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PhD Dissertations

In 1970, the department awarded its first PhD to William Haver, under the supervision of Professor Louis F. McAuley. Since then, the department has regularly awarded PhD degrees. To date, 221 PhDs have been conferred, with an average of approximately 5 dissertations added per year in recent times. Below is a list of PhD dissertations completed in our program.

YearAuthorTitleAdvisor(s)
1970William HaverCellular Mappings on ManifoldsLouis F. McAuley
1971John BaildonOpen Maps and Maps Onto Two-ManifoldsLouis F. McAuley
1971Myra ReedDecomposition Spaces and Separation PropertiesLouis F. McAuley
1971Edythe WoodruffConcerning the Condition that a Disk in E3/G be the Image of a Disk in E3Louis F. McAuley
1972Carl PixleySelection Theory for Infinite Dimensional Spaces and Continuous Single-Valued Approximations to Upper Semi-Continuous Multivalued MappingsPrabir Roy
1972Robert ReedFoundations of Vietoris Homology Theory with Applications to Non-Compact SpacesLouis F. McAuley
1973John YingRelations Between Subgroups and Quotient Groups of Finite GroupsWolfgang Kappe
1974Michael BoydProperties of Ultraproduct SpacesWilliam Transue
1974John WalshMonotone, Monotone Open, and Light Open Mappings of ManifoldsLouis F. McAuley
1975Ronald FintushelOrbit Maps of Local S1-Actions on Manifolds of Dimension Less Than FiveLouis F. McAuley
1975Richard GustafsonConstruction Algorithms for Knot Spaces Which Contain Incompressible Surfaces of Arbitrarily High GenusPrabir Roy
1975Eric RobinsonCharacterizations and Properties of Some Light-Open MappingsLouis F. McAuley
1976Diane SchmidtThe Bing Sphere Characterization and Applications of Brick PartitioningsDick Wick Hall
1977Steve DibnerHeegaard Splittings for an Infinite Family of Closed Orientable Three-ManifoldsLouis F. McAuley
1977Hari MukerjeeStochastic Approximations Using Isotonic RegressionDavid Hanson
1977Patricia WoodworthAn Analytic Approach to Problems Connected with Plane Tree EnumerationDavid Klarner
1978Gerald JungckLocal HomeomorphismsLouis F. McAuley
1979William CodyOn the Structure of the Hughes SubgroupWolfgang Kappe
1979Michael MihalikEnds of Fundamental Groups in Shape and Proper HomotopyRoss Geoghegan
1980Alan CoppolaOn p-Adic Transformation GroupsLouis F. McAuley
1980Ralph RussoA Stochastic Approximation ProcedureDavid Hanson
1981Richard BarshingerUniform Asymsptotic Expansions for Solutions to Electrostatic, Ideal Flow, and Stokes Flow Problems Exterior to Thin Oblate Body of RevolutionJames Geer
1981Deborah BrighamDiscrete Discriminant Analysis Using Log-Linear ModelsEugene Klimko
1981Timothy MastersAutomated Classification of Aerial PhotographsEugene Klimko
1981David MauroConsistency of Kaplan Meier Least Squares EstimatorsEugene Klimko
1981Gary O'BrienThe Missing Boundary Problem for Smooth Manifolds of Dimension Greater Than or Equal to SixRoss Geoghegan
1981Gene SprechiniTesting for Robustness of Certain F-Tests in the General Linear ModelEugene Klimko
1982John KavanaghExtensions of Homeomorphisms and GeneralizationsLouis F. McAuley
1983Donco DimovskiNon-Simply Connected Casson HandlesRoss Geoghegan
1983Seyedkazem MahdavianaryGroups with many subgroups two-subnormalLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1983Ronald MentonA Population Model for Linear CalibrationJohn Orban
1984L. Brian LawrenceGeneral Product SpacesPrabir Roy
1985Robert JohnsonUniform Inverse Set Convergence and Inverse LimitsLouis F. McAuley
1985Michael KellyMinimizing the Number of Fixed Points for Self-Maps of Compact SurfacesRoss Geoghegan
1985Russ MillerPyramid Computer AlgorithmsQuentin Stout
1985Abraham WenderTypes of Equilibria for Non-Deterministic EconomiesDavid Hanson
1987Robert ChamberlainGroups With Certain Finite Homomorphic Images CyclicLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1987John KuleszaDimension Theory of non-separable metric spacesLouis F. McAuley
1987Andrea NadelWeighted Least Squares Regression with Censored DataV. Susarla
1987Daniel NormolleComparing the Performance of Classification MethodsEugene Klimko
1988Marian BaumlerDose Escalation Themes for Phase I Clinical Trials for Discrete ObservationsShelemyahu Zacks
1988Benzion BoukaiOn the Change-Point Problem and Related TopicsShelemyahu Zacks
1988Jeff NordenHomeomorphisms Between Pixley-Roy SpacesLouis F. McAuley
1988Norman SpierSome Large Sample Linear and General Regression Results Under Variable CensoringV. Susarla
1989Maiwei ChenContributions to Estimation Theory of LLPD Time SeriesShelemyahu Zacks
1989Randall HolmesSystems of Combinatory Logic Related to Quine's “New Foundations”Louis F. McAuley
1990Robert F. MorseLevi Properties in GroupsLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1990George F. YehSubclasses of M-GroupsBenjamin Brewster
1991Theresa EngelDeformation and Rigidity Along Paths of ManifoldsSteve Ferry
1991Robert R. MilitelloOn the Cayley-Hamilton Property in GroupsPeter Hilton
1992Michael BaconThe Nonabelian Tensor Square and Powers of a GroupLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1992Gang LiAlmost Sure Convergence of Stochastic Approximation ProceduresDavid Hanson
1992Heather RiesTorsionfree Abelian Groups Which Are Almost Finitely-GeneratedPeter Hilton
1992Christopher SchuckSome Contributions to the Study of Nilpotent GroupsPeter Hilton
1992Leonard VanWykGraph Groups are BiautomaticCraig Squier
1993Marc BrodieFinite Coverings by SubgroupsLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1993John HarrisonThe Dynamics of Piecewise Endomorphisms of Finitely Generated Free MonoidsTom Head
1993Natasa JonoskaSynchronizing Representations of Sofic SubshiftsTom Head
1993Jeffrey Scott ReitzAn Approximation to the Bayes Estimate of a Time-Varying Parameter VectorShelemyahu Zacks
1994Boris OkunNon-zero degree tangential maps between dual symmetric spacesThomas Farrell
1994Mike WeinerBosonic Construction of Vertex Operator Para-Algebras from Symplectic Affine Kac-Moody AlgebrasAlex Feingold
1995James BabbEstimating Change Points in Linear and Non-Linear Time SeriesShelemyahu Zacks
1995Victor BrunsdenCohomology, Local Rigidity, and Fixed PointsThomas Farrell
1995Matthew FisherTwo-groups with a Self-centralizing elementWolfgang Kappe
1995David GarrisonSubnormality Conditions in Metabelian GroupsLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1995David HarrisThe Mapping Class Group of a Rotation DomainDennis Pixton
1995Mile KrajcevskiTilings of the plane, and hyperbolic groups.Ross Geoghegan and Craig Squier
1995Elizabeth LamprechtA Bernoulli One-Armed Bandit Problem Involving a ChangepointShelemyahu Zacks
1995Gary RadunsErogodic Decompositions and Sweeping in Riesz SpacesRadu Zaharopol
1996Francisco Fernandez-LasherasFake surfaces, thickenings and cohomology of groupsRoss Geoghegan
1997Manuel CardenasLocalization For Exact CategoriesErik Kjær Pedersen
1997Elizabeth GumustopVarieties of Codes and Codifiable Varieties of MonoidsFernando Guzman
1997Thomas KimberSystem Permutability in Finite Solvable GroupsBenjamin Brewster
1997Karl LorensenLocal-Global Principles for Nilpotent Group ExtensionsPeter Hilton
1997Douglas MennellaA Comparison of Steenrod Homology TheoriesErik Kjær Pedersen
1997Tom PlavchakA Polyhedral Transversality Theorem For One-Parameter Fixed Point TheoryRoss Geoghegan
1997Patrick RatchfordOn Centralizer-like SubgroupsLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1997Shashidhar UpadhyayBounding Questions for Almost Flat ManifoldsThomas Farrell
1997Xiaodong WangContribution to Dynamical SystemsShelemyahu Zacks
1998Steve PaganoSeparability and Representability of Bias Matroids of Signed GraphsThomas Zaslavsky
1998Denise ReboliOn Generalized Hamiltonian GroupsLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1998Ranja RoyIntegrality Questions for Virtual SignatureThomas Farrell
1998Norhaniza SarminOn Two-Generator Groups of Nilpotency Class Two and their Nonabelian Tensor SquaresLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1998Matthew VisscherOn the Nonabelian Tensor Product of GroupsLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1998Arthur WeinbergerReducing Fuzzy Algebra to Classical AlgebraTom Head
1998Qinhai ZhangOn Abnormal Subgroups of Finite GroupsBenjamin Brewster
1999James BeuerleMetacyclic Groups and their Nonabelian Tensor SquaresLuise-Charlotte Kappe
1999Elizabeth LaunConstants and Splicing SystemsTom Head and Dennis Pixton
2000Sergio Ardanza-TrevijanoExotic Smooth Structures on Non-Locally Symetric Negatively Curved ManifoldsThomas Farrell
2000Joseph EvanPermutability in Direct Products of Finite GroupsBenjamin Brewster
2000Daniel FarleyFiniteness and CAT(0) Properties of Diagram GroupsRoss Geoghegan
2000Daniel SlilatyOrientations of Biased Graphs and Their MatroidsThomas Zaslavsky
2000Joanna SuHomotopy Theory of ModulesPeter Hilton
2000Zoran SunikOn a Class of Periodic Spinal Groups of Intermediate GrowthFernando Guzman
2000Shaohua YuConsistency of GMLE with Multivariate Mixed IC DataQiqing Yu
2001John BestOn 3/2-Transitive GroupsBenjamin Brewster
2001Jeffrey ForresterEfficient Estimation of the Regression Parameter in a Heteroscedastic Regression Model Where Heteroscedasticity is Modeled as a function of the mean responseAnton Schick
2001Daniel GhezziEstimation of and confidence intervals for the common variance of correlated normal random variablesShelemyahu Zacks
2001William HooperEfficient Estimation of Transformation Parameters in Nonparametric RegressionAnton Schick
2001Fred KluempenOn the power structure of finite p-groupsLuise-Charlotte Kappe
2001Hanxiang PengEfficient Estimation of Linear Functionals of a Bivariate Probability with Equal MarginalsAnton Schick
2001Dirk SchuetzTorsion properties of the Novikov complexRoss Geoghegan
2002Dan ClouseA Dual Representation of Boolean Semirings In a Category of Structured Topological SpacesFernando Guzman
2002Gary GreenfieldVariance Estimation After Using the Chow-Robbins Stopping Rule to Determine a Fixed Width Confidence Interval For the Mean of a Normal DistributionFallShelemyahu Zacks
2002Matthew HanerRandom Designs in Factorial Experiments For Estimation And SearchingShelemyahu Zacks
2002David H. RosenthalSplitting With Continuous Control In Algebraic K-TheoryErik Kjær Pedersen
2002Steven TedfordA Characterization of the Mixed Branching GreedoidThomas Zaslavsky
2003John DonnellyProperties of Richard Thompson's group F related to amenabilityMatthew G. Brin
2003Ivonne OrtizThe Lower Algebraic K-theory of Gamma_3Thomas Farrell
2003Joe PetrilloThe Cover-Avoidance Property in Finite GroupsBenjamin Brewster
2003Xueqin WangThe Properties of the Theil-Sen EstimatorQiqing Yu
2004Marlo BrownDetection of Change-Points in Categorical DataShelemyahu Zacks
2004Nicholas KobanControlled Topology Invariants of Translation ActionsRoss Geoghegan
2004Lori KobanTwo Generalizations of Biased Graph Theory: Circuit Signatures and Modular Triples of Matroids, and Biased Expansions of Biased GraphsThomas Zaslavsky
2004Omar SaldarriagaFusion Algebras, Symmetric Polynomials, Orbits of Elementary N-Groups, and Rank-Level DualityAlex Feingold
2004Ron SperberA Comparison of Assembly Maps in Algebraic K-TheoryErik Kjær Pedersen
2005Collin BleakSolvability in Groups of Piecewise Linear Homeomorphisms of the Unit IntervalMatthew G. Brin
2005Rigoberto FlorezFour Studies in the Geometry of Biased GraphsThomas Zaslavsky
2005Fanhui KongAsymptotic Distributions of Buckley-James EstimatorQiqing Yu
2005Joshua PalmatierM-Zeroids: Structure and Categorical EquivalencesFernando Guzman
2006Olga Salazar-DiazThompson's Group V From A Dynamical ViewpointMatthew G. Brin
2006Joseph SmithGroups whose normalizers form a chainBenjamin Brewster
2006Yishi WangSome New Tests for NormalityMiguel Arcones
2007Risto AtanasovGroups of Geometric Dimension 2Ross Geoghegan
2007Cuixian ChenAsymptotic Properties of the Buckley-James Estimator for a Bivariate Interval Censorship Regression ModelQiqing Yu
2007Jichang DuCovariate-matched estimator of the error variance in nonparametric regressionAnton Schick
2007Tom KleinFiltered ends of pairs of groupsRoss Geoghegan
2007John LoftusPowers of Words in Language FamiliesTom Head
2007Gabriela MendozaOn some minimality conditions involving elements of prime order in a group GLuise-Charlotte Kappe
2008Leandro JunesDuality of Higher Order Non-Euclidean Property for Oriented MatroidsLaura Anderson
2008Silvia Millan-VosslerThe Whitehead Group and the Lower Algebraic K-Theory of Braid Groups on S2 and RP2Thomas Farrell
2008Seshendra PallekondaBounded Category of an Exact CategoryErik Kjær Pedersen
2008Peggy SullivanDNA Computing with Cutting, Pasting, Filtering and WashingDennis Pixton
2008Nigar TuncerGlobalization Theorems in TopologyPatricia McAuley
2008Bronlyn WassinkSubgroups of R. Thompson's Group F that are Isomorphic to FMatthew G. Brin
2009Garry BowlinMaximum Frustration of Bipartite Signed GraphsThomas Zaslavsky
2009Ilir SnopceLie Methods on Pro-p GroupsMarcin Mazur
2009Jiaping WangThe Generalized MLE with the Censored and Masked Competing Risks DataQiqing Yu
2010Keith JonesControlled Connectivity for Cocompact Isometric Actions on Simplicial TreesRoss Geoghegan
2010Gina KucinskiDuality for the Algebra of Conditional LogicFernando Guzman
2010Lucas RusnakOriented HypergraphsThomas Zaslavsky
2010Viji ThomasThe Box-Tensor Product: A Generlization of the Nonabelian Tensor ProductFernando Guzman and Luise-Charlotte Kappe
2010Elizabeth WilcoxComplete Finite Frobenius Groups and Wreath ProductsBenjamin Brewster
2010Peng ZhangPrediction in heteroskedastic autoregressive modelsAnton Schick
2011Yu-Ting HsuStatistical Analysis of Firm Interdependence Using Duration DataQiqing Yu
2011Dandrielle LewisContainment of subgroups in a direct product of groupsBenjamin Brewster
2011Xiao XiaoInvariants of F-crystalsAdrian Vasiu
2012Adriano DeOliveiraA Geometric Version of the Twisted Nil-GroupsPedro Ontaneda
2012Dina HanerOn Two-Stage and Three-Stage Sampling Procedures for Fixed-Width Interval Estimation of the Common Variance of Correlated Normal Random VariablesShelemyahu Zacks
2012Martha KilpackThe Lattice of Closure Operators and the Algebraic Lattice of Algebraic Closure OperatorsFernando Guzman
2012Jiahui LiNonparametric Estimation with Right-Censored and Masked Competing Risks DataQiqing Yu
2012Quincy LoneyDecomposition of Level-1 Representations of D4(1) With Respect to its Subalgebra G2(1) in the Spinor ConstructionAlex Feingold
2012Nathan ReffGain Graphs, Group-Oriented Hypergraphs, and MatricesThomas Zaslavsky
2012Cristina SalvianoThe Index Space of a GeodesicPedro Ontaneda
2013Fatima JaafariAdaptive Method for Estimating The Mean of a Finite PopulationShelemyahu Zacks
2013Jackie KaminskiClassification of Factored Gain-Graphic Hyperplane ArrangementsThomas Zaslavsky
2013Christopher MaurielloBranching Rule Decomposition of Irreducible Level-1 E6(1)-modules with respect to F4(1)Alex Feingold
2013Barry MinemyerIsometric Embeddings of PolyhedraPedro Ontaneda
2013Adam PerryModular subgroups and related transitive algebraic relations in direct products of finite groups.Benjamin Brewster
2013Amanda RuizRealization Spaces of Phased MatroidsLaura Anderson
2013Yifan XuOn First Crossing Times of Mixed Compound Poisson Processes Under Various Boundary Conditions with Applications in Queuing and Risk TheoriesShelemyahu Zacks
2013Can ZhangTwo-Stage and Sequential Procedures for the Behrens-Fisher ProblemShelemyahu Zacks
2014Ryan McCullochThe Chermak-Delgado Lattice of Finite GroupsBenjamin Brewster
2014Slobodan TanusevskiGeneralized Thompson GroupsMarcin Mazur
2014Xiaolei WuFarrell-Jones Conjecture for the Solvable Baumslag-Solitar GroupsThomas Farrell
2015Ding DingCanonical Barsotti - Tate Groups of Level mAdrian Vasiu
2015Wenyu DuAccurate and efficient numerical performance evaluation of the Generalized Shiryaev-Roberts procedure for quickest change-point detection.Aleksey Polunchenko
2015Jinghao LiPurity Results on F-crystalsAdrian Vasiu
2015Qiyi LuLearning Partially Labeled Data in the High-dimensional, Low-sample Size SettingXingye Qiao
2015Gangotryi SorcarNon Triviality of the Fundamental Group of the Teichmuler Space of Negatively Curved Metrics of a Non-Locally Symmetric Negatively Curved ManifoldThomas Farrell
2016Nan BiEmpirical Likelihood for a Class of Semiparametric Regression ModelsAnton Schick
2016Mauricio BustamanteOn the topology of the space of pinched negatively curved metrics with finite volume and identical endsThomas Farrell and Pedro Ontaneda
2016Qinggang DiaoCox Proportional Hazards Model with Time-Dependent CovariatesQiqing Yu
2016Diego PentaDecomposition of the Rank 3 Kac-Moody Lie Algebra F with Respect to the Rank 2 Hyperbolic Subalgebra FibAlex Feingold
2016Yilin ZhuEstimation of the Error Distribution in a Varying Coefficient Regression ModelAnton Schick
2017Jeremy HauzeRestrictions on potential automatic structures on Thompson's group FMatthew G. Brin
2017Simon JoyceInteraction Graphs Derived From Activation Functions and Their Application to Gene RegulationThomas Zaslavsky
2017Andrew KelleyMaximal subgroup growth of some groupsMarcin Mazur
2017Alexander SchaeferPermutable Matchings and Negative Cycle VectorsThomas Zaslavsky
2017Amanda TaylorLocally solvable subgroups of PLo(I)Matthew G. Brin
2018Richard BehrEdge Coloring and Special Edges of Signed GraphsThomas Zaslavsky
2018Eran CrockettOn a Class of Nilpotent AlgebrasFernando Guzman
2018Junyi DongMarginal Distribution Method for Checking Regression Model AssumptionQiqing Yu
2018Xiaojie DuInference in Linear Regression with Symmetric Errors: An Empirical Likelihood ApproachAnton Schick
2018Binbin HuangOn a Pseudodifferential Calculus with Modest Boundary ConditionPaul Loya
2018Ruiqi LiuIdentification and estimation in panel models with over specified number of groupsAnton Schick
2018Patrick MilanoMixed Ghost SpaceAlexander Borisov
2018Rachel SkipperOn a generalization of the Hanoi towers groupMarcin Mazur
2018Ting SuExtensions of Matroids Over Tracts and Doubly Distributive Partial HyperfieldsLaura Anderson
2018Adam WeisblattGeometric techniques for Laplace and Dirac OperatorsPaul Loya
2019Kyle BayesIndex Theorem for Closed GeodesicsPedro Ontaneda
2019Joseph CyrSubdirectly Irreducible Binary ModesFernando Guzman
2019Chen LiangGoodness-of-fit Tests for Spatial Cluster Point Process ModelsXingye Qiao and Ganggang Xu
2019Kunal SharmaAdiabatic Limit of Calderon Projector on Manifold with Cylindrical EndPaul Loya
2019Wenbo WangSet-Valued Classification Via Confidence Set LearningXingye Qiao
2019Lin YaoJames-Stein-Type Optimal Weight Choice for Frequentist Model Average EstimatorXingye Qiao and Ganggang Xu
2019Changwei ZhouSome Results on Arakelov Theory of Arithmetic SurfacesAlexander Borisov
2020Yinsong ChenCounting and Sampling Ribbon Tilings of RectanglesVladislav Kargin
2020Charles (Matt) EvansSpectral Properties of Commutative BCK-AlgebrasFernando Guzman
2020Yuan FangModel-based Clustering Approaches For Non-Gaussian DataSanjeena Dang
2020Amelia MatternDeficiency in Signed GraphsThomas Zaslavsky
2020Haomiao MengMachine Learning Methods on Selected Topics of Precision MedicineXingye Qiao
2020Theodore OfnerWarped Product Constructions Relating to Graphs of GroupsPedro Ontaneda
2021Kexuan LiOn the Characteristics of the Generalized Shiryaev-Roberts Procedure for Quickest Change-Point Detection in Continuous TimeAleksey Polunchenko
2021Wangshu TuModel-based clustering approaches for microbiome dataSanjeena Dang
2022Olakunle AbawonseOn the topology of flags of oriented matroids & spaces of flattenings of spheresLaura Anderson
2022Ulysses AlvarezOn the topology of corank 1 tropical phased matroidsLaura Anderson and Ross Geoghegan
2022Joshua CareyBranching rule decomposition of the level-1 $E_8^{(1)}$-module with respect to the irregular subalgebra $F_4^{(1)} \oplus G_2^{(1)}$Alex Feingold
2022Mengyu ChenAn Empirical Likelihood Approach with Bivariate DataAnton Schick
2022Zachary CostanzoFields of values of characters of finite groupsHung Tong-Viet
2022Jonathan DoaneBoolean twice monoidsFernando Guzman
2022Christopher EppolitoMatroids: Mystic Monoliths, Meta Missiles, and Myopic MeadowsThomas Zaslavsky and Laura Anderson
2022Shaofei ZhaoTheory and application about variable selection approaches for high dimensional genomic dataGuifang Fu
2023Pat CarneyApplication of the Theory of Farey Fractions to the Combinatorics of Some Compactifications of the Affine PlaneAlexander Borisov
2023Nicholas LacasseSigned Graphs & Gain Graphs:Packing, Root Systems,Alcoves & ArrangementsThomas Zaslavsky
2023Sarah LamoureuxArithmetic Differential Operators on Compact DVRsAdrian Vasiu
2024Michael GottsteinPartitions and Gain GraphsThomas Zaslavsky
2024Shiyi MaContinuity of Curve Shortening Flow and Enumeration of NervesMichael Dobbins
2024Sayak SenguptaIteration of Polynomials over IntegersAlexander Borisov and Adrian Vasiu
2024Zhou WangSet-valued Classification and Conformal Prediction in Out-of-distribution Detection and Bandit Feedback SettingsXingye Qiao
2024Zengyan ZhangNumerical Approximations and Model Order Reduction for Phase Field Equations with Application in Cellular DynamicsJia Zhao

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