Faculty Research Interests

Department of Mathematics faculty members of professorial rank, with a record of their highest degree and fields of interest are listed. Some share appointments with other departments.

 

Roger Alexander, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1975, UC-Berkeley. Numerical analysis. alex@iastate.edu

Krishna Athreya, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., 1967, Stanford. Analysis, probability theory and stochastic processes with emphasis on Markov Chains and applications, branching processes, mathematical statistics. kba@iastate.edu

Maria Axenovich, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1999, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Combinatorics and graphs theory: unavoidable patterns in partitions of combinatorial structures, packing and covering problems, extremal combinatorics. axenovic@iastate.edu

Tathagata Basak, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2006, UC-Berkeley. Complex hyperbolic reflection groups related to Leech lattice and the bimonster, Monster manifold, automorphic forms on hyperbolic spaces, finite topological spaces and Poincare duality. tathagat@iastate.edu

Clifford Bergman, Professor & Director of Graduate Education, Ph.D., 1982, UC-Berkeley. Universal algebra, cryptography, steganography, analysis of algorithms. cbergman@iastate.edu

Steve Butler, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2008, UC-San Diego. Spectral graph theory, combinatorial linear algebra, mathematical juggling, extremal combinatorics butler@iastate.edu

Rajbir Dahiya, Professor, Ph.D., 1967, Birla Inst. of Tech. & Science (India). Delay, neutral and advanced differential equations, transform theory. rdahiya@iastate.edu

Domenico D’Alessandro, Professor, Ph.D., 1999, UC-Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Universita ‘degli Studi di Padova, Italy. Control theory, mathematical physics and quantum information. daless@iastate.edu

Jennifer Davidson, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Ph.D., 1989, Florida. Mathematical imaging, steganalysis, stochatic image modeling. davidson@iastate.edu

James W. Evans, Professor, Ph.D., 1979, Adelaide (Australia). Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and multiscale modeling.
Applications include thin film growth, materials science, and reaction-diffusion phenomena.
evans@ameslab.gov

Arka Ghosh, Assistant Professor (rank only), Ph.D., 2005, NC-Chapel Hill. Stochastic networks and their control, queuing theory with emphasis on heavy traffic analysis, stochastic modeling of internet/wireless networks, random graphs.
apghosh@iastate.edu

Scott Hansen, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1988, Wisconsin-Madison. Control theory of partial differential equations, elasticity, applied analysis. shansen@iastate.edu

Irvin Hentzel, Professor, Ph.D., 1968, Iowa. Computer algorithms, deterministic and probabilistic for processing algebraic identities. hentzel@iastate.edu

Leslie Hogben, Professor, Ph.D., 1978, Yale. Combinatorial matrix theory, including minimum rank problems, spectra of matrices described by a sign pattern, graph or digraph, matrix completions. Eventually nonnegative matrices and sign patterns. Matrix stability and convergence. lhogben@iastate.edu

L. Steven Hou, Professor, Ph.D., 1989, Carnegie Mellon. Numerical analysis, control theory, partial differential equations, fluids, math finance. stevehou@iastate.edu

Elgin Johnston, Professor & Director, Center for Excellence in Mathematics Education, Ph.D., 1977, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Complex analysis, geometric function theory, Faber series expansions on simply connected sets. ehjohnst@iastate.edu

Fritz Keinert, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1985, Oregon State. Numerical analysis, wavelets, compressed sensing. keinert@iastate.edu

Wolfgang Kliemann, Professor & Chair, Ph.D., 1980, Bremen (Germany). Nonlinear dynamical systems, control systems and stochastic systems with applications in engineering and the life sciences. kliemann@iastate.edu

Gary Lieberman, Professor, Ph.D., 1979, Stanford. Elliptic partial differential equations. lieb@iastate.edu

Hailiang Liu, Professor, Ph.D., 1995, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Applied partial differential equations, numerical analysis. hliu@iastate.edu

Ling Long, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 2002, Pennsylvania State. Number theory and arithmetic geometry. linglong@iastate.edu

Glenn Luecke, Professor, Ph.D., 1970, Caltech. Performance evaluation of high performance computers; parallel computing; Tools for parallel computing; mathematics and high performance computing; parallel linear algebra. grl@iastate.edu

Jack Lutz, Professor (rank only), Ph.D., 1987, California Institute of Technology. Computational complexity, algorithmic information and randomness, molecular programming and nanoscale self-assembly. lutz@cs.iastate.edu

Roger Maddux, Professor, Ph.D., 1978, UC-Berkeley. Algebra and logic. maddux@iastate.edu

Ryan Martin, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 2000, Rutgers. Extremal and probabilistic combinatorics and graph theory. rymartin@iastate.edu

Anastasios Matzavinos, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2004, Dundee (Scotland). Applied mathematics, mathematical biology, data clustering algorithms. tasos@iastate.edu

Siu-Hung Ng, Associate Professor, PhD., 1997, Rutgers. Algebra, representation and tensor category. rng@iastate.edu

Xuan Hien Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Ph. D., 2006, UW-Madison. Geometric analysis, geometric flows, elliptic and parabolic differential equations

Justin Peters, Professor, Ph.D., 1973, Minnesota. Operator theory, operator algebras. peters@iastate.edu

Yiu Tung Poon, Professor, Ph.D., 1985, UCLA. Quantum information and quantum computation, matrix theory, operator theory, operator algebra.
ytpoon@iastate.edu

Alexander Roitershtein, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2004, Technion-Israel. Probability theory, stochastic processes. roiterst@iastate.edu

Alric Rothmayer, Professor, Ph.D., 1985, University of Cincinnati. Solving applied engineering problems in fluid mechanics using a combination of continuum mechanics model development, matched asymptotic and multiple scales asymptotic analysis and computational simulations. Current research is in the areas of three-phase flows with solidification for aircraft icing and flow control. roth@iastate.edu

Paul Sacks, Professor, Ph.D., 1981, Wisconsin-Madison. Partial differential equations, inverse problems. psacks@iastate.edu

Michael W. Smiley, Professor, Ph.D., 1980, Michigan. Partial differential equations, dynamical systems and numerical analysis with applications to cell and systems biology. mwsmiley@iastate.edu

Jonathan Smith, Professor, Ph.D., 1975, Cambridge (England). Combinatorics, algebra and information theory, applications in computer science, physics, biology. jdhsmith@iastate.edu

Sung-Yell Song, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1987, Ohio State. Algebraic combinatorics: association schemes, designs, graphs. sysong@iastate.edu

Leigh Tesfatsion, (rank only) Professor, Ph.D., 1975, University of Minnesota. Agent-based computational economics, restructuring of electric power markets, development of agent-based computational laboratories for testing the performance of electric power market designs. tesfatsi@iastate.edu

Moulay Tidriri, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1992, Paris IX (Dauphine). Mathematical physics, numerical analysis, scientific computing.
tidriri@iastate.edu

Zhi Jian Wang, Professor (rank only), Ph.D., 1990, Glasgow. Computational fluid dynamics; Cartesian, Chimera and other grid methods; higher order methods for unstructured grids; numerical simulation including turbulence and transitions; parallel computing. zjw@iastate.edu

Eric S. Weber, Associate Professor, Ph.D., 1999, Colorado. Harmonic analysis with applications; wavelet, frame, and sampling theory.
esweber@iastate.edu

Ananda Weerasinghe, Professor, Ph.D., 1986, Minnesota. Stochastic processes, queueing networks in heavy traffic, mathematics of finance. ananda@iastate.edu

Stephen Willson, University Professor, Ph.D., 1973, Michigan. Phylogenetic trees and networks, fractals, and game theory. swillson@iastate.edu

James A. Wilson, Associate Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator, Ph.D., 1978, Wisconsin-Madison. Special functions, orthogonal polynomials, combinatorial sums.
jawilson@iastate.edu

Zhijun Wu, Professor, Ph.D., 1991, Rice. Numerical linear algebra and optimization, numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations, bioinformatics and computational biology.
zhijun@iastate.edu

Jue Yan, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2002, Brown. Numerical analysis, high order finite element discontinuous Galerkin methods. Application to computational fluid dynamics and computational math biology. jyan@iastate.edu

Faculty Emeriti

Howard Levine, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., 1969, Cornell. Ill-posed problems, eigenvalue problems, singularity formation, reaction-diffusion processes, membrane transport and chemotaxis, mathematical modeling of angiogenesis and other branching processes in developmental biology. halevine@iastate.edu

James A. Murdock, Professor, Ph.D., 1970, NYU. Dynamical systems, perturbation theory, averaging and normal forms, group theory and invariant theory. jmurdock@iastate.edu