Faculty

Professors

Samuel J. Blank, PhD, Brandeis University, 1967 Research Interests: Differential topology

Bohumil Cenkl, DSc, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1968 Research Interests: Differential geometry, algebraic topology

Stanley J. Eigen (Undergraduate Director), PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1982 Research Interests: Ergodic theory, measure theory, number theory, dynamical systems

Terence Gaffney, PhD, Brandeis University, 1976 Research Interests: Singularities of mappings and its application to algebraic and differential geometry

Maurice E. Gilmore, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1967 Research Interests: Geometric topology, secondary education

Arshag Hajian, PhD, Yale University, 1957 Research Interests: Ergodic theory, analysis

Anthony Iarrobino, PhD, MIT, 1970 Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, commutative rings and their deformations, singularities of maps, families of points on a variety, Gorenstein algebras

Christopher King (Graduate Director), PhD, Harvard University, 1984 Research Interests: Mathematical physics

V. Lakshmibai, PhD, Tata Institute, India, 1976 Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, algebraic groups, representation theory

Marc N. Levine, PhD, Brandeis University, 1979 Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, algebraic K-theory, motives, motivic cohomology

Mikhail B. Malioutov, DSc, Moscow State University, Russia, 1983 Research Interests: Statistics, probability, experimental design, information theory

David B. Massey, PhD, Duke University, 1986 Research Interests: Complex analytic singularities, stratified spaces

Robert C. McOwen (Chairman), PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1978 Research Interests: Partial differential equations with applications to problems in differential geometry

Richard D. Porter, PhD, Yale University, 1971 Research Interests: Algebraic and differential topology, Massey products, deRham theory with applications to the fundamental group and group cohomology

Egon Schulte, PhD, University of Dortmund, Germany, 1980 Research Interests: Discrete geomtery, combinatorics, group theory

Jayant M. Shah, PhD, MIT, 1974 Research Interests: Computer vision

Mikhail A. Shubin (Matthews Distinguished Professor), PhD, Moscow State University, Russia, 1969 Research Interests: Partial differential equations, geometric analysis, spectral theory, mathematical physics

Alexandru I. Suciu, PhD, Columbia University, 1984 Research Interests: Algebraic topology, geometric topology

Chuu-Lian Terng, PhD, Brandeis University, 1976 Research Interests: Differential geometry, Lie groups, integrable systems

Jerzy Weyman, PhD, Brandeis University, 1980 Research Interests: Commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, representation theory

Andrei Zelevinsky, PhD, Moscow State University, Russia, 1978 Research Interests: Representation theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, special functions

Associate Professors

Mark Bridger, PhD, Brandeis University, 1967 Research Interests: Mathematics education, computer assisted instruction, numerical and constructive algebra, commutative algebra

Robert W. Case, PhD, Yeshiva University, 1966 Research Interests: Mathematical logic, Socratic teaching of mathematics

Adam Ding, PhD, Cornell University 1996 Research Interests: Artificial neural networks, high-dimensional empirical linear prediction (HELP), biostatistics, prediction and confidence intervals

John N. Frampton, PhD, Yale University, 1965 Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, natural language

Eugene H. Gover, PhD, Brandeis University, 1970 Research Interests: Commutative algebra, homology of local rings

Samuel Gutmann, PhD, MIT, 1977 Research Interests: Quantum computing, statistical decision theory, probability, syntax

Solomon M. Jekel, PhD, Dartmouth College, 1974 Research Interests: Classifying spaces, homeomorphism groups, homology of groups, foliations

Donald R. King (Vice Chairman), PhD, MIT, 1979 Research Interests: Lie groups, Lie algebras, Weyl groups, Lie algebra cohomology, noncommutative ring theory

Nishan Krikorian, PhD, Cornell University, 1969 Research Interests: Low-dimensional dynamical systems, numerical analysis

Alex Martsinkovsky, PhD, Brandeis University, 1987 Research Interests: Functorial and hmological methods in representation theory, homological algebra, homotopy theory and applications, industrial mathematics

Mark B. Ramras, PhD, Brandeis University, 1967 Research Interests: Commutative algebra, graph theory

Martin Schwarz, Jr., PhD, New York University, 1981 Research Interests: Nonlinear analysis, nonlinear differential equations, mathematical problems in science

Thomas O. Sherman (Undergraduate Head Advisor), PhD, MIT, 1964 Research Interests: Noncommutative harmonic analysis, symmetric spaces, Lie goups, numerical analysis

Gordana G. Todorov, PhD, Brandeis University, 1979 Research Interests: Representation theory of Artin algebras, noncommutative algebra

Assistant Professor

Maxim Braverman, PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1997 Research Interests: Symplectic geometry, partial differential equations

Postdoctoral Associate

Jochen Kuttler, PhD, University of Basel, 2003 Research Interests: Schubert varieties

Clinical Assistant Professor

Carla B. Oblas, MS, University of California, Davis, 1972

Lecturers

Rekah Bai, PhD, University of Iowa, 1995

Joan Campbell, BS, Northeastern University, 1992

John Lindhe, MS, Northeastern University, 1987

Robert A. Lupi, MA, University of Massachusetts (Boston), 1976

Steven W. Olson, ME, Bridgewater State, 1972

Peter J. Philliou, MS, Brooklyn Polytechnic Aerospace, 1972

Shu-Shih Wu, PhD, Northeastern University, 1986

Professors Emeriti

Holland C. Filgo, Jr., PhD, Rice University, 1953 Research Interests: Complex analysis, computer-assisted instruction

Dorothy Stone, PhD, Bryn Mawr

Jack Warga, PhD, New York University, 1950 Research Interests: Optimal control theory, optimization, nonsmooth analysis

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