Faculty
Edward Allen
Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, 1991
Research Interests: Algebraic Combinatorics, Bioinformatics.
Justin Allman
Associate Teaching Professor
Manchester 380
PhD. Mathematics. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. 2014
Research Interests: algebraic topology and geometry. representation theory.
Katie Betancourt
Visiting Assistant Professor
Manchester 122
PhD in Mathematics, University of Iowa
Research Interests: Mathematical fiber arts, math education, topological data analysis.
Abbey Bourdon
Associate Professor
Manchester 136
PhD in Mathematics, Wesleyan University
Research Interests: Arithmetic Geometry
Web Page: http://users.wfu.edu/bourdoam/
Kyle Celano
Teacher Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 245
PhD in Mathematics, University of Miami, 2023
Research Interests: Algebraic Combinatorics
Jennifer Erway
Professor
Manchester 130
Research interests: Numerical optimization, computational PDEs, numerical linear algebra, scientific computation
Web Page: http://www.wfu.edu/~erwayjb
Claudia Falcon
Assistant Professor
Manchester 381
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 2016, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research interests: Applied mathematics, fluid dynamics, partial differential equations, mathematical biology
Website: go.wfu.edu/falconc
John Gemmer
Associate Professor & Sterge Faculty Fellow
Manchester 388
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, 2012
Research interests: Applied mathematics, calculus of variations, partial differential equations, optics, dynamical systems, stochastic differential equations.
Web Page: http://users.wfu.edu/gemmerj/
Shohreh Gholizadeh Siahmazgi
Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 245
PhD, Theoretical Physics, Wake Forest University
Research Interests: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, General Relativity, Stochastic Differential Equations
Hugh Howards
Professor
PhD UCSD ’97
Research interests: Topology and Geometry
Web Page: http://users.wfu.edu/howards/
Miaohua Jiang
Professor
PHD Pennsylvania State University, 1995
Research interests: Dynamical Systems and Smooth Ergodic Theory
Web Page: http://users.wfu.edu/jiangm/
Thomas Kindred
Visiting Assistant Professor
Manchester 385
PhD (2018) in mathematics from the University of Iowa
Research interests: Geometric and combinatorial topology, mainly in dimensions 3 (classical knot theory, spanning surfaces, Khovanov homology) and 4 (knotted surfaces, trisections), but also in arbitrary dimension (multisections).
Web Page: https://thomaskindred.com/
Ellen Kirkman
Professor
PhD in Mathematics and M.S. in Statistics Michigan State University, 1975
Research interests: Noncommutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Homological Algebra
Web Page: https://math.wfu.edu/dr-kirkman/
Leandro Lichtenfelz
Assistant Professor
Manchester 387
PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2018
Research interests: Differential Geometry, Global Analysis, Fluid Dynamics and General Relativity.
Sarah Mason
Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Research interests: Algebraic Combinatorics, Representation Theory
Jacob Mayle
Teacher Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 382
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Illinois Chicago
Research Interests: Number theory, arithmetic geometry, elliptic curves, Galois representations
Web Page: www.jacobmayle.com
Pratyush Mishra
Visiting Assistant Professor
Manchester 122
PhD in Mathematics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, 2023
Research interest: My research interest lies at the intersection of geometric group theory, the group of homeomorphisms of small manifolds, dynamical systems, and lattices of Lie groups.
Frank Moore
Professor
Ph.D. Mathematics, August 2008. University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Research interests: Commutative algebra. In particular, homological properties of commutative rings
Dylan Odessa
Teacher Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 245
PhD in Mathematics, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2022
Website: https://go.wfu.edu/odessa/
Tolulope Oke
Visiting Assistant Professor
Manchester 383
PhD, Mathematics at Texas A&M, 2021
Research interests: Homological and noncommutative algebra, Hochschild cohomology and its associated Gerstenhaber algebra structure, Representation theory, invariant theory and deformation theory.
Web Page: https://tnoke2000.github.io/
Jason Parsley
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Mathematics, 2004, University of Pennsylania
Research interests: Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis, Physical Knot Theory
Web Page: http://users.wfu.edu/parslerj/
Sarah Raynor
Professor
Ph.D., 2003, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interests: Partial Differential Equations; Semilinear dispersive PDEs: questions of well-posedness and qualitative behavior; Free boundary problems: regularity of the solution and its interface. Semilinear elliptic PDEs: Existence of positive solutions.
Web Page: https://raynorsg.sites.wfu.edu/
Stephen Robinson
Professor & Department Chair
Manchester 126
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1991
Research interests: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations; Nonlinear Analysis
Jeremy Rouse
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Ph.D., Mathematics, 2007, University of Wisconsin
Research interests: Number Theory, Modular and Automorphic Forms, L-functions, Elliptic Curves, and Abelian Varieties.
Quadratic Forms.
Web Page: http://users.wfu.edu/rouseja/
Dominic Veconi
Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
Manchester 245
PhD, 2021, Penn State University
Research Interests: Hyperbolic dynamical systems, smooth ergodic theory, and thermodynamic formalism.
Webpage: https://dominic.veconi.com
Fan Yang
Assistant Professor
Manchester 332
PhD in Mathematics, 2015, University of Southern California
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, ergodic theory, stochastic process
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/fan-yang-dynamical-systems
Lynne Yengulalp
Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Math & Stats Center
Manchester 135
PhD Mathematics, University of Kansas 2009
Research interests: Topology and set theory
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/wfu.edu/lynne-yengulalp-wfu/