Emeritus Faculty

David Aldous

Professor Emeritus
Probability
Applied Mathematics

Year appointed: 1979

Retired: 2018

Other Departments: Statistics

Selected Publications:

D.J. Aldous and K. Ganesan (2013). True scale-invariant random spatial networks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA D.J. Aldous (2013). Interacting Particle Systems as Stochastic Social Dynamics. Bernoulli 19 1122--1149. D.J. Aldous and M. Shkolnikov (2013). Fluctuations of martingales and winning probabilities of game contestants. ...

Robert M. Anderson

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Applied Mathematics
Year appointed: 1983 Retired: 2013 Other Affiliations: Department of Economics, Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science, Center for Risk Management Research Selected Publications: Anderson, Robert M. and Raimondo, Roberto C. (2008). Equilibrium in continuous-time financial markets: endogenously dynamically complete markets....

George M. Bergman

Professor Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate School
Algebra
Mathematical Logic
Year appointed: 1967 Year retired: 2009 Selected Publications: George M. Bergman (2023), An elementary result on infinite and finite direct sums of modules, Journal of Algebra, 631 (2023) 731-737. [pdf] [MR] [arXiv] George M. Bergman (2019), Some results...

Robert Bryant

Professor Emeritus
Geometry/Topology

Year appointed: 2007
Retired: 2013

Selected Publications: Bryant, Robert L. and Manno, Gianni and Matveev, Vladimir S. (2008). A solution of a problem of Sophus Lie: normal forms of two-dimensional metrics admitting two projective vector fields. Math. Ann. 340 No.2, 437-463. [MR] [...

Alexandre J. Chorin

University Professor Emeritus
Applied Mathematics

Year Appointed: 1972
Retired: 2013

Other Affiliations: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Selected Publications:

A. J. Chorin and O. H. Hald, Estimating the uncertainty in underresolved nonlinear dynamics, Math. Mech. Solids 19 (2014), pp. 28-38. F. Lu, M. Morzfeld, X. Tu, and A. J. Chorin, Limitations of polynomial chaos expansions in the Bayesian solution of inverse problems, J. Comput. Phys. 282 (2015), pp. 138-147. A.J. Chorin and F. Lu,...

Michael Christ

Professor Emeritus
Mathematical Analysis

Year Appointed: 1996

Retired: 2024

Office Hours: Tu 11:00-12:00

Education:

B.S. Harvey Mudd College, 1977 Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1982

Selected Publications:

Christ, Michael and Xue, Qingying. Smoothness of extremizers of a convolution inequality, J. Math. Pures et Appl. 97 (2012), 120-141. Christ, Michael and Shao, Shuanglin. On the extremizers of an adjoint Fourier restriction inequality, Advances in Math. 230 (2012), 957-977. Bennett, Jonathan...

Paul Concus

Professor Emeritus
Applied Mathematics
Other Affiliations: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Selected Publications: Brady, Victor and Concus, Paul and Finn, Robert (2003). Capillary rise in nesting cylinders. Phys. Fluids 15 No.6, 1545-1551. [MR] [...

James W. Demmel

Professor Emeritus
Applied Mathematics
Year retired: 2025 Other Departments: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Selected Publications: Nie, Jiawang and Demmel, James (2008). Sparse SOS relaxations for minimizing functions that are summations of small polynomials. SIAM J. Optim. 19 No.4, 1534-1558. [MR] [...

L. Craig Evans

Professor Emeritus
Mathematical Analysis
Applied Mathematics

Year Appointed: 1989
Retired: 2021

Office Hours: MWF 10:00-11:00

F. Alberto Grünbaum

Professor Emeritus
Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Analysis

Year appointed: 1974

Year retired: 2014

Selected Publications:

F. A. Grünbaum, Time and band limiting: from the early days to the present, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, Vol 24, 2025. DOI 10.37394/23202.2025.24.30. F. A. Grünbaum, A tribute to Henry P. McKean, jr. Notices AMS March 2025, vol 72 276--277. W. R. Casper, F. A. Grünbaum, M. Yakimov and I. Zurrián, Matrix valued discrete-continous functions with the prolate spheroidal property and bispectrality, Comm. Math...