Recent degree recipients

The following students completed their doctorates in math during the academic year 2002-2003:

• Eduardo Chappa. His advisor was Gunther Uhlmann, and his thesis title was ``The X-Ray transform of tensor fields.'' He is now a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A & M.
• Dan Fox. His advisor was Robin Graham, and his thesis title was ``Contact Projective Structures and Contact Path Geometries.'' He currently has a VIGRE postdoctoral position at Georgia Tech.
• Jim Mailhot. His advisor was Ralph Greenberg, and his thesis title was ``Selmer groups for elliptic curves with isogenies of prime degree.'' He has a postdoctoral position at Ohio State.
• Robbie Mouat. His advisor was Selim Tuncel, and his thesis title was ``Finitary Isomorphisms with Finite Expected Coding Times of Markov Chains''. He is working for Microsoft.
• Karthik Ramaseshan. His advisor was Gunther Uhlmann, and his thesis title was ``Microlocal analysis of the Doppler Transform on R³.'' He has a postdoctoral position at the University of Rochester.

Many students also earned Master's degrees last year; here is a list of those who finished their work at the UW with a Master's degree in Mathematics, with each student's advisor listed in parentheses:

• Teresa Anderson (Steve Monk)
• Brian Blackmore (Ralph Greenberg)
• Truman Buffett (Terry Rockafellar)
• Amy Ehrlich (Don Marshall)
• Audrey Gillant (Ralph Greenberg)
• Cassie Graham (Ginger Warfield)
• Jesse Groman (Krzysztof Burdzy)
• James Harmon (Ralph Greenberg)
• Eric Machorro (Ralph Greenberg)
• Christina Merten (Anne Greenbaum)
• Phillip Nguyen (Ken Bube)
• Dawn Ring (Hart Smith)
• Lauren Sandven (Judith Arms)
• Michael Story (Rekha Thomas)
• Rebecca Weinhold (Terry Rockafellar)
• Hui Xu (Boris Solomyak)
• Shengyu Zhang (Jim Burke)