Mathematics Faculty Research Interests
Our research areas are loosely arranged around the field of combinatorics.
James Currie has a background in logic and theoretical computer science. His recent work focuses on combinatorics on words. Research Profile
Vaclav Linek works in design
theory, graph theory and a little bit of combinatorics on words. Recently he has
become interested in graph eigenvalue problems.
In his spare time he likes to contemplate magic and antimagic squares.
Ortrud
Oellermann works mainly in graph theory. Recent research interests have been
on the average Steiner distance of a graph as well as generalizations of
Menger's
theorem to three or more vertices. Research
Profile
Dr. Oellermann
was the
recipient of the 2003 Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research.
Anna Stokke studies
combinatorial representation theory. She works with Young tableaux to study
representations of groups such as the symplectic, orthogonal,
and general linear
groups. She is also interested in representations of quantum groups.
Research Profile
Ross Stokke's research is
in the areas of abstract harmonic analysis and functional analysis. More
specifically, he studies locally compact groups, their unitary
representations,
and a variety of associated Banach algebras.
Research Profile
Terry
Visentin works in the area of combinatorial enumeration. In recent years, he
has been interested in the application of the character theory of the
symmetric group
to problems in map enumeration. Currie and Visentin have recently collaborated
on some work in the theory of posets.
Statistics Faculty Research Interests
Research interests include Bayesian statistical inference, bootstrapping,
multivariate methods, time series, queueing theory and networks, and
stochastic processes.
The applications under consideration range
from biological, life, social and human sciences to manufacturing,
telecommunications and computer management.
Melody Ghahramani is interested in time series analysis with applications in finance and medicine. Research Profile
Hatem A. Howlader is interested mainly in Bayesian inference including reliability and lifetesting. He is also interested in applications of statistical methods to biology.
Jeff Babb - Research Highlight
