Following is a list of research interests of faculty members of the Rutgers University Mathematics Department, including emeriti, distinguished visitors, and associated researchers. This is followed by a list of Rutgers faculty in other departments or units who are either Associate Members of the Department of Mathematics or members of the Graduate Faculty in Mathematics.
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Abbas Bahri
- variational problems in nonlinear analysis and geometry
- Tadeusz Balaban - mathematical physics
- Jose Barros-Neto (Emeritus) - functional analysis, partial differential equations
- R. Michael Beals - harmonic analysis, Fourier integral operators, partial differential equations
- József Beck - combinatorics, analysis
- Haïm Brezis - nonlinear analysis
- Felix Browder - nonlinear functional analysis, partial differential equations
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Anders Buch
- algebraic geometry and combinatorics
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Richard Bumby
(Emeritus)
- number theory
- Terence Butler - differential equations
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Lisa Carbone
- algebra, geometric group theory, discrete groups, group actions, combinatorics for problems in algebra, Kac-Moody groups
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Eric Carlen
- analysis, mathematical physics
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Enriqueta Carrington
- Lie groups, representation theory
- Maria Carvalho - mathematical physics
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Sagun Chanillo
- classical analysis, partial differential equations
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Gregory Cherlin
- logic, model theory, model theoretic algebra
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Amy Cohen
- partial differential equations, inverse scattering, Korteweg-de Vries equation
- Richard M. Cohn (Emeritus) - differential algebra
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Adrien Deloro
- model theory, group theory
- Joanne Elliott (Emeritus) - potential theory
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Richard Falk
- numerical analysis, partial differential equations
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Paul Feehan
- topology of 4-manifolds, differential geometry, PDE, mathematical finance
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Steven Ferry
- geometric topology, surgery theory, coarse geometry
- Giovanni Gallavotti - mathematical physics
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Semën Gindikin
- theory of representations, integral geometry, several complex variables
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Sheldon Goldstein
- foundations of quantum mechanics, Bohmian mechanics, nonlocality
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Roe Goodman
- representation theory and analysis on Lie groups
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Stephen Greenfield
(Emeritus)
- linear partial differential equations, several complex variables
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András Hajnal
(Emeritus)
- logic
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Zheng-Chao Han
- nonlinear analysis, partial differential equations
- William Hoyt (Emeritus) - algebraic geometry, elliptic surfaces, modular forms
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Xiaojun Huang
- complex analysis and Cauchy-Riemann geometry
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Yi-Zhi Huang
- infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, vertex operator algebras, conformal field theory
- Henryk Iwaniec - analytic number theory
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Jeffry N. Kahn
- discrete mathematics and related areas
- Michael Kiessling - mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, nonlinear partial differential equations
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János Komlós
- discrete mathematics, probability
- Antoni Kosinski (Emeritus) - differential topology
- Antti Kupiainen - mathematical physics
- Peter Landweber (Emeritus) - algebraic topology, bordism theory, generalized homology theory
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Joel Lebowitz
- mathematical physics and statistical mechanics
- James Lepowsky - Lie theory, representation theory, mathematics related to string theory
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Yanyan Li
- nonlinear analysis, partial differential equations
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Feng Luo
- low dimensional topology, geometric structures on manifolds
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Richard Lyons
- finite group theory
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Juan Pablo Mejia Ramos
- mathematics education
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Stephen D. Miller
- automorphic forms, L-functions, analytic number theory
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Konstantin Mischaikow
- dynamical systems, mathematical biology, computational topology
- Benjamin Muckenhoupt - harmonic analysis, weighted norm inequalities
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Roger Nussbaum
- nonlinear functional analysis
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Daniel Ocone
- stochastics processes, stochastic control, filtering
- Michael O'Nan - permutation groups, simple groups
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Barbara Osofsky
(Emeritus)
- ring theory, homological algebra
- Ted Petrie - algebraic and differential topology, transformation groups, algebraic group actions, equivariant surgery, financial mathematics
- Walter Petryshyn (Emeritus) - nonlinear functional analysis, numerical functional analysis
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Vladimir Retakh
- algebra, algebraic aspects of analysis
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Fred Roberts
- applications of discrete mathematics, graph theory, decision making, measurement theory
- Alexander Rokhlenko - mathematical physics
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Xiaochun Rong
- Riemannian geometry
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Joseph Rosenstein
- logic, linear orderings, recursive model theory
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Siddhartha Sahi
- harmonic analysis on reductive Lie groups
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Michael Saks
- theory of computation, extremal set theory, partially ordered sets, graph theory
- Jane Cronin Scanlon (Emeritus) - qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations, biomathematics
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Vladimir Scheffer
- geometric measure theory, partial differential equations
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Saharon Shelah
- logic, model theory
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Vladimir Shtelen
- symmetry analysis, nonlinear mathematical physics
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Charles Sims
(Emeritus)
- computational group theory and algebraic algorithms
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Avraham Soffer
- mathematical physics, partial differential equations, scattering theory
- Sara Soffer - discrete mathematics, graph theory, real networks
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Jian Song
- complex geometry
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Eduardo Sontag
- system and control theory
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Eugene Speer
- mathematical physics
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Héctor Sussmann
- system and control theory
- Earl Taft - Hopf algebras
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A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh
- partial differential equations, geometric field theories
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Jean Taylor
(Emeritus)
- geometric measure theory, theory of crystal growth
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Simon Thomas
- set theory, model theory, group theory
- François Treves (Emeritus) - functional analysis, linear partial differential equations, several complex variables
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Roderich Tumulka
- foundations of physics, Bohmian mechanics
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Jerrold Tunnell
- number theory, automorphic forms
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Wolmer Vasconcelos
(Emeritus)
- commutative algebra, computational algebra
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Michael Vogelius
- numerical analysis, partial differential equations
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Charles Weibel
- algebraic K-theory, homological algebra, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, category theory
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Michael Weingart
- representation theory
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Richard Wheeden
- harmonic analysis, harmonic functions, weighted norm inequalities
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Robert Wilson
- Lie algebras
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Christopher Woodward
- symplectic geometry, gauge theory, mathematical physics
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Doron Zeilberger
- algebraic and enumerative combinatorics; experimental mathematics
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Wujun Zhang
- numerical analysis, computational mathematics
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Minxian Zhu
- vertex operator algebras
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Hyman Zimmerberg
(Emeritus)
- boundary value problems
Associate Members of the Department of Mathematics and
Members of the Graduate Faculty in Mathematics from Other Departments
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Adi Ben-Israel
- matrix theory, numerical linear algebra, optimization, operations research, mathematical economics
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Bernard Coleman
- continuum mechanics, analysis
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Gerald Goldin
- theoretical physics, infinite dimensional Lie algebras, mathematics education
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Richard Gundy
- Wavelets and time-frequency analysis; probability theory
- Endre Szemerédi - theoretical computer science, combinatorics, number theory, graph theory