Alums of the Dynamical Systems Group
At Boston University
Ph.D. 1992, Dissertation: A History of Complex Dynamics from Schröder to Fatou and Julia.
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Drake University.
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: Studies in dynamical systems:
collisions and codings.
Associate Professor at Smith College.
William Basener
Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation: Minimal flows and global cross sections
which are disks
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Margaret Beck
Ph.D. 2006, Dissertation: Topics in Stability Theory for Partial Differential
Equations
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Surrey, England
Ranjit Bhattacharjee
Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation: Bifurcation to an Entire Function
Vice President in the Fixed Income Derivatives Research Group,
Salomon, Smith, Barney, New York City
(Ranjit always mentions
that he has never had any dealings with Worldcom, Enron,
etc. in his great career at SSB...)
Fred Blundell
Ph.D. 1994, Dissertation: A spherically symmetric
model in celestial mechanics
Founder, Asperon.com
Greg Buck
Ph.D. 1988, Dissertation: Mass distributions in central configurations
Associate Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department,
St. Anselm's College
Amy Chiu
Ph.D. 1996, Dissertation: Quartic Newton's method and matings of
polynomials
R. E. Lee DeVille
Ph.D. 2001, Dissertation:
Reduced equations for hyperbolic problems on thin domains.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Courant Institute
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: The dynamics of the complex exponential function:
A mathematical and computer graphical study.
Professor, Department of Mathematics, and Associate Dean
of Arts and Sciences,
Bentley College
Ph.D. 1995, Dissertation: The complex standard family
University of Barcelona.
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: Periodic points for monotone
symplectomorphisms of Tn x Rn
Associate Professor, Smith College
Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation:
Nonlinear dynamics of gas bubbles in liquid.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Ph.D. 1992, Dissertation: The dynamics of Newton's method on the exponential
function in the complex plane.
Associate Professor, University of Hartford.
Michael Hayes
Ph.D. 1999, Dissertation: Geometric analysis of delayed bifurcations
WS Atkins Consultants, Surrey, UK
Stephanie R. Jones
Ph.D. 2001, Dissertation: Rhythms in the neocortex and in CPG neurons:
a dynamical systems analysis
Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
Ph.D. 1996, Dissertation: The collinear 1-bumper, 2-body problem
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Ph.D. 1995, Dissertation: Rank R KP Solutions with Singular
Rational Spectral Curves.
Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
Stephen Krigman
Ph.D. 2004, Dissertation: Boundary Controllability of Maxwell's Equations with
Nonzero COnductivity and an Application to an Inverse Source Problem.
Research Scientist, Linclon Laboratory, MIT
Stephane Laederich
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: Exponential dichotomies, non linear partial
differential equations and differential difference equations
Ecole Polytechnique
Ph.D. 1997. Dissertation: The structure and geometry of the Brjuno numbers
Assistant Professor at Framingham State College, Framingham, MA
Ph.D. 1993. Dissertation: A period adding
bifurcation in a pair of coupled neurons
Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College
Ph.D. 2005. Dissertation: Dynamics of Circle Inversions
Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Joyce Macabea
Ph.D. 2004. Dissertation: Dynamics of shepherd moon ring systems
Molecular Sciences Institute, University of California Berkeley
Ph.D. 1999, Dissertation: Problems on oscillations and pattern
formation in mathematical biology
Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Monica Moreno Rocha
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
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, and Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Rutgers
University, Newark
Kinya Ono
Ph.D. 2000, Dissertation: Analytical methods for reaction-diffusion
equations: critical wave speeds and axisymmetric phenomena
Scientist, Khimetrics, Inc.
Jason Ritt
Ph.D. 2003, Dissertation: A Probabilistic Analysis of Forced
Oscillators, with Application to Neuronal Response Reliability
Postdoctoral Researcher, McGovern Center for Brain Research, MIT
Gareth Roberts
Ph.D. 1999, Dissertation: Existence and stability of relative
equilibria in the n-body problem
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
Hector Sanchez
Ph.D. 1992, Dissertation:
Instructor, UNAM, Mexico City
Ann Sawyer
Ph.D. 1984, Dissertation: The dynamics
of piecewise linear mappings of the plane
Texas Instruments.
Lionel Slammert
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.
David Somers
Ph.D. (joint with Center for Neural Systems) 1993, Dissertation:
Synchronization in networks of neural relaxation oscillators:
visual cortical processing and intrinsic oscillator properties
Assistant Professor, Psychology Dept., Boston University
Ph.D. 1989. Dissertation: Finding roots of complex polynomials
with Newton's method
Director of Mathematical Computing and Associate
Professor at SUNY Stony Brook.
Ph.D. 1988, Dissertation: Meromorphic
Continuation of the Ruelle Zeta Function
Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony Brook
Alexandru Teodorescu-Frumosu
Ph.D. 2003, Dissertation: Unbounded Itineraries of Entire Functions, Tufts
University
Ph.D. 1991, Dissertation: Rotation number properties of a class of
annulus homeomorphisms with an invariant indecomposable cofrontier
Associate Professor, University of Hartford
Ph.D. 1991, Dissertation: Rotation vectors
for maps and flows on compact surfaces
Associate Professor, Oberlin College.
Ph.D. 1990, Dissertation: Bifurcations in Families of Antiholomorphic and
Biquadratic Maps.
Harvard University.
Ph.D. 2004, Dissertation: Higher order corrections to the KdV approximation
for water waves
University of Minnesota
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