Augustus Tropea
PhD in Computing (Fall 2023 - present)
Project: Atmospheric Lamb Waves
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Students
Students I have supervised while at BSU.
- PhD students are from our newly created interdiscplinary PhD in Computing (created in Fall 2016).
- The Department of Mathematics does not have a PhD program.
- See my CV for list of supervisory committees I have participated in.
PhD Students
Brian Kyanjo
PhD in Computing (Summer 2024)
Thesis: “GEOFLOOD: COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR OVERLAND FLOODING”
Damyn Chipman
PhD in Computing (Summer 2024)
Thesis: “An Adaptive and Parallel Direct Solver for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations”
Patricia Azike
PhD in Computing (Fall 2021 - present)
Project: Data assimilation for wildfire smoke simulation
Master's Students
Gus Tropea
MS in Mathematics (Summer 2024)
Thesis: “Numerical Simulation of the Atmospheric Lamb Waves Generated by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption using a Shallow Water Approximation”
Jean Schneider
MS in Mathematics (Summer 2012)
Thesis: “Perfect stripes from a general Turing model in different geometries”
John Hutchins
MS in Mathematics (Summer 2013)
Thesis: “Computing curvature and curvature normals on smooth logically Cartesian surface meshes”
Talin Mirzakhanian
MS in Mathematics (Spring 2017)
Thesis: “Multi-rate Runge-Kutta-Chebyshev Time Stepping for Parabolic Equations on Adaptively Refined Meshes”
Zack Christiansen
MS in Mathematics (Fall 2023)
Project: “Cosine Similarity and Hierarchical Clustering”
Undergraduate Students
Aaron Solt
BS in Applied Mathematics (Fall 2015)
Project: Schemes for maintaining conservation in the parallel, adaptive ForestClaw code (Senior Project)
Anthony Jimenez
BS in Mathematics (Spring 2023)
Project: Automatic Differentiation using Dual Numbers (Senior Project)
Antone Chacartegui
BS in Applied Mathematics (Spring 2020 - present)
Project: Tensor analysis on the sphere (HERC Fellowship Recipient)
Brenton Peck
BS in Applied Mathematics (Spring 2018)
Project: Direct solvers for 3d adaptive octree meshes
Cody Casteneda
BS in Mechanical Engineering (Fall 2015)
Project: Work with Idaho National Laboratory to develop flooding models using GeoClaw and ForestClaw.
Hannah Spero
BS in Geosciences (Spring 2018 - present)
Thesis: “Validating GeoClaw for Simulating Teton Dam Failure by Comparison with HEC-RAS and Historical Observations”
Jordan Engstrom
BS in Geosciences (Fall 2017)
Thesis: “Petrogenesis and Thermodynamic Modeling of Magmas from the Los Nevados Cones: Villarrica Volcano, Southern Chile”
Scott Aiton
BS in Applied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science (Spring 2020)
Project: Developed a multigrid solver for elliptic problems on adaptively refined meshes.
Stephanie Potter
BS in Applied Mathematics (Fall 2015)
Project: Google Earth visualization of tsunami activity (BSU SRI Summer Fellowship recipient)
Tyler Qualls
BS in Applied Mathematics and Economics (Spring 2021)
Project: Modeling Fractal Urban Growth Through Reaction-Diffusion Systems (Senior project)