PhD Dissertations
- Terry Haut, PhD, December 2008
- Nonlocal Formulations of Ideal Fluids and Applications
Abstract - Geoffrey Sanders, PhD, December 2008
- Extensions to Adaptive Smooth Aggregation (alphaSA) Multigrid: Eigensolver Initialization and nonsymmetric Problems
Abstract - Nathan Aragon, PhD, August 2008
- Flip Estimators, Cross-Entropy, and Half-Stationary Bounding Processes for Monte Carlo Simulations
Abstract - Seth Claudepierre, PhD, August 2008
- Solar Wind Driving of Magnetospheric Ultra-Low Frequency Pulsations
Abstract - Christopher Kurcz, PhD, May 2008
- Fast Convolutions with Helmoholtz Green's Functions and Radially Symmetric Band-Limited Kernels
Abstract - Joshua Nolting, PhD, May 2008
- Efficiency-Based Local Adaptive Refinement for FOSLS Finite Elements
Abstract - Cecile Piret, PhD, May 2008
- Analytical and Numerical Advances in Radial Basis Functions
Abstract - Michael Watson, PhD, May 2008
- A Study of Rotationally Constrained Convection in Tall Aspect Ratio Annular Geometries
Abstract - Wenjin Mao, PhD, December 2007
- Demension Jumping and Auxiliary Variable Techniques for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms
Abstract - Jisun Lim, PhD, August 2007
- The Qualitative Study of a Chemical Reaction Diffusion System and Some Integral Equations
Abstract - Jonathan Pietarila-Graham, PhD, August 2007
- Regularizations as Subgrid Models for Turbulent Flows
Abstract - Thaned Rojsiraphisal, PhD, August 2007
- A Study of the Variablility in the North Indian Ocean
Abstract - Jian Wang, PhD, August 2007
- Recovering Bayesian Networks with Applications to Gene Regulatory Networks
Abstract - Julia Zuev, PhD, August 2007
- Recent Advances in Numerical Partial Differential Equations
Abstract - Chao Jin, PhD, May 2007
- Parallel Domain Decomposition Methods for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Analysis of Nonlinear Integral Equations
Abstract - Brendan Sheehan, PhD, May 2007
- Multigrid Methods for Isotropic Neutron Transport
Abstract - Hong Liu, PhD, August 2006
- Rare Events, Heavy Tails, and Simulation
Abstract - Cory Ahrens, PhD, May 2006
- The Asymptotic Analysis of Communications and Wave Collapse Problems in Nonlinear Optics
Abstract - Mark Hoefer, PhD, April 2006
- Dispersive Shock Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates and Nonlinear Nano-oscillators in Ferromagnetic Thin Films
Abstract dissertation.pdf - Paki Suwannajan, PhD, August 2005
- Evaluating the Performance of Latent Semantic Indexing
Abstract - Marcio Carvalho, PhD, May 2005
- Applying Perfect Simulation to solve Stochastic Difference Equations that arise from certain Time Series Models
Abstract thesis.pdf - Srinath Vadlamani, PhD, May 2005
- An Algorithmic Unification of Particle-In-Cell and Continuum Methods and a Wave-Particle Description for the Electron Temperature Gradient (ETG) Instability Saturation
Abstract - Paul Mullowney, PhD, December 2004
- Lagrangian Particle Transport/Mixing in Blinking-Roll Systems
Abstract thesis.pdf photos - Mark Petersen, PhD, December 2004
- A Study of Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence using Reduced Equations
Abstract thesis.pdf - Oliver Roehrle, PhD, September 2004
- Multilevel First-Order System Least Squares for Quasilinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Abstract thesis.pdf photos - Feng-Nan Hwang, PhD, September 2004
- Some Parallel Linear and Nonlinear Schwarz Methods with Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Abstract thesis.pdf - Neil Martinsen-Burrell, PhD, August 2004
- Merger and Alignment of Three-dimensional Quasigeostrophic Vortices
Abstract thesis.pdf - Matthew Tearle, PhD, August 2004
- Optimal Perturbation Analysis of Stratified Shear Flows
Abstract thesis.pdf - Eunjung Lee, PhD, June 2004
- FOSLL* for Eddy Current Problems with Three-dimensional Edge Singularities
Abstract - Eric Thaler, PhD, May 2004
- An evaluation of the operational use of numerical solutions to the quasigeostrophic diagnostic equations by weather forecasters
Abstract thesis.pdf (pix.html) - Scott MacLachlan, PhD, May 2004
- Improving Robustness in Multiscale Methods
Abstract thesis.pdf - Chad Westphal, PhD, May 2004
- First-Order System Least Squares for Geometrically-Nonlinear Elasticity in Nonsmooth Domains
Abstract thesis.pdf - Richard McNamara, PhD, May 2004
- Applications of Spanning Trees to Continuous-Time Markov Processes, with Emphasis on Loss Systems
Abstract dissertation.pdf - Allison Baker, PhD, September 2003
- Improving the performance of the linear solver restarted GMRES
Abstract Thesis.pdf (Thesis.ps) - Kristian Sandberg, PhD, August 2003
- Forward and inverse wave propagation using bandlimited functions and a fast reconstruction algorithm for electron microscopy
Abstract thesis.pdf - Ulrike Schneider, PhD, August 2003
- Advances and Applications in Perfect Sampling
Abstract thesis.pdf - Luke Olson, PhD, August 2003
- Multilevel Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
Abstract thesis.pdf - Adriana Gómez-Hoyos, PhD, July 2003 (Dept. of Mathematics)
- Conservative Maps: Reversibility, Invariants and Approximation
Abstract thesis.pdf - Grady Wright, PhD, May 2003
- Radical Basis function Interpolation: Numerical and Analytical Developments
Abstract - Cristina Perez, PhD, May 2003
- Simulating the Interaction Between Intraseasonal and Interannual Variability in the Tropical Pacific with a Coupled System of Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations
Abstract thesis.pdf - Eric S. Wright, PhD, August 2002
- Modeling and Analysis of Aqueous Chemical Reactions in a Diffusive Environment
Abstract dissertation.pdf - John Carter, PhD, December 2001
- Stability and Existence of Traveling Wave Solutions of the Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation and its Higher-Order Generalizations
Abstract Thesis.pdf (Thesis.ps) - Travis Austin, PhD, December 2001
- Advances on a Scaled Least-Squares Method for the 3-D Linear Boltzman Equation
Abstract thesis.ps - Rudy Horne, PhD, August 2001
- Collision induced timing jitter and four-wave mixing in wavelength division multiplexing soliton systems
Abstract rudythesis.ps - Bobby Phillip, PhD, August 2001
- Asynchronous Fast Adaptive Composite Grid Methods for Elliptic Problems on Adaptively-Refined Curvilinear Grids
Abstract thesis.pdf - Andrea Codd, PhD, May 2001
- Elasticity-Fluid Coupled Systems and Elliptic Grid Generation (EGG) based on First-Order System Least Squares (FOSLS)
Abstract codd.pdf - Tim Chartier, PhD, May 2001
- Element-Based Algebraic Multigrid (AMGe) and Spectral AMGe
Abstract thesis.pdf - Hugh MacMillan, PhD, May 2001
- First-Order System Least Squares and Electrical Impedance Tomography
Abstract draft.ps - Brian Bloechle, PhD, May 2001
- On the Taylor Dispersion of Reactive Solutes in a Parallel-Plate Fracture-Matrix System
Abstract thesis.pdf - Ken Jarman, PhD, December 2000
- Stochastic immiscible flow with moment equations
kjthesis.ps - Vanessa Robins, PhD, August 2000
- Computational Topology at Multiple Resolutions
robins.pdf (robins.ps) (ch1.pdf) (ch2.pdf) (ch3.pdf) (ch4.pdf) (ch5.pdf) (chB.pdf) - David Trubatch, PhD, August 2000
- 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
- Vlatcheslave Akmaev, PhD, August 2000
- Phylogenic Approach to Molecular Structure Prediction
thesis.ps - Michelle Ghrist, PhD, May 2000
- High-order finite difference methods for wave equations
- Markus Berndt, PhD, May 1999
- Adaptive refinement and the Treatment of Discontinuous Coefficients for Multilevel First-Order System Least Square (FOSLS)
- David Sterling, PhD, May 1999
- Anti-integrable continuation and the destruction of chaos
thesis.ps - Laurie Heyer, PhD, August 1998
- The probabilistic behavior of sequence analysis scores with application to structural alignment of RNA
- Peter Staab, PhD, August 1998
- Three-dimensional acoustic-rotational flows in solid-fuel rocket motors
thesis.pdf - Bernard Deconinck, PhD, May 1998
- The initial-value problem for multiphase solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviahvili equation
- Lora Billings, PhD, May 1998
- Dynamical Systems Methods Applied to Polynomial Factorization Families: a Study of Chaotic Attractors
- Nicholas Coult, PhD, August 1997
- A Multiresolution Strategy for Homogenization of Partial Differential Equations
- Alejandro Spina, PhD, December 1996
- Confined States in Large Aspect Ratio Thermohaline Convection
- Robert Cramer, PhD, December 1996
- A Multiresolution Approach to Fast Summation and Regularization of Singular Operators
- Barry Lee, PhD, December 1996
- First-Order Systems least Squares for Electromagnetics
barry.pdf - David Sholl, PhD, December 1995
- Lattice Gas Models of Surface Chemistry
- James Keiser, PhD, May 1995
- I. Wavelet Based approach to Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, and II. Nonlinear Waves I Fully Discrete Dynamical Systems
- Erik Bollt, PhD, May 1995
- Controlling Chaos, Targeting and Transport
- Scott Herod, PhD, August 1994
- Computer Assisted Determination of Lie Point Symmetries with Application to Fluid Dynamics
- Linda Sundbye, PhD, May 1994
- Global Existence of Solutions for the Shallow water Equations
- Arthur Mizzi, PhD, May 1994
- Spectral Representation of the Vertical Coordinate in Three Dimensional Atmospheric Models on Tropical beta and f-Planes
- Martha Nesbitt Limber, PhD, December 1991
- The Dynamics of Shooting Methods for Solving Sturm-Liouville Problems
- James Brannick, PhD,
- Compatible Relaxation and Optimal Interpolation
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