Master's Degree Recipients
Master's Degrees in Computational and Applied Mathematics: (All)
| YEAR | NAME | DEGREE | ADVISOR (S) | THESIS TITLE | PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT | |
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| 2008 | Enriquez, Marco U. | M.A. | William W. Symes | A C++ Class Supporting Adjoint-State Methods | ||
| 2008 | Wang, Yilun | M.A. | Wotao Yin | Fast Algorithms For Total Variation Minimization with Applications to Image Deconvolution and Compressed Sensing | ||
| 2007 | Bhatt, Sagar Arun | M.A. | Yin Zhang | Optimal Reorientation of Spacecraft Using Only Control Moment Gyroscopes | Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. | |
| 2007 | Binford, Jr., Tommy L. | M.A. | Tim Warburton | A Survey of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Solving Time-Domain Maxwell's Equations | ||
| 2007 | Edwards, Chantal L. | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | Projection Algorithms for Conic Programming with Applications in Compressed Sensing | ||
| 2007 | Eydelzon, Anatoly | M.A. | Yin Zhang | |||
| 2007 | Green, Kary D. | M.A. | Matthias Heinkenschloss | Optimal Sensor Placement for Parameter Identification | ||
| 2007 | Howard, Patricia Ann | M.A. | Matthias Heinkenschloss | Multigrid Methods For Elliptic Optimal Control Problems | Arete Associates | |
| 2007 | Kellems, Anthony Richard | M.A. | Steven J. Cox | Efficient and Accurate Simulation of Integrate-and-Fire Neuronal Networks in the Hippocampus | ||
| 2007 | Papakonstantinou, Joanna M. | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | A Historical Development of the (n+1)-point Secant Method | ||
| 2007 | Raol, Jay Harendra | M.A. | Steven J. Cox | Modeling Phage Lamda via Ordinary Differential Equations | ||
| 2007 | Reed, Naomi B. | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | Computing Diversity: Exploring a Clustering Algorithm for College Admissions | ||
| 2006 | Acosta, Fernando A. | M.A. | Steven J. Cox | Exploiting Balanced Trees in the Computation of Elementary Flux Modes via Breadth-First Search | ||
| 2006 | Boggan, Sha'Kia Dawnielle | M.C.A.M. | Mark Embree | Non-Thesis | ||
| 2006 | Castillo, Jr., Edward | M.A. | Steven J. Cox | Medical Image Registration: A Review of Existing Methods and Preliminary Numerical Results | ||
| 2006 | Hardesty, Sean Soyka | M.A. | Matthias Heinkenschloss | Energy Bounds on Point-wise Damped Wave Operators | ||
| 2006 | Sabino, John-Paul Nathaniel | M.A. | Mark Embree | |||
| 2006 | Shah, Mili I. | M.A. | Danny C. Sorensen | |||
| 2006 | Sifuentes, Josef Aaron | M.A. | Mark Embree | Preconditioning the Integral Equation Formulation of the Helmholtz Equation via Deflation | ||
| 2006 | Sun, Kai | M.A. | Danny C. Sorensen | Spatial Domain Decomposition and Model Reduction for Parabolic Optimal Control Problems | ||
| 2005 | Gonzalez, Ed | M.A. | Yin Zhang | Algorithms for Graph Minimum Bisection Problems | ||
| 2005 | Gonzalez del Cueto, Fernando | M.A.. | Liliana Borcea | Wave Propagation in Randomly Layered Media with an Application to Time-Reversal | ||
| 2005 | Merritt, Michael | M.A. | Yin Zhang | On Numerical Solution of IMRT Fluence Map Optimization and Related Problems | ||
| 2005 | Padula, Tony | M.A. | William W. Symes | Software Design for Simulation Driven Optimization | ||
| 2005 | Ridzal, Denis | M.A. | Matthias Heinkenschloss | A Generalized SQP Framework for Large-Scale Optimization | ||
| 2005 | Turner, Jesse H. | M.A. | Steven Cox | A Quantitative Study of the lac Operon | ||
| 2005 | Vasquez, Fernando Guevara | M.A. | Liliana Borcea | Optimal Parameterization of Inverse Problems Arising from Elliptic Partial Differential Equations | ||
| 2005 | Wang, Shana | M.A.. | Yin Zhang | On Improving the Accuracy of Primal-Dual Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming | ||
| 2004 | Benitez, Leticia | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | Stabilizing and Accelerating Inverse Iteration with Numerical Experimentation | ||
| 2004 | Binford, Jr., Tommy Lallas | M.C.A.M. | Mark Embree | |||
| 2004 | Comas, Agata | M.A. | Matthias Heinkenschloss | Time Domain Decomposition Methods for Second Order Linear Quadratic Optimal Control Problems | ||
| 2004 | Dussard, Eric A. | M.A. | William W. Symes | |||
| 2004 | Hartsfield, Jane Wall | M.A. | Steven J. Cox | A Quantitative Study of Neuronal Calcium Signaling | ||
| 2004 | Nguyen, Hoang Quang | M.A. | Matthias Heinkenschloss | |||
| 2004 | Schoener, Kyle David | M.A. | Steven J. Cox | Recovering Synaptic Conductance and Location Using Distal Voltage Measurements | PROS Revenue Management Associate Scientist |
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| 2004 | Woo, Sang Joong | M.C.A.M. | William W. Symes | Parallel Dynamic Programming in Molecular Electronics | ||
| 2003 | Bailey, Weldon | M.C.A.M. | Danny C. Sorensen | Non-Thesis | ||
| 2003 | Dajani, Hala Nazih haladaj@yahoo.com |
M.A. | William W. Symes | Client-Server Component Architecture for Scientific Computing | Veritas | |
| 2003 | Pietz, Jesse Allen | M.A. | Matthias Heinkenschloss | Pseudospectral Collocation Methods for the Direct Transcription of Optimal Control Problems | U.S. Air Force | |
| 2003 | Thornquist, Heidi Krista | M.A. | Danny C. Sorensen | Fixed-Polynomial Approximate Spectral Transformations for Preconditioning the Eigenvalue Problem | ||
| 2002 | Anderson, Ebonii eja@caam.rice.edu |
M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | On a Mathematical Formulation and Solution of the Fair-Lane Assignment Problem in Bicycle Motocross Racing | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company | |
| 2002 | Barra, Emily ecbarra@caam.rice.edu |
M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | Computational Science: Determining the Mathematical Computational Methods Used by the TI-83 Calculator | ||
| 2002 | Compton, Eric compton@caam.rice.edu |
M.C.A.M. | William W. Symes | Non-Thesis | ||
| 2001 | Hill, Regina | M.A. | William W. Symes | A Comparison of Finite Difference Stencils on Two Forms of the Acoustic Wave Equation | ||
| 2001 | Riggins, Kymberly | M.A. | Nathaniel Dean | On Characterizing Graphs with Brachwidth at Most Four | ||
| 2001 | Scott, Shannon sscott@lincom-asg.com |
M.A. | William W. Symes | Software Components for Simulation and Optimization | ||
| 2001 | Venkataraman, Sripriya | M.A. | Nathaniel Dean | Survey of Results in Impartial Combinatorial Games and an Extension to Three-player Game | ||
| 2000 | Ebaid, Hesham hesham@hstn.tensor.pgs.com |
M.A. | William W. Symes | Imaging Complex Structures With Semi-recursive Kirchhoff Migration | ||
| 2000 | Torres-Rodriguez, Liliana liliana@caam.rice.edu |
M.C.A.M. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 2000 | Williams-Grantham , Nikki nikki.grantham@darton.edu |
M.A. | Nathaniel Dean | On Eliminating Square Paths in a Square Lattice | Darton College Director for the Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) Program |
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| 2000 | Winslow, Nathan winslow@dao.gsfc.nasa.gov |
M.A. | William W. Symes | Joint Inversion Using the Convolutional Model | ||
| 1999 | Hong, Yu-Fong | M.C.A.M. | Non-Thesis | |||
| 1999 | Ramos, Melisa | M.C.A.M. | John E. Dennis | Non-Thesis | Radiation Safety Academy Technical Specialist |
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| 1998 | Liu, Yan | M.A. | Yin Zhang | Implementation of multiple-corrections and presolve enhancement in the interior-point linear programming code LIPSOL | ||
| 1998 | Walsh, Shannon | M.C.A.M. | Danny C. Sorensen | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1996 | Amin, Carmen | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1996 | Beckendorf, Sarah | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | A High School Curricular Unit | Netherland Sewell and Associates | |
| 1996 | Cummings, Arthur | M.A. | Steven J. Cox | Recovering Elastic Moduli of Nonlinear Anisotropic Annular Membranes from Interior Measurements of Deformation and Pressure | ||
| 1996 | Radke, Richard rjradke@ee.princeton.edu |
M.A. | Danny C. Sorensen | A Matlab Implementation of the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Method for Solving Large Scale Eigenvalue Problems | ||
| 1996 | Smith, Edgar | M.A. | William W. Symes | |||
| 1995 | Carter, Tamara (Anthony) | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | A Curricular Unit for Pre-Calc Students | Oklahoma City Community College, Professor of Mathematics | |
| 1995 | Tai, Chen Yu | M.A. | Angelo Miele | Mathematical Programming Problems of Quasi-Steady Flight Mechanics | ||
| 1994 | Book, Robert rbook@pobox.com |
M.A. | Steven Cox | Computation of Eigenvalues for Starlike Domains | Industrial College of the Armed Forces National Defense University |
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| 1994 | Calhoun, John | M.C.A.M. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1994 | Elizondo, Rodolfo | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | Solving Large Scale School/Student Assignment Problems | PROS Strategic Solutions | |
| 1994 | Kilgore, Anne | M.A. | Robert Bixby | Very Large Scale Linear Programming: A Case Study in Exploiting Both Parallelism and Distributed Memory | ||
| 1994 | Money, Jesse | M.C.A.M. | William W. Symes | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1994 | Schaefer, Andrew | M.C.A.M. | William W. Symes | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1993 | Reiff, Andrea | M.C.A.M. | William W. Symes | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1993 | Rosemblun, Marcela | M.A. | John E. Dennis | Automatic Differentiation: Overview and Application to Systems of Parameterized Nonlinear Equations | ||
| 1993 | Rowatt, Cynthia (Spencer) | M.A. | William W. Symes | Design Against Resonance | ||
| 1992 | Johnston, Charles | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1992 | Najm, Ali | M.A.M.S. | John E. Dennis | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1992 | Vestal, Eric | M.A. | William W. Symes | Traveltime Solution for the Two Dimensional Eikonal Equation in an Arbitrarily Complex Slowness Field via First or Second Order Conservative Upwind Difference Formulation | ||
| 1990 | Golwas, Carol | M.A.M.S. | Andrew Boyd | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1990 | Ibanez, Amy (Hoveland) | M.A.M.S. | Paul Pfeiffer | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1989 | Denlinger, Barbara | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1989 | Gobran, Ayman | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1989 | Lu, Jia-Ming | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1989 | Pitaktong, Utai | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1989 | Wolf, Leesa (Heilig) | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1988 | Evans, Gerald | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1988 | Hsiao, Yung-Sheng | M.A.M.S. | Paul Pfeiffer | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1988 | Hu, Xin-Shu | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1988 | Huschens, Juergen | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1988 | Lee, Dong | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1987 | Dolezal, Tomas | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1987 | Pitts, Christine | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1987 | Turner, Tamara | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1987 | Wang, Charles | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1986 | Bray, Matthew | M.A. | George Terrell | Math-Approaches to Geochemical Exploration to Hydrocarbons | ||
| 1986 | Ginsburg, Nancy | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1986 | Martinez, Hector | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | A Numerical Investigation on the BFGS Update for Constrained Optimization | ||
| 1986 | Tibbits, Patrick | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1986 | Whitley, David | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1985 | Baskin, Leland | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1985 | Blackwell, Sandel | M.A. | C.C. Wang | |||
| 1985 | Chang, Ai-Chu | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1985 | Lyon, James | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1985 | Towey, Charles | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1985 | Tuttle, David | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1985 | Widjaja, Davy | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1984 | Fudge, Gerald | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1984 | Mason, Craig J. | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1984 | Rosen, Robert | M.A.M.S. | C.C. Wang | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1983 | Alvarado, Raul | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1983 | Hu, Shu-Rung | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1983 | Johnson, Cecelia | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1983 | Preston, Laurie | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1983 | Stroud, Nancy | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1983 | Syptak, Elizabeth | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1982 | Carruth, Linda (Whileyman) | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1982 | Chen, Huei Lin | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1982 | Easley, Karen | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1982 | Kelly, Robert | M.A. | ||||
| 1982 | Neff, Diana | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1982 | Padua, George | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1982 | Shagroni, Mahmoud | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1982 | Strother, Ernest | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1981 | Abell, Jodi | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1981 | Capshaw, David | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1981 | Erikson, Kenton | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1981 | Huang, Gilbert | M.A. | Angelo Miele | Restoration Algorithm for Solving Optimal Control Problems with Nondifferential Constraints and General Boundary Conditions | ||
| 1981 | Pineda-Gochi, Jose | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1980 | Chan, Shou Alice | M.A. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1980 | Correo, Emilia | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1980 | Dellinger, Richard | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1980 | Dotson, Marsha | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1980 | Fowler, Michael | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1980 | Keith, Nicholas | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1980 | Morales, Mario | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1980 | Smart, George | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1979 | Factor, Lynette | M.A. | David Scott | Comparison of Data-Based Methods for Nonparametric Density Estimation | ||
| 1979 | Martin, Anne | M.A.M.S. | Mary Wheeler | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1979 | Weber, Mark | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Albert, Joseph | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Barrientos, Daniel | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Chavarria Dealvarado, Sylvia | M.A. | James Thompon | Comparison Between an Algorithm for Kernel and Variable Kernel Estimation | ||
| 1978 | Dimitriou, John | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | |||
| 1978 | Grenadier, James | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Hancock, Timothy | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Ivy, E. Lee | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Melgoza, Jose | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Miertschin, John | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Smartt, Philip | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1978 | Tuggle, Kathy | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1977 | Gerbode, Farrell | M.A.M.S. | Paul Pfeiffer | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1977 | Lucas, Kristen | M.A. | Richard A. Tapia | Some Numerical Experiments with the Diagonalized Newton Multiplier Method on Geometric Programming Problems with Equality Constraints | ||
| 1977 | O'Donnell, Patrick | M.A.M.S. | Paul Pfeiffer | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1977 | Rosner, Gary | M.A.M.S. | Mary Wheeler | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1976 | Breeding, Bruce | M.A. | M. Stuart Lynn | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1976 | Edmonds, Hobart | M.A. | Robert Thrall | Some Game-Theoretic Considerations in Energy Problems | ||
| 1976 | Steinfeld, Peter | M.A.M.S. | Ken Kennedy | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1975 | Biringer, Betty (Krivokapich) | M.A.M.S. | Richard A. Tapia | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1975 | Schroller, Gary | M.A.M.S. | Ken Kennedy | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1975 | Warren, Scott | M.A. | Ken Kennedy | Efficient Evaluation of Attribute Grammars | ||
| 1974 | Dreyer, John | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1974 | Galvin, George | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1974 | Hodnett, John | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1974 | Keener, Philip | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1974 | Shafer, Richard | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1973 | Hanig, Walter | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis | ||
| 1973 | Sheperd, Sara | M.A.M.S. | Robert Thrall | Non-Thesis |