Recent Degree Recipients

The following students completed their doctorates in math during the academic year 2003-2004:

• Jason Chen. His advisor was Paul Tseng, and his thesis title was "Merit functions and nonsmooth functions for the second-order cone complementarity problem." He is now an Assistant Professor at National Taiwan Normal University.
• Rebekah Hahn. Her advisor was Steve Mitchell, and her thesis title was "K(1)-local Iwasawa theory." She teaches at the Lynnwood campus of Central Washington University.
• Rob Hladky. His advisor was Jack Lee, and his thesis title was "Boundary regularity of the Neumann problem for the Kohn Laplacian on the Heisenberg group." He holds a John Wesley Young Research Instructorship at Dartmouth.
• Panki Kim. His advisor was Zhen-Qing Chen, and his thesis title was "Potential theory for stable processes." He holds a Doob Research Assistant Professorship at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• David Maxwell. His advisor was Dan Pollack, and his thesis title was "Initial data for black holes and rough spacetimes." He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
• Daniel Meyer. His advisor was Steffen Rohde, and his thesis title was "Melting snowballs." He holds a T. H. Hildebrandt Assistant Professorship at the University of Michigan.
• Alexandra Nichifor. Her advisor was Ralph Greenberg, and her thesis title was "Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves with cyclic isogenies." She is now a Lecturer at the University of Washington.
• Michal Skokan. His advisor was Gunther Uhlmann, and his thesis title was "Regularity of ghosts of geodesic x-ray transform."
• Jason Swanson. His advisor was Chris Burdzy, and his thesis title was "Variations of stochastic processes: Alternative approaches." He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin.
• Michael van Opstall. His advisor was Sándor Kovács, and his thesis title was "Some stable degenerations and applications to moduli." He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah.

Below 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:

• Michael Bakkemo (Eric Babson)
• Catherine Darrow (Branko Grünbaum)
• Anne Garrison (Judith Arms)
• Jim Kelly (John Sylvester)
• Jacob Mannix (Steve Mitchell)
• Tracey Marsh (Jack Lee)
• Younggu Moon (Paul Tseng)
• Swati Sircar (Chris Burdzy)
• Rosalie Tepper (Sara Billey)