Thesis Announcements Spring 2009
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Candidate: Fritz Obermeyer
Title of
Dissertation: Automated Equational Reasoning in Lambda-Join-Calculi
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: March 23, 2009
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Place: Doherty Hall 4303
Examiners: Professor Richard Statman (Committee Chair)
Professor James Cummings
Professor Dana Scott
Professor Kevin Kelly (Philosophy Department)
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Candidate: Pall Melsted
Title of
Dissertation: Algorithms on Random Graphs
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: April 21, 2009
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Wean 5302
Examiners: Professor Alan Frieze (Committee Chair)
Professor Thomas Bohman
Professor Anupam Gupta (Computer Science Dept.)
Professor Daniel Sleator (Computer Science Dept.)
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Candidate: Alexander Rand
Title of
Dissertation: Delaunay Refinement Algorithms for Numerical Methods
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: April 30, 2009
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Wean Hall 8427
Examiners: Professor Noel Walkington (Committee Chair)
Professor Giovanni Leoni
Professor Shlomo Ta’asan
Professor Gary Miller (Computer Science Dept.)
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Candidate: David Offner
Title of
Dissertation: Extremal Problems on the Hypercube
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: May 4, 2009
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Physical Plant Building 300
Examiners: Prof. Oleg Pikhurko (Committee Chair)
Professor Thomas Bohman
Professor Alan Frieze
Professor Dhruv Mubayi (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
OR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Candidate: Joseph Klobusicky
Honors Thesis
Title: Local to Global Theorems in Differential Geometry
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: May 4, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: Doherty Hall 4303
Examiners: Prof. David Handron (Committee Chair)
Prof. Dana Mihai
Prof. Dajan Slepcev
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
OR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Candidate: Brian Leary
Honors Thesis
Title: The Use of P-adic Analysis in the Proof of the Weil Conjecture
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: May 6, 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Place: Wean Hall 5320
Examiners: Prof. James Cummings (Committee Chair)
Prof. Jeremy Avigad (Philosophy Dept.)
Prof. John Mackey
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
OR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Candidate: Emily Allen
Honors Thesis
Title: Generalizations of the Catalan Numbers
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: May 5, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: Wean Hall 5320
Examiners: Prof. Irina Gheorghiciuc (Committee Chair)
Prof. Thomas Bohman
Prof. Oleg Pikhurko
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Candidate: Karl Wimmer
Title of
Dissertation: Fourier Methods and Combinatorics in Learning Theory
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: May 12, 2009
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Wean Hall 4625
Examiners: Professor Ryan O’Donnell (Committee Chair, Computer Science
Dept.)
Professor Alan Frieze
Professor Oleg Pikhurko
Professor Rocco Servedio (Columbia University)
FINAL PUBLIC ORAL EXAMINATION
OR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Candidate: Mark Spindler
Honors Thesis
Title: The Modularity Theorem
Department: Mathematical Sciences
Date: May 14, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: Wean Hall 5320
Examiners: Prof. James Cummings (Committee Chair)
Prof. John Mackey
Prof. Richard Statman
