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Mathematics
Department Faculty
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Mira
Bernstein
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 374A
Phone: 781-283-3164
Email: mira [at] palmer [dot] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of California, Berkeley
Field of interest:
algebraic geometry
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Charles
Bu
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 351
Phone: 781-283-3038
Email: cbu [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.S., M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University
M.S., Michigan State University
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fields of Interest:
nonlinear partial differential equations, applied mathematics
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Personal
Information:
Born and raised in China, Mr. Bu experienced the Cultural Revolution
as a teenager and once worked at a tire factory. He came to America for
graduate study in 1985, joined the Wellesley faculty in 1992 and became
Chair of Mathematics Department in 2005. Author of 30 research articles
(some with Wellesley students), Mr. Bu has done work in boundary value
problems for important evolution equations such as the nonlinear Schrodinger
equation and Ginzburg-Landau equation. These equations have significant
applications in physics, biology and economics. In his spare time, he
likes to watch professional sports, write (in both Chinese and
English), play internet games such as mahjongg and Chinese card games,
and travel.
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Stanley
Chang
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 353
Phone: 781-283-3155
Email: sschang [at] palmer [dot] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge University, England
S.M., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Rice University
Fields of Interest:
K-theory, curvature and rigidity of noncompact manifolds, homotopy invariants
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Chang's personal webpage, click
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Philip
Hirschhorn
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 356
Phone: 781-283-3116
Email: psh [at] poincare [dot]wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.S., Brooklyn College of CUNY
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Matthew
Horton
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 365
Phone: 781-283-3172
Email: mhorton [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.
S., California State University, San Marcos
M.A.,
University of California, San Diego
Ph. D., University of California, San Diego
Field of Interest:
Graph theory, algorithmic processes
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Megan
Kerr
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 366
Phone: 781-283-3144
Email: mkerr [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.A., Wellesley College
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Professional Experience:
Taught at Dartmouth College
Fields of Interest:
differential geometry, lie groups
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Personal
Information:
Ms. Kerr's research is in global Riemannian geometry, studying invariant
structures on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces. This area of research
involves analysis and group theory as well as a surprising amount of
representation theory. Before coming to Wellesley, she spent two years
as a J.W. Young Research Instructor at Dartmouth. Outside of mathematics,
she likes to spend time with friends and family, and she enjoys travel,
movies, and music.
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Martin
Magid
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 358
Phone: 781-283-3124
Email: mmagid [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
A.B., Brown University
M.S., Yale University
Ph.D., Brown University
Professional Experience:
Taught at University of Connecticut
Fields of Interest:
differential geometry
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Personal
Information:
Mr. Magid has recently been working on timelike
surfaces and submanifolds. In particular he is looking at isothermic
surfaces and uses Mathematica extensively to help with calculations.
He has directed 350s in, among other topics, mathematical logic and dynamical
systems and is currently working with a student on discrete surfaces.
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Alan
Shuchat
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 368
Phone: 781-283-3111
Email: ashuchat [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professional Experience:
Taught at University of Toledo and Mount Holyoke College
Fields of Interest:
operations research, functional analysis
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Personal
Information:
Mr. Shuchat's interests in teaching and research include both theoretical
and applied mathematics. He especially likes to teach courses that combine
concepts and examples from different fields. He's also interested in
using computers in mathematics, and he and Mr. Shultz wrote The Joy of
Mathematica book and software. In his spare time, he likes to listen
to and play music, to travel, and to learn other languages.
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Fred
Shultz
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 374B
Phone: 781-283-3118
Email: fshultz [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.S., California Institute of Technology
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
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Personal
Information:
Mr. Shultz's field of research is operator algebras (which makes use
of the material in 206 (linear algebra), 302 (analysis), and 305 (modern
algebra)). His current research involves state spaces of operator algebras
and the connections of operator algebras and dynamical systems. He is
an enthusiastic participant in the calculus reform movement, and is joint
author with Mr. Shuchat of the book/software Joy of Mathematica. His
non-academic activities include tennis, skiing (cross country and downhill),
bicycling, and golf.
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Alexia
Sontag
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 370
Phone: 781-283-3131
Email: asontag [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.A., Pacific Lutheran University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Professional Experience:
Taught at Carleton College, University of Minnesota, Morris,
and Mount Holyoke College
Fields of Interest:
Analysis
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Personal
Information:
Ms. Sontag's research interests are in complex analysis, especially quasiconformal
mappings (mappings of bounded distortion) and geometric aspects of complex
function theory, but she is also interested in real analysis, especially
those topics that are accessible to undergraduates. She devotes much
of her spare time to music and claims that being a mathematician makes
it easier to do music.
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Ann
Trenk
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 360
Phone: 781-283-3140
Email: atrenk [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
A.B., Harvard University
Ph.D.,
The Johns Hopkins University
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Dartmouth College
Fields of Interest:
graph theory, partially ordered sets
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Personal
Information:
Ms. Trenk’s research focuses primarily on structured
families of graphs and partially ordered sets. Her book, Tolerance
Graphs, coauthored with Martin Golumbic, was published by
Cambridge University Press in 2004.
Ms. Trenk is serving a four year term on the executive committee of the
Association of Women in Mathematics, a national organization encouraging
girls and women to study and have active careers in the mathematical
sciences. She has recently completed a term as Chair of the Mathematics
Department.
Outside of mathematics, she enjoys running and swimming, cheering for
the Red Sox and spending time with friends and family.
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Ismar
Volic
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 352
Phone: 781-283-3103
Email: ivolic [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.A., Boston University
Ph.D., Brown University
Professional Experience:
Taught at University of Virginia
Field of Interest:
Calculus of functors, spaces of embeddings, configuration spaces, finite
type knot invariants.
To view Professor
Volic's personal webpage, click
here.
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Helen
Wang
Contact Information:
Office: SCI 350
Phone: 781-283-3113
Email: hwang [at] wellesley [dot] edu
Education:
B.A., University of Wisconsin
M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
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Created by: Heather Barrett '08
Maintained by: Professor Alexia Sontag
Date Created: June 2005
Date Updated: January 30, 2008
Date Expires: August
2008
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