Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Faculty Research Areas

Rafail Abramov, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2002
• Computational applied math, statistical description of chaotic systems, predictability, geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical simulations.
  
  
Eugene M. Barston, Professor, Retired
• Ph.D. Stanford 1964
• Stability theory, fluid dynamics, plasma dynamics.
  
  
Neil E. Berger, Associate Professor, Retired
• Ph.D. NYU 1968
• Applied elasticity, fluid dynamics, scattering theory, numerical analysis, symbolic manipulation.
  
  
Jerry L. Bona, Professor and Head of Department
• Ph.D. Harvard University
• Fluid mechanics; partial differential equations; numerical analysis; mathematical economics; oceanography.
  
  
Susan Friedlander, Professor
• Ph.D. Princeton 1972
• Geophysical and mathematical fluid dynamics, partial differential equations.
  
  
Robert L. Grossman, Professor, Director of Laboratory for Advanced Computing, Director of National Center for Data Mining, and President of Magnify, Inc.;
• Ph.D. Princeton 1985
• High performance computing, high performance data management, hybrid systems, symbolic computing, quantum computing, data mining, data intensive computing, computational control, industrial mathematics, differential equations, algorithms, symbolic computation.
  
  
Floyd B. Hanson, Professor, Associate Director of Laboratory for Advanced Computing and Associate Director of Laboratory for Control and Information,
• Ph.D. Brown 1968
• Numerical analysis, asymptotic methods, stochastic dynamical systems modeling, stochastic optimal control, bioeconomics, computational finance, scientific supercomputing, scientific visualization, parallel scheduling, industrial mathematics.
  
  
Charles Knessl, Professor
• Ph.D. Northwestern 1986
• Stochastic models, perturbation methods, queuing theory.
  
  
Alexander Lipton-Lifschitz, Adjunct Professor
and US Manager of Equity Derivatives, Convertible Unit, and Global FX at Credit Suisse First Boston LLP
• Ph.D. Moscow State Univ. 1982
• Financial engineering, mathematical physics.
  
  
David Nicholls, Assistant Professor
• Ph.D. Brown 1998
• applied analysis, numerical analysis, fluid mechanics, acoustic and electromagnetic scattering.
  
  
G.V. Ramanathan, Professor Retired
• Ph.D. Princeton 1965
• Statistical mechanics, critical phenomena.
  
  
Charles Tier, Professor
• Ph.D. NYU 1976
• Analysis of stochastic models, queuing theory, financial mathematics, numerical analysis.
  
  
Stephen S. T. Yau, Professor and Director of Laboratory for Control and Information.
• Ph.D. SUNY at Stony Brook, 1976
• Control, information theory, financial mathematics, complex geometry, singularities of complex algebraic varieties
  
  

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