Spring Convocation: June 16, 2017

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Twelve graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics were awarded at the 2017 spring convocation.

Spring 2017 graduates Subasha Wickramarachchi, Demetri Pananos, along with David Harmsworth, Francis Poulin & Marek Stastna

​Twelve graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics were awarded at the 2017 spring convocation.


MMath:

Lorena Cid-Montiel ("Existence and Uniqueness of Attracting Slow Manifolds: An Application of the Ważewski Principle”)

An Zhou ("Structured Reverse Mode Automatic Differentiation in Nested Monte Carlo Simulations”)

Guillaume Verdon-Akzam ("Probing Quantum Fields: Measurements and Quantum Energy Teleportation”)

Erik Maki ("Iterated Function Systems with Place-Dependent Probabilities and the Inverse Problem of Measure Approximation Using Moments”)

Athanasios (Demetri) Pananos ("Early Warning Signals of Vaccine Scares”)

Joanna Boneng ("Infectious Disease Modeling with Interpersonal Contact Patterns as a Heterogeneous Network”)

Alexander Vukadinovic (Research paper: "Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Better Bound the Uncertainty Ranges of Parameters in GCMs”)

PhD:

Subasha Wickramarachchi ("The Hydrodynamics of Two-Dimensional Oscillating Flows Over Ripples: the Effect of Asymmetries in Ripple Shape and Currents”)

Jared Penney ("Direct Numerical Simulation of Salt Fingering Gravity Currents and Double-Diffusive Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities”)

Sepideh Afshar ("Lithium-Ion battery SOC estimation”)

Ali Mahdipour Shirayeh ("Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer: Spatial and Heterogeneous Effects”)

Giuseppe Sellaroli (“Non-Compact Groups, Tensor Operators and Applications to Quantum Gravity”)