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Faculty & Staff

Mathematics

Faculty & Staff

hBelow is a directory of all faculty and staff of the Department of Mathematics as of July 2012.

Scroll to: Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, Staff.

See also the listing of recent visitors to the department, mailing groups for convenient distribution of emails, departmental photographs (mostly historical), and the mathematical genealogy of the faculty.

Although we do our best to keep the directory up to date, if you run into problems, try the DU directory.

 

Faculty

  • Alvaro Arias

    Professor
    PhD 1989 (Texas A&M)
    Office: JGH 208
    Email: aarias@math.du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3559

    Research interest: Functional analysis.
  • Sharon Bütz

    Lecturer
    M.S. 1976 (Denver)
    Office: JGH 212
    Email: sbutz@math.du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-2802

  • Ray Curran

    Lecturer
    PhD 2005 (Massachusetts)
    Office: JGH 202C
    Email: raymond.curran@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-4213

    Research interest: Algebraic geometry.
  • Natasha Dobrinen

    Associate Professor
    PhD 2001 (Minnesota)
    Office: JGH 209
    Email: ndobrine@du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-2120

    Research interest: Set theory, Boolean algebras, mathematical logic, foundations of mathematics.
  • Jeff Farmer

    Research Professor
    PhD 1992 (Texas A&M)
    Email: jdfarmer89@hotmail.com

    Research interest: Mathematical education, functional analysis.
  • Nikolaos Galatos

    Associate Professor
    PhD 2003 (Vanderbilt)
    Office: JGH 213
    Email: ngalatos@du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3581

    Research interest: Lattice theory, ordered algebras, mathematical logic.
  • John Griesmer

    Lecturer
    PhD (Ohio State)
    Office: JGH 202D
    Email: John.Griesmer@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-3834

    Research interest: Ergodic theory, additive combinatorics and harmonic analysis.
  • James N. Hagler

    Professor
    PhD 1972 (Berkley)
    Office: JGH 203B
    Email: jhagler@math.du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3310

    Research interest: Functional analysis, topological dynamics, hereditarily indecomposable continua.
  • Abby Johnson

    Lecturer
    M.S. (Massachusetts)
    Office: JGH 308
    Email:
    Phone:
  • Michael K. Kinyon

    Professor
    PhD 1991 (Utah)
    Office: JGH 204
    Email: mkinyon@math.du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3288

    Research interest: Nonassociative structures, loops, quasigroups, history of mathematics.
  • Frédéric Latrémolière

    Associate Professor
    PhD 2004 (Berkeley)
    Office: JGH 215
    Email: frederic@math.du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-2911

    Research interest: Functional analysis, C*-algebras, noncommutative geometry, C*-dynamics.
  • Zhe Liu

    Postdoctoral scholar
    PhD 2010 (New Hampshire)
    Office: JGH 211
    Email: zhe.liu@du.edu
    Website

     

    Research interest: Functional analysis, operator algebras, unbounded operators, mathematical physics.

  • Mario A. Lopez

    John Evans Professor
    PhD 1991 (Minnesota)
    Office: JGH 321
    Email: mlopez@cs.du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3287

    Research interest: Computational geometry, algorithms, geographic information systems.
  • Nicholas Ormes

    Associate Professor and Department Chair
    PhD 1997 (Maryland)
    Office: JGH 210
    Email: normes@math.du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3325

    Research interest: Dynamical systems, ergodic theory, topology.
  • Ronnie Pavlov

    Assistant Professor
    PhD 2007 (Ohio State)
    Office: JGH 304
    Email: rpavlov@du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-4001

    Research interest: Dynamical systems, ergodic theory, symbolic dynamics.
  • Allegra Reiber

    Lecturer and Director of the Math Center
    M.S. 2006 (Notre Dame)
    Office: JGH 202A
    Email: areiber@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-2807

    Research interest: Algebraic topology.
  • Frank Schroeck

    Research Professor
    PhD 1971 (Rochester)
    Office: JGH 202B
    Email: fschroec@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-3064

    Research interest: Group theory, functional analysis, mathematical physics, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics on phase space, quantum structures.
  • Florian Sobieczky

    Lecturer
    PhD 1998 (University of Gottingen, Germany)
    Office: JGH 201

    Research interest: Heat kernel estimates, random walks, percolation, structure theory of graphs, random graphs, stationary determinental processes, queueing theory.
  • Petr Vojtěchovský

    Professor
    PhD 2001 (Iowa State), PhD 2003 (Charles Univ. Prague)
    Office: JGH 214
    Email: petr@math.du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3314

    Research interest: Loops, quasigroups, latin squares, nonassociative algebra, computational algebra, computational geometry.
  • Brett Werner

    Lecturer
    PhD 2010 (Denver)
    Office: JGH 207
    Email: brett.werner@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-2093

    Research interest: Symbolic dynamics.
 

Emeritus Faculty

  • Richard N. Ball

    Professor Emeritus
    PhD 1974 (Wisconsin)
    Office: JGH 215
    Email: rball@du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3294

    Research interest: Algebra and topology, combinatorics, topological dynamics, stability and complexity.
  • Joel S. Cohen

    Professor Emeritus
    PhD 1970 (Maryland)
    Office: JGH 319
    Email: jscohen@du.edu
    Website
    Phone: 303-871-3292

    Research interest: Computer algebra and symbolic computation, mathematics and music, history of mathematics.
  • William S. Dorn

    Professor Emeritus
    PhD 1955 (Carnegie Inst. of Technology)
    Office: SGM 130
    Email: wdorn@cs.du.edu

    Research interest: Mathematics for humanities and social science students, preparing science student for entrance into the 'real world', writing in mathematics/computing courses, simplifying web site design, handicapped access to web sites.
  • Stanley Gudder

    John Evans Professor Emeritus
    PhD 1964 (Illinois)
    Email: sgudder@math.du.edu
    Website

    Research interest: Functional analysis, mathematical physics, foundations of quantum mechanics, probability theory.

  • Jean-Paul Marchand

    Professor Emeritus
    PhD (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Geneva)
  • Alayne Parson

    Professor Emerita
    PhD (Illinois at Chicago)
    Email: alayne.parson@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-2693

    Research interest: Automorphic functions, complex analysis, number theory.
  • Ottis W. Rechard

    Professor Emeritus
    PhD 1948 (Wisconsin)
    Email: orechard@cs.du.edu

    Research interest: Computer systems, algorithms, numerical analysis.
 

Staff

  • Liane Beights

    Assistant to the Chair
    Office: JGH 203A
    Email: lbeights@math.du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-3344
  • Jason Myers

    Faculty/Staff Support Specialist & Operations Coordinator
    Office: JGH 303
    Email: jason.myers@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-3072