Our Alumni

The following is a chronological listing of our Ph.D. graduates. The name of the recipient is followed by the advisor name, the dissertation title, and the most recent known position. Updates and corrections are welcome.

Some of Ph.D. dissertations are available through Syracuse University Library.

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2011: Tom Bleier under Prof. Steven P. Diaz. Dissertation title: Excess Porteous, Coherent Porteous, and the Hyperelliptic Locus in M3bar. Applied Research Mathematician.; Dana Olanoff (webpage) under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Mathematical knowledge for teaching teachers: The case of multiplication and division of fractions. Visiting Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY.; Tony Perkins under Prof. Eugene Poletsky. Dissertation Title: Potential Theory on Compact Sets. Assistant Professor, Spring Hill College, Mobile AL.; Marju Purin under Prof. Dan Zacharia. Dissertation Title: Complexity over Finite-Dimensional Algebras. Visiting Assistant Professor, Manhattan College, The Bronx NY.; Moises Venouziou under Prof. Gregory Verchota. Dissertation Title: Mixed Problems and Layer Potentials for harmonic and Biharmonic Functions.
2010: Cosmin Anitescu under Prof. Uday Banerjee. Dissertation Title: On the convergence and superconvergence of the Generalized Finite Element Methods. Post-doctoral scholar at the Institut für Strukturmechanik, Bauhaus University - Weimar, Germany.; Derek Gustafson under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Elliptic Complexes and Generalized Poincaré Inequalities. Signal Processing Engineering Co., Buffalo NY.; Xiaofei Hu (webpage) under Prof. Lixin Shen and Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: A total variation and spatially varying estimation model for image restoration. Postdoc, Wake Forest University.
2009: Christina M. Graves (webpage) under Prof. Jack Graver. Dissertation Title: On the Structure of Reliability Polynomials. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas—Tyler.; Stephen J. Graves (webpage) under Prof. Mark Watkins. Dissertation Title: Growth of Tessellations. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas—Tyler.; Yao Lu (webpage) under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: Fast Multiscale Integral Equation Methods for Image Restoration. Research Investigator, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan.; Adam McCaffery under Prof. Mark Watkins. Dissertation Title: Structure of Infinitely-Ended, Edge-Transitive Planar Maps and Their Petrie Walks. Ellicott City, MD.; Guohui Song (webpage) under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: Approximation of Kernel Matrices and Its Applications. Assistant Professor, Clarkson University.; Haizhang Zhang (webpage) under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: Sampling with Reproducing Kernels. Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
2008: Francis Nzuki under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Investigating African American Students' Identity and Agency in a Mathematics and Graphing Calculator Environment at a Low-SES School. Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ.; Patrick Kimani (webpage) under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Calculus Students' Understandings of the concepts of Function Transformation, Function Composition, Function Inverse and the Relationships among the Three Concepts. California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California.; Weixing Cai under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Multiple decision rules for equivalence among k populations and their applications in signal processing, clinical trials and classification. Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. (Deceased July 2008); Dong Mao under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: Biological Time Series Classification via Reproducing Kernels and Sample Entropy. Senior Engineer at Brion Technologies, San Jose, CA.; Tomasz Adamowicz (webpage) under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: On the geometry of p-harmonic mappings. Post-Doc, Linköping University.
2007: David S. Dickerson under Prof. Helen Doerr. Dissertation Title:High School Mathematics Teachers' Understandings of the Purposes of Mathematical Proof. SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, NY.; Allen Pelley (webpage) under Prof. Mark Kleiner. Dissertation Title: Representations of a Valued Quiver, the Lattice of Admissible Sequences, and the Weyl Group of a Kac-Moody Algebra. Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman University.; Dale William Struble under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation title: Wavelets on Manifolds and Multiscale Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. Quantitative Analyst, Schonfeld Securities, New York, NY.
2006: Philip Joseph Lynn under Prof. Steven Diaz. Dissertation Title: Deformations of Plane Curve Singularities of Constant Class. WW Knowledge Management, Hewlett-Packard, Nashua, NH.; Leah C. Bridgers under Prof. Helen M. Doerr. Dissertation Title: Conceptions of Continuity: An Investigation of High School Calculus Teachers and Their Students. SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY.; Bulent Cetinkaya under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Recollected Changes in Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs and Practices: Perceptions and Psychological Type Preferences. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.; Nihat Gogus (webpage) under Prof. Evgeny Poletsky. Dissertation title: Continuity of Plurisubharmonic and Perron-Bremermann Envelopes. Faculty member, Sabanci University.; Yunchuan Gao under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title:Muti-category Support vector Machines. Orchard Asset Management, Toronto, Ontario Canada.; Elena Mihaela Buzaianu (webpage) under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Selection Procedures for Binomial Populations. University of North Florida, Mathematics and Statistics Dept. Jacksonville, FL.; Wei Ning (webpage) under Prof. Hyune-Ju Kim. Dissertation title: A New Approach for Interactions in Two-way ANOVA Models. Bowling Green State University, Math and Statistics Dept. Bowling Green, OH.
2005: Sebastian Burciu (webpage) under Prof. Declan Quinn. Dissertation Title: Representations of Hopf Algebras. Researcher, Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest.; Markus Reitenbach under Prof. Mark Kleiner. Dissertation title: A Homological Approach to Differentiation Algorithms and Dimensions for Representations of Partially Ordered Sets. Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO.
2004: Thomas John (webpage) under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Selection Procedures for Lognoreal Populations. Marketing Sciences group, Knowledge System & research Inc. Syracuse, NY.; J. Travis Lee under Prof. Steven Diaz. Dissertation title:An Extension of the Thom-Porteous Formula to a Certain Class of Coherent Sheaves.
2003: Lynn Carlson under Prof. Helen Doerr. Dissertation Title: Secondary teacher understanding of probability and sampling in context. SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY.; Jean Hallagan under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Teacher's models of student responses to middle school algebraic tasks. SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY; Uma Subramanian under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Biting convergence of null-Lagrangians. Chennai, India.; Roxana Ioana Zangor under Prof. Adam Lutoborski. Dissertation Title: Numerical Methods for Smooth, Detectable Image Pertubations. Manager, Technology Collaboration Office, Pratt & Whitney Canada.
2002: Linda Rollin under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Selection and Testing Designs for Selecting One Among K Normal Populations, Provided it is Better Than a Standard. Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Instititute, Wallingford, CT; Helene Tyler (webpage) under Prof. Mark Kleiner. Dissertation Title: (+)- Admissible Sequences and the Preprojective Component. Associate Professor, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY; Jennifer Bruce under Prof. Mark Watkins. Dissertation Title: Bilinski Diagrams and Geodesics in 1-ended Planar Maps. Assistant Professor, Maryville College, Maryville, TN
2001: Angeles Dominguez under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: College Students' Understanding of the Concept of Variable. Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Fozia Qazi under Prof. Philip Griffin. Dissertation Title: Limit Laws of Modulus Trimmed Sums. Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St Mary's, MD.; Rapti de Silva under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Improving Teachers' Learning and Teaching of Mathematics: A Critical Ethnography of a Sri Lankan Program. California State University, Chico, CA
2000: Jill Wiesner under Prof. Douglas R. Anderson. Dissertation Title: A Boundedly Controlled Finiteness Obstruction. Guilford College, Greensboro, NC; Susana Davidenko under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Learning Mathematics in English: ESL and Non-ESL Students' Perspectives. SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, NY; Andra J. Myers under Prof. Helen Doerr. Dissertation Title: Understanding the Mathematics Perceptions of Postsecondary Mathematics Instructors and Students with Learning Disabilities. Wellwood Middle School, Fayetteville, NY
1999: Raymond DeCampo under Prof. Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Extending the Beltrami Equation into Higher Dimensions. Chief software architect at Promergent, Syracuse, NY.; James Kenneth Duah-Agyeman under Prof. Patricia Tinto. Dissertation Title: Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Understanding of Mathematical Functions. Office of Multicultural Affairs, Syracuse University.; Kevin Ferland (webpage) under Prof. Guance Lewis. Dissertation Title: On the RO(G)-graded Equivariant Ordinary Cohomology of Generalized G-cell Complexes for G=ZP. Professor of Mathematics, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA.; Thomas Pfaff (webpage) under Prof. J. Theodore Cox. Dissertation Title: A Mean Field Model for Species Abundance. Associate Professor, Ithaca College.; Max Minh Tran under Prof. Uday Banerjee. Dissertation Title: Finite Element Spectral Approximation OhioLINK, Columbus Ohio; Joseph S. Tripp under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Changes in Students' Conceptions of Mathematics and Mathematics Learning During Participation in a Reformed-based Developmental Mathematics Course. Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
1998: Abdulsalam A. Almannaei under Prof. T. Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: A Study of Degenerate Elliptic Partial Differential Equations. University of Bahrain.; Matthew Boelkins (webpage) under Prof. L. J. Lardy. Dissertation Title: On the Spectral Radius of Positive Operators. Associate Professor of Mathematics, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.
1997: William Hardin under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Comparing Four Different Approaches to Teaching Limits. College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY; Preety Nigam under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Visualization in Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics: A Multicase Study of Teachers' Perceptions and Practices. SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY
1996: Leonard Budney under Prof. Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Regularity of A-harmonic Forms. Senior Developer, Grant Street Group, Pittsburgh, PA.; Halil I. Celik under Prof. Evgeny Poletsky. Dissertation Title: Pointwise Singularities of Plurisubharmonic Functions. Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.; Yachen Lin under Prof. Chung Chen. Dissertation Title: Feed-forward Neural Networks-Learning Algorithim, Statistical Properties, and Applications. Programmer/Analyst at SCB Computer Technology, Inc.; Colleen K. McGraw under Prof. Louis Heifetz. Dissertation Title: Exploring the Mathematical Paths Students Follow in High School and College. Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA; Lakshmi Modali under Prof. Steven Diaz. Dissertation Title: A Uniform Property for Finite Set of Points in Projective Space. Assistant at University of Maine, Farmington, Maine.; Mary K. Porter under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: The Effects of Writing to Learn Mathematics on Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Ability in Introductory College Calculus. St. Mary's College, South Bend, IN.; John M. Trimboli under Prof. Louis Heifetz. Dissertation Title: A Journey Through Numeracy: Correlates of Mathematical Success at the Collegiate Level. Macon State College, Macon, GA.
1995: Nkechi Madonna Agwu under Prof. Howard Johnson. Dissertation Title: Using a Computer Laboratory Setting (CLS) to Teach College Calculus. CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College; Hani Q. Khoury under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Exploring Perspectives about Mathematics within the Cultural Context of a College Algebra Class at a Community College: A Case Study. Mercer University, Mercer, GA; Ewa Anna Prus-Wisniowska (deceased Aug. 1995) under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Cognitive, Metacognitive, and Social Aspects of Mathematical Proof with Respect to Calculus. University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.; Franciszek Prus-Wisniowski under Prof. Daniel Waterman. Dissertation Title: General Properties of Functions of Bounded Lambda-variations. University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.; Jun-Lue Zhang under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: An Intgrated Approach to Some Ranking & Selection Problems. Assistant Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA.
1994: Laura Trasher Bernhofen under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Procedures for Selecting the Best Experimental Treatment with Comparison to a Control. Assistant Professor at Clark University, Worchester, MA; Qazi M Dawood under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: First-order Elliptic Operators on the Complex Plane. Senior Assistant Professor, Kashmir University, India.; May Hamdan (webpage) under Prof. Karl Barth. Dissertation Title: On the Asymptotic Values of Analytic Functions in the Unit Disk. Associate Professor at Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.; Shashidhar Jagadeeshan under Prof. Mark Kleiner. Dissertation Title: Stable Artin Algebras. Centre for Learning, Bangalore, India.; Pamela B. Pierce (webpage) under Prof. Daniel Waterman. Dissertation Title: On the Preservation of Certain Properties of Functions Under Composition. Professor, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH; JeanAnn Riordan under Prof. Howard Johnson. Dissertation Title: Effect of Persistence Time on Learner Achievement.
1993: Peter C. Brown under Prof. Dan Zacharia. Dissertation Title: Non-Split Extensions over Hereditary Artin Algebras of Finite Representation Type. Senior Staff Programmer at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.; Wei Chen under Prof. Wu-Teh Hsiang. Dissertation Title: Cohomogeneity-two G-Invariant Minimal Submanifolds, Minimal Cones and the Bernstein Problem. Software Engineer at AT&T, G.I.S, Dreyden, NY; Joseph G. Gaskin under Prof. John Lindberg. Dissertation Title: Singly-generated closed subalgebras of the Banach Algebra of Twice Continuously differentiable functions in a Closed Interval. Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY.; Chad Scott (webpage) under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Lp Theory of Differential Forms on Manifolds. Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Superior, Superior, WI; Hualing Xing under Prof. Daniel Waterman. Dissertation Title: Interpolating Polynomials Convergence, Approximation and the Magnitude of Coefficients. Employed in industry.
1991: Amita Agarwal under Prof. Mehrotra. Dissertation Title: Asymptotic Properties of Regression Estimates for Invariate and Multivariate Normal Distribution Under Type I Censoring.; Samer S. Habre (webpage) under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Second-Order Linear Elliptic Systems on the Complex Plane. Associate Professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.; Murali K. Ranganathan under Prof. Jacques Lewin, 1991 Dissertation Title: Endomorphism Rings of Non free, Stably Free Ideals. Professor of Mathematics, Barton College, Wilson, NC; Nunzio Paul Schembari under Prof. Daniel Waterman. Dissertation Title: Functions of generalized Bounded Variation, Generalized Absolute Continuity and Applications to Fourier Series.Assistant Professor at East Stroudsberg University of Pennsylvania
1990: Vivian Anderson under Prof. Sharon Senk. Dissertation Title: Women in Engineering Programs: A Qualitative Study. Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Michael J. Enos under Prof. Troutman. Dissertation Title: Angular Momentum Optimization of Rigid Body Trajectories.; Vincent E. Fatica (webpage) under Prof. Graver. Dissertation Title: On Edge-Critical Graphs and the Notion of Vortex Independence in Graphs. Part Time Assistant Professor at Syracuse University; Robert Kantrowitz under Prof. John Lindberg. Dissertation Title: Homomorphisms into Banach Algebras of Continuous Vector-Valued Functions. Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Carolyn Novak Rouviere under Prof. H. Johnson. Dissertation Title: A Study to Determine Possible Trends Between Students' Problems and Sucesses and Instructors' and Teaching Assistants' Usage Levels and Concerns Stages Implementing Calculators into Class.; Patricia Tinto under Prof. Sharon Senk. Dissertation Title: Students' Views on Learning Proof in High School Geometry: An Analytic-Inductive Approach. School of Education, Syracuse University
1989: Sutep Thongyoo under Prof. H. Johnson. Dissertation Title: A Study of Using Microcomputer Software to Enhance Calculus Instruction. Srinakharinwirot Univ. (Bangkok, Thailand).; Gilbert A. Weinstein (webpage) under Professor Christodoulou. Dissertation Title: On Rotating Black Holes in Equilibrium in General Relativity. Associate Professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
1988: David Herman Dezern under Prof. Waterman. Dissertation Title: Fourier Series on Vilenkin Groups. University of North Carolina, Ashville, NC.; Ken H. Farrell (deceased fall 1994), under Professor Lardy. Dissertation Title: Solution of a Congruence for a Pair of Polynomials with Applications to certain Convolutional Operators. Rochester Institute of Technology.; Amir Foroudi under Prof. Graver. Dissertation Title: Mixed Integer Flow Problems.; Shekhar Rajagopalan under Professor Graver. Dissertation Title: The Multicommodity Flow Problem Indian Inst. of Technology.; Eric F. Rieders (webpage) under Professor McConnell. Dissertation Title: Strong Laws of Large Numbers for Certain Sequences and Arrays of Dependent Random Variables. President and CEO, NMS Labs, Willow Grove, PA.
1987: Melda Yaman Oruc under Prof. Lewis. Dissertation Title: On Equivariant Ordinary Cohomology: Equivariant Steenrod Algebra. Renssalaer Polytechnic Inst.; Brigette Servatius (webpage) under Professor Graver. Dissertation Title: Planar Rigidity. Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
1986: Lawrence A. D'Antonio, Jr. under Professor Waterman. Dissertation Title: Functions of Generalized Bounded Variation and Summability of Fourier Series. S.U.N.Y. Purchase; Vali Gorjizadeh (College Teaching), under Prof. J. Lewin. Dissertation Title: X-Outer Galois Theory for Prime Rings Ahwaz University, Ahwaz, Iran.; Pedro Isaza-Jaramillo under Professor Waterman. Dissertation Title: Functions of Generalized Bounded Variation and Fourier Series. Univ. of Nacional Colombia, Medellin, Colombia.; Aboubakr Lbekkouri under Prof. M. Kleiner. Dissertation Title: On Cohomological Dimension of Modules and Algebras. Universite` Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.; Rachid Lebbar, under Professor Lardy. Dissertation Title: Convergence and Super Convergence of Numerical Solutions of Weakly Singular Integral and Differential Equations. Owner of NtSoft (Morocco), professor at Ecole Hassania des Travaux Publics, Casablanca, Morocco.; Arifa K. Moin under Professor Johnson. Dissertation Title: Relate Effectiveness of Various Techniques of Calculus Instruction: A meta-Analysis. Univ. of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.; Hermann J. Servatius, under Prof. J. Lewin. Dissertation Title: Graph Groups. Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
1985: Fernando Guzman (webpage), under Prof. M. Kleiner. Dissertation Title: Cointegrations and Cohomology for Comodules. Professor, Binghamton University
1984: Surapon Vatanavigkit, under Prof. H. Johnson. Dissertation Title: A Personalized System of Instruction in a Mathematics Course for Thai College Students. Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand.
1983: Carl G.A. Droms (webpage) under Prof. J. Lewin. Dissertation Title: Graph Groups. Professor, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
1982: Earl Cushman Burt II, under Prof. Troutman. Dissertation Title: A Theoretical and Numerical Analysis of the General Poisson Boltzmann Equation. Syracuse Research Co.; Michael Schramm, under Prof. Waterman. Dissertation Title: Topics in Generalized Bounded Variation. Le Moyne College.
1981: Glen Castore, under Prof. Blackman. Dissertation Title: Holonomy Preserving Deformations of Connections.; Tsegay Moges, under Professor Edrei Dissertation Title: Zeros of Successive Derivatives of Some Entire Functions of Infinite Order.
1980: Wendy L. Duigan (College Teaching), under Professor Kohls. Dissertation Title: Matrois: Constructions, Classifications, and Applications. Niagra University, Niagra, NY.; Gary Allen Frederici, under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: Zero's and Poles of Pade` Approximants
1979: Steven K. Andrianoff under Professor Lardy. Dissertation Title: A Modification of Nystrom's Method for Approximating the Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of an Integral Operator.; Douglas Cashing under Professor Exner. Dissertation Title: Transactional Gestalt as it Applies to the Teaching of College Level Mathematics.; James Schatz under Professor Mattson (CIS). Dissertation Title: On the Coset Leaders of Reed-Muller Codes.; John W. Van Horne under Professor Jurkat. Dissertation Title: On the Central Limit Theorem for Theta Series.
1977: Sarah Brooks, under Professor Exner.; Pierre A. von Kaenel (Webpage) under Professor Hartman. Dissertation Title: The Structure and Properties of Cyclic Convolutional Codes.
1976: Jenny Antoinette Baglivo under Professor Anderson. Dissertation Title: Equivarient Wall Obstruction Theory.; John Kevin Doyle under Professor Watkins. Dissertation Title: Graphical Frobenius Representaions of Abstract Groups.; Kanat Durgun under Professor Lardy. Dissertation Title: The Methods of Repeated Rank Reduction and Multiple Correction for the Numerical Solution of the Fredholm Integral Equation of the Second Kind.; Michael J. Evans (Science Teaching), under Professor Lindberg. Dissertation Title: Homomorphisms of Banach Algebras and Banach Modules.; Melvin J. Friske (webpage) under Professor Jurkat. Dissertation Title: Growth and Almost Periodicity of Dirichlet Series with Random Signs. Professor, Wisconsin Lutheran College.; Thomas M. McDonald under Professor G. Johnson. Dissertation Title: Eigenfunction Expansions of the Wave Operators in Potential Scattering Theory.
1975: Faruk F. Abi-Khuzam under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: On the Growth of Various Means of Subharmonic and Delta-Subharmonic Functions. American University of Beirut, Lebanon.; Artin B. Boghossian under Professor Troutman. Dissertation Title: Uniform Approximation of Continuous Functions on Open Subsets of R^m.; Joseph C. Hintz under Professor Lardy. Dissertation Title: Factorization of Singular, Second-order, Linear Boundary Value Problems.; Charles J. Leska under Professor Graver. Dissertation Title: Applications of Integer Linear Programming in Combinatorics.
1974: Nabil Boulos under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: The Complete Padé Table of Series of Simple Fractions; Elaine Cohen (Mrs.Riesenfeld) under Professor Waterman. Dissertation Title: On the Degree of Approximation of a Function by Partial Sums of It's Fourier Series; Lawrence E. Copes under Professor Exner. Dissertation Title: Teaching Models for College Mathematics.; David Engles under Professor Waterman. Dissertation Title: Bounded Variation and Its Generalizations (College Teaching).; Dennis M. Luciano under Professor Lissner(CIS). Dissertation Title: Dimension Theory in Communicative Algebra.; Brian B. Moore under Professor Sanchis. Dissertation Title: Structure of the Degrees of Enumeration Reducibility.; Arthur D. Shindhelm under Professor Waterman. Dissertation Title: Generalizations of the Banach-Saks Property.
1973: Hernando Bedoya under Professor J. Lewin. Dissertation Title: Fully Inverting Embeddings of Communicative Integral Domains.; Walter M. Patterson, III under Professor Lardy. Dissertation Title: A Survey of Iterative Methods for the Solution of a Linear Operator Equation in Hilbert Space. Professor at Lander University in Greenwood, SC.; Gopaldas V. Shah under Professor Lindberg. Dissertation Title: Differential Extensions of F-Algebras.; Carl B. Shepardson under Professor Church. Dissertation Title: Hurwitz-Riemann Formulas.
1972: George William Ball under Professor J. Reid. Dissertation Title: The Schur Index.; Ronald F. Barnes under Professor Guy Johnson. Dissertation Title: Bounded Extensions of Topological Vector Spaces.Brockport State College; Leonora A. (Zobkiw) Benzinger under Professor Jurkat. Dissertation Title: Uniformly Distributed Sequences on Locally Compact Groups. Mathematical Modeling of Communication Systems; Alwin C. Greene under Professor Watkins. Dissertation Title: Connectivity of Graphs Which are Either Vertex Transitive or Else Satisfy a Certain Path Condition. SUC Buffalo; Margaret W. Groman under Professor Kohls. Dissertation Title: Bimultiplication Rings and Ring Extensions.; Agnes Chi-Ling Hsu under Professor Church. Dissertation Title: The Stretch of a Differentiable Map of Riemannian Manifolds. National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada.; Charles Dwight Lahr (webpage) under Professor Lardy. Dissertation Title: Approximate Identities and Multipliers for Certain Convolution Measure Algebras. Dartmouth College; Edmond A. Memmott under Professor Cargo. Dissertation Title: The Segmental Variation of Holomorphic Functions.; Neal J. Plotkin under Professor Grove. Dissertation Title: Representations of Finite Groups in Quadratic Fields.; Shantilal Narbheram Shah under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: Some Problems in the Theory of Entire and Meromorphic Functions.; Robert L. Tyler under Professor J. Lewin. Dissertation Title: The Lower Central Series of an Associative Ring with Identity.; James W. Uebelacker under Professor Watkins. Dissertation Title: Product Graphs and the Action of Their Automorphism Groups.
1971: Christine Belle Beaucage under Professor Church. Dissertation Title: A Proper PL Map Locally Trivial in the Domain is a PL Fibre Bundle Map.; Regina Baron Brunner under Professor Exner. Dissertation Title: The Construction and Construct Validation of a Reading Comprehension Test of Mathematical Exposition.; Donald G. Hazlewood (webpage) under Professor Richart. Dissertation Title: Estimates for Weighted Sums Over Positive Integers with Few Prime Factors. Southwest State University.; Edward R. Hogan under Professor Lissner. Dissertation Title: Localizations in Algebraic K-Theory. Wooster Polytec.; Richard D. Järvinen under Professor Blackman. Dissertation Title: Finite and Infinite Dimensional Linear Spaces: A Comparison. St. Mary's College, Winona, MN. (Deceased July 2011); Alexander J. Lindsay under Professor Ucci. Dissertation Title: The Swan Equivalence and Its Topological Applications to Ring Theory University of Virginia, Mary Washington College; B. Arthur Miller under Professor J. Lewin. Dissertation Title: Adjoint Groups and Radical Rings. Mount Allison Univ. Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.; John Nguthu Mutio under Professor Grove. Dissertation Title: Frobenius Groups.; James F. Porter under Professor Guy Johnson. Dissertation Title: Herglotz Theorem: Partially Ordered Schwartz Distributions on the Circle. Univ. of Mississippi.; Neil Nicholas Sider under Professor Graver. Dissertation Title: Partial Colorings and Limiting Chromatic Numbers.
1970: Said Abu-Zahra under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: On Local Indicator and Extension of Phragmen Lindelof. Salem State College, Salem, MA.; Karl A. Beres under Professor Reid. Dissertation Title: Infinite Algebraic Extensions. Ripon College, WI; James Robert Case under Professor Lorentz. Dissertation Title: Extensions and Generalizations of Jackson's Theorem. Hiram College, Hiram, OH.; Joseph M. Cavanaugh under Professor Lissner. Dissertation Title: Projective Modules Over the Ring of Regular Functions of the L-Holed Torus. Northern Illinois Univ., Dekalb, Illinois.; John T. Daly under Professor Lindberg. Dissertation Title: Liouville F-Algebras. Oswego State University College, Oswego, NY.; Philip Downum under Professor Lindberg. Dissertation Title: Galois Theory For Arens-Hoffman Extensions of Commutative Banach Algebras. Oswego State Univ. College, Oswego, NY.; Joan Murphy Geramita under Professor A. Hudson. Dissertation Title: Automorphisms of Some Compact Irreducible Semigroups. Queens Univ. Kingston, Ontario; Chin-Yeang Lim under Professor Lissner. Dissertation Title: Global Dimension of Semi-Primary Rings.; Clara Pui-Ping Lim under Professor Professor Guy Johnson. Dissertation Title: The Strong Markov Property.; Walter Pugh (deceased 1969) under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: Frobenius Groups.; William H. Reynolds (deceased 1979) under Professor Kohls. Dissertation Title: Demigroups and Demirings. SUC at Cortland.; Clara Ann Sabel under Professor Mahoney. Dissertation Title: S-Rings.; Gary Sampson under Professor Jurkat. Dissertation Title: Convolution Inequalities. Auburn University.; J. Richard Walker under Professor Church. Dissertation Title: Monotone Mappings and Decomposition. Mansfield State College, Mansfield, PA.
1969
: Frank M. Carrano Jr. under Professor Gilbert. Dissertation Title: A Generalized Bairstow Method for Multiple Zeros of a Polynomial. Univ. of Rhode Island, Computer Laboratory.; Ronald W. DeGray under Professor Frank. Dissertation Title: Randomness and Random Number Generators. Utica College.; Daniel P. Doud under Professor Reid. Dissertation Title: Dimension and Chain Decomposition of Finite Partially Ordered Sets. SUC College at Fredonia, NY; Alan Kaplan under Professor A Hudson. Dissertation Title: I-Semigroup Topological Properties and Applications. Worcester Polytechnic Inst., Worcester, MA.; J. Douglas Moore under Professor Reid. Dissertation Title: On Purity in Albelian Groups. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ.; Nadine Hanson Moore under Professor Lissner. Dissertation Title: Projective Modules Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ.; Sherman Delbert Riemenschneider (webpage) under Professor Lorentz. Dissertation Title: Some Properties of Linear Operators on L^p and Lorentz Spaces.; Richard Orr under Professor Richert. Dissertation Title: Remainder Estimates for Squarefree Integers in Arithematic Progressions; Ronald E. Prather under Professor Graver. Dissertation Title: A Categorical Unification of Automata Theory Univ. of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; Richard Summerville under Professor Johnson. Dissertation Title: Univalent Solutions of Beltrami Equations Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA; Andrew Richards Wohlgemuth under Professor Reid. Dissertation Title: A Generalized Bairstow Method for Multiple Zeros of a Polynomial. Univ. of Rhode Island, Computer Laboratory.
1968: Paul K. Blackwell under Professor Hemmingsen. Dissertation Title: The Classification of Logic Functions. University of Missouri, Colombia, MO.; Anthony V. Geramita under Professor Lissner. Dissertation Title: Structure of Projective Modules over Rings of Global Dimension Less Than or Equal to Two. Queens University, Kingston, Ontario; William D. Nathan under Professor Church. Dissertation Title: Open Mappings on Manifolds. Temple University; Ki-Choul Oum under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: Deficiencies of Functions Whose Zeros have an Angular Density. SUC College at Buffalo.; John A. Roulier under Professor Lorentz. Dissertation Title: Weighted Approximation by Polynomial Monotone Approximation, Bounds Co-efficients of Approximation Polynomials. Union College, Schenectady, NY; Herbert Silverman under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: Nevanlinna Theory.OrApplications of Polya Peaks to Tauberian Theorems and Meromorphic functions. Clark University, Worcester, MA; Allen Weitsman (webpage) under Professor Edrei. Dissertation Title: Asymptotic Behavior of Meromorphic Functions with Extremal Deficiencies. Perdue University
1967: Peter L. Antonelli under Prof. Hemmingsten. Dissertation Title: Structure Theory for Montgomery-Samuelson Fiberings Between Manifolds. University of Alberta.; Harold Edward Benzinger Jr. (deceased June 1990) under Prof. Jurkat. Dissertation Title: Eigenfunction Expansion for Nth Order Nonregular Boundary Value Problems. University of Illinois.; D. Wayne Cassell under Prof. Lissner. Dissertation Title: Rings Over Which Projective Modules are Free. Messiah College, Grantham PA.; Geraldine C. Darden (Biography) under Prof. Reid. Dissertation Title: On Direct Sums of Cyclic Groups. Hampton Institute, VA; David A. Drake under Prof. Kleinfeld. Dissertation Title: Neighbor Collineations of Hjelmslev Planes and Extensions of Affine Hjelmslev Planes to Projective Ones. University of Florida.; Michael J. Kallaher under Prof. Kleinfeld. Dissertation Title: On a Class of Veblen-Wedderburn Planes. Washington State University.; James Timourian under Prof. Church. Dissertation Title: Singular Fiberings of Manifolds. University of Alberta.
1966: Eleanor Green Dawley Jones (Biography) under Prof. Reid. Dissertation Title: Abelian Groups and Their Endomorphism Rings, and the Direct Decomposition and Quasi-Endomorphisms of Torsion Free Abelian Groups. Professor at Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA; Louis J. DeLuca under Prof. Lorentz. Dissertation Title: Algebraic Approximation and Saturation Classes. Univ. of Connecticut; Jesse Lewis under Prof. Gilbert. Dissertation Title: A Computer Study of Permanents of N-Square(0,1)-Matrices in the Class U(k,k). Computer Center, Jackson St. College.; James E. McKenna under Prof. Sprecher. Dissertation Title: Two Different Approaches to Distributions and Their Interrelationships. SUNY, Fredonia; John T. Scheick under Prof. Lorentz. Dissertation Title: Some Problems in Approximation Theory. Ohio State University.; Sandra Halleck Scheick under Prof. Ryser. Dissertation Title: Classes of Matrices of Zeros and Ones. Washington State University.; Nicholas J. Sterling under Prof. Kleinfeld. Dissertation Title: On Associator Dependent Prime Rings. SUNY at Binghamton.
1965: Paul Abramson under Prof. Hemmingsen. Dissertation Title: An Analysis of Topological Characterizations of the Dimensional Concept.; David T. Brown under Prof. Lindberg. Dissertation Title: On Some Aspects of the Are-Hoffman Extension of Banach Algebras. Ithaca College; Bethany College, WV.; Margaret M. Humm (Kleinfeld) under Prof. Kleinfeld. Dissertation Title: On a Class of Right Alternative Rings with an Indempotent Not the Identity. University of Iowa.; Donnelly J. Johnson under Prof. Gilbert?. Dissertation Title: Hilbert's Problem Thirteen, Its Ramifications for Function Theory.; Donald A. Lutz under Prof. Jurkat. Dissertation Title: On The Characterization of Systems of Linear Differential Equations with Regular-Singular Solutions. Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.; Thomas V. O'Brien under Prof. Mahowald. Dissertation Title: On the Modified Postnikov Tower. Bowling Green State University.; Daniel F. Shea Jr. under Prof. Edrei. Dissertation Title: On the Relations Between the Growth of a Meromorphic Function and the Angular Distribution of two of its values. University of Wisconsin.; Albert C. Vosburg under Prof. Lorentz. Dissertation Title: Some topics on E-Entrophy. Professional Staff, Inst. of Defense Analysis.
1964: Richard A. Brualdi (Biography) under Prof. Ryser. Dissertation Title: Combinatorial Aspects of the Direct Product of Matrices. Univ. of Wisconsin.; Douglas H. Crawford under Prof. Glennon. Dissertation Title: Investigation of Age-Grade Trends in Understanding the Field Axioms.; Cheong Seng Hoo under Prof. Mahowald. Dissertation Title: Homotopy Groups of Stiefel Manifolds. University of Alberta.; William L. Reddy under Prof. Hemmingsen. Dissertation Title: Expansive Homeomorphisms and their Relationship to Transitive Homeomorphisms. Wesleyan University.
1963: Malcolm J. Slakter under Prof. Exner. Dissertation Title: A Comparison of the Pearson Chi-Square and Kolmogorov Goodness-of-Fit Tests, Measurements and Statistics.
1962: George F. Clements under Prof. Lorentz. Dissertation Title: Entropies and n-dimensional Widths of Set Functions of Bounded Variation. University of Colorado.; Thomas S. Frank under Prof. Baum. Dissertation Title: Some Analytic and Algebraic Aspects of Quasigroups. Le Moyne College; Bruce B. Peterson under Prof. Hemmingsen. Dissertation Title: Formal Contraction and Some Generalizations of Convexity. Middlebury College.; Norman Pullman under Prof. K.L. Chung. Dissertation Title: On The Number of Positive Entries in the Powers of a Non-negative Matrix. Queen's University (deceased 1999, obituary).; Joseph M. Scandura under Prof. Davis. Dissertation Title: The Teaching-Learning Process: Comparative Analysis of Exposition and Discovery Modes of Problem Solving Instruction. University of Pennsylvania.
1961: Simon Hellerstein under Prof. Edrei. Dissertation Title: Deficiencies of a Meromorphic Function and Distribution Values in Angles and Annuli. University of Wisconsin.
1960: Taqdir Husain under Professor Mark, Mahowald. Dissertation Title: On S-spaces and the Open Mapping Theorem. McMaster U, PSB, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1959: Wibert Neil Prentice under Professor Pardee. Dissertation Title: The Mathematics of the Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Curriculum. Computer Center, Denison University.; Elizabeth Wetherell under Professor Lipman. Dissertation Title: Local Behavior of Solutions of Elliptic Systems of Partial Differential Equations.
1958: Kapbyung Yoon under Professor Baum. Dissertation Title: Algebraic Laplacian and Discrete Boundary Value Problems in a Simpical Complex. Seoul University, Korea.
1957: May E.R. Kinsolving under Prof. Baum. Dissertation Title: On Spaces Suitable for Finsler Geometries in the Large. Ithaca College.; L.N.(Luke Nicholas) Zaccaro under Prof. Gilbert. Dissertation Title: A Problem-sequence Development of Introductory Topology. Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
1956: Howard F. Becksfort under Prof. Gelbart. Dissertation Title: The Existence of a Solution to a Functional Equation Arising From A Fluid Flow Problem. Parsons College; Mount Senario College.; Rafael Chacon under Prof. Chung. Dissertation Title: Some Theorems on Continuous Parameter Markov Chains. Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia.; Wendell G. Johnson under Prof. Exner. Dissertation Title: A Relation Between High School and College Mathematics Grades. Hiram College.
1955: Edwin F. Gillette under Prof. Baum. Dissertation Title: On the Four-Vortex Theorem and Some of its generalizations. Union College, Schenectady NY.; Roland F. Smith under Prof. Exner. Dissertation Title: An Experimental Comparison of Two Liberal Arts Courses in General Mathematics at Syracuse University. Russel Sage College.; James Snover under Prof. Edrei. Dissertation Title: Approximation by Rational Functions Which Have Their Zeros and Poles in Preassigned Regions. Florida State University.
1954: Sullivan G. Campbell under Prof. Gelbart. Dissertation Title: On a Class of Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations. Graphic Sciences, Inc (CEO).; Charles S. Ogilvy (NYT obituary) under Prof. Baum. Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Some Properties of Asymptotics Lines on Surfaces of Negative Gaussian Curvature. Hamilton College.; Melvin Shader under Prof. Loewner. Dissertation Title: Some Inequalities for Axially-Symmetric Potential Functions. Computer Science, Infonet Div.
1953: Leroy F. Meyers under Prof. Loewner. Dissertation Title: Certain Transformations of Hermitian Functionals. Ohio State.; Louis Robinson under Prof. Baum. Dissertation Title: An Extension of the Kneser Inequality to Complexes and a Generalization of the Concept of the Degree of a Mapping. IBM Corporation.
1952: Adnah Kostenbauder under Prof. Milgram. Dissertation Title: Multipicative Semigroups of Continuous Functions. Muhlenburg College.; Samuel Schecter under Prof. Bers. Dissertation Title: Boundary Value Problems for the Minimal Surface Equation. Stanford Research Institute.
1951: Harold Hsiao-li Chang under Prof. Bers. Dissertation Title: Approximately Analytic Functions of Bounded Type and Boundary Behavior of Solutions of Elliptical Partial Differential Equations. China; Robert S. Finn under Prof. Gelbart. Dissertation Title: On Some Properties of the Solutions of a Class of Non-linear Partial Differential Equations. Stanford University; Benham M. Ingersoll under Prof. Rosenbloom. Dissertation Title: On a Problem of Cauchy Type for Linear Hyperbolic Equations. C.C.N.Y.; Frank Pao-Ming Pu under Prof. Loewner. Dissertation Title: Some Inequalities in Certain Non-orientable Riemannian Manifolds. University of California; Daniel Resch under Prof. Loewner. Dissertation Title: Some Baecklaud Transformations of Partial Differential Equations of Second Order. Northwestern.; Henry G. Rice (Biography) under Prof. Rosenbloom. Dissertation Title: Classes of Recursively Enumerable Sets and their Decision Problems. California (Industrial); James Sanders under Prof. Gelbart. Dissertation Title: Some Classes of Partial Differential Equations of the Fourth Order. University of Alberta, Canada
1950: Jacob C. Dekker under Professor Rosenbloom. Dissertation Title: The Constructivity of Maximal Ideals in Boolean Algebras. Professor Emeritus from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.; Hasan H. Mostafa under Professor Gelbart. Dissertation Title: On Flows Governed by Simplified Gas Dynamical Equations. Cario, Egypt.
1949: Helmut Aulbach under Professor Loewner. Dissertation Title: Some Geometrical Inequalities for Sets in Hilbert Space. Harpur College.; Robert M. Exner (Biography) under Professor Milgram. Dissertation Title: Surfaces Invariant Under Motions. Syracuse University.
1948: Charles Titus under Professor Loewner. Dissertation Title: A Topological Characterization of a Class of Affine Transformations. University of Michigan.

Early Years

1921: Jung Sun. Dissertation Title: Some Determinant Theorems.
1920: Jason John Nassau (Biography). Dissertation Title: Some Theorems in Alternants. Case Institute of Technology.; Tsao-Shing Yang. Dissertation Title: The Moving Trihedral Associated with a Triply Orthogonal System of Surfaces.
1918: Josephine Robinson Roe. Dissertation Title: Interfunctional Expressibility Problems Symmetric Functions.
1911: Louis Lindsey. Dissertation Title: The Minors of a Compound Determinant.
1910: Floyd Fiske Decker. Dissertation Title: On the Order of a Restricted System of Equations.
1902: William Erastus Taylor. Dissertation Title: On the Product of an Alternant by a Symmetric Function.
1893: Levi L. Conant.
1887: David Eugene Smith.
1884: Isaac J. Birchard.
1884: Joseph Morrison. Dissertation Title: Apparent Orbit of the Satellite of a Superior Planet.
1881: Judson B. Coit. Dissertation Title: Orbit for the Double Star in Cassiopiae.