Department of Mathematics, WUSTL - Faculty, 2009-2010

Washington University in St. Louis, Cupples I Hall, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis MO. 63130

Chairperson and Professor
David L. Wright	Ph.D., Columbia University, 1975. Commutative Algebra: properties of algebras over an arbitrary base ring that might characterize them as polynomial or symmetric algebras; automorphism groups of polynomial algebras. Algebraic Geometry: geometry of affine n-space and its automorphisms.
Elinor Anheuser Professor of Mathematics
Guido Weiss	Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1956. Interpolation of Operators; Harmonic Analysis: convolution operators on classical groups and Lie groups; relations of harmonic analysis to partial differential equations, especially Cauchy-Riemann systems; Hardy spaces; transference; wavelets.
Professors
Albert Baernstein, II	Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968. Complex Analysis.
Quo-Shin Chi	Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986. Differential Geometry.
Renato Feres	Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1989. Differential Geometry, Dynamical Systems.
Ron Freiwald	Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1970. General Topology: structure of metric spaces with certain properties from descriptive set theory, such as absolute k-analytic sets; possible connections to the axioms of Set Theory.
Gary R. Jensen	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1968. Differential Geometry: submanifolds of homogeneous spaces, contact, harmonic maps of surfaces into Riemannian spaces, the method of moving frames.
Steven G. Krantz	Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974. Several Complex Variables; Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Geometry, Interpolation of Operators, Complex Function Theory, Real Analysis.
N. Mohan Kumar	Ph.D., Bombay University, 1981. Algebraic Geometry, commutative algebra.
John McCarthy	Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1989. Analysis, especially Operator Theory and Function Spaces.
Rachel Roberts	Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992. Low-dimensional Topology.
Richard Rochberg	Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970. Complex Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, spaces of analytic functions, function algebras; interpolation theory.
Stanley Sawyer	Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1964. Probability and Statistics; Population Biology, Mathematical Genetics.
John Shareshian	Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1996. Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics.
Edward Spitznagel	Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1965. Statistics and statistical computation; application of Statistics to medicine.
Nik Weaver	Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1994. Functional Analysis and quantization.
M. Victor Wickerhauser	Ph.D., Yale University, 1985. Harmonic Analysis, Wavelets, numerical algorithms for data compression.
Associate Professors
Brian E. Blank	Ph.D., Cornell University, 1980. Representations of Lie groups, Harmonic Analysis.
Jack Shapiro	Ph.D., City University of New York, 1970. Algebraic K-theory; quadratic and hermitian forms over fields; homology and cohomology of the classical linear groups.
Cleon R. Yohe	Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1966. Algebras: relationship between the structure of a commutative ring and the properties of full matrix rings formed from it; structure of the endomorphism ring and the automorphism group of a module over a commutative Noetherian ring; computer generation of calculus examinations; computer algebra.
Assistant Professors
Roya Beheshti Zavareh	Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. Algebraic Geometry, Arithmetic Geometry.
Jimin Ding	Ph.D., Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis, 2006. Statistics.
Nan Lin	Ph.D., Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. Bioinformatics, Robust Statistics, Incomplete Data, Bayesian Modeling.
Xiang Tang	Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2004. Differential Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry,and Mathematical Physics.
Visiting Professors
Arno van den Essen	Ph.D., University of Nijmegen, 1979. Polynomial automorphisms.
Joe Lakey	Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1991. Harmonic analysis and applications: wavelets, Fourier transforms, frames.
Chauvenet Lecturers
Rajan Mehta	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006. Supermanifolds, Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids, symplectic and Poisson geometry, equivariant cohomology, homotopy theory.
Kabe Moen	Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2009. Harmonic analysis: especially singular integrals, maximal functions, wavelets and weighted inequalities.
Russ Woodroofe	Ph.D., Cornell University, 2005. Geometric combinatorics of posets, the subgroup lattice and related posets.
Instructors
Coordinator of Lower Division Teaching
Blake Thornton	Ph.D., University of Utah, 2002. Geometry.
Visiting Research Associates
Professors Emeriti
William M. Boothby	Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1949. Differential Geometry.
Lawrence Conlon	Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963. Differential Topology, with special emphasis on foliated manifolds: smoothability of foliations, characteristic classes of foliations.
James A. Jenkins	Ph.D., Harvard University, 1948. Complex Analysis.
Robert H. McDowell	Ph.D., Purdue University, 1959. General Topology.
Edward N. Wilson	Ph.D., Washington University, 1971. Harmonic Analysis: Differential Geometry: groups of isometries homogeneous Riemannian manifolds; isospectral manifolds; generalizations of Harmonic Analysis on symmetric spaces.