University Catalog 2024-2025

Mathematics (PhD): Interdisciplinary Mathematics Concentration

Degree Requirements

Required Courses9
See "Required Courses by Category" listed below
Additional Courses 1, 263
"Additional Courses" are approved in conjunction with the academic committee to meet 72 total hours
Total Hours72
1

At least 30 credit hours of MA coursework must be at the graded 500- and 700-level.

2

At least two courses should be from another discipline.  One of these courses may be cross-listed with MA.

Required Coursework by Category

Select one course from each of the following categories:9
Continuous Mathematics
MA 513Introduction To Complex Variables3
MA 515Analysis I3
MA 531Dynamic Systems and Multivariable Control I3
MA 532Ordinary Differential Equations I3
MA 534Introduction To Partial Differential Equations3
MA 546Probability and Stochastic Processes I3
MA 551Introduction to Topology3
MA 555Introduction to Manifold Theory3
Discrete Mathematics
MA 505Linear Programming3
MA 520Linear Algebra3
MA 521Abstract Algebra I3
MA 523Linear Transformations and Matrix Theory3
MA 524Combinatorics I3
MA 526Mathematical Analysis II3
Computational Mathematics
MA 522Computer Algebra3
MA 540Uncertainty Quantification for Physical and Biological Models3
MA 565Graph Theory3
MA 573Mathematical Modeling of Physical and Biological Processes I3
MA 580Numerical Analysis I3

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Bojko Nentchev Bakalov
  • Lorena Bociu
  • Alina Emil Chertock
  • Moody Ten-Chao Chu
  • Jo-Ann D. Cohen
  • Patrick Louis Combettes
  • Pierre Alain Gremaud
  • Mansoor Abbas Haider
  • Hoon Hong
  • Ilse Ipsen
  • Kazufumi Ito
  • Naihuan Jing
  • Erich L. Kaltofen
  • Carl Timothy Kelley
  • Irina Aleksandrovna Kogan
  • Zhilin Li
  • Alun L. Lloyd
  • Sharon R. Lubkin
  • Negash G. Medhin
  • Kailash Chandra Misra
  • Mette Olufsen
  • Tao Pang
  • Nathan P. Reading
  • Jesus Rodriguez
  • Ralph Conover Smith
  • Seth M. Sullivant
  • Hien Trong Tran
  • Semyon Victor Tsynkov
  • Dmitry Valerievich Zenkov

Associate Professors

  • Alen Alexanderian
  • Kevin Flores
  • Min Jeong Kang
  • Tye Lidman
  • Tien Khai Nguyen
  • Andrew Papanicolaou
  • David Papp
  • Arvind Krishna Saibaba
  • Radmila Sazdanovic

Assistant Professors

  • Erik Walter Bates
  • Zixuan Cang
  • Chao Chen
  • Laura Colmenarejo
  • Mohammad Mehdi Farazmand
  • Martin Helmer
  • Hangjie Ji
  • C. Jones
  • Zane Kun Li
  • Andrew Manion
  • Jacob Paul Matherne
  • P. McGrath
  • Ryan William Murray
  • Dominykas Norgilas
  • Yairon Cid Ruiz
  • Andrew Sageman-Furnas
  • T. Saksala
  • Yeonjong Shin
  • Fatma Terzioglu

Practice/Research/Teaching Professors

  • Elisabeth M. M. Brown
  • L. Castle
  • Alina Nicoleta Duca
  • Molly A. Fenn
  • Mikhail Gilman
  • Bevin Laurel Maultsby
  • S. Paul
  • Brenda B. Williams

Emeritus Faculty

  • John William Bishir
  • Richard E. Chandler
  • H. Charlton
  • Ethelbert N. Chukwu
  • Lung-ock Chung
  • Joseph C. Dunn
  • Gary Doyle Faulkner
  • John E. Franke
  • Ronald O. Fulp
  • Dennis E. Garoutte
  • Robert E. Hartwig
  • Aloysius G. Helminck
  • Robert H. Martin Jr.
  • Thomas J. Lada
  • Xiao-Biao Lin
  • Joe A. Marlin
  • Carl Meyer Jr.
  • Larry Keith Norris
  • Sandra Paur
  • Lavon Barry Page
  • E. Peterson
  • Mohan Sastri Putcha
  • N. Rose
  • Stephen Schecter
  • Jeffrey Scott Scroggs
  • James Francis Selgrade
  • Michael Shearer
  • C. Siewert
  • Robert Silber
  • Jack Silverstein
  • Michael F. Singer
  • Ernest Stitzinger
  • R. White

Adjunct Faculty

  • Scott Christopher Batson
  • Jonathan David Hauenstein
  • Patricia L. Hersh
  • John Lavery
  • Sarah Katherine Mason
  • Jordan E. Massad
  • Jessica Loock Matthews
  • J. Ottesen