Mathematics New Faculty



Jane Arledge has joined the department as a Lecturer. Dr. Arledge received her Ph.D from University of Colorado at Boulder in 1995.

Clayton Bjorland has joined the department as a RTG Lecturer. Dr. Bjorland received his Ph.D. from USCS in 2008. His research area includes PDEs and fluid dynamics.

Gerard Brunick has joined the department as a RTG Lecturer. Dr. Brunick received his Ph.D in Mathematical Finance from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. His research interests are in stochastic processes and mathematical finance.

Chi Han Chan has joined the department as a Lecturer. Dr. Chan received his Ph.D. from UT Austin in 2008. His research area are nonlinear PDEs and application of classical harmonic analysis to P.D.E's.

Thomas Chen has returned to the department as an Assistant Professor after spending his first year on leave in Princeton. Dr. Chen obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1999, Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics in 2001, both from ETH Züric. His research area includes analysis and mathematical physics, in particular spectral and dynamical problems in quantum field theory, random Schrödinger operators, macroscopic scaling limits of quantum dynamics, and Hamiltonian dynamics.

David Fithian has joined the department as a Lecturer. Dr. Fithian received his Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 2008. His research interests include hyperbolic geometry and number theory.

John Hammond has joined the department as a RTG Lecturer. Dr. Hommond received his Ph.D. from UT Austin in 2008. His research area is Number Theory.

Florent Jouve has joined the department as an Instructor. Dr. Jouve received his Ph.D. from Université Bordeaux 1 in 2007. His research area is number theory.

Hector Lomeli has joined the department as a Lecturer. Dr. Lomeli received his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 1995. His research interests include dynamical systems, Hamiltonian mechanics, chaotic transport, invariant manifolds and applications to dynamic programming, finance and economics.

Brett Milburn has joined the department as a RTG Lecturer. Dr. Milburn obtained his Ph.D. from Universityof Massachusetts in 2008. His research deals with "generalized complex geometry".

Hossein Namazi has joind the department as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Namazi received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2005, his research interests includes hyperbolic geometry, low dimensional topology, Kleinian Groups and Teichmüller theory.

Kui Ren has joind the department as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Ren obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2006, his research interests includes applied PDE, scientific computing, theory and numerical methods for inverse problems of PDEs and applications and propagation of high frequency waves in random media and related imaging problems.

Stephanie Somersille has joined the department as a RTG Lecturer. Dr. Somersille received her Ph. D from UC Berkeley in 2008. Her research interests are at the intersection of game theory, probability and partial differential equations.