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Jess & Mildred Fisher College of Science & Mathematics


Department of Mathematics

Full-time Faculty and Staff

The Department of Mathematics is proud of having an excellent full-time faculty and staff with wide ranging interests and specialties.  These faculty and staff are fully committed to scholarship, teaching and providing our students with an outstanding educational experience.

Name & Title

Interests

Mostafa Aminzadeh
Professor

predictive inference, linear models, reliability

Honi J. Bamberger
Professor

improving teachers ability to teach mathematics in under achieving schools

Sergiy Borodachov
Assistant Professor
approximation theory, geometric measure theory, applied harmonic analysis

Raouf N. Boules
Professor & Chairperson

spectral estimation theory, Fourier analysis, optimal filtering, electrodynamics

Richard Brown
Lab Manager

computer technology

Florence Bukosky
Administrative Assistant II

reading

John Chollet
Professor

linear and multilinear algebra, matrix theory

Jerome Cohen
Lecturer

mathematics education

Linda L. Cooper
Assistant Professor

teaching statistics in K-16 education

Elizabeth Goode
Associate Professor

DNA splicing systems, models of biomolecular computation

Geoffrey R. Goodson
Professor

ergodic theory, dynamical systems, matrix theory, operator theory

John Grant
Professor

applied logic and computer science

Ge Han
Assistant Professor

applied mathematics, financial mathematics, differential equations

Xuezhang (John) Hou
Associate Professor & Director of the Masters Program in Applied and Industrial Mathematics

system control theory, semigruop of linear operators, differential equations

Gail Kaplan
Associate Professor

mathematics education

Ohoe Kim
Professor

stochastic processes and mathematical finance

Alexei Kolesnikov
Assistant Professor

mathematical logic, model theory
R. Michael Krach
Professor

staff development activities in mathematics education

Angel V. Kumchev
Assistant Professor

additive number theory, sieves, the distribution of primes, and analytic number theory in number fields

Froma B. Lustman
Lecturer

biostatistics

Judith G. Macks
Lecturer

mathematics education

Coy L. May
Professor

group actions on surfaces, topological aspects of graph theory

Erika Miller
Lecturer

teaching undergraduate mathematics

Todd Moyer
Assistant Professor

teacher education, incorporating technology into the curriculum

Michael O'Leary
Associate Professor & Graduate Director of the Center for Applied Information Technology

applied mathematics, including partial differential equations, fluid dynamics and computer security

Moustapha Pemy
Assistant Professor

stochastic analysis, control theory, financial mathematics, Markov switching, free boundary problems, nonlinear functional analysis

James Plutschak
Lecturer

hand-held technology, secondary mathematics education

William R. Rose
Assistant Professor

probability and statistics

Reza Sarhangi
Professor

mathematics education, control theory, mathematical connections in art, music and science

Lawrence H. Shirley
Professor & Associate Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research

ethnomathematics, mathematics teacher education and curriculum implementation, history of mathematics

Felice S. Shore
Assistant Professor

mathematics education, continuing professional development for in-service teachers

Martha J. Siegel
Professor

applied probability, mathematical models, college mathematics curriculum reform

Houshang H. Sohrab
Professor

functional analysis, normal solvability of partial (and pseudo) differential equations

Tatyana Sorokina
Assistant Professor

approximation theory (splines), computer aided geometric design, numerical analysis

Sandy M. Spitzer
Assistant Professor
pre-service teacher education, technology use in mathematics education, algebra learning and teaching
Leonid Stern
Professor

algebraic number theory, Galois theory

Wei Sun
Professor & Director of the Masters Program in Mathematics Education

mathematics education

Patricia Thomas
Administrative Assistant I

Golden Retriever rescue and reading

Ming C. Tomayko
Assistant Professor

mathematics education, teacher induction, professional development

Mircea D. Voisei
Assistant Professor

nonlinear analysis, optimization, ordinary partial differential equations
Xiaoyin Wang
Associate Professor

statistics and Bayesian analysis

Maureen Yarnevich
Associate Professor

mathematics education

Jay J. Zimmerman
Professor & Director of the Applied Mathematics Laboratory

group theory, geometry and group actions on compact surfaces

   



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