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Faculty Research Areas of Interest

Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences

Our applied mathematics department has numerous faculty with varied areas of interest. Whatever your research interest, from optimization to mathematics education, there are numerous faculty you can collaborate with.

Computational Mathematics

Lynn Bennethum, Associate Professor

  • Mathematical modeling of porous media
  • Constitutive modeling of swelling porous media
  • Continuum mechanics
  • Numerical solutions of PDEs

Loren Cobb, Associate Research Professor

  • Modeling and simulation

Leo Franca, Professor

  • Finite element methhods
  • Multiscale phenomena
  • Fluids, Materials, Acoustics

Andrew Knyazev, Professor

  • Numerical linear algebra
  • Eigenvalue problems
  • Numerical solutions of PDEs
  • Large scale and parallel computations
  • Multigrid and finite element methods

Julien Langou, Assistant Professor

  • Numerical linear algebra
  • Error analysis of algorithms
  • Parallel computing
  • Numerical analysis

Jan Mandel, Professor

  • Numerical solutions of PDEs
  • Supercomputing and parallel methods
  • Domain decomposition
  • Multigrid methods
  • Structural mechanics and acoustics

Discrete Mathematics

William (Bill) Cherowitzo, Professor

  • Discrete mathematics
  • Finite geometry
  • Combinatorics

Mike Ferrara, Assistant Professor

  • Graph Theory
  • Combinatorics

Michael Jacobson, Professor and Chair

  • Graph Theory
  • Combinatorics

Rich Lundgren, Professor

  • Applied graph theory
  • Applications to large matrix models
  • Combinatorial matrix theory

Stan Payne, Professor

  • Finite geometry
  • Generalized quadrangles
  • Ovals

Mathematics Education

Roxanne Byrne, Associate Professor

  • Mathematics education
  • Use of technology


RaKissa Cribari, Instructor

  • Mathematics education
  • Number theory
  • Geometry


Mike Kawai, Senior Instructor

  • Teaching mathematics to non-math majors


Lance Lana, Instructor

  • Mathematics education
  • Mathematical modeling


Gary Olson, Instructor

  • Mathematics education
  • Online learning strategies
  • Mathematical modeling


Diana White, Assistant Professor

  • Mathematics education
  • Commutative algebra
  • Mathematics education
  • Teacher education

Operations Research & Optimization

Steve Billups, Associate Professor

  • Optimization
  • Complementary problems
  • Computational biology

Alexander Engau, Assistant Professor

  • Optimization and mathematical programming
  • Operations research and decision-making
  • Financial and engineering optimization

Weldon Lodwick, Professor

  • Optimization
  • Fuzzy sets; interval analysis
  • Non-smooth equations
  • Application in medicine

Tolya Puhalskii, Associate Professor

  • Probability theory
  • Queueing theory
  • Large deviation theory

Burt Simon, Associate Professor

  • Simulation
  • Queueing theory
  • Mathematical modeling

Statistics

Loren Cobb, Associate Research Professor

  • Socio-economic dynamics
  • Mathematical statistics

Joshua French, Assistant Professor

  • Extreme value theory
  • Spatial statistics
  • Environmental application

Stephanie Santorico, Associate Professor

  • Simulation
  • Statistical genetics
  • Genetic epidemiology and genetics of gene expression
  • Variance components methods
  • Linkage methods and linkage disequillibrium
  • Family-based association tests