Past Department Members

Paul R. Chernoff

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AREAS: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Functional analysis, Operator theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Chernoff, Paul R. and Waterhouse, William C. (2001). Local compactness of Hom(-,H). Arch. Math. (Basel...

William P. Thurston

JOB TITLE: Professor

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mathematics

Obituary: http://www.ams.org/notices/201511/rnoti-p1318.pdf
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thurston

Lior Pachter

JOB TITLE: Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mathematical and computational biology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Mihaescu, Radu and Pachter, Lior (2008). Combinatorics of least-squares trees. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 No.36, 13206-13211. [MR] [...

R. Sherman Lehman

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AREAS: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Number theory, Numerical analysis

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

R. Sherman Lehman. Factoring large integers. Math. Comp., 28:637-646, 1974. R. Sherman Lehman. On the distribution of zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. Proc. London Math. Soc. (3), 20:303-320, 1970. R. Sherman Lehman. Separation of zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. Math. Comp., 20:523-...

Henry Helson

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Harmonic analysis, Function theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Henry Helson. The Smirnov class on compact groups with ordered duals. Sankhya Ser. A, 62(3):413-418, 2000. Ergodic theory and harmonic analysis (Mumbai,...

Bjorn Poonen

JOB TITLE: Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Number Theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Computing Néron–Severi groups and cycle class groups, with D. Testa and R. van Luijk, Compositio Math. 151 (2015), 713–734. Undecidable problems: a sampler, pp. 211–241 in Interpreting Gödel: Critical essays, ed. J. Kennedy, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014. Most odd degree hyperelliptic curves have only one rational point, with M...

Shi-Zhuo Looi

JOB TITLE: Visiting Scholar

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Nonlinear dispersive PDEs

Sebastian Eterović

TITLE: RTG Postdoctoral Scholar & Unit 18 Lecturer

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra, Mathematical Logic

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Arithmetic geometry, model theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Solutions of Equations Involving the Modular j Function, with Sebastián Herrero, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 374 (2021), 3971–3998.

Differential Existential Closedness for the j-Function, with...

Pierre Simon

TITLE: Associate Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Logic

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Model Theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Invariant types in NIP theories J. Math. Logic, Volume 15-2 (2015) [arXiv] The affine and projective groups are maximal (with I. Kaplan), Trans of the AMS 368-7 (2016) 5229—5245 [arXiv] Distal and non-distal NIP...

Andrei Okounkov

TITLE: Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Representation theory (of combinatorial flavor) and its application to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability, special functions, and other fields