You are invited to attend and participate in the oral doctoral examination of Erin Tripp, College of Arts and Sciences candidate for the Ph.D. degree, which will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 10 a.m. in 122 Carnegie Hall.

Tripp’s advisor is Professor Lixin Shen. The dissertation examining committee will be composed of Professors Uday Banerjee, Minghao Rostami, Leonid Kovalev and Andrew Vogel. Professor Biao Chen will serve as chair of the defense. The title of the candidate’s dissertation is: “Structured Sparsity Promoting Functions: Theory and Applications.”