Name	Defense Date	Time	Location	Thesis Title	Advisor
Altschul, Samuel		TBD -Su13		Endoscopy for Nilpotent Orbits of G_2	DeBacker
Chung, Sohhyun		TBD -Su13		The Impact of Volcker Rule on Bank Profits and Default Probabilities	Conlon
Sadiq, Burhan		TBD -Su13		Finite Difference Methods, Hermite Interpolation and Quasi-Uniform Spectral Schemes (QUSS)	Viswanath
Kravitz, Ross	Thursday, January 10, 2013	2:30 PM	1360 EH	Problems in Optimal Stopping and Control	Bayraktar
Mayes, Sarah	Friday, February 22, 2013	11:00AM	B844 EH	The Asymptotic Behavior of Generic Initial Systems	Smith
Nunez Betancourt, Luis	Friday, March 29, 2013	10:00AM	B844 EH	Finiteness properties of local cohomology	Hochster
Shoemaker, Mark	Tuesday, April 09, 2013	2:00PM	413 Denn	A Mirror Theorem for the Mirror Quintic	Ruan
Shen, Yefeng	Tuesday, April 16, 2013	9:30AM	3096 EH	Gromov-Witten theory of elliptic orbifold projective lines	Ruan
Beichman, Jennifer	Wednesday, April 17, 2013	3:00PM	411 West Hall	Nonstandard dispersive estimates and linearized water waves	Wu
Zhu, Zhixian	Tuesday, April 23, 2013	3:10PM	3096 EH	Topics in Singularities and Jet Schemes	Mustata
Meyer, Jeffrey	Wednesday, April 24, 2013	12:00PM	1096 EH	On the Totally Geodesic Commensurability Spectrum of an Arithmetic Locally Symmetric Space	Spatzier/ Stover
Bosler, Peter	Thursday, April 25, 2013	2:00PM	1084 EH	Particle Methods for Geophysical Flow on the Sphere	Krasny
Gignac, William	Friday, April 26, 2013	1:30PM	1096 EH	Equidistribution of preimages in nonarchimedean dynamics	Jonsson
Henry, Shawn	Friday, April 26, 2013	11:00AM	1096 EH	Classifying Topoi and Preservation of Higher Order Logic by Geometric Morphisms	Blass
Lapan, Sara	Friday, April 26, 2013	11:00AM	3866 EH	On the existence of attracting domains for maps tangent to the identity	Jonsson
Rosen, Julian	Monday, April 29, 2013	2:00PM	1068 EH	The Arithmetic of Multiple Harmonic Sums	Lagarias
Gu, Huaiying	Tuesday, April 30, 2013	3:30PM	1096 EH	Value-At-Risk (VaR) and Dynamic Portfolio Selection	Conlon
Huang, Yu-Jui	Tuesday, April 30, 2013	1:30PM	1096 EH	Topics in Stochastic Control with Applications to Finance	Bayraktar
Watkins, Jordan	Tuesday, April 30, 2013	10:00AM	3088 EH	The Higher Rank Rigidity Theorem for Manifolds with No Focal Points	Spatzier
Roberts, Joseph	Wednesday, May 01, 2013	1:00PM	4088 EH	Steady and self-similar solutions to two-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws	Elling
Reyes, Kristofer-Roy	Friday, May 03, 2013	10:00AM	1060 EH	Large scale kinetic Monte Carlo simulations: theory, implementation and applications	Smereka
Lee, Seung Jin	Tuesday, May 07, 2013	2:00PM	3096 EH	Centrally symmetric polytopes with many faces	Barvinok
Shearer, Paul	Thursday, May 09, 2013	1:30PM	1060 EH	Separable inverse problems, blind deconvolution, and stray light correction for extreme ultraviolet solar images.	Gilbert
Mueller, Alexander	Monday, May 13, 2013	3:00PM	3096 EH	Applications of Generalized Fermat Varieties to Zeta Functions of Artin-Schreier Curves	Zieve
Scherr, Zachary	Monday, May 13, 2013	1:00 PM	1068 EH	Rationals Polynomial Pell Equations	Zieve
Brooks, Ernest	Friday, May 17, 2013	10:00AM	1084 EH	Generalized Heegner cycles, Shimura curves, and special values of p-adic L-functions	Prasanna
Kim, Jae Kyoung	Wednesday, June 05, 2013	11:00AM	TBD	Mathematical Modeling and analysis of biological clocks within cells	Forger
Abram, William	Monday, July 22, 2013	11:00AM	1096 EH	Equivariant Complex Cobordism	Kriz