President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 1999 - 2000

Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science

Dorit Aharanov

Education: B.S. Hebrew University, Mathematics and Physics; Ph.D. Hebrew University, Computer Science and Physics

Dissertation: Noisy Quantum Computations

Thesis Advisor: Avi Wigderson, Professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University

Research Topic: Quantum Computation

Mentor: Umesh Vazirani, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Stephen Klisch

Education: B.S. University of Virginia, Aerospace Engineering; M.S. University of Virginia, Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation: A Geometric Treatment of Internally Constrained Mixtures of Elastic Materials With Application to Experiments With Annulus Fibrosus.

Thesis Advisor: Jeffrey C. Lotz, Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco

Research Topic: The Development of a Theoretical Growth Mixture Model for Soft Tissues With Application to Experimental Data Gathered for the Femoral Head Articular Cartilage of Growing Mice

Mentor: Anne Hoger, Professor of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University

Rosa C. Orellana

Education: B.S. California State University, Los Angeles, Mathematics; M.A. University of California, San Diego, Mathematics; Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, Mathematics

Dissertation: The Hecke Algebra of Type B at Roots of Unity, Markov Traces and Subfactors

Thesis Advisor: Hans Wenzl, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

Research Topic: Finite Dimensional Representations of the Braid Group of the Type B

Mentor: Mark Haiman, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College

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