The University of Texas at AustinDepartment of MathematicsPh.D.’s Awarded With Job PlacementLast Six Years
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
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
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
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
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
Supervisor: Jerry
Bona and Todd Arbogast
Placement: Visiting Mathematician, Oklahoma State
University
Dissertation:
Numerical Schemes for Systems of Non-linear Dispersive Wave
Equations
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
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
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
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
Supervisor: Todd Arbogast
Placement: Oklahoma State University
Dissertation: Simulating Fluid Flow in Vuggy Porous
Supervisor: Mikhail Vishik
Placement: Tamarkin Assistant Professor, Brown University
Dissertation: The vanishing Viscosity Limit for Incompressible Fluids in two dimensions
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
Supervisor: Jack Xin
Placement: Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
Dissertation: Human Acoustics: From Vocal Chords to Inner Ear
Supervisor: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
Bonn, Germany
Dissertation: Some applications of classical modular forms to number theory
Supervisor: Sean Keel
Placement: Assistant Professor, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio
Dissertation: An Elementary Construction of M0,0
Supervisor: Alan Reid
Placement: Coleman Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
Dissertation: One-Cusped Congruence Subgroups of PSL2
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
Supervisor: Jeffrey Vaaler
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
University of British Columbia
Dissertation: Multiplicative Distance Functions
Supervisor: Thaleia Zariphopoulou
Placement: Postdoctoral Instructor, Courant Institute, New York, New York
Dissertation: Optimal Strategies in incomplete financial markets
Supervisor: Luis Caffarelli
Placement: Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, State University of New Jersey at Rutgers
Dissertation: Regularity of Free Boundary in variational problems
Supervisor: Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Montreal, Canada
Dissertation: The Brandt Module of Ternary Quadratic Lattices