b'Mathematical SciencesTravis Ray Alvarez Falls Church, VAB.S., Brigham Young University; MA, Wake Forest University Dissertation: Concentration Theorems for Orthonormal Sequences in A Reproducing Kernel Hilbert SpaceAdviser: Dr. Mishko Mitkovski David Luke FrostJohnson City, TNB.S., B.S., East Tennessee State University; M.S., Clemson UniversityDissertation: Aspects of Stochastic Geometric Mechanics in Molecular BiophysicsAdvisers: Dr. Peter Kiessler and Dr. Keisha Cook Marvin Clayton JonesWilliamston, SC B.S., Winthrop University; M.A., Wake Forest University; M.S., University of South CarolinaDissertation: Zero-Knowledge Reductions and Confidential ArithmeticAdviser: Dr. Shuhong Gao Kanon Kamronnaher . Birmingham, BangladeshB.S., M.S., University of DhakaDissertation: Estimating Financial and Environmental Risk: Some New Developments and Comparison StudyAdvisers: Dr. Colin Gallagher and Dr. Whitney HuangTianqi Zhang .Linyi, ChinaB.S., China University of Mining &Technology(Beijing); M.S., University of Washington; M.S., Clemson UniversityDissertation: New Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Some Structured Problems in PhysicsAdviser: Dr. Fei Xue PhysicsAdam Thomas Hosier Media, PAB.S., B.S., Pennsylvania State UniversityDissertation: Nuclear Charge Radius Determination of Iridium Using EUV Spectroscopy of Highly Charged IonsAdviser: Dr. Endre Takacs Joshua William Kern .Seymour, MOB.S., Missouri State University; MNAS, Missouri State University Dissertation: An Investigation of the Accretion Processes in T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be Systems Using High Resolution Optical and Near-Infrared SpectroscopyAdviser: Dr. Sean Brittain Joshua has worked on 10 astrophysical publications regarding pulsating stars and protoplanetary disks, and plans to work as a data analyst near his family in southwest Missouri.27'