Harmonic Analysis PhD Graduates

Harmonic Analysis PhD Graduates

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Name	Advisor and Year	Dissertation and Career Notes
Lawrence T. Ramsey	McGehee, 1975	Fourier-Stieltjes transforms of measures with a certain continuity property, J. Functional Analysis 25 (1977), no. 3, 306--316. Professor, University of Hawaii.
Brent Pendleton Smith	McGehee, 1977	Proved Littlewood's Conjecture: Annals of Mathematics (2) 113 (1981), no. 3, 613--618, jointly with McGehee and Pigno. Sloan Fellow. Tenure track at California Institute of Technology. Professor, Kansas State University.
David R. Fischer	Richardson, 1978	The Gaussian random walk on the Heisenberg group. Illinois J. Math. 24 (1980), no. 2, 264--286. Research Post-doc at University of Utah. Director of Technology, Alliant Techsystems, Inc.

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Name	Advisor and Year	Dissertation and Career Notes
David L. Ritter	McGehee, 1981	Some Singular Measures on the Circle which Improve L^p Spaces, Colloquium Mathematicum, Vol. LII (1987), pp. 133- 144. Tenured at Florida International University.
Edgar Reyes	Fabec, 1988	On representations of semi-direct product groups. Southeast Asian Bull. Math., 14, No. 1 (1990), 45-48. Professor at Southeast Louisiana University.

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Name	Advisor and Year	Dissertation and Career Notes
Carolyn B. Pfeffer Johnston	Richardson, 1990	Zeroes of primary summand functions on compact solvmanifolds. J. Funct. Anal. 108 (1992), no. 1, 161--186. Hill Assistant Professor, Rutgers University. Tenured Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University. Senior Scientist, Vexcel Corp., Boulder.
J. Donald Moss, Jr.	Richardson, 1991	A Paley-Wiener theorem for selected nilpotent Lie groups. J. Funct. Anal. 114 (1993), no. 2, 395--411. Assistant Professor, Drury College, Springfield, MO.
Robert Park	Richardson, 1994	A Paley-Wiener theorem for all two- and three-step nilpotent Lie groups. J. Funct. Anal. 133 (1995), no. 2, 277--300. Tenured Associate Professor, Southern University. Senior Engineer, Raytheon Corp., Los Angeles.
Colathur R. Vijayan	Richardson, 1995	Non-homeomorphic nilmanifolds with identical unitary spectrum. J. Funct. Anal. 144 (1997), no. 2, 424--447. State Technical Institute, Memphis, Tennessee. FedEx Corporate Services. Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA.
Darwyn Cook	Richardson, 1996	Muntz-Szasz theorems for nilpotent Lie groups. J. Funct. Anal. 157 (1998), no. 2, 394--412. Tenured Associate Professor, Alfred University, New York.
Yongdo Lim	Lawson, 1996	Won Prize from the Korean Mathematics Society for the best paper of the year by a Korean mathematician: Birkhoff formula for conformal compressions of symmetric cones, which appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics, Vol 125 (2003),167-182. Assistant Professor, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea.

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Name	Advisor and Year	Dissertation and Career Notes
Chin-Te Chu	Richardson, 2000	A Canonical Description of Plancherel Measure for Two-Step Free Nilpotent Lie Groups. Asst. Prof., Wenzao University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
David Slay	Fabec, 2002	Group Automorphisms and the Decomposition of Plancherel Measures. Asst. Prof., McNeese State University, LA.
Troels Johansen	Olafsson, 2004	Orbit Structure on the Silov Boundary of a Tube Domain and the Plancherel Decomposition of a Causally Compact Symmetric Space, with Emphasis on the Rank One Case. HARP-sponsored Research Post-Doc in harmonic analysis at Universität Paderborn (Germany), with a 1-term visit at the University of Iowa for spring, 2005.
Michael Aristidou	Olafsson, 2005	Laguerre Functions Associated to Euclidean Jordan Algebras Bull. Sci. Math. 130 (2006), no. 3, 246--263. Assistant Professor, Digipen Institute of Technology, Redmond, Washington.
Mihaela Dobrescu	Olafsson, 2005	Wavelet Sets with and without Groups and Multiresolution Analysis tenure track at Christopher Newport University, Virginia.

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