Department of Mathematics, WUSTL - Ph.D.s, 1991-1998

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The following is a chronological listing of persons granted a Ph.D. by the Department of Mathematics from 1991 to 1998. In each case, the name of the recipient is followed by the name(s) of the thesis advisor, the dissertation title, and the recipient's last known institutional affiliation.

  • Robert Culverhouse, 1998 (Albert Baernstein) Sharp majorization inequalities for sums of independent uniformly distributed random variables; Assistant Professor of Mathematics in Medicine in the Division of General Medical Sciences with a joint appointment in the Division of Biostatistics. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Gustavo Garrigos, 1998 (Guido Weiss) Analysis, Dynamical Systems, Geometry, Prof. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
  • Tony Hinrichs, 1998 (Mitch Taibleson) Factoring the Green's operator for random walks on trees, Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Ben Nicholson, 1998 (N. Mohan Kumar) Commutative Algebra, K theory, projective modules, and complete intersections; Instructor and Advisor, Department of Mathematics, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland.
  • Michelle Penner, 1998 (Renato Feres) Foliations with Kazhdan's propert T, Visiting Assistant Professor, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
  • Luis Fernandez, 1997 (Quo-Shin Chi) Superminimal Surfaces in Spheres, Lecturer, Durham University.
  • Bao Luong, 1997 (Steven Krantz) A T(b) theorem for the Poincare upper half space and hyperbolic geometry; Université Paris 13, Industrie et Finance Internationale, Paris, France.
  • Tristan Nguyen, 1997 (Steven Krantz) Holomorphic Curves in Pn minus a general hypersurface, Cryptologic Mathematician, Department of Defense, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland.
  • Suzanne Tourville, 1997 (M. Victor Wickerhauser) An analysis of a numerical method for solving the two-dimensional Navier Stokes Equations, Associate Professor, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri.
  • David Weiland, 1997 (Guido Weiss) Calderon-Zygmund operators and smooth molecules, R.H. Bing Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
  • Cristobal Gonzalez, 1997 (Albert Baerstein II) Differential inequalities associated with weighted symmetrization processes on the rea line, Assistant Professor, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
  • Xinwei Li, 1996 (Guido Weiss) Transference and related techniques in harmonic analysis, Statistical Data Analyst, Department of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
  • Pen Lin, 1996 (Richard Rochberg) Hankel and Toeplitz operators on some weighted spaces of entire functions, Postdoc, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
  • Anita Woodley, 1996 (David Wright) Subgroups of the two-dimensional Cremona group, Project Engineer, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St Louis, Missouri.
  • Dimitrios Betsakos, 1996 (Albert Baerstein II) Harmonic measure, domains with fixed inradius, and polarization; Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki .
  • Ann Podleski, 1996 (Stanley Sawyer) A statistical test for correlated error in binned data with applications to DNA fingerprinting data, Assistant Professor, Harris-Stowe State College, St Louis, Missouri.
  • Mary Shepherd, 1996 (Gary Jensen) Differential Geometry, Line congruences as surfaces in the space of lines, Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Potsdam, New York.
  • Nicola Arcozzi, 1995 (Albert Baernstein II) Riesz transforms on spheres and compact Lie groups; Associate Professor, Universita di Bologna.
  • Gregory Battle, 1995 (Cleon Yohe) Characterizations of commutative and noncommutative Moore-Penrose rings, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Director Defense Computational R&D Projects, Morehouse College.
  • Fausto Di Biase, 1995 (Steve Krantz) Approach regions and maximal functions in theorems of Fatou type; Associate Professor, Università `G. d'Annunzio'.
  • Jianwen Wang, 1995 (Richard Rochberg) Multipliers and interpolating sequences in analytic Besov spaces; Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, China.
  • Xinli Jiang, 1995 (Mitch Taibleson) Strongly symmetric smooth molecules and strongly symmetric operators.
  • Youfeng Shen, 1995 (Mitch Taibleson) Harmonic analysis on the tree relating to Green's operator, Graduate student, Computer Science Department, University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri.
  • Xihua Wang, 1995 (Guido Weiss) The study of wavelets from the properties of their Fourier transforms, Postdoctoral Fellow, Electronic Radiology Lab, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Li Liu, 1994 (Sergei Syskin & David Wright) Structures of NY-groups and SNY-groups, Graduate Student, Computer Science Department, University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri.
  • Siqi Fu, 1994 (Steven Krantz) Geometry of bounded domains and behavior of invariant metrics, Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
  • Xiaojun Huang, 1994 (Steven Krantz) Several Complex Variables, CR Geometry and Complex Geometry; Visiting Professor of Wuhan University, China, currently visiting Rutgers University (2007).
  • Hong Xian, 1994 (Richard Rochberg) Studies of geometric models of composition operators, Statistical Data Analyst, Psychiatry, Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Charles K. Vogl, 1994 (David Wright) Cubic homogeneous maps and the Jacobian conjecture in dimension 4, Actuarial consultant, William M. Mercer, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • John F. Stapel, 1994 (John McCarthy) Interpolation between compatible Hilbert space couples, Sales Representative, Primerica Financial Services, Earth City, Missouri.
  • Carlo Morpurgo, 1993 (Albert Baernstein II) Pertubation theorems for traces of heat kernels with applications; Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
  • Jiye Yu, 1993 (Steven Krantz) Geometric analysis on weakly pseudoconvex domains. Computer Scientist at SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center.
  • Ruth Gornet, 1993 (Carolyn Gordon) Spectral geometry of higher-step Riemannian nilmanifolds, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Arlington.
  • Richard Laugesen, 1993 (Albert Baernstein II) Extremal problems involving logarithmic and Green capacity, Hildebrandt Research, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana.
  • Zhen-Qing Chen, 1992 (Martin Silverstein) On reflecting diffusion processes, Professor, University of Washington.
  • Ruijia Liao, 1992 (Gary Jensen) Cyclic properties of the harmonic sequence of surfaces in CP_n, Graduate student, Computer Science, University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri.
  • Chi Gu, 1992 (Mitchell Taibleson) Besov spaces on non-homogeneous martingales; Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Maciej Paluszynski, 1992 (Mitchell Taibleson and Guido Weiss) Characterization of Lipschitz spaces via the commutator operator of Coifman, Rochberg, and Weiss; a multiplier theorem for a semigroup of contractions, Assistant Professor, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.
  • Gene Freudenburg, 1992 (David Wright) On the automorphism group of the polynomial ring in three variables, Associate Professor, University of Southern Indiana.
  • Susan Kelly, 1992 (Richard Rochberg and Mitchell Taibleson) Pointwise convergence for wavelet expansions, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
  • Alberto Candel, 1991 (Lawrence Conlon) Dynamical Systems, Uniformization of foliations by surfaces, Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge.
  • Luigi Fontana, 1991 (Albert Baernstein II) Sharp borderline Sobolev estimates for functions on compact Riemannian manifolds, Assistant Professor, Universita Di Milano, Milano, Italy.
  • Krzysztof Nowak, 1991 (Richard Rochberg). Senior Lecturer, Drexel University, Computer Science Department. Fourier analysis, partial differential equations, image processing, wavelets, asymptotic distribution of eigenvalues, numerical methods and algorithms, computer science education.
  • He Ouyang, 1991 (Carolyn Gordon) On isospectral deformations on two-step nilmanifolds, Software Engineer, Alameida, California.
  • Hesheng Zhao, 1991 (Brian Blank) Hardy spaces on rank one symmetric spaces of noncompact type. City Planning & City Development, Nanjing: Southeastern University
  • Juneng Zheng, 1991 (Albert Baernstein II) Some extremal problems involving n points on the unit circle, Computing Specialist, Des Moines, Iowa.
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