SCHOOL OF MATH WELCOMES INCOMING FACULTY AND POSTDOCS

    It is a pleasure to welcome the new members of the School of Mathematics - Professor Sergey G. Bobkov, and Assistant Professors Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine and Jackie Shen. We also welcome the new Dunham Jackson Assistant Professors Mark de Longueville, Luca Rondi, and Dominik M. Schoetzau, as well as visiting Assistant Professor Pavel Belik and Postdoctoral Associates Vittorio Cristini, Nikolaos Mantzaris and Steven D. Webb.
    Professor Sergey G. Bobkov received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of St. Petersburg. Since then he has been on the faculty of Syktyvkar University where he attained the rank of Professor in 1998. He has been a frequent research visitor to leading institutions in western Europe and the U.S. His research area is in isoperimetric problems in multidimensional spaces.
     Assistant Professor Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Utah. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mittag-Leffler Institute (1996-97), followed by a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Oklahoma State University (1997-98), and Ralph P. Boas Assistant Professorship at Northwestern University (1998-2000). His research area is algebraic geometry.
     Assistant Professor Jackie Shen received his Ph.D. in 1998 from MIT. For the past two years he held a Computational and Applied Mathematics Assistant Professorship at UCLA. His research area is applied mathematics.
     Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor Mark de Longueville received his Ph.D. in 2000 from Berlin Technical University. His research area is combinatorics.
     Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor Luca Rondi received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. He spent the 1999-2000 academic year as a postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Kepler University in Linz. His research area is applied mathematics.
     Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor Dominik M. Schoetzau received his Ph.D. in 1999 from ETH Zurich and spent the past academic year as a postdoctoral researcher in our department. His research area is numerical analysis.
     Assistant Professor Pavel Belik received his Ph.D. in 2000 from our department. His research area is numerical analysis.
     Postdoctoral Associate Vittorio Cristini received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Yale University in 2000. His research area is microstructure and dynamics of multiphase fluids.
     Postdoctoral Associate Nikolaos Mantzaris received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2000. His research area is mathematical biology.
     Postdoctoral Associate Steven D. Webb received his Ph.D. from the Heriot-Watt University in 2000. His research area is mathematical modelling in biology and medicine.