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Mathematics

3/10/2011

 
​Undercooked noodle:
Chance to land near Cantor set?
Log n over n.

​
Matthew Bond
Michigan State University

​My research is on the probability that “Buffon’s needle” (or noodle, as the case may be) will land near a self-similar (“Cantor-like”) set of Hausdorff dimension 1 in the plane. (The abstract and first chapter are relatively non-technical.)

Mathematics

11/6/2009

 
​Opponent unknown.
Nothing is clear, what will he do?
I would satisfice.

​
Lior Davidovitch
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

​Title: “Strategic interactions under severe uncertainty” (2008)
My thesis in the discipline of Decision Theory explores the application of info-gap decision theory to cases where the uncertainty is not about the properties of the world, but rather concerns the reaction of some (not necessarily adverse) agent. Info-gap decision theory claims that one should not aim for the best performance possible (optimizing), but to be able to withstand great error in estimation and still yield a reasonable result (satisficing).

Mathematics

10/30/2009

 
​It should be here but…
Unpredictable bastard
When thou art too large

​
Gil Ariel
New York University

​Title: “Effective stochastic dynamics in deterministic systems” (2006).
My thesis concerns a few examples of deterministic systems that seem random when they are large enough. This is related to the “paradox” that even though the underling dynamics of a system my be deterministic (e.g., described by Newton’s laws), large ensembles can be treated in a probabilistic way using the tools of statistical physics.

Mathematics

9/17/2009

 
​Degenerate shapes.
C-symmetries are many,
But not infinite.

​
R. Travis Kowalski
University of California at San Diego

​Dissertation Title: “Formal equivalences between real-analytic hypersurfaces”
An investigation (in part) of the complex-analytic equivalences between three-dimensional geometric shapes (called hypersurfaces) inside of a complex, two-dimensional universe (called C^2). My primary result is that the number (or dimension) of the self-symmetries of such shapes with a specific type of degeneracy (called infinite 1-type) can be arbitrarily huge, but nevertheless finite.

Mathematics

9/11/2009

 
​Triangles in a
triangular tube; some are
further to the left.

​
Josh Laison
Dartmouth College

​Title: “Tube Representations of Ordered Sets” (2001).
My thesis investigated orderings of abstract geometric shapes in 2, 3, and higher dimensions.

Mathematics

9/3/2009

 
​You are elusive,
second homotopy group.
Cough up your secrets!

​
Will Haight
University of Illinois

​Dissertation Title: “A Pi-2 Invariant For Split Complexes”
Split 2-complexes in 4-manifolds sit nicely enough in their hosts to retain features of their cousins resting in 3-manifolds. I have a collection of moves and a measure of the second homotopy group of a split 2-complex which remains invariant under the moves. This is useful in determining if the group is trivial. How strange that groups of order 1 can be so hard to recognize!

Mathematics

9/3/2009

 
​All Coxeter groups
have cohomology rings:
I found them (mod 2).

​
James Swenson
University of Minnesota

​My dissertation title, “The mod-two cohomology of Coxeter groups,” seems self-explanatory — a Coxeter group is (for me) a finite bunch of reflections and rotations in an n-dimensional space, and the mod-two cohomology ring of its classifying space is an infinite bunch of polynomial-type gadgets that carry information about the group. I listed them, except in the case of the Coxeter group called E8: that one was too hard.

Mathematics

8/31/2009

 
​Prove new conjecture
in Iwasawa theory
of elliptic curves

​
John Jones
Harvard University

​Dissertation Title: “Iwasawa theory at multiplicative primes” (1987).
My work  proved the Mazur-Tate-Teitelbaum conjecture for Iwasawa L-functions of elliptic curves.

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​​​           Doctoral Dissertations in Haiku
“One of my old professors liked to say that a poem isn’t any good unless you can explain it to a three-year-old. I never would have thought one could apply that same standard to a doctoral dissertation, but then I came across a brilliant little website called Dissertation Haiku.” 
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09/30/2009 05:12 am ET | Updated Nov 17, 2011
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