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Faculty / Instructor |
Research Interests |
Prerequisites |
Present & Past Students / Other Information |
| Alberto
Bressan |
Optimal control or game theory, with applications to economics or finance | MATH 220, 230, 250 | Booked up for 2012-2013 |
| George
Andrews |
Number theory, partitions | Read
"Integer Partitions" by George Andrews and Kimmo Eriksson |
Sharon
(Chuba) Garthwaite Winner: Undergraduate Student Poster Session on Partitions, AMS-MAA, San Diego (2002) Beth Morgan (2003) Frannie Worek (2006) |
| Andrew
Belmonte |
Experimental fluid dynamics, viscoelastic materials, and applied mathematics | List Here | |
| Eli Byrne |
Operations research, game theory, optimization, multivariate factor analysis | ||
| Qiang Du |
Computational and applied mathematics, scientific computation | ||
| Hillary
Einziger |
Discrete math, combinatorics, and graph theory | ||
| Edward Green |
I am particularly interested in helping students to apply ideas, results, and proof techniques from various fields of maths to problems in game theory and decision theory. | Booked for Fall, 2012. Daniel Kannell (dual math/econ major); Justin Max |
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| Chris
Griffin |
Game theory, combinatorial optimization, machine learning, mathematical social sciences | MATH
230/231 MATH 250/251 MATH 311W (preferred) |
Booked up for 2012-2013; Ryan Tatko & CG CG & Douglas Mercer, James Fan, Anna Squicciarnin |
| Diane
Henderson |
Experimental fluid mechanics, nonlinear water waves | MATH 220/250/251 | List Here |
| Mark
Levi |
MATH
140/141/230 Matlab programming |
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| Jenny Li |
Mathematical economics, mathematical finance, computational economics | Unavailable 2012-2013 | |
| Luen-Chau
Li |
Must like matrices/differential equations and be able to program in Matlab | Computational Spectral Theory: Xikai Zhao |
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| Xiantao
Li |
MATH 251 or one of MATH
451 or MATH 455 Programming in Matlab or C |
Molecular Modeling and Simulations: Ryan Kane, Ke Yang, Hongyuan Zhan, and Xikai Zhao |
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| Chun Liu |
Partial differential
equations, calculus of variations, applications in complex fluids |
MATH 250 or 251 | NEEDED: REU students in bio math for summer 2013 |
| Anna
Mazzucato |
Partial differential
equations, fluid mechanics, elasticity, harmonic and microlocal analysis, inverse problems, financial math |
List
here Booked up for 2012-2013 |
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| Gary
Mullen |
Finite fields | MATH
311W Some programming |
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| Victor
Nistor |
MATH 140 and MATH 141 Some programming skills | Booked up, 2012-2013 | |
| Mihran Papikian |
Booked up for 2012-2013 Qinhang Sun (reading course); Benjamin Taylor |
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| Jan Reimann |
Mathematical logic, algorithmic information theory,
fractal geometry and geometric measure theory |
Good knowledge of C/C++ or Matlab/Octave. Some back- ground in analysis (ideally measure theory) will be helpful to understand the theoretical foundations. |
Recruiting now:
Fractal dimension of spatial data via algorithmic information theory.
Posted: 22 Oct 12 |
| Tim
Reluga |
Mathematical
biology including evolution, ecology, immunology, epidemiology, and economics |
Booked up for 2012-2013; Ryan Bradley, 2009 NEEDED: REU students in bio math for summer 2013 |
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| Karl
Schwede |
Algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, homological algebra | MATH
435 or equivalent Some programming |
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| James
Sellers |
Number theory, partitions, enumerative combinatorics | MATH
310 Some programming |
Kevin
Courtright, 2004
Rodseth, O., Sellers, J. A., and Courtright, K. M., Arithmetic
Properties of Non-Squashing Partitions into Distinct Parts, Annals of
Combinatorics 8, no. 3 (2004), 347-353 Courtright, K. M. and
Sellers, J. A., Arithmetic Properties for Hyper
m–ary Partitions, INTEGERS 4 (2004), Article A6 |
| Sergei
Tabachnikov |
Differential
topology, dynamical
systems, symplectic geometry and differential geometry |
MASS students | See MASS Program |
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