Department of Mathematics

Graduate Faculty in the Math Department

If a professor is a graduate faculty member, then he or she will give graduate courses and can be chosen as a thesis advisor.
A list of current students with Ph.D. thesis advisors is here.

55 Faculty Members ( A-E F-J K-O P-V W-Z )

Abe, Kinetsu

Emeritus

Office: MSB M419b/c (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8380

Email: abe@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~abe

Research:

Riemann Geometry, Complex Manifolds and Computational Geometry/Topology

Abikoff, William

Professor

Office: MSB M210 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-2003

Office Hours: At the beginning of the semester, email me for an appointment. I expect that eventually my office hours will be Mon 1-2, Thursday 2-3 and by appointment.

Email: abikoff@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~abikoff

Research:

Complex and geometric analysis, Teichmueller theory, Kleinian groups and Mathematical aspects of computer graphics

Bass, Richard

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor (On Leave)

Office: MSB M426 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3939

Office Hours: On leave

Email: bass@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~bass

Research:

Probability theory, PDE, Harmonic analysis

Bayer, Arend

Assistant Professor

Office: MSB M206 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4237

Office Hours: Monday 2pm Tuesday 2pm Thursday 9.30am

Email: arend.bayer@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~bayer

Research:

Algebraic Geometry

Ben-Ari, Iddo

Assistant Professor

Office: MSB M416 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8388

Office Hours: Wed 1:00-2:50, or by appointment (Spring 2012)

Email: iddo.ben-ari@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~benari

Research:

Probability Theory

Blei, Ron

Emeritus

Office: MSB M126 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-1293

Email: blei@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~blei

Research:

Harmonic Analysis, Probability Theory

Bridgeman, James

Associate Professor in Residence

Office: MSB M408 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8382

Office Hours: M/Th/F 10-11:30, W 3-4:30, F 1-2 or by appointment

Email: bridgeman@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~bridgeman

Research:

Actuarial Science, Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Modeling

Cardetti, Fabiana A.

Assistant Professor

Office: MSB M216 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3442

Office Hours: Spring 2012: Tue. 2:00-3:30, Th. 9:00-10:30, or by appointment.

Email: fabiana.cardetti@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~cardetti

Research:

K-12 Mathematics Education, K-12 Teacher Education, Undergraduate Mathematics Education; Geometric Control Theory, Partial Differential Equations

Choi, Yung

Professor

Office: MSB M320 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4143

Office Hours: Mon/Wed 3-4, Thurs 2-3

Email: choi@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~choi

Research:

Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Electrochemistry Modeling, Mathematical Biology

Conrad, Keith

Associate Professor

Office: MSB M318 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3923

Office Hours: By appointment.

Email: kconrad@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad

Research:

Number Theory

DeFranco, Thomas C.

Professor

Office: Gentry 340C (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3815

Email: tom.defranco@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.education.uconn.edu/directory/details.cfm?id=22

Research:

Mathematics Education

Joint Appointment: Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Neag School of Educaton

Dunne, Gerald

Professor

Office: PHY P422 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4978

Email: gerald.dunne@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.phys.uconn.edu/people/faculty/storrs/dunne/

Research:

Quantum field theory, gauge theory, mathematical physics

Joint Appointment: Department of Physics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Gine-Masdeu, Evarist

Professor

Office: MSB M428 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3929

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 11-11:50 or by appointment (use email: gine@amth.uconn.edu)

Email: gine@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~gine

Research:

Probability in Infinite Dimensions, Asymptotic Statistics, Empirical Processes and Applications, Asymptotic Statistics

Glaz, Sarah

Professor (On Leave)

Office: MSB M202 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-9153

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12:30-1:30 and by appointment

Email: glaz@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~glaz

Research:

Commutative Algebra, Homological Algebra, Mathematics Education

Gordina, Maria

Associate Professor

Office: MSB M304 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-2158

Office Hours: Tuesday 10:45-12:00 AM Thursday 10:45-12:00 AM

Email: maria.gordina@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~gordina

Research:

Analysis and probability in infinite dimensions, geometric analysis, differential geometry, mathematical physics

Gui, Changfeng

Professor

Office: MSB M226 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3203

Office Hours: Monday 11-12am Wed. 11-12am Thursday 10-11am

Email: gui@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~gui

Research:

Nonlinear partial differential equations, Image Analysis

Haas, Andrew H.

Professor

Office: MSB M306 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4328

Office Hours: Tu 2--3, Th 10--11 and by appointment

Email: haas@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~haas

Research:

Kleinian Groups, Diophantine Approximation and Ergodic Theory

Hartman, Brian

Assistant Professor

Office: MSB M404 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-6331

Office Hours: TTh 1pm - 2:30pm (Spring 2012)

Email: brian.hartman@uconn.edu

Research:

Bayesian Methods, Regime-switching Models, Mortality Modeling

Hering, Milena

Assistant Professor

Office: MSB M322 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3120

Office Hours: Monday 11-11:30. Tuesday and Thursday 10:45 - 11:45, or by appointment.

Email: hering@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~hering

Research:

Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics

Huber, Greg

Associate Professor

Office: MSB M332 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-1285

Office: MSB M332 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-1285

Email: huber@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~huber

Research:

Biological physics, with an emphasis on the interplay of statistical mechanics, biomechanics, and fluid dynamics.

Joint Appointment: Center for Cell Analysis & Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center

Lee, Kyu-Hwan

Associate Professor

Office: MSB M302 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3509

Office Hours: TuTh 9:15-10:45

Email: khlee@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~khlee

Research:

Representation Theory

Leibowitz, Gerald

Emeritus

Office: MSB M419b/c (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8380

Email: leibowitz@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~leibowitz

Research:

Banach Algebras, Operator Theory

Lerman, Manuel

Emeritus

Office: MSB M419b/c (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8380

Email: lerman@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~lerman

Research:

Logic, Recursion Theory and Degrees of Unsolvability

Leykekhman, Dmitriy

Assistant Professor

Office: Marine Science 190 (Avery Point)

Phone: (860) 405-9294

Office: MSB M332 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-1285

Email: leykekhman@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~leykekhman

Research:

Numerical Analysis

Lozano-Robledo, Alvaro

Assistant Professor

Office: HBL 108 (Storrs)

Phone:

Office: MSB M312 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3850

Office Hours: Wednesdays and Thursdays 11am - noon, or by appointment.

Email: alvaro.lozano-robledo@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~alozano

Research:

Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, Mathematics Education

Luh, Peter

Professor

Office: ITEB 348 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4821

Email: PETER.LUH@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.ee.uconn.edu/faculty.php?f_id=14

Research:

Planning, scheduling, and coordination of design, manufacturing and service activities, schedule and bid optimization and load/price forecasting for power systems, decisionmaking under uncertain, fuzzy, or distributed environments, mathematical optimization for large-scale systems, engineering and socio-economic applications.

Joint Appointment: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, School of Engineering

Madych, Wolodymyr R.

Professor

Office: MSB M308 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3544

Office Hours: TuTh 11:00 - 12:00. Also by arrangement

Email: madych@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~madych

Research:

Harmonic Analysis

McKenna, Patrick J.

Professor

Office: MSB M328 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3989

Email: mckenna@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~mckenna

Research:

Qualitative Study of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Nicholls, Peter

Professor and UConn Provost

Office: Gulley Hall (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4037

Email: nicholls@math.uconn.edu

Research:

The geometry of discrete groups of Moebius transforms

Olshevsky, Vadim

Professor

Office: MSB M314 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4343

Email: olshevsky@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~olshevsky

Research:

Scientific Computing, Fast and Superfast Algorithms, Structured Matrices, Linear Algebra, Coding Theory, System Theory

Peters, Thomas

Professor

Office: ITEB 231 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-5045

Email: tpeters@engr.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~tpeters/

Research:

Computational topology, Computational geometry, computer graphics, Point Set topology

Joint Appointment: Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering

Ravishanker, Nalini

Professor

Office: CLAS 333 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4760

Email: nalini.ravishanker@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.stat.uconn.edu/~nalini

Research:

Time Series, Spatial Data Analysis, Inference For Stable Processes, Survival Data Analysis

Joint Appointment: Department of Statistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Roby, Thomas

Associate Professor (On Leave)

Office: HBL 108 (Storrs)

Phone:

Office: MSB M212 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8385

Office Hours: None (on Sabbatical 2011-12), but feel free to email.

Email: tom.roby@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~troby

Research:

Algebra, Combinatorics, Representation Theory and Math Education

Rogers, Luke

Assistant Professor

Office: MSB M414 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3923

Office Hours: Tuesday 1515-1630, Thursday 1230-1330 and by appointment.
Subject to change if student demand requires.

Email: rogers@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~rogers

Research:

Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces, Fractals

Russell, Alexander

Associate Professor

Office: ITEB 241 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4290

Email: alexander.russell@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~acr/

Research:

Complexity Theory, Quantum Computation, Randomized Computation, Approximation Algorithms, Cryptography

Joint Appointment: Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering

Schiffler, Ralf

Assistant Professor

Office: MSB M323 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8381

Office Hours: Tue 3:15 - 4:00, Thu 3:15 - 4:00

Email: schiffler@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~schiffler

Research:

Cluster Algebras, Representation Theory

Sidney, Stuart

Emeritus

Office: MSB M419b/c (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8380

Office Hours: By arrangement

Email: sidney@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~sidney

Research:

Functional Analysis, Banach Algebras, Geometry, Combinatorics

Solomon, David R.

Associate Professor

Office: MSB M214 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-2341

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00-12:30

Email: solomon@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~solomon

Research:

Computability theory, especially its applications to algebra and combinatorics, computable model theory, reverse mathematics

Spencer, Domina

Professor

Office: MSB M228 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3927

Email: domina@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~domina

Research:

Tensors, Field Theory, Partial Differential and Integral Equations, Optics

Spiegel, Eugene

Emeritus

Office: MSB M419b/c (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-8380

Email: spiegel@math.uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~spiegel

Research:

Combinatorial Analysis, Ring Theory, Incidence Algebras

Teplyaev, Alexander

Associate Professor

Office: MSB M222 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3206

Office Hours: usually MWF 12:30-2pm (please send e-mail before coming)

Email: ALEXANDER.TEPLYAEV@UCONN.EDU

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~teplyaev

Research:

probability, mathematical physics, geometry, differential equations on fractals and other rough spaces

Tollefson, Jeffrey L.

Professor

Office: MSB M123 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-1290

Office: MSB M224 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3921

Office Hours: Mon & Wed 3:45:-4:15 or by appt.

Email: tollefson@math.uconn.edu

Research:

Low-dimensional Topology, Group Actions on Manifolds

Towsner, Henry

Assistant Professor

Office: MSB M208 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-4003

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00 - 4:00, Thursday 1:00 - 2:00, or by appointment

Email: henry.towsner@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~towsner

Research:

Mathematical logic, especially proof theory and reverse mathematics

Turchin, Peter

Associate Professor

Office: EEB E1 (Storrs)

Phone: (860)486-3603

Email: peter.turchin@uconn.edu

Webpage: http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/people/turchin/

Research:

Theoretical ecology and population dynamics, numerical dynamics of prehistoric and historic human populations, projects include developing mechanistic basis for landscape ecology

Joint Appointment: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Vadiveloo, Jeyaraj

Towers Wyatt Professor in Residence