The department has acquired three new researchers with outstanding backgrounds.
Michael J. Larsen joins the faculty as a tenured associate professor. He will leave the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1990. Larsen works in algebra, 1-adic Galois representations. He earned a PhD from Princeton University in 1988 under Gerd Faltings.
He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow from 1988 to 1992, received an NSA Junior Investigator Award for 1992 to 1994 and has been a Sloan Fellow since 1994. Larsen spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton. He has been a consultant for Bell Laboratories, and a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institut Fur Mathematic, Toulouse III (Institut Paul Sabatier), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ayelet Lindenstrauss, from the University of Pennsylvania, will bring to the department a general interest in K-Theory and her research in Topological Hochschild Homology and Relations with Algebraic K-Theot-y. She received her PhD in 1992 from Princeton University under the direction of Wu-Chung Hsiang.
Lindenstrauss has held a Wolf Foundation Scholarship and an AAUW International Fellowship. She was a fellow in 1994 at the Mittag Leffler Institut and a postdoctoral fellow from 1994 to 1996 at the Technion, Israel.
Konstantin Makarov, a former associate professor (docent) at St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) University, Russia, will join the department in research on stochastic processes and mathematical physics with an emphasis on spectral and scattering theory. He earned his PhD at St Petersburg University in 1985.
Makarov was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bochum, Germany, in 1993 and a visiting professor at the Max-Planck Group, Differential Equations and Complex Analysis, in Potsdam, Germany, in 1994 and 1995. Since 1996, he has been in the mathematics department at the University of Bochum.