Our People

Our faculty members carry on active research programs in abstract algebra, number theory, combinatorics, integral equations, numerical analysis, optimal control theory, ordinary and partial differential equations, probability, statistics, topology, and other fields. Our researchers keep in touch with other professors in their specialties all over the world.

Meet Our Faculty

Available Positions

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Our Staff

Dr. Layla Sorkatti is a current visitor to the school. She is working with Prof. Dubravka Ban.

Layla Sorkatti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Khartoum, Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan. Her current research projects focus on representation theory and symplectic algebras. She has been in several years engaged in teaching Algebra subjects for the postgraduate students in some of the African countries.

Curriculum Vitae

Our Emeritus Faculty

Imogene C. Beckemeyer

Assistant Professor, Emerita, M.A.
Southern Illinois University, 1952

Bhaskar Bhattacharya

Professor Emeritus
University of Iowa, 1993

Theodore A. Burton

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
Washington State University, 1964.

Roger Chitty

Emeritus

James Crenshaw

Associate Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, 1967.

Sudhakar Dharmadhikari

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
University of California at Berkeley, 1962.

George Elston

Assistant Professor, Emeritus, M.S.
University of Wisconsin, 1949.

Philip Feinsilver

Professor Emeritus; Ph.D.
NYU (Courant), 1975

Robert Fitzgerald

Emeritus/Deceased Professor; Ph.D.
UCLA, 1980.

Neal Foland

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D
University of Missouri, 1961.

Ronald Grimmer

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
University of Iowa, 1967

John Hooker

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D
University of Oklahoma, 1967

Worthen Hunsaker

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
Washington State University, 1966.

Sakthivel Jeyaratnam

Emeritus Professor; Ph.D.
Colorado State University, 1978

David Kammler

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D
University of Michigan, 1971.

Ronald Kirk

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology, 1968

Charles Koch

Assistant Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, 1961.

Carl Langenhop

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
Iowa State University, 1948.

Becky Mandrell

Lecturer, Emeritus, M.S,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1991.

Abraham M Mark

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
Cornell University, 1947.

John McSorley

Emeritus Professor; Ph.D.
Oxford University, 1988

Salah-eldin Mohammed

Emeritus/Deceased Professor and Distinguished Scholar; Ph.D.
University of Warwick, England, 1976.

Robert A. Moore

Associate Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
Indiana University, 1961.

Daniel Mussa

Emeritus Computer Based Math Project Director

Edward Neuman

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D
University of Wroclaw (Poland), 1972.

Thomas Paine

Assistant Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
University of Oregon at Eugene, 1966.

S. Panchapakesan

Emeritus/Deceased -Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D
Purdue University, 1969.

George Parker

Associate Professor, Emeritus/Deceased, Ph.D.,
University of California at San Diego, 1971

William T. Patula

Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D.
Carnegie-Mellon University, 1971

Franklin Pedersen

Associate Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D
Tulane University, 1967.

Kathleen Pericak-Spector

Professor; Emerita and Distinguished Teacher Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University 1980.

Don Redmond

Associate Professor; Ph.D.
University of Illinois, 1976.

Saroj Sharma

Emerita Lecturer, Ph.D.
Rutgers University, 1973

Scott Spector

Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Scholar; Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University, 1978

Walter Wallis

Emeritus Professor, Ph.D
University of Sydney, 1968

Mary Wright

Professor, Emerita, and Distinguished Teacher; Ph.D
McGill University, Montreal, 1977

Joseph Yucas

Emeritus Professor; Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University, 1978

Marvin Zeman

Emeritus Professor; Ph.D
New York University, 1974