Research Interests of the Faculty
Faculty members, their undergraduate/graduate schools, and research areas are listed below; more detailed information can be found via the department's WWW server (http://www.math.duke.edu). An asterisk (*) indicates a joint appointment with the department of physics.
| Faculty Member | Research Area |
| W. K. Allard
(Villanova, Brown) |
Scientific computing |
| P. S. Aspinwall* (Oxford) |
String theory |
| J. T. Beale (Cal. Tech, Stanford) |
Partial differential equations, fluid mechanics |
| A. L. Bertozzi
(Princeton, Princeton) |
Nonlinear partial
differential equations, applied mathematics |
| R. L. Bryant
(N. C. State, UNC) |
Nonlinear partial
differential equations, differential geometry |
| L. A. Carmack (BYU, UC Santa Barbara) |
Computational fluid dynamics |
| R. Constantinescu
(Bucharest, MIT) |
Geometric quantum field theory |
| S. Fitchett (Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska-Lincoln) |
Algebraic geometry, commutative algebra |
| R. M. Hain (U. Sydney, U. Illinois) |
Topology of algebraic varieties, Hodge theory |
| J. L. Harer (Haverford, Berkeley) |
Geometric topology, combinatorial group theory |
| B. T. Hayes (Cal. Tech., Courant) |
Partial differential equations |
| R. E. Hodel (Davidson, Duke) |
Set-theoretic topology |
| K. Honda (Harvard, Princeton) |
Differential geometry |
| J. W. Kitchen (Harvard, Harvard) |
Functional analysis |
| L. Kondic* (Zagreb, CUNY) |
Scientific computing and nonlinear systems |
| D. P. Kraines (Oberlin, Berkeley) |
Algebraic topology, game theory |
| G. F. Lawler (Virginia, Princeton) |
Probability, statistical physics |
| H. E. Layton (Asbury, Duke) |
Mathematical biology |
| L. C. Moore (N. C. State, Cal. Tech.) |
Functional analysis |
| D. R. Morrison (Princeton, Harvard) |
Algebraic geometry, mathematical physics |
| W. L. Pardon (Michigan, Princeton) |
Algebra, geometry of varieties |
| R. Plesser* (Tel Aviv, Harvard) |
String theory, quantum field theory |
| M. C. Reed (Yale, Stanford) |
Applications of
mathematics to physiology and medicine |
| D. L. Reed (Chicago, Oxford) |
Arithmetic algebraic geometry |
| L. D. Saper (Yale, Princeton) |
Analysis and geometry on singular spaces |
| D. G. Schaeffer (Illinois, MIT) |
Partial differential
equations, applied mathematics |
| C. L. Schoen
(Haverford, Chicago) |
Algebraic geometry |
| R. A. Scoville (Yale, Yale) |
Combinatorial analysis |
| D. A. Smith (Trinity, Yale) |
Numerical analysis |
| M. A. Stern (Texas A & M, Princeton) |
Geometric Analysis |
| J. A. Trangenstein
(U. Chicago, Cornell) |
Nonlinear conservation
laws, environmental clean-up, shocks in fluids |
| S. Venakides
(National Tech. Univ. of Athens, Courant Institute) |
Partial differential
equations, integrable systems |
| M. Weisfeld (Brooklyn College, Yale) |
Algebra, optimization |
| X. Zhou (Chinese Acad. of Sciences, Rochester) |
Partial differential
equations, integrable systems |