Past Department Members

Joseph A. Wolf

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate School

RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Lie groups, Functional analysis, Riemannian geometry

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Wolf, Joseph A. (2007). Harmonic analysis on commutative spaces. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, Vol. 142. American Mathematical Society Providence, RI xvi+387. [...

Isadore M. Singer

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Geometry, Partial differential equations, Physics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Mathai, V. and Melrose, R. B. and Singer, I. M. (2008). Equivariant and fractional index of projective elliptic operators. J. Differential Geom. 78 No.3, 465-473. [MR] [...

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...

Grigory I. Barenblatt

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Applied mathematics, Solid mechanics, Fluid mechanics, Similarity methods asymptotics, Mechanics of deformable solids

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Barenblatt, Grigory Isaakovich and Bertsch, Michiel and Nitsch, Carlo (2006). Nonlocal damage accumulation and fluid flow in diatomites. Commun. Appl. Math. Comput. Sci. 1 143-168 (electronic). [...

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

Elwyn R. Berlekamp

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AREAS: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Combinatorial game theory, Algebraic coding theory, Electrical engineering, Computer science

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Berlekamp, Elwyn R. and Conway, John H. and Guy, Richard K. (2004). Winning ways for your mathematical plays. Vol. 4. A K Peters Ltd. Wellesley, MA i-xvi and 801-1004. [...

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,...

David Gale

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

RESEARCH AREA: Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Geometry, Partial differential equations, Physics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Ahmet Alkan and David Gale. Stable schedule matching under revealed preference. J. Econom. Theory, 112(2):289-306, 2003. A. Alkan and D. Gale. Stable schedule matching under revealed preference. In ICM2002GTA (Qingdao), pages 7-23. Qingdao Publ. House, Qingdao, 2002. David Gale. Review: A...