PhDs

Lehigh Math Ph.D.'s since 1991

A list of all Lehigh Math Ph.D's

Link to copies of dissertations 2011 - present

 

  • Gary Scott Stoudt
    • January 1991
    • Sequence Space Properties Related to the Wilansky Property
    • advisor, Andrew K. Snyder
    • now at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania
  • Chaorong Chen
    • January 1991
    • Networks and Nonlinear Phenomena in Oxygen Transport to Tissue
    • advisor, Eric P. Salathe
    • now at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, California
  • Carla Schultes
    • June 1991
    • Characteristic Classes of Totally Geodesic and Riemannian Foliations
    • advisor, David L. Johnson
  • Jian-hua Wang
    • June 1991
    • Extended Canonical Transformations and Their Applications to Systems of Partial Differential Equations
    • advisor, Dominic Edelen
  • Douglas C. Phillippy
    • October 1991
    • A Mathematical Analysis of a Biomechanical Model of the Foot
    • now at Messiah College
    • advisor, Eric P. Salathe
  • Steven Thomas Dougherty
    • June 1992
    • Nets and Their Codes
    • advisor, Edward F. Assmus, Jr.
    • now at University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania
  • Rebecca Ann Stoudt
    • June 1992
    • Multi-Objective Linear Programming Problems and Efficient Solutions with Respect to Non-Pointed Cones
    • advisor, Murrary Schechter
    • deceased
  • Karl V. Kropp
    • October 1992
    • Asymptotics of a Free Boundary Problem Resulting From the Determination of an Amortizing Loans Refinance Option
    • advisor, Gregory T. McAllister
    • now at Center for Naval Analysis, Virginia
  • Elias Dabeet
    • January 1993
    • Tests for Goodness of Fit Based on Folded Kernel Density Estimation
    • advisors, B. K. Ghosh and Wei-Min Huang
    • Al-Qods University, Ramallah
  • Kimberly Rose
    • January 1993
    • Generalized Reed-Muller Codes and Finite Geometries
    • advisor, Edward F. Assmus, Jr.
  • Jeannette Janssen
    • May 1993
    • Even and Odd Latin Squares
    • advisor, Edward F. Assmus, Jr.
    • Now at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Camille McKayle
    • May 1993
    • Types of Differential Equations Using Polynomial Operators
    • advisor, Gregory T. McAllister
    • now at University of the Virgin Islands
  • Phillip Aikey
    • October 1993
    • Sacks Reals with Vanishing Limit Points
    • advisor, Lee J. Stanley
  • Ismail Kocayusufuglu
    • October 1993
    • Volume Minimizing Codimension-1 Foliations of S^3
    • advisor, David L. Johnson
    • now teaching in Turkey
  • Charles Redmond
    • October 1993
    • Boundary Rooted Graphs and Euclidean Matching Algorithms
    • advisor, Joseph Yukich
    • now at Mercyhurst University, Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Matthew Haines
    • June 1994
    • Ranks of Degenerate, Primitive CM Types
    • advisor, Bruce A. Dodson
    • now at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Margaret Dodson
    • October 1994
    • Extended Runge-Kutta Monte-Carlo Methods
    • advisor, Gilbert Stengle
  • Robert Stolz
    • June 1995
    • Radon-Nikodym Property and Law of Large Numbers
    • advisor, Vladimir Dobric
    • now at University of the Virgin Islands
  • Cathy S. Liebars
    • June 1995
    • Stochastic Differentiability in Maximum Likelihood Theory
    • advisor, Vladimir Dobric
    • now at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey
  • Huajian Yang
    • June 1995
    • Stable homotopy types of stunted lens spaces mod 4
    • advisor, Donald Davis
    • now at Dominion Bank, Toronto
  • Maureen Carroll
    • October 1995
    • Biorthogonal systems, bases, and the invariance of the Wilansky property
    • advisor, Andrew Snyder
    • now at University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania
  • Rosemary Sullivan
    • October 1996
    • Crofton's theorem for parametrized families of convex polygons
    • advisor, Bennett Eisenberg
    • Now at West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania
  • Ismet Karaca
    • October 1996
    • Nilpotence in the mod p Steenrod algebra
    • advisor, Donald Davis
    • now at Ege University, Turkey
  • Kate McGivney
    • January 1998
    • Probabilistic limit theorems for combinatorial optimization problems
    • advisor, Joseph Yukich
    • now at Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
  • Kuntal McElroy
    • January 1998
    • Stochastic analysis of Euclidean functionals
    • advisor, Joseph Yukich
    • now at Price Waterhouse
  • Theresa Friedman
    • January 1998
    • Relating embedding properties with certain operator-theoretic properties
    • advisor, Andrew Snyder
    • now at Mesa State College
  • Vitaly Zelov
    • January 1998
    • Immersions and embeddings of real projective spaces
    • advisor, Donald Davis
    • now at Agere Corp
  • Julie Belock
    • January 1999
    • Random variable dilation equation and multidimensional prescale functions
    • advisor, Vladimir Dobric
    • Now at Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts
  • George Tessaro
    • January 1999
    • Some Conditions in which a Sequence Space Fails to have the Wilansky Property
    • advisor, Andrew Snyder
  • Elizabeth Kuehner Mauch
    • May 1999
    • Representations of Schmudgen Type for Semidefinite Functions
    • advisor, Gilbert Stengle
    • now at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
  • Darren Narayan
    • May 2000
    • The reversing number of a digraph
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • now at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
  • Lyn Phy
    • May 2000
    • Applications of weak*-basic sequences and biorthogonal systems to questions in Banach space theory
    • advisor, Andrew Snyder
    • now at Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
  • Daniel Rose
    • May 2000
    • Asymptotic behavior of combinatorial optimization and proximity graphs on random point sets
    • advisor, Joe Yukich
    • Now at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor Township, New Jersey
  • Michael Fisher
    • May 2001
    • Topics in v1-periodic homotopy theory
    • advisor, Donald Davis
    • Now at West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania
  • Lisa Marano
    • May 2001
    • On the global and local moduli of continuity of Brownian motion with applications to mathematical finance
    • advisor, Vladimir Dobric
    • Now at West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania
  • Tom Shimkus
    • May 2002
    • Immersions of 2-torsion lens spaces
    • advisor, Don Davis
    • Now at University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania
  • Mike Fraboni
    • May 2002
    • Some q-convexity properties of coverings of convex manifolds
    • advisor, Terry Napier
    • Now at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • Leyla Batakci
    • June 2002
    • Cohomology of the Steenrod algebra mod nilpotents
    • advisor, Don Davis
    • Now at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
  • John Frommeyer
    • January 2003
    • Arithmetic on free abelian groups
    • advisor, Clifford Queen
    • Now a Programmer/Analyst at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem
    • May 2003
    • Mathematical analysis of oxygen and substrate transport within a multicapillary system in skeltal muscle
    • advisor, Eric Salathe
    • Now at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • Tracy Bowers
    • May 2003
    • Characterization of minimal submanifolds by total Gaussian curvature
    • advisor, David Johnson
    • Now programmer in industry
  • Katarzyna Potocka
    • May 2004
    • Number of summands in v1-periodic homotopy groups of SU(n)
    • advisor, Don Davis
    • Now at Ramapo College, NJ
  • Beth Shimkus
    • May 2004
    • Limit theory for functionals on random bipartite sets
    • advisor, Joe Yukich
  • Trisha Moller
    • May 2004
    • t-split interval orders
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now at Moravian College (part time)
  • Francisco Ojeda
    • January 2006
    • Orthonormal expansions for Gaussian processes
    • advisor, Vladimir Dobric
    • Now at University of Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
  • Brian Heinold
    • May 2006
    • Sum List Coloring and Choosability
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md.
  • Nate Shank
    • May 2006
    • Limit theorems for random Euclidean graphs
    • advisor, Joe Yukich
    • Now at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
  • Murugiah Muraleetharan
    • May 2006
    • Evolution of curves by curvature flow
    • advisor, David Johnson
    • Now
  • Nasrine Bendjilali
    • May 2007
    • New approaches to multiple comparisons
    • advisor, Wei-Min Huang
    • Now at Rowan University
  • Clement Akongnwi Mformbele
    • May 2007
    • Time Dependent and Steady State Interaction Among Capillaries in Skeletal Muscle
    • advisor, Eric Salathe
    • Now at Georgia Gwinnett College
  • Xiaoxue Li
    • May 2007
    • Some properties of the v1-periodic spectrum associated to exceptional Lie groups
    • advisor, Don Davis
    • Now at Emory and Henry College
  • Jennifer Gorman
    • July 2007
    • Nested Traveling Salesperson Problems
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now 
  • Ellen Panofsky
    • May 2008
    • Graph Labeling Problems with Distance Conditions
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now at Cabrini College
  • Patrick Gorman
    • August 2008
    • Stability of a terrestrial Planet in a planaetary System with a Hot Jupiter
    • advisor,George McCluskey
    • Now 
  • Joel Mohler
    • May 2009
    • Residues of Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series
    • advisors, Gautam Chinta and Bruce Dodson
    • Sofware developer
  • Huiyu Qian
    • May 2009
    • On Data-driven Chi square statistics
    • advisors, Bennett Eisenberg and Wei-Min Huang
    • Now
  • Nicholas Zoller
    • August 2009
    • Galois Groups of CM Fields of Degrees 12, 16, 18, 20 and 24
    • advisor, Bruce Dodson
    • Now at 
  • Charles Buehrle
    • May 2010
    • The Hecke Algebra of the Symmetric Group and the Quantum Immanant Space
    • advisor, Mark Skandera
    • Now at Harrisburg Area Community College
  • Christopher Godbout
    • May 2010
    • On the Behavior of Chern-Simons Classes under Ricci Flow
    • advisor, David Johnson
  • Jonelle Hook
    • May 2010
    • The Classification of critical graphs and Star-critical Ramsey Numbers
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland
  • Justin Lambright
    • May 2011
    • A generalization of kazhdan and Lustzig's R-polnomials
    • advisor, Mark Skandera
    • Now at Anderson Unversity
  • Melissa Stoner
    • May 2011
    • Existence and stability of Standing and Traveling Wave Solutions Arising from Synaptically Coupled Neuronal Networks
    • advisor, Linghai Zhang
    • Now at Salisbury State University
  • Karen McCready
    • May 2012
    • Exponent bounds for SU(n)
    • advisor, Don Davis
    • Now at King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
  • Meng Zhu
    • May 2012
    • On Stability and Rigidity of Gradient Ricci Solitons
    • advisor, Huai-Dong Cao
    • Now at Shanghai Center for Mathematics (Fudan University)
  • Marina Skyers
    • May 2012
    • A Tale of Two Sequences: A Story of Convergence, Weak and Almost Sure
    • advisor, Lee Stanley
    • Now at 
  • Qiang Chen
    • May 2013
    • Some Uniqueness and Rigidity Results on Gradient Ricci Solitons
    • advisor, Huai-Dong Cao
    • Now at the University of Minnesota
  • Brittany Shelton
    • May 2013
    • Combinatorial Interpretations of Induced Sign
    • advisor, Mark Skandera
    • Now at Albright College
  • Breeanne Baker
    • May 2013
    • The k-Fixed-Endpoint Path Partition Problem
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now at The Citadel
  • Patricia Garmirian
    • Sep 2013
    • The Central Limit Theorem and the Estimation of the Concentration of Measure for Fractional Brownian Motion
    • advisor, Vladimir Dobric
    • Now at Tufts University
  • Kathleen Ryan
    • Sep 2013
    • Degree Sequences of Edge-Colored Graphs in Specified Families and Related Problems
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now at DeSales University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania
  • Christopher Haines
    • Jan 2014
    • The Relative Advantage of Knowing an Initiation Time or a Mean Time When Estimating a Parameter from an Exponential Distribution Using Type-II Left Censored Data
    • advisor, Bennett Eisenberg
    • Now teaching at Soochow University
  • Alexander Halperin
    • May 2014
    • Subdivisions with Distance Constraints in Large Graphs
    • advisor, Vincent Coll and Coltoan Magnant
    • Now at Salisbury State University
  • Yingying Zhang
    • May 2014
    • Geometric Quantization of Classical Metrics on the Moduli Space of Canonical Metrics
    • advisor, Huai-Dong Cao and Xioafeng Sun
    • Now at 
  • Rivka Win
    • Jan 2015
    • Statistical Comparisons of Time Series
    • advisor, Wei-Min Huang
    • Now at Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, Pennsylvania
  • James T. Long
    • May 2015
    • Computational Topics in Infinite-Time Turing Computation
    • advisor, Lee Stanley
    • Now working as a computer programmer
  • Matt Prudente
    • May 2015
    • Two-Player Variation of Graph Pebbling Computational Topics in Infinite-Time Turing Computation
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now at Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania
  • Samuel Clearman
    • May 2016
    • Combinatorial Aspects of Hecke Algebra Characters
    • advisor, Mark Skandera
    • Now at Google
  • Xin Cui
    • May 2016
    • On Cuvature, Volume Growth and Uniqueness of Steady Ricci Solitons
    • advisor, Huai-Dong Cao
    • Now in MS program in Finance
  • Sarah Dumnich
    • May 2016
    • A Measure Theoretic Approach to the Construction of Scaling Functions for Wavelets
    • advisor, Vladimir Dobric and Robert Neel
    • Now at St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
  • Cuneyt Ferahlar
    • May 2016
    • A Weitzenbock Formula for Compact Complex Manifolds and Application to the Hopf Conjecture in real dimension 6
    • advisor, David Johnson
    • Now
  • Mackenzie Wildman
    • May 2016
    • The Dobric-Ojeda Process with Applications to Option Pricing and the Stochastic Heat Equation
    • advisor, Daniel Conus and Vladimir Dobric
    • Now 
  • Alex Borselli
    • August 2016
    • Galois Groups of CM Fields in Degrees 24, 28, and 30
    • advisor, Bruce Dodson
    • Now at St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
  • Aydin Gerek
    • Jan 2017
    • Hendry's Conjecture on Chordal Graph Subclasses
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now
  • William Franczak
    • May 2018
    • K-Triviality and Computable Measures
    • advisor, Lee Stanley
    • Now
  • Pamela Gordon
    • May 2018
    • Structural considerations for interval orders with length constrants
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now
  • Caitlin Owens
    • May 2018
    • Forbidden Subgraphs for Hamiltonian Problems on 2-Trees
    • advisor, Garth Isaak
    • Now 
  • Steve Scheirer
    • May 2018
    • Topological complexity of graph configuration spaces
    • advisor, Don Davis
    • Now at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio
  • Robert Short
    • May 2018
    • Relative topological complexity of a pair
    • advisor, Don Davis
    • Now at John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
  • Aria Dougherty
    • May 2019
    • Regular Functionals on Seaweed Lie Algebras
    • advisor, Vincent Coll
    • Now
  • Alan Dyson
    • May 2019
    • Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability of Traveling Waves in Neural Field Models
    • advisor, Linghai Zhang
    • Now at Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania
  • Alex Cameron
    • August 2019
    • Combinatorial Index Formulas for Lie Algebras of Seaweed Type and the Unbroken Spectrum of Frobenius Seaweeds
    • advisor, Vincent Coll
    • Now 
  • Nicholas Mayers
    • May 2020
    • advisor, Vincent Coll
    • Now at Lehigh University
  • Han Chen
    • May 2021
    • A Clustering-Based Analysis Procedure for Dynamic Models with Blocked Data and Its Applications
    • advisor, Wei-Min Huang
  • Thomas Dickson
    • May 2021
    • Intermittency and the Stochastic Logistic Differential Equation
    • advisor, Daniel Conus
    • now at the U. S. Census Bureau
  • Jiangtao Yu
    • May 2021
    • Type II self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow and the mean curvature flow
    • advisor, Huai-Dong Cao
  • Alan Hylton
    • January 2022
    • On the Cohomology of Seaweed Algebras
    • advisor, Vincent Coll
    • now a Computer Engineer at NASA