Fall Convocation: October 21, 2016

Twelve graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics will be awarded at the 2016 fall convocation:

MMath

Hanzhe Chen ("Floating Bodies with Surface Tension")

Aaron Coutino ("Halocline Mixing Due To Heavy Rainfall in the Cenote's of the Yucatan Peninsula") (MMath - Water)

Brian Fernandes ("Modeling Photoluminescence Decay Dynamics in Nanocrystals")

Michael Hynes ("A Taylor Polynomial Expansion Line Search for Large-Scale Optimization")

David Layden ("Indirect Quantum Control: An Implementation-Independent Scheme") (MMath - Quantum Information)

Cesar Ramirez Ibanez ("Stability of Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations by the Contraction Mapping Principle")

Justin Shaw ("A Model for Shear Response in Swimming Plankton")

Minxin Zhang ("Infinite-Dimensional Kalman Filtering and Sensor Placement Problem")

PhD

Robert Jonsson ("Decoupling of Information Propagation from Energy Propagation")

John Lang ("Mathematical Modelling of Social Factors in Decision Making Processes at the Individual and Population Levels")

Kristopher Rowe ("Simulation of Vortex Interactions With a Solid Wall Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement")

John Yawney ("Stability of Coastal Jets: Linear Stability Calculations and Nonlinear Simulations")