynomial Equations. Professor Stephen Vavasis.

August 2000. Mosteig, Edward Charles. Thesis: A Valuation-Theoretic Approach to Polynomial Computations. Professor Moss Sweedler.

January 2000. Richman, Michael Sean. Thesis: Time Frequency and Multicomponent Signal Analysis. Professor Thomas W. Parks.

August 1999. Lee, Jaewook. Thesis: Trajectory-Based Methods for Global Optimization: Theory and Algorithms. Professor Hsiao-Dong Chiang.

August 1999. Van den Berg, Eric. Thesis: Heavy Tail Modeling in Time Series and Telecommunications. Professor Sidney Resnick.

August 1999. Wirkus, Stephen Allen. Thesis: The Dynamics of Two Coupled Van Der Pol Oscillators with Delay Coupling. Professor Richard Rand.

August 1999. Xue, Fang. Thesis: Asymptotic Behavior of Sample Correlation Function of Stable Processes. Professor Sidney Resnick.

May 1999. Mariano, Adrian Victor. Thesis: Image Processing with Total Variation Minimization. Professor Thomas Coleman.