My Students

Ph.D. Students

• Simon Deng, 2024 - Present.
• Brett Ehrman, 2022 - Present.
• Wesley R. Perkins, graduated 2021. (Graduation Pic)
  • Thesis Title: Modulational and Subharmonic Dynamics of Periodic Waves.
  • First Job: C.C. Hsiung Visiting Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.
• Connor Y. Smith, Graduated 2019. (Graduation Pic)
  • Thesis Title: Dynamics of Essentially Unstable Solitary Waves.
  • First Job: Data Scientist, Lowe's Companies, Moorsevile, NC.
• Kyle Claassen, Graduated 2018. (Graduation Pic)
  • Thesis Title: Stability of Periodic Waves in Nonlocal Dispersive Equations.
  • First Job: Assistant Professor of Mathemaitcs at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

M.A. Students

• Skylar Allen, graduated summer 2023.
  • Thesis Title: Some Existence Results for Boundary Value Problems for Elliptic PDE
  • Took job with Prime Pensions in Florham Park, NJ.
• Claire Bodemann, graduated 2021.
  • Thesis Title: Stability of Solitary Waves for the Generalized Korteweg-de Vries Equation.
  • Took job as Mathematics Instructor for eStem Public Charter Schools in central Arkansas.
• Paul Goodwin, graduated 2019.
  • Thesis Title: Beyond the Fourier Transform -- On the Inverse Scattering Transform and the Fokas Method.
  • Continued to Mathematics Ph.D. program at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
• Uyen Le, graduated 2017.
  • Thesis Title: Existence of Nonlinear Waves in Water Wave Models.
  • Continued to Mathematics Ph.D. program at McMaster Univeristy.
• Joel Klipfel, graduated 2015.
  • Thesis Title: Orbital Stability of Ground State Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation.
  • Continued to Mathematics Ph.D. program at the University of Kentucky.

Undergraduate Research Project Mentor

• Jordan Bramble, Spring 2021-Spring 2022.
  • Project Title: Infectious Disease Modeling -- Implications of Non-Sterilizing but Protective Immunity on Vaccine Application.
• Jordan Bramble, Fall 2019-Spring 2020, co-advisor with Dionyssios Mantzavinos.
  • Project Title: Mathematical Modeling of Arterial Blood Flow.

Departmental Honors Porject Advisor

• Asher Supernaw, graduated 2020.
  • Project Title: Toward an Understanding of Local Behavior in Nonlinear ODEs.
  • Continued to Mathematics Ph.D. program at UM, Amherst.
• Trevor Scheopner, graduated 2018.
  • Project Title: Modeling the Dynamics of an Electric Guitar String.
  • Continued to Physics Ph.D. program at UCLA.
• Sam Wester, graduated 2016.
  • Project Title: Differential Equations and Semigroup Theory.
  • Continued to Mathematics Ph.D. program at UIUC.