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Recent Duke Mathematics Graduate
Graduate Program - Recent Graduates
2011
- Graham Cox
Thesis: Scalar curvature rigidity theorems for the upper
hemisphere
Advisor: Hubert Bray
- Prakash Balachandran
Thesis: Dimensionality Reduction and Learning on Networks
Advisors: Mauro Maggioni, Jonathan Mattingly
- Michael Pruitt
Thesis: Maximum norm regularity of implicit difference methods for
parabolic equations
Advisor: Thomas Beale
- Kevin E. Gonzales
Thesis: Modeling Oscillations in the cAMP-PKA Network within
Budding Yeast
Advisor: David Schaeffer
- Amir Aazami
Thesis: The Geometry of Gravitational Lensing: Magnification
Relations, Observables, and Kerr Black Holes
Advisor: Arlie Petters
- Matthew Bowen
Thesis: A Spectral Deferred Correction Method for computing the
cardiac Two-Current Model
Advisor: David Schaeffer
- Oliver Gjoneski
Thesis: Multi-Variable Period Polynomials Associated to Cusp
Forms
Advisor: Leslie Saper
- Aubrey HB
Thesis: Persistent Cohomology
Advisor: John Harer
- M. George Lam
Thesis: The Graph Cases of the Riemannian Positive Mass and Penrose
Inequalities in All Dimensions
Advisor: Hubert Bray
- Anna V. Little
Thesis: Estimating the Intrinsic Dimension of High-Dimensional Data
Sets: A Multiscale, Geometric Approach
Advisor: Mauro Maggioni
- Alberto Teguia
Thesis: Stochastic Gravitational Lensing
Advisor: Arlie Petters
2010
2009
2008
2007
- Ryan Haskett
Thesis: Long-time asymptotic solutions
in driven microfluidic processes
Advisor: Thomas Witelski
Highbridge Captial
- William Lefew
Thesis: Optical precursor behavior
Advisor: Stephanos Venakides
Environmental Protection Agency
- Timothy Lucas
Thesis: Numerical solutions of
an immunology model using reaction-
diffusion equations with stochastic
source terms
Advisor: William Allard
Pepperdine University
- Jeffrey Streets
Thesis: Ricci Yang-Mills flow
Advisor: Mark Stern
Princeton University
2006
- David Anderson
Thesis: Stochastic perturbations of biochemical reaction networks
Advisor: Jonathon Mattingly and Michael Reed
University of Wisconsin
- Ryan Deering
Thesis: Fine scale analysis of
speech using empirical mode decomposition:
Insight and applications
Advisor: James Kaiser
Chatham Financial, PA
- Thomas Laurent
Thesis: New phenomena in
non-local partial differential equations
Advisor: Michael Reed
UCLA
2005
- Robert Buckingham
Thesis: Long-time asymptotics of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation shock problem
Advisor: Stephanos Venakides
University of Cincinnati
- John Cain
Thesis: Issues in the one-dimensional dynamics of a paced cardiac fiber
Advisor: David Schaeffer
Virginia Commonwealth University
- Carina Curto
Thesis: Matrix model superpotentials and Calabi-Yau spaces: an ADE classification
Advisor: David Morrison
University of Nebraska
- Andrew Feist
Thesis: Two Problems in Delay Differential Equations
Advisor: Thomas Witelski
ECPI College of Technology, Virginia
- Daniel Fox
Thesis: Second Order Families of Co-associative 4-Folds
Advisor: Robert Bryant
NSF International Research Fellowship (Oxford, UK) and Visiting Assistant Prof., UC Irvine
- Craig Grabowski
Thesis: On the integral Hodge conjecture for 3-folds
Advisor: Chad Schoen
Bank of America
- Guoqiang Yang
Thesis: Quantitative models for dorsal closure in drosophila embryos
Advisor: Stephanos Venakides
Shanghai Univ.
- Dan Yasaki
Thesis: On the existence of Splines for Q-rank 1 groups
Advisor: Les Saper
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
- Wenjun Ying
Thesis: A Multi-level adaptive approach for computational cardiology
Advisor: John Trangenstein
Michigan Technical University
2004
- Christian Benes
Thesis: On some problems concerning Planar Random Walks
Advisor: Gregory Lawler
Postdoc, Tufts University
- John Greer
Thesis: Fourth order diffusions for image processing
Advisor: Andrea Bertozzi
Assistant Research UCLA (1 semester) & NSF postdoc Courant Institute
- Christopher Hale
Thesis: On Calculations of Leaky-Modes in Photonic Crystals.
Advisor: Stephanos Venakides
Mathematics Instructor, Duke University
- Robert Karp
Thesis: D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds & Pi-Stability in the derived category
Advisor: Paul Aspinwall
Postdoc, Physics Department, Rutgers
- Kevin Kesseler
Thesis: Analysis of Feedback-Medicated Dynamics in two coupled Nephrons
Advisor: Harold Layton
Mathematics Instructor, Duke & UNC, postdoc, Pathology Department, Lineberger Cancer Center, U. North Carolina
- Michael Kozdron
Thesis: Simple Random Walks Excursion Measure in the Plane
Advisor: Gregory Lawler
Associate Professor, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
2003
- Colleen Mitchell
Thesis: Mathematical Properties of Time Windowing in Neural Systems
Advisor: Michael Reed
National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Boston
University, Assistant Professor in the Dept of Mathematics at the
University of Iowa
- Darren Oldson
Thesis: Flow Perturbations in a Mathematical Model of the Tubuloglomerular feedback system.
Advisor: Harold Layton
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
- Ted Welsh
Thesis: Mathematical Modeling of Landscape Erosion:Convergence, Singularities...transport-limited model.
Advisor: Andrea Bertozzi
Assistant Professor, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
2002
- David Ambrose
Thesis: Well-Posedness of Vortex sheets with surface tension
Advisor: Tom Beale
Courant Instructor, Courant Institute, New York &
Assistant Professor, Clemson University, Assistant Professor at
the Dept of Mathematics, Drexel University
- Anne Collins
Thesis: Configuration spaces in Robotic Manipulation and motion planning.
Advisor: John Harer
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Stanford University
- Marianty Ionel
Thesis: Second Order Families of Special Lagrangian 4-folds in C4
Advisor: Robert Bryant
Postdoc, McMaster University, Canada
2001
- Aaron Ashih
Thesis: Spatial & Stochastic models for population growth in Sexual & asexual reproduction.
Advisor: David Schaeffer
Instructor, Raleigh Charter High School, Raleigh, NC
- Jonathan Bihari
Thesis: A new approach to delay differential equations.
Advisor: Michael Reed
Postdoc, Tufts University, Medford, MA
- Sung Ho Wang
Thesis: Legendrian submanifold path geometry.
Advisor: Robert Bryant
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre de Recherche Mathematique, Montreal, Canada
2000
- Laura Taalman
Thesis: Monomial Generators for the Nash Sheaf of a complete Resolution.
Advisor: William Pardon
Assistant Professor, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
- Alexander Solodovnikov
Thesis: Absolute intensity independence in a directional hearing model.
Advisor: Michael Reed
1999
- Richard-Paul Horja
Thesis: Hypergeometric functions and mirror symmetry in toric varieties.
Advisor: David Morrison
Instructor, Duke University & Assistant Prof., Mathematics, U. Michigan
- Benjamin McKay
Thesis: Duality and integrable systems of pseudoholomorphic curves
Advisor: Robert Bryant
Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany & Wilie Instructor, University of Utah
- Liya Zhornitskaya
Thesis: Positivity preserving numerical schemes for lubrication equations.
Advisor: Andrea Bertozzi
Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany & Wilie Instructor, University of Utah
1998
- Chad Fargason
Thesis: The Percolation dimension of Brownian Motion in three dimensions.
Advisor: Gregory Lawler
Associate, The Boston Consulting Group, Dallas, Texas
- Mary Beth Fisher
Thesis: Variance reduction for Stochastic differential equations applied to bond pricing problems.
Advisor: Gregory Lawler
Investigator in clinical pharmacology, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
- Anna Georgieva
Thesis: Fourier analysis bifurcation theory numerical methods, applications to Photonic crystals, integrable systems
Advisor: Stephanos Venakides
Postdoc, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC
- Kirsten Travers
Thesis: Ultra-Singularities of Semilinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations.
Advisor: Michael Reed
Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, Investment Bank, New York City
- Yiannis Vlassopoulos
Thesis: Quantum Cohomology and the Loop Space
Advisor: David Morrison
Economics, University of Athens & member, IHES, Paris
1997
- Po-Jen Cheng
Thesis: Long time Asymptotics for the Sine-Gordon Equation.
Advisor: Stephanos Venakides
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Science Education, National Chia-Yi Teachers' College, Taiwan
- Christopher Odden
Thesis: The Virtual Automorphism Group of the Fundamental group of a closed surface.
Advisor: John Harer
Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College, MA
- Anne-Maire Filip
Thesis: Wave Modulation in Anharmonic Lattices.
Advisor: Stephanos Venakides
Assistant Professor, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada
- Jim Rolf
Thesis: A Mathematical Reconstruction of the Corneal Surface.
Advisor: William Allard
Assistant Professor, US Military Academy, West Point, New York
1996
- Kayne Arthurs
Thesis: Flow Regulation in the Afferent Arteriole of the Immersed Boundary Method.
Advisor: Harold Layton
Research Associate, Duke University
- Beth Brooks
Thesis: Probabilistic methods for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations.
Advisor: Michael Reed
Assistant Professor, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
- Sharad Chaudhary
Thesis: The Brill-Noether theorem for real algebraic curves.
Advisor: Chad Schoen
Prudential, New York
- Jeanne Nielsen Clelland
Thesis: Geometry of conservation laws for a class of parabolic PDE.
Advisor: Robert Bryant
NSF Postdoc, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
- Rick Clelland
Thesis: Simulation of Granular and Fluid Systems using combined continuous and discrete numerical methods.
Advisor: John Trangenstein
NSF Postdoc, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
- Joel Foisy
Thesis: The second homology group of the level 2 mapping class group of an orientable surface.
Advisor: John Harer
Assistant Professor, SUNY Potsdam, NY
- Kevin Foltinek
Thesis: Quasilinear third-order scalar evolution equations and their conservation laws.
Advisor: Robert Bryant
Instructor, University of Texas, Austin, Inc
- Kevin Knudson
Thesis: The homology of linear groups over Laurent Polynomial rings.
Advisor: Richard Hain
Associate Professor, Mississippi State University
- Chris Michael
Thesis: Uniqueness of calibrated cycles using exterior differential systems.
Advisor: Robert Bryant
Risk Manager at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, New York
1995
- Khaled Furati
Thesis: A Hysteretic Polymer Flooding Model.
Advisor: John Trangenstein
Asst. Prof., King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
- Keener Hughen
Thesis: The Sub-Riemannian geometry of three manifolds.
Advisor: Robert Bryant
Graduate Student, Mathematical Finance, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Alexandre Kabanov
Thesis: The Second Homology of the Moduli Space of Riemann surfaces with twisted coefficients.
Advisor: Richard Hain
Visiting scientist, Max-Planck Instiut, Bonn and visiting assit. prof., Michigan State U.
1994
- Rich Hornung
,
(96- ) Applied Mathematician, Center for Applied Scientific
Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
(94-96) NSF Industrial Mathematics Post Doctoral Fellow,
Mobil Exploration and Producing Technology Co. (Dallas) and Duke U.
-
Vincent Moulton
,
(02- ) Professor, Linnaeus Center for
Bioinformatics, Upsala University, Sweden
(98-02) Senior Lecturer, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
(94-98) Post-Doc, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
- Christopher Peterson, Assistant Professor,
Colorado State University.
- Emily
Puckette, (99- ) Assistant Professor, University of the South,
Sewanee
(94-99) Assistant Professor, Occidental College, Los Angeles.
- Henry Suters ,
Associate Professor, Carson-Newman College, TN.
1993
-
Michael Gordon , Associate Professor,
State University of West Georgia
- Michael McDonald
- Gary Tucker,
Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science,
Averett University, Danville, Virginia
1992
- Danielle Carr (Ramdath),
Program Officer, The Mellon Foundation, N.Y., NY
- Andrew Ferrari, Durham Academy, Durham, NC
- Thomas Ivey, Professor of Mathematics, College of Charleston
- Charles Vuono
1991
- Lianjun An, IBM
- Alfred Bourgeois,
Software Engineer, Mesoscale & Microscale Meterology Division,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Co
- Lucas Hsu
,
Vice President, Product Development at Photonic Bridges
- William Mueller
- Jeanne Nailor
- Thomas Polaski
- Freda Porter-Locklear
-
Tien-Yu Sun
Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics,
Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Feng Wang, Salomon Brothers
- Yun-Gang Ye
-
Yunliang Yu , Senior Systems Programmer,
Math Department, Duke University
- Taiyan Zhang
1990
- Antonella Grassi, Associate Professor,
University of Pennsylvania
-
Joseph Landsberg, Professor of Mathematics, Texas A M
- Robert McLean, Ear, nose and throat surgeon
in private practice, Colorado Springs, Co.
- J.B. Poznanski
- Dong-Kwan Shin
- Insum Shin
- Qi Zhang
1989
1988
- Julia Kimbell, Associate Investigator,
Division of Computational Biology,
Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
- Kyriakos Kontostathis
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Donna Sylvester
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Mathematics, Seattle University,
Seattle, WA
1987
1986
- Fernando Fernandez-Carmena
- Maija Kuusela, University of Helsinki
(86-88) Research Assistant, Helsinki University of Technology
(89-90) Junior Fellow, Finish Academy
(89-90) Lecturer, Helsinki University of Technology
(90-92) Senior Lecturer, Esopoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology
(92-95) Head of Mathematics, Esopoo-Vantaa Institute of
Technology
(95--) Research Engineer, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki
- Harold Layton
Professor of Mathematics, Duke University
- Risto Lehtinen
- David Massey, Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Northeastern University
- Mitsunori Noguchi
- William Rayens, Professor, Department of Statistics,
University of Kentucky
- Damon Scott
1985
- Joseph Fehribach, Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, WPI
- Bruce Pitman, Professor, Department of Mathematics and
Associate Dean for Research and Sponsored Programs,
College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY BUffalo
1984
- John Goodrich, NASA Ames
- David Hartz
- Karen Israel
- Thomas Messer
- Lucio Micheli
1983
- Lesli Reid
- Laird Prussner, Software Consultant to Matis, Inc.
1981
- Michael Oberguggenberger,
Professor of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck,
Innsbruck, Austria
- Steven Pinault
1980
1979
- Peter Clote
- Samual Johnson
- Paul Norman
- Lance Smith, Jr.,
CEO, Imagine Software, Inc.
1978
- John Berning
- Lloyd Goodrum
- Sister Merilyn Anne Ryan
- Brian Shelburne
1977
- Guy Arthur Battle, Professor of mathematics,
Texas A & M University
- Terrence Bisson
- Bobby Gordon
- Jo Ann Lutz
1976
- Keh-Hsun Chen
- Jo-Ann Cohen
- Joseph Conroy
- Ko-Wei Lih
- Arthur Thorsen
1975
1974
-
Arthur Charlesworth
Professor, Computer Science Program, University of Richmond
- Frances Edmonds
- Randall King
- Stephen Morris
- Elizabeth Nichols
- Peter Weidner
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