Aug 17 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 1 – 2 p.m., Aug. 17, 2026 Vibrational State-to-State Modeling of High-Enthalpy Flows: From Data-Driven Kinetics to Shock-Tube Simulations Aaron Larsen, Program in Applied Mathematics
Jul 27 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 10 – 11 a.m., July 27, 2026 The Curly Geometry of Nature: Discrete Models and Energetic Bounds of Branched Elastic Surfaces Ari Bormanis, Program in Applied Mathematics
Jul 22 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 2 – 3 p.m., July 22, 2026 Scaling laws for small random perturbations of an intermittently chaotic system Ben Stilin, Program in Applied Mathematics
Jul 16 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 9 – 10 a.m., July 16, 2026 New Microstructure Representations for Process–Structure–Property Modeling of Alloys Sheila Whitman, Program in Applied Mathematics
Jun 17 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 11 a.m. – Noon, June 17, 2026 Inferring Effective Connectivity Graphs from Neural Replay Spike Trains Marium Yousuf, Program in Applied Mathematics
May 12 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 3 – 4 p.m., May 12, 2026 Supervised-Learning for Telescope Control Systems and Performance Assessment via Record-Based Metrics Jackson Zariski, Program in Applied Mathematics
Apr 21 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 9:30 – 10:30 a.m., April 21, 2026 Dust Drift, Trapping, and Accretion: From Protoplanetary Disks to Mature Planets Eonho Chang, Program in Applied Mathematics
Apr 09 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 9 – 10 a.m., April 9, 2026 Challenges and strategies in neuromorphic algorithm development: a comparative study across the stacks Sara Luca, Program in Applied Mathematics
Apr 07 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense Noon – 1 p.m., April 7, 2026 Theoretical Models for Control of Blood Flow and Oxygen Transport in Cerebral Microvascular Networks Akshita Sharma, Program in Applied Mathematics
Nov 06 PhD Final Oral Dissertation Defense 9 – 10 a.m., Nov. 6, 2025 Advancing Quantitative Abdominal MRI: Methods for Highly Accelerated T2 Mapping with Radial Turbo Spin-Echo Sequences Brian Toner, Program in Applied Mathematics
