Alums of the Dynamical Systems Group
At Boston 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. 2000, Dissertation: Minimal Flows and Global Cross Sections
which are disks
Faculty, Rochester Institute of Technology
Margaret Beck
Ph.D. 2006, Dissertation: Topics in Stability Theory for Partial Differential
Equations
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
Marina Bevzushenko
Ph.D. 2008, Dissertation: Mathematical Analysis of an Integro-Differential
Equation Arising in Neuroscience
Faculty, Boston College
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
Fred Blundell
Ph.D. 1994, Dissertation: A Spherically Symmetric
Model in Celestial Mechanics
Founder, Asperon.com
Ph.D. 1988, Dissertation: Mass Distributions in Central Configurations
Chair of the Mathematics Department,
St. Anselm's College
Amy Chiu
Ph.D. 1996, Dissertation: Quartic Newton's Method and Matings of
Polynomials
Ph.D. 2001, Dissertation:
Reduced Equations for Hyperbolic Problems on Thin Domains.
Faculty, University of Illinois
Ph.D. 1989, Dissertation: The Dynamics of the Complex Exponential Function:
A Mathematical and Computer Graphical Study
Associate Dean
of Arts and Sciences,
Bentley College
Ph.D. 1995, Dissertation: The Complex Standard Family
Faculty, University of Barcelona.
Alex Frumosu
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
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 Plan
Faculty, 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
Faculty, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Ph.D. 1995, Dissertation: Rank R KP Solutions with Singular
Rational Spectral Curves.
Faculty, 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, Nonlinear Partial
Differential Equations and Differential Difference Equations
Ecole Polytechnique
Eileen Lee
Ph.D. 1997. Dissertation: The Structure and Geometry of the Brjuno Numbers
Coordinator, Math For America, 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
Molecular Sciences Institute, University of California Berkeley
Ph.D. 2008. Dissertation: Complex Dynamics of Singularly Perturbed
Rational Maps
Faculty, University of the Pacific
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
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
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.
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
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
Faculty, US Military Academy, West Point
Hector Sanchez
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.
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
Faculty, Psychology Dept., 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
Alexandru Teodorescu-Frumosu
Ph.D. 2003, Dissertation: Unbounded Itineraries of Entire Functions
Faculty, Tufts
University
Ph.D. 1991, Dissertation: Rotation Number Properties of a Class of
Annulus Homeomorphisms with an Invariant Indecomposable Cofrontier
Faculty, University of Hartford
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 and Wellesley College
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, Hiram College
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