Professorial Faculty

Pramod Achar
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interest: Representation theory of algebraic groups
Office: 266 Lockett Hall
Office hours: Tu 2:00pm–3:00pm; Th 10:00am–11:30am
Telephone: +1 225 578 7990
Email: pramod@math.lsu.edu

William Adkins
Professor, Ph.D. University of Oregon
Research interest: Algebraic geometry, linear algebra over commutative rings
Office: 350 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 9:30am–10:30am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1601
Email: adkins@math.lsu.edu

Burak Aksoylu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
Research interest: Numerical analysis, numerical solutions to PDEs, scientific computing, multilevel iterative methods.
Office: 142 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 12:15pm–1:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 8984
Email: burak@cct.lsu.edu

Yaniv Almog
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Research interest: Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity, fluid Mechanics
Office: 304 Lockett Hall
Office hours: Tu 2:30pm–3:30pm; Th 2:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 5329
Email: almog@math.lsu.edu

Yuri Antipov
Professor, Ph.D. Moscow State University (Russia)
Research interest: Integral and functional equations of continuum mechanics
Office: 388 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1567
Email: antipov@math.lsu.edu

Scott Baldridge
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Michigan State University
Research interest: Geometric topology, differential geometry, gauge theory.
Office: 224 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 1:30pm–3:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1670
Email: sbaldrid@math.lsu.edu

Blaise Bourdin
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Paris XIII (France)
Research interest: Mathematics of materials science, scientific computing, optimal design
Office: 344 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1612
Email: bourdin@math.lsu.edu

Susanne C. Brenner
Professor, Ph.D. The University of Michigan
Research interest: Numerical analysis, finite element methods, multigrid methods, domain decompostion methods
Office: 268 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1678
Email: brenner AT math dot lsu dot edu

W. George Cochran
Associate Chair for Instruction
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Michigan
Research interest: Probability
Office: 301A Lockett Hall
Office hours: M 9:30am–11:30am; TuTh 10:45am–12:00pm; W 1:30pm–3:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1619
Email: cochran@math.lsu.edu

Daniel C. Cohen
Professor, Ph.D. Northeastern University
Research interest: Algebraic topology, arrangements of hyperplanes
Office: 372 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 11:30am–12:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1576
Email: cohen@math.lsu.edu

Jacek M. Cygan
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Polish Academy of Sciences
Research interest: Harmonic analysis
Office: 392 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MTuWThF 10:00am–12:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1565
Email: cygan@math.lsu.edu

Pallavi Dani
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Chicago
Research interest: Geometric group theory
Office: 246 Lockett Hall
Email: pdani@math.lsu.edu

Oliver Dasbach
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Düsseldorf (Germany)
Research interest: Low dimensional topology
Office: 306 Lockett Hall
Office hours: Tu 3:30pm–4:30pm; Th 10:30am–11:30am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1784
Email: kasten@math.lsu.edu

Mark Davidson
Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Research interest: Representations of Lie groups
Office: 312 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MW 9:30am–10:30am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1581
Email: davidson@math.lsu.edu

Charles Neal Delzell
Professor, Ph.D. Stanford University
Research interest: Real algebraic geometry
Office: 346 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1602
Email: delzell@math.lsu.edu

Guoli Ding
Professor, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Research interest: Graph theory, combinatorics
Office: 396 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1671
Email: ding@math.lsu.edu

Robert Dorroh
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. University of Texas
Research interest: Semigroups of operators, partial differential equations
Email: dorroh@math.lsu.edu

Ricardo Estrada
Professor, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Research interest: Asymptotic analysis, generalized functions, integral equations
Office: 256 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 8:30am–9:00am, 10:45am–11:45am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1677
Email: restrada@math.lsu.edu

Ray Fabec
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. University of Colorado
Research interest: Group representation theory
Email: fabec@math.lsu.edu

Guillermo Ferreyra
Professor, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Research interest: Control theory
Office: 320 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1609
Email: ferreyra@math.lsu.edu

Patrick Gilmer
A.K. and Shirley Barton Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Research interest: Knot theory, low dimensional manifolds
Office: 376 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1574
Email: gilmer@math.lsu.edu

Hongyu He
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interest: Representation Theory and Harmonic Analysis
Office: 230 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 11:00am–12:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1657
Email: hongyu@math.lsu.edu

Jerome W. Hoffman
Professor, Ph.D. Harvard University
Research interest: Algebraic geometry
Office: 374 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1575
Email: hoffman@math.lsu.edu

Hui-Hsiung Kuo
Nicholson Professor, Ph.D. Cornell University
Research interest: Probability, stochastic analysis
Office: 318 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MTuWThF 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1610
Email: kuo@math.lsu.edu

Jimmie Lawson
Boyd Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. University of Tennessee
Research interest: Topological algebra, control theory
Office: 216 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1672
Email: lawson@math.lsu.edu

Robert F. Lax
Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interest: Algebraic geometry, algebraic coding theory, applications of discrete math to computer science
Office: 380 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 1:30pm–2:30pm; TuTh 8:30am–9:30am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1571
Email: lax@math.lsu.edu

Robert Lipton
S.B. Barton Professor, Ph.D. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Research interest: Mathematical materials science, partial differential equations
Office: 384 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1569
Email: lipton@math.lsu.edu

Amha Lisan
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Howard University
Research interest: Topological algebra
Office: 354 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MTuWTh 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1578
Email: lisan@math.lsu.edu

Richard A. Litherland
Professor, Ph.D. Cambridge University (England)
Research interest: Algebraic topology, knot theory
Office: 378 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1573
Email: lither@math.lsu.edu

James Madden
Professor, Ph.D. Wesleyan University
Research interest: Real algebraic geometry, mathematics education
Office: 222 Prescott Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 7988
Email: madden@math.lsu.edu

Michael Malisoff
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Research interest: Mathematical systems and control theory
Office: 252 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 1:45pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 6714
Email: malisoff@math.lsu.edu

O. Carruth McGehee
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Yale University
Research interest: Commutative harmonic analysis, complex analysis
Office: 359 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1651
Email: mcgehee@math.lsu.edu

Jorge Morales
Professor, Ph.D. University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Research interest: Algebraic number theory , algebraic groups, galois cohomology
Office: 262 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 9:30am–10:30am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1655
Email: morales@math.lsu.edu

Frank Neubrander
The Demarcus D. Smith Alumni Professor, Ph.D. University of Tübingen (Germany)
Research interest: Laplace and convolution transforms, generalized functions, evolution equations, mathematics education
Office: 209 Prescott Hall
Office hours: M 2:30pm–3:30pm; TuWThF 11:30am–12:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 7677
Email: neubrand@math.lsu.edu

Phuc Cong Nguyen
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Missouri
Research interest: Partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, nonlinear potential theory
Office: 204 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 2657
Email: pcnguyen@math.lsu.edu

Augusto Nobile
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interest: Algebraic geometry
Office: 342 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1604
Email: nobile@math.lsu.edu

Gestur Olafsson
Hubert Butts Professor, Ph.D. University of Gôttingen (Germany)
Research interest: Harmonic analysis, representation theory, geometry
Office: 322 Lockett Hall
Office hours: Tu 1:30pm–2:30pm; Th 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1608
Email: olafsson@math.lsu.edu

Bogdan Oporowski
Professor, Ph.D. The Ohio State University
Research interest: Graph theory, matroid theory
Office: 352 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1579
Email: bogdan@math.lsu.edu

James Oxley
Alumni Professor, Ph.D. University of Oxford (England)
Research interest: Matroid theory, graph theory
Office: 370 Lockett Hall
Office hours: Tu 11:00am–12:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1577
Email: oxley@math.lsu.edu

Robert Perlis
Cecil Taylor Alumni Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interest: Algebraic number theory
Office: 212 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 10:00am–11:00am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1673
Email: perlis@math.lsu.edu

Leonard Richardson
Director of Graduate Studies
Herbert Huey McElveen Professor, Ph.D. Yale University
Research interest: Harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces
Office: 386 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 12:30pm–1:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1568
Email: rich@math.lsu.edu

Boris Rubin
Professor, Ph.D. Rostov State University (Russia)
Research interest: Integral geometry, harmonic analysis, convex geometry
Office: 348 Lockett Hall
Office hours: M 1:40pm–2:40pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1580
Email: borisr@math.lsu.edu

Daniel Sage
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Chicago
Research interest: Representation theory, hopf algebras and quantum groups, algebraic geometry, material science
Office: 394 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuWTh 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1564
Email: sage@math.lsu.edu

Marco Schlichting
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Universite Denis Diderot - Paris 7 (France)
Research interest: Algebraic K-theory in connection with algebraic geometry and quadratic forms, homotopy theory
Office: 208 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1659
Email: mschlich@math.lsu.edu

Ambar Sengupta
Professor, Ph.D. Cornell University
Research interest: Probability, mathematical physics
Office: 324 Lockett Hall
Office hours: W 9:30am–11:00am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1607
Email: sengupta@math.lsu.edu

Stephen Shipman
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Arizona
Research interest: Applied analysis: electrodynamics, scattering theory
Office: 314 Lockett Hall
Office hours: M 9:00am–11:00am; W 1:00pm–3:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1674
Email: shipman@math.lsu.edu

Lawrence Smolinsky
Department Chair
Professor, Ph.D. Brandeis University
Research interest: Hamiltonian mechanics/mathematical physics, knot theory
Office: 301C Lockett Hall
Office hours: W 11:30am–12:30pm; Th 9:00am–10:00am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1618
Email: smolinsk@math.lsu.edu

Neal W. Stoltzfus
Professor, Ph.D. Princeton University
Research interest: Knots, Links & Algebraic Invariants, low Dimensional Topology, braids & Mapping Class Group
Office: 258 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1656
Email: stoltz@math.lsu.edu

Padmanabhan Sundar
Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University
Research interest: Stochastic Analysis, stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Office: 316 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MF 9:00am–10:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1611
Email: sundar@math.lsu.edu

Li-yeng Sung
Professor, Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research interest: Partial differential equations, inverse scattering, numerical analysis
Office: 248 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 10:00am–11:00am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1598
Email: sung AT math dot lsu dot edu

Michael M. Tom
Professor, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Research interest: Partial differential equations
Office: 310 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWF 10:30am–11:30am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1613
Email: tom@math.lsu.edu

Helena Verrill
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Cambridge (England)
Research interest: Number theory and arithmetic and algebraic geometry
Office: 210 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1603
Email: verrill@math.lsu.edu

Dirk Vertigan
Professor, Ph.D. University of Oxford (England)
Research interest: Combinatorial Algebra, Algebraic Combinatorics
Office: 328 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MTuWTh 4:45pm–5:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1605
Email: vertigan@math.lsu.edu

Xiaoliang Wan
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Brown University
Research interest: Stochastic modeling, numerical methods for stochastic PDEs, minimum action method.
Office: 226 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MW 3:00pm–4:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 6367
Email: xlwan@math.lsu.edu

Peter Wolenski
Russell B. Long Professor, Ph.D. University of Washington
Research interest: Control theory, nonsmooth and variational analysis
Office: 326 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MF 12:30pm–1:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1606
Email: wolenski@math.lsu.edu

Milen Yakimov
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Research interest: Integrable systems, representation theory, and Poisson geometry
Office: 390 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1566
Email: yakimov@math.lsu.edu

Hongchao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Florida
Research interest: Nonlinear optimization and its applications, numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra
Office: 220 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1982
Email: hozhang@math.lsu.edu