The Faculty and Their Research

• [Alphonse H. Baartmans,]
  Professor and Department Chair;
  PhD, Michigan State University
  Combinatorics, design theory, algebra
• [Beverly J. Baartmans]
  Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Colorado
  Mathematical problem-solving strategies, instructional technology, spatial visualization
• [John P. Beckwith]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Wayne State University
  Statistics
• [Barbara S. Bertram]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of New Mexico
  Singular integral equations, numerical analysis
• [Juergen Bierbrauer]
  Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Mainz University, Germany
  Combinatorics, cryptology, algebra
• [Jeffrey T. Bonn]
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  Algebra, combinatorics & number theory

• [Kathleen L. Bonn]
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Indiana, Bloomington
  Collegiate math education

• [Huann-Sheng Chen]
  Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, New York University
  Statistics
• [Jianping Dong]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, New York University
  Statistics

• [Thomas D. Drummer]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Wyoming
  Statistical ecology, model-based sampling, applications of statistics to wildlife management
• [Lee Erlebach]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Washington
  2-Person game theory
• [Kathleen A. Feigl]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Applied mathematics
• [William P. Francis]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Cornell University
  Applied mathematics, cosmology, field theories
• [Michael J. Gilpin]
  Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Oregon
  Combinatorics, discrete mathematics
• [Clark Givens]
  Professor of Mathematics
  MS, The University of Michigan
  Applied linear algebra, signal processing, differential geometry, mathematical physics
• [Mark S. Gockenbach]
  Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Rice University
  Inverse problems, computational optimization, mathematical software
• [Mangalam R. Gopal]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, The University of Michigan
  Extremal problems in the class of univalent functions
• [Konrad J. Heuvers]
  Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Ohio State University
  Functional equations, linear algebra, combinatorics, group theory

• [Darrell L. Hicks]
  Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of New Mexico
  Mathematical and computer modeling, material dynamics, parallel algorithms and
  advanced architectures, numerical analysis
• [John W. Hilgers]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Integral equations, functional analysis, signal processing, EM-wave generation and
  propagation, astrophysics, cosmology
• [Renfang Jiang]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Columbia University
  Group theory, low-dimensional topology
• [Tao Jiang]
  Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Graph theory & combinatorics
• [Robert W. Kolkka]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics;Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry and
  Chemical Engineering; Director, Fluids Research Oriented Group
  PhD, Lehigh University
  Bifurcation and stability theory, viscoelasticity, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, polymer rheology, constitutive equations
• [Donald L. Kreher]
  Professor and Director of Graduate Studies;
  PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Combinatorics, computational combinatorics, combinatorial designs, coding theory,
  algorithms, cryptography
• [Gilbert N. Lewis]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Asymptotics, singular perturbations, numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, boundary value problems, cosmology
• [Alan C. H. Ling]
  Assistant Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Waterloo, Ontario
  Combinatorial design theory & its applications to other disciplines

• [Tamara Olson]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, New York University
  Applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, composites
• [Iosif Pinelis]
  Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Institute of Mathematics-Novosibirsk, Russia
  Probability and statistics

• [Russell M. Reid]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Control theory of distributed systems
• [Allan A. Struthers]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University
  Applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, constitutive theory, phase transitions
• [Franz X. Tanner]
  Associate Professor of Mathematics
  PhD. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Applied mathematics
• [Vladimir D. Tonchev]
  Professor of Mathematics
  DMSc, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; PhD, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  Algorithms, computing, coding theory, combinatorics, finite geometry