Degree Recipients

2009

Jacob Geerlings
Advisor: David Borthwick
Dissertation: Limit Sets of Kleinian Groups
Matthew Hausknecht
Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
Dissertation: Heuristic Based Extraction of Causal Relations from Annotated Causal Cue Phrases
Walter Askew
Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
Dissertation: Mining Disease Comorbidity from Large Textual Corpora.

Christopher Verdery
Advisor: Li Xiong
Dissertation: Preserving Privacy for Personalized Web Search

Ballas, Samuel
Advisor: David Borthwick
Dissertation: Geometrically Finite Fuchsian Groups and the Patterson-Sullivan Measure
Dennen, Tristan
Advisor: David Borthwick
Dissertation: Unitary Symmetries in Particle Physics, a First Encounter
Ensign, Jacob
Advisor: Victoria Powers
Dissertation: Vote Buying in Multi-Dimensional Preference Space
Rainwater, Sabrina
Advisor: Shanshuang Yang
Dissertation: Some Properties of Quasicircles and Symmetric Quasicircles
Stein, Solomon
Advisor: Eric Brussel
Dissertation: Generic Polynomials and Cyclic Galois Groups

Goldstein, Melissa
Advisor: Eldad Haber
Dissertation: Direct Optimization Methods for Image Registration

Belosic, Mathew
Advisor: Shun-Yan Cheung
Dissertation: Java-Sim
Chung, Julianne
Advisor: Jim Nagy
Dissertation: Filtering Methods for Image Restoration
Scoggins, Matthew
Advisor: Sun Yan Cheung
Dissertation: EXDBI: A Graphical Tool for Rapid XRDB Query Prototyping and Debugging

Friesenhahn, Vernon
Advisor: David Borthwick
Dissertation: Minimal Surfaces and Plateau's Problem
Horn, Larissa
Advisor: Eric Brussel
Dissertation: Symmetry of the Spheres

Marzilli, Alisa
Advisor: Victoria Powers
Dissertation: An Implementation of an Algorithm for Sums of Squares of Real Polynomials

Hardcastle, Asa
Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
Dissertation: The Java Audio Conferencing Tool

Bowman, Doug
Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
Dissertation: Performance Analysis of the Conch Concurrent Computing System
Nagle, Brendan
Advisor: Steven Batterson
Dissertation: A Study of Eigenvalues and Unitary Similarity

Gayer, Ted
Advisor: William Mahavier
Dissertation: Mappings on the Cantor Set and the Interval [A,B]
Ochs, Marc
Advisor: Ronald Gould
Dissertation: An Introduction to Graph Ramsey Theory
Tohamy, Noha
Advisor: William Mahavier
Dissertation: Continuity of Pointwise Limits of Continuous Functions

Fang, Chi-Yu
Advisor: Victoria Powers
Dissertation: Error-Correcting Codes and the Compact Disc System

Leung, Raymond
Advisor: Ronald Gould
Dissertation: Study of Graph Coloring Algorithms

Housworth, Elizabeth
Advisor: Steven Batterson
Dissertation: Periods of Continuous and Discontinuous One Dimensional Maps
Loeb, Alexandra
Advisor: Ronald Gould
Dissertation: Greedy Algorithms
Lorberbaum, Jeffrey Philip
Advisor: David Ford
Dissertation: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Evolution of Cooperation

Beasley, Brian
Advisor: Dwight Duffus
Dissertation: Arithmetic Properties of Algebraic Integers
Beguelin, Adam
Advisor: Kenneth Mandelberg
Dissertation: A UNIX-Macintosh Windowing System
Roseman, Joyce
Advisor: William Mahavier
Dissertation: A New Class of Cantor Sets
Sudit, Nili
Advisor: Robert Roth
Dissertation: Good Operation Tables for Finite Fields

England, Terri
Advisor: Dwight Duffus
Dissertation: Groups and Graphs: A Study of Relations
Furman, Mark
Advisor: Dwight Duffus
Dissertation: The Development and Applications of the Sylow Theorems
Ishii, Carol
Advisor: David Ford
Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Garbage Collection and Compaction Algorithms
Nuckolls, Neal
Advisor: Kenneth Mandelberg
Dissertation: Development of a Support Structure to Emulate VAX/VMS System Services under UNIX
Pepe, Kevin
Advisor: Alex Bykat
Dissertation: Implementation of a Spelling Checker and Corrector on a Microcomputer
Priest, Cynthia Jean
Advisor: Larry Riddle
Dissertation: The Safety and Accuracy of Amniocentesis: A Computer Study

Weber, Carolyn
Advisor: Ronald Gould
Dissertation: Lossless Joins in Relational Data Bases

Lyew, Raymond
Advisor: John Doyle
Dissertation: An Investigation of Z^n_2 as Base Groups of Graphical Frobenius Representations

Outlaw, Linda
Advisor: David Ford
Dissertation: Quadratic Programming: A Comparison of Two Methods
Taylor, Lee Ann
Advisor: Mary Neff
Dissertation: Conditions for a Subsemigroup of a Free Semigroup to be Free

Akao, James
Advisor: Steven Batterson
Dissertation: The Dynamics of Rayleigh Quotient Iteration on 2x2 Matrices
Bang, Bing
Advisor: David Ford
Dissertation: An Application in Mathematical Curve Fitting
Buss, Samuel
Advisor: Trevor Evans
Dissertation: The Word Problem for Groups
Coles, Patricia
Advisor: Kenneth Mandelberg
Dissertation: The Theory and Computation of Mersenne Primes

Bales, Laurence
Advisor: John Neuberger
Dissertation: Solutions for Some Ordinary Differential Equations
Boisvert, Robert
Advisor: Henry Sharp
Dissertation: Certain Relationships between Product Spaces and Their Individual Factors

Malaspina, Spiros
Advisor: Henry Sharp
Dissertation: Urysohn's Metrization Theorem
May, Rebecca
Advisor: William Mahavier
Dissertation: Characteristics of Complexes
Miller, Susan
Advisor: Joe Austin
Dissertation: Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Non-Euclidean Geometry
Smethers, Pamela Lynn
Advisor: Mary Neff
Dissertation: Free Groups and Free Semigroups
Tuttle, Keith
Advisor: Mary Neff
Dissertation: Computer Oriented Approach to Finding all Non-Isomorphic Posets on Finite Sets Containing Four, Five, and Six Elements

Shepard, Craig
Advisor: Henry Sharp
Dissertation: Topological Surfaces as Configuration Spaces of Mechanical Systems
Vogel, Sharon Beth
Advisor: Henry Sharp
Dissertation: Extensions of Banach's Fixed Point Theorem