  Graduate students are afforded the opportunity to focus their studies in a chosen area of mathematics and to participate in the exciting enterprise of conducting original research. Because of the breadth of the faculty's interests, it is possible to carry out investigations in many fields of pure and applied mathematics. In addition to traditional subjects, there are more contemporary areas of research that are part of the program. These include: computational mechanics, large scale scientific computing and supercomputing, combustion, and the modeling of biological, ecological, and financial processes. Brief summaries of faculty research areas are as follows: Algebra, Combinatorics and Discrete MathematicsProfessors Chao, Constantine, Fulman, Hales and Whitehead. Analysis and Partial Differential EquationsProfessors Beatrous, Burbea, Cohen, Lennard, Manfredi, Pan and Rabier. Applied Analysis and Differential EquationsProfessors Caginalp, Chadam, Chen, Hastings, McLeod, Troy, Vainchtein and Wang. Mathematical BiologyProfessors Ermentrout, Rubin, and Swigon Mathematical FinanceProfessors Chadam and Caginalp. Numerical Analysis and Scientific ComputingProfessors Layton, Riviere and Yotov Topology and Differential GeometryProfessors Gartside, Heath and Sparling. |
