Faculty list Professional information       For more information see a list arranged by mathematics field (with some external links), or Web pages maintained by the department or by the faculty. The Department of Mathematics maintains a "departmental" Web page for every faculty member - this page contains basic professional and contact information, and (in most cases) a photo. "Personal" Web pages are maintained by the faculty and vary in content. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Arms, Judith M. Associate Professor, appointed 1980 (Ph.D. Berkeley 1977) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Geometric analysis of Hamiltonian systems with symmetry Arnold, Trevor Acting Assistant Professor/VIGRE Postdoc Fellow, appointed 2006 (Ph.D. University of Michigan 2006) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Number theory, algebraic geometry Arsove, Maynard G. Professor Emeritus, appointed 1951 (Ph.D. Brown 1950) Web page: departmental Research interests: Potential theory, complex function theory, theory of bases Asok, Aravind Acting Assistant Professor/VIGRE Postdoc Fellow, appointed 2005 (Ph.D. Princeton 2004) Web page: departmental Research interests: Algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics B (top) Bekyel, Ebru Part-time lecturer (Ph.D. Brown University 2002) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Number Theory Billey, Sara Associate Professor, appointed 2002 (Ph.D. UC San Diego 1994) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebraic combinatorics, Lie theory and computational geometry Blumenthal, Robert Professor Emeritus, appointed 1956 (Ph.D. Cornell 1956) Web page: departmental Research interests: Probability theory (Markov Processes) Borgs, Christian Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: Microsoft Research, appointed 1999 (Ph.D. University of Munich 1987) Web page: departmental Research interests: Field theory and statistical mechanics Brownell, Frank H. Professor Emeritus, appointed 1950 (Ph.D. Yale and Princeton 1949) Web page: departmental Research interests: Spectral analysis of Hilbert space operators, mathematical quantum mechanics, partial differential equations Bube, Kenneth P. Professor, appointed 1986 (Ph.D. Stanford 1978) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Numerical analysis, partial differential equations Bungart, Lutz Associate Professor Emeritus, appointed 1966 (Ph.D. Princeton 1962) Web page: departmental Research interests: Analysis/Geometry (Several complex variables, complex varieties) Burdzy, Krzysztof Professor, appointed 1988 (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1984) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Probability theory Burke, James Professor and Director of the ACMS Program, appointed 1985 (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Chapaig 1983) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Optimization, nonsmooth analysis C (top) Chartier, Timothy P. Visiting Assistant Professor; Primary Affiliation: Davidson College (Ph.D. University of Colorado 2001) Web page: departmental Research interests: Applied mathematics, numerical analysis Chayes, Jennifer Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: Microsoft Research, appointed 1999 (Ph.D. Princeton 1983) Web page: departmental Research interests: Mathematical physics Chen, Zhen-Qing Professor, appointed 1998 (Ph.D. Washington University 1992) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Probability theory, stochastic analysis Cohn, Henry Affiliate Associate Professor; Primary affiliation: Microsoft Research, appointed 2001 (Ph.D. Harvard 2000) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: computational and analytic number theory; algebraic and probabilistic combinatorics; mathematical logic, computational complexity, and theoretical computer science; cryptography Collingwood, David Professor, appointed 1987 (Ph.D. University of Utah 1983) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Computational biology, Lie theory Conroy, Matthew Lecturer, appointed 2004 (Ph.D. University of Colorado 1997) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Analytic number theory Curjel, Caspar R. Professor Emeritus, appointed 1964 (Ph.D. ETH, Zurich 1960) Web page: departmental Research interests: Algebraic topology Curtis, Edward B. Professor, appointed 1970 (Ph.D. Harvard 1962) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Graph theory, networks D (top) Devinatz, Ethan Associate Professor, appointed 1991 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1985) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebraic topology Doran, Charles Assistant Professor, appointed 2003 (Ph.D. Harvard 1999) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Geometry, string theory, number theory Dubisch, Roy Professor Emeritus, appointed 1961 (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1943) Web page: departmental Research interests: Teacher training, elementary and secondary curriculum Duchamp, Thomas E. Professor, Graduate Admissions Director, appointed 1979 (Ph.D. University of Illinois 1976) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Differential geometry Dumitriu, Ioana Assistant Professor, appointed 2006 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 2003) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Random matrix theory, numerical analysis and scientific computing, algorithmic and probabilistic game theory E (top) Erickson, K. Bruce Professor, appointed 1973 (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 1970) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Probability theory F (top) Folland, Gerald B. Professor, appointed 1973 (Ph.D. Princeton 1971) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Harmonic analysis and differential equations Freedman, Michael Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: Microsoft Research, appointed 1999 (Ph.D. Princeton 1973) Web page: departmental Research interests: Topology G (top) Gangolli, Ramesh A. Professor Emeritus, appointed 1962 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1961) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Probability theory, harmonic analysis on Lie groups Garnett, John Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: UCLA, appointed 2007 (Ph.D. University of Washington 1966) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Complex analysis, harmonic Analysis Goebel, Rafal Part-time Lecturer (Ph.D. University of Washington 2000) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Control, Optimization, Variational, set-valued, convex analysis Goldstein, Allen A. Professor Emeritus, appointed 1964 (Ph.D. Georgetown 1954) Web page: departmental Research interests: Approximation theory, non-linear programming, control theory, calculus of variations Goodearl, Ken Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: UC Santa Barbara, appointed 1998 (Ph.D. University of Washington 1971) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Noncommutative algebra Graham, C. Robin Professor, appointed 1984 (Ph.D. Princeton 1981) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Partial differential equations, differential geometry, invariant theory Greenbaum, Anne Professor, appointed 1997 (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1981) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Applied analysis and computational mathematics Greenberg, Ralph Professor, appointed 1978 (Ph.D. Princeton 1971) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Number theory Grünbaum, Branko Professor Emeritus, appointed 1966 (Ph.D. Hebrew University 1957) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Geometry H (top) Hacking, Paul Assistant Professor, appointed 2006 (Ph.D. University of Cambridge 2001) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebraic geometry Hoffman, Christopher Associate Professor, appointed 1999 (Ph.D. Stanford 1996) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Discrete probability I (top) Iqbal, Amer Assistant Professor, appointed 2004 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 2000) Web page: departmental Research interests: String theory Irving, Ron Professor, appointed 1980 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1977) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebra K (top) Kas, Arnold Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: Boeing, appointed 1996 (Ph.D. Stanford 1966) Web page: departmental Research interests: PDE, applied mathematics Kim, Jeong Han Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: Microsoft Research, appointed 1999 (Ph.D. Rutgers 1993) Web page: departmental Research interests: Mathematical physics (statistical mechanics), combinatorics King, James R. Associate Professor, appointed 1974 (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1969) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Complex manifolds, instructional computing in geometry Koblitz, Neal I. Professor, appointed 1979 (Ph.D. Princeton 1974) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Number theory and cryptography Kovács, Sándor Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner Professor, appointed 2000 (Ph.D. University of Utah 1995) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebraic geometry L (top) Lee, John M. Professor, appointed 1986 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1982) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Differential geometry, partial differential equations LeVeque, Randy Adjunct Professor; Primary affiliation: UW Applied Mathematics, appointed 2007 (Ph.D. Stanford 1982) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, nonlinear PDEs, mathematical theory of conservation laws, software development Li, Xiaosheng Acting Assistant Professor, appointed 2005 (Ph.D. UCLA 2005) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Partial differential equations, inverse problems Lind, Douglas A. Professor, appointed 1975 (Ph.D. Stanford 1973) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Ergodic theory Liu, Hongyu Acting Assistant Professor, appointed 2007 (Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2007) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Inverse problems, numerical analysis, geometric numerical integration Lovász, László Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation:Microsoft Research, appointed 1999 (Ph.D. Hungarian Academy of Science 1977) Web page: departmental Research interests: Discrete mathematics Loveless, Andrew Lecturer, appointed 2005 (Ph.D. Washington State University 2005) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Number theory, cryptography, and combinatorics M (top) Marshall, Donald E. Professor, appointed 1976 (Ph.D. UCLA 1976) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Complex analysis McGovern, William Monty Professor, appointed 1990 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1987) Web page: departmental Research interests: Representation theory Michael, Ernest A. Professor Emeritus, appointed 1953 (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1951) Web page: departmental Research interests: General topology Milakis, Emmanouil Acting Assistant Professor, appointed 2006 (Ph.D. University of Crete 2006) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: PDEs, free boundary problems, geometric measure theory Mitchell, Stephen Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, appointed 1985 (Ph.D. University of Washington 1981) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebraic topology Monk, Steven G. Associate Professor Emeritus, appointed 1964 (Ph.D. University of Minnesota 1966) Web page: departmental Research interests: Mathematics education Moore, Robert T. Associate Professor Emeritus, appointed 1968 (Ph.D. Princeton 1964) Web page: departmental Research interests: Operator theory, group representations, mathematical software and experimental mathematics Morrow, James A. Kauffman and Rebassoo Professor, appointed 1969 (Ph.D. Stanford 1967) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Complex singularities, inverse problems N (top) Namioka, Isaac Professor Emeritus, appointed 1963 (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1956) Web page: departmental Research interests: Functional analysis Nichifor, Alexandra Lecturer, appointed 2004 (Ph.D. University of Washington 2004) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebraic number theory Nijenhuis, Albert Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, appointed 1988 (Ph.D. University of Amsterdam 1952) Web page: departmental Research interests: Geometry, combinatorics, computational complexity Novik, Isabella Associate Professor, appointed 2004 (Ph.D. Hebrew University 1999) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Geometric combinatorics Nunke, Ronald J. Professor Emeritus, appointed 1958 (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1955) Web page: departmental Research interests: Category theory, Abelian groups O (top) Osborne, M. Scott Professor, appointed 1975 (Ph.D. Yale 1972) Web page: departmental Research interests: Representation theory Ozols, Vilnis Assistant Professor Emeritus, appointed 1968 (Ph.D. UC Berkeley 1967) Web page: departmental Research interests: Lie groups, Riemannian geometry P (top) Palmieri, John Associate Professor, appointed 1999 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1991) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebraic topology, representation theory Peres, Yuval Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: UC Berkeley, appointed 2006 (Ph.D. University of Jerusalem 1990) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Ergodic theory, probability, analysis, combinatorics Perkins, Patrick Senior Lecturer, Director of the Math Study Center, appointed 2000 (Ph.D. University of Washington 1988) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebra and combinatorics Pernet, Clément Acting Assistant Professor, appointed 2008 (Ph.D. Univ. J. Fourier 2006) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Linear algebra, exact computations, computer algebra, algorithmic complexity, mathematic software development Pevtsova, Julia Acting Assistant Professor, appointed 2005 (Ph.D. Northwestern University 2002) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Representation theory Pezzoli, Elena Part-time Lecturer (Ph.D. Stanford 1998) Web page: departmental Research interests: Logic and computational complexity, complexity of higher order functions, combinatorics, mathematical biology Phelps, Robert Professor Emeritus, appointed 1962 (Ph.D. University of Washington 1958) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Functional analysis, geometry of Banach spaces, convexity, optimization Pollack, Daniel Professor, Graduate Program Director, appointed 1996 (Ph.D. Stanford 1991) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Differential geometry, partial differential equations, general relativity R (top) Ragozin, David Professor Emeritus, appointed 1969 (Ph.D. Harvard 1967) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Approximation theory, splines, wavelets, numerical analysis, harmonic analysis Rockafellar, R. Tyrrell Professor Emeritus, appointed 1966 (Ph.D. Harvard 1963) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Variational analysis and optimization Rohde, Steffen Professor, appointed 1998 (Ph.D. Technische Universität Berlin 1989) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Analysis and Probability, with an emphasis on geometric function theory S (top) Schramm, Oded Affiliate Professor; Primary affiliation: Microsoft Research, appointed 1999 (Ph.D. Princeton 1990) Web page: departmental Research interests: Complex analysis Segal, Jack Professor Emeritus, appointed 1960 (Ph.D. University of Georgia 1960) Web page: departmental Research interests: Topology, shape theory Shorack, Galen R. Adjunct Professor; Primary affiliation: UW Statistics, appointed 1965 (Ph.D. University of Oregon and Stanford 1965) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Empirical processes, robustness, nonparametric statistics Smith, Hart Professor, appointed 1991 (Ph.D. Princeton 1989) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Partial differential equations, Fourier analysis Smith, S. Paul Professor, appointed 1986 (Ph.D. Leeds 1981) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebra Solomyak, Boris Professor, appointed 1992 (Ph.D. Leningrad University 1986) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Fractals and dynamics Solomyak, Margarita Part-time Lecturer (Ph.D. University of Washington 1997) Web page: departmental Research interests: Random spanning trees on finite graphs Stein, William Associate Professor, appointed 2006 (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 2000) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Number theory, computation Stout, E. Lee Professor Emeritus, appointed 1969 (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 1964) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Complex analysis Sullivan, John B. Professor, appointed 1973 (Ph.D. Cornell 1971) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Representations of classical groups Sylvester, John Professor, appointed 1987 (Ph.D. Courant 1980) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Partial differential equations T (top) Taggart, Jennifer Senior Lecturer, appointed 2001 (Ph.D. University of Colorado 1997) Web page: departmental, personal Thomas, Rekha Associate Professor, appointed 2000 (Ph.D. Cornell 1994) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Computational algebra Toro, Tatiana Professor, appointed 1996 (Ph.D. Stanford 1992) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Analysis, geometric measure theory Tseng, Paul Professor, appointed 1990 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1986) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Optimization Tuncel, Selim Professor and Chair, appointed 1986 (Ph.D. University of Warwick 1982) Web page: departmental Research interests: Ergodic theory, symbolic dynamics U (top) Uhlmann, Gunther Walker Family Professor, appointed 1984 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1976) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Partial differential equations W (top) Warfield, Virginia M. Senior Lecturer, appointed 1973 (Ph.D. Brown 1971) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Probability and the teaching of mathematics Warner, Garth Professor, appointed 1966 (Ph.D. University of Michigan 1966) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebraic topology Westwater, M. John Professor Emeritus, appointed 1970 (Ph.D. Cambridge 1967) Web page: departmental Research interests: Mathematical Physics Wilson, David Affiliate Associate Professor; Primary affiliation: Microsoft Research, appointed 2000 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1996) Web page: departmental Research interests: Stochastic processes, computer algorithms, probability and combinatorics Y (top) Yuan, Yu Associate Professor, appointed 2001 (Ph.D. University of Minnesota 1998) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Partial differential equations and differential geometry Z (top) Zhang, James Professor, appointed 1994 (Ph.D. M.I.T. 1991) Web page: departmental, personal Research interests: Algebra and noncommutative algebraic geometry
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