The Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University

Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats

Faculty

The Department of Mathematics emphasizes good teaching and takes great pride in the research and teaching accomplishments of its faculty members. Members of the department faculty have received a variety of University Awards, including the Distinguished Teaching Award, the Distinguished Service Award for Administration, the Natural Science Teaching Award, the Honors Professorship, the Natural Sciences Research Award, and the Distinguished Service Award for Research. Faculty members in the Department have given invited lectures on 6 continents and in 68 countries. They have published more than 1000 research papers in technical journals.

This page offers a brief listing for each faculty member, with web page links provided where appropriate.

	Jeff Achter Office: WB 216 Phone: 970-491-6716 email: achter@math.colostate.edu Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, Mathematical Ecology and Evolution
	Dan Bates Office: WB 221 Phone: 970-491-1037 email: bates@math.colostate.edu Numerical Algebraic Geometry, Scientific Computation
	Anton Betten Office: WB 207 Phone: 970-491-1865 email: betten@math.colostate.edu Combinatorics, Coding theory, Design theory
	Patrick Burns Office: 110 Morgan Library Phone: 970-491-1456 email: Patrick.Burns@colostate.edu Vice President for Information Technology High Performance Computing
	Renzo Cavalieri Office: WB 113 Phone: 970-491-6283 email: renzo@math.colostate.edu Algebraic Geometry, Moduli Spaces
	Kelly Chappell Office: WB 111 Phone: 970-491-6416 email: chappell@math.colostate.edu Mathematics Education
	Edwin Chong Office: ENGR C101D Phone: 970-491-7858 email: echong@engr.colostate.edu Control and Optimization, Communication Networks, Wireless Systems
	Gerhard Dangelmayr, Undergraduate Director Office: WB 104 Phone: 970-491-6451 email: gerhard@math.colostate.edu Nonlinear Dynamics, Pattern Analysis
	Jeanne Duflot , Graduate Director Office: WB 218 Phone: 970-491-6453 email: duflot@math.colostate.edu Algebraic Topology, Algebraic Geometry, K-Theory
	Oleg Emanouilov Office: WB 125 Phone: 970-491-7475 email: oleg@math.colostate.edu Differential Equations, Control Theory
	Don Estep Office: WB 115 Phone: 970-491-6722 email: estep@math.colostate.edu Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations
	Alexander Hulpke Office: WB 217 Phone: 970-491-4288 email: hulpke@math.colostate.edu (Computational) Group Theory, Combinatorics, Number Theory, Symbolic Computation
	Paul Kennedy, Co-Director of the PACe Program Office: WB 215 Phone: 970-491-2497 email: kennedy@math.colostate.edu Mathematics Education
	Michael Kirby Office: WB 211 Phone: 970-491-6850 email: kirby@math.colostate.edu Computational and Applied Mathematics, Geometric methods in pattern analysis, empirical analysis of large data sets, optimization and mathematical modeling, signal and image processing,Optimal low-dimensional systems and modeling
	Ken Klopfenstein Office: WB 116 Phone: 970-491-6573 email: kenk@math.colostate.edu Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions, Operator Theory; Co-Director of the PACe
	Jiangguo (James) Liu Office: WB 127 Phone: 970-491-3067 email: liu@math.colostate.edu Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing
	Kelly McArthur Office: WB 112 Phone: 970-491-4625 email: mcarthur@math.colostate.edu Numerical Analysis
	Ross McConnell Office: 227 University Services Center Phone: 970-491-7524 email: rmcconne@lamar.colostate.edu Algorithms and graph theory
	Rick Miranda, Interim Provost & Executive Vice President Office: WB 134 Phone: 970-491-5284 email: miranda@math.colostate.edu Algebraic Geometry
	Jennifer Mueller Office: WB 128 Phone: 970-491-7417 email: mueller@math.colostate.edu Electrical Impedance Tomography, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Biology, Inverse Problems
	Iuliana Oprea Office: WB 123 Phone: 970-491-6751 email: juliana@math.colostate.edu Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability and Bifurcation, Dynamical Systems, Pattern Formation, Mathematical Modeling
	Anita Pattison Office: PACe Center WB 137D Phone: 970-491-3683 email: pattison@math.colostate.edu Associate Director of the PACe Program
	Tim Penttila Office: WB 213 Phone: 970-491-6695 email: penttila@math.colostate.edu Finite Geometries
	Chris Peterson Office: WB 220 Phone: 970-491-5153 email: peterson@math.colostate.edu Algebraic Geometry
	Rachel Pries Office: WB 118 Phone: 970-491-2635 email: pries@math.colostate.edu Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, Galois theory
	Vakhtang Putkaradze Office: WB 120 Phone: 970-491-6440 email: putkarad@math.colostate.edu Nonlinear Applied Mathematics
	Dan Rudolph, Yates Endowment Chair Office: WB 203 Phone: 970-491-6478 email: rudolphd@math.colostate.edu Dynamical Systems
	Lois Samer, Co-Director of the PACe Program Office: PACe Center WB 137A Phone: 970-491-5044 email: samer@math.colostate.edu Molecular Genetics
	Patrick Shipman Office: WB 121 Phone: 970-491-6488 email: shipman@math.colostate.edu Differential Equations, Mathematical Biology, Applied Math
	Simon Tavener, Chair Office: WB 106 Phone: 970-491-6452 email: tavener@math.colostate.edu Fluid Mechanics, Stability and Bifurcation in Continuum Mechanics, Mathematical Ecology
	Yongcheng Zhou Office: WB 124 Phone: 970-491-0237 email: yzhou@math.colostate.edu Numerical Methods for PDEs, Mathematical Biology, Fluid Dynamics
	Colleen Webb Office: ZE 334A Phone: 970-491-4289 email: colleen.webb@colostate.edu Theoretical Ecology and Evolution

Post Docs and Instructors

	Varis Carey Office: WB 204 Phone: 970-491-4295 email: carey@math.colostate.edu
	Arsen Elkin Office: WB 134 Phone: 970-491-5284 email: elkin@math.colostate.edu
	Hilary Freeman Office: WB 108 Phone: 970-491-5308 email: freeman@math.colostate.edu
	Dale Lockwood Office: USDA NCGRP 110 Phone: 970-495-3281 email: dale@lockwood.colostate.edu
	John Persing Office: WB 209 Phone: 970-491-6456 email: persing@math.colostate.edu
	Mary Pilgrim Office: WB 18 Phone: 970-491-7821 email: pilgrim@math.colostate.edu
	Jeff Sandelin Office: WB 204 Phone: 970-491-4295 email: sandelin@math.colostate.edu
	Josh Thompson Office: WB 223D Phone: 970-491-2723 email: thompson@math.colostate.edu
	Mary Worthley Office: WB 18 Phone: 970-491-7821 email: worthley@math.colostate.edu

Emeriti

	Eugene Allgower Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email: allgower@math.colostate.edu Numerical Analysis, Nonlinear Systems
	Duane Clow Office: Weber 133 Phone: email: clow@math.colostate.edu
	Richard Darst Office: WB 133 Phone: email: darst@math.colostate.edu Analysis
	Paul DuChateau Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email: pauld@math.colostate.edu Partial Differential Equations, Inverse and Ill posed problems
	Frank DeMeyer Office: N/A Phone: N/A email: N/A Ring Theory, Algebraic Geometry
	Howard Frisinger
	Robert Gaines
	Kurt Georg
	Darel Hardy Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email: hardy@math.colostate.edu
	Nicholas Krier Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email: krier@math.colostate.edu Geometry, Combinatorics
	Robert Liebler Office: N/A Phone: N/A email: N/A Algebra, Finite Group Theory, Geometry, Combinatorics
	John Locker Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email: jslocker@msn.com
	Ben Manvel Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email:
	Richard Osborne Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email: rosborne@frii.com Combinatorial Group Theory, Recursive Functions, Geometric Topology
	Richard Painter Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email:
	Aubrey Poore Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email: poore@math.colostate.edu Applied and Computational Mathematics, Optimization and Control
	Jim Thomas Office: WB 209 Phone: 970-491-6456 email: thomas@math.colostate.edu Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations, Bifurcation
	Gerald Taylor Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email: taylor@math.colostate.edu Approximation Theory, Numerical Analysis
	Jaak Vilms Office: WB 133 Phone: email: jaak@vilms.net
	Dave Zachmann Office: WB 133 Phone: 970-491-6565 email:

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Post Doc and Instructors

Emeritus Faculty

Current Faculty

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