Alaa Abd-el-Hafez
Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice
Lecturer
Ed.D in 2016 from Long Island University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2015

Office: Math Tower 4-102
Phone: (631) 632-8275
Email: alaa.abdelhafez@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Mathematics Education


Ethan Addison
Detlef Gromoll Instructor
Ph.D in 2022 from University of Notre Dame
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2022

Office: Math Tower 4-103
Email: Ethan.Addison@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Complex Differential Geometry


Robert Andersen
Adjunct Lecturer

Office: Math Tower 3-119
Email: randersen@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Mathematics Education


$Michael Anderson
Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1981 from University of California, Berkeley
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1988
Mathematics Genealogy

Email: anderson@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Differential geometry; geometric analysis; mathematical physics

Awards: 1984-1986 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow; 1994 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians; 1990 AMS Centennial Research Fellow; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

$Johan Asplund
James H. Simons Instructor
Ph.D. in 2021 from Uppsala University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2024

Office: Math Tower 3-116
Email: johan.asplund@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Symplectic and contact geometry


Soumya Banerjee
Lecturer
Ph.D. In 2014 from Yale University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2023

Office: Math Tower 4-105
Email: Soumya.Banerjee@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry


$William Barcus
Professor (Emeritus)
D. Phil in 1955 from University of Oxford, England
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1961
Mathematics Genealogy

Email: wbarcus@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebraic topology


$Eric Bedford
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Michigan
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2012

Office: Math Tower 3-102
Email: ebedford@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Several Complex Variables; Dynamical Systems; Geometric Function Theory; Geometric Analysis


$Lisa Berger
Mathematics Education Program Director

(on leave)
Associate Professor
Ph.D. in 2007 from University of Arizona
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2007
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-100A
Email: lbrgr@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Number theory; mathematics education of teachers


$William Bernhard
Adjunct Lecturer
M.A. In 2000 from Stony Brook University

Office: Math Tower 2-101
Email: bill@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Mathematics Education

Awards: 2016/17 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching; 2022 Stony Brook College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Teaching Award

$Cheryl Bishop
Lecturer

Office: Math Tower 4-112
Email: cheryl.bishop@stonybrook.edu



$Christopher Bishop
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. in 1987 from University of Chicago
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1991
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-112
Phone: (631) 632-8274
Email: bishop@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Geometric function theory; complex analysis; applied math; riemann surfaces; dynamical systems; geometric analysis

Awards: 1982 Churchill Scholar;1987 NSF postdoc; 1992 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow; 2018 ICM Invited Lecture; 2019 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society ; 2019 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

PhD Students:
       ∙ Alex Rodriguez

Keven Calderon
Lecturer
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2023

Office: Math Tower 4-105
Email: keven.calderon@stonybrook.edu



$Moira Chas
Associate Department Chair
Professor
Ph.D. in 1998 from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2002
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-113
Phone: (631) 632-8622
Email: moira.chas@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Low-dimensional topology

Awards: 2017 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

Jingrui Cheng
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in 2018 from University of Wisconsin-Madison
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2020
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 2-116
Email: Jingrui.Cheng@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, more specifically about its applications in geometry and optimal transport


Holly Chen
Lecturer

Office: Math Tower 2-121
Email: holly@math.stonybrook.edu



Charles Cifarelli

(on leave)
James H. Simons Instructor
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2023

Office: Math Tower 3-116
Email: Charles.Cifarelli@stonybrook.edu



$Mark Andrea De Cataldo
Professor
Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Notre Dame
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1999
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-108
Phone: (631) 632-8284
Email: mark.decataldo@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry

Awards: 1990-1994 CNR Fellowship; 1994 CNR Fellowship prize; 1998-1999 CNR Fellowship; 1998 AMS Centennial Fellowship; 2011 Gehring Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 2014 Simons Fellow in Mathematics; 2017 Oberwolfach Leibnitz Fellow; 2017 Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow; 2019 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; 2020 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

PhD Students:
       ∙ Matthew Huynh

Bradley Dirks
James H. Simons Instructor
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2023

Office: Math Tower 4-101B
Email: Bradley.Dirks@stonybrook.edu



$Simon Donaldson
Permanent Member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

(on leave)
Professor
D.Phil. in 1983, from University of Oxford, England
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2014
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: SCGP 514
Phone: (631) 632-2864
Email: sdonaldson@scgp.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Differential geometry

Awards: 1985 Junior Whitehead Prize; 1986 Fields Medal; 1994 Crafoord Prize; 2006 King Faisal International Prize; 2008 Nemmers Prize in Mathematics; 2009 Shaw Prize in Mathematics; 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics; 2019 Veblen Prize in Geometry; 2020 Wolf Prize in Mathematics

PhD Students:
       ∙ Dylan Galt

$Theodore Drivas
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in 2017 from The Johns Hopkins University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2020
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-114
Email: Theodore.Drivas@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Fluid dynamics; Turbulence; Partial differential equations

Awards: 2017-2020 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD Students:
       ∙ Daniil Glukhovskiy

$Dzmitry Dudko
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in 2012 from Jacobs University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2019
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 2-117
Email: Dzmitry.Dudko@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical Systems;


PhD Students:
       ∙ Jonathan Galvan Bermudez
       ∙ Willie Rush Lim

$David Ebin
Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1967 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1969
Mathematics Genealogy

Phone: (631) 632-8283
Email: ebin@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Global analysis; mathematics of continuum mechanics; partial differential equations

Awards: 1967-1968 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow; 1970 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

$Kenji Fukaya
Permanent Member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Professor
Doctor of Science in 1986 from University of Tokyo
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2013
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: SCGP 415
Phone: (631) 632-2851
Email: kfukaya@scgp.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Geometry

Awards: 1989 Geometry Prize; 1994 Math. Soc. Japan, Spring Prize; 2002 Inoue Prize; 2003 Japan Academy Prize; 2009 Member of Japan Academy; 2010 Asahi Prize; 2012 Fujiwara Prize

PhD Students:
       ∙ Yunpeng Niu
       ∙ Mohamad Rabah
       ∙ Yao Xiao

$James Glimm
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. in 1959 from Columbia University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1988
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 1-121
Phone: (631) 632-8355
Email: glimm@ams.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Applied mathematics; numerical analysis; mathematical physics

Awards: 1979 New York Academy of Science Award in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences; 1980 Dannie Heineman prize for Mathematical Physics; 1984 National Academy of Sciences; 1993 Steele Prize for a paper of fundamental importance, American Mathematical Society; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

$Samuel Grushevsky
SCGP Deputy Directory
Professor
Ph.D. in 2002 from Harvard University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2009
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: SCGP 416
Phone: (631) 632-2849
Email: sam@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Geometry

Awards: 2015 F.W. Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation; 2015 Simons Fellow in Mathematics;2022 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

PhD Students:
       ∙ Prabhat Devkota
       ∙ Myeongjae Lee

$C. Denson Hill
Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1966 from New York University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1973
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 2-113
Phone: (631) 632-8251
Email: dhill@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Partial differential equations; several complex variables; CR-manifolds

Awards: 1970 NATO Fellow; 1972-1976 A. P. Sloan Fellowship; 1979 National Research Council of Italy Fellowship

$Robert Hough
Associate Professor
PhD in 2012 from Stanford University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2016
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-118
Phone: (631) 632-2760
Email: robert.hough@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Probability; Analytic number theory

Awards: 2017 MAA David P. Robbins Prize; 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship; 2020 Stony Brook Trustees Faculty Award

PhD Students:
       ∙ Owen Mireles Briones

$Lowell Jones
Professor
Ph.D. in 1970 from Yale University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1975
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 2-111
Phone: (631) 632-8248
Email: lejones@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Topology; geometry


$David Kahn
Lecturer
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2013

Office: Math Tower 2-119
Email: david.kahn@stonybrook.edu


Awards: 2016 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

$Ljudmila Kamenova
Research Associate Professor
Ph.D. in 2006 from MIT
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-115
Phone: (631) 632-8262
Email: kamenova@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Complex geometry


$Marcus Khuri
Professor
Ph.D. in 2003 from University of Pennsylvania
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-122
Phone: (631) 632-8492
Email: khuri@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Differential geometry; partial differential equations; general relativity

Awards: 2003-2006 NSF Posdoctoral Fellow; 2008-2010 A. P. Sloan Fellow; 2020 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

PhD Students:
       ∙ Santiago Cordero-Misteli
       ∙ Emily Schaal
       ∙ Paul Sweeney

$Alexander Kirillov, Jr.
Professor
Ph.D. in 1995 from Yale University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1998
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-107
Phone: (631) 632-8289
Email: kirillov@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebra; representation theory


PhD Students:
       ∙ Astra Kolomatskaia

$Anthony Knapp
Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1965 from Princeton University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1986
Mathematics Genealogy

Email: aknapp@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Lie groups; representation theory

Awards: 1974 Invited address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver; 1982-1983 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; 1996 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award "Mathematics 1995", Association of American Publishers; 1997 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, American Mathematical Society; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

$Irwin Kra
Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1966 from Columbia University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1968
Mathematics Genealogy

Email: irwin@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Complex analysis; Kleinian groups

Awards: 1972 Guggenheim Fellowship; 1985 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; 1987 Advisory Professor, Fudan University; 1989 Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

$Deb Krieg
Lecturer
M.A. In 2009 from Stony Brook University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2009

Office: Math Tower 2-121
Email: debra.krieg@stonybrook.edu



Stephanie Lamb
Lecturer
M.A. In 2016 from Stony Brook University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2016

Office: Math Tower 2-120
Email: Stephanie.Lamb@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Mathematics Education


$H. Blaine Lawson, Jr.
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. in 1968 from Stanford University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1978
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-109
Phone: (631) 632-8285
Email: blaine@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Differential geometry; topology; geometric measure theory; several complex variables; algebraic geometry

Awards: 1970-1973 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow; 1973 Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society; 1983-84 Guggenheim Fellow; 1974 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians; 1994 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians; 1995 National Academy of Sciences; 1997 Vice President A.M.S.; 1999 Brazilian Academy of Sciences; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; 2013 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

$Radu Laza
Professor
Ph.D. in 2006 from Columbia University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2009
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-121
Phone: (631) 632-4506
Email: rlaza@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry; several complex variables

Awards: 2010 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow; 2013 NSF CAREER Award ; 2014-2015 IAS von Neumann Fellow; 2016 Simons Fellow in Mathematics; 2016 Foundation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Junior Chair

$Robert Lazarsfeld
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. in 1980 from Brown University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2013
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-107
Email: robert.lazarsfeld@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry; commutative algebra

Awards: 1981-1982 AMS Postdoctoral Fellow; 1984-1987 Sloan Fellow; 1985-90 NSF Presidential Young Investigator; 1990 Plenary Lecture at International Congress of Mathematics ICM-90, Kyoto; 1998-1999 Guggenheim Fellow; 2005 AMS Colloquium Lecturer; 2006 Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 2008 Clay Senior Scholar; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; 2015 AMS Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition

PhD Students:
       ∙ Karina Cho
       ∙ Giovanni Passeri
       ∙ Yu Xiao

$Claude LeBrun
Distinguished Professor
D. Phil in 1980 from University of Oxford, England
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1980
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-108
Phone: (631) 632-8254
Email: claude@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Differential geometry; algebraic geometry; differential topology; complex analysis; mathematical physics

Awards: 1994 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; 2018 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

$Mikhail Lyubich
Director Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. in 1984 from Tashkent State University, former Soviet Union
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1990
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-110
Phone: (631) 632-8256
Email: mlyubich@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical systems

Awards: 1991-1993 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow; 1994 Plenary Lecture at International Congress of Mathematics ICM-94, Zurich; 2002-2004 Guggenheim Fellowship; 2009 Jeffery-Williams Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society; 2010 Jeffery-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; 2014 Plenary Lecture at International Congress of Mathematics ICM-14, Seoul; 2019 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 2022 Member of the National Academy of Sciences

PhD Students:
       ∙ Jacob Mazor

$Marco Martens
MA Masters Program Director
Professor
Ph.D. in 1990 from Delft University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-113
Phone: (631) 632-4893
Email: marco@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamics and related subjects


$Bernard Maskit
Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1964 from New York University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1971
Mathematics Genealogy

Email: bernie@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Complex analysis; riemann surfaces; kleinian groups and deformation spaces; computational psycholinguistics

Awards: 1969-1971 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow; 1972 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

$Dusa McDuff
Distinguished Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1971 from Cambridge University, England
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1978
Mathematics Genealogy

Email: dusa@math.columbia.edu

Research Interests: Geometry; Symplectic topology

Awards: 1991 Satter Prize, American Mathematical Society; 1991 UUP excellence award; 1994 Fellow, Royal Society; 1995 Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences; 1999 National Academy of Sciences; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; 2017 AMS Steele Prize for Exposition; 2018 Sylvester Medal

$Mark McLean
Graduate Director
Professor
Ph.D. in 2008 from Cambridge University, England
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2013
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-112
Phone: (631) 632-8351
Email: markmclean@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry; Differential Geometry; Symplectic Topology

Awards: 2022 ICM Invited Lecture

PhD Students:
       ∙ Jiaji Cai
       ∙ Shuhao Li

$Sergiy Merenkov
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. in 2003 from Purdue University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2015

Office: Math Tower 5D-148
Email: merenkov@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical Systems


$Marie-Louise Michelsohn
Professor
Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Chicago
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1978
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-113
Phone: (631) 632-8258
Email: mlm@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Differential geometry


$John Milnor
Co-Director Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. in 1954 from Princeton University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1988
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5D-148A
Phone: (631) 632-7307
Email: jack@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical systems

Awards: 1949 Putnam Fellow; 1950 Putnam Fellow; 1962 Fields Medal, International Mathematical Union, Stockholm; 1963 National Academy of Sciences; 1965 Hon. D. Sci, Syracuse University; 1966 National Medal of Science; 1967 Hon. D. Sci, University of Chicago; 1982 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research, American Mathematical Society; 1989 Wolf Prize in Mathematics; 2004 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition; 2011 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement; 2011 Abel Prize; 2014 Invited Abel Lecture at ICM; 2020 Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences

$John Morgan
Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1969 from Rice University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2010
Mathematics Genealogy

Email: jmorgan@math.columbia.edu

Research Interests: Topology; differential geometry

Awards: 2010 National Academy of Sciences; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

$Mikhail Movshev
Associate Professor
Ph.D. in 1997 from University of Pennsylvania
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2007
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-109
Phone: (631) 632-8271
Email: mmovshev@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebra


$Evita Nestoridi
Associate Professor
Ph.D in 2016 from Stanford University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2022

Office: Math Tower 4-119
Email: Evrydiki.Nestoridi@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Analysis; Probability


Hongming Nie
Milnor Lecturer, Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Ph.D. In 2018 from Indiana University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2021

Office: Math Tower 4-115
Email: Hongming.Nie@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical Systems


$Dimitrios Ntalampekos
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in 2018 from University of California, Los Angeles
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2018
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-117
Email: Dimitrios.Ntalampekos@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Analysis on metric spaces; Quasiconformal geometry of fractals; Complex dynamics


Kristen Pagano
Lecturer
M.A. In 2016 from Stony Brook University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2022

Office: Math Tower 2-119
Email: Kristen.Pagano@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Mathematics Education


$John Pardon
Professor
Ph.D in 2015 from Stanford University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2022

Office: SCGP 315
Phone: (631) 632-2835
Email: jpardon@scgp.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Geometry and Topology


Insung Park
Milnor Lecturer, Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Ph.D in 2021 from Indiana University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2023

Office: Math Tower 3-118
Email: insung.park@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical Systems


$Anthony Phillips
Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1968
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-125B
Phone: (631) 632-8259
Email: tony@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Topology; applications to mathematical physics


Joel Pincus
Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1959 from New York University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1968
Mathematics Genealogy


Research Interests: Operator theory; integral equations


$Olga Plamenevskaya
Associate Undergraduate Director
Professor
Ph.D in 2004 from Harvard University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 2-112
Phone: (631) 632-4464
Email: olga@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Contact and symplectic geometry; low-dimensional topology

Awards: 2018 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

$Alexander Retakh
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in 2002 from Yale University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006

Email: retakh@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebra; mathematical physics


Thomas Rico
Lecturer
M.A. In 2016 from Stony Brook University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2016

Office: Math Tower 2-120
Email: thomas.rico@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Mathematics Education


$Christian Schnell
Professor
Ph.D. in 2008 from The Ohio State University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2012
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-110
Email: cschnell@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry; D-modules

Awards: 2015 AMS Centennial Fellowship; 2016 NSF CAREER Award; 2021 Simons Fellowship

PhD Students:
       ∙ Daniel Brogan

$Raanan Schul
Associate Graduate Director
Professor
Ph.D. in 2005 from Yale University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2009
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-121
Phone: (631) 632-8995
Email: Raanan.Schul@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Real analysis; geometric measure theory

Awards: 2005 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow; 2010 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow

PhD Students:
       ∙ Jared Krandel
       ∙ Jacob Laxer
       ∙ Paul Sweeney

$James Simons
Research Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1962
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1968
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-115
Phone: (631) 632-9202

Research Interests: Differential geometry

Awards: 1976 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

$Jason Starr
Professor
Ph.D. in 2000 from Harvard University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-108
Phone: (631) 632-8270
Email: jstarr@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry

Awards: 2005 A. P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow; 2009 NSF CAREER Award; 2013 Simons Fellow in Mathematics; 2017 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

PhD Students:
       ∙ Srijan Ghosh

Christiane Stidham
Lecturer
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2018

Office: ESS 338
Phone: (631) 632-8059
Email: christiane.stidham@stonybrook.edu



$Dennis Sullivan
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. in 1965 from Princeton University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1996
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-114
Email: dennis@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Manifolds; triangulations; algebraic topology; differential forms and homotopy theory; foliations; laminations and low dimensional dynamical systems; riemann surfaces and kleinian groups; geometric analysis; fluid evolution and computation; string topology; homotopical algebra; perturbative quantum field theory and low dimensional topology

Awards: 1971 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry; 1981 Elie Cartan Prize, French Academy of Sciences; 1982 Honorary Degree, University of Warwick; 1983 National Academy of Sciences; 1984 Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Gold Medal, 1996); 1988 American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1988 Honorary Degree, Rice University; 1994 King Faisal International Prize of Science; 2000 Honorary Degree, Ecole Normale de Lyons; 2004 National Medal of Science; 2006 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement; 2010 Wolf Prize in Mathematics; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; 2014 Balzan Prize; 2022 Abel Prize

PhD Students:
       ∙ Liam Fox
       ∙ Runjie Hu

$Scott Sutherland
Department Chair
Professor
Ph.D. in 1989 from Boston University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1989
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-116
Phone: (631) 632-7306
Email: scott@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical systems; Root finding algorithms; Computing; mathematics education

Awards: 2005 Chancellor's award in faculty service; 2008 Student life award; 2014 National Academies Education Fellow

$Leon Takhtajan
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. in 1975 from Leningrad Branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1992
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-111
Phone: (631) 632-8287
Email: leontak@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Mathematical physics

Awards: 1983 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians; 1984 Best Paper, Mathematics Section of Academy of Sciences USSR; 1987 Annual Prize, Mathematics Section of Academy of Sciences USSR; 1993 Plenary Address, Annual Meeting of American Mathematical Society; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

$Dror Varolin

(on leave)
Professor
Ph.D. in 1997 from University of Wisconsin-Madison
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2005
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 4-111
Phone: (631) 632-8273
Email: dror@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Several complex variables; Algebraic geometry; Complex geometry; Dynamical systems; Algebraic Geometry; Analysis, Partial Differential Equations; Riemann Surfaces, Moduli Spaces, Kleinian Groups; Differential Geometry; Geometric Function Theory, Geometric Measure Theory; Geometric Analysis


PhD Students:
       ∙ Roberto Albesiano
       ∙ Luke Kiernan
       ∙ Pranav Upadrashta

$Julia Viro
Math Learning Center Director
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D 1991 from Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2007

Office: Math Tower 5-110
Phone: (631) 632-8286
Email: julia.viro@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Low-dimensional topology and knot theory; links in projective space; rigid isotopy of projective configurations; algebraic links; Vassiliev invariants


$Oleg Viro
Professor
Ph.D. in 1974 from Leningrad University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2007
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 5-110
Phone: (631) 632-8286
Email: oleg@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Geometry and Topology; especially low dimensional topology; topology of real algebraic varieties and tropical geometry

Awards: 1983 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Warsaw; 2000 Invited Address, European Congress of Mathematics, Barcelona; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Jian Wang
James H. Simons Instructor
Ph.D. in 2019 from Institut Fourier
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2021

Office: Math Tower 4-116
Email: Jian.Wang.4@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Differential Geometry and Topology


James Waterman
Milnor Lecturer, Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Ph.D. in 2020 from The Open University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2021

Office: Math Tower 3-118
Email: James.Waterman@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical Systems; Complex Analysis


$Karl Winsor
James H. Simons Instructor
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2023

Office: Math Tower 4-101B
Email: Karl.Winsor@stonybrook.edu



Qi Yao
James H. Simons Instructor
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2023

Office: Math Tower 3-116
Email: qi.yao@stonybrook.edu



Yongquan Zhang
Milnor Lecturer, Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Ph.D in 2021 from Harvard University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2022

Office: Math Tower 3-114
Email: Yongquan.Zhang@stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Dynamical systems; Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds; Moduli spaces


$Aleksey Zinger
Professor
Ph.D. in 2002 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2005
Mathematics Genealogy

Office: Math Tower 3-111
Email: azinger@math.stonybrook.edu

Research Interests: Symplectic topology; enumerative algebraic geometry

Awards: 2002-2005 NSF Posdoctoral Fellow; 2006 A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow; 2009 NSF CAREER Award; 2011-2012 IAS von Neumann Fellow; 2020 Simons Fellow in Mathematics

PhD Students:
       ∙ Spencer Cattalani