Current and Former Ph.D. students of
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George E.
Andrews
Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
at the
Pennsylvania State University
Above photo by Leia Sills, May 5, 2002
Graduated Ph. D. Students:
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David J. DeVries,
Ph.D., Penn State, Aug. 1969. Thesis: "Lattices of Equivalence Relations
and Generalized Primes." Professor Emeritus of
Mathematics,
Georgia
College & State University.
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Edward Parberry, Ph.D., Penn State, Nov. 1969.
Thesis: "On a Partition Function Related to the Theorem of Schur."
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Ming-Po Chen, Ph.D., Penn State, May 1972.
Thesis: "Asymptotic Theorems in Partition Theory."
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Doris Jean Mitchell, Ph.D., Penn State, May 1972.
Thesis: "Generating Functions for Various Sets of Solid Partitions."
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Willard
Connor, Ph.D., Penn State, Aug. 1972.
Thesis: "Partition Theorems Related to Some Identities of Rogers and
Watson." Currently Associate Professor of
Mathematics, Robert Morris University
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Margret
F. Kothmann, Ph.D., Penn State, May 1977.
Thesis: "On the Ranks of Partitions." Currently on the faculty of the
Department
of Math, Stats and CS, University
of Wisconsin--Stout
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Kevin W. J. Kadell,
Ph.D., Penn State, Nov. 1979.
Thesis: "Generalizations of Basic Hypergeometric Series." Currently
Professor of Mathematics,
Arizona
State University
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Michael
D. Hirschhorn, Ph.D.,University of New South Wales, 1980.
Thesis: "Developments in the Theory of Partitions." Currently
Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics,
University
of New South Wales.
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Louis
W. Kolitsch, Ph.D., Penn State, May 1985.
Thesis: "Some Analytic and Arithemtic Properties of Generalized Frobenius
Partitions." Currently Professor of
Mathematics,
University
of Tennessee at Martin.
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Francis G. Garvan,
Ph.D., Penn State, Jan. 1986. Thesis: "Generalizations of
Dyson's Rank." Currently Professor of
Mathematics,
University
of Florida
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Nicolas Santa-Gadea, Ph.D., Penn State, Dec. 1990,
Thesis: "On the Rank and the Crank Moduli 8, 9, and 12"
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Scott P. Stevens
,
(co advisee of Torrence D. Parson and George Andrews),
Ph.D., Penn State, Dec. 1988,
Thesis: "Group-Action Graphs and Ramsey Graph Theory: Investigating
the Ramsey Numbers R(K1,n,Kk,m) and
R(K1,n,Bk,m)." Professor of Computer Information
Systems and Management Science, James Madison University.
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José Plínio
de Oliviera Santos, Ph.D., Penn State, 1991.
Thesis: "Computer Algebra and Identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan Type."
Depto. de Matemática
Aplicada, Universidade Estadual
de Campinas.
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Kuo-Jye Chen
, Ph.D., Penn State, Aug. 1992.
Thesis: "An Asymptotic Formula in Partition Theory."
Currently
at the Department of Mathematics,
National Changhua University of
Education, Taiwan.
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Garth Payne, Ph.D., Penn State, Dec. 1997.
Thesis: "Multivariate Hypergeometric Terms."
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Jeremy Lovejoy,
(co-advisee of Ken Ono and
George Andrews) Ph.D., Penn State, May 2000.
Thesis: "Arithmetic of Partition Functions."
CR2, CNRS, LIAFA Université Paris VII
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Andrew V. Sills,
Ph.D., (co-advisee of George Andrews and Avinash Sathaye)
University of Kentucky,
May 2002.
Thesis: "Computer Assisted Explorations of Rogers-Ramanujan Type
Identities." Associate Professor of
Mathematics, Georgia Southern University.
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Augustine Munagi
, Ph.D., University of Lagos (Nigeria), 2005. Thesis:
"Restricted Partition Formulas, q-Partial Fractions
and the Rademacher Conjecture."
Currently Associate Professor of Mathematics
School of Mathematics,
University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
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William Keith,
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
University, May 2007. Thesis title: "Rank of partitions and degree symbols."
Senior Lecturer, Drexel University
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Michael J. Rowell, (co-advisee of Ae Ja Yee and George Andrews)
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, May 2007. Thesis title: "The Bailey
transform and conjugate Bailey pairs."
Assistant Professor, Pacific University.
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Kagan Kursungoz, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, May 2009.
Thesis title: "Parity considerations in Andrews-Gordon identities and the K-marked Durfee symbols"
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Brandt Kronholm
, (co-advisee of George Andrews and Antun Milas) Ph.D.,
SUNY Albany, May 2010. Thesis title: "On
Congruence Properties of p(n,m)."
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Heiko Todt, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2011.
Thesis title: "Asymptotics of Partition Functions."
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Shishuo Fu, (co-advisee of George Andrews and Ae Ja Yee)
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2011.
Thesis title: "Bijective methods and combinatorial studies of problems in partition theory and related areas."
Current PhD students:
Photo by James Sellers, taken on December 7, 2008 at the conclusion of
George Andrews' 70th birthday conference
(l-r) Shinshuo, Heiko, William, Kagan, Louis, George, Mike H., Brandt,
Mike R., Frank, Drew, Plinio. Jeremy is visible only from the nose up
behind George.
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