Last Update: May 18, 2011.

Ph.D. Students

• Sheldon Parnes, Temple, 1993 [Mentor Graphics, Colorado]
• Ethan Lewis, Penn, 1994 [IBM, Israel]
• Craig Orr, Temple, 1994 [NSA]
• John Majewicz, Temple, 1997 [Comm. College of Phila. 1997-2009; Florida Keys Community College, 2009-] (his old page )
• John Noonan, Temple, 1997 [Mt. Vernon Nazarene College, OH]
• Tewodros Amdeberhan, Temple, 1997 [deVry Inst. of Tech., NJ (1997-2005), DIMACS (2001-), Tulane (2005-) , MIT(visiting, 2007-2008) [Tewodros's page at MIT]
• Melkamu Zeleke, Temple, 1998 [William Patterson Univ., Wayne, NJ].
• Aaron Robertson, Temple, 1999 [Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY].
• Akalu Tefara, Temple, 2000 [Grand Valley State Univ., MI (2000-)]. Visited MIT (2006-2007). (his old page)
• Anne Edlin, Temple, 2000 [Lasalle] (ancient page)
• Xinyu Sun, Temple, [defended his thesis in Spring 2004. Texas A&M (2004-2007), Tulane(2007-2009)]
• Xiangdong Wen, Temple, 2005 [Wolfram Research] (ancient page)
• Vince Vatter , Rutgers, [defended his thesis on Nov. 17, 2005. St. Andrews (2005-2007) ;Awarded an NSF posdoc at MIT, but declined, to be a quantitative analyst at D.E. Shaw (2007-2007), only to realize that greedy math is not for him. Vince then became John Wesley Young research instructor at Darthmouth (2008-2010). In the Spring of 2010, Vince has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Florida, (2010-). [Thanks to Vince, I now have an academic grandson, Robert Brignall]
• Moa Apagodu, Rutgers, 2006 [Virginia Commonwealth University]
• Lara Pudwell , Rutgers [defended her thesis on April 7, 2008. Valparaiso Univ., (Indiana), tenure-track Asst. Prof. (Aug. 2008-) ]
• Thotsaporn Aek Thanatipanonda, Rutgers, [defended his thesis on Aug. 25, 2008. Visiting Asst. Prof. at Dickinson College (2008-2009), free-lance mathematician and Chess player in Thailand (2009-2010), Postdoctoral Fellow at RISC-Linz (2010-2011) ].
• Arvind Ayyer , Rutgers (Physics, joint with Joel Lebowtiz) [defended his thesis on Sept. 25, 2008. Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Physique Théorique, Saclay, France (2008-2010), Krener Asst. Prof., UC Davis(2010-2013) ].
• Eric Rowland , Rutgers [defended his thesis on April 2, 2009. VIGRE Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, (2009-2011); Postdoctoral position, UQAM (2011-)].
• Paul Raff (old page) Rutgers [defended (here are the slides) his thesis on Aug. 14, 2009. Research Fellow, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers (2009-2010), Member of R&D team, amazon.com (in Seattle) (2010-)]
• Emilie Hogan, Rutgers [defended (here is the movie: part 1, part 2, and here are the slides) her thesis on April 7, 2011. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Aug. 2011-]
• Andrew Baxter, Rutgers [defended (here is the novie: part 1, part 2) his thesis on April 14, 2011. Instructor of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, Aug. 2011-]

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• Brian Nakamura, Rutgers [current student].

Masters Students

• David John Wilson, Rutgers [defended (here is the movie: part 1, part 2] his master's thesis, (an exposition of the future!) on April 21, 2011. PhD student working with James Davenport, University of Bath, UK, 2011-] [Read also report].)