Previous Applied Mathematics Ph.D.s - UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics

Nicholas Karl Eriksson (Sturmfels) Algebraic Combinatorics for Computational Biology
Joseph (Yossi) Farjoun (Neu) Nucleation, Growth, and Coarsening: A Global View on Aggregation
Alfonso Gracia-Saz (Weinstein) The Symbol of a Function of a Pseudodifferential Operator
Jiawang Nie (Demmel, Sturmfels) Global Optimization of Polynomial Functioins and Applications
Jianlin Xia (Gu) Fast Direct Solvers for Structured Linear Systems of Equations
Yuan Yao (Smale) A Dynamic Theory of Learning

2005

Dan Levy (Pachter,Sachs) Applications of Graph Theory to Chromosome Aberrations and Phylogenetics
Luisa Miranian (Grünbaum) Matrix Valued Orthogonal Polynomials
Pavel Okunev (Chorin) Renormalization Methods With Applications to Spin Systems and Finance
Yelena Shvets (Barenblatt) Problems of Flooding in Porous and Fissured Porous Rock
Aaron Nathan Siegel (Berlekamp) Loopy Games and Computation
Jiang Zhu (Gu) Structured Eigenvalue Problems and Polynomial Eigenvalue Problems

2004

No applied math students received their Ph.D.'s in 2004.

2003

Peter Graf (Chorin) Optimization of Model Reduction for Linear Ordinary Differential Equations
Eugene Ingerman (Chorin) Modelling the Loss of Information in Optimal Prediction
Joshua Levenberg (Strain) Accurate Adaptive Contour Finding Using C1 Data
Kevin Lin (Chorin) Random Perturbations of SRB Measures and Numerical Studies of Chaotic Dynamics
Omar Mirza (MacFarlane) Naturalism and Darwin's Doubt
Aaditya Rangan (Strain) Fast Adaptive Solvers for Viscous Conservation Laws

2002

Joon Bang (Evans) Sandpile Problems on a Steep Landscape
Brandoch Calef (Grünbaum) Optimal sampling of the discrete Fourier transform
Christopher Cameron (Chorin) A comparative analysis of methods for sampling stationary stochastic processes
William Fraser (Berlekamp) Computer-Assisted Thermographic Analysis of Go Endgames
David des Jardins (Berlekamp) Precise coding with noiseless feedback
Plamen Koev (Demmel) Accurate and efficient computations with structured matrices
Jon Wilkening (Sethian) Mathematical analysis and numerical simulation of electromigration

2001

Kashi Abhyankar (Hirsch) Smale Strategies for Prisoner's Dilemma Type Games
Bendek Hansen (Chihara) Causal Inference via Covariance Adjustment: Investigation on Model Uncertainty in Observational Studies
Julia Kempe (Berlekamp) Universal noiseless quantum computation: mathematical theory and applications
Alexander Vladimirsky (Sethian) Fast Methods for Static Hamilton-Jacobi Partial Differential Equations

2000

Deborah Goldman (Papadimitriou) Algorithmic aspects of protein folding and protein structure similarity
Darin Goldstein (Klass) Algorithms on Networks of Finite-State Automata
Chong Xu (Marsden) Asymptotic Stability for Equilibria of Nonlinear Semiflows with Applications to Rotating Viscoelastic Rods