Following are theses of some of the numerical analysis and applied mathematics students of the past 20 years. The date of graduation and the major professor are enclosed in parentheses. The order is by date of completion of the PhD.
David Chien: Piecewise Polynomial Collocation
for Integral Equations on Surfaces in Three Dimensions (May 1991; Kendall
Atkinson)
Edwin Emory Hardee: Projection Methods with
Globally Smooth Approximations for Hammerstein Integral Equations on Surfaces
(May 1993; Kendall Atkinson)
Yajun Yang: Multidimensional Numerical
Integration and Application to Boundary Integral Equations (December 1993;
Kendall Atkinson)
Yan Chen: Galerkin Methods for Solving Single
Layer Integral Equations in Three Dimensions (December 1994; Kendall Atkinson)
Frederick Adkins: Numerical Continuation and
Bifurcation Methods for Mechanism Workspace and Controllability Analysis
(August 1996; Edward Haug)
Mihai Anitescu: Modeling Rigid Multibody
Dynamics With Contact and Friction (August 1997; Florian Potra)
Dan Coroian: Numerical Methods for Simulation
and Optimization of Mechanical Systems (August 1997; Florian Potra)
Rongqin Sheng: Interior-Point Methods for
Semidefinite Programming (August 1997; Florian Potra)
Sanda Micula: Numerical Methods for the
Radiosity Equation and Related Problems (December 1997; Kendall Atkinson)
Steve Benson: Solving Large Scale
Combinatorial Optimization Problems (August 1998; Yinyu Ye)
Dacian Daescu: Theoretical and Practical
Aspects of Data Assimilation for Air Pollution Models (August 2001; Greg
Carmichael)
Jaehoon Seol: Analysis of the Radiosity Equation
using the Collocation Method (December 2002; Kendall Atkinson)
Jeongho Ahn: Dynamic Frictionless Contact
Problems with Linearly Elastic Bodies (December 2003; David Stewart)