We have three new faculty members:
Catherine Bčnčteau joins us from Seton
Hall University, where she was an associate professor. An alumnus
of McGill University, she received her doctorate from SUNY-Albany
in 1999 after studying complex analysis under Boris Korenblum.
After a stint at the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins
University, she went to Seton Hall, where she continued her work
in complex function theory. She is very active in mathematics
education as well, working with high school and undergraduate
students engaged in research projects.
Dmitry Khavinson joins us from the
University of Arkansas, where he was a Distinguished Professor of
Mathematics. An alumnus of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, he
received his doctorate from Brown University in 1983 after
studying complex analysis under John Wermer. He had been a high
school teacher in Moscow, and after receiving his doctorate he
went to the University of Arkansas, although he recently served
two stints as the National Science Foundation’s Program Director
for (Mathematical) Analysis. He has worked in a broad range of
areas of analysis, from approximation theory to potential theory
to differential equations to real analysis to ... all appearing in
two books and over seventy papers. He has also mentored student
theses from high school student projects to doctoral
dissertations.
Brendan Nagle joins us from the
University of Nevada, where he was an associate professor. An
alumnus of Emory University, he continued his studies there until
he received his doctorate in 1999 after studying combinatorics
under Vojtech Rödl. After a post-doctorate term at Georgia State
University, he joined the University of Nevada until he came
here. He continues his work in various areas of graph theory,
especially hypergraph and extremal theory.
We welcome them to the department.
Dmitry Khavinson was a plenary speaker at the international
conference on New Trends in Complex and Harmonic Analysis
this May in Voss, Norway.
Wen-Xiu Ma co-edited a special issue on
Topics on Integrable Systems in the Journal of Computational and
Applied Mathematics;
Vilmos
Totik has co-authored a book, Problems and Theorems in Set
Theory, with Peter Komjáth.
One of our senior faculty members is retiring. Arun Mukherjea came to
USF in 1969, two years after receiving his Ph.D. from Wayne State
University, where he studied under Albert Bharucha-Reid. He worked on
probability measures on algebraic structures, weak convergence of
convolution products of such measures, random walks induced by such
measures, and related areas in probability and measure theory. The
author of about a hundred journal and book articles, he is now working
on his eighth book. He is a prominent scholar in his field, he received
the USF Distinguished Scholar Award, a National Research Council Award,
and a Fulbright Award; he also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Theoretical Probability, and he organized two AMS special
sessions and an Oberwolfach session. He is also an outstanding teacher,
having received a Teaching Incentive Program award and the USF
Outstanding Teaching Award, and having over fifteen doctoral students.
We wish him well on his future adventures.