New Faculty

05-24-2011

The Department is pleased to announce that the following individuals will join the faculty in August 2011.

Assistant Professor (tenure track)

• Ben McReynolds — Ph.D. University of Texas (2006). Taussky-Todd Instructor, California Institute of Technology (2006-07). Dickson Instructor, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (2007-11). Research area: geometric group theory, emphasizing various algebraic techniques to different directions in geometry, topology, and spectral geometry.
• Jonathon Peterson — Ph.D. University of Minnesota (2008). Van Vleck Assistant Professor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin (2008-09). H.C. Wang Assistant Professor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (2009-11). Research area: probability theory, focusing on stochastic process in random environments.

Golomb Assistant Professor (3-year appointment)

• Eva Leenknegt — Ph.D. K.U. Leuven (2011); model theory and p-adic geometry.
• Erik Lundberg — Ph.D. University of South Florida (2011); holomorphic partial differential equations, potential theory.
• Wenbo Niu — Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago (2011); algebraic geometry, commutative geometry.
• Lizehn Qin — Ph.D. Wayne State University (2011); topology of manifolds.
• Daniel Szpruch — Ph.D. Tel Aviv University (2010); Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben Gurion University (2009-11); automorphic forms, representation theory of p-adic groups.