Professors

Pramod Achar
Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interest: Representation theory of algebraic groups
Office: 262 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
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor, Ph.D. University of Oregon
Research interest: Algebraic geometry, linear algebra over commutative rings
Office: 350 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MTuWTh 11:00am–12:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1601
Email: adkins@math.lsu.edu
 

Yaniv Almog
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
Loretta Cox Stuckey & Dr. James G. Traynham Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Michigan State University
Research interest: Geometric topology, differential geometry, gauge theory.
Office: 380 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 1:30pm–3:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1670
Email: sbaldrid@math.lsu.edu
 

Blaise Bourdin
Professor, Ph.D. University of Paris XIII (France)
Research interest: Mathematics of materials science, computational mechanics, optimal design, scientific computing
Office: 344 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MW 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1612
Email: bourdin@math.lsu.edu
 

Susanne C. Brenner
SIAM Fellow, AMS Fellow, AAAS Fellow
Nicholson 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@math.lsu.edu
 

W. George Cochran
Calculus Coordinator
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Michigan
Research interest: Probability
Office: 308 Lockett Hall
Office hours: M 9:30am–11:30am; Th 9:00am–10:00am, 11:30am–12:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1614
Email: cochran@math.lsu.edu
 

Dan Cohen
Professor, Ph.D. Northeastern University
Research interest: Algebraic topology, arrangements of hyperplanes
Office: 372 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 12:00pm–1:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1576
Email: cohen@math.lsu.edu
 

Pallavi Dani
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Chicago
Research interest: Geometric group theory
Office: 324 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1588
Email: pdani@math.lsu.edu
 

Oliver Dasbach
Department Chair
Professor, Ph.D. University of Dusseldorf (Germany)
Research interest: Low dimensional topology
Office: 301C Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1618
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: TuTh 10:30am–12:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1581
Email: davidson@math.lsu.edu
 

Charles N. Delzell
Associate Chair for Instruction
Professor, Ph.D. Stanford University
Research interest: Real algebraic geometry
Office: 301A Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1619
Email: delzell@math.lsu.edu
 

Guoli Ding
Hubert Butts Professor, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Research interest: Graph theory, combinatorics
Office: 396 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 9:30am–10:30am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1563
Email: ding@math.lsu.edu
 

Ricardo Estrada
Professor, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Research interest: Asymptotic analysis, generalized functions, integral equations
Office: 342 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 12:15pm–1:15pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1677
Email: restrada@math.lsu.edu
 

Arnab Ganguly
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
Research interest: Probability, stochastic analysis
Office: 222 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1629
Email: aganguly@math.lsu.edu
 

Pat Gilmer
A.K. and Shirley Barton Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Research interest: Knot theory, low dimensional manifolds
Office: 376 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MWTh 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1574
Email: gilmer@math.lsu.edu
 

Hongyu He
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interest: Representation Theory and Harmonic Analysis
Office: 254 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 Emeritus, 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: Operator and matrix means, topological algebra and domain theory, control theory
Office: 216 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1672
Email: lawson@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: MTuWThF 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1573
Email: lither@math.lsu.edu
 

Ling Long
Professor, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Research interest: Number Theory
Office: 256 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1654
Email: llong@math.lsu.edu
 

James Madden
The Patricia Hewlett Bodin Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Wesleyan University
Research interest: Real algebraic geometry, mathematics education
Office: 213 Prescott Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 7988
Email: madden@math.lsu.edu
 

Karl Mahlburg
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Research interest: Number theory, combinatorics
Office: 320 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 2658
Email: mahlburg@math.lsu.edu
 

Michael Malisoff
Roy Paul Daniels Professor, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Research interest: Mathematical systems and control theory
Office: 392 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 6714
Email: malisoff@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: MW 5:30pm–7:00pm; Tu 11:30am–12:30pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 7677
Email: neubrand@math.lsu.edu
 

Siu-Hung "Richard" Ng
Professor, Ph.D. Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Research interest: Hopf algebras and tensor categories, quantum groups
Office: 248 Lockett Hall
Office hours: W 1:30pm–3:15pm; Th 9:30am–10:15am
Telephone: +1 225 578 1659
Email: sng@lsu.edu
 

Phuc Cong Nguyen
Associate 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
 

Gestur Olafsson
Alumni Professor, Ph.D. University of Goettingen (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
Email: bogdan@math.lsu.edu
 

James Oxley
AMS Fellow
Boyd Professor, Ph.D. University of Oxford (England)
Research interest: Matroid theory, graph theory
Office: 370 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 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: M 10:00am–11:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1673
Email: perlis@math.lsu.edu
 

Leonard Richardson
Herbert Huey McElveen Professor, Ph.D. Yale University
Research interest: Harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces
Office: 386 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MTuWThF 1:30pm–2:30pm
Telephone: 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 11:00am–12:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1580
Email: borisr@math.lsu.edu
 

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

Stephen Shipman
Professor, Ph.D. University of Arizona
Research interest: Wave dynamics and scattering, spectral theory, metamaterials
Office: 314 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1674
Email: shipman@math.lsu.edu
 

Lawrence Smolinsky
Director of Actuarial Science
Roy Paul Daniels Professor, Ph.D. Brandeis University
Research interest: Geometry & topology
Office: 382 Lockett Hall
Office hours: Tu 3:00pm–4:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1570
Email: smolinsk@math.lsu.edu
 

P. Sundar
Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University
Research interest: Stochastic Analysis, stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Office: 316 Lockett Hall
Office hours: MW 2:00pm–3:30pm
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: 208 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1598
Email: sung@math.lsu.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
 

Fang-Ting Tu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Research interest: Number theory
Office: 246 Lockett Hall
Email: tu@math.lsu.edu
 

Stefan van Zwam
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Research interest: Combinatorics, especially matroid theory, computational combinatorics
Office: 224 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 2925
Email: svanzwam@math.lsu.edu
 

Shea Vela-Vick
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Research interest: Contact and symplectic geometry, low-dimensional topology, Riemannian geometry
Office: 252 Lockett Hall
Telephone: +1 225 578 1565
Email: shea@math.lsu.edu
 

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

Shawn Walker
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Maryland
Research interest: Finite element methods, free boundary problems, PDE-constrained (shape) optimization
Office: 210 Lockett Hall
Office hours: TuTh 2:00pm–3:00pm
Telephone: +1 225 578 1603
Email: walker@math.lsu.edu
 

Xiaoliang Wan
Associate 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
Sloan Research Fellow
Michael F. and Roberta Nesbit McDonald Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Research interest: Noncommutative algebra, relations to geometry and combinatorics
Office hours: TuTh 10:00am–11:00am; W 1:00pm–2:00pm
Email: yakimov@math.lsu.edu
 

Hongchao Zhang
Associate 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
 

Jiuyi Zhu
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Wayne State University
Research interest: Partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, geometric analysis
Office: 228 Lockett Hall
Email: zhu@math.lsu.edu