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 Home Page Research Interests: Number theory; mathematics education of teachers |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 336 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 534 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 700 T11 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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAE 301 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm ∙ MAE 501 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T12 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 12:00pm-1:00pm ∙ W 2:30pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 127 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am Course Coordinator ∙ MAT 543 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 12:30pm-2:30pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Th 12:30pm-1:30pm Research Interests: Algebra |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T04 ∙ MAT 545 L02 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T04 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 3:30pm-4:30pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-3:30pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 2:30pm-3:30pm 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T17 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 310 L01 - MWF 9:00 - 9:53am Office Hours: ∙ M 10:00am-11:00am ∙ W 10:00am-11:00am ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ F 10:00am-11:00am Research Interests: Complex geometry |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 644 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 Home Page 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAE 301 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm ∙ MAE 501 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T12 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 12:00pm-1:00pm ∙ W 2:30pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 682 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 560 L01 - MW 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T23 Office Hours: ∙ M 10:00am-11:00am ∙ Tu 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 12:00pm-1:00pm Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry; Differential Geometry; Symplectic Topology Awards: 2022 ICM Invited Lecture PhD Students: ∙ Jiaji Cai ∙ Shuhao Li |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T08 ∙ MAT 663 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 699 T08 Office Hours: ∙ M 12:30pm-2:30pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 1:30pm-2:30pm Research Interests: Algebraic geometry; D-modules Awards: 2015 AMS Centennial Fellowship; 2016 NSF CAREER Award; 2021 Simons Fellowship PhD Students: ∙ Daniel Brogan |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 200 L02 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 511 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 614 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 699 T29 Office Hours: ∙ Th 10:00am-11:00am ∙ Tu 1:00pm-2:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 10:00am-11:00am 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 250 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 364 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 529 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 541 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 699 T33 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-4:00pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 4:00pm-5:00pm 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 |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 670 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T02 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 |
Jingrui Cheng
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 568 L01 - MW 9:00 - 10:20am Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:00pm ∙ Th 2:00pm-3:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 9:00am-10:00am ![]() Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, more specifically about its applications in geometry and optimal transport |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 125 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 203 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T42 Office Hours: ∙ Th 1:00pm-3:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ W 9:00am-10:00am ![]() Research Interests: Fluid dynamics; Turbulence; Partial differential equations Awards: 2017-2020 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow PhD Students: ∙ Daniil Glukhovskiy |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T36 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T05 ∙ MAT 530 L01 - MW 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 698 T05 ∙ MAT 699 T05 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:30am-1:00pm ∙ W 11:30am-1:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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: schul@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 320 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 487 T34 ∙ MAT 532 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 699 T34 Office Hours: ∙ M 12:00pm-1:00pm ![]() ∙ Th 11:30am-12:30pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ F 3:00pm-4:00pm ![]() 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 670 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T02 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 125 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 203 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T42 Office Hours: ∙ Th 1:00pm-3:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ W 9:00am-10:00am ![]() Research Interests: Fluid dynamics; Turbulence; Partial differential equations Awards: 2017-2020 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow PhD Students: ∙ Daniil Glukhovskiy |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ 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 5-112, 5-116 Phone: (631) 632-7306 Email: scott@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T31 ∙ MAT 495 T31 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 670 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T02 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 |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 655 L01 - MW 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T16 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 |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 303 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 319 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 11:30am-12:30pm ∙ Th 11:30am-12:30pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ F 9:00am-10:00am ![]() Research Interests: Analysis on metric spaces; Quasiconformal geometry of fractals; Complex dynamics |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ 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 5-112, 5-116 Phone: (631) 632-7306 Email: scott@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T31 ∙ MAT 495 T31 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 495 T32 ∙ MAT 538 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
James Waterman
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 331 L01 - TuTh 4:00 - 5:20pm ∙ MAT 459 T37 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:30pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 10:00am-11:00am ![]() Research Interests: Dynamical Systems; Complex Analysis |
Yongquan Zhang
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 307 L01 - MW 4:00 - 5:20pm ∙ MAT 487 T06 Office Hours: ∙ M 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ W 1:00pm-2:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:00pm Research Interests: Dynamical systems; Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds; Moduli spaces |
Eric Bedford

![]() | Visiting Professor (Institute for Mathematical Sciences) Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Michigan Arrived at Stony Brook in 2012 Office: Math Tower 3-102 Email: ebedford@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Research Interests: Several Complex Variables; Dynamical Systems; Geometric Function Theory; Geometric Analysis |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 644 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 682 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 670 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T02 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T17 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 |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 200 L02 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 511 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 614 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 699 T29 Office Hours: ∙ Th 10:00am-11:00am ∙ Tu 1:00pm-2:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 10:00am-11:00am 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 495 T32 ∙ MAT 538 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
Yongquan Zhang
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 307 L01 - MW 4:00 - 5:20pm ∙ MAT 487 T06 Office Hours: ∙ M 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ W 1:00pm-2:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:00pm Research Interests: Dynamical systems; Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds; Moduli spaces |
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 Home Page 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 |
Simon Donaldson

Permanent Member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
![]() | 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T41 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 |
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 Home Page 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T40 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 211 L02 - TuTh 8:30 - 9:50am ∙ MAT 341 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am Office Hours: ∙ Tu 12:00pm-1:30pm ![]() ∙ Th 12:00pm-1:30pm ![]() ∙ also by appointment Research Interests: Topology; geometry |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 310 L01 - MWF 9:00 - 9:53am Office Hours: ∙ M 10:00am-11:00am ∙ W 10:00am-11:00am ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ F 10:00am-11:00am 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T05 ∙ MAT 530 L01 - MW 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 698 T05 ∙ MAT 699 T05 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:30am-1:00pm ∙ W 11:30am-1:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 644 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 682 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 560 L01 - MW 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T23 Office Hours: ∙ M 10:00am-11:00am ∙ Tu 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 12:00pm-1:00pm Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry; Differential Geometry; Symplectic Topology Awards: 2022 ICM Invited Lecture PhD Students: ∙ Jiaji Cai ∙ Shuhao Li |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 200 L03 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 313 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 524 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm Research Interests: Differential geometry |
John Morgan

![]() | Professor (Emeritus) Ph.D. in 1969 from Rice University Arrived at Stony Brook in 2010 Mathematics Genealogy Email: jmorgan@math.columbia.edu Home Page Research Interests: Topology; differential geometry Awards: 2010 National Academy of Sciences; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society |
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 Home Page Research Interests: Differential geometry Awards: 1976 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 250 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 364 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 529 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am 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
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 341 L02 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 487 T39 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ W 11:00am-12:00pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ M 1:00pm-2:00pm Research Interests: Differential Geometry and Topology |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 541 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 699 T33 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-4:00pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 4:00pm-5:00pm 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 |
Eric Bedford

![]() | Visiting Professor (Institute for Mathematical Sciences) Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Michigan Arrived at Stony Brook in 2012 Office: Math Tower 3-102 Email: ebedford@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Research Interests: Several Complex Variables; Dynamical Systems; Geometric Function Theory; Geometric Analysis |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 670 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T02 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 125 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 203 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T42 Office Hours: ∙ Th 1:00pm-3:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ W 9:00am-10:00am ![]() 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 556 L01 - MW 9:00 - 10:20am ∙ MAT 699 T43 Research Interests: Dynamical Systems; PhD Students: ∙ Jonathan Galvan Bermudez ∙ Willie Rush Lim |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 655 L01 - MW 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T16 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 131 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am Course Coordinator ∙ MAT 312 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 324 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 487 T37 ∙ MAT 522 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Research Interests: Dynamics and related subjects |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 303 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 319 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 11:30am-12:30pm ∙ Th 11:30am-12:30pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ F 9:00am-10:00am ![]() Research Interests: Analysis on metric spaces; Quasiconformal geometry of fractals; Complex dynamics |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ 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 5-112, 5-116 Phone: (631) 632-7306 Email: scott@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T31 ∙ MAT 495 T31 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
James Waterman
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 331 L01 - TuTh 4:00 - 5:20pm ∙ MAT 459 T37 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:30pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 10:00am-11:00am ![]() Research Interests: Dynamical Systems; Complex Analysis |
Yongquan Zhang
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 307 L01 - MW 4:00 - 5:20pm ∙ MAT 487 T06 Office Hours: ∙ M 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ W 1:00pm-2:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:00pm Research Interests: Dynamical systems; Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds; Moduli spaces |
Eric Bedford

![]() | Visiting Professor (Institute for Mathematical Sciences) Ph.D. in 1974 from University of Michigan Arrived at Stony Brook in 2012 Office: Math Tower 3-102 Email: ebedford@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Research Interests: Several Complex Variables; Dynamical Systems; Geometric Function Theory; Geometric Analysis |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 670 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T02 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 644 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 655 L01 - MW 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T16 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 303 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 319 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 11:30am-12:30pm ∙ Th 11:30am-12:30pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ F 9:00am-10:00am ![]() Research Interests: Analysis on metric spaces; Quasiconformal geometry of fractals; Complex dynamics |
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: schul@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 320 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 487 T34 ∙ MAT 532 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 699 T34 Office Hours: ∙ M 12:00pm-1:00pm ![]() ∙ Th 11:30am-12:30pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ F 3:00pm-4:00pm ![]() 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
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 Home Page Research Interests: Algebraic topology |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T40 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 211 L02 - TuTh 8:30 - 9:50am ∙ MAT 341 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am Office Hours: ∙ Tu 12:00pm-1:30pm ![]() ∙ Th 12:00pm-1:30pm ![]() ∙ also by appointment Research Interests: Topology; geometry |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 644 L01 - TuTh 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ Th 2:30pm-4:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
John Morgan

![]() | Professor (Emeritus) Ph.D. in 1969 from Rice University Arrived at Stony Brook in 2010 Mathematics Genealogy Email: jmorgan@math.columbia.edu Home Page Research Interests: Topology; differential geometry Awards: 2010 National Academy of Sciences; 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society |
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 Home Page Research Interests: Topology; applications to mathematical physics |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 132 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am Course Coordinator ∙ MAT 200 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 1:00pm-2:00pm ∙ Th 1:00pm-2:00pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 11:30am-12:30pm 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 250 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 364 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 529 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am 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 |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 670 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T02 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 |
Jingrui Cheng
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 568 L01 - MW 9:00 - 10:20am Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:00pm ∙ Th 2:00pm-3:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 9:00am-10:00am ![]() Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, more specifically about its applications in geometry and optimal transport |
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 Home Page 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T40 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T05 ∙ MAT 530 L01 - MW 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 698 T05 ∙ MAT 699 T05 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:30am-1:00pm ∙ W 11:30am-1:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
Jian Wang
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 341 L02 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 487 T39 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ W 11:00am-12:00pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ M 1:00pm-2:00pm Research Interests: Differential Geometry and Topology |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T40 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 211 L02 - TuTh 8:30 - 9:50am ∙ MAT 341 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am Office Hours: ∙ Tu 12:00pm-1:30pm ![]() ∙ Th 12:00pm-1:30pm ![]() ∙ also by appointment Research Interests: Topology; geometry |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
Jian Wang
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 341 L02 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 487 T39 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ W 11:00am-12:00pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ M 1:00pm-2:00pm Research Interests: Differential Geometry and Topology |
Yongquan Zhang
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 307 L01 - MW 4:00 - 5:20pm ∙ MAT 487 T06 Office Hours: ∙ M 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ W 1:00pm-2:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:00pm Research Interests: Dynamical systems; Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds; Moduli spaces |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T40 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 |
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 Home Page 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 560 L01 - MW 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T23 Office Hours: ∙ M 10:00am-11:00am ∙ Tu 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 12:00pm-1:00pm Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry; Differential Geometry; Symplectic Topology Awards: 2022 ICM Invited Lecture PhD Students: ∙ Jiaji Cai ∙ Shuhao Li |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 311 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 521 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 540 L01 - MW 10:30 - 11:50am ∙ MAT 699 T21 Office Hours: ∙ M 9:30am-10:30am ∙ M 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ M 1:30pm-2:30pm Research Interests: Contact and symplectic geometry; low-dimensional topology Awards: 2018 Simons Fellow in Mathematics |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 541 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 699 T33 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-4:00pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 4:00pm-5:00pm 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T40 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 310 L01 - MWF 9:00 - 9:53am Office Hours: ∙ M 10:00am-11:00am ∙ W 10:00am-11:00am ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ F 10:00am-11:00am Research Interests: Complex geometry |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 682 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T03 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 |
Jian Wang
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 341 L02 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 487 T39 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ W 11:00am-12:00pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ M 1:00pm-2:00pm Research Interests: Differential Geometry and Topology |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 125 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 203 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 698 T42 Office Hours: ∙ Th 1:00pm-3:00pm ∙ also by appointment Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ W 9:00am-10:00am ![]() Research Interests: Fluid dynamics; Turbulence; Partial differential equations Awards: 2017-2020 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow PhD Students: ∙ Daniil Glukhovskiy |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T40 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 Home Page 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 699 T17 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T05 ∙ MAT 530 L01 - MW 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 698 T05 ∙ MAT 699 T05 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:30am-1:00pm ∙ W 11:30am-1:00pm ∙ also by appointment 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 336 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 534 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 700 T11 Research Interests: Algebra; representation theory PhD Students: ∙ Astra Kolomatskaia |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 682 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ Th 2:00pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment 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 |
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 Home Page Research Interests: Topology; applications to mathematical physics |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 495 T32 ∙ MAT 538 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 541 L01 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 699 T33 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-4:00pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 4:00pm-5:00pm 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 |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 336 L01 - MW 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 475 T01 ∙ MAT 598 L01 - MF 1:00 - 2:20pm Office Hours: ∙ W 10:30am-11:30am ∙ W 2:30pm-3:30pm ![]() ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ M 10:00am-11:00am ![]() Research Interests: Low-dimensional topology Awards: 2017 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Research Interests: Topology; applications to mathematical physics |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 311 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 521 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 540 L01 - MW 10:30 - 11:50am ∙ MAT 699 T21 Office Hours: ∙ M 9:30am-10:30am ∙ M 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ M 1:30pm-2:30pm Research Interests: Contact and symplectic geometry; low-dimensional topology Awards: 2018 Simons Fellow in Mathematics |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 132 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am Course Coordinator ∙ MAT 200 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 1:00pm-2:00pm ∙ Th 1:00pm-2:00pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ Tu 11:30am-12:30pm 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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 250 L01 - TuTh 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 364 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 529 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am 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
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 Courses: ∙ MAT 341 L02 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 487 T39 Office Hours: ∙ M 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ W 11:00am-12:00pm Math Learning Center Hours: (in Math Tower S-235 or online) ∙ M 1:00pm-2:00pm Research Interests: Differential Geometry and Topology |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 336 L02 - TuTh 10:00 - 11:20am ∙ MAT 534 L01 - TuTh 11:30 - 12:50pm ∙ MAT 700 T11 Research Interests: Algebra; representation theory PhD Students: ∙ Astra Kolomatskaia |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 311 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 521 L01 - MW 2:30 - 3:50pm ∙ MAT 540 L01 - MW 10:30 - 11:50am ∙ MAT 699 T21 Office Hours: ∙ M 9:30am-10:30am ∙ M 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ M 1:30pm-2:30pm Research Interests: Contact and symplectic geometry; low-dimensional topology Awards: 2018 Simons Fellow in Mathematics |
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 Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 696 S01 - F 12:20 - 2:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T30 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 ∙ Jiahao Hu ∙ Runjie Hu |
Alaa Abd-el-Hafez
Alaa Abd-el-Hafez
Director of Field Experience and Clinical Practice
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 |
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 Home Page Research Interests: Number theory; mathematics education of teachers |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page 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 |
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 Home Page Research Interests: Topology; applications to mathematical physics |
Scott Sutherland

Department Chair
![]() | Professor Ph.D. in 1989 from Boston University Arrived at Stony Brook in 1989 Mathematics Genealogy Office: Math Tower 5-112, 5-116 Phone: (631) 632-7306 Email: scott@math.stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 487 T31 ∙ MAT 495 T31 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 |