Washington University
Mathematics Department Faculty and Chauvenet Lecturers, 2008-2009
Individual Faculty Web Pages and Photos
Telephone numbers and offices of the department's faculty members can be obtained in the Mathematics Office (Cupples I, Room 100) and can also be accessed from the Undergraduate Web Page. A listing of faculty offices is also posted on the wall near the east entrance to
Cupples I.
Albert Baernstein II, Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968. Complex analysis.
Roya Beheshti-Zavareh, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003). Algebraic geometry.
Brian Blank, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1980. Analysis on symmetric spaces.
Quo-Shin Chi, Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986. Differential geometry. On leave, Spring 2009
Jimin Ding, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 2006. Statistics, biostatistics.
Renato Feres, Professor, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1989. Differential geometry.Ron Freiwald, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1970. General topology.
Geir Hjelle, William Chauvenet Lecturer, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2006). Complex Analysis.
Gary R. Jensen, Professor, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1968. Differential geometry.Steven Krantz, Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974. Harmonic analysis.
N. Mohan Kumar, Professor, Graduate Committee Chair, Ph.D., Bombay University, 1981. Algebra.
Nan Lin, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. Statistics. On leave, Fall 2008
John McCarthy, Professor, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1989. Analysis.
Rajan Mehta, William Chauvenet Lecturer, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 2006. Geometry/Topology.
Rachel Roberts, Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1992. Low-dimensional topology.
Richard Rochberg, Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970. Harmonic analysis.
Stanley Sawyer, Professor, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1964. Probability and statistics.
Jack Shapiro, Associate Professor, Ph.D., City University of New York, 1970. Algebra.
John Shareshian, Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1996. Combinatorial algebra.
Edward Spitznagel, Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1965. Statistics.
Xiang Tang, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 2004. Global analysis, analysis on manifolds.
Blake Thornton, Coordinator for Lower Division Teaching in Mathematics, Ph.D., University of Utah, 2002. Geometry.
Nik Weaver, Professor, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1994. Analysis.
Guido Weiss, Elinor Anheuser Professor of Mathematics, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1956. Harmonic analysis.
Mladen Victor Wickerhauser, Professor, Ph.D., Yale University, 1985. Analysis. On leave, Spring 2009
Edward Wilson, Professor, Ph.D., Washington University, 1971. Differential geometry. On leave Fall 2008
Russ Woodroofe, William Chauvenet Lecturer, Ph.D., Cornell University, 2005. Combinatorics and group theory.
David Wright, Professor, Chairman of Mathematics Department, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1975. Algebraic geometry.
Cleon R.Yohe, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1966. Algebra.
Emeritus Faculty
William Boothby, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., University of Michigan 1949. Differential geometry.
Lawrence Conlon, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963. Differential topology.
James A. Jenkins, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1948. Complex analysis.
Robert H. McDowell, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1959. General topology.
A. Edward Nussbaum, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1957. Functional analysis.