Undergraduate Advising Schedule

Faculty are available to help plan students' academic programs and answer questions about the mathematics program. Unless otherwise noted, the faculty member listed will be available in the Undergraduate Office at the times listed below (subject to change). In addition, some faculty members and graduate students hold hours in the Math Learning Center, where they are available for advice and help with mathematics problems, as well as regular office hours.

The Undergraduate Office of the Mathematics Department is in room P-143 of the Mathematics Tower.

X Alaa Abd-el-Hafez
Acting 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 AT stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAE 312  S01  -  Tu 2:30pm - 3:50pm
       ∙ MAE 447  T01  -  Th 2:30pm - 3:20pm
       ∙ MAE 451  V01
       ∙ MAE 452  V01
       ∙ MAE 454  S01  -  W 4:00pm - 6:50pm
       ∙ MAE 530  T01  -  Th 2:30pm - 3:20pm
       ∙ MAE 540  S01  -  Tu 2:30pm - 3:50pm
       ∙ MAE 551  V01
       ∙ MAE 552  V01
       ∙ MAE 554  S01  -  W 4:00pm - 6:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ Tu 1:30pm-2:30pm
       ∙ W 3:00pm-4:00pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Tu 4:00pm-5:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Mathematics Education

X Lisa Berger
Mathematics Education Program Director

Associate Professor
Ph.D. in 2007 from University of Arizona
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2007

Office: Math Tower 4-100A
Phone: (631)632-8278
Email: lbrgr AT math.stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 512  L01  -  MW 4:00pm - 5:20pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ M 2:30pm-3:30pm
       ∙ W 5:30pm-6:30pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ M 1:30pm-2:30pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Number theory; mathematics education of teachers

X William Bernhard

Lecturer

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

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 122  L01  -  TuTh 5:30pm - 6:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ Tu 3:30pm-5:30pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Th 4:00pm-5:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Mathematics Education

Awards: 2016/17 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching

X Moira Chas

Associate Professor
Ph.D. in 1998 from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2002

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

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 336  L02  -  TuTh 10:00am - 11:20am

Office Hours:
       ∙ Tu 11:30am-12:30pm
       ∙ Th 9:00am-10:00am
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Th 11:30am-12:30pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Low-dimensional topology

Awards: 2017 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

X Mark Andrea De Cataldo

Professor
Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Notre Dame
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1999

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

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 314  L01  -  TuTh 11:30am - 12:50pm
       ∙ MAT 525  L01  -  TuTh 11:30am - 12:50pm
       ∙ MAT 566  L01  -  TuTh 2:30pm - 3:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ Th 12:30pm-2:30pm

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Tu 1:30pm-2:30pm (in Math Tower P-143)

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

PhD Students:
       ∙ Ben Wu
       ∙ Siqing Zhang

X Samuel Grushevsky
Graduate Director

Professor
Ph.D. in 2002 from Harvard University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2009

Office: Math Tower 3-109
Phone: (631)632-8255
Email: sam AT math.stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 127  L02  -  TuTh 2:30pm - 3:50pm
           Course Coordinator

       ∙ MAT 127  L03  -  TuTh 10:00am - 11:20am

Office Hours:
       ∙ Tu 1:30pm-2:30pm
       ∙ Th 1:30pm-2:30pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Tu 11:30am-12:30pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Geometry

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

PhD Students:
       ∙ Frederik Benirschke
       ∙ Myeongjae Lee

X Lowell Jones

Professor
Ph.D. in 1970 from Yale University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1975

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

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 132  L01  -  MWF 10:00am - 10:53am
           Course Coordinator

       ∙ MAT 211  L01  -  MW 2:30pm - 3:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ W 12:00pm-2:00pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ M 11:00am-12:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Topology; geometry

X David Kahn

Lecturer
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2013

Office: Math Tower S-240C
Phone: (631)632-2804
Email: david.kahn AT stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 123  L03  -  MW 4:00pm - 5:20pm
           Course Coordinator

       ∙ MAT 126  L01  -  MWF 10:00am - 10:53am
           Course Coordinator

Office Hours:
       ∙ M 11:00am-12:00pm
       ∙ W 11:00am-12:00pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ M 12:00pm-1:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Awards: 2016 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

X Mark McLean
Associate Graduate Director

Associate Professor
Ph.D. in 2008 from Cambridge University, England
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2013

Office: Math Tower 4-114
Phone: (631)632-8351
Email: markmclean AT math.stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 569  L01  -  TuTh 11:30am - 12:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ Tu 1:00pm-2:00pm
       ∙ W 10:30am-11:30am
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ F 1:00pm-2:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Algebraic Geometry; Differential Geometry; Symplectic Topology

PhD Students:
       ∙ Shamuel Auyeung
       ∙ Dahye Cho
       ∙ Mohamed El Alami
       ∙ Mu Zhao

X Mikhail Movshev

Associate Professor
Ph.D. in 1997 from University of Pennsylvania
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2007

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

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 649  L01  -  TuTh 11:30am - 12:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ Tu 1:30pm-2:30pm
       ∙ Th 10:00am-11:00am
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Tu 10:00am-11:00am (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Algebra

X Anthony Phillips

Professor (Emeritus)
Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1968

Office: Math Tower 3-119
Phone: (631)632-8259
Email: tony AT math.stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 336  L01  -  TuTh 2:30pm - 3:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ Tu 1:30pm-2:30pm
       ∙ Th 12:30pm-2:00pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Tu 12:30pm-1:30pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Topology; applications to mathematical physics

X Kevin Sackel

RTG PostDoc
Ph.D. in 2019 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2019

Office: Math Tower 3-118
Email: Kevin.Sackel AT stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 322  L01  -  MW 2:30pm - 3:50pm
       ∙ MAT 523  L01  -  MW 2:30pm - 3:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ M 4:00pm-5:00pm
       ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:00pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Th 3:00pm-4:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Contact geometry, Symplectic geometry

X Christian Schnell

Associate Professor
Ph.D. in 2008 from The Ohio State University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2012

Office: Math Tower 3-117
Phone: (631)632-8618
Email: cschnell AT math.stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 552  L01  -  MW 2:30pm - 3:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ F 10:00am-12:00pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ W 10:00am-11:00am (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Algebraic geometry; D-modules

Awards: 2015 AMS Centennial Fellowship; 2016 NSF CAREER Award

PhD Students:
       ∙ Qianyu Chen
       ∙ Mads Villadsen

X Raanan Schul

Professor
Ph.D. in 2005 from Yale University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2009

Office: Math Tower 3-121
Phone: (631)632-8995
Email: schul AT math.stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 360  L01  -  TuTh 10:00am - 11:20am

Office Hours:
       ∙ F 12:00pm-2:00pm

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ F 11:00am-12:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

Interests: Real analysis; geometric measure theory

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

X Jason Starr

Professor
Ph.D. in 2000 from Harvard University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2006

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

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 589  S01  -  TuTh 1:00pm - 2:20pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ Tu 2:30pm-3:30pm
       ∙ Th 2:30pm-3:30pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ M 1:00pm-2:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

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:
       ∙ Prithviraj Chowdhury
       ∙ Santai Qu

X Scott Sutherland
Undergraduate Director

Professor
Ph.D. in 1989 from Boston University
Arrived at Stony Brook in 1989

Office: Math Tower 5-112
Phone: (631)632-7306
Email: scott AT math.stonybrook.edu

Courses:
       ∙ MAE 330  L01  -  MW 2:30pm - 3:50pm
       ∙ MAT 517  L01  -  MW 2:30pm - 3:50pm

Office Hours:
       ∙ M 4:00pm-5:00pm
       ∙ W 4:00pm-5:00pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ Th 1:00pm-2:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

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

X Aleksey Zinger

Professor
Ph.D. in 2002 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arrived at Stony Brook in 2005

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

Courses:
       ∙ MAT 644  L01  -  MW 10:00am - 11:20am

Office Hours:
       ∙ M 4:00pm-6:00pm
       ∙ also by appointment

Undergraduate Advising Hours:
       ∙ M 3:00pm-4:00pm (in Math Tower P-143)

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

PhD Students:
       ∙ Xujia Chen

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00am
9:30am
10:00am		Mikhail Movshev	Christian Schnell
10:30am		Mikhail Movshev	Christian Schnell
11:00am	Lowell Jones				Raanan Schul
11:30am	Lowell Jones	Samuel Grushevsky		Moira Chas	Raanan Schul
12:00pm	David Kahn	Samuel Grushevsky		Moira Chas
12:30pm	David Kahn	Anthony Phillips
1:00pm	Jason Starr	Anthony Phillips		Scott Sutherland	Mark McLean
1:30pm	Lisa Berger Jason Starr	Mark Andrea De Cataldo		Scott Sutherland	Mark McLean
2:00pm	Lisa Berger	Mark Andrea De Cataldo
2:30pm
3:00pm	Aleksey Zinger			Kevin Sackel
3:30pm	Aleksey Zinger			Kevin Sackel
4:00pm		Alaa Abd-el-Hafez		William Bernhard
4:30pm		Alaa Abd-el-Hafez		William Bernhard
5:00pm
5:30pm
6:00pm
6:30pm

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