NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
Aaron Brown received his PhD from Tufts University in 2011. He held postdoctoral positions at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Chicago. He was then appointed as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in 2017. He joined the faculty of Northwestern in 2019.
He is interested in smooth dynamics, group actions, and rigidity.
Brown was awarded the 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation, shared with Sebastian Hurtado, "for contributions to the proof of Zimmer's conjecture". Brown received an NSF CAREER grant in 2017. He gave an invited talk at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians.
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- Director of Calculus
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- Professor of Instruction / Director of Calculus
Aaron Greicius received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Afterwards, he held a postdoctoral position at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a faculty position at Loyola University Chicago. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 2018.
Greicius' research is on Galois representations of elliptic curves. In 2007 he was awarded the Nikki Kose Memorial Teaching Prize at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2022 he received a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award.
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- Associate
- Chairman
- Associate Professor of Instruction
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Aaron Peterson received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2014. He joined the faculty at Northwestern University in 2014.
Peterson's research focuses on regularity of solutions to the D-bar equation. In 2013 he was named a College of Letters and Science Teaching Fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. In 2018 he received a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award. In 2023 he was named a Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Professor of Instruction.
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- Graduate Student - Postbaccalaureate Certificate
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- Assistant Professor
- People
Ananth Shankar received his PhD from Harvard University in 2017. He held a CLE Moore Instructorship at MIT and then a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, before joining the faculty of Northwestern in 2023.
Shankar's research is in arithmetic geometry and number theory, focusing mainly on Shimura varieties and abelian varieties. He has also worked on arithmetic differential equations.
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- Associate Professor
- People
Bao Le Hung received his PhD from Harvard University in 2014. He then held postdoctoral positions at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, the University of Chicago and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Le Hung joined the faculty of Northwestern in 2018.
Le Hung works in algebraic number theory, particularly on aspects of the Langlands correspondence, modular representation theory and geometric representation theory. His research especially focuses on the moduli space of p-adic local Galois representations.
Le Hung was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2019. In 2021, he held the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Research Chair.
Ben Weinkove received his PhD at Columbia University in 2004. Before arriving at Northwestern in 2013, he was a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University, a Royal Society Research Assistant at Imperial College London and a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego.
Weinkove's research work is on elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, geometric analysis and complex geometry. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2008 and was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2017.
Benjamin Antieau received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010. Afterwards, he held postdoctoral positions at UCLA and the University of Washington, and a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He became a professor of mathematics at Northwestern in 2020.
Antieau works on Brauer groups, derived algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory. In 2021, he was awarded a Simons Fellowship. In 2022, Antieau was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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- People
- Professor
- Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics
Bryna Kra received her PhD from Stanford University in 1995. After several postdoctoral positions, she was appointed as a faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University in 2000. She joined Northwestern as an Associate Professor in 2004. Kra was appointed as the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics in 2013. Kra served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics from 2009 to 2012. In 2023, she began a two-year term as President of the American Mathematical Society.
Kra works in ergodic theory and dynamical systems, particularly on problems motivated by combinatorics and number theory.
Kra received an AMS Centennial Fellowship in 2006, the Levi L. Conant Prize of the AMS in 2010 and was awarded Simons Fellowships in 2016 and 2021. She was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians. She was named a Fellow of the AMS in 2013, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019, and in 2023 she was named a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics and a Corresponding Foreign Member of La Academia Chilena de Ciencias. She founded the program Graduate Research Opportunities for Women (GROW), which was awarded the Programs That Make A Difference Award from the AMS in 2020. From Northwestern, she has been awarded the 2022 Provost Award for Exemplary Faculty Service and the 2022 Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award.
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Professor of Instruction / Associate Chair
Specifically, Tamarkin works on operad theory, non-commutative differential geometry, and the applications of these fields to mathematical physics.
Elton Hsu received his PhD from Stanford University in 1984. After a postdoctoral position at the Courant Institute of NYU and a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Hsu joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1990.
Hsu works in probability and stochastic analysis, emphasizing applications to parabolic equations in a geometric setting.
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- Graduate Program Assistant
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- Henry Sanborn Noyes Chair in Mathematics
- People
- Professor
Eric Zaslow received his PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1995. After a postdoctoral position in mathematics at Harvard, he joined the faculty of the Northwestern mathematics department in 1998. He served as the department chair from 2018 to 2021. In 2022, Zaslow was appointed as the Henry Sanborn Noyes Chair in Mathematics.
Zaslow's research addresses mathematical questions arising from duality symmetries in physics, especially string theory and mirror symmetry. In this context, he has studied linkages between sheaf theory, symplectic topology and cluster varieties.
Zaslow was named an Alfred P. Sloan fellow in 2000, a Clay Senior Scholar in 2004 and a Simons Fellow in 2012. He was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2021. Zaslow has held distinguished visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences of UBC and the University of California, Berkeley, among other places.
Zaslow has been involved in several efforts to broaden participation in mathematics. He helped create the Evanston Math Circle, the Weinberg College Bridge Program, and the Causeway Postbaccalaureate Certificate Program. Zaslow's teaching was recognized by a Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching award in 2001 and a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence in 2012.
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- Associate Professor of Instruction
- People
Eugene Kushnirsky received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1999. He held a postdoctoral position at Indiana University before joining the Northwestern University faculty in 2002.
Kushnirsky's research is on algebraic groups over local and global fields, and automorphic forms. In 2018 he received a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award.
Ezra Getzler received his PhD from Harvard University in 1986. He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and then a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of Northwestern in 1997.
Getzler works in mathematical physics, with a focus on the relations between quantum field theory, topology and geometry.
Getzler was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1991. He has held a number of distinguished visiting appointments, including visiting professorships at the Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences at Kyoto University and the University of Geneva, the Leverhume Visiting Professorship at Imperial College, the Microsoft Visiting Research Fellowship at the Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge, and membership of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2013, Getzler was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He received a Simons Fellowship in 2017.
Gabor Szekelyhidi received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2006. He held postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London, Harvard University and Columbia University, and a faculty position at the University of Notre Dame. Szekelyhidi joined Northwestern as professor of mathematics in 2022.
Szekelyhidi works in geometric analysis and complex differential geometry. Much of his work is motivated by trying to find canonical geometric objects, such as extremal or Kähler-Einstein metrics on projective manifolds, minimal hypersurfaces, or special Lagrangian submanifolds.
Szekelyhidi was awarded an NSF CAREER grant in 2014. He was an invited speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians.
George Gasper's May 29, 1973 letter to Tom Koornwinder and Dick Askey containing his discovery and proof of the inequality that was used by Louis de Branges to prove the Bieberbach Conjecture
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- People
Gus Schrader received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2017. He held a Ritt Assistant Professorship at Columbia University before joining the faculty of Northwestern in 2021.
Schrader works on quantum groups, higher Teichmüller theory, cluster algebras and integrable systems.
Job Titles:
- Director of Graduate Studies
- People
Jared Wunsch received his PhD from Harvard University in 1998. After a postdoctoral position at Columbia University and a faculty position at Stony Brook University, he joined Northwestern in 2002. He served as chair of the mathematics department from 2012 to 2015.
Wunsch works in microlocal analysis and spectral and scattering theory. Much of his work concerns the question of how the behavior of waves is influenced by the geometry of the space on which they propagate, especially when that geometry is allowed to be singular.
Wunsch was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013. In 2021 he was awarded a Simons Fellowship. In recognition of his teaching, he received a WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award in 2011.
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- UG Program Assistant, Is in Lunt 106A
- Undergraduate Program Assistant
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- Associate Professor
- People
John Francis received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008. He was then appointed as a Boas Assistant Professor at Northwestern. He joined us as a tenure-line faculty member in 2012.
Francis works in algebraic topology, with a focus on factorization homology, homotopy theory and moduli.
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- Graduate Student - Postbaccalaureate Certificate
Keith Burns received his PhD from the University of Warwick in 1983. He held postdoctoral positions at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and the University of Maryland, and a faculty position at Indiana University. He then joined Northwestern as a faculty member in 1987.
Burns works in dynamical systems and ergodic theory, centered on the study of the geodesic flow and manifolds with nonpositive curvature. Burns was named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 1989.
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- People
- Professor
- Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Mathematics
Maksym Radziwill received his PhD from Stanford University in 2013. After postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and Rutgers University, he held faculty positions at McGill University, the California Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin. In 2023, Radziwill joined Northwestern as the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Mathematics.
Radziwill works in number theory, especially multiplicative number theory and the analytic theory of L-functions and automorphic forms. He is also interested in the interplay of number theory with other areas of mathematics, including the spectral theory of hyperbolic manifolds, probability theory (in particular, branching random walks) and dynamics.
Radziwill's awards include the 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, a 2017 Sloan Fellowship, the 2018 Coxeter-James Prize, the 2018 Ribenboim Prize, the 2019 New Horizons Prize in Mathematics, the 2019 Stefan Banach Prize and the 2023 Cole Prize in Number Theory.
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- Associate Professor of Instruction
- People
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- Assistant Professor of Instruction
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- Adjunct Lecturer, Northwestern University Mathematics Dept / Technical Support
- Adjunt Lecturer
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Nir Avni received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008. He held a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professorship at Harvard University before joining the faculty of Northwestern in 2012.
Avni's research is on algebraic and arithmetic groups, using tools from different areas of mathematics including dynamics, probability, logic, and representation theory. Avni was awarded the 2009 Levitzky Prize in Algebra from the Israel Mathematical Union, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2014 and Simons Fellowships in 2019 and 2023.
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- Boas Assistant Professor
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- Financial Program Assistant
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- Assistant Professor
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Reza Gheissari received his PhD from New York University in 2019. After an appointment as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, he joined the faculty of Northwestern in 2022.
Gheissari works on probability theory and its applications. In particular, he is interested in static and dynamic behavior of spin systems from statistical physics, and relations of probability to sampling, optimization, and learning problems in high dimensions.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- People
- Professor
Sandy Zabell received his PhD in mathematics in 1974 from Harvard University. After an Assistant Professorship in the Department of Statistics in the University of Chicago and visiting positions at Rutgers and UC Berkeley, Zabell joined the faculty of the Northwestern Mathematics Department in 1980. Since 1986 he has also held a joint appointment with the Department of Statistics (now Statistics and Data Science).
Zabell's research interests include mathematical probability (including large deviations and exchangeability), forensic science (especially DNA identification evidence), and history (most recently the use of mathematics in cryptography during WII).
Zabell is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the International Statistical Institute. In recognition of his teaching, he received a Northwestern Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992.
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- People
- Professor of Instruction
Santiago Cañez received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011. He held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the faculty at Northwestern University in 2012.
Cañez's research is on groupoids and sympletic geometry. With Susan Colley, he is co-author of the textbook Vector Calculus (Pearson, 2021, 5 th edition). In 2011 he was awarded the Nikki Kose Memorial Teaching Prize at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2017 he received a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award. In 2020 he was named a Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Professor of Instruction.
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- Associate Professor of Instruction
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- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Professor of Instruction / Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Graduate Student - Postbaccalaureate Certificate
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- Arthur and Gladys Pancoe Professor of Mathematics
- Professor
Description of Research: Dynamical Systems - Xia's research is in the areas of Newtonian n-body problem, Hamiltonian dynamics and general hyperbolic and partially hyperbolic dynamical systems.