The department's 13 postdocs from 1998-1999 covered a wide spectrum of research areas.
William Banks works in automorphic forms and was adviser to the 1999 math team, which for the first time in MU history won the state mathematics competition. He has a PhD from Stanford in 1994. His thesis adviser was Daniel Bump, and his mentor is Daniel Lieman.
Thierry Chatelain, PhD 1998 from Besancon, France, works in partial differential equations and is at MU to work with Mark Ashbaugh. His thesis adviser was Antoine Henrot.
Specializing in functional analysis and complex analysis, Subhajit Ghosechowdhury came to MU to work with Fritz Gesztesy. He is spending a year at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He has a 1998 PhD from Purdue University. His thesis adviser was Louis de Branges.
Sanja Hukovic, PhD 1998 from Brown University, works in Fourier analysis and partial differential equations. Her PhD adviser was Jill Pipher, and her MU mentor is Steve Hofmann. She is at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Srikanth Iyengar, PhD 1998 from Purdue University, does research in commutative rings and algebras. His mentor at MU is Hema Srinivasan, and his PhD adviser was LL.. Avramov.
Jan Lang, PhD 1996 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, works in harmonic analysis and function spaces and is at MU working with Igor Verbitsky. He spent 1997—1998 on a NATO and the Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship at the School of Mathematics of the University of Wales, U.K. He has a position at the Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
Weishi Liu, PhD 1997 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, works in partial differential equations, integral equations and functional analysis. His PhD adviser was Shui-Nee Chow, and his MU mentor is Carmen Chicone. He has a tenure-track position at the University of Kansas.
Osvaldo Mendez, PhD 1997 from the University of Minnesota, is working at MU with Marius Mitrea. His adviser was Eugene Fabes.
Oliver Piltant, PhD 1994 from Ecole Polytechnique, France, researches algebraic geometry and singularities. His thesis adviser was Vincent Cossart. At MU he is working with Dale Cutkosky. He has a position at CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, France.
Mark Rudelson, PhD 1997 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works in Banach spaces and convex geometry. His adviser was Joram Lindenstrauss, and his MU mentor is Pete Casazza. In 1997 Rudelson won the Nessiyahu Prize in Israel for the best PhD of the year. He brought an NSF grant with him to MU titled: “Probabilistic Approach in the Local Theory of Banach Spaces and Convex Geometry.”
Scott Saccone, PhD 1995 Brown University, works in functional analysis and is funded by NSF. His mentor at MU is Nigel Kalton, and his PhD adviser was Brian Cole. Saccone is at St. Louis University.
Alex Tchernev, PhD 1998 from Purdue University, works in commutative rings and algebras and algebraic geometry. His adviser was L.L. Avramov, and his MU mentor is Ian Aberbach. Tchernev has accepted a tenure-track position at SUNY.