Five new Davis Research Assistant Professors have joined us this year. They were the search committee's top choices, and we are delighted that they all agreed to come.
Here is a very brief description of each appointee:
Dr. Andrzej Banaszuk received a Ph.D. in engineering from the Warsaw Institute of Technology in 1989. He expects to receive his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology this June. His research area is control theory. He has expressed interest in working with Prof. A. Krener.
Dr. Josef Mattes received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley this June. His area of research is quantum groups. He is interested in working with Prof. A. Schwarz.
Dr. Ramin Naimi received his Ph.D. from Caltech in June 1993. He spent 1992- 93 at the Technion in Haifa, 1993-94 at IHES, and he is currently a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. He works in low-dimensional topology, and is interested in working with Profs. J. Hass and A. Thompson.
Dr. Gregory Spradlin received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in January 1995. His research interests are in nonlinear partial differential equations. He is interested in working with Prof. A. Edelson.
Dr. Pol Vanhaecke received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven (Belgium). He spent 1992-93 at the Max-Plank Institute. Since 1993 he has been at
the Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lilles (France). His work is in integrable
systems. He is interested in working with Prof. M. Mulase.