USC
University of Southern California
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Mathematics

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

Chair: Wayne Raskind, Ph.D.

Faculty

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

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.; Richard S. Bucy, Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering); 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.; P. Vijay Kumar, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Charles Lanski, Ph.D.; Feodor Malikov, 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); Michael S. Waterman, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences)

Associate Professors: Thomas Geisser, Ph.D.; Ko Honda, Ph.D.; Igor Kukavica, Ph.D.; Ching Chieh Jay Kuo, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Sergey Lototsky, Ph.D.; Remigijus Mikulevicius, Ph.D.; Fengzhu Sun, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences); Chunming Wang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors: Ting Chen, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences); Lei Li, Ph.D. (Biological Sciences); Jianfeng Zhang, Ph.D.; Mohammed Ziane, Ph.D.

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

Research Associate Professors: Xiaoqing Pi, Ph.D.; Larry J. Romans, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professors: Henry A. Antosiewicz, Ph.D.; 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.