Ph.D. Theses Directed
[first employment noted in parenthesis]
[first employment noted in parenthesis]
- Sung Chang (Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Dang University, Busan-Korea). Riccati Equations for Nonsymmetric and Nondissipative Hyperbolic Systems, University of Florida (December 1985).
- Gilbert Choudoury (Assistant Professor Mathematics Department, University of Cincinnati). Fully Discrete Galerkin Approximations of Parabolic Boundary Value Problems with Nonsmooth Boundary Data, University of Florida (September 1987).
- Elisabeth Bradley (Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, KY). Local and Global Exponential Stabilization Results for Nonlinearly Perturbed Plates Models Where Nonlinearities Appear on the Boundary, University of Virginia (May 1991).
- Mary Ann Horn (NSF and IMA Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). Exact Controllability and Uniform Stabilization of the Euler Bernoulli and Kirchoff Plate Equations with Boundary Feedback Acting via Bending Moments, University of Virginia (May 1992).
- Daniel Tataru (Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston Recipient of Sloan Fellowship, 1995). Co-advised with R. Triggiani. A Priori Pseudoconvexity Energy Estimates in Domains with Boundary and Exact Boundary Controllability for Conservative PDE, University of Virginia (May 1992).
- Erik Hendrickson (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Arkansas University and NRC Fellowship at Wright Patterson AFOSR Lab, Dayton, Ohio). Approximation Theory for Compensator Design for Partially Observed Hyperbolic Systems, University of Virginia (May 1995).
- George Avalos (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Texas Tech University and NSF-IMA Postdoc at the IMA Institute at the University of Minnesota). An Analysis and Regulator Theory For the Active Control of a System of PDE's Arising in Smart Structures and Materials, University of Virginia (May 1995).
- Richard Marchand (NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Army Research Laboratory, AMSRL-WT-PD, Aberdeen, MD). Approximations of Control Problems Arising in Dynamics of Shells, University of Virginia (1996).
- John Ong (Assistant Prof, Mary Baldwin College). Global Existence, Uniqueness and Stability of a Quasilinear Hyperbolic Equation with Boundary Dissipation, University of Virginia (December 1997).
- Guancgao Ji (Postdoc Fellow at Mittag Leffler Institut, Stokholm and Assistant Visiting Prof. Math Dept Texas Tech, Lubbock). Boundary Stabilizations of PDE's--Theory and Algorithms, University of Virginia (1998).
- William Heyman (Lockheed-Martin Research Corp., Philadelphia, PA), Finite Dimensional Attractors in Nonlinear Elasticity, University of Virginia.
- James Masters (CYCORP-Artificial Intelligence Software Corp, Austin-TX). Exact Boundary Controllability and Uniform Stabilization of Selenoidal Electromagnetic Fields in a Bounded Region Without Geometric Conditions, University of Virginia (December 1999).
- Catherine Lebiedzik (NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Univ L. Da Vinci, Paris). Stability Properties of Acoustic Models with Thermoelasticity, University of Virginia (May 2001).
- Cavit Hafizoglu, Linear Quadratic Boundary/Point Control of Stochastic PDEs with Unbounded Coefficients, University of Virginia (May 2006).
- Daniel Toundykov (Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln) Long-term dynamics of a semilinear wave equation with localized nonlinear dissipation, critical source term, and mixed boundary conditions, University of Virginia (May 2007).
- Amjad Tuffaha (Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA) Well-posedness and optimal control of coupled partial differential equations with an interface, University of Virginia (May 2007).
- Inger Daniels (Postdoctoral position at CMU, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh), Wellposedness of a nonlinear structural acoustic model with a Boussinesq plate equation, University of Virginia, May 2008.
- Lorena Bociu (NSF International Research Fellowship with Institute Analyse Nonlineaire-CNRS University of Nice-Sophie Antipolis, France (two years) and three-year Postoctoral Fellow at the University of Nebraska), Existence, uniqueness, and blow-up of solutions to wave equations with supercritical boundary interior sources and damping, University of Virginia, May 2008.