University of Utah Mathematics Department Theses and Dissertations: 1990--1999

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Theses and dissertations (1990--1999)

1999     1998     1997     1996     1995     1994     1993     1992     1991     1990

1999

• Lora Anne Ballinger
  Yellowstone Elk Migration: A Dynamic Programming Model
  M.S., 1999
  Advisor: Mark Lewis
  
• Kristina A. Bogar
  A Semi-Implicit Time Scheme for the Study of Action Potential Propagation in the Bidomain Model
  Ph.D., 1999
  Advisor: James P. Keener
  
• Shawna Haider
  Air Quality Modeling in the Greater Wasatch Area for Use in Future Growth Scenarios
  M.S., 1999
  Advisor: Nicholas Korevaar
  
• Othman Hamed
  M.S. [without thesis], 1999
  Advisor: Andrej Cherkaev
  
• Charles R. Harris
  A Riesz Representation Theorem Based on Decompositions of Unity
  Ph.D., 1999
  Advisor: Don Tucker
  
• Jon T. Jacobsen
  Bifurcation Problems Associated with Monge-Amphere Operators
  Ph.D., 1999
  Advisor: Klaus Schmitt
  
• Elizabeth Jones
  Computations of Buchsbaum-Rim Multiplicities
  Ph.D., 1999
  Advisor: Paul Roberts
  
• Altaf Khan
  Non Thesis
  M.S., 1999
  Advisor: Andrej Cherkaev
  
• Byung-Se Lim
  Branching Theory of Nonlinear Problems
  M.S., 1999
  Advisor: Paul C. Fife
  
• Steven E. Parrish
  Analysis of a Home Range Model: Pattern Formation from Scent-Marking
  M.S., 1999
  Advisor: Mark A. Lewis
  
• Nikolaos Tziolas
  Multiplicities of Smooth Rational Curves on Singular Local Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Threefolds
  Ph.D., 1999
  Advisor: Janos Kollar
  
• Toshio Yoshikawa
  A Variational Approach to the Strongly Nonlinear Regime of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
  Ph.D., 1999
  Advisor: Alexander Balk
  

1998

• Chi-Kan Chen
  Nonlocal Thermoelastic Phase Fields Models
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: Paul Fife
  Last location: Brigham Young University
  
• Eric Cytrynbaum
  M.S. [without thesis], 1998
  
• Jeffrey L. Fletcher
  Homological Group Invariants
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: Steve Gersten
  
• William R. Grua
  M.Stat. [without thesis], 1998
  Last location: Industrial Health Inc., SLC
  
• Andrew Kuharsky
  Mathematical Modeling of Blood Coagulation
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: Aaron Fogelson
  Last location: Tulane University LA
  
• Carla K. Kullinsky Ainsworth
  M.S. [without thesis], 1998
  
• Stephen G. Kurtz
  M.S. [without thesis], 1998
  
• Takayasu Kuwata
  On Log Canonical Thresholds of Hypersurface Singularities
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: Janos Kollar
  
• Timothy J. Lewis
  The Effects of Nonexcitable Regions On Signal Propagation In Excitable Media: Propagation Failure and Reflection
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: James P. Keener
  Last location: Courant Institute
  
• Natasa Macura
  Quasi-Isometries and Mapping Tori
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: Mladen Bestvina
  Last location: University of Michigan
  
• Eric S. Marland
  Dynamics of the Satcomere
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: James P. Keener
  Last location: UC Davis
  
• Igor Mineyev
  Exotic Homology Theories and Negative Curvature in Groups
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: Stephen Gersten
  
• R. Mortensen
  M.S. [without thesis], 1998
  Advisor: Davar Khoshnevisan
  
• Timo Mostert
  M.S. in Secondary Education [without thesis], 1998
  
• Elijah Paul Newren
  Multilevel Distributed Memory Solutions of PoissonÕs Equation
  M.S., 1998
  Advisor: Aaron Fogelson
  Last location: LDS Mission
  
• Sean Sather-Wagstaff
  M.S. [without thesis], 1998
  Advisor: Paul Roberts
  Last location: Purdue University
  
• Min Xie
  Theoretical Studies of Forced Excitable Systems
  Ph.D., 1998
  Advisor: Hans G. Othmer
  

1997

• L. Aguinaldo
  M.S. [without thesis], 1997
  Advisor: Klaus Schmitt
  
• Bonnie R. Amende
  M.S. [without thesis], 1997
  Last location: Oregon
  
• Hsungrow Chan
  Nonexistence of Isometric Immersions of Noncompact Surfaces with Nonpositive Curvature
  Ph.D., 1997
  Advisor: Andrejs Treibergs
  Last location: National Ping Tung Teachers Coll. Taiwan
  
• Chanh Huy Chi
  M.S. [without thesis], 1997
  
• Alastair Neil Craw
  M.S. [without thesis], 1997
  
• Maggie Cummings
  A Model of the Real Number System
  M.S.T., 1997
  Advisor: Don H. Tucker
  
• Kathryn Eppler
  M.S. [without thesis], 1997
  Last location: U of U Medical Center
  
• E.M. Heyde
  HonorÕs Thesis
  M.S., 1997
  Advisor: Davar Khoshnevisan
  Last location: Now in PhD program App Math Caltech
  
• Edward McKay Hyde
  Random Walks and their Relationship to Brownian Motion
  Honors B.A., 1997
  Advisor: James A. Carlson
  
• Craig Alan Johnson
  Simulation of the Belgian Progression and OscarÕs System
  M.S., 1997
  Advisor: Stewart Ethier
  Last location: Ricks College
  
• Yongnan Lee
  Degeneration of Numerical Godeaux Surfaces
  Ph.D., 1997
  Advisor: C. Herbert Clemens
  Last location: Sogang University, Korea
  
• Elizaveta Levina
  Change-point Detection in Data on H2O Discharges
  M.S., 1997
  Advisor: Lajos Horvath
  Last location: University of California-Berkeley
  
• Timothy Manek
  M.S. [without thesis], 1997
  Advisor: Lajos Horvath
  Last location: Hill Airforce Base
  
• Richard Mayer
  Coupled Contact Systems and Rigidity of Maximal Dimensional Variations of Hodge Structure
  Ph.D., 1997
  Advisor: James A. Carlson
  Last location: University of Massachusetts
  
• Bradford E. Peercy
  M.S. [without thesis], 1997
  
• Steven Dennis Rich
  M.Stat [without thesis], 1997
  Advisor: Davar Khoshnevisan
  Last location: Idaho Dept. of Transportation
  
• Laura Ann Smithies
  Equivariant Analytic Localization of Group Representations
  Ph.D., 1997
  Advisor: Joseph L. Taylor
  
• Peter A. Spiro
  Mathematical Studies of Cell Signal Transduction
  Ph.D., 1997
  Advisor: Hans G. Othmer
  
• Blake Curtis Thornton
  M.S. [without thesis], 1997
  
• Nien-Tzu Wang
  Computational Methods for Continuum Models of Platelet Aggregation
  Ph.D., 1997
  Advisor: Aaron Fogelson
  Last location: San Jose, CA
  

1996

• Jose Burillo
  Dimension and Fundamental Groups of Asymptotic Cones
  Ph.D., 1996
  Advisor: Stephen M. Gertsen
  
• Renate Caspers
  M.S. [without thesis], 1996
  Advisor: Davar Khoshnevisan
  Last location: Now in PhD program at U of U
  
• Chin-Yi Jean Chan
  M.S. [without thesis], 1996
  Advisor: Paul C. Roberts
  
• Shirnping Chen
  Examples of N-Step Nilpotent 1-Formal 1-Minimal Models
  Ph.D., 1996
  Advisor: Domingo Toledo
  
• Ionut Ciocan-Fontainine
  The Quantum Cohomology Ring of Flag Varieties
  Ph.D., 1996
  Advisor: Aaron Bertram
  Last location: Boaz Instructor at Northwestern Univ.
  
• Karen Reed Craig
  An Experiment in Promoting Common Sense
  M.S., 1996
  Advisor: Don H. Tucker
  
• John Carlile Dallon
  A Mathematical Study of Chemotaxis in Dictyostelium Discoideum
  Ph.D., 1996
  Advisor: Hans G. Othmer
  
• Barry Tom Eagan
  M.S. [without thesis], 1996
  
• Monika Serbinowski
  Some Limit Results in Change-point Analysis
  Ph.D., 1996
  Advisor: Lajos Horvath
  Last location: Weber State University
  
• Shing-Ming Wong
  M.Stat. [without thesis], 1996
  Advisor: Davar Khoshnevisan
  
• Sung Yil Yoon
  M.S. [without thesis], 1996
  Advisor: Mladen Bestvina
  

1995

• Gillian P. Bannerman
  M.S. [without thesis], 1995
  
• Thomas P. Brennan
  M.S. [without thesis], 1995
  
• Alberto Castro
  Tetrahedral Groups in Complex Hyperbolic Space
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Domingo Toledo
  Last location: Amherst College
  
• Adam J. Chmaj
  Traveling Waves in Multicomponent Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Paul C. Fife
  Last location: Brigham Young University
  
• Ha Thi Minh Dang
  Stability and Boundary Layer Properties of Solutions of Cahn-Hilliard Equations
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Paul C. Fife
  Last location: unaffiliated
  
• Thomas Huggins
  M.S. [without thesis], 1995
  Advisor: Nathan Smale
  
• Sandor Jozsef Kovacs
  The Cone of Curves of K3 Surfaces and Families of Varieties of General Type
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Janos Kollar
  Last location: Univ. of Chicago
  
• Vy Khoi Le
  On Global Bifurcation for Variational Inequalities
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Klaus Schmitt
  Last location: University of Missouri
  
• Lingyun Ma
  Multinomial Change-Point Problems
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Lajos Horvath
  Last location: University of Georgia
  
• Kelly Ann Macarthur
  M.S. [without thesis], 1995
  
• Uwe F. Mayer
  Gradient Flows on Nonpositively Curved Metric Spaces
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Nicholas T. Korevaar
  Last location: Vanderbilt University TN
  
• Pavle Pandzic
  Equivariant Analogues of Zuckerman Functors
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Dragan Milicic
  Last location: University of Zagreb, Croatia
  
• Romuald Sawicz
  Bounds on Effective Parameters of Composit Materials By The Analytic Continuation Method
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Kenneth Golden
  
• Thomasz Serbinowski
  Harmonic Maps Into Metric Spaces With Curvature Bounded Above
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Nicholas Korevaar
  Last location: Weber State University
  
• Robert Shalla
  The Irreducibility of Standard Modules for Weakened Harish-Chandra Sheaves
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Dragan Milic’c
  Last location: Lehman Brothers, New York
  
• Vickie M. Solomon
  M.S. [without thesis], 1995
  
• Robert Welsh Van Kirk
  Integrodifference Models of Biological Growth and Dispersal
  Ph.D., 1995
  Advisor: Mark A. Lewis
  
• Katherine J. Ziemke
  M.Stat. [without thesis], 1995
  

1994

• Traci Lee Bell
  M.S. [without thesis], 1994
  
• Aldo A. Bernasconi
  On HNN-Extensions and the Complexity of the Word Problem for One-Relator Groups
  Ph.D., 1994
  Advisor: Stephen M. Gertsen
  
• Timothy Clark Bratten
  Realizing Representations on a Generalized Flag Manifold
  Ph.D., 1994
  Advisor: Henryk Hecht
  Last location: Univ. of Patagonia, Argentina
  
• William Brimley
  Four-sided Representations of Three-sided Surfaces
  M.S., 1994
  Advisor: Peter Alfeld
  Last location: Evans and Sutherland, SLC
  
• Fabiana Alicia Cesa
  M.S. [without thesis], 1994
  
• Michael Hohn
  Solution of Linearly Constrained Least Squares and Related Problems
  M.S., 1994
  Advisor: Peter Alfeld
  Last location: University of Utah
  
• Sun Hong Kang
  M.S. [without thesis], 1994
  
• Azniv Kirkor Kasparian
  Variations of Hodge Structure of Maximal Dimension with Associated Hodge Numbers H2,0>2 and H1,1=2Q+1
  Ph.D., 1994
  Advisor: James Carlson
  
• Michael John OÕReilly
  An Approximate Solution of the Inverse Helmholtz Equation
  Ph.D., 1994
  Advisor: Frank Stenger
  
• Scott Brian Smith
  M.S. [without thesis], 1994
  
• Tracy M. Whelan
  M.S. [without thesis], 1994
  

1993

• Robert H. Dillon
  A Mathematical Model of Vertebrate Limb Development with Modulated Reaction and Diffusion
  Ph.D., 1993
  Advisor: Hans G. Othmer
  
• Ming He
  Generators, Metric Structures, and Approximations for Measure-Valued Stochastic Processes
  Ph.D., 1993
  Advisor: Stewart N. Ethier
  Last location: Ford Motor Company
  
• David Peter Jahsman
  Full Rank Linear Least Squares in Parallel
  M.S., 1993
  Advisor: Peter Alfeld
  
• Joo-Mok Kim
  Series Representations of Stochastic Integral Processes and the Holder Continuity of a-stable Processes
  Ph.D., 1993
  Advisor: David Mason
  
• Susan Loveland
  M.S. [without thesis], 1993
  Advisor: Lajos Horvath
  Last location: unknown
  
• Jeff McGough
  On solution continua in quasilinear elliptic problems
  Ph.D., 1993
  Advisor: Klaus Schmitt
  Last location: South Dakota School of Mines
  
• Tina C. Moore
  M.S. [without thesis], 1993
  
• Steven C. Morrell
  M.S. [without thesis], 1993
  
• Gregory Lawrence Schmitz
  A Model For The Spread of Genetially Engineered Microbes
  M.S., 1993
  Advisor: Mark Lewis
  
• Thomas M. Stacklin
  M.S. [without thesis], 1993
  
• Endre Szab—
  Complete Intersection Subvarieties of General Hypersurfaces and Divisoral Log Terminal Singularities
  Ph.D., 1993
  Advisor: Janos Kollar
  
• Yuanhua Tang
  Theoretical Stufies on Second Messenger Dynamics
  Ph.D., 1993
  Advisor: Hans Othmer
  
• Aaron Ray Ueland
  M.S. [without thesis], 1993
  Last location: Wall Data 122 nd Street
  
• Randall Fred Westhoff
  Curves and Normal Functions on Higher Dimensional Complex Varieties
  Ph.D., 1993
  Advisor: C. Herbert Clemens
  Last location: Bemidji State University, Minnesota
  
• Min Xie
  M.S. [without thesis], 1993
  Advisor: Hans Othmer
  

1992

• Elizabeth M. Brown
  M.S. [without thesis], 1992
  
• Gregory Ralph Conner
  Metrics on Groups
  Ph.D., 1992
  Advisor: Stephen M. Gersten
  Last location: Brigham Young University
  
• Alessio Corti
  Families of Del Pezzo Surfaces
  Ph.D., 1992
  Advisor: J‡nos Koll‡r
  Last location: Cambridge University NY
  
• David Jay Eyre
  The Dynamics of Patterns for Two Phase Separation Equations
  Ph.D., 1992
  Advisor: Paul Fife
  Last location: U of U
  
• Gregory Martin Hose
  The Utah Book
  M.S.T., 1992
  Advisor: William Holes
  
• Lingyan Ma
  M.Stat. [without thesis], 1992
  Advisor: Lajos Horvath
  Last location: University of Georgia, Math Dept.
  
• Tina Seaon Ma
  Some Goodness-of-fit Indices and Their Distributions in Structural Equation Models
  Ph.D., 1992
  Advisor: J. David Mason
  
• Lorel Marie Preston
  Problem Solving in Matheamtics Education: An Overview of Research Directions
  M.S., 1992
  Advisor: Don H. Tucker
  
• Tatia B. Totorica
  M.S. [without thesis], 1992
  Last location: Boise School District 1207 W Fort St
  
• Paula Denise White
  Nonsolvable Hall ¹-Subgroups of the General Linear Group
  Ph.D., 1992
  Advisor: Fletcher Gross
  Last location: Local computer firm
  
• Guangyan Yin
  Ph.D. [without thesis], 1992
  Advisor: Frank Stenger
  Last location: Unigraphics/Eds
  

1991

• Randy Bodily
  The Mathematics of Orbits
  M.S.T., 1991
  Advisor: Haren E. Bergeson
  
• Mario Ricardo Candia
  Analytic Completion of Highest Weight Modules
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Henryk Hecht
  Last location: Industry (actuary) Insurance
  
• Val A. Cummings
  M.S. [without thesis], 1991
  
• Jorge Andres Devoto
  Finite Group Actions and Elliptic Genera
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Peter J. Braam
  
• Charles J. Esposito
  M.S. [without thesis], 1991
  
• Kenneth Ferguson
  A Constructive Approach to the SU(2) Witten Invariant
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Ronald Stern
  
• Christopher Prince Grant
  The Dynamics of Pattern Selection for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Paul Fife
  Last location: Brigham Young University
  
• Elham Izadi
  On the Moduli Space of Four-dimensional Principally Polarized Abelian Varieties
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Herbert Clemens
  Last location: University of Georgia
  
• Andrew Gareth Keck
  No Information Available
  M.Phil., 1991
  
• Michael Kenneth Kinyon
  The Adjoint Problem for Coupled Linear Operations
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Don Tucker
  
• Vernon J. Kunz
  Approaches to GeometryÐTeaching and Axiomatic Systems
  M.S.E., 1991
  Advisor: E. Allen Davis
  
• Yonghao Ma
  A Division Algorithm Over 2(x) and the First Syzygies of Determinantal Ideals
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Paul C. Roberts
  Last location: Working as a Statistical Consultant
  
• Cameron Wickham
  Annihilation of homology of certain finite free complexes
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Paul Roberts
  Last location: Southwest Missouri State University
  
• James Walter Wiskin
  Geometric and Integral Equation Methods for Scattering in Layered Media
  Ph.D., 1991
  Advisor: Steven A. Johnson
  

1990

• Melanie K. Buechler
  M.S. [without thesis], 1990
  Last location: Dept of Veternas Affairs, SLC
  
• Yanjun Chen
  M.S. [without thesis], 1990
  Last location: Bristol Community College
  
• Gary Wayne De Young
  The Mathematical Basis for Phase Response Curves and Their Application to Coupled Oscillators
  Ph.D., 1990
  Advisor: Hans G. Othmer
  
• David Jay Eyre
  Exact Analysis of General Sparse Rational Linear Systems
  M.S., 1990
  Advisor: Peter Alfeld
  Last location: University of Utah
  
• Ya Li
  Asymptomatic Behavior of Solutions of the Non-linear Parabolic Differential Equations
  Ph.D., 1990
  Advisor: James P. Keener
  Last location: Utah Valley Community College
  
• Ron Lundstrom
  Stochastic Models and Statistical Methods for DNA Sequence Data
  Ph.D., 1990
  Advisor: Simon Tavare
  
• Uwe F. Mayer
  M.A. [without thesis], 1990
  Advisor: Nicholas Korevaar
  
• Karen L. Myers
  M.S. [without thesis], 1990
  
• Mary Ellen Oman
  M.S. [without thesis], 1990
  
• Mary Ellen Rosen
  M.S. [without thesis], 1990
  
• Melinda J. Schlafman
  M.S. [without thesis], 1990
  
• Maritza L. Sirvent
  The Dimension of the Space of Multivariate Splines
  Ph.D., 1990
  Advisor: Peter W. Alfeld
  Last location: Prof. at university in Mexico
  
• James Todd Webb
  New Algorithms for Swept Surfaces and Lofted Surfaces
  M.S., 1990
  Advisor: Nicholas J. Korevaar
  Last location: unknown
  
• P. Denise White
  M.S. [without thesis], 1990
  Last location: Westminster College