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

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1978

Dynamical systems, complex analytic dynamics

Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30, W 1-2, F 11-12

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

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.
 
Uri Eden
MCS 220, (617) 353-9553, tzvi@bu.edu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005

Statistics
 
Office Hours: M,W 11-12, Th 2-3
Merrill Elias
704 Commonwealth Ave/509a, (617) 353-8092, mfelias@aol.com

Research Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University 1963

Psychometric measurement and longitudinal methods

Frank Fitzgerald

605 Commonwealth Ave. SED 504, (617) 353-3286, ffitzger@bu.edu
 
Associate Professor, School of Education
Ph.D., Columbia University

Office Hours: T 2-5

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,F 11-12, W 4-5, or by apppointment

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: MWF 12-1, or by appointment

Ashis Gangopadhyay

MCS 231, (617) 353-2762, ag@bu.edu

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

Mathematical and applied statistics
 
Office Hours: T 3:30-4:30, Th 5-6

Mamikon Ginovyan

MCS 233, (617) 353-5209, ginovyan@math.bu.edu

Visiting Professor
Ph.D., Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 1981.

Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Toeplitz operators

Office Hours: M,F 4:30-6

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

143 Baystate, room 402, (617) 353-4992, 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: M 2-3, T 1:30-2:30, F 10-11

Thomas Hawkins

MCS 251, (617) 353-4591, twh@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968

History of mathematics

Office Hours: T 11-12:30, Th 2-3:30

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 12:30-2:30

Akihiro Kanamori

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

Professor
Ph.D., University of Cambridge 1975

Logic, set theory
Office Hours: T 12:30-1:30 and 5-6, W 12-1

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 2:30-4, T 1-2, Th 3:30-4
Kostas Kardaras
143 Baystate rm502, (617) 358-4414, kardaras@bu.edu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2005

Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance

Office Hours: M,W 2:30-4

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

Office Hour: M 4-5, T 10:30-11:30

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
 
Office Hours: W 3-4, Th 2-3

Mark Kon

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

Professor
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1979

Functional analysis, mathematical physics, partial differential equations

Office Hours: T 3:30-5, Th 12:30-2

Nancy Kopell

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

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

Applied mathematics and dynamical systems

On Sabbatical

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

Martin Larson

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

Research Faculty
Sc.D., Harvard University

Andrew Lyasoff

143 Baystate rm401, (617) 353-5785, alyasoff@math.bu.edu

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Sofia University, 1984

Probability, random processes, stochastic calculus, filtering, mathematical finance

Office Hours: M,W 2:30-4

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 11-12, F 1-2, or by appointment

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: Th 12:30-3:30

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.

Office Hours: Tu,Th 4-5, or by appointment

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

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001

Number theory
Office Hours: M 3-4, W 12-11, or by appointment
 
Emma Previato
MCS 257, (617) 353-2997, ep@bu.edu

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983

Algebraic geometry, partial differential equations

Office Hours: Th 12-1 ans 2-4

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: T 3:30-4:30, W 3-5

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

Professor
Ph.D., Yale, 1976

Number theory

Office Hours: M 1:30-3, T 2-3:30

Steven Rosenberg

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

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

Differential geometry

Office Hours: W 1-2, Th 10-12, or by appointment

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,Th 3-4

Murad Taqqu

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

Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972

Probability, stochastic processes, statistics

Office Hours: By appointment

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,T 2-3, Th 10-11

Daniel Weiner

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

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

Probability, statistics

Office Hours:W,Th 5-5:50, F 10:30-11:45

 
September 2004
Mathematics and Statistics
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