Details for Ph.D.'s in Mathematics Since 1981

Radek Erban (Graduated: January, 2005)
  Advisor: Hans Othmer
From Individual to Collective Behavior in Biological Systems.
  Email:
  Web: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~erban
  Last known institution: University of Oxford
  Notes:
    Working in
   Mathematical Institute,
   University of Oxford and Department of Clinical Pharmacology,
   University of Oxford.
Elected Junior Research Fellow of the Linacre College, University of Oxford.

Michael L. Galbraith (Graduated: September, 2004)
  Advisor: Robert Gulliver
Geometric Optics, Convex Functions, Carleman Estimates and Interfaces in the Boundary Control of the Wave Equation.
  Email: galbrait@math.umn.edu
  Web:
  Last known institution:
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Oleg Alexandrov (Graduated: August, 2004)
  Advisor: Fadil Santosa
Wave Propagation in Optical Fibers: Analysis and Optimization.
  Email: aoleg@math.ucla.edu
  Web: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~aoleg
  Last known institution: University of California Los Angeles
  Notes:
    I miss Minnesota.

Youngae Han (Graduated: August, 2004)
  Advisor: Fernando Reitich
An Efficient Solver for Problems of Scattering.
  Email: han@acm.caltech.edu
  Web: http://www.math.umn.edu/~han/
  Last known institution: Caltech
  Notes:
    Postdoctoral position at Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech.

Nicolae Tarfulea (Graduated: July, 2004)
  Advisor: Doug Arnold
Constraint-Preserving Boundary Conditions for Hyperbolic Formulations of Einstein's Equations.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.umn.edu/~nicolae/
  Last known institution: Purdue University Calumet
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2003

Kyeong-hun Kim (Graduated: June, 2004)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
On Lp Theory of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in C1 Domains.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
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Jae Hyouk Lee (Graduated: May, 2004)
  Advisor: Nai-Chung Conan Leung
Instantons and Branes in Manifolds with Vector Cross Product.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
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Kijung Lee (Graduated: May, 2004)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
Lp Theory of Stochastic Partial Systems.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2001

Jens Rademacher (Graduated: May, 2004)
  Advisor: Arnd Scheel
Homoclinic Bifurcation from Heteroclinic Cycles with Periodic Orbits and Tracefiring of Pulses.
  Email: rademach at math ubc ca
  Web: www.math.ubc.ca/~rademach
  Last known institution: Pacific Institute for the Math. Sci. at Univ. of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University
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Anton Leykin (Graduated: September, 2003)
  Advisor: Gennady Lyubeznik
Algorithms in Computational Algebraic Analysis.
  Email: leykin@uic.edu
  Web: www.math.uic.edu/~leykin
  Last known institution: University of Illinois in Chicago, IL
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 2002-03

Gabriel Ruben Soto (Graduated: September, 2003)
  Advisor: Hans Othmer
An Integrated Model for Calcium Dynamics During Synaptic Transmission.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Boston University
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Feryal Alayont (Graduated: August, 2003)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Residues of Eisenstein Series.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: University of AZ
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Ryan M Berndt (Graduated: August, 2003)
  Advisor: Max Jodeit
Singular Integrals with New Singularities.
  Email: berndt@math.ohio-state.edu
  Web:
  Last known institution: Ohio State University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2002

Grant David Erdmann (Graduated: August, 2003)
  Advisor: Fadil Santosa
A New Minimax Algorithm and Its Application to Optics Problems.
  Email: granterdmann-at~yahoo{(dot]>com
  Web:
  Last known institution: Brooks City-Base
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Seick Kim (Graduated: June, 2003)
  Advisor: Mikhail Safonov
On the Regularity of Solutions to Second-order Equations and Systems.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.missouri.edu/~staff/postdocs/skim.html
  Last known institution: University of Missouri
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2002
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 2002-03
Now a postdoc

Seung-Suk Seo (Graduated: May, 2003)
  Advisor: Vladimir Sverak
Regularity of Landau Lifshitz Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Samsung Caital Co.
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1999

Gerardo Mario Ortigoza Capetillo (Graduated: March, 2003)
  Advisor: Fernando Reitich and Bernardo Cockburn
The Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Maxwell Equations.
  Email:
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  Last known institution:
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Alejandro Lopez (Graduated: December, 2002)
  Advisor: Gennady Lyubeznik
Homological Algebra for Graded-Commutative Rings.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Universidad Andres Bello
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Vladimir Itskov (Graduated: August, 2002)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Orbit Reduction of Exterior Differential Systems.
  Email: vitskov -at- rutgers -dot- edu
  Web:
  Last known institution: Rutgers University
  Notes:
    Former institution: Dept of Mathematics, Duke U
Now working on neuroscience, enjoys it a lot.
Married.

Jun-Seok Kim (Graduated: August, 2002)
  Advisor: John Lowengrub
Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Component, Multi-Phase Fluid Flows.
  Email:
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  Last known institution:
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Jing Wang (Graduated: August, 2002)
  Advisor: Fadil Santosa and Robert Gulliver
Design of Progressive Lenses-Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.ima.umn.edu/~jwang/
  Last known institution: Vital Images Inc, Plymouth, Minnesota
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2001
Was an IMA postdoc
Was at The Spectacle Lens Group, Johnson & Johnson, Roanoke, VA

Nathan Wodarz (Graduated: August, 2002)
  Advisor: Donald Kahn
The Structure of Endofunctors of the Category of CW-Complexes.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Grand Valley State, Annendale, MI
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2002
Now an Assistant Professor

Cetin Urtis (Graduated: July, 2002)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Integral Representations of L-Functions and Siegel-Weil-Kudla-Rallis Formulas.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Arizona
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1999

Kyung Keun Kang (Graduated: June, 2002)
  Advisor: Vladimir Sverak
On Boundary Regularity for the Stokes and Navier-Stokes Equations.
  Email: kkang at pims dot math dot ca
  Web: http://www.pims.math.ca/~kkang/
  Last known institution: University of British Columbia
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Kyle D Calderhead (Graduated: May, 2002)
  Advisor: Victor Reiner
Variations on the Slope Problem.
  Email:
  Web: www2.ic.edu/Calderhead/
  Last known institution: Illinois College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1999

Nathan P Reading (Graduated: April, 2002)
  Advisor: Victor Reiner
On the Structure of Bruhat Order.
  Email: nreading AT umich DOT edu
  Web: www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~nreading/
  Last known institution: University of Michigan
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2001
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 2001-02
NSF postdoc, 2002-2005
Thomas H. Shevlin Fellowship, 2000-2001
Grad School Fellowship, 1996-97
I'll be staying at Michigan for the 2005-2006 year (my 4th here).

Jaiok Roh (Graduated: December, 2001)
  Advisor: George Sell
g-Navier-Stokes Equations.
  Email:
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  Last known institution:
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Won Jae Chang (Graduated: September, 2001)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
Numerical Schemes for the Control Problem with Optimal Stopping.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Columbia University
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Kuochang Chen (Graduated: August, 2001)
  Advisor: Richard Moeckel
Variational Methods and Periodic Solutions of Newtonian N-body Problems.
  Email: kchen(a)math.nthu.edu.tw
  Web: www.math.nthu.edu.tw/~kchen/
  Last known institution: National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
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Xun Dong (Graduated: August, 2001)
  Advisor: Victor Reiner
The Topology of Bounded Degree Graph Complexes and Finite Free Resolutions.
  Email:
  Web: www.math.miami.edu/~xundong/
  Last known institution: Univ. of Miami
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Eduardo S Goesleandro (Graduated: August, 2001)
  Advisor: Richard Moeckel
Bifurcations and Stability of Some Symmetrical Classes of Central Configurations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Universidade Federal De Pernambucu
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2001

Cristian Rios (Graduated: August, 2001)
  Advisor: Mikhail Safonov and Carlos Kenig
Sufficient Conditions for the Absolute Continuity of the Nondivergence Harmonic Measure.
  Email:
  Web: www.trincoll.edu/~crios
  Last known institution: Trinity College in Hartford, CT
  Notes:
    Currently holds a Dorwart Visiting Assistant Position at Trinity
   (job started 2005-6 and will run for three years)
Was a McKay Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University,
   Department of Mathematics and Statistics
   (job ended with the 2004-5 academic year)

Natasha L Dobrinen (Graduated: July, 2001)
  Advisor: Karel Prikry
Generalized Weak Distributive Laws in Boolean Algebras and Issues Related to a Problem of von Neumann Regarding Measurable Algebras.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Kurt Godel Institute in Vienna
  Notes:
    Penn State University
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 2001

Seonga Shim (Graduated: June, 2001)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
Uniform Bounds and Global Behaviors of Solutions of Cross-Diffusion Systems.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea
  Notes:
    2001 - 2003: McMaster University, 2003 - 2004: Seoul National University.

Tamas Istvan Wiandt (Graduated: June, 2001)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
Conley Decomposition for Closed Relations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1999

Mireille Boutin (Graduated: May, 2001)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
On Invariants of Lie Group Actions and their Application to Some Equivalence Problems.
  Email: mboutin-at-purdue.edu
  Web: http://www.ece.math.purdue.edu/~boutin/
  Last known institution: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue U, Indiana
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1998
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 2000-01
NSERC postdoctoral fellowship (2001, declined)
Postdoctorate at Brown University (2001-2002)
   and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (2002-2003)
Assistant Professor of ECE at Purdue since 2004,
   with a courtesy membership in the Dept. of Mathematics.

Kristina C Garrett (Graduated: May, 2001)
  Advisor: Dennis Stanton
Lattice Paths and Generalized Rogers-Ramanujan Type Identities.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Starting at St. Olaf, Fall 2005.
  Notes:
    Was at Carleton College.

Samuel Albert (Graduated: March, 2001)
  Advisor: Bernardo Cockburn
A Posteriori Error Estimation for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Cargill, Minnesota
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Martin O'Hely (Graduated: December, 2000)
  Advisor: Claudia Neuhauser
Extensions of Interacting Particle Systems Methods in Mathematical Population Genetics.
  Email: ohely-at-maths-dot-uq-dot-edu-d0t-au
  Web:
  Last known institution: The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1998
Postdocs at:
1999-2001: Ecology & Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene
2001-2003: Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
2003-2004: Evolution et diversite biologique,
   Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
   Current Job Title: Research Fellow.

Elisa Ferretti (Graduated: August, 2000)
  Advisor: Mikhail Safonov
General Properties of Solutions to Second Order Linear Parabolic Equations.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.dm.unibo.it/~ferretti/
  Last known institution: University of Bologna, Italy
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1998

Irina Mitrea (Graduated: August, 2000)
  Advisor: Mikhail Safonov and Carlos Kenig
Spectral Properties of Elliptic Layer Potentials on Non-smooth Domains.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~im3p/
  Last known institution: University of Virginia
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1999
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1999-2000
Asst. Prof

Irina A. Kogan (Graduated: July, 2000)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Inductive Approach to Cartan's Moving Frame Method with Applications to Classical Invariant Theory.
  Email:
  Web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~iakogan/
  Last known institution: North Carolina State University
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1999-2000
Gibbs Instructor, Yale University, 2000-2003

Salome M Martinez (Graduated: July, 2000)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
The Effects of Diffusion and Cross-Diffusion for the 3 x 3 Lotka-Volterra Competition System.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1999
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1999-2000
2000 - 2002: Georgia Tech

Luis Roman (Graduated: July, 2000)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
On Numerical Solutions of Stochastic Differential Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
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Xiaodong Yan (Graduated: July, 2000)
  Advisor: Vladimir Sverak
Topics in Regularity Theory of Non-linear Elliptic and Parabolic Systems.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Michigan State
  Notes:
    Tenure track position

Pavel Belik (Graduated: May, 2000)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Computational Methods for Martensitic Thin Films.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.stthomas.edu/mathematics/faculty/belik.htm
  Last known institution: U of St. Thomas
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1997
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1999-2000

Yi Ouyang (Graduated: May, 2000)
  Advisor: Greg Anderson
The Group Cohomology of the Universal Ordinary Distribution and its Applications.
  Email:
  Web: http://faculty.math.tsinghua.edu.cn/faculty/~youyang
  Last known institution: Tsinghua University, Beijing
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1999-2000

Dominic A Lanphier (Graduated: April, 2000)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Special Values of L-Functions Attached to a Class of Cuspforms on Symplectic Similitude Groups.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Western Kentucky
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1998

Haile Kebede Haile (Graduated: January, 2000)
  Advisor: Joel Roberts
Minimal Resolutions and Polynomial Ring Homomorphisms Associated With Three Variable Non-Complete Intersections and/or Numerical Semigroups Generated By Finite Arithmetic Sequences Of Natural Numbers.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Minneapolis Community and Technical College
  Notes:

Xiangrong Yang (Graduated: January, 2000)
  Advisor: Bernardo Cockburn
Analysis Of Numerical Methods For Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Computer Associates, California
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1998
Currently developing software.

Anthony Houge Dunlop (Graduated: December, 1999)
  Advisor: Marian Pour-El
Degrees of Unsolvability in Relative Computability of Real Numbers.
  Email: tony.dunlop(at)normandale.edu
  Web: Normandale Community College
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1996
Phi Theta Kappa Golden Apple award, 2003
Was at Augsburg College, 1998 - 2000
Was at College of Saint Benedict, 2000 - 2001

Mikhail Foursov (Graduated: December, 1999)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
On Integrable Evolution Equations in Commutative and Noncommutative Variables.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.irisa.fr/prive/foursov/
  Last known institution: IFSIC/IRISA, Universitá'&e de Rennes-I, France
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Julia A Liakhova (Graduated: December, 1999)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
A Theory of Magnetostrictive Thin Films with Applications.
  Email: Julia.A.Liakhova@seagate.com
  Web: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~liak0001/
  Last known institution: Seagate Technology, Inc.
  Notes:

Rafael Villarroel-flores (Graduated: September, 1999)
  Advisor: Peter Webb
Equivariant Homotopy Type of Categories and Preordered Sets.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  Notes:

Svetlana Y Rudnaya (Graduated: August, 1999)
  Advisor: Fadil Santosa
Analysis and Optimal Design of Diffractive Optical Elements.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Synopsys
  Notes:

Yiju Chao (Graduated: July, 1999)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
Diffusion Approximation of a Sequence of Semimartingales and its Application in Exploring the Asymptotic Behaviour of some Queueing Networks.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Motorola Inc.
  Notes:

Uli Walther (Graduated: July, 1999)
  Advisor: Gennady Lyubeznik
Algorithmic Computation of Local and de Rham Cohomology in Characteristic Zero: an Application of D-Module Theory to Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra.
  Email:
  Web: www.math.purdue.edu/~walther
  Last known institution: Purdue University
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1998-99
1998-99: Sloan fellowship
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1997
While visiting the Universitaet of Leipzig in Germany:
   Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship, 2003
   German Research Foundation (DfG) Scholarship, 2002/3
Pictures of the famous soccer team that won the championship five times while I was there:
    http://www.math.umn.edu/~leykin/Eagles/pics.html

Chengwei Lee (Graduated: June, 1999)
  Advisor: Naresh Jain
Some Central Limit Theorem and Large Deviation Results for a Continuous Time Markov Process.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Mercer, Inc., Minneapolis
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1999

Gerard Peter Naughton (Graduated: June, 1999)
  Advisor: Max Jodeit
Symmetric Orthogonal Wavelets.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: University of St. Thomas
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Scott M Shald (Graduated: March, 1999)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Problems in Estimation.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Lincoln Laboratory
  Notes:

Kendra Sue Killpatrick (Graduated: December, 1998)
  Advisor: Dennis White
Recursions for the q-Kostka Polynomials.
  Email:
  Web: http://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/member.htm?facid=kendra_killpatrick&B1=Submit
  Last known institution: Pepperdine University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1997
MAA Project NExT Fellow, 2000-2001
Math Department Graduate Professor of the Year,
   Colorado State University, 2001-2002
Seaver College Fellow, 2003-2005
Member: Mathematical Association of America, American
Mathematical Society, Association for Women in Mathematics

Namyong Lee (Graduated: October, 1998)
  Advisor: Yasutaka Sibuya
On the PSD Evolution Model.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Minnesota State University at Mankato
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1997
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1995

Doris Y Chiang (Graduated: September, 1998)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Andrianov's Integral for Unitary Groups.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Boston Branch
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1995

Yonghoi Koo (Graduated: September, 1998)
  Advisor: Robert Gulliver
Parabolic Partial Differential Equations and Systems Arising in Differential Geometry and Applications.
  Email:
  Web: Morgan Stanley, NY
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1998
Was at Solomon Brothers, NY

Hyek Yoo (Graduated: September, 1998)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
An Analytic Approach to Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and its, Applications.
  Email: hyek.yoo@samsung.com, hyoo06@hanmail.net
  Web:
  Last known institution: Samsung Securities Co., Ltd.
  Notes:
    Currently Manager, Equity Trading Department, Capital Markets Division
Was at Agency for Defense Development

Bo Liu (Graduated: July, 1998)
  Advisor: Walter Littman
The Regularity, Exact Boundary Controllability and Stabilization of a Membrane with Strings on General Polygonal Domains.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Maryland
  Notes:

David A Richter (Graduated: July, 1998)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Semisimple Lie Algebras of Differential Operators.
  Email: david-dot-richter-at-wmich-dot-edu
  Web: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~drichter
  Last known institution: Western Michigan University
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1997-98
1998-2000: Post-Doctoral Fellow, McGill University, Montreal.
2000-2002: Assistant Professor, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
2002-2004: Assistant Professor, William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ
2004-present: Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Tai-Peng Tsai (Graduated: July, 1998)
  Advisor: Vladimir Sverak
On Problems Arising in the Regularity Theory for the Navier-Stokes Equations.
  Email: ttsai (at) math (dot) ubc (dot) ca
  Web: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~ttsai/
  Last known institution: University of British Columbia
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1997-98
Honors/awards: Sloan Disertation Fellowship, 1997/1998
Courant Institute, 1998-2001
Institute for Advance Study, 2001-2002

Luis Valero-Elizondo (Graduated: June, 1998)
  Advisor: Peter Webb
On Some Invariants Associated to Simple Group Representations.
  Email: valero-AT-fismat-DOT-umich-DOT-mx
  Web: www.fismat.umich.mx/~valero (under construction)
  Last known institution: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1996
Postdoc: University of Georgia, 1998-2001;
Postdoc: UNAM (Morelia, Mexico), 2001-2003;
Tenure-track: UMSNH, 2003-2005;
Married: 07/Dec/2001; Spouse's name: Mireya;
Son born: 01/March/2004; Son's name: David

Yu Yuan (Graduated: June, 1998)
  Advisor: Mikhail Safonov
Some Qualitative Properties of Solutions to Second Order Elliptic and Parabolic Equations.
  Email: yuan@math.washington.edu
  Web: http://www.math.washington.edu/~yuan/
  Last known institution: University of Washington
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1997-98
Asst. Prof, co-advised by Ben Chow
Sloan Research Fellow, 2002-2004

Aleksandar Zatezalo (Graduated: May, 1998)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
Filtering of Partially Observable Stochastic Processes.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Minnesota
  Notes:

Sangkug Yi (Graduated: February, 1998)
  Advisor: Nai-Chung Conan Leung
Analytic Torsions on Quaternionic Manifolds.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
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Alexei Krioukov (Graduated: January, 1998)
  Advisor: Bennett Chow
Kaehler Extensions of Riemannian Manifolds.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Wisconsin, Waukesha
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1995
Now an Assistant Professor

David E Norman (Graduated: January, 1998)
  Advisor: George Sell
A Dynamical Systems Study of Chemically Reacting Fluid Flows.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1997

Philip Lloyd Osterlund (Graduated: December, 1997)
  Advisor: Peter Webb
Tensor Decompositions of the Regular Representation of p-Groups Over Fields of Characteristic p.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: St. Thomas
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1997

Ernesto Schirmacher (Graduated: October, 1997)
  Advisor: Dennis White
Log-concavity, q-analogs and the Exponential Formula.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Zurich RE
  Notes:

Joel Perry Dejager (Graduated: September, 1997)
  Advisor: Walter Littman
Applications of a Nonlinear Ovsjannikov Theorem to Boundary Control of Nonlinear Schrodinger and Korteweg-de Vries Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: National Security Agency
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1994

Robert J Hesse (Graduated: September, 1997)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
Computational Algorithms Based on a Variational Approach to Mechanical Systems.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: St. John's in Collegeville, MN
  Notes:
    Was at Hillsdale College.
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1997

James F Riordan (Graduated: September, 1997)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Nonconforming Approximation of Marteusetic Crystals.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: IBM Zurich
  Notes:

Pinaki Das (Graduated: August, 1997)
  Advisor: Greg Anderson
Double Coverings of Cyclotomic Fields Arising from Algebraic Gamma Monomials.
  Email:
  Web: http://math.aa.psu.edu/facultyPD.html
  Last known institution: Penn State University at Altoona
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1994

Sun Chin Chu (Graduated: July, 1997)
  Advisor: Bennett Chow
A Geometric Interpretation of Hamilton's Harnack Inequality for the Ricci Flow.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: National Chung Cheng University
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1996-97
Associate Professor

Osvaldo David Mendez (Graduated: July, 1997)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
Invertibility of Layer Potential Operators on Besov spaces and Poisson's Equation for the Laplacian in Lipschitz Domains.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Missouri
  Notes:

Christopher Lee Schwartz (Graduated: July, 1997)
  Advisor: Donald Kahn
The Hurewicz Homomorphism and Homotopy Classification Problems for CW-complexes.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: General Dynamics in Bloomington, MN
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1994

Chia-Hsing Nien (Graduated: June, 1997)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
The Investigation of Saddle Node Bifurcation with a Zero Eigenvalue-includes Example of Non-analyticity.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Providence University
  Notes:

Daniel J Oloughlin (Graduated: June, 1997)
  Advisor: Bennett Chow
Non-Linear Curvature Flows in the Plane.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: College of St. Catherine
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1994
Now an Assistant Professor

Zhao Yan (Graduated: June, 1997)
  Advisor: Gennady Lyubeznik
The Number of Set-Theoretic Defining Equations of Algebraic Varieties.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Guy Bailey (Graduated: May, 1997)
  Advisor: Victor Reiner
Tilings of Zonotopes.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Lawson Software in St. Paul
  Notes:

Jay Joseph Kovats (Graduated: April, 1997)
  Advisor: Mikhail Safonov
On the Interior Regularity of Fully Nonlinear Equations and the Dini Condition.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.fit.edu/AcadRes/math/faculty/kovats/
  Last known institution: Florida Institute of Technology
  Notes:
    Asst Prof.

Jie Liao (Graduated: January, 1997)
  Advisor: John Baxter
Zero-One Laws for Random and Non-Random Environments.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Secure Computing Corporation
  Notes:

Xiaolong Shih (Graduated: November, 1996)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Microstructures and Numerical Simulations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Blue
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1996

Aaron Lee Hagen (Graduated: October, 1996)
  Advisor: George Sell
Hyperbolic Structures of Time Discretizations and the Dependence on the Time Step.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Groningen
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1996-97

William M Kinney Jr (Graduated: September, 1996)
  Advisor: Richard Moeckel
Oscillations in Singularly Perturbed Systems and the Conley Index.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Bethel College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1995

Hyeong Ohk Bae (Graduated: August, 1996)
  Advisor: George Sell
Dynamics of Evolutionary Equations Under Time Discretizations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: KAIST
  Notes:

Liiperng Liou (Graduated: August, 1996)
  Advisor: Bennett Chow
Geometric Flows on Compact Manifolds.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1995

Xiaodong Zhu (Graduated: August, 1996)
  Advisor: James Serrin
Topics in Partial Differential Equations of Elliptic and Hyperbolic Types.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Nevada
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1995

Dorina Irena-Rita Mitrea (Graduated: July, 1996)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Layer Potential Operators and Boundary Value Problems for Differential Forms on Lipschitz Domains.
  Email: dorina-at-math-dot-missouri-dot-edu
  Web: http://www.math.missouri.edu/personnel/faculty/mitread.html
  Last known institution: University of Missouri at Columbia
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1996
Now a Professor

Charles Durward McDonell III (Graduated: June, 1996)
  Advisor: Jay Goldman
Combinatorial Model for the HOMFLY Polynomial.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: NAI Labs, Glenwood, MD
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1996

Evelyn Sander (Graduated: June, 1996)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
Hyperbolic Sets for Noninvertible Maps and Relations.
  Email: sander at math.gmu.edu
  Web: http://math.gmu.edu/~sander/
  Last known institution: George Mason University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1996

Vadim Gene Bondarevsky (Graduated: May, 1996)
  Advisor: George Sell
On the Global Regularity Problem for the 3-Dimensional Navier-stokes Equations on Thin Domains.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Cambridge
  Notes:

Bo Li (Graduated: May, 1996)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Analysis and Computation of Martensitic Microstructure.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~bli/
  Last known institution: Dept of Math, U of California, San Diego
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1996

Dong-Ho Tsai (Graduated: May, 1996)
  Advisor: Bennett Chow
Geometric Expansion of Plane Curves.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: National Tsing Hua University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1996
Now a Professor

Yong Liu (Graduated: March, 1996)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Free Boundary Problems of Variational Type.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Hyukjin Kwean (Graduated: February, 1996)
  Advisor: George Sell
Inertial Manifolds for Reaction Diffusion Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Korea University
  Notes:

Miguel Angel Moreles (Graduated: December, 1995)
  Advisor: Walter Littman
Uniform Null Controllability for the Beam Equations of Rayleigh and Timoshenko.
  Email: moreles@cimat.mx
  Web:
  Last known institution: Centro de Investigation en Math
  Notes:
    Job Title: Professor
From April 2001 - July 2003, I was Director of the Applied Mathematics Graduate program

Philip Andrew Jones (Graduated: October, 1995)
  Advisor: John Baxter
Asymptotic Potential for Simulated Annealing.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: National Benefits Group
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1994

Jianhua Zhang (Graduated: October, 1995)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Nonlinear Problems in Partial Differential Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Soojin Cho (Graduated: September, 1995)
  Advisor: Dennis Stanton
Null Designs of Partially Ordered Sets.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Ajou University in Korea
  Notes:

Yuan Lou (Graduated: September, 1995)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
Diffusion, Self-Diffusion and Cross-Diffusion.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Ohio State
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1995
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1994-95
1995 - 1996: MSRI, Berkeley
1996 - 1998: University of Chicago

Waldemar Donizete Bastos (Graduated: August, 1995)
  Advisor: Walter Littman
Boundary Control for Hyperbolic Equations in Polyhedral Domains.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Jeremy Scott Case (Graduated: August, 1995)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Analytic Continuation and Rationality of Euler Factors in Integral Representations of L-Functions for Classical Groups.
  Email: jrcase-at-tayloru-dot-edu
  Web:
  Last known institution: Taylor University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1993

Hector Ernesto Lomeli-Ortega (Graduated: August, 1995)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
Exact Symplectic Twist Maps in Higher Dimensions.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
  Notes:

Preston Nichols (Graduated: August, 1995)
  Advisor: Robert Gulliver
Minimizing p-Harmonic Maps into Projective Space.
  Email:
  Web: http://homepages.gac.edu/~pnichols/contact.html
  Last known institution: Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN
  Notes:
    Held positions at Carnegie Mellon, Allegheny College, Wittenberg, Cornell College.
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1990

John Conrad Merkel (Graduated: July, 1995)
  Advisor: Richard Moeckel
Morse Theory and Central Configurations in the Spatial N-Body Problem.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Berry College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1992

Samarendra Kumar Sinha (Graduated: July, 1995)
  Advisor: Greg Anderson
Periods of t-Motives and Special Functions in Characteristic p.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1994-95
Received a degree from the Wharton School of Business.
Then took a finance job

Rosa Larrinag Cabanela (Graduated: June, 1995)
  Advisor: Richard Moeckel
The Retrograde Solutions of the Planar Three Body Problem in the Neighborhood of the Restricted ProblemVia, a Submanifold Convex to the Flow.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Winona State University
  Notes:

Gulmaro Corona-Corona (Graduated: June, 1995)
  Advisor: David Sattinger
Hamiltonian Structure for Degenerate AKNS Systems.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Huiing Gau (Graduated: June, 1995)
  Advisor: Bernardo Cockburn
Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws of Mixed Type.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: General Electric, Dayton, Ohio
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1993

Chaocheng Huang (Graduated: June, 1995)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Homogenization Methods in Partial Differential Equations and Modeling Multiphase Materials.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Wright State University
  Notes:

Gopala Krishna Srinivasan (Graduated: May, 1995)
  Advisor: Satyanad Kichenassamy and Walter Littman
WTC Expansions and Painleve Analysis.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.iitb.ac.in/people/faculty/homepages/gopal.html
  Last known institution: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1995
Was at University New South Wales

Giovanni Leoni (Graduated: March, 1995)
  Advisor: James Serrin
Existence and Asymptotic Stability for Perturbed Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University di Perugia
  Notes:

Mehdi Hakim Hashemi (Graduated: December, 1994)
  Advisor: Don Kahn
Functors of the Category of Spaces and Homology.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Professor in Shiraz, Iran
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1992
Visiting Minnesota at Normandale Community College in Bloomington.

Juncheng Wei (Graduated: November, 1994)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
Qualitative Properties of Some Semilinear Elliptic Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1993-94
1994 - 1995: SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Ranked # 26 in the world in terms of number of citations
   in mathematics or statistics (by ISI)

Stephan Kempe Lapic (Graduated: October, 1994)
  Advisor: Nicolai Krylov
On the First-Initial Boundary Value Problem for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Spawar Systems Center
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1990
three years at Case Western Reserve University
Currently a senior scientist at Spawar Systems Center in San Diego
Currently the US Navy representative to a multi-national panel
   on communications and networking (TTCP Technical Panel 8)
Currently Technical Warrant Holder for Networks for the Navy
Currently lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
   department at the University of California, San Diego

Changchun Li (Graduated: October, 1994)
  Advisor: William Messing
Affine Group Schemes and p-Formal Group Schemes.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Michael Scott Ellman (Graduated: September, 1994)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Analysis of Integrals Arising as Local Factors in L-functions.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Amazon
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1992

Xiaofeng Ren (Graduated: September, 1994)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
A Singular Perturbation Problem and Its Peaking Solutions.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Utah State University
  Notes:
    1994 - 1995: Brigham Young University
1995 - 1996: IMA, Minneapolis, MN

Mojtaba Moniri (Graduated: August, 1994)
  Advisor: Karel Prikry
Models of Open Induction and Generalized Power Series.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Inst Studies Theo Physics/Math-Iran
  Notes:

Eduardo D Tabacman (Graduated: August, 1994)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
Variational Computation of Homoclinic Orbits for Twist Maps.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Universidad Nacional del Litoral
  Notes:

Zhoude Shao (Graduated: July, 1994)
  Advisor: George Sell
Inertial Manifolds for Partly Dissipative Reaction Diffusion Systems in Higher Space Dimensions.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Millersville University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1991

Jie Yun (Graduated: July, 1994)
  Advisor: Hans Weinberger
Homogenization of a Two-Region Model for the Spontaneous Combustion of Coal Stockpiles.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.sss-research.com/pages/3/index.htm
  Last known institution: SSS Research, Lisle, IL 60532
  Notes:

Gary Alan Hatfield (Graduated: June, 1994)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Conservation Laws in Anisotropic Elasticity.
  Email: Gary.Hatfield@minnesotamutual.com
  Web:
  Last known institution: The Minnesota Life Insurance Company
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1994
Fellow, Society of Actuaries (2002)

Roberto T Murillo (Graduated: June, 1994)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Cartan's Equivalence Method and an Application to Second Order Evolution Equations.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.itam.mx/englishversion/faculty/resultados/resultado_completo.php?id_profesor=216
  Last known institution: Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
  Notes:

Raymond Scott Spencer (Graduated: May, 1994)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Series Solutions and Spectral Properties of Boundary Integral Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Secure Computing Co, 2675 Long Lake Road, Roseville, MN 55113
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1987

Rui Antonio Loja Fernandes (Graduated: January, 1994)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Completely Integrable Bi-Hamiltonian Systems.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~rfern/
  Last known institution: Departamento de Matematica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1993-94
Current position: Associate Professor
Winner of Gulbenkian Prize, 2001 (Basic Sciences)

John Raymond Hoffman (Graduated: January, 1994)
  Advisor: Bert Fristedt
Invariance Principles, Return Times and Reconstruction Theorems for Random Walks in Random Environments.
  Email: thehoffmen at visi dot com
  Web:
  Last known institution: Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1993
Was at Secure Computing Corporation

Ayse Humeyra Bilge (Graduated: December, 1993)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Construction of Recursion Operators for Scalar Evolution Equations.
  Email: bilge@itu.edu.tr
  Web:
  Last known institution: Anadolu University
  Notes:
    Notes: Employment:
1991-1993, 1995-1996: TUBITAK, Reserch Institute for Basic Sciences
1994 : Anadolu University,
1997-prsent: Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mathematics,
   Curent Title: Professor

Jennifer Ruth Galovich (Graduated: November, 1993)
  Advisor: Dennis White
Generalizations of Denert's Statistic.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/jgalovich/
  Last known institution: St. John's University
  Notes:
    Associate Professor

Roberto Anibal Scotto (Graduated: October, 1993)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Weak Type Estimates for Singular Integral Operators Associated with the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, ARGENTINA
  Notes:

Fangcheng Tien (Graduated: September, 1993)
  Advisor: Richard Moeckel
Recursion Formulas of Central Configurations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Guy Bernard (Graduated: August, 1993)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
An Inhomogeneous Semilinear Equation in Entire Space.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: North Dakota State University
  Notes:

Lu Cheng (Graduated: August, 1993)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Eisenstein Series and Rationality of Automorphic L-functions on Anisotropic Unitary Groups over Function Fields.
  Email:
  Web: Fidelity Investments
  Last known institution: Fidelity Investments
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1992
Was at UNISYS

Xiaolin Ge (Graduated: August, 1993)
  Advisor: Gebhard Fuhrken
Some Algorithms in Euclidean Space and Group Representations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Daniel Eduardo Penazzi (Graduated: August, 1993)
  Advisor: Bob Ellis
Groups and Relations in Topological Dynamics
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Facultad de Matematica, Astronomia y Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, ARGENTINA
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1993
Universidad award to teachers from Universidad de Cordoba, 1994
Member, Editorial Comittee of the ``Revista de Educacion Matematica'',
Member, the Comision of Academic Affairs
Member, the Consejo Directivo.
Married with one daughter.

Biao Ou (Graduated: July, 1993)
  Advisor: David Kinderlehrer
Applications of Variational Method to Problems in Mathematical Theory of Liquid Crystals and Other Areas.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: University of Toledo
  Notes:

Douglas Keith Van Buskirk (Graduated: July, 1993)
  Advisor: Karel Prikry
Systems of Disjoint Representatives of Families of Measurable Sets.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Sophia Andre Demoulini (Graduated: June, 1993)
  Advisor: David Kinderlehrer
Young Measure Solutions for a Nonlinear Parabolic Equation of Forward-Backward Type.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.
  Notes:

Yung-Jen Lin Guo (Graduated: June, 1993)
  Advisor: Walter Littman
The Null Boundary Controllability for Semilinear Heat Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: National Tsinghua University
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1992-93

Ramanujachar Kumanduri (Graduated: June, 1993)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Euler Factors of Global Integrals.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Swiss Union Bank
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1992-93
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1991

Samuel Bruce Smith (Graduated: June, 1993)
  Advisor: Donald Kahn
On the Rational Homotopy Theory of Function Spaces.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1993
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1992-93

Cheng Chih Sung (Graduated: June, 1993)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
On a Singular Dirichlet Problem for the Conformal Gaussian Curvature Equation.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: GIC, Singapore
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1989

Baisheng Yan (Graduated: June, 1993)
  Advisor: Walter Littman
Topics in Partial Differential Equations and the Calculus of Variations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1992-93

Susanna Dodds Fishel (Graduated: January, 1993)
  Advisor: Dennis Stanton
Nonnegativity Results for Generalized q-Binomial Coefficients.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Mental Images (software company in Berlin)
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1988

Manuel Adrian Delpino (Graduated: September, 1992)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
Some Semilinear Elliptic Systems Without Variational Structure.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University Chile
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1991-92
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1992
1992 - 1993: IAS, Princeton
1993 - 1995: University of Chicago

Jinghua Kuang (Graduated: September, 1992)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Certain Siegel-Hilbert Modular Forms of Square-Free Levels Are Representable as Theta Series.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1992

Janet Lynn Andersen (Graduated: August, 1992)
  Advisor: Joel Roberts
Determinantal Rings Associated with Symmetric Matrices.
  Email:
  Web: http://math.hope.edu/andersen/
  Last known institution: Hope College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1990

Felino Garcia Pascual (Graduated: August, 1992)
  Advisor: Richard Moeckel
On Periodic Perturbations of Uniform Motion of a Planetary Ring.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Winona State University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1989

Heng Hui Zou (Graduated: August, 1992)
  Advisor: James Serrin
The Existence and Non-Existence and the Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of the Equations of Chipot and Weissler.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1991-92

Thomas Scott Sundquist (Graduated: July, 1992)
  Advisor: Dennis Stanton
Pfaffians, Involutions, and Schur Functions.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN
  Notes:
    Was at Secure Computing Corporation.
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1991-92
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1990

Mehmet Okan Tekman (Graduated: July, 1992)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Special Values of L-Functions Attached to Holomorphic Cuspforms on Orthogonal Groups of Hermitian Type.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Bilkent Universitesi
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1992

Jin Ma (Graduated: June, 1992)
  Advisor: Naresh Jain
Topics on Singular Stochastic Control and Related Stochastic Differential Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Purdue University
  Notes:
    Professor

Wenxiong Liu (Graduated: April, 1992)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Blowup Problems of Semilinear Heat Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Philip Wendell Doyle (Graduated: March, 1992)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Differential Geometric Poisson Bivectors and Quasilinear Systems inOne, Space Variable.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    Former institution: U of Hawaii
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1991-92
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1990

Andrea Spiro (Graduated: March, 1992)
  Advisor: Jack Conn
On the Infinitesimal Transformations of Intransitive Lie Pseudogroups.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Florence
  Notes:

Michael Thoma Catalano (Graduated: February, 1992)
  Advisor: Mark Feshbach
Stable Splittings of Classifying Spaces for Some Groups of Order Thirty-two.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Dakota Weslyn University
  Notes:

Qing Zhou (Graduated: February, 1992)
  Advisor: Ian Richards
Computability on Open and Closed Subsets of Euclidean Space.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution:
  Notes:

Heayong Shin (Graduated: October, 1991)
  Advisor: Robert Gulliver
An Investigation of the Singularities of Harmonic Maps.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.cau.ac.kr/english/academics/
  Last known institution: Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1991

Xiaoming Zhou (Graduated: October, 1991)
  Advisor: Morton Harris
On the Decomposition Map of Grothendieck Groups.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Fayetteville State University
  Notes:

Cristina Romero (Graduated: September, 1991)
  Advisor: Max Jodeit
A Potential Theory for the Kohn Laplacian on the Heisenberg Group.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of St. Thomas
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1991

Ioana Alexandra Triandaf (Graduated: September, 1991)
  Advisor: Bernardo Cockburn
A Finite Element Method for Numerically Solving the Semiconductor Device Equations.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: Naval Research Laboratory
  Notes:

Changfeng Gui (Graduated: August, 1991)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
On Semilinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations in Entire Space.
  Email:
  Web:
  Last known institution: University of Connecticut
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1990-91
1991 - 1993: Courant Institute
1993 - 1995: McMaster University
1995 - 2001: University of British Columbia
Honors: Andrew Aisensdadt Award, 1999
PIMS Research Prize, 2002

Hweiting Lin (Graduated: August, 1991)
  Advisor: Hans Weinberger
On the Dynamics of a Model in the Propagation of Genes.
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Xinfu Chen (Graduated: July, 1991)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Phase Transition and Free Boundary Problems.
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  Last known institution: University of Pittsburgh
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Suchung J Hou (Graduated: July, 1991)
  Advisor: Bernardo Cockburn
A Finite Element Method for Conservation Laws.
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  Last known institution: National Cheng-Kung University
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Ling Ma (Graduated: July, 1991)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Analysis and Computation for a Variational Problem in Micromagnetics.
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  Last known institution: Salomon Brothers
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Jin Keun Seo (Graduated: July, 1991)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Regularity for Solutions of Transmission Problems Across Internal Lipschitz Boundary.
  Email: seoj@yonsei.ac.kr
  Web: http://suny.yonsei.ac.kr/~yspde/
  Last known institution: Yonsei University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1991
1992-94: Assistant Professor, POSTECH
1995- : Professor of mathematics. Yonsei University
2002-2005: Director of BK 21, Math at Yonsei U.
2002-2011: Math. group PI of Impedance Imaging Research Center at Korea
Research Area: Electrical Impedance Imaging, Medical Image processing, PDE, Harmonic analysis

Bartolome Barcelo (Graduated: June, 1991)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
On the Harmonic Measure for Nondivergence Elliptic Equations.
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  Last known institution: Uniiversidad Autonoma de Madrid
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Minkyu Kwak (Graduated: June, 1991)
  Advisor: George Sell
Finite Dimensional Inertial Forms for the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations.
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  Last known institution: Chonnam National University
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1990-91

Gloria Maribeffa (Graduated: June, 1991)
  Advisor: Jack Conn
Poisson Geometry of the Virasoro Algebra.
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  Last known institution: University of Wisconsin
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1988

Fernando L Reitich (Graduated: June, 1991)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Topics in Free Boundary Problems and Phase Transitions.
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  Last known institution: University of Minnesota
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Mark Patrick Sand (Graduated: June, 1991)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
The Structure of the Inverse of Layer Potential Operators.
  Email: msand -at- dana.edu
  Web:
  Last known institution: Dana College, Blair, Nebraska
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1991
Was at Northwest Missouri State University
Currently--Professor of Mathematics and Physics

Timo Olavi Seppalainen (Graduated: June, 1991)
  Advisor: Steven Orey
Large Deviations for Processes with Stationarily Random Distributions.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~seppalai
  Last known institution: University of Wisconsin at Madison
  Notes:
    Associate Professor

Andrzej Rusewicz (Graduated: May, 1991)
  Advisor: Karel Prikry
Extending Reasonable Ideals to Countably Saturated Ideals on Small Algebras of Sets.
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  Last known institution: Hampden-Sydney College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1989

Jaeduck Jang (Graduated: February, 1991)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
On Spike Solutions of Singularly Perturbed Semilinear Dirichlet Problem.
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  Last known institution: Korea University of Foreign Studies
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Joao Palhoto Matos (Graduated: January, 1991)
  Advisor: David Kinderlehrer
Some Mathematical Methods of Mechanics.
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  Last known institution: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon Portugal
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Lawrence Antho Susanka (Graduated: January, 1991)
  Advisor: John Baxter
Potential Theoretic and Stopping Time Methods for Converse Mean Value Theorems.
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  Last known institution: Bellevue Community College
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Li Sheng (Graduated: December, 1990)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Fluid Dynamics of Sedimentation of Spherical Particles with Inertial Effects.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Veritas
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1988

Melissa Ann Shepard (Graduated: December, 1990)
  Advisor: Hillel Gershenson
Some Calculations in K-Theory with an Application to the Image of the Stable Hurewicz Homomorphism in K-Homology of Infinite Quaternionic Projective Space.
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  Last known institution: University of St. Thomas
  Notes:
    Now also known as Melissa Shepard-Loe
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1984

Jaejin Lee (Graduated: November, 1990)
  Advisor: Dennis White
The Combinatorics of the Spin Characters of the Symmetric Group.
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  Last known institution: Hallym University, Chunchon, KOREA
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Santiago Marin-Malave (Graduated: November, 1990)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Fatou Theorems for Some Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations.
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  Last known institution: University of Malaga
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Ian James Hawthorn (Graduated: September, 1990)
  Advisor: Thomas Berger
Some Examples and Results in the Theory of Fitting Classes of Finite Groups.
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  Last known institution: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Yin Yan (Graduated: September, 1990)
  Advisor: George Sell
Dimensions of Attractors for Discretizations for Partial Differential Equations.
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  Last known institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
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Maria Cristina Cerutti (Graduated: August, 1990)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Green's Function and Uniqueness for Diffusions Related to Elliptic Operators with Discontinuous Coefficients.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.missouri.edu/personnel/faculty/mitread.html
  Last known institution: University of Missouri - Columbia
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1989

Charles Robert Collins (Graduated: August, 1990)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Computation and Analysis of Twinning in Crystalline Solids.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.utk.edu/~ccollins/
  Last known institution: University of Tennessee
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Luis Escauriaza (Graduated: August, 1990)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Boundary and Interior Regularity of Gradients of Solutions of Parabolic and Elliptic Problems.
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  Last known institution: Universidad del Pais Vasco
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Dug Hun Hong (Graduated: August, 1990)
  Advisor: Steven Orey
Random Walks with Time Stationary Random Distribution Function.
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  Last known institution: Kyungpook National University
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Tsorngwhay Pan (Graduated: August, 1990)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Analysis of Shear Flow Instabilities in Nematic Liquid Crystals.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.uh.edu/~pan/
  Last known institution: University of Houston
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Jianzhong Su (Graduated: August, 1990)
  Advisor: Hans Weinberger
Delayed Oscillation Phenomena in Fitzhugh Nagumo Equation.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.uta.edu/math/pages/faculty/su.htm
  Last known institution: University of Texas at Arlington
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Stephen Yanli Zheng (Graduated: August, 1990)
  Advisor: Johannes Nitsche
Investigations on the Question of Finiteness for the Solutions of Plateau's Problem.
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  Last known institution: Augsburg College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1990

Xuefeng Wang (Graduated: July, 1990)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
On Cauchy Problems of Reaction-Diffusion Equations.
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  Last known institution: Tulane University
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Bin Chen (Graduated: June, 1990)
  Advisor: Robert Hardt
On Singularities of a Class of P-Harmonic Maps.
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  Last known institution: Saber (Travelocity), Ft. Worth
  Notes:
    On 6/28/1991, rec'd MBA from UMN

Robert Lorell Coffman (Graduated: June, 1990)
  Advisor: Maury Bramson
Multi-Stage Growth Models.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.uwrf.edu/math/faculty&staff/coffman.html
  Last known institution: University of Wisconsin at River Falls
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1987

Bei Hu (Graduated: June, 1990)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Nonliner Problems in Partial Differential Equations.
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  Last known institution: University of Notre Dame
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Michael Samuel Postol (Graduated: June, 1990)
  Advisor: Donald Kahn
Realization of Homotopy Equivalences by Homeomorphisms.
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  Last known institution: National Security Agency
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Hwanien Chen (Graduated: April, 1990)
  Advisor: Lawrence Gray
On the Stability of a Population Growth Model with Sexual Reproduction on the Two-Dimensional Integer Lattice.
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  Last known institution: Purdue University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1989
U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1988-89

Victor Padron (Graduated: April, 1990)
  Advisor: Donald Aronson
Sobolev Regularization of Some Nonlinear Ill-Posed Problems.
  Email: padron@ula.ve
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  Last known institution: Universidad de Los Andes
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Jeffrey Robert Ondich (Graduated: November, 1989)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Partially Invariant Solutions of Differential Equations.
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  Web: http://www.mathcs.carleton.edu/faculty/jondich/
  Last known institution: Math/CS Dept, Carleton College, Minnesota Northfield, MN 55057
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Pablo Pedregal (Graduated: November, 1989)
  Advisor: David Kinderlehrer
Topics in Non-Linear Analysis.
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  Last known institution: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
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Tatsuhiko Tabara (Graduated: September, 1989)
  Advisor: Yasutaka Sibuya
An Asymptotic Analysis and Stokes Multipliers for a Second Order Linear Differential Equation with Polynomial Coefficients.
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  Last known institution: Golden Gate University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1985

Stephen William Taylor (Graduated: September, 1989)
  Advisor: Walter Littman
Gevrey Regularity of Solutions of Evolution Equations and Boundary Controllability.
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  Last known institution: University of Auckland
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Tim Patrick Finnegan (Graduated: August, 1989)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Siegel-Hilbert Modular Forms of LevelOne, Over Fields with Narrow Class NumberOne, Are Theta Series.
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  Last known institution: Fortas Associates
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1985

Dae San Kim (Graduated: August, 1989)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Galois Symmetric Square L-Functions.
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  Last known institution:
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Douglas Evatt Norton (Graduated: August, 1989)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
A Metric Approach to the Conley Decomposition Theorem.
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  Last known institution: Villanova University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1989

Tiancheng Ouyang (Graduated: August, 1989)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
On Positive Solutions of Semilinear Equation delta u + lamda u -hup, = 0 on Compact Manifolds.
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  Last known institution: Brigham Young University
  Notes:
    1989 - 1990, University of Toledo
1990 - 1992, University of Cincinnati

David Barton Cooke (Graduated: July, 1989)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Hamiltonian Systems of Evolution Equations.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.hastings.edu/courses/math/mathcs/faculty.html
  Last known institution: Hastings College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1989

Dongsu Kim (Graduated: July, 1989)
  Advisor: Dennis Stanton
A Combinatorial Approach to Biorthogonal Polynomials.
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  Last known institution: Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1988-89

Mario Taboada (Graduated: July, 1989)
  Advisor: George Sell
Long-Time Behavior of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation and Related Problems.
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  Last known institution: University Southern California
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Jong-Shenq Guo (Graduated: June, 1989)
  Advisor: Avner Friedman
Nonlinear Quenching Problem and Free Boundary Problem.
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  Last known institution: Taiwan Normal University in Tapai.
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Douglas Kelle McDoniel (Graduated: June, 1989)
  Advisor: Paul Garrett
Siegel-Hilbert Cuspforms Attached to CM Extensions and Their Application to Periods of Genus-2 Hecke Eigenfunctions.
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  Last known institution: Loris College
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1988-89
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1987

Petri Juha Pohjanpelto (Graduated: June, 1989)
  Advisor: Peter Olver
Symmetries of Maxwell's Equations.
  Email: juha-at-math-dot-oregonstate-dot-edu
  Web: http://oregonstate.edu/~pohjanpp/
  Last known institution: Dept of Mathematics Oregon State U
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1988

James Albert Louisell (Graduated: March, 1989)
  Advisor: Lawrence Markus
Differential-Delay Systems.
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  Last known institution: University Southern Colorado
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Wenjie Gao (Graduated: December, 1988)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Boundary Value Problems on Lipschitz Domains for General Elliptic Systems.
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  Last known institution: Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin China
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Min Peter Sun (Graduated: December, 1988)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin and Bernardo Cockburn
A Streamline-Diffusion Method for Miscible and Immiscible Flow in Porous Media.
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  Last known institution:
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K K Tilak Anan Dealwis (Graduated: September, 1988)
  Advisor: John Eagon
Free Minimal Resolutions and Betti Numbers.
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  Last known institution: State University of Louisiana at Hammond
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1984

Patrick Francois Rabau (Graduated: September, 1988)
  Advisor: Dennis Stanton
Enumeration in Vector Spaces over a Field Extension.
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  Last known institution: Hull Trading (part of Goldman Sachs)
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Yi Li (Graduated: August, 1988)
  Advisor: Wei-Ming Ni
On Semilinear Elliptic Equations in Rn.
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  Last known institution: University of Iowa
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1987-88
1988 - 1990, University of Chicago
1990 - 1995, University of Rochester

Bruce B L Peckham (Graduated: August, 1988)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
The Closing of Resonance Horns for Periodically Forced Oscillators.
  Email: bpeckham@d.umn.edu
  Web: www.d.umn.edu/~bpeckham
  Last known institution: University of Minnesota
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1985

Wilfredo Oscar Urbina (Graduated: August, 1988)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
On Singular Integrals with Respect to the Gaussian Measure.
  Email: wurbina@euler.ciens.ucv.ve
  Web: http://euler.ciens.ucv.ve/~wurbina/english.html
  Last known institution: Universidad Central Venezuela
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Robert Adam Cohen (Graduated: July, 1988)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Fractional Step Methods for Liquid Crystal Problems.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Statistical Analysis Systems
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1985

Steven Carl Hofmann (Graduated: July, 1988)
  Advisor: Max Jodeit
Weighted Weak-Type (1, 1) Bounds for Singular Integrals with Non-Smooth Kernel.
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  Last known institution: University Missouri
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1985

Dean Scott Larson (Graduated: July, 1988)
  Advisor: Donald Kahn
The Integral Cohomology Rings of Split Metacyclic Groups.
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  Last known institution: Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1987

Gail S Nelson (Graduated: July, 1988)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Bounds for the Fundamental Solutions of Degenerate Parabolic Partial Differential Equations.
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  Last known institution: Carleton College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1984

Bernard Lestum (Graduated: June, 1988)
  Advisor: William Messing
Applications of Rigid Cohomology to Arithmetic Geometry.
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  Last known institution: Universite de Rennes I
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1987-88

Aldo Rustichini (Graduated: March, 1988)
  Advisor: George Sell
Dynamics in a Model of Economic Growth with Delays.
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  Last known institution: New York University
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1987-88
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1984

Mohamed Sami Elbialy (Graduated: December, 1987)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
Collision Singularities of the N-Body Problem and the Isosceles Three-Body Problem.
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  Last known institution: University of Toledo
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Gabor Hardy (Graduated: December, 1987)
  Advisor: Steven Orey and Gopinath Kallianpur
Stochastic Differential Equations in Duals of Nuclear Spaces.
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  Last known institution:
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    Living in Zurich, Switzerland

Michael Summerf Jolly (Graduated: December, 1987)
  Advisor: George Sell
Explicit Construction of an Inertial Manifold for a Reaction Diffusion Equation.
  Email: jolly-at-indiana-dot-edu
  Web: php.indiana.edu/~msjolly
  Last known institution: Indiana University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1985
Rothrock Teaching Award, Indiana U, 2003

Sanyih Lin (Graduated: October, 1987)
  Advisor: Mitchell Luskin
Numerical Analysis for Liquid Crystal Problems.
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  Last known institution:
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Nicola Garofalo (Graduated: September, 1987)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Unique Continuation Theorems for Second Order Elliptic Equations.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~garofalo/
  Last known institution: Purdue University
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Zikica Dusan Perovic (Graduated: August, 1987)
  Advisor: Karel Prikry
Cardinalities of Algebraic Structures Satisfying Completeness and Saturation Conditions.
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  Last known institution:
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Adolfo Quiros (Graduated: July, 1987)
  Advisor: William Messing
On the p-Adic Analytic Continuation of Divisibility Properties of Filtered F-Crystals with Applications to the Cohomology of Algebraic Varieties.
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  Last known institution: Univ Autonoma de Madrid
  Notes:
    Chair of the department

Victor Daniel Zurkowski (Graduated: July, 1987)
  Advisor: David Sattinger
Scattering for First Order Linear Systems on the Line and Backlund Transformations.
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  Last known institution: Private sector, working for a marketing company
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1986-87
Went on to get a PhD in Statistics (not from UMN)
Currently living in Tronoto, ON, CANADA

Russell Murray Brown (Graduated: June, 1987)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Layer Potentials and Boundary Value Problems for the Heat Equation on Lipschitz Cylinders.
  Email: russell.brown -at- uky.edu
  Web: http://www.ms.uky.edu/~rbrown/
  Last known institution: University of Kentucky
  Notes:
    U of MN Excellent Thesis Award, 1986-87

Celeste Leon Chayabutr (Graduated: March, 1987)
  Advisor: Joel Roberts
The Purity of the Frobenius and the Upper Bound Conjecture for Combinatorial Manifolds.
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  Last known institution: Unisys corporation
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1976

Ananda P Weerasinghe (Graduated: September, 1986)
  Advisor: Steven Orey
Some Properties of Stochastic Flows and Diffusions with Reflections.
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  Last known institution: Iowa State University
  Notes:
    Now a Professor
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1982

Jennie C Hansen Hulse (Graduated: August, 1986)
  Advisor: Bert Fristedt
A Functional Central Limit Theorem for Random Permutations and Random Mappings.
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  Last known institution: Heriot-Watt University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1983

Peter Takac (Graduated: August, 1986)
  Advisor: Peter Rejto
A Trace Class Criterion and Elliptic Operators With Unbounded Coefficients on RN.
  Email:
  Web: www.math.uni-rostock.de/
  Last known institution: University of Rostock, Germany
  Notes:

Ioannis Markos Roussos (Graduated: March, 1986)
  Advisor: William Pohl
Mean-Curvature-Preserving Isometries of Surfaces in Ordinary Space.
  Email: iroussos@gw.hamline.edu
  Web: http://www.hamline.edu/~math/iroussos/
  Last known institution: Hamline University in St Paul, MN
  Notes:
    Undergraduate degree in Mathematics from
   the National University of Athens, Greece.
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1981

Michel Jean Carpentier (Graduated: August, 1985)
  Advisor: Steven Sperber
p-Adic Cohomology of Generalized Hyperkloosterman Sums.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~carpenti/
  Last known institution: Université Pierre et Marie Curie
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1983

Douglas Paul Dokken (Graduated: August, 1985)
  Advisor: Robert Ellis
u-Harmonic Functions of Locally Compact Groups.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.stthomas.edu/mathematics/faculty/dokken.htm
  Last known institution: University of St. Thomas
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1983

Irene Maria Fonseca (Graduated: August, 1985)
  Advisor: David Kinderlehrer
Variational Methods for Elastic Crystals.
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  Last known institution: Carnegie Mellon University
  Notes:

James Ralph Johnson (Graduated: August, 1985)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
Some Properties of a Three-Parameter Family of Diffeomorphisms of the Plane, Near a Transcritical Hopf Bifurcation.
  Email:
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  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1984

Fanghua Lin (Graduated: August, 1985)
  Advisor: Robert Hardt
Regularity for a Class of Parametric Obstacle Problems.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Courant Institute, NYU
  Notes:
    Received the Bocher Prize
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1984

Marco Marce Avellaneda (Graduated: July, 1985)
  Advisor: Naresh Jain
Large Deviation Estimates and the Homological Behavior of Brownian Motion on Manifolds.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Courant Institute
  Notes:
    Professor

Carol E Bezuidenhout (Graduated: July, 1985)
  Advisor: Steven Orey
Small Random Perturbations of Stochastic Systems.
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  Last known institution:
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Laura Mariko Chihara (Graduated: June, 1985)
  Advisor: Dennis Stanton
Applications of the Askey-Wilson Polynomials to Association Schemes.
  Email: lchihara@carleton.edu
  Web: http://people.carleton.edu/~lchihara
  Last known institution: Carleton College
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1981
Outstanding Graduate TA award from the Institute of Technology, 1985

Josephus Cornel Baeten (Graduated: March, 1985)
  Advisor: Wayne Richter
Filters and Ultrafilters over Definable Subsets of Admissible Ordinals.
  Email:
  Web: http://www.win.tue.nl/~josb/
  Last known institution: Eindhoven University of Technology
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1981

Chrispian Elli Shelton (Graduated: December, 1984)
  Advisor: Thomas Berger
Regular Modules for Subgroups of Solvable Groups.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Control Data Corporation
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1979

Kevin Bryce McLeod (Graduated: September, 1984)
  Advisor: James Serrin
Uniqueness of Positive Radial Solutions of Semi-Linear Elliptic Equations in n-space.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: University Wisconsin
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1981

Meir Shemesh (Graduated: July, 1984)
  Advisor: Naresh Jain
Clustering and Weak Convergence of a Sequence of Stochastic Processes.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Tel Aviv University
  Notes:

Manuel Oliveira Ricou (Graduated: July, 1984)
  Advisor: James Serrin
Energy, Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics.
  Email:
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  Last known institution:
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1979

John Robert Greene (Graduated: June, 1984)
  Advisor: Dennis Stanton
CharacterSum, Analogues for Hypergeometric and Generalized Hypergeometric Functions Over Finite Fields.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: University of Minnesota-Duluth
  Notes:

Chiping Lau (Graduated: June, 1984)
  Advisor: Johannes Nitsche
The Boundary Behavior of Solutions of Quasilinear Second Order Elliptic Partial Differential Equations Arising from Geometrical Problems.
  Email:
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  Last known institution: Australian National University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1982

Adel Aziz George (Graduated: December, 1983)
  Advisor: Albert Marden
Some Results on Groups Related to Compact Riemann Surfaces.
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Gaston Eduar Hernandez (Graduated: August, 1983)
  Advisor: Donald Aronson
Existence of Solutions of Populations Problems with Non, Linear Diffusion.
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  Last known institution: University Tecnica Fed Santa Maria
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    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1980

Peter Waksman (Graduated: August, 1983)
  Advisor: William Pohl
The Associated Function of a Plane Polygon.
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  Last known institution: University of Southern California
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Bausen Du (Graduated: August, 1983)
  Advisor: George Sell
Bifurcations of Diffeomorphisms on R3.
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  Last known institution: Math Institute-Academy of Sciences, Taiwanrward McDonell III
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1983

Peter Desbarres March (Graduated: June, 1983)
  Advisor: Steven Orey
Fatou's Theorem for Harmonic Functions of Two-Dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes.
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  Web: http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/people/display/display.php?ID=213
  Last known institution: Ohio State University
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    Professor and Chair of Mathematics Department at Ohio State

Gene Douglas Johnson (Graduated: December, 1982)
  Advisor: Robert Gulliver
On Minimal Isometric Immersions of Riemannian Surfaces Into the Euclidean Four-Sphere.
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  Web: http://www.bakeru.edu/faculty/gjohnson/index.html
  Last known institution: Baker University, Baldwin City, KS
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Mahesh Govind Nerurkar (Graduated: August, 1982)
  Advisor: Harvey Keynes
Generic Theorems for Lifting Dynamical Properties in the Class of Continuous Cocycles.
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  Last known institution: Rutgers University, Camden
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Joji Takahashi (Graduated: August, 1982)
  Advisor: Karel Prikry
Partition and Saturation Properties of Ideals.
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    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1980

Richard Peter Delong (Graduated: August, 1982)
  Advisor: Willard Miller
Killing Tensors and the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation.
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  Last known institution: Raytheon
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    Now Governor At-Large, Mathematicians Outside Academia
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1977

Steven Darrel Johnson (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: John Eagon
Resolutions Of Ideals.
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  Last known institution: Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, WA
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    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1978

Rahim Zaare-Nahandi (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: Joel Roberts
Seminormality Of Certain Generic Projections.
  Email: rahimzn-at-khayam-dot-ut-dot-ac-dot-ir     or     rahimzn-at-ipm-dot-ir
  Web: http://www.fos.ut.ac.ir/~zaare/default.htm
  Last known institution: University of Tehran
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    Now a Full Professor
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1981

Glen Richard Hall (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: Richard McGehee
On Invariant Sets For Certain Maps Of The Annulus.
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  Last known institution: Boston University
  Notes:
    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1978

Gregory Charl Verchota (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Layer Potentials And Boundary Value Problems For Laplace's Equation On Lipschitz Domains.
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  Last known institution: Syracuse University
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Chingher David Lin (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: Yasutaka Sibuya
The Sufficiency Of Matkowsky- Condition In The Problem Of Resonance.
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    Taught at Fu Jen (Catholic) University in Taipei, TAIWAN.
Appointed President of Chong Yu College of Business Administration in Keelung, TAIWAN.
Died of bile duct cancer at the beginning of September, 2001.

Patricia Ellen Bauman (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: Eugene Fabes
Properties of Nonnegative Solutions of Second-Order Elliptic Equations and their Adjoints.
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  Last known institution: Purdue University
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    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1977

Richard Knox Shaw (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: Max Jodeit
A Class Of Operators Which Acts On The Hardy Space H' And A Related Weight Condition.
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  Last known institution: Bell Labs
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    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1978

Philip Stanley Griffin (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: William Pruitt
On The Growth Of D-Dimensional Random Walk.
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  Web: http://math.syr.edu/Links/Pages/psgriffi.html
  Last known institution: Syracuse University
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    Professor
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1978

Insuk Wee (Graduated: June, 1982)
  Advisor: William Pruitt
Suprema Of Levy Processes.
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  Last known institution: Korea University, Seoul
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Karen Louise Whitehead (Graduated: March, 1982)
  Advisor: John Eagon
Products Of Generalized Determinantal Ideals And Decompositions Under The Action Of General Linear Groups.
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  Last known institution: S.D. School of Mines & Tech in Rapid City, SD
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    Now Vice-President for Academic Affairs
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1979

Tod Stevenson Levitt (Graduated: August, 1981)
  Advisor: Hillel Gershenson and David Frank
Framings of Lie Groups which Extend over a Nullcoboridsm.
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  Web: http://www.iet.com/about2.html
  Last known institution: Information Extraction & Transport, Inc.
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    Now CEO of Information Extraction & Transport, Inc.
U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1976

Dan Phillips (Graduated: August, 1981)
  Advisor: David Kinderlehrer
A Free Boundary Value Problem Evolving From The Minimization Of A Non-Convex Functional.
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  Last known institution: Purdue
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    Worked with Luis Cafferelli, formal advisor was David Kinderlehrer

Helmut Maier (Graduated: August, 1981)
  Advisor: Ian Richards
Some Results On Prime Numbers Based On The Application Of Sieve Theory.
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Steven R Dunbar (Graduated: August, 1981)
  Advisor: Donald Aronson
Travelling Wave Solutions Of Diffusive Volterra-Lotka Interaction Equations.
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  Last known institution: University Nebraska
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    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1977

Roger Yin Man Lui (Graduated: August, 1981)
  Advisor: Hans Weinberger
A Nonlinear Integral Equation Arising From A Model In Population Genetics.
  Email: rlui-at-wpi-dot-edu
  Web: www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Math/Faculty/rlui.html
  Last known institution: Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass
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    U of MN Good Teaching Award, 1979 At WPI since 1983.