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Current Graduate Students Ian Grooms Ph.D. Expected 2010 Dissertation Topic: Validation of the Reduced NonHydrostatic Quasigeostrophic Equations; Plume Models for Rapidly Rotating Convection Current Position: Research Assistant Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Benjamin Jamroz Ph.D. Expected 2008 Dissertation Topic: Reduced Models of the Magnetorotational Instability; Deduction of Coronal Magnetic Field Topologies Current Position: Research Assistant Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Michael Watson Ph.D. Expected 2008 Dissertation Topic: Reduced Models of the Differentially Heated Annulus; Fast Elliptic Solvers Current Position: Research Assistant Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Geoffrey Vasil Ph.D. Expected 2007 Dissertation Topic with Applied Mathematics: Utility of Fast Transforms in Parity Mixed PDE's Current Position: Research Assistant in Atmospheres and Oceans, University of Colorado Past Graduate Students Neil Martinsen-Burrell Ph.D. 2004 Dissertation Title: Merger and Alignment of Three-dimensional Quasigeostrophic Vortices Current Position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer Scicence and Physics, Wartburg College, Iowa Paul Mullowney Ph.D. 2004 Dissertation Title: Lagrangian Particle Transport and Mixing in Blinking-Roll Systems Current Position: Research Scientist, Tech-X Corporation, Colorado Mark Petersen Ph.D. 2004 Dissertation Title: A Study of Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence using Reduced Equations Current Position: Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico Matt Tearle Ph.D. 2004 Dissertation Title: Optimal Perturbation Analysis of Atmospheric Stratified Shear Flows Current Position: Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado Eric Wright Ph.D. 2002 Dissertation Title: Modeling and Analysis of Aqueous Diffusive Reactions in a Diffusive Environment Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Montana-Western, Montana