NYU Courant Department of Mathematics

Tenure / Tenure-Track

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Scott Armstrong

Scott Armstrong

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 616
Ext: 8-3148
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, probability theory, and stochastic homogenization
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Yuri Bakhtin

Yuri Bakhtin

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 729
Ext: 8-3106
Research Interests: Random dynamics, probabilistic models of mathematical physics
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Gérard Ben Arous

Gérard Ben Arous

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 812
Ext: 8-3108
Research Interests: Probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations
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Fedor Bogomolov

Fedor Bogomolov

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 602
Ext: 8-3243
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry and related problems in algebra, topology, number theory
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Paul Bourgade

Paul Bourgade

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 629
Ext: 8-3090
Research Interests: Probability, random matrices, statistical physics and stochastic processes
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Tristan Buckmaster

Tristan Buckmaster

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 713
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Oliver Bühler

Oliver Bühler

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science
Office: WWH 1129
Ext: 8-3265
Research Interests: Geophysical fluid dynamics, interactions between waves and vortices, acoustics, statistical mechanics
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Russel Caflisch

Russel Caflisch

Professor of Mathematics; Director, Courant Institute
Office: WWH 1303
Ext: 8-3184
Research Interests: Applied math, PDEs, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, materials science, Monte Carlo methods, computational finance
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Sylvain E. Cappell

Sylvain E. Cappell

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1112
Ext: 8-3281
Research Interests: Algebraic and geometric topology, symplectic and algebraic geometry
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Jeff Cheeger

Jeff Cheeger

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 802
Ext: 8-3282
Research Interests: Differential geometry and its connections to analysis and topology
Yu Chen

Yu Chen

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1126
Ext: 8-3285
Research Interests: Numerical scattering theory, ill-posed problems, scientific computing
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Percy A. Deift

Percy A. Deift

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1028
Ext: 8-3288
Research Interests: Spectral theory and inverse spectral theory, integrable systems, Riemann-Hilbert problems
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Guido De Philippis

Guido De Philippis

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 613
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Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science
Office: WWH 1123
Ext: 8-3289
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Alfred Galichon

Alfred Galichon

Professor of Economics and Mathematics
Research Interests: Optimal transport, mathematical finance, economic equilibrium
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Edwin Gerber

Edwin Gerber

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science
Office: WWH 911
Ext: 8-3269
Research Interests: Atmospheric dynamics, climate variability, stochastic modeling
Jonathan B. Goodman

Jonathan B. Goodman

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 529
Ext: 8-3326
Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, computational physics, computational finance
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Leslie Greengard

Leslie Greengard

Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Office: WWH 1117
Ext: 8-3306
Research Interests: Applied and computational math, partial differential equations, computational chemistry, mathematical biology
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Mikhael Gromov

Mikhael Gromov

Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1130
Ext: 8-3205
Research Interests: Riemannian manifolds, symplectic manifolds, infinite groups, math models of biomolecular systems
C. Sinan Gunturk

C. Sinan Gunturk

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 829
Ext: 8-3246
Research Interests: Harmonic analysis, information theory, signal processing
Fengbo Hang

Fengbo Hang

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 630
Ext: 8-3221
Research Interests: Geometric analysis
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David Holland

David Holland

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science
Office: WWH 912
Ext: 8-3245
Research Interests: Ocean-ice studies, climate theory and modeling
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Bruce Kleiner

Bruce Kleiner

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 817
Ext: 8-3214
Research Interests: Geometric analysis, geometric group theory and geometric evolution equations
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Chao Li

Chao Li

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 503
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Fang-Hua Lin

Fang-Hua Lin

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 717
Ext: 8-3137
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, geometric measure theory
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Eyal Lubetzky

Eyal Lubetzky

Professor of Mathematics; Chair, Mathematics Department
Office: WWH 1012
Ext: 8-3381
Research Interests: Probability theory, statistical physics and stochastic processes
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Nader Masmoudi

Nader Masmoudi

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 501
Ext: 8-3211
Research Interests: Nonlinear parallel differential equations
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David W. McLaughlin

David W. McLaughlin

Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science
Office: WWH 1113
Ext: 8-3077
Research Interests: Applied mathematics, nonlinear wave equations, visual neural science
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Alex Mogilner

Alex Mogilner

Professor of Mathematics and Biology
Office: WWH 903
Ext: 2-7546
Research Interests: Computational Biology, Cell Biophysics and Mathematical Biology
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Jonathan Niles-Weed

Jonathan Niles-Weed

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science
Office: WWH 1123
Ext: 8-3475
Research Interests: Statistics, probability, mathematics of data science
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Mike O'Neil

Mike O'Neil

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1119
Ext: 8-3125
Research Interests: Electromagnetics, acoustics, fluid dynamics, fast algorithms, integral equations and computational statistics
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Olivier Pauluis

Olivier Pauluis

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science
Office: WWH 913
Ext: 8-3170
Research Interests: Climate and the general circulation of the atmosphere, moist convection, tropical meteorology, numerical modeling
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Charles S. Peskin

Charles S. Peskin

Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science
Office: WWH 917
Ext: 8-3126
Research Interests: Applications of mathematics and computing to problems in medicine and biology, cardiac fluid dynamics, molecular machinery within biological cells, mathematical/computational neuroscience
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Alena Pirutka

Alena Pirutka

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 611
Ext: 2-7537
Research Interests: Arithmetic and algebraic geometry, number theory
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Aaditya Rangan

Aaditya Rangan

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1101
Ext: 8-3303
Research Interests: Computational biology, numerical analysis
Leif Ristroph

Leif Ristroph

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1127
Ext: 8-3317
Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, non-linear dynamics, experimental physics, biophysics, and geophysics
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Sylvia Serfaty

Sylvia Serfaty

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 612
Ext: 8-3213
Research Interests: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Ginzburg-Landau equations, and variational problems from material science
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Jalal M. I. Shatah

Jalal M. I. Shatah

Silver Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 712
Ext: 8-3328
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, analysis
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Michael J. Shelley

Michael J. Shelley

Professor of Mathematics, Neural Science, and Mechanical Engineering, and the Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics
Office: WWH 1102
Ext: 8-3284
Research Interests: Applied math and modeling, visual neuroscience, fluid dynamics, computational physics and neuroscience
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K. Shafer Smith

K. Shafer Smith

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science
Office: WWH 916
Ext: 8-3176
Research Interests: Geophysical fluid dynamics, physical oceanography and climate
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Georg Stadler

Georg Stadler

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Office: WWH 1111
Ext: 8-3111
Research Interests: Parallel scientific computing, inverse problems, PDE-constrained optimization, variational inequalities, computational earth sciences
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Daniel Stein

Daniel Stein

Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Office: WWH 811
Ext: 8-3178
Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, and mathematical physics
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Esteban G. Tabak

Esteban G. Tabak

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1017
Ext: 8-3088
Research Interests: Dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, energy transfer in systems with many degrees of freedom
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Valentino Tosatti

Valentino Tosatti

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1001
Research Interests: Complex and differential geometry, geometric analysis and PDEs, and their connections to algebraic geometry and dynamical systems
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Yuri Tschinkel

Yuri Tschinkel

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 617
Ext: 8-3145
Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, number theory, automorphic forms
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Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1002
Ext: 8-3154
Research Interests: Stochastic partial differential equations, statistical mechanics, turbulence theory
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S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

Professor of Mathematics and the Frank Jay Gould Professor of Science
Office: WWH 1313
Ext: 8-3334
Research Interests: Probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations
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Vlad Vicol

Vlad Vicol

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 902
Research Interests: Partial differential equations, fluid dynamics
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Jonathan Weare

Jonathan Weare

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 1103
Research Interests: Applied probability, numerical analysis
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Deane Yang

Deane Yang

Professor of Mathematics
Office: 2MTC 864
Ext: 7-3540
Research Interests: Convex geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, Partial differential equations
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Yisong Yang

Yisong Yang

Professor of Mathematics
Office: 2MTC 850
Ext: 7-3427
Research Interests: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics
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Lai-Sang Young

Lai-Sang Young

Silver Professor of Mathematics and the Henry & Lucy Moses Professor of Science
Office: WWH 702
Ext: 8-3286
Research Interests: Dynamical systems and ergodic theory
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Robert Young

Robert Young

Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 601
Ext: 8-3156
Research Interests: Geometric group theory, metric geometry, and quantitative geometry
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Ofer Zeitouni

Ofer Zeitouni

Global Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 812
Ext: 8-3311
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Gaoyong Zhang

Gaoyong Zhang

Professor of Mathematics
Office: 2MTC 852
Ext: 7-3695
Research Interests: Convex geometry, Geometric analysis
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Jun Zhang

Jun Zhang

Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Office: WWH 1118
Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, biophysics, complex systems
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Yi Zhang

Yi Zhang

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science
Office: WWH 909
Research Interests: Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Contract

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Ralph Chikhany

Ralph Chikhany

Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
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Jose Diaz-Alban

Jose Diaz-Alban

Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: 2MTC 878
Ext: 7-3850
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Selin Kalaycioglu

Selin Kalaycioglu

Clinical Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 723
Ext: 8-3155
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Petter N. Kolm

Petter N. Kolm

Clinical Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 520
Ext: 8-4855
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Matthew Leingang

Matthew Leingang

Clinical Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 718
Ext: 8-3107
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Trushant Majmudar

Trushant Majmudar

Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 719
Ext: 8-3096
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Hesam Oveys

Hesam Oveys

Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 722
Ext: 8-3229
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Liming Pang

Liming Pang

Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 720
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Fan Ny Shum

Fan Ny Shum

Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Office: WWH 725
Ext: 8-3375

Visiting / Adjunct

Courant Instructors

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Mingtao Xia

Mingtao Xia

Courant Instructor

Associated/Affiliated

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Kit Fine

Kit Fine

Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics
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Jinzi Mac Huang

Jinzi Mac Huang

Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Mathematics, NYU Shanghai
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Alexander Jones

Alexander Jones

Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity and Mathematics
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Bhubaneswar Mishra

Bhubaneswar Mishra

Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Cell Biology
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Efe A. Ok

Efe A. Ok

Professor of Economics and Mathematics
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Michael Overton

Michael Overton

Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
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Benjamin Peherstorfer

Benjamin Peherstorfer

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
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Tamar Schlick

Tamar Schlick

Professor of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science
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Bob Shapley

Bob Shapley

Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics
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Eero P. Simoncelli

Eero P. Simoncelli

Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics
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Daniel Sodickson

Daniel Sodickson

Associate Professor of Radiology, Physiology, and Neuroscience
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Alan Sokal

Alan Sokal

Professor of Physics and Mathematics
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Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Professor of Physics and Mathematics; Executive Vice Provost for Engineering and Applied Sciences, NYU
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Pierre Tarrès

Pierre Tarrès

Professor of Mathematics, NYU Shanghai
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Mark E. Tuckerman

Mark E. Tuckerman

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics
Wei Wu

Wei Wu

Associate Professor of Mathematics, NYU Shanghai
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Denis Zorin

Denis Zorin

Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Emeriti

In Memoriam