Ph. D. Thesis Defenses

I served on the Thesis Committee for each of the following Ph. D. Thesis Defenses.

Thesis Defense
Mr. Adam Knapp
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 1:50 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Computations of Floer Homology and Gauge Theoretic Invariants for Montesinos Twins
Thesis Advisor: Ron Fintushel
Thesis Committee: Efstratia Kalfagianni, John D. McCarthy,
Thomas Parker, Lawrence Roberts, Jon G. Wolfson

Thesis Defense
Ms. Seongchun Kwon
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 1:00 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Real Aspect of the Moduli Space of Stable Maps of Genus 0
Thesis Advisor: Selman Akbulut
Thesis Committee: David E. Blair, John D. McCarthy,
Michael Shapiro, Kirill Vaninsky

Thesis Defense
Mr. William R. Vautaw
Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 3:00 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Abelian Subgroups and Automorphisms of the Torelli Group
Thesis Advisor: John D. McCarthy
Thesis Committee: Ronald Fintushel, Jonathan I. Hall,
Nikolai Ivanov, Jon G. Wolfson

Thesis Defense
Ms. Elmas Irmak
Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 3:00 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Superinjective Simplicial Maps of Complexes of Curves and
Injective Homomorphisms of Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups
Thesis Advisor: John D. McCarthy
Thesis Committee: Ronald Fintushel, Jonathan I. Hall,
Nikolai V. Ivanov, Efstratia Kalfagianni

Thesis Defense
Mr. Stanislav Jabuka
Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 3:00 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Grafting Seiberg-Witten Monopoles
Thesis Advisor: Ronald Fintushel
Thesis Committee: Casim Abbas, David Blair,
John McCarthy, Jon G. Wolfson

Thesis Defense
Mr. Junho Lee
Tuesday, August 14, 2001, at 2:00 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Family Gromov-Witten Invariants for Kahler Surfaces
Thesis Advisor: Thomas Parker
Thesis Committee: Selman Akbulut, Ronald Fintushel
Nikolai Ivanov, John McCarthy

Thesis Defense
Ms. Heesook Park
Thursday, April 26, 2001, at 3:00 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Relative Bounded Cohomology and Relative l1 Homology
Thesis Advisor: Nikolai Ivanov
Thesis Committee: Selman Akbulut, Jonathan I. Hall
John McCarthy, Jon Wolfson

Thesis Defense
Mr. Scott Jeremy Baldridge
Wednesday, April 25, 2001, at 4:00 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Classifying 4-Manifolds with Circle Actions
Using Seiberg-Witten Invariants
Thesis Advisor: Ronald Fintushel
Thesis Committee: Selman Akbulut, John McCarthy
Thomas Parker, Jon Wolfson

Thesis Defense
Mr. Mariusz Adam Kepka
Wednesday, July 1, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Global Existence of Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equations
Thesis Advisor: Zhengfang Zhou
Thesis Committee: Dennis R. Dunninger, John D. McCarthy,
Milan Miklavcic, William T. Sledd

Thesis Defense
Mr. Feraydoun Taherkhani
Tuesday, April 21, 1998 at 2:30 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Kazhdan Property of the Mapping Class Group
Thesis Advisor: Nikolai Ivanov
Thesis Committee: Ronald Fintushel, Jonathan I. Hall,
John D. McCarthy, Christel Rotthaus

Thesis Defense
Mr. Mark S. McCormick
Tuesday, April 14, 1998, at 3:00 p.m. in A304 Wells Hall
Title: Local Etale Extensions and Normalizations
Thesis Advisor: Christel Rotthaus
Thesis Committee: William C. Brown, Wei-Eihn Kuan,
John McCarthy, Bernd Ulrich

Thesis Defense
Mr. Rostislav Matveyev
Tuesday, September 30, 1997
Title: A Decomposition of Smooth Simply-Connected h-cobordant Four Manifolds
Thesis Advisor: Selman Akbulut

Thesis Defense
Mr. Tedi Draghici
Tuesday, April 29, 1997
Title: Special Metrics on Symplectic Manifolds
Thesis Advisor: David Blair

Thesis Defense
Mr. Xiaozhou Yang
Thursday, May 2, 1996
Title: A Scalable Algorithm for Non-Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem
Thesis Advisor: Tien-Yien Li

Thesis Defense
Ms. Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel
Tuesday, April 23, 1996
Title: Genus One Enumerative Invariants in Pn
Thesis Advisor: Thomas Parker

Thesis Defense
Mr. Mustafa Korkmaz
Wednesday, April 10, 1996
Title: Complexes of Curves on Orientable Surfaces and Mapping Class Groups of Nonorientable Surfaces
Thesis Advisor: Nikolai Ivanov

Thesis Defense
Mr. Wojciech Wieczorek
Thursday, May 11, 1995
Title: The Donaldson Invariant and Embedded 2-spheres
Thesis Advisor: Ronald Fintushel

Thesis Defense
Ms. Heung Su Yi
Monday, May 23, 1994
Title: Harmonic Bergmann Functions on Half-Spaces
Thesis Advisor: Wade Ramey

Thesis Defense
Mr. Yildiray Ozan
Tuesday, February 22, 1994
Title: Algebraic G Bundles
Thesis Advisor: Selman Akbulut

Thesis Defense
Mr. Radhouane Sellami
Tuesday, July 13, 1993
Title: Real Toric Manifolds
Thesis Advisor: Selman Akbulut

Thesis Defense
Mr. Grigory B. Mikhalkin
Tuesday, February 23, 1993
Title: The Classification of the Smoot Closed Manifolds Up To Blowups
Thesis Advisor: Selman Akbulut

Thesis Defense
Mr. Hajrudin Fejzic
Friday, July 17, 1992
Title: The Peano Derivatives
Thesis Advisor: Cliff Weil

Thesis Defense
Mr. Zeljko Cuckovic
Friday, February 8, 1991
Title: Commutants of Toeplitz Operators on the Bergmann Space
Thesis Advisor: Sheldon Axler

Last revised 3/12/10
John D. McCarthy