Full Department Directory
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 12/1/16-5/9/17
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
+1 814 865 6642
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1964
Research Interests: Number theory, partitions
Thesis Adviser: Kirsten Eisentraeger
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1958
Education: Ph.D., Yale University, 1947
Alok Bakshi
Graduate Assistant
009 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9672
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Research Interests: Geometry, Representation Theory and Physics
Shilpak Banerjee
Graduate Assistant
010 McAllister Building
+1 814 863-9675
Thesis Adviser: Anatole Katok
Augustin Banyaga
Distinguished Senior Scholar
303 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 2736
Education: Ph.D., University of Geneva, 1976
Research Interests: Symplectic, contact geometry and topology
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
+1 814 863 0545
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1963
Research Interests: Topology and operator algebras
Andrew Baxter
Lecturer
006 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 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
+1 814 865 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
Senior Instructor
401 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9020
Leonid Berlyand
Professor
337 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9683
Education: Ph.D., Kharkov State University, 1984
Research Interests: PDEs, variational problems and applications to materials and biology
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 9/1/16-8/31/17
Stephanie Blanda
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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: Staff assistant for the Undergraduate Office. Works with SRTEs, course reviews, and online courses.
Research Interests: scientific computing and numerical analysis
James Brannick
Associate Professor
311 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 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
+1 814 865 7104
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1970
Research Interests: Number theory, transcendence
Job Description: Staff assistant in the Undergraduate Office. Provides information to students and faculty regarding the Undergraduate Program, maintains schedule of classes, and web pages.
Education: Ph.D., St. Petersburg State University, 1992.
Research Interests: Geometry, Dynamical Systems, Algorithmic Complexity
Eli Byrne
Research Associate and Assistant Professor of Mathematics
006 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 4343
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1995
Research Interests: Game Theory, Optimization, Mathematical Modeling
Thesis Adviser: James Brannick
Education: B.S. Nankai University, 2010
Wenwu Cao
Professor
339 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 8895
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1987
Research Interests: Applied mathematics, computer simulations, materials sciences
Jeffrey Case
Assistant 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
Xiaohang Chen
Graduate Assistant
008 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 2471
Research Interests: Number theory, Partitions, q-Series, Sieve methods.
Dong Chen
Graduate Assistant
402 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9036
Thesis Adviser: Dmitri Burago
Yiren Chen
Visiting PhD student
428A McAllister Building
+1 814 865 8440
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 9/1/16-9/1/17
Thesis Adviser: Jinchao Xu
Long-Qing Chen
Donald W. Hamer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
N229 Millennium Science Complex
+1 814 863 8101
Education: Ph.D., MIT, 1990
Research Interests: Mathematical Modeling of Phase Transitions and Microstructure Evolution;
Phase-field method;
Microelasticity, micromagnetics, and electrostatics
Job Description: Staff assistant for some faculty members and for conferences. Processes reimbursements.
Thesis Adviser: Zhiren Wang and Federico Rodriguez Hertz
Jessica Conway
Assistant Professor
332 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9125
Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2008
Thesis Adviser: Winnie Li
Francesco Costanzo
Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Mathematics
+1 814 863 2030
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 11/15/16-11/15/17
Carina Curto
Associate Professor
331 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 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
+1 814 863 9124
Education: Ph.D., Erlangen University, 1972
Research Interests: Probability Theory, Ergodic Theory, Statistics, Dynamical Systems.
Frank Deutsch
Emeritus
406 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3844
Education: Ph.D., Brown University, 1966
Research Interests: Approximation theory, functional analysis
Antonio Di Teodoro
Lecturer
412 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 3210
Education: Ph.D in pure mathematics at the Universidad Simon Bolivar-Venezuela (2010)
Research Interests: Hypercomplex analysis (Clifford, Quaternionic and complex analysis), Partial differential equations in hypercomplex analysis.
Education: B.Sc in Mathematics, Nankai University, 2016.
Thesis Adviser: Anatole Katok
Qiang Du
Professor
239 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3674
Education: B. S., Univ. of Science & Technology of China, 1983
Research Interests: Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Kirsten Eisentraeger
Professor
330 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 4127
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Research Interests: Number theory, arithmetic geometry
Alena Erchenko
Graduate Student
016 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 8951
Thesis Adviser: Anatole Katok
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson and John Roe
Thesis Adviser: Mihran Papikian
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.
Moses Glasner
Emeritus
334 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 8665
Education: Ph.D., UCLA, 1966
Research Interests: Potential theory, complex variables and differential geometry
Research Interests: Visiting from 10/1/16-1/31/18
Moisey Guysinsky
Senior Lecturer
112A McAllister Building
+1 814 865 7527
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1998
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems
James Hager
Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director for Undergraduate Education
211 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 7527
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests: Computational Complexity, Natural Language Processing, Automatic Theorem Proving and Program Synthesis,Formal Methods
Steven Hair
Senior Lecturer & Coordinator of First Year Courses
104A McAllister Building
+1 814 865 7528
Education: Ph.D. Penn State University, 2010
Ahmadreza Hajsaeedisadegh
Graduate Assistant
008 McAllister Building
+1 814-865-2471
Education: B.Sc., Sharif University of Technology
M.Sc., Sharif University of Technology
Degree Year: 2005
Research Interests: Harmonic analysis, number theory and combinatorics
John Harlim
Associate Professor
214 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9024
Education: Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2006.
Research Interests: Applied Mathematics: Filtering multiscale systems, stochastic parameterization, uncertainty quantification, diffusion maps, non-parametric modeling
Thesis Adviser: Sergei Tabachnikov
Diane Henderson
Professor
002 McAllister Building
+1 814 867 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
Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising & Senior Lecturer
104E McAllister Building
+1 814 865 7528
Education: Ph.D., Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, 1993
Thesis Adviser: George Andrews and Ae Ja Yee
Job Description: Types, processes, packages, and distriubes exams including makeups, conflict, and disability exams. Works closely with coordinators. Hires proctors and graders.
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: Anatole Katok
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
Oleksandr Iaroshenko
Graduate Assistant
404 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9060
Thesis Adviser: Leonid Berlyand
Vladimir Itskov
Associate Professor
226 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 1613
Education: Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2002
Research Interests: Applied algebraic topology, and geometry.
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1963
Sara Jamshidi
Graduate Assistant
419 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9049
Thesis Adviser: Jason Morton
Research Interests: Applied Category Theory, Applied Algebraic Geometry, Machine Learning
Education: Ph.D., Universitas Carolina Prague, 1966
Kris Jenssen
Professor
202 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 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
+1 814 865 5181
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2000
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, Geometry
Anatole Katok
Raymond N. Shibley Professor
301 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 2266
Education: M. A., Moscow State University, 1965
Research Interests: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems, geometry, analysis
Svetlana Katok
Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Studies
302 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 0628
Education: M. A., Moscow State University, 1969
Research Interests: Automorphic forms, hyperbolic geometry and Fuchsian groups, analysis on symmetric spaces, symbolic dynamics, application of dynamical systems to analysis and number theory.
Job Description: Staff assistant in the Undergraduate Office. Provides information to students and faculty regarding the Undergraduate Program, course reviews, student evaluations, and online courses.
Arkadz Kirshtein
Graduate Assistant
413 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9126
Thesis Adviser: Chun Liu and James Brannick
Education: B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Belarusian State University, 2012
Job Description: Math 250 Office hours: MW 3:35pm-4:25pm and by appointment
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
Research Interests: Probability, Partial Differential Equations
Mark Levi
Professor and Associate Head for Administration
236 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3661
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
Thesis Adviser: Jack Hiuzenga
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry
Wen-Ching W. Li
Distinguished Professor
326 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 1669
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974
Research Interests: Automorphic forms, number theory, coding theory, and spectral graph theory
Thesis Adviser: Jan Reimann
Education: B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Shandong University
Education: Ph.D., New York University, 1983
Research Interests: Integrable systems, mathematical physics, and Poisson geometry
Xiantao Li
Professor
219C McAllister Building
+1 814 863 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.
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993
Research Interests: Mathematical economics, mathematical finance, computational economics
Thesis Adviser: Ping Xu and Mathieu Stienon
David Little
Senior Lecturer
403 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3329
Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2000
Research Interests: Combinatorics
Thesis Adviser: Anatole Katok and Zhiren Wang
Research Interests: Co-adviser: Zhiren Wang
Lyle Long
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics
+1 814 865 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
Richard Mansfield
Emeritus
433 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 3647
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University, 1970
Anna Mazzucato
Professor
305 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 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
Matthew Mizuhara
Graduate Assistant
010 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9675
Thesis Adviser: Leonid Berlyand
Peter Morris
Emeritus
406 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3844
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas, 1966
Research Interests: Banach Spaces, Approximation Theory
Travis Morrison
Graduate Assistant
012 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 1271
Thesis Adviser: Kirsten Eisentraeger
Jason Morton
Associate Professor
219B McAllister Building
+1 814 863 0444
Hossein Movahedi-Lankarani
Professor Penn State Altoona
224 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9118
Gary Mullen
Professor
304 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 2312
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1974
Research Interests: Finite fields and combinatorics
Education: PhD Carnegie Mellon University 2016
Research Interests: Applied Analysis, PDE
Bharath Narayanan
Lecturer
410 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 5220
Toan T. Nguyen
Assistant Professor
238 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 4123
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University, 2009
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics, Conservation Laws, Kinetic theory.
Thesis Adviser: Qiang Du
Alexei Novikov
Professor
233 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 2738
Education: M. A., Moscow State University, 1993
Research Interests: Analysis
Education: Ph.D., University of Warwick, 1983
Research Interests: Higher representation theory, combinatorics, operator algebras
Guodong (Gordon) Pang
Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Associate Professor and Associate Professor of Mathematics
363 Leonhard Building
+1 814 863 1001
Mihran Papikian
Associate Professor
318C McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003
Research Interests: Algebraic Number Theory
Thesis Adviser: Jan Reimann
Cindy Parsons
Senior Lecturer & Coordinator of Calculus
104C McAllister Building
+1 814 865 7528
Thesis Adviser: George Andrews and Ae Ja Yee
Thesis Adviser: Robert Vaughan
Yakov Pesin
Distinguished Professor
213 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 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
+1 814 863 0931
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995
Research Interests: Geometry
Mykhailo Potomkin
Instructor
405 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9096
Thesis Adviser: Andrew Belmonte
Asok Ray
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics
329 Reber Building
+1 814 865 6377
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
Tim Reluga
Associate Professor
424 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3883
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington, 2004
Research Interests: Mathematical biology and applied mathematics
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2013
Research Interests: Euler equations, conservation laws
Education: D. Phil, Oxford University, 1984
Research Interests: Coarse geometry, index theorems, operator algebras, non-commutative geometry, topology, analysis
Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson
Thesis Adviser: George Andrews
Thesis Adviser: Federico Rodriguez Hertz
Education: Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1961
Victoria Sadovskaya
Associate Professor
426 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 4140
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2000
Research Interests: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
James Sellers
Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies
104L McAllister Building
+1 814 865 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
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
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 12/20/16-12/31/17
Stephen G. Simpson
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
+1 814 404 6176
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971
Research Interests: Mathematical logic, foundations of mathematics, recursion theory, set theory, combinatorics
Education: Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1992
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 12/20/16-12/31/17
Christine Stachniewicz
Senior Instructor
007 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3285
Job Description: Receptionist for the administrative complex, maintains directory, works with purchasing cards and group meals, process the mail, and orders supplies.
Mathieu Stienon
Professor
325 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3812
Job Description: Financial assistant in the Finance Office. Supervises office staff, prepares financial reports, approves financial forms, assists with research grants, and processes appointments. Facility contact for Department. Serves as key custodian and card reader access for Department.
Education: Ph.D.,Technion, 2013
Research Interests: Representation Theory
Sergei Tabachnikov
Professor
112 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1987
Research Interests: Differential topology, dynamical systems, symplectic geometry and differential geometry
Qijun Tan
Graduate Student
411 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9120
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
Adam Telatovich
Graduate Assistant
411 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9120
Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li
Education: B.S. Mathematics, Baylor University, 2013.
Research Interests: Numerical Analysis
Arkady Tempelman
Professor
326 Thomas
+1 814 863 9024
Education: Ph.D., Vilnius State University, 1975
Research Interests: Ergodic theory, statistics
Thesis Adviser: Qiang Du
Education: B.Sc. in Mathematics & B.A. in Philosophy, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016.
Research Interests: Dynamics
Leonid Vaserstein
Professor
215 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 0584
Education: M. A., Moscow State University, 1966
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
Aissa Wade
Professor
317 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 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
Daren Wei
Graduate Assistant
404 McAllister Building
Thesis Adviser: Anatole Katok
Education: B.S., Mathematics&B.S., Computer Science, Peking University, 2014
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, Ergodic theory, Slow entropy
Thesis Adviser: Alberto Bressan
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, 1964
Education: Ph.D., University of Idaho, 1988
Research Interests: evolutionary dynamics of human civilization
Job Description: Financial Assistant 3 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: Ludmil Zikatanov
Education: B.S. in Mathematics,University of Science and Technology of China,2014
Research Interests: Computational mathematics, multigrid method.
Jianchao Wu
Postdoc
309 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 6398
Shuonan Wu
Research Associate
316 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9035
Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li
Education: B.S. in Information and Computational Science, Wuhan University, 2011
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics, Computational Materials.
Thesis Adviser: Vladimir Itskov
Education: Ph.D., Emory University, 1995
Research Interests: Graph theory
Jinchao Xu
Verne M. Willaman Professor
314 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 1110
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989
Research Interests: Numerical methods for partial differential equations and applications
Ping Xu
Distinguished Professor
329 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3517
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990
Research Interests: Symplectic geometry and mathematical physics
Thesis Adviser: Ludmil Zikatanov
Yong Yang
Postdoc
316 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9059
Education: Ph.D., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2000
Research Interests: Partition theory, q-series, enumerative combinatorics, special functions
Thesis Adviser: Andrew Belmonte
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 8/15/16-8/14/18
Thesis Adviser: Qiang Du
Education: Habilitation, Leningrad State University, 1986
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, Number Theory
Aleksey Zelenberg
Instructor
005 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 8937
Thesis Adviser: Nate Brown
Thesis Title: "Rokhlin dimension for C*-correspndences"
Degree Year: 2015
Education: B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2009
Research Interests: Operator Algebras
Thesis Adviser: Yakov Pesin
Stephanie Zerby
Administrative Support Assistant
107 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 7520
Job Description: Staff assistant for the Department Head, works with the promotion and tenure process, annual reviews, processes visa for employees, award nominations, and tracks various information for the department.
Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li
Thesis Adviser: Anna Mazzucato and Victor Nistor
Education: B.S. Nankai Univerisity 2011
Research Interests: PDE
Hongxuan Zhang
Graduate Assistant
416 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 8676
Thesis Adviser: Jinchao Xu
Education: B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,
Research Interests: Algebraic multigrid method (AMG) and its application.
Yuxi Zheng
Department Head and Francis R. Pentz and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science
107J McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D 1990 The University of California at Berkeley.
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis Adviser: Manfred Denker
Ludmil Zikatanov
Professor and Associate Head for Computing
310 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D. Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski, 1995
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics, Numerical Analysis
