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The Department also maintains a more complete list of our graduate alumni.
Year of Ph.D.:
Graduate Previous degrees
Thesis Title
Positions after graduation
(Note: to help protect privacy, some positions after graduation are not listed.)
2012:
Colin Carroll, BS, Williams College
Minimizers of the vector-valued coarea formula
Analytics Developer, Spiceworks
Christopher Davis, BS, Westminister College
First Order Invariants and Linear Independence ie the Concordance Group
Zassenhaus Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Bridget Franklin, BS, University of Kansas
The Effect of Infecting Curves on Knot Concordance
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Zheng Gan, BS, University of Science and Technology, China.
Spectral Properties of Limit-Periodic Schröder Operators
Seismic data analyst, CGG Veritas
Evelyn Lamb, BS, University of North Texas
Harmonic Maps and the Indiscrete Components of the Representation Space
Post Doc, University of Utah
Renee Laverdiere, BS, Holy Cross College
Behavior of the Geodesic Length Function on Grafting Rays
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Zhiyuan Li, BS, University of Science and Technology, China
Rational Points on K3 Surfaces over Function Field of Complex Curve
Szegö Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Fei Xu, BS, University of Science and Technology, China
On the Smooth Linear Section of the Grassmannian Gr(2,n)
Wells Fargo, Dalles, TX
2011:
Janine Dahl, B.A. St. Olaf College
The Spectrum of the Off-diagonal Fibonacci Operator
Faculty, Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, MN
Jon Fickenscher, B.S. University of Texas at Dallas
Self-Inverses in Rauzy Classes
Instructor, Princeton University
Thomas McGaffey, B.A. Rice University
Regularity and nearness theorems for families of local Lie groups
Instructor, San Jacinto Junior college
Shuijing Li, B.S. Univ. of Sci & Tech of China
Rational points on del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1 and 2
R&D engineer in the Intelligent Production System
Department, Baker-Hughes
Carolyn Otto, B.S. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
The (n)-Solvable Filtration of the Link Concordance Group and Milnor's Invariants
Tenure-track faculty, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Ryan Scott, B.S. (Mathematics) and B.S. (Physics) Oklahoma State University
Minimizing the mass of the codimension two skeleton for unit volume convex polyhedra
VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia
2010:
Jon Chaika, B.S. University of Iowa
Interval Exchange Transformations: Topological mixing, Hausdorff dimensions for ergodic measures and disjointness
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Andrew Elliott, B.A. Rice University, M.A. UCLA
State Cycles, Quasipositive Modification, and Constructing H-Thick Knots in Khovanov Homology
Applied Research Mathematician, Department of Defense
Helge Krüger, M.S. University of Vienna
Positive Lyapunov Exponent for Ergodic Schrödinger Operators
Simons Foundation Fellow in Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
Karoline Pershell Null, B.S. University of Tennessee, Martin
Some conditions for recognizing a 3-manifold group
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Martin
Casey Douglas, B.A. Southwestern University
Perturbed Genus One Scherk Surfaces and their Limits
Tenure track Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Ryan Dunning, B.S. Texas Christian University, M.A. Rice University
Asymptotics Under Self-Intersection for Minimizers of Self-Avoiding Energies
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX
Heather Hardway, B.S. University of Central Oklahoma
Pattern Formation in Systems of Reaction Diffusion Equations Modeling Genetic Networks
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University
Peter Horn, B.A. Hendrix College, M.A. Rice University
Higher-order Analogues of Genus and Slice Genus of Classical Knots
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University, webpage
Matthew McLelland, B.S. University of Texas at Dallas
Deformation of Symmetric Scherk Type Minimal Surfaces
Landon Jennings B.A. Rice University
Sufficient Conditions for Hamiltonian Paths
Mathematics Division Chair, Northeast Christian Academy, Houston
Jamie Jorgensen B.S. Mathematics Utah State University, B.S. Physics Utah State University
Surface Homeomorphisms that do not Extend to Any Handlebody and the Johnson Filtration
Applied Research Mathematician, Department of Defense
David Ralston B.A. Mathematics Yale University, B.A. Music Yale University
Heaviness: An Extension of a Lemma of Yuval Peres
Postdoctoral Researcher, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Matthew Simpson B.A. Haverford College
On Log Canonical Models of the Moduli Space of Stable Pointed Genus Zero Curves
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Jer-Chin (Luke) Chuang B.S. Furman University
Transgressive Chains, Harmonic Cycles, and Subdivisions
Assistant Professor, Georgia College and State University
Amanda Knecht B.S. Texas Christian University
Weak Approximation for Degree Two del Pezzo Surfaces at Places of Bad Reduction
RTG Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Eric Samansky B.S. Haverford College
Convergence of Gibbs Measures and the Behavior of Shrinking Tubular Neighborhoods of Fractals and Algebraic Sets.
Assistant Professor, Nova Southeastern University
Soomin Kim B.S. Korea University
Limits of Minimal Surfaces with Increasing Genus
Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2008
Wei Zhu B.S. University of Science and Technology, China
Minimizing and flow problems for multiple-valued functions and maps.
Postdoctoral position at ETH Zurich, webpage
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2008
James Peterson
Coordinate Scans, Compactness Properties, and Area Minimization.
Assistant Professor, Benedictine College, Kansas
Yue Wu
Applications of Rauzy Induction on the Generic Ergodic Theory of Exchange Transformations.
Financial Analyst, TPR Associates, The Woodlands, TX.
2005:
Zheng Meng B.S., M.S. Shanghai University
Geometric Variational Problems with Cross-sectional Constraints
Junior Seismic Imaging Geophysicist, Veritas DGC, Houston
Aaron Trout
Spaces with Positive Combinatorial Curvature
Assistant Professor, Chatham University,
Pittsburg, PA
Jun Zhang
Geometric Compactification of Moduli Space of Cubic Surfaces and Kirwan
Blowups
Medical statistician, University of Chicago
2004:
Carol Gwosdz-Gee B.S. University of Dallas
Strong S-equivalence of Ordered Links
Visiting Research Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Assistant Professor, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX
Aaron
Heap B.S. Texas Christian University
Bordism Invariants of the Mapping Class Group
Assistant Professor, SUNY Geneseo
Connie Leidy B.S. Tulane University
Higher-Order Lingking Forms
Rademacher Instructor, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
2003:
Christopher Earles B.S., M.S. Idaho State
University
Partial Umbilics of Hypersurfaces and Repeated Eigenvalue
Currents
Assistant Professor, Bethel College
Zheng Huang B.S., M.S. University of Sci & Tech of
China
Harmonic Maps and the Geometry of Teichmuller Space
Assistant Professor CUNY, Staten Island, NY
Robert Huff B.S. Harding University
Flat Structures, Soap Films, and Capillary Surfaces
Assistant Professor, University of Indiana, South Bend
Tatiana Marinenko Diploma, Summa Cum Laude, Herzen
Russian Pedagogical University
High Distance Splittings of 3-manifolds
Assistant Professor, University of Auckland
2002:
Scott Berger B.S. Princeton University
Edge Length Minimizing Polyhedra
Consultant, Houston, TX
Shelly Harvey B.S. California Polytechnic State
University -- San Luis Obispo
Higher-Order Polynomial Invariants of 3-Manifolds Giving Lower
Bounds for the Thurston Norm
Associate Professor, Rice University
Simon
Morgan B.A., NST, Diplom. King's College,
Cambridge University
Minimizers in Polyhedral Spaces
Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratories
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Qinglan Xia B.S. Anhui Normal University, M.S.
University of Science and Technology of China
Variational Problems in Intersection Homology Theory and Optimal
Transport
Assistant Professor, University of California at Davis
2001:
Amy Bellis B.A. College of Wooster
Using Complexity Bounds to Study Positive Heegaard
Diagrams of Genus Two
Gregory Clark B.S. Brown University, M.S.
Texas A&M University
Stable Homotopy Invariance of Teichner's sec Invariant
Instructor, Rice University
National Security Agency
Katherine Crowley B.A. St. Olaf College
Discrete Morse Theory and the Geometry of Nonpositively
Curved Simplicial Complexes
Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College
Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University
Amy Lampazzi B.S. University of Missouri,
M.S. University of Houston
Divisibility of the Conway Polynomial of Links
Lecturer, University of Houston - Clear Lake
Chun-Chi Lin B.S., M.S. National Taiwan
University
Variational Problems with Multiple-Valued Functions and
Mappings
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei,
Taiwan
2000:
Sanford Ganzell B.A. Dartmouth College
Complexity of Exotic R4's
Assistant Professor, Pomona College
Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Yuan Wang B.S. Peking University
Mathematical Modeling of Seismic Data: Multiscale
Noise Removal and Recognition Algorithm
Siebel Systems, Software Engineer
1999:
David
Handron B.A., M.S. Dartmouth
Generalized Billiard Paths and Morse Theory
for Manifolds with Corners
Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University
D. Paul Phillips B.A. Rice University
Inverse Spectral Problems with Incomplete Knowledge of the Spectrum
Associate Professor, University of Dallas
Lorette Stone B.A. University of California at Berkeley,
M. A. State University of New York at Stony Brook
Costa Cousins
1998:
Nancy Cunningham B.S. Yale
A Variational Approach to the Local Uniqueness of Immersed Minimal Surfaces in R3
Cambridge Strategic Management Group
Ashley Ledbetter B.S. Wellesley College
Energy Minimizers, Gradient Flow Solutions, and a Computational Investigation in the Theory of Biharmonic Maps
Principal, MPM Capital
Christopher Hawkins B.S. Boston College
A Minimization of a Curvature Functional on Fiber Bundles
Financial Industry, New York City
Hope McIlwain B.S. Furman University
Can You Hear the Size of Vertices? An Inverse Spectral Problem of Laplacians on Weighted Graphs
Assistant Professor, Mercer University
1997:
Igor Prokhorenkov B.S. Moscow State University
Morse-Bott Functions and the Witten Laplacian
Postdoctoral Fellow, MSRI, Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University
Paul Uhlig B.S. St. Mary's University
Extremal Eigenvalue Problems for Quasidisks and Chord-Arc Domains
Assistant Professor, St. Mary's University
1996:
Paul Bellis B.S., College of Wooster
Realization of Homology Boundary Links
Amir Gerges B.S. New College
Surgery, bordism, and Equivalence in 3-manifolds
Analyst, Trilogy Corp., Houston
Simrat Ghuman B.A. San Francisco State University
Invariants of Graphs
Jun Tian B.S. Peking University
The Mathematical Theory and Applications of Biorthogonal Coiffman Wavelet Systems
Research/Development Engineer, Digimare Corp.
Clayton Ward B.S. U.Texas, Austin
Fuchsian Groups and Polygonal Billiards
National Security Agency
Changyou Wang B.S. Peking Normal, M.S. Academy Sinica
Regularity of Minimizing Maps and Flows for Various Functionals
and Targets
Professor, University of
Kentucky
