Programs

Archived Summer Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships

2006 CAM Graduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Al-Khateeb, Ashraf Nadim. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Powers)
Project: Accurate Length Scale Estimation for Premixed Methane-Air Laminar Flames

Asztalos, Andrea. Physics. (Toroczkai)
Project: Statistical Mapping of Protein Conformation Landscapes

Cai, Weihua. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Sen)
Project: TBA

Christley, Scott. Computer Science and Engineering. (Alber)
Project: Stochastic Agent-based Model for Developmental Pattern Formation with Multiscale Dynamics

Cickovski, Trevor. Computer Science and Engineering. (Izaguirre)
Project: Multiscale Mathematical Modeling: Myxobacteria and Microtubules

Deng, Baoyang. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Goodwine)
Project: Reduction and Optimal Control of Symmetric Distributed Systems

Gai, Jiading. Electrical Engineering. (Stevenson)
Project: Closely Coupled Video Alignment and Object Tracking from EO and IR Sensors

Liang, Yupeng. Electrical Engineering. (Bauer)
Project: M-D State Space Methods for Wireless Sensor Net Based Distributed Digital Filters

Patel, Neal. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Renaud)
Project: Topology Optimization in Vehicle Crashworthiness Design

Ranganathan, Shyam. Electrical Engineering. (Collins)
Project: Calculating and Achieving Capacity on a MIMO Channel with Unknown

Rissler, Matthew. Mathematics. (Alber)
Project: Modeling Swarming in the Cooperative Bacteria Myxococcus Xanthus

Su, Su. Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences. (Kijewski-Correra)
Project: Novel Damage Detection in the Context of Structural Health Monitoring

Wang, Lijuan. Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences. (Kareem)
Project: Conditional Simulation of Transient Random Fields

Zikoski, Zachary. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Paolucci)
Project: Statistical Mapping of Protein Conformation Landscapes

Zintsmaster, John. Chemistry and Biochemistry. (Peng)
Project: A New Approach to Processing Biochemical Databases using Coarse-grained Elastic Network Models of Proteins

2005 CAM Graduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Deng, Baoyang. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Goodwine)
Project: Reduction and Optimal Control of Symmetric Distributed Systems

Ganti, Radha Krishna. Electrical Engineering. (Haenggi)
Project: Regularity in Sensor Networks

Li, Weiming. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Paolucci)
Project: Coupling of Volume Fraction and the Balance of Angular Momentum for Immiscible Multiphase Mixtures

Liang, Yupeng. Electrical Engineering. (Bauer)
Project: Synchronization Errors in Network Embedded Systems

Penninger, Charles. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Renaud)
Project: A Fully Anisotropic Hierarchical HCA Methodology to Simulate Bone Remodeling

Song, Geliang. Physics. (Bigi)
Project: Standard Model (SM) of High Energy Physics

2005 CAM Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Moore, Timothy. Finance. (Zambrano)
Project: Applying Methods in Algebraic Geometry to Study Game Theory.

2004 CAM Graduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Dudley, Brian. Physics. (Kolda)
Project: Flavor Changing Neutral Currents and Squark Mixing in Supersymmetry (SUSY).

Ekpengyong, Anthony. Electrical Engineering. (Huang)
Project: Channel Estimation Techniques for Adaptive Modulation and Multiple Antenna Systems.

Guo, Li. Electrical Engineering. (Huang)
Project: Set-Membership Filtering with an Adaptive Error Bound.

Menzies, Dylan. Physics. (Mathews)
Project: Axial Symmetric, Object Based Search for Hypertorus Cosmology.

Misiolek, Ewa. Computer Science and Engineering. (Chen)
Project: Simplification of Multi-Terminal Flow Networks.

Pusane, Ali. Electrical Engineering. (Costello)
Project: Bandwidth Efficient Coded Modulation Using Low Density Parity Check Convolutional Codes.

Shang, Ying. Electrical Engineering. (Sain)
Project: On Zero Semimodules of Linear Systems over Semirings with Applications to Hybrid Systems.

Zhang, Wenyi. Electrical Engineering. (Laneman)
Project: Research on Multi-Antenna Non-Coherent Fading Channels.

2004 CAM Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Gleason, Dana. Finance, Economics and Econometrics. (Gresik)
Project: Transfer Pricing vs. Formula Apportionment.

2003 CAM Graduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Alessio, Adam. Electrical Engineering. (Sauer)
Project: PET Reconstruction from Spatially Correlated Data

Gallagher, Joseph. Physics. (Garnavich)
Project: Comparison of a Distribution of Supernova Type Ia Host Galaxies with a more General Distribution of Galaxies using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test.

Ling, Qiang. Electrical Engineering. (Lemmon)
Project: Networked Control Systems (NCS).

Macedo de Vasconcelos, Hilma. Physics. (LoSecco)
Project: Research in Linear Optical Implementations of Quantum Computers.

2002 CAM Graduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

deVasconcelos, Igor. Physics. (Glazier)
Project: Foam Images Reconstruction

Lorand, Cedric. Electrical Engineering. (Bauer)
Project: Asynchronous Closed-Loop Stability of Discrete-Time Systems

Menzies, Dylan. Physics. (Kolda)
Project: Statistical Constraints on Inflationary Effective Potentials from the Microwave Background

Portman, Keith. Mathematics. (Himonas)
Project: The Nature of Asset Prices in the Incomplete Market

2002 CAM Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Cickovski, Trevor. Computer Science and Engineering. (Izaguirre)
Project: Compucell: An Integrated Potts Model Simulation and Visualization Software Package

Lee, Luis. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Renaud)
Project: Shape Optimization

2001 CAM Graduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Benson, Donald. Physics. (Bigi)
Project: QCD Modeling of the Semi-leptonic Decays of Beauty Meso

Byrne, Mark. Physics. (Kolda)
Project: SUSY Higgs Boson Production

Zheng, Wei. Physics. (Glazier)
Project: Application of Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Equation in Modeling Chick Limb Development

2001 CAM Undergraduate Summer Research Fellows for the Center for Applied Mathematics:

Name, department, and title of project. (The name of the advisor is in parentheses.)

Altman, Mathew. Civil Engineering & Geological Sciences (Westerink)
Project: Improving Finite Element Simulations of Hurricane Storm Surge

Cickovski, Trevor. Computer Science and Engineering (Izaguirre)
Project: Multiscale Conformational Dynamics for Protein Folding and Drug Design

Styczynski, Mark. Chemical Engineering (Stadtherr)
Project: Reliable Reactor Modeling Using Interval Analysis