Applied Mathematics Students
The applied mathematics faculty at the University of Nevada Reno
teaches at both the undergraduate and gradudate level.
There are currently 96 undergraduate mathematics and statistics
majors in the department. Of these 13 of them are pursuing
the degree option in applied mathematics and 12 in discrete
mathematics and operations research.
There are currently 31
master's
students in the department of which
20 are supported by teaching assistantships and 5 are supported by
research assistantships. Of these more than 10 have chosen
an option of applied mathematics, discrete mathematics
or operations research.
Applied Master's Theses and Graduates
- Xander Henderson
- Graduation: Spring 2013
- Thesis: Assouad Dimension and the Open Set Condition
- Advisor: Eric Olson
- Masakazu Gesho
- Graduation: Spring 2013
- Thesis: A Numerical Study of Continuous Data Assimilation for
the 2D NSE Using Nodal Points
- Advisor: Eric Olson
- Kyle Altemara
- Graduation: Spring 2013 (expected)
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Chih-Ming Hsieh
- Graduation: Spring 2013 (expected)
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Joseph Moore
- Graduation: Spring 2013 (expected)
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Yibo Xu
- Graduation: Spring 2013 (expected)
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Taylor Coffman
- Graduation: Spring 2013 (expected)
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Joseph Agor
- Graduation: Spring 2013 (expected)
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Joseph McCoy
- Graduation: Spring 2013 (expected)
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Leilani Bailey
- Graduation: Fall 2012
- Thesis: An Analysis of a Strategic Market Game Using
Gold as Money and Ornament
- Advisor: Tom Quint
- Eden Furtak-Cole
- Graduation: Summer 2012
- Thesis: A Series Solution to the Porous Medium Equation
- Advisor: Aleksey Telyakovskiy
- Hari Pandey
- Graduation: Summer 2012
- Thesis: Numerical Computations on Normal Forms of Nonlinear Systems
- Advisor: Mark Pinsky
- Aayush Poudel
- Graduation: Fall 2011
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Brian Woody
- Graduation: Fall 2011
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Sameer Regmi
- Graduation: Summer 2011
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Andrew Hicks
- Graduation: Summer 2011
- Thesis: Clustering in multidimensional spaces with applications
to statistical analysis of earthquake clustering
- Advisor: Ilya Zaliapin
- Quan Zou
- Graduation: Spring 2011
- Thesis: The Role of Spatiotemporal Correlations in the Encoding and Retrieval of Synaptic Patterns by STDP in Recurrent Spiking Networks
- Advisor: Aleksey Telyakovskiy and Phillip Goodman
- Julia Petereit
- Graduation: Spring 2010
- Thesis: Semi-Analytical Solution Techniques
- Advisor: Aleksey Telyakovskiy
- John Garner
- Graduation: Spring 2010
- Thesis: A Method for Determining the Dimension of an Assignment
Game's Core
- Advisor: Tom Quint
- Dan Quigley
- Graduation: Spring 2010
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Jeremiah Rich
- Graduation: Spring 2010
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Brandi Fichtner
- Graduation: Spring 2010
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Chris Wingard
- Graduation: Spring 2009
- Thesis: Removing Bias and Periodic Noise in
Measurements of the Lorenz System
- Advisor: Eric Olson
- Randy Ringstad
- Graduation: Fall 2009
- Thesis: Application of Robust Observations to Time-Series Forecast
- Advisors: Mark Pinsky and Jeff Mortensen
- Adrienne Prokosch
- Graduation: Spring 2008
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Chris Gaffney
- Graduation: Spring 2008
- Thesis: The Application of the Inclusion-Exclusion
Principle in Learning Monotone Boolean Functions
- Advisor: Tom Quint
- Paige Hernandez
- Graduation: Spring 2008
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Diana Moss
- Graduation: Spring 2008
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Sayaka Olson
- Graduation: Spring 2008
- Thesis: Hypergraphs with small Ramsey numbers
- Advisor: Bredan Nagle
- Leandro Basallo
- Graduation: Spring 2008
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Job upon Graduation: International Gaming Technology
- Amit Saini
- Graduation: Spring 2008
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Brehnen Wong
- Graduation: Fall 2008
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Robbie Liao
- Graduation: Fall 2008
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Kevin Hayden
- Graduation: Spring 2007
- Thesis part 1: Modeling of Free-Surface Film Flow
- Thesis part 2: Synchronization in the Lorenz System
- Advisors: Eric Olson and Aleksey Telyakovskiy
- Job upon Graduation: Researcher at JPL
- Brianna Killian
- Graduation: Spring 2007
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Academic Advisor: Tom Quint
- Job upon Graduation: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at
Daytona Beach Community College.
- Suresh Kumar
- Graduation: Spring 2007
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Academic Advisor: Eric Olson
- Job upon Graduation: Software Developer at PC Doctor
- Sinan Ozcan
- Graduation: 2006
- Thesis: Modeling of Flows of MR Particles Flow in
Narrow and Rough Channels
- Co-advisor: Mark Pinsky
- Vinod Prabhu
- Graduation: Spring 2006
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Academic Advisor: Thomas Quint
- Job upon Graduation: Visiting Lecturer in Dept of Math & Stat UNR
- Pothana Sadagoparamanujam
- Graduation: Fall 2006
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Academic Advisor: Mark Pinsky
- Tim Kennedy
- Graduation: Spring 2006
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Shawn Kohltfarber
- Graduation: Spring 2005
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Nate Girdner
- Graduation: Fall 2005
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Ryan Dotson
- Graduation: Fall 2005
- Thesis: An Application of the Hypergraph Regularity Method
- Advisor: Bendan Nagle
- David Lee
- Graduation: Spring 2001
- Thesis: A Model for Two-Party Competition under a Single
Nontransferable Vote
- Advisor: Tom Quint
- Erick Ching
- Graduation: Spring 2000
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Bill Essary
- Graduation: 2000
- PhD Thesis: Identification and Robust Control of Some Nonlinear Systems
- Co-advisor: Mark Pinsky
- Charles Slinger
- Graduation: 1998
- Thesis: Normal Form Analysis and Control of Some Nonlinear Systems
- Advisor: Mark Pinsky
- Jeff Carlton
- Graduation: Summer 1998
- No Thesis: coursework option
- Ted Lambert
- Year: 1998
- Job upon Graduation: PhD. At University of Michigan
- Current Occupation: Faculty at Truckee Meadows Community College
- William Essary
- Graduation: 1996
- Thesis: Robust Control of Bifurcation Phenomena in Aircraft Flights
- Advisor: Mark Pinsky
Students Supported on Grants
- Mateusz Paprocki and Jordan Blocker
- Year: 2011
- Grant: High-Fidelity Multiphysics
Simulations in Nuclear Engineering Based on Tightly-Coupled
Space-Time Adaptive Algorithms
- Sponsor: Pavel Solin
- Onrej Certik and Aayush Poudel
- Year: 2010-2011
- Grant: High-Fidelity Multiphysics
Simulations in Nuclear Engineering Based on Tightly-Coupled
Space-Time Adaptive Algorithms
- Sponsor: Pavel Solin
- Sameer Regmi
- Year: 2010
- Grant: High-Fidelity Multiphysics
Simulations in Nuclear Engineering Based on Tightly-Coupled
Space-Time Adaptive Algorithms
- Sponsor: Pavel Solin
- David Andrs
- Year: 2009
- Grant: High-Fidelity Multiphysics
Simulations in Nuclear Engineering Based on Tightly-Coupled
Space-Time Adaptive Algorithms
- Sponsor: Pavel Solin
- Lenka Dubcova
- Year: 2009
- Grant: UNR Fundamental Algorithm
Development to Support INL Fuel Performance Code Activities
- Sponsor: Pavel Solin
- Sreevatsam Raman
- Year: 2006
- Grant: Detection and Tracking of Moving Hands Using Variational Methods and PDE.
- Sponsor: Mark Pinsky
- Pothana Sadagopa
- Year: Summer 2005
- Grant: Development of Robust Estimators for 2D-Navier-Stokes Models.
- Sponsor: Mark Pinsky
- Satoko Kurita (postdoc)
- Year: 2005-2006
- Grant: In-situ Bioremediation of Contaminated Soil.
- Sponsor: Eric Olson
- Hyun Chao
- Year: 2003
- Grant: Development of Multiscale Approaches to Robust Control of
Molecular Dynamic Systems.
- Sponsor: Mark Pinsky
Job Opportunities
Over the past decade, the employment prospects for mathematicians have
brightened considerably, and we expect our graduates will do very well
on the job market.
Mathematicians trained in multidisciplinary research areas tailored to
real-world applications have excellent job prospects. In
probability/statistics, job opportunities exist in a wide range of
applications, from pharmaceutical industry, public health, government,
environmental research companies, risk assessment, census, epidemiology,
insurance, biostatistics, to finance, and economics; from current job
openings at Pfizer or Batelle to ones at the US Census Bureau, RAND or
the National Cancer Institute. Mathematicians specializing in
operations research are often
hired at large companies such as IBM, Bell Labs, oil companies, and
airlines. Ph.D.s in game theory/mathematical economics often find work
in corporate planning, defense jobs (e.g., with NSA), or in consulting.
Students working in discrete mathematics - the mathematics of computer
science", are attractive hires to software firms, technical consulting
firms, and the high tech computing industry. In the government sector,
discrete mathematics is among the most sought after fields at the
National Security Agency.
Similarly, mathematicians specializing in applied and computational
mathematics have many
opportunities in high tech companies, oil companies, financial firms,
and in research departments of major national corporations delivering
products and services in areas ranging from medicine and drug
development to the aerospace industries. Graduates from our program will
also successfully compete for research positions in the Government
research laboratories, such as NASA Centers, and Defense and Energy
Departments research Labs.
Our Masters students are very successful on the job market and
in the academia. To the best of our knowledge, all our students who
graduated in the past 5 years are employed or in Ph.D. programs. Two are
working in government: one is the Chief Biostatistician for the Nevada
State Health Division, one works for the Churchill County Planning
Commission. Six work in industry (4 of them in IGT), one at DRI, one
teaches high school in Las Vegas, one teaches in a university in
Croatia, five teach at US community colleges (in Virginia, New Mexico,
Florida, Oregon, and at Western Nevada), five are currently visiting
lecturers at UNR. Twelve of our MS graduates are currently in Ph.D.
programs in the mathematical sciences or in education at universities
such as UC Davis, University of Illinois, UC San Diego, UC Riverside,
Indiana, Michigan State, U of Alabama, Western Michigan, and UNR.
Last Updated: Mon Jun 16 23:57:45 PDT 2014
Applied Mathematics at the
University of Nevada Reno
