- 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.
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 Courses: ∙ MAE 330 L01 - MW 2:00 - 3:20pm ∙ MAE 451 V01 ∙ MAE 452 V01 ∙ MAE 454 S01 - W 4:00 - 6:50pm ∙ MAE 551 V01 ∙ MAE 552 V01 ∙ MAE 554 S01 - W 4:00 - 6:50pm ∙ MAT 517 L01 - MW 2:00 - 3:20pm Office Hours: ∙ M 5:00pm-6:30pm ![]() ∙ W 3:30pm-4:30pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ M 4:00pm-5:00pm ![]() Research Interests: Mathematics Education |
Paula Burkhardt-Guim
![]() | Assistant Professor Ph.D. in 2021 from UC Berkeley Arrived at Stony Brook in 2024 Office: Math Tower 3-119 Email: paula.burkhardt-guim@stonybrook.edu Courses: ∙ MAT 250 L01 - TR 2:00 - 3:20pm Office Hours: ∙ Tu 11:30am-12:30pm ∙ Th 3:30pm-4:30pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ W 10:00am-11:00am ![]() Research Interests: Differential geometry; Global analysis; Partial Differential equations |

![]() | James H. Simons Instructor Ph.D. In 2022 from University of California, Berkeley Arrived at Stony Brook in 2023 Office: Math Tower 4-101B Email: charles.cifarelli@stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 132 L01 - MW 3:30 - 4:50pm Course Coordinator ∙ MAT 342 L02 - MW 2:00 - 3:20pm Office Hours: ∙ M 5:00pm-6:00pm ∙ Th 11:00am-12:00pm ![]() ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Th 10:00am-11:00am ![]() Research Interests: Differential Geometry |

![]() | 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 341 L01 - TR 9:30 - 10:50am ∙ MAT 362 L01 - TR 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T04 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-4:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 4:00pm-5:00pm 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 |

![]() | 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 495 T09 ∙ MAT 698 T09 ∙ MAT 699 T09 Office Hours: ∙ M 1:00pm-3:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 1:30pm-2:30pm Research Interests: Fluid dynamics; Turbulence; Partial differential equations Awards: 2017-2020 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow PhD Students: ∙ Daniil Glukhovskiy |

![]() | Associate 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 351 L01 - TR 12:30 - 1:50pm ∙ MAT 555 L01 - TR 9:30 - 10:50am ∙ MAT 699 T42 Office Hours: ∙ M 1:30pm-3:30pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 3:00pm-4:00pm Research Interests: Dynamical Systems PhD Students: ∙ Jonathan Galvan Bermudez |

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Lecturer Email: david.kahn@stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 123 L02 - TR 9:30 - 10:50am Course Coordinator Office Hours: ∙ Th 4:00pm-5:00pm ![]() ∙ Tu 4:00pm-5:00pm ![]() ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 11:00am-12:00pm ![]() |

![]() | 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 315 L01 - TR 12:30 - 1:50pm ∙ MAT 526 L01 - TR 12:30 - 1:50pm ∙ MAT 645 L01 - TR 9:30 - 10:50am ∙ MAT 699 T25 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ Th 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ M 10:00am-11:00am Research Interests: Complex geometry |

![]() | Lecturer M.A. In 2009 from Stony Brook University Arrived at Stony Brook in 2009 Office: Math Tower 2-121 Email: debra.krieg@stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 123 L01 - MW 3:30 - 4:50pm ∙ MAT 130 L01 - MW 9:30 - 10:50am ∙ MAT 211 L02 - MW 2:00 - 3:20pm Office Hours: ∙ W 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ Th 5:00pm-6:00pm ![]() ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Th 4:00pm-5:00pm ![]() |

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 682 L01 - MW 5:00 - 6:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T23 ∙ MAT 701 T23 Office Hours: ∙ M 10:30am-11:30am ∙ Th 10:00am-11:00am ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Th 11:00am-12:00pm Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry; Differential Geometry; Symplectic Topology Awards: 2022 ICM Invited Lecture PhD Students: ∙ Jiaji Cai ∙ Shuhao Li |

![]() | Associate Professor Ph.D in 2016 from Stanford University Arrived at Stony Brook in 2022 Office: Math Tower 4-119 Email: evrydiki.nestoridi@stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 495 T06 ∙ MAT 698 T07 ∙ MAT 699 T07 Office Hours: ∙ M 2:00pm-4:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Th 1:30pm-2:30pm Research Interests: Analysis; Probability PhD Students: ∙ Samira Arfaee |

![]() | 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 615 L01 - TR 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 699 T08 Office Hours: ∙ F 9:30am-11:30am ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ F 11:30am-12:30pm Research Interests: Algebraic geometry; D-modules Awards: 2015 AMS Centennial Fellowship; 2016 NSF CAREER Award; 2021 Simons Fellowship; 2024 Fellow of the AMS PhD Students: ∙ Daniel Brogan |

Graduate Director
![]() | Professor Ph.D. in 2005 from Yale University Arrived at Stony Brook in 2009 Mathematics Genealogy Office: Math Tower 3-121 Phone: (631) 632-8995 Email: raanan.schul@stonybrook.edu Home Page Courses: ∙ MAT 360 L01 - MW 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 698 T34 ∙ MAT 699 T34 Office Hours: ∙ M 12:30pm-1:30pm ∙ M 1:30pm-2:30pm 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: ∙ Jacob Laxer |

Associate Undergraduate Director
![]() | 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 495 T29 ∙ MAT 589 L01 - MW 9:30 - 10:50am ∙ MAT 699 T29 Office Hours: ∙ W 11:00am-12:00pm ∙ Th 12:00pm-1:00pm ∙ also by appointment Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ M 12:00pm-1:00pm 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 |

![]() | 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 320 L01 - TR 11:00 - 12:20pm ∙ MAT 566 L01 - TR 3:30 - 4:50pm ∙ MAT 699 T33 Office Hours: ∙ Tu 5:00pm-7:00pm Undergraduate Advising Hours: ∙ Tu 2:00pm-3:00pm 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 |
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10:00am | Ljudmila Kamenova
(in Math Tower 3-115) | Paula Burkhardt-Guim
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10:30am | Ljudmila Kamenova
(in Math Tower 3-115) | Paula Burkhardt-Guim
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11:00am | David Kahn
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11:30am | David Kahn
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(in Math Tower 3-112) | Christian Schnell
(in Math Tower 4-110) | ||
12:00pm | Jason Starr
(in Math Tower 4-108) | Christian Schnell
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12:30pm | Jason Starr
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1:30pm | Theodore Drivas
(in Math Tower 4-114) | Evita Nestoridi
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2:00pm | Theodore Drivas
(in Math Tower 4-114) Aleksey Zinger (in Math Tower 3-111) | Evita Nestoridi
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2:30pm | Aleksey Zinger
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3:00pm | Dzmitry Dudko
(in Math Tower 2-117) | Raanan Schul
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3:30pm | Dzmitry Dudko
(in Math Tower 2-117) | Raanan Schul
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4:00pm | Alaa Abd-el-Hafez
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(in Math Tower 5-108) | Deb Krieg
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4:30pm | Alaa Abd-el-Hafez
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(in Math Tower 5-108) | Deb Krieg
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