Wash U Graduate Program in Mathematics : Mathematics Department Faculty

The following is an alphabetical listing of the members of Washington University's mathematics faculty. In each case, the faculty member's name is followed by his or her title, the school granting the Ph.D., and his or her area of specialization.

• Albert Baernstein II, Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968. Classical complex and real 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.
• Ronald Freiwald, 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.
• 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, Professor; Ph.D., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1977. Algebraic geometry, commutative algebra.
• Nan Lin, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2003.
• John McCarthy, Professor; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1989. Operator theory, holomorphic spaces, general 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, statistics; non-Abelian harmonic analysis.
• 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.
• Nik Weaver, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994. Noncommutative differential geometry (C^*-algebras).
• Guido Weiss, Elinor Anheuser Professor; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1956. Harmonic analysis: convolution operators on classical groups and Lie groups; relations of harmonic analysis to partial differential equations, especially Cauchy-Riemann systems; Hardy spaces; interpolation of operators.
• M. Victor Wickerhauser, Professor; Ph.D., Yale University, 1985. Harmonic analysis, wavelets, numerical algorithms for data compression.
• Edward 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.
• David Wright, Professor and Chairman; 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.

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