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Brett Ehrman, PhD
Thesis Title: Stability of Nonlinear Waves in some Camassa-Holm Type Equations.

Graduated 2025
First Job -- Assistant Professor, Sterling College
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Wesley Perkins, PhD
Thesis Title: Modulational and Subharmonic Dynamics of Periodic Waves.

Graduated 2021
First Job: C.C. Hsiung Visiting Assistant Professor at Lehigh University
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Connor Smith, PhD
Thesis Title: Dynamics of Essentially Unstable Solitary Waves.

Graduated 2019
First Job: Data Scientist, Lowe's Companies, Moorsevile, NC
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Kyle Claassen, PhD
Thesis Title: Stability of Periodic Waves in Nonlocal Dispersive Equations.

Graduated 2018
First Job: Assistant Professor of Mathemaitcs at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

MA 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.

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