Faculty
Teaching & Research Faculty
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Nicole Abaid , bioDr. Abaid's research focuses on networked dynamical systems. She studies diverse biological systems, ranging from animal groups to brain networks, to inspire novel results in mathematical modeling and control.
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Slimane Adjerid , bioProfessor Adjerid conducts research on developing new discontinuous finite element methods for solving partial differential equations.
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Daniel Appelö , bioProfessor Daniel Appelö is a numerical analyst with an interest in computational techniques for solving differential equations fast and accurately. He is excited about applications in acoustics, electromagnetics, fluids, and more recently in quantum computing.
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Sarah Arpin , bioDr. Arpin's research is in algebraic number theory and post-quantum cryptography, including the study of supersingular elliptic curves, isogeny-based cryptography, arithmetic geometry in characteristic p, and code-based cryptography.
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Christopher Beattie , bioThe principal research interests of Professor Beattie are in the areas of scientific computing and large scale computational linear algebra, with an emphasis on iterative Krylov methods.
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Jeff Borggaard , bioProfessor Borggaard studies the design and control of fluids. This includes computational fluid dynamics, control theory, optimization, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification, and reduced-order models. In each case, the application of these research areas to partial differential equations that describe fluids are of interest.
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Guher Camliyurt , bioDr. Camliyurt's research interests include mathematical fluid dynamics, nonlinear waves, and unique continuation problems for general elliptic and parabolic PDEs.
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Paul Cazeaux , bioProfessor Cazeaux's research deals with multiscale phenomena in mathematical physics and biology, with recent applications in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics (2D materials).
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Yingda Cheng , bioProfessor Cheng's research areas are in scientific computing, applied mathematics and data-driven modeling and computation. She develops numerical methods for partial differential equations, particularly those in higher dimensional space. The application area of Professor Cheng's research includes fusion energy and semiconductor device modeling, to name a few.
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Lauren M. Childs , bioProfessor Childs develops and analyzes mathematical and computational models to examine biologically-motivated questions.
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Stanca M. Ciupe , bioDr. Ciupe's research interest is in the field of applied mathematics, specifically, systems of ordinary and delay differential equations and their application to biology and medicine.
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Giuseppe Cotardo , bioDr. Cotardo’s research interest is in algebraic coding theory, with a particular focus on algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and their applications to the invariant theory of rank-metric codes. He is also actively working on network communication and quantum error correction.
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Eric de Sturler , bioProfessor de Sturler's research focuses on numerical analysis for large-scale computational problems with an emphasis on fast solvers for linear and nonlinear systems, inverse problems and parameter estimation, optimization, and design, including iterative solvers and numerical linear algebra, randomization, stochastic methods, model reduction, and high performance computing with applications in computational mechanics, such structural optimization and computational fluid dynamics, tomography and image reconstruction, big data, computational physics, biology, and computer graphics.
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Andreas Deuchert , bioMy main research interests are mathematical quantum mechanics and quantum statistical mechanics. In my work, I develop analytic, functional analytic, and probabilistic methods with a focus on variational techniques to study mathematical problems originating from solid-state physics.
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Daniel Douglas , bioDr. Douglas works in the mathematical field of quantum topology. He is particularly interested in interactions with low dimensional geometry and topology, representation theory, combinatorics, and mathematical physics.
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Alex Elgart , bioProfessor Elgart primary research area is mathematical physics. The mathematical tools he uses mostly come from analysis and probability.
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Mark Embree , bioCMDA Program Director Professor Embree studies numerical linear algebra and spectral theory, with particular interest in eigenvalue computations for nonsymmetric matrices and transient behavior of dynamical systems.
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Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , bioProfessor Farcaș's research bridges scientific computing, high-performance computing, and computational physics. His work focuses on scientific machine learning, reduced and surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification, and sparse grid and multi-fidelity methods. These computational techniques are designed to tackle complex, large-scale numerical simulations, such as those arising in turbulent transport in fusion devices or combustion processes in rocket engines.
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Serkan Gugercin , bioProfessor Gugercin studies computational mathematics, numerical analysis, and systems and control theory with a focus on data-driven modeling and model reduction of large-scale dynamical systems with applications to inverse problems, structural dynamics, material design, and flow control.
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Leo Herr , bioMy work is in algebraic geometry. I study varieties using extra combinatorial data called logarithmic structures which enrich and compactify ordinary varieties as a middleman between schemes and tropical geometry. Log structures help to count curves, study intersections, and construct cohomology theories and invariants that behave well for singular varieties and normal crossings pairs.
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Traian Iliescu , bioAt the core of Professor Iliescu's research program is his vision of using both mathematics and computations to provide new knowledge on turbulent fluid flows dominated by coherent structures and create models with practical impact in engineering, climate modeling, and medicine. The ultimate goal of his research program is to transform turbulence modeling as we know it today and use mathematics, computations, physics, and data to discover general laws of turbulent fluid flows.
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Estrella Johnson , bioProfessor Johnson's research focuses on the pedagogical practices of mathematicians, with the goal of better understanding and supporting high quality, ambitious teaching in undergraduate mathematics classrooms.
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Jason LeGrow , bioProfessor LeGrow's research is in the design, analysis, and optimization of isogeny-based cryptographic protocols.
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Tao Lin , bioProfessor Tao Lin's main research interest is the numerical analysis on computational methods related with differential equations. He designs new numerical methods and carry out their convergence analysis. His recent research focuses on immersed finite element (IFE) methods that can solve interface problems of partial differential equation with interface independent meshes. He is also working on applying IFE methods to interface inverse problems via the shape optimization methodology.
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Honghu Liu , bioProfessor Liu's research focuses on the design of effective low-dimensional reduced models for nonlinear deterministic and stochastic PDEs as well as DDEs. Applications to classical and geophysical fluid dynamics are actively pursued. Particular problems that are addressed include bifurcation analysis, phase transition, surrogate systems for optimal control, and stochastic closures for turbulence.
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Nick Loehr , bioProfessor Loehr conducts research in algebraic combinatorics. His work focuses on the combinatorics of symmetric functions, quasisymmetric functions, lattice paths, and tableau-like structures. These objects encode remarkable algebraic information about group representations, polynomial invariants, and Lie algebras.
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Hiram López Valdez , bioProfessor López researches connections of commutative algebra with coding theory and its applications, including quantum error correction, coding for post-quantum cryptography, and distributed storage systems.
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José Ramón Madrid Padilla , bioProfessor Madrid works in harmonic analysis and its connections to related fields such as number theory, combinatorics, ergodic theory and PDE.
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Gretchen Matthews , bioProfessor Matthews' research is in applications of algebraic geometry to data storage, protection, and security, especially coding theory and cryptography.
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Agnieszka Miedlar , bioProfessor Miedlar conducts research in numerical analysis and scientific computing, with a focus on iterative solvers for large-scale linear systems and eigenvalue problems, and adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs).
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Leonardo Mihalcea , bioAssociate Professor Mihalcea studies classical and quantum intersection rings for flag manifolds and related algebraic varieties, an area combining techniques from Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, and Geometric Representation Theory.
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Travis Morrison , bioProfessor Morrison's research is in algorithmic number theory and applications to cryptography.
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Anderson Norton , bioProfessor Norton conducts research in mathematics education, building psychological models of students' mathematics and their mathematical development.
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Daniel Orr , bioDaniel Orr conducts research in representation theory and algebraic combinatorics.
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Eyvindur Ari Palsson , bioAssociate Professor Palsson conducts research in harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, combinatorics, number theory and partial differential equations.
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Mirjeta Pasha , bioDr. Pasha is an Assistant Professor with research interests on high dimensional (tensor) data analysis, regularization for inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, and high-performance computing. She develops computationally efficient methods and algorithms to solve large-scale problems that arise from an extensive list of applications in data science, medicine, and engineering.
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Sarah Reznikoff , bioProfessor Reznikoff is Department Chair and Professor. Her research in analysis currently focuses on groupoid representations of C*-algebras.
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Michael A. Robert , bioProfessor Robert builds and analyzes mathematical models to study biological phenomena. He is particularly interested in developing and exploring models to better understand how ecological, meteorological, anthropogenic, and evolutionary processes impact the emergence, spread, and control of infectious diseases.
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Johann Rudi , bioProfessor Johann Rudi's research is interdisciplinary and spans large-scale parallel iterative methods for nonlinear and linear systems, development and implementation of algorithms for high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, computational aspects of inverse problems, and quantification of uncertainties in the inferred parameters.
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Omar Saucedo , bioAssistant Professor Saucedo's research is Mathematical Biology with an emphasis on modeling infectious diseases.
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Mark Shimozono , bioProfessor Shimozono works on combinatorial problems arising in enumerative algebraic geometry and representation theory.
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Shu-Ming Sun , bioProfessor Sun's research interests include the mathematical theory of fluid mechanics, the theory of partial differential equations, and applied nonlinear analysis.
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Wenbo Sun , bioAssistant Professor Wenbo Sun works on the problems lying at the interaction of ergodic theory, combinatorics, and number theory.
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Peter Wapperom , bioProfessor Wapperom conducts research in computational fluid dynamics of complex fluids. This involves the mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of the flow of polymeric liquids and fluids reinforced with rigid particles.
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Tim Warburton , bioProfessor Warburton holds the John K. Costain Chair in the College of Science at Virginia Tech and is a faculty member of both the Department of Mathematics and the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics program. His research interests include developing new parallel algorithms and methods that are used to solve PDE based physical modes on the largest supercomputers.
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Megan Wawro , bioProfessor Wawro's research involves investigating students' reasoning about linear algebra in quantum mechanics and the development of inquiry-oriented instructional materials for linear algebra.
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Steffen Werner , bioProfessor Werner conducts research at the intersection of scientific computing and numerical linear algebra with particular focus on scientific machine learning, model order reduction, data-driven modeling, optimization and control of partial differential equations, matrix equations and mathematical software development.
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Yun Yang , bioAssistant professor Yang conducts research in ergodic theory and dynamical systems.
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Pengtao Yue , bioProfessor Yue works on the numerical simulation of flow problems with moving boundaries and complex rheology, including multiphase flow, viscoelastic fluids, dynamic wetting, and phase change phenomena.
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Lizette Zietsman , bioProfessor Zietsman's research area covers the development and analysis of fundamental numerical algorithms arising in the study of stability, control and estimation of distributed parameter systems typical in structural control, fluid flow control, and thermal systems.
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Samantha Brooker , bioDr. Brooker is a Postdoctoral Associate studying operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. She is mentored by Sarah Reznikoff.
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Eduardo Camps Moreno , bioDr. Camps Moreno is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow with a research focus in algebraic coding theory. He is mentored by Gretchen Matthews.
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Chi Hong Chow , bioDr. Chow is a Patricia Caldwell Postdoctoral Associate, specializing in the enumerative geometry of flag varieties, most notably their quantum cohomology. His research also explores related areas, including mirror symmetry and Gamma conjectures. He is mentored by Leonardo Mihalcea.
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Kyle Dahlin , bioDr. Dahlin is an NSF MPS Ascending Postdoctoral Fellow who uses mathematical tools to answer questions in epidemiology and ecology, particularly those related to the transmission and control of mosquito-borne parasites in human and wildlife populations. He is mentored by Lauren Childs and Michael Robert.
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Christina Giannitsi , bioDr. Giannitsi is a Postdoctoral Associate with a research focus in discrete harmonic analysis, exploring its rich connections with diverse fields such as analytic number theory, ergodic theory, and beyond. She is mentored by Eyvindur Ari Palsson
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Dr. Heldman is a Postdoctoral Associate. His research focuses on numerical analysis and scientific computing, particularly in the area of reaction-drift-diffusion and mean-field limits of particle-based stochastic models. He is mentored by Johann Rudi.
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Bari Hridoy , bioDr. Hridoy is a Postdoctoral Associate specializing in the mathematical modeling and analysis of infectious diseases, with a focus on stochastic dynamics, seasonality, and data-driven methods to inform public health interventions. He is mentored by Lauren Childs.
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Kun Huang , bioDr. Huang is a Postdoctoral Associate specializing in numerical methods for kinetic equations, with a particular emphasis on applications in plasma physics.. He is currently interested in low-rank tensor methods for high-dimensional problems. He is mentored by Daniel Appelo and Yingda Cheng.
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Jiuhua Hu , bioDr. Hu is a Postdoctoral Associate whose research focuses on numerical analysis and scientific computing, particularly the development of fast and efficient numerical methods for differential equations. She is mentored by Daniel Appelo and Yingda Cheng.
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Talia LaTona-Tequida , bioDr. Talia LaTona-Tequida is a Postdoctoral Associate whose research centers on graduate mathematics education. Her work examines the social factors influencing graduate student success, aiming to enhance the inclusivity and effectiveness of graduate STEM education. She is mentored by Estrella Johnson.
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Leah LeJeune , bioDr. LeJeune is a Postdoctoral Associate whose research focuses on modeling the spread and control of infectious diseases using mathematical models, particularly deterministic dynamical systems. She is mentored by Lauren Childs.
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Kirsten Morris , bioDr. Morris is a Postdoctoral Associate specializing in coding theory, specifically quantum error correction. She is mentored by Gretchen Matthews.
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Jorge Reyes , bioDr. Reyes is a Postdoctoral Associate whose research focuses on the theoretical and computational study of fluid dynamics based on the Navier–Stokes equations. His work includes finite element analysis of numerical solutions for full-order models and the development of corresponding reduced-order models. He is mentored by Traian Iliescu.
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Rodrigo San José Rubio , bioDr. San José is a Presidential Postdoctoral Associate with research focusing on algebraic coding theory. In particular, he is interested in the applications of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry to classical and quantum codes, as well as cryptography. He is mentored by Hiram Lopez.
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Priyanka Sinha , bioDr. Sinha is a Postdoctoral Associate, working on large-scale inverse problems, multi-distribution learning, and adversarial methods, with recent projects on distributed tomographic reconstruction and fairness-driven federated learning. She is mentored by Eric de Sturler.
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Nusrat Tabassum , bioDr. Tabassum is a Postdoctoral Associate specializing in modeling ecological and epidemiological systems, with a focus on species interactions, vector-borne diseases, and infectious disease dynamics. She is mentored by Michael Robert.
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Ping-Hsuan Tsai , bioDr. Tsai is a Postdoctoral Associate focusing on the development of data-driven reduced-order models for turbulent heat transfer applications. His research emphasizes stabilization strategies and error indicators for turbulent flows, with the goal of supporting engineering design and analysis. He is mentored by Traian Iliescu.
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Milo Bechtloff Weising , bioDr. Weising is a Postdoctoral Associate working in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory with a primary focus on Macdonald polynomials and Hecke algebras. He is mentored by Daniel Orr.
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Fangchi Yan , bioDr. Yan studies partial differential equations (PDEs) that are motivated from the modeling of physical phenomena and real-world problems in general. His research focuses on the problem of well-posedness for nonlinear dispersive equations, including the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation.
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Gazi Mahmud Alam , bioDr. Alam's research interests are focused on the development of methods and algorithms for solving control and inverse problems on quantum graphs.
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Rachel Arnold , bioDr. Arnold conducts research on mathematical teaching and learning in upper-level mathematics courses, such as Introduction to Proofs and Advanced Calculus.
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Mohammad Mihrab Uddin Chowdhury , bioDr. Chowdhury is a Visiting Assistant Professor who develops models to study biological and ecological systems using mechanistic approach and machine learning. His research focuses on epidemiology, ecology, and public health.
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John Pratt , bioVisiting Assistant Professor' John Pratt's research focuses on nuclear magnetic and nuclear quadrupole resonance in solids.
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Michael T. Schultz , bioDr. Schultz conducts research in the intersection of algebraic geometry and mathematical physics.
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Eric Ufferman , bioCollegiate Assistant Professor Ufferman teaches classes in both Computational Modeling and Data Analytics and Discrete Mathematics.
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Jason R. Wilson , bioCollegiate Assistant Professor Wilson teaches Math and CMDA classes. His research interests include large scale linear algebra, high performance computing, and the mathematical foundations of data science.
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Joseph Ball , bioProfessor Ball conducts research in Hilbert-space operator theory and operator algebras, exploring connections with multivariable function theory and engineering systems theory.
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Ezra (Bud) Brown , bioBud Brown does research in number theory (mainly algebraic number theory, quadratic forms, and elliptic curves), combinatorics (mainly combinatorial designs), expository mathematics (two dozen articles on a variety of topics), and cryptography.
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John Burns , bioProfessor Burns' current research is focused on computational methods for modeling, control, estimation and optimization of complex systems where spatially distributed information is essential. This includes systems modeled by partial and delay differential equations. Recent applications include modeling and control of thermal fluids, design and thermal management systems and optimization of mobile sensor networks.
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Martin Day , bioProfessor Day's research focused on applications of the large deviations analysis of stochastic processes, specifically the classical exit problem for diffusions. Later work involved fluid limit analysis of queueing processes.
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William Floyd , bioProfessor Floyd conducts research in geometric group theory, complex dynamics, and discrete conformal geometry.
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George Hagedorn , bioProfessor Hagedorn works in mathematical physics. He specializes in molecular quantum dynamics.
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Terry Herdman , bioDr. Herdman’s research focuses on modeling, analysis, parameter identification and approximations for systems governed by Volterra Integral and Functional Differential Equations.
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Bio ItemJong Uhn Kim , bio
Professor Kim's research has been in analysis of partial differential equations which arise in fluid mechanics and elasticity.
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Bio ItemMartin Klaus , bio
Professor Klaus' research mainly concerns the spectral theory of linear operators and their connection with nonlinear evolution equations. This research has applications in the study of optical pulse propagation.
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Peter A. Linnell , bioProfessor Linnell conducts research in pure mathematics, especially algebra, with a little analysis and topology.
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Michael Renardy , bioProfessor Renardy's research is in partial differential equations and applications to fluid mechanics, in particular viscoelastic flows.
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Bio ItemYuriko Renardy , bio
Professor Renardy's research concerns the modeling, analysis and computation of fluid motion, in particular fluids with interfaces and non-Newtonian fluids. She has worked in particular on problems of stability, pattern formation, deformation of drops, and thixotropic yield stress fluids.
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Bob Rogers , bioProfessor Rogers studies continuum mechanics and nonconvex problems in partial differential equations. He also studies models of acoustics.
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John Rossi , bioProfessor Rossi conducts research in complex function theory with specialties in value distribution theory and potential theory.
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Layne T. Watson , bioDr. Watson's research interests include numerical analysis; nonlinear programming; mathematical software; solid mechanics; fluid mechanics; image processing; parallel computation; bioinformatics.