Faculty & Staff
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Charles Bu
Professor of MathematicsB.S., M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; M.S., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Illinois
Professor Bu's work focuses on boundary value problems for important evolution equations.
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Stanley S. Chang
Associate Professor of MathematicsB.A., University of California (Berkeley); M.A., Cambridge University (England); Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research on positive scalar curvature and rigidity of manifolds, noncommutative geometry, tools of surgery theory; interested in issues on campus diversity and curricular rigor.
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Alexander J. Diesl
Assistant Professor of MathematicsB.A., M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Noncommutative ring theorist, sees mathematics as a central part of a well-rounded liberal arts education.
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Oscar E. Fernandez
Assistant Professor of MathematicsB.A., B.S., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Research is in geometric mechanics and specifically in Nonholonomic Mechanics. Presently researching Hamiltonian-like properties of some special types of nonholonomic systems.
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Philip Steven Hirschhorn
Professor of MathematicsB.S., Brooklyn College of City University of New York; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An algebraic topologist who works on homotopy theory in model categories, localizations of model category structures, and homotopy limit and colimit functors.
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Megan Kerr
Associate Professor of MathematicsB.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research in global Riemannian geometry, especially the interplay of curvature constraints in the context of large symmetry groups.
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Karen Lange
Assistant Professor of MathematicsB.A., Swarthmore College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor Lange's interests are in computability theory, an area of logic that explores the algorithmic content encoded in mathematical problems.
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Martin A. Magid
Professor of MathematicsB.A., Brown University; M.S., Yale University; Ph.D., Brown University
Professor Magid has been working recently on timelike submanifolds in various ambient spaces.
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Andrew Schultz
Assistant Professor of MathematicsB.S., Davidson College; M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University
Mathematician interested in studying absolute Galois groups of fields through their cohomological invariants.
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Alan Shuchat
Professor of MathematicsB.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Interested in various areas of theoretical and applied mathematics; research in discrete mathematics and operations research.
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Frederic W. Shultz
Professor of MathematicsB.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Research involves operator algebras, and quantum information processing, which involve linear algebra and functional analysis.
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Jonathan Tannenhauser
Lecturer in MathematicsA.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Background in theoretical particle physics, focusing on a conjectured equivalence between certain quantum field theories and certain string theories.
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Ann Trenk
Professor of MathematicsA.B., Harvard University; M.S., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research specialty in graph theory and partially ordered sets, teaches across the mathematics curriculum, outreach to K-12 teachers.
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Ismar Volić
Associate Professor of MathematicsB.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Research in algebraic topology, specifically calculus of functors and its applications to embeddings, including knots and links.
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Helen P. Wang
Professor of MathematicsB.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison); M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor Wang's research interest is analysis and she teaches in the areas of multivariable calculus and analysis
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Faculty Emeritus
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Howard Wilcox
Professor of Mathematics, EmeritusAB Hamilton College, Ph.D. University of Rochester
Retired from Wellesley in 2007 after 37 years of teaching mathematics.
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