Recent M.A./M.S. Grads

This section gives information about all students who completed Master's degrees in Mathematics since 1992.

May 2023

M.S.

• Ruchi Dahiya. Title unknown. Advisor: Ibrahim Fatukullin.

December 2022

M.S.

• Jorge Ledesma Granados. Title unknown. Advisor: Klaus Lux.

•  Lee Sidbury. Title unknown. Advisor: David Glickenstein.

August 2022

M.S.

• Conner Hatton. Gambler's Ruin: The Limiting Distribution of Points Visited Exactly Once of a Simple Random Walk up to Time of Exit and the Influencer Voter Model. Advisor: Sunder Sethuraman.

May 2022

M.S.

• Owen MacDonald. Almost Sure Convergence of Adjacent Weights  in a Preferential Attachment Random Graph. Advisor: Sunder Sethuraman.

December 2021

M.S.

• Abigayle Dirdak. The Gale Transform. Advisor: Anton Izosimov.

August 2021

M.S.

• Omer Aktepe. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods For One And Two Dimensional Schrodinger Equations. Advisor: Moysey Brio.
• Bud Denny. Extended Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method for Dynamics in Ferrite Material. Advisor: Moysey Brio.

May 2021

M.S.

• Florence Dungan. A Nonparametric Test for Equality of Distributions. Advisor: Kevin Lin.
• Justin Perkins-Ollila. Image Quality Improvement in Generative Adversarial Nets using the Structural Similarity Index Measure. Advisor: Helen Zhang.

May 2020

M.S.

• Brian Bennett. An Exploration of Parent-Child Conversations at a Mathematics Exhibit. Advisor: Marta Civil.
• Chloe Ondracek. Title unknown. Advisor: Robert Sims.
• Fany Salazar. Mathematical Conversations with Mexican Mothers: Why Teachers Should Care. Advisor: Marta Civil.

December 2019

M.S.

• Madhav Kuashish. Assumption Digging in Euclidean Geometry. Advisor: Rebecca McGraw.
• Alyssa Turnquist. What Mathematics Graduate Teaching Assistants Value in a Professional Development Program. Advisor: Marta Civil.

May 2019

M.S.

• Angela Kraft. Title unknown. Advisor: Klaus Lux.

May 2018

M.S.

• Hannah Biegel. Title unknown. Advisor: Joceline Lega.

December 2016

M.S.

• Arias Hathaway Turner. Understanding Reform: A Study of the Standards Movement in Mathematics Education. Advisor: Marta Civil.

August 2016

M.S.

• Amy Been. Teaching Views of Mathematical Modeling. Advisor: Marta Civil.

May 2015

M.S.

• Rachel Baumann. Title unknown. Advisor: Klaus Lux.
• Angelica Gonzalez. Title unknown. Advisor: Nick Ercolani.

May 2014

M.S.

• Jonathan Edwards. Commentary on Explicit Calculations of the Zeta Function-Regularized Determinant of the Laplacian on the n-sphere. Advisor: Douglas Pickrell.
• Michael Phizicky. Title unknown. Advisor: Sunder Sethuraman.

August 2013

M.S.

• Matthew Bush. Title unknown. Advisor: Marek Rychlik.
• Lap Kei Alex Tao. Class Number Problem and Elliptic Curves. Advisor: Dinesh Thakur

May 2012

M.S.

• Cindy Phillips. Equivariant meomorphic functions on Riemann surfaces. Advisor: Douglas Pickrell.
• Cong Xie. Title Unknown. Advisor: Ibrahim Fatkullin.

May 2011

M.S.

• Geillan Aly.  Caps and Pants: Topological Quantum Field Theories in Dimension 2.  Advisor: Douglas Pickrell.
• Somnath Chakraborty.  Lattice Point Problem in Euclidean Spaces.  Advisor: Rabindra Bhattacharya.
• Veronica Marino Salazar. Geodesics and shortest paths on piecewise linear surfaces.  Advisor: David Glickenstein.
• Jacob Tracy.  What makes for successful online and hybrid mathematics classes.  Advisor:  Robert Indik.

December 2010

M.A.

• Sadie Bell. Analysis of Tutor/Student Interactions: The Aprenda Experience. Advisor:  Rebecca McGraw.

August 2010

M.S.

• Victoria Frost.  An Exploration of Culturally Relevant Pedagogies in Two Elementary Mathematics Classrooms.  Advisor: Marta Civil

December 2009

M.S.

• Derek Seiple. Investigation of self-dual codes invariant under simple groups.  Advisor: Klaus Lux.
• Matthew Thomas. Approximation of the Dispersionless Toda Lattice by Toeplitz Operators.  Advisor: Hermann Flaschka.

May 2009

M.S.

• Chantel Blackburn. An application of the computer algebra system gap: The construction of the simple modules of a finite group. Advisor: Klaus Lux.
• Gabriela Dumitrascu. Mathematical and didactical Analysis of the Concept of Function in American, French, and Romanian Algebra Textbooks. Advisor: William G. McCallum.
• Yuliya Gorlina. Alexandrov's theorem. Advisor: David Glickenstein.

December 2008

M.S.

• Matthew Johnson. Hecke Eigenforms as Products of Eigenforms. Advisor: Kirti Joshi.

August 2008

M.A.

• Makyla Hays. An Investigation of College Algebra Students' Understanding of Fractions. Advisor: Rebecca McGraw.

May 2008

M.S.

• Jennifer Leahy. Mathematical identity of students enrolled in an accelerated mathematics and connected mathematics class. Advisor: Marta Civil.
• Grant Peterson. The Molecular Clock on Short Time Scales. Advisor: Joseph Watkins.

August 2007

M.S.

• Wieke de Boer. The role of definitions in mathematics.. Advisor: Rebecca McGraw.

May 2007

M.S.

• Bridget Kennedy. Modeling of light pulses in optical nanocomposite materials.. Advisor: Ildar Gabitov.

December 2006

M.S.

• Donna Harris. The Role of General Education Mathematics Courses in Fulfilling the Goals of the University.. Advisor: Rebecca McGraw.

August 2006

M.S.

• Sarah Hoffman. Utilizing Random Matrix Theory to Track the Course of the Economy. Advisor: Kenneth McLaughlin.

May 2006

M.S.

• Joshua Chesler. The Four-Color Theorem. Advisor: Dinesh Thakur.
• Grethe Hystad. Sum of Lowest Eigenvalues of the Discrete Laplacian. Advisor: Daniel Ueltschi.
• Melvin Koppens. Topics in the Theory of Quadratic Forms. Advisor: Kirti Joshi.
• Belin Tsinnajinnie. Generalizations of Mutiresolution Analysis and Wavelet Theory to Arbitrary Fields. Advisor: Klaus Lux.

December 2005

M.S.

• Shripad Sinari. Introduction to Derived Equivalences of Group Algebras. Advisor: Klaus Lux.

August 2005

M.S.

• Justin Miller. q-definability and Algebraicity of Laurent series over F_q(t). Advisor: Dinesh Thakur.

December 2004

M.S.

• Alejandra Alvarado. A Brief Introduction to Some Algorithms in Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Advisor: Kirti Joshi.
• Ali Amjad. On the Spectrum of Some Weighted Graphs. Advisor: Hermann Flaschka.
• Cristi Guevara. Scattering and Bound States for the Two Dimensional Dirac Equation. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Selin Kalaycioglu. Construction of Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs and their Applications. Advisor: Dinesh Thakur.

M.A.

• Michael Heerey. Developing Logical Skills Using Mathematical Games: A Study of High School Students. Advisor: Fred Stevenson.

August 2004

M.S.

• Yun Kang. The Expander Coefficient of Random K-Regular Graphs and Ramanujan Graphs. Advisor: Juan Restrepo.
• Alan Von Hermann. Isomorphism of Subgroups in Finite Groups. Advisor: Larry Grove.

May 2004

M.S.

• Mohamed Maagoul. The Importance of Mathematics History in the Educational Process and Its Necessary Incorporation into the Modern Classroom. Advisor: Daniel Madden.
• Sacha Swenson. Singularities and Knots. Advisor: Minhyong Kim.

May 2003

M.S.

• Panagiota Konstantinou. Conjugacy and Commutators in PSU(1,1). Advisor: Doug Pickrell.

December 2002

M.S.

• Jessica Knapp. On the Link and Writhe of Closed DNA. Advisor: Alain Goriely.
• Julio Melendez-Morales. A Study on Validation of Mathematical Proof with Parents as Adult Learners. Advisor: Marta Civil.

M.A.

• Eric Roberts. Sets of integers with 1 terms in arithmetic progression. Advisor: Dennis Eichhorn.
• Debra Wood. The Impact of Reform Calculus at the University of Arizona. Advisor: Deborah Hughes Hallett.

August 2002

M.S.

• Omar Zuniga. Applications of Gröbner Bases to Coding Theory. Advisor: Klaus Lux.

M.A.

• Todd Cadwallader. Constructing Symmetric Maps of Maximal Coloring on Orientable Surfaces. Advisor: Leonid Friedlander.

May 2002

M.S.

• Marco Herrera-Valdez. Advisor: Joceline Lega.
• Gregory Houser. Combinatorial Proofs of Classical Congruences for the Number of Partitions of N in H Colors. Advisor: Dennis Eichhorn.
• Ben Van Der Linden. Global Curvature: A Criterion for Compactness and Ideality. Advisor: Alain Goriely.

December 2001

M.S.

• Boonyarit Intiyot. Testing Rijndael-Based Pseudo-Random Number Generators. Advisor: Doug Ulmer.
• Monica Haynes. PDE and Probability Densities. Advisor: William Faris.

May 2001

M.S.

• Steve Phillips. Representations of Quivers. Advisor: Warren May.

M.A.

• Rebecca Hailey. Projects in the Classroom: Helpful or Extra Work. Advisor: Marta Civil.

December 2000

M.S.

• Maria Agrotis. Complete Integrability of the Electromagnetic Bubble (EMB) Equations and their Generalizations to the Case of Permanent. Advisor: Nicholas Ercolani.
• Paul Baloun. 3-Ramified, Galois Extensions of Q with Degree Less Than or Equal to 48. Advisor: Doug Ulmer.
• Guadalupe Lozano. Symplectic Structure of Polygons in Euclidean Space. Advisor: Nicholas Ercolani.
• Jennifer Smith. The Understanding of Algebraic Concepts in Undergraduate Mathematics. Advisor: David Gay.
• Yuhong Wang. The Application of Wavelets in Statistics. Advisor: Klaus Lux.

August 2000

M.S.

• John Duchnowski. Log-linear Models and Splines for Analysis of Nominal and Ordinal Categorical Data. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Rebecca Judith Reed. Quaternary Codes. Advisor: Klaus Lux.

M.A.

• Laura Kondek. The Effects of Using Mathematical Games on Students' Logical Thinking. Advisor: Marta Civil.

May 2000

M.S.

• John Friese. The Peter-Weyl Theorem and Frobenius Reciprocity with Examples. Advisor: Doug Pickrell.
• Rebecca Lamkin. The Effective Use of Graphing Calculators as Problem Solving Devices. Advisor: Marta Civil.

December 1999

M.S.

• Linda Langner. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Chunnan Wang.

August 1999

M.S.

• Jeffrey Edmunds. Advisor: Jim Cushing.
• Aaron Ekstrom. Advisor: Dinesh Thakur.
• Marilou Mendel. A Statistical Analysis of Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Advisor: Larry Wright.

May 1999

M.S.

• Micaela Avila de Brau. Risk Sensitive Optimality Criteria in Controlled Markov Processes. Advisors: W.M. Greenlee and Emmanuel Fernandez.
• Christopher J Pelton. Group Theoretic Search and an Application to the Data Encryption Standard. Advisor: Robert Beals.
• Michael Yarbrough. Functions of Bounded Variation. Advisor: Carl DeVito.

M.A.

• John Larson. Time Series Prediction with Reconstruction Based Natural Networks. Advisor: Marek Rychlik.
• Martha Maiers. Probability Models in Human Genetics: A Curriculum for High School Students. Advisor: Joseph Watkins.

December 1998

M.A.

• Scott Sakamoto. A Study of the Use of the Cranmer Abacus in Teaching Mathematics to Students with Visual Impairments. Advisor: Steve Willoughby.

May 1998

M.S.

• Jason K Belnap. Ideal Class Groups. Advisors: Marta Civil and Dinesh Thakur.
• Jia-Ling Dai. Stochastic Integrals with Respect to Brownian Motion. Advisor: Doug Pickrell.
• Mai Dang. Schubert Polynomials in the Cohomology Ring of G/B. Advisor: Sam Evens.
• Kevin S Griffin. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Margie Lyscas. Automata Grammars and Phase-Type Distributions. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Mark C Moelich. Introduction to Gröbner Bases with Applications. Advisor: Larry Grove.
• Jing-Yue Liu. Random Matrices and the Distributions of their Eigenvalues. Advisor: Doug Pickrell.

M.A.

• Kirk D Mehtlan. No Piston Stirling Engines. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Scott D Lietz. Introducing Higher Mathematics in High School. Advisor: David Gay.

December 1997

M.S.

• Duncan M Russell. The Exceptional Nature of Nonassociative Algebra. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

M.A.

• Ryan S Ruddy. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

August 1997

M.S.

• Scott Beaver. A Brief Review of Some Knot Invariants. Advisor: Doug Pickrell.
• Xianbao Xu. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

May 1997

M.S.

• Armando Bezies-Kindling. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Guillermo Davila-Rascon. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• William Flack. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

M.A.

• Pasaad Kongtaln. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

OTHER 1997?

M.S.: Titus Dorstenstein, Catherine Yslas

December 1996

M.S.

• Fahd Al-Shammari. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Ewa Romanowska. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Santiago Torres. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Hsi-Tsung Yang. Advisor: Larry Grove.

August 1996

M.S.

• Stephan Schaub. Algebraic Structures and Symmetry in Western Music. Advisor: Larry Grove.
• Agnieszka Walsh. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

May 1996

M.S.

• Mary Sibayan. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

December 1995

M.S.

• David Hrencecin. Representations of the Virasoro algebra. Advisor: Doug Pickrell.

May 1995

M.S.

• Henry Jensen. An Overview of Topological Vector Spaces. Advisor: Carl DeVito.
• John Keisling. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Warren Staley. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Glen Wiggy. Advisor: John Palmer.

Other 1995?

M.S.: Melanie Ayers, Geoffrey Cunningham, Wei-Ye Li, Eileen Murray

December 1994

M.S.

• Aamer Rizvi. Advisor: John Palmer.

August 1994

M.S.

• Edward Alexander. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Sally DuVall. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Hortensia Soto-Johnson. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Steven Wexler. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

May 1994

M.S.

• Yih-Hwa Cheng. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Cheryl Delorme. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• James Dotzler. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Matthew Kruse. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Matthew Naughton. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Hsin-Min Sun. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

M.A.

• Patricia Eliason. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

December 1993

M.S.

• Steve Speer. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

M.A.

• Tailiang Xie. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

May 1993

M.S.

• Jiu-Rong Cheng. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Yu-Wen Cheng. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Kristina Marie Garn. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

M.A.

• Maria Luisa Paz. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

Other 1993?

M.A.: Hiroshi Hamada,
M.S.: Jeffrey Saunders

December 1992

M.S.

• Eric Anson. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Martha Case. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Adam Stinchcombe. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Joel Vaag. Advisor: John Palmer.

August 1992

M.S.

• James Abolt. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Steven Bernard. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Keith Hill. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Zheng Liu. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

May 1992

M.S.

• Steven Blount. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Lie Scott Lacey. Advisor: John Palmer.
• Michael Miller. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Mohamed Ould-Lemrabott. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Anne Patton. [thesis title unknown]. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Stephanie Wiggins. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

M.A.

• Timothy Fahlberg. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Shelley Hartzel. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.
• Kimberly Lewis. Advisor: John Palmer.

December 1991

M.S.

• Jorge Guarin. Advisor: W.M. Greenlee.

M.A.

• Kathryn Hemberry.