Recent Degree Recipients

The following students completed their doctorates in Mathematics during the academic year 2005-2006:

Kirk Blazek. His advisor was Ken Bube, and his thesis title was "The One-Dimensional Inverse Problem of Reflection Seismology on a Viscoacoustic Medium." Kirk is now a Pfeiffer-VIGRE Postdoc Instructor at Rice University.

Davis Doherty. His advisor was Sándor Kovács, and his thesis title was "On Singularities of Generic Projection Hypersurfaces." Davis is now an instructor at Seattle University.

Bela Frigyik. His advisor was Gunther Uhlmann, and his thesis title was "Injectivity and Stability of Generalized X-Ray Transforms on Curves." Bela is now a Research Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University.

Hai Jin. His advisor was Ken Bube, and his thesis title was "The Inverse Problem of Fiber Bragg Gratings."

Keir Lockridge. His advisor was Ethan Devinatz, and his thesis title was "The Generating Hypothesis in General Stable Homotopy Categories." Keir is now a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University.

Edwin O'Shea. His advisor was Rekha Thomas, and his thesis title was "Toric Algebra and the Weak Perfect Graph Theorem." Edwin is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky.

Karl Schwede. His advisor was Sándor Kovács, and his thesis title was "On F-injective and Du Bois Singularities". Karl is now an RTG Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.

Pablo Shmerkin. His advisor was Boris Solomyak, and his thesis title was "The structure of overlapping self-affine sets." Pablo is a postdoc at the University of Jyväskylä.

Zachary Treisman. His advisor was Sándor Kovács, and his thesis title was "Arc spaces and rational curves." Zach is a postdoc at the Tata Insitute for Fundamental Research.

Sona Zaveri. Her advisor was Chris Burdzy, and her thesis title was "The Second Eigenfunction of the Neumann Laplacian on Thin Regions." Sona is an instructor at the University of Wisconsin.

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:

Chiahui Cheng (Arms)

Alexander Papazoglou (Babson)

Sidney Butler (Toro)

Michael Cecil (Babson)

Gary Howell (Greenbaum)

Kristofer Reed (Burdzy)

Bachelor's Degrees

158 Bachelor's degrees were awarded during the 2005-2006 academic year: 108 in Mathematics and 50 in ACMS.