Fall 2020 convocation

Thursday, October 8, 2020


Fall 2020 convocation

Six PhD and six MMath C&O students will receive their degrees at the Fall 2020 convocation on October 24. This is the second time that the convocation ceremonies will be held on-line. Graduates, and their family and friends, will be invited to attend a Mathematics-faculty virtual event at 9:30 am on October 24.

Congratulations to the students and their supervisors! 

Ishan Bansal (MMath)
Capacitated network design on outerplanar graphs
Supervisors: Chaitanya Swamy and Jochen Koenemann

Adam Brown (MMath)
Counting pentagons in triangle-free binary matroids
Supervisor: Peter Nelson

Logan Grout (MMath)
Augmenting trees to achieve 2-node-connectivity
Supervisor: Joseph Cheriyan

Tao Jiang (MMath)
Sum-of-norms clustering: theoretical guarantee and post-processing
Supervisor: Steve Vavasis

Matthew Kroeker (MMath)
Sparsity in critical graphs with small clique number
Supervisor: Luke Postle

Jason LeGrow (PhD)
Design, analysis, and optimization of isogeny-based key establishment protocols
Supervisor: David Jao

Christopher Leonardi (PhD)
Security analysis of isogeny-based cryptosystems
Supervisor: David Jao

Ali Mahmoud (PhD)
On enumerative structures in quantum field theory
Supervisor: Karen Yeats

John Schanck (PhD)
Improving post-quantum cryptography through cryptanalysis
Supervisor: Michele Mosca

Ala Shayeghi (PhD)
Noisy interactive quantum communication
Supervisor: Ashwin Nayak

Natig Tofigzade (MMath)
An algorithm for stable matching with approximation up to the integrality gap
Supervisor: Jochen Koenemann

Zachary Walsh (PhD)
Quadratically dense matroids
Supervisor: Peter Nelson