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2002 Newsletter



ACADEMIC VISITORS

Distinguished Ordway Visitors (2002-2003)

The following mathematicians accepted our invitations to visit the School during the current academic year for one-month or longer visits under the Distinguished Ordway Visitors Program.

Professors:

John E. Dennis Rice University, mathematical optimization
Guiseppe DaPrato Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, partial differential equations, probability theory
Roger E. Howe Yale University, harmonic analysis and representation theory of Lie groups and p-adic groups
Luc Illusie Universite de Paris Sud, algebraic geometry
Maxim Kontsevich Institute des Haute Etudes Scientifiques, algebra, algebraic geometry, topology, mathematical physics
Peter Li UC Irvine, differential geometry
Michael J. D. Powell University of Cambridge, optimization and approximation theory
Christopher Sogge Johns Hopkins University, harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometric analysis

Continuing Postdocs and Visiting Faculty

Assistant Professors:

Alexander Alekseenko Novosibirsk State University, partial differential equations, general theory of relativity, inverse problems, optimization theory, numerical algorithms
Bernard Badzioch Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, algebraic topology and homotopy theory
Sandra DiRocco Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, algebraic geometry
Liliana Forzani Universidad Nacional del Litoral, harmonic analysis, mathematical finance
Omar Gil Faculty of Engineering Montevideo, boundary problems and partial differential equations
Mehdi Hakim-Hashemi Shiraz University, algebraic topology, homotopy theory

Shu-Yu Hsu
Ph.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, partial differential equations, geometric analysis, dynamical systems
Hyukjin Kwean Korea University, dynamical systems and differential equations

Junho Lee
Ph.D. Michigan State University, symplectic geometry and Gromov-Witten invariants
Arthur Lim Ph.D. University of Utah, harmonic analysis and representation theory
Simon Morgan Ph.D. Rice University, geometric measure theory, harmonic maps
Radu Popescu Ph.D. Columbia University, low dimensional topology
Victor Protsak Max-Planck Institute, representation theory of Lie groups
Carlos Tolmasky probability, mathematical finance
Jianfeng Zhang Ph.D. Purdue University, stochastic differential equations and mathematical finance

Associate Professors:

Bagisa Mukherjee Penn State Worthington Scranton Campus, liquid crystals, continuum mechanics, partial differential equations
Michael Siddoway Colorado College, module theory, commutative rings, computational algebra, history of mathematics


Postdoctoral Associates, including IMA Postdoctoral Associates who participate in the teaching activities:

Reka Albert Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, mathematical biology and complex networks
Pavel Belik Ph.D. University of Minnesota, mathematical modeling and numerical analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations in solid mechanics
Jamylle Carter Ph.D. UCLA, image processing, computer graphics
Dacian Daescu Ph.D. University of Iowa, data assimilation, sensitivity analysis, large-scale optimization techniques
Chetan Gadgil Ph.D. in chemical engineering, University of Minnesota, mathematical modeling in biology
Maria Gracheva Ph.D. Moscow State Technical University, biophysics

Daniel Kern
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago, stochastic optimal control, biomathematics, mathematical modeling
Jun Seok Kim Ph.D. University of Minnesota, numerical analysis
Magdalena Stolarska Ph.D. Northwestern University, applied mathematics, mathematical biology

Other Visiting Scholars:

Jay Fillmore Professor Emeritus, UCSD, geometry
Boris Levitan Professor Emeritus, Moscow State University, functional analysis, differential equations
Thomas Schwartzbauer Assoc. Professor Emeritus, OSU, probability