The math department has six new positions to fill for academic year 2000—2001, three assistant professors and three postdoctoral fellows. The new positions are the result of a second round of University mission enhancement and joint proposals with other departments and colleges.
The funding will add about $300,000 to the department's salary budget, increasing the full-time faculty members to 45 and raising the number of permanent postdoctoral lines to five.
Two new math faculty positions are the result of a joint proposal with the economics department and with the computer engineering/computer science department (CECS). Economics and CECS each will receive a faculty position. An additional faculty position was obtained through a joint proposal with the College of Education.
Members of the department's planning and personnel committees prepared the proposals, working with Ira Papick and Stamatis Dostoglou.
The department hired three outstanding people for academic year 1998—1999: tenured Professor Alexander Koldobskiy, Assistant Professor Yanguang (Charles) Li and tenured Associate Professor Zhenbo Qin.
Koldobskiy, who holds a PhD from Leningrad State University, Russia, works in a broad spectrum of mathematics, including convex geometry, harmonic analysis and probability, functional analysis, chemical engineering and mathematical economics. He has resolved numerous famous problems, including Schoenberg's Problem in 1992 and the Busemann-Petty Problem in 1997.
After receiving his PhD from Columbia University, Qin became a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University before spending a year at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has won several awards and is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. His research interests include algebraic geometry, vertex algebras, quantum cohomology and lower dimensional topology.
| New faculty member Zhenbo Qin is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. |
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Professor Alexander Koldobskiy has resolved Schoenberg's Problem and the Busemann-Petty Problem. |
