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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