Department of Mathematics

Chair: Eyal Lubetzky

Mission Statement

The undergraduate division of the Department of Mathematics offers a wide variety of courses in pure and applied mathematics taught by a distinguished faculty with a tradition of excellence in teaching and research. Most of the faculty is associated with the University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, noted for its advanced training and research programs.

The Department

The department offers BS and MS degrees in Mathematics, as well as a BS degree with a dual major in Mathematics and Physics . Both degrees provide a student with a solid basis for future studies in mathematics or careers that require mathematical skills.

Degrees Offered by the Mathematics Program

Bachelor of Science

Mathematics, B.S.
Physics and Mathematics, B.S. (with the Department of Applied Physics )

Master of Science

Contact

Department of Mathematics
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
2 MetroTech Center, 865
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: (646) 997-3850
Web: math.nyu.edu/tandon

Department Heads

DIRECTOR, COURANT INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Professor Russel Caflisch

CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT

Professor Eyal Lubetzky

DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

Professor Robert Young

VICE-CHAIR FOR UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS AT CAS

Professor Matthew Leingang

VICE-CHAIR FOR UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS AT TANDON

Professor Joseph Esposito

Faculty

Armstrong, Scott	Professor of Mathematics Partial differential equations, probability theory, and stochastic homogenization
Bakhtin, Yuri	Professor of Mathematics Random dynamics, probabilistic models of mathematical physics
Ben Arous, Gérard	Silver Professor of Mathematics Probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations
Berger, Marsha	Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics Computational fluid dynamics, adaptive methods for partial differential equations, parallel computing
Bogomolov, Fedor	Silver Professor of Mathematics Algebraic geometry and related problems in algebra, topology, number theory
Bourgade, Paul	Professor of Mathematics Probability, random matrices, statistical physics and stochastic processes
Bühler, Oliver	Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science Geophysical fluid dynamics, interactions between waves and vortices, acoustics, statistical mechanics
Caflisch, Russel	Professor of Mathematics; Director, Courant Institute Applied math, PDEs, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, materials science, Monte Carlo methods, computational finance
Cappell, Sylvain E.	Silver Professor of Mathematics Algebraic and geometric topology, symplectic and algebraic geometry
Cerfon, Antoine	Associate Professor of Mathematics Magnetohydrodynamics in fusion and astrophysical plasmas, nonneutral plasmas, kinetic theory in plasmas and rarefied gases
Cheeger, Jeff	Silver Professor of Mathematics Differential geometry and its connections to analysis and topology
Chen, Yu	Associate Professor of Mathematics Numerical scattering theory, ill-posed problems, scientific computing
Deift, Percy A.	Silver Professor of Mathematics Spectral theory and inverse spectral theory, integrable systems, Riemann-Hilbert problems
De Philippis, Guido	Professor of Mathematics
Donev, Aleksandar	Professor of Mathematics Multi-scale (hybrid) methods; fluctuating hydrodynamics; coarse-grained particle methods; jamming and packing
Fernandez-Granda, Carlos	Associate Professor of Mathematics
Galichon, Alfred	Professor of Economics and Mathematics Optimal transport, mathematical finance, economic equilibrium
Gerber, Edwin	Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science Atmospheric dynamics, climate variability, stochastic modeling
Germain, Pierre	Professor of Mathematics Nonlinear partial differential equations, harmonic analysis
Giannakis, Dimitris	Associate Professor of Mathematics Atmosphere ocean science, geometric data analysis, uncertainty quantification
Goodman, Jonathan B.	Professor of Mathematics Fluid dynamics, computational physics, computational finance
Greengard, Leslie	Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Applied and computational math, partial differential equations, computational chemistry, mathematical biology
Gromov, Mikhael	Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics Riemannian manifolds, symplectic manifolds, infinite groups, math models of biomolecular systems
Gunturk, C. Sinan	Professor of Mathematics Harmonic analysis, information theory, signal processing
Hang, Fengbo	Associate Professor of Mathematics Geometric analysis
Holland, David	Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science Ocean-ice studies, climate theory and modeling
Holmes-Cerfon, Miranda	Associate Professor of Mathematics Materials science, statistical mechanics, stochastic methods, computational geometry
Kleeman, Richard	Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science Climate dynamics, El Nino, predictability of weather and climate dynamical systems
Kleiner, Bruce	Silver Professor of Mathematics Geometric analysis, geometric group theory and geometric evolution equations
Kohn, Robert V.	Silver Professor of Mathematics Nonlinear partial differential equations, materials science, mathematical finance
Li, Chao	Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Lin, Fang-Hua	Silver Professor of Mathematics Partial differential equations, geometric measure theory
Lubetzky, Eyal	Professor of Mathematics Probability theory and combinatorics
Masmoudi, Nader	Professor of Mathematics Nonlinear parallel differential equations
McLaughlin, David W.	Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science Applied mathematics, nonlinear wave equations, visual neural science
Miller, Edward	Professor of Mathematics Differential topology
Mishra, Bhubaneswar	Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Cell Biology Robotics, genomics, finance, mathematical and theoretical computer science
Mogilner, Alex	Professor of Mathematics and Biology Computational Biology, Cell Biophysics and Mathematical Biology
Newman, Charles M.	Silver Professor of Mathematics Probability theory, statistical physics, stochastic models
Niles-Weed, Jonathan	Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science Statistics, probability, mathematics of data science
O’Neil, Mike	Associate Professor of Mathematics Electromagnetics, acoustics, fluid dynamics, fast algorithms, integral equations and computational statistics
Overton, Michael	Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics Numerical linear algebra, optimization, linear and semi-definite programming
Pauluis, Olivier	Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science Climate and the general circulation of the atmosphere, moist convection, tropical meteorology, numerical modeling
Peskin, Charles S.	Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science Applications of mathematics and computing to problems in medicine and biology, cardiac fluid dynamics, molecular machinery within biological cells, mathematical/computational neuroscience
Pirutka, Alena	Associate Professor of Mathematics Arithmetic and algebraic geometry, number theory
Rangan, Aaditya	Associate Professor of Mathematics Computational biology, numerical analysis
Rinzel, John	Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics Computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics of neurons and neural circuits, sensory processing
Ristroph, Leif	Associate Professor of Mathematics Fluid dynamics, non-linear dynamics, experimental physics, biophysics, and geophysics
Serfaty, Sylvia	Silver Professor of Mathematics Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Ginzburg-Landau equations, and variational problems from material science
Shatah, Jalal M. I.	Silver Professor of Mathematics Partial differential equations, analysis
Shelley, Michael J.	Professor of Mathematics, Neural Science, and Mechanical Engineering, and the Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics Applied math and modeling, visual neuroscience, fluid dynamics, computational physics and neuroscience
Smith, K. Shafer	Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science Geophysical fluid dynamics, physical oceanography and climate
Spencer, Joel H.	Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science Theoretical computer science; discrete mathematics.
Sreenivasan, Katepalli R.	Professor of Physics and Mathematics; Executive Vice Provost for Engineering and Applied Sciences, NYU Turbulence, complex fluids, cryogenic helium and nonlinear dynamics
Stadler, Georg	Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science Parallel scientific computing, inverse problems, PDE-constrained optimization, variational inequalities, computational earth sciences
Stein, Daniel	Professor of Mathematics and Physics Theoretical condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, and mathematical physics
Tabak, Esteban G.	Professor of Mathematics Dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, energy transfer in systems with many degrees of freedom
Tosatti, Valentino	Professor of Mathematics Complex and differential geometry, geometric analysis and their connections to algebraic geometry and dynamical systems
Tschinkel, Yuri	Professor of Mathematics Algebraic geometry, number theory, automorphic forms
Vanden-Eijnden, Eric	Professor of Mathematics Stochastic partial differential equations, statistical mechanics, turbulence theory
Varadhan, S. R. Srinivasa	Professor of Mathematics and the Frank Jay Gould Professor of Science Probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations
Vicol, Vlad	Professor of Mathematics Partial differential equations, fluid dynamics
Weare, Jonathan	Associate Professor of Mathematics Applied probability, numerical analysis
Wright, Margaret H.	Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics Optimization; scientific computing; linear algebra
Yang, Deane	Professor of Mathematics Convex geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, Partial differential equations
Yang, Yisong	Professor of Mathematics Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics
Young, Lai-Sang	Silver Professor of Mathematics and the Henry & Lucy Moses Professor of Science Dynamical systems and ergodic theory
Young, Robert	Professor of Mathematics Geometric group theory, metric geometry, and quantitative geometry
Zanna, Laure	Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science
Zeitouni, Ofer	Global Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Zhang, Gaoyong	Professor of Mathematics Convex geometry, Geometric analysis
Zhang, Jun	Professor of Physics and Mathematics Fluid dynamics, biophysics, complex systems
Zorin, Denis	Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics Computer graphics; geometric modeling; subdivision surfaces; multiresolution surface representations; fluid and solid simulation; perceptually based methods for computer graphics

Contract Faculty

Bhat, Vindya	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics Graph theory and extremal combinatorics with a focus on Ramsey theory
Cereste, Ken	Lecturer of Mathematics
Chikhany, Ralph	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Clarkson, Corrin	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Diaz-Alban, Jose	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Esposito, Joseph	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Gbedemah, Amakoe	Lecturer of Mathematics
Kalaycioglu, Selin	Clinical Associate Professor of Mathematics Computational group theory, representation theory of finite groups, mathematics education
Kolm, Petter N.	Clinical Professor of Mathematics Data science, econometrics, financial mathematics, machine learning, market making, optimization, portfolio optimization, quantitative & systematic trading, risk management, robo advisory & investing, smart beta strategies, stochastic optimal control, transaction costs, and tax-aware investing.
Leingang, Matthew	Clinical Professor of Mathematics Mathematics Education, Web Pedagogies, Differential Geometry
Liu, Shizhu	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics Convex Geometry, Information Theory, Analytic Inequalities, Probability
Majmudar, Trushant	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics Bio-fluid Dynamics, bio-locomotion, soft condensed matter
Oveys, Hesam	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics Stochastic processes, branching processes, mathematical biology, mathematical finance, and partial differential equations
Patel, Jigarkumar	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Qian, Jinghua	Senior Lecturer, Courant Tandon Probability and stochastic processes, statistics, analysis
Shum, Fan Ny	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics Stochastic differential equations, partial differential equations, geometric control theory, and Lie theory
Sia, Jia Min Charmaine	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Sondjaja, Mutiara	Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics Optimization; interior-point methods; operations research
Stepp, Elizabeth	Clinical Associate Professor of Mathematics
Van Wagenen, Lindsey	Senior Lecturer, Courant Tandon; Director of Sophomore Mathematics for Tandon Dynamical systems, stochastic processes, nonlinear optics
Zhao, Fang	Lecturer, Courant Tandon