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