Sep 19, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Mathematics


Mathematics website

Xiaobing Feng, Head
Timothy Schulze, Associate Head for Research and Development and Director of Graduate Studies
Nikolay Brodskiy, Associate Head for Mathematics General Education
Joan Lind, Associate Head for Mathematics Majors and Minors, Director of Math Honors Program

Professors
Brodskiy, N. (Associate Head for Mathematics General Education), PhD – Saskatchewan (Canada)
Chen, X., PhD – Case Western
Collins, C. (Executive Associate Dean of CAS), PhD – Minnesota
Dydak, J., PhD – Warsaw (Poland)
Fefferman, N. (Director of NIMBioS), PhD – Tufts
Feng, X. (Department Head), PhD – Purdue
Frazier, M., PhD – UCLA
Freire, A., PhD – Princeton
Gavrilets, S. (Distinguished Professor), PhD – Moscow State (Russia)
Karakashian, O., PhD – Harvard
Lenhart, S. (Chancellor’s Professor), PhD – Kentucky
Lind, J. (Associate Head for Mathematics Majors and Minors, Director of Math Honors Program), PhD – Washington
Manderscheid, D. (Director of DMS-NSF), PhD – Yale
Maroulas, V. (Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research), PhD – North Carolina
Mengesha, T., PhD – Temple
Mulay, S., PhD – Purdue
Nicoara, R., PhD – UCLA
Phan, T., PhD – Minnesota
Plaut, C.P., PhD – Maryland
Richter, S., PhD – Michigan
Rosinski, J., PhD – Wroclaw (Poland)
Salgado-Gonzales, A., PhD – Texas A & M
Schulze, T. (Associate Head for Research and Developments, Director of Graduate Studies), PhD – Northwestern
Simpson, H., PhD – California Institute of Technology
Thistlethwaite, M., PhD – Manchester (UK)
Todorova, G.H., PhD – Moscow State (Russia)
Wise, S., PhD – Virginia
Wu, Q., PhD – CityU of Hong Kong (China)

Associate Professors
Bourni, T., PhD – Stanford
Cartwright, D., PhD – California (Berkeley)
Denzler, J., PhD – ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Finotti, L., PhD – Texas
Jameson, M., PhD – Emory
Prosper, O., PhD – Florida
Strickland, C., PhD – Colorado State
Vellis, V., PhD – Illinois

Assistant Professors
Nguyen, H., PhD – Tulane
Qing, Y., PhD – Tufts
Sgouralis, I., PhD – Duke
Yushutin, V., PhD – Moscow State (Russia)
Zhao, X., PhD – Notre Dame

ORNL Joint Faculty
Hauck, C., PhD – Maryland
Restrepo, J., PhD – Pennsylvania State
Zhang, G., PhD – Florida State

Lecturers
Alexiades, V., PhD – Delaware
Bly, M., PhD – Tennessee
Campbell, E., MS – Tennessee
Carr, T., PhD – Washington
Clark, J., PhD – Tennessee
Conner, A., MM – Tennessee
Cook, T., MS – Tennessee
Dabbs, K., PhD – Texas
Downs, H., PhD – Tennessee
Duong, H., PhD – Florida State
Fowler, J., MA – Kentucky
Gelantalis, M., PhD – Indiana
Gentry, A., PhD – Lincoln Memorial
Guest, R., MS – Baylor
Horton, D., PhD – Tennessee
Humphries, P., PhD – Canterbury (New Zealand)
Hung, L., PhD – Washington State
Jiang, S., PhD – Virginia
Kazanova, A., PhD – Massachusetts
Lawson, A., PhD – Tennessee
Lay, L., MS – Tennessee
Lewis, C., MS – Tennessee
Lopez, J., PhD – Mississippi
Meadows, M., MM – Tennessee
McClurkin, A., MS – Tennessee
Minutolo, J., PhD – San Diego, California
Nguyen, V., PhD – Tennessee
Pringle, K., PhD – Oregon
Self, C., MS – Tennessee
Smith, K., MM – Tennessee
Sparaco, L., PhD – Florida State
Steranka, J., PhD – Northern Illinois
Sturm, J., MS – Tennessee
Sullens, M., PhD – Tennessee 
Sukanek, K., MS – Mississippi
Swenson, M., PhD – Texas
Thistlethwaite, S., PhD – Masssachusetts
Wheeler, T., PhD – Kentucky
Wright, G., MM – Tennessee
Yakunin, K., PhD – Florida Atlantic

Majors, Degrees
Mathematics Major, MMath   
Mathematics Major, MS  
  Industrial Mathematics Concentration 
Mathematics Major, PhD  
  Mathematical Biology Concentration 
Mathematics Graduate Certificate  

The Mathematics Department has three graduate degrees – the Master of Mathematics degree, intended primarily for teachers; the Master of Science degree, designed to prepare students for industrial employment and for teaching; and the Doctor of Philosophy degree, designed to prepare students for industrial employment and for college and university teaching and research. Contact the department office for additional information.

For additional information, please visit the graduate website on the Department of Mathematics’ homepage.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science (IGMCS)

The Department of Mathematics participates in the interdisciplinary graduate minor in computational science (IGMCS) program. Any student pursuing a master’s or PhD with a major in mathematics can receive a minor in computational science by completing the appropriate IGMCS requirements. For additional information, see the description of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science  listed under Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or visit the IGMCS website. The Department of Mathematics also contributes courses to the IGMCS program curriculum.