Recent faculty additions to the department in tenure-track positions are, from left, Carlo Morpurgo, Alex Iosevich, Allanus Tsoi,William Banks, Asma Harcharras and Mark Rudelson.
The department hired seven new faculty members in the past two years, replacing retiring professors and adding faculty positions with additional University funding marked for enhancement in the department.
Asma Harcharras joined the department as a postdoc in fall 1999 and became an assistant professor in fall 2000. A native of Morocco, Haracharras received her PhD in functional analysis from the University of Paris VI under the direction of Professor Gilles Pisier. Harcharras also works in mathematical education and is co-primary investigator on the new $1.2 million NSF grant for support of standards-based middle grades mathematics curricula. She was hired in an enhancement position obtained through a joint proposal with the College of Education.
Alex Iosevich began as assistant professor in fall 2000. Iosevich graduated from the University of Chicago in 1989 and received his PhD from UCLA in 1993 under the direction of Chris Sogge. Iosevich, who specializes in harmonic analysis, did postdoctoral work at McMaster University and came to MU from Georgetown University, where he had been since 1998. Iosevich has had continuous NSF support since 1997. He enjoys flying, judo and has recently taken up rock climbing.
Carlo Morpurgo joined the department as an assistant professor in fall 2000. A native of Italy, Morpurgo received his PhD from Washington University in 1993. After holding a postdoc position at the University of Texas at Austin, he returned to Italy and held a position at the University of Milan. Morpurgo, who received a PhD under the direction of Albert Baernstein, specializes in the spectral theory of partial differential operators. His wife, Carol, gave birth to their first child, Luca, on Feb. 9.
Mark Rudelson carne to MU as a postdoctoral fellow in fall 1998 after postdoctoral positions at MSRI and Texas A&M. He became an assistant professor in fall 2000. A native of Russia, Rudelson emigrated to Israel in 1990 and received a PhD at Hebrew University under the direction of Joram Lindenstrauss. His thesis, "Problems in the Local Theory of Banach spaces," received the 1997 Nissiyahu Prize for the best PhD in Israel. Rudelson specializes in convex geometry and probability, and has had continuous NSF support since arriving in the United States in 1997.
Allanus Tsoi joined the faculty in winter 2001. Tsoi, an expert in the field of financial mathematics, was hired on a line created by enhancement in the direction of applied mathematics and economics. A native of Hong Kong, Tsoi received his PhD in 1990 from the University of Alberta under the direction of Robert J. Elliot. Previously, he was an assistant professor of mathematics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Srikanth Iyengar will rejoin the faculty as an assistant professor in fall 2001. He originally came to MU as a postdoc in fall 1998 after receiving his PhD from Purdue University under the direction of Luchezar Avramov. Their paper on the finite generation of Hoschild homology recently appeared in Inventiones Mathematicae. Iyengar says he is looking forward to his return to Columbia after spending two years at the University of Sheffield in England.
