The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Mathematics
Ph.D.’s Awarded With Job Placement
Last Six Years

 

Degrees Awarded 1999-2000

 

Blue, Meredith

            Supervisor: David Saltman

Placement: Assistant Professor, Eckerd College

            Current Placement:  Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University

            Dissertation: Generic Galois extensions for groups of order p^3

            blue.meredith@gmail.com

 

            Chern, Shey-Jey

            Supervisor: Jeffrey Vaaler

Dissertation: Estimates for the Number of Polynomial with Bounded Degree

and Bounded Measure

            sheyjey@math.utexas.edu

 

            Gibney, Angela

Supervisor: Sean Keel

Placement: Postdoctoral Assistant Professor (VIGRE), University of Michigan

Current Placement:  Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

            Dissertation: Fibrations of the Closure of M_{g,n}

            agibney@math.upenn.edu

 

            Haskins, Mark

Supervisor: Karen K. Uhlenbeck

Placement: Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

            Dissertation: Constructing Special Langrangain Cones

            mhaskins@math.utexas.edu

 

            Pak, Hee Chul

            Supervisor: Ralph Showalter

Placement: Assistant Professor, Sogang University, Korea

            Dissertation: Two Distributed Capacitance Models

            hpak@math.utexas.edu

 

            Park, Young Ja

            Supervisor: Bill Beckner

Placement: Sejong University, Seoul, Korea

            Dissertation: Sobolev trace inequality and logarithmic Sobolev trace inequality

            ypark@math.utexas.edu

 

Verjovsky Marcotte, Cynthia

Supervisor: Cameron Gordon

Placement: Assistant Professor, St. Edward’s University

            Dissertation: Essential Surfaces after Dehn Filling

 

            Zhang, Zuoshun

            Supervisor: E.W. Cheney and E. I. George

Placement: Research Scientist, Quintiles, Inc.

            Dissertation: Proper Posterior Distributions for some Hierarchical models

and Round off Effects in the Gibbs Sampler

            zzhang@qrrg.quintiles.com

 

Degrees Awarded 2000-2001

 

Abad, Juan Jose

Supervisor: Hans A. Koch

Placement: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dissertation: Renormalization, invariant tori, and periodic orbits for Hamiltonian flows.

            jabad@math.mcmaster.ca

 

            Buck, Dorothy Elizabeth

Supervisor: Lorenzo Sadun

Placement:  Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics,  Brown University

            Dissertation: The Topology and Geometry of DNA and DNA-Protein Interaction

            dbuck@dam.brown.edu

 

            Finotti, Luis Renato Abib

            Supervisor: Felipe Voloch

Placement: University of California Santa Barbara

Current Placement:  Instructor, Ohio State University

            Dissertation: Canonical and Minimal Degree Liftings of Curves

            finotti@math.ohio-state.edu

 

Hayes, Leslie

            Supervisor: Raymond Heitmann

Placement:  Assistant Professor, St. Joseph's University

            Dissertation: The Plus Closure of an Ideal

            lhayes@sju.edu

 

            Kalisch, Henrik W.

Supervisor: Jerry L. Bona

Placement:  Research Fellow, Norwegian University of Sciences and

Technology, Trondheim, Norway

            Dissertation: Models for Internal Waves in Two-Fluid Systems

 

            Krashen, Daniel

            Supervisor: David Saltman

Placement: University of California Los Angeles

Current Placement:  Gibbs Assistant Professor, Yale University

            Dissertation: Birational Isomorphisms between Severi-Brauer Varieties

            dkrashen@yale.edu

 

            Momken, Bahareh

Supervisor: Ralph Showalter

Placement: Avaya Communication, Westminster, CO

            Dissertation: Fluid Flow and Deformable Multi-Porous Media

            momken@alumni.utexas.net

 

            Revesz, Mike

            Supervisor: Klaus Bichteler

Placement:  Engineering Scientist, Applied Research Lab, University

of Texas at Austin

            Dissertation: The L p Theory of Random Measures

            revesz@arlut.utexas.edu

 

            Richardson, Gregory Scott

            Supervisor: Jerry Bona

Placement: Visiting Instructor, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Dissertation: Rare events and conditional limit theorems for a class of spectrally positive, heavy-tailed Levy processes

            gregorys@alum.mit.edu

 

            Rulla, William Frederick

            Supervisor: Sean Keel

Placement:  VIGRE Postdoc, University of Georgia at Athens

            Dissertation: The Birational Geometry of M3 and M2,1

            wrulla@math.uga.edu

 

            Visarraga, Darrin Bernardo

            Supervisor: Ralph E. Showalter

Placement: University of Texas at Austin

Current Placement:  Los Alamos National Laboratory

            Dissertation: Heat Transport Models With Distributed Microstructure

            dvisa@math.utexas.edu

 

Degrees Awarded 2001-2002

 

            Bowen, Lewis

            Supervisor: Charles Radin

Placement: University of California at Davis

Current Placement:  Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University

            Dissertation: Density in Hyperbolic Spaces

            lpbowen@indiana.edu

 

            Goncalves, Alexander

            Supervisor: Karen Uhlenbeck

            Placement:  Universidade de Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

            Dissertation: An Application of The Continuity Method for an Equation

on Line Bundles

 

            Jiang, Jiaosheng

            Supervisor: Haskell Rosenthal

Placement: The University of Texas at Austin

            Dissertation: Bounded Operators without Invariant Subspaces on Certain

Banach Spaces

 

            Kim, Christina

            Supervisor:  Panagiotis Souganidis

Placement: Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Current Placement:  Assistant Professor, University of California at Los Angeles

            Dissertation: Uniqueness and Existence Results on Viscosity Solutions

of Some Free Boundary Problems

ikim@math.ucla.edu

 

            Leasure, Jason                                                                 

            Supervisor: Cameron Gordon

            Placement:  National Security Agency

            Dissertation: Geodesics in the Complex of Curves of a Surface

 

            Leininger, Chris

            Supervisor: Alan Reid

Placement: Post-Doc Columbia University,

Current Placement:  Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

            Dissertation: Essential Surfaces in Hyperbolic Three-Manifolds

            clein@math.uiuc.edu

 

            Oehrtman, Michael

            Supervisor: Uri Treisman

Placement: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Dissertation: Collapsing Dimensions, Physical Limitation, and other Student Metaphors for Limit Concepts

oehrtman@math.asu.edu

 

            Slepcev, Dejan

            Supervisor: Panagiotis Souganidis

Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

            Current Placement:  Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California

at Los Angeles

            Dissertation: On Level Set Approach to Motion of Manifolds of

Arbitrary Codimension

slepcev@math.ucla.edu

 

            Socha, Katherine

            Supervisor: Mikhail Vishik

Placement: Assistant Profesor, Michigan State University

            Current Placement:  Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

            Dissertation: Modal Expansions of Surface Wave Model Equations

            ksocha@smcm.edu

 

            Tiu, Christian

            Supervisor: Thaleia Zariphopoulou

            Placement:  Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin

            Dissertation: On the Merton Problem in Incomplete Markets

            tiu@math.utexas.edu

 

            Torres, Monica

            Supervisor: Luis Caffarelli

Placement:  Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

            Current Placement:  University of Houston

            Dissertation: Plane-like minimal surfaces in periodic media with inclusions

 

            Valdinoci, Enrico

            Supervisor: Luis Caffarelli

Placement: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

            Current Placement:  University of Rome III

            Dissertation: Plane-like Minimizers in Periodic Media: Jet Flows and

Ginzburg-Landau

            enrico@math.sns.it

 

            Vano, John

            Supervisor: Rafael de la Llave

Placement: University of Wisconsin at Madison

            Dissertation: A Nash-Moser Implicit Function Theorem with Whitney

Regularity and Applications

jvano@math.wisc.edu

 

Yuan, Juan-Ming

            Supervisor: Jerry Bona and Todd Arbogast

            Placement:  Visiting Mathematician, Oklahoma State University

            Dissertation: Numerical Schemes for Systems of Non-linear Dispersive Wave

Equations

 

Degrees Awarded 2002-2003

 

Goodman, Noah

Supervisor: Robert Gompf

Placement: St. Edward’s University at Austin

Current Placement:  Post Doctoral Appointment, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

Dissertation: Contact Structures and Open Books

 

Mandolesi, Andre

Supervisor: Karen Uhlenbeck

Placement:  Professor, Feira de Santana, Brazil

Dissertation: Adiabatic Limits of the Hermitian Yang-Mills Equations on Slicewise Stable Bundles

 

Neira, Ana Raissa

Supervisor: Felipe Voloch

Placement: Mercer Human Resource Consulting, San Francisco, California

Dissertation: Power Series in P-ADIC Roots of Unity

 

Pacetti, Ariel

            Supervisor: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas

Placement: University of Buenos Aires

            Dissertation: A formula for the central value of certain Hecke L-functions

 

            Pal, Mihaela

            Supervisor: Elliott Cheney

Placement: Los Alamos National Labs

Dissertation: Theory of Principal Component Filter Banks with Applications to Multicomponent Imagery

 

            Savin, Ovidiu

            Supervisor: Luis Caffarelli

Placement: Post Doctoral Visiting Faculty, University of California at Berkeley

            Dissertation: Phase Transitions: Regularity of Flat Level Sets

 

            Terhune, David

            Supervisor: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas

Placement: VIGRE Postdoc, Pennsylvania State University

Dissertation: Evaluations of Multiple L-Values and Double Zeta Values of

Quadratic Fields

 

Degrees Awarded 2003-2004

 

            Baker, Kenneth

            Supervisor: John Luecke

Placement:  VIGRE, University of Georgia at Athens

            Dissertation: Knots on Once-punctured Torus Fibers

            kb@math.uga.edu

 

            Condon, John

            Supervisor: Fernando Rodriguez Villegas

Placement:  Visiting Assistant Professor, City University of New York

            Dissertation: Mahler Measure Evaluations in terms of Polylogarithms

            jcondon@gc.cuny.edu

 

            Fukshansky, Leonid

            Supervisor: Jeffrey Vaaler

Placement:  Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University

            Dissertation: Algebraic Points of Small Height with Additional

Arithmetic Conditions

lenny@math.tamu.edu

 

            Lehr, Heather

            Supervisor: Todd Arbogast

Placement: Ohio State University

            Dissertation: Analysis of a Darcy-Stokes System Modeling Fluid Flow

in Vuggy Porous Media

heather@math.ohio-state.edu

 

Petsche, Clayton Jay

Supervisor:  Jeff Vaaler

Placement:  VIGRE Post Doctoral Associate, University of Georgia at Athens

Dissertation:  Distribution of Galois Orbits of Low Height

clayton@math.uuga.edu

 

            Portillo-Bobadilla, Francisco

            Supervisor: Felipe Voloch

Placement: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

            Dissertation: Computations on an Equation of the BSD Type

            portillo@math.unam.mx

 

Degrees Awarded 2004-2005

 

            Brunson, Dana

Supervisor:  Todd Arbogast

Placement:  Oklahoma State University

Dissertation:  Simulating Fluid Flow in Vuggy Porous

 

Kelliher, James

Supervisor:  Mikhail Vishik

Placement:  Tamarkin Assistant Professor, Brown University

Dissertation:  The vanishing Viscosity Limit for Incompressible Fluids in two dimensions

 

Lalin, Matilde

Supervisor:  Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas

Placement:  Member, Institute for Advance Study, Princeton University

Dissertation:  Some relations of Mahler measure with hyperbolic volumes and special values of L-Functions

 

Lamar, Michael Andrew

            Supervisor:  Jack Xin

            Placement:  Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University

Dissertation:  Human Acoustics: From Vocal Chords to Inner Ear

 

Masri, Riad

Supervisor:  Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas

Placement:  Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,

Bonn, Germany

Dissertation:  Some applications of classical modular forms to number theory 

 

Parker, Adam

Supervisor:  Sean Keel

Placement:  Assistant Professor, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio

Dissertation:  An Elementary Construction of M0,0

 

Petersen, Kathleen

Supervisor:  Alan Reid

Placement:  Coleman Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

Dissertation:  One-Cusped Congruence Subgroups of PSL2     

 

Silvestre, Luis

Supervisor:  Luis Caffarelli

Placement:  Postdoctoral Instructor, Courant Institute, New York, New York

            Dissertation:  Regularity of the obstacle problem for a fractional

            power of the Laplace Operator

 

Sinclair, Christopher

Supervisor:  Jeffrey Vaaler

Placement:  Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

University of British Columbia

            Dissertation:  Multiplicative Distance Functions

 

Stoikov, Sasha

Supervisor:  Thaleia Zariphopoulou

Placement:  Postdoctoral Instructor, Courant Institute, New York, New York

            Dissertation:  Optimal Strategies in incomplete financial markets

 

Teixeira, Eduardo

Supervisor:  Luis Caffarelli

Placement:  Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, State University of New Jersey at Rutgers

            Dissertation:  Regularity of Free Boundary in variational problems

 

Tornaria, Gonzalo

Supervisor:  Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas

Placement:  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Montreal, Canada

            Dissertation:  The Brandt Module of Ternary Quadratic Lattices