Programs

Archived Summer Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships

2008 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.)

Chatterjee, S. Computer Science and Engineering (Izaguirre)
"An Improved String Method for Finding Minimum Free Energy Paths"

Deng, B. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (Goodwine)
"Existence of Multiple Solutions of Boundary Value Problems"

Dudley, B. Physics (Kolda)
"Calculating the Charged Higgs Mass Bound in Supersymmetric Theories"

Gejji, R. Mathematics (Alber)
"Derivation of a Continuous Limit for a Stochastic Model of Butterfly Population Dynamics"

Kinnaman, L. Physics (Kolda)
"NAPS: A Unified Method for Simulating Charge Transfer Reactions in Condensed Phase"

Li, W. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (Paolucci)
"Micromorphic Theory of Grade One for Immiscible Multiphase Mixtures"

Maiya, S. Electrical Engineering (Fuja)
"Coding and Routing Strategies in Mobile Networks"

Salyers, T. Mathematics (Alber)
"Model of Cell Synchronization during Somite Formation"

Su, S. Civil Engr/Geological Sciences. (Kijewski-Correra)
"Novel Damage Detection for Structural Health Monitoring"

Venkatraman, S. Electrical Engineering (Collins)
"Information Rates for Multiantenna Systems with Unknown Fading"

Wang, H. Computer Science and Engineering (Chen)
"Curve and Surface Approximation of Points in Two and Three Dimensions"

Zu, J. Psychology (Yuan)
"Influential Analysis and Robust Estimation for Mediation Models"


2007 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.)

Christley, Scott. Computer Science and Engineering. (Madey)

Dayu, Lv. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Goodwine)

Puliti, Gianluca. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. (Paolucci)

Su, Su. Civil Engineering/Geological Sciences. (Kijewski-Correra)


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