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List of recent Ph.D. graduates

Ananthnarayan Hariharan

Graduation date: Summer 2009
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Approximating Artinian rings by Gorenstein rings and 3-standardness of the maximal ideal
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Nebraska
Current position: Same
Contact information: ananth.hariharan AT gmail.com

Kabe Moen

Graduation date: Spring 2009
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Linear and multilinear fractional operators: weighted inequalities, sharp bounds, and other properties
Thesis advisors: Rodolfo H. Torres and Carlos Perez
First job: William Chauvenet Postdoctoral Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
Current position: Same
Contact information: kabemoen AT gmail.com

Jila Niknejad

Graduation date: Spring 2009
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Some Properties of Realcompact Subspaces and Coarser Normal Spaces
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Lecturer, University of Kansas
Current position: Same
Contact information: jnik AT math.ku.edu

Lynne Christine Yengulalp

Graduation date: Spring 2009
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Coarser connected topologies and non-normality points
Thesis advisor: William Fleissner
First job: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Current position: Same
Contact information: lyengulalp AT gmail.com

Jude Kastens

Graduation date: Summer 2008
Research area: Statistics
Thesis title: Some New Developments on Two Separate Topics: Statistical Cross Validation and Floodplain Mapping
Thesis advisor: David Lerner
First job: Research Assistant Professor, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program, University of Kansas
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://www.kars.ku.edu/about/people/jkastens/jkastens.shtml

Manoj Kummini

Graduation date: Summer 2008
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Homological Invariants of Monomial and Binomial Ideals
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, Purdue University
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~nkummini/

Yasong Jin

Graduation date: Fall 2007
Research area: Stochastic Control
Thesis title: Maximum Queue Length of a Fluid Model with a Gaussian Input
Thesis advisor: Tyrone Duncan
First job: Assistant Vice President, Bank of America
Current position: Same
Contact information: jinyasong AT hotmail.com

Xiaobo Liu

Graduation date: Fall 2007
Research area: Stochastic Control
Thesis title: Some Problems in the Stochastic Portfolio Theory
Thesis advisor: Tyrone Duncan
First job: Quantitative Analyst, KBC Financial Products, Hong Kong
Current position: Same
Contact information: elxb AT hotmail.com

Ken Parker

Graduation date: Summer 2007
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Some Results in Obstruction Theory for Projective Modules
Thesis advisor: Satyagopal Mandal
First job:Teaching position for the New York City Department of Education
Current position: Same
Contact information: kparker4 AT school.nyc.gov -or- dr.ken.parker AT gmail.com

Lon Mitchell

Graduation date: Spring 2007
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Simplicity of C*-Algebras Using Unique Eigenstates
Thesis advisor: William Paschke
First job: Postdoctoral position, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematics, University of Toronto, Canada
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Contact information: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~lmitchell2/

Nathan Andrew Carlson

Graduation date: Summer 2006
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: The Hausdorff Partial Order and Non-regular Power Homogeneous Spaces
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Arizona
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://math.arizona.edu/~ncarlson/

Bahman Engheta

Graduation date: Summer 2005
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Bounds on Projective Dimension
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of California, Riverside
Current position: Wilshire Associates, Santa Monica, California
Contact information:

Diego Maldonado

Graduation date: Summer 2005
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Multilinear Singular Integrals and Quadratic Estimates
Thesis advisor: Rodolfo H. Torres
First job: Postdoctoral position, Norbert Wiener Center, University of Maryland
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Kansas State University
Contact information: http://www.math.ksu.edu/~dmaldona/

Glenn Rice

Graduation date: Summer 2005
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Asymptotic Properties of Torsion-Free Symmetric Powers of Modules
Thesis advisor: Daniel Katz
First job: Assistant professor, D'Youville College
Current position: Assistant Professor, Missouri Western State University
Contact information: http://staff.missouriwestern.edu/users/grice1/

Janet Striuli

Graduation date: Summer 2005
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Extensions of Modules and Uniform Bounds of Artin-Rees Type
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Nebraska
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://www.math.unl.edu/~jstriuli2/

Neil Epstein

Graduation date: Spring 2005
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Closure Operators in Commutative Algebra; Tight Closure, Phantom Depth, and *-Spread
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, NSF Fellow, University of Michigan
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/people/facultyDetail.php?uniqname=neilme

Giulio Caviglia

Graduation date: Summer 2004
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Kozul Algebras, Castelnuovo-Mumford Regularity and Generic Initial Ideals
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of California Berkeley and MSRI
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Purdue University (starting fall 2007)
Contact information:
http://math.berkeley.edu/index.php?module=mathvisitorman&MATHVISITOR_MAN_op=sView&MATHVISITOR_id=39

Kelly Bach

Graduation date: Fall 2003
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: A Cancellation Problem for Quantum Spheres
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Tenure-track assistant professor, Benedictine College, Kansas
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Baker University, Kansas
Contact information: Kelly.Bach AT bakeru.edu

Luis Arana

Graduation date: Fall 2003
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: The C*-Algebra of Lie Semidirect Products of the Form R^n x_a R
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Tenure-track assistant professor, Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://www.suagm.edu/suagm/une2/ciencias_facultad.aspx

Ellen Mir

Graduation date: Summer 2003
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Relative Topological Properties of Hausdorff Spaces
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Tenure-track Assistant Prof., Elon University, North Carolina
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://math.elon.edu/~emir/

Karen Braman

Graduation date: Spring 2003
Research area: Numerical Linear Algebra
Thesis title: Toward a Recursive QR Algorithm
Thesis advisor: Ralph Byers
First job: Tenure-track Assistant Prof., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://www.mcs.sdsmt.edu/kbraman/

Marian K. Hukle

Graduation date: Fall 2002
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Real and Topological Stable Rank
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Research Grant Coordinator, University of Kansas
Current position: Same
Contact information: http//www.math.ku.edu/~hukle

Yonwei Yao

Graduation date: Summer 2002
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Finite $F$-Representation Type and Primary Decomposition
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral positions MSRI and University of Michigan
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Georgia State University
Contact information: http://www.mathstat.gsu.edu/~matyxy/

Emanoil Theodorescu

Graduation date: Summer 2002
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Derived Functors and Hilbert Polynomials
Thesis advisor: Daniel Katz
First job: Postdoctoral position University of Missouri, Columbia
Current position: Actuarial sciences student
Contact information: emanoil-theodorescu AT uiowa.edu

Arpad Benyi

Graduation date: Spring 2002
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Bilinear Singular Integrals and Pseudodifferential Operators
Thesis advisor: Rodolfo H. Torres
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Massachusetts
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Western Washington University
Contact information: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~benyia/

Eric West

Graduation date: Fall 2001
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Primes Associated to Multigraded Modules
Thesis advisor: Daniel Katz
First job: Tenure-track assistant professor, Benedictine College, Kansas
Current position: Same
Contact information: ewest AT benedictine.edu

Catalin Ciuperca

Graduation date: Summer 2001
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Generalized Hilbert Coefficients and the S_2-fication of a Rees Algebra
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of California, Riverside
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, North Dakota State University
Contact information: http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/ciuperca/

Stephen D. Bond

Graduation date: Fall 2000
Research area: Scientific Computing
Thesis title: Numerical Methods for Extended Hamiltonian Systems
Thesis advisor: Benedict Leimkuhler and Brian Laird
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of California, San Diego
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Siebel Center for Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contact information: http://femto.cs.uiuc.edu/~sbond/

Mojtaba Noursalehi

Graduation date: Fall 2000
Research area: Statistics
Thesis title: Cubic Logistic Model and Dose Optimization for Binary Data
Thesis advisor: Benjamin Cobb
First job: Abbott Laboratories
Current position: Same
Contact information: mojtaba.noursalehi AT abbott.com

Mihaela Matache

Graduation date: Summer 2000
Research area: Stochastic Control
Thesis title: From Reality to Abstract in Stochastic Processes Applied to Telecommunications
Thesis advisor: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
First job: Sprint Coorporation
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Contact information: http://www.unomaha.edu/wwwmath/faculty/dmatache/dmatache.html

Peter Zimmer

Graduation date: Summer 2000
Research area: Stochastic Control
Thesis title: Numerical Approximation for the Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equation with an Application to a Neural Model
Thesis advisor: Tyrone Duncan
First job: Tenure-track assistant professor, West Chester University
Current position: Same
Contact information: http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/SCH_CAS.MAT/faculty/pzimmer.html

Lonnie Sauter

Graduation date: Summer 2000
Research area: Scientific Computing
Thesis title: Generalized Synchronism, Low-Dimensional Chaos, and Phase Coherence in Coupled Chaotic Systems
Thesis advisor: Ying-Cheng Lai
First job: Sprint Coorporation
Current position: Manager at Sprint Nextel Corporation
Contact information: Lonnie.L.Sauter AT sprint.com

Amelia Taylor

Graduation date: Spring 2000
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Initial Ideals and the Inverse Problem in Groebner Basis Theory
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff Fellow and Rutgers Univeristy
Current position: Tenure-track assistant professor, Colorado College
Contact information: http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~ataylor/

Magdalena Toda

Graduation date: Spring 2000
Research area: Differential Geometry
Thesis title: Pseudospherical Surfaces via Moving Frames and Loop Groups
Thesis advisor: Josef Dorfmeister and Constantin Udriste
First job: Postdoctoral position
Current position: Associate professor, Texas Tech University
Contact information: http://www.math.ttu.edu/~mtoda/