Personnel:
Program Director: Prof. Sean Sather-Wagstaff
Email:
ssather at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Sean joined Clemson University in 2015, coming from Fargo, ND. He earned his
AB degree from UC Berkeley and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Utah. His research is in
combinatorial and homological commutative algebra. He has supervised 14 undergraduate research projects,
three of which resulted in peer reviewed research publications.
Faculty:
Analysis Professor: Prof. Shitao Liu
Email:
liul at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Shitao has been at Clemson University since 2013. He earned his BS degree from
Nankai University in Tianjin, China, in 2006 and his PhD degree from the University of Virginia in
2011. Before joining Clemson, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Inverse Problems Research Group
at the University of Helsinki in Finland from 2011 to 2013. His research is in control theory and
inverse problems for partial differential equations.
Applied Algebraic Geometry Professor: Prof. Michael Burr
Email:
burr2 at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: coming soon
Applied Graph Theory Professor: Prof. Neil Calkin
Email:
calkin at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Neil Calkin has a wide range of mathematical interests, especially
in probabilistic methods applied to other areas. From 2002 to 2013
he was involved with running Clemson's Math REU.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University,
and earned his PhD at the University of Waterloo. He has
taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the Georgia Institute
of Technology, and has been on faculty at Clemson since 1997.
Applied Statistics Professor: Prof. Billy Bridges
Email:
wbrdgs at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Dr. Bridges came to Clemson University in 1984 after completing his PhD at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. His primary professional interests involve the development and analysis of statistical models for survey and experimental research data. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in statistical methods, regression analysis, statistical research design, and data analysis.
Applied Statistics Professor: Prof. Jun Luo
Email:
jluo at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: coming soon
Applied Statistics Professor: Prof. Whitney Huang
Email:
wkhuang at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Whitney joined Clemson University in 2019. He received his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Purdue University in 2017. Prior to Clemson he was a Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI)/ Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) postdoc where he spent a year in the Research Triangle, NC and another year in Victoria, BC Canada. His research is in statistics of extremes, spatio-temporal statistics, and Uncertainty Quantification. He was one of the group leaders of the SAMSI 2018 Undergraduate Modeling Workshop.
Combinatorics Professor: Prof. Svetlana Poznanović
Email:
spoznan at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: coming soon
Commutative Algebra Professor:
Prof. Courtney R. Gibbons, Hamilton College
Email:
crgibbon at hamilton.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Gibbons is an associate professor of mathematics at Hamilton College who works on
problems in commutative and homological algebra, many of which come from Boij-Soederberg theory.
She received her BA in mathematics from Colorado College in 2006 and her MS and PhD in mathematics
from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2009 and 2013 respectively.
Computation Professor: Prof. Qingshan Chen
Email:
qsc at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Qingshan Chen is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Clemson University. He obtained a Ph.D.
in applied mathematics from Indiana University in 2009, under the supervision of Professor Roger Temam. He spent
two years at FSU, working with Professor Max Gunzburger on regional climate modeling. Afterwards, he spent two years
at the Los Alamos National Lab, working with Dr. Todd Ringler and the COSIM group on ocean and climate modeling. In 2013,
he joined the computational math group at Clemson University.
Industrial Engineering Professor: Prof. Mary E. Kurz
Email:
mkurz at clemson.edu
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Office hours: by appointment
Bio: Mary Beth works on applied operations research topics, working often with manufacturers like BMW, Samsung and Milliken. Her interests are in the application and implementation of systems that support decision-makers in tactical systems (like day-to-day operations, as opposed to long-term decision making).
Operations Research Professor: Prof. Matt Saltzman
Email:
mjs at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Matt Saltzman's interests cover operations research and computer
science, with particular focus on computational optimization and large-
scale computing. His degrees are from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon. He
is founding president of the COIN-OR (COmputational INfrastructure for
Operations Research) Foundation, developers and publishers of open-
source software for operations research.
Graduate Students:
Graduate Project Leader: Michael Cowen
Email:
mcowen at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Michael joined Clemson as a PhD student in 2016. He earned his BS from North Carolina State University
and his MS from University of North Carolina - Wilmington. His research is in
combinatorial commutative algebra and its interactions with electrical engineering.
Graduate Project Leader: James Gossell
Email:
jgossel at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: James transferred into Clemson's PhD program in 2017 from the University of Utah. He earned his BS and MS in Mathematics from the University of Central Missouri in 2013. His research interests include abstract algebra and graph theory.
Graduate Assistant: Amy Burton
Email:
aburto2 at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Amy started graduate studies at Clemson in 2017. Since then she has completed her MS degree and is continuing on with her PhD. She earned her BA from Erskine College in Mathematics and Business Administration. Her research is in operations research.
Graduate Assistant: Molly Honecker
Email:
mhoneck at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: Molly came to Clemson in 2017 for the PhD program from Florida Gulf Coast University down in Ft. Myers, Florida. She graduated from FGCU with a BS in mathematics and her research interests included statistics and algebra.
Graduate Assistant: Blake Splitter
Email:
bsplitt at clemson.edu
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Office hours: TBA
Bio: coming soon
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