Recent Degree Recipients

The following students completed their doctorates in Mathematics during the academic year 2006-07:

Yeongcheon Baek. His advisor was Jim Burke, and his thesis title was “An interior point approach to the constrained nonparametric mixture models.” Yeongcheon is now a Senior Research Fellow with Samsung Life Insurance in Seoul.

Eric Bahuaud. His advisor was Jack Lee, and his thesis title was “Intrinsic characterization for asymptotically hyperbolic metrics.” Eric is now an ANR Postdoc at Université de Montpellier II.

Tristram Bogart. His advisor was Rekha Thomas, and his thesis title was “Problems in computational algebra and integer programming.” Tristram is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University.

Matias Courdurier. His advisor was Gunther Uhlmann, and his thesis title was “Restricted measurements for the X-ray transform.” Matias is now an Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

Anton Dochtermann. His advisor was Isabella Novik, and his thesis title was “The topology of graph homomorphisms.” Anton is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Technische Universität in Berlin.

K. Ilgar Eroglu. His advisor was Boris Solomyak, and his thesis title was “Self-similar sets, projections and arithmetic sums.” Ilgar is now an Assistant Professor at Anadolu University.

Kelly Jabbusch. Her advisor was Sándor Kovács, and her thesis title was “Notions of positivity for vector bundles.” Kelly is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität zu Köln.

Brant Jones. His advisor was Sara Billey, and his thesis title was “Some combinatorics on Hecke algebras of reflection groups.” Brant is now a VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis.

Matthew Kahle. His advisor was Chris Hoffman, and his thesis title was “Topology of random simplicial complexes and phase transitions for homology.” Matthew is now a Samelson Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford.

Elizabeth Kelly. Her advisor was Sara Billey, and her thesis title was “Connections between Schubert objects.” Elizabeth is now a Mathematics Instructor at Edmonds Community College.

Kris Kissel. His advisor was Tatiana Toro, and his thesis title was “Generalizations of a result of Lewis and Vogel.” Kris is now a Mathematics Instructor at Green River Community College.

Venkateswaran Krishnan. His advisor was Gunther Uhlmann, and his thesis title was “A support theorem and an inversion formula for the geodesic ray transform.” Venkateswaran is now a Part-time Lecturer at Tufts University.

Leo Tzou. His advisor was Gunther Uhlmann, and his thesis title was “Linear and nonlinear analysis and applications to mathematical physics.” Leo is now a Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford.

Sangwoon Yun. His advisor was Paul Tseng, and his thesis title was “A coordinate gradient descent method for structured nonsmooth optimization.” Sangwoon is now a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore.

Karl Schwede (not listed in last year’s Newsletter due to error). His advisor was Sándor Kovács, and his thesis title was “On F-injective and DuBois singularities.” Karl is now an NSF Postdoc at the University of Michigan.
 

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:
Christopher Anderson (Mitchell)
Piotr Jagiello (Burke)
Laura Matrajt-Arbetman (Uhlmann)
Mong Kon Mo (Arms)
Angelo Polo (Greenbaum)
Nicholas Reichert (Uhlmann)
Oana Rus (Toro)
Ross Williams (Billey)

145 Bachelor’s degrees were awarded during the 2006-07 academic year: 97 in Mathematics and 48 in ACMS.