Doctoral candidate, Timothy McCoy, will defend his dissertation, Wednesday, July 9, 2014, at 11:00 AM in 154 Hurley Hall.
The beginning portion is open to the public.
Title: Mesh-Expanding Homotopies for Boundary Value Problems and Numerical Irreducible Decomposition Over a Number Field
Adviser: Andrew Sommese; Examination Committee: Jonathan Hauenstein, Bei Hu and Yongtao Zhang