Department of Mathematics - University of
Houston
Faculty & Student
Pages
Faculty
& Post-Doctoral Associates and their
research
- Neal Amundson,
Cullen Professor and member of National Academy of Sciences and American
Academy of Arts and Science; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1945. Applied
mathematics.
- Giles Auchmuty,
Professor; Ph.D., Chicago, 1970. Applied mathematics,
variational methods and optimization theory.
- David Bao,
Professor; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1983. Differential geometry.
- David Blecher,
Professor; Ph.D., Edinburgh, 1988. Operator algebras and operator
theory.
- Dennison Brown,
Professor; Ph.D., LSU, 1963. Topological semigroups.
- Adam Bobrowski,
Visiting Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1994.
Functional analysis and operator theory, stochastic processes.
- Suncica Canic,
Associate Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992. Nonlinear partial
differential equations, applied mathematics.
- Edward Dean,
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rice, 1985. Numerical analysis.
- Henry Decell , Professor; Ph.D., LSU, 1963. Applied
mathematics.
- Garret Etgen,
Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1964. Ordinary
differential equations.
- Siemion
Fajtlowicz, Professor; Ph.D., Wroclaw (Poland), 1967. Machine
intelligence, graph theory, universal algebra.
- Mike
Field, Professor; Ph.D., Warwick (England), 1970. Dynamical
systems, bifurcation theory, and symmetry.
- William
Fitzgibbon, Professor and Chairman of the Department; Ph.D.,
Vanderbilt, 1972. Partial differential equations, applied mathematics,
mathematical biology.
- Michael
Friedberg, Professor; Ph.D., LSU, 1965. Topological algebra,
topological semigroups, uniquely divisible semigroups.
- Roland
Glowinski, Cullen Professor, Director of Center for Advanced
Scientific Computation and member of French Academy of Science; These
d'Etat, Paris, 1970. Numerical analysis, applied mathematics.
- Martin Golubitsky,
Cullen Professor and Director of Institute for Theoretical Engineering and
Science;
Ph.D., MIT, 1970. Bifurcation theory, nonlinear dynamics, symmetry.
- Jutta Hausen,
Professor; Ph.D., Frankfurt, 1967. Abelian groups and module theory.
- Jiwen He,
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Paris VI, 1994. Numerical
analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and control theory.
- Shanyu Ji,
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1988. Complex analysis,
differential geometry.
- Gordon Johnson, Professor; Ph.D., Tennessee, 1964.
Analysis.
- Johnny Johnson, Professor; Ph.D., California, Riverside,
1968. Algebra.
- Lennart
Johnsson, Cullen Professor; Ph.D., Chalmers Institute of
Technology, 1970. Scientific computation.
- Hector Juarez,
Visiting Assistant Professor; Ph.D., U. of Houston, 1996. Numerical
analysis, numerical solutions of P.D.E.'s, computation fluid dynamics.
- Klaus Kaiser,
Professor and Managing Editor of Houston Journal of Mathematics;
Ph.D., Bonn, 1966. Model theory, logic programming.
- Barbara Lee
Keyfitz, Professor, John and Rebecca Moores Scholar and Fellow of
American Association for the Advancement of Science; Ph.D., NYU, 1970.
Nonlinear partial differential equations, applied mathematics.
- Eun Heui Kim,
Visiting Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1999.
Partial differential equations, numerical analysis and applied
mathematics.
- Yuri Kuznetsov,
Professor; Ph.D., Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1969. Computational
mathematics.
- Andrew Lelek, Professor; Ph.D., Wroclaw (Poland), 1959.
Set-theoretic topology, continua theory.
- Ian Melbourne,
Professor; Ph.D., Warwick (England), 1987. Equivariant dynamical systems,
bifurcation theory.
- Christopher Murray,
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Texas, 1964. Analysis, statistics.
- Matthew
O'Malley, Professor; Ph.D., Florida State, 1967. Algebra.
- Tsorng-Whay Pan,
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Minnesota, 1990. Scientific computation,
numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics.
- Manos
Papadakis, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Athens,
Greece, 1993. Wavelet analysis, frame theory, operator algebras, signal and
image processing.
- Vern Paulsen,
Professor and John and Rebecca Moores Scholar; Ph.D., Michigan, 1977.
Operator algebras and operator theory.
- Charles Peters,
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1973. Mathematical statistics.
- Min Ru, Associate
Professor; Ph.D., Notre Dame, 1990. Complex analysis, differential
geometry.
- Richard
Sanders, Associate Professor; Ph.D., UCLA, 1981. Numerical
solutions of partial differential equations
- James Stepp,
Professor; Ph.D., Kentucky, 1968.
Topological semigroups.
- Andrew
Török, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Penn State, 1995.
Dynamical systems.
- Charles Tucker, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Texas, 1966.
Functional analysis.
- David Wagner,
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1980. Nonlinear partial differential
equations.
- Philip Walker, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia, 1969.
Ordinary differential equations.
- Clifton Whyburn, Associate Professor; Ph.D., North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1964. Analytic number theory.
- Tiee-Jian Wu, Associate Professor and Elected member of the
International Statistical Institute; Ph.D., Indiana, 1982. Nonparametric
statistics, density estimates, model selection.
Recent books by faculty members
D. Bao, S. S. Chern, and Z. Shen, eds.
Introduction to Riemann-Finsler Geometry. To appear,
Springer-Verlag, 2000.
D. P. Blecher, P. S. Muhly and V. I.
Paulsen. Categories of operator modules - Morita equivalence
and projective modules I. To appear, Memoirs of the American
Mathematical Society, 2000.
M. Golubitsky and M. Dellnitz. Linear
Algebra and Differential Equations Using MATLAB. Brooks-Cole
Publ., Pacific Grove, 1999.
M. Golubitsky, D. Luss and S.H. Strogatz.
Pattern Formation in Continuous and Coupled Systems, IMA Volumes
in Mathematics and its Applications 115, Springer, New York,
1999.
M. O. Bristeau, and G. Etgen et al, eds.
(W. Fitzgibbon, J. Periaux, and M. F.
Wheeler). Computational Science for the 21st Century.
Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
D. Bao, S. S. Chern, and Z. Shen, eds.
Finsler Geometry. Providence: AMS, 1996.
J. Chadam, M. Golubitsky, W. Langford and B.
Wetton. Pattern Formation: Symmetry Methods and
Applications, Fields Inst. Comm. 4, AMS, Providence, 1996.
M. J. Field. Symmetry Breaking for Compact Lie
Groups. Providence: AMS, 1996.
M. J. Field. Lectures on Bifurcations, Dynamics and
Symmetry. Pitman, 1996.
H. Cook, et al. (A. Lelek), eds.
Continua: With the Houston Problem Book. New York: Dekker,
1995.
A. Quarteroni, J. Periaux, Y. A. Kuznetsov, and O.
B. Widlund, eds. Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and
Engineering. Providence: AMS, 1994.
R. Abgrall, J.-A. Desideri, R. Glowinski, M. Mallet, and
J. Periaux, eds. Hypersonic Flows for Reentry
Problems, vol. III. Heidelberg: Springer, 1993.
M. J. Field, and M. Golubitsky.
Symmetry and Chaos: a Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and
Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
W. E. Fitzgibbon, and M. F. Wheeler, eds.
Computational Methods in Geosciences (vol. I), Modeling and
Analysis of Diffusive and Advective Processes in Geosciences (vol.
II), and Wave Propagation and Inversion (vol. III). Philadelphia:
SIAM, 1992.
I. N. Stewart, and M. Golubitsky.
Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer. London: Basil Blackwell,
1992.
R. Glowinski, and Y. A. Kuznetsov et al,
eds. (J. Periaux). Domain Decomposition Methods for
Partial Differential Equations. Philadelphia: SIAM, 1991.
R. Glowinski, and A. Lichnewsky, eds.
Computing Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering.
Philadelphia: SIAM, 1990.
R. G. Douglas, and V. I. Paulsen.
Hilbert Modules over Function Algebras. Harlow, England: Pitman,
1989.
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