Ph.D. Thesis Defenses

2013

 

Jeremy Russell

 

Thesis defense:

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
 

Thesis title:

A Funtional Approach to Linkage and the Asymptotic Stabilization of the Tensor Product 

 

Advisor:

Alex Martsinkovsky

Federico Galetto

 

Thesis defense:

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
 

Thesis title:

Free resolutions of orbit closures for representations with finitely many orbits 

 

Advisor:

Jerzy Weyman

Ilanit Helfand

 

Thesis defense:

Friday, April 5, 2013
 

Thesis title:

Constructions of k-orbit Abstract Polytopes 

 

Advisor:

Egon Schulte

 

Salvatore Stella

 

Thesis defense:

Friday, April 5, 2013
 

Thesis title:

Discrete structures in finite type Cluster Algebras

 

Advisor:

Andrei Zelevinsky

 

Masoumeh (Sepideh) Shafiei

 

Thesis defense:

March 28, 2013
 

Thesis title:

Apolarity for the determinant and permanent

 

Advisor:

Anthony Iarrobino

 

2012

Gabriel Cunningham

 

Thesis defense:

May 2, 2012

 

Thesis title:

Automorphic Invariance of Abstract Polytopes

 

Advisor:

Egon Schulte

 

Kavita Sutar

 

Thesis defense:

January 27, 2012

 

Thesis title:

Orbit closures of quiver representations

 

Advisor:

Jerzy Weyman

Andrew T. Carroll

 

Thesis defense:

January 27, 2012

 

Thesis title:

Geometry of representation spaces for gentle string algebras

 

Advisor:

Jerzy Weyman

2011

Sachin Gautam

Thesis defense:     June 16, 2011; PhD., August 2011

Thesis title:  Three contributions in representation theory:  - Cluster algebras and Grassmannians of type G2 - Yangians and quantum loop algebras - Monodromy of the trigonometric Casimir connection for sl(2)

Advisor:  Valerio Toledano Laredo

 

Daniel Labardini-Fragoso

Thesis defense:     December 3, 2010; PhD., January 2011

Thesis title:  Quivers with potentials associated with triangulations of Riemann surfaces

Advisor:  Andrei Zelevisnky

2010

Mark Mixer

 

Thesis defense:

July 23, 2010; PhD., September 2010

 

Thesis title:

Transitivity of Graphs Associated with Highly Symmetric Polytopes

 

Advisor:

Egon Schulte

John Gonzalez

 

Thesis defense:

April 16, 2010; Ph.D., May 2010

 

Thesis title:

Unbounded solutions of the modified Kortweg-De Vries equation

 

Advisor:

Peter Topalov

Shih-Wei Yang

 

Thesis defense:

April 16, 2010;

 

Thesis title:

Cluster algebras of finite type via semisimple groups and generalized minors

 

Advisor:

Andrei Zelevinsky

Thao Tran

 

Thesis defense:

April 16, 2010;

 

Thesis title:

Quantum F-polynomials in the theory of cluster algebras

 

Advisor:

Andrei Zelevinsky

Marcus Fries

 

Thesis defense:

April 15, 2010; Ph.D., May 2010

 

Thesis title:

Standard bases for coordinate rings of cotangent varieties

 

Advisor:

Jerzy Weyman

Anandam Banerjee

 

Thesis defense:

April 1, 2010; Ph.D., May 2010

 

Thesis title:

Tensor structure on smooth motives

 

Advisor:

Marc Levine

2009

Kristin Webster

 

Thesis defense:

June 29, 2009; Ph.D., August 2009

 

Thesis title:

Semi-invariants of tubular algebras

 

Advisor:

Jerzy Weyman

John Lindhe

 

Thesis defense:

June 18, 2009; Ph.D., August 2009

 

Thesis title:

Exhaustive weakly wandering sequences for alpha type transformations

 

Advisor:

Stanley Eigen

Elizabeth Donovan

 

Thesis defense:

April 15, 2009; Ph.D., May 2009

 

Thesis title:

Various parameters of subgraphs and supergraphs of the hypercube

 

Advisor:

Mark Ramras

Anthony Cutler

 

Thesis defense:

April 15, 2009; Ph.D., May 2009

 

Thesis title:

Regular polyhedra of index 2

 

Advisor:

Egon Schulte

Justin Brown

 

Thesis defense:

April 14, 2009; Ph.D., May 2009

 

Thesis title:

Some geometric properties of certain toric varieties and Schubert varieties

 

Advisor:

Venkatraman Lakshmibai

Nilufer Koldan

 

Thesis defense:

March 27, 2009; Ph.D, May 2009

 

Thesis title:

Semiclassical asymptotics on manifolds with boundary

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Shubin

2008

Himadri Mukherjee

 

Thesis defense:

April 24, 2008; Ph.D., August 2008

 

Thesis title:

Singularities of certain class of toric varieties

 

Advisor:

Venkatraman Lakshmibai

Jose Pablo Pelaez-Menaldo

 

Thesis defense:

April 16, 2008; Ph.D., May 2008

 

Thesis title:

Multiplicative properties of the slice filtration

 

Advisor:

Marc Levine

Kenneth Straus

 

Thesis defense:

March 28, 2008; Ph.D. May 2008

 

Thesis title:

Validation of a Probabilistic Model of Language Acquisition in Children

 

Advisor:

Samuel Gutmann

2007

David Long

 

Thesis defense:

November 13, 2007; January 2008

 

Thesis title:

Alexander and Thurston norms of links and 3-manifolds

 

Advisor:

Alexander Suciu

Jose Malagon-Lopez

 

Thesis defense:

March 29, 2007; Ph.D., May 2007

 

Thesis title:

Adams operations and lambda operations on classifying oriented cohomology theories

 

Advisor:

Marc Levine

Shouxin Dai

 

Thesis defense:

March 28, 2007; Ph.D., May 2007

 

Thesis title:

Isomorphism beteen algebraic cobordism and K-theory over singular schemes

 

Advisor:

Marc Levine

Rung-Tzung Huang

 

Thesis defense:

March 7, 2007; Ph.D., May 2007

 

Thesis title:

Refined analytic torsion: comparison theorems, product formula and examples

 

Advisor:

Maxim Braverma

2005

Irosha Wickramasinghe

 

Thesis defense:

August 11, 2005; Ph.D., September 2005

 

Thesis title:

Relative conditional complexity of compression for authorship attribution of texts

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Malioutov

Joe Perez

 

Thesis defense:

June 10, 2005; Ph.D., September 2005

 

Thesis title:

L2 Fredholm property of del bar Neumann problem on strongly pseudoconvex G-manifolds

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Shubin

Michael Nathanson

 

Thesis defense:

May 26, 2005; Ph.D., September 2005

 

Thesis title:

Local discrimination and quantum channel capacities

 

Advisor:

Christopher King

 

2004

Ahmet Seven

 

Thesis defense:

July 22, 2004; Ph.D., September 2004

 

Thesis title:

Combinatorial aspects of double Bruhat cells and cluster algebras

 

Advisor:

Andrei Zelevinsky

Stanislav Dubrovskiy

 

Thesis defense:

April 7, 2004; Ph.D., June 2004

 

Thesis title:

Differential invariants of geometric structures

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Shubin

Valentin Silantyev

 

Thesis defense:

April 6, 2004; Ph.D., June 2004

 

Thesis title:

Kirchhoff and Riabouchinsky model with semipermeable obstacles

 

Advisor:

Maxim Braverman

2003

Joshua Scott

 

Thesis defense:

August 19, 2003; Ph.D., September 2003

 

Thesis title:

Grassmannians and cluster algebras

 

Advisor:

Andrei Zelevinsky

Victor Kreiman

 

Thesis defense:

August 7, 2003; Ph.D., September 2003

 

Thesis title:

Monomial bases and applications for Richardson and Schubert varieties in ordinary and affine Grassmannians

 

Advisor:

V. Lakshmibai

Shengli Kong

 

Thesis defense:

August 1, 2003; Ph.D., September 2003

 

Thesis title:

The geometry of G2-manifolds

 

Advisors:

Chuu-Lian Terng and Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)

Eric Wang

 

Thesis defense:

August 1, 2003; Ph.D., September 2003

 

Thesis title:

Submanifold geometries and integrable systems

 

Advisor:

Chuu-Lian Terng

Christopher Johnston

 

Thesis defense:

May 1, 2003; Ph.D., June 2003

 

Thesis title:

Periodic solutions of a delay equation with three delays

 

Advisor:

Solomon Jekel

Stephen Lovett

 

Thesis defense:

April 29, 2003; Ph.D., June 2003

 

Thesis title:

Orbits of orthogonal and symplectic representations of symmetric quivers

 

Advisor:

Jerzy Weyman

2002

Abdulaziz M. Al-Assaf

 

Thesis defense:

June 27, 2002; Ph.D., September 2002

 

Thesis title:

On computing various pararmeters for hypercubes

 

Advisor:

Mark Ramras

Ognjen Milatovic

 

Thesis defense:

May 28, 2002; Ph.D., September 2002

 

Thesis title:

On the essential self-adjointness of Schrödinger-type operators on Riemannian manifolds

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Shubin

 

Minggen Lu

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 2002

 

Thesis title:

Statistical estimation and simulation studies

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Malioutov

 

Abdallah Abou-Tahoun

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 2002

 

Thesis title:

A multi-commodity, multi-period, multi-criteria network flow model for disposal siting and routing of nuclear waste

 

Advisor:

Mark Ramras

 

2001

Tatiana Korobeinikova

 

Thesis defense:

August 16, 2001; Ph.D., September 2001

 

Thesis title:

Modeling of individual protein molecule dynamics

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Malioutov

 

Oleg Gleizer

 

Thesis defense:

May 21, 2001; Ph.D., June 2001

 

Thesis title:

Explicit solutions of the additive Deligne-Simpson problem and their applications

 

Advisor:

Andrei Zelevinsky

 

Luis Fernando Mejias

 

Thesis defense:

March 13, 2001; Ph.D., June 2001

 

Thesis title:

The noncommutative tame de Rham theorem

 

Advisor:

Bohumil Cenkl

 

Neal Macmillan

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 2001

 

Thesis title:

The topological completion of a bilinear form

 

Advisor:

Solomon Jekel

2000

Oleg Bayborodin

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 2000

 

Thesis title:

Estimation of diffusion and trend in noise via mercer expansion in connection to the parameter estimation of the band 3 molecule motion over the membrane of red blood cells

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Malioutov

Ranjit Vohra

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 2000

 

Thesis title:

Equisingularity of map germs from n-space to the plane

 

Advisor:

Terence Gaffney

Shaohui Zhai

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 2000

 

Thesis title:

Combinatorial and information-theoretic aspects of search models

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Malioutov

Robert Gassler

 

Thesis defense:

December 7, 1999; Ph.D., June 2000

 

Thesis title:

Segre numbers, mixed Segre numbers, and the theory of the integral closure of ideals

 

Advisor:

Terence Gaffney

1999

Daniel Matei

 

Thesis defense:

August 12, 1999; Ph.D., September 1999

 

Thesis title:

Fundamental groups of links and arrangements: characteristic varieties, resonance varieties, and finite index subgroups

 

Advisor:

Alexandru Suciu

Sergey Bratus

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1999

 

Thesis title:

Recognition of finite black box groups

 

Advisors:

Egon SchulteGene Cooperman, and Larry Finkelstein

1998

Igor Oleinik 

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1998

 

Thesis title:

On the essential self-adjointness of Schrödinger-type operators on complete Riemannian manifolds

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Shubin

1997

Nicolae Gonciulea

 

Thesis defense:  

August 21, 1997; Ph.D., September 1997

 

Thesis title:

Schubert varieties, ladder determinantal varieties and toric varieties

 

Advisor:

V. Lakshmibai

Tao-Ming Wang

 

Thesis defense:

July 8, 1997; Ph.D.; September 1997

 

Thesis title:

On uniquely intersectable graphs

 

Advisor:

N. V. R. Mahadev

Mahmoud El-Hashash

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1997

 

Thesis title:

Long cycles and Hamiltonian cycles in subgraphs of hypercubes

 

Advisor:

Mark Ramras

Ward Heilman

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1997

 

Thesis title:

On the toughness of cross products of paths and cycles

 

Advisor:

Mark Ramras

Michael Douglas Green

 

Thesis defense:

May 22, 1997; Ph.D., June 1997

 

Thesis title:

Lê cycles on analytic spaces

 

Advisor:

David Massey

Hanai Sadaka

 

Thesis defense:  

March 31, 1997; Ph.D., June 1997

 

Thesis title:

Maximization of empirical Shannon information in testing significant variables of linear model

 

Advisor:

Mikhail Malioutov

Xi Du

 

Thesis defense:

December 10, 1996; Ph.D., June 1997

 

Thesis title:

On isometric immersions of space forms in space forms

 

Advisor:

Chuu-Lian Terng

Alfred Noël

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1997

 

Thesis title:

Nilpotent orbits and theta-stable parabolic subalgebras

 

Advisor:

Donald King

Laura Shulman

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1997

 

Thesis title:

A statistical characterization of the concentration fluctuations due to turbulence in a circular jet

 

Advisor:

Samuel Gutmann

David Lang

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1997

 

Thesis title:

Adjacency codes of graphs: weights, dimensions, representations

 

Advisor:

Mark Ramras

Waleed Al-Jasem

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1997

 

Thesis title:

On using struction in computing the stability number

 

Advisor:

N. V. R. Mahadev

1996

Randall Rausch

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1996

 

Thesis title:

The kite method for accelerating vortex method solutions of Euler's and Navier-Stokes' equations

 

Advisor:

Robert McOwen

James Bishop

 

Thesis defense:

May 22, 1996; Ph.D., June 1996

 

Thesis title:

Bounds on P-values for classes of stopping rules

 

Advisor:

Samuel Gutmann

Mingjie Song

 

Thesis defense:

May 21, 1996; Ph.D., June 1996

 

Thesis title:

Schubert varieties in Sp(2n)/B

 

Advisor:

V. Lakshmibai

Arkady Berenstein

 

Thesis defense:

May 7, 1996; Ph.D., June 1996

 

Thesis title:

Algebraic and combinatorial structure of quantum groups and their canonical bases

 

Advisor:

Andrei Zelevinsky

1995

David Finn

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1995

 

Thesis title:

Positive solutions to nonlinear elliptic equations with prescribed singularities

 

Advisor:

Robert McOwen

Jorge Navarro

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1995

 

Thesis title:

Special one-dependent processes

 

Advisor:

Stanley Eigen

Rixin Yang

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1995

 

Thesis title:

Bifunctor theory and representation theory of algebras

 

Advisor:

Gordana Todorov

1994

Omid Zafar

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1994

 

Thesis title:

Some necessary and sufficient conditions for sequence of integers to be a score sequence of a Steinhaus tournament

 

Advisor:

Midge Cozzens

Mary Walkins

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1994

 

Thesis title:

Maximal module of hereditary Artin algebras of finite representation type

 

Advisor:

Gordana Todorov

1993

Mohamad Seaidoun

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1993

 

Thesis title:

A fast exact euclidean distance transform with application to computer vision and digital image processing

 

Advisor:

John Gauch

Barbara Nostrand

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1993

 

Thesis title:

Chiral honeycombs

 

Advisor:

Egon Schulte

David Mann

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1993

 

Thesis title:

The tenacity of trees

 

Advisor:

Sam Stueckle

Lei Wang

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1993

 

Thesis title:

Automorphisms of circulant and MCP graphs

 

Advisor:

Sam Stueckle

Abdelhaq Nadire

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1993

 

Thesis title:

Nonsmooth conflicting control problems defined by ordinary differential equations

 

Advisor:

Jack Warga

1992

Qiji Zhu

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1992

 

Thesis title:

Problems with delayed and unbounded controls

 

Advisor:

Jack Warga

Dara Moazzami

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1992

 

Thesis title:

Tenacity and its properties in stability calculation

 

Advisor:

Midge Cozzens

Leroy Hammerstrom

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1992

 

Thesis title:

A back-bayesian approach to the classical confidence interval

 

Advisor:

Samuel Gutmann

Susan J. Diesel

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1992

 

Thesis title:

Some irreducibility and dimension theorems for families of height three Gorenstein algebras

 

Advisor:

Anthony Iarrobino

Daniel C. Cohen

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1992

 

Thesis title:

Cohomology and intersection cohomology of complex hyperplane arrangements

 

Advisor:

Mark Goresky

Junjie Tang

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1992

 

Thesis title:

Prescribing curvature on manifolds with singularities

 

Advisor:

Robert McOwen

1991

Ioannis Bonias

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., September 1991

 

Thesis title:

T-Colorings of complete graphs

 

Advisor:

Midge Cozzens

Lizhen Ji

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1991

 

Thesis title:

The spectral degeneration for hyperbolic Riemann surfaces

 

Advisors:

Mark Goresky and Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)

Kimberly Halverson

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1991

 

Thesis title:

Multiple recurrence, alpha type and sequences of integers for transformations with infinite invariant measure

 

Advisor:

Stanley Eigen

Yiannis Bassiakos

 

Thesis defense:

Ph.D., June 1991

 

Thesis title:

Validity of the bootstrap in the two sample problem with right censoring

 

Advisor:

Lo