Commencement
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
2020 COMMENCEMENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HONORS AND AWARDS
Undergraduate and Graduate Scholarship Awards, as well as Teaching Awards,
can be found on our Honors & Awards website.
CANDIDATES FOR THE M.A. DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS
Jingyi "Frank" Wang
Moor Xu
CANDIDATES FOR THE PH.D. DEGREE IN LOGIC AND THE METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE
Russell Ahmed-Buehler
A Logical Theory of Confirmation
James Walsh
Reflection Principles and Ordinal Analysis
CANDIDATES FOR THE PH.D. DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS
Frank Ban
Sketches and Traces
Alexander Bertoloni Meli
The Local Langlands Correspondence, Rapoport-Zink Spaces, and Shimura Varieties
Madeline Brandt
Tropical Geometry of Curves
Christopher Eur
The Geometry of Divisors on Matroids
Archit Kulkarni
Random Matrix Theory in Numerical Linear Algebra
Kyeong Sik Nam
Singular stochastic differential equations with elliptic and hypoelliptic diffusions
Mohandas Pillai
Global, Non-scattering Solutions to Energy Critical Geometric Wave Equations
Alexander Sherman
Spherical and Symmetric Supervarieties
Ben Wormleighton
Numerics and stability for orbifolds with applications to symplectic embeddings
Mengyuan Zhang
Liaison of curves and bundles
Yue Zhang
Guts, Dehn Fillings and Volumes of Hyperbolic Manifolds
CANDIDATES FOR THE B.A DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS
Neeknaz Abari
Ghazal Al Awad
Isabella Arreola
Aidan Benjamin Backus
Herman Bathla
Emily Blumenthal
Patrick Chao
Ho Yin Chau
Shamin Chowdhury
Andrew Michael DeLapo
Jiahan Du
Irving Fang
Emily Fleming
Andrew Gao
Joshua Gonzalez
Anna Frances Harbison
Samuel Hsu
Jason Ji
Tae Hyung Kim
Isaac Langer
Jaeyoung Lew
Joshua Lin
Audrey Lynn Litvak
Hunter Martin
Ning McKenzie
Amit Millo
Ashley Nguyen
Nicholas Park
Shein Lin Phyo
Nikhil Henry Bukowski Sahoo
Willis Silliman
Braxton Silva
Sequoia Snow
Sreyoun Sok
Adam Stafford
Kimball Strong
Alessandro Varieschi
Jeanie Won
Jeff Xu
Zitong Yang
Matvey Yutin
Yue Zhang
Yunzhi Zhang
Shaina Zuber
Joshua Yuen
CANDIDATES FOR THE B.A DEGREE IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Sahara Farah Abdi
Hawraa Al Asadi
Maryam Ali
Sabrina An
Henry Ang
Lilit Bazikyan
Thomas Beck
Alice Cao
Stone Chen
Austin Cheng
Farhan Chowdhury
Elizabeth Coda
Jingyi Cui
Rachel Cusack
Emma Davies-Hogg
Yuanzhen Deng
Alexa M DiDio
Jeffrey Ehlers
Olivia Nicole Frances
Juliette Franzman
Edward Gao
Hang Gao
Valeria Garcia
Matin Ghavamizadeh
Armin Gholami
Samantha Griffith
Zhitong Guan
Alexander Hajir
Meng Han
Alice Hayashi
Spencer Mowdy Hill
Camille Hillion
Lauren Hong
Xiang (Jack) Ji
Jingjing Jia
Grace Jhu
Yiran Jia
Chloe Jiang
Aprillia Judokusumo
Yingxin Kang
Jonas Ernő Katona
Gevorg Khandamiryan
Dokyun Kim
Keonhee Kim
Mina Kim
Wonho Ko
Kirsten Kulhanek
Mary Kathryn Larson
Claire Lee
Aaron Li
Cathy Li
Jiarui Li
Zhaosheng Li
Zihao Li
Erin Liao
Finian Thomas Lickona
Jierui Lin
Abby Liu
Shuqi Liu
Shuxia Liu
Zishen Liu
Stephanie Ines Lopez
Hubert Luo
Jacob Lyons
Yu Ma
Aviel McDermott
Kate McDowall
Vinay Narayanan
Ellese Nguyen
Alessandro Ortenblad
Defne Ozkan
Madalyn Pahati
Christina Ju-Young Park
Alejandro Pelcastre-Ramirez
Alex Popescu
Ameet Annasaheb Rahane
Mia Ann Rogers
Aaron Scott
Tim Sellers
Vishal Sethi
Yong-Chan Shin
Tanvi Shinkre
Ishira Shrivatsa
Patrick Sicurello
Xiaowen Sun
Daniel Suryakusuma
Alicia Tsai
Vibha Vadlamani
Rishi Veerapaneni
Janaki Vivrekar
Holly Whittaker
Emily Wicks
Drake Wong
Mutong Wu
Yifan Wu
Shuting Xie
Jingyi Xu
Zijun Xu
Wilson Yan
Qiaoan Yang
Zesen Ying
Wenting Zhang
Zoey Zhu
Simon Zhuang
Mingyan Zou
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS PROGRAM
The requirements for graduation in the Honors Program are:
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An overall grade point average of at least 3.3 in all courses taken at the University and a grade point average of at least 3.5 in the upper-division and graduate courses used for the major. For the Fall 2019 graduation term high honors required a minimum upper-division and graduate GPA of 3.870 and highest honors required a minimum upper-division and graduate GPA of 3.959. For the Spring 2020 graduation term, high honors required a minimum upper-division and graduate GPA of 3.820 and highest honors required a minimum upper-division and graduate GPA of 3.909.
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Completion of Math 196, in which the student writes a Senior Thesis, or completion of two graduate courses with a grade of at least A- in each.
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The recommendation of the Head Major Adviser.
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to recognize the following students as candidates for the Mathematics Honors Program:
Fall 2019 Graduation Term
Isabel Audrey Honda *
Andrew Lu ***
Aditya Mishra ***
Joseph Pagadora ***
Shichun Wang ***
Jeremy Wayland *
Spring 2020 Graduation Term
Aidan Benjamin Backus ***
Ryan Sander Brill **
Joseph Liang Chen ***
Andrew Michael DeLapo *
Gurkiran Singh Dhaliwal ***
Jiahan Du ***
Emily Taylor Fleming ***
Hang Gao *
Samuel Hsu ***
Xiang (Jack) Ji ***
Yuhan (Michelle) Jiang ***
Aprillia Judokusumo ***
Jonas Ernő Katona ***
James Leng ***
Jiarui Li **
Jierui Lin ***
Joshua Z. Lin ***
Jonathan Liu *
Yu Ma ***
Eleanor Mcspirit ***
Nicholas Park ***
Alan Rosenthal ***
Nikhil Henry Bukowski Sahoo ***
Tal Shachaf ***
Sequoia Snow *
Kimball Strong ***
Robert W. Sweeney *
Jeff Xu ***
Zitong Yang ***
Borong Zhang **
Yucheng Zhang **
Simon Zhuang ***
* Honors ** High Honors *** Highest Honors