Faculty
Current Faculty and Postdoctoral Associates
Expertise: geometric group theory, topology
Expertise: symplectic and contact geometry, h-principle techniques, Weinstein manifold geometry
Expertise: combinatorics, probability
Expertise: representation theory, algebraic geometry, number theory
Expertise: scientific computing, fluid dynamics, and mathematical biology
Expertise: analysis, probability theory and statistical mechanics
Expertise: contact and symplectic geometry, hyperbolic dynamics, geometric analysis of contact manifolds
Expertise: algebraic geometry and graph theory
Expertise: representations of quivers
Expertise: mathematical biology, developmental biology
Expertise: dynamical systems research, with a particular focus on prediction and inference via machine learning methods
Expertise: dynamical systems and number theory
Expertise: dynamics, lie groups, number theory
Expertise: representation theory, Calabi-Yau Geometry, string theory
Expertise: algorithms, optimization, statistics and data science
Expertise: ergodic theory, dynamical systems and number theory.
Expertise: geometric group theory, topology
Expertise: number theory and representation theory
Expertise: computational neuroscience, neural network modeling
Expertise: Probability, stochastic processes, dynamical systems and mathematical biology
Expertise: mathematical biology, differential equations, dynamical systems, multiple timescale dynamics.
Emeriti Faculty
Expertise: analysis, differential equations, completely integrable systems, random matrix theory
Expertise: geometric group theory, topology
Expertise: combinatorics
Expertise: classical algebraic geometry
Expertise: number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, commutative algebra
Professor Palais passed away on May 13, 2026.
His expertise was in nonlinear partial differential equations, calculus of variations in geometry and mathematical physics, and transformation groups.
Expertise: combinatorics, elementary education
Expertise: geometric topology, gauge theory
Expertise: algebraic groups, transformation groups
Expertise: stochastic processes, Korteweg-deVries equation, Toda lattices