The following students have defended their PhD dissertations in Spring 2009

1. Lyrial Chism, On Independence Polynomials and Independence Equivalence in Graphs
Advisor: Dr. William Staton

2. Lanzhen Song, Independence Ploynomials of k-Tree Related and Well-covered Graphs
Advisor: Dr. William Staton

3. Michelle Cradock, Reflexivity and the Grothendieck Property for Positive Tensor Products of Banach Lattices
Advisor: Dr. Qingying Bu

4. Loni Delaplane, Connectivity and Characteristic Polynomials of Binary Matroids
Advisor: Dr. Haidong Wu

The following students have defended their MS theses in Spring 2009

1. John Estes, Harmonic Graphs, A Correlation Between Music Theory and Combinatorial Graphs
Advisor: Dr. William Staton

2. Sam Watson, Powers of algebraic disjointness preserving operators
Advisor: Dr. Gerard Buskes

The following students have defended their mathematics senior theses in Spring 2009

1. Cameron Byrum, Graph Theoretical Problems Computable by Networks of Finite Automata
Advisor: Dr. Laura Sheppardson

2. Anne Nicholas, Hadwiger's Conjecture Applied to Mycieiski and Kneser Graphs
Advisor: Dr. Laura Sheppardson