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/ [1]
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/ [2]
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/ [3]
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/ [4]
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

Department of Mathematics [4]