Teaching Faculty
Dylan Attwell-Duval
Assistant Teaching Professor
007 McAllister Building
814 865 3285
Andrew Baxter
Associate Teaching Professor
006 McAllister Building
814 865 5002
Education: B.A. Millersville University (2005)
Ph. D. Rutgers University (2011)
Job Description: Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Pennsylvania Mathematics Initiative
Research Interests: Scholarship of teaching and learning,
Teacher preparation and professional development,
Enumerative combinatorics, permutation patterns
Amine Benkiran
Assistant Teaching Professor
401 McAllister Building
814 863 9020
Darla Forsha Simpson
Associate Teaching Professor
403 McAllister Building
814 865 3329
Thesis Adviser: Anatole Katok
Thesis Title: Normal Forms of Extensions
Degree Year: 1998
Career Bio: 1998-2001 Postdoc, Tufts University
2002- Teaching Professor, Pennsylvania State University
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 Advising
104L McAllister Building
814 865 7528
Degree Year: 2010
Education: Ph.D. Penn State University, 2010
Degree Year: 2005
Cheryl Hile
Teaching Professor & Associate Head of Undergraduate Studies
104E McAllister Building
814 865 7528
Education: Ph.D., Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, 1993
Degree Year: 2013
David Little
Teaching Professor & Academic Advisor
104G McAllister Building
814 865 7528
Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2000
Research Interests: Combinatorics
Bharath Narayanan
Assistant Teaching Professor
410 McAllister Building
814 863 5220
Education: Ph.D, Applied Mathematics 2016, University of Colorado Boulder
Research Interests: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Rapidly-Rotating Flows, Oceanography
Joseph Roberts
Associate Teaching Professor/Calculus Coordinator
104 McAllister Building
814 865 7528
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
Eric Simring
Assistant Teaching Professor
108 McAllister Building
814 867 5687
Christine Stachniewicz
Associate Teaching Professor
007 McAllister Building
814 865 3285
Matthew Willyard
Associate Teaching Professor
001 McAllister Building
814 863 8500
Education: Ph.D., Emory University, 1995
Research Interests: Graph theory
Albena Zikatanova
Assistant Teaching Professor
407 McAllister Building
814 863 9670