Full Department Directory

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

Sonny Arora
Graduate Assistant
008 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 2471
Thesis Adviser: Kirsten Eisentraeger
Research Interests: Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, Cryptography

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

Seunghoon Bang
Assistant Teaching Professor
407 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9670

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

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

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.

Andrew Baxter
Assistant Teaching Professor
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
Assistant Teaching Professor
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

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

Christopher Byrne
Associate 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

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

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

Xiaohang Chen
Graduate Assistant
008 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 2471
Education: Academic Name: Shane Chern
Research Interests: Number theory, Partitions, q-Series, Sieve methods.

Neena Chopra
Assistant Teaching Professor
401 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9020

Weiqi Chu
Graduate Assistant
012 McAllister Building
Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li

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

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.

Francesco D'Andrea
Assistant Teaching Professor
431 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9127

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

Education: B.Sc in Mathematics, Nankai University, 2016.

Thesis Adviser: Anatole Katok

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

Darla Forsha
Assistant Teaching Professor
403 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3329

Michael Francis
Graduate Assistant
009 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9672
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

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
+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
Associate Teaching Professor & Coordinator of First Year Courses
104A McAllister Building
+1 814 865 7528
Degree Year: 2010
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

Wenrui Hao
Assistant Professor
208 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 3881

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

Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 9/21/17-9/20/18

Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 9/16/17- 9/15/18

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
Teaching Professor & Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising
104E McAllister Building
+1 814 865 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: 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

Thesis Adviser: Jason Morton
Thesis Title: Distributed Computational Systems
Degree Year: 2017
Research Interests: Computational Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Neural Networks

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: Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1968
Research Interests: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems, geometry, analysis

Svetlana Katok
Professor
302 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 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

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 Teaching Associate
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
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, Random Matrices, Stochastic Processes, KPZ Equation

Job Description: Types, processes, packages, and distriubes exams including makeups, conflict, and disability exams. Works closely with coordinators. Hires proctors and graders.

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 Huizenga
Research Interests: Algebraic 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.

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

Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 9/18/17-3/30/18

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

Thesis Adviser: Ping Xu and Mathieu Stienon

David Little
Teaching Professor
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

Education: Ph.D., New York University, 1995
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, calculus of variations, applied mathematics

Pei Liu
Postdoc
321 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9163

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

Yushuang Luo
Graduate Assistant
020 McAllister Building

Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 8/1/17- 8/15/18

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

Masashi Mizuno
Visiting Associate Professor
419A McAllister Building
+1 814 865 8446
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 4/3/17-3/11/18

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
419 McAllister Building
+1 814-863-9049
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
Degree Year: 1974
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1974
Research Interests: Finite fields and combinatorics

Ryan Murray
Chowla
218 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 5201
Education: PhD Carnegie Mellon University 2016
Research Interests: Applied Analysis, PDE

Bharath Narayanan
Assistant Teaching Professor
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

Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 3/25/18-9/25/18

Alexei Novikov
Professor
310 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

Cindy Parsons
Teaching Professor & 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
Assistant Research Professor
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

Thesis Adviser: Nigel Higson

Thesis Adviser: Federico Rodriguez Hertz

Education: Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1961

Volodymyr Rybalko
Visiting Research Professor
111 McAllister Building
+1 814 865 4061
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 3/27/18- 5/31/18

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

Robson da Silva
Visiting Assistant Professor
421 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 4125
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 1/7/17-6/30/18

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

Eric Simring
Assistant Teaching Professor
108 McAllister Building
814-867-5687

Stanley Smith
Associate Professor/ Director of Online Instruction
222 McAllister Building
+1 814 867 2681
Education: Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1992

Christine Stachniewicz
Assistant Teaching Professor
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
430 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 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

Adam Telatovich
Graduate Assistant
430 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9121
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

Thesis Adviser: Federico Rodriguez Hertz
Education: B.Sc. in Mathematics & B.A. in Philosophy, KoƧ University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016.
Research Interests: Dynamics

Leonid Vaserstein
Professor
215 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 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
+1 814 865 7311
Education: Ph.D., University Montpellier 2, France.
Research Interests: Differential Geometry; symplectic geometry; Poisson geometry; contact geometry.

Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 1/1/18- 5/4/18

Zhiren Wang
Assistant Professor
308 McAllister Building
Education: Ph.D. Princeton University, 2011
Research Interests: Ergodic theory; homogeneous dynamical systems

Thomas Weber
Visiting Graduate Student
234 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 8867
Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 10/3/17- 11/30/17

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

Matthew Willyard
Assistant Teaching Professor
001 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 8500

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
Assistant Research Professor
309 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 6398

Xiaojie Wu
Graduate Assistant
432 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 3644
Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li
Education: B.S. in Information and Computational Science, Wuhan University, 2011
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics, Computational Materials.

Thesis Adviser: Vladimir Itskov

Shuonan Wu
Assistant Research Professor
316 McAllister Building
+1 814 863 9035

Education: Ph.D., Emory University, 1995
Research Interests: Graph theory

Thesis Adviser: Ludmil Zikatanov

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

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

Education: Habilitation, Leningrad State University, 1986
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, Number Theory

Aleksey Zelenberg
Assistant Teaching Professor
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.

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.

Thesis Adviser: Xiantao Li

Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 9/29/17-8/4/18

Research Interests: Visiting Dates: 9/10/17-9/9/18

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

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
+1 814 863 9670