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Margaret Beck

MCS 233, (617) 358-3314, mabeck@bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston University, 2006

Dynamical systems


Office Hours: T 11p-12p, R 10a-11a


Paul Blanchard

MCS 255, (617) 353-9555, paul@bu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1978

Dynamical systems, complex analytic dynamics

Office Hours: T,R 4:30p-6p


Gail Carpenter
677 Beacon Street, (617) 353-9483, gail@cns.bu.edu

Professor, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Ph. D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974


Luis Carvalho

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 2008

Bayesian statistics, comutational biology, and statistical inference


Office Hours: T,W 2p-3p


Ralph D'Agostino

MCS 140b , (617) 353-0919, ralph@bu.edu

Professor and Chairman
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1968

Longitudinal data analysis, multivariate data, analysis, biostatistics and robust procedures


Office Hours: by appointment


Robert L. Devaney
MCS 164, (617) 353-4560, bob@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1973

Dynamical systems, classical mechanics, complex dynamics, computer experiments


Office Hours: M,W 12p-1p, T 11a-12p
 
Uri Eden
MCS 220, (617) 353-9553, tzvi@bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005

Statistics

Office Hours: W,F 2p-3p, R 11a-12p


David Fried

MCS 254, (617) 353-9557, df@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976

Dynamical systems, topology, differential geometry

Office Hours: M 3p-4p, W,F 11a-12p


Isaac Fried

MCS 260, (617) 353-9548, if@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1971

Numerical analysis, computational continuum mechanics, finite elements, applied linear algebra

Office Hours: M,W,F 3p-4PT 3:30p-5:00p


Ashis Gangopadhyay

MCS 245, (617) 353-9544, ag@bu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1987

Mathematical and applied statistics

Office Hours: T 3:30p-5:00p


Philimon Gona

704 Commonwealth Ave. 509A, (617) 353-8092 philgona@math.bu.edu
 
Research Assistant Professor

Survival Models, Semi-Markov processes with missing data


Stephen Grossberg

677 Beacon Street, (617) 353-7858, sg@bu.edu

Professor, Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1967


Paolo Guasoni

MCS 224, (617) 358-2391, guasoni@math.bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2002

Mathematical Finance, Probability and Stochastic Processes


Chao-Yu Guo
704 Commonwealth Ave.
(617) 353-8091, chaoyu@bu.edu

Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston University 2004

Biostatistics


Glen R. Hall

MCS 226, (617) 353-9542, rockford@bu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1982

Dynamical systems, celestial mechanics

Office Hours: W 3:00p-3:50p, R 11:00a-2:00p, F 2:00p-3:00p


Thomas Hawkins

MCS 166, twh@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968

History of mathematics


Tim Heeren

PSY 231, (617) 358-4646 and (617) 638-5172 tch@.bu.edu

Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, School of Public Policy
Ph. D., Boston University

Office Hours:
M 12:30p-3p
 

Samuel Isaacson

MCS 231, (617) 353-2761, isaacsas@bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph. D., New York University, 2005
 
Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Physics

Office Hours: M,W 12:50p-1:50p


Akihiro Kanamori

MCS 268, (617) 353-9538, aki@math.bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1975

Logic, set theory


Tasso Kaper

MCS 227, (617) 353-9552, tasso@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1992

Dynamical systems and applied mathematics

Office Hours: M,W 2p-3p, F 11a-12p


Kostas Kardaras

MCS 251, (617) 353-4591, kardaras@bu.edu
 
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2005

Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance
 
Takashi Kimura
MCS 234, (617) 353-1486, kimura@bu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1990

Differential geometry, topology, and mathematical physics

Eric Kolaczyk

MCS 223, (617) 353-5208, kolaczyk@bu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994

Statistical methods and theory for temporal, spatial, and network-indexed processes; wavelets and multiscale methods
 
 

Mark Kon

MCS 259, (617) 353-9549, mkon@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1980

Statistical and machine learning, neural networks, bioinformatics/computational biology

Office Hours: T 2p-3:30p, R 3:30p-5p
 
 

Nancy Kopell

MCS 243, (617) 353-5210, nk@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1967

Applied mathematics and dynamical systems
 

Mark Kramer

MCS 224, (617) 353-4591, mak@math.bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006

Mathematical Neuroscience


Dirk Kreimer

MCS 265, (617) 358-2393, dkreimer@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, 1992

Quantum Field Theory, mathematical physics

Office Hours: T,W,R 11a-12p

Martin Larson

704 Commonwealth Avenue (617) 353-8091 mlarson@bu.edu

Research Faculty
Sc.D., Harvard University


Joseph Massaro

704 Commonwealth Ave./501e, (617) 353-9403, jmm@bu.edu

Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Boston University, 1994

Probability and Statistics


Office Hours: M 4p-5p, R 2:30p-3:30p
 
 

Diane Meuser

MCS 249, (617) 353-9554 dmm@bu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1980

Number theory and Algebraic geometry

Office Hours: T 1p - 2:30p, R 2:30p - 4p
 

Michael Pencina

704 Commonwealth Ave./501b, (617) 358-3386, and MCS 229 (617) 353-4685 mpencina@bu.edu

Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston University
Robert Pollack

MCS 232, (617) 353-4692, rpollack@bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001

Number theory

Office Hours: M 1p - 2p, R 2:30p - 3:30p, 5p - 6p
 
 

Emma Previato

MCS 257, (617) 353-2997, ep@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983

Algebraic geometry, partial differential equations


Office Hours: W 1:30p - 2:30p, R 3:30p - 5:30p

Surajit Ray
MCS 222, (617) 353-5209, sray@math.bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2003

Analysis of Mixture Models, high dimensional data, medical image analysis

Office Hours: M 1p-2p, T 2p-3p

David Rohrlich
MCS 247, (617) 353-9545, rohrlich@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., Yale, 1976

Number theory

 

Steven Rosenberg

MCS 248, (617) 353-9556, sr@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981

Differential geometry

Office Hours: M,F 10a-11a, W 11a-12p
 
 

Glenn Stevens

MCS 264, (617) 353-9558, ghs@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1981

Number theory

Lisa Sullivan

704 Commonwealth Ave./501e, (617) 353-9403, lsull@bu.edu

Associate Professor; Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Policy
Ph.D., Boston University, 1992

Statistics


Maciej Szczesny

MCS 236 (617) 353-1487, szczesny@bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002

Algebraic Geometry and Conformal Field Theory

Office Hours: T 3:30p-4:30p, W 2p-3p


Murad Taqqu

MCS 252, (617) 353-3022, murad@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972

Probability, stochastic processes, statistics

Office Hours: M 12p-2p


Eugene Wayne

MCS 242, (617) 353-1495, cew@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982

Dynamical systems, partial differential equations, mathematical physics

Office Hours: M 8:50a-9:50a, W 11a-12p, F 2p -3p


Daniel Weiner

MCS 246, (617) 353-9546, weiner@bu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984

Probability, statistics

Office Hours:
M 2p-2:50p, W,R 5p-5:50p

 

 
September 2004
Mathematics and Statistics
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