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Faculty

The Faculty


Research Groups


Algebra

Matthew Gould

Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State. Universal Algebra, Semigroup Theory, Lattice Theory

Ralph McKenzie

Distinguished Professor of Mathematics; Ph.D., Colorado. Universal Algebra.

Charles K. Megibben

Professor; Ph.D., Auburn. Abelian Groups, Set-theoretical Algebra, Theory of Rings

Steven T. Tschantz

Associate Professor; Ph.D., California, Berkeley. Geometric Group Theory

Constantine Tsinakis

Professor and Chairman; Ph.D., California, Berkeley. Lattice Theory, Universal Algebra, Theoretical Computer Science

Han Zhang

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Tulane. Theoretical Computer Science, Topological Algebra


Analysis

Richard F. Arenstorf

Professor; Ph.D., Mainz, Germany. Analytic Number Theory, Automorphic Functions, Zetafunctions, Celestial Mechanics, Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems

Richard R. Goldberg

Professor; Ph.D., Harvard. Harmonic Analysis, Integral Transforms

John A. Kelingos

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan. Boundary Behavior of Analytic and Harmonic Functions with Schwartz and Beurling Distributional Boundary Values

Eric Schechter

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Chicago. Nonlinear Initial Value Problems, Functional Analysis, Models of Set Theory

Quidong Wang

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cinncinnati. Dynamical Systems, Celestial Mechanics, Hamiltonian Systems

Daoxing Xia

Professor; Ph.D., Jijian, China. Operator Theory and its Application


Applied Analysis and Mathematical Biology

John F. Ahner

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Delaware. Integral Equation Methods in Scattering and Potential Theory; Fractional Calculus and Mixed Boundary Value Problems; Elasticity Theory

John Cook

Assistant Professor; PhD., Universtiy of Texas; Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis

Philip S. Crooke

Professor; Ph.D., Cornell. Applied Mathematics: Mathematical Modelling, Differential Equations, Mathematical Modelling in Medicine

Douglas P. Hardin

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. Fractal Geometry, Mathematical Biology

Mary Ann Horn

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Virginia. Partial Differential Equations, Control Theory, Nonlinear Analysis

Charles Kahane

Professor; Ph.D., New York. Integral Equations, Asymptotic Behavior of Reaction Diffusion Systems

Gieri Simonett

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Zurich, Switzerland. Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, Control Theory, Free Boundary Problems

Glenn F. Webb

Professor; Ph.D., Emory. Mathematical Biology, Population Dynamics, Models of Tumor Growth, Differential Equations


Computational Mathematics

Douglas P. Hardin

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. Wavelet Theory, Image Processing

Marian Neamtu

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Twente, The Netherlands. Approximation Theory

Larry L. Schumaker

Stevenson Professor of Mathematics; Ph.D., Stanford. Approximation Theory, Spline Theory, Computer Aided Design


Geometry and Topology

C. Bruce Hughes

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Kentucky. Geometric and Algebraic Topology, Manifold Theory, Controlled Topology, Stratified Spaces

Michael L. Mihalik

Associate Professor; Ph.D., SUNY, Binghamton. Algebraic Topology, Low Dimensional Topology, Geometric Group Theory

Pedro Ontaneda

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., SUNY, Stony Brook. Differential Geometry.

Efstratios Prassidis

Assistant Professor; Notre Dame. High Dimensional Topology

John G. Ratcliffe

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan. Combinatorial Group Theory, 3-Dimensional Manifolds, Hyperbolic Geometry

Steven T. Tschantz

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California, Berkeley. Geometric Group Theory


Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Mark N. Ellingham

Associate Professor; Ph.D., Waterloo, Canada. Graph Theory, including reconstruction problems, coloring problems and existence problems for paths and cycles

Michael D. Plummer

Professor; Ph.D., Michigan. Graph Theory and Combinatorics

Xiaoya Zha

Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State. Graph Theory and Combinatorics


Other Faculty

Richard J. Larsen

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies; Ph.D., Rutgers. Probability and Statistics

Horace E. Williams

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Mathematics Program for Engineers; Ph.D., George Peabody College. Elementary Mathematics Education