Mathematics Faculty at HMC
2012 departmental retreat.
Arthur T. Benjamin
- On sabbatical, 2012–2013
- Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
- Combinatorics, game theory, operations research
Andrew J. Bernoff
- Professor of Mathematics
- Department Chair (2009–)
- Kenneth and Diana Jonsson Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., Cambridge University
- Applied Dynamical Systems, Fluid Mechanics, Self-Similarity and Scaling
Alfonso Castro
- Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
- Partial differential equations, variational
methods, inverse-function theorems, water waves (solitons)
Matt DeLong
- Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
- Knot theory, lesson-planning approaches of novice instructors, students' intuitive mathematical abilities, and connections between mathematics and music
Lisette G. de Pillis
- Norman F. Sprague, Jr., Professor of Life Sciences; Professor of Mathematics; Global Clinic Director
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
- Computational fluid dynamics, numerical linear algebra,
mathematical biology
Jacqueline Dresch
- Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Fellow
- Ph.D., Michigan State University
- Mathematical biology, parameter estimation and sensitivity, modeling gene
regulation in eukaryotes
Weiqing Gu
- Avery Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- Differential geometry, Grassmann manifolds
Jon Jacobsen
- Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
- Ph.D., University of Utah
- Nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations, fluid dynamics
Dagan Karp
- Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., University of British Columbia
- Algebraic geometry
Kimberly Kindred
- Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Fellow
- Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Statistics, John Hopkins University
- Discrete mathematics, graph theory, linear algebra, matrix analysis
Rachel Levy
- Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., North Carolina State University
- Thin films with surfactant, hydrodynamics of whale flukeprints, cooperative strategies for aquatic robotics
Susan Martonosi
- Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Associate Department Chair
- Director of the Mathematics Clinic
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Operations research, applied probability,
aviation security
Michael E. Orrison
- Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., Dartmouth College
- Harmonic analysis on finite groups, algebraic voting theory
Nicholas J. Pippenger
- Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discrete mathematics, probability, and
applications to communications and computation
Francis Edward Su
- Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- Geometric and topological combinatorics, game theory, mathematical
economics
Talithia Williams
- Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Ph.D., Rice University
- Spatial–temporal modeling of rainfall data
Darryl Yong '96
- Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Associate Dean for Diversity
- Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
- Mathematics education, applied mathematics, perturbation theory, partial differential equations