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Mathematics and Statistics | Courses | Faculty
George S. Avrunin, Professor and Head of Department, B.S., Michigan, 1972; M.A., 1974; Ph.D., 1976.
Robert A. Gardner, Professor and Associate Head of Department, A.B., Michigan, 1973; Ph.D., 1978.
John P. Buonaccorsi, Professor, B.A., Providence College, 1975; M.S., Colorado State, 1977; Ph.D., 1982.
Tom C. Braden, Associate Professor, B.A., Chicago, 1990; Part III of Math. Tripos, Cambridge University, 1991; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995.
Eduardo H. Cattani, Professor, Lienciado en Matematicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1967; Ph.D., Washington, 1972.
Qian-Yong Chen, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 1996; M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999; Ph.D., Brown, 2004.
Weimin Chen, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Michigan State, 1998.
Erin M. Conlon, Associate Professor, B.S., Wisconsin, 1985; M.S., Minnesota, 1996; Ph.D., 1999.
Thurlow A. Cook, Professor, B.A., Rochester, 1961; M.A., Buffalo, 1963; Ph.D., Florida State, 1967.
Murray Eisenberg, Professor, A.B., Pennsylvania, 1960; M.A., 1962; Ph.D., Wesleyan, 1965.
Richard S. Ellis, Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1969; M.S., New York, 1971; Ph.D., 1972.
Paul Gunnels, Associate Professor, B.S., Stanford, 1989; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994.
Paul Hacking, Assistant Professor, B.S., Cambridge, England, 1996; M.S., 1997; Ph.D., 2001.
Farshid Hajir, Associate Professor, B.A., Princeton, 1988; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.
Hui-Kuang Hsieh, Professor, B.S., Fu-Jen Catholic University, 1967; M.S., National Taiwan University, 1970; M.A., Columbia, 1972; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1976.
Hans Johnston, Assistant Professor, B.A., Temple, 1989; M.A., Pittsburgh, 1991; Ph.D., Temple, 1999.
Markos Katsoulakis, Professor, B.A., National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece, 1987; Ph.D., Brown, 1993.
Panayotis Kevrekidis, Associate Professor, Diploma in Physics, University of Athens, 1996; M.S., Rutgers, 1998; M.Phil., 2000; Ph.D., 2000.
Daeyong Kim, Assistant Professor, B.S., Korea, 2000; M.S., 2002; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 2008.
Robert B. Kusner, Professor, B.A., Haverford, 1981; C.Phil., California at Berkeley, 1984; Ph.D., 1987.
Anna Liu, Assistant Professor, B.S., Peking, China, 1997; M.S., Institute of Systems Science, China, 2000; Ph.D., California at Santa Barbara, 2004.
Eyal Markman, Associate Professor, B.S., Bar Ilan University, 1987; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1992.
William H. Meeks III, George D. Birkhoff Professor of Mathematics, B.A., California, 1971; M.A., 1974; Ph.D., 1975.
Ivan Mirkovic, Professor, B.S., University of Zagreb, 1977; M.S., 1981; Ph.D., Utah, 1986.
Andrea Nahmod, Professor, Licenciada de Matématica, University of Buenos Aires, 1985; Ph.D., Yale, 1991.
Arline Norkin, Lecturer, B.S., Brooklyn College, 1964; M.S., Michigan State, 1966.
Peter Norman, Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1965; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1971.
Alexei Oblomkov, Assistant Professor, B.S., Moscow State, 1998; M.S., Independent University of Moscow, 2001; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.
Franz Pedit, Professor, B.Sc., University of Innsbruck, Austria, 1980; M.Sc., 1983; Ph.D., 1985.
Luc Rey-Bellet, Associate Professor, Dipl. Phys., ETH Zurich, 1994; Ph.D., Geneva, Switzerland, 1998.
Arunas Rudvalis, Associate Professor, B.S., Harvey Mudd, 1965; M.A., Dartmouth, 1967; Ph.D., 1969.
Eric Sommers, Associate Professor, B.S., Brown, 1993; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997.
John Staudenmayer, Associate Professor, B.A., Williams, 1992; M.S., Cornell, 1999; Ph.D., 2000.
Michael Sullivan, Associate Professor, B.A., Princeton, 1994; Ph.D., Stanford, 1999.
Jenia Tevelev, Assistant Professor, B.S., Moscow State, Russia, 1995; Ph.D., 1999.
Bruce Turkington, Professor, B.S., Victoria, 1974; M.S., Stanford, 1976; Ph.D., 1978.
Wei-Min Wang, Assistant Professor, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985; Ph.D., Princeton, 1992.
Tom Weston, Associate Professor, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996; M.A., Harvard, 1997; Ph.D., 2000.
Nathaniel Whitaker, Professor, B.A., Hampton Institute, 1974; M.S., Cincinnati, 1981; Ph.D., California, 1987.
Siman Wong, Associate Professor, B.S., British Columbia, Canada, 1990; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995.
Robin Young, Professor, B.S., University of Witwatersrand, 1984; B.Sc., Hons., 1985; Ph.D., California at Davis, 1991.
HongKun Zhang, Assistant Professor, B.S., Inner Mongolia, 1993; M.S., 1998; M.S., Alabama at Birmingham, 2002; Ph.D., 2005.