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New Faces in the Department
Nung Kwan (Aaron) Yip joined the Mathematics faculty in August 1999 as Assistant Professor of Mathematics. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1996 and spent the following two years as an instructor at Courant Institute. His research interests include mathematical modeling in materials science, geometric measure theory, and partial differential equations.
Professor Yip is also a Purdue alum; he earned a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1991.
Two Research Assistant Professors (three-year appointment) joined the faculty in fall 1999: Daniel Dugger, Ph.D. MIT, 1999, algebraic topology; Slava Archava, Ph.D. UCLA, 1999, algebraic geometry.
Owen Davis, Timothy Delworth, Ronald Mickelson, and Caroline Van Tuinen joined the department last August as Continuing Lecturers in Mathematics.
Joining the Department in August 2000:
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Plamen Stefanov Dr. Stefanov earned his Ph.D. and Dr. Sc. degrees from Sofia University and worked three years at the Bulgarian Academy of Science. He then held several short-term positions at universities in France, Finland, Canada, Brazil, and the U.S. He was a visiting professor at the University of Washington in 1994 and again in 1996-97. In October 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor at East Carolina University. Stefanov works in the areas of partial differential equations and mathematical physics.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Frederi Viens Dr. Viens comes to Purdue as Assistant Professor of Statistics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. from UC Irvine in 1996 in the area of probability theory and its applications to stochastic partial differential equations. He was previously Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Texas. An NSF postdoctoral fellowship allowed him to spend 12 months each at the University of Barcelona and the University of Paris VI.
Hans Ulrich Walther Dr. Walther received a Ph.D. in July 1999 from the University of Minnesota. He spent the 1999-2000 academic year at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. His research area is algebraic geometry and commutative algebra.
Research Assistant Professors
Eric J. Hall, Ph.D. 2000 Michigan, logic and foundations
Dana Pascovici, Ph.D. 2000 MIT, topological groups, Lie groups
Alexander Richman, Ph.D. 2000 University of Virginia, operator theory
Visiting Faculty
Krzysztof Bogdan, Wroclaw Univ. Tech., probability and its application to harmonic analysis
C.-Y. Jean Chan, Ph.D. 2000 University of Utah, commutative rings and algebras
Omar De la Cruz, Ph.D. 2000 University of Florida, set theory
Andrzej Hulanicki, Instytut Matematyczny Wroclaw, harmonic analysis on groups & applications
Wentang Kuo, Ph.D. 2000 MIT, representation theory, Lie theory
Izuru Mori, Ph.D. 1998 University of Washington, noncommutative algebraic geometry
Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk, Warsaw University, algebraic geometry
Continuing Lecturer in Mathematics Education
Daniel Breidenbach, B.S. 1989 Purdue (mathematics), M.S. 1992 Purdue (C&I)
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