Oral Ph.D. Candidacy Examinations

• Djamel Benbourenane: Value Distribution for Solutions of Complex Differential Equations in the Unit Disk
  • Date: Monday, May 22, 2000
  • Time and Place: 1:00 p.m. in DU 400
  • Committee: Linda Sons (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Bernard Harris, Zhuan Ye.
• Mohammad Al-Rawwash: Gaussian Estimation and Covariance Modeling in Longitudinal Data
  • Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2000
  • Time and Place: 2:00 p.m. in DU 464
  • Committee: Mohsen Pourahmadi (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Sanjib Basu, Balakrishna Hosmane, Alan Polansky.
• Bangteng Xu: Blocks with Abelian Defect Group
  • Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2000
  • Time and Place: 10:00 a.m. in DuSable 466
  • Committee: Harvey Blau (Chair), John Beachy, Harald Ellers, David Rusin, Gregory Ammar
• Ayrin Calachan Molefe: Tests for Misspecification in Binary Regression Using Generalized Estimating Equations Approach
  • Date: Tuesday, November 9, 1999
  • Time and Place: 12:00 p.m. in DU 412
  • Committee: Balakrishna Hosmane (Chair), Sudhir Gupta, Rama Lingham, Mohsen Pourahmadi, Gregory Ammar
• Daniel Molefe: Survival Density Estimation When the Censoring Time and the Lifetime are Not Independent
  • Date: Tuesday, March 2, 1999
  • Time and Place: 12:00 p.m. in DU 456
  • Committee: Nader Ebrahimi (Chair), Alan Polansky, Mohsen Pourahmadi, Gregory Ammar.
• Daniil Sarkissian: Theory and Computations of Control Problems of Distributed Models and Matrix Second Order Systems
  • Date: Tuesday, December 8, 1998
  • Time and Place: 10:00 a.m. in DuSable 220C
  • Committee: Biswa Datta (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Jindrich Necas, Abhijit Gupta (MEE), Anton Zettl.
• Karthik Devarajan: Inference for a Non-Proportional Hazards Model and Applications
  • Date: Tuesday, August 18, 1998
  • Time and Place: 3:00 p.m. in DuSable 123
  • Committee: Nader Ebrahimi (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Sanjib Basu, Mohsen Pourahmadi.
• Matthias Weiss: Boundary Behavior of Discrete Möbius Groups
  • Date: Wednesday, May 6, 1998
  • Time and Place: 10:00-noon in DU 322
  • Committee: Peter Waterman (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Linda Sons, Hongyou Wu.
• Jean Cassidy: Total Least Squares via Rank Revealing LU Factorization
  • Date: Thursday, March 5, 1998
  • Time and Place: 4:30 p.m. in DuSable 306B
  • Committee: Ching-Tsuan Pan (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Yoopyo Hong, Hui Hu, Robert Wheeler.
• Joy McMahon: Quasi-Ideals in Rings of Continuous Functions
  • Date: Wednesday, February 25, 1998
  • Time and Place: 4:00 p.m. in DuSable 322
  • Committee: Robert Wheeler (Chair), Sien Deng, Daniel Grubb, Johan Aarnes (Univ. Trondheim, Norway), Gregory Ammar.
• Abdel-Razzaq Mugdadi: Bandwidth Selection for Curve Fitting of the Distributions of Functions of Random Variables and Applications
  • Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998
  • Time and Place: 10:00 a.m. in Faraday (East) 237
  • Committee: Ibrahim Ahmad (Chair), Greg Ammar, Nader Ebrahimi, Carol Feltz.
• Andrew Woods: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Flash Vaporization
  • Time and Place: Friday, December 5, 1997 at 2:00 pm in DuSable 430.
  • Examination Committee: Fred Bloom (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Hamid Bellout, Bernard Harris.
• Jason Thrun: Students' Understanding of Rates and Functions Exhibited in Problem-Solving Situations.
  • Time and Place: Monday, August 18, 1997 at 10:00 a.m. in DuSable 304B.
  • Examination Committee: Helen A. Khoury (Chair), Robert Wheeler, Alan Zollman, Gregory Ammar.
• Esther Billings: Qualitative Reasoning among Preservice Elementary Teachers in Proportional Situation.
  • Time and Place: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 at 10:00 a.m. in DuSable 304B.
  • Examination Committee: Helen A. Khoury (Chair), Diana Steele, Robert Wheeler, Gregory Ammar.

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Dissertation & Thesis Defenses

• Matthias Weiss: Limit-Set Action of Discrete Mobius Groups
  • Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2000
  • Time and Place: 1:00 p.m. in DuSable 318
  • Committee: Peter Waterman (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Anders Linner, Linda Sons, Peter Nicholls (Kansas State University),
• Svetlana Butler: Q-Functions, Extreme Points, and Density Theorems in the Space of Quasi-Measures
  • Date: Friday, March 24, 2000
  • Time and Place: 2:00 p.m. in DuSable 418
  • Committee: Daniel Grubb (Chair), Robert Wheeler, Johan Aarnes (Univ. of Trondheim, Norway), David Rusin, Gregory Ammar.
• Hyungkoo Park: Studies on the Matrices under $\Phi$-maps
  • Date: Thursday, March 9, 2000
  • Time and Place: 11:00 a.m. in Farady (East) 238
  • Committee: Yoopyo Hong (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Biswa Datta, Roger Horn (University of Utah), Ching-Tsuan Pan.
• Jason Thrun: College students' rational-number-as-operator strategies: A focus on students' coordination of units and distributivity of operators in problem-solving situations
  • Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999
  • Time and Place: 3:00 p.m. in DU 306
  • Committee: Helen Khoury (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Nancy Mack (National Lewis University), Diana Steele, Robert Wheeler, Alan Zollman.
• Karthik Devarajan: Inference for a Non-Proportional Hazards Regression Model and Applications
  • Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999
  • Time and Place: 11:00 a.m. in Faraday (East) Room 205
  • Committee: Nader Ebrahimi (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Sanjib Basu, Edsel Pena (University of Michigan), Mohsen Pourahmadi.
• Abdel-Razzaq Mugdadi: Nonparametric Curve Fitting of the Probability Density Functions of Random Variables with Applications
  • Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999
  • Time and Place: 10:30 a.m. in Reavis Hall 300
  • Committee: Ibrahim Ahmad (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Carol Feltz, Sudhir Gupta, Aman Ullah (Univ. California at Riverside),
• Jean Cassidy: Solving the TLS Problem Via Rank Revealing LU Factorization
  • Date: Friday, May 7, 1999
  • Time and Place: 3:30 p.m. in DuSable 456
  • Committee: Ching-Tsuan Pan (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Yoopyo Hong, Hui Hu, Sanzheng Qiao (McMaster University), Robert Wheeler.
• Andrew N. Woods: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Flash Evaporation
  • Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998
  • Time and Place: 6:00 p.m. at Hoffman Estates Educational Center, Room 214
  • Committee: Frederick Bloom (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Hamid Bellout, Bernard Harris, Marshall Slemrod (Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison).
• Esther M. Huntzinger Billings: Qualitative-Based Reasoning of Preservice Elementary School Teachers in Proportion Situations
  • Date: Thursday, July 2, 1998
  • Time and Place: 4:00 p.m. in DuSable 304B
  • Committee: Helen Khoury (Chair), Gregory Ammar, Diana Steele, Carol Thornton (Illinois State University), Robert Wheeler

Doctoral degree recipients