Congratulations
to
the
following
C&Ostudents
who
received
their
graduate
degrees
at
the
spring
2014
convocation!
Ahmad Abdi (MMath)
The
Cycling
Property
for
the
Clutter
of
Odd
st-Walks
Supervisor:
Bertrand
Guenin
Srinivasan Arunachalam (MMath)
Quantum
Speed-ups
for
Boolean
Satisfiability
and
Derivative-Free
Optimization
Supervisor:
Michele
Mosca
Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei (MMath)
Entropy
and
Graphs
Supervisor:
Chris
Godsil
Yuen-Lam Cheung (PhD)
Preprocessing
and
Reduction
for
Semidefinite
Programming
via
Facial
Reduction:
Theory
and
Practice
Supervisor:
Henry
Wolkowicz
Dieter Fishbein (MMath)
Machine-Level
Software
Optimization
of
Cryptographic
Protocols
Supervisor:
David
Jao
Long Ji Guo (MMath)
Optimization
Problems
in
Container
Ports
Supervisor:
Tom
Coleman
Sahar Karimi (PhD)
On
the
Relationship
between
Conjugate
Gradient
and
Optimal
First-Order
Methods
for
Convex
Optimization
Supervisor:
Steve
Vavasis
Zuzana Masarova (MMath)
Signing
with
Codes
Supervisor:
Edlyn
Teske-Wilson
Hadi Minooei (PhD)
Mechanism
Design
For
Covering
Problems
Supervisor:
Chaitanya
Swamy
Natalie Mullin (PhD)
Uniform
Mixing
of
Quantum
Walks
and
Association
Schemes
Supervisor:
Chris
Godsil
Katherine Naismith (MMath)
Extensions
of
Signed
Graphs
Supervisor:
Bertrand
Guenin
Georg Osang (MMath)
The
Local
Chromatic
Number
Supervisor:
Penny
Haxell
Brendan Rooney (PhD)
Spectral
Aspects
of
Cocliques
in
Graphs
Supervisor:
Chris
Godsil
Xin Xiong (MMath)
Efficient
Jacobian
Determination
by
Structure-Revealing
Automatic
Differentiation
Supervisor:
Tom
Coleman