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Professor Melvin Hochster, Chair
Professor Alejandro Uribe, Associate Chair for Graduate Students
Professor Curtis E. Huntington, Associate Chair for Education
Professor Stephen DeBacker, Director of Undergraduate Programs
Irina M. Arakelian, Director of the Mathematics Laboratory
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Jinho Baik, Probability Theory
David E. Barrett, Complex Analysis
Alexander Barvinok, Combinatorics, Applied Mathematics
Hyman Bass (Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education; Roger C. Lyndon Collegiate Professor of Mathematics), Algebraic Geometry
Andreas Blass, Combinatorics, Logic and Foundations
Anthony Bloch (Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor of Mathematics), Differential Equations
Liliana Borcea, inverse problems and mathematical imaging
Daniel M. Burns, Jr., Complex Analysis, Algebraic and Differential Geometry
Richard Canary, Topology
Joseph G. Conlon, Mathematical Physics
Stephen DeBacker (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Representation Theory
Hendrikus Derksen, Algebra
Charles Doering, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics
Selim Esedoglu, Applied Mathematics
Sergey Fomin (Robert M Thrall Collegiate Professor of Mathematics), Algebraic Geometry, theoretical computer science
William Fulton (M.S. Keeler II Professor of Mathematics), Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry
Krishnakumar R. Garikipati, nonlinear mechanics, materials physics, applied mathematics and numerical methods; growth and remodelling of biological tissue, cell adhesion and cell mechanics; stress-defect interactions and transport in semiconductor/microelectronic materials; problems in physics and mechanics that are described by high-order pdes, such as the Cahn-Hilliard Equation or those of gradient plasticity
Anna Gilbert, Analysis
Robert L. Griess (Richard D. Brauer Collegiate Professor of Mathematics), Group/Lie Theory, Algebra
Philip J. Hanlon (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Donald J. Lewis Collegiate Professor of Mathematics), Combinatorics
Mel Hochster (Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics), Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry
Curtis E. Huntington, Actuarial and Financial Mathematics
Trachette Jackson, Mathematical Biology
Lizhen Ji, Analysis/Functional Analysis
Mattias Jonsson, Complex Analysis
Smadar Karni, Numerical Analysis
Robert Krasny (Arthur F Thurnau Professor), Numerical Analysis
Igor Kriz, Topology
Jeffrey Lagarias, Topology Geometry
Robert Lazarsfeld (Raymond L Wilder Collegiate Professor of Mathematics), Algebraic Geometry
Robert Megginson (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Analysis/Functional Analysis
Peter Miller, Applied Mathematics
Hugh L. Montgomery, Number Theory
Mircea Mustata, Algebraic Geometry
Gopal Prasad (Raoul Bott Collegiate Professor of Mathematics), Lie/Representation Theory
Jeffrey B. Rauch, Differential Equations
Mark Rudelson, Analysis
Yojngbin Ruan, Symplectic Geometry
John Schotland, Applied Mathematics
G. Peter Scott, Topology
Carl P. Simon, Differential Equations
Peter Smereka, Differential Equations
Karen E. Smith (M.S. Keeler II Professor of Mathematics), Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry
Joel A. Smoller (Lamberto Cesari Collegiate Professor of Mathematics), Differential Equations
Ralf J. Spatzier, Differential Geometry
John R. Stembridge, Combinatorics
Berit Stensnes, Complex Analysis
Martin Strauss, Fundamental Algorithms, Comp Security
Alejandro Uribe-Ahumada, Geometric Analysis , Mathematical Physics
Roman Vershynin, Geometric functional analysis
Divakar Viswanath, Numerical Analysis
David J. Winter, Algebra/Group Theory, Lie Theory
Sijue Wu (Robert W. and Lynn H. Browne Professor of Science), PDE
Virginia Young (Cecil J. and Ethel M. Nesbitt Professor of Actuarial Mathematics), Actuarial and Financial Mathematics
Michael Zieve, Algebra/Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory
Associate Professors
Silas D. Alben, problems from biology (especially biomechanics) and engineering which can be studied with the tools of applied mathematics and continuum mechanics; modeling, theoretical analysis and development of numerical methods, with the general goal of obtaining new physical insight into these problems
Erhan Bayraktar (Susan Meredith Smith Professor of Actuarial Sciences), Actuarial and Financial Mathematics
Victoria Booth, Mathematical Biology
Volker Elling, Applied Mathematics and Differential Equations
Daniel Forger, Mathematical Biology
Aaron A. King, Mathematical Biology
Thomas Lam, Algebraic Combinatorics
Kristen Moore, Actuarial and Financial Mathematics
Kartik Prasanna, Number Theory
David Speyer, Algebra/Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics
Assistant Professors
Hanna Bennett, Algebra/Group Theory
Bhargav Bhatt, Algebra/Algebraic Geometry
Lydia Bieri, Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Differential Equations, Differential Geometry
Henry Boateng, Applied Mathematics
Patrick Boland, Geometry and Topology
Khalid Bov-Rabec, Geometry and Topology
Dmitriy Boyarchenko, Algrebra/Algebraic Geometry
Jeffrey Brown, Geometry and Topology
Jose Alcala Burgos, Financial and Actuarial
Xiaojun Chen, Topology/Geometry
Trevor Clark, Geometry and Topology
Matthew DeLand, Algebra/Algebraic Geometry
Alexander Duncan, Algebraic Geometry
Justin Dunmyre, Applied Mathematics
Thomas Emmerling, Financial and Actuarial
Avash Fahim, Applied Mathematics, Financial and Actuarial
Hala Al Hajjshahadeh, Applied Mathematics, Differential Equations
Brett Hemenway, Computer Science
Lunmei Huang, Applied Mathematics
Robert Jenkins, Applied Mathematics
Jesse Kass, Algebraic Geometry
Angela Kubena, Algebraic/Group Theory, Geometry and Topology
Karl Liechty, Analysis
Ricky Liu, Algebraic Geometry
Ruochan Liu, Number theory
Larsen Louder, Geometry and Topology
Evelyn Lunasin, Applied Mathematics, Differential Equations
Christopher Lyons, Algebra/Algebraic Geometry, Number theory
Manabu Machida, Applied Mathematics
Todor Milanov, Geometry and Topology
Yusuf Mustopa, Algebraic Geometry
Danny Neftin, Number Theory
Mark Radorevich, Geometry and Topology
Shifra Reif, Algebraic Geometry
Matthew Satriano, Algebra/Algebraic Geometry
Matthew Stover, Geometry and Topology
Svetlana Tlupova, Applied Mathematics
Dong Wang, Analysis
Zuoqin Wany, Analysis, Differential Equations
Weiyi Zhang, Geometry and Topology
T.H. Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professors
Jonah Blasiak, Combinatorics
Brian Lehmann, Algebra/Algebraic Geometry
Ricky Ini Lui, Combinatorics
Seth Marvel, Applied Mathematics, Differential Equations
Karola Maszaros, Combinatorics
Benson Muite, Applied Mathematics, Differential Equations
Suho Oh, Combinatorics
Yaniv Plan, Applied Mathematics
Cynthia Vinzant, convex algebraic geometry and applications of real algebraic geometry and tropical geometry to convex optimization, in particular semidefinite programming
Lecturers
Irina M. Arakelian, Mathematics Education
Fernando Carreon, Differential Equations
Brad Hinesman, Actuarial and Financial
David Kausch, Actuarial and Financial
Paul Kessenich, Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
Gavin LaRose, Mathematics Education
Joseph Marker, Actuarial Mathematics
David Panjer, Actuarial and Financial
Professors Emeriti
Morton Brown (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Topology
Douglas Dickson
Peter L. Duren, Analysis/Functional Analysis
Paul Federbush, Mathematical Physics
Frederick W. Gehring, Geometric Function Theory, Quasiconformal Mappings, Mobius Groups
Jack L. Goldberg, Special Functions, Linear Algebra
Peter G. Hinman, Logic and Foundations
James M. Kister, Geometric Topology, Transformation Groups
Eugene F. Krause, Mathematics Education
Chung Nim Lee,
Donald J. Lewis, Diophantine Equations, Algebraic Numbers and Function Fields
James S. Milne, Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
M.S. Ramanujan, Functional Analysis, Nuclear Spaces
Frank A. Raymond, Topology, Transformation Groups
Art J. Schwartz, Analysis, Computer Algebra
Chung-Tuo Shih, Probability Theory
Pat Shure, Mathematics Education
B. Alan Taylor, Complex Analysis
Arthur G. Wasserman, Differential Equations
Howard Young, Employee Benefits, Actuarial Science