Spring Convocation: June 13, 2014

Although there were clouds in the sky on Friday, it was a sunny day for the Applied Mathematics Department. A number of graduate students received their degrees. Shown in the photo from left to right: Nancy Soontiens (PhD), John Laden (MMath), Mikhail Panine (MMath), Rasha al Jamal (PhD ), and Alex Shum (PhD).

Photo credit: Dr. Kirsten Morris

Thirteen graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics were awarded at the Spring 2014 convocation:

MMath

• Luke Bovard ("Short-wave Vortex Instabilities in Stratified Flow”)
• Yanxin He ("Modelling Internal Solitary Waves and the Alternative Ostrovsky Equation”)
• Remziye Karabekmez (“Modeling of Cancer Signal Pathways”)
• John Laden ("An Analysis of Stockwell Transforms, with Applications to Image Processing”)
• Mikhail Panine ("Explorations of Infinitesimal Inverse Spectral Geometry”)
• Daniel Puzzuoli ("Honest Approximations to Realistic Fault Models and Their Applications to Efficient Simulation of Quantum Error Correction”)
• Krishan Rajaratnam ("Orthogonal Separation of The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation on Spaces of Constant Curvature”)

PhD

• Rasha al Jamal (“Bounded Control of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation”)
• Andrijana Burazin (“Applications of Mixture Theory to Solid Tumors and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus”)
• Amenda Chow (“Control of Hysteresis in the Landau-Lifshitz Equation”)
• Alexander Shum (“Optimal Direction-Dependent Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles”)
• Nancy Soontiens (“Stratified Flow Over Topography: Steady Nonlinear Waves, Boundary Layer Instabilities and Crater Topography”)
• Joseph Vass (“On the Geometry of IFS Fractals and its Applications”)