Links
In this section I provide links to really great graduate students, post docs, professors, and great websites....
Dr. Maria Rosado, PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, CHAIR.
Link: https://today.rowan.edu/news/2022/01/meet-dr-maria-rosado.html
Link: https://chss.rowan.edu/departments/sociology/facultystaff/new_faculty/rosado_maria.html
Her research interests are in Bioarchaeology of Native South Americans, Paleopathology, and Forensic Anthropology Professor of anthropology in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Rosado focuses much of her research on analyzing remains at the Museo Arqueologico de La Serena in Chile. Dr. Rosado is also my mom.
Dr. Jane A. Hill teaches courses in Anthropology with an emphasis on archaeology, culture and the environment, and museum studies, including Introduction to Archaeology, Old World Archaeology, Cultural Ecology, Human Ecology, The Maya, and Museum Studies. Her research interests include co-evolution of major elite cemeteries and urbanism in early Egyptian civilization, and the origins and development of ancient Egyptian writing systems. She leads a multi-year research project with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology researching Penn’s Predynastic Egyptian collection. She serves as co-curator of the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University (MARU). Dr. Hill has edited volumes on the archaeology of the southeastern United States, Mayan archaeology and she published a monograph on her research entitled Cylinder Seal Glyptic in Predynastic Egypt and Neighboring Regions.
Link: https://chss.rowan.edu/departments/sociology/facultystaff/new_faculty/hill_jane.html
Dr. Seran Schug is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rowan University where she teaches Medical Anthropology and related courses including Global Health in Anthropological Perspective, Arts and Medicine, Anthropological Perspectives on of Physical Growth and Development, Psychological Anthropology, and Qualitative Research.
Link: https://chss.rowan.edu/departments/sociology/facultystaff/new_faculty/shug_seran.html
Dr. Benjamin Seibold, professor of mathematics Dr. Benjamin Seibold juggles studying mathematics, traveling the world, teaching differential equations, creating sculptures and playing ultimate Frisbee. Benjamin Seibold works in Applied and Computational Mathematics, with a specific focus on high-order methods for fluid flows and interface evolution, radiative transfer and kinetic problems, and traffic flow modeling, simulation, and control.
Link: https://math.temple.edu/~seibold/
Dr. Seibold was on my doctoral committee and was my professor for several courses at Temple University.
Maria Lorenz is a Professor of Instruction in Mathematics. She has been a full-time faculty member in the Mathematics Department since 2001. Lorenz has earned several awards for teaching, mentoring, and service, including the Lindback Distinguished Teacher Award, Temple University Outstanding Faculty Service Award, the College of Science and Technology Award for Student Mentoring, and the Steven Petchon Award for Distinguished Teaching. Currently, she is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Mathematics Department. Within the Mathematics Department, Lorenz has served as an academic advisor to undergraduate students, faculty advisor for the undergraduate Math Club for the Association for Women in Mathematics Student Chapter.
Cristian Gutierrez's research interests are in the areas of partial differential equations and harmonic analysis. He has worked on weighted norm inequalities, singular integrals, Hardy spaces, Gaussian harmonic analysis, parabolic equations, subelliptic equations, and nonlinear elliptic equations. His current research interests include geometric optics and nonlinear PDEs of Monge-Ampere type.
Gillian Queisser and his research group use and develop numerical methods for large-scale computing to analyze continuum-based models of three-dimensional neuronal processes on intricate morphologies. Gillian Queisser completed his PhD in 2008 at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, where he was also a research associate at the Simulation in Technology Research Group. From 2008 to 2010, he also was the independent research group leader of that university's Computational Neuroscience Research Group at the Cluster of Excellence CellNetworks. From then until he joined Temple this past summer, he was a W-1 professor in the Goethe University of Frankfurt's Department of Computer Science and Mathematics.
Dr. Queisser was my professor for several graduate courses and was my advisor for my doctoral dissertation.
Dr. Daniel B. Szyld, Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Technology, Temple University
Link: https://www.math.temple.edu/~szyld/
Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has made contributions to numerical and applied linear algebra as well as matrix theory. In 2020, he was elected president of the International Linear Algebra Society. Daniel Szyld is Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. He received his PhD at the Courant Institute, New York University, where he attended after undergraduate studies in his native Buenos Aires. He has worked on many aspects of numerical linear algebra and matrix computations, including eigenvalue problems, sparse matrix techniques, preconditioning, Schwarz methods and domain decomposition, and Krylov subspace methods. His interests also include asynchronous parallel methods for the solution of linear and non-linear problems on high-performance computers.
Dr. Szyld was on my doctoral committee and was my numerical analysis professor at Temple University.
Dr. Andreas Vlachos is the Head Of Department, Neuroanatomy bei Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, and has research interests in
Role of associative and homeostatic structure-function relations in central nervous system under physiological and pathological conditions
Microglia and cytokine-mediated synaptic plasticity
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of non-invasive brain stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and its impact on internal world models
Restorative and Regenerative Neuromodulation
Link: https://neuroanatomie.uni-freiburg.de/team/andreas-vlachos/
Prof. Alexander Opitz's lab works on improving non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) technologies based on electromagnetic fields. Computational models to estimate the electric field distribution during transcranial magnetic (TMS), transcranial electric (TES) stimulation are integrated with neuronavigation systems to improve targeting approaches of specific brain circuits. This is combined with studies of the biophysical and physiological foundations of NIBS with the hope that a better understanding can be translated into improved stimulation protocols for clinical applications.
Sina Shirinpour is a research scientist in the Opitz Lab. He is currently collaborating with the Interventional Psychiatry Lab since June 2022. His research interest is in developing innovative methods for non-invasive brain stimulation. Sina is developing a software solution that uses computational modeling to accurately predict the spatial distribution of the currents in the head in response to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This software will allow clinicians to optimize electrode placement and stimulation parameters to improve ECT treatment outcomes.
Dr. Nguyen was my Masters Thesis advisor and has taught me courses at Rowan University
Link: https://csm.rowan.edu/departments/math/facultystaff/math_full_part/nguyen_h.html
My research interests lie broadly in experimental mathematics with a current focus on coding theory and frames. My work on coding theory consists of two projects. The first is to construct good error-correcting codes capable of correcting insertion, deletion, and substitution errors and apply them to the design of barcodes for DNA multiplex sequencing and data storage. The second is the develop codes for two-party interactive communication that are resistant to the same types of errors. My work on frames seeks to construct efficient algorithms to partition frames with low coherence, called tight equiangular frames (ETFs), into sets with uniform small spectral norms, and to develop applications in communications and signal processing that utilize such partitions. Current work focuses on two special types of frames: Steiner and maximal ETFs.
Dr. Thomas Osler. Born in 1940 in Camden, New Jersey Osler was a graduate of Camden High School in 1957 and then studied physics at Drexel University, graduating in 1962. He completed his PhD at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, in 1970. His dissertation, Leibniz Rule, the Chain Rule, and Taylor's Theorem for Fractional Derivatives, was supervised by Samuel Karp.
Osler taught at Saint Joseph's University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before joining the mathematics department at Rowan University in New Jersey in 1972; he was a full professor at Rowan University until his death.
Dr. Marcus Wright. My research interests are in the study of the function theory and analytic invariants of complex manifolds using intrinsic metrics and infinitesimal metrics, such as the Kobayashi metric, and Riemannian curvature, and how these characteristics of a manifold vary with deformation of complex structure.
I also am interested in the dynamics of iteration of rational functions, especially those related to numerical root finding methods, and the effects of deformation on such dynamical systems.
Link: https://csm.rowan.edu/departments/math/facultystaff/math_full_part/wright.html
Dr. Kaplan, was a fellow graduate student and we started at Temple University together. Dr. Kaplan's research interests are in hyperbolic geometry and low-dimensional topology. More specifically, knot theory and hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Link: https://sites.google.com/view/rosekaplan-kelly/research
Postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab.
Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lz_EAEYAAAAJ&hl=en
Andrew Higgins is a sixth year mathematics PhD student at Temple University working under the supervision of Professor Daniel B. Szyld in the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing Group. His research interests are broadly in numerical linear algebra and high performance scientific computing. We had several numerical PDEs courses together and work alot on homework.
Professor Megonigal is an Assistant Professor of Data Science at Eastern University, teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research focuses on mathematical biology, specifically modeling antibiotic transportation through heterogeneous biofilm environments.
Stephan Grein has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the LIMES institute since June 2021 focusing on metaflammation. Previous studies include Bioinformatics and obtaining a master's and bachelor's degree by Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Lately he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics by Temple University, Philadelphia, PA in December 2020 working on the detailed modelling and simulation of intracellular ion-dynamics in neurons linked to synaptic plasticity and learning processes by developing novel hybrid-dimensional and multi-scale models as well as novel hierarchical mesh generation techniques for neurons applicable to multigrid methods for the efficient numerical simulation of the developed models on high-performance computing infrastructure.
Professor Khanh Le (he/him/his) is a Lovett Instructor at Rice University receive PhD in Mathematics under the advisement of Matthew Stover at Temple University. Research interest lies in hyperbolic geometry and low-dimensional topology. Specifically, interested in the character varieties, totally geodesic surfaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, and left orderability.
Lei Cao is a professor in the Mathematics department at Nova Southeastern University
Research Interests: Combinatorial matrix theory, linear and multilinear algebra, and Graph Theory
David Futer studies low-dimensional topology and geometry. A central goal of his research is to relate several distict themes in low-dimensional topology: combinatorial descriptions of 3-manifolds, their (typically hyperbolic) geometry, the coarse geometry of fundamental groups, and quantum invariants of knots and links. These distinct points of view turn out to be inter-related in surprising ways.
Professor Berhanu's research involved, among other areas, investigation of the properties of solutions of systems of first order partial differential equations with complex-valued coefficients.
John Allen Paulos is an extensively kudized author, popular public speaker, and former monthly columnist for ABCNews.com, the Scientific American, and the Guardian. Professor of math at Temple University in Philadelphia, he earned his Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Wisconsin. His recent book (November, 2015) is A Numerate Life - A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours. Other writings of his include Innumeracy (NY Times bestseller for 18 weeks), A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (on the Random House Modern Library's compilation of the 100 best nonfiction books of the century), Once Upon a Number (chosen as one of the best books of 1998), and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market (a brief tenant on the BusinessWeek bestsellers list). He's also written scholarly papers on probability, logic, and the philosophy of science as well as scores of OpEds, book reviews, and articles in publications such as the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Nation, Discover, the American Scholar, and the London Review of Books and has an extensive web and media presence. In 2003 he received the American Association for the Advancement of Science award for promoting public understanding of science, and in 2013 the Mathematics Communication Award from the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics.
My research interests lie broadly within applied mathematics, with emphasis on the numerical solution for time dependent PDEs or ODEs, numerical analysis, and large-scale scientific computing.
Link: https://rujekoc.github.io/
Assistant Professor at USM,
Specifically, I think about the interplay between combinatorial and dynamical behavior of group actions such as uniform exponential growth with the algebraic properties like presence of free subgroups and residual finiteness. I mostly work with groups with one of several notions of nonpositive curvature including: Gromov hyperbolicity CAT(0), relative hyperbolicity, acylindrical hyperbolicity, hierarchical hyperbolicity.
Link: https://sites.google.com/site/thomasng192/
Actuary at Swiss Re (Zurich)
A recent Ph.D. graduate of Temple University, Timothy Morris studied hyperbolic knot theory under the advisement of Dr. Matthew Stover. He also taught calculus and pre-calculus from 2014 to 2018. His appointment as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics is Morris’s first post-doctoral position.