Mathematics Alumni

Degree Awarded 2023

Advisor: David Ben-Zvi
Dissertation: Chromatic applications of spectral algebraic geometry
Placement: Johns Hopkins University

Advisor: Luis Caffarelli & Francesco Maggi
Dissertation: The Allen-Cahn Euclidean isoperimetric problem and the Grad-Mercier equation in Plasma physics
Placement: Johns Hopkins University

Degree Awarded 2022

Advisor: Ngoc Tran
Dissertation: TROPICAL MATROID HOMOLOGY

Advisor: Irene Gamba
Dissertation: COERCIVENESS, WELL-POSEDNESS, AND BANACH NORMS PROPAGATION OF SOLUTIONS TO THE SYSTEM OF BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS FOR A MONATOMIC GAS MIXTURE
Placement: Algorithm Developer - Trace

Advisor: Samuel Raskin
Dissertation: CATEGORICAL REPRESENTATION THEORY AND THE COARSE QUOTIENT
Placement: UCLA

Advisor: Rachel Ward
Dissertation: TENSOR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION AND APPLICATIONS
Placement: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Advisor: Cameron Gordon
Dissertation: SYMMETRIC UNION OF KNOTS, DOUBLE BRANCHED COVERS AND DEHN SURGERY
Placement: University of Georgia

Advisor: Philip Isett & Alexis F Vasseur
Dissertation: SOME ONSAGER'S CONJECTURE TYPE RESULTS FOR A FAMILY OF ODD ACTIVE SCALAR EQUATIONS

Advisor: David Ben-Zvi & Andrew Neitzke
Dissertation: NILPOTENT HIGGS BUNDLES AND FAMILIES OF FLAT CONNECTIONS
Placement: MSRI & Johns Hopkins University

Advisor: Luis Caffarelli & Pablo Raul Stinga
Dissertation: REGULARITY OF ELLIPTIC TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS AND A NEW FAMILY OF INTEGRO-DIERENTIAL OPERATORS RELATED TO THE MONGE-AMPERE EQUATION
Placement: Rutgers University

Advisor: Luis Caffarelli & Francesco Maggi
Dissertation: FULLY NONLINEAR EQUATIONS WITH APPLICATIONS TO GRAD EQUATIONS IN PLASMA PHYSICS. INTERACTION BETWEEN A ONE PHASE FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEM AND AN OBSTACLE PROBLEM. OPTIMAL TRACE SOBOLEV INEQUALITIES

Advisor: Jeff Danciger
Dissertation: HIGHER-RANK GENERALIZATIONS OF CONVEX COCOMPACT AND GEOMETRICALLY FINITE DYNAMICS
Placement: University of Michigan

Advisor: Omar Ghattas & J T Oden
Dissertation: OPTIMAL EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR LARGE-SCALE BAYESIAN INVERSE PROBLEMS
Placement: Research Scientist - Meta

Advisor: Omar Ghattas & J T Oden
Dissertation: OPTIMAL EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR LARGE-SCALE BAYESIAN INVERSE PROBLEMS
Placement: University of Miami

Advisor: Luis Caffarelli & Alexis Vasseur
Dissertation: PARTIAL REGULARITY RESULTS FOR THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION
Placement: University of Chicago

Degree Awarded 2021

Advisor: Thomas Chen
Dissertation: ON THE DERIVATION AND UNIQUENESS OF THE GROSS-PITAEVSKII HIERARCHY FOR A BOSE GAS COUPLED TO A HEAVY TRACER PARTICLE
Placement: MS Quantum Information Science - University of Southern California

Advisor: David Ben-Zvi & Andrew Blumberg
Dissertation: A CONVENIENT CATEGORY FOR GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY

Advisor: Daniel Freed
Dissertation: TAKING TOPOLOGICAL FIELD THEORY AT PHASE VALUE
Placement: Postdoc - Purdue University

Advisor: Arie Israel
Dissertation: APPROXIMATE EXTENSION IN SOBOLEV SPACE
Placement: NSF Postdoc - University of Pittsburgh & MIT (+ Moore Instructorship)

Advisor: Arie Israel
Dissertation: APPROXIMATE EXTENSION IN SOBOLEV SPACE
Placement: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Pittsburgh & MIT (+ Moore Instructorship)

Advisor: David Ben-Zvi & Andrew Blumberg
Dissertation: GEOMETRIC DATA ANALYSIS FOR PHYLOGENETIC TREES AND NON-CONTRACTIBLE MANIFOLDS
Placement: Postdoc - Oxford University

Advisor: Cameron Gordon
Dissertation: TWO-BRIDGE LINKS, PRETZEL KNOTS AND BI-ORDERABILITY
Placement: Postdoc - Oklahoma State University

Advisor: Francesco Maggi
Dissertation: A CAPILLARITY MODEL FOR SOAP FILMS
Placement: NSF postdoc at Courant Institute - New York University

Advisor: Jeffrey Danciger
Dissertation: A LOCAL-TO-GLOBAL PRINCIPLE FOR MORSE QUASIGEODESICS
Placement: Postdoc - University Heidelberg

Advisor: Irene Gamba
Dissertation: THE LANDAU LIMIT OF THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION AND FAST PARTICLE MOTION IN A TOKAMAK
Placement: Assistant Professor of Instruction - The University of Texas at Austin

Advisor: Cameron Gordon
Dissertation: SYMMETRIES OF KNOTS, BRANCHED CYCLIC COVERS, AND L-SPACES
Placement: Postdoc - Georgia Tech

Advisor: Thomas Chen
Dissertation: NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER SYSTEMS ON THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL TORUS
Placement: Senior Professional Staff - Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab

Advisor: David Ben-Zvi & Andrew Blumberg
Dissertation: ENDO-TRIVIAL MODULES FOR CYCLIC P-GROUPS AND GENERALIZED QUATERNION GROUPS VIA GALOIS DESCENT
Placement: Assistant Adjunct Professor University of California, Los Angeles

Advisor: Thomas Chen
Dissertation: ON THE WEAKLY DISORDERED ANDERSON MODEL AND ASPECTS OF ITS KINETIC SCALING LIMIT TO THE LINEAR BOLTZMANN EQUATION

Degree Awarded 2020

Advisor: Natasa Pavlovic
Dissertation: Higher order extensions of the Boltzmann equation
Placement: New York University

Advisor: Jeffrey Danciger
Dissertation: Cusps and Codimension-1 Flats in Convex Projective Geometrey
Placement: University of Michigan

Advisor: Björn Engquist
Dissertation: Numerical Multiscale Methods for Boundary Layer Problems in Fluid Dynamics
Placement: University of California, Los Angeles

Advisor: Francois Baccelli
Dissertation: On Poisson Follower Model
Placement: Tufts University

Advisor: Bjorn Engquist
Dissertation: Numerical Methods for Averaging and Homogenization

Advisor: Arie Israel
Dissertation: Coordinate-Free Principles for Extension of Smooth Functions
Placement: Striveworks

Advisor: Alexis Vasseur
Dissertation: The L2 Theory of Well-posedness for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
Placement: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany

Advisor: Sean Keel
Dissertation: Compactified Mirror Families for Positive Log Calabi-Yau Surfaces
Placement: Imperial College

Advisor: Lewis Bowen
Dissertation: Non-unique sofic entropy and a von Neumann algebra multiplicative ergodic theorem
Placement: Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Advisor: Thibaud O Taillefumier
Dissertation: OPTIMIZING MUTUAL INFORMATION OVER NEURAL TUNING CURVES
Placement: AI Data Scientist - Change Healthcare

Advisor: Irene M. Gamba
Dissertation: Conservative Spectral Methods of Fokker-Planck-Landau Type Equations: Simulations, Long-time Behaviour and Error Estimates
Placement: Trace

Advisor: Natasa Pavlovic
Dissertation: Old and New Perspectives on Effective Equations: A Study of Quantum Many-Body Systems
Placement: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor: Alexis Vasseur
Dissertation: The De Giorgi method: Applications to degenerate PDE
Placement: Fields Institute

Advisor: Daniel Freed and Andrew Neitzke
Dissertation: The Ooguri-Vafa as a moduli space of framed wild harmonic bundles
Placement: University of Hamburg

Advisor: Rachel Ward and Leon Bottou
Dissertation: GRADIENT-BASED OPTIMIZATION AND IMPLICIT REGULARIZATION OVER NON-CONVE X LANDSCAPES
Placement: Postdoc - University of Chicago

Degree Awarded 2019

Advisor: Arie Israel
Dissertation: Extremal problems in Fourier analysis, Whitney's theorem, and the interpolation of data
Placement: Princeton University

Advisor: Andrew Blumberg
Dissertation: Andre-Quillen (co)homology and equivariant stable homotopy theory

Advisor: Francois Baccelli
Dissertation: On Spatial Birth-Death and Matching Processes, and Poisson Shot-Noise Fields
Placement: Enthought Inc.

Advisor: Yen-Hsi Tsai
Dissertation: Methods for Solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Equations
Placement: The Boeing Company

Advisor: Francois Baccelli
Dissertation: Coupling and Unimodularity in Stationary Settings
Placement: Chicago Trading Company

Advisor: Alexis Vasseur
Dissertation: A Study of the Three-Dimensional Quasi-Geostrophic System
Placement: New York University

Advisor: Francois Baccelli
Dissertation: Repulsion of Determinantal Point Processes and Stationary Poisson Tessellations in High Dimesions
Placement: California Institute of Technology

Advisor: Sean Keel
Dissertation: On the dual complexes of certain Log Calabi-Yau pairs
Placement: Meridian World School

Advisor: John Luecke
Dissertation: Knot traces and the slice genus
Placement: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor: Andrew Blumberg
Dissertation: The moduli space of objects in differential graded categories glued along bimodules & a presentability result in the homotopy theory of commutative differential graded algebras
Placement: University of Texas at Austin

Advisor: Daniel Knopf
Dissertation: Curvature Blow-up in Doublywarped Product Metrics Evolving by Ricci Flow
Placement: Arizona State University

Advisor: Andrew Blumberg
Dissertation: Equivariant aspects of topological Hochschild homology
Placement: Brown University

Advisor: Andrew Blumberg
Dissertation: Comparison Theorems of Phylogenetic Spaces and Algebraic Fans
Placement: Harvard University

Advisor: Luis A. Caffarelli
Dissertation: Regularity of fractional analogue of k-Hessian operators and a non-local one-phase free boundary problem
Placement: University of Maryland, College Park

Advisor: Sean Keel
Dissertation: Admissible groups and cluster structures of families of log Calabi-Yau surfaces