Mathematics M.S. Degree Recipients

2009

  • Gehrke, Silke
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
  • Graf, Tobias
    Advisor: Vladimir Oliker
  • Keating, Kenneth
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
  • Nguyen, Ha
    Advisor: Victoria Powers

2008

  • Magnant, Colton
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
  • Razouk, Nader
    Advisor: Michele Benzi

2007

  • Karampataki, Maria
    Advisor: Eldad Haber

2006

  • Poerschke, Annika
    Advisor: Vojtech Rodl

2005

  • Johnson, Kiandra
    Advisor: James Nagy
    Dissertation: Face Recognition and Reconstruction Using PCA
  • Xia, Xiaofeng
    Advisor: Shanshuang Yang
    Dissertation: Sphere Preserving Embeddings in Euclidean Spaces

2004

  • Nichols, Andrew T.
    Advisor: Ryan Garibaldi
    Dissertation: A Natural Definition of Module Rank

2003

  • Koch, Hannes G.
    Advisor: Jennifer Schultens
    Dissertation: Polygonal Knot Theory
  • Model, Sebastian
    Advisor: Hamilton, Emily
    Dissertation: Groups Acting on Trees - Theory and Application
  • Phillips, Jared
    Advisor: Skip Garibaldi
    Dissertation: The existence of Left Adjoints for Functors Between Varieties
  • Rochau, Norman
    Advisor: Emily Hamilton
    Dissertation: Knots and DNA Theory
  • Stovall, Betsy
    Advisor: Steve Batterson
    Dissertation: Quasisymmetric homeomorphisms on Compact One-Dimensional Manifolds

2002

  • Hall, Jeremy
    Advisor: David Borthwick
    Dissertation: A Proof of Huber's Theorem
  • Shah, Mili
    Advisor: Michele Benzi and Emily Hamilton
    Dissertation: Traveling Wave Solutions for Contaminant Transport with Kinetic Freudlich Sorption
  • Talapatra, Aruna A.
    Advisor: Michele Benzi
    Dissertation: Block Preconditioners for Structural Mechanics Problems
  • Wittmuess, Wiebke
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: Random Regular Graphs and Contiguity
  • Wright, Ryan
    Advisor: James Nagy
    Dissertation: A Matlab Object-oriented Approach to Kronecker Product Approximation for Image Restoration

2001

  • Sulaiman, Shaariah
    Advisor: James Nagy
    Dissertation: Java Tools for Image Restoration

2000

  • Bradford, Benjamin
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: A Refinement Algorithm for Multiple Protein Sequence Alignments
  • Fiedler, Kalus
    Advisor: Andrzej Rucinski
    Dissertation: Evolution of a Random Graph From a Triangle Perspective
  • Nickel, William Joseph
    Advisor: Jennifer Schultens
    Dissertation: Knot Theory Applications in Chemistry
  • Schmidt, Benjamin
    Advisor: Eric Brussel
    Dissertation: Moduli Spaces For Riemann Surfaces
  • Szlam, Arthur David
    Advisor: Dwight Duffus
    Dissertation: Intersection Representations of Hypergraphs

1998

  • Day, Sarah
    Advisor: Steven Batterson
    Dissertation: Chaotic Dynamics on Julia Sets for the Quadratic Family
  • Hayes, Keven
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: The Feasibility of an Approximation Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem
  • Lowery, Laura Bass
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: Degree Sequences and Graph Properties
  • Novakova, Eva
    Advisor: Vojtech Rodl
    Dissertation: On Intersecting Families
  • Woloszyn, Andrzej
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: Weighted Planar Graph Separator

1997

  • Carringon-Ramsey, Doris
    Advisor: Michael Hirsch
    Dissertation: Brouwer Fixed-point Theorem

1996

  • Shapiro, Gregg
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: Algorithmic Investigations of the Traveling Salesman Problem
  • Von Tempski, Oliver
    Advisor: Vladimir Oliker
    Dissertation: On One Inverse Problem in Geometric Optics

1995

  • Shipley, Scott
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Enhancing the Efficiency of WWW Servers

1993

  • Jones, John Andrew
    Advisor: Robert Roth
    Dissertation: A Graph Theoretic Approach to Partitioning Via Baranyai's Theorem
  • Jones, Tonya Craton
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: On the Structure of Maximum Matchings of Graphs

1992

  • Moland, Gary Myron
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: A Probabilistic Approach to Finding Hamiltonian Paths in Random Graphs
  • Wright, Virginia E.
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: n-tuple Vertex Graphs

1991

  • Bogartz, Scott David
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Design and Implementation of a Distributed Groupware Application
  • Calvert, Robert
    Advisor: Chang M. Bang
    Dissertation: An Exploration of Artificial Intelligence as it Relates to Natural Language Processing, and an English Language Intervace to ANSI Standard SQL Databases

1990

  • Mahavier, William Ted
    Advisor: Vladamir Oliker
    Dissertation: A Reconstruction Algorithm for use with the Corneal Modeling System
  • McDonell, Charles Durward
    Advisor: Vojtech Rodl
    Dissertation: Bounds on the Size of Folkman Graphs, a Comparison to the Size-Ramsey Number, and a Sufficient Condition for Forb(X) to be Ramsey

1989

  • Chowdhary, Ashish
    Advisor: Vladimir Oliker
    Dissertation: A Graphics Package Using Suncore
  • Gee, Chang
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: A Graph Planarity Test
  • Standard, Wayne
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: A Comparison of 2 Algorithms for Finding Hamiltonian Cycles in Random Graphs

1988

  • Han, Myungsun
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: An Improved Context-free Recognizing and Parsing Algorithm
  • Heath, Holly Thorp
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: On the trail of Eulerian Circuits

1987

  • Bennacer DJamel
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: The Network Simplex Method
  • Cleves, Emily M.
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: Blocking Flows in Layered Networks
  • Jerkunica, Boris Marko
    Advisor: Chang Bang
    Dissertation: A Further Investigation into the Causes of Pathology in Game Trees
  • Lee, Jung-Hee Hong
    Advisor: Robert Roth
    Dissertation: Pairwise Orthogonal Orthomorphisms of Groups; A Complete Classification for Groups of Order 12
  • Lin, Chang-Kwei
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
    Dissertation: An X.25 Implementation in a UNIX Environment: A Case Study
  • Ouamrane, Mohammed
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: Relational Databases and Normal Forms
  • Sistar, Carolyn
    Advisor: Peter Winkler
    Dissertation: Graph Bisection

1986

  • Huntington, Daniel S.
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: Domination in Graph Theory
  • Kim, In-Guk
    Advisor: Chang Bang
    Dissertation: The Various Methods of Data Compression with Fixed and Variable Dictionaries

1985

  • Franke, William
    Advisor: Ken Madelberg
    Dissertation: A Unix to Unix Translator
  • Job, Vanessa Renee
    Advisor: Robert Roth
    Dissertation: Nets, Latin Squares, and Codes with Emphasis on the Code of the (6,4)-Net
  • Klazmer, Sherri Ellen
    Advisor: David Ford
    Dissertation: The Splay Tree: A Self-Adjusting Form of Binary Search Tree
  • Stephan, Peter
    Advisor: Henry Wolkowicz
    Dissertation: Linear Solutions to Quadratic Dynamic Programming Problems

1984

  • Tan, Wooi-yi
    Advisor: Alex Bykat
    Dissertation: A Critical Study of Planar Mesh Generation Techniques
  • Weber, Carolyn
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: The Graph Isomorphism Problem

1983

  • Dent, Eric
    Advisor: Peter Winkler
    Dissertation: Diagraph Addressing
  • Peters, Calvin Matthew
    Advisor: Robert Roth
    Dissertation: Orthomorphisms of Groups and Pairwise Orthogonal Latin Squares
  • Smith, Gregory
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: Search Procedures on Labeled Graphs
  • White, Billy G.
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: A Study of Selected Job Scheduling Algorithms
  • Wilson, Ernest Irvin
    Advisor: Dwight Duffus
    Dissertation: Decompositions of Ordered Sets

1982

  • Dranit, Warren
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: The Maximization of Flows in Networks
  • Hays, Donald Boyd
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: A Linear Algorithm to Test Graph Planarity

1981

  • Bang, Bing Hyong-Bae
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
    Dissertation: Implementation of Standard LISP and REDUCE to VS/9
  • Cho, Winnie Kyu-Wook
    Advisor: Luis Kramarz
    Dissertation: Algorithms for the Numerical Computation of the Null Space of a Matrix

1980

  • Arangno, Deborah C.
    Advisor: David A. Ford
    Dissertation: A Study of Duality Between Frist Category Sets and Measure Zero Sets
  • Benjamin, James Lawrence
    Advisor: Peter W. Day
    Dissertation: Operational Analysis of a UNIVAC Series 90/80
  • Malaspina, Spiros A.
    Advisor: Henry Sharp, Jr.
    Dissertation: Metric Spaces in the Lattice of Topologies
  • Outlaw, Linda Susan
    Advisor: David Ford
    Dissertation: Quadratic Programming: A comparison of Two Methods
  • Sheppard, Edward III
    Advisor: Ken Madnelberg
    Dissertation: Current Aspects of Muliprocessing

1979

  • Kaufmann, William Radcliffe
    Advisor: John Kevin Doyle
    Dissertation: A Computer Implementation of Graph Theory Algorithms
  • Noneaker, Daniel Lee
    Advisor: Chang Bang
    Dissertation: A Classification and Existence Theorem for Torsion-Free Rank One Abelian Groups with Totally Projective Primary Components

1978

  • Yianilos, Peter Nicholas
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
    Dissertation: The Definition, Computation, and Application of Symbol String Similarity Functions

1977

  • Beasley, Craig Jackson
    Advisor: J.W. Neuberger
    Dissertation: A Classification of Separable Real Hilbert Spaces
  • Smethers, Pamela
    Advisor: Trevor Evans
    Dissertation: A Survey of Different Types of Automata

1975

  • Appleson, Katherine Johnston
    Advisor: Mary F. Neff
    Dissertation: Some Results on the Ordering of Free Groups
  • Lee Michael Grenci
    Advisor: Henry Sharp, Jr.
    Dissertation: T1-Complements for T1-Topologies
  • Shalloway, M. Alan
    Advisor: David Ford
    Dissertation: Natural Category Discoverer: A Computer Program Which Discovers the Categorical Structure of Stimuli Without Feedback

1974

  • Boy, William Ralph
    Advisor: Henry Sharp Jr.
    Dissertation: Ultraspaces in the Lattice of All Topologies on a Fixed Set
  • Hall, Thomas R.
    Advisor: Henry Sharp, Jr.
    Dissertation: Topological Groups with Minimal Open Sets

1973

  • Coker, John
    Advisor: Henry Sharp, Jr.
    Dissertation: A Study of Regular Graphs
  • Durrentt, Richard
    Advisor: D.A. Ford
    Dissertation: Finite Tacti Two-Person Noncooperative Games
  • Wilson, Elizabeth
    Advisor: Mary Frances Neff
    Dissertation: Wreath Products of Semigroups, Groups and Loops
  • Woods, Carol Lee
    Advisor: Mary Frances Neff
    Dissertation: Lattices Constructed from Graphs

1972

  • Joyner, William E.
    Advisor: Jack W. Rogers, Jr.
    Dissertation: Chainable Continua
  • Nelson, Jr., Abraham
    Advisor: Harold Finkelstein
    Dissertation: CLT Groups and Their Properties
  • Sautter, Elizabeth
    Advisor: Henry Sharp, Jr.
    Dissertation: Equivalent Forms of Menger's Theorem

1971

  • Applebee, John Francis III
    Advisor: Henry Sharp Jr.
    Dissertation: A Study of alexandroff Discrete Spaces
  • Carlisle, Susan Welden
    Advisor: Mary Frances Neff
    Dissertation: On Subdirect Products, Hopfian Groups and the Word Problem for Some Groups

1969

  • Boyer, Jeane Love
    Advisor: Mary Frances Neff
    Dissertation: The Frattini Subgroup
  • Brock, Nancy
    Advisor: Henry Sharp, Jr.
    Dissertation: Squares and Square Roots in Graph Theory
  • Brownlee, Anne Henderson
    Advisor: Henry Sharp Jr.
    Dissertation: Modern Approaches to Matrizability
  • Johnson, Elizabeth Jordan
    Advisor: J. W. Rogers, Jr.
    Dissertation: A Cut-Point Preserving Compactification
  • Lee, William Yong-jeng
    Advisor: Clay C. Ross, Jr.
    Dissertation: Some Application of Matrices in Numerical Analysis

1968

  • Foley, Sharon
    Advisor: Jack W. Rogers
    Dissertation: On Metric Spaces
  • Morrison, Louise Shrider
    Advisor: Wiliam S. Mahavier
    Dissertation: Moore Spaces Which are not Continuous Semi-Metrizable
  • Strauss, Lilo Teutsch
    Advisor: David A. Ford
    Dissertation: Characterizations of Riemann Integrable Functions
  • Walker, Jr., Charles A.
    Advisor: O. Tivis Nelson
    Dissertation: Free Lattices

1967

  • Tredway, Thomas Shields
    Advisor: Jack W. Rogers, Jr.
    Dissertation: Concerning Homogenous Subsets of the X-Axis

1966

  • Astin, Janice
    Advisor: Henry Sharp Jr.
    Dissertation: A Study of Baire-Moore Theorems