Address:
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Department of Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin
2515 Speedway Stop C1200
Austin, Texas 78712-1202
Phone:
- Department: 512-471-7711
Fax: 512-471-9038
E-Mail:
Research:
- Fourier Analysis
- Geometric Inequalities
- Lie Groups & Differential Geometry
- Mathematical Physics
- Partial Differential Equations
- Probability
Teaching:
- Purpose -- to engage students on the cutting
edge of curiosity and provide the
analytical tools
to decode and explain the universe, investigate new and difficult things, recognize mathematical
beauty and understand how patterns of symmetry and asymptotics for large-scale behavior
encode information and decipher lower-order phenomena
[with lines borrowed from Isaac Newton and friends]
- To those who do not know mathematics, it is difficult to get across a
real feeling as to the beauty,
the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary
to understand the language that she speaks in. [Richard Feynman]
- Real Analysis [Fall 05, 09]
- Harmonic Analysis [Fall 06]
- Methods of Real Analysis [Spring 12]
- Dean's Scholars Seminar: Current Ideas in Math and Science [Fall 06, 07, Spring 12]
Education:
- BS in Physics, University of Missouri (Columbia); Adviser - Bernard
Goodman
- PhD in Mathematics, Princeton University; Adviser - Elias M. Stein
- Post-doctoral study, University of Chicago; Adviser - A.P. Calderon
Honors:
- Prix Salem 1975
- Sloan Research Fellow 1977
- ICM Invited Lecture -- Helsinki, 1978
Administrative Positions:
- Managing Editor, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2000-05
- Chair, Department of Mathematics, 2007-11
- Assistant Director, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, 2006-