VIGRE Graduate Fellows, 2008-2009

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Aleksandr Aravkin

Department:Mathematics

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Amanda Allen

Department:Statistics

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Nicholas Basch

Department:Statistics

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Jonathan Claridge

Department:Applied Math

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Christopher Curtis

Department:Applied Math

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Charles Doss

Department:Statistics

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Bailey Draper

Department:Statistics

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Gregory Drugan

Department:Mathematics

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Joshua Goldwyn

Department:Applied Mathematics

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I am a 4th year graduate student studying mathematical neuroscience. In particular, I model the response of the auditory nerve to electrical stimulation in order to understand how cochlear implants function and how we can improve clinical outcomes for cochlear implant users. My bachelor's degree was in mathematics from Pomona College in Claremont, CA.

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Sean Holman

Department:Mathematics

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Tobias Johnson

Department:Mathematics

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I grew up in Brooklyn before getting my BA from Yale. I also spent a year in Budapest in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program and another year teaching English at a high school in Hungary. Now I'm a first-year graduate student interested in combinatorics and algebra. I spend most of my spare time cooking and going to farmers markets.

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Joshua Kantor

Department:Mathematics

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Antonio Kirson

Department:Mathematics

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Antonio is a native of San Francisco. Before coming to the University of Washington in 2004 he graduated from the University of California - Berkeley with a BA in Mathematics and Economics. He is currently a fifth year graduate student in the Department of Mathematics studying Algebraic Geometry under the direction of Sándor Kovács.

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Steven Klee

Department:Statistics

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Hoyt Koepke

Department:Statistics

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Travis Kopp

Department:Mathematics

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Grady Lemoine

Department:Applied Mathematics

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Qiuying Lin

Department:Mathematics

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David Lovit

Department:Applied Mathematics

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Kurt Luoto

Department:Mathematics

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Kurt is an ex-software developer and escapee from Silicon Valley. A native of northern California, he obtained his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Sonoma State University. After working many years in the software industry, he obtained his Master of Science in Mathematics from California State University, Hayward (not CSU East Bay) before entering the PhD program at UW in 2004. He currently lives with his wife in Lynnwood, WA. He will be finishing his PhD this year. For the next two academic years he will be serving as a postdoc at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.

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Libby MaKinnon

Department:Applied Mathematics

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Kyle Mandli

Department:Applied Mathematics

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I graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in applied mathematics, physics and engineering and came to the University of Washington in the fall of 2004. My research focus is on creating efficient numerical algorithms for hazardous geophysical flows such as tsunamis, landslides, lahars, and other destructive flows.

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Robert Miller

Department:Mathematics

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Michael Nivala

Department:Applied Mathematics

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My research is in the field of partial differential equations, specifically in the area of nonlinear waves and integrable systems. I am interested in a variety of subareas ranging from symmetries and symbolic computation to algebraic curves and stability theory.

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Kiana Ross

Department:Mathematics

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I am a 5th year doctoral student in the Department of Mathematics, studying algebraic geometry with Sandor Kovacs. My current research involves characterizing projective spaces and hyperquadrics in terms of certain positivity properties of the tangent bundle.

I received my BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester, and spent six years in the software industry doing algorithm design work before coming to Seattle. I am originally from Tucson, AZ.

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Melissa Vellela

Department:Applied Mathematics

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Matthew Williams

Department:Applied Mathematics

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I am a second year graduate student in the Applied Mathematics department. I'm currently studying the theory of passive mode-locking in semiconductor laser arrays as well as the optical intensity dynamics when the array is not in a mode-locked state. Both projects are under the direction of my advisor, Nathan Kutz. Before coming to UW, I grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attended Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California where I obtained my B.S. in Physics in 2007. Outside of school, I enjoy running (slowly), sleeping, and avoiding the cold.

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Troy Winfree

Department:Mathematics

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Amanda Young

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VIGRE Graduate Fellows, 2004-05

Eric Bahuaud
Brandon Bale
Tristram Bogart
Kirsten Fagnan
Chris Hanusa
Dylan Helliwell
William Heuett
Leah Jager
Brant Jones
Kris Kissel
Dustin Lennon
Christine Lind
Joan Lind
Assaf Oron
Avanti Paranjpye
Matt Patterson
Karl Schwede
Susan Shortreed
Damon Toth
Adam Weissbarth
David White
Toby White
Catherine Williams
Dave Williams

VIGRE Graduate Fellows, 2005-06

Brandon Bale
William Dickerson
William Heuett
Christine Lind
Uldarico Muico
Ramesh Narasimhan
Katie Oliveras
Leah Jager
Kevin Sheridan
Jason Slemons
Melissa Vellela
Matt Ballard
Davis Doherty
Kelly Jabbusch
Assaf P. Oron
Avanti Paranjpye
Matt Kahle
Josh Kantor
Keir Lockridge
David Rosoff
Zack Treisman
Elizabeth Morris
Toby White
Alex Papazoglou
Ursula Whitcher
Nicole Bohme
Adam Glynn
Chris Green
Catherine Kneeling
Hilary Lyons
Christine Oehlert
Gail Potter
Mark Seligman
McLean Sloughter

VIGRE Graduate Fellows, 2006-07

Matthew Badger
Ryan Card
Walker Carlisle
Johnathan Claridge
Christopher Curtis
Michael Decker
William Dickerson
Anton Dochtermann
Julia Eaton
Joshua Goldwyn
Matthew Korson
Jacob Lewis
David Lovit
Kurt Luoto
Uldarico Muico
Michael Nivala
Matthew Patterson
Melissa Vellela
Micah Warren
Catherine Williams

VIGRE Graduate Fellows, 2007-08

Brandon Bale
Nathaniel Blair-Stahn
Robert Bradshaw
Field Cady
Nicholas Cain
Johnathan Claridge
Jonathan Cross
Christopher Curtis
Ariana Dundon
Daniel Finkel
Michael Goff
Joshua Goldwyn
Nathan Grigg
Luke Gutzwiller
Christopher Jordan-Squire
Ian Langmore
Grady Lemoine
David Lovit
Libby MacKinnon
Dustin Moody
Michael Nivala
Sara Pollock
Anusha Sekar
Stephanie Vance
James Vargo

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