Washington University Mathematics Department

Department of Mathematics, WUSTL - Faculty List, 2007-2008

PROFESSOR	TITLE	DEGREE and AREA of SPECIALIZATION
Baernstein, Albert II	Professor	Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968, Complex Analysis.
Roya Beheshti Zavareh	Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. Algebraic geometry, Arithmetic geometry.
Brian E. Blank	Associate Professor	Ph.D., Cornell University, 1980. Representations of Lie groups, harmonic analysis.
Quo-Shin Chi	Professor	Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986. Differential geometry.
Jimin Ding	Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2006. Statistics.
Renato Feres	Professor	Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1989. Differential geometry, dynamical systems.
Ron Freiwald	Undergraduate Advisor & Professor	Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1970. General topology: structure of metric spaces with certain properties from descriptive set theory, such as absolute k-analytic sets; possible connections to the axioms of set theory.
Geir Arne Hjelle	William Chauvenet Lecturer	Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 2006. Complex Analysis.
Gary R. Jensen	Professor	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1968. Differential geometry: submanifolds of homogeneous spaces, contact, harmonic maps of surfaces into Riemannian spaces, the method of moving frames.
Steven G. Krantz	Professor	Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974. Several complex variables; harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometry, interpolation of operators, complex function theory, real analysis.
N. Mohan Kumar	Graduate Advisor & Professor	Ph.D., Bombay University, 1981. Algebraic geometry, commutative algebra.
Nan Lin	Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2003.
Rajan Mehta	William Chauvenet Lecturer	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006. Supermanifolds, Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids, symplectic and Poisson geometry, equivariant cohomology, homotopy theory.
John M^cCarthy	Professor	Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1989. Analysis, especially Operator Theory and Function Spaces.
Stefan Richter	Visiting Professor	Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1986. Visiting from the University of Tennessee. Operator Theory and Complex Analysis.
Rachel Roberts	Professor	Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992. Low-dimensional topology.
Richard Rochberg	Professor	Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970. Complex analysis, harmonic analysis, spaces of analytic functions, function algebras; interpolation theory.
Stanley Sawyer	Professor	Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1964. Probability and statistics; population biology, Mathematical genetics.
Jack Shapiro	Associate Professor	Ph.D., City University of New York, 1970. Algebraic K-theory; quadratic and hermitian forms over fields; homology and cohomology of the classical linear groups.
John Shareshian	Associate Professor	Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1996. Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics.
Edward Spitznagel	Professor	Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1965. Statistics and statistical computation; application of statistics to medicine.
Xiang Tang	Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2004. Symplectic geometry, noncommutative geometry, mathematical physics.
Blake Thornton	Coordinator of Lower Division Teaching	Ph.D., University Utah, 2002. Geometry.
Nik Weaver	Professor	Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1994. Functional analysis and quantization.
Guido Weiss	Elinor Anheuser Professor	Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1956. Interpolation of operators; Harmonic analysis: convolution operators on classical groups and Lie groups; relations of harmonic analysis to partial differential equations, especially Cauchy-Riemann systems; Hardy spaces; transference; wavelets.
M. Victor Wickerhauser	Professor	Ph.D., Yale University, 1985. Harmonic analysis, wavelets, numerical algorithms for data compression.
Edward N. Wilson	Professor	Ph.D., Washington University, 1971. Harmonic Analysis: Differential geometry: groups of isometries homogeneous Riemannian manifolds; isospectral manifolds; generalizations of harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces.
Russ Woodroofe	William Chauvenet Lecturer	Ph.D., Cornell University, 2005. Geometric conbinatorics of posets, the subgroup lattice and related posets.
David L. Wright	Chairman & Professor	Ph.D., Columbia University, 1975. Commutative algebra: properties of algebras over an arbitrary base ring that might characterize them as polynomial or symmetric algebras; automorphism groups of polynomial algebras. Algebraic Geometry: geometry of affine n-space and its automorphisms.
Cleon R. Yohe	Associate Professor	Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1966. Algebras: relationship between the structure of a commutative ring and the properties of full matrix rings formed from it; structure of the endomorphism ring and the automorphism group of a module over a commutative Noetherian ring; computer generation of calculus examinations; computer algebra.

Professors Emeriti

PROFESSOR	DEGREE and AREA of SPECIALIZATION
William M. Boothby	Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1949. Differential Geometry.
Lawrence Conlon	Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963. Differential topology, with special emphasis on foliated manifolds: smoothability of foliations, characteristic classes of foliations.
James A. Jenkins	Ph.D., Harvard University, 1948. Complex analysis.
Robert H. McDowell	Ph.D., Purdue University, 1959. General topology.
A. Edward Nussbaum	Ph.D., Columbia University, 1957. Functional analysis.