PhDs awarded by the Department of Mathematics




The following is a list, with most recent first, of PhD degrees that have been awarded by the Department since 1933.


Kerry Luse
PhD George Washington University 2008

Dissertation: Invariants of Knots, Graphs, and Feynman Diagrams
Advisor: Yongwu Rong


Sarah Pingrey
PhD George Washington University 2008

Dissertation: Strong Degree Spectra of Relations
Advisor: Valentina Harizanov


Tanya Andress
PhD George Washington University 2007

Dissertation: The spectrum and the first Cech cohomology group of a one dimensional tiling dynamical system
Advisor: E. Arthur Robinson


Geoffrey McKenna
PhD George Washington University 2007

Dissertation: Graphs, Algebra, and Probability
Advisor: Daniel Ullmani


Fanny Jasso-Hernandez
PhD George Washington University 2007

Dissertation: A Homological Algebraic Approach to the Tutte Polynomial
Advisor: Yongwu Rong


Michael Barg
PhD George Washington University 2007

Dissertation: Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations with Applications to Tendon-Reinforced Piecewise-Isotropic Membranes
Advisor: Frank Baginski


Maciej Niebrzydowski
PhD George Washington University 2007

Dissertation: Some Applications of Quandles and their Homology to the Geometry of Knots
Advisor: Jozef H. Przytycki


Eric Ufferman
PhD George Washington University 2006
Dissertation: Structures and Partial Computable Automorphisms
Advisor: Valentina S. Harizanov



Malgorzata Dabkowska
PhD George Washington University 2006
Dissertation: Turing Degree Spectra of Groups and Their Spaces of Orders
Advisor: Valentina S. Harizanov


Michael Veve
PhD George Washington University 2006
Dissertation: Skien Modules, Orderable Magmas, and Billiards
Advisor: Jozef H. Przytycki


Laure Helme-Guizon
PhD George Washington University 2005
Dissertation: A Categorification of the Chromatic Polynomial
Advisor: Yongwu Rong


Amir Togha
PhD George Washington University 2004
Dissertation: On Automorphisms of Structures in Logic and Orderability of Groups in Topology
Advisors: Valentina S. Harizanov and Ali Enayat


Mieczyslaw Dabkowski
PhD George Washington University 2003
Dissertation:  Cubic Skein Modules and Burnside Groups
Advisor: Jozef H. Przytycki


Rumen Dimitrov
PhD George Washington University 2002
Dissertation:  Computably Enumerable Vector Spaces, Dependence Relations, and Turing Degrees
Advisor: Valentina S. Harizanov


Krzysztof Wargan
PhD George Washington University 2002
Dissertation:  S-adic Dynamical Systems and Bratteli Diagrams
Advisor: E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.


David Hough
PhD George Washington University 2001
Dissertation:  The Genus of Partitions and C-trees
Advisors: Daniel H. Ullman and Frank Schmidt


Rachelle Ankney
PhD George Washington University 2001
Dissertation:  The geometries PG(n-1,q)\PG(k-1,q)
Advisor: Joseph E. Bonin


Amir Pirnazar
PhD George Washington University 2000
Dissertation:  Girth, genus and fractional coloring of graphs
Advisor: Daniel H. Ullman


Hongxun Qin
PhD George Washington University 2000
Dissertation: Tutte polynomials and matroid constructions
Advisor: Joseph E. Bonin


Maxim V. Sokolov
PhD George Washington University 2000
Dissertation: Quantum invariants, skein modules, and periodicity of 3-manifolds
Advisor: Jozef H. Przytycki


Tatsuya Tsukamoto
PhD George Washington University 2000
Dissertation: The fourth skein module of 3-dimensional manifolds
Advisor: Jozef H. Przytycki


William Collier
PhD George Washington University 2000
Dissertation: Applications of variational principles to modeling a partially inflated scientific research balloon
Advisor: Frank E. Baginski


Clifford Hansen
PhD George Washington University 2000
Dissertation: Dynamics of muldimensional substitutions
Advisor: E. Arthur Robinson Jr.


Thomas Fitzkee
PhD George Washington University 1998
Dissertation: Weakly mixing tiling flows arising from interval exchange transformations
Advisor: E.Arthur Robinson Jr.


Jules Kouatchou
PhD George Washington University 1997
Dissertation: High-order multigrid techniques for partial differential equations
Advisor: Murli M. Gupta


Michael Edward McDaniel
PhD George Washington University 1997
Dissertation: Subspaces of Vassiliev invariants using cablings
Advisor: Yongwu Rong


Jun Zhang
PhD George Washington University 1997
Dissertation: Multigrid acceleration techniques and applications to the numerical solution of partial differential equations
Advisor: Murli M. Gupta


Sita Ramamurti
PhD George Washington University 1995
Dissertation: Dynamics near the essential singularity for zero-free entire vector fields of finite order
Advisor: Kevin Hockett


William P. Miller
PhD George Washington University 1995
Dissertation: Approaches to matroid reconstruction problems
Advisor: Joseph E. Bonin


Timothy McNicholl
PhD George Washington University 1995
Dissertation: The inclusion problem for generalized frequency classes
Advisor: Valentina S. Harizanov


Hassan Sedaghat
PhD George Washington University 1990
Dissertation: New constructions in semigroup compactification theory
Advisor: Hugo D. Junghenn


Karma Dajani
PhD George Washington University 1989
Dissertation: Simultaneous recurrence of weighted cocycles.
Advisor: E.Arthur Robinson, Jr.


Amir Afrasiab Maleki
PhD George Washington University 1985
Dissertation: Semigroups of quasicompact operators: Convergence and mean ergodic property
Advisor: Choy-Tak Taam


Thomas Lewrie Mifflin
PhD George Washington University 1984
Dissertation: Almost periodic selections
Advisor: Hugo D. Junghenn


Ramaiah Devadoss Pandian
PhD George Washington University 1983
Dissertation: Relatively almost periodic and distal semigroup compactifications and related fixed point theorems
Advisor: Hugo D. Junghenn


Tyler Henry Haynes (Jr)
PhD George Washington University 1983
Dissertation: Invariant means on semi-topological transformation semigroups
Advisor: Hugo D. Junghenn


Ali Saleh Arwini
PhD George Washington University 1982
Dissertation: Order compactness and complete regularity in topological preordered spaces
Advisor: Marvin D. Green


Amir Hamzeh Barzegar
PhD George Washington University 1981
Dissertation: Syntopological characterization of algebraic structures and Bohr syntopological group compactification
Advisor: Marvin D. Green


John Richard Tucker
PhD George Washington University 1980
Dissertation: Mixing, Ergodicity, and Amenability for Weekly Almost Periodic Semigroups
Advisor: Choy-Tak Taam


Steven Zalmon Kahn
PhD George Washington University 1980
Dissertation: Chromatic equivalence and chromatic uniqueness
Advisor: Ruth Aaronson Bari


Bao Ting Chen Lerner
PhD George Washington University 1979
Dissertation: C*-Algebra Compactifications of semidirect products of semitopological semigroups
Advisor: Hugo D. Junghenn


Arthur Valliere, III
PhD George Washington University 1979
Dissertation: On Matrices A such that AT is a Polynomial in A
Advisor: Irving J. Katz


Walter Lane Stanley
PhD George Washington University 1977
Dissertation: On the structure of the torsion subgroup of the group of units of a group ring
Advisor: Myrna Pike Lee


Henry Kwong Tan
PhD George Washington University 1977
Dissertation: Ergodic theorems and semigroups of *Homomorphisms on C* and W*-Algebras
Advisor: Choy-Tak Taam


Robert Edward O'Brien
PhD George Washington University 1977
Dissertation: Controllability and Stabilization of contraction semigroups on Hilbert spaces
Advisor: Choy-Tak Taam


Daniel Rucker Batigne
PhD George Washington University 1977
Dissertation: Integral Generalized Inverses of Integral Matrices
Advisor: Irving J. Katz


John Frank Schmeelk
PhD George Washington University 1976
Dissertation: Test surfunctions and generalized surfunctions
Advisor: Thomas Liverman


Lawrence Allen Lee
PhD George Washington University 1975
Dissertation: On chromatically equivalent graphs
Advisor: Ruth Aaronson Bari


David Schedler
PhD George Washington University 1971
Dissertation: On topologies determined by clustering sequences: a generalization of sequential space
Advisors: Hewitt Kenyon


Kim Ki-Hang Butler
PhD George Washington University 1970
Dissertation: On (0,1)-Matrix Semigroups
Advisors: Jin B. Kim


Hugo Dietrich Junghenn
PhD George Washington University 1970
Dissertation: Almost Periodic Compactifications and Applications to One-Parameter Semigroups
Advisor: Choy-Tak Taam


John Jones, Jr.
PhD George Washington University 1970
Dissertation: Properties of strong solutions of first and second order differential equations and inequalities in Hilbert space
Advisor: Thomas Liverman


Ruth Doris Koidan
Ph.D. George Washington University 1969
Dissertation: Convergence bases and subbases in general topology
Advisor: Hewitt Kenyon


John Kent Minichiello
Ph.D. George Washington University 1967
Dissertation: Negationless Intuitionistic mathematics
Advisor: David Nelson


Mahmoud Khairat Ahmed Khairat
Ph.D. George Washington University 1965
Dissertation: Some results for random elements taking values in a linear space
Advisor: Solomon Kullback


Hubert Whitman Lilliefors
Ph.D. George Washington University 1964
Dissertation: An Information Theoretic Application of Linear Discriminant Functionals to Stochastic Processes
Advisor: Solomon Kullback


Janos Edvard Hanson
Ph.D. George Washington University 1960
Dissertation: On linear sequence spaces which permit ommision and adjunction and have finite dimension modulo convergence
Advisor: Florence Marie Mears


Joseph Blum
Ph.D. George Washington University 1958
Dissertation: Banach Spaces Functionals and Matrix Summability Methods
Advisor: Florence Marie Mears


Valdemars Punga
Ph.D. George Washington University 1954
Dissertation: Affine connection in space of line elements
Advisor: James Henry Taylor


Robert Harrison Shaw
Ph.D. George Washington University 1952
Dissertation: On the proof of a theorem of Frobenius without the use of group characters
Advisor: Francis Edgar Johnston


Solomon Kullback
Ph.D. George Washington University 1934
Dissertation: An application of characteristic functions to the distribution problem of statistics
Advisor: Frank Weida


Abraham Sinkov
Ph.D. George Washington University 1933
Dissertation: Families of groups generated by two operators of the same orders
Advisor: Francis Edgar Johnston


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