Recent Degree Recipients

The following students completed their doctorates in Mathematics during the academic year 2007-08:

Matthew Ballard. His advisor was Chuck Doran, and his thesis title was “Derived categories of sheaves of quasi-projective schemes.” Matthew is now a Math/Physics Research Group RTG Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Andrew Frohmader. His advisor was Isabella Novik, and his thesis title was “Face vectors of flag complexes.” Andrew is now an H.C. Wang Assistant Professor at Cornell University.

Christopher Kunkel. His advisor was Jack Lee, and his thesis title was “Quaternionic contact pseudohermitian normal coordinates.” Christopher is now an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University.

Ian Langmore. His advisor was Gunther Uhlmann, and his thesis title was “Inverse transport with angularly averaged measurements.” Ian is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University.

Micah Warren (see next page). His advisor was Yu Yuan, and his thesis title was “Special Lagrangian equations.” Micah is now an Instructor at Princeton University.

Catherine Williams. Her advisor was Dan Pollack, and her thesis title was “Asymptotic behavior of marginally trapped tubes in spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes.” Catherine is now an RTG/Samuelson Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.
 

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:
Walker Carlisle (Toro)
Laura Celis (Hoffman)
Michael Decker (Thomas)
Adam Estrup (Marshall)
Michael Gaul (Yuan)
Sarah Gilles (Thomas)
Eina Ooka (H. Smith)
Andrey Pestov (Uhlmann)

148 Bachelor’s degrees were awarded during the 2007-08 academic year: 109 in Mathematics and 39 in ACMS.