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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
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

 

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
 
 
Merrill Elias
704 Commonwealth Ave/509a, (617) 353-8092, mfelias@aol.com

Research Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University 1963

Psychometric measurement and longitudinal methods

David Fried

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

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

Dynamical systems, topology, differential geometry

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

Ashis Gangopadhyay

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

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

Mathematical and applied statistics

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
 

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

 
 

Samuel Isaacson

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

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

Akihiro Kanamori

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

Professor
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1975

Logic, set theory

Office Hours: M,T,W,R 10:30am-11:00am
& 3:00pm-3:30pm

Tasso Kaper

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

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

Dynamical systems and applied mathematics
 
 

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., 1979

Functional analysis, mathematical physics, partial differential equations
 
 

Nancy Kopell

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

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

Applied mathematics and dynamical systems
 

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

 

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
 
 

Diane Meuser

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

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

Number theory and Algebraic geometry
 

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
 

Emma Previato

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

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983

Algebraic geometry, partial differential equations
 
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

 

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: T,W,R 11:00am-12:00pm
 

Glenn Stevens

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

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1981

Number theory

Office Hours: By appointment

 
 
 

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

Murad Taqqu

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

Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972

Probability, stochastic processes, statistics

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: On sabbatical

 

Daniel Weiner

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

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

Probability, statistics

 

 
September 2004
Mathematics and Statistics
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