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Mathematics

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

Chair: Gary Rosen, 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.; Thomas Geisser, 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.; Fengzhu Sun, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences); 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: Ting Chen, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences); Jason Fulman, Ph.D.; Ko Honda, Ph.D.; Lei Li, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences); Sergey Lototsky, Ph.D.; Mohammed Ziane, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor: Jianfeng Zhang, Ph.D.

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

Research Associate Professor: Xiaoqing Pi, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professors: 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; B.S. and B.A. in applied and computational mathematics; B.S. in mathematics/economics; progressive degree programs in 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.