UC Davis Math: List of Faculty

List of Faculty in the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM)

GGAM comprises faculty members from departments across the campus, including its home, the Department of Mathematics. Below is a brief description of faculty research, links to personal and departmental web pages plus some "Related Courses" which can serve as a general study guideline for students interested in research with a particular faculty member. Students who want a more complete description of a faculty member's research interests are encouraged to contact them.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Applied Science	Biomedical Engineering
Bodega Marine Laboratory	Center for Computational Science and Engineering
Center for Neuroscience	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Civil and Environmental Engineering	Computer Science
Economics	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Environmental Science and Policy	Evolution and Ecology
Geology	Graduate School of Management
Land, Air and Water Resources	Mathematics
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering	Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
Neurology	Physics
Radiology	Statistics

Mathematics

Name	Research/Related Courses
Bai, Zhaojun	Numerical linear algebra (theory, algorithm development & analysis)
Benham, Craig	Biomathematical Sciences
Biello, Joseph A.	Multiscale asymptotics for PDEs; atmospheric science; fluid dynamics. [Related Courses]
Bremer, James	Computational harmonic analysis; harmonic analysis on graphs and manifolds; numerical analysis. [Related Courses]
Cheer, Angela	Computational fluid dynamics; mathematical biofluid dynamics; mathematical models in biology.
De Loera, Jesus	Discrete mathematics, algorithms in algebra and geometry. [Related Courses]
Fannjiang, Albert	Partial differential equations.
Freund, Roland	Numerical linear algebra; iterative solution of large linear systems; dimension reduction of large-scale systems; linear algebra problems in information retrieval; sparse matrix computations; numerical solution of partial differential equations; computational photonics; algorithms for VLSI circuit and device stimulation; numerical problems in control theory; structured matrices; interior-point methods, large-scale optimization problems; semidefinite programming.
Gravner, Janko	Probability; cellular automata. [Related Courses]
Guy, Robert	Mathematical biology, mathematical modeling, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, and numerical analysis.
Hass, Joel	Mathematics, topology, differential geometry, mathematical physics.
Hunter, John Kelso	Nonlinear wave propagation, continuum mechanics, singular perturbation methods, and nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations.
Koeppe, Matthias	Mathematical optimization, in particular integer programming and mixed-integer programming; computational discrete mathematics [Related Courses]
Lewis, Timothy J.	Mathematical physiology, neuroscience, cardiac electrophysiology.
Mogilner, Alexander	Mathematical biology. [Related Courses]
Morris, Benjamin	Markov chain Monte Carlo, random walks on graphs, randomized algorithms, probability on trees.
Mulase, Motohico	Mathematics. Algebra, geometry, global analysis and mathematical physics.
Nachtergaele, Bruno L.Z.	Mathematical physics; statistical mechanics; quantum spin systems; rigorous results in quantum mechanics and condensed matter physics; quantum information and computation. [Related Courses]
Pizzo, Alessandro	Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Field Theory. [Related Courses]
Puckett, E. Gerry	Numerical solutions of PDEs, thermodynamics, phase transitions, combustion, droplets, geophysis.
Saito, Naoki	Applied and computational harmonic analysis, statistical signal processing, image analysis, feature extraction, pattern recognition, potential theory,elliptic eigenvalue problems, geophysical inverse problems, human and machine perception. [Related Courses]
Schwarz, Albert	I work in quantum field theory and string theory applying methods of modern mathematics, especially topology, noncommutative geometry and arithmetic geometry. [Related Courses]
Shkoller, Steve	Geometric and nonlinear PDEs, geometry, hydrodynamics.
Soshnikov, Alexander	Random matrix theory; probability theory; mathematical physics; combinatorics. [Related Courses]
Strohmer, Thomas	Numerical analysis, applied harmonic analysisk digital signal processingk approximation theory, scientific computing. [Related Courses]
Temple, J. Blake	Shock waves, general relativity, applied analysis. [Related Courses]
Thomases, Becca	Partial differential equations, nonlinear elasticity, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, mechanics of deformable solids. [Related Courses]
Tracy, Craig A.	Mathematical physics; statistical mechanics, the theory of exactly solvable models, completely integrable systems. [Related Courses]
Wets, Roger J-B	Stochastic optimization, approximation theory for optimization problems, nonsmooth analysis.
Xia, Qinglan	Geometric measure theory and its application; optimal mass transport problems; mathematical biology; geometric variational problems in singular spaces.
Xiao, Hong	Numerical computing, integral equations, band-limited functions and applications, signal processing.