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Math Department and Institute Faculty - by Rank

Professor

Michael Anderson (anderson at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1988 ; Ph.D. in 1981 from University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Differential geometry.
4-100A Math Tower, (631) 632-8269
1994 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians

William Barcus (wbarcus at math.sunysb.edu)

Professor Emeritus, arrived at Stony Brook in 1961; D. Phil in 1955 from University of Oxford, England
Interests: Algebraic topology.
4-108 Math Tower, (631) 632-8270

Christopher Bishop (bishop at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1991 ; Ph.D. in 1987 from University of Chicago
Interests: Complex analysis.
4-112 Math Tower, (631) 632-8274
1992-A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1993-NSF Presidential Young Investigators Award

David Ebin (ebin at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1969 ; Ph.D. in 1967 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Global analysis; mathematics of continuum mechanics; Partial differential equations.
5-116 Math Tower, (631) 632-8290
1970 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians

William Fox (wmfox at math.sunysb.edu)

Professor Emeritus, arrived at Stony Brook in 1961; Ph.D. in 1955 from University of Michigan
Interests: Complex analysis.
4-105 Math Tower, (631) 632-8268

Daryl Geller (daryl at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1979 ; Ph.D. in 1977 from Princeton University
Interests: Partial differential equations; harmonic analysis; several complex variables; Lie groups.
4-100B Math Tower, (631) 632-8327

James Glimm (glimm at ams.sunysb.edu)

Distinguished Professor, arrived at Stony Brook in 1988; Ph.D. in 1959 from Columbia University
Interests: Applied mathematics; numerical analysis; Mathematical physics.
P-138A Math Tower, (631) 632-8355
1979 New York Academy of Science Award in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences; 1980 Dannie Heineman prize for Mathematical Physics; 1984 National Academy of Sciences; 1993 Steele Prize for a paper of fundamental importance, American Mathematical Society

Detlef Gromoll (detlef at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1969; Ph.D. in 1964 from University of Bonn, Germany
Interests: Differential geometry.
5-110 Math Tower, (631) 632-8286
1966/68 Miller Fellow; 1970 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians; 1983 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award.

C. Denson Hill (Dhill at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1973 ; Ph.D. in 1966 from New York University
Interests: Partial differential equations; several complex variables.
2-113 Math Tower, (631) 632-8251
1970 NATO Fellow; 1972/76 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship; 1979 National Research Council of Italy Fellowship

Lowell Jones (lejones at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1975 ; Ph.D. in 1970 from Yale University
Interests: Topology; geometry.
2-111 Math Tower, (631) 632-8248

Anthony Knapp (aknapp at math.sunysb.edu)

Professor Emeritus, arrived at Stony Brook in 1986 ; Ph.D. in 1965 from Princeton University
Interests: Lie groups; representation theory.
5-115 Math Tower, (631) 689-2158
1974 Invited address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver; 1982-83 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; 1996 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award "Mathematics 1995", Association of American Publishers; 1997 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, American Mathematical Society

Irwin Kra (irwin at math.sunsyb.edu)

Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, arrived at Stony Brook in 1968 ; Ph.D. in 1966 from Columbia University
Interests: Complex analysis; Kleinian groups.
5-115 Math Tower, (631) 632-8298

Paul G. Kumpel (pkumpel at math.sunysb.edu)

Professor Emeritus, arrived at Stony Brook in 1964; Ph.D. in 1964 from Brown University
Interests: Algebraic topology.
5-115 Math Tower, (631) 632-8298
1990 Recipient: President's & Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching

H. Blaine Lawson Jr. (blaine at math.sunysb.edu)

Distinguished Professor; arrived at Stony Brook in 1978; Ph.D. in 1968 from Stanford University
Interests: Differential geometry, topology; geometric measure theory; several complex variables; algebraic geometry.
5-109 Math Tower, (631) 632-8285
1970-73 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow; 1973 Leroy P. Steele Prize of the A.M.S.; 1983-84 Guggenheim Fellow; 1974 and 1994 Invited Address: International Congress of Mathematicians; 1995 National Academy of Sciences; 1997 Vice President A.M.S.; 1999 Brazilian Academy of Sciences

Claude LeBrun (claude at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1980 ; D. Phil in 1980 from University of Oxford, England
Interests: Differential geometry; Algebraic geometry; Complex analysis; Mathematical physics.
3-108 Math Tower, (631) 632-8254
1994 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematics

William Lister

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. in 1951 from Yale University
Interests: Algebra

Mikhail Lyubich (mlyubich at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1990 ; Ph.D. in 1984 from Tashkent State University, former Soviet Union
Interests: Dynamical systems.
3-110 Math Tower, (631) 632-8256
1991/1993 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow; 1994 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematics

Bernard Maskit (bernie at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1971 ; Ph.D. in 1964 from New York University
Interests: Complex analysis; Riemann surfaces; Kleinian groups and deformation spaces.
5-112 Math Tower, (631) 632-8257
1969/1971 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1972 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians

Dusa McDuff (dusa at math.sunysb.edu)

Distinguished Professor, arrived at Stony Brook in 1978; Ph.D. in 1971 from Cambridge University, England
Interests: Geometry; Symplectic topology.
3-111 Math Tower, (631) 632-8288
1991-Satter Prize, American Mathematical Society; 1991-UUP excellence award; 1994 Fellow, Royal Society; 1995 Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1999 National Academy of Sciences.

Marie-Louise Michelsohn (mlm at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1978 ; Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Chicago
Interests: Differential geometry.
5-113 Math Tower, (631) 632-8258

John Milnor (jack at math.sunysb.edu)

Distinguished Professor, arrived at Stony Brook in 1988 ; Ph.D. in 1954 from Princeton University
Interests: Dynamical systems.
5D-148 Math Tower, (631) 632-7307
1962 Fields Medal, International Mathematical Union, Stockholm; 1963 National Academy of Sciences; 1965 Hon. D. Sci, Syracuse University; 1967 National Medal of Science; 1967 Hon. D. Sci, University of Chicago; 1982 Steele Prize, American Mathematical Society; 1989 Wolf Prize, Israel

Anthony Phillips (tony at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1968 ; Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University
Interests: Topology, applications to Mathematical Physics.
3-113 Math Tower, (631) 632-8259

Joel Pincus (jpincus at math.sunysb.edu)

Professor Emeritus, arrived at Stony Brook in 1968 ; Ph.D. in 1959 from New York University
Interests: Operator theory, integral equations.
4-113 Math Tower, (631) 632-8275

Dennis Sullivan (dennis at math.sunysb.edu)

Distinguished Professor, arrived at Stony Brook in 1996 ; Ph.D. in 1965 from Princeton University
Interests: Theory of manifolds, triangulations, algebraic topology, differential forms and homotopy theory, foliations, laminations and low dimensional dynamical systems, Riemann surfaces and kleinian groups, fluid evolution and computation, quantum theory and topology.
1971 Veblen Prize; 1981 Elie Cartan Prize, French Academy of Sciences; 1983 National Academy of Sciences; 1994 King Faisal International Prize of Science; 2005 National Medal of Science; 2006 American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Leon Takhtajan (leontak at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1992; Ph.D. in 1975 from Leningrad Branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute.
Interests: Mathematical physics.
5-111 Math Tower, (631) 632-8287
1982 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematics

Associate Professor

Mark Andrea de Cataldo (mde at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1999; Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Notre Dame
Interests: Algebraic geometry.
3-115 Math Tower, (631) 632-8262
1998 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship

Alexander Kirillov, Jr. (kirillov at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1998 ; Ph.D. in 1995 from Yale University
Interests: Algebra, representation theory
3-112 Math Tower, (631) 632-8289

Vladimir Markovic (markovic at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in Spring, 2007; Ph.D. in 1998 from Belgrade University
Interests: Teichmüller theory and hyperbolic geometry; harmonic maps between manifolds
4-110 Math Tower, (631) 632-8272

Marco Martens (marco at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 1990 from Delft University
Interests: Dynamics
4-113 Math Tower, (631) 632-4893

Michael Movshev (mmovshev at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1997
Interests: Algebra
Math Tower 4-109 , (631) 632-8271

Sorin Popescu (sorin at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1999; Ph.D. in 1993 from University of Saarland
Interests: Algebraic geometry, Commutative algebra, Computational algebraic geometry
3-109 Math Tower, (631) 632-8255

Scott Sutherland (scott at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 1989 ; Ph.D. in 1989 from Boston University
Interests: Dynamical systems; Root finding algorithms; Computing.
5D-148 Math Tower, (631) 632-7306

Assistant Professor

Lisa Berger (lbrgr at math.sunysb.edu)

arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. from University of Arizona in 2007
Interests: Number Theory, Mathematics Education of Teachers
Math Tower 4-105 , (631) 632-8278

Nadia Kennedy (nadia at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ed.D. in 2005 from Montclair State University
Interests: Mathematics Education
4-104 Math Tower, (631) 632-8267

Marcus Khuri (khuri at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 2003 from University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Differential geometry, Partial differential equations, and General relativity
4-119 Math Tower, (631) 632-8358

Olga Plamenevskaya (olga at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D in 2004 from Harvard University
Interests: Contact and symplectic geometry, Low-dimensional topology
3-107 Math Tower, (631) 632-8328

Jason Starr (jstarr at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 2000 from Harvard University
Interests: Algebraic geometry
3-119 Math Tower, (631) 632-8622

Dror Varolin (dror at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2005;
Interests: Several complex variables, Algebraic geometry, Complex geometry, Dynamical systems
4-117 Math Tower

Aleksey Zinger (azinger at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2005; Ph.D. in 2002 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Symplectic topology and Enumerative algebraic geometry
3-117 Math Tower, (631) 632-8618

James H. Simons Instructor

Xuhua He (hugo at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived 2006; Ph.D. in 2005 from MIT
Interests: Representation theory, Algebraic geometry
3-120 Math Tower, (631) 632-3219

Ljudmila Kamenova

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 2006 from MIT
Interests: Complex geometry

Corbett Redden (redden at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 2006 from Notre Dame University
Interests: Riemannian geometry, Algebraic topology
4-120 Math Tower, (631) 632-4005

Scott Simon (sbsimon at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 2006 from Purdue University
Interests: Infinite-dimensional complex analysis, Several complex variables
3-114 Math Tower, (631) 632-8361

Qian Wang (qwang at math.sunysb.edu)

arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. from Princeton in 2006
Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Geometric Analysis, Harmonic Analysis
Math Tower 4-120 , (631) 632-4005

RTG Post-doctoral Fellow

Eric Harrelson (harrelson at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 2006 from University of Minnesota
Interests: Algebraic topology, String field theory
3-116 Math Tower, (631) 632-8263

William D. Linch III (wdlinch3@insti.physics.sunysb.edu) [Jointly at YITP]

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Maryland
Interests: Theoretical Physics
5-102 Math Tower, (631) 632-4168

Brian Weber (brweber at math.sunysb.edu)

Arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Wisconsin
Interests: Differential Geometry
3-121 Math Tower, (631) 632-8264

Lecturers and Visitors

Pierre Berger (berger at math.sunysb.edu)

Lecturer, arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. from Université Paris-Sud
Interests: Dynamical Systems
4-114 Math Tower , (631) 632-8276

Sylvain Bonnot (bonnot at math.sunysb.edu)

Lecturer, arrived at Stony Brook in 2005; Ph.D. in 2004 from the Université de Provence, Marseille
Interests: Complex dynamics, Holomorphic dynamics, Several complex variables
5D-148 Math Tower, (631) 632-7308

Moira Chas (moira at math.sunysb.edu)

Visitor, arrived at Stony Brook in 2002; Ph.D. in 1998 from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Interests: Geometric topology, Dynamical systems.
4-103 Math Tower, (631) 632-8266

Jeremy Khan (khan at math.sunysb.edu)

Lecturer, arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 1995 from University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Dynamical systems, complex analysis.
4-115 Math Tower, (631) 632-8277

Pavel Nurowski (nurowski at math.sunysb.edu)

Visitor, arrived at Stony Brook in 2007
Interests: Differential Geometry, Mathematical Physics.
Math Tower 3-102 , (631) 632-8884

Alexander Retakh (retakh at math.sunysb.edu)

Visiting Assistant Professor, arrived at Stony Brook in 2006; Ph.D. in 2002 from Yale University
Interests: Algebra, mathematical physics.
253 Chancellors Hall (Southampton), (631) 632-5027

Daniel Silver (silver at math.sunysb.edu)

Visiting Professor, arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. in 1980 from Yale University
Interests: Dynamical Systems, Knot theory
4-117 Math Tower , (631) 632-8995

Julia Viro (julia at math.sunysb.edu)

Visiting Lecturer, arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. from Leningrad University in 1991
Interests: Low-dimensional topology and knot theory; links in projective space; rigid isotopy of projective configurations; algebraic links; Vassiliev invariants.
4-102 Math Tower , (631) 632-8265

Oleg Viro (oleg at math.sunysb.edu)

Visiting Professor, arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. from Leningrad University in 1974
Interests: Geometry and Topology
4-108 Math Tower , (631) 632-8270

Judy Wiegand (jwiegand at math.sunysb.edu)

Coordinator of Field Experience and Student Teaching, arrived at Stony Brook in 2002;
Interests: Mathematics secondary teacher preparation.
4-107 Math Tower, (631) 632-8293

Susan Williams (susan at math.sunysb.edu)

Visiting Professor, arrived at Stony Brook in 2007; Ph.D. in 1981 from Yale University
Interests: Dynamical Systems, Knot Theory, Algebraic Topology
4-117 Math Tower , (631) 632-8995

September 24, 2007