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Research Overview

Dive Deep. Our faculty includes world-renowned researchers who lead first-rate research groups in algebra and logic, applied and computational harmonic analysis, approximation theory, combinatorics and graph theory, geometric group theory, geometry and topology, mathematical biology, non-commutative geometry and operator algebras, number theory, partial differential equations, and other research areas.

Read more about our faculty and their areas of expertise.

Grants

Mathematics faculty members receive prestigious grants to support their efforts to advance knowledge in the field.

Akram Aldroubi

National Science Foundation – DMS 2208030
“Collaborative Research: Dynamical Sampling on Graphs: Mathematical Framework and Algorithms”
June 2022 – June 2025

Dietmar Bisch

U.S. Army Research Office – W911NF-23-1-0026
“Von Neumann Subfactors, Noncommutativity and Quantum Computing”
January 2023 – December 2026

Anna Marie Bohmann

National Science Foundation – DMS 2052849
“FRG: Collaborative Research: Trace Methods and Applications for Cut-and-Paste K-Theory”
July 2021 – June 2024

National Science Foundation – DMS 2104300
“Algebraic Structures in Equivariant Homotopy Theory and K Theory”
August 2021 – July 2024

Marcelo Disconzi

National Science Foundation – DUE 1852875
“The Recruitment and Preparation of Next Generation STEM Teachers”
(Co-PIs: Teresa Dunleavy, Heather Johnson, Isaac Thompson, David Weintraub)
June 2019 – May 2024

National Science Foundation – DMS 2107701
“Mathematical Questions in Relativistic Fluids”
June 2021 – May 2024

National Science Foundation – DMS 2230558
“Workshop on Geometry and Analysis of Fluid Flows”
September 2022 – August 2023

Department of Energy – DE-SC0024711
Theoretical and numerical investigation of first-order causal relativistic viscous hydrodynamics with applications
June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2027, $260,000

Mark Ellingham

Simons Foundation MP-TSM-00002760
Embeddings, traversability, and structure of graphs
September 2023-August 2028

Dan Margalit

NSF Standard Award
Braids, Surfaces, and Polynomials
2022–2025

NSF Conference Award
Topology Students Workshop
2024

Larry Rolen

Simons Foundation – #853830
“Automorphic forms, polynomials, and cohomology”
September 2021 – August 2026

Gieri Simonett

Simons Foundation- #853237
“Fluid flow on surfaces”
September 2021- August 2026

Jared Speck

National Science Foundation – DMS 2054184
“Geometric Methods for Singular Solutions to Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations”
June 2021 – May 2024