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Antonio Auffinger

Antonio Auffinger

Professor

Field(s) of Research: Probability theory and stochastic processes
Phone number: 847 491 5524
Office location: Lunt 228
tuca@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Spin glasses, growth processes, and random matrix theory

Nir Avni

Nir Avni

Professor

Field(s) of Research: Model theory, Group theory and generalizations, Topological groups, Lie groups, Measure and integration, Dynamical systems and ergodic theory, Differential geometry
Phone number: 847-491-5575
Office location: Lunt 213
nir.avni@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Arithmetic groups, Representation Theory

Keith Burns

Keith Burns

Professor

Field(s) of Research: Dynamical systems and ergodic theory
Phone number: 847-491-3013
Office location: Lunt B21
burns@math.northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Dynamical systems and ergodic theory

Paul Goerss

Paul Goerss

Professor

Field(s) of Research: Stable homotopy theory, spectra
Phone number: 847-491-8544
Office location: Lunt 206
p-goerss@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Homotopy theory, particularly chromatic stable homotopy theory.

Elton P. Hsu

Elton P. Hsu

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Field(s) of Research: Probability and Stochastic Analysis.
Phone number: 847-491-8541
Office location: Lunt 205
xupei@northwestern.edu

Bryna Kra

Bryna Kra

Professor
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics

Field(s) of Research: Ergodic Theory, Topological Dynamics and Symbolic Dynamics
Phone number: 847-491-5567
Office location: Lunt 224
kra@math.northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Bryna Kra works in ergodic theory and dynamical systems, particularly on problems motivated by combinatorics and number theory.

Yuchen Liu

Yuchen Liu

Assistant Professor

Field(s) of Research: Algebraic Geometry
Phone number: 847-491-5553
Office location: Lunt 229
yuchenl@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Fano varieties, K-stability, normalized volumes, moduli spaces.

Aaron Naber

Aaron Naber

Professor
Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Mathematics

Field(s) of Research: Geometric Analysis
Phone number: 847-467-1838
Office location: Lunt 301
aaron.naber@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Ricci curvature, harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds, minimal surfaces, Ricci flow, critical/nodal sets of elliptic equations, mean curvature flow, and collapsing theory.

Boris Tsygan

Boris Tsygan

Professor

Field(s) of Research: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry
Phone number: 847-467-6446
Office location: Lunt 302
b-tsygan@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Non-commutative geometry, index theory, microlocal analysis, deformation quantization, mathematical physics, and sympletic geometry.

Ben Weinkove

Ben Weinkove

Professor
Department Chair

Phone number: 847-491-5587
Office location: Lunt 310
weinkove@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Elliptic and parabolic PDE, geometric analysis.

Jared Wunsch

Jared Wunsch

Professor

Field(s) of Research: Partial differential equations
Phone number: 847-491-5580
Office location: Lunt 221
jwunsch@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Spectral and scattering theory; microlocal analysis.

Zhihong Jeff Xia

Zhihong Jeff Xia

Professor
Arthur and Gladys Pancoe Professor of Mathematics

Phone number: 847-491-5487
Office location: Lunt 208
zxia@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Dynamical Systems - Xia's research is in the areas of Newtonian n-body problem, Hamiltonian dynamics and general hyperbolic and partially hyperbolic dynamical systems.

Eric Zaslow

Eric Zaslow

Professor
Henry Sanborn Noyes Chair in Mathematics

Field(s) of Research: Mirror symmetry, symplectic aspects; homological mirror symmetry; Fukaya category, Mirror symmetry
Phone number: 847-467-6447
Office location: Lunt 209
e-zaslow@northwestern.edu
Description of Research: Mirror Symmetry, Mathematical Physics

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