Faculty Appointments 2003-2004
1 September 2003
Tenured or Tenure Track Faculty
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz
Professor
Geometry and Topology
Formerly:
University of Wroclaw
http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~tjan/
Note: Prof. Januszkiewicz is appointed at the rank of professor and will start in
Autumn Quarter 2003
Caiheng Li
Associate Professor
Combinatorics
Formerly:
University of Western Australia
http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~li/
Note: Prof. Li is appointed at the rank of untenured associate professor. He will
start sometime in 2004; exact date still to be determined.
Vladimir Maz'ya
Professor
Analysis and partial differential equations
Formerly:
Linkoping University
http://www.mai.liu.se/~vlmaz/
Note: Prof. Maz'ya is our Selective Investment hire in Global Analysis. He has
accepted a half time professor appointment, beginning sometime in 2004; exact
date still to be determined. Following is a partial list of his honors:
- 2003 Verdaguer Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing
- 2001 Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1999 Humboldt Research Prize
- 1990 Doctor honoris causa, University of Rostock
- 1962 Prize of the Leningrad Mathematical Society
Tatyana Shaposhnikova
Professor
Analysis and partial differential equations
Formerly:
Linkoping University
http://www.mai.liu.se/~tasha/
Note: Prof. Shaposhnikova has accepted a half time professor appointment and will
start sometime in 2004; exact date still to be determined. She is co-recipient
of the 2003 Verdaguer Prize of the French Academy of Sciences, jointly with
Prof. Maz'ya, for a scholarly biography of Jacques Hadamard.
VIGRE Ross Assistant Professors
Ryan Berndt
Analysis - singular integrals
PhD 2003, University of Minesota
Mentor: Jeff McNeal
James Mailhot
Number theory - elliptic curves
PhD 2003, University of Washington
Mentor: Warren Sinnott
Steve Miller
Number Theory - L-functions
PhD 2002, Princeton University
(Was delayed 1 year in favor of temporary appointments
at Princeton and Courant)
Mentor: Wenzhi Luo
Laura Stevens
Algebra/combinatorics - generalized hypergeometric functions
PhD 2003, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(will be delayed 1 year in favor of a temporary appointment
at "La Sapienza", Rome)
Mentor: Steve Milne
Ronald Walker
Analysis - several complex variables
PhD 2003, University of Michigan
Mentor: Jeff McNeal
Zassenhaus Assistant Professors
Parthena Avramidou
Analysis - ergodic theory
PhD 2003, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mentor: Vitaly Bergelson
Bong-Sik Kim
Applied math - numerical methods for Navier-Stokes
PhD 2003, Arizona State University
Mentor: Greg Baker