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Graduates of ACM have gone on to various careers in academia and industry, including Robert Merton, a 1967 graduate of the department, who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.

2008

John A. Monro, Jr.
A Super-Algebraically Convergent, Windowing-Based Approach to the Evaluation of Scattering from Periodic Rough Surfaces
Advisor: O. Bruno

Lixiu Tian

Effective Behavior of Dielectric Elastomer Composites
Advisor: K. Bhattacharya

Ke Wang
A Subdivision Approach to the Construction
of Smooth Differential Forms
Advisor: P. Schröder

2007

Bou-Rabee, Nawaf
Hamilton-Pontryagin Integrators on Lie Groups
Advisor: J. Marsden

Patrick Dondl
Structure and Evolution of Martensitic Phase Boundaries
Advisor: K. Bhattacharya

Marco Latini
Simulations and Analysis of Two- and Three-Dimensional Single-Mode Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability using Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory and Vortex Methods
Advisor: D.I. Meiron

Lei Zhang
Metric Based Upscaling for Partial Differential Equations with a Continuum of Scales
Advisor: H. Owhadi

2006

Laurent Demanet
Curvelets, Wave Atoms, and Wave Equations
Advisor: E. Candes

David Goulet
Mathematical Models of the Developing C.elegans Hermaphrodite Gonad
Advisor: D.S. Cohen

Wuan Luo
Wiener Chaos Expansion and Numerical Solutions of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Advisor: T.Y. Hou

Theofilos Strinopoulos
Upscaling Immiscible Two-Phase Flows in an Adaptive Frame
Advisor: T.Y. Hou

2005

Valentin (Gaby) Stredie
Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of
Aquatic and Aerial Animal Locomotion
Advisor: T.Y. Hou

Andrew Westhead
Upscaling for 2-Phase Flows in Porous Media
Advisor: T.Y. Hou

Xinwei Yu
Localized Non-blowup Conditions for
3D Incompressible Euler Flows and Related Equations
Advisor: T.Y. Hou

2004

Charles D. Camp
Temporal and Spatial Patterns of the Interannual Variability of Stratospheric Ozone and Dynamcs
Advisor: Y. Yung

Mario Julián Chaubell
Low-Coherence Interferometric Imaging: Solution of the One-Dimensional Inverse Scattering Problem
Advisor:
O. Bruno

2003

Razvan C. Fetecau
Variational Methods for Nonsmooth Mechanics
Advisor: J. E. Marsden

Andrei Yakovlevich Greenberg
Chebyshev Spectral Method for Singular Moving Boundary Problems with Application to Finance
Advisor: O. P. Bruno

Elizabeth Anne Howard
(previously Wedeman)
A Front Tracking Method for Modelling Thermal Growth
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

E. McKay Hyde
Fast, High-Order Methods for Scattering by Inhomogeneous Media
Advisor: O. P. Bruno

Jason Christopher Kastner
Modeling a Hox Gene Network Stochastic Simulation with Experimental Perturbation
Advisors: J. Solomon and S. Fraser

Sean Patrick Mauch
Efficient Algorithms for Solving Static Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

2002

Bogdan Craciun
Phase Boundary Propagation in Heterogeneous Media
Advisor: K. Bhattacharya

Danny Petrasek

Diffusion-Mediated Regulation Endocrine Networks
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

2001

Gang Hu
Singularity Formation in Three-Dimensional Vortex Sheets
Advisor: T. Y. Hou

Michael Louie
Numerical Study of Pattern Forming Processes in Models of Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Advisor: M. Cross

Mayya Tokman
Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling of Solar Magnetic Arcades Using Exponential Propagation Methods
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

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2000

Peter J. Park
Multiscale Numerical Methods for the Singularly Perturbed Convection-Diffusion Equation
Advisor: T. Y. Hou

Hui (Helen) Si
Numerical Study of Interfacial Flow with Surface Tension in Two and Three Dimensions
Advisor: T. Y. Hou

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1999

Keri Aivazis
A Spherical Vortex Model for Homogeneous Turbulence
Advisor: D. I. Pullin

Yalchin Efendiev
The Multiscale Finite Element Method (MsFEM) and Its Applications
Advisor: T. Y. Hou

Donal A. Gallagher
Saffman-Taylor Fingers in Deformed Hele-Shaw Cells
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

James P. Gleeson
Random Advection of a Passive Scalar

Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Sung Phil Kang
A Study of Viscous Flow Past Axisymmetric and Two-Dimensional Bodies
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

Patrick M. Lahey
A Fixed-Grid Numerical Method for Dendritic Solidification with Natural Convection
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

Philip Love
Bifurcations in Kolmogorov and Taylor-Vortex Flows

Advisor: H. B. Keller

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1998

Darren Crowdy
Exact Solutions for Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

David J. Hill
Part I: Vortex Dynamics in Wake Models
Part II: Wave Generation
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Mark Meloon
Models of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Continuously Stratified Fluids
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

Mikhail K. Rudnev
Exponentially Small Splitting of Separatrices and the Arnold's Diffusion Problem
Advisor: S. Wiggins

Russina Sgoureva-Philippakos
Nonlinear Effects in Elastic Rayleigh Waves
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

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1997

Anatoly I. Baumstein
Nonlinear Water Waves with Shear
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

David J. Haroldsen
The Numerical Calculation of Three-Dimensional Water Waves using a Boundary Integral Method
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

Muruhan Rathinam
Differentially Flat Nonlinear Control Systems
Advisor: R. Murray

Moira E. Regelson
Protein Structure/Function Classification Using Hidden Markov Models
Advisor: J. Solomon

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1996

Kayvan Ardalan
Complex Vortex Arrays
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

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1995

Michael Lough
The Motion of Thin-Cored Vortex Filaments: The Equations of Motion and their Solution for Some Special Cases
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Thomas P. Witelski
Problems in Nonlinear Diffusion
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

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1994

James D. Buntine
I. Inviscid, swirling flows and vortex breakdown
II. A numerical investigation of the Lundgren turbulence model
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Andrew J. Conley
New plane shear flows
Advisor: H. B. Keller

David A. Edwards
A Model for Nonlinear Diffusion in Polymers
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Harald von Sosen
I. Folds and Bifurcations in the Solutions of Semi-Explicit Differential-Algebraic Equations
II. The Recursive Projection Method Applied to Differential-Algebraic Equations and Incompressible Fluid Mechanics
Advisor: H. B. Keller

1993

Barry Ryan
Lie-Poisson Integrators in Hamiltonian Fluid Mechanics
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

1992

Richard L. M. Ammons
Mathematical Control Theory for Liquid Chromatography
Advisor: J. Lorenz

Tasso Kaper
I. On the Structure in Separatrix-Swept Regions of Slowly-Modulated Hamiltonian Systems
II. On the Quantification of Mixing in Chaotic Stokes' Flows:The Eccentric Journal Bearing
Advisor: S. Wiggins

Shiu-Hong Lui
I. Multiple Bifurcations
II. Parallel Homotopy Method for the Real Nonsymmetric Eigenvalue Problem
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Aaron Melman
Complexity Analysis for the Newton Modified Barrier Function Method
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Maurice Van Putten
MHD in Divergence Form: A Computational Method for Astrophysical Flow
Advisor: S. Phinney (Astro/Phys)

1991

Dana Hobson
Point Vortex Models for Modon Dynamics
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Vidyadhar Y. Mudkavi
Numerical Studies of Nonlinear Axisymmetric Waves on Vortex Filaments
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

Thu Pham
Numerical Studies of Incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in a Stratified Fluid
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

1990

Catherine Kent Hayes
Diffusion and Stress Driven Flow in Polymers
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Gregor Kovacic
Chaos in a Model of the Forced and Damped Sine-Gordon Equation
Advisor: S. Wiggins

Robert McLachlan
Separated Viscous Flows via Multigrid
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Anne Morlet
I. Numerical Experiments for the Computation of Invariant Curves in Dynamical Systems
II. Numerical Convergence Results for a One-Dimensional Stefan Problem
Advisor: J. Lorenz

Rachel Shinn-Mendoza
Shocks and Instabilities in Traffic
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

1989

Vered Rom-Kedar
I. Analytical Study of Transport, Mixing and Chaos in an Unstead Vortical Flow
II. Transport in Two-Dimensional Maps
Advisor: S. Wiggins

James M. Rotenberry
Effect of Compliant Boundaries on Weakly Nonlinear Shear Waves in Channel Flow
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Israel Soibelman
A Study of Finite Amplitude Bifurcations in Plane Poiseuille Flow
Advisor: D. I. Meiron

1988

Robert William Cox
A Model for Stress-Driven Diffusion in Polymers
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Michael J. Ward
Asymptotic Methods in Semiconductor Device Modeling
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

1987

Mary Elizabeth Brewster
Asymptotic Analysis of Thin Plates Under Normal Load and Horizontal Edge Thrust
Advisor: H. B. Keller

James Russell Kamm
Shape and Stability of Two-Dimensional Uniform Vorticity Regions
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Michael Jeremy Landman
New Solutions of an Amplitude Equation Describing Transition in a Laminar Shear Flow
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Juan Antonio Zufiria
I. Symmetry Breaking of Water Waves
II. On the Superharmonic Instability of Surface Water Waves
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

1986

Geoffrey Samuel Chesshire
Composite Grid Construction and Applications
Advisor: H.-O. Kreiss

David I. Feinstein
Relating Thermodynamics to Information Theory: The Equality of Free Energy and Mutual Information
Advisor: C. Mead

Tomas Paul Girnius
Ray Tracing in Complex Three-Dimensional Earth Models
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Michael J. Naughton
On Numerical Boundary Conditions for the Navier-Stokes Equations
Advisor: H.-O. Kreiss

David Kenneth Rollins
Diffusion with Varying Drag; The Runaway Problem
Advisor: N. Corngold

Donald William Schwendeman
Numerical Shock Propagation Using Geometrical Shock Dynamics
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

1985

Jeffrey Michael Fier
I. Fold Continuation and the Flow Between Rotating Coaxial Disks
II. Equilibrium Chaos
III. A Mesh Selection Algorithm for Two-Point Boundary Value Problems
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Michael E. Henderson
Complex Bifurcation
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Wiliam Douglas Henshaw
I. The Numerical Solution of Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
II. Composite Overlapping Grid Techniques
Advisor: H.-O. Kreiss

Charles Molloy
Contributions to the Kinetic Theory of Traffic Flow With Queuing
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

Elizabeth Ann Stanley
Diffusion in Glassy Polymers
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

1984

Douglas A. Reinelt
The Penetration of a Finger Into a Viscous Fluid
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Allen C. Robinson
Existence and Stability of Vortices and Vortex Arrays
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Jeffrey A. Simmen
Steady Deep-Water Waves on a Linear Shear Current
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Noel F. Smyth
I. Solution on a Beach and Related Problems
II. Modulated Capillary Waves
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

Saleh A. Tanveer
Topics in 2-D Separated Vortex Flows
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

1983

John A. Fawcett
I. Three Dimensional Ray-Tracing and Ray Inversion in Layered Media
II. Inverse Scattering and Curved Ray Tomography With Applications to Seismology
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Thomas M. Hagstrom
Reduction of Unbounded Domains to Bounded Domains for Partial Differential Equation Problems.
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Michael D. Prendergast
Linear Programming Methods for the Numerical Solution of Parabolic Equations Backwards in Time
Advisor: J. Franklin

Luis Guillermo M. Reyna
I. Stability of Tchebyshev Collocation
II. Interpolation for Surfaces With 1-D Discontinuities
III. On Composite Meshes
Advisor: H.-O. Kreiss

Daniel I. Zwillinger
Long Distance Energy Correlations in Random Media
Advisor: B. S. White

1982

John Wilson Barker
I. Interactions of Fast and Slow Waves in Problems With Two Time Scales
II. A Numerical Experiment on the Structure of Two-Dimensional Turbulent Flow
Advisor: H.-O. Kreiss

David Leslie Brown
Solution Adaptive Mesh Procedures for the Numerical Solution of Singular Perturbation Problems
Advisor: H.-O. Kreiss

James R. Mueller
I. The Analysis of the Rewetting of a Vertical Slab Using a Weiner-Hopf Technique
II. Asymptotic Expansions of Integrals with Three Coalescing Saddle Points
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Louis Anthony Romero
I. Similarity Solutions of the Equations of Three Phase Flow Through Porous Media
II. The Fingering Problem in a Hele-Shaw Cell
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Robert E. Scheid
The Accurate Numerical Solution of Highly Oscillatory Ordinary Differential Equations
Advisor: H.-O. Kreiss

1981

Alan D. Jepson
I. Asymptotic Boundary Conditions for Ordinary Differential Equations
II. Numerical Hopf Bifurcation
Advisor: H. B. Keller

William L. Kath
I. Propagating and Waiting Fronts in Nonlinear Diffusion
II. Sustained Reentry Roll Resonance
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Fai Ma
Stability Theory of Linear and Nonlinear Stochastic Difference Systems
Advisor: T. Caughey

David U. Martin
Studies of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations and its Application to Water Waves
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

James C. Schatzman
A Model for the Von Karman Vortex Street
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

1980

Evangelos A. Coutsias
Some Effects of Spatial Nonuniformities in Chemically Reacting Mixtures
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

John W. McLean
I. The Fingering Problems in Flow Through Porous Media
II. The Kinetic Equation for Hamiltonian Systems
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

David J. Perozzi
I. Seismic Ray-Tracing in Piecewise Homogeneous Media
II. Analysis of Optimal Step-Size Selection in Homotopy and Continuation
Advisor: H. B. Keller

1979

Benito M. C. Charpentier
Steady Capilliary-Gravity Waves on Deep Water
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Athanassios S. Fokas
Invariants, Lie-Backlund Operators and Backlund Transformations
Advisor: P. A. Lagerstrom

Patrick Shawn Hagan
The Stability of Traveling Wave Solutions of Parabolic Equations
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Henry C. Simpson
Periodic Solutions of Integro-Differential Equations Which Arise in Population Dynamics
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

1978

Edward J. Bissett
Bifurcation in a Reaction Diffusion System
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Dwight W. Decker
Topics in Bifurcation Theory
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Marianela Lentini-Gil
Boundary Value Problems Over Semi-Infinite Intervals
Advisor: H. B. Keller

John C. Neu
Nonlinear Oscillations in Discrete and Continuous Systems
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

John Steven Sheffield
Topics in Vortex Motion
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Roque Kwok-Hung Szeto
The Flow Between Rotating Coaxial Disks
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Randall Gary Williams
The Stochastic Exit for Dynamical Systems
Advisor: B. White

1977

Gregory R. Baker
Studies in Vortex Motion
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Elliot Fischer
Exact Solutions and Transformation Properties of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations from General Relativity
Advisor: F. Estabrook

Rodolfo Ruben Rosales
I. Exact Solution of Some Nonlinear Evolution Equations
II. The Similarity Solutions for the Korteweg-de Vries Equation and the Related Painleve Transcendent
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

1976

Donald W. Miklovic
Topics in Linear and Nonlinear Dispersive Waves
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

Antonmaria Alessio Minzoni
Topics in Linear and Nonlinear Dispersive Waves
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

1975

Warren Ferguson
A Singularly Perturbed Linear Two-Point Boundary-Value Problem
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Michael Alan Kosecoff
Some Problems in Nonlinear Elasticity
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Thomas Stevens
Numerical Methods for Ill-Posed, Linear Problems
Advisor: J. N. Franklin

1974

Donald Campbell Brabston
I. Numerical Solutions of Steady Viscous Flow
II. Numerical Solution of Singular Endpoint Boundary Value Problems
Advisor: H. B. Keller

James A. Boa
A Model Biochemical Reaction
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Paul K. Mazaika
On the Settling Speed of Dilute Arrays of Spheres
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Andrew B. White, Jr.
Numerical Solutions of Two-Point Boundary-Value Problems
Advisor: H. B. Keller

1973

Kirby William Fong
Numerical Solution of Parabolic Equations by the Box Scheme
Advisor: H. B. Keller

Javier Jimenez
I. Nonlinear Gas Oscillations in Pipes
II. Wavetrains with Small Dissipation
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

Aubrey B. Poore, Jr.
Stability and Bifurcation Phenomena in Chemical Reactor Theory
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Robert Donald Small
Nonlinear Dispersive Waves in Nonlinear Optics
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

Henry Che-Chuen Yuen
Waves on Vortex Filaments
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

1972

James P. Keener
Some Modified Bifurcation Problems with Application to Imperfection Sensitivity in Buckling
Advisor: H. B. Keller

John R. Myers
New Variational Principles for Systems of Partial Differential Equations
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

XX Newhall
Two New Integral Transforms and Their Applications
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Anantanarayanan Thyagaraja
Compressible Flows at Small Reynolds Numbers
Advisor: P. A. Lagerstrom

1971

Michael E. Delaney
Singular Perturbation Problems Involving Singular Points and Turning Points
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

James A. Ellison
Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability of Solutions of a Class of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Advisor: T. Caughey

William W. Everett
On the Determination of the Properties of a Medium from its Reflection Coefficient
Advisor: J. Knowles

William F. Langford
Bifurcation Theory of Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems
Advisor: H. B. Keller

1970

Richard Guy Casten
Methods for Deriving Conservation Laws
Advisor: P. A. Lagerstrom

Seymour E. Goodman
The Hydro-Kinetic Theory of Liquid Helium II
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

Warren J. Wiscombe
Nonlinear Dispersive Waves with a Small Dissipation
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

1968

Joseph W. Blum
Propagation in an Inhomogeneous Medium
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Guy de Balbine
Computational Analysis of the Random Component Induced by a Binary Equivalence Relation
Advisor: J. N. Franklin

Howard Arthur Kabakow
A Perturbation Procedure for Nonlinear Oscillations. Dynamics of Two Oscillators with Weak Nonlinear Couplings.
Advisor: J. D. Cole

Theodore Wills Laetsch
Eigenvalue Problems for Positive Monotonic Nonlinear Operators
Advisor: D. S. Cohen

Thomas William MacDowell
Boundary Value Problems for Stochastic Differential Equations
Advisor: T. Caughey

Michael Philip Mortell
Some Approximate Solutions of Dynamic Problems in the Linear Theory of Thin Elastic Shells
Advisor: J. Knowles

Robert Jay Schmulian
Nearly Free Molecular Heat Transfer from a Sphere
Advisor: J. D. Cole

Tyan Yeh
I. Nonexistence of Looping Trajectories in Hydromagnetic Waves of Finite Amplitude
II. Breaking of Waves in a Cold Collision-Free Plasma in a Magnetic Field
III. On Stabilities of Periodic Waves in a Cold Collision-Free Plasma in a Magnetic Field
Advisor: P. G. Saffman

1967

George Wallace Bluman
Construction of Solutions to Partial Differential Equations by the Use of Transformation Groups
Advisor: J. D. Cole

Harold James Payne
The Response of Nonlinear Systems to Stochastic Excitation
Advisor: T. Caughey

Robert L. Seliger
I. On the Breaking of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves
II. Variational Principles in Continuum Mechanics
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

1966

Jon Christian Luke
Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Problems
Advisor: G. B. Whitham

 

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