USC
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Mathematics

Kaprielian Hall 108
(213) 740-2400
FAX: (213) 740-2424
Email: info@math.usc.edu

Chair: Jaksa Cvitanic, Ph.D.

Faculty

USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and University Professor: Michael S. Waterman, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences and Computer Science)

Professors: Kenneth Alexander, Ph.D.; Richard Arratia, Ph.D.; Peter Baxendale, Ph.D.; Edward K. Blum, Ph.D.; Francis Bonahon, Ph.D.*; Ronald E. Bruck, Ph.D.; Jaksa Cvitanic, Ph.D.; Larry Goldstein, Ph.D.; Solomon Golomb, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Robert Guralnick, Ph.D.*; Nicolai T.A. Haydn, Ph.D.; Edmond A. Jonckheere, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Sheldon Kamienny, Ph.D.; Igor Kukavica, Ph.D.; P. Vijay Kumar, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Ching Chieh Jay Kuo, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Charles Lanski, Ph.D.; Feodor Malikov, Ph.D.; Remigijus Mikulevicius, Ph.D.; M. Susan Montgomery, Ph.D.*; Paul K. Newton, Ph.D. (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering); Robert C. Penner, Ph.D.; Wlodek Proskurowski, Ph.D.; Wayne Raskind, Ph.D.; John E. Rolph, Ph.D. (Information and Operations Management); I. Gary Rosen, Ph.D.; Boris Rozovskii, Ph.D.; Robert J. Sacker, Ph.D.; Hubert Saleur, Ph.D. (Physics); Alan Schumitzky, Ph.D.; Simon Tavaré, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences); Firdaus E. Udwadia, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering); Zdenek Vorel, Ph.D.; Nicholas P. Warner, Ph.D. (Physics); Chunming Wang, Ph.D.; Michael S. Waterman, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences)

Associate Professors: Thomas Geisser, Ph.D.; Ko Honda, Ph.D.; Sergey Lototsky, Ph.D.; Mohammed Ziane, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors: Tobias Ekholm, Ph.D. ; Lei Li, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences); Jianfeng Zhang, Ph.D.

Associated Faculty: Richard S. Bucy, Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering); Fengzhu Sun, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences)

Research Professors: George Hajj, Ph.D.; Leonid Piterbarg, Ph.D.; Paul Singer, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor: Xiaoqing Pi, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professors: Theodore E. Harris, Ph.D.*; Irving Reed, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Paul A. White, Ph.D.

*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.

Degree Programs

The Department of Mathematics has designed its major to give students an understanding of the several areas of mathematics. The program of study allows students to use electives to prepare themselves for a specific field, whether in industry, teaching or advanced graduate research. The faculty is engaged in a wide variety of research activities and offers courses in many areas.

The department offers the B.S., B.A., and minor in Mathematics; the B.S. in Economics/Mathematics; M.S. in Applied Mathematics; M.S. in Mathematical Finance; M.S. in Statistics; M.A. in Mathematics; M.A. in Applied Mathematics; M.S. in Computational Molecular Biology; Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics; and Ph.D. in Mathematics.