Math Faculty at the Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges enjoy having more than 60 PhD's from a variety of fields in the mathematical sciences and related area. Here comes their names and brief backgrounds.

Claremont Graduate University

John Angus
Professor of Mathematics, Dean
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Large Sample Theory, Applied and Theoretical Probability, Mathematical Statistics
 

Ellis Cumberbatch
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Manchester University
Applied mathematics, Industrial modeling, Differential equations
 

Mario Martelli
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Florence, Italy
Applied Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations
 
Hedley Morris
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of London
Applied mathematics, Image processing, Numerical algorithms, Soritons
 
Ali Nadim
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Dynamics and Rheology of Complex Fluids
 
Allon Percus
Professor of Mathematics
Université Paris-Sud, Orsay: PhD in theoretical physics
Discrete optimization, Statistical physics of algorithms and networks, Random combinatorial structures, Computational complexity
 
Alpan Raval
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Machine learning methods for biosequence analysis, Mathematical modelling of biological networks
 
Henry Schellhorn
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Mathematical finance, credit risk, interest rate models, Monte Carlo simulation
 

William Lucas
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Game theory, combinatorics, operations research

 

Jerome Spanier
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Monte Carlo & Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods, Numerical Analysis, Transport and Diffusion Theory
 
Robert Williamson
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Algebraic and differential topology, differential geometry
 
Claudia Rangel
Adjuct Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Probabilistic Methods in Computational Biology, Statistical Inference of Genetic Networks
 

Claremont McKenna

Asuman Aksoy
Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Banach Space Theory, Operator Theory

Gerald Bradley
Associate Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Matrix Theory, Development of Calculus

Lenny Fukshansky
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry

David German
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Mathematical finance, Utility optimization, Large investor problem, Liquidity

Mark Huber
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Cornell University

Arthur Lee
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah
Programming languages and systems, Database systems

Sam Nelson
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Non-associative algebras, homology and cohomology theories

Mike O'Neill
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
TBA.

James Pinter-Lucke
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
Pedagogical Uses of computers, Computer Animation in Teaching

Robert Valenza
Dengler-Dykema Chair of Mathematics and the Humanities
Ph.D., Columbia University
Algebra, Number Theory

Harvey Mudd

Arthur Benjamin
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Combinatorics, game theory, operations research

Andrew Bernoff
Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Mathematics Clinic
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Fluid mechanics, free boundary problems, vorticity

Alfonso Castro
Kenneth and Diana Jonsson Professor of Mathematics and Chair
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Partial differential equations, variational methods, inverse-function theorems, water waves (solitons)

Lisette de Pillis
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Computational fluid dynamics, numerical linear algebra, mathematical biology

Daniel Goroff
Professor of Mathematics and Humanities, Dean of Faculty
Ph.D., Princeton University
Dynamical systems and Hamiltonian mechanics, mathematical history, philosophy and education

Weiqing Gu
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Differential geometry, Grassmann manifolds

Jon Jacobsen
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Utah
Nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations, fluid dynamics

Dagan Karp
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
PhD, University of British Columbia
Geometry, Algebraic geometry

Robert Keller
Professor of Computer Sciences
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Functional languages, Genetic programming, Parallel languages, Real-time languages, Logic programming languages

Maria Klawe
President of Harvey Mudd College
Ph.D., University of Alberta
Discrete Mathematics, mathematical education

Rachel Levy
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Marangoni and gravity driven thin liquid films

Susan Martonosi
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Operations research, applied probability, aviation security

Michael Orrison
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Algebra, combinatorics, and computational representation theory

Nicholas Pippenger
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discrete mathematics, probability, and applications to communications and computation

Francis Su
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Harvard University
Random walks on groups, combinatorial topology, mathematical economics and fair division

Darryl Yong
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Applied mathematics, perturbation theory, partial differential equations

Sanjai Gupta
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Stanford University
TBA.

Kimberly Tucker
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Discrete mathematics, graph theory, linear algebra, matrix analysis

Robert Borrelli
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, and Emeritus Director of the Mathematics Clinic
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Differential equations, mathematical modeling

Courtney Coleman
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Princeton University
Differential equations, mathematical modeling

John Greever
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Topology, biomathematics

Melvin Henriksen
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Algebra, rings of continuous functions, topology

Robert Ives
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Washington
Linear algebra, topological vector spaces, convex sets

Henry Krieger
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Brown University
Measure-theoretic probability, Toeplitz operators, stochastic processes

Alden Pixley
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Logic, universal algebras

Alvin White
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Stanford University
Functions of several complex variables, humanistic mathematics

Pomona

Donald Bentley
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Stanford University
Statistics

Vin de Silva
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Oxford University
Manifold learning and computational topology

Richard Elderkin
Professor of Mathematics and Environmental Analysis
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder
Nonlinear differential equations

Erica Flapan
Ligurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Topology of embedded graphs

Stephan Garcia
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Opertor Theory, Functions of a Complex Variable, Linear Algebra/Matrix Theory

Sandy Grabiner
Joseph N. Fiske Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Harvard University
Functional analysis, particularly Banach algebras

Jo Hardin
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Statistics, microarray data analysis

Alfonso Limon
Visiting Instructor in Mathematics
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate and San Diego State Universities,
Multilevel methods for PDEs

Gizem Karaali
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Representation Theory, Lie Algebras, Quantum Groups, Hopf algebras

Emrah Paksoy
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Algebraic geometry, Geometry, Differential geometry

Ami Radunskaya
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D.,Stanford University
Ergodic theory and dynamical systems

Adolfo Rumbos
Professor of Mathematics, Chair
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Nonlinear analysis and differential equations

Ghassan Sarkis
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Brown University
Number theory and formal groups

Shahriar Shahriari
William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Combinatorics, representation theory

Pitzer

Dave Bachman
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin.
Low-dimensional topology

Judith Grabiner
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
History of Mathematics

Jim Hoste
Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah
Low-dimensional topology, knot theory, computer applications to topology

Scripps


Anie Chaderjian
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
TBA.

Winston Ou
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Harmonic Analysis, Ridgelets, Mathematical Imaging

Christopher Towse
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Brown University
Arithmetic Geometry and Riemann surfaces (Weierstrass Points), Algebraic Number Theory (Generalized Continued Fractions), Combinatorics (Chain Partitions)