Faculty Appointments 2004-2005
20 July 2004
Tenured or Tenure Track Faculty
James Cogdell
Professor
Number Theory
Formerly:
Oklahoma State University
http://www.math.okstate.edu/~cogdell/
Note: Prof. Cogdell is our Selective Investment hire in Number Theory.
Bo Guan
Associate Professor
Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Analysis
Formerly:
University of Tennessee
http://www.math.utk.edu/~guan/
Note: Professor Guan is a leading expert in geometric partial differential equations.
Ian Leary
Associate Professor
Topology
Formerly:
University of Southhampton
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/staff/Leary/
Note: Professor Leary is an expert researcher at the interface of topology, geometry and
algebra.
Linda Chen
Assistant Professor
Algebraic Geometry
Formerly:
Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~lchen/
Kenneth Koenig
Assistant Professor
Analysis - Several Complex Variables
Formerly:
University of Chicago
VIGRE Ross Assistant Professors
Angela Barnhill
Topology
PhD 2004, University of Chicago
Mentor: Mike Davis
Heather Lehr
Applied Mathematics
PhD 2004, University of Texas at Austin
Mentor: Saleh Tanveer
Erik Van Erp
Functional Analysis
PhD 2004, Pennsylvania State University
Mentor: Henri Moscovici
Roger Vogeler
Topology
PhD 2004, Florida State University
Mentor: Tadeusz Januszkiewicz
Laura Stevens
Algebra/combinatorics - generalized hypergeometric functions
PhD 2003, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(Joining us also after a delay to spend a year at La Sapienza, Rome.)
Mentor: Steve Milne
Zassenhaus Assistant Professors
Madhi Asgari
Number Theory
PhD 2000, Purdue University
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~asgari/
Mentor: Steve Rallis
Qi Chen
Topology
PhD 2004, SUNY Buffalo
Mentor: Thomas Kerler
Zixia Song
Combinatorics
PhD 2004, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mentor: Neil Robertson
Radu Stancu
Representation Theory
PhD 2002, University of Lausanne
Mentor: Markus Linckelmann
Visiting Assistant Professors
Luis Finotti
Number Theory
PhD 2001, University of Texas, Austin
http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~finotti/
Mentor: Warren Sinnott