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Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. in Mathematics

2010

Enver Karadayi

  • Dissertation: Topics in Random Knots and R-Matrices from Frobenius Algebras
  • Advisor: M. Saito

Kevin P. Wagner

  • Dissertation: A Generalized Acceptance Urn Model
  • Advisor: S. Suen

2009

Angela Angeleska

  • Dissertation: Combinatorial Models for DNA Rearrangements in Ciliates
  • Advisors: N. Jonoska and M. Saito

Elliot M. Findley

  • Dissertation: Fine Asymptotics of Christoffel Functions and Universality for Szegö Weights in the Complex Plane
  • Advisor: V. Totik

2008

Irena Andreevska

  • Dissertation: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Options With Jump-Diffusion Volatility
  • Advisor: Y. You

Rodney M. Taylor

  • Dissertation: Lagrange Interpolation on Leja Points
  • Advisor: V. Totik
  • First Position Daytona State College

2007

Dhruba R. Adhikari

  • Dissertation: Applications of Degree Theories to Nonlinear Operator Equations in Banach Spaces
  • Advisor: A. G. Kartsatos
  • First Position: Mississippi University for Women

Ibtisam Daqqa

  • Dissertation: Subconstituent Algebras of Latin Squares
  • Advisor: B. Curtin

John C. Davis, III

  • Dissertation: Identification of Parameters When the Density of the Minimum is Given
  • Advisor: A. Mukherjea

Daniela Genova

  • Dissertation: Forbidding and Enforcing of Formal Languages, Graphs and Partially-Ordered Sets
  • Advisor: N. Jonoska
  • First Position: University of North Florida

Boubakari Ibrahimou

  • Dissertation: The Leray-Schauder Approach for the Topological Degree of Perturbed Maximal Monotone Operators
  • Advisor: A. Kartsatos

Michiru Shibata

  • Dissertation: Pricing Models and Analysis of Corporate Coupon-Bonds and Credit Default Swaptions
  • Advisor: Y. You

Ana Staninska

  • Dissertation: A Theoretical Model for Self-assembly of Flexible Tiles
  • Advisors: N. Jonoska and G. McColm

2006

Kheira Ameur

  • Dissertation: Polynomial Quandle Cocycles, Their Knot Invariants and Applications
  • Advisor: M. Saito

Edgardo S. Cureg

  • Dissertation: Some Problems in Production of Random Matrices
  • Advisor: A. Mukherjea

Jemal E. Gishe

  • Dissertation: Finite Family of Orthogonal Polynomials and Resultants of Chebyshev Polynomials
  • Advisor: M. E.-H. Ismail
  • First position: William Penn University

Joseph O. Quarcoo

  • Dissertation: Contributions to the Degree Theory for Perturbations of Maximal Monotone Operators
  • Advisor: A. Kartsatos

Joni B. Pirnot

  • Dissertation: Recognizable Languages Defined by Two-Dimensional Shift Spaces
  • Advisor: N. Jonoska

2005

Ferenc Tookos

  • Dissertation: Hölder Continuity of Green's Functions
  • Advisor: V. Totik

Djiby Fall

  • Dissertation: Longtime Dynamics of Hyperbolic Evolutionary Equations in Unbounded Domains and Lattice Systems
  • Advisor: Y. You
  • First Position: Jackson State University

David E. Kephart

  • Dissertation: Topology, Morphism, and Randomness on the Space of Formal Language
  • Advisor: N. Jonoska

Norbert N. Youmbi

  • Dissertation: Contributions to Harmonic Analysis and Probability Theory on Semihypergroups
  • Advisor: A. Mukherjea
  • First Position: St. Francis University

2004

Kalpana Mahalingam

Hasan H. Al-Najjar

2003

Ahmed Y. Abdallah

  • Dissertation: Global Dynamics of Damped Boussinesq Equations
  • Advisor: Y. You
  • Current Position: University of Jordan

2002

Marina Appiou-Nikiforou

  • Dissertation: Extensions of Quandles and Cocycle Knot Invariants
  • Advisor: M. Saito
  • First Position: Cyprus College

2001

David P. Benko

  • Dissertation: Approximation by Weighted Polynomials
  • Advisor: V. Totik
  • First Position: Texas A&M University
  • Current Position: University of South Alabama

Viktor Maymeskul

  • Dissertation: On Some Problems in Complex and Multivariate Approximation and Interpolation
  • Advisor: E. B. Saff
  • First Position: USF
  • Current Position: ?

2000

Ming Dai

  • Dissertation: Identification of the Parameters of a Multivariate Normal Distribution by the Distribution of Maximum
  • Advisor: A. Mukherjea
  • First Position: University of Pennsylvania

Daniel D. Jelsovsky

  • Dissertation: Quandle Cohomology and State-Sum Invariants of Knots
  • Advisor: M. Saito
  • First Position: Florida Southern College

1999

Ivan Ivanov

  • Dissertation: Linear Discrete Operators and Recovery in Uniform Algebras
  • Advisors: B. Shekhtman and E. Rakhmanov
  • First Position: Syracuse University
  • Last Known Position: Texas A&M University

1998

Lubomir P. Markov

  • Dissertation: An L²-Approach to Second Order Functional Evolutions in Banach Spaces
  • Advisor: A. G. Kartsatos
  • First Position: Winston Academy
  • Current Position: Barry University

1997

Peter D. Dragnev

  • Dissertation: Constrained Energy Problems for Logarithmic Potentials
  • Advisor: E. B. Saff
  • First Position: Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft. Wayne

Jing Lin

  • Dissertation: Homotopy Invariance of Time-Dependent Domains and Perturbation Theory for Nonlinear Operators in Banach Spaces
  • Advisor: A. G. Kartsatos

Jifeng Ma

  • Dissertation: Spectrum of Some Integral Operators
  • Advisor: M. E.-H. Ismail

Plamen C. Simeonov

  • Dissertation: Weighted Polynomial and Rational Approximation With Varying Weights
  • Advisors: E. B. Saff and V. Totik
  • First Position: Ohio State University
  • Current Position: University of Houston-Downtown

1996

Sergey V. Belyi

  • Dissertation: Operator-Valued R-Functions in the Theory of Linear Dynamic Systems
  • Advisor: A. G. Kartsatos
  • First Position: Troy State University

Zouhua Ding

  • Dissertation: Contributions to the Theory of the Existence of Zeros of Perturbations of Nonlinear M-Accretive Operators in Banach Spaces
  • Advisor: A. G. Kartsatos
  • Current Position: Zhejing Sci-Tech University

Subhankar Dhar

  • Dissertation: Probability Measures on Stochastic Matrices
  • Advisor: A. Mukherjea
  • First Position: PdMA Corporation
  • Current Position: San Jose State University

Mohamed A. Elnaggar

  • Dissertation: Identification of the Parameters of a Multivariate Normal Distribution by the Distribution of the Minimum
  • Advisor: A. Mukherjea
  • First Position: United Arab Emirates University

Michael Q. Rieck

  • Dissertation: Pseudo-Orthogonal Complementary Subspaces and Hyperbolic Partner Graphs
  • Advisor: W. E. Clark
  • First Position: Rhodes College
  • Current Position: Drake University

Vladimir F. Veselov

  • Dissertation: A Compactification of the Fatou Mapping as a Dynamical System
  • Advisors: R. W. Oberste-Vorth and J. H. Hubbard
  • First Position: Cornell University

1995

Guoqui Lu

  • Dissertation: Markov Processes With Random Transition Probabilities
  • Advisor: A. Mukherjea
  • First Position: The College of West Virginia

Igor Pritsker

  • Dissertation: Convergence and Zero Distribution of Laurent-Type Rational Functions
  • Advisor: E. B. Saff
  • First Position: Kent State University
  • Current Position: Oklahoma State University

Margaret A. Yoder

  • Dissertation: String Rewriting Applied to Problems in the Braid Groups
  • Advisor: J. F. Pedersen
  • First Position: Eastern Kentucky University

Yanmu Zhou

  • Dissertation: Arrangement of Points on the Sphere
  • Advisor: E. B. Saff
  • First Position: Northwestern University

1992

Tony Y. Chang

  • Dissertation: Domination Numbers of Grid Graphs
  • Advisor: W. E. Clark
  • Current Position: Rouge Steel Company