Past Department Members

Bjorn Poonen

JOB TITLE: Professor

RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Number Theory

PhD students

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:...

Andrew J. Casson

JOB TITLE: Professor

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Low-dimension topology

Contact Information as of 2023:
https://math.yale.edu/people/andrew-casson
andrew.casson@yale.edu

PhD students

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

Web page

PhD students

Allen Knutson

JOB TITLE: Associate Professor

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Symplectic and algebraic geometry in the service of representation theory

Contact informaiton as of 2023:
allenknutson@gmail.com
https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~allenk/
Research interests as of 2023: Algebraic geometry and algebraic...

William P. Thurston

JOB TITLE: Professor

Obituary in AMS Notices

PhD students

Wikipedia page

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mathematics

Thomas Wolff

JOB TITLE: Professor

Obituary

PhD students

Wikipedia page

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Harmonic analysis

Stephen P.L. Diliberto

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

PhD students

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Mathematical Analysis, Applied Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ordinary differential equations, Celestial mechanics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Diliberto, Stephen P. (1972). A new technique for proving the existence of analytic functions. In Ordinary differential equations (Proc. Conf., Math. Res. Center, Naval Res. Lab...

Robert F. Coleman

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

UC In Memoriam biography

PhD students

Wikipedia page

PRIMARY RESEARCH AREA: Algebra

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Arithmetic geometry

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:...