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.