Congratulations to the 157 EDGErs who have earned the Ph.D. degree:
Susan D'Agostino (E98), Dartmouth College, 2003. Dissertation: Classifying Additive Codes
Rachelle DeCoste (E98), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2004. Dissertation: Density of Closed Geodesics in a Compact Nilmanifold with Chevalley Rational Structure
Farrah Jackson Ward (E99), North Carolina State University, 2005. Dissertation: Characterization of Involutions on SP(2n,k)
Jill Jordan (E99), Bryn Mawr College, 2006. Dissertation: Generating Family Invariants for Legendrian Links
Carla Cotwright (E01), University of Mississipi, 2006; 2012-2013 AMS Congressional Fellow. Dissertation: Clones and Minors in Matroids
Irene Moshesh (E99), Howard University, 2006. Dissertation: Image Partition Regularity of Affine Transformations
Kamilla Larripa (E01), University of California, Davis, 2006. Dissertation: Transport of a 1D viscoelastic actin– myosin strip of gel as a model of a crawling cell
Emille Davie (E01), University of Georgia, 2007. Dissertation: Characterizing right-veering homeomorphisms of the punctured torus via the Burau representation
Nathan Vierling-Claassen (E02), Boston University, 2007. Dissertation: Modeling Cortical Rhythms in Schizophrenia: Neuronal Recruitment and Suppression
Talithia Daniel Williams (E00), Rice University, 2007. Dissertation: Spatial Temporal Modeling and Bias Estimation of Radar in Rainfall Estimation
Alison Marr (E02), Southern Illinois University, 2007. Dissertation: Labelings of Directed Graphs
Heather Schlotthauer (E02), University of Notre Dame, 2007. Dissertation: Well-posedness and regularity for a higher order periodic mKdV equation
Jennifer Vasquez (E01), Indiana University, 2007.
Amy Marinello Finkbiner (E02), University of Maryland, 2007. Dissertation: Global phenomena from local rules: Peer-to-peer networks
Miriam Freedman (E00), University of Chicago (Chemistry), 2008.
Juliana Belding (E03), University of Maryland, 2008. Dissertation: Number Theoretic Algorithms for Elliptic Curves
Raegan Higgins (E02), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008. Dissertation: Oscillation Theory of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales
Omayra Ortega (E01), University of Iowa, 2008. Dissertation: Models of Rotavirus with Coinfection and Vaccination
Sheena Branton (E04), University of Houston, 2008. Dissertation: Sub-actions for Young Towers
Tiffany Troutman (E03), University of California, Riverside, 2008. Dissertation: Infinity-Harmonic Functions, Maps, and Morphisms of Riemannian Manifolds
Stacy Fonstad (E04), University of Notre Dame, 2009
Michelle Craddock Guinn (E04), University of Mississippi, 2009
Laurel Miller-Sims (E04), McMaster University, 2009. Dissertation: Definite Forms in Valued Fields
Chandra Erdman (E02), Yale University, 2009. Dissertation: Bayesian change point analysis with applications to microarray data
Alejandra Alvarado (E02), Arizona State University, 2009. Dissertation: Arithmetic Progressions on Curves
Christine Gregory (E03), University of Delaware (Math Education), 2009
Karoline Pershell (E03), Rice University, 2009. Dissertation: Some conditions for recognizing a 3-manifold group
Sarah Bryant (E02), Purdue University, 2009. Dissertation: Path and Spectral Properties of Certain Lévy Processes
Monique Taylor (E03), North Carolina State University, 2009
Erin Benander (E04), University of Kentucky, 2010. Dissertation: Lp Bounded Point Evaluations for Polynomials and Uniform Rational Approximation
Andrea Roberson (E99), Stony Brook (Statistics) , 2010. Dissertation: A comparison of Hidden Markov Model based programs for detection of copy number variation in array comparative genomic hybridization data
Christine Berkesch (E04), Ph.D. Purdue, 2010. Dissertation: Euler–Koszul Homology in Algebra and Geometry
Ellen Swanson (E06), Ph.D. North Carolina State, 2010. Dissertation: Flow of Thin Liquid Films with Surfactant: Analysis, Numerics and Experiment
Heather Harrington (E06), Ph.D. Imperial College, London, 2010. Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Cellular Decisions: Investigating Immune Response And Apoptosis
Suzanne Galayda (E04), Ph.D. New Mexico State, 2010. Dissertation: Effect of the diffusion coefficient on noise expression in the logistic equations and single microbe model of the chemostat
Martene Stanberry (E05), Ph.D. North Carolina State, 2010
Torina Lewis (E08), Ph.D. University of Mississippi, 2010. Dissertation: Bicircular Matroids with Circuits of at Most Two Sizes
Carolyn Otto (E06), Rice University, 2011. Dissertation: The (n)-Solvable Filtration of the Link Concordance Group and Milnor's Invariants
Amber Sallerson Jackson (E03), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2011. Dissertation: Multiscale Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media Using the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory Approach
Shelby Wilson (E06), University of Maryland – College Park, 2012. Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Immune Regulation and Cancer Vaccines
Raquel Lopez (E05), Arizona State University, 2012. Dissertation: Integrability of Quadratic Non-autonomous Quantum Linear Systems
Karen McCready (E06), Lehigh University, 2012. Dissertation: Sharpness of exponent bounds for SU(n)
Erica Graham (E06), University of Utah, 2012. Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Mechanisms Underlying Long-Term Type 2 Diabetes Progression
Sarah Bleiler-Baxter (E06), University of South Florida, 2012. Dissertation: Team-Teaching Experiences of a Mathematician and a Mathematics Teacher Educator: An Interpretative Phenomenological Case Study
Carmen Wright (E06), University of Iowa, 2012. Dissertation: Some representation theory of Sl*(2,O/p2) where * is the identity and Sl*(2,M2(O/p2)) where * equals transpose
Caroline Ramirez-Faghih (E03), University of California, Davis, 2012. Dissertation: Fostering Change in College Students' Statistical Reasoning and Motivation through Statistical Investigation
Marisa Hughes (E05), Cornell University, 2013. Dissertation: Quotients Of Spheres By Linear Actions Of Abelian Groups
Kathleen Ryan (E08), Lehigh University, 2013. Dissertation: Degree Sequences of Edge Colored graphs in Specified Families and Related Problems
Jackie Kaminski (E05), Binghamton University, 2013. Dissertation: Classification of Factored Gain-Graphic Hyperplane Arrangements
Grace Kennedy (E06), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013. Dissertation: Planar Algebras and Knot Invariants
Elizabeth Teeple (E99), University of Washington, 2013
Jamye Curry (E09), University of Mississippi, 2014. Dissertation: Rank-based Two Sample Tests Under a General Alternative
Corrine Johnson (E09), Colorado State University, 2014. Dissertation: The D-Neighborhood Complex of a Graph
Nakeya Williams (E08), North Carolina State University, 2014. Dissertation: Mathematical Modeling of Cardiovascular Dynamics During Head-Up Tilt
Casey Monday (E08), University of Kentucky, 2014. Dissertation: A Characterization of Serve Classes of Reflective Modules over a Complete Local Noetherian Ring
Priya Prasad (E08), University of Arizona, 2014. Dissertation: Connection, Motivation, & Alignment: Exploring the Effects of Content-Based Mathematical Professional Development
Alyssa Hoofnagle (E09), North Carolina State University, 2014. Dissertation: Demazure Crystals for the Quantum Affine Algebra Uq(D4(3))
Sarah Khasawinah (E09), Johns Hopkins University, 2014. Dissertation: Brain Connectivity and Neurocognitive Health in Older Adults: the Baltimore Experience Corps Trial Brain Health Study
Deidra A. Coleman (E04), North Carolina State University, 2015. Dissertation: Advances in Significance Testing for Cluster Detection
Karamatou Yacoubou Djima (E08), University of Maryland, 2015. Dissertation: Multiscale Analysis and Diffusion Semigroups with Applications
Amy Buchmann (E10), University of Notre Dame, 2015. Dissertation: Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Bacterial Motility and Swarming
Melissa Ngamini (E09), North Carolina State University, 2015. Dissertation: Nonlinear Filtering Problems for Systems Governed by PDE's
Molly Moran (E09), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2015. Dissertation: On the Dimension of Group Boundaries
Arielle Leitner (E09), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015. Dissertation: Limits Under Conjugacy of the Diagonal Cartan Subgroup in SL(n,R)
Anisah Nu'man (E09), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2015. Dissertation: Tame Filling Functions and Closure Properties
Nicole Kingsley (E09), Iowa State University, 2015. Dissertation: Skew propagation time
Nadia Monrose Mills (E01), North Carolina State University, 2015. Dissertation: Investigating a Proposed Problem Solving Theory in the Context of Mathematical Problem Solving: A Multi-Case Study
Elisa Sheng (E09), University of Washington, 2015. Dissertation: Methods for Estimating Causal Effects of Treatment in Randomized Controlled Trials with Simultaneous Provider and Subject Noncompliance
Naomi Utgoff (E03), University of Maryland (Economics), 2016. Dissertation: Essays On Matching Markets And Their Equilibria
Erica Dawson (E04), University of Alabama, Birmingham (Biostatistics), 2016. Dissertation: Performance of Ordinary Least Squares and Heteroskedasticity Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimators in Heteroskedastic Analysis of Covariance Models
Leah Karker (E10), Wesleyan University, 2016. Dissertation: Two applications of topology to the study of non-classical logics
Lise Chlebak (E11), Tufts University, 2016. Dissertation: The Time-Changed Q-Wiener Process and Associated Stochastic Differential Equations
Meghan Galiardi (E11), University of Illinois, 2016. Dissertation: Mathematical models in evolutionary dynamics
Amy Veprauskas (E10), University of Arizona, 2016. Dissertation: On the Dynamic Dichotomy Between Positive Equilibria and Synchronous 2-cycles in Matrix Population Models
Ziva Myer (E11), Bryn Mawr College, 2017. Dissertation: A Product Structure on Generating Family Cohomology for Legendrian Submanifolds
Kendra Pleasant (E12), Howard University, 2017. Dissertation: Some new results in Ramsey Theory
Mary Ambrosino (E12), North Carolina State University, 2017. Dissertation: Maximum Gap of (Inverse) Cyclotomic Polynomials
Jessica Fuller (E12), Emory University, 2017. Dissertation: On Saturation Spectrum
Biji Wong (E06), Brandeis University, 2017. Dissertation: Torsion Invariants of 3-orbifolds, Equivariant Corks, & Heegaard Floer Homology
Yen Duong (E10), University of Illinois, 2017. Dissertation: On Random Groups: The Square Model at Density d<1/3 and as Quotients of Free Nilpotent Groups
Cara Mullen (E10), University of Illinois, 2017. Dissertation: The critical orbit structure of quadratic polynomials in Zp
Karen Wood (E11), University of California, Irvine, 2017
April Harry (E10), Purdue University, 2017. Dissertation: Design and Statistical Analysis of Mass Spectrometry Imaging Experiments
Megan McCormick Stone (E06), University of Arizona, 2017
Vanessa Hill (E05), University of Massachusetts, 2018
Ashley Swain (E09), Emory University (Neuroscience), 2018
Chassidy Bozeman (E12), Iowa State University, 2018. Dissertation: Connections to zero forcing: tree covers and power domination
Ellen Wagman (E11), University of Texas, Austin (Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics), 2018
Shanise Walker (E12), Iowa State University, 2018. Dissertation: Problems in extremal graphs and poset theory
Ranthony Edmonds (E13), The University of Iowa, 2018. Dissertation: Factorization in polynomial rings with zero divisors
Jessica De Silva (E13), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2018. Dissertation: Graphs with Few Spanning Substructures
Angelica Gonzalez (E12), University of Arizona, 2018. Dissertation: Spectral Properties of 3-Regular Graphs Related to One-Face Maps
Gilna Samuel (E11), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Finance), 2018
Keisha Cook (E14), University of Alabama, 2019. Dissertation: Parallel stochastic simulation of biochemical reaction systems
Lara Ismert (E13), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2019. Dissertation: Unbounded Derivations of C*-Algebras and the Heisenberg Commutation Relation
Sherilyn Tamagawa (E14), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019
Maricela Cruz (E14), University of California, Irvine (Statistics), 2019. Dissertation: Interrupted Time Series Models for Assessing Complex Health Care Interventions
Caprice Stanley (E14), North Carolina State University, 2019. Dissertation: Markov chain mixing times
Miriam Parnes (E08), Wesleyan University, 2019. Dissertation: A Generalization of Tree Decomposition to Amalgamation Classes of Finite Structures
Asia Wyatt (E13), University of Maryland, College Park, 2019. Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Underlying Dynamics in Acute and Chronic Immunology
Kayla Coleman (E13), North Carolina State University, 2019. Dissertation: Low-fidelity code calibration using high-fidelity simulated data and initialized gradient-free active subspace construction for complex physical models
Cynthia Lester (E12), University of Oregon, 2019. Dissertation: The canonical Grothendieck topology and a homotopical analog
Tai-Danae Bradley (E14), CUNY New York, 2020. Dissertation: At the Interface of Algebra and Statistics
Samantha Hill (E14), University of Utah, 2020. Dissertation: Modeling the roles of plant distribution and insect foraging in associational resistance
Danielle Middlebrooks (E14), University of Maryland, College Park, 2020. Dissertation: Quantifying Flows in Time-Irreversible Markov Chains
Katie Ahrens (E15), North Carolina State University, 2020. Dissertation: Combinatorial Applications of the k-Fibonacci Numbers: A Cryptographically Motivated Analysis
Laurel Ohm (E13), University of Minnesota, 2020. Dissertation: Mathematical foundations of slender body theory
Melanie King (E14), University of Iowa, 2020. Dissertation: Length space skeletonization
Yeng Xiong (E13), Kansas State University, 2020. Dissertation: Design-based efficiency for analyzing cluster-randomized experiments
Samantha Fairchild (E15), University of Washington, 2021. Dissertation: Counting Social Interactions for Discrete Subsets of the Plane
Sarah Chehade (E16), University of Houston, 2021. Dissertation: Saturating Quantum Relative Entropy Inequalities
Erica Hopkins (E16), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2021. Dissertation: Free Complexes over the Exterior Algebra with Small Homology
Juliana Bukoski (E14), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2021. Dissertation: Free Semigroupoid Algebras from Categories of Paths
Victoria Day (E14), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2021. Dissertation: On the Universal Ordinary Deformation Ring for Ordinary Modular Deformation Problem
Orsola Capovilla-Sear (E15), Duke University, 2021. Dissertation: Exact Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Links and Weinstein 4-Manifolds
Darleen Perez-Lavin (E15), University of Kentucky, 2021. Dissertation: The Plus-Minus Davenport Constant of Finite Abelian Groups
Genesis Islas (E16), Arizona State University, 2021. Dissertation: Partition of Unity Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations on Surfaces
Nida Obatake (E16), Texas A&M University, 2021. Dissertation: On the Stability and Number of Steady States of Chemical Reaction Networks
Lyndsey Wong (E17), University of Colorado, Boulder, 2022. Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Wealth Distribution Through An Amenities-Based Theory
Kelly Buch (E17), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2022. Dissertation: Modeling Basal Sprout Production in Vector-Borne Tree Disease
Rebecca Santorella (E17), Brown University, 2022
Lynesia Taylor (E15), North Carolina State University, 2022. Dissertation: Portfolio Rebalancing with Illiquid Assets
Zonia Menendez (E16), Wesleyan University, 2022. Dissertation: Images of Sporadic Points on the Family of Modular Curves X0(n)
Ashlee Kalauli (E15), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022. Dissertation: Standard Artin Group Generators and Dual Artin Group Algorithms
Paula Egging (E15), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2022. Dissertation: A mixed variational formulation for the wellposedness and numerical approximation of a PDE model arising in a 2-D fluid-fluid interaction
Austen James (E17), Rice University, 2022. Dissertation: A Bayesian Approach to Computing Brauer Groups of Cubic Surfaces
Jenna Zomback (E17), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022. Dissertation: Pointwise ergodic theorems via descriptive set theory
Jennifer Webster (E02), Middle Tennessee State University, 2022
Kayla Davie (E15), University of Maryland, College Park, 2023. Dissertation: Model Order Reduction for Parameter-Dependent Partial Differential Equations with Constraints
Sarah Strikwerda (E18), North Carolina State University, 2023. Dissertation: Optimal Control in Fluid Flows through Deformable Porous Media
McCleary Philbin (E16), University of Minnesota, 2023. Dissertation: On the Algebraic de Rham Homology of Quasi-projective Schemes
Alexis Hardesty (E18), Texas Tech University, 2023. Dissertation: Differential Graded Algebra Structures on Minimal Free Resolutions of Length Three
Sabrina Lato (E17), University of Waterloo, 2023. Dissertation: Distance-Biregular Graphs and Orthogonal Polynomials
Micah Henson (E17), University of Washington, 2023. Dissertation: A Mathematical Theory for Optimal Marital Interactions
Jessie Loucks-Tavitas (E18), University of Washington, 2024. Dissertation: Hey! You got your algebraic geometry in my computer vision
Erin Angelini (E18), University of Washington, 2024. Dissertation: Thermodynamic behavior of living systems: a biophysical approach to stochastic single-cell gene expression dynamics
Te'a Riley (E19), University of Texas, Arlington, 2024. Dissertation: Exploring the Role of Undergraduate and Graduate Real Analysis Experiences in the Mathematical Trajectories of Women Mathematicians from Historically Disenfranchised Groups
Sara Amato (E19), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2024. Dissertation: Differential Equations and Data-Driven Methods for Modeling Microglial Cells During Ischemic Stroke
Catherine Zimmitti (E17), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024. Dissertation: Perturbations of Representations of Cartan Inclusions
Kaitlin Tademy (E18), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024. Dissertation: Virtual Unknotting Numbers for Families of Virtual Torus Knots
Emily Dautenhahn (E18), Cornell University, 2024. Dissertation: Heat kernel estimates on glued spaces
Elyssa Sliheet (E19), Southern Methodist University, 2024. Dissertation: Predicting biomolecular properties and interactions using numerical, statistical and machine learning methods
Shakuan Frankson (E20), Howard University, 2024. Dissertation: Finding an Isomorphism Between the Riordan Group and a Subgroup of the Double Riordan Group
Skylyn Irby (E19), The University of Alabama, 2025. Dissertation: Investigating an Institution's STEM Retention Program Participants' Sense of Belonging in Mathematics
Sofía Martinez (E19), Purdue University, 2025. Dissertation: Coalgebraic Models for Equivariant Homotopy Types
Quiyana Murphy (E19), Virginia Tech University, 2025. Dissertation: Mathematical models of immune responses during external challenges and autoimmunity
Brandis Whitfield (E19), Temple University, 2025. Dissertation: The geometry of end-periodic mapping tori
Kathryn Beck (E20), University of Delaware, 2025. Dissertation: Signal Processing on Cayley and Nearly Cayley Graphs
Kirsten Morris (E16), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2025. Dissertation: Analysis of Graph-based Decoders for Quantum Low Density Parity Check Codes
Ariana Brown (E20), Emory University, 2025. Dissertation: Inner Product Free Krylov Methods for Inverse Problems
Alyssa Hu (E18), Pennsylvania State University, 2025. Dissertation: Using Data to Inform Computational Thinking and Program Evaluation of an Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum
Haley Colgate Kottler (E20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2026. Dissertation: A Proxy-Based Approach for Unmeasured Confounding, and Other Latent Variable Problems
Amber Young (E20), University of Tennessee, 2026. Dissertation: Mathematical Models of Disease Dynamics: A Deterministic and Stochastic Framework
Laura Zinnel (E21), Iowa State University, 2026. Dissertation: Deep Learning and Level Set Methods for Traumatic Brain Injury Detection and Outcome Prediction
Kathryn Van Ettan (E19), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2026. Dissertation: Properties of the Automorphism Group of Thompson's Group F and Its Orientation Preserving Subgroup
Daniela Beckelhymer (E20), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2026. Dissertation: Dynamical Systems Analysis of Arctic Sea Ice Loss Using a Daily Energy Balance Model
Dorian Smith (E20), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2026. Dissertation: Sandpile Groups for Cones Over Trees