Alums of the Dynamical Systems Group
At Boston University
Ph.D. 2013, Dissertation: Modeling Stochastic Reaction Di usion via Interaction Functions and
Boundary Conditions.
Faculty, Colgate University
Ph.D. 1992, Dissertation: A History of Complex Dynamics from Schröder to Fatou and Julia.
Faculty, Drake University
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: Studies in Dynamical Systems:
Collisions and Codings.
Faculty, Smith College
Ph.D. 2011, Dissertation: Vortex crystals in fluids.
Faculty, University of Auckland
William Basener
Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation: Minimal Flows and Global Cross Sections
which are disks.
Ph.D. 2006, Dissertation: Topics in Stability Theory for Partial Differential
Equations.
Faculty, Boston University
Nick Benes
Ph.D. 2010, Dissertation: Stability of multi-solutions in the Toda model and torus canards in neuroscience models.
Chief Data Officer, Office of Naval Research
Marina Bevzushenko
Ph.D. 2008, Dissertation: Mathematical Analysis of an Integro-Differential
Equation Arising in Neuroscience.
Ranjit Bhattacharjee
Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation: Bifurcation to an Entire Function.
Executive Vice President, Capital Markets, Trasury and Correspondent Lending, Caliber Home Loans, Inc.
Salomon, Smith, Barney, New York City
Fred Blundell
Ph.D. 1994, Dissertation: A Spherically Symmetric
Model in Celestial Mechanics.
Ph.D. 1988, Dissertation: Mass Distributions in Central Configurations.
Chair of the Mathematics Department, St. Anselm College
Ph.D. 2018, Dissertation: A Sierpinski Mandelbrot Spiral for Rational
Maps of the Form \(Z^N + \lambda/Z^D\)
Loyola University, Chicago
Osman Chaudhary
Ph.D. 2017, Dissertation: Rigorous Justification of Taylor Dispersion
via Center Manifold Theory.
Anthea Cheung
Ph.D. 2019, Dissertation: Spatiotemporal Patterns in the Wave of
Traveling Wave Solutions to the Morris-Lecar Model of Neural Tissue.
Amazon
Amy Chiu
Ph.D. 1996, Dissertation: Quartic Newton's Method and Matings of
Polynomials.
Eric Cooper
Ph.D. 2019, Dissertation: Selection of Quasi-stationary States in the
2D Navier-Stokes Equation on the Torus
Patrick Cummings
Ph.D. 2017, Dissertation: Nonlinear Schrödinger Approximations for
Partial Differential Equations with Quadratic and Quasilinear Terms
Ph.D. 2014, Dissertation: Dynamical Invariants and Parameter Space Structures
for Rational Maps
Faculty, Northwestern University
Ph.D. 2001, Dissertation:
Reduced Equations for Hyperbolic Problems on Thin Domains.
Faculty, University of Illinois
Marilyn Durkin
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: The Dynamics of the Complex Exponential Function:
A Mathematical and Computer Graphical Study.
Emeritus faculty, Bentley College
Ph.D. 1995, Dissertation: The Complex Standard Family
Faculty, University of Barcelona.
Ph.D. 2014, Dissertation: The structure of Julia sets from accessible
Mandelbrot sets.
Faculty, Salve Regina University
Ph.D. 2003, Dissertation: Itineraries for Complex Exponentials.
Faculty, Clark University
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: Periodic Points for Monotone
Symplectomorphisms of Tn x Rn.
Faculty, Smith College
Laura Rocío González Ramírez
Ph.D. 2014, Dissertation: Existence and stability of traveling waves in a biologically constrained model of seizure wave propagation.
Faculty, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo
Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation:
Nonlinear Dynamics of Gas Bubbles in Liquid.
Faculty, Rochester Institute of Technology
Ph.D. 1992, Dissertation: The Dynamics of Newton's Method on the Exponential
Function in the Complex Plane.
Faculty, University of Hartford.
Michael Hayes
Ph.D. 1999, Dissertation: Geometric Analysis of Delayed Bifurcations
WS Atkins Consultants, Surrey, UK
Baldur Hedinsson
Ph.D. 2011, Dissertation: Interactions of Inhibitory Cells
Ph.D. 2010, Dissertation: Renormalization Group Methods for Singularly
Perturbed Systems, Norma Forms, and Stability of Traveling Waves in a
Reaction-diffusion-mechanics System.
Faculty, George Mason University
Ph.D. 2001, Dissertation: Rhythms in the Neocortex and in CPG Neurons:
a Dynamical Systems Analysis.
Faculty, Brown University.
Ph.D. 1996, Dissertation: The Collinear 1-bumper, 2-body Problem.
Faculty, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Ph.D. 1995, Dissertation: Rank R KP Solutions with Singular
Rational Spectral Curves.
Faculty, College of Charleston
Slava Krigman
Ph.D. 2004, Dissertation: Boundary Controllability of Maxwell's Equations with
Nonzero Conductivity and an Application to an Inverse Source Problem.
Principal Systems Engineer, Raytheon Corp
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: Exponential Dichotomies, Nonlinear Partial
Differential Equations and Differential Difference Equations.
Co Head Software Development, Avaloq
Ph.D. 1997. Dissertation: The Structure and Geometry of the Brjuno Numbers.
Faculty, Boston University
Ph.D. 1993. Dissertation: A Period Adding
Bifurcation in a Pair of Coupled Neurons.
Faculty, Gustavus Adolphus College
Ph.D. 2005. Dissertation: Dynamics of Circle Inversions
Faculty, St. Lawrence University
Joyce Macabea
Ph.D. 2004. Dissertation: Dynamics of Shepherd Moon Ring Systems.
Paola Malerba
Ph.D. 2010. Dissertation: Excitation dominated or inhibition dominated: different mechanisms behind rhythmic interaction in a hippocampal model.
Ph.D. 2008. Dissertation: Complex Dynamics of Singularly Perturbed
Rational Maps.
Faculty, University of the Pacific
Ph.D. 2014. Dissertation: Numerical Methods and Stochastic Simulation Algorithms for Reaction-Drift-Diffusion Systems
Faculty, UMass Amherst
Tommy McCauley
Ph.D. 2016. Dissertation: Chern-Weil Techniques on Loop Spaces and the
Maslov Index in Partial Differential Equations.
Faculty, Arlington High School
Ph.D. 1999, Dissertation: Problems on Oscillations and Pattern
Formation in Mathematical Biology.
Faculty, Drexel University
Oleg Mikitchenko
Ph.D. 2008, Dissertation: Applications of the Resolution of Singularities
to Asymptotic Analysis of Differential Equations.
Financial Analyst, Bloomberg Financial
Ph.D. 2002, Dissertation:
Indecomposable Continua in Complex Dynamical Systems.
CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico
Dave Morgan
Ph.D. 2001, Dissertation: On the Existence and Stability
of Spatial Patterns in an Activator-inhibitor System
Exhibiting Self-replication.
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Research Labs
Ph.D. 1994, Dissertation: An Inductive Approach
to the Geometry of the Discrete FitzHugh-Nagumo Equation.
Faculty, New Jersey Institute of
Technology
Kinya Ono
Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation: Analytical Methods for Reaction-diffusion
Equations: Critical Wave Speeds and Axisymmetric Phenomena.
Scientist, Khimetrics, Inc.
Ph.D. 2003, Dissertation: A Probabilistic Analysis of Forced
Oscillators, with Application to Neuronal Response Reliability.
Faculty, Boston University
Ph.D. 1999, Dissertation: Existence and Stability of Relative
Equilibria in the n-body Problem.
Faculty, College of the Holy Cross
Elizabeth D. Russell
Ph.D. 2009, Dissertation: The Complex Dynamics of Rational Maps
US Department of Defense
Ph.D. 1992, Dissertation:
Faculty, UNAM, Mexico City
Ann Sawyer
Ph.D. 1984, Dissertation: The Dynamics
of Piecewise Linear Mappings of the Plane
Texas Instruments.
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation:
Differentiability Properties of Bifurcation
Phenomena of Two Parameter Families of Circle Diffeomorphisms.
Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Technikon, Cape Town, South Africa
Cristina Soto-Trevino
Ph.D. 1997, Dissertation: Geometric Methods for Periodic Orbits
in Singularly Perturbed Systems
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University
Ph.D. (joint with Center for Neural Systems) 1993, Dissertation:
Synchronization in Networks of Neural Relaxation Oscillators:
Visual Cortical Processing and Intrinsic Oscillator Properties.
Faculty, Boston University
Ph.D. 1989. Dissertation: Finding Roots of Complex Polynomials
with Newton's Method
Faculty, Stony Brook University
Ph.D. 1988, Dissertation: Meromorphic
Continuation of the Ruelle Zeta Function
Faculty, Stony Brook University
Ph.D. 1991, Dissertation: Rotation Number Properties of a Class of
Annulus Homeomorphisms with an Invariant Indecomposable Cofrontier
Faculty, University of Hartford
Ph.D. 2008, Dissertation:
Faculty, University of San Francisco
Ph.D. 2007, Dissertation: Modeling Cortical Rhythms in Schizophrenia:
Neuronal Recruitment and Suppression.
Faculty, Brown University
Eric Wahl
Ph.D. 2008, Dissertation: Geodesics on Isopotential Surfaces and
Solutions to Newton's n-Body Problem.
Linclon Labs
Ph.D. 1991, Dissertation: Rotation Vectors
for Maps and Flows on Compact Surfaces
Faculty, Oberlin College
Ph.D. 1990, Dissertation: Bifurcations in Families of Antiholomorphic and
Biquadratic Maps.
Faculty, Harvard University Extension School
Ph.D. 2004, Dissertation: Higher order Corrections to the KdV Approximation
for Water Waves.
Faculty, Drexel University
Elizabeth Zollinger
Ph.D. 2008, Dissertation: A Family of Comets in the 3-Body Problem.
Faculty, St. Joseph's College New York
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