Derrick Nowak dissertation defense
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Congratulations to Dr. Derrick Nowak! Derrick successfully defended his dissertation “Local smoothing of the Schrödinger equation on a multi-warped product with degenerate trapping on Thursday, May 11. Congratulations also goes to Hans Christianson, who was Derrick’s thesis advisor.