Printing PhD Dissertations

Rare Events, Heavy Tails, and Simulation
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The Asymptotic Analysis of Communications and Wave Collapse Problems in Nonlinear Optics
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Dispersive Shock Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates and Nonlinear Nano-oscillators in Ferromagnetic Thin Films
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Evaluating the Performance of Latent Semantic Indexing
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Applying Perfect Simulation to solve Stochastic Difference Equations that arise from certain Time Series Models
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An Algorithmic Unification of Particle-In-Cell and Continuum Methods and a Wave-Particle Description for the Electron Temperature Gradient (ETG) Instability Saturation
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Lagrangian Particle Transport/Mixing in Blinking-Roll Systems
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A Study of Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence using Reduced Equations
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Multilevel First-Order System Least Squares for Quasilinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
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Some Parallel Linear and Nonlinear Schwarz Methods with Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Merger and Alignment of Three-dimensional Quasigeostrophic Vortices
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Optimal Perturbation Analysis of Stratified Shear Flows
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FOSLL* for Eddy Current Problems with Three-dimensional Edge Singularities
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An evaluation of the operational use of numerical solutions to the quasigeostrophic diagnostic equations by weather forecasters
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Improving Robustness in Multiscale Methods
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First-Order System Least Squares for Geometrically-Nonlinear Elasticity in Nonsmooth Domains
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Applications of Spanning Trees to Continuous-Time Markov Processes, with Emphasis on Loss Systems
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Improving the performance of the linear solver restarted GMRES
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Forward and inverse wave propagation using bandlimited functions and a fast reconstruction algorithm for electron microscopy
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Advances and Applications in Perfect Sampling
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Multilevel Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
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Conservative Maps: Reversibility, Invariants and Approximation
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Radical Basis function Interpolation: Numerical and Analytical Developments
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Simulating the Interaction Between Intraseasonal and Interannual Variability in the Tropical Pacific with a Coupled System of Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations
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Modeling and Analysis of Aqueous Chemical Reactions in a Diffusive Environment
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Stability and Existence of Traveling Wave Solutions of the Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation and its Higher-Order Generalizations
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Advances on a Scaled Least-Squares Method for the 3-D Linear Boltzman Equation
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Collision induced timing jitter and four-wave mixing in wavelength division multiplexing soliton systems
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Asynchronous Fast Adaptive Composite Grid Methods for Elliptic Problems on Adaptively-Refined Curvilinear Grids
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Elasticity-Fluid Coupled Systems and Elliptic Grid Generation (EGG) based on First-Order System Least Squares (FOSLS)
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Element-Based Algebraic Multigrid (AMGe) and Spectral AMGe
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First-Order System Least Squares and Electrical Impedance Tomography
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On the Taylor Dispersion of Reactive Solutes in a Parallel-Plate Fracture-Matrix System
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Stochastic immiscible flow with moment equations
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Computational Topology at Multiple Resolutions
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Topics in Solitons and Inverse Scattering: I. Discretization of the vector nonlinear Schrodinger equation, and II. A new class of 'reflectionless' potentials of the nonstationary Schrodinger equation and solutions of the Kadomtsev and Petviashvili I equation

Phylogenic Approach to Molecular Structure Prediction
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High-order finite difference methods for wave equations

Adaptive refinement and the Treatment of Discontinuous Coefficients for Multilevel First-Order System Least Square (FOSLS)

Anti-integrable continuation and the destruction of chaos
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The probabilistic behavior of sequence analysis scores with application to structural alignment of RNA

Three-dimensional acoustic-rotational flows in solid-fuel rocket motors
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The initial-value problem for multiphase solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviahvili equation

Dynamical Systems Methods Applied to Polynomial Factorization Families: a Study of Chaotic Attractors

A Multiresolution Strategy for Homogenization of Partial Differential Equations

Confined States in Large Aspect Ratio Thermohaline Convection

A Multiresolution Approach to Fast Summation and Regularization of Singular Operators

First-Order Systems least Squares for Electromagnetics
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Lattice Gas Models of Surface Chemistry

I. Wavelet Based approach to Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, and II. Nonlinear Waves I Fully Discrete Dynamical Systems

Controlling Chaos, Targeting and Transport

Computer Assisted Determination of Lie Point Symmetries with Application to Fluid Dynamics

Global Existence of Solutions for the Shallow water Equations

Spectral Representation of the Vertical Coordinate in Three Dimensional Atmospheric Models on Tropical beta and f-Planes

The Dynamics of Shooting Methods for Solving Sturm-Liouville Problems

Compatible Relaxation and Optimal Interpolation
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