Full Department Directory
Thesis Adviser: Yakov Pesin
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University, 1971
Research Interests: Operator algebras
George Andrews
Evan Pugh University Professor and Associate Head for Faculty Development
306 McAllister Building
814 865 6642
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1964
Research Interests: Number theory, partitions
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1958
Education: Ph.D., Yale University, 1947
Alok Bakshi
Graduate Assistant
009 McAllister Building
814 863 9672
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Research Interests: Geometry, Representation Theory and Physics
Thesis Adviser: George Andrews / Ae Ja Yee
Research Interests: Low dimensional topology, braid theory, knot homologies.
Augustin Banyaga
Distinguished Senior Scholar
303 McAllister Building
814 863 2736
Education: Ph.D., University of Geneva, 1976
Research Interests: Symplectic, contact geometry and topology
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Thesis Adviser: Ludmil Zikatanov
Education: A. B., Modern History and Literature, Radcliffe College, 1958
Job Description: Staff assistant to George Andrews, assists with journal work, travel arrangements, and award nominations.
Paul Baum
Evan Pugh University Professor
312 McAllister Building
814 863 0545
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1963
Research Interests: Topology and operator algebras
Andrew Baxter
Assistant Teaching Professor
006 McAllister Building
814 865 5002
Education: B.A. Millersville University (2005)
Ph. D. Rutgers University (2011)
Job Description: Lecturer, Director of Pennsylvania Mathematics Initiative
Research Interests: Teacher preparation and professional development, mathematics for teaching (
Enumerative combinatorics, permutation patterns
Andrew Belmonte
Professor
322 McAllister Building
814 865 2491
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1994
Research Interests: Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, evolutionary games / game theory, mathematical modeling of cell biology.
Amine Benkiran
Assistant Teaching Professor
401 McAllister Building
814 863 9020
Leonid Berlyand
Professor
337 McAllister Building
814 863 9683
Education: Ph.D., Kharkov State University, 1984
Research Interests: PDEs, variational problems and applications to materials and biology
Kristin Berrigan
Administrative Support Assistant
107 McAllister Building
814 865 7527
Job Description: Main receptionist for the administrative complex; maintains directory; schedules and approves conference/seminar rooms; works with purchasing cards, group meals, and travel related expenses; processes mail and orders supplies.
Stephanie Blanda
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Office:N/A
Thesis Adviser: Diane Henderson
Education: B.S. in Mathematics, Lebanon Valley College, 2009
B.S. in Computer Science, Lebanon Valley College, 2009
B.S. in Computer Science, Lebanon Valley College, 2009
Research Interests: Wind generated ocean waves, applied mathematics, numerical methods, partial differential equations
Job Description: Assists the Director of Graduate Studies; assists with recruiting efforts; provides information and requirements regarding graduate program; assists with the scheduling of 500 - level and special topics courses; prepares and processes letters of recommendations for graduate students; processes key requests and maintains key files.
James Brannick
Associate Professor
311 McAllister Building
814 863 2737
Education: Ph.D., CU Boulder, 2005
Research Interests: Lattice field theory, numerical solutions to PDEs, multigrid methods
Alberto Bressan
Eberly Family Chair Professor
201 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1982
Research Interests: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Nonlinear Wave Equations, PDE Models of Biological Growth, Optimal Control, Differential Games and Applications
Thesis Adviser: Ping Xu
Nathanial Brown
Professor, Associate Head for Equity and Diversity
320 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., Purdue University, 1999
Research Interests: Operator algebras
Dale Brownawell
Emeritus
328 McAllister Building
814 865 7104
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1970
Research Interests: Number theory, transcendence
Job Description: Supervises the Undergraduate Office Staff; secretary to the Director of Undergraduate Studies; provides information and requirements regarding the Undergraduate Program; works closely with math majors; assists with recruiting efforts; distributes and collects grade sheets; updates Undergraduate Handbook; Undergraduate Baccalaureate Degree Programs Bulletin.
Education: Ph.D., St. Petersburg State University, 1992.
Research Interests: Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Algorithmic Complexity
Christopher Byrne
Associate Professor of Mathematics
006 McAllister Building
814 863 4343
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1995
Research Interests: Game Theory, Optimization, Mathematical Modeling
Wenwu Cao
Professor
339 McAllister Building
814 863 8895
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1987
Research Interests: Applied mathematics, computer simulations, materials sciences
Jeffrey Case
Associate Professor
221 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010
Research Interests: Geometric analysis, conformal and CR geometry
Thesis Adviser: Federico Rodriguez Hertz
Thesis Adviser: Sergei Tabachnikov
Job Description: Visiting Dates: 9/1/18 - 8/31/19
Thesis Adviser: Jinchao Xu
Thesis Adviser: Mihran Papikian
Thesis Adviser: Wenrui Hao
Long-Qing Chen
Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
N229 Millennium Science Complex
814 863 8101
Education: Ph.D., MIT, 1990
Research Interests: Mathematical Modeling of Phase Transitions and Microstructure Evolution;
Phase-field method;
Microelasticity, micromagnetics, and electrostatics
Xiaohang Chen
Graduate Assistant
008 McAllister Building
814 865 2471
Thesis Adviser: George Andrews
Education: Academic Name: Shane Chern
Research Interests: Number theory, Partitions, q-Series, Sieve methods.
Thesis Adviser: Leonid Berlyand
Thesis Adviser: Kirsten Eisentraeger
Weiqi Chu
Graduate Assistant
012 McAllister Building
814 865 1271
Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li
Thesis Adviser: Zhiren Wang and Federico Rodriguez Hertz
Jessica Conway
Assistant Professor
332 McAllister Building
814 863 9125
Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2008
Thesis Adviser: Federico Rodriguez Hertz
Francesco Costanzo
Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Mathematics
Office:N/A
814 863 2030
Thesis Adviser: Leonid Berlyand
Carina Curto
Associate Professor
331 McAllister Building
814 863 9119
Education: A.B. Harvard University, 2000; Ph.D. Duke University, 2005
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational neuroscience.
Applications of algebra, geometry, and topology to neuroscience.
Thesis Adviser: Manfred Denker
Education: Maths And Computing , Msc+ Bsc, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Research Interests: Probability
Manfred Denker
Visiting Professor
230 McAllister Building
814 863 9124
Education: Ph.D., Erlangen University, 1972
Research Interests: Probability Theory, Ergodic Theory, Statistics, Dynamical Systems.
Frank Deutsch
Emeritus
406 McAllister Building
814 865 3844
Education: Ph.D., Brown University, 1966
Research Interests: Approximation theory, functional analysis
Thesis Adviser: Robert Vaughan
Education: B.Sc in Mathematics, Nankai University, 2016.
Research Interests: Visiting dates: 8/1/2018 - 8/1/2019
Kirsten Eisentraeger
Professor and Associate Head for Administration
330 McAllister Building
814 863 4127
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Research Interests: Number theory, arithmetic geometry
Thesis Adviser: Yuriy Zarkhin
Darla Forsha Simpson
Assistant Teaching Professor
403 McAllister Building
814 865 3329
Michael Francis
Graduate Assistant
008 McAllister Building
814 8652471
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Research Interests: Visiting Dates 8/24/2018 - 5/14/2019
Sumita Garai
Graduate Assistant
020 McAllister Building
Thesis Adviser: Mihran Papikian
Research Interests: Algebraic Number Theory
Job Description: Research Engineer and caretaker of the William G. Pritchard Fluids Laboratory. Helps design and then builds apparati for research experiments, and educational and outreach demonstrations.
Thesis Adviser: John Harlim
Thesis Adviser: Boris Kalinin
Moses Glasner
Emeritus
334 McAllister Building
814 863 8665
Education: Ph.D., UCLA, 1966
Research Interests: Potential theory, complex variables and differential geometry
Moisey Guysinsky
Teaching Professor
112A McAllister Building
Degree Year: 1998
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1998
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems
James Hager
Teaching Professor and Assistant Director for Undergraduate Education
211 McAllister Building
814 441-4550
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: Computational Complexity, Natural Language Processing, Automatic Theorem Proving and Program Synthesis,Formal Methods
Steven Hair
Associate Teaching Professor & Coordinator of First Year Courses
104A McAllister Building
814 865 7528
Degree Year: 2010
Education: Ph.D. Penn State University, 2010
Ahmadreza Hajsaeedisadegh
Graduate Assistant
008 McAllister Building
814 865 2471
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Education: B.Sc., Sharif University of Technology
M.Sc., Sharif University of Technology
Degree Year: 2005
Wenrui Hao
Assistant Professor
208 McAllister Building
814 865 3881
John Harlim
Professor
214 McAllister Building
814 863 9024
Education: Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2006.
Research Interests: Applied Mathematics: Filtering multiscale systems, stochastic parameterization, uncertainty quantification, diffusion maps, non-parametric modeling
Education: Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, 2014 -- present
Research Interests: Finite element methods and its applications
Diane Henderson
Professor
002 McAllister Building
814 867 5866
Education: Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Applied Math, Fluid Mechanics, Nonlinear Waves,
Nigel Higson
Evan Pugh University Professor
228 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., Dalhousie University, 1986
Research Interests: Operator algebras and K-theory
Cheryl Hile
Teaching Professor & Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising
104E McAllister Building
814 865 7528
Education: Ph.D., Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, 1993
Jingzhi Huang
Professor of Finance, David H. McKinley Professor of Business, Professor of Mathematics
350 Business Building
814-863-3566
Education: Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1969
Thesis Adviser: Dmitri Burago
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems
Jack Huizenga
Assistant Professor
324 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University 2012
Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry
Education: Ph.D., The Louisiana State University, 1958
Vladimir Itskov
Associate Professor
226 McAllister Building
814 865 1613
Education: Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2002
Research Interests: Applied algebraic topology, and geometry.
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1963
Education: Ph.D., Universitas Carolina Prague, 1966
Kris Jenssen
Professor
202 McAllister Building
814 863 9123
Education: Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1998
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, conservation laws, compressible fluid flow
Thesis Adviser: Alberto Bressan
Boris Kalinin
Associate Professor
338 McAllister Building
814 865 5181
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2000
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, Geometry
Svetlana Katok
Professor
301 McAllister Building
814 863 0628
Education: Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 1983
Research Interests: Automorphic forms, hyperbolic geometry and Fuchsian groups, analysis on symmetric spaces, symbolic dynamics, application of dynamical systems to analysis and number theory.
Degree Year: 2013
Thesis Adviser: Jeffrey Case
Job Description: Provides information to students and faculty regarding the Undergraduate Program; processes add/drop forms; solves student problems; contacts textbook publishers to order desk copies for instructors; communicates textbooks with the Penn State Bookstore and distributes desk copies of textbooks; provides room capacity numbers. Serves as a back up to the Undergraduate Office.
Arkadz Kirshtein
Graduate Teaching Associate
413 McAllister Building
814 863 9126
Thesis Adviser: Chun Liu and James Brannick
Education: B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Belarusian State University, 2012
Research Interests: PDE analysis and computations, fluid dynamics, complex fluids, hyperbolic systems of conservation laws
Thesis Adviser: Robert Vaughan
Thesis Adviser: Vladimir Itskov
Research Interests: Applied homological algebra, topological data analysis, mathematical neuroscience
Thesis Adviser: Alexei Novikov
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Probability, Stochastic Processes
Mark Levi
Department Head and Professor
107 McAllister Building
814 865 7527
Education: Ph.D., New York University, 1978
Research Interests: Dynamical systems and their applications in physics and engineering
Daniel Levine
Graduate Assistant
010 McAllister Building
814 863 9675
Thesis Adviser: Jack Huizenga
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry
Thesis Adviser: Jan Reimann
Education: B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Shandong University
Wen-Ching W. Li
Distinguished Professor
326 McAllister Building
814 865 1669
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974
Research Interests: Automorphic forms, number theory, coding theory, and spectral graph theory
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993
Research Interests: Mathematical economics, mathematical finance, computational economics
Education: Ph.D., New York University, 1983
Research Interests: Integrable systems, mathematical physics, and Poisson geometry
Xiantao Li
Professor
219C McAllister Building
814 863 9081
Education: B. S., Peking University, 1998; PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002.
Research Interests: Computational mechanics, bio-molecular models, approximation of stochastic models, quantum-mechanical calculations.
Thesis Adviser: Carina Curto
David Little
Teaching Professor
403 McAllister Building
814 865 3329
Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2000
Research Interests: Combinatorics
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Thesis Adviser: Zhiren Wang
Education: Ph.D., New York University, 1995
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, calculus of variations, applied mathematics
Pei Liu
Postdoc
321 McAllister Building
814 863 9163
Lyle Long
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics
814 865 1172
Education: B. M. E., Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Minnesota, 1976
Research Interests: Intelligent systems software, neural networks, computational fluid dynamics, software engineering, and high performance computing
Thesis Adviser: Dmitri Burago
Yushuang Luo
Graduate Assistant
020 McAllister Building
814 863 4108
Thesis Adviser: Wenrui Hao
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 8/1/17- 8/15/18
Richard Mansfield
Emeritus
433 McAllister Building
814 863 3647
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University, 1970
Anna Mazzucato
Distinguished Senior Scholar and Professor
305 McAllister Building
814 863 2036
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000
B.S./M.S. University of Milan, Italy, 1994
B.S./M.S. University of Milan, Italy, 1994
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, fluid mechanics, elasticity, harmonic and microlocal analysis, inverse problems
Job Description: Coordinates and distributes evening and final math examinations, including conflict and make-up exams; works closely with SDR to accomodate students with disabilities; hires and assigns undergraduate graders and proctors; handles credit by examination processes; assists calculus coordinator and works closely with all other coordinators.
Peter Morris
Emeritus
406 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3844
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas, 1966
Research Interests: Banach Spaces, Approximation Theory
Jason Morton
Associate Professor
219B McAllister Building
814 863 0444
Hossein Movahedi-Lankarani
Professor Penn State Altoona
224 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9118
Gary Mullen
Professor
304 McAllister Building
814 865 2312
Degree Year: 1974
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1974
Research Interests: Finite fields and combinatorics
Ryan Murray
Chowla
218 McAllister Building
814 865 5201
Education: PhD Carnegie Mellon University 2016
Research Interests: Applied Analysis, PDE
Bharath Narayanan
Assistant Teaching Professor
410 McAllister Building
814 863 5220
Thesis Adviser: Toan T. Nguyen
Toan T. Nguyen
Associate Professor
238 McAllister Building
814 863 4123
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University, 2009
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics, Conservation Laws, Kinetic theory.
Thesis Adviser: Jingzhi Huang
Education: Ph.D, Applied Mathematics 2016, University of Colorado Boulder
Research Interests: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Rapidly-Rotating Flows, Oceanography
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 3/25/18-3/25/19
Thesis Adviser: Kirsten Eisentraeger
Alexei Novikov
Professor
310 McAllister Building
814 863 2738
Education: M. A., Moscow State University, 1993
Research Interests: Analysis
Education: Ph.D., University of Warwick, 1983
Research Interests: Mathematical Physics, QFT,
Higher Representation Theory
Operator Algebras
Wenyu Pan
Eberly Research Fellow Postdoctoral Scholar
217 McAllister Building
814 863 9052
Guodong (Gordon) Pang
Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Associate Professor and Associate Professor of Mathematics
363 Leonhard Building
814 863 1001
Mihran Papikian
Associate Professor
318C McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003
Research Interests: Algebraic Number Theory
Cindy Parsons
Teaching Professor & Coordinator of Calculus
104C McAllister Building
814 865 7528
Thesis Adviser: George Andrews and Ae Ja Yee
Thesis Adviser: Robert Vaughan
Thesis Adviser: Jack Huizenga
Education: The University of Manchester
Research Interests: Graded and super geometry, mathematical physics
Yakov Pesin
Distinguished Professor
213 McAllister Building
814 865 0012
Education: Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1979
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, ergodic theory, Riemannian geometry, dimension Theory, mathematical and statistical physics
Anton Petrunin
Professor
333 McAllister Building
814 863 0931
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995
Research Interests: Geometry
Mykhailo Potomkin
Assistant Research Professor
405 McAllister Building
814 863 9096
Asok Ray
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics
329 Reber Building
814 865 6377
Job Description: Visiting Dates: 8/29/18 - 5/15/19
Jan Reimann
Associate Professor
318B McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., University of Heidelberg (Germany), 2004
Research Interests: Mathematical logic, algorithmic information theory, fractal geometry and geometric measure theory
Timothy Reluga
Associate Professor
424 McAllister Building
814 865 3883
Education: PhD, University of Washington Department of Applied Mathematics, 2004
BS, Tufts University, Majoring in Mathematics and Biology, 1998
Research Interests: Mathematical biology and applied mathematics
Johanna Ridder
Eberly Research Fellow
212 McAllister Building
814 863 9678
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2013
Research Interests: Euler equations, conservation laws
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Research Interests: Representation Theory, Lie Theory, Operator Algebras
Victoria Sadovskaya
Associate Professor
426 McAllister Building
814 863 4140
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2000
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
Thesis Adviser: Mark Levi
James Sellers
Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies
104L McAllister Building
814 865 7528
Thesis Adviser: David Bressoud
Thesis Title: A Generalization of the Partition Function
Degree Year: 1992
Career Bio: Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematics, Penn State
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1992
Research Interests: Number theory, partitions, enumerative combinatorics
Degree Year: Ping Xu
Thesis Adviser: Yakov Pesin
Education: Ph.D., University of Oslo, 1998
Research Interests: Hyperbolic conservation laws, relaxation, partial differential equations, numerical simulation, numerical analysis, control theory
Stephen G. Simpson
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Office:N/A
+1 814 404 6176
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971
Research Interests: Mathematical logic, foundations of mathematics, recursion theory, set theory, combinatorics
Eric Simring
Assistant Teaching Professor
108 McAllister Building
814 867 5687
Stanley Smith
Associate Professor/ Director of Online Instruction
222 McAllister Building
814 867 2681
Education: Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1992
Thesis Adviser: Kirsten Eisentraeger
Christine Stachniewicz
Assistant Teaching Professor
007 McAllister Building
814 865 3285
Mathieu Stienon
Professor
325 McAllister Building
814 865 3812
Job Description: Oversees the department budget office; maintains financial records; assists Faculty with research proposal preparation; coordinates office assignments, building repairs and maintenance; assigns key/card reader access for new employees.
Education: Ph.D.,Technion, 2013
Research Interests: Representation Theory
Thesis Adviser: Alberto Bressan
Sergei Tabachnikov
Professor
112 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1987
Research Interests: Differential topology, dynamical systems, symplectic geometry and differential geometry
Job Description: Visiting dates: 1/10/19 - 5/31/19
Thesis Adviser: Robert Vaughan
Qijun Tan
Graduate Student
430 McAllister Building
814 863 9121
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Education: B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Fudan University, 2012
Research Interests: noncommutative geometry, representation of real semisimple Lie groups, Plancherel formula, symplectic geometry
Arkady Tempelman
Professor
326 Thomas Building
814 863 9024
Education: Ph.D., Vilnius State University, 1975
Research Interests: Ergodic theory, statistics
Thesis Adviser: Qiang Du
Job Description: Staff assistant to Jinchao Xu and Andrew Belmonte; coordinates departmental conferences; processes reimbursements; serves as back up for the receptionist.
Thesis Adviser: Federico Rodriguez Hertz
Education: B.Sc. in Mathematics & B.A. in Philosophy, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016.
Research Interests: Dynamics
Leonid Vaserstein
Professor
215 McAllister Building
814 863 0584
Education: Ph. D., Moscow State University, 1969
Research Interests: Classical groups over rings and algebraic K-theory; number theory; operations research; systems with local interactions
Robert Vaughan
Professor
335 McAllister Building
Education: B. Sc., University of London, 1966
Research Interests: Analytic number theory
Thesis Adviser: Yakov Pesin
Education: BA in Mathematics: Hamilton College
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, smooth ergodic theory
Aissa Wade
Professor
317 McAllister Building
814 865 7311
Education: Ph.D., University Montpellier 2, France.
Research Interests: Differential Geometry; symplectic geometry; Poisson geometry; contact geometry.
Zhiren Wang
Assistant Professor
308 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D. Princeton University, 2011
Research Interests: Ergodic theory; homogeneous dynamical systems
Thesis Adviser: Alberto Bressan
Daren Wei
Graduate Assistant
404 McAllister Building
814 863 9060
Thesis Adviser: Svetlana Katok
Education: B.S., Mathematics&B.S., Computer Science, Peking University, 2014
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, Ergodic theory, Slow entropy
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1964
Linda Westrick
Assistant Professor
233 Mcallister Building
814 863 2738
Education: Ph.D., University of Idaho, 1988
Research Interests: evolutionary dynamics of human civilization
Job Description: Responsible for the general management of the department offices; act as personnel coordinator for the department; oversees faculty recruiting, hiring, promotion and tenure dossiers, second and fourth year reviews, leaves of absence, faculty activity reports, departmental committees, and departmental communications; coordinates departmental events and departmental development efforts.
Matthew Willyard
Associate Teaching Professor
001 McAllister Building
814 863 8500
Job Description: Financial Assistant in the Finance Office. Prepares financial forms, processes student appointments and payroll. Makes arrangements for visitors. Completes ERS travel reports for employees and visiting scholars. Reconciles P-card charges. Back-up for keys/card reader. Back up for facilities.
Thesis Adviser: Jason Morton
Thesis Adviser: Chun Liu / Ludmil Zikatanov
Jianchao Wu
Assistant Research Professor
309 McAllister Building
814 863 6398
Thesis Adviser: Vladimir Itskov
Xiaojie Wu
Graduate Assistant
432 McAllister Building
814 863 3644
Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li
Education: B.S. in Information and Computational Science, Wuhan University, 2011
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics, Computational Materials.
Thesis Adviser: Ludmil Zikatanov
Education: B.S. in Mathematics,University of Science and Technology of China,2014
Research Interests: Computational mathematics, multigrid method.
Education: Ph.D., Emory University, 1995
Research Interests: Graph theory
Jinchao Xu
Verne M. Willaman Professor
314 McAllister Building
814 865 1110
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989
Research Interests: Numerical methods for partial differential equations and applications
Ping Xu
Distinguished Professor
329 McAllister Building
814 865 3517
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990
Research Interests: Symplectic geometry and mathematical physics
Thesis Adviser: Ludmil Zikatanov
Education: Ph.D., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2000
Research Interests: Partition theory, q-series, enumerative combinatorics, special functions
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Thesis Adviser: Andrew Belmonte
Thesis Adviser: Anton Petrunin
Education: Habilitation, Leningrad State University, 1986
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, Number Theory
Agnieszka Zelerowicz
Graduate Assistant
404 McAllister Building
814 863 9060
Thesis Adviser: Yakov Pesin
Job Description: Assistant to the Department Head and Administrative Coordinator with various projects including all types of dossiers and sabbatical leaves; assists with award nominations; processes J1 and H1 visa paperwork for new hires; maintains some departmental informational lists; schedules appointments for the Department Head; assists the Director of the MASS Program; assists with recruiting efforts; provides information, procedures, and requirements for the MASS Program.
Thesis Adviser: Alberto Bressan
Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li
Yuxi Zheng
Francis R. Pentz and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science
229 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D 1990 The University of California at Berkeley.
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis Adviser: Wenrui Hao
Ludmil Zikatanov
Professor and Associate Head for Computing
239 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D. Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski, 1995
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics, Numerical Analysis
Albena Zikatanova
Assistant Teaching Professor
407 McAllister Building
814 863 9670